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Fridge Brilliance

• Toonami's edit of "Traitor Requiem" adds in King Crimson's Time Skip sound when Diavolo is revealed, just where the song is cut for time.
• The Golden Wind refers to the wind that carries Bucciarati's soul to heaven. Fate ordained that Bucciarati would be sanctified for his aid to Giorno, and for being a decent father figure to both Giorno and Trish.
• Giorno's story, and that of the Passione group, is of breaking away from their fate (Trish especially, who is Diavolo’s daughter) to achieve their dream of taking over the Italian mafia. So it’s understandable (if disappointing) that Giorno stays within his arc and doesn't appear any further, as he and his remaining friends are where they want to be.
• DIO, despite sucking young women dry back in his youthful vampire days, doesn't go and kill the women who would bear his sons. This may seem like an oddity, but recall how his Start of Darkness began...
  • Not to mention that Dio hates the thought of being anything like his father, who he believes was responsible for his mother's death.
• A sort of fridge irony; the first real enemy Giorno faces is Polpo's Black Sabbath Stand. Which he defeats by forcing it into the sun. The same way one would kill a vampire...
• Zucchero's scene involves him sneaking aboard a small, isolated vessel unnoticed, hiding within the tight confines of the ship, and taking out its crew of six one by one before being defeated by the last remaining member of the team. Given the appearance of his hairstyle and clothing, it seems oddly appropriate.
• Why is the #5 Sex Pistol the one who's the Butt-Monkey in Guido's Stand? Because, due to Guido's complex about the number four, the numbering sequence is 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7... which makes Sex Pistol #5 the fourth one in the group. Even if they've skipped the number, #5 will always be the fourth Sex Pistol, hence why bad things keep happening to #5 and why the other Sex Pistols bully it.
• Looking at the basic power of Gold Experience in Part 5 makes you realize there is a significant contrast between Giorno and Dio. Dio sought power even at the price of his humanity, to the point that he willingly and happily embraced undeath. Giorno's most basic power is to give things life.
• For the most part, every arc of Vento Aureo takes place during the morning. However, Giorno’s only solo fight (against Babyface), the famous seven-page "MUDA MUDA MUDA" against Cioccolata, and unlocking his Stand's Requiem form all occurred at night. Don't forget, he is still half-vampire; his power is most likely weakened during the day.
• Giorno's chosen name makes a lot of sense when you consider he's technically descended from both Dio and Jonathan. It's like what would happen if you took Jojo and Dio and merged them together (Jo+Dio=Jio, or Gio).
  • "Giorno" means "day" in Italian, very fitting considering how opposite Giorno's morality is to his vampire dad's.
  • One possible spelling/reading of the "Haru" in his birth name, Haruno, means "spring". Spring is the season in which new life is born, and Giorno's power is to create life.
• Giorno's Stand is named after a Prince album while Diavolo's Stand is named King Crimson. Giorno wants to become the leader of the mafia while Diavolo is the current kingpin. In a way, this frames Giorno's journey as being the "prince" who dethrones the "king".
• Diavolo's defeat mirrors his personality perfectly. As someone who wanted to eliminate all traces of himself out of paranoia, in the end, he's rendered perfectly invisible and unhearable like he always wanted to be, along with being eternally paranoid of what will kill him next.
• Diavolo means "devil", and it's pretty fitting for his backstory, considering that Italy is a mostly Christian nation. He was raised by a priest who loved him very much, but betrayed him, like the mythos about Lucifier being the most radiant angel before betraying God. Speaking of God, as mentioned in the Character section, in Italian it's "Dio". Giorno, the son of Dio, defeats Diavolo to effectively redeem people.
• In Purple Haze Feedback, it's revealed that Mista was actually the first person in the gang to decide to follow Bucciarati and betray the boss. The reason he didn't speak up first was because he didn't want to be the fourth person to get on the boat (Bucciarati, Giorno, and Trish were already there). Instead, Abbacchio was the fourth person on the boat. Abbacchio was also the first person to die on the journey. It seems Mista isn't completely crazy for fearing the number four. This is further cemented by the gang's introductory scene. While Mista was ranting about being served four slices of cake and saying it's considered bad luck to choose from four, Abbachio is the first person to take the first slice, sealing his fate.
• Polpo gives the exact same test to every potential entrant into his controlled territory within Passione; the Test of the Lighter. Either you keep the lighter lit for 24 hours, you fail the test because you let it get extinguished and admit it to Polpo, or you relight the lighter and take the true test with Black Sabbath, by either dying to its Stand Arrow or by developing a Stand. Now, consider Leaky-Eye Luca. He was in the Gang under Polpo, meaning that he would have had to take the test himself. And since there's no evidence that he has a Stand ability, this means that he was somehow able to keep the lighter lit for 24 hours, making him a Badass Normal when compared to the other Stand users under Polpo's command.
• More of a Fridge Irony, but, it's funny how Polnareff, the man with a Stand based solely around speed, is now stuck in the body of a turtle.
• Giorno's name not starting with a J like the other JoJos makes sense when you realize that the letter J doesn't exist in the Italian language.
• The Requiem is used to address a Stand with abilities beyond average. Normally, the term would be used in connection with a deceased person who has left the world. But that's the point: a Requiem Stand keeps going even after its user has died, in comparison with a normal Stand which ends its existence with the death of its user (and vice versa).
  • A requiem is music used for holy rites, so it's a high-class title for a high-class Stand. This means a lot in a world of fighting spirits that all have the names of musicians/music bands/songs.
