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* Erina Joestar is seen using Dio's coffin as a makeshift lifeboat, and presumably used it to shield herself from the explosion of the ship. This distinctive item is shown both at the end of Part 1 and in a flashback during Part 2. How was it that Dio was found a century later in that exact same coffin?

* Are Stands and the Ripple related at all?

** It was suggested in part 3, but later we learn that Stand powers are just the result of being hit by metal/rock from outer space. So probably no.

* Giorno's Stand had the power to reduce any action done on it to zero. To the point that time affecting attacks are useless. So shouldn't he have been unaffected by Stairway to Heaven's universal rewrite?

** The way I see it either: A) The stand lost the arrow at some point, or B) Stairway to Heaven can simply override it as part of its own reality warping abilities.

** It's also possible Giorno was indeed unaffected and he's still chilling in America. He has yet to appear in Steel Ball Run so it's possible.

*** Araki did say somewhere that Giorno might had been in Florida during the Stone Ocean incidents...

** It's also possible Josuke was also unaffected since Crazy Diamond and Golden Experience had similar powers (Reduce momentum of an action to zero/undo changes to an object) and they are together searching for a way to fix things back to normal.

*** OH.MY.GOD. This is totally what Part 8 is going to be about.

** One must keep in mind that Stairway to Heaven doesn't actually destroy/rewrite the universe. It is bound to get destroyed after nearing the end of it's natural life cycle and only after this that Pucci can rewrite it in his own image. So he doesn't actually attack Giorno, the universe merely ends. But then again, GER was broken enough for King Crimson not to work on it. Maybe it's just a plot hole...

*** I support this as the most likely explanation. GER only protects from attacks against itself AND it's owner, as without Giorno it would not be able to exist given it's a stand tied to a user like the rest (unlike SCR which was automatic). When Made in Heaven activated, it was not having it's natural life cycle threatened, so it just let the ability go ahead knowing full well in the reset, it would be fated to meet Giorno again and thus exist. Thus, the reason GER never stopped MiH is because it was not threatened. If Pucci had attempted to rewrite things so that the remaining son of Dio changed his course in life that would not lead to him getting GER, THEN the stand could have done it's work.

* If Yoshikage Kira wanted a normal life and not be bothered by anything then why did he go around killing women and taking their hands? Seems to be asking for trouble and to be bothered.

** Kira had mental problems. He couldn't resist his compulsions.

** Maybe he wanted to have a normal life BESIDES dismembering women...

** "Normal" might be a mistranslation. Wikipedia's list of chapter titles has Kira wanting a "quiet" life.

** Well, Act 3 seems to be much faster and more combat-capable than Act 2. Additionally, we don't know the exact limits of what Act 2 could generate. It's quite possible that blowing away Yukako was the upper boundary of what it could do.

** For that matter, how are the powers of Act 2 and Act 3 even related at all?

* Why wasn't Okuyasu a little more vengeful towards the man who killed his brother, once they had him at their mercy?

** Okuyasu is a good person, really. No one in the good side of "Diamond is Unbreakable" killed anyone.

** He probably stole stuff from the guards.

* Why didn't Joseph become a vampire when he got the blood transfusion like Vanilla Ice did?

*** In the first series, Dio tried to transform Jonathan into a vampire, which involved deliberately injecting a specific chemical into his target, which a skilled Hamon user can eject if its in small enough a dose. An unconscious Dio that was not yet synched enough with his Joestar body to have full access to his vampiric abilities probably isn't too much of a danger to Joseph, especially since it was his own blood that he got back.

* How exactly did Gyro manage to {{spoiler|survive Sugar Mountain's curse when it was shown he had already become part of the tree before Johnny traded for the bottle of wine with the last of the Nameless Men?}}

*** Again, he had 3 years to practice, a good knowledge of the basics of the Ripple, and if necessary, the money needed to buy a ''submarine'' on short notice should be just fine for recreating the pillar of oil that had no notable magical properties. Especially since the Speedwagon Foundation is more than happy to help the Jojos in any way possible and know how to get in touch with the Ripple school.

*** He didn't need to eat, drink, or sleep when he was on the pillar of oil. It's magic.

** I'm pretty sure it's the new history after the universal reset.

* Why does everyone keep the existence of Hamon, vampires, cyborgs, Stands, ghosts, and aliens hidden from the general public (at least in Parts 1-5; I haven't read Part 6 yet)? No one ever really gives a reason. There are obvious reasons why Passione doesn't tell the world about Stands, of course, but there's no real reason why the heroes of Parts 1-4 keep all the supernatural stuff a secret, and even less of a reason why some of the minor characters in Part 4 do so.

 

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