Headscratchers / JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Golden Wind

aka: Jo Jos Bizarre Adventure Vento Aureo

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Sex Pistols eating

• Sex Pistols are depicted eating food, and even demanding Mista to feed them and outright refusing to work when they're hungry. But aren't Stands a manifestation of the user's soul? So why do they need food? And what happens to the food they eat, does it indirectly sustain Mista as well?
  • They don't NEED food, but they can want it, more then likely it does go to Mista, since it has to go somewhere
  • It could be a respect thing, to accentuate the whole Italy setting . . . ah! If Stands are affected by their user's mood, those little bullet bastards may be taking the psychological route ie Mista is the one whose esteem is built up from taking care of them in this way. It's a subconscious urge on the part of Sex Pistol due to it's nature to be an accomplice that can be recognized as easy/simple to please and returns a sense of usefulness back to it's user. Now that's Italian !

Carne passing Polpo's test

• If Notorious B.I.G./Carne's Stand only activates upon death, then how did he pass Polpo's test? Even if the arrow killed him to bear the new Stand, how could Notorious B.I.G. disappear after passing Black Sabbath's trial? Also, it wouldn't have made sense for Diavolo to instantly pick him as a part of his personal guard without actually knowing what he does. How could he have known?
  • This is just speculation, but maybe when Notorious BIG killed its victims, Carne came back to life? Stands have done weirder stuff. Or maybe it was a positive version of Cheap Trick, which simply finds a new host when the old one dies.
  • He did not do the test with Polpo, but with another boss. If he did, he would have been in Giorno's gang.
  • Also, he would know he's a Stand user if he could see other Stands, so he knew he must possess a Stand. They seem perfectly willing to throw him at the enemy and unleash his Stand, however, potentially without knowing what it would do, which still doesn't explain how they knew the Stand activates upon death of the user. Maybe either another, unseen Stand user could determine another person's stand ability through prescience, or it could have activated once when the user was near-death, and then later was resuscitated, which cancelled the Stand's power, but not before other members of the group witnessed the stand themselves.
  • If you look closely, you can see Carne activate a stand before he dies, so his stand wasn't activated on his death, it just evolved with it. The Notorious B.I.G we see for most of the arc is likely actually Notorious B.I.G ACT 2, if you will.
    • If that's the case, then that raises another question: what would Carne have done if Mista hadn't killed him - suppose Mista had only shot him once in the leg to disable him?
    • Carne could have potentially done anything, as there's no hint whatsoever of what his Stand's abilities were prior to his death.
  • Cioccolata said that Notorious B.I.G was 'powered by grudges' similar to Ebony Devil from Part 3. Likely, Carne assumed that if he died he would have a massive grudge against Bucciarati's gang, therefore his Stand might even be able to survive his death. After all, what grudge is bigger than the one you hold against your own murderer?

Being zipped apart: Bucciarati vs Zucchero

• In part 5, when Bucciarati used Sticky Fingers to separate Zucchero's head from his body, no mention is made of ill effects. But when Bucciarati separates himself into pieces, it's stated that he can't breathe anymore. Is there something different about the two cases? Is it because Bucciarati separated into so many pieces?
  • Remember when Giorno is coughing up things during his first encounter with Bucciarati? It seems to illustrate that there is some form of delay between what Bucciarati's zipper Stand performs and its actual consequence. Giorno doesn't see OR feel the eye or the fingers until they are visible in his hand/spit out, somewhat a Fourth Wall element. Another example of this is how Bucciarati doesn't notice the needle scars on the arm he borrows later in that same battle, regardless that it was his own Stand. Quite the opposite of Willing Suspension of Disbelief for the victim of Sticky Finger's attack in that even though Zucchero could see his body without his head, he is aware that as long as Sticky Fingers ability is still active, his head can be "naturally" re-attached, thus keeping alive by that small aspect.
  • It's because he separated certain organs in half (lungs or heart?), which apparently is different than separating full body parts. This doesn't really hold up logically considering how many organs are technically separated when removing the neck from the body (throat, brain stem, spine, and even the skin is an organ), but the internal logic seems to be dividing the lungs or heart causes some serious trouble. It isn't Jojo's Logical Adventure, so you do have to suspend quite a bit of belief.
  • Don't look too deep into it, it's just much more tense if Bucciarati stacked his life. If Sticky Fingers could stop anyone's heartbeat with a punch he would be too strong.
  • Maybe it's an unstated limitation of his stand? Stands working differently for a target and the user isn't uncommon. Maybe Bucciarati has more manipulation over his own body than other people's. Or perhaps other people can be disassembled with Sticky Fingers and live, but that power doesn't work for Bucciarati himself (like how Josuke from the previous part couldn't use Crazy Diamond's healing on himself).
  • While the anime makes no mention of Bucciarati no longer being able to breathe, it does make it slightly more obvious what happened. Bucciarati's heartbeat will give him away to Pesci, so he zips it in half to make it stop beating (this being JoJo and all). That’s why he’s dying in that moment while Zucchero was fine. EDIT: OP here, just watched the episode again and saw that Sex Pistols #6 did say that Bucciarati couldn't breathe. My previous answer still stands though.

