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* WidgetSeries: Even before orangutans, dogs, swords, turtles, and ''plankton'' were allowed to be bestowed psychic powers, the series was just plain ''weird''. [[TropesAreNotBad Doesn't stop it]] from being [[RatedMForManly manly]], [[CrazyAwesome awesome]], and '''badass as hell'''.

** Oh, I'm about to fight another dude or talk to a random person? Better explain my building philosophy or my ''bizarre'' scientific beliefs before I reveal my powers.

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!!!''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'' provides examples of the following tropes:

* WidgetSeries: Even before orangutans, dogs, swords, turtles, and ''plankton'' were allowed to be bestowed psychic powers, the series was just plain ''weird''. [[TropesAreNotBad Doesn't stop it]] from being [[RatedMForMany manly]], [[CrazyAwesome awesome]], and '''badass as hell'''.

* WidgetSeries: Even before orangutans, dogs, swords, turtles, and ''plankton'' were allowed to be bestowed psychic powers, the series was just plain ''weird''. Doesn't stop it from being manly, awesome, and '''badass as hell'''.

** Example: [[http://kks.boy.jp/img/memetaa.gif Memetaa]], the sound of a frog being punched

** ''Stardust Crusaders'' could be considered a narrative equivalent. It introduces the concept of Stand, a GuardianEntity which will fight instead of its user, whereas in the previous parts, the fighter fought more physically.
** The fights in ''Steel Ball Run'' Unlike the previous parts, which had a large number of humanoid Stands fighting directly, most Stands in ''Steel Ball Run'' tend to simply grant superhuman abilities, while their users fought personally, making fights even more complicated and tactical.

* VampireBitesSuck: Vampires in the [=JoJoverse=] feed by shoving their fingers into your body. No, they don't have any powers that make this easier - they literally ''shove'' their ''fingers'' into you.

* VictimizedBystander: Ubiquitous, bystanders will die if they happen to be near a villain.

** In ''Steel Ball Run'', it is just turned to astronomical levels. The explanation of the first use of the Spin put on top of criminals for execution is not true. The weight was put there so the dead could not be turned into vampires, as an old superstition. Best misleading ever. Just to understand the Spin is a whole problem in itself.

** The "Kira's new Situation" chapters focus on Kira trying to adapt to his new identity at the Kawajiri

** Of course Kira had to loudly gloat about himself in public. He is overheard by Josuke and this leads to his downfall.

** DIO, defeated by Jotaro, screams ThisCannotBe as he dies, while not hour after, he was the most serene man of earth and utterly confident in The World.
** Kira, who constantly thinks of himself as being extremely lucky, is dragged away by the malicious spirit of the ghost alley, his soul and Stands being literally broken in many pieces and he loses his composure one final time being disappearing.

** Pucci, who spends the part following the instructions of Dio's plan, is foiled at the last step and all because of Jolyne and Weather Report, his two bitterest enemies who contributed to Emporio getting Weather's Stand. Begging Emporio to let him be, Emporio debunks Pucci's view of Fate and sinks in a deep rage, trying futilely to hit Emporio.
** Valentine is hit by Tusk ACT 4 and he realizes that he's going to be trapped in a hole underground forever. However, he is the only main antagonist to recompose himself and prepares a ThanatosGambit to ensures his goal is fulfilled somewhat after his death.
* VillainousLegacy: Dio leaves the Joestar Family with the consequences of his actions after death such as [[spoiler: turning Jonathan's sacrifice into a boon for himself]], the initial foes of Part 4, his son in Part 5, the reason why Pucci starts his plan in Part 6, and still remaining a thorn to the Joestars in Part 7, to say nothing about ''[[VideoGame/JoJosBizarreAdventureEyesOfHeaven Eyes of Heaven]]''. While Dio remains the ''de facto'' main villain of the series, his legacy is the byproduct of Kars, the ancient Pillar Man from Part 2, who created the stone mask that made Dio into a vampire in the first place and caused Dio's accent to power. In a way, Kars is TheManBehindTheMan to Dio despite being overshadowed by him.

