Tropes A to B (Adaptation Dye-Job) | Tropes C to D (Dub Name Change) | Tropes E to F (Evolving Credits | Famous Last Words) | Tropes G to K (Hate Sink | Heart Is An Awesome Power | Hoist By His Own Petard | Jerkass) | Tropes L to O (Logical Weakness | Nice Guy) | Tropes P to T (Shout-Out | Story-Breaker Power) | Tropes U to Z
Due to the nature of many fights in the series, a lot of them involve the heroes (and sometimes the villains) using their opponents' powers against them.
Phantom Blood
- This happens twice to Bruford:
- First, he attempts to handicap Jonathan by forcing them to fight underwater, only for Jonathan to find an air source via a reservoir of air bubbles to breathe from and then use the water as a conductor for Hamon.
- Then, when he tries to stab Jonathan while he's pinned to a tree, Jonathan kicks Bruford's sword, then conducts Hamon through the sword and into Bruford, melting his arm.
Battle Tendency
- Caesar Zeppeli comes very close to actually beating Wamuu, using his bubbles created by Hamon to reflect sunlight onto the Pillar Man. However, just as Caesar goes in for the killing blow, his body blocks the sunlight just long enough for Wamuu to hit him with a Divine Sandstorm, lethally injuring Caesar.
- This happens to Wamuu several times during his fight against Joseph. First, he attempts to use a Divine Sandstorm, giving Joseph the chance to wrap Hamon-infused reins around his arms, damaging them to the point that he can't use Divine Sandstorm anymore. Then, Joseph uses Wamuu's own rebounding crossbow shot tactic against him in order to sneak a hit in on him. Finally, when Wamuu attempts to hit Joseph with his Atmospheric Rift attack, he's unable to aim properly due to his own self-inflicted eye wounds, and gets tricked into sucking in oil and Caesar's burning bandana, causing him to explode.
- Kars gets this as well. Having just become the Ultimate Being, he can now regenerate from anything, transform his body into any living being on Earth, and is immune to both the sun and Hamon. However, his decision to give Joseph an ironic death via Hamon massively comes back to bite him, as JoJo uses the Red Stone of Aja - the same MacGuffin which gave Kars immortality to begin with - to reflect it; Kars is launched into space by a volcano eruption triggered by his own power, where his Adaptive Ability generates a shell that prevents him from dying. To add insult to the injury, Joseph gets one of his hands sliced off just as Kars emerges from the volcano. While Kars tries to fly away and leave Joseph to die, that same hand gets flung into Kars, distracting him long enough for debris to knock him out of the atmosphere and into outer space before Kars could react in time and escape.
Stardust Crusaders
- Devo's Stand, Ebony Devil, possesses a doll in order to attack Polnareff. However, any damage done to a Stand is also done to the User, and due to Ebony Devil now being bound to a physical object, this means that any damage done will be doubled, which is ultimately Devo's undoing when Polnareff finishes Ebony Devil off.
- Hol Horse's Stand, Emperor, takes the form of a gun whose bullets can be controlled mid-flight. On two occasions, this has led to Hol Horse accidentally shooting himself with his own bulletsnote .
- Arabia Fats, who uses the Stand, The Sun, hides behind a mirror while his Stand, a replica of the sun, attacks the Crusaders for him. However, the shadows created by The Sun are ultimately what cause the Crusaders to pinpoint his location and take him out. And to add insult to injury, the reason their attack was so effective is because Arabia Fats needed to remain in his air-conditioned car or else the extreme heat The Sun was causing would have affected him too.
- Boingo's Stand, Thoth, takes the form of a comic book that predicts the future with 100% accuracy, which he uses to try and kill the Crusaders with the help of his brother Oingo, who has the Stand, Khnum, which allows him to perfectly disguise himself as anybody. Unfortunately, while everything that appears in the comic book will always happen, there's enough wiggle room that when it predicts Jotaro getting his face split open by an orange rigged with explosives, it instead happens to Oingo when he ends up having to disguise himself as Jotaro to infiltrate the group with the exploding orange.
- Mariah's Stand, Bastet, allows her to magnetize people with growing strength, which she uses to complicate things for Joseph and Avdol and to attempt to lure them to their deaths twice. The second time, they have so much additional weight due to the various metal objects stuck to them that when she stands between them, they're able to use the magnetic pull to fly together and crush her to near-death.
