Monev the Gale

"That look in your eyes... Diablo! You reveal your true face at last!"

- Monev the Gale

Monev the Gale (モネヴ・ザ・ゲイル,) is the first Gung-Ho-Gun member to fight Vash the Stampede.

Appearance
He wears a powered battle suit and carries two high-powered chain guns on his arms. These guns fire extremely fast due to the pressure chambers located on his back, and have tremendous stopping power, enough to tear through entire buildings. He also carries a wide variety of weapons in a big cloth rucksack, including an enormous minigun, powerful enough to punch through a bank vault.

Personality
Not much is known about his personality other than the first scene and his monologues to Vash the Stampede.

Monev displays a very brutal and somewhat sadistic personality, at least when he first looks for Vash, laughing as he destroys the city and kills all it's residents, yet this is likely him getting cocky before Vash attacks him. This could purely be him getting too excited as he also acts this way when he thinks Vash ran out of ammo, when he was just nervous after Vash's counter attack.

After Vash takes the upper hand in the battle Monev gets way more serious and nervous, as his motivation is to finally be freed from his years of working for the gang, in the end when Vash threatens him he becomes very cowardly, and shows a huge fear for death

Biography
Millions Knives locked him in a cell to train his body for twenty years in order to gain the skill and power required to fight Vash.

Monev was the first Gung-ho Gun sent by Legato to attack Vash, leading to a destructive brawl throughout a city, leaving many dead and shooting off Vash's cybernetic arm. He is eventually defeated by Vash, who nearly breaks his oath to never kill out of rage for all the deaths caused by Monev. Vash regains himself and spares Monev, and Monev surrenders his coin and leaves. His murdered and crucified body is later displayed by the next Gung-ho Gun, E.G. Mine, when Mine challenges Vash.

His life is spared in the anime, but is then killed by E.G. Mine along with Dominique the Cyclops due to his failure.

Trivia

 * Monev's name is Venom spelled backward.
 * Monev's appearance is reminiscent of Venom (even more so in the manga), of Spider-Man fame, especially in contrast to Vash's red. Nightow is known to be a Spider-Man fan.
 * Despite the reference to Venom, its appearance more than Venom is inspired by Spawn. This information was not released publicly in an interview but to a firmcopie in Lucca, Italy.
 * In the manga, Vash gouges Monev's right eye out with his revolver while threatening him at gunpoint. While the same scene happens in the anime, Monev's eye is left intact.

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