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| “ | The falcon soaring through the air is called Pet Shop! It is the wielder of the Stand Horus, God of the Sky. | „ |
| ~ Pet Shop as described by the narrator. |
| “ | It's not just persistent! It's a stalking killing machine! And if it catches me it won't just kill me... It'll eat me! | „ |
| ~ Iggy's thoughts on Pet Shop. |
Pet Shop is DIO's pet peregrine falcon and a minor antagonist in JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders. His Stand, Horus, represents one of the nine Egyptian gods of the sky.
Biography[]
Past[]
Pet Shop was once a pet falcon belong to an unknown man alongside Petsounds, although ownership of it shifted to DIO upon the vampire commanding Pet Shop to kill his owner. After this, DIO kept this falcon as the sentinel of his mansion in Cairo. Pet Shop, as he was known, attacks anyone who approaches the mansion without warning.
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders[]
Iggy, a stray dog who was accompanying Jotaro and his group (against his will) accidentally finds the mansion, as he watches Pet Shop decapitating two dogs who were peeking in the gate of the mansion and drag the carcasses into the mansion's perimeter.
A beggar, hired by the group to find the mansion, also arrives at the place, only to be crushed under a gigantic icicle. Iggy then notices the falcon is a Stand user, deciding to leave the place since he didn't gave a damn about Dio. Acting as a mindless animal, Iggy manages to avoid Pet Shop's attention when the raptor redirects his focus on the canine. But as a boy tries entering the mansion to find his missing dogs, Iggy is forced to fight the bird in order to save the kid.
Iggy manages to run away to a sewer, but the dog was relentlessly chased by the bird. There, he make a decoy with his Stand and manages to hurt Pet Shop, but he simply freezes the wound to cure it and continue hunting down Iggy. He freezes the entire place and stops Iggy from running, forcing him to cut his own paw in order to flee the place.
They continue their deadly cat-and-mouse chase underwater, as Iggy deflects Pet Shop's icicles, hurting one of his wings. Pet Shop then freezes all the water around Iggy in an attempt to crush him. Iggy digs underwater tunnel to escape the mad raptor, only to find Pet Shop being one step ahead of the dog and lying in wait. Pet Shop summons Horus' cryokinetic power to get a straight shot at Iggy but Iggy, in an act of desperation, defeats the falcon by biting onto his beak, resulting the Pet Shop's cryokinetic power blowing up, killing the psychotic raptor.
Due to his fight against Pet Shop, Iggy was heavily wounded and would be forced to fight against Dio and his men in a worst possible physical condition. During the battle against Vanilla Ice, further injuries inflicted by the villain in addition to worsened physical condition in his fight against Pet Shop, would cost Iggy his life.
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Crazy Diamond's Demonic Heartbreak[]
While Pet Shop doesn't appear physically in JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Crazy Diamond's Demonic Heartbreak due to his death, he nevertheless remains important, with it being revealed here that Pet Shop was among one of two birds stolen and cared for by DIO. An illusion of the moment where Pet Shop killed its original owner is also used by Petsounds as an attack against Josuke, where it is seen to toy with its victims. After bombarding the heroes with ice, the illusion of Pet Shop proceeds to throw gasoline towards the heroes, before using a match to set it ablaze. With Josuke noting of its plans to have them be burned alive once the ice thaws, he chooses to instead face the attack without resistance, with his bravery resulting in him and Boingo escaping Petsounds' trap.
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Eyes of Heaven[]
Pet Shop appears as one of Heaven Ascension DIO's allies. He only appears in the sixth chapter, aiding Enrico Pucci to confront Jotaro and Jolyne. They, however, ended up defeated and quickly left the scene.
Powers and Abilities[]
Horus
Pet Shop's Stand, Horus, allows him to create ice in the form of sharp icicles or even huge blocks. He can also freeze water or the air around him, and also cure his wounds.
Trivia[]
- Pet Shop is named after the english synth-pop duo Pet Shop Boys.
- His stand is named after Horus, the god of kingship and the sky in Egyptian mythology.
- In the anime, Pet Shop lacks a voice actor, instead using stock sound effects by Yasamasa Koyama.
- Pet Shop wears a falconry hood with the eyes notably exposed. While standard hoods have the eyes covered to make sure the falcon doesn't run wild and attack whoever they please, Pet Shop's hood lacks this. This makes sense due to his ruthlessness and his habit to attack anyone he perceives as a threat.
- Despite birds lacking the facial muscles to smile, Pet Shop seems to be capable of doing so.
- In the Super Famicom video game adaptation of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders, all of the Stardust Crusaders must fend off Pet Shop, rather than just Iggy.
- Pet Shop is infamous in the fighting game community due to his immense power and movement options in the fighting games that feature him, especially in JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Heritage for the Future.
- Pet Shop is one of the few enemy stand users in Stardust Crusaders to actually die after their defeat, instead of simply retiring.
- He's also one of the few minor villains to have his death caused by a member of the main cast, the others being Gray Fly, the Impostor Captain Tennille, Devo, Nena, J. Geil and Vanilla Ice
