Characters / JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders: The Joestar Group

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

♫ Walk like an Egyptian... ♫^note Clockwise from top-left: Jotaro Kujo, Noriaki Kakyoin, Muhammad Avdol, Joseph Joestar, Iggy, and Jean-Pierre Polnareff.

The Joestar Group / The Stardust Crusaders

Character-Specific Pages

• Jotaro Kujo
• Joseph Joestar
• Jean-Pierre Polnareff

In general

• Early-Installment Weirdness: The only Stand using group that don't have a healer of any kind, so whenever they do get significantly injured they have to go to doctors to get treated, which leads to a few of their members being Put on a Bus when they take significant injuries.
• Fire-Forged Friends: Every member of the group in some fashion or the other have to go through some sort of conflict together before they really start to bond with one another, but once they do, it's the beginning of a friendship they'll remember for the rest of their lives.
• Forgotten Fallen Friend: Subverted. Even years after Part 3 ends, Jotaro and Polnareff are shown to have their minds on that trip to Egypt and the friends that made up the group.
• The Friends Who Never Hang: Avdol and Kakyoin, Joseph and Polnareff, and Iggy with Kakyoin and Avdol fall into this trope as they never have any meaningful experiences with one another, with only some light chatter here and there.
• Good Is Not Soft: While undoubtedly heroic men who are fighting for a noble cause and do not go out of their way to cause trouble, they will have no qualms about killing their opponent to end a fight.
• Made of Iron: This group really sets the trend of the main characters going through all sorts of injuries only to keep on fighting.
• Powers Do the Fighting: As the first protagonist group with Stands, they are all shown to be quite dependent on their stands to defeat the opponent, which is justified, seeing how only Stands can consistently combat other Stands.
• True Companions: In a trip that only lasted a mere fifty days, this group of people became quite tight nit and developed a deep level of care and respect for one another, the memories they made are so strong that the trip is remembered fondly years after it concluded.
• Weak, but Skilled: Four out of the six stand users fall into this territory: Hermit Purple, Hierophant Green, Silver Chariot, and The Fool aren't the most powerful Stands around in terms of raw power, but their users manage to get a lot out of them through precision, skill, and creativity. Magician's Red and Star Platinum, who both fall into Strong and Skilled, are the exceptions.

Muhammad Avdol

Muhammad Avdol (Stand: Magician's Red)

Voiced by: Kenta Miyake (TV anime, Eyes of Heaven, and All-Star Battle R), Masashi Ebara (All-Star Battle), Akio Ōtsuka (CD drama), Kiyoshi Kobayashi (OVA), Hisao Egawa (Heritage for the Future video game) (Japanese), J.S Gilbert (OVA), Chris Tergliafera (TV anime) (English)

"Hell is near, so prepare for HELL 2 U!"

^{Magician's Red}

"Trying to predict the future to a fortune-teller? You're ten years too late!"

An Egyptian fortune-teller befriended by Joseph. He is named after Paula Abdul.

Wields the Stand Magician's Red, named after the Magician tarot card, capable of generating fire-based attacks. These attacks are often used at a distance, and are still decently effective at short range. Avdol eventually learns to turn his fire into different shapes and launch them at high speeds.

