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[[File:Jojo Logo.png|thumb|right|English logo for Jojo's Bizarre Adventure.]]
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If there is one thing you should know about Jojo's Bizzare Adventure before you delve into it, it should be this one thing:

It's dumb. ''It's so fucking dumb... And yet it works.''

While the the story varies wildly based on the arc, it has a basic synopsis. It covers the multi-generational (and eventually multiversial) heroism of the Joestar family, who are constantly getting involved in all sorts of weird shit that results in epic, crazy, surprisingly clever fights and super-manly scenes. The title comes because each generation's Joestar has a name starting with "JO", resulting in the familial nickname of "JoJo". Although technically you can just pick up any saga at random, it's slightly easier to follow along if you read from the beginning. ''Slightly''.

Starting in 1987 by manga artist Hirohiko Araki, Jojo has had an influence on not only Japanese anime and manga but internet culture as a whole. List a common anime trope, chances are that Jojo is either the proginator or made that theme very famous. Cheering sidekicks, multiple chapter battles, attacks that defy every conventional belief you can dream of, ''flamboyant poses,'' you name it. 

It's most well-known incarnation is probably Stardust Crusaders, mostly for how iconic Jotaro and Dio were as well as the popularity from the OVA and Dreamcast game

==JoJo and /tg/==
[[File:Pillarstodes.jpg|thumb|right|Wamuudes, Custodisi, and Karstodes; the personal guardians to the Emperor of Mankind.]]
JoJo is one of three anime/manga that /tg/ will openly admit they like, the other two being [[Berserk]] and [[Fist of the North Star]]. Hell, the early art style of JoJo is heavily inspired by FotNS, even Jonathan's outfit being very similar to Kenshiro's. Like the two aforementioned manga, JoJo is considered the to be an extremely manly series, with a predominantly male cast and the protagonists usually kicking ass to get to their objective without much thinking. However, at the same time it is flamboyantly gay, with many male characters being shirtless or wearing revealing clothing and striking strange/fabulous poses, making its relationship with /tg/ somewhat confusing and [[skub|conflicted]] considering that /tg/ usually shies away from most stuff that is  homosexual. One could say it's because it's like a breath of fresh air how silly it is, or the end goal of each arc is ultimately pretty simple; protagonist has to beat the shit out of and/or kill the big bad, end of story. The tone of any arc can change in an instant, becoming dumb and happy to dire and [[grimdark]] within a couple chapters. It's also because the action is often to awesome that fa/tg/uys turn a blind eye to the gay stuff. Or we just love it that way, since that's mostly what made JoJo popular in the first place.

Plus Araki puts ''scads'' of references to classic rock and metal into Jojo, so that helps too. 

We've had several Quest threads on /tg/ that relate to JoJo, the most popular being the multi-part [http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive.html?tags=JoJo%20Guardsman%20Quest| Guardsman's Bizarre Adventure]. 

The /tg/ interpretation of the [[Eversor]] Assassin is pretty much Dio Brando, down to him striking his trademark pose and crying "WRYYYY" before proceeding to cut up whatever enemy is in his way.

Probably the most popular /tg/-JoJo relation, however, comes in the form of the YouTuber Bruva Alfabusa's "[[If the Emperor had a Text-to-Speech Device]]" series, where he makes several references to JoJo throughout the series. The most popular reference is definitely the [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9w_uoUHgiE| Pillarstodes]; Adeptus Custodes based on the Pillar Men from Battle Tendency. This actually isn't that far off the mark since there is in fact official (albeit old) art of shirtless Custodes. Still, the Pillarstodes are quite flamboyant and hedonistic, but nonetheless they're also kickass.

It wouldn't be surprising if Hirohiko Araki himself was a fa/tg/uy himself. He's mentioned in some lectures and interviews that he decided to create an RPG/board game-style system for JoJo where characters travel to different places to fight enemies, as seen in Stardust Crusaders and onward.

==Generation Sagas==
===Part 1: Phantom Blood===
[[File:Phantom Blood.jpeg||thumb|right|150px|''Phantom Blood'' cover]]
Here's where it all begins. A Victorian Aristocrat in the 1880s named George Joestar is the only survivor of a horrible carriage crash. Mistaking the depraved scavenger Dario Brando as a Good Samaritan who tried to help him, he offers the Cockney lowlife a favor, to be called in whenever Dario wishes. Eventually, Dario dies, but sends his son - the ruthlessly ambitious, amoral and driven Dio Brando - to live at the Joestars, calling in his favor to get George to adopt the lad. This leads to much suffering for George's actual son, the goodhearted - if rather dimwitted - Jonathan Joestar, as Dio wants JoJo's place and starts to bully him horribly. Even ''burning his fucking dog alive'' just to get back at him! This all comes to a boil when it turns out he's poisoning George, a confrontation that leads to him using a mysterious stone mask to become a vampire. So, with the aid of mysterious vampire-killing martial artist, Baron Zeppelli, Jonathon masters the art of Ripple/Hamon, a mystical breath-controlled martial art that wields energy anathema to vampires. Jonathon eventually decapitates Dio, and all is well, right? ...Wrong! Whilst Jonathon is on his honeymoon, Dio's head shows up with his last remaining zombie minion, leading to Jonathon dying as Dio cuts off Jonathon's head in hopes of merging with his enemy's body, before the ship they're on sinks. Luckily, Jonathon's pregnant wife escapes.

===Part 2: Battle Tendency===
[[File: Battle Tendency.jpeg|thumb|right|150px|''Battle Tendency'' cover]]
In the late 1930s, Joseph Joestar, grandson of Jonathon Joestar, is the second Joestar to get into strife when the mysterious Pillar Men awaken. These ungodly ancient (and ''fabulous'') abominations created the vampirising stone masks as part of a process to find a way around their own pesky weakness to sunlight. The fact vampires taste even nicer than humans was a nifty bonus. Notable events include a hammy [[Nazi]] cyborg as one of the good guys and a final battle that ''starts'' in an erupting volcano, then ends with them riding a chunk of rock into the atmosphere after the volcano blows its top. Until the middle of the arc there was no real plot, for the most part it was Joseph simply fucking around and beating the shit out of/fooling every minor villain he came by. Everything from the aforementioned Pillar Men, the Nazis, this installment's trick-happy Jojo, and probably the dumbest poses in the series certainly makes this the most outright silly arc of Jojo, and that right there is an accomplishment.

===Part 3: Stardust Crusaders===
[[File:Stardust Crusaders.jpeg|thumb|left|150px|''Stardust Crusaders'' cover]]
In the 1980s, half-Japanese Jotaro Kujo takes up the role of hero when Dio Brando comes back, having assimilated Jonathan Joestar's body as his own. In doing so, he forsakes his former vampire powers and unlocks a new kind of power, strange psionic abilities called Stands. This causes a chain reaction that unlocks Stands around the world, and leads to Stands replacing Hamon as the super-power of choice in all subsequent generations. Now Jotaro, alongside an aged Joseph and a motley crew of <s>faggots</s> manly men must fight Dio and his practical army of Stand users. 

