| Dio Brando | |
|---|---|
| Series | JoJo's Bizarre Adventure |
| Age | 20-21 (Part 1) 120-121 (Part 3) |
| Birthday | 1867~1868 |
| Sex | Male |
| Species | Human (Formerly) Vampire (Onwards) |
| Height | 196 cm (6'5") |
| Weight | 105 kg (231 lbs.) |
| Alignment | Chaotic Evil |
| “ | WRRRYYYYYYYYY | „ |
| ~ Dio Brando |
Dio Brando, known simply as DIO from part 3, onwards is the main antagonist for parts 1 and 3 of the anime and manga series JoJo's Bizarre Adventure. He is also shown in Part 6 as the one making Enrico Pucci the major antagonist.
Background[]
Dio was born the son of Dario Brando, an alcoholic and abusive father who he secretly despised - in part for having caused pain to his mother. On Dario's deathbed, he told Dio of his encounter with George Joestar twelve years prior, instructing Dio to go to the Joestar house and use his wiles to become wealthy. He was then adopted into the Joestar household and subsequently began undermining his new adoptive brother Jonathan at every opportunity. Dio was resolute to shatter Jonathan's spirit and take his place as the favored son, even going so far as to arrange for Jonathan's dog, Danny, to be burned to death.
After Jonathan discovered his plan of killing George Joestar to steal the family's fortune, Dio discovered that an ancient stone mask owned by the Joestars can turn people into vampires. He used it on himself and activated it with George's blood, turning himself into a vampire.
He formed a small army of vampire zombies and use it to battle Jonathan and his Hamon techniques, but he was eventually defeated. However, sometime later, Dio's disembodied head stole Jonathan's body while they were on a sinking ship.
Dio's new body was found several decades later, and he formed an army of Stand users to fight against the new generation of Joestars. He has also met Enrico Pucci and Had four offsprings in the period.
Powers & Abilities[]
- Superhuman Strength, Speed & Durability.
- Vampire Physiology: After putting on the stone mask, Dio gained various vampiric abilities.
- Blood Drinking: Done either with the tentacle-like veins inside of his fingers, Dio usually jabs his fingers into the victim's throat to drink their blood. When someone is drained of blood, they either turn into another vampire, a zombie slave, or a dried corpse, depending on which Dio desires.
- Regeneration: Dio can quickly heal from wounds in a short period of time. His regeneration factor allows him to survive anything short of total destruction of his nervous system. He's been burnt alive, impaled through the head, bisected, decapitated, lost limbs, filled with bullets, and had a huge hole punched through his chest... three times. Another similar vampire named Straizo, survived being blown to pieces and just pulled himself back together, but however, Straizo's legs hadn't fully healed, so that gave Joseph Joestar the chance to run away.
- Flight: Dio's able to hover in and fly through the air.
- Immortality: The only real way to kill Dio for good is exposing him to sunlight or to completely destroy his brain.
- Wallcrawling: Dio can walk on walls and hang from ceilings.
- Vaporizing Freezing Technique: By lowering his body temperature before making physical contact with an opponent, he can quickly transfer a freezing vapor over to his opponents that can freeze them solid. The attack cuts off blood flow and can negate powers that normally rely on it's flow like Jonathan Joestar's Hamon. When frozen, Dio's opponent becomes highly brittle and can easily shatter into pieces, as seen with Dire.
- Space Ripper Stingy Eyes: Dio can shoot two highly pressurized bodily fluid jets that are imbued with his vampiric essence, and can split the sky.
- Hypnosis: He can turn others into his servants by transforming his cells into flesh buds, which take control of the victim's body. He can also take minor control over human consciousness through unknown means, but hamon can be seen to negate that effect.
- Superhuman Senses: His senses are said to be far beyond that of a human, he can hear a heartbeat through the ground.
- Teleportation: Dio can disappear and reappear from darkness.
- Fusion: Dio can create hybrids of man and animals to be slaves that do his bidding.
- The World: The World (ザ・ワ一ルド Za wārudo - Katakana for The World) is Dio's Stand, a manifestation of his fighting spirit that he can summon and fight for him. The World is a close-ranged Stand with great physical prowess and the ability to stop time for up to 9 seconds. It can move 10 meters away from Dio meaning that it has the perfect range and it's precision is ranked as Level B: Good.