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• Animal Motifs: Birds. He is seen taking care of chickens in the Judgement arc, his Stand has a bird's head like the god Horus, and like a phoenix, is associated with fire and comes back from the dead.
• Badass Boast:
  • Quoted above.
  • He gives one to Cameo after doing a Big Damn Heroes moment.
    Avdol: Muhammad Avdol is alive. This bad news... Shouldn't you hurry and tell DIO and your other Stand user buddies about it?
• Badass Longcoat: His flowing red coat, fitting for a traveling fortune teller Stand user.
• Badass Long Robe: In his first outfit, he wears a jellabiya coupled with his red coat. His second outfit trades the robe for pants.
• Berserk Button: He's quite proud of having individualism, so when Polnareff insults him by accusing him to be a coward for running from DIO, Avdol nearly hits him.
• Big Damn Heroes: Three times even! He suddenly saves Polnareff from Hol Horse's Emperor and later he makes his glorious return to the story saving Polnareff in the nick of time from Cameo. He'd end up saving Polnareff (and Iggy) a third time, but was Killed Off for Real as a result.
• Black Dude Dies First: Twice! He's the first major character to seemingly die, getting shot in the head by Hol Horse. However, it turns out that he survived that and joins the group again... only to get Killed Off for Real alongside Iggy by Vanilla Ice.
• Calling Your Attacks: Yells out the name of his "CROSSFIRE HURRICANE!" when performing said move.
• Color Character: Magician's Red. Avdol is also associated with the color himself given all the red he wears.
• The Comically Serious: He's easily the (second, after Jotaro) most serious of the Joestar Group and likes it that way. He invites Polnareff to piss down Cameo's breathing straw in order to lure him out, and during their fight against Mariah, he constantly remarks how unhappy he is to find himself as the temporary Butt-Monkey and remarks that, "disasters in the bathroom is Polnareff's department."
• Cruel to Be Kind: He attempts this, saying telling that he won't be watching out for Iggy or Polnareff when they go about DIO's mansion so that they stay more alert. When danger does show up that neither are aware about, he unflinchingly gives up his own life to prolong theirs.
• Death by Irony: Before entering DIO's mansion, Avdol tells Polnareff and Iggy that the mission to defeat DIO comes first, and that even if any of them are in danger, they should focus on protecting themselves first. It's his decision to protect Polnareff and Iggy instead of himself that allows Vanilla Ice to kill him.
• Dies Differently in Adaptation: In the OVA, Avdol dies in a similar way to Nukesaku when he's heavily wounded by DIO and forced into his coffin, despite being sensible enough to blast it open from a safe distance with Magician's Red. While he does survive long enough to seemingly deduce DIO's secret from how the vampire attacked him, Avdol is then promptly killed by Vanilla Ice — through dropping Cream's Void state on top of him on cue from DIO — before he can tell the rest of the Joestar Group, only barely having enough time to shove Polnareff out of the way before he's erased.
• Disappointed in You: During his argument with Polnareff, he says that he expected better out of him. Unusually for this trope, it only makes Polnareff angrier, rather than ashamed. When he returns to save Polnareff from Cameo, he remarks that Polnareff "hasn't matured a bit," since his wish to bring back his sister and Avdol got him into his current predicament.
• Dropped a Bridge on Him: He comes back in the latter half of the story but eventually he got killed so fast, he barely had time to react and save Polnareff.
• Ethnic Magician: A Black Egyptian who works as a fortune teller, and literally associated with the Magician Arcana.
• Facial Markings: Avdol has two zig-zag lines running vertically down his face.
• Fiery Stoic: He's the most wise and levelheaded member of the Joestar Group, and also has command over fire using Magician's Red.
• Finger Wag: Accompanied by a "tsk tsk tsk", to mimic a lighter or match being lit.
• Fortune Teller: Averted; he is an avid fortune-teller, but he avoids all the personality traits associated with the trope.
• Genius Bruiser: One of the smartest members in the party, and his stand is one of the strongest all around, meaning Avdol firmly falls into this category.
• Heroic Sacrifice: He could have theoretically saved himself, but decided to save Polnareff and Iggy instead, at the cost of his own life.
• Hypocrite: A heartwarming and tragic example: Before entering DIO's mansion, Avdol warns Polnareff and Iggy that once they are in, everyone's priority must be to preserve their own lives above anything and if someone gets in a dangerous situation the others must not attempt to sacrifice themselves to save them. The first thing Avdol does when Vanilla Ice attempts to kill them is to push Polnareff and Iggy away to save them. Polnareff invokes this trope when he realizes that Avdol got himself killed to protect them.
• Hot-Blooded: Despite his role as a wise magician, he is also quite short-tempered. He acknowledges this himself when confronting Daniel J. D'Arby, pondering he is too emotional for a cerebral game like his.
• I Am Not Left-Handed: During his fight with Judgement, he reveals he's been holding back as he was guarding his injured shoulder. While the enemy Stand was initially beating him and Polnareff, Magician's Red crushes its shoulder and arm in one hit after this revelation.
• Inconsistent Spelling: Official translations spell his name as either Muhammed or Muhammad Avdol, but according to the way his name is written in the original Japanese (モハメド・アヴドゥル Mohamedo Avuduru), it's supposed to be Mohamed Avdul.
• Intergenerational Friendship: When he first appears in the story, he is described as being a friend of Joseph, who is about four decades older than him.
• It's Personal: Averted. Unlike Jotaro and Joseph who seek to save Holly, Polnareff who initially just wanted to find J. Geil but ended up realizing the sacrifices of his friends, Kakyoin who seeks redemption for having allowed DIO to make him become all he despises, and Iggy who lost a foot to DIO's pet bird, Avdol has no personal reason for fighting DIO beyond a failed "recruitment" attempt that left him terrified of the man, just a desire to stop such an evil being from thriving.
• Knows the Ropes: Magician's Red has a special attack called Red Bind that utilizes ropes made out of fire to restrict the opponent.
• Kung-Fu Wizard: Magician's Red can generate fire to attack at a distance, but it's also good at melee combat and its Destructive Power and Speed are B-rank. Avdol is skilled enough at close-combat to defeat Judgement, a Stand with near-equal stats, despite still recovering from his injuries.
• Large Ham: While he usually keeps his cool during the series, at his most confident he breaks out into bombastic yelling:
  Polnareff: Muhammad Avdol?!
  Avdol: YES! (poses) I AM!
  • Ditto in the dub, despite not sounding as loud.
  Polnareff: Are you really Muhammad Avdol?!
  Avdol: Yes! You had better believe I am!
• Last-Name Basis: Everyone calls him Avdol after his introduction barring one exception with Polnareff.
• Meaningful Appearance: Avdol's usual outfit has him wear a red robe, white/beige clothing and a headband wrapped around his head. This outfit makes him resemble the Magician from the Rider-Waite tarot deck◊, appropriate since he's represented by the Magician card.
• Mr. Exposition: Knows a lot about Stands and some of their more infamous users, recognizing some of them and describing their abilities. He's also fairly versed regarding the places that the Joestar Group goes to, including the beggar culture of Egypt.
• Native Guide: Beyond having knowledge of the cultures of the different countries that the Joestar Group visits, he's also an expert on the various facets and intricacies of his home country of Egypt, to the point of being somewhat of a Knowledge Broker with some of the citizens he's familiar with. This includes a scene of him explaining beggar culture to Polnareff.
• Not Quite Dead: That headshot from Hol Horse's Emperor that caused Avdol's first "death" actually only clipped his forehead, due to his head pointing upward at the time J. Geil's Hanged Man backstabbed him. Granted, being hit by it still leaves him comatose and puts Avdol out of commission for some time, but it's nowhere near as bad as it initially seemed.
