Cowboy Bebop: The Movie story
Cowboy Bebop: The Movie, known in Japan as Cowboy Bebop: Knockin' on Heaven's Door (Japanese: カウボーイビバップ 天国の扉, Hepburn: Kaubōi Bibappu: Tengoku no Tobira, lit. Cowboy Bebop: Heaven's Door), is a 2001 Japanese animated science fiction film based on the 1998 anime series Cowboy Bebop created by Hajime Yatate. Synopsis: A team of bounty hunters track down the perpetrators of what is assumed to have been a bioterrorist attack.
19 total · 6 major · 13 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| bioengineered human pathogen | major | The film's main antagonist Vincent plotted to kill everyone on Mars by releasing a nanomachine pathogen. |
| colonization of Mars | major | The story is set in the future in a big city on Mars. |
| misanthropy | major | Vincent so loathed humankind that he plotted to kill everyone on Mars by releasing a nanomachine pathogen into the environment. |
| speculative nanotechnology | major | A main novelty of the film is a protein-based nanomachine human pathogen that mimics human lymphocytes and then breaks down into protein after death, making it undetectable. |
| terrorism | major | The plot follows a small team of bounty hunters as they attempt to apprehend the bioterrorist Vincent, who plans to kill everyone on Mars by releasing a dangerous nanomachine pathogen. |
| unethical business practices | major | A revelation of the story was that the Cherious Medical corporation had illegally manufactured a deadly nanomachine pathogen as a biological weapon. |
| computer hacking | minor | There was a 5 million woolong bounty on the hacker Lee Sampson. Edward hacked into the Cherious Medical corporation computer system to check their trucking records. |
| fear | minor | Vincent described how he "shook with fear" in his dream, and it was moreover the first time that he'd ever experienced this emotion. |
| gambling | minor | A disheartened Faye explained that all her horses had lost. |
| gender bending | minor | A jack-o-lantern wearing, trick or treating Edward knocked on the door of a red lipstick wearing, pink negligee clad man with blond flowing locks. |