JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure has confirmed to be one of the eccentric and really distinctive mangas of this era, being one the best-selling in historical past and spawning quite a lot of animated and live-action diversifications of its a number of story arcs, together with after all a combating recreation referred to as JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: All Star Battle R. Filled with countless references to Western music and vogue icons, and among the most unforgettable outfits and poses, the multi-part sequence additionally options life-or-death battles between Stands, that are psycho-spiritual manifestations with some extremely inventive and sometimes lethal supernatural skills. While some are iconic for being dangerously highly effective and integral to the story, others proved to only be flat-out…properly, weird. Here is our checklist of the 10 most weird stands in JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure.
1. Baby Face
The first Stand on our checklist is among the strangest ones discovered in JoJo’s fifth arc referred to as Golden Wind (or “Vento Aureo” in Italian), which follows Giorno, Bucciarati and the remainder of the gang tasked with escorting Trish, the daughter of Passione’s mafia boss, to security on a distant island off the coast of Italy. Along the best way they’re dictated to board a practice to their vacation spot, and whereas on there they encounter some really obnoxious Stand customers. Among them is Melone, who makes an attempt to kidnap Trish utilizing his Stand referred to as Baby Face.
Baby Face is a computer-like humanoid Stand, whose preliminary type is the one seen above. As a pc it’s able to producing a secondary, sentient Stand able to advanced improvement. To do that it requires a human DNA pattern and subsequently a “suitable subject”, or quite a feminine sufferer, in order to breed the Stand, which is about as creepy and unsettling because it sounds.
How the girl in query is impregnated isn’t disclosed (fortunately), however the finish result’s a Stand that accommodates intelligence however have to be taught like a toddler tips on how to put it to use. It additionally accommodates the identical character as its sufferer, and in the case of this episode it inherits some very hot-headed traits from the unsuspecting feminine vacationer that Melone selects. All of it outcomes in a hilariously weird encounter between him and Bucciarati’s gang that after all ends in the latter’s victory.
In traditional JoJo vogue, “Baby Face” additionally after all comes from the Grammy-winning musician of the identical title. Such a reputation for this Stand is outwardly speculated to be taken quite actually.
2. Super Fly
This subsequent Stand hails from the fourth arc referred to as Diamond is Unbreakable, which takes place in the peaceable (probably not) suburban city Morioh, Japan. With yet one more music-related title, Super Fly is encountered by Josuke, his college pal Okuyasu, and a latest but transient addition to their workforce Mikitaka Hazekura, who seems to be an alien.
On the outskirts of city, the three of them by accident occur upon the Stand, which is definitely sure to a transmission tower and has no different bodily type. So the Stand itself is, mainly, a tower.
The Stand’s consumer, or quite the one at present trapped by it, is Toyohiro Kanedaichi, a self-proclaimed eccentric hermit proudly embracing his way of life upon the tower. In actuality, he makes an attempt to lure Josuke and the others into the affected territory inside the tower, as doing so will relinquish the Stand’s management over him and permit him to flee. He intially succeeds, and Josuke and the others have interaction in a battle to defeat Toyohiro and free themselves.
On high of the tower being basically invulnerable to offensive Stand assaults because it merely displays them again out, anybody who shouldn’t be free to depart dangers being was steel and absorbed into the tower itself. Thus, the battle that ensues is an unsettling recreation of who can escape first. Mikitaka appears to sacrifice himself to permit his allies to get free, however fortuitously Josuke is ready to finest Toyohiro earlier than the sequence’ most amusing minor character is killed off.
“Super Fly” refers back to the well-known 1972 soul funk album launched by Curtis Mayfield. While a weird alternative of title for the Stand, to exit on a limb it may consult with the tower being a fly lure of types.
3. Highway to Hell
This subsequent Stand is encountered close to the start of the sixth arc referred to as Stone Ocean, the place we meet Jotaro’s estranged daughter Kujo Jolyne, the designated protagonist this time round. While serving a sentence for against the law she didn’t commit in a high-security jail in Florida, Jolyne is paid a go to by her father Jotaro, and the 2 of them are ambushed by the lackey of most important antagonist Whitesnake.
Jotaro’s soul/stand and reminiscences are stolen by Whitesnake, which inhabit the type of two CDs (in holding with the continued musical theme of Stands), and he dies earlier than they are often rescued by the Speedwagon basis. Refusing to desert her father, Jolyne embarks on a private mission to retrieve his stolen discs and produce him again to life.
