Udai Taxim: Age: 34. A knife-wielding assassin who once worked for a criminal organization. Seven years before the story, he was the man who took Jet's arm. After taking over the prisoner transport ship, he tries to rejoin his old group, but is informed that his services are no longer needed. He enters into a death match with a vengeful Jet.
Fad: Age: 38. Jet's former partner from his time as a police officer. While he's the one who informs Jet of Udai's escape, he's actually a crooked cop who is working with a crime syndicate.
Tarkan: Age: 26. One of the revolting prisoners. This cynic is thrown into space and killed while trying to flee when Fad's ship attacks the airlock.
Dig: Age: 29. While seemingly the head of the revolting prisoners, he is killed by Udai after he kills their last hostage, the ship's pilot.
Pilot: Age: 40. The pilot of the prisoner transport ship. While he was the last remaining police officer on the ship after the revolt, he was killed by Dig after surrendering.
Elroy: Age 36. A prisoner who used to be a police officer on Venus. He calmly tries to get to safety, but is killed by Fad.
Nero: Age 30. One of the revolting prisoners. Using a rocket launcher he found, he tries to shoot down Fad and Jet, but is killed when the airlock is destroyed.
Fad's Ship: A ship that Jet and Fad use when pursuing Udai. The bumper attached to it makes it look like it was once a tugboat.
Prisoner Transport Ship: A large ship being used to transport prisoners to facility on Pluto. A notable feature is its large gravity block. It seems like the only weapons are for self-defense purposes. While transporting Udai and his fellow dangerous criminals, the crew and police officers onboard are all killed in the revolt.
The bio terrorist behind the tanker explosion that killed 72 in Alba City.
With his long, unkempt hair and his black clothing, he has a menacing appearance. While he has no compunction about killing people, he doesn't take pleasure in it either. There seems to be no reason given for this.
A former Special Forces soldier and nanomachine weapon test subject, he was sent to the battlefield carrying a counter-nanomachine vaccine. However, when he saw the indiscriminate carnage unleashed on the battlefield by the butterflies, he lost his memories and everything except for his life.
His ultimate goal is to release a nanomachine virus on Halloween night in Alba City. However, why he wants to do this is ultimately unknown.
What is he trying to gain by standing atop the corpses of countless people?
A woman who appears before Spike multiple times as he purses a 300-million Woolong bounty, Electra has the hurried eyes of someone whose back is against the wall.
She was ordered by the military to hunt down and kill Vincent, her former lover. There's no doubt that her plan was to use her position in an attempt to save Vincent, however.
However, Vincent didn't hesitate for a second to pull the trigger. This caused her to view of Vincent, who had one supported her, to change.
Thus, she decides to take down Vincent, even if it kills her. Perhaps this was in order to fulfill her duty as a soldier. And so, the fated moment approaches...
“Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door” is set in Alba City. Floating inside of a water-filled crater on Mars and connected to the rest of the world via a bridge, this city is reminiscent of present day New York City.
However, Alba Tower, the site of Spike and Vincent’s final battle, is very similar to the Eiffel Tower. Rather than just being based on New York, Alba feels like a mish-mash of several large cities around the world.
An example of this would be the six-tiered sign that Spike looks at during his investigation. The top level is in Chinese and English and points toward a China Town-like area. The next tier is for the Alba City government and is written in Arabic and Chinese. Below that are Russian Town and Moroccan Street. These are written in both English and the respective native language of each area. If someone could only read one of the languages, they wouldn’t be able to understand the entirety of the sign. While this would have been prohibitive in the past, perhaps people would be able to manage better these days.
There’s also a lot to unpack as well in the different parts of the city you see as Spike wanders around looking for information. At first, he’s in an area resembling an American city from the 70’s and 80’s, but he ends up passing through a portion with European architecture and trains, before ending up on Moroccan Street. This shows the diversity of styles present in the city.
Alba City is depicted not only as a mix of countries, but also time periods. Brick buildings coexist alongside modern steel-framed ones, creating a contrast that captures Mars in 2071. Since the buildings couldn’t be more than 50 years old, the idea of that brick means old and steel means modern doesn’t quite apply, giving the city quite an odd feel. However, this strangeness was necessary to depict that a wide variety of people live here.
“It’s the world that’s gone insane,” Vincent says as he sets his sights on Alba City, a New York-inspired city that “compresses” the features of modern cities in both the East and West into “a world that doesn’t exist anywhere.”
Multilingual Sign: The sign, which features multiple languages on it, demonstrates the chaotic nature of Alba City.
Highway on the Water: The long bridge connecting the mainland to the city is meant to resemble Manhattan Island.
Alba City's Surroundings: Alba City is a city that floats within a crater that's been filled with water.
“Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door” is set in Alba City. Floating inside of a water-filled crater on Mars and connected to the rest of the world via a bridge, this city is reminiscent of present day New York City.
However, Alba Tower, the site of Spike and Vincent’s final battle, is very similar to the Eiffel Tower. Rather than just being based on New York, Alba feels like a mish-mash of several large cities around the world.
An example of this would be the six-tiered sign that Spike looks at during his investigation. The top level is in Chinese and English and points toward a China Town-like area. The next tier is for the Alba City government and is written in Arabic and Chinese. Below that are Russian Town and Moroccan Street. These are written in both English and the respective native language of each area. If someone could only read one of the languages, they wouldn’t be able to understand the entirety of the sign. While this would have been prohibitive in the past, perhaps people would be able to manage better these days.
There’s also a lot to unpack as well in the different parts of the city you see as Spike wanders around looking for information. At first, he’s in an area resembling an American city from the 70’s and 80’s, but he ends up passing through a portion with European architecture and trains, before ending up on Moroccan Street. This shows the diversity of styles present in the city.
Alba City is depicted not only as a mix of countries, but also time periods. Brick buildings coexist alongside modern steel-framed ones, creating a contrast that captures Mars in 2071. Since the buildings couldn’t be more than 50 years old, the idea of that brick means old and steel means modern doesn’t quite apply, giving the city quite an odd feel. However, this strangeness was necessary to depict that a wide variety of people live here.
“It’s the world that’s gone insane,” Vincent says as he sets his sights on Alba City, a New York-inspired city that “compresses” the features of modern cities in both the East and West into “a world that doesn’t exist anywhere.”
Multilingual Sign: The sign, which features multiple languages on it, demonstrates the chaotic nature of Alba City.
Highway on the Water: The long bridge connecting the mainland to the city is meant to resemble Manhattan Island.
Alba City's Surroundings: Alba City is a city that floats within a crater that's been filled with water.