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* AbhorrentAdmirer: At least, that's how Joseph reacts to the old woman who gets a crush on him during the Mariah sequence. She quickly switches gears, though, when Joseph and Avdol are [[NotWhatItLooksLike trying to get themselves unstuck from each other]]...
* AbsurdlyHighStakesGame: Several times throughout the manga, the heroes are challenged to a game rather than at a straight fight, they generally bet really important things like their own powers or their SOULS. The fights consist of :
** Daniel J. and Terence T. D'arby in Stardust Crusaders, where the crusaders play games with the two brothers, with Daniel's specialty being Gambling, and Terence's being Video Games. They both have "collections" of the souls of the people they have beaten, which the Crusaders are at risk of being added to. The only way to retrieve souls which have been taken is to win, which is easier said than done.
** Ken Oyanagi in Diamond Is Unbreakable, who has a MundaneMadeAwesome Rock Paper Scissors match with Rohan Kishibe, with Rohan's Stand, Heaven's Door being on the line.
** Mirashon in Stone Ocean. While the bets her stand, Marilyn Manson, oversees are for money, if you fail to pay up, it will find a way for you to do so through other means. Namely, using the monetary value of your internal organs.
* TheAbridgedSeries: [[WebVideo/JoJosBizarreAdventureAbridged JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Abridged]].
* AbsurdlyIneffectiveBarricade: Polnareff futilely tries to barricade a door with a cabinet, forgetting that Vanilla Ice can [[PowerOfTheVoid disintregate anything Cream touches]].
* AbsurdlySharpBlade: Luck & Pluck cleaved Dio in half, vertically. Likewise Silver Chariot's rappier can also cut stone on occasion.
* AbsurdlySpaciousSewer: Iggy fights Pet Shop in one.
* AbusiveParents:
** Dio's father was an abusive alcoholic who treated his wife and son like crap.
*** Diego Brando, his Steel Ball Run Counterpart, actually suffered ''worse'', being left on a river by his father just because he doesn't want one more mouth to feed.
** Dio himself treats his flings as one night stands, leaving his various offspring fatherless to grow up seriously screwy. Must be that vicious cycle thing.
** A few of the main characters in ''Vento Aureo'' had neglectful or abusive parents.
* AccidentalPervert:
** In ''Stardust Crusaders'', Joseph and Avdol pursue an enemy up the women's bathroom. Because Joseph is magnetized at the moment, he opens every lock and sees several women doing their business.
** In ''Golden Wind'', Fugo accidentally puts his face right above Trish's breasts because the car they were in suddenly braked.
** In ''[=JoJolion=]'', Josuke hugs Yasuho and unwillingly gets a RagingStiffie.
* TheAce: Jotaro possesses the strongest, fastest, and most broken Stand in the series, and is always the best fighter of any given group.
* AchillesHeel: Vampires and Pillar Men are vulnerable to anything related to sunlight.
* ActionDad: Jotaro is this in part 6, where after several volumes of being put into a comatose state, he joins the fight against the {{BigBad}}.
* ActionGirl: Several throughout the series, most notably Lisa Lisa and Jolyne Cujoh.
* ActionMom: Unbeknownst to Joseph, his master Lisa Lisa is his mother, and indeed Lisa Lisa kicks much ass.
* AdaptationalBadass: In the OVA, Polnareff ambushes DIO and skewers his head. Contrary to the manga, it works wonders and distracts DIO long enough for Star Platinum to connect a punch.
* AdaptationalCurves: Lisa Lisa is more well-endowed in the 2012 anime adaptation than in the manga.
* AdaptationalHeroism: In the manga, Jotaro fights primarily to heal his mother. The OVA series added avenging his ancestor Jonathan and the general goal of vanuishing evil.
* AdaptationInducedPlotHole: The Diamond Is Unbreakable adaptation shows glimpses of Kira's everyday activities but the background consists of a western style house while Kira's home is an old samurai villa.
* AdaptationDistillation: The 4-6 chapters-per-episode pace of the TV anime adaptation necessitates this for the most part, focusing on the high points while cutting, altering, or only alluding to other scenes (for example, [[spoiler:[[KickTheDog Danny's death]] in the ''Phantom Blood'' arc]]).
* AdaptationExpansion: On the occasions the anime has time to slow down the pace, it fleshes out various scenes which were only briefly mentioned or resolved quickly in the manga, such as Caesar's battle with Wamuu, Lisa Lisa's backstory, and the entire ''Battle Tendency'' epilogue. Stardust Crusaders has included some of this as well, such as Polnareff being interrogated by police after the battle with Devo, and Jotaro getting a replica of his uniform jacket and Anne (the runaway girl who isn't even given a name in the manga) getting on the plane back home after the Wheel of Fortune fight (both of which happened off-panel in the manga with a off-handed mention.) The anime even includes scenes that weren't in the original, such as Jotaro talking to [[spoiler:Suzie Q,]] and the Crusaders taking a commemorative photo that would later show up in Part 5.
** The Diamond Is Unbreakable adaptation is immediately hit off with a scene of a woman cooking breakfast [[spoiler:who is quickly revealed to be one of [[BigBad Yoshikage Kira's]] "girlfriends".]]
* AdaptedOut: The OVA series cut out a lot of the minor villains of Stardust Crusaders.
* AdultFear: Joseph has to deal with the possible death of his unique daughter Holy in Stardust Crusaders. Similarly, Norisuke Higashikata's family is plagued by an incurable disease in [=JoJolion=].
* AerithAndBob: The combination of Araki's odd naming sense and strict adherence to ShoutOut-based ThemeNaming have resulted in characters with names like "D&G" and "Eermes Costello" or "D-I-S-C-O" and "Lucy Steel" existing side-by-side.
* AffectionateNickname: "[=JoJo=]" is this to Jolyne. Her mother used to call her [=JoJo=] and she wants her boyfriend Romeo to call her [=JoJo=] as well.
* AfterActionPatchUp: In "[=JoJolion=]", Tsurugi covers an injured Yasuho in band-aids, to the points Josuke doesn't recognize her .
* AgentPeacock: Just about everyone, and ''we mean '''EVERYONE.''''' You'd be hard pressed to find a character that isn't ridiculously, fabulously over-the-top.
* AlasPoorVillain: Enya from ''Stardust Crusaders'' may have been a horrible, sadistic bitch with the [[HorribleJudgeOfCharacter worst judge of character]] when it comes to her son, but she was still one of Dio's most loyal henchmen, [[spoiler:which made Dio deciding that [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness she had outlived her usefulness]] and killing her to protect the secret of his Stand (even though she refused to disclose it even as she was dying) surprisingly tragic.]]
* TheAlcatraz: The Green Dolphin Street prison is this, even for the numerous Stand users in it. Apart from being a very tight maximum security prison, the chief warden Miu Miu's power renders escape near impossible. In Part 6 Jolyne is framed for a DUI murder and sent here where she discovers the legacy of the family's former source of affliction.
* AlliterativeFamily: Even the Joestars whose names don't start with J usually have a "jo" sound, such as Jonathan's father and son, both named George. The only OddNameOut is Joseph's daughter Holly.
* AlliterativeName:
** Jonathan Joestar, Joseph Joestar, Giorno Giovanna, Johnny Joestar.
** Jotaro Kujo and Jolyne Cujoh only work in the Japanese order.[[note]]Ku'''jo Jo'''taro, Cu'''joh Jo'''lyne[[/note]]
* AllJustADream: 80% of Jolyne and Jotaro's fight against Johngalli A. is this, as Whitesnake trapped them in [[DreamWithinADream multi-layered dreams]] from which they would only wake up when they discovered the [[AGlitchInTheMatrix discrepancies between reality and the dream]].
* AllThereInTheStinger: In the third episode of the anime adaptation, Jonathan impales Dio on the statue at the front of the manor, and the fire appears to disintegrate him completely. While not exactly crucial, if you miss the TheStinger that shows Wang Chan recover the stone mask from the ruins of the Joestar manor before being grabbed from under the rubble, it can be quite baffling to see an undead Wang Chan carrying around Dio in the next episode.
* AlternateCharacterReading: Several attack names, especially back in the Ripple era, are written in kanji and given an English reading. This applies to a few Stand names as well, but generally only to ones with names that are simple to translate to Japanese.
* AlternateContinuity: ''Steel Ball Run'' began as a new series unrelated to the [=JoJo=] universe; later, it was made part of the long running series. Still, it somewhat fits as an alternate continuity, as ''Steel Ball Run'' (Part 7) is presented as a different take on ''Phantom Blood'' (Part 1). The same thing happens with ''[=JoJolion=]'' (Part 8), which is presented as another take on ''Diamond Is Unbreakable'' (Part 4), and confirmed to be set in the same universe where ''Steel Ball Run'' (Part 7) took place.
** [[spoiler:Moreover, ''[=JoJolion=]'' confirms Johnny Joestar married Rina Higashikata, who gave birth to George Joestar, who married Elisabeth, who had a son named Joseph, who married Suzie Q, who had a daughter named Holly, who married a Japanese man, who had a son named Yoshikage Kira. [[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers ...Wait a second.]]]]
* AlternateHistory: The alternate universe present in volumes from ''Steel Ball Run'' onward shows that history has progressed differently--for instance, it's called the United States of ''Valentine''. Meanwhile, in Europe, Naples has remained a city state as of 1890, deciding against joining the unified Italy. Sometime after the race, a revolution occurs, the monarchy is ousted, and Naples is absorbed into a republic.
* AlwaysIdenticalTwins: Averted with [[spoiler: Enrico Pucci and Weather Report who were SeparatedAtBirth]].
* AmazonChaser: Koichi falls in love with Yukako due to her forceful personality.
* AmbiguouslyGay: Several characters come off as this.
* AmnesiaMissedASpot: Even with his mind wiped so clean that he can't even remember how to speak, [[http://img440.imageshack.us/img440/2632/jotarojolyne.jpg Jotaro still subconsciously remembers his daughter]] (and also, more amusingly, still has an intense attachment to his NiceHat).
* AnachronismStew: The soundtrack for ''Battle Tendency'' (which takes place before UsefulNotes/WorldWarII) in the 2012 anime, which mixes in Middle Eastern music (despite ''Battle Tendency'' never going anywhere near the Middle East), Italian opera, rock, hip-hop, and {{Dubstep}}, among other things.
* AncientArtifact: The Stone Mask and the Red Stone of Aja.
* AncientEvil: The Pillar Men.
* AndIMustScream: Several characters suffer such a fate.
** Dio was trapped in a coffin at the bottom of the Atlantic with only Jonathan's corpse for company.
** Kars is launched into space but cannot die because he's the Ultimate Lifeform. Trapped into an ice coffin, he's said to eventually stop thinking altogether.
** Angelo is fused with a rock by Josuke and is still conscious. For extra torture, Josuke sets up a panel recommending dog owners to let their dogs do their business near Angelo.
** Diavolo may have had the worst of them all, he's trapped into a death loop in which he's forced to revive various fatal scenarii without truly dying.
** Valentine briefly suffers such a fate, the Super Spin dragging him underground no matter the universe he is in.
* AndNowForSomeoneCompletelyDifferent: Every part features a main character who is completely different physically, mentally, and emotionally from the last.
** Johnathan is TheDeterminator, a NiceGuy, and is as tall as he is masculine. He is a defender of the weak, and is undeniably the softest [=JoJo=] in the series. He fights with the ripple, a weird sort of magic energy that can be channeled into the power of the sun.
** Joseph is a GuileHero JerkWithAHeartOfGold who is slightly less burly than Johnathan. A CombatPragmatist at heart, Joseph is not above using every single dirty trick in the book to outfox his opponents. However he deeply values familial ties and shows respect for people who are honorable at heart, or had a good reason to do what they did. Joseph also uses the ripple, though is much more adept at using it practically.
** Jotaro is a 17-year old [[PerpetualFrowner perpetually frowning]] delinquent who alternates between clever thinking and brutal hand-to-hand combat with his Stand, Star Platinum. He hides a fiery sense of justice underneath his stoic facade, and is fiercely protective of his friends and family. His Stand, Star Platinum, is extremely quick and agile and represents Jotaro's hopefulness for the future. He also mellows out somewhat in parts 4 and 6.
** Josuke is a young teenager with a HairTriggerTemper who is just starting high-school. Though he gets mad quick, Josuke is very amicable, and quite kind. His Stand, Crazy Diamond, has the ability to repair objects and people, reflecting his kind heart and desire to make friends. Jotaro even notes on it.
--->'''Jotaro''': Your ability is the most kind one a person can have.
** Giorno is a RobinHood-like, extremely composed individual, though he is known for occasionally flying off the handle and utterly decimating his opponents. His Stand, Gold Experience, has the ability to give life to objects, reflecting his desire to give endlessly and to make people's lives easier.
** Jolyne is a slightly perverted, thrill-seeking teenage girl who eventually becomes a mature, self-constrained young woman. Her Stand, Stone Free, has the ability to stretch out long distances in the form of string and represents Jolyne's desire to free herself from the prison and her natural free spirit.
** Johnny is a cold, cynical anti-hero who is only in the race for the possibility to learn to walk again. Later in the story, [[spoiler:Johnny discovers his totally pragmatic mindset, revealing that he is able to do horrifyingly dark acts such as killing another person without emotion.]] His Stand, Tusk, allows him to shoot his fingernails out like bullets and evolves over the course of the story. It represents Johnny's opening of his mindset, and his desire to reshape his future.
** "Josuke"/Gappy is an {{Adorkable}} amnesiac hero, who wakes up naked on a beach with 2 tongues, 4 testicles, and no idea who he is or how he got there. Josuke's Stand, Soft and Wet, has the ability to 'steal' a trait from something (like the friction from the floor, making it slippery), representing Josuke's lack of identity, and desire to get it back.
* AndZoidberg: In Diamond Is Unbreakable, everyone pretty much likes everyone to some degree...except Rohan Kishibe the pushy, irreverent, and arrogant manga artist who receives an arm-length relationship from everyone except Koichi.
* AnimationBump:
** The very end of episode 21 of of the TV anime has Joseph take off his jacket and display his impeccable arms and torso in suddenly fluid animation for...[[{{Fanservice}} some reason]].
** Episode 22 (i.e. the Joseph/Wamuu chariot race battle) has a few moments of very impressive animation put into it, including some clever use of CG. On the other hand, other parts of it are plagued with possibly the worst cases of OffModel seen in the series so far. [[http://germainetrain.tumblr.com/post/45069530895 Here are examples]] [[http://i.imgur.com/mGk6k0T.jpg of both]].
** Episodes 8 and 18 notably have some of the most consistent and impressive art in the anime. So much so that the animator for the episodes got promoted to be the character designer for the second season.
** Episode 20 has very high quality animation, and the fight with Caesar against Wamuu and [[spoiler:the former's death]] is well-detailed and incredibly fluid.
** Stardust Crusaders, or Season 3, gained a huge leap in animation quality in general compared to Season 1, which covered Phantom Blood and Battle Tendency.
** To say nothing of the first Stardust Crusaders opening, Stand Proud, which makes the first two look bare in comparison.
* AnimeHair: Played straight with a lot of characters, with the most famous example being Polnareff.
** As well as Jotaro's hair somehow growing ''over'' his CoolHat, to the point that it's hard to tell where the hair ends and the hat begins (The few times he removes the hat show that it's actually just torn in the back, giving the illusion of merging with his hair).
** And anime beards, and in one cover Jotaro got anime chest hair shaped like flames.
* AntiHero:
** Stroheim may be a Nazi officer who wastes countless lives experimenting on Santana (including having roughly a dozen Mexican prisoners executed for their blood), but he's ultimately doing it to find a way to defeat the Pillar Men and prevent them from threatening the world. He's also willing to aid Joseph when it becomes clear that the Ripple is a significant weapon against the Pillar Men, and [[spoiler:heroically sacrifices himself with a grenade to prevent Santana from escaping. Although he survived thanks to NAZI SCIENCE!]]
** Joseph is mostly a Type II, but acts like a Type V on his bad days. However, despite being a wild "bad boy", he'll always be there whenever people need help.
** Jotaro in the manga alternates between a Type III and IV (depending on how violently he's paying evil unto evil). He's a little different in the anime [[NinetiesAntiHero to say the least...]]
** Jolyne and Giorno are Type III's that also have shades of a Type V. They're well-meaning, if rather merciless, but also play along with unsavory characters in their worst moments.
