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How is Steel ball run related to the main universe?
- Okay, so how exactly is Steel Ball Run related to the main JoJo universe? Is it an alternate reality? Is it the new history that was created after Pucci's universe reset? Is it just happening at the same time as Part 1, but with characters that coincidentally have similar names? So confusing...
- Pretty certain it's the new history after the universal reset.
- Araki has confirmed it's a completely different universe.
- Pretty certain it's the new history after the universal reset.
How did Gyro survive Sugar Mountain's curse?
- How exactly did Gyro manage to survive Sugar Mountain's curse when it was shown he had already become part of the tree before Johnny traded for the bottle of wine with the last of the Nameless Men?
- Sugar Mountain's curse doesn't kill people. Johnny gave up the corpse parts, thereby lifting the curse on everyone who got turned into a tree, including Gyro.
Why are Jesus' body parts all over the U.S.?
- It seems that everybody in SBR has at least some passing knowledge about the bible, seeing as everybody can make the connection between corpse parts and a saint. Still, if by the end of the series it's quite obvious they belong to Jesus Christ, how come nobody asks just why are his body parts all over the U.S. if the bible states his death didn't quite take?
- Because that death happened on another continent, the corpse parts are from his death after reviving and living out the rest of his life.
- That's not necessarily true. Besides, the idea is to unite west and east; saint corpses are a Buddhist thing.
- It makes sense how Jesus managed to get his body parts all over America, the narration makes that quite clear. Except nobody else knows, in-story.
- No one knows that it is Jesus, Funny knows that it attracts people and that is all he cares.
- Medieval Christianity is filled with relics of saints - bones, corpses and other remains that are believed to heal the sick, bless pilgrims and the like. Someone could easily believe in a saint's corpse without assuming it belonged to Christ.
- In the Book of Mormon Jesus visited the Americas after his resurrection, it's a pretty substantial part of it. Maybe here Mormons were right?
- Not necessarily. The Mormon take on resurrection means that the body is perfected and free from death; There would be no corpse to leave behind.
- There is also the precedent of this belief that Jesus decided to sail all the way to Japan to live a quiet life and died in Shingo, so that could have been an inspiration for Araki.
Magent Magent being SBR's Kars
- What does Magent Magent have in common with Kars other than their fates? The Jojo wiki lists him as the SBR world's equivalent to Kars, but how?
- Magent and Wekapipo are the equivalent to Dire (Wekapipo) and Straitzo (Magent). Wekapipo uses a Zepelli technique, joins the heroes, and gets killed by Dio.
How long did the fight with Magent and Wekapipo last?
- How much did the fight with Magent and Wekapipo last? From the wolf, it seemed it was just 3 minutes.
Why is Johnny the only Joestar without a star-shaped birthmark?
- Why is Johnny the only Joestar without a star-shaped birthmark?
- This may be addressed in-universe in JoJolion.
- He might have one, but it wasn't shown. Josuke (Part 4) wasn't shown having one either, except for in the anime.
- His birthmark might be represented as the star-shaped symbols on his hands as he activates Tusk.
- Johnny isn't the only Joestar without the trademark birthmark. In fact, neither Jonathan nor Joseph had it until Stardust Crusaders was written. The star-shaped birthmark didn't exist until then, and in that case, it only justified why both Jotaro and Joseph could sense DIO. The anime makes it seem like it was there since Jonathan.
- This may be addressed in-universe in JoJolion.
Why did Valentine need to organise the Steel ball run? Isn't there an easier way?
- What exactly did president Valentine need to organize the Steel Ball Run for? Why bring in thousands of racers to muck things up, when he could've just have travelled across the continent to search the corpse parts at his own leisure, without anyone bothering him?
- Too dangerous. The corpse parts put people on trial for their possession. Valentine is not sure he can pass all 8 or how many they are, maybe because he thinks he is no longer worthy. Besides it is alwyas easier to trick a cowboy that Jesus (jojo makes you write the craziest things).
- Too difficult. Remember that one doesn't just go out with the purpose to find a corpse part, the corpse part chooses you as its bearer and in exchange, grants you a Stand. Valentine decided that, since he was chosen by the corpse part, other people could do it too, so it's just easy to let them recollect the parts and then steal them.
How did AU!Dio have a stand even though he came from a world without the corpse parts?
- If you need to be exposed to a corpse part to gain a stand, how did AU!Dio have「THE WORLD」when brought by Valentine from a universe where the corpse doesn't exist?
