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* DiedStandingUp: Cassandra is killed by Goku when he opens a trapdoor in a foundry that pours a lot of molten metal on top of her, leaving her petrified in place.
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* HotterAndSexier: ''Goku'' is very close in tone to Terasawa's own ''Space Adventure Cobra'', but with the advantage that outside the confines of Shonen Jump he could insert as much [[NippleAndDimed boobage with defined nipples]] and on-panel sex as he desired.
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* HotterAndSexier: ''Goku'' is very close in tone to Terasawa's own ''Space Adventure Cobra'', but with the advantage that outside the confines of Shonen Jump he could insert as much [[NippleAndDimed boobage with defined nipples]] and on-panel sex as he desired. Interestingly, once ''Cobra'' got installments sold for the ''seinen'' demographic, Terasawa still kept them consistent with the original series instead of raising the violence and sex level to that of ''Goku''.
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* {{Butterface}}: At the end of her battle against Goku, Cassandra transforms into a winged demon creature with a monstrous head on top of a beautiful and nude female body.
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* {{Butterface}}: At the end of her battle against Goku, Cassandra transforms into a winged demon creature with the appearance of a monstrous head on top of a beautiful and nude female body.
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* ProductionThrowback: In the "Leila" arc, Leila[=/=]Risa sings a song written by Buichi Teresawa that was originally used in the Hell Crusaders arc of ''Manga/SpaceAdventureCobra''.
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* ProductionThrowback: In the "Leila" arc, Leila[=/=]Risa sings a song written by Buichi Teresawa Terasawa that was originally used in the Hell Crusaders arc of ''Manga/SpaceAdventureCobra''.
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* {{Telefrag}}: The ArcVillain of the "Ryoko" arc, Zenzo, is an overwhelmingly powerful psychic that could block and deflect anything thrown at him. With his cyber-eye, Goku does research on a weapon that could overcome the villain's telekinesis and finds the answer is teleporting missiles.
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* {{Telefrag}}: The ArcVillain of the "Ryoko" arc, Zenzo, is an overwhelmingly powerful psychic that could block and deflect anything thrown at him. With his cyber-eye, Goku does research on a weapon that could overcome the villain's telekinesis and finds the answer is teleporting missiles. In the end, Zenzo has Goku on the ropes but is too distracted to notice the hero's car shooting a missile from the side and is blown to LudicrousGibs when it warps into his body.
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''Goku Midnight Eye'' (''Midnight Eye ゴクウ'', or just ''ゴクウ'') is a {{Cyberpunk}} manga series by Buichi Terasawa. It ran from 1987 to 1989, with the first two chapters being adapted into a pair of OVA by Creator/{{Madhouse}} under the direction of Creator/YoshiakiKawajiri. It takes some superficial inspiration from ''Literature/JourneyToTheWest''.
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''Goku Midnight Eye'' (''Midnight Eye ゴクウ'', or just ''ゴクウ'') is a {{Cyberpunk}} manga series by Buichi Terasawa.Terasawa, the author of ''Manga/SpaceAdventureCobra'' and ''Manga/{{Takeru}}''. It ran from 1987 to 1989, with the first two chapters being adapted into a pair of OVA by Creator/{{Madhouse}} under the direction of Creator/YoshiakiKawajiri. It takes some superficial inspiration from ''Literature/JourneyToTheWest''.
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* SexyPackaging: The covers for some of the manga's volumes focus more on the alluring and provocatively dressed women found in the story than on Goku himself.
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* SexyPackaging: The covers for some most of the manga's volumes focus more on the alluring and provocatively dressed women found in the story than on Goku himself.himself. Some of them are even way less significant than implied by the covers.
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* ActionPrologue: The second OVA adapts the beginning of chapter 6, "The City of Heaven", before the title card. The rest is an adaptation of chapter 2.
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* ActionPrologue: The second OVA adapts the beginning of chapter 6, "The City of Heaven", before the title card. The After Goku is done killing Mr. Wong, the rest of the OVA is an adaptation of chapter 2.
