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I'm the type whose power only shows when I'm paired with someone else. Being #2 is better than #1! That's Hol Horse's philosophy of life!
~ Hol Horse

Hol Horse is a supporting antagonist in JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders and the main protagonist of the spin-off manga JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Crazy Diamond's Demonic Heartbreak. An assassin, he once worked for DIO to assassinate the Stardust Crusaders. He wields the Stand known as Emperor, a gun with powerful abilities.

In Japanese, he was voiced by Norio Wakamoto in the OVA, Kei'ichi Nanba in the Drama CD, Yasuhara Yoshito in JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Heritage for the Future, Hōchū Ōtsuka in JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: All Star Battle, and Hidenobu Kiuchi in the anime and all subsquient appearances. In the English dubs, he was voiced by Roger L. Jackson (best known for voicing Ghostface in Scream and Mojo Jojo in The Powerpuff Girls)) in the OVA and Imari Williams (who also voiced Augus, Nosferatu Zodd, the Rhino Boss, Tremor and Valter) in the anime.

Biography[]

Past[]

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Hol Horse meeting DIO.

While Hol Horse's past is largely unknown in both the mainline manga and JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Crazy Diamond's Demonic Heartbreak, the novel adaptation of the latter is the first to truly explain Hol Horse's background.

Born in an unnamed country in Eastern Europe, Hol Horse never knew his parents, as his mother died giving birth to him as a single mother. Growing up to honor all women due to his mother's sacrifice, he was raised in an orphanage during his early years, with him and other children picked up from hospitals being given special treatment over the street children residing there. After leaving the facility's care prior to its mandatory age of disownment, he wandered the streets as a drifter, his Stand growing in power as he aged. During this point in time, Hol Horse managed to see A Fistful of Dollars in a movie theater, being inspired to take up a cowboy's aesthetic in honor of its main protagonist.

Hol Horse would go on to flee his homeland in the wake of civil unrest, working odd jobs in the criminal underworld in order to get by. Coming to grips with his past, Hol Horse would go on to use the tales of his youth as examples of his bravery and allure, using them to gain sympathy from the women he wooed. Through his work as a criminal, he would eventually come in contact with DIO and Enya Geil, who would assign them the tarot card of the Emperor and assign them the task of taking down the Stardust Crusaders.

By 1999, Hol Horse's birth country would dissolve in the aftermath of a civil war, with the town he was born in changing its name.

JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders[]

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Upon reaching Kolkata (then Calcutta), India, Hol Horse would get in contact with Enya's son, J. Geil, who together plan to set up an ambush for Jean Pierre Polnareff.

Hol Horse confronts Polnareff, who is almost killed, but is saved by Avdol, who is shot in the head and seemingly dies. Polnareff is forced to run away by Kakyoin, but J. Geil decides to go after them. Hol Horse decides to not give chase, arriving much time later, when J. Geil was already dead. He tries to escape, but Jotaro blocks his way. He manages to escape when his latest girlfriend, Nena, holds Jotaro.

Hol Horse later meets with Enya, proposing to team up with her to avenge J. Geil, but she decides to kill him for betraying his son. He is almost killed, but Polnareff finds him and is attacked as well. After Enya is defeated by Jotaro, Hol Horse escapes by stealing their car, advising them to kill Enya while they can.

After most of Dio's mercenaries are disposed of, Hol Horse has a brief conversation with Dio, where he reports on their defeats, but Dio doubts Hol Horse's loyalty and demands him to do something. Scared, Hol Horse draws his gun and attempts to shot Dio, who vanishes and appears behind him. Pleased with Hol Horse's calmness, he simply walks away.

Hol Horse attacks Jotaro's group again is Cairo, forcing Boingo to help him. By using Boingo's predictions, they manage to stun the entire group by making a truck collide with them. However, Boingo's last prediction fails when Hol Horse, having to shot his bullets in a pipe on noon, discovers that his clock was broken. The bullets end hitting Hol Horse, who ends in the hospital along with Boingo.

In JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Crazy Diamond's Demonic Heartbreak, it is revealed that after Hol Horse and Boingo reawoke in a hospital in Cairo and fearing that DIO would kill them both for failing them after defeating the Stardust Crusaders, they fled from the city in terror. However, as they ran away, they bore witness to the end of Kakyoin's battle against DIO, with Hol Horse praising Kakyoin for his bravery and spending his last moments warning his allies of DIO's secrets.

