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Heroes
Jolyne Kujo
Jolyne Kujo
Stand: Stone Free
The Seventh JoJo and the daughter of Jotaro and Fluttershy. She finds herself incarcerated in Green Dolphin Street Prison, where her own bizarre adventure awaits.
Her Stand, Stone Free
, is named after a song by Jimi Hendrix. On top of being pretty strong in a fight, Stone Free allows Jolyne to unravel her body into strings.
- Adaptational Angst Downgrade: She doesn't start the story off having serious issues with her father like she does in canon.
- Adaptational Badass: In canon, she didn't get her Stand until she was scratched by a shard of the Stand arrow. Here she was born with her Stand.
- Adaptational Early Appearance: She appears as a child in Diamond is Unbreakable, where she even manages to have a prominent role at one point.
- Adaptational Nice Guy: She shows more of her Joestar lineage early in the story, willing to help out others who she knows are being unfairly abused.
- Crossover Relatives: Instead of the unnamed mother she had in canon, here her mother is Fluttershy. She also has Josefumi Kujo as a younger brother, whereas in canon she was an only child.
- Crusading Lawyer: Jolyne had one of these in her corner during her trial (hired by the family, no less), which helped her beat a murder rap. She still had to serve time for evidence tampering (her ex-boyfriend did convince her to hide the body, after all).
- Daddy's Girl: To say her relationship with her father is less strained than canon would be a MASSIVE understatement.
- In Spite of a Nail: Despite her much healthier relationship with her father and thus having no motivation to act out or fall in with the wrong people, she still gets into a relationship with Romeo, which leads to the series of events that would get her locked up in Green Dolphin Prison.
- Spared by the Adaptation: She and everyone else manage to survive the confrontation with Pucci and Made in Heaven.
- The Stations of the Canon: While she was born with her Stand, and later grew strong enough to have it manifest a physical form while she was a little girl in Morioh, she's still not able to find a proper name for it until the fight with Gwess while in Green Dolphin Prison.
- Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: While her lawyer does get her acquitted of a murder charge, the fact remains she did hide the body on her ex-boyfriend's suggestion. And Hero Insurance just isn't a real thing in an Urban Fantasy story like this.
- Taught by Experience: Her time in Morioh allowed her to know all the ins and outs of Stands, leaving her well-prepared when destiny decided The Call Knows Where You Live.
Rainbow Dash
Iro Dashell
Stand: I'll Fly
Jolyne's cellmate, a girl who found herself imprisoned in Green Dolphin Street Prison for defending her surrogate little sister.
Her Stand, I'll Fly, is named after a song by Ashleigh Ball. In addition to having a physical form capable of combat, it can fuse with Rainbow to give her wings to fly, as well as a special flight field that negates anything that can interrupt a perfect flight.
- Cool Big Sis: Has a tendency to act this way towards others. She had a surrogate sister named Scootaloo who she was very protective of, and she also helps Atroe out prior to her gaining her own Stand.
- Crossover Relatives: She establishes early on that she's actually descended from Robert E. O. Speedwagon.
- Fusion Dance: I'll Fly's ability works by merging its physical form with Rainbow, with only the wings poking out. This is what allows Rainbow to fly and project her flight field.
- History Repeats: Once again a Speedwagon aids a Joestar, even though neither carries the family name. Rainbow even shows attraction to Jolyne and even had a brief fling with her while in prison.
- Loophole Abuse: Makes use of this to easily defeat Miraschon, who never forbade the use of Stands during their bet. This action shuts down Marilyn Manson.
- Mythology Gag: She admits a dream she had involved her as a pastel pegasus flying with pony versions of the Blue Angels. Sound familiar?
- Older Than They Look: Despite looking to be in her twenties, Rainbow is actually in her thirties. It turns out she's a Hamon user.
- Related in the Adaptation: She's a descendant of Lydia Twilight "Sparkle" as well as the twin sister of Rusty "Shining Armor" Dashell, making her the sister-in-law of his wife, Cadence. In canon, they had no such relations, as Twilight Sparkle is Shining Armor's (younger) sister and Cadence's sister-in-law instead.
- Semantic Superpower: Her Stand creates a flight field that blocks anything that would prevent her from flying. This includes mundane things like obstacles or attacks, but can also include conceptual powers such as shrinking or soul stealing.
Gwess
Gwess
Stand: Goo Goo Dolls
A prisoner at Green Dolphin Street Prison whom Jolyne and Rainbow share a cell with. She initially starts off as an enemy before they pacify her in battle.
Her Stand, Goo Goo Dolls, is named after the rock band Goo Goo Dolls. Similarly to Little Feet in the previous part, Goo Goo Dolls allows Gwess to shrink people.
- Adaptational Expansion: She's given more screen time in the story, even joining Jolyne and the others in taking down Pucci.
- Defeat Means Friendship: After Jolyne and Rainbow beat the stuffing out of her, then have her spend a night wrapped up in Jolyne's threads, she becomes a lot friendlier to them.
- Fate Worse than Death: She temporarily loses Goo Goo Dolls to Whitesnake's power, leaving her in a near-death state due to spiritual damage. Fortunately, she did keep her Memory disc, so when her Stand disc is retrieved, her recovery goes by quicker.
- Genre Blindness: Granted she's a fresh Stand user, but Jolyne already made it clear she knew more about Stands than Gwess, and yet she still tried to antagonize the more experienced Stand user. As such, Gwess winds up falling victim to the usual shortcomings most Stands possess (Synchronization, limited range of power, and so on).
- Pyromaniac: It's later established that the crime she was incarcerated for was arson. Which she did to kill one guy. While on parole.
