Weather Report
Weather Report (ウェザー・リポート, Wezā Ripōto) est le Stand du prisonnier nommé Weather Report, figurant dans la sixième partie de JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, Stone Ocean.
Weather Report est un Stand humanoïde qui a la capacité de manipuler la météo autour de Weather. Ce Stand est affilié à Heavy Weather une autre capacité de Weather Report.
Apparence
Weather Report prend la forme d'un Stand humanoïde qui a la carrure athlétique de son manieur, Weather Report. Il est constitué de nuages, a une paire d'yeux striés verticalement, son visage semble être masqué et le haut de sa tête est parsemée de longue piques. Ses pieds sont décorés avec des ailes comme les sandales d'Hermes, et ses poings sont cloutés sur le devant, comme la plupart des Stands de courte portée. En dehors de ça, la grande majorité de son corps semble n'avoir aucune caractéristique.
The colored manga and Eyes of Heaven portray Weather Report as being white.
Color Schemes
Personality
Weather Report shows no particular personality but evidences a greater degree of care and preservation for its user (like Star Platinum does Jotaro) when it repeatedly saved its user from committing suicide.[1]
It appears that it retains some of its user's will at its final individual opportunity to confront Enrico Pucci while it was in the possession of Emporio Alnino.
Abilities
Weather Report is a versatile Stand possessing near-complete control over the weather. This powerful ability allows Weather Report a wide array of options during a fight either for offense or defense, and as a result, it is very capable in close-combat.
Weather Control
Weather Report's ability is to control the weather[2] through the manipulation of the atmosphere itself.
Weather manipulates the surrounding atmosphere with his Stand, allowing him to freely summon several weather phenomenons like wind, rain, or lightning to his advantage. Weather Report has enough precision that it can create micro-climates,[2] but also a range great enough that it can make it rain 30 km away.[3]
The scale of the phenomenons is also controllable; thus Weather Report can create heavy rain and fog[4] over a large zone,[5] but also a small sunny area in the middle of the rain.[6]
Weather Report's most featured use of its ability is control over wind for various purposes.
- At its most basic, Weather Report can make gusts of wind to affect objects from afar.[2] Weather can also use the wind to propel himself.[7]
- Weather Report can feel disturbances in the surrounding air currents to detect movement.[8]
- In close-quarters combat, he can make the gust of winds strong enough to pierce through the human body.[9]
- Weather Report can create localized atmospheric layers to increase the air resistance, to the point he can deflect projectiles away from Weather Report. Clouds then appear around Weather Report. If someone punches the layers, the friction can even set them on fire.[10]
Weather Report's manipulation of the atmosphere extends to the manipulation of the humidity around it, allowing free generation of and partial control over water and by extension clouds.
- Weather Report can directly shove a vaporous gust inside someone to bloat them with water to the point it flows through the eye sockets.[11]
- Weather Report can also evaporate then freeze liquids to create specific solid shapes like icicles made from blood.[12]
- Weather Report can surround himself and others with a suit made of clouds in order to protect himself from dangerous surrounding conditions, like a vacuum.[13]
- He can also create a couch of clouds to cushion people during a car crash.[14]
Weather Report can also create electrical currents within its User's body, allowing partial control of several people's bodies when it electrifies them.[15] He can also bring otherwise unlikely elements of the weather like rains of animals (in one such case a rain of poisonous frog).[16] This particular ability is based off scenarios where dense populations of small animals are often picked up by tornadoes and 'rained' down when said tornadoes cease.
Oxygen Build-Up
Lastly, Weather Report can manipulate the concentration of specific gases in a closed area. Emporio uses this subtle hidden ability to defeat Pucci by paralyzing and intoxicating him with a lethal concentration of oxygen.[17]
Heavy Weather
An ability that unconsciously activates after Weather recovers his memories stolen by Pucci. Unlike the rest of Weather Report's abilities, Heavy Weather is automatic, stemming from Weather's rage against humanity.[1]
Snail Transformation
Heavy Weather alters the refraction angle of the sun's rays entering earth's atmosphere with Weather Report's ability to control the weather. As a result, rainbows manifest in the surrounding vicinity.[11] Those who touch the rainbows will perceive themselves as being a snail due to a natural subliminal effect created by the altered refraction angle.[9][15][18] All animals are affected by the metamorphosis aside from Weather Report who is immune to the effect. Pucci theorizes that perhaps there is an image of snails being reflected within the sun's rays or the sun reminds organisms of their prehistoric instincts. The deep subliminal effect of the ability physically affects their bodies as well.[9]
The transformation can be either a progressive change into a giant snail hybrid, a breakdown into numerous snails,[1] or an explosion into a cluster of snail eggs that hatch immediately.[11] One can also begin to turn into a snail by physically touching one of the snails created, or an individual already turning into a snail.[15][19]
A partial transformation alone comes with a number of handicaps such as getting stuck on surfaces, sluggish reactions and speed, and loss of strength because of the softening of the body. Moreover, the victims also become vulnerable to snail-eating predators[20] and contact with salt, which dehydrates the body.[21]
Snails created through Heavy Weather can procreate freely thanks to their ability to change gender. The procreation is very fast and accelerates exponentially, causing a rapid multiplication of the snails. Any person trapped inside a swarmed area is practically doomed to be touched at least once and begin their metamorphosis. If left unchecked, the swarm of snails will endanger whole cities.[19]
As discovered by Enrico Pucci, a blind person is immune to the effect of the Stand, since they can't see the subliminal messages carried through the sun rays.[9] This allowed Pucci to protect himself by having Whitesnake extract his sight. Regardless, once a person starts transforming into a snail, the process is irreversible.
