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Fridge Brilliance

• Stone Free is a string Stand - the third String Stand in the Joestar family, after Joseph's Hermit Purple and his daughter Holly's Stand.
  • It's also very similar to Kakyoin's Hierophant Green Stand, which can separate itself into strands. Kakyoin's legacy lives on with Jotaro's daughter.
  • Also counts as Fridge Horror when you realize they are related to death: Holly was on the verge of death, Kakyoin was killed by DIO, Joseph got his blood taken by DIO (He gets better), and Jolyne died at the hands of Pucci.
  • Anasui's usual outfit consists of a fishnet shirt that looks like a lot of strings, and he's in love with Jolyne, who has a string Stand.
• The part takes place in Port St. Lucie, Florida. If one looks closely at its most notable residents, former rapper Vanilla Ice also lives in the east coast Florida city as well. A possible hidden hint of DIO's minions' plans to come?
• Jotaro appears as if he never aged a day in Part 6. You know who are also Older Than They Look? His grandfather, Joseph, and his great-grandmother Lisa Lisa, who have the ability to make themselves younger. It comes with two theories: Either somewhere down the line, Jotaro learned to use The Ripple, or Stands have something to do with it.
  • Alternately, a very Doylist answer would be that Jotaro just isn't drawn older, making his age seem more of an Informed Attribute. Further supporting this is the fact that Jotaro does actually appear closer to his age in the anime.
• The first sign that something was wrong during Jolyne and Jotaro's fight against Johngalli A. is the fact that Jolyne was able to punch Manhattan Transfer into pieces with Stone Free. Considering the fact that Manhattan Transfer's primary purpose is to ricochet high powered sniper bullets, it's obvious in hindsight that a simple punch will not deter it at all — unless, of course, the punch happens in a dream.
• The fight with Marilyn Manson is an inversion of the D'Arby fights in Part 3, despite having similar abilities. The Stand takes physical life (organs) rather than spiritual life (souls), the bets it collects on are based on real-world monetary value rather than being things that are agreed by bettors to be of equal value, and it has the opposite attitude towards cheating (rather than cheating being an important part of the game, it's the bettor's skills as a Rules Lawyer that are important). Oh, and instead of being beaten by forcing the Stand user to admit defeat in her heart, Jolyne simply beats her into unconsciousness so the Stand will de-manifest.
• Foo Fighters' death is a sign that things will take a turn for the worse for our heroes; since Part 4, there's been always been a character that acted as a healer for the main team. But here, the healer (F.F.) is killed before the conflict comes to a head. This leaves Part 6's protagonists in greater danger of getting grievously hurt or killed since they don't have anyone to prevent any member of the group from getting taken out for good; the only "healer" on the team after F.F. is Anasui, who learns to use Diver Down to prevent his comrades from suffering injuries, but at the cost of suffering the injury himself.
• Each of DIO's sons who appear in this part have abilities similar to his own:
  • Rikiel's Sky High controls rods, beings that suck the heat out of their surroundings to decrease the temperature, much like DIO's ice abilities sucking out his opponent's heat to freeze them in their place.
  • Donatello's Under World traps his opponents in past events they cannot escape, often tragedies that resulted in many deaths. DIO's time stop also traps his opponents in an inescapable scenario, and the ability to revive past victims could be a call-back to DIO's ability to create zombies.
  • Ungalo's Bohemian Rhapsody drags people into fictional stories, with most characters coming out as twisted, parodic versions of their original selves. Other than the example mentioned above, it's also a call-back to DIO's ability to create twisted living beings from fusing animals and humans.
• Rikiel's name is the odd one out, as his doesn't end in "o". However, this is because Rikiel is the least alike his father. He's a Noble Demon that treats his opponents with respect, loves humanity and its achievements, and is perfectly content working under someone.

  • Like his more righteous brother, Giorno, Rikiel's powers also involve the manipulation of living creatures, though not ones he personally gave life to. Also like Giorno, he has a respect of life and a strong belief in (what he believes is) a righteous cause.

