Unnamed Characters in Steel Ball Run
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This is a list of unnamed characters found in the seventh part of the JoJo's Bizarre Adventure series, Steel Ball Run. These characters played minor but varying roles throughout the storyline.
Steel Ball Run
Arizona Desert Peoples
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An indigenous community residing in the Arizona desert. They distrust and hate white Americans because they're being driven out of their lands. To them, possession of a white man's book (e.g. the Bible) is considered treachery and is punishable by death.
The chief of the Arizona Desert Peoples
A man votes punishment for Sandman
Steel Ball Run Executive
An executive manager working for Steven Steel and overseeing the Steel Ball Run race. He reports directly to Steel on two occasions about the progress of the race.
Steel Ball Run Journalists
Manga Debut: Steel Ball Run Chapter 1: The Steel Ball Run Press Conference
Debut: VOMIC
Voice Actor: Takashi Ōhara (Newspaper Reporter A)
Daisuke Endou (Newspaper Reporter C)
Debut: VOMIC
Voice Actor: Takashi Ōhara (Newspaper Reporter A)
Daisuke Endou (Newspaper Reporter C)
Journalists present at the Steel Ball Run press conference that Steven Steel held two days before the race. They first asked for a reexplanation of the Steel Ball Run race before moving on to a Q&A. They asked various questions regarding complaints, rules, participants, and other general information. Some of them would also be invited as passengers on Steven's train during the race's first stage.
In the VOMIC, only a couple of the reporters are shown, and the ones that speak are credited as Newspaper Reporter A (新聞記者Ａ, Shinbun kisha A) and Newspaper Reporter C (新聞記者C, Shinbun kisha C).
Urmd's Camel
Urmd Avdol uses this unnamed camel to ride in the Steel Ball Run race. Likely an Arabian camel, it is reportedly used by Urmd to cross the Sahara desert three times annually. Urmd's choice of transportation made him a prime candidate for winning the race. Due to its long legs, it can keep up with a horse's speed but at the same time crush any other racers with its 800 kg body. During the 1st stage of the race, Urmd attempted to knock out Gyro Zeppeli by crashing into him with his camel. However, Gyro's use of his Steel Ball caused Urmd to crash into a group of cacti, leaving him unable to continue the race.
Steel Ball Run Staff
These identical men are the most recognizable among Steven Steel's employees and do various odd jobs during the race, such as welcoming and registering the participants of the Steel Ball Run, attending the buffets or tending to the boats of the race. One of the men also taught mathematics and lip reading to Lucy. During the government's search for traitors, they were investigated but nothing of note happens to them. After the end of the Steel Ball Run, they were hired to work on a boat to Europe.
Race Admission Fee Thief
A petty thief lurking around the Steel Ball Run race admission office. He tries to steal $20 from Gyro Zeppeli but is caught. As he is taken away by the police, the thief angrily declares that he'll follow Gyro and do everything to hinder him in the race, prompting the Neopolitan to challenge the thief in a duel and kill him when a well-placed Steel Ball throw makes the thief shoot himself.
Pocoloco's Friend
He is a black farm worker acquainted with Pocoloco. He is old and knew the age of slavery, but considers that things are changed little since then and that he and Pocoloco must work hard to make a living. He manages to negotiate a pay raise for a contract work, which allows Pocoloco to pay his admission to the Steel Ball Run.
Pocoloco's Fortune Teller
Manga Debut: Steel Ball Run Chapter 2: Gyro Zeppeli (Mentioned only)
Steel Ball Run Chapter 6: The Dried-Up River; Diego Brando (Flashback)
Steel Ball Run Chapter 6: The Dried-Up River; Diego Brando (Flashback)
She is a fortune teller that sits around on the streets telling fortunes only during the summer. After Pocoloco lost money gambling, he asked this woman to tell him his fortune. She told him that he would be at the highest point in his life for two months and would have 1 out of 5,000,000,000 good luck, predicting his immense luck in the Steel Ball Run.
Pocoloco's Father
Johnny's Girlfriend
Johnny Joestar's girlfriend when he was a star jockey. One day she wanted to see a play but the long line made Johnny hesitate. She retorted that there was no reason for them to wait because of Johnny's status. She abandons Johnny the moment he becomes paraplegic.
