Mariah
Mariah (マライヤ Maraiya) is a minor antagonist appearing in Part III: Stardust Crusaders.
Appearance/Personality
Mariah appears as a long-legged woman in a miniskirt and a hood. She wears white gloves, tights, and black leather shoes. She collects screws and bolts as projectiles that launch themselves at her magnetized victims.
Mariah comes off as a calm, cool-headed person. This might be a facade however, as she easily loses her cool whenever things don't go according to plan. She is subject to contorting her face and biting her lip comedically when she is upset or uncomfortable. She also possesses a very distinct laugh, an act she often performs whenever she has her opponents helplessly trapped in the magnetic power of her Stand. Mariah also seems to demonstrate either some degree of promiscuity or attraction towards older men, as she mentions that Joseph is very sexy and that she would have been his lover if it were not for Dio Brando being more attractive.
Synopsis
Stardust Crusaders
Mariah magnetizes Joseph Joestar and Mohammed Avdol with her stand, attracting metal upon them and even into each other, giving them all sorts of difficulties. During a very powerful display of tactics, she attempts to get Mohammed Avdol and Joseph Joestar run over by a train and even electrocuted. However, the two managed to outsmart her by maneuvering her in between them, and then having their metal-cluttered bodies slam into her, breaking her bones and deactivating her stand. She is later hospitalized and is unable to fight anymore because of her broken bones.
In Video Games
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure (SNES)
She makes a non-playable appearance
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Heritage for the Future
She appears as a playable character with an style based on ranged traps, most of which were taken from her fight against Joseph and Avdol. Her game style is focused on middle-long range, keeping the enemy away with her moveset. Even without an active stand, her Bast no Jiryoku, when used right, can power up her Supers and even increase the range of the Gunbatsu no Ashi, making her a very deadly opponent. She's one of the only characters in the game to fight on a middle-long range, the other main being Hol Horse.
| Special Moves | Extra Moves | Super Combos |
| Collection | Bast no Jiryoku (Magnetism of Bast) | Iron Crusher |
| Gunbatsu no Ashi (Supreme Legs) | Nanisouzou Shitennosa (What do you think is happening?) | |
| Kanden Kurokoge (Charring Electric Shock) |
Trivia
- Mariah is one of the special characters in Heritage for the Future that do not turn into a child when hit by Alessi's stand, turning to the old woman that Joseph encounters after her skirt buttons fly up.
- When she doesn't get her way, she loses her cool & twists her face very comically.
Gallery
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Mariah using a special move in JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Heritage for the Future.
Mariah's Face Fault
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Mariah's defeat at the hands of Joseph & Avdol
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