History Headscratchers / JojosBizarreAdventureBattleTendency

** He can adapt to anything that ''earthly life'' can adapt to. No earthly life can simply generate the heat and have tough enough skin to survive in space. In fact, the only things that can remain alive in space without protection like tardigrades and certain bacterium do so by entering a state of suspended animation, [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptobiosis cryptobiosis]]. That's more or less what Kars did, but his Pillar Man powers kept his mind active so he experienced AndIMustScream before completely losing his mind.

* It's been a while since I read this, but something just occurred to me; if Kar's whole schtick is that his body can adapt to anything, shouldn't it be able to adapt to the cold of space? Like growing an internal heat generator or something?

* It's been a while since I read this, but something just occurred to me; if Kar's whole schtick is that heis body can adapt to anything, shouldn't it be able to adapt to the cold of space? Like growing an internal heat generator or something?

** I think it’s mentioned that Joseph got his first hand from Stroheim’s associates; probably the scientists responsible for Stroheim’s own cybernetic operation. Perhaps, while Joseph was making his way back to New York, he happened to come into contact with them, and they gifted him the hand as thanks for stopping Kars and the Pillar Men. They simply never told Stroheim because they assumed Stroheim already knew, and didn’t tell Erina, Speedwagon or the others because they didn’t have their phone number. Or, maybe Joseph’s mechanical hand was originally Stroheim’s? A backup in case Stroheim’s hand(s) got damaged. It may have been salvaged along with Joseph after the battle with Kars, and the rescuers saw a heroic young man missing a hand, and a mechanical hand that could be attached to a human, and put two and two together. Would certainly explain why it’s...clicky while Joseph’s in America.

* What I'd like to know is, who the hell gave Joseph his first mechanical hand in the end? It wasn't Stroheim, because he clearly believed Joseph was dead after being blasted to the stratosphere along with Kars, and it's narrated at the epilogue that Stroheim never saw him again. It also couldn't have been the Speedwagon Foundation, they should have informed Speedwagon who the hand was for, but Speedwagon didn't know Joseph was alive before he showed up at his own funeral. So who did it?

* What I'd like to know is, who the hell gave Joseph his first mechanical hand in the end? It wasn't Stroheim, because he believed JoJo was dead after being blasted to the stratosphere along with Kars, and it's said he never saw him again. It also couldn't have been the Speedwagon Foundation, they should have informed Speedwagon who the hand was for, but Speedwagon didn't know Joseph was alive before he showed up at his own funeral. So who did it?

** I haven’t read the manga or seen the show in a while, but didn’t Joseph say that the clackers were coated in vegetable oil?

* In Phantom Tendency it's said by Straizo that steel despite being good to conduce hamon is bad to store it, yet Joseph's clackers did mantain his hamon energy inside just as that steel ball he threw with the crossbow did. Shouldn't them have lost the hamon quite shortly after Joseph stopped touching them?

* Speaking of air bubbles, why does Kars even bother making a shell at all? It's shown that he can survive the extreme cold of space, so why would extreme heat suddenly be an issue?

** And the volcano explodes because of Hamon... oh, nevermind.

* If the Axis Powers had that kind of cybernetic technology, why didn't they use it to win the war? (The easy answer is "because it was impractical to mass-produce", but that doesn't explain the lack of cyborgs in the postwar world.

* How did a bunch of Nazi's manage to get into Switzerland with a war plane during 1939? I know appeasement was a thing back then, but letting a veritable platoon of soldiers just waltz into your lands seems really unlikely. It would almost make more sense if it took place during the war, since Switzerland did let troops from both sides move through their lands (for an extraordinary fee), but prewar Switzerland would absolutely not let a foreign army in without some kind of explanation, and I doubt they'd believe any ramblings about pillarmen and vampires.

*** Well, we've hamon used to predict the future before(Tonpetty seeing Zeppelli's future). Maybe Joseph was unconsciously using that ability.

** Didn't Araki say sth like, if the Crusaders went back in time and met young Joseph, they would see Hermit Purple wrapped around him? Kinda like an inate ability that later became part of Hermit Purple (Since Stands are just a manifestation of the soul)

** He uses his Stand to read the next manga page.

** It was probably still experimental and extremely risky, and roughly knowing the german mentality at that time (being german myself and having grandparents that lived at that time), it was probably "Only the elite forces are good enough to becomes cyborgs, but we can't use it on them since it's to risky". Stroheim is the only known cyborg because it was his only way to surviveIf there are any others, they're guinea pigs kept away somewhere...

** It was probably still experimental and extremely risky, and roughly knowing the german mentality at that time (being german myself and having grandparents that lived at that time), it was probably "Only the elite forces are good enough to becomes cyborgs, but we can't risk to use it on them since it's to risky". Stroheim is the only known cyborg because it was his only way to surviveIf there are any others, they're guinea pigs kept away somewhere...

** It's mentioned that Kar's blades are made from bones. The only reason they don't break when cutting through substances harder than bone is because of the tiny blades moving across their edges.

** Maybe the women working for the Germans were living nearby. Joseph found a dress somewhere in their camp/village/whatever, and "borrowed" it.

** Pillar Men probably have their own way of killing each other, like humans have special ways of killing humans. These methods aren't really relevant to fighting humans though, so they don't come into play in the story.

** It's possible the gun used on him wasn't custom-made, but rather repurposed from some other application, and the sight simply wasn't removed because it wasn't doing any harm.

** Denial - let's remember that Joseph had't been having the most wholesome of thoughts towards Lisa Lisa up to that point.

* If the Axis Powers had that kind of cybernetic technology, why didn't they use it to win the war? (The easy answer is "because it was impractical to mass-produce", but that doesn't explain the lack of cyborgs in the postwar world.