Story of the Pillar Men

[@KhanhNguyen-mh5ec]

Having a pillar women would totally distract Joseph in an instant.

[@TheWarmachine375]

And that'd be hilarious for that said Pillar Woman is an ally of Joseph or a part of Kars' Fitness Squad if she survived the Pillar People massacre.

[@XG417]

NIIIICE

[@the_Red_Star]

No doubt, the first thing Joseph does or says when meeting Santana is wonder if there are any pillar women.

[@LordVader1094]

Cars and AC/DC really should have anticipated that and made sure one survived to join them. Lol

[@bumblebabble18]

Okay but imagine instead of marrying Suzi Q Jospeh marries the Pillar Woman instead. Part 3 has Jotaro as a quarter Pillar Man on a quest to save his half Pillar Woman mother from the vampire DIO When Jospeh is caught cheating in Part 4 his wife gives him a death by snu snu

[@Dekomlev]

so basically, Kars is the DIO of their race

[@codafett]

Only difference seems to be that Kars was fully willing to share his power.

[@GnosisZX]

codafett indeed he wanted his race to ascend to the level of gods humans once believed them to be

[@darsch853]

He was actually a good man rip

[@MrManueldx]

Yeah , but he is still resting in peace in space

[@neardarkroad1347]

can't stand sunlight.... *THE FREAKING LIGHT FROM THE MOON IS SUNLIGHT TOO!*

[@Beriorn]

JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: where even the nameless background extras that were killed 10.000 years ago as part of the villain's backstory strike fabulous poses.

[@autisticduck3071]

Thot Destroyer You already know one was called Nike

[@NepetasShippingWall1642]

Thot Destroyer and those are only the guys! imagine what kind of names the girls would have!

[@NepetasShippingWall1642]

Star Platinum hmmmm.......yeah,why not? :p

[@DefinitelyNotEmma]

Jojo is all about these poses :v

[@AlliwantisAIDSHelpImKidnapped]

@Mr. Att4ck Petra

[@darrylferguson3622]

If Kars had let a Pillar woman join his group all those years ago, Joseph would have lost from the start.

[@gustavopereira4924]

Joseph would renegate his humanity in the very start

[@voodooozo3755]

Damn, if there was a way of becoming pillarman, (well I wonder if Giorno isnt actually able to turn people into pillarmen who the hell knows right now?) I would defnitely become pillarman and get some gut thicc pillargal.

[@teodornikolov6391]

now we all understand why kars was always so pissed of all the time

[@darrylferguson3622]

@Aspiring Marauder Yeah, Kars plan sounded good on paper but in the long run it would be a rather boring result.

[@georgeliu6261]

@Aspiring Marauder His *boyfriend* Excuse me, *WHAT*

[@DraculaCronqvist]

I think that people are forgetting one important thing. Kars, Esidisi, Wamuu and (maybe) Santana all used the Stone Mask, thus enhancing their abilities. "Ordinary" Pillar Men were probably much weaker than them and didn't have eternal life (they still had children, so they weren't completely immortal), nor elemental modes, likely (Santana had no elemental mode, which leads me to believe that he's an ordinary Pillar Man unlike his three comrades). Remember, there was an old Pillar Woman in this very scene. if she was immortal, why would she look old unless she was in the last stages of her life? The Pillar Men we see in the main story are basically the vampires of the Pillar Men - or rather, they are the Pillar Men and the race they originally belonged to which is shown here had no name.

[@romajikaiser8450]

DraculaCronqvist Santana is immune to hamon

[@sharilshahed6106]

The Pillar Men used to devour the Vampires, or specifically Santana did by turning them first via the stone mask and then making them suck up other human. That's how he became stronger than the other Pillar men. Theoretically the regular Pillar Men were still stronger than vampires, but weaker against hamon. However Hamon is still effective against the surviving 4. They rightfully feared that a hamon user with the right mastery will definitely be their doom before Joseph came along.

[@manuelmateo3392]

@@romajikaiser8450 Santana isn't immune to Hamon, he was resistant to Joseph's weak Hamon at the time. Pillar Men skin automatically repels weak amounts of Hamon and sunlight, but their organs show no such resistance, since Joseph uses Hamon to tear Santana in half in that very fight.

[@silvat1193]

The Pillar Men, unaffected by the Stone Mask, seem to have extraordinarily long lives (Kars doesn't show visible signs of aging despite being 90,000-100,000 years old by the time he made the mask), but it's noted that it was only with the Stone Mask that Kars became 'immortal'. From a human perspective though, they'd seem pretty ageless.

[@EnrocaLaRoca]

Actually, couldn't Santana turn his ribs into blades?

[@Darth_Bateman]

Those Pillar Ladies tho. . . . . . . .

[@MrTheil]

I wish we got to see them in Battle Tendency :/

[@FIENDXIX]

Yea... kind of an idiot move for Kars to wipe out the entire female population for his species...

[@MrTheil]

FIENDXIX He could have repopulated THEN powered them up with the Stone Mask. That way, a race of immortals could have been born. Goddamn it Kars

[@FIENDXIX]

A. Theil Exactly! genius my ass a real genius would have had a race of immortal vampire gods in a matter of years!,

[@enggigg6644]

Well he did come up with the stone mask wich we still have no idea how the fuck it works.

[@justarandomsovietofficerwi2023]

I can't believe that Kars did all this only for him to be yeeted into space by a man who thought that his own mother was hot.

[@daddychill02]

Lol when you put it like that...

[@ANPC-pi9vu]

Seriously, tho. And it's not like his people were even right, as Kars defeated them and yet did not destroy all life on earth, instead figuring out how to feed more efficiently and also hibernate. I honestly think the Pillar Men should have won and the outcome wouldn't have been that bad.

