Arabia Fats (アラビア・ファッツ, Arabia Fattsu) is a tertiary antagonist featured in the third part of the JoJo's Bizarre Adventure series, Stardust Crusaders, specifically the "Sun" story arc.
He is an Agent of DIO, who ambushes the Joestar Group in the middle of the Arabian desert with his Stand, Sun.
Appearance
Arabia Fats is a short, overweight man with short, spiky hair and a receding hairline. He has a T-shirt bearing a sun resembling the Rising Sun Flag of Japan. He also sports an unbuttoned coat, cargo pants, and loafers.
Color Schemes
Personality
Arabia Fats's personality is never fully shown because of how quickly he is defeated, but he is shown to be a well-prepared, patient, immoral Stand user who is willing to wait as long as it takes for the Joestar Group to die from his Stand. He made sure his hiding spot was comfortable since his Stand dramatically increases the temperature of the environment, giving himself a seat, drinks, and air conditioning. He is also shown to be clever in that he attached a large mirror to a small vehicle to take advantage of the desert's barren landscape. However, this ingenuity was not enough to prevent his defeat as the mirror unfortunately reflected a large rock, exposing him. Jotaro calls him an initially formidable but actually rather shabby opponent.[2]
Abilities
Stand
Arabia Fats's Stand is a great fiery sphere akin to the sun itself, which can heat the surrounding area to dangerous levels, give the impression of daylight, and shoot rays of energy. However, Arabia himself is not immune to his Stand, and he must stay within a certain range of his targets to continue exposing them to its effects.
History
Stardust Crusaders (1988)
Arabia Fats was one of the Stand users tasked with defeating the Joestar Group. He followed the group up into the Arabian desert in a kart equipped with an air conditioner. He stayed camouflaged by using a mirror device attached to a kart that reflected the sand's image in the desert, so the group wouldn't notice him.
Suffering from the heat produced by Arabia's ability, the group eventually deduce the sun itself to be a Stand.[4] As the temperature continues to increase, the group is holed up strategizing. Noriaki Kakyoin hastily manifests Hierophant Green but the Sun bursts out rays of energy. Jotaro reacts by plunging into the ground with Star Platinum, and giving the group some sort of cave to hide in. Desperation runs high, but suddenly they begin to maniacally laugh. The heroes have understood Arabia Fats's trick when they saw a rock being reflected on his mirror. Thus, Jotaro commands Star Platinum to throw a rock at the mirror, which pierces it and knocks Arabia Fats out. The Sun's power is cancelled. Jotaro comments that Arabia might've been menacing, but after discovering his trick he was another idiot along the way. Joseph is simply shocked at how simple the exchange was. It is unknown if Fats survived the blow, but given the comical appearance of his bruise, it's likely he was merely knocked unconscious.[5]
Chapters / Episodes
Manga Appearances- Chapter 167: Sun, Part 2 (Retired)
- Chapter 185: "The Fool" Iggy and "Geb" N'Doul, Part 3 (Mentioned only)
Anime Appearances- Stardust Crusaders Episode 18: Sun (Retired)
Novel AppearancesCreation and Development
Araki created Arabia Fats to appear as a very strong, intimidating enemy to trick readers into thinking the battle would last several weeks only to see him defeated nearly instantly after the Joestar Group discovers his Stand's trick.[6]
Arabia Fats was not given a proper name until several years after Part 3's publication, where it was revealed in the PlayStation port of JoJo's Venture and eventually documented in JOJO A-GO!GO!.
Casting
Arabia Fats's voice actor in the PlayStation game JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, Wataru Takagi, also voiced Cameo, Boingo and Kenny G. in the same game. He would eventually voice Okuyasu Nijimura in multiple media since All-Star Battle.
Video Games
JoJo RPG (SFC)
Arabia Fats is one of the many bosses featured in the game. When the group reaches Egypt, they will be stuck in the desert endlessly and the player must trigger the fight by checking the sun. When he does so, the Sun will come to attack the group. Afterward, Arabia Fats will surrender, give the group money, and tell them about Iggy who is dwelling in a nearby desert town.
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure (PS1)
Arabia Fats or Alabia Fats in the English localization, appears as a special battle in Super Story Mode. In his fight, the goal is to find his hideout with a reversed view of its location, and hurl a rock at it. Jotaro needs to do this four times to knock him out. Arabia Fats's special battle can be unlocked in Book Mode.
(砂漠の太陽 Sabaku no Taiyō)
While crossing the desert to Abu Dhabi, the Joestar group realizes that the sun is still up despite their watches showing that night should have fallen. The group is struck with horror at the realization that the sun itself is a Stand, but Jotaro calmly suggests finding the Stand's user. The battle with Sun takes the form of a hidden-object game: a mirrored version of the user's location is shown at the botton-right of the screen, and the player must find that location and throw a rock at it four times to win. If the player attacks the wrong location, Sun will counterattack with rays of light, causing the temperature to increase; if the temperature fills the thermometer at the top of the screen, the player loses. After the battle, Sun dissipates, leaving the Joestar group to ponder the foolishness of its user, Arabia Fats.
Secret Factor: Now let's continue to our next destination. (さぁ次の目的地に行きましょう)
Gallery
Crusaders solve where Arabia Fats was hiding
Arabia Fats "Retired"
Arabia Fats "Retired"
Arabia Fats in JoJo's Bizarre Adventure (SFC Game)
Arabia Fats in the JoJo SFC Manual
JoJo's Bizarre Mini Figure Another Color
Adventure Battle Card; Arabia Fats
Arabia Fats
References
- ↑ Death 13 - Vol.5 "Shueisha Jump Remix Stardust Crusaders Edition" P152 The Secret of JOJO Characters
- ↑ Chapter 167: Sun, Part 2
- ↑ JOJO A-GO!GO!: STANDS, p.104
- ↑ Chapter 166: Sun, Part 1
- ↑ Chapter 167: Sun, Part 2
- ↑ JOJOVELLER: Araki's Stand Commentaries - Sun