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Character subpage for Jean-Pierre Polnareff, the tritagonist of Stardust Crusaders and a supporting character later in the series.

Beware of spoilers.

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Jean-Pierre Polnareff (Stand: Silver Chariot)

Voiced by: Fuminori Komatsu (TV anime, Eyes of Heaven, Last Survivor, and All-Star Battle R), Hiroaki Hirata (All-Star Battle), Ken Yamaguchi (CD drama), Katsuji Mori (OVA), Tsutomu Tareki (Heritage for the Future video game), Akira Negishi (Vento Aureo video game), Mark Atherlay (OVA English), Doug Erholtz (TV anime) (English)
Child Polnareff voiced by: Ayumi Fujimura (TV anime) (Japanese), Erica Mendez (TV anime) (English)

"Sherry... Avdol... I suppose you're giving me what I deserved. It's only fitting."

"My name is Jean-Pierre Polnareff. On the honor of my dear sister's soul, and so that my good friend may rest in peace... I'm going to hurl you into the depths of despair! Prepare yourself!"

A Stand user hailing from France, and a victim to DIO's mind-controlling flesh buds. Once he is freed by Jotaro and company, he becomes a member of the Joestar Group, in the hopes of finding J. Geil, the man who raped and murdered his sister in cold blood. Hot-headed, impulsive, and a bit dim, Polnareff is more often than not on the receiving end of the current enemy's Stand and foreign toilets. Nevertheless, his sheer determination and effectiveness in battle make him a valuable addition to the Joestar Group, whether the rest of his teammates admit it or not. He is named after French singer Michel Polnareff.

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Tropes from Stardust Crusaders