This is by far the most well known and iconic part of Jojo, with the introduction of Stands being very well received and all the crazy shenanigans that come with them. Not only does it have two anime adaptations (whereas Part 1 only has one anime, an unreleased movie, and a videogame and Part 2 only has an anime), but it also has a two video games (one RPG for the SNES, one arcade fighting game by Capcom).

===Part 4: Diamond is Unbreakable===
[[File:Diamond is Unbreakable.jpeg|right|thumb|175px|''Diamond is Unbreakable'' cover]]
It's the year 1999 in a Japanese suburb of Morioh. High Schooler Josuke Higashikata runs into a slightly-older Jotaro and Josuke learns that a) Jotaro's his nephew despite being ten years older and that old ass Joseph is his father,  b) Stands exist, and c) there's a serial killer on the loose. 

From there spans a rather loosely-assembled journey involving protecting his town from enemy stand users and befriending some of the people he beats up (including thugs and a seriously arrogant manga artist). There isn't really even a central arc until halfway-in, when Josuke figures out that Kira has a stand. For the most part, it is a mystery with the main cast trying to discover the identity of the aforementioned serial killer rampaging through their town and build up to the third act. Overall a very enjoyable arc, albeit subpar compared to Part 3 since the other protagonists besides Josuke are somewhat lacking, not to mention Jotaro stealing some of his thunder. Noted for being Araki's personal favorite arc to write and marking the shift in his art style from bulky and masculine  to more defined and detailed but flamboyant and feminine.

===Part 5: Vento Aureo===
It's Italy in 2001. Giorno Giovanna (the son of Dio using Jonathan's body, though Giorno never knows this) is a kid with aspirations of becoming a "Gang Star" (What this means isn't very clear) with the help of his stand, "Gold Experience". After accidentally killing a gangster, Giorno finds himself immersed in the world of the mafia and eventually becomes a member of "Passione", where he joins his team. With this team, they go and accomplish missions at the behest of a fat bastard (who eventually dies), and later come under the eye of their organization's boss, who wants them to bring back a girl named Trisha.

Once they bring her to the appointed location,  they realize that the boss wanted to kill Trisha, which leads to Giorno and the team defecting from the organization and finding out who the boss is and how to defeat him. While it's still strange in typical JoJo fashion, it's often weird for the sake of being weird rather than for cartoony fun or silliness. That combined with a shoddy plot and boring protagonists makes this a somewhat mediocre arc.

===Part 6: Stone Ocean===
Jolyne Kujo was arrested for a crime she didn't commit (though she did have legitimate priors) in 2015 and is then sent to Green Dolphin Street, a maximum-security prison in Florida. Though her dad Jotaro couldn't bail her out, he did give a small locket (containing a fragment of a Stand Arrow), giving her the chance to develop a stand in order for her to survive this prison and get to the bottom of the conspiracy surrounding this prison.

===Part 7: Steel Ball Run===
The timeline resets to the 1800's.
In this alternate universe, quadraplegic ex-jockey Johnny Joestar and Italian executioner Gyro Zeppeli cross paths and decide, for better or for worse, to partner up and participate in the Steel Ball Run, a race that spans the breadth of the United States as a test of endurance for both horse and rider (except for that one dude who just ran the whole way. He manages to make it pretty far). Along the way, they uncover the real purpose of the race when they become entangled with the Parts of the Saint's Corpse, which bestow its owner with incredible power.

As it turns out, the reason the race was even held was because President Funny Valentine wanted to own the complete Corpse, using the race and its participants as pawns in order to accomplish this goal. Though his goals are ultimately altruistic in their outlook, Johnny and Gyro still oppose this plan because it requires that only America prospers, while everything else is stuck struggling.

===Part 8: JoJolion===
We're back in Morioh, but not as we know it.

It's some years after SBR, and Morioh was recently wracked with terrible earthquakes which make these creepy images on the ground that gets ripped up. Unfortunate girl Yasuho Hirose discovers a body among the mess and rescues him. Though he's got no memories and is quirky almost to the point of stupidity, she decides to help the amnesiac 'Josuke' discover his real identity.

==Characters==

===The Joestars===

====Jonathan Joestar (Part 1)====
[[File: Jonathan JoJo.png|thumb|right|175px| Holy shit, you could grate cheese on those abs.]]
Jonathan is pretty much the archetypal gentleman: Well-mannered, intelligent, and damned determined to protect that which he values. That last part he kinda develops after getting mercilessly bullied by Dio in their childhood and eventually lashes out.
He then learns about the Ripple after nearly dying in an incident that sees his father dead, Dio turned into a vampire, and the entire Joestar estate burned to the ground. By joining Will Zeppeli and the persistent Speedwagon, he learns about the powers of the Stone Mask, how the Ripple is meant to counter it, and what it means to fight. And using that, he seemingly kills Dio.

Skip a bit and Jonathan gets married to Erina Pendleton (a girl he's had a thing for since the beginning), and they go on a honeymoon cruise which goes horribly wrong because Dio's severed head got in with a zombie. Jonathan sacrifices himself to stop Dio from returning to the surface and let Erina escape with an orphaned baby.
And then his head gets replaced with Dio's.

Sucks to be him.

====Joseph Joestar (Part 2, 3, and 4)====
[[File: Joseph JoJo.jpeg|thumb|left| For context, he's peeping on a woman through the keyhole... We've come a long way.]]
Whereas his grandfather Jonathan is a gentleman, Joseph is a good-natured but impulsive punk.

Though he doesn't know a lot about fighting, Joseph compensates by being a dirty cheat, not being above even ''dressing up as a woman'' (and poorly might we add). Even though he eventually learns about the Ripple by Lisa Lisa, he still keeps his aptitude for improvising, being able to use nets and ball clackers as weapons to defeat enemies. He even resorts to kamikaze-ing an immortal vampire god into an active volcano, losing his hand in the process, but doesn't care because it fucking worked.

Unlike his granddad, Joseph manages to survive his battle with the half-naked Aztec vampire demigods and eventually builds his own family, marrying the incredibly sexy but also incredibly stupid (seriously, his family thought he was dead because ''she forgot to tell them she was nursing him back to health'') Susie Q. By the time Part 3 rolls around, Joseph's already in his 70's, looks close to it due to slacking off in his Hamon training after having beaten the Pillar Men, and is a real estate tycoon. Here, he develops the stand "Hermit Purple", a bunch of purple vines that let him read the future somewhat by interfacing with cameras and TV's and can conduct the Ripple (which he doesn't use as much after Part 2 because, as said above, he's a slacker who let his skills get rusty). He still is a bit of a trickster, using dirt and tar to defeat one stand and another stand's abilities against its' wielder.

He returns yet again in Part 4, but it's clear that time hasn't been good to him, as he's pretty much unable to do anything. Regardless, he tries (key word "tries") to help Josuke (his illegitimate son) and Jotaro in dealing with an orphaned baby and the Stand Arrow.

====Jotaro Kujo (Part 3, 4, and 6)====
[[File: Jotaro JoJo.png|thumb|right|"My Stand will judge you!"]]
Grandson of Joseph, and the son of a virtually nonexistent jazz player and a housewife (Holly).