** In general each BigBad works just as hard as the heroes to accomplish their goal, and they have their own setbacks.

** Prosciutto and Pesci are loyal to each other, and Proscuitto's sacrifice to the cause (you know, killing the heroes and kidnapping the Boss' daughter) pushes Pesci to become brave in battle (read able to kill in cold-blood and use the most underhanded ways to win).

** Heavy Weather from ''Stone Ocean'' can hypnotize people into transforming into snails, said snail being able to transform other people by simple contact. Ensures a snail apocalypse that only Weather's death can really stop.

** [[spoiler:Funny Valentine from Steel Ball Run also qualifies; His motivation for gathering the Corpse Parts was so he could use them in conjunction with his Stand [=D4C=] to deflect any misfortunes that might have befallen America elsewhere, thus ensuring an everlasting golden age for his nation.]]

** The ending of ''Phantom Blood'' implies that after destroying Dio, Jonathan will go on even more bizarre adventures (it's in the title, after all) - and then [[spoiler:Dio comes back with a vengeance and kills him]], turning the entire story into an GenerationalSaga about his descendants that all share his "[=JoJo=]" nickname.
** The Tusk Arc in ''Steel Ball Run''. Here we discover that the ''Steel Ball Run'' [[spoiler:is a cover-up, concealing [[ItMakesSenseInContext a cross-country hunt for the separated pieces of a saint, containing unfathomable power]]. Oh, and the ''President of the United States'' is involved in all of this.]]

* WhamShot: In the climax of Stardust Crusaders, we finally see how DIO's stand works. He activates it, [[spoiler: stopping time, and then summarily punches Kakyoin through the chest and into a water tower.]]
* WhatKindOfLamePowerIsHeartAnyway: [[HeartIsAnAwesomePower Subverted to hell and back.]] No matter how stupid or ridiculously limiting a Stand power seems, the user will find a way to make it an advantage.

*** Cheap Trick kills its user if someone sees his back and goes to the person who saw it. It tries to get people to see the back of the current "user" by whispering and taunting the victim, attempting to drive them into a frantic state where they lose awareness of their surroundings and any people around them.

*** Any attempts to destroy Superfly from the inside will automatically reflect the exact amount of damage back in the direction of the source.
*** Generally, nearly all stands which function independent of the user and can't be turned off get a degree of this treatment just by the virtue that even the user can't control it if they wanted to. They often just try to get the user as close to their target as they can and let it operate naturally under the mentality of "Well, at least it's their problem too now."

* WithGreatPowerComesGreatPerks: Especially in the fourth part which has a SliceOfLife tone. Many a Stand user enhance their daily lives by using their Stands in mundane ways, such as Rohan collecting interesting trivia by transforming people into books or Shigechi collecting extra pocket money with his Stand Harvest.
** The Spin gives even more perks due to its versability, Gyro has made women more curvy with it, Johnny can brush his teeth with his spinning nails.

** Close examination shows that both Johnny and Josuke from ''[=JoJolion=]'' are very well built, Josuke being about as muscular as Jotaro (who was clearly huge). The fact that they're drawn so thin is a tribute to how far Araki has gone to eliminate the trope.
* WorldTour: Half parts are about the heroes travelling around the world:
** ''Battle Tendency'' begins in New York then Mexico, Rome, Venice and Switzerland.
** ''Stardust Crusaders'' begins in Japan then goes through China, Singapore, India, Pakistan, Arabia and then Egypt.

* WorthyOpponent: Subverted in ''Battle Tendency''. Kars [[spoiler:tells Lisa Lisa that he will give her a fair fight to honor the memory of Wamuu and Esidisi... only to disguise a mook as himself during their "fight" and stab her while she was distracted. He then tells her that he wanted the [[MacGuffin Red Stone of Aja]], which she had on her person, enough to not take the chances his dead companions had.]] As you'd imagine, this comes across as a massive KickTheDog moment, as it basically slanders the honor and struggles of his deceased companions.

