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La Squadra di Esecuzioni^note Lit. "Execution Team" in Italian, also known as "Hitman Team" in anime.

♫ What must I say, what must I do, to show how much I think about freek'n you? ♫^note L-to-R: Illuso, Formaggio, Melone, Risotto Nero, Prosciutto, Pesci, and Ghiaccio.
Not pictured: Sorbet and Gelato.

"We don't indulge in empty threats or self-coddling compliments to hide our feeble shortcomings. Our breed doesn't need the aid of such lowbrow extravagances to enhance a battle performance. For the moment we visualize the death of our enemy... their fate is sealed! They cannot escape the inevitable!"

— Prosciutto to Pesci

La Squadra di Esecuzioni was a former squad of Passione. As the name suggests, they specialize in assassinations. Led by Risotto Nero, its members defected after being threatened by their Boss for exposing his secret identity and are set on trying to kidnap Trish Una as a means for retaliation. They serve as Villain of the Week for Team Bucciarati for the first half of Golden Wind.

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In General

• Adaptational Early Appearance: In the manga, the majority of them don't make a proper full appearance until their respective battles. In episode 9 of the Golden Wind anime, the other members besides Formaggio make a brief early appearance. This is further expanded upon in episode 10 as the whole squad is shown during their flashback as opposed to simply being indistinguishable shadowy silhouettes as originally presented in the manga.
• Adaptation Expansion: All of them receive more characterization in the anime. Episode 10 shows Formaggio getting rid of a target of Passione alongside some of his teammates, 18 shows some further interaction between Ghiaccio and Melone, and 27 has the whole team work as a group, ransacking a building to find some information on the Boss.
• All for Nothing: Their efforts to kidnap Trish were ultimately pointless, because it turns out the Boss planned to kill her as soon as she was brought to him.
• Anti-Villain: A great deal of them, especially Risotto and Pesci, have humanizing traits of True Companions-ship despite being the enemies of the heroes, as well as their need for vengeance against the Big Bad for killing their two friends. They still want the money of the drug trade, mind you. They become even more of this after Bucciarati's gang also defects, making La Squadra the lesser of two evils.
• Avenging the Villain: Part of their motivation. They of course want to take over the gang and corner the drug trade, but the deaths of Sorbet and Gelato were the triggering instance that fully turned them against the Boss. Pesci also states that he wants to avenge the loss of Formaggio and Illuso.
• Bad Powers, Bad People: Baby Face's rapey vibes, Pesci's tracking fishing rod, Grateful Dead's aging powers, the cryokinesis of White Album... All of the Squadra powers are incredibly lethal and well-suited for clean and efficient assassinations. The only power without obvious offensive use is that of Little Feet, and even then, Formaggio proves that it can be incredibly lethal in the right hands.
• Dark Is Evil: Their wardrobe mostly consists of more subdued colors like brown and black, as opposed to Bucciarati's young, Hot-Blooded team who wear brightly colored, flamboyant clothes.
• Determinator: Their motto is to never back down in a fight, even on the brink of death.
• Disc-One Final Boss: While antagonizing the heroes for a great majority of the saga, they are ultimately a wall to beat in order to get to the Big Bad's group.
• Dude, Where's My Respect?: The only reason why they got involved in the plot was because the Boss doesn't pay them as much as they should. He constantly refuses their requests for more territory like the gambling and narcotics teams were given.
• Dwindling Party: As the heroes of this part have no qualms about killing in self-defense (or killing in general), the members of the execution squad gradually get smaller and smaller until they're all wiped out.
• Elites Are More Glamorous: Subverted, which is a part of why they're about to betray the Boss by the story's start. Being the head don's personal hitmen might sound formidable on paper, but compared to the cash inflow that the less glamorous but more dependable sections of the organization like gambling and drug dealing reel in on a regular basis, La Squadra makes relatively little money from their missions and they're further hampered by being forced to work for the Boss exclusively.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Sure, they're shameless criminals, but it's made clear they value each other. Sorbet and Gelato's death upset them greatly to the point they want justice for their murder.
• Even Evil Has Standards: Though they're all friendly with each other, Formaggio, Pesci, and Prosciutto give Melone a look of disgust when he displays some of his predatory tendencies towards a woman. The anime also expands on their reaction to Sorbet and Gelato's death, all of them reacting with shock, sorrow and horror at their fates.
• Foil: They can be considered Evil Counterparts to Squadra Guardie del corpo, Bucciarati's team.
  • Age and experience: La Squadra, a seasoned hitman team, are grown men who appear to be in their 20s and 30s, with their leader being 28; Bucciarati's team, relatively new to the world of gangsters, is made of teenagers (and one 21-year-old) and led by a 20-year-old capo.
  • Style of clothing: The hardened La Squadra dresses in dark colors (with the exception of Ghiaccio), while Bucciarati's more lighthearted and friendly team wears bright colors.
  • Attitude towards their job: La Squadra are No-Nonsense Nemeses who take their jobs very seriously and are not shown to have hobbies outside of them. Bucciarati's team act like Punch-Clock Villains when not on duty, preferring to have fun and enjoy themselves like the kids they are.
  • Attitude towards civilians: While they don't go around killing random people For the Evulz, La Squadra does not care if civilians get caught in the crossfire when they're assassinating a target, as seen when Prosciutto is willing to kill an entire train full of people to get to his targets. Bucciarati's team at least tries not to attack anyone who has not attacked them first; they're also Neighborhood-Friendly Gangsters willing to help civilians who ask them for assistance.
  • Relationship with Trish: La Squadra wants to kidnap her as revenge against her father who killed two of their members, while Bucciarati's team is protecting her on orders from the Boss and later keep doing so for their own altruistic reasons.
  • Stand abilities: La Squadra's Stands are primarily geared towards torture and murder, with their members being able to do things like make razor blades explode from a person's mouth, freeze a person to death, age people into lifeless husks, and impregnate a woman with a facehugger-like creature that will eventually kill her. Bucciarati's team, while their Stands can be used for combat, have other applications outside of it; Gold Experience can create life, Sticky Fingers can reattach severed limbs, Aerosmith can track enemies, and Moody Blues can be used to see past events that occurred in the immediate area.
  • Reasons for wanting to take down the Boss: La Squadra's grudge against the Boss is personal because he refused to pay them as much as the other Passione squads and then brutally murdered two of their members, Sorbet and Gelato, just for trying to find more information about him. Meanwhile, Bucciarati hates the Boss because of his cruelty towards other people (even when they were not members of his team), namely selling drugs to children and then trying to murder his own daughter so nobody would find out about his identity. After saving Trish and narrowly escaping with his life, Bucciarati leads his team to defect from Passione so they can rid Italy of the menace that is Diavolo.
  • Prosciutto and Pesci's relationship is pretty much the opposite side of the coin as Fugo and Narancia's. Fugo and Prosciutto both get angry with Narancia and Pesci respectively when they act like nimrods, however Fugo tries to coach Narancia in using his brain more while Prosciutto coaches Pesci in being a more efficient killer.
• Home Base: As seen in the episode 10 of the anime, they had the address of the team's hideout to be Vico Pallonetto Santa Chiara, 8, 80134, Napoli NA.
• Informed Poverty: Their gripe with the boss is that he isn't paying them enough for their assassination missions, yet Formaggio appears to be living in a nice house and Ghiaccio drives a Cool Car.
• Lesser of Two Evils: In spite of wanting to take over the drug trade by exposing the Boss through the unsuspecting Trish, La Squadra as a whole comes across as more decent and noble compared to the Boss himself, who wanted Trish brought to him in the first place just so he could kill her due to being his own daughter.
• A Lighter Shade of Black: They are effectively introduced as the Evil Counterparts to Bucciarati's crew, as they come into conflict with Bucciarati due to their desire to kidnap Trish as revenge against the Boss. While they are ruthless gangsters who wouldn't hesitate to put innocents in danger as well as take over the drug trade, they are heavily implied to have a genuine sense of camaraderie with each other that's as strong as the bonds between Bucciarati's group, and are primarily motivated to get revenge on the Boss for killing two of their colleagues. Compared to the Boss aka Diavolo, who is willing to kill his unsuspecting daughter just for having an unwitting connection to him and their successors, the Unità Speciale; especially Cioccolata who gleefully have no scruples about killing citizens and their fellow members. As a result, La Squadra comes across as the lesser evil.
• Locked Out of the Loop: Purple Haze Feedback expands upon their goal to monopolize Passione's drug trade, with them thinking it runs just like any drug organisation through imports and manufacturing industries. Murolo reveals that the drugs were created by a Stand user rather than imported.
• Mistreatment-Induced Betrayal: Their main motivation to turn against their Boss, after he didn't reward their services as due, and worse yet, he killed two members of their team.
• Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: Because Diavolo didn't want to promote them and then murdered two of their members, La Squadra got involved in the plot.
• No-Nonsense Nemesis: As professional hitmen, they don't screw around on the job and always work to take down their targets as efficiently as possible.
• Only One Name: All of them except Risotto only go by one name, so we don't know if these are their first or last names.
• Professional Killer: Their job is to serve as the organisation's hitmen.
• "Shaggy Dog" Story: In a twist of Dramatic Irony, La Squadra's goal of overthrowing the Boss align with Giorno's. When Diavolo tries to kill Trish, Bucciarati's team turned against him like La Squadra did, and ultimately succeeded in toppling Diavolo. Had they not attempted to take Trish from the gang, La Squadra might have survived. To rub salt to the wound, Purple Haze Feedback reveals that even if they succeed in toppling Diavolo, they still won't be able to monopolise the drug trade like they intended.
• Sorting Algorithm of Evil: Sorbet and Gelato died offscreen, Formaggio barely fought, Illuso only really mugged the heroes while nearly killing two of them, Prosciutto and Pesci failed in their attempt but nearly killed all of them, Melone was threatening for a few pages, Ghiaccio nearly killed Mista and Giorno^note though to be fair, Giorno made the mistake of thinking it was a good idea to fight an ice user in water, and Risotto was two moves away from removing the Big Bad Diavolo off the face of the earth.
• They Look Just Like Everyone Else!: invokedAside from Risotto and Melone, who already hide in the background anyway, all of La Squadra wears outfits that could genuinely pass for making them look like normal civilians. Prosciutto uses this to his advantage by pretending to be a feeble old man in order to catch Mista off-guard.
• Unwitting Pawn: Diavolo was using them to fight off the heroes, hoping they'd kill each other in their race to find the Boss and kill him, rather than kill them all himself. This plan goes rather swimmingly for the most part, but turns out to be a mistake that almost gets him killed by the remaining member, Risotto, if not for a coincidental attack by Narancia on the latter.
• Vague Age: Aside from Risotto, who's 28, they look like they could be in their early to late 20s, or possibly their early 30s. However, it's clear they're meant to be older than Bucciarati's team.
• Villainous Valour: Apart from Sorbet, Gelato, and Melone, they all display an impressive amount of determination and resourcefulness when cornered, which is noted by some of the protagonists. Formaggio slits his own wrist to extinguish himself, Illuso sacrifices his hand to escape Fugo's virus, Prosciutto manages to maintain his ability while crushed under the wheels of the train, Pesci tries to finish off the crew after his neck was broken, Ghiaccio continued to fight Mista as his neck was being impaled on a metal shard and froze his own blood to stop it from sinking deeper, and Risotto used the last of his strength to take control of Aerosmith and try to finish off the Big Bad Diavolo.