Jotaro's stand is essentially what kicks off Part 3, as he locks himself up in a local jail because he has no clue what the hell it even is. After Joseph and Avdol convince him that it's not some [[Daemonhost|unholy possession]], Jotaro then joins along in an adventure which sees him travel the world and punch the fuck out of a lot of people. While less flamboyant than his grandfather, he's every bit as clever as he uses his unflappable demeanor to bluff his way out of numerous life-or-death encounters.

His stand, "Star Platinum" is a blue-ish muscleman with long hair with so many powers it becomes pretty clear how much of a protagonist he is: Punching shit really fast, a stretchy finger, the ability to pick out tiny details with precision, and (eventually) the power to stop time.

Part 4 sees him help out Josuke with taking care of stand business on behalf of the Speedwagon Foundation, but otherwise standing back to do other stuff. That said, he's still just as powerful, even moreso because he finally mastered the ability to stop time itself.

He returns again in Part 6 after finding out that the jail where his daughter is being held has its own issues with stands, and that Pucci has plans that involve Dio. At this point it becomes clear what his flaws are, as it's revealed that while he is a badass, he's also pretty useless in anything not involving being a protagonist, like being a dad.

====Josuke Higashikata(Part 4)====
[[File: Josuke JoJo.jpeg|thumb|Left|150px|upright=0.56|Never seen such <s>faggotry</s> [[awesome|awesomeness]] in my life]]
The big shocker here: His father is Joseph Joestar. This in itself is pretty damn scary, as the old man was able to still get kids, though this isn't without consequence. As such, he lives with his mom and grandfather (a policeman). Then he runs into Jotaro and things go very... Bizarre.

Josuke is a bit of a goof like his dad, and sports serious pride in his pompadour to the point that he'll beat the shit out of someone for dissing it. On the flip side, one could say that he's too nice for his own good and his desire to be kind can sometimes put him in bad situations, though he's certainly not [[Lawful Stupid]]. His stand, "Crazy Diamond", is able to punch things really fast and restore things that were broken if he knows how they work, a power that could be seriously powerful if he puts his mind to it. However, this is incapable of bringing back the dead, and if he uses this power when mad, things get messed up. This often happens when enemies make fun of his <s>dumbass pompadour.</s> <span style='color:blue;font-size:100%'>THE FUCK DID YOU SAY ABOUT MY HAIR?!</span>

====Giorno Giovanna (Part 5)====
[[File:Giorno JoJo.jpeg|thumb|left|175px|Trust us, this is as much personality as he gets.]]
The son of Dio using Jonathan's body, making his legitimacy as a Joestar up to debate.

His personality is rather...unremarkable, and as such it's up to the other guys to really add to the story while Giorno is something of a plot device.  Which is a damn shame, consider he is literally the son of Dio and he could've been a very interesting character. The fact that his stand, "Gold Experience", has some really bullshit powers doesn't help either. To iterate, his stand can imbue inatimate objects with life (like turning suitcases into frogs or bullets into trees or buttons into FUCKING HANDS) with no respect to conservation of mass and, like "Crazy Diamond" above, reattach them. Similarly, this power isn't able to resurrect the dead. He also has the power to rapidly accelerate the thought process of something he punches, though this is only brought up once and then never seen again.

At the end of the arc, it becomes even more bullshit as Giorno gains another ability atop all the others: The ability to "reset any action to zero". What this means in layman's terms is that he can nullify anything that happens to him, which ''just happens'' to counter Diavolo's powers. This also means that he can reset Diavolo's death, making a rather horrifying cycle of just dying before coming back to life...just to die again.

====Jolyne (Part 6)====
[[File: Jolyne JoJo.jpeg|thumb|left|175px|Doesn't matter that she has masculine facial features, she's still hot.]]
Daughter of Jotaro Kujo, the only female Joestar to bear the nickname "JoJo" thus far, though she beats the shit out of anyone who calls her by her nickname. She's essentially her ancestor Joseph if all his bad traits were pushed up a couple of notches, making for a hot-blooded, rebellious, foul-mouthed, quick-tempered pervert. Seriously, we first see her when a prison guard catches her masturbating in her cell, and at one point she confesses to envying/admiring snails since, as [[dickgirl|hermaphrodites]], they can fuck anything and everything they cross paths with. She's got a huge anti-authoritarian streak, and at first, the series seems set on deconstructing the "Joestar Family Traits" and showing how they can make you an unlikeable prick who needlessly gets yourself into trouble. Luckily, the surfacing of the generation's big bad and her finding allies she can actually share her ''positive'' traits with quickly brings her back into line with being the hero.

She's either insanely lucky, or a lot smarter than she appears - which is good, because, on the surface of it, her Stand, "Stone Free", is one of the weakest, as it lets her turn her body partially or completely into string. Sounds lame, right? Wrong. She can do all sorts of shit with that string, from spying on people by using it to catch sounds to tying people up to making stitches to turning it into razor floss and reducing enemies to mincemeat. Also, because the Stand channels its powers through her body, she can use her powers ''and'' have Stone Free do its own thing at the same time, so she's got a giant ghost-buddy that will beat the shit out of you whilst she's snaring 'n' slicing with her string. She has extreme daddy issues with Jotaro, shitting on him until near the end of Stone Ocean. It is somewhat justified though, considering he abandoned her and her mother when she was young. Ultimately responsible for creating the Jojolion universe, although she technically doesn't survive long enough to do so; she just keeps Pucci, the big bad of her generation, at bay until Emporio does the final dirty work.

====Johnny (Part 7)====
[[File: Johnny JoJo.png|thumb|left|200px|Johnny is fun, even if he is hypocritical.]]
The JoJolion version of Jonathan from Part 1, Johnny is easily the most shit-on Joestar of them all. He was raised by a rich horse trainer and racer and pampered through his youth, kind of turning him into a spoiled brat. But later his older brother dies in a jockey accident that may or may not have been his fault, his father disowns him after telling him [[grimdark|"God has taken the wrong son",]] and later after cutting in front of a kid in line for a play, the kid ''pulls a gun and shoots him, paralyzing him from the waist down.'' Just to add sprinkles on this shit-fest his "friends" leave him and no one visits him in the hospital. 

Poor bastard.

After he leaves the hospital he meets Gyro Zeppili, and actually brightens up and becomes an overall better person, even if he doesn't win everything. His Stand "Tusk" enhances his powers of the Spin, allowing him to fire his fingernails like bullets... Don't ask how or why. He almost always rides a horse since he's a paraplegic, if Gyro isn't carrying him or he's not crawling.

====Josuke Higashikata (Part 8)====
Otherwise known as "That dude with four balls" and "Gappy the Gap-tooth Wonder"... Seriously, there isn't that much to note about him. He's the JoJolion version of Josuke from Part 4, but he is an amnesiac who's looking for his origins throughout Part 8. At first, he was thought to be Yoshikage Kira, but that was dispelled when a would-be assassin realizes that Kira, among other things, was an utter narcissist.

Oh, and as mentioned earlier, he has two pairs of balls. Connects to his past somehow, but it doesn't make it any less weird.

His Stand is "Soft & Wet", an incredibly stupid stand that manages to work because of the Jojo Logic. See, "Soft & Wet" works by using bubbles. When these bubbles pop, something can be taken away from the thing they touch, and the way this is used is rather insane. Pop on a floor, now the floor has no friction. Pop a person's skin, now the water drains out of the person's open pores like a goddamn sponge. He even manages to take away fucking sound from a wall to make sure nobody could hear it breaking!

