Roger Smith
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- See Also Roger B. Smith, automobile executive
Roger Smith is the main character in the anime television series and the manga, Big O.
He is Paradigm City's top negotiator, and lives in the Illegal Residential Sector in a former bank with his butler Norman Burg and R. Dorothy Wayneright.
He is the Dominus, or pilot, of the Big O, a giant robot known as a Big-type "Megadeus". When negotiation fails or danger threatens the city, he summons Big O by calling him through his watch.
Smith appears to cultivate a playboy image--one of his "rules", for instance, is that beautiful young women are to be admitted into his receiving room immediately, and both Angel and R. Dorothy Wayneright refer to him on separate occasions as a "louse".
This seems to be more for the sake of appearances, as it becomes clear that he holds himself to a strict gentleman's code of conduct, including such things as being kind to women, children, and the elderly.
Another one of his rules is that everyone in his house must wear black, with no exceptions. He himself follows this dress code. The only episode which departs from this is Act 7, "The Call from the Past", in which he wears a T-shirt and slacks rather than the usual impeccable black suit -- and this is only so he will not get his black suit dirty.