** In ''Phantom Blood'', Dio views Jonathan as this, after [[spoiler:Jonathon uses Ripple to destroy Dio's body.]]

** Jotaro views N'Doul as this, even thinking that they would've been allies if he weren't loyal to Dio. He also seems to regard the elder D'Arby as a Worthy Opponent; acknowledging that, while not powerful, he nearly took them all out in one go. After defeating the younger D'Arby, Jotaro mocks him by pointing out his elder brother would have easily figured out his and Joseph's cheat.
* WouldHurtAChild: Villainous characters have no qualm killing children, special mention goes to Alessi who de-ages his opponents specifically into childhood so they're too weak to defend themselves.

** Daiya Higashikata from ''[=JoJolion=]'' was a yandere as well, [[spoiler:seeing as she steals her new brother Josuke's memories because she wanted to share his experiences and be with him forever.]] Like Yukako, she tones it down as well.
** Dio is infamous for his disturbing obsession with the Joestars, especially Jonathan. [[spoiler:Enough to steal his body because he felt him worthy enough to host to "live gorgeously" forever]].

** [[spoiler:The recent chapters of ''[=JoJolion=]'' revealed that Johnny still ended up dying young just as the original Jonathan did to save a child (this time, his son George as opposed to Elizabeth[=/=]Lisa Lisa in the original timeline) as well as his wife after a failed attempt to save Rina from an unknown illness using the corpse.]]
** Boingo was correct in saying that his stand is never wrong, no matter what the prediction is. It just never [[MetaphoricallyTrue tells you the whole story]]. For example, the last prediction we see Thoth making in the manga states that Hol Horse's bullets would "go through Jotaro's head", which Hol Horse nearly screwed up by his watch being fast and his trying too hard to ensure it would happen. As a result, Hol Horse consults Thoth in desperation to find out what will happen next and ends up eating his own bullets, which happen to tear through the image of Jotaro's head that it displayed beforehand, fulfilling the prophecy, more or less.

** DIO, instead of using his ''Za Warudo'' to immediately kill the helpless heroes in his Egyptian base, uses it to play pranks on them or monologue when no-one (except Jotaro) can hear him. This gives the heroes time to escape, figure out his power, and for Jotaro to slowly learn how to perform it with Star Platinum and kill DIO with it.

*** Any attempts to destroy Superfly from the inside will automatically reflect the exact amount of damage back in the direction of the source.

** Played straight with ''Survivor'', Cheap Trick, and Superfly, however. Dio himself derides the former as a useless Stand because it's always on, cannot select its targets, and is woefully restrictive in what it does. It makes people fight each other, and relays to them their opponents' weakest points. That's it. It can play off of aggression, but it won't make people fight if they don't have much animosity. Its user didn't even fight, and got quite a large [[DroppedABridgeOnHim bridge dropped on him,]] while the last two only exist to kill/completely screw over the users.
*** To clarify, Cheap Trick kills its user if someone sees his back and goes to the person who saw it. It also tries to get people to see the back of the current "user".

*** To clarify, Cheap Trick kills its user if someone sees his back and goes to the person who saw it. It also tries to get people to see the back of the current "user". Superfly "protects" its user by keeping him contained in its tower.

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** Araki not letting it happen a second time is why the ''Vento Aureo'' game was not released stateside, despite Capcom's every intention to do so.
** The anime primarily doesn't have to (or at least wouldn't in the US) do this because it's funded by Warner Bros (owned by Time-Warner), whose music label owns the rights to the majority of artists referenced.

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* UnscientificScience: Many explanations of the bizarre phenomenon in the series are quite unscientific. Being able to channel the power of the sun is explained as breathing a certain way; Kars surviving a lava bath is explained as his creating a layer of carapace and bubbles as a protective armor; contracting sudden illnesses in one body part is explained as the body heat being sucked off by flying creatures called rods and so on. Though, considering the title, no one really cares.

** ''Stardust Crusaders'' could be considered a narrative equivalent. It introduces the concept of Stand, a GuardianEntity which will fight in stead of its user, whereas in previous part, the fighter fought more physically.

