History Monster / JoJosBizarreAdventure

** The AlternateUniverse counterpart of Diego "[[Characters/JojosBizarreAdventureDio Dio]]" Brando is completely devoid of his main counterpart's nobler qualities. Brought into the universe by the dying [[BigBad Funny Valentine]], Alternate Diego agrees to secure the corpse parts [[ItsAllAboutMe solely so that all good fortune in the world would be centered on him]], dooming most of the world to calamity. During his battle with Johnny, Alternate Diego tricks him into killing several of Diego's fans [[HumanShield by using them as shields]], mockingly blaming Johnny for their deaths. Upon being confronted by the young Lucy Steel, Alternate Diego attacks her, proudly claiming that he'll take his time raping and torturing Lucy before killing her.

* ''[[Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureVentoAureo Vento Aureo]]'' ("Golden Wind"):

* ''[[VideoGame/JoJosBizarreAdventureEyesOfHeaven Eyes of Heaven]]'': [[BigBad Heaven Ascension DIO]] is an alternate version of [[Characters/JoJosBizarreAdventureDIO Dio Brando]] who succeeded in his plan to wipe out the Joestar lineage and [[AGodAmI become a god]]. Having slaughtered his way through innocents and enemies alike to achieve godhood, DIO [[YourSoulIsMine absorbed the souls]] of 36 people to power himself up, and altered reality to turn his world into one that worshipped him. Upon learning that there are an infinite number of realities across time and space, DIO begins plotting to conquer them all, starting with the primary timeline. DIO [[TheCorrupter corrupts]] the souls of each [=JoJo's=] friends and family members, forcing them to fight one another before DIO murders them all and steals their souls, and, in the end, DIO shrugs off the death of his "friend" Enrico Pucci, murders Jotaro's daughter in front of him, and proclaims his plans to warp all realities until there is only one, where all worship DIO.

-->--'''Robert E. O. Speedwagon''' on '''[[Characters/JoJosBizarreAdventureDIO Dio Brando]]''', ''[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventurePhantomBlood Phantom Blood]]''

During its [[LongRunners extraordinarily long run]], ''Franchise/JoJosBizarreAdventure'' has showcased a [[LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters great variety]] of antagonists. Many are merely {{jerk|ass}}s; some are [[LaughablyEvil comical]] in their ineptitude; others still are [[AntiVillain sympathetic characters]] with [[FreudianExcuse understandable motives]] and [[TragicVillain tragic pasts]]. Then there's another breed of villain: [[CompleteMonster those who commit horrific actions with no justification]]. Here are the latter.

** [[AxCrazy J. Geil]], one of Dio Brando's [[PsychoForHire henchmen]], stands out as one of the vilest, and most sadistic, of the minor villains encountered by [[Characters/JoJosBizarreAdventureJotaroKujo Jotaro]] and [[Characters/JojosBizarreAdventureStardustCrusadersTheJoestarGroup his friends]]. Driven by a lust for teenage girls, he [[WouldHurtAChild raped and killed the young Sherry Polnareff]]--and attempted to murder her friend as well, succeeding in the {{OVA}}--prompting her brother [[Characters/JoJosBizarreAdventureJeanPierrePolnareff Jean Pierre]] to join the heroes and seek revenge. He boasts that she was just one of the countless girls that he raped and killed. When confronted by Polnareff and Kakyoin, he shows himself to be a [[DirtyCoward coward of the highest order]], placing his Stand in the eyes of a little boy and telling his opponents that they'll never reach him without gouging out the boy's eyes. When this fails, he escapes and inflicts grievous, potentially fatal wounds on a man to dress him up as a decoy for another sneak attack. Finally, he attracts a crowd of at least 10 people, then hides his Stand among them before trying to goad Polnareff to mow them down by gloating about what he did to his sister. He dies showing nothing but pride in his actions.
** [[LivingDollCollector Terence (Telence) T. D'Arby]]/[[DubNameChange D'Arby the Younger]] is the younger brother of Daniel J. D'Arby, and like him, has the ability to steal a person's soul when they admit defeat in their heart before turning them into dolls. Unlike his [[AffablyEvil affable]] and [[NobleDemon nobler]] brother, any [[FauxAffablyEvil politeness Terence spews is an obvious attempt]] to hide the [[PsychopathicManchild childish psychopath]] he really is, changing anybody who is defeated by him in a video game into a doll, while, unlike Daniel, [[AndIMustScream keeping them fully aware of their situation and powerless to do anything about it.]] Besides having done this to at least 20 people, it is also implied that Terence is very abusive towards his brother, admitting to beating him nearly to death one time [[DisproportionateRetribution after catching him flirt with his girlfriend]]. When the heroes stumble across his path, he traps them in Dio's basement and forces them to play videogames for their souls, while using his stand to give himself an advantage. Through these methods he defeats Kakyoin and adds him to the collection, intending to do the same to Jotaro and Joseph, threatening to kill Kakyoin if they attack him. While only a minor villain, Terence manages to be one of the few villains that the heroes show nothing but contempt and disgust for.

** [[Characters/JojosBizarreAdventureDiavolo Diavolo]] is the mysterious "[[TheDon boss]]" of [[TheMafia Passione]], who was ruthless enough to be able to edge out all the other Mafia families. However, he causes his more conscientious employees to rebel by rejecting the ethics adhered to by other Mafiosi and selling hard drugs to minors. Driven by extreme paranoia, he resolves to erase all traces of his past identity and kill anyone who has seen his face. Years ago he attempted to [[{{Matricide}} kill his mother]] by sewing her mouth shut (a torment he later inflicts [[WouldHurtAChild on a young boy]]) and [[BuriedAlive burying her alive]]. He then [[WhereIWasBornAndRazed burned his village to the ground]], intending to kill everyone and [[FakingTheDead being listed as a casualty]]; at least seven people are killed by this, and Diavolo intended to kill more. He rules his organization with an iron fist and makes a gruesome example of two of his elite assassins, Gelato and Sorbet, when they breach his privacy. He dismembers Sorbet alive--which causes Gelato to commit suicide to avoid a similar fate--and then sends the bodies to their comrades as a macabre warning. When he learns that he has a teenage daughter, he responds by [[OffingTheOffspring plotting to murder her]], almost doing it himself before Bruno intervenes. Additionally, it was Diavolo who sold the [[ArtifactOfDoom Stand Arrows]] to Enya Geil, making him responsible for the outbreak of empowered villains that has driven the events of the series from Part III onward. Heartless, paranoid and grandiose, Diavolo believed himself to be a rightful emperor over the whole world and stopped at nothing in pursuit of power.

