01Basic information

Japanese Name
アントニオ・トーレス↗
Romanized Name
Antonio Tōresu↗
Age
11↗↗
Birthday
1889↗
Gender
Male↗
Nationality
British↗
Species
Zombie | Human (formerly)↗

02Appearance

Antonio has unruly brown curtained hair that is shorter on the sides and back along with side-swept bangs. He is skinny with tan skin and wears a striped t-shirt.↗↗↗

As a zombie, Antonio appears naked with flat, stretched out skin along with claws and fangs. He has no eyeballs but instead dark pits where his eyes should be, no blood, no muscles, and no bones.↗

03Personality

Antonio is a cruel, aggressive, and violent child as a result of his abusive upbringing. He and his friends such as Julio Gonzales constantly bully George for several years. Despite secretly being the same nationality as George, Antonio insults George and his family by calling him "balsa blanca", meaning "white raft" in Spanish. Although he gets beat up by Lisa Lisa for harming George, Antonio persistently beats up George and goes as far as to rub dog feces in George's face in an attempt to force him to eat it.↗↗

After becoming a zombie, Antonio retains his sadistic nature but is also as immature as he was twenty years ago when he was a child. Mentioning his mother puts him into a fit of rage and emotional trauma. George states that although Antonio is mean, he isn't stupid. Antonio is submissive to his boss, Dio, and follows his orders completely.↗↗

04Abilities

Wound

Antonio's Wound manifested when he was around ten years old.↗

Molting

Rapid Skin Cell Production: Antonio's mother Maria abused him so badly that his metabolism accelerated until she could peel off his entire skin every year, from his head to his toes, in one single peel. All cells in the average human body are replaced every seven years but skin is replaced once a month. In Antonio Torres's case, his skin cells adapted to being torn off on the same day every year. Three days before June 16 which was Maria's customary skinning day, his skin cell production would speed up, causing his skin to become loose.↗↗

He could shed his own skin like a snake every year on June 16, from a single incision. His new skin would be thin, but fully grown.↗

Zombie

Body Possession: As a zombie, Antonio is capable of going inside the body of humans and possessing them from within. By hiding inside their body, he is shielded from his weakness to sunlight.↗↗

Cloning: The skin he sheds would also be a zombie, essentially making a copy of himself with the same abilities. Each clone can make their own clones by shedding their skin as well. By 2012, he has 919,040 zombie clones of himself.↗

Pilot: By possessing the bodies of various human pilots in the air force, Antonio learns how to fly planes.↗↗

Gliding: Due to his lightweight skin, Antonio can glide in the sky like flying squirrels.↗↗

05Story

SPOILERS

Background

Antonio Torres was born as Anthony Hightower in England. His family had been in the railroad business there, but went bankrupt and washed up at La Palma, one of Spain 's Canary Islands.↗

Ever since he was a baby, his mother Maria peeled only his skin away bit by bit while leaving his blood, bones, and flesh intact. She then carefully placed the pieces together, treated them with a thin-coating of oil to prevent them from drying out, sealed them with medical adhesive, and sewed the pieces together with very fine thread.↗↗

La Palma (1900)

One day, Antonio and his gang attempt to force dog feces into George's mouth on George's way home from school. Lisa Lisa appears and saves him, but they still manage to get some up his nose. Despite Lisa Lisa knocking Antonio down and kicking him until the point where his nose starts bleeding, he had gotten used to the beatings from her and continues to insult George.↗

1905

Five years later, Antonio's zombie clones follow George when he moves to Wastewood, England. For several months after George becomes friends with the Motorize family, whenever Kenton Motorize flew while the clouds were dark or it was raining, a monster would show up. She said it would laugh at her, say things that she thought might be in Spanish, and do things to her or the plane.↗

1915

A while after George joins the Royal Aero Club, Antonio and his zombie clones begin to attack pilots on their flights, leading to mass rumors and stories of gremlin sightings with varying physical descriptions.↗

When George and his friend, Jim Graham, are flying together in George's plane, they prepare to make an emergency landing after their fuel suddenly runs out. Antonio reveals himself between the plane's propeller blades, with petrol running down his chin like drool after sucking the fuel all out of the plane. Antonio announces that he'll kill George and his family and does a shrill laugh. George manages to take a photograph of Antonio, just before he dives into Jim's mouth.↗↗

1920

November 11, on the day of George's wedding, Antonio kills Steven, Ben, Darlington, and presumably Faraday. When George sees that Steven is late to be the best man for his wedding, he heads to the Motorize residence only to find the carpet on the staircase seeped with blood. He is confronted by Kenton, now a zombie, who lunges herself at him. George has no choice but to pierce her through her head with a fireplace poker.↗

Japan (2012)

Tsukumojuku still has Antonio's cast-off skin in his suitcase when he ends up traveling through time from 1904 to Nishi Akatsuki, Japan in 2012. However, his luggage and the skin within it disappears when he arrives there.↗

The original zombified Antonio from 1900 had traded places with the skin sample that Tsukumojuku was carrying for four years, traveling through time with him from 1904 to 2012 in the 37th universe. This was an order from his boss, Dio, and the order was relayed to him by Giorno Giovanna. Antonio kills three Japanese detectives including Tsukumojuku and with the help of Giorno, arranges their bodies to resemble Japanese folk tales.↗↗

Funny and The Funniest ride their helicopter through the mouth of the dying Antonio and travel back to America. Eventually the original Antonio is also absorbed by the giant wall and they all die after Kars returns everyone to their original universes.↗↗

06Plot details

SPOILERS

Profile details

Status Status based on their final appearance in the part(s) they are featured in: Deceased (JORGE JOESTAR)↗

Date of Death: June 16, 1900 (Human) | 1915 (Several zombies) | November 11, 1920 (Zombie) | July 24, 2012 (Giant Zombie)↗↗↗

Cause of Death: Eaten by his father (Human) | Killed by Lisa Lisa / George / Steven (Many Zombies) | Destroyed by Lisa Lisa 's Sunset Orange Overdrive and missiles from Narancia / Jorge (Giant Zombie)↗

07Relationships

CharacterRelationshipNotes
Maria TorresMother↗
Alejandro TorresFather↗

08Sources & attribution

Source text: JoJoWiki and its contributors. This entry has been reorganized and condensed for readability under CC BY-SA 4.0. Archived records reflect their capture dates. Referenced manga, anime, and artwork retain their respective copyrights.
Source bibliography (8)
  1. JORGE JOESTAR Chapter 1: Tsukumojuku Open ↗
  2. JORGE JOESTAR Chapter 15: Beyond Open ↗
  3. Based on his age Open ↗
  4. JORGE JOESTAR Chapter 16: Beyond II Open ↗
  5. JORGE JOESTAR Chapter 11: Gremlin Open ↗
  6. JORGE JOESTAR Chapter 9: Cliff Open ↗
  7. JORGE JOESTAR Chapter 13: Enemy Open ↗
  8. JORGE JOESTAR Chapter 14: Desolation Row Open ↗

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