CHARACTER PROFILE
Enya the Hag
- Primary work
- Stardust Crusaders
Other recorded work links
- Stand
- Justice↗
Enya the Hag (エンヤ婆, En'ya-bā), also known as Enya Geil (エンヤ・ガイル, En'ya Gairu), is a primary antagonist featured in the third part of the JoJo's Bizarre Adventure series, Stardust Crusaders, specifically the " Justice " story arc. She is also mentioned several times in the fourth part, Diamond is Unbreakable, and the fifth part, Vento Aureo. She is also the protagonist of the one-shot Enya the Hag's Fangirl Diary.
Enya holds a high position among DIO 's confidantes. She is the mother of J.
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Original image ↗ · Archived image ↗01Basic information
02Appearance
Enya is a small elderly woman with large, puffy light hair and two pigtails. Her wrinkled face is dominated by her large eyes and toothless mouth. She wears large, baggy robes. She is seldom, if ever, shown with teeth, and like her son, she has two right hands. Enya uses a wooden club as a cane, which is taller than she is.↗
When she disguises herself as an innkeeper, she wraps bandages around her left hand to prevent it from being seen as a right hand.↗
03Personality
As a servant of DIO, Enya is openly cruel and ruthless. Early on, she dispatches seven Stand users to assassinate the Joestar Group. When using Justice, she takes particular pleasure in degrading her victims, often as an extension of her vindictiveness. She forces Hol Horse to swallow his own hand and then shoot himself with his Stand, and later attempts to compel Polnareff to lick her toilets clean. Enya is also materialistic, arguing that people live to obtain what they desire, whether it is money, sex, or power. She even strikes a cat with her cane as she leaves.↗↗↗↗↗↗
Enya is among DIO's most devout followers. She idolizes him, believing that with The World he is invincible and that the Joestars have no hope of defeating him. Her faith runs so deep that she refuses to accept that DIO ordered her execution. Fascinated by the vampire, she aspires to remain at his side and witness his life.↗↗↗↗
As a mother, Enya's love for J. Geil is intense and warped. Because he served DIO, she regards him as noble and assumes the Joestar Group only defeated him through underhanded means. At the same time, she appears indifferent to the crimes he committed. She also resolves to eliminate Hol Horse as soon as she learns he did not assist J.↗↗↗
04Abilities
Though elderly, Enya is shown to be extremely fast and can even keep up with a younger adult, approaching an even fight with Polnareff's Silver Chariot using only a pair of scissors. Enya also possesses esoteric knowledge relating to Stands and other seemingly unprecedented phenomena.↗
Stand
Enya's Stand is Justice, a ghostly humanoid mass that enables her to create illusions and control her targets' movements by entering wounds in their bodies. Justice is a Stand that represents the Tarot card " Justice ", which serves as a reminder that every action has consequences and responsibilities.↗
05Story
SPOILERS
Background
Enya bought five Stand-creating Arrows from a nineteen-year-old Diavolo and used one of them on DIO to produce his Stand. Other Arrows were later passed down to individuals such as Keicho Nijimura and Yoshihiro Kira.↗↗↗↗↗
In the spin-off Crazy Diamond's Demonic Heartbreak, Enya is mentioned to have assigned Tarot Cards to each of the seven assassins she sent to kill the Joestar Group. She wanted to grant J. Geil the 'Emperor' card but she saw that Fate had decided for Hol Horse to have the card.↗
Stardust Crusaders (1988)
Enya is introduced as DIO 's confidante and confidently states the seven Stand users she has sent to Asia, among them her son J. Geil, will finish off the Joestar Group.↗↗
However, all seven Stand users fail and her son is killed, causing her to cry angrily and swear revenge on the group while stating that serving DIO is the only purpose she has left. She then uses her Stand to change the desert graveyard into a large town in Multan, Pakistan, using the people as puppets.↗↗
When the Joestar group enter the town, Enya greets them and invites them to her hotel. However, she almost gives herself away when she calls Joseph Joestar by his last name on impulse and is suspected by Jotaro Kujo. Hol Horse also arrives to greet her about the Joestar group but Enya, believing Hol Horse to have betrayed her son, stabs him in the right arm to control it and Hol Horse ends up shooting himself with Emperor.↗↗↗
Enya, upon hearing Jean Pierre Polnareff come downstairs, crouches over and pretends to have collapsed. Polnareff helps her get up and starts a conversation, wondering where her family could be. In doing so, Polnareff unwittingly enrages Enya as he keeps reminding her he killed her son. Enya has trouble not attacking Polnareff on the spot.↗↗↗