OVA[]

Hol Horse also appears in the 1993 episodes of the JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders OVA, with his debut being in the two parter episodes "The Emperor and the Hanged Man" and "The Judgment", a straight adaptation of his manga debut. His last appearances are in the Enya the Hag two-parter episodes which adapt her manga chapters as well. Unlike in the manga, at the end of the "Justice" episode of the OVA, Hol Horse is rendered comatose but still alive, and does not hinder the Joestar group any further.

JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Crazy Diamond's Demonic Heartbreak[]

Hol Horse is first seen talking to an old woman who was the mother of a man who once owned Pet Shop and Petsounds, with it being revealed that DIO killed the owner and took both for himself. Departing to find the bird, Hol Horse is escorted by a child who attempted to accost money out of him, but Hol Horse shrugs off the child's advances and scares him off.

Later finding Mariah, the two talk about Hol Horse needing to take Oingo and Boingo with him and their past experiences with DIO, with Hol Horse remarking he isn't afraid of his old master, although this is later revealed to be a lie. However, following a desire to avenge Boingo and feeling insulted by one of his remarks, Mariah attacks Hol Horse until Boingo appears to break up the fight to show Hol Horse his newest prediction, that to find Petsounds, they must go to Morioh.

Appearing in Morioh, Hol Horse has a vision of DIO as a man being controlled by a Stand drives towards a crowd, frozen with fear until Josuke saves him before he confronts him about the nature of Emperor. Matching his unease with Hol Horse questioning about Crazy Diamond, only to aggravate the high schoolers after mocking his hairstyle. However, before any actual fighting can be done, the driver emerges from behind Hol Horse, to which Josuke quickly sends flying away before having the curse be removed from him alongside healing the rest of the crowd. However, the crowd shows the mistaken worry of Josuke causing the attack, something that gives Hol Horse the chance to flee. Despite this, Josuke manages to catch up to the former assassin and freeze his boots to the asphalt, giving the two the chance to introduce themselves to each other.

Hol Horse is next seen following Josuke to protect Ryoko from a group of thugs before after his friend feels as if Ryoko insulted his hairstyle, broke up a conflict between the two. After briefly explaining the nature of Stands to Josuke, Hol Horse apologizes on his behalf and tells them of their need to find Boingo. As Hol Horse searches for him, he bumps into the man controlled by Petsounds as he is trying to explain his situation to the authorities before finding it on a telephone wire, causing Hol Horse to fall under its Stand's control. Hallucinating the voice of DIO, Hol Horse's body moves on its own accord as he is forced to pick up and use Emperor in an attempt to kill the innocent man. However, Hol Horse manages to snap out of his trance due to a sudden barrage of emeralds, allowing him to flee momentarily as he remembers back to the last time he saw such an attack, being the day of Kakyoin's death. Upon running away, he then bumps into a group of mind-controlled women wielding knifes before fighting them (seeing a vision of Petsounds' current master as he does so). Wounded and unable to fight properly due to his distaste for hurting women, Hol Horse warns Josuke and Ryoko of the incident before Josuke defeats the attackers. Hol Horse then explains his current situation involving the hostile parrot before officially joining forces with the boy to help defeat the remnants of DIO's forces within Morioh.

Recounting his knowledge on Petsounds' abilities to Josuke, Hol Horse notes of the need to work with Josuke in order to remain safe. However, their plans are cut short by the noise of an incoming helicopter and a sudden burst of fear, something caused by Petsounds channeling a vision of an African dictator's forces attacking civilians mid-flight. Forced to flee alongside others trapped in the scenario, their misery is further compounded from an attack from a mysterious assailant wielding a crossbow. Undeterred, Josuke rushes at the assassin to attack them as Hol Horse waits in the sidelines. As one of Hol Horse's fingers is blown off by a crossbow bolt, he stands in fear of the situation as it reminds him of his past working for DIO. However, the man eventually gains his nerves back as he fires at the illusionary helicopter, managing to wound the assassin. He then runs off with the crowd as Josuke chases down the marksman, catching sight of Petsounds as he flees. Readying Emperor, Hol Horse proceeds to wound the bird by blasting off one of its wings, lamenting on his broken promise to the old woman as it falls into a nearby river.

