Foo Fighters
Foo Fighters (フー・ファイターズ, Fū Faitāzu) is a Stand featured in Stone Ocean.
Foo Fighters allows bundles of plankton to exist in a humanoid form. It adopts a personality, along with the nickname F.F.; siding with the allies of the story.
Appearance
Foo Fighters takes two main appearances. Naked, it is a tall, dark, robotic humanoid of masculine proportions, and an alien visage.
Later, it maintains the appearance of the dead prisoner Atroe; a woman of average height and slim build.
As F.F.'s identity develops due to its experiences with Jolyne, the true form of its Stand takes on a more human appearance starting to resemble the body she took over while still retaining some of the features of its older form.
Foo Fighters is black and gray in the colored manga.
Color Schemes
Personality
- Main article: Foo Fighters
Highly intelligent and originally commanded with a task by Enrico Pucci, Jolyne Cujoh helps Foo Fighters to discover a consciousness and identity. Their nickname is "F.F.". It is implied that if the entirety of Foo Fighters' plankton colony is killed and the Stand is reduced back to a DISC, they will lose all of their memories, learned experiences, and identity, once again becoming a mindless Stand when re-introduced to a new plankton colony.
Abilities
Foo Fighters is a unique mix of plankton colony and Stand. It is able in close combat and possesses a set of useful abilities. At a physical level, Foo Fighters is more than a match for the power type Stone Free, being able to deflect its punches and overpower it.[1] Although Foo Fighters is particularly resilient to physical attacks, it is very dependent on a constant water supply to keep the colony in water and breaks down the moment it is dehydrated.[2]
Plankton Colony Form
Foo Fighters' peculiar nature as a sentient colony of plankton gives it several abilities.
First and foremost, Foo Fighters' nature means that it has no physical weakness. There is no limb to hurt or vital point to strike in order to kill it and thus it is impervious to conventional attacks. Only by damaging the whole colony can Foo Fighters be threatened. Although fragile individually, the colony can muster enough strength to pry open an automatic door.[3]
As a hive mind, Foo Fighters is able to produce sub-bodies by splitting the colony into several like-minded but independent parts.[2][4] This ability allows Foo Fighters to effectively fight multiple opponents and generally act stealthily in the middle of battle. Even if a large majority of the plankton dies, only one needs to survive in order for Foo Fighters to be able to regenerate.[5] As long as there is water, the plankton colony can rapidly multiply,[4] creating a new part of Foo Fighters rapidly and giving it great regeneration ability. With enough water, Foo Fighters can even cover a whole room and use its mass to attack.[6]
It also means that ordinary humans can see the body.[7]
On the other hand, Foo Fighters is extremely susceptible to dehydration. If its moisture is sucked away by dry matter, the plankton colony rapidly dies and it will disappear. Foo Fighters thus needs constant access to water in order to survive.[6]
Body Invasion
By infiltrating someone's body, Foo Fighters can take over their consciousness and have access to their memories.[2] That way, it can wear their skin as a disguise to infiltrate human society. It took over the corpse of Atroe and spends the rest of Stone Ocean impersonating her. It can also shape its host to its liking[8] and contort itself beyond what a human can do.[9]
The parasitism allows Foo Fighters to survive without a constant intake of water, but it reduces its agility. Moreover it becomes susceptible to bleeding out and losing the moisture anyway.[10]
Water Control
Foo Fighters can manipulate water to some extent, with enough control to create a square mirror out of one third of a cup of water.[11]