Why didn't Gold Experience change when stabbed by Black Sabbath?

• How come Gold Experience doesn't transform into Gold Experience Requiem early on in Vento Aureo when Black Sabbath holds it down and stabs it with a stand-arrow? I can only surmise it is due to Giorno not having sufficient spiritual growth at that point, or it not being the right stand arrow (the shape of the later one is different)... but it still feels like a ridiculous oversight.
  • It's a weekly published manga, Araki didn't plan that much ahead.
  • The arrow that transformed Gold Experience had a different design on it (having an insect figure instead of the hole the other ones have been shown to have). The one that Black Sabbath stabbed Gold Experience with had the regular hole design. It's likely that both will awaken a stand if they stab someone who doesn't already have one, but the normal hole design will only give a stand a new attack/requiem form if it stabs the user, whereas the insect figure design will only awaken a requiem form if it stabs the stand itself - after all, the arrow that gave Killer Queen Bites the Dust went for Kira, not the stand.
    • This is unlikely, as the "Requiem Arrow" was made from the same meteor as all the other arrows. Since they're all made from the same material, one would expect them all to have the same effect even if their shape is slightly different.
    • to agree with the scarab arrow design explanation, this troper believes all of the other tropers are forgetting it's heavily implied that the non-scarab arrow kills the user of a Stand and the Stands themselves are unaffected by the normal arrow. Also meh, quote "The effects of an Arrow piercing a Stand or its user after awakening are accompanied by a certain level of uncertainty."
    • Speculation and WMG aside, the facts shown in the manga point into that direction. A normal arrow stabs a Stand, nothing happens. The unique beetle arrow stabs two different stands, and they both go Requiem.
  • I have a theory; a Requiem Stand can only be formed if the user has changed significantly since obtaining their Stand. At the time, Giorno hadn’t. That also explains why Diavolo couldn’t create King Crimson Requiem when he pierced his own Stand; he didn’t change, he didn’t grow.
    • Adding to that, perhaps the Stand arrow chooses those that actually need one. Diavolo didn't need a Stand since he had no reason to other than to "get stronger", while both Giorno and Kira were in dire situations.
    • Absolutely, though rather than "changed" it must require a need. Did the arrow arbitrarily affect Silver Chariot to not only switch everybody's souls but to give it omniscience over what was happening to the arrow at any time? If it were to pierce King Crimson it's attitude might be "yeah, hey, go ahead, get stronger, duh" and leave it at that?

Gold Experience's healing

• Given that any damage done to life created by Gold Experience is reflected back on the one who delivered it, shouldn't that make any replacement body-parts added by Gold Experience later on impervious to physical harm? Or did Araki just completely forget about this feature of the stand later in the story?
  • I think Araki gave this power and the "if Gold Experience punches you, you're slowed down" to Giorno because he would have been way too weak to fight Buccelatti. But yeah after that he just dropped these powers.
  • Girono described the damage reflection as the creature having a will of its own and defending itself, since any healing is done threw creating body parts rather then whole thinking creatures, so since they lack a will they do not defend themselves

No one doing the math on Giorno's age

• At the end of the manga, Giorno became the new boss. According to Purple Haze Feedback, he did this by claiming that he was the boss all along, but couldn't reveal his identity because he didn't want to be looked down upon on account of his age. But Passion was founded when he was a small child. Did no one in-universe do the math?
  • Of course they did. But remember how OP Giorno is, even if you assume he didn't keep Gold Experience Requiem. Assuming he went back to Diavolo's place and collected any paperwork/information he'd need to run the mafia, who's going to say no to the kid with A) the prerequisite knowledge to be the Boss, B) the intellect to run things smoothly, and C) the ability to turn your shoes into poisonous snakes?
  • It also never says he told them that he was the first boss. It's possible he told them the original boss died and he's been the boss for X years, but he didn't want to reveal himself right away due to his age.
  • It doesn't say Team Giorno is the one spreading that story. It just says that's the story Fugo's been hearing. It could be a rumor started because no one knew the real truth.
  • His stand also deals with life, it would be easy enough to claim one aspect of that was it slowed his aging, and thus even if he still looked young he was actually much older, or considering we see cases like mannish baby where stands grant someone intelligence beyond there years it really wouldn't be that hard for experienced stand users to conceive that he was intelligent and capable enough to run a mafia as a small child
  • As much as like Purple Haze Feedback, that story's status as canon is doubtful at best. For all we know Giorno didn't lie to anybody and presented himself to the capos by saying "I killed the Boss in a fair fight, and now I am the one who you guys answer to".

