JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Difference between revisions

Western audiences are likely more familiar with the [[Memetic Mutation|memes]] the series has produced because of the series' general theme (read: [[World of Badass|badassery]]), as well as the [[Fighting Game]] from [[Capcom]] released in 1999 and the 10-episode OVA. Speaking of the fighting game, a leaked Xbox Live Arcade release list has revealed the existence of an HD port of it, which came as a big surprise to many as [[Capcom]] had lost the license after their endeavors with the series shifted to adventure games which did not sell well in Japan.

 

 

* [[Abhorrent Admirer]]: At least, that's how Joseph reacts to the old woman who gets a crush on him during the Mariah sequence. She quickly switches gears, though, when Joseph and Abdul are [[Not What It Looks Like|trying to get themselves unstuck from each other]]...

* [[Cleavage Window]]: If there's a male equivalent to this trope, then Giorno and Bruno's outfits both qualify for it.

* [[Climactic Volcano Backdrop]]: The [[Final Battle]] between {{spoiler|Joseph Joestar and Cars}} in the "Battle Tendency" arc happened on the top of an erupting volcano.

* [[Combat Pragmatist]]: Joseph. It's stated by many people that his tendency to resort to trickery is what makes him such a good fighter.

* [[Compressed Adaptation]]: There was a OVA based off the third series made, but it started near the last third of the story (when the party runs into D'Arby) then went into Iggy's introduction before jumping to the final battle with Dio.

** Another set of OVAs were later made that started from the beginning of the third series, ending back to where the old OVA's starts.

* [[Continuity Reboot]]: ''Steel Ball Run'' is set in an alternate universe in the time period of Part 1 {{spoiler|created by Stairway to Heaven speeding up time to the point where the universe ended. Pucci/Dio was killed before it was completed (which would have let him create his own perfect universe) which led to a new universe where things fated to happen occurred.}}

* [[Cyborg]]: {{spoiler|Stroheim, the Nazi officer in Part 2, ultimately packs twin arms that can crush metal, a high caliber machine gun in his torso, and ultraviolet light beams in his glass eye. Emphasis on the "[[Stupid Jetpack Hitler|Nazi]]" part}}

* [[Dangerously Genre Savvy]]: Dio in Part 3. He doesn't take chances when it comes to the Joestars.

* [[Did Not Do the Research]]: Shows up in chapter 27 of Part 1. Most of what it says about Queen Elizabeth and Mary, Queen of Scots is inaccurate or heavily skewed.

** Usually averted by intent - Araki often puts in short 'interludes' explaining about a particular location, several Stand powers are based on obscure (and sometimes pseudo) facts of physics or biology, and characters are prone to spouting almost unrelated trivia on all sorts of topics when they're winning. Whatever topic Araki has interest in, his characters do too.

** And of course, the fact that both Joseph in Part 2 and Gyro in Steel Ball Run have used a pair of balls to fight.

*** "I must know the secret of the steel balls!"

* [[The Dragon]]: Vanilla Ice (yes, that's his real name) to Dio, Pucci to Dio, Wham to Cars, Kira's father to Kira.

** Part 5 has a subversion. Doppio Vinegar appears to be the most trusted subordinate of [[Big Bad|Diavolo]], to the point that Diavolo has entrusted him with the power to use his stand, King Crimson. {{spoiler|In reality, Doppio is Diavolo's split personality. The two are actually one in the same.}}

* [[Edible Theme Naming]]: Many characters in Part 5 are named after Italian foods. Examples include Pannacotta Fugo, Abbacchio Leone, Risotto Nero, Melone, Cioccolata, Gelato, Sorbet, Prosciutto, Pesci, Formaggio, and Mario Zucchero.

* [[Elemental Powers]]: are nowhere near the focus, nor do they win very often. Back in the day, there was:

* [[Even the Guys Want Him]]: Dio. His charisma is part of what makes him so dangerous, and this is explicitly mentioned by Joseph.

** And apparently some of the guys want him "that way" too. One of Pucci's flashbacks shows him and a shirtless Dio sharing a bed, though what is equally or more insinuative is Ice's lack of pants.

