Characters / JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: The JOJOLands

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

Team Jodio

In General

• Caper Crew:
  • Meryl May is both the Mastermind and the Backer, as the one coordinating the group and sending them off to their mission to steal the diamond, as well as supplying them with the information necessary.
  • Dragona is the Partner-In-Crime, who— due to being an older member as well as being the most levelheaded— leads the team and reins in their eccentricities when needed. Their Stand also makes them the Safe-Cracker, letting them break open locked doors and safes.
  • Jodio is the Muscle, having the most straightforward offensive Stand among the group.
  • Paco is the Pickpocket whose Stand allows him to perform impossible sleight of hands. He's also a more classic Muscle whose Stand lets him do bizarre maneuvers against his opponents in fistfights.
  • Usagi is the naive New Kid whose antics frequently get him on the team's nerves. His Stand makes him something of a Hacker and a Gadget Guy, which provides the team with useful tools and can screw with security camera footage.
  • Charming Man is the Conman who uses his Stand to disguise himself and tricking others via illusions.
• Mythology Gag: Team Jodio is named similarly to their alternate counterpart Team Bucciarati, and both are only dubbed so by promotional material.
• Revisiting the Roots: Unlike the original continuity Parts who had their JoJo constantly accompanied by friends and family, Steel Ball Run and JoJolion instead focused on a protagonist-deuteragonist pair (Johnny & Gyro, Josuke & Yasuho) with a number of recurring allies that came and went to assist the main duo. The JOJOLands returns to the larger cast size of the old continuity, this time with an entire Caper Crew of four and then five.
• Villain Protagonist: The most villainous set of protagonists in JoJo yet, a group of gangsters who deal drugs and rob millions in cash. Dragona outright tells Usagi that they're the bad guys.
  Dragona: We're thieves who came here to make money. From society's perspective, we're losers.

Jodio Joestar

Jodio Joestar (Stand: November Rain)

^{November Rain}

"You think I sound like one stuck-up son of a bitch, right? By 'filthy rich', I do mean making fat stacks of money... but there's something way more important than that. The mechanism."

A 15-year old boy living on O'Ahu Island in Hawaii with his single mother and brother. His only desire is to become filthy rich through any means possible. He typically works as a gofer for illegal products.

His Stand, November Rain (named after the Guns N' Roses song), creates powerful droplets of rain.