Plankton Shot
Inside a host, Foo Fighters can shoot small parts of itself as if it was using a gun (this is later shown to incorporate pistol parts into its hand).[12] The bits of plankton colony can invade someone's body and take control of it.[13] The shots have enough strength to pierce through skin.[14]
Wound Seal
The plankton can help seal wounds, preventing someone from bleeding out and potentially saving them from dying.[15]
Chapters
- Stone Ocean Chapter 26: There's Six of Us!, Part 1
- Stone Ocean Chapter 28: There's Six of Us!, Part 3
- Stone Ocean Chapter 29: There's Six of Us!, Part 4
- Stone Ocean Chapter 30: There's Six of Us!, Part 5
- Stone Ocean Chapter 31: Foo Fighters, Part 1
- Stone Ocean Chapter 32: Foo Fighters, Part 2
- Stone Ocean Chapter 33: Foo Fighters, Part 3
- Stone Ocean Chapter 34: Marilyn Manson, the Debt Collector, Part 1
- Stone Ocean Chapter 35: Marilyn Manson, the Debt Collector, Part 2
- Stone Ocean Chapter 36: Marilyn Manson, the Debt Collector, Part 3
- Stone Ocean Chapter 37: Marilyn Manson, the Debt Collector, Part 4
- Stone Ocean Chapter 38: Marilyn Manson, the Debt Collector, Part 5
- Stone Ocean Chapter 39: Marilyn Manson, the Debt Collector, Part 6
- Stone Ocean Chapter 51: Kiss of Love and Revenge, Part 1 (Cover only) (Mentioned only)
- Stone Ocean Chapter 54: Kiss of Love and Revenge, Part 4
- Stone Ocean Chapter 55: Kiss of Love and Revenge, Part 5 (Cover only)
- Stone Ocean Chapter 59: His Name Is Anasui
- Stone Ocean Chapter 62: The Secret of Guard Westwood, Part 3
- Stone Ocean Chapter 67: Enter the Dragon's Dream, Part 1
- Stone Ocean Chapter 68: Enter the Dragon's Dream, Part 2
- Stone Ocean Chapter 69: Enter the Dragon's Dream, Part 3
- Stone Ocean Chapter 70: Enter the Dragon's Dream, Part 4
- Stone Ocean Chapter 71: Enter the Dragon's Dream, Part 5
- Stone Ocean Chapter 72: Enter the Foo Fighters
- Stone Ocean Chapter 73: Enter the Dragon's Dream, Part 6
- Stone Ocean Chapter 74: Enter the Dragon's Dream, Part 7
- Stone Ocean Chapter 76: Birth of the "Green", Part 1
- Stone Ocean Chapter 79: Yo-Yo Ma Is Coming!, Part 2 (Flashback)
- Stone Ocean Chapter 80: Yo-Yo Ma Is Coming!, Part 3
- Stone Ocean Chapter 82: Yo-Yo Ma Is Coming!, Part 5
- Stone Ocean Chapter 84: F.F. - The Witness, Part 2
- Stone Ocean Chapter 85: Awaken, Part 1
- Stone Ocean Chapter 90: Whitesnake - The Pursuer, Part 2
- Stone Ocean Chapter 91: Whitesnake - The Pursuer, Part 3
- Stone Ocean Chapter 92: Whitesnake - The Pursuer, Part 4
- Stone Ocean Chapter 93: Whitesnake - The Pursuer, Part 5
- Steel Ball Run Extra Chapter 3: Untitled Stand Chapter (Mentioned only)
Gallery
Trivia
- Araki tried to draw something insectoid or reptilian. He thinks it looks more like a chameleon, a mutant, or a space alien than a microscopic organism.[16]
- He also says the design might be an alternate version of Hierophant Green.[16]
References
- ↑ Stone Ocean Chapter 29: There's Six of Us!, Part 4
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 SO Chapter 30, There's Six of Us! (5)
- ↑ SO Chapter 38, The Collector Marilyn Manson (5)
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 SO Chapter 31, Foo Fighters (1)
- ↑ SO Chapter 74, Burn, Dragon's Dream (7)
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 SO Chapter 32, Foo Fighters (2)
- ↑ SO Chapter 26, There's Six of Them! (1)
- ↑ SO Chapter 33, Foo Fighters (3)
- ↑ SO Chapter 68, Burn, Dragon's Dream (2)
- ↑ SO Chapter 71, Burn, Dragon's Dream (5)
- ↑ SO Chapter 73, Burn, Dragon's Dream (6)
- ↑ SO Chapter 54, Kiss of Love & Revenge (4)
- ↑ SO Chapter 34, The Collector Marilyn Manson (1)
- ↑ SO Chapter 37, The Collector Marilyn Manson (4)
- ↑ SO Chapter 95, New Moon New Priest!
- ↑ 16.0 16.1 JOJOVELLER: STANDS - Comments by Hirohiko Araki[1]