Characters / JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: DIO's Household

JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Main Character Index
Phantom Blood: DIO
Battle Tendency: Joseph Joestar
Stardust Crusaders: The Joestar Group (Jotaro Kujo | Jean-Pierre Polnareff) | Egypt 9 Glory Gods | DIO's Household
Diamond is Unbreakable: Heroes | Yoshikage Kira
Golden Wind: Team Bucciarati (Giorno Giovanna) | La Squadra di Esecuzioni | The Boss
Stone Ocean: Heroes | Enrico Pucci
Steel Ball Run
JoJolion: The Higashikata Family
The JOJOLands
One-Shot Characters | Spinoff Characters

The Joestar Group on the outskirts of DIO's mansion.

DIO's servants who are specifically stationed to his mansion, unless he sends them out for fieldwork against the Joestar Group.

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Enya the Hag

Enya Geil (Stand: Justice)

Voiced by: Reiko Suzuki (TV anime and All-Star Battle R), Katsue Miwa (All-Star Battle), Rika Fukami (OVA), Sanae Takagi (Heritage for the Future video game) (Japanese), Kathy Garver (OVA), Barbara Goodson (TV Anime) (English)

^Justice

^{Disguised Form (OVA exclusive)}

"Can you punch the fog with your fist? Or cut the fog with a sword, or shoot it with a gun?! I don't think so! Absolutely futile. There's nothing you can do but accept your fate!"

The elderly mother of J. Geil, and one of DIO's most loyal followers. She is named after Enya.

Her Stand, Justice, can possess dead bodies by inhabiting them with a strange mist-like substance — essentially turning them into zombies — and can also control living victims by entering through any wounds they have recently sustained.

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• Alas, Poor Villain: Her death at the hands of Steely Dan was horrifyingly gruesome and pitiful. Even the Joestar Group thought that she didn't deserve to die in such a manner.
• Avenging the Villain:
  • Tries to take vengeance for her son J. Geil's death.
  • Despite her showing zero kindness towards them, Jotaro thought her death was so horrible that he tells Steely Dan to ask forgiveness from her before beating the shit out of him.
• Badass Boast: "Justice will triumph!".
• Breaking Old Trends: She too, has a flesh bud inside her. But unlike Kakyoin and Polnareff, whose flesh buds altered their personality and made them fanatically loyal to DIO, hers was purely an insurance policy, and by all accounts was ALREADY completely dedicated to DIO with minimum or no change in her personality.
• Call-Back: Her zombie town is eerily similar to DIO's shenanigans in Windknight's Lot back from Phantom Blood.
• The Cameo: In Part 4, she's holding the Stand Arrow on a photograph. In Part 5, a flashback showed she received the arrow and meeting Diavolo in Egypt.
• Composite Character: In the OVA, she's blended with Nena.
• Cruel and Unusual Death: She's eaten alive from the inside out by DIO's flesh buds.
• Doting Parent: To J. Geil, though she tends to forget how monstrous a person he truly is, but we might know who he gets it from.
• The Dragon: Out of DIO's servants she seems to be his most trusted and loyal one (other than Vanilla Ice), even serving as his confidant and the one who informed him of how Stands work and bestowing his own Stand upon him. Then he decides Enya is a liability to be eliminated after her defeat to the Joestar group.
• Dub Name Change: An odd version. In the original Japanese, characters refer to her as "Enya-Ba", with "ba" being a Japanese suffix that refers to an older woman; thus, they're essentially calling her "Granny Enya". Both Viz and Crunchyroll integrated the "ba" into her name, making it "Enyaba". Additionally, Viz gave her her son's surname Geil, while Crunchyroll didn't because they had to change his name too.
• Et Tu, Brute?:
  • She's been nothing but loyal to DIO, so she feels betrayed when he decides she's outlived her usefulness.
  • She also feels that Hol Horse betrayed her and J. Geil by leaving him to die at the hands of the heroes.
• Evil Counterpart: In a way is this to Avdol, as they both are fortunetellers that name Stands and wear somewhat similar clothing, despite never interacting.
• Evil Genius: Enya's a calculating and clever old witch and in the context of DIO's criminal organization as a whole she worked behind the scenes as one of the key administrators behind several of his schemes. She was the one who had the deep understanding of Stands that got DIO invested in them and helped him to better understand them. She organized the seven man strong attack on the Joestar Group after Polnareff joined them. It was Enya who distributed the Stand Arrows to their agents, like Yoshihiro, so they could continue DIO's plans.
• Evil Old Folks: Can you believe that it's possible to see a resemblance between her and her son because of this?
• Evil Sounds Raspy: She speaks with a stereotypically hag-like croak.
• Fatal Flaw: Enya is ultimately done in by her her presumptions of others.
  • She went to kill the Joestar Group herself, believing they, particularly Polnareff, were wrong in killing her son- in spite of being an unrepentant murderer and rapist. She also assumed that because she was one of the closest people to DIO himself, he wouldn't try to kill her- only to be killed for that exact reason- being in his personal circle meant she could potentially reveal the nature of his Stand- if she was deemed a liability- to her shock.
• Faster Than They Look: She's a tiny, elderly woman, but she's FAR faster than she looks, which is lampshaded.
• Faux Affably Evil: With the exception of DIO and her son, her good cheer and politeness is merely a ruse to lure her victims closer into where she has an advantage over them. By the time Polnareff — J. Geil's killer — gives her a shoulder massage while asking if she has any children and jokingly asking if he could be her adopted grandson afterwards, it's clear she's only barely holding back an Unstoppable Rage.
• Gypsy Curse: She fits the character type associated with this trope suspiciously well; she's a fierce, dark-skinned old lady with a penchance for witchcraft, murder and scamming people. Also worth noting is that she makes a cameo early in Part 7 as a fortune teller.
• He Knows Too Much: This is why DIO has Steely Dan execute her. Despite her loyalty, they don't trust even her to not reveal the nature of The World.
• Horrible Judge of Character: Enya wanted the Joestar Group dead for DIO's sake, but it became personal when her son died, leading to her wanting to avenge him- accusing them of being underhanded in dealing with her beloved son. Said son was an unrepentant mass murderer who gleefully raped young women on a regular basis- thus killing him to prevent further murders.
  • A more severe example would be with DIO. She had assumed that due to being one of his various Co-Dragons, that he wouldn't attempt killing her if she ever became a liability. It becomes shocking to her at least, that DIO would have her killed exactly for that same reason- with that closeness in his inner circle resulting in her knowing his Stand's secrets.
• I Never Told You My Name: What gave her away to Jotaro was when she knew Joseph's last name even though they never mentioned their names to her, indicating that she already knew who they were and was expecting them. His suspicions were later confirmed when she called Jotaro by name as well. She tries to make an excuse by reading from the guest book, only for Jotaro to reveal that the whole gang wrote under fake names.
• It's All About Me: Enya's motivation for avenging her son, not out of a sense of justice as Polnareff accuses, but because the loss hurt her. See Moral Myopia below.
• It's Personal: While she was always going to have the Joestar Group killed in order to remove a threat to DIO, it became a more intimate as one of them killed her son.
  • It's subtly deconstructed as it's implied DIO not only had her killed to secure his secrets remained hidden, but also due to prioritizing her own goals over securing valuable information on her boss at any cost—killing oneself if needed—such as the case of N'Doul.
• I Was Quite a Looker: A younger version of her shows up in the OVA prequel and indeed she was much easier on the eyes. See for yourself◊. However, it could simply be a form that she adopted considering that her OVA incarnation is a Composite Character of herself and Nena.
• Large Ham: She likes to talk about the power of her Stand, that's for sure.
• Leave Him to Me!: In the OVA, she rescues Hol Horse from Polnareff in her Nena disguise, but purely so she can get him herself for watching J. Geil be killed and then abandoning him. While Enya doesn't succeed in killing him, she does render Hol Horse comatose by forcing him to shoot himself with Emperor.
• Miniature Senior Citizens: A photograph of her in Part 4 shows her carrying the Bow and Stand Arrow. The Bow is a normal-sized recurve bow. It's as tall as she is.
• Moral Myopia: Invoked by her. Polnareff killed her son, and that makes him the bad guy. The fact that J. Geil was literally a rapist and serial killer to begin with, having murdered an unknown number of girls before Sherry, is irrelevant to the calculations.
• Necromancer: Enya can have Justice infect corpses with its fog allowing her to raise them as zombies.
• Nigh-Invulnerability: Justice is made of fog so its impossible to hurt even with other Stands. Jotaro gets around this usually broken ability by having Star Platinum inhale Justice causing Enya to suffocate.
• Never Mess with Granny: Keeps up with Silver Chariot armed with only a pair of scissors, and surprises Jotaro with how fast she can run, despite her advanced age.
• People Puppets: Justice can possess people through their wounds.
• The Philosopher: She can keep up with DIO's philosophizing.
• Precision F-Strike: In the OVA, she has such a moment.
  Enya: Goddamn it, I'll fucking kill you [all]!
• Psycho Supporter: Fanatically loyal to her lord, DIO. The feeling is not shared.
• Red Right Hand: Much like J. Geil, Enya and her Stand have two right hands.
• Revenge Myopia: Enya explicitly says she doesn't care what her son did to invite Polnareff's wrath, only that Polnareff killed him.
• Roaring Rampage of Revenge: After Nena and ZZ fail to bring down Polnareff and the rest of the Joestar Group, she decides she has to avenge her son herself. Reaches Revenge Before Reason levels, because she would have had much better chances if she had left the hotel and just sent her army of the dead to take them out.
• Shear Menace: She's a pretty good fencer with those scissors.
• Small Role, Big Impact: She is the reason DIO managed to awake his Stand, The World, thanks to her buying the Stand Arrows from Passione (as revealed in Golden Wind), and it's heavily implied that much of DIO's knowledge of the Stand phenomenon come from her teachings, meaning that if it wasn't for Enya, DIO and none of the Joestars would have awakened their Stands, nor would DIO know about "Heaven", meaning that she is the main reason for the Bittersweet Ending of Stone Ocean. Which is pretty impressive, as she was only a Climax Boss.
• Skull for a Head: Part of Justice's appearance is a giant, fanged skull floating in the mist.
• Synchronization: For some reason when her son dies she suffers the same wounds as him.
• Tarot Motifs: Justice, of which Enya has a very strong yet twisted sense, as shown in how much she believes in the "righteousness" of DIO's cause and how badly she wants to avenge her son. Justice also deals with seeking the truth, which her Stand conceals using a dense fog.
• Underestimating Badassery: She wrote off the Joestar Group as "trash". To say that this was a mistake is a major understatement.
• Undying Loyalty: Completely loyal to DIO, to the point where she refuses to disclose any info about DIO's Stand to Jotaro and the gang even when she finds out that she's just as expendable to DIO as any of the other Stand users and he has her killed to protect his secret.
• Villainous Friendship: She assumed this was the case between herself and DIO, with her being one of his inner circle, giving him the power to call out his Stand, and discussing philosophy with him at times. This turns one-sided on her end as DIO unhesitatingly has her killed to ensure her secrets, treating her as a high-risk source of information that potentially expose him.
• Villainous Lineage: The most likely explanation to why she would avenge her son when he was a twisted murderer. She's pretty sinister herself and worships someone like DIO, after all.
• Worf Had the Flu: According to DIO's Diary, the flesh bud that was implanted into her caused her to not be as effective as she normally would be without it, explaining her performance against the Joestar Group in spite of being one of DIO's Co-Dragons.
• Wicked Witch: She's known as "Enya the Hag" for her witch-like appearance, being a ugly and tiny evil old woman with supernatural powers.
• You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: DIO disposes of her the moment she's defeated.
• You Killed My Father: Inverted; she swears revenge against Polnareff (and, through his inaction, Hol Horse) for killing her son.
• Zombie Apocalypse: She controls a localized zombie army through Justice.

Vanilla Ice

Vanilla Ice (Stand: Cream)

Voiced by: Show Hayami (TV anime, Heritage for the Future video game (Console), Eyes of Heaven, and All-Star Battle R), Hiroyuki Yoshino (All-Star Battle), Takeshi Aono (OVA), Yuji Kishi (Heritage for the Future video game (Arcade)) (Japanese), Unknown (OVA), Jalen K. Cassell (TV anime) (English)

^Cream

"Do you know what you've done?! I don't care if it was a fake! You forced me to destroy a figure in the form of Lord DIO, and you must answer for that crime! Your life is mine now!"

DIO's right-hand man. He is named after Vanilla Ice.

His Stand, Cream, is a demon that eats itself, forming a moving ball of nothingness that can cut through anything, even solid concrete. It is named after the band Cream.

