History Characters / JoJosBizarreAdventureYoshikageKira

* EvenEvilHasStandards: A ''very'' minor case, but when he encounters a man who was stalking the woman who lives in the house Josuke and Hayato took cover in during the final confrontation, he's visibly disgusted. Of course, he [[ItMakesSenseInContext uses Killer Queen and a pair of panties]] [[KickTheSonOfABitch to murder the guy]], who in his final moments doesn't exactly make you feel bad for him.

Kira's Stand is Killer Queen, who is able to make anything it touches into a bomb that can be triggered by touch or a detonator on Killer Queen's finger. Anyone killed by the bomb leaves zero evidence — which is what kept him off the police's radar. It is not considered a sentient Stand. Killer Queen possess a secondary ability called Sheer Heart Attack, an indestructible heat-seeking bomb on tank treads that is released from Killer Queen's left hand. Despite being in practice a long-ranged Stand type it has the power of a Short-Range Stand since Sheer Heart Attack is not considered a separate Stand from Killer Queen but rather a secondary bomb type.

After growing desperate post killing Hayato Kawajiri, Kira is pierced by the arrow for a second time and awakens a new third bomb type: Bites the Dust. This ability allows Kira to implant a bomb into anyone who knows his identity and obliterate time allowing Kira to either reverse time for one hour or turn the implantee into a bomb that will kill anyone who questions them about Kira's true identity before resetting the day. That person's death then becomes a fixed point in time and, even if they never meet the person implanted with Bites the Dust again, they will still die. Killer Queen's largest weakness is, apart from it being a close-range Stand, that only one Bomb can be active at a time.

** Only one bomb from his Stand, no matter the type, can be active at a time. While "standard" bombs can be deactivated at will in order to "make space" for a new one, Sheer Heart Attack has to be manually retrieved by Kira before being deactivated. This is particularly notable when Kira upgrades himself with Stray Cat. He can either set a mine or shoot a grenade, but not ''both'', and the fact that he stops doing the latter clues Hayato in to the fact that he's done the former.

** Finally, Kira can't detonate offensive bombs too close to him, as the blast would harm him as well (these are distinct from when he uses his bomb ability to erase someone, which creates no splash damage). His inability to bomb in close quarters is compounded by the fact his lack of fighting experience makes him relatively weak in a fist fight, despite the high physical strength and TouchOfDeath ability of his Stand.

Kira's Stand is Killer Queen, who is able to make anything it touches into a touch-activated bomb that leaves zero evidence — which is what kept him off the police's radar. It is not considered a sentient Stand. Killer Queen possess a secondary ability called Sheer Heart Attack, an indestructible heat-seeking bomb on tank treads that is released from Killer Queen's left hand. Despite being in practice a long-ranged Stand type it has the power of a Short-Range Stand since Sheer Heart Attack is not considered a separate Stand from Killer Queen but rather a secondary bomb type.

After growing desperate post killing Hayato Kawajiri, Kira is pierced by the arrow for a second time and awakens a new third bomb type: Bites the Dust. This ability allows Kira to implant a bomb into anyone who knows his identity and obliterate time allowing Kira to either reverse time for one hour or turn the implantee into a bomb that will kill anyone who questions them about Kira's true identity before reseating the day. That person's death then becomes a fixed point in time and, even if they never meet the person implanted with Bites the Dust again, they will still die. Killer Queen's largest weakness is, apart from it being a close-range Stand, that only one Bomb can be active at a time.

* UnwantedSpouse: '''Subverted''', believe it or not, subverted. ''Kosaku'' was this, having married Shinobu only because they had a kid and then somehow surviving so many years married to her in a dead-end job. Kira, on the other hand, not only repaired the marriage between Shinobu and Kosaku by taking the latter's position, but he officially starts it by doing something so stupidly illegal in order to save himself, he charms and wins over Shinobu's heart. By the time Stray Cat happens, Shinobu is so completely in love with Kira, she's making up excuses to fling herself at him. Kira on his part, despite ignoring her advances while trying to not kill her, starts to grow fond of her as well.

* ForTheEvulz: Unlike the other {{Big Bad}}s, who had ulterior motives behind their [[KickTheDog dog-kicking]], Kira has no motivation for murder other than him liking it.

See the following pages for these character-specific tropes:

* [[AdaptationDyeJob/JoJosBizarreAdventure Adaptation Dye-Job]]
* [[DubNameChange/JoJosBizarreAdventure Dub Name Change]]
* [[FamousLastWords/JoJosBizarreAdventure Famous Last Words]]
* [[HateSink/JoJosBizarreAdventure Hate Sink]]
* [[HeartIsAnAwesomePower/JoJosBizarreAdventure Heart is an Awesome Power]]
* [[Jerkass/JoJosBizarreAdventure Jerkass]]
* [[LogicalWeakness/JoJosBizarreAdventure Logical Weakness]]
* [[NiceGuy/JoJosBizarreAdventure Nice Guy]]
* [[StoryBreakerPower/JoJosBizarreAdventure Story-Breaker Power]]
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* ChestCavity: Killer Queen's six-pack abs are actually a compartment cover where it can store anything to its liking. It uses this to merge with Stray Cat and convert its BubbleGun into bombs.

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* ContrastingSequelAntagonist:

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

** Killer Queen takes several elements from the Queen song that serves as its namesake: "She's a Killer Queen/ Gunpowder, gelatin/ Dynamite with a laser beam/ Guaranteed to blow your mind/ Anytime"; "Playful as a pussy cat..." Additionally, the distinctive clicking sound heard when the Stand detonates one of its bombs is almost identical to the finger-snapping heard at the start of the song. Killer Queen's name also relates to Kira's SuperOCD with the line "...to avoid complications/she never kept the same address..." Now, what does Kira do once his original identity is outed? Changes address (and face/lives) with another man to avoid the hassle this revelation would cause.