* UnscientificScience: Many explanations of the bizarre phenomenons in the series are quite unscientific. Being able to channel the power of the sun is explained as breathing a certain way; Kars surviving a lava bath is explained as his creating a layer of carapace and bubbles as a protective armor; contracting sudden illnesses in one body part is explained as the body heat being sucked off by flying creatures called rods and so on. Though, considering the title, no one really cares.

** In ''Steel Ball Run'', it is just turned to astronomical levels. The explanation of the first use of the Spin, put on top of criminals for execution is not true. The weight was put there so the dead could not be turned into vampires, as an old superstition. Best misleading ever. Just to understand the Spin is a whole problem in itself.

** The "My Name is Doppio" arc happens from the point of view of Doppio, Diavolo's right hand man and alternate identity.

** In ''Battle Tendency'', Kars, launched into space by a taunting Joseph, screams his lungs out as he realizes nothing he can do will put him back on Earth. The greatest scientist and mastermind of his species ceazes to think due to the sheer horror of his situation.

* VillainPedigree: Vampires are quickly replaced by Pillar Men, who are quickly replaced by Stand users, mostly out of necessity. At the time, both ''Manga/DragonBall'' and ''Manga/YuYuHakusho'' were running in Shonen Jump, and while [=JoJo=] was more in the vein of ''Manga/FistOfTheNorthStar'' (which already finished) thanks to vampires and the Ripple power, it was still similar enough, and was behind both of them in popularity. Stands brought something fresh and new to the manga, and differentiated it from its peers.

** Heavy Weather from ''Stone Ocean''can hypnotize people into transforming into snails, said snail being able to transform other people by simple contact. Ensues a snail apocalypse that only Weather's death can really stop.

* WithGreatPowerComesGreatPerks: Especially in the fourth part which has a SliceOfLife tone. Many a Stand user enhance their daily lives by using their Stands in mundane ways, such as Rohan collecting interesting trivias by transforming people into books or Shigechi collecting extra pocket money with his Stand Harvest.

*** A few instances do come up, however, such as J.Geil becoming Centerfold (which was Araki's suggestion) and Captain Tennille becoming Captain Dragon[[note]]which actually preserves the ShoutOut, as "The Captain"'s real name is Daryl Dragon[[/note]].
** Araki seems to have lightened up on it with ''All-Star Battle'' and ''Eyes of Heaven'', where almost ''every single Stand'' is renamed.

* WrittenRoar: Like it needs to be said at this point?

** Daiya Higashikata from ''[=JoJolion=]'' seems to be yandere as well, [[spoiler:seeing as she steals her new brother Josuke's memories because she wanted to share his experiences and be with him forever]].

* YouCantFightFate: Surprisingly a case in this series. Pucci [[spoiler:used Made In Heaven to make everyone relive their lives once until a singularity in time created another identical universe in which people would live normally with the exception of the visions they have of their own future, preparing them to accept their fate. However Emporio put an end to that]].

** Boingo was correct in saying that his stand is never wrong, no matter what the prediction is. It just never [[MetaphoricallyTrue tells you the whole story]]. For example, the last prediction we see Thoth making in the manga states that Hol Horse's bullets would "go through Jotaro's head", which Hol Horse nearly screwed up by his watch being fast and his trying too hard to ensure it would happen. As a result, Hol Horse consults Thoth in desparation to find out what will happen next and ends up eating his own bullets, which happen to tear through the image of Jotaro's head that it displayed beforehand, fulfilling the prophecy, more or less.

* YouShallNotPass: Jolyne sacrifices herself and stays back to fight Pucci, who is now many magnitudes more powerful than her, as Emporio flees on a dolphin, since she places her hopes on Emporio's ability to stop the priest and knows that she is dying.

** Before, in ''Part 2'', when Lisa Lisa kill the vampire named Wired Beck.

-->''"My name is Joestar - Joseph Joestar. You may call me [=JoJo.=]"''

-->--''"My name is Joestar - Joseph Joestar. You may call me [=JoJo.=]"''

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* UnclePennybags: Speedwagon is this once he becomes a billionaire, taking Joseph on various trips around the world, sponsoring medical research and charities, and even [[spoiler:building Lisa Lisa a private island complete with castle and deathtraps after she needs to go into hiding]].

