Characters of The Big O
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[edit] Roger Smith
Roger Smith is the main character[1] in the anime television series and the manga, The Big O.
Roger Smith is Paradigm City's top negotiator, and lives in the Illegal Residential Sector in a former bank with his butler Norman Burg and R. Dorothy Wayneright. He is the Dominus, or pilot, of the Big O, a giant robot known as a Big-type "Megadeus". When negotiation fails or danger threatens the city, he summons Big O by calling him through his watch.
[edit] R. Dorothy Wayneright
R. Dorothy Wayneright (the "R." presumably stands for "Robot", a prefix coined by Isaac Asimov for his robots) is a female android -— or more properly a gynoid —- in the anime series Big O. She is modeled after Dr. Wayneright's late daughter Dorothy. After Roger successfully completed a case for Dorothy, she was left with her "father"/creator dead and no money to pay Roger's fee. As a result, she volunteered to move in with Roger and his butler Norman, and work as a housemaid to work off her fee, though she also did it because she simply had no where else to go after her creator's death.
Dorothy appears at first glance to be human but possesses the expected strength, agility, and intelligence of an android. She weighs several hundred pounds due to her mechanical construction, but can still move far faster than humans should she feel the urge. Her skin is completely white, and she has red hair. Her hairband is actually a CD drive in which she can play information disks. Her body parts sometimes make mechanical sounds, and there is generally little inflection in her face or voice (she only raises her voice to shout one time in the entire series - a cry of "Roger!" in the final episode during Roger's fight against Big Fau). However, she seems to possess emotions, and has smiled on occasion, in particular with clever sarcasm when speaking with Roger Smith, usually about his shortcomings.
Dorothy can actually play the piano extremely well. She obtains Roger's aid in taking lessons from master android musician R. Instro so that she could improve her performance even more early on in the series. She can play a wide variety of styles (from classical to the blues). Initially Roger insisted that as a robot her playing was little more than playing a recording, because she didn't improvise but just perfectly repeated an existing performance. However, Roger soon found that Dorothy actually does add her own "feeling" and creativity to her music, leading him to question just how "human" the robot is. Dorothy is fond of playing the piano very loudly in the morning as her required "wake up call" for Roger, which annoys him when he wants to sleep in past noon.
Dorothy lives with Roger, and a running joke among the fans -- due to Dorothy's apparent "age" and nonhumanity -- was the precise nature of their relationship, which was later alluded to in the series. As one opinion states, she seems to be toying with the idea of being attracted to him. In the meantime, she's not above criticizing everything about him, from his sense of fashion to his attitude. One of her favorite statements (and, as some would say, her catchphrase) is, "You're a louse, Roger Smith."
Dorothy has the physical appearance of an 18-year-old girl, though it has actually probably been less than a year since her construction when Roger first meets her. However, her mind contains the memories of the dead 18-year-old daughter of her creator, so she functions just as well as if she had that much life experience. Other characters don't think she's emotionless, but more often think of her almost as a sullen, quietly pouting teenager. This can be backed up by the fact that during the first two episodes of the show, Dorothy is rather happy to be with her apparent "father," but doesn't ever truly show any other emotions beside surprise (her eyes widen subtley). She distributes her other emotions such as anger with making any sort of facial gesture, although fans of the show know that she can actually move her facial "muscles," she just doesn't wish to (her "evil twin," Red Destiny, was physically capable of contorting her face into a large range of gestures). Dorothy is capable of embarassment (As when Roger beckoned her onto an elevator when she stalled, only for him to realise her multi-kilogram weight would put the total load far over the elevator's weight limit) and is also capable of feeling jealousy, as in the love triangle between herself, Roger, and Angel, and is capable of lying. She is also capable of showing love and affection, as was proven in the episode Missing Cat, where she took in a stray cat and acted towards it in a maternal fashion, even after the cat was kidnapped and genetically altered and turned into a hideous beast, designed to cause death and destruction. The beast repays her kindness by turning on the ones who kidnapped it and refusing to harm either her or Roger.
