Santana

"Have humans evolved a tiny bit?"

- Santana

Santana is the first Pillar Men to appear in the second arc of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, and the weakest of them.

Story
Santana was a infant Pillar Men, who was took by Cars, after their race have ceased to exist. He would help his master to look after the Red Stone of Asia, being sent to America, where the Ripple Clan imprisoned him on a large pillar (which gave them their namesake) and buried him on a ruin in Mexico, along with tons of Stone Masks. An ancient civilization would use the masks on rituals, but they ceased to exist. Eons later, during World War II, Robert Speedwagon would find him, while looking for the origin of the masks. The Nazis discovered about the Pillar Men's existence, sending a group to secure and study him. The group, led by Rudolph Stroheim, take him to a secret base, where they resurrect him and name him Santana. Although he seemed to be just a primitive being, they soon learned their mistake as he manages to escape and possesses one of the guards and fights them. Just them, Joseph Joestar breaks on the place, looking for his uncle Speedwagon. He is forced to fight Santana, but is unable to use his Ripple Energy against him. So he pretends to be exausted and, while Santana absorbs him, he sends the ripple from inside of him, leaving Santana with only the upper part of his body. Now really exausted, he tries to carry Santana outside of the base to finish him but, as Stroheim tries to open the door, Santana possesses him. Stroheim forces Joseph to cut his leg to stop Santana from entering him but to no avail. They get outside, so Stroheim decides to blow himself with a pipe grenade, so Santana will finally be exposed to the sun. As he explodes, Santana gets out of him, so Joseph lures him into a well and, as dawn strikes, he is hit by sunlight without ay shadow to cover, becoming a stone. Speedwagon takes him to his foundation, where they study him. The Nazis resurrects Stroheim by turning him into a cyborg, with many weapons that could counter a Pillar Man.