- JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Episode 9: The Final Ripple! (Stone)
Santana (サンタナ, Santana) jest drugorzędnym antagonistą występującym w drugiej części serii JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, Battle Tendency.
Santana jest członkiem starożytnej rasy Ludzi Filaru i po raz pierwszy zostaje wprowadzony w stan hibernacji w azteckich ruinach odkrytych przez Roberta E. O. Speedwagona. Po tym, jak został przechwycony przez nazistów, budzi się ze snu i sieje spustoszenie w ich ośrodku badawczym, dopóki Joseph Joestar nie przybywa i nie rzuca mu wyzwania.
Santana jest bardzo wysokim, muskularnym mężczyzną z długimi, falującymi jasnymi włosami do ramion i dwiema grzywkami na czole. Ma grube kolczaste brwi i dwa małe rogi na czubku głowy. Jest prawie całkowicie nagi, z wyjątkiem przepaski na biodrach. W anime ma również krenelażowany tatuaż na dolnej lewej powiece.
Podczas hibernacji Santana nosił zbroję składającą się z naramienników, kirysu, który jest zakrzywiony do wewnątrz po bokach, kolczastych ochraniaczy przedramion i nakolanników. Kolumna kilku wypukłości przypominających kości jest osadzona na środku jego zbroi od klatki piersiowej do brzucha. Po przebudzeniu jego zbroja pęka i odpada.
Santana jest spokojnym, spostrzegawczym i bardzo inteligentnym Człowiekiem Filaru. Jest elastyczny i dociekliwy o tym, jak zmienił się świat, gdy spał. Chociaż Stroheim początkowo zakłada, że Santana jest prymitywnym stworzeniem, ponieważ poślizgnął się na wodzie, a następnie drapał przez chwilę swoje ciało i włosy, Santana udowadnia, że jego wiedza wykracza daleko poza to, do czego zdolni są ludzie.[1] Szybko uczy się płynnie posługiwać innym językiem wkrótce po usłyszeniu nazistów, łatwo odkrywa, jak uciec ze schronu, w którym był zamknięty, wykrzywiając swoje ciało, aby uciec przez otwór wentylacyjny, i jest w stanie rozłożyć broń w ciągu kilku sekund, co normalnie zajęłoby ludziom godziny treningu.[2]
Podobnie jak inni Ludzie Filaru w grupie Karsa, Santana jest okrutny i obojętny wobec ludzi. Po przebudzeniu brutalnie zabija pobliskich nazistów za zakłócanie snu.[3] Początkowo ignoruje wprowadzenie Josepha i okazuje brak zainteresowania, poświęcając czas na zbadanie otoczenia. Jednak kiedy sondowanie Josepha zaczyna go denerwować, Santana traci opanowanie i natychmiast próbuje go zabić. Po obejrzeniu Fali Josepha, Santana, czy ludzie ewoluowali, czy też Joseph jest po prostu wyjątkowy.[2] Niemniej jednak Santana pozwala Josephowi go zaatakować, aby mógł nauczyć się, jak działa ta technika.[4] Nawet wystawiony na działanie promieni słonecznych Santana nie przejmuje się tym i wchodzi w ciało Stroheima jako tarcza przeciwko niemu.[5]
Jako Człowiek Filaru, Santana jest w stanie wykonywać najbardziej podstawowe umiejętności jednego z nich. Choć znacznie młodszy i nie tak doświadczony, Santana zademonstrował kilka technik podobnych do tych używanych przez osoby z grupy Karsa, a także niektóre z jego własnych.
As an advanced being, Santana's senses are much higher than that of a human. During his initial emergence from the pillar, he was seen using his nose to scout out the area.
Santana possesses a higher form of intelligence and is able to figure out most things simply by studying them for a brief moment. Given a short amount of time, Santana can quickly learn and become fluent in any language, and was able to dismantle a gun almost instantly, a feat which would have taken several hours for a trained soldier to learn. Despite these feats, Santanna's intelligence is likely inferior to his Pillar Men brethren as his prowess in battle is less sophisticated, and it took longer for him to fluently speak modern language.
As with all Pillar Men, Santana is capable of freely manipulating his body structure. Doing so allows him to fit into small spaces such as sliding through the grate of an air vent or the orifice of a human body and thus controlling them from the inside. Because the properties of his body are much like "rubber" as Joseph puts it, his body, including typically human vital areas such as his eyes or groin, tends to absorb attacks and can freely phase through objects, as well as shoot objects he just absorbed, like bullets.
The cells that constitute Santana's body release a potent digestive acid that melts anything organic on physical contact while making it appear the Santana is absorbing his victim into his body. Santana also displayed this ability through forcing himself into a person's body, controlling their movement while gradually eating them from the inside-out. Only those who use Ripple are immune as the cells recognize the threat the energy poses to them. Due to the psychoactive toxin produced by the Pillar Man's cells during this process, those whose bodies are invaded by Santana describe the sensation as wonderful.
Also called Open Ribs (露骨な肋骨, Rokotsu na Rokkotsu), Santana is able to control his ribs. Each of them are capable of spinning and moving in any direction. Having a maximum length of 132 cm (4.33 ft) and a maximum pressure of 825 kg (1,819 lb) per centimeter squared, Santana can use them to either crush or impale his opponents.