• Achievements in Ignorance: He knocked Kakyoin out prior to the battle with Death Thirteen, which allowed Kakyoin to bring his Stand to the dream and rescue everyone.
• Adaptational Villainy: In the OVA, Polnareff is apparently so consumed by vengeance, he joined DIO of his own free will instead of being brainwashed, all so he could have a chance to kill his sister's murderer. He still makes a Heel–Face Turn, though; putting two and two together that if DIO knows exactly where to find J. Geil in return for his service, then the killer must also be on DIO's payroll.
• Agony of the Feet: When fighting Vanilla Ice, Cream manifests under his foot, and shaves off part of it; he's left bleeding and limping for the rest of the fight.
• Alliterative Name: Two-thirds of it anyway; Jean-Pierre Polnareff.
• Anime Hair: A column of it, an unusual mixture of flat top and mullet. Also the inspiration for Benimaru from The King of Fighters and Guile from Street Fighter.
• Anti-Villain: The Villain in Name Only variant just like Kakyoin, though also of the Noble Villain variety when brainwashed due to his chivalry and nobility.
• Arch-Enemy: Becomes this to Enya after he kills her son, but given what he was, and what she is, it's hard to feel that Polnareff was in the wrong. Polnareff's personal archenemy is the aforementioned J. Geil, who killed his sister.
• Beware the Silly Ones: Oddly enough, the Butt-Monkey of the Joestar Group is the one most willing to actively murder his opponents. And has done so in brutal fashion, as Devo, J. Geil, and Vanilla Ice can attest to.
• Big Brother Instinct: He cares very much for Sherry, especially after her life was cruelly cut short, and getting his revenge for her death was his primary motivation until J. Geil's death. Even after avenging her, he jumps at the opportunity to bring her back and cannot bring himself to (initially) fight against a copy of her that's trying to eat his flesh.
• The Big Guy: A very bizarre example of the trope: he's the team's most muscular member (despite being slightly shorter than Avdol, Joseph and Jotaro), and his Stand is the most physical one in terms of fighting ability, but Silver Chariot's actually a Fragile Speedster; still, he fulfills this spot on the team.
• Borrowed Catchphrase: When the submarine attacked by High Priestess crashes into the seafloor he screams Joseph's famous "OH MY GOD!!!". Considering Joseph was knocked out somebody had to scream it. Also, during the time he's turned to a kid, he also yelled in English, "OH NO!!!", another of Joseph's phrases.
• Brainwashed and Crazy: DIO's second mind slave, though he did a much better job fighting back than Kakyoin, given that he resisted the DIO compulsion to Kick the Dog.
• Bruiser with a Soft Center: Though he's by no means a straight-up Nice Guy (he is far too crass, vulgar and perverted for that), Polnareff is nevertheless a big-old warm, kind and sentimental softie who wears his heart on his sleeves, expresses all emotions with 120% honesty, and is the member of the Joestar Group most prone to Manly Tears as a result.
• …But He Sounds Handsome: When fighting Vanilla Ice, one of his three options is worded as "The Handsome Polnareff will devise the perfect counterattack just in the nick of time."
• Butt-Monkey: The first comedic example in the series, often being the butt of many jokes and being the first to get victimized by an enemy's Stand.
• Casanova Wannabe: It's only shown occasionally though.
• Captain Obvious: If Joseph isn't the one taking on this role, Polnareff does it. Kakyoin especially hates it, and calls that habit out constantly.
• Cheese-Eating Surrender Monkeys: While under the influence of one of DIO's flesh buds, he has the personality of one, inserting Gratuitous French into his sentences and making some rather foul plays. Once the flesh bud is removed, however, it's completely averted, as his French heritage is rarely commented on, and him being Hot-Blooded leaves him with massive determination.
• The Chew Toy: If any member of the team ends up in a horrible situation, it's usually Polnareff. Iggy attacks him more than anyone else in the group, constantly ripping out his hair and farting in his face.
• Chivalrous Pervert: While he (in Joseph's words) "thinks with his dick", he's rarely disrespectful towards women; this character trait also tends to be downplayed since Part 3 focuses more on fighting than the rest.
• Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: Polnareff isn't exactly the brightest member of Team Joestar, but whenever danger is present, he can be quite a formidable fighter. The way he's presented in-story is something of an inversion; he's introduced as a threatening enemy stand user with a code of honor and only after his flesh bud is removed and he joins the heroes do we see his buffoonish side.
