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JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Main Character Index
Phantom Blood: DIO
Battle Tendency: Joseph Joestar
Stardust Crusaders: The Joestar Group (Jotaro Kujo | Jean-Pierre Polnareff) | Egypt 9 Glory Gods | DIO's Household
Diamond is Unbreakable: Heroes | Yoshikage Kira
Golden Wind: Team Bucciarati (Giorno Giovanna) | La Squadra di Esecuzioni | The Boss
Stone Ocean: Heroes | Enrico Pucci
Steel Ball Run
JoJolion: The Higashikata Family
The JOJOLands
One-Shot Characters | Spinoff Characters

Beware of spoilers, including spoilers from later parts.

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The Joestar Group

See here.

Allies

Holly Kujo

Holy Kujo, née Joestar (Stand: Unknown)

Voiced by: Reiko Takagi (TV anime), Rika Fukami (CD drama), Rei Sakuma (OVA episodes 1-3), Arisa Ando (OVA episode 11 onward) (Japanese), Carrie Francis (OVA English), Julie Ann Taylor (TV anime) (English)

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Jotaro's doting mother, and the only daughter of Joseph and Suzi Q. She develops a Stand along with the other Joestars, but due to her low power, it cannot fully manifest and saps her life force like a debilitating illness. She is named after American singer Buddy Holly.

Absurdly Youthful Mother: She's aged remarkably gracefully for someone with a son in his late teens (which would put her in her late thirties-early fourties at the very earliest).
The Cameo: She has a cameo as a child during the first TV anime's epilogue, where she's seen at her great-grandmother Erina's deathbed.
Daddy's Girl: So much so that she can come off as a Womanchild.
Damsel in Distress: Jotaro and his companions' goal is to kill DIO to break his curse on Holly.
Doting Parent: Bordering on My Beloved Smother, at least in Jotaro's opinion.
Early-Installment Weirdness: No matter how it's viewed, Holy slowly dying due to not having enough willpower to manifest a stand despite children and literal infants being able to do so is quite strange considering she's pushing her mid forties by the time her stand starts to manifest. While there DOES happen to be the occasional adult stand user that lacks the willpower to properly control their stand, the stand simply draining the life force of the user as it attempts to manifest is quite strange.
Extreme Doormat: Even when Jotaro insults her, she always tries to brush it off, much to Joseph's annoyance.
Fan Disservice: She is a good-looking woman and we get to see her naked several times, but it's to show that her Stand is slowly killing her.
Genki Girl: She's very energetic for her age.
Going Native: After moving to Japan, Holly has adopted Japan's way of living, even having her name changed to a Japanese one. Her father doesn't take it well.
Green Thumb: Considering her Stand had vines growing out of her, it's presumed this is what it could've been if she had more fighting power to control it. Makes sense considering Joseph's own Stand power.
Hidden Depths: Holly is much more perceptive than what meets the eye. She is able to see through Jotaro's stoic attitude to the kind heart he has hidden within, and it's implied she hid for some time how her manifesting Stand was making her sick.
Inconsistent Spelling: Her name is spelled variously as Holly or Holy depending on the translation. The English-dubbed OVA and most fan translations use Holly, which is supported by the plant-like nature of her Stand — not to mention Holly is an actual name. The official manga translation and various side merchandise use Holy, which is supported by her Japanese friends nicknaming her Seiko ("holy child"). The 2014 anime's official English subtitles split the difference: it's spelled "Holly", but it's explained that her name was taken from "holy", not "holly" the plant.
Like Mother, Like Daughter: Her generally cheerful and ditzy disposition is reminiscent of her mother in her youth.
Mum Looks Like a Sister: She doesn't look (or act) at all like a woman in her 40s.
Ms. Fanservice: We see her naked more than once, but it's always to show that her Stand is killing her.
Nice Girl: A doting, polite and helpful woman overall. Her kindness is a subtle plot point toward Kakyoin's decision to join the Joestar Group on their way to Egypt.
The Pollyanna: Keeps a cheerful disposition even though her husband is frequently away and her son is cold towards her.
Power Incontinence: Lacks the fighting power necessary to maintain a Stand, and as such it's slowly sapping away her life force.
Pushover Parents: She capitulates to her son's bad behavior far too easily, referring to him as a sweet kid, and reacts to him calling her a bitch with little more than mild amusement.
Jotaro: Why are you such an annoying bitch?
Holly: (completely non-fazed) Okay, I dunno!
Joseph: HEY! How dare you address your mother that way?! And what kind of language is that?! And stop smiling, Holly! You'll only encourage it!
Holly: Okay!
Small Parent, Huge Child: Holly is a petite woman who is positively dwarfed by her son Jotaro, a young man already built like a bodybuilder at 17.
Small Role, Big Impact: Only seen at the beginning of the story, but her illness puts more urgency into finding DIO before her Stand kills her.
Spoiled Sweet: She grew up rich, as the daughter of Joestar Realty's founder, but she's one of the sweetest people you'll ever meet in your entire life.
Stepford Smiler: Puts on a brave face because she doesn't want her family to worry about her.
Superpower Disability: Her Stand is literally killing her like a disease, mostly because she's not supposed to have one, and DIO being out and about is forcibly manifesting it.
Wacky Parent, Serious Child: Even after Jotaro called her an annoying bitch, she still kept hugging his arm.
Weak-Willed: She doesn't have the fighting spirit necessary to survive manifesting a Stand, leading to it slowly killing her. This becomes a bit odd when taking into account several other characters that survived manifesting Stands, including multiple animals^note, two babies^noteMannish Boy and Shizuka Joestar, a sentient sword^noteAnubis, and several children^note.
Womanchild: Acts more like a teenage girl than an adult woman, such as when she stubbornly refuses to listen to Joseph until he addresses her by her Japanese name.

Roses

Voiced: Motomu Kiyokawa (TV anime) (Japanese), Kevin Brief (TV anime) (English)

The Joestar family's butler for the past 30 years. His name is likely a nod to the rock band Guns N' Roses.

Battle Butler: He is the driver and butler of the Joestar Family, and beats down several yakuza men when they attack Suzi Q.
Cool Old Guy: He is a skilled fighter on his own, managing to defeat a Yakuza member with ease.
Undying Loyalty: Due to his time as a butler, he grows close to the family, even suffering greatly when Holy Kujo becomes sick.

Anne Merlai

Voiced by: Rie Kugimiya (TV anime), Konami Yoshida (CD drama), Junko Takeuchi (Heritage for the Future video game) (Japanese), Ryan Bartley (TV anime) (English)

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A runaway girl from Hong Kong that tags along with the Joestar Group — after being rescued by Jotaro from being knocked overboard on a ship — as part of an intended travel around the world before she comes of age. While she means well, Anne ends up being a minor annoyance in their travels. She is named after the country mascot of Singapore, the Merlion.

Adaptation Expansion: The manga sends her back to Hong Kong after the fight against ZZ in a single panel. This is easy enough to miss that a reader may overlook it and only notice that she's suddenly disappeared without further discussion. The TV anime gives her a proper farewell, showing her boarding a plane and Joseph giving her a surprisingly mature lecture on why the party must leave her behind.
Affectionate Nickname: Jotaro refers to her a lot as "half-pint".
Ambiguously Brown: The anime gives her noticeably dark skin and something resembling black facial features, but her actual ethnicity is never stated. The only real clue as to where she's from comes from when the Joestar Group send her back on a plane to Hong Kong, implying that it's at least somewhere nearby.
Boisterous Weakling: While she's certainly feisty, as a young girl without a Stand, there's not a lot Anne can actually do in a fight.
Deconstructed Character Archetype: One for the Tagalong Kid. While it's nice for a kid to bolster the team's spirits now and then, she can't actually do much in the way of fighting when she doesn't have a Stand. Additionally, many of DIO's Stand users are willing to kill children to accomplish their goals. Thus, Anne is sent back home to Hong Kong to her parents after she proves to be too much of a hindrance to the group.
First-Name Basis: In the anime, she's only ever referred to as Anne. However, JOESTAR The Inherited Soul reveals that her family name is Merlai.
Ironic Name: She's named after the Merlion, the country mascot of Singapore, and while she is first seen taking the same trip to Singapore that the Joestar Group is taking, she's actually native to Hong Kong.
The Load: Except while the heroes are in Singapore — when she warns them about Rubber Soul impersonating Kakyoin — she always gets attacked, and the situation with ZZ makes it abundantly clear that she's only hampering Jotaro's quest. In fact, they knew this back in Singapore, and thought they could safely leave her there without her following. Nope. However, after defeating ZZ, they get her on a plane back to Hong Kong, so she definitely can't keep needlessly putting herself in danger.
Mouthy Kid: She's got a major attitude and she's not afraid to show it.
Named by the Adaptation: In the manga, she is only the "runaway girl" and is unnamed, even in supplementary materials that name several other characters and Stands that go without names in the manga itself. For the anime adaptation, however, Araki personally chose to give her the name of "Anne".
No Name Given: In the manga, she is only ever referred to as "Runaway Girl", with her actual name never being given. It wouldn't be until the anime that she was given the name Anne.
Race Lift: The manga's art style and coloring show Anne as clearly white, but her anime version has a darker skin tone and relatively non-white features.
The Runaway: Anne wanted to travel the world, believing that posing as a boy would make it easier. She then runs away, claiming that the age she is now is the best to travel.
Shower Scene: She takes a shower in Forever's Stand-bound ship, Strength. Forever, acting like a human being, lusts for Anne and corners her in the middle of her shower soon after brutally killing all the sailors, with obvious perverted intentions. Thankfully, she is saved by Jotaro.
Put on a Bus: She's put on a plane after she proves to be too much of a load.
Precocious Crush: She eventually develops a crush on Jotaro, appreciating his looks and attitude. The anime expands that crush by showing her happy to see Jotaro greeting her one last time from the runway, and him giving her a genuinely fond smile as the two wave each other off.
Suspiciously Similar Substitute: She basically fills the role that Poco from Part 1 and Smokey from Part 2 had. Even more in the anime, where she is black-ish like Smokey.
Sweet Polly Oliver: Early on, she diguises herself as a young boy so that she can disguise herself from the people looking for her, and to travel the world more easily.
Tagalong Kid: A Deconstruction. A kid might be nice for morale, but she's going to be utterly useless if there's a fight to be had. Worse, she's usually used as a hostage by enemy Stand Users.
Tsundere: While she's very abrasive and rude for the most part and won't hesitate to pick a fight with anyone she sees as in her way, Anne becomes noticeably sweeter around Jotaro over time when he rescues her from various dangers. Eventually, she softens around the rest of the group as well; especially when she's finally sent on her way back to Hong Kong, and happily wishes them all luck — especially Joseph and Jotaro — on their quest to save Holly. It helps as well that she's voiced in the Japanese dub by Rie Kugimiya, who specializes in tsundere characters.
Unsettling Gender-Reveal: While posing as a boy aboard Captain Tennille's ship, Anne is revealed to be a girl when she gets knocked overboard and Jotaro jumps in afterward to rescue her from sharks. Upon pulling her out of the water, he accidentally grabs her breast, and then after a very awkward pause between the two, Jotaro takes off her cap to reveal her long hair underneath.
Vague Age: She's likely a young-to-mid teenager, as her shower scene reveals she is already significantly developed; but her exact age is otherwise hard to know, thanks to her short frame and youthful face/voice.

Suzi Q

See Battle Tendency

Villains

DIO

DIO (Stand: The World + Unnamed Precognitive Stand (usually nicknamed Hermit Purple #2.))

See DIO

DIO's servants

Ain't Too Proud to Beg: Many of DIO's servants act high and mighty until the minute they're on the losing end, which leads them to beg to spared, only to be immediately denied the mercy for a well-deserved beating. Some like Rubber Soul and Steely Dan demonstrate that DIO's servants are so craven that they immediately try to backstab their saviors after initially sparing them- Jotaro in both examples- making it justified for the heroes not to do so.
Carnival of Killers: Serve as contracted killers from around the world- including even a baby, an orangutan, a hawk and a Stand possessing a sword- hired by DIO to assassinate the Joestar Group whose Stand powers lead to a variety of unique means to kill their enemies, though only Vanilla Ice manages to kill two of them due to his loyalty and not out of a means of monetary reward.
Dirty Coward: The majority of the Stand Users act extremely arrogant when in control, but quickly give into cowardice and even underhanded tactics within that cowardice. Steely Dan, J. Geil, Rubber Soul, Alessi, Terrence T. D'Arby are the most blatant examples.
- Downplayed with Hol Horse and Boingo, who are cowardly like most of the group, but less overtly monstrous than their colleagues and justified due to their Stands not being suited for combat.
Equal-Opportunity Evil: It doesn't get more equal opportunity than multiple races and genders and an orangutan and a bird.
The Fellowship Has Ended: At the end of Stardust Crusaders, both DIO's surviving henchmen and what remains of the Joestar group split apart.
Flat Character: Most of them have little personality or history beyond being DIO's greedy and sadistic goons.
Glass Cannon:
- Quite a few of them have strong Stands, but become sniveling morons at the first sight of defeat.
- On a more general level, most of them tend to average people/animals with the fragility a person would have.
Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain: Some of them; Oingo, Boingo, Hol Horse, and Nukesaku in particular are extremely incompetent.
I Work Alone: All of them except Oingo and Bingo, who are brothers, and Hol Horse and J. Geil. Personal arrogance about their abilities aside, this is because most Stand-using assassins don't trust each other and keep their powers a secret.
Made of Iron: Most of them are defeated in absolutely brutal ways, but all but a handful of them explicitly survived.
Monster Mash: Most of the enemy Stands are based on classic and slasher horror movie monsters/antagonists, which is appropriate since their leader is a vampire. Dark Blue Moon is a Black Lagoon-esque fish person, Ebony Devil's natural form looks like a cross between a grey alien and a Living Statue and spends most of its fight in the form of a killer doll, Yellow Temperance is a Blob Monster, J. Geil Looks Like Orlock while Hanged Man resembles a grave-rotted mummy, Enya Geil is a witch while Justice is a ghost with a Skull for a Head and the ability to create zombies, Death Thirteen is a Grim Reaper Monster Clown with Dream Weaver powers, Judgement can also create zombie-like creatures, Osiris resembles a troll or ogre, and Vanilla Ice is a vampire whose Stand, Cream, resembles a wraith.
Noodle Incident: It's never shown how DIO met and hired any of them, particularly the odder ones like Forever and Mannish Boy.
Only in It for the Money: Some such as Hol Horse, ZZ, Rubber Soul, Steely Dan, and Alessi outright admit their reason for accepting DIO's offer is to make money. Especially apparent in the case of Steely Dan, who wasn't even paid to kill the Main Characters, but instead Enya, and even admits he didn't need to fight them but only did so for his own personal amusement.
Psycho for Hire: Some of the enemy Stand Users, like Alessi, J. Geil, and Mannish Boy, only accepted DIO's offer to take out the Main Characters in order to fulfill their sadistic bloodthirst.
Quirky Miniboss Squad: While most of them have some sort of gimmick, the Egyptian god-themed Stand users (and Vanilla Ice) faced throughout part 3's second half suit this the best, as they're implied to be a loosely-cohesive unit, generally more fleshed-out as characters than most of the earlier opponents, and they're much more competent as well.
Religious and Mythological Theme Naming: Most of DIO's Egyptian minions have Stands named, appropriately enough, after the Egyptian gods.
The Renfield: Technically speaking, all of DIO's minions, animal, human and object- are living servants that act as guardians and agents to the undead and vampiric DIO due to the latter needing to remain in darkness to avoid the sunlight that could kill him. The servants at DIO's Mansion, Enyaba, and later Enrico Pucci play this straighter than the others.
Sorting Algorithm of Evil: In terms of power and competency, DIO's Stand users, despite their metaphysical abilities, are far lower than the Pillar Men in overall competency. The majority are either annoyances or somewhat difficult adversaries. Once the Joestar Group sets foot in Egypt, though, with the exception of Oingo, Boingo, and Hol Horse, even the more humorously-leaning fights are much more dangerous for them. The most standout among there are Pet Shop and Vanilla Ice, who prove to be extremely, lethally competent in their work, while being followed up by N'Doul and both D'arbys, who come very close to winning their fights, even managing to defeat several members of the group each.
Sliding Scale of Villain Effectiveness: Most of the enemies range from somewhat effective for a while to completely useless, which makes N'Doul, the D'arbys', and Pet Shop's fights and Vanilla Ice's killings even more jarring.
Smug Snake: Though many of them defer to or outright worship DIO, most of them are incredibly conceited in regards to the abilities of their Stands, believing that their powers make them invincible.
Tarot Motifs: The first two-thirds not only have tarot cards, but also have characterization that reflects their card's values (with the exception of Arabia Fats). Note that some of them also get colors, like the heroes, but this is dropped quickly.
Theme Naming: The Stands used by DIO's henchmen across the Joestar Group's cross-continent journey to Egypt are named after Tarot cards. After using up the tarot, other Stands were themed after the Egyptian pantheon. Later series installments opted to use the same naming scheme for the character names — late 20th century pop and rock music, starting with DIO's resident Dragon, Vanilla Ice and his Stand, Cream.
Uncertain Doom: Though some of DIO's henchmen are explicitly killed while others survive, the fates of a few of them, such as Rubber Soul, Steely Dan and Telence D'arby, are unknown, with it being unclear as to whether they survived the vicious beatdowns they suffered.
Undying Loyalty: While some of the enemy Stand Users are Punch-Clock Villains who are Only in It for the Money (Rubber Soul, Hol Horse, at least prior to experiencing power of The World first-hand, the Oingo Boingo Brothers and Steely Dan) and some just want cheap thrills (Alessi, J. Geil, Mannish Boy and Daniel D'Arby), a lot of them either outright worship or even love DIO. In particular; Gray Fly, Enya, Midler (as revealed in her Heritage for the Future ending), N'Doul, Mariah, Pet Shop, Telence D'Arby and Vanilla Ice are DIO's most devout followers and will go to any extreme to make sure that they satisfy their master or the Main Characters learn nothing about his Stand.
Viler New Villain: Compared to Bruford and Tarkus- who retained or used to have a knight's chivalry/loyalty to their Queen and The Pillar Men who shared camaraderie with one another while also having varying degrees of scruples along with more generically evil zombie henchmen; the Stand Users not only are mentally unstable with varying levels of sadism, and willing to fighting underhandedly- they also are insufferably egotistical and with few exceptions- utterly craven. Justified due to the fact that while the previous examples are ancient, inhuman beings that have gained battle experience over their long existence, the Stand Users are normal people with powers, with nothing else to defend themselves if their Stands fail. Even the most honorable amongst their numbers explicitly state they're bad people following the charisma of the evil DIO.
Villain of the Week: Many of the enemy Stands Users in the manga are just speed bumps that are minor annoyances to the plot, especially Boingo and Oingo, who aren't even noticed by the Main Characters. So many of them are completely expendable to the plot that the OVA cut them down from twenty-seven to seven: Forever, Hol Horse, J. Geil, Enya, N'Doul, Daniel D'Arby, and Vanilla Ice.
Villainous Underdog: While prior Parts tended to have the villains be superior to the protagonists in terms of raw strength, the majority of the Tarot and Glory Gods take a different spin: the heroes are the ones who are overall stronger. With the exception of Hermit Purple and arguably The Fool, all of the Joestar Group have Stands that are powerful and versatile, backing up solid-to-excellent physical abilities with unique tricks. Meanwhile, the villains tend to have Stands that are specialized (Dark Blue Moon loses most of its effectiveness when not near water, Death 13 can only operate in a dream world), cumbersome (Ebony Devil requires the user to take serious harm before it activates, Osiris and Atum only take effect after beating the opponent in a game), or weak (Lovers is microscopic with strength to match, Khnum and Tohth have no offensive applications whatsoever). Even stronger Stands like Emperor, The Sun, and Yellow Temperance are held back by their users being idiots, and more than a few users are shown to be cowardly and weak in comparison to the good guys. This is such that, whenever it comes down to an actual one-on-one fair fight, the heroes will basically always win. The villains are considered dangerous because in nearly every case, they have surprise, favorable circumstances, and foreknowledge of the heroes' strengths and weaknesses. This effectively turns each fight into a Puzzle Boss where the heroes have to figure out what the villain is up to and how to force the fight off the villain's terms and onto theirs, at which point the battle is decided. When this trope is averted and the villain seems to be on par with or superior to the Joestar Group in a straight fight (N'Doul, Pet Shop, Vanilla Ice, DIO), that usually means things are about to go very badly.

