Respect Dio Brando(Jojo's Bizarre Adventure)

Name: Dio Brando

Team Affiliates: Formerly part of the Joestar Family

Allies: Enrico Pucci, Vanilla Ice, Wang Chan, Other Stand Users

Enemies: Jonathon Joestar, Joseph Joestar, Jotaro Kujo, William Zeppeli, Speedwagon, Kakyoin, Polnareff, Avdol, Iggy

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Power and Abilities:

• Stand: Dio's humanoid Stand is The World; facilitating melee attack roughly equal in its immense force and speed to Jotaro's Star Platinum. About a year after gaining his Stand, Dio discovered that it is capable of stopping time. At first, he could only do this for a very short amount of time but, by the end of Part III, he is able to stop time for a maximum of 9 seconds. When stopping time, Dio gives the impression that he is teleporting or moving at impossible speed. Due to the familiar connection between Jonathan's body and Jonathan's descendants, it seems that The World shares abilities with the Stands of the Joestar family. This is hinted when Dio was shown able to create a vision on a photograph, similar to Joseph's Hermit purple and could explain why Star Platinum is also able to stop time.(Part 3: Stardust Crusaders)

• Vampire Abilities: Becoming a Vampire as a young adult, Dio displays a broad range of fantastic, supernatural abilities; explained as expressions of the full potential of the human body. He gained new powers and abilities such as:

• Inhuman Strength: Dio attains massive strength as a Vampire, allowing him feats such as forcibly walking on walls and single-handedly deflecting attacks such as Hierophant Green's Emerald Splash. After absorbing Joseph's blood he is powerful enough to drop a steamroller on Jotaro.

• Regeneration: Dio can regenerate his body faster than fire can consume it. His incredible vitality is maintained by consuming human beings (or their blood), which he commonly does by piercing them with his fingers. Like all JoJo vampires, Dio sucks blood through tentacles in his fingers and has been seen at least once drinking blood from an unnamed girl. His body is able to live even after having vital body parts amputated and he can also control his detached body parts.

• Enhanced Senses: Demonstrated when placing his head on the ground to hear Jotaro's heartbeat, Dio appears to have senses beyond human level.

• Space Ripper Stingy Eyes: Dio is able to pressurize liquid in his eyeballs and then create small openings in his pupils, eventually creating two fluid jets (referred to by Straizo as "Space Ripper Stingy Eyes") powerful enough to slice stone.

• Vaporization Freezing Technique: A freezing ability enabling Dio to freeze his own body parts and transfer this over to other objects or beings. It is able to cancel out the Hamon by freezing the blood in the user's body.

• Fusion: By fusing different species, Dio can create half-man half-beast creatures. He can even fuse himself with another living beings to take control of them.

• Spores: In Part I, Dio's powers are more bio-organic, but for the most part in Part III he only utilizes the "evil implants" - a parasite that brainwashes Polnareff and Kakyoin. A vampires cells can spawn Evil Implants generated from hair and insert it in the brains of living beings to control them. If someone tries to take out the spore, it will grow tentacles in a attempt to kill both the host and the one trying to remove it. If the vampire wants, he can give permission to someone to activate the spore's tentacles anytime he wants if close to it.

• Hypnosis: This ability was once used by Dio to hypnotize Poco into luring Jonathan into a trap, though his consciousness appears to have return after being subjected to hamon.

• Toughness: All prior to becoming a Vampire, Dio was already an able bare-handed fighter; which skill he says he developed in the slums of London. A good amateur sportsman, during a rugby game as a young adult, he is shown to have developed high athletic ability (as well as fantastic muscle mass).

• Charisma: Dio is a cunning, charming and intelligent individual. In addition to Stand users, whom Avdol and Joseph suggest he recruits through sheer charm or charisma, he has charmed many women through his life.