  • Additionally, it means that Carne's Stand Notorious B.I.G. was a Requiem-class Stand, since it activated after his death. And with Giorno, he gets a Requiem Stand for being part undead, as his father was a vampire.
• The reason why Mista believes that the number 4 is bad luck and how his predictions harm others around him? It's the work of Sex Pistol #4!
• In general, the odd choice of portraying The Mafia as a group of Agent Peacocks in fabulous outfits may seem pretty Narmish and typical of Araki, until you learn that feudal Japan used to have gangs of eccentric, flamboyantly-dressed samurai prowling the streets in real life, too.
• Giorno's Stand Gold Experience can make people live longer after death, pretty much turning them in zombies (as seen with Bucciarati). This may be a reference to how Dio in Phantom Blood could turn people into zombies.
• Given that Kars created the stone mask, he is, in a metaphorical sense, Giorno's "grandfather" of sorts, and he gains the ability to create life, similar to how Kars did!
• Why did Cioccolata receive such a brutal beatdown from Giorno, even for the franchise's standard? A few reasons:
  • As established, Giorno can get pretty ruthless, and Cioccolata's Stand embodies two of Bucciarati's group's Stand powers. Green Day's mold is very similar to Purple Haze's virus, and Cioccolata applying it to separate and reattach his body parts is similar to how Bucciarati uses his zippers to disassemble himself. Not to mention, his relationship with Secco can be seen as a dark, twisted version of Fugo's relationship with Narancia. In Giorno's eyes, Cioccolata is a very evil version of Bucciarati and Fugo combined. No wonder he went berserk.
  • Giorno's personal Berserk Button is carelessly harming innocent people, particularly if you're a member of the Mafia. By this point, Cioccolata, a high ranking member of the mafia, has just carelessly and enthusiastically harmed every single person in Rome that isn't in a helicopter. Even if some of Rome's citizens avoided disintegrating due to Green Day's spores, practically no-one has avoided losing family and friends in the massacre. Giorno decided to be a proper Don and give Cioccolata a seven page/thirty seconds-long ethics lesson.
  • Cioccolata makes prior villains J. Geil, Angelo as well as Yoshikage Kira seem like typical thugs if you compare their sadism to him, and he stands alongside, or even exceeds DIO as having the highest kill count in the series, counting in his massacre in Rome.
• Which Stand manages to evolve into a Requiem Stand after Silver Chariot? Why, Gold Experience, of course!
• One of Aerosmith's most (in)famous songs is "Dude Looks Like a Lady". And which character has a Stand named after Aerosmith? Narancia, a character who has caused much Viewer Gender Confusion among casual fans of the series!
• In Part 3, despite the Stands' theme naming of tarot symbol and colors, we never got a Stand with "gold" in the name despite The World being golden. Come Part 5, DIO's son has a Stand with "gold" in its name.
• Some people might complain that Giorno does not seem to have inherited any vampiric traits from Dio. But it makes sense that vampirism wouldn't be a genetic condition: in Part 1, it's stated that vampirism is caused by stimulating pressure points in the brain, indicating that all humans have the potential to use vampire abilities and they only need the Stone Mask to unlock them. Having your brain poked shouldn't rewrite your DNA in a way that would be passed down to your children.
• The second ending for the anime adaptation is "Modern Crusaders" by Enigma. The title of the song itself is very convenient considering that Vento Aureo shares many traits with Stardust Crusaders.
  • The song has some lyrics that have some pretty fitting words for this part:
    They have no mission, they have no passion
    But they dare to tell us what's bad and what's good
    Stand up, join us, modern crusaders alive
• Pesci (using Beach Boy, a fishing pole that can hook into people and rip out internals/drag them along) being partnered with Prosciutto (using The Grateful Dead, a Stand that can make people grow older in a certain radius around himself) seems weird at first. One of the most famous songs The Beach Boys have in their Pet Sounds album is "Wouldn't It Be Nice". What was its first line?
  Wouldn't it be nice if we were older?
• In later episodes of Vento Aureo, we see that Diavolo is using his Stand to handle things like portraits, computers and whatnot. Wouldn't it be easier to do it himself? Well, considering his obsession with not leaving behind any evidence that he exists, which in his paranoia can go up to and include leaving fingerprints on ANYTHING, it makes more sense since Stands don't leave behind much physical evidence if used correctly.
  • This also explains why Diavolo uses his Stand as a mouthpiece so often. Since non-Stand users can't see or hear Stands, it ensures most people won't be able to overhear him and his voice won't be recorded by security systems. The only ones who can hear him are either his "loyal" enforcers, or enemy Stand users who are typically not long for this world.
• The "Fighting Gold" opening actually has a brilliant piece of symbolism regarding each member of Bucciarati's team's Dark and Troubled Past, as well as their current situation, right after a bunch of chains shoot into the air from blood splatter, and before the Title Drop.
  • Giorno is standing still, holding his hand to his chest. His Cleavage Window on his shirt is colored blue, despite the rest of him being yellow. The reason his chest is colored different? Look at the shape; it's a heart. Not only was DIO fond of the imagery, creating a Generation Xerox in fashion sense, but also how Giorno is driven by his heart and his dream.
    • Another connotation one can draw is the heart's color: blue. Whose body was DIO using to concieve Giorno? Jonathan's! It also reflects how while Giorno is outwardly DIO's son, his heart and dream is ultimately derived from the ideals and purity of Jonathan Joestar.
  • Mista runs around before being surrounded by chains that he aims at with his revolver. His backstory revolved around him moving entirely on instinct, and shooting at the rapists without understanding how. The chains are the rapists, and he's running up to them and shooting them.
