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Mister X
Japanese: Junpei Takiguchi (1971-1979), Yasuo Yamada (disguise, Part 2 Episode 65), Chafurin (2018)
English: Derek Stephen Prince, Tony Oliver (disguise, Part 2 Episode 65)
Italian: Germano Longo (Part 1 Tecnosound dub), Vittorio Di Prima (Part 1 MITO dub), Valerio Ruggeri (Part 2), Roberto Del Giudice (disguise, Part 2 Episode 65), Mario Zucca ("Is Lupin Still Burning?")
Mister X is one of the most prominent members of Lupin's rogues gallery. He is the wealthy commissioner of The Scorpion Crime Syndicate, who has a massive grudge against Lupin III and Fujiko Mine.
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- Arch-Enemy: Officially, he can be considered the closet thing Lupin has to an official arch-nemesis, being the most recurring member of his rogues gallery and the amount of effort he has put into killing him.
- Beyond the Impossible: In his Lupin III (Red Jacket) appearance, his body is somehow hard enough that even Zantetsuken snaps against it.
- Big Bad: Of Is Lupin Burning?, Lupin's Enemy is Lupin, and The Return Of Lupin the 3rd.
- Big Bad Wannabe: Of Is Lupin Still Burning?. While he is the one that initiates the team up to ruin Lupin's life, it's Kyosuke Mamo who's the more dangerous threat.
- Cyborg: He used his fortune to become one after he has a heart attack.
- Dirty Old Man: Administers Tickle Torture to Fujiko Mine partly for his own pleasure. He also assaults a princess of a country he invaded. He later invented a device to commit Lecherous Licking to Fujiko as well.
- Evil Knockoff: He transformed himself into Lupin to give himself a psychological edge over his enemy.
- Final Boss: Not so much in both series he is in since he served as the Starter Villain, but he became this in the Italian airing of Part 2, as Episode 65 was placed after Episode 155 in order to tie in with Parts 1 and 2's first episodes.
- Book Ends: Because of the above, Mister X becomes an example of this as being the first and final opponents that Lupin faces in Part 2.
- Starter Villain Stays: He was the first villain Lupin encountered in the anime and is one of the few to appear more than once.
- Tickle Torture: This how he deals with Fujiko when he captures her. He does it a second time in the 50th anniversary.
Pycal
Italian: Germano Longo (Part 1 Tecnosound dub), Claudio Trionfi (Part 1 MITO dub), Gaetano Varcasia (OVA), Luigi Rosa (OVA)
- The Bus Came Back: This was the plot regarding Return of the Magician, involving Pycal coming Back from the Dead now with seemingly genuine magical powers and a bone to pick with Lupin.
- Due to the time travel involved in Lupin III: Is Lupin Still Burning?, he makes a short return reprising his appearance in his first episode.
- Doing In the Wizard: Part of what does him in. All of his tricks are nothing more than smoke and mirrors which Lupin is able to replicate and demonstrate for Fujiko and Jigen.
- Made of Iron: Seemingly appears to be this. It's another of his tricks, using a chemical compound that makes him fireproof, bulletproof, and bazooka-proof.
- Invincible Villain: In the OVA, Pycal seemingly has become an invicible, powerful sorcerer.
- Master of Disguise: In the OVA at least. He disguises himself as Zenigata. This leads to Lupin noting that Pops is acting unbecoming of himself for actually trying to kill him.
- Our Vampires Are Different: Halfway through the OVA, the group theorize that Pycal has, somehow, become a vampire, because ne never appears before sunset. In the climax, Pycal's seemingly Weakened by the Light and falls to his death while trying to fly away from his lair over the sea.
- Spared by the Adaptation: In the original manga, Pycal actually dies during his encounter with Lupin by being done in by one of his own devices and burning alive. In the anime, he survives the encounter to appear in Return of the Magician, and in Is Lupin Still Burning he ends up being hit by Zenigata's car, falling into the sea. Lupin however hints that Pycal is still alive as "he's tough enough to survive a bazooka shot".