** Johnny is a Type IV with traces of a Type V as well. While he does have some morals, he's ultimately in it for himself.
* AntiVillain: Bruford, Wamuu (to some extent), most of La Squadra di Esecuzione, Diego Brando [[spoiler:(at least the original)]], "Sandman", and Ringo Roadagain.
* AnyoneCanDie:
** Including the main heroes. Hell, not only does [[spoiler:Jonathan]] get killed by [[spoiler:Dio]], he loses his body to him as well. And in ''Stone Ocean'', [[spoiler:everyone except for Emporio dies, including the main character, Jolyne]].
** [[spoiler:The entire Zeppeli bloodline seems to have a habit of dying, but not without teaching the Joestar of the current arc a last lesson or making them more powerful.]]
* ArbitrarySkepticism:
** Mista is a Stand user who hangs out with a bunch of other Stand users, yet he still wonders how a BiggerOnTheInside Stand-using turtle could have electricity inside it.
** Polnareff invokes this trope against Kakyoin, saying that if Stands could exist, so could a 'world in the mirror', when Kakyoin doesn't believe that's where the Hanged Man could be attacking from. At the time, Stands were said to be psychic powers and could be interpreted as elaborate manifestations of powers like telekinesis or clairvoyance, which interact with existing elements of an otherwise normal world, making it a good guess on Kakyoin's part. Ultimately, he turns out to be wrong, since a Stand who actually ''can'' access a "mirror world" shows up in ''Vento Aureo''.
** Also discussed and mocked at the start of Part 3. Jotaro openly tells Joseph that he finds the story of Dio being a man who slept on the ocean floor for a century and is alive once again ridiculous. Avdol then chuckles and retorts that at the same time the existence of his and Jotaro's evil spirits (which Jotaro knows damn well exist) would probably be just as ridiculous too.
** When Rohan becomes the carrier for Cheap Trick in Part 4, he tries to get Koichi's help, but for some reason he doesn't believe his story about a Stand that he can't see that's attached to Rohan's back and just thinks he's playing a trick on him (though he does eventually believe him just in time to pull a BigDamnHeroes moment.)
* ArchEnemy: Dio Brando was Jonathan Joestar's archenemy, and by extension the Joestars' archenemy.
* ArcVillain: Akira Otoishi serves as the Arc Villain of the first third of the Diamond Is Unbreakable part. Likewise, Risotto Nero is the primary threat in Vento Aureo while Diavolo serves as the BiggerBad.
* ArrestedForHeroism: Josuke Higashikata stops a hostage situation with his Stand Crazy Diamond, but gets arrested because his recklessness endangered the hostage anyway and the policemen cannot see Stands.
* ArtEvolution: Compare Series 1 to the others and you'll wonder how it could have gotten so good. Araki even had [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hirohiko_Araki#2009.E2.80.93present an exhibition at the Louvre in 2009]], [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff at the behest of the French]] (note that the image you see on clicking that link was the one used for the series' first tankoubon cover).
** Even in their own parts, characters tend to change due to artstyle shift. Look at Sandman in ''Steel Ball Run'' chapter 1 and look at him in the end. This was most blatant in Part 4, which saw the radical departure from the ''Manga/FistOfTheNorthStar''-inspired style towards Araki's current distinctive style. Compare Josuke from Part 4's [[http://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/jjba/images/2/2e/JosukeHigashikata.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20150607221324 beginning]] to its [[http://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/jjba/images/3/34/209px-Josuke.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20150607221347 conclusion]].
*** Another example taking place in the same part: [[TeamPet Iggy]], when he was first introduced, looked like a dim-witted bug-eyed dog. As the story progressed, however, his face started looking more humanlike.
** Among separate parts just look at the different art styles of Jotaro. It's pretty hilarious that as the parts go on, the art seems to evolve faster than Jotaro ages causing him to seem to be aging backwards as he gets older but is drawn more handsome and pretty.
* ArtificialLimb: Joseph's left hand is mechanical ever since Kars sliced it off. German scientists kindly gave him this spare.
* ArtisticLicenseAnimalCare: A bit:
** Jonathan and Erina feed Danny grapes in part 1. Grapes are poisonous to dogs.
** Iggy's favourite food is chewing gum. Most types of chewing gum contain xylitol, which is ''also'' poisonous to dogs.
** Zig-zagged with Gyro and Johnny giving their horses coffee, while coffee isn't good for horses (or humans, for that matter) it isn't unhealthy in small amounts and it isn't unusual for jockeys to give their horses caffeinated drinks to pep them up.
* ArtisticLicenseBiology: While some studies show that women can have lower body temperatures, the difference is negligible. That being said, Trish shouldn't be aging that slowly from The Grateful Dead with only a few wrinkles compared to the rest of the gang's shriveled up bodies.
* ArtisticLicensePhysics: At one point the manga claims that gravity is what's holding the atoms in our bodies together. That would be strong interaction (in nuclei) and electromagnetism (electrons to the nucleus) instead.
* ArtifactOfDeath[=/=]ArtifactOfDoom: The stone mask has a disturbing propensity for causing/being around terrible events.
** The Red Stone of Aja can incinerate the Pillar Men, but it can also turn them into GodMode creatures.
** The Stand Arrow fills this role later on.
** And in the ''Steel Ball Run'' universe, it's the Corpse Parts.
* ArtifactTitle: The series' name "'''[=JoJo=]''''s Bizarre Adventure" made more sense when the title characters were actually called [=JoJo=].
* ArtisticAge: You would be hard pressed to find anyone who will buy that Dio and Jonathan are twelve in the first few chapters of the series, or that Jotaro is seventeen in Part 3.
* ArtShift[=/=]MediumBlending: The anime's openings were in cel-shaded [[ConspicuousCG CGI]] until the third season.
** In the anime, Parts One through Three have very defined character features, more use of color-based shading, and a fairly realistic palette, while Part Four has softer character features, more use of line-based shading, and a surreal, almost alien color palette. For example, compare Jotaro's [[http://vignette3.wikia.nocookie.net/jjba/images/9/99/KujoAnime.png/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/270?cb=20151108093216 Part Three appearance]] to his [[http://vignette3.wikia.nocookie.net/jjba/images/5/51/Jotaro4Anime.PNG/revision/latest?cb=20160705011311 Part Four appearance.]]
** The ''Heritage For The Future'' and ''Phantom Blood'' games used Araki's Part 3 and part 1 artstyle respectively...except that the covers used a Part 5-6 era artstyle instead. ''All Star Battle'' & ''Golden Whirlwind'' covers averted this.
* AscendedMeme: The newest Dark Horse edition, despite translating everything else, keeps "MUDA MUDA MUDA" presumably for this reason.
* AssassinOutclassin: The minor villains are very often assassins sent against our heroes to deal with them. They (almost) never manage to kill even one party member.
* AssholeVictim: Quite a few people do get their comeuppance against supernatural beings.
** A couple of drunkards almost run over a dog, prompting Kars to slice the car and its occupants in half to save it.
** Giorno is adept of killing in cold-blood, but all of his victims were murderous assholes, Leaky-eye Luca being the first of a long list.
* AsskickingPose: These are everywhere. Pretty much every chapter has at least one. One reason for the manga's MemeticMutation is how ridiculously over-the-top and challenging to reproduce some of them are. [[http://i.imgur.com/7rxECf5.jpg Here's one of the easiest-to-perform examples,]] as rendered by the anime. Keep in mind, Caesar on the right is angry because [[spoiler:his best friend died]].
* AttackOfTheKillerWhatever: That's the impression some stand powers will give, notably object bound ones. The heroes have been attacked by a boat, a car, a puppet, the sun, forks and knives, an electrical tower, stuffed animals, imaginary fairy tale characters, balloon animals, flowerpots or chestnuts. Subverted actually as none of the object are sentient and are controlled by a Stand user.
* AttemptedRape: Begins to appear as [=JoJo=]'s Bizarre Adventure shifted to seinen.
** In Steel Ball Run, Funny Valentine attempts to rape Lucy, but he changes his mind when he sees that she's become the host for the Holy Corpse.
** In [=JoJolion=], a series of misunderstanding leads to Joshu unwittingly attempting to rape Yasuho in the toilet. Joshu gets knocked down for his trouble.
* AttractiveBentGender: Hilariously parodied in ''Battle Tendency'', as the big, muscular Joseph tries to sneak into a Nazi lab by dressing as a woman.
* AuthorAppeal: Hirohiko Araki is a huge fan of western music, specially old-school rock, as the myriad references scattered about the series will tell you. There's not even a point in listing them here, there's just way too many.
** However, there is Music/TheBeatles song, "Get Back", which tells the story of a man named [=JoJo=].
** Of special note is Music/PinkFloyd, who Araki must really like to reference with so many stands in ''Diamond Is Unbreakable'' and ''[=JoJolion=]''.
** He's also rather fond of Italy -- not only do several Italian characters show up, but Italian food and fashion brands are second only to songs when it comes to ThemeNaming, and an entire part was set in Italy.
*** Notably every single part other than Stardust Crusaders features either at least one Italian character (mainly the Zeppeli family, Tonio Trussardi, everyone in Part 5, and the Italian-American Enrico Pucci) or some other connection to Italy. Even Part 8 had a travel advertisement for Italy show up briefly.
* AuthorAvatar: Rohan Kishibe from ''Diamond Is Unbreakable'' is based on the author, but there are a couple of differences. For instance, Rohan despises Josuke, despite Araki stating that Josuke is his favorite character. Though apparently, Araki dislikes when fans are intimidated by him due to his similarities with the (actually frightening) Rohan Kishibe. Apparently, the real Araki is terribly laid-back, and wishes to be seen as someone who strangers can relax around. Yet it's kind of hard to relax around someone who the fans think is [[MemeticMutation an immortal vampire that ages backwards]].
* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: DIO and Diavolo are the top dogs of their respective organizations, and of course get the most powerful Stands.
* AutobotsRockOut: "Welcome to the World", from the Battle Tendency OST, opens with the first two bars of [[Music/{{Yes}} "Owner of a Lonely Heart"]].
* AvengingTheVillain: Half of Enrico Pucci's motivation is to get back at the Joestars for killing his friend DIO.
* AwardBaitSong: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISPzkY7IXas Season]] from the ''Battle Tendency'' soundtrack definitely qualifies.
* AwesomeButImpractical: In the fighting games, Dio's death from above via steamroller. Anyone can see it coming a mile away, it's blockable, Dio can be punished as he jumps up to perform it, and the damage really isn't worth it. But who can resist creating one of the most badass and [[MemeticMutation infamous]] moments of the entire series?
** The Time Stop attacks in the game can be a pain too, since you're immobile for about 3 seconds before executing them. However, enjoy your 66-hit combo if you pull it off.
** In-series, several Stands aren't particularly useful. For example, Notorious BIG only works if the user is dead, Ebony Devil requires you to get serious injury to hate the enemy enough, and Purple Haze has a tendency to destroy any living organism within several meters of it. Even Araki couldn't get more than one use out of the latter.
** Another good example is Death 13, stand of the Mannish Boy. Because it attacks people in their dreams, it has the power to temporarily [[BroughtDownToNormal deny other stand users access to their stands.]] Furthermore, even if a target survives the assault, they forget what happened upon waking up, providing a built-in safeguard against others learning how Death 13 functions. And in a series built upon [[SuperpowerLottery superpower lotteries]] and [[PuzzleBoss puzzle bosses]], Death 13 can be extremely effective. The catch? Death 13 only works on sleeping targets, making it totally useless in the real world. Furthermore, it also relies on the targets not knowing who its user is, as the Mannish Boy is nothing more than [[TheDogWasTheMastermind a defenseless baby who happens to be a stand user.]]
* AwesomeMcCoolName: Just look at the main characters.
* AwfulWeddedLife: Shinobu Kawajiri's marriage is loveless, and she seems to take revenge on her husband by slighting him at every occasion.
* AwkwardFatherSonBondingActivity: In Part 4, Josuke momentarily takes care of his elderly father Joseph, whom he never met, and he finds the moment very awkward indeed.
* AxCrazy: Quite a few characters are omnicidal maniacs, most prominent is Cioccolata who is also a MadDoctor.
* AxeBeforeEntering: In "Stardust Crusaders", Alessi breaks down a door behind which a 4-years old Polnareff is hiding, the scene is pretty much lifted from ''Film/TheShining''.
* BabiesMakeEverythingBetter: In Part 4, Josuke and Joseph's awkward relationship as bastard son and estranged father improves considerably after they have to take care together of an invisible baby.
* BackForTheDead: [[spoiler:After seemingly dying in the second leg of the race in ''Steel Ball Run'', Mountain Tim returns to save Miss Lucy Steel from certain death... only to get killed later in the chapter.]]
* BadAss: Honestly, there's too many to count.
* BadassBeard: Joseph Joestar, Enrico Pucci, Gyro Zeppeli , Ringo Roadagain, Wekapipo.
* BadassBoast: Inevitable in a WorldOfHam:
-->'''Wamuu:''' ''Kiddo, the next time we meet, get stronger before facing Wamuu!... So the second time we meet, I can respect your strength as I kill you.''
-->'''DIO:''' ''You fool... you will soon learn that the power of THE WORLD is to dominate over this world!''
-->'''Akira Otoishi:''' ''I will finish you off with my pinkie alone!''
-->'''Bruno Buccellati:''' ''To complete my mission, and to protect my men. Having to do both at once is what makes being an officer so tough. Are you ready, because I am.''
* BadassBookworm: Believe it or not, Jotaro Kujo, who has a Ph.D in Marine Biology. There's also Gyro, who's an expert medic, and Johnathan Joestar, who looks like a musclebound mountain of a man but is a scholar in Archeology.
** Dio Brando is often seen reading in both Part 1 and Part 3.
* BadassCrew: Whenever a Team Joestar is going to be assembled, they will all be 100% pure, unadulterated, badass.
* BadassDecay: In his prime, Joseph killed the four remaining Pillar Men, but as he got older, he began to struggle against minor enemies.
* BadassGrandpa: Joseph Joestar is pushing 70 when Part 3 takes place, but is still as strong as he was in Part 2 (if not stronger, thanks to his new Stand).
* BadassInDistress: In Stone Ocean, Jotaro gets his Stand and memories stolen from him, rendering him comatose, it is up to Jolyne to take them back.
* TheBadGuyWins: [[spoiler:By the end of ''Stone Ocean'', Dio Brando gets ''exactly'' what he wanted; the destruction of the entire Joestar bloodline and the universe re-written to his desired image, effectively making the suffering of Jonathan's bloodline over the last 120 years being all for nothing.]]
** MeaninglessVillainVictory: [[spoiler:...Except not. Pucci's death ended up causing a massive CosmicRetcon where it's implied the Joestars and their allies lived far better lives. And that's not even taking into account the possibility they ended up creating the ''Steel Ball Run'' universe. Dio's plan came to fruition, but Emporio threw it OffTheRails, so it's hard to say who won.]]
* BadassNormal:
** Hayato from ''Diamond Is Unbreakable'', who has no Stand ability but helps Josuke bring down Kira once and for all through sheer bravery and cunning.
** Emporio, who in ''Stone Ocean'' [[spoiler:defeats the BigBad (who can control time and destroy the universe) on his own, despite having only a one-location, non-combat Stand (although he does gain Weather Report's Stand during the fight, he needed to confront and outwit Pucci in order to do so).]]
** Gyro in ''Steel Ball Run'' also counts, having currently given up his Stand ability and relying solely on his naturally developed skills involving the Spin. Pretty much everyone else out there has Stands.
** Jotaro in ''Stardust Crusaders'' after Alessi de-aged him into a seven-year-old child, which also cut off his Stand powers since he didn't have Star Platinum back then. Any normal child would have ran in terror of an axe-wielding maniac. Kid Jotaro, however, beat the crap out of Alessi with RapidFireFisticuffs to the face.
* BadBoss: Kars mistreats his Vampire goons regularly.
* BadPowersBadPeople: It's hard to imagine [[EnfantTerrible Melone]] and [[BodyHorror Cioccolata]]'s powers belonging to anyone other than a staunch villain.
** This is actually lampshaded in the series. Since a Stand reflects the user's soul and true self, it often leads to malicious people having deadlier or disturbing abilities.
* BadPowersGoodPeople: Fugo's [[PoisonousPerson Stand power]] is so lethal and disgusting that even his friends are creeped out by it. However, he's still one of the good guys, [[NeighbourhoodFriendlyGangsters sort of]].