    • Alternatively, as the chains alternate between steel bars, they can represent his past as a convicted felon and him running away from the chains represents his desire to break free from fate.
  • Trish is falling downwards, surrounded by chains. This symbolizes her Damsel in Distress status, as she has no choice but to move with "gravity", or the will of the gang members, and she has no real control over her situation (at least for now).
    • Trish' chains are also shaped like a DNA strand, signifying how she's related to the Boss, her fate controlled by blood.
  • Abbacchio's segment is a bit more obvious; it's an hourglass, with the sand moving through his hands. It's both a clue to his Stand ability, and how he's caught up in his guilt over his past. Additionally, Abbacchio enters the scene when a sand bust of his fallen partner shatters onto the ground, and he is seen holding running sand between his palms.
  • Narancia is repeatedly covered by chains before being revealed with a different eye being highlighted. This relates to his mother and himself getting infections in their eyes from physical abuse. When the segment is about to transition, there's a Freeze-Frame Bonus where Narancia has his back to the camera; he's moved past that dark time and is trying to make a new future for himself.
    • And of course, the wind that blows in front of him is supposed to be the Golden Wind that carries him to the afterlife.
  • Fugo has ink blots in his background. Ink blots are commonly used in psychological analysis, of which he is in dire need of. There's also two Fugo's, back to back, representing how he represses half of his personality and the Hair-Trigger Temper he has.
  • Bucciarati has the most subtle of them all; he walks down a hallway with a light behind him, with a cold expression on his face. In his backstory, he killed gangsters who were beating his father, all with the exact same expression. The light being behind him also represents how that action locked him into the path of a gangster.
  • In the final shot before the end, the gang are walking forward together, symbolizing their resolve. Finally, the chains that Giorno turned into vines rot and shatter behind them, showing that they are free from their chains and their fates that bind them.
• There's a subtle possibility that Vinegar Doppio was the original personality, as Trish resembles Doppio more than Diavolo, down to hairstyle and freckles, and the fact that they were taken by a kindly priest, who would definitely not name his child after The Devil.
• "Fighting Gold" contains hints as to who lives to finish the mission:
  • Before Coda starts the chorus, the characters who flash from silhouette to revealed will either die or leave early (Abbacchio, Narancia, Fugo, Bucciarati, in that order).
  • Also in the verse previous when the characters change from detailed drawings to colored shapes, the bodies of the surviving characters turn dark colors, while the bodies of the characters who die turn black.
  • As the screen pans upward at the end showing the character's faces, the characters who die in the part (Abbacchio, Narancia, Bucciarati, from top to bottom and in order of death) are placed on the right while the survivors (Giorno, Mista, and Fugo) are placed on the left. A similar effect happens in the "End of the World" OP in Stardust Crusaders on the stairs and its corresponding ED "Last Train Home" with the river.
• The Stand pillar in the second ending is pretty much a representation of the entire story.
  • The villains' Stands are at the bottom half of the pillar, while the heroes (with one exception) are at the top, representing who the gang had to overcome to get to the top of Passione. The villains are also all in agony (like Black Sabbath) or lying in defeat (like White Album).
  • The Stands are ordered by their chronological "exit", as in, they are placed relative to the others by when they leave or are defeated. This is why King Crimson is the only enemy Stand at the top of the pillar and above Purple Haze, Moody Blues, Aerosmith, and Sticky Fingers. However, he is not above Sex Pistols, Spice Girl, or Gold Experience. It shows King Crimson's dominance over most of Passione. Additionally, Rolling Stones is at the very bottom of the pillar as its arc not only preceded all other events in the manga, but practically set the story in motion. The only exceptions to this theme are Purple Haze, who is placed above the villains but below the gang, and Coco Jumbo who for some reason is lumped between Beach Boy and the Grateful Dead.
  • Additionally, King Crimson and Sticky Fingers are fighting, as if their struggle is immortalized in stone. When Spice Girl is introduced, King Crimson is holding her, indicating their relation.
  • Finally, the one who sits at the very top of the pillar is Gold Experience, shining like gold, and in the same pose as Giorno's in the iconic Vol. 62 cover, as well as the pose David takes in the "Fighting Gold" opening. This represents the end game of the story, Giorno becoming boss of Passione, as well as his ascension into Gold Experience Requiem.
  • As the one that unknowingly started this chain of events and predicted the protagonists' deaths, Rolling Stone is revealed to be the ball at the very bottom. It is also the rock behind the statue in the opening seconds of "Fighting Gold".
• Silver Chariot's base appearance is a stereotypical 11-13th century European knight. Logically, its Requiem "evolution", Chariot Requiem, visibly demonstrates its advancement by transforming into the silhouette of a ~14th century Spanish Conquistador.
  • Adding onto this, Gold Experience has a ladybug-like pattern on its head. GER has an open, crown-like formation, which resembles a beetle's wings opened up mid-flight.
• Diavolo's eternity of experiencing different deaths without knowing how the next death will arrive is a fitting punishment for him. Epitaph allowed him to predict the future, but in this state, he will spend an eternity never knowing it again. King Crimson allowed him to overpower his enemies as well as to choose his destiny within a period of time, but here he's stuck dying over and over and powerless to do anything about it. He'll live in eternal fear of how his death shall arrive next, and for a person as paranoid as Diavolo, this would be nothing less than a personal Hell.
  • This turns his English dub line to the Fortune Teller into a neat bit of foreshadowing.
    Diavolo: So what if you can predict the future!? That ability will be useless to you once you're dead!
• Both Requiem Stands were directly made to grant an intense desire or wish that their users had, albeit an extremely twisted and metaphorical way to achieve it.