* ''[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureSteelBallRun Steel Ball Run]]'': The AlternateUniverse counterpart of Diego "[[Characters/JojosBizarreAdventureDio Dio]]" Brando is completely devoid of his main counterpart's nobler qualities. Brought into the universe by the dying [[BigBad Funny Valentine]], Alternate Diego agrees to secure the corpse parts [[ItsAllAboutMe solely so that all good fortune in the world would be centered on him]], dooming most of the world to calamity. During his battle with Johnny, Alternate Diego tricks him into killing several of Diego's fans [[HumanShield by using them as shields]], mockingly blaming Johnny for their deaths. Upon being confronted by the young Lucy Steel, Alternate Diego attacks her, proudly claiming that he'll take his time raping and torturing Lucy before killing her.

* ''Diamond Is Unbreakable Chapter 1'' (2017 film): [[SerialKiller Anjuro "Angelo" Katagiri]] shares his manga counterpart's depravity and lust for murder. A vicious murderer—[[{{Patricide}} his own father]] being his first victim--who is [[EstablishingCharacterMoment introduced]] stabbing his latest victim to death in front of the man's lover, Angelo later slaughters his way out of police custody by utilizing his newly-acquired Stand. Using his Stand to continue his killing spree, tearing apart the insides of over half-a-dozen people to kick things off, Angelo develops a seething hatred for the young teenager Josuke Higashikata after the boy saves Angelo's latest victim from a brutal death. Angelo invades the home of Josuke, sadistically murdering the boy's grandfather and attempting the same on his mother, all as payback for thwarting him, and, even when cornered and defeated, Angelo [[NeverMyFault spends his final moments trying to blame all of his crimes on outside forces]] just to escape punishment.

** [[LivingDollCollector Terence (Telence) T. D'Arby]]/[[DubNameChange D'Arby the Younger]] is the younger brother of Daniel J. D'Arby, and like him, has the ability to steal a person's soul when they admit defeat in their heart before turning them into dolls. Unlike his [[AffablyEvil affable]] and [[NobleDemon nobler]] brother, any [[FauxAffablyEvil politeness Terence spews is an obvious attempt]] to hide the [[PsychopathicManchild childish psychopath]] he really is, changing anybody who is defeated by him in a video game into a doll, while, unlike Daniel, [[AndIMustScream keeping them fully aware of their situation and powerless to do anything about it.]] Besides having done this to at least 20 people, it is also implied that Terence is very abusive towards his brother, admitting to beating him nearly to death one time [[DisproportionateRetribution after catching him flirt with his girlfriend]]. When the heroes stumbles across his path, he traps them in Dio's basement and forces them to play videogames for their souls, while using his stand to give himself an advantage. Through these methods he defeats Kakyoin and adds him to the collection, intending to do the same to Jotaro and Joseph, threatening to kill Kakyoin if they attack him. While only a minor villain, Terence manages to be one of the few villains that the heroes show nothing but contempt and disgust for.

* ''[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventurePhantomBlood Phantom Blood]]'' (first appearance): [[Characters/JoJosBizarreAdventureDIO Dio Brando]] is the OverarchingVillain of the entire series, [[FromNobodyToNightmare rising from humble beginnings]] to become a global threat who looms large over the events of this GenerationalSaga. After murdering his abusive father, Dio is taken in by the kind-hearted George Joestar and starts to covet his wealth, so Dio goes about ruining his adopted brother Jonathan's life, attempting to gouge out an eye, stealing the first kiss from his girlfriend Erina, and burning his beloved dog alive. Dio later poisons George in an attempt to claim his inheritance, and after being thwarted, stabs him fatally as a blood sacrifice to activate the [[ArtifactOfDoom Stone Mask]] and become a vampire. Dio then renounces his humanity and sets up a base in a nearby medieval town, draining its inhabitants of life one-by-one. When a mother agrees to let Dio zombify her on the condition that he doesn't lay a hand on her baby, he watches with amusement as [[ExactWords the zombified woman eats her own child]]. After being defeated by Jonathan and reduced to a disembodied head, Dio stalks and murders Jonathan on his honeymoon cruise, before [[BodySnatcher stealing Jonathan's body]]. Returning in [[Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureStardustCrusaders Part III]], Dio tries to prevent Jotaro and his friends from reaching him by having a hitman bring down the passenger plane they're on, and murdering his loyal right-hand woman Enya Geil to ensure that she doesn't divulge his powers. In the climactic confrontation with Jotaro and company, Dio abducts a man, forces him to drive at lethal speeds through crowds of pedestrians in pursuit of his foes, and then kills him by using him as a projectile. [[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureStoneOcean Part VI]] reveals details about the now-deceased Dio's grand plan: he manipulated his fanatically loyal follower Enrico Pucci into seeking to rewrite reality into Dio's warped vision of "heaven", meaning nothing but [[AGodAmI unchecked power]] for Dio and more grovelling support from his underlings.

** [[PsychoForHire J. Geil]], one of Dio Brando's henchmen, stands out as one of the vilest, and most sadistic, of the minor villains encountered by Jotaro and his friends. Driven by a lust for teenage girls, he [[WouldHurtAChild raped and killed the young Sherry Polnareff]] (and attempted to murder her friend as well, succeeding in the {{OVA}}), prompting her brother Jean Pierre to join the heroes and seek revenge. He boasts that she was just one of countless girls that he raped and killed. When confronted by Polnareff and Kakyoin, he shows himself to be a coward of the highest order, placing his stand in the eyes of a little boy and telling his opponents that they'll never reach him without gouging out the boy's eyes. When this fails, he escapes and inflicts grievous, potentially fatal wounds on a man to dress him up as a decoy for a sneak attack. Finally, he attracts a crowd of at least 10 people, then hides his Stand among them before trying to goad Polnareff to mow them down by gloating about what he did to his sister. He dies showing nothing but pride in his actions.