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• Aimlessly Seeking Happiness: Chapter 2 revealed that whilst Jodio has a front of indifference and confidence, deep down he is troubled with his mental diagnosis. He's troubled by the fact that he doesn't have "any real emotions" and even if he says he wants money, he just wants to be happy.
• Alliterative Name: Jodio Joestar.
• Alternate Character Reading: Unusually for a Stand name, November Rain is written in Japanese with kanji (namely, 11月の雨) instead of with katakana. The Stand name does have an official katakana writing (ノーヴェンバー・レイン), but it only appears as a pronunciation guide.
• Ambition Is Evil: Jodio wants nothing more than to become filthy rich by any means necessary. This means that he's willing to sell drugs to kids and other unsavory methods so long as he feels that it'll help him in his quest for gold.
• Astonishingly Appropriate Appearance: November Rain has the near-identical appearance of a Hawaiian palm tree.
• Because Destiny Says So: Jodio follows something called a "Mechanism". In simple terms, they're universal constants where all the deals of power and trust in the world come together like an ecosystem, acting as general pre-established principles that the moving parts (people) of the mechanism should follow and use to gain an edge; things like "Don't ask stupid questions", "Don't snitch", etc. Jodio follows his mechanism to the letter, and in turn, he lives comfortably in his life of crime because that's how things are supposed to go; so long as he follows the Mechanism's unspoken principles, he gets plenty of pocket money, neighborhood crooks leave his mother alone and make sure she can go to her job in peace every morning, and Jodio is kept up to speed by his various partners in crime. He firmly thinks he will make a flow of wealth come to him by continuing to follow his mechanism, which is how he plans to get rich. Jodio also believes in a "Mechanism Apex" that he hasn't seen yet and that other mechanisms will appear in different forms and shapes. You could see Mechanisms as another form of fate, similar to the "Flow" in JoJolion.
• Big Brother Instinct: Age-inverted; Jodio is Dragona's younger brother, and is absolutely brutal to those who mistreat them, using November Rain to almost kill a corrupt cop and setting a bus full of children on fire.
• Celibate Hero: According to Dragona, neither of the siblings are interested in romance.
• Chick Magnet: When talking about his mechanism, one shot shows him with several ladies sharing drinks. Two women also invite him to join them on their float at the beach at the start of chapter 8.
• Composite Character: Jodio is deliberately patterned to be an alternate-timeline counterpart of Giorno, albeit a Giorno who took more after Dio than the Noble Demon gangster who looked out for him as a kid. As a result, he's introduced with a personality that ends up being much more similar to Jolyne Kujo and especially Part 2 Joseph Joestar, being a cocky troublemaker living in the tropical US who regularly has run-ins with the law and is pragmatically selfish instead of righteous, though he is fiercely protective of his close family. To underscore his connection to his grandfather Fumi (the alternate-universe equivalent of Joseph), Jodio is introduced in a manner similar to the first chapter of Battle Tendency, stepping in to give a beatdown to the cops in order to protect a dark-skinned victim of their brutality (this time, it's his older brother Dragona), though the savagery of his retaliation is more in line with Giorno's.
• Contrasting Sequel Main Character:
  • To Jotaro from Part 3. They both fill the same spot in the Joestar family in each timeline, as the grandsons of their respective Joseph Joestars and Suzi Qs. They're also both taciturn teenage delinquents who have a violent streak, beating the shit out of people who wrong them, while also both being cases of Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas. Where they differ is their priorities — Jotaro is angered by injustices suffered by others, like price-hiking restaurants and abusive teachers, while Jodio is only concerned with making money and protecting his family. Plus, Jodio appears to actually like the company of his fawning female classmates.
  • To Josuke from Part 4. Both are money-obsessed teenagers that go to dangerous extremes to get more, but Josuke has access to a portion of Joseph's inheritance as well as having close to a million yen in his bank account (that his mother froze until he was 18 since a teenager with that much money is absurd). Plus, the most dangerous Josuke has ever gone to make money is getting into an Absurdly High-Stakes Game with Rohan. Jodio not only does dangerous but illegal things to get more money. On top of that, Josuke just wants money to spend on luxuries like designer clothes or fancy food. Jodio wants money just so he can be happy. He's also an avid fan of Rohan Kishibe.
  • To Giorno from Part 5. Both protagonists enter a life of crime, but the most significant difference between them is that Giorno joined Passione to reform it from within, showing disdain for their selling drugs to children and having an ultimately selfless goal of using the mafia's power to improve Italy, Jodio is into crime solely for his own benefit, to get "filthy rich", and is willing to sell drugs and pull off heists to reach that goal. Giorno is also Wise Beyond Their Years and The Stoic, while Jodio very much acts like a 15-year-old teenager and is more expressive. Also unlike Giorno, Jodio has a healthy relationship with his mother.
  • To Jolyne from Part 6. Both of them are juvenile delinquents who frequently got in trouble with the law. They also stole from other people. While Jolyne mainly commits crimes in order to get her father's attention and get him away from his long-distance job, Jodio's parents have little to do with his criminal behavior apart from ensuring his mother's safe passage to and from work at the airport's duty-free shop. Both of them also highly respect their mothers and are willing to be brutally violent towards authority figures who wrong them. Unlike Jolyne, who is an only child and often commits crimes by herself, Jodio often has accomplices help him out in his crimes, and he sometimes helps them back.
  • To Josuke from Part 8, in typical JoJo protagonist zigzagging fashion. Whereas Josuke was an eccentric but polite young man with no idea of who he is before eventually easing into a Family of Choice, Jodio is a ruthless Anti-Hero who is very aware of who his family is and will commit all sorts of crimes with his brother to support his beloved mother.
• Courier: At 11 years old, he was invited to be a gofer to deliver objects (read: push cocaine) to their recipients. It wasn't long until the praise and receiving pocket money made him embrace his mechanism and deliver other types of 'objects'. In the very first chapter, him and Dragona are shown outright selling firearms hidden in surfboards to a group of criminals... Out of a stolen stuck with Stand-faked license plates... driven irresponsibly with fake driver's licenses.
• Deadly Droplets: November Rain utilizes raindrops that are filled with strong force to crush whatever they land on.
• Death from Above: November Rain drops powerful raindrops onto its targets from above.
• Death Glare: After seeing Dragona wounded by Charming Man, Jodio delivers a quick glance of pure rage after striking his leg with a full blast of November Rain's droplets.
• Deconstructed Character Archetype: Jodio more or less takes the "gangster Anti-Hero" model which Giorno and the other protagonists of Part 5 embodied and flips it in a much darker direction. Whereas the latter was a ruthless but ultimately Noble Demon who sought to take control the Mafia so to make the streets safer, Jodio is what the average street criminal is; an arrogant, impulsive, simple-minded punk perfectly okay with trafficking drugs to minors, and ultimately only interested in his own self-interests. His ruthlessness is also revealed very early into the story to be the result of him being a clinical sociopath, and rather than making him more dangerous, it instead makes him a hindrance to Dragona and the others through his poor judgement skills.
• Disproportionate Retribution: Deconstructed. He gets back at the students who assaulted Dragona by setting the bus they were riding on fire, only relenting after he saw a parakeet that could have ended up as collateral damage. The fallout, however, leads to his father getting sacked from his job at the insurance company that underwrote the bus's insurance, leaving their mother as a result. This leads Jodio and Dragona into a life of crime to both help their mother make ends meet and to protect her from unsavory elements.
• Establishing Character Moment:
  • Upon witnessing his brother, Dragona, get assaulted by a police officer, Jodio gets out of their car — despite another officer holding him at gunpoint — and uses November Rain to beat them to the ground. Even after they're both incapacitated, Jodio leaps onto the officer that assaulted Dragona and beats the crap out of him with his bare hands, even after Dragona told him he's going too far. Finally, Jodio burns the police car along with the dash cam and body cam footage so they won't get caught. This all establishes Jodio as someone who is both ruthless in his judgment while also meticulous enough to cover his tracks.
  • He also responds to Dragona's worries about their driving by joking about them getting too excited listening to Dua Lipa on the radio, making them laugh. He may be a ruthless criminal, but he genuinely loves his family and will go to extreme lengths to protect them, as his takedown of two Dirty Cops and his feelings towards his mother later established.
• Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas: Part of why he works as a gofer is to keep his mother safe and make sure that she can go to her job at the airport every day.
• Eyes Out of Sight: The unique shape of his bangs causes them to often cover his eyes when he's drawn in distant shots.
• Fake a Fight: After Usagi approaches him on the bus and loudly asks for drugs, Jodio decides to fight Usagi then and there, to their classmates' excitement and the bus driver's dismay. However, Jodio was only pretending because he didn't want anyone to know about his criminal activities; once they're off the bus and relatively away from everyone else, Jodio directs Usagi to where the drugs are stashed on the school grounds.
• Foolish Sibling, Responsible Sibling: The foolish to Dragona's responsible, despite the two of them being criminals. Jodio is far more arrogant and unscrupulous compared to his brother.
• Greed: He is solely concerned with becoming incredibly rich, and he's willing to do absolutely anything no matter how illegal or amoral to get there.
• Heart Is an Awesome Power: Aside from crushing people, Jodio can use November Rain to target very specific objects and leave others unaffected. When an American DEA agent nearly busted him and Paco for having coke, he used his Stand to ruin the bag and destroy the evidence. The rain trailed down the woman's fingers, and the rainwater's weight ripped through the coke bag. During the heist, he selectively uses it to destroy Rohan's floor underneath his carpet while leaving the carpet in place, causing Rohan to fall through when he steps on it and leave himself open to getting choked with a zip-tie.
• Hidden Depths:
  • Jodio repeats several times his goal in life is simply to get filthy rich, through any means necessary, criminal activities included; however, his life philosophy which he calls "Mechanisms" paints a bigger picture wherein Jodio approaches a way of life that works precisely the way he believes it will. As a form of mechanism, Jodio knows the ins and outs of, his life of crime currently works exactly like Jodio expects it to. As such, he deems it as perfectly appropriate—Jodio detailing his mother's daily routine is a perfect example of that. Jodio's willingness to be involved in a life of crime is less traditional unscrupulousness and more his belief that morality, in general, is beholden to the system, which he intends to safely and efficiently situate himself in.
  • He's also an avid fan of Rohan Kishibe's manga, instantly recognizing the man himself and being rather excited to meet him in person, even if he keeps his focus on the mission at hand.
  • He also has an eye for fashion as he really admires the outfits Meryl Mei Qi designs for her fashion boutique, even wishing that she focused solely on fashion designing instead of juggling many jobs at once.
