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Santana
 Manga
 Anime

Japanese Name

サンタナ
Localized Name

San-Tan (ASB PR)
Santviento (ASB, VIZ, CR)
San Viento (Anime English Dub)
Namesake

SantanaW (band)
Carlos SantanaW (guitarist)
The Santa-Ana WindsW[1] (In-universe)
Profile
Age

~10,000[2][3]
Birthday

Circa 8,000 B.C.[2][3]

Gender

Male
Nationality
 Presumably originated from American Continent[4]
Race

Pillar Man
Hair Color

Blonde (Digital Color)
Vermilion (Anime)
Eye Color

Blue (Digital Color)
Crimson (Anime)
Other Information
Media
Manga Debut

Chapter 46
Final
Appearance

Chapter 62
Chapter 112 (Appears in flashback(s))
Anime Debut

Episode 9 (Stone Appearance)

Episode 12 (1st full appearance)
Game Debut

Famicom Jump: Hero Retsuden

Diamond Records (Playable)
Japanese Voice Actor

Kenji NomuraW

Dub Voice Actor

Kaiji TangW (English Dub)

Give it up, you primitive beings.

“ ”
—Santana
Santana (サンタナ Santana) is an antagonist featured in Battle Tendency.
Discovered slumbering inside of a stone pillar in Mexico by Speedwagon and the Germans,
this individual is christened as "Santana" and is the first featured member of the Pillar Men.
Rampaging through a research facility, he eventually meets and fights Joseph Joestar.

Contents
 Appearance
 Personality
 Abilities
 History
o Background
 o Battle Tendency
 Major Battles
 Chapters / Episodes
 Video Games
o Famicom Jump: Hero Retsuden (NES)
o All Star Battle (PS3)
o Stardust Shooters (Android/iOS)
o Diamond Records (Android/iOS)
 Gallery
 Trivia
 References
 Site Navigation

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Appearance
Santana looks like a tall and muscular man possessing long, fair hair and two small horns
at the top of his head. His only clothing is a small loincloth. He has a painted or tattooed
symbol on his right lower eyelid shaped like a gear.

Personality
Santana is, like his brethren, violent, and aloof. Also, like the other Pillar Men, he is shown
to be very intelligent, capable of disassembling weapons far ahead of his time, and of
learning other languages from only moments of exposure to them. It is implied by Kars that
his role in his group as a guard dog was to keep the power of the Stone Mask a secret from
future generations of humans.
Santana initially has a detached attitude toward everything around him, not caring for the
humans and calmly escaping his prison. When he's exposed to Joseph's Ripple for the first
time, Santana remains unfazed and experiments with it a little. Even when exposed to
sunlight, Santana kept calm and used Stroheim as a shield against it.

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Like all Pillar Men, Santana is dismissive of humans, comparing them to primitive animals.
When Joseph exasperated him with his antics, he lost his calm and began to insult him. He
began to threaten Joseph when he tried to impede his escape and only felt true fear when
he was turned to stone by the sun.

Abilities
As a Pillar Man, Santana is capable of performing the most basic abilities of one. While
much younger and not as experienced, Santana has demonstrated several techniques
similar to ones used by those in Kars' group, as well as some of his own.
 Enhanced Sensory: As an advanced being, Santana's senses are much higher
than that of a human. During his initial emergence from the pillar, he was seen using
his nose to scout out the area.
 Advanced Intelligence: Santana possesses a higher form of intelligence and is
able to figure out most things simply by studying them for a brief moment. Given a
short amount of time, Santana can quickly learn and become fluent in any language,
and was able to dismantle a gun almost instantly, a feat which would have taken
several hours for a trained soldier to learn.
 Body Manipulation: As with all pillar men, Santana is capable of freely
manipulating his body structure. Doing so allows him to fit into small spaces such as
sliding through the grate of an air vent or the orifice of a human body and thus
controlling them from the inside. Because the properties of his body are much like
"rubber" as Joseph puts it, his body, including typically human vital areas such as his
eyes or groin, tends to absorb attacks and can freely phase through objects, as well
as shoot objects he just absorbed, like bullets.
 Absorption: The cells that constitute Santana's body release a potent
digestive acid that melts anything organic on physical contact while making it
appear that Santana is absorbing his victim into his body. Santana also
displayed this ability through forcing himself into a person's body, controlling
their movement while gradually eating them from the inside-out. Only those who
use Ripple are immune as the cells recognize the threat the energy poses to
them. Due to the psychoactive toxin produced by the Pillar Man's cells during
this process, those whose bodies are invaded by Santana describe the
sensation as wonderful.
 Ribs Blades (リブス・ブレード Ribusu Burēdo, also called Open Ribs 露
骨な肋骨 Rokotsu na Rokkotsu): Santana is able to control his ribs, each of
them capable of spinning and moving in any direction. Having a maximum
length of 132 cm and a maximum pressure of 825 kg/cm², Santana can use

