Cowboy Bebop: Knocking On Heaven's Door - Spike vs. Vincent

spike vs vincent

[@SpaceTiger9]

I like Cowboy Bebop's brutal realism. No excessive blood spitting, kicks don't send people flying 5 feet, they stagger backwards, spit flies out, it's brutal realism and it's excellent music is all part of it's appeal.

[@InterEDGE]

What I love about this fight is that it is the perfect give and take fight. Too often do we see fights in movies or whatever shift between one character dominating for a certain time and then the advantage switching hands. Spike and Vincent are on equal footing and deal equal amounts of blows to each other. That, and it's not cartoon flips and spins; just two normal guys (well aside from the nano machines) beating the complete shit out of each other using real world martial arts.

[@bittypimp69]

Vincent dominates the fight early, but as it goes on Spike starts to figure him out, and the winning strategy seems to be all out offense.

[@MultiBoxingKid]

I don't see it, sure there were some spots where Spikes has the upperhand, especially with those kicks near the end, but this was Vincent's fight.

[@0doublezero0]

Yes, but even then real fights aren't that clean, even with highly trained martial artists.

[@TitaniumSeraph]

This fight is exceptional! The moment when Spike pins up Vincent with his kicks...SO BEAUTIFULLY ANIMATED. LOVE IT.

[@Nobodie92]

"Yeah that's right you have an eye for detail dont you Vincent." lol I love that part. This whole action sequence is quiet epic...

[@user-vf8yr6hh1u]

The choreography of this fight is fucking amazing. I'm so glad I got to see this movie in theaters.

[@rrrevan]

The best display of Jeet Kune Do since "Enter the Dragon". I love the clash of styles. Vincents hard hitting spec ops. vs. Spike's fluid JKD. If ever an anime character captured the awesome style of Bruce Lee, Spike Spiegel does it here. His moves are graceful, unpredictable, and draw wonderfully from numerous martial arts styles (his kicks take real inspiration from Tae Kwon Do while his hand to hand use wing chung kung fu (palm and wing blocks), some wushu and even a bit of Karate). This is a true homage to JKD, and by far my favourite anime fight of all time I'd put his tangle with the Mad Pierrot 2nd and the chapel fight a close 3rd, for what its worth.

[@quanmcinnis3022]

spike = jeet kune do vincent = karate, taekwondo,boxing or maybe a little jeet kune do and out of a lot of animes this is one of the most relistic fights i've seen it' 100% accurate to real life.(naruto,dragonballz,onepiece etc) held know candle to this

[@DeniseMarieArtist]

Agreed. This is THE most fluidly animated fight I've EVER seen. And I've seen a lot. I want to learn animation. :D

[@cognitiveinstinct2929]

My favorite fight honestly.

[@Dmandadude]

Song is called "Pushing The Sky".

[@VSJonno]

Gotta agree, Cowboy Bebop has probably the best dub I've heard overall.

[@JosephAgbebiyi]

16....years ago. And it feels like it.

[@Syryu]

Cowboy Bebop, and Samurai Champloo have arguably the best animation. The fights are so fluid, and awesome to look at! But on the down side they often are on the short side compared to other animes It also begs the question how much time and money goes into making animation this fluid?

[@HeroSeeking]

Spike= Best anti-hero EVA!!!! Triple spin kick at 4:54 was beastly

[@alias100]

The choreography in that fight is amazing. Especially when Spike does a combo breaker on Vincent with the kicking barrage there.

[@Onigirli]

That segment from 3:03 to 3:27 ... fucking incredible

[@zachdillenger5468]

Vincent fought pretty good despite having a bullet hole in his chest and hand, guess that's x mars spec ops for you.

[@Onigirli]

And his fingers in Spike's ribs, don't forget that little piece of tomfoolery

[@RonaldinhoReborn]

He heals more or less instantly from any wound, though. He basically wore a grenade on his head and let it explode on the train. That's illegal military supersoldier experimentation on Titan for you.

[@jr4chargers]

Wait, when did he get shot in the chest?

[@Brocolipe]

at the very start when he is falling at spike and tries to grab his face

[@Jayblin]

The guy's got an amazing vocal range. In other words, a damn good voice actor.

[@MatthewTheWolf2029]

I must admit, the animation is quite impressive, and it holds up wonderfully to this day. And the fight choreography is very fluid and well coordinated.

[@gamezob]

And the music. Let's not forget the awesome music.

[@SirMac27]

The Seat Belts and Yoko Kanno did a fantastic job with the soundtrack for this whole series!

[@7thhkage]

an anime fight with actual kung fu action and non repetitive movement!? my world is shaken

[@Omes299]

@JanesInChains1990 Personally my favorite fight of all Anime!... No 5 hour long fights, no extended dialouge, a nice, sweet finale with great art and angle shots with two guys who REALLY know how to Duke it out!