===JoJo Allies (aka the "JoBros")===
Note: The allies are organized based on their originating part... because there are a ''assload'' of minor protagonists, and an increasingly large amount of minor villains.
====Part 1====
*'''Robert E.O. Speedwagon:''' Speedwagon is somewhat popular for being the only normal guy in a series about superpowered martial arts and vampires, with his only real "power" being his razor-sharp hat and big hammer. Also for the [[meme]] ''"Even Speedwagon is afraid!"'' (which wasn't even said by him). <br/> Despite being fairly average, he still manages to be good friend to Jonathan and Zeppeli. After Jonathan's death, he moves to America and becomes an oil tycoon. This business eventually becomes the Speedwagon Foundation, which is a vague organization dedicated to helping the Joestar family with things like Stands. Come Part 2, he's now an old man, and he gets kidnapped by Nazis because he knows something about a Pillar Man they discovered. Joseph bails them out and Speedwagon leads them to Italy, where they meet Caesar and Lisa Lisa. By this point, he kinda fades into the background, being an old man and all, and eventually passes away in the epilogue.

*'''William A. Zeppeli:''' First off, he has a fabulous hat. <br/> Second off, he was trained in the Ripple by a man named Tonpetti after his father and the ship he was in sinks because of the Stone Mask. having been trained by a master, he manages to pull some fine tricks like shooting disks of wine as weapons and stretching his arms to punch things. He then trains Jonathan after learning that the Stone Mask is still around. <br/> He eventually dies in a fight with Tarkus ([[Tarkus|the not awesome bald mehreen]]) where he literally gets split in half with a chain and then gives his last life's energy to power up Jonathan. This in itself begins the long line of close allies (usually Zeppelis) sacrificing themselves for Joestars.

====Part 2====
*'''Caesar Zeppeli''': Grandson of Baron Zeppeli. A student of Lisa Lisa, he has a major chip on his shoulder as he blames the Joestar family for his grandfather's death. However, he also blames himself for the accidental death of his father shortly after discovering the Pillar Men in Rome. As a Hamon user, he's more experienced, even adapting a unique bubble projectile attack. Caesar dies fighting Wamuu because he gets impatient and goes after the Pillar Men alone. He hates Joseph's guts at first, but under Lisa-Lisa the two become [[gork|total]] [[mork|bros]], fighting by each other's sides until his death. Since he's Italian, he's automatically makes women wet when he talks to them.

*'''Lisa Lisa''': Aka Elizabeth Joestar, Joseph's mother. She was forced to abandon Joseph and adopt a new identity when she discovered that her husband's murderer, who was also a top British military leader, was in fact a vampire, and killed him. She becomes the Hamon mentor for Caesar and Joseph, pushing them to their absolute limits to prepare for the Pillar Men. Lisa Lisa uses a special scarf that conducts Hamon in her fight against Kars. However, because Kars doesn't play fair, he nearly kills her and takes the Red Stone that she was guarding. Towards the end she tells Joseph that she's his mother... which, had she said so sooner, would've prevented him from spying on her bathing in an earlier scene. Considering she's aroun 40 years old, she's an absolute MILF since looks like she's only in her late-twenties.

*'''Baron Rudolf von Stroheim''':He's a fucking Nazi Cyborg. Just...just think about that. <br/> At first, he's considered an enemy for kidnapping old man Speedwagon and unwittingly releasing the Pillar Man Santana, but after seemingly dying, he appears out of nowhere as a cyborg with a fucking gun in his chest to help kill the other vampire gods. Again, he's a fucking Nazi Cyborg. For such a minor character, he has a seriously badass description. Also, he gets killed off at the end of World War 2 whilst singlehandedly covering the retreat of Nazi forces from the Soviet invasion of Berlin.

====Part 3====
*'''Muhammad Avdol''': An Egyptian fortune teller and expert on Stands. His stand is Magician's Red, which uses fire-based attacks. Avdol is a close friend of Joseph, and helps explain Stands to Jotaro. He's a no-nonsense character who uses his knowledge of the other Stands to great effect. Halfway into Part 3, Avdol is seemingly killed by one of Dio's assassins, but is spared thanks to the wound only grazing him. He uses his faked death to purchase some safe transportation for the team (which ended up being boarded by another assassin anyways). Avdol is killed off for real by Vanilla Ice's void. Props to Araki for not making him a Middle-Eastern stereotype, considering Stardust Crusaders came out around 1989.

*'''Noriaki Kakyoin''': A Japanese Student from the same school as Jotaro. His stand is Heirophant Green; its main attack is an emerald projectile shower, but he can also extend its whole body into coils that stretch long distances, as well as enter very small spaces. At first he's being mind controlled by Dio through a flesh bud and attacks Jotaro, but the latter manages to subdue him and even remove his flesh bud in an extremely risky impromptu surgery. In a show of gratitude, Kakyoin joins Jotaro's team, having found kinship in the other Stand users. In the final battle against Dio, Kakyoin is killed, but not before figuring out Dio's power and conveying the message to Joseph.  That's right, Kakyoin is Jotaro's Zeppeli.

*'''Jean Pierre Polnareff''': A French swordsman with an absurdly tall hairdo. His stand is Silver Chariot, an armored swordfighter that can slice with incredible speed and precision. Like Kakyoin, Polnareff is being controlled by Dio's Flesh Bud, but is defeated by the team and later joins their group. His motivation is to find his sister's killer, who is one of Dio's assassins, as well as get revenge on Dio himself. Polnareff is highly emotional; he hits on every lady he meets, he's deeply concerned about finding adequate toilets on their many stops, and he keeps blaming himself for Avdol's death (both times; see above). Nonetheless, he's a very capable fighter. Polnareff is the only fighter besides the Joestars to survive the battle against Dio.<br/> Some point after Part 3 but before Part 5, Polnareff would find himself battling Diavolo and nearly DIE, becoming wheelchair-bound as a result. He then becomes a contact for Giorno's gang as they begin looking for clues to Diavolo's identity and they all meet at the Coliseum.<br/> And then he pretty much dies and stabs his stand with the Stand Arrow, turning it into a super-stand that can swap spirits and force evolution.  Once the battle ends, it's revealed that Polnareff's spirit survives...inside a turtle.  Granted, it's a stand-using turtle, but still.

*'''Iggy''': The final member of Jotaro's team, introduced halfway into the series. He's selfish, ornery, anti-social, and likes to fart on Polnareff's face. Oh, also he's a dog. Yes, dogs can be Stand users too. His stand is The Fool, which allows him to construct anything from sand, whether it's a giant attack dog, a hang glider, or a protective shell. He gets in vicious fight against Dio's guard falcon, Pet Shop, which ends up costing him his leg. Iggy later sacrifices himself to save Polnareff from Vanilla Ice.