Risotto Nero

Risotto Nero (Stand: Metallica)

Voiced by: Shinshu Fuji (TV anime, JP, Last Survivor, and All-Star Battle R), Armen Taylor (TV anime, EN), Takaya Kuroda (Eyes of Heaven), Yuji Kishi (Vento Aureo video game)

^Metallica

"You're different now. No more timid insecurity. Then, there's the change in your physique, and your peculiar habit of talking to yourself. It's all making sense... At long last, I've figured out your true identity!"

The leader of La Squadra with emotions like stone, Risotto is the only assassin of the group that doesn't take on Bucciarati and his men, mostly due to finding a different opponent in Doppio. He's serious and intelligent but doesn't concern himself with common people, but upon realizing Doppio was a Stand user, he engaged in a battle.

Metallica (named after Metallica) is a colony of white or grey beings shaped like pillows with stitches and hollow eyes living inside Risotto. It manipulates iron and magnetism and can form objects within his or victim's bodies as long as they're 100% iron (like needles, razor blades, staples and scissors). It also can bounce light away from Risotto's body, giving him complete invisibility.

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• Adaptation Dye-Job: Has silver hair in the anime rather than purple hair in the manga.
• Adaptation Distillation: Although he has a more extended in first part of the series, his backstory of how he came to be (originally text in the manga) is nowhere to be seen in the anime.
• Affably Evil: He's genuinely calm and collected towards people despite being the leader of one part of a mafia group.
• Agony of the Feet: Doppio manages to cut his foot off during their fight.
• Artistic License – Biology:
  • The adult human body contains around 4 grams of iron, only enough for a couple of razor blades, and definitely not a whole pair of scissors (assuming Metallica needs an exact ratio of iron to work with).
  • On the other hand, Metallica should technically be even more lethal than it's portrayed as; to shunt all the iron in a person's bloodstream would require destroying all their hemoglobin, which would render their blood useless for delivering oxygen. While this is acknowledged with Doppio being unable to breathe, he should have been doomed by then; even if he does eat a frog and drained a young boy of blood to replenish some of his iron, the human body wouldn't be able to produce new blood cells fast enough to survive that.
  • Humans don't actually have black sclera. Of course, that's assuming that he's human in the first place... Or that he's not just wearing contacts, or it's a side effect of his Stand power.
• Ascended Extra: Downplayed. Risotto's role in both the anime and manga is the same but he's benefited the most from Adaptation Expansion and he gets much more screentime in the anime. While he was always a looming threat in the manga he was mostly in the shadows until his fight; the anime checks in on him a lot, establishing a developed relationship with his team, and even has an extra scene where he uses Metallica to torture a Passione lackey.
• Badass Longcoat: Risotto wears a long black coat.
• Barely-Changed Dub Name: In the English dub, Metallica becomes Metallic.
• Baritone of Strength: Has a very deep voice in the anime, and is La Squadra's most powerful member.
• Big Bad Ensemble: Of the first half of Part 5 alongside the Boss himself. While Giorno and Bucciarati's endgame was to defeat the Boss and take over Passione, Risotto as the leader of La Squadra serves as their main opposition towards that goal.
• Big Bad Wannabe: Risotto ultimately falls into this role for the narrative in spite of his threat level. Despite being the leader of La Squadra, the main antagonists for the first half of Golden Wind, he ultimately becomes an afterthought in the second half. He never meets face-to-face with Team Bucciarati, instead meeting his end at the Boss' hands.
• Black Eyes of Evil: His irises are surrounded by black sclera.
• Blood Iron: His main way of attack. Using Metallica, he's able to draw iron out of someone's blood and form them into sharp metal objects that pierce through them.
• Bloody Murder: Although in this case, he's using his opponent's blood as a weapon.
• Body Horror: This guy has the ability to transform the iron in a person's bloodstream into any kind of sharp metal objects he pleases, while the iron is still inside the person's body. Hence the scene where he makes Doppio cough up a handful of razor blades, and then later on summoning needles all throughout Doppio's face and neck and having them rip themselves out.
• Brought to You by the Letter "S": The little gold balls dangling from his hood have the letters of his first name on them, while his belt has The Backwards Я on it.
• Call-Back: All together, his name spells "rice in cuttlefish ink". This calls back to Battle Tendency, where Joseph Joestar was surprised to learn that noodles in squid ink, "nero di seppia", is an actual dish.
• The Cameo: In a very sad sense. Despite there being now three occasions where he could have appeared in a video game, Risotto has never been an opponent. However, his model can be found in the Vento Aureo PS2 game, and Metallica is the loading screen icon used in both All-Star Battle and Eyes Of Heaven. He finally got the chance in All-Star Battle R, appearing there as a DLC fighter.
• Dark Is Evil: He dresses in dark clothing, has black sclera, and his even his last name is Italian for "black".
• Death by Irony:
  • In an anime-only flashback, Risotto tells his men to control their emotions in spite of what happened to Sorbet and Gelato, noting that those who allow their emotions to get the best of them will die. Risotto's death comes once he believes that his victory over Doppio is guaranteed and he loses his emotionless façade as he focuses entirely on Doppio... and forgets about Aerosmith, who attacks him once Bucciarati's group are alerted to their fight.
  • There's a certain amount of irony in that his Stand's power is to manipulate metal, yet he gets killed by the metal bullets of Narancia's Aerosmith.
• Defiant to the End: After suffering life-threatening injuries from Aerosmith, the Boss comes up to Risotto and tells him that he will offer him a quick and painless death if he replenishes the iron that Risotto ripped out of his body during the course of their fight. Risotto instead uses the blown off pieces of his body as trackers and places them on Diavolo's back with the intent on using Aerosmith to kill the Boss for him. If not for King Crimson's ability, the Boss would have died, and even though he survives, Risotto still ends up dead without returning any of the iron Diavolo desperately needed. The Boss even praises him for dying without losing his pride.
• Dramatic Irony: Puns aside, despite Risotto being The Unfought towards the protagonists, Bucciaratti would have been the perfect opponent to counter his Stand had they faced off against each other. His body was essentially a walking corpse completely devoid of blood at the time, meaning that Metallica couldn't have done a single thing to hurt him.
• Dub Name Change: His Stand is renamed to "Metallic" in official English translations.
• Edible Theme Naming: Like most of his team, he also has some kind of food in his name (a type of rice dish prepared with ink from squid or similar animals).
• Elemental Hair Colors: The anime gives him silver hair to go with his power over metal.
• Extra-ore-dinary: Metallica manipulates the iron within their target's blood, allowing it to create objects such as razor, needles, or a pair of scissors.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones:
  • He's A Father to His Men, and his goal to overthrow the Boss stems from a desire to avenge his dead comrades.
  • He also murdered the man who killed his cousin in a drunk-driving accident.
• Evil Counterpart: He's La Squadra's counterpart to Bucciarati. They both fell into a life of crime as a result of trying to avenge a family member; Bucciarati's father and Risotto's cousin. His confrontation with Doppio is even framed similarly to how Bucciarati first met Giorno with him confusing the smaller gangster by manifesting foreign objects from within his own body albeit with blades instead of body parts.
• Evil Sounds Deep: He boasts a very deep, imposing voice.
• A Father to His Men: Risotto tries to run a tight ship and like Bucciarati he does seem to care about his team. When attending Sorbet and Gelato's funeral in the anime, Risotto says that they must forget about the two and continue on with their lives. In spite of that he remains at the church the longest, staying even when the others leave and he's alone.
• Fluffy the Terrible: He's the leader of the Boss' personal hitman squad, has the power to make razor blades and needles explode out of people's throats, and is named after a rice dish.
• Guy Liner: In a photo of a younger him that's only shown in the manga, he seemed to have wore dark lipstick not unlike Abbacchio.
• Happy Harlequin Hat: He wears what appears to be a black jester cap, complete with metal balls that spell out his name.
• Hoist by His Own Petard: Two of his biggest advantages when fighting Doppio are his magnetism and the ability to remove iron, and therefore oxygen, from his opponent's blood. Doppio uses both of these to trick the heroes into killing him; the magnetism sends scalpels made by Risotto flying towards Bucciarati's gang so that they think he's attacking them, and the low amount of oxygen in Doppio's blood means only Risotto shows up on Aerosmith's radar when Narancia fires back.
• "Instant Death" Radius: Not shown in action, but the this is usually what happens when Risotto has his eyes set on a target.
• Invisibility: Thanks to Metallica, he can blend in pretty well with the surroundings, using Metallica to deflect light from his body making him seemingly invisible.
• Kiai: In the manga and Eyes of Heaven, Metallica's Stand cry is "Looooooooaaad," referencing the Metallica album of the same name.
• Large and in Charge: He is the second tallest member of La Squadra after Illuso (possibly even the tallest, due to errors in the height charts used in the anime and inconsistent numbers between the anime and manga), yet is their most heavily-built and imposing member, which is fitting for a leader.
• The Leader: Of La Squadra.
• Logical Weakness: While it never comes up, Risotto's Stand only works against enemies who care about the iron in their blood- meaning if he had tried to attack the team after Venice when Bruno entered a semi-zombie-like state and had no blood to manipulate, Bucciarati would have easily been able to defeat him. Notorious B.I.G. from the same part would have presented a similar challenge.
• Lovecraftian Superpower: Risotto's Stand Metallica manifests as a swarm of maggot-like creatures living inside of him.
• Magnetism Manipulation: Risotto Nero's true power is the ability to create a short range magnetic field around him and freely manipulate iron inside his range, including the iron in a person's own body.
• Meaningful Name: Risotto nero is a rice dish made with cuttlefish ink. His Stand is made of numerous small bean-shaped beings, like rice grains, and his predominant color scheme is black (nero in Italian) up to and including his sclera.
• Mr. Fanservice: He's an attractive man whose outfit exposes most of his well-muscled chest and has a very deep, very attractive voice.
• Near-Villain Victory: Came very close to taking out Doppio and the Boss himself, if not for Narancia's Aerosmith being tricked into shooting Risotto instead which cost him the fight.
• No Shirt, Long Jacket: Risotto does not wear anything under his jacket, exposing his muscled chest.
• Not So Stoic: When he finally decides to kill Doppio, his calm expressions turn into a very cathartic smile.
• Pay Evil unto Evil: Murdered the guy who killed his cousin in his backstory.
• Personality Powers: Metallica's power to control iron fits Risotto's cold, no-nonsense personality and deadly profession like a glove.
• Posthumous Character: From the views of the main characters, he's this. Even though Narancia technically killed him, he had no idea he was fighting him, as his Stand was being manipulated by Doppio and Risotto respectively. The moment the heroes saw him, he was dead already and Doppio had already ran off.
• Pragmatic Villainy: While his cohorts may at time indulge in their work, Risotto is all business. When he first confronted Doppio and thought him to be just a civilian, he was willing to just leave him be.
• Rank Scales with Asskicking: As the leader of the Hitman Team, Risotto Nero is one of the deadliest characters in a part that's already full of cold-blooded killers. Notably, he took on Doppio, and by extension the Boss, and was actually doing incredibly well despite it all until Aerosmith came in.
• Red Eyes, Take Warning: At least in the anime. Prior to the anime, many portrayals of him gave him white irises to match the rest of his outfit.
• Sexy Jester: He's a very handsome man in jester-y attire.
• Shapeshifter Baggage: The only way to explain his ability. See Artistic License – Biology.
• Stealth Hi/Bye: Although the Boss knew Risotto was in the area, Doppio didn't do anything until Risotto snuck up behind him.
• The Stoic: Risotto outright states to the rest of La Squadra that they need to remain in control of their emotions if they want to win, and he continues to keep this stone-faced calmness throughout most of the time the audience sees him.
• Story-Breaker Power: Metallica is, without a doubt, one of the most overpowered Stands in the series in the hands of a skilled user - if he wants someone dead, he can camouflage himself, walk up to them, and make them die a gruesome death in seconds, with no way for the vast majority of Stand users to defend themselves. Had it not been for a). the fact that he was holding back because he wanted to see the Boss's face as he died and b). Narancia catching him with Aerosmith, he absolutely would have killed Doppio (and, by extent, the Boss) then and there. Furthermore, if he had gotten the jump on the main cast and had gone for the kill, he very easily could have pulled off a Total Party Kill.
• Swiss-Army Superpower: Risotto's Stand, Metallica, is very versatile. Its magnetic powers allow him to manipulate metals, including the very iron in a person's body and mold them into weapons, make himself invisible, and even hijack other Stands.
• Taking You with Me: Attempts to trick Naracia's Aerosmith into shooting both him and Doppio, but it fails as Doppio uses King Crimson to make the bullets skip past him.
• Tall, Dark, and Handsome: With his good looks, striking fashion, exposed chest, and deep voice, he definitely fits this type.
• The Unfought: He's the only member of La Squadra that Bucciarati's gang never encounters, much less fight. He instead fights the Boss himself.
• Villainous Harlequin: He wears a jester-inspired getup that wouldn't look too out-of-place at a Venetian carnival.
• Walking Shirtless Scene: He does have a jacket, but it's never buttoned and he doesn't wear a shirt under it.
• Weak, but Skilled: Metallica itself is physically very weak, but more than makes up for it in sheer versatility and lethality.
• White Hair, Black Heart: Though to be fair, he was aware he just lost every single man working under him.

