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Jonathan Joestar

Stand: Ra

The First JoJo. Jonathan Joestar was initially an ordinary yet wealthy young man until his father adopted Twilight Sparkle into the family, becoming her adoptive brother. With the adoption of Dio Brando, however, his life became topsy-turvy — especially when Dio Brando reveals himself to be a sinister, untrustworthy man who is out to ruin both his and his family's life.

His Stand, Ra

(named after the Sun god Ra from Egyptian Mythology), gives him control over light energy.

The Ace: Much like his canon counterpart, he quickly learned and mastered the art of Hamon, known to be extremely difficult to master in canon, in such a short time despite being a rookie compared to Twilight, who trained in Hamon longer. Straizo speculates that he's another born prodigy like Twilight is.
Adaptational Angst Downgrade: Thanks to Twilight's help, he's able to deflect most of Dio's actions against him, save for his dog Danny's unfortunate demise.
Adventure Archaeologist: He becomes this after marrying Erina, even to the point where he finds what might be the remains of Camelot. At the very least, he found the scabbard Avalon.
Back for the Dead: He turns in up Battle Tendency and later Stardust Crusaders, dying in the latter to preserve his granddaughter's life. Subverted in that he returns in A Gentleman, A Thief, A King, and A Hero as a Heroic Spirit.
Bare-Handed Blade Block: While fighting Tattoo, he's able to stop the latter from stabbing him in the liver by grabbing Tattoo's knife blade. He quickly follows up by kicking Tattoo in the groin after Tattoo states his intent to cut off a few fingers.
Been There, Shaped History: He and Speedwagon were part of the expedition into Tutankhamen's tomb, and their personal experience leads Jonathan to believe that rumors of a curse on the tomb are false.
Combat Pragmatist: Not as much as his grandson, but for him, fighting like a gentleman means not giving your opponent an inch out of courtesy. As he tells Lancer, fighting fair is something reserved purely for sport fighting, not the battlefield.
Crossover Relatives: He's one of the main protagonists of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure (specifically Phantom Blood), but thanks to the changed setting, he ends up becoming the adoptive brother of Twilight Sparkle from My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic.
Dies Differently in Adaptation: Instead of drowning in the sea to keep Dio from threatening the world ever again, here DIO kills him by blowing a hole through his chest.
Groin Attack: After keeping Tattoo from stabbing him with a Bare-Handed Blade Block, he quickly follows up with a swift kick to the groin. Tattoo had to bite his own cheek to keep himself from screaming.
Good Counterpart: His Stand was conceptualized as this to the Ten Glory Gods, in the same way that the rest of the team's Stands are this for the Tarot Assassins.
Heroes Love Dogs: Like his canon counterpart, he's the proud owner of a Great Dane named Danny.
Heroes Prefer Swords: His Sword of Luck and Pluck, a gift from the knight Bruford, contributes to him becoming the Servant Saber in the Fourth Holy Grail War.
In Spite of a Nail: Despite living much longer than his canon counterpart, he still dies at Dio's hands. He also loses his beloved dog Danny when Dio kills him.
Missing Mom: Justified; like his canon counterpart, his mother died in a carriage accident.
Nice Guy: He's the truest definition of noble and a gentleman, always willing to help others if it's within his power. Heck, when he learns the Holy Grail has enough accumulated prana to grant more than one wish, he decides to let Avenger, Berserker, Assassin, their Masters, and Kiritsugu get their wishes while still getting his own.
Outliving One's Offspring: In Battle Tendency, he ends up outliving his son, George Joestar II, when the latter died in World War I... Officially. His son actually died because he was killed by a zombified superior officer, and Dio stole his body for himself, leaving the head behind.
Point of Divergence:
- Due to changed circumstances and choices (notably, having Twilight Sparkle for an adoptive sister), Jonathan is spared the fate of having his body stolen by Dio like what happened in canon. Instead, it's his son, George Joestar II, whose body Dio steals for himself.
- Because Jonathan survived the events of Phantom Blood, he was able to live with Erina and help her raise a young Joseph after he lost both of his parents. Jonathon's presence also helped tame Joseph's worst flaws, making Joseph more mature and honorable whereas his canon counterpart was an impulsive Jerk with a Heart of Gold with an attitude problem.
Post-Victory Collapse: Defeating Dio at the end of Phantom Blood took so much out of him that he collapses from exhaustion. He does it again years later after he and Polnareff manage to defeat Devo the Cursed and his Ebony Devil.
The Power of the Sun: In his later years, Jonathan gets his very own Stand, Ra, which allows him to not only manipulate sunlight, but also super-enhance his natural Hamon skills.
Reincarnation: His goal during the Fourth Holy Grail War, since the nature of the Throne of Heroes means he can't get it normally, and he was told that Erina would soon be reincarnating. He had no intention of leaving her all by herself, even in another life.
Single Tear: He sheds a tear in mourning after Bruford dies, saddened by how two Fallen Heroes were twisted into evil undead minions by Dio postmortem.
Spared by the Adaptation: Instead of dying at the end of the first story, he manages to live and continues to be a prominent figure in later stories.
Strong Family Resemblance: When he finally does show signs of aging, he's noted to look very similar to his father. Though not to the point where DIO mistakes the two.
Victory by Endurance: How he chooses to beat Dio both in the boxing match in their youth and their climatic final battle near the end of the story. It convinces Dio that trying to kill Jonathan for his body is just not worth it.
What the Hell, Hero?: He gets scolded by his father when he gets into a fight with Dio over the latter killing Danny, though his father was more disappointed that he chose to fight Dio right there in the parlor instead of arranging a time and place for it like a gentleman.
You Are Better Than You Think You Are: When he encounters Artoria Pendragon in the Throne of Heroes, he assures her that her legend is something to be admired, and that she was truly the best choice to become king and lead England to a brighter future.