• Hollywood Psych: Downplayed. A psychotherapist says that Jodio may have antisocial personality disorder, but instead of being portrayed as a chillingly heartless Manipulative Bastard, he is given a more nuanced portrayal as a selfish, arrogant, and hot-headed teenager. In reality however, people cannot be diagnosed with ASPD before the age of 18^note Minors are instead diagnosed with conduct disorder. Unsurprisingly, Jodio still fits many of its criteria, and Barbara Ann angrily points out to the doctor that Jodio is too young.
• Idiot Hero: While the "hero" part is debatable, Jodio might very well be the dimmest protagonist in the franchise, as made apparent by his often delusional narration. Deconstructed, as his inability to pick up on others and impulsive behavior is shown to be the result of his ASPD. During his psychological evaluation, "lack of control over one's actions" is shown to be one of the boxes checked off, and sure enough he gets caught up reading manga drafts off of Rohan's iPad during the heist instead of keeping better tabs on the situation as the team's designated lookout.
• I'm Not Here to Make Friends: While he does go to school, he explicitly states that he's not there to learn or make friends — he only goes there due to following "mechanisms" that will one day make him filthy rich. That and his school principal, Meryl Mei Qi, is his boss-in-crime.
• Improbable Aiming Skills: When utilizing November Rain, Jodio can alter the raindrops to entirely avoid specific areas where they land. Such as when he uses it to destroy only a bag of drugs didn't harm the person carrying it.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Jodio cares only about making money, and has little interest in making friends. In his narration, he even makes fun of another student for being bullied. He is not above stealing, selling drugs, or beating someone to near death. However, he is protective of his older brother and very appreciative of his mother.
• Knight Templar Big Brother: Inverted; he's Dragona's younger brother and violently protective of them, being introduced nearly beating two cops to death after they attempted to sexually assault them.
• The Knights Who Say "Squee!": Jodio is a huge fan of Rohan and his manga and is excited to see one of his manuscripts in person, although he still prioritizes the mission over his interest.
• Know When to Fold 'Em: When Jodio sees Rohan get out of his pool and go back into his house, he immediately calls the rest of the crew to quit searching for the diamond and get out before they're caught, saying they can try again later.
• Lack of Empathy: Justified. He is diagnosed with Antisocial Personality Disorder, which is characterized by a clinical lack of remorse and empathy for others. In practice, this means he isn't much for restraint when dealing with those he dislikes, as shown in the first chapter; had Dragona not begged him to stop, he could've very well beaten the two corrupt cops to death for attempting to rape his sibling. He is also completely disinterested in making friends with even other teens his age, and outside of Dragona, he only interacts with them on a surface level as needed.
• Logical Weakness: His stand creates heavy droplets of water, but that's still what they are: water; therefore, his stand can't hit anything underwater, since water will just hit the surface then mix with the rest of the body of water.
• Making a Splash: November Rain creates raindrops that come down with crushing force, throwing two policemen to the ground and leaving ping-pong ball to baseball-sized indentations in their flesh.
• Meaningful Appearance: His standard getup includes a hood; this is meant to signify that he's a 15-year-old living around the year 2020, as hoodies are just normal casual apparel for people. It also enables him to wear the hood to look a little sneakier, as he does at the end of Chapter 3.
• Meaningful Name:
  • His name is an obvious portmeanteau of JoJo and Dio. While he hasn't been confirmed to actually have any ties to Dio or Diego, it's a Call-Back to Giorno, while also symbolizing his ruthless nature.
  • "Jodio" is Spanish for "fucked up", befitting of his behavior as a potential sociopath.
  • He's the protagonist of Part 9, and fittingly, his Stand's name begins with "Novem", the Latin word for the number 9.
• Morality Chain: His family and especially Dragona act as one to him. From the very first chapter, it's Dragona that stops him from killing the cops, thinking he was going way overboard. They're pretty much what stops him from falling into Villain Protagonist territory.
• My God, What Have I Done?: Subtle but there. When faced with the fact that he may have caused his family to go bankrupt due to burning a girl that donated a lot of money to his school, his narration makes him seem distraught at having caused his family trouble.
• The Narrator: Like Johnny, Jodio acts as the series' main narrator.
• Nerves of Steel: When Charming Man (disguised as Paco) tries to get him into giving up the lava rock by saying The Mafia might be involved, Jodio remains affirmed about keeping his promise to Rohan and in a situation like this, they need to make a direct clear choice to move forward.
• Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: In Chapter 13, a flashback reveals that Jodio punished Dragona's bullies and the teachers who did nothing to stop it by trapping them in a burning bus. It's heavily implied he meant to kill them all, but changed his mind at the last second when he saw that a parrot was also trapped inside. Unfortunately, Jodio later learned from his mother that his father was forced to take the fall for the arson, putting his family in dire financial straits in the process and his father having no choice but to leave their home.
• Non-Standard Character Design: Among the eight protagonists that wield Stands, Jodio, Joseph (who obtained it only after his turn as the protagonist was done), and Johnny are the only ones to wield Stands that are non-humanoid. November Rain has just a head attached to four spider-like legs. It's also massive compared to most other Stands in the series; when it first appears, Jodio himself only reaches around half of one of its legs. Out of all the protagonists' Stands, it is easily the most threatening and villainous in appearance, matching Jodio's own unheroic traits.
• No Sympathy: As further establishment of just how generally unheroic he is compared to previous JoJo protagonists, when he sees a fellow student getting bullied, he dismisses him in his narration and moves on with his day, merely pointing to the student's humiliation as an example of someone who never found their mechanism. This can also be attributed to his diagnosed antisocial personality disorder, since one of the criteria for diagnosis is a Lack of Empathy.
• Pay Evil unto Evil: Jodio beat the crap out of two police officers and used November Rain to crush their bodies after one tried to molest his brother while the other let it happen and attempted to shoot him. He likely would've killed them both if Dragona hadn't told him to stop it.
  • In a flashback, it's revealed that when he found out how Dragona's classmates bullied them and the teachers did nothing to stop it, Jodio responded by trapping said classmates in the school bus and starting a fire inside. It's heavily implied that he intended to kill them all, but he changed his mind and put out the fire when he saw that an innocent pet parrot was also trapped inside the burning bus.
• Properly Paranoid: Chapter 2 includes a scene where Jodio is hesitant to sell drugs to a prospective buyer because he suspects that she is an undercover cop with recording devices hidden in her helmet and her bike's headlights. When he does sell drugs to her, she immediately reveals that he was right on the money.
• Punny Name: Jodio (or more specifically, jodió, though it's pronounced differently) can be read in Spanish as the word for "he fucked/messed with", reflective of Jodio's sleazy nature.
• Small Name, Big Ego: His narration in the first chapter has Jodio claim himself to be a respected member of his community who's on his way to become filthy rich. In-story, he's effectively just a petty thief who also works as a drug mule.
• Smug Snake: A rare protagonist example. From just his narration in the first chapter, it's obvious that he has a very inflated opinion of himself, viewing himself as a respected individual in his community who is on his way to becoming a made man, even though he's actually nothing more than a thief and drug mule. He also falls for a rather obvious lie and tries to deal drugs to an undercover policewoman, which would put a very early end to his ambitions if it weren't for his Stand ability.
• The Sociopath: A realistic take. Jodio is diagnosed with antisocial personality disorder, and it shows in his impulsive, aggressive, selfish, and unempathetic behaviour as well as his willingness to deal drugs for money. But he is still the hero, albeit an Anti-Hero.
• Sociopathic Hero: In the most literal sense of the term; after taking a psychological exam at school, he ended up being diagnosed with antisocial personality disorder, something that his mom refused to believe. Fitting with a more realistic depiction of sociopathy, Jodio is less of a conniving emotionless mastermind and more of an impulsive brat with an inflated ego.
• Squashed Flat: His Stand's method of attack. From what we've seen so far, November Rain can make localized raindrops to crush opponents. Jodio used his Stand to almost squish one of the dirty cops to death, but Dragona told him to knock it off.
• Stealth Pun:
  • November Rain can make raindrops that hit harder than normal rain can, as if it were weighed down by something. You might say that it makes heavy rain.
  • It also ties in to Jodio's desire to get rich—that is, to "make it rain."
• This Is Gonna Suck: His inner thoughts at the end of the first chapter make it clear that he thinks the diamond heist is going to be a disaster, no matter how many people his group has. He is later proven right when the Japanese tourist they intended to rob, Rohan Kishibe, turns out to be a powerful Stand user who trounced them all, but he doesn't express his suspicions because, in his words, he's just a low-level crook.
• Tranquil Fury: Jodio's reaction to seeing Dragona get sexually assaulted by a police officer is to step out of the car he's sitting in, order him to get his hands off Dragona, calmly walk towards him, ignore the police officer's partner aiming a gun at him and ordering him to put his hands up, and use his stand to leave the police officers Squashed Flat, all with a calm expression on his face and without once raising his voice or making any sudden movements. Zigzagged Trope when he follows this up by angrily stomping on the police officers' remains and yelling insults at them.
• Unreliable Narrator: Jodio's narration is... unique, to say the least, and heavily filtered through both his young age and personality disorder. The result is that it's difficult to tell how much of what he says is actually true, or just his delusional view of the world around him.
• Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Jodio getting revenge on the bullies who assaulted Dragona by setting fire to the bus with them in it set off a chain of events that lead to his father leaving them after losing his insurance agent job, forcing his mom to work two jobs, and eventually them joining up with Meryl Mei Qi.
• Vicariously Ambitious: Jodio talks about his becoming "filthy rich" as a kind of inevitability brought about by the "mechanisms" he's built up in his life.
• Villain Protagonist: Jodio is an ambitious, ruthless, self-interested brat motivated primarily by making money at any cost. To this end, he shows no remorse doing things like selling drugs to children or breaking into a stranger's house to steal from them.
• Visual Pun: His left ear has an earring shaped like the letters J and O, while a short braid on the right side of his face has a star on it. When he faces the viewer, looking right-to-left in typical manga style sees the adornments on his face as "J-O-Star".
• White Hair, Black Heart: Downplayed Trope, but official colored art portrays him with silvery-white hair, and he's by far the most amoral main JoJo.
• Wicked Heart Symbol: Downplayed, but he has a heart on his overalls and makes himself out to be extremely amoral right out of the gate.