• Cruel and Unusual Death: Is an expert at delivering these, from slicing your Stand to pieces and thus making your body look like it's been thrown into a wood chipper, to impaling your head on a spiked fence, to cutting your head directly in half.
• Death Seeker: He admits that he didn't care if he died killing J. Geil, but thanks to Avdol and Kakyoin, Polnareff learns to fight to live.
• Defeat Means Friendship: In the OVA, he wasn't even possessed by one of DIO's buds.
• Designated Victim: Part of the reason that Polnareff gets so much screentime in Part 3 is his habit of blundering into trouble and being saved by the others.
• Deuteragonist: Of Stardust Crusaders, receiving the most character development as well as a similar number of fights to Jotaro. He also has multiple character arcs, each with their own payoff — killing J. Geil to avenge his sister, grieving over Avdol seemingly sacrificing himself to save his life and his sister's death, avenging both Avdol and Iggy by killing Vanilla Ice, and paying DIO back for taking over his mind.
• Dub Name Change: The English version of All-Star Battle renames him "Jean-Pierre Eiffel" (possibly a reference to Eiffel 65), a strange case as previous English-licensed JoJo works used "Polnareff" just fine. It's even more confusing when Eyes of Heaven has "Polnareff" removed from his name altogether, making him just Jean-Pierre. It's fortunately averted in the Crunchyroll subs and the dub of Part 3, and All-Star Battle R finally adds "Polnareff" back to his name.
• Emotional Bruiser: He's very in touch of his emotions, so much so that he dedicated his fight over his emotions of vengeance over the death of his sister (though he got better and replaced it with fighting for his friends later), and is very Hot-Blooded with occasionally dumb or perverted moments. The bruiser part is more highlighted in how he's one of the close range/physical-oriented fighters of the group. And most of the time, he's the supplier of Manly Tears of the team.
• Everyone Looks Sexier if French: He is French, and he is a pretty boy.
• Expy: Let's see. A skilled fencer, on a quest for revenge for a murdered family member, with the murderer responsible having a deformed left hand. Where has this story been heard before?
• Face Death with Dignity: After failing to escape from Vanilla Ice's spiral attack, Polnareff accepts that "reality isn't that nice", bids farewell to Iggy, and tells him to flee; but then, Iggy uses his remaining strength to save Polnareff.
• Fashionable Asymmetry: His top only has one shoulder strap.
• Fingore: When fighting Vanilla Ice, Cream disintegrates two of Silver Chariot's fingers causing two of Polnareff's to be sliced off. Though after the fight the wound comes and goes, sometimes Polnareff has them and sometimes he doesn't. When he reappears in Part 5, he has a prosthetic pinkie but his ring finger is fine. In the flashbacks however his hand is completely intact and he only loses the finger to Diavolo.
• Foil:
  • To both Avdol and Kakyoin, and for roughly the same reason: they're the calm strategists, while Polnareff always goes headfirst into combat.
  • To Jotaro as well. While both can be hot-blooded and impulsive, Polnareff is far more goofy and tends to be a Casanova Wannabe who tends to flirt with women as opposed to Jotaro would would rudely rebuff them.
• Famous-Named Foreigner: He and his sister are the only French characters in the series and only ones to have a French namesake.
• Forgotten Phlebotinum: His Stand lost its high defense after he was freed from DIO's services, even with the armor intact.
• Forgot About His Powers: His Stand never again moves so fast that it leaves afterimages following his fight with Avdol.
• French Jerk: He is French, and comes off as arrogant, confrontational and can be rather impulsive.
• Good Is Dumb: Everyone in the group except him knew that Avdol survived getting shot by Hol Horse specifically for this reason; they all agreed that he's not good at keeping a secret. He has had moments of brilliance in more than one fight, but it's generally buried by his bullheadedness everywhere else.
• Good Is Not Soft: Despite being The Heart of the group, Polnareff has no problem inflicting lethal damage on any Stand users that come for him and his friends. Justified, in that Silver Chariot's abilities require him to use a lethal sword, and he is fighting for his life against assassins.
• Gratuitous French: He is French. While in the Japanese version he didn't insert those phrases willy-nilly in Japanese language, though he does say a few words here or there, in the dub, he inserts some French phrases at times (e.g: "Merci", calling Iggy a p'tit con, or describing himself with "je ne sais quois").
• The Heart: Polnareff is very much the emotional core of the group, being the most light hearted, jovial, and most likely to weep openly.
• Heroic Build: He is very buff, even more so than his teammates.
