| 1 | [[WMG:[[center: [- ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'' '''[[Characters/JoJosBizarreAdventure Main Character Index]]'''\ |
| 2 | '''''[[Characters/JoJosBizarreAdventurePhantomBlood Phantom Blood]]:''''' [[Characters/JoJosBizarreAdventureDIO DIO]]\ |
| 3 | '''''[[Characters/JoJosBizarreAdventureBattleTendency Battle Tendency]]:''''' [[Characters/JoJosBizarreAdventureJosephJoestar Joseph Joestar]]\ |
| 4 | ''''' [[Characters/JoJosBizarreAdventureStardustCrusaders Stardust Crusaders]]:''''' [[Characters/JojosBizarreAdventureStardustCrusadersTheJoestarGroup The Joestar Group]] ([[Characters/JoJosBizarreAdventureJotaroKujo Jotaro Kujo]] | [[Characters/JoJosBizarreAdventureJeanPierrePolnareff Jean-Pierre Polnareff]]) | '''Egypt 9 Glory Gods''' | [[Characters/JoJosBizarreAdventureDIOsHousehold DIO's Household]]\ |
| 5 | ''''' [[Characters/JoJosBizarreAdventureDiamondIsUnbreakable Diamond is Unbreakable]]:''''' [[Characters/JoJosBizarreAdventureDiamondIsUnbreakableHeroes Heroes]] | [[Characters/JojosBizarreAdventureYoshikageKira Yoshikage Kira]]\ |
| 6 | '''''[[Characters/JoJosBizarreAdventureGoldenWind Golden Wind]]:''''' [[Characters/JoJosBizarreAdventureTeamBucciarati Team Bucciarati]] ([[Characters/JojosBizarreAdventureGiornoGiovanna Giorno Giovanna]]) | [[Characters/JoJosBizarreAdventureLaSquadraDiEsecuzioni La Squadra di Esecuzioni]] | [[Characters/JojosBizarreAdventureDiavolo The Boss]]\ |
| 7 | '''''[[Characters/JoJosBizarreAdventureStoneOcean Stone Ocean]]:''''' [[Characters/JoJosBizarreAdventureStoneOceanHeroes Heroes]] | [[Characters/JoJosBizarreAdventureEnricoPucci Enrico Pucci]]\ |
| 8 | '''''[[Characters/JoJosBizarreAdventureSteelBallRun Steel Ball Run]]''''' \ |
| 9 | '''''[[Characters/JoJosBizarreAdventureJojolion JoJolion]]:''''' [[Characters/JoJosBizarreAdventureJoJolionTheHigashikataFamily The Higashikata Family]]\ |
| 10 | '''''[[Characters/JoJosBizarreAdventureTheJOJOLands The JOJOLands]]'''''\ |
| 11 | [[Characters/JoJosBizarreAdventureOneShots One-Shot Characters]] | [[Characters/JojosBizarreAdventureSpinoffs Spinoff Characters]]]]-]]] |
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| 13 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/egypt_9_glory_gods.png]] |
| 14 | [[caption-width-right:945: They'll make sure you don't take the [[Music/PatMetheny last train home]].[[note]]'''Clockwise from center:''' [[TheGambler Daniel J. D'Arby]], [[LivingDollCollector Telence T. D'Arby]], [[EvilWeapon Anubis]], [[ChildHater Alessi]], [[HandicappedBadass N'Doul]], [[DarkActionGirl Mariah]], [[MasterOfDisguise Oingo]], [[FeatheredFiend Pet Shop]], and [[ForcedIntoEvil Boingo]].[[/note]]]] |
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| 16 | Nine members of DIO's inner circle, most of whom are especially loyal to his cause. |
| 17 | ---- |
| 18 | [[foldercontrol]] |
| 19 | [[folder:In General]] |
| 20 | * AdaptedOut: With the exceptions of N'Doul and Daniel J. D'Arby, they are completely removed from the OVA adaptation. |
| 21 | * EliteMooks: In general they come very close to winning ''especially'' compared to DIO's mercenaries, the only people outperforming them being [[TheDragon Vanilla Ice]], [[NotSoHarmlessVillain Hol Horse]] (when partnered with [[WakeUpCallBoss J. Geil]]) and DIO himself. |
| 22 | * InformedAbility: Though most of the Glory Gods mark a noticeable spike in strength or skill, Oingo and Boingo seem unusually weak for being DIO's most elite enforcers: their Stands have some utility but lack any kind of offensive punch, and they come off as fairly stupid, serving mostly as {{Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain}}s. |
| 23 | * KilledOffForReal: N'Doul, Anubis and Pet Shop meet their ends after their confrontations with the Joestar Group. |
| 24 | * ALighterShadeOfBlack: At least, four of the members- N'Doul, Oingo, Boingo, and Daniel J. D'Arby, while amoral, are considerably less psychotic, sadistic, and cruel than their peers, especially Alessi and Telence. |
| 25 | * NonIndicativeName: N'Doul, the D'Arbys, Alessi, and Mariah's Stands don't have much to do with their respective gods. Pet Shop, Anubis, and the Oingo Boingo brothers are a little closer (Horus is a falcon, Anubis is designed to look like the god, Tohth and Khnum at least vaguely invoke their gods' portfolios). |
| 26 | * PraetorianGuard: Including the members of his household, they serve as the most elite of DIO's followers when the Joestar Group finally sets foot in Egypt. |
| 27 | * SadlyMythtaken: The Egypt 9 Glory Gods are based on the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ennead Ennead]], a group of the 9 most important gods in the pantheon that are worshipped in the Heliopolis. Despite this, only 4 of the Glory Gods are actually part of the Ennead: Atum, Geb, Osiris and Set (5 if Horus is included, which is often included as the tenth member of the Ennead). |
| 28 | * ThemeNaming: Their Stands are all named after deities from Myth/EgyptianMythology. |
| 29 | * SecretKeeper: They are all privy to the knowledge of DIO's stand, and are aware that spilling this secret ensures their death. |
| 30 | * UndyingLoyalty: A vast majority of the tarot-themed enemies were all just looking to get a paycheck. These guys, aside from [[ForcedIntoEvil Boingo]], [[OnlyInItForTheMoney Alessi]], and [[TheGambler Daniel J. D'Arby]], are genuinely loyal to DIO. |
| 31 | [[/folder]] |
| 32 | |
| 33 | [[folder:N'Doul]] |
| 34 | !!N'Doul (Stand: [[MakingASplash Geb]]) |
| 35 | !!!'''Voiced by:''' [[Creator/KentaroIto Kentaro Ito]] (TV anime and ''Eyes of Heaven''), Koji Tanaka (OVA), Creator/YujiKishi (''Heritage for the Future'' video game) (Japanese), Unknown (OVA) (English), Creator/GregChun (TV Anime) (English) |
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| 37 | [[quoteright:312:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/a19012aee762f345972a7425951490f5.png]] |
| 38 | [[caption-width-right:312:[[labelnote:Geb]]\ |
| 39 | https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/geb_animeav.png[[/labelnote]]]] |
| 40 | |
| 41 | ->''"Evil or not, a scoundrel needs someone to put his faith in."'' |
| 42 | |
| 43 | A blind Stand user. He is named after Senegalese soul singer [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Youssou_N%27Dour Youssou N'Dour]]. |
| 44 | \ |
| 45 | \ |
| 46 | His Stand, Geb, named after [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geb the Egyptian god of the earth]], has the ability to control water and shoot it at high speeds, capable of severing flesh and bone. |
| 47 | ----- |
| 48 | * AchillesHeel: N'Doul is very reliant on his enhanced hearing and "echolocation" to function. Unfortunately, it isn't foolproof. First, clever-enough adversaries can take advantage of his lack of sight to trick him into thinking they're moving by throwing objects into the sand, allowing them to lay a trap for Geb. Second, he can't detect anything in the air unless it's making some kind of sound; as such, he is vulnerable to aerial attacks. And third, breaking his focus by distracting him and/or separating him from his cane (which he needs to hear over long distances) can make him lose "sight" of his opponent, leaving him open to attacks as long as the enemy remains silent and undetected by Geb. |
| 49 | * AffablyEvil: Despite serving DIO, he's remarkably polite, admiring Jotaro as a WorthyOpponent. |
| 50 | * AlasPoorVillain: His dying moments were portrayed in a tragic light, so much so that Jotaro decides to honour him with a proper burial. |
| 51 | * AmbiguouslyGay: If his admiration for DIO's beauty is a hint. Of course, [[EvenTheGuysWantHim it's DIO]]. |
| 52 | * BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: His motivation behind working for DIO was because DIO, while N'Doul was living a miserable, lonely life and surviving on petty crime due to his blindness and his powers forcing people away, accepted him and gave him purpose as a fellow Stand user. |
| 53 | * BetterToDieThanBeKilled: He takes his own life knowing DIO would probably kill him anyway, explaining that it's better to die by one's own hand than to die at the hands of someone whom they admire. It is also to prevent Joseph from reading his mind and learning about any useful information using Hermit Purple. |
| 54 | * BlindWeaponmaster: N'Doul is blind, but it doesn't hamper how skilled and outright dangerous he is with Geb's [[MakingASplash water-manipulating powers]] in the slightest. He has also learned to sense the presence of who and what is around him through the ground and his cane. |
| 55 | * CardCarryingVillain: In his DyingSpeech, he doesn't hesitate to admit that he and DIO are evil, but appreciates the latter for giving him a purpose as a Stand user in spite of that. |
| 56 | * CurbStompBattle: He manages to take Avdol and Kakyoin out of commission easily, with only a small, if severe, burn to show for it. |
| 57 | * DigAttack: Geb can do this, as N'Doul "sees" through hearing and vibrations. |
| 58 | * DisabilitySuperpower: His blindness led him to develop his hearing to a superhuman degree, allowing him to perceive things miles away from him in great detail and making him a deadly remote Stand user. |
| 59 | * DrivenToSuicide: After Jotaro incapacitates him with the intent to ask him about DIO, N'Doul instead opts to kill himself: using Geb to [[BoomHeadshot blast a burst of pressurized water through his own head]]. He does hang on just long enough to tell Jotaro who he is and why he is so devoted to supporting his master so much, however. |
| 60 | * EvenEvilHasStandards: Despite his attempts to violently kill the Joestar Group -- after already mutilating several Speedwagon Foundation pilots -- he's genuinely appalled when he finds out that Jotaro threw Iggy, a dog, at him while trying to get close enough to attack. |
| 61 | ** The Japanese version has him say this: |
| 62 | ---> '''N'Doul:''' ''What kind of person is he? Throwing a dog...'' |
| 63 | ** Though not word-by-word, the English dub still has him show disbelief at the prospect of Jotaro throwing Iggy. |
| 64 | ---> '''N'Doul:''' ''I can't believe it! He actually threw the dog...'' |
| 65 | * EyeScream: N'Doul inflicts this on Kakyoin during his battle with him and the rest of the Joestar Group, slashing him across the eyes with Geb and seriously wounding him for a significant chunk of the story. |
| 66 | * FaceDeathWithDignity: When cornered and incapacitated by Jotaro so he can be questioned, N'Doul fatally wounds himself with a burst of water through his own head via Geb, and calmly tells Jotaro about who he is and why he is so dedicated to protecting DIO, all without any fear or pain whatsoever. Both the circumstances surrounding him and how well he takes his demise [[AlasPoorVillain moves the normally-indifferent Jotaro]] to the point where he gives N'Doul a proper burial after he dies. |
| 67 | -->'''N'Doul:''' I'll tell you this before I go. You should know that my name is N'Doul, and my Stand hails from Egypt; the birthplace of the Tarot. It's referred to as one of the Nine Gods of Egypt, Geb of the Great Ennead. We call it the God of the Earth.\ |
| 68 | '''Jotaro:''' Nine Egyptian Gods? What does that mean?!\ |
| 69 | '''N'Doul:''' ''(chuckles mirthlessly)'' Sorry, but I'll only tell you about ''my'' Stand. [[WorthyOpponent It's only fair, seeing as you're the one who ended up stopping me.]] But information on my compatriots ''goes with me to my grave''. |
| 70 | * FemmeFatalons: Geb generally takes the form of a large hand reaching up from the ground -- made up of highly-pressurised water -- with very long and sharp fingernails. They not only tear through several Speedwagon Foundation members and their helicopter, but also end up [[EyeScream deeply slashing Kakyoin down his face and through the eyes]], incapacitating him for a long time in-story until DIO's mansion. |
| 71 | * FoldSpindleMutilation: Geb's debut to the Stardust Crusaders is ''violently ripping the surviving Speedwagon helicopter pilot's head off after suddenly appearing from the water canteen before forcing said head through the canteen's nozzle, brutally crushing it.'' |
| 72 | * {{Foreshadowing}}: When Jotaro finally catches up to him, N'Doul briefly tells Jotaro about his jewelled cane, in particular elaborating on how he uses it to navigate and that he needs it to return home. After he finishes, N'Doul throws it far away from himself: hinting that [[FaceDeathWithDignity he's very aware he's not getting out alive either way]]. |
| 73 | * FreudianExcuse: As both a blind man and a Stand user, he struggled to live as a normal person, reluctantly relied on petty crime to survive, and felt like he was shunned and ostracised by society. His loyalty to DIO was because he was the only one who accepted him for who he was. |
| 74 | * GlassCannon: |
| 75 | ** Geb is extremely dangerous and with the desert it makes it hard to track and watch. However, N'Doul himself is defeated with a single hit from Star Platinum once Jotaro finds a way to get close. |
| 76 | ** It's taken to a further extreme in ''Heritage for the Future'', where N'Doul is a bonus level boss that can deal some nasty damage if one makes the mistake of allowing him to do so, but if one reaches to the place he sits, he will go down to the lightest of jabs as long as it hits low. |
| 77 | * GracefulLoser: Takes his loss to Jotaro very well, and accepts his defeat. He even offers to spill some information to Jotaro about his Stand and the future enemies they'll face [[WorthyOpponent as a reward for beating him]]. Not before he kills himself using his own Stand to not tell them everything, however. |
| 78 | * HandicappedBadass: He's blind, but he is one of the most dangerous Stand users the group encounters, and easily the deadliest encountered up to that point. He knocks out Kakyoin and Avdol, and has the others at his mercy until Jotaro forced Iggy to get involved. Even ''then'', Jotaro got very lucky. |
| 79 | * InconsistentSpelling: It's either N'Dou''l'' or N'Dou''r'', though the former is more common. |
| 80 | * IronicName: His Stand is named after the Egyptian ''Earth'' god, yet its ability allows N'Doul to [[MakingASplash control water]]. As seen under ShownTheirWork though, it does make sense from a practical standpoint. |
| 81 | * {{Irony}}: The Joestar group is attacked by a water stand in the desert. |
| 82 | * KickTheDog: Subverted. He contemplates killing Iggy first for the pure reason that the dog was able to tell when Geb was going to attack, but after hearing that Iggy was more interested in taking a nap than helping the fight, N'Doul decides that he'll leave him be. |
