Now i have a lot of bias because it is my favourite band but we're gonna break it down and me being one of 3 fans of this band im going to try and figure out why Araki chose this name and why its so fitting
In terms of design there's not much to look at he's just a silly little yellow goober not much but in terms of its ability, there's a lot to unpack
Now Survivor gets its name from the american rock band formed in 1978 by 3 people Jim Peterik, Frankie Sullivan and Dave Bickler.
Now their commercial success early wasn't very good with the first album really only doing good in 1 state but its 2nd album may have not done well but 1 of its singles would catch the attention of the best thing that could happen to the band, Sylvester Stallone.
Now Stallone had heard the band on the radio and after being rejected by Queen to use Another one bites the dust Stallone asked the band if they could make a song for his new movie Rocky III that song would be the smash hit Eye of the Tiger.
Now what does this have to do with its ability well i think Araki was inspired by 2 factors and the first one are the rocky movies and it fits with the arc that survivor makes people angry and yes Survivor may have been inspired by fight club which did come out 2 years earlier but i believe that it that the ability was somewhat inspired by rocky as boxers usually have to anger eachother and get angry before each fight to preform as best as possible, But the other factor that may have played in survivor's ability was the band itself, as after their breakout hit Survivor continued to get more hits under their belt though tensions in the band were extreme with Frankie Sullivan wanting writing credits for songs he barely contributed to and him wanting Jim to change some of the lyrics he wrote to his liking and tried to get one of his friends Tommy Shaw from Styx to try and convince him to do it.
Needless to say tensions were high and they got higher as Bickler left the band as he was losing his voice and was replaced with Jimi Jamison and they debuted their 5th album Vital signs to great success with multiple hits from that album getting onto the top 40 of the billboards and as the years passed tensions only got worse as the 3 members were constantly fighting with eachother slowly disintegrating their relationship with eachother and now Jamison wanted credits for songs he barely contributed to and when their album too hot to sleep flopped the band went into an indefinite hiatus and Jamison went on a solo career and formed another band called Survivor, in which he got sued for which prompted a reunion with the original members including bickler who had recovered and this is basically all of their history up to the point where the stand first debut but there is one thing i forgot to mention as before eye of the tiger Peterik had written a song called Rockin into the night which was fully recorded though the producers thought it was too southern for them and gave it to 38. Special and it became their first hit needles to say Sullivan was extremely bitter about this as Peterik wrote more songs for 38. Special and other artist Sullivan refused to preform this song which may have played into the fact that Guccio isn't Survivor's original stand user and the fact we actually know (kinda) its original user
Welp that all folks if you wanna learn more about the band i recommend watching this video here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCvr1FCt3s8&t=871s&ab_channel=B-MovieRoll-Out
