Gung-Ho Guns
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In the anime and manga series Trigun, the Gung-Ho Guns (ガンホーガンズ Ganhōganzu) are a group of assassins assembled to cause great pain to Vash the Stampede. Each one is human, but has sacrificed their humanity in order to gain power, often leaving them mutilated. The exact makeup of the Gung-Ho Guns differs between the manga and the anime, as not all the characters had been revealed in the manga when the anime was being made.
Each Gung-Ho Gun has an assigned number, but not all numbers are revealed. In the manga, they also carry half a coin (excluding Elendira). Vash received a case with twelve halved coins from Legato, who told him that if he collected them all something would happen. It has been revealed in the latest chapters that the filled coin case functions as a device to block Legato's powers. In the manga, three spots in the Gung-Ho Guns are always reserved for members of the priest/assassin cult "the Eye of Michael".
In one of the final episodes of the anime, Legato is shown in a flashback speaking to a comatose Knives about tormenting Vash, and then shown emerging from a massive shadowed door with the Gung-Ho Guns in tow, indicating that he may have been the one to recruit the team while Knives was incapacitated. Given a flashback in the manga, there is further reason to believe that the Gung-Ho Guns may have been formed by Legato during the time Knives was recovering from July (though Midvalley the Hornfreak was recruited before that time, as he was recruited by Knives himself in the manga).
In the manga flashback, related to Vash the Stampede while they fight, Legato recalls he and the doctor finding Knives' body in the rubble of July. At first sight, Knives appeared to be dead, and Legato, looking around, notices Vash, wrapped in his tattered red coat, sitting on a pile of rubble. It's to be assumed he knew why Knives was going to July and recognized Vash from his clothes. He starts towards him, but the doctor calls him back; despite his terrible physical condition, Knives is still alive, but it will take both of them to get him back to the compound. With one last look at Vash, Legato goes to help the doctor.
Given the seriousness of Knives's injuries, there appears to have been a very real possibility he might die. It's been suggested that Legato formed the Gung Ho Guns to cause "eternal pain and suffering to Vash the Stampede" in the event of his Master's death. But Knives survived, so the Guns joined the Priests from the Eye of Michael in their attempt to force Vash to return to Knives's side.
[edit] Chapel the Evergreen (Nicholas the Punisher)
Voiced by: Sho Hayami (Japanese), Jeff Nimoy (English)
In the manga, Chapel the Evergreen is Nicholas D. Wolfwood's mentor, who Nicholas shot and impersonated to join the Gun-Ho Guns. Wolfwood was a member of the "Eye of Michael", an organization of assassins founded by a church of Plant worshippers. The Eye of Michael provides Knives with mercenaries, with three slots of the Gung-Ho Guns reserved for the Eye of Michael's best. Nicholas' title was really 'Nicholas The Punisher', during his time in the Gung-Ho Guns Knives appointed Nicholas as a guide for Vash to lead him towards Knives' hideout.
The mentor who is the real 'Chapel the Evergreen' is an old bearded man in a wheelchair (damage caused by being shot by Wolfwood) - Razlo calls him 'Master C', carrying a large cross-shaped machine gun, with 4 spiked ends at the base of the cross. It is speculated that this gun is named Chapel due to the tendency of members of the Eye of Michael to use the name of their weapon as their title, hence: "Livio the Double Fang" and "Nicholas the Punisher." After taking 2 vials of Super Regenerative Drugs, Wolfwood kills Chapel with an immense head butt, cracking his skull and breaking his neck.
His weapons of choice are pistols and a large cross-shaped gun known as Punisher. The Punisher expands into a machine gun, and also has a built-in rocket launcher. It is one of the most devastating weapons of the "Eye of Michael", and is only provided to skillful and worthy assassins of the cult. His body has been enhanced to significantly increase his metabolism, thus he can regenerate from wounds much quicker than normal people, although to recover from serious wounds, he relies on vials of Super Regenerative Drugs, which further increase his body's metabolism and regenerative functions. However, a side effect of his healing abilities is that he ages much quicker than normal persons. Wolfwood may therefore be much younger than his appearance.
