| “ | That just means the game isn't over yet! The goddess of victory will smile upon me, Lupin III! | „ |
| ~ Lupin |
| “ | Do you want to go back into the darkness again? You've come out into the sun at last. Hey... your life begins now. Don't become filthy like me. I'll tell you what - if you're ever in trouble, I'll fly straight to you no matter when, even if I'm on the other side of the world. | „ |
| ~ Lupin |
| “ | I am... Lupin III, at your service! | „ |
| ~ Lupin |
| “ | The great Lupin-sama with his 300 IQ is gonna go crack that safe! Satisfied?! | „ |
| ~ Lupin |
| “ | Great artists are like great thieves, they both know how to steal people's souls. | „ |
| ~ Lupin |
| “ | It was all her. A woman whose only muse in life were the adventures that she had as a young lady. Someone who lived through the war and dedicated everything that she had to her business. Those were her memories. But you can't assume that everything we saw was just made-up. Because you never know, very similar events may have actually occurred in the past thanks to people who were just like you and me. | „ |
| ~ Lupin to Goemon |
| “ | Here's a parting gift. You've earned it. | „ |
| ~ Lupin |
Summary
Lupin III (ルパン三世, Rupan Sansei) is the grandson of Arsène Lupin, and is the world's most wanted gentleman thief.
He sometimes appears incompetent, but mostly as a charade to catch his opponents off guard. While he has been arrested and thrown in jail on a number of occasions, he has always managed to break out. He also has a fondness for fancy gadgets from time to time, such as in The Castle of Cagliostro where his belt features many small gadgets. His infatuation with women, and Fujiko Mine in particular, is perhaps his biggest weakness, as it often lands him in undesirable situations. He continues his grandfather's legacy of thievery.
Lupin is acknowledged by virtually every law agency on earth as the world's number one thief. Often in his adventures, he and his colleagues, Daisuke Jigen and Goemon Ishikawa XIII, will take it upon themselves to foil other criminals engaged in more violent crimes. While first glance may imply Lupin as fun-loving, flighty, perhaps even "goofy", his surface facade overcoats a brilliant imagination and a thorough knowledge of a hundred varying sciences. Forever extemporizing and reevaluating, Lupin has been responsible for heists no right-minded individual would believe possible. While arrested and jailed on numerous occasions, typically by his nemesis Inspector Zenigata, he has always managed to escape. He has a fondness for fancy gadgets from time to time plus hands-on experience in many skills a thief would find useful. His infatuation with Fujiko Mine is perhaps his most significant weakness, as it lands him in undesirable situations most of the time.
Powers and Stats
Tier: 9-A, at least 8-C with explosives, higher with preparation
Name: Arsene Lupin III, Lupin, Wolf, Hardyman, Edgar
Origin: Lupin III
Gender: Male
Age: 30s physically, 70s chronologically
Classification: Human, Thief
Powers and Abilities:
- Superhuman Physical Characteristics
- Extraordinary Genius Intelligence
- Preparation (In a readied state, Lupin can execute some ingenious implementations and also elaborate ahead to render his opponents' weaponry useless)
- Longevity (Born around the 50's as Lupin Zero, an anime prequel which show Lupin's teenage years, set in the 60's)
- Acrobatics (Displayed superhuman levels of dexterity and agility during many fights and chases, even being able to run vertically[1])
- Social Influencing (Can deceive entire corporations with his mastery of persuasion and is a master of disguise)
- Vehicular Mastery (Can fly planes, drive motorcycles, helicopters and even drive a car backwards. Drove on a road's guard rail, which at the time was suspended in mid-air, and safely makes it back onto the road.[2] Capable of driving up vertical cliff-faces[3])
- Weapon Mastery and Marksmanship (Shows grand skills in marksmanship[4] with all kind of firearms from small arms to light weapons. He has also shown great skills with melee weapons such as swords, hammers or axes. Threw a knife so precisely and with enough strength to manually fire a bullet.[5] Can utilize his grappling hook as a weapon, allowing him to deflect attacks. Scales to Daisuke Jigen, albeit to a lesser degree)