Sorbet and Gelato

Sorbet and Gelato

Sorbet voiced by: Yoshihito Sasaki (TV anime, JP), Sean Chiplock (TV anime, EN)
Gelato voiced by: N/A

Sorbet (right) and Gelato (left)

A possibly gay couple of assassins that, after realizing they had little territory, attempted to discover the Boss' identity. As you can see from the fact that they're labeled posthumous, it clearly did not end well. Sorbet was hacked to pieces and Gelato swallowed his gag to stop having to watch. It's unknown whether or not they were Stand users.

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• Ambiguously Gay: For each other. Formaggio in his flashback notes that the two were so close that many people thought that they were a couple, but nobody ever asked them about this so it remains uncertain whether they were or if they were just really close friends. The subtext given is enough to figure out what was the actual situation, however, it remains unofficial until Araki stated it as such.
  • The anime makes it far less ambiguous: Formaggio's observation is replaced with Illuso believing them to be a couple, before joking that their absence is probably due to them getting it on. It is also revealed that the two wear matching nail polish, and they're seen in flashback with Gelato sitting on Sorbet's lap and his hand inside Sorbet's shirt.
• Artistic License – Linguistics: "Sorbet" is actually a French word, not Italian; the proper is "sorbetto." In the Italian dub, his name actually is Sorbetto.
• Ax-Crazy: An Informed Attribute. Illuso describes them as insane in the manga, although it's not known if he meant insane as in "unstable" or as in "violent." Though given that they were part of a professional hitman team working for the mafia, there's a case to be made for the latter.
• Barely-Changed Dub Name: In the Italian dub, Sorbet's name is changed to Sorbetto.
• Better to Die than Be Killed: While being forced to watch Sorbet's gruesome death, Gelato swallows his gag and suffocates himself rather than be killed by their captor.
• Cruel and Unusual Death: Even by the standards of this series, Sorbet's death was absolutely horrific and gruesome. He's chopped into several pieces, starting from his toes; in the manga, Formaggio points out that he must have died at some point in the midst of the torture, but given that the anime omits it and having Cioccolata do the actual deed, it's entirely possible that he suffered the entirety of it, since Cioccolata's Stand ability can keep its victims alive and fully conscious during drawn-out, gratuitous deaths. As for Gelato, he swallowed the gag stuffed into his mouth and choked to death to avoid the same fate as Sorbet.
• Dies Wide Open: When the bodies of both men are discovered by their teammates, Gelato's eyes are blown wide with tears on his cheeks while Sorbet's eyes are open in horror, his jaw open in a frozen scream.
• Driven to Suicide: As he was Forced to Watch Sorbet being cut to pieces, Gelato committed suicide by swallowing his cloth gag.
• Due to the Dead: Their teammates mourned for them and gave them a proper funeral after receiving their bodies. This is the first hint that La Squadra isn't just a bunch of Psychos For Hire, and really do care about each other.
• Early-Installment Weirdness: In the original English scanlations, they were referred to as Sorbei and Cante.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Gelato wept as he was forced to watch Sorbet's gruesome and agonizing death.
• Edible Theme Naming: They're both named after ice-cream-esque desserts: sorbet is flavored frozen water, gelato is Italian for "ice cream".
• Fingore: When La Squadra opens the wrapped packages, the first thing they see are Sorbet's severed fingertips inside one of the frames, his nails still coated in his and Gelato's signature nail polish.
• Forced to Watch: Gelato had to watch Sorbet's gruesome death and was so horrified by it that he ate his gag and thus choked himself to death. The anime also reveals that the executor of Sorbet's end was Cioccolata. This means that not only could Gelato no longer bear to witness his possible lover's nightmarish end, he knew he was next.
• Gorn: Sorbet's fate. To precise, he's cut into many slices, then all the pieces were put into glass boxes full of formaldehyde which form a gruesome set inspired by some of Damien Hirst's artworks.
• Greed: Risotto describes Sorbet as someone who would never pass up a chance to get rich.
• He Knows Too Much: They were executed in an especially gruesome fashion for merely wanting to know too much about the Boss.
• Irony: Passione is filled with men who dress in flamboyant clothing, yet almost none of them are confirmed to actually be gay...except Sorbet and Gelato, whose preferred clothing styles are the most normal-looking of anyone in Part 5.
• Knowledge Broker: They presumably serve as this to La Squadra, given their designated role to find the Boss' identity.
• Make an Example of Them: When Gelato's body was delivered to his teammates, the Boss attached a note that only said "Punishment" and left the gag in. He also went the extra mile with Sorbet, having preserved his chopped-up corpse with formaldehyde and stuck it in 36 individual little frames that, when put together, made the entirety of the corpse.
• Only in It for the Money: According to Risotto, they were motivated by money. Sorbet specifically would never miss out on a chance to get rich, and always made sure to show up and claim his share after assassination missions.
• O.O.C. Is Serious Business: Sorbet was a bit greedy and would always show up to claim his share of the money after an assassination. His teammates were concerned when he and Gelato didn't show up one day to get their money — as it turned out, they'd been murdered on the Boss' orders.
• Outlaw Couple: They worked as mafia assassins, and were believed to be a couple by their teammates.
• Plot-Triggering Death: For La Squadra, whom always resented the Boss but never acted upon their hatred until Sorbet and Gelato died.
• Posthumous Character: The two were brutally tortured and murdered before the start of the series which was the push that the rest of La Squadra needed to finally betray the Boss.
• Shout-Out:
  • Their deaths are reminiscent to Luca Brasi's killing of two enemies.
  • The way Sorbet's body was hacked into pieces and preserved in cases filled with formaldehyde is likely inspired by some of Damien Hirst's artworks, in which he preserves animal bodies (sometimes chopped into pieces) in formalin solution.
• Small Role, Big Impact: Team Bucciarati never meets them, but their deaths are what drive La Squadra's desire to defeat the Boss.
• They Look Just Like Everyone Else!: They look like they can actually blend in as normal people compared to every other seen Passione members.
• Together in Death: They were killed at the same time and given a joint funeral by their teammates.
• Undeathly Pallor: It's subtle, but their models in the 3D games have a slightly sickly and ill-looking skin tone when compared to other characters.
• The Unreveal: Some information in the manga implies that they were Stand users, but the natures of their Stands are never revealed.
• Villainous Widow's Peak: Sorbet sports one.
• The Voiceless: In the anime, neither of them have any dialogue and the only sounds they are heard making are various screams and cries of agony as they're being tortured to death. Oddly, while Sorbet has a credited voice actor, Gelato does not.

Formaggio

Formaggio (Stand: Little Feet)

Voiced by: Jun Fukushima (TV anime, JP), Jonah Scott (TV anime, EN), Yuji Kishi (Vento Aureo video game)

^{Little Feet}

The sadistic first member met by the main characters. He engages Narancia in battle in order to kidnap Trish, resulting in a one-versus-one.

Little Feet (named after Little Feat) can shrink Formaggio or other people by touch, which also diminishes their weight and can create unusual weapons. By growing an object back to full size, it can potentially damage someone by stabbing into them or alternatively make a quick get-away a la catapult.

