Pillar Men
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The Pillar Men are four powerful humanoids that serve as the main antagonists for the second series of the manga JoJo's Bizarre Adventure.
The Pillar Men came from an ancient race of humans that had extraordinary strength, intelligence and lifespan. This race once ruled the Earth, living at the top of the food chain and consuming ordinary humans. But the race followed a "rule of evolution": the "higher" it "evolved", the fewer its population became.
After a great war, only the four greatest of this race survived. Hoping to overcome their weakness to the sun's rays, the four invented the stone masks, which can bring out humans' full potential through acupuncture. However they found that although the mask worked on ordinary humans (and would turn them into vampires), its stimulation was too weak for powerful creatures like them. They needed to combine the stone mask with the Red Stone of Asia to achieve their goal of evolving into "ultimate lifeforms". Unable to find the Red Stone of Asia, they transformed into stone pillars 2000 years ago and went into hibernation.
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[edit] Santana
Santana (サンタナ Santana?) is, like his brethren, violent and aloof. He is discovered in a Mexican pyramid in 1938. He is then awakened and studied by a Nazi vampire study team in an underground base. The team, led by Major Stroheim, conducts live human experiments with the stone mask to try to strengthen the Nazi Army. The team awakens Santana in an advanced isolation room fortified with steel plates, and conduct behavioral experiments on him. They soon find that Santana feeds on vampires and is able to absorb food from the surface of his body. The team then is shocked by Santana's escape from the isolation room. Santana breaks many of his own bones in order to squeeze himself into the 4-by-20 cm ventilation outlet of the room, and does all this at a speed faster than human eyes can perceive. The team shoots Santana with machine guns, only to find that Santana has learned their language and the mechanisms of their weapons from only minutes of contact.
He then easily disposes of the Nazis who disturbed his sleep, and even manages to stay alive after being attacked, exposed to sunlight, and blown up. He is named after the long-lived rock group Santana. He is the only member of the Pillar Men to survive, and is theoretically still alive throughout all of the arcs. However, due to his vastly-improved Ripple power, it is possible that Joseph killed him after returning to America.
[edit] AC/DC
AC/DC, Wham and Cars are superiors of Santana. They were discovered by Nazis in Rome.
AC/DC (エシディシ Eshidishi?) uses "the skill of fire". He raises his body temperature in order to heat his blood to 500ºC. He then extends his blood vessels out of his body and makes them into long, prehensile needles with which he injects his hot blood into enemies, dissolving them from within. Even if the blood isn't injected directly, it can still eat through flesh and metal alike if sprayed on a target from the outside.
AC/DC has been shown to have an extremely erratic temper, sobbing at the sight of his own severed arm, only to calm himself near-instantly and replace it with the arm of Loggins. He himself stated that he has a more explosive temper than either of his brethren, and claims to openly express any rage or sorrow he feels so he doesn't lose his self-control. AC/DC had traveled to ancient China and knew Sun Tzu's theory that "all warfare is based on deception". In his battle with Joseph Joestar, he tries to intimidate him by disabling Joseph's deceptive tactics. AC/DC cuts the hidden rope through which Joseph plans to send "ripple" energy to hurt him. Nevertheless, he falls for Joseph's more sophisticated deception, for Joseph has predicted his action and employed the cut-and-restore rope trick on the rope.
His bones and muscles are destroyed, but his brain and blood vessels possess Suzi Q, who takes the Red Stone of Asia and sends it to Cars in Switzerland. AC/DC then prepares to turn Suzi Q into a "blood bomb", planning on pressurizing his boiling blood until her body bursts, killing himself and Joseph's group in the process. Joseph and Caesar attack Suzi Q at the same time. While their ripples cancel each other out and keep Suzi Q unharmed, AC/DC is destroyed.
He is named after Australian Hard Rock band AC/DC.
[edit] Wham
Wham (ワムウ Wamū?) is introduced as a servant to both AC/DC and Cars. He is a very strong and honorable warrior who possess the power of the wind, and also reflexively attacks anyone who steps on his shadow. If he goes blind, he can grow a horn on his forehead and sense soundwaves with it. He can also draw air into his body and blast it through the tip of the horn, creating a highly-destructive "wind scalpel". He is also extremely honorable, stopping himself from defeating a defenseless Joseph Joestar when he said that with a month to train he could beat Wham.
Later on, he engaged in battle with Caesar Anthonio Zeppeli and killed him, but not before he managed to rip off Wham's lip piercing containing the poison within Joseph. In another display of honor, Wham allowed the antidote to stay where Joseph could get it out of respect for Caesar's valiant effort. Later challenging Wham to battle to avenge Caesar, they engaged in a deadly Roman chariot race, with Wham initially getting the upper hand. After Joseph managed to counter Wham's wind scalpel, he was left as nothing more than a head with the Ripple energy slowly killing him. After Joseph gave Wham some of his own blood to ease his pain, he used the last of is strength to destroy a group of vampires that attempted to kill Joseph. Wham then vanished in a gust of wind, with Joseph giving an unconscious salute to him.
He is named after the 80's duo featuring George Michael, Wham!.
[edit] Cars
Cars (カーズ Kāzu?) is the leader of the Pillar Men. He is intelligent, ruthless, and singleminded in his dedication to obtaining the Red Stone of Asia. Strangely, despite his apathy towards humans and willingness to kill them, he has been shown to be more compassionate for other living beings. In Switzerland, he sliced a car that was about to hit a puppy in half, and later on maneuvered himself during a long fall to miss a patch of flowers near the bottom of the cliff. Cars' power is that of light - he is able to produce bladed appendages from his arms and use these to reflect blinding light toward his enemies. He also has the same powers over his body that all the Pillar Men share. When he gains the power of the stone mask, he becomes invulnerable to sunlight, and also gains some abilities on a genetic level - he can produce living creatures and control them, and can mutate his body into various forms. He outlasts his comrades and eventually does gain almost unlimited power as the ultimate "evolved" man through the Red Stone of Asia and a stone mask. In a final confrontation, he succeeds in severing Joseph's hand but is eventually blown into space by a volcanic eruption as well as an ultimate Ripple attack from Joseph. Being immortal, he does not die; however he is unable to return to Earth after being thrown out of orbit. Trapped in the void of space for eternity, he eventually stops thinking and desires death.
He is named after the 80's new wave group The Cars.
| Preceded by Dio Brando |
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Main Antagonist |
Succeeded by Dio Brando |
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