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"Je me réveille une fois tous les deux mille ans, mais j'ignorais qu'un humain comme lui avait vu le jour. Il faut croire que les humains évoluent eux aussi."

- Santana,

Santana (サンタナ) est un antagoniste mineur figurant dans la deuxième artie de JoJo's Bizarre Adventure series, Battle Tendency.

le découvre au Mexique en train de sommeiller dans un pilier de pierre. Il est "capturé" par les Nazis et surnommé "Santana". Il est les premier des Hommes du Pilier que rencontre et combat.

Apparence
Santana a l'apparence grand et musclé, possédant de longs cheveux blonds (rouges dans l'anime) et deux petites cornes au sommet de sa tête. Son seul vêtement est un petit pagne. Il a un symbole en forme d'engrenage peint ou tatoué sur sa paupière inférieure droite.

Personnalité
Santana est, comme les autres Hommes du Pilier, un individu violent et sûr de sa supériorité sur les humains. Comme les autres Hommes du Pilier, il se révèle être très intelligent. Par exemple, il est capable de démonter des armes bien en avance sur son temps et d'apprendre d'autres langues seulement en passant quelques moments à les observer.

Santana a une attitude détachée envers tout ce qui l'entoure, ne se souciant pas des humains et s'échappant calmement de sa prison. Quand il est exposé à l'Onde de Joseph pour la première fois, Santana reste imperturbable et expérimente un peu avec l'Onde. Même exposé au soleil, Santana resta calme et utilisa Stroheim comme bouclier contre le soleil.

Comme tous les hommes du pilier, Santana méprise les humains, les qualifiant régulièrement d'êtres primitifs et étant même surpris qu'ils puissent évoluer. Lorsque Joseph l'exaspéra avec ses singeries, il perdit son calme et commença à l'insulter.

Pouvoir et Compétences
En tant qu'homme du pilier, Santana est capable d'exécuter les capacités les plus élémentaires d'un homme du pilier classique. Bien que beaucoup plus jeune et moins expérimenté, Santana a démontré plusieurs techniques similaires à celles utilisées par ceux du groupe de Cars, mais aussi ses propres techniques.

Background
Santana had originally lived in Mexico with the other Pillar Men. After Kars' rampage and slaughter of the Pillar Man race, the child Santana, along with Wamuu, was adopted and trained by Kars and Esidisi. He was later left behind in Mexico by Kars, who deemed him only useful as a guard dog, while he and the others left for the old world to find a flawless Red Stone of Aja. As a result, Santana would be unaware of the energy called Ripple which the other Pillar Men learned and developed defenses against. Eventually, claiming that it was because he used too much power, Santana entered a 2000 year-long rest by fusing himself into a pillar within a temple that was one of the proponents for Kars' Stone Mask project.

Battle Tendency
Santana is discovered in a Mexican pyramid in 1938 by an expedition team led by Robert E. O. Speedwagon that is later betrayed by Straizo. However, Straizo notices that Santana had been absorbing the spilled blood and to prevent Santana from awakening, dumps the bodies of the men he attacked into a nearby river. Santana is then excavated and studied by a team of Nazis in an underground base. The team, led by Major Rudol von Stroheim, conducts live human experiments with the Stone Mask in order to try to strengthen the Nazi Army. The blood from multiple prisoners causes the Pillar Man to awaken, Stroheim naming the being "Santana" while he and the rest observe him. When one of the vampires created is brought into the chamber, Santana allows the creature to attack so he could absorb the vampire and gain nourishment. Despite the Nazi's initial opinion that he was a dim-witted savage rather than an Übermensch, Santana catches everyone off guard further by uttering Stroheim's full name once he finished his meal.

Santana, sensing hostility within the iron, fortified room, breaks many of his own bones in order to squeeze himself into the 4-by-20 cm ventilation outlet of the room, doing so at a speed faster than human eyes can perceive. By the time Stroheim realized what occurred, Santana reached the observation room while entering the body of a German who was too close to the vent. After absorbing the host and getting shot at, Santana fires the bullets inside his body from his fingertips, killing almost everyone in the room. Joseph Joestar (disguised as a Nazi) protects Speedwagon, Stroheim, and himself from Santana's attack by channeling the Ripple into Stroheim's hair and using it to shield them.

Toying with the Pillar Man, Joseph assumed Santana killed the Nazis out of self-defense before being attacked. Santana, expressing annoyance at Joseph's antics, realized he could not absorb the human and attempted to do the same with Speedwagon out of assessment. This enrages Joseph as both learn that ripple was preventing Santana's cells from digesting him. Using this to his advantage, Joseph allows himself to be absorbed by Santana and then unleashes the ripple from the inside, splitting the Pillar Man in half. As Santana's body begins to regenerate, his torso is dragged by Joseph to be exposed to sunlight and turn into stone again. After a struggle involving Stroheim sacrificing one of his legs, the door to the outside is open and a fully regenerated Santana is exposed to the light. But the Pillar man quickly forces himself into Stroheim's body in order to escape the sun while attempting to hide in a well, forcing the Nazi to sacrifice himself to leave Santana into the open.

Desperate, Santana charges Joseph as the two go flying down the well. Santana realizes too late that Joseph allowed him to enter the well as it was exposed to the sun's reflection, turning the Pillar Man back to stone with some damage caused by the fall. Santana's remains were later taken to the Washington branch of Speedwagon Foundation, the Pillar Man kept immobile by UV lights and revealed to still be alive. Santana's ultimate fate is never addressed.

Famicom Jump: Hero Retsuden (NES)
Santana appears as a Boss in Area 4. The player faces him in a one-on-one battle using only Joseph Joestar.

Due to the game's release date, Part 2 had only reached prior to Esidisi's battle against Joseph. Thus, only Santana and Esidisi appear as the enemies faced during the JoJo's Bizarre Adventure part of the game, instead of Kars or Wamuu.

All Star Battle (PS3)
Santana is briefly mentioned during the dialogue in Part 2's Story Mode. For the Western version of the game, he was renamed "Santviento" to match the Crunchyroll subs. Initially, his name was "San Tan" in some press releases.

Stardust Shooters (Android/iOS)
Santana is one of the several Part 2 characters who possesses a Metal Striker for the game. His Finish move has him fire bullets from his fingertips at the defeated opponent (similar to his retaliation against the Nazis), and his second special ability allows him to counterattack any Metal Striker enemy who attacks him by using his Rib Blades.

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Trivia

 * By appearing on the 1988's NES game Famicom Jump: Hero Retsuden, Santana is the first JoJo antagonist to ever appear in a game, alongside Esidisi. Unlike Dio Brando, who only made his game debut in 1993, in JoJo's Bizarre Adventure (SNES).
 * Despite Santana's superhuman intellect, it took him longer than it did to his brethren to become perfectly fluent in modern language, suggesting that his own intellect, while superior to humans, was inferior to older Pillar Men.