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This is the story of the Joestar family and their ongoing conflicts with the supernatural. The series currently spans well over 100 years (and well over over 100 volumes).

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.

 

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* [[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]]...

* [[Abusive Parents]]: Dio's father was an abusive alcoholic who treated his wife and son like crap.

** Funny then, that he treats his various flings as one night stands, leaving his various offspring fatherless to grow up seriously screwy. Must be that vicious cycle thing.

* [[Anyone Can Die]]: Including the main heroes. Hell, not only does {{spoiler|Jonathan}} get killed by {{spoiler|Dio}}, he loses his body to him as well. And in Part 6, {{spoiler|everyone except for Emporio dies, including the main character, Jolyne}}

** {{spoiler|The entire Zeppeli-bloodline seems to have a habit of dying, but not without teaching the Joestar of the current arc a last lesson or making them more powerful.}}

* [[Art Evolution]]: Compare Series 1 to the others and you'll wonder how it could have gotten so good.

** As an example, compare [http://www.mangafox.com/manga/jojo_s_bizarre_adventure/v001/c007/11.html these muscles] with [http://www.mangafox.com/manga/jojo_s_bizarre_adventure/v028/c264/4.html these others].

** In-series, several stands aren't particularly useful. For example, Notorious BIG only works if the user is dead, Ebony Devil requires you to get serious injury to hate the enemy enough, and Purple Haze has a tendency to destroy any living organism within several meters of it. Even Araki couldn't get more than one use out of the latter.

* [[Awesome McCoolname]]: Just look at the main characters.

* [[Badass]]: Honestly, there's too many to count.

* [[Badass Beard]]: Joseph Joestar, Enrico Pucci, Gyro Zeppeli , Ringo Roadagain, Wekapipo.

** 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!"

* [[Downer Ending]]: {{spoiler|Part 1, where Jonathan dies to save his wife and unborn child, taking Dio down to the bottom of the sea with him.}}

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

** [[An Ice Person]]: Pet Shop (Horus). A bird, and not so "nIce"

** [[Dishing Out Dirt]]: Iggy (The Fool), in this case, the stand is more "Dishing Out Sand".

** The last few appear in Part 4:

** [[Making a Splash]]: Angelo (Aqua Necklace), N'Dour (Geb) in a smaller scale.

* [[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.

* [[Expy]]: Car's physical appearance, arm blades, and desire to be the perfect life form make him a villainous twist on Araki's single other successful series, Baoh.

** Also, [[Wish]] is a [[Boys Love]] flavored manga centering two characters who, rumors say, are shojo-style Expies of Jotaro and Kakyoin. CLAMP are known JoJo fans, so...

** Additionally, Rose from the [[Street Fighter|Street Fighter Alpha]] series (and now, [[Street Fighter|Street Fighter 4]]) is very clearly an [[Expy]] of Lisa Lisa from Part 2.

*** Speaking of Street Fighter, Juri Han, who was introduced in [[SSF 4]], bears a striking resemblance to Jolyne Kujo.

*** Even now, Benimaru is still referred as Polnareff by SNK.

** Part 8 is full of this. {{spoiler|''Josuke'' not only is named after his Part 4 counterpart, but also looks like him sans the pompadour. He befriends an expy of Koichi from Part 4. He is initially mistaken for Kira, the main villain of Part 4. He is adopted into a family where two members look a lot like Giorno's fellow gang members from Part 5}}.

** And that time in Part 4 when one of Fatty's Harvests punched a hole in Okuyasu's eye, then ''[[Squick|tore out a handful of the ocular tissue]]''.

** As noted in [[Body Horror]] above, THE EYES, ALWAYS WITH THE EYES!!! From piercing to cutting to BECOMING A FLOWER, always with the eyes!

{{quote| '''School Nurse''': ''Does this look like a '''pen''' to you''?!}}

** One of Dio's special surprise attacks in Part One is to shoot vitreous humor (aka eye goop) from his eyes at the speed of a bullet. And whenever it happens, the reader is given a close-up as his eyes ''split open''.

* [[Generation Xerox]]: Averted for the most part, as most members of the Joestar/Kujo family look distinctive enough on their own (although Joseph does bear a striking resemblance to his Grandfather, but only for Part 2). Abdul does look identical to his father though, {{spoiler|which is still an aversion, because it's actually Abdul himself in disguise}}.

* [[Genius Bruiser]]: Joseph is not only an amazing fighter, but his real strength his wit and intelligence he uses against his enemies.