them to either crush or impale his opponents.

Rib Blades
 Meat Invade (ミート・インベイド Mīto Inbeido, also called Malevolent Meat
Morsels 憎き肉片 Nikku ki Niku-hen): Aside from the standard method of absorbing
humans or vampires via his body, Santana can release chunks of his flesh in the
shape of leeches, which latch onto and absorb his opponent's blood.

History
Background
Santana resting in the pillar
Santana was born about 8,000 BC ago. Santana had originally lived in Mexico with the
other Pillar Men. After Kars' rampage and slaughter of the Pillar Man race, the child
Santana, along with Wamuu, were adopted and trained by Kars and Esidisi. He was later
left behind in Mexico by Kars, who deemed him only useful as a guard dog, while he and
the others left for the old world to find a flawless Red Stone of Aja.[2] As a result, Santana
would be unaware of the energy called Ripple which the other Pillar Men learned and
developed defenses against. Eventually, claiming that it is because he used too much
power, Santana entered a deep rest by fusing himself into a pillar within a temple that was
one of the proponents for Kars' Stone Mask project.
Battle Tendency

Santana absorbing a vampire

Santana is discovered in a Mexican pyramid in 1938 by an expedition team led by Robert
E. O. Speedwagon that is later betrayed by Straizo. However, Straizo notices that Santana
had been absorbing the spilled blood and to prevent Santana from awakening, dumps the
bodies of the men he attacked into a nearby river. Santana is then excavated and studied
by a team of Nazis in an underground base. The team, led by Major Rudol von Stroheim,
conducts live human experiments with the Stone Mask in order to try to strengthen the Nazi
Army. The blood from multiple prisoners causes the Pillar Man to awaken, Stroheim
naming the being "Santana" while he and the rest observe him. When one of the vampires
created is brought into the chamber, Santana allows the creature to attack so he could
absorb the vampire and gain nourishment. Despite the Nazi's initial opinion that he was a
dim-witted savage rather than an Übermensch, Santana catches everyone off guard further
by uttering Stroheim's full name once he finished his meal.

Santana, sensing hostility within the iron, fortified room, breaks many of his own bones in
order to squeeze himself into the 4-by-20cm ventilation outlet of the room, doing so at a
speed faster than human eyes can perceive. By the time Stroheim realized what occurred,
Santana reached the observation room while entering the body of a German who was too
close to the vent. After absorbing the host and getting shot at, Santana fires the bullets
inside his body from his fingertips, killing almost everyone in the room. Joseph
Joestar (disguised as a Nazi) protects Speedwagon, Stroheim, and himself from Santana's
attack by channeling the Ripple into Stroheim's hair and using it to shield them.
Santana fights against Joseph
Toying with the Pillar Man, Joseph assumed Santana killed the Nazis out of self-defense
before being attacked. Santana, expressing annoyance at Joseph's antics, realized he
could not absorb the human and attempted to do the same with Speedwagon out of
assessment. This enrages Joseph as both learn that ripple was preventing Santana's cells
from digesting him. Using this to his advantage, Joseph allows himself to be absorbed by
Santana and then unleashes the ripple from the inside, splitting the Pillar Man in half. As
Santana's body begins to regenerate, his torso is dragged by Joseph to be exposed to
sunlight and turn into stone again. After a struggle involving Stroheim sacrificing one of his
legs, the door to the outside is open and a fully regenerated Santana is exposed to the
light. But the Pillar man quickly forces himself into Stroheim's body in order to escape the
sun while attempting to hide in a well, forcing the Nazi to sacrifice himself to leave Santana
into the open.

Santana kept under watch in the Speedwagon Foundation.