Her sophisticated design is such that at first glance, few people (Roger included) ever actually realize her android state, instead assuming her to be a human girl as previously described (although, as the series progresses, fewer and fewer people mistake her for being human, perhaps because those in Roger's neighborhood have become accustomed to her presence and already know she is an android). It can be assumed that she does not possess a normal human body temperature (a perpetually "frigid" state as referred to by fans, in relation to her emotional state), as it was once discovered by a blind girl after Dorothy allowed her to "read" her hands, whereupon she realised Dorothy's robotic nature instantly.
Dorothy is also in the habit of standing perilously close to edge of the roofs of tall buildings; as she is a robot and has super-human balance coordination, she can safely stand or walk along the edge of a multi-floor building's roof without the possibility of losing her balance and falling off, thus she has no fear of heights like most humans. Dorothy actually has a performance-quality singing voice, but it has never been heard "on screen" (it is muted out by montage music in the first episode), which seems to reinforce the idea that Dorothy is indeed physically sophisticated enough to display the full range of human facial and vocal expressions, she just does not have a very emotive personality.
Some feel Dorothy is based on the character of Olimpia from E.T.A. Hoffmann's short story, The Sandman. The two characters share much in common, including their automaton nature, stoic personality, beautiful singing voice, and amazing piano-playing ability, possible attraction to the male lead, and the fact that each poses as their respective creator's daughter.
[edit] Norman Burg
Roger's elderly and ever-faithful butler. Norman has no memory of his life before the event 40 years ago, but since that time he was living in an abandoned bank (converted into a mansion) with the giant robot "Big O" underneath it in a secret hangar. Mysteriously, one day Roger wandered into the building but Norman told him that the mansion and Big O belonged to Roger, as Norman instinctively knew he was waiting for the pilot and that Roger was him. Norman also possesses an instinctive knowledge of how to repair Big O, and is responsible for keeping it battle-ready. As a result of the intuitive nature of his repairs (he just knows what "should" be done but not how it works or its purpose) the full capabilities of Big O are unknown even to Norman.
Norman on first glance would seem old and relatively soft-hearted. However Norman is seen multiple times holding weaponry that are almost double or even triple his size such as a massive machine gun which he used to shoot a helicopter, or the armor piercing rifle used on Beck's scorpion robots. Along with this, Norman is willing to go anywhere to help Roger, and is not afraid of battle.
[edit] Dan Dastun
Major(season 1)/Colonel(season 2) Dan Dastun is a middle-aged officer in the Military Police, the defense force working for the Paradigm Corporation that serves as both the police and military force of Paradigm City. Before Roger quit the Military Police, he used to serve with Dastun, and they still maintain a friendship. Dastun seems somewhat overwhelmed by the crazy occurrences of giant robot attacks in Paradigm City, or crazed scientists getting bursts of pre-Event memory and wreaking havoc. Dastun just wants to maintain order in the city, and isn't too much concerned with questions about Paradigm City's mysterious past. Unlike much of the Paradigm Corporation and the Military Police, Dastun and those under his direct command are typically honorable people trying to hold the fabric of their society together.
However, Dastun himself gets a burst of Memory in Act 12, of a movie he saw when he was a kid before the Event. In the movie, "Winter Night Phantom", a police officer is argueing with a woman holding a balloon on a dock, ending with him shooting her. Her dying words are "Vous êtes si gentil", which can mean either "You're very kind/nice", "That's nice of you", or "You are very sweet" in French. For her dying words, the meaning she had used was "You are very sweet". In the present, Dastun began seeing a woman that looked exactly like the actress from the movie, but having not aged a day, roaming Paradigm City setting off explosions as a means of political assassination. This culminated in Dastun shooting her on a pier while she was holding a balloon, eerily living out the scene from the movie. Towards the end of season 2, Dastun even sees 2 children entering a theater to see a movie, and when he follows to investigate, he finds a boy who looks exactly like he did when he was a child, along with a child-version of Vera Ronstadt.
