History Characters / JoJosBizarreAdventureYoshikageKira

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

* VisibleVictimology: He targets women with pretty hands. [[{{Squick}} Because he kills them and uses their hands as fetish objects]].

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

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

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

** Also something of an aversion, at least for an Arc BigBad. While Killer Queen is legitimately a top-tier Stand, and Kira ends up with an abnormally large and diverse number of Stand abilities, even with Bites the Dust and Stray Cat it's still not an "ultimate" Stand or ability like Kars' Ultimate Lifeform form, The World[=/=]Star Platinum, King Crimson or Gold Experience Requiem, or Pucci's various Stands. Unlike those Stands and abilities, Bites the Dust has a NecessaryDrawback that prevents it from becoming a StoryBreakerPower for Kira to repeatedly abuse.

** His first death: A serial killer, who wanted to go unnoticed by everyone around him and believed fortune to be on his side, dies as the center of attention thanks to the medical personnel trying to resuscitate him [[DeathByAmbulance bungling the rescue in the worst way possible]] and the gruesome circumstances of his death. Also, his confession that he's Kira in an attempt to activate Bites the Dust incites some gossip after his demise, since Kira "disappeared" several weeks ago. There's also the fact that he was stripped of Stray Cat by a Stand named after his fetish -- Okuyasu's The Hand.

** While Kira is extremely resourceful and a competent villain, he has one glaring flaw: {{Pride}}. Many if not all of Kira's losses are due to his tendency to gloat or overestimating his own capabilities. He believes Sheer Heart Attack is invincible, so much so he confidently believes it would defeat both Koichi and Jotaro. And once he unlocks Bites the Dust, Kira is even more arrogant due to his newly-found ability to rewind time. Kira demeans Hayato and is all but sure that Bites the Dust will kill Josuke and his allies. Hayato, knowing about Kira's pride, goads Kira into revealing his real name to Hayato to mock him, unaware that Josuke was behind him the entire time, causing Kira to out himself and setting up the final battle which Kira ultimately loses. Even his defeat is a result of this; he has the chance to escape with Bites the Dust since all he needs to do is activate it and tell someone his name, but rather then do it, he decides to essentially brag to the paramedic who came to help him about his name and crime. This allows Koichi the chance to use Act 3 to immobilize him and Jotaro the chance to catch up and deal the blow that seals his fate.

* VillainsActHeroesReact: Strongly {{inverted}}. As he says himself, he "just wants a quiet life", and that really shows; never does he make an attempt at stopping the heroes during their search for him unless his life or the discovery of his true nature are at immediate risk.

* ContrastingSequelAntagonist:
** Killer Queen is a contrast to The World in many ways.
*** While The World exemplifies the notions of [[LightIsNotGood radiating golden]] and [[BrightIsNotGood shiny metallic elements]] that signify a divine appearance; Killer Queen is [[DarkIsEvil associated with darkness]] with various skull motifs and has a very skeletal-feline appearance. Justified, as DIO is a god-complex vampire that wants to be well-renown, while Yoshikage Kira wants to hide his true nature in the shadows of society.
*** The World is [[AlwaysSomeoneBetter Star Platinum's superior in terms of stats]]- with Jotaro only winning due to taking advantage of its user's [[SkilledButNaive lack of experience in Stand combat]]. Killer Queen, outside of its Sheer Heart Attack, is always portrayed as inferior in physical prowess to Star Platinum and Crazy Diamond, relying on tricks to get ahead in combat.
*** While the World relies on [[CombatPragmatist its user's unorthodox non-Stand uses of signs, knives and steamrollers as weapons]] to make up for its [[BoringButPractical rather limited physical abilities outside of its time-stop]], Killer Queen relies primarily on innate, bestowed or team-tactic Stand abilities- such as Sheer Heart Attack, Bites The Dust, and Stray Cat- outside of its main power.
*** While The World can continuously use its initial 5-second and eventual, potentially ever-increasing time stop endlessly with no limitations, Killer Queen has [[AwesomeButImpractical specific conditions to use its specific time based power with conditions that can backfire on its initial owner under the right conditions]].

