Big Joe

Big Joe is a character from Xenogears. He appears multiple times throughout the game and he is an enemy in the Aveh Battle Tournament.

Appearance and Personality
Big Joe is a tall man with green hair and blue eyes. He has a tattoo of a pink star on his left cheek. He wears an elaborate pink outfit and a red heart necklace around his neck.

Big Joe is a rather goofy character that shouldn't be taken seriously. He has a high opinion of himself and loves to be praised by his fans.

Story arc
Despite the rather goofy nature of his character, Big Joe has an elaborate history as identified in Perfect Works and paperwork that can be found in the Lighthouse. Big Joe was a hero from the Zeboim era. He was known as the Stone Joker. He had a variety of talents, won many prizes, was a master of fighting techniques and was quite a caresser. He was almost as popular as the rock band Ravine. He was a former WWW Heavy Weight Champion as well as a hit movie star. He was a player in the NBA, won the Wimbledon Grandslam, the baseball triple crown and the pulitzer prize. However at an awards ceremony while heading to shake hands and accept an award, he slipped, hit his head and became brain damaged, thinking he was Elvis.

Joe was a wealthy man and rather than use his riches for charity spent it on remodeling his mansion (which included an interior amusement park and fast food shops) as well as rare animals, a movie block and a submarine. At the age of 29, he arranged to preserve his body and make clones, investing in cryonic facilities and frozen hibernation techniques. The scientists freezing Joe's body made a mistake and froze him too quickly. As such the thawing techniques were not sufficient to revive him and he was left frozen for thousands of years. The people were sad at losing him and held a great funeral for him.

Zeboim would eventually be destroyed and Joe remained frozen for thousands of years. Approximately 4,000 years later the Ethos in excavating the Zeboim ruins found his frozen cryonic reactor. Not knowing what it was and believing it to be trash, they threw it into the ocean. The reactor would float along, eventually reaching the coast of the island where Billy would eventually build the Orphanage. There it was discovered by an 8 year old boy named Davy. Davy played with the device and ended up releasing the lock on the reactor. Joe emerged from the device in frozen condition. Through a miracle, the sand's heat woke Joe from his slumber. This scared Davy and the other boys playing and they fled from him. Joe dived into the ocean and swam all the way to the Ignas continent.

Upon reaching Ignas, Joe wandered around and in trying to recover his former glory he would start running a shop, which he operated in some Zeboim ruins, the Lighthouse. Discounting the 4,000 years that he was frozen, Joe is currently 36 years old.

Joe is encountered by the party at various places throughout the world during the game. He can first be found in the town of Dazil. Fei later fights him in one of the rounds of the Aveh Battle Tournament. He is also found at one point locked up in the Ethos Headquarters.

As a boss

 * Big Joe (boss)