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"Welcome...to a real man's world! (ようこそ…「男の世界」へ…)"

- Ringo Roadagain

Ringo Roadagain (リンゴォ・ロードアゲイン) est un antagoniste mineur figurant dans la 7eme partie de JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, Steel Ball Run, introduit dans l'arc narratif "A Real Man's World"

Ringo Roadagain est un pistolero au service de Funny Valentine qui prend au piège Jayro, Johnny et Hot Pants au début de la 4ème étape, près de Cannon City, dans le but de s'emparer des parties du Corps Saint. C'est un manieur de Stand et utilise son stand Mandom pour remonter le temps durant les duels afin de prendre l'avantage.

Apparence
Ringo est un homme de taille moyenne et de carrure fine. Il possède des cheveux clairs dépassants de son front, peignés vers sa gauche; une longue et fine mouche, dans une forme de crane "cartoon", et une barbe avec deux séparations fines arborant son menton.

Il porte une légère cape à manches avec un grand collier, des gants sombres révélant ses pouches et ses index, une montre à poignet avec un design fin et moderne sur sa droite. il est montré que son pantalon est légèrement volant et clouté vers le bas des jambes.

En tant que pistolero, Ringo porte aussi un revolver avec une ceinture assortie de munitions et un holster. Le pistolet est identifié par Jayro comme étant un Colt 1874.

Personnalité
Ringo Roadagain est un pistolero particulier fixé aux duels.

Quand il était enfant, Ringo était d'une constitution particulièrement faible faible, il saigne facilement et tombe fréquemment. Quand un déserteur tue sa famille et l'a menacé de le tuer, Ringo éveilla son esprit combatif et tira sur l'homme pour se défendre lui même. A partir de là, Ringo cessa d'être atteint de maux et construisit ses propres convictions.

Comme dans son introduction, Ringo est obsédé par le surpassement de soi à travers les duels. Se considérant lui même comme "incomplet", il veut atteindre de nouveaux sommets spirituels à travers les duels, pensant que la pure intention de meurtre exprime la volonté de vouloir élever son esprit. A cause de ça, il possède un très fort sens moral: Ringo préfère se battre à jeu égal et donnera même des indications à ses adversaires peu importe leurs armes et positions dans le but de complètement équilibrer les forces avant que le combat commence. Capable de discerner la volonté sombre de tuer dans les gens, Ringo préfère affronter des gens qui n'hésiteront pas à tuer instantanément pour que les duels soient les plus purs et intenses possible. Par exemple, Ringo refusa au départ d'affronter Jayro et préféra Johnny qui dit qu'il a la volonté de le tuer.

Accoutumé à risquer sa vie dans les duels, Ringo montre une incroyable capacité à garder son calme face au danger, il ne panique jamais même quand une situation inattendue s'annonce ou quand il est surpassé en nombre. D'un autre côté, il reconnait sa nervosité quand il anticipe des duels quand Gaucho remarque sa main tremblante. Il est aussi capable de reconnaître les capacités et la ruse d'un adversaire, clamant comment Jayro s'est montré plus malin que lui.

Ringo souligne bien la différence entre les valeurs sociales et les valeurs d'hommes, croyant que la vraie force réside dans la découverte de cette dernière et plus tard il dira qu'il marche dans la "voie de la lumière" et qu'il vit dans "un monde d'hommes" une fois cette force découverte. Il voit donc Jayro comme un "conformiste", et qu'il était enchaîné par ces dogmes religieux imposés par son père. Puis remarqua la determination grandissante de Jayro, Ringo essaya de l'écarter de sa philosophie égocentrique, lui disant de foncer dans la "voie de la lumière" pour gagner.

In general, Ringo speaks gravely, acts with finality and is usually extremely polite to those around him, even his foes. For instance, he makes it a point to bow when meeting someone and after defeating them, solemnly thanking them for the duel.

Abilities


Ringo's Stand, Mandom, enables him to reverse time by exactly 6 seconds by turning a hand on his wristwatch. Although it is very limited, its ability is critical for Ringo to win his duels.

Ringo is also a capable  and seems to have incredible perception regarding gauging the range of various guns. He utilizes a 1874 Colt during his battle with Gyro Zeppeli.

