History Characters / JojosBizarreAdventureBattleTendency

* WorldsStrongestWoman: Subverted. A master of Hamon with at least 30+ years worth of training, Lisa Lisa is the strongest non-stand using woman in the entire series. She's also the strongest Hamon user in the series [[spoiler: that is, until she is surpassed by [[PhysicalGod Kars]]after obtaining the Red Stone.]]

* WorldsStrongestWoman: A master of Hamon with at least 30+ years worth of training, Lisa Lisa is the strongest non-stand using woman in the entire series. She's also the strongest Hamon user in the series.

** While Speedwagon was only antagonistic to Jonathan for a moment and became friends with him right away for sparing his life, Caesar and Joseph don't get along right away but slowly develop into friends over training. In addition to that, Speedwagon is extremely emotional but also determined, whereas Caesar prefers to act calm but in reality is very reckless and impulsive. There's also the fact that Speedwagon [[BadassNormal never learned Hamon]] and lived a happy life, whereas Caesar knew it [[spoiler:and met his end in battle]].

* BadassNormal: He didn't learn how to use Hamon, but from what little we know about him, he was the Allies' answer to the Red Baron. [[spoiler:Sadly, his lack of Hamon training led to his death when he discovered the zombie officer.]]

* WorldsStrongestWoman: A master of Hamon with at least 30+ years worth of training, Lisa Lisa is the strongest woman in the entire series.

* AnyoneCanDie: [[spoiler:Runs in the family; he's killed in a combination of being fatally wounded by Wamuu's Holy Sandstorm, before being completely crushed underneath a section of stone ceiling just as he finishes using the last of his Hamon to help Joseph.]]

* BubbleGun: His signature technique uses soapy water to create swarms of Hamon-infused bubbles [[AttackDrone which he can control remotely]].

* CulturedBadass: A [[TheCasanova suave ladykiller]] and more polite than Joseph.
** Inverted; he's actually more of a {{Delinquent}} than Joseph is, he just hides it well.

* {{Delinquent}}: Despite his introduction as TheCasanova, he's actually even more of a delinquent than Joseph was, especially in his flashback. He hides it extremely well.

* HotBlooded: From the start, he has a temper, but he initally hides it better than Joseph. [[spoiler:Ends up being a FatalFlaw, though, as it gets him killed.]]

* ImprobableWeaponUser: Bubbles!

* SacrificialLion: It's a genetic trait; just ask Grandpa William.

* ATragedyOfImpulsiveness: As ''Eyes Of Heaven'' cements, [[spoiler:the disagreement between Joseph and Caesar with the latter rushing off to fight Wamuu was ultimately due to both Joseph and Caesar and saying things neither party meant, and ultimately leads to Ceasar to what would be his untimely death.]] Old Joseph comments on this, and is able to deescalate the situation both parties contributed towards.

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Caesar has four siblings that are never mentioned again once the part had concluded.

* BadassInDistress: [[spoiler:Due to Kars' cunning, Joseph has to rescue his Hamon master.]]
* BigGood: Of Part 2, though she is more of an anti-heroic example. She leads the heroes to counter Kars and the Pillar Men.

* CoolShades: Wears them when things get serious.
* CrazyPrepared: Her scarf isn't just an accessory, it's a life sensing tool and a way to channel Hamon to both assist her movements and give her further reach. [[spoiler:Not that it helps her when her guard is down...]]

* GoingCommando: In the anime, there's a scene of her stripping off her dress before taking a bubble bath. It turns out that she wasn't wearing ''any'' undergarments whatsoever.

* InformedAbility: Downplayed. Lisa Lisa is stated to be much better at Hamon than Joseph or Caesar, but never really gets an opportunity to show this off outside dealing with a few mooks. [[spoiler:Not helping things is that her anticipated fight against Kars is muddied by Kars deceiving both Lisa Lisa and Jojo by using a body double.]]

* MsFanservice: She is portrayed in a rather sexualized way, getting several shots of her naked backside in the anime.

* RepetitiveName: Making it AlliterativeName also.

* StrongAndSkilled: As a renown Master of Hamon, Lisa Lisa is both much stronger and much more adapt at using Hamon than Caesar and Joseph, even after their training. [[spoiler:Her loss was only due to Kars blind sighting both her ''and'' Joseph after putting up a facade of honor before their match.]]

* HalfTheManHeUsedToBe: Eh, they put him back together again.
* HeroicSacrifice: Attempts this to kill Santana, [[WeCanRebuildHim but he got better]].

* AdaptationExpansion: Not much, but in the anime of ''Stardust Crusaders'' (which is set almost 50 years later), he briefly appears on the cover of a magazine, which shows that he became the mayor of New York City.

* CoDragons: With Esidisi to Kars, though Esidisi has more authority than Wamuu due to the fact that Kars and Esidisi raised him as an infant.

