CHARACTER PROFILE
Pork Pie Hat Kid
- Primary work
- Steel Ball Run
- Stand
- Wired↗
Pork Pie Hat Kid (ポーク・パイ・ハット小僧, Pōku Pai Hatto Kozō) is a secondary antagonist featured in the seventh part of the JoJo's Bizarre Adventure series, Steel Ball Run, specifically the " Tusk " story arc.
He also happens to be a Stand user wielding the double-hooked Wired.
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Original image ↗ · Archived image ↗01Basic information
02Appearance
Pork Pie Hat Kid is a skinny and short young boy, hiding his bald head with bamboo sticks. He has a large, angular jawline and shows his teeth constantly. He also possesses large black irises.↗
Pork Pie Hat Kid wears a sleeveless suit, open and laced at the back and decorated with studs arranged vertically on both sides of the chest and both legs, as well as short feathers on the shoulder and finally a tutu-like short dress. He also wears large bracelets adorned with leaves on both wrists.↗
03Personality
Pork Pie Hat Kid appears to be a goofy and deranged individual. He seems to have little conception of normalcy and shows several disturbing habits. For instance, he has a tendency to eat and drink anything that comes into his view such as the ink of a pen (finding it delicious) or a whole coffee pot, and even wonders if he could eat his broken teeth. He is also shown hitting a bag with a rock to search it instead of opening it. Like any of Valentine's subordinates, he has little problem with using violence and killing his targets.↗
Likewise, his speech reflects his eccentricity as he cannot correctly pronounce Johnny's name and regularly utters the incomprehensible shout " Gwee-Gachang (ギイイーガシャン) ".↗
Despite his quirks, Pork Pie Hat Kid is still shown to be a capable tactician in a Stand fight.↗
04Abilities
Stand
Pork Pie Hat Kid possesses a Stand ability named Wired consisting of two hooks coming out of his mouth, which he can freely control and make appear out of the bottom of miscellaneous objects, allowing him to attack his targets from afar.↗
05Story
SPOILERS
Tusk
Pork Pie Hat Kid is one of Valentine's Subordinates. He is first seen standing guard on the roof of Valentine's train. When Lucy Steel almost spills a coffee pot on Valentine, Pork Pie Hat Kid uses Wired to take it and drink the whole pot before returning it to her. Pork Pie Hat Kid is then dispatched to find the Corpse Part.↗
In the plains just before Monument Valley, Pork Pie Hat Kid sets up his trap. He sets camp on a rocky mound and installs his Stand to hook his targets through the falling feathers of nearby vultures.↗
Since it is suspected that Gyro has the Corpse Part, Pork Pie Hat Kid targets him first. He hooks Gyro and then his horse right under Johnny 's nose. Gyro is hung on a rock nearby by the hair. He finds a broken pen and drinks its ink. However, Pork Pie Hat Kid doesn't find the Corpse Part and thus attacks Johnny. He takes Johnny's horse from under him and then tries to hook Johnny. However, Johnny escapes by cutting his cheek.↗
Pork Pie Hat Kid changes from feathers to beetles, and Johnny knocks a beetle over, allowing Wired's hook to pass through and hook Johnny up close. However, Tusk appears and activates Johnny's toenails. The nails pass through the beetles and almost hit Pork Pie Hat Kid, who's forced to bend backward to avoid the attack and stop his own. When he looks in the bowl again, Johnny has camouflaged himself. He also realizes that Gyro has thrown a Steel Ball in the bowl to give his location.↗
Pork Pie Hat Kid is wounded but waits for Johnny to come. He turns Gyro into bait and hooks Johnny through the Neapolitan when Johnny approaches him. Johnny is unable to hit him now. Pork Pie Hat Kid forces Johnny to give him the corpse part, threatening to kill his friend. With the hand obtained, Pork Pie Hat Kid attempts to run away and plans to dispose of the two anyway.↗
According to the President's men, Pork Pie Hat Kid did not die. However, due to his confrontation with Johnny and Gyro, he is seemingly beyond recovery.↗↗
06Plot details
SPOILERS
Personality
His motivation for searching for the Corpse Parts is to get a promotion and be acknowledged as being "invincible and smart", hinting that he is aware that people look down on him and is uncomfortable with it.↗
Aware of his primary objective of securing the Corpse Parts, he takes the time to analyze the situation and is shown to devise several plans to counter his enemy's actions, at one point using Gyro as bait after having predicted that Johnny would come to save his companion or release Slow Dancer near Johnny to weaponize the horse' instinctual will to go to its rider and then detect the hidden Johnny.↗
Profile details
Status Status based on their final appearance in the part(s) they are featured in: Retired (Part 7)↗
Pork Pie Hat Kid is one of Funny Valentine 's henchmen and attacks Johnny Joestar and Gyro Zeppeli in the desert to take their Saint Corpse Parts.↗
07Appearances
08Sources & attribution
- Pork Pie Hat Kid
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)
- Steel Ball Run Chapter 28: Scary Monsters, Part 1 Open ↗
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