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Planet Waves (プラネット・ウェイブス, Puranetto Weibusu) is the Stand granted to Viviano Westwood by Whitesnake, featured in the sixth part of the JoJo's Bizarre Adventure series Stone Ocean. Resembling a flayed humanoid, Planet Waves draws small meteorites from space to Westwood, turning them into deadly projectiles against his opponents.
Planet Waves is humanoid in shape, its body covered with a pattern akin to muscle fiber. Its head resembles a human heart with metallic/technological apparatuses.
Despite having a humanoid body, Planet Waves is never shown attacking, thus its physical capabilities are unknown. However, its power over meteorites makes it dangerous to fight head-on and in the open.
Hirohiko Araki created this Stand with the thought that it'd be weird to see meteorites falling from the sky.[1]
Planet Waves draws distant meteoroids toward its user, colliding with any person or object within their vicinity.[2] It attracts the small rocks from space, which then fall to Earth precisely toward the user with enough speed that they can tear off chunks of the body[3] and cannot be heard until impact.[4] Moreover, the meteoroids heat up to 3,000 °C (5,430 °F) during their entry, increasing their lethality. The meteors appear in a time span of anywhere from minutes to seconds between each meteor.[5]
To protect the user in the event that a meteor would hit him, they will disintegrate just before making contact, no matter what happens during their descent.[2] However, it can be bypassed by putting an object on the path of the meteor which will absorb the strength of the fall and hit the user with full force.[6] Although the meteoroids Planet Waves summons are usually small, it can also attract more massive meteors to shoot them through sturdy obstacles like brick walls[7]
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