Dragona Joestar

Dragona Joestar (Stand: Smooth Operators)

^{Smooth Operators}

Jodio's 18-year old brother who works alongside Jodio on jobs. They could possibly be named after the band Dragon.

Their Stand, Smooth Operators (named after the Sade song "Smooth Operator"), is a Colony Stand made of tiny robots that can move things out of place.

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• Ambiguously Brown: Noticeably darker-skinned than Jodio despite sharing both parents, which could be the result of a suntan due to their athletic personality, but their hair appears to be dreadlocked, and they're harassed by a bigoted white policeman who makes comments of a racially-charged nature about their skin tone, implying that they're of mixed parentage. However, what little we see of their father in Chapter 13 makes it clear that he was white, so, like Pucci and Weather Report, it remains entirely ambiguous.
• Ambiguous Gender Identity: Dragona can easily be mistaken for a young pretty woman, but what they actually identify is not fully known. Jodio calls Dragona "big bro" and the English fan translation has elected to use male pronouns for them for the time being (elaborated upon here), while Dragona uses the typically-feminine pronoun "atashi" as well as feminine speech patterns in general, and their name is Spanish for 'Dragoness,' and Pascal Lefine, the French editor of the official release of The JOJOLands in France by Delcourt/Tonkam, has referred to Dragona as trans. But due to how wildly different (and interpretative) gendered pronouns are in Japanese compared to English, these are hardly confirmations.
• Animal Motif: Dragons, as per their name. They have multiple dragon tattoos and has a necklace with the letter "D" on it in the shape of a dragon.
• Badass Adorable: Smooth Operators take the form of a swarm of tiny, tank-threaded robots that look like toys, but their power allows them to do severe levels of Body Horror.
• Big Brother Instinct: When they are being sexually assaulted by a Dirty Cop, they tell Jodio to stay inside the truck so he wouldn't be endangered, then later beg the two corrupt cops not to shoot their brother by telling them that Jodio is a "minor". Jodio rescues them anyway by using November Rain.
• Birthmark of Destiny: Being a Joestar, it's natural that they have a star-shaped birthmark behind their left shoulder.
• Body Horror: Smooth Operators can inflict this by rearranging the position of body parts. When a Dirty Cop is about to shoot Jodio, Dragona uses their Stand to rearrange the cop's eyes so that one is on his earlobe and the other one is on his forehead. They later threaten to wrap Paco's ear around his head for trying to steal from a customer at Iko Iko.
• Celibate Hero: They reject Usagi's confession by telling him that neither them nor Jodio are interested in romance.
• Curiosity Is a Crapshoot: Upon seeing a couple carrying the valuable watch that was touched by the lava rock, Dragona ignores the group's warning to head back towards the car after seeing a Thieving Magpie grab the watch and runs to get it, only to find out it was a trap set by the enemy and gets wounded.
• Cute Machines: Smooth Operators take on the form of several adorable tiny robots on tank treads.
• Dark and Troubled Past: Dragona has been relentlessly bullied as a teenager due to their gender non-conformity to the point of getting assaulted by other students. Jodio's extreme attempts at defending them also inadvertedly caused their father to lose his job, leave the family, and force the two siblings into a life of crime in order to protect their mother.
• Dude Looks Like a Lady: Dragona has a very feminine appearance despite being born male, even to the point their face is almost as feminine as women their age. Jodio states that they "love girl-like fashion and the slight swelling in [their] chest is from cosmetic injections". That being said, it's hard to say what they identify as, and it's entirely possible they may not consider themselves a dude.
• Everyone Has Standards: Dragona may be a thief who helps traffic drugs, but they're aghast at Jodio's brutality and tell him to stop when Jodio beats the cops coming after them half to death. They also stop Paco from stealing from the customers at Iko Iko.
• Foolish Sibling, Responsible Sibling: They and Jodio are criminals, but they're much more restrained and have more standards regarding how they should operate.
• Healing Hands: Along with moving body parts, Dragona is also capable of moving wounds "out" from a person's body— similar to how their ancestor Johnny could move bullet holes with his Stand. When they get their throat slashed, Dragona narrowly avoids death by transferring the cut to a wine bottle.
• Heart Is an Awesome Power: Being able to move stuff around sounds like a lame power to have. However, as Dragona demonstrates, they can use Smooth Operators to move things that can't be moved, like numbers on a license plate or body parts. They are shown being able to move the eyes in someone's face, move their thumb out of place without breaking it to get out of a string cuff holding their wrist, moving the lock out of a safe, and even makeshift healing by transferring wounds to objects.
• Impossible Theft: Smooth Operators allow them to move anything on an object they touch even if it isn't something that should be able to be moved — such as the numbers and letters on a license plate, a picture of themself onto a stolen driver's license, and moving a lock off of a safe's door to unlock it.
• Irony: Despite being a low-level crook, part of their day job at the Iko Iko boutique has them preventing petty thieves from stealing from the shop.
• Master Forger: Dragona's Stand allows them to counterfeit objects such as licenses and make them look completely genuine. It is strongly implied that Dragona has committed numerous acts of forgery through their Stand.
• Matter Replicator: Smooth Operators can rearrange an object's molecular structure by Dragona scratching it, allowing for a license plate's numbers to be swapped around, their photo to be engraved on a stolen driver's license, and a person's face to be melted sideways, among other uses.
• Morality Chain: They act as this to Jodio. While Jodio is undoubtedly not the best company to have around, there's no denying that he'd be even worse if Dragona wasn't there to rein him in.
• Morning Routine: They go jogging on the beach every morning after eating papaya for breakfast.
• Nervous Wreck: What seems to their Fatal Flaw; They do not perform well under pressure or in events of Didn't See That Coming, and often follows along with Jodio's sociopathy because he makes decisions a lot faster than they do. When the diamond keeps rolling back towards Rohan's safe, and Rohan knocks out Paco and Usagi using Heaven's Door after some squabbling, Dragona is left shaking and hyperventilating, unable to even resist Rohan about to ziptie their hands before Jodio distracted him with November Rain.
• Signature Headgear: Dragona always wears a flower crown, emphasizing their femininity.
• Terrified of Germs: Justified. Dragona doesn't like the cop getting all up in their face, because they're scared that they might catch COVID.
• Trademark Favorite Food: They always eat only watermelon for breakfast every day, though this was switched to papayas in the first compilation volume.
• Unsettling Gender-Reveal: When an officer is sexually assaulting them, the cop sticks his hand into Dragona's thong and finds out they have a penis. Though, it's disturbingly subverted when the cop makes a comment that suggests he's turned on by this.
• Wholesome Crossdresser: Played With, they like dressing in feminine clothing and even gave themselves breasts from cosmetic injections, and Jodio identifies them as "big bro", but their actual gender identity is left up in the air. While they are a criminal like their brother, they're much friendlier and less unscrupulous than him.
• Work Hard, Play Hard: They live by a phrase heard from an Indian yoga instructor, "I'll never push myself too hard, but I'll never give up either."