Hol Horse next appears through a conversation he has with Ryohei on Koji's arrest, before leaving with Josuke in order to retrieve Thoth from Ryoko, who protests due to her desire to find out what happened to her brother, Noriaki Kakyoin. As he walks ahead, Hol Horse stops Ryoko upon hearing she has Thoth, demanding that she return it to Boingo. However, all his forceful talk does is cause Josuke to trap him in a dumpster as he flees with Ryoko. After freeing himself by shooting off the dumpster's lid, Hol Horse attempts to find the protagonists as he looks one of his watches to find the time, reminiscing about what happened in Cairo after his third defeat. Feeling like something bad will happen after remembering the incident, he then bumps into Josuke, searching for Ryoko just as much as he was. However, after hearing DIO's voice and Petsound's feathers dropping down, Josuke notices what he thinks is Ryoko and reels them in using his Stand and a rope, with the hero and Boingo (who was wearing Ryoko's clothes) being attacked by Petsounds once more after this.

The next we see of Hol Horse is them regrouping with Josuke and Boingo, nearly pulling Emperor out on them out of a suspected attack. As Hol Horse is informed of Petsounds survival, an avian-like shape whizzing back them causes the heroes to split up once more, with Hol Horse heading after the parrot. As Hol Horse jumps down a stairwell, he comes to find the "parrot" he was searching after was just a paper model. After noticing a figure behind them, Hol Horse comes face-to-face with a possessed Ryoko, pointing a gun to her head while under Petsounds' ability. As Hol Horse curses his weakness, he reflects on how he always disagrees with Enya's tarot reading of him under "The Emperor", recalling a time where Devo mocked them for their unwillingness to fight for themselves. However, Ryoko eventually breaks out of her trance due to Petsounds being weakened by Josuke.

Recalling on how they saw each other in Thoth's predictions, Ryoko grills Hol Horse on her cousin's fate, brandishing her pistol when he is unable to answer. Realizing how the nature of his past renders them complicit in his allies' misdeeds, Hol Horse prepares to knock any possible gunfire aside with Emperor as he once again remarks on his past. Here, it is shown that Hol Horse saved multiple women who foolishly gave themselves as food to his former vampiric master, finally aligning himself with the meaning of his tarot card. After coming clean about his past as a thrall of DIO, Ryoko is too overcome with emotion to follow through with her threat of killing Hol Horse, accepting them for their shared failures.

With their mission complete, Hol Horse offers a final warning to Josuke about the Stand Users that may lurk in Morioh's shadows, wanting to ensure that his newfound friend stays safe in a world dominated by DIO's pawns. He then sets off from Morioh to return to Egypt alongside Boingo and a caged Petsounds, content with the fact his cowboy ways will inevitably result in them needing to fight once again.

JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Eyes of Heaven[]

Like many other antagonists of the game, Hol Horse served as one of Heaven Ascension DIO's minions. He appears in Chapter 5, where he confronts Jotaro for the Saint's Corpse Parts. He is however defeated, and after withholding information on Dio when asked by Jotaro, he disappears just like the others.

Personality[]

For the most part, Hol Horse maintains a calm, composed, and affectionate attitude, though that is just a facade, as Hol Horse is a dirty coward who only fights when he's sure he will win. If he doesn't have a partner to back him up or is outnumbered he will run away and avoid confrontation at the first opportunity. Hol Horse is also perfectly content being the right-hand man, and dislikes hurting women.

Powers and Abilities[]

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Emperor

The gun is mightier than the sword! Such a brilliant quote!
~ Hol Horse

Hol Horse's Stand, Emperor, takes the form of a gun. It has unlimited ammo and he can control the trajectory of the bullets at will. However, his Stand is fairly weak by itself. Because of this, he only fights when he have a partner to back him up.

Quotes[]

Quiet! All I wanna know is what's gonna happen next!
~ Hol Horse's last known words before being hit by his own bullets.

Trivia[]

  • Hol Horse's name is a tribute to the pop-rock duo Hall & Oates.
  • Meanwhile, his Stand was named after 4th tarot card of the major arcana, The Emperor, which symbolizes order and control.
    • Fittingly, his girlfriend, Nena, has a Stand called "Empress", named after the eponymous tarot card.
  • Hol Horse was originally intended to redeem himself and join the Stardust Crusaders, but it was scrapped due to Hol Horse being too similar to Polnareff and Araki not wanting to remove his "outlaw gunman" archetype-based character so soon.
  • Araki designed Emperor to look like both an automatic pistol and a revolver.
  • Hol Horse is based off of Cobra, the main protagonist of the manga and anime of the same name. Cobra is a gunslinger who both smokes and can fire at objects without needing a line-of-sight, traits Hol Horse shares.
  • Hol Horse's quote "The gun is mightier than the sword!", is a parody of "The pen is mightier than the sword." a well-known saying originally said by Edward Bulwer-Lytton.
  • Hol Horse's personality of going unnoticed and using the environment and people to his advantage inspired Araki to give these traits to Yoshikage Kira.

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