** A plot point in the Fugo-centric novel Purple Haze Feedback. The real reason Giorno gave Fugo a second chance was so that Fugo could [[CharacterDevelopment overcome his own issues]] so his Stand would become less dangerous and [[KillEmAll out of control]] as well.
* BaitAndSwitch: The 43rd episode of the ''Stardust Crusaders'' anime ends with a cliffhanger of Polnareff seemingly swallowed up by Vanilla Ice's Cream with his earring dropping to the ground. [[spoiler:In the next episode, it's revealed that Iggy used the last of his strength to save Polnareff at the last moment.]]
* BalloonBelly: At one point in ''Steel Ball Run'', Gyro and Johnny have to spend millions of dollars in one day and try eating plenty of luxurious food, earning Gyro a momentary Balloon Belly; made all the more hilarious since by then, Araki's switched to a realistic artstyle.
* TheBarber: Khan.
* BarbieDollAnatomy: Female characters have nipples, but not the males.
* BareYourMidriff: Jolyne's outfit.
* BaseballEpisode: Terence D'Arby challenges Jotaro to a baseball video game, resulting in teams of Star Platinum and Atum respectively playing baseball against each other.
* BashBrothers: Several appear during the manga.
** Joseph and Caesar.
** Josuke and Okuyasu.
** Giorno and Mista.
** Johnny and Gyro.
* BathingBeauty: Lisa Lisa.
* BathtubScene: With Lisa Lisa in ''Battle Tendency''.
* BatmanGambit: Used several times during the manga:
** In the Joseph vs Esidisi fight, Joseph lays two Hamon induced strings around Esidisi, counting on the fact that the overconfident Pillar Man would spot strings and only cut the one in fron of him. Esidisi is taken by surprise and ends up heavily injured.
** In "Golden Wind", Giorno tricks Ciocollata into continuing faking the dead with a shonen-esque speech about sparing him if he does nothing. In fact Giorno already predicted that Ciocollata's sadism would make him faking being dead and attack at an opportune moment. He merely talked to buy time for the bullet inside his head to devour his brain.
** Ermes predicts that Sports Maxx wouldn't resist giving the fatal blow, so she created a decoy head to lure him in a predictable position.
** Pucci exploits the Kujo's love for each other, and distracts Jotaro during a crucial timestop by putting Jolyne in danger beforehand, with Dio's signature knives throw at that! Jotaro loses time saving his daughter and [[spoiler: dies by Pucci's hand]].
* BattleAura: The Ripple. It is made from energy generated whenever a person breathes in, and is transferred out through natural means - the hands and feet are most obvious, but wool, metal and vegetable oil are all used to conduct the Ripple at points. Because all energy on Earth comes ultimately from the Sun, the Ripple has the same devastating effect on vampires as sunlight.
** In a different vein, the Stands from the third part on are essentially anthropomorphic Battle Auras. (Or, in Jotaro's case, Battle [[{{Kiai}} Ora]]). It is particularly visible in the Jotaro vs Dio final battle from the animated series that, at times, seems a battle from ''Anime/DragonBallZ''.
** Or in the case of old man Joseph, literally by using both -- channeling the Ripple through his Stand wrapped around his body like a vampire-killing live wire.
* BattleButler: Roses, Suzie Q's chauffeur in Stardust Crusader can send a man flying with a high kick.
* BattleCry: Many.
** Jotaro, Jolyne, Johnny, and “Josuke”: "ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORAAAA!!!"[[note]]Part 8 Josuke's battle cry occasionally throws in a single "Ara" to show he's not quite right.[[/note]]
** Dio and Giorno: "MUDA MUDA MUDA MUDA MUDA MUDA MUDAAAA!!!"
** Josuke: "DORA RA RA RA RA RA DORAAAA!!!"
** Bucciarati: "ARI ARI ARI ARI ARI ARI ARRIVEDERCI!!!"
** Narancia: "VOLA VOLA VOLA VOLA VOLA VOLA VOLARE VIA!!!"
* BattleOfWits: The entire series is built on this; battles are not won by plot convenient upgrades (most of the time), but by clever use of powers that [[HeartIsAnAwesomePower sound stupid on paper]], taking advantage of surroundings, and exploiting holes in the enemy's tactics.
* BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy:
** VAMPIRE JACK THE RIPPER!!!!
** In ''Steel Ball Run'', it would appear to have been revealed that [[spoiler:Jesus was a Stand user.]]
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: In ''Phantom Blood'', during Dio's attack on a town, a mother pleads with him to take her and not harm her infant child. He promises and turns her into a Vampire... [[spoiler:only for the newly turned mother to '''bite into her child''' right after he does it.]]
* BeardOfEvil: Dario Brando sports one.
* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: Averted; having a pretty face will not excuse you from a bloody, brutal, line-crossing beatdown.
* BefriendingTheEnemy: In ''Phantom Blood'', Jonathan Joestar ''attempted'' this with Dio Brando, very, very hard, but Dio is the ultimate UngratefulBastard; being nice to him results in him either thinking you're an idiot to be taken advantage of, or getting really angry and resentful. In Stardust Crusaders, DIO inverts this by inducing fierce loyalty towards him in people who weren't otherwise evil.
* BeneathNotice: This is Yoshikage Kira's schtick, being so average in appearance, behavior or achievement that he's pretty much TheGenericGuy and no one gives a thought about him.
* BerserkButton: Say something bad about Josuke's hairdo and see how long you end up in a hospital.
** Jotaro is a full-on WifeBasherBasher: victimize a woman, and see how long you end up in a hospital.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Josuke is the nicest character of Part 4, he can also inflict you a FateWorseThanDeath.
* BewareTheSillyOnes: Some Stand users are dangerous yet often act like eccentrics.
* BigBad: Dio, spanning several generations. Even after he's gone, many of the villains who follow him have connections to him somehow. The Pillar Men are ultimately responsible for Dio's status as the BigBad, though, since they created the Stone Mask.
** Also, the BigBad of ''Vento Aureo'', Diavolo, is also responsible for all of the Stand-related insanity from ''Stardust Crusaders'' to ''Stone Ocean'', as he had the stand arrows, which he sold three of, and one was bought by Enya, which was then used to give Dio [[TimeStop The World]]. So he also helped in establishing Dio's status as the BigBad (or at least helped in making sure he kept it).
** Apart from that each part has one BigBad:
*** ''Phantom Blood'' has Dio Brando.
*** ''Battle Tendency'' has Kars.
*** ''Stardust Crusaders'' has DIO.
*** ''Diamond is Unbreakable'' has Yoshikage Kira.
*** ''Golden Wind'' has Diavolo.
*** ''Stone Ocean'' has Enrico Pucci.
*** ''Steel Ball Run'' has Funny Valentine.
* BigDamnHeroes: Towards the end of ''Stardust Crusaders'', as Dio is about to annihilate Polnareff with his mysterious Stand power, both [=JoJos=] and Kakyoin burst in through the wall to back him up.
** Polnareff returns the favour during Jotaro's climactic fight against Dio, although he almost dies for his effort.
** Also, Stroheim showing up to bail out Joseph and Lisa Lisa (with [[StupidJetpackHitler NAZI SCIENCE!!!]]) after the hordes of vampire Mooks decide not to let them fight Kars anymore.
** Stephen Steel gets his moment to shine in ''Steel Ball Run''. [[spoiler:After Johnny's final battle with the second Diego Brando, he's suffering from the effects of his own Infinite Rotation bullet and unable to mount his horse to create a counter-rotation. Stephen comes riding up in the nick of time, pulling Johnny up onto his own horse.]]
* BigGood: One for each part,
** Robert E.O. Speedwagon might qualify as a "Bigger Good". Though he himself only went from being a small evil to a small good in part 1, his personal aid and the Speedwagon Foundation he founded was vitally important in battling the Pillar Men of Battle Tendency. Over 100 years after his introduction to the series, the Speedwagon Foundation and Robert by proxy continued to help protect the world against vampire and Stand threats.
** Part 2 has an anti-heroic version in Lisa Lisa [[spoiler:aka Elizabeth Joestar]] who leads the good guys to counter the BigBad, Kars, in the fight over the Red Stone of Aja.
** Part 3 has Joseph serving this role as he mellows out.
** Post-Part 3, after he's mellowed out, Jotaro takes the leadership role and serves as a connection to the Speedwagon Foundation on any kind of supernatural or stand-related incidents, as well as serving as a mentor and behind the scenes force for the heroes of Parts 4, 5, and 6.
* BilingualBonus: If an Italian man says to you "my balls are spinning," he means "I've had it with this shit." And Gyro is both a valid Italian name (for 1850) and means revolution, as in one spin.
** What's more, "my balls are spinning" is a colloquialism that's largely unused -- and often unknown, even to other Italians -- outside of Naples. [[ShownTheirWork Gyro is Neopolitan.]]
** Oyecomova is Spanish for "Hey, what's up" (besides being a reference to the Santana song).
** Araki has a fondness for Italy, and it shows in ''Vento Aureo''. However, it seems he learned Italian from the back of [[EdibleThemeNaming pasta boxes]].
* {{Bishonen}}: Noriaki Kakyoin, who is only this compared to the rest of the main cast due to being the shortest and the least buff. Nevertheless, he is a VERY popular example on Pixiv and a target of {{Wimpification}}. Part 5 plays this more straight with its CastFullOfPrettyBoys, especially Narancia.
* BittersweetEnding: All of the arcs end on high notes, but not without cost.
** ''Phantom Blood''. [[spoiler:Dio is defeated, the world is safe, Jonathan marries his sweetheart... until Dio's disembodied head attacks them during their honeymoon trip and kills him, and turns almost everyone on the ship into zombies. The only survivors are freshly widowed and pregnant Erina and infant Lisa Lisa, whose mother was killed by an axe-wielding zombie.]]
** ''Battle Tendency'': [[spoiler:The Pillar Men are defeated, but Joseph has lost a dear friend in Caesar.]]
** ''Stardust Crusaders''. [[spoiler:Jotaro, Joseph, and Polnareff succeed in defeating Dio, but are also saddened at the loss of Kakyoin, Avdol, and Iggy.]]
** ''Diamond Is Unbreakable''. [[spoiler:Kira's been defeated and Reimi's spirit can move on, but the people Kira murdered, like Shigekiyo or Kosaku Kawajiri, are still dead, and their families will never know what happened to them. The murders have done lasting damage on the people of Morioh, but Joseph believes that so long as people like Josuke and his friends are around, Morioh will be safe.]]
** ''Vento Aureo'': [[spoiler:Giorno defeats Diavolo, but almost all of his allies -- Bruno, Abbachio, Narancia, and Polnareff [[note]]though he lives on technically in Coco Jumbo's body[[/note]] were killed by the latter.]]
** ''Stone Ocean''. [[spoiler:Even though Emporio defeats Enrico Pucci and the other heroes seem to have copies in the new universe, none of them have any memories of their previous life and they are, for the most part, complete strangers to each other. Only Emporio remembers their adventure. On the other hand, the "new" Jolyne, Annasui, Ermes, and Weather Report seem to have happier lives than the previous ones. At least, none of them are in jail or are implied to have ever been, so Ermes' sister was probably never murdered by Sports Max, Weather Report never had to suffer like he did because of Pucci's scheme, Annasui seemed more balanced, and Jolyne seemed to have a happier relationship with her father. And, much like "gravity" attracted Dio's sons to Pucci, gravity still attracted them to each other even in the new universe.]]
** ''Steel Ball Run'': [[spoiler:The BigBad's ambitions are stopped, but Johnny's lost a dear friend, the child his friend risked his life to save from execution dies soon after, and as of Part 8, he dies to save his family from a disease.]]
* BlackAndWhiteMorality: The manga in general, although there are some moments of BlackAndGrayMorality (particularly with ''Steel Ball Run'', ''Battle Tendency'', and ''Stone Ocean'').
** ''Phantom Blood'' would definitely be the most traditional case, with KnightInShiningArmor Jonathan and OmnicidalManiac Dio, except that [[ButtMonkey the former]] is [[UselessProtagonist ineffectual]] for much of the story.
** ''Stardust Crusaders'' is probably the straightest example, with most of the story focusing on our heroes beating up various, evil things. And we see much less of Dio than in ''Phantom Blood'' although whenever he's shown, it's a KickTheDog like usual.
* BlandNameProduct: [[http://imgur.com/JZyK2Mz Coco Cola]].
* BlindIdiotTranslation: The notorious DUWANG scanlations of ''Diamond Is Unbreakable'' and ''Vento Aureo''.
** Taken a step farther with DUWANG Fansubs, made for the new anime. Every line is either translated badly, has terrible grammar, or is saying something entirely different from the dialogue. Goes the extra mile by having the videos only be in 240p resolution and have large, obtrusive sub fonts, to mimic the poor quality of ''Diamond Is Unbreakable'''s Raw scans. Of course, this time it's being done on purpose.
--->'''Dio:''' [[MemeticMutation You are not cool enough to touch things.]]
* BlobMonster: Yellow Temperance and Notorious B.I.G.
* BlueIsHeroic: Even if the notion of canon colors is a little ludicrous for the series, the [=JoJos=] are often represented wearing shades of blue in multiple medias.
* BluffTheImposter: In Stardust Crusaders, Jotaro accuses Captain Tenille of being an enemy, stating that all Stand users have a red nose when they smell smoke, every Stand user present instinctively check their nose, including Captain Tenille who is indeed an imposter.
* BodyHorror: Seeing the effects of many of the Stands will make you cringe.
** Not to mention some of the things clever vampires like Dio can pull off once they get used to their new physiology. And just about ''everything'' involving the Pillar Men.
** The mother goat produced by Bohemian Rhapsody is a case of fridge horror logic. It's just bad to see until you notice that she has ''breasts for eyes''.
** The stand the Empress takes the form of a wart that grows and consumes its host.
** The effects of eating food enhanced by Pearl Jam can be truly horrific, but turn out to be a subversion as the visible effect is simply the customer's body rejecting some ailment in the most direct way possible. They end up feeling better than before afterward.
** My arm just exploded and the flesh became snails! Snails are growing out of me! I'M BECOMING A SNAIIIIIIIL!!!!
*** And then snail-eating beetles arrive...
** My eye just turned into a flower!
** One Stand has the ability to manipulate the iron in a person's blood stream. The user, a deadly assassin, uses it to create sharp objects inside his targets. In one memorable scene, a young boy's cheek is shredded by a mass of needles that have formed within his blood.
** ''Vento Aureo'' also gives us a fishing rod whose hook crawls under your skin and towards your vital organs and a flesh-eating mold Stand.
* BoldInflation: Araki likes to "'''emphasize'''" certain words that are "'''important'''" by both "'''bolding'''" them and putting "'''quotation marks'''" around them, written in "'''Japanese'''" with the 「'''corner brackets'''」.
* BondOneLiner: Jotaro taunts DIO one last time after killing him.
-->'''Jotaro''': There's a single one good reason why you've lost, Dio... you've pissed me off.
* BookEnds:
** ''Battle Tendency'' starts with Joseph fighting and outsmarting a pair of cops not just by using strength, but making creative use of Hamon, to make the top of a soda bottle blow up and send its cap flying. [[spoiler:His final confrontation against Kars ends quite similarly, but instead of a can, he uses a volcano and Kars' own Hamon to send Kars flying into space.]]
** In the end of ''Battle Tendency'' (which may as well be the prologue to ''Stardust Crusaders'' due to an extensive TimeSkip), Joseph is in an airport, listening to music in a cassette. At the end of ''Stardust Crusaders'' we see a similar scene, but it is revealed that he's listening to Music/TheBeatles' "Get Back" - the song that the "[=JoJo=]" nickname was inspired by.
*** He also is briefly shown to do the same at the end of ''Diamond is Unbreakable''.
** ''Steel Ball Run'''s second chapter ends with Johnny talking about how he started to walk - not physically but in the [[ComingOfAgeStory child to adult sense]]. The last chapter has him talking more about how it was a story of revival, in many senses.
*** More than that. First thing Gyro does on screen is to tell one random mook to pick up his gun if he wants to fight him. [[spoiler:And in the end the same thing happens with Johnny and Valentine.]] Johnny learns the first spin by mounting his horse [[spoiler:and in the end has to climb his horse to cancel a spin.]]