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• Adaptational Modesty: In the anime, his shirt doesn't have holes.
• Adaptation Dye-Job: Colored scans give him reddish-orange hair while the anime changed his hair to grey.
• All of the Other Reindeer: He resents the fact that the other members of La Squadra think his Stand ability is useless.
• Anime Hair: He looks like he's wearing orange skin on his head. It's actually a stylized buzzcut.
• Bad People Abuse Animals: In his introduction, he's seen trying to pet a cat. When the cat violently protests, Formaggio retaliates by using his Stand to trap it inside a bottle.
• Body Horror: Narancia set off a car explosion to free himself from his grasp, which set Formaggio on fire as a result. He manages to survive through quick thinking ^note  He cut open his wrist and shrunk himself, putting out the fire with the blood gushing out., but it gave him a seriously bad makeover.
• Character Catchphrase: "Shou ga nēna," or "It can't be helped."
• Cruel and Unusual Death: The anime adds an additional scene featuring his assassination of a government figure via dropping a microscopic car in his drink; once he leaves the establishment, the car resumes its full size inside of him, bursts him open, and incidentally crushes his dinner date.
• Death by Irony: Formaggio dies exactly as his namesake suggests: melted and full of holes.
• Dub Name Change: His Stand is renamed to "Tiny Feet" in official English translations.
• Edible Theme Naming: Cheese.
• Establishing Character Moment: In his first scene, he uses his Stand to stuff a cat in an empty bottle.
• Even Evil Has Standards:
  • While one of the more openly sadistic members of the crew, Formaggio was quite disturbed by what the Boss did to Sorbet.
  • The anime adds a few extra scenes where it's revealed that Formaggio discovered Gelato's body and was similarly horrified. That and when the group performs an assassination, he, Prosciutto, and Pesci share a look of disgust at Melone leering at a woman.
• Evil Has a Bad Sense of Humor: Formaggio jokes about Polpo's death and laughs at imagining the guards having to chop his morbidly obese and giant corpse to pieces to fit inside the incinerator. He's the only one who finds it funny.
• Evil Redhead: In the colored manga scans, he has red hair. Does not apply to the anime, where he has grey hair.
• Faux Affably Evil: He speaks in a mockingly polite tone in most of his and Narancia's fight.
• Hand Gagging: In the anime when witnessing Sorbet's chopped up body parts up close, Formaggio is gagging his own mouth, struggling to keep the contents of his stomach from coming up and silencing his screams of pure horror.
• Heart Is an Awesome Power: Invoked by Formaggio, who mentions that even his teammates sneer at him for his seemingly weak power. However, he argues that it's up to the user to make their Stand power useful. His ability to shrink instantly makes infiltration very easy and him very hard to hit. Moreover, Formaggio can shrink his enemies and wait for them to become too small for their Stands to do any damage whatsoever.
• Improbable Weapon User: He sics a spider on Narancia by sticking the two in a bottle he carried with him, and in the video game he'll throw furniture at the player by shrinking the furniture, throwing them, and allowing them to grow back to full-size midair. In the anime, he uses a shrunken-down car to murder a target by making it grow inside of the target after he ingested it.
• Improv Fu: Used a rat and a pen to escape Narancia.
• Incredible Shrinking Man: Little Feet can do this to both Formaggio and his targets. When used on himself, he can freely toggle the effect and shrink to any desired size instantly. His targets can't, and the process is gradual and irreversible for them unless Formaggio is killed.
• Inferiority Superiority Complex: Bemoans how his teammates believe his Stand to be useless, but turns around to use those insults to demean Little Feet's current victims.
• Jerkass: Subverted. He appears as one of the least sympathetic assassins at first, but then again he is obviously reeling from the fairly recent deaths of Sorbet and Gelato. Him cruelly joking about Polpo's death and how he was apparently sliced apart in order to have his enormous carcass carried away from his cell seems to stem from the trauma of witnessing his colleague Sorbet's sliced up body parts up close.
• Karmic Death: He possesses a Stand that can shrink things so he and it can tower over them. He winds up being killed by Narancia, who is shorter than him by default at normal size, with Little Feet likewise getting defeated by Aerosmith, which is much smaller than it.
• Make It Look Like an Accident: When he kills a man by shrinking a car and dropping it into his drink, the car later explodes out of his target and crushes the woman he was with, making it look like a car accident.
• Man on Fire: When he tries to escape from Narancia by shrinking, Narancia sets the whole area on fire, threatening to burn him down. Formaggio thus must grow back and reveal himself.
• Oh, Crap!: Aerosmith's unexpected appearance catches Formaggio badly off-guard, finding himself cornered in the back of a car while frantically trying to avoid getting swiss-cheesed (heh) by an angry effeminate teenager and his small, but deadly Stand's hail of bullets.
• Pet the Dog: Subverted. When Formaggio first appears on screen, he is shown attempting to pet a panicked cat. The establishing character moment occurs when he shoves the cat facedown in a glass bottle that it can't escape.
• Underestimating Badassery: Downplayed, but at every stage of his fight with Narancia, he keeps underestimating how tactical of a fighter Narancia can actually be, after watching Narancia take way too long to figure out he's shrinking.
• Villain Ball: Patiently waiting for Narancia to lead him to the rest of his gang so he could report the location to his fellow La Squadra teammates so they could attack it en masse would have been the smart play, but it wouldn't have made for an interesting fight.
• Wake-Up Call Boss: While Black Sabbath, Zucchero, and Sale weren't exactly easy fights, they each leaned heavily on their abilities and were taken out fairly easily once the gang figured out a counter to their abilities. Formaggio, however, demonstrates just why La Squadra is considered the best of the best.

Illuso

Illuso (Stand: Man in the Mirror)

Voiced by: Ken Narita (TV anime, JP), Ben Lepley (TV anime, EN), Kazuya Nakai (Eyes of Heaven), Akira Negishi (Vento Aureo video game)

^{Man in the Mirror}

A very confident assassin, Illuso sticks to his world of mirrors when planning attacks. He attacks Giorno, Abbacchio, and Fugo while they're in Pompeii to pick up a key the Boss left them.

Man in the Mirror (named after a song by Michael Jackson) allows Illuso to travel in mirror dimensions and makes him invisible to anyone he isn't dragging into the world with him. Since Stands can only be harmed by other Stands, unless one is brought in with a victim, Illuso is mostly untouchable by anything other than the real world and more conventional weapons.

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• Adaptation Dye-Job: Less noticeable than most examples, but his hair is black in the manga and brown in the anime.
• Adaptational Jerkass: Downplayed. Illuso was pretty confident and arrogant in the manga, it's just the anime expanding and fleshing him out more that shows a few more Jerkass moments to his own teammates as well. He's both visibly less stoic and more arrogant in scenes from the manga as well.
• Adaptational Villainy: While he's already not the most pleasant member of La Squadra, Purple Haze Feedback makes him even worse, depicting him as a Serial Killer who murdered Sheila E.'s sister, and who Fugo unknowingly stole her chance at revenge from.
• Alas, Poor Villain: It's easy to feel sorry for anyone who's about to be killed by Purple Haze, especially after he had to muster the resolve to cut off his own arm in a vain attempt to avoid its virus.
• Bond Villain Stupidity: If only he had finished off Fugo quickly after figuring out the key was at the dog mosaic, he wouldn't have been killed.
• Call-Back: To the Hanged Man battle in Part 3, with Abbacchio playing the Kakyoin to Fugo's Polnareff. He also greatly resembles Steely Dan from the same part, another villain that Kakyoin and Polnareff teamed up against. The opening is even pretty similar, with Fugo looking at the mirror and seeing Illuso, just as Polnareff looked at a mirror and saw Hanged Man before destroying the mirror into multiple surfaces.
• Catch-22 Dilemma: His death amounted to one of these. Either stay in the mirror world and die to Purple Haze's virus, or chop off his hand while leaving the mirror world to avoid dying, but enter Purple Haze's range.
• Combat Pragmatist: The guy may not have a physically powerful Stand, but he's quite the determined individual to make sure his mission is a success. He uses his Stand abilities in the most crafty ways, and whenever backed into a negative situation, he turns it into a positive, almost to Xanatos Speed Chess levels. Sadly for him, Purple Haze put a halt to his plans.
• Cruel and Unusual Death: One of the most graphic deaths in the entire series. Illuso is infected by Purple Haze's flesh-eating virus so he cuts off his hand in order to prevent it from spreading. Only to make himself more vulnerable to a full-frontal assault from Purple Haze in the real world, who proceeds to infect his face. Illuso is then brutally finished by Purple Haze which pummels him repeatedly, spreading the virus in his entire body in the process and finally punching his face off before he is liquefied into a pile of mush at an alarming rate.
• Determinator: During his fight with Giorno and the others, Illuso was hit by constant disadvantages, but always quickly turned those around to his favor. Even when he was in his death throes, he was still determined to block Purple Haze's punch. However, his determination was not enough and as such, he was melted for it.
• Didn't Think This Through: Illuso smugly believed that chopping his infected hand would be the end of his problems, forgetting that leaving the Mirror World would make him vulnerable to getting brutalized by Purple Haze.
• Dub Name Change: His Stand is renamed to "Mirror Man" in official English translations. Might be pure coincidence, but Mirror Man is also the name of songs by Captain Beefheart, Talk Talk, and The Human League, so the Musical Theme Naming remained in this one.
• Even Evil Has Standards: He may be a Jerkass, but he's nonetheless just as horrified as everyone else when they saw Sorbet's remains. In the anime, you can genuinely hear how disturbed he is when he realizes Gelato had to watch Sorbet get hacked to pieces.
• Exactly What It Says on the Tin: Man in the Mirror makes him a man in the mirror.
• Faux Affably Evil: He speaks in an overtly smug and sarcastic tone against the heroes.
• The Friend Nobody Likes: Implied to be inverted in Purple Haze Feedback. Despite the fact that Murolo disliked La Squadra and was actually the one that essentially leads Ghiaccio and Risotto to their deaths out of disdain for them, he double-takes when Sheila E. reveals her disdain for Illuso and scoffs, "What did he do to you?"
  • The anime adaptation seems to imply this with its additional scenes of La Squadra interacting as a group and Illuso being the most condescending and arrogant of the bunch. Although slightly downplayed since he is not outright hated by the rest of the squad, he doesn't have any close ties with any of his teammates in particular. Whereas Prosciutto and Pesci have a brotherly bond going on and Melone and Ghiaccio express a professional relationship, Illuso and Formaggio seem to have a rather negative relationship. However, it should be noted that Pesci declared a desire to avenge his death along with Formaggio.
• Glass Cannon: Pun notwithstanding, being dragged into the mirror world means that Man in the Mirror is free to wail on you as much as Illuso needs; if Illuso catches you and you don't have a trick up your sleeve going into the mirror, you're effectively defeated. That said, Man in the Mirror has the worst Durability rating possible and in-universe he even acknowledges the fact that it's physically weak. This is even supported by the physically average Moody Blues beating Man in the Mirror up.
• Glass Weapon: He uses mirror shards as weapons in the manga and video game.
• Impractically Fancy Outfit: Who has the time and the money to order a shirt, a pair of pants and a vest made entirely out of puffed quilted fabric? In some panels, Illuso's metal cuffs are revealed to actually be more quilted fabric.
• Improvised Weapon: Illuso actually has a weapon on hand — mirror shards. His standard attack in the Vento Aureo game is throwing mirror shards, and in his attacks, you can also see him using one as a makeshift dagger. In the manga, he grabs one once he's pinned down Abbacchio and then later on nearly uses one to slice Giorno's throat.
• Info Dump: His first action after dragging Fugo into the Mirror World and knocking him off his feet is to read off a shortened version of Fugo's life history, which later was restated for PHF. He also implies that while he doesn't have anything on their Stands, he does know Abbacchio's backstory as well, and probably would've gathered something on Giorno if he had the time.
• Ironic Name: The Michael Jackson song his Stand is named after has the central message of making the world a better place by starting with changing oneself, which is very ironic considering his unpleasant personality and profession as a hitman.
• Jerkass: Easily the most dickish member of La Squadra. He constantly rants about his near-invincible Stand power, tortures and bullies his victims in the midst of a fight and overall showcases an overtly smug, cocky and overconfident demeanor. The anime adaptation adds to this by showing that he is quite condescending towards Formaggio and mocks his Stand ability for being useless and remarks Sorbet and Gelato's absence being that of them "trying to get it on" simply because they act like a couple. Even when the rest of the gang are more concerned that Sorbet and Gelato might be killed off by the boss, he seems more amused by it (at least until he realizes just how terrible an experience their death was).
• Knowledge Broker: Might be this to La Squadra, considering that Formaggio had no idea that Narancia was even a Stand user to begin with, the rest of the team severely underrated their opponents and the fact that Illuso's abilities aren't suited for assassination as much as they are spying. He's also the most observant in battle, being able to hear Abbacchio run off to find the key and later on used fractured mirror shards to his advantage, as well as spot when the key disappeared, despite being in mid-speech.
• Lean and Mean: Has a slender build and is one of the more unpleasant members of La Squadra.
• Life-or-Limb Decision: When he's infected by Purple Haze's virus, he cuts his arm off between the mirror world and the real world.
• Major Injury Underreaction: Averted. He not only flies into a panic upon seeing Abbacchio's wound but also stops rationalizing the moment he needs to cut off his own hand.
• Meaningful Name: It sounds similar to Illusion (or its Italian form, Illusione), which would kinda match the power of Man in the Mirror. However, it actually means "deluded" or "fool". Seeing how he found his demise, it's quite fitting. As well, he's the only one out of La Squadra to not have a name related to food or food ingredients.
  • Apparently he actually has a title: "Illuso of the Mirror".
• Mirror Monster: Man in the Mirror allows Illusio to teleport people and objects into a Pocket Dimension as long as they are seen on any reflective surface, which can be very small. Illusio can separate Stands from their users with this, making them easy to kill, or to teleport people partially, which immobilizes them.
• No Body Left Behind: All that's left of him is a puddle of goop, thanks to Purple Haze.
• Not So Stoic: When Abbacchio cuts off his hand, followed by everything just nosediving for Illuso's mood.
• Odd Name Out: The only member of the La Squadra with a name that doesn't follow the Edible Theme Naming of the other members.
• Power Nullifier: His mirror world powers effectively act as this, allowing him to separate a Stand user from their Stand and render them completely helpless (though he can be tricked into pulling a Stand into the mirror world as Abbacchio demonstrated). To be exact, the Mirror World is entirely made up of energy, similar to how Stands are. By cutting people away from the energy of Stands, it can separate a Stand user from its abilities; it might also be able to separate people from their weapons, even if it's a non-Stand object. Illuso is the only person capable of touching anything in the Mirror World as well, and it may be that only Stands can harm Illuso while he's in the Mirror World.
• Psychotic Smirk: Sports these a lot over the course of his story arc.
• Real Men Wear Pink: He wears his hair in Girlish Pigtails.
• Red Eyes, Take Warning: Illuso has sharp red eyes and is a dangerous assassin.
• Reflective Teleportation: His Stand, Man in the Mirror, can pull people into a mirror world using reflective surfaces as portals.
• Selective Obliviousness: Inverted and enforced. A helpful thing about Man in the Mirror is that only one person out of a party, the person Illuso's specifically targeting, will be able to see Illuso in the reflection.
• Smug Snake: Thinks his Stand is near-invincible, he's prone to being all high-and-mighty when dealing with his enemies up until he realizes he's screwed.
• The Stoic: Remarkably, Illuso is the only member of La Squadra who, through the fight, doesn't become overly angry or panicky. Even his pride is pretty subdued since he's attempting to stick to his mission. Compared to this, about the only other person who doesn't emote as much as him is Risotto Nero. His composure only really breaks when he realizes what Purple Haze is going to do to him.
• Suspiciously Similar Substitute: Illuso, in general, is a Call-Back to J. Geil from Stardust Crusaders. During his fight with Fugo, Abbacchio, and Giorno, only Fugo could see him at first, similar to how Polnareff was having problems proving J. Geil was attacking him. Later, in Purple Haze Feedback, it's revealed he's the killer of Sheila E.'s sister and she was seeking revenge for it.
• Unfortunate Names: His name actually means "delusional" in Italian.
• Victoria's Secret Compartment: A rare male example. He keeps a piece of paper containing information on Fugo tucked underneath his vest.
• Villains Want Mercy: Played With; although he doesn't exactly beg for mercy, per se, he does beg for a death that isn't Purple Haze. Considering what it ends up doing to him, Illuso was absolutely justified.
• Weak, but Skilled: Man in the Mirror has rather sub-par stats (Illuso himself notes that since the stand uses its energy to bring things in and out of the mirror world, it has less physical ability than other stands would), but Illuso is one of the only two members of La Squadra whose Development Potential is E-Rank, alongside Ghiaccio; he fully understands how his Stand works, and makes good use of it against his targets.
• What the Hell, Hero?: Breaks from the fight to call out Abbacchio for cutting off his hand and then later essentially screeches this to Giorno when he takes the Purple Haze infection inside the Mirror World.

