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| “ | Avdol... has been disintegrated. He is dead. You two are next. I must correct your arrogant belief that you can defeat Lord DIO. One by one... In order... I shall scatter you throughout my dimension of darkness. | „ |
| ~ Vanilla Ice to Jean-Pierre Polnareff after killing Muhammad Avdol. |
Vanilla Ice (also known as Iced and Cool Ice) is a major antagonist in the Egypt Arc of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part III: Stardust Crusaders.
He is one of, if not, the most loyal of DIO's agents of stand users, alongside the likes of Enya Geil, being incredibly devoted to his master and is willing to do anything to achieve his master's goals. He is one of the final villainous stand users that the Stardust Crusaders face before the final showdown with DIO, and is arguably one of the most dangerous and challenging foes the Crusaders has ever face.
In Japanese, he was voiced by Yūji Kishi in JoJo's Venture, the late Takeshi Aono in the OVA, Hiroyuki Yoshino in JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: All Star Battle, and Shô Hayami in JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Heritage for the Future, the anime and JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Eyes of Heaven. In the English dubs, he was voiced by Jalen K. Cassell (who also voices Goetia in Fate/Grand Order, Innocent Zero in Mashle: Magic and Muscles, Junya Kaneshiro in Persona 5 and Thor in Record of Ragnarok) in the anime, with his voice actor in the OVA's dub currently unknown.
Biography[]
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders[]
Nothing is known about Vanilla Ice's past, who appears as one of Dio Brando's right hands, alongside Terence T. D'Arby and Kenny G., and formerly Enya Geil. Unlike minions of DIO, Vanilla Ice is shown to be fanatically loyal to his master. He first appears as a silhouette next to Enya and Nukesaku during one of DIO's monologues and is never seen again until towards the end of the arc. He is first fully seen informing DIO about Terence's defeat, so DIO invites him to his room. In their conversation, DIO says that even though Terence pledged loyalty to him, he was not ready to die for him and because of this was defeated. He then asks Vanilla Ice if he would willingly offer his blood to cure DIO's wounds, to which he responds by drawing a run nearby and decapitating himself. Pleased, DIO uses his own blood to restore Vanilla Ice, reviving him as a vampire and entrusting him to defeat the heroes.
As Avdol, Polnareff, and Iggy invade the mansion, they make through the apparent maze inside and track down a stand user nearby. Iggy is able to smell and attack Kenny G., who had been hiding in a wall, after which the maze is revealed to be an illusion created by him. Despite his quick defeat, Kenny G's illusion distracts the trio long enough for Vanilla Ice to approach them, which Avdol only notices after reading a carving in the wall. With little time to react, Avdol shoves the others away before being obliterated by Cream. Polnareff and Iggy attempt to escape, running around the mansion while Vanilla Ice gives chase. Instead of fleeing the mansion, however, they climb the stairs to the above room, but Ice simply takes a shortcut using his power and cuts off Polnareff's foot so that he would not be able to run.
Polnareff uses his stand to break the objects in the room, which gives him and Iggy an opportunity to hide. DIO then appears and chastises Vanilla Ice for making so much noise, proceeding to attack him. However, this DIO was actually a fake created by Iggy's The Fool, which Vanilla Ice notices and destroys. Vanilla Ice then suddenly gets livid at Iggy merely for having defiled the image of his master, so he pummels the dog and proceeds to brutally kick him to vent his fury. Polnareff attempts to help Iggy, but Ice once again turns into the void, so he uses Iggy's sand, scattering it around the room so he could track down Vanilla Ice's movement. When Ice appears again to look, Polnareff stabs him, piercing his head with his stand's sword, but Vanilla Ice survives the attack due to having become a vampire and breaks Polnareff's arm.
At this point, Vanilla Ice returns to his void form and starts a spiral trajectory, which Polnareff would be unable to escape. Before Polnareff is obliterated, Iggy uses the last of his strength to save him but dies shortly after. When Vanilla Ice returns, Polnareff finally realizes that Vanilla Ice is not a human, so he breaks the wall in order for the sunlight to fill it and taunts Vanilla Ice, who rushes at him only to be disintegrated.
OVA[]
Vanilla Ice appears in the 1993 episodes of the OVA, his sole appearance is in the episode "The Warrior of the Void: Vanilla Ice". He serves the same purpose as in the manga, a servant of DIO who battles Polnareff and kills Avdol and Iggy. In the OVA, Ice slices Iggy in half and kicks the dying dog's corpse into a wall out of anger for the dog daring to defy DIO.
His death in the OVA differs heavily from the manga, as in the OVA, Polnareff repeatedly stabs Vanilla Ice in a rage after seeing him murder Iggy before slicing his head in half.
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Heritage for the Future[]
Vanilla Ice is the secondary antagonist of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Heritage for the Future, serving as both a playable character and the penultimate boss of the game.
