Spike Spiegel, once a former hitman for the Red Dragon Syndicate, now lives in exile chasing down bounties. A complicated man with an uncertain past shrouded in a deep mystery. His love for adventure has brought him face to face with some of the Galaxy's nastiest criminals, but he may yet prove the most dangerous out of them all...
Jet Black, a former ISSP officer with a long reputation and whose history has worn him down enough to throw his lot in with the likes of Spike and chase the lowest scum of the galaxy halfway around the Milky Way...
Faye Valentine, in person a young woman with a love for disception, danger, and chasing a bounty. Struck with amnesia she scoures the galaxy trying to piece together the puzzle of a life that slips further away in her memory by the day...
Edward Wong Hau Pepelu Tivruski IV. Ed for short, is the self-invented hacking genius who is a savant when it comes to anything to do with a computer. Having been abandoned on a planet by her parents when she was a small child, Ed quickly learned the "art of the computer" and went from fighting for survival, to illegaly reprogramming an orbiting satellite for television.
Ein the Corgi. A dog once worth millions on the black market after Having data programmed into a chip injected into his brain, now the beloved mascot of The Bebop. Their is a running theory between Spike and Jet that the chip in his brain is actually what makes the dog so clever.
Vicious. Veteran, Gangster, Murderer. A former hitman and partner to Spike back in the hayday of their work under the Red Dragon Syndicate, Vicious killed the former head of the Syndicate when he staged a coup among the leadership of the organization, proclaiming himself their new leader. His one goal, is to see revenge carried out against his old partner.