CHARACTER PROFILE
Lang Rangler
- Primary work
- Stone Ocean
- Stand
- Jumpin' Jack Flash↗
Lang Rangler (ラング・ラングラー, Rangu Rangurā) is a secondary antagonist featured in the sixth part of the JoJo's Bizarre Adventure series, Stone Ocean, specifically the " Operation Savage Garden " story arc.
Lang Rangler is an inmate of Green Dolphin Street Prison sent by Enrico Pucci to assassinate Jolyne Cujoh and Weather Report on their way to the prison courtyard in order to stop them from delivering Jotaro Kujo 's Stand DISC to the Speedwagon Foundation. He is a Stand user and wields the gravity-manipulating Jumpin' Jack Flash.
Image attribution details
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Original image ↗ · Archived image ↗01Basic information
02Appearance
Lang Rangler is a man of above-average height and medium build. He also sports thick pads on his fingertips and toes, allowing him to suction onto surfaces.↗
Very little can be seen of his face, as he is clad in an assortment of makeshift gear designed to insulate him from the effects of his Stand. This includes a flat-topped hat covering his face to below his eyes with a serrated bottom edge, and goggles. As such, nothing of his hair or even eyes can be distinguished, leaving his actual face enigmatic.↗
03Personality
Lang Rangler is a calm and analytical Stand user who is nonetheless prone to overconfidence and murderous outbursts.↗
Lang Rangler's bio describes him as someone who tends to think about things logically. Indeed Lang has devised a near fool-proof strategy in order to win his battles. For starters, he's experienced in navigating in a zero-gravity environment, his fingertips having been modified to work as suction cups. This allows him to safely wound his target and let the blood flow out of them, causing fatal blood loss.↗↗↗↗↗
Lang Rangler is usually calm but he's prone to violent outbursts when he's upset, having been charged with stabbing a female professor sixty-nine times. Likewise, when Jolyne Cujoh proves to be more of a threat than he thought, he loses his cool and begins to threaten her and insult her.↗↗↗
04Abilities
Stand
Lang Rangler's Stand is Jumpin' Jack Flash, enabling him to affect targets with weightlessness. With the centrifuges at its wrists, it can launch small objects like screws and bolts as bullets.↗
Suctive Digits
Lang Rangler also possesses suction cup-like fingertips and toes as a natural ability of his own, affording him further advantage in weightlessness.↗↗
05Story
SPOILERS
Background
Lang Rangler was sentenced to Green Dolphin Street Prison for murdering a female professor, stabbing her sixty-nine times. At an unknown point while in prison, he gained his Stand, Jumpin' Jack Flash. It's unspecified whether he naturally acquired his ability or was granted to him via a Stand DISC by Enrico Pucci.↗↗
Operation Savage Garden
Lang Rangler makes his first appearance when he is caught in a reflection and spotted by Weather Report whilst stalking Jolyne Cujoh, under orders from Whitesnake. Lang Rangler chases after her, Weather, and Emporio on all fours, trying to spit on Jolyne in order to activate his Stand. They escape for the time being in a jacket using Burning Down the House, Jolyne heading to the factory to repair her boots.↗
When Weather Report neutralizes his attack, he tries to fight directly using his Stand, but his arms burst into flames from the air resistance. To escape, he turns off the zero-gravity, leading to various appliances falling on Weather Report. Security alarms cause the hallways to begin to close, Lang Rangler firing projectiles against the wall to propel himself through the gate just before it closes. However, he is tailed by Jolyne and Weather into the main factory area.↗
His Stand's effect of having anything the affected touches become weightless starts to affect the air around Jolyne and Weather, quickly making them start to run out of air. Hiding until his enemies are distracted by their spilling blood, he fires numerous projectiles at Jolyne while she's distracted with plugging up the holes in the area, but she deflects them using Stone Free.↗
As he starts to leave, he wonders if he could beat even Whitesnake with this power, but then notices Stone Free's string tied in his Stand's centrifuges. She yanks him into range of his own stand, leaving him to writhe in the vacuum created by the effects of his attack. Reaching into one of the sneakers wrapped around his ankles, he takes disinfectant and manganese dioxide and mixes them together in a jar, creating pure oxygen.↗
06Plot details
SPOILERS
Personality
When he's got his targets affected by his power, he then patiently waits outside of his power's range so that the zero-gravity environment kills the target and, if need be, shoots them with screws and bolts with specially made centrifugal shooter on his wrists.↗↗↗↗↗
Profile details
Status: Retired (Part 6)↗
07Appearances
Stone Ocean Chapter 40: Operation Savage Garden (Head to the Courtyard!), Part 1↗
Stone Ocean Chapter 41: Operation Savage Garden, Part 2↗
Stone Ocean Chapter 42: Operation Savage Garden, Part 3↗
Stone Ocean Chapter 43: Operation Savage Garden, Part 4↗
Stone Ocean Chapter 44: Operation Savage Garden, Part 5↗
08Sources & attribution
- Lang Rangler
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 (9)
- Stone Ocean Model Sheet No.TL010-01 Open ↗
- Stone Ocean Chapter 42: Operation Savage Garden, Part 3, tailpiece Open ↗
- Stone Ocean Chapter 43: Operation Savage Garden, Part 4, p.17 Open ↗
- Stone Ocean Chapter 44: Operation Savage Garden, Part 5, p.7 Open ↗
- Stone Ocean Chapter 45: Operation Savage Garden, Part 6, p.14 Open ↗
- Stone Ocean Chapter 46: Operation Savage Garden, Part 7, p.11 Open ↗
- Stone Ocean Chapter 46: Operation Savage Garden, Part 7, p.12 Open ↗
- Stone Ocean Chapter 46: Operation Savage Garden, Part 7, p.1 Open ↗
- Stone Ocean Chapter 46: Operation Savage Garden, Part 7, p.2 Open ↗
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