[@pneumonoultramicroscopicsi4065]

it's called plot armor, the protagonists of jojo always win thanks to plot armor because the villains are usually so overpowered if the story was actually logical the protagonists won't even last a second against them, from Kars, to Dio to Diavolo, all the villains only lost because of plot armor

[@vn9574]

@@pneumonoultramicroscopicsi4065 it's not only plot armor, but plot armor mixed with by the heroes using quick thinking to outsmart the villains. It kinda makes plot armor more realistic like that. (Even though it's not really still that realistic)

[@pneumonoultramicroscopicsi4065]

@@vn9574 kars for example had like 500 iq he was the smartest being alive there's no way he'd lose in a battle of thinking.

[@na00097]

I’m so glad to live among a man like Hirohiko Araki who has lived long enough to share with us the story of his people

[@bababoi5815]

lmao

[@Kratos_Messi7050]

He is the ultimate life form

[@RoronoaZoro1471]

well he is a pillar-man

[@snaifhassnan6348]

603

[@snaifhassnan6348]

@@Kratos_Messi705040

[@FIENDXIX]

Geez they were basically a peaceful society comprised entirely of extremely long lived attractive perfect bodied models who didnt like sunlight... wtf Kars! why would you need to be all powerful when you had a paradise situation, at the very least you should have spared one or two of the females,

[@namishusband818]

But sex is useless! Why else would Kars not have a female Pillarman as an ally?

[@enggigg6644]

True he could give any less shits about his race he just wanted to become the ultimate lifeform and look were that got him.

[@namishusband818]

Enggi GG Perfect, but forever alone.

[@enggigg6644]

The Greater Ark I mean hif him alone caused all that trouble imagine a bunch of pillar men with his power they would easily deplete earth of its natural resources.

[@SliverEmperor]

Really, the issue was Kars's pure ambition. He knew his race was powerful already, but he wondered why they could be vulnerable to a little thing like sunlight...so he decided to figure out a way around that. I guess along the way, he realized that overcoming that weakness would also make his race effectively unstoppable, so he picked up some serious delusions of godhood. Throw in a forced massacre of his own race and several millennia to obsess over his goal, and it's small wonder he's gone completely nuts by the present time.

[@QuintetMagician]

So if Wammu and Santana (according to the wiki) are 12,000 and 10,000 years old in part 2 (respectively), then that means a Wamuu is 2,000 years older than Santana, meaning since he was a baby when Kars and Eisidisi took them away, that a 2,000 year old (at LEAST) Pillar Man would still be a baby. Huh. Interesting.

[@shinshun6140]

This hurts my brain a little bit.

[@QuintetMagician]

Shin Shun XD yeah, I overthink things a lot

[@NeoGamemaster]

Araki forgot

[@TheTheThe_]

Archer Bennington and they become fully grown adults in 8 human years.

[@lapotato9140]

when does it say that Pillar men become adults in 8 human years?

[@Excalibur5k]

shame we didnt have any pillar woman characters

[@titan133760]

You can thank Kars for that

[@miquelescribanoivars5049]

Also Araki's editors at the time most likely.

[@TheWarmachine375]

Yeah, they pretty much screwed over combat-capable female characters.

[@miquelescribanoivars5049]

Allegedly, Lisa Lisa would have been more prominent in the original manga, with more emphasis on her abbilities as a hamon user, but the idea was scrapped at least partly due to Araki's editor. Again, I'm going by memmory here and I'm unsure about the veracity of the original statement.

[@theonlychickensama8353]

Probably for the best the pillar women were killed off. *glares at rule 34 and tumblr peering from the shadows* .... Yep!

[@justanormalcat1839]

You see those Pillar Ladies, see Araki isn't gay, he's attracted to woMEN

[@frostyfrostin459]

Just a Normal Cat i see u evrywhere

[@theonlychickensama8353]

@@Comical1984 also Yasuo and all those anime panty shots

[@GI0GI0]

@@theonlychickensama8353 anasui panty shots😳

[@AspiNarradoe]

I mean,he has a wife

[@majungasaurus6814]

I mean 90% of jojo characters are attractive

[@adriansimonsen6533]

When you realize that Kars and Esidisi are canonically better parents than Jotaro

[@uuuuuuuuuuuuuuu5323]

they left santana behind though

[@Benja_Superperfecto]

@@uuuuuuuuuuuuuuu5323 but he was old

[@uuuuuuuuuuuuuuu5323]

@@Benja_Superperfecto wasn't santana like the youngest of the 4 pillar men

[@Benja_Superperfecto]

@@uuuuuuuuuuuuuuu5323 yeah, but still, he was 10.000

[@ANPC-pi9vu]

@@uuuuuuuuuuuuuuu5323 Yeah, but he was old enough to run the temple alone. It's a shame Araki never gave us more info on the details of that situation. Kars reaction to Joseph bragging that he killed Santana was the only time Kars came off as villainous to me, to be fair. That was pretty harsh. Santana seemed like the Pillar Man equivalent of a teen/young adult, so maybe they had a legitimate falling out we don't know about, as all of the Pillar Men just accepted it and moved on, even Esidisi who is the most emotional. Man, whatever the case, though, I felt really bad for Santana and rooted for the Pillar Men because Joseph is a dumbass. Santana did nothing wrong.

[@najihaharbainvevo2322]

Man, If the pillar people were extraordinarily long lived, that old lady could might have been born at the time when dinosaurs were still roaming.

[@avruvimtu2204]

More like 300,000 years before or something.

[@govinlock8568]

Dinosaurs were extinct 65 million years ago, while Pillar people raised about 10 million years ago, and the old lady could aged 1 million years old.

[@thedemonhater7748]

Najihah ArbainVEVO …I doubt they were THAT old. Kars looked relatively young- but he was still a grown adult at a few thousand years of age. I’d have to guess that a normal pillar man could live about 10,000 years, but Kars used the stone mask to become immortal.

