Stand (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure)
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A stand (スタンド sutando) is a supernatural power in the manga and anime JoJo's Bizarre Adventure. When first presented, the kanji used is 幽波紋 yuuhamon with スタンド over it; it means ghostly hamon and it is similar to hamon (or ripple) of the first two Parts. Stands are usually sustained by breathing, and hover behind and above the user while usually being invisible to non-stand users. Their names are often inspired by Western music, Egyptian mythology, and the Tarot, but a few bear unique names. This list lists all the stands presented so far in the order of the series they appeared in.
The lists are ordered by order of first appearance.
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[edit] Stands of Part 3
Stands with names based on the Tarot Major Arcana cards:
| Stand name | User |
|---|---|
| Star Platinum (スタープラチナ sutā purachina) | Jotaro Kujo |
| Hermit Purple (ハーミットパープル hāmitto pāpuru) | Joseph Joestar |
| Magician's Red (マジシャンズレッド majishanzu reddo) | Mohammed Abdul |
| Hierophant Green (ハイエロファントグリーン haierofanto gurīn, Hierophant Emerald ハイエロファント・エメラルド haierofanto emerarudo[5]) | Noriaki Kakyoin |
| Tower of Gray (タワー・オブ・グレー tawā obu gurē) | An old man (Gray Fly[1]) |
| Silver Chariot (シルバーチャリオッツ shirubā chariottsu) | Jean Pierre Polnareff |
| Dark Blue Moon (ダークブルームーン dāku burū mūn) | Captain Tennille (an imposter) |
| Strength (ストレングス sutorengusu) | An orangutan (Forever[1]) |
| Ebony Devil (エボニーデビル ebonī debiru) | Devo the Cursed |
| Yellow Temperance (イエローテンパランス ierō tenparansu) | A man (Rubber Soul[1]) |
| Hanged Man (ハングドマン hangudo man) | J. Geil |
| Emperor (エンペラー enperā) | Hol Horse |
| Empress (エンプレス enpuresu) | Nena |
| Wheel of Fortune (ホウィール・オブ・フォーチュン howīru obu fōchun) | A driver (ZZ[1]) |
| Justice (ジャスティス jasutisu) | Enya |
| The Lovers (ラバーズ rabāzu) | Steely Dan |
| Sun (サン san) | A fat man (Arabia Fatso[1]) |
| Death 13 (デス・サーティーン desu sātīn) | A baby (Mannish Boy[1]) |
| Judgement (ジャッジメント jajjimento) | Cameo |
| High Priestess (ハイプリエステス hai puriesutesu) | Midora/Midler |
| The Fool (ザ・フール za fūru) | Iggy |
| The World (ザ・ワールド za wārudo) | Dio |
Stands with names of Egyptian gods:
| Stand name | User |
|---|---|
| Geb | N'Dour |
| Khnum | Oingo |
| Thoth | Boingo |
| Anubis | Chaka, Khan (possesses on contact) |
| Bast | Mariah |
| Set | Alessi |
| Osiris | Daniel J. D'Arby |
| Horus | Pet Shop |
| Atum | Terence T. D'Arby |
Other stands:
| Stand name | User |
|---|---|
| Tenor Sax (ティナー・サックス tinā sakkusu) | Kenny G |
| Cream (クリーム kurīmu[2]) | Vanilla Ice |
| Unknown | Holly Joestar |
[edit] Stands of Part 4
A few stands return from part 3, not listed here. All stand names from part 4 and on are music references.
| Stand name | User |
|---|---|
| Crazy Diamond (クレイジー・ダイヤモンド kureijī daiyamondo) | Josuke Higashikata |
| Aqua Necklace (アクア・ネックレス akua nekkuresu) | Anjuuro Katagiri (Angelo) |
| The Hand (ザ・ハンド za hando) | Okuyasu Nijimura |
| Bad Company (バッド・カンパニー baddo kanpanī) | Keicho Nijimura |
| Red Hot Chili Pepper (レッド・ホット・チリ・ペッパー reddo hotto chiri peppā) | Akira Otoishi |
| The Lock (ザ・ロック za rokku) | Tamami Kobayashi |
| Echoes Act 1 (エコーズ ACT1 ekōzu ACT1, Echoes エコーズ ekōzu[5]) | Koichi Hirose |
| Echoes Act 2 (エコーズ ACT2 ekōzu ACT2) | Koichi Hirose |
| Echoes Act 3 (エコーズ ACT3 ekōzu ACT3) | Koichi Hirose |
| Surface (サーフィス sāfisu) | Toshikazu Hazamada |
| Love Deluxe (ラブ・デラックス rabu derakkusu) | Yukako Yamagishi |
| Pearl Jam (パール・ジャム pāru jamu) | Antonio Trussardi |
| Achtung Baby (アクトン・ベイビー akuton beibī) | A baby (Shizuka Joestar[3]) |
| Heaven's Door (ヘブンズ・ドアー hebunzu doā) | Rohan Kishibe |
| Ratt (ラット ratto) | Rats |
| Harvest (ハーヴェスト hāvesuto) | Young-G! "Fatty" Shigekiyo |
| Killer Queen (キラークイーン kirā kuīn) | Kira Yoshikage |
| Cinderella (シンデレラ shinderera) | Aya Tsuji |
| Atom Heart Father (アトム・ハート・ファーザー atomu hāto fāzā) | Yoshihiro Kira |
| Boy II Man (ボーイ・II・マン bōi II man) | Ken Ooyanagi |
| Earth, Wind and Fire (アース・ウインド・アンド・ファイヤー āsu uindo ando faiyā) | Nu Mikitakaso Nishi |
| Highway Star (ハイウェイ・スター haiwei sutā) | Yuuya Fungami |
| Stray Cat (ストレイ・キャット sutorei kyatto) | Erba Gatta |
| Super Fly (スーパーフライ sūpāfurai) | Toyohiro Kanedaichi (assumed name) |
| Enigma (エニグマ eniguma) | Mysterious boy (Terunosuke Miyamoto[3]) |
| Cheap Trick (チープ・トリック chīpu torikku) | Masazo Kinoto |
[edit] Stands of Part 5
A few stands return from part 4, not listed here.