Paco Laburantes

Paco Laburantes (Stand: THE Hustle)

^{THE Hustle}

A 19-year old student at Jodio's school and an unabashed thief.

His Stand, THE Hustle (named after a Van McCoy song), allows him to control muscles in improbable ways, such as grabbing onto and pulling things with any part of his body, or vibrating and strengthening his own muscles.

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• Abusive Parents: His dad is abusive towards him, going as far as to bite a chunk in his left ear.
• The Big Guy: The largest and most muscular of the team, and has a Stand specialized for physical combat.
• Ear Ache:
  • His abusive father once attacked him by biting off a chunk of his left ear, according to Jodio.
  • When he tries stealing from a customer at Iko Iko, Dragona punishes him by using Smooth Operators to stretch his right ear enough to cause pain while lecturing him.
• Formerly Fat: Paco was chubby two years before the events of the story, but now he's built like a brick house.
• Heart Is an Awesome Power:
  • Grabbing things with your muscles instead of your hands doesn't sound like great power on paper. But as several panels in the first chapter show, Paco can use his Stand to steal items from people, like wallets or watches, without drawing any suspicion, making him a great thief and a perfect member of the jewel heist. It also comes with the added use of not leaving your fingerprints on the things you grab, which, for a delinquent like Paco, is a blessing as there's no proof of theft if he's caught.
  • Later chapters show THE Hustle is also handy in a brawl when combined with Paco's impressive physique — close-quarters combat with him is practically suicide, since even a glancing blow just gives him the opportunity to "grab" his assailant's hands or weapons and counter-attack. He can also grab weapons of his own from unpredictable angles, like bashing someone with a chair that he's grabbed with his hips.
• Held Back in School: Despite being 19, he's still in high school.
• Implied Death Threat: During Chapter 1, he invites Dragona to come to the gym with him. Jodio's narration translates that as "I'll legally beat you up in their boxing ring".
• Improvised Weapon: Chapter 10 shows us just what THE Hustle can do in a fight. With just a single touch, Paco is able to hold a lunch tray on his arm to use as a shield, followed by him grabbing and throwing a chair with his back muscles.
• In Love with Your Carnage: Downplayed, but when he saw Jodio beating up the cops that were about to arrest them, he does say that he's starting to like him.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: He may be rude and a criminal, but he also has a friendly side and is the one who wanted to save the cat's owner because he could see the good in him rather than letting him die.
• Master of Your Domain: THE Hustle allows Paco to have extensive control over his own muscles, allowing maneuvers such as grabbing onto things with his back muscles, etc.
• Meaningful Name: "Laburantes" is Spanish for "workers" and he works hard as a thief for Meryl May.
• Mythology Gag: The way Paco uses THE Hustle is similar to the Pillar Men's control over their own bodies. When caught by the Cat's string, he vibrates a scissor blade with his muscles similar to how Kars' Light Mode functions. In his brief fight with Rohan, he wedges himself into a vent like Santana does; even trapping Rohan's hand by molding his muscles around it much like how a Pillar Man would absorb their victims.
• Named After Somebody Famous: Likely named after the fashion designer Paco Rabanne.
• The Paralyzer: Paco's control over muscles isn't limited to his own. As long as he touches someone (even indirectly, by touching something that they're also touching) he can forcibly make their muscles bulge, paralyzing the affected limbs.
• Punny Name: "Hustle" rhymes with "muscle", and THE Hustle gives Paco the power over muscles.
• Save the Villain: As Jodio is about to drown the cat's owner, Paco decides that he wants to spare him and make him an ally, as he realizes that the owner isn't completely evil and has information about the lava rock.
• Sticky Fingers: According to Jodio, Paco steals not for the money but for the thrill of it. He believes Paco enjoys the act of stealing more than any video game.

Usagi Aloha'oe

Usagi Aloha'oe (Stand: The Matte Kudasai)

^{The Matte Kudasai}

A 17-year old upperclassman of Jodio. He buys drugs from Jodio and Paco and later becomes the fourth member on the heist of the 24-carat blue diamond.

His Stand, The Matte Kudasai (named after the King Crimson song "Matte Kudasai"), can transform into a duplicate of an object in the vicinity if someone else says they want it.

