In the anime, his feelings of guilt were removed as he was replaced with another caretaker during Danny's funeral scene. The butler later appears to bring George Joestar tea, as well as his medicine afterwards.
Dio offers to bring the medicine up to George instead, but Jonathan confronts him asking whether he's poisoned it. Jonathan soon declares that George should only accept medicine from a few trusted doctors who Jonathan brought over. This causes the butler to feel ashamed, crying that Jonathan doesn't trust him and the other caretakers to nurse George to good health. George calms down the butler, saying he doesn't know his son's reasons but he trusts him so they should follow his wish. Two adult bullies of Poco drag him back to the graveyard in Windknight's Lot after he tells them he saw ghosts of the dead knights. The bald man says he won't be fooled anymore because he believed Poco last time he was told that rabbit droppings were good for stomachaches. His friend threatens to tie Poco up and have him swing over the graveyard by a rope. As Poco cries out that they'll kill him, the bald man tells him to shut up and punches him. As they laugh at how scared he is, one of them steps on something strangely "elastic" before recognizing a face. Frightened at the mangled faces of corpses mashed together, they realize Poco was telling the truth. They are immediately greeted by Tarkus and flee, leaving Poco to die by the "monster". Jonathan saves Poco, but Tarkus grabs the two bullies by their feet. He crushes them with his grip and wrings them together like laundry until their flesh comes off, drinking their blood as it lands in his mouth. Later, Poco recalls being bullied by teenagers who tease him and push him around for not looking at their faces. In the manga, one even tries to burn him with his cigarette. When Poco's Sister shows up to confront them, they flee out of fear.Ī group of criminals that hijacked Robert E. Speedwagon's plane in an attempt to abduct him for his money. Wary of rumors of Speedwagon's toughness despite his age, they knock him down and list their demands. One of the men states that their two goals are a million dollar ransom from the Speedwagon Foundation and for Speedwagon to die along with his company. His co-conspirator then threatens a young Joseph Joestar who is sitting in the back reading a comic book to come up to the front. Joseph ignores him saying it's Speedwagon's problem and has nothing to do with him, but this enrages the man. He slams the back of his gun into Joseph's face and orders the pilot to fly to Liverpool. Joseph is outraged when his blood gets on the clothes that Erina bought for him and knocks out the pilot with the Ripple in order to crash the plane.
The hijackers fall down when the plane suddenly descends. Frightened at Joseph's insanity, they order each other to take control of the plane but none of them know how. They presumably die when the plane crashes. Researchers employed at the Speedwagon Foundation who investigate the secrets of the Stone Masks. After Santana turns into stone from the battle against Joseph Joestar, Speedwagon and his researchers retrieve the Pillar Man's body before nightfall and bring it to their headquarters in Washington, D.C. They keep Santana's body covered in ultraviolet light, which mimics the sun's rays. As an experiment, they release a snake near Santana because snakes don't like being in the light and would head for the shade created by Santana's body. As the snake does so, it is quickly absorbed into Santana's body proving that the Pillar Man isn't dead.