Midler
Midler (ミドラー) is a minor antagonist of Part III: Stardust Crusaders.
Appearance
She is a stand user never seen except waist-down in two frames of the manga. The protagonists found her convulsing body on the beach after defeating her stand. Polnareff tried to take a look at her, but could not bear to do so because she had lost all her teeth when Star Platinum punched them out from her stand's mouth. By the little that can be seen from the manga, Midler was wearing a simple dress when defeated, but when Capcom wanted to use her in their game they asked Araki to make a new design for her, and so he did, portraying Midler with a bellydancer-esk attire and wearing starfish nipple bikini.
Synopsis
Midler is a famous stand user (as Abdul knew about her) hired by Dio to kill the Joestar group, infiltrating her stand on Mohammed Abdul's submarine to trap them in a closed space. Taking the form of different things, her stand continuously attacks and escapes from the group, while Midler taunts them talking through her stand. Eventually traping them in his own stand's mouth, Midler clains that her teeth are harder than diamonds and tries to crush Jotaro with them, but instead has her teeth punched out by Star Platinum. Jean Pierre Polnareff, wanting to take a look at her, goes to her convulsating body but says it isn't worth to look, because of her now toothless face.
Heritage for the Future
In the game Heritage for the Future, her story mode tells a drastically different tale from her fate in the original manga. She trails Jotaro's group in order to carry out Dio's orders to kill them and successfully wins against them, one by one. After she finally defeats Jotaro himself, she returns to Dio's mansion to report the good news. Cream informs her that Dio needed Joseph or Jotaro's fresh blood, and she is forced to defeat him in order to get past and see Dio. However, when she finally reaches Dio, he reassures her - before declaring that he only needs her blood, as the blood of one more person will enable him to take full control of Jonathan's body. He then asks if she will willingly give him her blood, to which she agrees. In her ending, Dio punctures her neck with his fingers and drains her blood, killing her.
Trivia
- When Capcom produced their JoJo fighting game, they wanted to use Midler. However, as her face was never shown, they asked Araki to redesign her into something like a belly-dancer.
- In the SNES game, she appears as a stewardess and her stand takes on the shape of the restroom's doorknob.
- In the game Heritage for the Future Midler can use her stand even after beinge de-aged by Alessi, implying she either was born or developed her stand ability at a young age.
Gallery
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Midler as seen in the manga
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Polnareff finds Midler after her defeat
Midler, Dio and Mariah from the JOJO A-GO!GO! artbook
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