Tarot Stand Users

Gray Fly

Gray Fly (Stand: Tower of Gray)

Voiced by: Katsumi Cho (TV anime), Mitsuaki Madono (Heritage for the Future video game) (Japanese), Jay Preston (TV anime) (English)
Tower of Gray voiced by: Katsumi Cho (TV anime), Tony Oliver (TV anime) (English)

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^{Tower of Gray}

"I've heard all about you from Lord DIO. Don't bother. You think you have silence on your side, but your Stand cannot keep up with my speed!"

An assassin of DIO, who poses as one of the passengers on the plane that the Joestars attempt to fly to Africa with. He is named after Glenn Frey.

His Stand, Tower of Gray, takes the shape of a small, but extremely fast and sharp-tongued beetle, effectively making it a flying dagger.

Bald of Evil: Gray Fly is very bald and is very evil.
Been There, Shaped History: Reportedly the cause of many infamously deadly crashes and accidents.
Big Creepy-Crawlies: His Stand, Tower Of Gray, takes the form of a large Stag Beetle.
Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Pretends to be a harmless old man when he's really one of DIO's assassins and responsible for thousands of deaths.
Crazy-Prepared: Just in case he lost, Gray Fly killed all of the plane's pilots and sabotaged the controls to either kill or slow down Team Joestar.
Defiant to the End: Even after being mortally injured by Hierophant Green, he stands up to taunt the crusaders about their impending doom at the hands of DIO's assassins, assuming they survive the plane crash in the first place.
Evil Old Folks: Gray Fly is old and evil.
For the Evulz: Flat out admits that he does what he does because he wants to create the misfortune the Tower Arcana represents.
Fragile Speedster: His Stand is fast to the point where it can dodge Star Platinum's attacks, but since it's a beetle that zooms in a straight path, Kakyoin is able to defeat it easily.
Hate Sink: Gray Fly is shown to be a very despicable man who kills people by the hundreds all for money and pure joy while making his murders look like accidents.
Hidden in Plain Sight: He disguises himself as a normal passenger that all of Team Joestar initially dismiss as an innocent old man.
Large Ham: His last words were nothing but pure ham.
Laser-Guided Karma: His favorite method of murder was ripping out people's tongues. His own tongue is split in half when Kakyoin destroys Tower of Gray.
Make It Look Like an Accident: His M.O. He goes onto some form of public transportation like a plane, train, or bus, then makes it crash while making it look like it was caused by bad driving and so on.
Nested Mouths: Tower of Grey attacks with an Alien-like one.
Non-Indicative Name: Tower of Gray is anything but a tower.
The Nondescript: An oddity for this fabulous series, Gray Fly looks completely normal, helping his disguise.
Not Brainwashed: It's pointed out that, unlike Kakyoin, he's not under the influence of DIO's flesh buds, which is also used to explain that many of DIO's minions are also willingly following him.
Pint-Sized Powerhouse: Among the smaller stands, but that means he's more deadly since it's harder to hit him.
Psycho for Hire: The first, but not the last.
Small Role, Big Impact: The Starter Villain for the series, it's Gray Fly that turned a simple flight to Cairo into a journey spanning several countries.
Starter Villain: The first truly antagonistic Stand User to block the Joestars.
Super-Speed: Tower of Gray is faster than Star Platinum.
Red Right Hand: The only immediate tell to the Stand's user is that Tower of Gray's elytra resemble Gray Fly's hair while it's flying.
Taking You with Me: Though he's beaten, he made sure the plane the heroes are on goes down in the hope of killing them before they're even halfway to Africa, gloating all the while before he finally dies from his wounds. Unfortunately for him, Joseph manages to land the plane safely in the water and he only succeeds in forcing them to go by sea and land to avoid any repeat plane crashes.
Tarot Motifs: The Tower card is associated with destruction, crisis, and sudden change. The user has a history of causing accidents and killing people for their valuables, and the appearance of the Stand changes the Joestar Group's journey into a more perilous one than before.
They Look Just Like Everyone Else!: Looks like a plain old man and deliberately acts like he has no idea what is happening, while his Stand rips people apart.
Tongue Trauma: Prefers killing people by ripping out their tongues.
Undying Loyalty: The first of many to show complete devotion to DIO without a fleshbud.

"Captain Tennille"

Captain Tennille (Stand: Dark Blue Moon)

Voiced by: Tesshō Genda (TV anime), Yuji Kishi (Heritage for the Future video game) (Japanese), Michael McConnohie (TV anime) (English)

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^{Dark Blue Moon}

One of DIO's assassins. His own name is never revealed; he has killed and assumed the identity of Captain Tennille, who sails a ship the Joestar party rides on. He is named after Captain & Tennille (while his dub name is named after "Captain" Daryl Dragon).

His Stand, Dark Blue Moon, allows him to control water currents.

Ambiguous Situation: His true identity and form. whether he is a shapeshifter that took on the form of Captain Tennile, a servant of DIO that was created to look like the captain, or just a person that happens to look exactly like the captain is not revealed at all.
Beard of Evil: A very minor one. More like soul patch of evil.
Bluff the Impostor: How he gets unmasked. Jotaro claims to have figured out how to identify a Stand user by whether a vein in the nose bulges when someone breathes in cigarette smoke, and every Stand user immediately checks their nose, including the Captain, who is supposed to be a normal.
Polnareff: You can't be serious, Jotaro!
Jotaro: You're right. I Lied. But it looks like we found our dumbass.
Death by a Thousand Cuts: Dark Blue Moon is able to shed razor-sharp scales from its body. What makes him so dangerous underwater is the whirlpool of scales that it kicks up. It turns the whirlpool into a blender with all the scales swirling around. Abdul compares it to an antlion trap in the sand.
Dub Name Change: To Captain Dragon. It's still a reference to Captain and Tennille; "Captain"'s real name is Daryl Dragon.
Even Evil Has Standards: He's a murderous mercenary, sure, but throwing litter in the ocean is something he looks down on. He angrily snatches away and extinguishes Jotaro's cigarette in spite of the fact that the action only serves to make him look suspicious.
Evil Sounds Deep: Tesshō Genda is as deep as can be, while the English voice provided by Michael McConnohie is no slouch either in terms of deepness.
Good Eyes, Evil Eyes: The moment he reveals himself as a Stand user, his irises and pupils shrink and remain that way, giving him a devious look.
Hazardous Water: Don't go into the water at the same time as Dark Blue Moon. Just... don't.
Home Field Advantage: The false Captain Tennille and Dark Blue Moon are pretty much unstoppable underwater; the only reason why he lost was because he fell for Jotaro's Wounded Gazelle Gambit.
Impersonation-Exclusive Character: He's revealed to be someone else disguising as Tennille to try to assassinate the heroes. The real Tennille is never seen.
Kill and Replace: He says he threw off the captain in the sea in Hong Kong.
Master Actor: Unlike Rubber Soul, the false Tennille did have a good disguise going; unfortunately for him, he fell for Jotaro's Batman Gambit.
No Name Given: He's not the real Captain Tennille. He just killed the real one to take his place and eventually attack the heroes. His true identity isn't even revealed in supplementary material.
Oh, Crap!: Briefly panics after Jotaro outs him as the enemy Stand user.
Sea Monster: The form Dark Blue Moon takes, resembling the Creature from the Black Lagoon.
Super Not-Drowning Skills: He can hold his breath for over six minutes.
Tarot Motifs: The Moon card symbolizes betrayal, lies, and trouble in water. The user is a sea captain who impersonates a trusted ally of the Joestars in order to get close to them and kill them.
This Looks Like a Job for Aquaman: Everyone — the impostor Captain Tennille included — admits that he wouldn't have been such an enormous threat if he wasn't fought in the ocean.
Would Hurt a Child: He captures Anne using his Stand and uses her as a hostage to try and lure Jotaro into the water. Even before being revealed as an impostor, he immobilizes her by grabbing her arm hard enough to make her scream in pain.

Forever

Forever (Stand: Strength)

Voiced by: Kappei Yamaguchi (TV anime), Mitsuaki Madono (Heritage for the Future video game)

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^Strength

A sapient orangutan. His Stand is a freighter ship; he can control every single part of it, right down to the metal surfaces, bolts and every individual mechanism. He is named after the Wu-Tang Clan album Wu-Tang Forever.

Adaptational Badass: Downplayed in the OVA. Forever presents himself as more threatening, and the more out-there aspects of his personality — his lusting after humans and being angry at his intelligence being insulted — are cut. Jotaro overpowers him and jabs his forehead like in the Manga... but instead of being defeated, Forever becomes enraged and redoubles his efforts, nearly crushing Jotaro to death inside a metal container. He is only stopped by a sneak attack from an injured Polnareff.
Badass Longcoat: After revealing himself to be a Stand user, Forever begins wearing a captain's coat. He tears it partially off in an attempt to get Jotaro to spare him after being defeated and wounded by a powerfully-flicked button, but Kujo sees through it immediately.
Berserk Button: His intelligence being insulted, which Jotaro uses to defeat him.
Bestiality Is Depraved: Inverted. He's shown as having a sexual drive towards human women, and it's shown in an aptly appalling light, especially when he tries going after Anne while she's showering.
Boom, Headshot!: How he's defeated in the manga and anime. After pinning Jotaro and Star Platinum to a wall with metal pipes, Jotaro riles him up by flicking a button off his coat at Forever, then repeatedly insulting his intelligence and pride. Once Forever takes the bait and leaps at him, Star Platinum extends its fingers and flicks the button out of Forever's fingers and straight into his forehead, badly wounding him. Notably averted in the OVA, where he's instead just injured and becomes even angrier and more determined to kill Jotaro.
Distinguished Gentleman's Pipe: Inverted; he smokes a pipe as part of his captain's ensemble, but there's nothing even remotely distinguished or gentlemanly about him.
Erudite Orangutan: While he's a lot more savage than most examples, Forever prides himself on his human-level intelligence, and solves a Rubik's Cube to demonstrate it to Jotaro.
Evil All Along: When the gang initially finds Forever, he's sat in a cage and pretending to be an average orangutan; the only thing out of the ordinary being him knowing how to point to a lock, and then smoking and reading a pornographic magazine. Because of that, nobody ever suspects that he is the Stand User until Forever fully reveals himself to be such.
Evil Costume Switch: After he reveals himself as Strength's user, he puts on a nice admiral outfit complete with a pipe to create an Insane Admiral motif.
Evil Gloating: Does this wordlessly to Jotaro as he's solving a Rubik's Cube in front of him to show off, which the narrator conveniently transcribes for the viewers:
Forever: (laughs mockingly)
Jotaro: Damn ape... he thinks he's already won.
Narrator: (speaking Forever's thoughts over a view of Strength) "This entire ship is my Stand, and you've lost! You're totally outmatched and helpless, and there's nothing you can do!"
Genius Loci: Strength takes the form of a freighter which Forever can control in any way he pleases, from remotely controlling cranes, hooks, and other mechanisms, to making the Stand absorb people into itself, to allowing Forever to fuse into the Stand itself.
Glowing Eyes: In the OVA, Forever's eyes glow a ghastly shade of white◊ when he goes on the attack.
Good Smoking, Evil Smoking: Strangely enough, he inverts common tropes regarding smoking; he's introduced smoking a cigarette (typically reserved for villains) when tricking the heroes into thinking he's just a harmless ape in a cage. He later smokes a captain's pipe — normally reserved for heroes — after The Reveal that he's evil.
Half the Man He Used to Be: How Forever dies in the OVA. After trapping Avdol, Joseph, and Kakyoin in Strength's melting floor and when in the process of crushing Jotaro to death in a metal container, the ape is suddenly and violently bisected vertically from behind by Polnareff's Silver Chariot.
Hidden in Plain Sight: Forever started off his attempt to kill Team Joestar by pretending to be a normal orangutan in a cage, which worked back in the eighties because no one knew animals could have Stands back then, or that getting a Stand gave an animal sapience.
Intangibility: A variation. While aboard Strength, Forever can literally meld into and through the ship itself to get around it quickly, giving the impression that he's walking through the walls.
Intellectual Animal: While he never speaks, nor do we see what he's really thinking outside of one instance, Forever is clearly a good deal more intelligent (not to mention evil) than the average ape. It's best shown when he shows off to Jotaro by solving a Rubik's Cube in what is presumably less than two minutes, and tells him his Stand's name by pointing to the word "Strength" in a pocket dictionary he had.
Insane Admiral: After revealing himself to be the Stand Master of Strength, Forever drops the "pretend to be an average ape aboard a ship" routine and puts on a sea admiral's coat and hat as he attacks the team.
Killer Gorilla: An orangutan in this case; but as a perverted, murderous Stand User with blatantly paedophilic tendencies, the guy is a pithecophobe's worst nightmare.
Load-Bearing Boss: A rare non-video game example. When Forever dies, the enormous cargo ship that makes up Strength melts and collapses in on itself, revealing its true form as a small rusty dinghy.
Maniac Monkeys: Or a maniac ape, in this case.
Mars Needs Women: An orangutan who likes human pornography and has molestation intentions towards the runaway girl? You came just in time, Jotaro.
No-Holds-Barred Beatdown: How he dies in the manga and anime. After having a button fired through his skull, the wounded Forever tries to stand down and beg for mercy. Despite recognizing what the ape is trying to say, Jotaro is not in a forgiving mood after he already killed his ship's crew and what he tried to do to Anne, and pummels him with Star Platinum, finishing Forever by smashing him head-first through a steel door.
Pædo Hunt: While Anne's age is never given, she's clearly far too young for an adult orangutan to be openly lusting after her... and what he was actually planning to do to her is perhaps best left unsaid.
The Peeping Tom: After leaving his cage and killing all the crew aboard Strength, the first thing Forever does is spy on Anne taking a shower. Eventually, the ape reveals himself with full intent to molest her or worse, as him licking his lips and moving his paws toward her Modesty Towel with a perverted look in his eyes indicates. Needless to say, it's a very good thing that Jotaro was nearby.
Shown Their Work: When Jotaro shoots a button through his forehead and forces Forever to panic, the orangutan immediately backs into a corner and rips open his Admiral's coat. As Jotaro himself notes, this references a real-life behaviour of frightened animals; showing that they submit.
Jotaro: I've heard that when frightened, animals often show their stomachs to show their submission to the enemy. So you're asking me if I'll forgive you?
Forever: (nods with his paws up, frightened)
Jotaro: I'm afraid your actions have already gone beyond the rules of the jungle. (glares) So, I don't think so.
Super-Empowering: Although it's only shown with the ship the Joestar Group boards, Forever's Stand Strength can dramatically enhance anything. Once Forever is killed, the ocean liner melts down, collapses inward, and returns to its original form — a small, derelict tug.
Tarot Motifs: The Strength card symbolizes primal nature, confidence, and hidden potential. As an ape, Forever is the first non-human Stand user to be shown in the series, and as such, nobody expected it out of him. Likewise, its Super-Empowering ability also fits the "hidden potential" aspect. Reversed, the Strength card also represents hedonism and lack of self-control (both of which are represented by Forever's perversity and lust toward human females), as well as a lack of courage; shown when he immediately surrenders after Jotaro headshots him with a button.
Uplifted Animal: He has human intelligence thanks to gaining a Stand.
Villains Want Mercy: After Jotaro overpowers Forever by appealing to his ego and then incapacitating him by flicking a button through his skull like a bullet, Forever immediately retreats into a corner and wordlessly begs for mercy. Needless to say, after trying to molest Anne, he doesn't get it.

Devo the Cursed

Devo the Cursed (Stand: Ebony Devil)

Voiced by: Shouto Kashii (TV anime and All-Star Battle R), Unshō Ishizuka (All-Star Battle), Yuji Kishi (Heritage for the Future video game) (Japanese), Edward Bosco (TV anime) (English)
Ebony Devil voiced by: Shouto Kashii (TV anime and All-Star Battle R), Eiji Miyashita (All-Star Battle), Spike Spencer (TV Anime) (English)

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^{Ebony Devil}

A Native American shaman and prolific assassin working for DIO. He is named after Devo (or in the Viz translation, for the Santana song "Soul Sacrifice").

His Stand, Ebony Devil, has the power to possess and manipulate inanimate objects; but only after Devo himself is injured or otherwise hurt, growing stronger with grudges toward those responsible. This allows him to remotely control said objects from almost any distance.