In the method she befriends a fellow inmate named Ermes, who agrees to assist her whereas looking for private revenge towards Whitesnake for the dying of her sister. Along the best way, Ermes runs into one other inmate named Thunder McQueen, who works as a janitor and is totally mentally unstable and suicidal.
Whitesnake gives him with a Stand referred to as Highway to Hell, a singular and weird one which has no bodily type in addition to an odd set of 4 protrusions with propellers on the ends. It additionally doesn’t have any offensive fight skills. Instead, in quite disturbing vogue it solely has the flexibility to share injury inflicted on the User. As McQueen is pathologically suicidal, he tries repeatedly to kill himself in varied methods regardless of Ermes’ makes an attempt to calm him.
When he tries to hold himself in a stall she endures being hung and suffocated, the Stand’s protrusions lifting her into the air. When McQueen tries drowning himself the Stand seems as a liquid mass, smothering her nostril and mouth as seen in the image above, in the imitation of compelled drowning.
All in all, it makes the Stand fairly formidable in the fallacious (or proper) fingers, a suicidal inmate basically being the right alternative when attempting to focus on somebody. But propellers?
“Highway to Hell” refers back to the 1979 music by band AC/DC, and it’s seemingly is a connotation to suicide being thought of a sin in sure situations.
4. Love Deluxe
Love Deluxe is one other of the really weird Stands discovered in the Diamond is Unbreakable Arc, and it undoubtedly offers off some Medusa vibes. Its consumer is highschool scholar Yukako Yamagishi, who it seems has an enormous (placing it flippantly) crush on none aside from Koichi Hirose. She coerces him to go on a date along with her, which he heartily accepts, just for it to finish up going a bit stranger than anticipated.
Yukako’s obsessive infatuation with Koichi inflames extreme, even violent temper swings she has for seemingly no obvious motive, given her usually very aloof character. One second she’s demure and candy, the subsequent she’s destroying the desk whereas screaming on the high of her lungs. Koichi is aware of one thing isn’t proper, however isn’t certain what to do.
She winds up kidnapping him and taking him to a home remotely positioned close to the shoreline. There she plans to maintain him locked away whereas brainwashing him into reciprocating her emotions, whereas additionally forcibly coaching him to suit an idealized image of himself. This is the place her Stand lastly comes into view, and it seems that it’s sure to her lengthy, lovely, jet-black locks of hair.
The Stand was initially bestowed upon her by Keicho Nijimura and his Arrow. Essentially, it offers Yukako’s hair extraordinarily sturdy, prehensile abilties, permitting her to successfully use it as a lethal weapon. She can spontaneously lengthen it, even lengthy sufficient to wrap across the whole home, choose up and hurl heavy objects, and use it to strike or smother her targets. She may even implant strands of it into her sufferer’s scalp in order to bodily management them.
As a complete, it makes this mini-arc of the story disturbingly hilarious, and after being rescued by Josuke and Okuyasu, Koichi reunites with Yukako after the incident they usually pursue a mutual relationship.
“Love Deluxe” refers back to the fourth album launched in 1992 by English band Sade, and the connotations of affection are undoubtedly obvious right here.
5. Beach Boy
While the encounter with this Stand undoubtedly doesn’t happen anyplace close to a seashore, the title of it’s no much less comical, together with the Stand itself which is… sure, a fishing rod. Despite it being a completely atypical wanting object, it proves itself to be the deadliest fishing rod in existence.
During the Golden Wind arc, Giorno and the others have interaction this Stand whereas on the practice experience to Florence, the place they’re instructed to carry Trish subsequent. The User of the Stand is Pesci, the weak-willed and really eccentric-looking youthful brother of Prosciutto. For a lot of the encounter throught the “Grateful Dead” mini-arc, Pesci follows the orders of his sibling whereas usually succumbing to his insecurities and insecurity.
However, his Stand proves to be a formidable weapon because the rod’s hook and fishing line have a number of skills. It can part by actually any impediment to hunt out its goal, making hiding a restricted benefit, and Pesci even makes use of it to simply lower by a sufferer’s flesh to pinpoint and destroy very important organs.
