Of course, after a couple of hours in the sack together, Fearless and Julia are head over heels for each other. He doesn’t ask him to sleep with her, but Fearless takes the initiative anyway. When the two screw up dealings with the Venusian cartel, and Vicious finds one of them on the street and begins to torture him, he asks Fearless to take Julia home. But Fearless had an eye for Julia, Vicious’s beautiful, blonde, singer girlfriend. Spike is partners in crime with Vicious, and the two did terrible, violent things for the Syndicate during their time together. The backstory between Spike (who was named Fearless when he worked for the evil Syndicate), Vicious ( Alex Hassell), and Julia ( Elena Satine) is really the backbone of the proceedings leading up to the season finale. RELATED: 'Cowboy Bebop' Featurette Brings You Inside the Titular Ship and its Many Easter Eggsįearless, Vicious, and Julia: A Love Triangle Let’s dive in and descramble this caravan of Cowboy occurrences together. Add to that the characters’ tattered pasts, love interests, and enemies, and you’ve got a finale that has a lot of loose ends to tie up. Each member of the futuristic bounty-hunting Bebop team, Spike Spiegel ( John Cho), Jet Black ( Mustafa Shakir), and Faye Valentine ( Daniella Pineda), have their own agendas and demons to face down by the end credits, so things get a little messy. Whether or not it accomplished this massive goal is not for me to say in this article I am merely here to explain the somewhat complex ending of the first season of the show for those who may be a bit confused by all the strands woven together in the finale.
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With all the people who threatened her eliminated, Julia fatally wounds and imprisons Vicious, and takes the Syndicate throne for herself.Īll 10 episodes of Cowboy Bebop Season 1 are streaming on Netflix.Cowboy Bebop is the recent live-action Netflix remake of the eternally popular anime series of the same name. While things don't go exactly as planned, the coup is still successful and Vicious murders everyone who is in the way of Julia's goals: the Elders, The Eunuch and Mao.
Since Julia knows Vicious will eventually betray both The Eunuch and Mao in order to usurp the Syndicate thrown, she cuts a deal with Mao to murder Vicious in exchange for her gaining more power of her own. For Julia, this means playing her own husband and gaining the alliance of two crime bosses: Mao Yenrai and The Eunuch. Instead, Julia forms her own support system with her friend Ana, who advises to her regain control of her own life by taking power - advice Julia takes to heart. One thing Julia never does in the live-action series is go into hiding like her anime counterpart does. This is where Julia's role in the live-action series makes a significant departure from the anime: Julia not only plans the coup with Vicious, but she takes a more active role in protecting herself from the Syndicate, which means making a few betrayals of her own.
The experience of being forced to prove his loyalty is what ultimately factors into Vicious' decision to do a coup, which he starts to plan with Julia's help. RELATED: Cowboy Bebop: Jet Black Is Driven by in the Netflix Series This is more notable with the character of Julia who does get to be her own character in the new series. While their roles in the live-action series are still consistent with the ones they have in the original anime, they are also given developments that are a major departure from the anime.
In the live-action adaptation by Netflix, Vicious and Julia are given more prominent roles with fleshed-out backstories. While Vicious is a bit more fleshed out as a character in the original anime, Julia doesn't get to be something more than the object of two men's obsessions. As such, little is known about them outside of their relationship with the series protagonist, Spike Spiegel, and the Red Dragon Crime Syndicate. Vicious and Julia are two of the characters with the least amount of screen time in the original Cowboy Bebop anime despite having a huge presence throughout the story. WARNING: The following article contains spoilers for Cowboy Bebop, now streaming on Netflix.