Straizo


 * The character featured in this article is commonly referred to as "Straights" or "Straits".

Straizo (ストレイツォ, Sutoreitso) is a minor character featured as an ally of the protagonist in Part I: Phantom Blood and an antagonist in Part II: Battle Tendency.

Personality
Straizo is shown as someone with gerontophobia. Its possible that's the motive that led him to study the art of hamon, so he would still maintain some of his young looks. In his search in a way to stop his aging process, Straizo was capable of killing friends and followers to accomplish his goal, even if he needed to die for this. He, however, did maintain some logic though, as he didn't want to bring a bigger danger to Earth (as he tried to prevent Santana's awakening), just to maintain his youth.

Phantom Blood (1888-9)
Straizo is, along with Dire and Will Anthonio Zeppeli, one of Tonpetty's followers. Straizo decided to accompany Tonpetty after they received a letter from Will asking for help in destroying the Stone Mask, but they arrived too late to prevent his death. He aided Jonathan in the fight against Dio Brando and his minions, defeating Page, Jones, Plant and Bonham to protect Poco and Peggy. He later appeared to wish Jonathan and Erina a good honeymoon.

Post-Phantom Blood
Soon after the end of Part I, he was asked to raise the baby Jonathan Joestar saved from the exploding boat by Erina. He accepted the child and raised her into the ripple master primarily known as Lisa Lisa. He had also trained her in the art of the Ripple and at some point gave her the Red Stone of Aja.

Battle Tendency (1938-9)
Straizo is reintroduced as part of the team that discovered Santana and a set of stone masks. Almost immediately after this discovery, he betrayed Robert Edward O. Speedwagon and the rest of the team, incapacitating them easily and donning one of the newly discovered Stone Masks, turning him into a vampire. He explained that he had always envied Dio's strength and beauty and, as a result, desired to stop his aging process. He died after battling Joseph Joestar in New York City, overloading his own vampire body with hamon and stating that he wanted "to taste youth and go to Hell rather than age pathetically like an old man and go to Heaven", but not before confessing to seeing the pillar man Santana almost awaken from absorbing the blood of this former teammates, faking Speedwagon's death, and dumping their bodies into the river in order to prevent Santana's awakening.

Abilities
Straizo is a skilled human trained in the art of the Ripple on his own, capable of channeling ripples through solid objects to destroy multiple zombies. After becoming a vampire Straizo shares with them their basic characteristics of regeneration and increased strength, with the advantage of also knowing how to use the ripple, being the only vampire to do so. However it is rumored that this actually made him weaker, as the two sources of power are opposites

Space Ripper Stingy Eyes (空裂眼刺驚 Supēsuripā · suteingīaizu): After turning into a vampire Straizo is capable of using the Space Ripper Stingy Eyes, an pressurized liquid shot from his eyeballs powerful enough to penetrate human skin.

JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Phantom Blood (PS2 Game)
Straizo appears as playable character during one of the final chapters (against Pages, Jones, Plant and Bonham) and "Extra Battle Mode". Since Straizo didn't show much of his skills in Part I, his game apparance and moveset is based on his very only fighting scene, with his special hamon move being a continuous series of kicks saying "I, Straizo...", then the attacks ends with a more powerfull kick and him saying "..will not have pity!".

Trivia

 * Straizo is the only vampire who could also use Hamon, this being because he was a hamon user before his transformation.
 * It is arguable that it was because of his ability to use Hamon that vampire Straizo could be seen as relatively weak, as the two "strengths" are essentially incompatible; this is evident when his body imploded after using the hamon.
 * That might not nessecarily be the case. Vampires die to Hamon because they lack the ability to control and regulate it, requiring Hamon to live (sealed in the blood of the living), but lacking the ability to filter it safely (hence hostile hamon attacks and sunlight causing them to overload). It's highly possible that Straitz could've used Hamon effectively with more practice. As he said, he came immediately to kill Joseph first, then he'd experiment to see what his body could do afterward. He likely simply commited suicide using hamon for expediency sake over guilt for his actions when it was clear he had lost.
 * Unlike other characters who went from a antagonist to a ally role for instance, Speedwagon. Straizo is the only character to go from an ally to an antagonist role.