• Not So Above It All: He tries to avert being a Butt-Monkey and keep an Only Sane Man approach, as he's very conscious of his image and outright says he's not happy being caught in sillier shenanigans when dealing with Mariah. However, he's shown to get angry easily, and as his battle with Cameo shows, he can do some pretty outrageous stuff if he feels like it.
• Not So Stoic: Despite actively trying to be the voice of reason and keeping everyone in check, he's quite hotblooded, emotional and prone to panicking, something he's keenly aware of. He ends up laughing like crazy while peeing in Cameo's tube and freaking out during the Osiris arc.
• Odd Friendship: Avdol and Polnareff could not be anymore different, and yet they're shown to be genuinely fond of each other when they first meet, and their bond grows greatly and become probably the tightest knit of the group, which is saying something. Especially evident once Avdol makes his glorious return.
• Offscreen Moment of Awesome: At some point in the past, Avdol found, defeated, and barely tamed Iggy while he was in New York.
• Out of Focus: Where to begin? Oh yeah. He gets seemingly killed off in the first half of Part 3 and stays that way until the last few episodes of it. Then in the other half, he gets involved in three fights (with the other crusaders as the focus of said fights) after that, the second of which he gets taken out along with Kakyoin and has to stay in the hospital for another episode. Then he gets killed again for real in one hit, before the fight even started.
• Playing with Fire: Magician's Red's power is fire-based.
• Power Stereotype Flip: In contrast to the relentless, raging heat that's associated with fire, Avdol is generally mystical and coolheaded.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: Usually the blue oni to Polnareff's red oni. Although, during the fight with D'arby, Avdol admits that he's they type to wear his emotions on his sleeves and would stand no chance against D'arby, especially compared to Jotaro.
• The Reliable One: One of the most stable and clear-headed characters of the Joestar Group. He's not quite as stoic as Jotaro, but more sensible in general than the likes of Joseph or Polnareff.
• Sacrificial Lion: In the OVA, he takes Nukesaku's place as the victim to showcase DIO's powers. Despite having good enough common sense to use Magician's Red to blast open the coffin from a safe distance instead of trying to directly lift the lid, he's forced into it and seriously injured by DIO in the space of one time stop. Avdol then tries to warn the others what DIO's Stand power is — presumably having figured it out that quickly — only for DIO to then cue Vanilla Ice to finish him off. It's implied Avdol could have dodged Cream's attack alone, but he shoves the nearby Polnareff out of the way instead to save him.
• Scars Are Forever: Justified. Hol Horse's bullet grazed Avdol's skull and was in such bad shape he was left to recover for more two weeks, during his battle with Cameo, he shows he still have the wound from the battle and mentions that his shoulder is still recovering from the wound he got from Hanged Man.
• Screw This, I'm Out of Here!: When DIO is recruiting Stand Users he approached Avdol. As soon as Avdol sees DIO's hair tentacles, he jumps through a window and high tails it rather than join or fight him.
• Shaping Your Attacks: Showcases skill when manipulating fire in later chapters.
• Shout-Out: His "Crossfire Hurricane" attack is named after the first line of The Rolling Stones' song "Jumpin' Jack Flash".
• Small Role, Big Impact:
  • He doesn't take as much precedence as the rest of the Joestar Group, but Avdol is the one who first discovered that DIO is still alive after 100 years, resulting in him consulting Joseph about the vampire's reemergence.
  • Despite being largely Out of Focus, it's ultimately his cautious attitude that allows him to save both Iggy and Polnareff from Cream's initial attack, allowing them to have a fighting chance, and combined with Iggy's sacrifice (who Avdol encountered and barely tamed before the start of the story), allows Polnareff to help in Part 5.
• The Smart Guy: Well, at least to a bigger extent than the rest of the guys (except Polnareff). He's the resident exposition guy and also the team's main guide in the different countries they visit. He also seems to know a lot of DIO's assassins by reputation, and has at least heard a bit about their powers.
• The Stoic: Downplayed, Avdol keeps a stone faced calmness, but he's able to emote well with his companions and ham it up when necessary.
• Story-Breaker Power: Due to the nature of his Stand, along with it being as fast as Silver Chariot with no armor and one of the most powerful in the Joestar Group, combined with Avdol's intelligence, it's unlikely Avdol would have much trouble with many of the enemy Stands with a Stand as powerful as Magician's Red. This is most likely one of the reasons he is largely Out of Focus and ends up being Killed Off for Real before getting the chance to face DIO, whose natural weakness is fire.
• Strong and Skilled: Unlike the rest of the group sans Star Platinum, Magician's Red is both physically very strong and has plenty of capabilities that make it useful both in and out of battle, making it quite versatile as a stand, not to mention Avdol's intelligence allows some very creative uses of his stand.
• Taking the Bullet: How he ultimately falls in the OVA. Just before he's violently erased by Vanilla Ice and Cream, Avdol's last act is to shove Polnareff — who was by his side and also in range of the attack when DIO cues it — out of the way to protect him. It's especially notable since not only could he have likely escaped on his own (as Vanilla Ice notes later), but it's also implied he'd figured out The World's secret in only the few moments he was attacked. Even so, he still chooses to sacrifice himself to make sure his friend survives.
• Tarot Motifs: The Magician. Avdol actually shows many of the positive aspects of the Magician — initiative, confidence, manipulation, and realizing one's potential. He also represents the Magician's being Tarot I, Avdol is the first person to properly use his Stand, the first person to start a fight in Stardust Crusaders, the first to meet DIO, and the first of the Joestar Group to die.
• Team Dad: You would think Joseph would fit this, but him being a Trickster Mentor at best means that Avdol fits this trope better than Joseph ever would. This is especially notorious in his relationship with Polnareff, who he constantly tries to school into better judgement. The anime also adds a scene of Avdol placing a bandage on Jotaro's face.
• What You Are in the Dark: Despite claiming that they must save themselves if someone else were to get in trouble, he gives his life for Polnareff and Iggy so that they may live and have a fighting chance against this new threat despite being able to save himself.
• The Worf Effect: His Stand has the most innately destructive special ability, the second strongest physical power according to Stand Stats, speed that can keep up with Silver Chariot's armorless form, and Avdol himself is possibly the wisest of the team. He barely gets fights except to give context to Polnareff's opponents, and his first death serves to show that despite being a formidable opponent, he is ultimately unprepared for the combined might of Hanged Man and Emperor being used in tandem. Avdol himself is usually used as a measuring stick by their enemies, with both Hol Horse and N'Doul claiming he would have been their most troublesome opponent in a straight fight. His second and actual death is used to showcase the sheer brutality and skill of Vanilla Ice, because hadn't Ice been turned into a vampire and fought in a terrain suitable for his enemies, Polnareff would have been dead as well.
• Worthy Opponent:
  • He acknowledges Polnareff as a man of honor throughout their duel, and decides to return the chivalry and explain his own stand's abilities. This later allows him to spare the man's life and allow him to join the group after getting his fleshbud removed.
  • When the group met Daniel J. D'Arby and picked off nearly everyone, Avdol acknowledged that, while D'Arby is no fighter, he is a man of strength and wisely let Jotaro deal with him knowing he wasn't suited for D'Arby's tricks.
• Younger Than They Look: According to Word of God, Avdol is supposed to be in his late 20s, but his experiences with Stands (along with Araki's art-style back then) made his face harden, making him look much older than he is.

