Eleven Men
- Primary work
- Steel Ball Run
- Stand
- TATOO YOU!↗
The Eleven Men (11人の男たち, Jūichi-nin no Otoko-tachi) are a group of unnamed secondary antagonists featured in the seventh part of the JoJo's Bizarre Adventure series, Steel Ball Run, specifically in the " The Promised Land: Sugar Mountain " story arc.
They are all Stand users that share the same Stand, TATOO YOU!

Image attribution details
Eleven Men. Source illustration via JoJoWiki; copyright remains with the original rights holders.
Image via JoJoWiki. Original franchise/production rights holders retain copyright; the wiki text CC BY-SA license does not license this image.
Original image ↗ · Archived image ↗01Basic information
02Appearance
All eleven men share similar outfits consisting of a flat brim cowboy hat, a range coat, and a belt with a holster for their gun. Most of them have a pattern featuring small writing spread all over their hair and facial hair like a newspaper or a book.↗
03Personality
Not much is known about their personalities beyond stoicism, but they have an uncanny ability to act in unison.↗
Araki suggests that each of the men are labelled in a cardinal manner as Tatoo 1 (タトゥー 1, Tatū Wan), Tatoo 2 (タトゥー 2, Tatū Tsu), and so on. It's also assumed that one among the undecet is the leader, but nobody knows who it is.↗↗↗
04Abilities
Stand
All Eleven Men share the same Stand ability, named TATOO YOU! It allows them to use each other's bodies as portals, letting them merge with each other and displace themselves.↗
05Story
SPOILERS
Steel Ball Run
The Eleven Men are dispatched by Funny Valentine as the Steel Ball Run enters its 6th Stage. Johnny Joestar and Gyro Zeppeli detect their presence in the forests near Milwaukee, following their trace. Gyro, listening to their pace, notes that they are unusually synchronized. The Eleven Men continue to trail the duo in Milwaukee until they find the two in a seedy casino in the city.↗↗
One of the men approach and Johnny shoots him twice, blowing a hole in his head. However, the rest of the group has suddenly disappeared. Unbeknownst to them, the Eleven Men are using their collective power, TATOO YOU!, to merge together and they shoot Gyro in the arm by surprise. Gyro is crippled and can only use one Steel Ball. Johnny shoots again but the men use their dead comrade as a shield.↗
While Gyro tries to negotiate with the gangsters besides them, the Seven Men drag the corpses of their dead comrades to approach Johnny and Gyro unimpeded. The moment the duo is surrounded, all of them come out. With his remaining nail, Johnny shoots a man in the wrist and forces him to shoot everywhere for an instant. Gyro smashes another's tibia with his Steel Ball, making him miss and merely shoot Gyro's shoulder but the duo is now truly out of weapons.↗
However, Johnny finds the lone man and makes a deal with him. Johnny gives him the ears and right arm for a half-empty bottle of wine. Crying, Johnny tells him to go away. Suspicious at first, the man accepts the deal and leaves. During the exchange, he witnesses a map on the snow created by the Saint's Corpse and sees the location of the next Corpse Part. The remaining man returns to Valentine with the Corpse Parts and informs him of what he knows.↗↗
06Plot details
SPOILERS
Personality
They are also ruthless murderers, patiently hunting after Gyro and Johnny then during their fight, and exploit any setback thrown to them, using their comrades' corpses as shields and hiding spots for surprise attacks. Despite their ruthlessness, they seem to have a sense of honor, as they don't go out of their way to kill anyone but Johnny and Gyro, and the only surviving gunman left Johnny alone after acquiring the Corpse Part from him.↗
Appearances
Steel Ball Run Chapter 46: The Promised Land: Sugar Mountain, Part 2 (Death of one)↗
Profile details
Status Status based on their final appearance in the part(s) they are featured in: 10 deceased, 1 alive (Part 7)↗
Date of Death: November 1890↗↗
Cause of Death: Shot to death in a bar fight↗
Final Appearance: SBR Chapter 47 (Dead except one) | SBR Chapter 48 (Only one) | SBR Chapter 54 (Mentioned) Mentioned only↗
As Funny Valentine 's henchmen, they track down Johnny Joestar and Gyro Zeppeli during the 6th Stage of the Steel Ball Run to take their Saint's Corpse parts.↗
07Appearances
Steel Ball Run Chapter 45: The Promised Land: Sugar Mountain, Part 1↗
Steel Ball Run Chapter 47: The Promised Land: Sugar Mountain, Part 3 (Deaths of nine)↗
Steel Ball Run Chapter 48: Tubular Bells, Part 1 (Only one)↗
Steel Ball Run Chapter 52: Wrecking Ball, Part 2 (Only one) (Flashback)↗
Steel Ball Run Chapter 54: Wrecking Ball, Part 4 (Mentioned) Mentioned only↗
08Sources & attribution
- Eleven Men
Source bibliography (5)
- Calculated based on dates given in Steel Ball Run Chapter 56: Civil War, Part 1 and Steel Ball Run Chapter 60: Both Sides Now, Part 1 Open ↗
- JOJOVELLER: Araki's Stand Commentaries - TATOO YOU! Open ↗
- SBR Volume 12, Steel Ball Run Chapter 47: The Promised Land: Sugar Mountain, Part 3 Tailpiece Open ↗
- Steel Ball Run Chapter 46: The Promised Land: Sugar Mountain, Part 2 Open ↗
- Steel Ball Run Chapter 48: Tubular Bells, Part 1 Open ↗
09More profiles to explore
Continue with related characters, distinct versions and more profiles from the same recorded work.



