History Characters / JoJosBizarreAdventureGoldenWind

* MysteriousBenefactor: After Giorno saved him, he secretly went out of his way to make the boy's life easier and kindled Giorno's love for his neighborhood and his desire to better it. He stopped Giorno's stepfather from beating him (implied to be through intimidation), told the owner of a gelato shop Giorno and his Hero went to to give the boy extra ice cream scoops free of charge, and put in a good word with the other children in the neighborhood so they'd start treating him nicely, to the point where they even began saving him a seat at the local cinema.

* AlliterativeName: In the dub, his Stand's name is changed from Black Sabbath to '''S'''hadow '''S'''abbath.

''''' [[Characters/JoJosBizarreAdventureStardustCrusaders Stardust Crusaders]]:''''' [[Characters/JojosBizarreAdventureStardustCrusadersTheJoestarGroup The Joestar Group]] ([[Characters/JoJosBizarreAdventureJotaroKujo Jotaro Kujo]] | [[Characters/JoJosBizarreAdventureJeanPierrePolnareff Jean-Pierre Polnareff]]) | [[Characters/JoJosBizarreAdventureEgyptNineGloryGods Egypt 9 Glory Gods]]\\

'''''Golden Wind:''''' [[Characters/JoJosBizarreAdventureTeamBucciarati Team Bucciarati]] ([[Characters/JojosBizarreAdventureGiornoGiovanna Giorno Giovanna]]) | [[Characters/JojosBizarreAdventureDiavolo The Boss]]\\

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[[caption-width-right:350:From left to right: Illuso, Formaggio, Melone, Risotto Nero, Prosciutto, Pesci, and Ghiaccio\\
[-Not pictured: Sorbet and Gelato-]]]
->''"We don't indulge in empty threats or self-coddling compliments to hide our feeble shortcomings. Our breed doesn't need the aid of such lowbrow extravagances to enhance a battle performance. For the moment we visualize the death of our enemy... their fate is ''sealed''! They cannot escape the inevitable!"''
-->-- '''Prosciutto''' to '''Pesci'''

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

!!!'''Tropes applying to La Squadra in general:'''
* AdaptationalEarlyAppearance: In the manga, the majority of them don't make a proper full appearance until their respective battles. In episode 9 of the Golden Wind anime, the other members besides Formaggio make a brief early appearance. This is further expanded upon in episode 10 as the whole squad is shown during their flashback as opposed to simply being indistinguishable shadowy silhouettes as originally presented in the manga.
* AdaptationExpansion: All of them receive more characterization in the anime. Episode 10 shows Formaggio getting rid of a target of Passione alongside some of his teammates, 18 shows some further interaction between Ghiaccio and Melone, and 27 has the whole team work as a group, ransacking a building to find some information on the Boss.
* ALighterShadeOfBlack: They are effectively introduced as the [[EvilCounterpart Evil Counterparts]] to Bucciarati's crew, as they come into conflict with Bucciarati due to their desire to kidnap Trish as revenge against the Boss. While they are ruthless gangsters who wouldn't hesitate to put innocents in danger as well as take over the drug trade, they are heavily implied to have a [[EvenEvilHasLovedOnes genuine sense of camaraderie with each other]] that's as strong as the [[TrueCompanions bonds between Bucciarati's group]], and are primarily motivated to [[AvengingTheVillain get revenge on the Boss for killing two of their colleagues]]. Compared to the Boss [[spoiler: aka Diavolo, who is willing to kill his unsuspecting daughter just for having an unwitting connection to him]] and their successors, the Unità Speciale; especially [[PsychoForHire Cioccolata]] who gleefully have no scruples about killing citizens and their fellow members. As a result, La Squadra comes across as the lesser evil.
* AllForNothing: [[spoiler:Their efforts to kidnap Trish were ultimately pointless, because it turns out the Boss planned to kill her as soon as she was brought to him.]]
* AntiVillain: A great deal of them, especially Risotto and Pesci, have humanizing traits of TrueCompanions-ship despite being the enemies of the heroes, as well as their need for vengeance against the BigBad for killing their two friends. They still want the money of the drug trade, mind you. They become even more of this after [[spoiler:Bucciarati's gang also defects, making La Squadra the lesser of two evils]].
* AvengingTheVillain: Part of their motivation. They of course want to take over the gang and corner the drug trade, but the deaths of Sorbet and Gelato were the triggering instance that fully turned them against the Boss. Pesci also states that he wants to avenge the loss of Formaggio and Illuso.
* BadPowersBadPeople: Baby Face's rapey vibes, Pesci's tracking fishing rod, Grateful Dead's aging powers, the cryokinesis of White Album... All of the Squadra powers are incredibly lethal and well-suited for clean and efficient assassinations. The only power without obvious offensive use is that of Little Feet, and even then, Formaggio proves that it can be incredibly lethal in the right hands.
* DarkIsEvil: Their wardrobe mostly consists of more subdued colors like brown and black, as opposed to Bucciarati's young, HotBlooded team who wear brightly colored, flamboyant clothes.
* {{Determinator}}: Their motto is to never back down in a fight, even on the brink of death.
* DiscOneFinalBoss: While antagonizing the heroes for a great majority of the saga, they are ultimately a wall to beat in order to get to the BigBad's group.
* DudeWheresMyRespect: The only reason why they got involved in the plot was because the Boss doesn't pay them as much as they should. He constantly refuses their requests for more territory like the gambling and narcotics teams were given.
* DwindlingParty: [[spoiler:As the heroes of this part have no qualms about killing in self-defense (or killing in general), the members of the execution squad gradually get smaller and smaller until they're all wiped out.]]
* ElitesAreMoreGlamorous: Subverted, which is a part of why they're about to betray the Boss by the story's start. Being the head don's personal hitmen might sound formidable on paper, but compared to the cash inflow that the less glamorous but more dependable sections of the organization like gambling and drug dealing reel in on a regular basis, La Squadra makes relatively little money from their missions and they're further hampered by being forced to work for the Boss exclusively.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Sure, they're shameless criminals, but it's made clear they value each other. Sorbet and Gelato's death upset them greatly to the point they want justice for their murder.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Though they're all friendly with each other, Formaggio, Pesci, and Prosciutto give Melone a look of disgust when he displays some of his predatory tendencies towards a woman. The anime also expands on their reaction to Sorbet and Gelato's death, all of them reacting with shock, sorrow and horror at their fates.
* {{Foil}}: They can be considered EvilCounterpart[=s=] to Squadra Guardie del corpo, Bucciarati's team.
** Age and experience: La Squadra, a seasoned hitman team, are grown men who appear to be in their 20s and 30s, with their leader being 28; Bucciarati's team, relatively new to the world of gangsters, is made of teenagers (and one 21-year-old) and led by a 20-year-old capo.
** [[GoodColorsEvilColors Style of clothing]]: The hardened La Squadra dresses in dark colors (with the exception of Ghiaccio), while Bucciarati's more lighthearted and friendly team wears bright colors.
** Attitude towards their job: La Squadra are [[NoNonsenseNemesis No-Nonsense Nemeses]] who take their jobs very seriously and are not shown to have hobbies outside of them. Bucciarati's team act like PunchClockVillain[=s=] when not on duty, preferring to have fun and enjoy themselves like the kids they are.
** Attitude towards civilians: While they don't go around killing random people ForTheEvulz, La Squadra does not care if civilians get caught in the crossfire when they're assassinating a target, as seen when Prosciutto is willing to kill an entire train full of people to get to his targets. Bucciarati's team at least tries not to attack anyone who has not attacked them first; they're also NeighborhoodFriendlyGangsters willing to help civilians who ask them for assistance.
** Relationship with Trish: La Squadra wants to kidnap her as revenge against her father who killed two of their members, while Bucciarati's team is protecting her on orders from the Boss and later keep doing so for their own altruistic reasons.
** Stand abilities: La Squadra's Stands are primarily geared towards torture and murder, with their members being able to do things like make razor blades explode from a person's mouth, freeze a person to death, age people into lifeless husks, and impregnate a woman with a facehugger-like creature that will eventually kill her. Bucciarati's team, while their Stands can be used for combat, have other applications outside of it; Gold Experience can create life, Sticky Fingers can reattach severed limbs, Aerosmith can track enemies, and Moody Blues can be used to see past events that occurred in the immediate area.
** Reasons for wanting to take down the Boss: La Squadra's grudge against the Boss is personal because he refused to pay them as much as the other Passione squads and then brutally murdered two of their members, Sorbet and Gelato, just for trying to find more information about him. Meanwhile, Bucciarati hates the Boss because of his cruelty towards other people (even when they were not members of his team), namely selling drugs to children and then trying to murder his own daughter so nobody would find out about his identity. [[spoiler:After saving Trish and narrowly escaping with his life, Bucciarati leads his team to defect from Passione so they can rid Italy of the menace that is Diavolo.]]
** Prosciutto and Pesci's relationship is pretty much the opposite side of the coin as Fugo and Narancia's. Fugo and Prosciutto both get angry with Narancia and Pesci respectively when they act like nimrods, however Fugo tries to coach Narancia in using his brain more while Prosciutto coaches Pesci in being a more efficient killer.
* HomeBase: As seen in the episode 10 of the anime, they had the address of the team's hideout to be [[https://www.google.com/maps/place/Vico+Pallonetto+Santa+Chiara,+8,+80134+Napoli+NA,+Italy/@40.8473195,14.2538243,3a,75y,292.44h,65.18t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1s90CQoaxRBIL409HkD1vhZA!2e0!6s%2F%2Fgeo0.ggpht.com%2Fcbk%3Fpanoid%3D90CQoaxRBIL409HkD1vhZA%26output%3Dthumbnail%26cb_client%3Dsearch.gws-prod%2Flocal-details-getcard.gps%26thumb%3D2%26w%3D360%26h%3D120%26yaw%3D306.31763%26pitch%3D0%26thumbfov%3D100!7i13312!8i6656!4m5!3m4!1s0x133b084481770be7:0x73b272f5b5f7a3ca!8m2!3d40.8473271!4d14.2538182 Vico Pallonetto Santa Chiara, 8, 80134, Napoli NA]].
* InformedPoverty: Their gripe with the boss is that he isn't paying them enough for their assassination missions, yet Formaggio appears to be living in a nice house and Ghiaccio drives a CoolCar.
* LesserOfTwoEvils: In spite of wanting to take over the drug trade by exposing the Boss through the unsuspecting Trish, La Squadra as a whole comes across as more decent and noble compared to the Boss himself, [[spoiler: who wanted Trish brought to him in the first place just so he could kill her due to being his own daughter.]]
* LockedOutOfTheLoop: ''Purple Haze Feedback'' expands upon their goal to monopolize Passione's drug trade, with them thinking it runs just like any drug organisation through imports and manufacturing industries. Murolo reveals that the drugs were created by a Stand user rather than imported.
* MistreatmentInducedBetrayal: Their main motivation to turn against their Boss, after he didn't reward their services as due, and worse yet, he killed two members of their team.
* NiceJobFixingItVillain: [[spoiler:Because Diavolo didn't want to promote them and then ''murdered'' two of their members, La Squadra got involved in the plot.]]
* NoNonsenseNemesis: As professional hitmen, they don't screw around on the job and always work to take down their targets as efficiently as possible.
* OnlyOneName: All of them except Risotto only go by one name, so we don't know if these are their first or last names.
* ProfessionalKiller: Their job is to serve as the organisation's hitmen.
* ShaggyDogStory: In a twist of DramaticIrony, La Squadra's goal of overthrowing the Boss align with Giorno's. [[spoiler:When Diavolo tries to kill Trish, Bucciarati's team turned against him like La Squadra did, and ultimately succeeded in toppling Diavolo. Had they not attempted to take Trish from the gang, La Squadra might have survived. To rub salt to the wound, ''Purple Haze Feedback'' reveals that even if they succeed in toppling Diavolo, they still won't be able to monopolise the drug trade like they intended.]]
* SortingAlgorithmOfEvil: Sorbet and Gelato died offscreen, Formaggio barely fought, Illuso only really mugged the heroes while nearly killing two of them, Prosciutto and Pesci failed in their attempt but nearly killed all of them, Melone was threatening for a few pages, Ghiaccio nearly killed Mista and Giorno[[note]]though to be fair, Giorno made the mistake of thinking it was a good idea to fight an ice user in ''water''[[/note]], and Risotto was two moves away from removing [[spoiler:the BigBad Diavolo]] off the face of the earth.
* TheyLookJustLikeEveryoneElse: [[invoked]]Aside from [[FashionVictimVillain Risotto and Melone]], who already hide in the background anyway, all of La Squadra wears outfits that could genuinely pass for making them look like normal civilians. Prosciutto uses this to his advantage by pretending to be a feeble old man in order to catch Mista off-guard.
* UnwittingPawn: [[spoiler:Diavolo was using them to fight off the heroes, hoping they'd kill each other in their race to find the Boss and kill him, rather than kill them all himself. This plan goes rather swimmingly for the most part, but turns out to be a mistake that almost [[NiceJobFixingItVillain gets him killed by the remaining member, Risotto]], if not for a coincidental attack by Narancia on the latter.]]
* VagueAge: Aside from Risotto, who's 28, they look like they could be in their early to late 20s, or possibly their early 30s. However, it's clear they're meant to be older than Bucciarati's team.
* VillainousValour: Apart from [[PosthumousCharacter Sorbet, Gelato]], and [[NonActionGuy Melone]], they all display an impressive amount of determination and resourcefulness when cornered, which is noted by some of the protagonists. [[spoiler:Formaggio slits his own wrist to extinguish himself, Illuso sacrifices his hand to escape Fugo's virus, Prosciutto manages to maintain his ability while crushed under the wheels of the train, Pesci tries to finish off the crew after his neck was broken, Ghiaccio continued to fight Mista as his neck was being impaled on a metal shard and froze his own blood to stop it from sinking deeper, and Risotto used the last of his strength to take control of Aerosmith and try to finish off the BigBad Diavolo.]]

[[folder:Risotto Nero]]
!!Risotto Nero (Stand: [[BloodIron Metallica]])
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/ShinshuFuji (TV anime, JP, ''Last Survivor'', and ''[[VideoGame/JoJosBizarreAdventureAllStarBattle All-Star Battle R]]''), Creator/ArmenTaylor (TV anime, EN), Creator/TakayaKuroda (''[[VideoGame/JoJosBizarreAdventureEyesOfHeaven Eyes of Heaven]]''), Creator/YujiKishi (''Vento Aureo'' video game)
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->''"You're different now. No more timid insecurity. Then, there's the change in your physique, and your peculiar habit of talking to yourself. It's all making sense... At long last, I've figured out your'' true ''identity!"''

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

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

* AdaptationDyeJob: Has silver hair in the anime rather than purple hair in the manga.
* AdaptationDistillation: Although he has a more extended in first part of the series, his backstory of how he came to be (originally text in the manga) is nowhere to be seen in the anime.
* AffablyEvil: He's genuinely calm and collected towards people despite being the leader of one part of a mafia group.
* AgonyOfTheFeet: Doppio manages to cut his foot off during their fight.
* ArtisticLicenseBiology:
** The adult human body contains around 4 grams of iron, only enough for a couple of razor blades, and definitely not a whole pair of scissors (assuming Metallica needs an exact ratio of iron to work with).
** On the other hand, Metallica should technically be even more lethal than it's portrayed as; to shunt all the iron in a person's bloodstream would require destroying all their hemoglobin, which would render their blood useless for delivering oxygen. While this is acknowledged with Doppio being unable to breathe, he should have been doomed by then; even if he does eat a frog and drained a young boy of blood to replenish some of his iron, the human body wouldn't be able to produce new blood cells fast enough to survive that.
** Humans don't actually have black sclera. [[AmbiguouslyHuman Of course, that's assuming that he's human in the first place]]... [[MundaneSolution Or that he's not just wearing contacts, or it's a side effect of his Stand power]].
* AscendedExtra: Downplayed. Risotto's role in both the anime and manga is the same but he's benefited the most from AdaptationExpansion and he gets much more screentime in the anime. While he was always a looming threat in the manga he was mostly in the shadows until his fight; the anime checks in on him a lot, establishing a developed relationship with his team, and even has an extra scene where he uses Metallica to torture a Passione lackey.
* BadassLongcoat: Risotto wears a long black coat.
* BarelyChangedDubName: In the English dub, Metallica becomes Metallic.
* BaritoneOfStrength: Has a very deep voice in the anime, and is La Squadra's most powerful member.
* BigBadEnsemble: Of the first half of Part 5 alongside the Boss himself. While Giorno and Bucciarati's endgame was to defeat the Boss and take over Passione, Risotto as the leader of La Squadra serves as their main opposition towards that goal.
* BigBadWannabe: Risotto ultimately falls into this role for the narrative in spite of his threat level. Despite being the leader of La Squadra, the [[DiscOneFinalBoss main antagonists for the first half of]] ''[[DiscOneFinalBoss Golden Wind]]'', he ultimately becomes an afterthought in the second half. He never meets face-to-face with Team Bucciarati, instead meeting his end at the Boss' hands.
* BlackEyesOfEvil: His irises are surrounded by black sclera.
* BloodIron: His main way of attack. Using Metallica, he's able to draw iron out of someone's blood and form them into sharp metal objects that pierce through them.
* BloodyMurder: Although in this case, he's using his ''opponent's'' blood as a weapon.
* BodyHorror: This guy has the ability to transform the iron in a person's bloodstream into any kind of sharp metal objects he pleases, while the iron is still inside the person's body. Hence the [[EstablishingCharacterMoment scene]] where he makes Doppio cough up a handful of razor blades, and then later on summoning needles '''all throughout Doppio's face and neck''' and having them rip themselves out.
* BroughtToYouByTheLetterS: The little gold balls dangling from his hood have the letters of his first name on them, while his belt has TheBackwardsR on it.
* CallBack: All together, his name spells "rice in cuttlefish ink". This calls back to ''Battle Tendency'', where Joseph Joestar was surprised to learn that noodles in squid ink, "nero di seppia", is an actual dish.
* TheCameo: In a very sad sense. Despite there being now ''three'' occasions where he could have appeared in a video game, Risotto has never been an opponent. However, his model can be found in the ''Vento Aureo'' [=PS2=] game, and Metallica is the loading screen icon used in both ''All-Star Battle'' and ''Eyes Of Heaven''. He finally got the chance in ''[[UpdatedRerelease All-Star Battle R]]'', appearing there as [[PromotedToPlayable a DLC fighter]].
* DarkIsEvil: He dresses in dark clothing, has black sclera, and his even his last name is Italian for "black".
* DeathByIrony:
** In an anime-only flashback, Risotto tells his men to control their emotions in spite of what happened to Sorbet and Gelato, noting that those who allow their emotions to get the best of them will die. Risotto's death comes once he believes that his victory over Doppio is guaranteed and he [[NotSoStoic loses his emotionless façade]] as he focuses entirely on Doppio... and forgets about Aerosmith, who attacks him once Bucciarati's group are alerted to their fight.
** There's a certain amount of irony in that his Stand's power is to manipulate metal, yet he gets killed by the metal bullets of Narancia's Aerosmith.
* DefiantToTheEnd: After suffering life-threatening injuries from Aerosmith, the Boss comes up to Risotto and tells him that he will offer him a quick and painless death if he replenishes the iron that Risotto ripped out of his body during the course of their fight. Risotto instead uses the blown off pieces of his body as trackers and places them on Diavolo's back with the intent on using Aerosmith [[TakingYouWithMe to kill the Boss for him]]. If not for King Crimson's ability, the Boss would have died, and even though he survives, Risotto still ends up dead without returning any of the iron Diavolo desperately needed. [[VillainRespect The Boss even praises him]] for dying without losing his pride.
* DramaticIrony: [[IncrediblyLamePun Puns aside,]] despite Risotto being TheUnfought towards the protagonists, [[spoiler: Bucciaratti would have been the perfect opponent to counter his Stand had they faced off against each other. His body was essentially a walking corpse completely devoid of blood at the time, meaning that Metallica couldn't have done a single thing to hurt him.]]
* DubNameChange: His Stand is renamed to "Metallic" in official English translations.
* EdibleThemeNaming: Like most of his team, he also has some kind of food in his name (a type of rice dish prepared with ink from squid or similar animals).
* ElementalHairColors: The anime gives him silver hair to go with his power over metal.
* ExtraOreDinary: Metallica manipulates the iron within their target's blood, allowing it to create objects such as razor, needles, or a pair of scissors.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes:
** He's AFatherToHisMen, and his goal to overthrow the Boss stems from a desire to avenge his dead comrades.
** He also murdered the man who killed his cousin in a drunk-driving accident.
* EvilCounterpart: He's La Squadra's counterpart to Bucciarati. They both fell into a life of crime as a result of trying to avenge a family member; Bucciarati's father and Risotto's cousin. His confrontation with Doppio is even framed similarly to how Bucciarati first met Giorno with him confusing the smaller gangster by manifesting foreign objects from within his own body albeit with ''blades'' instead of body parts.
* EvilSoundsDeep: He boasts a very deep, imposing voice.
* AFatherToHisMen: Risotto tries to run a tight ship and like Bucciarati he does seem to care about his team. When attending Sorbet and Gelato's funeral in the anime, Risotto says that they must forget about the two and continue on with their lives. In spite of that he remains at the church the longest, staying even when the others leave and he's alone.
* FluffyTheTerrible: He's the leader of the Boss' personal hitman squad, has the power to make razor blades and needles explode out of people's throats, and is named after a rice dish.
* GuyLiner: In a photo of a younger him that's only shown in the manga, he seemed to have wore dark lipstick not unlike Abbacchio.
* HappyHarlequinHat: He wears what appears to be a black jester cap, complete with metal balls that spell out his name.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Two of his biggest advantages when fighting Doppio are his magnetism and the ability to remove iron, and therefore oxygen, from his opponent's blood. Doppio uses both of these to trick the heroes into killing him; the magnetism sends scalpels made by Risotto flying towards Bucciarati's gang so that they think he's attacking ''them'', and the low amount of oxygen in Doppio's blood means only Risotto shows up on Aerosmith's radar when Narancia fires back.
* InstantDeathRadius: Not shown in action, but the this is usually what happens when Risotto has his eyes set on a target.
* {{Invisibility}}: Thanks to Metallica, he can blend in pretty well with the surroundings, using Metallica to deflect light from his body making him seemingly invisible.
* {{Kiai}}: In the manga and ''Eyes of Heaven'', Metallica's Stand cry is "Looooooooaaad," referencing [[Music/LoadAndReLoad the Metallica album of the same name]].
* LargeAndInCharge: He is the second tallest member of La Squadra after Illuso (possibly even the tallest, due to errors in the height charts used in the anime and inconsistent numbers between the anime and manga), yet is their most heavily-built and imposing member, which is fitting for a leader.
* TheLeader: Of La Squadra.
* LovecraftianSuperpower: Risotto's Stand Metallica manifests as a swarm of maggot-like creatures living inside of him.
* MagnetismManipulation: Risotto Nero's true power is the ability to create a short range magnetic field around him and freely manipulate iron inside his range, including the iron in a person's own body.
* MeaningfulName: ''Risotto nero'' is a rice dish made with cuttlefish ink. His Stand is made of numerous small bean-shaped beings, like rice grains, and his predominant color scheme is black (''nero'' in Italian) up to and including his sclera.
* MrFanservice: He's an attractive man whose outfit exposes most of his well-muscled chest and has a very deep, very attractive voice.
* NearVillainVictory: Came very close to taking out Doppio and the Boss himself, if not for Narancia's Aerosmith being tricked into shooting Risotto instead which cost him the fight.
* NoShirtLongJacket: Risotto does not wear anything under his jacket, exposing his muscled chest.
* NotSoStoic: When he finally decides to kill Doppio, his calm expressions turn into a very cathartic smile.
* PayEvilUntoEvil: Murdered the guy who killed his cousin in his backstory.
* PersonalityPowers: Metallica's power to control iron fits Risotto's cold, no-nonsense personality and deadly profession like a glove.
* PosthumousCharacter: From the views of the main characters, he's this. Even though Narancia technically killed him, he had no idea he was fighting him, as his Stand was being manipulated by Doppio and Risotto respectively. The moment the heroes saw him, he was dead already and Doppio had already ran off.
* PragmaticVillainy: While his cohorts may at time indulge in their work, Risotto is all business. When he first confronted Doppio and thought him to be just a civilian, he was willing to just leave him be.
* RankScalesWithAsskicking: As the leader of the Hitman Team, Risotto Nero is one of the deadliest characters in a part that's already full of cold-blooded killers. Notably, he took on Doppio, and by extension the ''Boss'', and was actually doing incredibly well despite it all [[NiceJobBreakingItHero until Aerosmith came in]].
* RedEyesTakeWarning: At least in the anime. Prior to the anime, many portrayals of him gave him white irises to match the rest of his outfit.
* SexyJester: He's a very handsome man in jester-y attire.
* ShapeshifterBaggage: The only way to explain his ability. See ArtisticLicenseBiology.
* StealthHiBye: Although the Boss knew Risotto was in the area, Doppio didn't do anything until Risotto snuck up behind him.
* TheStoic: Risotto outright states to the rest of La Squadra that they need to remain in control of their emotions if they want to win, and he continues to keep this stone-faced calmness throughout most of the time the audience sees him.
* StoryBreakerPower: Metallica is, without a doubt, one of the most overpowered Stands in the series in the hands of a skilled user - if he wants someone dead, he can camouflage himself, walk up to them, and make them die a gruesome death in seconds, with no way for the vast majority of Stand users to defend themselves. Had it not been for a). the fact that he was holding back because he wanted to see the Boss's face as he died and b). Narancia catching him with Aerosmith, he absolutely would have killed Doppio (and, by extent, the Boss) then and there. Furthermore, if he had gotten the jump on the main cast and had gone for the kill, he ''very'' easily could have pulled off a TotalPartyKill.
* SwissArmySuperpower: Risotto's Stand, Metallica, is very versatile. Its magnetic powers allow him to manipulate metals, including the very iron in a person's body and mold them into weapons, make himself invisible, and even hijack other Stands.
* TakingYouWithMe: Attempts to trick Naracia's Aerosmith into shooting both him and Doppio, but it fails as Doppio uses King Crimson to make the bullets skip past him.
* TallDarkAndHandsome: With his good looks, striking fashion, exposed chest, and deep voice, he definitely fits this type.
* TheUnfought: He's the only member of La Squadra that Bucciarati's gang never encounters, much less fight. He instead fights the Boss himself.
* VillainousHarlequin: He wears a jester-inspired getup that wouldn't look too out-of-place at a Venetian carnival.
* WalkingShirtlessScene: He does have a jacket, but it's never buttoned and he doesn't wear a shirt under it.
* WeakButSkilled: Metallica itself is physically very weak, but more than makes up for it in sheer versatility and lethality.
* WhiteHairBlackHeart: Though to be fair, he was aware he just lost every single man working under him.