He is acquainted with Livio/Razlo (see Livio the Double Fang / Razlo the Tri-Punisher of Death below). He dies after battling his mentor and Razlo, having sustained immense internal injuries by overdosing himself with 2 vials of Super Regenerative Drugs taken simultaneously. He gives his and Rai-dei's coins to Vash before his death.
In the anime, a man named 'Chapel the Evergreen' is Wolfwood's mentor. He carries the parent version of Wolfwood's famous Cross Punisher (Punisher is not an officially given name in the anime), though Chapel's splits into twin machine guns. He cared for young Nicholas after Nicholas killed his abusive guardian. He dresses in dark green and has red goggles grafted to his face. He always carries a green apple in one hand and is instrumental in Wolfwood's salvation.
[edit] Monev the Gale
Voiced by: Masuo Amada (Japanese), Peter Spellos (English)
He is the first Gung-Ho Gun to fight Vash. In the anime, he first appears in Episode 12-Diablo, where it is revealed that Knives locked him in a cell to train his body for 20 years in order to gain the skill and power required to kill Vash. He wears a powered battle suit and carries two high-powered chain guns on his arms. These guns fire extremely fast due to the pressure chambers located on his back, and have tremendous stopping power, enough to tear through entire buildings.
He also carries a wide variety of weapons in a big cloth rucksack, including an enormous minigun, powerful enough to punch through a bank vault.
In the anime Vash shoots Monev's massive weapon with his left arm's hidden gun, causing an explosion that injures Monev. Vash manages to restrain himself from killing the Gung-ho Gun, and allows him to leave. E.G. Mine then pins him to a building to showcase his failure to kill Vash and further agitate Vash into a fight.
In the manga Vash pulls his hidden gun in the jail cell, and repeatedly shoots Monev in the helmet before disabling one of the chain guns. During the gunfight in the street, he shoots off Vash's prosthetic arm, but Vash shoots his mask off and puts out his right eye with the barrel of his gun. After the battle, Vash spares Monev, who quietly surrenders his coin. Monev is later caught and crucified out in the desert by E.G. Mine.
Nightow created Monev as a tribute to the Spider-Man villain Venom, whom he resembles. Nightow, a fan of American comics, went as far as to make Monev's name "Venom" backwards.[citation needed]
His Gung-Ho Gun number is 1 in the manga.
[edit] Dominique the Cyclops
Voiced by: Yōko Sōmi (Japanese), Carol Stanzione (English)
The only Gung-Ho Gun born female (unless one counts Zazie's second host body in the manga), she has an ability known as the "Demon's Eye." Whether this ability derives from a mechanical eye-patch she sports or the actual eye it covers (which is red in the anime and reptilian in the manga) is unknown. The "Demon's Eye" causes hypnosis and sensory paralysis in her foes: when her eye-patch opens to reveal the eye beneath it, it induces a trance in her opponents, momentarily stunning them and making her movements appear immediate.
However, in order for Dominique's ability to work, her victim must be focusing on her with at least one of the five senses. Vash was able to break her hypnosis by focusing entirely on pain; this was done by putting pressure on a wound he had sustained on one of his fingers, distracting all of his senses from the powers of Dominique's trance.
Her death is handled differently in both the anime and manga. In the anime, her corpse is skewered to a wall alongside Monev, and E.G. Mine takes the credit for killing the two, although it is more likely that Midvalley the Hornfreak (who confronts her after her defeat in battle) dispatched the Cyclops and gave her corpse to Mine. In the manga, she drops her coin in front of Vash and leaps off a balcony to commit suicide, unable to bear the thought of reporting her defeat to Legato or Knives. In the manga, her Gung-Ho Gun number is 3. In the anime, her Gung-Ho Gun number is 2.