Twilight Sparkle

Lydia Twilight

Stand: Love is in Bloom

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The daughter of an old friend of George Joestar, Twilight Sparkle is taken in by him after her parents both died from illness. She becomes Jonathan's adopted sister and her presence ends up forming a big nail in Dio's nefarious schemes.

Her Stand, Love is in Bloom (named after a song by Tara Strong), reflects any physical attack that she can see.

Adaptational Backstory Change: Canon Twilight was born to Canterlot Unicorns and enrolled in Princess Celestia's School for Gifted Unicorns. Her magical potential was discovered when she unexpectedly hatched a Dragon egg (with the hatchling being Spike, her lifelong friend and assistant), which led to her becoming the personal student of Princess Celestia herself. Here, her father, Nathaniel Twilight a.k.a. Night Light, was an Adventure Archaeologist who was good friends with George Joestar, Jonathan Joestar's father. After her father and mother died of illness, she was sent to live with the Joestars, her father having arranged it in case something happened to him. She also developed her Stand after scratching herself on the Arrow when she was five, and later learned Hamon under Master Tonpetty.
Adaptational Early Appearance: She's introduced as a Stand user very early, unlike in canon where Stands weren't introduced until Stardust Crusaders.
Adaptational Superpower Change: Twilight Sparkle in canon was a powerful mage capable of incredible feats of magic; her Cutie Mark essentially revolved around magic itself. Here, she's a Stand user with the ability to reflect damage from legitimate physical attacks back onto the sender(s). She's also a prodigy in wielding Hamon, which she learned under Master Tonpetty prior to her adoption by the Joestars.
Adaptational Wimp: Twilight Sparkle in MLP canon is The Archmage, capable of incredible feats of magic and fighting hoof-to-hoof with villains of equal or greater power like Nightmare Moon, Discord, Lord Tirek, Starlight Glimmer, and King Sombra. By the end of the show, she has transformed into an Alicorn goddess who became the ruler of Equestria after her predecessor and mentor, Princess Celestia, abdicated. Here, she's a human woman who happens to be both a Hamon and Stand user, though she keeps her canon counterpart's great intellect and study habits.
Adaptation Name Change: Her canon counterpart is named Twilight Sparkle, but here, she's named Lydia Twilight. "Twilight Sparkle" is a nickname she got for having a streak of indigo in her purple hair. Later, she changes her last name to "Speedwagon" upon marrying her husband, Robert E. O. Speedwagon.
Adaptation Origin Connection: She's another one of Erina Pendleton's childhood friends alongside Jonathon, and was confused as to why Erina left England and moved to India for seven years. Turns out Erina's father, a doctor, was needed for his medical services, and she had to go since she had no other living family or extended relatives.
Adaptation Species Change: Twilight Sparkle is a Unicorn, but later turns into an Alicorn by her show's third season. Here, she's completely human, though she does have her canon counterpart's hair color.
Arch-Enemy: She becomes this with Enya Geil.
Astonishingly Appropriate Appearance: Her Stand, Love is in Bloom, is described as being like a colorful Greek statue. This rather fits her intellectual pursuits and personality.
Attack Reflector: Her Stand, Love is in Bloom, can reflect any attack Twilight can see coming, whether it's done to her or someone in her line of sight. However, one major drawback is that her Stand only reflects physical attacks, and the attacks have to be legitimate; accidents as well as poison and elemental attacks don't count.
Badass Adorable: She's noted to be very attractive, so much that Speedwagon fell in love with her after setting his eyes on her during their fight in Ogre Street. She's also a skilled martial artist and Hamon master in addition to being a Stand user.
Big Good: She becomes this alongside her husband Speedwagon after they co-found the Speedwagon Foundation, which continues to help oppose villainous Stand users and other threats long after she and Speedwagon are dead.
Big "NO!": She utters this in horror and grief, having witnessed her adoptive father George Joestar getting fatally stabbed by Dio after previously losing her birth father to illness.
Big "WHAT?!": She utters this when Jonathan tells her and Speedwagon to leave the mansion, having come up with a risky plan to set the Joestar mansion on fire and burn a vampiric Dio with it. Fortunately, Jonathan survives, but needed to be hospitalized for severe burns.
Crossover Relatives: She's one of the main protagonists of My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic, but she ends up becoming the adoptive sister of Jonathan Joestar and Dio Brando.
Death by Despair: Implied; while being a Hamon user makes her Long-Lived by default, she chose to join Speedwagon in death after he dies of a heart attack, unwilling to keep on living without her beloved husband.
Disappeared Dad: Justified; she lost her birth father, Nathaniel "Night Light" Twilight, to illness (which is later revealed to have been caused by getting scratched by a relic made from the Cape York meteorite, without having Stand potential). This led to her being adopted into the Joestar family since her birth father and George Joestar are old friends. Then she loses George, too, when he takes a fatal knife stab from Dio meant for Jonathan, devastating her.
Genre Savvy: When she questions Enya about the nature of her Stand, Enya's response tells Twilight that the woman doesn't know about the Stand arrow (yet) and she wisely says nothing about it.
Happily Married: She and Speedwagon marry each other by the end of the story.
In Spite of a Nail: Despite the changed settings, she still turned out to be a magical prodigy who ends up becoming a student of a more powerful, experienced teacher. In this case, however, her teacher was Tonpetty.
The Leader: After the destruction of the first Joestar manor, it's shown that the Ogre Street gang follows her alongside Speedwagon.
Life Will Kill You: It takes longer than normal due to her Hamon training, but Twilight does eventually die of old age.
Logical Weakness: She can only reflect attacks that she can see, so if an opponent comes up from behind her they can bypass it. It also needs to be an actual attack, meaning she can't stop someone from falling victim to an accidental injury. She makes up for this weakness by using Hamon to feel out an opponent sneaking up on her and fast reflexes to quickly turn in their direction.
Loophole Abuse: Since bullets travel faster than the human eye, Love is in Bloom requires that Twilight only needs to see the shooter to reflect a bullet wound, not the actual bullet.
Memento Macguffin: The Stand arrow that gave her a Stand disappeared from her father's possession prior to the start of the story. Twilight finally gets it back from the Nazis during Battle Tendency.
Missing Mom: Justified; her mother died from illness sometime before her birth father did.
Mythology Gag: Her Stand possesses a six-pointed star, a spiral horn, and wings on its back, design cues that her canon counterpart also has.
Parental Abandonment: She lost both her birth father and mother to illness, and her official adoption into the Joestar family is what kicks off the events of the entire story. Then sometime after her adoption, she loses her adoptive father, George Joestar, to Dio when he takes a proverbial bullet meant for Jonathan.
Psychic Powers: This is what Dio Brando thinks her Stand is at first since the nature of Stands was poorly understood at the time and he didn't have supernatural awareness yet.
Related Differently in the Adaptation: In canon, Twilight Sparkle has an older brother in Shining Armor. Here, she's an only child and Shining is instead her descendant through Speedwagon.
Single Tear: She sheds a single tear as she reads a letter from her dead father, which detailed his plans for her to be adopted into the Joestar family and how he feels about her as her father.
Spanner in the Works: She hits Dio's early attempts to discredit Jonathan hard; notably, she prevents Dio from stealing Erina's Sacred First Kiss like what happened in canon. It's thanks to her interference that Jonathan quickly catches on that Dio is not to be trusted.
Suddenly Shouting: The first few times she uses her Stand, she whispers its name. Later when Dio uses the stone mask to become a vampire and tries to kill the police sergeant, she shouts her Stand's name the way Stand users normally do it.
Together in Death: When Speedwagon died of a heart attack (which was secretly engineered by SEELE), she followed her husband shortly after.
Worthy Opponent:
- Tarkus comes to respect Twilight as a fighter and a hero after she gives him the first satisfying fight he had in centuries since his death. When he dies, he dies happy and fulfilled.
- Despite their mutual animosity, Dio starts respecting Twilight as well for her great wits and fighting ability. In Stardust Crusaders, when an aged Jonathan informs him of Twilight's death decades prior, the news makes Dio genuinely somber for a moment.