[[folder:Sorbet and Gelato]]
!!Sorbet and Gelato
!!!'''Sorbet voiced by:''' Yoshihito Sasaki (TV anime, JP), Creator/SeanChiplock (TV anime, EN)\\
'''Gelato voiced by:''' N/A
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[[caption-width-right:350:Sorbet (right) and Gelato (left)]]

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

* AmbiguouslyGay: For each other. Formaggio in his flashback notes that the two were so close that many people thought that they were a couple, but nobody ever asked them about this so it remains uncertain whether they were or if they were just really close friends. The subtext given is enough to figure out what was the actual situation, however, it remains unofficial until Araki stated it as such.
** The anime makes it far less ambiguous: Formaggio's observation is replaced with Illuso believing them to be a couple, before joking that their absence is probably due to them getting it on. It is also revealed that the two wear matching nail polish, and they're seen in flashback with Gelato sitting on Sorbet's lap and his hand inside Sorbet's shirt.
* ArtisticLicenseLinguistics: "Sorbet" is actually a French word, not Italian; the proper is "sorbetto." In the Italian dub, his name actually is Sorbetto.
* AxCrazy: An InformedAttribute. Illuso describes them as insane in the manga, although it's not known if he meant insane as in "unstable" or as in "violent." Though given that they were part of a professional hitman team working for the mafia, there's a case to be made for the latter.
* BarelyChangedDubName: In the Italian dub, Sorbet's name is changed to Sorbetto.
* BetterToDieThanBeKilled: While being forced to watch Sorbet's gruesome death, Gelato swallows his gag and suffocates himself rather than be killed by their captor.
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: Even by the standards of this series, Sorbet's death was absolutely horrific and gruesome. He's chopped into several pieces, ''starting from his toes''; in the manga, Formaggio points out that he must have died at some point in the midst of the torture, but given that the anime omits it and having Cioccolata do the actual deed, it's entirely possible that he suffered the ''entirety'' of it, since Cioccolata's Stand ability can keep its victims alive and fully conscious during drawn-out, gratuitous deaths. As for Gelato, he swallowed the gag stuffed into his mouth and choked to death to avoid the same fate as Sorbet.
* DiesWideOpen: When the bodies of both men are discovered by their teammates, Gelato's eyes are blown wide with tears on his cheeks while Sorbet's eyes are open in horror, his jaw open in a frozen scream.
* DrivenToSuicide: As he was ForcedToWatch Sorbet being cut to pieces, Gelato committed suicide by swallowing his cloth gag.
* DueToTheDead: Their teammates mourned for them and gave them a proper funeral after receiving their bodies. This is the first hint that La Squadra isn't just a bunch of [[PsychoForHire Psychos For Hire]], and really do care about each other.
* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: In the original English scanlations, they were referred to as Sorbei and Cante.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Gelato wept as he was forced to watch Sorbet's gruesome and agonizing death.
* EdibleThemeNaming: They're both named after ice-cream-esque desserts: sorbet is flavored frozen water, gelato is Italian for "ice cream".
* {{Fingore}}: When La Squadra opens the wrapped packages, the first thing they see are Sorbet's severed fingertips inside one of the frames, his nails still coated in his and Gelato's signature nail polish.
* ForcedToWatch: Gelato had to watch Sorbet's gruesome death and was so horrified by it that he ate his gag and thus choked himself to death. The anime also reveals that the executor of Sorbet's end was ''Cioccolata.'' This means that not only could Gelato no longer bear to witness his possible lover's nightmarish end, he knew he was next.
* {{Gorn}}: Sorbet's fate. To precise, he's cut into many slices, then all the pieces were put into glass boxes full of formaldehyde which form a gruesome set inspired by some of Damien Hirst's [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Physical_Impossibility_of_Death_in_the_Mind_of_Someone_Living artworks]].
* {{Greed}}: Risotto describes Sorbet as someone who would never pass up a chance to get rich.
* HeKnowsTooMuch: They were executed in an especially gruesome fashion for merely wanting to know too much about the Boss.
* {{Irony}}: Passione is filled with men who dress in flamboyant clothing, yet almost none of them are confirmed to actually be gay...except Sorbet and Gelato, whose preferred clothing styles are the most normal-looking of anyone in Part 5.
* KnowledgeBroker: They presumably serve as this to La Squadra, given their designated role to find the Boss' identity.
* MakeAnExampleOfThem: When Gelato's body was delivered to his teammates, the Boss attached a note that only said "Punishment" and left the gag in. He also went the extra mile with Sorbet, having preserved his chopped-up corpse with formaldehyde and stuck it in 36 individual little frames that, when put together, made the entirety of the corpse.
* OnlyInItForTheMoney: According to Risotto, they were motivated by money. Sorbet specifically would never miss out on a chance to get rich, and always made sure to show up and claim his share after assassination missions.
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Sorbet was a bit greedy and would always show up to claim his share of the money after an assassination. His teammates were concerned when he and Gelato didn't show up one day to get their money -- as it turned out, they'd been murdered on the Boss' orders.
* OutlawCouple: They worked as mafia assassins, and were believed to be a couple by their teammates.
* PlotTriggeringDeath: For La Squadra, whom always resented the Boss but never acted upon their hatred until Sorbet and Gelato died.
* PosthumousCharacter: The two were brutally tortured and murdered before the start of the series which was the push that the rest of La Squadra needed to finally betray the Boss.
* ShoutOut:
** Their deaths are reminiscent to [[Film/TheGodfather Luca Brasi's killing of two enemies]].
** The way Sorbet's body was hacked into pieces and preserved in cases filled with formaldehyde is likely inspired by [[https://damienhirst.com/artworks/catalogue?category=23&p=0 some of Damien Hirst's artworks]], in which he preserves animal bodies (sometimes chopped into pieces) in formalin solution.
* SmallRoleBigImpact: Team Bucciarati never meets them, but their deaths are what drive La Squadra's desire to defeat the Boss.
* TheyLookJustLikeEveryoneElse: They look like they can actually blend in as normal people compared to every other seen Passione members.
* TogetherInDeath: They were killed at the same time and given a joint funeral by their teammates.
* UndeathlyPallor: It's subtle, but their models in the 3D games have a slightly sickly and ill-looking skin tone when compared to other characters.
* TheUnreveal: Some information in the manga implies that they were Stand users, but the natures of their Stands are never revealed.
* VillainousWidowsPeak: Sorbet sports one.
* TheVoiceless: In the anime, neither of them have any dialogue and the only sounds they are heard making are various screams and cries of agony as they're being tortured to death. Oddly, while Sorbet has a credited voice actor, Gelato does not.

[[folder:Formaggio]]
!!Formaggio (Stand: [[IncredibleShrinkingMan Little Feet]])
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/JunFukushima (TV anime, JP), Creator/JonahScott (TV anime, EN), Creator/YujiKishi (''Vento Aureo'' video game)

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[[caption-width-right:345:[[labelnote:Little Feet]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/little_feet_anime_9.png[[/labelnote]]]]

The sadistic first member met by the main characters. He engages Narancia in battle in order to kidnap Trish, resulting in a one-versus-one.
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Little Feet (named after Music/LittleFeat) can shrink Formaggio or other people by touch, which also diminishes their weight and can create unusual weapons. By growing an object back to full size, it can potentially damage someone by stabbing into them or alternatively make a quick get-away a la catapult.

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

[[folder:Illuso]]
!!Illuso (Stand: [[MirrorMonster Man in the Mirror]])
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/KenNarita (TV anime, JP), Creator/BenLepley (TV anime, EN), Creator/KazuyaNakai (''[[VideoGame/JoJosBizarreAdventureEyesOfHeaven Eyes of Heaven]]''), Akira Negishi (''Vento Aureo'' video game)

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[[caption-width-right:285:[[labelnote:Man in the Mirror]]\\
https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/man_in_the_mirror_anime_9.png[[/labelnote]]]]

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

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

* AdaptationDyeJob: Less noticeable than most examples, but his hair is black in the manga and brown in the anime.
* AdaptationalJerkass: {{Downplayed}}. Illuso was pretty confident and arrogant in the manga, it's just the anime expanding and fleshing him out more that shows a few more {{Jerkass}} moments to his own teammates as well. He's both visibly less stoic and more arrogant in scenes ''from'' the manga as well.
* AdaptationalVillainy: While he's already not the most pleasant member of La Squadra, ''Purple Haze Feedback'' makes him even worse, depicting him as a SerialKiller [[spoiler:who murdered Sheila E.'s sister, and who Fugo unknowingly stole her chance at revenge from]].
* AlasPoorVillain: It's easy to feel sorry for ''anyone'' who's about to be killed by [[MakeThemRot Purple Haze]], especially after he had to muster the resolve to cut off his own arm in a vain attempt to avoid its virus.
* BondVillainStupidity: If only he had finished off Fugo quickly after figuring out the key was at the dog mosaic, he wouldn't have been killed.
* CallBack: To the Hanged Man battle in ''Part 3'', with Abbacchio playing the Kakyoin to Fugo's Polnareff. He also greatly resembles Steely Dan from the same part, another villain that Kakyoin and Polnareff teamed up against. The opening is even pretty similar, with Fugo looking at the mirror and seeing Illuso, just as Polnareff looked at a mirror and saw Hanged Man before destroying the mirror into multiple surfaces.
* Catch22Dilemma: His death amounted to one of these. Either stay in the mirror world and die to Purple Haze's virus, or chop off his hand while leaving the mirror world to avoid dying, but enter Purple Haze's range.
* CombatPragmatist: The guy may not have a physically powerful Stand, but he's quite the determined individual to make sure his mission is a success. He uses his Stand abilities in the most crafty ways, and whenever backed into a negative situation, he turns it into a positive, almost to XanatosSpeedChess levels. Sadly for him, [[AllForNothing Purple Haze put a halt to his plans.]]
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: One of the most graphic deaths in the entire series. Illuso is infected by Purple Haze's flesh-eating virus so he cuts off his hand in order to prevent it from spreading. Only to make himself more vulnerable to a full-frontal assault from Purple Haze in the real world, who proceeds to infect his face. Illuso is then brutally finished by Purple Haze which pummels him repeatedly, spreading the virus in his entire body in the process and finally ''punching his face off'' before he is liquefied into a pile of mush at an alarming rate.
* {{Determinator}}: During his fight with Giorno and the others, Illuso was hit by constant disadvantages, but always quickly turned those around to his favor. Even when he was in his death throes, he was still determined to block Purple Haze's punch. However, his determination was not enough and as such, [[CruelAndUnusualDeath he was melted for it]].
* DidntThinkThisThrough: Illuso smugly believed that chopping his infected hand would be the end of his problems, forgetting that leaving the Mirror World would make him vulnerable to getting brutalized by Purple Haze.
* DubNameChange: His Stand is renamed to "Mirror Man" in official English translations. Might be pure coincidence, but Mirror Man is also the name of songs by Music/CaptainBeefheart, Music/TalkTalk, and Music/TheHumanLeague, so the MusicalThemeNaming remained in this one.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: He may be a {{Jerkass}}, but he's nonetheless just as horrified as everyone else when they saw Sorbet's remains. In the anime, you can genuinely hear how disturbed he is when he realizes Gelato had to watch Sorbet get hacked to pieces.
* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: Man in the Mirror makes him a [[IncrediblyLamePun man in the mirror]].
* FauxAffablyEvil: He speaks in an overtly smug and sarcastic tone against the heroes.
* TheFriendNobodyLikes: Implied to be inverted in ''Literature/PurpleHazeFeedback''. Despite the fact that Murolo disliked La Squadra [[spoiler:and was actually the one that essentially leads Ghiaccio and Risotto to their deaths out of disdain for them]], he double-takes when Sheila E. reveals her disdain for Illuso and scoffs, "What did he do to you?"
** The anime adaptation seems to imply this with its additional scenes of La Squadra interacting as a group and Illuso being the most condescending and arrogant of the bunch. Although slightly downplayed since he is not outright ''hated'' by the rest of the squad, he doesn't have any close ties with any of his teammates in particular. Whereas Prosciutto and Pesci have a brotherly bond going on and Melone and Ghiaccio express a professional relationship, Illuso and Formaggio seem to have a rather negative relationship. However, it should be noted that Pesci declared a desire to avenge his death along with Formaggio.
* GlassCannon: Pun notwithstanding, being dragged into the mirror world means that Man in the Mirror is free to wail on you as much as Illuso needs; if Illuso catches you and you don't have a trick up your sleeve going into the mirror, you're effectively defeated. That said, Man in the Mirror has ''the worst'' Durability rating possible and in-universe he even acknowledges the fact that it's physically weak. This is even supported by the physically average Moody Blues beating Man in the Mirror up.
* GlassWeapon: He uses mirror shards as weapons in the manga and video game.
* ImpracticallyFancyOutfit: Who has the time and the money to order a shirt, a pair of pants and a vest ''made entirely out of puffed quilted fabric?'' In some panels, Illuso's metal cuffs are revealed to actually be '''more''' quilted fabric.
* ImprovisedWeapon: Illuso actually has a weapon on hand -- mirror shards. His standard attack in the ''Vento Aureo'' game is throwing mirror shards, and in his attacks, you can also see him using one as a makeshift dagger. In the manga, he grabs one once he's pinned down Abbacchio and then later on nearly uses one to slice Giorno's throat.
* InfoDump: His first action after dragging Fugo into the Mirror World and knocking him off his feet is to [[AsYouKnow read off a shortened version of Fugo's life history, which later was restated for PHF.]] He also implies that while he doesn't have anything on their Stands, he ''does'' know Abbacchio's backstory as well, and probably would've gathered something on Giorno if he had the time.
* IronicName: The Music/MichaelJackson song his Stand is named after has the central message of making the world a better place by starting with changing oneself, which is very ironic considering his unpleasant personality and profession as a hitman.
* {{Jerkass}}: Easily the most dickish member of La Squadra. He constantly rants about his near-invincible Stand power, tortures and bullies his victims in the midst of a fight and overall showcases an overtly smug, cocky and overconfident demeanor. The anime adaptation adds to this by showing that he is quite condescending towards Formaggio and mocks his Stand ability for being useless and remarks Sorbet and Gelato's absence being that of them "trying to get it on" simply because they act like a couple. Even when the rest of the gang are more concerned that Sorbet and Gelato might be killed off by the boss, he seems more amused by it (at least until he realizes just how terrible an experience their death was).
* KnowledgeBroker: Might be this to La Squadra, considering that Formaggio had no idea that Narancia was even a Stand user to begin with, the rest of the team severely underrated their opponents and the fact that Illuso's abilities aren't suited for assassination as much as they are spying. He's also the most observant in battle, being able to hear Abbacchio run off to find the key and later on used fractured mirror shards to his advantage, as well as spot when the key disappeared, despite being in mid-speech.
* LeanAndMean: Has a slender build and is one of the more unpleasant members of La Squadra.
* LifeOrLimbDecision: When he's infected by Purple Haze's virus, he [[PortalCut cuts his arm off between the mirror world and the real world]].
* MajorInjuryUnderreaction: {{Averted}}. He not only flies into a panic upon seeing Abbacchio's wound but also stops rationalizing the moment he needs to cut off his own hand.
* MeaningfulName: It sounds similar to ''Illusion'' (or its Italian form, ''Illusione''), which would kinda match the power of Man in the Mirror. However, it actually means "deluded" or "fool". Seeing how he found his demise, it's quite fitting. As well, he's the only one out of La Squadra to not have a name related to food or food ingredients.
** Apparently he actually has a title: "Illuso of the Mirror".
* MirrorMonster: Man in the Mirror allows Illusio to teleport people and objects into a PocketDimension as long as they are seen on any reflective surface, which can be very small. Illusio can separate Stands from their users with this, making them easy to kill, or to teleport people partially, which immobilizes them.
* NoBodyLeftBehind: All that's left of him is a puddle of goop, thanks to Purple Haze.
* NotSoStoic: When Abbacchio cuts off his hand, followed by everything just nosediving for Illuso's mood.
* OddNameOut: The only member of the La Squadra with a name that doesn't follow the EdibleThemeNaming of the other members.
* PowerNullifier: His mirror world powers effectively act as this, allowing him to separate a Stand user from their Stand and render them completely helpless (though he can be tricked into pulling a Stand into the mirror world as Abbacchio demonstrated). To be exact, the Mirror World is entirely made up of energy, similar to how Stands are. By cutting people away from the energy of Stands, it can separate a Stand user from its abilities; it might also be able to separate people from their weapons, even if it's a non-Stand object. Illuso is the only person capable of touching anything in the Mirror World as well, and it may be that only Stands can harm Illuso while he's in the Mirror World.
* PsychoticSmirk: Sports these a lot over the course of his story arc.
* RealMenWearPink: He wears his hair in GirlishPigtails.
* RedEyesTakeWarning: Illuso has sharp red eyes and is a dangerous assassin.
* ReflectiveTeleportation: His Stand, Man in the Mirror, can pull people into a mirror world using reflective surfaces as portals.
* SelectiveObliviousness: Inverted and enforced. A helpful thing about Man in the Mirror is that only one person out of a party, the person Illuso's specifically targeting, will be able to see Illuso in the reflection.
* SmugSnake: Thinks his Stand is near-invincible, he's prone to being all high-and-mighty when dealing with his enemies up until he realizes he's screwed.
* TheStoic: Remarkably, Illuso is the only member of La Squadra who, through the fight, doesn't become overly angry or panicky. Even his pride is pretty subdued since he's attempting to stick to his mission. Compared to this, about the only other person who doesn't emote as much as him is Risotto Nero. His composure only really breaks when he realizes what Purple Haze is going to do to him.
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: Illuso, in general, is a CallBack to J. Geil from ''Stardust Crusaders''. During his fight with Fugo, Abbacchio, and Giorno, only Fugo could see him at first, similar to how Polnareff was having problems proving J. Geil was attacking him. Later, in ''Literature/PurpleHazeFeedback'', [[spoiler:it's revealed he's the killer of Sheila E.'s sister and she was seeking revenge for it]].
* UnfortunateNames: His name actually means "delusional" in Italian.
* VictoriasSecretCompartment: A rare male example. He keeps a piece of paper containing information on Fugo tucked underneath his vest.
* VillainsWantMercy: PlayedWith; although he doesn't exactly beg for mercy, per se, he ''does'' beg for a death that isn't Purple Haze. Considering what it ends up doing to him, Illuso was absolutely justified.
* WeakButSkilled: Man in the Mirror has rather sub-par stats (Illuso himself notes that since the stand uses its energy to bring things in and out of the mirror world, it has less physical ability than other stands would), but Illuso is one of the only two members of La Squadra whose Development Potential is E-Rank, alongside Ghiaccio; he fully understands how his Stand works, and makes good use of it against his targets.
* WhatTheHellHero: Breaks from the fight to call out Abbacchio for cutting off his hand and then later essentially screeches this to Giorno when he takes the Purple Haze infection inside the Mirror World.

[[folder:Prosciutto]]
!!Prosciutto (Stand: [[RapidAging The Grateful Dead]])
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/TatsuhisaSuzuki (TV anime, JP and ''[[VideoGame/JoJosBizarreAdventureAllStarBattle All-Star Battle R]]''), Bill Millsap (TV anime, EN), Creator/TakumaTerashima (''[[VideoGame/JoJosBizarreAdventureAllStarBattle All-Star Battle]]''), Takayasu Usui (''Vento Aureo'' video game)

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[[caption-width-right:320:[[labelnote:The Grateful Dead]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/the_grateful_dead_anime.png[[/labelnote]]]]

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

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

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

[[folder:Pesci]]
!!Pesci (Stand: [[RodAndReelRepurposed Beach Boy]])
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/SubaruKimura (TV anime, JP and ''[[VideoGame/JoJosBizarreAdventureAllStarBattle All-Star Battle R]]''), Joe Hernandez (TV anime, EN), Shinya Fukumatsu (''[[VideoGame/JoJosBizarreAdventureAllStarBattle All-Star Battle]]''), Tomohiro Nishimura (''Vento Aureo'' video game)

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Prosciutto's partner in crime, Pesci is very eager to please his partner and will do anything he asks. Though, he's very cowardly at first and lacks a lot of strength, not helped by his odd Stand. However, when pushed to his limit, Pesci finds the inner strength his friend always told him about and begins to fight seriously, making even Bucciarati hesitant.
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Beach Boy (named after Music/TheBeachBoys) is a fishing rod capable of three things: it's capable of tracking people and literally fishing them out from other rooms, it can phase through any and all objects including skin, and attacking the line simply reflects damage onto whoever Pesci has snared.

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

[[folder:Melone]]
!!Melone (Stand: [[FaceFullOfAlienWingWong Baby Face]])
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/JunjiMajima (TV anime, JP and ''[[VideoGame/JoJosBizarreAdventureAllStarBattle All-Star Battle R]]''), Brian Hanford (TV anime, EN), Creator/KenjiNojima (''[[VideoGame/JoJosBizarreAdventureAllStarBattle All-Star Battle]]''), Creator/HidenobuKiuchi (''Vento Aureo'' video game)

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[[caption-width-right:340:[[labelnote:Baby Face]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/baby_face_anime.png[[/labelnote]]]]

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

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

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

[[folder:Ghiaccio]]
!!Ghiaccio (Stand: [[AnIcePerson White Album]])
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/NobuhikoOkamoto (TV anime, JP and ''[[VideoGame/JoJosBizarreAdventureAllStarBattle All-Star Battle R]]''), Creator/ChrisHackney (TV anime, EN), Creator/TatsuhisaSuzuki (''[[VideoGame/JoJosBizarreAdventureAllStarBattle All-Star Battle]]''), Tomohiro Nishimura (''Vento Aureo'' video game)

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The final member of La Squadra the team faces, Ghiaccio is very friendly with his allies. That's pretty much the only nice thing about him, though: he's extremely temperamental, is confused and enraged by metaphors, and is a GrammarNazi to the extreme, to the point of ranting about the pronunciation of "Venice" ''in the middle of a fight''. Despite his eccentricities, though, he's an extremely determined and dangerous foe.
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White Album (named after ''Music/TheWhiteAlbum'' by Music/TheBeatles) forms a body suit with long ice skates for feet. It completely encases Ghiaccio and allows him to lower the temperatures of just about anything, allowing for quick travel on icy routes and freezing or thawing things on the spot. It has a secondary ability known as White Album Gently Weeps (named after ''The White Album'' song "[[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/While_My_Guitar_Gently_Weeps While My Guitar Gently Weeps]]"), where Ghiaccio's immediate vicinity becomes so cold that the air itself becomes frozen.