- Taking the Bullet: She loses her Stand in Jotaro's place because she pushed him out of the way of Whitesnake, thinking he was her best chance of getting out of prison.
- Taught by Experience: After essentially becoming Jolyne and Rainbow's toady, she gives them some advice on how to survive until they can start to build a rep.
- This Looks Like a Job for Aquaman: She doesn't use her Stand much after her initial appearance, largely as a means of getting unwanted obstacles out of the way. She does make use of it during the final fight to shrink Pucci down and send him flying with a kick.
- Wrong Genre Savvy: When she hears Jotaro is planning to extricate Jolyne from Green Dolphin Prison for her own safety, Gwess assumes the guard with them is Locked Out of the Loop and has him shrunk down and hidden in a peanut can. In actuality, the guard is Ryusei, Jotaro's cousin-in-law, and is actually in on the plan.
Ermes Costello
Ermes Costello
Stand: Kiss
A prisoner at Green Dolphin Street Prison that Jolyne and Rainbow befriend.
Her Stand, Kiss, is named after the rock band KISS. By placing one of the many lip-designed stickers produced from the palms of Kiss and Ermes onto an object, an exact duplicate of that object is created. Once it's removed, the two objects will violently recombine into one, damaging the original in the process.
- All Women Are Lustful: Played for Laughs. When she learns that McQueen's attempt to electrocute himself (and by extension, her) to death failed, she thinks someone stopped him and promises to offer whoever it was a good romp in the nearest closet.
- Anti-Hero: She's firmly on the good guys' side, but she's hardly a saint. She held up a convenience store knowing she'd get sent to prison, all so she could get close to a mob boss that killed her sister and get revenge.
- Fire-Forged Friends: She's more or less tied with Gwess for being the least experienced Stand user, yet she learns quickly thanks to Jolyne (who's had her Stand from birth) and Rainbow (who had her Stand dormant until early into her sentence) and thus quickly grows close with them as they help her understand the new world she's become a part of.
- Oh, Crap!: After she kills Sports Maxx for the first time, she finds out just what his Stand can do, causing this reaction.
- "The Reason You Suck" Speech: Gives one to Sports Maxx regarding how wrong he was regarding the situation with her sister.
- Revenge is Sweet: Aside from getting completely drained and needing medical attention, she feels fulfilled after finishing Sports Maxx off for real.
- Spared by the Adaptation: She and everyone else manage to survive the confrontation with Pucci and Made in Heaven.
Emporio Alniño
Emporio Alniño
Stand: Burning Down the House
A mysterious young boy that Jolyne and Rainbow find wandering around the walls and halls of Green Dolphin Street Prison.
His Stand, Burning Down the House, is named after a song by Talking Heads. It allows Emporio to see and interact with the ghosts of objects and rooms that were destroyed in a fire that occurred at Green Dolphin Street Prison years prior.
- Adaptational Angst Downgrade: Instead of things getting progressively worse for him ever since trying to warn Jolyne about Pucci, things get better. Pucci's plan to remove Jotaro from the equation fails, the crew stays together and alive, and Made in Heaven winds up too weak to reset reality. Emporio even finds himself adopted at the end of the story, so now he has a new family to look forward to.
- Adaptational Wimp: He doesn't wind up with Weather Report during this story. Then again, he ultimately doesn't need it.
- And This Is for...: When he shoots Pucci during the final assault on him, Emporio notes that it was for his mother (who Pucci had earlier killed).
- The Baby of the Bunch: While far too experienced in the ways of the world to be a Tagalong Kid, he's still the only pre-teen among a group of adults.
- Bag of Holding: Thanks to his Stand, he can store a variety of items in anything connected to its dimensional pocket. Including firearms, much to Pucci's displeasure.
- Happily Adopted: He gets adopted by Ryusei and Sunset at the end of the story.
- Troubling Unchildlike Behavior: He willingly pulls a gun on Pucci as the final fight nears its conclusion. He's not bluffing, either, actually shooting Pucci non-fatally.
- Wise Beyond Their Years: Since he Had to Be Sharp being a little kid growing up in a prison complex, Emporio is smarter than most kids his age.
Atroe Femdi
Atroe Femdi
Stand: Foo Fighters
Originally the unlucky host for the sentient Stand Foo Fighters, Atroe instead survives and makes the Stand her own.
Her Stand, Foo Fighters, is named after the band Foo Fighters. With this Stand, Atroe is able to shoot small colonies of plankton, as well as use the plankton to heal wounds.
- Adaptational Badass: Since Atroe doesn't need to worry about dehydrating as much as F.F. from canon, she tends to win fights a lot more easily.
- The Assimilator: She can merge living tissue into her body, which she uses to temporarily use the arm of a dead prisoner that still has one of the Like A Virgin bands, so that the prison guards don't realize she lost hers due to supernatural ability.
- Composite Character: In essence this is Canon!Atroe mixed with F.F.
- Empowered Badass Normal: Just prior to being given Foo Fighters, Atroe manages to beat the zooplankton-based Stand by driving off with the tractor containing the Stand discs Pucci collected straight through a patch of farmland, which quickly absorbs the water Foo Fighters uses to maintain itself, and doesn't stop until she sees the other girls have stopped. This crazy yet successful action convinces the crew to give Atroe the newly retrieved Stand disc for Foo Fighters.
- Expy: She compares her use of Foo Fighters to the Devil Fruits from One Piece.
- Good Thing You Can Heal: She gets her leg torn off by a zombie alligator created by Sports Maxx, but luckily Foo Fighters hides her real body while projecting one made of plankton that can instantly regenerate.
- Instant Expert: She quickly masters Foo Fighters' powers upon obtaining them. Justified in that she also has access to the Memory disc which contained the previous Stand user's experience.
