Smooth Operators

Smooth Operators
Japanese Name	スムース・オペレイターズ
Romanized Name	Sumūsu Opereitāzu
User	Dragona Joestar
Namesake*	Smooth Operator (Sade song)
Type	Close-Range Colony Artificial Non-Humanoid
Manga Debut	TJL Chapter 1
Stand Cry	ISHI! ISHI! ISHI!

“

This is what we're going to slide. Do it, Smooth Operators!

”

—Dragona Joestar, The JOJOLands Chapter 4: The Villa on Hawaii Island, Part 2

Smooth Operators (スムース・オペレイターズ, Sumūsu Opereitāzu) is the Stand of Dragona Joestar, featured in the ninth part of the JoJo's Bizarre Adventure series, The JOJOLands.

It is a colony of small Stands which can grab and displace anything. Dragona named it when they were fourteen years old, and later refers to the Stand as their children.

Appearance

Smooth Operators is a group of four small robot-like Stands. Each "operator" has the appearance of a small robot with a humanoid head and torso and tank treads instead of legs. Their heads have an oblong shape with curved corners, and the front part elongated like a nose. They also have two mechanical eyes protruding from the top of their heads. Their shoulders are cylinders and their arms have artificial articulations. Finally, each operator has a stylized "SO" engraved on the top of the head.

Color Schemes

The series is known for alternating colors between media, the information presented below may or may not be canon.

Colored Manga

Body(Light Yellow, Black symbol)

Eyes(Light grey)

Wheels(Grey link, Light grey road wheels)

Personality

Although they don't regularly talk, Smooth Operators is capable of saying words, as one of them replies "OK!" to Dragona after Dragona announces the team's plan.

Abilities

Displacement

Changing the numbers on a license plate

Smooth Operators enables Dragona to move things across two-dimensional planes, regardless of that thing being a physical object or a physical feature on the object. The Stand has been used so far to move numbers around on a car license plate, photographs on a driver's license, a fingerprint on a tablet computer to its fingerprint scanner, and a human's facial features with no permanent damage to the objects or people affected. Dragona is initially shown being in physical contact with the objects affected by Smooth Operators, often with them directing Smooth Operators in a specific direction, but later chapters show Smooth Operators acting without their instruction.

Dragona can also use Smooth Operators on themself, allowing them to displace wounds inflicted upon them to other objects, causing the object to break. For example, Dragona moves wounds inflicted as a result of middle school bullying from their chest onto a soup spoon which then shatters, and also moves a bleeding neck wound onto a bottle of wine which shatters as well.

The only limitation to what can and cannot be moved by Smooth Operators appears to be the physical strength of the collective Smooth Operators instances themselves; Dragona says it is difficult for Smooth Operators to crack the safe in Rohan's Villa because of the metal bars that make up the lock mechanism being too heavy for the Smooth Operators.

Chapters

Manga Appearances

Chapters in order of appearance

• The JOJOLands Chapter 1: Departure (1st appearance)
• The JOJOLands Chapter 3: The Villa on Hawaii Island, Part 1
• The JOJOLands Chapter 4: The Villa on Hawaii Island, Part 2
• The JOJOLands Chapter 7: Hualalai - Cat Size, Part 2
• The JOJOLands Chapter 9: Kailua-Kona - Flight Waiting Time, Part 1
• The JOJOLands Chapter 10: Kailua-Kona - Flight Waiting Time, Part 2
• The JOJOLands Chapter 11: Kailua-Kona - Flight Waiting Time, Part 3
• The JOJOLands Chapter 13: Joestar Brothers (Flashback)
• The JOJOLands Chapter 14: Aim for That Fifty Billion Dollars, Part 1
• The JOJOLands Chapter 16: Lulu's Bags Groove, Part 1
• The JOJOLands Chapter 17: That Girl's Bags Groove, Part 2
• The JOJOLands Chapter 18: That Girl's Bags Groove, Part 3
• The JOJOLands Chapter 19: Glory Days, Part 1

Gallery

MangaOther

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  Dragona awakens Smooth Operators, sliding an injury onto a spoon

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  Smooth Operators sliding the police officer's eyes around his face

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  Swapping the photo on a driver's license with Dragona's

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  Smooth Operators grabbing Paco's ear

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  Smooth Operators struggling to open a safe

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  Name revealed

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  Smooth Operators sliding Dragona's thumb down

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  Displacing Dragona's wound onto a bottle

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  Replying "OK!" to Dragona

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  TJL Volume 3 Preview from TJL Volume 2

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  TJL Volume 3 Preview from Ultra Jump April 2024

Trivia

• In March 2017, Hirohiko Araki chose Sade's Smooth Operator as one of the songs in his list that would be featured in MTV Japan's 80's Western Music Hits Parade.