| 83 | * ALighterShadeOfBlack: While he's still a confident, remorseless killer, who even describes himself as a bad man, he doesn't display the extreme sadism, cruelty, and depravity that the other Stand users under DIO's employ possess. While he does kill the Speedwagon agents for interfering, he primarily focuses on the Joestar Group, being disgusted when Jotaro uses Iggy as a projectile, and kills himself for the sake of the master's secrets and out of gratitude. Jotaro even feels that under different circumstances, he would've made an ally. |
| 84 | * LogicalWeakness: Geb is a stand that acts though manipulating water, its completely immune to taking physical damage. Thus, a PlayingWithFire stand like Magician's Red is one of its biggest threats. However, Geb manages to overcome its weakness by outspeeding the other stand. |
| 85 | * LongRangeFighter: Enforced. N'Doul is a blind man who cannot see unless he listens to his cane for the vibrations around him, any enemy getting close to him puts him at an immediate disadvantage. |
| 86 | * MakingASplash: Geb can manipulate water, pressurizing it to the point where it becomes a dangerous weapon and controlling it from a distance like an extension of himself. |
| 87 | * MoreThanMindControl: He sees DIO as a [[DarkMessiah savior for people like himself]]. |
| 88 | * MutualKill: Judging by how he drops his cane to the side after just expositing about how he would need it to find his way back to DIO before unleashing Geb at the same time Jotaro attacks with Star Platinum, it's heavily implied N'Doul was ready to invoke this to win the fight. Unfortunately for him, Star Platinum is faster and Geb only manages to knock Jotaro's hat off -- granted, an impressive feat in and of itself considering how much that hat sticks to Jotaro -- and N'Doul has to settle for FaceDeathWithDignity. |
| 89 | * NighInvulnerability: Part of what makes Geb so dangerous is because since it's just manipulated water, it's immune to most physical attacks like Silver Chariot's rapier or Star Platinum's fists. Luckily, Avdol's Magician Red is just the type of Stand capable of harming it by evaporating the water, but it says something that Jotaro has to resort to attacking N'Doul directly and ignoring Geb to win. |
| 90 | * PragmaticVillainy: He foregoes attacking Iggy when the dog was more interested in taking a nap and saving itself rather than helping fight Geb. Ironically, it is because he doesn't attack Iggy that he loses. |
| 91 | * ProphetEyes: His eyes are clouded over to emphasize his blindness. |
| 92 | * ReflectionlessUselessEyes: He has these to show he's blind. |
| 93 | * ShownTheirWork: A water-based Stand like Geb attacking the Joestar Group out in the desert initially seems odd, but makes a lot of sense when you consider that industrial [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_jet_cutter water jet cutters]] work through highly-pressurised streams of water -- much like Geb -- mixed with abrasives such as sand, letting them easily cut through materials such as steel and especially flesh and bone. |
| 94 | * SingleSubstanceManipulation: His Stand, Geb can manipulate [[MakingASplash water]]. Most of the time, Geb takes the form of a large clawed hand made of water, which is strong enough to rip someone's head off and pull it into a canteen. |
| 95 | * SupernaturalSuffocation: In the OVA, Geb mixes itself with water from a canteen, then forms a bubble around Polnareff's head, almost drowning him despite Star Platinum's attempts to punch the water away. Fortunately, Avdol uses Magician's Red to evaporate most of the water before Polnareff suffocates. |
| 96 | * UndyingLoyalty: To DIO, so much so that he would rather kill himself than betray him. |
| 97 | * VillainousVirtues: Gratitude and loyalty. As thanks to DIO for giving him purpose and accepting him for the man he is, N'Doul is completely loyal to him, to the point of taking his own life to stop the heroes from questioning him for information that could be used to defeat him. |
| 98 | * WakeUpCallBoss: As the first of the Egypt 9 Glory Gods the gang faces, N'Doul being able to take out two of them -- seriously wounding one for the rest of the story -- quickly shows how much more dangerous future enemies will be in comparison to the ones they had faced before. |
| 99 | * WeaponTombstone: N'Doul fatally wounds himself using his Stand to prevent himself from spilling any information, and talks to Jotaro without an ounce of fear of his oncoming death just before he dies. Afterward, Jotaro respectfully buries N'Doul's body in the desert and marks the spot using his own jewelled cane. |
| 100 | * WolverineClaws: When Geb manifests as a hand with weaponized FemmeFatalons made of very high-pressure water, it can do quite a bit of damage. |
| 101 | * WorthyOpponent: |
| 102 | ** Jotaro is impressed that N'Doul is able to knock his hat off of his head; which he mentions has stayed put ''even while underwater''. He's probably the only of DIO's assassins that he respects, as he buries and eulogizes N'Doul after he kills himself, [[WeaponTombstone marking the spot with his own jewelled cane]]. |
| 103 | ** N'Doul himself sees Jotaro as one, as he reveals information about his Stand, and the future enemies the group will encounter in Egypt, as a reward for beating him. The OVA takes this a step further with N'Doul saying that Jotaro is the one man whose face he wishes he could see, and that he prays for their luck. |
| 104 | [[/folder]] |
| 105 | |
| 106 | [[folder:Oingo]] |
| 107 | !!Oingo (Stand: [[VoluntaryShapeshifting Khnum]]) |
| 108 | !!!'''Voiced by:''' Makoto Yasumura (TV anime and ''All-Star Battle R''), Creator/DaisukeOno (TV anime, disguised as Jotaro), Hisayoshi Suganuma (''All-Star Battle''), Creator/YujiKishi (''Heritage for the Future'' video game) (Japanese), Creator/JoeZieja (TV anime) (English) |
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| 110 | [[quoteright:275:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/af8339c71eddac4976fb215479986179.PNG]] |
| 111 | [[caption-width-right:275:[[labelnote:Khnum]]\ |
| 112 | https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/khnum_5.png[[/labelnote]]]] |
| 113 | |
| 114 | ->''"[[IAmSong I am Oingo, I can transform!]] My height, my weight, and even my smell, just as I imagine! No one will find out, and no one will catch on! The God of Creation, Khnum!"'' |
| 115 | |
| 116 | The elder of two brothers that attempts to attack the Joestars. He and Boingo are named after Music/OingoBoingo (or, in the Viz translation, after Music/ThePolice album ''Zenyattà Mondatta''). |
| 117 | \ |
| 118 | \ |
| 119 | His Stand, Khnum, named after [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khnum the Egyptian god that sculpted humans from clay]], allows him to disguise himself as anyone in the world, altering his face, size, and even smell to fool his opponents. |
| 120 | ----- |
| 121 | * BodyHorror: PlayedForLaughs. His Stand, Khnum, let him to reshape his body like clay. |
| 122 | * ButtMonkey: He alongside his brother and Hol Horse are the biggest ones out of the entire rogues gallery of this part. Practically nothing goes right for him. |
| 123 | * DressingAsTheEnemy: Not by choice though, he disguised as Jotaro to avoid being attacked by Joseph and Polnareff. This leads to his defeat, as he becomes the "Jotaro" that was described in Thoth's prophecy... and then accordingly ends up treading on one of his own explosives, retiring him. |
| 124 | * DubNameChange: To Zenyatta. |
| 125 | * EpicFail: He's the '''only''' antagonist in the ''entire'' '''franchise''' whose existence wasn't even ''acknowledged'' by anyone of the heroes and was defeated by a mix of misfortune and his sheer stupidity and impulsiveness. |
| 126 | * EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Immensely protective of Boingo and tears up at the thought of his brother growing more confident. |
| 127 | * ExplosiveStupidity: How Oingo is defeated. While trying to hide an explosive orange in the Joestar Group's car, he's forced to disguise himself as Jotaro to avoid being caught by Kakyoin, Joseph and Polnareff when they come across him in the act. In an attempt to get out of the blast radius of his own trap, he tries throwing it out of the car, only for Iggy to bring it back; and then after getting free of the car, Polnareff throws it out ''again'', landing right in Oingo's path where [[HoistByHisOwnPetard he steps on and accidentally detonates it]]. |
| 128 | * FamilyThemeNaming: Oingo and his brother Boingo are named after Music/OingoBoingo. |
| 129 | * FromBadToWorse: After Oingo got himself blown up with his own exploding orange, [[LaserGuidedKarma he and Boingo are set upon by a group of friends of the man Oingo had robbed earlier for money]], and the two end up receiving a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown from them. |
| 130 | * GagLips: Has comically-huge lips compared to everyone else in his default form. |
| 131 | * GenreSavvy: He's well aware that while Thoth's prophecies are always accurate, they aren't always as cut and dry as they appear. When he disguises himself as Jotaro to avoid detection, he knows that he's putting himself at risk from his own trap. |
| 132 | * TheGhost: Not Oingo himself, but Khnum. While other Stands are visible (albeit often devoid of their own character), the closest we get is the logo on his shirt up there. |
| 133 | * {{Humanshifting}}: His Stand lets him reshape his body, but the end result is still humanoid. He can't alter or generate clothes, but he ''can'' resculpt his hair to resemble a hat. This essentially makes Khnum a weaker version of Yellow Temperance: although to his credit, Oingo ''is'' much better at impersonating people than Rubber Soul ever was. |
| 134 | * IneffectualSympatheticVillain: Doesn't really pose a threat to the heroes, and he's kind to and very protective of his meek younger brother. |
| 135 | * {{Irony}}: He boasts that him and his brother are an invincible duo and he has faith in Boingo, but when he's unexpectedly spotted, he fails to belief in Thoth's fortune and ends up being the target of what was supposed to be Jotaro's fate. |
| 136 | * KnightTemplarBigBrother: Is very overprotective over his brother Boingo. |
| 137 | * LaserGuidedKarma: Assaults a random guy on the street for some money. He ends up getting beaten up when the guy comes back with some friends in revenge. |
| 138 | * ALighterShadeOfBlack: Both he and Boingo, while hilariously inept, are still confident killers who attempt to assassinate the Joestars and are mean to random people for no reason at times. However, they're not nearly as insane, sadistic, or morally repugnant as the majority of the Tarot Stand users or even some of their fellow Glory Gods. They [[EvenEvilHasLovedOnes truly care for other]] and only directly try to kill the Joestars — their intended targets. |
| 139 | * MadeOfIron: {{Downplayed|Trope}}. Although badly injured and hospitalised as a result of it, Oingo survives being caught point-blank in the explosion of a hand grenade (hidden inside an orange) that he steps on. And that's not even getting to the NoHoldsBarredBeatdown he received from the friends of a man he'd robbed earlier. |
| 140 | * MasterOfDisguise: Khnum's entire schtick, which lets Oingo shapeshift and alter his face, size and even scent to produce a near-perfect disguise of any other person he chooses. He's also quite good at impersonating how they act unlike [[SmugSnake Rubber Soul]], making it harder to catch on to him. |
| 141 | * MeaningfulName: The Egyptian god Khnum was said to have sculpted humans from clay, much like how Oingo sculpts his own face to disguise himself. |
| 142 | * NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: How he's ultimately defeated. Boingo and Oingo both receive one from a man whom they robbed earlier on, when he comes back with his friends after [[FromBadToWorse Oingo had already been blown up]] by stepping on (and thus detonating) his own exploding orange. |
| 143 | * PromotionToParent: Implied--he's the only one seen taking care of his little brother Boingo, and their parents are seemingly nowhere to be found. |
| 144 | * ProphecyTwist: Oingo plants a bomb hidden in an orange because Boingo's prophecy says that this will cause Jotaro's face to get blown up. However, he then immediately has to disguise himself as Jotaro when the rest of the group approaches. In the end, he does manage to get away... but Polnareff throws away the orange, and Oingo gets blown up before he has the chance to remove his disguise. In the Hol Horse & Boingo episode, it's implied that if Oingo hadn't disguised himself as Jotaro, the plan would have gone off without a hitch. |
| 145 | * RaceLift: An InUniverse example. In Thoth's predictions he's got a white skin, along with his brother. |
| 146 | * SelfDisposingVillain: {{Parodied|Trope}}, Joseph and Polnareff never even knew they were in danger, Oingo’s defeat was entirely self-sabotaged. |
| 147 | * ShapeshiftingExcludesClothing: Pretty much the one flaw in his shapeshifting, though he actually does transform his hair enough to resemble Jotaro's hat. |
| 148 | * SigilSpam: Look closely at his t-shirt, and you can see it's monogrammed with his own Stand's card (in the manga, the shirt has his name instead). |
| 149 | * SpecialEditionTitle: Ending in this case, Boingo and he get their own little ending song in the anime. |
| 150 | * StupidEvil: His decision to attack and rob a rich man -- on the basis that he needed the money and [[EvilIsPetty because he didn't like his face]] -- quickly comes back to bite him in the ass when said man pays a bunch of his friends to beat Oingo and his brother to a pulp. And keep in mind, this occurred [[FromBadToWorse just after Oingo had been blown up by his own exploding orange]]. |
| 151 | * SuicidalOverconfidence: Oingo is convinced that with the help of his brother's [[PropheticFallacy stand]] in addition to [[MasterOfDisguise his own]], that he's completely invincible and nobody can stop him. His overconfidence gets to the point where he chooses to assault a rich man [[EvilIsPetty because his face annoyed him.]] This ends up getting him and his brother hospitalized after said rich man hires his friends to beat them up. |
| 152 | * TheUnfought: {{Subverted|Trope}}, as he was technically battling Joseph and Polnareff, but the heroes never realize they were attacked by him nor were they even aware of his existence. |
| 153 | * UnknownRival: Literally. Not one of the heroes even acknowledged his existence. His brother at least was acknowledged and brutalized by [[NominalHero Iggy]]. |
| 154 | * ThrowDownTheBomblet: How he attempts to kill the Joestar Group. Oingo rigs up an orange with a bomb inside of it, designed to detonate when peeled; however, through a chain of things going wrong one after another, he ends up accidentally treading on said explosive orange while trying to escape disguised as Jotaro, being blown up and retired himself. |