- Making a Splash: She has limited control over water thanks to Foo Fighters' power.
- No Ontological Inertia: Inverted. Whitesnake being destroyed by the Heaven formula to make way for C-Moon means the discs inside Atroe basically merged with her, meaning she now has Foo Fighters as a Stand permanently.
- Power Incontinence: While she doesn't have to worry about dehydration in the short-term, if she uses her Stand for too long it can still dehydrate her. While guarding the Stand disc for Goo Goo Dolls, Atroe makes sure to regularly down water until the Speedwagon Foundation can be contacted to retrieve it.
- Spared by the Adaptation: Not just Foo Fighters against Pucci, but Atroe herself manages to survive and makes the Stand her own.
- Thrill Seeker: The reason she was sent to Green Dolphin is that she held a boy for ransom just for the fun of it. She even admits it's a serious problem.
- Took a Level in Badass: She was basically bottom of the pecking order when she first gets introduced, but after gaining a Stand (and with coaching from Jolyne, Rainbow, and Ermes) she starts to come into her own and become more confident.
- Welcomed to the Masquerade: She's not a natural Stand user but did have Stand potential. So when she's given the Stand disc for Foo Fighters, it proves compatible and becomes her own Stand.
- Why Am I Ticking?: During her introduction, she gets close to Rainbow's flight field when the guard who has the Like A Virgins' base unit gets too far from the group. When she realizes it's stopped ticking, Rainbow, Ermes, and Jolyne realize the only reason it hasn't exploded is because of Rainbow's Stand. Cue Ermes using Kiss to break the band off and toss it as far away from them as possible.
Wes Bluemarine
Wes Bluemarine/Domenico Pucci
Stand: Weather Report
A mysterious man with no recollection of his past.
His Stand, Weather Report, is named after the jazz group Weather Report. In relation to its name, Weather Report is capable of manipulating the atmosphere in order to summon various weather phenomenon such as rain, wind, and lightning.
His secondary ability, Heavy Weather, is named after an album by Weather Report. One of the most dangerous abilities in existence due to its automatic nature, as well as being an ability that activates unconsciously, it creates rainbows that instill hallucinations that make people think they're turning into snails.
- Adaptational Angst Downgrade: His canon past still occurred, but a chance encounter with a much younger Rainbow Dash made him target his rage solely at Pucci.
- Adaptational Nice Guy: Thanks to Rainbow, he's lost his hatred of humanity, removing his Ax-Crazy attitude from canon.
- Amnesiac Dissonance: Without his Memory disc, he comes off as completely emotionless and scatterbrained. Once he gets it back, he starts to show a more sociable side to himself.
- Forgiven, but Not Forgotten: Once Pucci explains his actions that led up to Wes losing his memories, he ultimately buries the hatchet with his brother. But he still opposes him for the sake of the world.
- Foreshadowing: He only knows his crime is attempted murder due to his privilege card. Later on, we find out the person he was trying to kill is his own brother, Enrico Pucci.
- Incest Is Relative: Heavily averted. Wes is not happy to learn that his First Love was his biological sister, and his friends are similarly disturbed.
- No Sense of Personal Space: Has a tendency to lean in close to someone when talking, with Emporio explaining it's because he doesn't open his mouth much when talking.
- Power Incontinence: The only control he has over Heavy Weather is the ability to shut it off once he gets his rage under control.
- Second Love: He eventually winds up in a relationship with Rainbow.
- Semantic Superpower: As he explains, even something as simple as a sunny day counts as a facet of weather, giving him a vast arsenal of abilities to pull from as needed.
- Spared by the Adaptation: Like everyone else in Jolyne's team, he manages to survive the final confrontation with Pucci.
- That Man Is Dead: Subverted. He decides to stay as Wes Bluemarine, but does express an interest in reconnecting with his birth parents.
Narciso Anasui
Narciso Anasui
Stand: Diver Down
A man who had been convicted for killing his girlfriend, who cheated on him.
His Stand, Diver Down, is named after an album by Van Halen. It is capable of phasing through objects and manipulate their insides, as well as store its strikes on any surface as traps that Anasui can activate at will.
- Adaptational Nice Guy: He's still a convicted murderer, but he actually plead guilty and regrets killing his ex and the man she cheated with. He's also less of a yandere for Jolyne, ensuring their relationship winds up much healthier compared to canon.
- Anti-Hero: He's more willing to help the crew than canon, but he's also the first one to suggest violence as a solution to an enemy. Depending on the enemy the others might agree with him, but they might also consider it going too far.
- Chekhov's Skill: He has a talent for disassembling anything, even living beings. So at the encouragement of his uncle Funny Valentine, he chooses to aid Jolyne and her friends in disassembling Pucci's plans.
- Everyone Has Standards: He starts to get concerned when Jolyne (under the effects of Survivor) starts to exhibit a more violent personality.
- Mythology Gag: He admits that he sometimes uses his Stand to change his body into that of a woman just to see what it feels like. His first appearance in the manga was that of a woman.
- No-Sell: Thanks to his Stand's ability, he's immune to C-Moon's gravity powers.
- Official Couple: Unlike in canon, he and Jolyne do end up hooking up at the end.
- Spared by the Adaptation: He and the rest of Jolyne's team manage to survive the final confrontation with Pucci.
- Violence Really Is the Answer: When the gang needs to infiltrate the punishment ward of the prison, Anasui notes the best way to do that is to get sent there deliberately. Subverted in that he volunteers to do so himself, since he's the only convicted murderer among the group and thus wouldn't suffer as much from it. And he does make sure to stash a ghost object holding the rest of the team so they can be smuggled inside with him.