====Part 4====
*'''Koichi Hirose''': Josuke's best friend, he's a short dude who just happens to be the same age as Josuke. He's not quite as weird, but he finds himself in much weirder situations as a result, like getting stabbed by an arrow and evolving his stand, or finding out hs girlfriend's a stand-using psychopath. His stand, "Echoes", is a real special one because it gains three modes over the course of the story: Stage one just makes lots of noise, Stage two throws these sound effects and they actually happen (like making a sound effect for fire and then the place combusts), and Stage three suddenly replaces the sound powers and becomes  some short guy whose punches imbue such a powerful force that its targets slam into the ground.<br> He's usually the more reasonable guy and he happens to be nice.  He's just incredibly bad with luck. He appears again early in Part 5 to help Jotaro confirm Giorno's identity.

*'''Okyasu Nijimura''': The archetypal yankee thug with a really big heart. Sure, he first met Josuke as an enemy and nearly killed Koichi, but it's revealed that he and his brother were only causing trouble to find a cure for their freakishly-mutated unkillable dad. They eventually find common purpose when Okyasu's brother is kidnapped and killed by an enemy stand user and they become friends from there.  And then...the gangster becomes a bigger nut than Josuke. His stand is called "The Hand" (wow, points for originality) and it has a [[Faptau|a freakishly huge right hand]] which it uses to eradicate space and then have it reform around that rent, which he can use for transportation. Like Vanilla Ice's power, this is fucking awesome.

*'''Rohan Kishibe''': A master manga artist who happens to live in Morioh. He's an egotist to the worst degree and hate's Josuke's guts, but has nothing but respect for Koichi and Jotaro. His stand "Heaven's Door" allows him to read people like literal books, which lets him rip out pages (which harms the user in a way) and write in commands that the victim must obey.<br/> His whole jackass act is a bit more justified once it's revealed that as a kid, his parents and a neighbor of his were murdered by Kira, and he was only able to survive because the neghbor hid him.

====Part 5====
*'''Bruno Bucellati''': The top guy in the gang, Bucellati tends to be the level-headed one. His stand is "Sticky Fingers", which makes zippers in absolutely anything. This makes him a fighter of incredible utility, especially when some thought is applied to the way his powers are used. His defining moment is being literally unable to die. No, seriously, King Crimson puts a fucking hole through his midsection, and the motherfucker just keeps walking. He only dies after the whole soul-switcheroo of the Silver Chariot Requiem.
*'''Leone Abbachio''': Looks like Sephiroth, only acts stoic and tries to keep his conscience clean (He was a cop and only defected when he saw how fucked the police system was after his partner died). His stand, "Moody Blues", allows him to sorta-travel back through time like a cassette tape, when his stand begins impersonating someone and repeats their actions. Considering how this could discover Diavolo's identity, this leads to Abbachio being assassinated by King Crimson personally.
*'''Guido Mista''': A more punkish guy who has a '''MASSIVE''' phobia of the number 4. His stand is "Sex Pistols", six little bullet-shaped guys numbered 1-7 (skipping 4 because of said phobia) who can kick bullets (or effectively anything bullet-sized) in a way almost identical to the Emperor, except for the fact that his gun is perfectly normal. Mista is one of the only guys to survive this entire debacle.
*'''Narancia Ghirga''': Despite looking younger than everyone else, he's actually older than Giorno by two years (despite Giorno looking fucking 20. he's really 15). He's pretty book-dumb and loud-mouthed, which ends up with him being the first victim of several stand attacks. His stand is "Aerosmith", a miniature airplane that traces things by their CO2 emissions and then blasts the fuck outta them with dakka. He gets killed in the Silver Chariot Requiem switcheroo, being assassinated in the mayhem.
*'''Panacotta Fugo''': Whereas Narancia is book-dumb and impulsive, Fugo is book-smart and methodical in his actions, which contrast to his stand, "Purple Haze". See, "Purple Haze" is something insane and easily-agitated with little capsules in its fists filled with a virus so potent that it eats alive anything it touches. This power is so OP that Araki was forced to write him out of the plot by making him reject the notion of revolting against the Boss.

====Part 6====
*'''Hermes Costello:''' One of Jolyne's fellow inmates, Hermes is about as much of a match as you can get, except for the part where she has a serious revenge-boner for one of Pucci's subordinates for killing her sister. Her stand "Kiss" allows her to slap stickers on things, duplicating things, but the moment it comes off, the duplicate and original slam together again and blow up a bit.
*'''Foo Fighters:''' This here is the single most awesome character. She's a fucking swarm of amoeba with a stand. Taking the form of a dead inmate. She was originally controlled by Pucci, but eventually Jolyne manages to befriend her and they manage to be friends. Her stand is also non-conventional, as she's constantly using it to keep herself together.
*'''Weather Report:''' He's amnesiac and unstable. And he wears a giant buffalo hat. His stand is also named "Weather Report", and it allows him to oxygenate the air around him, effectively making it combustible. However, once he realizes his identity as Pucci's brother, he discovers a second part of his stand, "Heavy Weather". This is even more fucked up as it somehow uses rainbows to submit subliminal messages like 'Rain frogs' or 'Turn into fucking snails'. Shit's creepy.
*'''Narcisso Anasui:''' Another messed up dude, but he's only restrained by the fact that he seriously has a thing for Jolyne despite her dad's refusal. Despite that, however, he manages to be more reliable than Weather. His Stand is "Diver Down", with the mundane yet neat power of phasing through matter. This allows him to climb into things, break them from the inside, and then break out.

====Part 7====
*'''Gyro Zeppeli:''' That's right, he's another Zeppeli. He's still the guy to teach the Joestar about the power du jour (Spin), and he still dies near the end (though by then, he's done way more than his fair share of things and Johnny's come a long way). In the rebooted Jojolion universe, the Zeppelis were executioners and doctors for the kingdom of Naples, mastering the art of the Steel Balls for this particular job. Gyro, while competent, found himself questioning his conscience when he was instructed to execute a young boy for his possible involvement in a murder. Denying this accusation, Gyro decides to flee to America in order to participate in the Steel Ball Run race and win that boy a pardon, hoping to learn about his convictions along the way. He gains a stand at one point, called "Scan", which allowed him to see using his steel balls, but he eventually loses it when he lost the Saint's Eye to Dio.
*'''Hot Pants:''' She starts off as one of several competitors in the race who manages to keep well ahead in the race, all while rather thinly disguised as a dude. As time goes on, however, Gyro and Johnny cross paths with her and somewhat become enemies (Gyro's kinda pissed for her thieving them of the Corpse Parts, but Johnny's slightly more understanding as well as aware of her identity). It's eventually revealed that she was a nun of the Vatican in penance for letting her brother die years ago, and participated in the race to recover the Saint's Corpse, thinking that recovering such a relic would grant God's mercy. Her stand is the utilitarian "Cream Starter", which is a spray can of meat foam that can be used to heal wounds, dissolve flesh, and even disguise faces.
*'''Lucy Steel:''' Despite the 17-year age gap, Lucy is somehow the wife of industrialist Stephen Steel, the man who organized the Steel Ball Run (under Valentine's orders). Though she doesn't really do much early on, she's the first person to realize that everything's not kosher in this mess and fears for her husband's safety around the President. From here, she gets caught up in the mess of the Corpse, helping Hot Pants with infiltrating the President's house by impersonating Valentine's wife and delivering a warning to Johnny and Gyro. And she does all this despite lacking a stand. <br/> Welll...sorta. Eventually, she's revealed to somehow be pregnant with the Corpse's head (Don't ask. [[FATAL|Seriously, don't ask]]) and eventually becomes the Corpse itself, serving to trigger a power of Valentine's Stand. After Valentine's demise, she then manages to save the day by killing Dio using one last moment of "D4C" fuckery.

