The Beauty of Hol Horse

JoJo's Bizarre Adventure part 3 Stardust Crusaders is full to the brim with a lot of stain users over its three-year run and at this time holds the record for the highest number of span users for a part that being 33 different stands while also holding the highest number of enemy stand users with 27 of them though among these enemy stands there's a lot of stinkers and truly deadly abilities though most of the stand users follow to the generic personality trait of evil for evils sake and when I say most I mean just about every single goddamn one of them well all of them but one in fact the only one of Iraqis minor antagonist s-- with a strong enough motivation and personality that they nearly landed themselves into the role of a protagonist when that was never the goal from the beginning the only one of Iraqis minor antagonist that helped him retro actively shape the future of Jojo and what it means to be a protagonist in the series this one man is whole horse and his unbeatable stand the Emperor [Laughter] [Music] [Music] this certified chatzi class pole horse is one of the best if not the best minor antagonist to ever grace the pages of Jojo or at least the most influential one he has his hands in helping Iraqi create some of the most beloved characters throughout all of Jojo along with helping Iraqi lay out the groundwork for the kind of things he wants and requires for a group of protagonists though before we get into any of this I feel would be best to understand the meaning behind halt horses named halt horse gets his name from the ban hollow notes an American to a comprising of Daryl Hall and John Oates they have songs in many different genres of music so there's not one genre that they're connected to but some people do just refer to them as either pop rock or regular Rock hollow notes also found themselves massively successful throughout the 70s to late 90s now musically how horse doesn't take much connection to any one song of hollow notes but really if you wanted to stretch you could say the amount of the love songs that Halle Notes had made could actually be connected and how horses personality and him trying to seduce lots of women throughout his travels but that's a stretch though where follow notes does actually play musically in the whole horses character is in the fact that much like the band he gets his name from Hull Horse is always a two-man show either working with Jay Kyle or Boingo though there is more reasons behind these two specific team ups with whole bores but we'll get more into that when we discuss the Emperor but we're not exactly done talking about whole horse yet so design-wise whole horse is actually heavily influenced by the character cobra from space adventures cobra who also actually seems to be the inspiration for characters like Dante from Devil May Cry in Vash the Stampede from Trigon he's a cocky badass space cowboy with a hidden gun and smooth moves crowbars also known for changing his face and wiping his memory to get away from his old life and continue exploring space though I'm not even surprised that Iraqi actually took inspiration from Cobra because the creator of Cobra actually wrote very similar to how a rocky structures things you see creator be Shi terasawa found himself writing stories based on things that he loved be at the film's in the time or the classic manga that they enjoyed and they just combine this into an amalgamation of whatever they wanted and ran with Cobra and Cobra became a mega success because of it and it even ran in a Rockies magazine Weekly Shonen jumped we had access to it whenever he needed to so it's not even that big of a surprise actually but yes speaking of Cobras main personality traits these are all traits or aspects that we find in whole horse's character be it that whole horse is an expert gunman if not a little cocky or that he also fights with a hidden gun of his own and of course he's known throughout the world under different personalities and names as he goes around places making sure that he has an ally somewhere also visually ha horse and Cobra share a lot of similarities specifically in their trusty revolvers facial structure and long blonde hair the two of them are drawn constantly smoking and of course the cowboy overtones so I guess if you wanted to read a series where whole horse was the main character I recommend picking up space adventure Cobra though speaking of whole horse being a protagonist we actually almost had that as a rocky speaks during his interview about whole horse in the j joni in volume 10 he says when calculating and polnareff both appeared they were under DEA's control but I had planned for them to join the party this wasn't the case with whole horse but he ended up becoming an enemy character who made me feel that it might be okay to let him join the team he was an outlaw gunman an essential element of the westerns I loved and he's got a unique atmosphere to him so I thought it would be a waste just to get rid of him so soon I also liked his personal philosophy referring to being number two opposed to being number one something similar to Yoshi cog Akira from part four I also drew him once with Joe duro and the others as if he was part of the team and I had him appear numerous times throughout the series after his initial battle so from this interview we know that at least in one stage during the run of Stardust Crusaders Hall horse was possibly going to join the Crusaders in their journey against dia and I think this might have been around the time of chapter 159 to 217 given this is around the time Hall horse showed signs of being unloyal to both do and any of the Haag though there were a few things stopping Araki from actually pulling the trigger on making halt horse an ally and he actually goes into detail about it in the same interview in the end I decided that if he did join the group he would ruin its balance character-wise he was too similar to pull rap in both looks and personality and his Emperor ability would be too hard to deal with I also didn't put many limitations on the Emperor's ability in terms of range and bullet count Iraqi then goes further into detail about the bullets with whole horses bullets are pretty much part of his stand so as long as he's conscious he could fire as many as he wanted and if I had gone any further with his ability anything would have been possible the way he aims and fires at his enemies is also too similar to catch means emerald splash so in the end judging from the personality and stand ability angles I decided that it would be better to leave whole horse as an enemy so yes in short whole horse was actually axed from being a Crusader because one he was too powerful and if you've played heritage of the future you know that's true [Music] and he didn't have a role to fit inside of the Crusaders that the group didn't already fulfill themselves though Araki did learn from this mistake you see in his designs later on whole horse not having this limitation actually helped inspire our favorite Italian mobster guido Mistah as Araki specifically gave him a six bullet limit for his gun and made his gun not the stand and a major aspect of yoshikawa