Stands being a manifestation of the users spirit

• Stands are supposed to be a manisfetation of the user’s spirit. So how does Sticky Fingers factor into that? I can understand the rest of the groups stand abilities. Gold Experience represents Giorno’s noble spirit and his desire to change things for the better. Sex Pistols can be seen as a reflection of Mista’s hedonistic outlook on life and superstitious nature, Moody Blues is a reflection of Abbacchio’s past and regrets as a policeman, and Purple Haze and Aerosmith respectively are both personifications of Fugo and Narancia’s murderous tempers. How does Bucciarati's character manifest into making zippers out of no where?
  • Bucciarati is a man defined by his lifelong effort to provide opportunities to the less fortunate. To open pathways to success for friends, family members, and even regular people in his territory. Sticky Fingers is a reflection of that, a stand that literally opens paths for him and his allies with it's zippers. Those paths being zippers are likely just a minor quirk of Bucciarati's similar to Sex Pistols skipping the number 4, Bucciarati likes zippers enough to color both his fashion sense and Stand. If he was really into Parcheesi then Sticky Fingers would manifest the same powers but with the openings shaped and colored like the board game.
  • As their backstories reveal, the other members of the gang were all invited to join Passione by Bucciarati. He’s the de facto leader (especially when he becomes a capo), and everyone in the gang looks up to him. In other words, he’s the one that holds the group together. What do zippers do again?
    • Holy crap, well put.

Gold Experience and resurrection

• So after Bucciarati's battle with Diavolo, he is brought back from the dead by Gold Experience, but as a zombie who is slowly deteriorating and doesn't have much time left. With that said, a similar stunt is pulled in the Chariot Requiem fight after Narancia is killed in Giorno's body. However, not only does Narancia's soul not return to the revived body like Bucciarati's did, but Giorno does not experience any of the zombie-like symptoms that Bucciarati did. Is there a reason for this key difference? Is it simply an effect of Chariot Requiem?
  • Maybe Narancia lacked Bucciarati's determination to cling on to life. Bucciarati was killed, but he wanted to live on badly enough to see his mission completed. With Part 5 being closely tied to the concept of purpose and fate, his resurrection probably wasn't just thanks to Giorno's power, it must have also been what fate had wanted of him. Without any real purpose for himself, Narancia was simply gone the moment he died (also, it very conveniently allows Giorno to return to his real body). As for why Giorno's body doesn't start rotting, that's because Giorno himself was alive when he returned to his body.
  • Chariot Requiem also supercharged all Stands used by anyone nearby, so it's possible that the upgraded Gold Experience was able to pull a complete resurrection of the body rather than a partial one. He also immediately healed the body after it was injured, unlike when Bucciarati had a few minutes to bleed out and 'die', carrying himself solely by his own willpower by the point Giorno healed him. His body was already dead at that point, while Giorno's body had just taken fatal wounds, but had yet to technically 'die' in a medical sense. The wounds made Narancia's soul pass on, but Giorno was able to heal the body just in time.

Gold Experience temperature rules

• During Polpo’s test, Giorno hides the lighter, lit flame and all, by turning it into a flower, and it stays lit after changing back. Later, during the fight with Ghiaccio, Giorno explains that he can’t make a living organism with his stand if the temperature is too extreme. So negative temperature ice is too extreme, but fire isn’t?
  • It likely has to do with whether the temperatures can sustain life.
    • This troper learned waaaaaay back in high school biology that the chemical pathway by which oxygen and carbon react during the combustion of wood is the same as how it reacts in glycolysis (iirc, double check with a biology experts who knows their KREBS) in living tissue, the only difference being the RATE at which this occurs. Obviously child's play for Gold Experience.