- Alessi, near the end of the fight against him, embeds his own axe in the ground. Then, after getting pummeled by a seven-year-old Jotaro, he stumbles backwards and trips over his own axe, knocking himself unconscious and causing the effects of his Stand to deactivate.
- Daniel J. D'Arby's Stand, Osiris, will activate when his opponent admits defeat in their heart. When he faces Jotaro in a poker game, Jotaro pulls off an epic bluff and psyches D'Arby into failing to call it, thus admitting defeat to himself and causing his Stand to release the souls of all his past opponents.
- During Iggy's battle against Pet Shop, Iggy defeats him by forcing Pet Shop's beak shut while he tries to fire an icicle out of it, causing it to burst within Pet Shop's head and kill him.
- Vanilla Ice's vampirism is what keeps him alive throughout his fight against Polnareff and Iggy, but it's also his vampirism that allows Polnareff to defeat him by exploiting his weakness to sunlight. It helps that Ice didn't actually know he was a vampire, because DIO didn't bother to tell him that he'd been turned into one.
Diamond is Unbreakable
- Okuyasu Nijimura has the Stand, The Hand, which can erase anything by swiping it with its right hand, causing anything surrounding the empty space to close in and fill it in. He'll occasionally use this to teleport himself forward a few feet or pull things towards him, but the first time he demonstrates this use by pulling Josuke towards him, he also accidentally pulls forward a nearby potted plant, which hits him in the head and knocks him out.
- His brother Keicho's Stand, Bad Company, is a small army of tiny soldiers, tanks, and attack helicopters. After he critically wounds Josuke with a landmine and a few helicopter-fired missiles, he gleefully prepares for a killing salvo. However, before that could happen, Josuke blindsides him by sending two of his own helicopter's missiles back at him, having previously destroyed them with his own Stand, whose power is to regenerate anything that's been broken. Keicho's death a bit after this fight is also a case of this trope, as his death comes at the hands of Akira Otoishi's Stand, Red Hot Chili Pepper, a Stand Akira wouldn't have had it not been for Keicho empowering him with the Stand Arrow.
- During the hunt for the rats Akira hit with the Stand Arrow, Josuke and Jotaro set up some rat traps for them. Later on, one of the rats, Bug-Eaten, uses one of the traps to trick Josuke into exposing himself for an attack.
- This ends up being a regular occurrence for the Part's Big Bad, Yoshikage Kira, with his own abilities being exploited by the heroes every time they fight him. First, his left hand receives a drastic increase in weight when Koichi's Stand, Echoes ACT3, uses its ability on Kira's Sub-Stand, Sheer Heart Attack. Then, he's unable to attack Hayato because he planted Bites the Dust on him. And finally, Josuke tricks him into accidentally blowing up his father with one of his own bombs.
Golden Wind
- Starter Villain Leaky-Eye Luca attempts to attack a frog created by Giorno's Stand, Gold Experience, with a shovel, only for the damage to be sent back onto him, causing him to knock himself out.
- Guido Mista cannot go one fight without one of his opponents using their Stand ability to send his own bullets flying back at him. And unlike Hol Horse, Mista's bullets aren't actually part of his Stand but instead simply manipulated by his Stand, so they won't vanish if he deactivates the Stand.
- Sale attempts to finish off Mista by sending one of his bullets back at him, only for Mista's Stand, Sex Pistols, to kick the bullet back at him. Then, when he tries to block the bullet, he ends up accidentally sending a piece of it into the wound from a bullet he had managed to stop earlier, sending the bullet deeper in and causing him to pass out.
- Pesci's Stand, Beach Boy, is a fishing rod that reflects any damage done to the line onto whatever is hooked. Bruno defeats him by wrapping the line around Pesci's neck, reflecting the damage onto him and breaking his neck.
- After defeating the Stand, Baby Face, Giorno transforms its remains into a venomous snake, which returns to Baby Face's User, Melone, and bites him.
- Risotto Nero's Stand, Metallica, can create its own magnetic field and remove iron, and therefore oxygen, from a person's blood. Doppio defeats him by using the magnetic field to alert Team Bucciarati of Risotto's presence, and his lack of oxygen causes Narancia (whose Stand, Aerosmith, can detect people through carbon dioxide) to think only Risotto's there and attack him.
