History Characters / PeculiarParasiticPhenomenon

* ContrastingSequelAntagonists:

* AmnesiacVillainJoinsTheHeroes: By the time the story starts, Kars recovered part of his memories by isn't aware of the circumstances that sent him into space except for the knowledge that someone named =JoJo= was responsible for it. He assists the heroes before he meets Joseph, and after that has a FreakOut when he remembers him.

* AbledInTheAdaptation: Downplayed and Justified. ''Peculiar Parasitic Phenomenon'' takes place ten years before ''Stone Ocean'', and Johngalli's cataracts haven't completely robbed him of his vision completely yet.

* HatedByAll: Absolutely no one likes her, with even her supposed student, [[ChildProdigy Manishu]], brushes aside her death at the end of Chapter 15, after having possibly assisted her to-be killer. The employees of Doress in Morioh fear her and dislike her in general, [[PsychoForHire Yoma]] is passive aggressive with her because of her forcing him to join Doress with her BodySnatcher stand and Maynard, while appreciative of her input, is frequently infuriated by her.

* LoneWolfBoss: Yoma isn't an employee of the Doress Group and mostly operates on his own. Downplayed in that Dr. Kasuminome brute-forced him to assist in The Washington Package arc.

* HatedByAll: Absolutely no one likes her, with even her supposed student, [[KidGenius Manishu]], brushes aside her death at the end of Chapter 15, after having possibly assisted her to-be killer. The employees of Doress in Morioh fear her and dislike her in general, [[PsychoForHire Yoma]] is passive aggressive with her because of her forcing him to join Doress with her BodySnatcher stand and Maynard, while appreciative of her input, is frequently infuriated by her.

* LargeHam: Much like Stroheim, he occasionally shows sides of this, especially when Ikuro gets him ranting.

* EvilCounterpart: Forty Six & 2 has abilities that are comparable to Baoh and Ultimate Being Kars [[on which Baoh was based]], but its user works for Doress and causes massive destruction.

* SignatureMove: [[[[PowerOfTheSun Hamon Pulse]].]]

!![[Manga/ThusSpokeKishibeRohan Yoma Hashimoto]]

* NoSell: His divine patronage leaves Rohan unable to use [[RewritingReality Heaven's Door]] to stop Yoma from attacking.

!!Maynard K. Jones (Stand: Lateralus)

* BewareTheSillyOnes: Maynard goofs around in his initial appearances, but he's also a shrewd businessman who controls both Doress and, to an extent, the Speedwagon Foundation. He has a stand that can keep up with Star Platinum and he himself, via BioAugmentation, can keep up with [[LovecraftianSuperpower Baoh]]. It's also revealed in Chapter 19 that he even chooses recreational activities in the vicinity of Morioh stand users to learn their connections to each other and understand what makes them tick.

* AmnesiacVillainJoinsTheHeroes: By the time the story starts, Kars recovered part of his memories by isn't aware of the circumstances that sent him into space except for the knowledge that someone named {{JoJo}} was responsible for it. He assists the heroes before he meets Joseph, and after that has a FreakOut when he remembers him.
* GoodParents: Is one to Mikitaka [[and tries to be one to Santana after he resurfaces.]]

* AmnesiacVillainJoinsTheHeroes: By the time the story starts, Kars recovered part of his memories by isn't aware of the circumstances that sent him into space except for the knowledge that someone named ==JoJo== was responsible for it. He assists the heroes before he meets Joseph, and after that has a FreakOut when he remembers him.

* AndIMustScream: [[spoiler:While under the influence of Useful Idiot. It's described that Josuke can't control his body, but can perfectly comprehend everything Kasuminome's forcing him to do, almost making him commit [[PsychicAssistedSuicide]].]]

* AmnesiacVillainJoinsTheHeroes: By the time the story starts, Kars recovered part of his memories by isn't aware of the circumstances that sent him into space except for the knowledge that someone named [[JoJo]] was responsible for it. He assists the heroes before he meets Joseph, and after that has a FreakOut when he remembers him.

* StoryBreakerPower: Once Kars recovers his memories and remembers how his ability functions, he effectively gains this, easily dismissing [[The Dreaded Yoma]] [[ImplacableMan Hashimoto]] in ''The Washington Package Arrives'' chapters once [[BodySnatcher Useful Idiot]] is out of the picture.
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: [[The Doress Group based their Baoh project on data of the pillar men that the Speedwagon Foundation, trying to emulate Ultimate Form Kars in particular.]]

!The Doress Group
The international pharmaceutical corporation who has a secret branch who are responsible for turning Ikuro into Baoh, making bioweapons in the past but falling on hard times as of late.

* Foil: One to Boingo. Both are heated rivals of Rohan, but while Boingo is a FriendlyRival, especially as the story goes on, Yoma is Rohan's ArchEnemy out for blood. Yoma is an avatar of [[Myth/ClassicalMythology Hermes]], and Boingo uses Tohth, presumed to channel [[Myth/EgyptianMythology Thoth]]. The two gods in question are considered counterpart to each other, which is {{Lampshaded}} in-universe.