[@Zeew707]

@@thedemonhater7748 Kars created/finished the mask when he was about 90.000 years old though, and he still looked young at that age despite not wearing the mask yet. So there's no way original/normal Pillar Men only lived up to 10.000 years old, their life expectancy was probably around 200.000 at least. But I agree that they're most likely not as old as dinosaurs

[@snifey2233]

Even saw Godzilla on the way

[@Nate-ik8cf]

Is anyone else weirded out that The Piller Men's Race were literally just metrosexural feminine men and fabulous ladies with the uncanny ability to know just how to pose in the weirdest ways?

[@kenansabic2901]

It is perfection.

[@lapotato9140]

Well-Mannered Nate why aren't humans like that

[@Famygdala]

There must be a way for Man to achieve that level of style...! I shall trek to Mexico and find it! The secrets of posing left behind by the Pillarmen!

[@lapotato9140]

Right, because his use of the word "feminine" was _so_ derogatory. the only person who needs a reality check here is you, pal.

[@ultimatepredatorx2937]

im of mexican indiginous decent (mexican native or indian mexican if you like, yes we have thouse too not just the U.S), aztect and olmec from my grandparents. thouse this mean i hold the secrets to of pillar men posing and muscles?!!!

[@神の兵]

Dat. Pillar. Woman.

[@Famygdala]

We could have had one as part of Kars' Fitness Squad but Araki wasn't yet at teh level where he could tell his editors to fuck off.

[@TheWarmachine375]

It's really sad we don't get to see a Pillar Woman. Probably as one of Kars' Fitness Squad or an ally to the Joestars and needed their help to kill Kars once and for all.

[@TheWarmachine375]

That works too as well.

[@violet-trash]

She looks like the Kirin Monster Hunter girl.

[@DefinitelyNotEmma]

Pillar Men turn boys gay, Pillar Women turn girls lesbians. Jojo is truly a masterpiece that is not comprehensible to mere mortals

[@xxdomoxxkunxx]

I like how this presents itself like a anime unto itself

[@lordfridge4849]

lmao

[@NepetasShippingWall1642]

Domo Von Imperium it'll be an interesting anime,i guess

[@ANPC-pi9vu]

Ugh, I wish it had been. We got to learn so little about one of Araki's best ideas. So frustrating.

[@irdsqrgitro]

This side-backstory of a Pillarmen in Jojo's Phantom blood is more solid than the story of entire Animes

[@mooganify]

Its disappointing that all this creative lore was just thrown away for other ideas that clearly werent thought through *ahem* Stands *ahem*

[@spiderclabaslashiearea8984]

This actually made Kars way scarier in a way. Bro literally had such a strong ambition to the point where he was willing to kill off his entire race.

[@Raximus3000]

Though i do wonder if some did not survive. Would everyone just blindly attack him? Some could have survived though i am guessing they are still hiding being afraid of Kars.

[@spiderclabaslashiearea8984]

@@Raximus3000 makes sense, but their probably just living normal lives, so we wouldn't think much of them.

[@ohhellwhereami2574]

​@@Raximus3000kars was awakend for centuries you think pillar men could sneak like that?

[@Raximus3000]

@@ohhellwhereami2574 Was his goal ever to wipe out his race? No, he was just convinced they died out which seems pretty absurd.

[@ohhellwhereami2574]

@@Raximus3000 either kars would make him join his team or eliminate him to not wanna be God of world

[@TovKafur]

I love the irony of whole part 2: Stroheim claims to be the Ubermensch, and his theme has verses of "Thus spake Zarathustra", but in fact it's Kars who is literal, textbook Ubermensch: he has his own ideology and morale, and he kills his whole race because they refused to evolve alongside him.

[@ANPC-pi9vu]

Agreed, except that he killed them because they were trying to kill him. It was tragic.

[@TovKafur]

@@ANPC-pi9vu The road to the top means one for sure: in the end, you will be alone.

[@guywithsoil1241]

Charles Darwin when animals brake his rules:

[@deauthorsadeptus6920]

​@@guywithsoil1241"Curse these damn barnacles!" - Darvin, trying to find out wtf are those and what they are related with.

[@codafett]

It stands to reason that because Kars, Eisidisi and Wammu used the Stone Masks, all three of them would be several times more powerful than your average Pillar Man.

[@lapotato9140]

codafett he did win a 2 on [every] fight in this video, so probably

[@DraculaCronqvist]

It's actually implied that Santana was the only one not to receive the power-up from the Stone Mask, so he'd be a good gauge for how strong the average pillar man was.

[@thephantomthievesofhearts4388]

Lol *stands*

[@jonathanjoestar7640]

DraculaCronqvist still very strong i supposed

[@caav56]

@@jonathanjoestar7640 And, apparently, he was able to withstand a bit of sunlight, before getting petrified (not disintegrated).

[@minecraftoverlordpe2842]

So basically the pillar men achieved a perfect society and then one of them pulled a Dio (or did Dio pull a Karz?) and ruined everything?

[@silvat1193]

Minecraft Overlord PE essentially, yes. Though, it’d be pulling a Kars, since he predates Dio by...10,000ish years.

[@Unhipsnow]

@@yannkam2127 kars wanted the power of the stone mask to make his race better and conquer the sun so that their biggest crisis will be no more

[@MarcyTheKindaCoolWizard]

@Tornike Tvalchrelidze Araki also stated that, had Dio known, he would also have cared for kittle Giorno

[@majungasaurus6814]

@Tornike Tvalchrelidze he only met pucci long after part 1, in part 1 he definitely didnt care for anyone

[@Unhipsnow]

@Sad Life he stopped caring for them because they feared him to the point where they were gonna kill him

[@IAMSN]

That fabulous and perfect formed squat from Esidisi at 2:19 though....

[@jacobp7037]

such is the way of the Aztec fitness gods

[@lapotato9140]

IAMSN those heels are not touching the ground, cyka blayt

[@soul9299]

/squat

[@voodooozo3755]

@@lapotato9140 but they are touching the ground. The heels stop doing so when kars and acdc jumped but before the jump they were legally squating like real slavs.