Robert E. O. Speedwagon

An Ogre Street thug who becomes Jonathan's best friend after taking a beating from him and Twilight. He also finds himself falling in love with Twilight in the process, and the two eventually marry. Shortly afterward they discover an unclaimed oil well in Texas, and Speedwagon makes use of his newfound wealth to create the Speedwagon Foundation, which would continue to aid the world and especially the Joestar clan for years to come.

Adaptational Sexuality: Canon Speedwagon was Ambiguously Gay with implications that he was romantically in love with Jonathan Joestar, and remains a bachelor for the rest of his life (which, in the 1800s, was a British euphemism for homosexuality) after Jonathan dies. Here, he finds Love at First Sight when he meets Twilight during his canonical fight with Jonathan at Ogre Street, and later marries her.
Affluent Ascetic: Even after striking it big in the oil industry he prefers to live modestly. His home, though large enough to be a mansion, is still on the smaller end. And he only hires servants because the place is large enough to justify needing multiple hands to keep it clean. Other than that he stays true to his roots and prefers to spend his money to help those less fortunate and lacking in his luck.
Badass Normal: Like his canon counterpart, he's able to deal with a few undead using heavy tools such as a sledgehammer. He's no match for stronger undead or vampires like Dio, however. He does ask Zeppeli if he can give him the ability to wield Hamon at one point, but Zeppeli refuses because he doesn't fit the criteria to become a Hamon user like Twilight and Jonathan did, pointing out that he's already useful against Dio's minions as he is now.
Big Good: Like his canon counterpart, he becomes this once he co-founds the Speedwagon Foundation, though here, he shares this position with his wife and co-founder, Twilight Sparkle. The Speedwagon Foundation continues to help oppose villainous Stand users and other threats long after he and Twilight are dead.
Crossover Couple: Unlike his canon counterpart, he falls in love with Twilight Sparkle and later marries her
Crossover Relatives: His marriage to Twilight eventually results in the birth of Rainbow Dash and Shining Armor.
Detect Evil: Like his canon counterpart, his time as a criminal in London's Ogre Street allowed him to develop the ability to judge a person's benevolence or malice by their smell alone. This helped expose to Jonathan the true extent of Dio's evil and later determine the true nature of Lorenz Keel and SEELE.
Dies Differently in Adaptation: He still dies from heart complications late in his life, but not naturally. Instead, SEELE secretly orchestrated his heart failure.
Excellent Judge of Character: Growing up on the backstreets of London, he quickly learned how to tell who was trustworthy and who had genuine malicious intent. Not only does this endear him to Jonathan and Twilight, who he can tell are genuinely good people, but it lets him know Dio is evil to the core and keeps him from getting suckered into Lorenz Keel's Instrumentality plot.
Freudian Excuse Is No Excuse: Like his canon counterpart, he confronts and completely tears apart Dio's self-justifications, telling Dio to his face that he was evil the day he was born even if he did have a Dark and Troubled Past. It helps that he developed the ability to Detect Evil through smell from his time as a criminal in Ogre Street.
Speedwagon: (to Dio) Like you, I grew up in the slums. And I've met all kinds of villains. To survive I developed the ability to tell a good person from a bad one just from the smell of them. And you, Mister Dio Brando, smell worse than shit! Claim it's your poor upbringing all you like, but from what I can tell, you were evil since the day you were born!
Good Counterpart: To Dio Brando, like in canon. Like Dio, Speedwagon had a horrible childhood growing up in the streets of London, turning to crime to survive any way he can. However, instead of becoming an evil man like Dio did, seeing Jonathan and Twilight's noble hearts convinced Speedwagon to turn over a new leaf and defy the circumstances he was born into. This, combined with his ability to Detect Evil through smell, later allowed Speedwagon to see and expose Dio as the monster he truly is. And whereas Dio did horrific things to gain immortality and power, including transplanting his own head on the body of one of the Joestars, Speedwagon stayed a mortal human and died with his humanity intact.
Happily Married: He and Twilight marry each other by the end of the story, and their union births several children and descendants.
Heel–Face Turn: Like his canon counterpart, he still turns good and becomes a steadfast ally of the Joestars following his fight with Jonathan, helping them fight the vampiric Dio and his undead minions. Though here, it happened because he fell in love with Twilight in addition to seeing her and Jonathan's good hearts. His criminal gang follows shortly after, bringing Twilight to the hospital where Jonathan was recovering from burns and helping look after Erina until Jonathan and co. came back from defeating Dio.
Love at First Sight: During his fight with Jonathon and Twilight, after he is knocked to the ground by Jonathan, he takes one look at Twilight and ends up completely dazzled by her beauty. He realizes he has been beaten "in more ways than one", calls off his gang from attacking, and pulls a Heel–Face Turn.
Love Redeems: His Heel–Face Turn was partially motivated by his falling in love with Twilight during their fight in Ogre Street. He ends up marrying her at the end of Phantom Blood.
Rags to Riches: He strikes it rich while helping Twilight search for her father's arrow in America when the couple chance upon an unclaimed oil well in Texas.
Together in Death: When he dies of a heart attack at a ripe old age (which was secretly orchestrated by SEELE), his wife Twilight follows him shortly after despite her Hamon-extended lifespan.