Vaccines and immunity

• The biggest downside to Purple Haze is that it can't discriminate friend from foe, making it very dangerous for Fugo to use. However, Giorno is able to survive infection by creating a vaccine, which should mean that he's now immune to the Purple Haze virus. Why doesn't he make more of the vaccine for the whole team, nullifying Fugo's main weakness and making him a much more efficient combatant?
  • The best explanation I have is that the process of Giorno injecting the snake's blood into his body was clearly very painful, so he may have wished to hold off on immunizing the rest of the gang until it was absolutely necessary (like if Fugo had to fight by their side again, which he was never able to do).
    • These gangsters are very tough and not afraid of pain (Mista does not react while having a wound stapled shut with no anaesthesia, and even looks happy to have such a cool-looking scar), so wouldn't it be best to just get it out of the way ASAP instead of doing it WHILE they're being attacked, when the crippling pain would be actually dangerous? It's implied that the reason why Fugo never got another fight is specifically because of the risk his Stand poses to his allies, so if he and his friends were immunized, it's possible that he would have participated in more fights.
    • It's possible that they may not want to create a way for anyone to fight Purple Haze on even ground. If everyone became immune to Purple Haze, then it loses its efficiency. Giorno's vaccine may also be short-lived for that purpose. And once Fugo develops Purple Haze Distortion in the side story, vaccinations are technically pointless as he can cure anyone himself.
    • One other thing to think about is that Giorno could only create the vaccine after being infected by Purple Haze, and it was depicted as a risky procedure that put Giorno seconds away from certain death. Giorno and Fugo might both agree to just not bring out Purple Haze so as not to take the chance of anyone dying in order to create another vaccine.

Gold Experience vs. White Album

• When Giorno killed Ghiaccio by forcing him further onto the metal spike that impaled his neck, how the hell did Gold Experience's legs not get frozen into bits? When GE tried to punch Ghiaccio before, its fists were frozen stiff!
  • Ghiaccio has to make a conscious effort to use White Album's abilities. He was caught off guard by Mista's bullet merging with his head instantly, allowing GE to do Ghiaccio in. Plus, Ghiaccio was gasping for air, and having your breathing restricted weakens your Stand, so he couldn't freeze Golden Wind on contact like he did before.

Risotto's mysterious ability

• Considering how paranoid the Boss is about his own secrets, which meant he needs to know everything about those he surrounds himself with, why would he keep Risotto Nero around without knowing his Stand ability? He may be an effective assassin, but two of his henchmen had already tried to find out the Boss' identity in the past. Even if he believed he could keep the rest of the group on a leash, he should have at least taken care of the one guy who was already keeping dangerous secrets from him. At the least, he should have demanded to know how Risotto's Stand worked.
  • Looking at Diavolo's mental dialogue with Doppio, it seems like he just assumed Risotto's ability was invisibility and didn't look very far into it.

Putting a stop to Cioccolata and Secco

• Perhaps saying something about his excessive ego, the Boss seemed all too confident that Doppio would be able to take control of the situation again after Cioccolata and Secco were let loose. It's possible that they would have just relented once Doppio had revealed himself as the Boss' right-hand man, but that sounds like a hazardous bet against a psycho like Cioccolata, and Secco also seemed willing to betray the group when given half a chance. With abilities even more dangerous than Risotto's, and Doppio holding only a fraction of King Crimson's abilities, how exactly was the Boss hoping Doppio could win the fight?
  • If they decided to attack Doppio, I'm pretty sure Diavolo would come out and put a stop to them because he knows what powers they have.
    • Diavolo probably would just Teleport Spam his way to Cioccolata, using King Crimson to negate any spores affecting his body. It's a bad case of Bond Villain Stupidity. But then again Diavolo has been playing that trope since his first appearance in the story.

Polnareff's stock of body parts

• In Part 3, Polnareff lost several body parts to Vanilla Ice (fingers, and parts of his leg). But in the flashback where he fights Diavolo, he's shown to have them intact. Diavolo then mutilates him by cutting off both his legs and an arm, but somehow he has the arm again, but had to get prosthetic legs?
  • This is conjecture, but perhaps the arm is Joseph’s? I imagine the Speedwagon Foundation improved on the cyborg tech they got from the Germans back in Part 2. Considering those things had amazing dexterity and fine motor control for a prosthetic (to the point where nobody seems aware that Joseph’s left arm is a prosthetic until he shows it), further development wouldn’t be needed on improving functionality, so much as making them more commercially desirable. One of those upgrades would probably be a type of shell or outer material to allow the prosthetic to pass for a real limb, at least in casual. This would explain how Kakyoin can still see despite having his eyes sliced open by Geb, and Polnareff somehow recovering his fingers, arm, and parts of his leg. The arm may have been a prosthetic that Polnareff got from the SPW before having to go underground to avoid Diavolo, whereas the more crude leg prosthetics were local prosthetics Polnareff had to scavenge on his own
  • In the flashback, the prosthetics were probably given to Polnareff by the SPW Foundation. Not unlikely considering they’re still around and kicking in Part 4. As for AFTER his battle with Diavolo, I’d say he probably got an arm transplant from someone else, but his legs were probably suffering too much damage. He most likely had to forge them himself while in hiding. The safe house he was in in that other flashback might have also been sanctioned by the SPW Foundation. Maybe they were just steadily bringing in supplies and upgrades for Polnareff to survive but couldn’t let him out into the world due to him needing to be in hiding.