Noriaki Kakyoin

Noriaki Kakyoin (Stand: Hierophant Green)

Voiced by: Daisuke Hirakawa (TV anime, Eyes of Heaven, Last Survivor, and All-Star Battle R), Koji Yusa (All-Star Battle), Show Hayami (CD drama), Hirotaka Suzuoki (OVA), Mitsuaki Madono (Heritage for the Future video game) (Japanese), Doug Boyd (OVA), Kyle Hebert (TV anime) (English)

"JoJo, those cherries. Are you gonna eat them? Not to be greedy, but they are my favorite. Could I have one?"

^{Hierophant Green}

"Polnareff, that's not what you say at a time like this. When taking revenge, you have to be more refined!"

A high school student who is temporarily mind-controlled by one of DIO's flesh buds. Once freed, he joins the JoJo team in their quest to defeat DIO and save Holly Joestar. He’s named after the town of Kakyoin, in the Aoba-ku ward of Sendai.

Wields the Stand Hierophant Green, named after the Hierophant card, which can generate emerald-based attacks and stretch itself. Most notably, it can leak a strange fluid from his hands, which can then be solidified and be shot out at high-speeds, ripping anyone who crosses its path to shreds.

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• '80s Hair: He has a mullet aside from his distinctive wavy bang.
• Adaptation Dye-Job: Goes from having bright pink hair in the manga to brown hair in the OVA and red hair in the TV anime.
• Adaptation Expansion: Crazy Diamond's Demonic Heartbreak goes deeper into his backstory. Before the events of Stardust Crusaders, he, his nuclear family, and his extended family had all gone on vacation to Egypt, where DIO was taking shelter at. His younger cousin, Ryoko, had gotten herself lost on the streets in the dead of night, provoking Kakyoin to go looking for her, until she found herself cornered by DIO. As it turned out, DIO had his sights set on Kakyoin, since him being from Morioh put him in close proximity to Jotaro, who DIO was looking to take out as soon as possible, and he had placed his bets on Ryoko getting lost and Kakyoin looking for her. Upon trying to defend Ryoko, Kakyoin suddenly had a flesh bud launched into his forehead, provoking his plot relevance in Part 3, and Ryoko personally blames herself for Kakyoin's death because she had gotten lost, while the rest of his family is trying their absolute hardest to move on after hearing he had been killed by DIO. However, this is at odds with Kakyoin's own flashback of that day, where he was explicitly seduced by DIO's words and the prospect of friendship with no mention of a cousin before or after, so it's a clear retcon bordering on Voodoo Shark territory.
• Alternate Character Reading: The kanji for his first name can be read as Tenmei. According to the interview with Araki in JoJonium Volume 12, his first name was actually supposed to be Tenmei, but his editor went with Noriaki. In the Justice arc, he does sign his name as "Tenmei" in the hotel's registry.
• Anime Hair: He has a mullet and that's fairly normal, but then there's the large, wavy strand of hair residing at the right side of his face. His hairstyle in his debut scene in the manga, however, looked even more ridiculous, which was an alternative costume for him in the fighting games.
• Anti-Villain: The Villain in Name Only variant when he was introduced. Kakyoin was never evil, just brainwashed by DIO's flesh buds.
• Arbitrary Skepticism: Kakyoin lives in a world where people have all sorts of powers, but he can't believe the idea of a world inside a mirror. Somewhat justified in that he was attempting to apply his understanding of physics to Stands, and he wound up being sort of right.
• The Baby of the Bunch: By a narrow margin, Kakyoin is the youngest of the Crusaders — his birthday is in the summer of 1970, while Jotaro's is in January or February of 1970.
• Bad Powers, Good People: His Stand grants him the power of possessing people, but Kakyoin himself is the most genuinely nice person in the main cast of Part 3.
• Badass Bookworm: He's quite knowledgeable on a wide variety of subjects and is often seen reading on his downtime.
• Beware the Nice Ones: Kakyoin is arguably the nicest person in the main cast, but he's downright merciless to his enemies, under the argument that they're evil beyond redemption — as seen when he rips Tower of Gray apart in his very first fight. He's also one to belittle his opponents, especially after being underestimated, and... well, he forced a baby to eat their own shit.
• Blood from the Mouth: During his dying moments, Kakyoin's first attempt at firing his Last Breath Bullet is interrupted because he coughs up blood. His second attempt is successful, though, and he dies just after it hits the clock tower.
• Brainwashed and Crazy: The first of DIO's slaves to be introduced, being controlled by one of his Flesh Buds.
• Building Swing: Performs one with Hierophant Green, during the DIO's World arc.
• Calling Your Attacks: Shouts out the name of his "EMERALD SPLASH!" when he uses the move.
• Cassandra Truth: Upon learning that Mannish Boy is one of DIO's minions, he tries to warn the others about it, but they don't believe a baby would be a killer.
• Character Development: When Kakyoin first met DIO, he says he was dominated by fear and easily won over. Come the DIO's World arc, and he faces DIO feeling nothing but confidence, both in his method to discover The World's Stand ability and in his friends figuring out his Dying Clue.
• Character Tic: A subversion. He likes to roll cherries around on his tongue before eating them, a trait closely copied by Rubber Soul when he disguises himself as Kakyoin, but it turns out that his partners had never noticed it until after the battle; as such, he only does it exactly once onscreen.
• The Charmer: Kakyoin is handsome, calm, polite, and friendly, which comes in handy, because he usually is the one who has to clean up Jotaro's messes.
• Cheated Angle: His hair "noodle" occasionally switches sides depending on the angle his head is turned at. This is averted in All-Star Battle and Eyes of Heaven, since they're 3D games.
• Chick Magnet: Not as much as Jotaro, but he does attract some female admirers of his own.
• Color Character: Hierophant Green, and Kakyoin always wears his custom green school uniform.
• Combat Tentacles: Hierophant Green can disassemble itself into tendrils to attack and block.
• Combo Platter Powers: This trope allows for Hierophant Green to be one of the most versatile Stands in the entire series. Hierophant Green can deconstruct its body, use its tentacles as tethers, possess people's bodies (though Kakyoin doesn't like using this ability), and of course, its signature Emerald Splash attack, combined with sensory vines that can reach out for 20 meters and fire an Emerald Splash on anybody who touches them.
• Contrasting Sequel Main Character: Whereas Caesar was proud and prone to acting on emotion, but preferred to look as a suave lady charmer, Kakyoin is a smart, strategic fighter who doesn't hide behind a fake persona. Also while Caesar was antagonistic towards Joseph due to their bloodlines and clashing personalities, Kakyoin is antagonistic only because he's being brainwashed by DIO. Both die in similar ways but for different reasons. Caesar goes out boldly, refusing to abandon his pride as he passes the torch onto Joseph, while Kakyoin figures out DIO's abilities and dies exposing it. Interestingly Joseph arrives after Caesar dies whereas he witnesses Kakyoin's death firsthand.
• Cool Shades: Gets a pair after he gets scars across his eyes from N'Doul.
• Crazy Enough to Work: His plan to defeat Steely Dan's Lovers is to have Hierophant Green and Silver Chariot shrink to a microscopic level and enter Joseph's blood stream to perform brain surgery. ...Yes, seriously.
• Curb-Stomp Battle: On the receiving end against DIO. It's ultimately subverted, as it's Kakyoin's Last Breath Bullet that turns the tide of the battle in favor of the Joestar Group.
• Deadpan Snarker: He's mostly polite and sensitive towards everyone, but he takes great pleasure in making sardonic remarks. Polnareff is the usual victim of them.
  Polnareff: A gun! This guy is holding a gun!
  Kakyoin: Oh, you just noticed?
• Death by Flashback: A downplayed version, as it is only in narration in both third and first-person, but give us his Friendless Background. In the exact same chapter, DIO fatally punches Kakyoin through the stomach.
• A Death in the Limelight: The first part of the battle with DIO is told from Kakyoin's perspective, as he tries to figure out the secret of the latter's Stand. He doesn't survive.
• Defeat Means Friendship; Justified. Kakyoin was never evil, only brainwashed. In addition, Kakyoin is willing to join Jotaro's dangerous mission because he had never met anyone else that could see his Stand, and is overjoyed to have friends that could understand him.
• Does This Remind You of Anything?: Kakyoin's flashback with DIO features Kakyoin being approached as if DIO was trying to calm a child, has him sensually whisper into his ear that they should become "friends" with Kakyoin gaining an ecstatic and excited expression on his face, and then shows a lot of roses losing their petals or being "deflowered". Top this with Kakyoin saying he'll never forgive DIO for what he did immediately after and, well, it brings more than a few comparisons of an uncomfortable subject.
