CHARACTER PROFILE
Melone
- Primary work
- Vento Aureo
Other recorded work links
Melone (メローネ, Merōne) is a secondary antagonist featured in the fifth part of the JoJo's Bizarre Adventure series, Vento Aureo, specifically the " Baby Face " story arc. He is also the protagonist of the short story " Cuore di Genitore, Ignaro il Figlio."
Melone is a member of La Squadra Esecuzioni. After Team Bucciarati is forced to take the road, he attempts to kidnap Trish Una and uses his remote Stand, Baby Face, to battle Giorno Giovanna.
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Original image ↗ · Archived image ↗01Basic information
- Japanese Name
- メローネ↗
- Romanized Name
- Merōne↗
- Stand
- Baby Face↗
- Gender
- Male↗
- Height
- 174 cm (5 ft 9 in) (Anime)↗
- Nationality
- Italian↗
- Occupation
- Passione Hitman↗
- Affiliation
- La Squadra Esecuzioni | Passione (formerly)↗
- Manga Debut
- Chapter 500↗
- Anime Debut
- GW Episode 9 (Cameo) | GW Episode 10 (1st Full Debut)↗
- Game Debut
- GioGio's Bizarre Adventure (NPC) | Stardust Shooters (Playable)↗
02Appearance
Melone is a skinny man with an average height. He has long straight hair descending down to his shoulders, as well as long bangs on one side of his face.↗
Inspired by Venetian design, Melone's most distinctive feature is his clothes. He wears a dark suit with a concentric circle motif, lacking the right sleeve and a large part of the right side. Melone also wears matching gloves and shoes, as well as a transparent mask covering his right eye. Over his pants, Melone sports two decorative chains around his shins on each leg.↗↗
03Personality
Melone shows himself to be a polite man in most circumstances. Approaching every activity with cold professionalism, he physically inspects his future victims, looking at them more like cattle to breed his Stand than fellow human beings. The TV anime also emphasizes his salacious and predatory nature, showing him openly licking his lips in delight as he observes a beautiful woman's legs and feet; something his teammates are openly perturbed of.↗↗
Given his exploitative actions, Melone is enthusiastic when analyzing a target for his Stand ability. He doesn't care when a woman slaps him hard enough to spurt out blood during his analysis of her, but compliments her slap instead. He also always reacts jovially when circumstances match or exceed his expectations, exclaiming "Di Molto!". Melone pretends that his Stand is in school after it's born by acting in the role of a caring teacher, confident that nothing can defeat it, and praising it when it succeeds in its tasks.↗↗↗↗↗↗
Melone is one of the least confrontational enemy Stand users in the series, favoring hit-and-run tactics or laying traps, never reacting with violence to every setback, and even advising his Stand to flee instead of continuing to fight.↗↗
04Abilities
Stand
Melone wields the Stand Baby Face, which is a computer-like humanoid Stand he uses to create autonomous long-range Stands also named Baby Face which he can direct to kill his targets. He needs to find a blood sample of his target and a woman to breed said Stand before he can act.↗
Personal
Pseudoscience knowledge: Melone is well-versed in pseudosciences used to divine things such as character compatibility or a future child's characteristics. This serves him to determine the quality of the Stand he will breed in function to his target.↗
Melone is also capable of determining someone's blood type by licking them, as he concludes that Anita belongs to the O blood group after licking her finger.↗↗
05Story
SPOILERS
Background
Melone was a member of La Squadra Esecuzioni, a team of nine assassins working within Passione. However, the team was frustrated they only received compensation for each kills while the rest of the gang was getting rich from the drug trade. One day their teammates Sorbet and Gelato disappeared while they were trying to investigate the Boss 's past. They found Gelato choked on a gag in his house, with a piece of paper on which was written the word "punishment".↗
The anime adaptation expands on his activities. The night Sorbet and Gelato disappeared, he was on an assignment with Formaggio, Pesci and Prosciutto. He didn't do anything but lusted after the target's date after seeing her legs, which weirded his teammates out.↗
Vento Aureo
Melone is first shown collecting a blood sample left from Bruno Bucciarati 's battle with Prosciutto and Pesci for the Homonculus Materialization of his Stand, Baby Face. He later finds a woman while on a train and proceeds to examine her. Her bad temper, selfishness and overall incompatibility with Bucciarati makes her the ideal mother for Baby Face's child and thus he summons Baby Face to do its deed. He then leaves for another empty wagon, supervising Baby Face's growth.↗
When Baby Face locates Team Bucciarati and launches its attack within Coco Jumbo, Melone is seen giving it orders from his computer. However, Melone's plan inadvertently causes Giorno Giovanna to not only deal damage to Baby Face, but its ability allowed him to discover Gold Experience 's indispensable ability to repair injuries through its basic life-giving power. Melone eventually loses control of Baby Face, who proceeds to act independently and ends up nearly burning to death.↗
After the defeat of his Stand, he's called by Ghiaccio about the wreckage. Ironically, before he could generate another homunculus incidence of Baby Face, a cube portion of his burning Stand finds its way back to him as a venomous snake animated by Giorno and bites his tongue, killing him off-panel.↗
06Plot details
SPOILERS
07Appearances
08Sources & attribution
- Melone
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 (10)
- Golden Wind Model Sheet no CR200-00 Open ↗
- Chapter 507: Head to Venice!, p.5. Ghiaccio's clock shows the time 7:45 in the evening shortly before Melone's death. Chapter 515: White Album, Part 7, Ghiaccio is defeated in the morning of the following day on April 2nd. Open ↗
- JOJOVELLER: Araki's Stand Commentaries - Baby Face Open ↗
- Golden Wind Episode 10: The Hitman Team Open ↗
- Chapter 500: Baby Face, Part 1 Open ↗
- Chapter 501: Baby Face, Part 2 Open ↗
- Chapter 502: Baby Face, Part 3 Open ↗
- Chapter 504: Baby Face, Part 5 Open ↗
- Chapter 505: Baby Face, Part 6 Open ↗
- Chapter 506: Baby Face, Part 7 Open ↗
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