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Les Hommes du Pilier (柱の男, Hashira no Otoko) sont quatres êtres servant d'antagonistes principaux de Battle Tendency.
Description
Les hommes du pilier sont issus d'une race d'êtres anciens, humanoïdes et aux capacités surhumaines. Ces êtres sont maintenant presque éteints, mais vivaient il y a des centaines de milliers d'années sur le continent américain. Ils sont très intelligents, extrêmement forts et capables de manipuler leur corps à un degré très fin; cependant, ils sont vulnérables aux rayons du soleil et à l'Onde.
Leur physiologie est très différente de celle des humains, bien qu’apparemment ils semblent très similaires. Les seules caractéristiques visibles qui peut les différencier des humains sont les cornes sur leur front. Un être individuel peut posséder une ou plusieurs petites cornes; pour eux, afficher leurs cornes est un signe d'honneur. De plus, ces êtres sont très puissants, ont tous un physique athlétique et ont une longue durée de vie. Leur quasi-immortalité les amène à ne produire que très peu d'enfants, car ils en ont peu besoin, et dorment pendant des millénaires au lieu d'heures, restant éveillés pendant des périodes comparables.
Les quatre représentants restants de cette espèce dans le monde sont Cars, AC/DC, Wham et Santana, dans l'ordre décroissant de la hiérarchie, maintenant appelés "Hommes du Piliers" puisqu'ils ont été découverts dormant à l'intérieur de piliers en pierre. Dirigé par Kars, ce groupe se réveille en 1938 pour continuer à rechercher la Pierre Rouge d'Aja, qui, combinée à leur technologie du Masque de Pierre, les transformera en "êtres ultimes" à l'abri même du Soleil.
Membres
★: Leader
(✩: Leader Successeur / ✦: Leader de sous-faction)
†: Décédé
(👻: Demeure en tant que fantôme)
☮: A démissionné
⚓: "Retired" (neutralisé) et/ou leur sort est inconnu
Pouvoirs et compétences
Corps Surhumain
Les hommes du pilier ont généralement des capacités physiques largement supérieures à celles des humains dans tous les aspects, dépassant de loin même le plus fort de Vampires.
Alors qu'un vampire peut exercer une pression de 235 kg/cm² avec ses doigts[1]les hommes du pilier ont une force encore plus grande. Les lames nervurées de Santana peuvent exercer une pression de 825 kg/cm²[2] et sa pression des doigts aurait été d'environ 925 kg/cm² si les estimations de Stroheim étaient exactes[3]. Wham a également été capable de briser un pilier en pierre, puis de le soulever pour l'écraser Joseph Joestar.[4]
Cars résiste à une chute de 175 mètres
Wham évite les attaques de Joseph
Les hommes du pilier possèdent des sens surhumains. Cela est démontré un certain nombre de fois, lorsque Santana renifla sa cage comme un chien, ou lorsque Cars put détecter combien de personnes il y avait dans une pièce via leurs signatures thermiques. [8] De même, la corne de Wham lui permet de lire le vent et de détecter d'autres objets via leur respiration[9].
Le trait le plus dangereux des hommes du pilier est leur intelligence supérieure. Ils ont une mémoire parfaite et sont capables d'analyser et de comprendre instantanément les mécanismes derrière tout objet, y compris des choses que des langues modernes, des machines, les tactiques de leurs ennemis, et l'esprit et les actions des humains en quelques secondes. Santana a instantanément appris la procédure pour désassembler une arme à feu qui aurait pu prendre des heures humaines à apprendre; et Esidisi a réussi à égaler Joseph en ruse. Les hommes du pilier ont également pu apprendre la langue moderne en quelques instants, juste en écoutant des soldats parler.