[@paulhunter6742]

Spike and Vincent's battle on the Iffiel Tower is masterpiece of animation. Everything about it just incredible. Also upon the monorail, poor Spike has more bullet holes his body than most bounty hunters.

[@masakokubo]

Vincent is a very impressive character.

[@OroborusFMA]

You actually feel some of the punches in this fight, it's so real. A classic.

[@dndamn]

This is probably the best hand to hand fight I've seen in anime. I totally agree that the extra grunts of pain, heavy breathing, and the bile spewing add a more nuance and layer to the fight that simply doesn't exist in the Japanese audio track. Steve Blum is the fucking man.

[@SpaceHobo42]

Spike was the original "Literally me" character.

[@BDNeon]

Steven Blum (Spike) has to be one of the best voice actors ever. Make you cringe just listening to his grunts of pain. He's the main reason I prefer listening to Bebop in English rather then the original Japanese, and that's rare for me with anime!

[@le_severine_cox]

What's great about this fight is that even though we know (if you've seen the series) that Spike does not die yet , it seems just as likely for Spike to lose as it is to win. Vincent poses an actual threat to Spike. Alot of fight scenes even in live-action movies make it seem obvious that the protagonist will win whereas here and in a few others (the 1st Matrix in particular) the possibility of the villain/antagonist outright defeating the hero is in the realm of high probability.

[@TehPwnage1337h4x0rz]

Best Anime fight of all time; the choreography is amazing.

[@BluKarma5]

More animes need fight scenes like this.

[@sackue35]

i never get tired of this fight

[@MadolcheGabbana]

this is more epic then the actually "final" fight with Vicious

[@lupinvash3]

Until some time last year, I never knew that playing as Vincent was THE Daran Norris, the man who played as Cosmo in Fairly Oddparents. Ain't that some shit.

[@RTDice11]

Brilliant choreography! Kudos to the director, animators, and of course, THE SEATBELTS!

[@Xynth25]

The awesome part is that every one of those strikes I saw are technically possible. Spike's rapid-fire kicking combo is stretching it a little, but there are disciplines that use that sort of thing.

[@cavezon16]

One of the best anime fights ever

[@razormint21]

When naruto fistfights, you'll hate him for it, and just scream "use a jutsu already!!".. When Spike fistfights, you drool all over the place and then flick to youtube to search for videos of bruce lee or tommy carruthers... Spike is the stuff of legends man...

[@crypto66]

Now I remember why I keep trying such fancy moves during our sparring sessions. Fat lotta it did me. Almost broke my knee too. Serves me right for trying to be as cool as Spike.

[@serioushamster]

I want a triple threat match between spike,vincent and vicious

[@katethegreat91]

3:07-3:14. My favorite part of this fight! Spike's foot was like a sword the way he dealt those kicks!

[@C.L.3006]

This is one of the best fights done on anime. This and the Ninja Scroll climatic fight.

[@rlfletcher]

Like the time I found out the chick who voices the major in ghost in the shell is also the female singer in alot of the silent hill songs.

[@RukudoSage69]

Vincent is insanely fast, strong and skilled. He also beats the hell out of vicious as an antagonist. The dude would probably break his sword with a palm shock and rip his throat out just as easily as he almost ripped out spike's hearts :o

[@DanielVonRommel]

He was in the titan war and they DO look similar, so I guess Vincent modified JKD to fit his greater strenght

[@BlueVoicesThis]

This is one of the most epic and well put together Anime Fight Scenes I have seen so far.

[@ImaTigerwithabeanbag]

I'm in Taekwondo and got in a fist fight in the parking lot. THIS IS PRETTY ACCURATE.

[@sjcobra84]

Thanx heaps. this fight is great. And yes I'm surprised either of those men can even move after being shot a close range. Ouch!!

[@dennis20014]

Love the eng dub of this haha

[@animetabon]

1 of the most realistic anime fight scenes I've ever seen

[@swordnerd108]

Did they ever announce what Vincent's fighting style was? I know they flat out said that Spike does Jeet Kune Do. Vincent's kind of looked like savate, but he doesn't use nearly enough kicks. Could he be JKD as well?

[@rlfletcher]

You just blew my mind.

[@jokintjboy]

best short anime ever

[@cutiepatootiefruitie]

This movie is available right away on Netflix- watched it on my computer!

[@wassereischmeckt]

This hand-to-hand (and sometimes feet) combat is better than all dragonball-like-blast-the-whole-world-into-tiny-pices-fights together.

[@truli91]

Spike is using Bruce Lee's fighting style. if you watch any of his fights you will notice he uses this "flamboyant kicks"

[@JanesInChains1990]

best fight of the whole series, if I may say so.

[@doomyboi]

Found out recently that that particular sequence is found in a Bruce Lee film that's been aped several times by several shows, including Cowboy Bebop, Naruto, and the Boondocks.

