WMG / JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Golden Wind

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Polpo is a vampire

This can also explain why he doesn't want to leave his cell. He would be burnt by sunlight if he leaves. He ate his own fingers and they grew back, this clearly isn't his stand's abilities. He also regularly eat an insane amount of foods a day, which can be explained as since he cannot drink human blood in prison, he must eat an insane amount to survive. The banana gun's bullet killed him because it bursted his brain.

Leaky-Eye Luka's shovel was his Stand

...Called the Ace of Spades.

• Unlikely. Normal people can see it. Most likely, Luca passed the lighter test without letting the lighter go out.
• It could be a Stand bound to a physical object, which normal people can see.

Why Giorno's mother was spared by Dio

• She was one of the few women who did not hear Dio accidentally scream "Oh, Jonathan".
  • AYO!
• There was a massive AHEM! harem situation in which Dio was MOST distracted . . .

Bucciarati is part of the Zeppeli family.

An Italian friend of someone from the Joestar family who dies heroically trying to assist his allies? Sounds like a Zeppeli to me! Maybe he's descended from one of Caesar's siblings, or a descendant of Caesar himself, seeing as how he was a womanizer.

• Why does he need to be a Zeppeli just because he fulfills a similar role to them? What would that add to the story? Is being a kind-hearted, self-sacrificing person something that only the Zeppelis can do? It's just a Recurring Element, nothing more.

Having a Requiem Stand kills you.

The shock of developing a Stand kills most people. Even if you survive that, being stabbed with a Stand arrow a second time is painful and can kill you. Stabbing your Stand with the arrow is said to be even more extreme. Why doesn't Giorno show up in Florida with the other sons of Dio? He didn't last long after using Golden Experience Requiem. This is also why Jotaro, who was keeping tabs on the events of Vento Aureo, never tries to unlock Star Platinum Requiem.

• He's all but said to be alive during part 6 by the narration.
  • And he's explicitly said to be alive in Fugo's side story.
    • Purple Haze Feedback was not written by Araki and is not canon. The "Narration" in part 6 was part of extra pages added when part 6 was compiled into volumes, and whether Araki wrote them is questionable.
• Then again, the arrowhead fell out of GER at the end of Vento Aureo. It all depends on if GER needs to keep in contact with the arrow, or if it's like part 4 (where getting stabbed by the arrow activates it permanently).
• Assuming the arrow is the otherwordly source of Stands, it can incorporate itself, or as it pleases, in terms of a Stand structure/metabolism/physiology/whatever. Plus the fact there is more than one which gives it infinite versatility.

Diavolo is a hardcore drug user.

Notice how emaciated and garish he looks when his face is shown for the first time. This could be a result of him abusing the drugs his gang has been dealing over the years and thus becoming more and more paranoid and scrawnier. He is going through a very long Tony Montana phase but more prepared and careful in comparison since he goes to great lengths to make sure nobody knows who he really is.

Every piece of art, animation, or writing, fanmade or not, that involves Diavolo or any form of him dying in any way

is canon. Gold Experience Requiem made it so that Diavolo would suffer an infinite amount of deaths with no end. Since that would involve an infinite amount of scenarios, any possible scenario would have to be considered canon.

Mista would've been the fourth member of Passione to die.

After the deaths of Abbachio, Narancia, and Bucciarati before the story ended, in a fit of cruel irony, Mista probably would've been the next one to kick the bucket.

• Jossed in-story actually, since Diavolo punched Trish through the gut killing her near the end of the story. Although Deus ex Machina, and also considering she was inside Mista's body during the whole thing, Mista could've effectively died too. This makes him the 5th member to die if things kept going wrong

Diavolo is literally of the Devil.

Satan himself decided to impregnate an inmate for whatever purpose, something he could easily do and would leave Diavolo's conception unexplained. One of the side-effects of being a demon spawn was the extra-long pregnancy and Doppio. The evil-sounding name is his mother giving a hint to his origin. In truth Diavolo is The Antichrist, and his purpose to set up the Devil's rise is subconsciously expressed in his desire to be emperor. His sudden shift from quiet child to villain in his teen years comes from the Devil's influence asserting itself.