Dastun dislikes the corrupt Paradigm Corporation which the Military Police work for, but has to tolerate their orders for his job. He is perturbed by accusations that they are nothing but "watchdogs" for the Paradigm Group and Alex Rosewater.
In the season 2 finale, the Military Police are ordered to lay down their arms and support Alex Rosewater's new Anti-Christ-like power in Big Fau, but Dastun throws away his badge and commandeers an artillery tank to aid Big O in its fight against Big Fau. Big Fau was about to attack Dastun's tank, when blasted by a barrage of canon fire: three divisions of Military Police tanks joined Dastun in revolt. Dastun finally stood up to the Paradigm Group, providing a break in the fight for Big O.
[edit] Alex Rosewater
Alex Rosewater is a fictional character in the anime series The Big O, and arguably its primary antagonist. Alex is the son of Paradigm City creator Gordon Rosewater, although he is very different from his father. Alex is chairman of the Paradigm Group, the oligarchic council that controls the city. Despite being more or less the absolute ruler of Paradigm City, Alex harbors dreams of even greater power and will stop at nothing to achieve them. He is supposedly symbolic of the Antichrist, but he tends to think of himself more as a Christ-figure, saviour to the people of Paradigm City (though this is somewhat contradictory, since he has often shown great contempt and even hatred for the city's denizens, primarily those living outside of the city's domes). This is due to his belief that he is the only son of the world's "God," Gordon Rosewater. Thus, his delusions of being a saviour emphasize the term "False Prophet". Fitting with his false prophet motif, Alex always wears white suits, and pilots the white Megadeus, Big Fau (while the "hero" of the story, Roger Smith, always wears black and pilots the black Megadeus, Big O).
He was obsessed with controlling his own Megadeus, and made a secret deal with the mysterious "Union", a group of foreigners who have infiltrated Paradigm City, in order to obtain the parts to reconstruct Big Fau. When Big Fau had been rebuilt, he reneged on the deal and ordered the arrest of all the members of the Union (save Alan Gabriel, who served him); only Angel and Union leader Vera Ronstadt escaped.
Though the Big Fau lacked its core memory, Rosewater decided to pilot it nonetheless. As a result, the white Megadeus broke free of his control[1], firing at random and destroying parts of the city. Big O managed to quiet the rogue Megadeus, apparently through some sort of unspoken communication, and Rosewater was temporarily trapped inside.
Rosewater was also obsessed with recovering the hidden memories of Paradigm's past that his father Gordon possessed. When Gordon proved unresponsive, Alex finally had his father's tomato farm burned to the ground, seemingly killing him (though Gordon reappeared in the final episode of season two, alive and well).
To complete Big Fau and ensure his total control over it, Rosewater hired Jason Beck, Roger Smith's occasional nemesis, to kidnap R. Dorothy[1], steal her core memory, and install it in Big Fau. When this final modification was finished, he went on a rampage in Big Fau, intent on destroying Paradigm and rebuilding it in his own image. He fought Roger Smith and the Big O and was on the verge of finishing them both off. However, Angel, piloting the Megadeus "Big Venus" in her capacity as the "Director", apparently erased both Rosewater and the Big Fau from existence.
[edit] Gordon Rosewater
Gordon Rosewater is a fictional character in the anime series The Big O. He is often credited as the man responsible for the construction of Paradigm City. Gordon's son, Alex Rosewater, took over his father's duties when he retired. Unlike Gordon, Alex possesses an unquenchable thirst for power, and an "ends justify the means" philosophy. Much of Gordon's history is intentionally left mysterious, and his true history might never be known unless a third season of the series is created. Originally thought to be killed by his own son, he actually aided both Roger and Angel in their quest for the truth behind the scenes. Unlike other characters in the series, such as Roger Smith or Schwarzwald, Gordon appears to be perfectly content with the uncertainties of the past, much to Roger's dismay.