The turtle lives in the end

• We have already seen with Doppio that, if Chariot Requiem switches your soul into some other body, and that body is dead/dying, you just die instead. Polnareff was able to live, despite having been almost killed, because his soul was switched into the turtle's body before he died completely. In that case, how did the turtle survive in the end? Its soul should have died after entering Polnareff's body, or shortly after. And then, after Requiem is destroyed, there should have been no soul to return to the turtle's body. We see instead that Polnareff's soul clings into the key room, meaning the turtle's stand is still active, meaning the turtle is alive somehow. Maybe the souls of animals linger around for longer?
  • I personally thought that one: it was due to the increased lifespan of a turtle, but that’s kind of an easy cop-out. What I think a more logical reason would be is that one’s soul can choose whether or not they want to pass on. (Which might be a tad bit baseless because Bucciarati probably knew what was going to happen when he broke his soul sphere) You could probably choose if you want to return to a body or go off to the afterlife. Clearly, transferring to corpses and living is not a problem; otherwise, Doppio would’ve passed the second he went into Bucciarati’s body. So would Giorno if he went back into his own body. Doppio only died because of Mista’s bullet wounds. Thus, Coco Jumbo probably was still alive in Polnareff’s corpse, but couldn’t move because... well, he’s a turtle. Bucciarati’s soul also wasn’t dead, so he could inhabit Diavolo’s body, no problem. Polnareff specifically says multiple times that he is “desperately clinging to this turtle’s soul”, which is probably something similar to Bucciarati coming back from the dead, in which Polnareff has enough resolve to continue his mission. If you have no free body to go back to, you can inhabit and coexist in someone else’s body. We’ve seen it with Diavolo already, and it’s only because of Bucciarati’s resignation to his fate that he passed on in the end. In other words, yeah, Coco Jumbo lived in Polnareff’s corpse for like an hour, and Polnareff clung to Jumbo’s Stand at the end and now coexists in his body.

Polpo's last meal

• If damage done to life created by Gold Experience is reflected to the deliverer, shouldn't Polpo have started peeling away his own flesh when he peeled the gun – er – banana?
  • Peeling a banana is different then say, smacking a frog with a shovel.
  • Giorno describes this ability as an animals desire to defend itself, so it likely only applies to things capable of thinking and desiring there own survival, a banana can’t think and thus does not defend itself
  • There's also the fact that bananas are meant to be peeled. Otherwise, it wouldn't come off so easily when ripe.
  • Also, a picked fruit like a banana is technically considered nonliving scientifically anyways.

Elevator scene

• The Boss instructs Team Bucciarati to deliver Trish to him via elevator, then uses his stand to hijack the elevator and kidnap Trish while leaving a hand behind. Why even go through the trouble to do that? Why not just have Trish delivered to him like normal, pat Bucciarati on the back, wait till they were alone, and THEN off Trish? Was he just trolling Bucciarati by leaving him with a severed hand?
  • It is possible there were details we just did not see, perhaps Trish was reaching for Buccirati and thus the only way to avoid alerting him was to chop it off, as for why to go for the elevator it was to keep to the shadows and avoid Bucciarati seeing him, had Bucciarati stayed loyal and not known/cared about Trish he likely would have patted him on the back and congratulated him on a job well done as you suggested, just not in person
  • You seem to forget that The Boss didn't want to reveal himself, he went out of his way all to avoid being seen at all costs. If he just met Bucciarati while the latter delivered Trish to him, you might as well say killing Trish is pointless at that point, since it does little to help protecting the Boss' identity as he would just have made another witness in Bucciarati. Then, silencing and killing Bucciarati would surely have been a lot harder for him than killing Trish.
    • Why not simply use Doppio then? He could’ve claimed that the Boss sent him to escort Trish to a safe house for a meeting, and Bucciarati’s job was done. While, yes, Bucciarati would insist on coming with them due to his protective streak, I doubt Diavolo would’ve known that, and at close range, could swap with Doppio and kill them both (or at least Bucciarati) a LOT easier than trying to go for Trish first (Bucciarati has the strong Stand, not Trish, at that point).
  • Possibly the boss wanted to keep Trish on her guard for due to two plot elements: her ability to sense her father, and her not yet having awakened to her Stand. The boss wants Trish to be just as wary a the lackey (in this case Bucciarati) establishing a sense of powerless in her that would keep her from suddenly awakening. This goes hand in hand with the setting, lackey leads her up to a high place alone so she is already uneasy, writes off her spidy sense of him as this, he stays in the shadows cast by sundown, activates King Crimson and obliterates her in existential silence.