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• Adaptational Jerkass: While in the anime and manga he was already enough of an obsessive and murderous scumbag, Vanilla Ice is somehow even worse in the OVA version. There, he shows no Villain Respect to Avdol like he did in other adaptations, instead calling him an idiot for sacrificing himself and trying to guilt-trip Polnareff into despair with it before killing him. Likewise, he doesn't even have the excuse of being made to attack the DIO statue for kicking and stomping Iggy; Vanilla Ice had already basically killed him by tearing him in two with Cream, but still brutalised the dying dog afterward simply because he could. Needless to say, it's immensely satisfying when Polnareff and Silver Chariot give the bastard his just desserts by stabbing him hundreds of times then cutting out his brain almost immediately after.
• Adaptational Badass: Despite being a fair bit less powerful in the OVA — as discussed further below — Vanilla Ice can survive in direct sunlight in that adaptation, as shown by the scene where he chases Polnareff into an open courtyard in DIO's mansion.
• Adaptational Wimp: In the OVA, he isn't quite the unstoppable relentless monster he is in the source, even if he has the same amount of kills. It's notable that in this version, Iggy succeeds in his sneak attack and crushes him against a wall, and he only kills Avdol after DIO had already badly wounded him beforehand, left him unable to move out of Cream's way, and cued Vanilla Ice to attack him just after instead of ambushing him. He even dies from Polnareff using Silver Chariot to pierce him full of holes and then slicing the top of his head off; blows which a vampiric Ice could probably have survived, especially considering he'd just been resurrected from completely decapitating himself.
• Ambiguously Brown: He's a special case; no one knows where he comes from, or what his true hair and skin color are. Some adaptations give him dark skin and white hair, while others give him dark hair and pale skin.
• Ambiguously Gay: Is VERY fond of DIO.
• Ax-Crazy: While he presents himself as a reserved and icy foe, he's actually far more emotional than he appears to be and not in a good way. If DIO gets slighted in any way (as in even as arbitrary as a sand statue), he loses whatever control he has and goes into a homicidal rage, brutally beating and cursing whoever insults DIO in his vicinity.
• Barbarian Longhair: One of the few villains in the Part who doesn't have some form of mullet.
• Battle Butler: Although Telence is the one who describes himself as such, it's Vanilla Ice who's the most effective and loyal fighter among DIO's servants in Part 3.
• Beating A Dead Player: The Promoted to Playable version of Vanilla Ice from Heritage To The Future does this in one of his win poses. After knocking out his opponent, Vanilla Ice activates Cream and vaporizes the spot they currently are on, along with them. This makes him one of the only two fighters (along with Midler) to flat-out kill an opponent in any of the game's normal win poses.
• Berserk Button: Disrespecting DIO in any way. The reason he delivers such a vicious No-Holds-Barred Beatdown to Iggy is because the latter tried attacking him with a fake DIO made from sand, which he had to destroy to defend himself. As he's doing so, he even says outright that he's dragging it out because it wouldn't be as satisfying to just have Cream kill him instantly.
• Blind Obedience: Unlike many of DIO's minions who share the Undying Loyalty trait, he takes this up a notch, cutting off his head because DIO simply asked him to donate some of his blood to heal up, and flying into a murderous rage when Iggy makes him hit a sand copy of DIO.
  • Turns out this is precisely why DIO decided to trust his plan to "attain Heaven" to Pucci, rather than Ice.
• The Cameo: Vanilla Ice makes a cameo in the first OP for Stone Ocean's anime adaptation, where his death is shown alongside iconic scenes and artifacts from the first five parts.
• Climax Boss: He's the final opponent the Joestar group has to face before DIO himself, and is by far the strongest other than him. He manages to kill both Avdol and Iggy in his fight, and injures Polnareff as well.
• Cruel and Unusual Death: Polnareff exploits the classic vampire weakness of sunlight to disintegrate him. This extends to the OVA as well, where his head is sliced in half.
• Desecrating the Dead: Does this to Iggy in the OVA. Although Vanilla Ice had already technically killed him by using Cream to cut Iggy in half at the waist, he stomps on Iggy's top half and kicks it hard against a pillar; out of both rage at being ambushed when he was about to kill Polnareff and out of pure spite accordingly to both of them. Needless to say, it doesn't end well for him.
• Determinator: Averted. Vanilla Ice thinks he's this after surviving Silver Chariot stabbing him through the mouth and severing the brain stem. In reality, he survived because when DIO resurrected him, he was turned into a vampire in the process.
• Diabolus ex Nihilo: A Stand-user who was also a vampire (something that hadn't encountered yet and only expected from DIO), whose Stand name doesn't fit in either of the Tarot or Egyptian God sets, whose very existence is an unknown factor, and who kills two members and cripples another.
• The Dragon: Well, technically speaking, he shares this post with Telence and Kenny G in terms of being a deadly blockade. but he's the only one we see showing absolute loyalty, to the point of immediately beheading himself in order to supply DIO with the blood he needs.
  • Co-Dragons: Along with Enya the Hag, as both are very loyal to DIO and are very important to the story
• Dub Name Change: He is called Iced in Heritage for the Future and in the OVA. All-Star Battle, the Crunchyroll subs, and Viz translation all call him Cool Ice. Depending on your point of view, it could be a reference to Cool as Ice (a film starring the actual Vanilla Ice), or the song Cold As Ice by Foreigner.
• Dumb Muscle: Downplayed. His stand, Cream is extremely destructive because of its ability to turn into a fast, invisible void that erases anything it comes into contact with; but Vanilla Ice himself is shown to be somewhat absent-minded — owing to not only his fanatical obsession with serving DIO above even his own well-being, but also using his Stand to rip through doors instead of simply opening them — but he does show some use of strategy during his battle, immediately killing Avdol through an ambush and destroying the exits to prevent Polnareff and Iggy from escaping. He also ends up causing his own undoing when all the damage he does to his surroundings enables Polnareff to open a way out of the manor and let sunlight in; eventually using the sunbeam to cripple Ice, then knock him into it to disintegrate him.
• Establishing Character Moment: When he calmly cuts off his own head to provide DIO with blood.
• Evil Gloating: Does this in the OVA after he kills Avdol and has Polnareff dead to rights after injuring him with Cream, insulting the Fortune Teller's memory by calling him stupid for saving Polnareff when he could have survived if he hadn't. He is only foiled at the last moment by Iggy pulling a sneak attack on him.
  Vanilla Ice: It was only for a little while, but you should thank Avdol for extending your life. At that time, if he hadn't pushed you away, you would have been swallowed by the sub-dimension together. He could have survived if he'd tried to escape alone. What an idiot!
  Polnareff: (wounded and lying on the ground) "Idiot", you say...?!
  Vanilla Ice: They say the more foolish you are, the younger you die.
  Polnareff: (appalled, and trying to get up) Y-you...!
  Vanilla Ice: You can still move? But, this is the end. Die as you regret your own stupidity.
• Evil Sounds Deep: In pretty much every adaptation, Vanilla Ice is cast with a low, imposing voice that matches his terrifying Stand and his determination.
• Fatal Flaw: Wrath and fanaticism. He is so slavishly devoted to DIO that any insult to him (real or perceived) causes Ice to fly into a blind rage, and his decision to slowly and violently murder Iggy for invoking DIO's image (instead of just annihilating him with Cream) bought Polnareff crucial time to figure out how his powers worked, which leads to the grievous injury that effectively decided the fight for Polnareff.
• Fluffy the Terrible: Would you believe that the single deadliest antagonist in Part 3 would be named after a much-loathed rapper, or for the source of his powers to be named Cream?
• Freudian Excuse: In the OVA's DIO exposits that Ice, much like N'Doul, was one of many people shunned and ousted from society because they were a Stand user. Following DIO gave him the purpose he never had.
• Hair-Trigger Temper: He's very short-tempered, which Polnareff and Iggy find out the hard way.
• Hate Sink: While he has some undertones of Villainous Valor going for him, it doesn't change the fact that Vanilla Ice is an overly aggressive and irate foe with a wholly unhealthy allegiance to DIO and who killed Avdol and Iggy. The OVA adaptation is worse as Vanilla Ice doesn't even have the aforementioned Villainous Valor going for him, comes off as far more sadistic and contemptuous by mocking Avdol's death and kicking Iggy after he had killed the dog, whose only action in the fight was to crush him against a wall to save Polnareff from a fatal attack.
• Hell Is That Noise: The anime interprets the sound of him going through things with Cream as a harsh buzzing noise, which naturally puts Polnareff and Iggy on edge whenever they hear it coming.
• Hoist by His Own Petard: Polnareff exploits the classic vampire weakness of sunlight by thrusting Vanilla Ice out of the mansion through a hole filled-wall created during Cream's rampage.
• Invisibility: A side effect of Cream's void state: a void is made of nothingness, so there's nothing for his opponents to see. Made more terrifying by the fact that he could instantly destroy anything by mere contact with his cloaked state. The downside of it is that he can't see anything while he's invisible either, forcing him to attack near-blindly in his void state.
• Kick the Dog: Vanilla Ice uses the trope literally on Iggy, multiple times, after he makes him attack a sand statue that resembles DIO.
• Knight of Cerebus: In serious contrast to the ineffective and sometimes comical enemies up to that point. He single-handedly kills off two of the main party and nearly takes out Polnareff as well.
• Laser-Guided Karma: Vanilla Ice murders the sand-manipulating Iggy and completely destroys Avdol's body. He dies by disintegrating into dust and leaves no corpse behind. Similarly in the OVA, he dies by having his head sliced in half by Silver Chariot: similarly to how he'd cut Iggy in two a few moments before.
• Leotard of Power: He wears one, making it one of the rare male examples of this trope.
• Neck Snap: Silver Chariot not only stabs him through the head, it grabs and twists hard enough to snap Vanilla Ice's neck in the process. The fact that Ice survives this is what finally clues Polnareff in to the fact he's been turned into a vampire.
• No-Holds-Barred Beatdown: He delivers a vicious kicking assault to Iggy fueled by his outrage at having to attack the semblance of DIO. In the OVA, he instead delivers it — after already ripping Iggy in two with Cream — on the basis that Iggy succeeded in ambushing him with The Fool, smashing him between a wall and its sand.
• No-Nonsense Nemesis: The only enemy of DIO's followers in Part not to fall prey to Villain Ball. He killed Avdol immediately without the normal Evil Gloating done by the other enemies, and would have got Polnareff as well, if Avdol hadn't saved him at the last moment.
• Non-Indicative Name: Or rather, "Non-Indicative Power". Despite having a name of Vanilla Ice, his powers are instead has The Power of the Void at his disposal from his Cream Stand, while Pet Shop has the expected freezing powers instead. His name itself is more meaningful with his cold, emotionless personality.
• Not Enough to Bury: Vanilla Ice dies when he's disintegrated by a beam of sunlight that Silver Chariot knocks him into; causing him to immediately disintegrate into dust and leaving only his clothes behind. Averted in the OVA, where his dismembered corpse simply slumps to the ground after being pierced full of hundreds of holes and having the top of his head sliced off by Silver Chariot.
• Odd Name Out: One of only two Stands in Stardust Crusaders that isn't named for a major arcana or Egyptian god. However, his Stand is named after a band, which would become part of the standard Musical Theme Naming of Stands after this part.
  • He's also the first rap reference in JoJo. Forever was given his name retroactively later.
• Outside-Context Problem: The group had gone in expecting DIO having only the 9 Glory Gods and the Tarot Card Stands as his guard against the Joestar Group. This makes Vanilla Ice all the shocking- due to be being a Stand user that not only doesn't fit the naming convention of the previous antagonists, but is strictly a No-Nonsense Nemesis who managed to kill two of the heroes- who had survived everything up to this point, and whose esoteric power of swallowing itself to make itself a nigh-undetectable void being a large departure from the Stands being based in physical attributes like body manipulation/elemental manipulation with only a few outliers like Death-13 being dream based, Thoth being a precognitive book, and Osiris/Atum having soul taking and additionally mind reading in the case of the latter.
• Perpetual Frowner: Vanilla Ice is never seen smiling, keeping his face stoic unless his Berserk Button is pushed, owing to his solemn nature.
  • Averted in the Ova where he briefly smirks when gloating to Polnareff on Avdol's seeming Senseless Sacrifice to Polnareff.
• Portal Cut: His Stand sends whatever it touches to another dimension, so anything that's only partially hit by it will be cleanly cut. The only thing left of Avdol are his arms, and Iggy is cruelly cut in half in the OVA.
• Power of the Void: His Stand is able to devour itself and its user to become a void that soars rapidly through the air and consumes everything it comes in contact with.
• Psycho Supporter: His flat-out insane devotion to DIO — to the point of decapitating himself immediately without question to provide his master with fresh blood — is what also makes him unreliable, and causes DIO to entrust his master plan to Pucci instead.
• Punny Name: Though named after two different (groups of) musicians, his name and Stand together play on "vanilla ice cream". Likewise in the English dubs, they can form "iced cream" or "cool ice cream".
• Remove The Head Or Destroy The Brain: How Vanilla Ice dies in the OVA. After he violently cuts Iggy in half before repeatedly stomping the top half of his body and throwing it against a pillar, Polnareff kills him by furiously piercing him full of holes with Silver Chariot, then finishing him off by slicing off the top of his head — namely, where his brain is — to stop him from healing.
• The Renfield: To DIO, the most explicit of the minions, being a loyal human to DIO's vampire, though downplayed as he's soon turned into a vampire shortly within his introduction with a gradual transformation and Enrico Pucci being closer to DIO.
• Sadist: While he's actually more agitated and furious about the predicament, the way Vanilla Ice brutalizes Iggy, namely by repeatedly kicking the dog despite being heavily injured beforehand, announcing his intent on torturing him and even admitting to drawing out Iggy's suffering for the "crime" of disrespecting Dio, is done so in way that suggests that makes it look as if he's relishing and taking pride in his action. In a rare case, Vanilla Ice relishes on being sadistic when he's at his most angry.
• See the Invisible: Polnareff pulls this off against Vanilla Ice in their fight in the OVA and the manga/anime. In the OVA, he lures him to a large pool of water in the courtyard and smashes open a nearby fountain to produce a spray of water and mist that reveals the previously-invisible Cream void's location. In the manga/anime, he disperses Iggy's sand through the room to achieve a similar effect.
• Spotting the Thread: Was initially fooled by Iggy’s fake sand DIO. However, the sneak attack failed because while DIO would complain about the racket from the top of the stairs, he wouldn’t come down to the second floor where sunlight can come through.
• Stripperiffic: Was he a stripper?
• The Stoic: An emotionless being unless you make him hurt DIO in any way.
• Theme Naming: Vanilla Ice, Iced, Cool Ice. The man is indeed cold as ice in all of the names he's known by. Ironically his power has nothing to do with ice or the cold — which instead goes to Pet Shop and his Horus Stand — but arguably the concept of "void" is one that sucks up heat.
• There Was a Door: In his zeal to dispatch Jotaro and his allies after being resurrected by DIO, Vanilla Ice immediately sets Cream into void mode and charges after them, in the process obliterating part of the wall. A probably mildly-annoyed DIO asks, "Couldn't you use the door?".
• Tomato in the Mirror: He doesn't realize DIO had turned him into a vampire until he was moments away from being destroyed by sunlight.
• Undignified Death: For how terrifying and powerful a villain he is, Vanilla Ice gets undone by this in both the manga/anime and OVA; albeit in very different fashions. In the former, he gets two of his limbs burned away by sunlight, leaving him petulantly ranting and raving at Polnareff for it — and insulting DIO in the process — before being lightly bumped by Silver Chariot into a light beam that burns him alive. In the latter, Vanilla Ice instead gets stabbed thousands of times by Silver Chariot's rapier before having his brain cut out, leaving his mutilated corpse to slump to the ground like a sack of potatoes.
• Undying Loyalty: His most defining characteristic, to the point that he literally decapitates himself on the spot with a bucket on hand to provide his master with blood.
• Unrealistic Black Hole: His Stand's power, able to erase whatever is contact with it, made worse in that it is invisible; the strikes are sudden and unavoidable unless you manage to find a method to trace its path. Thankfully, the only other downside is that he can't see either, forcing him to attack blindly.
• Ur-Example: His Stand, Cream, is the very first Stand in the series that follows the musician/band/song/album-themed naming convention for all Stands after Stardust Crusaders.
  • It's also the first Stand to have an explicitly esoteric and unorthodox power that doesn't fit the criteria of physical body manipulation/elemental control like most of the previous Stands in the Part, something future Stands in succeeding parts would emulate.
• Villainous Breakdown: He loses all semblance of composure when he realizes that DIO's blood turned him into a vampire and granted him everything that goes with it; including the weakness to sunlight that Polnareff and Silver Chariot use to cripple and then kill him.
  Vanilla Ice: Wha-What's HAPPENING TO ME?! […] YOU BASTARD! YOU'RE NOT GOING TO BEAT ME!
• Villain Respect: In the Anime and Manga, he gives this posthumously to Avdol. When he believes his fight with Polnareff and Iggy has come to an end, he muses that Avdol could have easily saved himself but instead sacrificed himself to save his friends. For that reason, he attributes the significant injuries he's taken to Avdol, rather than the other two stand users. Averted in the OVA, where he instead mocks Avdol's sacrifice (see Evil Gloating) and tries to guilt-trip Polnareff with said knowledge before telling him that he should "die as he regrets his own stupidity".
• Villainous Valor: He's got a hell of a lot of devotion to DIO, and takes a ridiculous amount of punishment in his fight with Polnareff and Iggy. Downplayed in the second case once it's revealed that it's his newfound vampirism that's mostly been keeping him alive, not sheer determination.
• Wake-Up Call Boss: After several of DIO's Stand users proved either being utterly incompetent or only a threat until their weakness was found out, Vanilla Ice marks the shift into the darker climax with DIO by immediately killing Avdol by erasing him with his stand so the man couldn't come back again, proceeded to fatally wound Iggy, and almost killed Polnareff until the former's intervention.
• White Hair, Black Heart: In the OVA and Heritage for the Future, he has white hair instead of his usual brown.

