History NightmareFuel / JoJosBizarreAdventureGoldenWind

* This part is where the stakes start to get a lot higher for the Stand fights. In Part 3, the enemy Stand users are paid mercenaries, many of them bumbling comic relief characters who have clearly never killed before and beg pathetically for mercy when they lose. In Part 4, they're ordinary townspeople who are testing out their new powers and are perfectly willing to become friends after being defeated. Now? Our main characters—most of them barely 15 to 17 years old—are facing enemy Stand users who aren't bumbling, silly, incompetent, ''or'' AffablyEvil. They're professional, seasoned mafia hitmen who know exactly what they're doing. They know the exact powers and limitations of their own Stands, and they [[NoNonsenseNemesis don't waste a second messing around on the job]]. Once their sights are locked on a target, they're '''out for blood''', and they won’t stop until their enemies are dead or they are. Every fight ends in a gruesome death--pummeled into a bloody pulp, melted alive by a killer flesh-eating virus, torn into pieces, impaled, run over by a train, and worse. ''Welcome to Part 5.''

* This part is where the stakes start to get a lot higher for the Stand fights. In Part 3, the enemy Stand users are paid mercenaries, many of them bumbling comic relief characters who have clearly never killed before and beg pathetically for mercy when they lose. In Part 4, they're ordinary townspeople who are testing out their new powers and are perfectly willing to become friends after being defeated. Now? Our main characters—most of them barely 15 to 17 years old—are facing enemy Stand users who aren't bumbling, silly, incompetent, or AffablyEvil in the least. They are professional, seasoned killers who know exactly what they're doing. They know the exact powers and limitations of their own Stands, and they [[NoNonsenseNemesis don't waste a second messing around on the job]]. Once their sights are locked on a target, they're '''out for blood''', and they won’t stop until their enemies are dead or they are. Every fight ends in a gruesome death--pummeled into a bloody pulp, melted alive by a killer flesh-eating virus, torn into pieces, impaled, run over by a train, and worse. ''Welcome to Part 5.''

* This part is where the stakes start to get a lot higher for the Stand fights. This isn't Part 3, where the enemy Stand users are paid mercenaries, many of them bumbling comic relief characters who have clearly never killed before and beg pathetically for mercy when they lose. This isn't Part 4, where they're ordinary townspeople who are testing out their new powers and are perfectly willing to become friends after being defeated. The main characters—most of them barely 15 to 17 years old—are facing professional, seasoned killers who know exactly what they're doing. They know the exact powers and limitations of their own Stands, and they [[NoNonsenseNemesis don't waste a second messing around on the job]]. Once their sights are locked on a target, they're '''out for blood''', and they won’t stop until their enemies are dead or they are. Every fight ends in a gruesome death--pummeled into a bloody pulp, melted alive by a killer flesh-eating virus, torn into pieces, impaled, run over by a train, and worse. ''Welcome to Part 5.''

* The [[AndIMustScream fate of Diavolo]] when defeated by Gold Experience Requiem. He just gets stuck in an endless loop of horrible deaths, including being stabbed by a random drug addict, having his liver pulled out during an autopsy, and being ran over. The worst part is he can't die due to GER returning everything to "zero", and he still feels all of the pain. Granted, [[LaserGuidedKarma it's truly]][[KarmicDeath well-deserved]] considering how [[CompleteMonster horrifically monstrous]] he is, but his terrified expression as he trembles at the idea that ''literally anything approaching him could be his next death'' at least makes him pitiable.

* The [[AndIMustScream fate of Diavolo]] when defeated by Gold Experience Requiem. He just gets stuck in an endless loop of horrible deaths, including being stabbed by a random drug addict, having his liver pulled out during an autopsy, and being ran over. The worst part is he can't die due to GER returning everything to "zero", and he still feels all of the pain. Granted, [[LaserGuidedKarma it's truly well-deserved]] considering how [[CompleteMonster horrifically monstrous]] he is, but his terrified expression as he trembles at the idea that ''literally anything approaching him could be his next death'' at least makes him pitiable.