• Doomed Protagonist: Kakyoin dies in every single adaptation of Stardust Crusaders. The only thing capable of saving Kakyoin and altering his fate is Jotaro gaining the power to literally rewrite reality, and judging by his presence in the hospital even that is a very narrow thing.
• Dying Moment of Awesome: A less showy variant, but in his last moments, he indirectly sets up DIO's defeat at the hands of Jotaro. After DIO fatally wounds him, Kakyoin's final thoughts aren't about his parents or regrets, but instead he figures out the secret of DIO's Stand (and was the fastest person to do so on their own until Steel Ball Run) and is able to leave a Dying Clue to Joseph by blowing the hands off a clock tower. When he figures out what Kakyoin's final message was, Joseph straight-up states in his battle with DIO that Kakyoin didn't die in vain.
• Dying Clue: Provides the heroes with vital information on the nature of DIO's powers, and even DIO himself acknowledges the importance of that◊.
• Erotic Eating: The way that he licks his cherries really suggests something.
• Even the Guys Want Him: The instant he sets foot in India, a random passerby comments on how handsome he is while offering him a tattoo. Unfortunately, this also gets him some unwanted attention from DIO and Telence T. D'Arby who've both invaded his personal space and touched him suggestively against his will.
• Exactly What I Aimed At: His Last Breath Bullet goes wide and hits a clocktower instead of DIO, destroying its hands in the process. DIO initially mocks his poor aim, but it becomes clear that Kakyoin wasn't trying to land a killing blow, but instead reveal the secret of The World's power despite being too injured to speak.
• Friendless Background: Notes that he doesn't feel like he can relate to people without Stands, and thus never really had the desire to make friends most of his life.
• Foil: To Jotaro, in both fighting style and appearance, with JoJonium going into detail that Kakyoin is the honor role type student to Jotaro's Delinquent and having a long range Stand in contrast to Jotaro's short range. Araki's design choice for their uniforms also showcases their foil, with Kakyoin having a tidy, all buttoned-up gakuran, and Jotaro having it wide open and heavily accessorized.
  • He also foils Polnareff, being the calm, collected, and strategic guy, as opposed to the latter's reckless and hot-blooded personality.
• Foreshadowing: His Stand, Hierophant Green, has a target on its stomach. Kakyoin meets his demise at the hands of DIO by having a hole punched through him there.
  • Similarly, in his JoJonium cover art◊, Kakyoin has his hands over his stomach, again pointing out the location of his fatal wound.
• The Greatest Story Never Told: Thanks to Death Thirteen's amnesia powers only him and Mannish Boy remember their fight.
• Gemstone Assault: Emerald Splash appears to fire a stream of green gems at his target (though it's actually a solidified fluid secreted by Hierophant Green).
• Good Scars, Evil Scars: Has scars across his eyes, product of being attacked by N'Doul. After his eyesight is mostly recovered, he also starts to wear sunglasses to protect his eyes from light.
• The Heart: He's the most sensible and calm of the group and constantly tries to prevent the others from taking rash decisions (see him trying to stop the others from kicking villagers during the ZZ fight).
• Heel–Face Turn: Joins the heroes on their journey after having tried to kill Jotaro, mainly because he was only brainwashed into becoming evil.
• Hidden Depths: From secretly developing a complex handshake with Polnareff to revealing himself to be an expert gamer, Kakyoin has many peculiarities that contrast with his serious honor student persona. In spite of his polite persona he can also be quite the Deadpan Snarker, and he's later revealed to have a passionate interest in video games, on top of having a surprisingly lonely childhood due to acknowledging his Stand from birth.
• I Hate Past Me: He straight-up despises the person he was before he met the Joestar Group, referring to his past self as a "pathetic lurker".
• I Just Want to Have Friends: Type B. He was motivated to join the Joestar Group out of both his desperation to have connections with fellow Stand users, and his search for redemption, after he sucked up to DIO exactly for the former reason.
• Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: His death at DIO's hands: he gets punched right through his stomach, leaving a gaping hole.
• It's Personal: As Kakyoin himself makes it clear during the fight against Telence T. D'Arby, he joined the Joestar Group because he seeks self-redemption for having bowed down to a man like DIO — and also for feeling like he owed his freedom to Jotaro.
• Killed Off for Real: Which carries over into the Capcom fighting game; apparently, Kakyoin is destined to die no matter the circumstances.
• Knows the Ropes: Hierophant Green can stretch itself out into ropes, giving Kakyoin more control over the battlefield than any of the other heroes (except Iggy when he's in the desert). The best example of this is probably when he lures DIO into a Hierophant Green web of tripwires that fire off Emerald Splashes whenever they're touched.
• Laser-Guided Karma: Sort of. While evil, Kakyoin forced a nurse to rip out some helpless student's eyes; fast forward to Egypt, and N'Doul almost fatally blinds him.
• Last Breath Bullet: And wasn't even aimed at DIO, but still proved pivotal in defeating him.
• Last-Name Basis: After his introduction, the cast only calls him Kakyoin.
• The Lancer: Becomes this to Jotaro after Jotaro saves him from DIO's flesh bud.
• Let's Get Dangerous!: After DIO shows that he can counter Emerald Splash without even using his Stand, Kakyoin traps DIO in a web of Hierophant Green's tentacles and unloads Emerald Splash on him from every angle in an attempt to either kill him or force him to bring out his Stand and demonstrate its ability. Subverted when DIO retaliates by punching a hole in Kakyoin's stomach and vanishing from the web at the same time... then double subverted when Kakyoin is able to deduce its ability anyway and pass on the information to Joseph before he dies.
• Likes Older Women: Zig-zagged. He briefly mentioned that Jotaro's mother was the type of woman he feels at ease around, but JoJo fans made a huge deal out of this.
• Loners Are Freaks: Underneath that elegant, cool intellectual demeanor he's actually quite weird. Having spent his entire childhood in isolation, it's not surprising that he's developed some strange habits. Played straight while Kakyoin is being brainwashed, but downplayed after he joins the group.
• Master of Threads: Kakyoin's Stand, Green Hierophant, can turn into string; allowing it to act as rope, avoid attacks, or detect enemies.
• Might Makes Right: While under DIO's influence, Kakyoin responds to Jotaro's statement that even a Jerkass like himself knows what evil is like by stating that history is written by the winners, and thus it is the defeated who are truly evil. Jotaro then throws that statement back in Kakyoin's face (via a flurry of punches).
• Mr. Fanservice: Aside from having androgynous looks, he has a borderline hourglass figure, and his pajamas expose his cleavage. A few women during the Tower of Grey arc comment on his attractiveness. Even lampshaded In-Universe, where a man in India finds him handsome and offers to sell him a tattoo since he believes he'll look good in one.
• My Fist Forgives You: Does this after Polnareff acknowledges that he let his desire for revenge overwhelm him during the Hanged Man fight, currently the page image.
• Nerves of Steel: Kakyoin always stays calm and reliable no matter how pear-shaped the situation is. He's even able to keep his cool while dying, and deduce the power of DIO's Stand at the same time.
• Nested Ownership: When he was evil, Kakyoin used his Stand to turn people into his puppets, while at the same time, Kakyoin himself was just a mere puppet of DIO.
• New Transfer Student: How he's first introduced, and to make it obvious that he would fight Jotaro. It also justifies his green gakuran as opposed to Jotaro's black.
• Nice Guy: Probably the most outwardly nice member of Team JoJo. Though, most of his niceness goes out the window when dealing with DIO's minions — mostly due to his judgement that they're "evil beyond redemption", and his aversion towards submission.
• Odd Name Out: He's neither a Joestar, nor does he follow the Musical Theme Naming. Instead he's named after a town in the Sendai area.
• Only Sane Man: Comes across as this during Avdol's absence, since he becomes the only one who's sensible enough not to go around beating everyone up. This is mostly seen during the Wheel of Fortune arc, where everyone agrees on the idea of punching anyone who looked like the Stand user... except Kakyoin, who tries to stop them.