* AdaptationDyeJob: The original manga gives Ghiaccio a white blouse with blue shadows and sky blue hair, while White Album is primarily white with some blue highlights and pink adornments on its helmet. The ''Vento Aureo'' game turns his blouse entirely blue and his hair yellow; the blue highlights on White Album are changed to green, though some blue spots remain. The anime uses Ghiaccio's manga colors and a tweaked version of White Album's video game colors, with the remaining blue highlights on the latter being changed to pink.
* AttackReflector: The main use of White Album Gently Weeps, freezing the air around him to create floating ice crystals that reflect Mista's bullets back at him.
* AttackItsWeakPoint: There's a hole in the back of White Album, roughly in the neck area, that allows Ghiaccio to breathe. However, Ghiaccio is aware of this trope and has a very nasty surprise for anyone who tries to attack it.
* AxCrazy: He's unhinged, aggressive and totally ruthless when it comes to battle.
* BadassBoast: "Even roaring train engines, even the raging seas will come to a grinding halt at my command! '''None can defy my whims!'''"
* BerserkButton: Confusing metaphors and foreign languages in Italian culture set him off.
-->'''Ghiaccio:''' Everyone knows the capital of France, but English speakers pronounce it "Paris"[[note]]Pah-reece[[/note]], while most say "Paris"[[note]]Pa-ree[[/note]] the way it's supposed to be. But somehow "Venice" has replaced the real "Venezia" as the global standard. Like those stories, ''Theatre/TheMerchantOfVenice'' and ''Literature/DeathInVenice''. '''''WHY?!''''' CALL THE DAMN BOOK ''DEATH IN VENEZIA!'' IT'S NOT THAT HARD! ARE WE NOT GOOD ENOUGH?! LEARN A LITTLE ITALIAN, [[ForeignCussWord PUTTANA]], AND ''CALL THE DAMN THING WHAT'S IT'S SUPPOSED TO BE!'' WHAT KIND OF POMPOUS BULLSHIT ARE THEY ON ABOUT?!
* BlueMeansCold: He has an ice-themed Stand and pale blue swirls for hair.
* TheCameo: The guide for ''[=ASB's=]'' in-game dictionary, and of course he rants if you attempt to leave. He's still hosting it even after being PromotedToPlayable in ''R''.
* CharacterTics: He tends to bare his teeth in a frustrated grimace, which is so often that it's practically his default expression. Even his [[https://otsukai.com/item/34986 plushie]] has it.
* ChewingTheScenery: Due to his HairTriggerTemper, he's often prone to hamming it up that practically every moment he has onscreen is basically him screaming at the top of his lungs.
* ClimaxBoss: He's the last member of La Squadra the heroes face and with his defeat, the plot's focus shifts from escorting Trish to the Boss to [[spoiler:trying to defeat the man himself]].
* ClothesMakeTheSuperman: His stand is a full-body suit of armor, much like Secco's.
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Sort of. He occasionally goes off on very strange tangents.
* CoolCar: Is shown to be driving a yellow (manga)/red (anime) first-generation Mazda MX-5[[labelnote:*]]Also known as Mazda Roadster and Mazda Miata in the Japanese and North American market respectively[[/labelnote]].
* DubNameChange: His Stand is renamed to "White Ice" in official English translations.
** Curiously, Gently Weeps is kept the same, though that could be because it's merely two words from the title of a song instead of the whole song.
* DudeWheresMyRespect: Out of all the members of La Squadra, he's the most vocal about the squad's displeasure of not getting paid as much as they should.
* ElementalArmor: His Stand ''is'' the suit. Additionally, the interior of the armor is insulated like an igloo, since his Stand powers don't actually include resistance to cold.
* EvilSoundsRaspy: When you cast [[Creator/NobuhikoOkamoto Katsuki Bakugo's voice actor]] and have him do a similar voice for Ghiaccio, this is part and parcel.
* FaceDeathWithDespair: When at Mista's mercy, and his neck caught on the tip of a sharp spike, Ghiaccio starts to lose it and scrambles to avoid getting killed.
* FatalFlaw: Ghiaccio has a bit of a problem with tunnel vision, focusing entirely on one thing at a time. This is shown with his early ranting on anything that sets him off, where he ignores everything around him while he goes off on his latest issue. This tunnel vision bites him fatally when it causes him to forget that he's not just fighting Mista. Ghiaccio focuses on killing Mista, the first target he sees, and makes no real move to attack Giorno in the fight beyond countering his attempts to get Mista out of the river. He finally remembers that Giorno exists once he's got his own neck impaled on a jagged light post, and Giorno takes advantage of being ignored.
* FauxAffablyEvil: He can speak politely, but it'll eventually shatter into a lot of screaming.
* FourEyesZeroSoul: Downplayed. Araki designed Ghiaccio's thick red-rimmed glasses to give him a distinctive appearance underneath White Album's visor. They highlight his deranged expressions which can be played seriously or for comedy.
* {{Gonk}}: While he's not ugly ''per se'', Ghiaccio's facial expressions are extremely exaggerated and unpleasant.
* GrammarNazi: To a ridiculous degree. He suddenly starts ranting on non-Italian speakers pronouncing Italian words wrong ''in the midst of a fight''.
* HairTriggerTemper: For some reason, Ghiaccio hates idioms and the corruption of language. He skids to a halt in the middle of a busy road and starts kicking the ever-loving hell out of his car, just over him being previously told to "take a leaf out of their book"[[note]]In the original Japanese dialogue, he rants at the Japanese phrase ''nehorihahori'' (根掘り葉掘り), meaning "thoroughly". The first half of the phrase translates to "root digging", being that something is not done "thoroughly" until the roots are pulled out. The second half of the phrase means "leaf digging", is added to create a euphonious Japanese wordplay (i.e. "digging up the roots and leaves"). Generally, this phrase is not supposed to be taken literally like Ghiaccio is doing.[[/note]], raging how literally nobody would ever put a leaf in a book. (Similarly, [[{{Woolseyism}} the dub changes it to]] "think outside the box" where he rants how it sounds like his brain is in a box.)
* HarmlessFreezing: [[AvertedTrope Noooope]]. His power brings all the nastiness of sub-zero temperatures with it including freezer burn, exposed limbs sticking to surfaces (Mista didn't even realize he lost a finger when he tried to wipe away the fog on the window until just before Ghiaccio attacked), decreased breathing and naturally LiterallyShatteredLives.
* HotBlooded: He's extremely emotional, expressive, and prone to going on angry rants without any provocation.
* AnIcePerson: His Stand takes the form of ice armor around his body, and he can rapidly lower temperature in an area to create ice and trap his opponents, capable of freezing ''the very air around him to a halt'', '''''down to the molecule.'''''
* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: Mista tricks him into using White Album Gently Weeps when, unbeknownst to Ghiaccio, there's a sharp pole right behind him. Newton's Third Law throws him [[ImpromptuTracheotomy neck-first]] onto it. Remarkably, he stayed alive for a while by freezing his blood, but he failed to take into account that he was fighting Mista ''and Giorno'' and wound up getting kicked by Gold Experience until the spike was jammed completely through his neck.
* ImprobableHairstyle: One of the more "out-there" hairstyles by [=JoJo=] standards; his light-blue hair clings to his head in a low number of large spirals.
* IronicName: His Stand has ice powers and his name ''literally'' means "Ice", yet he's the most hot-blooded member of La Squadra by a long shot. See PowerStereotypeFlip below.
* TheJuggernaut: Thanks to his incredibly tough ice armor, he can shrug off most of the damage Giorno and Mista throw at him without losing pace.
* LargeHam: He tends to speak out much louder than any of his squad mates.
* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: Most of his angry diatribes involve some element of this, and range from taking idioms seriously, to questioning why everyone around him calls Venice by its English name rather than how it's pronounced in the original Italian.
* LightningBruiser: He can skate fast enough to catch up with a speeding car, his freezing ice is dangerously lethal if it's not immediately undone, and his suit almost completely negates blunt force.
* LiteralMinded: Ghiaccio gets enraged at metaphors that make no sense if they're interpreted literally.
* MeaningfulName: Zigzagged. "Ghiaccio" quite literally means "Ice" in Italian, which is a fitting name if you look at his powers but an IronicName if you look at his temperament.
* NerdGlasses: He wears a pair of thick-rimmed spectacles and is enough of a nerd to nitpick the semantics of idioms at length.
* NighInvulnerability: White Album is tough enough to make him outright immune to most damage, handily shrugging off bullets from Mista and only having his visor crack slightly after RapidFireFisticuffs from Gold Experience. And when he activates Gently Weeps, any projectile sent at him is not only negated but violently reflected back at its owner. Even its AchillesHeel, the breathing hole on its nape, can be removed if Ghiaccio deems it necessary. The only way to break through its defense is piercing damage, excessive amounts of force, or a combination of the two.
* NonStandardCharacterDesign: Ghiaccio has completely black pupils that range from pinprick to black circles compared to the more detailed eyes of everyone else. Additionally, his hair is stylized into bluish spirals that cling to his head, which contrasts the weird yet realistic hairstyles of everyone else.
* OhCrap: He gets a ''spectacular'' case of this moments before his death. In his tunnel vision to kill Mista, he forgot that Giorno was there too. Once he realized that he was now immobilized with a metal spike jammed halfway into his throat and exhausted while Giorno was ''almost completely unharmed'', he goes into what would've been a full on VillainousBreakdown if he'd lived longer than a few seconds after that.
* PoweredArmor: White Album manifests around him as ElementalArmor. It gives him enhanced speed, durable armor, and, since it's a Stand itself, allows him to physically fight other Stands.
* PowerStereotypeFlip: While his Stand ability, coupled with his nerdy look, makes him seem like your average ScaryShinyGlasses-wearing, emotionless intellectual with a personality as icy as his powers, in reality, he's anything '''but''' icy. Out of all the members of La Squadra, Ghiaccio is the most hot-headed of the bunch, utterly losing his shit over trivial, language-related Berserk Buttons, like confusing figurative idioms or metaphors, and people saying "Venice" like in English instead of "Venezia" like the word's actually pronounced in Italy.
* RequiredSecondaryPowers: Averted with Ghiaccio himself, but played straight with his Stand. He isn't immune to White Album's freezing effects, thus he wears his Stand like ElementalArmor to protect him thanks to its insulated interior.
* RollerbladeGood: Or rather, Ice Skates Good. With them, he can skate fast enough to catch up with a speeding car.
* SkewedPriorities: Would rather focus on ranting about the pronunciation of Venezia/Venice over focusing on the fact that he's currently in a battle against Giorno and Mista.
* StevenUlyssesPerhero: Surprise surprise, his name means "ice" in Italian.
* SuperSliding: Ghiaccio's Stand, White Album, is able to rapidly freeze its user's surroundings. He combines this with the ElementalArmor generated by his White Album Gently Weeps ability to freeze the ground and skate quickly enough to keep up with cars on a highway.
* WorthyOpponent: He didn't think much of Mista and Giorno when he attacks them but as the fight draws to an end and he sees just how much punishment Mista takes, Ghiaccio admits that he respects him.

!!Unità Speciale per Boss[[note]]Lit. "Boss' Special Unit" in Italian, also known as '''"Elite Guard"''' in the anime.[[/note]]
[[folder:In General]]
->''"Looks like we've got ourselves some traitors... in Venezia. Their names... Bruno Bucciarati and Giorno Giovanna. Capture them dead or alive. These are the Boss' direct orders!"''
-->-- '''Vinegar Doppio''' to '''Squalo''' and possibly the rest of '''elite guards'''

'''Unità Speciale''' is an elite subdivision in Passione. They are deployed by the Boss after Team Bucciarati defected from Passione to hunt down its members one by one, although the majority of members don't actually show loyalty to the Boss, as some of them have their own reasons. They serve as VillainOfTheWeek for Team Bucciarati for the second half of ''Golden Wind''.
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!!!'''Tropes applying to Unità Speciale in general:'''
* BashBrothers: In the group, only Carne is fought by himself. Squalo and Tizano form an effective team, and Bucciarati explicitly says that Cioccolata and Secco's Stands work amazingly together.
* EliteMooks: They are groups of assassins deployed in Venice as the response for Team Bucciarati betraying the Boss and are referred to as his elite guards. Each of them manages to be more dangerous than La Squadra, causing the entire team to be on the backfoot the entirety of their fights. Carne by himself manages to almost wipe out the team until Trish awakens her Stand to counter it, Cioccolata manages the biggest killing streak of any minor villain by taking out almost all of Rome, and Secco causes Bucciarati to become severely handicapped in order to defeat him. Squalo and Tiziano don't seem as intimidating in comparison but manage to cause Giorno to nearly drown, cause some minor trouble to the Gang and humiliate Narancia through their teamwork.
* InternalDeathSquad: They're tasked with taking out traitors like Team Bucciarati.
* OnlyInItForTheMoney: Squalo and Tiziano in particular have their own reason to hunt down Bucciarati's group: satisfying their own pocketbook and the Boss' approval.
* PraetorianGuard: They are the Boss' elite guard, and as such, they all present a bigger threat to Team Bucciarati than Squadra Esecuzioni whom they had previously faced. La Squadra typically had an advantage by having strong Stand abilities and fighting the members of Bucciarati's group in isolation, but ''all'' of the Unità Speciale's fights are practically against most of the gang-stars, and they still manage to be a major threat. Carne and Cioccolata in particular [[PersonOfMassDestruction are capable of causing massive collateral damage]] with their Stand abilities.
* PunchClockVillain: In comparison to Cioccolata and Secco, Tiziano and Squalo are fighting the heroes because of the pay they'll get and it's because of orders from the Boss. It doesn't become personal for either of them until one is fatally wounded, [[ItsPersonal resulting in the other to want to avenge the other, not out of any obligation to the Boss]].
* PsychoForHire: Cioccolata and Secco (the former in particular) are solely in it for the killing and torture and have no real loyalty to the Boss.
* SortingAlgorithmOfEvil: Tiziano and Squalo have Stands that while not particularly threatening on their own, especially Tiziano's compared to Squalo's, but manage to put Narancia in a bind, taking out Giorno briefly and briefly cause trouble to the entire group until Narancia removes his handicap to easily kill the two once he corners them- all through well-coordinated teamwork. Carne seemingly subverts this by dying instantly to Mista's Stand, but when his Stand's true nature is revealed- it's played dangerously straight, Giorno and Narancia are easily taken out and it takes Trish awakening her Stand to subdue the otherwise immortal threat since killing it isn't an option. Cioccolata with his devastating Green Day manages the largest killing spree up to that point by taking out almost all of Rome's population with his Stand and nearly killing Giorno and Mista. Secco, while not on the same wide-spread scope as Cioccolata manages to prove potentially more dangerous than his partner, forcing Bucciarati to cripple himself in order to win, making him unable to fight until the Chariot Requiem situation.
* UndyingLoyalty: {{Subverted}}. With the exception of [[AmbiguousSituation Carne who died before his loyalties were elaborated on]], none of the group has any real loyalty towards the Boss. Squalo and Tiziano are [[PunchClockVillain doing their job for money and orders]], [[ItsPersonal and only take matters seriously for the sake of the other, not for the Boss himself]]. Cioccolata and Secco [[PsychoForHire are so sadistic and monstrous that even the murderously paranoid Diavolo is disgusted by them]]- keeping them on a tight leash unless it's a last resort. [[TheStarscream And even then, it doesn't stop the duo from planning to take down the Boss and take control of the organization for themselves]]
* VilerNewVillain: The Unità Speciale are the personal guard of the Boss. With the exception of [[EvenEvilHasLovedOnes Squalo and Tiziano]], none of them have sympathetic qualities that La Squadra are capable of displaying, especially Cioccolata and Secco.
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[[folder:Squalo]]
!!Squalo (Stand: [[ThreateningShark Clash]])
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/TomoakiMaeno (TV anime, JP), Creator/RyanColtLevy (TV anime, EN), Creator/HidenobuKiuchi (''Vento Aureo'' video game)

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Tiziano's partner, Squalo and he attack Narancia to force the heroes into misdirection.
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* AffablyEvil: While he does cause a lot of trouble, he's portrayed as genuinely friendly in-spite of his hotheadedness.
* AnimeHair: Squalo's is tied up in about six or seven pigtails that hang from the top of his head.
* BattleCouple: Not only are Squalo and Tiziano a couple but they also fight alongside each other, using both of their Stand powers combined.
* CoordinatedClothes: He and Tiziano are a downplayed example as what they wear is not obvious but they do share similar elements: blue headbands, gloves, jumpsuits that made them look like tennis players and sandals.
* ADayInTheLimelight: Squalo and Tiziano are featured in a short story starring them, ''Literature/TestimoneDiGangster'', published in the December 2022 issue of ''Ultra Jump''.
* DubNameChange: His Stand is renamed to "Crush" in official English translations.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: He cares deeply for his partner Tiziano, and is driven to avenge Tiziano after the latter took the bullet for him.
* ExtraEyes: Clash has a third eye in the center of its forehead.
* FieryRedhead: Squalo has red hair and is a hot-headed assassin.
* {{Gayngster}}: He and Tiziano are confirmed to be a couple.
* InLoveWithTheMark: According to ''Literature/TestimoneDiGangster'', Squalo was told by his squad leader to kill Tiziano after the latter had outlived his usefulness regarding a trial against 32 Passione members. However, he ended up falling in love with him instead.
* MeaningfulName: Italian for "shark", which his Stand embodies. It may also fit into the EdibleThemeNaming of Part 5, since certain species of sharks are commonly used in Italian cuisine.
* NiceJobFixingItVillain: What causes him to get defeated; he has Narancia dead to rights with Clash at the boy's throat, but unlike Giorno, he attempts to burrow Clash into the throat to torture him as payback for Tiziano's death rather than go for a fatal throat bite then and there. This plus Clash's small size from the small spray of blood on Narancia and a bit of HeroicWillpower gives Narancia more than enough time to finish off Squalo despite the severe pain he was in by simply riddling the man with bullets.
* NinjaPirateZombieRobot: A teleporting, size-shifting, robot shark Stand.
* OnlyFleshIsSafe: See WeaksauceWeakness below; because of this restriction, Clash can't teleport inside of your blood, cranial fluids, tears, etc. unless it's already been expelled from your body in some way.
* RedOniBlueOni: The hotheaded and aggressive red to Tiziano's more level-headed and tactical blue.
* SayMyName: Squalo and Tiziano have a habit of saying each other's names in a seductive manner while gazing into each other's eyes.
* SharkFinOfDoom: When Clash is idle in a body of liquid, very often will only the top fin of it be visible. It'll do this even if the liquid isn't deep enough to reasonably fit Clash at its size, like when it's swimming in the tears streaming off of someone's cheeks.
* {{Sizeshifter}}: An involuntary example compared to other shape-shifting Stands, Clash's size changes depending on the amount of water/fluid it teleports into. A glass of water or a stream of tears makes it no bigger than a human tongue, while Venetian canals make it at least as big if not bigger than a regular shark.
* ShootTheMedicFirst: His primary motive for wanting to take Giorno out first. If him and Tiziano get rid of Bucciarati's healer, then any injuries that his group sustains will wear them down much faster.
* TeleportersAndTransporters: His Stand has the power to teleport from one body of water to another (or other mostly-water liquids like a bowl of soup or glass of wine).
* ThisLooksLikeAJobForAquaman: Clash has some good range on how far it can travel, but it needs some form of liquid to subsist within. Great if you're fighting someone in Venice, a city famous for the waterways all over it; horrible if you're fighting someone in a place that's extremely dry.
* ThreateningShark: His Stand Clash, which has the form of a metallic shark with three eyes, played straight in this situation. Especially when it's in your soup and can jump from liquid to liquid as needed to follow you. And when he captures his target, intending to drag him along on the teleportation trips where, if Squalo isn't stopped quickly enough, ''they will drown''.
* WeaksauceWeakness: Clash can't teleport into a liquid if it is sealed off.

[[folder:Tiziano]]
!!Tiziano (Stand: [[EnslavedTongue Talking Head]])
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/KenjiroTsuda (TV anime, JP), Jordan Reynolds (TV anime, EN), Creator/RyuzouIshino (''Vento Aureo'' video game)

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Squalo's partner, Tiziano replaces Narancia's tongue with his Stand in order to misdirect the heroes.
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* AdaptationalDyeJob: His silver hair in the colored manga, but blonde in the anime.
* AffablyEvil: Just like his boyfriend, he's nothing short of polite.
* AffectionateNickname: His partner Squalo calls him "Tiz."
* AmbiguouslyBrown: Has a darker complexion than other characters of this part.
* AnimeHair: Downplayed. While the coloring is bizarre, his hairstyle is one of the more realistic ones especially in Part 5. A LongHairedPrettyBoy doesn't stand out too much in real life.
* BattleCouple: Not only are Squalo and Tiziano a couple but they also fight alongside each other, using both of their Stand powers combined.
* TheComicallySerious: Tiziano isn't that quirky himself, but his Stand is the subject of the humorous attempts Narancia makes in trying to keep his friends from danger.
* CoordinatedClothes: He and Squalo are a downplayed example as what they wear is not obvious but they do share similar elements: blue headbands, gloves, jumpsuits that made them look like tennis players and sandals.
* ADayInTheLimelight: Squalo and Tiziano are featured in a short story starring them, ''Literature/TestimoneDiGangster'', published in the December 2022 issue of ''Ultra Jump''.
* DubNameChange: His Stand is renamed to "Talking Mouth" in official English translations.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Both he and his partner Squalo care for one another, to the point Tiziano takes a bullet for his partner not only to save him but also to give him the required liquid to use his Stand.
* {{Gayngster}}: Confirmed to be in a relationship with Squalo.
* HeartIsAnAwesomePower: Downplayed. Much in the vein of Little Feet and Beach Boy, Talking Head is a weaker Stand whose user applies its ability in a creative way to be a bigger threat than it first appears. That said, while Formaggio and Pesci could put up a fight independently, Talking Head only works as a supporting Stand and has no real ability to fight directly. He's still a threat and even manages to turn the tide when Narancia and Giorno outmaneuver them, but the physical fighting is left up to Squalo and Clash.
* {{Irony}}: When they were hiding from Narancia, Tiziano keeps telling Squalo to keep calm in order to prevent Aerosmith from tracking them. It was Tiziano's own moment of panic that gave them away.
* LongHairedPrettyBoy: He has long silver [[AdaptationalDyeJob or light blond hair in the anime]], and is easily the more conventionally handsome of the duo.
* MultiPurposeTongue: Talking Head also has the ability to elongate and control its victims tongues, which it uses to cut Narancia with his own knife.
* NamedAfterSomeoneFamous: He is named after Italian Renaissance artist Tiziano Vecelli.
* NoOneCouldSurviveThat: His reaction to Narancia cutting out his tongue with his own knife to remove Talking Head. What he finds out a few seconds later is that Giorno turned one of his ladybugs into another tongue and gave it to Narancia in the bathroom.
* PoorCommunicationKills: The reason he is so deadly when combined with Clash, as he can invoke this on his victims.
* RedOniBlueOni: The level-headed and tactical blue to the hotheaded Squalo's red.
* SayMyName: Squalo and Tiziano have a habit of saying each other's names in a seductive manner while gazing into each other's eyes.
* SupportPartyMember: His Stand is not suited for combat on its own, but working in tandem with Squalo's offensive Stand Clash makes Talking Head a deadly threat.
* TakingTheBullet: Not just to save his beloved Squalo, but also to give Clash a liquid field via his own blood. Sadly, it doesn't buy Squalo much more than about a few seconds, if that.
* TongueTied: His Stand twists the victim's words so they always communicate the opposite of their intent -- even if it's writing or gesturing.
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: ''Literature/TestimoneDiGangster'' reveals that in the past, this almost happened to him when his squad leader ordered Squalo to kill him after he had served his purpose in a trial against 32 Passione members. However, Squalo fell in love with him and killed the squad leader instead.
* YoureInsane: His reaction to Narancia cutting out his own tongue to remove Talking Head, scaring Squalo & Tiziano into increasing their breathing so he could track them with Aerosmith's radar.
-->'''Tiziano:''' That guy's a maniac!

[[folder:Carne]]
!!Carne (Stand: [[AlmightyIdiot Notorious B.I.G]])
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/DaisukeSakaguchi (TV anime, JP), Jordan Reynolds (Carne) (TV anime, EN), Creator/DavidVincent (Notorious B.I.G) (TV anime, EN)

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[[caption-width-right:350:[[labelnote:Notorious B.I.G]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/notorious_big_anime.png[[/labelnote]]]]

