There’s a saying about revenge. It goes something like “a man may not take
his revenge right away due to the circumstances but he will remember it everyday before falling
into sleep. He then shall take the revenge when the timing
is right, even if he must take the whole world with him.” Jean Pierre Polnareff, his journey of revenge
was a very difficult one, but it’s what had made his character. Let’s analyze what made Polnareff the warrior
of redemption. Hello guys this is Kaleb, and this is another
character analysis. I hadn’t addressed the last character analysis
for being what it is, and more of just gave you guys the video. Well this is going to be a video going in
depth on Polnareff, and if you guys have any other characters you want me to do, you can
comment below after the video. So back to the Chariot man. Now while not looking too deep into Stardust
Crusaders, I believe that the tarot cards had a huge influence on the direction of the
part. Not as in it had made an influence in the
anime, but it had influence while writing it. For example, take the Chariot tarot card. This is the card of control, willpower, victory,
assertion, and determination. This reflects Polnareff’s character to a
t. His determination to avenge his sister shined
harder than anything, and then after that he had wanted revenge on Dio for manipulating
him. But while having these characteristics, he
has others to balance the good with some bad. Tarot cards have two separate interpretations
per card, there’s the upright version, and then there’s the reversed version. The meanings of the reverse chariot also reflect
Polnareff, and those feelings are what usually end up being the reasons of his multiple downfalls. The card of the reversed chariot symbolizes
lack of control, lack of direction, and aggression. If you line this up to Polnareff, this also
follows him pretty well. Anytime where Polnareff doesn’t keep composure,
he ends up getting wounded or manipulated. Silver Chariot is a stand that relies on the
user’s sense of direction and control, if he doesn’t have either then Silver Chariot
is nowhere as effective as it should be. Now this is where the art begins. See Polnareff begins to follow the path of
the reversed chariot after he had encountered Hanged Man, the stand of J. Geil. After the encounter, he had tried to immediately
leave to continue his journey of revenge. The journey of revenge already isn’t a smart
one, but when it comes down to Jojo, then I can understand his positioning. See Polnareff is an honorable man, and while
being honorable, you have to keep composure. There’s no honor in a man fighting with
blind rage and clouded judgement. So he tries to leave, but Avdol comes to him
to reason with him. Polnareff is running into a battle with unknown
powers going against him, meanwhile the opposing forces know more than enough about him. But Polnareff doesn’t want to hear this
from Avdol, this is just staggering his road to revenge and he doesn’t need to be bothered
with it. Let me take a second to bring up the quote
that Avdol has used to show what Polnareff’s position is. “You will go for wool, and return home shorn”,
this referencing the quote “Many go out for wool and come home shorn”. If that isn’t one of the best moments of
Avdol, then I would be surprised because he only has about 5 so this should be top 10. How are you going to try to go after what
you can’t see, and had attacked you. Well logically, you wouldn’t. The smartest thing would to be go in a group,
but Polnareff wants to avenge his sister alone because it had dishonored him specifically
and not the group. None of them can understand what he is going
through, that’s what he’s assuming at least. But leaving your group due to clouded judgement
isn’t enough, see Polnareff is in a hole but he keeps digging. He takes a stab at Avdol for having sense
on not trying to engage with what he didn’t understand, and calls him a coward for it. When Avdol was definitely in the right for
fleeing, and when going back to the power of Dio, you know that Avdol actually didn’t
stand a chance if he wanted to fight him. But it isn’t about Avdol, the group, or
Dio now. It’s all about Polnareff’s pursuit of
revenge, so the group doesn’t challenge his arrogance and lets him leave. Now we get into Polnareff’s #1 case of arrogance
and bad judgement. It begins with the encounter of Hol Horse. Right off the bat, he takes Hol Horse to be
an ordinary evil stand user. Silver Chariot should be able to take care
of him regardless, so I’ll be able to talk my stuff. Hol Horse laughs his intimidation off and
tells him that Dio had already informed him of Polnareff’s arrogance. It’s known that Polnareff makes light of
the people he goes against, so he believes that beating him should be easy. I don’t like saying that Dio is right, but
this is 100% the case when it comes to this scene. Polnareff can’t directly respond to what
Hol Horse had said, so he just wants to get on with the fight even though he’s already
been in checkmate since they encountered each other. So Hol Horse brings out his stand the Emperor
and the fight has begun and ended. Polnareff had tried to combat the bullet from
Emperor, but had no clue that the bullet was also apart of the stand. This is what you call checkmate, Polnareff
had lost the fight and this right here was supposed to be the end. Imagine a long journey of revenge, ended due
to your own accord. This would’ve been the case, but it isn’t
because of the saving grace of Avdol. Even after he had been told to let go of Polnareff
because of his thinking, he still pursued Polnareff because he knew he couldn’t do
it. Now Avdol is getting on him and he has the
right to because he had proved his point already, and the worst part is that Polnareff knows