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• The Alcoholic: Implied. The moment he sets foot in Rohan's villa, he immediately starts stealing from his wine rack (and only bottles, as opposed to Paco stealing both random junk like a plunger, and more valuable items). Dragona quickly tells him to knock it off since they can't get it through airport security anyway when they're all considered under the legal drinking age.
• Anguished Declaration of Love: He starts crying and tells Dragona that he loves them after they almost die, as he was afraid he would lose them. Dragona reacts with annoyance and says that they aren't interested in romance.
• Awesome, but Impractical: The Matte Kudasai is a pretty nifty ability, being able to duplicate and transform anything. Unfortunately, Usagi can't use it by himself.
• Big Eater: On the team's way to the land registry office, he's seen eating a burger, a soda, a banana, two oranges, a bottle of water, and a cup of ramen. He isn't even finished eating them all by the time they park, and brings the water and ramen with him into the building.
• Cloudcuckoolander: He's a rather strange and eccentric guy, and this is reflected in the very outlandish way he dresses, as he's wearing a pair of shorts over a full-body lycra suit as well as carrying a backpack around, and later wears an oversized beret and a choker, the latter item being also worn over his lycra suit. It should be noted that he is introduced wearing this, at school, indicating that this is his everyday outfit.
• Cordon Bleugh Chef: He utilizes this trait against Wild Cat Size when he scatters meat patties mixed with caviar to lure them towards a rock and capture them.
• Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: Despite seeming like a weird drug addict, Meryl May has faith in his abilities and he has a useful Stand. During the heist, he is the one to figure out that the stray cat that got in is a Stand or user rather than the tourist having some strange new security device. He is also the only one to dodge its effects when it went after his ankle. Granted, he was on alert, unlike Paco and Dragona.
• Early Installment Character-Design Difference: Usagi doesn't have his beret in the first chapter, only wearing it in subsequent chapters and covers. His symbol showing a pair of legs also originally pointed downwards before being flipped upside-down later.
• Establishing Character Moment: The very first time we see him, he's loudly asking Jodio to sell him drugs while the two of them are on a crowded school bus, prompting Jodio to get in a pretend-fight to draw attention away. This quickly establishes him as an addict with no sense of discretion and makes it obvious as to why the rest of the Caper Crew are less than enthusiastic about working with him.
• Fatal Flaw: Poor communication. As much as Usagi is capable of coming up with rather ingenious on-the-fly plans, he's not good at explaining himself to his comrades, making him come across to them as more of a jerk or a miser than he actually is.
• Functional Addict: He worries the other members of the heist team since he was seen earlier taking a drug shipment from Paco, but Meryl May reassures them that he's perfectly functional despite being a drug addict. Sure enough, despite his eccentricities, he's in full control of his Stand and can easily work around its limitations.
• Keet: Enthusiastic to a fault, much to the detriment of his more taciturn teammates.
• Kindhearted Simpleton: His brain has been thoroughly wrecked by drugs, but he rivals Dragona as being the nicest member of the heist team, if a bit quirky.
• Loophole Abuse: The Matte Kudasai only transforms on the request of anyone but Usagi himself so he gets around this by indirectly asking them to say what he wants the Stand to transform into for him.
• Mechanical Animals: The Matte Kudasai takes on the form of a small robotic bird with screws on sections of its body. The Stand can't fly, but it can climb on walls.
• Necessary Drawback: Usagi's Stand sounds like a great power to have, as being able to make anything would be fantastic. But what stops The Matte Kudasai from being too strong is that it can only trigger its ability if someone wishes for something they want, not what he wants.
• The Nicknamer: When told that they can't refer to each other by their names during the heist, Usagi suggests giving each other codenames, calling himself "Blue" and Dragona "Pink-chan" (Even though they are not wearing anything pink).
• No Self-Buffs: Usagi's Stand can transform into anything, which includes very complex objects, like a working security camera that can play slightly changed live footage. The problem is that he can't get his Stand to transform into anything he desires. To get his Stand's ability to work, he has to rely on someone else by asking them what they want (or by telling them to ask for something specific), and only then will his Stand change into whatever they asked for.
  Usagi: It transforms into "something there that someone wants". It sure would be nice if it could turn into what I wished for, though.
• The Smart Guy: Surprisingly. He's an eccentric, maniacal drug user, but he's also one of the sharpest people on the team and the most Book Smart among them, making him able to both formulate plans and provide explanations to things the rest of the crew doesn't know, like his plan to use the caviar and the lava rock to defeat the cats and explaining about the chemistry equipment in Rohan's house.
• Smarter Than You Look:
  • While an eccentric Functional Addict, he demonstrates a level of unprecedented craftiness when using his Stand's duplication ability by immediately having the foresight to duplicate Rohan's camera to help cover the gang's tracks. He was also smart enough to come up with a workaround for his Stand's No Self-Buffs weakness.
  • He's also knowledgeable about different types of chemistry glassware and lava and is the first to notice that the cat has a Stand.
• Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: Dragona and Paco don't like Usagi right off the bat. Paco sees him as a druggie and a loose cannon, while Dragona says they were just fine with just the three of them pulling off the jewel heist. But Meryl May says he's good, so they'll give him a chance.

Charming Man

Charming Man (Stand: ???)

^{Charming Man's Stand}

A man investigating the lava rock, and the owner of Wild Cat Size. After coming into conflict with Jodio and his gang over the lava rock, Paco recruits him into their ranks. He is named after the song "This Charming Man" by The Smiths.

His unnamed Stand takes the form of sand that he can manipulate, allowing him to appear as anything from other people to blend into the scenery.

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• And Show It to You: He decapitates his cats' heads and puts them in Jodio and Paco's takeout paper bag. Subverted as Paco reveals that these were actually potatoes made to look like the cats' heads to scare off Paco and Jodio away from the lava rock.
• Bad People Abuse Animals: His treatment of Wild Cat Size after their failure and possibly even before that should tell you the kind of person that he is. Subverted when Paco tells that this was another illusion, and the heads were actually potatoes. This unwillingness to actually go through with it suggests to Paco that he's not that bad after all and would be a fitting ally.
• Combat Pragmatist: Once his identity is revealed, his combat style is shown to consist of him using his Stand to hide until he can use his knife to deliver crude but effective attacks to quickly incapacitate his enemies, such as slashing Jodio's throat and stabbing Dragona in the neck.
• Confronting Your Imposter: He's revealed to be an imposter after the real Paco returns from getting food; the fake Paco (i.e., him) had taken Jodio for chicken burritos while the real Paco was off getting abalone.
• Defeat Means Friendship: In classic JoJo fashion, he's recruited at Paco's suggestion to the team, after losing to Jodio.
• Devious Daggers: His favored weapon is a long knife, and he favors sneaky attacks to his enemies' throats or necks in order to quickly incapacitate them. However, Paco notes that his knife skills are otherwise sloppy and unprofessional, as Paco was able to easily fend him off when engaging him in close-quarters combat.
• Dude Looks Like a Lady: His long hair and eyeliner make him look extremely feminine. His outfit having a huge bow in the middle of his chest also adds to the femininity.
• Easily Forgiven: Despite his attempts to kill them, the team holds no resentment towards him and he even quickly bonds with Jodio over their taste in music.
• Everyone Has Standards: He tried to kill the protagonists but isn't without some redeeming qualities. For example, he never killed his pet cats even when they failed him, instead opting to try and trick Jodio and Paco. Paco recognizes this and wants to recruit him as a result.
• Kick the Dog: Subverted. What initially looked like another Araki villain showing how vile they are by animal abuse turns out to have been an illusion via potatoes made to look like the cats' heads to scare off Jodio and the others.
• The Man Behind the Man: He's the owner of Wild Cat Size and was the one who sent them after the gang.
• Master of Illusion: His Stand allows him to manipulate sand to alter the perceptions of his target, ranging from disguising as other people to blending into the scenery to hide attacks and make ambushes.
• Mythology Gag: His powers look very similar to Dr. Wu and the Qing Dynasty Hair Clip from the previous part, as his skin crumbles away when he is shapeshifting.
• Pet the Dog: Retroactively, the decision to fake potatoes as cats' heads when it was considered a typical Araki means of showing a villain to be unpleasant via animal abuse, with the implication he actually cares enough for the cats to not actually kill them.
• Scarily Specific Story: While disguised as Paco, he attempts to get Jodio into discarding the lava rock by stating that The Mafia, or an even worse group, might be involved and after the same thing, and they should just give it up and leave with the diamond. It fails due to Jodio's Nerves of Steel and to keeping his word to Rohan that he won't give up the rock.
• Token Good Teammate: Ironically enough for someone who starts out as an antagonist. As pointed out by Dragona, Charming Man isn't interested in money like the rest of the team. He only joins them in order to rescue his missing brother Mauka; while he's shown to have violent tendencies along with a previous criminal record, this still makes him the most unambiguously heroic member of the gang.
• Unfortunate Name: Charming Man is a completely ridiculous name even by Jojo standards, to the point that several characters can't help but show incredulity upon learning that's what he calls himself.
• Voluntary Shapeshifting: Although the extent of his abilities is yet unknown, he is able to transform into an exact copy of Paco, using this disguise to try to manipulate Jodio into giving up the lava rock.