Advanced Powers
Possessing a German soldier
Bloating the soldier's body
Santana enters Stroheim
Wamuu twists out of the way of Joseph's attacks
Santana slips through an air duct
The severed bits of Santana can still be controlled
Shooting bullets from the finger
Esidisi makes Loggins' arm his
Santana eats a Vampire
The more experienced Pillar Men each have their own special fighting style, characterized by a specific "element" such as fire, wind, or light. Powers based around these elements are referred to as "Modes" (
This ability and their body manipulation appear to only be usable by those associated with Kars and the Stone Masks; the Pillar Men race originally used primitive weapons such as spears before they were massacred.[10]
Debut: Chapter 108: JoJo: The Final Ripple, Part 2 / JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Episode 25: The Birth of a Superbeing!!
A Pillar Man can become an Ultimate Being (
- Being unaffected by sunlight
- Complete immortality
- The ability to reshape their body on a cellular level to that of any kind of human, animal or plant
- The ability to use the Ripple
History
The Pillar Men come from an ancient race of humanoids that possess extraordinary strength, intelligence and lifespan. This race once ruled the Earth, living at the top of the food chain and consuming humans who regarded them as either gods to be worshiped or demons to be feared. However, because of their great abilities and physique, the race followed the "rule of evolution" regarding the trophic level: the "higher" it "evolved", the fewer its population became. They remained unable to overcome their adversity to sunlight, yet were content with their lives regardless.
One among this tribe named Kars did not accept his kind's way of life and sought perfection. This led to Kars creating the Stone Mask to bring out his race's full potential through acupuncture. He found that the mask worked effectively on humans (though turning them into vampires), but the thickness of his species' skull only enabled the mask to partially unlock its full potential. The result was enhanced body manipulation, presumably unlocking the use of Elemental Battle Modes, with a increased hunger. Fearing the threat posed by Kars' genius, the tribe sought to execute him in order to maintain natural order. Kars retaliated by massacring most of his race, including his parents. Only Kars, his co-conspirator Esidisi, and two infant children (Wamuu and Santana), were the sole survivors of their race.
The four remaining pillar men first appeared in human history 5000 years before Battle Tendency, capturing hundreds of thousands of humans for experimentation with the stone mask.[11] Kars found through his research that a flawless Red Stone of Aja called the Super Aja would be essential to perfect the Stone Mask and complete their transition into ultimate beings. To this end, Kars took Esidisi and Wamuu to the old world while leaving Santana behind in Mexico.
The three reached as far as imperial Rome where a emperor was rumored to possess a Super Aja, nearly wiping out the entire Ripple Clan in the process.[12] Unable to find the stone, the Pillar Men were forced to hibernate, fusing themselves into a stone wall hidden within a cave under the Colosseum near the 1st Century A.D. The wall itself was rigged by the Pillar Men as a trap to feed themselves on any greedy humans while sleeping, as seen with Mario Zeppeli. The Aztec correctly predicted that the Pillar Men would reawaken in the year 2852 of the Aztec calendar, the equivalent of the year 1938.
Battle Tendency
In the winter of 1939, the Speedwagon Foundation discovered a Mexican temple filled with stone masks and the body of Santana. Robert E. O. Speedwagon intended for Straizo to destroy Santana, only for the Ripple user to betray him and become a vampire, while also preventing the Pillar Man from awakening. The Nazis discover the other Pillar Men around this time, sending a research group under Rudol von Stroheim to extract and observe Santana. Once awakened prematurely, Santana kills everyone but Speedwagon and Stroheim before being confronted by Joseph Joestar. It is only the combined effort of Joseph and Stroheim's sacrifice that Santana was stopped and stored at the Speedwagon Foundation Headquarters.
Several days later, Wamuu awakened himself and killed off the team watching over him before reviving Kars and Esidisi. Coincidentally, Speedwagon, Joseph and Caesar Anthonio Zeppeli along with a soldier named Mark came into the cave to join with the Nazis. When Wamuu inadvertently gave Mark an antagonizing death, he provoked Caesar and defeated him. Wamuu also defeated Joseph, who lured him away from Caesar and Speedwagon while convincing Wamuu to spare him for a future confrontation. But Wamuu and Esidisi, the latter out of interest, placed their poisoned wedding rings in Joseph's body to force him to seek them. The three Pillar Men, after setting up base in the San Moritz hotel in Swizterland, proceed to search Europe for the Super Aja.