Pet Shop

Pet Shop (Stand: Horus)

^Horus

"Niahh kawww jah! (I'm not your feathered friend!)"

A sapient falcon working for DIO, whose job is to eliminate anyone who comes to investigate the mansion or even tries to enter it. Brutal, cold, and merciless, he fights Iggy after he stumbles across the location of DIO's mansion. He is named after the Pet Shop Boys.

His Stand, Horus, named after the Egyptian god of the sky, can instantly generate and manipulate ice.

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• Attack Animal: As the guardian of DIO's mansion, he relentlessly pursues and kills anyone who tries to intrude for whatever reason, not discriminating on whether they're intentionally trying to find it or just trespassing. Given his nature, though, it almost makes you wonder if he even needs such a reason to kill in the first place.
• Attack Backfire: He's very vulnerable to this, as the ice generated by Horus can hurt him too if it's somehow redirected at him. Ultimately, he dies via exploding ice bolt trapped in his beak.
• Ax-Crazy: It's clear that he can understand what Iggy's saying about not going near DIO's mansion anymore, he just doesn't care. He wants Iggy dead.
• Brutal Bird of Prey: A vicious falcon and guardian of DIO's mansion who also happens to be a Stand user.
• But for Me, It Was Tuesday: His ending in Heritage for the Future has him successfully killing all of the heroes and allowing DIO to take over everything unopposed: but even then, for the sheer joy of what he does, Pet Shop continues his role as guard bird as if nothing had happened.
• Chained by Fashion: He has a cuff around his neck, which he keeps covered up with his scarf, but the chain attached to the cuff constantly dangles in front of his chest.
• Cruel and Unusual Death: Iggy chomps on Pet Shop's beak while he's conjuring an icicle, causing the ice to expand in its head and kill him. That and the collapsing, flooded tunnel they were in sealed Pet Shop's fate.
• Death Glare: When not outright attacking, a murderous glare is essentially Pet Shop's default expression; effectively showing right off the bat that while he is intelligent enough to understand what Iggy's trying to tell him about not caring for DIO's Mansion, he's evil enough to intend on tearing him to pieces anyway. It's especially unnerving when combined with one of his smiles.
  Iggy: (to himself) Those eyes... that's the thing with birds, you can never tell what they're thinking!
• Dem Bones: Horus is a half-frozen, skeletal bird of prey with multiple arms.
• Determinator: Pet Shop does not stop chasing Iggy until he dies. Part of what makes him so frightening is not only his sheer determination, raging bloodlust and the evident fun he takes in what he does, but how unpredictable he is. Several times he flies off like he thinks he's killed his target or been repelled by a successful attack; only for Pet Shop to turn out to be completely aware they're still alive, then reappear at the worst possible moment and even more determined to kill.
• Dub Name Change: In Eyes of Heaven he's called Animal Shop. An odd example as previous localized works — Heritage for the Future and Crunchyroll dubs — don't change his name.
• Early-Bird Cameo: Makes a small appearance in Episode 5 of the anime, replacing the generic parrot perched on DIO's shoulder in the manga. This was due to how when Araki wrote the original manga, he was yet to plan out the character of Pet Shop at that point; so having DIO's personal attack bird there in a newer adaptation makes a lot more sense than the aforementioned parrot.
• Eyeball-Plucking Birds: When two large dogs attempt to attack him and inflitrate his master DIO's mansion, Pet Shop proceeds to decapitate both dogs with his Stand powers and pluck their eyes out for eating.
• Evil Counterpart: Can be considered this to Iggy: An Intellectual Animal Stand-user with an elemental power that fills a sort of Team Pet role. The difference? Pet Shop, in addition to working for DIO, is utterly ruthless on his job as guardian (he killed a boy's two dogs just because they peeked under DIO's Mansion gate and nearly kills said boy) and is never given a mental speaking line; while Iggy, despite initially feeling that he was dragged against his will to the Crusaders' quest, shows more loyalty to them (and the aforementioned boy who was about to be killed by saving him from Pet Shop, and even gets saved by him in turn) by being a Spanner in the Works (albeit unwittingly), and we get several mental speaking lines from him. To boot, Pet Shop is the only Stand User Iggy fights on his own.
• Evil Is Deathly Cold. And really, it doesn't get much colder than a pitiless, intelligent sadist of a falcon who commands a frozen, half-skeletal bird of prey with cryokinesis.
• Evil Laugh: Despite usually being The Voiceless, Pet Shop pulls off a variation of this if he wins in Heritage for the Future: cawing in a manner that suggests he's chuckling evilly at his latest victim.
• Evil Virtues: Loyalty, resourcefulness and determination. Pet Shop is truly dedicated to his master and keeping his location a secret, and doesn't only target people deliberately scouting the mansion, but also trespassers. He's also more than willing to use any advantage he has to get them.
• Eye Scream: In one memorably-horrifying sequence, Pet Shop uses his beak to tear out the eye of one of the dogs he'd just brutally killed, and slowly eats it in front of his distraught owner.
• Facial Horror: Just before his head explodes from his own forming ice bolt being trapped inside it by Iggy's suicide attack, Pet Shop's beak can be seen cracking to pieces right before he dies.
• Fatal Flaw: Wrath. Pet Shop's sheer determination to kill Iggy, even after the latter offers to leave both him and DIO's mansion alone after initially wounding him, is what ultimately leads to him being killed instead. By extension, it also catalyses Iggy leading the Joestar Group to DIO's mansion; before that, he didn't care at all and even says as much when offering his truce.
• Feathered Fiend: A super-fast sapient guard falcon with ice powers, and a very creepy Sadist to boot.
• Foil: Serves as one to Iggy, both being the Team Pets of their respective sides. However, while Iggy is ultimately a good guy despite caring only for himself and not the Joestar Group's cause, Pet Shop is undeniably evil while also being completely loyal to his master and determined to protect him at all costs. He shows what Iggy may have become if he abandoned his few scruples and was influenced by someone like DIO.
• Gate Guardian: Pet Shop serves as the guardian of DIO's mansion and he will attack and kill anyone who is trying to look for his mansion, intruders or other living beings that are near the mansion. Once Pet Shop dies, DIO lets the Joestar Group in and orders his other servants inside the mansion to handle them.
• Glass Cannon: Pet Shop will generally be this whenever he's a playable character in one of the tie-in games. He's very fast and agile, able to fly and easily trap his opponents in ice, and his damage output in particular is insane. Being a bird though, his durability often tends to be the worst in the game. In Eyes of Heaven, this is an exploitable weakness; although Pet Shop can fly fast to easily avoid most attacks, he has to come down periodically to roost, which a savvy player can use to attack him when he has to land.
• Hoist by His Own Petard: Iggy bites Pet Shop's beak closed before he can fire an ice bolt from his throat, which causes it to expand and eventually burst inside his own head.
• An Ice Person: Horus's powers are ice-based, allowing Pet Shop to use attacks such as a Freeze Ray-like beam that can solidify anything it touches, and launch barrages of razor-sharp icicles like homing missiles.
• Implacable Man: In this case, implacable animal. Iggy tries to lose him several times but he keeps coming regardless. Even trying to hide at the bottom of the deep local river doesn't deter Pet Shop: he just dives in after him and takes full advantage of his species' innate ability to stay underwater for long periods.
• Incorrect Animal Noise: Even though he's a falcon, he sounds more like a vulture in the anime.
• Intellectual Animal: Even though we never know for certain what Pet Shop is thinking, it's clear that — much like Iggy and Forever before him — he is much smarter than an average bird.
• Jump Scare: Pet Shop's fight with Iggy has him pulling several genuinely frightening variations of these. He forces the terrier to retreat several times, and then each time Iggy thinks he's gotten away, Pet Shop either pursues him or is already there to ambush him; even underground and deep underwater.
  Iggy: (while hiding, runs into Pet Shop) AAAAGH! What is this freaking bird's deal?!
• Knight of Cerebus: Especially after the comical duo of Boingo and Hol Horse. Pet Shop has quite the kill count for a bird, killing two dogs as well as a man who helps out the Joestars, and gives Iggy the bloodiest fight up to that point in Part 3. Once he appears, the last two Stand users the group faces give the group the hardest fight they would have. And whereas the other Nine Glory Gods all had their comedic quirks and other aspects that helped dilute the fear factor they had somewhat (even Alessi and Telence T. D'Arby), Pet Shop has no such things. The sheer primal terror of fighting him is played completely straight the whole time.
• Leave No Witnesses: Pet Shop's entire modus operandi. If anyone, regardless of age, species or intention — be they intentionally trespassing or simply stumbling in — crosses the border of DIO's mansion, he'll immediately pursue and mercilessly kill them to keep its true purpose a secret for his master.
• Lighter and Softer: Downplayed. Although Pet Shop is still an absolute terror to fight in Heritage for the Future, some of his now-translated shrieks in his victory quotes give the bloodthirsty bird a snarky and even slightly humorous side to him among all his usual creepiness.
  Pet Shop: Kyooooooon! (It's a little worm!)
  Pet Shop: Gyaaah! (Go back to your coop!)
  Pet Shop: Gyoe! (Leave my tail feathers alone!)
• Lightning Bruiser: Doubles as both this and a Glass Cannon. Although Pet Shop's durability is lacking due to being a bird, his sheer speed and attacking power, combined with his persistence and expansive knowledge of ambushing and killing, makes him a real force to be reckoned with. In the end, Iggy is only barely able to defeat him with an all-or-nothing suicide attack, and would have certainly died as well without the assistance of the boy he'd rescued from Pet Shop earlier.
• Macross Missile Massacre: He can do this by launching several icicles like missiles. To top it off, the icicles will explode and freeze anything they collide with.
• Malicious Misnaming: In the dub, Iggy refers to Pet Shop exclusively in insulting terms like "Tweety", "Feather Boy", and "That Boid" (bird), due to not actually knowing his name.
• Multi-Armed and Dangerous: Horus itself has multiple arms with sharp three-fingered claws, which it often uses to form, hold and then throw Pet Shop's giant icicles when he goes on the attack.
• No-Nonsense Nemesis: Anyone who sets foot on DIO's mansion DIES, no questions asked. Even when Iggy tried to escape, Pet Shop relentlessly chased him down with no intention of stopping until one of them was dead. His brutally, relentlessly efficient fighting style is, in fact, the main thing that makes him one of the most genuinely scary members of the Glory Gods despite his outlandish character concept.
• Oh, Crap!: It's understated, but the look in his eyes when Iggy bites his beak shut and traps the forming ice bolt inside his head shows he knew just how fucked he was.
• Personality Powers: DIO's right-hand falcon can also freeze things, but not in a way that supercedes his master. Being in charge of ensuring no one witnesses their goings-on by killing anyone who steps foot on DIO's property, having ice as his weapon also ensures that there will eventually be no evidence, as it'll melt and evaporate rather quickly thanks to the climate.
• Pragmatic Villainy: In general, only those attempting to look for DIO's mansion or anyone not allied with DIO attempting to set foot on the mansion's grounds will be killed regardless of their intentions. He demonstrates this by letting a civilian go unharmed despite almost getting hit by him, due to the fact that both Iggy was a priority and the man hadn't sought out DIO's mansion.
• Psycho for Hire: While he can't speak, nor can we see his thoughts like Iggy's, it's quite plain that not only is he intelligent, he's flat-out evil. Those dogs, man, geez...
• Psychotic Smirk: Despite being a bird, and therefore theoretically unable to change his expression easily, Pet Shop has this skill down to a T, often combining it with a Kubrick Stare. It goes to show, without any words whatsoever, just how much he enjoys killing and maiming his prey even beyond what's necessary.
• Sadist: It's very clear from his Psychotic Smirk several times during his fight with Iggy that he relishes his duties, particularly enjoying the terror he inflicts on his prey as he actively hunts and corners them, before killing them as violently as possible. In Chapter 11 of Crazy Diamond's Demonic Heartbreak, it's revealed he also froze the gasoline on his original owner's body, lit the gasoline around him on fire with a match, and stabbed him with Horus' icicles until the fire eventually thawed him out and set him on fire. In Josuke's words, Pet Shop was just playing with his prey. And he was grinning during all of it.
• Scarf of Asskicking: Along with his falconry cap, Pet Shop also wears a long, flowing pink scarf.
• Secret-Keeper: Pet Shop not only serves as a gatekeeper, he also prevents knowledge of DIO's location from getting out: as seen when he steals and immediately destroys the photographs of DIO's mansion from the man in the car, after mulching him with a giant icicle.
• Self-Made Orphan: Chapter 10 of Crazy Diamond's Demonic Heartbreak reveals that after he and his brother, Pet Sounds, were taken in by DIO, his first order from DIO was to use Horus to murder his original owner, to which Pet Shop gladly complied and impaled his original owner with a giant icicle. The following chapter showed that he was then burned to death.
• Self-Surgery: Freezes shut a wound that Iggy inflicted on him using the powers of Horus.
• Shown Their Work: The explanation of why Pet Shop has an advantage over Iggy underwater; which is given as the bird pursues him beneath a deep river, just after forcing him to gnaw off his own paw to escape an otherwise-fatal ice trap.
  Narrator: Birds have the capacity to dive underwater. Like humans and canines, birds are reliant upon lungs for respiration, but the average bird has five to six air sacs stored away in its chest and stomach regions. It's these pockets of air that give birds the ability to remain conscious at altitudes of up to six to seven thousand meters: a feat completely impossible for humans! Even if it were to be strangled, a bird can survive for several minutes thanks to its internal air reserves. (cut back to Pet Shop diving after Iggy) With these advantages, a bird can survive underwater much longer than a dog!
• Signature Headgear: He wears a cool-looking feathered falconry cap adorned with his master's heart patterns.
• Super-Persistent Predator: If you enter the grounds of DIO's mansion, you're a target: regardless of whether you were intentionally looking for it or not. Pet Shop chases Iggy all over Cairo, even pursuing him underwater and deep underground to try and get him.
• Team Pet: Pet Shop is what you get when the Team Pet turns evil.
• Uncatty Resemblance: It's pretty subtle, but when he delivers a Psychotic Smirk, he bears a slight resemblance to DIO. Much like his master, he also seems to especially hate dogs.
• Uplifted Animal: Like any animal who gains a Stand.
• The Voiceless:
  • Despite, like Iggy, evidently being highly intelligent for an animal; Pet Shop is never heard thinking aloud, and mostly does his fighting in grim silence. The rare times you do hear him vocalise, they're very creepy distortions of regular bird of prey shrieks and other sounds: up to and including cawing that sounds like gleefully vicious laughter when he scores a kill.
  • Subverted in Heritage for the Future, where some of his screeches are translated in his victory dialogue:
    Pet Shop: Kyaah kaaw nii kyaaah! (Your bones will make me a fine nest!)
    Pet Shop: Kaaw... Kakaaw... Nyaah... (Rest under the shade of this tree...)
• Wicked Heart Symbol: Pet Shop wears a heart on his falconry helmet — not unlike his master who's adorned with them — and shares the same raging bloodlust as him.
• Would Hurt a Child: After the poor kid crawls into DIO's mansion looking for his dogs who have wandered in, Pet Shop dives down and gets ready to tear him apart, just like he'd just done with them. Then Iggy jumps in.
• Your Head A-Splode: It's implied that Iggy trapping a forming ice bolt inside Pet Shop's beak led to this. We don't actually see his head's fragments, though, just his cracking beak, then an explosive cloud while looking at Pet Shop from behind.