Also called Malevolent Meat Morsels (憎き肉片, Nikku ki Niku-hen). Aside from the standard method of absorbing humans or vampires via his body, Santana can release chunks of his flesh in the shape of leeches, which latch onto and absorb his opponent's blood.
Santana had originally lived in Mexico with the other Pillar Men. After Kars's rampage and slaughter of the Pillar Man race, the child Santana, along with Wamuu, was adopted and trained by Kars and Esidisi. He was later left behind in Mexico by Kars, who deemed him only useful as a guard dog, while he and the others left for the old world to find a flawless Red Stone of Aja.[6] As a result, Santana would be unaware of the energy called Ripple which the other Pillar Men learned and developed defenses against. Eventually, claiming that it was because he used too much power, Santana entered a 2000[7] year-long rest by fusing himself into a pillar within a temple that was one of the proponents for Kars' Stone Mask project.
Santana is discovered in a Mexican pyramid in 1938 by an expedition team led by Robert E. O. Speedwagon that is later betrayed by Straizo. However, Straizo notices that Santana had been absorbing the spilled blood and to prevent Santana from awakening, dumps the bodies of the men he attacked into a nearby river. Santana is then excavated and studied by a team of Nazis in an underground base. The team, led by Major Rudol von Stroheim, conducts live human experiments with the Stone Mask in order to try to strengthen the Nazi Army. The blood from multiple prisoners causes the Pillar Man to awaken, Stroheim naming the being "Santana" while he and the rest observe him. When one of the vampires created is brought into the chamber, Santana allows the creature to attack so he could absorb the vampire and gain nourishment. Despite the Nazi's initial opinion that he was a dim-witted savage rather than an Übermensch, Santana catches everyone off guard further by uttering Stroheim's full name once he finished his meal.
Santana, sensing hostility within the iron, fortified room, breaks many of his own bones in order to squeeze himself into the 4-by-20 cm ventilation outlet of the room, doing so at a speed faster than human eyes can perceive. By the time Stroheim realized what occurred, Santana reached the observation room while entering the body of a German who was too close to the vent. After absorbing the host and getting shot at, Santana fires the bullets inside his body from his fingertips, killing almost everyone in the room. Joseph Joestar (disguised as a Nazi) protects Speedwagon, Stroheim, and himself from Santana's attack by channeling the Ripple into Stroheim's hair and using it to shield them.
Toying with the Pillar Man, Joseph assumed Santana killed the Nazis out of self-defense before being attacked. Santana, expressing annoyance at Joseph's antics, realized he could not absorb the human and attempted to do the same with Speedwagon out of assessment. This enrages Joseph as both learn that ripple was preventing Santana's cells from digesting him. Using this to his advantage, Joseph allows himself to be absorbed by Santana and then unleashes the ripple from the inside, splitting the Pillar Man in half. As Santana's body begins to regenerate, his torso is dragged by Joseph to be exposed to sunlight and turn into stone again. After a struggle involving Stroheim sacrificing one of his legs, the door to the outside is open and a fully regenerated Santana is exposed to the light. But the Pillar man quickly forces himself into Stroheim's body in order to escape the sun while attempting to hide in a well, forcing the Nazi to sacrifice himself to leave Santana into the open.
Desperate, Santana charges Joseph as the two go flying down the well. Santana realizes too late that Joseph allowed him to enter the well as it was exposed to the sun's reflection, turning the Pillar Man back to stone with some damage caused by the fall. Santana's remains were later taken to the Washington branch of Speedwagon Foundation, the Pillar Man kept immobile by UV lights and revealed to still be alive. Santana's ultimate fate is never addressed.
Santana appears as a Boss in Area 4. The player faces him in a one-on-one battle using only Joseph Joestar.
Due to the game's release date, Part 2 had only reached prior to Esidisi's battle against Joseph. Thus, only Santana and Esidisi appear as the enemies faced during the JoJo's Bizarre Adventure part of the game, instead of Kars or Wamuu. By appearing in this game, Santana is the first antagonist of the series to ever appear in a game, alongside Esidisi.
Santana is briefly mentioned during the dialogue in Part 2's Story Mode. For the Western version of the game, he was renamed "Santviento" to match the Crunchyroll subs. Initially, his name was "San Tan" in a press release from Bandai Namco Games Europe.[8]
Santana is one of the several Part 2 characters who possesses a Metal Striker for the game. His Finish move has him fire bullets from his fingertips at the defeated opponent (similar to his retaliation against the Nazis), and his second special ability allows him to counterattack any Metal Striker enemy who attacks him by using his Ribs Blades.
Fighting a Vampire Prisoner
Attacking Speedwagon
Santana being monitored in a petrified state by the Speedwagon Foundation under UV lights
Chapter 54 Cover
Chapter 55 Cover B
Chapter 57 Cover B
Chapter 60 Cover A
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Chapter 61 Cover
Chapter 62 Cover
Killing a Vampire Prisoner
Santana staring at Stroheim
Santana in BLOODY STREAM
Santana in the ending credits
Santana's introduction From The Part 3 OVA Timelines Video
Santana appearing in a flashback whilst Straizo is talking to Joseph Joestar
Satana about to attack Joseph (Part 3 OVA Timelines)
Santana Being Chained Up By Joseph (Part 3 OVA Timelines)
Santana Being Exposed To The Sun (Part 3 OVA Timelines)
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Chara Heroes; Part 2
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