| 155 | * VagueAge: Oingo looks like he could be anywhere from his late teens to his early 20s. At the least, he's old enough to drive a car and to take care of his little brother on his own. The minimum age to have a driver's license in Egypt is 18, implying he's at least that old. |
| 156 | * WeakButSkilled: Compared to earlier shapeshifting enemy Stand User [[BlobMonster Rubber Soul]], Oingo is this. While his Stand, Khnum, is a lot less combat-oriented than Yellow Temperance and he never tries to fight the gang directly, he's one ''hell'' of a lot better at impersonating people and their mannerisms with his disguises, meaning that the Joestar Group never realizes he's a fake until he accidentally treads on his own explosive orange and blows himself up. |
| 157 | * YouHaveGotToBeKiddingMe: Yells this in his Jotaro form as he realises he's about to be blown up: |
| 158 | -->'''Oingo:''' ''[[OhCrap (slowly realizes he's stepped on his own bomb)]]'' '''...ARE YOU''' '''''KIDDING MEEEEEEEE?!''''' ''(the bomb explodes spectacularly, and Oingo is caught in the blast)'' |
| 159 | [[/folder]] |
| 160 | |
| 161 | [[folder:Boingo]] |
| 162 | !!Boingo (Stand: [[TomesOfProphecyAndFate Thoth]]) |
| 163 | !!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/MotokoKumai (TV anime and ''All-Star Battle R''), Takahiro Fujimoto (''All-Star Battle''), Sanae Takagi (''Heritage for the Future'' video game) (Japanese), Creator/JessicaGeeGeorge (TV anime) (English) |
| 164 | |
| 165 | [[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/8eef50a95f89f0be1fc2dd7b1b1597f9.PNG]] |
| 166 | |
| 167 | ->''"[[IAmSong I am Boingo, I prophesize with manga!]] It comes true without fail, there's never any mistake! I'm very shy, so I'm always alone, though. The God of Knowledge, Thoth!"'' |
| 168 | |
| 169 | The younger of two brothers that attempt to attack the Joestars, he later partners up with Hol Horse. He and Oingo are named after Music/OingoBoingo (or, in the Viz translation, after Music/ThePolice album ''Zenyattà Mondatta''). |
| 170 | \ |
| 171 | \ |
| 172 | His Stand, Thoth, named after [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thoth the Egyptian god of knowledge and sciences]], manifests itself as a comic book that can predict the future with 100% accuracy. Whether or not he can follow through with said predictions is another thing. |
| 173 | \ |
| 174 | \ |
| 175 | He appears as a supporting character in the 2021 SpinOff manga ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureCrazyDiamondsDemonicHeartbreak''. |
| 176 | ----- |
| 177 | * AdaptationalAttractiveness: Boingo is much more conventionally cute in the anime than in the manga. |
| 178 | * AmbiguousSyntax: His Stand's predictions are 100% accurate. How they're supposed to come about is another thing, since [[CrypticConversation they only appear in picture form]] and tend to oversimplify how things are supposed to progress. |
| 179 | * AnimeHair: He sports an afro that's bigger than the rest of his head. |
| 180 | * ArtShift: His Stand is a comic book, and [[DerangedAnimation the illustrations are very, very surreal]]. Sorta like a Klasky-Csupo comic. |
| 181 | * AssistCharacter: Is one for Hol Horse in his alternate "Hol Horse & Boingo" incarnation from ''VideoGame/JoJosBizarreAdventureHeritageForTheFuture''. Boingo mostly lends a hand during their Supers; "Absolute Premonition" has him using Thoth to predict a truck coming to hit the opponent while Hol himself holds them in front of it by their nose, and "Pipe Maze" involves him predicting the path of the bullets Hol fires into a network of pipes with Emperor to shoot the opponent. Other than that, Boingo mostly hangs out in the background, but [[JokeCharacter gets sent out to fight unwillingly]] while [[DirtyCoward Hol Horse himself hides under his box]] when they're transformed by Alessi. |
| 182 | * TheBabyOfTheBunch: The youngest of the 9 Glory Gods, and one of the youngest human characters to have a Stand, aside from [[BrainyBaby Mannish Boy]] and later [[{{Invisibility}} Shizuka Joestar]]. |
| 183 | * BigStupidDoodooHead: According to him, Hol Horse is "a big meanie and a total jerk!". In the English dub, he instead says that [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment "he's mean and I don't like him!"]]. |
| 184 | * BlessedWithSuck: His Stand's ability is to show the future in the short term, however the prediction is often vague and doesn't show either the long-term consequences of a prophecy coming true, or even what will happen ''minutes or seconds after'' the completion of said prophecy. What's worse is that Thoth seemingly leads the people reading it into trouble, as Oingo, Boingo and Hol Horse were all severely injured following its predictions going wrong some way or another. It's implied that this doesn't always have to be the case, as Oingo knowingly displayed a severe lapse in judgment by transforming into the guy prophesied to be blown up, but in addition to the stand's own flaws, Boingo and his partners simply lack the cunning needed to manipulate Thoth's prophecies into desirable outcomes. |
| 185 | * BoundAndGagged: Poor Boingo gets tied up and stuffed in a suitcase by Hol Horse so the latter can use Thoth to help him to kill Jotaro. |
| 186 | * BreakoutCharacter: Boingo has made a lot of appearances throughout the franchise for a minor character; he appears as an AssistCharacter in ''Heritage for the Future'', a comic book implied to be drawn by him appears in ''Stone Ocean'', he gets his own ending theme with Oingo in the anime adaptation of ''Stardust Crusaders'', and he appears as a supporting character in ''Crazy Diamond's Demonic Heartbreak''. |
| 187 | * TheCameo: In ''Stone Ocean'', Jolyne is seen reading a comic book that looks like Thoth, implying that Boingo became an illustrator when he grew up. |
| 188 | * ClingyChild: Some art shows Boingo clinging to his older brother Oingo's leg. There's even a [[https://static.jojowiki.com/images/d/df/latest/20210528233231/Ob01.jpg Statue Legend figure]] of them in this pose. |
| 189 | * DerangedAnimation: Boingo's two special ending sequences are depicted in the style of his comic book, right down to the surreal landscapes and humorously ugly and stylised character designs. |
| 190 | * DiabolusExMachina: Suffers one right at the end of his character arc. After being defeated twice, Boingo learns from the experience, and resolves to pull a HeelFaceTurn, get over his cowardice, and from then on use his power to help people. It seems things are finally looking up for him... only to kick away his old box and accidentally hit [[HeroWithAnFInGood Iggy]] in the head with it, who then proceeds to attack him. As a result, he gets sent to the hospital along with Oingo and Hol Horse, and [[DownerEnding ends up meeker]] ''[[DownerEnding than ever]]''. |
| 191 | * DubNameChange: To Mondatta. However, his comic book still says "Oingo Boingo" on the cover, and their [[SpecialEditionTitle ending theme]] isn't dubbed and still has them say "Oingo Boingo Brothers". |
| 192 | * EndearinglyDorky: Even though he's [[ForcedIntoEvil technically a villain]], Boingo still manages to come off as quite the likeable dork; especially through his loyalty to his brother and when he's reading his comic aloud, complete with SayingSoundEffectsOutLoud and child-like impressions of the various people in them. |
| 193 | -->'''Boingo:''' Yahoo, we're rich! |
| 194 | * ExactWords: Well, a picture form of it. Thoth's predictions are always accurate in some sense; if the book's pages show Jotaro getting shot in the head, then Jotaro will get shot in the head... but that picture actually meant someone who ''looks like'' Jotaro will end up getting shot, or even that ''the comic book's picture of Jotaro'' gets shot: directly leading to Hol Horse's defeat. |
| 195 | * EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Fiercely loyal to his brother, which leads to his team-up with Hol Horse in hopes of getting revenge for the injuries Oingo sustained in their last encounter with the heroes. |
| 196 | * FamilyThemeNaming: Boingo and his brother Oingo are named after Music/OingoBoingo. |
| 197 | * ForcedIntoEvil: It's all but outright said that Boingo doesn't go willingly along with being used as a patsy by Oingo or Hol Horse, and his respective motivations for doing so -- to help Oingo and to avenge Oingo's injuries, respectively -- can be traced back to his UndyingLoyalty for his brother. |
| 198 | * GigglingVillain: Has a tendency to break into wild fits of laughter at the prospect of fate turning in his favor. |
| 199 | * GoneHorriblyRight: While his Stand may have correctly predicted one of the heroes' fate ([[spoiler:Jotaro's method of death]] in [[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureStoneOcean Part 6]], long after the prediction was made), it didn't save Oingo from suffering the same fate while disguised as that person: and likewise with Hol Horse accidentally shooting himself ''through'' the comic's picture of Jotaro due to a slightly sped-up watch. |
| 200 | * HeartIsAnAwesomePower: Boingo tries to invoke this trope, remarking that even though his Stand can't see far into the future, its high accuracy makes up for any of its shortcomings. It's subverted due to the fact that Thoth's predictions backfire so much that he and his partners would be better off ignoring it. |
| 201 | * HeelFaceDoorSlam: After both of his allies are defeated, Boingo resolves to change his ways. (Then Iggy mauls him after Boingo accidentally kicks his old box onto his head: leaving him even more insecure than before, and the last we hear of him is him bitterly concluding that "if it really were ''that'' easy for people to change, the world would be a far better place".) However, an artwork shown in Part 6 shows that Boingo became an illustrator later on, so at least it ''did'' work out for him somewhat in the long run. |
| 202 | * HeelFaceTurn: On the other hand, Boingo ''does'' succeed at this in his ''Heritage for the Future'' ending with Hol Horse; turning over a new leaf and becoming more positive and assertive after proving he could rid himself of his past regrets, making use of his Stand's power to help people. |
| 203 | * InconsistentSpelling: Boingo's Stand "Thoth" has for whatever reason been spelled as "Tohth" in nearly all official Japanese materials. The reason for this is never clear, as "Tohth" is not an alternate spelling of the name of the Egyptian deity (which is the Greek name for him anyway) nor is there any copyright or trademark restriction to using a name that is thousands of years old. |
| 204 | * IneffectualSympatheticVillain: Boingo's one of the weakest Stand Users in DIO's group, and he's pretty much TheChewToy for the other, similarly-ineffective and humorous minions to take advantage of. |
| 205 | * {{Irony}}: Thoth actually ''did'' predict how in [[Manga/StoneOcean Part 6]], [[spoiler:Jotaro would die from getting his face split in two]]. |
| 206 | * ItsAllJunk: After he resolves to pull a HeelFaceTurn after his second defeat, Boingo kicks away the old wooden box he used to hide under, seeing it as a symbol of his cowardice and wanting to move on from it. Unfortunately though, [[{{Jerkass}} Iggy]] happens to be nearby and accidentally gets hit by it when it comes down... and [[DiabolusExMachina needless to say, it doesn't end well for Boingo]]. |
| 207 | * ALighterShadeOfBlack: While just as inept as his brother, he's still trying to kill the Joestars with some glee and tolerates Oingo being rude to random people. However, he's not nearly as sadistic, cruel, or psychotic as the majority of the Tarot Stand users or his fellow Glory Gods. He [[EvenEvilHasLovedOnes cares deeply for his brother]] and is willing to work alongside Hol Horse, a similar jerk that's not nearly as bad as his compatriots. |
| 208 | * MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: In ''Crazy Diamond's Demonic Heartbreak'', Boingo believes that his Thoth is not actually a Stand, but rather manga blessed by the god Thoth with precognition. It's not made clear if he's right or if he's just making stuff up about a normal object-type Stand. He never once acknowledges any stands other than object-types or ability-types, meaning it's not shown if he can see Stands. |
| 209 | * MeaningfulName: Thoth was the Egyptian god of knowledge, and was almost always depicted writing something; the Stand Thoth gives knowledge on future events, writing them down moments before they happen. |
| 210 | * NeverMyFault: Every time his Stand's predictions backfire, he will focus only on the fact that the [[ComicallyMissingThePoint predictions were technically correct]] and that any repercussions was due to either it simply being fate or because his partners tried to change the outcome, even though both Oingo and Hol Horse followed Thoth's instruction to the letter in every case. He explains it to Hol Horse as his brother lacking faith in the book, explaining that Oingo should have just trusted the book's ending to happen even after the heroes accidentally found him, rather than transform into Jotaro to protect himself. Likewise, Hol Horse too suffers because he stopped trusting the book just because his bullets missed Jotaro the first time around: causing Hol Horse to be distracted by looking at the book, asking "What's supposed to happen now?" at the worst possible moment. |
| 211 | * NonActionGuy: Being a child with a non-combat-oriented Stand, Boingo makes his predictions and stays on the sidelines while his big brother Oingo handles the heavy lifting. He later fills the same role alongside Hol Horse. |
| 212 | * OlderThanTheyLook: If the canonicity of ''[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureCrazyDiamondsDemonicHeartbreak Crazy Diamond's Demonic Heartbreak]]'' is to be believed, Boingo in the 10 years after DIO's defeat looks almost no different from how he looks in ''Stardust Crusaders'', still being short and wearing similar clothes. The only physical indication that he's aged in the aforementioned spin-off is the tiny stubble under his chin. |
| 213 | * PintSizedKid: Small enough for Hol Horse to stuff in a suitcase. |
| 214 | * ProphecyTwist: His Stand predicts the future without fail, and while each prediction describes a clear course of action to Boingo and his allies, it turns out there's enough wiggle room that the result isn't always what they expect. |
| 215 | * PropheticFallacy: Since Thoth only shows the immediate future, sometimes the twist comes from leaving out the consequences of what happens next, which is especially true if the prediction appears abundantly straightforward. One example of this is Thoth predicting that the Joestar party will drink poisoned tea; they actually do it, but then Iggy steals some random stranger's food, prompting all of them to SpitTake and foil the Oingo Boingo brothers' plans. |