If Bucciarati could return, why didn’t Narancia?

• This was always just a point in the story in which I just felt off when I thought about it a little bit. So, Bucciarati was able to come back to life after his body died from fatal injury. That’s said to be because of his determination and will to finish his mission. No other reason. So, by that logic, why didn’t Narancia return the same way? Abbacchio was about to, however, HE had the apparition of his partner dissuade him from doing so, and he reassured him that the rest of the gang would carry on his will. Narancia, not even a minute before his death, was talking about exactly what he was going to do once the fight was over. He even said that he was going to make sure that he and everyone else would protect Trish until the very end. And yet, he dies straight after, and it’s permanent. What? That just doesn’t make sense. Narancia just got done talking about his future hopes and dreams, and he’s just not determined enough to finish his mission? If anything, he is the one with the MOST resolve. He got on the boat of his own decision and has the most personal reason to protect Trish due to their similar upbringings. Don’t get me wrong, Narancia’s death is poignant and really a good death scene in a lot of subtle ways. But from a LOGICAL standpoint? Yeah, I just simply don’t get it.
  • Correct me if I'm mistaken, but Narancia's death was pretty much instantaneous unlike Bucciarati's. Bucciarati was also fatally wounded by Diavolo, but he didn't die instantly. His soul clinged onto his failing body just long enough for Giorno to give him some borrowed time. Also, unlike Bucciarati, Narancia was killed during a King Crimson timeskip.
  • It may have to do with the fact that Narancia had no body to return to, as his was being occupied by Giorno at the time. This is further corroborated by the fact that Polnareff couldn't return to his body after Diavolo killed him, which is why he had to live inside Coco Jumbo, and he only barely managed to do that.

Polnareff refusing ascension

• For what reason did Polnareff decide to stay inside of Mr. President following being dislodged from Coco Jumbo's body once Chariot Requiem was defeated? Coco Jumbo's not exactly very mobile, there's only so many things someone could do inside of Mr. President, and similarly to Reimi ascending knowing that Kira had been soundly killed, Polnareff could've ascended knowing that Diavolo was brought down for good. Even more so considering that him ascending would reunite him with Avdol, Iggy, and Kakyoin. Joseph's too senile to actively seek out Polnareff, and considering how skeptical Jotaro is of Giorno, the odds of him discovering Polnareff inside of Coco Jumbo are rather unlikely.
  • If he's got to choose between dying and staying alive, it's very understandable why he'd choose to live. It's also possible that Polnareff might not believe in the afterlife, or at least be uncertain enough of its existence that he'd rather cling to life as long as he can before passing on. Sure, being a turtle for a hundred years isn't the best, but it's also not exactly a Fate Worse than Death, especially if he's got Giorno and his gang to take care of him.

The inciting factor of Aerosmith

• When it comes to the Stands of Team Bucciarati, each of them have a specific aspect of their users that they represent. Gold Experience displays Giorno's willingness to let the lives of others thrive after having an example set for him by Man X, Sex Pistols are a combination of the thug incident and Mista's superstitious nature, Moody Blues represents Abbacchio refusing to let go of the past given how the bribe he took led to his partner's death, Purple Haze reflects how much of a monster Fugo sees himself as following the assault on his professor, Spice Girl is a manifestation of Trish's repressed sense of confidence from being tied to the mafia, and Sticky Fingers... well, that was went over in an earlier headscratcher. However, that just leaves Aerosmith. While the rest of the Stands are tied to an inciting incident from their childhoods or pasts that shaped who their users are, there doesn't seem to be any real connection behind Aerosmith and Narancia's story of his mother's passing and being set up to take the fall for a crime he didn't commit. Where exactly in Narancia's backstory does an event occur that represents the foundation of the current-day Aerosmith?
  • It seems to me that Aerosmith isn't supposed to represent Narancia's backstory as much as it represents his explosive, violent, and reckless nature. The fight with Formaggio showcases how destructive Aerosmith can be and we see Narancia lose his temper more often than other members of Bucciarati's gang.
  • Also, does not the little man in the cockpit resemble an eye when viewed from above? Does it not utilize an obnoxiously optical targeting sight? In addition to his reckless nature, the word to focus on here as well is abandon, as his Stand barrels through the air annihilating all that breathe. This must have been how he felt about the eye disease as well as it jumped from victim to victim indiscriminately affecting his life as naturally as others breathed.