Chapters
Manga Appearances- Stone Ocean Chapter 40: Operation Savage Garden (Head to the Courtyard!), Part 1
- Stone Ocean Chapter 42: Operation Savage Garden, Part 3
- Stone Ocean Chapter 43: Operation Savage Garden, Part 4
- Stone Ocean Chapter 44: Operation Savage Garden, Part 5
- Stone Ocean Chapter 45: Operation Savage Garden, Part 6
- Stone Ocean Chapter 46: Operation Savage Garden, Part 7
- Stone Ocean Chapter 48: Torrential Downpour Warning, Part 1
- Stone Ocean Chapter 49: Torrential Downpour Warning, Part 2
- Stone Ocean Chapter 50: Torrential Downpour Warning, Part 3
- Stone Ocean Chapter 91: Whitesnake - The Pursuer, Part 3
- Stone Ocean Chapter 104: Bohemian Rhapsody, Part 1
- Stone Ocean Chapter 106: Bohemian Rhapsody, Part 3 (Mentioned only)
- Stone Ocean Chapter 109: Bohemian Rhapsody, Part 6
- Stone Ocean Chapter 110: Bohemian Rhapsody, Part 7
- Stone Ocean Chapter 124: Under World, Part 6
- Stone Ocean Chapter 125: Heavy Weather, Part 1
- Stone Ocean Chapter 126: Heavy Weather, Part 2
- Stone Ocean Chapter 129: Heavy Weather, Part 5 (Flashback)
- Stone Ocean Chapter 130: Heavy Weather, Part 6
- Stone Ocean Chapter 131: Heavy Weather, Part 7
- Stone Ocean Chapter 132: Heavy Weather, Part 8
- Stone Ocean Chapter 133: Heavy Weather, Part 9
- Stone Ocean Chapter 134: Heavy Weather, Part 10
- Stone Ocean Chapter 135: Heavy Weather, Part 11
- Stone Ocean Chapter 136: Heavy Weather, Part 12
- Stone Ocean Chapter 137: Heavy Weather, Part 13
- Stone Ocean Chapter 138: At Cape Canaveral (Mentioned only)
- Stone Ocean Chapter 157: Made in Heaven, Part 9
- Stone Ocean Chapter 158: What a Wonderful World
Gallery
Weather Report stats
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SO Chapter 50 cover; raining frogs
Ability to block bullet ammunition, even against the user
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Jump Comics SO Volume 1 - SO Volume 17 (Spine Illustration)
Iggy, Killer Queen, The Fool, Hierophant Green, Kira, Harvest, Weather Report, Weather, D4C, & Sticky Fingers - Ripples of Adventure
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Weather Report's render in Eyes of Heaven
Weather Report Normal Eyes of Heaven
Heavy Weather stats
Chapter 125 Cover B
Chapter 130 Cover A
Chapter 130 Cover B
Chapter 131 Cover
Chapter 132 Cover A
Chapter 132 Cover B
Chapter 133 Cover A
Chapter 133 Cover B
Chapter 134 Cover A
Chapter 134 Cover B
Chapter 137 Cover
Snail on the volume spine art
Snails on Jolyne (Volume 14 Cover)
Manipulating the racist detective into shooting himself
Trivia
- Weather Report's ability to make frogs rain from the sky and turn humans into snails was inspired by the film, The Beastmaster.[22]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Stone Ocean Chapter 129: Heavy Weather, Part 5
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Stone Ocean Chapter 40: Operation Savage Garden (Head to the Courtyard!), Part 1
- ↑ Stone Ocean Chapter 109: Bohemian Rhapsody, Part 6
- ↑ Stone Ocean Chapter 91: Whitesnake - The Pursuer, Part 3
- ↑ Stone Ocean Chapter 92: Whitesnake - The Pursuer, Part 4
- ↑ Stone Ocean Chapter 104: Bohemian Rhapsody, Part 1
- ↑ Stone Ocean Chapter 43: Operation Savage Garden, Part 4
- ↑ Stone Ocean Chapter 133: Heavy Weather, Part 9
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 9.3 Stone Ocean Chapter 134: Heavy Weather, Part 10
- ↑ Stone Ocean Chapter 42: Operation Savage Garden, Part 3
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 Stone Ocean Chapter 125: Heavy Weather, Part 1
- ↑ Stone Ocean Chapter 135: Heavy Weather, Part 11
- ↑ Stone Ocean Chapter 44: Operation Savage Garden, Part 5
- ↑ Stone Ocean Chapter 106: Bohemian Rhapsody, Part 3
- ↑ 15.0 15.1 15.2 Stone Ocean Chapter 126: Heavy Weather, Part 2
- ↑ Stone Ocean Chapter 48: Torrential Downpour Warning, Part 1
- ↑ Stone Ocean Chapter 158: What a Wonderful World
- ↑ Volume 78, in-between Stand stats, Stone Ocean Chapter 133: Heavy Weather, Part 9
- ↑ 19.0 19.1 Stone Ocean Chapter 130: Heavy Weather, Part 6
- ↑ Stone Ocean Chapter 131: Heavy Weather, Part 7
- ↑ Stone Ocean Chapter 132: Heavy Weather, Part 8
- ↑ JOJOVELLER: STANDS - Comments by Hirohiko Araki[1]
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