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

* [[Evil Is Sexy]]: Dio can't get enough of this because he wants to live evilly and gorgeously forever. He says as much too.

* [[Heel Face Turn]]: {{spoiler|Wekapipo, sorta}}

* [[Heroic Sacrifice]]: Too many to count.

* [[Honest Axe]]: Sugar Mountain, the guardian of The Saint's ears. If you throw something in the spring, she'll ask what it is that you lost among a selection of choices. Answer honestly and you get it all. {{spoiler|Gyro and Johnny find out very quickly that there's a catch even to that. You have to "use up" whatever you got before sundown of that day, or else you'll be assimilated by a "tree". Only so many people can be assimilated at any point in time, and Sugar Mountain deliberately strung Gyro and Johnny along simply because she'll get her parents back if they get assimilated.}}

* [[Hot Shounen Mom]]: Josuke's mother, Tomoko; {{spoiler|Joseph's mother, Lisa Lisa,}} Jotaro's Mother, Holly.

* [[No Export for You]]: The manga aside from Part 3 for America, the Phantom Blood movie for EVERYONE, even Japan!

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

** {{spoiler|Joseph, to Jotaro}} right at the end of Part 3, brief stint as a [[Spirit Advisor]] for about 5 chapters included.]]

* [[Older Than They Look]]: The Vampires go without saying, being anywhere from over 100 to several thousand years old. Jotaro doesn't age physically after Part 3, depite the rest of the series spanning about 30 years in-world time. Also, Hirohiko Araki himself. Apparently, extrapolating from various comments, Stand Users age slower than normal people. [[media:Arakilander.jpg|He does not look 49 no matter how you slice it]]

* [[Really Seven Hundred Years Old]]: Vampires and anyone with a Stand or the "Ripple" kung-fu teachings has a greatly extended lifespan. Jotaro actually seems to appear younger as the series progresses.

** And the mangaka himself, Hirohiko Araki, actually looks younger now than he did when the series began in 1987.

** This isn't the first time a Joestar and Zeppeli have had this relationship either. See also the second series.

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

* [[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...

* [[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.

* [[Shoot the Shaggy Dog]]: A lot of people's reaction to {{spoiler|the ending of Part 6.}} It didn't just make THAT Chapter completely pointless, but it made every OTHER Chapter before it completely pointless too! {{spoiler|Yes, even despite the fact the [[Big Bad]] ended up dying in the end anyway.}}

{{quote| '''Zeppelli:''' ''Bastard...How many lives have you devoured to heal those wounds?''<br />

'''Dio:''' ''Do you remember every piece of bread you've ever eaten?'' }}

{{quote| [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|"It is I, Stroheim, and the Nazi Protection Agency!"]]}}

* [[Tongue Tied]]: The Talking Heads stand has this as its power. Crosses with [[Cannot Spit It Out]] as Narancia desperately tries to figure out a way to circumvent its ability and warn the others about a different enemy Stand.

* [[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.

* [[We Need a Distraction]]: Speedwagon realizes early on that he can't fight vampires and zombies directly, so he serves as a distraction for others, even nicknaming himself "The Interfering Speedwagon".

* [[Weaponized Headgear]]: Speedwagon has a razor-sharp hat that he can throw.

* [[What Kind of Lame Power Is Heart Anyway]]: [[Heart Is an Awesome Power|Subverted to hell and back.]] No matter how stupid or ridiculously limiting a Stand power seems, the user will find a way to make it an advantage.

** Played straight with ''Survivor'', however. Dio himself derides it as a useless Stand because it's always on, cannot select its targets, and is woefully restrictive in what it does. It makes people fight each other, and relays to them their opponents' weakest points. That's it. It can play off of aggression, but it won't make people fight if they don't have much animosity. Its user didn't even fight, and got quite a large [[Dropped a Bridge On Him|bridge dropped on him.]]

*** So what does it tell you that one of ''the'' most obviously offense-oriented powers in the series is derided like this, even in comparison to seemingly low-wattage powers like guilt magnifiers (The Lock) and story evokers (Bohemian Rhapsody)?

** 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]].

* [[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]].

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