Nut King Call
Nut King Call (ナット・キング・コール, Natto Kingu Kōru) is the Stand of Joshu Higashikata, featured in the eighth part of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure series, JoJolion. It is a humanoid Stand with a nuts and bolts theme. Its power is to conjure nuts and bolts on objects or people, disassembling and assembling them as if they were mere pieces of a machine.
Appearance
Nut King Call is a humanoid Stand similar in height to Joshu. It has screws embedded in the sides of its head and its spindly arms. It has two shield-shaped eyes similar to a bug's and many nuts and bolts surrounding its neck resembling a ruff.
On its forehead rests a large V crest. Its face and arms are also textured with slight ridges. Its torso is covered in a tessellated triangle motif similar to Caesar's headband or Jotaro's belt.
Nut King Call's wrists were originally large and circular with two lines connecting to the screws on its knuckles. In its later appearances, its wrists are longer and cylindrical, no longer having the connections to its knuckles.
Color Schemes
Abilities
Nut King Call is a humanoid close-range stand with the ability to manipulate planted nuts and bolts in a target. It's shown being capable of pummeling opponents, such as Joshu attempting to stop Toru from reaching Yasuho Hirose on the day of the harvest.[1]
Nuts and Bolts
By planting nuts and bolts in a target, Nut King Call creates functional artificial joints. When a nut is removed from a bolt, which may be done almost instantly, the object breaks up and is disassembled. When applied to humans, the process of dismantling body parts appears painless.[2] These separations seem to undo themselves when a target is out of range, as seen when a thug accosting Joshu finds his hands reattached (albeit incorrectly) when Joshu flees.[3]
Nut King Call may also fasten together whatever objects are between a nut and a connecting bolt. This is first demonstrated when Joshu dispatches of a bar owner and his men by forcibly affixing parts of their bodies together and escaping as they stumbled around.[4] Later, he does the same to a bottle that Zaihei Nigatake was drinking from and the cursed money generated from Milagroman.[5]
Nut King Call can even detach its own user's body parts, such as a tongue. When this happens, it is shown that Joshu still has control and feeling over the detached body part.[6]
Chapters
Manga Appearances- JoJolion Chapter 20: "Shakedown Road", Part 3
- JoJolion Chapter 21: "Shakedown Road", Part 4
- JoJolion Chapter 25: Paper Moon Deception, Part 3
- JoJolion Chapter 26: Tsurugi Higashikata's Goal, and the Architect (Cover only)
- JoJolion Chapter 48: Hato Brought Her Boyfriend Home, Part 2
- JoJolion Chapter 56: Milagroman, Part 1
- JoJolion Chapter 57: Milagroman, Part 2
- JoJolion Chapter 58: Dawn of the Higashikata Family
- JoJolion Chapter 83: The New Locacaca
- JoJolion Chapter 102: The Wonder of You, Part 19
- JoJolion Chapter 104: The Wonder of You, Part 21
- JoJolion Chapter 105: Safety First
- JoJolion Chapter 106: Go Beyond
- JoJolion Chapter 110: Higashikata Fruit Parlor (Cover only)
Gallery
Explanation of ability from the tailpiece of JJL Chapter 21
Joshu meeting his Stand for the first time
The effect of Nut King Call's bolts being removed
Multiple screws removed
Thug's hands restored incorrectly
Nut King Call being immobilized by Vitamin C
Liquefied Nut King Call being drained, along with Joshu
Nut King Call and its Master
Affixing two heads together plus another man's hand
Joshu uses Nut King Call to trick Nigatake
Fastening Milagroman's bills onto a bottle, Joshu leaves Nigatake with the curse
Undressing Kaato
A deranged Joshu summoning Nut King Call to attack Yasuho
Joshu summons Nut King Call and performs a Stand Rush against Toru
JJL Chapter 21 Cover A
JJL Chapter 26 Cover B
Ultra Jump 2013 Issue #12 (Title Page)
JJL Chapter 57 Cover
JJL Chapter 83 Cover
JJL Chapter 110 Cover
UJ 2021 Issue #9 (Chapter Cover)
JJL Volume 5 Cover
JJL Volume 5 Illustration
JJL Volume 27 Cover
JJL Volume 5 (Inside Illustration)
JJL Chapter 24 Tailpiece
Joshu's Heat Attack
Nuts & Bolts
Nut King Call
Stand Attack
Nut King Call render in Eyes of Heaven
Nut King Call Normal
Ultra Jump 2016 Issue #8 (UJ PRESS)
Trivia
- Soft & Wet was originally planned to have the ability to attach screws to things, but the ability was ultimately given to Nut King Call instead.[7]
- Like all other Stands used by members of the Higashikata Family, its name includes the word "King".
References
- ↑ JoJolion Chapter 106: Go Beyond
- ↑ JoJolion Chapter 21: "Shakedown Road", Part 4, p.4-5
- ↑ JoJolion Chapter 21: "Shakedown Road", Part 4, p.12
- ↑ JoJolion Chapter 56: Milagroman, Part 1, p.36
- ↑ JoJolion Chapter 57: Milagroman, Part 2, p.46
- ↑ JoJolion Chapter 83: The New Locacaca, p.20
- ↑ JOJOVELLER: Araki's Stand Commentaries - Nut King Call