* UndeadChild: Enya uses a zombified baby to bite Jotaro by surprise and try to take control of his body through his wounds.

* UnexpectedCharacter: Nobody thought Midler would show up in the fighting game (see TheFaceless for why). Young Joseph (called "[=JoJo=]") was also a bit of a surprise.
** ''All-Star Battle'' brought in multiple characters throughout the series that nobody expected, especially as DLC. Akira and Shigechi from Part 4 were bad enough. Then they announced ''[[GuestFighter Baoh]]''.
** ''Eyes of Heaven'' introduced [[HandicappedBadass N'Doul]], who, while undoubtedly badass and a fan favorite villain, came as a big surprise due to the fact that his battle involved him [[NonActionGuy attacking exclusively with his Stand]] while he determined the hero's position from a distance (he was actually [[DummiedOut cut as a playable character]] from the ''Heritage for the Future'' game for the same reason).
* UnexpectedGameplayChange: The fights in ''Steel Ball Run'' could be considered a narrative equivalent. Unlike the previous parts, which had a large number of humanoid Stands fighting directly, most Stands in ''Steel Ball Run'' tend to simply grant superhuman abilities, while their users fought personally, making fights even more complicated and tactical.
* UnexpectedlyRealisticGameplay: The racing game that Kakyoin and D'Arby play against each other in part 3 is absurdly realistic for the time. The game is fully rendered in 3D and it has a good enough physics engine to be able to accurately simulate airtime and collisions. All of this on completely ordinary NES-style gaming hardware from the 1980s.
* TheUnfavorite: Johnny had this unfortunate problem in ''Steel Ball Run'' with his brother Nicholas. [[spoiler:The fact that Johnny indirectly killed Nicholas by not killing a pet rat that would go on to startle his horse makes it all the more heart-wrenching.]]

* UnskilledButStrong: The Sons of Dio in part 6 have powerful stands, but have possessed them for a day at most. This causes their tactics to be very basic, leaving them open to more experienced Stand users. Rykiel, in particular, reveals himself to Jolyne and Ermes in what they immediately recognize as a ploy to get them to come closer to him.

* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: Josuke Higashikata, [[NamesTheSame the JoJolion one]], [[spoiler: splits Damo's head with a punch from Soft & Wet, right on the sidewalk.]] The general pedestrian reaction was mild confusion. Justified since [[spoiler: Damo was a Rock Human, and the people probably thought that Josuke had only broken a statue.]]

* UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans: This is Enrico Pucci's motivation in ''Stone Ocean''. [[spoiler:His plan involves using the fusion of his Stand and a homonculus of Dio to accelerate time to the point where the cosmos undergoes both a Big Crunch and a Big Bang, and everything repeats as before, just without anyone who died during the acceleration. The utopia is supposed to come from the fact that those who got to live through the singularity will subconsciously remember everything that ever happened to them in the previous, ''identical'' cycle. This means that they will be imbued with a kind of fatalism, immensely dampening any shock, horror, agony, etc. that they would otherwise experience. Basically, Pucci's idea of "paradise" is "a world without surprises".]]

* VictorianBritain: ''Phantom Blood'''s setting in a nutshell.

* VillainRespect: In Part 3, DIO has learned to respect Jonathan's and by extension the Joestar's determination, and acknowledge that they are his greatest enemies.
* TheVirus: Dr. Ferdinand's Scary Monsters Stand, which turns its victims into dinosaurs.
* VomitIndiscretionShot: When Boingo pukes right into Hol Horse's lap, we see it in all it's sandbrown-liquid "glory".

* WalkingWasteland: In ''Vento Aureo'', Purple Haze and Green Day can release respectively a flesh eating virus and a mold with exponential growth which can both kill people in seconds, infect victims indiscriminately and at high speed, and are able to kill the entire population of a city in minutes.

