List of minor Spriggan characters
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The following are Spriggan characters that either have minor roles or appear in a certain story.
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[edit] ARCAM
[edit] Steve H. Foster
Steve H Foster (スティーブ・Ｈ・フォスター Suteibu H Fosuta?)
Called Captain or 'Senchou' (船長/せんちょう?) by Yu himself. He is the captain of ARCAM's S. S. Rosinante, a Hydrofoil boat. He assists Yu in his Spriggan operations, thrice against the Trident Corporation by allowing him to use his ship mostly as transport for him. He has a scar on his left eye and wears glasses with a bandanna tied on his head.
Trivia
- He is one of the few ARCAM personnel to know about Tea's secret heritage as he and Tea were former lovers.
[edit] Akiha Ominae
Ominae Akiha (秋葉 御神苗?)
Yu's adopted sister and foster mother, she took him into her care with her father, Takashi, when she found out about what happened to Yu's parents back in Iran. She confronted him for the first time in Japan after receiving news from Yamamoto in ARCAM's Japanese headquarters. She was captured by COSMOS operatives when the ARCAM Japanese branch was attacked with Rie. During their captivity, she told him about Yu's secret past and how she found out that something was "wrong" with Yu.
Later on, she was employed in the United States as Henry Garnum's personal secretary. Though before it happened, she told Yu about Garnum himself and his links with ARCAM. She was most likely employed in order to keep her adopted brother and others in line with him.
Like her adopted brother, she is capable of using sidearms such as a revolver and is also capable of defending herself.
[edit] Miss Margaret
Margaret (マーガレット Margaretto?)
Professor Mayzel's assistant, the two have been working together since the two were recruited by ARCAM Corporation to work on their Omihalcon-enhanced devices, such as the Armored Muscle Suit.
Trivia
- In the OVA version, Margaret was the only woman that Yu trusted in his life as the movie never portrayed the other female protagonists.
[edit] Jimmy Max
Jimmy Max (ジミー・マックス Jiimi Makusu?)
An American operative under ARCAM's Special Private Army (ASPA), he teamed up with Yu in retaking ARCAM's R&D center in the United States after the YAMA virus had brainwashed ARCAM's civilian personnel to kill anyone who tries to intrude inside. Though heavily wounded, he survives and was treated for his injuries. He has his own team called the "Max Team" from the ranks of the ASPA.
He has a small appearance in Volume 11 when he was on the S. S. Rosinante's bridge with Steve, apparently to pick up surviving ARCAM personnel who had to "go" to the South Pole for an excavation operation with Trident.
His small conversation with Yu during the Program YAMA chapter may indicate that he was an ex-veteran of the Vietnam War.
[edit] British Military
[edit] Maria Clemente
Maria Clemente (マリア・クレメンティ Maria Kurementei?)
One of the British army's youngest officers, graduating from MIT at the age of 20 and enlisted in the army with the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel, she was responsible for procuring the Berserker for military research from Professor Mauser, who then developed a grudge for the British military.
She assisted Yu in defeating Mauser and eliminating the Berserker, not before she sustained a shot in her stomach. She had survived the attack, whose wound was believed to be treated by Yu Ominae before being rescued by British soldiers.
In the end, she had discared her rank pins from her uniform; its meaning was left to the assumption of the readers.
[edit] Professor Mauser
Mauser (マウザー Mauzaa?)
Research scientist who had enlisted the help of the British army in securing the remains of the Berserker from an excavation site in rural Britain.
He developed a hatred for the British military after Lieutenant-Colonel Maria Clemente had taken the Berserker away from them. He tolerated the attack of the Berserker when it was awakened after some electrical oscillations were used on it.
He died when Maria turned his pistol against him during a fight in the main control room, killing the enraged scientist.
[edit] Electy
[edit] Ed Kruger
Ed Kruger (エド・クルーガー Edo Kuruugaa?)
Known to be an ex-ARCAM research scientist, he was lured over to Ryang's Electy organization with promise of money and fame after he was responsible for turning Ambrosia that Electy had cultivated into Soma drugs. When Yu, Yoshino, Oboro and Percup teamed up to wreck Electy's base in the mountains of Thailand, Ed chose to commit suicide instead of being captured alive.
[edit] Ryang
Ryang (リャン Ryan?)
A Thai national who created Electy, his organization had managed to cultivate Ambrosia into Soma, a drug that could enchance a person to be immortal temporarily. His operation was destroyed by a combined force consisting of Yu, Yoshino, Oboro and Percup. He attempted to fight Percup by using the Soma, but Percup defeated him by taking his heart out with fast speed, instantly killing him.
