Skin(Pinkish-Brown)
Eyes(Brown)
Outfit
(Light yellow scarf, brown armor, teal shoulder pads)
Doobie (怪人ドゥービー, Kaijin Dūbī, lit. "Doobie, the Phantom") is a minor antagonist featured in the first part of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, Phantom Blood.
Doobie is a monstrous Zombie created by Dio Brando with several venomous snakes emerging out of his head. He briefly fights Jonathan Joestar after attempting to eat Poco's Sister.
Appearance
Doobie is a large, muscular zombie who is bald and has fangs and claws. He wears a gunny sack on his head as a mask to hide the multiple snakes lurking in his face. The mask has one hole on the left side. Additionally, he wears a deerstalker cap and a scarf. His body is adorned with various jewelry and armor including a necklace, bracelets, wristbands, shoulder pads, and cloth wrapped around his ankles.
His chest and thighs are left exposed, while an armored plate covers his stomach. Below it, he wears a belt and underwear. His body is also coated in some sort of liquid.
Doobie has many holes in his skull for his snakes to freely move through his head. After being attacked by Jonathan, he gains a large hole in the center of his forehead with a snake sticking out of it and also loses his left eye, allowing a snake to live inside the eye's hole. His bottom eyelids appear unnaturally hardened. Several tiny worms also stick out of the top of his head, resembling hair.
Color Schemes
The series is known for alternating colors between media, the information presented below may or may not be canon.
Skin(Khaki)
Outfit(Gray scarf and brown armor)
Skin(Pale blue)
Eyes(Red sclera with green iris)
Outfit(Gray scarf, purplish blue armor)
Personality
Doobie is animalistic and vicious. As soon as Dio introduces Doobie to Poco's sister, he immediately acts on his urges and pounces at her, ripping her skirt off. In his brief appearance, he speaks primitively, mostly screeching or repeating his words.
Abilities
Zombie
As a Zombie, Doobie's strength, durability, and speed are multiplied. He can climb up to high places and withstand an anvil stabbing the back of his head, feeling perfectly fine after the initial pain.[3]
Snake Manipulation
Venomous Snakes
Doobie can control several snakes who live inside his head, including venomous cobras and flesh-eating vipers. He hides them with the sack on his face so he can catch his opponents by surprise, having his snakes extend themselves and bite his opponents when they are off guard.
This technique is not effective against skilled Ripple users such as Jonathan Joestar, who can easily extract the venom out of their skin.
History
In late 1888, Dio Brando makes Doobie into a zombie in Windknight's Lot. Some time later, Doobie stands on a ledge above a window watching Dio attempt to persuade Poco's sister to join him by offering to give her eternal youth. After she refuses by slapping Dio, he introduces her to the monstrous Doobie and leaves her alone with him. Doobie jumps down from the ledge and grabs Poco's sister, ripping her skirt off. As he squeezes her neck, Jonathan throws an anvil which pierces through the back of Doobie's head, causing him to lose his left eye.
Doobie grabs his head in pain wondering who attacked him. He then suddenly sends several snakes through the hole in his mask, inflicting Jonathan with bite wounds. Doobie cheers that he managed to bite Jonathan a lot and then removes the sack over his head to reveal his face and his weapons. A large number of venomous and flesh-eating snakes dwell inside his skull. Jonathan manages to eject the venom from his bloodstream by exploiting his new Ripple powers inherited after Zeppeli's death. Doobie charges at Jonathan attempting to bite him again, but Jonathan catches Doobie's snakes and boils their blood a little bit with the Ripple. The Ripple manipulates the snakes into turning against their master, leading to them devouring Doobie. As he is being eaten and melted by the Ripple from the bites of each snake, Doobie wonders why his snakes betrayed him.
Chapters / Episodes
Manga AppearancesChapters in order of appearance
- Chapter 37: The Three from a Faraway Land, Part 2 (Death)
Anime AppearancesEpisodes in order of appearance
- JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Episode 8: Bloody Battle! JoJo & Dio (Death)
Quotes
Quotes- “What are you doing, my snakes?! They're eating me! No way...”—Doobie, Chapter 37: The Three from a Faraway Land, Part 2
Video Games
Phantom Blood (PS2 Game)
Doobie appears in Chapter 19 as one of the last enemies faced before Dio. Doobie's special attack uses the snakes from his face to attack and poison the enemy. Several "cat-birds" and "dog-men", Dio's chimeras, fight alongside Doobie. He is a playable character in Extra Battle Mode and 77 Rings Knights Mode.
during damage
(LV0)
(LV1-3)
In Dio Mode, there is an extra event where he teams up with Adams to defeat Dio.
Doobie
Commands
Name
Normal Combo
Roon! Roon! Roon!
Banzaaii!
Double Lariat
I bit 'em! I bit 'em!
HOOOORRRRRRYYYN!
Running
Uraaa!
Running
Ushaa!
Back Step
during damageMega Crush
(LV0)Provocation
(LV1-3)Surprised?
Available Stages: Extra Battle 16
- 77 Rings Knights Mode: Living Corpses
Gallery
First appearance
Doobie summoned by Dio
Ripping Poco's sister's dress
Stabbed by an anvil
Doobie's Face
Jonathan Knees Doobie
Doobie being devoured
Doobie sitting on the ledge above the window
Dio summoning Doobie to do as he wishes
Ready to attack Poco's Sister
Attempting to grab Poco's sister
Ripping the skirt of Poco's sister
About to kill Poco's sister
Stabbed by an anvil
Doobie cheering after biting Jonathan with his snakes
Doobie's real face
Jonathan fights Doobie
Doobie's own snakes killing him
Reference sheet: head
Reference sheet: body
Doobie in the PS2 game
- Top.jpg
Chara Heroes; Part 1 Vol.1
Doobie (Adventure Battle Card)
Trivia
- Doobie's cap and sack over his head is a reference to Joseph Merrick,[4] an English man with several deformities who was nicknamed "Elephant Man" when he was exhibited at a freak show. Merrick wore a cap and gunny sack over his head with a hole in it so he could travel without drawing undue attention.[5]
References
- ↑ [citation needed]
- ↑ Chapter 41: Fire and Ice, Jonathan and Dio, Part 3
- ↑ Chapter 37: The Three from a Faraway Land, Part 2
- ↑ [citation needed]
- ↑ Joseph Merrick - Wikipedia