• Hero of Another Story: He's been going on Stand-related adventures alone since well before meeting DIO, and would continue to do so for years after the end of Part 3.
• Heterosexual Life-Partners: If anyone in the Joestar Group is closest to Jotaro (bar Joseph, his grandfather), it's him, especially during the Egypt arc when they wind up paired against the likes of Anubis, Alessi, and DIO himself, each of which only reaffirms how deeply they respect one another.
• He Who Fights Monsters: Starts out as this in the OVA, as part of his early Adaptational Villainy. There, he joins DIO of his own free will without any form of brainwashing, on the promise that the vampire will help him track down and kill the two-right-handed man responsible for murdering his sister. Polnareff eventually snaps out of it after saving the Joestar group from Forever; out of both gratitude for sparing his life, and realizing that if DIO knows where to find the killer (J. Geil), then he must also be one of his minions.
• Honor Before Reason: He's very honorable even to his own detriment, and in his first appearance he purposely handicaps himself out of honor by explaining his Stand and fighting Avdol in a terrain more suitable for him. Even under DIO's control, he refuses to attack someone from behind.
• Hot-Blooded: In a series stuffed to the gills with hot-blooded characters, Polnareff is a constant fountain of Manly Tears, Idiot Hero saves, and goofy moments; it's very hard not to like a guy who's so incredibly motivated.
• Iconic Item: His earrings, each one shaped like half a broken heart. He leaves one with Malèna (the woman who took him in after Alessi turned him into a child).
• Idiot Hero: Played With. Polnareff suffers from Genre Blindness thus is prone to be fooled by women, and also tends to act before thinking; however, Polnareff is a perceptive and formidable combatant against male opponents and has outsmarted his enemies more than once. He can make stupid mistakes, but he'll show flashes of brilliance in a pinch just as often.
• Innocently Insensitive: During Enya's attempts at revenge on him, Polnareff repeatedly inquires about things like where her son or family might be, oblivious to the fact that he killed him.
• Irony: His favorite color is gold, but his Stand is Silver Chariot.
• It's Personal: His prime motivation in joining the Joestar Group is to find his sister's killer.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Can be very abrasive and hot-headed, but he means well.
• Karmic Death: Subverted. Polnareff thinks this is what's going to happen to him in his fight with Cameo, as punishment for getting Avdol killed. But Avdol isn't dead, and he saves him.
• Knight in Shining Armor: How he sees himself, and it's the form Silver Chariot takes.
• The Lancer: More so once the Joestar Group finally reaches Egypt and Kakyoin's eyes are almost immediately critically injured by N'Doul's Stand Geb and he spends the overwhelming majority of the arc recovering under the care of the Speedwagon Foundation.
• Last-Name Basis: After his introduction he is simply just called Polnareff. Some media, for legal reasons however call him Jean-Pierre, inverting this trope.
• Large Ham: As the comic-relief of the band, Polnareff expresses each and every emotion with 120% purity and honesty, be it rage, sorrow, love or joy.
• Locked Out of the Loop: He's the only member of the team kept in the dark about Avdol being Not Quite Dead (because the others feared he might accidentally blab about it to the enemy.)
• Manly Tears: Of the whole Joestar Group, these flow the easiest from his big, warm, and kind heart.
• Meaningful Name: "Jean" means "God is gracious", which fits with Polnareff being an honorable, noble guy whose Stand appears as a Knight in Shining Armor.
• My Greatest Failure: With Sherry, who he feels he failed to protect as per his duty as a brother and seeks to avenge her above all else. Also with both of Avdol's deaths, as he's so affected by the first he thinks a zombified copy killing him is fair. And when both Avdol and Iggy sacrifice themselves to save him, he collapses berates himself for not stopping Vanilla Ice beforehand. He's driven to tears every time when confronted about it.
• No Brows: He apparently was born without eyebrows.
• No Indoor Voice: Unless forced to utilize stealth, each and every line of Polnaref's dialogue is screamed out full-gusto on the gop of his lungs.
• Not Even Bothering with the Accent: If it weren't for the occasional peppering of French phrases, Polnareff might as well be Japanese or American.
• O.O.C. Is Serious Business: After defeating Alessi, Polnareff actually has a chance to pursuit the romance he always wanted with the woman who took care of him when he was de-aged (named Malèna in the anime). Knowing that sticking with his group without a Stand means danger (which is why the group put Anne on a flight home), Polnareff turns her down, pretending not to know her, and for once, he's very serious about not pursuing romance.