** [[BigBad Diavolo]] is the mysterious "[[TheDon boss]]" of [[TheMafia Passione]], who was ruthless enough to be able to edge out all the other Mafia families. However, he causes his more conscientious employees to rebel by rejecting the ethics adhered to by other Mafiosi and selling hard drugs to minors. Driven by extreme paranoia, he resolves to erase all traces of his past identity and kill anyone who has seen his face. Years ago he attempted to [[{{Matricide}} kill his mother]] by sewing her mouth shut (a torment he later inflicts [[WouldHurtAChild on a young boy]]) and [[BuriedAlive burying her alive]]. He then [[WhereIWasBornAndRazed burned his village to the ground]], intending to kill everyone and [[FakingTheDead being listed as a casualty]]; at least seven people are killed by this, and Diavolo intended to kill more. He rules his organization with an iron fist and makes a gruesome example of two of his elite assassins, Gelato and Sorbet, when they breach his privacy. He dismembers Sorbet alive--which causes Gelato to commit suicide to avoid a similar fate--and then sends the bodies to their comrades as a macabre warning. When he learns that he has a teenage daughter, he responds by [[OffingTheOffspring plotting to murder her]], almost doing it himself before Bruno intervenes. Additionally, it was Diavolo who sold the [[ArtifactOfDoom Stand Arrows]] to Enya Geil, making him responsible for the outbreak of empowered villains that has driven the events of the series from Part III onward. Heartless, paranoid and grandiose, Diavolo believed himself to be a rightful emperor over the whole world and stopped at nothing in pursuit of power.

[[quoteright:350:[[Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureDiamondIsUnbreakable https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/angelo2.jpg]]]]

During its [[LongRunners extraordinarily long run]], ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'' has showcased a [[LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters great variety]] of antagonists. Many are merely {{jerk|ass}}s; some are [[LaughablyEvil comical]] in their ineptitude; others still are [[AntiVillain sympathetic characters]] with [[FreudianExcuse understandable motives]] and [[TragicVillain tragic pasts]]. Then there's another breed of villain: [[CompleteMonster those who commit horrific actions with no justification]]. Here are the latter.

** [[LivingDollCollector Terence (Telence) T. D'Arby]]/[[DubNameChange D'Arby the Younger]] is the younger brother of Daniel J. D'Arby, and like him, has the ability to the ability to steal a person's soul when they admit defeat in their heart before turning them into dolls. Unlike his [[AffablyEvil affable]] and [[NobleDemon nobler]] brother, any [[FauxAffablyEvil politeness Terence spews is an obvious attempt]] to hide the [[PsychopathicManchild childish psychopath]] he really is, changing anybody who is defeated by him in a video game into a doll, while, unlike Daniel, [[AndIMustScream keeping them fully aware of their situation and powerless to do anything about it.]] Besides having done this to at least 20 people, it is also implied that Terence is very abusive towards his brother, admitting to beating him nearly to death one time [[DisproportionateRetribution after catching him flirt with his girlfriend]]. When the heroes stumbles across his path, he traps them in Dio's basement and forces them to play videogames for their souls, while using his stand to give himself an advantage. Through these methods he defeats Kakyoin and adds him to the collection, intending to do the same to Jotaro and Joseph, threatening to kill Kakyoin if they attack him. While only a minor villain, Terence manages to be one of the few villains that the heroes show nothing but contempt and disgust for.

* ''[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventurePhantomBlood Phantom Blood]]'' (first appearance): [[Characters/JoJosBizarreAdventureDIO Dio Brando]] is the OverarchingVillain of the entire series, [[FromNobodyToNightmare rising from humble beginnings]] to become a global threat who looms large over the events of this GenerationalSaga. After murdering his abusive father, Dio is taken in by the kind-hearted George Joestar and starts to covet his wealth, so Dio goes about ruining his adopted brother Jonathan's life, attempting to gouge out an eye, stealing the first kiss from his girlfriend Erina, and burning his beloved dog alive. Dio later poisons George in an attempt to claim his inheritance, and after being thwarted, stabs him fatally as a blood sacrifice to activate the [[ArtifactOfDoom Stone Mask]] and become a vampire. Dio then renounces his humanity and sets up a base in a nearby medieval town, draining its inhabitants of life one-by-one. When a mother agrees to let Dio zombify her on the condition that he doesn't lay a hand on her baby, he watches with amusement as [[ExactWords the zombified woman eats her own child]]. After being defeated by Jonathan and reduced to a disembodied head, Dio stalks and murders Jonathan on his honeymoon cruise, taking a boat full of innocent people down with them, before [[BodySnatcher stealing Jonathan's body]]. Returning in [[Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureStardustCrusaders Part III]], Dio tries to prevent Jotaro and his friends from reaching him by having a hitman bring down the passenger plane they're on, and murdering his loyal right-hand woman Enya Geil to ensure that she doesn't divulge his powers. In the climactic confrontation with Jotaro and company, Dio abducts a man, forces him to drive at lethal speeds through crowds of pedestrians in pursuit of his foes, and then kills him by using him as a projectile. [[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureStoneOcean Part VI]] reveals details about the now-deceased Dio's grand plan: he manipulated his fanatically loyal follower Enrico Pucci into seeking to rewrite reality into Dio's warped vision of "heaven", meaning nothing but [[AGodAmI unchecked power]] for Dio and more grovelling support from his underlings.

