1/4/2024 0 Comments Cowboy bebop spike death![]() ![]() I'm the only one who can kill you and set you free. When Spike faces off against his hated rival, Vicious makes a proclamation. It is a ballad of undying love alluding to lovers being reunited in the afterlife. The song continues to play as Spike attacks the syndicate. She is my other half that I had longed for. Given that Spike confided to Jet just the previous session that Julia was a part of him, the image shows a moment in Spike's life when he felt whole. He thinks of a time when he made love to Julia and she cradled him in her arms. He thinks of the first time he saw Julia and was captivated by her beauty. ![]() The lyrics begin as Spike is recalling romantic memories of Julia. The song "See You Space Cowboy" plays as Spike leaves the Bebop. He is never shown thinking about anyone from the Bebop again. Spike walks away from Faye without looking back. An act reminiscent of the 21-gun salute that is used in the military to honor the fallen. Jet: Men only think about the past right before their death, as if they were searching frantically for proof that they were alive.įaye cries and shoots off her gun. Spike's words eerily echo what Jet said to him in session 25. The audience should not be comforted either. I have to do it, Faye.įaye is not comforted by this statement. Spike: I’m not going there to die I’m going to find out if I’m really alive. Spike ignores her please and instead leaves her with these parting words. She explains that there was nowhere for her to go back to. It is her death that has finally woken him from his detached dream-like state.įaye shares with Spike that her memory has returned. Spike is so affected by the loss of the woman he loves that even an item she once possessed haunts him. There is no music box! And yet there it is. Spike: The music box is broken, or is it? It starts to play, and a haunting tune fills the air. One of his most revelatory quotes was said in the teaser for Ballad of Fallen Angels. This is not the first time Spike has expressed this sentiment. Before I knew it, the dream was all over. Spike: I felt like I was watching a dream I could never wake up from. So, I thought I could only see patches of reality, never the whole picture.įaye: Don’t tell me things like that you’ve never told me anything about yourself, so don’t tell me now! Since then, I've been seeing the past in one eye and the present in the other. One of them is a fake because I lost it in an accident. The camera spans from his left eye to his right eye. Instead, he explains the truth about his eyes. She knows that he is marching towards his death.įaye: Where are you going? Why, are you going? You told me once, to forget the past, ‘cause it doesn’t matter, but you’re the one still tied to the past, Spike! He knows exactly what this means for Spike.įaye confronts Spike while holding him at gunpoint. Upon hearing of Julia's death, he has a resigned if devastated reaction. This does not lessen the impact she has on the events that are about to unfold. When Spike gets up to leave, Jet asks him one last question. ![]() Jet is keenly aware that Spike's death looms in the horizon. Except this time, he didn't come back to life. The tiger striped cat cried a million times, and then he died too. Well, years passed, and the white cat grew weak and died of old age. He met a white female cat, and the two of them spent their days together happily. Then one day the cat became a stray cat, which meant he was free. This cat died a million deaths, revived and lived a million lives, and he was owned by various people who he didn't really care for. Spike: There once was a tiger striped cat. An allegory about his life which he uses to explain why he will never return. Spike returns to the Bebop and tells Jet a story. Two rose petals are shown blowing away in the wind. Spike will come, but he does have somewhere to return to one last time. Vicious: A beast that has lost his place. Holding Julia's coat, Vicious speaks of Spike. The next scene is of Laughing Bull predicting Spike's imminent death. ![]() The camera zooms into Spike's pupil and everything fades to black. The camera is now focused on Spike's right eye, which is shaking in a disturbing manner. Spike looks down at his lost love and then up to the sky. Hears her last words, which are inaudible to the audience. He screams her name, drops his weapon, and runs to her. Horror, shock, and agony are expressed in Spike's left eye. In Session 26, Julia is shot in front of Spike. He was left in a detached dream-like purgatory from that day on. Losing her love was so painful as to be considered a form of death. Spike: I was killed once before by a woman. Laughing Bull: Swimming bird will meet a woman. In Session 1, Laughing Bull foretells of Spike's death being brought on by a woman. ![]()
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