Spike Spiegel Analysis - Cowboy Bebop 

He didn’t die he fell asleep

@@rikosaikawa9024 Preeeach

Or how to end. Most anime just end with no real ending.

Javier R. Castillo he saved them, though. Going out and dealing with his problem by himself kept his past from coming back to haunt him and the bebop crew.

Dragon ball series

He reminds me of vash from trigun i wonder whos tougher

@@claushawnpennerman9384 vash isnt a normal human thats why hes tougher but ofc spike is cooler

when making art of spike the artists were given no directions but "make him look cool" that's literaly the entire baisis of his charecter

Yeah right

True My brotha

Lmao, thanks for coming through.

Lmaoooo, but he did though.

lol cant blame him tho! see you, space homewrecker

Appreciate that my man and yeah, I know what you mean concerning different analysts. Most of them have great scripts, I just wish their delivery was more down to earth, but it's cool because that's where I come in.

Agree, its like a more "chill/informal" style of the "video essay". I really digg it, easier for me to follow along. Plus the background music is pretty sick/relaxing too.

Truuuu

He's undeniably charismatic, but he's not a success. He rejects his new life and his new community because he's unable to move on from past trauma, ultimately committing suicide by going to a place where he knew he'd die.

Right and the more series I watch that orchestrates the narrative in this manner, makes me realize just how powerful it truly is. Spot on. Spike wasn't living, but merely existing, which is an overarching theme that ties the entire group together. When Radical Ed and Ein left towards the end, I just sat there in awe. "But...they're not finished growing yet. Oh no, the feels..." T_T It's fascinating really, they searched for resolve, but ultimately came out with even less than they had before. It's actually backwards to methodical storytelling, completely turns it on it's head. A pleasant gem to place in your favorites indeed, and that soundtrack was nothing short of sex on wax.

Thanks for watching, btw.

Nice description, I agree with both of you! I also learned a saying, something about: "enter a scene as close to the climax point at possible, then cut shortly after the climax occurs". In a way, if you look at each episode/session that way, they were quick and simple, straight to the point. Giving us only snippets of their lives/history. When Spike went to fight Vicious to see "if I'm alive", I think that was him clinging onto his last piece of motivation to move on in his life. He lost Julia, what more does he have to live for? His last piece of motivation, in my opinion, was simply to kill Vicious to finally set himself free (from being hunted by the syndicate/Vicious)... but then what happens afterwards? That's when we have to "carry that weight". We now carry the story of Spike and the rest of the Bebop crew, as they have been carrying the weight of each story told in each episode/session (beginning with session one, with the tragic story of the couple with illegal drugs). And now what do we do as an audience? Time to find our purpose, our motivation to live, to see if we are "alive". Anyway, in my opinion of course, sorry for the short essay :P And yes, some of the things I mentioned above are some of the same things you both mentioned, Tsiah IV and Lucifri.

Lucifri you get to know yourself also in this anime as you can relate

Loving this comment section so much 😭😭

Lol. I try to act like him 😹

I started watching beebop because I had a ton of similarities to spike and was curious about him. Same color, same hair, similar face, did martial arts, but I’m much shorter than he is and have a bulkier physique where as his is leaner and has less mass probably because Bruce lee did the same because he thought it would make his punches and kicks faster.

Any advice on how to do so? I'm currently trying to incorporate some of his philosophies into my life since I'm so worried all the time.

*Finger pistol

Larkin Hancock: Legit. I'm watching it a second time and he has a great voice for this.

I like how he gets straight to the point " he basically took his bitch " 😂🤣

He does an A plus

he reminds me of randy jackson

Me to!😄

Even if it's very self-destructive

It's the legend himself! You're killing the game bruh, I'm just taking notes and thanks.

Thanks for the sub! I would have to agree with you. They always tend to go for the people you care about the most and seeing how they both betrayed Vicious, I could see this being a plausible way of conveying the emotions he felt during that time.

Murderous Johnny I have to agree. especially considering how, along with any of us, the past was going to catch up to him. I always think the best first impression of him and that he did care, especially more than he lets on, is Episode 2. When he's chasing Hakim and Ein gets tossed out of the vehicle, Spike has to make the choice of saving the dog or getting the bounty. The irony is that later on Spike says he hates pets, women, and children. We, as the audience, know he doesn't hate them. It's just a facade. Spike's had many things taken from him: friends, relationships, anything close has been destroyed because of the syndicate. It's impacted his life and he needs to face it. I'm quite sure he's aware that anything he did in the past will catch up to him and impact the Bebop crew. He knew that by staying there, he was inviting more trouble. By finding Julia that also meant trouble, too. Great video by the way. I really love this stuff!