Also, the extraordinarily delicate fishing line can detect lifeforms and their physicalities in any given space it’s forged into, proper all the way down to their heartbeat. Destroying the road itself can be out of the query, as any injury inflicted on it can as an alternative mirror again on the goal and their Stand.
This all makes Beach Boy fairly the menace, regardless of its in any other case foolish and weird look that might simply make anybody misjudge. Fortunately, Bucciarati and the gang overcome Pesci, in the end defeating him together with his personal Stand.
Also, “Beach Boy” refers back to the rock band of the identical title that was extraordinarily widespread through the Nineteen Sixties.
6. Mister President
This subsequent stand undoubtedly has one of many strangest names but, and moreover, is hidden inside a really unassuming object. Also discovered through the Golden Wind arc, Mister President is in truth a Stand in the type of a key hidden within an important turtle named Coco Jumbo.
Bestowed as a present by the Boss of Passione, it serves as a sanctuary for Giorno and the others whereas they transport his daughter Trish to security. It has no fight skills in any respect, however makes for a really advantageous cellular hiding spot throughout their travels and harmful encounters. It resembles the looks of a semi-luxurious resort room, albeit with no restroom which makes for some comical moments amongst the gang.
Take a second to let that sink in: on the instruction of an Italian mob boss, Bucciarati’s gang takes refuge in a completely furnished room, contained inside a key atop a turtle. If this was discovered in every other manga, you’ll be excused for pondering the writer had simply put some random phrases into an concept generator. In the thoughts of Hirohiko Araki, nevertheless? It’s par for the course, although undoubtedly on the stranger facet.
“Mister President” refers to an artist who sings a music referred to as “Coco Jumbo” in 1996.
7. Pearl Jam
Essentially the one food-type Stand discovered in all of JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure is yet one more non-combative one which serves a completely totally different goal, and is highly effective in a completely totally different approach. Pearl Jam is encountered in probably essentially the most hilarious filler episode of the fourth arc, Diamond is Unbreakable.
Josuke and Okuyasu determine to cease by an Italian restaurant discovered close to the sting of Morioh referred to as Trattoria Trussardi. There they meet an exceptionally passionate {and professional} chef named Tonio Trussardi, the proprietor of the institution. He excitedly invitations the 2 of them in for a meal, and guides them by the method of a really genuine Italian expertise. However, there isn’t any menu and Tonio decides on what to prepare dinner just by inspecting the palms of their fingers, one way or the other figuring out any and all illnesses they’ve, from aching muscle tissues to sleep deprivation to constipation.
Throughout the episode, Josuke and Okuyasu really feel an air of suspicion round this miraculously gifted chef, notably given the mysterious murders which have been occurring in Morioh (due to a sure another person after all). However, with every meal they eat they discover themselves swiftly cured of their aches and pains. Okuyasu’s cavity-filled enamel are ejected from his mouth and two new, wholesome ones develop in their place.
With the ability of his Stand, Josuke discovers that there are strange-looking organisms sure to the meals they’re ingesting. Resembling a cross between a tomato and a pearl onion (therefore the title) with faces and arms, they meld with the components of a cooked meal and supply distinctive well being advantages, with the flexibility to treatment most illnesses.
It’s a stand that’s by and much destined for an bold and proficient culinarian like Tonio, who solely needs to share spectacularly-made meals together with his prospects that may additionally assist them reside blissful and wholesome lives.
“Pearl Jam” is predicated on the well-known grunge rock band that was hottest by the Nineties.
8. Strength
This Stand and its User make it really one of the weird on this checklist, and it hails from the Stardust Crusaders arc. Joseph Joestar and the gang first encounter this Stand aboard an ordinary-looking freighter in the South China Sea sure for India. While on the in any other case peaceable cruise, the group discovers an orangutan inside a cage down in the cargo maintain.
He seems to be a completely regular orangutan, till the charade comes down and he reveals a heightened intelligence, sufficient to chop up an apple, smoke cigarettes, gander at Playboy magazines, and even resolve a Rubiks dice. He additionally dons a Captain’s coat.
It seems that the orangutan, weirdly named Forever, is one other lackey working for DIO. He additionally possesses a Stand referred to as Strength, named for the Tarot Card of the identical title. The Stand itself has taken management of the freighter, and really morphed it to such a measurement from a a lot smaller boat. Having full psychic management over the sure ship proper all the way down to its bolts, Forever confronts the gang, nearly killing them outright by encasing them in steel tombs created by the ship’s pipes.