- This is done twice to Secco. First, he uses his Stand, Oasis, to drag a car underground, which Bruno uses by popping one of the tires and shattering Secco's eardrums. Then, Bruno uses his Stand, Sticky Fingers, to attach Secco's hand to his neck, causing Oasis to start melting his throat.
Stone Ocean
- Viviano Westwood's Stand, Planet Waves, attracts meteors towards him from Earth's orbit, evaporating them just before they hit him, and Jolyne gets scorched just trying to deflect them. At one point, Westwood attracts one through a wall behind Jolyne, boasting that it'll be the one hit that takes her out. However, Jolyne revealed that she managed to remove one of his boots, with which she deflected the blow, sending a flaming boot flying into Westwood's face.
- Miu Miu's Stand, Jail House Lock, traps people in an amnesia-induced loop, making it impossible for anyone affected by it to escape the prison. After Jolyne defeats her and takes her hostage, this ability ends up aiding her and the other heroes in their escape from the prison.
- Ungalo has the Stand, Bohemian Rhapsody, which causes any fictional character to come to life. Weather Report defeats him by telling a story of a superhero that rounds up all the fictional characters and places them back into their respective stories, with Bohemian Rhapsody causing it to come to life and do just that.
- Rikiel, near the end of his fight with Jolyne, wraps his hand around the back of her neck to put out the fire she lit on herself so that the rods can absorb the heat from her brainstem. However, his hands covering her neck end up preventing the rods from absorbing the heat completely before he ends up succumbing to his injuries.
- Near the end of the Part, Enrico Pucci achieves godlike status as he has gained Made in Heaven, a Stand that can speed up time and move the universe towards destruction and recreation. Pucci has already killed off most of the heroes, and all that's left is Tagalong Kid Emporio Alniño. Pucci stops the universal reset just short of a full cycle in order to catch Emporio at the one moment they were both in the same location — the Green Dolphin Street prison — in order to kill him. Pucci thinks this will be easy enough, seeing as how Emporio has a non-combat based Stand, but unknownst to him, Emporio borrowed one of his fallen friends' Stand, and just as Pucci is in the perfect position to kill Emporio, Emporio is in the perfect position to kill Pucci. The kid surprises him by using the Stand, Weather Report, to poison him with fatal levels of oxygen. It gets even better when you realize that said fallen friend used Pucci's Stand, Whitesnake, to create the disc that would allow Emporio to use Weather Report. In fact, Emporio doesn't even try to use it at first - Pucci accidentally pushed it in his body while he was trying to catch him, activating the Stand and giving his victim a way to defeat him. Also worth mention, Made in Heaven makes it so that anyone (except Pucci, its User) who ends up in the remade universe is forced to follow the exact same path they followed "the first time around". The only exception is if Pucci directly interacts with someone. So Pucci's attempt at killing Emporio is exactly what allowed Emporio to escape his predetermined fate. And just to add insult to injury, Enrico is killed by the oxygen toxicity because Made in Heaven sped up time enough that it affected him faster than it normally would have.
Steel Ball Run
- Dr. Ferdinand has the Stand, Scary Monsters, which unleashes a virus that turns anything it infects into a dinosaur, which he can control. Once the Stand has been deactivated, it turns out that two of the Utahraptors Dr. Ferdinand created were actually two very angry mountain lions, which proceed to maul him.
- Magent Magent has the Stand, 20th Century Boy, an armor that leaves him completely invulnerable as long as he's kneeling. He's defeated when he's thrown into a river and put in a state where he can only kneel, with 20th Century Boy keeping him from drowning and trapping him at the bottom of the river.
- Funny Valentine tries to trick Johnny by convincing him he wants to help him, while secretly bringing a gun from another dimension to kill him. However, Johnny sees through the plan and tosses the same gun from their dimension at Valentine, causing both guns to explode.
JoJolion
- The younger of the two A. Phex Brothers has the Stand, Schott Key No. 2, which releases a Deadly Gas. They're defeated when Josuke uses the bubbles created by his Stand, Soft & Wet, to smother them in the gas.
- Yoshikage Kira attempts to take out the Rock Humans' Smuggling Cartel by using his Stand, Killer Queen, to blow up their yacht. He ends up being the only person to get seriously injured in the explosion.
- Poor Tom has the Stand, Ozon Baby, which allows him to control the air pressure of the surrounding area. He's defeated when Josuke takes advantage of the air pressure to seal poisonous yew seeds in the bubbles created by Soft & Wet, then popping them to turn them into a chemical spray.
