Star Platinum

Star Platinum (星の白金 (Pronounced: スタープラチナ)) is the Stand power of Jotaro Kujo. It makes an appearance in nearly every part its user is featured in, most prominently in Part III: Stardust Crusaders.

Appearance/Personality
Star Platinum is one of the first stands seen in the story and remains to be one of the most powerful. It vaguely resembles an Aztec warrior (a reference to the Stone Mask's origins), with black hair and blueish skin. Physically, Star Platinum shares some resemblance with Jotaro Kujo, having a similarly-sized body and even sharing some of his facial features - especially when first introduced. Like most stands, it appears to be completely silent and mostly devoid of personality (though Jotaro has stated that it is very violent) unless it is punching, where it yells out "ORAORAORAORAORAORA" repeatedly. Like most Stands, it possesses the basic ability of self-preservation - as seen when it stops a bullet Jotaro shoots at his own head and when it protects an incapacitated Jotaro from Dio Brando's Time Stop attacks.

Abilities
Fitting as the Stand of the main character of Part III, Star Platinum is one of the most versatile and powerful Stands in the JoJo Universe.


 * Super Strength: Star Platinum is immensely powerful, able to throw a fully loaded Jeep carrying four full-grown men and a small girl out of the path of an 18-wheeler with only one hand, then later pulling the same jeep out of a canyon with only a car as a counter-weight. Star Platinum also casually destroyed an artificial diamond the size of an entire car at one point.


 * Super Speed: Being faster than light, Star Platinum is capable of punching millions of times in a second, pummeling its opponent mercilessly. During the fight with the Stand Justice, Star Platinum protects Jotaro from many zombies surrounding him at the same time. Additionally, it is fast enough to catch a bullet fired at point-blank range.


 * Precision: Star Platinum is amazingly precise, able to remove small objects from a person's skull without damaging the person's brain in any way, as well as catch bullets just between his index finger and thumb in mid-air.


 * Finger Extension: Star Platinum is capable of lengthening his index and middle fingers to stab an opponent from a distance. This ability seems to be easy to do, as it functions as a surprise attack. This ability is called "Star Finger" in the arcade game. During its first appearance, it seems able to lengthen its entire arm to an extent as well. This ability is similar to and appears to reference the primary usage of the Ripple in Part I: Phantom Blood.


 * Time Freeze: Star Platinum is capable of stopping time, similar to The World, albeit only for roughly three seconds. This ability seems to be extremely exhausting, and the intervals of stopped time that Jotaro is able to maintain appears to decrease throughout later parts. It was discovered during the fight with The World. The nature of the time stop follows the flow of time in the real world, as shown when the duration of time Jotaro was capable of stopping was drastically reduced when Enrico Pucci accelerated time with Stairway to Heaven.

Star Platinum: The World
There is no noticeable difference in the capabilities of Star Platinum: The World (スタープラチナ・ザ・ワールド) in comparison to the original Star Platinum, aside from its seeming mastery of the Time Stop. Time Stop can now last for 5 seconds, and can be done consecutively with only a few seconds between intervals.

Note that Star Platinum: The World's stats are different than those of the original Star Platinum.

It was actually a mistake on the author's part to put C for range, when in the Stone Ocean (the source of the picture, left) Star Platinum: The World only displayed E-level range. It may also be possible, however, that Jotaro was not used to using his stand at C-level range, as he had just acquired this form of his stand in his encounter against Pucci.

Trivia

 * Star Platinum is one of the 9 Tarot Stands to have a color in its name.


 * Star Platinum has had a number of characters based on him or made as reference, using either a modified version of his "Ora Ora" battle cry or dressing similar to him. One example is Joe from the King of Fighters series. He even uses a rapid speed punching ability