  • Conversely, Donatello fits perfectly into the naming scheme of the Brando family, as his name starts with a "d" and ends with an "o", like his father DIO and grandfather Dario. This is because he's the one most similar with his father, being cruel, sadistic and ambitious, hating humanity because of his tough life, and even having a Stand with the word "world" in its name.
• Pointed out by a YouTube commentator, DIO’s sons’ abilities are all themed around life, wether it’s living, dead, unclassified, or fictitious.
  Lord Freezer:
  Giorno summons what exists (life forms)
  Donatello summons what existed (past events)
  Rykiel summons what is unknown if it exists or not (the rods theory)
  Ungalo summons what will never exist (fictional characters)

• As Pat and Woolie pointed out, Jolyne's final move in Part 6 (using her string to attach Emporio on a dolphin, banking on the fact that Pucci, due to Made In Heaven's time-accelerating powers, also has accelerated breathing and thus cannot chase Emporio underwater) looks massively out of place considering the endings of the other parts. But it's actually a massive Call-Back all the way to Part 2: Joseph Joestar's ultimate technique — running away. Which is what he did against Kars.
  • "But she's not running away herself!", you say. No, but she's saving Emporio and encouraging him to make it to safety - which is what Jonathan did with Erina and the infant Lisa Lisa at the end of Part 1.
• Giorno's lack of involvement in this part makes some sense outside of Superman Stays Out of Gotham. The two sides that are fighting are his father's closest friend, yet is the Big Bad, and the man who murdered his father, who just happens to be the Big Good. In a way, it'd be like how Fugo left Giorno's group.
• Compact discs seem like a strange way to contain Stands until you consider that most Stands are musical references.
  • Star Platinum is a Tarot themed stand, and probably wouldn't normally fit...unless if you consider the idea that they're Tarot Cards. What is another type of card that stores things? Memory cards. And what is an upgraded form of a memory card? A compact disc.
• Once the powers of Made In Heaven are activated, everyone seems doomed... up until Rohan Kishibe is mentioned to be still meeting his deadlines. How? He could have easily just written "thinks at an accelerated pace" onto himself using Heaven's Door to continue writing his manga.
  • He could have also wrote "Unaffected by this attack" or booted himself into a different universe as Pucci activated Made In Heaven.
  • Another possibility for self writing that could work is something he may have put on himself before the attack because it was useful: "never misses a deadline."
• The first chapter was published on the thirteenth anniversary of the first chapter of Phantom Blood. It's almost fitting that the announcement of the anime would come on the birthday of the protagonist of Phantom Blood.
• Pucci and Weather are shown to be foils to one another both in personality and stands. Pucci is a priest, a religious man of faith, yet his stand has a clear scientific twist to it, with the components of DNA written on its' very body. Weather Report is introduced quickly and briefly explaining scientific concepts such as why zero gravity induces the need to urinate, yet his stand has the ability to induce a biblical plague of frogs, and controls clouds, which are the main imagery associated with heaven. Then you find out later that they're siblings. Sibling Yin-Yang, anyone?
• Jolyne having the Animal Motif of a butterfly may be a Stealth Pun. The Japanese word for "butterfly" is chocho, which — when spoken out loud — sounds very similar to "JoJo".
• Anasui tore his cheating girlfriend and her lover into dismembered pieces so they could "never come back together again," which could be taken as them being unable to reunite their body parts and become whole, or being unable to be together with each other (can't cheat if you're dead).
• Jolyne's knowledge of the many ways of Flipping the Bird isn't exactly random: they're tied to prior volumes of the manga. The American way obviously refers to her own series, but also to the first half of Battle Tendency, which follows Joseph's adventure in the USA. The Japanese way refers to the first volumes of Stardust Crusaders and the entirety of Diamond is Unbreakable. The French way may be the odd one, but there's a main character of French origins: Jean Pierre Polnareff from Stardust... and Vento Aureo/Golden Wind (and, if you want to stretch it a bit more, there's Rohan at the Louvre, which is set in French territory). And, finally, the Italian (Naples variant) way refers, of course, to Vento Aureo/Golden Wind, but may also refer to Battle Tendency, which during a time was set on Italian territory. The only way to make this complete would have been to include the English variant.