** King Crimson is also one to Killer Queen.
*** Both are powerful, close-ranged Stands with control over time and are equipped with sub Stands to make them more dangerous. However, Killer Queen is not as effective at close combat against those who are physically superior to it and relies mostly on its bomb-making ability and its remote bomb Sheer Heart Attack to be a threat, while King Crimson's ability to both erase time and see the future with Epitaph combined with its immense strength make any attempt at close combat virtually a suicide mission until a means was found to counter it.
*** Killer Queen never emotes and always has a blank, emotionless stare on its face while King Crimson is prone to frequent and unnerving facial expressions. Likewise, Killer Queen never speaks nor has a Stand Cry while Diavolo constantly speaks through King Crimson.
*** While both have time based powers, Bites the Dust turns back time under specific circumstances that can be turned against its initial user, reflecting the idea that YouCantFightFate while King Crimson's time erasure and powers of precognition that normally invincible outside of clever lateral thinking and [[EvenMoreOmnipotent metaphysical power like Gold Experience Requiem]], allow Diavolo to [[ScrewDestiny control fate]].
*** While both embody DarkIsEvil, the two have different aesthetics. Killer Queen has a predatory feline and skull motifs while King Crimson has a demonic undertone to its design.
** It also is similar yet dissimilar to Whitesnake. Both are moderately powerful Stands that are outclassed by the physically superior Stands of the heroes, and have to rely on additional powers, both initially inherent and later power-boosts to get an advantage via outside help- though the end result is drastically different for their respective user. While Killer Queen's arsenal is powerful, it's primarily limited in use to offensive means, works in tandem with Stray Cat for a ranged attack, and its only defensive maneuver, Bites The Dust, is convoluted enough that it can backfire on Kira. Whitesnake is much more versatile, having illusory powers on top of its Stand/Mind disc extraction/insertion- which the latter allows to make minions, remove aspects of himself, and potentially giving him temporally the powers of other Stands- but is primarily a support Stand. When Whitesnake does get its power-boost via the aid of Green Baby, it merges with it to become C-Moon, discarding his earlier abilities for the singular, but deadly gravity inversion and soon after, the StoryBreakerPower of Made in Heaven that allows Pucci to reset the universe via time acceleration, which gives it all the dangerous speed enhancement in combat to deadly effect.

*** While the World relies on [[CombatPragmatist its user's unorthodox non-Stand uses of signs, knives and steamrollers as weapons]] to make up for its [[BoringButPractical rather limited physical abilities outside of its time-stop]], Killer Queen relies primarily on innate, bestowed or team-tactic Stand abilities- such as Sheer Heart Attack, Bite The Dust, and Stray Cat- outside of its main power.

* {{Catchphrase}}: Sheer Heart Attack has one, almost to the level of PokemonSpeak.

** His crimes are loosely based on those of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsutomu_Miyazaki Tsutomu Miyzaki]], a SerialKiller who had gained major publicity in Japanese media in the years leading up to Part 4's publication. Like Kira, Miyazaki's murders were motivated in part by an erotic fixation on his victims severed body-parts, and he was known as a seemingly unremarkable working-age adult living in his parents home while committing his crimes (though Miyazaki was unemployed at the time).

* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Official art books and the like commonly list his name as "Yoshikage Kill·A". ''All-Star Battle'' plays with this by naming Kosaku Kawajiri's theme "KILL-A".

** In ''[[UpdatedRerelease All Star Battle R''[='s=] ASB Mode, he has a unique interaction with Anasui, where he derides the "hero" for dismembering his girlfriend out of anger, stating that when he does it, it's at least because he has a fetish for women's hands (as if that's any better).

* ClassicVillain: Fits all of the criteria, embodying Lust, Sloth, and Pride.

** Kira is the black sheep among the villains for many traits that wouldn't be utilized again until [[Characters/JoJosBizarreAdventureStoneOcean Part 6]]; quiet, subdued, dressed moderately, his voice is almost always flat, and even when provoked, he still keeps his head for a large part of his appearance. He also holds a job anyone could get, had a relatively normal childhood, and above all really is someone you could meet on the street. He's also the only main villain to not only try and avoid fighting (as his first plans for Shigechi were to completely ignore him and just grab the bag and run), but also lacks any kind of grandiose plan and simply continued the plot by surviving. He appears mid-way through the story and starts the plot himself and, interestingly, [[UnusuallyUninterestingSight never once looked into what Stands were]] [[HowDoIShotWeb and just assumed he had some kind of special power]]. Furthermore, compared to DIO and Kars, who sought world domination, Kira never had any comrades he recruited himself (until forming an alliance with Stray Cat), and upon showing even the slightest bit of care for someone, he immediately brushed it off as being a result of wanting to seem "normal".
** DIO was explicitly supernatural- as a human turned vampire, blatantly evil with any nuance being hinted as manipulation on his end, extremely powerful even without his Stands, having a boisterous personality, a troubled family life from an abusive father with the loss of a mother that served as a MoralityChain that led him to become worse when she died, a deep connection with his hated Joestar rivals, and eventual universal level-ambitions. Yoshikage on the other hand, is on the surface, a mild-mannered man who doesn't stand out or want anything else than to continue his SerialKiller hobby in peace with no greater aspirations, with some subconscious nuance to his character that he tries to deny whenever he acts altruistic to a degree, an implied spoiled favoritism from his father with a less than stellar relationship with his mother, his relationship with the Joestars being that of a great nuance to his quiet life- though on the same level as the others that oppose him, and doesn't have any aspirations outside of his hometown- while having a versatile Stand to make up for his weaker human body.