Abnormal Limb Rotation Range: The doll Ebony Devil possesses turns its head 180 and even 360 degrees several times throughout its panel time.
Ax-Crazy: His power is based on becoming more unhinged and aggressive in relation to how badly he's injured. Especially as a Creepy Doll. Even before he baits Silver Chariot into attacking him, he's seen crawling out of Polnareff's fridge with a look of utter Tranquil Fury on his face, and gleefully details how he plans to kill him.
Bad Powers, Bad People: A sadistic, merciless assassin whose Stand relies on inflicting pain and death to those who've harmed him.
Batman Gambit: His plan to kill Polnareff; he made it easy to find him so Polnareff would focus on him and Ebony Devil, and overlook the Creepy Doll in his room that he'd possess.
Braids of Action: A gender-inverted example. Devo wears his long hair in a braid (appropriately for a Native American) and is a renowned assassin.
Breaking the Fourth Wall: In his Heritage for the Future ending, after detailing how he became the world's most feared assassin after killing all the other Stand users; Devo turns to the screen and warns the player, with a Psychotic Smirk, that maybe he'll curse them next.
The Can Kicked Him: His mutilated corpse is found slumped on the toilet in a bathroom cubicle.
Combat Pragmatist: Justified twofold. Devo knows full well how fragile his doll is and how dangerous Silver Chariot is in a direct fight — as well as how Polnareff needs to be able to see him to control him effectively — so he has Ebony Devil tie Polnareff up underneath the bed and facing the floor with long cables before making his attempt to kill him. And since his Stand requires him to get severely injured in order to activate, Devo himself doesn't stay around for the battle, instead dipping as soon as he's been wounded and letting his long range Stand do the work while he gets himself to safety.
Combat Sadomasochist: The source of his power. The more pain and injury he's suffered at someone's hands, the more powerful his Stand is when fighting them. He intentionally goads people into hurting him in order to fuel his counterattack.
Confusion Fu: Ebony Devil's doll jumps, runs and crawls around the room and Silver Chariot with no specific pattern, making it impossible for its opponent to predict its next move. As soon as Polnareff stops blindly trying to defend himself with his Stand, the doll quickly attacks by either biting him or stabbing him with random objects like a spear, a straight razor or a broken bottle.
Covered with Scars: Having a Stand that requires you to get hurt will do that.
Creepy Child: In Heritage for the Future, being hit by Alessi's Stand shows that Devo's younger self is just as unhinged and sadistic as his adult version.
Creepy Doll: Devo's Stand uses this as its weapon; remotely controlling the doll with Ebony Devil's ability to possess inanimate objects. It might not sound effective, but when said doll is very fast, Ax-Crazy and armed with a spear and a straight razor (and by extension anything else it can get its hands on, like cables, beds, beer bottles and hairdryers), it becomes a surprising threat.
Creepy Shadowed Undereyes: He has impressive bags under his eyes (especially obvious in the manga), lending to his intimidating and uncanny appearance.
Cruel and Unusual Death: Polnareff uses Silver Chariot to cut him into so many pieces that his corpse looks like it was thrown into a woodchipper. We get to see the corpse, too. No wonder Polnareff was arrested.
Death by Irony: Remember all the scars he has? Well, as a result of Synchronization and Polnareff dispatching Ebony Devil by slicing the living daylights out of it, Devo is killed by suffering a few hundred (give or take a few twelve) new slashes... as though he'd received all his old, scar-giving wounds at once.
Defiant to the End: To his credit, he goes down swinging. When his doll loses its legs and finds itself at the mercy of Polnareff, it insults him instead of selling out the other Stand users or begging for mercy. It then crawls and lunges at Polnareff in a futile effort to attack, before being finally taken out.
Deliberate Injury Gambit: He taunts his opponents into attacking and injuring him, thus triggering his Stand.
Demonic Possession: Devo's Stand gives him the power to do this to inanimate objects, letting him control them from a distance. With how Ebony Devil works, the possessed object's speed and power both increase through how much of a grudge Devo has against his target.
Devil in Plain Sight: Polnareff doesn't seem to think too much of an African Creepy Doll sitting in his Singaporean hotel room. Then again, it's Polnareff.
Difficult, but Awesome: Devo is by far one of the hardest characters to learn effectively in Heritage for the Future due to his major emphasis on being a Puppet Fighter who can generally only control himself or his Creepy Doll at a time. That being said; mastering his ground control and properly timing and setting up the two from different points allows him to excel at pressure and can pull off some devastating double combos.
Dirty Coward: Subverted. He doesn't go to kill Polnareff until he has him incapacitated by stringing him up under the hotel bed and trapping him underneath it, though this makes sense since there's no way Ebony Devil's fragile doll could win against Silver Chariot. Once Polnareff finally manages to recover and he's forced to fight him face to face, Devo tries to make a run for it before Chariot cuts off the doll's legs, and at that point the fight is over in seconds. However, he still adopts a Defiant to the End attitude, insulting Polnareff and taking his offer of a last-ditch attack despite clearly having no chance of winning.
The Dreaded: He's an infamous Psycho for Hire who never left a living target or witness, and Avdol is horrified when hearing that he's coming for their group.
Dub Name Change: Twice. He was called "Soul Sacrifice" in the Viz manga and Crunchyroll subs, and "D'bo" in Heritage for the Future.
Electrified Bathtub: Ebony Devil's Creepy Doll tries to kill Polnareff in a variation of this manner, by soaking him in spilled beer and using a short-circuiting hairdryer to try and electrocute him.
Even Evil Has Standards: He makes a brief appearance in JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Crazy Diamond's Demonic Heartbreak, where he berates Hol Horse for always hiding behind people stronger than him and running when things get tough, a behavior Devo deems unbefitting of the Emperor card.
Evil Sorcerer: Played with. He's not actually a shaman, he just pretends to be one because the world doesn't know about Stands and it's a convenient excuse for his ability to "curse" people.
Exorcist Head: Ebony Devil's puppet head spins around repeatedly as a taunt/victory pose in Heritage for the Future, complete with a Slasher Smile as it brandishes its razor.
Expy: Ebony Devil, a sadistic, foul-mouthed, blade-wielding Creepy Doll who laughs like a maniac while it torments its victim, is clearly meant to be a homage to Chucky.
Eye Scream: Polnareff cuts out his eye... Just as Planned.
Facial Horror: What Devo has Ebony Devil do to a Bell Boy when he ends up accidentally intervening in his attempt to kill Polnareff. Polnareff warns him to get out of there while he still can, but Ebony Devil immediately leaps at the Bell Boy and slices his entire face off in one piece with a straight razor.
Fragile Speedster: Ebony Devil. While he's very fast, very Ax-Crazy and makes a point of not fighting fair, he ends up being immobilised in a few slashes by Polnareff once he tricks him into letting his guard down; and then taken down for good by Silver Chariot within only a few seconds. And because all the damage inflicted to the Stand carries over to Devo himself... well, the result isn't pretty.
Good Scars, Evil Scars: Many, many evil scars. Pretty much all of them are the result of him goading his targets into attacking him, so he can in turn kill them with his Power Of Hate.
Groin Attack: Ebony Devil's doll threatens to bite off Polnareff's testicles, complete with maniacal laughter and spinning head.
Hoist by His Own Petard: He's done in by the shared damage between him and his Stand.
Improbable Weapon User: Not only does Devo's Stand have an unusual Catch and Return gimmick, but when he's possessing the Creepy Doll in Polnareff's hotel room, he also uses objects such as a hotel bed, long cables, beer bottles (and the spilled beer), a shaving razor and a hairdryer to attack him.
Just Toying with Them: Ebony Devil's doll could have easily killed Polnareff multiple times once he was tied up and effectively blinded, but it opted to take its time tormenting him instead in order to satisfy Devo's grudge — a choice that proved fatal.
Knows the Ropes: Because Ebony Devil's doll is physically weak and wouldn't beat Silver Chariot in a fair fight, it uses electric cables to trap Polnareff under his hotel bed before going on the offensive.
Laughing Mad: Devo bursts into hysterical laughter after being injured by Polnareff, screaming about how much pain he's in and talking about the revenge he's about to get. This extends to his Stand, which spends most of the resulting fight cackling.
Leave No Witnesses: Devo's reason for having Ebony Devil violently kill a Bell Boy (see Facial Horror) that Polnareff had earlier called before he attacked.
Magical Native American: Possibly invoked. Looks the part of an evil one, and Avdol says he claims to be a shaman when he really is a Stand user in his Exposition Dump on him — likely as part of his whole "curse" image to his clients. Not enough is seen of him to judge about the personality outside of his creepy and sadomasochistic tendencies, though. Ironically enough, Heritage for the Future establishes him as "a killer who is said to have been a medicine man" in particular.
Make It Look Like an Accident: According to Avdol, the hits he carries out with Ebony Devil are designed so that, to those who aren't in the know about Stands, the targets look like they fell victim to a curse, or simply some form of tragic accident.
Maniac Tongue: Devo has a tendency to stick out his Overly-Long Tongue when he's controlling Ebony Devil — most notably in Heritage for the Future — which really adds to how unhinged he comes off as.
Mood-Swinger: Both Devo himself and Ebony Devil switch from suave calm, to Tranquil Fury, to Laughing Mad Ax-Crazy and back again on a whim.
Morphic Resonance: The doll Ebony Devil possesses has brown (or green) eyes like him, and one of them is left bloodshot and damaged after Silver Chariot stabbed Devo's own eye.
Obfuscating Stupidity: Polnareff calls him an idiot for hiding in the fridge while forgetting to hide the drinks he'd removed from there, leading to his discovery. Unfortunately, Devo lets his targets find and hurt him on purpose in order to activate his Stand, and the resulting fight between Polnareff and Ebony Devil proves that he's far from stupid (though rather Ax-Crazy).
The Power of Hate: His Stand is powered by his anger at those who have wounded or otherwise hurt him. The angrier he gets, the more vicious and dangerous it becomes.
Devo: Now look what you've done... Polnareff! Hehehehahaha...! Damn! How dare you do this to me?! HAHAHAHAHA! It hurts! It really... really hurts! HAHAHAHAHAHA! The pain...! Curse you! How dare you?! How dare you do that to me?! Now I can hold one hell of a grudge against you! Hahahaha! Such torture... such agony must be avenged! And you're the pathetic one, Polnareff! I let you find me and attack me on purpose! YOU'RE A DEAD MAN, NOW!
Powers Do the Fighting: The real Devo just runs away and hides after getting injured during battles. His Stand, however...
Psycho for Hire: It even mentions that he has been hired by governments, military officers, the Mafia, and other criminal organizations prior to DIO, and in his Heritage for the Future ending, experiences a huge boom in business as the most feared assassin in the world after he kills both DIO and the Joestar Group.
Puppet Fighter: In Heritage for the Future, his Creepy Doll can be controlled separately from him, switching between the two with a press of the Stand button. This means that while the doll is being controlled, Devo himself is completely helpless and takes more damage than usual; likewise, if Devo is being controlled, the doll falls down immobile outside of his Supers, so it takes a lot of foresight, planning and exact timing to have the two effectively attack together. He also happens to be the first example of such a character in fighting game history.
"The Reason You Suck" Speech: He delivers a rather spot-on one to Hol Horse in Crazy Diamond's Demonic Heartbreak, which is shown still haunting him years later.
Devo: There's nothing Emperor-like about you, Hol Horse. You're an eternal number two, always hiding behind someone else's ass. Tell me, how does J. Geil's look from back there? […] Always cowering behind a bigger man, and then making yourself scarce when things get tough. Some Emperor you'd make.
Red Eyes, Take Warning: Devo's eyes are red in Heritage for the Future.
Refrigerator Ambush: Shockingly enough, played seriously. He attempts one on Polnareff, who quickly notices the odd cans and bottles left in plain sight in a well-run hotel and asks Devo to reveal himself. Of course, Devo says he planned on being found so that he'd be wounded and develop the grudge needed to power Ebony Devil.
Roaring Rampage of Revenge: The basis of his power against the Joestar group.
Sadist: While he relishes being hit due to how his Stand works, Devo also clearly enjoys inflicting even more pain on his victims in turn, before killing them as violently as possible. It's especially evident through the unhinged nature of the Creepy Doll his Stand possesses.
Sir Swears-a-Lot: Devo (and by extension his Stand and the Creepy Doll it possesses) is remarkably crass and vulgar even by Part 3 standards, constantly insulting Polnareff during their fight, threatening to bite his balls off and regretting being unable to piss on the ground to make it even wetter before electrocuting him.
Super-Speed: Downplayed. Ebony Devil's doll is fast, no doubt about it, but the reason it's able to last as long as it does against Silver Chariot is because it's small, moves so erratically, and most crucially because Silver Chariot relies on Polnareff's own eyes to keep track of a target it's basically fighting blind for most of the battle since Polnareff is stuck under the bed unable to get a good look at the doll. The instant Polnareff manages to get a good look at where Ebony Devil is and keep it in sight upon freeing himself, Silver Chariot literally slices the doll apart without a prayer of retaliation or escape.
Synchronization: His Creepy Doll is manipulated by his Stand, but it also means that he feels pain and gets injured for every damage the doll receives.
Tarot Motifs: The Devil card symbolizes materialism, obsession, hatred, addiction, and overindulgence. Being an assassin, Devo is paid to kill people and clearly enjoys doing so. If anyone attacks Devo, Ebony Devil will retaliate against the attacker relative to how much hatred Devo feels towards them, and judging by the scars on his body and how he reacts to Silver Chariot stabbing him, he's done this numerous times and relishes the pain he feels.
Undignified Death: Devo gets one of the most embarrassing deaths in the entire series. He's not only literally shredded apart thanks to Silver Chariot destroying Ebony Devil and re-opening all his old wounds at once, but his remains are also found slumped on a toilet by the cleaner.
Villainous Valor: Even after Ebony Devil's puppet's legs are cut off by Silver Chariot, it crawls towards Polnareff in an attempt to make good on its earlier threats before dying.
Weak, but Skilled: In order to make up for the frail doll it possesses, Ebony Devil takes full advantage of the terrain, wits, and trickery in its fight against Polnareff and Silver Chariot.

Rubber Soul

Rubber Soul (Stand: Yellow Temperance)

Voiced by: Shinji Kawada (TV anime), Mitsuaki Madono (Heritage for the Future video game) (Japanese), Ray Chase (TV anime) (English)

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A mercenary of DIO's who uses his Stand to pose as Kakyoin during the party's stay in Singapore. He is named after The Beatles album Rubber Soul.

His Stand, Yellow Temperance, takes the form of a blob-like substance that can change its consistency and appearance to anything he chooses. It allows him to perfectly mimic anyone he sees physically, though he still needs to act like them. His odd behaviors and antagonistic attitude eventually give him away.

