I won't harp on too much longer about Cowboy Bebop, god knows the internet has already done that to death with the Netflix series, so I'm going to bring up something different which covers Faye Valentine.

A quick background, Faye was introduced as a thief who crossed paths with Spike on one of his bounty hunting missions, from there she got involved with the Bebop crew as she was useful at obtaining information on other targets and being sort of half good at looking after herself and is more than capable of getting involved with the crew's weaponry.
The fact that she was a late 90s anime sex symbol hasn't really gone unnoticed but her design, actions and untraceable past is reminiscent of Fujiko Mine, the femme fatale thief of Lupin the 3rd.
The main difference between the two women is that were still no closer to finding out the truth about Fujiko where as Faye we find out pretty much everything.
Faye isn't a bad character, in fact she's probably alot more capable than Fujiko, this is more of an observation into how her character came to be in the first place, Lupin the 3rd will be 55 years old later this year and Faye isn't the first and certainly won't be the last femme fatale to be inspired by Fujiko Mine, I just wish they remembered that in the live action version when they gave Faye some of the worst most cringy lines of dialogue I've ever heard; not every action orientated female character has to be Harley Quinn!