Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap (2024)

Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap, often shortened to D4C, is the Stand of Funny Valentine featured in Steel Ball Run.

Valentine awakened his Stand after coming in contact with the Saint's Corpse's heart within the Devil's Palm. It has the power to transfer between parallel dimensions. In the novel JORGE JOESTAR, Kars awakens an enhanced version of the Stand known as Ultimate D4C.

It evolves into D4C Love Train as a blessing from the Saint's Corpse, which gives it the ability to deflect bad fortune away from its user.

Physical Appearance[]

D4C is a humanoid Stand with light blue skin and pink highlights. It has a stitched-up mouth and blank eyes and has long pointy ears like a rabbit.

As Love Train the "mask" on his face and the ears disappear, and he has ruffles around his neck that poke out on all sides.

Design Variants[]

In JORGE JOESTAR, Kars uses an enhanced version of the Stand that appears with longer ears that curve towards its head.

In Ball Breaker, Part 1, under the effects of Gyro's Stand ability, D4C begins to age as it is hit with the Steel Ball. Half of his face is destroyed.

In Break My Heart, Break Your Heart, Part 1, D4C is punched by Tusk ACT4 and his right eye is broken.

In Break My Heart, Break Your Heart, Part 2, D4C is under the affects of Tusk ACT4 and begins spinning infinitely, looking like he's been sliced into many different layers.

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Powers and Abilities[]

Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap[]

With his Stand, Valentine is able to merge alternate realities together, and move in between them. With this ability he is able to venture into alternate dimensions and bring AU counterparts of other people into the "base" world.

• Dimension Hop: Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap allows different parallel worlds/dimensions to co-exist at the same time and/or in the same place. It also allows its user to visit these parallel worlds/dimensions and interact with them. Valentine travels by being closed between two objects, shown first by putting himself between a chair and the ground. Liquid materials, such as water count as objects as well, and even dust or steam. Valentine only needs an infinitesimal part of himself put between two objects to be able to hop between dimensions. Following that, Valentine may reappear from anywhere, like emerging from someone's back, presumably by affecting objects in a neighboring dimension. One of the early facets of this power was that Valentine was impervious to projectiles as the hit body part would transform simply into a hole, however, this was then left out after its initial usage.
• Body Replacement: If Funny Valentine is injured, he can hop into another dimension and transfer his D4C to this world's Valentine. Said Valentine acquires the memory of the previous Valentine and becomes the 'Root Valentine' by virtue of now possessing the Stand, but his consciousness remains different from that of the previous owner. Nevertheless, since each Valentine is dedicated to gathering the Corpse Parts and has the same personality, the differences are unnoticeable. Furthermore, he can summon any number of alternate selves to a target dimension in order to outnumber his opponents. These Valentines do not have D4C's of their own however, this Stand seemingly being wholly unique to the 'Root World', the single universe where the Corpse resides.
• Spatial Viewing: During early chapters, people were somehow able to see into different dimensions from different angles, but this property is never expanded on.

D4C: Love Train[]

After retrieving the entire Saint's Corpse, D4C unlocks a new ability, Love Train. With this ability he is able to deflect any misfortune from him into other people throughout the world.

• Misfortune Redirecting: While Love Train is active, Valentine becomes effectively invincible, hiding within a pocket dimension (also described as a gap in space) delimited by a wall of light that follows him. The wall of light, originating from Lucy's body, has the ability to redirect all misfortune that comes in Valentine's way, leaving only good fortune. The harmful energy that passes through the wall of light is sent far away from the user and is passed onto individuals anywhere on Earth as bad luck. For instance, Johnny's imperfect nail shots could be canceled and the harm manifesting as fatal accident throughout the world. Because Valentine can manipulate the form of the pocket dimension as he sees fit, it can allow him to seemingly stand midair, glide at high speeds or flatten himself. It is shown when he pursues Johnny and Gyro under the train tracks, and across a grassy field.

Appearances[]

JORGE JOESTAR[]

• Chapter 16: Beyond II

Part 7: Steel Ball Run[]

Notes[]

• Araki states that the rabbit ears come from wanting the Stand's silhouette to be completely different from the Stands of the previous main antagonists.
  • It's also similar to a rabbit because of Funny Valentine's magician motif.

• In the English localization of All-Star Battle, D4C is only referred to by the shorthand D4C, whilst the full phrase "Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap" is generally changed to a synonym phrase ("Time to perform some dishonest acts at a fair and reasonable price!"). The JoJo Glossary seemingly mocks this change by claiming that "No one knows what this mysterious abbreviation means".
• In Eyes of Heaven, it's explained that the Menger sponge-based dimension effect does not apply towards two versions of the same object or person if they are from the same timeline. This explains why two Joseph Joestars (both Part 2 and Part 3) can coexist and safely interact with each other. Two same people from alternate universes (but not parallel dimensions) are also shown to be capable of safely coexisting, such as Jonathan Joestar and his alternate universe counterpart.

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