[@senators2904]

old boy vincent comes thru with the meanest kung fu grip

[@xXTheHunterX360Xx]

That man is fucking talented I think I've heard 5 variations of this voice including this movie.

[@Copycatkiller65]

The song at the end is called Powder

[@iihngo]

well, vincent is clearly holding back, he always waits for spike to regain his breath, vincent never comes down, he his more of an abstract nemesis, in the end spike barely had a scratch on him...also remember that in the train scene vincent beats spike with one hand, I'm surprised that viewers see this as a simple fight, remember that the movie starts and ends with spike sleeping, an obvious hint at what I'm saying

[@birdman44]

wow, their fights are SOOO intense,

[@zherka]

Greatest anime series of all time...

[@dragoon282]

its nice to see an anime fight were there weren't flips every other, few seconds

[@ithurtz23]

my life will be complete if i ever master that combo at 3:11

[@fidgipl]

2:00 that was one hell of a combo :O

[@hsaungaye9662]

They should make another freaken CowBoy BepBop Movie

[@metalheadtrash]

This is another time Spike "dies" of the million. One of the deaths he went through telling the Tiger Striped Cat story.

[@artist4life14]

nothing compares to this series

[@codystarr90]

Your style! No matter how unsafe it is..

[@jackfrost267]

No you got it right. That is what was so cool about this fight, this fight wasn't one sided at all. Vincent did best Spike, but obviously through great difficulty. Vincent was more defensive, and more resilient. Nano machines or no, Vincent got up from that huge kick and was JUST FINE. Where as Spike was tiring out long before the Nano machines kicked in. Great fight, more memorable than most actually.

[@theninjacowboy]

hell yeah he would

[@ridermac]

@Jayblin Indeed. To a high voice from Cosmo, to a low voice from Vincent and to a gay voice from King Cold. Dude is talented.

[@taylorvelasquez1424]

Whatt great martial arts choreography

[@Grendelynden]

No, not lying. Also, he voiced Spotswoode (the grey-haired man in the suit) in Team America: World Police. Daran Norris scares me.

[@itwaslikethatalready]

i was gonna say that but u got there first haha best anime fight ever

[@iihngo]

that's not dismissing, it's adding a whole new dimension to the movie, this scene is both an awesome fight and a deep metaphor, in the tv episodes you can find many similar references, spike has always been caught between the past (reality) and his current dream-like situation...this isn't dragon ball or hokuto no ken, we're talking about deep characters for a more mature audience, that's why cowboy bebop is such a superb anime

[@taluce]

Haha, those old guys are like in every other episode! They're always like, "Back in my day I did this" and then one of the other guys is always like, "You never did that!" Haha, it makes me laugh.

[@itwaslikethatalready]

What made this fight so exceptional and bad ass is the fact that this is actual martial arts. What you see here is real shit and can actually happen. None of that fly through the air lightning fast shit, thats all impossible. This is actual fighting not summoning a demon from the outer world to give you a massive sword or some bullshit. Real. Fucking. Fighting.

[@iihngo]

characters are the most important thing for me, that's why I love series like cowboy bebop, evangelion or ergo proxy, I want something more than simple entertainment :)

[@delmonteland]

oh wow cant agree more

[@codystarr90]

It's all about style cuz!

[@gui874111]

I'd like to see how easy would Ed's Dad kick Vincent's ass.

[@Protologos]

now to go watch the Spike vs. Vicious fight.

[@Sephrion]

Any fight with Spike is BIBLICAL!

[@emooo845]

4:49 :o best kick ever!!!!!!!!!

[@matt765432]

i always thought the best part about this show was that its hand drawn

[@AndorRadnai]

Ok, lovely as usual, but what is that Fantastic music!?!?

[@StrayF0X]

future blues-pushing the sky

[@Mugenkun77]

I especially like the move Spike pulls at about 3:09

[@cowboifunk]

@ilyktosk8 because he doesnt have a lighter, a couple of times in the movie he grabs a cigarette then realizes he has no lighter

[@19Otaku94]

its like spike fighting his dad.

[@Zigeunerweisen20]

The only thing I never figured out was how the hell Vincent could no-sell like 50 concussive martial arts blows. Holy shit he's tough.

[@santiagocabrera]

thank you and kudos to you Spartan for not making this a stupid AMV feat music of Linkin park or shit like that

[@siponcriss]

Nice spin kick at 4:54-55

[@MMAenthusiastUHHE]

Ed is the hacker of the ship

[@asterix1124]

What's cool is how his fighting style is related to bruce lee :D

[@ducciboi]

@MarcoThePhoenix91 hm... now I'm not quite sure which one was better, the move from Trigun called Badlands Rumble or this.

[@ac98521]

Spike as Bruce Lee Vincent as Chuck Norris

[@drewhadou]

@BlitzCaliber i dunno man. Vincent had that iron bear trap clutch shit on Spike in the train. didn't that open him up to begin with? seemed like his hands were his most dangerous weapons.