Antonio Rudolph

### Summary

Antonio Rudolph is a minor antagonist featured in Jojo's Bizarre Adventure Crystal Cruise. He is a hitman hired by The Speed Wagon Foundation to assassinate Julian Anderson.

### Appearance

Antonio Rudolph is a muscular bulky man with pale skin. He has blue eyes, face tattoo's on his forehead, below his eyes and on his arms. His hair is spikey blond with the sides shaved. He wears a greenish yellow T-shirt, blue shorts and white joggers. Over all it seems that Antonio doesn't care too much about his appearance.

### Personality

Antonio Rudolph is a ruthless killer and lacks empathy or a guilty conscience. He's willing to kill Julian Anderson who is just 17 years old for 200,000$ and is willing to kill Ezekiel Abatine so he can charge the Speed Wagon Foundation double the price. It can be assumed that Antonio is a very greedy person. Antonio is extremely confident in his abilities and repeatedly insults his enemies when their ideas or plans to defeat him fail, he's also perfectly okay killing random civilians, seemingly for fun. He occasionally has over confidence which tends to make him under estimate his opponents although seems to have some self awareness. As a Hit Man Antonio has a certain level of pride in his ability to murder others and becomes unhinged if that pride is damaged. This is shown when he threatens to torture Julian and make him die a slow death.

Antonio only recently acquired his Stand and thus doesn't know it's full capabilities. He doesn't know it's range and weaknesses. Despite not being completely familiar with his Stand he is very good at improvising during stressful situations. He's able to easily take advantage of the situation S.A.D causes and figures out how to extend the reach of his Stands ability during the heat of the moment. One rather odd habit Antonio has is the fact he constantly compares people's undesirable traits to his ex girlfriends undesirable traits. For example when Julian's attack fails, Antonio responds with. "Did you really think that would work? Only my stupid ex would think something like that." This is a trait that is frequently displayed by Antonio.

### Backstory

Nothing is known about Antonio's backstory, it's unclear when he became a hit man or why but we do know his Stand was only recently acquired. It's possible The Speed Wagon Foundation may have helped him obtain it.

### Abilities

Antonio posses the humanoid robotic stand Junkyard. Junkyard while not strong in terms of speed, power and durability has the powerful and devastating ability to rust anything it comes into contact with making it a difficult stand to face off against in close quarters. For more information about Junkyard click here.

### plot

#### Junkyard

While Julian and Ezekiel are conversing, the leg of Julian's chair breaks causing him to fall backwards. After noticing multiple abnormalities about the rust and noticing a trail of it. Julian and Ezekiel follow the trail to a librarian who has been completely rusted. As Ezekiel starts yelling about it an angry blonde man in the library yells at Ezekiel wanting him to shut up. He freaks out after his fingers start falling off due to his frostbite and then gets turned to rust with Junkyard visibly appearing behind him. Antonio then appears and shoves his rusted victim out of the way. After getting questioned Antonio explains to Julian that he's a hit man hired to assassinate them. Julian tries to use Vibration to launch nails at him numerous times however Junkyard deflects all of the nails and rusts them. Junkyard then starts to rust the floor which travels towards Julian and Ezekiel who flee and manage to get away from the rust on the ground.

Antonio then taunts them for running away and runs towards them to get within range before having Junkyard slice Ezekiel's leg open causing him to start rusting. As Ezekiel starts to run away in order to try and get out of Antonio's range Julian distracts him. Julian tries to attack Antonio with a hammer he created using Vibration however Antonio's Stand blocks and rusts it along with one of Julian's glove. This causes Julian to figure out Antonio's weakness which allows him to by pass Junkyards ability via adding layers to his nails. Multiple nails pierce through Antonio's body causing him to collapse. As he's about to die though, S.A.D which Ezekiel isn't able to control starts to freeze Julian in place and begins to freeze Antonio's wounds shut saving him from bleeding out. Antonio is able to get up and laughs about the fact S.A.D is working against Julian. As Julian melts the ice away, Antonio uses it to his advantage and has Junkyard rust the water which results in Julian getting immobilized by Junkyards rust.

Antonio threatens to torture Julian for damaging his pride as a hitman however Julian tells Antonio not to turn his back on his enemy. Unaware Ezekiel is un-rusted and is now behind him with his stand fully manifested. Antonio gets punched in the face. His Stand is then overpowered by S.A.D causing him to get fully injured. In one last attempt to save himself, Antonio has Junkyard throw rusted nails at Ezekiel which causes him to start rusting. Antonio then starts to brag only to get a beat down from S.A.D before Ezekiel is fully rusted which results in his death.

#### Appearances

* 6) Junkyard (1)
* 7) Junkyard (2)
* 8) Junkyard (3) (death)
* 10) Lucky 8 (2) (Mentioned Only)