Wamuu
- The character featured in this article is commonly referred to as "Wham".
Wamuu (ワムウ, Wamū) is one of the major villains featured in Part II: Battle Tendency.
Personality
Wamuu's most notable trait is his sense of honor, which is so great that he even stopped himself from defeating a defenseless Joseph Joestar based on the latter's claim that he could defeat Wamuu with a month of training.
His sense of honor extends to his enemies, where in the aftermath of his battle with Caesar, he honored Caesar's last effort to give the antidote that he stole from him, and left the bubble containing it to Joseph.
Wamuu has a weird personality quirk, where he reflexively attacks anyone who steps on his shadow, even if it was one of his masters (Kars and Esidisi). Somehow, Wamuu is able to tell when someone is stepping on his shadow, even if he wasn't looking at their direction.
Whenever Wamuu starts to panic or enter a state of shock during a battle, he has the tendency to gouge his own two eyes out in order to calm himself, and relies on his wind-sensing "Horn" as a mean of seeing, a tactic described by Kars as "Activating his Mental Switch", which is something only true warriors are capable of. Kars even went further and said that after activating his mental switch, Wamuu no longer has any psychological weaknesses.
Synopsis
History
Wamuu is a member of the race known as the Pillar Men. After Kars' rampage and mass slaughter of the Pillar Men, Wamuu, along with Santana, would be taken up and trained by Kars and Esidisi. Sometime between the formation of his group and the beginning of his millennia of rest, he and his comrades would travel to Rome and fight a battle with the ripple users that would end in their victory; how they ended up resting in the wall is unknown.
Battle Tendency
Wamuu, one of the four Pillar Men, is introduced as a servant to both Esidisi and Kars, and quickly and easily dispatches the Nazis sent to seal him, including Mark. After awakening his masters the three set off to find the Red Stone of Aja, which will complete the Stone Mask.
Wamuu is attacked by Caesar, but easily dispatches him and his bubbles with his headgear. Joseph challenges him and attacks him with his clackers. Wamuu allows himself to be beaten by Joseph in order to punish himself for getting hit but shortly afterwards overwhelming him with
Later, Wamuu is challenged by Joseph, who intends to avenge Caesar, and engages him in a deadly Roman chariot race in the Skeleton Heel Stone arena, with Wamuu initially getting the upper hand. After Joseph managed to counter Wamuu's wind scalpel, he was left as nothing more than a head with the Ripple energy slowly killing him. After Joseph gave Wamuu some of his own blood to ease his pain, he used the last of his strength to destroy a group of vampires that attempted to kill Joseph and then vanished in a gust of wind, with Joseph giving an unconscious salute to him.
Abilities
Wamuu is a very strong and honorable warrior who possesses the power of the wind. If he goes blind, he can grow a horn on his forehead and sense sound waves with it. He also reflexively attacks anyone who steps on his shadow, apologizing once to Kars for doing so. His abilities with wind are possibly a reference to the song "Rock You Like a Hurricane" by the Scorpions.
Superhuman Strength: Wamuu is strong enough to hold a large human being up with one arm and break a huge column of rocks and use it as a weapon.
Fighting Genius: Wamuu's signature characteristic, as he was described as a "Fighting Genius" by many characters in the series, including Caesar and Wamuu's own master, Kars. Perhaps his fighting genius was best demonstrated in his fight with Caesar, when, despite being cornered and injured, he managed to escape by using the force generated by Caesar's attack to push himself to safety.
Wind Mode (風の流法（モード）, 'Kaze' no Mōdo): Wamuu possess what he calls the "Wind Mode", which is an ability he achieved through the Pillar Men's ability to freely control and alter their bodies. Using Wind Mode, Wamuu is able to attack using razor sharp wind that blows out of his own body, capable of shredding a human being to pieces. This even causes trouble for highly-trained individuals like Joseph and Caesar, who use the Ripple.
Head Gear: Wamuu's head gear is specially designed to be an "Anti-Ripple Tool". The head gear contains wires that Wamuu used to nullify Caesar's Ripple-charged bubbles, by spinning his head and knocking the bubbles away. Also, the head gear contains a "Horn" that is somehow connected to Wamuu himself, enabling him to sense the wind, and precisely locate any movement or changes in the air surrounding him. The wind-sensing Horn also works as a wind cannon of sort, where he shoots a stream of wind that is destructive enough to slice through huge rocks.