Green Dolphin Residents
Enrico Pucci
Enrico Pucci
Stand: Whitesnake, C-Moon, Made in Heaven
A Catholic priest who is secretly one of DIO's closest allies.
His Stand, Whitesnake, is named after the band Whitesnake. It allows Pucci the ability to steal a person's soul, which comes in the form of two discs (one for memories and one for the person's Stand).
His second Stand, C-Moon, is named after the song "C Moon" by Wings. After fusing Whitesnake with the Green Baby, Pucci trades out his previous Stand's abilities for ones relating to gravity.
His third Stand, Made in Heaven, is named after an album by Queen. Upon the completion of DIO's formula for Heaven, Pucci's Stand further evolved into this, which grants him the ability to accelerate time.
- Adaptational Early Appearance: Subverted in that he never appears on-screen, but he does take the time to contact his fellow priest Kirei Kotomine during A Gentleman, A Thief, A King, and A Hero to warn him about the Court of Owls.
- Adaptational Wimp: Made in Heaven winds up only able to accelerate time for five seconds due to a fatal flaw in DIO's formula that was never accounted for.
- Big Bad: As in canon, he's this for Stone Ocean.
- Brought Down to Badass: Giorno uses Gold Experience Requiem to strike Made in Heaven and undo the formula that created it, reverting it back to C-Moon, and then Whitesnake.
- Didn't See That Coming: He never expected that any part of DIO's formula for achieving Heaven could be flawed, and for the most part it was solid. The only flaw was that Pucci never expected the "Will of Heaven" and "Law of Man" to be one and the same, which it is in the New Universe.
- Early-Installment Weirdness: Made in Heaven is considered an entirely separate Stand from Whitesnake and C-Moon, unlike later Heaven Stands that are considered evolved versions of normal Stands.
- Never the Selves Shall Meet: He's ultimately killed by the effect of Valentine's Stand when he's forced to collide with his canon self, still suffering from oxygen poisoning.
- Poor Communication Kills: He admits that it was his fault for not fully understanding what sort of people he was hiring to keep Wes and his sister (they were dating without realizing they were blood related) from seeing each other, resulting in Wes being hanged and his sister leaping to her death as a result.
- Wrong Genre Savvy: When he saw Atroe helping to cart off D an G, he at first suspected it was actually Foo Fighters using Atroe's body (like in canon) and tries to erase it by removing the Memory disc. He gets a shock when Atroe reveals she's the real deal, and Foo Fighters had simply become her Stand.
Johngalli A.
Johngalli A.
Stand: Manhattan Transfer
A remnant of DIO's followers seeking revenge against the Joestar family.
His Stand, Manhattan Transfer, is named after The Manhattan Transfer. It can read air movements and redirect Johngalli's bullets, ensuring that his shots hit despite his blindness.
- Adaptational Wimp: His true weakness is laid bare thanks to Pucci not being able to steal the Stand disc for Star Platinum, letting Jotaro easily catch a shot fired by Johngalli.
- Crippling Overspecialization: As a sniper, he always gets his target. Despite being blind, he can calculate the parameters needed to hit his target, coupled with his Stand to extend the reach of the bullet. But once he gets desperate enough to get up close, his blindness becomes a weakness and he's not as proficient with mid-range firearms.
- Fatal Flaw: His absolute loyalty to DIO to the point where he couldn't operate unless it was in service to him, even if that meant trying to get revenge. This is in stark contrast to Pucci, who was willing to let go for the sake of accomplishing DIO's final Heaven plan.
- Frame-Up: Attempted against Jolyne, like in canon. Unlike canon, Jolyne's competent legal defense insures the most she's incarcerated for is evidence tampering due to hiding the body of the man Johngalli killed.
- Make It Look Like an Accident: Pucci kills him in such a way that it looks like he committed a murder-suicide against one of the guards.
- Wrong Genre Savvy: When he uses Manhattan Transfer to check the number of people in the visitor's room, he can only detect three and thinks it's Jotaro, Jolyne, and the guard looking after them. In reality, there are five. But Rainbow has her flight field up which messes with Manhattan Transfer's sensory ability, and the guard Ryusei was shrunk by Gwess to the point where he couldn't be detected. Gwess herself was the real third person Johngalli was sensing.
- You Have Failed Me: Pucci kills him for failing to get either Jotaro or Jolyne, and especially for letting slip Pucci's name and giving the New Crusaders a hint to his identity.
Thunder McQueen
Thunder McQueen
Stand: Highway to Hell
A suicidal prisoner at Green Dolphin enlisted by Pucci to target his enemies.
His Stand, Highway to Hell, is named after an album by AC/DC. It can reflect any damage to himself onto anyone nearby as he's attempting suicide.
- Blessed with Suck: A Stand that requires you to kill yourself in order to kill someone else might be perfect for McQueen, but probably not the original user. Pucci was likely doing them a favor by taking it for his own purposes.
- Death Seeker: The reason Highway to Hell is so deadly in his hands, as opposed to the original user. He's suicidally depressed and always looking to kill himself, meaning if he finds someone he wants to bring down with him...
- Laser-Guided Amnesia: He suffers this after Ermes winds up grabbing his Memory disc, which only intensifies his suicidal tendencies.
- Logical Weakness: As Ermes notes, his Stand only triggers if he's trying to kill himself. If someone else, especially his current target, tries to kill him, his Stand won't trigger.
- Obliviously Evil: He only cares about consequences surrounding himself, and not how they affect others. This is what makes Pucci consider him truly evil, since he doesn't realize his own evil.
- Self-Fulfilling Prophecy: He was tasked with dealing with Pucci's enemies in the prison, but after he lost his Memory disc to Ermes, he forgot any knowledge of who those enemies were. When he heard Ermes was looking into him, he assumed she was an enemy (she was really trying to get him to return the money he stole from her). Well, she certainly became his enemy when he tried killing her using his Stand.