- Because the Corpse isn't required for Stands. It simply works similar to the Arrow and makes you develop a stand (and completely failed to generate a stand in Lucy, only letting her borrow it's power to protect itself). Johnny had some level of Tusk in every world Valentine visited since it was born from Mastering the Spin (though the corpse did allow him to use Acts he wasn't skilled enough yet to use naturally). Mountain Tim, Mrs. Robinson, Boom-Boom Family, Sandman, Axl RO all gained their stands from wandering into the Devil's Palm and living (but weren't deemed worthy of carrying a Corpse Part). Oyecomava apparently developed his stand naturally in his younger days as a revolutionary and assassin in Italy as did Pocoloco (assuming Hey Ya! is actually Pocoloco's stand and not Not-Enya's that automatically attaches to people she senses will have great luck)and Ringo. Mike O and Blackmoore aren't explained where their stands came from.
- Who said the corpse was the only way in the multiverse to get a stand? Even in the old universe, plenty of people were simply born with stands. The arrow wasn't always necessary.
- Its also possible that, while the corpse parts only exist in our universe, similar stand granting items take there place in the other universes, allowing for the exact same events to unfold just instead of a mummified eyeball your absorbing a magic emerald or something
- Stands have also been shown to manifest through mastery of certain skills. Tonio in Part 4 awakened Pearl Jam while searching the world for ingredients to improve his cooking, and it allowed him to do just that. Perhaps AU!Diego simply got so good at horse racing that time seemed to stand still, and he awakened his stand as a result?
Could Valentine reach the timeline of parts 1-6?
- Could Valentine potentially reach the timeline of Parts 1-6?
- On his own, no. D4C operates under a limited scope of the Multiverse Theory, in which case there are a few constants. His father's death is one such constant, and as such he is limited to his own timeline. Eyes of Heaven has shown that with Heaven!Dio's assistance, he indeed can, but that is out of the scope of D4C normally.
Death by D 4 C
- So when a person gets put in another dimension by D 4 C and comes into contact with their alternate dimension counterpart, then both of them will be obliterated. What I'm wondering is if that includes their souls as well (which isn't out of the question given Johnny implied his soul would've been destroyed by his infinite rotation). Valentine mentions that "No person can exist as 'two of the same person' in 'the same world'", Johnny tells Gyro that Wekapipo "no longer exists in this world". Do they both just mean physically exist, or are we supposed to assume that Wekapipo is Deader than Dead?
- likely it only means physically it would be a bit weird to specify someone "no longer exist in this world" since that sort of wording usually implies they have gone on to another world ei the afterlife
The Two Wekapipos
- On the subject of Wekapipo's death, how come when Diego gets caught between the two Wekapipos, the alternate Wekapipo goes through with him? Wouldn't he have needed to been caught between two objects as well?
Where does Gyro keep getting steel balls from?
- On a handful of occasions his steel balls are shown to be badly damaged or even completely destroyed, yet he always has another set by the next fight. They seem like the kind of thing that would require specialized machinery to manufacture, yet he's not shown to carry anything of the sort. Seeing as even a slight imperfection affected their spin in the final battle, they clearly need to be presicely engineered to be perfect spheres, which would be nearly impossible to achieve with just hand tools. And he's not just carrying around more in his saddle bags, as otherwise he'd use those on the occasions he's thrown both. So how does he keep producing replacement steel balls with no machinery in the middle of the desert? And wouldn't it be more weight-efficient to simply carry more of them than to carry the raw materials and tools to make another? He is in a race where every kilogram his horse has to carry will slow and exhaust it, after all. If he is carrying more, why not use more than two at a time, or simply reach into his bag for another when one is destroyed?
What exactly happened when AU Diego tried shooting Johnny during stopped time?
- Diego raises his arm to aim his gun at Johnny and there are two close-up panels of Diego's hand holding the gun, the first with sound effects indicating that Diego is "gripping" the gun and "clenching" his hand, and the second with "chk chk" sound effects. Diego looks at the gun and opens it up. He takes out one of the bullets, and there are two close-up panels of the back of the bullet. Diego strikes the bullet, presumably bottom first, against the gun's hammer, and puts it back in the gun. He then takes aim at Johnny again, and when time resumes, the gun works as expected. Speaking as someone who doesn't know much about how guns work, what exactly happened here? The wiki's article on this chapter claims that the gun jams, and that whatever it was that Diego did fixed it.