A member of Passione that was, upon introduction, shortly killed by Mista.\\\
Unfortunately, it activated his Stand (named after Music/TheNotoriousBIG), which follows and consumes whatever is moving fastest and increasing its pace to keep up. Since he never spoke, or really did much of anything, the following tropes are more for Notorious B.I.G than Carne.
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* AdaptationDyeJob: Carne has green hair in the manga, while the anime changes it to pink. Notorious B.I.G's "flesh" is changed to be a meaty orange as well; the manga made it white (when it was first summoned), and later, a pinkish-purple (as its blob form).
* AlmightyIdiot: Notorious B.I.G is ludicrously powerful and completely unkillable, but has no higher brain function other than mindlessly hunting down and devouring the fastest-moving thing in the immediate vicinity.
* AmbiguousSituation: It's not clear to what extent Notorious B.I.G is sapient or if there's some vestige of Carne's soul inside it, as it's clearly capable of intimidation tactics and revealing its own name to Giorno, something only Carne would've known.
* AndIMustScream: Screaming is ''all'' Notorious B.I.G can do once it gets trapped in the Tyrrhenian Sea forever, chasing the never stopping currents. Making matters worse for it is also being surrounded by maddening amounts of motion-based stimuli from the waves in all directions and being unable to die due to its immortality.
* AwesomeButImpractical: Notorious B.I.G is one of the strongest Stands of the manga, but its power can only be activated if the user dies. Additionally, once it does activate, it's nearly invincible and unstoppable, but the simple automated rules that control its behavior make it comparatively easy to deal with once you understand how it works.
* AxCrazy: Notorious B.I.G mindlessly attacks anything in the immediate area that moves.
* BlessedWithSuck: In a particularly unique instance for the series, Carne got a Stand that would not activate until he was ''murdered''. As a unique post-mortem Stand, Notorious B.I.G can't die, ever. It comes back to bite it ''hard'' once it gets trapped in the ocean.
* BlobMonster: Notorious B.I.G is a flesh-consuming creature that attacks and consumes the fastest-moving thing in the vicinity.
* CompleteImmortality: Noticeably, it is one of the few Stands that can outlive their master, including Anubis, but more importantly cannot be destroyed by any means, being able to regenerate from any attack that even harms it.
* CurbStompBattle:
** Carne himself goes down less than a minute thanks to Mista.
** Notorious B.I.G manages to temporarily incapacitate Giorno, Mista and Narancia.
* DeathActivatedSuperpower: Notorious B.I.G isn't truly activated until it receives feelings of hate and contempt on account of ''Carne's death''.
* DubNameChange: His Stand is renamed to "Notorious Chase" in official English translations. It's a fairly {{meaningful|Name}} one, since Notorious B.I.G can only attack moving objects; thus, it's chasing them.
* DumbMuscle: The only true weakness of B.I.G is that it is non-sentient, instinctually attacking the fastest object around. It will actively let go of a victim to attack a faster object.
* EdibleThemeNaming: "Meat".
* EldritchAbomination: Even by Stand standards, it's bizarre. It is immortal, able to infect the nearest organic body in order to grow as well as control those infected parts, and has an overall monstrous appearance.
* EnergyAbsorption: Kinetic energy can feed Notorious B.I.G to grow its size. Someone moving their limbs around won't grow it in any noticeable way, but the hundred-thousand RPM of a plane engine, on the other hand...
* FromASingleCell: ...is capable of growing even the smallest flecks of B.I.G into a monstrosity as big as the plane itself.
* {{Gonk}}: Carne is baffling to look at, as while his head and torso are clearly that of an obese man he looks like his arms and legs were taken from a much skinnier person. He's also oddly ''square'' in shape.
* HopelessBossFight: While Carne goes down easily, Notorious B.I.G is so strong that only dropping it in the ocean keeps it from harming the heroes any further.
* InvincibleBoogeymen: Carne's Stand, Notorious B.I.G, is unique in many respects: it only activates after Carne's death and thus, the standard strategy of "knocking out/killing the Stand user to stop the Stand" is useless. It's a Blob Monster that consumes everything in its path, is nigh-indestructible -- having pieces of it chopped off will just make the pieces sentient -- and it will chase after any sufficiently speedy thing nearby, and it can move really fast. Its only weakness is that it only acts in primal instinct, so it can be fooled in various ways; the protagonists only get rid of it after it hijacks the plane they're flying in (by partly consuming it) and they escape in midair, while the plane's failing engine causes it to fall towards the ocean. Even then, it's still alive, thoroughly confused with the ever-moving ocean currents (which trigger its instinct); it's said that the ocean it fell into becomes a scary place, with multiple ship sinking incidents caused by the still-living Stand.
* TheJuggernaut: Absolutely nothing will stop it from killing whatever it sees. Nothing.
* LivingMotionDetector: While the "living" part is far from reality, Notorious B.I.G will only target moving objects, sending itself at a speed faster than the thing it's tracking in order to catch it.
* LogicalExtreme: Of Ebony Devil, the Stand of [[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureStardustCrusaders Devo the Cursed]]. The primary ability of Ebony Devil activates when Devo is hurt, powered by his hatred of his target. The ''only'' ability from Notorious B.I.G activates from the grudge caused by Carne's death, but it's far, far more potent.
* LogicalWeakness: Notorious B.I.G targets moving objects and is immune to damage from its target. One way to damage it is by having ''B.I.G itself'' be the moving object that crashes into something, while its surroundings stay stationary; another way is by distracting it with a different source of motion stimuli while crushing it slower than the distraction can move.
* MeaningfulName: His name means "meat," as in "dead meat", and doubles as EdibleThemeNaming. It can alternatively be translated as "flesh" in reference to Notorious B.I.G's flesh-eating ability, and may also refer to ''"[[WakeUpCallBoss carnage]]".''
* MirthlessLaughter: In the anime, thus explaining why he has a voice actor credit, the only sound he makes other than grunts of pain after Mista shoots him is a ''very'' disturbing staccato chuckle. It doesn't help that his pinprick pupils get even ''smaller'' and he gets a really creepy smile on his face when he does it.
* NighInvulnerability: And unlike Yellow Temperance and Yo-Yo Ma, there is absolutely nothing anybody can do about it. Their best bet is to drop it in the ocean, but that just changed what it was attacking.
* NoObjectPermanence: Notorious B.I.G will immediately let go of a victim for a faster object, showing no memory of its previous target.
* NonStandardCharacterDesign: While most of the Jojo characters, including the gonky ones, look relatively realistic, Carne looks like an alien trying to disguise itself as a human. He's obese with a distinct lack of neck, a square-shaped body, no visible nose, a lack of external ears, a tiny mouth, and small round eyes with pin-prick pupils.
* PsychoticSmirk: Carne gives one as he's approaching the group's plane.
* PuppeteerParasite: One of the first things that B.I.G does is manipulate Giorno's arm into subconsciously writing his thoughts, before revealing its own name.
* SeaMonster: After Trish dumped it into the sea, it was trapped by the rapid tides and attacked any ship that came near, earning its haunt as a place where ships mysteriously vanished. The anime adds a still during its "post-mortem" that depicts it as having grown into a vast [[KrakenAndLeviathan Kraken-esque]] creature, likely due to the sailors and ships it consumed.
* ShoutOut: [[Music/TheNotoriousBIG Besides the obvious]], the fact that his Stand activates after his death is implied to be a reference to Biggie's final studio album, ''Music/LifeAfterDeath''.
* StoryBreakerPower: An [[CompleteImmortality indestructible]] [[FromASingleCell amorphous]] [[ImplacableMan murder engine]] that, since his user activated him ''through death'', is effectively even more unkillable than '''''Kars'''''. Thankfully, he cannot see and acts on impulsive instinct. To the sea with ye, ye great blob monster.
* SuperPersistentPredator: Notorious B.I.G's powers in a nutshell. It locks onto and tries to consume the thing moving fastest in its range and increases its own speed to ensure that it can't get away. This also means that chucking it out of a plane to try and get rid of it is pointless since it'll just ''move at SuperSpeed to keep pace.''
* ThanatosGambit: He essentially serves as a suicide bomber to unleash an indestructible Stand on his targets.
* UndyingLoyalty: He willingly gets himself killed just so he could unleash his obscenely deadly Stand ability upon the heroes.
* UncannyValley: He looks more alien than human, due to his flat, wide, noseless face, completely round eyes, square torso shape, and spindly limbs. Likely Invoked, to make him look more frightening.
* UncattyResemblance: His Stand in its humanoid form bears a heavy resemblance to him, down to the shape of his eyes, teeth, and proportions.
* WeaksauceWeakness: It's possible to hurt B.I.G if one attacks with the right amount of force slow enough that it doesn't see it coming, though this won't stop it. Also, its own motion-tracking ability means that if it gets dropped in something as chaotic as, say, the ocean, it'll be trapped as it chases the shifting tides and any ships that come into range, utterly unable to discern the way out of the water.
* WeHardlyKnewYe: Carne himself has no characterization before he gets killed by Mista, though the anime adds him chuckling to himself as he approaches implying that he ''knew'' what was going to happen and his UndyingLoyalty to the Boss made him [[NotAfraidToDie unafraid of his own death]].
* YouCantKillWhatsAlreadyDead: Notorious B.I.G is impossible to kill because it activates after its user's death. The best Team Bucciarati can do is drop it in the middle of the ocean, forcing it to chase after the flowing water currents forever.

[[folder:Cioccolata]]
!!Cioccolata (Stand: [[FesteringFungus Green Day]])
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/AtsushiMiyauchi (TV anime, JP and ''[[VideoGame/JoJosBizarreAdventureAllStarBattle All-Star Battle R]]''), Creator/BillButts (TV anime, EN), Creator/NaoyaUchida (''[[VideoGame/JoJosBizarreAdventureAllStarBattle All-Star Battle]]''), Creator/RyuzouIshino (''Vento Aureo'' video game)

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[[caption-width-right:285:[[labelnote:Green Day]]\\
https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/green_day_anime.png[[/labelnote]]]]

-> ''"As our curiosity continues to grow, so too does the boldness of our keen spirits. And it is that very same inquisitiveness that fuels our cognitive evolution. I yearn to see it... What glorious grimaces will they unveil as they wrestle with the cold jaws of death?"''

The last opponent the heroes face before confronting the Boss, he's partnered with Secco. A former doctor who tormented patients that came to him, he did things like intentionally misdiagnosing them so they'd go under his knife, limiting their anesthetics so they'd begin to scream mid-operation, and inflicting pounds upon pounds of mental abuse on the elderly.
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His Stand, Green Day (named after Music/GreenDay), is similar to Purple Haze, but with mold instead of toxins. Once infected, if the victim drops in altitude, the mold begins to grow and will devour the flesh of whatever it's implanted on.
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* AdaptationDyeJob: In the colored manga and anime, his hair is bright green. In the [=PS2=] game, it's light blue.
* AdaptationalCurves: The manga never shows Green Day from the chest down. The [=PS2=] game opted to connect it to a slug-like lower body, and in the anime, it's given normal legs and a bit of a tubby potbelly.
* AdaptationalEarlyAppearance: In episode 10 of the Golden Wind anime, he appears in the flashback of La Squadra as the one who sliced Sorbet up. While he's presented as a shadowy silhouette, his distinctive hairstyle clearly makes it apparent that it's him.
* AdaptationalModesty: The anime and the game give him an undershirt, so the holes cut in his jacket no longer show skin underneath. There are also fewer holes in the anime, perhaps most notably on his sleeves; what was originally a spiderweb of missing fabric in the manga has been reduced to a single line of T-Tetronimo shapes along his outer arms. All in all, it serves to make his outfit look more like an (extremely stylised) doctor's lab coat.
* AdaptationalVillainy: Not that he wasn't a nasty piece of work already, but the anime confirms that he was the one who tortured Sorbet and Gelato to death.
* AffectionateGestureToTheHead: To praise Secco for doing a good job, he rubs his head and exclaims, "Good, good, good, good, good, good!"
* AmbiguouslyGay: Borders DepravedHomosexual, He tells Secco "I love you" (or "You are very dear to me" in the English dub). It is ambiguous because he treats Secco as a pet rather than as a fellow human, let alone being such a sociopath that it's questionable he can even love anything but torture and murder.
* AnimeHair: Long spikes with puff-balls on the ends, fittingly making it look like mold growth. And it's green.
* AxCrazy: Like most villains, but [[TheUnfettered has no restraints whatsoever to limit his insanity]], such as Alessi's cowardice and DIO's twisted sense of honor, making him incredibly dangerous.
* BadPowersBadPeople: Flesh-eating mold that causes people to dissolve. Sounds like the perfect power for a psychotic MadDoctor who LovesTheSoundOfScreaming.
-->'''Giorno:''' [Stands] are supposed to [[PersonalityPowers mirror their users' minds]]. If there's even a trace of guilt in their hearts, the user may subconsciously stop themselves at some point. But this ''cazzone'', [[{{Sadist}} he revels in carnage]]. [[ForTheEvulz It's all he lives for]]. His Stand is cruelty incarnate!
* BerserkButton: Apparently doesn't like being called a "piece of shit"; it's enough to spur him out of ''severe brain damage'' and lunge at his opponent in fury, when he was begging for mercy seconds prior.
* BigStupidDoodooHead: In the anime, his response to Giorno calling him a piece of shit is "You're so mean!" before he gets the ever-loving crap beaten out of him by Gold Experience. The English dub changes it to "What did you just call me?!"
* BodyHorror: A lot of Stands are downright nasty, but a flesh-devouring mold that makes people disintegrate if it germinates fast enough? Even more amazing, he's immune to the more harmful effects, so he can sever off body parts and use the mold to prevent blood loss and keep nerves connected? Geez.
* CallBack: Cioccolata's seven-page/30 seconds beatdown at the hands of Giorno's Gold Experience is a direct reference to Steely Dan's beatdown by Jotaro's Star Platinum which "only" lasted three pages in the manga and roughly 20 seconds in the anime. Both are preceded by TheReasonYouSuckSpeech but in Cioccolata's case the actual beating is exaggerated as he is pummeled more than enough to kill him, which is followed by him landing in a garbage disposal truck. You could say that Steely Dan having multiple bones fractured and being launched through a brick wall is ''tame'' in comparison.
* TheCameo: In the second episode of the ''Manga/ThusSpokeKishibeRohan'' TV drama, his name appears on a book titled ''Cioccolata's Operative Orthopaedics.''
* CatchPhrase: "Good, good, good, good, good, good, good!" (In Japanese, it's ''"Yoshi, yoshi, yoshi, yoshi, yoshi, yoshi!"'')
* CreepyHighPitchedVoice: He has this in the Vento Aureo video game, fitting of his MonsterClown appearance. The anime gives him a deeper voice instead. Interestingly though, the French dub of the anime retains a higher-pitched voice.
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: He gets shot in the head, then the bullet turns into a stag beetle that ''eats his brains'' and bursts out of it, then he suffers a savage beatdown for ''seven pages/30 seconds'' from a Stand that can make its victims experience pain longer than normal. He's beaten with such force that his body was starting to fall apart due to the stitches he used to sew his body together in their fight coming loose, before finally getting crushed in a garbage truck's compactor. The anime makes it worse by having him attempt to beg Giorno to stop shortly before the beatdown ends, making it clear that he was still conscious for most of it. And he deserved every second of it.
* DeadlyDoctor: His time as a doctor gave him extensive knowledge of the human body and he wears white clothing. He can use his medical knowledge both offensively (such as when he tortured and killed Sorbet) and defensively when he knew how to sever himself into pieces and engage in DetachmentCombat, then put himself back together with little problem.
* DeathByIrony: After spending a ''lifetime'' tormenting people mentally and physically for his own twisted pleasure giving no mercy to anyone, Cioccolata suffers one of the most ''brutal'' beatdowns in the franchise's history after Giorno denies ''him'' mercy.
* DefiantToTheEnd: He tries to be this in both versions after being mortally wounded, lunging toward Giorno for calling him a "piece of shit", but it's more this trope in the dub where he sounds genuinely furious while in the original Japanese version, he childishly calls Giorno mean. It goes out the window once his NoHoldsBarredBeatdown truly begins.
* DependingOnTheArtist: Because Green Day was never shown from the waist down in the original manga, its design differs depending on the adaptation. In the ''Vento Aureo'' video game, its lower body is mollusk-like and drapes across the floor, while in the TV anime and ''Pitter-Patter Pop!'', it has a standard pair of legs.
* DetachmentCombat: He can dismember himself and keep the various parts still functioning even when they're not connected.
* DirtyCoward: Interestingly zigzagged. Although Cioccolata is prone to panic and becomes a trembling wreck when the chips are down as shown when Giorno gets the upper hand, he's also just as quick to regain his composure and never lets it become his weakness due to his mental strength and being defiant to the very end. He's also so mentally unhinged that he isn't above literally ''dismembering himself'' in order to gain a tactical advantage. However, that doesn't stop him from using underhanded tactics in a fight or shielding himself with his chaotically destructive Stand ability, let alone taking Mista and Coco Jumbo hostage as a final desperate act to save himself from Giorno's retaliation, so he as well is afraid of his own mortality. In a nutshell, while Cioccolata outshines many when it comes to determination, he isn't the pathetic, boot-licking worm Steely Dan was, nor the ideal image of the social darwinist he himself looks up to. These traits arguably make Cioccolata even more terrifying as an opponent because he is extremely unpredictable and Giorno manages to win him only by outsmarting him.
* DoctorsDisgracefulDemotion: When Cioccolata was working as a surgeon, he would deliberately mess up the dose of anesthetics so his patients would wake up mid-operation, allowing him to enjoy seeing them in agonizing pain. He was fired after killing one of his patients, but didn't get arrested because the murder was mistaken for an accident. Now he works for Passione as the Boss' personal TortureTechnician.
* DubNameChange: His Stand is renamed to "[[FluffyTheTerrible Green Tea]]" in official English translations.
* TheDreaded: Implied. Everyone who knows Cioccolata's true nature is disturbed by his sadism and the sheer destructive nature of his Stand power[[note]]The only notable exception being Giorno who keeps outsmarting him several times[[/note]]. Secco deliberately acts around him like he's mentally challenged and broken by all the abuse and follows his orders without question because it makes him feel safe. Even ''the Boss'' is creeped out by him, as he put Cioccolata on the back burner of his organization, [[GodzillaThreshold only bringing him out as a last resort]], and deliberately keeping more than a mile between because he is simply too dangerous to interact with. The anime reinforces this concept, as Cioccolata's part-time duty in Passione was to work as a TortureTechnician who brutally kills people to send a warning, intimidating those who would rebel against the Boss, and he would have most likely rebelled had the Boss not given him enough people to kill. The members of La Squadra were certainly shaken by the outcome of what Cioccolata did to Sorbet and the reactions of both Gelato and Sorbet as well as one of Cioccolata's former patients who had the misfortune of falling under his knife show why they ''should'' be afraid of him. Even out-of-universe, he won first place on a poll of scary Part 5 characters.
* EarlyBirdCameo: In the anime, during Formaggio's flashback, he's briefly seen as the one that gave Sorbet his [[CruelAndUnusualDeath gruesome fate]], following the Boss' orders.
* EdibleThemeNaming: His name is Italian for "chocolate."
* ElderAbuse: In his teens he worked at a care home and proceeded to drug and gaslight the patients. He drove several to suicide.
%% Please do not add an Even Evil Has Loved Ones trope here. Whatever possible qualities of genuine care Cioccolata could have for Secco is diminished by the fact he doesn't treat Secco as his equal and his only way of showing affection is by tossing him sugar cubes. His "declaration of love" is only used as a means for motivating Secco to fight the heroes in case something happened to him. His "love" for Secco is similar to that of Volgin's "love" for Raikov from VideoGame/MetalGearSolid3SnakeEater, also a Complete Monster.
* EvilCounterpart:
** To Giorno, as both have Stands that can manipulate living things. Where Giorno temporarily vitalizes things with Gold Experience, though, Cioccolata effectively ''de''-vitalizes whatever Green Day's spores manifest upon.
** To Fugo, as they both possess similar Stands and are intelligent people who have a violent dark side. The difference is that Fugo has a genuine moral code and he keeps his darker impulses under wraps, as opposed to Cioccolata, who revels in the destruction he causes and has [[TheSociopath no morals]]. It makes sense when you consider that Cioccolata was likely meant to serve as a SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute for Fugo after the mole plot was dropped.
* EvilLaugh: Has an especially nasty, annoying and sadistic cackle in the anime adaptation.
* EvilerThanThou: Inverted. You ''know'' you're an awful person when someone who is currently trying to murder their own daughter out of sheer and unjustified paranoia [[EvenEvilHasStandards thinks you're horrible.]] He's this to the entire organization as well and is arguably its most depraved member. Even the hardened assassins of La Squadra are terrified of the lengths of depravity he's willing to go.
* EvilGenius: He's a MadDoctor who is very knowledgeable about human biology. He exploits this in his DetachmentCombat, knowing how to exploit his Stand's power to detach parts of his body without losing too much blood, and quickly sew them back if he needs to.
* EvilIsHammy: Besides his depravity and egocentrism, Cioccolata is extremely hammy and melodramatic and easily rivals the likes of DIO when it comes to being a megalomaniac.
* EvilSoundsDeep: He is voiced by Atsushi Miyauchi in the anime and Bill Butts in the English dub, both of whom give Cioccolata a very deep voice with some melodic inflections that fit his deranged personality.
* FacialMarkings: He has green lines on his face that match the color of his hair. Hard to tell if they're makeup, tattoos, or something else. At any rate, they're creepy.
* FakingTheDead: Near the end of the fight with Giorno. Although like his father, Giorno's not fooled, [[CrazyPrepared and was even prepared for it beforehand.]]
* FantasticNuke: Green Day has such a large area of effect (effectively infinite in developed urban areas) for its deadly power that it's equivalent to a bio-weapon or dirty bomb, and the fight against him has one of the highest body counts in the entire series.
* FauxAffablyEvil: Cioccolata, upon first meeting Team Bucciarati, puts up the guise of a soft-spoken and polite man, philosophically musing on humanity's curiosity and happiness and doting on Secco. However, as the battle progresses and Giorno gains the upper hand, he begins to show just how much of an insane monster he really is.
* FluffyTheTerrible: The most terrifying villain of the part, aside from Diavolo himself, has a name that translates to "chocolate". Also, his Stand's localized name -- Green Tea -- is a rather goofy name for something used for ''mass murder''.
* ForTheEvulz: The reason why he kills people is to see their faces trapped in terror as they perish.
* TheFriendNobodyLikes: Absolutely ''no one'' likes this guy, and for [[PsychoForHire good reason too]]. Even an amoral nut like Diavolo thinks he's a scumbag and treats employing him as a necessary evil, and even Secco, his partner in crime and supposed best friend, doesn't give a damn about him after his death, and only hung out with him because Cioccolata was powerful and would give him treats and money.
* {{Gaslighting}}: Elaborated more on in the Anime. When he worked in an elderly home, one of his pastimes was to degrade his patients and convince them that their families hated and avoided them. Several committed suicide as a result.
* GenderBlenderName: His name is actually the feminine equivalent of the word cioccolato.
* AGodAmI: He believes that slaughtering people allows him to transcend all of humanity and understand life itself.
* GodzillaThreshold: Due to his terrifying Stand's killing potential and Cioccolata's gleefully unnecessary cruelty, the Boss only uses him as a last resort when Bucciarati's gang defects and comes closer to finding his identity, to the point where the Boss warns Doppio that Cioccolata may need to be disposed of after the job is done if he causes too much collateral damage in the process.
* GreenAndMean: His hair is green and his stand is called "Green Day", and he's very, very evil.
* GreenIsGross: His Stand Green Day creates a sickening green mold that consumes any unfortunate victim alive.
* HatedByAll: Nobody, absolutely ''nobody'' likes Cioccolata. Team Bucciarati is horrified by the massacres he commits, Secco only likes him for the money, the strength and the treats, other Passione members are stated to call him and Secco monsters, he's a disgraced doctor and even the Boss sees him as the lowest of the low. Speaking of which, even the aforementioned Boss, as despicable as he is, has some genuinely loyal subordinates, such as Pericolo and Doppio. Cioccolata doesn't even have ''that'', and few would hold it to anyone if they weren't fond of Cioccolata.
* HateSink: Even in a cast full of gangsters and assassins, Cioccolata stands out as the vilest of the lot and anyone he comes across in-universe considers him as such (Yes, [[EvenEvilHasStandards that includes Diavolo]] who is alongside DIO the nastiest BigBad in the series). And on top of it, he's an egotistical and narcissistic asshole who thinks he's above everyone else and only cares about his own morbid view of life. There's literally nothing even remotely likable or redeeming about the guy except the very well-deserved and prolonged beatdown of ''seven pages/30 seconds'' by Giorno's Gold Experience. The anime reinforces this by expanding on his backstory that shows his cruelties in gruesome detail as if to show how irredeemable the monster is. Long story short, Cioccolata is without a doubt the ''evilest'' villain of the entire series, making even the most sickeningly loathsome characters and villains look like angels in comparison.
* HealingFactor: Green Day can be used in this way, though only under certain circumstances and only for Cioccolata himself. When Cioccolata dismembers himself, he animates his detached limbs using Green Day with the mold keeping him from losing too much blood. After he's launched his surprise attack, Green Day puts him back together no worse for wear. In the anime, he sews himself back together and Green Day's mold seems to fix his fractured bones, muscles, and blood vessels.
* TheHedonist: His life philosophy in a nutshell. Killing people and observing despair on those about to perish isn't even sufficient to him, he needs to record everything so he can watch it later as means of entertainment. And when he's not busy killing or torturing, he's living in excess.
* {{Hypocrite}}:
** Calls Giorno "a sick bastard" (or "[[BigStupidDoodooHead so mean]]" in the anime) for lying about sparing his life, just to buy enough time for the stag beetle to burst through his brain. This is quite a statement from a guy who tortured his patients for fun and sliced up Sorbet into 36 pieces while forcing his boyfriend Gelato to watch.
** Giorno promises to let Cioccolata go if he doesn't move. Cioccolata proceeds to attack Mista instead and after Giorno turns the tables on him, Cioccolata is angry that Giorno broke a promise... that he himself already broke. Of course, [[ILied Giorno had just revealed that he never intended to keep that promise even if Cioccolata HAD stayed still,]] but even so...
* IKnowYouKnowIKnow: Up to Level 3 against Giorno. Cioccolata pretends he's dead, but Giorno knows and is verbal about it. Cioccolata takes Mista hostage while Giorno is talking and believes that no matter if Giorno knew he was dead, he would still win. Giorno then reveals that he had an insurance plan for Cioccolata to stay down.
* InsaneTrollLogic: Believes humanity grows stronger through curiosity. Fair enough, but he ''also'' believes curiosity amplifies as people die.
* InstantDeathRadius: Cioccolata's Green Day is an unusual example of the trope is that the mold afflicts anything that is of a lower altitude than that of the Stand. Anything that is unable to ascend to a higher altitude in time, or fall below the altitude where they were first infected, will have their bodies consumed by the mold until they ''explode''. To make matters worse, the mold can spread from its victims to others, which expands Green Day's killing range.
* IronicName: Cioccolata's name might mean "chocolate" in Italian, but needless to say; considering he's a truly sadistic and loathsome MadDoctor and SerialKiller, he's anything ''but'' sweet in nature.
* {{Irony}}: When Cioccolata starts his rampage throughout Rome, one of the civilians runs towards a payphone with the intent of calling a doctor for a girl who had just succumbed to Green Day's mold. Little did he know that a doctor was already there... but with all the wrong intentions.
* {{Jerkass}}: Even though Cioccolata is a sadist and sociopath, anytime he is the center of attention he is a rude, egotistical, and unpleasant individual who only cares about his sadistic enjoyment.
* KarmaHoudiniWarranty: He was already a {{Serial Killer}} well before joining Passione, and got away with his crimes beyond being fired from his surgeon job, which was more a slap on the wrist than anything else once he joined Passione and had many more opportunities to torture and murder people. But eventually, Giorno puts a [[CruelandUnusualDeath very]] [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown brutal end]] to his lucky streak.
* KickTheDog: Almost all of Part 5's villains have a purpose for their cruelty and many of Diavolo's most heinous actions are done to benefit him in some way beyond sadism. Cioccolata has killed dozens if not hundreds of people out of morbid curiosity and the sick pleasure he takes in watching people die. Even when he does reveal an ulterior motive (wanting to overthrow the Boss), he still does what he does for fun.
* KillItWithFire: After having a stag beetle burst out of his brain and being beaten to a pulp by Gold Experience, he falls into a garbage truck with a sign on it that says it has burnable trash pickup on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays.
* KnightOfCerebus: Of all the minor antagonists in this part, Cioccolata is easily the darkest and most twisted. It's made abundantly clear that he is far too depraved for Passione's standards the moment Diavolo first mentions him and digs into every gruesome detail of his past as a sadistic surgeon. His mold-infested rampage throughout Rome is also a move that makes Prosciutto's massacre of a train full of civilians look tame in comparison, giving him the highest body count for a minor antagonist in the entire series.
* LackOfEmpathy: Has no qualms about killing millions of people just because it amuses him. As seen during his mold-infested rampage throughout Rome, he enjoys all the destruction and chaos his Stand ability brings to innocent bystanders. He also feels no remorse for driving elderly patients to the point they killed themselves or practicing human experimentation on his patients.
* LaserGuidedKarma: Cioccolata's preaching of SocialDarwinism ends up backfiring at him nicely, as he suffered a brutal, but completely deserved killing at Gold Experience's hands. Afterwards, Secco disowns him entirely, as his death ultimately proves his weakness.
* LaughablyEvil: There's no denying that he's a genuinely depraved individual, but his hammy antics with Secco are certainly funny.
* LightIsNotGood: Aside from his signature white long coat and trousers, he's also shown wearing doctor's uniform in his backstory.
* LovesTheSoundOfScreaming: The sounds? '''He wants to see your face as you die recorded on tape''' to watch on a later date.
* MadArtist: After chopping up Sorbet, he preserved the corpse's parts in 36 individual glass frames, a gruesome parody of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Physical_Impossibility_of_Death_in_the_Mind_of_Someone_Living an art installation by Damien Hirst]].
* MadBomber: By the sheer nature of his explosive germinating Stand, and the fact he essentially uses the Boss' order to stop Bucciarati's gang as an excuse to go on a killing spree on Rome to just kill as many people as possible.
* MadDoctor: Became a doctor specifically so he could torture and experiment on people.
* MadeOfIron: Somehow manages to survive being dissected apart, shot in the head and having his ''brains turned inside out by a stag beetle bursting through his head'' and it's not until Giorno pummels him within an inch of his life and launches his mangled body into the garbage disposal truck when he finally dies.
* MaskOfSanity: Implied. Although the viewer only sees the absolute worst of him on screen, it is likely that he's capable of acting normal to weasel himself out of harm's way. He managed to gaslight 9 elders to suicide and get away with it, and after becoming a doctor he slaughtered up to 4 patients, only getting fired after he was caught in the act for malpractice, rather than ousted as a murderer. Also, Diavolo thought of him as a disgraced professional and only learned of his true nature after giving him the Stand.
* AMatchMadeInStockholm: Thinks Secco was this to him, having become a loyal ally and toady after going under his knife originally. However, [[SubvertedTrope Secco doesn't actually care at all about Cioccolata as a person]].
* MeaningfulName: Chocolate contains chemicals that make the brain happy, and Cioccolata is a depraved hedonist who cares for nothing besides his own pleasure, which he gets from torturing and killing people.
* MightMakesRight: Believes that the strong have a duty to rule the weak.
* MonsterClown: With his puffball AnimeHair, {{Guyliner}}, FacialMarkings, and overall monstrous behavior, he looks like a deranged harlequin.
* MoreDespicableMinion: As terrible as Diavolo is, he only wants to kill those who he deems a threat to his power base. Cioccolata, on the other hand, is a disgusting mass-murdering lunatic who kills mostly for fun and to prove himself above humanity.
* NamedByTheAdaptation: ''Literature/JorgeJoestar'' gives him the first name Dolcio, meaning "sweet."
* NightmareFetishist: Cioccolata has an extremely morbid and sick sense of curiosity and experiencing the death and suffering of others gives him the feeling that he truly understands life itself.
* NightmareFuelStationAttendant: With his BodyHorror abilities, psychotic looks, and [[TheSociopath his depravity]], Cioccolata's this all by himself.
* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: Subjected to the longest one in the series as of yet, going for about '''seven pages/30 seconds in total''' (making it more than twice as long as the iconic Steely Dan beatdown), resulting in his death as bits of his flesh and body parts began flying off and he eventually landed in a garbage truck's compactor.
* ObviouslyEvil: Unlike most of the members of Passione, who fall under the category of [[invoked]] FashionVictimVillain and are good-looking enough to come out of a Vogue magazine, Cioccolata looks borderline hideous by comparison. While he looks average in terms of physique, his messy MonsterClown makeup and hair combined with a sick grin make Cioccolata look like a creepy psycho from the get-go. Not helped by the fact that his distinctive silhouette is first seen several episodes before a proper introduction slicing up Sorbet's body.
* OnlyFleshIsSafe: An {{Inverted}} version, just to show how horrifying Green Day's mold is. It'll only manifest in anything that's alive, so Stands and [[spoiler:Bucciarati's [[OurZombiesAreDifferent resurrected body]]]] are immune to its powers.
* OnlyFriend: Thinks of Secco as this, as he trusts him to find the man with the {{Macguffin}} in his place. He couldn't be more wrong with ''that'' assessment, assuming Secco was being truthful.
* OmnicidalManiac: As Giorno notes during his killing sprees in the coastal village and Rome, Cioccolata would enjoy indiscriminately killing every person on the planet with his Stand if he were allowed to. It's implied [[AsskickingLeadsToLeadership Diavolo]] is all that keeps him in check, as his boss has no such insane interests, and Diavolo notes to Doppio that Cioccolata may need to be killed by Diavolo/Doppio personally if his homicidal desires make him too much of a liability.
* PersonOfMassDestruction: His cataclysmic massacre of Rome by flesh-eating mold ''easily'' rivals DIO's rampage through Cairo in mayhem, brutality and sheer ''body-count''. In fact, Cioccolata's rampage through Rome is ''the'' single longest battle in the entire Jojo franchise so far, lasting ''two'' whole volumes whereas ''Stardust Crusaders''' final battle only lasted ''one'' collected volume.
* PersonalityPowers:
** Giorno remarks that a Stand as capable of widespread and indiscriminate destruction as Green Day must have been born from a truly evil heart. Also, the mold's attack pattern and its similarity with the mold that grows within bugs reflects on how he views everyone else around him as insects that are beneath him; if they literally go lower than where they were on infection, they'll die shortly after.
** Mold can be used for medical purposes, most notably the antibiotic found in penicillin, but it can also make one very ill. Just like Cioccolata, a doctor who knows how to heal, but would rather use his knowledge to inflict agony and commit mass slaughter.
* PlayingPossum: Tries to do this after getting shot in the head in order to lure Giorno closer. Unfortunately for him, it doesn't work, as Giorno not only saw right through him but had a plan that would guarantee his death in the form of a [[BrainFood stag beetle]].
* PracticallyJoker: His psychotic behaviour, green hair, [[MonsterClown clownish appearance]] and unnervingly toxic and abusive relationship with his assistant all bring into mind the Joker.
* PsychoForHire: He's the only member of Passione who seems to be in it purely because he enjoys watching people suffer and die, and is such a loose cannon that the Boss himself has to keep him at bay. Cioccolata is too strong for his organization to get rid of, but also far too dangerous to keep in close proximity, though Diavolo would've disposed of him and Secco personally without hesitation if they end up becoming too much of a liability, which he mentions to Doppio.
* PsychoKnifeNut: In the anime, he cut Sorbet into 34 pieces starting at his feet, alive, with an especially large and sharp blade. Also, his flashback in the anime shows that he was more than happy handling a scalpel for dissecting his patients with little to no anesthesia.
* RasputinianDeath: Shot in the head with a bullet that eventually turns into a stag beetle and busts back out, then given the ''longest beatdown in [=JoJo=] to date'', before being launched off the rooftop of the tallest building in the area. He then lands in a garbage truck (the anime shows his limp body being crushed by the compactor), and the inscription on the back of it implies that his body will be burned in an incinerator.
* {{Sadist}}: Given his own profession, he delights in the pain and suffering he brings to other people. When Giorno nearly falls to his death, Cioccolata is utterly ''ecstatic''.
-->'''Cioccolata:''' Oh baby, I want ''more!'' Show me more! Let me see that pretty face drain of all hope! Oooh, I'm all tingly! You'd think I'd be used to it by now, but the sweet sight never gets old! Just be sure to cheat this way so I can get a good look before you go ahead and die! (''laughs maniacally'')
* SerialKiller: You did ''not'' want to end up at the hospital where he worked.
* SlasherSmile: When Giorno falls down, he unleashes an epic one while gloating about his logic. In general, he sports a twisted grin ''every'' time he murders or is about to murder someone.
* SnuffFilm: Likes to film his murders so he can watch them later.
* TheSocialDarwinist: Believes that the strong should dominate the weak.
* TheSociopath: Cioccolata is obsessed with the suffering of others, asking Secco to film their victims' expressions as they lose hope in their final moments and die in agony. He is not above lying to manipulate people (for example, trying to trick Giorno into sparing him). And he does it all without any guilt or empathy towards those he tramples. He has always been a high-functioning sociopath, shown by him being able to give a relatively harmless impression of himself during a decades-long career in respectable medical professions, without anyone ever connecting him to the deaths of his patients or ever realizing just what kind of monster he was underneath.
* SoftSpokenSadist: When first addressing Giorno, he speaks with a calm, almost gentle voice that doesn't disguise the fact that he's a deranged mass murderer.
* TheStarscream: A phone call he makes to Secco that he receives posthumously implies that he planned to "exceed the Boss" in fighting capability. Notably, soon as he discovered that the group was after a secret to defeating the Boss, he ordered Secco to retrieve it rather than destroy it.
* StuffBlowingUp: A nasty side effect of the mold -- if it germinates fast enough, it causes the victim to explode.
* SuperpowerLottery: Statistically, Green Day is one of the most powerful Stands in the franchise in terms of destructive power and has no real weaknesses. It ranks A on ''all'' statistics except its average speed and abysmal precision, a negligible flaw with Green Day practically existing to indiscriminately destroy all life within its radius. The fact its growth potential is also ranked A indicates the Stand could likely grow powerful enough to destroy the world if Cioccolata wasn't being restrained by his boss. Besides its killing power, the mold produced by Green Day can be used by a skilled surgeon like Cioccolata for immediate self-surgery or manipulated for [[DetachmentCombat further surprise attacks,]] making it quite a versatile Stand as well.
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: A violent yet intelligent enemy who earns a deep personal revulsion from the protagonists, possessing a powerful, hard-to-control flesh-eating Stand, faced nearly right before the final showdown with the Boss... Seems like Araki couldn't ''quite'' let go of all of his ideas for Fugo's scrapped betrayal.
* TeensAreMonsters: Was only ''fourteen'' when he voluntarily attended elderly care in order to drive vulnerable people to suicide and film their expressions on camera.
* TermsOfEndangerment: He calls Giorno "my dear boy" while trying to throw him to his death from a helicopter flying high above Rome.
* TheresNoKillLikeOverkill: Shot in the head, had his brains half-eaten by a beetle, and beaten to a pulp by Giorno before being tossed into a garbage disposal truck which has burnable trash pickup three days of the week.
* TortureTechnician: His part-time duty in Passione. He makes a ''very'' gruesome example of Gelato and Sorbet for violating the Boss' privacy.
* TheUnfettered: What makes him dangerous is that he has no pragmatic or ethical restraints like most villainous Stand Users to hold him back from unleashing the full power of his Stand. Giorno observes that even among the cold-blooded assassins that make up Passione, most have reservations against the random slaughter of civilians which limits the lethality of their Stands. Cioccolata has no such reservations, and even delights in the mass murder that is a side effect of trying to kill the protagonists, making no effort at all to avoid gassing civilians.
* TheUnSmile: He doesn't really "smile" so much as he bares his teeth in a piranha-like manner while the edges of his lips curve ever-so-slightly upward.
* VilerNewVillain: He is the nastiest piece of work among the Boss' elite squad and the whole organization as well. Unlike most of them who are either [[AntiVillain anti-villains]] or have redeeming/honorable traits, none of this applies to Cioccolata whose in it for the killing and torture. He even willingly unleashes his Stand above Rome despite causing the deaths of multiple Passione members and killing hundreds of civilians in the process.
* VillainInAWhiteSuit: He's a high-ranking enforcer in Diavolo's mafia and he wears a white trenchcoat that look like a hybrid of a doctor's lab coat and a priest's robes, highlighting both his [[MadDoctor former occupation]] and [[AGodAmI delusions of grandeur]].
* VillainousFriendship: Cioccolata and Secco work as a team, with both killing people as Secco films their deaths and expressions for Cioccolata's pleasure, although the relationship is closer to a pet-and-master relationship. Upon Cioccolata's death, however, Secco admits that he never liked him. However, in the anime, Secco's voice audibly breaks as he says this, so he might have been lying.
* VillainsWantMercy: In the anime, as he's being beaten to death by Giorno, he can be heard pleading for him to stop just before he's sent flying into a garbage truck.
* VillainWithGoodPublicity: When he was a teenager, he volunteered to take care of the elderly at a care home, which was considered so noble that the mayor gave him a commendation for it. Actually, he was only working there so he could enjoy abusing his patients and driving them to suicide by telling them their families hated them.
* WouldHarmASenior: At age 14, he worked at a care home so he could gaslight his elderly patients and tell them their families hated them. Nine of them ended up committing suicide.
* WouldHurtAChild: During Cioccolata's mold infestation rampage in Rome, one of the many on-screen victims is a little girl, which demonstrates perfectly that he simply doesn't care who dies as long as he gets to see it. He also expresses sadistic glee at seeing Narancia's panicked expression while getting eaten by Green Day's mold, and exclaims, "I can't wait to see guys like him die!"
* WrongGenreSavvy: He believed Giorno would let him go, and tried to kill Mista once he lets his guard down. It might have worked for a previous protagonist like Jonathan, but [[GoodIsNotSoft Giorno]] is a completely different case. Cioccolata proceeds to get beaten into a bloody pulp for his troubles.
* YouSaidYouWouldLetThemGo: To Giorno's ILied. When Cioccolata [[WhatTheHellHero is shocked at Giorno for lying to him]], Giorno notes that being spared is something [[ThisIsUnforgivable too good to be true for the likes of him.]]