  • Polnareff was wheelchair-bound and horrendously damaged by Diavolo, a shadow of his former self. Naturally, his desire was to keep the Arrow from Diavolo, but he may also have had a desire to give himself a new, stronger body. Chariot Requiem prevents any Stand users from touching the Arrow, as well as put anyone it wants into a new body that constantly changes and grows stronger.
  • Giorno had just lost three of his new friends to Diavolo, as well as had the rest of his gang be tortured by him over the course of the story. Diavolo also represents everything he has grown to hate as a gangster; a drug-peddling psychopath. In that one moment, Giorno wanted to utterly crush Diavolo in every possible way. Gold Experience Requiem can cancel anything Diavolo does and force him to take damage instead of avoiding it like he usually does. Naturally, when someone is as overpowered as Diavolo, you have to create an even more overpowered ability. The infinite death loop states from Giorno's desire that Diavolo never returns to complete his vengeance against the new Passione, when punishing him for dealing drugs to kids, attempting to kill his own daughter twice, the massacre of Rome (although Diavolo was disgusted to send Cioccolata and Secco, the order still came from him), and the murders of Abbacchio, Narancia and Bucciarati by subjecting him to an Ironic Hell where he can't use Epitaph and King Crimson, whose abilities made Diavolo virtually untouchable.
• It seems pretty much like a form of irony when Dio's son has to face off against the final boss whose Stand is able to effectively stop time much like The World. Even more ironic when his Requiem Stand is able to rewind time, similar to how Yoshikage Kira's Stand evolved, right down to how both the arrows embed themselves into the arm. In short, the final battle of Part 5 is between the Villain Stands of Parts 3 & 4.
• Metallica's powerset is focused entirely around magnetism and controlling iron — forming sharp objects out of iron, reattaching limbs with iron staples, redirecting light with iron like a mirror to make himself invisible — with exception to the peculiarity of being able to control other Stands if Risotto gets his blood on them. If one thinks about this, though, it's still part of his iron manipulation ability; the only Stand he controls is Aerosmith, which is a tiny airplane made of metal.
• The abilities and powers of King Crimson are based off two songs from King Crimson, namely, In The Court Of The Crimson King, and Epitaph. The first two lines of of Epitaph are "The wall on which the prophets wrote, is cracking at the seams". Guess how King Crimson's ability starts? By cracking open all the walls, floors and ceilings around it.
• King Crimson's abilities at a glance seem like a massive screw you to the usual theme of the unchangeability of fate that is recurrent in the series. But Gold Experience Requiem's little speech shows how things actually are: King Crimson doesn't see fate, it just sees the actions those around him will perform, and then "locks them" in place when he erases time. Which is why GER works, by reverting those actions to zero, thereby making them not happen. Perhaps, if Giorno's fate were to die at Diavolo's hands (for example: if Rolling Stone predicted his death), presumably not even GER could have saved him. The only person who managed to screw fate was Bucciarati, by virtue of still going on for a while after his fated death happened. Although perhaps that leads to another fridge brilliance moment in itself, since Scolippi thinks that Bucciarati might have been chosen by destiny to fulfill a greater purpose, and Pucci in Part 6 states that even one changing one's fate might be predestined.
  • King Crimson doesn't see fate. Epitaph does.
• Considering the themes of fate in this part, how King Crimson can "lock" someone's action in erased time and thus sealing their fate, it's rather appropriate that in the second opening, the lyric that says "hell no!" is accompanied by a shot of the Requiem Arrow (and later, Gold Experience Requiem). Both of them are key to countering King Crimson's ability, and thus undoing fate.
• Mista's bullets tend to hit him because he's sure that they'll hit someone, to the point he doesn't even consider if the bullet will miss or not. In other words, when Mista misses his target, he pays for it.
• How fitting it is that Polnareff who keeps running into the Big Bad at staircases, but at the same he meets God (a.k.a. Dio in Italian) who is standing at the top and cannot reach him, while meeting the Devil (a.k.a. Diavolo in Italian) standing at the bottom of the stairs and cannot escape him.
• In the anime adaption, the infamous "7 Page Muda" consists of seven shots.
• Why does Giorno have a dream? The first syllable of his name sounds like that in Georgia - the birth state of the original man to have a dream, Martin Luther King Jr..
• Why did Giorno subject Diavolo to an infinite death loop despite his seemingly minimal villainy compared to past Jojo villains? Not only because he's the leader of the biggest gang in Italy who deals drugs, but also because he's directly responsible for all of the deaths in Bucciarati's gang. Contrast that to the deaths of the past main gangs directly caused by past main villains:
  • In Part 1, the only notable characters Dio killed are George Joestar and Dire, while Zeppeli died in Tarkus' hands. While it's true that Dio also killed Jonathan at the end, it's his only notable kill that involves a main character.
  • In Part 2, for how threatening he is, Kars didn't manage to kill anyone notable in the gang. Caesar died fighting Wamuu, and Lisa Lisa survived his stabbing.
  • In Part 3, while DIO managed to kill Kakyoin and Joseph, the latter got revived anyways, while Avdol and Iggy died by Vanilla Ice's hands.
  • In Part 4, only Shigekiyo, Aya, and Yoshihiro are notable enough in Kira's kill list, and one of them is a villain. Reimi already died before the show starts, and we don't see Kosaku's death (only the aftermath). The gang's death via Bites the Dust is also canceled along with the ability.
  • Contrast those against Part 5, where none of the minor villains managed to score a kill against the gang. However, once he gets directly involved, Diavolo managed to kill Bucciarati (though his death is extremely prolonged), Abacchio, and Narancia.