'80s Hair: A mullet.
Bad Powers, Bad People: Rubber Soul is a narcissistic, greedy, and petty coward, and his power relies on eating things to keep it active.
Big, Stupid Doodoo-Head: Considering how vulgar and childish he is, Rubber Soul is fond of hurling these sorts of insults when he gains the upper hand.
Rubber Soul: TELL ME I'M LUCKY, YOU BALL-LESS LITTLE BUTT-MUNCH!
Blob Monster: Yellow Temperance itself.
Bunny-Ears Lawyer: While he doesn't bother to attempt replicating personalities, he is good at reproducing mannerisms, as he copied a Character Tic of Kakyoin — rolling cherries around on his tongue before eating them — that Jotaro had never picked up on despite having traveled with him for a while.
Catchphrase Insult: "Bichi-guso" (ビチグソ), which roughly translates to "shithead".
Creepy High-Pitched Voice: In the English dub, Rubber Soul's normal voice is very high-pitched and prone to cracking and whining, which adds to both how sinister and insufferably smug he is.
Combat Pragmatist: Tries to surprise Jotaro with a sneak attack after getting caught in the water.
Dirty Coward: When he's punched, he spills the info on the other Stand users to save his skin. He also expects Jotaro to go light on him with the excuse of joking around and being badly injured... even after he'd already tried attacking him after surrendering once.
Rubber Soul: Wait, hang on a second... you're not thinking about punching me any more, are ya? I'm seriously injured, here. My nose is badly broken, and my jaw is going to have to be wired shut! Ah ha... hahahahahaha…!
Disproportionate Retribution: While disguised as Kakyoin, Rubber Soul stops a thief from stealing his wallet, only to then mercilessly assault the thief in question, kneeing him in the face hard enough to draw blood and torturing him with a backbreaker while swearing like a sailor, forcing Jotaro to intervene before he can kill the thief. This uncharacteristically violent and vulgar behavior is the first thing that tips off Jotaro and Anne that there's something wrong with "Kakyoin".
Drama-Preserving Handicap: His physical copying abilities are impeccable. The only thing that blows his cover is that he prefers to play vulgar parodies of the originals instead of doing believable impersonations of them, and that he immediately rushes into picking fights instead of doing the sensible thing and using his powers for more covert schemes like subtle sabotage and relaying information.
Dub Name Change: Heritage for the Future changed it to Robber Soul, which is still a Meaningful Name.
Extreme Omnivore: Yellow Temperance can eat anyone and anything to increase its power, and Rubber Soul himself — in his Kakyoin disguise — is seen loudly chowing down on large beetles he picked off a tree in front of Anne, which immensely creeps her out.
Facial Horror: Rubber Soul just couldn't resist bragging about his handsome face, so Jotaro sees fit to punish him by having Star Platinum pound said face into mush.
The Fighting Narcissist: He can't help but draw attention to his looks even in battle; Jotoro punishes him, rather fittingly, by destroying that pretty face of his with Star Platinum's Rapid-Fire Fisticuffs.
Forced to Watch: The aforementioned scene where he uses Yellow Temperance to kill and eat a family's pet dog in the Cable Car. He didn't need to do it, but Rubber Soul evidently takes sadistic glee in crushing it as slowly and painfully as possible with them powerless to stop him.
Gratuitous English: DO YOU UNDERSTAAAAAAAND?
Hate Sink: He's clearly meant to be hated as much as possible, from his irritating smugness to the audacity of him asking to be let off the hook after trying to not only torture and murder Jotaro multiple times, but then attack him again after he had already begged for mercy once and got off with a few broken bones. Needless to say, he's one of the Stand Users that Jotaro evidently shows the most disgust and contempt for.
Jotaro: (shrugging off Rubber Soul's weaseling) Just shut up already. I have nothing more to say to you, you're way too pathetic. (readies Star Platinum off-screen) I'm done wasting my breath.
Head Swap: Is one in his appearance in Heritage for the Future as a playable character. While Rubber Soul wears his Kakyoin disguise the whole time and even uses a fake Hierophant Green alongside Yellow Temperance to boost his attack power, he's slightly taller, wears a yellow outfit (instead of the usual green), has vibrant red hair, and speaks with his own voice. His face is also far less human; with a liquid-like mouth, Overly-Long Tongue (that he sticks out to do his "RERO RERO RERO" taunt), and has creepy under-shadowed Yellow Eyes of Sneakiness. With certain attacks and if he wins, he removes the top half of his disguise to reveal his true self; and if he gets KO'd, it drips off on its own.
Honor Among Thieves: Subverted. Rubber Soul initially refuses to sell out the other assassins to Jotaro after his defeat, but quickly changes his mind when threatened and ends up giving crucial information on J. Geil in particular.
Imposter Forgot One Detail: Inverted; For the most part, he did a terrible job of impersonating Kakyoin. That being said, as the ending shows, he actually got the cherry licking correct.
Jerkass: And how. On top of being a ridiculously-smug, narcissistic idiot who goes out of his way to hurt and viciously taunt his victims while he's impersonating or killing them, he's a shameless Dirty Coward who expects to be let off the hook by deflecting the blame onto and selling out his allies in the other Stand Users, and claiming he's just joking: both classic Schoolyard Bully tactics when confronted.
"Just Joking" Justification: Once Jotaro finally gets the upper hand against him, Rubber Soul tries to weasel his way out of his (by this point, long-overdue) punishment by sheepishly claiming that he wasn't being serious about killing him and his friends, despite trying to do so multiple times and smugly threatening them the whole time. Needless to say, Jotaro isn't fooled for a second.
Rubber Soul: I-I was only kidding around, Mister Jotaro! I swear, I was just messing with ya, buddy! I didn't mean anything by it, okay...? Be cool, man, be cool! It was just a prank!
Kick the Dog: While fighting Jotaro, he takes his time crushing to death and then consuming a pet dog in front of their family (including a young boy) with Yellow Temperance purely for kicks in the Cable Car.
Laser-Guided Karma: His narcissism makes Rapid-Fire Fisticuffs to the face rather fitting.
Man, I Feel Like a Woman: Rubber Soul does this to creepy effect when he reveals himself to be disguised as an overweight woman in the cable car Jotaro tries to escape from him and Yellow Temperance in, groping her (his own) breasts with a look that shows he's clearly enjoying everything.
Most Definitely Not a Villain: When disguised as Kakyoin, he doesn't even try to act intelligent and reasonable like he normally should, but very barbaric and coarse. Although, given Yellow Temperance's abilities and functions, he may very well be doing so on purpose in order for Jotaro to hit him.
Narcissist: He sees himself as beautiful, and acts vulgar when posing as other people due to his low opinion of them. Very fittingly, Jotaro makes sure to destroy his face with Star Platinum when he defeats him.
Nigh-Invulnerable: Yellow Temperance can change its consistency to anything Rubber Soul wants. Texture, resilience, conductivity — infinite control over all of them, so there's no way to harm it. Why the "nigh"? Because Rubber Soul himself isn't invincible, and he makes himself far too obvious while disguised.
No-Holds-Barred Beatdown: Jotaro thought his broken nose or jaw wasn't enough.
Jotaro: Before, you only got away with a broken nose. When I'm done, YOU WON'T HAVE ANY BONES LEFT TO BREAK!
"Oh, Crap!" Smile: Gives a very satisfying one when Jotaro grabs him out of the water after smashing his face in with a manhole cover and sending him flying into the sea.
Out-of-Character Alert: He gives them out systematically, as he prefers to act incredibly rude when in disguise instead of imitating their personality, but Jotaro actually takes some time to become suspicious of him. Ironically, the thing that ultimately gives him away to Jotaro — the infamous "Rero rero rero" scene — ends up being a subversion; as it turns out that the actual Kakyoin does it with cherries, too.
Palette Swap: Is one of Kakyoin in Heritage for the Future, referencing how he disguises himself as him in the original series. The real Rubber Soul can be seen removing the disguise in his win pose and taunt, and Yellow Temperance similarly drips off of his upper half when he's KO'd.
Perfect Disguise, Terrible Acting: Yellow Temperance allows him to change his appearance, but the fact that he doesn't bother to act like the people he's impersonating allows Jotaro to slowly figure out that "Kakyoin" is an imposter because the latter is acting like a vulgar parody of the real deal. Ironically, what fully convinces Jotaro he's not Kakyoin (the infamous cherry licking moment) was actually the only thing he got right about Kakyoin's character.
Power Copying: Rubber Soul does this in Heritage for the Future by using a fake, Evil Knockoff version of Hierophant Green alongside Yellow Temperance in his Kakyoin disguise. It gives him access to some of Hierophant Green's techniques, like the Emerald Splash and its extendable limbs.
Powerful, but Incompetent: Yellow Temperance is an incredibly strong Stand: none of Jotaro's attacks did any permanent damage to it, it has no obvious weaknesses, and its shapeshifting means that Rubber Soul can infiltrate a group with ease. A smarter wielder could have probably wiped out the whole Joestar Group by just isolating them and eating them one by one. Fortunately for the good guys, Rubber Soul is an idiot who blows his disguises by acting like a jackass, lets Jotaro escape multiple times, and gets lured into a trap in a fashion that suggests he forgot he was capable of drowning.
Pretty Boy: A big part of his narcissism is that he looks handsome, often considering himself far more so than the people he copies.
Psychopathic Manchild: Rubber Soul's oversized ego and fondness for childish insults are very remiscent of a nasty spoiled child. In particular, with his shameless cowardice and willingness to deflect blame and falsely claim he's just joking when the consequences of his acts of malice finally catch up to him, he's reminiscent of a school bully who never actually matured beyond that.
Smug Snake: He’s obnoxiously overconfident in his abilities, to the point where he deliberately goads Jotaro into a fight rather than simply using his disguises to gather intel or sabotage the Joestar Group.
Stealth Pun: While disguised as Kakyoin, Rubber Soul is seen eating beetles off of a tree.
Tarot Motifs: The Temperance card usually represents balance, open-mindedness, and the merging of different energies. But it can also represent inconsistency and an inability to commit. Yellow Temperance absorbs organic matter into itself, Rubber Soul himself flip-flops between submitting to Jotaro and trying to kill him, and his unpleasant personality prevents him from committing to his disguises for long.
Too Dumb to Live: Although it's made clear from the beginning that Rubber Soul thinks he's a lot smarter than he actually is, attacking Jotaro again after he'd already surrendered once and managed to only get away with a broken nose — which is getting off incredibly easy by Star Platinum's usual standards — really goes to show just how arrogant and flat-out stupid he truly is. Needless to say, he pays for it dearly.
Unskilled, but Strong: In contrast to the more Weak, but Skilled fellow shapeshifter Oingo, he's terrible at impersonating people, but still manages to be a big threat due to his powerful Stand. That being said, it's still nowhere near as good as Rubber Soul himself believes it to be.
Villains Want Mercy: Twice. The moment he thinks his Stand can't protect him, he tries to beg Jotaro for mercy, with the excuse of his nose and jaw being broken. When Jotaro lets his guard down, Rubber Soul tries attacking him again, only to fail. This time, Jotaro already has had enough of him.
Voluntary Shapeshifter: This is shown by using his Stand to transform into Kakyoin and an unnamed woman.
Walking Shirtless Scene: For all his time uncloaked by his Stand, Rubber Soul wears nothing on top.
Wrestler in All of Us: When disguised as Kakyoin, he uses an Argentine backbreaker rack on a pickpocket.
Yellow Eyes of Sneakiness:
- He has gold eyes in the anime, and is an assassin who uses his Stand to disguise himself as other people before eliminating his targets.
- This is also part of his chara design as Fake Kakyoin in Heritage for the Future.

Hol Horse

See DIO's Household.

J. Geil

J. Geil (Stand: Hanged Man)

Voiced by: Takuya Kirimoto (TV anime and All-Star Battle R), Fumihiko Tachiki (All-Star Battle), Shigeru Chiba (CD drama), Mugihito (OVA), Yoshito Yasuhara (Heritage for the Future video game) (Japanese), David Arendash (OVA), Tom Fahn (TV anime) (English)

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^{Hanged Man}

"You sacrificed your entire youth just to hunt me down, and just when you're close, you're going to fail to avenge your sister? How pathetic and sad! Meanwhile, I, J. Geil, will continue a life surrounded by young beauties, like your sister! I can see it now! Oh, the pleasures! Heh heh! Come to think of it, that sweet sister of yours... was really good at sobbing!"

A mercenary of DIO as well as Enya's son. He is the one who killed Polnareff's sister and is later partnered with Hol Horse. He is named after The J. Geils Band (with his dub name being named after their song, "Centerfold").

His Stand, Hanged Man, can travel between the reflections in objects, and can temporarily manifest onto a victim to attack — typically via stabbing them with retractable wrist-mounted knives — before vanishing. Its true form is a small spark of light that has to physically jump from reflection to reflection.

Adaptational Ugliness: Although J. Geil was always hideous, he somehow manages to look even worse in the OVA. There, his Monochromatic Eyes are yellow and bloodshot, his teeth are horribly deformed and rotten, his face is very gaunt and rat-like and he gets several disgustingly detailed close-ups of his mouth; in particular, drooling and licking his lips over recounting the torture, rape and murder of the teenage Sherry to Polnareff.
Ambiguously Human: His glazed white eyes, horrible deformities and two right hands beg the question of whether or not J. Geil is even human. Though, it's likely just a result of birth defects.
Arch-Enemy: To Polnareff, being the one who defiled and murdered his teenage sister Sherry.
Assist Character: Hanged Man is one to Hol Horse in multiple video game adaptations; often popping up to either slow Hol's opponent down (or trap them in one area while he attacks them) or to stab them as part of one of the gunslinger's Supers. It also makes a notable appearance in one of Hol Horse's win poses in Heritage for the Future; where he shoots a bullet hole through the screen which Hanged Man crawls up close to, so it can laugh cruelly at and give a Death Glare to the player.
Ax-Crazy: With his raging bloodlust and entire laundry list of crimes (including being a Serial Killer and rapist with a love for Cold-Blooded Torture) which he shows nothing but pride over, J. Geil is easily one of DIO's most violently deranged followers.
Bald of Evil: 100% bald, 100% evil.
Barbarian Longhair: A flashback reveals he had rather long hair, and as a Psychopathic Manchild Serial Killer, he's definitely earned the title of "barbarian."
Batman Gambit: His plan to kill Polnareff hinges on manipulating his anger and desire for revenge, tricking him into making mistakes and ultimately killing him after rubbing it in completely that he failed.
Blade Below the Shoulder: Hanged Man has a pair of long retractable knives on its arms — one for each wrist — for weapons, and most often uses them to stab opponents after it's grabbed hold of them.
British Teeth: In the OVA, J. Geil has particularly disgusting and deformed teeth as well as a more narrow and bony jawline; which gives him a distinct, fittingly rat-like appearance. His teeth are only slightly less deformed in the anime, but still count.
Creepy High-Pitched Voice: In the anime, he's given a disturbingly high-pitched, raspy voice to add to his Psychopathic Manchild image. The English dub takes it a bit further by making his voice outright Joker-esque.
Cruel and Unusual Death:
- If getting his body split in half wasn't bad enough, he then proceeds to get turned into a Human Pincushion by Polnareff, gets stabbed through the mouth, thrown into the air, and finally impaled on a gate, headfirst, A gruesome fate for someone that deserved every second of it.
- His death in the OVA is similarly gruesome, being tangled in barbed wire and left to slowly bleed to death in addition to all the things Polnareff subjected him to in the anime/manga.
Dirty Coward: Immediately begs for his life after spending the fight mocking Polnareff for the deaths of his sister and Avdol. Remarkably, he's even more of one in the OVA; where, after also doing the above, he immediately begins crying, crawling away, and telling Polnareff that "he'll do anything" to be spared. Prior to slaughtering him, the Frenchman immediately and disgustedly points out that Sherry must have told him the same thing before he killed her, but he still did it anyway.
Disney Villain Death: Downplayed example in the OVA. Hanged Man being slashed by Silver Chariot badly injures J. Geil and causes him to accidentally stumble off the rooftop of a tall building he was hiding on to attack Polnareff and Kakyoin; crippling him upon hitting the ground. While he survives that, it doesn't take long for the duo to track him down and give him his brutal, well-deserved end.
Dub Name Change: Copyright issues made his original name unusable in the dub.
- The OVA and Heritage for the Future change his name to J. Gale.
- The 2010s anime renames him Centerfold, a reference to the song of the same name by The J. Geils Band. While the original Japanese sub and fansubs keeps it intact, the official English subtitles try to maintain continuity by calling him "Centerfold" despite the fact that the Japanese audio clearly has his name spoken as "J. Geil".
Ephebophile: He has a particular fondness for targeting teenage girls.
Even Evil Can Be Loved: Despite being one of the most vile individuals in the franchise — arguably tied with Angelo from Part 4, Diavolo and Cioccolata from Part 5, and Heaven Ascension DIO from Eyes of Heaven — his mother Enya loved him enough to become totally distraught over his death and go on a Roaring Rampage of Revenge as a result. He never talks about his mother however, so it's unclear if the feeling was mutual.
Evil Makes You Ugly: Definitely ugly with no kindness whatsoever.
Empty Eyes: His eyes are usually seen as nothing but pure whites, accentuating his inhuman characteristics. The irises only appear when he's freaked out.
Evil Gloating: Fond of this, especially telling how he murdered Polnareff's sister.
Evil Sounds Deep: Hanged Man speaks with a very deep, demonically-distorted voice in its Heritage for the Future appearances, notably when it shows up to stab the opponent in one of Hol Horse's Supers.
Explaining Your Powers to the Enemy: Subverted. J. Geil lies about how his powers work. He claims his Stand inhabits a "mirror world", but it actually just stays on a single reflective surface at a time.
Gonk: And unlike most other examples, in a genuinely unnerving fashion. After all, his appearance is based on horror movie actor Michael Berryman.
Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow: A flashback revealed that he had a full head of long hair in his youth.
Half the Man He Used to Be: The ultimate fate of Hanged Man. After being forced to go to the shiny surface of a coin Kakyoin drew a crowd's attention to and flipped high into the air, Silver Chariot intercepts it on the way and bisects it vertically; destroying it and leaving J. Geil himself crippled and helpless.
Hate Sink: He's one of the least sympathetic characters in the entire series, being just a Smug Snake and a Serial Killer and rapist of teenaged girls; which makes it all the more satisfying when Polnareff hunts him down and gives him a fittingly brutal death.
Human Pincushion: Turned into one and said word for word by Polnareff — who didn't trust the denizens of hell to do it for him — being turned to Swiss Cheese by Silver Chariot before being hurled into the air (either by Silver Chariot flicking its sword upward through his mouth in the anime/manga, or being punched through Silver Chariot by Polnareff himself in the OVA) and being impaled upside-down on a gate (being tangled in barbed wire as well in the OVA) and slowly bleeding out.
Human Shield: Is pretty fond of manifesting his Stand inside people's eyes, forcing the heroes to either let themselves get killed or put out an innocent bystander's eyes. Fortunately, the heroes are able to Take a Third Option each time, always involving kicking sand into people's eyes instead.
Inelegant Blubbering: In the OVA, when he's crippled by having Hanged Man destroyed and from falling from a high rooftop he was hiding on, he immediately starts sobbing, begging for his life and trying to crawl away when Polnareff and Kakyoin confront him; fittingly enough, the exact state he loved seeing his own victims in.
Informed Flaw: Like Emperor, Hanged Man is vulnerable to flames according to Hol Horse that he considered Avdol to be the greatest threat if it weren't for the fact that the duo successfully stab him in the back and shoot a bullet into his head. Thankfully, Avdol survives the shot.
In the Back: His favored assassination method, sending Hanged Man to grab opponents from behind before stabbing them in the back with its retractable daggers. This happens to Avdol while he's distracted by trying to stop one of Hol Horse's homing bullets; manifesting out of a puddle and stabbing him in the back, which exposes him to being shot in the head afterward. This ultimately backfires, though, in that being stabbed by Hanged Man allowed Avdol's head to point upward right at the point Hol Horse's bullet hit, causing it to miss his brain and become a non-lethal injury that only renders him comatose.
I Was Quite the Looker: A flashback reveals that, in his youth, J. Geil was quite handsome and muscular; now he's completely bald, is hardly seen standing up, and his former looks have vanished in favour of being dumpy and ugly.
Jerkass: Certainly the most sadistic of DIO's men, and with his murderous lust for underage girls and disgusting levels of arrogance and cowardice, among the most loathsome.
Knight of Cerebus: Unlike previous villains like Rubber Soul who are Laughably Evil, J. Geil is a horrible shitbag of a human being and everything about him is played seriously, on top of him being rather smart for a Smug Snake.
Laser-Guided Karma: In either the manga or OVA, he's either stabbed multiple times or punched so hard that he lands on spikes that impale him, both times by Polnareff. The last time we see him, his corpse is hanging upside down and left to bleed out. In Tarot symbolism, Hanged Man is usually upside down as well. Fittingly, the anime shows his Lucky Land-style card like so.
Light Is Not Good: Hanged Man behaves like light, able to bounce instantly from one reflective surface to another. J. Geil, on the other hand, is probably the most monstrous of DIO's henchman.
Looks Like Orlok: J. Geil has a number of Orlockian traits, such as a bald head, hunched posture, pointed ears, and sharp fingernails. The OVA gives him an even more Orlock-inspired design by adding a sickly gray complexion, rat-like incisors, and a narrow, bony jawline.
Loves the Sound of Screaming: He loves hearing his victims sob and beg for their lives, and he's raped and murdered quite a few women in order to experience it, including Polnareff's sister, which he gloats about.
Manipulative Bastard: Likes to hide his Stand in people's orbits — knowing that the heroes wouldn't kill or injure an innocent, as he gleefully rubs in their faces whenever he can.
Marionette Motion: Appropriately enough given its name, Hanged Man jerks and shambles about like a marionette, moving its body and limbs in unnatural ways as it stalks its victims.
Meaningful Name:
- His surname, Geil, is pronounced like the word guile, fitting the underhanded, backstabbing tactics of Hanged Man. His mother, Enya Geil, is similarly crafty, so it runs in the family.
- His dub name, Centerfold, is named after one of The J. Geils Band's songs, "Centerfold", as well as centerfolds, which is a photo of a nude or scantily-clad model. It reflects his sadistic, perverted mind and the horrific way he treats women — with one of his victims being Polnareff's younger sister, Sherry.
Megaton Punch: Gets taken out this way in the OVA: after being crippled by having Hanged Man fatally slashed in half, falling off a tall building and then being skewered full of holes by Silver Chariot, Polnareff uppercuts J. Geil through his own Stand to send him flying; being impaled head-first through a spiked iron gate and tangled in barbed wire before being left to bleed out slowly.
Monochromatic Eyes: He has very tiny pupils, which normally aren't seen; giving him the unnerving appearance of plain white eyes on top of his other ugliness.
Mummy: Rather fittingly, Hanged Man resembles a grave-rotted Mummy.
No Celebrities Were Harmed: Bears a striking resemblance to horror movie actor Michael Berryman.
Non-Indicative Name: In the English dub; you wouldn't expect a monstrously ugly and evil guy like him to have a name like "Centerfold," would you?
Obviously Evil: When fully revealed outside of the all-over disguise he wears around Hol Horse, that is. After all, his appearance is based on famous horror villain actor, Michael Berryman.
Pædo Hunt: It's heavily implied that the teenage girls he raped and murdered were underage.
Pointed Ears: To add to his list of borderline-inhuman appearance deficits, his ears are slightly pointed at the top.
Post-Rape Taunt: He actively taunts Polnareff over the fact that he raped and murdered his sister, describing her as feeling really good and loving the way she screamed. It doesn't help that once he's got Polnareff cornered and is ready to kill him, J. Geil proceeds to say that Polnareff's pathetic for failing to avenge Sherry, and that he'll continue to be surrounded by rapeable girls like his sister.
J. Geil: Come to think of it, that sweet sister of yours... was really good at sobbing!
Primal Stance: Adding to his inhuman appearance, he's constantly hunched over like a feral beast about to pounce on unsuspecting prey.
Pure Is Not Good: His mother describes him as pure. She's either completely oblivious or J. Geil embodies a particularly extreme variant of this trope.
Psycho for Hire: Even in comparison to DIO's other underlings.
Psycho Knife Nut: Hanged Man is armed with retractable wrist daggers, while J. Geil himself keeps a dagger on his person as his own weapon. J. Geil is also one of the most twisted, sadistic, and murderous Stand users around.
Psychopathic Manchild: He's a Serial Killer with the mentality of a Spoiled Brat, who acts like a bully during the fight. It is even stated his behavior when he's cornered is not so different from his teenage victims.
Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil: He raped Polnareff's sister before killing her (and almost killed one of her friends in the process, succeeding in the OVA), and she is just one of his many victims.
Red Right Hand: In his case, a left hand shaped like a right hand; likely a birth defect. Before Polnareff learns his name, he uses that as the predominant clue to hunting down his sister's killer.
Reflective Eyes: Takes advantage of this — the human cornea reflects light, which allows him to hide in it. At several points, Polnareff and Kakyoin look into someone's eyes and see Hanged Man in there.
Reflective Teleportation: Hanged Man exists solely in the reflections caused by mirrors, shiny surfaces, and even the reflection of a person's eye. It uses this metaphysical existence to attack its targets' reflections and cause the inflicted wounds to appear on their physical bodies. However, though it moves from reflection to reflection at light speed, it does so in a linear pathway, and as such, the heroes are able to manipulate the Stand into traveling in a pre-determined path, allowing them to wound it and J. Geil.
Riddle for the Ages: We never do find out what the "J" stands for in his name.
Sadist: Makes it very clear that he enjoys women screaming and inflicting guilt onto their loved ones.
Serial Killer: Noted to be a serial killer, just made worse after meeting DIO.
Serial Rapist: He's raped and murdered countless innocent people in his time.
The Sociopath: As an extremely monstrous individual, J. Geil fits the criteria with his extreme lack of guilt for using others as pawns, the countless women he's killed, and the guilt trip he puts Polnareff through when he seemingly kills Avdol, has a constant need to kill to stimulate his bloodlust, manipulates others into believing the nature of his powers to be something else, has an extremely high view of himself, and his chummy relationship with Hol Horse is implied to be one of convenience with no real care for his colleague.
Smug Snake: He's a particularly monstrous excuse for a person who acts high and mighty when he has the advantage, and even gloats about his laundry list of misdeeds to the heroes. The minute he loses the upper hand however, he pathetically begs for mercy and tries to flee.
Tarot Motifs:
- Possess a few traits of the Hanged Man. In a twisted sense, his teamwork with Hol Horse represents putting others first and waiting for a better opportunity, as he would wait for Hol Horse to set him up before attacking. When reversed, the Hanged Man can represent the inability to change, which goes to show that J. Geil is just as depraved as he was when he murdered Polnareff's sister. Finally, the card depicts a man hanging upside-down by his leg, and he dies in a similar fashion when Polnareff finally catches up to him and sends the bastard off to Hell.
- More relevantly, he serves as a Hanged Man for Polnareff. A major part of the card's meaning is a realization of truth, where the person puts aside their older beliefs and changes their ways for the better. The meeting with him is what motivates Polnareff to cast aside his self-centered attitude and become a better person, fighting altruistically rather than for revenge and caring for his comrades as much as they care for him.
Token Motivational Nemesis: For Polnareff, seeing as J. Geil raped and murdered his sister, but this is slightly downplayed thanks to him being the son of Enya, who is a Greater-Scope Villain for all of DIO's plans following the events of Stardust Crusaders.
Tongue Trauma: Polnareff's finishing blow has Silver Chariot's rapier pierce through J. Geil's tongue, which he then swings upward to rip through it and hurl him into the air.
Too Dumb to Live: After successfully getting the upper hand on Kakyoin and Polnareff into thinking they had him cornered, the man comes out of hiding just to taunt them and try to get them to attack some civilians as he takes potshots at them. Since they already know his stand's weakness, Kakyoin and Polnareff defeat his stand, and easily hunt down and kill J.Geil. If he had kept quiet and stayed hidden, he might've had a better chance at surviving.
Villainous Friendship: Downplayed with Hol Horse. The two work well as a team and even have some chummy chit-chat. It's clear that it's a relationship of convenience given that Hol Horse runs away immediately after J. Geil dies without avenging and given J. Geil's character, it's likely he wouldn't do the same if the scenario was reversed.
Villains Want Mercy: After Hanged Man is defeated by Silver Chariot, J. Geil begs Polnareff to spare his life. Considering up to this point that J. Geil is a remorseless pedophile and Serial Killer who raped and murdered Polnareff's sister and spent most of the fight taunting him with this fact, Polnareff isn't in a very forgiving mood.
Weaksauce Weakness: While a formidable stand, especially to those unprepared, Hanged Man is helpless to actually protect itself, as its movement is rather straight forward and predictable pattern once its trick is figured out. Likewise, when hiding in people's eyes, it can't stop anyone from blinking.
Writing Around Trademarks: In the English version of All-Star Battle and the anime, he's called Centerfold. Actually pretty clever, since that's the most popular song of the J. Geils Band.
Would You Like to Hear How They Died?: Whenever he puts Polnareff in a bind when he and Kakyoin are chasing him, J. Geil fondly and proudly recounts raping and murdering his teenage sister and near-fatally wounding her friend; both for the purpose of getting his pursuer angry enough to make costly mistakes, and firmly establishing himself as one evil son of a bitch.
You Killed My Father: Polnareff's main beef with him, not helped by what he did before that.