[[folder:Ada Carrey]]
!!Ada Carrey (Stand: [[TranslatorMicrobes Rosetta Stoned]])
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->''"All my employees are harmless, well, mostly harmless analysts and researchers. It’s very obviously not me you have to worry about."''

The stand user who spent time as a secretary of Dr. Kasuminome. She's de-facto in charge of the civil side of the Doress office in Morioh. Carrey's stand, Rosetta Stoned, enable universal translation of speech and texts in its area of effect, with Carrey being able to perform finer tuning.

* AffablyEvil: Despite being weary, she takes her defeat in Chapter 18 gracefully and doesn't even seem to resist Rohan's Heaven's Door much during her questioning.
* TheCynic: Shows shades of this in Chapter 18 when she says that stand users are fated to fight one another and Morioh being a safe haven where stand users co-exist peacefully is an aberration.
* TheDragon: Is effectively one to Dr. Kasuminome in the first half of the story, being the scientist's secretary, main survelliance agent and a battle partner to relay Useful Idiot's ability.
* EvilRedhead: {{Downplayed}} as Carrey is a PunchClockVillain.
* NonActionGuy: Rosetta Stoned doesn't have direct combat abilities and usually stays out of fights, assisting other stand users, such as Kasuminome or Oskar, and fleeing when heroes focus on it.
* PunchClockVillain: Carrey is shown to be weirded out by Kasuminome and the methods that the doctor uses, and she doesn't harbor particular loyalty for the company, not going out of her way to cause trouble for Morioh stand users.
* SinisterSurveillance: How Rosetta Stoned is often used in the first half of the story, spying on various denizens of Morioh.
* SupportPartyMember: For Useful Idiot, greatly extending the range of its ability and putting distance between Kasuminome and the target.
* TranslatorMicrobes: The main ability of Rosetta Stoned. She uses it to ease the communication of her staff and it's said she had been using Rosetta Stoned during the events of ''Baoh'' allowing the Golds to converse freely with Kasuminome.
** [[spoiler:CurseOfBabel: Just as it can break language barrier, Rosetta Stoned can build them, as shown in Chapter 18. It can even scramble text-related stand powers, such as Tohth and Heaven's Door.]]
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[[folder:Yoma Hashimoto]]
!![[Manga/ThusSpokeKishibeRohan Yoma Hashimoto]])

->''"You have made me re-examine my regiment, Rohan-sensei. I have begun to sought knowledge. To be as much of a perfect athlete as a perfect trainer. You can't gather all the knowledge in the world, of course, but one can try. Have you heard of Hermes, the patron god of athletes in Ancient Greece? I certainly feel a kinship with him. Like Hermes, known for his own trickery, I’ll fall for your tricks no longer. Such is the power of a divine grudge."''

A spirited athlete and a model Rohan met in Tokyo. He's also a serial killer who goes after anyone who interferes with his training regiment. After the events of ''The Run'' he develops a grudge against Rohan and seeks him out to kill in brutal fashion for his defeat.
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* Foil: One to Boingo. Both are heated rivals of Rohan, but while Boingo is a FriendlyRival, especially as the story goes on, Yoma is Rohan's ArchEnemy out for blood. Yoma is an avatar of [[ClassicalMythology Hermes]], and Boingo uses Tohth, presumed to channel [[EgyptianMythology Thoth]]. The two gods in question are considered counterpart to each other, which is {{Lampshaded}} in-universe.

[[folder:Erich Diamant-Berger]]
!!Erich Diamant-Berger (Stand: [[EnemyScan Third Eye]])
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->''"Do not presume to know what is proper for Doress, Baoh!"''

The analyst of Doress, transferred to Morioh from Europe. His stand, Third Eye, has two modes. When it's a monocle on Diamant's face, it has the ability to reveal other people's stands, their names and the way those stands work. When it assumes a humanoid form, it's a strong fighter and has a railgun in its stomach that shoots rays of light which explode the end point.

[[spoiler:Diamant is also the grandson of [[JoJosBizarreAdventureBattleTendency Rudol von Stroheim]] who joined Doress to investigate the cause of his grandfather's suspicious death, suspecting a stand user to be behind it. Diamant's grandmother was also one of the founding researchers of Doress Europe and so Diamant wants to serve the legacy she built and uphold the ideals Doress Europe started with.]]

* BewareTheSillyOnes: Maynard goofs around in his initial appearances, but he's implied to be a shrewd businessman with a powerful stand ability. It's also revealed in Chapter 19 that he chooses recreational activities in the vicinity of Morioh stand users to learn their connections to each other and understand what makes them tick.

[[folder:Erich Diamant-Berger]]
!!Erich Diamant-Berger (Stand: [[EnemyScan Third Eye]])
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->''"Do not presume to know what is proper for Doress, Baoh!"''

The analyst of Doress, transferred to Morioh from Europe. His stand, Third Eye, has two modes. When it's a monocle on Diamant's face, it has the ability to reveal other people's stands, their names and the way those stands work. When it assumes a humanoid form, it's a strong fighter and has a railgun in its stomach that shoots rays of light which explode the end point.