As an NPC, He appears near the end of each character's Story Mode to confront them before the final battle with DIO, before fighting them himself.
His own Story Mode starts after the Joestar group has infiltrated DIO's mansion in Egypt. Vanilla Ice manages to defeat every single hero one after another, with the final boss being Jotaro Kujo himself. Afterwards, Ice reports his success to DIO. According to his ending, the vampire blood which transformed Ice took complete control of him afterwards, and he became DIO's slave forever.
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Eyes of Heaven[]
In the story mode of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Eyes of Heaven, it is revealed that Vanilla Ice is revived by an alternate version of Dio, and is now immune to daylight. He is only seen in Chapter 2: Vento Aureo, where he attempts to kill the heroes with a brainwashed Bruno Bucciarati and take the Saint Corpse part. But the two are quickly defeated by Polnareff and Giorno Giovanna as they retreat via teleportation. Before Ice retreats, Polnareff asked him about his true loyalty, but Ice only replies that he is only loyal to one person.
Appearance[]
Vanilla Ice is a very tall, muscular man with wavy collarbone length hair. He wears a pair of metallic heart-shaped earrings, and a light headpiece carrying a heart crossing his forehead.
His outfit consists of a dark leather tailed, open, waistcoat on top of a long-sleeved leotard. Across his right shoulder is a metallic strap connected to a large heart over his right breast and the letters "VI". There is a smaller heart at the base of his abdomen, secured by a band around his waist acting as a belt. Bare-legged, he wears dark, mid-calf height boots. In the manga, he also wears white gloves whereas he doesn't in the anime.
In JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: All Star Battle and the OVA, Vanilla Ice's leotard is sleeveless and he has wristbands.
Personality[]
| “ | Of all things... even if it was a fake Lord DIO made of sand, how dare you make me strike him?! I'll kick you to death, you bastard! It takes but an instant to be swallowed by my dimension of darkness! That is not enough time for my anger to wane! This is all your fault! You! You're the one who has angered me! This is all your fault! Learn your lesson! How's that?! Learn your lesson! How's that?! How's that?! | „ |
| ~ Vanilla Ice yelling at Iggy while beating him to death, showing his fanatical and psychopathic nature. |
Vanilla Ice is defined by his zealous, fanatical, intolerant, unrelenting, pertinacious, single-minded, and indefatigable loyalty to DIO. He serves as the most fanatical minion of DIO, When DIO relates that he might want blood to heal, Vanilla Ice uses his Stand to sever his own head and fill an urn with his own blood without any hesitation. This is heavily implied to be a test of loyalty, as DIO promptly revives Vanilla Ice as a Vampire without drinking the offered blood. His fanatical nature causing him to be one of the most violent minions of DIO, as he vaporized Muhammad Avdol (leaving only his arms behind) without any remorse, mercilessly sought Jean-Pierre Polnareff's death, and beat Iggy to death over making a false structure of DIO.
Although Vanilla Ice is normally a calm, polite, reasoning, phlegmatic, intelligent, dispassionate, and collected individual, he flies into a tremendous fury when DIO is disrespected in any way, shape, or form. When Iggy creates a sand construct of DIO in an attempt to take Vanilla Ice off-guard, the latter immediately abandoned his Stand in favor of beating Iggy to death with his bare hands and feet, stating that Iggy deserved a more drawn-out death than the simple annihilation brought by Cream's void form.
It is also implied that Vanilla Ice is somewhat oblivious, inattentive, and absentminded, being prone to using his Stand's void form to punch through walls instead of using the door.
Powers and Abilities[]
Cream
| “ | He who reads this carving and turns aback shall perish. | „ |
| ~ The carved warning about Cream. |
Vanilla Ice's Stand, Cream, swallows its user and itself, in turn, morphing into an invisible sphere of void which obliterates anything on its path. Despite being invincible while in this void form, Vanilla Ice is unable to see, having to return and look to aim his attacks.
Trivia[]
- Vanilla Ice's name is based on the rapper of the same name. His Stand is named after the British band of the same name.
- This may be intentional, with the name of him and his stand together being "Vanilla Ice Cream".
- Cream is also the first stand in JoJo's Bizarre Adventure to be named after a musical reference.
- Vanilla Ice is the only antagonist in JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders besides his master to kill one of the main characters.
- Furthermore, Vanilla Ice is the only antagonist to kill more main characters than the main antagonist of a part, as he killed two while DIO only managed to permanently kill one.
- Vanilla Ice is one of the few enemy stand users in Stardust Crusaders to actually die after their defeat, instead of simply retiring.
External Links[]
- Vanilla Ice on the JoJo's Bizarre Wiki
- Vanilla Ice on the VS Battles Wiki
- Vanilla Ice on the Hate Sink Wiki