- Shout-Out: His final shown suicide attempt (electrocuting himself while covered in saline water) is foiled by Rainbow standing nearby with her flight field active, which nullifies the electricity since it would stop her from flying. Ermes immediately compares it to Pokémon type science (Flying-type being vulnerable to Electric-type).
Miraschon
Miraschon
Stand: Marilyn Manson
A female prisoner with a penchant for lying and stealing. Pucci enlists her aid in trying to retrieve Gwess' Stand disc to stall Jolyne and her friends from targeting him while he completes his plans.
Her Stand, Marilyn Manson, is named after the industrial rock band Marilyn Manson. It only activates after a person has either cheated or lost a bet, taking anything of value from the target, including their organs if the money collected is insufficient (based on how much they're worth on the black market).
- Adaptational Wimp: Rather than the drawn-out fight sequence from canon, she's taken out before she can even properly attack. The girls instead learn how her Stand works from the Stand disc they take from her.
- All There in the Manual: An in-universe example. She's beaten so quickly, the girls have to study her Stand disc to know just what she's capable of.
- Deconstruction: Her Borrowed Catchphrase of "GOOD!" triggers a memory in Jolyne about the time her dad told her of his poker game against D'Arby. This more or less puts the gang on guard against Miraschon.
- Foreshadowing: During the initial gamble she suggests on a game of catch, she deliberately sits near Atroe's water cup. Atroe doesn't even register it, but Miraschon asking about it later reveals that Pucci was under the impression that Foo Fighters had somehow switched sides.
- Greed: She just can't seem to stop stealing and gambling, and always wants more. Pucci takes note of this and decides to try weaponizing it against Jolyne.
- Logical Weakness: Much like in canon, her Stand can only trigger if her target is made to think they cheated. But it works both ways. If she's made to think they didn't cheat, she can't make her Stand work.
- Loophole Abuse: A Fatal Flaw of her Stand. If she's not clear about what is or isn't considered cheating during a contest, her target can argue certain actions they take aren't against the rules she laid out, thus canceling her Stand's collection. Rainbow, for example, calls her out for labelling her a cheater for using her Stand when Miraschon never said they couldn't use Stands.
Lang Rangler
Lang Rangler
Stand: Jumpin' Jack Flash
A calculating but mysoginistic prisoner enlisted by Pucci to stop Jolyne from getting Gwess' Stand disc to the Speedwagon Foundation.
His Stand, Jumpin' Jack Flash, is named after a song by The Rolling Stones. With this Stand, Rangler can inflict zero gravity onto a person, which extends to anything they touch, including air.
- Adaptational Wimp: He's taken out much faster than canon, due to a combination of Rainbow and Wes' Stands completely overmatching his own.
- Didn't See That Coming: He didn't anticipate a Stand like Rainbow's, which pretty much nullifies his zero gravity and centrifugal force. He's also caught off-guard by the fact that I'll Fly has an actual physical form and isn't just the wings Rainbow uses to fly.
- Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: Implied, since Rainbow disengaging her flight field to prevent him from skimming a shot off it to attack the others completely dumfounds him.
- He-Man Woman Hater: He stabbed his female college professor to death and also wanted to kill Rainbow because she annoyed him for being stronger, so it's safe to say women are not his favorite thing in the world.
- Point of Divergence: Thanks to Ryusei, the New Crusaders are able to bring their entire team against Lang, though just Rainbow and Wes are sufficient against him.
- Psycho for Hire: While McQueen was a suicidally depressed wreck and Miraschon was a hedonistic thieving gambler, Lang is a psychotic killer with no qualms about using his Stand to its full deadly potential.
- Super Spit: Since his Stand can manipulate the centrifugal force of any object, he can even turn his spit into a high-projectile weapon.
Sports Maxx
Sports Maxx
Stand: Limp Bizkit
A mobster who killed Ermes' sister Gloria. Pucci recruited him for an important part of his plan for Heaven.
His Stand, Limp Bizkit, is named after the metal band Limp Bizkit. With this, Maxx can revive the dead as invisible zombies.
- But for Me, It Was Tuesday: Averted. He actually remembers killing Gloria, which might have contributed to Ermes feeling fulfilled when she finally got her revenge.
- Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: It never occurred to him that Gloria wasn't going to report him for her own sake, but rather for Ermes' sake (she had wound up passing by the mob execution Maxx had committed that set the whole thing in motion, and Gloria was afraid Ermes would be mistaken for a witness).
- Even Evil Has Standards: He holds nothing but disdain for those who would disrepect women who choose to become prostitutes. Especially those who refuse to pay said women before getting touchy-feely.
- Evil Counterpart: Maxx may be a mobster, but he is nothing like the Neighborhood-Friendly Gangsters of Golden Wind.
- From Bad to Worse: Ermes actually manages to kill Maxx pretty quickly, but he lives just long enough to trigger his Stand, first on his taxidermy (including an alligator), and then on himself...
- Hoist by His Own Petard: He wanted to kill Ermes personally after what she did. Unfortunately, Ermes was counting on that, and made use of his obsession to end him once and for all.
- How Do I Shot Web?: A downplayed case, but he wasn't sure how to use Limp Bizkit to resurrect anything less than a complete body as a zombie.
- Revenge Myopia: When he finds out he's become a zombie thanks to his own Stand's ability, he decides to kill Ermes in retaliation. This in spite of knowing that Ermes only killed him in revenge for her sister.
- Small Role, Big Impact: Pucci gave Maxx the Stand disc for Limp Bizkit in order to use it on the bone Pucci got from DIO. Once it worked, that paved the way for the endgame of the story.
