History ShoutOut / JoJosBizarreAdventure

* '''[[Music/UB40 Wild cat Cat]] Size''''s and their Stand, [[Music/SuziQuatro Cat Size]]

* ''[[Music/TheSmiths Charmingman]]''
* '''[[Music/UB40 Wildcat Cat]] Size''''s and their Stand, [[Music/SuziQuatro Cat Size]]

* Wild Cat Size (and their stand, Cat Size): ''[[Music/UB40 Wildcat]]'' and ''[[Music/SuziQuatro Cat Size]]''.
* Charmingman: ''[[Music/TheSmiths This Charming Man]]''.

* Josuke is seen playing a video game on a [[UsefulNotes/SuperNintendoEntertainmentSystem Super Nintendo]] at some points, the anime changes this to a UsefulNotes/Nintendo64 to better fit the time period.

* The terminology of "stands" in general may allude to "The Stand", one of the first hits for Music/TheAlarm.

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* '''Johnny''''s Stand: [[Music/FleetwoodMac Tu]][[Music/{{Tusk}} sk]]. His horse, Slow Dancer, is named after the Boz Scaggs song.

* The non-canon light novel ''Literature/JorgeJoestar'' swaps the Stands' MusicalThemeNaming for movie references:

* In the official English localization of ''All-Star Battle'', if young Joseph defeats Lisa Lisa, he says "Why did it have to come to this?! [[Film/TheRoom You are tearing me APART, Lisa Lisa]]!"

Araki has a marked affinity for non-Japanese music, particuarly classic rock and progressive rock. The sheer number of references in his work is baffling. This was a nightmare regarding translation, since most of the names were copyrighted, so they had to rename a lot.[[note]]And that's not counting years of the fans directly translating the names to the band names when the pronunciation was different, e.g. Wamuu rather than Wham! (Wamu!).[[/note]] And as it went on, a little pop group here, a little rapper there appeared, in addition to more contemporary bands. Other references to art, pop culture, and fashion are also abundant.

* A panel from chapter 3 bears resemblance to the [[https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/two-soyjaks-pointing pointing soyjak meme.]]

* Dio's name in Part III is shortened to just "DIO" and written in all caps as well and writing it consistently in English letters even in Japanese printings, changing the shoutout to Music/RonnieJamesDio's band, also named "Dio." His gained Stand is named The World, after the namesake tarot card.

** Although, Jonathan gets his namesake for Jonathan's, a Japanese restaurant.

* '''Hol Horse''' either references hip-hop group Full Force's name or rock duo Music/DarylHallAndJohnOates.

* '''[[Music/{{Enya}} Enya]] the Hag'''. Changed in the Viz translation to '''Eny[[Literature/BabaYaga aba]]'''

* Dio's name in Part III is shortened to just "DIO" and written in all caps as well and writing it consistently in English letters even in Japanese printings, changing the shoutout to Music/RonnieJamesDio's band, also named "DIO." His gained Stand is named The World, after the namesake tarot card.

* '''Diavolo''''s Stand: Music/KingCrimson. He also has a sub-Stand named after a King Crimson song, Epitaph, and he himself is a literal 21st Century Schizoid Man.

* The janitor at Giorno's boarding school resembles [[Franchise/SuperMarioBros Mario]].

* '''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenzo_Takada Kenzo]]''''s Stand: [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thom_Brennan Dragon's Dream]]. Changed in the dub to [[https://youtube.com/watch?v=nyWCptmj02Q Drake's Dream]].

* '''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donatella_Versace Donatello Versus]]'''[[note]]"Versus (Versace)" is a Versace fashion line[[/note]]' Stand: Music/{{Under World|Band}}

* The chapters Both Sides Now are named after a Judy Collins song.

* '''Paco Lovelantes'''' Stand: [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hustle_%28song%29?wprov=sfla1 The Hustle]].

* '''Usagi Aloha'oe''''s Stand: [[Music/KingCrimson The Matte Kudasai]].

** Killer Queen's Second Bomb Sheer Heart Attack (a dual reference to both [[Music/SheerHeartAttack the album]] and the song that appeared on [[Music/NewsOfTheWorld a completely different album]]) and final form Killer Queen [[Music/TheGameQueen Bites the Dust]] are both named after Queen songs.

* The non-canon light novel ''LightNovel/JorgeJoestar'' swaps the Stands' MusicalThemeNaming for movie references:

* Jodio mentions Dragona listening to Music/DuaLipa.

* '''[[Music/TheBeachBoys. Barbara Ann]] Joestar'''

* Jodio's stand November Rain is named after the Music/GunsNRoses song.
* Dragona's stand Smooth Operators is named after the Music/{{Sade}} song "Smooth Operator".
* Paco's stand The Hustle is named after the Van [=McCoy=] song.
* Barbara Ann Joestar is named after "Barbara Ann" by Music/TheBeachBoys.
* Usagi Aloha'oe's Stand: [[Music/KingCrimson The Matte Kudasai]].