Dio Brando

Summary:

Dio Brando is the main antagonist in JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part I: Phantom Blood and Part III: Stardust Crusaders. After the death of his abusive and alcoholic father, Dio was sent to live with the Joestar family to repay a debt owed to his father by George Joestar. Dio quickly asserts himself as the superior of his new adoptive brother, Jonathan, beginning an intense rivalry. This ultimately leads to Dio casting aside his humanity in pursuit of power and immortality using the Stone Mask, becoming a vampire and seeking world domination as opposed to merely earthly riches. Dio's conflicts with his brother conclude with their apparent mutual defeat at sea. It is in 1983 that DIO finally resurfaces, revealing that he had escaped and hid within a casket, bound and trapped somewhere within the ocean. Now in possession of Jonathan's body after the destruction of his own, he uses the Stand Arrow to grant himself a Stand, furthering his power and control. However, the effects of the arrow seemed to reverberate across the Joestar blood flowing in Jonathan's veins, granting Stands to his grandson, Joseph, his gentle daughter Holly, and her son, Jotaro Kujo. As Holly is too peaceful for a Stand, she is left sickened by its presence, and seeking to save her before it ultimately claims her life, Joseph, Jotaro, and the rest of the Stardust Crusaders set a course to Egypt to kill DIO once and for all.

Powers and Stats:

Tier: High 8-C, higher with Space Ripper Stingy Eyes | Likely High 8-C, At least High 8-C with The World | At least High 8-C. At least High 8-C with The World. Key: Phantom Blood | Stardust Crusaders | Awakened DIO Name: Dio Brando | DIO, Lord DIO. Origin: JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Age: 20-21 years old | 122-123 years old. Gender: Male. Classification: Former Human, Vampire, Stand User.

Powers and Abilities:

ones but the limits of his Stand, pushing himself further and further in search of strength, which he uses to brutal effect in fights. With The World, DIO does not pull any punches, moving to finish fights as quickly as possible by stopping time and unleashing a lethal strike, though he can be goaded into actually fighting against an opponent. When fighting against Jotaro, DIO utilized everything at his disposal to defeat him, throwing knives at him from a safe distance to test the limits of his ability to move in stopped time before cautiously making sure he was dead. Even then, DIO's next move was to decapitate him anyway, just to be safe. Weaknesses: Dio is very overconfident, and as a vampire, he will be disintegrated by sunlight and is vulnerable to light-based attacks (Of the Ultra Violet variety or those mimicking the sun or sunlight), which circumvent his regeneration | Same as before. Because Jonathan's body is rejecting him, his strength has diminished and he cannot use his vampiric powers to the same extent. Any damage dealt to The World will be reflected onto DIO, and the Stand weakens the further it moves from him to a limit of 10 meters away. Someone else with the ability to stop time may be able to think and move during The World's stopped time | Due to his new peak of power, DIO has become even more arrogant and psychotic in general temporarily.

Notable Attacks/Techniques:

Vampiric Physiology: Through the Stone Mask, Dio transformed himself into a vampire, a strange process of acupuncture tapping into his brain and awakening his body's full potential. As a vampire, he has superhuman strength, vastly heightened senses, and the ability to control his body in a number of ways. With Jonathan's body, DIO does not have access to his full range of vampiric capabilities, as his brother's body is rejecting him. It is only by claiming the blood of another Joestar that he takes complete control once more, becoming stronger than he's ever been. Flesh Buds: DIO can spawn these buds from his cells and implant them into the bodies of others to control them. They do so by connecting to his brain, and if removed, the flesh bud will violently lash out with tentacles, seeking to kill its host and whoever is trying to remove it. This makes it impossible for even the greatest surgeons in the world to do so, but, due to its incredible precision, Star Platinum was able to safely extract Kakyoin and Polnareff's. Fusion: Dio's control over biology allows him to fuse the bodies of others to make grotesque chimeric creatures, and he can also use this ability to integrate his own flesh into those of others, allowing him to take control of Jonathan's body after his death. Necromancy: A vampire can utilize their abilities to transform the living and the dead into monstrous zombies. By the time of Stardust Crusaders, DIO's ability in this area has grown to the point that he can even transform others into vampires, doing so to resurrect Vanilla Ice after he decapitated himself for his sake. Regeneration: A vampire can regenerate from lethal wounds, with Dio putting the two halves of his body back together after being cut in half by Jonathan, and Straizo reconnecting the many chunks of his body with tentacles after being blown apart by Joseph's grenades. However, Dio can be killed if his brain is completely destroyed. Space Ripper Stingy Eyes: Dio can fire highly pressurized jets of water from his eyes with enough force to punch through stone. Vaporization Freezing Technique: By cooling down his own body to the point that it drops below zero, Dio can make it so that he can freeze others with a touch, with the process of freezing an entire body taking only two seconds. His victims can then be easily shattered by his immense strength, making any physical contact a dangerous proposition. He can even use this to cool his own blood and stop its flow to inhibit Hamon, making it ineffective.