• Narancia's death in the final confrontation with Diavolo seemed sudden, rushed, and played no purpose in the narrative. They never build up his desire to go back home and go to school after it's all over until the scene right before he dies. But it was important from multiple story angles. First, it was to demonstrate that Diavolo was nearby and ready to attack, even though they thought Diavolo was in Bucciarati's body. Second, as mentioned in the story, Narancia was the group's radar, and could detect any suspicious movements. His goal was to gain control of Trish's soul to get the arrow, so any suspicious movements could be picked up on by Narancia. But the final and most important part is that Narancia dying freed up Giorno's body so Giorno's soul could swap back into it. When Bucciarati sacrificed himself to destroy Silver Chariot Requiem so Giorno could get the Arrow, the only reason why Giorno was able to take the arrow was because he didn't have to swap back with his body like everyone else. If he had to swap back with Narancia, then everyone would've returned to normal at the same time, and it would be a race to see who could react fast enough to grab the Arrow. Narancia's death was a part of fate that allowed Giorno to take the arrow and ascend Gold Experience, finally ending the boss's tyrannical reign over Italy.
• Dio famously means "God" in Italian. Diavolo means "Devil". Giorno is Dio's son... essentially making the son of "god" be the one to take down the "devil" that is Diavolo.
  • Taking a page out the Bible, the whole situation can be described as this:
    Nuke Teller: When the Son (Giorno) of God (DIO) pierced by the Spear (Arrow) on its chest, he died but Reborned (Requiem), in order to defeat the Devil (Diavolo) with the power of Truth (GER), and then resurrection of Life (Bucciarati) came in.
  • Bucciarati even explicitly mentions that he was slowly dying by falling further into the depths of the mafia's underworld. Giorno hasn't revived Bucciarati after his first confrontation with Diavolo - he had already saved his soul by convincing him to rebel against him in the first place.
• When Abbacchio sees his partner in the afterlife and asks why he would bother looking for fingerprints on glass shards when the criminal can just get away through a lawyer, his partner says (paraphrased) "when all that matters to you is the result you begin taking shortcuts and lose sight of the truth". This is why Diavolo loses, he believes that all that matters is the result, with his Stand reflecting this philosophy with its power to erase time (and the actions that happen within it) leaving only the result of them (meaning he's essentially taking a shortcut). And what is it that Gold Experience Requiem famously tells Diavolo?
  GER: You will never reach the truth.
• Some Fridge Hope for Diavolo: A Reddit user pointed out that Pucci's resetting of the universe could be the one thing that can save Diavolo.
• As this comic lampshades, Diavolo wears fishnet shirts because they fit both him and Doppio.
• Carne getting gunned down easily in order to deploy Notorious B.I.G. seems like a standard Thanatos Gambit until you recall The Notorious B.I.G.'s studio albums in life: Carne was Ready to Die for the mission, and his Stand is his life after death.
• It’s a small wonder why Diavolo’s attempt to kill his daughter would be the last straw for Bucciarati; Most people would turn on someone they respected even without already having wavering loyalty. That sort of betrayal by a father would be enraging for Bucciarati, who killed two men at age 12 to protect his own father.
• King Crimson and Gold Experience Requiem, while completely different from The World and Killer Queen's Bites The Dust, have similar behavior. Whenever we see King Crimson activated from Diavolo's perspective, he moves around in frozen time much like The World, and often uses it to kill his opponents. Meanwhile, when we see GER's ability, we see that it rewinds every action back to a certain point, much like how Bites the Dust resets everything back an hour prior to the explosion. It also doesn't help that part of GER's powers involve someone dying over and over again, much like how Bites the Dust works if activated over and over again, as we see with Rohan's many explosions.
• Black Sabbath, an Arrow-wielding Stand that lurks in the shadows, has a weak point: if exposed to light, he can be destroyed. Near the end of the Part, Silver Chariot Requiem not only has a bizarre trait regarding shadows (they move perpendicular to the observer) and a vulnerability to light (in its case, the inner light that's behind everyone's soul), but it also carries an arrow as well. Given how Black Sabbath's user, Polpo, was a Capo that recruited new members, it wouldn't be a stretch to say that Diavolo knows how Black Sabbath worked and compared it to SCR, thus being able to figure out how to beat it rather quickly.
• King Crimson being localized as Emperor Crimson might be see as They Changed It, Now It Sucks!, but it actually manages to fit the Italian theme more than the original name. In ancient times, Rome, Italy had a leader called an Emperor whom they treated as being equal, if not directly descended from the gods. Diavolo being essentially the shadowy leader of Italy having this name for his Stand perfectly illustrates how much of a delusional Godhood Seeker he is, seeing himself as a man chosen by God while also retaining the Italian motif like other characters in the Part.
• Narancia always seems to be the first one in Bucciarati's team to get hit by an enemy Stand. Of course he is—he's the smallest and looks (and sounds) like he's the youngest, so he's regularly mistaken for an easy target.
• Aerosmith, Narancia's Stand, is perfectly suited for tracking and killing targets, so why wasn't he made to join La Squadra after passing the lighter test? There are multiple possible reasons for this.
  • Yes, Aerosmith is a tiny murder machine, but it's also highly destructive, causes a lot of collateral damage, and is very loud, which is not something you want when trying to pull off an assassination quietly and discreetly. By the end of Narancia's fight with Formaggio, half the street and several cars were on fire. There's a reason Diavolo didn't send Cioccolata after Bucciarati's team until he was almost out of options.