*** Volume 3 has Gyro doing a bow to the crowd, the cover of volume 22 has Johnny doing the same bow.
** Both the StarterVillain and FinalBoss of ''Diamond Is Unbreakable'' are {{Serial Killer}}s.
*** Josuke's grandfather is one of Angelo's victims and Josuke is forced to recognize that his Stand has limits with the death of a loved one. During the climax versus Kira, [[spoiler: Okuyasu was mortally wounded and unresponsive after Josuke healed him. But, in this instance, Okuyasu woke up in the nick of time to save Josuke]].
* BookDumb: Narancia may not be able to make a simple multiplication, but he is still a resourceful Stand user.
* BoomHeadShot: Hol Horse and Mista whose Stands revolve around guns tend to land these or aim to land these anyway.
* BoomerangComeback: A bad guy version: in ''Stone Ocean'', Kenzo uses a boomerang-shaped piece of metal to partially decapitate Foo Fighters from behind.
* BoringInvincibleHero: Gyro is an aversion. In the first chapters of ''Steel Ball Run'', he appears to be one; trained since he was seven on the powerful spin technique, looking and appearing generally badass, and coming out on top in the first stage of the race, without a scratch. Then, due to interference from the upper brass, Gyro is knocked down from first place to twenty first and things get worse from there, as Gyro trails behind his own disciple, in terms of points (mostly due to sheer bad luck), suffers some of the ''nastiest'' injuries in the series, and [[spoiler: dies in the end.]]
** Fugo from ''Vento Aureo'' was actually written out for this reason; his stand was too powerful to design decent fights around.
** Pocoloco, who is arguably a ShadowArchetype for Gyro and Johnny. While all three seek to win the race, Pocoloco's absurd luck means the race has no personal meaning to him, and never grows as a person because of his complacent dependence on his power. So while he may have [[spoiler:won the race and the money]], it pales in comparison to Gyro and Johnny's struggles and personal growth, represented by their greater cause to stop Funny Valentine from obtaining the whole Corpse.
* BossGame: The game based on ''Vento Aureo'' is nothing but 22 chapters of bosses (excluding one that involves Mista avoiding Oasis and another that is dedicated to [[spoiler:Abbaccio's death]]).
* {{Bowdlerization}}: The TV anime takes a number of liberties to some of the content from the manga.
** The exposed flesh of vampires, zombies, and the Pillar Men is colored with a pulsating red so that it would highlight their inhuman nature.
** The TV broadcast and Crunchyroll stream put large shadows over most of the gore, except for the aforementioned supernatural beings.
** The anime also refers to the Nazis only as the German Army, although Stroheim still makes mention of working for the Wehrmacht.
** The beer that Jotaro shotgunned in jail in the manga was changed to a BrandX soda.
** From the ''Stardust Crusaders'' anime, Jotaro's smoking was censored, probably because he is underage (despite not looking like it).
** Danny, Jonathan's dog, isn't seen bursting from the incinerator burning alive as he was in the manga.
* BoxAndStickTrap: Norisuke V and his grandson Tsurugi try to catch a dog with this. It never even comes close.
* BrainwashedAndCrazy: Humans on which DIO's spores are planted will become evil, even if they weren't before.
* BraveScot: Sharp-eyed viewers will realize that the Joestar family descended from a line of Proud Highlander Warriors, judging from the painting of George Joestar in a Kilt in the dining room scenes of ''Phantom Blood.''
* BreakTheCutie: At the end of Stone Ocean, Emporio witnesses all of his companions dying, and then has to live with alternate counterparts which remind him of his loss.
* BreakTheHaughty: Most of the more egotistical villains (Which is practically all of them) end up either dead or thoroughly broken down, both in mind and body.
* BreakingTheFourthWall: In ''Stardust Crusaders'', during the confrontation with Z.Z. and his Stand Wheel of Fortune.
-->'''Z.Z.:''' ''(after apparently burning Jotaro to death)'' I won! I ended Part 3 early!\\
'''Jotaro:''' Ha... Then who's going to replace me as the main character?
** Alessi also breaks the fourth wall in ''Stardust Crusaders'' when talking to Polnareff.
* BrickJoke: A subtle one occurs at the end of ''Stardust Crusaders''. At one point, Polnareff [[ThisIsReality thinks it would be impractical and unlikely]] for his friends to come out of nowhere [[BigDamnHeroes to save his neck at the last minute]]. This is exactly what he ends up doing for Jotaro during the climactic fight against Dio.
** In another arc of the same part, [[IneffectualSympatheticVillain Boingo and Oingo]] beat up some random guy for "looking like a idiot". This guy latter comes back at the end of the arc for revenge, but now with some paid thugs...
** Midway through ''Diamond is Unbreakable'', Jotaro gives a cheesy one-liner about breaking Kira's face. Fast forward to the final battle, and Crazy Diamond punches Killer Queen hard enough to put cracks on his features.
* BrilliantButLazy: Joseph Joestar is a natural prodigy with the Ripple, but unfortunately is too lazy to train, and relies on his brains instead.
* BritainIsOnlyLondon: Averted in ''Phantom Blood'', the Joestar mansion is hinted to be in Liverpool, then the latter half of the part is staged in the small coastal village of Windknight's Lot.
* BulletCatch: Jotaro demonstrates his Stand back when he believes it to be an evil spirit by having it catch a bullet when Jotaro tries to shoot himself in the head.
* BullyHunter: More subtle than most, but Giorno's dream to become the Don of Italy is so that the Mafia will once again ''protect'' the weak and innocent as they once did, rather than prey on and victimize them.
** Point in fact, witness his terrifying TranquilFury as he forces a ''Capo'' to swallow a gun for casually murdering a helpless old janitor who worked at his school.
* BullyingADragon: Bystanders will sometimes antagonize a Stand user, not knowing the gruesome deaths/injuries that awaits them if they piss him off enough.
** One limo driver grab Dio's arm while the latter is about to enter said limo, he's actually one of the lucky ones since he gets away with a broken arm.
** Three bullies try to pick on Josuke at the beginning of part 4. Josuke is kind enough not to react violently, until they insult his hair.
** A couple publicly humiliate Kira, who atomizes them both.
** Leaky-eye Luca attacks Giorno Giovanna over a matter of unpaid Mafia tithe. His head is gruesomely bashed.
** A thief provokes Gyro in duel, the Spin makes him shoot himself.
* TheBusCameBack: Polnareff leaves for France at the end of Part 3 without being heard of again, but he comes back to help Giorno and co. at the end of Part 5.
* ButForMeItWasTuesday: This trope is in full effect in one of Phantom Blood's most famous quotes:
-->'''Will A. Zeppeli:''' You bastard, how many lives have you sucked to heal those wounds!?
-->'''Dio:''' Do you remember how many pieces of bread you have eaten in your life?
* ButtMonkey: Jonathan. The poor bugger can't catch a break.
** Let's not forget Polnareff.
** Also Narancia, who is almost always the first person subjected to the newest enemy's Stand, especially if the effects are particularly embarrassing to him. In the rare instances where the entire team is affected, he will ''always'' get the worst of it.
** Nukesaku and Senator Wilson Phillips in ''Stardust Crusaders''.
* ByTheEyesOfTheBlind: Only Stand users can see Stands.
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* CableCarActionSequence: In ''Stardust Crusaders'', Jotaro briefly fights Rubber Soul aboard a gondola.
* CainAndAbel: Jonathan and Dio are adopted brothers but their feud kickstarts the whole series.
* CallBack: ''[=JoJolion=]'' has several in the first two chapters. The punk from the first chapter is called Joshuu Higashikata. Our hero's hat was made by a company called ''Steel Ball Run'', and apparently, our hero is [[spoiler:''half'' of Yoshikage Kira]].
** ''Stardust Crusaders'' also has a CallBack during the Empress fight. Before Joseph finishes off Empress for good, he predicts that she will say "don't do this!", referencing his old trick of predicting his enemy's statement before they say it back in ''Battle Tendency''.
** At the start of ''Vento Aureo'', when Giorno is talking about how he hates having to repeat himself, he rants that it's "useless, useless, useless," or in the original Japanese, "muda, muda, muda."
** Similarly, in ''Steel Ball Run'', Gyro says one after the other "muda, muda" and "yare yare daze".
** A self-contained one in ''Diamond is Unbreakable''. Okuyasu's first fight has him accidentally knock himself out with a potted plant with The Hand's ability by dragging it to him. Okuyasu's last fight has him [[spoiler: completely incapacitate Stray Cat, a plant, by dragging it to him.]]
** In the very last volumes of ''Steel Ball Run'', Johnny's evolved Stand resorts to the classic RapidFireFisticuffs and ORA ORA battlecry the Kujos are known for. ''Steel Ball Run'''s lack of melee Stands makes this especially notable.
** In ''Steel Ball Run'', the last battle between Johnny and [[spoiler:Diego Brando]] is a call back to the final battle of ''Stardust Crusaders''. Just like then, it happens on the bridge, and [[spoiler:Diego]] damages his leg to defeat his opponent. [[spoiler:The only difference this time is that he succeeds]].
** The ending of ''Steel Ball Run'' mirrors the last arc of ''Phantom Blood'', but with a more upbeat ending. Johnny leaves America for Europe and is implied to meet his future wife on the cruise; a coffin is brought in with the ship's cargo, but inside it is [[spoiler:Gyro's body, prepped for burial in Italy]] as opposed to Dio and Wang Chan, out to kill Jonathan.
** The opening for Stardust Crusaders shows [[spoiler:Jonathan's death]] and Joseph's [[spoiler:resolve to kill Kars and the Pillar Men, after Caesar's death]].
** Stardust Crusaders' opening has a direct call back to the first opening from the previous season when the lyrics mention [[spoiler:the century long conflict between Dio and the Joestars. The scene from the original OP where Jonathan punches Dio while they descend in a blue-shaded stair themed area as they are cloaked in auras is mirrored with Jotaro and Star Platinum getting ready to punch Dio as they are both cloaked in auras as they ascend upwards in a red-themed Tower area. Both the Joestar auras match the color of their environment while Dio's contrasts]].
** During DIO's World when [[spoiler:Kakyoin dies]], Joseph makes the same exact expression in the anime that he had when [[spoiler:Caesar died in Part 2]]. Syncing the two up, they are exactly the same besides the fact Joseph is now much older [[spoiler:and not sobbing]].
** In the first episode of "Diamond Is Unbreakable," a shot of Jotaro crossing his legs in the back of the car mirrors the way DIO was sitting when he gets into Senator Phillips' car.
** In the second "Diamond Is Unbreakable" episode, Josuke is playing ''Oh! That's A Baseball '99'', the sequel to the game Jotaro played against D'Arby The Younger. He's playing the Jaguars, the same team Jotaro played, and his team is populated by Crazy Diamonds, like how Jotaro's was populated by Star Platinums.
* CallForward:
** In the OP of the 2012 anime of "Phantom Blood" you can see all the other [=JoJos=] up until part six appearing on the manga pages.
** In the OP of the 2012 anime as Jonathan runs up the stairs, there's a close-up on Jonathan's eyes which then show flames. Very briefly, the flames turn black. Much like the Dark Will of Jonathan's alternate, Johnny.
** When Dio heals his wounds by sucking on the life force of young women in ''Phantom Blood'', the 2012 anime made him shirtless and pose like how he spends most of his time in ''Stardust Crusaders''.
** The OP of the 2012 anime of ''Battle Tendency'' has a '''really''' subtle reference to ''Stardust Crusaders''. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=MIeMoJlIT3c#t=11s At the 11 second mark]], you can see a Thorn on the right, also known as [[spoiler:Hermit Purple.]]
** In the same opening, we see several shots of Caesar and Joseph posing, until Caesar appears to be yelling. People who know what happens in the story will note that Caesar was screaming [[spoiler:because he was dying, and used the last of his ripple power to help Joseph.]] His pose even matches the exact panel of the manga.
** The 2012 anime subtly shows off both Jonathan and Joseph's Joestar birthmarks, though no attention is called to them since they are not yet a plot device at this point. In the original manga, the family birthmark does not even appear once until ''Stardust Crusaders'', where it first becomes significant.
** In the ED of Stardust Crusaders, a clock hand becomes a racing silhouette of the Arrow that gives people their Stands, first established in Part 4, and using the design last seen in Part 5.
** Also in the ED there is a reference to [[spoiler: Dio's stand, The World. Right as it begins there is a clock covered in purple vines, hinting at Dio's power over time, as well as Jonathan's own Hermit Purple-like stand which he also controls.]]
** In the ''Stardust Crusaders'' anime opening, there's a moment with five shooting stars flying over the world. In the very last moment you can see a ''sixth'' star on the far right, representing Iggy's later recruitment into the group.
** In episode 5 of ''Stardust Crusaders'', during Polnareff's recollection of his meeting with Dio, there's once again a bird on Dio's shoulder. Only this time, instead of the manga's one-time parrot, the bird is Pet Shop.
** In the second half of ''Stardust Crusaders'' during the beginning of the Egyptian Arc, a photograph is taken of the group with the newly added Iggy. Besides showing up in the ED it is [[spoiler: the cherished photograph of his friends that Jotaro would keep framed on his desk in Part 5. When he says it'll make for a good memory, it's a bittersweet call forward to when he looks at the photo with great melancholy while recalling their adventure to defeat Dio.]]
** During the first episode of the Anubis dyad, while Polnareff is getting his shave and haircut, Jotaro is seen reading a magazine on sea life, referencing his becoming a marine biologist in Part 4.
** When Vanilla Ice is talking to DIO about the Crusaders breaking into the Mansion, you can see in DIO's room that he has the Bow and Arrow from Part 4 hanging on his wall.
* CallingTheOldManOut: After yet one demonstration of Jotaro's aloofness, Jolyne angrily calls him out of it since it's as if Jolyne doesn't count for him. Jotaro doesn't understand, sadly.
* CallingYourAttacks: Common in the earlier arcs, but once the Stands were introduced, this mostly disappeared — characters usually just call out their Stand's name rather than a specific attack name.
* CallingYourShots: When Jotaro plays a baseball videogame with Terence D'Arby, both do that, Terence uses the classic variant by announcing a homerun while Jotaro announces how and where his team will throw the ball. Subverted in that every throw ends up being different, which throws D'Arby off guard since his partial mind reading can only indicate that Jotaro is sincere about the throws. Turns out Joseph was playing in Jotaro's stead.
* TheCameo: The mother of all cameos happens in Part 6 when Ungaro's "Bohemian Rhapsody" gives life to every other fictional character EVER.
** First every fairy tale character come to life and Weather Report is conversing with [[TheAdventuresOfPinocchio Pinocchio]] and [[Disney/SnowWhiteAndTheSevenDwarfs the Seven Dwarfs]], said Dwarfs even give a ShoutOut to the [[Franchise/{{Terminator}} T-2000]] and [[Franchise/StarWars Chewbacca]].
** Italians witness every work of art come to life, notably Botticelli's Venus. Unfortunately no one cannot record this because she keeps getting out of the videotapes.
** [[Anime/UFORoboGrendizer Goldorak]] is seen flying in the sky.
** A bystander is seen trying to shake hands with SpiderMan.
** News reports are witnessing [[Manga/FistOfTheNorthStar Raoh]] wasting Tokyo before Kenshiro arrests him.
** The frigging stick figure from every traffic signs comes to life dragging Ungaro out of the police's view.
** Mother Goat from TheWolfAndTheSevenYoungKids tries to [[CruelAndUnusualDeath cut Annasui's stomach open and fill it with rocks]]. This is a genuine NightmareFuel sequence as Mother Goat herself has an horrific appearance and she has all the characteristics of a SuperPersistentPredator and ImplacableMan.
--> "Beeh!!"(cue snipping sounds from a pair of scissors).
** VincentVanGogh is chatting with Weather Report, however Weather is forced to reenact Van Gogh's suicide.
** Averted with MickeyMouse, the RunningGag being Annasui wondering where the hell he is.
* {{Camp}}: Pretty much everything, even and ''especially'' the later arcs.
* CaptainCrash: Every Joestar so far. The vehicle they happen to be in at any moment is likely to be destroyed by a Stand user attacking them, or they are using it as a weapon, or it just plain crashes due to bad luck.
* CarCushion: In ''Golden Wind'' Mista jumps down six stories and luckily lands on Fugo's car.
* CarnivalOfKillers: DIO hires assassins from all over the world to kill Jotaro and co. before they get to him, as he deems himself too weak to fight directly.
* TheCasanova: Dio. He's got four sons, all from different mothers. There's also Hol Horse, who charms women so that he can use them easily.
