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Cowboy Bebop: Is Spike Spiegel Jewish In The Anime?
Spike Spiegel, one of the protagonists in Cowboy Bebop, has a mysterious past, but his ethnic background is just as ambiguous. While Cowboy Bebop is set in a futuristic, largely racially ambiguous neo-noir landscape, audiences over the years have consistently interpreted Spike as being a character of Jewish descent. If this is the case, Cowboy Bebop's Spike Spiegel is not only a rare instance of a Jewish protagonist in fiction but also one who defies typical stereotypes.