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''Goku Midnight Eye'' (''Midnight Eye ゴクウ'', or just ''ゴクウ'') is a {{Cyberpunk}} manga series by Buichi Terasawa. It ran from 1987 to 1989 and received a pair of OVA by Creator/{{Madhouse}} under the direction of Creator/YoshiakiKawajiri. It takes some superficial inspiration from ''Literature/JourneyToTheWest''.
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''Goku Midnight Eye'' (''Midnight Eye ゴクウ'', or just ''ゴクウ'') is a {{Cyberpunk}} manga series by Buichi Terasawa. It ran from 1987 to 1989 and received 1989, with the first two chapters being adapted into a pair of OVA by Creator/{{Madhouse}} under the direction of Creator/YoshiakiKawajiri. It takes some superficial inspiration from ''Literature/JourneyToTheWest''.
* ActionPrologue: The second OVA adapts the beginning of chapter 6, "The City of Heaven", before the title card. The rest is an adaptation of chapter 2.
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* IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming: The manga's volumes organize the story in arcs rather than individual chapters and most of those are named after the GirlOfTheWeek featured in them.
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* IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming: The manga's volumes organize the story in arcs rather than individual chapters and most of those the first five are named after the GirlOfTheWeek featured in them.
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* NoEnding: The series after the first story is a sequence of only six random incidents investigated by Goku with no MythArc or resolution. Depending on the version, the series either ends with Goku [[AndTheAdventureContinues happily polevaulting into a city]] in the "Cassandra" arc or somberly riding into the horizon with the dead body of Bonnie on his back in the "Bonnie" arc.
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* NoEnding: The series after the first story chapter is a sequence of only six random incidents [[RandomEventsPlot unrelated incidents]] investigated by Goku with no MythArc or resolution. Depending Chapter 5 gets pushed to the end depending on the version, so the series either ends closes with Goku [[AndTheAdventureContinues happily polevaulting into a city]] in the "Cassandra" arc or somberly riding into the horizon with the dead body of Bonnie on his back in the "Bonnie" arc.back.
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* {{Telefrag}}: The ArcVillain of the "Ryoko" arc, Zenzo, is an overwhelmingly powerful psychic that could block and deflect anything thrown at him. With his cyber-eye, Goku does research on a weapon that could overcome the villain's telekinesis and finds the answer is teleporting missiles.
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* DownerEnding: The "Bonnie" arc is the fifth in the series but is placed at the very end of the 4-volume versions of the manga. It ends with Goku ''once again'' failing to protect the love interest, a motorcycle racer named Bonnie, and somberly riding off into the sunset with her corpse on his back after killing her murderer.
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* DownerEnding: The "Bonnie" arc is the fifth in the series but is placed at the very end of the 4-volume versions of the manga. It ends with Goku ''once again'' failing to protect the yet another love interest, a motorcycle racer named Bonnie, and somberly riding off into the sunset with her corpse on his back after killing her murderer.
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* NoEnding: The series after the first story is a sequence of only six random incidents investigated by Goku with no MythArc or resolution. Depending on the version, the series either ends with Goku [[AndTheAdventureContinues happily polevaulting into a city]] in the "Cassandra" arc or somberly riding into the horizon with the dead body of Bonnie on his back in the "Bonnie" arc.
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* {{Butterface}}: At the end of her battle against Goku, Cassandra transforms into a winged demon creature with a monstrous head on top of a beautiful and nude female body.
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* BittersweetEnding: The "Bonnie" arc, which is the last one in the series, ends with Goku riding off into the sunset with an unconscious and heavily injured Bonnie, making it unclear if she'll survive.
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* BittersweetEnding: The "Bonnie" AndTheAdventureContinues: After killing Cassandra the Enchantress, the shapeshifting villainess of the manga's final arc, which is the last one in the series, ends with Goku riding off is briefly seen reflecting on the experience before he polevaults into the sunset with an unconscious and heavily injured Bonnie, making it unclear if she'll survive.a cityscape for more adventures.
* DownerEnding: The "Bonnie" arc is the fifth in the series but is placed at the very end of the 4-volume versions of the manga. It ends with Goku ''once again'' failing to protect the love interest, a motorcycle racer named Bonnie, and somberly riding off into the sunset with her corpse on his back after killing her murderer.