| 216 | * PunchClockVillain: Pretty much ForcedIntoEvil by his brother Oingo, and later Hol Horse in an attempt to avenge the former. |
| 217 | * RaceLift: An InUniverse example. In Thoth's predictions he's got a white skin, along with his brother. |
| 218 | * ShrinkingViolet: He claims to be one in the [[SpecialEditionTitle special ending themes]] that involve him, though after Oingo is defeated he decides to become more assertive and take revenge. |
| 219 | -->'''Boingo:''' I am Boingo, my comic prophesizes! I'm horribly shy, but I'm going to be brave. We'll shoot down big bro's enemies! My predictions are 100% accurate, [[VerbalTic yes]]! |
| 220 | * SignatureLaugh: Ukekekekeke! |
| 221 | * SpecialEditionTitle: Ending in this case, Oingo and him have their own ending song in the anime. He gets another with Hol Horse as well. |
| 222 | * TomesOfProphecyAndFate: Thoth is a prophecy-type book as everything that is depicted in it will happen, even if it seems implausible at first because of some overlooked details. For example, the book said Hol Horse will hit a woman in the neck and that she would thank him for that, but it didn't said that it was because there was a scorpion on her neck. |
| 223 | * ThrowTheDogABone: Along with Hol Horse, Boingo gets a lasting win in his appearance as an AssistCharacter in ''Heritage for the Future''. After defeating the Joestar Group to get revenge for his brother's hospitalization at their hands, the two part on good terms; with Boingo returning to Oingo, pulling a full HeelFaceTurn after becoming more confident in himself, and using the power of his Stand to help people. |
| 224 | -->'''Boingo:''' We did it! That was a suitable revenge for my brother! |
| 225 | * UnknownRival: Despite vowing to get revenge on the gang, they don't even know that Boingo exists. |
| 226 | * VerbalTic: "Yes!", said after every sentence that he utters that involves a prophecy in motion. |
| 227 | * VillainousFriendship: Establishes one with Hol Horse in ''Heritage for the Future'', which doubles as an IntergenerationalFriendship. |
| 228 | * VomitIndiscretionShot: After being taken out of a suitcase by Hol Horse after being smuggled onto a plane by him, Boingo throws up on him in the back of their taxi cab. |
| 229 | * WeirdnessMagnet: [[FightingSpirit Thoth]] aside, he tends to attract unwanted attention from people who either want to use him (Hol Horse) or are in the wrong place at the wrong time (Iggy). |
| 230 | * WrongContextMagic: In ''Crazy Diamond's Demonic Heartbreak'', he theorizes Thoth isn't a Stand at all, but a book of prophecies that the actual Egyptian god, Thoth, left in his care since he was young. However, as a non-canon entry, this is to be taken with a grain of salt. |
| 231 | * YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre: Implied. Even though Boingo thinks of himself as a coward, the fact that he was able to survive manifesting a Stand shows he has a stronger fighting spirit than he thinks. |
| 232 | * YouCantFightFate: Thoth's predictions are 100% accurate! Realizing how they'll come about or what happens next, however -- that's the rub. |
| 233 | [[/folder]] |
| 234 | |
| 235 | [[folder:Anubis]] |
| 236 | !![[DemonicPossession Anubis]] |
| 237 | !!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/YasunoriMatsumoto (TV anime), Creator/TakashiNagasako (''Heritage for the Future'' video game) (Japanese), Creator/BradVenable (TV anime) (English)\ |
| 238 | '''Chaka voiced by:''' Creator/AnriKatsu (TV anime), Creator/TakashiNagasako (''Heritage for the Future'' video game) (Japanese), Creator/KhoiDao (TV anime) (English)\ |
| 239 | '''Khan voiced by:''' Creator/HidenariUgaki (TV anime), Creator/TakashiNagasako (''Heritage for the Future'' video game) (Japanese), Joshua Tomar (TV anime) (English) |
| 240 | |
| 241 | [[quoteright:275:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/982f4b6ab1a7ff9afc7588a312722d33.png]] |
| 242 | [[caption-width-right:275:[[labelnote:Anubis (Bound Form)]]\ |
| 243 | https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/anubis_bound_form.png[[/labelnote]]]] |
| 244 | [[caption-width-right:275:[[labelnote:Chaka]]\ |
| 245 | https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/chaka_jojo_6.png[[/labelnote]]]] |
| 246 | [[caption-width-right:275:[[labelnote:Khan]]\ |
| 247 | https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/khan_jojo.png[[/labelnote]]]] |
| 248 | |
| 249 | ->''"My original Stand user was the swordsmith who forged me 500 years ago. He may have perished centuries ago, but I survive as a Stand with no master."'' |
| 250 | |
| 251 | Anubis, named after [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anubis the Egyptian god of burial and embalming]], is a malevolent Stand inhabiting an Ancient Egyptian sword that possesses whoever holds it. His users include Caravan Serai (his blacksmith), Chaka (a farmhand), Khan (a barber), Jean-Pierre Polnareff, and an unnamed child. His previous wielders, Caravan Serai, Chaka, and Khan were named after Music/{{Santana}} album ''Caravanserai'' and [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaka_Khan Chaka Khan]], respectively. |
| 252 | ----- |
| 253 | * AbsurdCuttingPower: Chaka uses Anubis to cleanly slice through a stone pillar. In ''Heritage for the Future'', Anubis is sharp enough to divide the background scenery in two, as both Chaka and Black Polnareff demonstrate. |
| 254 | * AdaptationalBadass: Chaka becomes this in ''Heritage for the Future''. In the manga, Chaka is the weakest of the three Anubis wielders, and despite initially giving Polnareff trouble with his speed, he's beaten relatively quickly after. In ''Heritage for the Future'', Chaka is instead the opposite by being the strongest of the three, with his high mobility, strong and versatile combo/counterattacking game, and range of powerful supers. |
| 255 | * AdaptationalWimp: On the other hand, Khan becomes this in the aforementioned game. While in the manga, he proved a decently formidable opponent, he's by far and away the weakest of the three Anubis wielders... and [[JokeCharacter one of the worst characters in the whole game]]. With his simplified versions of Chaka and Black Polnareff's moves, he's easy enough to learn for someone picking up the game for the first time to likely figure out everything and get to fighting in about ten minutes; but [[SkillGateCharacters once the player actually knows what they're doing]], they'll find Khan's skill ceiling is practically hugging the dirt. |
| 256 | * AndTheAdventureContinues: Chaka's ending in ''Heritage for the Future'' is a dark take on this type of ending. After killing the entire Joestar Group, Anubis whispers to Chaka that his power is unrivalled, and all that's left to do to truly establish his dominance is for them to assassinate DIO as well. After doing so, [[WalkingTheEarth Chaka wanders the world in search of challengers]] who can give him a strong fight. However, no one knows if he was ever released from [[DemonicPossession Anubis' control]]. |
| 257 | -->'''Anubis:''' ''(in a demonic tone)'' Chaka... you're the master of the blade. Anything can be yours for the slashing! |
| 258 | -->'''Chaka:''' I feel like slashing anyone... I don't care who it is... [[AxCrazy I must slash flesh! Anyone is fine with me...]] |
| 259 | * AintTooProudToBeg: Once Anubis' broken blade -- which holds his consciousness -- falls into the River Nile, he tries to beg the surrounding wildlife to help him; but to no avail. Earlier, when Jotaro tricks him into staying still long enough for Star Platinum to destroy his Sword directly, Anubis is completely terrified and begs him to stop breaking him. [[ForegoneConclusion Needless to say, he doesn't get it]]. |
| 260 | * AllThereInTheManual: The names Caravan Serai and Khan come from supplementary materials; their names aren't revealed in the manga proper. |
| 261 | * AndIMustScream: Ends up at the bottom of the Nile River, unable to do anything until it rusts away. |
| 262 | * AwesomenessByAnalysis: Anubis claims to never lose to the same opponent twice, since it analyzes its opponents' strengths and weaknesses from the first fight and memorizes their techniques. |
| 263 | * BloodKnight: Fittingly for [[EvilWeapon a sword possessed by an evil Stand]], he really loves fighting. |
| 264 | * BoringButPractical: As noted by Jotaro, Anubis is the first stand user they fight in a while that doesn’t have any tricky gimmick they have to figure out, he just has raw power and speed. |
| 265 | * CoolSword: Anubis is bound to an ''Egyptian'' ''[[KatanasAreJustBetter katana]]''. Its wielders repeatedly state that it's a very beautiful blade, too. The coolness is essentially weaponized by Anubis, seeing as most can't resist picking the sword up and admiring it, which makes them easy pickings for him to possess. |
| 266 | * DeathByIrony: Anubis is named for the Egyptian god of embalming. Ultimately, trapped in his broken bound state at the bottom of the River Nile, he's set to [[AndIMustScream eventually die]] by rusting away. |
| 267 | * DeliberateInjuryGambit: How Jotaro ultimately defeats Anubis when it's possessed Polnareff. Polnareff stabs the partially-broken Anubis sword into Jotaro's stomach, leading Kujo to warn the Stand that [[ExactWords "there's going to be a murder"]]. Anubis laughs off the threat -- thinking it's referring to ''him'' killing Jotaro -- and prepares to impale him all the way through... only for Jotaro to reveal that it was a ploy to get the sword to stay still long enough for Star Platinum to smash it to bits and release Polnareff from its possession. |
| 268 | * DemonicPossession: Anyone who grasps the hilt of Anubis' sword unprotected is subject to this by the Stand; turning them into battle-hungry psychopaths who not only possess great speed, power and skill with the blade, but can copy the techniques of any opponent the sword has been wielded against before. |
| 269 | * DualWielding: Does this when possessing Polnareff, using Silver Chariot's rapier as well. |
| 270 | * EvilSoundsDeep: Not Anubis itself in the anime, but Khan the barber: he has a deep, gruff voice. In the [=PS1=] version of ''Heritage For The Future'' however, Anubis can be heard speaking in a particularly low, [[VoiceOfTheLegion demonically-distorted tone]] that really emphasizes his vicious, controlling nature. |
| 271 | * EvilWeapon: Can possess the wielder if the user draws the sword from its sheath, corrupting them into violent, bloodthirsty versions of their original selves that hunger for battle. |
| 272 | * FakingTheDead: It looks like Jotaro successfully destroys Anubis and frees Polnareff from his control, but Anubis' consciousness is stored in ''every'' part of the sword, and the remaining half of the blade takes over a child and attempts to kill the two weakened men, only to fail and consign itself to an AndIMustScream fate. |
| 273 | * FightYourFriend: Anubis forces Jotaro to fight Polnareff and Silver Chariot when he takes advantage of the Frenchman picking him up to possess him. |
| 274 | * FourIsDeath: "[[BadassBoast I never, never ever, never ever, never ever, neeeeeever ever lose twice!!]]" |
| 275 | * TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou: Anubis, while possessing Polnareff as [[BrainwashedAndCrazy Black Polnareff]], does this in their ''Heritage For The Future'' ending. After Black Polnareff kills all the other Stand Masters -- including Alessi, Vanilla Ice and DIO -- [[AxCrazy Anubis goes completely insane]], leading to this scene: |
| 276 | -->'''Black Polnareff:''' I hacked them all to pieces! [[EvilLaugh Ha ha ha ha...!]] Now, the only one left is...\ |
| 277 | (''leaps at the screen with Anubis drawn and a psychotic snarl on his face'') ...'''''YOU!!''''' |
| 278 | * HumiliationConga: After having climbed the ladder of increasingly deadly masters, reaching his height in the hands of Polnareff, his next master ends up being a small boy. He then goes for a DeathOrGloryAttack, throwing the last shard of himself to kill Jotaro... and then trips on Iggy mid-swing and misses. He's on track to embed himself in a nearby wall, but then turns on his intangibility by accident in the panic and phases through it, leaving him hurtling towards the Nile River. His last chance comes in the form of a boat sailing in his path, but instead of landing in one of the sailors or in the mast, he lands in a ''cow'', at which the cow (the presumed final master of Anubis) goes mad with pain, falls into the river, and dislodges the blade in the process, leaving it to sink to the bottom. The fact that he gets something like three or four different {{Hope Spot}}s in the space of a single throw makes his final fate all the more comical, and to cap it all off, Jotaro and Polnareff don't even notice. |
| 279 | * InelegantBlubbering: Through a convoluted chain of events, Anubis is ultimately defeated by ending up at the bottom of the River Nile. When he realises this, [[AintTooProudToBeg and is unable to get the local wildlife to help him out]], he breaks down crying; sobbing about how lonely he is [[AndIMustScream as he's in the process of dying by slowly rusting away]]. |
| 280 | -->'''Anubis:''' I'M SO ''ALOOOOOOOOOOOONE! (sobs)'' |
| 281 | * {{Intangibility}}: The blade can pass through solid objects, cutting only what it wants to. |
| 282 | * InstantExpert: Part of Anubis's mind control includes talking to its users and claiming they're now master swordsmen. But it's averted as Polnareff, an expert swordsman in his own right, notices that its wielders are actually complete amateurs. However, it does eventually get played straight in that Anubis memorizes the moves of those it fights against, making it particularly dangerous when it's fighting a foe and learning how they fight so it can manage to kill them. Which makes Anubis all the more dangerous when he takes control of Polnareff, with all of Silver Chariot's speed and skills available to it. |
| 283 | * ItOnlyWorksOnce: Anubis's power as a Stand is not only being able to control its wielders and [[{{Intangibility}} become intangible at will]], it's also that it's a fast learner against foes it faces, making their tactics and moves increasingly ineffectual while striking their weak points without mercy. A good example is its fights against Polnareff, where even though Anubis-possessing-Chaka stood for a good amount of time was defeated by Silver Chariot firing its sword, Anubis-possessing-Khan later defeats Polnareff much more easily and would've succeeded in killing him if Jotaro didn't step in. |