- Stealth Mastery (Capable of infiltrating the most well-guarded locations without being discovered. Lupin designs disguises as identical to the person he is trying to be, this skill being so complete that he can even fool close friends and family members of the impersonated party. His skinny body enables him to easily impersonate heavier subjects by wearing padding that's usually filled with a variety of gadgets. Can fast maneuvers with such uses as well. His disguise as Pannish worked so well that he even tricked the computer system that controls nanomachines[5])
- Expert in Hand to Hand Combat (Lupin is worthy to face off combat savvy adversaries in the battle field like Goemon Ishikawa, who is a master martial artist being experienced with Kenjutsu, Karate, Jujutsu, Iaido, etc. and Lupin has combated and stalemated him before.[6] In one episode, a monitor showed an actual montage of events throughout history where Lupin consistently kept up with and at one point stalemating Goemon, who even went by far to state in the same episode Lupin could be "One of the strongest fighters in the world"[7])
- Pressure Points (Can expertly knock out people this way.[8] Should be comparable to Jigen and Goemon)
- Enhanced Senses (Smelled if there were sleeping pills inside a sofa.[9] Easily spotted a tiny bug in a leg when neither Goemon or Jigen could.[10] Can casually aim accurately with tracking darts. Nonchalantly deflected back bullets with nothing but a frying pan while keeping his eyes on the road, to then disrepair Zenigata's car in the process.[11] Can effortlessly track a bullet and dislodge a machine gun with his sight covered. Instantly knew when Fujiko was going to shoot before it can happen. Has shown great sense of hearing,[12] even being capable of hearing and smelling Zenigata from a distance.[13] Capable of detecting hidden traps.[3] Fought ninjas despite being blinded by smoke.[14] Can hear the ticking of bombs while others couldn't.[15] Can hear machinery activating before using his magnets to block them.[16] Dodged a bullet behind him at close range.[17] Easily anticipated a bomb.[18] Can deduce vehicles' origins by their sound[18])
- Extrasensory Perception (Able to sense and recognize a person's bloodlust.[19] Was able to sense Fujiko despite her being behind an wall and without making sound.[20] Knew where a well hidden gunman was. Has had encounters with spirits before)
- Limited Body Control (Lupin can manipulate his hands to get out of Zenigata's handcuffs, seemingly with no pain from doing such. Given his slim physique, can fit inside cramped spaces as he fits inside a trash can compactor)
- Fourth Wall Awareness (In Part 4, winked at the audience twice. Asked the animator to turn a position back to normal when he seems to be leaning while the Tower of Pisa looks straight.[21] Directly talked to the audience in one episode, which was fan-suggested and thanked the person who gave him the idea[22])
- Toon Force (Capable of staying afloat in mid-air,[23] even while carrying bags filled with gold. Reversed the direction of TNT by using signs.[1] Somehow threw handcuffs like a boomerang, effectively handcuffing Zenigata)
- Hacking (Can easily get access to a national computer.[5] Can hack near any kind of surveillance/security system)
- Limited Information Analysis (Can visualize entire sequences of events in his head and see all the possible outcomes of stealing a diamond by using different methods[24])
- Surface Scaling (Can climb and crawl on walls, even without gadgets[3][25][1])
- Limited Sound Manipulation (Shown to perfectly mimic the voice of other people[26] and animals)
- Mind Manipulation via hypnosis
- Social Influencing (It's rare that Lupin is deceived by someone due to his ability to read people's expressions and detect lies)
- A degree of Pain Manipulation (Inflicted injury worthy blows to statues for a duration and was able to still stand. Can still keep running despite severe injury in the side.[27])
- Empathic Manipulation (Drank a love potion and didn't feel the effects[28])
- Ice Manipulation (Survived being completely frozen[29][9][30])
- Fire Manipulation (Survived being set on fire[31][32])
- Limited Sleep Manipulation (Has been bitten by a striped tarantula whose venom can put its victims to sleep for 24 hours, only to wake up a few hours later[10])
- Electricity Manipulation (Survived being exposed by an electric field for a long period[33])
- Extreme Temperatures (Can easily withstand anything from a harsh desert[34] to a snow storm[35])
- Dream Manipulation (Can wake up himself after being forced by Wataru Uraga's decipher message[36])
