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• Alas, Poor Villain: Sandman Soundman, Bruford, Ringo Roadagain.
  • The Diego Brando from the Steel Ball Run arc.
• Big Lipped Alligator Moment: Gyro's cheese song and the "Seven Days in a Week."
  • Really, anytime Gyro comes up with a gag, odds are it's gonna be one of these.
• Complete Monster: Dio's quite an asshole, and tends to recruit minions who are also monstrous. Such as Gray Fly, J.Geil, and Alessi.
• Crazy Awesome: The whole goddamn series. This is a manga that turned Rock-Paper-Scissors into an actual power and made a completely epic battle involving it to boot! Then there was that game of catch in Part 6!
• Crowning Music of Awesome: Polpo's stand's battle theme in the PS2 Vento Auro game
• Draco in Leather Pants: Dio is an evil son-of-a-bitch, but he's so damn cool that he is easily the series' most popular character.
• Ensemble Darkhorse: Quite a few characters, such as Muhammad Avdol and Polnareff. Avdol in particular was so popular that he was spared an early death.
  • Earlier on, there was William A. Zeppelli and Speedwagon, mostly due to their respective Nice Hats, as well as Zeppeli's grandson, Caesar.
  • And Dio. The fight with him is considered one of the more memorable moments of the OVAs and the manga.
  • At least in the English-speaking fandom, Ringo Roadagain is the subject of a great deal of awe, respect, and adulation.
• Fashion Victim Villain: Dio and Vanilla Ice in Part 3, the Pillar Men in Part 2, and Diavolo in Part 5.
• First Installment Wins: Subverted - thanks to Memetic Mutation and the Fighting Game, everyone knows the third part best.
• Freud Was Right:
  • Quite a few examples, but the most egregious probably being the overwhelming subtext in Pucci's flashbacks of Dio.

"Do you believe in gravity, Enrico?"

• • Also, Dio Brando's "bone".
• Fountain of Memes: If Dio doesn't inspire this, nobody does.
• Game Breaker: Pet Shop in the fighting game. He can freely fly around the screen, shoot tons of ice projectiles like it's nothing, and is overall a terribly cheap character to use. Fortunately he takes more damage than most.
  • Once Gio's Gold Experience gets bumped up to Gold Experience Requiem, its new power is pretty much a one hit kill except you keep on dying. Not to mention you have absolutely no chance of hurting him no matter WHAT you do....
• Growing the Beard: Part 3, when Stands were introduced and replaced the Hokuto Shinken-esque style of martial arts used in the previous parts, is considered by many to be the point when the series really came into its own.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: The villain of Episode 4: a Bishonen Serial Killer looking to make the world adapt to his will. His name: Kira. Just as planned...
  • During the fight with Hanged Man in Part 3, Polneraff thinks that it attacks from "A world inside the mirror". Kakyoin dismisses it, saying that there is no such thing as a world inside a mirror. Cut to Part 5 where Illuso and his Stand, Man in the Mirror, attacks by dragging people into a world inside a mirror.
  • Terence Trent D'Arby's stand - named Atum, which is all about different sorts of games?
• HSQ: Just about everything, from Nazis pulling a Heel Face Turn to a guy who can open your head like it was a CD player and take out CDs containing either your Psychic Powers or your soul. They can also bring physical memories of the Miami Dolphins to attack you.
  • Series 2 near the ending: Nazi-eating, Vampire Squirrels grown out of the shoulder of Cars.
  • Due to the author's don't-show-everything-at-the-start storytelling style and... imaginativeness... the series continually throws ever more crazy Stand abilities at the reader. Start from chapter one of Stone Ocean - and you'll still go "WTF???!!!!" trying to figure out the freaky basis of the latest enemy Stand!
• Iron Woobie: Just look at all the shit Jolyne goes through at the beginning of Stone Ocean. It makes her determination to save her father all the more heartwarming.
• Magnificent Bastard: Dio in parts 1 and 3.
• Memetic Mutation: Thanks to a Capcom Fighting Game, plus a certain Flash video, Dio is one of the most infamous anime villains of all time.
  • It's even crossed over into the real world...
  • MUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDA--!!
  • ZA WARUDO!
    • ROAD ROLLER DA!
  • WRYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!
  • "Even Speedwagon is afraid!"
  • Whenever an argument about who would beat who in a fight comes up, the answer is always Giorno.
  • The series' distinctive art style has become a meme, being a popular choice for Art Shifted fanart of other series.