While people ask him questions about the past, it is farely obvious that Gordon has no intention of telling anyone anything. Unless they find out for themselves. Many have speculated that the figure standing before the children in Roger's frequent flashback is Gordon Rosewater, however no factual evidence in the series has ever proven this fact. Regardless, Gordon seems to know everything about the past, and may have had a hand in either the MegaDeus memory or the memory with the children.
[edit] Alan Gabriel
Alan Gabriel is a fictional character in the anime series The Big O, introduced at the start of season 2. He is also an eccentric psychopath in the employ of Alex Rosewater; after Angel was fired as Alex's personal assistant in the Season 2 premiere, Gabriel stepped into her old position as Alex's gofer. Donning a sharp pinstriped suit, a black fedora, and skin as white as ash, Gabriel cuts something of a clownish figure; the image is enhanced by his impossible thinness and height. Though his eyes are hidden beneath the brim of his hat (though even when he takes it off his eyes are hidden by a mask), he sports a constant red-lipped grin, as if an insider on a very funny joke. His greatest pleasure is being assigned to kill. Gabriel is actually a cyborg; when Dorothy asks if he's a human or an android like herself, he triumphantly announces that "I'm the boogeyman!" In battle, Gabriel employs an extendable arm, a long golden pistol, and extremely agile martial arts techniques. His clothing and movements (at one point, he appears to perform the moonwalk) hint that Gabriel may be a reference to Michael Jackson. Gabriel's trademark (or at least, most menacing) weapon is his cybernetic hand: he can snap his fingers together to form a cone, and then spin his entire hand at the wrist, to form a large high-speed metal drill which can easily kill his victims. Whereas Schwarzwald is hell bent on finding out the truth about the world of Paradigm City and feeling that the decadent population deserves death for their ignorance, Gabriel is simply a depraved killer, taking sadistic glee out of the act of killing itself. Alan even licks his gold pistol with his tongue right before particularly satisfying kills.
Alan Gabriel is actually a member of The Union, and is Alex Rosewater's go-between or "ambassador" between their group and Rosewater. Rosewater's dealings with the Union break down, though Gabriel appears to still work for him. Gabriel's real agenda is somewhat nebulous, though it would appear that he's just straddling the fence between the Union and Rosewater, depending on who will give him the opportunity to kill the most people. Gabriel was about to assassinate Rosewater near the end of season 2 (though Rosewater was unaware of this), but stopped when Rosewater gave him Big Duo to pilot and kill Roger Smith with. Piloting the modified "Big Duo Inferno", and grafted into the controls with connecting wires, Gabriel and Roger Smith engaged in a vicious battle. The battle ended when the ghost or impression of Schwarzwald appeared on the screen of Big Duo and declared that Alan Gabriel was unworthy of being a Megadeus pilot. At this point, the screen of Big Duo flashed "Cast in the name of God...ye guilty" and Big Duo proceeded to horrifically kill Gabriel with many linking wires in the cockpit (the camera pulls away, with the viewer left to imagine how unspeakable his death was). Tellingly, his last words were "But I haven't killed him yet!"
[edit] Michael Seebach/Schwarzwald
Michael Seebach is a fictional character in the anime series The Big O. A reporter, he was obsessed with bringing the truth to the people of Paradigm City, but became frustrated when the Paradigm Corporation continually censored his work. Eventually his search for the truth would become an obsession, and Seebach began living a double life - one where he was simply a married reporter and the other a seeker of the truth about the event that happened 40 years ago. In time he became even more obsessed with his work and cut himself off from human contact, including his wife and kids. Seebach eventually decided to journey into the underground of Paradigm City, where he encounters the Archetype. It is not known what exactly happened between Seebach and the Archetype, but it left Seebach horribly scarred, burned, and the event erased what little sanity Seebach had left in him. He survived to return to the surface, but he decided that Seebach was not strong enough to get to the real truth of Paradigm City, so he took a new name and identity to suit his search for the truth. Seebach vanished from the world and was replaced by a new identity, Schwarzwald.