• Odd Friendship: Avdol and Polnareff could not be anymore different, and yet they're shown to be genuinely fond of each other when they first meet, and their bond grows greatly and become probably the tightest knit of the group, which is saying something. Especially evident once Avdol makes his glorious return.
• Overly-Long Tongue: He's fully capable of using his tongue to try to signal to his friends that Hol Horse had him at gunpoint.
• Prone to Tears: Polnareff isn't so much a crybaby as he is really easily emotionally worked up, and therefore cries more than his compatriots and quite possibly more than any other main character in the series. He cries in anger, sorrow, happiness and almost cries in embarrassment a couple times, with tears forming in his eyes.
• Returning the Handkerchief: Defied. When Alessi is defeated, Malèna attempts to return his heart earring to him that he had lost during the battle, with her coming to the realization that he was the child who saved her life. Polnareff, attempting to show to Jotaro how he's matured past being a Chivalrous Pervert, refuses to take the earring back and denies that he was the one who saved her, leaving Malèna to keep the earring.
• Revenge Before Reason: Falls into this trope during his fight with J. Geil. After spotting the reflection of the man who killed his sister, he falls into an obvious trap, and ends up outnumbered two to one against J. Geil and Hol Horse. He would have died if not for Avdol and Kakyoin's intervention.
• Running Gag: In Part 3, Polnareff is victim of a recurring gag involving bathrooms: every time he goes to one he gets into trouble, be it an attack from the enemy or the bathroom itself. Joseph notes that Polnareff is usually the one to run into bathroom trouble after his run-in with the sand toilet in Egypt; so does Avdol after he has trouble in finding Mariah in a bathroom, as he comments that Polnareff is the expert with incidents regarding them.
• Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!: In the anime, he's briefly arrested for being the prime suspect in Devo the Cursed's sudden murder (which he did indeed commit, but Devo was an Ax-Crazy Serial Killer that was trying to kill him, so it evens out) and the hotel employee that Devo killed, but luckily manages to avoid jail time thanks to lawyers from the Speedwagon Foundation.
• Spanner in the Works: His going off to try confront DIO on his own after the remaining group escape from the mansion ends up throwing a wrench into DIO's endgame as if the group had tried to attack DIO en masse, all of them would've been killed by DIO's power right then and there. Thanks to him, the group end up splitting up and slowly managed to find out how DIO's power worked: by the time Jotaro finally confronts DIO head on, he's able to start getting around DIO's power; what's more, him saving Jotaro when DIO was about to kill him allowed Jotaro to get a fatal blow in on DIO.
• Survivor's Guilt: He's racked with guilt over Avdol apparently dying to save him - both times.
• Tarot Motifs: The Chariot card is all about being goal-driven and determined to achieve victory: Polnareff is driven by his determination to avenge his sister's murder, and from a more meta standpoint, some fans claim that he outshines the other Crusaders because of how many enemies he comes across by himself and eventually defeats.
• Undying Loyalty: Ever since the moment he joins the team, Polnareff is THE most dedicated member to taking care of his buddies. Seeing one of them hurt sends him into full-on Roaring Rampage of Revenge mode. He only lapses once early on, when avenging his sister is on the line which causes him to attempt to split from the group, and after Avdol pays the price for that is more loyal than ever.
• Vitriolic Best Buds: With Kakyoin. The former constantly chastises Polnareff for being reckless and a huge Captain Obvious sometimes, but they're very close - as proven by their handshake.
• Wasteful Wishing: Zig-zagged. His first wish to Cameo is to make himself rich, but that ends up proving that Judgment can seemingly grant wishes. After considering a few frivolous wishes, and narrowly avoids inadvertently wasting a wish on getting Cameo to answer his questions, he asks Cameo to bring his sister and Avdol Back from the Dead. Unfortunately, the former of the two returns as a flesh-eating zombie, and when Polnareff tries to use his third wish to undo the second, he learns that isn't possible, partly because he wasted it.
• Worthy Opponent: He is willing to explain his abilities to Avdol during their fight, and while he is burning alive, he honors Avdol's skill, leading to him being spared and befriended.
• Youthful Freckles: When de-aged by Alessi, he is shown to have freckles as a kid.

