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Nena is a minor antagonist in JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders.
In Japanese, she was voiced by Megumi Toyoguchi in the OVA, Junko Takeuchi in JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Heritage for the Future, and Satsuki Yukino in the anime. In English, she was voiced by Terri D'Ambrosio in the OVA and Dorothy Elias-Fahn (who also voiced Konan in Naruto Shippuden) in the anime under the alias of Johanna Luis.
Biography[]
One of the many stand users hired by Dio Brando to kill Jotaro Kujo and his group, Nena first appears as one of the many deluded girlfriends of Hol Horse. When Hol Horse is cornered by the group and about to get killed by Polnareff, Nena jumps on Polnareff and holds his legs, allowing Hol Horse to flee. As Polnareff attempts to move, Nena scratches her elbow on the cobblestones, so Joseph puts a bandage on her. Though he doesn't notice, a bit of blood squirts out and lands on his arm.
The group takes Nena with them, as they travel to Varanasi, India. As they arrive Joseph notices the wart on his arm that appeared in Calcutta is growing larger, with Polnareff joking that it looks like a face. Joseph is unamused and decides to go to a doctor to have it checked out. The doctor attempts to remove it, only to be stabbed in the neck by his own scalpel, killing him. As Joseph looks at the wart, it talks to him, revealing itself as a stand called The Empress and announcing its intention to kill him. As a nurse enters the room and sees the dead doctor, the Empress speaks in his place, confessing to the murder and revealing all of Joseph's information. Joseph is forced to run away to avoid a confrontation with the authorities.
Joseph tries to smash Empress into the iron bars on a window, but the stand reveals it has sprouted arms and stops itself, warning Joseph that he'll only be hurting himself. It then grabs onto the bars to hold Joseph in place as it calls for the police. Joseph tries using his Ripple Overdrive to destroy the wart, but that also has no effect as Empress is a part of his body and his hamon can't harm itself. Joseph entangles the stand in the vines created by Hermit Purple to force it to let go and he runs.
As Joseph runs around Varanasi, Nena walks around with Polnareff and attempts to seduce him in order to divert his attention. Empress grows more and more, grabbing food from the market stalls as Joseph runs past to eat and grow. Eventually, it reveals it's grown enough for its arms to reach Joseph's throat, meaning it can kill him. Joseph holds up his prosthetic hand to block, but Empress' punches crush it and damage its internal workings. In the fight, Joseph knocks over a merchant's stand before getting up and running again.
Joseph runs until he finds a drum of coal tar and dunks his arm inside, but Empress comes back up with a nail, stabbing it through what remains of Joseph's prosthetic hand and into his neck. She taunts Joseph, saying that he's just a washed up has-been who snapped and panicked under pressure while she was still planning. While Joseph tries to hold the nail back, the coal tar quickly dries up, immobilizing Empress. Joseph reveals that he wasn't panicking, he had used Hermit Purple on some spilled incense ashes from the market stand, creating a map to the nearest source of coal tar. Joseph then uses Hermit Purple to entangle the Empress and tear it apart.
As the Empress is torn apart, Nena vomits and convulses. As Polnareff watches in horror, her stomach rips open and her true, obese form appears from it, screaming before falling dead on the ground. Joseph appears and scolds Polnareff for letting his guard down, while Polnareff finds himself in shock that the beautiful woman he was about to kiss was actually a very ugly enemy stand user. The rest of the Crusaders try comically to bring Polnareff back to his senses.
Powers and Abilities[]
Nena's stand, Empress
| “ | I'm a part of you, old man Joseph! You can't escape me now, honey! | „ |
| ~ Empress |
Nena's stand, The Empress, infects a person when they are exposed to her blood. The stand then grows on their body as a large wart or tumor. As the stand grows it takes on the appearance of a humanoid face, then grows arms, and finally a torso and head. Once it gets large enough, it attempts to kill its host and presumably consume their entire body. Empress has surprising strength, being able to match the strength of a physically fit man like Joseph Joestar, and to crush his prosthetic hand with its punches. Empress can also spew a disgusting liquid out of its mouth. It's not known if this spew has any special properties, or if it's just gross.
Empress can also create a false appearance for Nena, which she used to create her disguise as a slender and beautiful woman despite her real body being much bigger than her disguised form.
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Trivia[]
- Nena is named after the german pop singer, Gabriele Susanne Kerner, known professionally as Nena.
- Her stand is named after the 3rd Tarot card of the major arcana, The Empress, which represents grace and the power of reproduction.
- The name of the stand is quite fitting as Nena was paired up with Hol Horse, the user of the "Emperor" stand.
- Nena is one of the few enemy stand users in Stardust Crusaders to actually be killed by a member of the main cast, instead of simply retiring, the others being Gray Fly, the Impostor Captain Tennille, Devo, J. Geil, Pet Shop and Vanilla Ice
