Hol Horse

Hol Horse is a male anime and manga character who features in JoJo's Bizarre Adventure.

Biography

Hol Horse (Japanese: ホル・ホース, Hepburn: Horu Hōsu) was a male human who came to operate in the late 1980's where at some point he came to manifest a Stand and served as a mercenary where he worked for DIO.

He later arrived at Calcutta on elephant-back with Nena, a young girl whose marriage proposal he turns down while claiming to be thinking of her best interests. He meets with J. Geil and the two decide to kill Jean Pierre Polnareff while he is separated from the Joestar Group. The following day, Hol Horse confronts Polnareff with his Emperor Stand while J. Geil supports him through his Hanged Man. When Muhammad Avdol intervenes to save Polnareff, Hol Horse severely injures Avdol, believing him to be dead from the headshot he administered. After separating from J.Geil and the protagonists, Hol Horse catches up to Polnareff and Noriaki Kakyoin and learns that they had already killed J. Geil. Knowing he could not handle the two Stand users alone, Hol Horse flees before he's intercepted by Jotaro Kujo and Joseph Joestar. Nena's interference, however, gives him a chance to escape, with the Joestar Group deciding to let him go.

Afterwards, he appeared before Enya the Hag during her attempt on the Joestar Group's lives and is attacked by her as she considered him equally responsible for the death of her son, J. Geil. While seemingly killed by Enya's Stand, Hol Horse played dead until he was able to escape via the Joestar Group's vehicle, vowing to get his revenge later. Later, while reporting to DIO on Alessi's and Mariah's defeat, he tries to attack the vampire when questioned on why he is not fighting the Joestar group. He is cowed by DIO's power and, broken, swears eternal loyalty to DIO and decides to attack the Joestar group with a new partner.

Hol Horse flies to Aswan to forcibly take Boingo with him for assistance in dispatching the protagonists with Tohth. On the way out of the airport, Hol Horse antagonizes a pair of men and makes them flee when he shoots one man's ear off. Afterward, he manages to convince Boingo to work with him. At first, Hol Horse is taken aback by Tohth's strange predictions but is ultimately convinced of their reliability after he kicks a woman to save her from a scorpion and is rewarded with a jewel. Hol Horse and Boingo then stalk the Joestar Group in the streets of Cairo, knowing that Hol Horse must now put his fingers in Polnareff's nose which will somehow end up in victory. Polnareff does surprise Hol Horse and almost takes him out but Boingo distracts Polnareff, allowing Hol Horse to put his fingers in Polnareff's nose. As the rest of the group comes to Polnareff, Hol Horse is forced to hide in a corner and hold Polnareff at gunpoint to force him to lie. Polnareff tips off the group and thanks to his irritated nose, manages to avoid being shot by sneezing, making Hol Horse stumble out of his hiding place. Cornered, Hol Horse is saved when the two thugs from earlier try to run him down but their truck slips on spilled oil and crashes into the heroes instead. Hol Horse and Boingo retreat behind another corner and see that Hol Horse will shoot into a pipe at noon exactly and put bullets through Jotaro's head. Nervous and eager, Hol Horse ends up shooting too early into the pipe and Jotaro Kujo is saved when Polnareff sneezes again on his face, making him back out of the bullet's path in disgust. The operation goes horribly awry as Tohth's prediction backfires on them, ending with Emperor's own bullets hitting Hol Horse right in the face, just as he realizes the time on his watch was advanced. While severe, the bullet wounds stop just short of his skull with Hol Horse hospitalized

Overview

Personality and attributes

In appearance, Hol Horse had an above-average height and medium build. At his back, he has light, neck-length hair. He had dimples in his cheeks and a cleft chin.

On the surface, he seemed to be a confident and smooth-talking with women who acted like a stereotypical movie gunslinger.

Despite his arrogance, Hol Horse preferred to see himself as a "No.2 kind of guy" rather than a "No.1 kind of guy". This stemmed from the fact that he was aware of how weak his Stand was when compared to the others.

While originally seen working with J. Geil, he later becomes partners with Boingo.

Powers and abilities

Hol Horse was a human who came to be a Stand (スタンド Sutando) wielder where he came to wield the Emperor (エンペラー（皇帝） Enperā) that took the form of a revolver. When fired, the Emperor could control the flight of a bullet allowing Hol Horse a remarkable level of accuracy. With this power, he could even cause bullets to turn mid-air to strike his target. Despite his accuracy, he was individually quite weak and required a partner to serve as his backup to protect him from counterattacks.

Notes

• Hol Horse was created by Hirohiko Araki where he featured in the JoJo's Bizarre Adventure universe in Stardust Crusaders.

In other media

Video games

• In JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Eyes of Heaven, Hol Horse appeared as a playable character in the setting of the fighting video game where he was voiced by Japanese actor.

Novels

• In JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Crazy Diamond's Demonic Heartbreak, Hol Horse appeared in the setting of the non-canonical spinoff written by Kouhei Kadono. According to these events, Hol Horse was born in a certain country in Eastern Europe which no longer exists as of 1999, since it divided into multiple other countries. The streets of his country were full of abandoned children due to artificial abortions being banned. Hol Horse's mother passed away in a hospital when giving birth to him. Consequently, he was raised in an institution as an orphan among other similar children. The orphanage referred to children by "H" or "S", indicating whether they were born in a hospital but whose mother had died there, or if they were picked up from the streets. The country paid the facility more money for children who came from hospitals. Thus, Hol Horse was called "H" and given preferential treatment such as being able to take showers. Due to the hospital not properly keeping records, Hol Horse did not know who his parents were or how they looked like, but since his mother gave her life for him, he dedicated his feelings of gratitude to her to all women. Children couldn't stay in the institution for long and would be thrown back onto the streets at a certain age, but Hol Horse voluntarily left before that using his Stand, which he was born with, to his advantage. At some point after he left the orphange, Hol Horse watched Clint Eastwood's A Fistful of Dollars in a movie theater. He was inspired by the protagonist, the Man with No Name, and started dressing like a cowboy after that, deciding that he would live freely. At first, Emperor's bullets only had the power of an adult's punch, but it eventually had the same destructive power as a normal gun by his mid-teens. When the country was about to collapse, Hol Horse was able to avoid the civil war by fleeing and worked dirty jobs in the underworld. He turned all of his negative experiences into positives, exploiting his hardships as stories to evoke sympathy when flirting with women. Eventually, the town where he was born changed its name, and the residents of the street where he lived had all moved, so Hol Horse no longer had a hometown. Hol Horse was assigned the 'Emperor' tarot card by Enya the Hag before being assigned the mission to kill the Joestar Group. Hol Horse met with Devo the Cursed who criticizes his cowardice and threatened him to stay out of his way with the puppet possessed by Ebony Devil. After Hol Horse attempted to betray DIO but succumbed to his power, he came across several women lying on the floor of DIO's mansion, some of them dead with blood drained from their necks. He found a few that were still barely alive. At first, he wondered why he should get involved with these random women, but ended up saving three of them by carrying them out of the mansion and then shoving them into a taxi. He gave the driver money and ordered him to quickly drive away.

Appearances

• JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders:

External Links

• JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Wiki Entry

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