* CastFullOfPrettyBoys: Parts 4, 5, and 7 have casts that are 90% composed of attractive young men.
* CastOfSnowflakes: While character faces, at times, [[OnlySixFaces look practically the same]], the stands in the series are easy to differentiate from one another.
* CatchPhrase: Tons, from Dio's "Toki yo, tomare! (Time, stop!)" (which is parodied as often as his "Wryyyyyy") to the generation-spanning catchphrase of Jotaro's, "yare yare daze" (Gimme a break!) (And his daughter's "yare yare dawa"). Joseph is fond of making random English exclamations when things go south for him (OH. MY. GOOOOOOOODD!), and of informing you that, depending on the way you answer his questions, he "may have to kick your ass."
** Also, Joseph enjoys predicting what people are going to say ''out loud'' by saying "Your next words will be ''x''."
*** He tends to shout "OH NO!" in his younger years.
** Josuke would like you to know that he thinks this is "Great!"
* CatFight: Averted, having two women fight each other won't spare them from gruesome injuries or even a brutal death.
* CaughtWithYourPantsDown: ''The very first scene'' of ''Stone Ocean'' has Jolyne complaining that a prison guard saw her on ADateWithRosiePalms.
* CelestialDeadline: In Stone Ocean, once [[spoiler: Pucci fuses with the Green Baby]], Jolyne has to stop him from [[spoiler: completing his stand]] before the New Moon.
* CensorShadow: The broadcast anime does this to a lot of the heavier gore. The DVD releases remove this for the most part.
** Jotaro's face is always in shadow whenever he smokes in the anime, since he is underage, believe it or not.
* CentralTheme: Hirohiko Araki states that [=JoJo's=] Bizarre Adventure is an ode to humanity, celebrating its potential. Around this theme revolve the problems of morality, the nature of happiness, and also the contradiction between this potential and YouCantFightFate.
* ChainedHeat: The first part of Stone Ocean finishes with a climatic fight between Jolyne and Pucci who are handcuffed together.
* ChainedToABed: A possessed doll ties Polnareff ''under'' a bed to sadistically torture him before the kill.
* ChangingOfTheGuard: A new part means a whole new set of characters with maybe one or two old characters returning.
* ChaseScene:
** In Stardust Crusaders, DIO briefly chases Joseph and Kakyoin before resorting to [[GrievousHarmWithABody throwing his unlucky chauffeur at Joseph's truck]] to make it crash.
** A good chunk of the penultimate fight in Steel Ball Run is based on Gyro and Johnny pursuing Valentine's train.
* ChekhovsGun: Jotaro's Star Platinum had been mainly used to beat the crap out of anyone with his diamond-hard fists and also to [[spoiler:freeze time]]. In the beginning, it was used to make things appear out of nowhere, and eventually his jail cell was filled with a lot of stuff, ranging from books, clothes, radios, RC cars, and weights. Jotaro used this ability again to throw off Daniel D'Arby in order to win a rigged poker game against him.
* ChekhovsGunman: [[spoiler:Who would've imagined that the little orphaned baby Erina rescued at the end of Part 1 would grow up to be Lisa Lisa, Joseph's mother and Hamon teacher in Part 2?]]
* ChekhovsSkill: In part 7, one of the first effects of the Spin was to trigger leg reflexes.[[spoiler: 23 volumes later, Johnny would use this exact application on his horse to gather the Super Spin and unleash it on Valentine.]]
** In part 3, Star Platinum's ability to catch bullets was brought up fairly frequently early on, despite the action in question occurring only once, in the first chapter. [[spoiler: Then the final battle with DIO comes along, and Jotaro uses that very ability when DIO steals a gun and shoots him to make sure he's dead- Jotaro stops the bullet just after it penetrates his skin to create the illusion it hit its target]]
* ChickMagnet: Could almost be considered a bloodline trait amongst the Joestars, considering that Joseph was ''still'' a player when he was well into his golden years. Polnareff, Kakyoin, and several other sidekicks are also good with the ladies.
** Weather Report is better than all of them in terms of getting chicks. In terms of ''keeping'' them, however... not so much. Kinda hard to score when all the ladies around you are snails.
* TheChosenOne: Diavolo fancies himself being chosen and favoured by Fate itself, claiming it is his right to lord over everyone and take the Arrow for himself.
* ChurchMilitant: In ''Steel Ball Run'', [[spoiler:Hot Pants is hinted to be a nun sent by the Vatican to retrieve the Corpse parts]].
* CityOfAdventure: Both versions of the town of Morioh. Many chapters in ''Diamond Is Unbreakable'' would even end with little notes detailing local folklore or landmarks in town relating to the events of said chapter.
* CleavageWindow: If there's a male equivalent to this trope, then Giorno and Bruno's outfits both qualify for it.
* ClimacticVolcanoBackdrop: The FinalBattle between [[spoiler:Joseph Joestar and Kars]] in the ''Battle Tendency'' arc happened on the top of an erupting volcano.
* ClosedCircle: In ''Vento Aureo'', the fight with [[BlobMonster Notorious B.I.G.]] is made scarier by the fact that the gang are all stuck on an airplane over the ocean.
* CloudCuckooLand: The world of [=JoJo=] is this; characters here are either quirky, outright demented, or somewhere in between. Jotaro Kujo [[OnlySaneMan is one of the few exceptions]].
* CobwebOfDisuse: DIO's library is filled with cobwebs despite the fact that he actually uses it.
* CoincidentalDodge: In part 3, Polnareff sneezes on Jotaro due to the villain [[ItMakesSenseInContext sticking his fingers in Polnareff's nose]]. Naturally, Jotaro backs out in disgust and coincidentally avoids a bullet meant for him.
* ColorCodedForYourConvenience: The 25th anniversary "[=JoJonium=]" hardcover omnibus collections. Each Part is individually re-numbered at #1, so "Phantom Blood" #1-3 uses green accents on the cover, "Battle Tendency" #1-4 uses red, and "Stardust Crusaders" uses blue.
* ColourCodedTimestop: [[CallingYourAttacks ZA WARUDO!]] In the 1993 OVA, the scenery turns to negative colors for a moment after time stops. In the 2015 anime, the scenery turns to greyscale after a brief negative-color flash.
* CombatPragmatist: From the get go, everyone foregoes fighting fairly. Trapping the opponent, ganging up on him, sneak attacks, cheating at games, the only difference between heroes and villains is that villains are willing to involve civilians. Also Joseph. It's stated by many people that his tendency to resort to trickery is what makes him such a good fighter.
** Every [=JoJo=] is this to varying extents save for Jonathan, who believes in fighting honorably.
* ComingOfAgeStory: ''Steel Ball Run'' is explicitly this for Johnny Joestar.
* CompositeCharacter: Characters from Steel Ball Run and [=JoJolion=] can be considered a mix of older characters, most notably:
** Gyro Zeppeli is a mix between Will A and Caesar in his interaction with Johnny.
** Josuke Higashikata (from [=JoJolion=]): is a composite of Josuke and Jotaro, while ''literally'' being [[spoiler: a mix between Yoshikage Kira and Josefumi Kujo]].
** Joshu Higashikata is a mix between Okuyasu dumbness and Yukako's unhealthy romantic feelings for another Hirose.
* CompressedAdaptation: There was a OVA based off the third series made, but it started near the last third of the story (when the party runs into D'Arby) then went into Iggy's introduction before jumping to the final battle with Dio.
** Another set of [=OVAs=] were later made that started from the beginning of the third series, ending back to where the old OVA's starts.
** Each episode of the 2012 anime has adapted five or six chapters of the manga. It's rather understandable, considering that [[{{Understatement}} this series kinda long]].
* ConflictingLoyalty: Bruno Buccellati is conflicted between his disgust of drugs and his duty towards Passione, who is dealing them in the streets. When Diavolo crosses the MoralEventHorizon, he chooses his side and revolts against the Boss.
* ConspicuousCGI: Used for the buildings in the Part 4 ending credits, as well as the brief shot of Traffic (the boat that brings [[spoiler: Joseph]] to Morioh).
* ConspicuousGloves:
** After Polnareff is saved from the flesh bud in his head, he asks Joseph about whether or not he has two right hands because he'd noted that Joseph never once took off his gloves. Joseph reveals that [[CallBack he just has a prosthetic hand from his adventures]]. He also reveals the antagonist he's looking for here.
** When the team enter a hotel, they find the manager as a little old lady who bandaged her left hand because of a burn. [[spoiler:It's really a cover-up and the covered hand is also a right hand, revealing her as also the mother of the man Polnareff was looking for and killed before this incident.]]
* ContagiousPowers: When someone acquires a Stand, those of the same bloodline gain one as well.
* ContinuityLockout: Averted, each part is its own story and readers do not need to have read the previous ones to undestand it, but doing so will spoil the previous parts.
* ContinuityReboot: ''Steel Ball Run'' is set in an alternate universe and starts back during the time period of ''Phantom Blood''.
* ContrastingSequelMainCharacter: Whether coincidental or an intentional design choice, each protagonist of each part tends to have an opposing temperament to their predecessor.
** To put it simply, Jonathan is a NiceGuy {{Determinator}} bound by the honor of a gentleman and never giving up. His grandson, Joseph is a GuileHero JerkWithAHeartOfGold who uses his wits to win against an enemy. Jotaro is an [[TranquilFury unforgiving]] PerpetualFrowner who varies from pummeling to cunning depending on his opponent. Josuke is [[HonorBeforeReason honorable]] and [[ThouShallNotKill doesn't kill his enemies]], but is also a [[TheGamblingAddict gambling addict]] who's got a BerserkButton with his hair. Giorno has a RobinHood streak and [[GoodIsNotSoft isn't afraid to fight ruthlessly with his enemies]]. Jolyne is a flighty, irresponsible [[TheHedonist hedonist]] looking for a thrill. Johnny is a stubborn and strong-willed cripple with a major InferioritySuperiorityComplex. Finally, "Josuke" is {{Adorkable}} with some brooding moments.
** It's such a prominent feature in this series that even the enemies are opposite of each other. Dio is a {{Narcissist}} megalomaniac [[TheCasanova casanova]] with various KickTheDog moments, notably literally kicking a dog as his EstablishingCharacterMoment [[spoiler:and later incinerating it alive]], and is never seen without a [[SmugSmiler smirk]]. He is also favorable to humans that are nice to him, though he will dispose of them once they serve no use callously. Kars is a [[TheStoic stoic]] super vampire with a single-minded goal of achieving perfection as the UltimateLifeForm, but notably cares more about wildlife than humans, and [[MemeticMutation has no need for sex]]. He also cared more about his colleagues than Dio did. Kira, on the other hand, has significantly humbler ambitions than his predecessors, [[SuperOCD preferring to live a life without distractions and fixing his socks]]. He also has a sick obsession with women's hands. Diavolo is an [[LackOfEmpathy apathetic]] man with no love for anyone but himself, and [[spoiler:not even his own split personality's death]] brings any emotional response. He is obsessed with killing his own daughter, and has an even more extreme paranoia of being discovered by others than Kira. Pucci has UndyingLoyalty to Dio, [[AmbiguouslyGay with some questionable undertones for a priest]], is [[ManipulativeBastard manipulative]], and is an [[ObliviouslyEvil "evil that didn't know he was evil"]] kind of villain. Finally, Funny Valentine is a [[WellIntentionedExtremist well-intentioned]] patriot whose reasons for his actions are the love for his country and to honor the memory of his father, going so far as to commit morally-wrong acts to attain eternal happiness and prosperity for his country.
* [[CoolBoat Cool Submarine]]: Avdol bought one under the guise of a rich Arab to cross the Red Sea. Years later Jotaro would use one provided by the Speedwagon Foundation to help Jolyne escape prison.
* CoolBigBro: Nicholas Joestar was one for Johnny. His tragic death contributed to make Johnny depressive.
* CoolOldGuy: Joseph becomes one in Part 3, and then in Part 4. Likewise, Norisuke I and IV are two other cool guys in Steel Ball Run and [=JoJolion=] respectively.
* CooperationGambit: Diego Brando briefly associates himself with Valentine in order to get rid of Johnny and Gyro in their chase for the Holy Corpse, then when Valentine gathers its part, he teams up with Wekapipo and later Hot Pants.
* ConvenientCranny: Subverted. Transformed into a little child, Polnareff is being cornered by into a small room with no exit as Alessi smashes the door with an axe. There are several hiding places, yes, but too obvious to be safe so Polnareff engineers his own hiding spot using an aquarium, a mirror to hide his body and a balloon to hide his head. Thanks to this Polnareff can surprise Alessi and hit him with Silver Chariot's sword.
* CoupDeGrace: The series' RapidFireFisticuffs are often used as this, as the omnipresent combat pragmatism means no one wants to face a Stand head-on.
* CoveredWithScars: Joseph Joestar after his training, and Funny Valentine has the most patriotic scars ever, shaped as the American flag.
* CowardlyLion: Koichi Hirose from Part 4 is arguably the bravest character of the part because he jumps straight into the most dangerous situation while shaking from fear.
* CrackFic: The ''Jorge Joestar'' novel at this point could be considered ''officially sanctioned'' crackfic. Although written and published for the 25th anniversary celebration of the franchise, it's not considered canonical by any means. It's also [[UnderStatement completely insane]], which is an impressive feat given the franchise. See SerialEscalation for a ''hint'' of the craziness involved.
* CrazyEnoughToWork: the series live on this trope. Almost every major character would have thought of some plan requiring temporary loss of limbs, several layers of BatmanGambit, incredible luck, and so on.
** One of the most glorious example would be Joseph stopping his fall in a crevasse by sticking stalactites to each other with Hamon, making a makeshift rope, while knowing the stalactites at his disposition wouldn't be enough but that his best friend Caesar would know that he would pull such a silly plan and thus make the rest of the rope with the stalactites near him.
*** Most of Joseph's actions boil down to CrazyEnoughToWork with a heavy dose of IndyPloy and GuileHero, so much so that Kars believes him when he claims [[spoiler:an exploding volcano blasting Kars into space was part of his plan all along]]
* CringeComedy: What results when Joseph and Avdol are both affected by Bastet's magnetism. See NotWhatItLooksLike.
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: Many examples.
** In Phantom Blood, Danny is tied up and burned alive in an incinerator. The dog manages to escape so everyone can see it being burnt to a crisp.
** Mark's unwittingly crosses path with Wamuu, who can digest flesh by physical contact, resulting in his left side wondering where the right side went.
** Caesar Zeppeli is mortally wounded by Wamuu's Holy Sandstorm then crushed by a falling piece of rock.
** Abdul suffers the consequence of PortalCut "thanks" to Vanilla Ice's Cream.
** Enya's vampire spores activate in her head, resulting in her brain being destroyed from the inside and tentacles sprouting from every orifices, even the eyes.
** Shigechi gets half his brain blown off by Killer Queen and the rest of the body follows soon.
** Keicho Nijimura is dragged into an electrical line and is electrocuted to death.
** Sorbet was cut into many pieces then framed in formaldehyde even as he was screaming in pain.
** Illuso is killed by Purple Haze, his body dissolved by a flesh-eeating virus.
** In Stone Ocean, the vast majority of the the maximum security ward are forcefully transformed into plants.
** Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap's NeverTheSelvesShallMeet rule results in two objects from two different universes dissolving each other into Menge's sponges. Alternate Diego's head is then disintegrated by the late Original Diego's own head.
* CurbStompBattle: Lisa Lisa vs Wired Beck. The fight ends before the vampire even realizes it.
** [[spoiler: Kakyoin vs Dio. Kakyoin can't do anything and Dio takes him out with ease]].
** Jotaro vs Steely Dan. When Jotaro and Steely Dan finally fight he gets his arms and legs broken and gets stabbed and also gets a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown from Star Platinum.
* CueTheSun: Done several times during the manga, to symbolize the heroe's victory.
* CulturalCrossReference: With character names like Robert E.O. (or REO) Speedwagon, Tonpetty (Tom Petty), and Dire and Straizo (Dire Straits), it's obvious that Hirohiko Araki LOVES 1980s rock. The 70s also get several references, and [[LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters as he started to run out of 80s names to use]], 90s-music-based names started to become more prominent.