Theater Fan
A theater fan who has been standing in line since the previous night to see a play. When Johnny cuts in, he meekly protests and Johnny brutalizes him, then pays the security guard to throw him out. The fan takes out a derringer and shoots Johnny in the spine, paralyzing him.
Corrupt Hospital Nurse
A nurse working at the hospital where Johnny is treated. He steals blood from Johnny to sell it later, exploiting the fact that Johnny has lost all of his friends. When Johnny protests, the nurse attacks him.
Sandman's Parents
The parents of Sandman and his sister. Not much is known about them except that they owned an emerald. Before Sandman entered the Steel Ball Run race, his sister gave him the emerald as a keepsake from them to allow him to pay for his entry fee.
Live Commentator
Manga Debut: Steel Ball Run Chapter 4: September 25, 1890 - 3 Hours to Start (Voice)
Debut: VOMIC
Voice Actor: Shinichiro Ohta
Debut: VOMIC
Voice Actor: Shinichiro Ohta
The live commentator (実況, Jikkyō) passionately narrates the Steel Ball Run race throughout the entirety of part 7. They announce the current positions of certain racers, incidents that occur, information about racers, and additional information about the routes of the various stages of the race.
Steel Ball Run Limited Passengers
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Passengers of the "Steel Ball Run Limited" train. Other then Steven Steel and Lucy Steel, they consist of reporters, judges, and VIPs who were invited to follow and observe the racers during the first stage of the race. Some of them were handed monoculars and binoculars to better see the racers.
Manure-Covered Rider
A woman competing in the Steel Ball Run race who gets covered in manure kicked by horses at the rear of the group. She rips off the manure-covered part of her clothes, allowing Pocoloco to catch a glimpse of her exposed breasts.
Habitual Burglar
A wanted man with a bounty of $500 on his head, competing in the Steel Ball Run race and found at the rear of the group. He shaved his beard to disguise himself, but has his face covered in manure in a similar way to the beard, allowing Pocoloco to figures out his identity from a nearby wanted poster. His racing number is 017.
Misguided Riders
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A group of four riders that strayed off course during the first stage of the Steel Ball Run due to following Sandman. Pocoloco stumbles upon the group when they are blaming Sandman for leading them to a cliff. They all then see Sandman jump and scale the ravine, one of the riders questioning if he purposefully tricked them into thinking the course was this way. The rider with a handlebar mustache, who lead the group, clarifies he started following him just because he was running fast. The riders consult their maps whether to take the shortcut or go back. As they do so, they witness Pocoloco attempt the jump himself.
Steven's First Love
Steven Steel's first love and daughter of a florist whom he met when he was only fifteen years old. They vowed to be together until a carriage accident took her away from him, making him fall into years of deep despair. Later on, Steven would meet Lucy Pendleton, who resembled his first love as she grew up.
Shaved Monkey
A shaved monkey which a promoter tried to pass as an alien, seen wearing a fake antennas, cuffs around its ankles and neck, various coils, and held away from an apple by a chained leash. It caused a scandal to explode at some point after 1884, resulting in Steven Steel's credibility going down the drain despite having nothing to do with it.
Sheriff
A Californian sheriff whose jurisdiction overlaps with the path of the Steel Ball Run's first stage. He brings a murder case to light and asks Steven Steel to stop the race. Figuring that the event won't be interrupted, he asks his friend Mountain Tim to investigate the murder case for him during the race.
Emerald Prospector
A prospector searching for emeralds who developed a Stand after stepping into the Devil's Palm, and began killing others with his new power. Mountain Tim mentions that the prospector's Stand killed in a similar fashion to Tomb of the Boom 1 2 3. After realizing his sins, the prospector shot himself.
The Cavalry's 26th Squad
In 1875, the cavalry's 26th squad, including Mountain Tim, were sent out to the unmapped areas of Arizona's desert. Fifteen men soon died due to dehydration after stepping into a Devil's Palm and Mountain Tim was the only survivor.
Gyro's Mother
The wife of Gregorio Zeppeli and mother of five children. Gyro's mother cooks the meals for her family and cares a lot for them, as shown when she kisses Gyro's cheek before he became his father's assistant as an executioner. She doesn't have much medical expertise nor the ability to use Steel Balls, but she assists Gyro and her husband with their patients as a nurse. Like her husband, she tells Gyro to focus on the tasks he's assigned to rather than get himself involved with other matters.
