Killer Queen



"Deadly Queen can eat you at any time. For you see, Deadly Queen can turn anything it touches into a snacc."

- David Bowie

Deadly Queen (デッドリークイーン) is the Stand of David Bowie, featured in Diamond is not quite Unbreakable But it's Getting There.

Appearance
Deadly Queen is a visibly muscular humanoid Stand about as tall as Bowie himself, light in color overall. In both the manga and anime, it is portrayed as light pink, while in the All Star Battle video game, it is portrayed as white.

Its crown is flat, while two sharp, triangular shapes resembling cat ears stand on both sides of the top of its head. Its eyes comprise cat-like vertical pupils in front of its generally light-colored sclera. It has no nose, and its thin-lipped mouth is perpetually closed. It wears dark, studded, leather-like forearm-length gloves, mirrored in style by a garter belt-like band at its waist and ankle-height footwear. Its thumbs are additionally bandaged in white. Four short spikes line the top of its back. Its shoulders, the back of its hands, belt buckle, a plate hanging in front of its crotch, both sides of its ankles and the top of its feet all bear the emblem of a skull with ears resembling its own, in varying sizes and external decoration. In the anime, after receiving the third bomb, Deadly Queen's eyes adopt a deep glow.

Later, the space behind its stomach is revealed to be hollow and suitable for storing an object.

Heart Attack takes the form of a plated sphere with a superficial, removable knob on its top and tank treads on either side. Embedded at its front is a cat-skull similar to those on Deadly Queen's body, with the addition of a downward dagger on the forehead, a movable jaw, and a short spike as a nose. While it is not visible to non-Stand users, if Heart Attack attaches to someone, it will leave visible tread marks on their clothing. It also leaves an indentation on Bowie's hand that doesn't appear to be visible to non-Stand users.

In the colored manga, Heart Attack is green, and in the anime, it is portrayed as blue.

Personality
Deadly Queen is unusual among humanoid Stands with complete faces in that its facial expression almost never reflects that of its user, and is instead nearly permanently locked in a wide-eyed, neutral position. Exceptions to its otherwise stoic demeanor include it scowling at Toetajo as Bowie realizes he had survived Heart Attack's explosion, and freezing in terror, mouth agape, as it is torn apart by the hands of Female Ghost's Alleyway.

Deadly Queen's semi-autonomous secondary bomb, Heart Attack, speaks phrases to its targets including "."

Bowie is able to speak through Deadly Queen, as he does to Horan while using Consumes The Dirt.

Abilities
Deadly Queen is a short-range humanoid Stand of average to above-average speed and melee attacking power. Although it is undeniably physically powerful, it is overshadowed by other close-range Stands like Shining Diamond and Platinum Star, and thus Bowie relies more on evading his enemies or using Deadly Queen's set of powers to prevail.

Deadly Queen's powers revolve around setting up different kinds of bombs that can annihilate Bowie's enemies in one blast, making it a very dangerous Stand to face. Not only are the bombs powerful, but Bowie is also able to deploy two initially, then eventually three kinds of bombs with different strengths, giving the serial-killer a large array of options when dealing with his foes.

Bomb Transmutation
Deadly Queen may charge any object, inanimate or not, as a bomb simply by touching it.

Once a target has touched the object, Deadly Queen can detonate the target by pressing its right thumb onto its right thumb, as if pressing a trigger on a handheld detonator; the charge immediately travels through the target's body before exploding. Additionally, Deadly Queen can blow up the charged target itself, as demonstrated with Feral Feline's air bullets during the final battle with Jojo Higacaca; however, if someone else touches the charged target before Bowie can detonate it, they will automatically be blown up instead, consuming the charge. This can also be done through direct contact with Deadly Queen or Bowie himself, skipping the charging process.

