JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Difference between revisions

** A few of the main characters in Part 5 had neglectful or abusive parents.

* [[Affably Evil]]: Dio, [[Berserk Button|at least when Joestars aren't involved]]

* [[Alliterative Name]]: Jonathan Joestar, Joseph Joestar, Jotaro Kujo, Josuke Joestar, Giorno Giovanni.

* [[Alternate Continuity]]: Steel Ball Run began as a new series unrelated to the JoJo universe, later it was made part of the long running series; still it somewhat fits as an alternate continuity, as SBR (Part 7) is presented as a different take on ''Phantom Blood'' (Part 1). The same thing with JoJoLion (Part 8) which is presented as an another take on ''Diamond is Unbreakable'' (Part 4).

* [[Everything's Better with Spinning]]: ''literally''. Gyro Zeppeli's ability with his metal spheres involves causing them to spin, then endowing this spin to other objects, enabling him to cut through stone, alter someone's muscular system, and even harden skin enough that bullets bounce off. Wekapipo uses a variant for his Wrecking Ball

* [[Evil Brit]]: Dio Brando. Subverted. Of course Dio is an Evil Brit. Part 1, where he is introduced, is set in England.

* [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin]]: This is a manga about the bizarre adventures of a guy whose nickname is JoJo.

* [[Explaining Your Power to the Enemy]]: Generally averted; half of defeating an enemy Stand is figuring out what it does. Amusingly (and somewhat realistically), the less important a villain is, the more likely they are to give away what their Stand does. (Steely Dan is an exception; he was using his Stand's power as a deterrent.)

* [[Fate Worse Than Death]]: {{spoiler|Cars in Part 2, Yoshikage Kira in Part 4, and Diavolo in Part 5}}

** {{spoiler|Although Kira's fate going by ''Deadman's Questions'' arguably isn't that bad compared to Cars and Diavolo's fates.}}

* [[Fighting Spirit]]: The Stands introduced in Part 3.

* [[First Kiss]]: {{spoiler|Dio steals the one that would rightfully be Jonathan's}}.

* [[Forceful Kiss]]: In Part 1, when Dio steals Erina's [[First Kiss]].

** Also in Steel Ball Run, {{spoiler|Diego does this to Hot Pants, although he was actually trying to suffocate her after she tried to suffocate ''him''. Even so, it gets the same sound effect as the Dio/Erina kiss.}}

* [[Nice Hat]]: Baron Zeppeli and, later, Joseph and Jotaro are practically identified by their headgear.

* [[Nightmare Dreams]]: Mannish Boy's Stand, Death 13, whose power is this.

* [[Not Quite Dead]] : {{spoiler|Magenta Magenta}}

* [[The Obi-Wan]]: {{spoiler|Will A. Zeppelli in Phantom Blood}}

* [[Red Right Hand]]: J. Geil and his mother Enya Geil in Part 3. Both have two right hands. Both are not nice people.

* [[Red Shirt]]: Don't work for the Speedwagon Foundation if you're interested in any kind of life expectancy.

* [[Ret-Gone]]: {{spoiler|1=This was the fate of Jotaro and Jolyne -- and, presumably, Weather, Hermes, Annasui, and Versace -- when [[Big Bad|Pucci]] accelerates time and resets reality. This is because you only get to stick around if your spirit is still there. Dead = no spirit to exist for any time in the new universe = causality/history altering to compensate for that. However, when Pucci is killed, the reset effect snaps back, and all his victims are restored, albeit in slightly different forms. Probably because reality has to take into account the fact that ''Pucci'' has been hit with Ret Gone now.}}

* [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge]]: {{spoiler|Polnareff pulls this on Vanilla Ice after the latter kills Iggy and Abdul.}}

* [[Running Gag]]: Joseph being unable to successfully land a plane and Polnareff's fear of foreign toilets.

** Heck, whenever a Joestar gets into a flying vehicle, it's never a smooth trip. What with Josef, Jotaro and Giorno's airplanes, and Jolyne's helicopter...

* [[Samus Is a Girl]]: In Part 2, Joseph Joestar and Caesar go to meet {{spoiler|Caesat's mentor. When Jo Jo finally mets her, she is initially fully dressed and her face is concealed, and he thinks she must be a man... until she reveals her face.}}

* [[Seinfeldian Conversation]]: Despite being arguably the most battle-centric arc, it shows up a few times in Part 5. Whenever Buccellati's group stops to eat, Mista invariably leads them into an odd conversation, with such topics as how hardcore vegetarians are and how Narancia would be the tastiest of the group to eat.

** In ''Steel Ball Run'', for another example, Johnny suggests that he and Gyro take a moment to think about how they're going to cross the Mississippi River. Gyro then interrupts to share the totally awesome song about cheese he just came up with. Johnny is, naturally, [[Sarcasm Mode|incredibly amazed by his friend's talent.]]

* [[Send in the Clones]]: {{spoiler|Funny Valentine's Stand power makes him practically immortal, since when he dies a parallel version of himself is brought in to take his place and gets all his memories too.}}

* [[Serial Killer]]: Yoshikage Kira, the [[Big Bad]] of Part 4, whose Stand Killer Queen makes him that much harder to track down, since he can easily dispose of bodies without leaving a trace behind.

* [[Sherlock Scan]]: Joseph does this to his enemies, along with predicting exactly what his foe is going to say next, which catches them completely off guard.

* [[Translation Convention]]: Possibly lampshaded when Koichi speaks to Giorno in plain Japanese at one point, and Giorno responds by telling him his Italian isn't bad.

* [[Translation Train Wreck]]: applied to a [[Fan Translation]] of the manga. While everything up to the middle of part 7 has been translated, the only available translations for most of part 4 are beyond terrible, featuring untranslated text, sentences that don't begin with capital letters, and referring to Morioh as "Duwang" because that's the Chinese pronunciation of the characters.

* [[Undead Child]]

* [[Undying Loyalty]]: Robert E.O. Speedwagon was like this with Jonathan; he would spend the rest of his life helping the Joestar family and even after his death via the Speedwagon Foundation Oil Company.

** One can only wonder about the poor bastard White Snake got the Stand disc from [[Mundane Utility|that makes all water the user touches boil on contact]].

* [[What Measure Is a Non-Human?]]: Averted with any non-human members of the protagonists' [[True Companions]], and even their enemies are largely treated the same as their human foes. In Stone Ocean, Foo Fighters (a Stand composed of pond algae) is even given a [[Heel Face Turn]] and joins the core group.

* [[Widget Series]]: Its called "Jojo's ''Bizarre'' Adventure" for a reason.

* [[With Great Power Comes Great Insanity]]: The average Stand makes you untouchable by non-Stand users; ordinary people can't even see your Stand, much less do anything about it. This allows you to do pretty much whatever you want whenever you want to whomever you want. This is hinted now and then to be a big reason why so many of the evil Stand users are so [[Ax Crazy]].