He has two scars above his left eyebrow.
[edit] Machiner's Platoon
[edit] Colonel MacDougal
MacDougal (マクドガル Makudogaru?)
A young child who was partially cyberized by MJ-12,[1] augmenting him with artificial psychic powers as a force shield that could protect him from projectiles or as a sort of walking bomb that blasts opponents away from him. He is widely feared in the platoon for these powers. His first name is believed to be Harry.[2]
He later dies by committing suicide when he activated Noah's Ark "primitive" computer, turning on its self-destruction program.
[edit] Fatman
Fatman (ファットマン Faatoman?)
A Machiner's Platoon operative wearing an Omihalcon suit, he carries a M61 Vulcan machine gun on his arms with a drum barrel on his back, looking similarly to Vulcan Raven of Metal Gear Solid. He was wounded by Yu's Omihalcon combat knife in Turkey during the raid on ARCAM's Turkish research center. Jean ended his life by firing his Franchi SPAS-12 shotgun into Fatman's face.
His codename is a reference to the Fatman bomb dropped into Nagasaki before the end of WWII.
[edit] Little Boy
Little Boy (リトルボーイ Riterubooi?)
A operative for the Machiner's Platoon, he was the sidekick of Fatman in the attack on ARCAM's Turkish research center and slaughtered ARCAM Defense Unit soldiers with the help of fiber wires that he uses from his arm-mounted mini-howitzer launcher. Little Boy gets killed by Jean when he turns into a lycanthrope. Like Fatman, he too wears an Omihalcon suit.
His codename is a reference to the Little Boy bomb dropped by the Enola Gay into Hiroshima.
[edit] Humming Bat
Humming Bat (ハミング・バット Hamingu Baato?)[3]
A Machiner's Platoon operative of American origin with the rank of Major,[4] he was said to be involved in Angola during his mercenary days before having his original arms replaced with cybernetic ones. His hands emit foggy smoke and deafening ultra sound waves that forces his opponents to cover their ears in order to prevent them from being deaf. Humming Bat was not affected since his cranial nerve was badly damaged during his mercenary days that the ultra sound waves barely affect him at all, though he can hear and comprehend human conversation. He is also an expert combat knife user, since he prefers to toss them by throwing them at his targets. Humming Bat was also ruthless when he executed several of his research staff member with his pistol and combat knife after discovering the powers of the Megiddo Flame.
He, however, was taken out by Yu Ominae when he punched him hard since the windows nearby broke off due to the high pitch of the sounds emitting from his hands. Humming Bat's arms were lobbed off his limbs after being defeated by Yu.
Humming Bat has a scar wound on his right eye.
[edit] Neo-Nazis
[edit] Kutheimer
Kutheimer (ケルトハイマー Kerutohamiaa?)
A former officer in Nazi Germany with the rank of Colonel, he escaped from the Allied advance to Berlin and settled as a corporate official in Egypt, waiting for the day that he would be able to oust the current German government and prop up a fascist regime. He was paralyzed by Oboro during a scuffle in the desert that confined him to a wheelchair. His face was scarred on the left side, possibly during his days in the German army back in World War 2.
He was killed when a shockwave from the Vajrayana killed him, unable to escape due to his crippled state.
[edit] Adolf Hitler
Adolf Hilter (アドルフ・ヒトラー Adorufu Hitoraa?)
Unlike the real Adolf Hitler, the Spriggan interpretation explains that he had two split personalities; one was a peaceful one and the other one was the one that the entire world knew him for.
Upon placing his soul on a Hitler clone, it lost its memory and had the peaceful personality in place. However, it reverted to the evil personality when Kutheimer invoked the Sieg Heil chant on it in order to have the evil persona on the clone's mind. The Hitler clone had the ability to regenerate its wounds and heal other people's injuries. It died when the Vajrayana exploded due to psychic overload, weakening him back to his peaceful persona before the Neo-Nazis hideout was destroyed.
[edit] Hans Schneider
Hans Schneider (ハンス・シュナイダー Hansu Shunaidaa?)
An assassin recruited by Kutheimer to eliminate Shozo Kawahara and his expedition in Egypt in acquiring the Crystal Skull for him by dismembering him alive. He attempted to do the same thing to Suzuko, only when Oboro intervened in time to save him. Yu later fought him and kicked him out a building by tossing him from a few stories up the ground, falling to his death.
[edit] Trident Corporation
[edit] Bowman
Bowman (ボーマン Booman?)