Nearly a month later, Esidisi learned the Super Aja was in the possession of the Ripple Master Lisa Lisa and infiltrated Air Supplena Island where he killed Loggins. Though his body was destroyed by Joseph who took the first antidote, Esidisi, surviving as a disembodied nervous system, managed to possess Suzi Q and mailed the Super Aja to San Moritz. Esidisi was then safely extracted by Caesar and Joseph and destroyed by sunlight. Kars, fearing the worse when not contacted by Esidisi, sets out for the Swiss border and attempted to steal the Super Aja when the Nazis intercepted the package. It turned into a battle with Kars overwhelming a cybernetically-modified Stroheim while instinctively knowing Joseph killed Esidisi, letting him keep the stone while intending to personally kill him when the time comes.
Events accelerated when Caesar, learning of the Pillar Men's hideout, attempted to go after Kars in daylight, with Messina accompanying him to the San Moritz. The two were intercepted by Wamuu after he returned from Greece, incapacitating Messina while engaging Caesar. A fight ensues, and by the time Joseph and Lisa Lisa reach the building, Caesar is already dead. Following the trail of Wamuu's blood, the two ripple users find the remaining two Pillar Men surrounded by an army of Vampires. Lisa Lisa bluffed that the Red Stone would be destroyed if neither of them return to it, proposing two one-on-one death matches to settle things. Kars accepted the challenge and let Joseph go with Messina to get the stone, keeping Lisa Lisa as a hostage while setting a meeting point at the arena of Skeleton Heel Stone.
Once at Skeleton Heel Stone, Joseph engages Wamuu in a chariot race to the death and managed to defeat him in an epic battle between two honorable warriors. Kars, having no intention of honoring his contract, ambushed Lisa Lisa during their fight with a body double, seized the Red Stone of Aja, and sicced his army against an exhausted Joseph. A timely intervention from the German Army and the Speedwagon Foundation, armed with miniature UV lights, saves Joseph who manages to outwit and defeat Kars. Cornered, Kars uses the UV lights to activate his Stone Mask with the Red Stone to evolve into the ultimate being.
Now an invincible immortal, Kars proceeds to act on his obsession to kill Joseph as the human flees by plane to lure the Pillar Man into an active volcano. Joseph manages to force Kars into a lava pit with Stroheim's help, but the Pillar Man eventually develops a defense and emerges unscathed while slicing Joseph's left forearm off. As Kars goes to deals the final blow with his own newly-found Ripple, Joseph uses the Super Aja to transfer the energy into the ground to trigger a volcanic eruption. With Joseph egging him to keep him from escaping, Kars ends up knocked out of Earth's atmosphere and freezes in the vacuum of space. Immobile and immortal, Kars gradually ceased intelligent thought while drifting off into deep space.
Trivia
- The Pillar Men's appearances are based on a combination of Roman sculptures, the Great Sphinx of Giza, and the Nio Buddhist guardians.[13]
- Their names share phonetic similarity with three rock bands and a pop band:
References
- ↑ Chapter 51: Straizo vs. Joseph, Part 4, p5
- ↑ Chapter 58: The Pillar Man, Santana, Part 5, p12
- ↑ Chapter 85: Stroheim's Unit Strikes Back, Part 3, p8
- ↑ Chapter 99: The Wind, the Chariot, and Wamuu, Part 5, p6-9
- ↑ Chapter 70: An Engagement with Death: The Wedding Ring, p10
- ↑ Chapter 87: Light Mode Kars, Part 2
- ↑ Chapter 64: The Red Stone of Aja, p13
- ↑ Chapter 84: Stroheim's Unit Strikes Back, Part 2
- ↑ Chapter 102: The Wind, the Chariot, and Wamuu, Part 8
- ↑ Chapter 112: The Man Who Became a God
- ↑ Chapter 76: Ripple Teacher Lisa Lisa (6)
- ↑ Chapter 67: Ultimate Warriors from Ancient Times, Part 3
- ↑ JoJonium Volume 5, Pg. 365
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