[@olzu1952]

Wamuu was the favourite kid of Kars and Esidisi. Poor Santana, his dad called him a guard dog

[@haggis357]

1:38 Damn, look at Pillar Grandma's forearm...if you don't eat the food she makes for you she looks like she could beat you up.

[@edgargaebolg9307]

Seymour Butts True XD. By the way, she somehow looks like Enyaba

[@maximusdarkultima]

by "eat" she basically serves you a living breathing animal and expects you to absorb it like they do all the time

[@sketch-eee4165]

maximusdarkultima "ABSORB THE LIFE ESCENCE SONNY and then you get the cookie". n~n

[@ilikesaying]

ABSORB THE FUCKING COOKIE

[@christopherauzenne5023]

Eat the food sonny or granny will have to drop kick a bitch

[@hubertdenise3100]

It appears that the pillar men race was actually pretty chill and non evil, since they were a peaceful society, which respected their natural limits and the needs of the earth lifeforms to survive hence why they opposed the stone mask because all other life would have been taken.Wammu was probably the closest thing to what the society was like, a non malicious being but one of honour and loyalty

[@bitacash]

did you lose your head? The Aztecs are not a peaceful society. they are a cruel race, not even sparing their children. read about their culture, punishments, methods of education. Yes, even volleyball, where the losing team is dismembered. so they themselves attacked the kars.

[@b-fenix5789]

​@@bitacashthe pillarmans aren't the Aztecs.

[@bitacash]

@@b-fenix5789 kzbin.info/www/bejne/lX_KmHZufMZrrKs cultural features, sacrifices of young girls, cultural outfits, paganism, hierarchy, despotism, ranks, pyramids, drawings of the Aztecs and their culture against the background of the ending, the cult of the body, sacrifices in connection with the rules, the Aztec city, . What part of your body did you read/watch jojo?

[@Drip_Wooper]

I honestly find Kars' hypocrisy somewhat funny, he seems to think less of humans for their hubris, yet he is the same. He exterminated his entire race, rejecting a peaceful life within a near perfect immortal civilization just for more power

[@me67galaxylife]

@@Drip_Wooper He's the sociopath of his race, probably can't take accountability

[@MagillanicaLouM]

I wonder what the actual name of the Pillarmen race is. I don't think that's what they actually refer to themselves as, since that seems to be a manmade term. On a side note; THEM PILLAR LADIES THO, HOT DAYUM

[@manuelmateo3392]

Musomania27 They're not real, fam.

[@TheWarmachine375]

They're not real is because they're dead and gone. Plus sex is useless.

[@Ocean_Lord_derpfish]

judging by their appearance i guess they called the Aztec God

[@watertower1989]

@Oliver Zinn *ehem* 0:17

[@WarmLusamine]

This ain't Jojolion!

[@Ale-mv3gr]

It seems regular pillarmen were not really that powerful, also, I really like the.friendship between Kars and Esidisi, its a great way to convey an extra dimension to your villains

[@DraculaCronqvist]

"Friendship"... Yeah, if that's what you want to call two buff men living together for several thousands of years, who raise two children together. Then again, maybe that's just wishful thinking on my part.

[@TheWarmachine375]

Ahh, the unfortunate implications.

[@AbsoluteMongoloid]

@@DraculaCronqvist I'd raise a child with another man, if he were responsible. Are you insinuating that I'm gay? You'd be very wrong.

[@jessepinkmanfan69]

friendship????? naw bruh they married 😭

[@yorusuyasoul69420]

and he lives fabulously forever

[@TheRecmo]

he turned into a meteor tho

[@kishinasura1504]

A FABULOUS meteor.

[@ulquiorraschiffer1956]

+Kishin Asura lol true dat

[@TheWarmachine375]

And he stopped thinking.

[@whensomethingcriesagain]

They're not especially clear here, but they do show that Kars wasn't alone in fighting the other Pillar Men, Esidisi was with him when he did it, and honestly was probably the only reason he succeeded at all, seeing how Kars lacks any sort of ranged attacking

[@ANPC-pi9vu]

Esidisi is such an under rated husbando. Such loyalty! Such passion!

[@minanodi5608]

OTP

[@imlivingunderyourbed7845]

Maybe Kars had other loyalists besides Esidisi but didn't survive the battle.

[@mooganify]

@@imlivingunderyourbed7845 Nah I think OP has a good point of pointing out that Esidisi is standing next to him

[@pashaliszisis2770]

he wouldnt lose.He had used the mask on himself only thing that could hurt him was the sun or hamon at the time.The weapons the pillar men used were useless

[@darkbribe777]

When I saw those pillar ladies. Pants: AWAKEN MY MASTER!

[@zachp8163]

Expando Dong Overdrive!!!!

[@robinroy7123]

Ayayayay!!

[@angelmarquezoramas4356]

Dude...those Pillar Ladies... *Lenny Face*

[@jotaroiv2189]

"Dio: I reject my humanity jojo!" "Kars: I reject my pillar race!"

[@ANPC-pi9vu]

Technically they rejected him

[@villals]

Kars:stop rejecting me:,( Sun:haha ya have to wait like 90k years for that boi

[@VERGILGASM]

Pillarmanity?

[@gamescentrel2951]

Kira : I reject and unordinary life Diavolo i reject being found out pucci I reject not reaching heaven Funny valentine, I reject not collecting body parts

[@reywe963]

Me: i reject the Creators Idea of Making Peace to hell

[@aegon4047]

If you think about it Kars has the ability of light Esidisi flames Wammu wind Santana well not so much And remember in one scene where kars fought stroheim And stroheim says "This new body is based on the pillar men in mexico!" Then kars casually replies with "Santana was just a Guard dog.. He was nothing compared to us" So it was clear kars played favorites And since wammu could do all sorts of crap with his wind That was enough for kars to just think of santana as a dog Damn thats deep

[@ANPC-pi9vu]

In the manga there's a scene where Kars is telling his companions that they just have to forget about Santana, and they didn't really question it. Wish we knew more about the backstory.

