Zazie the Beast (ザジ・ザ・ビースト, Zazie the Beast) is the fourth member of the Gung-Ho-Guns.
In the manga, Zazie lived on the planet Gunsmoke even before humans and they were the leader of the legion of insects inhabiting the entire planet. In the anime, Zazie the Beast is the youngest member of the Gung-Ho-Guns.
Appearance[]
He looks like a teenage boy, eyes with vertical pupils, blonde hair and violet eyes. He wore a vest over a beige dress shirt, brown pants, shoes, and a red bandana around his neck.
Personality[]
As Bete he was a kind and normal young boy, but after revealing himself as Zazie, he became cold and uncaring. It's also noted he despises children.
History[]
Manga[]
The insect that is Zazie.
Zazie the Beast is actually a legion of insects that were the original inhabitants of planet Gunsmoke. The first other being they ever saw was Knives, who interested them greatly. It is unknown how they became members of the Gung Ho Guns, but from what they said through their hosts, they at first had hoped to live harmoniously with humans and plants, but they eventually decided they'd be more inclined to living with plants likes Knives.
Zazie is seen at the resurfacing of Knives; he along with Leonof, Legato, Rai-Dei, Gray the Ninelives,Midvalley and Hoppered where there when Knives made Vash shoot with his Angel Arm into the moon, this lead to the formation of a huge crater on it. Two years later he is seen along with the Gung Ho Guns having a discussion on the true objective of the Gung Ho Guns: to make Vash suffer and to destroy his image of humanity. He is later seen observing a fight between Vash and Wolfwood, after Wolfwood killed Rai-Dei, who was trying to kill Vash, after losing to him.
After that, Zazie used one of his insects to spy on Vash's friends Milly and Meryl, who stopped a bad guy from harassing a girl in the town that they'd brought Vash and Wolfwood to for medical attention. He met with Midvalley and Hoppered after he kidnapped Meryl, to use her as bait. He then went to Vash and Wolfwood to give them the news. While the others were battling, Zazie decided to tell Meryl about Vash and Knives and how they were not actually humans but plants. Zazie was trying to see who was the winner of the two battles, but he is ultimately killed by Midvalley and Hoppered. Zazie is seen later inhabiting a new body, a young girl's body, and also manages to shoot Wolfwood and Hoppered. He is later seen after the intervention of Elendira, at the hospital treating his new human body.
Zazie has a little discussion with Wolfwood in the town that he and Vash were resting. He is later seen on Knives' Ark, were "they" (the legion of insects known as Zazie) have a little discussion with Elendira, where they tell him that Wolfwood and Chapel are dead, and that Livio and Razlo have joined Vash in his quest. They also say that they want to live in peace with either humans or plants. Zazie then takes down Elendira, and tries to take over Knives' body using a worm, but she is stopped by Legato, and Zazie's body is destroyed moments later by Knives. Still, the colony of insects uses another body to give Vash Zazie's Gung Ho Gun coin that he needed.
Anime (1998)[]
The anime adaptation of Zazie is drastically different from the original manga. Zazie is first introduced along with the other members of the Gung-Ho Guns in the murder spree of the Roderick Gang, however only his bandana is shown as a foreshadow of his identity.
When Zazie officially meets Vash and his friends, he is introduced as Bete. He was caught by Milly while attempting to steal food from Vash and his party as they attempted to negotiate entry into the walled town of Keybos to get supplies. He led them back to an abandoned building, in which a group of orphaned kids had holed up after all of the adults in their respective hometowns had disappeared.
Vash and his party tended to the children, only to be ambushed the following morning by townsfolk and sandworms. Meryl, Milly, and the children made a run for Keybos, where they climbed a tall building for safety. However, the worms were relentless. It turned out that Bete was wearing a device to control the worms via high frequencies. Once the device was destroyed, Bete revealed that he was Zazie the Beast, and his true elegance. He took Meryl hostage and pointed a gun at Vash, threatening to kill him. Vash tried to talk him down out of it, but was ultimately unsuccessful. He is killed by Nicholas D. Wolfwood much to the horror and fury of Vash. Nicholas did not regret his decision as he believed there was no reasoning with someone like Zazie even if he was a child.
The exact nature of Zazie in the anime is never explained. Some believe that he was a dwarf assassin, while others say that he was a kid, and still, others suggest that he might have been the alien. Nevertheless, he still calls himself No. 4 of Gun-ho Guns. He appears to be human (although not specified - just a child or an adult of small stature). He is able to control sandworms with a device that emits a frequency to communicate with them rather than being an insect himself. He appears to hate children for not being fully developed adults, threatening to kill them if they continued to cry in front of him.
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