** [[BigBad Diavolo]] is the mysterious "boss" of [[TheMafia Passione]], who was ruthless enough to be able to edge out all the other Mafia families. However, he causes his more conscientious employees to rebel by rejecting the ethics adhered to by other mafiosi and selling hard drugs to minors. Driven by extreme paranoia, he resolves to erase all traces of his past identity and kill anyone who has seen his face. Years ago he attempted to [[{{Matricide}} kill his mother]] by sewing her mouth shut (a torment he later inflicts [[WouldHurtAChild on a young boy]]) and [[BuriedAlive burying her alive]]. He then [[WhereIWasBornAndRazed burned his village to the ground]], intending to kill everyone and [[FakingTheDead being listed as a casualty]]; at least seven people are killed by this, and Diavolo intended to kill more. He rules his organization with an iron fist and makes a gruesome example of two of his elite assassins when they breach his privacy. He dismembers one of the men alive-which causes the other to commit suicide to avoid a similar fate-and then sends the bodies to their comrades as a macabre warning. When he learns that he has a teenage daughter, he responds by [[OffingTheOffspring plotting to murder her]], almost doing it himself before Bruno intervenes. Additionally, it was Diavolo who sold the [[ArtifactOfDoom Stand Arrows]] to Enya Geil, making him responsible for the outbreak of empowered villains that has driven the events of the series from Part III onward. Heartless, paranoid and grandiose, Diavolo believed himself to be a rightful emperor over the whole world and stopped at nothing in pursuit of power.
** [[PsychoForHire Cioccolata]], the most sadistic member of Passione, is a SerialKiller whose main joy in life is seeing pain and fear expressed on the face of someone about to die. He [[MadDoctor volunteered in aged care for the chance to torture vulnerable people to death]], poisoning them and [[BreakThemByTalking breaking their spirits]] by telling them that no-one would come to visit them. From this cruelty was born a [[PersonalityPowers gruesome power]]: his Stand inflicts people with mold that causes them to [[CruelAndUnusualDeath die in agony]] as their bodies fall apart. He had used this power to kill innocents for years by the time he was introduced. While waiting to ambush the heroes, he kills several bystanders in this way. Rather than finishing off his targets while they're at his mercy, he waits while his similarly depraved partner Secco records their anguished expressions for posterity. He then takes a helicopter to pursue his foes and kills everyone else in sight. As a sadist unconstrained by morality and reason, Cioccolata earns the contempt of everyone he encounters.

-->--'''Robert E. O. Speedwagon''' on '''Dio Brando''', ''[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventurePhantomBlood Phantom Blood]]''

** [[LivingDollCollector Terence (Telence) T. D'Arby]]/[[DubNameChange D'Arby the Younger]] is the younger brother of Daniel J. D'Arby, and like him, has the ability to the ability to steal a person's soul when they admit defeat in their heart before turning them into dolls. Unlike his [[AffablyEvil affable]] and [[NobleDemon nobler]] brother, any [[FauxAffablyEvil politeness Terence spews is an obvious attempt]] to hide the [[PsychopathicManchild childish psychopath]] he really is, changing anybody who is defeated by him in a video game into a doll ,while, unlike Daniel, [[AndIMustScream keeping them fully aware of their situation and powerless to do anything about it]] Besides having done this to at least 20 people, it is also implied that Terence is very abusive towards his brother, admitting to beating him nearly to death one time [[DisproportionateRetribution after catching him flirt with his girlfriend]]. When the heroes stumbles across his path, he traps them in Dio's basement and forces them to play videogames for their souls, while using his stand to give himself an advantage. Through these methods he defeats Kakyoin and adds him to the collection, intending to do the same to Jotaro and Joseph, threatening to kill Kakyoin if they attack him. While only a minor villain, Terence manages to be one of the few villains that the heroes show nothing but contempt and disgust for.

* ''[[Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureDiamondIsUnbreakable Diamond Is Unbreakable]]'': Anjuro "[[IronicNickname Angelo]]" Katagiri is a SerialKiller and Japan's most notorious criminal. A robber and rapist since the age of 12, his infamy reached its peak after an incident in which he raped and killed two teenage boys before taking a third one hostage. He arranged a ransom with the boy's rich parents, but revealed at the exchange that he had [[GroinAttack cut off the boy's penis]] and killed him, and then killed one of the policemen who came for him. After escaping prison, Angelo [[GrandTheftMe body-jacked]] a man, took a woman hostage at knifepoint and tried to stab her to death in a fit of pique. After Josuke thwarts him, he goes on a killing spree with 7 civilian deaths. He attempts to kill Josuke and his mother out of spite, and then kills Josuke's grandfather. He returns for another attempt on their lives, and when defeated, he taunts Josuke with his grandfather's death and the fact that he can't kill Angelo [[IfYouKillHimYouWillBeJustLikeHim without becoming like him]], before threatening to throttle a young boy to death.

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* ''Diamond Is Unbreakable Chapter 1'': [[SerialKiller Anjuro "Angelo" Katagiri]] shares his manga counterpart's depravity and lust for murder. A vicious murderer—[[{{Patricide}} his own father]] being his first victim--who is [[EstablishingCharacterMoment introduced]] stabbing his latest victim to death in front of the man's lover, Angelo later slaughters his way out of police custody by utilizing his newly-acquired Stand. Using his Stand to continue his killing spree, tearing apart the insides of over half-a-dozen people to kick things off, Angelo develops a seething hatred for the young teenager Josuke Higashikata after the boy saves Angelo's latest victim from a brutal death. Angelo invades the home of Josuke, sadistically murdering the boy's grandfather and attempting the same on his mother, all as payback for thwarting him, and, even when cornered and defeated, Angelo [[NeverMyFault spends his final moments trying to blame all of his crimes on outside forces]] just to escape punishment.