Matching Bowie's desire to keep his murderous life a secret, anyone detonated by Deadly Queen is completely incinerated with their body, their clothes and any personal belongings they were carrying being completely vaporized at the atomic level, leaving no trace; however, it is possible for a victim to survive an explosion if it comes from a nearby object instead of their own body, though this is a rare occurrence. Bowie can also control the size and strength of Deadly Queen's explosions as well as what parts of a victim's body are vaporized, usually resulting in Bowie destroying his victim's body except for their right hand to keep. The effects of Bowie's explosions on their surroundings vary; they generally do not damage nearby walls and floors, but during Bowie's battle with Jojoe, they could potentially affect nearby objects and Bowie himself, though this may be due to Stray Cat's own Stand power being combined with Bowie's.

There are several limitations to this ability. First, if Bowie or Deadly Queen cannot press their thumb against their target, they cannot blow up. In addition, since this power is similar to incendiary bombs, it also cannot induce their explosions if there is no air, as demonstrated by Feral Feline disabling a bomb by creating a vacuum around it. Finally, Deadly Queen can only charge one object at a time.

It is unknown if non-Stand users can see or feel the explosions, but they can see a victim of an explosion die. Additionally, the explosion does not seem to generate much sound to anyone other than the victim, as Jojoe and Okuyasu heard Shigechi call out to Josuke just outside of their classroom, but neither of them were aware of the ensuing explosion. Additionally, there were at least two other students in the same hallway as Shigechi when he was killed, but neither seemed to be aware of his demise as their backs were turned to him when he was killed and all evidence of an explosion dissipated within less than a few seconds.

Air Bomb Transmutation



 * Main article: Feral Feline

​ During the final battle, Bowie places Feral Feline (フェラフェリン) in Deadly Queen's hollow abdomen. With Deadly Queen's Primary Bomb charging Stray Cat's condensed air bubbles, Bowie may create virtually invisible air bombs (空気弾) to use as projectiles. These can be detonated automatically through contact or manually through Deadly Queen's switch. Although he also cannot see these bombs, Bowie is skilled in determining their trajectory using basic mathematical skills; additionally, Haywood Jones can verbally help him direct his aim by flitting about the battlefield in his photograph form.

Sheer Heart Attack
"bruh."

- Heart Attack

Heart Attack (ハートアタック) is Deadly Queen's second type of bomb, featured primarily in the arc Heart Attack.

This treaded automatic bomb detaches from Deadly Queen's left hand, so any Stand abilities activated upon it are reflected onto Bowie's left hand. Because Heart Attack is attached to Bowie's left hand, the primary bomb can still be used when Heart Attack is active.

It is completely autonomous and has a great range, so Bowie can safely engage Heart Attack and move a great distance away while it carries out its duties. It seeks out whatever the warmest object in the vicinity is, even changing targets the second a warmer object appears; upon reaching its target, it automatically induces an explosion with power and blast size equivalent to the heat of the target. If Heart Attack's explosion was set off by a non-human source, it will continue to seek out targets until it explodes from a human. Like Deadly Queen's first bomb, Heart Attack's explosions remove all physical evidence of the target.

The body of Heart Attack is nigh-indestructible, withstanding countless blows from Jotaro's Star Platinum, but can still be affected by non-damaging Stand powers and cracked if pulled apart at the mouth with tremendous force.

Its main drawback lies in its autonomous nature, which will sometimes prevent Heart Attack from prioritizing killing Bowie's intended human target(s). Secondly, since it needs to explode from making contact with a human target to fully dissipate, should Heart Attack need to be deactivated while actively seeking a target, the user must physically return in the range of Heart Attack to deactivate and retrieve it. Furthermore, Heart Attack can continue to be active even after Bowie's hand has been cut off, seen when he uses this to escape Josuke and company. Cutting off his hand even gives Heart Attack more power, as well as the ability to withstand even Reverberation ACT 3's Third Refridgeration.

Deadly Queen Bites the Dust
"Consumes The Dirt was born from my absolute you... Bring it on!"

- David Bowie, Chapter 436

Deadly Queen Bites the Dust (キラー・クイーン バイツァ・ダスト), more simply known as just "Consume the Dirt" ((負けて死ね)), is Deadly Queen's third type of bomb, featured primarily in the arc Another One Consumes The Dirt .