====Part 8====

===The Dicks/Villians===
====Dio Brando (Part 1 and 3)====
[[File: DIO.jpeg|thumb|right|Part 3 Dio and his Stand <s>"The World"</s> ZA WARUDO]]
Technically the big bad of the overall series, although he's only actually on-stage in the first and third sagas. Arrogant, vain and frankly something of a coward, Dio was born the son of abusive, stupid, drunkard Dario Brando, but had a natural intelligence, ambition and drive that his father lacked. Poisoning his father, he was sent to live with George and Jonathan Joestar, as part of a debt the elder Joestar owed to Dario. Despising Jonathan for his attempts to befriend his new stepbrother, Dio bullied Jonathon throughout their childhood, and even after they seemingly made amends, was secretly plotting to steel Jonathon's birthright. He attempted to poison George, only for his scheme to be revealed, whereupon he used the Stone Mask the Joestars had unwittingly guarded to become a vampire. As mentioned above, this eventually left him a severed head trapped on the bottom of the ocean, until he managed to assimilate Jonathon's body and escape for the third saga. Although he was defeated at the end of that saga, agents and plots of his were the primary source of trouble for the next three sagas... until the sixth ended with Dio and his depredations literally being retconned out of existence. Ironically, for all his arrogance and power, Dio ultimately owed everything he had to the Joestars. His life of luxury in his teens was paid for by Joestar money. He became a vampire with a Stone Mask owned by the Joestar family. He needed Jonathon Joestar's body after his own was destroyed by Ripple energy. He needed Joseph Joestar's blood so he could better merge with Jonathon's body. He even makes extensive use of Hermit Purple #2, Joseph's Stand, during the third saga.

He is well-loved by the fans for his over-the-top flamboyance (even by the series' standards), grandiloquent speaking style, and sheer dickishness such that [[Eldrad]] himself would be impressed. He is the source of [[Meme|ZA WARUDO]], which is his Stand ("The World") freezing time around him. While he typically follows that up with an improbably numerous volley of knives, he is infamous for what comes after: Slamming a road roller from out of nowhere down on his opponent, punching it until the vehicle explodes, [[Eversor|then screeching in triumph.]] '''WRRRRRYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!'''

He also has a slew of minions and henchmen in Part 3. The most notable ones are:
*'''Vanilla Ice:''' Dio's most fanatical and powerful servant...without pants. Vanilla Ice became a vampire after Dio tested his loyalty by saying he needed his blood to fully regenerate, where he went the extra mile by using his own stand to decapitate himself without hesitation. Impressed by his devotion; Dio used his blood to resurrect Vanilla Ice, granting him near-immortality. His stand is named "Cream", a humanoid monster that has a unique ability where it swallows itself (and Vanilla Ice) in order to become a null void, literally wiping out chunks of reality like the Eldar's D-Cannons. This power is so fucking awesome that it kills two named characters....well sort of. He killed one of them by kicking them to death, rather than swallowing them into his void.
*'''Hol Horse:''' A cowboy whose stand is a gun named "The Emperor". The Emperor's only real ability is that Hol Horse can manipulate the trajectory of its bullets mid-flight; allowing it to bypass obstacles that would prevent them from reaching their mark. He's a womanizing coward, but considering how unremarkable his stand is, it's only fair. Yet ironically, he's the only one of Dio's minions that tells him off and even attempts to kill him. He teams up with a guy whose stand literally lives in mirrors (which leads to sorta-killing someone important) and a kid whose stand is a fortune-telling comic book. Neither of these team-ups end well.
*'''Pet Shop:''' Dio's pet falcon who's stand is called "Isis", who has the ability to manipulate frost, using it to lay traps and launch it like homing missiles. It guards Dio mansion and shows down with Iggy after it trespasses into the mansion grounds. Pet Shop's also infamous for being hilariously broken in any game he appears in (The Capcom fighter and Eyes of Heaven), because he's a flying bird with all the frozen [[Dakka]] he could ever need while everyone else is stuck on the ground.
*'''Daniel J. D'Arby:''' The only real fight the heroes couldn't just punch, D'Arby is a professional gambler and cheater whose stand, "Osiris", works on psychology. Those who admit defeat in their minds get their souls ripped out and turned into poker chips for his games. Of course, he gets defeated in probably the ballsiest fakeout ever. He's popular in the fandom for his hilarious attempt at southern-accented Engrish.
*'''Terrence T. D'Arby:''' Daniel's younger brother, but hilariously is the alpha of the family. His stand is named "Atum", but unlike his brother; it has the ability to both transfer souls into objects (in his case, [[grimdark|fully self-aware dolls]]) and read his opponent's souls (but can only decipher yes or no questions). Much like his brother, he challenges people and uses their souls as bets, but uses [[/v/|video games]] instead of casino games.
*'''Mariah:''' She's a hot brown Red Riding Hood with a stand that controls magnetism. By touching random conspicuous outlets, victims can turn into living magnets that can attract anything metallic, though the power of this magnetism is based upon how close she is and how much time has passed. 
*'''Anubis:''' Probably the weirdest thing out there, Anubis is a stand that inhabits a sword. This sword has the ability to pass through things it doesn't want to cut, the ability to learn from being defeated (making sure he can't lose again), and the ability to possess whoever wields the sword. This makes Anubis a trifecta of a threatening opponent, and this leads to probably the longest fight in Jojo history between switching wielders three times (A farmer boy named Chaka, a barber named Khan, and Polnareff). The sword then breaks and is thrown into the ocean, where it rusts for eternity.
*'''Steely Dan:''' A kebab-stand owner and controls a stand named "The Lovers". Unlike other stand-wielders, Dan's stand is microscopic and can't do anything in straight-up combat. Its specialty is that it can infiltrate the bodies of opponents and do damage from within, where in this case he infected Joseph and blackmailed Jotaro into being his punching bag/man servant. He's pretty notable in the series for pissing off Jotaro to such a degree that 6 whole pages/20 seconds were entirely devoted to him being ORA ORA ORAed into oblivion.
*'''Devo the Cursed:''' A real fucked-up piece of shit. He's a Native American Shaman who's able to "curse" people to die horrific deaths. In truth, he's a masochist and uses his Stand, "Ebony Devil" to possess a killer doll and take a few pages from Chucky's book by brutally murdering someone who hurt him. And this shit is fucking brutal, we're talking razors to the back of the foot, shampoo in the eyes, razor-toothed mouth, and blowdryers in the bathtub. He's only defeated because Polnareff realizes that Devo had to hide somewhere to use this power and found the bastard in position tor a stabbing.

