At first, I thought that the first part of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure featuring Dio recruiting Jack the Ripper and vampirizing him was just a way to further amplify the magnitude of Dio's evil. Namely, he got the one of the scariest people in real-life England to join his side. Only much later did I realize what Araki was playing with. The battle between Jonathan and Jack ends with Jack being disintegrated by hamon force. This doesn't just explain why Jack the Ripper's killings ended without an arrest. It's also, in Jojoverse, why Jack was never identified with anyone's birth name. How do you identify someone who now only exists as a fine film of dust?
In Part I, Dio had the power to even freeze blood to slow his opponents -such as Jonathan- down in combat. Why didn't he use it against Jotaro? Not his body, so he couldn't do it.
In Part 7, "Steel Ball Run", Jesus, after the Resurrection, went to North America, lived there, died there, and his mummified corpse was divided in pieces that were scattered across the country. Could the inspiration for this plot have come from the song "American Jesus", by Bad Religion?
I always thought it was Mormonism through a weird lens, but knowing Araki, a song reference is more likely.
As someone else pointed out in the Abridged series, Jotaro's trick on D'Arby was more powerful than he imagined. A cigarette and a drink appearing out of nowhere while you are not looking? Easy when you can STOP TIME, or at least that's what D'Arby thought.
Jotaro had time stop all the time inside him. He does not need to stop time, just to move his stand really fast, which his Stand can already do, and then use Star Platinum to move his own body. Just as in the Heroes shoutout to Dio.
Jotaro's hat decoration which is a symbol of the Stardust Crusaders arc is a open, raised hand. A stop sign.
The only way you can finish off a vampire with Hamon is to cause it to reach their head, and Dio normally drains people by jamming his fingers into their head. Now think back to that boxing match Johnathan and Dio had in their childhood, The rule was the first hit in the head loss.
Why Jesus? Because he's Joshua son of Joseph.
The jojolion protagonist's stand Soft and Wet has lines down the middle of his eyes....
Taken from a Nico Nico video, if one takes some measurements and calculations, one can conclude that it would be impossible for Joseph Joestar to have survived the fall after launching Kars into space, as he would have either been vaporized into plasma from air friction, asphyxiated and bleed to death in the upper atmosphere, incinerated by ultraviolet radiation, or blown up with the force of 1 metric tons of TNT... It would be possible for him to survive if he formed a Ripple barrier, but he had never performed a Ripple anywhere near that powerful before... that is, unless he took advantage of the very property of the Red Stone of Aja that allowed him to defeat Kars...
The "Steel Ball Run" arc of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure combines this with Religious Horror, when it becomes apparent that the cross-country race used to frame the story is just a cover for President Valentine's agenda of collecting the scattered corpse of Jesus. When he succeeds in gathering all the parts into one vessel, Valentine's powers evolve and create an effect which draws good fortune toward him and casts misfortune away. When Johnny Joestar tries to shoot him, this effect protects Valentine, but the misfortune has to be re-directed elsewhere, resulting in children being killed on the other side of the world. Given the source of this power, it casts dark, dark questions on the miracles in the New Testament.
Not necessarily. That ability was specifically related to the dimensional gap created by D 4 C after its power were enhanced by Valentine's possession of the Saint's corpse; not to mention, the misfortune was only cast away after Valentine was directly attacked by Johnny and Gyro. The New Testament miracles probably didn't cause anything bad to happen in other parts of the world.
If they did, though, it would seem to fit under Valentine's assumption that, in the eyes of God, human lives are a zero-sum game: they're all of equal worth, so if one person is healed and another falls sick, it's all good.
Part 4 reveals that Dio implanted his spores into all of his followers, to activate in case they ever turned against him, with the possible exception of Vanilla Ice, and the results of the death of Dio causes the Nijimura's father, a servant of his to undergo horrific Body Horror when the spore activated. This makes you wonder what happened to the guys that Jotaro and company fought.
The fact the spores where in all of his followers in order to kill them if they ever betray him, makes D'arby's fears of disclosing Dio's stand all the understandable.
In Stone Ocean, when Pucci Accelerates time, he's able to move normally compared to everybody else. That means Pucci waited for trillions of years after killing Jolyne just so Dio could achieve his dream.
why does Dio have fangs when he sucks blood through his fingers?
Who says those fangs are for sucking? His body was augmented in other ways, the fangs may just be a side effect
Redundancy. You can't kill a vampire just by lopping off its head, and if a vampire is reduced to just its head it doesn't have fingers to suck blood through. We also see that the Pillarmen can consume people through their entire bodies, Dio seems to only be able to use his hands to suck blood, and zombies are stuck using their teeth (where sharpened incisors would be helpful).
