Count Blocken

Infobox animanga character
name = Count Blocken
series = Mazinger


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first = Chapter 39 (anime version)
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creator = Go Nagai
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Count Blocken was a villain from the fictional robot story Mazinger Z. He was a cyborg whose head was hewn from his body during a car accident, and he carried it around with him. He sometimes carried it under his arm, but it had the ability to float on its own.

History

He was a new lieutenant brought in to oversee the plans of the story's main villain, Dr. Hell, after repeated failures on the part of Hell's other officer, Baron Ashura, to destroy the heroic robot Mazinger Z. Competition between the two villains was fierce, Ashura to regain Hell's favor and Blocken to prove himself the better commander. He was given Gool to attack as well as a loyal army of soldiers, the Iron Crosses.However, Blocken was also unable to gain the advantage over Mazinger Z despite repeated tries. He died in the story's finale when Mazinger Z blew up his airship while attempting to escape.

Relationship with Ashura

Blocken appears as a direct competition to Ashura, demoting him as Hell's main servant and forcing him to work as a team in a number of occasions, mostly with terrible results, to the point of ordering their respective mechanical beasts to fight each other to prevent each other from defeating Mazinger. Nevertheless, it's because of their collaboration that Dr. Hell finally achieves one of his goals: to obtain Super Alloy Z and build a mechanical monster with it, Balmos Q7. His plans are spoiled when Ashura disobeys his orders out of jealousy and leaves Mazinger unwatched, who manages to escape from Fortress Bood and destroys Dr. Hell's monster.

Before his death, Ashura faces a group of Iron Crosses, loyal to Blocken, that had planned to kill him without Blocken's knowledge. When he finds out about this, he rushes to stop them, although Ashura had already taken care of them. However, he doesn't believe his foe wasn't behind the attack and escapes from Dr. Hell's island. Blocken shows a certain degree of respect towards Ashura when he dies in battle.

Mecha

Blocken is appointed as Blogun G3's pilot, but is defeated by Mazinger and humilliated by Ashura, who picks his head from the ground after his robot's explosion and slaps him for having failed. Blocken also manages to take control of Mazinger Z once.

Other Versions

* Blocken was called (for obvious reasons) Count Decapito in Tranzor Z. In the Latin American version, he was named "El Conde Decapitado" (the Headless Count)
* Unlike Ashura, Blocken wasn't included in the Mazinkaiser version of the saga.
* Blocken appears in the Mazinger Angels manga, but this time his head is attached to his body.