Foo Fighters
Foo Fighters (フー・ファイターズ, Fū Faitāzu) is a Stand featured in the sixth part of the JoJo's Bizarre Adventure series, Stone Ocean.
Foo Fighters allows bundles of plankton to exist in a humanoid form. Adopting a personality as well as the nickname F.F., it sides with the protagonists of the story.
Appearance
Foo Fighters takes two main appearances. Naked, it is a tall, dark, robotic humanoid of masculine proportions, and an alien visage, meant to resemble something insectoid or reptilian. It has the appearance of a chameleon, a mutant, or a space alien,[1] and also possibly resembles an alternate version of Hierophant Green.[1] Later, it maintains the appearance of the dead prisoner Atroe; a woman of average height and slim build.
As F.F.'s identity develops due to her experiences with Jolyne, the true form of her Stand takes on a more human appearance starting to resemble the body she took over while still retaining some of the features of its older form.
Color Schemes
Personality
Foo Fighters is highly intelligent and originally commanded with the task of protecting a collection of Stand DISCs by Whitesnake. Jolyne and Ermes help the Stand discover its own consciousness and identity, giving it the nickname, "F.F.". It is implied that if the entirety of Foo Fighters's plankton colony is killed and the Stand is reduced back to a DISC, they will lose all of their memories, learned experiences, and identity, once again becoming a mindless Stand when re-introduced to a new plankton colony.
Abilities
Foo Fighters is a unique fusion of a plankton colony and Stand. It is strong in close combat and possesses a set of useful abilities. At a physical level, Foo Fighters is more than a match for the power type Stone Free, being able to deflect its punches and overpower it.[2] Although Foo Fighters is particularly resilient to physical attacks, it is very dependent on a constant water supply to keep the colony in water and breaks down the moment it is dehydrated.[3]
Colony Form
Foo Fighters' peculiar nature as a sentient colony of plankton gives it several abilities.
First and foremost, Foo Fighters' nature means that it has no physical weakness. There is no limb to hurt or vital point to strike to kill it and thus it is impervious to conventional attacks. Only by damaging the whole colony can Foo Fighters be threatened. Although fragile individually, the colony can muster enough strength to pry open an automatic door.[4]
As a hive mind, Foo Fighters can produce sub-bodies by splitting the colony into several like-minded but independent parts.[3][5] This ability allows Foo Fighters to effectively fight multiple opponents and generally act stealthily in the middle of battle. Even if a large majority of the plankton dies, only one needs to survive for Foo Fighters to be able to regenerate.[6] As long as there is water, the plankton colony can rapidly multiply,[5] creating a new part of Foo Fighters rapidly and giving it great regeneration ability. With enough water, Foo Fighters can even cover a whole room and use its mass to attack.[7]
It also means that ordinary humans can see the body.[8]
On the other hand, Foo Fighters is extremely susceptible to dehydration. If its moisture is sucked away by dry matter, the plankton colony rapidly dies and will disappear. Foo Fighters thus needs constant access to water to survive.[7]
Body Invasion
By infiltrating someone's body, Foo Fighters can take over their consciousness and have access to their memories.[3] That way, it can wear their skin as a disguise to infiltrate human society. It took over the corpse of Atroe and spends the rest of the story impersonating her. It can also shape its host to its liking[9] and contort itself beyond what a human can do.[10]
The parasitism allows Foo Fighters to survive without a constant intake of water, but it reduces its ability to multiply and disperse itself as dramatically as it would in a large body of water. Moreover, it becomes susceptible to the host body losing moisture by bleeding out.[11]
Techniques
Due to a limited source of hydration, Foo Fighters can generate only so much of itself when operating inside a host body. However, its precise control over individual planktons and small bits of the colony still allows for many useful applications - letting small masses of plankton seep out of the body to act as an extra limb,[12] access tight spaces,[4] or invade liquids.[13] However, Foo Fighters also devises a ranged offensive weapon and a healing tool out of their colony.
Foo Fighters learns to shoot small parts of itself as if it was using a gun - this is later shown to incorporate plankton-composed pistol parts into its hand.[14] The bits of the plankton colony can also invade someone's body and take control or damage it from the inside.[15][16] The shots have enough strength to pierce through skin.[12]
The most peculiar use of their abilities was demonstrated when Foo Fighters dispersed its individual planktons through about a third of a cup of water to shape it into a small mirror floating in mid-air.[13]
Video Games
Monster Strike (Android/iOS)
Foo Fighters appears as a non-playable boss character in the mobile game Monster Strike.
フー・ファイターズ
Puzzle & Dragons (Android/iOS)
Foo Fighters was obtainable for a limited time as an assist in the mobile game Puzzle & Dragons.