Viviano Westwood
Viviano Westwood
Stand: Planet Waves
One of the guards of the punishment ward of Green Dolphin. He's given a Stand by Pucci and then made to go crazy by Survivor's influence, bringing him into contact with Jolyne.
His Stand, Planet Waves, is named after an album by Bob Dylan. It can draw in meteors from outer space, using Viviano's body as the center of the pull.
- Empowered Badass Normal: There's a reason he's a guard at the maximum-security wing. Even without Survivor driving him Ax-Crazy, and even without a Stand, Viviano is a well-trained guard who could handle anyone, no matter how supernatural they are. Throw in the ability to summon meteors circling the planet, and he becomes a real threat.
- Fights Like a Normal: His Stand never does anything but call in meteors. Instead he takes on Jolyne mano-a-mano, and does a decent job of it. If Jolyne hadn't figured out how his Stand works, he might have been able to take her down.
- Genre Blindness: He's only marginally aware that he's been given a new power, but he's so blinded by battle lust that he can't tell he's just been recruited into a supernatural fight club.
- Killed Offscreen: Implied. He was noted by Pucci to be missing, along with a good chunk of the prisoners, meaning it's likely Viviano was also used as soul fuel for the growth that created the Green Baby.
- See the Invisible: The first hint Jolyne has that Viviano is no ordinary guard is that he can see the strings that make up her Stand.
- Small Role, Big Impact: Pucci set things up so Viviano would become violent and overconfident enough to release all the prisoners in the punishment ward from their cells, paving the way for them to be sacrificed as part of the Heaven formula.
Kenzō
Kenzō
Stand: Dragon's Dream
A former cult leader and practitioner of kenpo, specializing in "Feng Shui Assassination" techniques.
His Stand, Dragon's Dream, is named after the company of album artist Roger Dean. Functionally, the Stand is based on the concept of feng shui, capable of directing both Kenzō and his opponent towards lucky and unlucky spots, which determine if their respective attacks will either hit or miss.
- Awesome, but Impractical: It's implied that he still practices homeopathy, including urine therapy. Gross, but hardcore. And yet the series shows there's far more efficient methods of extending one's lifespan. Hamon is a Difficult, but Awesome method that can allow one to live for centuries. Stone mask vampires are practically immortal unless something kills them. Master Wang Fu shows up in the story, and we know he has a much more healthy lifestyle that's allowed him to live for over a century while looking much younger than Kenzō. Heck, the very next story, Spirit Tracks, has a Stand user whose Stand grants him Complete Immortality.
- Boring, but Practical: His plan to gain fame by killing Rainbow so that he may regain his former status is... That he'll have Pucci spread news of his piety and glory in exchange for said assassination. Rainbow is actually impressed that his goal isn't delusion-based.
- Dramatically Missing the Point: He hates that his Stand is a Fair-Play Villain, completely forgetting that it was his own soul and belief in the power of feng shui (which is all about balance) that created Dragon's Dream in the first place.
- Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: He thinks so little of other people that he considers Rainbow beating up thugs for Scootaloo an idiotic endeavor.
- Evil Old Folks: He just might be the oldest human villain ever faced in the series (the only villains who are older are such through supernatural means).
- Hated by All: Even the worst scum of the punishment ward think he's depraved. Keep in mind this includes child murderers and Neo-Nazis. That should give a good idea how much of a scumbag he is.
- Man of Kryptonite: Subverted. With Dragon's Dream guiding him, he could find the best spots to pierce through Rainbow's flight field... If it wasn't for the fact that Rainbow can completely throw off his feng shui with Hamon.
- Underestimating Badassery: He sees Rainbow as nothing more than a street urchin. She's actually co-owner of the Speedwagon Foundation, a world-wide organization with far more influence than Kenzō could ever hope to achieve.
D an G
D an G
Stand: Yo-Yo Ma
An ex cop who went on a killing spree following Second Impact.
His Stand, Yo-Yo Ma, is named after Chinese cellist Yo-Yo Ma. It primarily acts as a servant to others, helping them out with whatever they need. This is ultimately nothing more than a facade though, as Yo-Yo Ma is only doing this to get people to drop their guard, allowing it to kill them with its acidic saliva.
- Bodyguard Betrayal: How his Stand operates. Yo-Yo Ma bends over backwards to be helpful in an effort to make a target let their guard down, at which point it kills them using its acid saliva.
- Didn't See That Coming: Yo-Yo Ma winds up dumbstruck that Rainbow's Stand keeps the insects it uses to transport its acid from properly landing on Jolyne and Anasui. Heck, her flight field actually keeps its primary ability from working at all.
- Dies Differently in Adaptation: Instead of getting his head torn off, Atroe simply caps him in the head with a water bullet.
- Going Postal: Like in canon, he thought that the world would end as predicated by Nostradamus. The difference is the year, as this prophecy was in regards to Second Impact in 2000, rather than 1999.
- Inelegant Blubbering: When he gets hit by the trap that once was Guccio, his arm gets ripped off, prompting him to bawl like a baby.
- Nigh-Invulnerability: The team learns this the hard way after Yo-Yo Ma swallows the pod with the Green Baby still in its fetal state and they try to retrieve it.
- Powers Do the Fighting: Since Yo-Ya Ma is an independent Stand, all D an G has to do is tell it who to kill and wait. He spends most of the fight against it completely unconscious.
- Stomach of Holding: Yo-Yo Ma winds up swallowing the pod of the Green Baby (likely to have it returned to Pucci once its assassination attempt was done) and can hold mosquitos safely in its mouth.