| Stand name | User |
|---|---|
| Gold Experience (ゴールド・エクスペリエンス gōrudo ekusuperiensu) | Giorno Giovanna |
| Sticky Fingers (スティッキィ・フィンガーズ sutikkī fingāzu) | Bruno Bucciarati |
| Black Sabbath (ブラック・サバス burakku sabasu) | Polpo |
| Moody Blues (ムーディ・ブルース mūdi burūsu) | Leone Abbacchio |
| Soft Machine (ソフト・マシーン sofuto mashīn) | Mario Zucchero |
| Sex Pistols (セックス・ピストルズ sekkusu pisutoruzu) | Guido Mista |
| Kraftwerk (クラフト・ワーク kurafuto wāku) | Sale |
| Little Feat (リトル・フィート ritoru fīto) | Formaggio |
| Aerosmith (エアロスミス earosumisu') | Narancia Ghirga |
| Man In The Mirror (マン・イン・ザ・ミラー man in za mirā) | Illuso |
| Purple Haze (パープル・ヘイズ pāpuru heizu) | Pannacotta Fugo |
| Mister President (ミスター・プレジデント misutā purejidento[3]） | A tortoise (Coco Jumbo[3]) |
| Beach Boy (ビーチ・ボーイ bīchi bōi) | Pesci |
| The Greatful Dead (ザ・グレイトフル・デッド za gureitofuru deddo) | Prosciutto |
| Baby Face (ベイビィ・フェイス beibi feisu) | Melone |
| White Album (ホワイト・アルバム howaito arubamu) | Ghiaccio |
| King Crimson (キング・クリムゾン kingu kurimuzon) | Diavolo |
| Clash (クラッシュ kurasshu) | Squalo |
| Talking Head (トーキング・ヘッド tōkingu heddo) | Tiziano |
| Notorious B.I.G. (ノトーリアス・B・I・G notōriasu BIG) | Carne |
| Spice Girl (スパイス・ガール supaisu gāru) | Trish Una |
| Metallica (メタリカ metarika) | Risotto |
| Green Day (グリーン・ディ gurīn dei) | Cioccolata |
| Oasis (オアシス oashisu) | Secco |
| Rolling Stone (ローリング・ストーン rōringu sutōn) | Scolippi |
[edit] Stands of Part 6
Stands from part 3 return, not listed here.
| Stand name | User |
|---|---|
| Stone Free (ストーン・フリー sutōn furī) | Jolyne Kujo |
| Goo Goo Dolls (グーグー・ドールズ gūgū dōruzu) | Guess |
| Manhattan Transfer (マンハッタン・トランスファー manhattan toransufā) | Jongalli A |
| Whitesnake (ホワイトスネイク howaitosuneiku) | Enrico Pucci |
| Kiss (キッス kissu) | Hermes Costello |
| Highway to Hell (ハイウェイ・トゥ・ヘル haiwei tu heru) | Xander McQueen |
| Burning Down The House (バーニング・ダウン・ザ・ハウス bāningu daun za hausu) | Emporio Alnino |
| Foo Fighters (フー・ファイターズ fū faitāzu) | F.F. (Foo Fighters) |
| Marilyn Manson (マリリン・マンソン maririn manson) | Mirashon |
| Weather Report (ウェザー・リポート wezā ripōto) | Weather Report |
| Jumpin' Jack Flash (ジャンピン・ジャック・フラッシュ janpin jakku furasshu) | Lang Wrangler |
| Limp Bizkit (リンプ・ビズキット rinpu bizukitto) | Sports Max |
| Diver Down (ダイバー・ダウン daibā daun) | Narcsio Anasui |
| Survivor (サバイバー sabaibā) | Guccio |
| Planet Waves (プラネット・ウェイブス puranetto weibusu) | Viviano Westwood |
| Dragon's Dream (ドラゴンズ・ドリーム doragonzu dorīmu) | Kenzo |
| Yoyoma (ヨーヨーマッ yōyōmah) | D and G |
| Unknown | A green baby |
| Jail House Lock (ジェイル・ハウス・ロック jeiru hausu rokku) | Miumiu (ミュッチャー・ミューラー) |
| Bohemian Rhapsody (ボヘミアン・ラプソディー bohemian rapusodī) | Ungaro |
| Sky High (スカイ・ハイ sukai hai) | Rykiel |
| Underworld (アンダー・ワールド andā wārudo) | Donatello Versace |
| C_Moon (シー・ムーン shī mūn) | Enrico Pucci; A green baby |
| Made In Heaven (メイド・イン・ヘブン meido in hebun, Stairway to Heaven ステアウェイ・トゥ・ヘブン suteawei tō hebun[4]) | Enrico Pucci |
[edit] Stands of Part 7
| Stand name | User |
|---|---|
| Steel Ball #1 and #2 (Tekkyuu) | Gyro Zeppeli |
| Tusk (タスク tasuku) | Johnny Joestar |
| Unknown | Sandman |
| Unknown | Pocoloco |
| Unknown | Andre Boomboom |
| Unknown | L.A. Boomboom |
| Unknown | Benjamin Boomboom |
| Oh!Lonesome Me (オー！ロンサム・ミー) | Mountain Tim |
| Unknown | Oyecomova |
| Wired (ワイアード waiādo) | Pork Pie Hat Kid |
| Scary Monster (スケアリー・モンスター) | Diego "Dio" Brando |
| Scary Monsters (スケアリー・モンスターズ sukearī monsutāzu) | Dr. Ferdinand |
| Cream Starter (クリーム・スターター kurīmu sutātā) | Hot Pants |
| Mandam (マンダム mandamu) | Ringo Roadagain |
| Catch The Rainbow (キャッチ・ザ・レインボー) | Blackmore |
[edit] Description of Stands
The concept of "stand" (stands for "stand by me") was introduced in part 3 of the manga series. According to Joseph Joestar, it is the manifestation of an individual's innate power over the "ripple" (hamon) and represents, to an extent, the individual's psyche. In fact, Joseph once referred to it in the manga as the "ghost ripple" (quite apt, as most of them take on humanoid forms and hover around the wielders like wraiths). To people without the power of the Stand, who naturally cannot see them, the activities of the Stands are comparable to ghostly and poltergeist activity. This behavior is evidently seen in the JoJo anime, in the episode where Jotaro imprisons himself, where other prisoners and even the guards feared Jotaro.
It is interesting to note that the stands began to take on names of distinguished bands and album titles starting from part 4 of the series. Most of them are progressive rock bands, as Araki himself is a fan of this music genre. In part 3 they are named after tarot cards, and later after Egyptian gods.
[edit] Part 3: Stardust Crusaders
Star Platinum (Jotaro Kujo)
One of the strongest stands in the Jojo universe. Star Platinum possesses super human senses, strength, stamina, accuracy and speed. In fact, it is inferred among fans that Star Platinum's incredible speed is the basis of its ability to stop time. At his peak, Jotaro can stop time for as long as 5 seconds with his stand. Like other physically powerful stands, Star Platinum suffers from a narrow range of activity. It can only be active within a 2-3 metre radius from Jotaro.
Magician's Red (Mohammed Abdul) Avdol's stand takes the form of a man with an eagle's head. This fiery stand can be remotely controlled and generates intense flames capable of melting steel within moments. Magician's Red can also produce a "heat radar", a cruciform mass of flame that indicates the location of heat sources.
Hermit Purple (Joseph Joestar) Hermit Purple appears as multiple thorny vines that spawn from Joseph's right hand. Apart from combat purposes, this versatile stand can perform remarkable feats. It can produce psychic photographs and live psychic videos on a television, but at the expense of a camera and television, respectively. It can also conjure real-time maps (capable of tracking moving subjects) and (apparently) read minds. Joseph can also use the vines to swing himself around like Spider-Man.
Hierophant Green (Noriaki Kakyoin) This is another remote stand with the ability to alter its form. It can stretch over impressive distances (in his fight with Dio, Kakyoin "webbed" an entire city district with Hierophant Green), and can reduce to microscopic sizes (as in the fight with Lovers). It can also shoot emeralds like bullets, and can possess people, if it uncoils itself inside a person. Kakyoin possessed this stand since birth, but only he was able to see it.