- Limited Radiation Manipulation (Survived being exposed to a massive amount of Uranium 238, enough to kill a man in four days[37])
- Limited Mind Manipulation (Partially resisted the effects of the Suicide Ray, which can create a beam able to make whoever was hit by it immediately kill themselves.[38] Countered Rasputin's mind reading by turning off his mind[39])
- Sleep Manipulation with smoke bombs, sleeping sprays and tranquilizer darts
- Explosion Manipulation with various explosives
- Smoke Manipulation with various gadgets and bombs[40][41][42]
- Various tracking devices and grappling gadgets
- Memory Manipulation (Can use small soap bubbles that cause immediate amnesia when they pop, leaving them vulnerable long enough for Lupin to make his move[43])
- Energy Absorption (Made a super miniature battery which could absorb 1,000,000 volts of energy[44])
- Status Effect Inducement (Made a bullet of special medicine with an effect similar to laxative[45])
- Underwater Breathing (Type 3; Possesses a small device which allows him to breathe underwater[46])
- Enhanced Senses with various vision goggles (night vision[2][47]x-ray and etc.)
- Light Manipulation with flashbangs[3]
- Flight with various vehicles (balloons, kites, gliders, a superhero suit, invisible balloons to trick people into thinking he can levitate in the air[48] and etc.)
- Thread Manipulation (Can use strings to either trap his enemies or set traps by binding objects in the surrounding area and then turn them into projectiles against the opponent[49][50])
- Technology Manipulation (Can hack and take over control security systems. Can access to security systems with the monocle. Possesses a universal smart key which can be used to get access to any cars)
- Magnetism Manipulation with various portatile magnets
- Paralysis Inducement with paralyzing spray
- Animal Manipulation with various animals (Had been shown to utilize anything from a mouse to snake)
- Automatic Translation (Created a communicator that can translate dolphin's speech to human's speech[51])
- Fire Manipulation with a lighter, concealed flamethrower[31] and special gun
- Adhesive Manipulation with sticky bombs[52]
- Information Analysis with special goggles and monocle[53]
- Sound Manipulation with a micro-sized high frequency wave generator[36]
- Electricity Manipulation with a mini stun gun
- Hacking with a monocle[54]
- Ice Manipulation with liquid nitrogen spray[30]
- Possibly Time Travel with Mamo's time machine (Stole Mamo's time machine at one point, but he never used it since then[55])
Attack Potency: Small Building level (Had equally fought Goemon Ishikawa on various occasions). At least Building level+ with explosives (Can create bombs of this magnitude.[56] His explosives have consistently shown to be capable to destroy buildings and portions of skyscrapers), higher with preparation
Speed: Supersonic+ (Partially outspeed a fireball.[57] Consistently outruns bullets and explosions) with Massively Hypersonic combat and reaction speed (Comparable to Goemon Ishikawa. Casually blocked multiple bullets from a Howa Type 64 with a cooking pan at point-blank range[58]), possibly Relativistic (Reacted to and deflected multiple lasers with a piece of Zantetsuken[2])
Lifting Strength: At least Class 5 (Easily moved a large statue made of pure gold.[1] Easily moved a large block of wood.[59] Can freely move with a hand locked in a single bed.[60] Can tear the head off a robot's body.[61] Casually threw a walking stick hard enough to pierce rock. Pulled down a tree with his grappling hook. Catched a falling aircraft with Jigen. Lifted a large golden lion statue while on a hang glider[62]), possibly Class 50 (Held back a massive crushing trap for a while. Comparable to Koichi Zenigata, who could pull two moving train carriages by arching his back[1] and hold a falling wooden bridge for a brief period of time[14])
Striking Strength: Small Building level
Durability: Small Building level (Survived a violent clash that destroyed a passenger car, which was durable enough to pierce through a submarine[63])
Stamina: Superhuman (Fought and defeated Matea Farah, despite having a gunshot wound which made him constantly bleed during the fight.[64] Comparable to Goemon and Zenigata)
Range: Standard Melee Range physically; Tens of Meters with his handgun; Far Higher with various equipment/gadgets
Standard Equipment: Walther P38, watch (contains grappling hook), smoke pellets, pocket knife (which can be thrown[65]) and many other gadgets.