[[folder:Secco]]
!!Secco (Stand: [[DishingOutDirt Oasis]])
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/{{KENN}} (TV anime, JP and ''[[VideoGame/JoJosBizarreAdventureAllStarBattle All-Star Battle R]]''), Creator/ErikKimerer (TV anime, EN), Creator/HiroShimono (''[[VideoGame/JoJosBizarreAdventureAllStarBattle All-Star Battle]]''), Takayasu Usui (''Vento Aureo'' video game)
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->''"Aren't you supposed to be some kinda genius? With perfect throwing arms full of'' yummy ''sugar cubes and crazy, fat load of cash?! On top of that, you're super strong! At least, I'' thought ''you were! It's the only reason why I've been bothering to listen to you this entire time!"''

Secco is an obedient servant of Cioccolata that shares his viewpoint on suffering. He's the one who records Cioccolata's tapes and acts an awful lot like his dog.
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His Stand, Oasis (named after Music/{{Oasis}}), is a wearable suit that allows Secco to turn solid ground into mud at will and travel through it for the price of removing his vision as he does so. Despite it turning concrete into mud, it also prevents Secco from being hit by projectiles while he's underground.
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* TwentyFourHourArmor: Secco is always shown with his Stand Oasis on and is never seen in normal clothes. It's not made clear like his only contemporary Ghiaccio if he's wearing anything underneath or if non-Stand users would be subjected to a FullFrontalAssault. At the least, he doesn't seem to be wearing anything on his top half, since part of his chest can be seen through the gaps in the bodysuit (but then again, with Passione's unique taste in fashion, who knows). It's also implied that it gives him a degree of protection from his master's Stand, Green Day.
* AchievementsInIgnorance: Unknowingly, he takes '''[[BigBad Diavolo himself]]''' (or rather his alter-ego) hostage. In fact, he was just about to melt him alive before Bruno intervened.
* AdaptationalEarlyAppearance: In episode 10 of the Golden Wind anime, he appears with Cioccolata in the flashback of La Squadra when Sorbet is getting sliced up. Despite being a shadow silhouette, the fact that Cioccolata is in the scene and that there's a figure who appears to be filming the gruesome death (along with the fact the figure looks to be wearing a skin-tight suit, which is how Secco's Stand manifests), it's a dead ringer for Secco.
* AdaptationalVillainy: In the anime, he is confirmed to have participated in the torture/murder of Sorbet and Gelato, filming while his master Cioccolata did the dirty work.
* AstonishinglyAppropriateAppearance: His Stand, Oasis, is a bodysuit that appears to be held together in places by stitches. Fittingly, he's the assistant of a MadDoctor who loves to slash and slice people up. On the other hand, it resembles a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wetsuit wetsuit]], worn by swimmers and surfers to provide thermal protection when wet, which is fitting since his Stand and powerset involve swimming through solid ground like water.
* BattleCouple: {{Subverted}}; after ''Golden Wind'' gave many strong examples of this general trope, like [[BashBrothers Pesci and Prosciutto]] and [[{{Gayngster}} Squalo and Tizano]], Cioccolata's farewell voice message to Secco sets him up for another AvengingTheVillain moment like the others... except he says he really doesn't care about Cioccolata himself, only sticking around him for the benefits. [[AmbiguousSituation Assuming he was telling the truth, that is.]]
* BrokenPedestal: If one is to not believe the interpretation that Secco was merely mooching off of Cioccolata, this appears to be why he lashes out at Cioccolata after his defeat. Secco admits out loud right by Bucciarati that he thought Cioccolata had immeasurable strength to his name and was happy to follow him for that fact alone, but his defeat at the hands of Giorno and Mista ended up making Secco believe otherwise.
* TheBrute: One of the Boss' last subordinates and with enough fighting strength to physically overwhelm Bucciarati, but not much brainpower to back it up ([[ObfuscatingStupidity Or so you would think]]).
* ClothesMakeTheSuperman: Alongside Ghiaccio (and Rubber Soul when he uses his Stand as armor), he's one of two Stand users whose Stands take the form of full-body suits.
* CreepyHighPitchedVoice: His voice is a shaky tenor that really drives home how unhinged he is.
* DirtyCoward: When he's finally cornered, he uses Doppio as a hostage in order to get Bucciarati to back off and even gives up attempting to overthrow the Boss in favor of staying the safety of Passione's protection.
* DishingOutDirt: His Stand lets him liquefy solid ground into elastic-like mud, so long as he's touching it in some way. His main way of weaponizing this is by flinging it around, usually by getting a mouthful of said "mud" and spitting it out. This mud resolidifies into its previous form after this, resulting in high-velocity spears of rock and stone now raining from the sky.
* DubNameChange: His Stand is renamed to "Sanctuary" in official English translations-- possibly referencing either the song by Music/TheJGeilsBand or the song by Music/{{Joji}}.
* EarAche: In the climax of their fight Bucciarati blows up a car's tire, which was sucked into the earth thanks to an earlier attack by Oasis, and the blast reverberates through the liquid-like concrete and blows out Secco's eardrums entirely, disabling him and winning Bucciarati the fight.
* EarlyBirdCameo: In the anime, during Formaggio's flashback, he's briefly seen filming Cioccolata's brutal execution of Sorbet and Gelato's suicide.
* EdibleThemeNaming: His name may be derived from prosecco, an Italian white wine.
* EvilCounterpart: To Bucciarati, ability wise. Both can go through solid matter with no trouble at all.
** Personality-wise, he's this to Narancia. Both are the most HotBlooded of their allies and are led by someone. Narancia, for his faults, is a genuine friend and ally towards Team Bucciarati while Secco doesn't care for Cioccolata.
* TheFaceless: {{Inverted}}. Secco's face and a bit of his chest is all we get to see of him; everything else is covered up by Oasis, which he wears 24/7.
* FauxAffablyEvil: Just like Cioccolata, he can somewhat put on a mask of sanity, but it won't take long before that mask is shattered.
* FeigningIntelligence: After Cioccolata's defeat, Secco reveals his true colors, being not as broken and animalistic as he initially appeared, but a snide and cunning psycho. However, he overestimates his intelligence, believing his potent abilities and tracking capabilities would automatically make him a strategic genius, when it in actuality, he's merely cunning in using his powers to get ahead and doesn't have the capability of truly planning ahead, with his ego denying this reality. This is best shown when Bucciarati blasts out his eardrums and secures his victory, Secco's ego causes him to assume he's "figured out" Bucciarati's plan to destroy his eardrums anticipating he's about to pull it off when it in reality it was ''after it already happened'' and that he is totally going to stop it now by countering it, unwilling to believe that he already has been defeated so soundly.
* {{Gonk}}: Proportionally he looks like a rather average person, but his wide mouth, crazed expressions and OverlyLongTongue make him look like a demented murderous frog-man.
* HateSink: While perhaps not as bad as Cioccolata, Secco still definitely falls into this. While after hearing that he was [[MadDoctor Cioccolata's]] patient, you might think he was just a victim of the former working with him out of StockholmSyndrome, nothing could be further from the truth. He commits horrible murders with Cioccolata completely out of his own free will and fully ascribes to Cioccolata's [[TheSocialDarwinist Social Darwinist]] ideology. The only reason he ultimately turns on his "master" is because Cioccolata proved "weak," not out of any sort of moral standards. He's also a total narcissist, while not nearly as smart as he thinks he is.
* HeadsIWinTailsYouLose: His fate in a nutshell. With his hand stuck to his neck by Sticky Fingers he has two options; let his power melt his throat for a slow death, or pull the hand away and just tear his own throat out for a quick death.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Had he not started gloating and instead kept going all out while fighting Bucciarati and if he had not accidentally dragged a car underground, he wouldn't have given Bucciarati an opportunity to turn the fight around; later on, Bucciarati also uses Oasis' ability to melt flesh against him by securing his own hand to his throat, sealing his fate.
* HumanPet: He acts like Cioccolata's loyal dog, even being fed treats by him. It's an act to leech off the mad doctor.
* ImMelting: His ability to turn solid ground into mud also applies to people, [[HoistByHisOwnPetard which also includes himself to his detriment]].
* ImprobableWeaponUser: When he isn't dragging Green Day's victims down to get the mold to germinate, he will spit ''mud'' at his foe. Here's the problem for his opponent, though -- it's only mud when it's within Oasis, the relevant sub-area in this case being Secco's mouth. Once it's fully spit out, it turns ''back'' into rock. ''High-velocity'' spears of rock.
* {{Jerkass}}: Just as big of an ass as his master. He is loud, obnoxious, foul-mouthed and completely indifferent to the innocent lives Cioccolata kills for the sake of his own amusement. His "friendship" with Cioccolata was also just a facade for leeching off of his wealth.
* JustHereForTheFreeSnacks: He says he only joined Cioccolata for the treats, wealth, and participation in the slaughter after the latter dies.
* {{Kiai}}: "OAAAAAAAAAAASIS!!" / [[DubNameChange "SAAANCTUUUARY!!"]]
* KnowNothingKnowItAll: While initially seeming to be an animalistic, simple-minded individual with a somewhat darkly endearing relationship with Ciocolatta. In reality, while he's not nearly as broken and mindless as he let on, in spite of his pretenses otherwise, Secco is foul-mouthed, obnoxious and isn't nearly as a sophisticated word smith or tactical strategist as he believes himself to be.
* LetsGetDangerous: Once Ciocolata dies, he shows he is ''much'' more dangerous and intelligent than he initially appeared.
* LightningBruiser: As Bucciarati notes, Secco is shockingly fast and strong enough to overpower Sticky Fingers in a one-on-one fight and can even increase his speed by bouncing his punches off the pavement with Oasis.
* LogicalWeakness: Oasis turns stone and soil into water in Secco's vicinity, with all the properties it entails so Bucciarati popping a tire underground is far louder due to water transmitting sound better than air or soil, rupturing Secco's eardrums.
* MadEye: His eyes are constantly bugging out.
* AMatchMadeInStockholm: Secco was originally one of [[MadDoctor Cioccolata's]] patients, and now he's his loyal sidekick. Subverted when Secco turns against Cioccolata once the mad doctor dies.
* MeaningfulName: Secco means both "dry" and "slim" or "skinny", in Italian. He ''is'' quite skinny, and his Stand allows him to turn the "dry" soil into a more malleable (and ''swimmable'') substance.
* MysteriousPast: He was once one of Cioccolata's patients, but that's all the information the Boss was able to dig up from his past.
* ObfuscatingInsanity: A downplayed version. The HumanPet schtick is partially a ruse to stay on Cioccolata's good side, but he's still a nut once he learns the latter has died.
* ObfuscatingStupidity: It was just so he could easily tag along with Cioccolata. Once Cioccolata dies and Secco finds he wasn't as strong as he thought, he discards his act of being mindlessly animalistic and reveals himself to be much more cunning and slightly more stable than he let on.
* OpportunisticBastard: Cioccolata is nothing but means to an end to him. As soon as he's killed, he abandons his master's plan to betray the Boss, noting that remaining loyal to Diavolo would be more beneficial for him.
* OverlyLongTongue: No real attention is called to it outside of his bizarre facial expressions, but his tongue is ''disturbingly'' long.
* PsychopathicManchild: He goes into a [[MinorInjuryOverreaction crying fit over Bucciarati drawing blood on his face, despite otherwise being unharmed]].
* RecurringElement: Both he and Ghiaccio. Both are the last of the VillainOfTheWeek group fought in the respective arc before an encounter with Diavolo, and they both have a suit that operates with an element of nature as their Stand -- ice for Ghiaccio and earth for Secco. Both are also rather dangerous foes, with Ghiaccio almost killing Mista in his battle, and Bucciarati having to end up destroying his eardrums (he didn't need his anyways) to cripple Secco.
* RiddleForTheAges: Secco never removes Oasis from his body, so we don't get to see what he looks like without it. Even in flashback when he doesn't have his Stand, his hair and face are covered by a surgical cap and medical mask.
* SandIsWater: Stone is water in his case. His Stand power other than manifesting as armor.
* ScaryTeeth: He has weird and crooked teeth that look very unpleasant.
* SelfDisposingVillain: He threatens to melt Doppio after he's taken him hostage, but Bucciarati punches his arm and he ends up [[HoistByHisOwnPetard using his melting powers on his throat]]. He then promptly trips into a garbage truck, coincidentally the same one Cioccolata's mangled corpse is in.
* ShootTheHostageTaker: When he attempts to use Doppio, unbeknownst to him the SplitPersonality of the Boss, as a HumanShield to ward Bucciarati from attacking him, the latter uses his powers to blast through him and sew his wrists to his throat, causing him to slowly melt to death by his own power.
* SirSwearsALot: Easily one of the most foul-mouthed members of Passione.
* SmallRoleBigImpact: Secco isn't around for too long and mostly exists to slow the heroes down alongside Cioccolata, but his fight with Bucciarati damages the capo so badly that his body begins to shut down, allowing for [[spoiler:Diavolo to use him to get close enough to Polnareff and kick off the final battle.]]
* SmarterThanYouLook: He's quick enough to notice Bucciarati's immunity to Cioccolata's mold despite having dropped to a lower altitude, and then immediately questions whether if it would have any effect on Notorious B.I.G if it was alive or not.
** Additionally, his personality once Cioccolata dies, reveals itself to be less animalistic than he let on and is actually very cunning with his powers, but [[SmugSnake not to the extent he thinks he is]].
* SmugSnake: Once he reveals he was faking his animalistic personality, he reveals himself to be a very cunning fighter able to use his power in a variety of ways who believes himself to be much smarter than he actually is. Notably, he believed he's figured out Bucciarati's plan to disable him in order to counter it when in reality, he only figured it out '''after the plan had commenced'''.
* SocialDarwinist: Secco reveals himself to be this in the Oasis half of the ''Green Day and Oasis'' fight after Cioccolata dies. Secco was perfectly happy to act subservient to Cioccolata because he was strong and smart, but the second he loses, Secco tosses him aside and considers him a loser.
* SpeakIllOfTheDead: Once Cioccolata dies first, Secco's reaction is to callously mock his former associate for being weak. [[UngratefulBastard This is in spite of Cioccolata giving him sweets and treating him much better than he would anyone else in the organization]].
* SpeechImpediment: In the anime, he speaks with a slight stutter.
* SpitefulSpit: When he finds out his master Cioccolata has been killed, he starts furiously ranting about how weak the doctor is and spits on the camera he was using to record the murders from Green Day.
* TheSpook: Nothing about his identity is known. Nobody in Passione (even the Boss) has any idea where he came from, only that he ended up on Cioccolata's table at one point and somehow hit it off with the mad doctor well enough that he made Secco his subordinate. Even his appearance is unknown, as nearly his entire body is covered up by Oasis.
* TheStarscream: ZigZagged. Though he's revealed to be disdainful of Cioccolata and feigned his loyalty, he only does that when he discovered Cioccolata was dead and up till then was fine serving under him as he believed Cioccolata was powerful. It's played straighter when he continues his pursuit of the Boss' weakness as Secco explicitly states his intentions to use it to overthrow him.
* SuperSpit: Even if he's spitting concrete at his opponents, it really shouldn't be as lethal as it would normally be. He's also ridiculously precise with his ability to spit, being able to deflect Mista's bullets at point-blank range and shoot at a sugar cube several feet in the air to disrupt its trajectory and catch it.
* SupportPartyMember: While Oasis is capable of combat itself, Secco's main role is to use Oasis to sink enemies into the ground, in order to increase the effectiveness of Cioccolata's Green Day which functions on altitude.
* SweetTooth: He loves sugar cubes, which Cioccolata uses to treat him for doing a good job.
* SycophanticServant: An idolizing, almost pet-like sidekick to Cioccolata. It's an act to be able to enjoy watching Cioccolata's depravity firsthand, along with getting a cut of the profits.
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Secco ''loves'' sugar cubes. Cioccolata keeps a box of them on him to treat Secco whenever he feels he deserves it.
* TogetherInDeath: Secco stumbles into and dies in the same garbage truck Cioccolata's corpse is in.
* UndignifiedDeath: Bucciarati uses Sticky Fingers to zipper his hand to his neck, [[HoistByHisOwnPetard causing it to melt into mud]]. He then stumbles into the road trying to find a way to escape and trips into the same garbage truck Cioccolata fell into, spending his last few moments of life gurgling Cioccolata's name as he, presumably, bleeds out and[=/=]or is crushed to death by the truck's trash compactor with little fanfare.
* UngratefulBastard: Despite Cioccolata having treated him with candy, money, and overall better treatment than anyone else in Passione would give him, Secco says he couldn't care less if he was felled. Of course, Secco was also one of Cioccolata's previous victims that he grew attached to, so he's justified in not caring about the mad doctor's fate.
* TheUnreveal: We never get to see what Secco looks like without his Stand on, since he never takes it off.
* VagueAge: While Secco is at least an adult, his entire face and body being covered makes it difficult to tell how old he is.
* VillainousBreakdown: He completely loses it after Bucciarati popped his eardrums, trying to delude himself that he didn't fall for the ploy, still has working ears, and will totally stop this from happening any second now.
* YesMan: To Cioccolata. It's only to be able to participate in the slaughter, ''not'' out of prior emotional attachment. And for the money and sugar cubes.