[edit] E.G. Mine
Voiced by: Ryō Horikawa
Little is explained of his character, though he exhibits extremely violent tendencies for the short time he has on screen. In fact he was itching to face Vash next, obviously overly confident, and even going so far as to question Legato as to why he didn't just send him and expressing the hope that he would get a reward for his kill. He wears a suit that resembles a sphere and contains control threads for deploying lethal spikes. Further manipulating these threads, Mine can hurl them towards an enemy. He tends to wiggle his fingers tightening and loosening these threads in a trigger happy fashion when he is excited or angry. His name comes from the fact that when he is completely inside his spherical shell, he resembles a naval mine.
He is the second Gung-Ho Gun to confront Vash in the manga. He is quickly dispatched and is not heard of again. In the anime, he is killed by Rai-Dei after the straps holding his defensive shell on were severed by a previous gun shot from Vash during their short battle, allowing Rai-Dei The Blade (See below) to enter the picture. Since he never reappears in the manga, he either fled, killed himself, or was killed by Legato or Knives.
His Gung-Ho Gun number is 2 in the manga and 5 in the anime.
[edit] Rai-Dei the Blade
Voiced by: Akio Ōtsuka (Japanese), Kirk Thornton (English)
Rai-Dei is a samurai who seeks the knowledge learned only when facing death. He carries a sword, and is able to swing it with enough force to create a sonic blast. Later his sword reveals a concealed rifle in the sheath, and the blade can be fired from the hilt. When he appeared, the second Gung-Ho Gun, E.G. Mine was in the midst of a battle with Vash. Rai-Dei quickly 'relieved' Mine of his job, stabbing him through his chest. Throughout the battle in the anime he expresses anger in the fact that Vash is refusing to make his mark true and aim to kill, claiming he wanted "a real battle". Legato activates Vash's angel arm and forces him to point it at Rai-Dei. Vash shot his own arm to make it point skyward, giving Rai-Dei time to get clear of the blast range. He manages to escape the wrath of Vash's angel arm but is killed by Wolfwood soon after.
In the manga he wears demonic "roller skates" that allow him to move at phenomenal speeds. He is fought after the Fifth Moon incident in an abandoned town. After Vash defeats him, Rai-Dei attempts to attack Vash from behind but is quickly killed by Wolfwood. His coin is taken by Wolfwood, who gives it to Vash along with his own. His Gung-Ho Gun number is 9.
[edit] Leonof the Puppet-Master
Voiced by: Kaneta Kimotsuki (Japanese), Milton James (English)
In the anime, Leonof controls (probably via a small orb on strings) mannequin-like puppet creatures from a remote location. Some of these puppets are incredibly realistic, though those he deploys for fighting resemble unfinished dolls. Leonof is considered to be the most intelligent of the Gung-ho guns.
Not only was he capable of operating his army of puppets from a distance, but Leonof was also the first member of the Gung-Ho guns to attack Vash in a team fashion, as opposed to Rai-dei and E.G. Mine who came separately but proved incapable of working together. Leonof attacked Vash's "flying condo in the sky" with the aid of Gray the Ninelives, and Hoppered the Gauntlet. During their initial introductions, Leonof revealed to Wolfwood that he was well aware of his connection to Chapel the Evergreen, and knew of his "title".
In the anime, Brad was a colonist on the flying ship and was enraged at Vash when his beloved girlfriend Jessica was taken prisoner by Leonof. After Leonof and the other Gung-Ho guns seemed to have been defeated, Leonof revealed the Jessica Vash "saved" to be only a puppet who tried to kill Vash with a pistol but failed when Brad took the shots for him and he died shortly after. When Leonof realized he failed, Wolfwood appeared and vaporized the puppet master with a rocket in Episode 21-Out of Time.
In the manga, it is revealed that Leonof controls these puppets with several thin strings. He and Gray the Ninelives are sent to invade an isolated colony that Vash considers his home. Vash defeats him by activating the sprinkler system. The weight of the water on his strings immobilizes him and crushes his fingers.
