Jean Pierre Polnareff (ジャン＝ピエール・ポルナレフ, Jan Piēru Porunarefu) is a core ally in Part III: Stardust Crusaders. He also occupies a key role in Part V: Vento Aureo.
Polnareff goes with Jotaro and Joseph to avenge his sister, who was murdered by a man with two right hands.
In Part V, he helps the allies in their quest to defeat the Boss.
Polnareff is a man of above-average height and athletic or muscular build.
With a receded hairline, he wears silvery hair that rises directly above his head, straight, to a height about half that of his head. He has no eyebrows. He also wears earrings in the shape of jaggedly halved (broken) hearts.
Polnareff wears a fitted sleeveless black top; shoulderless except for one strap running from his chest over his left shoulder.
Having lost his eye and his legs below his knees, Polnareff now utilizes a wheelchair and an eyepatch.
Polnareff is the stereotypical "good-natured klutz". He is heroic and protective of those he loves, but is not very bright (although he has shown lots of cunning and strategy throughout the series). He is very impulsive and loud, and is quick to jump into action without considering the risk, character traits that have landed him in lots of trouble. However, he is sincerely dedicated to doing good, and is a good man who can watch his friends' backs. He also fancies himself as a ladies man, but his personality implies that he overestimates his actual prowess.
Out of all the characters in the series, Polnareff is the one who has the least problems showing his feelings, and he adds a lot of humor and warmth to what would otherwise be a pretty cold team (Kakyoin and Jotaro in particular are very cold characters). Indeed, while he may sometimes be seen as the comic relief of the series, Polnareff's companions appreciate his good nature and trust him to help them win when a tough battle arrives.
Interestingly, Polnareff's best friends during the course of the series are Avdol and Iggy, neither of whom he could stand when they first met. In fact, no character mourns the deaths of his companions like Polnareff does, and no other character is as dedicated to avenging them.
Polnareff's humanoid Stand is Silver Chariot, one of the fastest of all; utilizing a rapier in a flexible and deadly offense.
In Part V, Polnareff develops Chariot Requiem with the touch of the Arrow; and later becomes sustained by Coco Jumbo's Stand, Mr. President.
Silver Chariot presents itself as a warrior in a silver armor, like a true knight. Polnareff's knighthood shows itself by the way he treats his friends: honor and loyalty. His Stand represents the Tarot Card "The Chariot", which symbolizes invasion and victory, and is entirelly based in close-combat terms. When Polnareff first appears he invades the Joestar group's space, challenging them in the middle of their conversation. Even though Polnareff is usually careless, he was shown capable of obtaining victory on his own, proving his worth by defeating his enemies alone in multiple occasions. The Chariot also can be interpreted as resolving a conflict within yourself and finding the necessary balance to accomplish your ambitions, represented by Polnareff's lack of balance with his emotions while trying to avenge his sister.
Polnareff was born with his Stand, though does not realize it until some time later. His mother died when he was still young, leaving him a very lonely kid. This aggravated when, three years before events of Part 3, his sister was ambushed, raped, and murdered by J. Gail, sparking Polnareff's desire for revenge. Subsequently, Polnareff trains constantly with his Stand to avenge his sister and kill J. Gail.[3][4] His Stand powers attracted Dio, who lured him with Jonathan's Stand and brainwashed him afterward.
Under Dio's influence, Polnareff attacked the Joestar party in Hong Kong. He was confronted by Avdol and defeated after some difficulty. While Polnareff conceded his defeat, Jotaro sensed Dio's cells in the man's forehead and removed the implant. Afterwards, Polnareff joined the Joestar group in their quest to destroy Dio, with his ultimate goal being to find his sister's murderer.
During the journey Polnareff is often careless, falling victim to his enemies multiple times. In one of these moments he was attacked by Devo, but managed to take care of the enemy.
He got his shot at J. Gail, his sister's murderer, and successfully avenged her death. Unfortunately, during the battle with J. Gail and his partner Hol Horse, Avdol was seemingly killed, saving Polnareff's life. Avdol's death weighed very heavily on him.
At one point, Polnareff became attracted to Nena, believing her to be a woman tricked by Hol Horse, until Joseph managed to defeat her Stand.
Polnareff almost crashes his car when decieved by ZZ.
He becomes friends with Enya Gail, unaware that she was pretending to be friendly to avenge her son J. Gail, until she attacked him with Justice.
Polnareff was of great help against Steely Dan, helping Kakyoin into freeing Joseph of The Lovers control.
Polnareff was later almost killed by Mannish Boy's Death 13, but was saved by Kakyoin at the last moment.