* VillainForgotToLevelGrind: When Esidisi, Wamuu and Kars appear, it's clear that Joseph and Caesar have no real chance to even hope to challenge them, Joseph gets one good hit on Wamuu and tricks him to get him away from Speedwagon and Caesar, but is otherwise at the Pillar Man's mercy. After a month however, Joseph is both strong and tricky enough to defeat Esidisi, and Caesar is strong enough to pose a legitimate threat to Wamuu, while the Pillar Men have spent that month looking for the Red Stone of Aja during that time.

* PatrioticFerver: He has much love for his country, despite the fact that the Nazi party and the Holocaust were happening at this same time.

* BigDamnHeroes: While being quite ineffectual at dealing with the Pillar Men by himself, Stroheim does come to Joseph's aid in the nick of time, saving him in once (twice if you include the anime) through the story.

* AdaptationRelationshipOverhaul: Downplayed. In the English dub, Stroheim seems to put a lot of faith into Joseph [[spoiler:during the final confrontation with Joseph]], explicitly stating he'd do anything Jojo asked of him, giving the impression they had bonded so much Joseph had earned his undying loyalty. Though in the end, their relationship never gets to being anything more than an EnemyMine.

An officer experimenting upon the Pillar Men and vampires in Mexico to explore their potential as weapons of the German army. He is named after Austrian-American movie director [[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erich_von_Stroheim Erich von Stroheim]].

* BigDamnHeroes: While being quite ineffectual at dealing with the Pillar Men by himself, Stroheim does come to Joseph's aid in the nick of time, saving him in several occasions through the story.

* StupidJetpackHitler: '''''"GERMAN SCIENCE IS THE GREATEST IN THE WORLD!!!"'''''

* ALighterShadeOfBlack: Compared to Dio, or really, ANY other vampire in the series, Straizo only kills sparingly rather than attempting to create a zombie army or even take over the city/the world. He kills his students and betrays Speedwagon, but when he's lost some blood thanks to Joseph, he moves to take a woman hostage and threaten her with a very minor wound in comparison (removing her tooth) in order to get Joseph to come to him rather than take her blood to heal himself, or attempt to attack anyone else to eat/convert them. While still vile, this is all rather minor compared to Dio's heinous actions.

* BlatantLies: Despite declaring he didn't choose to [[spoiler:not destroy Caesar's Hamon bubble containing his scarf and Wamuu's poison ring]] out of sentimentality, ''his very next lines'' [[spoiler:as he reflects about Caesar's actions and character as a WorthyOpponent]] while walking away do nothing but ''scream'' him getting sentimental over it.

* HotBlooded: Very much so later on. [[spoiler:Ends up being a FatalFlaw, though, as it gets him killed.]]

* WorfHadTheFlu: [[spoiler:Kars effortlessly beats Lisa Lisa by virtue of completely blind sighting her with a body double to take his place, having been lulled into a false sense of security by his seeming willingness to honor the clash between Wamuu and Joseph without stepping in or attacking her when he had the chance during the former two's fight. Joseph calls him out on it, but Kars defends the action by saying he'd do whatever it takes to win.]]

* AntiHero: He's an unrepentant German offer that is part of the Nazi party, but he puts his campaign on hold and works together with the heroes after Santana proves to be too much for him to handle.
* AntiVillain: He teeters the line between this and AntiHero quite a lot, however his main motivation in fighting the Pillar Men is not to save the world, but to solidify his country's superiority.

* EqualOpportunityEvil: He doesn't really have the fanatical hatred of foreigners the Nazis are known for (he doesn't hate the Joestars for being British, for example). All he cares about is how brave you are and how much ass you can kick and/or fold five ways to Sunday.

* FireForgedFriends: Fighting against a NighInvulnerable vampire god is a great way to learn how to get along with other people your philosophy teaches you to hate. It helps that both Stroheim and Joseph saw great courage in each other.

* HeelFaceTurn: While he's a Nazi through and through, he begrudgingly joins forces with the English Joseph to take down the Pillar Men.

* NobleBigot: Averted. He might be a Nazi, but he doesn't care what race you are if you're brave. The fact that he seems to identify himself as a German (a nationality), rather than as a Nazi (an ideology), may have something to do with it.
* NobleDemon: Despite being a fanatical Nazi officer, he seems to lack the hate of foreigners common among Nazis (the reason may be, that according to the Nazis, the British were not deemed an "inferior race"). And also realizes that destroying the Pillar Men takes far higher priority than trying to use them as soldiers after what happened in Mexico. He seems to see himself as a German first and foremost, and is not particularly focused on the Nazi ideology.

* PoliticallyIncorrectHero: Well, ''he's a Nazi''. While he doesn't really have the same overtly racist views as most did, he still acts like Germany is superior to the other nations, and uses that as the reason for his actions when first introduced.

