Cheap Trick
Cheap Trick (チープ・トリック) is originally the stand of Masazo Kinoto and temporarily of Rohan Kishibe featured in Part IV: Diamond is Unbreakable.
Appearance/Personality
Cheap Trick is a stand bound to its user back. He resembles a frog-like humanoid with mechanical features and suction cup fingers allowing him to attach himself to someone's back. He bears lazy and semi-closed eyes while some sort of mechanical apparatus is strapped to his chin. Its personality is vicious and sadistic, using any possible tactics from taunting to telling someone they will soon die.
Synopsis
Cheap Trick was the stand of architect Masazo Kinoto. Sent by Yoshihiro Kira to kill Rohan Kishibe, he makes his user not show his back to anyone or he would be killed. Kinoto, fearing it, reached Rohan's house without letting anyone see his stand, but he was unaware of what it truly was. After Kinoto's death, Cheap Trick attaches itself to Rohan and tries to convince people to look at Rohan's back. After much struggle, Rohan manages to take a path to Reimi's alley. Rohan willingly shows his back to Koichi Hirose, but when Cheap Trick tried to attach itself to Koichi, he looked back in the alley, and was then torn off his back by several undead hands and sent to the afterlife. Prior to doing this, Rohan uses Heaven's Door to command Cheap Trick to, literally, go to Hell (though whether or not a Hell exists in JoJo's Bizarre Adventure is unknown even to Rohan himself).
Abilities
- Attachment: If anyone looks at the user's back, Cheap Trick detaches from the user, killing them in the process. It then attaches to whoever looked at the original user's back, and the process repeats. Cheap Trick is then officially the stand of the new user, even if the individual already has a stand. This also prevents the individual from attacking it, since attacking Cheap Trick is the same as attacking themselves. Cheap Trick can not be removed from their back, since its stand power enables it to be held there. Forceful removal would simply rip the user's back off. Previous users are reduced to a dried-up doll-sized version of themselves as a result of Cheap Trick sucking their life force out upon detachment.
- Talking: Cheap Trick is unique in that it does not follow its user's will. It can speak to its user and to other individuals. Cheap Trick can even be heard by non-stand users and animals. It describes "talking" as its main ability, using it to disorient others people and even call others to look at its user back.
Trivia
According to JOJOVELLER, its concept is based on Onbu Obake.
