His name is Emporio. And fate hates him.
"What is going to happen to me? First, I'm kidnapped by a bunch of mafiosi, my life is threatened, and to top it off, now I'm being dragged off to a father I've never met. So... where am I supposed to go from here?"
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure is filled with threats on a global scale, and through their conquests, heroes, innocent civilians, and even children are made absolutely miserable.
- Jean-Pierre Polnareff may be a huge goofball, but he's an unfortunate soul all the same. Prior to Stardust Crusaders, he lost his little sister, Sherry, to the Serial Killer J. Geil, driving him to seek revenge. If that's not enough, two of his closest friends, Muhammad Avdol and Iggy, died trying to protect him. Both the death of his sister and Avdol's first death resulted in Polnareff feeling immensely guilty, feeling as though he was responsible for their deaths due to his own recklessness. He returns in Golden Wind, this time as a Wheelchair Woobie. He went to confront Diavolo, the Boss of Passione, in order to stop his peddling of Stand Arrows, and as a result of brutally losing to Diavolo, he ended up unable to walk and was bound to a wheelchair, forcing him to go into hiding. While trying to help Team Bucciarati defeat the Boss by entrusting them with the Requiem Arrow, Diavolo finds him in the Roman Colosseum and ends up killing him, with Polnareff's dying thoughts being of his friends and their 30-day trip to Egypt. He only survives because of Chariot Requiem causing him to switch bodies with Coco Jumbo the turtle, and after Diavolo is defeated, Polnareff is left to live the rest of his life in the turtle's Stand.
- Stardust Crusaders:
- Boingo is a timid little kid who gets dragged into working for DIO because his brother does, gets beaten up badly enough to land him in the hospital, and later gets kidnapped by Hol Horse because the mercenary wants to use his Stand, Thoth.
- Anubis' first host, Chaka. He's a timid young man bullied by his father and co-workers, than gets possessed by a sword that makes him kill his dad and the others. When Polnareff defeats him, there's a very good chance he'll be scarred for life and possibly be blamed for Anubis' killings.
- Diamond is Unbreakable:
- Hayato Kawajiri only wanted his father's respect and is often ignored by his mother. However, he doesn't know that his real father was killed by Yoshikage Kira, who assumed his identity, and when he does find out, he ends up becoming victim to a "Groundhog Day" Loop in the form of Bites the Dust. Even when Kira's out of his life, his dad remains dead, and life doesn't really get better.
- Likewise, Hayato's mother, Shinobu Kawajiri, who thought Kosaku was her dream man and married him, only to end up in a marriage that she finds unsatisfying. Every day, when Kosaku would come home, he'd frequently refuse to talk to her, only attending to his dinner, bath, and sleep. Strangely enough, Shinobu finds her relationship with her husband being rekindled after Kira takes on the identity of Kosaku, but even that doesn't matter, as Kira's acknowledgement of her is merely him using her as a means to an end. At the end of the story, Shinobu doesn't even know that Kira was run over by an ambulance, and believes that Kosaku went to work, waiting for him as he never comes home.
- The aging Joseph Joestar as seen in Diamond is Unbreakable. Once a proud warrior who saved the world from the clutches of the Pillar Men and took a stand against DIO, is now a bumbling old man with memory issues and physical handicaps. There's also the fact that he feels regret for abandoning Josuke and leaving him without a father because of how he used to think that his father abandoned him.
- Practically every relative of Yoshikage Kira's victims, like Shigechi's parents, deserve a mention. Their loved ones suddenly go missing without a trace, and because of the nature of Kira's murders, they will never realize that they have been murdered by a serial killer.
- Golden Wind:
- Trish Una, who grew up without ever knowing her father's identity. As it turns out her father is Diavolo, the boss of Passione, and even though she was led to believe he wanted to protect her, he really wants her dead. There's also the fact that she had to see so many people die, including three of her new friends, because of her relation to Diavolo.