Silver Chariot (Jean Pierre Polnareff) A stand in a shiny suit of armor, wielding a rapier (incidentally, Polnareff is dedicated to the code of chivalry). Silver Chariot is a speedy remote stand that deals lightning-fast strikes with his sword. It's also capable of shedding its armor to increase its speed fast enough to create the illusion that there are multiple Chariots.
The Fool (Iggy) The Fool is among the most basic of Stands in its composition, yet it possesses a remarkable amount of power. It can levitate, appear, disappear or animate objects out of sand (its normal form is like that of a winged car chassis, with the front portion replaced by a feathered mask and a dog's claws; still, the whole thing is made entirely of sand and dust).
Tower of Gray (Gray Fly) The weapon of an old thief and murderer who likes to instigate disasters and pillage the dead victims of the same, it looks like a stag beetle with a sharp proboscis. Tower is so fast that even bullets wouldn't be able to touch it at point-blank range (if it were tangible, anyway), and its proboscis can tear through the human spine (Gray Fly likes to harvest the tongues of his victims by having Tower tear through the backs of their necks). It is also interesting to note that the user has a silhouette of the stand on his tongue.
Dark Blue Moon (impersonator of Captain Teneille) It looks much like the Creature from the Black Lagoon, but with a four-eyed mask and some metallic plating. Strong enough to tear a shark in half with its claws, it can also create whirlpools, then shed its razor-sharp scales into them. On top of that, its touch can bind psychic barnacles to a victim, draining away his strength as they cover him.
Strength (Forever) One of the few tangible Stands, it binds itself to a shipwreck and transforms it into a massive freighter called "Big Daddy". Every part of the ship--decks, fire hoses, loading hooks, bulwarks, even shards of glass from the windows--is under Forever's total control. Forever actually uses Strength to cross the oceans.
Ebony Devil (Devo or Soul Sacrifice) This Stand is in the form of a horned figure with a face like an oval mask, carrying a knife. Controlled by Devo, he waits for the enemy to attack first. Then, binding Devil to his grotesque, heavily armed doll, he exacts revenge upon the enemy. The damage done by the Stand is proportionate to the amount of hatred and scorn the attacker has inspired in the user. Devo is a hired killer, and supposedly originated from South America.
Yellow Temperance (Rubber Soul) Its "form" is actually a vile composite of the flesh it has consumed, transformed into an amorphous yellow goo. The Stand itself is impervious to everything, since Rubber Soul can alter its consistency, shape, and conductivity at will (the same can't be said for Rubber Soul himself, as Jotaro discovers). In addition to attack and defense, Yellow Temperance can be formed into a disguise.
Hanged Man (J. Geil) The man with two right hands, J. Geil, can use his Stand to appear within any reflective surface, then attack from it with the knife secreted in it's right wrist. Over the course of his and Hol Horse's battle with the heroes, Hanged Man strikes while leaping back and forth between mirrors, shards of glass, the reflective chrome of a steering wheel, and even a man's eyes. However, Kakyoin and Polnareff manage to disable the Stand as it leaps from surface to surface, then make short work of J. Geil himself.
Emperor (Hol Horse) As a Stand that is a gun, the ability of Emperor is bullets that change directions, or be called out of existence, long after being launched. It is wielded by Hol Horse, a cowboy that at first, hesitated to work for Dio. This ability needed another Stand to have any kind of effectiveness, and so, Hol Horse got the partnership of J. Geil (to allow for pincer attacks), and then by Boingo (to chart out where Hol should send his bullets). Avdol was felled by Hol Horse and the Stand, Emperor, albeit temporarily. (It was supposed to be permanent, but tremendous fan feedback forced Avdol's return.) It's interesting to note that Emperor and it's bullets are oblivious to the normal person's eye, and it caused it's own wielder's defeat.
Empress (Nena) When it begins its attack, Empress appears as a small drop of blood. Once it lands on a victim, it begins to grow, first looking like a vaguely face-like tumor, then, as it absorbs the victim's flesh and bone, becomes more humanoid. Eventually, it will completely devour its host. Apparently, its final form is a duplicate of the victim, since the Indian woman that Jotaro's group thought was Nena was actually a cloak of flesh for the real Stand User, a short, fat, white woman. The Indian woman was presumably Nena's most recent victim.
Wheel of Fortune (ZZ) Like Strength, Wheel of Fortune needs a vehicle (in this case, a car) for a substrate. While it usually resembles an ordinary, albeit very dusty, car, it can do things no other vehicle can (e.g. drive on sheer walls, compact itself through narrow crevices, bore through solid rock). When pressed, Wheel of Fortune can turn into a spiked, heavily armored juggernaut.
Justice (Enya/Enyaba Geil) Once Enya's Stand inflicts a single wound upon her adversary, she can summon the "Mist of Death" to thread through the wound and drag the victim around by it, much like a marionette. Eventually, the victim will become a member of her army of zombie minions. This ability is used to great effect as she holds her own against Jotaro and Polnareff. When Enya was defeated by Jotaro, Justice was disabled, and both her army and her city (actually a solid projection of Justice, superimposed upon a graveyard) crumbled into nothingness. It is possible that Justice is a Stand inherently bound to the ground of the graveyard, since the necropolis apparently stayed as it was whenever Enya visited Dio in Cairo (it's doubtful she could get enough corpses for her army in the 15-20 days between the awakening of Star and her preparation for fighting Jotaro's group).
Lovers (Steely Dan; called Rubber Soul in American version of the game) Steely Dan claims that although his Stand is the weakest of all in combat, it can still be one of the most dangerous. Lovers operates by attaching itself to an individual other than Dan, where it receives all sensations he experiences. These sensations are then transferred to the victim, multiplied by ten times the intensity that Dan felt them. For example, when Jotaro punched Dan in the face, Joseph Joestar (to whom Lovers was attached) went flying several meters and was dazed. The only way to prevent its effects is to shrink down the party's other Stands, enter the host, and attack Lovers there.
Sun (Arabia Fats) A very simple stand, it acts (and looks) like the Sun, creating heat...in fact, as much heat as Arabia Fats wants. His tactic is just to increase the area's heat to a degree that his victims die of overheating. In order to keep himself from overheating or being discovered, he tracks his targets in a small jeep equipped with a cooling device and a mirror shield.
Judgment (Cameo) Although it bills itself as a jinn, it has a very robot-like appearance. Cameo's tactic is to get his victim to request wishes, then use Judgment's real ability--animation of the earth--to appear to grant those wishes. He then has the seeming fulfillments of those wishes (often to resurrect deceased loved ones) turn on and kill the victim.
High Priestess (Midler) Previously, the appearance of Midler was unknown. Only in the game made by Capcom was the space filled in, as a woman resembling a belly dancer (the design of which actually appeared as the garb of the victims Hol Horse found in Dio's mansion). High Priestess possesses the ability to assume the form of metals. It initially disguised itself as a mug, which caught Joseph off-guard. Its "default" form is that of a mask with vicious eyes and fangs, and thin arms growing out of its sides.
Geb (N'Dour) Although named for an earth deity, Geb's form is actually that of a mass of water that breaks forth, usually in the form of a monstrous claw, whenever it senses sound that N'Dour thinks belongs to one of his targets. The claw is strong enough to cut flesh, and even rip a man's head off and pull it completely into a metal canteen.