William Anthonio Zeppeli

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An eccentric Italian man who helps train Jonathan in the use of Hamon. Apparently his future fate is far different from canon, allowing for a lifelong friendship.

Bash Brothers: During the final horde of undead, he and Dire fight side-by-side, implying they are this trope.
Crossover Relatives: Downplayed as they are part of the same franchise, but Hol Horse and Gyro Zeppeli are his great-grandsons in this setting, while Giorno Giovanna is his great-great-grandson-in-law by marriage. Rarity and Applejack, however, play it straight by being his great-great-granddaughter and granddaughter-in-law, respectively.
Dies Differently in Adaptation: Since Hamon can only prolong aging, not stop it, Zeppeli does still die... In Battle Tendecy due to old age.
Famed In-Story: Because of how old he was when he finally died, he's well-known in his hometown of Naples. In fact, his descendant Rarity is quickly recognized for her family name.
Mentor Archetype: After completing Jonathan's training, he takes in his grandson Caesar and starts his training before turning him over to Lisa Lisa.
Outliving One's Offspring: He might have survived past canon, but his son did not, having been consumed by the Pillar Men while they still slumbered.
Spared by the Adaptation: Unlike in canon, he manages to survive well past the end of the first part.

Tonpetty

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A Hamon Master who taught Zeppeli, Dire, Straizo, and even Twilight. His gift for Hamon is so strong that he can even predict the fates of those he shakes hands with.

Cool Old Guy: Not only is he a powerful Old Master that is likely more than a century old, but he reassures Poco that there's a strong chance his sister is still alive even when the rest of Windknights Lot has been decimated.
Improbable Weapon User: He delivers a strong blow to Dio using nothing but his tobacco pipe.
Passing the Torch: Before he finally dies, he passes the title of master to Dire.
Seers: He can predict the fate of anyone he shakes hands with. The fate he sees for Zeppeli proves much better than his canon one.
Warrior Monk: Like most of his disciples, he's a Tibetan monk.

Dire

A longtime friend of Zeppeli's and a Hamon student under Master Tonpetty. He later becomes a Hamon Master in his own right in the years before World War II.

Bash Brothers: He and Zeppeli have been close friends for years and their chemistry becomes obvious as they deal with Dio's undead horde together.
Didn't See That Coming: He's shocked when Twilight reveals Straizo's fear of aging, something he never knew about even after decades of training with him.
Oh, Crap!: The revelation that there are actually dozens of stone masks (created by Kars as part of his experiments) makes him question if the one they destroyed is actually a different one from the stone mask that turned Zeppeli's father into a vampire.
Passing the Torch: He eventually passes the title of Hamon Master to Messina, just as Tonpetty passed it to him years earlier.
Spared by the Adaptation: Instead of foolishly attacking Dio with his Thunder Cross Split Attack, resulting in his death due to Dio having the ability to freeze his blood and counter the attack, Dire instead uses the attack on Wang Chen, destroying him and allowing Dire to continue living past Phantom Blood.

Straizo

A fellow student of Hamon under Master Tonpetty. He had actually taken the training hoping to stave off his aging.

