TV-Series
Description
Spade, childhood name King, operates as a phantom thief and serves as Joker's primary rival. Discovered on a snowy road and adopted by a wealthy family, he endured mistreatment from his adoptive brother, Dump. His escape came when encountering young phantom thieves Jack (later Joker) and Queen during their theft of a frozen saber-toothed tiger mummy from Dump's family. After aiding them against kidnappers, he abandoned his adoptive life to join their path. He entered the Phantom Thief Academy under Silver Heart's mentorship alongside them. Despite training together, Spade fostered a persistent rivalry with Jack, marked by mutual pranks and disagreements, fueling their dynamic.
He exudes confidence and pride beneath a generally calm exterior, contrasting Joker's impulsiveness, though his anime portrayal shows stronger emotional reactions. A mischievous streak leads him to enjoy pranks and deliberately provoke Joker. While sometimes appearing distant or scornful, he genuinely cares for his friends, consistently assisting Joker, Queen, and his assistant, Dark Eye, in peril. A unique vulnerability involves developing intense fevers when overly excited, occasionally exploited. Beyond thievery, he writes under the pen name Spadon King and favors French cuisine and reading.
His signature tools include a freezing gun, deployed with the call "Ice Shot," and strategically used playing cards. He previously wielded a non-lethal gun firing flowers or paint and a tranquilizer gun, lost to Joker. Transportation often involves the Twin Thunder Shark airship or a motorcycle. His assistant, Dark Eye—secretly the idol Ai from the Shuffle Sisters—provides crucial support in domestic duties and heists. Spade knows her dual identity but keeps it confidential, viewing her as a friend beyond professional ties.
Within Season 3, Spade faces the Time Thief across multiple episodes. A key confrontation occurs in the Escargot Museum's "Room of Numbers." Tasked with finding a key hidden within drawers numbered with four-digit combinations, guided by the riddle "Open the drawer which cannot become 10 as an integer," Spade solves it through the "10 game" puzzle. He identifies "3478" as the unique combination incapable of equaling 10 using basic arithmetic operations and parentheses under integer rules. Upon retrieving the key, the Time Thief exploits purported time reversal abilities, traveling to the past armed with Spade's solution to steal the key first. The thief then traps Spade behind activated security glass, thwarting his "Ice Shot" and outmaneuvering him via temporal manipulation.
His design evolved across media. Originating in manga with long dark blue/purple hair featuring a yellow mohawk, a long white coat with purple lapels and pointed yellow shoulder pads, a light blue/violet scarf, and plaid dark blue and pink pants, plus makeup and spade-shaped earrings, the anime standardized his look: blue hair, light purple eyes, dark blue pants with black spades on the knees, rounder shoulder pads, and a pink scarf. These changes aligned with the anime's style. Manga-depicted makeup for his long eyelashes became natural in the anime. Later manga chapters adjusted his design closer to the anime version, notably adopting the anime's pants.
His consistent catchphrase is "Adios!". An anime-exclusive line, "I didn't trick you, I just didn't tell you!", reflects his trickster nature. Trivia includes his Pisces zodiac sign, AB blood type, March 13th birthdate, favorite card game Blackjack, and the implication he kept a Spade puppet crafted by Joker during an idol stage incident.
He exudes confidence and pride beneath a generally calm exterior, contrasting Joker's impulsiveness, though his anime portrayal shows stronger emotional reactions. A mischievous streak leads him to enjoy pranks and deliberately provoke Joker. While sometimes appearing distant or scornful, he genuinely cares for his friends, consistently assisting Joker, Queen, and his assistant, Dark Eye, in peril. A unique vulnerability involves developing intense fevers when overly excited, occasionally exploited. Beyond thievery, he writes under the pen name Spadon King and favors French cuisine and reading.
His signature tools include a freezing gun, deployed with the call "Ice Shot," and strategically used playing cards. He previously wielded a non-lethal gun firing flowers or paint and a tranquilizer gun, lost to Joker. Transportation often involves the Twin Thunder Shark airship or a motorcycle. His assistant, Dark Eye—secretly the idol Ai from the Shuffle Sisters—provides crucial support in domestic duties and heists. Spade knows her dual identity but keeps it confidential, viewing her as a friend beyond professional ties.
Within Season 3, Spade faces the Time Thief across multiple episodes. A key confrontation occurs in the Escargot Museum's "Room of Numbers." Tasked with finding a key hidden within drawers numbered with four-digit combinations, guided by the riddle "Open the drawer which cannot become 10 as an integer," Spade solves it through the "10 game" puzzle. He identifies "3478" as the unique combination incapable of equaling 10 using basic arithmetic operations and parentheses under integer rules. Upon retrieving the key, the Time Thief exploits purported time reversal abilities, traveling to the past armed with Spade's solution to steal the key first. The thief then traps Spade behind activated security glass, thwarting his "Ice Shot" and outmaneuvering him via temporal manipulation.
His design evolved across media. Originating in manga with long dark blue/purple hair featuring a yellow mohawk, a long white coat with purple lapels and pointed yellow shoulder pads, a light blue/violet scarf, and plaid dark blue and pink pants, plus makeup and spade-shaped earrings, the anime standardized his look: blue hair, light purple eyes, dark blue pants with black spades on the knees, rounder shoulder pads, and a pink scarf. These changes aligned with the anime's style. Manga-depicted makeup for his long eyelashes became natural in the anime. Later manga chapters adjusted his design closer to the anime version, notably adopting the anime's pants.
His consistent catchphrase is "Adios!". An anime-exclusive line, "I didn't trick you, I just didn't tell you!", reflects his trickster nature. Trivia includes his Pisces zodiac sign, AB blood type, March 13th birthdate, favorite card game Blackjack, and the implication he kept a Spade puppet crafted by Joker during an idol stage incident.