King Crimson (キング・クリムゾン, Kingu Kurimuzon), sometimes shortened to K Crimson (Ｋ・クリムゾン), is the Stand of Diavolo, featured in Vento Aureo.
It has a sub-Stand, Epitaph (エピタフ (墓碑銘), Epitafu), which is primarily utilised by Doppio, Diavolo's split personality.
King Crimson is a humanoid Stand of a height and build similar to Diavolo's, but tends to look much bigger and taller. Its body is covered by a raised diagonal grid; save for its face, neck, shoulder guards, elbows, hands, abdomen, crotch, knees and feet/footwear.
Its eyes comprise sharp orifices of a steep inward slant; from which emerge small, round eyes without sclera, with pronounced eye sockets that have the same fragmented pupils that Diavolo himself has. Its crown is flat and from its forehead emerges a raised level that bears a smaller, oval face of the same expression. In earlier depictions, there were two raised levels. It constantly bares its teeth through a small mouth.
The aforementioned second face on King Crimson's forehead is named Epitaph, and is sometimes duplicated in the same position on Doppio's forehead. Epitaph presents itself as a bump on the forehead featuring eyes and a mouth constantly grinding its teeth, often mimicking King Crimson's current mood.
Its design is inspired by the character George/Kuato, from the 1990 science fiction film Total Recall, a mutated human with a smaller twin brother conjoined in his belly.[2]
King Crimson embodies Diavolo's personality in its entirety, as he frequently speaks through his stand. Aside from that, its face frequently possesses an angry or irritated expression, though on rare occasions, it also shows a maniacal grin when certain events fall in Diavolo's favor, such as when he gets his hands on the Arrow.
King Crimson is one of the more impressive Stands featured in the series. Both physically strong and possessing the ability to erase time and predict the future, King Crimson is described as invincible against all other Stands whose powers do not affect time.
King Crimson is a powerful Stand able to punch through people's bodies or cleave them in a chop with significant ease. Unlike other melee-based Stand Users, Diavolo generally uses it to perform swift single attacks that are almost always fatal rather than painful barrages. Examples include completely obliterating a fortune teller's upper body in a single punch and throwing a pairs of scissors with such strength that they completely severed Risotto Nero's right foot, among multiple other occasions where it effortlessly severed and rived body parts (especially limbs). It also managed to destroy a large wall with a single punch. Its feats of strength and speed are comparable to Star Platinum and The World.
Much like other Close-Range Stands, its weaknesses are poor effective range (about 2–3 meters[4]) and permanence, making it difficult for its User to hide their identity against multiple foes.[5]
King Crimson's signature ability is to erase a given frame of time lasting up to 10 seconds,[6] starting from the instant the ability is activated.[7][5] "During" this period of time, other people will be unable to experience anything that happened[7] and will retain no memories of it either.[7][8] After the allotted time frame, they will suddenly find themselves in the situation they were supposed to be afterwards.[5][7] There is, however, one instance where a person was able to see their double before finding themselves in their future position.[7]
On the other hand, Diavolo remains fully conscious during the erased time and only he can re-adjust his actions.[8] In the manga, Diavolo sees the erased time as a void filled with juxtapositions of what would have happened during this period in a fashion akin to Nude Descending a Staircase, allowing him to think out the next best action (for instance, when Bruno Bucciarati tried to punch Diavolo during the erased time, Diavolo saw Bucciarati's superimposed positions during his punch).[8] The anime adaptation has Diavolo visualize a ghostly red image of his foe's next move instead.
Diavolo is unable to attack or interact with anything while King Crimson's time erasure is active (apart from things like his own blood).[9] As a result, he often relies on the ability to avoid attacks and move himself into advantageous positions, such as enemy blind spots. Using his Stand's exceptional destructive power, Diavolo then directly attacks the enemy the moment King Crimson's ability is cancelled.[9] However, Diavolo is also able to splatter his own blood onto an enemy's projection in anticipation of blinding them.[9]
Epitaph is a sub-Stand that assists and completes King Crimson's time erasure.