Allies

Barbara Ann Joestar

Barbara Ann Joestar

Jodio and Dragona's mother, sister of Holy Joestar-Kira, and daughter of Joseph Joestar and Suzi Q. She lives a normal life working in a toll-free store in the local airport, unaware of the criminal activities of her children. Named after The Beach Boys song "Barbara Ann".

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• Forbidden Friendship: While calling Jodio over the phone, she tells him to stay away from Paco, because he's a violent criminal who went to prison for a year. Unbeknownst to her, Jodio and Paco are already friends working in a heist together.
• Good Parents: Despite her and her husband's separation, she loves and takes care of her children, and part of the reason why Jodio and Dragona are living a life of crime is to support their mother from the shadows.
• I Reject Your Reality: When faced with the possibility that her youngest child could be a genuine sociopath, her response is to yell that the psychotherapist's diagnosis is untrustworthy and demand for her money back. Unfortunately for her, Jodio is unhappy but resignedly accepts the news.
• Locked Out of the Loop: She's a loving mother unaware that her children have become thieves and criminals to give her a comfortable life.
• Mythology Gag: Her angry reaction to Jodio being diagnosed as a sociopath calls back to JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders, where Holy Kujo tearfully insists to the police that her son Jotaro is "a really good kid" after learning her son somehow ended up in jail.
• Nice Girl: She is very nice and cordial to her children and their neighbors, who support her back.
• Parental Obliviousness: She is completely unaware of her children's criminal activities. It's justified as both Jodio and Dragona don't want her to know what they're doing behind her back.
• Struggling Single Mother: Due to an already strained relationship as well as being blamed for Jodio's act of arson, Barbara-Ann's husband left his family behind in Hawaii. Having to then work two jobs to support both Jodio and Dragona took a toll on her, and led the two siblings down the path to becoming criminals to aid their family's financial troubles.
• This Cannot Be!: When a psychotherapist diagnosed Jodio as a sociopath, she angrily accuses the psychotherapist of being a quack and demands her money back. Unfortunately for her, Jodio is unhappy but resigned to accepting the diagnosis.
  Barbara Ann: (after seeing her son's psychological evaluation) I don't trust it!! There must be some mistake!! You don't just diagnose a child with that! We want our money back!
• Unknown Relative: Although the Joestar family tree in JoJolion listed multiple unnamed siblings for previous generations, and Holly's position on the Joestar family tree at the end of JoJolion is drawn in a way that left room for the existence of at least one other sibling, it also made no mention of Joseph and Suzi having a second daughter until now.

Meryl Mei Qi

Meryl Mei Qi

The 49-year-old principal of Jodio's school, who acts as the proprietress of the "Iko Iko" Fashion boutique, which she uses as a front for criminal activities.

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• Affably Evil: Despite being a criminal herself, she is a cordial and well-respected woman. She greets her students every morning, and later apologizes to the customers in her boutique shop for closing up early. She also treats her subordinates like her own students, telling them all in sing-song to shut their phones off, and thanking Dragona when they serve her a drink.
• Alliterative Name: Meryl May Qi.
• Awesome by Analysis: She quickly realizes something went down with her underlings' heist by making the connection that there was no theft report from Rohan and that even then, they took over 6 hours to complete the heist.
• Big Beautiful Woman: She's huge in all senses, but that doesn't make her unattractive in the least.
• Character Tic: She seems to treat her underlings as her students even while discussing criminal activities, such as ordering the group to turn off their phones by clapping her hands and saying it in a sing-song tone much like a teacher would.
• Establishing Character Moment: Her first appearances show her to be a polite and cordial woman, greeting her students with a "good morning" and apologizing to her customers when she closes her shop early for the day. This pegs her as being Affably Evil when her status as a crime boss is revealed.
• Large and in Charge: She's extremely tall and imposing, and is the organizer of the group's illegal activities.
• Living a Double Life: Fourfold life; by day, she's a school principal, and on the side, she's the owner of a boutique, a fashion designer, and a crime boss. She's also a wife and mother on top of all that. Jodio calls her a "super woman" for being able to juggle so many different jobs at once.
• Properly Paranoid: Secretive in the extreme, even to her partners-in-crime — when briefing Jodio and co. on the diamond heist, she merely shows them a photograph of the diamond on her phone and tells them to memorize it rather than sending them the photo itself. Jodio narrates that this is a habit of hers, and says it makes sense given how many different lives she's juggling. Her paranoia ends up being justified as in the next chapter, Jodio is nearly arrested for drug possession by an undercover cop, who intended to use him to find the identity of his boss.
• Renaissance Woman: As lampshaded by Jodio, she holds a lot of jobs. She manages to run an efficient low-key criminal empire while maintaining her cover as a school principal and boutique proprietress, while still having the time to also be a fashion designer.
• Villain with Good Publicity: Justified. Despite holding multiple jobs at once, she has both the charisma and mental capacity to pull them off and remain a respected public figure. As a result, neither her students or her customers (save for subordinates like Jodio, Paco, and Dragona) are aware that all her jobs are fronts for her criminal activities.

Villains

Corrupt Cop

Corrupt Cop

A police officer who sexually assaults Dragona after pulling them over.

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• Body Horror: Smooth Operators moves one of his eyeballs onto his cheek and another onto his forehead. He gets lucky, though, as it's only temporary.
• Depraved Bisexual: When shoving his hand into Dragona's thong during a Pervy Patdown, he gets excited when he finds that Dragona has a penis.
  Cop: What the...? This is a... oh... so you're one of those, huh? Ohh... oh man... that only makes me even more excited!
• Dirty Cop: He is a corrupt cop who sexually assaults Dragona during a patdown and later threatens to rape Jodio after arresting him.
• Ephebophile: He outright states to Jodio, a 15-year old boy, that he plans on raping him later on.
• Expy: Him being a Depraved Bisexual and an Ephebophile who acts as a Starter Villain makes him a dead ringer for Anjuro "Angelo" Katagiri from Part 4, the only key difference being that while Angelo was trying to evade the police, he's part of the police.
• Hate Sink: There's virtually nothing about his character that can be considered likable, and he only exists for Jodio to give him his just desserts.
• No Name Given: His name is currently unknown.
• No Sense of Personal Space: When pulling Dragona over, he sticks his face extremely close to theirs, which Dragona is uncomfortable with because they're worried they might catch COVID.
• Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil: It's bad enough that he gives Dragona a Pervy Patdown, but when he reencounters Jodio, he says that he plans on throwing Jodio into a cell and raping him.
• Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!: He doesn't follow any ethical practices needed of a police officer, but to him, it doesn't matter, since he has other cops to back him up while he's committing his heinous acts.
• Villainous Crush: When he catches Jodio in Chapter 2, he says that he's been dreaming about Dragona every night ever since pulling him over.
• Villainous Face Hold: When arresting Jodio, he pins him to the ground and roughly grabs his face in a suggestive manner while talking about how he wants to rape both him and Dragona.