When Jotaro kicks the door in, Enya directs Jotaro to Polnareff's location in the bathroom but makes the mistake of calling Jotaro by name, exposing her identity as another one of DIO's Stand users (her excuse of Jotaro having signed his name on the checkbook becomes flimsy once he reveals he signed his name as "Qtaro" rather than "Jotaro"). She then assaults Jotaro with her puppets, but Jotaro blasts them all away, only failing to prevent a baby's corpse from injuring his leg.↗↗
Enya is later brought along to Karachi so that the heroes can interrogate her about DIO 's ability. When she wakes up, she recognizes Steely Dan and tries to explain that she hasn't revealed anything. Still, Steely Dan says that DIO ordered her execution anyway because she knows too much and activates DIO's flesh bud that he secretly implanted within her brain. Agonizing from the flesh bud inside of her, Enya is asked what is DIO's ability by Joseph.↗↗↗
In the OVA, the events of her fight are altered. She uses Justice to change her appearance to that of a young woman (which might've been a reference to Nena). Later she changes back to her old appearance and accompanies the group acting like an innocent old woman, but is discovered when Jotaro uses the cigarette trick he used on the Captain Tennille imposter to discover her identity as a Stand user. When defeated, the spore on her kills Enya on its own, as Steely Dan doesn't appear.↗
06Plot details
SPOILERS
Personality
Enya shares a link with her son that causes her to receive the same injuries he does, and through it she learns that Polnareff killed him. Horrified, she briefly mourns his death before giving way to rage and swearing to kill the Joestar Group herself. Geil, arguing that he bears as much responsibility for his death as the Crusaders.↗↗↗
Abilities / Stand
Enya reflects this through her desire to kill everyone involved in her son's death in order to uphold justice for him against his killers, showing that the decision to kill him carried serious consequences.↗
Appearances
Chapter 161: Lovers, Part 2 (Death)↗
Chapter 162: Lovers, Part 3 (Corpse only)↗
Stardust Crusaders Episode 16: Lovers, Part 1 (Death)↗
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Episode 7 (OVA): Justice (Death)↗
Profile details
Status: Deceased (Part 3)↗
Date of Death: December 1988↗↗
Cause of Death: Internal haemorrhaging from flesh bud activation via Steely Dan↗
Geil, and after her son's death, she ambushes Jotaro 's group herself with the help of her fog Stand, Justice.↗
07Appearances
08Behind the Character
Enya was created as an answer to the question as to who taught DIO about the existence of Stands. Hirohiko Araki had a vague idea to make a witch-like fortuneteller, and also wanted to have a scary old woman as an enemy. He compares the series to horror films, considering them to be his teachers and textbooks, and says that "you can't have a horror film without a scary old lady". He tried including all the usual tropes of scary old ladies in horror films; Enya hiding in waiting for the main characters to show up, having a hidden knife, and the likes.↗
Araki says that he had a fantastic time drawing Enya, as she is chock-full of all his favorite aspects of horror. However, he's still not sure if she is an appropriate villain for a shonen manga. He says that it's pretty "adventurous" to have an old woman as an antagonist, and the ratings didn't necessarily go up during the time either. He also says that there's no mistaking that the ability to convey her strength and horror as a character despite the fact that she's an old woman is something unique to the series due to Stand battles.↗
09Relationships
| Character | Relationship | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| J. Geil | Son | ↗ |
10Sources & attribution
- Enya the Hag
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 (23)
- Chapter 146: Empress, Part 1, pg. 16. J. Geil is killed on December 13 JoJo 6251 timeline. Midler is defeated on December 28. Enya dies sometime in between those two fights. Open ↗
- Chapter 130: Strength, Part 1, p.7 Open ↗
- Chapter 156: Justice, Part 3, p.17-19 Open ↗
- Chapter 158: Justice, Part 5, p.16 Open ↗
- Chapter 130: Strength, Part 1, p.2 Open ↗
- Chapter 147: Empress, Part 2, p.5 Open ↗
- Chapter 130: Strength, Part 1, p.4 Open ↗
- Chapter 161: Lovers, Part 2, p.6 Open ↗
- Chapter 147: Empress, Part 2, p.3 Open ↗
- Chapter 156: Justice, Part 3, p.13 Open ↗
- Chapter 569: A Little Story from the Past Open ↗
- Chapter 276: The Nijimura Brothers, Part 3 Open ↗
- Chapter 282: The Nijimura Brothers, Part 9 Open ↗
- Chapter 369: Atom Heart Father, Part 5 Open ↗
- Chapter 130: Strength, Part 1 Open ↗
- Chapter 147: Empress, Part 2 Open ↗
- Chapter 155: Justice, Part 2 Open ↗
- Chapter 156: Justice, Part 3 Open ↗
- Chapter 157: Justice, Part 4 Open ↗
- Chapter 158: Justice, Part 5 Open ↗
- Chapter 159: Justice, Part 6 Open ↗
- Chapter 160: Lovers, Part 1 Open ↗
- Chapter 161: Lovers, Part 2 Open ↗
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