Spike Spiegel (スパイク・スピーゲル Supaiku Supīgeru?) is the primary hero of the Cowboy Bebop TV series and Cowboy Bebop: Knockin' on Heaven's Door motion picture. He is an abundance seeker on a spaceship called the Bebop and ventures space with his team Jet, Faye, Ed & Ein. Spike is an abundance seeker who was conceived on Mars.
He is 27 years of age. Tall and thin in appearance, he has feathery green hair and rosy tan eyes, one of which is counterfeit and lighter than the other. A flashback in Session 6 uncovered that his completely working right eye was surgically supplanted by a computerized one (despite the fact that Spike himself might not have cognizant memory of the method since he claims to have lost his common eye in a "mischance").
One of the repeating topics encompassing Spike's character is the way he sees himself and his life. He guarantees that one eye - his right one, the prosthetic - can just see the present, and the other - the left, his true eye - can just see the past. This is returned to by a nearby up on Spike's left eye each time he has a flashback of his life before getting on the Bebop. He appears to view his false demise as genuine somehow, saying that after that day, he had "only been carrying on a fantasy". (Amid Session 25 when Spike has a flashback of the last time he saw Julia, the nearby up shows both Spike's eyes, maybe inferring that his future and past are currently the same.)
Spike has numerous abilities and capacities, including sharp visual perception, anomalous intense recognition, and remarkable luckiness.
Spike makes utilization of sleight-of-hand methods to win card amusements, pick pockets, and even to slip things onto other individuals unnoticed. He is knowledgeable in weaponry, (for example, his individual Jericho 941 and different firearms and explosives) and hand-to-hand battle abilities because of his past vocation with the Red Dragon wrongdoing syndicate. He takes after Jeet Kune Do, the attitude created by Bruce Lee, however he has a propensity for high kicks of French boxing. Spike is likewise a pilot, and flies a changed over Asteroid racer called Swordfish II which is outfitted with four assault rifles, different rocket launchers, and a solitary plasma gun. Spike likewise over and again exhibits an extraordinarily sharp brains, in spite of the fact that he has a propensity for fail to arrange ahead, as noted by Jet.
Spike has over and again possessed the capacity to outmaneuver the whole Red Dragon syndicate, anticipate the moves of his rivals (whether in battle or in the gambling clubs), and use sidelong thinking to escape from essentially every circumstance which life tosses at him. He can likewise swallow and disgorge objects e.g. a chip (club chip) freely.