Prosciutto

Prosciutto (Stand: The Grateful Dead)

Voiced by: Tatsuhisa Suzuki (TV anime, JP and All-Star Battle R), Bill Millsap (TV anime, EN), Takuma Terashima (All-Star Battle), Takayasu Usui (Vento Aureo video game)

^{The Grateful Dead}

A very supportive assassin, Prosciutto is Pesci's partner and often reminds him how strong he is. He's a sort of "big brother" archetype to the group, and he attacks with Pesci on a train the heroes have boarded to get to Florence. He's also ruthless and doesn't take chances, immediately shooting at Mista when Prosciutto has him pinned.

The Grateful Dead (named after The Grateful Dead) accelerates aging, both mentally and physically to certain points — infants would have their skin wrinkled and would succumb to their hair falling out instead of just outright growing them into adults. It's one of the few Stands that can affect its user, as Prosciutto can change his appearance should he need to. It can do so rapidly if it touches its victim, or slowly if its victim touches the gas it secretes; the latter method won't work on anything that's too cold, however.

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• Adaptation Dye-Job: All-Star Battle gives him green hair as opposed to his usual blonde.
• Affably Evil: Despite being a ruthless assassin, he still wants Pesci to believe in himself, and also recognizes Bucciarati's worth as a capo.
• Artistic License – Biology: While males and females do have slight differences in base body temperature, it wouldn't be nearly enough to leave Trish relatively young while her companions were busy wasting away. That said, The Grateful Dead may just use the temperature difference to target its powers rather than relying on the degree of difference to control the degree of aging it inflicts.
• Ambiguously Related: Is Prosciutto actually related to Pesci? Pesci's use of "aniki" in the original Japanese implies Prosciutto is an older brother, but aniki can also refer to a superior akin to how blood brothers in the Yakuza refer to each other. The anime's English subtitles go with the similarly ambiguous "bro". Throwing more ambiguity onto the fire, All-Star Battle turns his hair green, like Pesci's, but this is the only instance of him having green hair; all other portrayals give him platinum blond hair instead, which could either be natural or bleached. The dub has Pesci call Bucciarati "brother-killer," suggesting that the two are actually brothers.
• An Arm and a Leg: Loses his right hand after falling off the train.
• Badass Boast: "We don't indulge in empty threats or self-coddling compliments to hide our feeble shortcomings. Our breed doesn't need the aid of such lowbrow extravagances to enhance a battle performance. For the moment we visualize the death of our enemy... their fate is sealed! They cannot escape the inevitable!"
• Badass in a Nice Suit: He is a competent assassin with a professional attitude who never cracks under pressure, and wears a cool-looking custom suit.
• Big Brother Mentor: He serves this role for Pesci, both scolding him/beating him up when he screws certain things up, but also immediately encouraging him to become a better gangster and to trust his instincts.
• Brought to You by the Letter "S": His outfit includes a golden pendant in the shape of the letter "P".
• The Cameo: He and Pesci appear as Stage Hazards on the Naples Train stage in All-Star Battle.
• Consummate Professional: Played with. He is generally nice to Pesci, but a lot of his screen-time is devoted to teaching Pesci about his inner strength, which actually succeeds when Prosciutto is shoved out of the train.
• Cultural Blending: Despite being Italian, he wears a magatama around his neck, which is a traditional Japanese ornament.
• Determinator: He promised Pesci that he'd keep his Stand running even if all the bones in his body were broken, and he meant it. He also had enough strength of will to crawl out of the train and call the remaining members of La Squadra and inform them about where the rest of Bucciarati's group were heading and the secret of the turtle before dying.
• Dub Name Change: His Stand is renamed to "The Thankful Dead/Death" in official English translations.
• Edible Theme Naming: Named after a type of dry-cured Italian ham. Ironically, he prefers fish sticks.
• Evil Sounds Deep: He boasts some of the deepest voices in La Squadra.
• Eyes Do Not Belong There: His Stand has eyes all over its body.
• The Faceless: In the manga, Prosciutto is completely shadowed in his first few appearances, even when he's in full sunlight. This is averted in the anime where he goes through the same motions but does so fully revealed.
• The Gunslinger: The only member of La Squadra shown using a gun, though that gun was Mista's in the first place.
• Hair Color Dissonance: Officially, Prosciutto is platinum blond. According to ASB, however, his hair is just nearly as green as Pesci's.
• Hair-Trigger Temper: Zig-zagged. As seen when he beats Pesci for feeling weak in his abilities, but later he is just as quick to cool down.
• In-Series Nickname: "Prosciutto-aniki" or just "aniki" (Big Brother), by Pesci. Fan translations have used "Fratello" (the Italian word for "brother") in place.
• Irony: Prosciutto's Stand is affected by temperature, specifically lower temperatures stopping the aging effect, which Ghiaccio, another assassin of La Squadra can manipulate. Seems kind of convenient, especially since they share the same temperament.
• Knight of Cerebus: While his teammates before him targeted members of Bucciarati's gang with little-to-no collateral damage, Prosciutto has no qualms about mass-murdering an entire train of civilians with his Stand just to flush Trish out of the gang's unknown hiding place. And he's the only one of the gang aside from Risotto who takes his job the most seriously.
• Made of Iron: It's one thing to fall off of a train and survive. It's quite another to be crushed under the wheels of one and still keep his Stand running for a few more minutes.
• Make Sure He's Dead: After incapacitating Mista, he decides to put three bullets in his head just to be sure. It's only through pure luck and Mista's Stand that Prosciutto didn't succeed.
• Personality Powers: The Grateful Dead makes people older, and Prosciutto tries to get his partner Pesci to "grow up" by encouraging him to become a more confident assassin and less of a mammoni ("mama's boy").
• Promoted to Playable: After being just a Stage Hazard in the original release, he and Pesci end up becoming a dual character in All-Star Battle R.
• Rapid Aging: Within a matter of seconds to boot.
• Selective Slaughter: Enforced. The Grateful Dead's aging effect is slowed down not just by ice, but also by whether or not you're male or female.
• Stealth Pun: As noted above under Edible Theme Naming, Prosciutto (the food) is prepared without moisture. When Grateful Dead uses its ability on someone, their skin shrivels up like a dried raisin.
• Support Party Member: Fighting alongside Pesci isn't just for his sake, Prosciutto benefits from it as well. The Grateful Dead has a strong ability, but it doesn't seem able to outright kill by itself; Prosciutto still has to finish Mista off once he's downed. And, it being unable to age anything that's sufficiently cold means that Prosciutto is boned if his enemy figures out Grateful Dead's loophole in a fight, and he doesn't have a more instantly lethal ally to protect him or finish off weakened targets. Pesci potentially fulfills this requirement quite nicely.
• Symbol Motif Clothing: The pattern on his suit resembles a spider web.
• Synchronization: Played Straight especially because Prosciutto's resolve makes him keep his Stand manifested even through physical trauma. By the end The Grateful Dead loses an arm just like Prosciutto and when his leg is mangled, one of the wire/intestine things sprouting from below Grateful Dead's chest is twisted in a similar way. When Prosciutto dies, his Stand fades at the same time.
• Tough Love: He's extremely harsh on his partner Pesci, even beating him up at times. But Prosciutto genuinely cares for him and only acts strict because he wants Pesci to be more confident in himself.
• They Look Just Like Everyone Else!: Prosciutto has a decidedly less outrageous design than any of the other Part 5 characters especially next to the bizarre Pesci. When he ditches his coat and ages himself he blends right in with the infected passengers, looking no stranger than the average civilian. It helps that, in the manga, his face was shadowed right up till the reveal.
• Villain Respect: After Bucciarati uses his zipper powers to get both Prosciutto and himself off the train, nearly getting both of them killed, Prosciutto is actually impressed. He apologizes for calling him a lousy capo and says the Boss made the right decision putting Trish in his hands.
• Would Hurt a Child: He's well aware that a toddler was affected by his Stand's gas, but he doesn't care, nor does he show any interest in stopping the vapor from spreading further.
• You Are Better Than You Think You Are: While he is quick to get on Pesci's case about him being a scaredy cat and acting weak, it's only because he does have genuine confidence in Pesci's abilities, wanting him to have more pride in himself and become a better gangster. His last words before his death are him telling Pesci that he will help him in his fight and is watching over him, implying that Prosciutto finally saw him become the gangster that he always knew Pesci could be.
• Younger Than They Look: The Grateful Dead can make Prosciutto look like an old man. It's how he manages to trick Mista.