[@danielmoagro7094]

Santana has the ability to absorb the bodies

[@danielmoagro7094]

​@@ANPC-pi9vu I hope in a backstory of the pillarmen :(

[@ANPC-pi9vu]

@@danielmoagro7094 Sadly we didn't get much and probably never will.

[@groovy3]

@@danielmoagro7094Wamuu does too, but better

[@Elsantopo]

the funny fact in here is that the guys do more sexy poses than girls...no homo

[@juneraphsody]

_Me likey, me likey a lot_

[@Magma09]

that's funny.Considering that you're talking about Jojo here

[@t0jifushigur087]

U damn right bruh..

[@janfranceskyle4352]

Yes.

[@yorusuyasoul69420]

Remember poses does matter than talent

[@toraiseijuro]

Should we ignore the fact that *Esidisi* stood with Kars even when the whole Race was against him. And only I Speedwagon got Appreciation as a Friend!!!

[@ANPC-pi9vu]

This! Esidisi best boi.

[@Massive_Legend_Here]

Its more like "aight, either i dont help you and get killed OR I help you reach your goal and become more powerfull myself."

[@TheAscensionChanel]

Maybe Kars give a mask to acdc and later: "Man, this blood powers its great!!! I will help you to get more power if i can be a god like you say"

[@mooganify]

@@TheAscensionChanel we dont really know tbh

[@glubby2262]

am i the only one that would love to see a spinoff series of jojo revolving around this time period ?? this setting has so much room to be a show of its own even !

[@crabbyink9849]

Same especially with the way the music swells when kars eliminates his race and stuff

[@dyingscarlet]

Depends on if any of the Pillar race had 'Jo' in their name.

[@StarPlatinum7912]

Sitcom of kars and esidisi having to raise wamuu and Santana

[@dibs6462]

Lmaooo imagine if one of the very first joestars actually WAS a pillarman who lived with the remaining few of the species who somehow fell in love with a human or something, this could explain why the joestars can survive some of the most absurd injuries

[@Woodsy2575]

Kars and his partner wink wink nudge nudge

[@MsMvsc]

Woodsy2575 I ship it

[@alissaoldham7128]

They have some kind of relationship they both raised two kids together

[@starsfalldown1234567]

I love that it was a subtle hint to them being gay. I mean gay people are everywhere they can be heroes, normals and in this case power hungry villains.

[@AbsoluteMongoloid]

@bootyeater 69 That is possible as well. People these days don't know what brotherly love is.

[@moahammad1mohammad]

@bootyeater 69 If they say no homo, it ain't homo

[@juannaym8488]

That old pillar lady could've been Kars' mother

[@JohnDoe-z2r]

@@Visceralx1 why not both?

[@PuchuKt]

Pillar women look just what i thought the female counterpart of a race of aztec bodybuilder gods would look like E X T R A T H I C C

[@naranara1690]

*The Story of Kars (with a little Esidisi, Wamuu and Santana thrown in at the end)

[@antonioexpositocruz5160]

Esididi was already an adult here

[@LordVader1094]

"To search for the ultimate power, and the perfect body." Literally the Quest for Gains.

[@sendylie1774]

Near invulnerability, and this explains Pillar Men's futile reproduction.

[@enggigg6644]

Then Kars killed all the females and fucked everything up lol

[@enggigg6644]

Last of their kind is Santana though i doubt he would ever get out of that UV prison.

[@sendylie1774]

Enggi GG and kars since he's immortal and unable to come back to earth wandering through space forever

[@enggigg6644]

Sendy Lie True

[@TheWarmachine375]

Too bad the Pillar Men did not think things through about the worse case scenario if their attempt to kill Kars went south and could have sent some of their people away into hiding, and ensure their race's survival and finish what they started.

[@neodarkend]

Searching for a Perfect Body? But... they already possess a perfect body...

[@cherrabenoussama3509]

Immunity to the sun

[@dead.ahead_sonya.parker]

But they wanted a body immune to the sun's rays.

[@navyntune8158]

Physically.

[@FRALICESAW15]

When you think about it, EsiDsi and Kars were basically Wammu’s gay parents

[@jaeyoonkim4663]

Joseph: "sees Pillar Women" NIIIICE!

[@rKhael53]

I think, in the JoJo universe, Kars could be Loki. A smart genius, powerful but kind of a coward and cheater, who enter in opposition with other "gods" (pillar men), and finally causing an apocalypse and a mass destruction of "gods" (Ragnarok). The vikings could knew his deformed story, and deform it again to give birth to their trickster god.

[@TovKafur]

It's called Trickster, and creatures like this can be found in various cultures. Overall Trickster ruins status-quo, using his intellegence and wisdom, or pure luck. Joseph also fits Trickster archetype.

[@drinky_3021]

God. I could imagine Ultimate Kars easily destroying DIO (Stardust crusaders). That would be satisfying seeing villians duel each other.

[@zh7334]

He would easily kill Dio. All Dio could do is stop time to get away. Even then Kars would quickly catch up.

[@drinky_3021]

Even if he did leave, Kars could detect him with his super natural healing.

[@felipecosta-kv2fx]

I am not sure actually, do pillar people have natural defenses against stands?

[@LUUUUU8]

​@@felipecosta-kv2fx it's actually confirmed that the Pillarmen like Kars, Esidisi, and Wammu are able to sense stands

[@felipecosta-kv2fx]

@@LUUUUU8 where?

[@pachutoazumadre32xD]

1:39 "Pillar woman Enya doesn't exist she can't hurt you" Pillar woman Enya:

[@mediocreindigo]

The comments in a nutshell: 50% Pillar women are hot. 30% Kars is a dick. 20% Other.

[@alecfongy3175]

Well its true ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) Pillar women are hot

[@Red-32]

.....

[@Ice-yp4wg]

1:33 Jojo already beat Star Wars to this meme.

[@dungeonmaster9123]

Ice 487 Kars killed not just a pillar men, but the pillar women and pillar children too!