• The reveal that Pucci and Weather Report/Wes Bluemarine are brothers means that Pucci's death at the hands of his brother's Stand was more fitting than from any Jojo's Stand.
  • In fact, the bone Dio gave to Enrico Pucci turned Pucci and his Weather Report) into Joestars, with each getting a Joestar birthmark. Not only are their Stands stronger than average given their bloodline, but as a traditional Joestar finale the final battle comes down to them both, with the heroic Stand overcoming and vanquishing the evil Stand.
• Dio taught Pucci well about the psychology of the Joestars. They never turn their backs on friends or family, they're in this together untl the bitter end. None of them are happy when a member of the group dies, but they're willing to accept it as a casualty of war and then fight harder to avenge them when it happens. But as shown throughout numerous hostage situations, where the cast knows if they have one minor slip up everyone dies, they will fight tooth and nail to prevent a group member from dying if they can allow it. The Joestars and their friends are miracle workers, always finding a way to escape a bad situation, or working together to power through a difficult obstacle. Their compassion and their team work was their greatest strength. That's why Pucci put Jotaro through the ultimate in impossible choices: take a clear strike at him, and put an end to this madness, but in exchange Jolyne will die. To a Joestar sacrificing family to attain victory is unthinkable. The twisted irony is if Jotaro had fought more like Dio in that moment — worrying only about saving himself — he would have won and defeated Pucci. But if Jotaro had done that he wouldn't just be betraying himself, but betraying the very spirit of what Joestars stand for. Pucci turned Jotaro's greatest strength into a weakness.
• The very first conflict in Part 1 was between Jonathan Joestar and Dio Brando; the last battle in Part 6 is between Emporio and Pucci, the inheritors of the wills of the Joestars and of Dio respectively. Jonathan defeats Dio by using a special anti-vampire breathing technique; Emporio defeats Pucci by affecting Pucci's breathing with Weather Report.
  • The anime adds a Hamon sound effect during Emporio's speech to emphasize the breathing situation.
    • In Part 1 Antonio Zeppeli said the Hamon could only be mastered by those who had endured great tragedy/loss and had acquired great strength/courage. That's what Emporio suffers throughout the story and that's why Hamon can be seen coming from him.
• In Parts 1 and 2, the Zeppelli family sacrifice themselves for the Joestars with no regrets, accepting their fate. In Part 6, Jolyne does the same for Emporio.
• Given Anasui's penchant for taking things apart, it makes a lot of sense that he'd be attracted to Jolyne, who can unravel herself into a pile of string with her Stand.
• When Donatello uses Under World to unearth the memory of a disaster, the memories of the people involved act strangely calm despite having full knowledge of the disaster that's about to occur. This serves as foreshadowing of Pucci's goal to give humanity full knowledge and acceptance of their fate, essentially allowing the universe to operate like one of Under World's unearthed memories.
• Limp Bizkit's Dub Name Change to Limp Viscuit in the anime. If you translate the word "viscuit" from Latin (it's not a perfect fit since the right word would be "vixit", but it's still close enough), it means "he lived", which is exactly what Limp Bizkit's ability is.
• We find out in this part that DIO’s ultimate plan was to create a world where everyone already knows their fate and has made peace with it. In other words, he wants a world where nobody can change anything. How fitting, then, that his Stand has the ability to create a world of unchanging time.
  • What makes this ironic is that Pucci's plan is ultimately foiled because this means Emporio's fate had been already sealed - that he would narrowly escape Pucci's attempt to kill him because of Jolyne.
• DIO's Heaven plan borrows heavily from Friedrich Nietzsche and his thought experiment of Eternal Recurrence. What makes this doubly ironic is that Nietzsche was an outspoken critic of Christianity and is famous for proclaiming "God is dead", while the plan was only put in motion long after DIO, whose name means God in Italian, had died, and the one carrying out his plan is Pucci, a Catholic priest.