Khnum (Oingo) Khnum does not truly have a distinct form--in fact, it's more like an ability. Specifically, it allows Oingo to resculpt his face (i.e. what Khnum itself is bound to) into any form he chooses. Unfortunately, Oingo doesn't seem to have figured out how best to use it...
Thoth (Boingo) One of the few Stands with a tangible, viewable form, Thoth takes the form of an American comic book (i.e. it reads left-to-right) with decidedly bizarre linework. The book is not complete, though--many of the pages are blank. In fact, the pages fill up with visions of future events. However, it's not always easy to understand what Thoth is really forecasting, as Oingo found out when he tried to kill Jotaro's group. One possibility is that it creates a single image that forecasts the several possible futures--each interpretation of that one image signifies a possible way things can progress.
Bast (Mariah) It looks just like an electrical socket. Touching it--even the outside, not just the openings--will shock the victim. But that's just the beginning of the attack. The real power of Bast is to imbue the victim with an ever-strengthening magnetism, causing metallic objects of increasing size to propel themselves at him. Mariah herself carries a supply of kitchen knives, wires, nuts, and bolts to make sure there's always something that can be pulled towards her targets.
Sethan (Alessi) This Stand takes form as Alessi's shadow, although when in profile, it has a crest and beak. The ability of this Stand is to turn anyone who touches his shadow into children. The actual amount of age lost depends on how long the victim is in contact with it--enough exposure can even make one regress into a fetus. It can also manifest on its hands a weapon that Alessi himself wields (e.g. an axe), and actually attack with it. Jotaro and Polnareff both fell prey to his Stand, in the series. Its name may be a conflation of Seth and Satan.
Osiris (Daniel J. D'Arby) This statue-like Stand has the power to capture the souls of those defeated by D'Arby in gambling (specifically, it takes advantage of the momentary loss of willpower that accompanies the feeling of defeat) and turn them into (tangible) poker chips. It also grants D'Arby a superhuman sense of touch, powerful enough for him to distinguish, without sight, the number of even the thinnest pages of a book.
Anubis (Chaka, Khan and Polnareff) Called the Stand with no wielder, it existed without one because of the sword it was imbued in. When the swordsmith who crafted the sword died, the Stand lived on. Chaka unsheathed the sword accidentally, causing Anubis to take control of Chaka. When Chaka was defeated by Polnareff, he took the sword and entrusted it to a barber, named Khan, who also got possessed by it. Finally, after breaking the sword, Polnareff also got possessed, after holding the sword to sheathe it, but is freed by Jotaro later on. The tip of the sword ended up in a river to rust. The ability of this Stand is to remember any attack of the enemy it encounters. It will not fall for the same attack twice. It can also phase through objects, and yet still cut other objects it touches at the same time. Sometimes, to facilitate communication with another Stand User, Anubis will reveal its actual form, a vicious-looking version of the god it is named for.
Horus (Pet Shop) This Stand has the form of an ice-encrusted bone centipede with a pterodactyl's head. It can freeze the surrounding area, generate bolts of ice, and even create car-sized blocks of ice, given enough time.
Atum (Terence Trent D'Arby) It takes the form of a red-and-white robotic figure emblazoned with the letters T and D (i.e. its User's initials). It can steal souls in the same way as Osiris, although these souls are bound into dolls, and are not dormant (they constantly beg for Terence to play with them). Rather than heightening his sense of touch, Atum allows Terence to mentally interrogate an opponent with yes-or-no questions, which will always be answered truthfully.
Tenor Sax (Kenny G) This Stand has the ability to generate illusions. Specifically, it created an illusory room for Terence to challenge Kakyoin and Jotaro in, a labyrinth to confuse Abdul, Polnareff, and Iggy, and generally cast other illusions to mask the true form of the interior of Dio's mansion. However, it could not mask Kenny G's scent, and so Iggy had little trouble in having Fool strike him down and dispel the illusions.
Cream (Vanilla Ice) For a Stand with a sweet and delicious pun (Vanilla Ice + Cream = Vanilla Ice Cream), it has a deadly ability to destroy objects using its interdimensional ability, turning itself into a void. He is the one who permanently killed Avdol, and was in part responsible for Iggy's death (by forcing him to strain himself to death to save Polnareff). Vanilla Ice also takes away Polnareff's toes and some of his fingers. Polnareff suspected that the annihilating void of Cream's attack mode was the spiritual manifestation of Vanilla Ice's unquestioning loyalty to Dio and his twisted "gospel" for the wicked.
The World (Dio Brando) Very similar to Jotaro's Star Platinum, this stand has phenomenal strength, senses and stamina - but faster and more accurate. It can also stop the time (for a longer duration as well). He also has at least a measure of Joseph's psychic abilities (specifically, the ability to create a vision on a photograph). World may originally have been the dormant Stand of Jonathan Joestar, which would explain why it has powers of two of the Stands of Jonathan's descendants.
[edit] Part 4: Diamond is Unbreakable
Crazy Diamond (Higashikata Josuke) A melee stand with short range (3m), Crazy Diamond has an ability of "restoration". It can repair damages and heal injuries (apart from Josuke's own injuries) --although it can not resurrect the dead. It can, however, restore an item to its raw materials (eg. a table can be restored to timbers). This ability allows Crazy Diamond to perform a range of interesting feats, including trapping the enemy (by restoring pieces of a broken crate around the target) and tracking (eg. restoring a torn piece of clothing, and it will seek out and reattach to where it came from). Its restoration ability often "malfunctions" when Josuke is angry, causing the object to be improperly put back together. Its physical appearance is similar to that of World.
Aqua Necklace (Katagiri "Angelo" Anjuuro) Like Geb, it's a Stand of liquid. It can't control as much water as Geb could at any one time, but in return, it can control any sort of liquid (e.g. milk, blood), and it can also possess the liquid if it's a mist. However, if all the liquid it controls is bound in something, such as a bottle, Aqua Necklace can't get out. Its normal shape is that of a humanoid with evil eyes set about its body, and pin-like teeth.
The Hand (Nijimura Okuyasu) A well-armored humanoid with large glass-like eyes, cylindrical plating about its head, and dollar and yen signs on its body armor. Its right arm is amazingly strong, and its right hand can actually erase the space it swipes through from all existence if Okuyasu so chooses. The spaces at the edge of the erased area then will instantly pull together. Okuyasu can use this ability to pull objects or people closer to The Hand by erasing an intervening area of air. No one knows where the erased objects go, not even Okuyasu himself.
Bad Company (Nijimura Keicho) This is actually a multi-bodied Stand. It consists of sixty tiny American-style infantry (one could probably hold two or three of them in the palm of one's hand) with bandage-pattern faces, parachutes, M16 rifles, and mines; seven scaled-down-to-the-tiny-infantry tanks; four likewise-scaled missile-carrying gunships; and an unknown number of Navy SEALs. Despite how small Bad Company's components are, they can still inflict deadly damage, especially considering that they always follow Keicho's intricate strategies and commands perfectly. Perhaps because of the Stand's multi-part nature, killing one of the soldiers will not harm Keicho (in fact, Josuke killed three infantry, and Keicho was none the worse, except for being annoyed at the formation being compromised).