*** If this additional scene is anything to go by, Diavolo didn't kill him with King Crimson in the manga either which would have potentially been a better fate as Diavolo doesn't torture or mess with his opponents. Instead, he got ''the'' most monstrous of his squad to do it, as a macabre warning of sorts, in the most gruesome and painful way possible. Even though Diavolo claims he's disgusted with Cioccolata, the fact that he still has him and Secco working for Passione and using them as means of intimidation (with Cioccolata being his personal ''chief torturer'') makes him a complete {{Hypocrite}}.
*** Though it is possible Diavolo has to let Cioccolata torture people from time to time to keep him from rebelling, and in doing so, becoming even more dangerous.
** The amount of creative sadism involved in how Diavolo made his point clear to the remainder of La Squadra is both impressive and horrifying, as the team suddenly receive a whole bunch of frames with glass boxes filled with formaldehyde shortly after Formaggio discovered Gelato's body. Then they notice the body parts, and line them up... And see that it's Sorbet's body, frozen in a horrified expression in what is basically one big horrific art piece (that also must've take a lot of effort to get ''just'' right). Their terrified reactions are completely reasonable.

** The leadup to Sorbet's fate is made worse by the anime where the viewer can ''hear'' the members of La Squadra, a band of ''hardened assassins'', audibly losing their composure as it gradually comes into focus exactly ''what'' they're looking at. Pesci especially screws his eyes shut and screams that he doesn't want to see any more of what became of his ally, and ''Formaggio'' who had recently been shown assassinating a man by causing a full ''car'' to explode out of him and crush the man's date to paste not much earlier lets out a bloodcurdling scream of terror once the full "picture" comes together, and can be seen with his hands over his mouth struggling to keep from vomiting. When Illuso realizes just how Gelato died his voice is audibly wavering in fear.

''Vento Aureo'' is DarkerAndEdgier than previous parts, with its brutal {{Anti|Hero}}-Heroes being matched by much viler villains than ever before, while the gruesome violence is turned up to eleven. As such, it's got plenty of NightmareFuel.

* While not as outlandish as the other examples here it still bares mentioning on how disturbingly realistic Giorno's backstory is and how it happens in real life. Giorno's mother left her not even four-year-old son by himself at night because she didn't want to give up her life of partying. Then she marries a man who seems nice on the surface, but turns out to be abusive asshole who would beat Giorno for just looking at him wrong. Who knows how Giorno's life or how he would turn out if he never rescued and meet that gangster.

* After his defeat, Zucchero was turned into a disembodied head by Bucciarati and had his mouth zipped up. He was left at the mercy of Mista, who hung him up by the eyelid with a ''fishing hook'' in a position where he would look directly at the sun while wearing glasses that magnified his eyeball. It's overshadowed by the group's [[Funny/JoJosBizarreAdventureGoldenWind hilarious]] [[BigLippedAlligatorMoment dance routine]] and the fact that Zucchero [[LaserGuidedKArma had this coming]], but this is a position ''no one'' would want to end up in.

** Pesci himself becomes this. At first he seems to be a less competent CowardlyLion, then after Prosciutto gets trapped in the trains' gears his personality turns a 180 and he casually snaps a passengers neck for no reason. From then on, he becomes so determined and deadly that Bucciarati actually considered him '''more dangerous''' than the guy who's mere presence was aging everyone on the train. He manages to survive Bucciarati ''snapping his neck'' and still had the strength to go after the rest of the heroes while they were still aged.

** And before ''that'', when he was FOURTEEN, he masqueraded as a kindly attendant to the elderly... but in actuality drugged and starved them to keep them weak while also telling them that their family hate them and nobody cared enough to come visit them. Nine people committed suicide from his psychological abuse, and he filmed that, too.

* The boss of Passione, Diavolo, and by extension Doppio, is a strong contender for the most unsettling BigBad in the series. Everything about him; his stand, brutality, ambiguous origins, true nature, and his lack of actual appearance for most of the story makes him come across as more of an implacable horror movie monster than a human villain.