• Oral Fixation: He has a thing for playing with cherries in his mouth before eating them.
• Out of Focus: He's set up as the Deuteragonist of Part 3, but this role gets taken over by Polnareff early on. He's also Put on a Bus for about a quarter of the series once they get to Cairo. Fortunately, he comes Back for the Finale, and ends up playing a vital role in the battle with DIO.
• Put on a Bus: Is in the hospital for the majority of the Egypt arc due to N'Doul.
  • The Bus Came Back: He recovers from his hospitalization by the time Iggy leads the group to DIO's mansion.
• Puppeteer Parasite: One of Hierophant Green's abilities is to possess people by having the Stand enter their bodies. As Kakyoin's moral compass clashes directly with this, he resorts to using it only as a desperate measure after he joins the Joestar Group.
  • He himself ends up being a victim of this kind of power, since DIO's fleshbuds altered his normally sensible and sympathetic personality to make him a completely amoral killer.
• Recurring Element: To the Zeppeli bloodline. He fits all of the criteria from sacrificing his life to give the hero the clue needed to defeat the Big Bad to having his good ending being dying, even in non-canon works and adaptations.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: Zig-zagged with Jotaro. While they both keep a cool aura most of the time, Jotaro is normally very aggressive and gets physical most of the time, and Kakyoin is more calm and sensible, preferring taking a strategic approach. This was seen in the Lovers fight, where Jotaro was perfectly willing to punch Steely Dan right away, but Kakyoin's Hierophant Green literally held Star Platinum's arm to stop him.
  • He's also the blue to Polnareff's red, as heavily showcased during the Hanged Man fight, when Kakyoin stopped Polnareff from going headfirst into battle without even knowing what J. Geil's power was.
• Redhead In Green: In quite a few artworks and in the anime.
• Rose-Haired Sweetie: Gender flipped. His red hair is sometimes rendered as pink. Compared to Jotaro's blunt nature, Iggy's selfishness, Polnareff's hotblooded attitude, or Avdol's sadism in the Judgement arc, Kakyoin's one of the nicer members of the Joestar group.
• School Uniforms are the New Black: Kakyoin is unusually attached to his school uniform — he even sunbathes in it.
• Sensitive Guy and Manly Man: The polite and artistic Sensitive Guy to Jotaro's rough and edgy Manly Man.
• Shared Family Quirks: In the anime at least, a flashback shows his mother has the same curly side-bang as he does.
• The Smart Guy: He shares this role with Avdol, though Kakyoin has more chances to show it off. He's calm, collected, and analytical. A number of his fights has him analyze and go for the best course of action (Death Thirteen, Hanged Man, Lovers). It's even used for comedy, like when the Joestar Group accosts the patrons at a tea-house to find out which one's ZZ, while Kakyoin is the only one yelling at them to stop attacking innocent people.
• Smart People Shoot: Hierophant Green is a long-range Stand, and in fact the first one such Stand in the franchise, lacking in power, but is extremely flexible, can possess people, and has ranged attacks. Kakyoin himself is extremely smart, from a young age, and managed to outsmart some of the most dangerous Stand Users seen, and is the only character who found out The World's true power, and even got to share that info to Joseph with a Last Breath Bullet before dying.
• Squishy Wizard: Kakyoin is one of the best long range stand users around with Hierophant's versatility, but neither it nor he are very durable, anytime either are in close range to the opponent equals bad news.
• Strange Minds Think Alike: When Old Joseph is teaching hand signals for scuba diving, Polnareff shows off a bizarre hand signal of his own. Kakyoin immediately recognizes it as something vulgar, and the two high-five.
  Kakyoin: (after watching the hand signal) I can see your underwear.
  Polnareff: YEAH!
  Joseph: We're under attack and could die at any moment! Quit fucking around and let's go!
• Stripperific: Not him, but his Stand, Hierophant Green, exposes a lot of what would be "skin", and wears a thong and Zettai Ryouiki.
• Tarot Motifs: The Hierophant card represents intelligence, leadership, guidance, education and tradition — which are all aspects present in Kakyoin's characterisation. He's a honor student that respects rules and traditions (to the point of acting like a local would, in Hong Kong), and presents multiple characteristics that belong to a leader, despite not formally being the leader of the Joestar Group. He also guides Polnareff throughout the Hanged Man fight, while also showing his intelligence in battle.
  • Add to that the fact that, in tarot, the Hierophant represents interpreting mysteries and uncovering obscure secrets. This is precisely what Kakyoin does in his final moments, allowing the Joestar Group to figure out the secret of DIO's Stand.
  • He also presents traits of the reversed Hierophant in some situations, namely submission (when he surrendered to DIO, and later on despised this kind of behavior from himself) and stubbornness (as his refusal in doing what he doesn't feel like doing ultimately led him to get dangerously close to being blinded)
• Transfer Student Uniforms: He introduces himself to Jotaro in the second episode as a transfer student — which explains his green uniform in contrast to the standard black at Jotaro's high school.
• Trademark Favorite Food: Cherries. He has the habit of sticking out his tongue and rolling the fruit around on it before eating it. He's also got a pair of cherry themed earrings, and his standard color palette resembles a cherry in a certain way (pinkish-red hair and a green uniform).
• Undying Loyalty: To the other crusaders, and literally. Even with faced with a lonely and painful death, Kakyoin calmly turns his thoughts from his parents who he's known all his life to send a final message to Joseph and the others — whom he literally describes as "the friends I've come to love" in the English dub — and save them from DIO. Though it's understated due to his introverted nature, he'll risk his life to help his friends without a second thought and mourns them deeply when they die, even shedding tears for Avdol.
• Useless Useful Spell: Emerald Splash is Kakyoin's main long range attack, yet is hardly as effective as one would hope, it often ends up deflected if not outright dodged. Subverted in that it is mostly used as either distraction or as a way to figure out how an enemy Stand works, and its role against DIO in the fight is undeniably a key factor in their victory.
• Vitriolic Best Buds: With Polnareff. Kakyoin is constantly very rude to the former, as a way to tell Polnareff off on his Captain Obvious moments and frequent recklessness while in battle, but at the end of the day, they're close friends. After all, would this handshake be performed by two mortal enemies?
• Weak, but Skilled: His Stand is not fit for physical combat at all, and its abilities are much more basic than someone like Avdol or Iggy. However, his intelligence combined with his surprisingly cunning nature, allow him to fight and win by using tricks and strategies like Joseph of part 2 would have used.
• Weak-Willed: At first, where he completely surrendered himself to DIO and acted upon Kick the Dog tendencies while brainwashed. When he regains his senses, he absolutely loathes how he acted and resolves to be much stronger willed from then on.
• The Worf Barrage: The amount of times Emerald Splash has been used to damage an enemy can be counted on one hand and you'd still have fingers left over. Subverted in that Kakyoin is fully aware of this and mostly uses it to figure out how his enemies' stands work or distract them so he can sneak attack with his Combat Tentacles.
• The Worf Effect: Kakyoin gets taken out by N'Doul's Geb before the fight even begins.
• Wouldn't Hurt a Child: Downplayed. He will choke out Death 13 (and effectively Mannish Boy) if he has to, but doesn't want to kill him because he's a baby. That, however, doesn't mean that Kakyoin will let him be a Karma Houdini.
• Written by the Winners: When he's brainwashed, he justifies his evil by saying that since he's going to win, history will make him into a hero. Jotaro shuts him up.
• Younger Than They Look: As standard for JoJo characters, his facial structure and muscular body resemble those of an adult, and he's more rational than the actual adults in the party, but he's in fact only 17 years old. Though he looks more like the high school student he's actually supposed be in the original manga.
• Your Size May Vary: Jotaro, Joseph, and DIO are all canonically a staggering 17cm taller than Kakyoin (and much heavier), so he should realistically come up to their chins. The manga, anime, and video games usually depict all the Joestar Group as the same size or close to it, but then immediately show everyone towering over Kakyoin in the next shot.