Guccio
Guccio
Stand: Survivor
A prisoner tasked by Pucci with causing all the prisoners and guards in the punishment ward to fight each other in order to provide the fuel needed for the Heaven ritual.
His Stand, Survivor, is named after the rock band Survivor. Considered by DIO to be the weakest Stand ever, its only ability is to generate a weak electrical impulse that increases aggression in others.
- Blessed with Suck: Survivor is noted to be the absolute weakest Stand in existence because its ability is too basic, has no practical applications, and activates automatically without its user's consent. And it just makes a potential enemy stronger, so you can't use it to defeat them.
- Dropped a Bridge on Him: Anasui was suspicious of him (though he admits he'd be suspicious of any of the prisoners outside their group), so he turned Guccio into a trap rather than trust him outright.
- Major Injury Underreaction: He's completely calm for a guy that winds up with his ribs outside his body, only complaining that Pucci never really read them in on his plan.
- Powers Do the Fighting: He was only tasked with making everyone in the punishment ward fight to the death using Survivor, so he did. Otherwise he's a complete wimp.
- O.O.C. Is Serious Business: What makes Anasui suspicious of him is that he's completely terrified (or at least acting like it) while a Stand that makes people super aggressive is likely still in play.
- This Looks Like a Job for Aquaman: DIO had no use for Survivor's power since it was too weak and had no practical applications. Luckily, Pucci had the perfect use for it, so he took it from its original user (who likely thanked him for the favor) and gave it to Guccio. Since the man was already a Doom Magnet, this Stand was perfect for causing a prison riot suitable to provide the souls needed to fuel the Heaven formula.
Miuccia "Miu Miu" Miuller
Miuccia "Miu Miu" Miuller
Stand: Jail House Lock
The warden of Green Dolphin Prison, who often pretends to be one of the prisoners in order to stop potential break-out attempts.
Her Stand, Jail House Lock, is named after the song "Jailhouse Rock" by Elvis Presley. With this Stand, Miu Miu can make her targets incapable of remembering more than three things at a time.
- Batman Gambit: Used against her. Since Ryusei is aware of how her Stand operates, he sets things up so that her targets only do three things at once, only switching to a fourth when absolutely necessary. He also deliberately instructs Jolyne and Rainbow to fake a breakout using their Stands in order to lure her into the open.
- Control Freak: She was determined to maintain control of the prison by hindering Jolyne as much as possible. Unfortunately, she couldn't do much against Ryusei since he knew how to counter her Stand and had connections with the Speedwagon Foundation, which could easily override her control.
- Disc-One Final Boss: She's the last obstacle Jolyne and her friends need to overcome in order to leave Green Dolphin Prison, before the pursuit of Pucci and confrontation with the sons of DIO.
- Heart Is an Awesome Power: While her Stand's power sounds lame on paper (restricting a person to only three memories), it's proven capable of keeping an entire prison's worth of Stand users from ever escaping.
- I Never Said It Was Poison: Inverted. When Rainbow accuses her of working for Whitesnake (she doesn't mention Pucci directly since he's a Villain with Good Publicity), Miu Miu tries to play it off by pretending to think Rainbow was talking about the rock band Whitesnake is named after.
- Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: She clears the path to Emporio's ghost room of distractions so Jolyne and Rainbow can get there easily, but that just allows them to keep their focus and make it easier to deal with her in the long-term.
- Oh, Crap!: Her reaction when she finds out Rainbow's flight field can safeguard her memory from Jail House Lock's power.
- Pragmatic Villainy: Following the incident with Sports Maxx, Miu Miu wanted to keep Jolyne in solitary. But she backed down when Ryusei threatened to have the Speedwagon Foundation investigate her claims. In the end, she couldn't risk allowing hundreds of prisoners released, even temporarily, just to maintain control over one.
Children of DIO
The Green Baby
The Green Baby
Stand: Green Green Grass of Home
A homunculus created from the last remaining bone of DIO's body. It's an important component in the Heaven formula.
Its Stand, Green Green Grass of Home, is named after a song by Porter Wagoner. It weaponizes Zeno's dichotomy paradox in the form of continuously shrinking anyone or anything that approaches the Green Baby down to infinitesimally nothing.
- Adaptational Origin Connection: As noted by DeKurliss, the bone of DIO that was used to create it belonged to George Joestar II in this story, rather than Jonathan Joestar like in canon.
- Fight Unscene: The battle against Green Green Grass of Home largely remains the same, so the scene is instead told from Rainbow's perspective (her Stand allowing her to remain her proper size so long as she's hovering) with her wondering how she can safely get the Green Baby's attention.
- Fusion Dance: Not only is its creation the work of two Stands working together (Limp Bizkit and Survivor), Pucci also recites the phrases he memorized from DIO's diary to fuse with the Green Baby itself to further the path to Heaven.
- Incredible Shrinking Man: Its Stand, designed to protect it until it can reunite with DIO's "friend" (i.e. Pucci), will continuously shrink down anything that tries to get too close.
- Simple Solution Won't Work: When the gang finally manages to retrieve it, Anasui suggests just destroying it. But Wes points out they likely wouldn't be able to, since it's a homunculus created from the remains of a vampire.
- Transflormation: Its formation causes anything nearby to be turned into trees. Though if they can stay out of the sun long enough, they'll revert back once the Green Baby has finished forming.
Ungalo
Ungalo
Stand: Bohemian Rhapsody
DIO's son through Midler, and one of Giorno's half-brothers. An unfortunate drug addict who holds a deep-seated hatred for the world.
His Stand, Bohemian Rhapsody, is named after a song by Queen. This Stand is capable of bringing fictional characters to life, no matter if it's a cartoon, anime, or a piece of art/drawing, and anyone who empathizes with these characters will find themselves drawn into their respective stories.
