Funny Valentine (2024)

Funny Valentine is the 23rd President of the United States and main antagonist of Steel Ball Run. He is the sixth antagonist of the series.

After encountering the Corpse of Jesus Christ's Heart while venturing through the Devil's Palm, Valentine was blessed with good fortune, and became lucky enough to be elected President of the United States. With his newfound power he made it his mission to collect the remaining parts of the Saint's Corpse in order to make the United States the center of the world. He creates the Steel Ball Run Race as a ploy to get his racers to find the parts for him, and gets into a heated battle with Johnny Joestar and Gyro Zeppeli over the corpse parts. He is eventually successful in retrieving the entire Saint's Corpse, but he is defeated by Johnny Joestar. After his death he is still remembered as a great president, and his approval ratings remained extremely high.

Valentine is a Stand User, wielding Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap, whos ability is able to merge alternate universes.

Physical Appearance[]

Funny Valentine, in his usual appearance, is a tall muscular man with long blond hair. He wears a pink jacket over purple shirt and pants reminiscent of a magician's outfit.

Design Variants[]

In Wrecking Ball, Part 1 Valentine appears as a child with short and curly blond hair wearing a white shirt.

In Tusk, Part 1 in his first appearance, and for the next few appearances, Valentine appears as a short tubby man.

In Both Sides Now, Part 2, Valentine appears in a flashback during his time serving in the Civil War wearing a soldier's uniform.

Also in Wrecking Ball, Part 1, Valentine reveals his shirt open to show the full Sain'ts Corpse heart in his chest. In the same chapter his shirt is off to reveal the Latin lettering appearing on his chest.

In Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap Valentine is shown with his back exposed, revealing an American Flag scarred on his back.

In World of Stars and Stripes - Outro Valentine's presidential portrait is shown. In this painting he wears a dark jacket over his usual outfit.

In Ball Breaker, Part 1, half of Valentine's face gets aged up due to the affects of Ball Breaker's powers.

In Ball Breaker, Part 1 Valentine is aged up significantly by Ball Breaker and appears as an old man with no hair.

In Break My Heart, Break Your Heart, Part 2 an alternate universe version of Funny Valentine appears wearing a purple tank top.

Video Game Appearances[]

Biography[]

TBA

I am not a theive!

Personality traits[]

Funny Valentine is extremely patriotic and nationalistic. He thinks America should come first no matter what, and he would do anything to make his country the most powerful in the world.

Powers and Abilities[]

Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap[]

Valentine first awakened to his Stand after being stranded in the desert and coming in contact with the Devil's Palm, where he obtained the heart of the Saint's Corpse. This granted him the Stand and the ability to hop between dimensions.

With his Stand, Valentine is able to merge alternate realities together, and move in between them. With this ability he is able to venture into alternate dimensions and bring AU counterparts of other people into the "base" world.

• Dimension Hop: Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap allows different parallel worlds/dimensions to co-exist at the same time and/or in the same place. It also allows its user to visit these parallel worlds/dimensions and interact with them. Valentine travels by being closed between two objects, shown first by putting himself between a chair and the ground. Liquid materials, such as water count as objects as well, and even dust or steam. Valentine only needs an infinitesimal part of himself put between two objects to be able to hop between dimensions. Following that, Valentine may reappear from anywhere, like emerging from someone's back, presumably by affecting objects in a neighboring dimension. One of the early facets of this power was that Valentine was impervious to projectiles as the hit body part would transform simply into a hole, however, this was then left out after its initial usage.
• Body Replacement: If Funny Valentine is injured, he can hop into another dimension and transfer his D4C to this world's Valentine. Said Valentine acquires the memory of the previous Valentine and becomes the 'Root Valentine' by virtue of now possessing the Stand, but his consciousness remains different from that of the previous owner. Nevertheless, since each Valentine is dedicated to gathering the Corpse Parts and has the same personality, the differences are unnoticeable. Furthermore, he can summon any number of alternate selves to a target dimension in order to outnumber his opponents. These Valentines do not have D4C's of their own however, this Stand seemingly being wholly unique to the 'Root World', the single universe where the Corpse resides.
• Spatial Viewing: During early chapters, people were somehow able to see into different dimensions from different angles, but this property is never expanded on.

D4C: Love Train[]

After retrieving the entire Saint's Corpse, D4C unlocks a new ability, Love Train. With this ability he is able to deflect any misfortune from him into other people throughout the world.

• Misfortune Redirecting: While Love Train is active, Valentine becomes effectively invincible, hiding within a pocket dimension (also described as a gap in space) delimited by a wall of light that follows him. The wall of light, originating from Lucy's body, has the ability to redirect all misfortune that comes in Valentine's way, leaving only good fortune. The harmful energy that passes through the wall of light is sent far away from the user and is passed onto individuals anywhere on Earth as bad luck. For instance, Johnny's imperfect nail shots could be canceled and the harm manifesting as fatal accident throughout the world. Because Valentine can manipulate the form of the pocket dimension as he sees fit, it can allow him to seemingly stand midair, glide at high speeds or flatten himself. It is shown when he pursues Johnny and Gyro under the train tracks, and across a grassy field.

Age[]

Funny Valentine was 43 during Steel Ball Run.

Appearances[]

JORGE JOESTAR[]

• Chapter 6: Island
• Chapter 8: Nero Nero Island (mentioned)
• Chapter 14: Desolation Row
• Chapter 16: Beyond II

Part 7: Steel Ball Run[]

Part 8: JoJolion[]

• Chapter 11: Family Tree (mentioned)

Trivia[]

• Valentine's catchphrase "Dojyaaa~~n!" means "Tada!" in Japanese.
  • He also has a magician motif, as he wears magicians clothes and his Stand is shaped like a bunny.
• The scene during which Funny receives his dead father's handkerchief is reference the movie "Pulp Fiction." Where a young Bruce Willis' character receives his dead father's watch.
• Funny Valentine is the 23rd President of the United States, while in real life Benjamin Harrison filled in that position.
• The concept for Valentine's character derives from Araki's interest in a fighting President, after watching the movie Independence Day.
• Funny Valentine demonstrates the ability to pierce and shotgun a can of beer; much like Jotaro during his introduction in Stardust Crusaders.
• Valentine's voice actor in Bandai Namco Entertainment-Developed Games, Yasuyuki Kase, would later go on to also voice Mikitata Hazekura in Part 4 TV Anime.

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