He also was tricked by Cameo's Stand Judgment into wishing for his sister Sherry and Avdol back to life. These clones attacked Polnareff as clay golems, but the real Avdol reappeared and saved him, having survived Hol Horse's attack after all.
After the defeat of Midler he, as a womanizer, decides to take a look at her, but laments after noticing that her teeth were knocked out.
(The Genesis of Universe: Chapter 1: One-Way Trip from Desert to Hell)
(The italicized information below derives from a Light Novel not written by Araki. As such, it may or may not be considered canon.)
Polnareff was the one to defeat Michal, the wielder of the mirage-creator Stand Dark Mirage. When he finally discovered her location he was afraid of hurting the woman because of his policy of not hurting women, even if it's an enemy. To not hurt Michal, Polnareff ended the battle with a single blow with the back of Silver Chariot's sword, knocking her out.
Polnareff unnitentionally helped the group against Oingo's orange-shaped bomb plan. He kept asking Oingo to do things only Jotaro knew, making the enemy nervous with the possibility of them finding out his real identity.
After fighting the controlled Chaka and Khan, Polnareff was possessed by Anubis, once again falling under Dio's control, but was freed by Jotaro a second time.
In Luxor, he is turned into his younger days by Alessi and his Stand Sethan but still manages to outshine him.
Polnareff challenges Daniel J. D'Arby to a guessing game and bets his soul, but loses thanks to Daniel's cat and is saved by Jotaro once again.
Polnareff once again fell victim of Hol Horse, who held him at gun-point and followed Thoth's weird predictions before they backfired at him.
(The Genesis of Universe: Chapter 2: The Gravestone of Red-Hot Sand)
(The italicized information below derives from a Light Novel not written by Araki. As such, it may or may not be considered canon.)
Polnareff is defeated by The Scribe Ani, who belives him to be dead and leaves his body alone. Polnareff returns to help his friends against the enemy, succesfully damaging his Stand Ptah by cooperating with Joseph.
Polnareff becomes the first to confront Dio. Later, he skewers Dio's head as he prepares to sever Jotaro's head.
After Dio's ultimate defeat, Polnareff tearfully parted with Jotaro and Joseph, remembering the three friends who had died on their journey.
Before the events of Vento Aureo, Polnareff attempted and failed to assassinate Diavolo. He was tossed off a cliff and sustained critical injuries, including the loss of one of his eyes and the use of his lower legs. Due to his survival, Polnareff was considered to be the biggest threat to Diavolo.
A confident Polnareff, crippled and in a wheelchair, encountered Buccellati's gang via the internet telling him to visit him in Rome.
Somewhere near the end of Vento Aureo, he encountered Doppio accompaning the dying Buccellati, however not knowing the boy was secretly Diavolo.
Polnareff was taken by surprise and tried to get the arrow away from Diavolo.
Polnareff was severely injured by King Crimson, but not before using the arrow on his own Stand.
When his body died, it left Silver Chariot Requiem as an insane Stand without direction. The resulting body switch put his soul inside of Coco Jumbo.
After all souls were put in the proper body, Polnareff maintained his place inside of Coco Jumbo. He claimed he could do this because of how powerful Coco Jumbo's Stand was, as it allowed his spirit to linger.
It is presumed that Polnareff spends his days in Passione as the consigliere of the new boss Giorno Giovanna.
Polnareff appears as a support character during the Jojo's Bizarre Adventure part of the game. He does not fight, instead he can guide the player to the conditions that need to be done in order to finish that part.
Polnareff appears on the SNES title as one of the main 6 playable characters along with the other 5 stardust crusaders characters. Most of Polnareff attacks includes him using Silver Chariot to attack the enemy.
Polnareff appears as one of the ten characters from the Jojo's Bizarre Adventure franchise who appears on the game.
Befitting a charge character, Polnareff can string up offensive attacks to form a somewhat unstoppable pattern. His Million Spits has good strength. He also has good Stand combos that can be used to set up attacks for an execution of Special or Super moves. He's a good character for a juggle game. Armor Takeoff is highly damaging and, used with juggle tactics, he can inflict damage easily in comparison to the other characters. However, his combos like most charge characters require a different execution, and his mostly at times might need to start his combos with jump in midair attacks. Get past his difficult execution and with mastery of the Negative Edge technique in most Capcom fighters, and Polnareff's offense can be a force to be reckoned with if he gets the opportunity (especially with his jumping M attack providing good jump-ins). He is also one of the few characters able to remote control his Stand.
Black Polnareff: This version of Polnareff is Polnareff possessed by the Anubis Stand after accidentally unsheathing Anubis' blade. This version of Polnareff is more aggressive as a result.
