Hot Pants
Hot Pants (ホット・パンツ, Hotto Pantsu) is a major character featured in Part VII: Steel Ball Run.
An agent of the Vatican, Hot Pants' main goal is to gather the Corpse Parts; competing in the Steel Ball Run race while posing as a man. She acts as a vague ally to Gyro and Johnny, and Lucy Steel.
Appearance
Hot Pants is a woman of average to above-average height and slim to medium build. It is implied that she is fairly androgynous; intentionally passing for a man until she is discovered.
Personality
Hot Pants is a dedicated agent of the Vatican. She has a strong religious investment in the security of the Corpse Parts.
A former nun, she additionally reveals that she harbors the sense of a powerful sin, having failed as an adolescent in her duty to protect her younger brother.
Abilities
- Main article: Cream Starter
Hot Pants' Stand is Cream Starter; a handheld aerosol spray -like device, generating flesh and well as channeling her own; enabling her to distort and extend her body, and seal wounds.
Synopsis
History
When she was younger, she went to collect nuts in the woods with her brother. Attacked by a grizzly bear, they hid in a rock crevice. Injured and scared, Hot Pants pushed her brother out of the crevice - saving herself at the price of his life. The people in her hometown were very kind to her and her parents after the "tragic accident", but Hot Pants became unable to bear the burden of the truth surrounding her brother's death. She left her home and joined a convent, becoming a nun in the hopes of earning forgiveness from God and her brother.
Steel Ball Run
Fourth Stage
Hot Pants first appears at the beginning of the race's Fourth Stage, having finished first in the Third Stage. Soon she encounters Johnny and Gyro, accusing them of having killed a cow she had been specially grazing on the course. She ends up attacking them using Cream Starter, preventing them from attacking by covering their hands and faces with her stand's "flesh spray." Johnny convinces her that they weren't responsible for the cow's death, and she recalls the effect of her stand. She refuses to apologize for blaming them as they had eaten meat from the carcass, then gallops away to hunt down the real culprit. However, they meet again sooner than expected as all three become trapped in the orchard surrounding Ringo Roadagain's cabin. They witness the confrontation between him and Gaucho and end up deciding they will have to kill Ringo in order to continue. While Johnny and Ringo talk, Hot Pants attacks the latter with Cream Starter, slicing off his hand. Unfortunately, he rewinds time and reverts the damage, sidestepping the attack when it happens a second time and shooting Hot Pants' hand. He and Johnny then engage in a gunfight, which Johnny seemingly loses, and Ringo incapacitates Hot Pants by shooting her as well. After Gyro defeats Ringo, he and Johnny use Cream Starter to fill their and Hot Pants' wounds. Johnny then inadvertently discovers that the unconscious Hot Pants is a woman when he checks her chest to see if she is still breathing.
After The Race
Hot Pants dropped out of the race in it's sixth stage to further pursue the corpse parts. at some point she met Lucy Steel who wanted to give the corpse parts to Gyro & Johnny after their altercation with Blackmore. She gives some meat spray from Cream Starter to change her appearance to invade Valentine's residence. Hot Pants instructs Lucy how to bring the corpse parts together using one of the eyes of the corpse. After Lucy is found out & ends up killing Scarlet, The first lady. Hot pants goes into the compound to help her & fights off Mike O. & his stand Tubular Bells. After spraying him with Cream Starter she has Mike O. inadvertenly kill himself by filling himself with air. Before she escapes, she masks Lucy & switches her face with Scarlet's to have the illusion that Lucy died.
Later, She is seen by Gyro & Johnny speeding towards a church. When Gyro goes inside the Church, she disgueses herself as a nun (Gyro does not know that she is a woman at this point). Johnny comes into the church as well & when Gyro leaves to find Hot Pants, Johnny reveals to Hot Pants that he knows of her true gender. However she, for the first time, breaks down to tears as she tells Johnny that her corpse parts were taken by someone. At that moment, Hot pants' deceased brother appears on her body due to Civil War. She says that this followed her, even as she collected corpse parts, even when she became a nun of her hometown. She tells Johnny to run as the memory of her brother's death nearly consumes her. After Axl Ro is finally killed, she is absolved of her sins (at least physically) & is left by Gyro & Johnny.
Death
Hot Pants, after trying to suffocate Dio, teams up with him to take the corpse from the President. The two, after catching up to the train that Valentine is riding on, fight off the many Funny Valentine clones made from D4C. After Diego's death, she boards the train car that is holding Lucy Steel. She is marveled over the collection of the corpse parts on Lucy's body. However, Lucy's Stand finally takes form & The President manipulates the stand for himself. Hot Pants is the 1st to fall victim to the stand's ability when D4C has multiple insects, and a window frame under Hot Pants' skin, puncturing her heart & killing her almost instantly.
Race Stats
| Steel Ball Run Race Statistics | ||
| Stage | Placement | Points |
|---|---|---|
| First | 6th | 25 |
| Second | 5th | 30 |
| Third | 1st | 100 |
| Fourth | 7th | 20 |
| Fifth | 3rd | 40 |
Hot Pants drops out in the sixth stage, with a total of 215 points and one extra hour of time.
Trivia
- She speaks in a very masculine manner (more so than Gyro and Johnny) in Japanese, which helps in convincing others that she is a man.
- Her name, "Hot Pants," is spelled ホット・パンツ in Japanese. The パンツ part is the Japanese pronunciation for "pants," but is also the Japanese word for "panties," causing a pun which mirrors her character.
- Her horse's name comes from the James Brown song Get Up (I Feel Like Being a) Sex Machine.
- Throughout the story, there are certain parallels to the relationships between Jonathan Joestar, Erina Pendolton, and Dio Brando in Part I: Phantom Blood. Shortly before falling prey to Axl Ro and his stand, Civil War, Johnny falls on top of Hot Pants in a suggestive manner. When Diego Brando almost suffocates due to Hot Pants's meat spray, he locks his mouth over hers' in order to keep his supply of air in check; the sound is similar to the one in which Dio steals Erina's kiss.
- Contrary to several characters in the Jojo's Bizarre Adventure series, such as Jolyne and Anasui, Hot Pants looks much frailer in her later appearances than in her initial appearance.
- The reveal of her real gender is an homage to works like Shakespeare in Love or Rose of Versailles.[2]
Gallery
Cover, SBR Chapter 57; w/ Johnny and Gyro
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Hot Pants as nun
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Hot Pants after she dropped out of the race (and revealed her gender)
- Hpdeath.jpg
Hot Pants' death
References
- ↑ SBR Chapter 64 Chocolate Disco (1)
- ↑ 2007 Eureka issue