* DancingTheme: To acknowledge the shift in tone to a more SliceOfLife style, Part 4's anime uses a more lighthearted disco/funk theme ("[[EarWorm Crazy Noisy Bizarre Town]]" by The Du) with 2D animation, in stark contrast to the first three season's hotblooded, CGI animation-filled themes. Most of the characters (Josuke, Koichi, Oyakasu, Yukako, and Tonio, for example) dance and pose along with the music, while [[TheComicallySerious Jotaro]] just stoically walks on by, though he does smile and pose a little bit, turning his signature finger-point into a [[Film/SaturdayNightFever John Travolta-type pose]], denoting his CharacterDevelopment.
* DangerouslyCloseShave: Polnareff almost gets his throat sliced by a possessed barber, due to Anubis.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: Several characters had a very dark childhood.
** Bruno's father was almost killed by drug dealers, and Bruno committed his first murder at age ten to protect him. He then had to enlist into Passione for protection.
** Diego Brando lived in poverty, witnessed his mother dying for his sake, and everyone around him [[BystanderSyndrome watching and not giving a damn]]. This led him to become a MysanthropeSupreme.
* DarkerAndEdgier: if the manga was already pretty gory and mature since his beginning, the tone still shifts toward darker region. In part 5 Giorno Giovanna wants to become a mob boss to enforce his idea of Justice and is prepared to kill anyone in his path. Part 7 is the first part whose protagonist has truly morally questionable goals and methods, due to its shift into Seinen.
** The two OVA adaptations based on Stardust Crusaders are considered this compared to the anime series and original manga.
* DatePeepers: Josuke and Okuyasu peep on Koichi having his first date with Yukako.
* DeadAllAlong: [[spoiler:Bruno Buccellati in ''Vento Aureo'', after his first meeting with Diavolo. In a bit of a twist, it's noticed by several characters that he doesn't have a pulse or temperature, and this is used to stop a Stand User once.]]
* DeathIsDramatic: Very dramatic. And if the death of a certain character is not dramatic by itself, be assured that his companions will have very dramatic reactions.
* DecoyProtagonist: Jonathan Joestar, the original [=JoJo=], is seemingly set up to be the hero of the entire storyline, as indicated by the title of the manga being possessive of his name and ''Phantom Blood'' originally being called ''Jonathan Joestar: His Youth''. However, [[spoiler:he dies at the end of ''Phantom Blood'']], and is succeeded by a number of characters that inherit his nickname.
** In ''Stone Ocean'' [[spoiler:(the last arc in the the series' original timeline before undergoing CosmicRetcon), after the arc's protagonist Jolyne commits a HeroicSacrifice, what's left of the arc and to an extent the series' original timeline follows Emporio, who then defeats the BigBad Pucci with Weather Report's help before crossing into a new timeline.]]
* DefeatMeansFriendship: Speedwagon, Bruford, Wamuu, Kakyoin, Polnareff, and more.
** Gets ''really'' crazy in ''Diamond Is Unbreakable'': at least 6 of the people Josuke and Koichi fight wind up as friends.
** Also happens once in ''Vento Aureo'': Giorno defeats Bruno but spares his life, and when Bruno wants to know why, Giorno basically answers "Because I'd rather be friends with you."
* DefiantToTheEnd: Koichi is cornered by Yoshikage Kira and defiantly manages to learn his identity and taunt him about how careless the supposed meticulous serial-killer is. His last words before being punched through by Killer Queen is to say that he'll be waiting for Kira in the Underworld. [[spoiler: Subverted when Josuke heals Koichi]].
* DeliberateInjuryGambit: DIO lets Jotaro violently pummel him with Star Platinum, propelling into the helpless, and full of Joestar blood, corpse of Joseph Joestar, enabling a full synchronization with his body.
** Narancia cuts off his own tongue and replaces it with a new one to throw off qualo and Tiziano when he loudly announces he found them
** In the White Album arc, Mista deliberately lets Ghiaccio bounce his bullets back to him, so his HighPressureBlood can blind the armored assassin.
** Jolyne sets herself on fire to protect herself from heat sucking creatures.
** In fact it wouldn't be far off to say that the protagonists injure themselves as much as their enemies.
* {{Delinquents}}: Jotaro and Jolyne are both introduced having been locked up in jail, and having done their fair share of hell raising (the former got into fights, the latter boosted cars and bikes). [[LikeFatherLikeSon Like Father Like Daughter]].
* DemotedToExtra: Joseph was the main character of Part 2 but is demoted to side character in Part 3 and gets only a couple of appearance in Part 4.
* DenserAndWackier:
** Each succeeding part is considerably stranger than the last, going from a Victorian powerhouse beating vampires to death with the power of the sun and only gets better from there.
** The ''Jorge Joestar'' novel is this. See SerialEscalation and CrackFic for a vague idea of the insanity contained within.
* DerangedAnimation:
** The TV anime often engages in this with its use of lurid colors and animated manga sound effects. Overall, it does an excellent job capturing Araki's style.
** The Oingo Boingo Brothers Ending in the Anime is this, looking like Boingo's manga which has a very weird and deranged artstyle itself.
* DescriptionPorn: There are many example. In "Diamond is Unbreakable", Araki interrupts the climatic battle between Josuke and Akira Otoishi to describe very precisely the latter's guitar.
* DesignStudentsOrgasm: The ''Battle Tendency'' opening is chock-full of this. The anime and the manga also qualify, what with the love of abstract backgrounds, and the [[HairColorDissonance creative approach]] to coloring and costume design.
* DeusExMachina: Due to the fact that Araki really likes to see the villains get what they were after, they generally become too powerful to beat normally and become defeated through this.
** ''Battle Tendency'': [[spoiler:Everything that happens in the Kars fight after he becomes immortal is essentially this, and it works perfectly.]]
** ''Stardust Crusaders'': [[spoiler:Jotaro's time-freeze resistance evolving into the ability to stop time himself, though the D'Arby fight hinted at it.]]
** ''Diamond Is Unbreakable'': [[spoiler:Echoes Act 3 and the ambulance.]]
** ''Vento Aureo'': [[spoiler:Gold Experience being hit with the Arrow and transforming into [[StoryBreakerPower Gold Experience Requiem]]. [[NoSell Nuff said.]]]]
** ''Stone Ocean'': [[spoiler:Emporio getting Heavy Weather's disk pushed into him, and it being compatible to boot.]]
** ''Steel Ball Run'': [[spoiler:Lucy showing up with Diego's head.]] To be fair, [[spoiler:Diego allows himself to be consumed with rage and tries to kill Lucy instead of running away]].
*** The spin is the Deus Ex Machina, not so much the trope as the concept. It is a reference to the logic of a 13th century priest, who stated that if a sphere spins, it can do so to infinity. [[ShownTheirWork He called this a "Deus ex Machina"]].
** Interestingly, ''Phantom Blood'' actually ends on a '''DiabolusExMachina'''. [[spoiler:Dio and Wang Chen pull a surprise attack on the ocean liner that Jonathan is on, and end up getting everybody except for Erina, her unborn son, and an orphaned little girl killed.]]
* {{Determinator}}[=/=]ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve: All the [=JoJos=] are able to win because they either believe they can or they have too much to lose to fail (or, according to Jotaro, "Because [they] pissed him off").
* TheDevTeamThinksOfEverything: In the Capcom fighter, if either player has [[OurVampiresAreDifferent Dio or Vanilla Ice]] selected, the fight will always be at an indoor or nighttime stage.
* DidYouJustFlipOffCthulhu: A young girl slaps Dio, then a Vampire, and for her courage, is thrown to a Zombie as dinner.
* DiedInYourArmsTonight: Inverted, Jonathan dies holding the living head of his archenemy Dio, who is the one (kinda) sad and shocked about Jonathan's death.
* DirtForcefield: Characters can roll in the mud and still look clean one page after.
* DirtyCop: Joseph is introduced beating two of them.
* DirtyOldMan: Even in his sixties, Joseph cheats on his wife with a 20 years old Tomoko Higashikata.
* DisabilitySuperpower: Somehow, blind characters develop SuperSenses to alleviate their blindness: N'Doul can hear footsteps from 4km away and read vibration in the ground whereas Jongalli.A can read air currents.
* DisgustingPublicToilet: More due to culture clash than outright dirtiness, but the idea is here. Polnareff is abashed to experience a toilet where pigs can stick out their head out of the toilet bowl in India, and when Joseph sees that wind toilets involve the poop rolling away and disintegrating due to the wind and the dryness of the air, as well as wipe oneself with sand, he prefers to wait for the hotel.
* DisproportionateRetribution: Diavolo's punishment for merely investigating him is a gruesome death, since it also invokes MakeAnExampleOfThem.
* DiscOneFinalBoss:
** The second series ''Battle Tendency'' began with Joseph Joestar being attacked by [[spoiler:former Joestar ally Straights]], who had become a vampire by the same means as series one Big Bad [[spoiler:as well as Big Bad of later series]] Dio Brando. But [[spoiler:Straights']] tenure as villain was cut short only a couple chapters later [[spoiler:when he killed himself]]. The real main villains of series two were in fact the Pillar Men who eat vampires, and against whom the ripple technique is of limited effectiveness most of the time.
** In the ''Diamond Is Unbreakable'' arc, the story focuses on trying to get revenge on Red Hot Chili Pepper for killing [[TheBigGuy Okuyasu's]] older brother. But he turns out to be far too dim-witted and easily beaten for a Jojo BigBad. Say hello to [[SerialKiller Yoshikage Kira]] instead!
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Yes. Yes it does. '''Constantly.''' Especially in ''Battle Tendency'', which features [=JoJo=] and Caesar climbing a tall, cylindrical tower that gushes oil out the top, as well as vampire who doesn't just use his boiling hot blood as a weapon, he "pours his boiling blood into all the openings he drilled in [Joseph's] body with those blood [[FlamboyantGay stiiiiiings]]", and much, ''much'' more. A bunch of attacks are based on bodily fluids, too, because supersonic aqueous humor is somewhat more plausible than eye beams.
** And of course, the fact that both Joseph in ''Battle Tendency'' and Gyro in ''Steel Ball Run'' have used a pair of balls to fight. One piece of official artwork even shows Gyro licking one of his balls.
*** "I must know the secret of the steel balls!"
*** Just look at the covers for ''Steel Ball Run''. They remind the audience of many things.
* {{Doing in the Wizard}}
* {{Doing in the Scientist}}
* DoNotCallMePaul: Holly-hum, we mean Seiko Kujo, insists on being called this despite her birth name being Holly, to Joseph's dismay. In a bit of BilingualBonus, both mean the same thing.
* DownerEnding: [[spoiler:''Phantom Blood'', where Jonathan dies to save his wife and unborn child, taking Dio down to the bottom of the sea with him. It's a nasty way to go, for one of the more unambiguously heroic characters in the series.]]
** [[spoiler: ''Stone Ocean'' which ends with the universe getting rewritten meaning the last six generations of suffering and struggling against the supernatural by the Joestar's was for naught, though Dio has finally been beaten for good]]
* TheDragon: Vanilla Ice (yes, that's his real name) to Dio, Pucci to Dio, Wamuu to Kars, Kira's father to Kira.
** ''Vento Aureo'' has a subversion. Vinegar Doppio appears to be the most trusted subordinate of [[BigBad Diavolo]], to the point that Diavolo has entrusted him with the power to use his Stand, King Crimson. [[spoiler:In reality, Doppio is Diavolo's split personality. The two are actually one in the same]].
* DressingAsTheEnemy: Joseph disguises himself as a German soldier to infiltrate a Nazi base. In ''Steel Ball Run'', Diego briefly infiltrates the Independance Hall disguised as one of the guards.
* DrivingQuestion: Arguably the main question is what DIO's stand does in the Stardust Crusader arc. The heroes know absolutely nothing about DIO's stand except for the fact that it absolutely terrifies his minions; and even asking about it is enough to elicit panic and fear in DIO's less loyal subjects. It's kept hidden for good reason too since it causes DIO to have an insurmountable advantage over the Crusaders during the final battle. [[spoiler:It's the ability to stop time.]]
* DroppedABridgeOnHim: Characters often unceremoniously die due to a sneak attack or being victim of a new power. Several examples of this being [[spoiler: Abdul, Aya, Abbacchio, Narancia, Ermes and Annasui, Wekapipo, Hot Pants or Aisho's deaths]].
* DrugsAreBad: Giorno Giorvana's primary motivation in becoming the new Don of Italy is so that the new Mafia that he rules over will be one that will ''not'' sell drugs ''period'', especially to innocent children.
* DubNameChange: With so many references to Rock artists and songs, it was inevitable that the imports of the serie would have their names modified.
* {{Dubstep}}: Used in scenes with the Pillar Men in the 2012 anime.
* DuelToTheDeath: Joseph and Wamuu's duel. Subverted with Lisa Lisa and Kars' duel, as Kars uses a body double for a sneak attack.
* TheDulcineaEffect: In the very first chapters of ''Phantom Blood''? Jonathan is introduced as getting into a fight over a bullied little girl, while shouting, "I don't know who she is, but I'll fight for her!"
* DullSurprise: An unfortunate side effect of the series' ArtEvolution. The shift towards realism in art style and proportions has resulted in faces that are much less expressive as well.
* DungeonBypass: Invoked in Part 3, where Joseph instructs Avdol to burn down DIO's mansion if he's not back after a certain amount of time. Later part of the group suprises DIO by entering the mansion by smashing an outer wall.
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* EarAche: some of the many injuries sustained in the manga.
* EarlyBirdCameo: The Joestar family star birthmark, which was introduced to the manga in ''Stardust Crusaders'' via {{Retcon}}, is present on both Jonathan and Joseph in the TV anime.
** We get a ''literal'' example in Polnareff's first encounter with Dio in Stardust Crusaders. In the manga, he carries an unknown bird on his shoulder, while the anime adaptation changes it to Pet Shop, who'd only be introduced later in the arc.
** In the first episode of "Diamond Is Unbreakable," random bystanders to the convenience store hostage situation were changed to [[http://40.media.tumblr.com/986a11ebb76f3ab5a1ace7d73b0a1292/tumblr_inline_o4yqqwje3x1qbntn6_500.jpg Toshikazu Hazamada, Keicho and Okuyasu Nijimura,]] [[https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ce_Hsg7WsAIWtPH.jpg:large Yukako Yamagishi, and Rohan Kishibe]]. Josuke and Koichi won't meet any of them until later on.
** The ''Diamond Is Unbreakable'' episode with Surface/[[DubNameChange Show Off]] shows an issue of ''Shonen Jump'' with ''[[ShowWithinAShow Pink Dark Boy]]'' on the cover in Hazamada's locker, foreshadowing Hazamada and Koichi meeting its creator, Rohan Kishibe, later on. There's also a brief shot of Yukako again, smiling lovingly at Koichi. Her crush on him forms the next plotline.
** Another from the Part 4 anime: In episode 13, when Akira Atoishi drains all of the electrical power in Morioh, [[{{BigBad}} Yoshikage Kira]] [[https://67.media.tumblr.com/dbf9b0028b2e40df60395d45e577332b/tumblr_o8xgttD74p1u0jrjfo1_1280.png can be seen from the back, waiting to cross the street]]. Episode 1 begins (and episode 13 ends) with shots of Kira picking up his "[[{{Fetish}} girlfriends]]".
* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: The stands in ''Stardust Crusaders'' had, for the most part, fairly typical, battle-oriented abilities like [[PlayingWithFire fire manipulation]] or super-strength. It wasn't until ''Diamond Is Unbreakable'' where everyone had really weird, really specific powers that required creative use. Plus, most Stands introduced in Part 3 are named after Tarot Cards or Egyptian Deities.
** More importantly, stands didn't exist at all until ''Stardust Crusaders'', the third part. In the first two parts, combat was based on the [[SupernaturalMartialArts Ripple]].
* EarnYourHappyEnding: It took six parts, 150 years, multiple generations, many many deaths, and [[spoiler:the resetting of the universe]], but the Joestar family finally got rid of Dio's influence.
* EarthquakesCauseFissures: Because Araki never settles for any normal version of a trope, it's Inverted: in "[=JoJolion=]" big earth walls known as Wall Eyes appeared in Morioh right after the 2011 earthquake.
* EasilyForgiven: Koichi gets along with some of his old opponents, such as Tamami, Hazamada and Yukako.
* EatingTheEnemy:
** This was one of Santana's, the first pillar man Joseph encounters, tactics of choice. He's notable for having the ability [[BodyHorror extend his rips out of his body]] to attack his enemies. And his chest powers don't stop there, for he can actually devour people ''through his chest''. He did this to a [[MonsterMunch a vampire the facility sent in to test him]] and tried to do this to this Joseph. To bad for him, Joseph wanted him to do this [[EatMe so he could fill the demon with Hamon energy]].