!!Minor Passione Members

[[folder:Leaky-Eye Luca]]
!!Leaky-Eye Luca
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/DaikiHamano (TV anime, JP), Matthew David Rudd (TV anime, EN)
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->''"The hell is this? A family photo? I ''know'' you're holding out on me, so fork over the cash right now, blondie!"''

Technically the first enemy Giorno meets, Luca tries to mug the protagonist. Quickly dies due to Gold Experience, but his defeat is what calls Bucciarati over to investigate Giorno. Technically, he didn't really "die" from Gold Experience -- he actually dies when the Boss ruthlessly orders him to be dismantled and have his body parts used for scare tactics on Giorno.
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* AssholeVictim: He's a nasty piece of work, so his grisly fate on the Boss' order was pretty well-deserved.
* BadPeopleAbuseAnimals: He uses his shovel to smash a frog created by Gold Experience. Unfortunately for him, all damage dealt to Gold Experience's lifeforms reflects back onto whoever dealt it, resulting in Luca knocking himself out.
* BaitTheDog: The anime adds in an introductory scene where he gives his EstablishingCharacterMoment. After threatening to beat up a taxi driver for not paying him his fees, the driver tells him he's trying to support his family. Without the context, it appears he's shedding a tear for him, [[MoodSwinger only to immediately get enraged and hit him with his shovel]]. [[KickThemWhileTheyreDown Even after hearing from him about Giorno doing the same thing he was, he wasn't finished yet]].
* TheCameo: In the anime adaptation of ''Stone Ocean'', during the opening, his shovel appears for a split second in the montage of objects from past parts.
* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: He's the only member of Passione other than Pericolo who doesn't have a Stand or seem to know about the existence of Stands, which seems to go against Polpo's entry test. It's possible he is intended to be a low level enforcer who doesn't need to know about Stands, but no members like that in Passione are shown for comparison.
* EvilSoundsDeep: He has a low, imposing voice.
* EyeScream: The origin of his nickname. Luca got stabbed in the face before the series began, and though the wound did heal, it damaged his right eye in such a way that it's always shedding a tear.
* FauxAffablyEvil: He seems to be a reasonable person with how he talks friendship, but he hides a lot of jackassery.
* HiddenDisdainReveal: In the Sleeping Slaves [[HowWeGotHere prologue-of-an-epilogue]], Narancia states upon receiving news of Luca's death that he always hated him. While Bucciarati tells him not to say such things out loud in the gangsters' world, it can be easily assumed that he shared the same feelings, as Luca sold drugs to children.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Attacks a frog created by Gold Experience with a shovel, causing him to cave in his own skull when the attack is reflected back at him.
* {{Jerkass}}: When a frog jumps on Giorno (created by his Stand, but Luca doesn't know that), he orders Giorno to step on it for no reason other than to be an asshole, and then tries to kill it himself (this backfires horribly). It's also revealed later on that he sold drugs to children.
* MuggingTheMonster: To be fair, he had no idea what he was getting into when he attempted to mug Giorno. And he doesn't even have a Stand.
* {{Muggle}}: One of the few members of Passione to not have a Stand.
* NamedAfterTheInjury: Is named after his right eye, which constantly leaks due to an injury.
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: His name and injured eye suggest he's based on the 30s Sicilian-American gangster "Lucky" Luciano.
* RedRightHand: His right eye constantly tears up because of an eye injury in the past.
* ShovelStrike: His weapon of choice when confronting Giorno, which has the letters [[UsefulNotes/TheRomanRepublic SPQR]] (''Senatus populusque Romanus'') emblazoned on it.
* SlainInTheirSleep: Sometime after Gold Experience's attack rendered him comatose, the Boss has him killed so that his body parts can be used to intimidate Giorno.
* SmallRoleBigImpact: He dies in the very same chapter he's introduced, but it's because of his death that Bucciarati tracks down Giorno to get the identity of his murderer out of him. His body is also torn apart on the Boss' order, which is the very first hint that the Boss is a fan of unnecessary cruelty.
* SmarterThanYouLook: Implied -- he seems like just another low-life thug, but his membership in Passione despite his lack of a Stand implies that he was able to pass Polpo's test by somehow keeping the lighter lit for 24 hours.
* WhoMurderedTheAsshole: According to Bucciarati, Luca's unpleasantness made him many enemies that would have wanted him dead.
* ZeroEffortBoss: Giorno didn't need to lift a finger to beat him. In fact, he ends up knocking himself out by accident.

[[folder:Mario Zucchero]]
!!Mario Zucchero (Stand: [[PopGoesTheHuman Soft Machine]])
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Shinya Takahashi (TV anime, JP), Creator/AleksLe (TV anime, EN), Creator/RyuzouIshino (''Vento Aureo'' video game)

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A greedy member of Passione who attacks Bucciarati's gang while they are on their ship. He actually manages to catch everyone but Bucciarati, but is stopped through the abilities of Moody Blues and Sticky Fingers.
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His Stand, Soft Machine (named after Music/SoftMachine), can literally deflate objects or people by stabbing them, reducing them to paper-thin husks. It also gives Zucchero the ability to deflate himself.
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* AdaptationDyeJob: The colored manga gives him silver hair, while the anime gives him lime green hair.
* AnimeHair: It looks like the inside of a snail shell.
* BoringButPractical: Soft Machine's ability to deflate its user as well as anything it punctures isn't very visually impressive, but it makes the Stand perfectly suited to infiltration and assassination.
* BrainsAndBrawn: The Brawn to Sale's Brains.
* CloseRangeCombatant: While Soft Machine's deflation power is devastating -- one poke and you're not fighting anymore, and very much at Zucchero's mercy -- it has ''terrible'' range. This is why Zucchero takes pains to first corner enemies in a narrow space, so they won't have time to dodge the stabs.
* ColdBloodedTorture: Suffers this at the hands of Giorno's group after his defeat. It involves a fishhook, glasses, and getting sectioned by Sticky Fingers. He was also then left on the boat after his partner's defeat.
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Zucchero isn't exactly BookSmart, but he still managed to pose a significant threat to Bucciarati and his team, picking off five out of the six members one by one all by himself and deliberately leaving the leader for last, so that he could interrogate him about the location of Polpo's treasure while using his men as hostages.
* DeathByAdaptation: He and Sale [[TheBusCameBack return]] in ''Literature/PurpleHazeFeedback'', tasked by Giorno to accompany Fugo in infiltrating the Narcotics Division's warehouse. [[spoiler:However, following Sale's death at the hands of Vittorio Cataldi, Zucchero is kidnapped by the Narcotics Division and gets [[JackBauerInterrogationTechnique brutally interrogated]] by their leader, [[BigBad Massimo Volpe]]. Once Massimo is [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness done using him]], he uses Manic Depression to increase Zucchero's blood pressure, causing his body to gradually inflate until his bones turn to dust and kill him.]]
* DeviousDaggers: His [[FightingSpirit Stand]], Soft Machine, wields a strange knife that looks like either a very short rapier or an oversized thumbtack, and which has the ability to deflate whatever it stabs. Using this ability, Zucchero deflates his own body and pulls off a clever trick to sneak around a boat[[note]]by deflating another boat of the same model and overlaying it over the other, he was able to move his flattened body between the two layers and hide his victims there[[/note]], incapacitating and abducting the heroes one by one before Bucciarati finally figures it out and manages to defeat him.
* TheDitz: He's fairly air-headed and careless, having short-sighted dreams and being seemingly unable to focus on several things at once (see DrivesLikeCrazy below). [[CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass Don't underestimate him in a fight, though.]]
* DriverFacesPassenger: PlayedForLaughs during his conversation with Sale about Polpo's death and supposed money where he does this for extended periods of time, to Sale's dismay.
* DrivesLikeCrazy: Zucchero can drive just fine, but he ''doesn't keep an eye on the damn road'' when he's in a conversation (one of the most mundane yet idiotic mistakes a driver can make), meaning Sale has to tell him when he's drifting into other lanes or about to hit a red light. He also leaves the car ''while it's in motion'' mid-conversation.
* DubNameChange: His Stand is renamed to "Tender Machine" in official English translations.
* DumbMuscle: His Stand power makes his a formidable foe, but he doesn't have much going on upstairs. While his strategy of using Soft Machine to overlay one boat with another to give himself effectively infinite points of ambush was inspired, he still abandoned his partner mid-conversation in a car ''he was driving'' and thought that Bucciarati, a hardened mafioso, would be unable to act if his teams lives were threatened.
* EdibleThemeNaming: "Zucchero" is sugar.
* EvilDuo: The self-indulgent, brutish Id to Sale's cold, ambitious Superego.
* EyeScream: As part of his torture, he gets his eyelid held open by a fishhook and has his right eye burned by the sun magnifying light into his sclera. Mista threatens to burn his other eye in the same way if he doesn't cooperate.
* FauxAffablyEvil: His politeness oozes with nothing more than sarcasm.
* IHaveYourWife: He tries to get Bucciarati to reveal the location of Polpo's money by taking his men hostage and threatening to kill them if he doesn't cooperate. [[WrongGenreSavvy It doesn't go well.]]
* TheHedonist: His plan for Polpo's 5 billion? Blowing it all on expensive trips to Monaco or Japan and women.
* ImprobableWeaponUser: Soft Machine wields a strange weapon that can be interpreted as either a very short rapier or an ''oversized thumbtack'' (which would be fitting with its ability to deflate its victims like a thumbtack can deflate a balloon).
* LosingYourHead: After he's defeated, Bucciarati uses Sticky Fingers to unzip his neck, effectively separating his head from his body while keeping him alive. The head is then subjected to a CoolAndUnusualPunishment.
* OddNameOut: One of only three antagonists [[note]]the others being Vinegar Doppio and Risotto Nero[[/note]] in ''Golden Wind'' to be given a full name. This is especially odd, considering he was only a minor antagonist, while the other two are the underboss of Passione and the leader of La Squadra, respectively.
* OneSteveLimit: Averted, he shares his first name (Mario) with the father of Caesar Zeppeli / son of Will Zeppeli featured in Part 2.
* RedOniBlueOni: The hot-blooded, impulsive, hedonistic Red to Sale's exasperated, cautious, cunning Blue.
* SirSwearsalot: Zucchero's language as he faces Bucciarati is... colorful, even by Part 5 standards.
* SmugSnake: He's ''really'' full of himself, taunting and insulting Bucciarati who he completely underestimates, before suffering a [[LosingYourHead humiliating defeat]] at his hands.
* WrongGenreSavvy: He slowly picks off each of Bucciarati's team one by one in surprise ambushes and uses them as hostages when the chips are down and Bucciarati has removed his means of obscuring himself. If this had been any of the previous parts, his threat might have held weight, but Bucciarati's a hardened gangster who isn't the type to falter under that kind of pressure.

[[folder:Sale]]
!!Sale (Stand: [[AttackReflector Kraft Work]])
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/KaitoIshikawa (TV anime, JP), Creator/AlejandroSaab (TV anime, EN), Creator/HidenobuKiuchi (''Vento Aureo'' video game)

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Zucchero's partner, he attacked the gang when they arrived at Capri Island.\\\
His Stand, Kraft Work (named after Music/{{Kraftwerk}}), can remove the kinetic energy from objects, locking them in place. Stopped objects can then accumulate kinetic energy, shooting out with built-up speed once Sale releases his ability.
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* AdaptationDyeJob: His eyes are blue in the manga, instead of the magenta of the anime version.
* AmbitionIsEvil: He and Mario discuss their plans for Polpo's treasure, and while Mario thinks of all the things he can spend the money on, Sale simply states he'll give it to the gang to RankUp, stating that's where the real wealth and power will be.
* AnimeHair: From the front, Sale's hair looks more like a big, orange spider is just residing on his scalp, with the way that multiple locks droop over the sides of his head.
* AttackReflector: One of the truly scary things he can do with guns is, once Kraft Work's stilled the bullets, ''tap'' the bullet with his own finger to add potential kinetic energy. Once enough is stored, Sale can release the bullet, ''back toward the poor sap who shot at Sale''.
* BoomHeadshot: On the receiving end of this on two occasions. Only the second one does him in (momentarily).
* BrainsAndBrawn: The Brains to Zucchero's Brawn.
* ChewingTheScenery: His dub actor is clearly having the time of his life voicing him.
* DeadpanSnarker: A good amount of his fight is spent with him snarking at Mista.
-->'''Sale:''' ''(after pointing out that Mista is out of bullets)'' I have nothing to worry about [[CallBack if I get close enough]] [[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureStardustCrusaders to beat the shit out of you]], do I?!
* DeathByAdaptation: He and Zucchero [[TheBusCameBack return]] in ''Literature/PurpleHazeFeedback'', tasked by Giorno to accompany Fugo in infiltrating the Narcotics Division's warehouse. [[spoiler:However, when they're confronted by Vittorio Cataldi and Angelica Attanasio, Sale is put into a trance by Angelica's Night Bird Flying, and while he manages to [[CurbStompCushion get a hit in on Vittorio]], he then uses Dolly Dagger to [[{{Synchronization}} reflect the damage]] back at him, killing Sale instantly.]]
* {{Determinator}}: He ''really'' wants those ten billion, and proves to be incredibly stubborn and resilient during his fight with Mista. Even getting shot multiple times (including in the [[BoomHeadshot head]], [[ImpromptuTracheotomy neck]] and inside the mouth) and thrown off a moving truck doesn't get him to back down.
* DidntSeeThatComing: Mista admitting that he only had one bullet left, then seemingly wasting it on a useless shot at Sale, was enough to briefly direct his attention away from the bullet he was loading up with kinetic energy, which resulted in the Sex Pistols sneaking up on Sale and sending the bullet back to him as soon as he shot it, hitting him in the head point-blank and knocking him out.
* DubNameChange: His Stand is renamed to "Arts and Crafts" in official English translations.
* EdibleThemeNaming: To complement Zucchero's sugar, "Sale" is Italian for salt.
* EvilDuo: The cold, ambitious Superego to Zucchero's self-indulgent, brutish Id.
* EvilRedhead: He's a ginger, and a Passione member who has no qualms about killing anyone who gets in his way.
* TheFaceless: Sale is the first of many Passione members introduced with only a full body featureless silhouette in order to add some mystery to him. The anime downplays this, making him completely visible for his debut scene barring his HiddenEyes.
* FatalFlaw: His arrogance and tunnel vision. He thinks his Stand is invincible and gets a little too comfortable once he thinks he has the definite upper hand on his opponent, a fact Mista exploits to trick him into letting his guard down and defeat him.
* FauxAffablyEvil: Just like his partner, his politeness is blatant sarcasm and condescension.
* FieryRedhead: A ginger with a nasty temper and [[{{Determinator}} endless determination]].
* FloatingPlatforms: Via FrozenFoePlatform: Kraft Work's ability to stop things allows for turning individual pieces of gravel into makeshift platforms.
* FrozenFoePlatform: Kraft Work has the power to freeze small objects in position relative to other objects. One of his many uses for this power is to throw a handful of gravel and freeze it in midair, creating a 'ladder' of FloatingPlatforms that allow him to climb a sheer cliff face.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Tries to use one of Mista's bullets against him once Mista runs out of ammo. But doesn't see Sex Pistol on his hand till it's too late. By that point, he's released the bullet and Sex Pistol kick it back at him. He tries to block it but the bullet splits and one of the pieces flies into a bullet wound that Mista managed to make earlier. Pushing a previous bullet that he barely stopped further into his head which takes him out.
* ImpromptuTracheotomy: Mista shoots him in the neck during their fight. It doesn't deter him.
* LeanAndMean: Sale is particularly thin and wiry even by Part 5 standards, and he's aggressive, cocky and condescending.
* LogicalWeakness: As Mista points out, the bullets Sale gets shot with stay affixed to his skin, and can be pushed further into his body when applied proper strength. This is especially dangerous if said bullets are located in a sensitive area like the neck or head.
* LongRangeFighter: [[ZigZaggingTrope Zigzagged]]. Despite his Stand being short-range, Sale himself seems to prefer avoiding getting close to his enemies unless he's certain they can't harm him, instead using Kraft Work's kinetic abilities to attack from a distance or immobilize his opponent.
* MadeOfIron: Even getting a bullet inside his brain doesn't kill him!
* MajorInjuryUnderreaction: Justified since his Stand can turn would-be fatal injuries into survivable ones, but there's still something [[{{Pun}} bizarre]] about seeing a guy who was just shot in vital places react by groaning "Ow", insulting Mista for shooting him ''again'', then resuming what he was doing.
* MeaningfulName: His name is the Italian word for "salt".
** Salt is used as a preservative; Sale's Stand can "preserve" anything it touches by keeping it in a frozen position.
** Sale's greed and ambition might be a nod to the historical connection of salt to money and currency.
* NighInvulnerability: As far as he's concerned, he's this because his Stand can alter the velocity of ''anything'' it touches so that it stands still with respect to him. This includes ''bullets'' and, unfortunately, Mista uses them.
* RedOniBlueOni: The exasperated, cautious, cunning Blue to Zucchero's hot-blooded, impulsive, hedonistic Red.
* SmallNameBigEgo: Downplayed. He's a self-admitted small-time thug among Passione's ranks (though he [[AmbitionIsEvil dreams of]] [[RankUp making it big]]), but he seems to regard others (including his partner Zucchero) as beneath him, and while he ''is'' a skilled Stand user, he's nowhere near as invincible as he makes himself out to be.
* SmugSnake: His gloating and trashtalking end up leading to his demise during a fight he was actually winning.
* SteppingStonesInTheSky: He does this with a couple of rocks that were falling, removing their kinetic energy and leaving them fixed in the air for him to hop across.
* TheStoic: Subverted. He maintains an air of rigid discipline and seriousness around [[TheHedonist Zucchero]], but as soon as his partner gets captured and [[NotSoStoic he starts]] [[SmugSnake fighting solo...]]
* SymbolMotifClothing: His wristbands and pants have green stars on them.
* TwistedAnkle: Mista shoots him in the leg as he's running away, forcing him to take refuge on top of a truck.

!Others

[[folder:Giorno's Mother]]
!!Giorno's Mother
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Mariko Higashiuchi (TV anime, JP), Jade Dennis (TV anime, EN)

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A Japanese woman that had a one-night stand with DIO and then went to live in Italy, where she married a local man. She was quite distant and neglectful to Giorno.
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* AbusiveParents: She was a distant parent to Giorno and barely cared about him. According to ''Over Heaven'', DIO chose women with black hearts to reproduce since they were the complete opposite of his mother, and he thought the offspring would be strong-willed.
* BeautyIsBad: The narration comments that she was beautiful, but far from an ideal mother.
* EveryoneHasStandards: {{Implied}}. Her husband only abused Giorno when she wasn't looking, implying [[MamaBear she wouldn't stand for that]] at the very least.
* HardDrinkingPartyGirl: She loved to party, drink, and go out to bars. When her friend was concerned about her leaving her son home alone, she flippantly responded that she wasn't going to lose her freedom just because she now had a child.
* HateSink: She is a neglectful mother that chose to party and is shown to not care too much in such a way that even fans joke about showcasing their hate.
* TheHedonist: She cared more about partying and going out to bars than raising her son.
* ItsAllAboutMe: When asked about leaving Giorno, still a little child in his crib alone in her apartment, her response is that she's not going to waste away her youth raising him.
* {{Jerkass}}: She's overall neglectful, hedonistic and overall selfish - not batting an eye on her lack of association to Giorno.
* KarmaHoudini: {{Implied}}. While her husband and her son's bullies were intimidated by the unnamed gangster into treating Giorno decently, she seems to have completely gotten away with neglecting her son.
* LackOfEmpathy: She left an infant Giorno alone in her apartment while she went out.
* MakeupIsEvil: In the anime, there is a scene of her putting on lipstick and eyeshadow while partying with her friends, not caring that her baby son is at home in his crib, all alone, trembling because he's learned that it's useless to cry for his mother.
* NoNameGiven: As a result of only appearing briefly in a flashback, her name is never revealed. Her last name is presumably Shiobana, but there's no indication what her first name is.
* OneNoteCook: According to ''Literature/PurpleHazeFeedback'', when Giorno was a child, she never made anything for dinner except ''yakitori'' (grilled chicken on skewers).
* ParentalNeglect: She willingly left Giorno alone to gallivant with her friends with no concern for his well-being -- while the boy was a ''toddler'' -- traumatizing the youth.
* SmallRoleBigImpact: In spite of being a character in Giorno's flashback; her decisions to not raise him and marry an abusive {{Jerkass}} led to Giorno becoming good at reading others and meeting the gangster that would influence his future. On a broader scale in the overall saga, she [[{{Foreshadowing}} showed that DIO had multiple children with several women during his time after coming back in the late 1980s]]. [[Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureStoneOcean Some becoming significant enemies in the next part.]]
* TrashOfTheTitans: When Giorno was little, his mother's apartment in Japan was very small and had trash scattered everywhere.
* YouWillBeSpared: DIO always saw women as mere tools or food, but he spared her life for unknown reasons, allowing her to give birth to their son.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Giorno's Stepfather]]
!!Giorno's Stepfather
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Hinata Tadokoro (TV anime, JP), DW [=McCann=] (TV anime, EN)

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An Italian man who married Giorno's mother when the boy was four.

* AbusiveParents: He beat Giorno with a belt when his mother wasn't watching.
* AdaptationDyeJob: His hair is reddish in the colored manga, but brown in the anime.
* AffectionateGestureToTheHead: He rubs Giorno's head while inviting him to be in the family's wedding photograph.
* BaitTheDog: At first he seems like a kindly man, inviting little Giorno to come stand in the photos at his and his wife's wedding, and patting his head. Then, cut to him beating Giorno with a belt.
* BitchInSheepsClothing: He would act like a caring stepfather to Giorno when his wife was around, but would then beat him when he was in a bad mood.
* BriefcaseFullOfMoney: In flashback, he is seen counting a stack of money from a large briefcase with a greedy expression, implying he may have been involved in something illegal. However, this is never elaborated upon.
* EvilCannotComprehendGood: At some point, the mysterious gangster approaches him and does something to make him stop hurting Giorno. The next time Giorno's stepfather is about to hit him, he suddenly stops, remembering this, and mutters to himself, "Why does he care so much about Giorno?"
* FauxAffablyEvil: He pretends to care about Giorno after marrying his mom, but then proves himself to be an AbusiveParent extraordinaire, still acting as affable as ever while he's beating Giorno within an inch of his life.
* KarmaHoudini: Aside from being intimidated out of beating Giorno by the mysterious gangster, he doesn't appear to have received any other retribution.
* NoNameGiven: His name is not given in either the manga or anime, although it's possible that Giorno's last name of Giovanna comes from him.
* SmallRoleBigImpact: He only appears in flashback, but his marriage to Mrs. Shiobana is the sole reason that Giorno lives in Italy.
* WickedStepfather: A rare male example. He married Giorno's mother long after DIO conceived him, and went on to be the biggest source of Giorno's childhood misery due to his mother not being there to put a stop to her husband's abuse of her son.
* WouldHurtAChild: When Giorno was very little, his stepfather would viciously thrash him with a belt just for looking at him and trying to figure out what mood he was in.

