What are the abilities of Yoshikage Kira’s Stand Killer Queen?
Hello guys so as you already know that Jojo never failed to amaze us with their outstanding antagonist line up. One after another they gave us mindblowing antagonists and if we were to be asked who’s the best among them. Then without a doubt we all will agree with Yoshikage Kira. I mean JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: Diamond Is Unbreakable’s antagonist Kira had that crazy vibe with him that made him so popular and one of the best antagonists in the whole animanga verse.
Now to hold the position of the best you need to have some extraordinary powers too. Surprisingly enough Kira’s stand Killer Queen was not that much powerful in a close combat 1v1 but with a proper command Killer Queen was capable of defeating even Jotaro. To know more about this let’s discuss its abilities. Let me say this beforehand that this article contains major spoilers of JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: Diamond Is Unbreakable.
Killer Queen
Killer Queen is a close range Stand and its main ability is turning anything it touches into a bomb. With time the fans realised that not only non living objects Killer Queen can turn living objects into bombs too. One thing special about its bombs is that it makes sure to completely erase all the evidence of the detonated object.
Bomb Transformation
As mentioned earlier Killer Queen can turn any object into a bomb with a single touch. But to activate the bomb Kira or his stand has to have direct contact with the object which is a big drawback of his stand. Like in the fight against Jotaro, Kira was beaten even before he could touch him. That’s why Kira prefers to avoid direct head on fights. Also he can charge one bomb at a time. But figuring these weak points were really tough as Kira was a sharp witted serial killer.
Kira can detonate anything he touches by pressing its right thumb onto a trigger located on its index finger’s middle phalanx. Kira can also control the limit of his explosion as seen in the series when he killed a girl he detonated her whole body leaving only the hand. His explosions do very little damage to surroundings and it has no sound so the non stand users can’t see or hear it. Also his bombs act as ordinary bombs meaning they can’t be detonated without air. In the case of Stray Cat it sucked out the air as a result Kira could not activate the bomb.
Air Bomb
Air Bomb is very similar to its Bomb Transformation ability in fact it’s just an upgraded version of the Bomb Transformation. As I mentioned earlier Kira is weak in close combat but his stand has no range abilities so when he saw the Stray Cat’s air bullets for the first time he figured out a new way to use his bombs.
By putting the Stray Cat in Killer Queen’s hollow abdomen Kira charged the air bullets with bombs and created Air Bomb. These bombs were invisible and detonated upon touching or Kira could also detonate them with the switch. He could also control the trajectory of the air bombs.
Sheer Heart Attack
Sheer Heart Attack is the second ability of Killer Queen. It’s an autonomous bomb placed in its left hand. Kira can launch it and control it from afar. The Sheer Heart Attack detonates upon touching its target and it does not stop until Kira stops it manually. As it’s an autonomous bomb it seeks targets by their body warmth. Which is the only drawback of Sheer Heart Attack as it can be easily fooled with a warmer object. But it does not stop until it detonates a human.
It has absolute defence as we saw it withstand Jotaro’s attacks. But it was slightly cracked when they pulled it by its mouth. But Stand abilities work on it and as we saw in the series any Stand ability used on it also affects Kira’s left hand. If Kira cuts his left hand then Sheer Heart Attack gets more power and it can withstand almost any Stand attack. Another drawback is that the user has to come back to retrieve it and when it’s activated Kira can’t use his primary Bomb Transformation ability.
Bites the Dust
The third and most deadly ability of Killer Queen. Kira initially had only two abilities but he gained this new ability after getting pierced by Yoshihiro Kira’s arrow a second time. Using this ability Kira can plant a miniature version of Killer Queen on the required target and put a condition on which note it will activate.
In the series we saw Kira planting it on Hayato and the condition was if anyone asks Hayato any information about Kira and mentions his name audibly or through writing then it will activate and enter the person’s eye and detonate him completely erasing from existence. It can simultaneously detonate many targets at once. After the work is done it takes back the target in a time loop and once a target is detonated in a time loop it will happen again no matter what.
Bites the Dust’s power is kinda omnipotent there’s no way out and even Kira himself does not know that who he has killed with it only the target itself retains the memories of the timelines. To stop the Bites the Dust either Kira has to be killed before the events occur or Kira himself has to stop it from time looping. It also prevents the target from killing itself as we saw it did not let Hayato kill himself in a time loop.
The drawbacks of this ability are almost none. Only the fact that Kira does not get the knowledge of what has happened in the time loops is a great drawback. Other than that during Bites the Dust is activated Kira can’t use Killer Queen as it stays with the target so he becomes completely defenceless.