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Sniper (スナイパー)

Breed	Doberman
Affiliation	Ohu, Hougen's Pack
First appearance	GNG vol 3, GDW vol 10, GNG anime episode 8
Last appearance	GDW vol 27
Status	Deceased (Drowned)
Family or owners	Unknown
Voiced by	Takeshi Aono

OutlineEdit

Sniper is a ruthless dog with no feelings of compassion or honor, he is evil, and wants to take over the pack. He hates almost everyone, namely Ben, Gin, and Riki. Sniper doesn't have much compassion for Hyena either, his spy.

Sniper is a Doberman Pinscher, he is mainly black with brown patches above his eyes, his snout and the inside of his ears are light brown. he wears a grey collar with spikes coming out of it, in Ginga Nagareboshi Gin anime, but in the Ginga Densetsu Weed manga, he has metal legs and wears a red normal collar.

Ginga Nagareboshi GinEdit

Meeting GinEdit

Sniper is the general of Riki’s pack. When he meets Gin for the first time, he doesn't like him, and he plans with Hyena to kill him and tells Hyena to watch him.

Issues with the dogsEdit

Sniper does everything to ruin Ben and the groups mission of gathering other dogs. He kills one dog with the help of Hyena, Gin and Smith see this and Sniper and Hyena chase after them, leading them to a waterfall and then give up. After Sniper learns of Ben surviving rocks he orders Hyena to return to the pack because they need more information, Hyena does this but turns against Sniper. Sniper gets defeated by Gin in the mountain that surrounds Shikoku, but doesn’t give up.

Final battle and disappearanceEdit

He returns before the final battle against Akakabuto and fights Ben, but Ben gets the upper hand. After Ben throws himself and Sniper into a river, Sniper tries to drown Ben, but gets disturbed by Hyena who witnessed everything and jumped down to save Ben. Sniper kills Hyena and then disappears for the rest of the series, not appearing at all in the Wolf Arc. He would return in the Ginga Densetsu Weed manga.

In the anime, Sniper still fights Ben, but after Ben jumps down the cliff with Sniper, he is never seen again. He had possibly died from the long fall before Hyena dived down to save Ben afterwards.

Ginga Densetsu Weed MangaEdit

Siding with Hougen and deathEdit

Sniper is the sworn enemy of Gin. He tried to kill Gin several times when he was younger and wanted to take over Ohu himself. However, Sniper is now handicapped because he got crushed between some stones when he tried to drown the Great Dane, Ben, earlier. He has metal legs and a small carriage that helps him walk. He joins up with Hougen to get revenge on Gin and take over Ou. However, he has underestimated how evil Hougen is and Sniper’s stamina is tested when Hougen destroys his carrige and forces him to walk on his hard metal legs. He proves his loyalty to Hougen and his strength by killing Kamakiri’s minion Stone.

His alias in Hougen's pack is "Murder S". When Gin escapes from Hougen, Sniper could not retrieve him (as Gin was taken away by truck drivers), and he kills another dog who looks like Gin instead and carries the corpse back to Hougen. The trick works and Sniper is now the only one who knows of Gin’s existence.

He travels out to kill Gin but has to return empty-handed. He then meets Weed who wounds him badly. Sniper disappears for awhile but returns before the final battle. When Tesshin is about to kill Hougen, Sniper jumps in and cuts open Tesshin’s stomach. He then jumps into a gorge to find and kill Weed. But instead he meets Gin whom he fights. Sniper falls into a hole that's so deep that only his head is visible. When Weed arrives shortly after, Sniper tries to drag Weed down the hole. However, Sniper forcibly lets Weed go as he struggles to breathe from the water and vanishes through the hole before drowning in the river below.

TriviaEdit

Sniper has trained several contract killers under the title Murder S, his best apprentices are Lector and Thunder.

See more pictures in Sniper (Photo Gallery).

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