* TokenEvilTeammate: To an extent. He's a NobleDemon, but he is ''also'' a proud German officer during [[UsefulNotes/NaziGermany 1930s-era Germany]], meaning he's a member of the Nazi party (and with a tag on his collar, possibly the [[StateSec SS]]). Although he is introduced doing some cruel and evil actions, once it becomes clear that the Pillar Men are a truly dangerous threat, he becomes an ally of the heroes from then on.

%% * NiceGuy: According to Caesar.
%%* RedShirt

* NotTooDeadToSaveTheDay: [[spoiler:Caesar's headband, which he leaves as a TragicKeepsake for Joseph, ends up being vital in Joseph's victory over Wamuu.]]

* ForTheEvulz: Whereas Wamuu placed his death ring on Joseph in order to make sure he wouldn't back out on their promised battle time, Esidisi only places a death ring on Joseph afterwards because he just wanted to make things even more tough for Joseph for no real reason.

* ATragedyOfImpulsiveness: As ''Eyes Of Heaven'' cements, [[spoiler:the disagreement and Caesar rushing off to fight Wamuu was ultimately due to both Joseph and Caesar and saying things neither party meant, and ultimately leads to Ceasar to what would be his untimely death.]] Old Joseph comments on this, and is able to deescalate the situation young Joseph contributed towards.]]

* WalkingShirtlessScene: Wears nothing more than a thong, which is far less than his [[{{Stripperific}} slightly more dressed allies]] have.

* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Is her full name spelled "Elisabeth" or "Elizabeth"?

* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Pretty much every possible spelling of Suzi is out there. Once (In the Duwang scans of Part 4) even translated as "Sigi".

* SpellMyNameWithAnS: In the manga continuity, he's named George II after his grandfather. The light novel starring him as the main character, however, is titled "Jorge Joestar" with the in-universe justification that he was born in Spain's Canary Islands and therefore used the Spanish spelling, thus also literally making him a ''[=JoJo=]''.

* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Kars, Esidisi, and Wamuu are consistently used as the official spellings of their names, but The Cars, [=AC/DC=], and Wham! were ([[Music/TheCars the bands]] [[{{Music/ACDC}} that their]] [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wham! names reference]]). Santana's name tends to be spelled consistently unless he receives a DubNameChange for copyright reasons.

* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Wamuu is the official spelling -- the katakana used by his name in Japanese actually differ from those used by the band name -- but various unofficial translations have also produced Waam, Wham and Whammu.

* MookHorrorShow: Santviento is seen eating a person affected by the Stone Mask in a rather disgusting way, [[BodyHorror to say the least]], literally gets into a soldier, bursts open, then shoots every Nazi soldier with JUST HIS FINGERS. [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Characters/WolfensteinBJBlazkowicz Blazkowicz]] would be proud of him.
* NoNameGiven: His name was made up by Stroheim. However, Kars later refers to him as Santana, [[{{Namedar}} so maybe Stroheim happened upon the right name.]]
** More likely, though, Kars heard it from when Joseph mentions him back in their first encounter.

* ATragedyOfImpulsiveness: As ''Eyes Of Heaven'' cements, [[spoiler:the disagreement and Caesar rushing off to fight Wamuu was ultimately due to both Joseph and Caesar and saying things neither party didn't mean, and ultimately leads to Ceasar to what would be his untimely death.]] Old Joseph comments on this, and is able to deescalate the situation young Joseph contributed towards.]]

* TheWorfEffect: [[spoiler:She is defeated and nearly killed by Kars to show how much more cunning and dangerous a villain he is, despite not being as mighty a warrior as Wamuu had been]]. To her credit, this only happens once, and it's lessened by the fact that she has been shown to be able to dispatch vampires easily before.

* ThouShaltNotKill: As a street thug, he committed all sorts of crimes, but stopped short of murder.

* VitriolicBestFriends: While he and Joseph are borderline inseperable, that doesn't stop them from being at each other's throats half the time.

* AmbiguouslyBi: Caesar's EstablishingCharacterMoment shows him to be quite the lothario around women, but at one point Messina cheekily teases him for his affection towards Joseph, jokingly describing him as having fallen harder in love with Joseph than any of the various women he's been with (comparing him to a SmittenTeenageGirl in the Japanese no less). Caesar for his part does not deny the accusation. That the first thing he does upon reuniting with Joseph is a stock {{Tsundere}} reaction, also doesn't help his case. His CharacterSignatureSong also has lyrics of him speaking about his love for someone who is implied to be Joseph.

* OurVampiresAreDifferent: Subverted. While the Stone Mask-augmented Pillar Men have vampiric traits such as being LifeDrinkers and being weak to sunlight and Hamon, they're never officially referred to as vampires (in fact, they ''eat'' vampires) and show a few noticeable differences. Not only does sunlight merely turn them to stone, but their consumption of other beings seems to be inherent, as normal Pillar Men bore fangs and claws while showing no sign of bloodlust or ferocity.