[@deadaccount5238]

@@dungeonmaster9123 I HATE THEM!

[@robinroy7123]

So u saying Vader is a JoJo reference!? No wonder he became so popular 😂.

[@multigg1928]

Didn't Revenge of The Sith come out in 2005

[@Ice-yp4wg]

@@multigg1928 Even if it did, the manga of part 2 was finished in 1989.

[@hkkobayashi7657]

So basically super models. A tride of super models. And those piller womeeeeeeen yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaas!

[@AbsoluteMongoloid]

Your profile pic makes your comment all the better.

[@diabolicamires]

2:02 If you look closely you see Esidisi is protectin Kars' back

[@rico4376]

2:02 I like how Eisidisi just appears out of nowhere

[@mac189]

i think its because of the speech he made convinced him to join kars

[@junkyporpoise4254]

Damn Eisidisi be loyal as fuck.

[@sensennisya557]

While Kars is laughing like a Maniac, i think he's sad because his best friend is killed by Joseph. That's why he want to kill Joseph first before Conquer the world.

[@_Sep_13th]

Fun Fact: There's still 1 living Pillar Man on Earth and his name is Santana.

[@xandersosing]

The mvp

[@mervan1982]

Kars is living to but he is in space

[@yunglean4759]

@robloxvision112, not really kars transcended past his pillar race so you can't really count kars. He's no longer a pillar man because he became the ultimate life form

[@supermaximglitchy1]

No I think Joseph killed him using the reflection of the sun into a well

[@tangetstone2.045]

​@@supermaximglitchy1 He's still trapped and imprisoned in the Speedwagon Foundation HQ while being constantly doused with UV rays.

[@iliacdeleon1065]

*If a Pillar Woman was with Kars and the other two Pillar man* Joseph: NIIIICE!!!!

[@kldn-xtlxmr7675]

So youre telling me that, the pillar race were pretty peaceful amongst life, and it was only kars who was batshit insane?

[@notshockwavedemon7543]

Yeah They lived already content with their lives. Only consuming what they need to. And they kept their population low since they lived incredibly long lives so their natural death rate was also almost nonexistent. Kars was the one who wasn't and wanted to evolve further. Esidisi followed in his Ideology

[@CSSoda]

This background ost is so beautiful !!

[@mihayseby98]

What is the name?

[@ДмитрийОсипов-м9д]

@@mihayseby98 Fields of Fright

[@sensennisya557]

Itachi kills every Uchiha is a JoJo reference.

[@altairevangelist5999]

It's funny because Kars has same VA as Kakashi

[@user-pi1lb4tf2f]

@@altairevangelist5999 It's gintoki vs Oboro all over again

[@ExplorifyQuests]

and only four Uchihas were left same in Jojo.

[@zalabit927]

Damn, I feel bad for those hot Pillar Ladies...

[@TheWarmachine375]

Kars killed them all.

[@salado1944]

@@TheWarmachine375 Dont worry, kars is now flying in the space "thanks to joseph"

[@JustADioWhosAHeroForFun]

Mama Kars and Daddy ACDC

[@jolyne1541]

I think Kars is the daddy and esidisi is the mommy :))

[@scoopitywoop5665]

The pillar men race would honestly make for a really cool SCP if you think about it

[@Felix-ic1fc]

0:17 that pillar woman is the only character that in jojo don't have defined lips it looks like a normal anime face.

[@estrelaplatinada6506]

That kan behind also is, so i guess is either because of budget, laziness or genes.

[@Masutora]

So based on the fact that the pillar men used weapons when attacking Kars and Esidisi, is it possible to say that one's "mode" is a result of wearing the mask and not a natural evolution?

[@ahmadbilalmaster5292]

I think Kars, Esidisi and Whammu are stronger than the average pillar man because of the mask

[@beren1898]

Correct.

[@Drip_Wooper]

The narrator mentions that their abilities were prolonged lifespans and invulnerability, nothing related to the Pillarman's ability to control life and bodies (their own or other's), so yes I think both their power to invade and manipulate bodies, as well as regeneration and elemental modes were from the mask. Vampires also seem to get similar abilities, so I guess "Pillarman" is just the vampiric upgrade of this unnamed race, it's quite possible that they can use the Freezing Blood and Space Ripper Eyes techniques if they desired, but never did due to simply having better options

[@Zeew707]

I think the original Pillar Men are only as powerful as vampires like Dio, and have the same abilities/strength as vampires. The shriveled corpses at 0:56 reminds me of vampire victims whose blood have been sucked dry. I think that's what 'absorb' in this context really means. They also use weapons like spears and blades, so they definitely didn't have extending ribcages, horns that are capable of moving, or arm blades like the four Pillar Men. Some people think that original Pillar Men absorb other creatures into their body like Santana did, but personally, I think they just 'absorb' it through suction using their claws or fangs (like vampires). Santana has been exposed to the mask, which is implied by his ability to absorb creatures directly and contort his body at will, and also that one carving that shows the four Pillar Men with their elements implies that Santana's element is water. As far as I know, Pillar Men only get elemental powers after they used the mask. That's why I think that the original Pillar Men are much weaker than Santana and more similar in strength to vampires. What I'm curious about is the significance of the number of their horns. Is it just a genetic thing that varies from family to family, or does it control their powers/abilities? Most of the people in the flashback has either one, two, or three horns. I don't see any of them having more than three in the flashback (or maybe I'm just not that observant), yet Esidisi has five horns. I wonder if it indicates hierarchy or something like that?

[@estrelaplatinada6506]

About your last question, yes, its a family that dont exist anymore, BUT santana its the weakest of all, not strongest. Also santana its not earth. Nor its water. He literally dont used the mask, he have no power. Literally any pillar men can do what he did but stronger since santana probably dont know how to speak since he was a baby when he got take by kars

[@windowcoolboy445]

"Don't you wish to conquer the sun? Don't you wish to rule over all? Don't you wish to purge your fears? If not, then perish." - Kars

[@mac189]

I'm pretty sure that speech got Esidisi on his side

[@Jo-Wilbe-Dina]

The Pillar Men: *adopts sanviento and wamuu* DIO in Eyes of Heaven: *encourages giorno to do his best* Kira: *a good husband, doesn’t kill hayato* Diavolo: *tries to kill his own daughter* No wonder he received infinite death loop.