Anti-Villain: He admits to Speedwagon that for all he admired Dio, he knew it was important that Dio be removed from the world and worked to aid that. He also had no intention of letting Santana awaken from his slumber, knowing how dangerous he would be when that happened.
Didn't See That Coming: He was unaware that stone mask vampires have no reflection in a mirror, since that wasn't something revealed during the fight with Dio.
Face–Heel Turn: An ally of the Joestar team in Phantom Blood, a Warm-Up Boss for Joseph and Applejack in Battle Tendecy when he attacks Speedwagon, kills several Hamon disciples, and tries to have anyone else who knows about the stone mask killed.
Genre Blindness: Unlike Dire, Straizo rarely ever left Tibet and as a result winds up completely blindsided by Joseph and Applejack's more unconventional fighting techniques. He came expecting a simple fight against a fellow Hamon user, only to face a Combat Pragmatist and a brute force farm girl.
Parents as People: He raised Lisa Lisa like a parent should, to the point where she felt conflicting emotions after learning that Joseph, her own son, caused her adoptive father's death. Straizo also taught Lisa Lisa in Hamon to the point where she became one of the world's greatest Hamon masters.
Secretly Selfish: He only took to Hamon training because he fears aging and was looking for anything that could prolong his youthful appearance. Hamon sufficed for a time, but when even that started to fail, he chose to don one of the stone masks.
Wrong Genre Savvy: His only interaction with Stands up until that point had been Twilight's Love is in Bloom and Enya's Justice, neither of which were physically powerful. This leaves him unprepared for Applejack's To The Core, which is a far more powerful Stand with a longer projection range.

Villains

Dio Brando

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The main villain of Phantom Blood, Dio Brando is Jonathan's adoptive brother who aspires to take over the Joestar Family fortune for himself. When that fails, he decides to reject his humanity, using an ancient stone mask to turn himself into a vampire-like being.

Adaptational Nice Guy: Downplayed. While he's still the same monster that canon Dio was, he notably struck up a genuine romantic relationship with Enya Geil during Phantom Blood, intending to take her as his bride once he takes over the world. This is in stark contrast to canon Dio, who treated Enya as a disposable pawn despite her loyalty and had Steely Dan kill her on the off-chance she revealed the true nature of his powers to the heroes.
Analogy Backfire: His famous "Do you remember how many loaves of bread you've eaten?" line in response to Zeppeli demanding to know how many people he consumed to heal his wounds is pointed out as flawed by Twilight. As she puts it, bread is not an animal and thus can't be compared to human lives, so Dio would have been better off using pigs as an analogy. Needless to say, Dio is not happy that Twilight wrecked his posturing again.
Awesomeness by Analysis: He's not able to see Twilight's Stand during their youth, but does quickly catch on to the fact that she has a mysterious power and that it's targeting him.
Cain and Abel: He's the adoptive brother of Jonathan and Twilight, but he quickly becomes the "Cain" to their "Abel" thanks to them realizing early on that he's a bad man with sinister motives.
Closest Thing We Got: He doesn't bother trying to take Jonathan's body this time, instead settling for the body of a drunk priest that stumbled onto his coffin and was killed by the trap inside. Luckily he's able to trade up years later when he's delivered the body of George Joestar II.
Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Like his canon counterpart, he retains a soft spot for his mother, whose premature death at the hands of his abusive father Dario amplified his worst traits and sent him off the deep end. Here, however, he also manages to form a genuinely romantic relationship with Enya Geil, who became his lover as a young woman in the 1800s. When Wang Chen suggests draining Enya of her blood to heal his own wounds, he angrily snaps back that he intends to take Enya as his bride once he takes over the world.
Freaky Is Cool: After noticing scars on Enya Geil's left hand from corrective surgery, he tells her that he finds her scars more fascinating than strange, admitting that he's seen worse. This coaxes a smile from Enya and leads to them entering a relationship.
In Spite of a Nail:
- Despite Twilight's frequent interference, he still succeeds in killing Danny quite gruesomely, earning Jonathan's ire and fists.
- He also succeeds in stealing the body of a Joestar for himself after losing his original body. But instead of Jonathan's body, he steals the body of Jonathan's son, George Joestar II.
Kick the Dog: Like in canon, his first act upon arriving at the Joestar Family estate is to try to knee Jonathon's dog Danny in the face. As Laser-Guided Karma, Twilight intervenes by using Love is in Bloom to reflect the damage onto him. Alas, despite Twilight's presence, he still manages to kill Danny rather gruesomely by having him thrown into the incinerator with Danny's maw wrapped shut with steel wires.
Laser-Guided Karma: His canon act of trying to knee Jonathan's dog Danny in the face quickly backfires when Twilight reflects the damage onto him with her Stand. When he later kills Danny in the same way he did in canon, he attracts the ire of Jonathan, who beats him up before they are both caught and scolded by George Joestar for fighting in the parlor.
Unholy Matrimony: He meets Enya Geil a hundred years earlier than canon, when she's still a young woman, and quickly forms a relationship with her.

Enya Geil

Stand: Justice

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A young woman Dio meets while on the run who he ends up falling in love with. She quickly becomes a rival to Twilight as a villainous Stand user.

Her Stand, Justice, (named after the Justice tarot card), can control people through fresh wounds. Later on in life, she gains the ability to have her Stand possess corpses, essentially turning them into zombies.

