Thunder McQueen
Thunder McQueen (サンダー・マックイイーン, Sandā Makkuiīn) is a minor antagonist appearing in Stone Ocean.
Thunder is a suicidal inmate working as a janitor in Green Dolphin Street Prison, who was given the Stand Highway to Hell by Whitesnake via a Stand Disc. He soon links his death with Ermes Costello's and tries to kill himself repeatedly.
Appearance
Thunder is a man of average to above-average height and medium build. An "M" shape appears across the right side of his forehead.
He wears fuzzy pants and a short-sleeved shirt with a tag saying "EDWN" on the front of the collar.
Personality
McQueen is suicidal, suffering from a personality disorder resulting from crippling depression. He mentions that he goes to confession to make himself feel better. He also is quite self-centered, believing himself to be rejected by society.
McQueen develops a distorted, simple, and one-sided relationship with Ermes Costello during their confrontation.
Abilities
Thunder's Stand, apparently lent to him via a Stand Disc, is able to transfer, to at least one target, the effects on him of his attempts at suicide.
History
Background
McQueen was sentenced to 8 years in prison for having shot a woman, which he claims was a freak accident when he picked up a gun to clean it and it went off at the same moment the woman fell past his window while attempting suicide by jumping from the 11th floor of his building.
Stone Ocean
McQueen first appears as a janitor reaching up Ermes Costello's skirt to steal her money. She takes his memory disc away after it comes out of his head when she tries to get her money back. Ermes finds McQueen attempting to kill himself by means of hanging and attempted drowning which puts her in the same physical situation due to Highway to Hell's powers, forcing her to help him. Ermes unsuccessfully tries to talk him out of suicide by speaking words of encouragement and even offering to give him her panties, which fails to make him want to live but sparks his desire to kill them both together.[2]
McQueen attempts suicide by electrocution as Ermes places a sticker on his head, severing it before the electricity could do fatal damage to her. Eventually, she defeats him by using Kiss to split his head in two, knocking his Stand Disc out when it goes back together. He isn't seen again, but Ermes says to Jolyne that she put McQueen's memory disk back inside him to revive him, albeit without a Stand.
Chapters
Manga Appearances- Stone Ocean Chapter 21: Ermes's Sticker, Part 1
- Stone Ocean Chapter 22: Ermes's Sticker, Part 2
- Stone Ocean Chapter 23: Ermes's Sticker, Part 3
- Stone Ocean Chapter 24: Ermes's Sticker, Part 4
- Stone Ocean Chapter 25: Ermes's Sticker, Part 5 (Temporary death)
- Stone Ocean Chapter 26: There's Six of Us!, Part 1 (Revived) (Flashback)
- Stone Ocean Chapter 33: Foo Fighters, Part 3 (Mentioned only)
- Stone Ocean Chapter 37: Debt Collector Marilyn Manson, Part 4 (Mentioned only)
Quotes
Quotes- “Did you ask me if I'm OK? Me? You're so niiice... How many years has it been since I've spoken with a woman? No... It's my first time. I've never in my entire life had a heart-to-heart talk with a female. "Are you OK?" What a wonderful phraaase. Filled with care... Right now... I'm... so happy... Someday, I want to meet someone like you... and live with her for the rest of my liiife... But that'll never happen. I'm just so pathetic... I feel like dying.”—Thunder McQueen, Stone Ocean Chapter 22: Ermes's Sticker, Part 2
- “I said I'd pay you back, but there's no way a guy like me cooould. I wanna diiiie... Because I'm traaash!”—Thunder McQueen, Stone Ocean Chapter 23: Ermes's Sticker, Part 3
- “There are people who win biiillions of dollars in the lottery. But the opposite kind of people exist too... that's what I am.”—Thunder McQueen, Stone Ocean Chapter 25: Ermes's Sticker, Part 5
- “It alleviates my loneliness... to know that such a wonderful person will be ending her life along with me! Thank you, thank youuuu... If you stay with me forever... then I'm truly happyyyyy!!”—Thunder McQueen, Stone Ocean Chapter 25: Ermes's Sticker, Part 5
Gallery
SO Chapter 23 Privilege Card
SO Chapter 23 Cover B
Trivia
- Despite having his memory disc taken away, he's still able to remember the details of his arrest, unlike Weather Report, who could not remember anything from before being in the prison.
- Thunder's namesake, Alexander McQueen, unfortunately, committed suicide in 2010.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 'Stone Ocean Chapter 24: Ermes's Sticker, Part 4
- ↑ 'Stone Ocean Chapter 25: Ermes's Sticker, Part 5
