In its brief appearance with its user alive, Notorious B.I.G seems humanoid. It wears a striped half-mask rising in a peak above its head and extending over its right eye. Its teeth are bared in a snarl, although it's unclear if this is a permanent expression or merely its reaction to Carne's injuries.
After reactivating itself following its user's death, Notorious B.I.G. begins developing a body of blobby flesh. Once large enough, it develops a crude form with two small limbs and a tail. It gains the eyes and mask of its previous form, along with armored bands on its body and shoulders and tiny, wheel-like "hands" at the ends of its arms.
After consuming enough matter, Notorious B.I.G undergoes a second transformation into a much larger monster. It becomes big enough to fill up the entire end of a plane's cabin and its arms become two stretchy tentacles. Its pointed helmet now curls over the top of its head and the Stand now possesses a mouth filled with blunt human-like teeth.
Color Schemes
The series is known for alternating colors between media, the information presented below may or may not be canon.
Colored MangaGioGioAnime
(Humanoid)
Body(Green gray)
Eyes(Yellow)
Mask(White and blue stripes)
(Post-Mortem)
Flesh(Magenta)
Eyes(Yellow)
Mask and Armor(White and blue stripes)
Wheels(Gray axles and black wheels)
Flesh(Burgundy)
Eyes(Yellow)
Mask and Armor(Green gray and blue gray stripes)
Wheels(Golden axles and black wheels)
(Humanoid)
Body(Hot pink)
Eyes(Yellow)
Mask(White and blue stripes)
(Post-Mortem)
Flesh(Congo pink)
Eyes(Yellow)
Mask and Armor(White and blue stripes)
Personality
Notorious B.I.G. seems to have an animalistic personality, seeking only to devour things to further its growth. However, it appears to communicate with Giorno when it begins to develop on his arm, revealing information about itself that its current target couldn't possibly know (such as its name and the nature of its existence).
Abilities
Notorious B.I.G is one of the few Stands able to exist even after its user's death. Coupled with its ability to grow by absorbing energy, even that of attacks, Notorious B.I.G can be said to be truly invincible. However, as an automated Stand, it can be bypassed.
Post-Mortem Activation
While Notorious B.I.G can be summoned while Carne is alive,[2] the Stand is said to only activate upon its User's death, drawing energy from Carne's grudge. This is one of its main features and gets rid of a potential weakness. Initially, Notorious B.I.G seems to have no body after the death of its user, instead constructing one by absorbing matter and energy from an outside source.[3] As this body is made of physical matter, it is vulnerable to mundane damage such as being flung into objects[4] or getting impaled;[5] however, any surviving pieces will remain active and capable of regenerating themselves.
Energy Absorption
Notorious B.I.G eats at Giorno's arm
Upon activation, Notorious B.I.G slowly infects anyone that has touched the remains of its user and eats away at flesh and energy in order to grow a body; this includes Stand energy[6] and energy from automated objects like an engine.[3][5] Through this ability, Notorious B.I.G can grow to a great volume with enough energy, eventually reaching a size comparable to a jet plane. More importantly, one speck of it can completely recover from near-destruction as long as it reaches a source of energy to feed on, making it nigh-impossible to defeat.[5]
Its ability to absorb Stand energy makes it immune to Stand attacks, enabling it to seek out Stands in order to feed on them.[7]
Partial Symbiosis
In its initial growth phase, Notorious B.I.G. can influence its host's body, causing them to perform actions without being consciously aware of them. After infecting Giorno, it somehow made him take some of Carne's fingers and put them into a plane's freezer; later, it used a pen to write out Giorno's thoughts on the wall and window.
Speed Detection
Notorious B.I.G detects and can catch up to the fastest things near it
While Notorious B.I.G is blind, it can detect movement around itself, driving it to automatically attack the fastest moving object within range.[7] After detecting the object moving fastest with respect to itself, it accelerates itself until it can latch onto its target; at one point, it becomes fast enough to catch up with a plane flying at 800kph.[8] This trait makes Notorious B.I.G.'s behavior predictable if one is aware of it;[7] the Stand can be distracted with various objects like the moving hand of a clock[4] or a motorized seat[9] as long as nothing is moving faster than it. This also secures its prison in the ocean; the constant motion of waves and currents confuses Notorious B.I.G. to the point where it can no longer attack anything besides the odd passing boat.[10]
History
Notorious B.I.G was originally the humanoid Stand of Carne, though nothing is known about its abilities then. Carne is sent on a mission to kill Passione's traitors, but is immediately killed by Mista. However, it is eventually revealed that Notorious B.I.G survived after Carne's death and latched onto Giorno's body when he attempts to confirm the enemy's demise, only making its presence known well after the plane takes off. Consuming Giorno's arm to grow, it attacks and incapacitates Mista and Narancia in rapid succession.
Although Giorno succeeds in throwing the Stand outside by cutting off his remaining hand, it quickly catches up to the plane and begins to attack Trish before shifting its focus to Giorno's brooch, which Gold Experience turned into a hand earlier. Trish's attempt to protect Giorno's hand leads to the awakening of her Stand Spice Girl, which allows Trish to impale and seemingly destroy Notorious B.I.G. In actuality, a piece of the immortal Stand entered the engine room and absorbed the energy of the engine, causing it to grow huge.
In defiance of Bucciarati's plan to crash the plane, Trish tears the plane apart with Spice Girl, turning the cockpit into a makeshift parachute while the majority of Notorious B.I.G chases the larger, faster-falling part of the plane into the Tyrrhenian Sea. While a small piece of the Stand is found on Abbacchio's hair, Bruno attacks it with Sticky Fingers, causing it to attach to his arm. Trish then cuts off his arm to send it into the sea. Notorious B.I.G remains alive and active in the Tyrrhenian Sea, occasionally chasing down and destroying quickly-moving ships; this behavior leads sailors to call it "Tyrrhenian's stomach".
Notorious B.I.G appears in GioGio's Bizarre Adventure in Chapters 8-1 and 8-2. In Chapter 8-1, Notorious B.I.G will move back and forth aimlessly until something moves, at which point the Stand will leap at and attack the source of the movement. The Stand only has one move against the player in this form: it will jump on the player's head before knocking them to the front of the plane. If one of the seats is attacked by the player, it will begin reclining, and Notorious B.I.G will begin tearing into it; if the attack that triggers it is a Stand Shoot from Spice Girl, B.I.G will be unable to destroy the seat.
Having eaten the airplane's engines, Notorious B.I.G grows to a gigantic size in Chapter 8-2, and continues growing during the fight. If B.I.G reaches the front of the plane, the player character will be crushed and die instantly. The player must attack B.I.G in order to set it back and stall it for two minutes. Notorious B.I.G will swipe at the player if they are too close, and stretch its arms in order to punch them from far away.
Both forms of Notorious B.I.G move and attack automatically, and even hacking the game to play as them will not allow the player to control them.
Notorious B.I.G
Moves (Small)
Moves (Large)
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Stand stats
Notorious B.I.G's first appearance before Carne's death
Attacked by Mista as Carne dies
The Stand's first re-manifestation after Carne's death, as finger pieces
The fingers slowly growing and multiplying
Notorious B.I.G finally attacks, starting with Giorno Giovanna
Araki admits that he created Notorious B.I.G simply as an opponent for Trish to fight and enjoyed drawing Carne more than the Stand itself.[11]
The anime adaptation changed the romanization of the Stand's name into "Notorius B.I.G".
Notorious B.I.G's ability or naming scheme may be based on the Notorious B.I.G. album Life After Death, which was released a year prior to the stand's debut.
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