Echoes (Hirose Koichi) Unlike most other Stands, Echoes has three distinct forms, or Acts (Koichi can only call upon one at any given time). Act 1 resembles a flying (although wingless) turtle with a long tail and wheels surrounding its beak. Its power is to write a given sound effect in kana on a surface. The effect will then constantly sound with increasing volume, until Echoes dispels the writing. Until his confrontation with Yukako, this was the only Act that Koichi could access. During that battle, he gained access to Act 2, which has a more humanoid form. Rather than just making sounds, Act 2's tail can create sound effect writings that actually invoke the associated quality when activated (e.g. if "whoosh" is written, activation will create an actual wind current). Finally, during his first confrontation with Kira, Koichi discovered Act 3, a completely humanoid Stand with turtle shell-like bosses on its body (and a somewhat independent, foul-mouthed personality who quotes Bruce Willis from Die Hard). Unlike the first two Acts, Act 3 cannot fly, and have a much shorter active range. However, it is extremely fast, and can "freeze" any one thing within 2 meters by rapidly punching it, at which point the object will suddenly become extremely heavy (it even caused Sheer Heart Attack to sink into solid pavement).
Red Hot Chili Pepper (Otoishi Akira) Its basic form is a squat, beaked humanoid of rust-colored metal. However, that's only when it isn't charged--then it will have a nimbus of electricity surrounding it. Red Hot Chili Pepper can manipulate any amount of electricity it can directly touch, even the entire power grid of Moriou. It normally uses the electricity to increase its speed (and apparently strength) to phenomenal levels. It also has the power to instill itself into any electric device, and pull other objects with it (this is apparently fatal for any living thing it does this to).
The Lock (Kobayashi Tamami) The Lock manifests exactly as its namesake--a massive U-lock. In order to use his ability, Tamami must first instill some feeling of guilt in his victim. The Lock will then attach, and begin magnifying the guilt to increasing degrees (as it increases guilt, The Lock's size and weight also increase). Usually, Tamami disengages The Lock once he's gulled his victim into paying him the money he wants, but when pressed, he can try to magnify a victim's guilt to such a degree that he/she is compelled to commit suicide. He has been known to manifest two Locks on different people at once.
Surface (Hazamada Toshikazu) A tangible Stand, Surface is bound to a large artist's doll in Toshikazu's possession. If someone touches the doll that Surface is bound to, it can adopt the exact likeness of that person--the only distinction is that the screw in Surface's forehead can still be seen. Surface can compel whoever it mimics to perfectly mirror its motions if it can maintain eye contact (e.g. if it juts its right elbow back, the one mimicked must jut his left elbow likewise). It is not perfectly under Toshikazu's control, since it tends to also mimic the target's personality (a source of immense frustration to Toshikazu).
Love Deluxe (Yamagishi Yukako) Just as Khnum was bound to Oingo's face, so Love Deluxe is bound to Yukako's hair. With her Stand's power, Yukako can lengthen her hair to any distance (even to completely surround a small house with hair), and control it with perfect precision. The effect even persists for a short time after she sheds any strands.
Pearl Jam (Tonio Trussardi) Pearl Jam is a multi-body Stand (at least three bodies), each body looking something like a cross between a head of garlic and a pearl onion with arms and a face. The bodies are extremely tiny, as they need to be ingested to do anything. First, Trussardi examines his customer's hands to see what ailments he/she suffers (apparently a granted power of Pearl Jam, though similar practices exist in Chinese traditional medicine). From this, he knows what foods to prepare. The meal is served one course at a time, with Pearl Jam's bodies inside. Once inside the "patient"'s body, Pearl Jam invokes a sense that whatever is being eaten is extremely delicious (even if the consumer dislikes the general taste, such as Okuyasu's aversion to spicy foods) to make sure that the food is continuously eaten. It then uses the incoming raw material to repair and replace damaged and diseased tissue, forcibly ejecting anything that falls under "replace", even opening up one's belly for a short while to eject replaced intestine. Unlike most other Stands that Josuke meets, Pearl Jam was not awakened by an Arrow, but by Tonio's zeal to perfect his culinary arts.
Achtung Baby (Shizuka Joestar) Achtung Baby is apparently bound to Shizuka's entire (six-month-old) body. She can use its power to generate an energy field that makes her, and anything touching her, completely invisible. If frightened, she may make the field larger than usual, extending to about a meter radius.
Heaven's Door (Kishibe Rohan) It appears as a humanoid wearing a suit and a brimmed hat with a checkerboard band (it was originally the appearance Rohan gave his manga's main character, before Keicho used the Arrow on him). Heaven's Door allows Rohan to write and draw with superhuman speed and precision, sufficient to let him work without assistants. His drawings have the power to hypnotize other people (or at least other Stand Users), one of the ways he can get to them and use Heaven's Door's primary power - turning people into "books". A person affected by this power have his or her skin openend to reveal pages, which contain all the information about the person (including his or her thoughts). Rohan can manipulate others by physically writing commands/new information into them; even allowing them to achieve things that are otherwise impossible. This can be seen in the fight with Highway Star, where Rohan helped Josuke to escape by writing into him the command: "leave this place at the speed of 60km/h".
Ratt (Bug Eye and other rat) There are actually two Ratt's (they were given to rats--possible twins, given the similar marks on their foreheads--by the same Arrow shot). Ratt somewhat resembles the front end of a steam locomotive, complete with cow catcher, that has four legs and a large eye. This is just the mobile form, however. The attack mode involves the front surface swinging up to reveal an artillery cannon (the eye is actually the scope that Bug Eye uses to aim). The ammunition takes the form of barbed darts that render anything they pierce into a semi-liquid state (living beings will not be killed immediately by this, unless a vital organ or artery/vein is affected).
Harvest (Yanguu "Fatty" Shigekyo) Harvest consists of fifty tiny, identical bodies--a hollow striped shell with eyes, six limbs, and a hornet-like abdomen. When Fatty gives Harvest a description of something he wants, the bodies scatter out and search for anything that fits the description, placing found "treasure" in the hollow. If necessary, the abdomen can take captured fluids and inject them into another person. Although Harvest's individual bodies are very weak, together they can make for an appreciable offensive force, even utilizing rudimentary formations (limited more by Fatty's weak intellect than Harvest's actual abilities). They also give Fatty a way to quickly get away from danger, by collectively carrying him.
Killer Queen (Kira Yoshikage) A humanoid Stand with fox-skull emblems on its shoulders, waist, and knees, and a vaguely cat-like head. Also, the space behind its stomach is hollow, letting it contain small items or creatures there. Killer Queen's abilities revolve around causing explosions. Its primary bombs are actually booby traps--it touches a cohesive object (doorknobs, coins, even living bodies) and charges it. When someone touches it, the energy will be conducted in, and create an internal explosion. On occasion, he will charge an object not to conduct explosive energy, but to simply explode when he finds the time to be right. He also has a secondary bomb called Sheer Heart Attack, normally contained within Killer Queen's left hand. It is a completely autonomous bomb, looking like a tank-treaded ball with a fox-skull face, with unlimited range. Its method is to seek out whatever the hottest thing in the vicinity is, then induce an explosion there. Finally, late in the story, Yoshihiro's Arrow pierces Kira's body and thus grants Killer Queen a tertiary bomb, called Another One Bites the Dust. This bomb is actually a distinct, miniaturized form of Killer Queen, which normally stays with someone who knows Kira's secrets. If someone tries to interrogate that person about Kira, the tertiary bomb will enter their field of vision, get into their eye that way, and induce an explosion. Until Kira finds out who the bomb killed, he lets a brief temporal loop occur to one hour earlier. Even if the victim doesn't ask questions this time around, Another One Bites the Dust will still kill them. Only if Kira is confident about who died will he let time flow normally. Still, if he has to protect himself right away (he can't maintain more than one potential bomb at a time), he will dispel the bomb. In all three cases, internal explosions can potentially completely disintegrate the victim.