* ProductPlacement: A scene in the "Cassandra the Enchantress" arc prominently shows a Coca-Cola billboard above a movie theater that's showing an unspecified ''James Bond'' film.
* ProductionThrowback: In the "Leila" arc, Leila[=/=]Risa sings a song written by Buichi Teresawa that was originally used in the Hell Crusaders arc of ''Manga/SpaceAdventureCobra''.
* ProductionThrowback: In the "Leila" arc, Leila[=/=]Risa sings a song written by Buichi Teresawa that was originally used in the Hell Crusaders arc of ''Manga/SpaceAdventureCobra''.
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* TheUnreveal: At least in the OVA series, it is never revealed who gave Goku his eye and rod.
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* TheUnreveal: At least in the OVA series, it It is never revealed who gave Goku his eye and rod.
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* TheBrute: Champ, Genji's giant mook.
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* TheBrute: Champ, Zhang, Genji's giant mook.enforcer who tries to help the brainwashed Yoko kill Goku.
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** The midget assassin, Zhang, is killed by his own gynoid when it blasts him through the head with a laser.
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** The midget assassin, Zhang, assassin is killed by his own gynoid when it blasts him through the head with a laser.
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* HorseOfADifferentColor: The armored midget Zhang rides into combat a feral, laser-shooting, topless stripper cyborg with a motorcycle handlebar on her back.
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* HorseOfADifferentColor: The armored midget Zhang rides into combat a feral, laser-shooting, topless stripper cyborg with a motorcycle handlebar on her back.
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* NoNameGiven: The name of the peacock woman is never given, although the manga's notes name her aptly as [[ADogNamedDog "Kujaku" or "Peacock".]]
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* NoNameGiven: The name of the peacock woman in the "Yoko" arc is never given, although the manga's notes name her aptly as [[ADogNamedDog "Kujaku" or "Peacock".]]]] The armored midget and the motorcycle woman are also never named.
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* OffWithHisHead: The female motorcycle-like cyborg gets killed when she smashes her neck on Goku's pole at full speed and her disembodied head's laser is used to kill both Zhang and Genji.
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* OffWithHisHead: The female motorcycle-like cyborg gets killed when she smashes her neck on Goku's pole at full speed and her disembodied head's laser is used to kill both Zhang the midget assassin and Genji.
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* TakingYouWithMe: Zhang is easily killed by Goku but removes the top of his head to unleash a swarm of deathly venomous mosquitoes to kill Goku. The protagonist escapes, but fails to save the nearby Yoko who soon dies in the hospital.
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* BittersweetEnding: The final arc ends with Goku riding off into the sunset with an unconscious and heavily injured Bonnie, making it unclear if she'll survive.
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* BittersweetEnding: The final arc "Bonnie" arc, which is the last one in the series, ends with Goku riding off into the sunset with an unconscious and heavily injured Bonnie, making it unclear if she'll survive.
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* CompressedAdaptation: The pachislot version of the "Yoko" arc, ''CR Goku'', only featured a few scenes of Goku fighting generic minions, blowing up a cyborg samurai and then hacking into Genji's helicopter to make it crash into the building. It was also made very TamerAndChaster by the removal of all the nude female characters involved in the manga's opening arc.
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* CompressedAdaptation: The pachislot version of the "Yoko" arc, ''CR Goku'', only featured a few scenes of Goku fighting generic minions, blowing up a cyborg samurai and then hacking into Genji's helicopter to make it crash into the building. It was also made very TamerAndChaster by the removal of all the nude female characters involved in the manga's opening arc.story.
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* BittersweetEnding: The final arc ends with Goku riding off into the sunset with an unconscious and heavily injured Bonnie, making it unclear if she'll survive.
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* CompressedAdaptation: The pachislot version, version of the "Yoko" arc, ''CR Goku'', only featured a few scenes of Goku fighting generic minions, blowing up a cyborg samurai and then hacking into Genji's helicopter to make it crash into the building. It was also made very TamerAndChaster by the removal of all the nude female characters involved in the manga's opening arc.
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** The cover of the series' artbook was of a mournful Goku standing over Yoko's unconscious, mortally poisoned body in underwear (in the actual story she was nude at the time). One of the colored illustrations in the book was the volume 3 scene of a damsel's corpse being left nude and covered in tattoos to spite Goku, similar to the signature scene of ''Film/{{Goldfinger}}''.