| 284 | * KilledOffscreen: The end of his arc leaves him helpless in the bottom of the Nile where he presumably rusts away to nothingness. |
| 285 | * LetsFightLikeGentlemen: Seems to do this against Polnareff, but this is subverted when he ambushes Polnareff and attempts to throw himself at Jotaro's back. |
| 286 | * LightningBruiser: According to his already fast opponents, he's actually getting stronger and faster each time he fights. Though it's possible that he just ''seems'' stronger and faster due to reacting faster to moves that he's seen before. |
| 287 | * OnlyTheChosenMayWield: A dark version in that Anubis can choose at will who it will let use it. If it doesn't want you as its wielder, it'll refuse to be drawn from its sheathe. |
| 288 | * PayEvilUntoEvil: Chaka's first victims after being possessed were his [[AbusiveParents abusive father]] and several farmhands who were bullying him and greedily tried to take the sword he found for themselves. |
| 289 | * PullYourselfDownTheSpear: A variation of this is how Anubis is ultimately defeated. After possessing Polnareff and impaling Jotaro part-way with his sword form, Jotaro warns him not to stab him all the way through on the basis that it will be "murder". Anubis, of course, thinks this refers to ''him'' killing Jotaro, and starts to push the blade in deeper... which [[DeliberateInjuryGambit Jotaro himself was counting on to get him close enough]] for Star Platinum to smash the evil sword to pieces and crush his hilt to dust. |
| 290 | * SchmuckBait: How he's ultimately defeated. As Jotaro apparently begs for his life, he tells Anubis not to push the blade in any further or it will be "murder". When Anubis spitefully does do this, Jotaro reveals it was bait for the former to stay still long enough for Jotaro to break the blade and promptly defeat him. |
| 291 | * SelfDisposingVillain: He attempts to throw himself at Jotaro and Polnareff when they think he's defeated, but thanks to Iggy interfering, he ends up starting a sequence of events that leads to him being lost at the bottom of the Nile River. To make the defeat even worse, Polnareff and Jotaro never even knew he was still a threat. |
| 292 | * SelfMadeOrphan: |
| 293 | ** The first thing Chaka does upon being possessed by Anubis is to violently kill his [[AbusiveParents abusive father]], along with [[PayEvilUntoEvil several other farmhands who were bullying him]] and greedily trying to take the sword for themselves after getting him to unsheathe it. |
| 294 | ** Averted by Anubis itself. It was actually loyal to its original owner, Caravan Serai, before the blacksmith's death and didn't have a role in his end. |
| 295 | * TheStarscream: |
| 296 | ** The only Stand in Part 3 not bound to a single user, effectively betraying whoever picks it up -- since Anubis does not actually give a damn about its wielder surviving at all -- in order to fulfill its mission from DIO. Over the course of its arc, it possesses at least four different people. |
| 297 | ** That being said, Anubis and Chaka also directly engage in this in ''Heritage For The Future''. After they take out the Joestar Group, the two successfully kill DIO as well to establish themselves as the strongest. |
| 298 | * StrengthEqualsWorthiness: This is the primary reason why he works for DIO, as he admires the vampire's immense strength and power, as well as out of thanks for freeing him. |
| 299 | * TalkingWeapon: One of the few Stands that can talk independently, as a result of being a separate being from whoever uses it. In Chaka's Story Mode in the Capcom fighting game, the farmhand frequently gets whispered to and encouraged by Anubis, to the point where [[TheStarscream the two eventually agree to kill DIO together]]. |
| 300 | * UndignifiedDeath: Anubis, the fearsome 500-year-old cursed sword, has his last few days of existence consist of sitting at the bottom of a river, begging the nearby fish and crabs to pick him up before he corrodes into uselessness. That one of the main factors involved in getting him there was a cow certainly doesn't help. |
| 301 | * UnskilledButStrong: Chaka and Khan are pretty much entirely carried by Anubis' cutting power, speed increase, and reflex boost. Polnareff notes that the former has almost no idea how to use a sword while Chaka's running so fast it's impossible to track him, while the latter seems like a complete joke at first but establishes himself to be decently formidable still. |
| 302 | * VillainousBreakdown: Anubis has two major ones. As mentioned above, there's his final defeat when his blade falls into the River Nile and is left to rust away forever at the bottom; but earlier, he also has one when Jotaro tricks him into staying still long enough -- [[DeliberateInjuryGambit via a stab wound to the gut]] -- for Star Platinum to smash the sword apart, causing the evil Stand to have a ''massive'' FreakOut as he disintegrates. |
| 303 | -->'''Anubis:''' '''[[BigWhat WHAT THE DEVIL?!]] YOU'RE''' '''''BREAKING ME!''''' '''I HAVE TO PULL FREE! NO!''' '''''STOP!'''''\ |
| 304 | '''Jotaro:''' Maybe I'm wrong... but weren't you saying something about slicing me open? ''(Star Platinum crushes Anubis' hilt to dust, causing the terrified Anubis to break apart with a loud scream)'' |
| 305 | * VoiceOfTheLegion: In contrast to his higher-pitched, almost screechy tone in the anime, Anubis' voice in the [=PS1=] version of the Capcom fighting game has a deep, demonic-sounding reverb to it. |
| 306 | * WeaponTwirling: Anubis does this quite frequently when he's being [[DualWielding dual-wielded]] by the [[DemonicPossession possessed Silver Chariot and Polnareff]] in his last fight with Jotaro; frequently having his wielder twirl his sword form and his own rapier around in each hand like a drummer's sticks. |
| 307 | * WreckedWeapon: First Anubis' blade gets snapped in half, and then Jotaro smashes the half attached to the sword hilt along with said hilt to pieces. The remaining half still holding Anubis' consciousness attempts to get revenge, but ends up failing, and is [[AndIMustScream left for dead at the bottom of the River Nile to rust away]]. |
| 308 | [[/folder]] |
| 309 | |
| 310 | [[folder:Mariah]] |
| 311 | !!Mariah (Stand: [[MagnetismManipulation Bastet]]) |
| 312 | !!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/AyahiTakagaki (TV anime, ''Eyes of Heaven'' and ''All Star Battle R''), Creator/MikiNagasawa (''Heritage for the Future'' video game) (Japanese), Creator/LaurenLanda (TV anime) (English) |
| 313 | |
| 314 | [[quoteright:312:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ae13b3f9_a5e0_40c1_8d82_a805dfb3479d.png]] |
| 315 | [[caption-width-right:312:[[labelnote:Bastet]]\ |
| 316 | https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/b9368f94_3fe2_401c_8846_824eefe1a1c4.png[[/labelnote]]]] |
| 317 | |
| 318 | ->''"Since you're going to die anyway, I can confess that I find you to be quite a catch. It's true that I only knew you for a short time, but you were so clever and hilarious! […] While you'' are ''exceptionally handsome, you're nowhere near as good-looking as Lord DIO."'' |
| 319 | |
| 320 | A dark-skinned woman who attacks Joseph and Avdol with her magnetic Stand. She is named after Music/MariahCarey. |
| 321 | \ |
| 322 | \ |
| 323 | Her stand, Bastet, named after [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bastet the Egyptian goddess of cats]], has the ability to give people a magnetic center, causing metal to be pulled toward them. Its physical form resembles an electrical outlet. |
| 324 | \ |
| 325 | \ |
| 326 | She appears as a supporting character in the 2021 SpinOff manga ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureCrazyDiamondsDemonicHeartbreak''. |
| 327 | ----- |
| 328 | * AdaptationalAttractiveness: A more downplayed example; she's been beautiful since the beginning, but the 2014 anime made her shirt skimpier and added a cup size or two to her breasts. |
| 329 | * BareMidriffsAreFeminine: She's the only female member of the nine gods, and she wears a crop top that shows off her midriff, fitting the Egyptian heat. |
| 330 | * BreastExpansion: {{Averted|Trope}}. At one point in her fight, her breasts seemingly start to grow (which gets Joseph DistractedByTheSexy) but it's actually a bunch of nails, nuts, and bolts stuffed inside the outer layer of her bra, which get attracted to the magnetized Joseph and Avdol. |
| 331 | * BuxomBeautyStandard: She has a well-endowed figure, which is noted by Joseph and the random guys checking her out. |
| 332 | * DarkActionGirl: The [[TheSmurfettePrinciple only female member of the 9 Gods]] and she embodies the [[LightFeminineAndDarkFeminine Dark Feminine to a T]]. Since she doesn't fight directly, relying solely on her stand, she's one of those indeed. |
| 333 | * DudeMagnet: Her ridiculous sexiness draws male attention nearly everywhere she goes according to an anime exclusive scene. And she seems to know it too, managing to impress both Joseph and Avdol with her legs alone. This is all very fitting considering that her Stand power is based on magnetism. |
| 334 | * FakeBoobs: PlayedWith. She doesn't fake her breasts, but she does stuff her bra with several small metal pieces, so they can serve as projectiles for her magnetized targets. But she does find the BreastExpansion it causes to be a hilarious side effect. |
| 335 | * FemmeFatale: Subverted. She looks like one indeed but she doesn't act like one. |
| 336 | * TheGadfly: She enjoys messing with people, even when it puts her at a disadvantage in battle, such as her walking up to the trapped Joseph in the escalator just to mock him, hiding inside the ladies' bathroom to make him and Avdol uncomfortable and snuck metal pieces in her bra just to fake a BreastExpansion gag. |
| 337 | * GetBackHereBoss: Non-video game example. Her Stand has no offensive or defensive capabilities and her Stand's magnetic powers disappear if she strays too far away from her targets. This means that she had to play a game of cat-and-mouse with Joseph and Avdol, staying close enough to get them to continually chase her but far away enough to stay out of their attack range. |
| 338 | * GigglingVillain: The majority of her dialogue consists of her giggling and laughing. |
| 339 | * GoblinFace: When angry, she makes an exaggeratedly hideous facial expression, complete with a runny nose and crossed, blood-shot eyes. |
| 340 | * HeadTurningBeauty: Her introduction scene in the anime shows two men ogling her and not being able to get their eyes off. |
| 341 | * HoistByHerOwnPetard: Joseph and Avdol use her magnetic powers to their advantage by getting on opposite sides of her while a good aggregate of steel and iron is stuck to them. When they let go of the ground, she [[SquashedFlat gets caught right between them both]]. |
| 342 | * HollywoodMagnetism: Her power of magnetism is actually reasonably realistic -- the pull is stronger the closer two objects are, not all metals are affected, and the magnetic field pulls everything instead of just [[SelectiveMagnetism arbitrary objects]] -- with three exceptions: |
| 343 | ** A car is pulled down the street and onto Avdol, even though Avdol wasn't being pulled toward the car. |
| 344 | ** The magnetic field on Joseph and Avdol persists even after Avdol engulfs himself and Joseph with the flames of Magician's Red. Magnetic fields begin to deteriorate when exposed to temperatures above 176°F (80°C). |
| 345 | ** She cuts some powerlines so they'll fly toward Joseph and electrocute him. Powerlines are made of copper and aluminum, neither of which is magnetic (the electricity running in them ''does'' generate a magnetic field, but it's a small one and it still wouldn't work that way). |
| 346 | * ImOkay: An odd variant of this; despite being brutally smashed between two cars and buried under a pile of wreckage, she still manages to close out her part with an insult to show she's still alive. Just to underline this, the narrator even proclaims she was taken to the hospital and retired due to her broken bones. |
| 347 | -->'''Mariah:''' ''(quietly, from underneath the scrap)'' Damn you... pieces of ''shit''...! |
| 348 | * InconsistentSpelling: |
| 349 | ** The arcade fighter spells her name as "Mahrahia". |
| 350 | ** Her Stand's name is sometimes shortened to "Bast". Oddly enough, Crunchyroll's translation uses "Bastet" for the first of her TwoPartEpisode, and "Bast" for the other. |
| 351 | * InTheHood: She keeps her hood up so her opponents can't recognize her face. |
| 352 | * LegFocus: Her first scene in the anime focuses on her long legs, her attractiveness enough to distract several men. |
| 353 | * LikesOlderMen: She mentions that Joseph is very sexy and that she would have been his lover if it were not for DIO being more attractive. This could count for DIO as well, considering that he's over a century old. |
| 354 | * MadeOfIron: Downplayed, but impressive nonetheless. While she obviously can't continue after being sandwiched between two giant piles of metal which included cars crashing together on both sides of her body, she ''lives'' through the experience and can even move slightly afterwards. |
| 355 | * MagnetismManipulation: Her power is the ability to magnetize anyone. |
| 356 | * MaleGaze: Her first appearance in the anime is a close butt shot. Not to mention the legs. |
| 357 | * MechanicallyUnusualFighter: Due to the way her Stand works, in fighting games, she focuses on a magnetism mechanic that's otherwise unique to her, and [[GuysSmashGirlsShoot tends to fight at range]] in games that focus a lot on melee combat. |
| 358 | * MsFanservice: A very attractive woman with a beautiful face, large bust, long and slender legs, and a sultry, mischievous personality. Too bad she's in league with DIO, though. |
| 359 | * SadlyMythtaken: Bastet in actual Egyptian myths was a cat goddess associated with the sun, fertility, music, and lionesses, and has absolutely nothing to do with electricity or magnetism. |
| 360 | * ShellShockedVeteran: In ''[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureCrazyDiamondsDemonicHeartbreak Crazy Diamond's Demonic Heartbreak]]'', she's revealed to have undergone severe MindRape from DIO without the need for a flesh bud, and she still has nightmares of the trauma DIO put her under, especially after the Speedwagon Foundation informed her of DIO's crimes. It's to the point where she feels that because she had unwillingly built her world up around DIO, she feels nearly useless without him. |
| 361 | * TheSmartGuy: While the strength of her stand is commented on rather than her own personal smarts, but the fight she puts up against two ''very'' intelligent stand users shows that she's certainly no slouch in the brains department. |