Cinderella (Tsuji Aya) A humanoid, female-shaped framework of what seems like wires, with eyes that look like flared sunglasses. When working on one of Aya's customers at her beauty parlor, Cinderella can slide out part of the person's exterior and implant an appearance that is more likely to gain the customer's desire. It also increases the customer's luck in gaining time with the man she desires, and even gaining his heart. The appearance can be made to last for any given number of half-hours. Nothing special needs to be done if the appearance is kept for just thirty minutes, but for any longer, a tube of lipstick generated by Cinderella must be used every half-hour for the duration. Otherwise, the affected areas will wither into featurelessness, and even the body will wither into nothingness. This can only be undone if Cinderella can be made to restore the customer's original appearance (easy enough, since Cinderella has a perfect memory of all the faces it has altered), or if Aya is killed (which is what happened after Kira made her change his appearance). Like Tonio, Aya's own zeal (in this case, to be a kind of faerie godmother to her customers) apparently awakened her Stand.
Atom Heart Father (Kira Yoshihiro) Atom Heart Father is bound to Yoshihiro's body...or rather, Yoshihiro's soul (it only manifested when he died). Yoshihiro can bind himself to cameras and trigger them, at which point he is bound to the resulting photo. He can imprison anyone else caught on the photo so that they can't leave the depicted area, and manipulate anything that's in the depicted area, even if it's otherwise hidden from view (e.g. a knife inside a drawer). If a shot is taken of his part of the photo, he will automatically be bound to the new photo instead. Even if he ends up being the only feature in the photo, though, he can extend anything he possesses (usually threads of his clothing) out of the picture in order to move around.
Boy II Man (Ooyanagi Ken) The first of the Stands that Yoshihiro awoke to protect Kira, it looks like a knight in battered armor and a conical helmet. In order to activate its power, Ken must first beat a Stand User in a best-of-five jan-ken-pon (rock-paper-scissors) match. For each individual game that Ken wins, Boy II Man takes control of a third of the opponent's Stand's power. After three wins, Ken will then permanently take total control of that Stand. However, if his opponent wins three times, Boy II Man can never affect him/her again.
Earth, Wind, and Fire (Mikitaka) Mikitaka claims to be an alien and possess the ability to assume any physical form he desires. Although he can take a form vastly smaller than his normal mass, and can separate himself into several components in the process, it is not known if he can take on a much larger form. On the negative side, if exposed to a siren or similar sound, he suffers a painful rash until the sound stops. It was never revealed in the manga whether Mikitaka is a delusioned stand user activated by the arrow or truly an extra-terrestrial life-form (he gives his full name as Nu Mikitakaso Nishi).
Highway Star (Fungami Yuuya) A humanoid covered entirely in a diagonal criss-cross on a black field, with glass-like eyes. Both Highway Star and Fungami have a powerful sense of smell, almost as good as a dog's. Highway Star can dissociate into many footprint-shaped components, which can chase something at speeds of up to 60 kilometers per hour. When not dissociated, it can leach nutrients from another person and transfer them to Fungami's own body immediately (the victim's flesh turns transparent in the process). Finally, Highway Star can create illusions to draw in potential victims. Its powers were all created around Fungami's desperate desire to restore his body after a motorcycle accident.
Stray Cat (Erba Gatta) When the cat Erba Gatta was first shot by Yoshihiro, his Stand apparently did not awaken (possibly a heightened sense of awareness of danger, but that's it). However, when Erba was killed and buried, Stray Cat fully awoke and bound his soul into a plant, which rapidly grew and took on cat-like characteristics. In addition, when able to photosynthesize, Erba can create more oxygen than usual and bind it into near-solid projectiles--usually balls, but occasionally shackles. He normally only attacks those whom he thinks are trying to cause him harm.
Super Fly ("Kanedaichi Toyohiro"--his true name is never revealed) This Stand bound itself into Kanedaichi's rather unusual choice of a home--an abandoned telephone tower (he bought it some time ago, and has furnished it with an armchair, television, vegetable gardens, toilet, etc.). However, it backfired, perhaps because it was awakened by his dread of being among many people--he can't leave the tower anymore, unless he can trick someone else into stepping in, at which point Super Fly imprisons them instead (the current "prisoner", if trying to leave, is instead stopped by a sheet of bolted metal that conforms to their body). If any sort of attack strikes the tower's structure, Super Fly will either generate a perfect replica of that attack, aimed at the attacker (if a non-ranged attack), or let the projectile ricochet around its beams.
Enigma (Miyamoto Terunosuke) A jet-black humanoid with brocade on its body. Enigma can bind anything into a sheet of blank paper. Once the paper is unfolded, the object, up to then in stasis, re-emerges. If the paper is torn before unfolding, the object still comes out, but it will be shattered. In order to bind a human, Terunosuke must first find out the physical actions they unconsciously take when terrified (e.g. touching one's chin, closing an eye, biting one's lower lip). If they take that same action of fear again when Enigma is present, then it can bind them (the action is depicted as an M. C. Escher-like picture entwining pictures of Enigma and the victim).
Cheap Trick (Kinoto Masazo) In truth, Kinoto did not last long as the User of Cheap Trick (looking something like a large tree frog with vicious teeth and flat eyes). Whoever the User is will find Cheap Trick constantly murmuring commands to them. If they disobey, Cheap Trick will try to get them to let another person see their back, where Cheap Trick is anchored. When that happens (as when Rohan saw Kinoto's back), Cheap Trick will leap off, in the process ripping off the previous User's back and killing him. It will then anchor itself to the viewer's own back. Cheap Trick can choose who hears it. Usually, only the hapless User can, but it can make its voice audible to others, if it's trying to get someone to look at its User's back.
[edit] Part 5: Golden Wind
Gold Experience (Giorno Givoanna) A golden stand capable of generating live organisms from inorganic objects. In the beginning of Part 5, Giorno frequently produces small life forms (frogs, snakes, flies) and plants which he apparently has control over. Soon after, it was discovered that Golden Experience's ability can be applied to live individuals, causing their thought process to greatly accelerate. This was employed in battles to cause enemies to lose temporal coordination of their bodies (the quickened thought does not extend to letting the body properly handle such an influx of information). Later on, Giorno developed (or discovered) Golden Experience's ability to produce organic components of the body (e.g. transforming bullets stuck in someone's body into the very blood vessels and organs they destroyed)--evidently, these transformations are permanent. Giorno subsequently took up the healer role of the party.