Vinegar Doppio is the original personality, for lack of a better term.

Flashbacks show the Diavolo Used to Be a Sweet Kid, then something happened that caused him to become a paranoid maniac. He was clumsy, a bit of a doofus, and overall a lot more like Doppio than the monster that is Diavolo. This happened when he was 17-19. Vinegar Doppio is around that age, and flashbacks have a young Diavolo that looks a lot like Doppio. Whatever caused him/them to snap led to a Jekyll & Hyde situation. Diavolo exists to deal with the world he can't handle and is in the driver's seat, while Doppio doesn't age anymore and his childhood innocence is preserved. Diavolo gets the ugly memories and things they don't want to know, along with all the dark thoughts that might take away from that innocence. Diavolo is like Dark Marik, except he's beneficial for the original self. Well, at least until he's developed enough to all but completely dominate their body and survive with Doppio removed. Given their nature, not even Diavolo is certain he's a split personality and so assumes that he created Doppio instead, which ties into his own fractured mind and history. The paranoia about people learning his history is because it might further fragment their mind or even put Doppio back in control again, if it leads to Doppio knowing for certain their relationship. Had he survived Doppio's death might have further fragmented Diavolo's mind, considering he no longer has his original self.

• Perhaps adding to this, I want to say that Diavolo's true identity is King Crimson, Doppio's stand. Stands tend to typically be born from or be representations of various desires of the user, so then what if Doppio gained the stand King Crimson which would in turn develop its own identity as Diavolo. Doppio himself have shown a strong desire to not have his past found out so then it might be possible for Diavolo and King Crimson to just be this desire taken to its extreme. I have this guess mostly from just how often King Crimson is shown to speak and act for Diavolo, almost like King Crimson is the primary source while Diavolo acting like its human face.

Carne had the power to see his own death.

Notorious B.I.G is one of the strangest Stands as it's absolutely pathetic when its host Carne is alive, but one of the most broken Stands when he died. Passione would know he had a Stand if the Stand Arrow didn't kill him and he could see any other Stand, but given how it becomes useful they wouldn't be able to use that without somehow knowing. And Carne was part of the Unità Speciale, so it seems odd he'd let him in on the off chance his useless Stand would have some secret power unless they somehow knew, but how would they? Perhaps before its user's death, Notorious B.I.G had a power, just one completely useless in almost any situation; the power to see when you'll die and what happens. With this, Carne was able to see the future and that post-mortem his Stand could continue to exist. It's why he sports a small smile when facing the heroes—he's foreseen this moment and knows what he's about to release. It might also go to explain how he has enough rage to be one of the very few who can make their Stand live on after their death—you'd be pissed big-time if you knew you'd die pathetically and can't do a thing about that. Carne tested this by putting himself in some high-risk venture, like Russian roulette with one blank, and the fact it didn't do anything meant he's telling the truth about it. Unfortunately for him he could only see what his Stand would evolve into after his death as well, making him unable to prepare for Spice Girl... or maybe he did, but knew he couldn't change anything and just wanted his prescience and life to end.

The members of La Squadra encountered by Buccellati's team are thematic of the Seven Deadly Sins.

• Formaggio represents Envy, in his insecurity about his stand being the weakest out of all the Hitman Team's and how the others are said to mock him for it.
• Illuso represents Pride, not only because of how mirrors are a traditional symbol of vanity, but also because of how he's always boasting about his stand's unbeatable ability even though it's one of the physically weakest stands in the entire series, and two out of the three users he faced were able to trick him fairly easily into bringing something dangerous to him into the mirror world.
• Pesci is probably the one I had to reach furthest to make a connection - I connected him with Gluttony because he's one of the few visibly overweight characters in Jojo history.
• Prosciutto represents Sloth, since his Stand ability doesn't require him to actually attack or even move; indeed, he spends the first and last third or so of his arc sitting perfectly still and almost always offscreen while Pesci does the majority of combat. Also, people who overexert themselves are weaker to the effects of his Stand, which makes them more inclined to remain at rest.
• Melone represents Lust, for obvious reasons.
• Ghiaccio represents Wrath, for equally obvious reasons.
• Risotto Nero represents Greed, for his motivations for wanting to capture Trish and overthrow the Boss. He believes that the stipend his team received from the Boss isn't enough and wants the revenue from the other cells as well. He claims that he has his team's interests at heart as well as his own, but doesn't seem particularly shaken up when they're killed off one by one by Bucellati's team, and presumably even if the entire team had survived to see their plans come to fruition, Nero himself would have been the one to actually take the Boss' title and distribute his new earnings.