American officer and former knife instructor in COSMOS before moving onto Trident, he taught Yu the basics on knife combat, which was later a skill of his after being recruited by ARCAM. He was sent by Larry Markson to kill his former pupil in Phantom Island and recover a Message Plate on the island, though he later died of his injuries sustained during knife combat.
He is known to use dual knives in hand-to-hand combat and usually fights with a smile. He was the second Armored Machine Suit user after Iwao Akatsuki. It's unknown what rank he had when he was in Trident, though Yu used to address him as Instructor
[edit] Hedgehog
Hedgehog (ヘッジホック Hejjiokku?)[5]
A Trident officer with glasses and blonde hair. He is known to have a prosthetic right arm as his removable hand conceals a needle gun, firing powerful shots enough to critically injure a human or destroy an object. He too bears the Armored Machine Suit. He has the rank of Captain.
He appears calm and harmless, but fights ferociously when he uses his needle gun. This is probably why Trident gave him the codename Hedgehog.
[edit] Jack the Ripper
Jack the Ripper (ジャック・ザ・リッパー Jakku Za Ribba?)[5]
One of the most dangerous Trident field operatives, his two original arms were replaced by cybernetic arms that conceal Omihalcon High Frequency blades from his arms that act like swords with Omihalcon blades from his knuckles. He was seriously wounded by Yu during an operation in Mali, but was able to escape. He is the fourth member to receive the Armored Machine Suit.
He is named after Jack the Ripper, the British serial killer known to maim several prostitutes in Victorian-era London.
[edit] Sidewinder
Jack the Ripper (サイドワインダー Saidowainda?)[5]
Another cyborg from the ranks of the Trident Corporation, he is distinguished by two scars on his right cheek. His robotic hands on his cyberetic arms conceal several sharp steel dart heads that are fired from the fingertips of the prosthetic hands. He is the fifth bearer of the Armored Machine Suit.
As such, he is named after the AIM-9 Sidewinder missile.
[edit] Dary Graham
Dary Graham (デリー・グレアム Derii Gureamu?)
The only non-human and vampire operative of Trident, he sucks the life out of his helpless victim, detiorating them to a state of death, with the appearance of a malnurished person. He fights with a combat knife and his vampiric skills include teleportation and the regeneration of wounds sustained in battle. He is the only Trident Corporation super soldier opeative not to wear the Armored Machine Suit.
[edit] Thunderbolt
Thunderbolt (サンダー・ボルト Sandaa Boruto?)[6]
A Trident operative who had cybernetic arms similar to Humming Bat, his hands emit electrical charges that are similar to thunder bolts. He attempted to interfere with Yu's mission to safeguard the Gold Statue of Pachacamac. Like Humming Bat, he was defeated when his right hand is lobbed off by Yu's Omihalcon knife before he knocked him out with a punch to his face.
Seeing that he was defeated, Thunderbolt allowed himself to walk away, knowing that he had failed his mission.
His codename was given due to the electrical charges emitted from his hands have the appearance of a thunder bolt.
[edit] Civilians
[edit] Kate
Sister Kate (シスター・ケイト Shisuta Keito?)
A nun who was based in Italy, she was the target of Heunri Balez for the possession of the Apocrypha of Rockis as one of the main objects needed in the Reverse Babel Tower in Iraq. Assisting Yu and Oboro in defeating the small cult, she was wounded in a gunfight between Western and Iraqi soldiers due to the confusion that the two sides had seen when the tower collapsed.
Though injured on her left arm, she is believed to have survived the ordeal.
[edit] Tanaka
Tanaka (田中?)
An exclusive character in the OVA, he was one of Yu Ominae's classmates who vanished from school a few days ago. When Tanaka mysteriously showed up back in school, he had explosives strapped on his body and a hidden detonator held in his hand. Yu had tried to save him, but Tanaka had been forced, possibly by remote hypnotism, to be a suicide bomber. His actions had injured Yu, with parts of the school damaged. Yu finds out that soldiers of the American Machine Corp were the ones responsible for kidnapping Tanaka.
[edit] Felton Family
[edit] Maria Felton
Maria Felton (マリア・フェルトン Maria Feruton?)
Single mother of Jean Jacquemonde in his youth when he was raised in France after Rick Bordeau mysteriously disappeared, forcing her to raise him and his brother, Mark, alone.
The death of Maria and Mark marked Jean's personal war against the Trident Corporation since Larry Markson had a hand in their deaths in order to let Jean comply as a test subject in Trident's biological weapons program.
She rests with Mark in a cemetery near Jean's old town in rural France.