| 362 | * SmokingIsCool: She's constantly smoking in a cool manner in her first few appearances, even puffing the smoke in a dramatic fashion. |
| 363 | * TheSmurfettePrinciple: She's the only female member of the Egypt 9 Glory Gods. |
| 364 | * SquashedFlat: How she's ultimately defeated, in a creative variation. Joseph and Avdol trick Mariah into having them on two sides of her at an intersection, using their respective opposite magnetic polarities from Bast to attract themselves -- and the huge piles of metal, including two cars, that they're respectively trapped under -- to each other, smashing Mariah between them. Granted, she ''does'' survive, but [[GameBreakingInjury needless to say, she's left in no condition to continue]]. |
| 365 | * TorpedoTits: A variation: She keeps nuts, bolts, and other small metal objects in the outer layer of her bra to fire off as shrapnel towards anyone she's magnetized. |
| 366 | * UglyGuyHotWife: In ''[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureCrazyDiamondsDemonicHeartbreak Crazy Diamond's Demonic Heartbreak]]'', Mariah, a woman very easy on the eyes with [[LegFocus pronounced legs]], ended up getting together with Kenny G., who is a short, imp-like man. |
| 367 | * {{Underboobs}}: Only really noticeable if you're outright looking, but when Mariah is sent reeling in ''Heritage for the Future'', the front of her shirt blows upward to expose her midriff and the undersides of her breasts. |
| 368 | * VictoriasSecretCompartment: Weaponized; this is where she keeps nuts, bolts and other small metal objects to use against magnetized opponents. |
| 369 | * VillainousBreakdown: When she gets angry, she contorts her face into [[https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/jjba/images/b/bd/MariahFacefault_Anime.png/revision/latest?cb=20150517103947 hilariously ugly expressions]]. She even does it in ''[[VideoGame/JojosBizarreAdventureHeritageForTheFuture Heritage for the Future]]'' as her stun animation. |
| 370 | -->'''Mariah:''' So, you think you've outsmarted me...? You... '''OBNOXIOUS PIECES OF''' '''''SHIIIIIIIIIIIIT!''''' |
| 371 | * WhiteHairBlackHeart: She has white hair in the anime, and is a devoted servant of DIO. |
| 372 | * WorthyOpponent: She expresses to Joseph that she views him as such as [[SilverFox she flirts with him for being amazing, charming and good-looking]]. Joseph uses it to attempt to reason with her, but she refuses to save him on the basis that he's not as good as DIO in those regards. |
| 373 | [[/folder]] |
| 374 | |
| 375 | [[folder:Alessi]] |
| 376 | !!Alessi (Stand: [[FountainOfYouth Sethan]]) |
| 377 | !!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/MasayaOnosaka (TV anime), Tsutomu Tareki (''Heritage for the Future'' video game) (Japanese), Jon Allen (TV anime) (English) |
| 378 | |
| 379 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/alessi.png]] |
| 380 | [[caption-width-right:350:[[labelnote:Sethan]]\ |
| 381 | https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/sethan.png[[/labelnote]]]] |
| 382 | |
| 383 | ->''"You seem to understand now! [[CharacterCatchphrase Such a good boy!]]"'' |
| 384 | |
| 385 | An assassin of DIO that attacks Jotaro and Polnareff, who will only fight people who are weaker than him. He is named after the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alessi_Brothers Alessi Brothers]]. |
| 386 | \ |
| 387 | \ |
| 388 | His Stand, Sethan, named after [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Set_(deity) the Egyptian god of violence and storms]], has the ability to rapidly de-age anyone immersed in its shadow, capable of reducing adults back to children in mere seconds. |
| 389 | ---- |
| 390 | * AnimalMotifs: Birds. His big hairdo looks like a bird's nest, his Sethan has an avian head with a bird's beak, has a thin face and a high-pitched, fluty voice like a songbird, he assumes a kid-dified Polnareff is hiding inside a cuckoo clock, sees CirclingBirdies when he knocks himself unconscious, and is defeated by being sent flying high through the air. |
| 391 | * AnimeHair: Has one of the craziest hairstyles in the entire series: an enormous sideways perm with bells dangling from hair ties weaved into it. |
| 392 | * AxCrazy: Quite literally. He wields a single-handed axe as his weapon, which he most often wields when he's de-aged his victims using Sethan. Most notably in ''Heritage for the Future'', he takes it out when he successfully shrinks his opponent, during which he does more damage and gains a faster forward dash. |
| 393 | * ButtMonkey: He's both weak, stupid, and incompetent, not to mention also being clumsy, unlucky, and cowardly, as he repeatedly gets foiled by Polnareff as he attempts to pursue him at every opportunity and winds up getting the crap beaten out of him by Jotaro and Polnareff after he gets trounced by a de-aged Jotaro. Even the narrator gets in on making fun of him by specifying that he's still single at 38 years of age after he's sent flying. |
| 394 | * CastingAShadow: Sethan takes the form of Alessi's shadow, which de-ages (or transforms) anyone who touches it. It's also used as a standard weapon in ''Heritage for the Future''. |
| 395 | * CharacterCatchphrase: "Such a good boy!" (Localized as "Attaboy!" in the anime's dub). Whether referring to himself (anything ''but'' good) or his victims. |
| 396 | * ChildHater: He has nothing but hatred for children and delights in bringing them harm. Fortunately for him, his Stand allows him to turn his enemies into children. |
| 397 | * CombatPragmatist: After de-aging and hanging him in a position he can't move from, he immediately pulls out a gun on Polnareff. |
| 398 | * CreepyHighPitchedVoice: Has a very slimy, high-pitched voice that oozes contempt and repressed bloodlust, not unlike a stereotypical paedophile. Naturally, [[PaedoHunt this makes him especially creepy when talking to children]]: to the point where viewers [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything seeing him talking to the boy who spills mud on his pants in the anime were so uncomfortable]], they were ''glad'' to just have it building up to Alessi yelling at and smacking him. |
| 399 | * DeathByDeaging: Sethan de-ages people in seconds, which results in a woman who was in its shadow too long to regress to a fetus. She would've died had Alessi not been knocked out in a few minutes. |
| 400 | * DidNotThinkThisThrough: He's confident of victory after he de-ages Jotaro, who only learned to use Star Platinum as an adult and temporarily loses his Stand. Alessi doesn't consider that a teenager who's [[HeroicBuild six-foot-four and insanely muscular]] just ''might'' have been big for his age as a child. |
| 401 | * DirtyCoward: And ''how''. He'll gleefully attack both children and anyone he's turned into a child, but runs away in panic at the prospect of facing any adult nearby -- including a Standless woman who couldn't possibly do him any harm -- as well as any of his young victims who ''do'' maintain the ability to fight back, most notably fleeing after getting beaten up by a seven-year-old Jotaro and repeatedly hurt by a ''two-year-old'' Silver Chariot. Even [[ButtMonkey Hol Horse]] (who swears by the "run away to fight another day" approach) looks like the bravest man in the world next to how ''spineless'' Alessi truly is. |
| 402 | * EstablishingCharacterMoment: When he first appears, Alessi establishes his WouldHurtAChild character when he smacks a four-year-old kid who had simply ran and spilled food all over Alessi's clothes by accident. Furthermore, eagle-eyed viewers will notice that he makes sure [[DirtyCoward neither of the kid's parents are around]] before he attacks the kid. |
| 403 | * EvilOverlooker: Alessi [[https://imgur.com/oPelHZd gets one of these shots]] in his ''Heritage for the Future'' [[TheBadGuyWins ending]], looming menacingly over a city when he [[FromBadToWorse sets about torturing the rest of the world]] after defeating both DIO and the Joestar Group. |
| 404 | * FacialHorror: Gets his face slashed by the two-year-old Silver Chariot when the similarly de-aged Polnareff tricks him into attacking a mirror and fishtank-based decoy. |
| 405 | * FauxAffablyEvil: He'll talk nicely, but if you anger him, he wastes no time beating the shit out of you, which is a pretty quick process. |
| 406 | * ForTheEvulz: In his ''Heritage for the Future'' ending. Although Alessi is pretty much set for life after destroying both the Joestar Group -- the only ones who can stop him -- and DIO to take all his treasure, he turns his attention to the rest of the world; using his Stand to steal from and torture people just because he ''can''. |
| 407 | * FountainOfYouth: Sethan does this to Alessi's victims, all the way to childhood, toddlerhood... or fetus-hood, if they stay ''really'' long in Sethan's shadow. It doesn't help that Alessi just ''loves'' to ravage the weak. |
| 408 | * GigglingVillain: Has a tendency to break into [[LaughingMad crazy fits of high-pitched laughter]] when he gains the upper hand using [[DeathByDeaging Sethan]]... or at least, when he ''thinks'' he has. |
| 409 | * HateSink: Save for perhaps Telence T. D'Arby, Alessi is ''definitely'' the most unlikable, petty and obnoxious of the Egypt 9 Glory Gods faced by Jotaro and crew after their arrival in Egypt. While there are several moments where his {{Jerkass}}ery is PlayedForLaughs and his [[DoubleTake wild expressiveness]] and [[LaughablyEvil sheer incompetence are entertaining to watch]], he is still a thoroughly-despicable scumbag, which is given for a [[DirtyCoward child abuser]] with ''[[WouldHurtAChild incredibly]]'' [[WouldHurtAChild paedophilic undertones]]. He easily rivals the likes of Rubber Soul and Steely Dan when it comes to being a reprehensible piece of work; which is further emphasized when he [[CurbStompBattle gets his ass handed to him]] by a freaking ''seven-year-old'' Jotaro and '''''three-year-old''''' Polnareff! |
| 410 | * HeresJohnnyHomage: After [[BrainyBaby seemingly]] cornering a de-aged Polnareff into a small room, he uses his axe to break down the door and pokes his head through the hole. |
| 411 | -->'''Alessi:''' [[ManiacTongue RERO, RERORERORERORERO]] ''[[ManiacTongue REROOOOO!]]'' '''OH, POLNAREFF,''' '''''HERE COMES ALESSI!''''' |
| 412 | * HollywoodSilencer: After kicking kid Polnareff up to a ceiling, he decides to take him out quickly before he could warn the others. He pulls out a handgun and attaches a unique silencer, before opening fire. Despite being in a city and Jotaro being not too far off, nobody hears his gunshots (strangely the anime makes the gunshots more audible than usual silenced guns). |
| 413 | * HoistByHisOwnPetard: After getting pummeled silly by a seven-year-old Jotaro, Alessi stumbles backward, trips over his own axe -- which [[TheBladeAlwaysLandsPointyEndIn he dropped and embedded in the ground]] only moments beforehand -- and hits his head on the floor, knocking ''himself'' unconscious and turning his victims back into adults. |
| 414 | * InconsistentSpelling: His Stand's name is sometimes spelled "Set", which is the actual proper name of the Egyptian god it's named after. |
| 415 | * InelegantBlubbering: As if he wasn't enough of a despicable coward already, [[DirtyCoward Alessi runs away screaming and crying]] before throwing himself out of a window to get away from Polnareff, after having his nose skewered and face slashed repeatedly by a two-year-old Silver Chariot. |
| 416 | -->'''Alessi:''' ''(loudly sobbing)'' A BAD BOY! BAD BOOOOOOY! '''SUCH A BAD ''BOOOOOOOOOY!''''' |
| 417 | * InsaneTrollLogic: He uses this to rationalize his... habits, by claiming that people who say they are "weird" and call themselves that can't possibly be "weird" if they are self-aware about their [[PsychoForHire "weird]][[WouldHurtAChild ness"]]. Likewise, his rationale for turning the rest of the world into children in his ''Heritage for the Future'' ending: |
| 418 | -->'''Alessi:''' Children don't need money! That means all the money in the world will be mine! [[LeaningOnTheFourthWall It makes perfect sense, doesn't it?]] |
| 419 | * {{Jerkass}}: On top of being a psychotic killer, he's just a plain arrogant asshole, to boot. The second he thinks he's the strong one in a fight, he gloats at every single opportunity of how children can't stand up to him... which only [[LaserGuidedKarma makes it all the more satisfying]] when Alessi's would-be victims outwit (and in Jotaro's case, [[PintSizedPowerhouse out-muscle]]), humiliate and ultimately defeat him. |
| 420 | * LargeHam: As someone who openly embraces his inherent "weirdness" and murderous streak, Alessi is this to the core: right down to his [[AnimeHair hair]], [[NoIndoorVoice apparent lack of volume control]], and [[WildTake various crazed expressions]] whenever he's going after his victims or when his schemes go wrong. |
| 421 | * LaserGuidedAmnesia: A side effect of his Stand's de-aging powers. People who are affected will slowly lose their memories of their adulthood, which stops Polnareff from being able to communicate with Jotaro, having forgotten his name. |
| 422 | * LaughablyEvil: A crazy, murderous psycho to the core, but damn if he isn't funny to watch. At one point, he thought a [[FountainOfYouth childized]] Polareff was hiding in a ''cuckoo clock.'' |
| 423 | * MadeOfIron: PlayedForLaughs. Alessi is able to take a beating from Star Platinum and the otherwise lethal Silver Chariot at the same time, and ends up retiring instead of going to the morgue. Earlier, he jumped out a two story building with nothing to cushion his fall and remains relatively fine. |
| 424 | * OhCrap: Owing to his nature as both [[WildTake wildly expressive]] and a [[DirtyCoward reprehensible coward]], Alessi has several ''massively'' overblown reactions of this sort whenever things go wrong for him. |
| 425 | * OnlyInItForTheMoney: As he's about to kill Jotaro and Polnareff he mentions that he's only allied with DIO just so he could claim a money reward. Made even more apparent in ''Heritage for the Future'', where [[spoiler:he betrays and kills DIO after defeating the MainCharacters because he has no reason to ally himself with DIO anymore. He even turns everyone in the world into kids just so he can take their money]]. |
| 426 | * PsychoForHire: He and J. Geil are easily the most kill-happy of DIO's servants. |
| 427 | * SadlyMythtaken: |
| 428 | ** Firstly, the god that the Stand is based on is historically referred to as "Set" or "Seth", but never "Sethan" (which is reflected in the Japanese pronunciation of the Stand's name, セト神 ''Seto-shin''). Presumably, Araki conflated the god Set with {{Satan|icArchetype}} due to their similar names and roles in their respective canons, but this is unclear. |
