George Joestar II (Steel Ball Run)

George is a mature, slightly heavyset man of average height, his dark hair kept in a plain cut above a small mustache. With the passing years, that hair turns grey.

A celebrated horse trainer, George was a rigid and demanding father. He once forbade a young Johnny from bringing a pet mouse to the dinner table, then had the animal drowned and displayed to him, and his fixation on British respectability made him severe about gentlemanly conduct. The death of his elder son Nicholas hollowed him out; by Johnny's account he spent seven years exalting Nicholas' gifts while belittling his younger son's own. Their bitterness peaked in a clash over Nicholas' riding boots, during which Johnny gashed his father's neck against a glass cabinet, and George, wounded, cried that God had claimed the wrong son. Only much later does he soften, reaching out with genuine remorse and pride.

George descends from a family whose aristocratic standing had crumbled, yet he rebuilds its fortune as a horse racer and breeder, claiming the Triple Crown on seven separate occasions and holding several farms outfitted for raising thoroughbreds. Settled in Danville, Kentucky, he travels regularly to England with his family. He hails a five year old Johnny as a genius upon the boy's first ride, but the warmth curdles as he lavishes favor on Nicholas. After Nicholas dies, George turns his grief into resentment, blaming Johnny and finally abandoning him, never once visiting even after Johnny's spine is broken.

Reconciliation comes only at the close of the Steel Ball Run, when George appears at the New York finish bearing Nicholas' boots. Before the watching crowd he confesses his cruelty and voices his pride in Johnny's crossing of the continent, drawing applause as he weeps and his son rides onward.