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* Risotto Nero, the leader of Squadra Esecuzioni/Hitman Team. For starters, there's the fact that he has red irises and black sclera. Combined that with his [[TheStoic demeanor]] and you already get a creepy man to come across. Then there's his Stand, Metallica. It can manipulate iron, including the iron in his opponent's blood. When fighting him, he forces Doppio to ''cough up razor blades''.
** The anime adds a scene where he has apparently roped a hapless grunt into performing a extensive data analysis of a photo's ashes to decipher the next destination of Bucciarati's group. When the grunt starts to complain, nails burst out from one of his hands. Nero warns him that the next unwanted comment will [[EyeScream cost him an eye]], coldly reasoning that he only needs one hand and one eye to do his job. The guy seems to get the message, but begins to whine reflexively before he can stop himself. Cue his left eye starting to bulge before a GoryDiscretionShot. And blood splattering on Risotto's unflinching face.
*** The EyeScream wasn't just because the guy whined, but because he [[TooDumbToLive indirectly mentioned Sorbet and Gelato's deaths]] by saying Risotto should know better than anyone that the Boss will make anyone who tries to go against him disappear. That clearly [[BerserkButton struck a nerve]].
** His whole fight with Doppio is quite possibly the most brutal, painful and ''nauseating'' fight in the series, and that's saying '''a lot'''. Risotto spawned a pair of scissors in Doppio's neck and tried to use them to cut his throat. Doppio had to ''rip the scissors out of his skin''.
*** Doppio deducing where Risotto was hiding by using a frog, hoping that Risotto's ability would activate on it before reaching Doppio. And it did, causing the frog to ''burst open with razor blades spilling out''. Then Doppio cut off one of Risotto's feet by throwing a part of scissors at him.
*** As the fight went on, lack of iron in Doppio's body was turning his blood into yellow pus. He was barely able to breathe and think from the lack of oxygen that iron provides for the body.
*** Finally, Risotto tried to end the fight by ''slowly'' slicing Doppio's head open from the top of his skull with razor blades. The anime adaptation doesn't make this any easier to sit through especially with Soma Saito and Griffin Burns's performances as Doppio whose ''screams of agony'' really drive the point further on how brutally Risotto is torturing him.
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* This part is where the stakes start to get a lot higher for the Stand fights. This isn't Part 3, where the enemy Stand users are paid mercenaries, many of them bumbling comic relief characters who have clearly never killed before and beg for mercy when they lose. This isn't Part 4, where they're ordinary townspeople who are testing out their new powers and are perfectly willing to become friends after being defeated. The main characters—most of them barely 15 to 17 years old—are facing professional, seasoned killers who know exactly what they're doing. They know the exact powers and limitations of their own Stands, and they [[NoNonsenseNemesis don't waste a second messing around on the job]]. Once their sights are locked on a target, they're '''out for blood''', and they won’t stop until their enemies are dead or they are. Every fight ends in a gruesome death--pummeled into a bloody pulp, melted alive by a killer flesh-eating virus, torn into pieces, impaled, run over by a train, and worse. ''Welcome to Part 5.''

* This part is where the stakes start to get a lot higher for the Stand fights. This isn't Part 3, where the enemy Stand users are paid mercenaries, many of them bumbling comic relief characters who have clearly never killed before and beg for mercy when they lose. This isn't Part 4, where they're ordinary townspeople who are testing out their new powers and are perfectly willing to become friends after being defeated. This is Part 5, and the main characters—most of them barely 15 to 17 years old—are facing professional, seasoned killers who know exactly what they're doing. They know the exact powers and limitations of their own Stands, and they [[NoNonsenseNemesis don't waste a second messing around on the job]]. Once their sights are locked on a target, they're '''out for blood''', and they won’t stop until their enemies are dead or they are. Every fight ends in a gruesome death--pummeled into a bloody pulp, melted alive by a killer flesh-eating virus, torn into pieces, impaled, run over by a train, and worse.

[[folder: Bucciarati's intro]]

[[folder: Polpo and Black Sabbath]]

[[folder: Zucchero and Sale]]

[[folder: Little Feet]]

[[folder: Sorbet and Gelato]]
* [[{{CruelAndUnusualDeath}} Sorbet's death]]. He and his partner Gelato were dissatisfied by the small territory Diavolo had given them so they began to look into him. Diavolo caught both of them, tied up Gelato and made him watch him cut Sorbet into 36 separate pieces... while he was still alive, ''toes first''. Gelato was so horrified that he committed suicide by swallowing his cloth gag to spare himself from this torturous death. Later, Diavolo sends formaldehyde-filled slabs containing bits of Sorbet to the Hitman Squad as a warning not to cross him again.

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** Even [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IlfT3yqcC78 Fugo's theme]] in the anime is terrifying. It starts with a ''biohazard alarm,'' and is followed by a tune that wouldn't sound out of place on the ''{{Film/Jaws}}'' soundtrack, before getting hit with a filthy distorted guitar noise and the theme switches to something out of a survival horror game.

