Continuing my special on characters worse or better than they appear we look at a veteran character who is actually quite boring.

Duke Togo a.k.a Golgo 13 a.k.a the spitting image of my uncle, is a master assassin who never fails to miss a target and is often said in universe to be the perfect template of a sigma male, self reliant, could bed any woman, even his own targets and get himself out of any situation with nothing more than his well honed killing and survival skills all with an eternal stoic expression that so defines his character.
Yet he's a boring character who barely speaks and in some films barely in them until he needs to be but he doesn't need to be as he's only there to drive the plot forward, the most endearing feature about any Golgo 13 story is the target Golgo is going after, this is most apparent in the film Queen Bee, where the title character Queen Bee, a soldier in a South American liberation army wants to kill the United States presidential candidate for her own personal reasons and her journey is way more interesting than Golgo's; its why the franchise still goes on as one of Japan's longest running, 2nd place in the longest running manga list as of 2022 and has been going since 1968 for 54 years and is only two volumes off surpassing Dokaben the current record holder, One Piece wishes it could be that long.