フー・ファイターズ
Chapters / Episodes
- Stone Ocean Chapter 26: There's Six of Us!, Part 1
- Stone Ocean Chapter 28: There's Six of Us!, Part 3
- Stone Ocean Chapter 29: There's Six of Us!, Part 4
- Stone Ocean Chapter 30: There's Six of Us!, Part 5
- Stone Ocean Chapter 31: Foo Fighters, Part 1
- Stone Ocean Chapter 32: Foo Fighters, Part 2
- Stone Ocean Chapter 33: Foo Fighters, Part 3
- Stone Ocean Chapter 34: Debt Collector Marilyn Manson, Part 1
- Stone Ocean Chapter 35: Debt Collector Marilyn Manson, Part 2
- Stone Ocean Chapter 36: Debt Collector Marilyn Manson, Part 3
- Stone Ocean Chapter 37: Debt Collector Marilyn Manson, Part 4
- Stone Ocean Chapter 38: Debt Collector Marilyn Manson, Part 5
- Stone Ocean Chapter 39: Debt Collector Marilyn Manson, Part 6
- Stone Ocean Chapter 51: Kiss of Love and Revenge, Part 1 (Cover only) (Mentioned only)
- Stone Ocean Chapter 54: Kiss of Love and Revenge, Part 4
- Stone Ocean Chapter 55: Kiss of Love and Revenge, Part 5 (Cover only)
- Stone Ocean Chapter 59: His Name is Anasui
- Stone Ocean Chapter 62: The Secret of Guard Westwood, Part 3
- Stone Ocean Chapter 67: Enter the Dragon's Dream, Part 1
- Stone Ocean Chapter 68: Enter the Dragon's Dream, Part 2
- Stone Ocean Chapter 69: Enter the Dragon's Dream, Part 3
- Stone Ocean Chapter 70: Enter the Dragon's Dream, Part 4
- Stone Ocean Chapter 71: Enter the Dragon's Dream, Part 5
- Stone Ocean Chapter 72: Enter the Foo Fighters
- Stone Ocean Chapter 73: Enter the Dragon's Dream, Part 6
- Stone Ocean Chapter 74: Enter the Dragon's Dream, Part 7
- Stone Ocean Chapter 76: Birth of the "Green", Part 1
- Stone Ocean Chapter 79: Yo-Yo Ma is Coming!, Part 2 (Flashback)
- Stone Ocean Chapter 80: Yo-Yo Ma is Coming!, Part 3
- Stone Ocean Chapter 82: Yo-Yo Ma is Coming!, Part 5
- Stone Ocean Chapter 84: F.F. - The Witness, Part 2
- Stone Ocean Chapter 85: Awaken, Part 1
- Stone Ocean Chapter 90: Whitesnake - The Pursuer, Part 2
- Stone Ocean Chapter 91: Whitesnake - The Pursuer, Part 3
- Stone Ocean Chapter 92: Whitesnake - The Pursuer, Part 4
- Stone Ocean Chapter 93: Whitesnake - The Pursuer, Part 5
- Steel Ball Run Extra Chapter 3: Untitled Stand Chapter (Mentioned only)
- Stone Ocean Episode 7: There's Six of Us!
- Stone Ocean Episode 8: Foo Fighters
- Stone Ocean Episode 9: Debt Collector Marilyn Manson
- Stone Ocean Episode 13: Kiss of Love and Revenge, Part 1
- Stone Ocean Episode 14: Kiss of Love and Revenge, Part 2
- Stone Ocean Episode 15: Ultra Security House Unit
- Stone Ocean Episode 16: The Secret of Guard Westwood
- Stone Ocean Episode 17: Enter the Dragon's Dream
- Stone Ocean Episode 18: Enter the Foo Fighters
- Stone Ocean Episode 19: Birth of the "Green"
- Stone Ocean Episode 20: F.F. - The Witness
- Stone Ocean Episode 21: Awaken
- Stone Ocean Episode 22: Time for Heaven! New Moon! New Priest! (Death)
Gallery
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 JOJOVELLER: Araki's Stand Commentaries - Foo Fighters
- ↑ Stone Ocean Chapter 29: There's Six of Us!, Part 4
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Stone Ocean Chapter 30: There's Six of Us!, Part 5
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Stone Ocean Chapter 38: Debt Collector Marilyn Manson, Part 5
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Stone Ocean Chapter 31: Foo Fighters, Part 1
- ↑ Stone Ocean Chapter 74: Enter the Dragon's Dream, Part 7
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Stone Ocean Chapter 32: Foo Fighters, Part 2
- ↑ Stone Ocean Chapter 26: There's Six of Us!, Part 1
- ↑ Stone Ocean Chapter 33: Foo Fighters, Part 3
- ↑ Stone Ocean Chapter 68: Enter the Dragon's Dream, Part 2
- ↑ Stone Ocean Chapter 71: Enter the Dragon's Dream, Part 5
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 Stone Ocean Chapter 37: Debt Collector Marilyn Manson, Part 4
- ↑ 13.0 13.1 Stone Ocean Chapter 73: Enter the Dragon's Dream, Part 6
- ↑ Stone Ocean Chapter 54: Kiss of Love and Revenge, Part 4
- ↑ Stone Ocean Chapter 34: Debt Collector Marilyn Manson, Part 1
- ↑ Stone Ocean Chapter 85: Awaken, Part 1
- ↑ Stone Ocean Chapter 51: Kiss of Love and Revenge, Part 1
- ↑ Stone Ocean Chapter 95: New Moon! New Priest