Intelligence: Extraordinary Genius (Lupin shows amazing intuition and awareness of his surroundings and possesses encyclopedic knowledge of various topics, such as history, literature, sciences, fluency in multiple languages, etc. Lupin often creates near-perfect disguises of people and can mimic their voices after only just meeting them. Lupin was able to discover that Yael Okuzaki was using a device hidden on his eye that allowed him to see the cameras in the entire city. Lupin was able to fool Zenigata into believing that he was dead by painting a realistic image on the floor made of spoiled foods.[66] Is adroit enough to easily detect fake paint when that even experts can't tell which what art is authentic.[59] Lupin is also a formidable escape artist, capable of cracking any safe or freeing himself from shackles in moments. Solved the mystery of the Tower of Babel, when not even members of an advanced alien civilization could during thousands of years.[1] Decrypted in one night the hidden code written in multiple languages by Wataru Uraga. Wataru is a genius scientist that was capable to create a method to implant a personification of himself inside someone's subconscious, by simply reading the previously mentioned code.[36] Was the first human to wake up and be deemed worthy by Da Vinci, a clone of the famous Leonardo Da Vinci made up with all the greatest minds of the past (by using Wataru's knowledge), who could easily replicate Wataru Uraga's invention but on a massive scale, to the point to making everyone in Italy fall asleep, and was going to replace all those people's personalities with his own, only to fail due to Lupin.[67] Ultimately beat Mamo, a being claimed to be thousands of years old, who had acquired the knowledge and wisdom of all geniuses, scientists and philosophers of history, and who had claimed to be behind most historical events.[2] Can easily see through disguises in a variety of ways.[68] Has an intellect defying the best computers to the point there's no "impossible" in his vocabulary,[65] even outsmarting a super-computer multiple times over[69])
Weaknesses: Lupin doesn't like to kill, but he will if he has to. Sometimes, if he does not have any information on an opponent or is not fully prepared for a fight, he can be caught off guard. His pronounced attraction towards beautiful women, especially Fujiko, frequently results in bouts of irrationality. He also has an irrational fear of octopi.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 The Gold of Babylon
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 The Mystery of Mamo
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 The Castle of Cagliostro
- ↑ Part 2, Episode 146: Lupin's Splendid Defeat
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Dead or Alive
- ↑ Part 2, Episode 56: Hanafubuki: The Mysterious Gang of Five (Part Two)
- ↑ Part 5, Episode 22: Answer Me, Zantetsuken
- ↑ Part 2, Episode 18: Black Panther
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 Part 2, Episode 128: The Old Woman and Lupin Thievery Contest
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 Part 2, Episode 133: Keep Your Hands Off the Hot Treasure
- ↑ Part 2, Episode 138: The Treasure of Pompeii and Venomous Snakes
- ↑ Part III, Episode 1: The Gold Ingots Summon Lupin
- ↑ The Last Job
- ↑ 14.0 14.1 The Fuma Conspiracy
- ↑ Alcatraz Connection
- ↑ Blood Seal ~Eternal Mermaid~
- ↑ Part 2, Episode 49: A Pretty Woman Has Poison
- ↑ 18.0 18.1 Part 1, Episode 1: Is Lupin Burning...?!