It is also revealed that Leonof's real name is Emilio and that Vash knew him when he was a child. He had a relationship with a woman called "Isabel," who somehow met her end. Heartbroken, he either concealed her body in a casket, made a puppet out of her body, or made a puppet resembling her. (This is unspecified). During the invasion of Vash's "home" Brad, a disgruntled resident, finds her. Upon discovering that Brad had found her, he goes into a frenzy and attacks him, knocking most of his puppets (including her) onto a loading dock, which Brad soon opens to dispose of all the puppets. Leonof jumps after her, desperate to retrieve her corpse. Vash catches him by the strings on his fingers but, after Leonof remembers his past, he decides he wishes to die and has a puppet stab Vash's hand- thus falling to his death in the sand below. Vash finds his coin in an outstretched puppet hand in a pile of trashed puppets.
His Gung-Ho Gun number is 4 in the manga.
[edit] Gray the Ninelives
Gray is famous for having nine lives; in other words, being indestructible. The anime version of Gray, possibly named so because of its high resistance to any sort of damage, is actually a cyborg, the only remaining humanity being the brain, which is encased and hidden in the hip area of the robot body. He does not speak, and his "breathing" is heavy, every step taken causes the ground to shake a bit. He is destroyed by Wolfwood after a pipe containing an acidic liquid is dropped on Gray, melting off his impervious armor and revealing the mechanical body underneath, thus leaving him without a shield. Gray is promptly blown to bits.
However his "bits" proved to exist without the shield. Gray continued to battle Wolfwood in the reactor core of the flying ship, regardless of losing most of his mechanical limbs and his armor. When he was reduced to only a pair of legs, Gray approached the reactor core of the flying ship and destroyed it with a missile located in his knee joint. He was destroyed in the explosion of the reactor.
In the manga, his name comes from the fact that there are nine tiny people living inside of him that control him like a tank. Wolfwood captures the two surviving dwarfs after blowing open the living puppet's chest cavity and slaughtering those inside with his machine gun. The two surviving dwarfs later escape from confinement and attack Vash, Milly and Meryl while they are in the cold chamber, to which Wolfwood suddenly appears and steps on them to halt them, ending the Ninelives' attacks. One of the surviving dwarves gives their coin to Meryl, who gives it to Vash after Vash escapes from the Ark.
[edit] Hoppered the Gauntlet
Voiced by: Keiichi Nanba (Japanese), Jonathan Fahn (English)
Resembling a toy top, the oddly but appropriately named Hoppered is capable of very powerful leaps. He carries an indestructible shield that uses some kind of rocket-engine to propel itself, turning Hoppered into a living projectile. He has little to no personality in the anime, aside from wanting to cause Vash suffering, and laughing like a maniac every time he hurt Vash or reminded him of the people Vash has "killed" along the way. He himself said "There are but three important words in my vocabulary... attack... trample... destroy... things you have been doing a lot of... Vash the Stampede." Hoppered was originally believed to have been killed by electrocution, after Vash managed to sneak a bullet past Hoppered's indestructible shield using wire taken from Leonof the puppet master, causing him to crash into some large machinery. Revealing to have survived minutes later, Hoppered propels himself into the plant Vash was defending in order to cause the Fallen SEEDs ship to fall, thus killing himself.
The manga delves into Hoppered's past, explaining his motive for becoming a Gung-Ho Gun. He seeks to kill Vash to avenge the woman he looked after, a mute detached from humanity by the removal of (or possibly birth without) her eyes, who died during the destruction of July. It is also revealed that he has degenerated and vestigial legs, so that he depends on his unusually large and strong arms for movement.
Hoppered became, through unknown means, the Gung-Ho Gun that he is now. Aside from his goal to ultimately kill Vash, he doesn't seem to be too evil. He dies after a standoff between Vash, Legato, Nicholas, and Zazie, most likely from either shots from Zazie or previous damage.
During his final battle he sees Vash's memory of July and has a revelation that he has made the wrong choice. Hoppered gains a lot of honor in turning against the Gung-Ho Guns in his last living moments. His and Midvalley's coins were taken by Milly, and given to Vash after Vash escaped from the Ark. His Gung-Ho Gun number is 6.
