CHARACTER PROFILE
Father Styx
- Primary work
- Phantom Blood
- Occupation
- Priest↗
Father Styx (スティクス神父, Sutikusu-shinpu) is a tertiary character featured in the first part of the JoJo's Bizarre Adventure series, Phantom Blood.
Styx is an alcoholic priest who boards a voyage to Mexico for a mission. While on the ship, he discovers Dio Brando 's coffin.
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Father Styx. Source illustration via JoJoWiki; copyright remains with the original rights holders.
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Original image ↗ · Archived image ↗01Basic information
02Appearance
Father Styx is a tall man with an average build. He has wavy neck-length hair with parted bangs and long sideburns. He also has sunken cheeks, a long nose, and a light stubble. He is seen wearing a cassock with a cross necklace.↗
03Personality
Styx is an individual who is respected by his fellow priests as they have high hopes for his missionary trip. However, in reality, he doesn't want to travel for them, and seems more motivated by money than spirituality. While he's alone and intoxicated on the ship while drinking, he complains that God often sends him to nasty places, which suggests that he is xenophobic.↗
He doesn't like getting dirty and would have no problem leaving his rosary behind in the cargo hold if it wasn't his precious business tool for making money. Consequently, his motivation for wealth leads to his demise when he closely inspects Dio's coffin, assuming something important would be inside it.↗↗
04Story
SPOILERS
Phantom Blood (1889)
Styx is told by three other priests that his new religious mission is to go a village in Mexico. They wish him good luck in spreading the word of their faith and mention that they have high hopes for him. In the anime, the three priests are shown seeing him off before he leaves. He boards the ship on February 7, 1889, and drinks alcohol until he is intoxicated.↗↗↗
Later, Styx accidentally drops his rosary while drinking and walking around the ship. It falls through a grate, landing in a cargo hold. He contemplates leaving it there but realizes he has no choice but to pick it up since it's his tool of the trade. He heads down to the cargo hold and retrieves his rosary on top of a shiny box. Intrigued, he inspects it assuming that it's a safe, but realizes that it's strangely unlocked.↗
Immediately after he realizes this, a metal ball above the lock shoots out from the coffin and obliterates Father Styx's head, making his eyeballs fly out and sending his body flying. Wang Chan opens the box afterward, revealing that it contains Dio Brando 's head.↗↗
05Plot details
SPOILERS
Appearances
Chapter 42: Fire and Ice, Jonathan and Dio, Part 4 (Death)↗
Chapter 43: Fire and Ice, Jonathan and Dio, Part 5 (Corpse only)↗
(Death)↗
Profile details
Status Status based on their final appearance in the part(s) they are featured in: Deceased (Part 1)↗
Date of Death: February 7, 1889↗↗
Cause of Death: Head obliterated by a metal ball from Dio 's coffin↗
06Appearances
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Episode 9: The Final Ripple!↗
07Behind the Character
Dio took over Father Styx's body in the secret final battle of the PS2 game because the game producer, Yusuke Sasaki, thought Wang Chan wouldn't be a good final boss if he remained completely accurate to the story. However, he didn't want to completely stray away from JoJo's story, so Araki gave him various ideas. Although the entirety of Styx's canon appearance is preserved in the alternate final chapter of the PS2 game, he is cut from the normal final chapter.↗↗
08Sources & attribution
- Father Styx
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.
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