Gyro's Siblings
Gyro has four younger siblings who don't know his real name or the Zeppeli family's executioner duties. Several years after the end of the Steel Ball Run race, their family moved to a different country and their whereabouts are unknown.
Neapolitan Noble
A noble from the Kingdom of Naples familiar with the Zeppeli family. During Gyro's youth, the man would periodically visit the Zeppeli to check on Gyro's age. When Gyro became an executioner and protested to Marco's execution, the noble would expose the Steel Ball Run race to Gyro and explain to him that winning the race would bring enough glory to the King for the latter to declare a general amnesty, saving Marco.
Beautiful Prisoner
Despite her frail appearance, she is prisoner condemned to death for the poisoning and killing of many families and children who appears during Gyro's apprenticeship as an executioner. While being escorted to the execution grounds, she bites off two fingers from one of her guards and escapes in Gyro's direction. Because of her appearance, Gyro hesitates before stopping her, allowing her to rip off his gorget.
President's Aides
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Two men who are close aides to President Funny Valentine. They wear the same style of clothing and hair as him. They are first seen accompanying the President in the Steel Ball Run Limited train as he converses with Steven Steel. One of them makes a deal with Diego Brando while the other watches with Valentine. They are later assigned to keep watch over Lucy Steel after she becomes pregnant with the skull of the Saint's Corpse. Lucy overhears them discussing her condition, and when they notice her conscious, they try to hold her down and inject a drug to put her back to sleep. As she runs away, one of the men repeatedly demands that the other with the syringe make her "docile like a winter catfish". Lucy's Stand ability causes the man holding the syringe to slip on medicine she spilled, launching the glass shards from the broken bottle into the other man's left eye. The two corner her, but the one with the syringe is startled by a mouse and Lucy hits the other in the same eye by opening the door. The one with the syringe then accidentally stabs a guard walking in through the door with the needle. This causes the guard to fire his gun, shooting the other eye through his eye and killing him. The remaining aide tries to pursue Lucy as she runs away, but he slips on the blood and is stabbed through the eye by the door handle.
According to Valentine's character sheet in Hirohiko Araki's New Manga Techniques, their roles of being Valentine's retainers was inspired by Sasaki Sukesaburo (Suke-san) and Atsumi Kakunoshin (Kaku-san) from the Mito Komon TV drama.
"Make her docile like a winter catfish!"
Diego's Wife
A wealthy 83-year-old woman who married the 20-year-old Diego Brando and died six months later. There were rumors that she was killed by her husband so he could obtain her inheritance.
Farm Worker
After Diego and his mother are washed away from their hometown by a flood, they are found by a farm worker, who allows them to live and work at his farm. Five years later, the man makes advances on her despite being married with children. When she stops him, he retaliates later by secretly putting holes in the cups of her and Diego. The next day, Diego presents his cup to the man, who is distributing soup. He pours the soup through the cup which spills onto the table, allowing him to deny the boy another portion. Diego's mother asks for new cups, but he tells her to pay three pounds and will not allow her to pay him back later. Diego asks to have the soup put in the animals' pail, but he rejects the idea. Instead, Diego's mother has him pour her share into her hands, burning them.
Ringo's Father
Originally a farmer, he was drafted to war but deserted. He was later found and imprisoned for abandoning his duties and eventually died of disease. This left his family without a father and caused them to be branded as traitors.
Ringo's Mother
After her husband abandoned his post and died, she and her children were shunned by their community and forced to leave, leading them to travel across the country. She continued to raise her children by herself in a wooden cabin in the forest. She was later stabbed to death along with her daughters.
Ringo's Sisters
Ringo has two unnamed sisters who are murdered in their sleep by a man who enters their home.
Roadagain Family Killer
A soldier who entered the Roadagains' house and stabbed the 10-year old Ringo's mother and sisters to death while he was asleep. When Ringo awakened, he sees the man staring at him while eating a raw potato. The man chokes Ringo, who sees the bodies of his family, and attempts to rape him. However, Ringo steals his revolver and points it at him. The killer attempts to talk Ringo out of shooting and threatens him. Ringo drops the gun due to a coughing fit, causing the man to reach for it. Nonetheless, Ringo is able to pick it up first and shoots him through the mouth, killing him.
Kansas City Guard
A government guard guarding the entrance of the government building in Kansas City. Lucy Steel tricks him into delivering a lunch box for her husband, but while he goes to the entrance desk, Lucy sneaks inside of the building.
