CHARACTER PROFILE
Inspector Archer
- Primary work
- Phantom Blood
Other recorded work links
Inspector Archer (アーチャー警部, Āchā Keibu) is a tertiary ally featured in the first part of the JoJo's Bizarre Adventure series, Phantom Blood.
He is a friend of George Joestar I. His first accomplishment as a police officer of Scotland Yard was arresting Dario Brando for stealing George's ring.
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Inspector Archer. Source illustration via JoJoWiki; copyright remains with the original rights holders.
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Original image ↗ · Archived image ↗01Basic information
- Japanese Name
- アーチャー警部↗
- Romanized Name
- Āchā Keibu↗
- Aliases
- Scotland Yard Inspector (スコットランドヤード警部 Sukottorando Yādo Keibu Sukottorando Yādo Keibu)↗
- Gender
- Male↗
- Nationality
- British↗
- Occupation
- Police Inspector↗
- Species
- Human↗
- Affiliation
- Jonathan's Group (Ally)↗
- Manga Debut
- Chapter 12↗
- Anime Debut
- Episode 3↗
- Game Debut
- Phantom Blood (PS2 Game) (NPC)↗
02Appearance
Inspector Archer is a muscular middle-aged man. He is bald on the top of his head and has neck-length curly light hair on the back along with long sideburns. He also has a goatee, which is colored dark in the manga but light in the anime. He has a unibrow which is noticeably darker than his hair. He wears small round glasses and a police uniform.↗
When he was younger, his hair was much thicker, with side-swept bangs on the front.↗
03Personality
Archer is an emotional police officer, caring a lot for George. In his past, when he first became a police officer, he felt exhilarated to recover such an important and valuable item as George's ring. He is polite to nobles like George but is honest enough to tell George that he's being too naive by forgiving Dario Brando. He scorns criminals like Dario, believing that people like him cannot change.↗↗
04Story
SPOILERS
Background
In 1868, having just started working in Scotland Yard's police force, a young Archer arrests Dario Brando as his first accomplishment. Dario had been found trying to pawn off a ring containing a valuable jewel set in platinum. Realizing it was made by a famous jeweler, the police officers visit the jeweler, who remembered making it for George Joestar I. Mary Joestar had given that ring to George, and Dario stole it from George after the couple's carriage accident.↗↗
Archer takes George to Dario's prison cell, but George claims that Dario wasn't lying about George giving him the ring. To Archer's surprise, George says that it was a gift and commands the officer to release Dario immediately. Baffled, Archer questions why George would make up such a story. He apologizes for being rude, but says that George is too trusting and that a criminal like Dario would do it again with no remorse.↗↗
After looking into the details later, Archer learns that although Dario had "saved" George's life, he was a criminal regardless. The woman from a bar who was with Dario testified that Dario ransacked all the valuables from the carriage.↗↗
At some point, Archer becomes the inspector of the police force.↗
Phantom Blood
In 1888, Archer arrives at the Joestar Mansion with his police force after being called by George to arrest Dio Brando, Jonathan having proven that Dio planned to kill George. However, Dio suddenly stabs George with a knife in the process of activating the Stone Mask, leading to all of the police officers shooting Dio out of the window.↗
Speedwagon notices that Dio's body is missing and warns the cop to get away from the window, but his warning comes too late. Archer suddenly meets his own tragic end as Dio tears his head off at his maxilla. Having become a vampire, Dio reveals that he was hiding above the window, right behind the Inspector.↗↗
05Plot details
SPOILERS
Appearances
Chapter 12: Youth with Dio, Part 1 (Death)↗
Chapter 13: Youth with Dio, Part 2 (Corpse only)↗
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Episode 3: Youth with Dio (Death)↗
Phantom Blood Musical Scene 8: Courage: Joestar Mansion (Death)↗
Profile details
Status Status based on their final appearance in the part(s) they are featured in: Deceased (Part 1)↗
Date of Death: 1888↗
06Appearances
07Sources & attribution
- Inspector Archer
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 (1)
- Chapter 12: Youth with Dio, Part 1 Open ↗
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