Ultimately the gang outsmarts him, making the most of his cockiness, and Jotaro kills him together with his Stand, Star Platinum. Forever’s dying causes the phantasm of the freighter to dissipate, abandoning solely the small boat it had initially been.
“Forever” is a call-back to the album “Wu-Tang Forever” by the Wu-Tang Clan. It’s additionally presumed that he’s an homage to a different malicious orangutan in the 1986 British horror film, Link.
9. Cheap Trick
Cheap Trick is yet one more Stand discovered in the enduring Diamond is Unbreakable arc, and is equal components weird and annoying. Its origin lies with a person named Masazo Kinoto, an architect who’s employed by Rohan Kishibe to estimate the prices to restore his home. At the identical time he’s made an unwilling host to a Stand bestowed by Yoshihiro Kira, with the motive to kill Rohan.
Cheap Trick’s energy is parasitic in nature, because it seeks to hurt its host/consumer quite than support them. Its signature transfer is clinging to the again of its present sufferer, and it can’t be eliminated in any approach with out them risking dying. Sadistic in nature, whereas connected it can repeatedly berate and taunt the host in an try to disorient and put on them down psychologically.
At the identical time it can name out to close by folks, because it’s one of many few stands that may be heard by non-users, and tempt them to take a look at the host’s again. Doing so will trigger Cheap Trick to detach from the host’s again, killing them in the method earlier than attaching to its new sufferer.
Rohan struggles to discover a method to rid himself of the pest-like Stand, finally operating into Koichi who makes an attempt to make use of his Echoes ACT3 to take away it. Despite Echoes’ immense power it doesn’t work and the one answer winds up being Rohan making his method to the Ghost Girl’s Alley with out his again being seen. The Alley being an interdimensional purgatory, a mass of disembodied fingers seem to pry Cheap Trick safely from Rohan, who on the final second makes use of Heaven’s Door to rewrite its Fate and ship it to Hell.
“Cheap Trick” refers back to the 1970’s American rock band of the identical title.
10. Sethan
The closing entry on our checklist goes to 1 different extraordinarily weird Stand discovered in the latter half of the Stardust Crusaders arc, whereas Joseph Joestar and the remainder of the gang are in Egypt. As Polnareff and Jotaro go in search of one in every of two remaining Glory Gods working for DIO, a really eccentric-looking man (what Stand User isn’t although) named Alessi seems to be tailing them.
While he beats up a random harmless youngster that by accident runs into him, Polnareff confronts him, accusing him of being the potential goal. Alessi tries to play it off however the confrontation ends in him brandishing his Stand named Sethan, after the Egyptian god of chaos and storms.
It seems as a big shadow with unsettling eyes, performing as Alessi’s shadow that’s in a position to wield any weapon he holds like his axe. Also, anybody who comes into contact with the shadow faces dire penalties.
Polnareff touches it for a mere second and begins to note one thing very unusual occurring. With every passing minute he shrinks bodily, not merely in phrases of measurement however age. Before lengthy he’s shrunk all the best way all the way down to that of a 3 yr outdated, turning into completely defenseless. Since Stands attribute their progress and energy to that of their User, Silver Chariot can be rendered virtually ineffective.
What ensues from there’s a weird recreation of cat and mouse between baby-sized Polnareff and Alessi with Sethan. A younger girl named Malena takes Polnareff in from the streets to deal with him, and Alessi chases him all through the home, utilizing Sethan to attempt to kill him. Malena by accident will get caught up in the combat, and after touching the shadow for a number of seconds is rendered all the way down to an precise fetus. Polnareff gathers her in a towel and flees to a lifeless finish room.
The entire encounter concludes with Polnareff hiding from Alessi in the room simply lengthy sufficient to strike him in the face with Silver Chariot, inflicting him to fall out of the close by window. Jotaro occurs to be there and by accident will get grazed by Sethan lengthy sufficient to shrink all the way down to a younger youngster. However, hilariously sufficient, Jotaro continues to be sturdy sufficient to beat up Alessi and knocks him out.
That concludes our checklist of the 10 most weird stands in JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure. We hope that you just discovered this as entertaining because the present itself, and tell us what you consider our selections, or for those who really feel one other Stand ought to belong on this checklist.
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