Wild Cat Size

Wild Cat Size (Stand: Cat Size)

^{Cat Size}

Three cats wandering around Rohan's house during the gang's heist, seeming inconspicuous at first until they show themselves to have a Stand and attack the group.

Their shared Stand, Cat Size (named after Suzi Quatro song "Cat Size"), can create moving threads that can wrap itself around an enemy's appendages or pierce through their body to stitch them.

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• And Show It to You: The cats' owner ends up decapitating the cats after the group escapes them and leaving their heads in Jodio and Paco's takeout paper bag. Slightly Subverted later, as it turns out this was an illusion by the cats' owner. All that was actually in the bag was a few potatoes made to look like their heads.
• Animalistic Abomination: Initially, the cats seem to be relatively normal outside of their ability to summon threads. However, Chapter 7 reveals that they can not only generate these threads from their bodies but also meld with each other to form nets, hinting that they might be something more supernatural, like the absurdist Rock Animals from JoJolion.
• Beneath Notice: Everyone who sees one of them at first doesn't care, assuming it's a random stray. Even when it gets into the house, only Rohan, who owns the house, and Usagi care. Paco directly states he doesn't care about it if it stays quiet.
• Body Horror: Chapter 7 reveals that they can generate threads from their bodies but also meld together into nets in a grotesque manner.
• Cats Are Mean: They first appear as unsuspecting cats wandering around until they reveal to possess a Stand to attack the team.
• Instant Knots: The strings it produces wrap around the target's limbs, even wrapping around themselves to get a better hold.
• Killed Offscreen: After their defeat, their owner decapitated them and shoved their heads into a bag given to Jodio and Paco. And then Subverted as it turns out the heads were actually fakes, actually potatoes to freak out the crew.
• Master of Threads: Their Stand lets them control their fur into wires that can target their opponents. At first, the wires wrap themselves around the gangs' limbs, cutting off circulation and cutting into their flesh; later on, it has enough force to pierce through a person's body, immobilizing Dragona and Paco's arms by stitching them to their chests.
• Mythology Gag:
  • The cats having a Stand that utilizes pressurized attacks brings to mind the cat Tama and its Stand, Stray Cat, from Part 4.
  • The fact that there are multiple cats present rather than just one is reminiscent of the fight against Bug-Eaten and Not Bug-Eaten from Part 4, who shared the same Stand of Ratt.
• Razor Floss: Initially downplayed; the string around Paco's ankle is used to draw blood after tightening, but seems to cut using sheer pressure rather than sharpness. Later played straight, when one cat uses its string to slice a tree in half.
• Starter Villain: The cats are the first proper enemy that the group has to defeat.
• There Is Another: Chapter 5 reveals that there isn't just one, but multiple cats wandering around as they pursue Jodio and his group.
• You Have Failed Me: At the end of Chapter 8, Jodio and Paco buy chicken burritos while waiting for Dragona and Usagi. All seems well and good as they return to their table... and then Jodio finds the severed heads of the cats placed inside the takeout bag; he instantly realizes the cats have a leader, and said leader killed them for failing to get Rohan's Lava Rock. Chapter 11 subverts this, as the "heads" were just potatoes made to look like the cats' heads to scare off Jodio and the others.

Others

Rohan Kishibe

Rohan Kishibe (Stand: Heaven's Door)

^{Heaven's Door}

A renowned Japanese manga author who is in a villa in Hawaii with an expensive diamond in his possession. He is the target of Jodio's gang's heist.

For information about his Part 4 incarnation, see here.

Like his Part 4 counterpart, his Stand is Heaven's Door, named after the song "Knockin' on Heaven's Door", by Bob Dylan.

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• Adaptational Nice Guy: In Diamond is Unbreakable, Rohan was The Friend Nobody Likes and an incredibly petty Anti-Hero who acted really creepy in his first appearance. Here, Rohan is treated as a Hero Antagonist who bears the heist team no ill will, even after he learns that they broke into his vacation home and plan on stealing his diamond.
• Bait-and-Switch: While the diamond is insanely valuable, it is in fact the two unassuming pieces of lava rock in his safe that Rohan puts value on, even screaming for Jodio to stop when he crushes one of them to intimidate Rohan.
• Breaking Old Trends: In contrast to other characters who are counterparts of characters from Parts 1-6, Rohan not only looks identical to his counterpart from Diamond is Unbreakable, but even wields the same Stand. This also separates him from Alternate Diego Brando from Part 7 and Yoshikage Kira from Part 8, counterparts of Dio Brando and the Yoshikage Kira of Part 4, who look different from their counterparts but have the same Stands.
• Curb-Stomp Battle: Due to their inexperience, as well as the diamond refusing to stay in their possession, Rohan makes short work of Dragona, Paco, and Usagi while learning everything about their mission.
• Hero Antagonist: Unlike his previous incarnation who started off as a villain, this Rohan is merely a foreign tourist studying the lava rocks in Hawaii, coming to blows with Jodio's crew only because they're trying to rob him.
• I Gave My Word: After being bested by Jodio upon seeing he's discovered the lava rock is a more valuable item, he keeps quiet about the group entering his villa after they leave.
• In Spite of a Nail: Despite the vast differences between the original and SBR universes, Rohan is still a highly-successful mangaka in both, even having the exact same Stand ability as it appeared in Thus Spoke Kishibe Rohan.
• Oh, Crap!: While tied up by Jodio and interrogated, Rohan remains unflappable and refuses to tell the police that his home invasion report was a mistake. That changes instantly when Jodio brings out the tray holding samples of lava and molten rock that were in the safe with the diamond, having figured out the samples have more value to Rohan than the diamond does. When Jodio smashes one of the samples, Rohan yells at him to stop.
• Room Full of Crazy: An entire room of his luxury villa is full of chemistry equipment, microscopes and various lava rocks, of different shapes and sizes. Given that only two stones are in his safe, it's likely that the other rocks are inert and the ones in the safe have the "rule of nature" he mentioned to Jodio.
• Sexy Surfacing Shot: Introduced swimming shirtless in his villa and looking quite good, culminating in him leaning outside the pool at the end of chapter 2.
• Signature Headgear: He wears both the same zig-zag bandana and dip pen earrings as his original counterpart.
• Vagueness Is Coming: After Jodio ties him up and they get their hands on the diamond, Rohan warns the group that they are being hunted by an unknown party, but refuses to elaborate further.
• Villain Respect: Rohan admits that he feels humiliated for having been bested by a bunch of self-centered brats, but he says to Jodio that there's something unique about him that he's taken a shining to, and entrusts him with the lava rock sample for the time being.

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