• Knowledge: Throughout both his humble youth and tempestuous maturity, Dio is often seen reading. Also during his youth, he is seen playing chess with adults. In Part VI, in conversation with Enrico Pucci, he is shown to have accumulated some wisdom within the world of Stands. Importantly, Dio is able to concoct a plan, contained in his diary, incorporating vast, unknown information as to the deliberate creation of Stands of perfectly specific abilities.

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Weakness:

• Dio became a vampire at the expense of having a body sustained by sheer willpower alone, rather than vital energy. A sufficiently powerful vital force - specifically, sunlight or the Hamon force - will negate the sustaining force's presence and disintegrate the long-unliving body.

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Part 1: Phantom Blood

Strength:

• Young Dio knocks out Jonathon's dog with a kick.(Pre Vampire)

• Young Dio wrecks Jonathon in a boxing match.(Pre Vampire)

• Young Dio bitchslaps Erina.(Pre Vampire)

• Dio punches Jonathon hard enough to draw blood.(Pre Vampire)

• Dio casually slices an officer's head apart.

• Dio casually bends an iron spear while having his hand impaled by the same spear.

• Dio casually walks up a wall.

• Dio kicks hard enough to bend an iron spear.

• Dio is strong enough to block a superhuman sun infused punch from Zeppeli.

• Dio's energy is five times stronger than both Jonathon and Zeppeli's hamon energy combined.

• Dio casually sends both Jonathon and Zeppeli flying by merely twisting their arms.

• Dio vs Jonathon (Shows both strength and durability feats)

• Dio's head is strong enough to tentacle rape Jonathon's weakened body.

Speed/Reaction:

• Dio is fast enough to outrun other rugby players.(Pre Vampire)

• Dio speedblitzes multiple police officers.(Also a strength feat)

• Dio thinks a superhuman, maybe FTE, Hamon user is too slow for him.

• Speedwagon states that Dio's speed is like a cheetah's.

Durability:(includes regeneration feats)

• Young Dio tanks a fury of punches from a raging Jonathon.(Pre Vampire)

• Dio gets up after getting thrown from the second floor.(Pre Vampire)

• Dio tanks a flurry of bullets after just becoming a vampire.

• Dio tanks a bullet to the head.

• Dio regenerates faster than fire can consume him.

• Dio gets impaled through the chest by a statue and proceeds to burn in the fire He still survives the ordeal.

• Dio can survive getting his arm and body sliced in half.

• Dio can survive having only his head intact.

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Part 3: Stardust Crusaders

Strength:(includes THE WORLD)

• Dio casually snaps the arm of a bodyguard.

• The World overpowers Green Hierophant, sends it flying through metal signs with a punch.

• Dio easily breaks out of Joseph's Stand infused with Hamon energy.

• The World punches a stone pillar hard enough to send pieces flying that end up hurting Joseph.

• The World overpowers and keeps up with Star Platinum. Star Platinum can punch through giant diamond hard teeth and is massively FTE, possibly FTL.

Speed/Reaction:(includes THE WORLD)

• Dio casually reacts, deflects, and dodges Emerald Splash, a high speed technique, without even moving.

• The World speedblitzes Green Hierophant, a very quick Stand.

• Dio casually leaps through buildings at high speeds.

• Dio again blocks and deflects Emerald Splash.

Durability:(includes THE WORLD)

• Dio tanks getting hit through a building by Emerald Splash attack.

Stand Feats:

• His Stand allows Dio to probably move Polnareff back downstairs whenever he takes a step to go upstairs.

• The World allows Dio to get out of the casket, put his vampire servant in the casket, and then hides. Allowing no one to understand what the hell just happened.

• Dio uses his Stand to not allow a senator to escape from a car.

• Dio finally reveals that his Stand allows him to completely stop time, allowing him to punch through Kakyoin before he even knows what happened.

• Dio stops time to kill a cat, fuck with the surrounding people, and gravely injures Joseph Joestar.

FINAL: Dio Brando vs Jotaro Kujo This is entire long ass fight shows Dio's true power and potential. Though he still lost to someone who could also stop time.