- Uncertain Doom: Pycal's fate in Return of the Magician is rather unclear. He attempts to escape via glider, but Jigen shoots him down making him fall into the ocean wrapped in a webbing. Presumably he dies drowning, but we just don't see any more of him after going underwater all webbed up, there's no confirmation that he's Killed Off for Real, but no Never Found the Body remark either. The fact that he hasn't shown up again until Is Lupin Still Burning? (which even then it's just a revisit of his episode in Part 1 accomplished with Time Travel) does suggest that he may be dead, or simply decided to retire after being foiled again.
Kyousuke Mamo
Japanese: Iemasa Kayumi (Part 1), Shidō Nakamura (Elusiveness of the Fog), Manabu Muraji (OVA)
English: Paul St. Peter
Italian: Mario Milita (Part 1 Tecnosound dub), Francesco Vairano (Part 1 MITO dub), Nicola Marcucci (Elusiveness in the Fog), Matteo De Mojana (OVA)
- Adaptational Backstory Change: More of an "Adaptational Birthdate Change", in the manga, Mamo was born on Feb. 30th, 2854, worked as a sci-fi author, and lost his villainous father to Lupin XIII, thus creating his time machine in 2883 to perform Revenge by Proxy against Lupin XIII by killing Lupin himself. In the anime, he was instead born on Nov. 18th, 1932, and was a Hugo Award-winning sci-fi author with noted research on fourth dimensional travel. He went insane and was institutionalized in 1966, after stating his prediction about the end of the world. He does bring up how on March 31st, 2874 his clan met its demise.
- Adaptational Intelligence: In the manga, he keeps missing the mark about when he lands in the time machine, asking a young Goemon what year he is in. In the anime, he is more precise in his landings, so his shock about arriving in Feudal Japan is more natural.
- Adaptational Villainy: Not that he wasn't evil in the manga, but he is much more threatening in the anime, going so far as to stalk Lupin at the horse race, displacing the leading horse in time, and later killing the castle builder's ancestor.
- Arch-Enemy: He is among one of Lupin's greatest and most recurring enemies, going as far as to erase his whole family to get rid of Lupin.
- Big Bad: Of both Is Lupin Still Burning? and Elusiveness of the Fog. In the latter, he behaves much like how he does in the original episode and the manga which it is an Adaptation Expansion of. In the former, he is part of a Villain Team-Up with Mr. X to ruin Lupin's life.
- Evil Sounds Deep: Comes with the department, considering who voices him.
- Evil Brit: In the English dub, he has a slight British accent, if only to accentuate his intelligence.
- Mad Scientist: All part of his backstory, be it through his evil father or through his descent into madness.
- Out-Gambitted: He is defeated when Lupin's old team reflexively aid their old partner.
- Ret-Gone: Pulls this off in his debut story in the manga to one of the many different Fujikos, after she has had sex with Lupin. In the anime, he does this to the MacGuffin by displacing it in the past so that Lupin no longer has it, then does so with the castle where it was just stolen from by killing one of the builders in the past, culminating with displacing Fujiko into the fourth dimension. Ultimately he wants to do this to Lupin himself.
- Spared by the Adaptation: In the manga, Mamo is killed by Goemon and Jigen, with Lupin having tricked him into thinking that the year is 1850. In the anime, he ends up getting stuck in the past a number of times, be it 1850, feudal Japan, or the Jurassic Period.
Ganimard III
Japanese: Katsumi Itō
English: Paul St. Peter
Italian: Vittorio Di Prima (Part 1 MITO dub)
French: Jean Barney
- Ambiguously Related: A fellow grandchild of Ganimard, Melon Ganimard shows up in the second series. His relation to her is unknown.
- Dub Name Change: As with the usual
Screwed by the Lawyers that go hand in hand with the early days of the series, Ganimard was renamed as "Inspecteur Gaillard" in the French dub. - Expy: Even though he is meant to stand in for his grandfather, he has more in common with Sherlock Holmes due to his deductive reasoning; it's Zenigata that has more in common with his grandfather.
- Failed a Spot Check: For all his boasting about logic and reason, he completely fails to notice the signs that Zenigata had been replaced by a disguised Lupin, particularly, him not knowing about the laser defense system.
- Last-Name Basis: Even though he is only referred to as Ganimard throughout the episode, the fact that he is Ganimard III and his grandfather was Arséne Lupin's rival means that his first name is the same as his grandfather's, Justin.
- The Rival: He serves as this to Zenigata, as both believe that it is their right to catch Lupin as they are descended from enemies of the Lupin bloodline.