Nena

Nena (Stand: Empress)

Voiced by: Satsuki Yukino (TV anime), Megumi Toyoguchi (OVA), Junko Takeuchi (Heritage for the Future video game) (Japanese), Unknown (OVA), Dorothy Elias-Fahn (TV Anime) (English)

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^Empress

^{Real Form}

An assassin of DIO that poses as a woman attempting to flirt with the Joestar Group. She is named after the singer Nena.

Her Stand, Empress, manifests itself as a living growth on a person's body, manipulating and controlling their every move and growing stronger over time.

Adaptational Attractiveness: Due to being Demoted to Extra in the OVA, she is genuinely an attractive young woman instead of an ugly, overweight white woman pretending to be one.
Adaptational Dye-Job: In the manga and anime, her hair is dark brown leaning on black, while her skin is brown. The OVA gives her a lighter brown hair and fairer skin, making her closer to the real Nena yet maintaining her youthful looks.
Adaptational Heroism: In the OVA, she is an innocent young woman infatuated with Hol Horse instead of a villainous Stand user working for DIO, though this means she's Demoted to Extra as a Satellite Love Interest.
Adaptational Nice Guy: In the manga/anime, she's a devious, sadistic Stand user who pretends to be an innocent young woman to get the Joestar group's guard down so she could kill them for DIO. In the OVA, she is genuinely innocent as she appeared to be, and her feelings for Hol Horse are not part of some ploy to get close to the heroes, but out of love and naivety.
Bag of Holding: Somehow is able to grab a hold of food off the street while still in a growth form and being hidden by a jacket while Joseph's running at full speed. And not just small food but a head of lettuce and a chicken.
Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: She seduces Polnareff (which isn't that hard), preventing him from helping Joseph.
Bloody Murder: In order for Empress to work, she has to infect her target with her blood, allowing Empress to manifest itself on the target's body as a sentient scab.
Body Horror: Empress essentially subsumes whomever it parasitizes. It starts off looking like a scab, but as it eats, it gets more and more humanoid, and more resolute to eat its host. Ultimately, it's revealed that the real Nena isn't the Indian woman the heroes met, but a short fat white woman who was wearing that Indian woman's skin as a disguise. It gets worse when you consider that this is probably the ultimate fate of Empress's victims.
Cruel and Unusual Death: Empress eats its victims from the inside out, allowing its wielder to possess them and wear them like clothing. Empress itself has a fairly violent fate too, getting wrapped by Hermit Purple and shredded into bits — while the real Nena's mutilated corpse bursts out of her host body in a rather bloody and gruesome manner.
Demoted to Extra: In the OVA, she's just a Satellite Love Interest for Hol Horse to take advantage of and not a Stand User.
Gonk: Her real form is an ugly, overweight, short woman hiding in whatever body she is in at the time.
Manipulative Bitch: Appearing as a beautiful young woman seduced by Hol Horse, she is in truth a rather devious Stand user who wears the skin of her victims so she could get close to her targets and plant her Stand, Empress on them. This results in said targets suffering a Cruel and Unusual Death via being eaten alive and subsumed by a seemingly innocuous scab. Unfortunately for her, she later meets her fate when she ends up on the arm of Joseph Joestar, who turned out to be even craftier than her.
Oh, Crap!: Empress halts mid-sentence during her boasting when the liquid she was covered in suddenly starts hardening, trapping her in place. When Joseph smugly asks her to repeat her words, Empress shouts "COAL TAR!" as she realizes Joseph wasn't trying to drown her, but immobilize her. Her terror increases as Joseph predicts her pleas for mercy and makes it clear he intends to kill her using his own Stand, Hermit Purple.
Persona Non Grata: Because of her using Empress to blame Joseph for his doctor's murder, he and the rest of the Joestar Group become wanted criminals in India, forcing them to flee the country as soon as they possibly can.
Shout-Out: Her ability is very similar to the "Face Sore" story in the early Black Jack manga.
Taken for Granite: In a last-ditch effort to stop Empress, Joseph finds a barrel of coal tar and dunks her Stand into it. At first, Empress thinks he's trying to drown her and uses the opportunity to try stabbing at his neck with a rusted nail, nearly succeeding in doing so. Thankfully, by then, the coal tar had already hardened, trapping her and allowing Joseph to wrap her with Hermit Purple's vines and squeeze her to death.
Tarot Motifs: The Empress is a symbol of beauty, nurturing and giving birth/parenthood. The Stand user's initial appearance is that of a beautiful young woman, and the Stand itself is, ironically, a parasite, which mocks Joseph referring to him as its "father".
Tempting Fate: As she has Joseph cornered and dead-to-rights, Empress boasts that he made a fatal mistake, as "only Stands can defeat Stands", and that his life as a "leeching invalid" is about to end. Turns out Joseph is a Stand user, and didn't dunk Empress into a barrel of coal tar just to drown her, but immobilize her as the coal tar hardens. By the time she realizes this, Joseph had already turned the tables. As he has her wrapped up in Hermit Purple's vines, he throws Empress' words back in her face before jumping off a wall, squeezing and ripping her to shreds.
Underestimating Badassery: She wrongly assumed Joseph was nothing more than a senile old man with a weak Stand. She meets her demise when he outsmarts her. For bonus points, Joseph smugly asks her to repeat her interrupted boasting after she's immobilized in coal tar, claiming that his hearing isn't what it used to be.
Unwitting Pawn: In his Establishing Character Moment, Hol Horse sees her as a gullible young woman he can exploit, as he later tells J. Geil that women who are devoted enough to sacrifice their lives for him are "useful". Ironically, Nena herself is using Hol Horse to get close to the Joestar group so she can kill them. This is played more straight in the OVA, as Nena is reduced to a side character and thus doesn't have her manga/anime counterpart's sadistic deviousness.
Villains Want Mercy: Lampshaded by Joseph with his Abandoned Catchphrase after he turns the tides against Empress and is getting ready to kill her, making it pretty clear that after everything she put him through, she's not getting any.
Joseph: Next you'll say "Please stop it. I beg you!".
Empress: Please just stop it. I beg you! (gasps in horror as she realizes she just said what Joseph predicted)
Joseph: This will hurt me as much as it hurts you. But children can't depend on their parents forever. Once you've grown up... YOU GOT TO LEARN TO LIVE ON YOUR OWN!

ZZ (Stand: Wheel of Fortune)

Voiced by: Masami Iwasaki (TV anime) (Japanese), David Vincent (TV Anime) (English)

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This is Wheel of Fortune, ^{click here to see ZZ}

An assassin of DIO who ambushes the Joestars while they are driving in a car. He is named after ZZ Top.

His Stand, Wheel of Fortune, takes the shape of a car that he can control.

The Alleged Car: Double Subverted; Wheel of Fortune first appears as a slow, dirty clunker that causes our heroes some annoyance on the road. Then it turns into a deadly Cool Car when it's revealed to be an enemy stand; then, after ZZ is defeated and his stand fades away, the car that it was possessing turns out to be a barely-operable scrapheap.
Boisterous Weakling: He likes to taunt our heroes when he's safely hunkered inside his Cool Car, but once his stand is defeated, he's completely defenseless.
Breaking the Fourth Wall: In the manga and original Japanese dub of the anime, when he thinks he's slain Jotaro, he points his finger at the reader and declares "I win! This is the end of Part 3 of JoJo!" Of course, it's followed by a not-so-dead Jotaro replying "Oh yeah? Then who's gonna be the new main character? You better not say you." The English dub averts it.
ZZ: Your valiant hero finally bit the dust!
Jotaro: Is that so? And who exactly would replace me, Jotaro Kujo? Let me guess, you thought it'd be you, you roadhog.
Butt-Monkey: After losing to Jotaro and company, they leave him stranded out in the canyons tied to a rock and muzzled, and put up a sign saying he is a monk and this is part of his training and not to disturb him. They also take his car to replace the vehicle ZZ totaled.
Car Fu: His Stand lets him perform unusual feats with his car, such as driving on walls, shapeshifting, and shooting bullets of gasoline.
Cool and Unusual Punishment: After being defeated, he is tied up to a rock and gagged, and the heroes put a sign which reads: "I am training, please do not disturb me." It's a Brick Joke to the eccentric people training in painful positions and with painful objects that the Joestar Group sees around the road just before he attacks.
Cool Car: Played straight then subverted. Wheel of Fortune starts at as a badass car then after ZZ's defeat his car is revealed to be a piece of crap.
Dub Name Change: Often written as Zii Zii.
Evil Sounds Raspy: He has a very coarse voice.
Feet of Clay: The second type: the heroes just see his muscular arms at first, but it turns out the whole rest of him is scrawny, and he's a total coward once his Stand is defeated.
Geek Physiques: Because ZZ spends the entire fight safely hunkered inside his Stand, our heroes only see his muscular arms... but after he's forced to exit the car, the Joestar Group are amused to find out that ZZ's arms are the only physically fit part of his body, as he's quite scrawny and with a noticeable pot-belly.
Gonk: With his unusual hairstyle, scrawny body, and disproportionately beefy arms, he's quite an odd-looking fellow.
One-Winged Angel: He is able to transform his Stand into a more... menacing form.
Only in It for the Money: Admits this after he is defeated.
Shout-Out:
- The whole fight is basically an extended reference to "Killer Car" movies. Its power to repair itself is right from Christine, and several moments in the arc are lifted wholesale from Duel ^*. Wheel of Fortune's normal sedan form is also reminiscent of the more obscure killer car film The Car.
- Wheel of Fortune resembles the car on the cover of the ZZ Top album Eliminator◊, further alluding to his namesake.
Sinister Car: ZZ's Stand power transforms his beat up car into a relentless killing machine with spikes all over, that can repair itself from most damage and even climb walls.
Tarot Motifs: The Wheel of Fortune card symbolizes change and maneuvering through life. Wheel of Fortune has the ability to shapeshift, repair itself, and traverse different kinds of terrain, even up mountain cliffs. In a more literal sense, cars have wheels.
This Was His True Form: After ZZ's defeat Wheel of Fortune leaves his car, revealing it to be an old clunker.

Enya the Hag

See DIO's Household.

Steely Dan

Steely Dan (Stand: Lovers)

Voiced by: Daisuke Kishio (TV anime), Mitsuaki Madono (Heritage for the Future video game) (Japanese), Grant George (TV anime) (English)

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^Lovers

A mercenary hired by DIO to kill Enya in case she told anything about his secrets and holds Joseph hostage. He is named after Steely Dan. He also sells overpriced kebabs to foreigners.

His Stand, Lovers, allows him to enter a person's body and stimulate their pain receptors until they die, forcing Jotaro to bend to his will.

