CHARACTER PROFILE
Rubber Soul
- Primary work
- Stardust Crusaders
Other recorded work links
Rubber Soul (ラバーソール, Rabā Sōru) is a secondary antagonist featured in the third part of the JoJo's Bizarre Adventure series, Stardust Crusaders, specifically the " Yellow Temperance " story arc.
Impersonating Kakyoin, Rubber Soul isolates and attacks Jotaro and Merlai Anne in Singapore. Rubber Soul is a Stand user who wields Yellow Temperance.
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Original image ↗ · Archived image ↗01Basic information
- Japanese Name
- ラバーソール↗
- Romanized Name
- Rabāsōru↗
- Stand
- Yellow Temperance↗
- Gender
- Male↗
- Occupation
- Mercenary↗
- Affiliation
- Agents of DIO↗
- Manga Debut
- Chapter 136↗
- Anime Debut
- SC Episode 8 (Disguised as Kakyoin) | SC Episode 9 (1st Full Debut)↗
- Game Debut
- JoJo's Bizarre Adventure (SFC Game) (NPC) | Heritage for the Future (Playable)↗
02Appearance
Rubber Soul is an adult man with dark, curly hair styled into a mullet and a muscular build. He is bare-chested and wears pants and shoes. His Stand grants him the ability to change appearance at will. His disguise can grow when he absorbs organic matter.↗
03Personality
Rubber Soul is a crass and narcissistic mercenary. He prides himself on his Stand's apparent invincibility, going as far as to blow his cover just to irritate Jotaro, and brutalize a pickpocket. Due to the way Yellow Temperance grows, Rubber Soul is liberal about what it consumes from beetles, to fruit, and even a live dog. Rubber Soul is also quite vain about his looks. When beaten to a pulp, Rubber Soul submits and gives away information on his allies. Jotaro calls him "too pathetic for words".↗↗↗↗↗↗↗↗↗↗
Unlike most of DIO 's Agents, Rubber Soul has no real loyalty towards the vampire and was lured with the promise of earning 100 million dollars as a reward for going after the Joestar Group.↗↗
04Abilities
Stand
Rubber Soul's Stand is Yellow Temperance; a sticky, rubbery mass bound to and encasing his body which consumes any other organic substance it comes in contact with. The Stand defends him from all forms of brute force and allows him to effectively impersonate others.↗
05Story
SPOILERS
Stardust Crusaders (1988)
Rubber Soul is one of the seven Stand users that Enya the Hag sends to assassinate the Joestar Group.↗
While the Joestar Group is in Singapore looking for tickets to travel to India, Rubber Soul uses his Stand Yellow Temperance to assume the appearance of Kakyoin under Jotaro Kujo and Merlai Anne 's noses. At the same time, Joseph uses Hermit Purple on a television set so he and Avdol can anticipate DIO 's next move. Through joining voice segments from different TV programs, Hermit Purple cryptically hints "Kakyoin" as a traitor just before DIO destroys the TV.↗
Jotaro, Anne and Rubber Soul in disguise enter a park, where a pickpocket tries to steal Rubber Soul's wallet. Rubber Soul acts suspicious from the start by acting vulgar and trying to backbreak the thief. Moreover, Rubber Soul starts to consume all organic matter he can get his hands on, at one point eating beetles which freaks Anne out.↗↗
In a cable car station, Rubber Soul tries to push Jotaro above the security fence and almost kills him. Rubber Soul writes it off as a joke but Jotaro unmasks him and punches him. Rubber Soul and Jotaro both enter a cable car in which Rubber Soul reveals himself and explains how his Stand will digest Jotaro through his hand. Faced with the danger of being devoured by the Stand, Jotaro jumps out of the cable car, Rubber Soul gloating that he has no need to chase him.↗↗
As Rubber Soul is forced to lower his Stand's guard to breathe, Jotaro gives the now powerless Stand user a broken nose and jaw before interrogating him about the remaining assassins. Rubber Soul reveals their cards to be the Empress, Emperor, Death and Hanged Man, the fourth belonging to J. Geil, the man Polnareff is after.↗↗
Once out of the water, Rubber Soul spots an opportunity to disable Jotaro by having his Stand travel through a manhole into a drainage pipe. He sends Yellow Temperance through the pile to cover Jotaro while gloating the subsequent reward is more than a professional boxer earns from a fight. However, Jotaro counters the attempt by using Star Platinum to punch the drain and create a high-pressure water jet, breaking the manhole open and sending Rubber Soul flying back into the water.↗↗
06Plot details
SPOILERS
Profile details
Status Status based on their final appearance in the part(s) they are featured in: Retired (Part 3)↗
07Appearances
08Behind the Character
Rubber Soul was not given a proper name until several years after Part 3's publication, where it was revealed in the PlayStation port of the Capcom fighting games and eventually documented in JOJO A-GO!GO!.↗
09Sources & attribution
- Rubber Soul
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 (14)
- Chapter 138: Yellow Temperance, Part 3 p. 4. Open ↗
- Chapter 137: Yellow Temperance, Part 2 p. 11. Open ↗
- Chapter 136: Yellow Temperance, Part 1 p. 16. Open ↗
- Chapter 137: Yellow Temperance, Part 2 p. 5. Open ↗
- Chapter 137: Yellow Temperance, Part 2 p. 10. Open ↗
- Chapter 138: Yellow Temperance, Part 3 p. 11. Open ↗
- Chapter 137: Yellow Temperance, Part 2 p. 15. Open ↗
- Chapter 139: Yellow Temperance, Part 4 p. 3-5. Open ↗
- Chapter 139: Yellow Temperance, Part 4 p. 15. Open ↗
- Chapter 139: Yellow Temperance, Part 4 p. 3. Open ↗
- Chapter 136: Yellow Temperance, Part 1 Open ↗
- Chapter 137: Yellow Temperance, Part 2 Open ↗
- Chapter 138: Yellow Temperance, Part 3 Open ↗
- Chapter 139: Yellow Temperance, Part 4 Open ↗
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