Pesci's Stand, Beach Boy, was either the Act 0/Act 1 form

Similar to Koichi and his Stand, Echoes, Pesci's Beach Boy started off a good, albeit not amazing, Stand with some capabilities and again, like Koichi, Pesci started off afraid and unsure of what to do without guidance. However, throughout his fight with Bucciarati, he gained a sense of worth and confidence, similar to Koichi fighting Tanami and unlocking Act 1. Meaning that, if Pesci were able to defeat Bucciarati, a long shot I'm aware, and continue on the path of discovering who he is, he could potentially have an even stronger Stand.

Narancia is Trish's brother

Lampshaded by Narancia himself in chapter 523/Golden Wind episode 21: The wound on her arm is a wound on me.

• He probably just related to her on the level of not having a loving parental figure.

Doppio's father was a Stand user

The only logical explanation I can find for someone being pregnant for two years, then suddenly having a child. The Stand was designed to let the man survive by possessing his own offspring. That explains the odd changes between Diavolo and Doppio, it's literally two separate souls sharing one body. That also explains how Diavolo specifically possessed Trish during the Silver Chariot Requiem event; he already had the power to possess his own offspring, and Requiem just gave him a shortcut.

• Adding onto this, it's possible that this resurrective Stand allows him to take over his child's Stand, to a degree. He clearly usurped King Crimson from Doppio, and it's possible that after dying he would've hidden himself inside of Trish and added Spice Girl to the collection. Hypothetically, if he kept going, Diavolo would've kept reincarnating, gathering more and more Stands and powers, but he wanted King Crimson Requiem to cover his bases.
  • Possible. The only alternative explanation is that his father was a ghost, and he impregnated Diavolo’s mother during her prison stint.

Buccellati had actually touched the Rolling Stones stand.

Unbeknownst to Mista, Buccellati had already touched the stone when he arrived. And that's why Giorno got the arrow. Just like how the florist's daughter was fated to die of a disease, but instead chose to kill herself before her organs were infected, so that her father could get a transplant. Buccellati was supposed to die after getting punched through the chest by Diavolo, but because he touched Rolling Stones, the stand gave him a less futile death instead - setting in motion the events that handed Giorno the arrow. Scolippi also said that a person would die painlessly after touching the stand, and when Bucciarati's soul eventually rises to the sky (his "real" death), he isn't in pain and looks satisfied with himself. After all, Scolippi never stated that a person would die immediately upon touching Rolling Stones. That was just Mista freaking out. Buccellati did touch the stone, and accordingly, the stone spared him from his original fate and killed him when the time was right - when his death could become a new beginning for Giorno.

After Vento Aureo Trish ends up in solitary confinement

Okay hear me out. Trish clearly inherited numerous mental disorders from her father. She is seen three separate times in story quivering in a fetal position, extremely paranoid. Similar to her father, her source of paranoia lies in the existing or nonexistent risk of someone being out to kill her.A portion of her personality is shown in story through her stand, Spice Girl, who turns out to be very vulgar and violent (She beat another stand to death with a metal pole).Finally in the Eyes of Heaven game, Trish has a straitjacket costume, and her hair is very jagged in it. This could simply be a fashion statement or it could be alluding to her instability.Given this, Trish may have had an encounter with gang members who were still looking for connections to Diavolo. She could've ended up killing them, then later tried for murder. Now faced with even more people who really want to kill her, she is unruly in prison and by the time Giorno bails her out she's already been in solitary for a while.Solitary could be stretching it but it's not impossible to bet her mental issues have gotten her in trouble with the law.

• If Purple Haze Feedback is canon, this is jossed. The costume is actually a reference to this manga cover, and it's a blanket with a design of Spice Girl on it. That, and while this is potentially non-canon, Purple Haze Feedback states that Trish pursued a career as a successful pop star, as she's heard on the radio at the end by Fugo and Giorno.