Fighting Technique: Holy Sandstorm (闘技・神砂嵐, Tōgi: Kamizuna Arashi): Wamuu's signature technique. The attack is initiated when Wamuu starts to spin his forearms rapidly from the elbow joint, where the right arm spins to the left, and the left arm spins to the right. The rapid spinning creates a massive wind storm with enough destructive power to shred a human being into pieces, and make large pieces of rock crumble. The attack was likened to "A Sandstorm in Space" by Joseph.
Wind Suit: A technique where Wamuu wraps his body in a whirlwind of steam released from his lungs, using make-shift tubes produced from his own body in order to release the air inside his lungs. The wind suit gives Wamuu the ability to reflect the sun rays off of his body, giving him much needed protection against the sun. Also, by reflecting the light, Wamuu becomes invisible, which gives him the opportunity to launch surprise attacks. However, the wind suit takes a lot of energy to maintain, and only lasts for roughly ten seconds, which forces Wamuu to stay near a sheltered area, in order to take cover once the technique is over.
Final Mode: Atmospheric Rift (最終流法（ファイナルモード）・渾楔颯, Fainaru Mōdo: Konketsusatsu): Typically used as a last resort, Wamuu uses the tubes for his wind suit to gather huge amounts of air and compresses it in his lungs. The air is then released through a slit on the horn of his head, causing it to become as sharp as a razor blade. The wind flails about much like a whip and is sharp enough to cut through stone. However, due to the scraping and heat led by the quick wind compression, the technique slowly tears apart Wamuu's body until he collapses.
In Video Games
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure All-Star Battle (PS3 Game)
Wamuu is one of the first four characters announced for the game, the others being: Jotaro, Joseph (Part II) and Gyro Zeppeli. Along with Kars and Eisidisi, Wamuu uses the Mode style as part of his gameplay.
During the fight, Wamuu can use several different attacks showed in PART II. At first he can use only normal moves, such as the reversed kick (the same one he unconsciously used on Kars) to create an anti-air attack, he can spin his arms into an armful-tornado to hit the opponent several times, a strong mid-air punch that hits the enemy from above (similar to when he cutted Messina's arm), a powerful kick that goes directly into the opponent's direction (the same one he did to protect himself from Caesar's kick before they both went inside the castle) and use a giant pillar to smash the opponent after he falls on the ground (similiar to how he did againts Joseph's chariot during their final confront). Wammu can also activate his Wind Mode to blind himself in order to gain a whole new set of moves, now being able to create a Windy Horn to attack straight at the enemy, fully activating his Wind Suit in order to gain more defensive power and become part-invisible on screen.
His HHA is his famous Holy Sandstorm (Kamizuna Arashi) which creates a huge sandstorm on the screen in order to deal high damage on the opponent. His GHA is Final Mode: Gathering Gale, turning his horn into a giant wind-based drill to slaughter his opponent (this is the first time Wammu used this attack on a different way, since he used it straight into Joseph's direction on the final events from PART II).
Wammu's regular appareance is from his final battle on the Colosseum, but Wammu also possesses two different alternate costumes, the first one being his normal Pillar Men attire (first seen during the discovery of the Pillar Men) and his second alternate costume is the attire he used when he fought Caesar Zeppeli for the second time.
Gallery
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Cover, Chapter 67
Wamuu's profile; Cover, Chapter 101
Wamuu Returning to the Wind
Wamuu fighting Joseph in the coliseum
Wamuu's Wedding Ring on Joseph's heart
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Wamuu as a figure
Wamuu's render in All-Star Battle
Trivia
- The tattoo on Wamuu's face appears to have the word "POWER" written several times in it, as well as the word "ALPH" implying it could be "ALPHA".
- Wamuu's line "Awaken My Masters!" (目覚めたまえッ！我が主たちよ - Mezametamae waga arujitachi yo!) has become something of a meme.
- Wamuu is the tallest of the Pillar Men.