Fridge Horror

• During Made In Heaven, we see that Rohan Kishibe from Part 4 was able to keep up with his manga deadlines even as the world accelerated and everything around him died, possibly suggesting that he had gone into the next world unscathed. This means everything he's familiar with has been replaced with alien people and places he knows nothing of. But hey, at least Josuke's not around anymore!
  • And just to add insult to injury? Josuke would still be alive because Made In Heaven only reincarnates people who died... meaning yep. Josuke still gets to annoy him.
• Speaking of Part 4 and Made In Heaven, the fact that the lovable band of buddies and unusually low body count of Diamond is Unbreakable are All for Nothing. What was in store for Josuke, Koichi, Okuyasu, Tonio, Yukako, Hayato, Yuuya, Mikitaka... The list goes on, but point is, what's in store for them all? The horror of Made In Heaven advancing time as they can do nothing to prevent it. At least the Part 5 cast were vicious mobsters.
  • If what happened to Emporio is any indication, it's entirely possible that they survived in some form — after all, the only characters other than Emporio we get to see in the alternate universe are ones that died in part 6; it's entirely possible that if you survive Made In Heaven's time acceleration, you get to go to the new universe unharmed and unchanged, whereas if you died during the acceleration, you get turned into an alternate version of yourself.
• We know that Polnareff was still around inside of Coco Jumbo at the end of Part 5, and if Purple Haze Feedback is any indication, is second-in-command at Passione to Giorno. However, while Coco Jumbo was still a living being, Polnareff was merely an soul who had yet to ascend that was living inside of a Stand. Considering that Made In Heaven's time acceleration has the ability to take adrift souls and place them into new bodies, which also applies to the universe after Pucci is killed, does this mean that Polnareff is no longer Jean-Pierre Polnareff, suffering a similar fate to Nu-Jotaro, Irene, and Annakiss?... Joseph must be weeping of loneliness.
• There's a bit of shock to be had when remembering that heroes who haven't received happy endings still exist when the new universe is created where everybody is aware of their fate. By this logic, Holly will be conscientious of her son and granddaughter being murdered in cold blood, Okuyasu's father will know that he'll be eternally stuck as a blobby monster while Okuyasu will realize that there's no way to save him, and worst of all, Shinobu will be fully aware that her husband and his replacement are both dead and that she'll be forced to wait it out even with this newfound knowledge.
• If the Joestar Group were able to defeat Pucci while he was speeding up time, before the universe reset, then who knows what the state of the world would be after time stopped accelerating, considering it only took a few minutes for food everywhere to spoil and for fragile buildings and natural formations to crumble.
• Jotaro's fate becomes darker if you assume the slash didn't immediately kill him. A person can't live without their face, because the tissue underneath the skin of the face would get infected if exposed to the elements. Your outer layer of skin is the only tissue that's capable of combating infection, anything below that gets sick with ease. Living without skin wouldn't just be extreme pain, but you'd die of infection in no time at all. Assuming the slash missed Jotaro's brain, and he lived with a gaping wound in his face he would eventually die without medical attention anyway. It's actually more merciful to assume he died instantly, than to assume the alternative.

Fridge Logic

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Fridge Sadness

• This is Jotaro's fourth Bizarre Adventure, after his trip to Egypt and Morioh and his investigations into Giorno Giovanna. And he does not survive, just like Abacchio in Golden Wind.
• Every Special Edition Title has the villain's Stand appear first, then the hero's Stand to counter it. This saga has Jotaro's Star Platinum appear first, to be countered by Pucci's Made in Heaven, foreshadowing the fact that neither Jotaro not a Joestar stopped Pucci.
  • While Kira's Bites the Dust Stand was not countered by a heroic Stand, that particular Stand was handicapped by Hayato, who was able to foil Kira.

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