Polnareff knowing where to find Team Bucciarati

• It's confirmed that following his near-death experience at Diavolo's hands, Polnareff's been keeping tabs on him whilst in hiding, looking for someone who's also trying to put a stop to Diavolo. He finds this through Team Bucciarati, but this begs the question. How did Polnareff know where to look? Yes, their goal ultimately ended up being to take down Diavolo, but that was only after finding out what was going to happen to Trish. Giorno may have wanted to overthrow Diavolo from the start, but only those within Team Bucciarati knew that, and nothing indicated that Koichi could've told Jotaro was Giorno's end goal was. He knew he was attempting to join Passione, but not that he planned to defeat its Boss.
  • Polnareff gained knowledge of hacking throughout the years that he was in hiding. A group of people repeatedly scouring police databases in a frenzy for one man would definitely start to catch his eye. And subsequently, remember that Polnareff did his OWN extensive research on Diavolo; in that time, it’s very likely that he would’ve dug up false names and aliases, and likely tried similar other tactics that Bucciarati’s team did, like looking through death records and such. So all of this knowledge and a small bit of digging, and Polnareff was probably able to deduce that “Oh crap, these guys are exactly who I’m looking for, better drop in and give them a lecture real quick”.

How did anyone even walk during the Green Day arc?

• Green Day's mold is triggered by moving to a lower elevation. In order to walk it's necessary to move your legs down. It's not even needed for the whole body to lower as seen when it affected Mista's hand.
  • Walking also requires lifting your legs. The erratic leg movement during walking can throw off the mold's effects.
  • Holistically moving to a lower position ie comitting entire mass, not lower-erly moving in just any way. Tapping fingers impatiently deciding what move to make next? Well . . . Also to be completely honest, the ribs move downward when exhaling to say nothing of walking.

Would Giorno dying undo Gold Experience's effects?

• With most (But not all) Stands, any lingering effects of the Stand disappear if the user dies. By the end of Part 5, the surviving members of Bucciarati's gang have each had numerous life-threatening injuries healed by Gold Experience. If Giorno were to die at this point, would it also leave the rest of his group dead or dying because their many battles' worth of blood-gushing wounds have suddenly reopened and half of their internal organs reverted to being the inanimate objects Giorno created them from?
  • At this point, the organs created by Gold Experience have most likely been fully assimilated by the gang's bodies, so they wouldn't revert if Giorno died. It might be a different story if Giorno was killed shortly after he healed someone.

Where was Chariot Requiem going?

• The "Freaky Friday" Flip was for the sole purpose of keeping everybody away from the Requiem Arrow, but when looking past that, where was Chariot Requiem even intending to go, let alone when walking as slow as molasses?
  • Nowhere in particular. Chariot Requiem ignores anyone who isn't trying to take the arrow, so it probably doesn't have enough awareness to plan a destination.
  • Symbolism. As everyone's souls are switched due to the shadow cast by the light of Chariot's Requiem, it's meandering (it's particular form of saunter it would seem) mirrors the soul's of the switched traversing space to their alternate shells. It explains his ethereal appearance as such to justify his existence and wandering to "make up" for the forced travel the souls must have endured at literally the speed of that light to the alternate body. It is a very karmic representation . . .

Couldn't Narancia beat Talking Heads at its own game?

• Talking Heads forces its victim to say the opposite of what they meant to, so couldn't Narancia have thwarted it by intentionally lying, compelling it to let him tell the truth?
  • Talking Heads is also selective, allowing Tiziano to prevent Narancia from doing just that. In fact, he even did that to allow Narancia to speak truthfully

DIO and Giorno

• How much does Giorno know about DIO exactly? For one, the picture in his wallet (note: this is referring to the picture in the manga with DIO's name on it, not the anime picture). Where did he get it? Was it something DIO gave to Giorno's mother? If so, DIO not only let this random woman he slept with once live (which the narrator even points out is unusual), but gave her with a photo with his face and name on it? Another thing is that in the manga, Koichi overhears the airport guards talking about Giorno, and one mentions Giorno told him that he got his blonde hair from his father who died in Egypt. How does Giorno know his father died in Egypt? If Giorno knows that much about his dad, does he also know the type of person he was as well? If so, why would he even want to keep that photo in his wallet?
  • Giorno knows almost nothing about DIO whatsoever. Based on the existence of Ungalo, Rikiel, and Donatello Versus in Part 6, it's safe to say that DIO intended to use his children as somewhat of a failsafe in case he's offed too early, as Part 3 would demonstrate. Considering the fact that Giorno's mother was overly neglectful, and Ungalo and Donatello went on to be as deplorable as DIO himself, DIO was likely intending a gambit similar to Melone, where through impregnating women who are hardly qualified to be good mothers, his children would wind up as wicked as he is. Giorno's mother likely saw DIO as a charismatic figure like those he doesn't kill also do, and he probably informed her about him setting up base in Egypt, with him never returning likely being an indicator of his death. Even if Giorno's mother didn't love DIO, she was too neglectful to ever tell Giorno what he was like, so the photo and his death in Egypt are likely all Giorno knows about DIO.