[edit] Zazie the Beast
Voiced by: Hiroshi Kamiya (Japanese), Derek Stephen Prince (English)
The most mysterious of the Gung-Ho Guns. His portrayal in both the anime and manga are drastically different.
In the anime, Zazie uses the identity of a young boy named "Beeb" as a disguise. He can control sand-worms with a high-frequency device he wears on his head. When he is found out, the Beast reveals himself and points his guns at Vash and the children. He dies when Wolfwood shoots him to protect Vash - which upsets Vash considerably. The anime never exactly gives a clear explanation as to what Zazie was. It can be theorized that Zazie was a malevolent entity that took control of the boy whenever it needed to, that he was in fact a much older man who only looked like a young boy, or that he was actually a child assassin driven to the brink of insanity by his association with the Guns.
In the manga, his body is controlled by a collective of group-minded insects. These insects are the original inhabitants of the planet Gunsmoke and have formed an alliance with Knives to see whether humans or Plants are better to co-exist with. The insects that form Zazie also seem to represent the planet's consciousness, as represented by the sandworms he can control as well (Zazie has been referred to as the 'leader of the sandworms' by Knives). His body is destroyed by Hoppered for spying on him and Midvalley. Zazie later reappears in the body of a teenage girl. In Trigun Maximum 11 this body is destroyed as well after trying to implant an insect in Knives to control him. Zazie reappears one last time as an odd-looking man in disco-clothing in order to deliver his coin to Vash. It is revealed that these bodies are human, but are controlled by a small worm-like creature that lives inside it, similar to the one Zazie tried to implant in Knives. When the hive is destroyed by Knives, the man spits out the creature and has no memories of his time as host to Zazie.
His Gung-Ho Gun number is 12 in the manga, and 4 in the anime.
[edit] Midvalley the Hornfreak
Voiced by: Tomohiro Nishimura (Japanese), Steve Bulen (English)
A musician who is able to use his saxophone Sylvia to synchronize sound waves with pain, causing physical damage. He also is capable of neutralizing sounds by playing counter-frequencies on his saxophone.
In the manga, he seems to greatly fear (and therefore hate) the brother Plants. Before his recruitment, he played in a band that killed with sound waves for money. Knives found them and said that he was "collecting knives- sharp ones capable of mass slaughter." Despite Midvalley's warnings, the rest of the band tried to kill Knives to protect their secret, and he used his powers to butcher his band, leaving only Midvalley.
He dislikes the way Legato and Knives use the Gung-Ho Guns as pawns to be sacrificed. In one sequence, he attempts to shoot Legato, though he is easily stopped. Later he makes an agreement with Hoppered the Gauntlet to help him destroy Vash and in exchange Hoppered will cover up Midvalley's attempt to desert the Gung-Ho Guns.
When Legato appears, hinting that he knows about their plans, Midvalley attempts to attack Legato, only to be shot by Hoppered (who is being controlled by Legato) and crushed with a motorcycle. His corpse is animated briefly by Legato in an attempt to execute Hoppered, who is saved by Vash. Afterwards, Midvalley is buried next to Hoppered with his saxophone on his gravestone. There are strong rumours that Midvalley is based on real-life musician Atsushi Yanaka of the Tokyo Ska Paradise Orchestra.
In the anime, his personality is not as obviously accessible, as most of his appearances outside episodes 15 and 24 are merely as the bodyguard for Legato, and his character was much more developed in the manga. In the anime, he kills himself by overloading the guns on his saxophone after Vash manages to damage his B Flat.