[[folder:Jotaro Kujo]]
!!Jotaro Kujo (Stand: Star Platinum: The World)
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/DaisukeOno (TV anime, JP), Creator/MatthewMercer (TV anime, EN), Creator/TetsuInada (''Vento Aureo'' video game)
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/jotaro_part_5.png]]

A marine biologist responsible for the death of DIO Brando. Catching sight of the existence of DIO's son, he sends Koichi Hirose as a liaison to investigate Giorno.

->See [[Characters/JoJosBizarreAdventureJotaroKujo Jotaro Kujo]] for tropes on him

[[folder:Koichi Hirose]]
!!Koichi Hirose (Stand: Echoes)
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/YuukiKaji (TV anime, JP), Creator/ZachAguilar (TV anime, EN), Creator/RioNatsuki (''Vento Aureo'' video game)
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[[caption-width-right:300:[[labelnote:Echoes Act 3]]\\
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An 18-year-old high school student from the town of Morioh-cho in Japan, he's sent to Italy by Jotaro Kujo to investigate Giorno and see if he's trustworthy.

->See [[Characters/JoJosBizarreAdventureDiamondIsUnbreakableHeroes Diamond is Unbreakable: Heroes]] for tropes on him

[[folder:Giorno's Hero]]
!!Giorno's Hero
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Hiroshi Shirokuma (TV anime, JP), Creator/ArmenTaylor (TV anime, EN)

[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/giornos_hero_anime.png]]

->''"I'll never forget what you did for me."''

A mobster who was saved by an adolescent Giorno and in turn, inspired him to become the person he is.

* AmbiguouslyEvil: While he was helpful to Giorno by making the boy's life easier through his influence after being saved by the boy out of gratitude, was against Giorno joining the mafia, and despises drug dealers much like how Giorno would later become, he was still a gangster willing to kill anyone involved in the drug trade, regardless of whether or not they have loving families.
* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: Despite playing a big part in Giorno's backstory and shaping his personal beliefs, the mysterious mobster doesn't appear anywhere else in the story outside of flashbacks to Giorno's past.
* CruelToBeKind: The narrator suggests that his cold attitude toward Giorno was meant to discourage him from joining the mafia.
* DoNotDoThisCoolThing: InUniverse. He was strongly opposed to Giorno joining the mafia for his own safety. And while initially he initially joined Passione to destroy it from the inside, after [[spoiler:the defeat of Diavolo]], Giorno [[spoiler:secretly usurped the vacant position of Don and sought to return the organization back to the traditional values of TheMafia.]]
* EvenEvilHasStandards: He may be a ruthless mafioso, but he won't tolerate drug dealing.
* GoodIsNotNice: He's undoubtedly not a bad person, with his decision to repay his debt to Giorno, but he won't tolerate scum. This extends to murdering the father of a young boy because that man sold drugs in the neighborhood.
* HiddenEyes: His eyes are never seen, always obscured by shadows.
* IOweYouMyLife: Giorno leads the men who would've finished him off away from his injured body. For this, he helps Giorno get by with his [[DarkAndTroubledPast horrendous childhood]].
* MysteriousBenefactor: After Giorno saved him, he secretly went out of his way to make the boy's life easier and kindled Giorno's love for his neighborhood and his desire to better it. He stopped Giorno's stepfather from beating him (implied to be through intimidation), told the owner of a gelato shop Giorno and his Hero went to to give the boy extra ice cream scoops free of charge, and put in a good word with the other children in the neighborhood so they'd start treating him nicely, to the point where they even began saving him a seat at the local cinema.
* NervesOfSteel: He doesn't even flinch when a kid who's father he killed has a gun pointed straight at him.
* NoNameGiven: His name is never revealed in the short screen time he has. The anime only credits him as "[[LetXBeTheUnknown Man X]]" ("Mr. X" in the English dub).
* PapaWolf: [[IOweYouMyLife In return for being protected by Giorno]], he protected Giorno from afar, stopping his stepfather from beating him.
* SmallRoleBigImpact: Never makes an appearance in the present day, only flashbacks to years ago, but his presence singlehandedly shaped Giorno into the person he is (and prevented him from becoming the [[LikeFatherLikeSon same kind of man as his biological father]]). In the anime, what's shown of his personality heavily suggests Giorno grew up to emulate his [[PayEvilUntoEvil sense of justice]], in a similar manner to Josuke Higashikata and his own hero.
* StealthPun: This man is a gangster and a father figure for Giorno. As in, a Godfather.
* TheUnapologetic: When he is confronted by the young son of a man he killed, he doesn't try to excuse what he did, saying the guy deserved it because he was a scumbag drug dealer that even sold to women and children.
* UncertainDoom: Even after joining a branch of TheMafia in Passione himself, Giorno never encounters his Hero at all during the main plot. Given that by the story's time, drug peddling is active even in Passione's circles, it's possible that his anti-drug stance wound up getting him killed by rival, or even fellow gangsters at some point after Giorno last saw him.

[[folder:Paolo Bucciarati]]
!!Paolo Bucciarati
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Shinnosuke Ogami (TV anime, JP), Creator/ArmenTaylor (TV anime, EN)

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Bruno's father, a Neapolitan fisherman.
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* BigOlEyebrows: He has some pretty thick eyebrows.
* GoodParents: He loved his son very much and hoped that Bruno would be able to go to a nice school in the city, so he worked hard to afford the tuition. Sadly, that did not happen.
* HeKnowsTooMuch: When he accidentally witnessed a drug deal by two tourists, they shot him seven times to keep him from going to the police.
* NamedByTheAdaptation: The manga doesn't mention his first name, but the anime puts it on his tombstone.
* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: He allowed some fishermen to ride his fishing boat to a small islet, but when one of them left his fishing rod behind, Paolo went to return it to them. When he got there, he saw them dealing drugs, and they shot him to keep him from going to the police. Doubly so, because the primary reason he was renting out his fishing boat to tourists was to be able to afford the tuition for his son's school.
* PosthumousCharacter: By the time of the main story, he has been dead for three years.
* SecretlyDying: Despite being saved by his son, he only survives for five more years before dying of complications from his bullet wounds.
* SickbedSlaying: He survived being shot by the tourists who made the drug deal he witnessed, but they came back to his hospital room later that night to finish him off. They would have succeeded, but a 12-year-old Bruno was hiding under the bed waiting for them with a knife and killed them instead.
* TooGoodForThisSinfulEarth: He was a kind man who wanted the best for his family, yet died because of the drug trade.

[[folder:Narancia's Parents]]
!!Narancia's Parents
!!!'''Mela voiced by:''' Serika Hiromatsu (TV anime, JP), Creator/TianaCamacho (TV anime, EN)
!!!'''Narancia's father voiced by:''' N/A

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[[caption-width-right:250: Mela]]
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[[caption-width-right:250: Narancia's Father]]

Narancia's mother and father.
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* FamilyThemeNaming: Mela's name means "apple", while her son's name combines the Spanish and Italian words for "orange".
* KarmaHoudini: As far as we know, Narancia's father never received any retribution for being a terrible parent.
* LackOfEmpathy: Narancia's father showed little reaction to his wife's death and did not care about his son running away from home.
* NamedByTheAdaptation: The manga doesn't mention the first name of Narancia's mother, but the anime puts it on her tombstone as Mela.
* ParentalNeglect: After Mela's death, Narancia's father stopped caring about him, leading to the boy dropping out of school and running away from home to hang out with his friends. This would lead to Narancia eventually ending up in juvenile hall after being framed by one of his friends for committing a crime.
* SayMyName: In the anime, Mela only says a single word, whispering "Narancia..." on her deathbed.
* UnnamedParent: Narancia's father is not given a first name in either the manga or anime.
* TheVoiceless: In the anime, Narancia's father doesn't have any dialogue.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: In the present day, Mr. Ghirga's status is unknown. Presumably, he didn't care too much about his son running off to join the mafia.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Narancia's Friend]]
!!Narancia's Friend
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/GakutoKajiwara (TV anime, JP), Creator/ChrisHackney (TV anime, EN)

[[quoteright:349:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/narancia_backstory.jpg]]

An older boy that Narancia was friends with when he was living on the streets.
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* FalseFriend: He pretended to be a big brother-type figure to Narancia and then ruined his life.
* HateSink: Frankly, it's almost impossible not to hate him for being so cruel to Narancia and never suffering any consequences for it.
* KarmaHoudini: He never gets any retribution for framing Narancia and leaving him for dead. The only consolation is that the last we saw of him, he was still living on the streets too, so he's probably not doing that well either (assuming he's still alive).
* KickTheDog: He pretended to be Narancia's friend and tricked him into dying his hair blonde so he could frame him for beating and robbing an old woman, which got him a year in jail. Then when Narancia got out with an infected eye, he spread the rumor that the younger boy's eye infection had come from his mother and made everyone avoid him. Even worse is that previously Narancia trusted him enough to tell him about his mother's death, only for the older boy to use it against him.
* NoNameGiven: Narancia refers to him as "Aniki" (Japanese) or "Big Bro" (English).
* WouldHarmASenior: He beat up and robbed an elderly woman, then framed Narancia for it.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Anita]]
!!Anita
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/RihoSugiyama (TV anime, JP), Nicole Gose (TV anime, EN)
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/screen_shot_2021_12_04_at_110636_pm.png]]

->''"Some perverted freak just attacked me in my private room! It's because of the shitty cheap locks you put on the doors! I can't believe I paid for this! So!? Are you gonna take responsibility for this, huh!? You better have a lot of money for my restitution! I'll have you bowing down to me so hard, it's gonna leave a mark on your forehead!"''

A random woman who Melone chooses to be the mother of his Stand, Baby Face.
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* AdaptationDyeJob: In the colored manga, her dress is green. In the anime, it's red.
* TheAlcoholic: She is a drinker and smoker, as seen by the wine and cigarettes in her train compartment. Melone is happy about this when he's analyzing her potential as a mother for Baby Face, for some reason.
* AllThereInTheManual: Her name is never spoken out loud and only revealed in the anime's end credits.
* AssholeVictim: In her limited screentime, she quickly establishes herself as a person who won't be missed after Melone kills her. Just a person who [[CruelAndUnusualDeath simply got more than she actually deserved]].
* AttackBackfire: She slaps Melone across the face for breaking into her train compartment and going through her belongings. However, he is pleased by this, taking it as proof that she must be in good health if she's strong enough to deliver such a slap, and licks her hand in a lecherous manner.
* ChildHater: She's particularly angry with a crying child on the train, even though it's understandable that the child would be in tears after the ordeal that they had suffered during The Grateful Dead's attack.
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: She gets disassembled and broken apart into cubes by Baby Face's Junior after giving birth to it.
* DeathByIrony: She apparently hates children but ends up being forced to give birth, and her own child kills her.
* ExpressDelivery: After being impregnated, she gives birth to Baby Face's Junior in only three minutes, without noticing.
* HotBlooded: She's easily angered and prone to yelling at people when she gets mad. Her "son", Baby Face's Junior, inherits that trait from her to the point where it starts disobeying Melone during the fight with Giorno.
* InnocentBystander: She has nothing to do with Passione and just has the bad luck to be on the train when Melone is looking for a woman to bear his Stand's child.
* {{Jerkass}}: She seems to be an unpleasant person, referring to lower-class people as "peasants" and yelling at the train conductor while threatening to sue him because Melone broke into her compartment and harassed her. However, she surely didn't deserve her eventual fate of getting eaten by Baby Face.
* {{Muggle}}: Anita is a random bystander who has no Stand power and only gets involved in the plot because Melone's Stand requires a woman to impregnate in order for it to work.
* NamedByTheAdaptation: The manga only refers to her as "Baby Face's mother", while the anime names her Anita.
* RichBitch: She is first introduced complaining about having to get on a train with "all those peasants". Her family apparently has connections to the police and the government.
* ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections: She tries to threaten Melone by saying her family has connections to the police and government. Unfortunately for her, he doesn't care about that.
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Once she's done giving birth to Baby Face's Junior, Melone has no problem with letting it eat her.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Abbacchio's Partner ('''SPOILERS''')]]
!!Abbacchio's Partner
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Ikuji Nose (TV anime, JP), Jarred Kjack (TV anime, EN)
[[quoteright:331:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/screen_shot_2022_06_12_at_103744_pm.png]]

->''"I believe that the will to seek out the truth is what's important. As long as you have the will to seek it out, then, even if the perp gets away this time, you'll reach your destination eventually, won't you? That's because you're seeking it out. Don't you agree?"''

Abbacchio's coworker from when he was a police officer.
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* AfterlifeWelcome: After Abbacchio is killed by King Crimson, he gets off a bus and finds a police officer investigating a broken glass bottle. He recognizes this man as his coworker from when he was a police officer, who tells him that he has done a fine job and lived an honorable life.
* DeathByOriginStory: When Abbacchio was a cop, he became disillusioned with the corrupt nature of the job and one day took a bribe from a criminal, believing that even if he didn't, the criminal would bribe someone else anyway. Later, upon encountering the same criminal, he threatened to reveal that Abbacchio had taken a bribe from him. During Abbacchio's split second of hesitation, the criminal fired his gun, but Abbacchio's partner [[TakingTheBullet saved him and got shot instead]]. This would lead to Abbacchio getting fired from the police force and eventually joining Passione.
* FairCop: He's a fairly handsome police officer.
* HeroicSacrifice: He saved his partner from getting shot, at the cost of his own life. Although Abbacchio survived, he would lose his job by letting his partner die.
* JacobMarleyApparel: In the afterlife, he appears wearing the police uniform that he died in.
* NoNameGiven: His name is never mentioned in either the manga or anime.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Fugo's Teacher]]
!!Fugo's Teacher
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/JiroSaito (TV anime, JP), Creator/ArmenTaylor (TV anime, EN)

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A law professor who taught at the university that Fugo attended when he was 13. Fugo beat him with a 4-kilogram encyclopedia, leading him to him getting expelled.
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* AdaptationalVillainy: In the manga, he is only mentioned in passing as a victim of Fugo's temper. The anime makes him a straight-up pedophile who molested Fugo and wholeheartedly deserved the savage beating he got.
* DependingOnTheWriter: The exact details of why Fugo beat him with the encyclopedia vary between adaptations.
** In the manga, it is simply mentioned that Fugo lost his temper and beat up the professor, without explaining why.
** The anime heavily implies that he molested Fugo and the boy beat him with the encyclopedia in self-defense.
** In ''Literature/PurpleHazeFeedback'', he mocked Fugo for being upset about his dead grandmother.
* NoSenseOfPersonalSpace: The anime includes some creepy shots of him putting his hands on Fugo's shoulders and whispering in his ear.
* RuleOfSymbolism: In the anime, as Fugo is beating the professor (who molested or "deflowered" him) with the encyclopedia, blood splatters on the nearby wall, including some artwork of a rose.
* SextraCredit: He offered to tell Fugo about what would be on the next test in exchange for sex, and this was the boy's breaking point that led him to beat the professor senseless.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:The Third Party ('''SPOILERS''')]]
!!Jean-Pierre Polnareff (Stand: Silver Chariot)
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/FuminoriKomatsu (TV anime, JP), Creator/DougErholtz (TV anime, EN), Akira Negishi (''Vento Aureo'' video game)
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[[caption-width-right:273:[[labelnote:Chariot Requiem]]\\
https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/d989b8fa_1a06_4662_a81c_8a465588bb37.png[[/labelnote]]]]

An old companion of the Joestar Group, he reemerges in Rome in a weakened state to assist Team Bucciarati in taking down the Boss, seemingly knowledgeable in the secret of the Stand Arrow.
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->See [[Characters/JoJosBizarreAdventureJeanPierrePolnareff Jean-Pierre Polnareff]] for tropes on him
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Scolippi ('''SPOILERS''')]]
!!Scolippi (Stand: [[YouCantFightFate Rolling Stones]])
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/KenjiNojima (TV anime, JP), Creator/DamanMills (TV anime, EN), Creator/HidenobuKiuchi (''Vento Aureo'' video game)
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/scolippi_ref1.png]]
[[caption-width-right:350:[[labelnote:Rolling Stones]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/rolling_rocks.png[[/labelnote]]]]

->''"Wishing for their safety will do nothing. I can only hope that they are sleeping slaves. That's it. Sleeping slaves will eventually awaken to discover some meaning... in their suffering."''

A sculptor who appears in the epilogue flashback, followed by Mista and Bucciarati who believe him to be an enemy Stand user.
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Rolling Stones (named after Music/{{The Rolling Stones|Band}}) is an automatic ranged Stand that operates independently of Scolippi. Its ability is predicting the deaths of people who are fated to die soon. It then tries to forcibly euthanize them. Rolling Stones causes a peaceful, instant death to those who it seeks out.
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* AntiVillain: He bares those who fall to the fate of his Stand no ill will personally, though it still predicts the death of others while also insta-killing anyone it projects who touches it. He has no control over Rolling Stones or who it chooses will die.
* BlessedWithSuck: His Stand shows him how people who get close to him ''die''. If they touch it, it kills them (peacefully). If they avoid it for long enough, they'll be doomed to die a horrible death. There's nothing he can do but try to warn people, and as an automatic Stand it moves on its own, no matter his wishes.
* DubNameChange: His Stand is renamed to "Prophecy Stones" in official English translations.
* EarlyBirdCameo: Not him, but Rolling Stones appears in the first seconds of the "Fighting Gold" OP and is the first Stand seen during the "Modern Crusaders" ED. However, due to a combination of dark lighting, lack of focus on the Stand, and its simple appearance amongst the stone in the ED, one likely would not take notice to it unless already aware of Rolling Stones's existence and significance.
* EdibleThemeNaming: His name is a distortion of "Scaloppine" (small scallops, thinly sliced meat).
* AGoodWayToDie: Rolling Stones induces people into this, such as convincing Scolippi's soon to be ill girlfriend to commit suicide so her organs can later be donated to her father who will suffer the same disease. However, it gives up on chasing Bucciarati after also predicting the deaths of Abbacchio and Narancia. Scolippi reasons their gruesome fates will lead to a worthwhile result in the long run.
* LastEpisodeNewCharacter: He debuts in the final story arc of the Part, a flashback that begins after the climax has concluded.
* MessianicArchetype: Starts with a crown of thorns and gets stigmata over the course of his story. This combines with his general demeanor.
* NonMaliciousMonster: Rolling Stones isn't really evil, and its motive of trying to spare people from dying horrible deaths is noble. The only thing that makes it antagonistic is that it doesn't really give you the option of saying no. When Mista jumps out of a window to break it against the pavement below, it seems to ''save'' him, as he wasn't supposed to die.
* PersonalityPowers: In the same vein as [[Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureDiamondIsUnbreakable the mangaka Rohan Kishibe]] having the power to turn people into books, Scolippi's Stand manifesting as a stone that slowly turns into a statue makes sense since he's a sculptor.
* PostFinalBoss: From our perspective, anyways, as the Sleeping Slaves arc is shown to us after Diavolo has died. In general, Scolippi isn't so much an opponent as his deadly Stand is, and he himself is a NiceGuy.
* WalkingSpoiler: Scolippi is the last character to be introduced in Part 5, and his Stand is very hard to talk about without spoiling which members of Bucciarati's team end up dead.
* YouCantFightFate: [[ZigZaggingTrope Zigzagged.]] Rolling Stones automatically manifests near those it senses will die soon, and even gradually takes the form of what their pose and status will be at death. However, if the one sensed touches it, it will give them another, less futile way to die. The caveat, however, is that the victim still cannot escape their death either way.
[[/folder]]

'''''[[Characters/JoJosBizarreAdventureBattleTendency Battle Tendency]]:''''' [[Characters/JoJosBizarreAdventureJosephJoestar Joseph Joestar]] | [[Characters/JoJosBizarreAdventureKars Kars]]\\

'''''[[Characters/JoJosBizarreAdventureJojolion JoJolion]]:''''' [[Characters/JoJosBizarreAdventureJoJolionTheHigashikataFamily The Higashikata Family]] | [[Characters/JoJosBizarreAdventureToru The Mastermind]]\\

[[folder:Vinegar Doppio]]
!!Vinegar Doppio (Stand: [[CombatClairvoyance Epitaph]])
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/SomaSaito (TV anime, JP and ''[[VideoGame/JoJosBizarreAdventureAllStarBattle All-Star Battle R]]''), Creator/GriffinBurns (TV anime, EN), Creator/AkiraIshida (''[[VideoGame/JoJosBizarreAdventureAllStarBattle All-Star Battle]]'' and ''[[VideoGame/JoJosBizarreAdventureEyesOfHeaven Eyes of Heaven]]''), Creator/MitsuruMiyamoto (''Vento Aureo'' video game)

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[[caption-width-right:285:''"I miss you. It would mean the world if you'd call again... Boss."'']]
[[caption-width-right:285:[[labelnote:Epitaph]]\\
https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/4433d94a_e75a_4fb7_9c44_06d606c587f2.png[[/labelnote]]]]

->''"That's weird. If my phone's broken, how did I talk to the Boss?"''

The underboss of Passione, not that he looks like it or even acts like it. Unlike the other members of Passione, Doppio is overall polite and very loyal and only ever acts like his subordinates when upset. He communicates with Diavolo over telephone... or so he thinks -- anyone observing him will see that he's actually speaking into an ice cream cone, or a frog, or some other strange object. Despite that, he's actually very capable in a battle despite his lack of abilities in combat.

His Stand (named after a song by Music/KingCrimson) is on lend from his boss: Epitaph allows Doppio to see up to ten seconds into the future and then react accordingly, allowing him to change the outcomes as far as who gets hit with what. He can also summon King Crimson's arms for self-defense, but he cannot skip time to his advantage.

Doppio is in reality a split personality of Diavolo, which explains how he can use King Crimson's Epitaph ability. Diavolo remains hidden away in Doppio's subconscious but still pretends to call him on the "phone", directing his actions. Diavolo only shows his true self when Doppio is in danger of revealing his own identity.