it’s all true. He is completely overwhelmed by Avdol’s
speaking because he had just been caught in what Avdol said was going to happen. To put this into perspective, have you ever
had a time where someone told you something bad was going to happen if you did or didn’t
do something. For example, a friend tells you that looking
on your phone is going to get you killed if you’re not paying attention. That same friend grabs you and pulls you away
from crossing the street because you didn’t notice the crossing signals because you weren’t
paying attention. You’re now caught in a “You were right”
situation, and it’s not a situation people can easily agree with. Being proved wrong can be a shot at someone’s
ego and in the case of Polnareff, his arrogance had now been cut down because he was shown
to be stupid for engaging. But now what happens? Well, let's revisit that scenario I had gave
you. What if that friend that pulled you away couldn’t? What if you were too far out and the only
way to get you out of harm's way was to push you to safety, and then this ends up costing
your friend their life. Now look at you, you were warned that your
deeds could cost you your life, but instead of you being the one that was supposed to
meet fate, it was the one that had warned you. The worst thing about mistakes isn’t if
it’s all on you, the worst thing about mistakes is that it’s because of you but it harms
someone else. Now this would probably be the worst case
of a mistake done by someone, and the thoughts right after said mistake would probably be
“I wish it was. It should’ve been me. Why did they help me?” This isn’t trying to blame the person that
had saved you, this is the feeling of a deep guilt. This is a deep guilt that cannot be recovered
from when it’s in a situation like this. It was your fault, your were supposed to be
the one that should’ve got caught in the mess, but it wasn’t. The feeling of wanting to take the bullet
that was meant for you, and in this case it’s actually literal. We see Polnareff display his arrogance temporarily,
but it was fake. He shows his true feelings on this, and it’s
genuinely hurting him. Having to lose another person close to him
is a terrible feeling, and I can probably bet that the feeling of losing someone and
it being your fault is even worse. Polnareff had gone on this journey of revenge,
but in the first quote I had already told you guys how revenge goes. “He then shall take the revenge when the
timing is right, even if he must take the whole world with him”. The whole world is supposed to be the man’s
whole world, meaning his life. In this case, the path of revenge had taken
the world of someone else. His journey of avenging his sister had led
him into losing one of his best friends, but was it because he wanted revenge? No, it was because he lost his way when doing
so and everyone knows not to lose their way. It even goes with everything, so you can understand
it’s a common thing. Kakyoin, stand user of Hierophant Green, based
off of the tarot card “The Hierophant”. The reason why I bring his tarot card into
this is due to meaning. See, the hierophant tarot card can be interpreted
in real life as a wise mentor. It also stands for group identification and
conformity. We get exactly that when Polnareff realizes
that he actually can’t just do this alone. Now we have the wise Hierophant leading the
Chariot, and it begins to work this final masterpiece together. See originally Polnareff believed that he
was going against a man that lived in the world of mirrors, meaning he would be untouchable. Kakyoin points him in the right direction
saying that he really is wrong, and there’s no such thing as a world inside of mirrors. Oh Kakyoin, I wish you were still around to
know man. So Kakyoin and Polnareff had seen through
Hanged Man’s ability, and the first read they got on him was a strong hit. They encounter the man who they think is J.
Geil, and Polnareff unloads this speech onto the man and while it’s a very noble and
strong speech, it didn’t matter because it really wasn’t J. Geil. Polnareff had got played again and now had
got put into a trap when being surrounded by all of those people. J. Geil had the advantage from jumping eye
to eye, and taunted Polnareff which had caused him to start getting mad again. But the man, the myth, the hierophant Kakyoin
leads Polnareff once again. Easily seeing through the trap and gave Polnareff
one needed chance to finish Hanged Man. He cuts down the Hanged Man, and this is now
the end for J. Geil. All of these years, the lengths he had traveled,
the sacrifices he took, all for this final moment. This, this right here is why this video was
even made. The chariot is back with a vengeance, and
has something to do that the guardians of Hell can’t do for him! And that’s! “To turn you into a pincushion!” And that everyone, is the art of revenge. Now to me, this is the best Polnareff moment
there is, but at the same time I believe it could’ve been worked on a bit more. If you’re going to have all of this build
up for this specific moment, you would at least like to make the scene of Polnareff
stabbing up J. Geil up a bit longer. The anime did really well converting over,
and I really do enjoy the scene. I still get really hype when Polnareff yells
in this, and it actually gets to the point where I’m swinging a knife around
But all in all, it was a tad bit anti-climatic if we’re going to be real. Let’s finish this off on a question though. If you could act on your revenge, would you? Comment below, and just remember if you do
then dig two graves. Also don’t forget to comment what character
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God speed.