- Godly Physique: The World is a physical powerhouse, having a vast physique that drastically outclasses Dio and even Jotaro Kujo's Stand Star Platinum, who can move massively faster than light and break human-sized teeth made of diamond with a single punch.
- Time Stop: The World can freeze time and the range of the time stop is far enough to reach about anywhere in the observable universe. Unlike Jotaro's time stop, Dio can repeatedly use it without any trouble because of his vampiric biology, meaning the strain stands put on the living is removed from him, and if he uses it over and over in a short period of time, the maximum limit can be increased. Dio can move freely when time stops and kinetic energy won't affect frozen opponents meaning that he can stack up damage onto enemies until the limit ends.
- Time Stop Barrage: Taking advantage of the frozen kinetic energy, Dio has The World rapidly punch an opponent for as long as time is frozen to combine the force of his blows, making his enemy explode from the sudden blast of force when time resumes.
- Clever Strategist: Dio is a charismatic schemer who is proficient at playing foes into his hands.
Equipment[]
- Throwing Knives: He carries around multiple knives that he can throw as a projectile. He is shown using this on Joseph and later Jotaro.
Feats[]
Strength[]
- Superior to vampires that can destroy walls with a single punch.
- daddy chill
- Casually bent a large metal spear.
- Broke William Anthonio Zeppeli's leg with just his pinky finger.
- Killed the Hamon master Dire in a single hit.
- His Space Ripper Stingy Eyes can slice through concrete like it's butter.
- Casually sent both Zeppeli and Jonathan flying by merely twisting their arm.
- Can walk up to walls like nothing.
- Blocks a superhuman hamon-infused punch from Zeppeli.
- Is superior to Tarkus and Bruford.
- Killed Noriaki Kakyoin in one punch.
- Easily broke free from Joseph Joestar's Hermit Purple.
- The World can easily destroy concrete.
- Tore apart a cat's limbs just by backhanding it.
- Overpowered Jotaro Kujo's Stand: Star Platinum.
- Casually lifted a 30-ton steamroller.
- Possesses Jonathan’s body
- With one hand, threw a police officer’s corpse at another cop so hard the cop broke into pieces and his limb flew and broke Speedwagon’s arm
- Superior to Jack the Ripper, who collapsed a tunnel
- Space Ripper Stingy Eyes was able to disperse a cloud formation (32.5 tons of TNT)
- Casually cut his own head off
- The World can match Star Platinum, blow for blow
- Stronger than Justice, who created a large amount of fog (23.92 tons of TNT)
- Stronger than Dark Blue Moon, who created a giant whirlpool (22.61 tons of TNT)
- Stronger than Wheel of Fortune, who tunneled through a cliffside made of solid stone
- Easily deflected Kakyoin’s Emerald Splash with a finger flick
- Damaged Joseph by flinging debris at him
- Snapped off a stop sign and wielded it as a weapon
- Physically, one-shot Polnareff while sending him flying
- Kicked Jotaro through a building with The World
- In the OVA, punched through a tower Jotaro threw at him
- In the OVA, chucked a whole boat at Jotaro
- Likely stronger than Ghiaccio, who is stated to be capable of stopping a roaring train and even froze water (4.93 tons of TNT)
- Stronger than Will Zeppeli, who in the 2007 Phantom Blood movie created a Hamon shockwave which parted the clouds from just a handshake with his master (202.5 kilotons of TNT).
- Is just as strong as Jolyne Cujoh´s Stand: Stone Free, who can punch meteors that are pulled to earth in seconds (441 kilotons of TNT).
- The World is one of the strongest Stand in history.
- Beat up a steamroller with his elbows.
Speed[]
- Casually dodged a serial killer's knife attacks.
- Robert E. O. Speedwagon compared his speed to that of a cheetah.
- Speed-blitzed multiple police officers.
- Can leap through buildings at high speed.
- Deflected Hierophant Green's Emerald Splash with just a finger.
- Reacted to Kakyoin's 20 Meter Radius Emerald Splash.
- Outsped Star Platinum, who is massively faster than light in terms of combat speed.