Desperate, Santana charges Joseph as the two go flying down the well. Santana realizes
too late that Joseph allowed him to enter the well as it was exposed to the sun's reflection,
turning the Pillar Man back to stone with some damage caused by the fall. Santana's
remains were later taken to the Washington branch of Speedwagon Foundation, the Pillar
Man kept immobile by UV lights and revealed to still be alive. Santana's ultimate fate is
never addressed.

Major Battles
 Santana Vs Unnamed Vampire
 Santana Vs Nazi Soldiers
 Santana Vs Joseph Joestar & Rudol von Stroheim
  Santana Vs Joseph Joestar

Chapters / Episodes
Manga Appearances
Chapters in order of appearance
 Chapter 46: "Joseph Joestar of New York, Part 2"
 Chapter 48: "Straizo VS Joseph, Part 1"
 Chapter 52: "Straizo VS Joseph, Part 5"
 Chapter 53: "The Pillar Man"
 Chapter 54: "The Pillar Man, Santana, Part 1"
 Chapter 55: "The Pillar Man, Santana, Part 2"
 Chapter 56: "The Pillar Man, Santana, Part 3"
 Chapter 57: "The Pillar Man, Santana, Part 4"
 Chapter 58: "The Pillar Man, Santana, Part 5"
 Chapter 59: "The Pillar Man, Santana, Part 6"
 Chapter 60: "The Pillar Man, Santana, Part 7"
 Chapter 61: "The Pillar Man, Santana, Part 8" (Incapacitated)
 Chapter 62: "The Pillar Man, Santana, Part 9" (Mentioned only)
 Chapter 63: "Joseph Joestar of Rome" (Mentioned only)
 Chapter 64: "The Red Stone of Aja" (Mentioned only)
 Chapter 66: "Ultimate Warriors from Ancient Times, Part 2" (Mentioned only)
 Chapter 67: "Ultimate Warriors from Ancient Times, Part 3" (Mentioned only)
 Chapter 68: "Ultimate Warriors from Ancient Times, Part 4" (Mentioned only)
 Chapter 80: "Flame Mode Esidisi, Part 3" (Mentioned only)
 Chapter 85: "Stroheim's Unit Strikes Back, Part 3" (Mentioned only)
 Chapter 86: "Light Mode Kars, Part 1" (Mentioned only)
 Chapter 112: "The Man Who Became a God" (Appears in flashback(s))
Anime Appearances
Episodes in order of appearance
 Part 1
 Part 2
 Episode 9: "The Final Ripple!" (Stone)

Video Games
Famicom Jump: Hero Retsuden (NES)
Santana appears as a Boss in Area 4. The player faces him in a one-on-one battle using
only Joseph Joestar. 
Due to the game's release date, Part 2 had only reached prior to Esidisi's battle against
Joseph. Thus, only Santana and Esidisi appear as the enemies faced during the JoJo's
Bizarre Adventure part of the game, instead of Kars or Wamuu.
All Star Battle (PS3)
Santana is briefly mentioned during the dialogue in Part 2's Story Mode. For the Western
version of the game, he was renamed "Santviento" to match the Crunchyroll subs. Initially,
his name was "San Tan" in some press releases.
Stardust Shooters (Android/iOS)
Santana is one of the several Part 2 characters who possesses a Metal Striker for the
game. His Finish move has him fire bullets from his fingertips at the defeated opponent
(similar to his retaliation against the Nazis), and his second special ability allows him to
counterattack any Metal Striker enemy who attacks him by using his Rib Blades.

Diamond Records (Android/iOS)

Santana makes his first playable appearance in Diamond Records. He was the first Pillar
Man to be released for the mobile app. His 3☆ and 5☆ variants are both Courage type,
meaning that they can buff their defense and knockback resistance under certain
situations. He also has two 4☆ variants, with one being the aforementioned Courage type,
and the other being Solitary, a type that steals HP and stats from teammates. He is the only
Pillar Man to have two 4☆ variants, and the only Pillar Man bar Wamuu with a 4☆ or 3☆
variant.

Santana's Rib Blades make an appearance as a usable skill along with an ability that lets
him shoot bullets out of his fingers. His 5☆ statue has a special move where he enters the
opponents body, dealing damage to his opponent and restoring his HP. All of Santana's
forms are notably HP-focused with the exception of his Solitary 4☆, which is more Defense-
focused.