- ↑ In Memory of the Walther P38
- ↑ Part III, Episode 47: One Stray Picture
- ↑ Part 2, Episode 6: Is the Leaning Tower of Pisa Standing?
- ↑ Part 2, Episode 100: The Masterpiece Theft Ultra Operation
- ↑ Lupin III: The First
- ↑ Part 2, Episode 137: The Magnificent Team-Play Operation
- ↑ Part III, Episode 16: There is Poison in the Golden Apple
- ↑ Part 2, Episode 62: The Sound of the Devil's Bell Calls for Lupin
- ↑ Part 5, Episode 15: Her Relationship wtih Lupin
- ↑ Part 4, Episode 10: The Lovesick Pig
- ↑ Part 2, Episode 41: Find the Treasure of Princess Kaguya
- ↑ 30.0 30.1 Operation Return the Treasure
- ↑ 31.0 31.1 Part 1, Episode 2: The Man They Called a Magician
- ↑ Part 1, Episode 5: The Coming of Goemon the Thirteenth
- ↑ Part III, Episode 8: Virgin Mary's Escape Strategy
- ↑ Part 5, Episode 4: Zenigata's Pride and the Desert Dust
- ↑ Part III, Episode 35: The Target is at the End of the Snow
- ↑ 36.0 36.1 36.2 Part 4, Episode 12: The Italian Dream (Part Two)
- ↑ Mystery of the Hemingway Papers
- ↑ Part 2, Episode 60: Flowers of Suicide Bloom in India
- ↑ From Russia with Love
- ↑ Part 2, Episode 148: The Target is 555M
- ↑ Part III, Episode 9: Copy Humans are Expensive
- ↑ Part III, Episode 21: Farewell, Golden Legend
- ↑ Part III, Episode 2: Break the Big Trap
- ↑ Part 2, Episode 144: Fujiko's Close Call Rescue Operation
- ↑ Part 2, Episode 153: Wad of Bills Given from God
- ↑ Part 2, Episode 154: The Hexagon's Great Legacy
- ↑ Part III, Episode 22: Fire Doesn't Suit a Diamond
- ↑ Part 2, Episode 29: Electric Shock Pigeon Tactics
- ↑ Part 5, Episode 14: How to Steal a Kingdom
- ↑ Part III, Episode 4: Telepathy is the Signal of Love
- ↑ Part III, Episode 38: Leticia Who Loved Me
- ↑ Memories of the Flame ~Tokyo Crisis~
- ↑ Record of Observations of the East - Another Page
- ↑ Part 5, Episode 1: The Girl in the Twin Towers
- ↑ Is Lupin Still Burning?
- ↑ Part 2, Episode 14: Big Adventure of the Caribbean Sea
- ↑ Part III, Episode 5: Goemon the Peerless
- ↑ Part III, Episode 26: A Ghost in New York
- ↑ 59.0 59.1 Part III, Episode 12: Prisoner of Balutan House
- ↑ Part III, Episode 11: The Ruby Sheds Bloody Tears
- ↑ Part 2, Episode 22: Explore the Mysterious Women's Palace
- ↑ Part 2, Episode 44: The Vanishing Special Armored Car
- ↑ Part 2, Episode 88: Lupin's South Pole-North Pole Great Adventure
- ↑ Part 6, Episode 23: The Memories of a Beloved Witch
- ↑ 65.0 65.1 Lupin the Third: Pilot Film
- ↑ Part 4, Episode 13: The End of Lupin III
- ↑ Part 4, Episode 23: World Dissection (Part One)
- ↑ Goodbye Partner
- ↑ Part III, Episode 23: Beirut Mobile Bank Robbery Operation
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