[@Aquele_Neon]

kira killed hayato, but btd bring him back

[@jogurtjoestar]

bro I feel like these guys were the BEST villains in jjba, They have a mysterious story, THEYRE AZTEC/MAYAN GODSSS (I have ALWAYS wanted to see mayan/aztec mythology in tv and anime but this is FAR beyone my expectations) and they have a EPIC THEME

[@Zpicynuudle]

much better than Dio

[@kucingsedihjojofan1428]

@@Zpicynuudle Agreed, but idk why Dio got focused on more

[@wilhelmu]

2:00 holy shit i just noticed esidisi is standing behind kars

[@ANPC-pi9vu]

Esidisi best boi

[@janetgarrenson5526]

I could just imagine how they lived. Posing all time giving each other posing tips and what not.

[@themightynanto3158]

Imagine if Wamuu found out the truth of how Kars slaughtered his entire race. Would he still be loyal to Kars? Or would he have betrayed Kars and joined forces with Joseph?

[@bujinturtle2921]

I feel like Wamuu's seen as a litttttle bit more objectively good by human moral standards than he actually is by fans just because his personal passions are in satisfying and honorable battle. He cares a lot about competing in contests of strength with anyone worthy, but killing and the concept of enemies/humanity isn't super relevant to him outside what they can offer him as a warrior, so we get scenes such as Wamuu eating mark/the soldiers/laughing at weaklings/considering keeping a stock of vampires as normal. His perspective is quite different from a human's. He's certainly still got those admirable traits and struggles with killing a child of the hamon tribe, but considering he's already seen Kars do that for him and retains complete loyalty for the men who raised him, I don't think betrayal would be very on the table outside what we already saw in killing the vampires prior to his death. Wamuu knows firsthand how ruthless and pragmatic Kars is and we've seen him react by backing down when his request for a match against joseph was denied until LisaLisa made her bluff. I don't think he's under any illusion that Kars thinks the same as him about honor because of that, since Kars also pretty openly discusses their disagreements several times. If anything they'd just talk it out once again, they've been together for 10,000 years at this point. That and the truth about the incident is pretty much that their people tried to kill Kars over concern for something Kars had by now made a non issue in hindsight so his 2 master's actions would probably seem pretty logically in line with what he already knows about them at that point considering the 4 and later 3 of them also went around wiping out threats to themselves before hibernation. All this makes the dynamics between the 3 more interesting though I think.

[@gwynethcloa6694]

[Sunny with a chance melody] *_Kars elopes with Esidisi to become Gay Parents_*

[@sharilshahed6106]

A race of ancient superior species that were wiped out thanks to the action of one or two brethren, with only 4 survivors, 2 of them being infants. The gotta love how Battle Tendency predicted/inspired the Sayians' origins Dragon Ball Z.

[@theflashgordon193]

yeah but pillar man are better because they take pose

[@newname4793]

Gordon rass kwasi But sayagin are better because they scream!

[@Visceralx1]

Both saiyans and pillar people are cool because *MUSCLES*

[@A.S._Trunks]

Imagine a saiyan/ pillar man hybrid

[@theworldofchachundar5628]

@@A.S._Trunks pillar monke

[@nameless01XGK]

"The prodigy killed MOST of his race, including his own parents." So it's mean there're the Pillar Men who's still alive?

[@aldoborgia7836]

He spared AC/DC (Esidisi), Wammu and Santana (the 2 babies)

[@tentilol]

@@aldoborgia7836 who knows maybe some pillar men or women escaped

[@b-fenix5789]

@@aldoborgia7836 In fact AC / DC was his partner, he helped Kars create the Stone Mask and kill his race

[@magnoliaeclair7822]

simply put they are the race who masterd the art of pose

[@Skoopish]

I don’t think people realize how powerful the pillar men were. Easily more powerful than a lot of stand users

[@ashwinravi4621]

Kars is the 2nd strongest jojo character

[@hindubanodhruvnahi779]

​@@ashwinravi4621 nah he is first He can just copy everything in earth (like he copied Joseph hamon) and made it 100 times stronger If you are talking about dio oh then it's not canon

[@rico4376]

Ngl I want a side series of the story of how Kars became the way he is and how he created the stone mask

[@Thane3999]

I somewhat feel that Araki borrowed concept of nephilim from the Bible, for the Pillar Men. That or some other popular conspiracies about giant ancient race of humans, which there is abundance of. Gigantic, ancient race of humans, who have basicly-demigod abilities that were considered gods by the people at the time, that went extinct? Yeah, that's sounds a bit too similar to Biblical nephilim.

[@junkolover9518]

Glorious Untermensch, i would say not just from the Bible - Araki borrowed concept from the ancient gods. If you look it up, many of them, such as Inanna, Baal, Moloch etc. look and act as superhumans with extraordinarily long life. Though YWHW could've actually been an inspiration for Kars - he despised other gods, actively killed them, and also had a very different goal.

[@ANPC-pi9vu]

They actually really do have their basis in ancient Mesoamerican mythology. The demon with a thousand mouths... i forget the name.

[@gideonjones5712]

A brilliant mind, trying to overcome the crippling weakness of his people to the light of the sun. So he worked and worked and worked, for centuries, perhaps millenia, on this great project to better his people. And as soon as he made the first great step to that goal, his people turned on him in fear. Nothing could be permitted to stand in the way of his goal. Not his own people, not the users of Hamon, not his own followers. Fighting fair didn't work out for them? Then he would be a sneaky bastard. Anything to win. And it worked. His sacrifices were worth it. Until a cocky American teenager used a volcano to launch him into orbit. It was after 700 years of trying to comprehend the physics of that specific event that Kars would finally understand it was no longer worth thinking.