[[spoiler:Diamant is also the grandson of [[JoJosBizarreAdventureBattleTendency Rudol von Stroheim]] who joined Doress to investigate the cause of his grandfather's suspicious death, suspecting a stand user to be behind it. Diamant's grandmother was also one of the founding researchers of Doress Europe and so Diamant wants to serve the legacy she built and uphold the ideals Doress Europe started with.]]

!!Maynard K. Jones (Stand: ???)

* BioAugmentation: Maynard took boosters based on Baoh DNA which granted him SuperStrength.
* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Implied to be in charge of Doress to an extent.
* IRegretNothing: Played for Drama. This is Maynard's entire philosophy as he tries to leave a life with no regrets.

* FateWorseThanDeath: [[spoiler:Baoh Break Dark Thunder Phenomenon doesn't kill Karaiya but fries his brain, erasing his memories and life experiences back to being a kid who had yet to learn about The Ultimate Thing from his grandfather. Heaven's Door being unable to read the experiences of his adult self implies DeathOfPersonality of a sort and Kars wonders if death would be more merciful.]]

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* DisabledInTheAdaptation: In this work Josuke's final confrontation against Kira in ''[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureDiamondIsUnbreakable Diamond is Unbreakable]]'' left his hearing severely damaged. Without his hearing aid, which got lost in chaos in numerous occassions, Josuke is left near-deaf.

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* TheStoic: Ikuro is often the one who reacts in the most subdued manner to the happenings in Morioh and it's mentioned by others. Even moreso as Baoh who rarely shows any emotions.
** NotSoStoic: Ikuro shows true glee when reuniting with Sumire in Chapter 6 or when spending the day with Mikitaka's family in Chapter 20.

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* AdaptationOriginConnection: His father here is Kars who became stranded on Mikitaka's home planet some time after the events of ''Battle Tendency'', and one of the reasons Mikitaka ended up on Earth after his home planet's destruction is because he knew it to be his father's home planet.

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* HotBlooded: Okuyasu is still prone to jumping into fights without much of a plan, which leaves him vulnerable to Oskar von Bismarck in Chapter 12.

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* AdaptationalKarma: In Manga/{{Baoh}} they only lose one facility in Japan and are little worse for wear. 3P reveals that Baoh deal a heavy blow to their military branch that they had to disband it, and two out of three investors have pulled a great deal of their financing from the ESP branch.
* EvilCounterpart: Are effectively one to the Speedwagon Foundation, being a pharmaceutical company who also researches supernatural phenomena. However, while the Speedwagon Foundation protects the world and keeps the supernatural under wraps, the Doress Group used to sell their projects to the military and are now aiming to elevate the mankind via their research of Baoh and stands.

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* KarmaHoudini: In ''Baoh'' none of the Golds received their comeuppance, being virtually untouched by everything that Ikuro managed to accomplish, only losing research data at most.
* {{Manchild}}: Maynard, despite being in his 40s, gleefully indulges in comics and manga, is excited to visit a FanConvention, plays darts to win an action figure of a videogame character and generally acts goofy from time to time.

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* {{Cyborg}}: After the events of Chapter 14 he had to install mechanical replacements for the limbs [[spoiler:Santana]] consumed. It has a side effect of partially protecting him from Yuya's Highway Star.

* LargeHam: Occasionally shows sides of this, especially when Ikuro gets him ranting.

->''"Josuke Higashikata… For the brief moment that you survived, I considered making you suffer in full, picking out your associates of no worth one by one, savoring your despair as you failed to save any of them. But, perhaps, the wisdom imparted to me was not to be disregarded the way I did."''

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* SinisterSurvelliance: How Rosetta Stoned is often used in the first half of the story, spying on various denizens of Morioh.

* SoLastSeason: Played With. Ikuro's Baoh abilities are no match for a number of stand powers, such as Useful Idiot or Undertow. He's even shown to struggle against [[spoiler:Santana and Yoma Hashimoto]] in The Manhatten Package chapters, who simply outmatch him. However, Ikuro remains relevant as Baoh can be devastating if he [[CuttingTheKnot reaches the user]], something that Diamant and Carrey are acutely aware in their respective confrontations with him. That was the case with both Forty Six & 2 and Dr. Kasuminome.

* StarterVillain: He's the first stand user of Doress who attacks the heroes, giving the idea of how much more dangerous Doress are compared to civilian stand users in ''Diamond is Unbreakable'' that Josuke had to deal with before.

!!Johnny (Stand: ???)

* CanonCharacterAllAlong: In Chapter 20, Johnny's physical description and stand ability heavily implies his identity to be [[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureStoneOcean Johngalli A]].

* BioAugumentation: Maynard took boosters based on Baoh DNA which granted him SuperStrength.

!The Doress Group
The international pharmaceutical corporation who has a secret branch who are responsible for turning Ikuro into Baoh, making bioweapons in the past but falling on hard times as of late.

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* SuperStrength: One of the superhuman abilities granted to Maynard by boosters that Dr. Kasuminome developed from Baoh DNA.

!The Doress Group
The international pharmaceutical corporation who has a secret branch who are responsible for turning Ikuro into Baoh, making bioweapons in the past but falling on hard times as of late.