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"J'avoue que le pouvoir de ton Stand est flippant. Si tu avais été plus intelligent, j'aurais perdu."

- Josuke sur The Hand, Chapter 275

The Hand (ザ・ハンド（手）) est le Stand d'Okuyasu Nijimura, figurant dans Diamond is Unbreakable. C'est un Stand humanoïde musclé dont le pouvoir est d'effacer tout ce que sa paume droite touche, même l'espace.

Apparence
The Hand est un Stand humanoïde assez musclé et portant des pièces d'armures rembourrées et équipée de piques sur les épaules. The Hand porte aussi une sorte de col décoré à chaque extrémité par les symboles "$" et "¥", ce qui va avec le thème monétaire de la tenue d'Okuyasu. Sa tête est robotique avec des yeux ressemblant à des lampes. De plus, son visage est entouré par ce qui ressemble à de larges oeillères limitant son champ de vision, ce qui symbolise l'attitude impulsive d'Okuyasu. Sa main droite est couverte d'un motif de toile d'araignée sur la paume, qui d'ailleurs possède deux bosses. Ces caractéristiques physiques apparaissent plus tard dans l'histoire.

The Hand is generally portrayed as being white and wearing blue armor with golden decorations.

Abilities
The Hand is a heavily battle-oriented Stand. Similarly to Crazy Diamond, The Hand is a powerful short-ranged Stand who can easily wrestle with the former, although it is not as fast.

Its unique power of space erasure makes it theoretically one of the strongest Stands of Diamond is Unbreakable, but as Josuke points out, Okuyasu's slow wit dampens its potential.

Elimination
Anything The Hand's right palm touches when it does a swiping motion with its arm is erased from this universe, be it physical matters or space itself.

Similar to Cream's, this ability effectively removes whatever is in the Stand's path from existence in accordance with the user's will. Objects that are subjected to the ability appear as if an extremely sharp blade had sliced clean through them. Okuyasu also states that not even he knows where the voided objects go.

Whenever The Hand erases something, the voided space is usually immediately filled and "stitched up" by adjacent space and objects, effectively removing any traces of the removed object's existence. The space elimination and this curious property gives the normally short-ranged Stand substantial ranged capabilities, as it can simply remove the space between itself and a target to bring them closer or have Okuyasu come to them. Okuyasu likes to refer to this technique as "teleportation".

However, that last property is not always portrayed as it was shown that The Hand swiping through the ground could leave craters.

This power has several weaknesses. Because the elimination is concentrated within The Hand's palm and it must make a swiping motion, it is possible to grab the arm and block it as Crazy Diamond did and for a fast Stand like Red Hot Chili Pepper to evade it.

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Détails

 * Unlike most Stands that have a confirmed real-world namesake, The Hand's name is not identical to its source The Band. When written in Katakana, The Hand (ザ・ハンド) is almost identical to The Band (ザ・バンド) except the marks on バ have been "erased" much like The Hand's targets.

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