10 Things That Make No Sense About Cowboy Bebop

The popular and soon to be Netflix series Cowboy Bebop sometimes preferred style over substance, which lead a few plot holes and questions.

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There are many plot holes in Cowboy Bebop, which is actually part of the show’s enduring charm, rather than a major flw of the series. Often Cowboy Bebop intentionally forgoes certain details in order to tell a larger story or show an aesthetically pleasing scene. This storytelling technique leaves the audience with many questions which the creators simply never bothered answering.

Cowboy Bebop is a show where its characters are stuck in the past. Because we are shown the world through the lens of these characters, our viewpoint is narrow and limited, which, ultimately, causes many things about Cowboy Bebop to make no sense – even if fans don’t really mind that they don’t.

10 Data Dogs

Ein is a Pembroke Welsh Corgi. The audience learns in “Stray Dog Strut,” Ein is also a data dog. This means that he underwent testing and research in a lab which enhanced his intelligence.

What’s not explained about Ein – and data dogs in general – is why they were created. What purpose, besides assisting a ragtag crew of bounty hunters, do data dogs play in this universe? They simply exist, and the show is better for it.

9 The Blob From The Refrigerator

Cowboy Bebop goes horror in “Fridge Monster” as the crew is attacked by a mysterious blob with a bite that leaves a bulbous infection. As the session soon reveals, the blob’s origins began in the forgotten refrigerator after Spike left a rock lobster in there for over a year.

How exactly the blob went through the solidification process and developed an appetite for human flesh remains unknown and truly doesn’t matter. We accept its carnivorous inclinations without second-guessing its nature. Cowboy Bebop cared little about the blob’s origin story and somehow the session succeeds because of it.

8 Alicia And Jet’s Relationship

In session 10 “Ganymede Elegy”, Jet is looking for Alisa, an old fling who broke his heart. At the session’s end, Alisa reveals she left Jet because he was too controlling and she wanted to make her own mistakes, even if it meant ending up with someone like Rhint, her new boyfriend whose bounty has him winding up in jail.

The two characters have undeniable chemistry and the audience wants to see Jet, with his rough exterior, find love and happiness. Why Alisa continues with Rhint and decides against rekindling the flame with Jet, who will change for her, remains a mystery and makes no sense.

7 Radical Edward

Edward, as a character, doesn’t make sense. So much so, that in her introductory episode “Jamming with Edward,” when Jet is interrogating people about who exactly Radical Edward is, everyone’s answer is different, with the only constant being that she is an alien.

While the character’s age and background remain unexplained, what’s for certain is that Edward is an expert hacker. At one point, she even hijacks the Bebop after they lied to her about crowning her an official member of the crew. How she obtained these masterful skills is another way the show forced their viewers to suspend their disbelief.

6 The Cowboy Bebop Universe

By all accounts Cowboy Bebop takes place in a world where an apocalyptic event made Earth uninhabitable. However, there are cultural references to real life, such as Spike mentioning the Jazz saxophonist Charlie Parker and the crew watching a knockoff version of Tom and Jerry, which connect the show to our universe.

At some point, civilization went through a jump in technology which increased the reliance on spaceships and hyperspace travel. The details behind this great technological advancement is never mentioned in the show and audiences are meant to accept the universe.

5 The Crew’s Professions As Bounty Hunters

Spike and the rest of his crew are bounty hunters. Most of the sessions revolve around them watching the show Big Shot and then spending the rest of the session trying, and mostly failing, to capture the specified bounty.

However, as viewers soon discover, the Bebop crew aren’t that skilled at their job. Out of all the bounties they seek throughout the series, they get the payday less than 50% of the time. One would think that at some point the crew would realize that bounty hunting is not their true calling and move on to a different profession.

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3 Spike’s Cigarette Addiction

Having trained with the Red Dragon Syndicate, Spike Spiegel is a deadly fighter. In many sessions, Spike is shown battling multiple enemies at once. Despite his profound mastery of martial arts, Spike is also a heavy smoker, as nary a scene passes where he isn’t seen with a cigarette.

As most know, cigarette smoke is harmful to the human body and causes tremendous stress to the lungs. At this point in his life, with the amount of cigarettes Spike has smoked, it’s likely his fighting skills, and overall endurance, would be negatively affected by his habit, but there is no explanation as to how he is able to keep it up and remain so fit.

2 Spike’s Obsession With Julia

Spike is a character haunted by a lover from his past: Julia. As the series progresses, more details are learned about their previous relationship and it is revealed that before dating Spike, she was involved with Vicious, which explains the animosity between the two characters, and their antagonistic relationship.

Spike’s infatuation with Julia is puzzling because Spike should have moved on from Julia at this point in the series. He is a fashionable dresser, has great hair, and is the best character in the series. Although his profession often leaves him isolated, traveling aimlessly through space, he shares a ship with Faye, who is also single, recently heartbroken, and searching for love. There are plenty of cowgirls in space.

1 Spike’s Fate

The final moments of “The Real Folk Blues, Part II” confirms Vicious’s death but leaves Spike’s fate ambiguous. However, the common theory leans towards Spike’s death, seeing as how Laughing Bull predicted it in the penultimate episode.

However, in a 2013 interview with Red Carpet TV news, Shinichiro Watanabe, the show’s creator, said “I think people who watch [the ending] and think that Spike is asleep are probably right… just sleeping.” While it’s impossible to tell if Watanabe was joking or not, what remains true is that Spike is a survivor, seeing how in previous sessions he lived through multiple gun shot wounds and being thrown out of a window several hundred feet in the air. Hopefully Netflix’s live-action series will shed more light on Spike’s ultimate fate.

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