Smooth Operators

Smooth Operators
Japanese Name	スムース・オペレイターズ
Romanized Name	Sumūsu Opereitāzu
User	Dragona Joestar
Namesake*	Smooth Operator (Sade song)
Type	Close-Range Colony Artificial Non-Humanoid
Manga Debut	TJL Chapter 1
Stand Cry	ISHI! ISHI! ISHI!

“

This is what we're going to slide. Do it, Smooth Operators!

”

—Dragona Joestar, The JOJOLands Chapter 4: The Villa on Hawaii Island, Part 2

Smooth Operators (スムース・オペレイターズ, Sumūsu Opereitāzu) is the Stand of Dragona Joestar, featured in the ninth part of the JoJo's Bizarre Adventure series, The JOJOLands.

It is a colony of small Stands which can grab and displace anything. Dragona named it when they were fourteen years old, and later refers to the Stand as their children.

Appearance

Smooth Operators is a group of at least four small robot-like Stands. Each "operator" has the appearance of a small robot with a humanoid top and tank treads instead of legs. Their heads have an oblong shape with curved corners, and the front part elongated like a nose. They also have two mechanical eyes protruding from the top of their heads. Their shoulders are cylinders and their arms have artificial articulations. Finally, each operator has a stylized "SO" engraved on the top of the head.

Color Schemes

The series is known for alternating colors between media, the information presented below may or may not be canon.

Colored Manga

Body(Light Yellow, Black symbol)

Eyes(Light grey)

Wheels(Grey link, Light grey road wheels)

Abilities

Changing the numbers on a license plate

Displacement

Smooth Operators is able to move things around by grabbing them and then pushing or pulling in any direction, regardless of that thing being a physical object or a feature on an object that would otherwise be unmovable. The Stand has been used so far to move numbers on a car license plate, photographs on driver's license cards, a fingerprint on a tablet computer to a fingerprint scanner, and a human's facial features with no permanent damage to the objects or people affected. Dragona can also Smooth Operators on themself, which also lets them displace wounds inflicted upon them to other objects which causes the object to break, such as moving a bleeding neck wound onto a bottle of wine which then shatters or wounds inflicted through middle school bullying from their chest onto a soup spoon that also shattered. The only limitation to what can and cannot be moved by Smooth Operators appears to be the physical strength of the collective Smooth Operators themselves; when attempting to crack Rohan Kishibe's safe, Dragona says that the metal bars make it difficult to do so.

Chapters

Manga Appearances

Chapters in order of appearance

• The JOJOLands Chapter 1: Departure (1st appearance)
• The JOJOLands Chapter 3: The Villa on Hawaii Island, Part 1
• The JOJOLands Chapter 4: The Villa on Hawaii Island, Part 2
• The JOJOLands Chapter 7: Hualalai - Cat Size, Part 2
• The JOJOLands Chapter 9: Kailua-Kona - Flight Waiting Time, Part 1
• The JOJOLands Chapter 10: Kailua-Kona - Flight Waiting Time, Part 2
• The JOJOLands Chapter 11: Kailua-Kona - Flight Waiting Time, Part 3
• The JOJOLands Chapter 13: Joestar Brothers (Flashback)
• The JOJOLands Chapter 14: Aim for That Fifty Billion Dollars, Part 1
• The JOJOLands Chapter 16: Lulu's Bags Groove, Part 1

Gallery

MangaOther

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  Dragona awakens Smooth Operators, sliding an injury onto a spoon

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  Smooth Operators sliding the police officer's eyes around his face

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  Swapping the photo on a driver's license with Dragona's

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  Smooth Operators grabbing Paco's ear

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  Smooth Operators struggling to open a safe

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  Name revealed

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  Smooth Operators sliding Dragona's thumb down

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  Displacing Dragona's wound onto a bottle

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  TJL Volume 3 Preview from TJL Volume 2

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  TJL Volume 3 Preview from Ultra Jump April 2024

Trivia

• In March 2017, Hirohiko Araki chose Sade's Smooth Operator as one of the songs in his list that would be featured in MTV Japan's 80's Western Music Hits Parade.