In Black Lagoon, Benny is the Lagoon Company's primary communications expert and electronics whiz. Born from a Jewish family, he worked in a university in Florida before running foul of both the FBI and the Mafia and having to leave the country before he got himself killed. Like Rock, Benny doesn't get into the violence that Revy and Dutch often get into, preferring to run mission control aboard the title ship and get the crew out of danger.