History Awesome / JojosBizarreAdventureSteelBallRun

'''Valentine:''' My hearts and actions are utterly unclouded!... They are all those of '''Justice'''.\\

** Of note, with Johnny's left hand having been cut off, he only has five nail bullets to shoot, against Valentine's six, essentially leaving both men with one gun to use against the other in a QuickDraw duel. Valentie attacks Johnny with both [=D4C=] and his gun at the same time, but thanks to the discarded gun starting to fuse to valentines the second he draws it his aim is thrown off and Johnny is non-fatally shot in the stomach, barely able to dodge getting his head caved in by the stand simultaneously whilst Valentine is hit in the neck, incapacitating [=D4C=] from the fatal wound. Despite their grave injuries both men struggle to [[LastBreathBullet line up a shot on each other with their remaining strength]] and fire three rounds each at their target: Johnny is barely able to avoid getting hit in his vital areas whilst all of Johnny's shots pierce straight through Valentine's heart, sending him slumped to his knees and unable to prevent Johnny from finishing him off with a final BoomHeadshot with his last nail bullet, as he mourns the loss of Gyro and accepts he'll never see his friend again, leaving the president's corpse and TragicKeepsake to get sucked down into the earth from the Infinite Spin.

* And even then, the fight isn't over yet! The final battle basically comes down to a battle of morals, wits and willpower, and plays out just like a High Noon duel between two ordinary humans, for all the amazing abilities both Johnny and Valentine can unleash. Affected by Johnny's infinite spin, which is 'hunting' him between dimensions no matter how many Valentines [=D4C=] jumps to, dragging valentine like a magnet back to the crater Tusk ACT 4 made when it inflicted the infinite Spin on him via traditional Jojo RapidFireFisticuffs in hundreds of alternate timelines, no matter what options Valentine tries to avoid that inevitable fate. Realising that the Infinite Spin has [[DeadManWalking basically killed him already and he's going to die from it]] unless Johnny shoots him with an Infinite Spin in the opposite direction, Valentine returns to the 'base world' to barter with Johnny before the Spin finishes him off. He notes that he can bargain with Johnny, if he pleases, by bringing in a Gyro from another dimension to replace the one he killed, as well as giving Johnny a BreakingSpeech about Valentine's morality and why he ''has'' to be the owner of the corpse for the good of all the citizens of America. Amazingly enough, '''it works'''. Johnny admits that between the two of them, Valentine is the morally better man, but before he complies with his request he decides on one last test. Picking up Valentine's discarded pistol, he tosses it at his feet and challenges him to pick up the gun, noting that it's the same gun Valentine earlier emptied all 6 shots into Gyro's heart to finish him off with and is thus empty. Despite admitting Valentine's moral superiority and believing him to be the type of man who'd honour his promise to him, Johnny decides to bet against the chance that Valentine would break his word [[TheNeedsOfTheMany for the sake of his country]] and finish Johnny off to remove the threat of the Infinite Spin.

* And even then, the fight isn't over yet! Johnny talks to the President, who is now immobile and cannot dimension-hop due to the Spin. He notes that he can bargain with Johnny, if he pleases, by bringing in a Gyro from another dimension to replace the one he killed. Johnny refuses, and tosses a pistol to the presidents side. He says that he'll trust the president if he picks up the pistol- as Johnny suspects Valentine is harboring another one on him to shoot Johnny with, which will fuse with the pistol at his side and break if Valentine touches it. Valentine hesitates, then reaffirms his values that he is in the right. He then whips out his pistol that he was hiding, even though he knew it would kill him. It did.

** Ultimately, Hot Pants and Dio only lost the fight due to bad luck : if parts of Valentine's hair wasn't caught between the wheels of the train and the rails, allowing him to use [=D4C=] to switch with another Valentine and win, Part 7 would've ended sooner. Valentine himself acknowledges it was really close and Dio — who briefly manages to cling to life despite being ''cut in half'' — [[LetThemDieHappy dies believing he won]].

** Ultimately, Hot Pants and Dio only lost the fight due to bad luck : if parts of Valentine's hair wasn't caught between the wheels of the train and the rails, allowing him to use [=D4C=] to switch with another Valentine and win, Part 7 would've ended sooner. Valentine himself acknowledges it was really close and Dio — who briefly manages to cling to life despite being ''cut in half'' —[[LetThemDieHappy dies believing he won]].