Brittany Huss Agreed. He was sort of not trying to let strong bonds grow between him and the other characters because he knew Vicious was still out there and his past would catch up to him at some point and he wouldn't want collateral damage to anyone he cared about. Besides, he was just surviving, not really living, kinda wanted to die even, so the less people depending on him and growing attached to him, the better, in his opinion. Episode 5 shows this side of him very clearly in my opinion. There's the whole chat with Vicious, the "flashback", but also the way he deals with the situation and with Faye. Faye asks if hes going to rescue her and he kinda tries to show he doesnt really care. And also when Faye is at gun point and he pulls the trigger on the guy. He does save her, but its also a sort of statement like "hey, Im kinda crazy and this could have gone wrong see? Dont count on me to be your hero again" And later on she treats him just like Julia did, sing the same song Julia sang to him, and he knows where this is going if he doesnt stop it right there, so he does it. These small details are beautiful in this story.

Also, just like to reiterate about the facade of Spike "hating pets, women, and children"... that's kinda like Spike's desire for a family. The picturesque family: wife, children, pet, and a father (Spike). In my opinion, at the end of the series, for some reasons I felt that the Bebop crew has become a sort of family -- a loosely based family that doesn't show their care/compassion on the surface level... but instead through more through actions. It's not the picture perfect family, but it's something to return to. Like in the anime "Planetes", SPOILERS SPOILERS: - - - - One of the main messages is: "...every ship needs a port that is always there waiting and that welcomes them when they finally return home, a warm, safe place ... do not forget."

He did go for their sake too. But it's interesting that he never thinks about them again after he leaves the Bebop, but thinks about Julia the whole entire time right up until the end. Just goes to show that while your friends and roommates are important, there's nothing like the love of your. As George R. R. Martin would say, "When the sun has set, no candle can replace it."

Thanks brother!

Sir Cartier even carti would agree on this

I believe it had to do more with Spike and Vicious being pretty much the same person. The only difference is spike broke away from his past with the Syndicate and Vicious chose to stay. Julia was what caused Spike to change and very likely their relationship is what caused vicious to change into the monster he became later on since he likely lost his reason to live when spike and Julia's affair was found out.

Wouldn't vicious' star fall and spikes fade?

Ooh that's good to know, i think i'm with the creator on this, Spike's still kicking but it's kind of a rebirth thing coz he 'died' a second time. Personally I think it makes sense for the syndicate guys to patch him up as best they could in the aftermath of the final scene, because the next leader of the gang is whoever killed the last leader and seeing as he killed vicious, that's now Spike. I can imagine the fun of seeing Spike trying to get out of forcibly becoming the leader of the syndicate, maybe he'd try to fake his death again? Or he'd contact the guys and both faye and jet would yell 'IDIOT' at the same time before storming out of the bebop to go find him together.

I also prefere the idea of Spike being alive, but you may say that he "died" long ago.

Perhaps it was a binary star.

Thanks!

@@TsiahIV whats the name of the music?

@@obieoneshinobi885 infinity (888) instrumental - xxxtentation It's a great song as well.

Ayeeee 😎

Yeah it's on point on his character, especially with the the fight with vicious.

Thanks fam and I agree, nothing like a good laugh.

Appreciate that my man, thanks for sliding through.

Thanks fam, glad you think so

Lmaoooo bruh chill.

Berserk* fucking dumbass

Ayeee, thanks for watching.

Haha thanks man. I know for a fact that there's some pretty good Bebop videos out there so I'm really honored. I'll try to do some more as soon as I can.

You deserve it man and ill be waiting for that next vid!

Thanks for checking it out.

Thanks bro and yeah man I love Trigun so I'll eventually do Vash for sure.

@@TsiahIV my man you gotta hit us up with that

Nothing like that smooth Jazz.

Much appreciated my man.

Thank you!

Im actually doing one right now

Appreciate that fam, really wanted to make this series an entertaining experience. Happy to see you guys are enjoying it.

Thanks fam and I think you'll really enjoy it. It got even better for me the second time around when I was older.

Most definitely and thanks for checking it out!

Much appreciated my boy.

Thanks

Thanks homie.

Thanks fam