The Eastern Bloc is a collective of nations that are under the influence of the Soviet Union, forming a massive superpower that rules about half of the entire world, while the rest is ruled by the Western Bloc. The Cold War between the two Blocs has continued for over 100 years, and some high-ranking individuals in the Eastern Bloc are trying to heat it up and turn the cloak and dagger spy conflict into a proper war. They serve as the main antagonists of the 009-1 franchise.
Members[]
- Mr. Egg: An assassin appearing in "Hard Boiled".
- Ivan Gudonov: Deputy Director of Intelligence of S Area.
- Loki: Revealed to be Mylene's long-lost brother. His role is subject to difference through the manga and the anime adaptations, though a common factor is that he is part of the Eastern Bloc.
- Clarice (manga)/Freya (anime): An Eastern Bloc agent appearing in "Invitation from an Old Castle".
- Moorhead (manga)/Odin (anime): Another Eastern Bloc agent that appears in "Invitation from an Old Castle".
- Systemic Weapon Man/Dexter (anime): Appears in chapter 21, "Revenge", adapted into episode 9 of the anime. He is the older of a pair of twin brothers, with his right arm acting as a machine gun. He is defeated and killed by 009-1's breast guns.
- Snake Rim/Norman (anime): The younger of the twin brothers in chapter 21/episode 9. After the death of his older brother, he attempts revenge on 009-1. In contrast, his left arm acts as a machine gun, while his right arm is a transplant that had been given to him by his older brother in their childhood. After being blinded by 009-1, he is shot through the head.
Members exclusive to the manga[]
- Charles Abner: An Eastern Bloc agent appearing in the manga version of "Invitation from an Old Castle" in chapter 7. For the purpose of the anime adaptation, the "Loki" character is a merger of him and Paul.
- Woman-type Cyborg: Appears in chapter 11, "Give and Take". She is a cyborg ordered to assassinate Number Zero, and can fire beams from her fingertips, mouth, and missiles from her breasts. She also has the ability to divide her body into separate portions and use them in attacks.
- Parody: Appears in chapter 12, "Parody". They are a cyborg that gained the ability to shapeshift into other people via altering the arrangement of their cells.
- Number 100: Appears in Chapter 23, "No.100". Though she poses as a junior agent to Mylene in the Western Bloc, she is an Eastern Bloc spy.
Members in the anime[]
- Borzov is a courier who appears in Episode 5, where he tries to smuggle a pure gold android to the East while being followed by 009-agents.
- Dexter (code letter 'S') is a heavily armed cyborg agent who appears in Episode 9. He has a younger identical twin brother, Norman, whom Dexter loves so much that he gave him one of his arms as a child. He also had facial surgery when he started working as an agent to make sure no-one would harm his brother.
- Norman is Dexter's twin brother a car salesman who appears in Episode 9. A car salesman with a wife, Kay, and a son, Tony. As a child, Norman was sickly and lost both of his two hand arms to some unspecified illness, before Dexter gave Norman of his own right arm and the other cybernetized. After Dexter dies at the hands of 009-1, Norman makes a deal with the Eastern Bloc secret service to get revenge on his brother's killer.
- Ingrid Gustav
- Lyudmila Schindler
- Dr. Dark Green is the head of the Supernatural Power Research Facility who debuts in Episode 2. He conducts experiments on captured mutant children with the aim of harnessing their powers for military use. As the series progresses, he becomes increasingly uncomfortable with his work and starts to care more about the well-being of the mutants.
- Dr. Zond Soyuz is a scientist who appears in Episode 1 with his cybernetically augmented pet monkey. Upon his discovery of a new energy source, he defects to the West to keep his work from being used for military purposes.
- Egg is a hard-boiled professional sniper who appears in Episode 3. Although highly skilled, Egg has an extremely rigid daily schedule and he never works at night. He does not kill those who are not his targets (even sparing the life of a wounded Western Bloc agent who tried to kill him) and always shoots his target to the head with a single bullet from his old sniper rifle. He is very proud of his cool professionalism as a hitman and considers killing out of emotion beneath him.
- Odin is a highly ranked agent who appears in Episode 4 who participated in the failed attempt to kidnap Dr. Satonaka three years earlier. He is a very aggressive person who always suspects a Western Bloc scheme behind every event.