Pesci

Pesci (Stand: Beach Boy)

Voiced by: Subaru Kimura (TV anime, JP and All-Star Battle R), Joe Hernandez (TV anime, EN), Shinya Fukumatsu (All-Star Battle), Tomohiro Nishimura (Vento Aureo video game)

^{Beach Boy}

Prosciutto's partner in crime, Pesci is very eager to please his partner and will do anything he asks. Though, he's very cowardly at first and lacks a lot of strength, not helped by his odd Stand. However, when pushed to his limit, Pesci finds the inner strength his friend always told him about and begins to fight seriously, making even Bucciarati hesitant.

Beach Boy (named after The Beach Boys) is a fishing rod capable of three things: it's capable of tracking people and literally fishing them out from other rooms, it can phase through any and all objects including skin, and attacking the line simply reflects damage onto whoever Pesci has snared.

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• Adaptational Nice Guy: The anime adds scenes which emphasize his meeker, innocent personality, making him come across as less of a cowardly, smug and overconfident person before he develops as a more ruthless assassin. It also omits him using his Stand to ensnare all of Bucciarati's team, instead having him only try to take out Bucciarati's team within Coco Jumbo via smashing them against a rock - a cruel yet pragmatic move to eliminate the team so only one member of the opposition remaining for the few members of La Squadra to potentially deal with. Bucciarati's response comes across as slightly harsh in this scenario, whereas in the manga, it was more justified.
• Affably Evil: He's actually genuinely polite and the only reason he's evil is because of who he's loyal to.
• And Show It to You: A nasty ability of Beach Boy is that if the hook connects to a target's heart he can rip it from their body. He nearly killed Bucciarati in their final showdown like this.
• Anti-Villain: Easily the most sympathetic member of La Squadra, and possibly the most sympathetic enemy of the Passione fights period. After all, he doesn't have much in the way of truly malicious behavior, and is generally quite eager-to-please to his partner Prosciutto. Once Prosciutto kicks it, however, Pecsi's personality begins to darken more and more until Bucciarati can only see him as a "piece of shit" who spitefully tries to murder Bucciarati's entire team in one go by attempting to smash Coco Jumbo against a rock.
• Anime Hair: It's green and stands straight up before flopping down to the sides. One can compare it to the leaves on a pineapple.
• Attack Reflector: All attacking the line will do is send the damage into whatever the hook's attached to, which is most likely you at that point. However, Bucciarati manages to use this to his own advantage and to Prosciutto's detriment.
• The Baby of the Bunch: While Pesci's actual age is unknown, he's the most inexperienced of La Squadra, displays a hesitant, meek and cowardly personality, is called a Momma's Boy by his teammates, and relies on his partner Prosciutto for guidance. Apparently, he has never even killed anyone yet before the events of Golden Wind. In this way he can be compared to Narancia, who is the most childish member of Bucciarati's team, but far less hesitant to kill in the heat of battle.
• Beware the Nice Ones: He's mostly a shy person who respects Prosciutto as his brother. But once Bucciarati crushes Prosciutto under the train... he stops being shy.
• Break the Cutie: He's easily the most endearing member of the Assassination Squad, due to his heavy admiration of his big brother figure Prosciutto. But when the person Pesci admires the most dies in front of him, his heart is broken, he loses his dopey and loveable mannerisms and suddenly goes all out.
• Brought to You by the Letter "S": The pink hearts on his jumpsuit are decorated with stylized P's that look like fish hooks.
• Bully and Wimp Pairing: Played With. Prosciutto can be rather threatening to the "mammoni" Pesci, but the former just wants to bring out the best in his brother.
• The Cameo: The stage hazard of Naples Train in ASB, as well as being the Situation Finish.
• Character Development: Pesci surprisingly undergoes a significant amount of growth over the course of his and Prosciutto's battle with Bucciarati. He goes from being a cowardly, shy individual into a cold-hearted warrior that almost managed to kill Bucciarati and escape with Trish. Bucciarati even lampshades how completely different he seems by the end of the fight.
• Cowardly Lion: When he appears, Pesci seems all talk, has no confidence and easily cowers when in danger. However, Prosciutto's example inspires him enough to fight one-on-one against Bucciarati.
• Death by a Thousand Cuts: He was already dying by then thanks to a Neck Snap. But Bucciarati finishes him off with having Sticky Fingers unzip him into chunks to stop him from killing his men.
• Death by Irony: He dies not unlike Formaggio in his death being a grisly reference to their name; by the time Bucciarati finishes him off, Pesci's left in multiple pieces in the lake, or "swimming with the fishes".
• Does Not Like Spam: When Formaggio makes fun of him for drinking milk instead of espresso, Pesci protests that he doesn't like espresso since it makes his stomach hurt.
• Dub Name Change: His Stand is renamed to "Fisher Man" in official English translations. One can imagine Mike Love having a hard time with them otherwise.
• Edible Theme Naming: Italian for fish... the noun, mind you, not the verb. More correctly, fishes.
• Enemy Scan: A downplayed version, but he's able to tell some details about whoever is hooked with Beach Boy, including identifying them by weight and knowing exactly where Beach Boy's hook is in relation to their body.
• Evil Is Petty: He tries to smash Coco Jumbo and wipe out Team Bucciarati, not because he was simply eliminating an enemy, but to spite his opponent, this is just one of the few factors as to why Bruno comes to consider him scum.
• Failed a Spot Check: Beach Boy's hook is sensitive enough to detect the sound of a beating heart, yet when Bucciarati does Rapid-Fire Fisticuffs on the line to reflect the zippers onto himself, Pesci just can't piece together what his opponent just did.
• Fatal Flaw: Pesci's tendency to live behind words instead of actions is what brings his downfall. He quickly learns about this personal failing of his from Prosciutto and stops doing it... but during the final encounter between him and Bucciarati, Pesci starts ranting about killing him instead of just killing Bucciarati, which of course, Bucciarati uses to his advantage.
• Fingore: When fighting Mista, Mista manages to pinpoint his location after knocking him off balance. Pesci takes two bullets to his right hand, one blowing off his pinkie.
• Gonk: While not as out there as Polpo, his design is one of the stranger ones even by JoJo standards, with his lack of chin and Anime Hair.
• Heart Is an Awesome Power: While it can pass through walls and flesh, Beach Boy initially appears to only be really useful under certain circumstances. As his arc goes on, Pesci gets much more aggressive and finds ways to make his Stand a force to be reckoned with. At the arc's beginning, The Grateful Dead was doing the heavy lifting while Beach Boy was support, while at the arc's end, it's the opposite with Pesci very nearly killing the whole team. Its one seeming weakness, the time it takes to creep to the victim's heart through their arm, even turned out to just be Pesci playing it safe instead of taking the riskier but faster direct shot.
• Hoist by His Own Petard: Bucciarati kills him by hitting Beach Boy's line with Sticky Fingers causing it to lasso around Pesci's head and neck. Since Pesci is pulling on the line in an attempt to pull out Bucciarati's heart, it tightens and ends up breaking his neck.
• I Am Not Left-Handed: Initially, it seems like Pesci is required to shoot for the arm with Beach Boy in order to balance out its power. Then during his final confrontation with Bucciarati, he just shoots Beach Boy's lure straight into Bucciarati's chest while admitting that he only previously shot for the arm because of a lack of confidence in his aim. Due to the stress of the battle he'd grown confident enough to take the riskier shot.
• Improbable Weapon User: A fishing rod. Pesci's Stand is a fishing rod. This being JoJo, he manages to make it extremely lethal and effective.
• Inexperienced Killer: Despite being a member of a deadly mafia assassination team, Pesci has apparently never actually killed anyone by himself before. It's when he engages the heroes and after Prosciutto's death that he gets his first and last kill, an Innocent Bystander who basically called him a momma's boy, as a way to psych himself up to kill Bucciarati.
• Intangibility: Beach Boy can selectively go through matter, making it very deadly in an enclosed environment.
• It Gets Easier: His first murder of a man dying of old age happens around the same time he stiffens up and becomes a serious threat to Bucciarati.
• Lactose over Liquor: When La Squadra goes out to a bar, Pesci prefers to drink milk instead of alcohol or espresso, which his teammates make fun of him for.
• Let's Get Dangerous!: Pesci is a soft-hearted and friendly member of La Squadra who looks up to Prosciutto. So when his companion dies, he ends up upturning his previous image completely by showing just how powerful he really is. By the end of it, Pesci nearly wiped out the team and killed Bucciarati, and only really lost in the end due to bad luck.
• Logical Weakness: While Beach Boy itself cannot be harmed, Pesci isn't immune to its effects, which Bucciarati uses to break Pesci's neck after wrapping Beach Boy's line around it.
• Meaningful Name: His name means "fishes", and his Stand manifests itself as a fishing rod. He's also disposed of by being separated into chunks and left to "sleep with the fishes".
• Minion with an F in Evil: A thoroughly brilliant reconstruction and reexamination of this trope. Despite being a part of the Italian mafia's assassination branch, he acts quite un-gangster-like overall; he's generally quite soft and cowardly, and the anime even shows he's a milk drinker compared to his companions' espresso. Subverted after Prosciutto's thrown off the train, as he shows just how much of himself that he held back before that point. By the end of the fight, Bucciarati even lampshades that the truly dangerous Stand user on the train wasn't the one who could rapidly age people, it was the guy with the fishing line.
• Near-Villain Victory: Of all of the fights the Passione have, Pesci came the closest alongside Notorious B.I.G, Cioccolata and the Boss from completely wiping out the group. He only really lost in the end due to him giving up his search for Bucciarati at the last minute out of concern for Prosciutto, and his halting of the train coincidentally rejiggering Bucciarati's zipped-up pieces back into place, just as Bucciarati was about to die from his heart not beating. If he had waited a minute more, Part 5 would've ended a lot sooner.
• Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: Bucciarati unzips himself into a dozen pieces, including splitting his heart in half, to hide from Beach Boy's hook. He holds it so long that he almost dies... until Pesci, flipping out in a rage over Prosciutto's death, forces the train to stop. This jumbles Bucciarati's separated pieces back into each other, causing him to instinctively zip them together and revive.
• Non-Standard Character Design: Pesci stands out from his colleagues and the cast in general for having a lack of chin, making his already large, pineapple-shaped head and neck blend to look like his skull is a giant thumb that encompasses everything above the shoulders, while being able to bend slightly, and has small beady, eyes.
• Not-So-Harmless Villain: The initial impression Pesci gives is that he's the loud yet cowardly lackey of Prosciutto whose Stand is meant to track enemies so the latter can be more effective than a full-fledged member of the group. However, once Prosciutto is fatally wounded, Pesci hardens as an assassin, utilizing his power to significantly more lethal effect against Bucciarati. It's lampshaded by Bucciarati himself that the true threat of the duo wasn't the Stand with the singular power to age you to death, but rather the one with the fishing rod.
• Personality Powers: Beach Boy, as a Stand, seems rather harmless and innocuous at first glance, kind of like Pesci; for reference, the most similar weapon-like Stand in prior Parts was Hol Horse's gun, so a fishing rod appears to be a large step-down. Despite its looks however, Beach Boy has incredible killing potential, which also reflects Pesci himself, who seems harmless, but is dangerous enough that Bucciarati sees him as the true threat and not Prosciutto as previously assumed.
• The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything: Despite being a member of an elite mafia assassination group, Pesci apparently never secured a kill of his own until he kills an innocent bystander while fighting Bucciarati.
• Promoted to Playable: After being just a Stage Hazard in the original release, he and Prosciutto end up becoming a dual character in All-Star Battle R.
• Roaring Rampage of Revenge: After Prosciutto's death, Pesci loses it and comes close to killing Team Bucciarati in his rage.
• Rod And Reel Repurposed: He has a weapon Stand, and it's a fishing rod. It's also incredibly effective, to the point that Bucciarati sees Pesci, not Prosciutto, as the true threat.
• Rummage Sale Reject: His clothes are odd even by Jojo standards; a fur-lined sleeveless jacket over a black bodysuit patterned with pink hearts.
• Schmuck Bait: Used in his favor. The Grateful Dead is ineffective against anything sufficiently cold, so Pesci quickly figures out that the first thing he should do is use Beach Boy to trap the train's main A/C unit.
• Simple, yet Awesome: Unlike other stands, which tend to have bizarre and specialized abilities, Beach Boy's simply a fishing rod that has a diverse array of abilities. Its primary power is that its hook is capable of selectively phasing through anything, which is surprisingly deadly in combat, as it's nearly impossible to defend against and is more than capable of ripping one's heart out. And aside from its line having the property of reflecting damage back to whoever attacked it, all of its other abilities are just ones that function as various utilities that bolster its effectiveness, such as its line being extremely elastic, durable, and capable of transmitting even the most minute information, ranging from how many people are in a room, the exact weight and position of whatever it is he caught, to even what body part he's hooked in and the actions down to the last centimeter.
• Smug Snake: Quickly goes from confident to overconfident during his fight with Bucciarati, much to his undoing.
• Taking You with Me: Attempted. After Bucciarati breaks his neck, he uses the last vestige of his life to show Bucciarati he managed to capture Coco Jumbo. While he frees Trish unharmed (since his group need her alive) he's more then willing to kill the rest of the heroes in his death throes. Bucciarati prevents him by hitting him with Sticky Fingers and unzipping him into pieces.
• Took a Level in Badass: When Pesci gains confidence in himself, he nearly kills Bruno Bucciarati during their battle. Lampshaded by Bucciarati who admits that the most deadly Stand user on the train was actually Pesci the whole time, and not Prosciutto.
• Took a Level in Jerkass: Bucciarati notes that once he became a determined assassin, whatever redeeming qualities he believed he had shriveled up and he'd become "a piece of shit."