Gyro's Hospital Patient
She was one of the patients from the hospital who Gyro slept with before almost being caught by Gregorio. Gyro used the Steel Balls to give the patient the appearance of an old woman and pretend to take care of her. Initially mad at Gyro, the latter redeems himself by granting the woman better skin with his steel balls for a week. She appears to have a wedding ring mark on her middle finger which indicates her status as a married woman and is having an affair. She casually mentions to Gyro that he would have been executed if they were caught.
Sugar Mountain's Parents
The mother and father of Sugar Mountain. One day, the three of them were walking through the woods near the Michigan Lakeside, when the father dropped his iron axe in the blessed spring by a large tree. The spring returned a golden axe, but the family failed to use it up before sunset. Thus, Sugar Mountain's parents fused with the Tree and became trapped as fruits, while Sugar Mountain was forced to be the tree's guardian. Fifty years later, they are freed thanks to Johnny and Gyro's actions, and the family is happily reunited, finally able to leave the forest together.
Sugar Mountain's Victims
The victims of Sugar Mountain who do not use up everything they are given become part of the Great Tree. They are trapped without aging until everyone before them has completed their duty as the guardian. Due to Johnny and Gyro succeeding, they are all freed.
Wisconsin Farmer and Son
A farmer and his son living in Wisconsin near Milwaukee. Johnny Joestar and Gyro Zeppeli approach him, wanting to buy a plot of land from him. Because he's never seen a $100 bill in his life, the farmer suspects foul play and holds the duo at gunpoint. However, he eventually accepts to trade them a small mound for the matsutake mushrooms they have.
Milwaukee Notary
A notary working in Milwaukee. Johnny Joestar and Gyro Zeppeli go to him to find ways to spend their money. He appraises the gems that Gyro brings him and sells him a building. However, the notary finds that they have bought a plot of land worth millions and gives even more cash.
Milwaukee Croupier
A croupier working in Milwaukee. He's working in a shady casino and when Gyro Zeppeli bets millions at the roulette, he tries to cheat so that the ball stops in the wrong color. However, Johnny cheats too and they win the round.
Milwaukee Gangsters
Gangsters from Milwaukee who manage a shady casino in which Gyro and Johnny try to gamble their millions away. They try to cheat, almost making Gyro and Johnny transform into trees. During the attack of the Eleven Men, the gangsters prefer to hide from harm as they have nothing to gain from endangering themselves, forcing Gyro to exchange all of the money for a string to stitch his wound and pay for protection, prompting the gangsters to shoot the Eleven Men.
Wekapipo's Younger Sister
She was cherished by Wekapipo, who was seven years her elder. As a seventeen year old, the first time she'd ever left her home to see the ocean was on her wedding day. She married a nobleman after her brother pushed for the marriage to happen, thinking that being married to a wealthy family would bring her happiness. However, her husband regularly beat her and she blamed herself for it. Six months after the wedding, Wekapipo discovered her sobbing one day with her face bloody and bruised. After unknowingly knocking over a vase, Wekapipo discovered that his sister was rendered almost completely blind from the beatings due to a wounded portion of her optic nerve.
When Wekapipo was exiled, he thought she died in 1889. She fell down some stairs when she was working which broke her left shoulder and bruised her head. It was considered taboo for anyone to take care of her, but the Zeppeli family took her in as a patient. Gyro went against the advice of his mother and attempted to perform surgery, but "fortunately" failed. Had he succeeded, she would have suffered from a more tragic future. She was being kept alive only because she was blind and her former father-in-law assumed she would die on her own anyway. Gregorio Zeppeli keeps her safe and hidden away in the countryside.
Wekapipo's Brother-in-Law
The nobleman Wekapipo's sister married, who Wekapipo considered as a friend from his line of work. He was the son of a wealthy financial commissioner. He was regularly beating his wife and rendered her blind, prompting Wekapipo to ask the pope to annul the marriage, which the church approved of. Wekapipo then begged his brother-in-law to divorce his sister but was beaten up by the man's scabbard. Humiliated, the man challenged Wekapipo to a duel using Steel Balls and was killed. However, his influence made him able to have Wekapipo exiled even in death.