• Moral Event Horizon: Again, Dio. In the first volume, to avenge himself from Jonathan giving him a much-deserved ass-whupping (in a fair fight, no less), he retaliates by tying up Jojo's beloved pet dog in steel wire, putting him in a wooden box, and putting the box in the Joestar estate's incinerator, so that when the butler lights it up... Plus, there's the business of the captive mother who lets herself be turned into a zombie by Dio if he will spare her baby's life...
  • Angelo when he killed Josuke's grandfather.
• Most Annoying Sound: It doesn't come across very well in English, but Magenta Magenta's voice is supposed to be incredibly whiny and nasal.
• Narm : Johnny Joestar's scream of "I MUST KNOW THE SECRET OF THE BAAAAALLLLSSSS" is more hilarious (or ridiculous -- take your pick) than the serious and emotionally impacting line it's supposed to be.
• Narm Charm: All the Crazy Awesome makes the ridiculous names somehow great instead of pure corn. Consider -- what other series could make you take a villain dressed in hearts named Vanilla Ice with his stand Cream seriously?
• Needs More Love: One of the most influential manga of all time, with series ranging from Street Fighter, King of Fighters, Castlevania and Heroes either referencing or taking ideas from it...but outside of Japan it's still relatively unknown, even with all the Memetic Mutation surrounding Stardust Crusaders.
• Nightmare Fuel: Once you see how Illuso died, you can really appreciate Araki deciding to shelve Fugo...
  • What happens to Masazo once Cheap Trick leaves his body...
  • Carne's stand, B.I.G. As if being an indestructible, all-devouring blob monster wasn't bad enough, the is also the fact that the heroes can't kill it. It's still out there in the ocean, the text mentioning that it attacks passing ships.
  • And Ciocolatta is this all by himself.
  • Spots Max's stand, Limp Bizkit. INVISIBLE. ZOMBIE. ALLIGATORS. Need anyone elaborate?
  • Remember Part 6's Ungaro and his Bohemian Rhapsody? That's probably the reason Araki was never picked as an artist for Disney. Considering how the Dwarves and Pinocchio turned out, we should all be glad that Mickey jumped ship before we could really see him.
  • Alessi is one of the more genuinely terrifying villains in the series. Granted, most of the time you see him it's from the perspective of the de-aged Polnareff, but it works. And there's what happened to the woman who stayed in his shadow for a bit too long. She de-ages into a fetus.
  • Viviano Westwood was happily pounding on Jolyne while his left cheek was ripped enough to reveal some of the jawbone.
• Paranoia Fuel: "There's a shark in the soup!"
  • Teranosuke Miyamoto -- his powers only work on a person if that person gets scared. This is much easier for him to do than you would think.
  • Pray to god that nobody looks at your back if Masazo Kinato's Cheap Trick is attached to you...
  • Polpo's shadow ability. It's to the point where he can come out of the shadows of flying birds.
  • It's Zucchero's sheer effectiveness with his Stand in staying hidden while attacking that makes him paranoia-inducing. It takes Moody Blues to actually find out why the hell the rest of the team is disappearing one by one.
• Seinfeld Is Unfunny: This is the eighth-longest-running manga, ever, and it seems tired (but no less awesome) by today's standards, seeing as it basically invented most of the current shonen tropes.
• Serial Escalation: The entire series has elements like this, which only become more and more prominent with each successive installment and Stand introduced.
• Ships That Pass in the Night: Some people ship Giorno/Jolyne even though they've never met and even though he's her great-great-great-uncle.
• So Bad It's Good: The "DUWANG" Blind Idiot Translation of Part 4 is awesomely bad.
• Squick: Just try to look at how Pesci uses Beach Boy on Mista without cringing.
• Tear Jerker: Polnareff watching Abdul and Iggy's ghosts floating away smiling at the end of his fight with Vanilla Ice, with tears in his eyes. And his last thoughts of all his friends from Part 3 while dying in Part 5. Even if he kinda got better...
• Viewer Gender Confusion: Narancia and Hermes.
• Watch It for the Meme: Usually it's Dio's MUDA MUDA MUDA, WRYYYYYY and ZA WARUDO.
• Why Does Everyone Think I'm Inigo Montoya? Although they look and act nothing alike, Polnareff and Montoya have oddly similar backstories, both being European fencers who lost a family member after they were killed by a man with a deformed hand.)
  • More exactly, this is a simple Shout-Out. It's Lampshaded when he and Kakyoin are finally facing J. Geil and losing (badly). J.P. calmly explains to a desperate Kakyoin that, when the moment of revenge arrives, you don't just shout random insults. There's a certain code you have to follow, and there are some precise phrases that have to be spoken. You know how it ends.