Bohemian Rhapsody
Bohemian Rhapsody ((自由人の狂想曲) ボヘミアン・ラプソディー, (Jiyujin no Kyōsōkyoku) Bohemian Rapusodī, lit. "Rhapsody of the Free Man") is the stand of Ungalo featured in Part VI: Stone Ocean.
Ability
Bohemian Rhapsody is able to bring characters depicted in images into reality through 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.
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 indirectly 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 Characters Summoned by Bohemian Rhapsody
- Stick figure from a Pedestrian crossing sign
- Spider-Man
- Kenshiro from Fist of the North Star (unseen)
- Raoh from Fist of the North Star (unseen)
- 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 characters.
- Chewbacca (unseen)
- T-2000 (unseen)
Trivia
- Bohemian Rhapsody is the second stand in Part VI to have entirely unknown stats (after the Green Baby's stand). Some of its stats, however, can be deduced by the stand's nature as an ability stand and its worldwide effects.
- The images of characters destroyed in reality don't return to the books and papers they were featured. The only example shown in the manga was Pinocchio killed by Annasui.
- The stand can be considered one of the most deadliest and powerful of all Stands. Thousands of deaths were caused by this stand in the short time it was active.
- Since the development of the stand is fast, it can be assumed that all stories with a graphical representation can be summoned, this includes urban legends, children's stories and graphic jokes.
- Ungaro can be anywhere when Bohemian Rhapsody is being used as his stand has infinite range by nature. Only stands that can manipulate time on a cosmic scale such as The World, King Crimson and Made in Heaven should be able to out-range it in effects.
- The arc in which Bohemian Rhapsody debuted seems to follow the same structure as the song it was based off of.
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