Abled in the Adaptation: She's had specialized surgery to correct the deformity in her left hand, so she doesn't have two right hands like her canon counterpart.
Adaptational Attractiveness: Justified in that we see her in her youth, but it's noted that she also drank Dio's blood, ensuring that her youthful appearance will remain in later stories.
Adaptational Early Appearance: She didn't appear until Stardust Crusaders when she was an old lady. Here, she appears in the very first story, and her relationship with Dio is expanded upon.
The Ageless: She becomes this after drinking some of Dio's blood, retaining her youth and beauty for a century.
Death Seeker: Losing DIO turned her into a broken, reclusive woman who feels disillusioned with her immortality, as she has nothing to live for with all her loved ones dead. She doesn't resist when Tomomi comes to kill her, and Tomomi is moved by her plight to kill her quickly.
Dies Differently in Adaptation: In canon, she is killed by Steely Dan to prevent any chances of her revealing DIO's secret to the heroes. Here, because DIO has a genuine romantic attachment to her, he sends Steely Dan to rescue her from captivity instead. In Stone Ocean, she dies when Tomomi kills her for badmouthing Giorno Giovanna's supposed inferiority as DIO's son despite his successes as a mafia don.
The Dragon: Acts as this to Dio even years later when he becomes DIO. Keep in mind she's still just part of the Tarot Assassins, not the Ten Glory Gods.
Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Besides DIO, Enya deeply cared for her two sons, J. Geil and Donatello Versus. In the latter case she did everything to raise Donatello right (in spite of being a recluse), to make up for losing J. Geil.
Good Scars, Evil Scars: She still shows scars on her fingers from where they were inverted to make her left hand look normal.
In Spite of a Nail: She still appears in Stardust Crusaders as an old woman like she did in canon, though here the "old woman" is a disguise she took on while her appearance as a young woman from the OVA is her true self, having become The Ageless through ingesting Dio's vampiric blood.
Karmic Death: Downplayed. She saw Giorno Giovanna as DIO's inferior son despite all his successes, prompting Giorno's mother, Tomomi, to kill her. However, upon seeing how broken she became since the deaths of DIO and her own sons, Tomomi instead opts to give her a Mercy Kill instead of ending her brutally like what happened to Mariah and Midler.
Mama Bear: Like her canon counterpart, she is devastated when her son J. Geil is killed by Polnareff, and her grief is compounded by her feeling the stab wounds J. Geil received from Polnareff's Stand, Silver Chariot. Once the last of her assassins is defeated, she decides to confront the heroes personally despite her own Stand not being combat-oriented. Unfortunately for her, Hol Horse foils her revenge scheme by warning Polnareff, and she is defeated by Fluttershy shortly after.
Morality Pet: A villainous example. As Dio's lover, she brings out what little capacity for empathy and love he has left post-vampirism, and her presence is what keeps him from going deeper into his sociopathy like his canon self. Some of Dio's most monstrous actions in canon were prevented thanks to him having someone to genuinely care for in his life.
People Puppets: Like in canon, she can control people like puppets with the mists generated by her Stand, Justice, with one major drawback being the requirement for her target(s) to have fresh wounds for Justice to enter through. After training her Stand for a century, she learns how to do this with corpses as well.
Related in the Adaptation: In this story she had two children through DIO, her second being Donatello Versus.
Scars Are Forever: She was born with her left hand looking like a right hand, and took surgery to correct this when she moved to England. While the surgery was successful, she still has scars from it.
Took a Level in Badass: When she first appears in Phantom Blood, she doesn't have her canon ability of being able to manipulate the dead. She does gain that power during Stardust Crusaders after a century of training her Stand.
Unholy Matrimony: She and Dio end up forming a relationship with each other upon first meeting.
We Have Become Complacent: She winds up defeated in Stardust Crusaders by Fluttershy using a type of plant that draws in moisture from the surrounding air (of which fog and mist would certainly qualify). Polnareff notes afterward that Enya's lack of awareness of her own weaknesses (as opposed to her son J. Geil) was likely a result of her being a century old and forgetting important factors regarding her Stand.
Who Wants to Live Forever?: DIO made her immortal without the vampirism with intent of making her his Queen once he fulfills his goals of world domination. Unfortunately, in Stardust Crusaders, she loses DIO when he is killed by Jotaro Kujo, which devastates her so much that by the time Tomomi finds her in Stone Ocean, she has become a broken recluse mourning her lover's death and wishing to die. Seeing how pitiful the other woman became causes Tomomi to pity her and give her a quick Mercy Kill in contrast to how brutally she killed Midler and Mariah earlier.

Wang Chen

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A Chinese apothecary who sold Dio the poison used to kill Dario Brando and nearly kill George Joestar. He's later turned into one of Dio's undead minions.

Demoted to Extra: In canon he was more or less The Dragon to Dio. Here that honor goes to Enya and Wang is more of The Renfield than before.
Dies Differently in Adaptation: Instead of being killed by Jonathan while on a steamboat, he's killed by Dire while still dealing with Dio at his castle.
Jobber: He basically winds up being used to show why Dire earned his memetic badass credentials from canon.
Took a Level in Dumbass: Much like canon, he winds up getting dumbed down when he becomes a zombie. Heck, he makes the mistake of suggesting Dio use Enya's blood to heal his wounds. Not only is Enya standing within earshot of him, but Dio reprimands him for even thinking he would want to kill the woman he loves just to heal some minor wounds.

Bruford

A knight who in life served under Mary, Queen of Scots. Years ago he was executed under order of Queen Elizabeth I, only for Dio to resurrect him.