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** The peacock assassin feels empowered from hypnotizing people to death while standing around nearly nude and untouchable, but is shot down by Goku in a pathetic way and, particularly in the OVA, is prominently shown sprawled on the floor as she dies.
** The cover of the series' artbookwas is of a mournful Goku standing over Yoko's unconscious, mortally poisoned body in underwear (in the actual story she was nude at the time). One of the colored illustrations in the book was is the volume 3 scene of a damsel's corpse being left nude and covered in tattoos to spite Goku, similar to the signature scene of ''Film/{{Goldfinger}}''.''Film/{{Goldfinger}}''. Said scene is followed by an examination of the corpse in a morgue for good measure.
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* DropDeadGorgeous: Much like in the author's ''Manga/SpaceAdventureCobra'', most female characters in the story are barely dressed and tend to be killed while topless or completely naked. One of those scenes even made it to the series' artbook in full color with all the rest of the fanservice illustrations.
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* DropDeadGorgeous: Much like in the author's ''Manga/SpaceAdventureCobra'', most female characters in the story are barely dressed and tend to be killed while topless or completely naked. One naked.
** The cover ofthose scenes even made it to the series' artbook was of a mournful Goku standing over Yoko's unconscious, mortally poisoned body in full color with all underwear (in the rest actual story she was nude at the time). One of the fanservice illustrations.colored illustrations in the book was the volume 3 scene of a damsel's corpse being left nude and covered in tattoos to spite Goku, similar to the signature scene of ''Film/{{Goldfinger}}''.
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* BoomHeadshot: Genji Hakuryu is killed this way by the severed head of the gynoid Goku killed earlier, sending the rest of him into a DisneyVillainDeath.
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* BoomHeadshot: Genji Hakuryu is killed this way by a laser blast from the severed head of the gynoid Goku killed earlier, sending the rest of him into a DisneyVillainDeath.
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* HorseOfADifferentColor: The armored midget Zhang rides into combat a feral, laser-shooting, topless stripper cyborg with a motorcycle handle on her back.
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* HorseOfADifferentColor: The armored midget Zhang rides into combat a feral, laser-shooting, topless stripper cyborg with a motorcycle handle handlebar on her back.
* SmallRoleBigImpact: The peacock assassin barely appears in the first arc and is effortlessly killed by Goku, but it's because of her hypnosis that he's forced to stab his own eye and ends up getting it replaced with an all-powerful augmentation.
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* WouldHitAGirl: Goku is characterized as a ruthless and hardcore anti-hero in part by his willingness to kill female opponents, not unlike how the author wrote [[Manga/SpaceAdventureCobra Cobra]].
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* WouldHitAGirl: Goku is characterized as a ruthless and hardcore anti-hero in part by his willingness to kill female opponents, not unlike how the author frequently wrote [[Manga/SpaceAdventureCobra Cobra]].Cobra]] killing hot villainesses in dispassionate and even cruel ways.
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* OffWithHisHead: The female motercycle-like cyborg gets killed when she smashes her neck on Goku's pole at full speed and her disembodied head's laser is used to kill both Zhang and Genji.
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* OffWithHisHead: The female motercycle-like motorcycle-like cyborg gets killed when she smashes her neck on Goku's pole at full speed and her disembodied head's laser is used to kill both Zhang and Genji.
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* HotterAndSexier: ''Goku'' is very close in tone to Terasawa's own ''Space Adventure Cobra'', but with the advantage that outside the confines of Shonen Jump he could insert as much [[NippleAndDimed boobage with defined nipples]] and on-panel sex as he desired.
* NothingPersonal: The English dub of the first OVA by Manga Entertainment had Goku say this as a BondOneLiner after killing the peacock assassin, which doesn't fit the scene at all because he executed her while she was unknowingly defenseless purely out of revenge. In the original manga, he even talked down to her corpse with a look of contempt on his face.
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: When Yoko is mortally poisoned as a result of the peacock woman's scheme, Goku kills the assassin without hesitation even though his God's Eye made him immune to her brainwashing and rendered her defenseless. Yoko dies soon after she's taken to a hospital, leading Goku to declare war on Genji [[DoNotAdjustYourSet in public via a satellite transmission]] and storm his headquarters.