Potential Part 5 dub cast

• Giorno: Khoi Dao
  • Jossed; it's Phillip Reich.
• Bucciarati:
  • Xander Mobus
  • Ray Chase
    • Confirmed.
• Mista: Max Mittelman
  • Jossed; it's Sean Chiplock.
• Abbacchio
  • Kaiji Tang
  • Ray Chase
  • Kirk Thornton
    • All jossed; it's Mick Lauer.
• Narancia:
  • Erik Kimerer
  • Arnie Pantoja
    • Both jossed; it's Kyle McCarley.
• Fugo: Kyle McCarley
  • Jossed; it's Ezra Weisz.
• Trish
  • Cherami Leigh
  • Erika Harlacher
  • Cristina Valenzuela
    • All jossed; it's Lizzie Freeman.
• Diavolo
  • Keith Silverstein
  • Robbie Daymond (he can use his Kenshiro voice for Diavolo and his Prompto voice for Doppio)
  • Liam O'Brien
  • Crispin Freeman
    • All jossed; it's Kellen Goff.

Why DIO let Giorno's mom live

In the first episode of Vento Aureo, it's established by the narration that it's weird that DIO let Giorno's mom live, as that wasn't a privilege he extended to most of his lovers. He says that he's unaware of why he let her live, but I have a theory as to a possible reason. In the final battle of Stardust Crusaders, DIO drinks Joestar blood and compares the effect to that of a drug. If DIO predicted the effects of Joestar blood on his body, he would probably want to drink more. However, he also wants to kill all of the living Joestars, and if there's no Joestars left, there's no Joestar blood left. However, there is a solution. Since DIO's body is actually Jonathan's, all of his children would be Joestars. What if he let Giorno's mom live, as well as Ungalo, Rikiel, and Donatello's mothers, to start a "farm" of Joestars? That way, he could have as much Joestar blood as he wants, and as long as he kills the baby Jojos off before they're old enough to become dangerous, he doesn't have to worry about anyone threatening his reign.

Diavolo's stand cry

It's been shown that stand crys are inherited from the user's parent. Jolyne inherits Jotaro's ora, and Giorno inherits DIO's muda. Since Trish's stand cry is wannabe, we can deduce that Diavolo's is also wannabe.

In the dub, Gold Experience Requiem will speak fluent Italian.

Unlikely, but doesn't hurt to dream, since David Productions specifically requested Viz Media have characters and their stands voiced by the same person. And unless they plan in advance I doubt Phillip Reich can learn enough Italian come the final episode.

• Jossed. GER still speaks English like Giorno does in the dub.

Secco is a case of Becoming the Mask.

Inspired by this comic. What little we know about Secco is that he used to be one of Cioccolata's patients. In order to survive him, Secco pretended to be as degenerate as him to appeal to Cioccolata's sadism/ego enough to be spared, and pretended to be his friend in order to survive him. While Secco's psychopathic traits were a mask for survival and he planned to eventually expose Cioccolata at some point, being stuck with Chocolate drives a man cuckoo.

Diavalo IS King Crimson

King Crimson is an autonomatic stand with a mind of its own similar to Cheap Trick although it still needs its user alive and hence killing Doppio was not an option till it had a body of its own, this is also why Diavalo often speaks threw King Crimson, because King Crimson is his true body and his human form is just a puppet so its more natural that way, Dappio/Diavalos daughter also had a stand that initially acted independently with its own personality, but she came to understand it is a part of her preventing her soul from completely fracturing like her fathers.

The meteor containing the Stand virus was brought over from the Steel Ball Run universe by the Holy Corpse

While we know where Stands are derived from, the origins of the virus it comes from are unknown besides the meteor it was on that fell to Earth. However, Steel Ball Run provides a much simpler explanation, being that Stands are granted by the power of the Holy Corpse, A.K.A. Jesus Christ, and this concept carries over into JoJolion, given that they're in the same universe. With this in mind, it could very well be possible that Jesus wanted to share his blessing with other universes, and given that he's a being linked with the creation of the world, he could've very well imbued his power into the meteor, and sent it off to a specific universe, that being the original Jump Comics universe.