Silver Chariot

Silver Chariot

Silver Chariot, named after the Chariot card, has the ability to move at incredibly high speeds and is exceedingly skilled with its rapier, to the point of generating completely solid afterimages, and catching 5 flying coins on its rapier. When it removes its armor, it sacrifices its decent durability for even higher speeds and can move at the speed of light. However, unlike most close-range humanoid Stands, Polnareff can't see through its eyes and has to be able to watch the combat himself to direct it effectively.

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• Abnormal Ammo: As one of Polnareff's trump cards, Silver Chariot can eject his rapier's blade from the hilt, turning it into a sudden projectile.
• Absurdly Sharp Blade: This is its main selling point—its rapier is so sharp and strong that it can cut through fire.
• Armor Is Useless: Zig-zagged. Despite resembling a metal knight, Silver Chariot is actually not the most durable Stand, as the fight with Devo shows that even a simple knife can break through its armor. That said, it can still take a beating, and its metallic body does have armor that can lessen a blow.
• Badass Adorable: Even in child form, Chariot's rapier can sting, as Alessi found out.
• Blade Spam: It can strike with his sword as swiftly as Star Platinum can throw punches.
• Death or Glory Attack: Silver Chariot launching its blade as a projectile is a powerful attack that helps compensate for its short range, but if it misses, Polnareff is left defenseless until he can retrieve it.
• Doppelgänger Spin: It has the power to create multiple copies of itself thanks to its super speed; they're actually just afterimages, because his Stand is that fast.
• Implausible Fencing Powers: It is capable of skewering flames on its blade, cutting through solid rock, and slicing bullets in half, along with moving so fast it appears there are eight copies of it at once.
• Kiai: It doesn't have one in base form, being completely mute, but when Polnareff is turned into a kid, its battle cry is "Pami".
• Logical Weakness:
  • Unlike most close-range Stands, Polnareff cannot see through his Stand's eyes. Therefore, if something is observed by Silver Chariot but unobserved by him, he'll have no way of knowing.
  • Once it has used the blade of its rapier as a projectile, Polnareff must retrieve it before Silver Chariot can use its sword again, leaving him defenseless if it fails. For this reason, Polnareff treats this technique as a Desperation Attack.
• Lightning Bruiser: One of the fastest humanoid Stands in the series, when it sheds its armor, it becomes even faster.
• Pokémon Speak: It is silent for the most part, but it made "chamii" noises when Polnareff was a kid.
• Royal Rapier: Fitting the image of a French knight, its weapon of choice is a long thin rapier with a deadly thrust.
• Shed Armor, Gain Speed: It can eject its armor, revealing its true form, which comes with a massive speed boost.
• Shout-Out: It resembles Jagi from Fist of the North Star, especially its helmet.
• Slasher Smile: Despite its head being a faceless helmet, it gives an unmistakable smirk alongside Star Platinum before they team up to utterly demolish Alessi.
• Suddenly Voiced: It almost never speaks, but lets out a "Pamiiiii!" when reduced to child form.
• Super-Speed: its main power is its speed, with its attacks being close to the speed of light.
• Synchronization: Unlike many conventional Stands, Silver Chariot plays with this. Silver Chariot usually doesn't transfer its damage to its depending on where its hit (as there are pieces of armor that protect the Stand's actual body, but if Polnareff sheds its armor, then it becomes entirely Played Straight. Polnareff's dismemberments are reflected on Silver Chariot when they both appear in Part 5, as Chariot has spikes where the lost limbs once were.
• Throwing Your Sword Always Works: Polnareff's ace in the hole is its ability to shoot out the blade from its handle like a pressurized air gun.
• Weak, but Skilled: While durable with its armor on, Silver Chariot's physical strength pales in comparison to other Stands like Star Platinum and Magician's Red, but is easily one of the most skilled with both its blade and its other physical abilities such as its speed.

Post-Stardust Crusaders Tropes (SPOILERS)

"I should clarify, only one of you may learn this secret. Because it is imperative that no one else ever comes to know the true power this Arrow holds."

In Golden Wind, Polnareff reemerges in Rome in a weakened state to assist Team Bucciarati in taking down Diavolo, seemingly knowledgeable in the secret of the Stand Arrow.