Hol Horse

Hol Horse (Stand: Emperor)

Voiced by: Hidenobu Kiuchi (TV anime, Eyes of Heaven, Last Survivor, and All-Star Battle R), Hōchū Ōtsuka (All-Star Battle), Keiichi Nanba (CD drama), Norio Wakamoto (OVA), Yoshito Yasuhara (Heritage for the Future video game), Roger L. Jackson (OVA), Imari Williams (TV Anime) (English)

^Emperor

"I am Hol Horse, a pistol user! My card is the Emperor, and I'm second in a pair! With another, I shine! But with a kid... will I be alright?"

An ambitious travelling gunslinger mercenary of DIO's, who makes a point of always working with others. He's initially partnered with J. Geil, but later teams up with Boingo. He is named after Daryl Hall & John Oates.

His Stand, Emperor, manifests itself as a large ornate revolver. It can shoot bullets. Bullets which he can actually direct in flight with both unlimited ammunition and very little recoil; but thanks to being a close-range Stand, have a somewhat limited effective range for a firearm.

He is one of the main characters of the 2021 Spin-Off manga series JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Crazy Diamond's Demonic Heartbreak.

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• Adaptational Badass: In the anime/manga, he's a conniving, near-completely incompetent and shameless coward who, beneath his bluster, often ends up being far more amusing than he is threatening. In his video game appearances — especially in Heritage for the Future — however, he's much stronger, and the true potential of his Emperor Stand is played for all it's worth; being able to not only actually land his trick shots, but is a master of keep away, medium-to-ranged combat, and varying setups for his powerful Supers, even alongside Boingo.
  • This also happens in a downplayed form in his OVA appearances. Much like Forever before him, Hol Horse's more cowardly and wacky aspects are greatly toned down, making him come off as more threatening and pragmatic. He also actually does fire at DIO instead of simply threatening to do so, actively tries to fight Enya after she's already stabbed him through the wrist with scissors (also forcing himself back into consciousness despite being heavily wounded to warn Polnareff about her), and only tries to cut and run after reaching J. Geil too late and witnessing his death as it happens.
• Adaptation Dye-Job: His Emperor is colored gold and white instead of silver and black in the OVA.
• Affably Evil: For a sly, greedy mercenary who swears by fighting dirty and fleeing the minute things start going wrong, Hol Horse can be surprisingly polite when he wants to be. After kidnapping Boingo and smuggling him through airport customs in a suitcase, he apologizes to him for doing so, tries to give him some reassurance, doesn't get mad when Boingo throws up on him, leaves him a wallet full of money so he could return home should something happen to either of them, and the two outright call each other friends in Heritage for the Future. And that's not even getting to the man's full-on memetic insistence on always being kind to women.
  • In the OVA, Hol Horse is also seen generously paying a local beggar to direct Polnareff to a secluded street on the town outskirts should he see him — where he waits to assassinate him — with the old man even calling him "kind sir" as he does.
• Age Lift: Implied in the OVA, where Hol Horse appears to be older than he's usually depicted; having paler hair, a deeper and less brisk voice than his anime incarnation, and a more rugged face that makes him look like he's in his late 30s-early 40s than his usual late 20s-early 30s looks. Not only that, but he also refers to himself as "an ol' cowboy" when he meets up with Nena on the bridge.
• Alliterative Name: Hol Horse.
• Americans Are Cowboys: Fills the role as the first American antagonist in the series, and one who styles himself on an old west-style gunslinger with a revolver-like Stand.
• Ate His Gun: Enya forces him to do this. She wounds his hand with a pair of shears, then causes a hole to form and takes control of him with Justice. Hol Horse summons Emperor, but Enya puppeteers his hand to turn the weapon on him and fire it in his face. Ultimately subverted when he realizes what she's about to do and makes his Stand dispel; however, while the bullet vanishes, the discharge force still hits him and knocks him out cold and across the room, making Enya think he's been killed. Then Hol Horse wakes up and warns Jotaro (Polnareff in the OVA) what's going on, fully exposing Enya's guise after he was catching on.
• Badass Biker: In the OVAs, he trades in all the animals he rode for a kickass vintage motorbike. Not only does it make a good means of getaway — as he demonstrates when he gets on and flees in the space of only a few seconds when Nena distracts the heroes — but it also works from a practical standpoint in how it provides lots of reflective metal surfaces for Hanged Man to hide and travel with him in.
• Badass Longcoat: Come Crazy Diamond's Demonic Heartbreak, Hol Horse can frequently be seen wearing a cool-looking duster coat over his previous outfit, further adding to his Old West Gunslinger look.
• Baritone of Strength: While Hidenobu Kiuchi gives him a husky tenor voice, Imari Williams in the English dub gives Hol Horse an extremely deep voice, complementing his competence in his first appearance. Though, the "strength" part falls flat as the series continues and his cowardice is fully shown, despite retaining his baritone in the dub.
• Bizarre and Improbable Ballistics: Because Emperor's bullets are also part of the Stand, Hol Horse can alter its trajectory in improbable ways, such as curving one of Emperor's bullets to dodge around Silver Chariot's sword, or sending a volley of them through a twisting network of water pipes and out the other end.
• Boring, but Practical: His Stand, Emperor, is simply a gun. A gun he can summon to his hand instantly, has unlimited ammunition with little-to-no recoil, and can redirect its bullets mid-flight.
• Bottomless Magazines: Unusually for a revolver, Emperor is shown never to need reloading. Justified, since it's a Stand that produces the bullets inside its own chamber due to them actually being a part of itself. As seen in Heritage for the Future, he can also rapid-fire it much like a machine pistol.
• Breakout Villain: Three major appearances in the manga, two playable versions in Heritage for the Future, and the earliest Part 3 minor villain to make it into All-Star Battle? He definitely qualifies for this.
  • To put it in perspective, he's in All-Star Battle from the start (although like all villains, you have to defeat him in Story Mode to use him), while Old Joseph Joestar and Iggy are DLC. He got into the game before two heroes from the same part.
  • He also got a special end credits sequence and song in the second half of the David Production Stardust Crusaders adaptation, alongside Boingo in Thoth's art style.
  • He has a spin-off manga featuring him and Josuke Higashikata. While he is not the first villain to get a spin-off story, it is still a mark on how popular he is.
• The Casanova:
  • He extols the virtues of charming people to J. Geil, pointing out things could be gotten in return. It ends up saving his life once, even.
  • He also points this out to Boingo to show how hesitant he was to hit a woman behind her back just because Thoth said so, even in return for a high reward.
    Hol Horse: Listen, Boingo... I'm proud to say I'm a gentleman, and a proper gentleman at that. Cause of that, I got girls all over the world. I might tell a white lie now and again, but I'd never haul off and hit one. I respect all the ladies; the beauties, the plain ones, and even the ugly ones! There's no way your prediction will ever come to pass. Come Hell or high water, I swear I would never hit a woman! She can pay me with every dime, nickel or quarter she had, I still wouldn't put my hands on her!
  • In his Eyes of Heaven appearance, he has unique dialogue with every female opponent in the game, although his flirting attempts are unsuccessful. That said, even after he wins against them, he takes it all in stride and still sincerely compliments them afterward.
• Character Development: Despite still carrying a lot of trauma from the events of Stardust Crusaders, Hol Horse's nicer qualities become much more evident in Crazy Diamond's Demonic Heartbreak. On top of his involvement in the story starting from him doing a favor for an old woman to retrieve her lost bird, he loses a lot of his previous cowardice (drawing on his past experiences of such to become stronger) and goes more into depth about his past regrets and trying to be a better person; including saving the three women who would eventually give birth to DIO's sons. The last we see of Hol Horse is buying Josuke coffee and going back to Cairo to not only return Petsounds, but also help Boingo and Oingo deal with a gang trying to extort money from them; all things he never would have done previously.
• Combat Pragmatist: Hol Horse knows exactly how underpowered his ability is compared to a lot of other Stand Users. He still does what he can and uses his environment, along with his partners, to the best of his ability. He starts out intimidating, almost killing Avdol, but runs away in the end. Next time he shows up, he's at the mercy of Enya and forms a brief Enemy Mine situation with Jotaro and company. Then in his final appearance with Boingo: he ends up, due to a faulty watch, defeating himself quite spectacularly.
• Cowboy: A extremely corny one. That's quite... normal in this manga.
• A Day in the Limelight: After not appearing since Stardust Crusaders, Hol Horse becomes a principal character in the 2021 spinoff manga JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Crazy Diamond's Demonic Heartbreak.
• Didn't Think This Through: He tries to use his Stand to threaten some workers, but forgets that his Stand is Invisible to Normals and the workers aren't Stand users, so they can't see it.
• Dirty Coward: Interestingly enough, despite how much Hol Horse will talk up his Stand he's one of the few followers of DIO who never confronts the Joestar Group without backup. It's best seen when he tries to attack Kakyoin and Polnareff after they've just killed J. Geil.
  Polnareff: I don't think he's listening any more, cowboy. […] He's quite busy at the moment, carrying out his sentence in Hell.
  Hol Horse: (realizes, then immediately begins hiding it) Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey! Don't try to pull that nonsense. Bluffing won't work on me! Nice try, though; there's no way you could have beaten him! Even I wouldn't try my luck against that mother. You know, Polnareff, your sense of humour stinks! (mirthlessly laughs)
  Polnareff: That piece of shit's corpse is two or three thousand meters that way if you want to take a look.
  Hol Horse: (beat) ...Okay, I will! (immediately sprints away)
  • This side to him is downplayed greatly in the OVA, however. While an argument can be made for him being cowardly for not trying to intervene, Hol Horse only attempts to flee after reaching J. Geil too late and witnessing his violent death first-hand while hiding nearby — rightly acknowledging that he's "at one hell of a disadvantage on his own" — and is rendered comatose after Enya is defeated, so he doesn't steal the Joestar Group's car like he did in the anime and manga.
• Dub Name Change: The official Polish translation changes his name to "Hol Oates", making it closer to the original pop rock duo's name.
• The Dragon: To J. Geil. While they both work for Dio, Hol Horse refers to J. Geil as his boss.
• The Drifter: He labels himself as such while he's talking to Nena.
• Eagleland: The Boorish type. He's the first major American character to be portrayed negatively in the series, though his nicer qualities occasionally surface in Crazy Diamond's Demonic Heartbreak.
• Enemy Mine: With the Joestar Group when Enya shows up for revenge, since she's trying to kill him, too.
• Evil Counterpart: He's basically a villainous version of Polnareff, from their status as the Butt-Monkey and their tendency to flirt with women. Araki intended for Hol Horse to join the team, but decided against it on the basis of him not only being too similar to Polnareff, but Emperor being too much of an advantage.