[edit] Mark Felton
Mark Felton (マーク・フェルトン Maaku Feruton?)
Younger son of Maria and Rick and brother of Jean. He was killed with his mother, presumably in a Trident covert assassination in order to force Jean out of hiding after dealing with a group of Trident thugs with Tea Flatte.
Like his mother, he rests with her in a local cemetery near Jean's old town in France.
[edit] Kawahara Family
[edit] Shozo Kawahara
Kawahara Shozo (正三 川原?)
A Japanese archaeologist who received ARCAM funding to conduct an excavation in Egypt. When he retrieved the Crystal Skull, his crew had been killed by local Neo-Nazi radicals before he himself died of blood loss when his limbs were being sliced off his body by Hans Schneider.
His death had angered his only daughter Suzuko, who went to Egypt to gather clues on the perpetrators. Shozo's death was soon avenged when Colonel Kutheimer's Egyptian cell was neutralized.
[edit] Suzuko Kawahara
Kawahara Suzuko (鈴子 川原?)
Only daughter of Shozo Kawahara, she went to Egypt to privately grieve for her father, but was soon being targeted by Neo-Nazi assassins before being forced to help Yu in dismantling Kutheimer's Egyptian faction for good. She was once his substitute world history teacher in class and like the Sasahara sisters, is the only teacher to know about Yu's secret occupation. The two were close friends after their "reunion" in school.
Suzuko made another appearance in the manga when she was supervising Yu's section during a fieldtrip away from Tokyo when she covered his tracks to track down a kidnapped student.
[edit] Yayoi Okabe
Okabe Yayoi (弥生 岡部?)
Yu's classmate at his high school, wanted him to participate in the annual school run when Yamamoto had summoned him for an ARCAM operation in Britain.
[edit] Takashi Ominae
Ominae Takashi (御神苗隆?)
Biological and adopted father of Akiha and Yu Ominae, he knew about Yu's semi-augmented condition when he found out that he used his commando skills to ward off robbers from his home. Though angry at this, he still helped him fight off Trident and assisted him in bringing him back to a civilized life before sending him off to Japan as a ward of Yamamoto.
During a mission when Yu and Jean encountered Takashi somewhere in North America, he was armed with a Steyr AUG carbine. He is also good in setting anti-personnel traps. Nearing the end of the story, he assists Oboro in disabling Trident's communications in the South Pole so as to prevent them from calling in reinforcements.
[edit] Sasahara Family
[edit] Koichi Sasahara
Sasahara Koichi (耕一 笹原?)
A professor researching on the Mask of Palenque, he was possessed by Tezcatlipoca. In his possessed form, he hired a mercenary named Ironarm to kill Yu Ominae and his daughters as he saw them as obstacles for him to use the mask to take over the world.
[edit] Hatsuho Sasahara
Sasahara Hatsuho (初穂 笹原?)
Yu's classmate and sister of Kagaho. She helped Yu in Mexico in order to free Kagaho from the influence of the mask and save their father from Tezcatlipoca. Due to this incident, she knew about Yu's double life aside from her sister Kagaho and Suzuko, who was their teacher.
[edit] Kagaho Sasahara
Sasahara Kagaho (香穂 笹原?)
Younger sister of Hatsuho and friend of Yu, she was once possessed by the Mask of Palenque, before the combined efforts of Yu and Hatsuho freed her from being under the mask's control. Like her sister and teacher, she also knew of Yu's double life and keeps it as a secret between them.
In her possessed state, Kagaho can hover and teleport. Her offensive skills consists of hurled energy ball projectiles. She is also invulnerable to bullets fired from firearms.
[edit] Others
[edit] Ironarm
Ironarm (アイアンアーム Aianaamu?) [7]
A mercenary hired by the possessed Professor Sasahara to eliminate Yu Ominae and the Sasahara sisters, his armaments consist of a cyberized right arm that has the Heat Crasher System, a weapon that would use fire-based projectile from his metallic hand to burn or kill his enemies while the Heat Knife is a concealable knife blade hidden in a secret compartment.
Ironarm was later wounded by Yu, but Professor Sasahara turned him into a Werejaguar. Yu had killed him later with a combat knife.
[edit] Tony Bennett
Tony Bennett (トニー・ベネット Toni Beneeto?)
An American national working as an agent for the CIA and for the Trident Corporation. Wounded in an ARCAM operation in Mali and supposedly killed, his brush with death has startled Yu until a Trident operation in the South Pole had cost him his life when Jean doused him with gasoline before throwing him into a raging fire.