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* ''[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventurePhantomBlood Phantom Blood]]'' (first appearance): [[ArchEnemy Dio Brando]] is the OverarchingVillain of the entire series, [[FromNobodyToNightmare rising from humble beginnings]] to become a global threat who looms large over the events of this GenerationalSaga. After murdering his abusive father, Dio is taken in by the kind-hearted George Joestar and starts to covet his wealth, so Dio goes about ruining his adopted brother Jonathan's life, attempting to gouge out an eye, stealing the first kiss from his girlfriend Erina, and burning his beloved dog alive. Dio later poisons George in an attempt to claim his inheritance, and after being thwarted, stabs him fatally as a blood sacrifice to activate the [[ArtifactOfDoom Stone Mask]] and become a vampire. Dio then renounces his humanity and sets up a base in a nearby medieval town, draining its inhabitants of life one-by-one. When a mother agrees to let Dio zombify her on the condition that he doesn't lay a hand on her baby, he watches with amusement as [[ExactWords the zombified woman eats her own child]]. After being defeated by Jonathan and reduced to a disembodied head, Dio stalks and murders Jonathan on his honeymoon cruise, taking a boat full of innocent people down with them, before [[BodySnatcher stealing Jonathan's body]]. Returning in [[Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureStardustCrusaders Part III]], Dio tries to prevent Jotaro and his friends from reaching him by having a hitman bring down the passenger plane they're on, and murdering his loyal right-hand woman Enya Geil to ensure that she doesn't divulge his powers. In the climactic confrontation with Jotaro and company, Dio abducts a man, forces him to drive at lethal speeds through crowds of pedestrians in pursuit of his foes, and then kills him by using him as a projectile. [[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureStoneOcean Part VI]] reveals details about the now-deceased Dio's grand plan: he manipulated his fanatically loyal follower Enrico Pucci into seeking to rewrite reality into Dio's warped vision of "heaven", meaning nothing but [[AGodAmI unchecked power]] for Dio and more grovelling support from his underlings.

* ''[[VideoGame/JoJosBizarreAdventureEyesOfHeaven Eyes of Heaven]]'': [[Characters/JoJosBizarreAdventureDIO Heaven Ascension DIO]] is an alternate version of Dio Brando who succeeded in his plan to wipe out the Joestar lineage and [[AGodAmI become a god]]. Having slaughtered his way through innocents and enemies alike to achieve godhood, DIO [[YourSoulIsMine absorbed the souls]] of 36 people to power himself up, and altered reality to turn his world into one that worshipped him. Upon learning that there are an infinite number of realities across time and space, DIO begins plotting to conquer them all, starting with the primary timeline. DIO [[TheCorrupter corrupts]] the souls of each [=JoJo's=] friends and family members, forcing them to fight one another before DIO murders them all and steals their souls, and, in the end, DIO shrugs off the death of his "friend" Enrico Pucci, murders Jotaro's daughter in front of him, and proclaims his plans to warp all realities until there is only one, where all worship DIO.

* ''[[VideoGame/JoJosBizarreAdventureEyesOfHeaven Eyes of Heaven]]'': [[BigBad Heaven Ascension DIO]] is an alternate version of Dio Brando who succeeded in his plan to wipe out the Joestar lineage and [[AGodAmI become a god]]. Having slaughtered his way through innocents and enemies alike to achieve godhood, DIO [[YourSoulIsMine absorbed the souls]] of 36 people to power himself up, and altered reality to turn his world into one that worshipped him. Upon learning that there are an infinite number of realities across time and space, DIO begins plotting to conquer them all, starting with the primary timeline. DIO [[TheCorrupter corrupts]] the souls of each [=JoJo's=] friends and family members, forcing them to fight one another before DIO murders them all and steals their souls, and, in the end, DIO shrugs off the death of his "friend" Enrico Pucci, murders Jotaro's daughter in front of him, and proclaims his plans to warp all realities until there is only one, where all worship DIO.

->''"Your upbringing made you a villain, you say? '''It didn't!!'''...You've been evil since your birth!"''
-->--'''Robert E. O. Speedwagon''' to '''Dio Brando'''

* ''[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventurePhantomBlood Phantom Blood]]'' (first appearance): [[ArchEnemy Dio Brando]] is the OverarchingVillain of the entire series, [[FromNobodyToNightmare rising from humble beginnings]] to become a global threat who looms large over the events of this GenerationalSaga. After [[{{Patricide}} murdering his abusive father]], Dio is taken in by the kind-hearted George Joestar and starts to covet his wealth, so Dio goes about ruining his adopted brother [[TheHero Jonathan]]'s life, attempting to [[EyeScream gouge out an eye]], stealing the [[SacredFirstKiss first kiss]] from his girlfriend Erina, and [[KillItWithFire burning his beloved dog alive]]. Dio later poisons George in an attempt to claim his inheritance, and after [[HopeSpot being thwarted]], stabs him fatally as a blood sacrifice to activate the [[ArtifactOfDoom Stone Mask]] and become a vampire. Dio then [[TranshumanTreachery renounces his humanity]] and sets up a base in a nearby medieval town, draining its inhabitants of life one-by-one. When a mother agrees to let Dio zombify her on the condition that he doesn't lay a hand on her baby, he watches with amusement as [[ExactWords the zombified woman eats her own child]]. After being defeated by Jonathan and reduced to a disembodied head, Dio stalks and murders Jonathan on his honeymoon cruise, taking a boat full of innocent people down with them, before [[BodySnatcher stealing Jonathan's body]]. Returning in [[Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureStardustCrusaders Part III]], Dio tries to prevent Jotaro and his friends from reaching him by having [[ProfessionalKiller Gray Fly]] bring down the passenger plane they're on, and murdering his loyal [[TheDragon right-hand woman]] Enya Geil to ensure that she doesn't divulge his powers. In the climactic confrontation with Jotaro and company, Dio abducts a man, forces him to drive at lethal speeds through crowds of pedestrians in pursuit of his foes, and then kills him by [[GrievousHarmWithABody using him as a projectile]]. [[Characters/JoJosBizarreAdventurePart6 Part VI]] reveals details about the now-deceased Dio's grand plan: he manipulated his fanatically loyal follower Enrico Pucci into seeking to [[RealityWarper rewrite reality]] into Dio's warped vision of "heaven", meaning nothing but [[AGodAmI unchecked power]] for Dio and more grovelling support from his underlings.