• Evil Sounds Deep: In all the adaptations he appears in, Hol Horse has a low and gruff voice.
• Evil Sounds Raspy: His voice is especially gravelly in the English dub of the anime.
• Even Evil Has Standards: Ruthless and avaricious as he is, Hol Horse still has several lines he won't cross. He doesn't particularly believe in DIO's goals of world domination — and is in fact the only member of his group who tries to kill him — and avoids attacking innocents, treats his many girlfriends (and women on the whole) with kindness, and is repulsed by Boingo and Thoth predicting that he'll hit one to obtain a valuable jewel. As told in Crazy Diamond's Demonic Heartbreak, he's also horrified when he finds a secret room that contains the women that DIO previously drank the blood of; and when Hol Horse realizes several of them are still alive and pregnant, he goes out of his way to rescue them.
• Explaining Your Powers to the Enemy: Downplayed. Hol Horse does some of this when he initially encounters Polnareff, explaining to the Frenchman that "his Stand shoots" and that "the gun is mightier than the sword", on the basis that he's a gentleman and wants to give him a sporting chance. What he doesn't explain until a crucial point however, is that he can control the bullets; and it's only Avdol's intervention that stops Hol Horse from killing Polnareff right there and then once he springs it on him.
• Fantastic Firearms: Emperor, an elaborate, ornately-designed Hand Cannon revolver that Hol Horse can summon to his hand out of nowhere — in the manner of an old west Quick Draw — and with bullets that he can directly control in flight.
  Hol Horse: Even the bullets are part of my Stand!
• Fatal Flaw: Realistically speaking, Hol Horse has one of the most broken Stands in the series, as it gives him a clear advantage over other Stands that are often inhibited by short ranges. The only thing that stops him from utilizing Emperor to its fullest extent is that he's too reckless, needing to rely on a partner to get the job done.
• Gratuitous English: His English sucks in the 2014 Anime.
• Goldfish Poop Gang: After his first appearance, he's treated as a minor nuisance and a Butt-Monkey, and ends up defeating himself spectacularly after botching Thoth's prediction with a fast watch.
• Good Smoking, Evil Smoking: He's almost never seen without a cigarette in one corner of his mouth, and he can weaponize it in his video game appearances by blowing smoke into his opponent's eyes.
• The Gunslinger: What he styles himself as, but unfortunately he can barely hit a damn thing.
• HA HA HA—No: In all the versions of Stardust Crusaders, Hol Horse has this reaction to Polnareff making fun of him as he's explaining to him what Emperor does and how because it's a gun, it can't be defeated by Silver Chariot's sword. He laughs along with Polnareff for several seconds, before suddenly turning serious and trying to shoot him down.
• Heroic Willpower: Hol Horse surprisingly has several moments of this in Crazy Diamond's Demonic Heartbreak, through which he's able to escape from Petsounds' Stand powers. Notably, he wills himself out of being forced to shoot Inspector Hiraoka by the parrot (like when he tried to kill DIO) when he notices a green traffic light reflecting off the Inspector's gleaming cufflinks — which reminds him of seeing Kakyoin's final Emerald Splash when he and Boingo were fleeing Cairo, and gives him a different memory to focus on — and despite being overcome by fear initially, snaps himself out of being forced to hallucinate citizens being shot by a Dictator's army in Egypt when he rationalizes to himself that the fear he's feeling is nothing compared to back when he gave into DIO's will ten years ago.
• Hidden Depths: Hol Horse is implied to be very skilled at the board game Stratego (referred to in-series as "Soldier's/Military Chess"), specifically citing its Tactical Rock–Paper–Scissors gameplay when explaining to Polnareff why Silver Chariot can't defeat his Emperor. Crazy Diamond's Demonic Heartbreak also reveals that he's very good at Darts, being able to consistently hit the Inner Bull in three throws.
• Hitman with a Heart: Downplayed example. While Hol Horse is cowardly, avaricious, and talks a far bigger game than his actual capabilities, he isn't particularly on-board with DIO's world domination goals — only working for him for the paycheck and later out of fear from a failed attempt to kill him — treats his many girlfriends with kindness, is polite and can even be quite pleasant when not actively fighting, and despite kidnapping and occasionally snapping at him out of anger, does his best to reassure Boingo and make sure he's okay throughout their mutually-beneficial partnership. The duo even outright consider each other friends in the Capcom fighting game.
  Hol Horse: We'll beat them every time with our teamwork and friendship! Right, Boingo?
• Hoist by His Own Petard: Which, when you consider he can actually control his bullets' trajectory, is saying something. Considering how often this happens to Mista later on, one can imagine that Hol Horse only getting hit with this twice (first time courtesy of Enya but he barely managed to avoid getting fatally injured, and the second time because of him being an inattentive idiot) is because he didn't show up enough times for it to happen more often.
  • Only the first case happens to him in the OVA. He's more badly wounded by being shot by his own Stand (though he remains conscious long enough to both warn Polnareff and lampshade it before he collapses), and after Enya's village disappears, Hol Horse is left lying comatose on the ground. He initially appears to be dead from his wounds, but Polnareff goes over to check and confirms him to still be alive, at which point Joseph calls an ambulance for Hol Horse and lets him go in return for helping them.
• Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy: Hol Horse, you've got to fail pretty badly if you're still missing all your targets when you can control the direction of the bullets. Made even better by the fact that he's been hit by his own bullets on two separate occasions. The first time he was being subjected to People Puppets, but the second time was him forgetting his own Stand's bullets were still flying around when he got distracted by Thoth's predictions.
• Improbable Aiming Skills: Hol Horse's Stand can control the bullets from his gun, which should result in this trope... but since Hol Horse can't aim worth a damn, it's ultimately averted.
• Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain: Is one of the most incompetent Stand users hired by DIO, along with Oingo and Boingo. He's also one of the only villains to get relatively sympathetic moments (particularly with Boingo and Nena), as well as be confirmed to have survived the events of Stardust Crusaders in all versions.
• Informed Flaw: Emperor is supposedly a bad match against Avdol's Magician's Red's flames. Exactly how it is weak to flames is unknown as Hol Horse and J. Geil manage to (supposedly) kill Avdol.
• Inverse Law of Utility and Lethality: Hol Horse gets hit with it bad. His Emperor Stand is a gun with controllable bullets; by all rights, he should just be able to get the drop on the heroes and shoot them all dead in their sleep. In spite of that, he manages to kill precisely none of them. He is considered one of the weakest Stand users in the series, even to himself.
• Irony: Despite his reputation as a Dirty Coward and Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain, Hol Horse is the only villainous Stand user brave enough to try and kill DIO himself after being belittled by the vampire once too often. Despite easily dodging the shot, even DIO expresses his admiration.
  • Hol Horse describes himself as always being number 2 in a team, joining and helping the much more powerful J. Geil. Despite this in all his playable appearances Hol Horse is the playable character, while J. Geil and Hanged Man (or Boingo, depending) are relegated to assists in his moveset.
• Jerkass: Sympathetic moments aside, Hol Horse goes out of his way to viciously taunt Polnareff and friends when he thinks that he's got the upper hand.
• Know When to Fold 'Em: A big part of Hol's ability to survive is that he understands how weak Emperor is in comparison to most other Stands, at least if he doesn't have another Stand User at his side to help compensate for Emperor's flaws. He also isn't as fanatically loyal to DIO as most of Jotaro's other enemies are. Plus, the fact that he bails every time he's at a disadvantage means he lives for way longer than almost any of DIO's other henchmen.
• Laser-Guided Karma:
  • In the "Hol Horse and Boingo" arc, Hol Horse ultimately disposed of when one of his bullets ends up hitting him in the head in a way that hospitalizes him but doesn't kill him, similar to what happens with Avdol.
  • In the spinoff Crazy Diamond's Demonic Heartbreak, Mariah magnetizes Hol Horse with Bastet so that he'll be nearly skewered by a group of swords flying at him. She even states she wanted to teach him a lesson for exploiting Boingo back in Stardust Crusaders.
• Leitmotif: In the anime, Hol Horse has two; Wind in the Wilderness, an Indian and Spaghetti Western-influenced track that accompanies most of his appearances, and his humorously-catchy ending theme shared with Boingo, accompanied by banjo strumming, gunshots and horse whinnying on his sections.
  • In the OVA, his appearances are frequently accompanied by a sinister hard rock-based cue from Polnareff's Feelings, first appearing when he rolls in on his Cool Bike to pursue Polnareff.
• A Lighter Shade of Black: While he's a Dirty Coward who unashamedly tries to kill the Joestar Group on DIO's orders on multiple occasions, Hol Horse in comparison to the rest of DIO's followers is far less monstrous, psychotic and inhuman in demeanor; coming across as a bounty hunter who's doing his job. It helps that he directs his evil actions toward his target exclusively, doesn't commit any of the needlessly pointless Kick the Dog moments or acts of sadism of his peers, and was the only one of them to try and kill DIO himself. Even when he does attack civilians, it's due to a prediction and out of reluctance, or out of provoked retaliation. He even helped out his enemies deal with Enya out of a temporary alliance.
• Mage Marksman: Hol Horse's Stand consists of a gun and the bullets within, allowing him to control the trajectory of his shots. Too bad he couldn't hit the broad side of a barn.
• Mistaken for Gay: In the manga and OVA, Polnareff deliberately invokes this to piss Hol Horse off when he's boasting about Emperor's power.
  Hol Horse: Ya' see, my Stand is the gun, and your sword can't beat my gun.
  Polnareff: Oh, what's that? "I can beat your bum"? Oooooh, you're into that stuff!
  (Polnareff bursts out laughing for a long time at his own joke, as does Hol Horse a few seconds later)
  Hol Horse: (mood darkens) You... (draws Emperor) I'LL FUCKIN' KILL YOU!
• Never Bring A Knife To A Gunfight: As stated in his fight with Polnareff, Hol Horse is a firm believer of this, citing the board game Stratego/Military Chess as an example. Indeed, going by how their initial fight went, he would have likely killed the Frenchman had Avdol not gotten involved.
• Not Now, Kiddo: How he's ultimately defeated. While Hol Horse is distracted by Thoth while trying to work out where their plan to kill Jotaro went wrong, Boingo sees the bullets he fired down the pipe earlier flying back round toward them, and attempts to warn him. Hol Horse brushes him off as he flicks through the pages… just in time for the bullets to hit him instead. Hol Horse survives due to the bullets disappearing before they could inflict fatal wounds, but it still puts him out of commission for the rest of the story.
• Number Two: Explicitly calls himself this kind of person, as he refuses to be anything more than someone's henchman, and preferring to let his partner take charge while he backs them up and then abandon them the moment things go bad. As stated in his Heritage for the Future ending:
  Hol Horse: (after betraying and defeating DIO) Ha! You never had my loyalty! You can't buy my soul with money. Now, there is no one who can oppose me. […] ...But I'm more of a second-in-command than the Head Honcho kinda guy. That's just my way of life! Any objections?
• Only in It for the Money: He's a hired mercenary who lacks the fanatical loyalty to DIO that most of the other villains have. He even tries to kill DIO near the end, who proceeds to terrify him into submission, at which point he sees no other choice than to do as he says or die.
• Only Mostly Dead: What happens to him in the OVA. Hol Horse is more badly wounded by Enya stabbing him through the hand and making him shoot himself with Emperor, and collapses into a coma after falling out of a closet and warning Polnareff about her in the hotel bar. Although he clearly looks like he's died — complete with his eyes staying open, bleeding profusely from the mouth and his hat drifting down over his face before he's abandoned to Justice's zombies — he's later seen lying on the ground in the same state after Enya is killed and her hotel and zombies vanish into thin air. One would be forgiven for thinking he is in fact dead, but Polnareff goes over and confirms Hol Horse to still be alive somehow; at which point Joseph gets him medical assistance and lets him go as thanks for helping them.
  Polnareff: Hey, isn't that Hol Horse lying in the dirt? (goes over and checks his vital signs) He's still breathing!
  Joseph: Leave him alone. He needs to be hospitalized, he's no longer a threat.
• Precision F-Strike: As seen above, Hol Horse gives a furious one in the OVA when Polnareff makes fun of how he talks up his Stand.
• Quick Draw: Befitting an old western gunslinger, this is how he summons Emperor before using it.
• "The Reason You Suck" Speech: He receives a rather spot-on one from Devo in Crazy Diamond's Demonic Heartbreak, which is shown still haunting him years later.
  Devo: There's nothing emperor-like about you, Hol Horse. You're an eternal no.2, always hiding behind someone else's ass. Tell me, how does J. Geil's look from back there? […] Always cowering behind a bigger man, and then making yourself scarce when things get tough... Some emperor you'd make.
• Revolvers Are Just Better: The form of his Stand, Emperor. Again, it's too bad he can't get a shot even if his life depended on it.
• Shell-Shocked Veteran: He's become one by the time of Crazy Diamond's Demonic Heartbreak. Hol Horse had caught on to how much of a menace DIO actually was, and his assassination attempt was meant to break himself and the other minions free from DIO's influence. Unfortunately, even after DIO was killed by Jotaro, his influence on them had already taken its toll, leaving Hol Horse and the other surviving minions to try and unsuccessfully lead normal lives, not just because they've been outcasted from associating with DIO, but the methods DIO used on them resulted in severe mental trauma. Tellingly, when Hol Horse goes to Morioh and spots a water tower, he immediately hears DIO's voice ringing in his head, and when he's about to be hit by a car, he freezes in fear, thinking back to when DIO used Wilson Phillips to commit mass vehicular manslaughter in Egypt.
• Spanner in the Works: Proves to be this for Enya, being the one who reveals that she's an evil Stand user. As seen in Crazy Diamond's Demonic Heartbreak, Hol Horse is also the reason that the sons of DIO — Giorno, Ungalo, Rikiel, and Donatello Versus — are alive. After being shell-shocked into compliance by DIO after his first failure to kill the Joestar Group, Hol Horse comes across a secret room in his mansion where the women he's drained of their blood are kept. Hol Horse notices several of them are still alive, and so he promptly gets the survivors out of the mansion, puts them in a taxi cab, and pays the driver a large sum of money to take them as far away as possible. In doing so, he ends up eventually being the indirect cause of Diavolo's downfall in Golden Wind, and Pucci's near-victory in Stone Ocean.
• Stab the Scorpion: In a hilarious variation, he kicks a woman in the neck because one of Boingo's previsions not only showed him doing so but also receiving some jewellery as a result. Turns out that this is because there was a deadly scorpion hiding in her scarf.
• The Starscream: Attempted. After questioning why he's still supporting DIO after narrowly escaping his last encounter with the Joestar Group in one piece — on top of DIO rudely rebuffing him reporting the news — Hol Horse tries to shoot DIO and take all the vampire's treasure for himself. DIO is one step ahead however and uses The World to nonchalantly dodge the shot. Instead of killing him, however, DIO allows Hol Horse to live on account of being impressed by his technique and killing intent despite not succeeding. And having terrified him into compliance anyway.
  Hol Horse: Wha-What the hell...? How... did he get behind me? (bites off his cigarette and collapses to the ground in absolute shock) I just don't get it... I just don't get it...!
• Story-Breaker Power: Emperor is just as deadly as a real gun is, but it goes further with how Hol Horse is able to precisely control the trajectory of its bullets. In his first fight, he is even able to weave his bullets past Silver Chariot's sword. Due to how overpowered Emperor is, Hol Horse's subsequent appearances establish him as being an extremely poor shot. According to Araki, this was a major reason why he never went through with making Hol Horse go through a Heel–Face Turn: a character who can instantly shoot you in the head whenever he wants is really hard to write a fight around. It's quite visible when comparing him with Guido Mista, who has a functionally similar Stand in Sex Pistols, but faces far more limitations; mostly due to it being a physical snub-nosed revolver rather than a Stand (he can't take it everywhere, he can fail to draw it or be disarmed, it has to reload after every six shots, the six beings can be interfered with, etc).
• Tarot Motifs: The Emperor card, when facing upright, symbolizes being your own boss and making your own rules for others to obey. Hol Horse has a rigid policy about letting his partner take charge, as he believes taking charge himself puts him in danger. By sticking to this policy, he exhibits traits of the reversed Emperor; poor leadership and lack of energy.
• Throw the Dog a Bone: After going through a good deal of Villain Decay, Hol Horse finally gets a lasting win in his non-canon ending with Boingo in Heritage for the Future; the two work together to defeat the Joestar Group and part on good terms after. Hol Horse reports back to DIO with the news of their success and lives happily ever after with a massive cash reward, while Boingo reunites with his brother and goes on to pull a full Heel–Face Turn; becoming more confident in himself and using his Stand's powers to help people.
  • Things also work out well for him overall in Crazy Diamond's Demonic Heartbreak. After a long and arduous journey, Hol Horse comes to terms with himself and his past; losing a lot of his previous cowardice, becoming a better person and even earning Ryuko Kakyoin's forgiveness when he sees how torn up by guilt he is for working with DIO in the past. Hol Horse also successfully retrieves Petsounds for the old woman he set out to help at the beginning, and we learn that he's legitimately become friends with Boingo and Oingo as well as Josuke; setting off at the end to return the bird and protect the brothers from being extorted by a gang back in Egypt.
• Too Dumb to Live: After DIO finishes lecturing Hol Horse on his slew of failures, he gives him another chance to go kill Jotaro and his friends. In response, Hol Horse tries to kill DIO with his back turned despite being blatantly terrified of his boss. Very fortunately for him, DIO expresses his admiration for Hol Horse having the gall to attack him, and simply tells him to direct that murderous energy to the Joestar Group after casually dodging his shot with his Stand.
• Ungrateful Bastard: The Joestar Group saved Hol Horse from Enya's wrath and he repays them by stealing their car and returning to DIO's side, the asshole. Averted in the OVA, where he doesn't do either due to being rendered comatose by his injuries.
• Unskilled, but Strong: Emperor actually has a B in destructive power, outdoing both combat Stands Hierophant Green and Silver Chariot in a direct fight. And not only are his bullets as fast as actual bullets, but he can control exactly where they go mid-flight. And he has Bottomless Magazines since the bullets are part of the Stand. And yet in spite of all these advantages, he can barely land a shot on anything.
• Villain Decay: BIG TIME. Initially shown to be a big enough threat to put Avdol out of commission for a long time, in his next appearance he's humiliated by the next villain and forced into an Enemy Mine situation with Polnareff, and finally, he's reduced to an even bigger Butt-Monkey than Polnareff when partnered with Boingo of all people.
• Villain Has a Point: While he does exploit of Nena's love for him, he does give a sound reason why he refuses to marry her — Nena's rich family wouldn't want her running off with a wandering vagrant, and even if she was of legal age to marry in her home country, other countries wouldn't accept their marriage due to the age of consent being higher there.
• Villainous Friendship:
  • Establishes one with Boingo in Heritage for the Future, which doubles as an Intergenerational Friendship.
  • A downplayed example with J. Geil; the two seem fairly chummy when they're first seen together, but it's clear they're only allies of convenience, and Hol Horse doesn't seem upset about J. Geil's death at all. This gets exploited later on when he pretends that he and J. Geil were BFFs to comfort a grieving Enya. She sees right through Hol Horse's lies immediately, claiming that he couldn't have been that close if he was willing to leave J. Geil to die.
• Villain Team-Up: He swears by fighting in a duo and therefore forms two of these throughout Part 3's run; first with J. Geil and then with Boingo. He attempts to form an alliance with Enya as well, but she turns him down.
• Walking the Earth: It's implied a lot that Hol Horse is a wanderer, with no set place of residence. As he himself states in the OVA when he meets one of his girlfriends before he sets off to kill Polnareff:
  Hol Horse: Hey, I'm just a drifter, I got no home. I live this ol' life day-to-day, and in the end, I'm destined to die on the street. Listen to me... you come from one of them aristocratic families, you shouldn't be thinkin' about marrying an ol' cowboy like me. Even though we love each other so very, very much, ya see?
• Weak-Willed: There's really no other way to describe him, considering he willingly and frequently comments on his desire to be serving someone else, and tries not to act out on his own.
• Weapon for Intimidation: In a humorous subversion, Hol Horse tries to use his Stand to threaten some workers into opening up a pipe for him and Boingo to fire Emperor's bullets down, but fails because as non-Stand users, they can't see it. As far as they can tell, he's threatening them with an imaginary gun.
• Would Hurt a Child: After kidnapping Boingo and locking him in a suitcase, while they're in a taxicab, Hol Horse threatens him if he screams after being let out. However, he may have been bluffing, as he never follows through with his threat even after Boingo throws up on him.
  Hol Horse: I'm gonna open the suitcase and let you out. Unless you want some grade-A pain, I suggest you keep calm. Is that clear?
• Wouldn't Hit a Girl: In fitting with his nature as The Casanova, Hol Horse lives by this rule, and makes it clear to Boingo that he respects all women, and that he'd never attack one. That being said, he does make two exceptions: the first was when he attempted to shoot Enya out of self-defense when she tried to kill him, and the second was to follow the future told by Boingo's Stand, Thoth, which resulted in him saving a woman from being stung by a deadly scorpion.

