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'Cowboy Bebop: The Movie' (also known as Cowboy Bebop: Knockin' on Heaven's Door, Japanese title Cowboy Bebop: 天国の扉 or Cowboy Bebop: Tengoku no Tobira), is an anime movie based on the Cowboy Bebop anime series.

The movie is known as Cowboy Bebop: The Movie in North America because of possible copyright infrigement with the the song "Knockin' on Heaven's Door".

Even though the film was released after the conclusion of the TV series, fans believe that the movie's story runs concurrent with the series and is placed between episodes 22 and 23.

The movie's plot involves the release of a mysterious virus into the center of a large city and the Bebop crew's attempts to claim the obligatory huge bounty (300 million woolongs) associated with the capture of the villains behind the virus's release.

Characters

Spike Spiegel

Spike is a freelance bounty hunter that is able with a gun and the hand-to-hand combat style Jeet Kune Do. He is a very able pilot. He is prone to sleep, almost to the point of hypersomnia, but only when there is nothing else to do. He is a heavy smoker. His attitude is usually introverted, relaxed and careless.

Many of his decisions are based on his little known past. He lost his left eye in a past battle, and seems to have had problems with love, and as a result, he seems distant at times.

His father plays a big role in his life. His death changed Spike, and almost caused him to be who he is.

Faye Valentine

A hot-headed freelance bounty hunter, and one of the five members of the ship Bebop. She is short-fused, rash, and through these qualities, she finds herself in difficult situations most of the time. She is a heavy smoker, like the rest of the crew. Her position in the movie is somewhat of a subordinate. Her significance in the movie lies in her exposing Vincent's plan.

Jet Black

He is at times a kind of father figure or oyaji for the rest of his crew. He is the owner and the captain of The Bebop. Jet is somewhat of a renaissance man and also a heavy smoker. Jet's role is also somewhat of a subordinate as well; he expresses this through his complaint of his partners behaving the way they wish to, without taking him into account. He plays a vital role in stopping Vincent's plan, though.

Ed (Edward Wong Hau Pepelu Tivrusky IV)

A strange, young girl that serves as the hacker among the crew. Ed is the one to expose the truth about Vincent, and also discovered that the virus is, in fact, nano-machinery.

Ein

Ein is a "data dog" that mostly follows Ed. He is the one to notice that their enemy is a man named Vincent Volaju.

Although there aren't any sufficient information on what a "data dog" is, one can surmise that Ein was an experiment for exploring the possibilities of either use in clandestine operations (as a seemingly innocuous dog) or as a data storage medium.

The Three Old Men

Another recurring theme of the series, these old men (supposedly named as Antonio, Carlos and Jobim) appear without certain relevance to the plot. They appear on two scenes; first, they refuse to give Spike information about the virus, and second, they attend to Jet's plan of vaccinating the city before Vincent strikes. These three refer to a very famous bossa nova artist Antonio Carlos Jobim who composed "The Girl from Ipanema".

Bob

Jet's accomplice in the police. Bob is the one to inform Jet of the stolen medicine from a crashed space ship that belonged to Cherius Medical.

Vincent Volaju

The main villain of the movie. Vincent is a rather melancholic introvert. He was used as a test subject during the experimentation after the Titan War. He was the only survivor in a field of test subjects, ergo, the vaccine only he carried was successful. He was abandoned to die on Titan by the government, but somehow survived and returned to civilization. He has also loved Elektra very deeply, but has suffered amnesia from his ordeal and does not remember. His plan is to release the virus throughout the world, leaving only a handful of survivors. As a side-effect of the virus, Vincent was driven to insanity; which was also aided by the hallucination of golden butterflies he saw continuously (another side-effect of the infection). However, his love for Elektra sways his hand, causing his death. Vincent is in many ways a contrast to Spike. Aside from equal physical strength and similar physical appearances, Vincent and Spike are both men who consider themselves to be "dead" due to tragic incidents in their pasts, both kept alive by their love of a woman. The archetypal comparisons between the two have lead many fans to argue that the film itself is merely one of Spike's dreams, in which he confronts the guilt of his past and the end of his own life’s situation. Watanabe has declined to deny or confirm this. It has been stated that he may have been inspired by Bob Dylan

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