* EatTheBomb: Esidisi eats a dynamite stick which causes him as much damage as a burp.
* ElementalPowers
** AnIcePerson: Part 1 Dio, Pet Shop (Horus), Ghiaccio (White Album), Kyou Nijimura (Born This Way)
** DishingOutDirt: Cameo (Judgement), Iggy (The Fool; in this case, the Stand is more "Dishing Out Sand"), Secco (Oasis)
** MakeMeWannaShout: Koichi Hirose (Echoes Acts 1 & 2), [[spoiler:Sandman (In a Silent Way)]]
** PlayingWithFire: Esidisi, Mohammad Avdol (Magician's Red)
** MakingASplash: N'Dour (Geb), Angelo (Aqua Necklace), Blackmore (Catch the Rainbow)
** BlowYouAway: Wamuu, [[spoiler:Wes Bluemarine and Emporio Alnino]] (Weather Report), Erba Gatta (Stray Cat), Aisho Dainenjiyama (Doobie Wah!)
** ShockAndAwe: Akira Otoishi (Red Hot Chili Pepper), and to a lesser extent, Mariah (Bast) and the Boom Boom Family (Tomb Of The Boom), who deal in magnetism.
** RazorWind: Stray Cat could be seen as a form of this.
** LightEmUp: Kars (actually [[AbsurdlySharpBlade Visibly Sharp Blades]]), J. Geil (Hanged Man)
** CastingAShadow: Alessi (Seth), Polpo (Black Sabbath)
** ExtraOreDinary: Midler (High Priestess), Mariah (Bast), Risotto Nero (Metallica), Viviano Westwood (Planet Waves), the Boom Boom Family (Tomb Of The Boom), Mike O. (Tubular Bells)
** ThePowerOfTheSun: Arabia Fats (The Sun), any Hamon/Ripple user.
** PowerOfTheVoid: Vanilla Ice (Cream), Okuyasu Nijimura (The Hand)
** TimeMaster: [[spoiler:Dio Brando (The World), Jotaro Kujo (Star Platinum), Yoshikage Kira (Killer Queen Bites the Dust), Diavolo (King Crimson), Giorno Giovanna (Gold Experience Requiem), Enrico Pucci (Made in Heaven)]], Ringo Roadagain (Mandom), [[spoiler:Alternate Diego Brando (THE WORLD)]]
** GravityMaster: Koichi Hirose (Echoes Act 3), Lang Wrangler (Jumpin' Jack Flash), [[spoiler:Enrico Pucci (C-Moon)]], Yotsuyu Yagiyama (I Am A Rock)
* EldritchLocation: Features more prominently in ''Steel Ball Run'' and ''[=JoJolion=]''. In the former, "The Devil's Claw" is a roving, nightmarish region of the Arizona Desert that traps people until they either die or leave as Stand Users, and in the latter, the town of Morioh has "Shake Down Road" and the "Wall Eyes", both with unusual properties.
* ElephantInTheLivingRoom: Giorno and Bruno knows that Bruno is now an Undead, but are too disturbed by the thought to talk about it.
* EmbarrassingNickname: "[=JoJo=]" is this to Johnny Joestar, hence why he goes by "Johnny" and not "Jonathan" anymore.
* EnemyMine: Hol Horse is forced to team up with Jotaro's party when Enya comes gunning for him.
** And before that, Joseph teaming up with [[spoiler:[[ThoseWackyNazis Stroheim and his associates]]]] to defeat the Pillar Men.
* EnemyRisingBehind: After being skewered multiple times, Vanilla Ice, who is a vampire, rises behind Polnareff but the latter isn't fooled.
* EnhancedOnDVD: Bowdlerization is removed, off-model art is fixed, and frame-combining is removed. [[https://web.archive.org/web/20140717123341/http://www.kira-reviews.com/blog/archives/14871 Here]] and [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150102112030/http://www.kira-reviews.com/blog/archives/14307 here]] are full comparisons of changes in the first six episodes (mouse over to see the home video version).
* EpicRace: In ''Steel Ball Run''.
* EqualOpportunityEvil: DIO's organization is ready to accept men and women from any nationality, [[EvilOldFolks elderlies]] and [[EnfantTerrible babies]], [[FeatheredFiend hawks]] or [[ManiacMonkeys orang-utans]], so long as they pledge loyalty to Dio.
* EstablishingCharacterMoment:Each [=JoJo=] gets one:
** Jonathan jumps to help a young lady being bullied by kids taller and stronger than him because it's what a gentleman does.
** Joseph asks two [[DirtyCop Dirty Cops]] to let a victimized black kid go, even if said kid stole his wallet, and when provoked, violently beats the cops.
** Jotaro is introduced in a jail cell telling his mother to shut up.
** Josuke is first seen being bullied but calmly tolerating the thugs, but beats one of them when he insults his hair.
** Giorno tries to steal Koichi's luggage, but when Koichi uses his Stand, Giorno calmly reverses the situation by using his own Stand and gets away.
** Jolyne is introduced in a cell complaining that someone saw her masturbate.
** Johnny witness Gyro Zeppeli's duel and without a care touches the Steel Balls.
** Josuke wakes up and asks Yasuho who he is, then fiercely retaliates against Joshu, who pushed Yassuho aside.
* EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas: Jotaro may be a violent delinquent, but his whole quest in Series 3 is one to save his mother from Dio's power. Not to mention one of the big reasons Dio hated his dad was because he treated his wife like crap.
** Joseph, who despite his aggressively violent and playful nature, loves and respects his Grandmother that raised him very much, as well as "Uncle" Speedwagon.
** For Dio, true to a fault since [[spoiler:he was responsible for father Dario's death.]] Most likely not the reason behind this, but this fact in particular makes you wonder if it even matters.
* EveryEpisodeEnding: [=JoJo's=] Bizarre Adventure trademark leftward "To be continued" arrow concludes every chapter and episode of the series. This tradition started in the manga at the end of the Death 13 arc in ''Stardust Crusaders''.
* EverythingsBetterWithSpinning: ''Literally''. Gyro Zeppeli's ability with his metal spheres involves causing them to spin, then endowing this spin to other objects, enabling him to cut through stone, alter someone's muscular system, and even harden skin enough that bullets bounce off. Wekapipo uses a variant for his Wrecking Ball.
* EvilGloating: Evil characters like to gloat when they are in a position of power.
** DIO describes being fully synchronized to Jonathan's body and regaining his full strength as "the greatest high" and sees that he almost feels like singing.
** Kars fully enjoys describing the sun and his position as the strongest being on earth after using the Stone Mask on himself.
** Kira gloats about how he has luck on his side, saying his full name in public. Then Josuke surprises him...
** More down-to-earth than most, but Pucci, after killing everyone but Emporio and cornering him in Green Dolphin Street Prison, still takes the time to expose his motivation and how his plan works to the helpless Emporio.
** Valentine confidently dares Johnny to use his last Steel Ball and nails, knowing that he cannot use the Super Spin without a horse.
* EvilIsHammy: Evil characters are way hammier in general than the heroes.
* EvilLaugh: Dio lets out a deep laugh when he crushes Jotaro under a roadroller.
* EvolvingCredits: The ending credits for the 2012 anime. The animation is a slow pan over a carved Aztec mural as blood flows through its cracks, with the characters relevant to the current arc appearing in the foreground, although they're removed upon death. The Battle Tendency ending picks up where the Phantom Blood version left off; each update also sees the foreground characters change.
** The OP for Stardust Crusaders' Egypt arc undergoes two noticeable evolutions in the final episodes: In ep.23, after the true power of DIO's Stand "The World" has been revealed, [[spoiler:the scene at the end where DIO appears by Jotaro is changed to show him freezing time and walking past Jotaro before everything starts moving again]]. In the final episode, this change is retained, but the quick montage of colored silhouettes now has gold images representing DIO or The World added in: [[spoiler:standing at the top of the stairs taunting Polnareff, breaking the 20m Emerald Splash, and reaching out a hand to drain Joseph's blood.]] The silhouette for Jotaro shows something different: [[spoiler:a blue silhouette of Star Platinum deflecting the knives thrown at him.]]
** Diamond is Unbreakable's OP adds Echoes to two scenes after Koichi uses his Stand in battle for the first time.
* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: This is a manga about the bizarre adventures of a guy (or girl) whose nickname is [=JoJo=].
* ExplainingYourPowerToTheEnemy: Generally averted; half of defeating an enemy Stand is figuring out what it does. Amusingly (and somewhat realistically), the less important a villain is, the more likely they are to give away what their Stand does. (Steely Dan is an exception; he was using his Stand's power as a deterrent.)
* ExplosiveLeash: When the Green Dolphin Street prison guards organize a searching party for two disappeared prisoners, they give the volunteer explosives bracelets so they don't get any idea of escaping. Foo Fighters exploits the fact that they cannot get too far from a certain guard to kill both Jolyne and Ermes by dragging his corpse away.
* ExpositoryThemeTune: All three anime openings so far.
* {{Expy}}: Kars' physical appearance, arm blades, and desire to be the perfect life form make him a villainous twist on Araki's single other successful series, Baoh.
** Leaky-eye-Luka is an expy of historical gangster Lucky Luciano.
** Also, Manga/{{Wish}} is a BoysLove flavored manga centering two characters who, rumors say, are shojo-style Expies of Jotaro and Kakyoin. CLAMP are known ''[=JoJo=]'' fans, so...
** Additionally, Rose from the [[StreetFighter Street Fighter Alpha]] series (and now, [[StreetFighter Street Fighter 4]]) is very clearly an {{Expy}} of Lisa Lisa from ''Battle Tendency''.
*** Speaking of Street Fighter, Juri Han, who was introduced in SSF4, bears a striking resemblance to Jolyne Cujoh.
** A Capcom artbook says that [[StreetFighter Guile's]] design started as an homage to Polnareff before they decided to give him a full-blown Stroheim flattop.
*** Polnareff certainly inspired [[VideoGame/TheKingOfFighters Benimaru]], to the point where SNK ''still'' calls him "Polnareff" internally.
** [[VideoGame/{{Touhou}} Sakuya Izayoi]] has Dio's knife-throwing and TimeStandsStill abilities (with ''the same name''), and works for a vampire who near-directly quotes one of Dio's lines (see ShoutOut).
*** [[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers However, she's the only non-vampire]] of the 4 (Dio, [[VideoGame/{{Touhou}} Remillia]], and [[UndyingLoyalty Vanilla Ice]])
** ''[=JoJolion=]'' is full of this. "Josuke" not only is named after his ''Diamond Is Unbreakable'' counterpart, but also looks like him sans the pompadour. He befriends an expy of Koichi and is initially mistaken for Kira. He is adopted into a family where two members look a lot like Giorno's fellow gang members from ''Vento Aureo''.
** Jotaro Kujo was expressly based off Creator/ClintEastwood.
** Jonathan (And to a lesser extent, Joseph and Jotaro) are based off of [[Manga/FistOfTheNorthStar Kenshiro]].
* EyeScream: This is prevalent in literally every part of the series. Just to list a couple of examples:
** The first time Jonathan and Dio fight, Dio sticks his thumb in [=JoJo's=] eye.
** In ''Diamond Is Unbreakable'', one of Shigechi's Harvests punched a hole in Okuyasu's eye, then ''tore out a handful of the ocular tissue''.
** In ''Stardust Crusaders'', an unlucky sap gets this treatment courtesy of Hierophant Green.
---> '''School Nurse:''' Does this look like a ''pen'' to you?!
** One of Dio's special surprise attacks in ''Phantom Blood'' is to shoot vitreous humor (aka eye goop) from his eyes at the speed of a bullet. And whenever it happens, the reader is given a close-up as his eyes ''split open''.
** Later in ''Phantom Blood'', Dire takes Dio's eye out with a rose.
** In ''Battle Tendency'', Santana ''enters a soldier's body through the eyes.''
** In ''Diamond is Unbreakable'', this is the first effect of Tonio's food made with Pearl Jam, as Okuyasu's eyes start ''melting''. [[spoiler: They quickly turn back to normal, plus not being tired from lack of sleep]].
** In ''Steel Ball Run'', Johnny's eyes are set on fire ''twice''. He also gets stabbed in the eye by cactus spines in an earlier chapter. Really, it's a miracle that the man doesn't go blind.
** From time to time, a couple of mooks hit with Gyro's steel ball end up shooting themselves in the eye.
** In ''Steel Ball Run'', a soldier even lampshades this, [[SerialEscalation as he has his eye headbutted, cut with glass, hit with a door, and impaled on a doorknob]], and then he says "Why always my goddamn eye!?" just as another soldier shoots him, you guessed it, ''in the goddamn eye!''
** In ''[=JoJolion=]'', Joushu's eyes turn into voids when Josuke first uses Soft & Wet [[spoiler:and Yasuho's eye supposedly given the same paper-folding disease Rina had due to a [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot cellphone-paper-frog-thing]] made by Tsurugi.]] Later on, [[FanNickname Gappy]] gets an eyeful of chestnut courtesy of Yagiyama's stand... and doesn't even blink.
* FaceDeathWithDignity: Jonathan gets a mortal wound, but uses the last of his strength to help Erina and a baby, telling her goodbye as he expires. In Stone Ocean, Jolyne faces Pucci one last time despite having no chance of winning, coldly inviting her enemy to fight.
* FaceHeelTurn: [[spoiler: Straizo in ''Battle Tendency''.]]
* TheFaceless: In ''Stardust Crusaders'', Dio's face is not shown until the final battles begin... even though he's clearly identified as Dio. (The fighting game calls this version "Shadow Dio".) Midler, meanwhile, is never clearly seen at all. When ''she'' appeared in the fighting game, Araki had to design her from scratch. Diavolo's face also remains unseen for the majority of Vento Aureo.
* FakeArmDisarm: Joseph's mechanical hand is the most targeted part of his body in "Stardust Crusaders".
* FakingTheDead: How does Jotaro do it against DIO? By having Star Platinum ''grab and stop his heart''. DIO doesn't listen to Jotaro's heartbeat long enough and and Star Platinum massages his heart just in time to revive him.
** It almost didn't work, too. DIO was prepared to behead Jotaro just to be sure, but Polnareff interrupted him, enabling Star Platinum to revive Jotaro.
* FamilyThemeNaming: The Higashikatas in [=JoJolion=] have three different levels of this.
** First, the firstborn males eventually change their name to Norisuke, after the first Norisuke from Steel Ball Run.
** Secondly, the men in the family (except for Norisuke I and [[spoiler:Tsurigi]]) have their names (birth names in the case of the Norisukes) start with Jo (to be more specific, the 常 kanji): There's '''Jo'''shu and '''Jo'''bin, Norisuke II was born as '''Jo'''hei, Norisuke III was born as '''Jo'''shou, and Norisuke IV was born as '''Jo'''suke (常 being a different kanji from the 仗 used by the part 4 protagonist and the 定 used by the part 8 protagonist).
** Thirdly, the women use PlayingCardMotifs, Hato (heart), Daiya (Diamond), Mitsuba (japanese for three leaves, which describes clovers, the french name for the club suit), and Tsurigi (japanese for sword, the equivalent suit to spades in latin (spanish/italian) cards and the esoteric tarot). [[spoiler:Though it turns out that Tsurigi is a boy.]]
** Stands of the Main [=JoJos=] from ''Stardust Crusaders'' to ''Stone Ocean'' had an earthly theme with them (Star ''Platinum'', Crazy ''Diamond'', ''Golden'' Experience and ''Stone'' Free).
* Fanservice: The manga indulges in this after its shift to seinen.
* FantasticFightingStyle: Two of them, in the first and second part is featured the Ripple or Sendo, an ancient martial in which the practitioners harness ThePowerOfTheSun by breathing; in the seventh is featured the Spin which is based on throwing a [[EverythingIsBetterWithSpinning spinning sphere]].
* FantasyKitchenSink: A midler example than most, but combining the parts and spinoffs, we still get vampires, supervampires, zombies, two magic martial arts, cyborgs, genuine diviners and fortunetellers, schizophrenic shapeshifters, psychic powers, ghosts, alien viruses, cryptozoology is sometimes true with the flying rods and electricity eating insects, parallel universes, yokai, millenial curses, there is a Heaven, and Fate dictates everything, and sometimes not.
