Jean Pierre Polnareff

And we had this really great moment.

It's one of the first moments where I'll call Gyro as that foe turned friend, or I guess more of like a rival turned friend or a competitor turned friend, similar to many of the JoBros like Speedwagon, like Polnareff, um, et cetera, uh, where Gyro decides to save Johnny despite Johnny telling him, imploring him to just go on ahead.

'Cause Johnny's saying, "I can't, I can't see at the moment.

Like my eyes are fine, but I can't see.

You know, Guile is obviously Stroheim from JoJo's Bizarre Adventure.

He was originally supposed to be Polnareff, apparently, but they said they had trouble making that work somehow, and it ended up going with Stroheim instead.

Again, I don't remember the exact manga, but this is something that you'll see time and time again of...

People in video game development, particularly in the 80s and 90s, very, very liberally pulling from other forms of pop culture, very much wearing their influences on their sleeve.

I'm a genie.

land.

Yes.

stand users.

We know who the identity was because the joke was Polnareff was just flirting with her.

But when Joseph had that weird flesh enemy on his arm.

that he was dealing with

Though Josephu's quick sleight of hand catches her off guard as he and Avdol thrust her into a magnetatra, and the dirty Bastets give Mariah quite the broken bone.

And lo, Jotaro, Polnareff, and Iggy are, per usual, unaware of the goings-on despite being within reasonable audible distance of Josephu and Avdol's homoerotic affairs.

But hark, dear listeners, for they are about to learn a lesson they won't soon forget.

And now onto our next segment of the show is that a music and/or tarot and/or Egyptian god reference where we document any and all nods, homages, and tributes that this extraordinary anime makes to the ordinary world of music and not so ordinary world of tarot cards and ancient Egyptian deities.

Actually, yeah

... have, like, some i- object just identify [laughs] where the enemy stand user is and their proximity.

Then we cut back to Jotaro, Polnareff, and Iggy, who are still waiting to get breakfast.

Um, they hear people, like, r- as they run by them, um, saying that someone cut the rail lines and they need to, like, fix it or whatever.

G- Garland Strhelim is right there.

It's, it's very close, but he is absolutely Polna- like, in dress- Yes ... and in hair- Hair style ... and in just in overall presentation, he is Polnareff from Part 3 of Jojo's Bizarre Adventure.

It's absolutely- Mm.

The developers even called him Polnareff around the office.

Like, you know, like, "Are you working on Polnareff today?" Like-

[laughs]

...

they knew he was Polnareff- [laughs] ...

He's a little Jojo-like with his blue hair.

Yeah, is this Polnareff?

Oh, shit.

He just broke free of all those restraints.

Well, it, it-

Oh, he's fucked up.

It's like Polnareff versus, um, the Samurai Trooper anime.

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