“23, 28... no, it's 29... Dammit! The filthy frogs are clinging to my 800 dollar pants!”
Enrico Pucci Quotes
2 quotes from JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, each with commentary on what it means and why it stuck.
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“I can sense the position! When Jotaro threw the spear, I felt it... his actions directed me the right way! The ones who were pushing me to 'Heaven' were the Joestars!”
The objection is that this is a villain claiming the heroes' every move helped him, which is a cheat any writer can pull. Concede it half way. Pucci's plan does need the Joestars: Jotaro's memory disc, Jolyne's blood, the cape's position; and DIO's diary, the plan's source, is a document written about a Joestar by the man they killed. The whole Part is the hero's family being used as components. What redeems the sentence is that the claim is made sincerely, by a man who believes providence is on his side, and the ending answers him in his own terms. He reaches Heaven, and the universe he makes has a Joestar in it anyway, a girl named Irene, and Emporio, who kills him. Being pushed toward the goal by the Joestars was the true part. He just mistook which direction they were pushing.
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The series had established that Pucci counts prime numbers to calm himself, the way another man might count breaths, and here the mechanism is shown breaking: he gets to 28, which is not prime, corrects himself, and gives up in favour of complaining about his trousers. Everything the character is sits in that stumble. A priest who talks about heaven and gravity and fate is, under a rain of frogs, a vain man worried about the dry-cleaning, and the frogs are venomous, so the vanity is being indulged at real risk. Araki gives his most abstract villain a body with expensive tastes so the abstraction has somewhere to fail. The primes will come back, in the final chapters, as the countdown to a new universe. Here they cannot get past thirty.