CHARACTER PROFILE
Rigatoni
- Primary work
- Golden Heart, Golden Ring
Rigatoni (リガトニ) is a secondary antagonist featured in GioGio's Bizarre Adventure II: Golden Heart, Golden Ring, a light novel based on Vento Aureo.
He is an assassin on Sogliola Lopez 's payroll and a Stand user, using Public Image Limited to augment his sniper rifle bullets.
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Original image ↗ · Archived image ↗01Basic information
02Appearance
Rigatoni is an aging Italian man with a lean but muscled body. He has long dark hair combed into large unkempt spikes and an unkempt beard, with white hairs here and there. He has "rough features" and is drawn with a strong face.↗
Rigatoni wears a dark bodysuit leaving his arms uncovered and missing large stripes of clothes; in addition the suit is covered in inscriptions of the word "strong" as well as anarchy symbols. He also wears a large oversized belt, gloves, and a peculiar hat made of stripes of cloth.↗
03Personality
Rigatoni is a professional assassin with an appreciation for battles.↗
When he was partnered with Guido Mista, he disparaged him when he failed to assassinate one of their targets.↗
Despite his animosity with Mista, Rigatoni has an appreciation for the latter's own prowess. Rigatoni himself considers that he must take risks to live an exciting life, explaining his calm as he uses his Stand, Public Image Limited, which runs the risk of killing him if he misses.↗
04Abilities
Stand
Public Image Limited is a Stand ability that allows him to power up his bullets and absorb the Stand energy of anything it hits. As a trade-off, Rigatoni loses all his energy when hitting someone so he must always hit his target to absorb their energy and survive.↗
Marksmanship
Rigatoni is a superlative sniper, well-accustomed to using his rifle to kill his targets. Among his feats are purposefully shooting targets in non-lethal ways from the top of a tower. Even more, Rigatoni can observe bullets and accurately predict their paths, or even shoot bullets aimed at him mid-flight.↗
05Story
SPOILERS
Backround
Rigatoni is a hitman who specializes in assassinating Stand users, and as such very few in the entire organization know of his existence. He is feared and known as the "Stand Killer". Once, Rigatoni partnered with Guido Mista to assassinate the rebellious right hand man of the Boss, having to partner with Mista in case the target wasn't a Stand user. Rigatoni saved Mista on that day, humiliating the young man. Rigatoni and Mista continued to be paired but also had violent arguments regularly.↗
Prior to the events of the novel, Rigatoni had retired. However, he took up a request from Sogliola Lopez this time in order to have a showdown with Mista.↗
Golden Heart, Golden Ring
Rigatoni posts himself at the top of the bell tower of St. Mark's Basilica, waiting for Team Bucciarati to be hounded to the place where he can snipe them. Mista shoots first, boosting a bullet by shooting it in mid-air. The bullet almost hits Rigatoni, but the assassin merely tilts his head to avoid the bullet, which only grazes him. Rigatoni then dodges three other bullets. As Mista reloads, Rigatoni takes the opportunity to shoot.↗
06Plot details
SPOILERS
Personality
As an assassin for Passione, Rigatoni is a consummate professional, claiming that an assassin who cannot finish off a target might as well be dead.↗
He came out of retirement specifically to fight and kill Mista and was ultimately impressed by how Mista outwitted him, thinking he didn't feel bad being killed this way.↗
As he died, Rigatoni also though that he had lived long enough already.↗
Profile details
Status Status based on their final appearance in the part(s) they are featured in: Deceased (GHGR)↗
Date of Death: ~2001↗
Cause of Death: Chest pierced by Gold Experience 's ability↗
07Sources & attribution
- Rigatoni
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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