Ain't Too Proud to Beg: When Lovers is defeated in Joseph's brain, he frantically begs Jotaro for mercy and even licks his shoe. However, this is a ploy to keep him distracted from his Stand returning to invade Jotaro's head next. When this fails, he genuinely begs for his life and Jotaro is willing to let him go with a few broken bones. Dan wastes no time trying to exploit this and, when it fails, he begs Jotaro for his life again. It doesn't work again.
Bait the Dog: During his initial guise as a merchant, he engages Joseph in a playful haggle, coming across as a nice if not underhanded fellow who swindles his client. He then exposes himself, has Enya killed while coldly telling her that DIO wanted her dead for her failure while also needing to keep her sensitive knowledge secret in spite of her loyalty, and proceeds to use Joseph as a hostage to make Jotaro do increasingly petty tasks, revealing an insufferably smug and cowardly personality.
The Bully: He's basically a schoolyard bully all grown up, and the majority of his screentime is spent abusing and humiliating Jotaro in the pettiest ways he can think of while rubbing his face in his inability to fight back.
Combat Pragmatist: Justified. As there is no way his Stand can take any other Stand on in a straight fight, he has to rely on deceptive tactics and his own wit to sneak Lovers into his opponent's heads.
Con Artist: First appears disguised as a doner kebab salesman and hustles Joseph out of his money after letting Joseph think he's got the upper hand at haggling. Jotaro didn't recover his grandfather's money or the money Steely Dan took from him after beating him up, ironically.
Dirty Coward: Since his Stand allows him to have the other person suffer more than him, he abuses the fact that he's untouchable, only to pathetically cower and beg for his life once that's no longer an option.
Dub Name Change:
- To Rubber Soul in the 2005 VIZ release of the manga. A Dub Induced Plothole and a nonsense aversion of One-Steve Limit is avoided only by the fact that the name of Yellow Temperance's User is never actually uttered or printed in either version of the manga. It's only in supplementary material and the video games.
- The English release of Heritage for the Future changed it to S-Terry Dan.
- Following Crunchyroll's subtitles, the dub for the anime adaptation and the new Western JoJonium translations names him "Dan of Steel".
Dub Text: There's a small, but significant change in timing during the scene where Jotaro defeats him for good:
- The Japanese dub has Steely Dan scream loudly after Jotaro knocks him through a brick wall after beating him with Star Platinum, showing the audience that he's still alive.
- The English dub has "Dan of Steel" let out a comparatively-quiet scream that gets cut off on impact, implying that Jotaro either killed him or knocked him comatose upon impact.
Evil Eyebrows: He has thin eyebrows with small gaps shaved into them.
Evil Is Petty: He puts Jotaro in a position where he can't harm him without hurting his own grandfather. How he takes advantage of it? By making Jotaro complete ridiculous and small requests, like scratching his back or shining his shoes. He also paid a boy to hit him with a broom to demonstrate how it would cause Joseph extreme pain through Lovers going berserk in his body and inflicting the same pain several times over... but then the boy got greedy and hit him again without Steely Dan's permission, and Steely Dan knocked him off his feet and he ran away in fear.
Facial Horror: Gets stabbed through the cheek with his own knife by Jotaro before his massive beatdown, in response to Dan threatening Jotaro with it only a few moments before.
"Fantastic Voyage" Plot: Lovers enters Joseph's body to hold him hostage, and in order to defeat him, Kakyoin and Polnareff have to shrink their Stands down and fight him inside Joseph's head.
Five-Finger Discount: He orders Jotaro to steal a necklace from a jewelry shop or else Joseph will suffer from The Lovers. Immediately after Jotaro steals the necklace, Steely Dan rats him out to the whole store, which leads to Jotaro getting assaulted by several civilians.
Gratuitous English: In the Japanese anime dub, after he successfully scams Joseph into paying more than the usual rate for some doner kebabs:
Steely Dan: (to himself) I usually sell five for 150 yen. (in English) BYEBYYYE, THANKYU NAAAAIR!
Hate Sink: There is literally nothing redeeming about him, except the sight of what was coming to him. Practically every second is dedicated to making Steely Dan as loathsome and reprehensible as possible, making his No-Holds-Barred Beatdown at Jotaro's hands all the more satisfying.
Heart Is an Awesome Power: His Stand is literally the weakest Stand ever, being able to be crushed between two fingers. His Stand's ability, however, is frighteningly effective and crippling, with very few people capable of actually dealing with Lovers once it's gotten into someone's body. The fact that it's small and weak also gives Dan the ability to command it from farther away than most Stand users can.
Human Shield: The entire modus operandi of Lovers. When Steely Dan sends it into a victim, any pain he receives in the meantime is multiplied massively and sent to said victim instead: effectively preventing anyone laying a finger on him lest they end up attacking someone else instead.
Hydra Problem: Once The Lovers has used dead tissue to create a copy of itself, that copy presents this problem, regenerating into another two or more copies every time it's sufficiently damaged. The only way to stop it is to find the original.
Ironic Name: Despite having the word "Steel" in his name, which would normally imply someone to be particularly tough or brave, Dan has a generally very weak Stand, puts up no fight outside of relying entirely on said Stand, and is undoubtedly one of DIO's most flat-out cowardly henchmen.
I Surrender, Suckers: Deconstructed. Jotaro was willing to accept Steely Dan's surrender after breaking a few bones. Unfortunately, his patience was already wire-thin, so once Jotaro realizes Dan's just looking for another chance to humiliate him, he calls upon Star Platinum to immobilize him with a massive dose of violence and walks away in peace.
Jerkass: Goes out of his way to abuse Jotaro while keeping Joseph hostage with Lovers. He took Jotaro's money and watch, used him as a human bridge, tried to make him lick his shoes until they were shiny enough to reflect the sun, had Jotaro steal a gold bracelet with his Stand and then ratted him out so thugs would come beat on him and he could steal something even better (a necklace), beat up on him several times, and repeatedly let himself be injured to hurt Joseph on purpose. Jotaro actually laughed at the thought of how much payback he was going to inflict the second he could do so.
Jerkass Has a Point: Hitting the kid whom he asked to strike his leg with a cane to demonstrate Lovers' powers was going a tad too far, but he was right to be mad that the kid hit him a second time without Dan telling him to.
Laser-Guided Karma: As long as he had Lovers inside of Joseph, Steely Dan could do whatever he wanted to torment Jotaro without consequence... so Jotaro keeps track of everything Steely Dan does to wrong him so he knows exactly how to pay him back, and repays him in full when Steely Dan has nothing left in the till to stop Jotaro from wailing on him... and Jotaro wails the tar out of him.
Me's a Crowd: Lovers can use dead tissue to make copies of itself.
No-Holds-Barred Beatdown: He receives a very satisfying beating as payback for all the crap he put Jotaro through once his Stand is incapacitated. So much so that three pages^note20 seconds in the anime version. are dedicated to him getting the stuffing beaten out of him by Star Platinum — complete with his body reacting and deforming realistically to each blow — before he's smashed head-first through a brick wall.
Non-Indicative Name: You'd think something like Lovers would be two halves of a Stand, male and female, rather than some kind of parasitic bug that can multiply itself.
Not-So-Harmless Villain: Downplayed with Lovers. Dan claims it's the weakest Stand and pretty much has no chance in a direct confrontation with the heroes, but once Hierophant Green and Silver Chariot shrink down to a similar size to fight it in Joseph's brain Lovers shows it can handle itself pretty well in a physical tussle with both of them using both surprise attacks and its self-duplication ability.
Only in It for the Money: Like Hol Horse, he claims to be simply a hired assassin. When Jotaro finally gets the upper hand on him, he even states that since DIO paid him up front, there's no real reason for him to try and kill them and that he'll happily hand it over.
Steely Dan: D-DIO paid me to cause this madness... you can have it all!
Jotaro: (completely unimpressed) Good grief. This should be blatantly obvious, but you really are a piece of work.
Orifice Invasion: Lovers enters its victim's body through their ears, so it can easily access their brain.
Stealth Pun: Lovers is a Stand that resembles an insect. In other words, it's a love bug.
Stupid Evil: His Stand is weak but extremely useful... but rather than use it to kill his opponents quickly, Dan prefers to bully and humiliate them for his own amusement, secure in the knowledge that they won't dare to retaliate. When Jotaro is able to fight him back — after Kakyoin uses Hierophant Green to immobilize Lovers and stop it from attacking a nearby girl Dan was attempting to take hostage — Dan immediately reveals himself to be a pathetic, sniveling coward.
Supreme Chef: Steely Dan runs a doner kebab stand while he waits to intercept Jotaro and the others. In the anime, the narrator explains to us what a doner kebab is as the camera slowly, lovingly pans up a steaming, glistening slab of meat loaded into the rotisserie.
Synchronization: Lovers attaches itself to its victim and transfers and multiplies any damage done to Steely Dan to the other person, making it impossible to hurt him while it's in effect. This also works against Dan, as when his Stand is immobilized by Hierophant Green, so is he.
Tarot Motifs: Lovers card stands for making connections with someone or something. The Stand connects Steely Dan to his victims so they can feel the pain he inflicts on himself. On the negative level it can also represent an exploitative "lothario" type, which fits with Dan blackmailing his victims and forcing Jotaro to submit to him.
Tempting Fate: Jotaro was willing to let him walk away (if he could) with a broken arm and leg, warning him if he ever showed his face before him and company again, Jotaro would punch him one thousand times. Steely Dan made the exact same mistake Rubber Soul did and pretended to cow out and give up, only to try to get a cheap shot in... and receives the full brunt of Jotaro's wrath and Star Platinum's fists.
There Is No Kill Like Overkill: Jotaro unloads his anger on Steely Dan by having Star Platinum beat his daylights out for a good twenty seconds, in place and over his entire body, before granting Dan sweet release by throwing him into a building and writing a receipt to finish the transaction. Dan was conscious enough to scream at the end and his fate was never revealed, but given how his regular human body reacted very realistically to every punch, that beatdown was more than enough to kill him and definitely more than enough to injure him. He also said that if Steely Dan crossed him again, he'd receive 1,000 punches. So we know that Steely Dan took at least 1,000 punches that had to have left him totally squashed up inside.
Uncertain Doom: It's unclear if the vicious beating he received from Star Platinum actually killed him or merely broke every bone in his body. Needless to say either way though, he clearly isn't getting up from it any time soon.
Unexpected Shmup Level: Forms the basis of an infamously-difficult one ("Dreadful Lover") in the Super Story Mode of Heritage for the Future: where Hierophant Green and Silver Chariot must shrink down and enter Joseph's body to battle Lovers, which has taken refuge inside his brain and sends multiple versions of itself after the two Stands to try and fight them off.
Villains Want Mercy: After physically abusing Jotaro while holding Joseph hostage with his Stand, then later attempted to take a little girl hostage, Steely Dan begs for mercy from Jotaro once his Stand had been immobilized by Hierophant Green. He even tried to bribe Jotaro to let him go. Jotaro doesn't, as his debt owed to him can't be paid back with money and proceeds to pummel him savagely with Star Platinum.
Weak, but Skilled: Dan claims that his Stand is the weakest one, but even if other Stand users manage to directly fight it, Lovers is still very tricky and can put up a good fight.
Womb Level: Due to how Lovers has to physically get inside its victim (often getting in through the ears) to use its abilities, fighting it has to involve following it in afterward with a Stand, as seen with Joseph and the young girl Steely Dan tries to take hostage when Jotaro confronts him.
Would Hurt a Child: Hits a young boy, and tries to take a young girl hostage after his defeat. Kakyoin, however, has tied the end of Hierophant Green to Lovers and stops him from putting his Stand inside her to wreak havoc.
You Monster!: Jotaro calls him "The biggest scum in history"^note when about to beat him down, and Dan has absolutely no redeeming features to his name.
Zerg Rush: Dan seems to realize that Hierophant Green and Silver Chariot outmatch Lovers in strength and speed, so he has Lovers make near-infinite copies of itself to overwhelm the heroic stands with sheer numbers. It doesn't work since Hierophant Green deduces which of Lovers is the real one and take it out.

Arabia Fats

Arabia Fats (Stand: Sun)

Voiced by: Manabu Sakamaki (TV anime), Wataru Takagi (Heritage for the Future video game)

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This is The Sun, ^{click here to see Arabia Fats}

An assassin of DIO who attacks the Joestars while in the desert. He is named after Fats Domino.

His Stand, Sun, is a replica of the sun that exposes victims to intense desert heat 24/7.

Anti-Climax: According to Araki, this was the entire joke behind his appearance. The Sun is an immensely powerful and grandiose Stand, it's introduced with a lot of fanfare, and the protagonists seem helpless against it, making it seem like the Sun's user will be a Climax Boss or Hero Killer whose defeat takes several chapters (indeed, he comes right after Enya and Steely Dan, who both lasted six chapters). Instead, he gets knocked out one chapter after his introduction, accomplishes basically nothing, and turns out to be a tubby little dweeb. Even Joseph seems utterly befuddled, asking how the fight can already be over before they've even learned this guy's name.
Curb-Stomp Battle: In spite of the sheer power exhibited by The Sun, Jotaro takes him down with a solitary rock. Admittedly, it was thrown by Star Platinum, but still...Lampshaded too, as Joseph laments that they didn't get to know his name and there was nothing left to do early on, as most Stand users take longer to defeat.
Enemy Eats Your Lunch: After Arabia's defeat, Jotaro takes water from his KO'd body, which is justifiable given that they're halfway through a desert and some if not all of their water has gotten evaporated during the fight. On the other hand, Polnareff probably didn't need to nab the soft drink left in his vehicle.
Energy Weapon: If the extremely high heat wasn't enough, it has the ability to fire lasers, making it one of the strongest offensive Stands in Part 3.
Exactly What It Says on the Tin: The Sun plays the part of a second sun, the whole idea being to warm Arabia Fats's victims unto death by hyperthermia. Of course, the actual sun can't shoot lasers.
Fat Bastard: He even allows people to call him Fats, which shows even he knows he's overweight.
Glass Cannon: The Sun is ridiculously powerful, with its intense heat and its laser attack. Arabia, on the other hand, isn't, and his Stand doesn't give him any way to protect himself from attacks.
Hidden in Plain Sight: The Sun Stand disguises itself by pretending to be the real Sun floating above the Joestar Group. He himself was hidden behind a vehicle with a mirror on it to keep himself camouflaged. This wound up backfiring however when the heroes noticed part of the scenery looked off and eventually pieced together where he was.
Hoist by His Own Petard: He manages to hide himself pretty well behind his mirror, until the Joestars notice that the shadow from a rock he's reflecting looks off, which leads to his downfall.
Irony: A man with the power to control a miniature sun is hired by a vampire, who are famous for being deathly allergic to the sun. It makes you wonder how Arabia got hired in the first place.
Living Prop: If you know the first thing about his canon personality, then congratulations, you're probably Araki himself.
The Power of the Sun: His Stand generates a second sun hot enough to melt scorpions.
Puzzle Boss: His Stand is very strong, but it's also unable to adapt to his opponents. Once the gang catches on to his strategy, it's game over for Arabia.
Tarot Motifs: Averted, the Sun card is typically about optimism and splendor; but his powers are more reflective of an actual sun, while his characterization doesn't exist.
Unskilled, but Strong: The Sun is theoretically one of the strongest Stands out there, but Fats seems to have no real idea for how to handle it, with his tactic amounting to "sit in a car while the Sun handles everything."
Wearing a Flag on Your Head: Has either a Macedonian flag or a Japanese imperial flag on his shirt. Ironic, given his name.
We Hardly Knew Ye: Arabia Fats doesn't die, but the Sun Stand might as well be the character, as opposed to Fats himself.

Mannish Boy

Mannish Boy (Stand: Death Thirteen)

Voiced by: Ikue Otani (TV Anime), Miki Nagasawa (Heritage for the Future video game) (Japanese), Tara Sands (TV anime) (English)

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^{Death Thirteen}

"Lali-ho! Allow me to welcome you to my humble abode! This is a dream, and I'm the Grim Reaper!"

An intelligent infant who attacks the Joestars in their dreams with his dream-invading Stand. He is named after the Muddy Waters song "Mannish Boy".

His Stand, Death Thirteen, can invade and control dreams. Those who die in their dreams, die in the waking world.