| 429 | ** Secondly, while the animal that he is based on is heavily debated among scholars, Set is almost always depicted with a mammalian head instead of a bird head[[note]]with the one exception of the Book of the Faiyum, which depicts Set with a flamingo head, although that text was written very late in Ancient Egypt's history[[/note]] as seen with the Stand Sethan and his card. |
| 430 | * SinisterShades: TriangleShades, to boot, they drive home his creepy image. |
| 431 | * SongsInTheKeyOfPanic: Alessi's [[https://youtu.be/VF0qYg6-_pQ theme]] in ''VideoGame/JoJosBizarreAdventureHeritageForTheFuture'' is one of these, a tense and creepy [[PsychoStrings Psycho-string]]-backed leitmotif which fits a crazed would-be child killer like himself. |
| 432 | * TheStarscream: In ''Heritage for the Future'', [[spoiler:after defeating the MainCharacters, he begins to believe he is better than DIO to the point where he betrays and kills DIO and then turns everyone in the world into children so that he can come into ownership of all their money]]. |
| 433 | * TooDumbToLive: He ''[[DestinationDefenestration jumps out a two-story window]]'' to escape from a toddlerized Polnareff, with nothing below to break his fall. Miraculously, he survives. |
| 434 | * TwinkleInTheSky: In the anime, Alessi is defeated in this manner; after being momentarily knocked unconscious by seven-year-old Jotaro, he wakes up to find both him and Polnareff fully-recovered and looming over him, prompting a ''glorious'' "OhCrap" reaction. Then, after being hit with a long CombinationAttack from both Star Platinum and Silver Chariot, he's hurled high into the sky and flies off. |
| 435 | -->'''Narrator:''' Stand, Sethan; God of Chaos and Storms! Alessi, [[ExpoSpeakGag 38 years old, single, and an unfortunate projectile]]! ''(Alessi disappears from sight with an audible ding)'' '''OUT OF COMMISSION!''' |
| 436 | * UnderestimatingBadassery: Despite knowing how strong Jotaro is, he was so swept up in his gloating that he failed to even consider that a younger Jotaro ''might'' be nearly as strong as his older self. |
| 437 | -->'''Alessi:''' ''(as young Jotaro sends him reeling)'' [[BigWhat WHAT?!]] You're seriously telling me that [[OhCrap Jotaro could kick ass even as a little kid]]?!\ |
| 438 | '''Polnareff:''' I knew he was tough, but [[PintSizedPowerhouse he was]] ''[[PintSizedPowerhouse that]]'' [[PintSizedPowerhouse strong as a kid]]? ''(admiringly)'' Badass! |
| 439 | * WildTake: Undoubtedly one of the most expressive and hammy villains in the entire part, which really adds to both how hilarious and creepy he can be in equal measure. |
| 440 | * WouldHitAGirl: An unrelated woman was turned into a fetus by his power, which would kill her a few minutes later if he wasn't knocked out. He tries to use her plight as bait for Polnareff to stop fighting him. |
| 441 | * WouldHurtAChild: Using his Stand offensively pretty much requires him to attack people he's turned into children, but he very specifically ''[[BadPowersBadPeople enjoys]]'' beating and killing them that way. He also beats a real child for accidentally getting his pants wet. |
| 442 | * WoundedGazelleGambit: When Alessi falls out of a window running away from a two-year-old Polnareff and Silver Chariot, he ends up in front of Jotaro and [[BlatantLies pretends to be a window-cleaner to buy himself some time]]. When Polnareff appears from said window and tries to explain, he uses the distraction to sic Sethan on Jotaro and reduce him down to a seven-year-old. But ''even then'', [[PaperTiger he still can't beat him in a fight]]. |
| 443 | [[/folder]] |
| 444 | |
| 445 | [[folder:Daniel J. D'Arby]] |
| 446 | !!Daniel J. D'Arby (Stand: [[YourSoulIsMine Osiris]]) |
| 447 | !!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/BanjoGinga (TV anime, ''Eyes of Heaven'', ''Last Survivor'', and ''All-Star Battle R''), Creator/KoujiIshii (''All-Star Battle''), Creator/KenjiUtsumi (OVA), Creator/YujiKishi (''Heritage for the Future'' video game) (Japanese), Unknown (OVA), Creator/CamClarke (TV anime) (English) |
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| 450 | [[caption-width-right:312:[[labelnote:Osiris]]\ |
| 451 | https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ef53d076_2ecb_4a9f_b995_f58d9b06027b.png[[/labelnote]]]] |
| 452 | |
| 453 | ->''"Open the game!"'' |
| 454 | |
| 455 | A gambler that the Joestars fight in order to know the location of DIO's mansion. He is the older brother of Telence. He is named after Sananda Maitreya, formerly and more famously known as [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terence_Trent_D%27Arby Terence Trent D'Arby]]. |
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| 458 | His Stand, Osiris, named after [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osiris the Egyptian god of the underworld]], is an ogre-like creature that has the ability to steal one's soul when they admit defeat in their heart. He facilitates this through gambling, stealing the victim's soul when he wins. |
| 459 | ----- |
| 460 | * AffablyEvil: While he is [[CardCarryingVillain an outright cheater who collects souls]], he is willing to let the group go if they decline to continue and is only interested in a cheap thrill in gambling when not fighting for DIO. He openly tells Jotaro and friends that they can back away if they choose to before their games, and has no interest in starting a fight. He also keeps the souls he collects dormant, while his brother has them completely aware of their situations. Souls to him are only trophies and potential collateral, as he enjoys gambling for the sport and thrill of it over childish obsessions. |
| 461 | * AlasPoorVillain: ''[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureCrazyDiamondsDemonicHeartbreak Crazy Diamond's Demonic Heartbreak]]'' retroactively makes his already pitiful decline into madness sadder, as [[spoiler:D'Arby never even wanted to serve DIO in the first place, but did due to Telence and DIO managing to force him into servitude on the condition of killing him if he should ever lose under his thumb -- even ones that don't have anything on the line]]. |
| 462 | * AlwaysSomeoneBetter: Is this to his younger brother Telence, being a far more skilled player and cheater than his younger brother. Although D'Arby fears Telence, it's more due to the latter's depravity and Stand ability rather than any real skill on his part: D'Arby nearly takes out the entire Joestar Group by himself with backup plans and conventional cheating methods while Telence, despite -- or rather, because of -- his overreliance on his Stand, nearly loses to Kakyoin and is defeated by a trick D'Arby would've easily seen through. Furthermore, Telence is ultimately outsmarted and defeated by Joseph Joestar, who previously lost to D'Arby. |
| 463 | * AmbiguousSituation: Telence accuses D'Arby of cheating with the former's girlfriend, leading to the former beating his older brother in retaliation. Given that Telence [[ConsummateLiar shows the capacity to be deceitful]] and D'Arby never showed any overtly negative traits outside of being a confident and shameless cheater, it's likely that D'Arby was actually sparing the woman from being involved with his psychotic younger brother. |
| 464 | ** D'Arby was already being rattled by Jotaro not looking at his cards while making increasingly absurd bets of confidence in them being his ace in the hole. What really began his FreakOut was Jotaro seemingly plucking a cigarette and glass of juice out of nowhere. Was it merely the fact that his untraceable speed, which would make him be able to get away with cheating to thus make D'Arby spill out the truth of DIO's Stand, or was it [[spoiler:him suspecting that Jotaro had the same power -- specifically TimeStandsStill -- DIO had]], which make him even more worried that his boss would punish him for not dealing with such a threat earlier? The former is taking the situation at face value that Jotaro managed to bluff himself as being a better cheater than D'Arby while the latter is taking into account that D'Arby had faced this situation before and connected the dots enough to be ProperlyParanoid about Jotaro's power. Notably, ''Crazy Diamond's Demonic Heartbreak'' shows that D'Arby has firsthand experience with how effective The World and Stands like it can be in a poker game, with DIO swapping D'Arby's cheated five aces with the worthless ace-high that D'Arby dealt to him, and then swapping back. |
| 465 | * UsefulNotes/AmericanAccents: In the OVA, D'Arby speaks with a smooth-yet-noticeable Southern drawl that especially shows when he's got the upper hand in one of his games. |
| 466 | * BadassInANiceSuit: He doesn't fight in the conventional sense -- preferring instead to beat opponents using his mind -- but that's still a pretty classy suit he's rocking. |
| 467 | * BreakThemByTalking: As is befitting of a pro gambler, half his battle with his foes includes him psyching them out. In fact, this is how his power works: he only gets your soul when you realize, in your heart, that you've been beaten. Too bad Jotaro's poker face is even better. |
| 468 | * BreakTheHaughty: One of the best remembered examples in the series, Jotaro shatters his sheer confidence and sanity utterly through a bluff and absolutely holding his nerve. |
| 469 | * BreakoutVillain: He's one of the most popular of DIO's minions. He's the only one of the Egypt 9 Glory Gods aside from N'Doul who's ''not'' omitted from the OVA. He's also a PuzzleBoss in the ''Eyes Of Heaven'' video game, where you have to play him in a game of Poker for [[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureStoneOcean Jolyne's]] soul. |
| 470 | * BrokenTears: In the OVA, after losing to Jotaro in their poker game (and by extension losing his entire collection of souls) and having realized he's just spilled the location of DIO's mansion during his earlier fit of madness, [[TroubledFetalPosition D'Arby curls into a ball on the ground]] and breaks down in howling tears of despair. |
| 471 | * CantKillYouStillNeedYou: Avdol comes close to killing him after he took Joseph's and Polnareff's souls, but D'Arby, without any fear, correctly points out that [[DeadMansSwitch if he does go through with the deed, then Avdol loses the one means to get back his friends' souls]]; and they'll accordingly [[AndIMustScream be trapped forever]]. |
| 472 | * TheCollector: He collects souls, but he keeps them dormant, preferring the thrill of gambling to the obsession of collecting people, unlike his [[PsychopathicManchild brother]]. |
| 473 | * ConMan: He has flowery dialogue and the smooth, snake-oily voice of a used car salesman, and in both the main series and ''Eyes of Heaven'' he only obtains his first soul -- which he then uses as leverage over the rest of the heroes -- by conning someone with a rigged game. In the main series it's double subverted -- initially, he only seems like a lucky gambler, but his victory over Joseph establishes that he was cheating from the very beginning. |
| 474 | * CrazyPrepared: ''Everyone'' in or near the bar the Joestar Group enters is under his employ to help rig games in his favor, on the off-chance somebody is able to catch him cheating. |
| 475 | * DeathByAdaptation: Heavily implied to happen to him in the OVA. The last we see of D'Arby there is him [[BrokenTears sobbing inconsolably]] over having [[SayingTooMuch accidentally revealed the location of DIO's hideout]] in his earlier bout of insanity; the shot transitions into a dropped photograph of the mansion on the floor next to him, which DIO's shadow is seen suddenly looming over. After Avdol's observation that D'Arby would lose his life for sure if he told them anything, [[YouHaveFailedMe it's not hard to imagine what DIO has come to do to him]]. |
| 476 | * DiseaseBleach: In the anime, the stress induced by Jotaro's bluff causes his black hair to turn light grey. |
| 477 | * DoWellButNotPerfect: 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 NoOntologicalInertia is completely averted with their stands. |
| 478 | * DrivenToMadness: By the end of his confrontation with Jotaro, he's left giggling madly on the floor while babbling about daring others to gamble with him. D'Arby regains some awareness in the OVA after he [[SayingTooMuch reveals where DIO's mansion is in his fit]], but it quickly gives way to him crying BrokenTears when he realizes he's just doomed himself by doing so. |
| 479 | * DubNameChange: Kinda. The English dub of the anime put both Daniel and Telence on a LastNameBasis, the only difference between the two being Daniel is called D'Arby the Elder while Telence is called D'Arby the Younger. |
| 480 | * {{Ephebophile}}: Implied. When he tried to steal his brother's girlfriend, he was 25 at the time while Telence ''was 15'' (and his girlfriend looked around the same age). [[ConsummateLiar Though, it's also implied that Telence himself is actually twisting the truth of the situation to his favor.]] |
| 481 | * EvenEvilHasStandards: |
| 482 | ** What separates himself from Telence is that he keeps his soul collection in a dormant state incapable of suffering, preferring gambling over an obsession of collection. |
| 483 | ** He also uses cunning when cheating, especially against Joseph, who excels at underhanded tactics. In contrast, Telence uses his MindReading power as a crutch, while claiming to not cheat. |
| 484 | ** It's implied through [[AmbiguousSituation reading between the lines]] that D'Arby was likely sparing the girl from being involved with Telence given his true nature of putting people in AndIMustScream scenarios. |
| 485 | ** ''[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureCrazyDiamondsDemonicHeartbreak Crazy Diamond's Demonic Heartbreak]]'' reveals that [[spoiler:he didn't even want to serve DIO in the first place, only being forced to meet DIO due to his brother's connection to him, unlike the latter who enjoyed being allowed to indulge in his sick hobbies under DIO. D'Arby ends up being forced to serve him anyway after DIO uses his powers to get away with cheating and DIO threatens to kill him should he ever lose under his thumb]]. |
| 486 | * EvilCounterpart: Araki explicitly created him to give a famous cheater like Joseph a BattleOfWits against someone who could be his equal. |
| 487 | * EvilSoundsDeep: In all adaptations. After losing his mind in the animated adaptations, his voice shifts up an octave as he starts giggling and babbling madly. |
| 488 | -->'''D'Arby:''' ''[[LaughingMad (lying on the floor and giggling like a lunatic)]]'' Come on, everyone! Let's play a game of mahjong! Backgammon is a lot of fun, too! Or, we could play a game of dice, even though ''I don't have anyyyyyyyy!'' |