====Pillar Men (Santana, Wamuu, ACDC, Kars) (Part 2)====
[[File:Pillar Men Fabulous.jpeg|thumb|right|250px|ACDC, Wamuu, and Kars...no, they're straight. We swear.]]
<s>The personal guardians of the Emperor of Mankind</s> A pre-human tribe of supermen from the ancient past, these beings possess superhuman control over their bodies, allowing them to manipulate their own flesh and the flesh of other people as they see fit. This makes them virtually indestructible, capable of reassembling themselves from being blown to bloody scraps. They feed on the flesh of all other races, and their body manipulating traits allow them to literally absorb flesh with a touch. Each of the Pillar Men seen has an elemental "mode" which they theme their personal body modification around (for instance, Wamuu can form a lethal wind shear by spinning his arms like turbines) The tribe's only weakness is sunlight, and thus by extension Ripple energy. By the time of the series, only four members of this tribe survive, having slaughtered the rest of their kind (ostensibly in self-defense; they didn't like their leader's scheme) and sealed themselves into pillars to await the right moment to awaken again. They are thus technically the bigger bad of the series, although they only play a role in the second saga. Appearance-wse they are built like bodybuilders and dress in ancient Mesoamerican style. Their thought processes are typically cold and alien, though Wamuu has a sense of honor (and grows fond of Jojo). While Wamuu and Esidisi have an honorable warrior mentality, their leader Kars is a double-crossing cheat who will not hesitate to fight dirty, and after successfully using the stone mask, becomes a Ripple user as well.

There's also a fourth Pillar Man, the first one we meet, called Santana by Stroheim. He's the weakest of them all and gets tricked into exposing himself to sunlight and Hamon at once. He's mostly the wake-up to their evil and kicks off the real storyline of generation 2.

====Yoshikage Kira (Part 4)====
A serial killer with a really creepy hand fetish. As in, he chops off women's hands to make the severed hands into his "girlfriends", keeping them in fancy boxes and having romantic dinners with them... until they rot and he has to get a replacement. The worst part is that he's seriously obsessed with living an ordinary life as a mediocre person...while also being a serial killer with a really creepy hand fetish.

For the most part, he's watched over by his dad, who's now turned into a living photo thanks to developing a stand. Otherwise, he uses his stand "Killer Queen", a pink catlike humanoid, as a killing instrument. See, its power allows it to imbue objects with an explosive charge which he can set off at will. These explosions are so efficient that they don't leave any trace of his victim, which has led to his long career as a killer. The only thing that he leaves behind is a hand, which he will usually have a relationship with despite being the hand of some girl he just murdered. <br/>
"Killer Queen" also has two separate components to it.  The first is "Sheer Heart Attack", a skull-faced tank-bomb that comes from his right hand. This bomb chases down any heat signatures, which makes it effective for hunting down solitary targets, but when crowded with many heat sources, gets disoriented easily. The second power he gains after stabbing himself with a Stand Arrow and switching bodies with another person.  This power, "Bites the Dust", is a tiny "Killer Queen" which kills a target at a certain time and will reset time as much as it needs to until Kira can find out who it is that died.

====Diavolo (Part 5)====
Diavolo is the boss of the Mafia group "Passione", though he never shows his face and operates under the pseudonym "Soliddo Nazo". He also has pink hair and doesn't wear a shirt, but he is anything but fabulous. His big goal is absolute control, and he considers everything, even family, to be a setback.

Diavolo's main quirk is that he has a split personality. This personality, Vinegar Doppio, is a rather ordinary person who just happens to have pink hair and also imagines a phone ringing everywhere and then uses random objects like frogs or shoes just as a phone.

His stand, "King Crimson", is a red and white man with a tiny face on his forehead and has a power that's really difficult to understand.
See, he can sort of see time as line from Point A to Point B, and then nullify anything that can happen between those points, like getting shot with a bullet. There's probably a better way to explain it, but to do so would take too fucking long and led to another meme which says "IT JUST WORKS". As Doppio, "King Crimson" allows him to see a few seconds into the future.

====Enrico Pucci (Part 6)====
The big bad of Part 6, a gay ex-Catholic priest who worships the ground Dio walks on and who seeks to use his Stands to rewrite reality as Dio would have wished it. We're not joking when we say he's gay, there's flashback scenes where they're laying in bed together (not naked, but their clothes are visibly ruffled). His Stand "Whitesnake" can swipe away other people's Stands or memories in the form of a disk. Pucci can then insert these disks into other people, allowing them to view these memories or use the Stand on the disk. "Whitesnake" later becomes "C-Moon", which can manipulate gravity. Then shit really hits the fan when he later attains the Stand "Made In Heaven" which can accelerate time. To make a complicated explanation a little easier to explain, as time continues to travel, the universe will hit a "vanishing point", and a new universe will be created, where everything repeats itself, according to "fate". Pucci can then alter this universe to his desire, basically making the perfect world that Dio always wanted. Ultimately, he gets outgambitted and he ends up creating an entirely different universe, Jojolion, where both Dio and the Joestars exist.

====Funny Valentine (Part 7)====
The fucking president of the United States!
No, seriously, he's the 23rd President of the United States, a veteran of the Civil War with the fucking Stars and Stripes as scars on his back, and the real mastermind of the Steel Ball Run. His goal of the race? To recover the Corpse and use it to lead America to a new age of lasting prosperity. And that's why you don't fuck with this President!

Oh, and his Stand, "Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap" (D4C), which allows him to essentially jump between parallel universes. While anything else he brings will be destroyed the moment it comes into contact with its dimensional equal (meaning that he can find someone, drag him into another dimension, and collide him into his dimensional equivalent and kill them both), he is utterly immune to it and is able to replace himself by having his Stand transfer between Valentines. The issue, though, is that it is anchored to one universe: The universe where the Corpse originates from. <br/>
Eventually, he does recover the Corpse, and at this point, he develops "Love Train", a secondary effect to "D4C" which sheaths him in a field of parallel dimensions. Anything that tries to hit him that passes through the field gets deflected and redirected elsewhere, allowing only good fortune near him. The issue is that it he has to leave this sheath in order to attack.

====Diego Brando (Part 7)====
[[File: Diego Brando.png|right|thumb|200px|Can you take a guess of what character he's based off of?]]
Essentially the JoJolion version of Dio Brando from the original series. Though he is [[Tzeench|calculating and callous]] like the original, he is much more considerate with his actions, not killing innocents left and right. However, he won't hesitate to absolutely destroy anyone who gets in his way. His backstory differs in that his father left him behind and he was raised by his mother longer than Dio's (though it was only until he was six). As the original rejected his humanity because it made him weak, Diego takes a different spin on it and [[derp|blames humanity as a whole for his misfortunes]]. He participates in the Steel Ball Run race against Johnny and Gyro, wanting the fatass cash prize at the end for himself.

His Stand, "Scary Monsters", has, arguably, the [[Jokaero|stupidest]] yet [[Trazyn the Infinite|hilariously awesome]] power in Steel Ball Run and maybe JoJo as a whole. Scary Monsters allows Diego to transform into a blue-green raptor and attack his enemies. For whatever reason as a raptor he has "DIO" plastered over and over again all over his body. If he wishes Diego can simply change his body to have sharp teeth or claws. He can also infect people through bites and scratches and turn them into raptors that are under his control. Essentially he is a [[awesome|wereraptor]], which is awesome in every sense of the word. This even extends to his horse, which he turned into a colossal raptor than can climb up walls.