Another form of Gold Experience is Gold Experiece Requiem(pictured). This new incarnation was created when Gold Experience was pierced by the arrow during Giorno's fight with Diavolo. Gold experience is somewhat of an anti-thesis to King Crimson in that it has the power to negate consequences. The stand stated itself in the series that before its influence, no process can reach completion, and performed actions/processes (such as a punch) will thus be forced to return to zero.
Sticky Fingers (Bruno Bucchiarati) A humanoid garbed with spiked pieces of blue leather, and adorned with zippers on its chest, wrists, and ankles. Sticky Fingers can generate zippers on any surface, creating an opening to whatever lies on the other side. If the zipper is created on a solid object, such as a stone pillar, the object becomes hollow as long as the zipper exists. Bucchiarati can even unzip a human body apart, and choose whether or not the circulatory system works properly (when he unzipped Zucchero's head off, he wasn't much worse, but when he unzipped his body apart to elude Pesci, he was at risk of his heart stopping. This may depend on how thoroughly the unzipped body is segmented).
Black Sabbath (Polpo) Black Sabbath and its projections look like humanoids with stiched-up eyes, and black garb like that of a Rennaissance-era Italian nobleman. Polpo has bound an Arrow to Black Sabbath as its tongue, and its power extends to the doubles. When testing a candidate for Passione for "reliability" (in reality, he wants to awaken their Stand), Polpo charges them to keep a cigarette lighter burning for twenty-four hours. Almost inevitably, the lighter will go out, and the candidate (or someone nearby) will reactivate it. In fact, when the flame died, Black Sabbath's double emerged into the nearest shadow. The relighting is the signal to "attack", which involves the double catching the soul of the nearest person (usually the candidate; because the double acts remotely, it has no idea who really relit the lighter, and so just assails everyone in the vicinity) and stabbing him/her with the Arrow. This either awakens the Stand if their spirit can handle the strain, or kills them. However, the doubles (and presumably the original Black Sabbath) cannot move away from shadow, and are destroyed if they are somehow forced to be in strong light.
Moody Blues (Leone Abbacchio) This Stand seems to be wearing a purple-and-blue jumpsuit, and has a cassette player and timer for a face. Moody Blues can take on the appearance of any person (except that the timer is still there) and perfectly imitate their actions and words for any fixed-duration period (usually five minutes) in the past. Once the playback begins, it can only be stopped by outside force. More importantly, Abbacchio can't have Moody Blues protect him until the playback stops. He can also give Moody Blues someone's appearance without having to perform a playback.
Soft Machine (Mario Zucchero) A gaunt Stand armed with a rapier. Anything pierced by the rapier "deflates" like an unstoppered beach ball, eventually becoming a flat, flexible object. It's possible to overlay a deflated object on a similar whole object, and be able to switch between the two (as when Zucchero deflated his own boat and overlaid it on Bucchiarati's). Because Soft Machine isn't very agile, Zucchero tries to confront living targets in a narrow space.
Sex Pistols (Guido Mista) There are actually six Sex Pistols (numbered 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7; because of a childhood incident, Mista associates the number 4 with general misfortune, much like the Japanese association of that number with death--they can both be pronounced "shi"), tiny sprites with teardrop-shaped heads, large teeth, gem-like eyes, and distinct personalities. They ride the bullets of Mista's revolver, and can kick at and away from the bullets to alter their course. Their personalities mean that they can act independently of Mista if he so chooses. This Stand was not awakened by Black Sabbath, but by Mista's determination to stop a street gang from raping a woman.
Kraftwerk (Sale) Another humanoid Stand, with head armor that makes its mouth look like a skull's grin, and one spike on each side of its head. Kraftwerk has perfect control over kinetic vectors. It can force an object to stick to a particular surface, or be motionless with respect to something, whether it be a road, a moving truck, or Sale himself. It can also make moving objects suddenly stop (e.g. stopping a bullet before it penetrates Sale's skull), and impart kinetic force to stopped objects (this being why Sale will sometimes make an object match his velocity perfectly, so he'll have weapons of his own).
Little Feat (Formaggio) A short humanoid whose entire head is somewhat skull-like, and has long, thin blades for index fingers. When Little Feat cuts someone with one of those blades, he and all the clothing he was wearing when cut will steadily shrink in size. Likewise, his Stand will lose power as size is lost. Formaggio can also use this ability on himself, and halt or undo the effect on any given person at will.
Aerosmith (Narancia Ghirga) This is a small propellor plane (its wingspan is the same length as both of Narancia's outstretched arms) with a face emblazoned on its nose. Aerosmith is armed with twin machine guns that, while powerful, have little accuracy, meaning that it must fire many rounds (and often do plenty of collateral damage) to do even moderate damage to a target. When moving far away from Narancia, it generates an eyepiece extension that displays its radar to him. Instead of sound, the radar detects carbon dioxide, usually exhaled by animals (the target included).
Man in the Mirror (Illuso) It appears to be wearing spiked biker's gear. Man in the Mirror creates an extradimensional space in a given area, using mirrored surfaces as the gates. Illuso has perfect control over who or what can enter the space--he can even exclude someone's Stand while Man in the Mirror is pulling him into the space. However, this exclusion property can backfire if he doesn't realize the true nature of what he's pulling in (e.g. he thought he was pulling Abbachio in, but it was really Moody Blues in Abbachio's guise).
Purple Haze (Fugo Panacotta) A humanoid with a violet-and-white diamond pattern skin and a glass-like gladiator's helmet. It also has three globes on each of its hands, each containing a powerful virus. The globes will break when it strikes something, or if its strike is not stopped properly (i.e. if the globe detaches from the stopped fist). Once this happens, the virus will spread and rapidly devour animal matter--a human body will be annihilated in about thirty seconds. However, the virus is constrained and slain by sunlight. Purple Haze is difficult for Fugo to control in even the best of situations, since it shares his hair-trigger temper (and mania for cleanliness; these two traits' conflation may explain the virus's nature).
Mr. President (Coco Jamboo) Mr. President can be thought of as replacing part of its user (a turtle)--namely, the topmost plate of its shell. Mr. President is in fact an extradimensional space that can comfortably contain 5-7 people, and is equipped with furniture, reading material, and even a refrigerator and television (which somehow receive power and broadcasts). In order to enter or exit Mr. President, a gem-like key must be placed in the opening in Coco Jamboo's shell.
Beach Boy (Pesci) This Stand takes the form of a fishing rod with a skull-shaped reel. The line can phase through any non-living thing, and sense living things in the immediate vicinity. The lure can also be affixed to a single place to await a victim. When a victim touches that area, Beach Boy will hook them, and begin burrowing into their body, usually aiming for the heart (Beach Boy is sensitive enough that Pesci can tell precisely where in the body the hook is). Any attack on the line is simply reflected back to the attacker.
Grateful Dead (Prosciutto) A massive humanoid torso with no head, neck, or legs. Instead, it trails wires from its "waist", and its entire surface is covered with evil eyes. The eyes exude a vapor that rapidly accelerates living beings' aging. However, the aging is staved off by cold, meaning that women (who have a somewhat lower body temperature on average than men) age less rapidly, and that one can completely avoid the effect by holding ice. The aging process accelerates even further if Grateful Dead actually makes physical contact with a victim. Prosciutto can choose whether he is affected; if so, his touch has the same effect as Grateful Dead, and will reverse his own aging.
