CHARACTER PROFILE
N'Doul
- Primary work
- Stardust Crusaders
Other recorded work links
- Stand
- Geb↗
N'Doul (ンドゥール, Ndūru) is a secondary antagonist featured in the third part of the JoJo's Bizarre Adventure series, Stardust Crusaders, specifically the " "The Fool" Iggy and "Geb" N'Doul " story arc.
As a loyal assassin for DIO and the user of Geb of the Egypt 9 Glory Gods, he relentlessly battles the Joestar group without fear.
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Original image ↗ · Archived image ↗01Basic information
02Appearance
N'Doul is a blind athletic man of medium height, with dark unkempt hair and blank eyes that are always nearly shut due to his condition. N'Doul dons a simple attire consisting of a striped vest on top of a sleeveless shirt, armbands, pants, shoes and a drape to protect himself from the sun in the Sahara. He also wears a headband and two hoop earrings.↗
N'Doul carries a cane that is segmented and decorated with three jewels on the handle.↗
03Personality
N'Doul's strongest trait is his loyalty to DIO and determined focus to carry out his will. He battles the Crusaders relentlessly and even goes as far as to fatally injure himself to escape questioning. N'Doul fanatically idolizes DIO fully knowing his evil, stating that people like him deserve a savior.↗
Despite his ferocity, N'Doul keeps a cool head and found joy in his battle against the Crusaders, often giggling whenever he was at the advantage. He is confident in his ability as a Stand user, referring to himself as the "the great N'Doul", but not without good reason. N'Doul is a very competent fighter and strategically combats the Crusaders from a distance. He analyzes problems and needs to attentively watch the enemy's movement due to his condition. His overconfidence becomes a weakness, with his stand being nearly lured in the open by Avdol, a move which he praised. He shows respect when outsmarted, and willingly revealed information to Jotaro after his defeat.↗
04Abilities
Stand
Geb is a long-range Stand made of water N'Doul can remotely control and shape into anything to attack his foes from afar, notably as a sharp water stream able to slice flesh.↗
Enhanced Hearing
N'Doul is blind, but has phenomenally sharp hearing. He is able to determine the position of a fly simply by listening to it fly or hear faint sounds such as grains of sand bouncing against an obstacle hundreds of meters away from him. Using his cane, N'Doul can feel vibrations coming through the sand even kilometers away from his position, memorize's multiple people's whereabouts or identify someone by analyzing the sound of their footsteps.↗
05Story
SPOILERS
Background
N'Doul was a blind man who, thanks to his Stand, never feared anything in his entire life, not even death. It allowed him to do anything he wanted and get away with it without consequences, as even the police wouldn't find out about his crimes, although no one ever saw his true value. One day, he encountered DIO and was charmed by his charisma, DIO being the only person to see his true value.↗
Stardust Crusaders (1989)
In the anime adaptation N'Doul is shown killing a spy from the Speedwagon Foundation and brings his corpse to DIO for him to feed on.↗
N'Doul is introduced shortly after Iggy joins the Joestar Group in the Egyptian desert as he spies on them from a nearby hill. After the group take supplies from a Speedwagon Foundation envoy, N'Doul attacks their helicopter offscreen and causes it to crash. He drowns one of the pilots and hides Geb in a canteen, having himself settled nearly four kilometers away.↗
Polnareff takes Kakyoin and tries to run to the safety of the group's car, with Geb sliding behind him. Geb only manages to cut Polnareff's leg but the Frenchman still reaches the car. However, N'Doul makes the car sink in the sand. Noticing that Iggy 's nose allowed him to jump out of the car before the attack, N'Doul contemplates attacking the dog but decides otherwise when he sees that Iggy is indifferent to the group's fate. The heroes are stuck on the sand.↗
Midair, Jotaro has an easier time scanning the horizon but he's soon forced to take a single step to give The Fool more altitude. It tips N'Doul on Jotaro's current plan but Jotaro eventually sees N'Doul too. By blowing sand in the air, N'Doul is able to hear the grains hit the glider and he thus starts harassing Jotaro and Iggy.↗
06Plot details
SPOILERS
Appearances
Chapter 188: "The Fool" Iggy and "Geb" N'Doul, Part 6 (Death)↗
Stardust Crusaders Episode 26: "The Fool" Iggy and "Geb" N'Doul, Part 2 (Death)↗
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Episode 9 (OVA): "The Fool" Iggy and "Geb" N'Doul, Part 2 (Death)↗
Profile details
Status Status based on their final appearance in the part(s) they are featured in: Deceased (Part 3)↗
Date of Death: January 3, 1989↗↗
Cause of Death: Suicide via Geb↗
07Appearances
08Behind the Character
N'Doul's character is based on the Zatoichi movies' eponymous character. Hirohiko Araki thinks that Zatoichi is just a "scary guy, rather than the hero". Also, N'Doul's outfit design might have been inspired from Antonio Lopez 's Tales from the 1001 Nights.↗↗
N'Doul's name was originally spelled as "N'Dyoul" (ンドュール, Ndyūru) instead of "N'Doul" (ンドゥール, Ndūru) in Weekly Shonen Jump 1990 #36.↗
09Sources & attribution
- N'Doul
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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