Giorno's story is a (possibly unintentional) reference, and another musical one—to the song "A Boy Named Sue".

• In that song, a man knows he won't always be there for his son growing up. So before he leaves, he names him Sue so he'll get strong from having to beat up bullies who laugh at his name. While Dio didn't give Giorno his name, Ms. Shiobana did, and she named him "Haruno," which is a girl's name in Japan.
• Dio wanted to have children who were strong, so he looked for cruel and cold-hearted women to impregnate in hopes that the offspring would be strong-willed. The difficult years of Giorno's early childhood taught him the skills and mental strength he needed to survive and become a gangster, and eventually the leader of Passione.
• In the song, when Sue meets his father, he's able to recognize him from a photograph his mother had that shows a distinctive scar on the father's face. Giorno has a photograph of Dio from his mother that shows him with a scar—the one around his neck from where he attached his head to Jonathan's body.
• Finally, it is possible for Dio and Giorno to meet and fight in All-Star Battle and Eyes of Heaven, and while Giorno doesn't have any dialogue that indicates it (as far as I know), it's not a huge stretch to think he might resent Dio at least a little for leaving him all alone with his neglectful mother and, later, his abusive stepfather.

Gold Experience is DIO

It's gold color and hearts, the fact that it has its own mind, the MUDAs. After DIO died at the hands of Jotaro, DIO's soul latched onto Giorno in an attempt to survive so it could return to kill him, but once Giorno awoke his Stand DIO became trapped in it. Eventually, DIO decided to follow Giorno's path, which is why Requiem gave such a DIO-like speech to Diavolo.

• Jossed by Stone Ocean. Following DIO's death in Stardust Crusaders, his soul was destroyed for good. The only way his soul could even potentially be preserved was via one of his bones that he gave to Pucci, and this bone containing the final fragment of his soul, when combined with a surplus of souls through the power of Limp Bizkit, would result in the birth of the Green Baby. DIO's reincarnation isn't Gold Experience; it's the Green Baby.
  • Recognizing that this is Jossed the WMG conjecture below that Giorno survived the Stand illness due to Gold Experience's abilities further compounds that Gold Experience is NOT DIO. It's odd that Haruno's physical appearance shifts so suddenly, but following Stand manifestation logic, the Stand's characteristics are determined by the user, so since Gold Experience "existed" before DIO is destroyed DIO would have to have transformed Haruno into himself(Giorno) somehow and then Gold Experience would represent DIO's inifinite lust to consume therefore justifying Gold Experience's ability to create as much of whatever DIO desired to consume.

The members of Team Bucciarati are thematic of the Seven Heavenly Virtues.

Similarly to La Squadra representing the Seven Deadly Sins, Team Bucciarati shows symbolism of the paragons of purity.

• Giorno represents Charity. Giorno's main goal of eliminating drug distribution from within Passione is for the sake of Italy's civilization, he's always one to stop people from being robbed undeservedly (despite doing robberies himself), and he almost always uses Gold Experience to heal others of their fatal wounds.
• Bucciarati represents Kindness. He's always lenient on his team members, and until they break his trust, Bucciarati is always one to give people the benefit of the doubt.
• Abbacchio represents Humility. Abbacchio is never one to brag about his accomplishments, always letting his actions speak for him to accommodate for his prior actions as a police officer painting a bleak picture on his reputation. In fact, Abbacchio hates Giorno precisely because he lacks humility.
• Mista represents Diligence. Though he initially spent a majority of his life not caring about anything, after the incident with the thugs, Mista became one to answer the call to action at any possible opportunity. Whereas the other members of Team Bucciarati Know When to Fold 'Em, Mista never finds himself giving up on a given task.
• Fugo represents Chastity. Following the incident of him assaulting his professor, his belief of him being a monster represented through Purple Haze causes Fugo to keep to himself, not wanting to get involved in too many interactions that would defile both himself and others.
• Narancia represents Patience. In ironic contrast to his hotheaded nature, Narancia always strives to reach an end goal and will always wait things out to come up with plans to reach said goal. That is, unless things go wrong and he has to resort to instinct.
• Trish represents Temperance. Despite not having any sort of official allegiance, Trish always aligns herself with those she places her trust in, and never attempts to back down in order to maintain stable relationships.