Schwarzwald has a tendency to leave cryptic notes and clues in his path, wanting to express to his enemies and the rest of the city the necessity of truth -- and its pursuit. Notably, at one point he peppered the city with thousands of copies of William Blake's Behemoth and Leviathan, perhaps making a comparison between the legendary beasts and the Megadei. He later finds the next Big robot besides Big O; Big Duo, which is capable of flight. However, Big Duo was nearly destroyed in a massive fight with Big O and Schwarzwald dropped out of sight. Although originally an enemy of Roger Smith, as the series progressed Roger found himself more or less on Schwarzwald's side as he too began to search for the truth about Paradigm City (the key difference being that Roger doesn't think the people of Paradigm City deserve to die for their complacency). It's later revealed that he died while searching for the truth and Big Duo was left without a master.
However, in the penultimate episode of the series what might be the "ghost" or imprint of Schwarzwald reappears on the monitor of Big Duo while it is being piloted by the evil cyborg Alan Gabriel, and Schwarzwald berates him for his unworthiness to pilot a Megadeus. The control panel then flashes "Ye guilty", and Big Duo horrifically kills Gabriel.
Schwarzwald is the second character of the series that is meant to look like Roger's foil, as his disheveled white suit, tattered bandages, and grandiose proclamations stand in contrast to Roger's pressed black suit, clean-cut hair, and general desire to remain out of the spotlight.
[edit] Name Origin
During his first appearance, the show points out that "Schwarzwald" means "Black Forest" in German. Some of the stories collected by the Brothers Grimm took place in the Black Forest, named for the lack of light due to the dense vegetation of the forest. This relates to Schwarzwald, since his face is obscured by bandages, and he lives in the dark underground of Paradigm City.
-In both the English ending credits listing for the Japanese voice cast, and also in official images from Japan , Schwarzwald's name is mistransliterated as "Schwaltzwalt"
[edit] Jason Beck "Gold"
A recurring character on the show, causing much anguish for Roger not unlike a rival (although it should be noted that, at times, his character acts as a comic relief more than anything else).
Beck is a man of tall stature, and what appears to be high flexibility. He is a coward when he knows he is losing, and loves to make his attacks from a distance. In the first and second episodes, Beck is the kidnapper. He exchanges the Dorothy android (R. Dorothy), and keeps the Dorothy robot built like a Megadeus to break into the bank, powering it with R. Dorothy.
Beck is very uncertain. He can be seemingly uneasy and panicky at one moment, and calm himself down to regain himself the next. He has seen the extent of what Roger Smith can do, and takes advantage of it. Oftentimes, he goes straight for R. Dorothy, although a few times he has kidnapped Roger Smith instead.
Despite this, Beck has a good level of intelligence, since he can come up with his plots rather easily. He has done everything from reconfigure a giant robot, to building his own Megadeus, to even creating a fully functional version of Roger's torso and head. This shows that Beck, while inept, has some technical training before the memory loss.
Beck has two henchmen, who appear with him every time he is shown (minus his appearance in the first episode of the second season). These henchmen listen to Beck without much thought or even speech.
Beck is pictured in the first episode of the second season (Roger the Wanderer) as the head of a bank. He is rather sophisticated actually and asks Roger to leave the bank rather than the antics he uses in his normal appearances. What this may mean is unknown.
Within the context of the series Beck's goals are usually that of simple theft, or revenge on Roger (sometimes both) for thwarting previous plans, and he is treated as more of an annoyance than a genuine threat (though he can endanger the safety of Roger's friends like Dorothy). However, it is intruiging that he gets bursts of memory about how Megadeus technology works.