On a musical note, it is Midvalley's B Flat (the lowest note on a saxophone) that sends out the shock waves. He plays solos until he gets to the low range and then plays the B flats. Midvalley's saxophone has a very peculiar design. The appearance of his saxophone falls between an Alto and a Tenor Saxophone, with a neck that curves upwards from the bell like a Tenor Sax, but then points in a straight line like an Alto Sax. Although not quite a Tenor Sax, one is used to record Midvalley's solos due to the fact that no saxophone like his exists. It is also interesting to note that the Midvalley figure available through Yamato Toys is clearly holding a baritone saxophone, which is the saxophone Midvalley uses in the manga. In the anime, his Gung-Ho Gun number is 11.
[edit] Caine the Longshot
A member of the Gung-Ho Guns invented for the anime, Caine is a mute, talented sniper who can cloak his body and utilizes a rifle many times longer than a normal rifle (it has a pipeline-like barrel, several meters long, supported on a number of bipods and covered). With it, Caine can hit foes from a mile or two away. In his attempted assassination of Vash, he stayed on the village outskirts, and fired from about a mile away. Vash decides to look for Caine, getting into a jeep and going into the desert, while dodging potshots from Caine. He was fooled by Vash, shooting Vash's oncoming jeep in the middle of the desert only to find Vash was no longer inside it, but rather right behind him. Vash destroys his gun and offers him the chance to walk away. Unfortunately he decides facing Legato and Knives with failure was not worth going home. He committed suicide, using a revolver he had in his side-holster, shooting himself right in the side of the head. In the episode titled "Demon Eye" Caine can be seen relaxing in the sunset when the Gung-ho Guns are introduced.
Caine's role in the anime is indirect, but at the same time instrumental in Legato and Knives's plans to torment Vash: it is only because Vash leaves Wolfwood's side to find Caine, who has been sniping at them from a distance, that Chapel is able to approach, battle, and ultimately kill Wolfwood, leaving Vash to blame himself for not being at his friend's side.
He does not appear in the manga.
[edit] Elendira the Crimsonnail
The thirteenth Gung-Ho Gun and the most powerful, also referred to as "lost" number 13. She shoots giant red nails from a large briefcase that transforms into a crossbow. Like Vash, Elendira often acts childish and flippant, as well as flamboyant and sometimes extremely arrogant. She is a transsexual (some say she's actually a transvestite, but her body weight distribution and apparent slight breast development seems indicative of at least some estrogen treatment), and normally wears feminine clothing and a pillbox hat similar in style to fashions internationally popularized by Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. However, underneath her outer garments she also wears restraining armour, and after disabling it, she is able to move at an even more inhuman speed than she is usually capable of. She seems to dislike Legato and fires a nail into Legato's torso in a conversation with him after arriving on a Zeppelin. It is also hinted that she holds some jealousy of Legato, commenting that Legato's lack of a number in the Gung-Ho Guns implies that Legato is on a whole other level from the Gung-Ho Guns, including Elendira herself.
The only manga Gung-Ho Gun who does not carry one of the broken coins, Elendira did not appear at all in the anime.
As the last Gung-Ho Gun, Elendira alone stood between Vash and Legato, and Livio promised Vash that he would handle Elendira, allowing Vash to move on to Legato and eventually Knives. Livio is able to keep up with Elendira until Elendira removes her restraints and proceeds to skewer Livio with multiple nails. Razlo awakens, and proves to be able to keep up with Elendira until Elendira seemingly defeats Razlo by projecting an image of Razlo's brutal death through sheer killing intent. Livio and Razlo then work together, and after one final exchange of blows, Livio grabs Elendira and impales her with a nail protruding from his own chest. She cries and says she is not ready to die, then does so.
Later, Legato gains control of Elendira's corpse, and demands that Vash finish his victory by killing him, threatening that if Vash refuses, he will use Elendira's corpse to kill an unconscious Livio.
[edit] Livio the Double Fang
After most Gung-Ho Guns have been defeated, Knives receives the final members of the Gung-Ho Guns from the Eye of Michael. Livio is very large and strong and has small cross-shaped guns called Double Fang strapped on his arms which turn into two double machine-guns which can be shot from both ends (hence his title). Like Wolfwood, his body has been enhanced through increased metabolic rate but Livio's enhancements have been improved, allowing him not only to recover from normal wounds but also from serious, near fatal wounds in a matter of seconds. He is a childhood friend of Wolfwood, having grown up in the same orphanage as him. During his time with Wolfwood as a child he seems to have had the name "Livio the Crybaby".