Diavolo leaving Bucciarati with Trish’s severed hand in the elevator wasn’t him being stupid.

He could have waited until Bucciarati left the building and then killed Trish, but he didn’t. He left his new capo the girl’s severed hand as a threat. “This is only a taste of my power. If I am willing to do this to my own daughter, just imagine what I could do to you or the members of your team (and I don't give a flying fuck that 3 of them are teenagers, because my daughter is 15 and I'm going to kill her too). You are their leader, so if you drag them into a fight against me and they get killed, it will be your fault. Think about that before you decide to rebel against me.”

With Bucciarati’s recent promotion to capo (following Polpo’s suspicious “suicide”), Diavolo wanted to drop him a little reminder of who was in charge. While Bucciarati hadn't blatantly done anything to piss him off, Diavolo found out somehow that he didn't like the whole drug dealing business. Because of the incident with Sorbet and Gelato, he was already on edge and didn't want another traitor in the house. Following Polpo’s death, he put two and two together and correctly deduced that Bucciarati or a member of his team was coming for him next. He assumed that once he demonstrated his power and ruthlessness, even if Bucciarati was angry/disgusted/upset upon realizing what his boss had done, he would not choose to risk his own life and his team members' lives for the sake of some girl they barely knew against the power of a dangerous, completely unknown Stand. He was wrong.

Diavolo and Doppio have their own individual bloodstreams.

JoJo is no stranger to abusing the Overdrawn at the Blood Bank trope, but even considering how the fight against Risotto and Metallica has a Surprisingly Realistic Outcome of Doppio's blood turning yellow and depriving him of oxygen, there's no realistic way of Doppio having as much blood in his body as Metallica used up. ...That is, unless Doppio and Diavolo have separate bloodstreams attached to their souls, and with them inhabiting the same body, one's blood effectively serves as an IV drip for whoever is currently in control of their body in the case of a crisis.

Melone is a foreigner

It explains why he says "di molto" instead of "molto bene" - he's an analogue of those Occidental Otakus that learn Japanese with the help of Babelfish. In the anime, Baby Face talks to him in correct Italian, but it's an anime-only detail.

Abbacchio didn't have a good relationship with his family

• After he lost his job as a cop following the death of his partner, he's not shown to have any family members that could help him with his situation.
• As the gang is about to betray the boss, he says that he's never had a home or place he wanted to go, and the only time he's ever felt at peace in his life is by Bucciarati's side. Not "I don't have a home" or even "I haven't had a home in a long time," but "I've never had a home."
• If Abbacchio's family was abusive to him, it is possible that part of his motive for wanting to become a cop was to save children who had bad home lives like he did.
• When he dies, the person who welcomes him to the afterlife isn't one of his family members, but his coworker on the police force who died saving him.

Doppio is the embodiment of Diavolo's lost innocence.

Age-wise he looks around the same as when Diavolo (or whoever the original personality was) was dating Trish's mom, right before whatever his Start of Darkness truly was. While a bad guy, it's mainly due to the influence of Diavolo. Whatever Awful Truth they found either caused Doppio to be frozen in time and Diavolo to take control, Diavolo created Doppio as a means of preserving his innocence, or something like that. Given he either stopped or cannot mentally age, Doppio naturally became an oddball meant to embody the humanity Diavolo/they have. Him representing lost innocence could also factor into why he needs to borrow Epitath or why Diavolo all but lacks empathy and innocence.

Secco is the Only Sane Man among the Elite Guard.

Inspired by this comic. What little we know about Secco is that he used to be one of Cioccolata's patients. In order to survive him, Secco pretended to be as sadistic as him to appeal to Cioccolata's sadism/ego enough to be spared, and pretended to be his friend in order to survive him and at least maintain his sanity. While Secco's psychopathic traits were a mask for survival and he planned to eventually expose Cioccolata at some point.

Ghiaccio's birthday is in December.

It's a winter month, and it's also the last month of the year, which fits with Ghiaccio being the last enemy faced by Bucciarati's team before their confrontation with the boss.