- Adaptational Expansion: The story shows how Bohemian Rhapsody was affecting the Joestar home, with Jotaro and Fluttershy having to deal with Action Commander Osogain alongside the Gokaigers. In fact, due to the fanfiction nature of the story, mtnetsurfer was able to reference far more fictional media than Araki could.
- Connected All Along: He mentions having been to Italy before and getting to enjoy "the good stuff", meaning he likely bought the narcotics created by Massimo Volpe.
- Death by Adaptation: Like in canon, he simply fell into a vegetative state once his Stand was forcibly deactivated. Only this time, he was heading for Naples hoping to meet Giorno, and Passione had strict instructions to "finish him off".
- Didn't Think This Through: He activated his Stand just to cause worldwide chaos, completely forgetting that the very mechanics of his Stand would mean minimal casualties, since most people imagine themselves as the hero in fictional stories.
- Even Evil Has Loved Ones: When he heard about his half-brother Giorno, he showed an eagerness to meet him. Unfortunately for him, Giorno didn't share the sentiment.
- Irony: Midler had spoiled and sheltered Ungalo for all of his life. This only led to a downward spiral as getting his first real adrenaline experience (through drugs) left him a temperamental addict.
- Nothing Is Scarier: Rainbow is concerned about what might happen if the nature of Bohemian Rhapsody gave someone a Death Note (ironically, Light Yagami and the Death Note would show up in the series for real, albeit taken out quickly).
- Related in the Adaptation: His mother was unknown in canon, but in this story it's confirmed to be Midler of the Tarot Assassins.
Rikiel
Rikiel
Stand: Sky High
DIO's son through Mariah, and Giorno's half-brother. Went through much of life lacking in self-confidence.
His Stand, Sky High, is named after a song by Jigsaw. It lets him attract and control cryptids known as rods (a.k.a sky fish), which absorb body heat as food.
- Determinator: A positive quality he inherited from his father DIO. He never gives up trying to beat Jolyne until his body and soul finally give out and die.
- Family of Choice: After Rikiel's death, Joseph chooses to have him buried in the family cemetery as a Joestar.
- Foil: To Giorno. Both are not the evil entity their father was (Rikiel is only helping Pucci out of gratitude for getting his life in order), and both of them inherited DIO's best traits (Giorno inherited DIO's charisma, while Rikiel inherited his determination). But while Giorno rejected his father's legacy and sided with the Joestar half of his lineage, Rikiel decided to help Pucci at least once.
- Graceful Loser: When he finally succumbs to his injuries, he acknowledges that Jolyne was the one meant to win and gives her vital information regarding the connection between Wes and Pucci, as well as Pucci's plans.
- Irony: Mariah coddled her son for most of his life, and likely treated his odd symptoms without looking for the cause. As a result, he spent most of his life an emotional wreck due to not being able to comprehend how the sky fish were affecting him.
- Real After All: In reality, sky fish (or "rods") don't exist and are just a phenomenon created by insects flying past a camera lens faster than the camera's shutter speed. This is acknowledged in-universe, but in this story, sky fish turn out to be real cryptids.
- Related in the Adaptation: His mother wasn't known in canon, but here it's confirmed to be Mariah of the Ten Glory Gods.
- Wham Shot: During his fight with Jolyne, part of his clothes get burned away (Jolyne had willingly set herself on fire to prevent the sky fish from being able to target her). The result is that Ermes gets a good look at Rikiel's star-shaped birthmark and realizes it's the same as the one that spontaneously appeared on Wes.
Donatello Versus
Donatello Versus
Stand: Under World
DIO's son through Enya, and Giorno's half-brother. The closest to DIO in terms of mentality.
His Stand, Under World, is named after the British rock band Underworld. This Stand allows him to read and animate "memories" that lie within the ground.
- Aborted Arc: Presumably Pucci was noting the similarities in their biometrics so he could use Donatello as a body double to escape if need be. But that proved to be unnecessary in the end, so the testing went nowhere.
- Big Bad Wannabe: He wants to play The Starscream and take his father's legacy for himself, feeling that Pucci is unworthy. Unfortunately, he's not strong enough, and ultimately dies when confronted by his half-brother Giorno.
- Cosmic Plaything: For all the good he had in his life, the universe sure liked to spit on him, since his latent Stand tended to get him in trouble with the law on a regular basis, culminating in him getting shot in the leg during an attempted burglary.
- Crossover Relatives: His canon mother was unknown, but here it's confirmed to be Enya Geil. Which, by extension, makes him J. Geil's younger brother.
- Dies Differently in Adaptation: Here he gets killed by Giorno due to shock from pain, his senses overclocked by Gold Experience while suffering a No-Holds-Barred Beatdown.
- Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas: When he hears that Tomomi had recently killed Midler and Mariah, he starts to grow concerned about his own mother Enya.
- Even Evil Has Loved Ones: At one point he had a good relationship with a girl from his high school. It must have been a serious relationship too, since it ultimately resulted in a son.
- Evil Counterpart: To Giorno. Neither of them knew their father DIO, yet grew up with incredible similarities to him. Unlike Giorno, however, Donatello decided to remain faithful to his Brando blood and try to pick up where his father left off.
- Point of Divergence: Zucchero's presence on the flight Donatello traps Jolyne and Atroe on ruins Donetallo's plans, since Zucchero using Soft Machine to save far more passengers gives the heroes a much wider opening to escape when the plane's memory of crashing plays out.
- Spoiled Sweet: Despite being an enemy, the fact that it was Enya who raised him meant he actually led a cushy life and even briefly had a girlfriend of his own. Given his mentality is similar to DIO's, it would be as if DIO was raised by his mother.