Hot Pants's Brother
Hot Pants's little brother. One day when he and Hot Pants went gathering nuts in the mountains, the both of them were attacked by a bear. They fled into and were cornered in a small hole in the ground and the bear was furiously clawing at them. Hot Pants threw her brother at the bear to save herself and the child died. Although Hot Pants made it out alive, she remained guilty of the incident, and became a nun in hopes of receiving forgiveness from God and her brother.
Later, during the struggle with Civil War, Hot Pants's brother materializes on her body due to Civil War's ability. The materialization tries to attack Hot Pants, but disappears upon Axl RO's death.
Three Assassins
Three gunmen waiting in the crowd waiting the Steel Ball Run participants in Philadelphia. When Johnny Joestar and Gyro Zeppeli arrive, they take out their guns. Johnny shoots the hands of the two first gunmen. The third and youngest gunman tries to fire but Gyro uses a Steel Ball to force him to aim at himself, intimidating him.
Philadelphia Guards
A squad of riflemen deployed in Philadelphia to guard Independence Hall and its surroundings. They are eluded by several of the characters. Seeing a wounded Steven Steel, a group of them tries to arrest Wekapipo but Wekapipo uses his left side ataxia to elude them. One guard sees Diego Brando lurking near Independence Hall but is killed. Two more surprise Diego disguised as a guard and are turned into lamps for their trouble.
Shooting Witnesses
A loose group of children and an old painter who were near a park south of the Independence Hall in Philadelphia. They witnessed Johnny being shot but saw different culprits: either Wekapipo, Diego or Valentine. When Gyro asked them who shot Johnny, they argued and further confused him. It is revealed that they were all right in a roundabout way as they were observing parallel worlds.
Coach Driver
A coach driver whom Lucy obliged to drive her and Steven to the Delaware River. He tried to resist, but a nest of wasps made him flee to the coach and unwillingly drive away. In the USS Blue Hawaii, Valentine slammed a door on him and sent him to a parallel world.
Railroad Worker
A civilian whom Valentine trapped halfway in a mirror. Valentine also killed his alternate self and put the alternate legs on the railroad worker's lap. If the worker lets go the gear stick, he would die, disintegrated as he fused with his alternate self. His ultimate fate remains unknown.
Victims of Love Train
When Funny Valentine was blessed by the Saint's Corpse, he acquired a new ability named Love Train, a pocket dimension manifesting as a gap in space with luminous edges. If anything harmful like an attack were to touch the wall of light, the harm would be redirected to random people all over the world who would suffer the misfortune of death in Valentine's place.
When Johnny shoots Valentine several times using Tusk ACT2, the harm is redirected to a pair of farmers working on a field nearby, killing them.
Johnny shoots three more nails at Valentine, causing the death of three construction workers in Paris when a scaffolding collapses on them, even decapitating one of them.
When Gyro save Johnny by throwing a Steel Ball at D4C's hand, it causes the death of a young boy from Saigon who is shot in the head.
Johnny later prematurely shoots a nail at Valentine before obtaining the Golden Spin, causing a rioter somewhere to be hit in the head by a baseball bat, knocking one of his eyeballs out and killing him.
After Johnny's arm is cut off, Gyro throws a Steel Ball at Valentine using the Golden Spin, causing a cart to run over a man and a woman in the Middle East.
When Johnny shoots a nail at Valentine without the Golden Spin due to his rage after Gyro's death, an African tribesman is killed due to being accidentally shot in the throat with an an arrow by one of his brethren.
Five additional shots cause five people to fall onto train tracks just as a train arrives, presumably resulting in them being run over.
Johnny fires one more shot, breaking the lock to a cage and releasing a lion and lioness that maul a zoo worker.
Funny's Mother
Funny Valentine's mother. She introduces Funny to Captain Valentine, a friend of Funny's father, who gives a handkerchief of emotional value from Funny's father to her and her son. She later marries Captain Valentine, whose surname her son, and presumably she too, took.
Funny's Father
The birth father of Funny Valentine. He was tortured to death and had the habit of writing dates on things. He always kept the handkerchief with the date of the birth of his son and tasked his friend, Captain Valentine to give it to his family after his death. Funny Valentine later visited numerous parallel worlds using D4C to see him again, but in each world he found that his father was long dead.
Diego's Fans
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A group of women who interfere during the final stage of the Steel Ball Run race when the alternate Diego Brando stops in the middle of a street. They don't hesitate to swarm him and hug him, unaware that Diego is using them as shields. When Tusk ACT4 strikes from below the ground, it kills two women by mistake.
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