Melone

Melone (Stand: Baby Face)

Voiced by: Junji Majima (TV anime, JP and All-Star Battle R), Brian Hanford (TV anime, EN), Kenji Nojima (All-Star Battle), Hidenobu Kiuchi (Vento Aureo video game)

^{Baby Face}

A rather passive researcher and assassin, Melone's Stand requires him to act like a nut, so how much of his personality is simply natural is unknown. However, he seems to be very good at deducing things like blood type from simply licking people, treats humans like cattle to be bred for the ultimate weapons, and his dedication to his job of killing others shows in how he teaches his Stand.

Baby Face (named after Babyface) is a remote Stand taking the shape of a computer that can generate homunculi, known as Juniors, which after Melone trains them for a short bit can act as remote soldiers that grow. These creatures gain their personalities from the women Melone uses to form his Stands, and with "improper teaching" (or just brutally attacking them), they will spin out of control.

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• Adaptation Dye-Job: The colored manga gave him blonde hair, while GioGio's Bizarre Adventure gave him white hair and the anime made his hair purple just like his suit.
• Adaptational Jerkass: When Melone finds Prosciutto and Pesci's bodies in the manga, his body is notably trembling, implying that he's shaken by their deaths. In the anime, however, he shows no such reaction and even calls them "two disfigured losers" in the dub. The anime also plays up his lecherous tendencies which were simply part of his Mad Scientist shtick rather than actual perversion in the manga.
• Awesome, but Impractical: While Baby Face is a perfect Stand for an assassin, creating a homunculus that can hunt down a target no matter where they are, its process is long and laborious. Melone needs to have a DNA sample of the intended target, find a suitable human female host to "incubate" the homunculus, wait for it to grow, teach it how and who to kill and only then watch it do the job. Since Baby Face's Junior has a mind of its own, it can also disobey Melone's orders if it feels like it, especially if its "mother" was particularly strong-willed.
• Body Horror: Baby Face can break objects up into cubes, including living people, and transform them into other objects (or in the case of living things, just kill them by ripping out cubes of vital flesh.) It also comes into being by infecting a human host and learning from them for a short period of time before deconstructing them for extra biomass.
• The Cameo: Guide to the Options Menu in ASB, and is notably disliked by Speedwagon.
  Speedwagon: If you want my advice, I wouldn't give the guy in here the time of day!
• Character Catchphrase: "Di molto!", which literally means "of very" in Italian and sounds awkward by itself. In some translations, it's amended to the more grammatically correct "Molto bene!", which means "very good!"
• Death by Irony:
  • Has Lecherous Licking as his quirk. He dies when his tongue is bitten by a snake.
  • His modus operandi is to send the homunculus that Baby Face creates to act as an assassin to do the dirty job for him while he remains hidden in a secure spot. Giorno follows the same tactic to kill him, sending the snake he created with Gold Experience's ability to end his life.
• Dies Wide Open: The snake made of Junior's corpse bites his tongue and he collapses with his eyes still open.
• Does This Remind You of Anything?: Baby Face can create a homunculus by impregnating a woman. This is darkly similar to a Child by Rape scenario. Thankfully, it's made clear that the Junior isn't created in a sexual way. Unfortunately, it's more like a parasitic wasp, which probably makes it even worse.
• Dramatic Drop: As he falls to the ground dead, the glass vial of Bucciarati's blood in his hand slips out of his hand and shatters.
• Dub Name Change: His Stand is renamed to "Baby Head" in official English translations.
• Dude Looks Like a Lady: Melone has well-kept shoulder-length hair which is combed to the side, a very slim frame and a Stripperiffic outfit which all make him look very effeminate. And especially so in the colored manga scans where his hair is blonde.
• Edible Theme Naming: "Melon"; think cantaloupes.
• Enfant Terrible: His Stand actually creates these.
• Evil Counterpart:
  • Giorno notes that Baby Face's ability to turn living things into inanimate objects mirrors Gold Experience's ability to turn inanimate objects into living things. Besides that, they also both can create lifeforms (Baby Face's homunculus versus GE's life-giving ability), and said lifeforms can track someone down by using a part of that person (GE can use anything, from clothing to bodyparts and even parts from a Stand; Baby Face requires a DNA sample to do so).
  • Meta-wise, Baby Face was designed to resemble an evil version of Koichi's Stand, Echoes ACT 3.
• Express Delivery: Once a target is impregnated by Baby Face, the junior takes a mere three minutes to fully develop.
• Fashionable Asymmetry: His right eye is covered by his mask and the right side of his suit has pieces missing.
• Gratuitous Italian: He often says "di molto" ("of a lot") as an expression of joy, although it makes no sense in Italian. Some translations of the manga changed it to the much more appropriate "molto bene". Of course, it became a Memetic Mutation after the anime was released.
• Hoist by His Own Petard: Sort of. After killing Baby Face, Giorno transforms its remains into a venomous snake, which returns to Melone and bites him.
• Invisible to Normals: Baby Face is among the rare Stands that aren't this, as Anita seems to be able to see it.
• It Can Think: Baby Face's Junior is fully sentient and can communicate with Melone by sending messages through the Stand's computer form.
• Kill It with Fire: How Baby Face eventually meets its end, getting tricked into absorbing the motorcycle it rode in on, and getting killed in the resulting gasoline explosion.
• Killed Offscreen: In the manga, he's never seen dying on-panel, the last we see of him is being bitten by Giorno's snake. This is averted in the anime, as we can see him drop dead on-screen by showing him Dies Wide Open with his tongue sticking out.
• Lack of Empathy: While he is polite, he treats his victims as nothing more than breeding cattle for his Stand.
• Lecherous Licking: In the anime, he licks his lips while leering at the legs of a target's girlfriend, much to the disgust of his comrades. When a woman slaps him on the train, he proceeds to lick her hand. He later licked his lips again when he saw a potential "mother" for Baby Face after he leaves the train in Rome right before Giorno's snake killed him. To add irony to it, the snake bites him on his tongue.
• Long-Haired Pretty Boy: He has long hair and sharp features to the point of looking androgynous.
• Meaningful Name: Melons are associated with fertility in many cultures.
• Necessary Drawback: Baby Face is an automatic long-range Stand, with great stats all-around, won't synchronize damage onto Melone, and unlike other automatic Stands, can be partially controlled by him. The process to activate it, however, is very complicated: first, Melone needs a suitable "mother" for Baby Face (and, if he wants to track someone down, a sample of that person's DNA). Next is that the mother has to be impregnated and given time and sustenance to grow Baby Face's homunculus. Then Melone has to educate it with his laptop, and only after all that is Junior finally ready to take on an opponent. If Baby Face's Junior is defeated and killed, he has to do the entire process again with another "mother". Melone has no means to defend himself while setting up Baby Face in the meantime, so if Bucciarati's team wasn't on the run, he would've been defeated easily.
• Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: Junior's ability inspires Giorno to get creative with his own Gold Experience — he learns to transform inanimate objects into body parts and organs, molding him into a potentially more effective healer than even Crazy Diamond. This bites many villains in the ass later on (with fatal results).
• Non-Action Guy: Unlike his fellow squad members, he never fights alongside his Stand, preferring to support from the sidelines and hide from the enemy.
• No Sense of Personal Space: As shown in the train, he gets unnervingly touchy-feely with a woman, casually searching through her belongings and licking her hand.
• Power Incontinence: In exchange for being a powerful long-ranged Stand, Baby Face is completely autonomous, and its willingness to listen to Melone depends on its original host. Unfortunately for Melone, this particular Junior eventually proves to be a bit too hot-headed and eventually starts disobeying him.
• Self-Made Orphan: The Baby Face Junior ends up eating the woman that served as its "mother". After it's killed, Giorno turns its remains into a snake that bites Melone's tongue and kills him.
• Small Role, Big Impact: Melone is a fairly minor villain, but it's from observing the power of his Stand that Giorno learns to transform inanimate objects into body parts and organs with Gold Experience, allowing him to heal himself and his team and prolonging their survival throughout the part. This ability is also what allows Giorno to pour life energy into Bucciarati after he is fatally wounded by King Crimson, which keeps him going long enough to defeat the boss.
• Stripperiffic: His outfit looks like it's had large chunks cut out of one side, exposing most of his torso.
• Symbol Motif Clothing: His outfit has concentric purple circles all over it. It's possible the circle-within-a-circle motif represents a growing fetus within its womb.
• Taught by Experience: After his first Junior is defeated by Giorno, he tries to invoke this by sending another one after him, this time armed with the knowledge of Giorno and Gold Experience, but before his plan can be set into motion...
• Tongue Trauma: ...Giorno sends a deadly venomous snake after him, which bites him on the tongue, killing him.
• Tyke Bomb: Baby Face's Juniors aren't intended to do anything but fight. If Melone has someone's DNA, he can upgrade them into tyke-bombs that can innately track that person.
• Weirdness Magnet: The franchise-wide "Stand users are attracted to other Stand users" is still at play, but Giorno wonders if he and Baby Face were drawn together even more so because of the similarities of their Stands.