** [[BaldOfEvil J. Geil]], one of Dio Brando's [[PsychoForHire henchmen]], stands out as one of the [[LovesTheSoundOfScreaming vilest]], and most {{sadist}}ic, of the minor villains encountered by Jotaro and his friends. Driven by a [[{{Ephebophile}} lust for teenage girls]], he [[WouldHurtAChild raped and killed the young Sherry Polnareff]] (and attempted to murder her friend as well, succeeding in the {{OVA}}), prompting her brother Jean Pierre to join the heroes and seek revenge. He boasts that she was just one of countless girls that he [[SerialRapist raped]] and [[SerialKiller killed]]. When confronted by Polnareff and Kakyoin, he shows himself to be a [[DirtyCoward coward]] of the highest order, placing his stand in the eyes of a little boy and telling his opponents that [[HumanShield they'll never reach him]] without [[EyeScream gouging out the boy's eyes]]. When this fails, he escapes and inflicts grievous, potentially fatal wounds on a man to dress him up as a decoy for a sneak attack. Finally, he attracts a crowd of at least 10 people, then hides his Stand among them before trying to goad Polnareff to mow them down by gloating about what he did to his sister. He dies showing nothing but pride in his actions.
** [[LivingDollCollector Terence (Telence) T. D'Arby/]][[DubNameChange D'Arby the Younger]] is the younger brother of Daniel J. D'Arby, and like him, has the ability to the ability to steal a person's soul when they admit defeat in their heart before turning them into dolls. Unlike his [[AffablyEvil affable]] and [[NobleDemon nobler]] brother, any [[FauxAffablyEvil politeness Terence spews is an obvious attempt]] to hide the [[PsychopathicManchild childish psychopath]] he really is, changing anybody who is defeated by him in a video game into a doll ,while, unlike Daniel, [[AndIMustScream keeping them fully aware of their situation and powerless to do anything about it]] Besides having done this to at least 20 people, it is also implied that Terence is very abusive towards his brother, admitting to beating him nearly to death one time [[DisproportionateRetribution after catching him flirt with his girlfriend]]. When the heroes stumbles across his path, he traps them in Dio's basement and forces them to play videogames for their souls, while using his stand to give himself an advantage. Through these methods he defeats Kakyoin and adds him to the collection, intending to do the same to Jotaro and Joseph, threatening to kill Kakyoin if they attack him. While only a minor villain, Terence manages to be one of the few villains that the heroes show nothing but contempt and disgust for.
* ''[[Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureDiamondIsUnbreakable Diamond Is Unbreakable]]'': Anjuro "[[IronicNickname Angelo]]" Katagiri is a SerialKiller and Japan's most notorious criminal. A robber and rapist since the age of 12, his infamy reached its peak after an incident in which he raped and killed two teenage boys before taking a third one hostage. He arranged a ransom with the boy's rich parents, but revealed at the exchange that he had [[GroinAttack cut off the boy's penis]] and killed him, and then [[CopKiller killed one of the policemen]] who came for him. After escaping prison, Angelo [[GrandTheftMe body-jacked]] a man, took a woman hostage at knifepoint and tried to stab her to death in a fit of pique. After Josuke thwarts him, he goes on a killing spree with 7 civilian deaths. He attempts to kill Josuke and [[MisplacedRetribution his mother]] out of spite, and then kills Josuke's grandfather. He returns for another attempt on their lives, and when defeated, he taunts Josuke with his grandfather's death and the fact that he can't kill Angelo [[IfYouKillHimYouWillBeJustLikeHim without becoming like him]], before threatening to [[WouldHurtAChild throttle a young boy to death]].

** Diavolo, the BigBad of ''Vento Aureo'', is the mysterious [[TheDon "boss"]] of [[TheMafia Passione]], who was ruthless enough to be able to edge out all the other Mafia families. However, he causes his more conscientious employees to rebel by rejecting the ethics adhered to by other mafiosi and selling hard drugs to minors. Driven by extreme paranoia, he resolves to erase all traces of his past identity and kill anyone who has seen his face. Years ago he attempted to [[{{Matricide}} kill his mother]] by sewing her mouth shut (a torment he later inflicts [[WouldHurtAChild on a young boy]]) and [[BuriedAlive burying her alive]]. He then [[WhereIWasBornAndRazed burned his village to the ground]], intending to kill everyone and [[FakingTheDead being listed as a casualty]]; at least seven people are killed by this, and Diavolo intended to kill more. He rules his organization with an iron fist and makes a gruesome example of two of his elite assassins when they breach his privacy. He dismembers one of the men alive-which causes the other to commit suicide to avoid a similar fate-and then sends the bodies to their comrades as a macabre warning. When he learns that he has a teenage daughter, he responds by [[OffingTheOffspring plotting to murder her]], almost doing it himself before Bruno intervenes. Additionally, it was Diavolo who sold the [[ArtifactOfDoom Stand Arrows]] to Enya Geil, making him responsible for the outbreak of [[SuperEmpowering super-empowered]] villains that has driven the events of the series from Part III onward. Heartless, paranoid and grandiose, Diavolo believed himself to be a rightful emperor over the whole world and stopped at nothing in pursuit of power.
** [[PsychoForHire Cioccolata]], the most {{sadist}}ic member of Passione, is a SerialKiller whose main joy in life is [[LovesTheSoundOfScreaming seeing pain and fear expressed on the face of someone about to die]]. He [[MadDoctor volunteered in aged care]] for the chance to torture vulnerable people to death, poisoning them and [[BreakThemByTalking breaking their spirits]] by telling them that no-one would come to visit them. From this cruelty [[PersonalityPowers was born]] a [[BadPowersBadPeople gruesome power]]: his Stand inflicts people with mold that causes them to [[CruelAndUnusualDeath die in agony]] as [[BodyHorror their bodies fall apart]]. He had used this power to kill innocents for years by the time he was introduced. While waiting to ambush the heroes, he kills several bystanders in this way. Rather than finishing off his targets while they're at his mercy, he waits while his similarly depraved partner Secco records their anguished expressions for posterity [[VillainBall (enabling their escape)]]. He then takes a helicopter to pursue his foes and kills everyone else in sight. As a {{sadist}} unconstrained by morality and reason, Cioccolata earns the contempt of everyone he encounters.

