Magician's Red
Magician's Red (マジシャンズレッド(魔術師の赤), Majishanzu Reddo) is the Stand of Muhammad Avdol, featured in the third part of the JoJo's Bizarre Adventure series, Stardust Crusaders.
Magician's Red is a humanoid Stand whose appearance is that of a man with a bird-like head. It is a powerful Stand with the ability to produce and manipulate fire in various ways.
Appearance
Magician's Red appears as a humanoid figure with an avian head modeled after a phoenix. It has a heavily muscular upper body and its feathered legs are sometimes covered in burning flames. Its arms have claws instead of nails and it wears dark bracelets on both of its wrists. The Stand was originally barefooted, but after Avdol's return, it wears Arabian shoes.
In the OVA, Magician's Red sports thick patches of feathers around its wrists instead of bracelets. The feathers on its head also sprout further down its neck and it has a shorter beak.
Its design is inspired by the renegade god Horus, from Enki Bilal's Nikopol Trilogy.[1]
Color Schemes
Personality
This Stand is based on the first card in the Major Arcana tarot deck, The Magician; which represents beginnings. It does not show any personality, having a constant aggressive demeanor while listening without fail to its user. Avdol also claims that his Stand does not forgive anyone, even enemy Stand Users.
History
Muhammad Avdol was naturally born with this Stand. It has full loyalty to his user, having served him its whole life.
Abilities
Magician's Red is a powerful mid-range Stand thanks to its ability to manipulate fire. Moreover, Magician's Red is still a physically powerful Stand, a single kick of his being able to shatter Judgement's armor, whereas Silver Chariot couldn't.[2] Avdol prefers open spaces in order to bring out the true power of Magician's Red.
Pyrokinesis
Magician's Red's signature ability is to freely generate and control fire. The resulting flames intense enough to evaporate metal projectiles mid-air and slice railroad tracks. Moreover, Magician's Red's flames are not ordinary flames, but can be freely manipulated by Avdol. With a thought, the fortuneteller can redirect his flames mid-air, give them any shape, control how intense their destructive power is, and even give them other supernatural properties.
As the flames are the product of a Stand, they are invisible to non-Stand users despite still having the same properties as normal flames; non-Stand users merely feel the heat and see the generated heat waves.[3]
It was also shown that Magician's Red flames are vulnerable to water and can be extinguished when doused with it.[4]
Avdol uses several techniques with his flames:
Debut: Chapter 125: Silver Chariot, Part 2 / Stardust Crusaders Episode 5: Silver Chariot
- Cross Fire Hurricane Variation (
C・F・H ・バリエーション, Kurosu Faiyā Harikēn Bariēshon)" enables Avdol to be able to manipulate the direction/trajectory of his flame ankhs. - Cross Fire Hurricane Special (
C・F・H・S , Kurosu Faiyā Harikēn Supesharu): One variation of the Crossfire Hurricane, which splits the ankhs to cover a wider area.[6] - Red Bind (
赤い荒縄 , Reddo Baindo, lit. "Red Rough Rope"): Magician's Red can use his flame to tie his opponent, like a rope. With this, Avdol is even capable of imprisoning his enemy's arms and legs to the wall, as well as their neck. By putting a flame too close to the opponent's face, it eventually burns the oxygen around them to the point of suffocating them.[3] - Life Detector (生物探知機, Seibutsu Tanchi-ki): Magician's Red can produce a "heat radar", a cruciform mass of psychic flame which flickers in response to enemy presence, indicating the location of his heat source based on a compass rose.[7]
Chapters / Episodes
- Chapter 115: Jotaro Kujo, Part 2
- Chapter 116: Jotaro Kujo, Part 3
- Chapter 121: The Power Called a "Stand"
- Chapter 123: Tower of Gray
- Chapter 124: Silver Chariot, Part 1
- Chapter 125: Silver Chariot, Part 2
- Chapter 126: Silver Chariot, Part 3
- Chapter 127: Dark Blue Moon, Part 1 (Cover only)
- Chapter 129: Dark Blue Moon, Part 3
- Chapter 142: Emperor and Hanged Man, Part 3
- Chapter 177: Judgement, Part 4
- Chapter 178: Judgement, Part 5
- Chapter 182: High Priestess, Part 4
- Chapter 186: "The Fool" Iggy and "Geb" N'Doul, Part 4
- Chapter 202: "Bastet" Mariah, Part 4
- Chapter 203: "Bastet" Mariah, Part 5
- Chapter 204: "Bastet" Mariah, Part 6
- Chapter 239: The Miasma of the Void, Vanilla Ice, Part 2 (Death)
- Stardust Crusaders Episode 1: A Man Possessed by an Evil Spirit
- Stardust Crusaders Episode 2: Who Will Be the Judge?! (Flashback)
- Stardust Crusaders Episode 3: DIO's Curse
- Stardust Crusaders Episode 4: Tower of Gray
- Stardust Crusaders Episode 5: Silver Chariot
- Stardust Crusaders Episode 6: Dark Blue Moon
- Stardust Crusaders Episode 10: Emperor and Hanged Man, Part 1
- Stardust Crusaders Episode 22: Judgement, Part 2
- Stardust Crusaders Episode 23: High Priestess, Part 1
- Stardust Crusaders Episode 24: High Priestess, Part 2
- Stardust Crusaders Episode 26: "The Fool" Iggy and "Geb" N'Doul, Part 2
- Stardust Crusaders Episode 31: "Bastet" Mariah, Part 2
- Stardust Crusaders Episode 32: "Sethan" Alessi, Part 1
- Stardust Crusaders Episode 42: The Miasma of the Void, Vanilla Ice, Part 1 (Death)
- Golden Wind Episode 29: Destination: Rome! The Colosseum (Silhouette/Photo only)
- JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Episode 1 (OVA): The Evil Spirit
- JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Episode 3 (OVA): Silver Chariot and Strength
- JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Episode 7 (OVA): Justice
- JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Episode 8 (OVA): Iggy the Fool and N'Doul the GEB (Pt. I)
- JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Episode 9 (OVA): Iggy the Fool and N'Doul the GEB (Pt. II)
- JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Episode 11 (OVA): DIO's World - The Warrior of the Void: Vanilla Ice
Gallery
Trivia
- Magician's Red is the very first Stand fully revealed in the series, with its face showing even before Star Platinum's. Coincidentally, Magician is the first card of the Major Arcana.
- Magician's Red was given a bird-like head so that the the heroes' silhouettes wouldn't look too similar to one another when they're side by side.[1]
- The name of Magician's Red's attack, Crossfire Hurricane, comes from the opening line of the Rolling Stones' song "Jumpin' Jack Flash", which is also the name of Lang Rangler's Stand in Stone Ocean.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 JOJOVELLER: Araki's Stand Commentaries - Magician's Red
- ↑ Chapter 178, Judgement Part 5
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Chapter 116, Jotaro Kujo Part 3
- ↑ Chapter 116, Jotaro Kujo 3
- ↑ Chapter 125, Silver Chariot Part 2
- ↑ Chapter 126, Silver Chariot Part 3
- ↑ Chapter 239, The Mist of Emptiness, Vanilla Ice Part 2