Formaggio

Formaggio (ホルマジオ) is an antagonist from Vento Aureo and a member of La Squadra di Esecuzione.

APPERANCE
Formaggio is a man of athletic build and average height, with short hair.

Formaggio wears a mesh shirt with assorted arm warmers, over which he wears a leather jacket decorated with studs on the shoulders. Formaggio also wears a pair of dark trousers.

Personality
Formaggio comes off as a very laid-back individual. Unlike most of the following assassins, Formaggio introduces himself openly to Narancia, trying to chit-chat, and laughing at his own jokes. This attitude quickly disappears when he focuses on his goal.

Like the other assassins, Formaggio shows almost no remorse for human life and is quite sadistic at tormenting his enemies. This presumably stems from his desire to avenge the deaths of his late comrades, Sorbet and Gelato.

Formaggio's stand Little Feet is sneered at by the rest of his team, leading to Formaggio slightly resenting them for this.

Abilities
Main Article: Little Feet

Formaggio possesses the Stand Little Feet, an humanoid Stand allowing him to shrink himself or other items and people.

Synopsis
Like most gangs, Formaggio had his own group which consisted of nine members. Two of his members, Sorbet and Gelato, specialized in assassination and began to pursue the identity of their boss, which resulted in their murder. Infuriated, the remaining members of the group targeted the boss's daughter, hoping to extract information from her that would lead to the boss's identity.

Formaggio first appears interrupting Narancia Ghirga's shopping mission before starting a fight. He rambles about a number of topics in order to catch Narancia off guard before attacking him. After realizing that Narancia is a Stand user, he uses his own Stand's power to shrink himself and hide in Narancia's pocket. There he waits for Narancia to shrink small enough to be easily attacked.

When Narancia locates him using his Stand Aerosmith, he uses Little Feet to make a pen grow back to its normal size, launching him into the air and to safety. Escaping into a sewer, Formaggio tries to escape by holding onto a rat in order to evade Aerosmith's ability to track the carbon dioxide he exhales. However, Narancia notices that one of the rats is breathing harder than the rest and shoots at it, wounding Formaggio, although the injury is not fatal since Narancia himself is still shrinking.

Formaggio returns to full size and, cornering Narancia, demands that he reveal Trish's location. When Narancia refuses, Formaggio, remembering the fate that befell Sorbet and Gelato, becomes angry and puts Narancia into a bottle in which he is keeping a spider. As Narancia fights the spider, Formaggio notices a map that Narancia had dropped earlier, which reveals Trish's location. Formaggio laughs and points out that Narancia has marked all the roads, so he only has to follow it in reverse. Narancia then reveals that he had shot a hole in the gas tank of a nearby car, and was waiting for it to catch fire. The car explodes, lighting Formaggio on fire, and Narancia returns to his regular size.

Formaggio uses his own blood to douse the fire on his body and shrinks himself to escape. Narancia can’t track him because of all the carbon dioxide being released by the burning car. He decides that since he can’t track Formaggio, he’ll just make the fire bigger, and starts shooting at all the cars on the street. Formaggio returns to his normal size, but is badly burned. He claims that at close range, Formaggio has an advantage because of Little Feet's greater speed. Both call forth their Stands and attack but Aerosmith is faster and shoots Little Feet's vital spots, killing Formaggio.

Vento Aureo (PS2)
Formaggio appears as the enemy faced on chapter 4 where the player controls Narancia. During the fight Formaggio will mostly run away and use his Stand, Little Feet, to get himself smaller as the player needs to track him (with Aero Smith's radar). Formaggio's main form of attack invovles using Little Feet to hit the player, if he hits, the player will get small and the scenario will change to a big version of itself (representing Little Feet's ability), during this period of time, a giant Formaggio will try to either stomp on the player if close enough or grab them and throw them on the floor causing a large amount of damage. All the player can do during this time is to avoid Formaggio's attacks.

Using Little Feet's ability, Formaggio can also throws objects on the player, such as sofas and chairs, by making them small and then big again.

Formaggio himself is unplayable, but can be playable with cheats.

Trivia

 * Formaggio exhibits knowledge of spiders and arachnids during his fight with Narancia, placing the shrunken Narancia in a bottle to be eaten alive by a spider.
 * Formaggio is the first member to La Squadra di Esecuzione to appear in the manga.