Telence T. D'Arby

Telence T. D'Arby (Stand: Atum)

Voiced by: Jun'ichi Suwabe (TV anime and All-Star Battle (R)), Mitsuaki Madono (Heritage for the Future video game) (Japanese), Xander Mobus (TV anime) (English)

^Atum

"Much like my brother, I'm what you might call a humble collector of sorts. My... Thinking about it, all collectors must yearn to share their treasures for that moment of praise."

The younger brother of Daniel J. D'Arby, he is the butler of DIO's mansion that fights the Joestars. He is named after Terence Trent D'Arby/Sananda Maitreya.

His Stand, Atum, named after the Egyptian primordial creator god, is similar to his brother's, having the ability to steal one's soul when they admit defeat in their heart. Unlike Daniel, however, his Stand also has the ability to read another person's soul, effectively reading their mind by asking questions with yes/no answers.

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• Adaptation Dye-Job: Has a brown-ish orange-like hair color in the manga, in the anime, his hair is green.
• Ain't Too Proud to Beg: Telence once he's cornered, subconsciously gives up Kakyoin and then consciously/pitifully begs to be spared after acting insufferably smug the entire fight. This serves to emphasize how pathetic he is in comparison to his brother, who had to be pushed to the brink of mental exhaustion to finally collapse while Telence folds under the slightest bit of pressure.
• Ambiguously Bi: Of the Depraved Bisexual variety. He's never outright stated to be bi, but the way he took his time fondling the Kakyoin doll after winning Kakyoin's soul, as well as how he fondly reminisces about changing the clothes on and talking to all his dolls suggests that he might swing both ways.
• Ambiguous Situation: His story with him beating up his older brother when the latter cheated with the former's girlfriend. Given the person telling the narrative and the lack of truly perversive and negative attributes of Daniel outside of being a shameless cheater, it's likely a fabrication to suit Telence's ego and for the girlfriend that Daniel was likely saving from his younger brother's habit of adding people to his collection.
  • It's not made as clear if the souls of Telence's victims left their doll containers like Daniel's did once he was defeated or if only Kakyoin was freed with the others being permanently trapped.
  • In stark contrast to Vanilla Ice and Kenny G, who are both unambiguously killed, it's unknown whether he was killed when Star Platinum pulverized him or if he was just knocked unconscious, since he's never seen again after being sent crashing through the ceiling.
• And I Must Scream: Unlike his brother, Telence doesn't leave the souls he collects dormant. Instead, he traps them in dolls that are aware of everything going on but unable to do anything. Unlike his brother's collected souls, we never see these return to their bodies either when he's defeated.
• Animal Motifs: Atum's upper facial structure◊ bears quite a few similarities to that of a barn owl◊.
• Anime Hair: His hairdo is rather similar to Polnareff's being a very long beehive hairstyle... however, unlike Polnareff, his is probably curled into that style.
• Asshole Victim: According to him, one of his victims, Dr. Elliott, is a Serial Killer who killed 8 of his patients. While Telence is much worse, stealing Elliott's soul remains the closest thing to a good deed he ever did.
• Avenging the Villain: Averted. The protagonists assume that he's interested in doing this for his brother, but Telence denies this by seeing his brother as a gullible fool and had been brutal to him in the past.
• Batman Gambit: When racing against Kakyoin, he counted on the fact that Kakyoin would try and knock him off the track mid-air. Telence would then take advantage of the momentum to land on the other side of the track, so far ahead that Kakyoin would have no chance of catching up to him.
• Battle Butler: Describes himself as this, but doesn't have nearly the tenacity and loyalty of Vanilla Ice, then again, few would ever have that level of loyalty..
• Beehive Hairdo: Started out with a short hair in his first appearance, only to become this out of nowhere a few pages later. It apparently mimics a pharaoh's crown, fitting his Stand's namesake.
• Brought to You by the Letter "S": His initials (T.D.) appear in the shape of the earrings he wears, and on his Stand's face.
• The Cameo: Telence is in charge of the 3D Model gallery in All-Star Battle.
• Captain Obvious: Reduced to this when Jotaro asks Telence what the former intends to do to the latter in retribution to what he did to his friend and intended on doing to all of them. Telence reads his mind and says aloud the beating he's about to receive, much to Joseph's eventual annoyance.
• The Collector: A more psychotic and childish one compared to his brother.
• Dick Dastardly Stops to Cheat: He was a much more experienced gamer than Jotaro and could probably have beaten him legitimately, but he insisted on relying on Atum's abilities even after it became very clear that Jotaro was managing to circumvent them. This leads to him being defeated easily.
• Dirty Coward: He had the confidence and smugness that he can win any fight with his powers, but once the Joestars manage to outwit him, he panics, causing him to lose Kakyoin, and claim that he didn't lose the will to fight. He starts to beg Jotaro not to hit him and then panics that he's going to be pummeled anyway. In short, he acts high and mighty, but the slightest threat makes him crumble pitifully, which contrasts him with his brother who had to be Driven to Madness by cornering him mentally/physically due to him taking any pressure with stride.
• Do Well, But Not Perfect: The D'arby brothers not only share similar stands, but the key to freeing the souls they've captured is the same: One must best them in a manner that they admit defeat (either internally or externally), but must avoid knocking them out or inflicting fatal wounds to them as No Ontological Inertia is completely averted with their stands.
• Dub Name Change: Kinda. The English dub of the 2014 anime put both Daniel and Telence on a Last-Name Basis, the only difference between the two being Daniel is called D'Arby the Elder while Telence is called D'Arby the Younger.
• Evil Sounds Deep: Not quite as booming a voice as Daniel's, but it's still a baritone in the anime, courtesy of Jun'ichi Suwabe.
• Fair-Play Villain: Played With. He technically never cheats, but this is a show of confidence rather than honor. He never breaks the rules because they're already established in a way that favors his Stand as detailed in Loophole Abuse.
• Fate Worse than Death: His Stand makes his victims fully aware of their situation, but unable to move or do anything besides talk to or interact with D'Arby as he makes them his (literal) playthings. As shown with some of his dolls, including Sonya (who begs to talk to the man who imprisoned her, and cries Tears of Joy when he picks her up to show to the Joestar Group), Doctor Elliot (who laughs insanely and rants incomprehensively about the eight patients he murdered in life) and Tatsuhiko (who cries constant Broken Tears and begs for his mother), they've evidently been that way for likely several years; with all the mental damage such imprisonment would do made abundantly clear.
• Faux Affably Evil: Unlike his Affably Evil brother, any form of politeness from Telence oozes of cruelty and sadism. As Kakyoin and Joseph put it after seeing his real personality as a Living Doll Collector:
  Joseph: (horrified) You're just as messed-up in the head as your brother. Actually, you're more sadistic than your brother ever was! I'd hate to see what your parents were like!
  Kakyoin: I'm out of patience with this sociopath's puppet show. He makes me sick.
• Foil: Telence is one to his older brother Daniel. While both have Stands with the power to collect souls of their victims, Telence takes it a step further by allowing his victims be fully conscious of what's going on around them. While Daniel at least admits that he would not hesitate to cheat in his games, Telence claims he would not resort to cheating yet secretly tricks the opponent into accepting rules that favor Atum. Even their methods of cheating differ. Daniel primarily chooses the Boring, but Practical approach, whereas Telence relies on the power of his Stand to help read his opponents' moves.
• Geek: He keeps a lot of video games, giving him a Psychopathic Manchild vibe.
• Gratuitous English: Just like his brother, he also says "Good".
• Hate Sink: He's a nasty piece of work, much more so than even the other Nine Glory Gods. He absolutely oozes cruelty and sadism, and the Joestar Group considers him a special brand of awful.
• Hidden Depths:
  • As creepy as it is, he can make pretty intricate dolls all by himself.
  • He's a surprisingly talented artist if his spot-on drawings of Atum and Star Platinum, which he uses to customize their respective baseball teams, are of any indication.
• Hypocrite: He condemns others for cheating, so what does his Stand do? Read his opponent's mind in order to have an advantage. Played with in that while his mind-reading technically isn't considered cheating, he's still tricking his opponent into accepting rules (allowing Stand usage) that heavily favor him, which they won't realize until it's too late because most opponents assume that Atum's only ability is soul stealing.
• I Have You Now, My Pretty: After storing Kakyoin's soul into a doll, he starts touching him... rather suggestively. He taunts Jotaro and Joseph that harming him will also harm Kakyoin; as he strokes the doll's chest (with his hand stopping at the crotch area), peeks under his coat, rubs his cheek against his, and then strokes his cheek with one finger. It's heavily implied that he shows this form of childish perversity to all of his dolls, especially when playing dress-up with them. The way he touches one of his victims, Sonia, is quite unnerving as well.
• Inconsistent Spelling: There's a division between Terence and Telence.
• Inferiority Superiority Complex: He claims to be better than his older brother in every way, from his physical strength, to the way he preserves souls, to the fact that he (apparently) doesn't cheat. Which makes it all the more humiliating for Telence when Jotaro tells him that Daniel would have figured out how he had cheated right away, even with his lack of mind reading powers.
• Informed Ability: In its introduction, Atum was able to dodge and grab Star Platinum's arm, hinting that it has some offensive capabilities. From that point onward, however, it mainly serves as a means for Telence to read minds and take the loser's soul, with no attempt to defend its user once Jotaro does its Ora-Ora barrage on him.
• Laser-Guided Karma: At one point, Telence recalls fondly how — after catching his brother Daniel flirting with his then-girlfriend when they were younger — he beat him to near-death and flat-out terrified the Elder D'Arby into never asking him to play games with him. With that being said, you only need one guess as to what happens to Telence in turn when he's defeated a few minutes later.
• Leitmotif: Space of A Lone God, an Ominous Music Box Tune with backing straight out of a horror movie, which perfectly fits his Psychopathic Manchild personality and "collecting" methods.
• Living Doll Collector: His victims are still self-aware, unlike his brother's.
• Logical Weakness: His mind-reading power can be vanquished with some clever thinking once you figure out the specifics of how it works:
  • His Stand allows him a 100% accurate mind reading, but an extremely straightforward one, only allowing "yes" or "no" as answers. This is perfect when he has to go through a series of limited possibilities, since he can just test each of them. So, the Joestar Group defeats him with some lateral thinking.
  • Telence has to be focusing on the targeted parties for Atum to affect them. This was instrumental in his downfall as Telence was so thoroughly convinced that Jotaro was cheating he never stopped to consider that Joseph might be in on it, instead laser focusing on Jotaro.
• Loophole Abuse: Technically, both parties are allowed to use their Stands to assist them as long as they don't tamper with the game's mechanics or have allies interfere in the match, as shown by how Telence allowed Kakyoin to use Hierophant Green to assist with the controller. This means Telence is free to mind read his opponents while still following the rules of the game, since Atum has no effect on the game mechanics. On the other hand, most other Stands cannot use their ability in any meaningful way without breaking these rules. This is best shown when the game is allowed to continue despite Jotaro figuring out Atum's mind-reading ability.
• Lost Him in a Card Game: Same situation as his brother, only with the betting being done over video games.
• Loves the Sound of Screaming: He relishes in the sounds of despair of his victims.
• Mask of Sanity: He initially gives off an impression of being a polite yet snide villain like his elder brother, but it's soon revealed it hides his childish, sadistic, and psychotic nature as a Living Doll Collector who traps his victims in dolls that are fully aware of their situation.
• Meaningful Name: The Egyptian god Atum's name is derived from the verb meaning "to finish", and thus he was regarded as the finisher of the world. The Stand Atum is the last Egyptian deity themed Stand fought in the series.
• Mind Reading: His Stand's main power, which allows him to figure out the choice that the enemy will make.
• Narcissist: Not stated outright, but he has a tendency to pick the number 15 while playing his games because his birthday is January 5th.
• Nightmare Fetishist: And how. Telence clearly takes a sadistic pleasure in the suffering of the bizarre, frightening dolls with stolen human souls he keeps in his collection. What especially proves it is the reason why he keeps Doctor Elliot around in particular; because he enjoys listening to all the gruesome recounts of how the doctor murdered eight patients while he was alive.
• No-Holds-Barred Beatdown:
  • He inflicted one on his brother for trying to steal his girlfriend. Keep in mind that at the time, Daniel was 25, and Telence was 15. Not only that, Daniel didn't even bother to defend himself, because he knew that with Atum, Telence would get around it anyway.
  • As such, it fits that he himself is on the receiving end of one, courtesy of Jotaro, once he is defeated.
• Paper Tiger: His introduction is quite imposing with him being able to dodge Star Platinum and trap Jotaro's arm. Compared to his brother, Atum has some combat ability and his ability to read minds lets him predict attacks, but even with the prediction ability Atum is neither particularly fast nor strong. When he stops having the upperhand he resorts to begging and pleading.
• Practically Different Generations: He's 10 years younger than his brother, and lampshades the large gap in their age when he remarks that they "are from different generations."
• Pragmatic Villainy: Even when Jotaro proves himself to be a video game novice,^note As in, he never even touched a game controller before Oh! That's a Baseball! Telence still refuses to let his guard down against him. After all, Jotaro never played poker before, either, yet he was still able to beat his brother Daniel in a card game.
• Psychopathic Manchild: Unlike his brother, who was more businessman-like in his idea of collecting, he keeps them alive and conscious in the form of immobile dolls, and treats them like actual toys to play dress-up and chat with, not to mention his video game obsession.
• Rank Scales with Asskicking: Played with. There are many reasons one could think that Telence is the leader of the Egypt 9 Glory Gods: His stand, Atum, is named after the first god of the Egyptian mythology, and he's also part of the Praetorian Guard of DIO's Mansion. However, outside his mind-reading and soul taking powers, Atum doesn't have any concrete fighting skills that would put it above the more offense based powers of the other members. Given that Stands are defined by the user's creativity in the application of their power and not purely by offensive capabilities, it's a moot point.
• Serious Business: Considering what Atum can do to your soul, video games become extremely serious business when he's around and your life is accordingly on the line.
• Shout-Out: In the English dub, he becomes this by way of Casting Gag: a floating, predominantly white-clad villain voiced by Xander Mobus who collects dolls made up of opponents he's defeated and has an in-depth knowledge of video games and their universes. Master Hand, is that you?
• Skilled, but Naive: His mind-reading ability and gaming skills means he never needs to rely on cheating, but his lack of experience in cheating means he can't figure out how his opponent is cheating.
• Smug Snake: Oh, very much so. The first thing he does when challenging the heroes is to compare himself to his older brother, claiming he could only win through cheating against incompetent people. When the chips are down, however, while he is skilled at playing videogames, he actually relies on spamming his Stand's mind reading to win, and when it fails him he breaks down completely. In the end, he loses by not being able to think outside the box, failing to notice a trick his brother would have easily seen through.
• The Sociopath: He exhibits many typical traits of a textbook sociopath, including a Lack of Empathy and manipulative nature. Kakyoin even calls him one in the English dub.
• Sore Loser: Becomes one when he starts losing to Jotaro and is unable to read his mind to find out how he's cheating.
• Soul Power: Rather than the straightforward ability to steal souls that Osiris possesses, Atum has a number of abilities revolving around the soul. By exploiting vulnerabilities in the soul, Atum can restrain an opponent or take their soul outright, and by reading a person's soul, it can determine a person's actions.
• Stronger Sibling: Downplayed. He and his brother's Stands both have Soul Power as their main ability, but Telence has the additional ability to read the mind of his enemies through yes or no questions, giving him a little more versatility than his brother.
• Telepathy: The root of his ability. If he asks a yes or no question, the subject's response can be checked like a lie detector. By wording his questions in certain ways, he can even "predict" an opponent's attacks and counter them.
• This Is Gonna Suck: When Jotaro asks to read his mind if what he intends to do to Telence now that he's won, Telence says aloud Jotaro's intentions to beat him up with increasing panic, much to Joseph's eventual annoyance.
• Viler New Villain: He is the last of the glory gods encountered and is only followed by Vanilla Ice before DIO himself. And not only is he more awful than his older brother, he is also the most heinous of DIO's goons since J. Geil! Is it any wonder why DIO is so fond of him?
• Villain in a White Suit: He wears a natty white blazer and slacks, as befitting a self-described Battle Butler.
• Villains Want Mercy: The last of DIO's followers to do this within the part. After being bested by the Joestars, he immediately begs to them on sparing him in spite of taking Kakyoin's soul and planning to take theirs as well. This on top of being a Living Doll Collector who keeps his victims conscious and aware of their surroundings. Needless to say, Jotaro doesn't comply and even suggests to Telence on what his thoughts are on the subject- with Telence telling each blatant thought nervously to Joseph's annoyance.
  • This in turn, shows how pathetic he is in comparison to his older brother, who took unexpected complications to his plan with pride and had backups in case he was foiled, needing to be broken entirely with no option to lean back on to even beat. Telence on the other hand, immediately folds once his various attempts to figure out how the Joestars are cheating fail without going insane.
• Villainous Breakdown: Not quite as bad as his brother, but still impressive. He gets increasingly desperate to figure out how Jotaro is cheating at the game, throwing out various possibilities only to keep getting a "No", and then angrily shouting that he knows Jotaro is cheating only to be answered with a resounding "Yes", but it means nothing if he doesn't know how he's doing it in order to counter. When he actually loses, he can only stare in shock for a few moments and try to frantically claim he can still win despite having given up Kakyoin's soul due to admitting defeat in his heart, and then he's reduced to begging Jotaro not to hurt him. At that point, Jotaro lets him read his mind to let him know exactly how this is about to go down, with increasing panic before he actually gets his beatdown.
• Wicked Heart Symbol: Telence sports one on the shirt beneath his vest. Meanwhile, his Stand Atum has these practically everywhere but its head.
• Worthy Opponent: He views Kakyoin as this, due to his skills in F-Mega and the ability to conquer his fears. As well as being the first to genuinely make Telence nervous of losing. He also considers one of his previous victims, Tatsuhiko, as such, praising the latter's 190 I.Q. and noting that it wasn't easy to beat him.
• Would Hurt a Child: Has one in his doll collection.

