The Stands of the franchise are well known in the fandom for taking visual inspiration from a wide variety of sources. However those introduced in the eighth Part, JoJolion, seem to be largely based on toys and games specifically. It is possible this may have been an intended theme, since early on in the Part we see the distinction between two types of people based on their preference between toy robots and teddy bears, which appears a few more times (Jobin and Yoshikage have a collection of toy robots, while baby Kei has a giant stuffed bear and Toru wears them on his shoulders.)
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| Soft & Wet
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The abilities of Soft & Wet - and by extention Killer Queen - all revolve around making bubbles
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| California King Bed
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California King Bed's face is that of the sunflowers drawn by pop artist Takashi Murakami, while its power stores memories in chess pieces.
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| Nut King Call
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Nut King Call appears to similar to the Riders of W, a Kamen Rider show which aired the year before JoJolion began, and Kamen Rider being a very merchandise driven franchise
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| Paper Moon King
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Tsurugi's Paper Moon King takes the form of various origami
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| King Nothing
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King Nothing's body is made of an amorphous pile of jigaw puzzle pieces
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| I Am a Rock
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I am a Rock's design and color scheme (originally from an Araki colored illustration) seem to be a corrupted version of this vintage tin astronaut
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| Speed King
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Speed King - particularly in its first appearance - has nearly 1:1 facial features with this vintage toy robot. This exact robot also appears in Yoshikage's room
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| Schott Key No.2
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Scott Key No.2 appears in a bag which is shaped like a soccer ball
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| Vitamin C
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Vitamin C's hat and the fact that it only has an upper body resemble a jack-in-the-box
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| Walking Heart
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Walking Heart has the appearance of a straw doll, or properly a Pagan Brigid doll
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| Doggy Style
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Mameshiba is a line of Japanese merchandising revovling around Bean Dog characters, who have some similarities to Doggystyle
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| Brain Storm
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Brainstorm's cubes appear as a type of puzzle called a burr puzzle
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| Ozon Baby
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Ozon Baby's dormant form is exactly a LEGO Architeture White House, set no.21006
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Awaking I think might represent playing outdoors since it looks woodsy and Mitsuba is seen with the scouts? But that's kind of a stretch, I feel like it has to be something I haven't thought of yet because all the other family members fit in
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Space Trucking's ability uses playing cards and playing cards are printed on its body
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