What would have happened if Giorno had never joined Bucciarati's team

Bucciarati is promoted to capo and assigned to look after Trish. The team successfully escorts Trish to the meeting location on San Giorgio Maggiore, but without Giorno, nobody is there to heal Bucciarati's fatal wound and he dies trying to save Trish from her father. Waiting outside, the team gets more and more agitated and worried, and Narancia gets tired of waiting and runs in. A concerned Abbacchio follows him, and both of them also get King Crimson'd. Fugo gets close enough to the building to realize via Stand senses that the Boss has killed them and flees the scene with Mista, despite the latter's protests. The Boss tracks them down and delivers gruesome photographs of their dead teammates' bodies as a reminder of what happens to any who defy him. It's anyone's guess as to what happens after that. Alternatively, Narancia and Abbacchio die fighting La Squadra in the process of getting Trish to the Boss, and she dies alongside Bucciarati at San Giorgio Maggiore.

Giorno's mother's first name is Haruka, written using the kanji "遥".

For two reasons. First, it creates Family Theme Naming with her son Haruno, and second, when the name "Haruka" is written with the kanji "遥", it means "distant," which perfectly describes her as a neglectful mother.

Illuso is an illegitimate son of J. Geil, and is a Child by Rape.

They both have mirror-world Stands, and J. Geil is a Serial Rapist...

• This is supported by how while incredibly ugly, a flashback to J.Geil's youth showed he used to be handsome and muscular with blackish/brown hair. Given what he and Enya is like, Illuso got off easy.

Secco has a medical condition that compromises his health and/or immune system.

At some point he ended up on Cioccolata's table because of this condition, and somehow became his partner. His Stand manifested as a suit that covered his whole body, because his greatest desire was to protect himself from a world that was so hard to live in. Being Cioccolata's pet may be degrading, but he finds it better than his old life, where he constantly had to worry about getting sick.

A meta-theory: Where the "Narancia is Abbacchio's favorite child" headcanon came from.

It is popular among fans to headcanon that Bucciarati is the mom of the team and Abbacchio is the dad, but there is also a somewhat popular sub-headcanon that goes along with it: out of all their "children," Narancia is Abbacchio's favorite. Why might that be?

• Fugo has never had a loving parental figure in his life (aside from his grandmother, if Purple Haze Feedback is taken as canon). He was abused, treated coldly, and eventually disowned by his parents, and (if the anime is taken as canon) molested by a professor he trusted. It is not difficult to imagine that he has trust issues with adults and would be reluctant to open up to one. Some fanfics have him treating Abbacchio coldly when he first joins Passione, either because of said trust issues or because he doesn't want anyone else occupying Bucciarati's attention (in the "kid doesn't like his mom's new boyfriend" sense). There is at least one fanfic where Fugo is jealous of Abbacchio because he doesn't have a dangerous, uncontrollable Stand like Purple Haze.
• Mista was already living independently by the time Bucciarati found him, and is closer to Abbacchio's age (a 3-year difference) than Fugo is (a 6-year difference). Those things put together mean he wouldn't be as in dire need of a parental figure, though his generally friendly demeanor means he probably warmed up to Abbacchio faster than Fugo did. (Whether Abbacchio warmed up to him as fast is another question.)
• Giorno, of course, would never be Abbacchio's favorite in anything.
• And finally, there is Narancia. While not the youngest of the team, he is the most innocent, childlike, and openly affectionate; he readily latches on to people because he believes friendship is the most important thing in the world. It is not hard to imagine him latching on to Bucciarati as a motherly figure and Abbacchio as a fatherly figure. And even if Abbacchio tried to stay aloof toward him and/or protested that he wouldn't be a good father figure, Narancia wouldn't be deterred...and if he kept trying, it wouldn't be hard to get to Abbacchio's deeply hidden heart of gold and awaken some affection for this scrappy little street rat.

While Giorno was beating Cioccolata to within an inch of his life…

…Sorbet and Gelato were watching from heaven the entire time, while eating popcorn.

Giorno only survived the "Stand illness" in 1988 because of Gold Experience.