- Saw through Dire’s afterimages
- Space Ripper Stingy Eyes are functionally similar to water jets, which move at Mach 3
- Comparable to Jonathan, who outpaced an explosion even while dying
- Superior to Silver Chariot, who caught Hanged Man, a light beam, mid-movement (452,986,404,038 m/s) (1500 times the speed of light)
- Faster than Joseph, who once reacted to a ray of light from the sun (2.324c)
- Likely comparable to Kars through Joseph scaling, who blocked an ultraviolet ray beam
- Dodged Hol Horse shooting at him from behind point-blank, only to appear from behind without touching any spider webs
- Trolled Polnareff by moving him around the stairs before he can react
- The World threw dozens of knives in seconds
- The World can keep pace with Part 3 Star Platinum, and Dio refers to it as “too slow”. As thus, he should scale above later iterations of Star Platinum, no longer in his peak
Durability[]
- Survived getting gunned down.
- Survived getting shot in the head.
- Kept on fighting after being set on fire.
- Survived being impaled, burnt alive, and crushed by the Joestar manor.
- Survived getting cut in half.
- Survived a Sunlight Yellow Overdrive to the face.
- Survived decapitating himself.
- Survived only having his head intact and immobilized Jonathan Joestar.
- Survived a ship's explosion.
- Tanked a Hamon Overdrive from Joseph Joestar.
- Survived getting his stomach punched through by Star Platinum.
- Survived getting his leg chopped off by glass while flying through a window.
- Tanked getting impaled through the head.
- Survived getting his skull crushed twice.
- Easily regenerated from having his knuckles broken.
- Survived shoving his own finger through his skull.
- Survived getting launched by Star Platinum, who shattered his skull in the process
- Survived having his arm cut
- Survived a barrage of punches from Star Platinum
- Is unaffected by a bullet directed to his head
- Unfazed by Kakyoin’s Emerald Splash
- After drinking Joseph’s blood, he is able to tank a barrage from Star Platinum.
- Scales to the likes of Joseph Joestar and, therefore Kars, who were at the epicenter of a Hamon-amplified volcanic eruption strong enough to launch Kars into space
Skill[]
- Beat Jonathan in a boxing match.
- Created an undead army in just one day.
- Effortlessly defeated Joseph Joestar.
- Easily killed Noriaki Kakyoin.
- Survived over a century locked away at the bottom of the ocean
- Amassed an army of loyal followers within the span of 5 years
- Mentor/Friend to Enrico Pucci who would later avenge his death
- Defeated Dire and Polnareff
- One-shot two family members of the Joestars, Jonathan and Joseph
- Fought evenly with Jotaro, even killing him in an alternate universe
- In an alternate universe became the Ultimate Lifeform and gained a new ability: The Passion which might look a tad familiar…
- Achieved nigh-omnipotence in an alternate timeline with The World Over Heaven
Weaknesses[]
- Sunlight: Exposure to it will turn Dio into dust, killing him for good.
- Hamon has the same effect on him, although to a smaller extent.
- Brain Dependence: Fully destroying Dio's brain, or nervous system for that matter, is enough to kill him and negate his healing factor.
- Limits to Time Stop: The World can only stop time for 9 seconds, or 11 seconds while Dio is in a delirious state from the blood that he's absorbed, and Star Platinum, along with others who can move in stopped time, can move within Dio's frozen time for 2 seconds.
- Stand Damage: Any damage that The World experiences, Dio does as well, meaning that should The World be destroyed by an enemy, Dio will die as well.
- Arrogance: Dio is extremely vain, and sees himself as no less than a god. As such, he has a bad tendency to underestimate his foes.
- Time Stopping Pride: Due to his vanity, Dio also takes a great amount of pride in The World's time-stopping abilities. Should his opponent have a way to counter its abilities, it can enrage Dio very easily and cloud his judgement.
Fun Facts[]
- Dio is the opposite to Alucard from Hellsing. While Alucard is a heroic and demonic vampire, who is enemies with a priest, and is only weak to holy power, Dio's a villainous and very different vampire who's only weak to the sun, is friends with a priest, has a Stand, and wishes to become a god.
- He is named after Ronnie James Dio, the late singer of the heavy metal band Dio. He was also the singer of Rainbow and Black Sabbath for some time.
- Funnily enough, Dio also means God in Italian. This could be a reference to how he wishes to become a god.