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* ''[[Characters/JoJosBizarreAdventurePart3 Stardust Crusaders]]'': [[BaldOfEvil J. Geil]] stands out as one of the [[LovesTheSoundOfScreaming vilest]], and most [[{{sadist}} sadistic]], of the minor villains encountered by Jotaro and his friends. Driven by a [[{{Ephebophile}} lust for teenage girls]], he {{rape|Is A Special Kind Of Evil}}d and [[WouldHurtAChild killed]] the young Sherry Polnareff (and attempted to murder her friend as well, succeeding in the {{OVA}}), prompting her brother Jean Pierre to join the heroes and seek revenge. He [[EvilGloating boasts]] that she was just one of countless girls that he [[SerialRapist raped]] and [[SerialKiller killed]]. When confronted by Polnareff and Kakyoin, he shows himself to be a [[DirtyCoward coward]] of the highest order, [[HumanShield placing]] his [[FightingSpirit Stand]] in [[MirrorMonster the eyes of a little boy]] and telling his opponents that they'll never reach him without [[EyeScream gouging out the boy's eyes]]. When this fails, he escapes and inflicts grievous (possibly fatal) wounds on a man to dress him up as a decoy for a [[InTheBack sneak attack]]. Finally, he attracts a crowd of at least 10 people, then hides his Stand among them before trying to goad Polnareff to mow them down by gloating about what he did to his sister. He dies showing nothing but pride in his actions.

* ''[[Characters/JoJosBizarreAdventurePart1 Phantom Blood]]'' (first appearance): [[ArchEnemy Dio Brando]] is the OverarchingVillain of the entire series, [[FromNobodyToNightmare rising from humble beginnings]] to become a global threat who looms large over the events of this GenerationalSaga. After [[{{Patricide}} murdering his abusive father]], Dio is taken in by the kind-hearted George Joestar and starts to covet his wealth, so Dio goes about ruining his adopted brother [[TheHero Jonathan]]'s life, attempting to [[EyeScream gouge out an eye]], stealing the [[SacredFirstKiss first kiss]] from his girlfriend Erina, and [[KillItWithFire burning his beloved dog alive]]. Dio later poisons George in an attempt to claim his inheritance, and after [[HopeSpot being thwarted]], stabs him fatally as a blood sacrifice to activate the [[ArtifactOfDoom Stone Mask]] and become a vampire. Dio then [[TranshumanTreachery renounces his humanity]] and sets up a base in a nearby medieval town, draining its inhabitants of life one-by-one. When a mother agrees to let Dio zombify her on the condition that he doesn't lay a hand on her baby, he watches with amusement as [[ExactWords the zombified woman eats her own child]]. After being defeated by Jonathan and reduced to a disembodied head, Dio stalks and murders Jonathan on his honeymoon cruise, taking a boat full of innocent people down with them, before [[BodySnatcher stealing Jonathan's body]]. Returning in [[Characters/JoJosBizarreAdventurePart3 Part III]], Dio tries to prevent Jotaro and his friends from reaching him by having [[ProfessionalKiller Gray Fly]] bring down the passenger plane they're on, and murdering his loyal [[TheDragon right-hand woman]] Enya Geil to ensure that she doesn't divulge his powers. In the climactic confrontation with Jotaro and company, Dio abducts a man, forces him to drive at lethal speeds through crowds of pedestrians in pursuit of his foes, and then kills him by [[GrievousHarmWithABody using him as a projectile]]. [[Characters/JoJosBizarreAdventurePart6 Part VI]] reveals details about the now-deceased Dio's grand plan: he manipulated his fanatically loyal follower Enrico Pucci into seeking to [[RealityWarper rewrite reality]] into Dio's warped vision of "heaven", meaning nothing but [[AGodAmI unchecked power]] for Dio and more grovelling support from his underlings.

* ''[[Characters/JoJosBizarreAdventurePart4 Diamond Is Unbreakable]]'': Anjuro "[[IronicNickname Angelo]]" Katagiri is a SerialKiller and Japan's most notorious criminal. A robber and rapist since the age of 12, his infamy reached its peak after an incident in which he raped and killed two teenage boys before taking a third one hostage. He arranged a ransom with the boy's rich parents, but revealed at the exchange that he had [[GroinAttack cut off the boy's penis]] and killed him, and then [[CopKiller killed one of the policemen]] who came for him. After escaping prison, Angelo [[GrandTheftMe body-jacked]] a man, took a woman hostage at knifepoint and tried to stab her to death in a fit of pique. After Josuke thwarts him, he goes on a killing spree with 7 civilian deaths. He attempts to kill Josuke and [[MisplacedRetribution his mother]] out of spite, and then kills Josuke's grandfather. He returns for another attempt on their lives, and when defeated, he taunts Josuke with his grandfather's death and the fact that he can't kill Angelo [[IfYouKillHimYouWillBeJustLikeHim without becoming like him]], before threatening to [[WouldHurtAChild throttle a young boy to death]].
* ''[[Characters/JoJosBizarreAdventurePart5 Vento Aureo]]'' ("Golden Wind"):

* ''[[Characters/JoJosBizarreAdventurePart3 Stardust Crusaders]]'':
** [[BaldOfEvil J. Geil]] stands out as one of the [[LovesTheSoundOfScreaming vilest]], and most [[{{sadist}} sadistic]], of the minor villains encountered by Jotaro and his friends. Driven by a [[{{Ephebophile}} lust for teenage girls]], he {{rape|Is A Special Kind Of Evil}}d and [[WouldHurtAChild killed]] the young Sherry Polnareff (and attempted to murder her friend as well, succeeding in the {{OVA}}), prompting her brother Jean Pierre to join the heroes and seek revenge. He [[EvilGloating boasts]] that she was just one of countless girls that he [[SerialRapist raped]] and [[SerialKiller killed]]. When confronted by Polnareff and Kakyoin, he shows himself to be a [[DirtyCoward coward]] of the highest order, [[HumanShield placing]] his [[FightingSpirit Stand]] in [[MirrorMonster the eyes of a little boy]] and telling his opponents that they'll never reach him without [[EyeScream gouging out the boy's eyes]]. When this fails, he escapes and inflicts grievous (possibly fatal) wounds on a man to dress him up as a decoy for a [[InTheBack sneak attack]]. Finally, he attracts a crowd of at least 10 people, then hides his Stand among them before trying to goad Polnareff to mow them down by gloating about what he did to his sister. He dies showing nothing but pride in his actions.
** [[PsychopathicManchild Terence (Telence) T. D'Arby]]/[[DubNameChange D'Arby the Younger]] is the [[FauxAffablyEvil courteous and formal]] butler of Dio Brando. After introducing himself to the heroes and trapping them in his basement, he reveals his true colors, proudly displaying his collection of [[LivingDollCollector 15 dolls]], all people who he defeated in a game before taking their souls. Unlike his brother Daniel, he deliberately keeps them [[AndIMustScream fully aware of their situation and powerless]]. He then defeats Kakyoin and adds him to the collection, intending to do the same to Jotaro and Joseph. He also gloats about an incident where he beat his brother Daniel to near-death after catching him flirting with his girlfriend.