* ForTheEvulz: Unlike the other {{Big Bad}}s, who had ulterior motives behind their [[KickTheDog dog-kicking]], Kira has no motivation for murder other than him liking it.

** The only thing that'll disrupt his daily routine is his "current girlfriend" becoming "ripe", provoking him into hunting out a new one next time he feels the need to. Even when Jotaro and Koichi are hunting him out, he's not particularly concerned; once Sheer Heart Attack is deployed, he considers the matter concluded and resumes his normal business, walking down the streets of Morioh and visiting a café to take a break.

* AdaptationalEarlyAppearance: Has several cameos in the anime before his proper debut. His full appearance is during the Red Hot Chilli Pepper arc as an ordinary bystander.

* AnimalMotif: Cats. His Stand Killer Queen has very feline features, he can be dangerous when his lifestyle is threatened, and he even gets a power boost from a Stand called Stray Cat. Kira's finicky mannerisms and constant need to trim his nails also fit the motif, and later on he ends up living with a pet cat and gains a pet "cat" of his own. The tendency for his nails to spontaneously grow a lot when he gets an urge to kill can also be likened to a cat extending its claws. Similarly to how cats often hunt for sport rather than for food, Kira's killings are driven not by material need but out of habit and compulsion.

* SuperOCD: The reason why he's so obsessed with having a normal, predictable life. Kira has a routine and he follows it religiously, and is motivated to deal with his pursuers because they threaten that routine. He even delays finishing off Koichi after noticing that one of his socks was inside out, and couldn't concentrate on killing Koichi until he put his sock and shoe back on right, despite knowing that Josuke would be arriving to help in less than a minute.

** Sheer Heart Attack is borderline invincible, has incredible destructive power, is fully automatic and is incredibly persistent, making it an incredible ability...for setting up long-distance traps, and not direct confrontations. Kira can't use his normal bombs while having Sheer Heart Attack out and has to manually retrieve it, and due to its automatic nature, once Sheer Heart Attack's target becomes aware of its targetting system it becomes easy to trick, so if Kira is in the near vicinity his opponent could just distract Sheer Heart Attack and make a beeline to the now defenseless user, which is exactly what happens. This is why despite its strengths, Kira only ever uses it once.

'''''[[Characters/JoJosBizarreAdventureStoneOcean Stone Ocean]]:''''' [[Characters/JoJosBizarreAdventureStoneOceanHeroes Heroes]] ([[Characters/JojosBizarreAdventureJolyneKujo Jolyne Kujo]]) | [[Characters/JoJosBizarreAdventureEnricoPucci Enrico Pucci]]\\

'''''[[Characters/JoJosBizarreAdventureStoneOcean Stone Ocean]]:''''' [[Characters/JoJosBizarreAdventureStoneOceanHeroes Heroes]] | [[Characters/JoJosBizarreAdventureEnricoPucci Enrico Pucci]]\\

** Bears a striking resemblance to Music/DavidBowie, specifically from his [[Music/LetsDance "Serious Moonlight"]] tour.

* ContrastingSequelAntagonist: 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".

* AwesomeButImpractical: Bites the Dust is one of the most overpowered abilities in the series, but the limitations on it make it also extremely impractical in the long term. For starters, Yoshikage essentially gives up Killer Queen to start the process by attaching it to someone and making them a "bomb" of sorts, meaning if he is attacked by another Stand, he has to recall it, ending the loop and stopping its effects. As a result, it's worthless for direct combat if the person he's chosen as the "bomb" is legitimately capable of ending him under their own power such as if they have a Stand of their own, as Bites The Dust will only trigger if someone else asks them about Kira's identity. It also does not allow Kira to maintain his memories of each loop, but it does allow the person who has been picked as his "bomb" to keep their memories of each loop, meaning they can exploit this to change the events of what happened, even if only slightly. Lastly, Kira is not able to benefit from the effects of Bites the Dust, meaning if someone asks ''him'' about his identity, it will do nothing to protect him. The reason the ability is so dangerous is that because [[KidHero Hayato]] (a boy who doesn't have a Stand of his own to threaten Kira with) is the "bomb" chosen, the heroes have no way of finding out the truth until Kira gets overly cocky. And Hayato almost kills Kira with Stray Cat on his own even discounting how it was also a BatmanGambit to get him to blurt out his identity in earshot of Josuke.

His Stand and its powers are named after Music/{{Queen}} songs and albums: [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killer_Queen "Killer Queen"]], the album ''Music/SheerHeartAttack'', and [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Another_One_Bites_the_Dust "Another One Bites the Dust"]].

* MusicalThemeNaming: Kira's Stand and its abilities Sheer Heart Attack and Bites the Dust are all named after Music/{{Queen}} songs.

[floatboxright: '''Stats''' (Killer Queen)\\
'''Destructive Power:''' A\\
'''Speed:''' B\\
'''Range:''' D\\
'''Persistence:''' B\\
'''Precision:''' B\\
'''Development Potential:''' A]
[floatboxright: '''Stats''' (Sheer Heart Attack)\\
'''Destructive Power:''' A\\
'''Speed:''' C\\
'''Range:''' A\\
'''Persistence:''' A\\
'''Precision:''' E\\
'''Development Potential:''' A]
[floatboxright: '''Stats''' (Killer Queen Bites the Dust)\\
'''Destructive Power:''' B\\
'''Speed:''' B\\
'''Range:''' A\\
'''Persistence:''' A\\
'''Precision:''' D\\
'''Development Potential:''' A]

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