Background
From birth, Ringo was sickly. As a young boy, he had fragile skin and was often ill. Ringo's father was drafted and sent to war, later escaped, imprisoned, and then died because of a disease. Ringo's family, branded as traitors, were forced to travel across the country. Ringo, ten, woke up one night to a large man in military uniform by his bed and his family, his mother and two sisters, killed-underneath the table that had a bloody knife sticking on top of it. The large man looming over Ringo then tried to rape him but was greeted with a gun, that Ringo slyly took from the large man, pointing towards him. Ringo quickly shot the man as he charged at him. It was after this event that the formerly sick young boy experienced a newfound power. He overcame a wall that he called "a real man's world," that he believed it was the only path he could pursue.

Three years before the events of Steel Ball Run, Ringo acquired his Stand, Mandom. He then entered Funny Valentine's service.

Steel Ball Run
Ringo Roadagain is dispatched during the fourth stage and set up camp in a cabin located in a forest where the racers will pass through. He purposefully activates Mandom's power regularly while the racers cross the forest, making them lose their way. A contestant named confronts him but Ringo refuses to let him go or help him, saying that he'll only let him free after he kills him. Gaucho leaves for the moment.

Gaucho shouts and challenges Ringo while Johnny Joestar, Gyro Zeppeli and Hot Pants observe from afar. Ringo prepares to draw, although his hand shakes from fear, but Ringo argues that its better than to be frozen by fear. Analyzing the situation, Ringo sees that Gaucho's gun will be inaccurate to the right at their current distance and requests that Gaucho is five steps out of the accurate range. Angry, Gaucho draws and shoots first but merely grazes Ringo's shoulder, then completely misses. Ringo shoots Gaucho in the chest and kills Gaucho before saluting him. Shocked, the three leave and try to go out of the woods again without success. Ringo then begins to bury Gaucho.

Johnny, Gyro and Hot Pants return and confront Ringo as they too cannot get out of the forest. Ringo asks Johnny to be the first duelist. Hot Pants then attacks from behind with Cream Starter and melts Ringo's gun hand, but Ringo uses his power Mandom to rewind time to 6 seconds ago. He avoids the ambush. Revealing his Stand, Ringo explains its power and say again that they must kill him to escape. Ringo shoots Hot Pants' hand. Johnny attacks and wounds Ringo lightly, but is shot in the head while Hot Pants is shot in the chest and taken out. Gyro is also shot in the guts when he retaliates, but Ringo spares him out of disdain since he attacked merely as a reaction to his friend's death. Ringo drags Johnny inside as Gyro yells, defeated. In the cabin, Ringo examines Johnny's Corpse Part and sends the coordinates of the next Corpse Part to the President with a messenger pigeon.

However, Gyro returns with a renewed fighting spirit. He throws his Steel Ball through the walls into Ringo's face, forcing the gunslinger to rewind time. However, Gyro has detected an old wound in Ringo, a damaged collarbone on the left shoulder that would paralyze Ringo if it was broken. Breaking in, Gyro confronts his opponent. The two attack at the same time. Gyro is shot in the throat but Ringo's collarbone is broken, paralyzing him. He is forced to rewind time by shooting his wristwatch's scroll wheel. The two attack again, moving to get a better position. Gyro is shot in the shoulder but Ringo blocks the Steel Ball with his arm. Ringo arms his revolver for a second shot, but inadvertently places himself in the trajectory of a falling piece of wood that impales his collarbone, which was what Gyro was aiming for. Ringo is defeated, but both fighters acknowledges their respective skill. To force Gyro to move forward into "a real man's world", Ringo aims at Gyro again and Gyro finishes him off. Before his death, Ringo utters, "Welcome...to a real man's world!"

All Star Battle (PS3)
Ringo Roadagain makes his game debut on the PS3 title, appearing as the voice announcer for the Versus Mode.

Every time both combatants were chosen and all options were set, before the match starts he says "Welcome to the real man's world", quoting his very last sentence said on the original story.

Eyes of Heaven (PS3/PS4)
Ringo Roadagain appears in Eyes of Heaven as a support, having one voice line performed by.