Ghiaccio

Ghiaccio (Stand: White Album)

Voiced by: Nobuhiko Okamoto (TV anime, JP and All-Star Battle R), Chris Hackney (TV anime, EN), Tatsuhisa Suzuki (All-Star Battle), Tomohiro Nishimura (Vento Aureo video game)

^{White Album}

The final member of La Squadra the team faces, Ghiaccio is very friendly with his allies. That's pretty much the only nice thing about him, though: he's extremely temperamental, is confused and enraged by metaphors, and is a Grammar Nazi to the extreme, to the point of ranting about the pronunciation of "Venice" in the middle of a fight. Despite his eccentricities, though, he's an extremely determined and dangerous foe.

White Album (named after The White Album by The Beatles) forms a body suit with long ice skates for feet. It completely encases Ghiaccio and allows him to lower the temperatures of just about anything, allowing for quick travel on icy routes and freezing or thawing things on the spot. It has a secondary ability known as White Album Gently Weeps (named after The White Album song "While My Guitar Gently Weeps"), where Ghiaccio's immediate vicinity becomes so cold that the air itself becomes frozen.

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• Adaptation Dye-Job: The original manga gives Ghiaccio a white blouse with blue shadows and sky blue hair, while White Album is primarily white with some blue highlights and pink adornments on its helmet. The Vento Aureo game turns his blouse entirely blue and his hair yellow; the blue highlights on White Album are changed to green, though some blue spots remain. The anime uses Ghiaccio's manga colors and a tweaked version of White Album's video game colors, with the remaining blue highlights on the latter being changed to pink.
• Attack Reflector: The main use of White Album Gently Weeps, freezing the air around him to create floating ice crystals that reflect Mista's bullets back at him.
• Attack Its Weak Point: There's a hole in the back of White Album, roughly in the neck area, that allows Ghiaccio to breathe. However, Ghiaccio is aware of this trope and has a very nasty surprise for anyone who tries to attack it.
• Ax-Crazy: He's unhinged, aggressive and totally ruthless when it comes to battle.
• Badass Boast: "Even roaring train engines, even the raging seas will come to a grinding halt at my command! None can defy my whims!"
• Berserk Button: Confusing metaphors and foreign languages in Italian culture set him off.
  Ghiaccio: Everyone knows the capital of France, but English speakers pronounce it "Paris"^note Pah-reece, while most say "Paris"^note Pa-ree the way it's supposed to be. But somehow "Venice" has replaced the real "Venezia" as the global standard. Like those stories, The Merchant of Venice and Death in Venice. WHY?! CALL THE DAMN BOOK DEATH IN VENEZIA! IT'S NOT THAT HARD! ARE WE NOT GOOD ENOUGH?! LEARN A LITTLE ITALIAN, PUTTANA, AND CALL THE DAMN THING WHAT'S IT'S SUPPOSED TO BE! WHAT KIND OF POMPOUS BULLSHIT ARE THEY ON ABOUT?!
• Blue Means Cold: He has an ice-themed Stand and pale blue swirls for hair.
• The Cameo: The guide for ASB's in-game dictionary, and of course he rants if you attempt to leave. He's still hosting it even after being Promoted to Playable in R.
• Character Tics: He tends to bare his teeth in a frustrated grimace, which is so often that it's practically his default expression. Even his plushie has it.
• Chewing the Scenery: Due to his Hair-Trigger Temper, he's often prone to hamming it up that practically every moment he has onscreen is basically him screaming at the top of his lungs.
• Climax Boss: He's the last member of La Squadra the heroes face and with his defeat, the plot's focus shifts from escorting Trish to the Boss to trying to defeat the man himself.
• Clothes Make the Superman: His stand is a full-body suit of armor, much like Secco's.
• Cloudcuckoolander: Sort of. He occasionally goes off on very strange tangents.
• Cool Car: Is shown to be driving a yellow (manga)/red (anime) first-generation Mazda MX-5^*Also known as Mazda Roadster and Mazda Miata in the Japanese and North American market respectively.
• Dub Name Change: His Stand is renamed to "White Ice" in official English translations.
  • Curiously, Gently Weeps is kept the same, though that could be because it's merely two words from the title of a song instead of the whole song.
• Dude, Where's My Respect?: Out of all the members of La Squadra, he's the most vocal about the squad's displeasure of not getting paid as much as they should.
• Elemental Armor: His Stand is the suit. Additionally, the interior of the armor is insulated like an igloo, since his Stand powers don't actually include resistance to cold.
• Evil Sounds Raspy: When you cast Katsuki Bakugo's voice actor and have him do a similar voice for Ghiaccio, this is part and parcel.
• Face Death with Despair: When at Mista's mercy, and his neck caught on the tip of a sharp spike, Ghiaccio starts to lose it and scrambles to avoid getting killed.
• Fatal Flaw: Ghiaccio has a bit of a problem with tunnel vision, focusing entirely on one thing at a time. This is shown with his early ranting on anything that sets him off, where he ignores everything around him while he goes off on his latest issue. This tunnel vision bites him fatally when it causes him to forget that he's not just fighting Mista. Ghiaccio focuses on killing Mista, the first target he sees, and makes no real move to attack Giorno in the fight beyond countering his attempts to get Mista out of the river. He finally remembers that Giorno exists once he's got his own neck impaled on a jagged light post, and Giorno takes advantage of being ignored.
• Faux Affably Evil: He can speak politely, but it'll eventually shatter into a lot of screaming.
• Four Eyes, Zero Soul: Downplayed. Araki designed Ghiaccio's thick red-rimmed glasses to give him a distinctive appearance underneath White Album's visor. They highlight his deranged expressions which can be played seriously or for comedy.
• Gonk: While he's not ugly per se, Ghiaccio's facial expressions are extremely exaggerated and unpleasant.
• Grammar Nazi: To a ridiculous degree. He suddenly starts ranting on non-Italian speakers pronouncing Italian words wrong in the midst of a fight.
• Hair-Trigger Temper: For some reason, Ghiaccio hates idioms and the corruption of language. He skids to a halt in the middle of a busy road and starts kicking the ever-loving hell out of his car, just over him being previously told to "take a leaf out of their book"^note In the original Japanese dialogue, he rants at the Japanese phrase nehorihahori (根掘り葉掘り), meaning "thoroughly". The first half of the phrase translates to "root digging", being that something is not done "thoroughly" until the roots are pulled out. The second half of the phrase means "leaf digging", is added to create a euphonious Japanese wordplay (i.e. "digging up the roots and leaves"). Generally, this phrase is not supposed to be taken literally like Ghiaccio is doing., raging how literally nobody would ever put a leaf in a book. (Similarly, the dub changes it to "think outside the box" where he rants how it sounds like his brain is in a box.)
• Harmless Freezing: Noooope. His power brings all the nastiness of sub-zero temperatures with it including freezer burn, exposed limbs sticking to surfaces (Mista didn't even realize he lost a finger when he tried to wipe away the fog on the window until just before Ghiaccio attacked), decreased breathing and naturally Literally Shattered Lives.
• Hot-Blooded: He's extremely emotional, expressive, and prone to going on angry rants without any provocation.
• An Ice Person: His Stand takes the form of ice armor around his body, and he can rapidly lower temperature in an area to create ice and trap his opponents, capable of freezing the very air around him to a halt, down to the molecule.
• Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: Mista tricks him into using White Album Gently Weeps when, unbeknownst to Ghiaccio, there's a sharp pole right behind him. Newton's Third Law throws him neck-first onto it. Remarkably, he stayed alive for a while by freezing his blood, but he failed to take into account that he was fighting Mista and Giorno and wound up getting kicked by Gold Experience until the spike was jammed completely through his neck.
• Improbable Hairstyle: One of the more "out-there" hairstyles by JoJo standards; his light-blue hair clings to his head in a low number of large spirals.
• Ironic Name: His Stand has ice powers and his name literally means "Ice", yet he's the most hot-blooded member of La Squadra by a long shot. See Power Stereotype Flip below.
• The Juggernaut: Thanks to his incredibly tough ice armor, he can shrug off most of the damage Giorno and Mista throw at him without losing pace.
• Large Ham: He tends to speak out much louder than any of his squad mates.
• Leaning on the Fourth Wall: Most of his angry diatribes involve some element of this, and range from taking idioms seriously, to questioning why everyone around him calls Venice by its English name rather than how it's pronounced in the original Italian.
• Lightning Bruiser: He can skate fast enough to catch up with a speeding car, his freezing ice is dangerously lethal if it's not immediately undone, and his suit almost completely negates blunt force.
• Literal-Minded: Ghiaccio gets enraged at metaphors that make no sense if they're interpreted literally.
• Meaningful Name: Zigzagged. "Ghiaccio" quite literally means "Ice" in Italian, which is a fitting name if you look at his powers but an Ironic Name if you look at his temperament.
• Nerd Glasses: He wears a pair of thick-rimmed spectacles and is enough of a nerd to nitpick the semantics of idioms at length.
• Nigh-Invulnerability: White Album is tough enough to make him outright immune to most damage, handily shrugging off bullets from Mista and only having his visor crack slightly after Rapid-Fire Fisticuffs from Gold Experience. And when he activates Gently Weeps, any projectile sent at him is not only negated but violently reflected back at its owner. Even its Achilles' Heel, the breathing hole on its nape, can be removed if Ghiaccio deems it necessary. The only way to break through its defense is piercing damage, excessive amounts of force, or a combination of the two.
• Non-Standard Character Design: Ghiaccio has completely black pupils that range from pinprick to black circles compared to the more detailed eyes of everyone else. Additionally, his hair is stylized into bluish spirals that cling to his head, which contrasts the weird yet realistic hairstyles of everyone else.
• Oh, Crap!: He gets a spectacular case of this moments before his death. In his tunnel vision to kill Mista, he forgot that Giorno was there too. Once he realized that he was now immobilized with a metal spike jammed halfway into his throat and exhausted while Giorno was almost completely unharmed, he goes into what would've been a full on Villainous Breakdown if he'd lived longer than a few seconds after that.
• Powered Armor: White Album manifests around him as Elemental Armor. It gives him enhanced speed, durable armor, and, since it's a Stand itself, allows him to physically fight other Stands.
• Power Stereotype Flip: While his Stand ability, coupled with his nerdy look, makes him seem like your average Scary Shiny Glasses-wearing, emotionless intellectual with a personality as icy as his powers, in reality, he's anything but icy. Out of all the members of La Squadra, Ghiaccio is the most hot-headed of the bunch, utterly losing his shit over trivial, language-related Berserk Buttons, like confusing figurative idioms or metaphors, and people saying "Venice" like in English instead of "Venezia" like the word's actually pronounced in Italy.
• Required Secondary Powers: Averted with Ghiaccio himself, but played straight with his Stand. He isn't immune to White Album's freezing effects, thus he wears his Stand like Elemental Armor to protect him thanks to its insulated interior.
• Rollerblade Good: Or rather, Ice Skates Good. With them, he can skate fast enough to catch up with a speeding car.
• Skewed Priorities: Would rather focus on ranting about the pronunciation of Venezia/Venice over focusing on the fact that he's currently in a battle against Giorno and Mista.
• Steven Ulysses Perhero: Surprise surprise, his name means "ice" in Italian.
• Super Sliding: Ghiaccio's Stand, White Album, is able to rapidly freeze its user's surroundings. He combines this with the Elemental Armor generated by his White Album Gently Weeps ability to freeze the ground and skate quickly enough to keep up with cars on a highway.
• Worthy Opponent: He didn't think much of Mista and Giorno when he attacks them but as the fight draws to an end and he sees just how much punishment Mista takes, Ghiaccio admits that he respects him.

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"Di molto!"

— Melone

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