When Holly and Josuke got sick because of their uncontrollable Stands, Giorno (who would have been 3 then) must have gotten sick too. He didn't have Speedwagon Foundation doctors or a loving mother looking after him, and it's hard to imagine his neglectful mother would want to spend time tending to him when he was sick. But he didn't die because the then-dormant Gold Experience went into overdrive and gave life to his body, allowing him to get better.

Giorno really is DIO somehow

• Recognizing that this is Jossed the WMG conjecture that Giorno survived the Stand illness due to Gold Experience's abilities further compounds that Gold Experience is NOT DIO. It's odd that Haruno's physical appearance shifts so suddenly, but following Stand manifestation logic, the Stand's characteristics are determined by the user, so since Gold Experience "existed" before DIO is destroyed DIO would have to have transformed Haruno into himself(Giorno) somehow and then Gold Experience would represent DIO's inifinite lust to consume therefore justifying Gold Experience's ability to create as much of whatever DIO desired to consume. Again to compound, nowhere has this troper seen even a single speck (pun intended) of speculation as to why Haruno is driven to such an extreme fashion change.
  • OP edit: It seems plausible that, regardless of what is canonically apparent, DIO does manage to assimilate to some degree with Haruno, though this theory allows for the assumption DIO becomes TheGreenBaby. Two elements: the arrow is specifically a weapon against DIO and his kind, and DIO has achieved duality. "Proof" for the arrow element would come from Giorno survive the Stand illness due to Gold Experience's powers. First the illness seems to stem from the imperfection of the arrow itself, but Golden Experience is able to presumably regenerate Giorno until he reaches such a point that he is genetically superior to the inherent imperfection. One way or another, DIO planted a bud on Haruno but it was unable to assimilate completely due to the significant genetic changes Giorno . . . Experienced (pun). In this sense Golden Experience is the ultimate vampire slayer. This somewhat illustrates that the ENTIRE purpose of the ore in the meteor was for the arrow to create Stands, and for there then to be some craaaaazy epidemic which the vampires or whatever they're called in canon could not overcome. This would make it likely that DIO is not a unique case in all of the universe, and also creates a Fourth Wall to be symbolically broken when Cars is defeated and exiled to the void, "effectively" foreshadowing this theory. Lastly, it somewhat disputes the second element as DIO's soul would by default seek out the finger bone and become TheGreenBaby , although this troper would assume he learned a thing or two . . . through the Experience (pun).

Intended purpose of the Arrow *spoilers*

• Extaterrestrials created the ore metal to specifically be used against types like DIO that, left unchecked, would destroy all existence. It seems plausible that, regardless of what is canonically apparent, DIO does manage to assimilate to some degree with Haruno, though this theory allows for the assumption DIO becomes The Green Baby . Two elements: the arrow is specifically a weapon against DIO and his kind, and DIO has achieved duality. "Proof" for the arrow element would come from Giorno survive the Stand illness due to Gold Experience's powers. First the illness seems to stem from the imperfection of the arrow itself, but Golden Experience is able to presumably regenerate Giorno until he reaches such a point that he is genetically superior to the inherent imperfection. One way or another, DIO planted a bud on Haruno but it was unable to assimilate completely due to the significant genetic changes Giorno . . . Experienced (pun). In this sense Golden Experience is the ultimate vampire slayer. This somewhat illustrates that the ENTIRE purpose of the ore in the meteor was for the arrow to create Stands, and for there then to be some craaaaazy epidemic which the vampires or whatever they're called in canon could not overcome. This would make it likely that DIO is not a unique case in all of the universe, and also creates a Fourth Wall to be symbolically broken when Cars is defeated and exiled to the void, "effectively" foreshadowing this theory. Lastly, it somewhat disputes the second element as DIO's soul would by default seek out the finger bone and become The Green Baby, although this troper would assume he learned a thing or two . . . through the Experience (pun).

Golden Experience Easter Egg (Narancia, not King Crimson's head shape)

• Narancia's Stand Aerosmith, and his own name, are a reference to A Clockwork Orange. Narancia, meaning orange in Italian, and the toy airplane stand, as the old timey term for wind up or motorized toys was once clockwork. Oh, and Narancia's tendency to get wound up easily. Yeah.