Cream Starter
Cream Starter (クリーム・スターター, Kurīmu Sutātā) is the Stand of Hot Pants, featured in the seventh part of the JoJo's Bizarre Adventure series, Steel Ball Run.
Cream Starter manifests as a spray can that can emit and manipulate the flesh of enemies or Hot Pants' own.
Appearance
Cream Starter takes the form of two hand-held spray canisters. The bodies consist of a nozzle attached to a half-cylindrical section covered in holes, a grip, and a vent-like bottom portion.
Color Schemes
Abilities
Much like Emperor and Beach Boy, Cream Starter functions as a tool and weapon for Hot Pants, who uses its ability to manipulate flesh in various ways. Its power is very versatile and deadly against humans.
Rare among Stands, Cream Starter can be used by anyone who can take hold of the spray, Stand user or not. Cream Starter also seems to be able to maintain itself and its power no matter the distance, and even through different dimensions of its user, as shown by Funny Valentine giving a Cream Starter to Johnny who uses it on his horse's throat.[1]
Flesh Spray
The signature ability of Cream Starter is to spray flesh as a cream-like substance that then retakes its original consistence.[2]
Hot Pants can spray a certain amount of flesh to act as a projectile, using her own flesh,[3] or absorbing the flesh of an individual by directly touching them,[2] to use as fuel for her spray. It seems that for small uses, no flesh is needed. The flesh can fly tens of meter in the air if need be,[3] but Hot Pants typically uses the spray within proximity of herself.
If the sprayed flesh touches someone, it fuses with the individual in various harmful or beneficial ways depending on Hot Pants' goal:
- The flesh can directly return to a solid state, potentially blocking respiratory ways and the eyes, suffocating and blinding enemies.[2][4]
- The flesh can also decompose a person's body upon contact, for instance Ringo Roadagain's hand was cut off this way.[3]
- The flesh can automatically heal someone's wounds, and push out foreign objects to completely heal allies.[5]
- By spraying flesh on someone's face, it can allow the target to freely use it to create a flesh mask and perfectly impersonate someone else.[6] To undo the disguise, the target can simply pull the flesh off.
- Hot Pants can incorporate chemicals inside someone's body, for instance a sleeping drug.[6]
- Hot Pants can incorporate some of her flesh inside someone to manipulate their body. The one instance of this application was to make Mike O.'s throat explode.
Hot Pants can transform her whole body into fuel for the spray, allowing her to become more liquid-like and creep through narrow spaces, infiltrating a presidential residence this way.[7] She can also detach body parts such as a hand with Cream Starter and spray them away to attack and act from unexpected angles.[2] A downside of this ability is a detached body part transfers any pain it feels back to the user.
Chapters
Manga Appearances- Steel Ball Run Chapter 33: The World of Man, Part 1
- Steel Ball Run Chapter 34: The World of Man, Part 2
- Steel Ball Run Chapter 36: The Green Tomb, Part 1
- Steel Ball Run Chapter 42: Silent Way, Part 3 (Mentioned only)
- Steel Ball Run Chapter 44: Silent Way, Part 5
- Steel Ball Run Chapter 49: Tubular Bells, Part 2 (Flashback)
- Steel Ball Run Chapter 50: Tubular Bells, Part 3
- Steel Ball Run Chapter 56: Civil War, Part 1
- Steel Ball Run Chapter 61: Both Sides Now, Part 2
- Steel Ball Run Chapter 73: D4C, Part 6
- Steel Ball Run Chapter 74: D4C, Part 7
- Steel Ball Run Chapter 75: D4C, Part 8
- Steel Ball Run Chapter 77: D4C, Part 10 (Death)
- Steel Ball Run Chapter 88: Break My Heart, Break Your Heart, Part 1 (Alternate Hot Pants's)
- Steel Ball Run Chapter 89: Break My Heart, Break Your Heart, Part 2 (Alternate Hot Pants's)
- Steel Ball Run Chapter 90: High Voltage, Part 1 (Alternate Hot Pants's)
- Steel Ball Run Chapter 91: High Voltage, Part 2 (Mentioned only) (Alternate Hot Pants's)
Creation and Development
Hirohiko Araki states that when creating Cream Starter, he simply wanted a Stand that could "spray stuff out to let you transform and stuff". Additionally, the way it worked was based off of shaving cream cans, making a "fshhh" sound.[8]
Gallery
Explanation of ability
Johnny being affected by Cream Starter
Funny Valentine throws Alternate Hot Pants' Cream Starter over Johnny
SBR Chapter 57 Cover
SBR Chapter 75 Cover
Ultra Jump 2006 Issue #1
UJ 2006 Issue #1 (Cover)
SBR Volume 8 Illustration
SBR Chapter 34 Tailpiece
References
- ↑ Steel Ball Run Chapter 88: Break My Heart, Break Your Heart, Part 1
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Steel Ball Run Chapter 33: The World of Man, Part 1
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Steel Ball Run Chapter 34: The World of Man, Part 2
- ↑ Steel Ball Run Chapter 73: D4C, Part 6
- ↑ Steel Ball Run Chapter 36: The Green Tomb, Part 1
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Steel Ball Run Chapter 49: Tubular Bells, Part 2
- ↑ Steel Ball Run Chapter 50: Tubular Bells, Part 3
- ↑ JOJOVELLER: Araki's Stand Commentaries - Cream Starter