After being imprisoned thanks to Roger's exploits for the fourth time, Alex Rosewater's agent Alan Gabriel pressured Beck into helping Rosewater's agenda, or they would give him the death penalty. Beck assisted by building an army of 10 foot robot scorptions to kidnap Dorothy with, and then used Dorothy's memory core to make Big Fau operational.
However, Beck had no real allegiance to Rosewater, and after being released did not help Rosewater fight Roger Smith. In the end, Beck actually helped Roger and Dorothy. Beck had a burst of memory in which he realized that a Big robot is actually designed to interface with an android, to turn on its ultimate cannon attack, and he informed Dorothy so she could then board Big O and turn the weapon on for Roger in his final fight with Big Fau.
Beck has admitted several times to having memories of Roger Smith being Big O's Domineus, but his link to Roger before the memory loss is unknown still. Along with this, Beck has also admitted to having memories of how to power a Megadeus. This may mean that he built Megadeuses, but this has not been completely revealed.
Beck is the first character introduced who is meant to appear as Roger's foil, as his yellow color and wild and mischievous nature stand in contrast to Roger's black color and professional demeanor.
[edit] Vera Ronstadt
A mysterious middle-aged blonde woman who appears in season 2, leader of the Union. The Union are "foreigners" infiltrating Paradigm City, and thus Vera speaks with a French accent. Vera made a deal between Alex Rosewater in which the Union would deliver the parts to construct Big Fau for Alex, but he then reneged on the deal and hunted down all of the Union members. Vera sent the 3 foreign Megadei to attack Paradigm City in the season 1 finale, though Angel thought it was too soon. After they were defeated by Big O, Alex's men removed the parts for Big Fau hidden inside of them and proceeded to finish construction. However, Vera and the Union took the remaining scrap parts from the 3 robots and combined them to make one functional Megadeus, Bonaparte. Vera sent Bonaparte on a rampage in Paradigm City in reprisal against Alex, but piloting Big Fau Rosewater was able to defeat and competely melt Bonaparte. Towards the end of season 2 Vera claimed to be Angel's real mother, though this is unconfirmed.
[edit] R.D.
R.D., short for "Red Destiny", is R. Dorothy's "evil twin"; another android of the exact same model and physical appearance as Dorothy, created to be an assassin and serial killer. Only appearing in one episode (the season 1 finale), she left Roger shaken for a time with the fear that Dorothy was assasinating people who remembered pre-Event memories. R.D. is psychotic and emotionally warped; on the one hand she is ruthless, cold, and calculating, however, she is manically obsessed with killing Roger Smith.
The character only appeared once more throughout the series(during flashback sequences in the season 2 episode "Negotiation With The Dead"), however the basis of the character remained. Red Destiny seemed to have been programmed for the anhilation of anyone with memories prior to the incident. She would kill the target, and leave the message "Cast in the name of God, ye not guilty" on the glass surfaces near her victims. During the episode, the audience is led to believe that this is R.Dorothy due to her absence throughout the episode despite Roger's questioning of her whereabouts, however near the end Dorothy is shown not being Red Destiny, and states "You would have known where I was if you weren't running around the whole time".