  • Narancia may have asked specifically to join Bucciarati's team. We know that Polpo likes Bucciarati and approves of him, so he saw it as doing Bucciarati a favor by giving him another team member.
  • Even if Polpo has no problem with letting teenagers join Passione, it's possible that he didn't like the idea of putting a then-15-year-old on a gangster squad whose purpose is specifically to kill the boss's enemies.
• To raise the juniors created by his Stand, Melone has to raise and teach them to do the job they were made for. Perhaps it's only fitting that he unintentionally taught Giorno to get creative with Gold Experience, transforming inanimate objects into body parts and organs to heal others.
• "Resolve" (or "kakugo" in Japanese) is the Arc Word of the part, referring to the determination and self-sacrifice needed to achieve one's goals. Mainly it refers to the physical strength needed to survive brutal battles, but more subtly, it may also refer to mental and emotional fortitude. When Bucciarati was only 12, he had to join the mafia to keep himself and his father safe from the drug dealers that would want revenge on them. He had to grow up in the brutal, dog-eat-dog world of organized crime, having to become a hardened gangster to stay alive...but his moral compass remained intact throughout. He did not succumb to cynicism, or develop an "every man for themselves" philosophy, or stop caring about the welfare of others. Because he had the determination to keep believing that things like justice and selflessness were worth pursuing.
• After his fight with Diavolo, Bruno became a zombie unable to feel pain. The first time this is properly acknowledged is in the middle of the Green Day fight, but this is foreshadowed as early as the fight with Notorious B.I.G, where Buccarati has no reaction to Spice Girl slicing Sticky Finger's arm clean off. This can't be explained with determination, as Giorno clearly reacted in pain when he cut off his own arm early in the arc. The group being caught up in the tension, however, explains why no one noticed this.
• It would be one thing if The Grateful Dead was given its name just because it rapidly ages people until their death. However, take into consideration the songs "Casey Jones" and "Touch of Grey". "Casey Jones" is about the person of the same name, being a looney train conductor who is high off of cocaine. Now, what is Prosciutto? A man aboard a train, trying to get his hands on the Boss' narcotics trade. As for "Touch of Grey", what happens to people when they grow old? Their bodies receive a touch of grey.
  Oh well, a touch of grey
  Kinda suits you, anyway
• Before getting on the boat, Bucciarati tells his team members that they shouldn't join him in betraying the boss unless they're 100% certain of their decision. This has a practical reason behind it: A team member who joined him hesitantly or half-heartedly might be more likely to change their mind later and end up betraying the group in order to get back on the boss's good side and into Passione if it seemed they were about to lose.
• Even though he's never addressed by his given name, Abbacchio's name is Leone. Leone Abbacchio. "Leone" means "lion" in Italian, while "abbacchio" is a type of lamb. "Leone", or the "lion" may represent his past self as an idealistic young policeman, back when he was driven by seeking truth and justice. "Abbacchio", or the "sheep", on the other hand, represents his present self as a gangster, and how he feels at ease simply by following (Bucciarati's) orders.
• Why is Mista afraid of the number 4? Sure, he excuses it by talking about how his neighborhood friend adopted a kitten in a litter of four and had his eye scratched out, which may be how the seeds were planted, but as for how the fear fully blossomed, take into consideration his backstory. When he came across the woman being raped, there were four men. The one raping her, and his three goons. Not only did the four inflict misfortune on the woman through her being raped; they inflicted misfortune on Mista by getting him sentenced to 15-to-30 years in prison simply because he did the right thing. A group of four didn't just ruin the lives of both his friend and a rape victim; a group of four ruined his life.
• Unlike some other members of La Squadra, who could pass for normal people in public, Melone and Risotto don't even try to be discreet with their outrageous clothing choices. They don't need to: their Stands allow them to kill without being seen near the crime scene, so they can dress as flamboyantly as they want. Melone sends his Baby Faces to kill the targets from a distance and Risotto can turn himself invisible with Metallica before killing someone.
• The Grateful Dead has the power to cause Rapid Aging on its enemies. Its user, Prosciutto, also has a similar effect, but on his ally: thanks to Prosciutto's guidance and sacrifice, Pesci "grows older" mentally, going from The Baby of the Bunch and an Inexperienced Killer to a vicious, cold-blooded assassin.
• Gold Experience's ability to create or manipulate life is very similar to Hamon, being able to make and somewhat manipulate both plants and animals, two things that Hamon can also do, although not to the same degree as Gold Experience. This serves as a great reminder that while DIO might take the forefront as being Giorno's father, Jonathan is also technically Giorno's father as well and Gold Experience shows that.
• There's a bit of irony between those in the Colosseum that got their souls switched around:
  • Polnareff, user of the speed-based Silver Chariot stand, has been paralyzed after his brutal fight with Diavolo; he later gets his soul stuck inside the body of a slow-moving, but mobile turtle.
  • Giorno acts more mature and serious for someone of his age, but switches bodies with Narancia, who's two years older but childish to the point that the latter brings up that he's still older than Giorno despite the body switch amidst of the situation.
  • Bucciarati, the caring father/mother figure of the gang, gets stuck in the body of Diavolo, a psychotic deadbeat dad who tried to kill his only daughter because he believes her existence jeopardizes his rule as a mafia boss. Meanwhile, Diavolo gets stuck in the same body Trish is in (Mista's), technically being forced to spend some time with the child he wanted to kill.