* WalkIntoMordor: Jotaro and co. are forced to travel by land across Asia and the Middle East to Egypt because they realize that fighting in a plane or a boat will prove even more dangerous if the vehicle is damaged up in the sky or in the middle of the sea.
* WardensAreEvil: Downplayed, the wardens of Green Dolphin Street are all assholes but aren't evil per se.
* WaterTorture: Yotsuyu uses waterboarding on Yasuho in order to force her to bring out her Stand.
* WeNeedADistraction: Speedwagon realizes early on that he can't fight vampires and zombies directly, so he serves as a distraction for others, even nicknaming himself "The Interfering Speedwagon".

* WeaponTombstone: Jotaro makes a grave in the middle of the Sahara for N'Doul with his cane as a tombstone, one of the only enemies he has respect for.

* WeirdWest: "Steel Ball Run". Cowboys? Check. Gunfights? Check.(kinda) Weird stuff? Oh yes.

* WhatTheHellHero: Gyro is outraged that Johnny is planning to kill Diego in cold blood and chews him out for thinking this as he doesn't consider himself a murderer.
* WhenItAllBegan: George Joestar meets Dario Brando trying to steal from him but believes that he saved him from a terrible carriage accident. Out of gratitude, George gives Dario a favor, who later uses it to have him adopt Dio Brando.
* WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue: Part 2 does this, even though the series would continue on for [[PrintLongRunners another twenty years]].
** [[spoiler:Lisa Lisa eventually revealed that [[LukeIAmYourFather she was Joseph's mother]], then went on to marry a Hollywood screenwriter.]]
** [[spoiler:Erina Joestar, Joseph's grandmother, worked as a teacher before quietly passing away at the age of 81 surrounded by her loved ones.]]
** [[spoiler:Robert E.O. Speedwagon continued his several capital ventures, which paved the way for new advances in science and medicine. He died at the age of 89.]]
** [[spoiler:Rudol von Stroheim continued to fight in the German army. He was killed in action in the Battle of Stalingrad.]]
** [[spoiler:Smokey Brown went on to graduate college with a major in political science, eventually becoming the first black mayor in his home state of Georgia.]]
* WhiteAndGreyMorality: Part 7 is founded on this. While people like Gyro and Lucy are good people (Johnny eventually comes around as well, though he's much grayer than most heroes), none of the main villains are really ''evil'', per say. Diego wants to win because it's his job, and to fulfil his dream of being wealthy to avenge his mother. Funny Valentine, on the other hand [[spoiler: wants the parts because he feels that they are too dangerous for anyone else, and he wants to use them to further the gain of his country and make his citizens lives better.]] When the main villain is a guy that ''Jesus Christ '''himself''' '' approves of, you know this trope is in full effect.

* WronglyAccused: Well, technically [[spoiler:Lisa Lisa]] ''did'' kill that high-ranking British officer she's accused of murdering - it's just that she was the only one who knew he was secretly a bloodsucking undead monster.

* YearsTooEarly: In ''Battle Tendency'', while preparing a coup de grace against Kars, Joseph tells him that he may be ''thousands'' of years old, but he's still ten years too early to beat Joseph's wits.
* YouAllMeetInAnInn: In ''Vento Aureo'', Bucciarati's gang introduction features all the characters participating in a SeinfeldianConversation in a restaurant. In the same vein in ''[=JoJolion'=]', the Higashikata family gathers to welcome Josuke.

* YouHaveToBelieveMe: During the Death XII arc, Kakyoin is sure that the baby they are carrying is a Stand User who tries to kill them in their dreams. Only the crew interprets his frantic accusations as him being overstressed.

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* ZanyScheme: The "invincible trio" of Josuke, Okuyasu and Shigekyio use Harvest to gather many supermarket coupons and get prizes out of them, and later use a winning lottery ticket to claim the prize despite not being the buyers. Later, Josuke cooperates with the shapeshifting alien Mikitaka to cheat on a game of cee-lo and scam Rohan, who quickly catches on his scheme.
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