Melone

"Di molto!"

- Melone, Chapter 501

Melone (メローネ) is a minor antagonist featured in Vento Aureo.

Melone is a member of La Squadra Esecuzioni. After Team Bucciarati is forced to take the road, he attempts to kidnap Trish Una and uses his remote Stand, Baby Face, to battle Giorno Giovanna.

Appearance
Melone is a young man of athletic build and average height. He keeps long straight hair descending down to his shoulder.

Inspired by design, Melone's most distinctive feature is his clothes. He wears a dark suit with a concentric circle motif, lacking the right sleeve and a large part of the right side. Melone also wears matching gloves and shoes, as well as a transparent mask covering his right eye. Over his trousers, Melone sports two decorative chains at the shins' level in each leg.

Personality
Melone shows himself to be a polite man in most circumstances. Approaching every activity with cold professionalism, he physically and mentally inspects his future victims, looking at them more like tools to create his Stand than fellow human beings. The TV anime portrays a rather lecherous nature, showing him openly licking his lips in delight as he observes a beautiful woman's legs and feet; something his teammates are humorously disturbed by, as well as looking at a woman's behind in the train station near the end of the Baby Face arc.

Melone always reacts jovially when circumstances match or exceed his expectations, exclaiming "Di Molto!" (literally "By a lot!" in Italian). When things do not go his way, however, he becomes nervous yet remains cool-headed enough to issue tactical instructions, likely due to the fact that he is not the one facing immediate danger.

Melone is one of the least confrontational enemy Stand Users in the series, favoring hit-and-run tactics or laying traps, never reacting with violence to any setback, and even advising his Stand to flee instead of continuing to fight.

Stand
Melone wields the Stand Baby Face, which is a computer-like humanoid Stand he uses to create autonomous long-range Stands also named Baby Face he can direct to kill his targets. He needs to find a blood sample of his target and a woman to host said Stand before he can act.

Pseudoscientific knowledge
Melone is well-versed in pseudosciences used to divine things such as character compatibility or a future child's characteristics. This serves him to determine the quality of the Stand he will create in function to his target.

History
Melone is first shown collecting a blood sample left from Bruno Bucciarati's battle with Prosciutto and Pesci for the Homonculus Materialization of his Stand, Baby Face. He later finds a woman while on a train, whose hot temper encouraged Melone to use her to materialize Baby Face. Once the Stand was born, he then educates it to kill off Bucciarati's group and capture Trish Una.

When Baby Face locates Team Bucciarati and launches its attack within Coco Jumbo, Melone is seen giving it orders from his computer. However, Melone's plan inadvertently causes Giorno Giovanna to not only deal damage to Baby Face, but its ability allowed him to discover Gold Experience's indispensable ability to repair injuries through its basic life-giving power. Melone eventually loses control of Baby Face, who proceeds to act independently and ends up nearly burning to death.

After the defeat of his Stand, he's called by Ghiaccio about the wreckage. Ironically, before he could generate another Homunculus incidence of Baby Face, a cube portion of his burning Stand finds its way back to him as a venomous snake animated by Giorno and bites his tongue, killing him off-panel.

Vento Aureo (PS2)
Melone does not appear as an enemy character that can be faced, however, Baby Face's battle against Giorno appears as one of the Story Drama that can be seen in the Gallery Mode.

All Star Battle (PS3)
Melone appears in the PS3 title as an explanatory character in one of the game menus, being the player's eager guide within the Option Mode.

Eyes of Heaven
Melone appears in Eyes of Heaven as the operator of the Options Menu. He speaks directly to the player, encouraging them not to forget the importance of being able to select your options. As well as this, several of his quotes are featured. For example when the player has defeated all enemies, there is a chance that his signature catchphrase "DI MOLTO" will be played.

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Trivia

 * His catchphrase "Di Molto" (ディ・モールト (非常に)) literally translates to "By a lot", and is grammatically awkward by itself. "Molto bene" (Very Good) would be a correct form of his superlative.
 * His namesake, being a melon, is a symbol of fertility and abundance, which is hinted at by his perverted nature and Stand's ability.
 * Given the fact that his design is based off of the Venetian Carnival, and to an extent, the anonymity of wearing a mask, Melone's true, lecherous behavior could stem from the fact that he would end up in even more trouble if people were to see his full face.
 * Melone's death is ironic in a couple ways.
 * Firstly, perverted licking is one of his quirks, and he was poisoned by a snakebite on the tongue.
 * Secondly, his death reflects his own fighting style; Melone usually sends his own creations to do his dirty work, but in order for Giorno to kill him, he had to send one of his own creations via Gold Experience.