• A good way to explain how King Crimson's "time erasure" ability works is if we look at how Epitaph works. Epitaph allows Diavolo to see the near future, treating it as a sequence of events that are fated to happen. When time is erased, Diavolo and everyone else are affected differently: most people will just do whatever action they were fated to do and will be subjected to any event that was fated to happen to them, but they won't remember any of it - from their perspective, it's as if those few seconds were erased and skipped. Meanwhile, Diavolo removes himself from the sequence of events: he cannot be affected by anything, but also cannot initiate new actions (aside for repositioning himself). From his perspective, time is "erased" because the sequence of events (time) no longer applies to him, as if it was erased entirely.
  • This also explains how he was able to kidnap Trish in the elevator and kill Narancia in the coliseum. Trish was fated to be kidnapped and Narancia was fated to be killed; when Diavolo skipped time, only he gets to avoid any consequence. Everyone else is still screwed.

Fridge Horror

• How was Polpo's massive, decomposing corpse removed from the prison cell? Did they have to wait for him to rot to a skeleton? Or perhaps sliced him up like a roast pig to have the pieces fit through the door, as Formaggio claimed?
• Failing Polpo's lighter test. Black Sabbath attacking you with the arrow is bad enough, but it also goes after anyone who witnessed the lighter being re-lit. Giorno was lucky the other students at his school had gone home for the day, or the old janitor wouldn't have been the only casualty.
  • It gets worse. Polpo's Stand is automatic, it's only following preset commands. Polpo has been doing the lighter test for years, meaning Black Sabbath could have attacked and killed hundreds of innocent bystanders, all because they accidentally witnessed the lighter being re-lit. It's no wonder Giorno tricked him into shooting himself.
  • Even worse? What if some of those bystanders did have Stand potential. At best, they think they're crazy. At worst? They are locked up because people can't see the glowing manifestation, or they lose control and go Ax-Crazy. Or even worse? They can't control it. Power Incontinence.
• Half Fridge Horror, half Moment of Awesome: Cioccolata's 7-page/30 seconds beatdown is already one of the most brutal (and satisfying) in the whole series, but it gets even more brutal when you remember that being punched by Gold Experience speeds up your senses so that each punch feels like several minutes of intense pain. Just one hit was enough to nearly break Bucciarati's mind, and Cioccolata probably takes thousands of them. Depending on whether the time-slowing effect stacks, we might even be entering into And I Must Scream territory. Good thing it happened to a Complete Monster so we don't have to feel too bad for him.
  • According to one YouTube account named Speedweed, he did a math about Gold Experience's life-giving punch. Gold Experience hits 26 times in 3.5 seconds, meaning that each punch lasts for about 0.1346 seconds. When Bucciarati's senses went out of control during his first encounter with Giorno, he received a single punch for 21 seconds, which means he felt everything 156 times slower. If this number is multiplied by 30 seconds beatdown of Cioccolata in the anime, the total amount is 4680 seconds. This means Cioccolata felt at least 1 hour and 18 minutes of pure, excruciating pain. And that's if the slowdown effect doesn't stack with multiple hits: if it does, it could potentially feel like exponentially longer than the age of the universe! Oh, and either way, he was conscious the whole time, since in the anime, you can hear him screaming in pain at the end of the beatdown.
• Narancia's backstory involves his mother Mela dying from an eye disease and his father abandoning him. The anime shows that his relationship with his father was already tenuous, he was greatly distant even when his wife was on her death bed, and he refused to answer Narancia's questions about her eye disease before leaving him. When Narancia is later hit in the eye by his interrogators and thrown into juvenile hall without treatment, his eye is similarly infected and he begins to believe he inherited the disease. It's heavily implied that Mela didn't have an "eye disease", and instead died from an infection after being abused by her husband.
• Fugo had mentioned that he would opt to investigate on Leaky Eyed Luca's disappearance instead of Bucciarati. Even though Bucciarati ultimately did the deed that led to the events of Vento Aureo, imagine how screwed Giorno would be if he got attacked by Purple Haze instead of Bruno and Sticky Fingers. Giorno wouldn't have survived, and it's likely the gang would still be operating obediently under Diavolo.
• It's fortunate that Notorious B.I.G. attacked Team Bucciarati while the plane was over water. Would it have stopped after killing Team Bucciarati? If not, then had it landed on land instead of in the water, it would have destroyed Europe, Asia and Africa, killing and eating every living thing that moved while being completely Invisible to Normals due to its nature as a Stand.
• Remember Scolippi, user of Rolling Stones? Mista shot him in both hands, meaning he'll likely never sculpt again, assuming he's not crippled. All because of a Stand he has no control over and no context for its use.
• On average, 1.80 people die every second. King Crimson's time erasure is universal. That means if he erases 10 seconds of time, on average, 18 people die during that time. 18 people who would never know how they truly died.
• Sorbet's death courtesy of Cioccolata becomes far worse when you remember he knows exactly how to dismember body parts without the person dying.
• The 4th letter of Mista's first name is the 4th letter of the alphabet.
  • Incursion Intensifies
• Passione allows teenagers and even children to join their ranks, as Bucciarati did at the tender age of 12. Think of all the horror that comes with the idea of children being involved in the mafia. It's entirely possible that there have been other children who tried to join (out of desperation or other reasons), but failed the lighter test and died after being stabbed by the Stand Arrow. And if they do survive, they're entering a life of crime that will likely be very short. Not to mention all the gangsters and Stand users inside and outside Passione who have no problem with attacking or killing children and teenagers who get in their way. Throughout the events of Vento Aureo, no enemy has any reservations about attacking Bucciarati's team, even though three of them are only teenagers (Giorno is 15, Fugo is 16, and Narancia is 17). The horror is slightly mitigated by them being more than able to fight back with their own Stands, but it's still disturbing to think about.