Dying as Yourself: Much like canon, he ultimately dies with his humanity restored. He gratefully calls Jonathan and Twilight his "friends from 300 years later" as a result.
Famed In-Story: If Jonathan's battle with Lancer in the Fourth Holy Grail War is any indication, many in the Throne of Heroes know Bruford's name.
Fight Unscene: Since his battle against Jonathan is more or less the same as canon, most of it isn't shown in lieu of focusing on Twilight's battle with Tarkus.
Prehensile Hair: Just like canon, he can control his hair follicles to the point where it becomes an extra limb.
Take Up My Sword: He literally gifts his prized sword Luck to Jonathan upon his death, who renames it the Sword of Luck and Pluck.
Taking You with Me: He strangled his executioner Morton to death with his hair just as the axe blade reached his neck.

Tarkus

A knight who served alongside Bruford and was his lifelong friend. He was executed right alongside Bruford, and years later resurrected by Dio as a zombie.

Adaptational Heroism: Unlike canon where he Took a Level in Jerkass and stopped caring about Bruford, here we can see the comradery the two knights had back when they were still human.
Dies Differently in Adaptation: He winds up killed much earlier in the story, and by Twilight instead of Jonathan.
Genius Bruiser: Twilight notes that Tarkus was famed in legend for being as intelligent as he was powerful.
Hoist by His Own Petard: His own sword and armor is used against him when Twilight busts out the Metal Silver Overdrive, a Hamon technique designed to channel Hamon through metal objects to damage a foe.
I Regret Nothing: Zigzagged. As he starts dying from Twilight's final attack, he does admit he wishes he could have gotten in one final chain-neck deathmatch. But his fight with Twilight was so satisfying he won't let that one regret keep him from crossing over to the afterlife.
Worthy Opponent: That Twilight is a woman doesn't matter to Tarkus. She's a powerful fighter capable of keeping up with him, and that's enough to earn his respect.
Would Hit a Girl: Normally the code of chivalry forbids this, but Tarkus has two reasons to ignore that. One, he's an undead servant of Dio. Two, Twilight is very clearly trying to attack him as well.

Jack the Ripper

The infamous Serial Killer of legend. He becomes a servant of Dio and transforms into a zombie.

Combat Sadomasochist: Twilight reflecting his own blades back at him to damage him seems to actually amuse him. Heck, at one point he stabs himself through his cheek flesh while laughing maniacally, and thinks nothing of accidentally cutting off part of his finger by accident just seconds prior.
Dies Differently in Adaptation: Subverted. Jonathan still kills him, but this time around Twilight helps.
The Greatest Story Never Told: The two siblings killing him as a zombie is noted as the reason why the public at large never truly solved the mystery behind him.
Historical Domain Character: The most infamous serial killer in history. So well-known even George Joestar, who has his estate some miles from London, has heard of him.
Pragmatic Villainy: Prior to his becoming a zombie, he was found by Dio and Enya. Having already claimed a victim that night, he decided it would be best to kill Enya without leaving his mark. After killing Dio, of course, since he was clearly the more dangerous of the two.

Red Hand Morton

The executioner responsible for ending the lives of Tarkus and Bruford. He himself died during the process and was resurrected by Dio as a zombie.

Ax-Crazy: No pun intended, but the guy loves killing. It's the reason he became an executioner, seeing it as the perfect excuse to commit murder legally.
Boisterous Weakling: Dio notes that he's even weaker than Wang Chen, and for good reason. Sure Morton is genuinely dangerous, but he's out of his depth against supernatural warriors well-equipped to kill undead. And while his boast of killing Tarkus and Bruford is earned, he forgets that he died in the process thanks to Bruford strangling him as the blade reached his neck.
Butt-Monkey: Much like Nukesaku from Stardust Crusaders, the poor guy is in over his head against Jonathan and his friends.
Lethal Joke Character: Unlike Nukesaku, Morton at least is legitimately dangerous. The problem is he was a Normal Fish in a Tiny Pond, leaving him floundering against the more powerful heroes he's been set against.
O.C. Stand-in: Of the executioner who killed Tarkus and Bruford.
Red Baron: The reason he's called "Red Hand" is because all the blood of the people he's executed is said to have seeped into his hands.
Suspiciously Similar Substitute: Takes most of the actions Tarkus did in canon, and even dies the same way (albeit without causing Zeppeli's death).
Weapons of Their Trade: Appropriate for a former executioner, his weapon of choice is his trusty axe.
Would Hurt a Child: He kicks Poco away just for being near his chain-neck deathmatch with Jonathan. Deconstructed when doing so allows Poco to access the lever to let the rest of the team into the chamber.

Supporting Characters

Erina Pendleton

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Jonathan's childhood friend and later his wife. She's also a skilled doctor, something rare for women in Victorian England.

Adaptational Explanation: The reason why she moved to India for seven years in canon — her father was also a doctor, and his work was needed in India for an important expedition. She had to go with him because her father was her only living parent.
Adaptation Origin Connection: She's the childhood friend of both Jonathan and Twilight, but she left them behind for seven years when she suddenly moved to India with her father. Turns out Erina's father, a doctor, was needed for his medical services, and she had to go since she had no other living family or extended relatives.
Childhood Friends: She was a childhood friend of Twilight Sparkle, but was separated for seven years after she moved away from England to India with her father. Her seven years absence was explained as her father having to attend an important expedition since his doctoring skills were required.
Heroic RRoD: Being Jonathan's childhood friend, she tended to him in the hospital by herself for three days after learning Jonathan was admitted for burn injuries. Naturally, going without rest leads to her fainting from exhaustion, causing Jonathan to catch her fall despite still having broken arms.
Locked Out of the Loop: Subverted. She knows something dangerous requires Jonathan's full attention, but she's not aware of what. Jonathan did this deliberately for her safety.
Point of Divergence: She gets to share her Sacred First Kiss with Jonathon thanks to Twilight preventing Dio from stealing it out of spite, unlike in canon where Dio succeeded in humiliating her.
Sacred First Kiss: She's able to share her first kiss with Jonathan thanks to Twilight preventing Dio from stealing it to spite Jonathan, like what happened in canon.
She Is All Grown Up: In the seven years she had been gone from England, she blossomed into a beautiful young woman, which Jonathan quickly notices after waking up in the hospital. However, she's quick to point out how much Jonathan grew as well.
Support Party Member: In later adventures she becomes a part of the group as a medical professional, since she obviously has no fighting skills or supernatural abilities.