Livio also has a split personality, manifesting in the form of a violent psychotic personality known as Razlo. This Razlo personality is treated as another member of the Gung-Ho Guns and is known as The Tri-Punisher of Death (see below). Razlo was created while Livio was being beaten by his father. He imagined that everything that was happening to him was actually happening to Razlo, so Razlo became his abused side. Livio left the orphanage when Razlo began to manifest himself.
In the later chapters of the manga, Livio battles Vash and Wolfwood. Having been defeated by Wolfwood, his Razlo personality awoke. After revealing himself, Razlo battles Wolfwood, with Wolfwood eventually managing to defeat Razlo. However, Wolfwood had sustained immense injuries when overdosing himself on the regeneration drug in order to defeat Chapel and Razlo. When Wolfwood was on the brink of death, Livio's personality eventually overcame the Razlo personality to stop him from killing Wolfwood in his weakened state. Wolfwood later died from his injuries. Although it was Razlo who had effectively killed Wolfwood, Vash forgave Livio, and gave him Wolfwood's pistol and the last vial of the regenerative drug. Livio surrenders his and Razlo's coins and joins Vash, acting as his partner for the remainder of the story.
When Vash and Livio return to the Arc, Livio fights against Elendira. Unable to win himself, Livio allows Razlo to awake and help him kill the Crimsonnail, by utilizing Razlo's faster reflexes and better eye sight. After Vash defeats Legato, Legato controls Elendira's corpse and threatens that he will kill Livio unless Vash completes his victory by shooting him.
Like Elendira, Livio the Double Fang did not appear at all in the anime.
[edit] Razlo the Tri-Punisher of Death
After most of the Gung-Ho Guns have been defeated, Knives receives the final members of the Gung-Ho Guns from the priest/assassin cult "the Eye of Michael". Initially it seems that Tri-Punisher of Death is an elderly, bearded man in a wheelchair. It turns out that the man in the wheelchair is in fact the real Chapel, while the Tri-Punisher of Death is Razlo, an aggressive, psychotic split personality of Livio the Double Fang with a third bionic arm. Razlo wields three Punishers, hence his title. He is aided by three servants who carry his Punishers while Livio's persona is active. These servants have regenerative capabilities, and only follow Livio or Razlo's orders. They fight by throwing dozens of knives at a time.
Razlo was first created when Livio was a child. After years of abuse he murdered his own parents which sparked Livio's split personality, Razlo, who committed random acts of violence as Livio blacked out. Aware of Livio, Razlo tried to inform him of his presence by writing letters and placing them in his pocket for Livio to find when he awakened. Razlo only appears after Livio has suffered intense pain or violence, as the usual purpose of an alternate personality's creation is to rid fearful and painful experiences from the original personality's mind by experiencing them themselves.
Razlo was defeated by Wolfwood after Wolfwood drank two vials of super regenerative drug. Wolfwood destroyed Razlo's head by exploding a large chain of bullets from his Punisher while they were wrapped around it. Wolfwood then proceeded to punch Razlo, messing up the regenerative process, rather than try to kill Razlo by simply shooting him in his weakened state. However, he was unable to continue since the two healing formulas had strained and destroyed his body. Wolfwood was saved when Livio awoke and stopped Razlo from stabbing Wolfwood. Livio apologized to Razlo for "pushing all the hard shit" onto him. Razlo's personality is then gone until he is needed in the fight with Elendira the Crimsonnail, where his faster reflexes and better eye sight were able to keep up with her.
| Trigun |
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| Media |
| Manga • Anime • Trigun: The Planet Gunsmoke |
| Characters |
| Vash the Stampede • Millions Knives • Nicholas D. Wolfwood • Gung-Ho Guns |