| 489 | * FightsLikeANormal: From a storytelling standpoint, Osiris is only there to raise the stakes of D'Arby's games -- even though some of his cheating borders on improbable, it's very realistic and within the bounds of human ability when compared to Stands or Hamon. This serves as a contrast to his brother, who uses his Stand's powers as a complete crutch when gambling. |
| 490 | ** This, in turn, makes his almost victory over the Joestar Group more impressive as he managed to outwit two into submission, one being unable to play due to his temperament, and the last had to gaslight him into insanity to avoid figuring out his bluff if he was thinking more rational. All while having a non-combat based Stand. |
| 491 | * {{Fingore}}: Jotaro uses Star Platinum to break his finger after catching him in the act of attempting a second dealing trick. |
| 492 | * {{Foil}}: D'Arby is one to his younger brother Telence. While D'Arby is AffablyEvil who's genuinely polite if not somewhat condescending to his opponents, his brother Telence comes off as FauxAffablyEvil where his politeness does little to conceal the sadism within. While both are cheaters, D'Arby prefers the BoringButPractical approach by relying on his cunning alone, whereas Telence mainly relies on the power of his Stand to read his opponents' moves. D'Arby is also more honest on the fact that he's cheating, justifying that it's only fair if his cheating is not exposed. Telence, on the other hand, relies on hidden technicalities to make his mind-reading legal and hypocritically claims that he would not resort to such tactics when it's clear that he would do so when pushed into a corner. |
| 493 | * ForcedIntoEvil: ''[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureCrazyDiamondsDemonicHeartbreak Crazy Diamond's Demonic Heartbreak]]'' reveals that D'Arby isn't working for DIO of his own accord. DIO only sought him out because his younger brother, Telence, pledged loyalty to DIO [[PsychoForHire of his own accord]]. D'Arby wanted no part in it, and played cards with DIO to show him what Osiris' power is capable of. Unfortunately, DIO was able to cheat using The World, and since D'Arby couldn't figure out its power, he was effectively backed into a corner and had no choice but to follow DIO, under the [[AnOfferYouCantRefuse cruel condition]] that should he lose a single game under DIO's thumb, D'Arby will be killed by him. |
| 494 | * TheGambler: It's implied he managed to make quite a comfortable living thanks to this trope, even before acquiring his Stand power. Of course, he may have had Osiris from birth. A comment Telence makes about an event that happened about a decade earlier suggests that they had Stands even back then, before Enya ever met DIO or acquired an Arrow from Diavolo. |
| 495 | * {{Gaslighting}}: How D'Arby is defeated by Jotaro. When the latter began to up his bets, the former was irritated yet focused. D'Arby's breakdown truly began when Jotaro managed to pull out a cigarette, but especially a large glass of juice out of thin air without D'Arby noticing, causing him to suspect that the Joestar descendant could swap out his terrible hand for a better one, getting away with the cheat. [[spoiler:It's left vague if D'Arby suspected it [[AmbiguousSituation was merely Jotaro being a swifter cheater than himself or if he possessed a similar power to DIO's The World]].]] Either way, the pressure led to him psychologically breaking down completely. |
| 496 | * GigglingVillain: In both animated adaptations, during his VillainousBreakdown. |
| 497 | * GracefulLoser: When he loses to Jotaro in another Poker game in ''Eyes of Heaven'', D'Arby -- having had time to reflect on his previous experience and VillainousBreakdown the first time they played -- concedes defeat without much of a fuss and even genuinely compliments his adversary for beating him twice. D'Arby also takes the time to warn Jotaro about [[PhysicalGod DIO Over Heaven]], albeit rationalizing it through him wanting to eventually capture a strong soul like Jotaro's for his own collection. |
| 498 | * GratuitousEnglish: |
| 499 | ** "Good!" |
| 500 | ** Also, "Go ahead, Mr. Joestar" when he has Joseph on the ropes during their gamble. Falls into [[JapaneseRanguage Gratuitous]] {{Engrish}} in the anime due to his actor's odd pronunciation. However, it starts to sound better in his appearance in ''Eyes of Heaven''. |
| 501 | --->'''2014 Anime!D'Arby:''' Gou ahedd, Misster Josster! |
| 502 | * {{Irony}}: The irony about D'Arby is that despite being a gambler, who usually relies on chance as much as wit, he always cheats before the game even starts to ensure that whenever he gambles with someone, he will always be in control of the situation. This ends up causing his downfall when Jotaro's [[{{Gaslighting}} own]] BatmanGambit counters all of D'Arby's cheating methods, which leaves D'Arby without any control of the game. Because of his unwillingness to take the chance and call Jotaro's bluff which would have granted him victory, he ends up succumbing to his own stress and loses. |
| 503 | * ItsAWonderfulFailure: In ''Heritage for the Future'', his only role is to appear in the Continue screen while the dizzy character stands on a spotlight. If you continue, he'll give you a thumbs up and tell you ''[[GratuitousEnglish "GOOD!"]]''. If you let the timer run out, he summons Osiris to turn your character into a poker chip. |
| 504 | * ALighterShadeOfBlack: While D'Arby is a shameless cheater who's confident in his trade and treats his victims like trophies, he behaves a confident professional who doesn't dwell on his collection, which keeps his victims dormant. In comparison to his younger brother, who [[AndIMustScream traps his victims as dolls fully aware of their situation]], he comes across as the nobler of the two by a wide margin. |
| 505 | * LostHimInACardGame: His power allows people to gamble with souls. If he fully wins someone's soul, he gets to turn them into a poker chip which he keeps in his collection. He loses in one of the most epic ways possible. |
| 506 | * MadnessMantra: An unusual case, in that he can't quite say it out loud due to being so stressed out during his VillainousBreakdown. |
| 507 | --> '''D'Arby:''' ''Call, call, call, call, call, call, call, call, call, call...'' |
| 508 | * TheMagicPokerEquation: Largely justified as a result of him being a cheat -- his pivotal poker hand is four kings. It's his fears that Jotaro might pull out a straight flush, four aces, or five-of-a-kind (in the traditional manner of this trope, and due to Jotaro presumably ''also'' cheating) that causes him to fold -- ironically, in a subversion, Jotaro's hand was crap. He also averts this earlier in the game, when both players get fairly ordinary hands, seemingly to show that he isn't rigging it (assuming he could do so that precisely, anyway). |
| 509 | * MaliciousMisnaming: Daniel J. D'Arby's pretty picky about people pronouncing his name correctly, something Joseph tries to capitalize on during their water tension match. |
| 510 | * ManlyFacialHair: Manages to defeat several characters in his games before being defeated -- including Polnareff and Joseph, and even ''then'', he came very close to defeating the others as well if not for [[NervesOfSteel Jotaro's bluff]] -- and his mustache is rather refined. |
| 511 | * MostCommonCardGame: He plays Jotaro in a game of poker, and loses in the most spectacular fashion possible. |
| 512 | * NearVillainVictory: He was just '''''one''''' call away from taking out all the heroes. |
| 513 | * NervesOfSteel: His unflinching composure even when he has his back against the wall is the key to his success as a gambler. The only thing that breaks his confidence is the threat of death. |
| 514 | * NotAfraidToDie: Subverted; D'Arby shrugs off any attempts by the heroes to threaten and pressure him, at first. Then Jotaro forces him to ante his own life indirectly by wagering Holly's life against info on DIO's Stand, knowing that DIO is a BadBoss who punishes failures and snitches with death. That's when the sweat goes from trickling to pouring down D'Arby's face, and he mentally crumbles from the sheer fear. |
| 515 | * NotCheatingUnlessYouGetCaught: He ''lives'' by this rule, and outright ''admits'' that he cheats, seeing it as simply another part of the game. He even compliments Jotaro for being able to catch him. However, this rule applies to him too, which causes him to panic when it looks like Jotaro might have gotten away with cheating. |
| 516 | * OutGambitted: Magnificently by Jotaro. Despite being CrazyPrepared, Jotaro is able to successfully bluff him through a magnificent poker face, using Star Platinum's SuperSpeed to grab a cigarette and drink to plant the idea that he successfully switched out his bad hand under D'Arby's nose, and his willingness to bet his mother's soul against learning the secret of DIO's Stand to make D'Arby too afraid to call the match, thus forfeiting victory because D'Arby couldn't bring himself to risk his life from betraying DIO. |
| 517 | * PaperTiger: His Stand certainly looks impressive, but those muscles are all for show and it's incapable of physically protecting D'Arby without his opponents admitting defeat in their hearts; much less fight on his behalf. This allows Jotaro to break D'Arby's finger with zero consequence. |
| 518 | * PragmaticAdaptation: In the anime's English dub, D'Arby's trademark [[GratuitousEnglish "GOOD!"]] is changed to the similarly hammy "OH-KAY!", to better match his animated lip-syncing. |
| 519 | * RightHandCat: Which he uses to score an easy victory against Polnareff. |
| 520 | * SanitySlippage: Suffers a ''massive'' stress-induced nervous breakdown from the stress in his final card game against Jotaro, when he's backed into a corner and given the option of folding to free his collection of souls, or calling with the secret of DIO's Stand and risking getting killed by him. |
| 521 | * SmugSnake: Downplayed. He is very confident, has everything set up in advance for his victory, and panics when he's cornered. At the same time, he takes setbacks with pride, has backup plans in case he's foiled, and is cunning/observant enough to fool Joseph of all people, forcing Jotaro to gaslight him into insanity on a risky gamble to even win. Jotaro even admits he's a WorthyOpponent for nearly defeating them unconventionally. This helps to contrast him with his brother, Telence, who plays it straight. |
| 522 | * SpiritedCompetitor: He opens his poker game with Jotaro by declaring that he's not fighting the Joestar Group on behalf of DIO; he's just doing it for the thrill of the game. Indeed, D'Arby's actions before this support it in how he accepts the punishment of a broken finger when Jotaro catches him cheating. It's ultimately subverted -- he's scared of DIO's YouHaveFailedMe policy just like any of his other assassins when that becomes the higher priority. Jotaro exploits it by forcing D'Arby to wager the secret of DIO's Stand and creating the mere ''possibility'' that he might have to betray DIO, making him so paranoid that he begins to believe that Jotaro really did swap out his hand. |
| 523 | * SuperSenses: His eyesight is good enough to keep Star Platinum from switching the playing cards out. His sense of touch also allows him to identify cards without looking at them, making it a bad idea to let him shuffle. |
| 524 | * TakeAThirdOption: An unintentional example. Once Jotaro raises the stakes of their poker game to include the secret to DIO's Stand to the pot, D'Arby has two choices: He can fold and lose Joseph and Polnareff's souls (and with the secret of his Stand revealed, they'd have no reason ''not'' to just beat information out of him) or he can call the bluff and potentially have to betray his master (a very lethal idea) if he loses. His subsequent mental breakdown costs him victory, but he's so maddened from the stress that he renders himself completely incapable of speaking coherently, which prevents him from spilling the secret to DIO's Stand and probably saving his life. |
| 525 | * VillainousBreakdown: A truly ''epic'' one. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WP1arj7AYuI Bear witness]]. |
| 526 | -->'''D'Arby:''' I'll say it, damn it! I'll say it! I'm the greatest gambler in the world! I'll take this bet! I'll call! [[MadnessMantra Call, call, call, call, call, call, call, call, call, call...]] [[OutGambitted I'm going to call!]] |
| 527 | * WeakButSkilled: He himself admits he isn't a fighter but regardless he is dangerous because of his cheating skills and his talent for gambling. Additionally, unlike his brother, D'Arby's Stand offers no other abilities beyond taking a defeated opponent's soul, which means he's competing with nothing but pure gambling and cheating experience like a normal human. |
| 528 | ** And through his sheer innate gambling and cheating skills, he manages to take out the entire group without having the offense power to do so. Polnareff and Joseph are taken out easily, and Avdol cannot take action to save them, with Jotaro admitting post-victory that he had to bluff without knowing his hand, (which was revealed to be a terrible hand) in order to psyche D'Arby enough to fold, hoping he wouldn't see through the tactic, leading to the defeat of the group. He's considered a WorthyOpponent by Jotaro for a reason. |
| 529 | * TheWorfEffect: While it isn't hard to outwit [[IdiotHero Polnareff]], his subtle tactic to outwit ''Joseph'', of all people, proved he was genuinely a strategic opponent to be feared. It's very telling that Jotaro had to gaslight D'Arby to make him doubt his senses enough to see through his bluff and expose Jotaro's hand rather than face the gambler through conventional tactics. |
| 530 | * WorthyOpponent: He declares Jotaro to be this after the latter sees through his first attempt to cheat and breaks his finger, taking said injury in stride and continuing the game as if nothing had happened. Jotaro, in turn, acknowledges that, while not violent, he still almost took them all out single-handedly and later notes that he would have easily seen through the cheat Jotaro used to beat Telence T. D'Arby. |
| 531 | * YourSoulIsMine: The results of someone losing in a gamble to him is their soul being taken by his Stand and transformed into a gambling chip. In contrast to his brother, he lets them remain unconscious until they're released. |
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| 533 | |
| 534 | [[folder:Pet Shop]] |
| 535 | See [[Characters/JoJosBizarreAdventureDIOsHousehold DIO's Household]]. |
| 536 | [[/folder]] |
| 537 | |
| 538 | [[folder:Telence T. D'Arby]] |
| 539 | See [[Characters/JoJosBizarreAdventureDIOsHousehold DIO's Household]]. |
| 540 | [[/folder]] |
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