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• 11th-Hour Ranger: For the Part 5 gang; in fact, him contacting them and them seeking him out is the impetus for the entire endgame.
• An Arm and a Leg: King Crimson severs off his legs and his right arm. He had to get a humanoid prosthetic for his arm and more metallic prosthetics for his legs, but even so he's still unable to move without a wheelchair. The corresponding limbs on Silver Chariot have been similarly "amputated", with pegs replacing its hands and feet.
• Bittersweet Ending: Poor Polnareff's got it tough. All indications in the final stages of Golden Wind were that he was a Doomed Protagonist who would be Deader than Dead after the day was saved. After getting his body killed by Diavolo, Requiem's soul-switching shenanigans popped him into Coco Jumbo right before his soul could pass on, the effect being strictly temporary. However, after Diavolo's defeat, it was revealed that Polnareff managed to get his soul stay attached to Jumbo's body, so he gets to live on as a turtle. Could be better, could be worse, and he took the whole situation in stride; at least the Stand, Mr. President, lets him hang out as his normal human self in a well-furbished trans-dimensional hotel room that anyone can visit whenever he wants, the only drawback being its lack of a toilet. Taking Purple Haze Feedback as canon, he's even Number Two to Giorno in Passione's new hierarchy.
• Curb Stomp Cushion: His second fight against Diavolo is as one-sided as the first one, but he actually puts up a better fight, figures a way around King Crimson's ability and came close to severely wounding Diavolo despite having lost an arm and his legs. Diavolo is genuinely impressed and notes that age hasn't dulled him one bit. If anything, Polnareff only improved.
• Dented Iron: He can still use his Stand, but he's been so badly injured by battling that he can no longer walk.
• Developer's Foresight: He's playable in his appearance for the Golden Wind PS2 game, still bound to a wheelchair. Since he's unable to right himself if he's knocked down, he gets Silver Chariot to assist him; if he's unable to summon Silver Chariot due to his Stand meter running out, he suffers from an extended knockdown until his meter regenerates and he can start using Silver Chariot again.
• Disney Death: Zigzagged. For all intents and purposes, Diavolo did kill off Polnareff for real. He only managed to survive via possessing Coco Jumbo through Chariot Requiem, but just like how Chariot Requiem's defeat didn't place Bucciarati back into his already-dead body, Polnareff doesn't return to his corpse. That said, he also doesn't ascend, as his spirit proceeds to make residence inside of Mr. President.
• Dying Dream: After his body is killed by King Crimson, his last moments are thinking of the 50-day journey to Egypt, specifically the Joestar Group and his encounter with Judgement.
• Eye Scream: During his past fight with Diavolo, King Crimson impales Polnareff's right eye, leaving a scar over it. In the present, he wears a translucent Eyepatch of Power over it, the translucency showing it is intact, but faded to indicate it being blind.
• Eyepatch of Power: Wears an eyepatch after Diavolo takes his eye. The translucency of it makes it more closely resemble a tattoo.
• Fire-Forged Friends: While he only knew them for less than a day, by the time Diavolo is beaten, Polnareff is considered a full fledged ally of the group, the ending even showing him working alongside Mista under Giorno. Purple Haze Feedback even states that he's the new Underboss of Passione, making him Number Two to Giorno. Admittedly, Polnareff has the position since Mista turned it down out of its number being a multiple of four, but he was still close enough to them to get the position at all.
• Handicapped Badass: Courtesy of Diavolo, in Part 5, Polnareff uses a wheelchair; this doesn't actually make him any weaker, in large part because his Stand doesn't need legs to be powerful. Diavolo even lampshades it.
• Happy Ending Override: At the end of Stardust Crusaders, he's seen leaving Egypt to return home to France. However, Golden Wind reveals that Polnareff never actually went home, because through his and Jotaro's investigations in Egypt, he instead went to Italy to confront Diavolo, the man who had been peddling Stand Arrows, while Jotaro went to Morioh to confiscate the Stand Arrows that had been distributed there. Polnareff's encounter with Diavolo caused him to be crippled and forced him to go into hiding for 12 years, meaning he never got to go back home to France.
• Hollywood Hacking: He's able to hack into Passione's computer system in order to communicate with Bruno's gang.
• Irony:
  • His Stand's main special ability is its Super-Speed. At the end of Part 5, his soul is trapped inside of a turtle, an animal known for being slow.
  • He was introduced as a minion of DIO and later joins the quest to kill him. In Part 5, he becomes an ally of his son Giorno Giovanna.
• No One Could Survive That!: Before the events of Golden Wind, he receives King Crimson's hand chop through the right side of his face, then gets all but one of his limbs severed, before promptly being dropped off a cliff onto a hard rock. He survived, but is left in a much poorer state. He's confined to a wheelchair with a broken spine, his legs are replaced with prosthetics, his arm was reattached but needs a brace over it, and the eye King Crimson impaled is implied to be blind thanks to the Eyepatch of Power despite its translucency.
• Not So Above It All: Despite his no-nonsense attitude in Golden Wind, there's still some Stardust Crusaders left in him. During a particularly tense standoff with Diavolo (who to Bucciarati is presumed to be Trish), he feels the need to drop this simile:
  Polnareff: Move slowly! Like you're lifting up your skirt!
• Number Two: Purple Haze Feedback mentions that Polnareff serves as the second-in-command of Passione.
• Older and Wiser: When he reappears in Golden Wind, he came a long way from the goofball he was in Stardust Crusaders.
• Spanner in the Works: Unbeknownst to Diavolo, his survival in their past battle ultimately allowed him to provide the heroes with the method capable of defeating Diavolo.
• Staying Alive: Who else in the JoJo universe has faced both DIO and Diavolo and lived to tell the tale? He even survives death itself by his soul ending up in the turtle's body.
• Stealth Pun: He's now confined to a silver wheelchair, which could also be called a Silver Chariot.
• Unexplained Recovery: In Part 5, during the flashback, not only were Polnareff's legs severed by Diavolo, one of his arms gets hacked off as well. Despite that, he still has it when he's seen in the present. The anime shows none of his severed limbs fell into the ocean the cliff was facing, so while his arm was likely reattached with appropriate medical care, he could have reattached his legs as well... if it weren't for the fact that the fall broke his spine, if the Sickening "Crunch!" was of any indication.
• Un-person: Thanks to Diavolo's immense paranoia and the belief he'd successfully killed Polnareff, he had to go into hiding and isolation so Diavolo couldn't track him down and finish what he started. For years this left him on his own, and made him unable to contact the Speedwagon Foundation or even Jotaro himself for aid, only freed from this by the sheer luck of Bucciarati's group looking into Diavolo's identity.
• Vocal Evolution: In both Japanese and English, Polnareff's voice is far more subdued compared to the Hot-Blooded fighter we knew from Part 3.
• Walking Spoiler: He only shows up near the end of Golden Wind, and the return of a major ally from Part 3 is intended to be a big surprise. His appearance also brings along the revelation of the power of Requiem Stands.
• You Can't Go Home Again: Because Diavolo knew of his existence due to their encounter, and had managed to cripple him, Polnareff was unable to leave Italy and return home to France because attempting to do so would put him in Passione's sights after Diavolo had thought he killed him, as well as the fact that communications and travel are firmly in Passione's pocket. Polnareff effectively spent 12 years stuck in a foreign country, hiding so that he wouldn't get killed.