As if Polnareff isn't good enough for offense, Black Polnareff is even better. His increased speed gives him a good confusion game. Despite the loss of an active Stand, his moves more than make up for it - all of his special and most super attacks can be chained from basic attacks. While this makes him a close-quarters character, the damage he deals pays off the effort. Also, he gains the properties of any Anubis Sword-wielder: the ability to remember attacks. Like Shadow Dio's Incomplete The World, his Stand Button now summons Dark Silver Chariot to attack briefly, enabling him to create amazing combos out of delayed pokes and frame traps.
Polnareff make his third playable debut on the PS2 game. Based on his PART V appareance, Polnareff is playable on the chapter 19 of SUPER STORY, facing Diavolo. This time Polnareff is using a wheelchair and can freely move around the stage faster than the other characters. If Silver Chariot is activated Polnareff will always move around the target enemy. Most of his moves conssistis of Silver Chariot using it's sword to attack, such as Silver Chariot shooting it's blade and his "HORA HORA" war cry as a charged move.
If Polnareff falls due to an enemy attack and does not have his Stand gauge full he won't be able to get up until the bar is fully recharged, due to the fact he needs Silver Chariot to get up now. Polnareff is also available to play on some battles from EXTRA STORY such as Ghiaccio and "The Boss" battles. His theme is also an orchestrated version of his previous theme from Jojo's Bizarre Adventure: Heritage for the Future.
Polnareff appears as part of Jotaro's 5-Koma Special Move. Where both Star Platinum and Silver Chariot keeps punching and cutting anything that gets on the way shouting with their battle cry "ORA ORA" and "HORA HORA" (Similar to how Jotaro and Polnareff did together against Seth).
Polnareff returns as Jotaro's 5-Koma Special Attack. This time Polnareff also appears on the Jojo's Bizarre Adventure World Intro along with the others Stardust Crusaders heroes.
Polnareff is one of the 9 characters representing the PART III saga, he was among the second batch of characters confirmed along with Kakyoin, Giorno and Mista.
Overall most of Polnareff attacks return from his previous game appearance (Heritage for the Future) though performed in different fashions from last time. His most notable new move is Silver Chariot rotating itts rapier to deflect projectiles.
His HHA is “Can’t catch me when I take off the armor!”, which removes Silver Chariot’s armor, making it faster and allowing it to do multiple strikes in one attack similar to a Custom Combo but lowering defense (exactly like he did against Avdol on his fighting debut).
His GHA is “Gives you chills, doesn't it?”, where in he storms his victims with multiple strikes from Silver Chariot's afterimages.
Besides the entire cast of Part 3, Polnareff also has special intros with almost all of the entire PART 5 cast (sans Fugo). Most of them express surprise at seeing a younger and perfectly ambulatory Polnareff, though he doesn't recognize them (As the Part 5 cast only know of the one-eyed, paraplegic Polnareff of Part 5, whilst ASB's version is naturally based off of his Part 3 incarnation.) Against Diavolo, the two will say the same lines as they did in the Part 5 flashback where Polnareff realises how Diavolo's powers work.
Notably in his intro with Mista, Polnareff will wonder if Mista's Stand is the same as Hol Horse's Emperor, which it is in a different sense.
Polnareff also has two alternate costumes, the first being the attire he used during his flash-back story (the one where he met DIO for the first time) and the second one, inspired by his attire from Heritage for the Future's promotional materials.
Polnareff appears as one of of the several PART III characters who possess a Metal Stiker. His FINISH move makes Silver Chariot appears and attack the defeated opponent with it's sword several times.
Polnareff from JoJo 6251
Polnareff possessed by Anubis
Polnareff with Jotaro about to demolish Alessi
Polnareff bidding goodbye to Jotaro and Joseph after defeating Dio
Polnareff's "death"
Polnareff after his "death"
Concept art for the TV anime
Polnareff, Silver Chariot, and Tarot card representing "The Chariot"
Joestar Group in Egypt (sans Iggy)
Polnareff talking about his "dream"
Polnareff possessed by Anubis
Polnareff, held at gunpoint, using his tongue to hint at Hol Horse offscreen
Concept art for the OVA
Polnareff in Heritage of the Future (videogame)
Black Polnareff
Young Polnareff in Heritage for the Future (videogame)
Polnareff & Silver Chariot as they appear in GioGio no Kimyō na Bōken: Ōgon no Kaze
Polnareff in Jojo's Bizarre Adventure All-Star Battle (PS3 Game)
Polnareff as he appears in All-Star Battle.
Polnareff Costume A in All Star Battle
Polnareff in JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Heritage for the Future
Black Polnareff in JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Heritage for the Future
Polnareff figurine from the Super Action Statues series
From the Statue Legend series
2nd color
From the Super Figure Revolution series
2nd color
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