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Profile of Roger Guenveur Smith
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Roger Guenveur Smith |
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27th July 1959 |
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Berkeley, California, USA |
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From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia
- See Also Roger B. Smith, automobile executive or Roger Smith (journalist), Canadian journalist
Roger Smith is the main character in the anime television series and the manga, Big O.
He is Paradigm City's top negotiator, and lives in the Illegal Residential Sector in a former bank with his butler Norman Burg and R. Dorothy Wayneright.
He is the Dominus, or pilot, of the Big O, a giant robot known as a Big-type "Megadeus". When negotiation fails or danger threatens the city, he summons Big O by calling him through his watch.
Smith appears to cultivate a playboy image--one of his "rules", for instance, is that beautiful young women are to be admitted into his receiving room immediately, and both Angel and R. Dorothy Wayneright refer to him on separate occasions as a "louse".
This seems to be more for the sake of appearances, as it becomes clear that he holds himself to a strict gentleman's code of conduct, including such things as being kind to women, children, and the elderly.
Another one of his rules is that everyone in his house must wear black, with no exceptions. He himself follows this dress code. The only episode which departs from this is Act 7, "The Call from the Past", in which he wears a T-shirt and slacks rather than the usual impeccable black suit -- and this is only so he will not get his black suit dirty.
Spoiler warning: Plot or ending details follow.
Roger's past is an enormous enigma in the series, even more so than the that of the rest of Paradigm City. What is known is that he used to be a member of the Military Police, but resigned due to conflicts with those who were really in charge. One day, he came into a mysterious abandoned bank, and met Norman. Norman welcomed Roger although this perplexed him because the two had never met before. Norman claims though, that although he can't remember why exactly, he knows that it was his job to wait for the Dominus of a massive black Megadeus, which he called "Big-O". Although Roger at first has reservations over such a bizzare occurrence, he eventually makes his home and business in the bank and pilots the Big-O for no other reason other than the gut feeling that he's supposed to.
Big-O's second season offers an enormous amount of mysteries concerning Roger Smith. The three most especially ominous details is the sight of a factory "mass producing" Roger Smith like robots, the sight of Roger in a World War II like pilot's uniform dead in Big-O; and finally most ambiguous of all is a picture of Roger Smith shaking hands with a young Gordon Rosewater. Gordon is the founder of Paradigm City, and its construction can clearly be seen behind the two. The mystery is that the picture was taken 60 or more years ago, yet Roger doesn't look a day older and has no memory of this whatsoever.
The nature of these mysteries unfortunatly however, may never be resolved unless a Third Season is produced. See the main stub for Big-O for more details on this.
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