Gamo performed numerous brain enhancement processes on Ivan in his attempt to cure him which granted the young baby a mental capacity far exceeding that of a normal human. Originally from Russia, infant Ivan Whisky was born with a severe illness which his father Gamo, a famous brain surgeon, tried to cure but went mad in the process. In the 19 film versions, Joe was a famous racer, nicknamed "Hurricane Joe", who gets into a crash and is recovered by Black Ghost (similar to 004's origin), who then adds several body enhancements during the process of being turned into a cyborg. When he turned 18, his mentor was killed by Black Ghost members after they used a group of children that he raised in the church as guinea pigs for the Cyborg project Joe was wrongfully blamed, then captured by the priest's killers and made into a cyborg. In the 2001 anime, after his father disappeared and his mother died on the steps at his childbirth, he was an orphan taken in by a Catholic priest from Kanazawa along with their street friends, Mary Onodera (perhaps a tribute to Shotaro Ishinomori, his birth name being Shotaro Onodera), Shin'ichi Ibaraki, and Masaru Oyamada. A delinquent youth who was shunned by his peers because he was a half-breed, he escaped from a juvenile detention facility before being captured by Black Ghost. Joe is originally from Japan, although he is actually half-Japanese whose unknown father was presumably a soldier in the US Army stationed in Japan after World War II. During each of the series, he acts as the field leader and first line attack of the 00 Cyborgs. Shimamura is unable to touch any living creatures, such as humans, when he's in this state, as the high speeds would kill or otherwise seriously maim the creature through air friction. His most prominent ability is the power to move at a speed so fast that everything else looks like a statue to him, this is triggered by a switch embedded in his teeth. He is super-humanly strong, resistant to damage, can leap large distances, and can breathe underwater. Joe Shimamura ( 島村ジョー, Shimamura Jō) - Cyborg 009, and the main character/leader.This is a list of fictional characters appearing in the Cyborg 009 manga by Shotaro Ishinomori and its adaptations.
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