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Achtung Baby

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“
This baby, it's not only her that can disappear! She can make stuff around her turn invisible too!
”

Achtung Baby (アクトン・ベイビー, Akuton Beibī) is the Stand of Shizuka Joestar, featured in the fourth part of the JoJo's Bizarre Adventure series, Diamond is Unbreakable.

It is a pure ability Stand that grants Shizuka the power to turn herself and her surroundings invisible.

Appearance

Achtung Baby is bound to Shizuka's own body, granting her the ability to turn invisible. Thus it doesn't have any appearance to speak of.

Abilities

While theoretically useful, Achtung Baby is in practice an inconvenience as the user is a vulnerable baby that hasn't yet learned to control her power.

Invisibility

Shizuka can turn herself and anything near her invisible

Achtung Baby has the power to render its user Shizuka invisible.[2]

Shown to be linked to Shizuka's stress level, hinting at the ability being a defense mechanism, Achtung Baby enables her to become invisible. In cases of great distress, it will also cause everything within a certain distance of her to become invisible, be it Joseph's hands holding her,[3] her baby carriage or even the ground. At its full power, the invisibility will expand to a several foot-radius.[3]

The invisibility status seems to last even when affected objects leave Achtung Baby's ability range, as shown when the carriage which was carrying Shizuka had left a trail of objects with visually voided portions.[3]

Although everything under Achtung Baby's influence is invisible, they can still be detected if they emit a sound or an odor, as Joseph discovered when Shizuka defecated in his hand.[4]

By default, Shizuka is always shown to be invisible when calm, but the range of her power increases if she's startled. Should her emotional state be recovered, objects that were turned invisible by the ability will return back to normal.[3]

Chapters / Episodes

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Chapters in order of appearance
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Episodes in order of appearance

Gallery

  • Achtung Baby's effects of invisibility

    Achtung Baby's effects of invisibility

  • Shizuka disappearing in Josephs arms after getting upset

    Shizuka disappearing in Josephs arms after getting upset

  • Achtung Baby turns Joseph's hands invisible.

    Achtung Baby turns Joseph's hands invisible.

  • Achtung Baby's effects of invisibility.

    Achtung Baby's effects of invisibility.

  • Shizuka disappearing in Joseph's arms

    Shizuka disappearing in Joseph's arms

  • Achtung Baby's namesake confirmed in Vol.16 "Shueisha Jump Remix Diamond is Unbreakable Edition

    Achtung Baby's namesake confirmed in Vol.16 "Shueisha Jump Remix Diamond is Unbreakable Edition

Trivia

  • Araki admitted the sole reason for creating the Stand was for Josuke and Joseph to have a bonding adventure.[5]
  • The term "Achtung" is German and translates as "Attention/Caution".

References

  1. ↑ Heaven's Door - Vol.16 "Shueisha Jump Remix Diamond is Unbreakable Edition P90 The origin of STANDS! Part 3
  2. ↑ Chapter 315, I Found Something Dangerous! (1)
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Chapter 317, I Found Something Dangerous! (3)
  4. ↑ Chapter 316, I Found Something Dangerous! (2)
  5. ↑ JOJOVELLER: STANDS - Comments by Hirohiko Araki[1]

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