Fugo's decision

• After Bucciarati betrays the boss, he warns everyone else that following him will result in being considered a traitor. Fugo, fearing for his life, chooses to stay behind. But logically, Fugo would have been much better off following Bucciarati. Diavolo doesn't seem like the kind of person to spare someone from a traitorous team, especially if the team leader started it. And realistically, what was Fugo going to do? Go to some capo and say "hey guys, sorry my leader and friend betrayed the organization, but believe me, I'm still totally on your side!". He's lucky that Giorno took care of things quite quickly. Then again, given that Purple Haze Feedback is not necessarily canonical, and we never see Fugo again in the story (outside of one scene added by the anime), it's even possible that he was killed off-screen. Perhaps by the boss himself, since he remained alone near the church where Diavolo was, and the only reason Diavolo didn't attack them at the time was because they were too many to kill undetected.
  • Fugo didn't need to do anything. He just had to keep his mouth shut and stay in the shadows until everything blew over. His only casualty within the Famiglia is Illuso, and La Squadra had already gone rogue by that point while hunting down Team Bucciarati (even then, Diavolo doesn't give a fuck about what happens to his men), so he should be fine.

Illuso can read minds?

• In the fight against Illuso, Abbacchio inner monologues about how he's counting on Giorno to finish the mission by escaping with the key. Then Illuso goes back to mock him over Giorno doing the opposite at literally the exact moment. In English, he even says "your thoughts are so loud I can practically hear them Abbacchio". Is telepathy some unspoken ability that Illuso has in the mirror world, or is that just the mother of all coincidences?
  • Difficult to say. It seems reasonable though that it's just the razor's (or the mirror's) edge of survival logic running rampant at high speeds, similar to Jotaro's battle with the Hanged Man. Giorno's plan to bluff most likely (and unspokenly) relied on Illuso's ability to see anything where there were shards of mirror present. He knew Illuso had omnipresence in the mirror world, so he baited him to give himself some leverage against the odds.

Using King Crimson in the death loop

• Why doesn't Diavolo use King Crimson after succumbing to Gold Experience Requiem? Wouldn't it at least dull the intensity of the chaos he is doomed to endure for the remainder of the requiem? Originally stated in Stardust Crusaders as the reason for being called a Stand, as long as the user lives its Stand persists also. Is King Crimson somehow locked in the moment before the moment it attempts to bypass Golden Experience's attack and only Diavolo will not be able to persist to the conclusion of King Crimson's ability? It makes sense that King Crimson's ability is tied up in someway, but Diavolo's complete inability to summon it implies that Gold Experience Requiem has absolutely separated the two.
  • You kinda just answered your own question. Diavolo no longer can summon his Stand because his soul is trapped in Giorno's very own Purgatory. Kira only briefly summoned Killer Queen (before it got ripped apart like pita bread) in Reimi's Alley because his soul wasn't dragged off to hell yet, and that might've just been some black magic fuckery anyway, similar to when the alley tricked Koichi into thinking Reimi was telling him to look behind him.
    • Thank you for the response, but one thing is tripping me up. To quote from the wiki https://jojo.fandom.com/wiki/Gold_Experience_Requiem:
    • Death Loop

If the opponent is killed by Gold Experience Requiem, then they will continuously experience death, as they will die but repeatedly return to point "zero"; the point immediately before the process of death (i.e Diavolo's infinite death loops). Through this ability, GER creates a new "reality", as it calls it, for Diavolo as a form of poetic justice for the multiple times the mob boss has manipulated reality to his advantage with King Crimson.

• Diavolo is repeatedly manifested to the moment before death, so is alive, and I can't understand how King Crimson can't get in there at all . . . to further, The Golden Experience Requiem ability is to reduce things to zero, and King Crimson's ability erases time, so it doesn't make sense that King Crimson erasing time is not bringing a vector of time to zero in some fashion.

Giorno's Mother

• How did Giorno's mom get away with neglecting her son when he was a child? Wouldn't the neighbours or a coworker be aware and contact child services?
  • Dunno about when they were still in Japan, but Passione already had Italy by the balls during Giorno's youth. Child services likely wouldn't have been much help.