[edit] Angel
Angel is a mysterious blonde woman, whose "mystery" appears basic at first but over the series raises increasingly larger questions of just who she is. Angel uses many aliases and her real name is unconfirmed, so Roger just calls her "Angel", one of the previous aliases she used (though her first alias is that of Miss Casseey [sic.] Jenkins). However, her back features two large mysterious scars over her shoulderblades, giving the uncanny appearance that she actually had "angel wings" which were cut off, leaving Roger to ponder if there really is some higher meaning to her name. At first, Angel appears to be working for Alex Rosewater, and is a spy/secret agent he sends out to "acquire" needed items or information, with the aid of high tech spy-gear. By day, she is Alex's secretary at the Paradigm Group. She often runs afoul of Roger, and there is an underlying attraction between them which forms a love triangle between Roger, Angel, and R. Dorothy. At first, the "mystery" of Angel was obviously that her real name and past were unknown, and Roger suspected (correctly) that she was working for Rosewater, though exactly in what capacity or how loyal she was to him were unknown. However, by the end of season 1 it was revealed that Angel was actually a member of "The Union", foreigners who were trying to infiltrate Paradigm City, and who had their own group of three foreign Megadeus robots to unleash in the finale. Within the Union, Angel was known as "Agent 340". At this point, Angel leaves Rosewater and appears to freelance for a time. However, the mystery of Angel drastically deepens when the leader of the Union appears. In the final episodes of the series, Angel ventures into the unexplored warrens of the ruined underground beneath Paradigm City, and finds an abandoned television production studio which has rooms from her childhood in it, heavily implying to her that her own memories about who she is are a fabrication. The Union leader then appears and tells Angel that she is in fact her mother, though Angel doesn't know if this is to be believed.
The final episode of the series is noted for the plot turning almost surreal and open to interpretation, and the mystery of Angel is brought to dazzling new heights: Gordon Rosewater leads Angel away from the tv production floor (after Roger Smith arrives and defeats the Union leader, then leaves himself to fight Big Fau) into an elevator leading out of the studio. Angel breaks down, saying she has no idea who she really is and if her memories are all false. Gordon Rosewater makes the elevator descend to sub-basement level 666, and the doors open into a vast black room with simple bright grid lines on it, which looks like they are incomplete parts of reality (they look like they're in a computer). Gordon Rosewater then holds up the mysterious book "Metropolis" which Gordon supposedly wrote (but which he claims he didn't, really), calling upon the real writer of the book: the book, and Gordon, promptly vanish into thin air. Angel walks away from the elevator and further into the room, and glowing light surrounds her and spread from the two scars on her back, forming dazzling real angel-wings made of light. During Roger Smith's subsequent hallucination-montage, the scenes intercut with Angel working in a production studio of some sort, and on the cover of "Metropolis" the "author" heading has switched from "by Gordon Rosewater" to "by Angel Rosewater". In a series of intercut scenes, Angel is shown writing in the book, working in tv sets which are exact replicas of rooms seen in Roger's home and other places in Paradigm City, and Angel is seen looking over schematics for R. Dorothy-type robots.
It is implied at the end of the series that Paradigm City might actually be a "stage" built by some higher being for the "theater performance" of the people living in it, who are really more like actors: in the second-to-last episode Big Duo keeps flying upwards uncontrollably, impossibly high for miles, until it parts through the clouds and crashes into a stage light the size of a large building suspended in the air. When Roger is sinking into an ocean trench miles below sea level in the final episode, he sees gigantic, strange machinery underneath Paradigm City, prompting him to wail "What is this world?" Gordon Rosewater kept hinting that Angel was "The Director", and in the final episode she is seen presiding over the events in Paradigm City like the "director" of the play that is Paradigm City (the final episode is even titled "The Show Must Go On"). In the end, Angel pilots the previously unknown "Big Venus" and begins to erase all of Paradigm City and the entire world into whitespace nothingness: R. Dorothy declares that this is what caused The Event that erased everyone's memory 40 years ago. Big Fau and Alex Rosewater simply vanish when Big Venus passes, along with the entire world, until only Big O, Roger, and R. Dorothy remain. As Big Venus closes in, Roger makes an impassioned plea to Angel for the sake of everyone in the city, and the world resets itself instead of vanishing: the scene cuts to Roger driving past Angel and R. Dorothy on the crowded streets of Paradigm City, performing his much needed job of Negotiator.
[edit] References
- ^ a b c Adult Swim. Cartoon Network. Retrieved on 2006-09-04.
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| Roger Smith | R. Dorothy Wayneright | Norman Burg | Alex Rosewater | Gordon Rosewater | Michael Seebach | Megadeus |