Baby Face (Melone) Baby Face is bound to Melone's laptop computer--it manifests a slightly puffy, nearly featureless humanoid with the computer attached to its back. Melone can analyze a woman's history and nature to check for compatibility with a target, as long as he has a sample of the target's blood (in the case of his attack on Giorno's group, he sought a woman for whom attempts at romance with Bucciarati would be an unmitigated disaster). Once a suitable woman is found, he instills some of the blood on her nape and uses Baby Face's power to create a homonculus. The homonculus is not bound by distance, can act independently (and sometimes may disobey Melone's orders, depending on the kind of personality it received from the blood and the "mother"), and can reshape people or objects by dissociating them into tiny cubes, then reassembling them into a new form. This is not fatal unless the homonculus binds the cubes into itself (usually involving the homonculus dissociating the "mother" into its sustenance).
White Album (Ghiaccio) In its most basic form, it appears as a simple sheath of ice on Ghiaccio's body, but can "upgrade" into a suit of armor with ice skates on its feet. White Album can lower the surrounding area's temperature to almost absolute zero, although Ghiaccio probably doesn't have to go so far in most cases--it's enough to just freeze and imprison his foes. Also, White Album is impenetrable--attacks (e.g. bullets) just bounce off. The only weak point is a tiny air vent at the back of White Album's neck. No matter how cold White Album makes the surrounding area, the interior is always comfortably warm (and, therefore, so is Ghiaccio).
King Crimson (Diavolo/Vinegar Doppio) A light red humanoid whose face appears to have a smaller copy of itself in its forehead, perhaps to mirror Diavolo's psyche. King Crimson has the power to cause a time skip, where everything except itself and Diavolo is suddenly changed to be in the state they would have been a short time later (usually 3-10 seconds later). Time still flows normally for Diavolo, who can interact with the time-skipped objects for the amount of time that would have normally intervened (to Diavolo this appears in the form of the would-have-been intervening objects' states being superimposed on each other, in a fashion akin to Nude Descending a Staircase). The nature of the time skip is such that, for example, a bullet that would have hit Diavolo will suddenly be shifted to be on his other side.
Clash (Squalo) Appropriately for the User's name (Italian for "shark"), Clash's form is a metal-plated shark with three eyes. Clash can teleport between any kinds of fluid bodies sufficiently close to each other and still fit, even if the fluid body is no bigger than a wine goblet (the largest it's been known to get is that of a real-life shark). If large enough, Clash can attack and grab someone, drag them into the fluid, and take them on its teleporting trips, even to the wine-goblet-sized liquids.
Talking Head (Tizziano) Talking Head resembles a small mask with four tendrils, whose entire underside is studded with octopus-style suckers. To take effect, Talking Head must latch onto the victim's tongue. While Talking Head is attached, the victim is rendered incapable of telling the truth, whether speaking, writing, or gesticulating. The drawback is that if the victim realizes this, he can will himself to (try to) speak about something, in a situation where Tizziano would expect him to speak of something else entirely, thus rendering him and Squalo off-guard (i.e. the "lie" isn't about what Squalo and Tizziano think it is).
Notorious B.I.G. (Carne) At first, it appears to be a humanoid with striped armor and a comma-shaped flare on the right side of its head. This is really its dormant state, however, and is truly activated when the User is killed. Empowered by the User's contempt and indignation over the death, Notorious B.I.G. can possess and manipulate most matter (e.g. possessing Giorno's arm to write out "warnings" of its approach). At first, it will be an amorphous blob of dead matter, but will later develop the helmet and hand armor of the dormant phase. Since the User is dead, Notorious B.I.G. cannot die either, not so long as it has matter to possess--in fact, it can continue accruing solid matter as long as it wants. However, since it has no User, it reacts entirely by instinct, lashing out at any sudden movement (whether the movement belongs to a target or not). Since Secco and Cioccolatta knew about how Notorious B.I.G. acted, it is possible that Carne was not the original User, and B.I.G. can adopt a new user under specific circumstances.
Spice Girl (Trish Una) Spice Girl is a female-form humanoid whose body and garb are decorated with arithmetic signs. Its touch can render an object infinitely elastic--no matter how hard it is hit, the object will simply bend, not break. With repeated strikes, Spice Girl can also cleanly break an object in two.
Metallica (Risotto Nero) Metallica appears in the form of hundreds of tiny bodies, each resembling a small metal strip with vestigial arms, one or two scars, and featureless faces. Metallica is normally bound to Nero's blood, from which it can project magnetic auras. These auras allow Nero to reshape blood into any form by manipulation of the iron in hemoglobin. More specifically, he can manifest such sharp and deadly objects as razor blades, nails, and scissors directly inside his foe (apparently from memory, since the razor blades come with brand label etchings), and manipulate his own blood to create iron stitchings for any wounds he receives. One of Metallica's most dangerous qualities is that even if its target isn't killed by being slashed and pierced by the created objects, the immense iron deficit created in the victim's blood will probably be fatal in and of itself.
Green Day (Cioccolata) Green Day is a dark green humanoid that exudes spores from its head and hands. Once the spores latch onto a living thing, they will germinate if they ever experience lower altitude (e.g. if an infected arm is lowered), in a manner that is the reverse of certain insect-infecting fungi (which compel the host to fly as high as possible). Once this happens, they turn into a flesh-devouring mold that seems to be almost as rapid as Purple Haze's virus. Although Green Day must stay near Cioccolatta, the spores can be scattered over an area about the size of a village and still be able to kill. Cioccolatta can use the spores on himself in such a way that he is not eaten, but rather so that the spores can block off cut areas' blood flow and prevent death from blood loss.
Oasis (Secco) Oasis resembles a crudely-stitched leather bodysuit that Secco always wears. It allows Secco to alter the tensile strength of solids that he touches at will. His usual routine is to swim through stone with Oasis's help, and pull down targets who have been infected wtih Green Day's spores (thus ensuring their germination). He can make the "liquified" stone act just like its normal solid self at will to protect himself from attacks, as well. Oasis also seems to grant Secco superhuman accuracy, much like Star Platinum and The World.
[edit] Part 6: Stone Ocean
[edit] Footnotes
- Name from the Capcom fighting game.
- Name from the JoJo6251 art book.
- Name from the stand database in the JOJO A-GO!GO! art book.
- This name was used in the weekly issued manga, the tankōbon release used the other name.
- Name when first presented.
| JoJo's Bizarre Adventure by Hirohiko Araki | |
|---|---|
| Jojo universe | |
| Series: | Phantom Blood | Battle Tendency | Stardust Crusaders | Diamond is Unbreakable | Golden Wind | Stone Ocean | STEEL BALL RUN |
| Jojos: | Jonathan Joestar | Joseph Joestar | Jotaro Kujo | Josuke Higashikata | Giorno Giovanna | Jolyne Kujo | Johnny Joestar |
| Antagonists: | Dio Brando | Pillar Men | Kira Yoshikage | Diavolo | Enrico Pucci |
| Characters: | Minor Characters of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure |
| Miscellaneous: | Videogames | Muda (battle cry) | Stands | Manga chapters | Items | Timeline | Deaths |