* ''And even then, it's STILL not over!'' Johnny's final battle isn't against Valentine-- it's against The World. The same The World from part 3, time stop and all.
** At one point, DIO has Tusk Act 4 emerging from a hole in the wall next to it during a time stop. He considers it an excellent opportunity to take it's arm... Only to see Tusk Act 4 ''moving during the time stop''. DIO runs away from it.
** A villanous one for DIO managing to ''win'' the fight. During a final chase on a bridge, DIO uses his time skip ability to get close to Johnny and shot him, making him fall off his horse. Johnny manages to shoot his Tusk Act 4 one more time, and DIO calmly explaining how he's forseen it and allowing himself to get hit, only to ''chop off his own leg as it's hit'' and throwing it at Johnny, who's trap by his own infinite rotation and unable to undo it since, being dismounted, can't use the horse power to shoot another one and undo the damage. Then, with his leg still severed, he jumps on his horse and goes on to still win the race.
** ...Which then becomes a PyrrhicVictory, as it leads to Lucy Steel's SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome. Throughout the story, Lucy's constantly considered nothing but a young, pretty piece of arm-candy for her industrialist husband. What she ''actually'' is, is a {{Determinator}} GuileHero who makes up for what she lacks in combat prowess with her intelligence, perceptiveness, and willingness to do ''anything...'' to protect the people she cares about. The climax comes to a [[IncrediblyLamePun head]] when she defeats the second Diego Brando in his moment of triumph by showing up with the severed head of the original Diego, knowing the NeverTheSelvesShallMeet rule of Dirty Deeds' abilities. This leads to DIO attempting to get away from said head when he sees it, but failing due to the leg Johnny had made him sever, and it kills him in the process. You go, girl!

** ...Which then becomes a PyrrhicVictory, as it leads to Lucy Steel's SugarWiki/CrowningMomentOfAwesome. Throughout the story, Lucy's constantly considered nothing but a young, pretty piece of arm-candy for her industrialist husband. What she ''actually'' is, is a {{Determinator}} GuileHero who makes up for what she lacks in combat prowess with her intelligence, perceptiveness, and willingness to do ''anything...'' to protect the people she cares about. The climax comes to a [[IncrediblyLamePun head]] when she defeats the second Diego Brando in his moment of triumph by showing up with the severed head of the original Diego, knowing the NeverTheSelvesShallMeet rule of Dirty Deeds' abilities. This leads to DIO attempting to get away from said head when he sees it, but failing due to the leg Johnny had made him sever, and it kills him in the process. You go, girl!

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[[caption-width-right:350:''The untold powers of the Golden Rectangle...'']]

** ...Which then becomes a PyrrhicVictory, as it leads to Lucy Steel's SugarWiki/CrowningMomentOfAwesome. Throughout the story, Lucy's constantly considered nothing but a young, pretty piece of arm-candy for her industrialist husband. What she ''actually'' is, is a {{Determinator}} GuileHero who makes up for what she lacks in combat prowess with her intelligence, perceptiveness, and willingness to do ''anything...'' to protect the people she cares about. The climax comes to a [[IncrediblyLamePun head]] when she defeats the second Diego Brando in his moment of triumph by showing up with the severed head of the original Diego, knowing the NeverTheSelvesShallMeet rule of D4C's abilities. This leads to DIO attempting to get away from said head when he sees it, but failing due to the leg Johnny had made him sever, and it kills him in the process. You go, girl!

** ...Which then becomes a PyrrhicVictory, as it leads to Lucy Steel's SugarWiki/CrowningMomentOfAwesome. Throughout the story, she is constantly considered nothing more than a young, pretty piece of arm-candy for her industrialist husband. What she ''actually'' is, is a {{Determinator}} GuileHero who makes up for what she lacks in combat prowess with her intelligence, perceptiveness, and willingness to do ''anything...'' to protect the people she cares about. The climax comes to a [[IncrediblyLamePun head]] when she defeats the second Diego Brando in his moment of triumph by showing up with the severed head of the original Diego, knowing the NeverTheSelvesShallMeet rule of D4C's abilities This leads to DIO attempting to get away from said head when he sees it, but failing due to the leg Johnny had made him sever, and it kills him in the process. You go, girl!

** ...Which then becomes a PyrrhicVictory, as it leads to Lucy Steel's CrowningMomentOfAwesome. Throughout the story, she is constantly considered nothing more than a young, pretty piece of arm-candy for her industrialist husband. What she ''actually'' is, is a {{Determinator}} GuileHero who makes up for what she lacks in combat prowess with her intelligence, perceptiveness, and willingness to do ''anything...'' to protect the people she cares about. The climax comes to a [[IncrediblyLamePun head]] when she defeats the second Diego Brando in his moment of triumph by showing up with the severed head of the original Diego, knowing the NeverTheSelvesShallMeet rule of D4C's abilities This leads to DIO attempting to get away from said head when he sees it, but failing due to the leg Johnny had made him sever, and it kills him in the process. You go, girl!

* Lucy Steel of ''Steel Ball Run'' is frequently considered nothing more than a young, pretty piece of arm-candy for her industrialist husband. What she ''actually'' is, is a {{Determinator}} GuileHero who makes up for what she lacks in combat prowess with her intelligence, perceptiveness, and willingness to do anything... '''ANYTHING''' to protect the people she cares about. It comes to a [[IncrediblyLamePun head]] when she defeats the second Diego Brando in his moment of triumph by showing up with the severed head of the original Diego, using the setting's rule of NeverTheSelvesShallMeet to kill him.