Ambiguously Human: It's hard to tell if he's even human. He has fangs, gold eyes, uses a diaper pin to impale a scorpion, and even smokes^noteOnly in the manga and swears.
Amusement Park of Doom: Death Thirteen's hideout in the dream world is an enormous, brightly-coloured amusement park with various rides and roller coasters. It makes sense not only in that it would be ideal for a child's imagination, but also to make the victims doubt they're in any danger until it's too late.
Badass Long Robe: Since Death Thirteen is The Grim Reaper in Stand form, it makes perfect sense that he'd wear an enormous, ghostly robe like his inspiration. Interestingly enough, he is eventually shown to not actually have a body beneath it: only arms, a head, and his scythe.
Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Puts on the façade of being an ordinary baby around the Joestar Group when he's with them in the real world, but is actually a murderous sadist with a huge mean streak.
Death Thirteen: Lali-ho! Tell me, does it hurt being that stupid?!
Brainy Baby: Due to his Stand, Mannish Boy has the mind of an evil genius: although he does pretend to be an ordinary baby when others are around, which he uses to mess with Kakyoin's head and make him look insane when he starts to suspect him.
Creepy Circus Music: Death Thirteen's theme in Heritage for the Future is this. It's a whimsical yet sinister piece that sounds like it's being played through an old Merry-Go-Round calliope.
Deliberately Cute Child: Pretends to be a cute baby when he's really a murderous sadist.
Didn't Think This Through: Attacking and torturing Kakyoin in his dream while the Main Characters are on a plane causes him to panic, and nearly ended up crashing it and killing all of them. Keep in mind, his Stand is only active in dreams, and he wasn't intending to die with them. Death Thirteen lampshades it afterward while he still has him at his mercy, blaming Kakyoin for being a "restless sleeper".
Eat the Evidence: After Kakyoin spotted him stabbing a scorpion with his diaper pin, he hides the scorpion in his mouth so that Kakyoin fails to convince the Joestar Group that the baby is a Stand user. The baby later spits out the scorpion when the Joestar Group was about to sleep.
Enfant Terrible: An 11-month-old baby who smokes, has fangs, and with a thing for violently killing people in their dreams while eking out the torture as much as possible? Safe to say he's certainly this.
Evil Knockoff: In his dream world, Death Thirteen can create and control fake versions of enemy Stands to do his bidding. In the manga and anime, he mostly just uses them to mess with the Joestar Group and make them think they have a chance. In his Heritage for the Future boss battle, he can actively send his fake Stands after his opponents: however, they will perish in only a few hits.
Expressive Mask: In Heritage for the Future, Death Thirteen's mask can be seen subtly changing its face depending on whether it's attacking (a wider, Slasher Smile-level grin) or being attacked (an angry grimace).
Fangs Are Evil: He has vampiric fangs, despite apparently not being a vampire. Don't think for a minute that they are Cute Little Fangs.
Fatal Flaw: Pride. If Mannish Boy had Death Thirteen immediately kill the Joestar Group as soon as he had them helpless in the dream world instead of flaunting his power in their faces and toying with them, he would have won easily. It's especially noticeable in Kakyoin's case, as he did not have Hierophant Green with him the first two times he got sent to the Dream World, and had all the time in the world to dispatch him.
Floating Limbs: Although he initially appears to be one huge being, most of Death Thirteen's size actually comes from his cape. As he reveals after using his Sinister Scythe to cut Hierophant Green off of his back, he actually only consists of a head, shoulders, arms, and the scythe itself.
Foul Flower: Death Thirteen's Amusement Park of Doom is populated with lots of living flowers with faces and creepy grins, which giggle gleefully at its victims being stalked and killed by their master.
Gaslighting: After Kakyoin starts to get suspicious of him, he messes with Kakyoin's head in order to get the others focused on him instead.
Glass Cannon: Death Thirteen is a near-unstoppable Reality Warper in the dream world, where its victims normally have their Stands forcibly taken away from them, and its enormous scythe is naturally capable of inflicting massive damage with a direct hit. However, if you actually can force a Stand into the dream as Kakyoin accidentally did, his durability is actually lacking: to the point where Hierophant Green nearly killed him, and immediately agreed to heal the wounds on its wielder's arm with some persuasion.
Goo-Goo-Godlike: Not many infants have Stands, after all.
Giggling Villain: A majority of Death Thirteen's scythe attacks in Heritage for the Future are punctuated by distorted, child-like giggling, which makes sense considering his Stand user is both a young child and an Enfante Terrible murderer who takes joy in what he does. Otherwise, it's his trademark cry of "Lali-Ho!".
Grim Reaper: As a Stand representing the Death card, Death Thirteen is modeled on this: being a wraith-like being with a giant scythe who sends sleeping people to their eternal rest. He's a hell of a lot more malicious than most depictions though, being incredibly rude, taking great pleasure in stretching out his victims' pain and humilation as much as he can, and outright describes himself as such in the English dub of the anime:
Death Thirteen: Oh, for the love of... let me spell it out for you. I'm seeing that you're slow on the uptake, Polnareff! […] Lali-Ho! Allow me to welcome you to my humble abode. This is a dream... and I'm the Grim Reaper!
Karma Houdini: Despite being a sadistic murderer, Kakyoin, the only one aware of Mannish Boy's crimes, ultimately refuses to do him any lasting harm due to being a baby, and apart from being fed some of his own poop, he doesn't get any serious punishment for his crimes. Kakyoin, knowing that his companions would think he's insane if he accuses the baby of being a Stand user — which nearly got him kicked out of the group — has Mannish Boy dropped off in the nearest town. That being said, Kakyoin does make it clear as he inflicts it that he only gets one chance, solely due to his age: and that if Mannish Boy tries anything again, he will come back and finish him off regardless.
Kick the Dog: Mannish Boy's murder of a dog in the dream world helps Kakyoin realize that something's off.
Killer Robot: Death Thirteen looks very robotic.
Laser-Guided Amnesia: People who suffer Death Thirteen's dream world lose almost all memory of it when they wake up. This makes it a lot more dangerous, because even if someone survives Death Thirteen attacking them in their dreams, they'll probably go back to sleep without figuring out it's endangering their life. Even if they do notice something's off, they're more likely to dismiss the fragments of their dream as a particularly unsettling nightmare, more than anything else. Kakyoin gets around this by carving a message into his arm in the dream, which puts it on his body in the real world. Falling asleep with your Stand active also causes one to retain their memories because it forces their conscious mind into their subconscious where the dream world is located.
Logical Weakness: His Stand can only function in a person's dream, so he can't hurt someone when they're awake. It's not a problem when everyone thinks he's a harmless baby, but if someone becomes aware of his Stand while they're awake, he's in trouble. Also, the way injuries work in the dream world provides a link to the waking world that circumvents his Laser-Guided Amnesia.
Magical Clown: And how. Death Thirteen not only has a creepy clown-like appearance and has a dream amusement park as its lair, but it's also a potent Reality Warper.
Malevolent Masked Men: Death Thirteen, which wears a creepy, perpetually-grinning clown mask. It's inspired by ornate Venetian carnival masks, which makes perfect sense for a Stand that haunts an amusement park-like dream world.
Meaningful Name: "Mannish Boy" isn't a bad name for an infant with adult intelligence.
Monster Clown: Death Thirteen, a Grim Reaper with a clown mask who stalks an Amusement Park of Doom.
Names to Run Away from Really Fast: When it comes to a nightmare weaving Grim Reaper Monster Clown, it's hard to get a name better than Death Thirteen.
Nightmare Weaver: Death Thirteen can enter the dreams of nearby people and turn them into nightmares. Not only that, but any injury suffered in that nightmare becomes real.
Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot: In terms of a creative Stand, a Killer Robot Monster Clown Grim Reaper Dream Weaver is definitely up there.
Noodle Incident: It's never explained how DIO ended up employing a baby to kill the Joestars.
Orifice Invasion: How he is ultimately defeated. Hierophant Green forms tentacles into Death Thirteen's ear, almost forcing him to cut off his head with his own scythe before he ultimately relents and reluctantly lets the Joestar Group out of the Dream World after healing the letters carved onto Kakyoin's arm.
Optional Boss: Death Thirteen in Heritage for the Future. To fight him, you must be playing as one of the main characters (Jotaro, Joseph, Kakyoin, Polnareff, Avdol, Iggy, New Kakyoin, Young Joseph), have performed a lot of super finishes, and have not lost a round by the time you get to him.
Perpetual Smiler: Death Thirteen, which wears a clown mask with a giant smiling face. Depending on the angle it's viewed at, it makes for both an effective Psychotic Smirk or outright Slasher Smile.
Power Floats: Has no feet, and hovers just off the ground like a ghost.
Power Nullifier: Death Thirteen can disturb the spiritual energy of its victims enough that they'll be unable to summon their Stand when inside its dream world. However, if their Stand is summoned before they fall asleep, it'll be in their dreams as well, which Kakyoin uses to defeat him.
Psycho for Hire: An exaggerated example. An intelligent baby with a penchant for sadism that DIO somehow found and tasked to assassinate the Joestar Group.
Reality Warper: In the dream world, Death Thirteen is this: capable of manipulating everything and everyone around him with just a thought. Without any Stands brought into the dream to oppose him, he's pretty much unstoppable: even disguising himself as the Joestar Group's Stands to make them think they have a chance, up until the real Hierophant Green is revealed to have entered with Kakyoin.
Revenge Is a Dish Best Served: In the manga, Death Thirteen tortures Kakyoin by holding his jaw open with the tip of his scythe, dripping eyeballs with spider legs out of the eyeholes in his clown mask that crawl into his mouth. It's turned back on Mannish Boy later: as since he's a baby, he isn't physically punished like other villains. Instead, Kakyoin spikes his baby food with his own stool and feeds it to him.
Sadist: Again, where did DIO find this guy?
Shout-Out: Death Thirteen's fighting style in Heritage for the Future — which mostly consists of swinging a giant scythe and summoning multiple smaller scythes as projectiles as he floats through the air and spams teleportation repeatedly — brings to mind another physical representation of Death.
Sinister Scythe: Being an allegory for the Grim Reaper, Death Thirteen uses an enormous mechanical scythe that's as long as he is tall to kill his opponents. Or the occasional dog.
Tarot Motifs: The Death card deals with new beginnings, and the Stand user is only an infant. Additionally, the Death card can mean facing your fears, referring to the Joestar Group being trapped in a nightmare world, and seeing the truth in a situation, which is what Kakyoin is desperately trying to get the others to realize.
Troubling Unchildlike Behaviour: Despite being a 11-month-old baby, he smokes (though not in the anime), swears, and has an Ax-Crazy attitude when dealing with his victims.
Unlucky Thirteen: Not only is his Stand a tarot card, but it also has its number restated.
Unseen Character: Mannish Boy becomes this in both Heritage for the Future and Eyes of Heaven, due to Death Thirteen appearing as an Optional Boss in Heritage and a stage hazard in Eyes of Heaven, whilst he himself does not — likely due to regulations against visibly beating up children. That being said, Mannish Boy himself does make a cameo as Death Thirteen's splash artwork in Heritage's HD remake, and he briefly appears in sprite form in his Super Story Mode chapter in the PS one version of the game.
Verbal Tic: "Lali-ho!".
Voice of the Legion: In all of its appearances, Death Thirteen's voice has a subtle but noticeable demonic layer behind it, an octave or two lower than the regular voice.
Villainous Breakdown: When Hierophant Green ends up surviving his attempt at chopping him in half and then forcing its way through his ears into his head, Death Thirteen's previously smug, untouchable demeanour completely falls apart; screaming in abject terror as he blindly flails around with his scythe. Mannish Boy himself later has one when he's force-fed his own shit by an unaware Joseph and the very much aware Kakyoin, breaking down in very loud, howling cries after trying unsuccessfully to avoid it.
Mannish Boy: H-he's not chopped in half! He's turned into a snake-like thing, and he's slithering into my ear! (panics and flails as Hierophant Green forces its way inside Death Thirteen's head and takes control of him, moving his own scythe to his neck) M-MY ARM! IT'S MOVING ON ITS OWN! NO! NO! IT'S COMING IN! (screams in blind terror)
Villain Teleportation: Death Thirteen demonstrates this power in Heritage for the Future, spinning on the spot as a flat image before reappearing either somewhere else or on the spot. He can't be hit at all during this period, and it's often accompanied by his distorted laughter.
The Voiceless: Being a baby, Mannish Boy doesn't quite talk. Good thing Death Thirteen doesn't have this issue, even if it still sounds juvenile. It's worth noting this is also Mannish Boy's thought voice.
Yellow Eyes of Sneakiness: Mannish Boy himself has these, emphasizing that he's actually surprisingly sneaky and cruel: especially when making Kakyoin look like he's going insane when he starts to suspect him of being behind Death Thirteen attacking the group in their dreams.
Your Mind Makes It Real: Mannish Boy is just an 11 month-old infant (with fangs), so instead of fighting directly, he attacks people in their dreams. Any injuries his victims sustain in the dream, they sustain in real life: and if they perish there, then they die for real.

Cameo

Cameo (Stand: Judgement)

Voiced by: Kinryū Arimoto (TV anime and All-Star Battle R), Ryūzaburō Ōtomo (All-Star Battle), Wataru Takagi (Heritage for the Future video game) (Japanese), Stephen Mendel (TV anime) (English)

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This is Judgement, ^{click here to see Cameo}

An assassin of DIO who attempts to lead Polnareff away from the group in order to kill him alone. He is named after Cameo.

Judgement is a robot-like being that appears as a genie who grants wishes, but is in truth only able to animate the ground to create various things.

Ash Face: His face gets completely toasted as a result of being roasted by Magician's Red.
Asshole Victim: He gets, among other things, burned and pissed on. Since he used Polnareff's feelings for Avdol and his deceased sister to murder him, he deserved everything he got.
Be Careful What You Wish For: Judgement's power is to animate the earth to apparently fulfill a victim's wishes, but it's never what the wisher desired.
The Cameo: Oddly enough, he appeared briefly in a flashback shot in Golden Wind when Polnareff is fatally wounded by Diavolo.
Dishing Out Dirt: Of the dirt variety, using it to build his golems.
Evil Sounds Deep: He has a pretty deep voice when talking in Stand form.
Eye Scream: Magician's Red wraps a chain of fire around Judgement's neck and feeds the flames into his head, blowing out his eyes from the inside.
Gratuitous English: HAIL 2 U!
Humiliation Conga: A not-dead Avdol and Polnareff resolve to bring "Hell 2 U!" on Cameo. They inflict a series of punishments to Cameo when they discover him breathing out of a reed snorkel underground. Polnareff throws dirt, ants, a spider, and rocks the tube. Cameo sputters and coughs, but is undeterred. Then Avdol takes it to an uncharacteristic extreme and asks Polnareff to join him in taking a piss together in the tube. Cameo bursts out with a mouthful of whiz and begs for mercy... Avdol's Magician's Red shows him no mercy. It cooks him and he's left with his hair burnt up, clothes torched, and his face looking totally dopey, sputtering like a moron.
Jackass Genie: Aside from the whole "granting wishes by just making things out of dirt" thing, which makes the treasure Polnareff wishes for worthless, when he wishes for his sister and Avdol to come back to life, they appear as hostile zombies.
Naked on Revival: The Sherry zombie is born without any clothes on. She has scraggly Godiva Hair to hide her lady parts. Given that Avdol was "resurrected" fully dressed, either Cameo has a sick sense of humor or Sherry was murdered naked, as in had her clothes stripped off when J. Geil raped and killed the original.
Our Zombies Are Different: Judgement creates flesh-eating duplicates of images from a person's heart that are formed out of clay. They are just as durable and destructible as clay, likewise. The Avdol zombie crumbles his fingers trying to slash Polnareff.
Red Right Hand: The clay people he creates to appear as zombies all share a deformity on their face surrounding a purely red eye.
Reed Snorkel: How he manages to breathe while hiding underground. Unfortunately for him, Polnareff and Avdol use this to humiliate him even further.
Shapeshifter Guilt Trip: Of the clones variety; his Sherry and Avdol "zombies" do this. Sherry's tries to make Polnareff give up his flesh to be complete because he said he hated her after feeding his tropical fish to the cat and he tells her he said that out of anger, while the Avdol duplicate accuses Polnareff of letting him die while attacking him and showing a see-through "bullet" hole in his head as Polnareff envisions the wound (the real one isn't nearly as bad).
Super-Strength: Judgement is decently strong, capable of restraining Silver Chariot on its own without much effort and even managing to grab Magician Red's leg and hurl it into a tree hard enough to make Avdol feel the feedback.
Synchronization: Averted, and notable for its absence. Unlike most Stands, especially those in Stardust Crusaders, the damage inflicted onto Judgement doesn't affect Cameo at all.
Tarot Motifs: The Judgement card refers to the Last Judgement in Christianity and depicts a scene of people being resurrected from the dead, which the Stand user claims he has the power to do. Additionally, when reversed, the Judgement card can represent being unable to let go of the past, which is what Polnareff is feeling when he asks to resurrect his sister and Avdol.
Tempting Fate: After being forced to endure Polnareff dropping dirt, a spider, some ants, and a lit match into his mouth, Cameo feels relieved that he somehow made it through all of that without having to surface and leave himself vulnerable. Then Avdol and Polnareff start urinating into his mouth...
Villains Want Mercy: After Polnareff and Avdol force him out of his hiding place by urinating down the Reed Snorkel he's breathing through until he surfaces, Cameo begs for forgiveness. Since Cameo had tried to kill Polnareff while toying with his emotions and the memory of his late sister and the thought-to-be deceased Avdol, the latter makes it clear he's not getting any before incinerating him with Magician's Red.

Midler

Midler (Stand: High Priestess)

Voiced by: Aya Hisakawa (TV anime), Miki Nagasawa (Heritage for the Future video game) (Japanese), Karen Strassman (TV anime) (English)

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Heritage for the Future Design
^{High Priestess}

^{Original Design}

"Yoo-hoo! Jotaro! Believe it or not, you're actually my type! So, this is going to be as painful for me as for you!"

An assassin who attempts to kill the Joestars while they're in a submarine. She is named after Bette Midler (and named after the Bette Midler song "The Rose" in the dub).

Her Stand, High Priestess, is a living mask that has the ability to transform metals into inorganic objects.

Adaptational Skimpiness: She's far more scantily-clad in the video game adaptations, wearing an outfit heavily inspired by a Middle-Eastern belly dancer.
Ascended Extra: Between the manga and Heritage for the Future, where despite being a minor villain, she proved popular enough to be made playable with a brand new redesign.
Beating A Dead Player: Along with Vanilla Ice, Midler is one of only two characters in Heritage for the Future who can flat-out kill an opponent in a win pose. In her case, she has her High Priestess (in its giant face form) pop out of the ground where the opponent is to eat them alive, after which they both laugh.
Breakout Villain: Despite being only physically seen once as The Ghost, she's so popular that she's given her own exclusive design in the games.
Climax Boss: Midler is the last of DIO's Tarot Stand users (with the exception of Hol Horse) to attack the Joestar Group and the last roadblock preventing them from entering Egypt. After defeating her, the Joestar Group finally enters Egypt and encounters DIO's far more dangerous minions. The anime makes this much more overt by having Midler be the Final Boss of Season 1 before the group begins the Egypt arc in Season 2.
Cruel and Unusual Death: Attempted. Midler voices her intent to digest the Joestar group. albeit a bit upset she has to inflict it upon Jotaro due to her crush on him.
Disc-One Final Boss: As said above, she's the last Stand user that attacks the Joestar Group before they enter Egypt, and is the Final Boss of season 1 of the anime.
Dub Name Change: "Rose", referencing Bette Midler's hit song "The Rose". Again, though, a rather odd change since Midler is a common enough name that they could get away with without risking a lawsuit.
Extra-ore-dinary: High Priestess possesses the ability to possess mineral substances and reform them into any inorganic object (razor blades, valves, harpoon guns, sawblades, cars, etc.).
Facial Horror: Star Platinum smashing all of the High Empress' teeth results in Midler's face suffering damage as well. We don't actually see it, but judging from Polnareff's reactions, that may be for the best.
The Ghost: The entire battle against her is just against her Stand; the heroes only find her after defeating her, and all the reader gets to see is her legs poking out from under her clothes and her hair. Which could be a good thing considering Avdol says that all her teeth were broken from the battle. Araki ultimately designs an appearance for her in Heritage for the Future, showing that she is, in fact, quite the looker◊.
Genre Savvy: Despite expressing a Villainous Crush on Jotaro, she doesn't get fooled once when the gang tries to exploit it.
Ms. Fanservice:
- Not apparent in the manga, but the video game shows that she's a beautiful woman in belly dancer clothing.
- Even in the anime, while you can only see her briefly sprawled on the ground, a decent amount of her cleavage is visible even from that angle.
Non-Standard Character Design: Her artwork in Heritage for the Future was drawn using Araki's significantly different style circa Diamond is Unbreakable, which leads to this.
Oh, Crap!: Not herself, but she starts out as a small Stand; the revelation that she's turned into a large face is a mass Oh, Crap! moment.
Orifice Invasion: Polnareff didn't see that coming when he put that breather...
Race Lift: She has pale skin in the color versions of the manga and in Heritage for the Future, but darker skin in the anime adaptation.
Ret-Canon: Zigzagged. Her belly dancer design was sketched by Araki for Heritage for the Future because Capcom wanted to make her playable, but after the game's release, Araki grew so attached to it that whenever he made new drawings of Midler, particularly in the JOJO A-GO!GO! art book, he decided to keep using her official redesign. However, in the anime adaptation, she's reverted back to her faceless, nondescript design from the manga.
Reused Character Design: Her design in Heritage for the Future is basically Yukako Yamagishi with her hair dyed purple.
Tarot Motifs: The High Priestess represents the subconscious, the unknown, and Midler's Stand can disguise itself amongst normal objects, being able to imitate anything made out of minerals. The fact that her face is never shown in the anime or manga is also illustrative of that.
The Tooth Hurts: A giant-sized High Priestess tries to eat the protagonists... only for Jotaro to use Star Platinum to smash all of her teeth into bits.
Undying Loyalty: Her ending in Heritage for the Future has her voluntarily giving DIO her blood as a result of selling her soul to DIO. She also displays this in the manga/anime proper, where despite her Villainous Crush, she voices a desire to please DIO.
Villainous Crush: A minor one, lamenting having to kill Jotaro. The group tries to exploit it... and fail spectacularly.
Voluntary Shapeshifter: The High Priestess has the power to manipulate anything mineral-based.