George Joestar

Jonathan Joestar's biological father, and the adoptive father of Dio Brando and Twilight Sparkle.

Adaptational Badass: In later flashbacks, we see the apple didn't fall far from the tree for Jonathan, as George was instrumental in helping to take down the corrupt judge Gallarion Marlon and the assassin Nemesis Sudo.
Crossover Relatives: He becomes the adoptive father of Twilight Sparkle after she was sent by her father and his best friend, Nathaniel "Night Light" Twilight, to go live with the Joestars.
Death Equals Redemption: Despite knowing that Twilight could have reflected Dio's knife stab with her Stand, he still took the blade because he was guilt-ridden over having not realized Dio's evil sooner and leaving him to torment his son.
Do Wrong, Right: When he spots Jonathan and Dio fighting each other over Danny's death, he yells at them... For not choosing a time and place to settle the matter like gentlemen.
I Have No Son!: Once he learns of Dio's attempted poisoning and goals in stealing the Joestar Family fortune away, he sorrowfully lets Dio be arrested by the police who had arrived thanks to Speedwagon and Twilight's warnings. Unfortunately, things go horribly wrong when Jonathan is the one to arrest Dio, leading to him taking a knife-stab from Dio to protect Jonathan.
Papa Wolf: He moves to protect Jonathan from being stabbed by Dio, who was trying to activate the Stone Mask with Jonathan's blood, by taking the hit himself. Unfortunately, Dio pierced his lung, making the stabbing fatal.
Redundant Rescue: He took a stab meant for Jonathan despite knowing Twilight could have reflected it with her Stand, simply because he wanted to atone for not being a better father.

Danny

Jonathan Joestar's beloved pet Great Dane. Sadly becomes the first casualty in the series due to Dio's pettiness.

Canine Companion: Like his canon counterpart, he is Jonathan Joestar's beloved Great Dane. Jonathan loses him early on thanks to Dio Brando's cruelty.
Cruel and Unusual Death: Like his canon counterpart, he dies rather horribly — Dio Brando locked him in a box which was thrown into an incinerator, and his maw was wrapped in steel wire so he doesn't make any noise until the groundskeeper turned the incinerator on. Worse, despite being freed, he suffered severe burns from being in the incinerator and later died from them.
In Spite of a Nail: Despite Twilight's presence foiling Dio's early schemes, he still died a Cruel and Unusual Death at the hands of Dio, who had him thrown into an incinerator with his maw wrapped in steel wire so he doesn't make any noise.
Small Role, Big Impact: In addition to his canon role of showing just how much of a petty, evil Jerkass Dio is, Danny is also used to show some of the mechanics of Twilight's Stand when she uses it to reflect the damage from Dio trying to knee Danny right in his head.

Tattoo

A member of Speedwagon's former gang from Ogre Street, named for his distinctive facial marking.

The Bus Came Back: He shows up during the flashback chapters of Spirit Tracks, still working for Speedwagon but now in a different capacity.
Defeat Means Friendship: He and the rest of the Ogre Street gang have pretty much accepted Twilight as a second boss following his defeat at Jonathan's hands.
Didn't See That Coming: He's blindsided by Jonathan grabbing his knife to stop it from piercing his liver, and again when Jonathan risks a few fingers just to deliver him a Groin Attack.
Heel–Face Turn: A former criminal, he reformed after getting beaten by Jonathan and Twilight, taking up a job at a London tavern.

Poco

A young boy who lives in Windknights Lot and winds up getting involved with the Joestar team.

Cowardly Lion: He's not a very brave boy, but steps up when it matters most to help Jonathan, hoping he can help keep his village from being destroyed.
Earn Your Happy Ending: He comes out of the terrifying experience Dio brings much more confidant, his family still alive, and with a new lease on life due to moving out to London.
Sole Survivor: Subverted. His father and sister also survive the massacre at Windknights Lot, but they were the only three to survive.
Wrong Genre Savvy: He's surprised that Dio would hole up in a church, thinking such holy buildings should keep vampires away. Jonathan spells it out that Our Vampires Are Different, and that they can't rely on holy relics to kill Dio.

Characters / JoJo New Universe: Phantom Blood

Heroes

Jonathan Joestar

Stand: Ra

Lydia Twilight

Stand: Love is in Bloom

Robert E. O. Speedwagon

William Anthonio Zeppeli

Tonpetty

Dire

Straizo

Villains

Dio Brando

Enya Geil

Stand: Justice

Wang Chen

Bruford

Tarkus

Jack the Ripper

Red Hand Morton

Supporting Characters

Erina Pendleton

George Joestar

Danny

Tattoo

Poco

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Heroes

Jonathan Joestar

Stand: Ra

Lydia Twilight

Stand: Love is in Bloom

Robert E. O. Speedwagon

William Anthonio Zeppeli

Tonpetty

Dire

Straizo

Villains

Dio Brando

Enya Geil

Stand: Justice

Wang Chen

Bruford

Tarkus

Jack the Ripper

Red Hand Morton

Supporting Characters

Erina Pendleton

George Joestar

Danny

Tattoo

Poco

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