* TheFarmerAndTheViper: The Joestars kindly adopt a certain Dio Brando who [[SelfMadeOrphan recently lost his father]]. Considering who the father was, Georges Joestar should have known better.
* FastballSpecial: Jotaro weaponizes Iggy in this fashion against [[DisabilitySuperpower N'Dour]]. N'Dour is able to pull back his Stand in time to defend himself, but not without losing track of Jotaro's location until it's too late.
* FatalFamilyPhoto: Happens to a German soldier named Mark in ''Battle Tendency''. His locket with his fiancée's photo in it even falls significantly to the floor as he dies.
* FatalFlaw: Dio's overconfidence and tendency to underestimate his opponents is the source of his shortcomings. In Stone Ocean, Pucci points out that Jotaro's attachement for his daughter is this.
* FatBastard: Polpo is a mob lieutnant, and is so fat he can pass off as a couch. Tamaki Damo is also a less fat example, but compensate by being a first class bastard, using ColdBloodedTorture liberally and humiliating his victims.
* FateWorseThanDeath: [[spoiler:Kars in ''Battle Tendency'', Yoshikage Kira in ''Diamond Is Unbreakable'', Diavolo in ''Vento Aureo'', and Magenta Magenta in ''Steel Ball Run''.]]
** [[spoiler:Although Kira's fate, going by ''Deadman's Questions'', arguably isn't that bad compared to Kars and Diavolo's fates.]]
** Anubis' ultimate fate in ''Stardust Crusaders''. [[spoiler:After its battle with Polnareff, it's broken and left at the bottom of a river to rust.]]
** [[spoiler:After becoming the Ultimate Being and thus being indestructible, Kars is launched into space, unable to return to Earth, or do much of anything [[AndIMustScream except float around in an endless void until he goes mad.]]]]
* FemaleGaze: Although made with an adolescent male audience in mind, ''Battle Tendency'' is rather infamous for this. The main cast is composed predominantly of [[RatedMForManly handsome and very muscular]] men in skintight, {{Stripperiffic}} clothing who engage in battles chock full of [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything phallic or homoerotic innuendo]] and highly sensual poses that show off their bodies, with many panels drawing attention to their prominent buttocks and muscles. Many of the other parts would also qualify to an extent as well.
** In Part 4, Episode 3, when Tomoko mistakes Jotaro for his grandfather, Joseph, [[http://highdio.tumblr.com/post/142873104391/tomoko-cam her eyes linger for a moment each over Jotaro's face, chest, his junk, and his legs]]. Woman has priorities.
* FictionalVideoGame: ''F-Mega'' and ''[[GratuitousEnglish Oh! That's A Baseball]]'' in Part 3. The Part 4 anime gives a ContinuityNod to the previous season by including a snippet of ''Oh! That's A Baseball '99''.
* FightingSpirit: The Stands introduced in ''Stardust Crusaders''.
* {{Filler}}: '''[[AvertedTrope Averted]]'''. The manga began in 1986, but it wouldn't receive a proper [[AnimatedAdaptation adaptation]] until October 2012, when the show's first season premiered. That's ''twenty-six'' years later. Fans won't have to worry about the anime [[OvertookTheManga overtaking the manga]] for quite a while.
* FingerInTheMail: Diavolo mails the body parts of Sorbet framed in containers full of formaldehyde to La Squadra di Esecuzione as a grim warning against everyone who dares standing out.
* {{Fingore}}: Araki's ''next'' favourite target of cringe-inducing injuries after EyeScream. Makes one wonder what kind of childhood the poor author had...
** Esidisi and Jonny are notable for weaponizing this trait in their fights.
* FireWaterJuxtaposition: In Phantom Blood, Jonathan's Ripple, which is basically ThePowerOfTheSun, is opposed to Dio's Vampiric powers, involving freezing the opponent among other techniques.* FirstKiss: Dio steals the one that would rightfully be Jonathan's.
* FiveBadBand: Dio forms a classic one in ''Phantom Blood''.
** BigBad: Dio Brando.
** TheDragon: Wang Chan.
** EvilGenius: Bruford.
** TheBrute: Tarukus.
** TheDarkChick: Jack the Ripper.
*** The first five antagonists technically fit this mold:
** BigBad: Dio Brando.
** TheDragon: Enrico Pucci.
** EvilGenius: Diavolo.
** TheBrute: Kars.
** TheDarkChick: Yoshikage Kira.
* FiveManBand: The series' most famous {{Nakama}}, the protagonists of ''Stardust Crusaders'':
** TheHero: Jotaro.
** TheLancer: Kakyoin.
** TheBigGuy: Polnareff.
** TheSmartGuy: Avdol fits, but Jotaro, Kakyoin, and Joseph are pretty smart too. Polnareff's [[DumbMuscle another trope]].
** TeamDad: Joseph.
** TeamPet: Iggy.
*** ''Diamond is Unbreakable'' also forms one:
** TheHero: Josuke.
** TheLancer: Koichi early on, then it switches to Okuyasu.
** TheBigGuy: Okuyasu.
** TheHeart: Koichi.
** TheSmartGuy: Rohan.
** EleventhHourRanger: Hayato.
** {{Big Good}}s: Jotaro and Reimi.
* FlawExploitation: Joseph Joestar is a master of this. He exploited Straizo smartness to repeatedly trick him, Wamuu's BloodKnight tendencies to spare him on the ground that he would make a great adversary given time to train or uses Kars' obsession with the Red Stone of Aja to protect himself.Other instances of this trope being:
** Josuke and Okuyasu exploit Shigechi's greed to win against him.
** Pucci repeatedly uses [[SadisticChoice Sadistic Choices]] between catching him or saving a companion because he is confident the heroes love each other more than they hate Pucci. Jotaro's attachement for his daughter, making him do unreasonable choices, leads to Pucci killing the whole party.
* FlippingTheBird: Jolyne can do this in at least three different languages.
* FluffyTheTerrible: We get a HeroKiller vampire with ThePowerOfTheVoid, his name is Vanilla Ice. The EvilPresident who weaponizes KarmaHoudini to overpowered levels is named Funny.
* FlyOrDie:
** Joseph and Caesar's TrainingFromHell in ''Battle Tendency'' starts with Lisa Lisa immediately throwing them into a deep pit, where the only way out is to climb a pillar covered in oil. If they can't do it, then they'll die.
** Several Stands over the course of the series are awakened by near-death experiences.
* FoodChainOfEvil: Vampires prey on humans and Pillar Men prey on Vampires.
* FoodPorn: Tonio Trussardi introductory arc is full of this. Also the Higashikata Melon Parfait is detailed in great detail.
* ForcefulKiss: In ''Phantom Blood'', when Dio steals Erina's FirstKiss.
** Also in ''Steel Ball Run'', [[spoiler:Diego does this to Hot Pants, although he was actually trying to suffocate her after she tried to suffocate ''him''. Even so, it gets the same sound effect as the Dio/Erina kiss.]]
* ForeignLanguageTheme: The anime's first season uses "Roundabout" by {{Music/Yes}} as its ending theme, which would qualify as this trope to the Japanese audience.
** The first half of ''Stardust Crusaders'' uses "Walk Like An Egyptian" by Music/TheBangles for its ending, while the second half has the instrumental "Last Train Home" by the Pat Metheny Group.
** ''Diamond Is Unbreakable'' continues the trend by using "I Want You" by Music/SavageGarden.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: In Stardust Crusaders, Jotaro and the gang fight Oingo and Boingo, two Stand users. Oingo has the ability to predict the future with 100% accuracy via his comic book. In one scene, he attempts to kill Jotaro by splitting his head open. [[spoiler:Take 3 guesses as to how Jotaro dies in ''Stone Ocean''.]]
** A silhouette that looks exactly like the [[spoiler:Stand Arrow from Parts 4 and 5]] shows up in the Stardust Crusaders ED.
** In the 7th episode opening sequence, we get a close-up on Dio's eye and see gears turning behind them, foreshadowing Dio's Stand power to [[spoiler:stop time.]]
** In the OP for Part 3, five shooting stars are shown orbiting the Earth, representing the five main characters. Right near the end of the shot, a sixth shooting star can be seen approaching from off-screen, foreshadowing [[TheSixthRanger Iggy]] joining the group. Culminates in the Part 3 second OP, when the main characters burst from the stars.
** The second OP for part 3 is so rife with this it's actually kind of amazing. Several things are foreshadowed, namely:
*** Dio's true powers, and what they actually are '''very''' foreshadowed by a heavy "clock and gear" theme in the OP. [[spoiler: Also, at the end when Jotaro smashes the glass with Star Platinum, you can ''clearly see'' DIO's timestop abilities at hand when the OP suddenly changes color and freezes, with DIO suddenly being behind Jotaro. Speaking of Jotaro, ''his'' timestop abilities are also foreshadowed, showing the same streaking eye effect that DIO had in earlier OP's, referencing the fact that Jotaro eventually develops the ability to think during the timestops, and eventually do his ''own'' timestops.]] You can also see the arms of DIO's stand, The World. The foreshadowing comes full circle in episode 47, where we ''see'' [[spoiler:DIO time stopping the opening credits]].
*** The fact that the final enemy Stand users all use Egyptian-god named Stands is foreshadowed by a shot of the group climbing a staircase as a spotlight passes over them with the silhouette of an Egyptian god, like Bast, Set, etc. Each time it passes over, a new silhouette can be seen.
*** The [[spoiler: hole in the wall that the group busts through to save Polnareff]] can be very clearly seen.
** There is also an ''unbelievable'' amount of foreshadowing regarding [[spoiler: the deaths of Iggy, Avdol, Joseph and Jotaro (before they [[AlmostDeadGuy get better)]].]] Specifically-
*** A shot shows Iggy, Polnareff and Avdol climbing a staircase, [[spoiler: with a red line that comes up and covers Avdol's arm, representing Vanilla Ice and Cream violently erasing him from existence and leaving only his arms behind.]]
*** The shot of Kakyoin surrounded by thin green wires is a reference to [[spoiler: Emerald Splash's final evolution, becoming a large web-like structure that acts as a kind of tripwire-Emerald Splash-minefield. His shadow also looks like the pillar he stands on before he's punched into the water tower.]]
*** Joseph reaching out with a terrified look on his face [[spoiler: ends with a white line slicing behind his head, mimicking how he was stabbed by DIO.]]
*** Jotaro is surrounded with a number of white lines that seem to be attempting to reach him [[spoiler: mimics the famous time-stop knife throw scene. It gets even more intense when a number of the lines touch Jotaro, hitting him in the exact spots he's struck with the knives. Also not to mention the ever so subtle finger wiggle.]]
** In the Part 4 anime: Jotaro saying "I hope nothing annoying happens," once he reaches Morioh, and "It's finally over," once [[spoiler: Akira Otoishi]] is defeated. [[TemptingFate Not even close, Mr. Kujo.]]
* FourIsDeath: A number of times, ranging from Pucci's four subordinates the heroes fight in the maximum security wing of the prison in ''Stone Ocean'' to Mista's fear of the number in ''Vento Aureo''. Most ''notable'', however, is the fact ''Phantom Blood'' is forty-four chapters long, and in the last one, [[spoiler:Jonathan dies]].
** Oddly enough, in the fourth arc, only two good guys die, but the trope still applies since the main villain is a mass murderer.
** Main villain Funny Valentine of ''Steel Ball Run'' has a stand named Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap, shortened to [=D4C=].
* TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou: In episode 47 of ''Stardust Crusaders'', Dio uses the World to [[spoiler:time-stop the opening credits]].
* FreezeFrameBonus: The 2012 Anime adaptation has a few in the opening.
** The first arc has Jonathan developing a [[spoiler:Dark Will of Johnny Joestar from ''Steel Ball Run''. And by the way, Johnny's full name was ''Jonathan Joestar''...]]
** The second arc further develops this to a degree.
*** In the background of Joseph's silhouettes, you can find [[CallForward Hermit Purple]].
*** The pictures of the main cast are shown for a split second. This includes a family photo of Joestar family, Lisa Lisa, Straizo, Loggins and Messina, Stroheim, Smokey, [[spoiler:[[BreadEggsMilkSquick a X-ray picture of Joseph with two rings in his body...]]]]
*** When [[BlowYouAway Wamuu]] uses his signature technique, Holy Sandstorm (神砂'''嵐'''), the producer of the opening sequences, Kami'''kaze''' Douga (神'''風'''動画), becomes Kami'''arashi''' Douga (神'''嵐'''動画) for a split second.
*** Plenty of [[WrittenSoundEffect Written Sound Effects]] that are almost invisible in normal speed. This doubles up as a DevelopmentGag, when they play this on the creator's name.
** The ''Stardust Crusaders'' OP features a scene with five shooting stars in the sky; however, off to the far right, there's a sixth star, [[spoiler:possibly hinting at Iggy joining the group in the second half of the story.]]
*** The second opening has [[spoiler:The World]] flash by for a split second right before Star Platinum punches through the glass. [[spoiler:This turns into EvolvingCredits in episode 47, where DIO activates The World and walks past Jotaro while the music is paused...then starts up again when the two start going at it.]]
* FreudianExcuse: Araki went on his way to avert it because he doesn't want villains to be too sympathetic.
* FriendlessBackground: Kakyoin grew without friends because no one could see his Stands thus, understand his condition.
* FromNobodyToNightmare: Quite a few villains in JJBA debuted as nobodies, most notably Dio who lived in poverty during Victorian Britain.
* FusionDance: In ''[=JoJolion=]'' [[spoiler:TheReveal has that the ground near Wall Eyes that Josuke Higashikata was found buried within somehow has the unique property of combining whatever is placed within it. Josuke is eventually revealed to be a fusion of two men, that part's Yoshikage Kira and another man called Josefumi Kujo, who is essentially an {{Expy}} of Part 4's Josuke.]]
* FunctionalMagic
** Hamon is a form of Force Magic. Via special breathing techniques, uses can harness their life force as a weapon against undead foes. While hamon is a very versatile form of magic (as best demonstrated by [[GuildHero Joseph]]), it's strength is limited to the user's body's ability to circulate oxygen: anything that prevents this, such as blood loss or suffocation, can reduce or even eliminate the effectiveness of hamon.
** Stands are, predominantly, a combination of Theurgy and Summon Magic with some Rule Magic that determines that hard laws for their use, the three main rules being that a person may only have one Stand at a time (although Stands can change under certain conditions, like Echoes and Tusk), [[{{Synchronization}} damage inflicted on Stands are also reflected on their user and vice versa]] (a Stand losing an arm would also cause its user's arm to be severed), and Stands are InvisibleToMortals unless bound/manifested through a physical object (like The Fool's sand body). Beyond these rules, the applications of Stands vary widely between two users, including (but not limited to) Purple Hermit's divination, Magician's Red's ElementalMagic over fire, and Gold Experience's transmutation. Many Stands also fall under Inherent Gift: most Stand users are born with their Stands, while those who aren't may be able to gain one via the Bow and Arrow.
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* FatalFlaw:Dio's overconfidence and tendency to underestimate his opponents is the source of his shortcomings. In Stone Ocean, Pucci points out that Jotaro's attachement for his daughter is this.

* FatalFlaw:Dio's overconfidence and tendency to underestimate his opponents is the source of his shortcomings. In Stone Ocean, Pucci points out that Jotaro's attachement for his daughter is this. *FatBastard: Polpo is a mob lieutnant, and is so fat he can pass off as a couch. Tamaki Damo is also a less fat example, but compensate by being a first class bastard, using ColdBloodedTorture liberally and humiliating his victims.

* AutobotsRockOut: "I'm In Control", Joseph's leitmotif in the anime, opens with the first two bars of [[Music/{{Yes}} "Owner of a Lonely Heart"]].

* EverythingsBetterWithSpinning: ''literally''. Gyro Zeppeli's ability with his metal spheres involves causing them to spin, then endowing this spin to other objects, enabling him to cut through stone, alter someone's muscular system, and even harden skin enough that bullets bounce off. Wekapipo uses a variant for his Wrecking Ball.

* FromNobodyToNightmare: quite a few villains in JJBA debuted as nobodies, most notably Dio who lived in poverty during Victorian Britain.

** Also in the ED there is a reference to [[spoiler: Dio's stand, The World. Right as it begins there is a clock covered in purple vines, hinting at Dio's power over time, as well as Jonathan's own Hermit Purple-like stand which he also controls ]]

* CableCarActionSequence: in ''Stardust Crusaders'', Jotaro briefly fights Rubber Soul aboard a gondola.