Egypt 9 Glory Gods

See here.

DIO's Household

See here.

Others

Sadao Kujo

Holly Kujo's Japanese husband and the father of Jotaro. He's a famous jazz musician always on tour, and that's basically all there is to know about him. Because he caused Holly to move away from her father in America, Joseph hates his guts.

Badass on Paper: With regards to Joseph's opinion of him. He's made a great career out of music and has been successful and well-to-do just like his father-in-law Joseph. But he's also an absentee father and Joseph thinks of him very lowly for whisking away his only daughter to Japan and giving birth to a son who took the path of delinquency.
Disappeared Dad: He's always tied up with his career as a musician, so he doesn't show up. Nothing suggests his family holds this against him because Holly knew what she was getting into and Sadao definitely loves her, and she and her son can look after themselves just fine and have kin to come to their aid as well.
The Ghost: He never actually appears in the series because his career is mostly irrelevant to the story.
History Repeats: His complete absence from the plot is the second time a father has been glossed over in the story in favor of jumping ahead two generations in the Joestar lineage by showcasing their child's adventures as the designated "JoJo", after George Joestar II. At least in the latter's case, he got some exposure in a side novel and made an actual appearance. Sadao only gets passing mentions at best. Then again, unlike George II he's not even a Joestar, as Holly was the only child born into the family in that generation and he only married in.
Small Role, Big Impact: He met Holly while on tour and they started dating, but their relationship made Joseph uneasy because he disapproved of Sadao's lifestyle. When it led to marriage, his career led Holly to go live in his homeland of Japan, which outraged Joseph because it meant his daughter would be moving far away from America, which caused him to accuse Sadao of taking his daughter away from him and caused him to develop an outstanding grudge against all things Japanese.

Sherry Polnareff

Voiced by: Yuka Komatsu (TV Anime), Sayuri Kubo (OVA), Naoko Ishii (Heritage for the Future), Michiko Neya (Drama CD) (Japanese), Unknown (OVA), Erika Harlacher (TV anime) (English)

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Polnareff's little sister who was raped and murdered by J. Geil before the events of Part 3.

Back from the Dead: Polnareff tries to wish her back to life using Judgement's power, but in a cruel subversion, he's a Jerkass Genie who creates a clay doll in Sherry's image born from feelings in Polnareff's heart, who seems to be the real deal, but is actually monstrous. The duplicate suddenly lunges at him and tries to consume his flesh claiming it will complete her body. The right side of her face is also grotesque, and is revealed after several misleading shots of her from the right-hand profile). The fact that she is "reborn" naked and from the earth when Polnareff says his sister is buried back in France is a warning sign things don't add up. Eventually Polnareff forces himself to acknowledge that this monstrosity is a fake and destroys it using Silver Chariot's sword. He and Avdol seek out Cameo to punish him accordingly for manipulating Polnareff.
Barbie Doll Anatomy: When revived as a clay clone, along with some Godiva Hair to cover her up.
Body Horror: When she is created as a clay clone by Cameo, the right side of her face is grotesque, despite her beautiful appearance before that was revealed.
Cynicism Catalyst: Clear-cut example. She's Polnareff's motivation to join the quest to defeat DIO because J. Geil is one of DIO's henchmen. Sherry went out one day with a new umbrella as a gift from her big brother but met J. Geil on the way home during a storm., and the rain appeared to bounce off a dome around him. Sherry's friend that was with her was cut down but survived the attack, while poor Sherry was butchered. Polnareff would learn the truth from her friend, believing what no one else could due to the supernatural nature of Stands and possessing one of his own and realizing that another Stand user had to be the culprit, training for 3 years to exact his revenge.
Fan Disservice: We get to have a look at her naked, when she was "revived" by Cameo. She looks absolutely gorgeous... until she shows her grotesque eye and pounces on Polanreff, eating his flesh in order to make hers grow back. In the anime, she also makes some pretty disturbing expressions while attacking her brother.
Full-Frontal Assault: When she is "resurrected" and attacks Polnareff, she is nude.
I'm a Humanitarian: Begins feasting on Polnareff when brought back as a zombie.
Innocent Blue Eyes: They stand out in the photo Polnareff has of her. However, it becomes subverted when she returns as a nude zombie, showing that something is amiss.
Lecherous Licking: Only in the manga. She does it right as she's about to pounce on Polnareff.
Musical Theme Naming: Her name is likely a reference to one of Michel Polnareff's songs, "Tout, tout pour ma chérie".
Ms. Fanservice: It's played straight when she appears naked looking quite gorgeous, then averted when she reveals her Body Horror.
Naked on Revival: She appears nude when brought back to life by Cameo. She looks stunning except for her grotesque right eye.
Our Zombies Are Different: She's a golem that was born from the ground in order to fool Polnareff so Cameo could kill him easier.
Posthumous Character: Slain before the events of Part 3.

Malèna

Voiced by: Yuko Kaida (TV anime) (Japanese), Carrie Keranen (TV anime) (English)

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A kind woman who takes care of Polnareff after he's de-aged into a child by Alessi's Sethan.

Artistic License – Biology: Turning her into a fetus outside the womb should have killed her instantly, but Polnareff manages to keep her alive by wrapping her in a blanket until Alessi can be defeated.
Buxom Beauty Standard: She's fairly busty and Polnareff can't help but get distracted by her cleavage when she's taking care of him.
Fountain of Youth: After being attacked by Sethan, she is de-aged into a fetus, forcing Polnareff to keep her safe and fend off Alessi at the same time.
Ms. Fanservice: She is very pretty, and there are a few shots of her wearing a loose sundress. When Alessi de-aged into a fetus she loses all her clothing, so when she turns back to her normal adult self, she's naked save for the Modesty Towel that Polnareff wrapped her in to keep her safe.
Named by the Adaptation: In the manga, she is only referred to as onee-san ("big sister"). The 2014 anime adaptation names her Malèna.
Nice Girl: She is portrayed as being extremely kind and gentle, selflessly helping the de-aged Polnareff despite him being a total stranger.
No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: She sees a lost child wandering the streets of Egypt and decides to give him shelter and a bath. Unfortunately, said child is being targeted by an Ax-Crazy maniac with the power to de-age people, and she gets her house broken into and herself turned into a fetus.
Pink Means Feminine: She wears a pink hood with lighter pink spots.

Senator Wilson Phillips

Voiced by: Chō (TV anime and All-Star Battle R), Masaharu Sato (All-Star Battle), Junpei Takiguchi (OVA) (Japanese), Charles Martinet (OVA), Jonathan Fahn (TV anime) (English)

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"I've destroyed every enemy who's ever stood in my way, and someday, I'll become President! I'm the Senator Wilson Phillips, damn it!"

A United States Senator who happens to be in Cairo during the night of DIO's rampage. Named after the band Wilson Phillips.

Adaptational Nice Guy: In the OVA, Wilson comes off as a lot nicer and less of an Asshole Victim; genuinely attempting to strike up a friendly conversation with DIO — at least, up until he attacks him — apologises for accidentally hitting him with his car and his chauffeur's rudeness despite the vampire breaking his arm, and offers him a handful of bills to pay for a cab home once he's made sure that DIO isn't hurt. Needless to say, having it all turned back on him afterward makes his fate one hell of a lot more frightening and sad.
Ain't Too Proud to Beg: After being forced to slaughter innocent people with his car, he flat-out begs DIO to let him stop and spare him. When DIO tells him he intends on neither, Phillips breaks completely.
Badass Boast: In the manga and anime, Phillips makes a surprisingly powerful one in his head about how he got to his position and his intentions in life when DIO initially attacks him. When he actually tries to do it, DIO breaks his nose before he can even finish the first sentence.
Phillips: (thinking to himself) Yeah... This Is Unforgivable! No one gets away with doing something like this to me. I was valedictorian in both high school and college, not to mention captain of the college wrestling team! Even after graduation, people respected me. That's why I became a politician! I own a villa on a thousand-acre plot of land in Hawaii! My gorgeous model of a wife is twenty-five years younger than me, and I pay more taxes than anyone else! I've destroyed every enemy who's ever stood in my way, and someday, I'll become President! I'm the Senator Wilson Phillips, damn it!
Phillips: (speaking) Listen to me, you punk-band reject! I'm gonna make sure you rot in prison for the rest of your miserable— (DIO breaks his nose with a punch)
Cool Car: Has one in both versions of Part 3, but are different in each. In the OVA, it's a white Rolls Royce with gold trim, and a black Cadillac in the manga and anime. Both of which are chauffeur-driven, and even DIO takes a few moments to admire before he gets in. Sadly, both of them get completely totalled after DIO forces Phillips to drive through crowds of innocent civilians on the sidewalks, and eventually crashing them.
Drives Like Crazy: Phillips is not used to driving himself, and is always chauffeured as a result. Naturally, when DIO forces him to drive to catch up with the Joestar Group, Phillips is a complete lunatic driver... and that's without DIO forcing him to drive on the sidewalk and mow down every pedestrian in his path.
Facial Horror: Before DIO forces Phillips to commit mass murder, the vampire rips out the Senator's top incisors when he attempts to make conversation with him, and then breaks his nose when he attempts to stand up to him afterward.
Go Out with a Smile: A twisted example in the OVA. After a bloodied, insane Philips is killed when his car gets hit by a speeding train while trying to pursue Joseph and Kakyoin, DIO drags the Senator's still-grinning corpse out of the resulting explosion before throwing it aside.
Grievous Harm with a Body: In the manga and anime, he's used as a human projectile by DIO to knock the car that Joseph and Kakyoin were pursuing them in off-course.
Hidden Depths: Wilson's Badass Boast above covers a lot of details about the things he's done in life; including being captain of his college wrestling team, owning a villa in a thousand-acre plot of land in Hawaii, and marrying a supermodel who's twenty-five years younger than him.
In the Dreaming Stage of Grief: When he asks DIO to spare him because he did as he was told and the latter replies with a simple no, he starts to think it's all a terrible nightmare he's having.
Just Toying with Them: After mutilating Philips, DIO cruelly messes with him afterward by seemingly letting him escape into the road through one of his car's side doors... only to then use The World to have him run right back into the car through the other door, just because he can.
Laughing Mad: As he breaks more and more under DIO's abuse, he devolves into mad laughter.
May–December Romance: If his Badass Boast is anything to be believed, then his wife is a supermodel who's twenty-five years his junior.
No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: In the OVA. When DIO gets into his car after being hit by it — and then breaking the driver's arm when he tells DIO off for admiringly running his hand along the car afterward — Phillips attempts to strike up a friendly conversation with the vampire; apologising for his driver's rudeness and offering DIO a handful of banknotes to pay for a cab home. It doesn't work, leading up to DIO violently assaulting him and forcing him to go on a killing spree, but props to the man for trying.
Railroad Tracks of Doom: In the OVA, Phillips dies when he, in his fit of insanity, accidentally drives into a level crossing right as a freight train is passing through them. His car gets struck at full speed, causing a fiery explosion that crashes the train and kills him pretty much instantly.
Sacrificial Lamb: The Senator's role is mostly to show DIO's horrifying charisma and ruthlessness in action — as well as a further demonstration of his Stand powers — and dies relatively quickly after being forced by the vampire to commit vehicular manslaughter in pursuit of Joseph and Kakyoin.
Sanity Slippage: Philips starts losing his marbles while being forced by DIO to drive through a sidewalk filled with people — ramming through and killing a lot of them in the way — and upon being told by DIO that he had no intention of letting him live regardless of whether he did it or not, his mind breaks completely.
Small Name, Big Ego: A normal person in a world full of outrageous superpowers, who pretty much sees himself as immortal because of his position in society.
The Tooth Hurts: DIO tears out his top incisors when he nonchalantly greets him.
Uncle Pennybags: Wilson may be big-headed, but nobody can say he's not a nice guy; especially in the OVA, where he apologizes to DIO on his driver's behalf for accidentally hitting him with his car, makes sure he isn't hurt, and then offers him a big wad of cash for a cab home.
Ugly Guy, Hot Wife: Although his wife is never seen, she's explicitly stated to be a supermodel, whereas Phillips is a stubby man who can sometimes pull off some Gonkish facial expressions.

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The Joestar Group

Allies

Holy Kujo, née Joestar (Stand: Unknown)

Voiced by: Reiko Takagi (TV anime), Rika Fukami (CD drama), Rei Sakuma (OVA episodes 1-3), Arisa Ando (OVA episode 11 onward) (Japanese), Carrie Francis (OVA English), Julie Ann Taylor (TV anime) (English)

Roses

Voiced: Motomu Kiyokawa (TV anime) (Japanese), Kevin Brief (TV anime) (English)

Anne Merlai

Voiced by: Rie Kugimiya (TV anime), Konami Yoshida (CD drama), Junko Takeuchi (Heritage for the Future video game) (Japanese), Ryan Bartley (TV anime) (English)

Suzi Q

Villains

DIO (Stand: The World + Unnamed Precognitive Stand (usually nicknamed Hermit Purple #2.))

Tarot Stand Users

Gray Fly (Stand: Tower of Gray)

Voiced by: Katsumi Cho (TV anime), Mitsuaki Madono (Heritage for the Future video game) (Japanese), Jay Preston (TV anime) (English)Tower of Gray voiced by: Katsumi Cho (TV anime), Tony Oliver (TV anime) (English)

Captain Tennille (Stand: Dark Blue Moon)

Voiced by: Tesshō Genda (TV anime), Yuji Kishi (Heritage for the Future video game) (Japanese), Michael McConnohie (TV anime) (English)

Forever (Stand: Strength)

Voiced by: Kappei Yamaguchi (TV anime), Mitsuaki Madono (Heritage for the Future video game)

Devo the Cursed (Stand: Ebony Devil)

Rubber Soul (Stand: Yellow Temperance)

Voiced by: Shinji Kawada (TV anime), Mitsuaki Madono (Heritage for the Future video game) (Japanese), Ray Chase (TV anime) (English)

J. Geil (Stand: Hanged Man)

Voiced by: Takuya Kirimoto (TV anime and All-Star Battle R), Fumihiko Tachiki (All-Star Battle), Shigeru Chiba (CD drama), Mugihito (OVA), Yoshito Yasuhara (Heritage for the Future video game) (Japanese), David Arendash (OVA), Tom Fahn (TV anime) (English)

Nena (Stand: Empress)

Voiced by: Satsuki Yukino (TV anime), Megumi Toyoguchi (OVA), Junko Takeuchi (Heritage for the Future video game) (Japanese), Unknown (OVA), Dorothy Elias-Fahn (TV Anime) (English)

ZZ (Stand: Wheel of Fortune)

Voiced by: Masami Iwasaki (TV anime) (Japanese), David Vincent (TV Anime) (English)

Steely Dan (Stand: Lovers)

Voiced by: Daisuke Kishio (TV anime), Mitsuaki Madono (Heritage for the Future video game) (Japanese), Grant George (TV anime) (English)

Arabia Fats (Stand: Sun)

Voiced by: Manabu Sakamaki (TV anime), Wataru Takagi (Heritage for the Future video game)

Mannish Boy (Stand: Death Thirteen)

Voiced by: Ikue Otani (TV Anime), Miki Nagasawa (Heritage for the Future video game) (Japanese), Tara Sands (TV anime) (English)

Cameo (Stand: Judgement)

Voiced by: Kinryū Arimoto (TV anime and All-Star Battle R), Ryūzaburō Ōtomo (All-Star Battle), Wataru Takagi (Heritage for the Future video game) (Japanese), Stephen Mendel (TV anime) (English)

Midler (Stand: High Priestess)

Voiced by: Aya Hisakawa (TV anime), Miki Nagasawa (Heritage for the Future video game) (Japanese), Karen Strassman (TV anime) (English)

Egypt 9 Glory Gods

DIO's Household

Others

Sadao Kujo

Sherry Polnareff

Voiced by: Yuka Komatsu (TV Anime), Sayuri Kubo (OVA), Naoko Ishii (Heritage for the Future), Michiko Neya (Drama CD) (Japanese), Unknown (OVA), Erika Harlacher (TV anime) (English)

Malèna

Voiced by: Yuko Kaida (TV anime) (Japanese), Carrie Keranen (TV anime) (English)

Senator Wilson Phillips

Voiced by: Chō (TV anime and All-Star Battle R), Masaharu Sato (All-Star Battle), Junpei Takiguchi (OVA) (Japanese), Charles Martinet (OVA), Jonathan Fahn (TV anime) (English)

Alternative Title(s): Jo Jos Bizarre Adventure Part 3

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aka: Jo Jos Bizarre Adventure Part 3

Voiced by: Katsumi Cho (TV anime), Mitsuaki Madono (Heritage for the Future video game) (Japanese), Jay Preston (TV anime) (English)
Tower of Gray voiced by: Katsumi Cho (TV anime), Tony Oliver (TV anime) (English)