Iggy

Iggy (Stand: The Fool)

Voiced by: Misato Fukuen (TV anime, Eyes of Heaven, and All-Star Battle R), Shigeru Chiba (All-Star Battle) (Japanese), Derek Stephen Prince (TV anime) (English)

"All I want is a little R&R. A girl of my own! Some place to settle down! Fighting someone else's battle isn't on my list of things to do!"

^{The Fool}

"Good grief... I can't let a kid who likes dogs get hurt!"

A Boston terrier granted some degree of sentience following the acquisition of his Stand. He is named after Iggy Pop. He is a haughty and rude dog and sees humans as monsters for how badly they treated him. Over the course of the story, he begins to make friends with the crew, and resolves to take down DIO with the gang.

His Stand, The Fool, has the ability to shape-shift sand into a variety of objects, such as a hang glider. In the desert, Iggy always has a tactical advantage.

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• Accidental Hero: Twice. He accidentally saves the heroes' group from Oingo and Boingo and later Jotaro and Polnareff from Anubis. Although, in the anime at least, his reactions afterwards imply that he is saving them on purpose.
• Action Pet: A dog that can manipulate sand.
• Actually a Doombot: A rare heroic example: Iggy's disembodied head is seen flying off after Pet Shop's attack, but it was actually just a sand-clone.
• Adaptational Badass: The OVA has The Fool be a lot larger than it is in canon, dwarfing Silver Chariot where it was approximately as long as Silver Chariot's sword in the manga.
• Adaptation Expansion: The anime adds many filler scenes with him as a protagonist, including a scene where he indirectly saves Jotaro and Polnareff from Anubis via running in front of a possessed boy.
• Agony of the Feet: During the fight with Pet Shop, he loses his front-left leg.
• All Dogs Are Purebred: He's by all appearances a purebred Boston terrier, despite coming from the streets. Later justified, because before living on the streets, he was a pure breed with a certificate which was bought by a rich man.
• Anti-Hero: A rare case for a dog character. Iggy is selfish, rude, antisocial, and very apathetic about the cause of the Joestar Group. It isn't until he loses his leg in the fight against Pet Shop that he ends up joining the heroes.
• Badass Adorable: Once Art Evolution kicks in during the Pet Shop fight.
• Bizarre Taste in Food: Iggy's favorite things to chew on are coffee-flavored gum (with the wrapper still on) and human hair.
• Boomerang Bigot: Implied to be this towards other dogs, given his "dumb dog routine" in front of Pet Shop.
• Brilliant, but Lazy: He could easily track down and take down N'Doul with his strong sense of smell and control of sand all while being in the middle of a desert, but he ignored the fight in favor of napping before Jotaro "persuaded" him.
• Brooklyn Rage: Derek Stephen Prince's approach to Iggy's voice in the anime is apparently inspired by Iggy's New York origins, giving him a deep and gravelly Brooklyn-style accent.
• The Casanova: It's heavily implied he made full use of his King of Dogs title, as one of his flashbacks in the anime shows two female dogs lounging and fawning on his throne of crates with him on top.
• Conscience Makes You Go Back: He was more than content to leave the boy who owned the dogs that Pet Shop killed to his fate, but ultimately doesn't have it in him to let a dog lover die and comes to his rescue.
• A Day in the Limelight: He has his own light novel, Iggy the Stray Dog.
• A Death in the Limelight: Subverted in the anime. Iggy looks like he's going to die from his wounds after his first fight alone (with what looks like Really Dead Montage), but the kid he rescued from Pet Shop and a Speedwagon Foundation doctor save him.
• Defiant to the End: Despite being in the process of getting kicked to death, Iggy takes his chance to fart loudly when Vanilla Ice tells him that a dog can't have a proud soul, which only enrages the former even more.
• Dies Differently in Adaptation: In the OVA, Iggy gets violently torn in half by Cream's void state, before being stomped repeatedly and kicked against a pillar by Vanilla Ice.
• The Drag-Along: He couldn't care less about the Joestar Group's mission or DIO's business. The only reason he ended up with the team was because they lured him in with his Trademark Favorite Food.
• Dying Moment of Awesome: Saving Polnareff from certain death has to count, since Polnareff immediately dishes out a Curb-Stomp Battle to Vanilla Ice and avenges Iggy.
• Evil-Detecting Dog: In the anime. He is able to sense that Anubis is an enemy, despite it seemingly being just a sword.
• Friend to All Children: While he had a fight over doing so, Iggy risks his life to save a child from Pet Shop.
• Funny Animal Anatomy: Post Art Evolution, Iggy's face looks remarkably human-like for a dog. Also, interestingly, throughout his entire appearance, Iggy's nose looks more akin to a cat's nose than a dog's.
• Gasshole: He likes clinging to people's faces and farting on them.
• Go Out with a Smile: Blink and you miss it, but after rescuing Polnareff, he gives him a small smile before succumbing to his injuries.
• Gonk: When he was first introduced, he looked rather ugly for a dog. As the series progressed, however, he developed more human-like facial features.
• Half the Man He Used to Be: He gets fatally cut in half courtesy of Vanilla Ice in the OVA, before his top half is stomped and thrown against a nearby pillar.
• Heroic Dog: Despite his anti-social behavior, he does care about Polnareff and even dies to save him when fighting Vanilla Ice.
• Heroic Neutral: All he wants is to live a peaceful life, and get a cute doggy girlfriend.
• Heroic Sacrifice: After being fatally injured by Vanilla Ice, he uses the last of his strength to move Polnareff out of the way of Vanilla Ice's attack with his Stand. The strain of doing this causes his broken ribs to pierce his lungs, killing him.
• Intangibility: As The Fool is made from sand, it can phase around melee attacks, including those from other Stands.
• Intellectual Animal: A recurring trait of the animals with Stand powers. This is demonstrated by the intricate sand constructions he is capable of creating, including an almost perfect DIO duplicate, despite having never seen DIO.
• It's All About Me: Initially, he would rather sleep than save the gang from an assassin; eventually he grows out of this and sees them as friends and comrades worth fighting for.
• Jabba Table Manners: While he has an excuse (being a dog), he doesn't bother removing the wrapping paper from his beloved packets of coffee gum before taking a big bite out of them, to Avdol's disgust.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: The meanest and most antisocial Boston Terrier you will ever meet, but he isn't cold enough to abandon a friend or dog-lover. He also sacrifices himself to save Polnareff, which is a far cry from his initial attitude when he was first introduced.
• Life-or-Limb Decision: Forced to bite his own forefoot off in the fight with Pet Shop.
• Logical Weakness: Stand or no, Iggy is a small terrier dog. He's not Made of Iron like the rest of the group, and is easily damaged.
• Made of Iron: Averted. Every time Iggy is injured, it has lasting consequences. In the anime and manga, his death is caused by getting beaten up by normal human strength.
• Malicious Misnaming: Since he doesn't know Pet Shop's name when he's fighting him, Iggy often refers to the falcon by a variety of often-insulting nicknames; including "Feather Boy", "That Boid" (bird), and "Tweety".
• Mister Muffykins: He's a Boston terrier, and a rude, aggressive farting one.
• The Napoleon: The smallest of the Joestar Group, and is not shy about ripping one's hair apart when in a bad mood, which is often.
• No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: When he sees Pet Shop kill two local dogs that wandered into the courtyard of DIO's mansion, he quickly feigns ignorance so the bird wouldn't attack him. But when the owner soon came along looking for said dogs and was nearly attacked by Pet Shop, Iggy comes to the boy's rescue and saves him, but outs himself as a Stand user to Pet Shop and nearly dies in the ensuing fight. Though the boy later saves him from drowning after Pet Shop is defeated. So, hey, good karma.
• Non-Indicative Name: His Stand's name is The Fool, but going by the meaning of that card in the Tarot deck, it represents unpredictability, among other things. Polnareff, being... Polnareff, thought someone with The Fool for a Stand must be a "similar" dunce.
• Not in This for Your Revolution: Iggy's Inner Monologues reveal that he doesn't care what the Joestar Group is trying to accomplish, and that him being forcibly dragged into their quest by Avdol and the Speedwagon Foundation has left him bitter and apathetic. It isn't until Pet Shop brutalizes him and causes him to lose his front-left leg that Iggy perceives DIO as an actual threat and takes the battle against him seriously, even warming up to Polnareff in the process.
• Out of Focus: Iggy is brought in near the tail end of the story for Part 3, and so compared to the rest of the Joestar Group, he's not given nearly as much screen time as the others have had.
• Personality Powers: The classic mix of rock-based powers and a rock-headed personality. His Stand's ability to phase through attacks, therefore not fully participating in a battle, also reflects his mindset of seeing fights as a hassle.
• Pokémon Speak: Some of the sounds he makes during the anime sound suspiciously like his name.
• Progressively Prettier: Iggy's face when first introduced was rather creepy, basically being a realistic dog's face with creepy, proportionally-oversized human eyes. He also tended to drool with his tongue sticking out and casting a Thousand-Yard Stare. When fighting Pet Shop, his face and range of expressions become more uniformly human, but also more stylized. Perhaps it was so Araki would have an easier time conveying what Iggy was feeling during that battle. The blatant difference has become a staple of his character: In the Heritage for the Future fighting game, his "child" form while in Sethan's thrall is simply himself pre-Art Evolution. "Ugly" Iggy is his only alternate costume in All-Star Battle. In the anime, he starts out pre-Art Evolution and subtly changes design every episode until he matches his post-Pet Shop fight one.
• Sand Blaster: His Stand, The Fool, can control the sand in his environment. It is exceptionally useful in the desert.
• Shout-Out: He's named after Iggy Pop, and his Stand is called The Fool. Lampshaded by Polnareff in the OVA's English dub:

  Polnareff, being introduced to Iggy and his Stand: The Fool? More like the Idiot!

• Single Substance Manipulation: His Stand, The Fool, lets him manipulate sand. He can create various things out of sand such as hang-gliders, shields, and even clones of other people. He's brought to Egypt late in the story to join the heroes, since the desert environment means there's no shortage of sand for him to use.
• Sixth Ranger: Only joins the team once they're already in Egypt, near the end of their journey.
• Small Role, Big Impact: Despite only being in Part 3 for a short time, it's ultimately his sacrifice to save Polnareff at the last second that allows the latter to survive and later oppose Diavolo in Part 5.
• Spanner in the Works: Often plays this role, appropriately enough for a character representing the Fool card. Heck he's even the one that leads the others to DIO's mansion after having stumbled on it completely by accident.
• Squishy Wizard: Despite having the power of a Stand, he is still just a dog physically. Once incapacitated, Vanilla Ice kills him with a few hard kicks to the chest, something the other Crusaders could have survived.
• Suddenly Voiced: For the most part, Iggy acts like a dog would: He just barks, whimpers and growls. But when there's no humans around, he's suddenly talking like a talking dog, moving his jaws and all. There's a reason he has voice actors early on this entry.
  • The anime explains this as the audience being able to hear and see his inner monologue as speech.
• Tarot Motifs: The Fool card represents the beginning of journeys, unpredictability, making mistakes, and undermining serious problems. Iggy's introduction marks the beginning of the journey in Egypt, but none of the Joestar Group expected their new member to be a trouble-making dog. Iggy himself initially made the mistake of being unconcerned about DIO, believing the evil vampire to be none of his business. Only after he loses a leg in his fight with Pet Shop does he realize that he can't live the easy life he wants as long as DIO lives.
• Team Pet: The only animal member of the group, but he's just as much of a member as anyone else.
• This Looks Like a Job for Aquaman: The Fool has one glaring weakness; it only works on sand. However, Joseph has Iggy called in specifically because their enemies are in Egypt, which is all but covered in the stuff, giving an otherwise useless Stand a chance to shine.
• Trademark Favorite Food: Coffee-flavored chewing gum, which Avdol finds out early on and uses to bring Iggy with him when he meets him in New York.
• Truth in Television: Boston terriers really are prone to flatulence, due to their sensitive digestive systems.
• Uplifted Animal: He has human intelligence thanks to gaining a Stand, though he's still unable to physically speak despite the viewers being able to hear his fully-voiced thoughts as needed.
• Vitriolic Best Buds: After Kakyoin gets Put on a Bus, he becomes this to Polnareff. He's rather mean towards Polnareff, chewing his hair and farting in his face, but the two ultimately do trust each other, watching each other's backs when going up against Vanilla Ice.
• Weak, but Skilled:
  • While Iggy is proficient at using The Fool, it's not the most durable of Stands since it's made of sand and can easily be shattered by a strong enough force. He could barely hold off Pet Shop in their fight and spent most of it running away.
  • The fact that The Fool is such a weak Stand in terms of durability is what leads to his death, as because Vanilla Ice could easily shatter both its creations and the stand itself, Iggy has utterly no way to defend himself against the fatal onslaught.
• Would Hurt a Child: During the Hol Horse & Boingo arc, he violently attacks Boingo after the latter kicks away his old crate and accidentally drops it onto the terrier's head without realizing he was nearby. What makes it worse is that this happens to occur right after both of Boingo's partners are defeated, when Boingo figures he'll have better luck using his power to help people and resolves to be more outgoing; leaving the boy badly-injured and now meeker and more bitter than ever.

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