* AbsurdlyYouthfulFather: Doppio is technically Trish's father, but barely looks any older than her due to split-personality shenanigans involving him looking 17 and his "true" self being 33.
* AffablyEvil: A pleasant young man who's willing to help total strangers while also simultaneously working for one of the most brutal crime lords in Italy who is slowly poisoning the nation with illegal drugs, on top of being the SplitPersonality of that said crime boss.
* AlasPoorVillain: Doppio is left to die alone in Bucciarati's body to bleed out, waiting for his Boss to reassure him like always and begs for Diavolo to call him.
* AmnesiaLoop: Appears to be the case, and not even Diavolo's fault for once, because Doppio's memory is ridiculously faulty. For example, Diavolo warns Doppio of Risotto Nero, teaches him a strategy to fight him, tells him to investigate the house Donatella lived in, and then hangs up. Doppio then forgets ''in one panel'' that he had the phone conversation and every single order he was given except for the "get within two meters of Risotto and kill him" part. Later on, he sacrifices his current "phone" in order to get an attack in on Risotto, only to realize after his monologue he's phoneless... and again, in one panel, forgets his phone was destroyed and questions why there's a frog filled with razors right in front of him.
* AntiVillain: He'd probably be a pretty nice guy if he wasn't part of Passione and Diavolo's split personality.
* BerserkButton: Just like his Boss, he's not especially fond of having people figuring out his identity. The danger of it being revealed is what triggers his personality switching to Diavolo's.
* BewareTheSillyOnes: You may think he's not much judging by his quirky traits and overall timidness, but once Diavolo takes over he becomes violent and erratic. And even as Doppio, he has no qualms with killing people in cold blood.
* BodyHorror: When he uses Epitaph, the first time it manifests, the smaller face ''visibly grows out of Doppio's forehead''.
* BroughtToYouByTheLetterS: During the Green Day & Oasis arc, he wears a white baseball cap with the letter "D" on it.
* BullyingADragon: Diavolo does not take kindly to those pressuring Doppio, and anyone trying to is in for a [[MuggingTheMonster nasty surprise]]; most notably of all, Diavolo appeared to be forcibly restraining himself from emerging when Secco attempted to take Doppio hostage, then slapped him; the only hint that he was about to turn at that time was his eyes, and his hairstyle slightly unseating itself.
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: At least, to those around him. Whenever he "gets a call" from Diavolo, he practically falls into a trance, stumbling away with a blank expression as he imitates the sound of a phone ringing, only to snap back periodically and question where the noise is supposed to come from.
* CombatClairvoyance: Has a limited version of this granted to him by his boss. Epitaph's ability isn't complete; it can only see specific moments in time as opposed to King Crimson foreseeing everything that happens during the predicted time, and also lacks [=KC's=] ability to remove everyone's perception of the predicted time.
* TheComicallySerious: At one point he has a serious conversation with Diavolo about the traitors...while he's using ice cream as a phone.
* TheConsigliere: This is his official rank in Passione, meaning that he is second only to Diavolo himself. Even though he is fairly capable with a dangerous ability, he is an extremely unusual example of this trope as he appears relatively younger and more naive as opposed to the more hardened but lower-ranked members. What makes it even more unusual is that since Doppio is a split personality of Diavolo, this means that Diavolo in effect served as ''his own Consigliere.''
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Despite being a bit of an idiot and an UnwittingPawn to his own SplitPersonality Doppio was able to cut of Risotto's foot and was able to take him on before Diavolo had to take over showing that he is more dangerous then he initially seems.
* CurtainsMatchTheWindow: In the colored manga, Doppio has pink hair to go with pink eyes. This is only ever played straight, however, when Doppio or Bucciarati control Diavolo's body.
* CuteAndPsycho: He's really scary when he's angry or when Diavolo hijacks the conversation.
* TheDragon: Played with in a few ways: His position is largely assumed and it's only likely that he's the underboss due to Diavolo's care. Although Giorno and his allies planned to overthrow Diavolo, they never targeted Doppio and his authority is never proven because he keeps away from other members of Passione. In fact, despite being one of the few who actually communicates with Diavolo, Risotto Nero had ''no idea'' who he was until Doppio accidentally revealed he was a Stand user. For the most part, he's just Diavolo's gopher. He also ''is'' Diavolo, but doesn't realize it.
* DualAgeModes: From 17-year old into 33-year old Diavolo.
* DubNameChange: In the Italian translation his first name is Aceto, which is actually Italian and is close to the actual Italian surname of "Aceti"[[note]]someone who sells or makes vinegar[[/note]].
* DyingAlone: Is shot and bleeds out waiting for the Boss to call him one last time.
* EarlyBirdCameo: Is the one who orders Squalo and Tiziano to move in on Bucciarati's group in the anime at the end of Episode 21.
* EdibleThemeNaming: "Vinegar", obviously. A "Doppio", on the other hand, is an espresso that by the use of a special coffee filter is twice the size of a regular "solo" espresso.
* EvilCounterpart: He is one to Trish. Both have a deep connection with their team's boss (Doppio to Diavolo, Trish to Bucciarati), have their Stands awakened in the middle of a heated battle with a member of La Squadra, and are central to Diavolo's plans to rid himself of his past. Both resort to disguise to get as far as they do: Trish initially disguises as a janitor before being handed off to Bucciarati's gang, while [[spoiler:Doppio ''[[SplitPersonality is]]'' the disguise for Diavolo to directly get rid of evidence (though Doppio himself is unaware of it).]] Additionally, they both can be considered Diavolo's family: Trish is this by blood, being his illegitimate daughter and all, while Doppio is a metaphorical "son", being mentored to a fault by Diavolo and [[spoiler:being "born" from his consciousness]]. He also resembles what little we see of Diavolo as a young man, giving him and Trish a few physical similarities.
* EyeColourChange: Whenever Diavolo takes over, his eyes go from Doppio's brown to Diavolo's green.
* FightingSpirit: {{Subverted}}. Not only does Doppio not really fight, nor is Epitaph that helpful in attacking, it's never defined as to whether his powers are his or if Diavolo owns King Crimson since Stands are originated from souls and he and Diavolo are two separate ones.
* FishEyes: On-and-off with Diavolo's eyes. This is usually a sign Diavolo is gazing out of Doppio's body and may or may not relate to how much of Doppio is being controlled by Diavolo.
* FriendToAllLivingThings: Doppio shows protectiveness and affection for animals, including frogs and insects.
* GoodEyesEvilEyes: Doppio's irises are pink (brown in the anime) by default. When Diavolo speaks through him or otherwise takes control, they become black (green in the anime) and broken.
** Even in their base form, in the anime, Doppio's eyes never once reflect light. This subtly hints that there's something wrong with him.
* HulkingOut: As Diavolo's right-hand man, he can "channel" King Crimson's powers to see a little bit into the future or to briefly boost his physical parameters (size, strength, etc).
* IWillFightSomeMoreForever: Done during the Risotto Nero fight when Doppio decides to stay and fight while figuring out how to counteract Metallica. Invoked when Diavolo [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere takes back his order to fight and begins yelling at Doppio to run]] and Doppio begins to ''purposefully ignore the advice.''
-->'''Diavolo:''' ''Doppio, get out of there! You're going to be attacked!''
-->'''Doppio:''' But boss... you said... It's better not to move because moving will drain me even more... So, if I don't move, it'll be easier for me... '''[[{{Determinator}} To find out]] [[SuicidalOverconfidence his ability!]]'''
* MadeOfIron: Pun unintended, but, during the Risotto fight he had scissors ''burst from his neck'' and he remained standing and willing to fight!
* MeaningfulName: "Doppio" is Italian for double, which Doppio essentially is to Diavolo.
* MoodSwinger: Doppio can go from submissive and cowardly to violent and vicious in a short matter of time, making him a rather unpredictable person.
* MoralityPet: Probably the only person Diavolo shows any degree of affection too, and he shows a sense of protectiveness whenever Doppio is in trouble. Though considering that they're one and the same person, it could be chalked up to PragmaticVillainy out of self-preservation.
* MuggingTheMonster: Apart from being commonplace in Doppio's life, something Diavolo does try to fix on occasion, Risotto Nero's battle came down to this and Secco randomly chose him to become his hostage as a last-ditch effort.
* MyMasterRightOrWrong: He's a nice person, but the Boss' orders come before anything else. He very likely would have spared the fortune teller he met in his introductory arc had the poor guy not kept prying deeper and deeper into Doppio's true nature.
* ObliviouslyEvil: Unlike his alter-ego who is ObviouslyEvil from the get go, Doppio comes off to both the cast and the audience as too silly and mild-mannered to be a threat, let alone a dangerous mafioso. Which is exactly what Diavolo wants.
* OlderThanTheyLook: Despite looking to be around the protagonists' age, he's actually the SplitPersonality of Diavolo, who is around thirty-three. Many theorize their ages look so different because Doppio is what Diavolo looked like when he was 17–19 and, being a split personality, stopped aging at that point for one reason or another.
* PetTheDog: Normally whenever he needs to take a "call" from Diavolo he will frantically search for the closest "phone" and react violently to anyone near it, accusing them of stealing his "phone" and chase them away. The one time this isn't the case though is when he uses a toy phone on a plane that belongs to a little girl. After he finishes with it, he gives it back to her, thanking her for letting him use it and apologizing for hogging it.
* PlotArmor: Doppio had been on the verge of death two times, once by Risotto Nero and another by Bucciarati. For Risotto, it was just by luck that he had manipulated Narancia's Stand, and for Bucciarati, it was by luck he was mistaken for a civilian and then pressumed to be Trish. It was the second instance that got Diavolo close to Polnareff in the final battle as well. It gets revoked when he gets body swapped due to Chariot Requiem, in which he is then shot and bleeds out not long after.
* PreachersKid: After being born in a women's prison, he/Diavolo was raised by a priest in his mother's hometown of Sardinia.
* ProphecyTwist: Doppio cannot manipulate the future like Diavolo does. If he predicts himself being seriously wounded, the best he can do is brace for impact and try to mitigate the damage. However, there are also times he has ambiguous visions that he is able to turn on his favor.
* PunnyName: Going back on the espresso meaning, to become Diavolo, Doppio ''doubles'' in size.
* RoseHairedSweetie: Played with. Doppio is generally a kind person and willing to help total strangers, who would probably be a straight-up NiceGuy if he wasn't the split personality of a psychotic mafia boss.
* SayingSoundEffectsOutLoud: When he gets a "phone call" from Diavolo, he'll make a ringing noise by going "Dorurururururu..."
* {{Seers}}: The power of Epitaph is that it allows the user to see 10 seconds into the future, with all events [[YouCantFightFate being fated to happen]], but the user can still plan accordingly. Doppio is only granted Epitaph, meaning he has to physically plan out his course of action within the next 10 seconds.
* SeriousBusiness: He can get aggressively intense if he thinks people are preventing him from answering phone calls from Diavolo. Mostly out of loyalty, but partially out of fear.
* ShoePhone: Parodied. Doppio's main form of communication with his boss is supposedly his cell phone. But when it breaks, he starts grabbing random objects and treating them like phones, going so far as to make [[SayingSoundEffectsOutLoud ring tone noises]] himself, while being completely unaware that he's the one making those noises. Among the objects Doppio has used as phones include car charms, toy phones, and frogs. Despite this, Doppio ''is'' able to communicate with the Boss by using these random objects as phones; presumably the only reason this seems to work is because the Boss is his split personality.
* SlipknotPonytail: Played with. Doppio's hair is mostly pinned back in a very elaborate braid or tied back with a scrunchie and, while it doesn't come undone while fighting Risotto, somehow it becomes undone with the simple action of removing his sweater.
* SplitPersonality: To Diavolo, who acts as his SuperPoweredEvilSide.
* TechnicolorEyes: In ''All-Star Battle'', on the other hand, Player 1 colors have Doppio with orange eyes to contrast the purple. His eyes are dulled down into brown in the anime.
* UndyingLoyalty: To Diavolo. Makes sense, seeing how they're the same person, but even when they're in separate bodies does Doppio remain ever loyal to Diavolo. Even when they're not in the same body and Doppio is bleeding out, he's still rooting for Diavolo to win.
* TheUnfought: Doppio isn't ever fought by the heroes, apart having battled Risotto, he has a chance encounter with Bucciarati and Polnareff.
* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: Averted. People who see Doppio talking to himself in these "phones" react like any normal person would.
* VillainProtagonist: Though Doppio's fight with Risotto Nero is a [[EvilVersusEvil villain vs. villain affair]], it's structured from the perspective of Doppio. Doppio fulfills the typical hero role of being outmatched at first and trying to figure out his opponent's Stand ability alongside the audience.
* VoicesAreMental: Played with, since Diavolo technically can alter how any part of Doppio looks and may not just be external.
* WalkingSpoiler: The fact that both he and Diavolo are in fact one and the same person is a major spoiler.
* WouldntHurtAChild: Unlike Diavolo, Doppio is kind to children; he saves a boy from getting hit by a car and politely gives a toy phone back to a little girl after he's finished using it to communicate with his alter-ego (which is notable because he usually gets violent towards people holding his "phones").
* WrongContextMagic: No other character like him and Diavolo exists in the [=JoJo=] universe, with two separate souls and two Stands that have inhabited the same body from birth.
* YouthfulFreckles: Doppio somehow manifests them whenever Diavolo shifts over to him. And neither Diavolo nor Trish have freckles.

[[folder:The New Boss]]

See his page [[Characters/JoJosBizarreAdventureGiornoGiovanna here]].

[[/folder]]

!!Capos

[[folder:Polpo]]
!!Polpo (Stand: [[LivingShadow Black Sabbath]])
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/HideoIshikawa (TV anime, JP), Creator/BrookChalmers (TV anime, EN), Creator/YujiKishi (''Vento Aureo'' video game)
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->''"Conflict's a sport for barbarians. It's a pastime for fools.'' But'', if I, or any of my men, are disrespected, all bets are off, pivello. In the eyes of God, murder is acceptable when one has been disrespected. I'd commit that to memory."''

A higher up, or capo, in Passione. He was entrusted with an Arrow and used it and his Stand to test members coming into the gang by ordering an impossible task of keeping a lighter lit for a day. If the lighter goes out, his Stand appears and stabs them with the Arrow: if they survive and become a Stand user, they'll be allowed into the gang.
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His Stand, Black Sabbath (named after Music/BlackSabbath), materializes when Polpo's order is disobeyed. It can move within shadows and control them to an extent.

* AccidentalMurder: Since Black Sabbath is an automated Stand, Polpo doesn't have direct control over its actions, so the janitor's death wasn't of his volition. Unlike most examples, he's not remorseful in the slightest.
* AlliterativeName: In the dub, his Stand's name is changed from Black Sabbath to '''S'''hadow '''S'''abbath.
* AmbiguouslyHuman: While it's never addressed InUniverse, Polpo's bizarre body, even for this series, throws his humanity into some doubt. He is almost as tall as his cell (about twenty feet high), morbidly obese, has black eyes, and can somehow eat his own fingers and grow them back with no problem. The anime doesn't help matters by giving him [[VoiceOfTheLegion a double-octave voice]].
* AteHisGun: Literally did this unaware. In his defense, at that time it was transformed into a banana and he was in the process of unpeeling when it turned back. And one of the peels was the trigger. It did not end well.
* {{Autocannibalism}}: So gluttonous that he makes a habit of [[{{Fingore}} eating his own fingers]]. They grow back. [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext Somehow.]]
* BigEater: He is often seen eating during his scenes, but what takes the cake is when Giorno returns to hand him back the lighter; he's seen practically ''inhaling'' a huge pizza, swallowing it whole in a matter of seconds.
* BlackEyesOfEvil: One of his most recognizable features are his black eyes and bright pupils.
* CallBack: Koichi likens Black Sabbath's traits to the first automatic Stand that he fought, Sheer Heart Attack. In a fun reversal of roles, the fight against SHA was when Koichi was the one who didn't know what an automatic Stand was, while an allied [=JoJo=] was giving him instructions; here, it's the [=JoJo=] who receives advice from the more experienced Koichi.
* TheChooserOfTheOne: He presents all potential Passione members with a lighter and orders them to keep it continuously lit for 24 hours. The flame is very weak, so it's likely to go out if not guarded carefully at all times. If the person relights it after it goes out, Black Sabbath appears, stabs them with the Stand Arrow, and says:
-->'''Black Sabbath:''' You relit the lighter, didn't you? I'll give you one more chance. You have two possible paths. The first path is to live and become a chosen one. Your only other path is death.
* ChurchgoingVillain: He believes that he has the right to kill someone who betrays him because he also believes that God would approve of it.
* DarkIsEvil: Black Sabbath is a primarily black-colored [[LivingShadow shadow Stand]] who can move through the shadows to subject those unfortunate enough to light Polpo's lighter to a trial who may kill them or not, while belonging to a [[FatBastard nasty user]] too. This contrasts with Polpo's [[LightIsNotGood main yellow outfit]].
* DeathByGluttony: Giorno kills him by turning one of his guns into a banana. When Polpo sticks it in his mouth, he accidentally pulls the trigger and gives himself a BoomHeadshot
* DisproportionateRetribution: He believes that murder is an appropriate response to being disrespected.
* DumbMuscle: Black Sabbath is an automated stand that is a terrifying opponent capable of nearly defeating Giorno and Koichi, but it restricted to rather straight forward thinking, attacking anyone who saw the lighter relit without hesitation.
* DubNameChange: His Stand is renamed to "Shadow Sabbath" in official English translations.
* EdibleThemeNaming: "Polpo" means octopus.
* EqualOpportunityEvil: He allows teenagers and even children to join Passione, as long as they pass the interview and then the lighter test. Bucciarati was allowed to join at the age of 12; Giorno, Mista, Narancia and Fugo joined at 15, 18, 17, and 16, respectively.
* EvilSoundsDeep: Not exactly the nicest person around, and has a suitably deep voice.
* FantasticRecruitmentDrive: This seems to be Polpo's main function (at least the one most prevalent with him) to Passione, putting aside the administration of his territory. It's noted that Polpo tends to be the one who new potential members must talk to if they want to become members of the gang (for instance apparently all of the members of Bucciarati's gang had to meet him first). This becomes even more apparent as Polpo is the one whom the Boss trusts with the Arrow in order to grant new Stand users to Passione's ranks.
* FatBastard: Almost to the point of absurdity. Polpo is so massive and morbidly obese that he nearly takes up the entirety of the cell he lives in (which should be noted is probably about 20 feet high). Hell, when Giorno first came to see him he assumed that Polpo was a yellow bed until he got up and realized that Polpo was actually just sleeping.
* FauxAffablyEvil: Polpo is an easygoing man who enjoys the pleasures of life, be they simple ones or extravagant ones. His two discussions with Giorno show him to be not only well read and introspective but how that goes hand in hand with him being an especially dangerous and calculating criminal. He's happy to wax philosophical, although he smoothly ties those philosophies into total loyalty to Passione and the justifications he has towards murder, with the full belief that even God would see him and his fellow gangsters as in the right (and while, to be fair, he wasn't controlling Black Sabbath at the time, it's made clear [[LackOfEmpathy nothing would've changed if he did]]).
* Fiction500: Polpo's cell is filled with luxurious food and wine, has several famous paintings hanging on the walls, and he owns a secret stash of treasure and jewels worth 10 billion lire.
* {{Fingore}}: Giorno witnesses him eating his own fingers, only to grow them back immediately after. This is the first thing that hints Giorno off that Polpo is a Stand user, [[WhatHappenedToTheMouse although we never find out if the finger regeneration is actually an ability of Black Sabbath]].
* {{Gonk}}: Polpo is a very ugly and morbidly obese man with a beaky nose and black eyes.
* HyperAwareness: When he first sees Giorno, he notices that the boy's left arm is injured, his right hand's fingers are slightly red as if they've been gripping something, and his skin is creased as if by the handle of a briefcase, meaning he must have been carrying something in his right hand for a while.
* {{Hypocrite}}: Polpo gives a long speech about trust and honesty, but everything in it is a lie -- he doesn't care about honesty or trust, he only cares about the initiate's skills and whether they fear him enough to obey him. This is made clear during his lighter test, which actually depends on the testee lying and turning the lighter back on, resulting in them gaining a Stand and joining, or dying. Anyone who truthfully tells Polpo that they let the lighter go out will completely fail the test.
* ImplacableMan: The only thing that can stop Black Sabbath from hunting you down is light, and even then, it'll immediately slink away through any nearby shadows unless it's either pinned down or completely cut off from any shadows.
* JabbaTableManners: For all his WickedCultured mannerisms, he stuffs his face without a care for anyone who visits him. During Giorno's last visit, he had draped a pizza as big as he was over himself, and takes several bites out of it before ''slurping it up like pasta.''
* KarmicDeath: Giorno uses Polpo's gluttony and changes a gun into a banana, tricking Polpo into shooting himself. It also has the bonus benefit of not only allowing Giorno to kill Polpo without making it look like foul play (after all, very few people knew of Gold Experience's abilities at that point), but it also benefited Giorno's companions by giving Bucciarati an opportunity to take over Polpo's territory as a new Capo, and take on the mission of protecting Trish.
* LackOfEmpathy: Giorno is ''furious'' about Black Sabbath's murder of an innocent janitor, but his acquired knowledge of automatic Stands meant that he knows Polpo didn't deliberately do it. Polpo's speech of how God would forgive murder in retaliation for being insulted, however, is what makes him believe Polpo wouldn't care if he ''did'' know.
* LivingShadow: His Stand Black Sabbath is a long-range automated Stand traveling in object's shadows.
* LuxuryPrisonSuite: Polpo eats ''well'' in prison, thanks to a well-stocked private pantry that regularly has luxurious food and wine paired to his meals in it.
* MightAsWellNotBeInPrisonAtAll: Lampshaded, as Polpo with his high seat in Passione could leave at just about any time, and he stays since it doesn't matter to him if he's inside or not. The guards also don't honestly care if things can get into his cell, like for example guns and food. Though Sale claims that Polpo is literally ''too fat'' to physically leave his cell. Polpo claims that the only downside is that he cannot visit the Sistine Chapel and see Michelangelo's paintings.
* NeverSuicide: Giorno transforms one of his guns into a banana so that when Polpo peels it, he accidentally pulls the trigger and shoots himself in the head. To everyone else, it looks like he AteHisGun.
* NonStandardCharacterDesign: Compared to the majority of the main cast in Part 5, Polpo is decidedly [[{{Gonk}} odd-looking]] to say the least. He has an oversized head to an obese torso, stubby limbs, a long pointed nose and black sclera, something that no one else aside from Risotto Nero possesses in the Part.
* PlotTriggeringDeath: Polpo's early death is what arguably starts the main plot of ''Golden Wind'' up. His death gives Bucciarati the means to become a capo and he is given Polpo's assignment of protecting Trish which gives Giorno and Bucciarati's quest to find and kill the Boss a major leg up.
* ShadowWalker: Black Sabbath is less of a living shadow and more of a being who exists ''within'' the shadows, as it's able to appear anywhere that doesn't have light cast on it. Giorno works this to his advantage, as by creating a space where no shadows surround it, Black Sabbath can't teleport and is frozen in place as a result.
* ShoutOut: The lyrics of the song "Black Sabbath" make mention of a figure in black declaring a "chosen one". The Stand Black Sabbath happens to be clad in black and uses Stand Arrows to find those with the potential for a Stand. The two fingers that he bites off are even one to the band's guitarist, Tony Iommi, who lost the tips of his middle and ring fingers on his right hand in an industrial accident when he was 17.
* SigilSpam: The "[=PoL=]" marks dotting all over his shirt. His signature lighter also bears the same insignia.
* SmallRoleBigImpact: Polpo is just around for the arc that Giorno is initiated in but his role in the story is quite great. The arc immediately following is the hunt for his lost treasure which allows Bucciarati to RankUp, and the main quest that sets off the story, protecting Trish, was originally Polpo's assignment before it fell to them. Similarly, in the various flashbacks showing how the protagonists joined the gang, all of them end with a meeting with Polpo for their initiation.
* StarterVillain: While Luca and Bucciarati are technically the first opponents whom Giorno confronts at the beginning of the story, the first was a nuisance at worst and didn't [[{{Muggles}} even had a Stand]], while Bucciarati eventually becomes the co-protagonist of the Part. This makes Polpo (or rather, Black Sabbath, since Polpo was unaware of what was happening during the whole fight) into the true first hostile Stand user found in ''Golden Wind''.
* SuperEmpowering: Black Sabbath can stab people with an Arrow to either grant them a Stand or kill them in the process.
* SuperpowerLottery: Among automated Stands, Black Sabbath is one of the best. It's strong enough to manhandle people and even Stands specialising in direct combat, can teleport from shadow to shadow, and is smart enough to doggedly pursue its targets through lateral tactics. What's more, even if it's somehow "killed", its link with Polpo is tenuous enough that he isn't harmed in the least, allowing him to send it out to do his bidding as often as he likes.
* {{Synchronization}}: PlayedWith. Koichi notes that Black Sabbath is an automated Stand and compares it to Sheer Heart Attack, noting that any damage to it will not reflect back on Polpo. In the end the trope is played straight but different from normal, wherein the damage Polpo takes is reflected onto the Stand rather than the other way around and Polpo's gunshot wound damages Black Sabbath in a similar way.
* TrrrillingRrrs: In the anime, especially when talking about his "[[TrademarkFavoriteFood crrrrrrackers]]".
* UndyingLoyalty: To the Boss. After his death, a lot of Passione's members dismiss the notion of him planning to betray the Boss.
* VillainousGlutton: Due to his position in the mob, he gets to stay well protected in a posh prison cell, surrounded by all the food and wine he could ever want. The number of times he can be seen on screen ''not'' gorging himself can be counted on one's own hands.
* VoiceOfTheLegion: In the anime, his voice has an additional octave layered beneath it, giving off this effect.
* WeakenedByTheLight: Black Sabbath dissipates if it's caught in sunlight.
* WickedCultured: He has several well-known paintings in his cell, quotes Thomas Fuller while explaining the conditions of his test, and his only regret about being imprisoned is that he can't visit the Art/SistineChapel.
* XanatosGambit: This seems to be how Polpo's lighter test truly works. If someone actually succeeds in keeping the lighter lit for 24 hours and avoid Black Sabbath, then Polpo recruits a new resourceful and determined ally into Passione, one that exemplifies the virtues he talks about. If they relight the lighter and survive the Stand Arrow and Black Sabbath, then Passione gets a new capable Stand user as a member; one that is willing to do anything to succeed. If they die from the Arrow, then the gang doesn't have to worry about some weakling joining their group, and it's impossible to trace back to them since Black Sabbath doesn't leave evidence. The one thing he didn't count on was his Stand's automatic nature causing a civilian to get caught up and killed in his trial, leading the righteous Giorno to kill him as revenge.
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[[folder:Pericolo]]
!!Pericolo
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/ShinpachiTsuji (TV anime, JP), John Snyder (TV anime, EN) (credited as Leonard Draper)
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->''"I've lived a full life thanks to the Boss' innumerable blessings. It was replete with adventures most can only dream of. My mission is now complete. Be safe, ragazzi, and may my prayers reach his ears."''

A capo who gave Bucciarati's group their mission to deliver Trish to the Boss.
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* AffablyEvil: Pericolo's a powerful gangster but also a respectful and personable man. The anime adds to it with some small moments and a fairly warm inflection to his voice.
* CoolOldGuy: Pericolo seems like a very friendly man and Bucciarati holds him in great esteem telling his men to bow in respect when he first arrives.
* FishEyes: Pericolo's left eye is always shown wandering, although he seems far from unintelligent.
* IntergenerationalFriendship: He's particularly close with Bucciarati, who greatly appreciates him and is noticeably affected by his death. While Pericolo is a CoolOldGuy, Bucciarati is in his [=20s=].
* JanitorImpersonationInfiltration: Him and Trish don custodian's clothing to disguise themselves as they meet Bucciarati outside a public washroom.
* {{Muggle}}: He notes that he doesn't have a Stand, which makes him one of the few non-Stand users inside Passione aside from Luca.
* MeaningfulName: Pericolo is Italian for peril. By giving Bucciarati his mission to protect Trish, he sets off the chain of events that wipes out whole squads within Passione and [[spoiler:just under half of Bucciarati's group]] due to the ensuing intra-gang conflicts.
* MrExposition: Pericolo is the one who informs Bucciarati's group of Trish's identity as the Boss' daughter, provides a brief explanation of Trish's mother and informs the group that she is being targeted by La Squadra.
* OddNameOut: One of the few Passione members not named after food.
* SmallRoleBigImpact: Pericolo only appears a few times in the manga [[spoiler:before his death]] yet he is the one who makes Bucciarati an officer and is the one to give him the mission to protect Trish essentially kick-starting off the main story of ''Golden Wind''.
* UndyingLoyalty: Pericolo holds a great deal of admiration for the Boss, enough that [[spoiler:he's willing to kill himself to prevent La Squadra from finding out Trish's whereabouts. This is especially noticeable as he's one of the few characters completely loyal to the Boss.]]
[[/folder]]

!!La Squadra di Esecuzioni[[note]]Lit. "Execution Team" in Italian, also known as '''"Hitman Team"''' in anime.[[/note]]
[[folder:In General]]
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->''"We don't indulge in empty threats or self-coddling compliments to hide our feeble shortcomings. Our breed doesn't need the aid of such lowbrow extravagances to enhance a battle performance. For the moment we visualize the death of our enemy... their fate is ''sealed''! They cannot escape the inevitable!"''
-->-- '''Prosciutto''' to '''Pesci'''

'''La Squadra di Esecuzioni''' was a former squad of Passione. As the name suggests, they specialize in assassinations. Led by Risotto Nero, its members defected after being threatened by their Boss for exposing his secret identity and are set on trying to kidnap Trish Una as a means for retaliation. They serve as VillainOfTheWeek for Team Bucciarati for the first half of ''Golden Wind''.
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* SmallRoleBigImpact: Melone is a fairly minor villain, but it's from observing the power of his Stand that Giorno learns to transform inanimate objects into body parts and organs with Gold Experience, allowing him to heal himself and his team and prolonging their survival throughout the part.