The image produced includes the general area with Doppio/Diavolo as the main focus, allowing either of them to see what happens around them as well as directly at them.[11] However, the visions are incomplete and only show the final result without the steps taken to it and thus can be subject to interpretation. In one instance, Doppio could see himself on the ground with a foot flying, but initially thought that the foot was his.[12]
While the predictions seen by Epitaph are unavoidable, they still effectively only warn Diavolo and Doppio against incoming danger, allowing them to steer events to alleviate the damage such as when Doppio realized a pair of scissors would form inside his throat, he easily tore them out in order to save himself.[12] King Crimson itself can prevent the predictions from being completed if it erases the right timeframe. Likewise a Stand affecting Fate like Gold Experience Requiem which returns King Crimson's power to the "zero" state, can simply make the vision false as it steers Fate to its advantage.[13]
Diavolo and Doppio often use the forecasting ability of Epitaph to predict any incoming threat, making sneak attacks ineffective against them.
Manga Appearances
Anime Appearances
The time erasure from The Boss' perspective
Sucked by Mr.President
Tauntingly sitting in front of Bucciarati
Breaking a computer keyboard
Epitaph is granted to Doppio to defeat Risotto Nero
King Crimson erases half a second to defend against Narancia's attack
Dangerously looming over Mista in Trish's body
King Crimson attempts to turn into a Requiem Stand
King Crimson's stats
Summoned by Diavolo to do battle against Jean Pierre Polnareff in the 90s
Appearing behind Polnareff
Gouging out Silver Chariot's right eye
Completely destroying Polnareff's legs and right arm
King Crimson grabs Sticky Fingers' arm
King Crimson bends Sticky Fingers arm backwards, almost snapping it
King Crimson reveals itself to Bruno Bucciarati
King Crimson's face close up
King Crimson's arm effortlessly pierces Bucciarati's body
Explaining to a heavily wounded Bruno that none shall threaten The Boss' throne
Attacked in retaliation by Sticky Fingers
King Crimson skips time
About to attack Bucciarati yet again
Preparing to kill Trish
Moments away from killing Trish as Bucciarati looks on in horror
Sucked into a ladybug pin effected by Gold Experience
Questioning Bucciarati about the identity of the second traitor
King Crimson points menacingly at Bucciarati, preparing to finish him off
Narrowly avoiding a punch from Sticky Fingers by skipping time
King Crimson activating Time Skip, the world replaced by the void from its perspective.
Seeing the actions that Bucciarati's Sticky Fingers will make in erased time.
Seconds away from attacking Bucciarati
Climbing a wall to reach Giorno and Bucciarati
King Crimson prepares to attack Giorno and Bucciarati...
...but the arrival of the rest of Team Bucciarati ruins his plan
Stalking Team Bucciarati as they escape from the church
King Crimson breaks a keyboard out of its master's frustration
King Crimson behind its master
A close-up of King Crimson's enraged face
King Crimson with its master behind
Epitaph appears on Doppio's forehead
King Crimson skips time to nullify Aerosmith's bullets
The Boss summons King Crimson against Nero
Summoned by Diavolo to battle against Polnareff once again
About to attack Polnareff
Watching from behind a startled Diavolo
King Crimson and Diavolo engulfed in a bright light from Silver Chariot's evolution
King Crimson's attack is narrowly dodged by Silver Chariot
Smiling triumphantly
King Crimson's Stats (unknown)
King Crimson's Stats
King Crimson in the second version of the Uragirimono no Requiem opening
GioGio's Bizarre Adventure's cover
GioGio's Bizarre Adventure's poster
King Crimson as it appears in All Star Battle
King Crimson taunting in All Star Battle
Diavolo and King Crimson upon activation of a Great Heat Attack (ASB)
King Crimson as it appears in Eyes of Heaven
King Crimson JOJO A-GO!GO! concept art
Part 5 Stands
Super Action Statue (Wonderfest)
Super Action Statue Ver. Blue
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Chara Heroes; Part 5 Vol.3
King Crimson concept art
