Hassun

He's dead. He's clearly, utterly dead at the end of the anime.
The whole last mission he did was a suicide mission in the first place.

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Mechazawa

I thought of it more of a mission of revenge thats been a long time coming, than a suicide mission. The things that happened to some of the bounties through-out the series, it just seems hard to believe that Spike would die from a few wounds. Unless they release a director cut of CB and it shows Spike getting shot in the head or heart or blown up, I'll believe he still lives.

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shenaligaan

What to me is obvious is that he goes there knowing he will die, he just has to do it. For Julia, for all the suffering the two lovers have been put to. And hence, Spike being dead would be the best, it makes Spike even greater. Said that, I will review that ending, there are a couple points I don't remember seeing.

((Enough time has passed since that last post above, so I would not count this as double posting))

I finally reviewed it. He doesn't reach for anybody, he just aims his hand as if it were a gun, then he says "Bang!" and falls. No more movement is seen. Neither the falling star (I think who mentioned it just messed the memory of the episode when the hermaphrodite dies). Once fallen, the camera zooms out and we see everybody still, probably still shocked by the appearance of Spike. After the credits we see a black on gray image of fallen Spike's face.

Before falling we see he's hurt in his right side, above the liver, so it's not necessarily a death wound, also blood in his left arm which may be a hollow wound and blood in his face that surely is caused by splattering from Vicious's blood.

On another note, I have seen mention the film is some moment previous to one of the final chapter. That seems to be the truth, as otherwise we'd be shown how is Ed returns to be on the ship. Then it ends being a bit of incompatible to my tastes, as the distant reference to Julia doesn't seem to be fitting the moment when it would be happening regarding the series timeline. It's too far, too distant, too much as something forgotten and already out of his life, which never during the series is reached. In that regard it would work much better being some moment after the series, when Julia is definitely dead and Spike has begun to live past her.

Hassun

The film takes place between episode 22 and 23 of the original series.

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tsurara

...do we usually get large choral numbers written by Yokko Kanno followed by fade-to-black when characters just "pass out"?

O_o;

"Spike faints - THE END"

How... satisfying

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Hassun

Spike seems to be the anime form of Elvis. People just can't accept he's dead.

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tsurara

Almost all of my favorite characters die... I can't afford denial anymore ^^;

Death happens to good people.

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Ochi Gate

you just have a feeling it was Spike's star. besides, he had a purpose to live onj after vincent, but after he beat vicious, his goal was fufilled. see what im saying. plus julia died, so he was even more willing to go.

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LenMiyata

Grumble Grumble Grumble

This does remind me of one of my favorite spoof entries that exist on the Internet...

Cowboy Bebop - Uncyclopedia, the content-free encyclopedia

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Hassun

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