* ''[[Characters/JoJosBizarreAdventurePart1 Phantom Blood]]'' (first appearance): [[BlondGuysAreEvil Dio Brando]] is the OverarchingVillain of the entire series, [[FromNobodyToNightmare rising from humble beginnings]] to become a global threat who looms large over the events of this GenerationalSaga. After [[{{Patricide}} murdering his abusive father]], Dio is taken in by the kind-hearted George Joestar and starts to covet his wealth, so Dio goes about ruining his adopted brother [[TheHero Jonathan]]'s life, attempting to [[EyeScream gouge out an eye]], stealing the [[SacredFirstKiss first kiss]] from his girlfriend Erina, and [[KillItWithFire burning his beloved dog alive]]. Dio later poisons George in an attempt to claim his inheritance, and after [[HopeSpot being thwarted]], stabs him fatally as a blood sacrifice to activate the [[ArtifactOfDoom Stone Mask]] and become a vampire. Dio then [[TranshumanTreachery renounces his humanity]] and sets up a base in a nearby medieval town, draining its inhabitants of life one-by-one. When a mother agrees to let Dio zombify her on the condition that he doesn't lay a hand on her baby, he watches with amusement as [[ExactWords the zombified woman eats her own child]]. After being defeated by Jonathan and reduced to a disembodied head, Dio stalks and murders Jonathan on his honeymoon cruise, taking a boat full of innocent people down with them, before [[BodySnatcher stealing Jonathan's body]]. Returning in [[Characters/JoJosBizarreAdventurePart3 Part III]], Dio tries to prevent Jotaro and his friends from reaching him by having [[ProfessionalKiller Gray Fly]] bring down the passenger plane they're on, and murdering his loyal [[TheDragon right-hand woman]] Enya Geil to ensure that she doesn't divulge his powers. In the climactic confrontation with Jotaro and company, Dio abducts a man, forces him to drive at lethal speeds through crowds of pedestrians in pursuit of his foes, and then kills him by [[GrievousHarmWithABody using him as a projectile]]. [[Characters/JoJosBizarreAdventurePart6 Part VI]] reveals details about the now-deceased Dio's grand plan: he manipulated his fanatically loyal follower Enrico Pucci into seeking to [[RealityWarper rewrite reality]] into Dio's warped vision of "heaven", meaning nothing but [[AGodAmI unchecked power]] for Dio and more grovelling support from his underlings.

* ''[[Characters/JoJosBizarreAdventurePart3 Stardust Crusaders]]'': [[BaldOfEvil J. Geil]] stands out as one of the [[LovesTheSoundOfScreaming vilest]], and most [[{{sadist}} sadistic]], of the minor villains encountered by Jotaro and his friends. Driven by a [[{{Ephebophile}} lust for teenage girls]], he {{rape|Is A Special Kind Of Evil}}d and [[WouldHurtAChild killed]] the young Sherry Polnareff (and attempted to murder her friend as well, succeeding in the {{OVA}}), prompting her brother Jean Pierre to join the heroes and seek revenge. He [[EvilGloating boasts]] that she was just one of countless girls that he [[SerialRapist raped]] and [[SerialKiller killed]]. When confronted by Polnareff and Kakyoin, he shows himself to be a [[DirtyCoward coward]] of the highest order, [[HumanShield placing]] his [[FightingSpirit Stand]] in [[MirrorMonster the eyes of a little boy]] and telling his opponents that they'll never reach him without [[EyeScream gouging out the boy's eyes]]. When this fails, he escapes and inflicts grievous (possibly fatal) wounds on a man to dress him up as a decoy for a [[InTheBack sneak attack]]. Finally, he attracts a crowd of at least 10 people, then hides his Stand among them before trying to goad Polnareff to mow them down by gloating about what he did to his sister. He dies showing nothing but pride in his actions.

* ''[[Characters/JoJosBizarreAdventurePart3 Stardust Crusaders]]'': [[BaldOfEvil J. Geil]] stands out as the [[LovesTheSoundOfScreaming vilest]], and most [[{{sadist}} sadistic]], of the minor villains encountered by Jotaro and his friends. Driven by a [[{{Ephebophile}} lust for teenage girls]], he {{rape|Is A Special Kind Of Evil}}d and [[WouldHurtAChild killed]] the young Sherry Polnareff (and attempted to murder her friend as well, succeeding in the {{OVA}}), prompting her brother Jean Pierre to join the heroes and seek revenge. He [[EvilGloating boasts]] that she was just one of countless girls that he [[SerialRapist raped]] and [[SerialKiller killed]]. When confronted by Polnareff and Kakyoin, he shows himself to be a [[DirtyCoward coward]] of the highest order, [[HumanShield placing]] his [[FightingSpirit Stand]] in [[MirrorMonster the eyes of a little boy]] and telling his opponents that they'll never reach him without [[EyeScream gouging out the boy's eyes]]. When this fails, he escapes and inflicts grievous (possibly fatal) wounds on a man to dress him up as a decoy for a [[InTheBack sneak attack]]. Finally, he attracts a crowd of at least 10 people, then hides his Stand among them before trying to goad Polnareff to mow them down by gloating about what he did to his sister. He dies showing nothing but pride in his actions.