[@BergmitetheBlueandPointy0712]

Now I think Kars is some thousand years mad “ scientist “

[@ziphy_6471]

kars: I REJECT MY PILLARMANITY!

[@tba3625]

not just the men but the women and children too

[@monster-mecha_enthusiast_2002]

Would've been cool to see a spin-off about the Pillar Men.

[@stevensteviepryde5888]

Kars is the most dangerous threat of all of JoJo.

[@fragsnake]

Kars and Diavolo formed the two halves of powers DIO acquired from the relevant artifacts he got from them indirectly. The Stone Mask gave his immortality, vampiric powers and the Arrow gave him The World.

[@Otval_bashky]

Pucci: Bruh.

[@stevensteviepryde5888]

@@Otval_bashky it's been established that Kars can and did survive the universal reset.

[@Otval_bashky]

@@stevensteviepryde5888 Pucci faster than Kars.

[@altairevangelist5999]

Kira Yoshikage can erase Kars's Exist

[@Dreigonix]

I'm a bit disappointed that the Pillar Women aren't just as buff as the men, honestly. XD

[@DohTheEntertainer83]

Look at the one at 0:16 to the lower-left, in the background. *BOOM*

[@TheWarmachine375]

Abs lol

[@titan133760]

@@DohTheEntertainer83 That's a pillar man, not a pillar woman

[@fulcrum2951]

What do you mean they're not buff?! They're just buff at...certain places

[@Subscribersnodignity]

Dreigonix why would they want to be? They have no reason too

[@YamaMaharaja]

Kars: the true reason why everything happened in JoJo's

[@Jo-Wilbe-Dina]

1:02 I finally know where DIO got the pose from the End Of The World Opening...

[@Kurayamiblack]

1:38 for a second there I was like "Hey look, it's slightly younder Enyaba"

[@tofucube7703]

So Kars and his bro adopted santana and Wham and raised them without any pillar ladies.

[@tl4460]

His "bro"

[@iiikaruz]

@@tl4460 Yes, his " bro " in which he had only a "brotherly" relationship with.

[@MsMvsc]

cherry - cola Suure...

[@matthewwright9143]

An ancient superhuman race of strippers posing on a daily basis is something only Araki could come up with.

[@KunglawAdy]

i misss the old concept of jojo. pilar man , hamon, mask... good old days

[@jolyne1541]

Me too😭

[@ANPC-pi9vu]

Same. I can not sit through Stardust Crusaders. Fucking Pillar Man fanfiction is less formulaic than that drivel, so I guess I'm just stuck in this pit of Pillar Porn.

[@abbyling9511]

Only me thinking that the "pillar grandma" is Kars' mother or grandmother? Their hair and horns are similar.

[@bitacash]

horns are just a privilege and a designation of status.

[@plebweeb8868]

1:39 is that... Kars' mom?

[@plebweeb8868]

not exactly the milf/gilf type tbh

[@plebweeb8868]

also where did Esidisi come from at 2:02?? Did he just crawl out of the cave, back from his Highway to Hell and strike a pose? wtf

[@atrep4585]

I mean the hair and horns match. She could be

[@NepetasShippingWall1642]

pleb weeb guess not every mom is a milf in the jojo universe

[@liap7815]

She is so cool! I’d definitely be gay for her

[@psychogamer7213]

That one white haired pillar woman was just there for a few seconds of short screen time and the fandom still managed to awaken their own pillars with so much fanart non the less.

[@sono_chi_no_sodium_chlorid7635]

This is the type of writing I really miss in Jojo. Don't get me wrong I love later parts but they are just too mundane compared to the first 3 (they were basically a trilogy). Part 4 especially. After part 3 almost all of the supernatural/fantasy elements are conected to stands which is a bit underwhelming.

[@stevepensando2593]

Same Also the stand designs on part 3 were much more unique and diverse to eachother compared to other parts

[@KennyLastname]

I completely agree

[@mooganify]

I just love how well Part 1 and 2 link and by extension how well Part 1 and 3 link ( at least in terms of characters and backstory) I dont know why anyone would skip to Part 3, you have no knowledge of DIO and he's barely on screen anyway. All the other Parts kind of link but only tangentially. Part 1 and 2 at least had the same sort of themes and backstory. Part 5 is like "oh yeah that kid is related to DIO lol" and that's it.

[@Rivecha]

SBRverse has the concept of curses and blessings which are cool. Plus Spin I guess.

[@TheAzulmagia]

Well, there's the ghost alley in Part 4, which isn't tied to Stands. Also all of the things in Rohan's spin-off.

[@majinbros9971]

There were moderclackin' pillar women? Ohoho, * still not as hot as pillar men.*

[@soul9299]

You mean aztec gods of fitness?

[@snifey2233]

@@soul9299 Aztec stripper's

[@donutlts5895]

Kars: *gets cornered* Also Kars: DONT YOU WANNA LIVE FOREVAAAAAAAAA?!?!?!

[@Bigtotoman]

If all the deaths from AC/DC,wamuu, and kars Kars’s death hit me the hardest I don’t know why but it felt sad watching him float in space

[@ANPC-pi9vu]

Esidisi and Whamu both had some satisfaction in their deaths... Whamu dying in a great battle was his dream and more important to him than surviving to serve Kars, and Esidisi loved Kars so much that he repeatedly squandered chances to escape after loosing because he wanted to stop the hamon users from intercepting the package. Kars on the other hand died a living death at the hands of the teenage human who took everything he cared about from him. It's honestly too cruel a fate. And Joseph even added insult to injury, pretending he had planned that plot armor bullshit just to drive Kars mad. Santa's fate is similarly sad, we just didn't get to know him as well. Ngl, Joseph was the real villain IMO.

[@wolfgangchen7287]

So basically ACDC and Kars ran away and took two kids with them