Kira's character comes directly from Hull horses own personal motto of trying to be number two and not sticking out in a major crowd also in personality and design Jai Rosa Pelle owes everything to halt horse because as Araki said if I was to tune up whole horse anymore he would just become gyro so horse helps create not only a general understanding for a rocky or a protagonist needs in a Jojo setting which is someone with a personality that is unique a stand ability which has limitations that make it easier for Araki to write and they fit a certain role for the group in the park it's a real shame you forgot all about this when writing part sucks but anyways whole horses personal motto and personality help specifically create three of the best characters in Jojo alone whole horse also holds the record for the most reoccurring minor antagonist in all of Jojo so far appearing in four major different arcs albeit one of these arcs is only a single chapter but still he appears in the Emperor on hangman justice shooting do and whole horse and Boingo each of these arcs has whole horse somehow escaping increasingly greater dangers and now that we're talking about his role in the actual story we're with his Lone Gunmen be without his gun whole horse has a very powerful pistol that pulls him through all of his travels this gun being the unbeatable Emperor now Emperor is a long range tool stand shaped like a futuristic pistol specifically Deckard's blaster from Blade Runner which plays into Iraqis movie buffness now it's normally portrayed as a silver pistol but it has an alter color of gold which specifically appears in the OVA but there's also multiple costume designs which have it appear as gold which also fit whole horses yellow design now stats wise the emperor has a beam destructive power being speed being range see ian's precision and ian's developmental potential and now ability wise Emperor doesn't actually have much to offer but it can do two things now the first ability of the Emperor's actually it's infinite ammo you see the Emperor actually has no limitation on how many shops it can fire or how many bullets can actually come out of the barrel if I think about it correctly that's all based on how much whole horse wants that to happen I also like to imagine that even though the gun does have a cylinder near the barrel of the pistol that all the bullets are stored in a little round bit near the hammer like just imagine like a big ol like smooshed ball of bullets now as powerful as infinite ammo is it's not the ability that makes em for as powerful as it is that actually goes to Emperor's second ability because it's arguable if it's an ability or not or just a genius play by whole horse and that is his telekinetic bullets you see the bullets of the Emperor fires are actually part of the stand meaning that whole horse is actually able to control their pattern mentally this actually allows whole horse to correct his weapons shitty precision which is actually something I see people often complain about when they actually read emperor stats you see how could a gun that trick shots around polarized silver chariot possibly have a precision of eat well pretty simple actually the gun itself isn't precise whole horse is constantly correcting its pattern and the bullets fired from it appeared to be such a massive caliber that it blows whole horse's hand back and if you've seen whole horse's arm it's the size of a tree trunk so the gun itself is hard to control which is actually very true about many high caliber pistols if you don't hold them correctly but to make up for this whole horse learn to correct the bullets pattern with his mind so instead of just learning to hold the gun correctly full horse thought of a genius workaround for his stand because doing things the correct way just isn't nearly as cool now the most interesting aspect about the stand Emperor is actually the meaning behind its name and how it plays in the whole horse as you see it gets its name from the Major Arcana the fourth tarot card the Emperor this cards meaning is actually very simple it shows that your hard work discipline and self-control will bring you as far as you can possibly go which means you are in charge of your life now you're setting your own rules and your own boundaries you are your own Emperor and of course these ideas fit perfectly into whole horses outlaw ideals and personality he sets his own boundaries but his stand also allows him to rule over anyone he ever encounters as he has his own invisible unbreakable emperor with him though this isn't where the terrors meaning stops being relevant to whole horse and his partners because you see there's actually something very interesting about the emperor card and it's special connection with the hangman you see together they're very dangerous to have but in the story of the Tarot the hangman is actually depicted as a man led to his death by the Emperor you see his legs are bent and misshapen in the shape of the number 4 which is the number depicted on the Emperor Arcana this place in the whole horse who in teaming up with Jay Kyle leads him to his death though guess what it doesn't just stop here the Tarot continues to matter in whole horse's character this is because there's more than just one single link between the Emperor and the hangman so some people believe that the symbolic design of every version of the hangman with his legs bent into the shape of a number 4 means that the card itself is the fate of the Emperor someone who will be hung in a revolt or a riot of some sort though this idea isn't seen in every version of the tarot deck the best deck that hints at this linked fate between the two tarot cards is the tarot deck from the book of Thoth this is because of this specific version of the deck we see both the emperor in the hangman finding themselves sitting in the exact same position so when whole horse teamed up with Boingo and his Thoth whole horse found his fate doomed as his own emperor would lead him down the path of the hangman and this is all because he stopped following his own instincts and relied purely on the predictions of another which is the exact opposite of what the Emperor is supposed to represent so yes whole horse is one of the most influential characters of all of Rocky's parts he's a single lone gunman who helps shape the path for many great characters to come he follows the tarot deck to a teeth and of course he's an emperor in his own right and if you enjoyed this video and want to help support more videos like in the future I have a patreon over at patreon.com slash many not the bad guy and if you want to become an emperor of your own life and shape the world as you see fit well you need to head on over to Funimation that console show steam another barn where the customer you drive doesn't exist buy yourself a copy of Shima not do it now do it crap

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Keywords: Hol Horse, The Beauty of Hol Horse, Hall and Oats, JJBA, JJBA Stardust Crusaders, Hol Horse JoJo, JJBA Part 3, Character Analysis, Beauty Of

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Length: 13min 13sec (793 seconds)

Published: Tue Apr 24 2018