Mannish Boy/fr

"Je fais peut-être dans mes couches, mais j'en sais largement plus que vous. La-lee-ho !!"

- Chapter 170

Mannish Boy (マニッシュ・ボーイ) est un antagoniste mineur figurant dans la troisième partie de ', ', dans l'arc narratif "Death Thirteen".

Mannish Boy est un bébé malveillant de génie, et un manieur de à la solde de. Utilisant son status de bébé, il infiltre le Groupe Joestar en Arabie et essaie de tuer les héros dans leurs rêve via son.

Apparence
Mannish Boy est un petit bébé à la couleur de peau brune. Il a des oreilles plutôt larges et des canines acérées. Il porte une combinaison pour bébé avec un turban et un bavoir, et des petites chaussures. Il apparaît aussi dans un panier en osier.

Personnalité
Mannish Boy est un bébé à l'intelligence géniale. Bien qu'il ait seulement onze mois, il a la capacité mentale d'un homme adulte. En public, Mannish Boy cache son intellect et agit comme un bébé ordinaire pour ne pas se faire soupçonner.

Cependant, il se révèle à ses victimes endormies. Bien qu'il ne puisse pas encore parler et au mieux puisse glousser d'un mauvais "hee hee hee", Mannish Boy a l'intellect, le vocabulaire et le comportement d'un adulte et peut exprimer sa vraie personnalité à travers son Stand,. Comme le dit, ce bébé est capable de voir un scorpion, de l'identifier comme une menace et d'utiliser une épingle pour le tuer avant qu'il ne l'attaque. Il est également assez vif d'esprit pour cacher ledit scorpion dans sa bouche alors que Kakyoin fouille son berceau pour trouver des preuves de sa malveillance. Mannish Boy est assez sournois, utilisant son apparence pour tromper le Groupe Joestar et les pousser à l'amener avec eux. Il est également exceptionnellement cruel car il prend plaisir à jouer avec ses victimes impuissantes en les soumettant à des tourments horribles (par exemple, il couvre Kakyoin de globes oculaires pour le faire taire) et aime les humilier. Il n'a aucun problème à tuer d'autres humains et animaux. Il est extrêmement grossier et arrogant et méprise les héros, les insultent fréquemment dans ses pensées et jouit de leur impuissance quand il les emprisonne dans son monde des rêve. Mannish Boy fume aussi.

Le de Mannish Boy's est Death Thirteen, un Stand ressemblant à un mélange de clown de carnaval et la Faucheuse. Death Thirteen attaque ses victimes dans leur sommeil en entrainant leur esprit dans son monde, où elles ne peuvent pas invoquer leurs Stands et où chaque blessure est réfléchie dans le monde réel, permettant à Death Thirteen de les tuer avec sa faux.

Précocité
Mannish Boy est exceptionnellement précoce pour un bébé de onze mois. Premièrement, il est très intelligent et a l'intellect d'un homme adulte et peut parler à travers son Stand. Deuxièmement, il est assez habile pour manipuler divers objets, comme allumer une cigarette ou tuer un scorpion avec une épingle.

Stardust Crusaders
Sent by DIO to kill the Joestar Group, Mannish Boy manages to reach Yarpline at the same time as the heroes. He tries to assassinate Noriaki Kakyoin but only manages to kill a nearby dog caught in Death Thirteen's nightmare world before Kakyoin is woken up by Jean Pierre Polnareff. In the dream, Kakyoin's hand was cut by Death Thirteen's scythe and the wound carries over to the waking world. Meanwhile, Mannish Boy is found near a well and pretends to be sick. He is given to the care of the Joestar Group by a woman claiming that they need to bring him to a hospital. They reluctantly agree, without knowing the woman was actually scared of him and that the baby was a Stand user.

Onboard an airplane, Mannish Boy uses his Stand to attack Noriaki Kakyoin and Jean Pierre Polnareff. Kakyoin remembers everything and tries to warn Polnareff but Death Thirteen attacks. It almost kills Polnareff but the Frenchman is woken up by Joseph Joestar, who tells him to change the baby's diapers. Kakyoin is left alone with Death Thirteen, revealing that he is the baby. Kakyoin tries to cut his arm with a knife but Mannish Boy dismisses the move as futile. In addition, Kakyoin struggles hard and his violent movements in his sleep in response to the attack end up downing the plane. As no one remembers what happened once awaken, everyone believes that Kakyoin is becoming unstable. Kakyoin then discovers the words "Baby Stand" carved on his arms and begins to suspect the baby. He accuses the baby of being an enemy but no one believes in.

A scorpion crawls into Mannish Boy's crib, forcing him to kill him. However, he's seen by Kakyoin who runs to the crib and tries to find the scorpion. However, the baby hides the scorpion in his mouth which preserves his cover although he's almost unmasked when Joseph tries to feed him. Desperate, Kakyoin shows the carving on his arms, which only convinces the others that he's mad. As a last resort, Kakyoin decides to summon Hierophant Green and attack the baby but Polnareff knocks him out. Put back in his crib, Mannish Boy is able to spit out the scorpion and wait until everyone is asleep.

Jotaro, Joseph and Polnareff find themselves in Death Thirteen's nightmare world where he spends a few instants humiliating the heroes. However, he's then attacked by Kakyoin and his Hierophant, because falling asleep with one's Stand out allows one to utlize them in the nightmare. Hierophant Green strangles Death Thirteen but Mannish Boy sees that Kakyoin's going easy on him because he's a baby. By controlling his nightmare, he attempts to scythe Hierophant from behind but it has already infiltrated the inside of Death Thirteen. Mannish Boy is forced to heal Kakyoin's wounds and leave the others be.

In the morning, Kakyoin teaches Mannish Boy a lesson by mixing some of the baby's excrement into his baby food. Naturally, Joseph and Polnareff, who are clueless about this and believe Mannish Boy to be hungry, decide to feed him the contaminated food.

It can be inferred that Mannish Boy was given to the care of someone else after the group is rescued and he doesn't dare to attack the group again.

JoJo RPG (SFC)
The events from Death Thirteen occur in a different way. Unlike the printed storyline, in the game Mannish Boy attacks the group from inside a plane en route to India.

Heritage for the Future (PS1/DC/Arcade)
Mannish Boy appears only in Story Mode cutscenes; placed before and after Kakyoin's fight with Death Thirteen.

Eyes of Heaven (PS4/PS3)
Death Thirteen's Nightmare Dream world where the Joestar Group was trapped, is a playable stage in the game. There is a stage gimmick where Death Thirteen will hunt your character.

Galerie
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Trivia

 * Although Mannish Boy only appears in the PS1 version of Heritage for the Future, his Stand, Death Thirteen, appears in all versions as an NPC that can only be fought by the protagonists when certain conditions are met.
 * Mannish Boy's catchphrase of "lali-ho" is a reference to sleep spell in Dragon Quest, which in turn references a same catchphrase used by Dwarves in the Final Fantasy franchise.
 * Mannish Boy was not given a proper name until years later, eventually being officially documented in JOJO A-GO!GO!.