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Chariot Requiem

The Requiem Plays Quietly

After being trapped by Diavolo and prepared to be killed off, Silver Chariot touched the Stand Arrow, evolving into a new kind of Stand. Chariot Requiem has the power to transfer the souls of people to another body, alongside the ability to put them to sleep. Is not considered a sentient Stand, but it has a determination to stop anyone from touching the Arrow, just as Polnareff wanted.

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• Blue-and-Orange Morality: Chariot Requiem, without Polnareff to guide it, seemingly decides to change all life on earth into bizarre, alien forms so that there will be no humans left to threaten the Arrow.
• Body Horror:
  • Any attempt to threaten Chariot Requiem as a humanoid Stand user will result in the Stand violently erupting from the user's body. The severity of this is proportional to how severe the attempt is; gently reaching for the Arrow resulted in Golden Experience's fingertips breaking out of Giorno's hand while the rest of it stared him down from a crack in the ground, while attempting to punch Chariot Requiem itself resulted in Sticky Fingers brutally ripping its forearm out of Bruno's own and strangling him. The actual emergence appears to be painless, as is the case for Chariot Requiem's other abilities that cause this trope (see below.)
  • Chariot Requiem's ultimate ability is to induce grotesque mutations in all life on Earth, which would have transformed them into bizarre lifeforms that would eventually replace those already on the planet. Strangely, it seems to be painless, but Trish makes the point of the possibility of a Death of Personality or Loss of Identity.
• Body Surf: Chariot Requiem's power is to transfer the souls of one body to the another, saving Polnareff from dying at the hands of Diavolo, but trapping him inside Coco Jumbo.
• Clipped-Wing Angel: Zig-zagged. Silver Chariot was a dangerous speed based Stand with some tricks for ranged attacks and afterimage trickery. Its Requiem form lacks any direct offensive powers and once its weakness is discovered, it's defeated very unceremoniously. The problem is in its defenses, which involve body-swapping that somehow brings about mutative evolution within the switched life forms, causes other users' Stands to turn on their master in self-defense, and the means to destroy it means to destroy one's own existence.
• Discard and Draw: Trades out Silver Chariot's "too fast to be seen" speed, durable armor, and rapid cutting power for agility about on par with a normal human, being Made of Plasticine but with the ability to reattach limbs, and a lack of direct offensive power in favor of controlling the soul itself.
• Forced Sleep: It had put anyone and everyone to sleep in its vicinity before it swaps the souls of all, which allows Chariot Requiem to take the Arrow from Diavolo easily.
• "Freaky Friday" Flip: This is one of Chariot Requiem's main abilities, to swap people's souls into other bodies.
• Godzilla Threshold: Chariot Requiem's existence is one itself. Since Polnareff's body was destroyed thanks to his battle with Diavolo years prior he hadn't been in a true fight in years and as such knew he couldn't control the power of the Arrow. However, once Diavolo found him Polnareff knew he couldn't allow him to gain the Arrow's power and instead used it on his Silver Chariot to transform it into Chariot Requiem and keep the Arrow away from Diavolo.
• Gone Horribly Right: Chariot Requiem has exactly one purpose given to it by its dying master; to protect the Arrow at all costs from Diavolo. It works, but since Polnareff can no longer control his Stand anymore, Chariot Requiem now protects the Stand from everyone trying to get it including the good guys and his former master. Not only that but its soul swapping powers indiscriminately target anyone they can find and slowly mutate them via rapid evolution.
• Hate Plague: In order to protect the Arrow, Chariot Requiem possesses the ability to turn Stands against their masters. It made the cheerful Sex Pistols No.1 into a violent nut who tried to kill Mista.
• Humanoid Abomination: A being made of a black, shadowy, semi-shining plastic like substance that tears apart easily, but is able to heal itself from reattaching limbs to From a Single Cell at maximum. It’s able to cause enemy Stands to attack their own masters, cause Eldritch Abomination horrors to emerge gradually from those affected by the "Freaky Friday" Flip it induces and can only be destroyed by demolishing one’s own soul represented by a sphere that illuminates the form of Chariot Requiem.
• Logical Weakness:
  • It'll automatically turn one's Stand against its user if they try to go for the Arrow. Polnareff is exempt from this, seeing how Chariot Requiem is still his Stand, but isn't bound to his body anymore. As such, Polnareff is the only member of the group that can pick up the Arrow without threat of retaliation by their own Stand outside of Chariot itself.
  • As Diavolo notes, it manifests itself as a shadow of the soul, meaning it needs a light source in order to exist. It does so by creating a marble of light that exists behind the observer's head invisible to everyone but the observer. Destroying it will destroy Chariot Requiem, but it bears keeping in mind that destroying the marble will end your life as well.
• Loss of Identity: Trish points out that while Chariot Requiem's mutation ability is completely painless to the point of being easily ignored despite the Body Horror that ensues, this is the real threat caused by it and the Stand's manipulation of the soul.
• Nigh-Invulnerability: Like with Notorious B.I.G, a Stand surviving its master is unkillable and will heal any harm done to it. The only way to defeat Chariot Requiem is to destroy a marble of light behind your head, as Requiem is the "shadow of one's soul".
• Ominous Walk: It spends most of its lifetime slowly wandering around Rome. If someone's holding the Arrow or about to obtain it, however, it'll start charging straight towards that person, which is arguably just as scary.
• Outside-Context Problem: A Stand Arrow being able to affect an existing Stand was only hinted at with Killer Queen Bites the Dust, but Chariot Requiem's existence singlehandedly changes the climax of Golden Wind.
• Pay Evil unto Evil: Any attempt to interfere with Chariot Requiem is paid back proportionately. For example, simply standing in its way will have it either walk around the obstacle or gently push it aside. A direct attack, or worse, an attempt at the Arrow, will be met with attempted murder via said nuisance's own Stand turning against them.
• Puzzle Boss: There's only one way to destroy it, and that's by finding and sacrificing one's own soul.
• Sentient Cosmic Force: The nature of Chariot Requiem (and Requiem Stands in general) is obscure, but it seems to represent the very concept of "souls" embodied into a corporeal being and given a single goal ("Protect the Arrow") by the dying will of its former master.
• Shout-Out: Chariot Requiem's design is deliberately based on the mysterious man who visited Mozart to commission the unfinished piece Requiem.
• Sinister Silhouettes: Subverted. At first it seems to be another case of Face Framed in Shadow, a trope used quite a bit in Part 5. Bruno gets close to it and reveals that what seemed to be an abstract silhouette is actually its features and Requiem looks like it was made from black plastic.
• Soul Power: Chariot Requiem's domain as a Requiem Stand is "soul", and thus it can control the souls of all living beings on earth given time, forcing them between different bodies, turning peoples' own Stands against them, and, unless promptly dismissed, changing all life into strange extra-dimensional beings through soul manipulation.
• Squishy Wizard: Chariot Requiem loses most of its old combat abilities, with one weakness that can be quickly destroyed; the trade off is the ability to control souls, turn Stands against their users, and even the ability to evolve lifeforms beyond their current state.
• Walking Spoiler: It's hard to bring up Chariot Requiem's existence without spoiling the final stretch of Part 5, especially the fact that Polnareff returns.
• Weaksauce Weakness: While Chariot Requiem is one of the most powerful Stands in the series, it's also absurdly easy to kill as soon as you figure out the puzzle.

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