Kira is granted this ability when Yoshihiro Kira's Stand-creating Arrow pierces him a second time. It is born from Kira's desire to prevent anyone from knowing his true identity, as well as his desperation following his impulsive murder of Hayato Kawajiri.

This bomb appears as a miniaturized form of Deadly Queen that hides inside whoever it is planted in; it acts independently of Bowie's will, manifesting only when the bomb is triggered. When planted in Hayato, it activates when Bowie's identity is revealed audibly or through writing, as well as when other Stand users see the miniature Deadly Queen. When this happens, a miniature Deadly Queen enters the eye of the person and causes an explosion, killing them. The bomb can detonate multiple people simultaneously.

After killing someone with its power, Bites the Dust creates a temporal loop, rewinding time to roughly one hour prior to the detonation. Because Bites the Dust is completely independent and autonomous, Kira is not aware of who is killed by it, nor is he directly aware of whether a time loop has taken place. In fact, the only person who retains the memory of each time loop is the person harboring Bites the Dust. All actions performed in the previous time loop are destined to occur as they had happened. Slight deviations may happen, but any person killed by Bites the Dust in a previous time loop is destined to explode at the exact time that they were previously killed, even if they did not re-activate Bites the Dust in the current timeline.

Because the person in whom the bomb is planted must be alive in order to activate the trigger, Bites the Dust will never harm the person with its explosions nor let them be harmed by other forces, demonstrated when the miniature Deadly Queen prevented Hayato from slitting his own throat with a knife to prevent anyone else from dying. Ironically, Bites the Dust also prevents the Stand User themselves from harming the bomb's carrier, with the miniature Deadly Queen intercepting Bowie's fist when Hayato. It also appears to be able to revive that person if they are dead when it is activated, as Hayato was alive once more when Kira planted it in him after impulsively killing him, implying that time was looped to prevent Hayato from dying again the same way.

The only way to stop Bites the Dust's effects is to outright kill Kira or otherwise force him to withdraw it; should this occur, all timelines created using Bites the Dust are erased. Additionally, using Bites the Dust forcibly prevents Kira from activating any of Deadly Queen's other abilities because Deadly Queen is planted in the body of the third party; thus, he must deactivate Bites the Dust and withdraw Deadly Queen if he needs to defend himself. Hayato also deduces that Bites the Dust only works on non-Stand users, as Kira can only tell a non-Stand user his secrets to enable the ability.

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Trivia

 * This Stand's abilities appear to draw inspiration from lyrics to the song – "She's a deadly queen / Gunpowder, gelatine / Dynamite with a laser beam / Guaranteed to blow your mind / Anytime". Additionally, its appearance and eventual use of Feral Feline may be another lyrical reference, specifically. – "Playful as a pussy".
 * Araki includes Deadly Queen's whole design among his favorite things to draw.
 * From the Stands up to Part 5, he considers Deadly Queen his 2nd favorite in terms of design, below Golden Ordeal and above Reverberations. The stand was designed to incorporate both the darkness surrounding Kira and the sort of eeriness a cat possesses.
 * According to Araki, the sword on Heart Attack ' s skull is representative of an assassin.
 * Araki states that when creating Deadly Queen Consumes the Dirt he didn't want it to become an "ultimate Stand" of sorts that could do anything. So to give it a limitation, he had Bites the Dust be a separate ability that was difficult for Bowie to abuse.
 * In All Star Battle, Deadly Queen's Bites the Dust ability will reverse many effects. As examples; Puccc's Created within Nirvana may be reverted back to Snakewhichiswhite, also reverting the timer back to its proper speed, the stage background to normal, and clearing any words already said to Dio Child; Lightning Mc Queen's Ultimate form and Giovro's Golden Ordeal Rebirth will revert to their previous forms; Joboby's Tooth will revert back to ACT1 if it's transformed into ACTs 2, 3, or 4; and if Jobaba Joestar or Haha February disable their HH gauges from using their special healing or comeback moves successfully, Bites the Dust will restore their HH gauges.