Bohemian Rhapsody
Bohemian Rhapsody (自由人の狂想曲 or ボヘミアン・ラプソディー) is a stand power featured in Part VI: Stone Ocean. Its user is Ungaro and it is named for the song Bohemian Rhapsody by British rock band Queen.
Ability
Bohemian Rhapsody is able to bring fictional characters into reality through printed fictional media containing pictures of those characters. Cartoon characters, anime characters, and even works of art and drawings are affected. The characters are still made of the same material they came from, and thus cannot easily be destroyed: the mother goat from a book simply folded into paper when punched. (Interestingly, Pinocchio still broke and spouted blood when Anasui punched him and did not return to the media after he was destroyed, though this could simply be taken as the initial effects of the stand in its developmental stages.)
When one meets a character he or she likes, he or she is dragged into the character's role and the fate of the character will be the fate of the victim. Running away and using barriers is useless, as the story will proceed as is originally described and any such obstacles will simply turn into paper that enables the characters to walk through. Characters can even chase the victim through storybook pages that appear on flat surfaces.
The stand draws power from the original artist's creativity and passion put into the animation, and thus its range is infinite. One may be immune to this ability if they have no knowledge of the story or character, but this is difficult due to the number of characters brought to life, as well as the character's ability to act even based on subconscious recognition and drag even unwilling victims like Narciso Anasui into the role of the wolf in the Mother Goat and her Seven Kids. The only weakness is that there is no physical stand to protect the user, but the large range allows him to attack from across the world, and at the same time there is no physical stand through which the user can be harmed. The countries most heavily affected by the stand were stated to have been the U.S., Japan, Italy, and France while the stand was active.
List of Fictional Characters Summoned by Bohemian Rhapsody
- Stick figure from a Pedestrian crossing sign
- Spiderman
- Kenshiro from Fist of the North Star
- Raoh from Fist of the North Star
- Pinocchio
- Snow White and the Seven Dwarves
- Mazinger Z from Mazinger Z
- Astro Boy
- Tetsujin 28 (aka Gigantor)
- Giant Robo
- Little Red Riding Hood
- The Big Bad Wolf (more specifically, the Red Riding Hood version)
- Vincent van Gogh (through his famous Self-portrait with Bandaged Ear)
- A mother goat and her 7 kids
- Venus from the Botticelli painting The Birth of Venus
- Peter Pan and Tinker Bell
- The Three Little Pigs
- Mickey Mouse (unseen)
- E.T. (unseen)
- Snoopy (unseen)
- The lion from the MGM Studios logo (unseen)
- "Put Back": a "hero" thought up by Weather Report and drawn by Van Gogh's portrait, designed to eliminate all other fantasy heroes
Trivia
- Bohemian Rhapsody is the second stand in Part VI to have entirely unknown stats (after the Green Baby's stand) and the first stand since Part III to have stats that aren't listed (although stats aren't exactly relevant to this stand in the first place).
- Due to the nature of Bohemian Rhapsody's powers, Ungaro can be anywhere as his stand has infinite range; it is one of the few, if not the only one, to ever show such power.
- The arc in which Bohemian Rhapsody debuted seems to follow the same structure as the song it was based off of.