[edit] Koichi Moroha
Moroha Koichi (諸刃功一?)
A Japanese KGB agent working under its Far East Division, working around Japanese soil for the Soviet Union. He is the bearer of the Hihiirokane sword handed to his family for generations and is a moderate psychic who uses the Tornado Beast [8] to disable or kill his opponents with winds that could been dismember someone's limb.
His search for the Fire Orb had caused him to go against his duties. Instead of securing the orb for the Soviets, he decides to harness its powers to be a dictator ruling the entire world. However, Yu kills him by punching him hard on his face, causing him to head straight into Mount Fuji's erupted lava, burning him to death.
[edit] Ralph Khoury
Ralph Khoury (ラルフ・クーリー Rarufu Kuurii?)
An officer in the US Army with the rank of Colonel, he commands the secretive child soldier unit COSMOS [9] and leads them into government-sanctioned black ops missions in various nations in order to conduct operations that cannot expose the United States government in gray areas such as assassinations and kidnappings. He was mortally wounded when Yu Ominae was able to regain his memory back before he shot him down with his M60 GPMG when he stormed Col. Khoury's mobile command post.
Colonel Khoury later surfaced, having replaced his lost left eye with an eyepatch and his amputated left arm with a prosthetic one. However, he was not able to utilize it fully as Yu's speed had taken its advantage on him when he sliced Khoury's throat with his Omihalcon-made combat knife, instantly killing him.
[edit] Victor Shutrov
Victor Shutrov (ヴィクトル・シュトローフ Viikutoru Shutoroofu?)
A Soviet soldier from the Spetsnaz in the Soviet army, he had infiltrated Japanese territory alongside a group of Spetsnaz commandos in order to locate Rie Yamabishi and force her to assist them in locating the Temple of Fire and the Fire Orb in order to give the Soviet Union its superpower status from the days of the Cold War. After realizing Koichi's intention of using the Fire Orb were against orders of the Soviet army, Victor attempts to subdue him from using the Fire Orb for his own gains. For this, he was killed by his Tornado Beast, slicing his waist in half. Victor later dies from the lava erupted from Mt. Fuji by the Fire Orb's powers, scorching his corpse.
Victor, before infiltrating Japan, was augmented to have an indestructible body. It includes full invulenarabilities from projectiles such as bullets from sidearms and unbreakable bones.
[edit] References
- ^ In the OVA version, the American military's Machine Corp. were responsible for his cyberization. His augmentation was responsible for driving him insane, wanting to use Noah's Ark to destroy the world instead of acquiring it for the US army.
- ^ This is believed to be based from fan material and/or from the OVA since he is addressed as Colonel by his Machiner's Platoon comrades and his own soldiers.
- ^ He only appears in the First Option one shot story.
- ^ See END OF EARSE's Machiner's Platoon entry under Word, H section, for more information (Japanese)
- ^ a b c These men were believed to be ex-Machiner's Platoon operators when Trident recruited them to bolster their ranks. See END OF EARSE's Machiner's Platoon entry under Word, M section. (Japanese)
- ^ He only appears in the Gold Rush one shot story
- ^ Ironarm is believed to be an ex-Machiner's Platoon operator before going to the mercenary business. See END OF EARSE's Machiner's Platoon entry under Word, A section. (Japanese)
- ^ In the Japanese version, it is originally known as Wind Beast (風獣) as it is the given name of the psychic technique in VIZ's translation.
- ^ In the OVA, Fatman was the unit's commanding officer.
| Characters |
|---|
| Yu Ominae | Jean Jacquemonde | Tea Flatte | Oboro | Yamamoto | Rie Yamabishi | Yoshino Somei | Mayzel | Iwao Akatsuki | Bo Brantz | Larry Markson | Henry Garnum | Sho Kanaya | Minor Spriggan characters |
| Organizations |
| ARCAM Corporation | ARCAM Private Army | Trident Corporation | COSMOS | Spriggans | Minor Spriggan organizations |
| Mystical locations |
| Forest of No Return | Phantom Island | Reverse Babel Tower | South Pole Shrine |
| Mystical artifacts |
| Fire Orb | Mask of Palenque | Noah's Ark | Berserker | Crystal Skull | Program YAMA | Holy Grail | Vajrayana | Ark of the Covenant | Megiddo Flame | Gold Statue of Pachacamac |
| Other mystical items |
| Armored Machine Suit | Armored Muscle Suit | Hihiirokane | Magical Circle of Chaos | Message Plate | Omihalcon | Soma |
| Others |
| Franchise | ISBN Codes |