** ...Which then becomes a PyrrhicVictory as this leads to Lucy Steel's moment of awesome, where it's revealed that she had took Diego's head, knowing that versions of the same person brought together by D4C will destroy each other, just in case Johnny lost the battle. This leads to DIO attempting to get away from said head when he sees it, but failing due to the leg Johnny had made him sever. You go, girl!

** A villanous one for DIO managing to ''win'' the fight. During a final chase on a bridge, DIO uses his time skip ability to get close to Johnny and shot him, making him fall off his horse. Johnny manages to shoot his Tusk Act 4 one more time, and DIO calmly explaining how he's forseen it and allowing himself to get hit, only to ''chop off his own leg as it's hit'' and throwing it at Johnny, who's trap by his own infinite rotation and unable to undo it since, being dismounted, can't use the horse power to shoot another one and undo the damage. Then, with his leg still severed, he jumps on his horse and goes on to still win the race.

* Let's be honest, the premise of Steel Ball Run is awesome, being a giant horse race across the United States with a $50,000,000 cash prize for the winner, and the greatest horsemen, cowboys and jockeys of the entire world gathering to show their skills. When a journalist brings up the possibility of the race failing if the hardships make it so no one finishes it, Stephen Steel's answer is awesome too.

* ''And even then, it's STILL not over!'' Johnny's final battle isn't against Valentine-- it's against The World. The same The World from part 3, time stop and all.

[[caption-width-right:350:[[ItHasBeenAnHonour It has, truly, been a roundabout path...]]]]

** Valentine's beatdown really has to be elaborated on: up 'til now, there haven't been many melee stands -- that is, Stands that attack on their own, like Star Platinum or Crazy Diamond. And then Tusk evolves to ACT 4, busts open [=D4C=] Love Train's dimensional wall (''something previously thought impossible''), and ''Stand Rushes him'', accompanied by a very familiar BattleCry:
-->'''Tusk ACT 4:''' '''''ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORAAA!!'''''

* After countless trials and the death of Gyro, Johnny finally learns how to spin the steel ball, which results in his stand evolving. The evolved stand proceeds to open Love Train with it's bare hands, and beat the shit out of Valentine.

* Gyro and Johnny are able to work against Sugar Mountain's ability, like the HonestAxe fable except forcing the user to use up what they earned from their honesty, by entering a city and spending copious amounts of the money they earned. Gyro decides to buy a skyscraper that turns out to pretty much print its own money, which is not a good thing for the two. So Gyro ''gives it away, along with 600 million dollars,'' during the fight against the Eleven Men to [[spoiler:the casino patrons, who immediately agree to be their bodyguards, saving their asses when it looks like they're about to get gunned down.]]
* During the fight with Axl R.O., Johnny figures out a new way to use Tusk... but its first use gets him in trouble by saddling him with Axl's own "sacrifices" (which manifest as angry, murderous ghosts). Axl swipes his Corpse Parts and makes a break for it. Johnny's solution? [[spoiler:''Let Axl kill him'' - as he learned earlier, killing someone while Civil War is active makes them one of your "sacrifices" and brings them back. So he unhesitatingly lets Axl stab him in the throat, which causes him to appear unharmed right next to Axl ''and'' puts all of Axl's "sacrifices" back on their original owner.]]

* Lucy Steel of ''Steel Ball Run'' is frequently considered nothing more than a young, pretty piece of arm-candy for her industrialist husband. What she ''actually'' is, is a {{Determinator}} GuileHero who makes up for what she lacks in combat prowess with her intelligence, perceptiveness, and willingness to do anything... '''ANYTHING''' to protect the people she cares about. It comes to a [[IncrediblyLamePun head]] when she [[spoiler: defeats the second Diego Brando in his moment of triumph by showing up with the severed head of the original Diego, using the setting's rule of NeverTheSelvesShallMeet to kill him.]]
* After countless trials and [[spoiler: the death of Gyro, Johnny finally learns how to spin the steel ball, which results in his stand evolving. The evolved stand proceeds to open Love Train with it's bare hands, and beat the shit out of Valentine.]]

* [[spoiler: And even then, the fight isn't over yet! Johnny talks to the President, who is now immobile and cannot dimension-hop due to the Spin. He notes that he can bargain with Johnny, if he pleases, by bringing in a Gyro from another dimension to replace the one he killed. Johnny refuses, and tosses a pistol to the presidents side. He says that he'll trust the president if he picks up the pistol- as Johnny suspects Valentine is harboring another one on him to shoot Johnny with, which will fuse with the pistol at his side and break if Valentine touches it. Valentine hesitates, then reaffirms his values that he is in the right. He then whips out his pistol that he was hiding, even though he knew it would kill him. It did.]]
* [[spoiler: ''And even then, it's STILL not over!'' Johnny's final battle isn't against Valentine-- it's against The World. The same The World from part 3, time stop and all.]]

* Shortly after fight with Axl.R.O., three assassins attemted to gun down Johnny and Gyro. They disposed of them in seconds, without turning to face them or even breaking the conversation. And they did it in a middle of a crowd, without anyone noticing.