After being upped by Johnny and Gyro on several occasions, he teams up with Funny Valentine in order to gain some revenge and to find some of the Corpse Parts. But in a [[meme|sudden but inevitable betrayal]], Diego makes a 180 and tries to kill Valentine. 

*'''Diego 2: Electric Boogaloo:''' At some point in the story Funny Valentine, using D4C, drags another Diego from another universe to help him. We are not kidding when we way that this is literally Dio from the original timeline except in name and look. He has everything from The World to the borderline omnicidal tendencies of the original.

==Terms and Stuff You Need to Know==
===Ripple===
The Ripple, or "Hamon", or "Sendo", as its sometimes called, was a power introduced in Phantom Blood and used up until early Stardust Crusaders. Created by monks in fuckknowswhere-istan, this martial art(?) was created to specifically destroy undead zombies and vampires. The user, quite literally, harnesses the power of the sun via breathing. This can let the user empower their attacks and attain superhuman feats. And for dramatic effect the Ripple can transfer to metal and hair, making it unstable and acting like a weapon in of itself. The last person to uses this was Joseph, who stops training in it after Part 2, and only uses it a couple times in Part 3. When he returns in Part 4, he's such an old man that he's incapable of even that (though to be fair, this was his choice. The Ripple could extend a person's natural lifespan considerably, but one guy still feared growing old, became a vampire, and then died because sunlight. Joseph opts not to do this.)

*'''Spin''': The Spin is basically a new version of the Ripple introduced in Part 7. We're not joking when we say it's almost exactly like Hamon except it's far more flashy and when it comes into contact with objects it makes them spin rapidly(duh) by achieving the perfect rotational ratio of the Golden Rectangle (A rectangle that can break into a perfect square and a smaller rectangle with which to repeat this process, potentially ad infinitum). Gyro Zeppili is the most effective with the Spin, using it to charge and launch steel balls at his enemies, though Johnny eventually manages to pull it off using his nails. 

===Stands===
[[File:Star Platinum Stand.png|thumb|right|200px|Jotaro's Stand "Star Platinum"]]
Stands are... weird to say the least. Getting their start in Stardust Crusaders, they are literal spiritual manifestations on a user's willpower and strength. The capabilities of Stands can vary stupidly, among the known powers are: stopping time, shooting out crystal projectiles, tossing marbles that are practically mini virus bombs, and punches so powerful they can break diamond. This is complicated further by the fact that virtually anyone can be a Stand user, including infants and even animals, so ambushes by enemies are frequent. The first few were introduced were based of the tarot cards (Star Platinum, Magician's Red, etc), but from mid-Part 3 and onward they were named after Egyptian Gods, famous rock musicians and songs. Rolling Stones, Purple Haze, and ''fucking Metallica'' are Stands. This made later incarnations of Jojo to be an absolute copyright hell to deal with, since literally every Stand and maybe character can be traced to a band, person, or song. Many names had to be either adjusted or changed completely. 

They also don't have much of a fixed way of manifesting either, with some people being born knowing how to use them (Avdol, Kakyoin), while the Joestars only developed it with Dio waking up, while others still had to get stabbed with magical arrows made from a meteorite or ending up in a weird mystic area and touching mummified body parts. 

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While there are an array of inconsistencies with Stands, JoJo was nice enough to give this list of the rules for Stands.
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*A Stand protects its user, like a guardian. The name comes from "standing by" the user, sometimes using their powers without direct orders in order to protect the user, and by extension, themselves.
*A person can have only one Stand (though their Stand may evolve (e.g. Echoes, Tusk)).
*Stands can be inherited.
*A Stand is part of its user, and damage is usually reflected between the two. Usually, if a Stand's leg is cut off, its user will lose their leg as well. Certain aspects of some Stands, such as the armor of "Silver Chariot" or "The Fool", are immune to this effect. If the Stand is not exactly humanoid, they may reflect damage to their user's body relative to the area of the Stand that was damaged, or are an exception.
*Stands may only be seen by Stand users; the exception being Stands bound to physical objects (e.g. Strength; attached once to a boat).
*A Stand can only be directly damaged by another Stand.
*A Stand's energy or power is inversely proportional to their operating range. The further a Stand is from its user, the weaker it becomes – Long-range Stands and/or Stands' long-range abilities are simpler in mechanism.
*Stands are usually bound to their user's body, but exceptions abound; Wheel of Fortune being bound to a car, and The Fool being bound to sand.
*When a Stand User dies, their Stand disappears with them.
*When a Stand is defeated, their user is either knocked unconscious or killed, depending on the level of injury.
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*'''Golden Arrow''': Once, some time in the 70's, a meteorite crashed in Iceland. An exploration team was sent to bring it in, but suddenly killed each other. This rock would eventually find a way out, though...and then incorporated into a set of arrows. These arrows tend to kickstart the process of developing a stand by cutting or piercing someone, but the spiritual strain of the process could prove to be fatal to some. And if you get hit by one while owning a stand? Well, surviving tends to grant you an incredible new power, usually called a Requiem. It's known that about five of these exist: One was given to Enya Geil (an old lady serving Dio), and another found its way to Kira. Yet another was found by Polnareff, which is then handed over to Giorno. The rest are owned by Diavolo.
*'''Corpse Parts''': Okay... [[wat]]. <br/> If you thought all the aforementioned stuff above was strange, you're in for a real treat. So get this; in Steel Ball Run, a major driving part of the plot is that both the heroes and villains are searching for the body parts of what they believe to be the shriveled corpse of some long-dead Saint. Why they want them is that if they ''absorb'' the body part into themselves, they get a Stand and various other benefits, making them the JoJolion version of the Golden Arrow. Of course the various characters searching for it want it for various reasons, but those are the main benefits. <br/> Oh, by the way, it's later discovered that the Corpse Parts are actually the '''''body parts of Jesus Fucking Christ.''''' We ain't talking Communion or some shit; the literal, physical, holes-in-the-hands body of Jesus. Somehow his body made it to North America centuries ago and an earthquake split it into nine separate pieces and spread it throughout the U.S.

===Stone Masks===
These grotesque, fanged stone masks only appear in the first and second saga, but are vitally important to the story as a whole. Initially believed to come from the Aztecs, they are actually creations of the Pillar Men; intended to allow for the Pillar Men to overcome their weaknesses and become true gods. When placed on the face and smeared with blood, they drive spikes into a wearer's brain, transforming them into a vampire. Dio Brando became a vampire through the power of one of these masks.
However, when powered with the Red Stone of Asia, a gem that can amplify the powers of the sun, a vampire can effectively become immortal.  When Kars does this, he not only becomes immune to sunlight and Ripple, but he also gains the ability to shapeshift into whatever he wants, such as gaining wings or turning feathers into fucking piranhas.
*'''Vampires''': Human beings transformed by the Stone Masks, vampires are essentially watered-down versions of the Pillar Men. They have similar traits, such as super strength, horrific flesh-manipulating powers, the need to feed on human blood and a vulnerability to sunlight and Ripple, but just don't stack up to the Pillar Men in terms of power.
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