How Old Is Vash in Trigun Stampede?
All Trigun fans will know that Vash the Stampede is the principal character of the series. But the Human Typhoon is much more popular than that and even a lot of people that have not seen Trigun know who he is. His story, as well as his background, are quite intriguing and in this article, we are going to talk about the incarnation of Vash from the newest Trigun Stampede anime series. In this article, we are going to reveal just how old Vash is in the Trigun Stampede anime, from start to finish.
Knowing that Trigun Stampede is going to be a (more) faithful adaptation of the original manga, we can confirm that Vash, who is a plant, is over 150 years old in Trigun Stampede. This is a normal age for him because he is not a human, but a human-looking plant and members of his species age differently than regular humans, which is why him being older than 150 years is not strange.
The rest of the article will give you some more information on Vash’s evolution as a character in the series, as well as answers to some important questions regarding Vash’s age at some of the most important moments in his life. The article is, of course, going to contain spoilers, so we just wanted to warn you.
How old is Vash in Trigun Stampede?
Vash’s age in Trigun Stampede: over 150 years old
As we have said above, Vash the Stampede is over 150 years old in the Trigun manga, which means that he is the same age in Trigun Stampede, with the latter being a faithful adaptation of the original manga. As Vash is a human-looking plant, his age is not odd as his species simply ages differently than regular humans. In the paragraphs that follow, we will tell you what happened to Vash in the series.
Growing up, he and his brother Knives share a spaceship with the last few humans still alive who abandoned Earth due to its scarcity of resources. The two are recognized as Plant because they age more slowly. Vash has a renewed regard for life through Rem Saverem’s education, but his brother wants turmoil in others. Knives do harm to the navigation system, which activates the alert and awakens any passengers who are sound asleep.
Rem puts Knives and Vash in an escape pod to protect them as Knives sabotages the fleet and accelerates it toward the planet No Man’s Land. Instead of fleeing, the girl decides to remain and attempt to stop the accident. As the two young people they were as youngsters grow up and separate, Knives amputates Vash’s left arm during a fight. A group of people discovers Vash, and they help him create his robotic arm. Knives also makes an effort to awaken Vash’s latent magical abilities, the Angel Arm, but the scheme fails and an explosion destroys July, leaving 200,000 people without food or shelter.
The incident earned Vash the nickname Humanoid Typhoon. Since then, a bounty of 60 billion double dollars has been hanging on him, he has been dragging himself from city to city trying to escape the disasters that follow him. Wherever it goes it brings destruction, causing massive damage but never deaths. He also promises to keep the pact he made with Rem before she died: to take care of his brother Knives. Despite being a convinced pacifist, he is also a very experienced gunslinger, who tries never to kill anyone, also in order not to let his true identity leak into the eyes of the people.
However, this begins to come out after the duel won against the Nebraska family in Inepril City and saved the passengers of the Sandsteam from the onslaught of the fearsome Bad-Rad of Brilliant Dynamite Neon. Meryl Stryfe, an agent of the Bernardelli insurance company responsible with her colleague Milly Thompson to investigate Vash’s movements, will change her mind about the bad reputation that exists on her account, ending up falling in love with her.
The same goes for Nicholas D. Wolfwood, a reverend as skilled with a gun as Vash, tasked by Knives to bring him to him. Even people change their opinion about him until new troubles plague Vash due to Legato Bluesummers and the Gung Ho Guns. From now on, his story takes on a different connotation both in the anime and in the manga.
In the manga version of the story, the Gung Ho Guns have half a coin each Vash will have to collect all of them once all the individual components have been defeated. He beats Monev The Gale and Dominique The Cyclops, but his Angel Arm awakens him to prevent the total awakening of his brother Knives. He changes his life and fights again to save Rina after her kidnapping; he faces Raidei The Blade and, in the floating ship, Leonoff The Puppet Master who tries to save him by remembering his past identity: however, he commits suicide.
Unlike in the anime, he manages to save the ship without crashing to the surface, and Blood, who helps Vash in the fight against Leonoff, remains alive. In another context other than that of the flying ship he is dealing with Hoppered The Gauntlet and has to save Meryl from being kidnapped by another of the Gung Ho Guns, Zazie The Beast. To help him Nicholas D. Wolfwood, and Milly Thompson. Having saved the girl, who knows all of her past during her period of imprisonment by Zazie, she faces Legato Bluesummers in a first duel, in which she wins only thanks to the intervention of Nicholas Wolfwood who shoots him in the temple while Vash keeps him busy with her dormant power.
He then helps Nicholas in the battle against his master and Livio The Double Fang, taking care of the first of the two, then confronts Legato, who has recovered from his coma from their last fight, in Octavan City. Here Vash still kills him not to save the girls, but Livio, Nicholas’ old childhood friend, is redeemed after the clash with the latter and this time committed to supporting Vash in his battles. Finally comes the face to face against his brother Knives, who in the meantime tries an amalgam with other Plants after having also learned of the blackening of the hair which can cause death.
Vash faces him in combat and beats him managing to avoid the merger of his brother with the other Plants. At the end of the battle, however, the Ark, where the duel was held, goes up in flames and Knives will save him, then create an apple tree with his last remaining strength and die. He finally returns to his wandering life as always and as in the anime, he will look for the answers to his questions from now on.