[[folder: Prosciutto and Pesci]]

[[folder: Baby Face]]

[[folder: The Mystery of King Crimson ]]

[[folder: Clash and Talking Head]]

[[folder: Notorious B.I.G]]

[[folder: Cioccolata and Secco]]

[[folder: The Boss]]

*** When Bucciarati [[ImpaledwithExtremePrejudice gets punched through the torso]] by King Crimson in the anime, we see that, instead of opting for a swift MegatonPunch, he actually ''digs his fist into Bucciarati's body until he bursts out on the other side''. [[SickeningCrunch The sound his chest makes when being impaled]] only makes it worse.

[[folder: Risotto Nero]]

[[folder: The Requiem Quietly Plays]]

[[folder: Epilogue]]

''Vento Aureo'' is notorious for being the darkest part of ''[=JoJo's=] Bizarre Adventure'' [[NightmareFuel/JoJosBizarreAdventureSteelBallRun next to]] ''[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureSteelBallRun Steel Ball Run]]'', with its brutal {{Anti|Hero}}-Heroes being matched by much viler villains than ever before (complete with the darkest BigBad in the entire series so far), while the gruesome violence is turned up to eleven. As such, it's got plenty of NightmareFuel.

''Vento Aureo'' is notorious for being the darkest part of ''[=JoJo's=] Bizarre Adventure'' [[NightmareFuel/JoJosBizarreAdventureSteelBallRun next to]] ''[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureSteelBallRun Steel Ball Run]]'', with its brutal [[AntiHero Anti-Heroes]] being matched by much viler villains than ever before (complete with the darkest BigBad in the entire series so far), while the gruesome violence is turned up to eleven. As such, it's got plenty of NightmareFuel.

--> '''Formaggio''': Oh yeah, don't assume that its bite will send you to a swift and peaceful oblivion. Its venom will first paralyze your muscles, rendering your body immobile. But it's what happens ''after'' the paralysis that's really terrifying. It'll grab you and inject both a venom and a digestive enzyme deep into your body. The deadly cocktail of enzymes will then slowly but surely liquefy your insides into a pulpy, viscous slime, then... slurpety slurp. Keep in mind, you'll be fully conscious, meaning you'll be able to speak while it's lunching on your flesh...

--> '''Boy:''' Mommy, please! Wake up...! Mommy... Mommy... *cries* Mommy, please...! Mommy!

* Squalo's short-lived [[VillainousBreakdown Villainous Breakdown]] when he carries the now perished Tiziano who used the last way of action to stand in the way of Aerosmith's bullets to both protect Squalo and launch streams of blood on Narancia so that Clash can travel close to Narancia's neck. He was ''pissed'' beyond compare losing his partner, vowing to not only kill Narancia but the rest of the crew just to get back to him. The way his voice travels from [[TranquilFury Tranquil Fury]] to the [[RageBreakingPoint Rage-Breaking Point]] as he commands Clash to end Narancia here and now, slowly and painfully. If he actually won, there's no telling what things he'll do to the rest of the crew with that kind of anger.
--> '''Squalo:''' [[TranquilFury To hell with the Boss...]] He can shove his orders up his reclusive ass! [[ItsPersonal I'm not gonna murder you just because it's my duty as one of the Boss' guards!]]
--> '''Squalo:''' ''(thinking)'' This is for you, Tiziano... I'll send this piece of shit to Hell in your name! And once I'm done, [[RoaringRampageofRevenge his friends will die, too!]] [[ThisIsUnforgivable I'll eviscerate them for what they did!]] Suffering will be their penance!
--> '''Squalo:''' '''''[[SuddenlyShouting FINISH HIM, CLASH! RIP HIS THROAT OUT! TEAR IT TO SHREDS!]]'''''

---> '''Notorious B.I.G's graffiti, rough translation''': The corpse is eating us. Save us.\\

--->'''Diavolo:''' Think of this as a gift. A farewell gift from the heart. In a moment, you will cease to exist so I will allow you to know now. What you witnessed and felt... was your future self laid bare. Simply put, your past self saw a future version. Now behold. Know the almighty power of King Crimson! I obliterated time and leapt beyond it! (''punches Bucciarati in the spine'') It doesn't matter who it is, I shall ''never'' allow any cretin to threaten my eternal transcendence. '''''[[PunctuatedForEmphasis Not. Ever.]]''''' The time's come for you to fade away! (''burrows his fist through Bucciarati's chest'') Bucciarati, your mission as protector has been terminated... '''''[[PreMortemOneLiner Now may the fires of Hell embrace you.]]'''''

-->"''The pain... it's unbearable...'' '''''RRRGH, SOMEONE HELP!'''''"