Master Kim Yokushimo
Age: Late 70s
Occupation: New head of the Red Dragons Syndicate
Appearance: Recessional of the Red Dragons
Subjects: Syndicate agents, interplanetary criminals, ISSP, Spike (temporarily)
Kim was one of the Van’s earliest members of the crime syndicate. He then went mysteriously, believing that the few members of the Van as well as Mao Yenrai had him killed. He never returned until sometime later, just after the desired effect of the Syndicate was made into fruition. Vicious, Mao, and the Van were exterminated, leaving only several survivors and his new subject, Spike Spiegel. Kim remained in the shadows for years when he moved away from Tharsis and their hideout, and only Laughing Bull was the informant to the Bebop bounty hunters. Aside from a resurrected Spike warning Faye of Kim’s impending war within three days, the nomad also shed some intel to Jet and Trudy of the totalitarian’s motivations, to rule all of Tharsis, Mars, and soon the universe while making crimes and chaos dominant with Spike at the helm. He was proven to be quite the intergalactic terrorist that not even the ISSP could overcome…
Until he was shot by Mr. Appledelhi while Kim broke into the devastated store occupied by the special forces’ superiors. Zero discovered how he resurrects his fallen soldiers and infiltrated the base with Zoroark; the Maverick Hunter literally cut off Vicious’ ties and saved Julia’s lifeless vessel from cremation to those who don’t share the same blood type as Spike nor Vicious does. Kim was desperate to retrieve Spike as a way to conquer the universe, but the war itself was still turning in his favor despite his death.
Upon the destruction of Olympus Mons made by Reshiram and Zekrom, the conflict shifted as they sacrificed themselves utilizing the environment to destroy the rest of the syndicate. Since their numbers decreased drastically, they later surrendered and were captured with large bounties on their heads. Kim and his men lost, and Spike would forever have a more productive life ahead of him!
Trivia[]
- He was loosely based on Shang Tsung from Mortal Kombat, and mostly David Lo Pan from Big Trouble in Little China. Even sharing the actor who played as the latter, David Hong, who also played as another OC for Bebop, Takeshi Lucero Crowley.
- He got most of his skills from the black arts, as well as the Red Dragons' secret techniques of sorcery, even from Laughing Bull.
- Part of his teachings like reanimating corpses was loosely based on Temple of Doom and Jurassic Park.
- The name Kim is unisex, usually means leader, and was based on totalitarian Korean leaders, even Kim J OK, the head of SEK!