More Notable Attacks/Techniques:

The World: The World is DIO's Stand, a powerful close-range humanoid Stand. Muscular and incredibly powerful, it has the speed and strength to overpower Silver Chariot and match Star Platinum, which is the same kind of Stand and shares its powers. As a result, The World can likely duplicate many of Star Platinum's own abilities. It even has the same precision capabilities. Time Stop: The World's power, which allows DIO to stop time, making it so that only itself and DIO can move for the duration of the ability, though someone with a similar power may be able to think and move. Initially, The World could only stop time for an instant, but due to DIO's immortality and superior physiology, the maximum duration of his time stop grows continuously, both as he heals and as he uses it. By the time of his battle with Jotaro, The World could stop time for a maximum of five seconds, and after he drank Joseph's blood and seized complete control of his body, it increased to nine seconds. Had he not died, it is implied that it would have continued to grow in duration. Jonathan's Stand: After being stabbed by the arrow, both DIO and what remained of Jonathan's body developed their own Stands. While DIO developed The World, Jonathan's body developed its own Stand similar to Joseph's Hermit Purple, taking the form of a cluster of purple vines. Spirit Photography: With this unnamed Stand, DIO can create a psychic image of a target by striking a camera. Unlike Hermit Purple doing so does not destroy the camera, making DIO's ability apparently superior. Just like Joseph, he can likely use it in a number of combat applicable ways, though this is never demonstrated.

Others:

Notable Victories: J'zargo (The Elder Scrolls) J'zargo's Profile (Awakened DIO was used. Speed was equalized) Morbius (Marvel Comics) Morbius' Profile (Phantom Blood Dio was used. Battle took place inside Hotel Transylvania at 4:45 AM. Speed was equalized) Denji (Chainsaw Man) Denji's Profile (Phantom Blood Dio and Chainsaw Man Denji were used. Speed was equalized) Notable Losses: Massimo Volpe (Purple Haze Feedback) Massimo's Profile (Phantom Blood Dio and Enhanced Massimo were used) Noriaki Kakyoin (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure) Kakyoin's Profile (Phantom Blood Dio was used. Speed was equalized) Nightwolf (Mortal Kombat) Nightwolf's Profile (Phantom Blood Dio was used. Speed was equalized) Risotto Nero (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure) Risotto's Profile (Phantom Blood Dio was used) Joseph Joestar (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure) Joseph's Profile (Phantom Blood Dio and Pre Training Joseph were used) Scorpion (Mortal Kombat) Scorpion's Profile (Phantom Blood Dio and High 8-C Scorpion were used. Speed was equalized. Battle took place in Dio's Castle) Inconclusive Matches: Blade (Marvel Comics) Blade's Profile (Daywalker Blade with standard equipment and Phantom Blood Dio were used. Speed was equalized) Discussions Discussion threads involving Dio Brando

Who He Hates:

He hates you and Jonathan Jeostar..

Personality:

Personality… domineering, manipulative, and apathetic. Dio is a man of ambition, his love for power is unbounded.

Is DIO a psychopath or a sociopath?:

However, even Speedwagon notes that while he can claim that his bad upbringing made him the way he is, he can sense that Dio was like this from birth and his upbringing had almost nothing to do with it. This gives the impression that he's more of a psychopath than a sociopath.