Kenny G.

Kenny G. (Stand: Tenore Sax)

Voiced by: Junichi Yanagita (TV anime), Wataru Takagi (Heritage for the Future video game)

^{This is Tenore Sax, click here to see Kenny G.}

A mercenary of DIO with illusionary Stand powers. He is named after Kenny G, while in the dub of the anime, he is instead named after the Michael Jackson song "Billie Jean".

His Stand, Tenore Sax, allows him to create illusions from buildings, such as making elaborate mazes and hiding himself from enemies.

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• All There in the Manual: His Stand's name comes from supplementary materials and isn't revealed in the manga proper.
• Always Someone Better: In spite of being a Stand user whose power is only illusions and no combat power, he is considered to be the better in comparison to Nukesaku, which emphasizes how pathetic the latter is comparison.
• Bizarchitecture: Tenore Sax made DIO's palace into this.
• Curb-Stomp Battle: To quote the manga; "This man is Kenny G. His Stand is a Stand of illusions. He was beaten without a fight."
• Dub Name Change: To Billie Jean, a very rare case of a musical Shout-Out being replaced with another musical Shout-Out.
• Glass Cannon: His illusion abilities are extensive, but goes down in one blow without any effort.
• Heart Is an Awesome Power: In spite of its lack of combat power, its illusory power is capable of fooling trespassers into getting lost in the mazes it creates should they somehow get past Pet Shop with only special sensory types like Iggy are able to detect him. It's very telling that this power is heavily implied to the reason why DIO had him as one of his personal Praetorian Guard in his mansion, which include Vanilla Ice over the more combat oriented Stands of The Nine Glory Gods or the Tarot Card users, which include Enya, one of his several Co-Dragons.
• Inconsistent Spelling: His Stand's name is spelled "Tenore Sax" in the official JOJO A-GO!GO! art book, although it's also sometimes spelled "Tenor Sax" in other materials.
• Logical Weakness: His Stand creates visual illusions, which don't work against a dog such as Iggy, who can detect where he's hiding by his smell.
• Master of Illusion: Tenore Sax is able to create vivid illusions from the environment, ranging from Terrence's surreal island room to a series of mazes. Additionally, it is subtly implied that he gave Terrence the illusion of levitating in order for the latter to appear more intimidating.
• Not Quite Dead: Even though he's shown to be all but dead after Iggy defeats him in Stardust Crusaders, the manga spin-off Crazy Diamond's Demonic Heartbreak reveals that he's survived the ordeal (although he doesn't physically show up) and had settled down with Mariah, running a bar that he hides from outsiders using his Stand power.
• Odd Name Out: His Tenore Sax is one of the only two Stands in Stardust Crusaders that isn't named for one of the Tarot's major arcana or an Egyptian god. It doesn't fit in with later naming conventions either, being the only Stand to be named after a musical instrument instead of a band, musician, album, or song.
• Ugly Guy, Hot Wife: In Crazy Diamond's Demonic Heartbreak, Kenny G., who is a short, imp-like man, ended up getting together with Mariah, a woman who is very easy on the eyes.
• We Hardly Knew Ye: He is quickly taken down just before he's shown to the audience.

Nukesaku

Nukesaku

Voiced by: Toru Nara (TV anime and All-Star Battle R), Kouta Nemoto (All-Star Battle) (Japanese), Arnie Pantoja (TV anime) (English)

^{Female Side}

"Can I at least ask you one thing? How the hell did you know the other Stand users used to call me Nukesaku?"

One of DIO's minions and a vampire. Commonly assumed to be a Stand user, as he is able to disguise himself as a woman using a face on the back of his head, but Araki has clarified that this is not a Stand ability.

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• Ascended Extra:
  • Since Vanilla Ice was made to be a DLC character in All-Star Battle, DIO's Mansion's stage hazard is instead good ol' Nukesaku.
  • Downplayed, but in the anime, Nukesaku, like Pet Shop, replaces a generic minion in a flashback.
• Butt-Monkey: Treated like crap by the heroes and his own allies alike. Even Kenny G., who gets curb-stomped by Iggy, has no respect for him.
• Dub Name Change: He's referred to as "Loser" in the English dub, mostly because the "Nukesaku" gag doesn't really work in English. It's also a possible reference to the Beck song of the same name.
• Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": Japanese for "idiot" — it isn't his real name, but it's the only one we know him by. He even asks how Jotaro knew everyone called him an idiot after being referred to as such.^note He didn't.
• Gonk: He's comically short, ugly and big-headed.
• Guyliner: As is almost uniform with JoJo vampires.
• Joke Character: Nukesaku is briefly Promoted to Playable in Heritage for the Future, as a transformation of DIO when he is hit by Alessi's Sethan Stand. Instead of transforming, DIO temporarily switches Nukesaku in, and he's just as weak as you'd expect; his moves consist almost entirely of flailing on the ground and scared gestures, and his vocalisations are all panicky whining.
• Meaningful Name: Twofold. His original name, Nukesaku, means "idiot". He honestly believed that a group who'd been fighting off DIO's assassins all the way to Egypt wouldn't cotton on to his ploy, especially since he forgot to turn his hands around to complete the illusion. His dub name, Loser, calls to mind the fact that Nukesaku lost out hard by being in Part 3. While his tricks might have made him at least somewhat menacing threat to the noble and gentlemanly Jonathan, Jotaro has no such reservations. On top of that, his vampire powers are so behind the curve with Stands in play that even DIO doesn't use them anymore; and even compared to DIO's vampire powers in Part 1, Nukesaku's fall short. He can't drastically change his body temperature, and he can't use Eye Beams like DIO and Straizo. Power-wise, he's more in line with a zombie than a vampire, and zombies haven't been a threat in a long time.
• Multiple Head Case: Apparently. When Joseph, Jotaro, and Kakyoin run into him, they find he has a head on each end, one male, one female. If this was part of his power or really the case isn't known.
• Our Vampires Are Different: Even amongst JoJo Vampires, he counts. For one, he's probably the only vampire in the series to have a face on the back of his head, and can turn his own body backwards to make himself look like a defenseless girl. Possibly justified, given DIO's tendency to "experiment" on his undead creations.
• Recurring Element: Like Doobie and Wired Beck before him, Nukesaku is an undead character introduced near the end of his part only to get more or less instantly defeated for the reader's amusement.
• Sacrificial Lamb: Once he's brought dead to rights, the heroes force Nukesaku to take them to and then open DIO's coffin. It goes about as well for him as you would expect.
• Shapeshifter: A really, really bad one. He got the shit beat out of him by Jotaro because his "disguise" is just a woman's face on the back of his head. His hands are, logically, upside down.
• Small Name, Big Ego: He claims that his power is invincible in disbelief when his disguise is exposed.
• Sorting Algorithm of Evil: In direct comparison to the outright terror that is Vanilla Ice, Nukesaku seems to be one of the weakest minions in DIO's service. Notably, he's the only known minion in the entire group who doesn't have a Stand. At one point, we even see Kenny G. making fun of him.
• Too Dumb to Live: There's a reason why his name means idiot. After failing to trick the heroes with an obvious Wounded Gazelle Gambit, he then reluctantly follows their orders, which involves betraying his boss, thereby getting himself killed.
• Wounded Gazelle Gambit: Attempted it by trying to turn his body into that of a girl and claiming "she" was a victim of DIO's. Joseph, Jotaro and Kakyoin see right through him instantly since the idiot forgot to actually put his body the right way.

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