The Big O
The Big O
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The Big O

6.9 / 10
1999
1 season
26 episodes
AnimationDramaAction & Adventure

Forty years ago, the minds of Paradigm City's inhabitants were wiped clean of all recollections of the past. Now, ruled by a powerful corporation and cut off from the rest of the world by desolate wastelands, Paradigm has become a virtual police state where Negotiators like Roger Smith keep the wheels of progress, commerce, and society turning.

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  • Roger the Negotiator

    1.Roger the Negotiator

    7.5
    13-10-199925m

    In the pilot episode, Roger Smith is introduced as Paradigm City's top negotiator. As the episode begins, he is delivering the ransom for a girl named Dorothy, who had been kidnap...

  • Dorothy, Dorothy

    2.Dorothy, Dorothy

    7.5
    20-10-199925m

    In the previous episode, Major Dastun and Dorothy looked like they were going to be crushed by Dorothy One as it fell. However, when the dust cleared, Dastun was fine and Dorothy...

  • Electric City

    3.Electric City

    7.5
    27-10-199925m

    Recently, there's been a number of power outages in Paradigm. Roger is hired by Paradigm Power Management to go to the Electric City and negotiate with the locals the reactivation...

  • Underground Terror

    4.Underground Terror

    7.5
    03-11-199925m

    A woman named Patricia Lovejoy (the same woman called Angel in Electric City) approaches Roger Smith about a job with Paradigm. He is supposed to convince a reporter named Michael...

  • Bring Back My Ghost

    5.Bring Back My Ghost

    7.5
    10-11-199925m

    A military police vehicle crashes after seeing an apparition while crossing a certain bridge and it is apparently only the latest in a string of such accidents involving high ups i...

  • A Legacy of Amadeus

    6.A Legacy of Amadeus

    7.5
    17-11-199925m

    After waking Roger up with her piano playing, Roger decides to take Dorothy to see a friend who can help her learn to add feeling to her playing. His friend is a robot named Instr...

  • The Call from the Past

    7.The Call from the Past

    7.5
    24-11-199925m

    Episode begins, Roger and Angel are trapped in a building buried under the sea, one of a string apparently created by the Event. Three days earlier, Roger is trying to negotiate t...

  • Missing Cat

    8.Missing Cat

    7.5
    01-12-199925m

    Dorothy befriends a stray cat and takes it in. Roger thinks it's cute until the owners of the cat show up. But what's more, the cat is more than what he seems to be.

  • Beck Comes Back

    9.Beck Comes Back

    7.5
    08-12-199925m

    Episode begins with Beck being broken out of prison by a Megadeus. Then, Roger is hired by Mr. Wise, a rich industrialist, to negotiate for the return of his kidnapped son, Franci...

  • Winter Night Phantom

    10.Winter Night Phantom

    7.5
    15-12-199925m

    Major Dastun has been having a recurring dream about a woman in white who is shot on a pier with her final words being ""Vous êtes si gentil."" The language has been long forgott...

  • Daemonseed

    11.Daemonseed

    7.5
    05-01-200025m

    Dorothy is buying a tie for Roger at the department store in preparation for Heaven's Day. Roger snaps at her when he sees her and when he apologizes, he sees a saxophone player o...

  • Enemy Is Another Big

    12.Enemy Is Another Big

    7.5
    12-01-200025m

    Roger is hired by Alex Rosewater to deliver a very large severance check to Michael Seebach aka Schwartzvald. After accepting the assignment, Roger intercepts the police radio abo...

  • RD

    13.RD

    7.5
    19-01-200025m

    The episode begins with a mysterious woman in a red cloak and hood murdering several people, leaving behind only the phrase, ""Cast In The Name Of Good Ye Not Guilty."" This is t...

  • Roger the Wanderer

    14.Roger the Wanderer

    7.5
    02-01-200325m

    Roger Smith takes on the three foreign MegaDeuses, as well as the demons in his own mind. The battles he fights, both internal and external, will change Paradigm City forever.

  • Negotiations with the Dead

    15.Negotiations with the Dead

    5.0
    09-01-200325m

    Roger is hired by a woman to protect her husband, a retired Senator, from an assassin. Apparently, the assassin is working for the same people who controlled the "mad bomber" from...

  • Day of the Advent

    16.Day of the Advent

    5.0
    16-01-200325m

    An unknown object crashes to Earth inside Paradigm City. While the general populace takes it as a good sign, Roger Smith isn't so sure, especially when he is hired to perform a ver...

  • Leviathan

    17.Leviathan

    5.0
    23-01-200325m

    Schwartzvald rears his bandaged head again, and a new MegaDeus threatens Paradigm City. Business as usual? Roger Smith sure doesn't think so.

  • The Greatest Villian

    18.The Greatest Villian

    5.0
    30-01-200325m

    When Beck kidnaps Roger Smith, R. Dorothy must take the case. Prepare yourself for R. Dorothy Waynewright...the Negotiator. Paradigm City will never be the same.

  • Eyewitness

    19.Eyewitness

    5.0
    06-02-200325m

    Someone is killing androids in Paradigm City. After several attacks, Paradigm HQ dispatches a special agent to assist in the case: Freddy O'Reilly. But Freddy is an android himself...

  • Stripes

    20.Stripes

    5.0
    13-02-200325m

    Roger is still having strange flashbacks. He can only assume that they are memories, but he's not quite sure. Frustrated, he returns to visit Gordon Rosewater, the man who built Pa...

  • The Third Big

    21.The Third Big

    5.0
    20-02-200325m

    Roger Smith & Dan Dastun race to R. Dorothy's aid, while Alex Rosewater finally unveils "Big Fau". But can he control the power of a MegaDeus once it is unleashed?

  • Hydra

    22.Hydra

    5.0
    27-02-200325m

    Roger is unsympathetic to Alex's problems. Alex pushes his science group to reactivate the Big Fau. Underground tremors and a power outage draw attention to these tests, and the un...

  • Twisted Memories

    23.Twisted Memories

    5.0
    06-03-200325m

    Beck's back, with an army of annoying android assassins. Alex Rosewater deals with his Daddy Issues in a very negative way, while at the same using Beck to kidnap R. Dorothy. And w...

  • The Big Fight

    24.The Big Fight

    5.0
    13-03-200325m

    Roger Smith and Big O slug it out with Alan Gabriel and "Big Duo Infern", while Alex Rosewater uses R. Dorothy's Memories to complete Big Fau. And the Union is still out there...

  • The War of Paradigm City

    25.The War of Paradigm City

    5.0
    20-03-200325m

    When high-altitude bombing levels Paradigm City, Alex Rosewater proclaims his "New Order". Meanwhile, Roger Smith and Angel uncover the soul-shattering secrets behind the Event, an...

  • The Show Must Go On

    26.The Show Must Go On

    7.5
    27-03-200325m

    R. Dorothy rises from her deathbed, thanks (in part) to Beck. Roger Smith and Alex Rosewater stage the Showdown of the Century, while Gordon Rosewater shows Angel her true destiny.

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