* TheSociopath: Despite his AffablyEvil nature, Kira stands out as one of the more depraved villains in the series. The ways he murders his victims are anything but pretty, his paranoia is off the charts, and he proves to be a [[WouldHurtAChild physically ''and'' mentally abusive parent]]. Worst of all, he has no justification for his crimes. He knows murder is bad, but he brushes it off as an [[ForTheEvulz addi]][[ItAmusedMe ction]].

** In VideoGame/JoJosBizarreAdventureAllStarBattleR's ASB Mode, he has a unique interaction with Anasui, where he derides the "hero" for dismembering his girlfriend out of anger, stating that when he does it, it's at least because he has a fetish for women's hands (as if that's any better).

* AbusiveParents: Played with in regards to Hayato, as he isn't actually Hayato's father, but just posing as him. This didn't prevent Kira from ''killing him'', and later [[WhyAmITicking planting Bites the Dust on him]]. Araki also intended for Kira to have abusive parents himself, but chose to make him more of a HateSink and merely ''suggest'' that his parents sheltered him too much, with Yoshihiro's involvement later in the story seemingly corroborating this.

* AbusiveParents: Played with in regards to Hayato, as he isn't actually Hayato's father, but just posing as him. This didn't prevent Kira from ''killing him'', and later [[WhyAmITicking planting Bites the Dust on him]].

*** While The World has its time-based powers from the beginning, Killer Queen only gaining its final power as a miraculous solution to solve his current dilemma.

*** Both are powerful, close-ranged Stands with control over time and are equipped with sub Stands to make them more dangerous. However, Killer Queen is not as effective at close combat against physically superior and relies mostly on its bomb-making ability and its remote bomb Sheer Heart Attack to be a threat while King Crimson's ability to both erase time and see the future with Epitaph combined with its immense strength make any attempt at close combat virtually a suicide mission until a means was found to counter it.
*** Killer Queen never emotes and always has a blank, emotionless stare on its face while King Crimson is prone to frequent and unnerving facial expressions. Additionally Likewise, Killer Queen never speaks nor has a Stand Cry while Diavolo constantly speaks through King Crimson.

* EvilCanNotComprehendGood: An unorthodox example; Yoshikage seems to be incapable to comprehend his own good, after being relieved that Shinobu was not too severely harmed by Stray Cat. He becomes confused by the feeling of wanting to keep her safe but tells himself that [[PragmaticVillainy he just needs her for his cover]].

** And then, [[OverlyLongGag on top of everything else]], having spent his life obsessed with hands, he is dragged to hell by the disembodied hands of the Ghost Alley.

** Another one is {{Wrath}}. Whenever his lifestyle is being threatened, he's prone to giving in to his anger. Rather than finishing Koichi off quickly, he instead wastes time to vent his frustration out on the boy by brutally beating him to near-death due to the public humiliation he suffered earlier, which bought the heroes enough time to catch up to him. After being annoyed by a couple on the train, he loses control of his impulses and murders both of them which was caught by Hayato on camera, and later murders Hayato himself when the boy threatens him with evidence. It's only through a combination of luck and his quick-thinking that he's able to escape the consequences of this bad habit.

** To Jotaro. Both are antisocial Japanese men that are surprisingly resourceful in dire situations with unusually powerful close-range Stands. They are also more popular with the ladies than they would like to be; they even react identically to displays of affection from women. Also, they both awaken new time-related Stand powers by the end of their respective parts out of a dire need: Jotaro from being pressured to the verge of death from DIO, and Kira from the prospect of being unveiled by the Morioh Stand users. Both even got their powers and begun their journey around the same age. The difference between them is that Jotaro is a genuinely good person who voluntarily gave up his normal life in order to save his mother and other prospective DIO victims while Kira has no problem destroying the lives of others in order to maintain his "normal life."

** To Jotaro. Both are antisocial Japanese men that are surprisingly resourceful in dire situations with unusually powerful close-range Stands. They are also more popular with the ladies than they would like to be; they even react identically to displays of affection from women. Also, they both awaken new time-related Stand powers by the end of their respective parts out of a dire need: Jotaro from being pressured to the verge of death from DIO, and Kira from the prospect of being unveiled by the Morioh Stand users. Both even got their powers and begun their journey around the same age. The difference between them is that Jotaro eventually learned to open himself up more and trust in others. Kira, on the other hand, was given the opportunity to live a new life with an ordinary family, but instead chooses to revert to his old ways.

* AdvertisedExtra: Downplayed. He's still the overall BigBad, but Kira in his original look only appeared in two arcs before he forcefully switched his face with that of Kosaku, to the point where Kosaku!Kira is considered the Part 4 BigBad in ''All-Star Battle'', while regular Kira is relegated to DLC.

* TheGenericGuy: Invoked. He deliberately cultivates as unremarkable a public image as possible to avoid any unwanted attention toward his desired quiet life.