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* SpotTheImpostor: In volume 2, Goku is attacked by a group of kunoichi who resemble Yuuko and crowd around her in a pool to confuse him. With his cyber eye, Goku easily tells the imposters apart from the woman he just had sex with.
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* SpotTheImpostor: In volume 2, Goku is attacked by a group of kunoichi who resemble Yuuko and crowd around her in a pool to confuse him. With his cyber eye, Goku easily tells can tell the imposters real Yuuko apart from the woman imposters specifically because he just had sex with.with her and she was still aroused.
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* DropDeadGorgeous: Much like in the author's ''Manga/SpaceAdventureCobra'', most female characters in the story are barely dressed and tend to be killed while topless or completely naked. One of those scenes even made it to the series' artbook in full color with all the rest of the fanservice ilustrations.
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* OffWithHisHead: The female motercycle-like cyborg gets killed when she smashes her neck on Goku's pole at full speed and her disembodied head's laser is used to kill Zhang.
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* OffWithHisHead: The female motercycle-like cyborg gets killed when she smashes her neck on Goku's pole at full speed and her disembodied head's laser is used to kill Zhang.both Zhang and Genji.
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* CharacterTitle: Goku is [[ProtagonistTitle the protagonist]] and the "Midnight Eye" is his powerful artificial eye. Also, the original manga was simply called ''"Goku"'' (ゴクウ).
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''Goku Midnight Eye'' is a {{Cyberpunk}} manga series by Buichi Terasawa. It ran from 1987 to 1989 and received a pair of OVA by Creator/{{Madhouse}} under the direction of Creator/YoshiakiKawajiri. It takes some superficial inspiration from ''Literature/JourneyToTheWest''.
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''Goku Midnight Eye'' (''Midnight Eye ゴクウ'', or just ''ゴクウ'') is a {{Cyberpunk}} manga series by Buichi Terasawa. It ran from 1987 to 1989 and received a pair of OVA by Creator/{{Madhouse}} under the direction of Creator/YoshiakiKawajiri. It takes some superficial inspiration from ''Literature/JourneyToTheWest''.
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** Goku kills the peacock assassin in cold blood while she was inoffensive due to being both oblivious to his immunity to her hypnosis and unarmed aside from that, to avenge the dying Yoko and the policemen driven to suicide by her.
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** Goku kills the peacock assassin in cold blood while she was inoffensive due to being both oblivious to his immunity to her hypnosis and unarmed aside from that, to To avenge the dying Yoko and the policemen driven to suicide by her.peacock assassin, Goku kills the woman in cold blood while she was inoffensive due to being both unaware of his immunity to her hypnosis and unarmed aside from that.
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** Goku kills the peacock assassin in cold blood while she was oblivious to his immunity to her hypnosis, to avenge the dying Yoko and the policemen driven to suicide by her.
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** Goku kills the peacock assassin in cold blood while she was inoffensive due to being both oblivious to his immunity to her hypnosis, hypnosis and unarmed aside from that, to avenge the dying Yoko and the policemen driven to suicide by her.
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* ThisCannotBe: The peacock assassin kills several men with her hypnosis while standing around half-naked with a smug smile on her face until an immunized Goku shoots her down. She dies in disbelief that her ability could have failed.
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* ThisCannotBe: The peacock assassin kills several men with her hypnosis while standing around half-naked with a smug smile on her face until an immunized Goku shoots her down. She dies [[DiesWideOpen with eyes open in shock]], with her [[SilentAntagonist only words uttered]] in the story being disbelief that her ability could have failed.
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* TokenMotivationalNemesis: The peacock assassin's failed assassination attempt of Goku is what ends up causing him to become a super powerful cyborg. He kills her without hesitation on their next encounter and also kills her boss Genji within the first volume of the manga.
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* TokenMotivationalNemesis: The peacock assassin's woman's failed assassination attempt of Goku is what ends up causing him to become a super powerful cyborg. He kills her without hesitation on their next encounter and also kills her boss Genji within the first volume of the manga.