• Rolling Stones works by predicting death, but given the opportunity to predict Mista's - doesn't. Mista is pretty much immortal during the Part because Rolling Stones effectively refuses to let him die - which plays out as Made of Iron, or his iron-ness lasting until Giorno can heal him. This gives him Chirico levels of Plot Armor, and is just as much a form of cruel fate.
• Out-of-universe, there is an (unconfirmed) theory that, because Fugo was meant to betray and fight the gang but just ended up being written out of the story instead, Cioccolata was written as a replacement for his original role. If that's true, the Green Day & Oasis battle might have originally ended with Fugo instead of Cioccolata getting the 7-Page Muda beatdown and hurled into a garbage compactor.
• Part Fridge Brilliance and part Horror; Diavolo is obsessed with erasing any trace of himself, including his own kin, such as his own mother or daughter. However, one wonders why he couldn’t just kill his mother instead of leaving her alive under the floorboards of the church he grew up in or just get a hit man to kill Trish instead of going through all that trouble to get Bucciarati’s crew to deliver her to him. Diavolo is so paranoid and evil, he feels that he has to kill people who may expose his origins/identity, and this insanity may go as far as him making his victims’ bodies disappear, thinking that they could expose him if they are discovered. He most likely killed his mother before or after burning down his hometown, keeping her alive only so that he had time to do the job right and be absolutely sure that she was dead, then making her body disappear. Years later, he planned to do the same to Trish, upon discovering her existence.
• Has Bucciarati ever tried to recruit someone into his team who ended up not being strong-willed enough to survive the Stand Arrow test and died at the hands of Black Sabbath?
• As Gelato was forced to watch Sorbet being chopped into bits by Cioccolata, he swallowed his gag and suffocated to escape meeting the same fate. How did he do it so easily? He was crying very hard, and that probably made it harder for him to breathe—especially with a gag in his mouth—and easier for him to suffocate himself. In fact, it's only his teammates' speculation that he suffocated deliberately; he may have done it by complete accident.
• Narancia made a big mistake in deciding to follow Bucciarati after betraying the Boss. About the only thing he managed to do was keep Squalo and Tiziano from destroying the team, but say Team Bucciarati managed to get past them. Had Narancia stuck to his guns and stayed behind with Fugo, not only would he have managed to not be killed by Diavolo, but Diavolo himself would've been killed earlier than usual by Risotto, since Aerosmith wouldn't be on the prowl and accidentally shoot down Risotto because it didn't recognize Doppio's breathing. As helpful as Narancia overall is, he ultimately made things worse by deciding to tag along with Bucciarati.
• In the anime, when Fugo is beating the professor who molested him with a textbook, he yells, "I looked up to you! I trusted you!" Remember how cold and unloving his own parents were, and how little affection he probably received growing up. Little Fugo was probably so happy when he seemingly found a kind, helpful professor who was nicer to him than his parents... and then the professor used this to abuse his trust and took advantage of him in a way no adult ever should.
• Consider the abandoned plans for Fugo to betray the team and his connection to Narancia. Narancia had been betrayed by his former friends and was living alone on the streets when Fugo found him and took him to the restaurant. Fugo also goes out of his way to try and tutor Narancia. Just how would have Narancia, previously betrayed by his former friends and helped out by Fugo, have taken it if Fugo had betrayed the team as Araki originally planned?
• When Stardust Crusaders began in November 1988, Holly and Josuke both became deathly ill because of their awakening Stands. Giorno (who would have been 3 then) must have had the same illness, but while Holly had Speedwagon Foundation doctors looking after her and Josuke had a mom determined enough to drive him to the hospital in the middle of a blizzard, Giorno's mother cared about him so little that she would leave him alone in the middle of the night to go partying when he was just a baby. It's hard to imagine that she would care much more about him when he was sick. Did little three-year-old Giorno have to suffer through a deathly illness for 50 days all by himself?
• As bad and as gruesome Green Day's power is, it get's even worse when you discover that.. Green Day's developmental potential was only A, which is considered "very good"!! Given that Cioccolata can use his stand to control disembodied limbs, who knows if he could turn victims into his own zombie army, or even worse...
• Purple Haze has a habit of frantically trying to keep itself clean and scrub its drool off itself. It is possible that this is a result of Fugo being molested by his professor: some victims of sexual assault feel like they are dirty and Defiled Forever, and wash themselves repeatedly to try and make the feeling go away.

Fridge Sadness

• Giorno is highly resistant to pain, not even flinching when his eye gets ripped out or he has to cut his arms off to win a fight. It might be because Stand users—and the Joestar family, especially—seem to be naturally Made of Iron, but another possibility is that it's because his stepfather beat him a lot when he was a child. To him, pain's an old friend.
• Abbacchio already doesn’t like Giorno. Instead of Mista, imagine if he was somehow the sole survivor of Bucciarati’s original team at the end of the story and found out that Bucciarati, the one who took him in and gave him a new purpose in life after he lost everything, who he pledged his Undying Loyalty to, died for the sake of Giorno’s dream. He would probably murder Giorno with his bare hands right then and there.

Fridge Logic

• Since Diavolo is now in an infinite death loop, he now knows of his ultimate "fate"... Doesn't that mean he has technically achieved "Heaven", by Pucci's standards?
  • Pucci's definition of heaven included the idea that you know everything about your fate, not just the results. If anything, Diavolo's fate is the reverse: he knows the end result of each loop (death) but doesn't know the cause until it happens. Like he said himself, all that remains are the results.

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