- Narancia Ghirga's mother died of eye infection when he was very young and was then left growing up with his neglectful father. Trying to live his new life as a hoodlum with his "friends", Narancia's life was then turned upside down when said friends betrayed him and made him a scapegoat to one of their robberies. Beaten up by police officers, Narancia lived for a year in correctional facility, where his untreated eye wound worsened. After being released, his friends had turned their backs even more to him, claiming that he got his infection from his late mother. He then lives for a year in the street before being picked up by Bruno Bucciarati. It only gets worse for Narancia when he has to leave Fugo behind following the betrayal, and after all he's gone through, he's killed by Diavolo, when all he wanted was to return home.
- Pannacotta Fugo in the anime adaptation and Kouhei Kadono's Purple Haze Feedback spin-off. While his backstory (or the lack of it) didn't reveal that much in the manga, his Adaptation Expansion reveals that he beat his university professor due to him either molesting him (anime) or mocking him for having his grandmother's death affect his grades (PHF). This resulted in him being arrested and charged for an assault, which ended up in him being abandoned by his parents. His Stand, Purple Haze, is what Fugo seems himself as: an uncontrollable monster that rots everything in its presence, be it friend or foe. Adding to that, Fugo has several self-esteem issues and cannot act on an emotional level, which ends up in him being the only one not to join Bucciarati in his quest to overthrow the Boss. Purple Haze Feedback goes further and reveals that he is now suffering from Survivor Guilt due to not joining Bucciarati and blames himself for Narancia's death.
- Vinegar Doppio. Even considering the fact that he's the underboss of Passione and rather brutally kills Abbacchio, he's the Split Personality of Diavolo and doesn't realize it, he's a decent and helpful person when he's not being involved in Passione's business, and he dies in an extremely painful and sad way.
- Stone Ocean:
- Jolyne Cujoh, starting out really hostile towards her father, Jotaro Kujo, since he was absent for most of her life, even during times where she needs him the most. The whole part revolves around her trying to restore Jotaro's memories and Stand, only to die at the end just as she could finally bond with her father. It's fortunately undone by the ending, as after Enrico Pucci is wiped from existence, she is finally living a normal life and is at least in regular enough contact with Jotaro to seek his approval of her upcoming marriage.
- Emporio Alniño, who was born in prison, and lost his mother at a young age. He spent his entire childhood in Green Dolphin Street Prison because he had nowhere to go. It only gets worse in the end when all of his friends and Jolyne (the closest he's ever had to a sister figure) die. Moreover, even after Pucci is defeated and time resets to the start of Part 6, Emporio is the only member of the main cast to remember their ordeal.
- Jolyne's mom, who had a strained, most likely mostly long-distance relationship with her husband, and whose daughter kept ending up in prison, making her worry constantly. She sort of ends up by the wayside by the end, never getting a proper reunion with either Jotaro or Jolyne as they were both killed by Pucci. That said, the Reset Button leaves room for her to once again be married to Jotaro, and Jolyne is now in a happier situation.
- Atroe is implied to suffer from some kind of disorder where she fantasises herself being kidnapped, which eventually lands her in prison. Her shy demeanour causes her to be bullied by the other inmates, and she dies a horrible death when her explosive collar goes off. All of this was because she was a victim of a disorder that was beyond her control.
- Perla Pucci is the younger sister of Enrico Pucci, and was the leading catalyst behind his Start of Darkness. From a young age, she was led to believe that her other older brother, Domenico, died as a stillborn, when he was actually Switched at Birth and went by the name Wes Bluemarine. After meeting with him 14 years later, they fall in love without knowing that they're siblings, causing Pucci to hire a private investigator to split them up. Said investigator was secretly a Klansman who thought Wes' adoptive black father was his real father, causing him to be lynched. All the while, Perla was physically and sexually abused by other Klansmen, with the sight of Wes seemingly being hanged causing her to be Driven to Suicide. A long laundry list of trauma, because Perla never knew the truth behind her boyfriend.
- Steel Ball Run: Lucy Steel. As much as she's able to kick ass, it feels like fate has it out for her. She's had to fight to survive against Stand users before she even got a Stand, she was nearly raped by both Funny Valentine and Alternate Universe Diego, lost control of her bodily functions when she became pregnant with the Holy Corpse's head, and is slowly dying as a result of it peeling away her skin and making it metallic. It almost feels symbolic that her Stand can turn her tears into knives. It doesn't help that she suffers all this at the age of 14.