** And Jotaro, who is well read, and eventually becomes a Marine Biologist!

* [[Girls Behind Bars]]: The beginning of Part Six.

* [[Go Out with a Smile]]: {{spoiler|Jonathan; Jolyne}}

* [[Gratuitous English]]: ZA WARUDO!, one of the biggest examples. Joseph's catchphrase OH MY GOD! is written in English in the manga whenever he uses it. The Darby family also have a habit of saying GOOD when they confirm an agreement.

** "HAIL 2 U!", quickly parodied when Abdul {{spoiler|returns from the dead and}} says it back to the villain as "HELL 2 U!"

* [[Groundhog Day Loop]]: Kira's final Stand ability, Bite the Dust, is a version of this.

* [[Guardian Entity]]: The Stands are the [[Trope Codifier]] in Japanese media.

* [[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.

*** {{spoiler|Unless said volcano has been [[Applied Phlebotinum|supercharged with a Ripple via the Red Stone of Aja.]]}}

* [[Jack the Ripper]]: As mentioned above, [[Department of Redundancy Department|and since it bears repeating]], VAMPIRE JACK THE RIPPER!!!!

* [[Kiai]]: Dio Brando's "Wryyyyyy!" The most famous version is from the popular flash-movie with it.

* [[Kick the Dog]]: Dio, many times, and sometimes literally. In Part 3 he forces a rich guy (senator) to drive him around Cairo, after killing the guy's driver, regardless of who gets in the way.

Dio: ''So? Do it.'' }}

** Hell, Dio's first act upon meeting Jonathan is to kick Danny when he comes over to him.

** Then there's the pair of dogs killed by Pet Shop just for being curious. Its owner was forced to watch as the bird ''ate their eyes'', even.

* [[Leg Cling]]: [http://covers.mokuton.com/JoJo%27s%20Bizarre%20Adventure%20Manga%20Covers/Steel_Ball_Run_04.jpg One of the Steel Ball Run covers] has Johnny doing this to Gyro.

* [[Loners Are Freaks]]: Yoshikage Kira.

* [[Long Runner]]: One of the longest-running manga series in Japan. 104 volumes and still going! (Although it doesn't share the joy of extensive numbering as other manga long runners, the volume account is constantly reset as of Part 5 with 63 Volumes, now each new part begins with Volume 1).

* [[Loves the Sound of Screaming]]: J. Geil, which [[Exact Words|comes back to bite him later]].

* [[MacGuffin Delivery Service]]: {{spoiler|Due to manipulating Axl R.O., Funny Valentine was able to arrange for all but two of the Corpse parts to come together and are now in his possession.}}

** Not exactly true... While in Arc 4, although he grew up without his father ( {{spoiler|Joseph}}), he still has both parents and meets him within the series.

* [[Pet the Dog]]: Cars, who is to vampires what vampires are to humans, slaughters a bunch of people driving past who were going to run over a puppy, making this both a dog-petting ''and'' a dog-kicking.

* [[The Power of the Sun]]: The Ripple uses energy from the sun's rays to vaporise objects, make objects more volatile and destroy vampires.

* [[Prehensile Hair]]: Yukako, through her Stand, Love Deluxe.

** Also prevalent in Part 6. It's practically [[Slice of Life|slice of prison life]] at times.

** 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.]]

* [[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.

* [[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.}}

* [[Shut Up, Kirk]]: This exchange from part 1, a favorite among fans:

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

* [[Spam Attack]]: "ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORAAAAAAAA!" "MUDA MUDA MUDA MUDA MUDA MUDA MUDA MUDAAAAAAA!" Though, frankly, every humanoid Stand can do this to some extent.

* [[Synchronization]]: Any damage done to the Stand is inflicted upon its wielder, and vice-versa. Of course, since Stands as essentially a projection of the wielder's mind and personality, you technically ARE hitting them when you hit their Stand.

* [[Talking Is a Free Action]]: You may not realize it yet, but you've just lost to Dio in this game of wits. Does this street look familiar to you, or, being the tourist that you are, do all streets look the same?

* [[Theme Naming]]: At first, Stands were named after the various cards in the tarot, but once they ran out of names, it was changed to Egyptian gods. Once ''those'' ran out, they were named after various [[Musical Theme Naming|Western music bands]].

** In its first stage it actually just makes the sound continually blare inside your head if it's written on you, until you pass out or go insane...or shrink five feet. And in the third stage it gives Koichi [[Anime Hair|Super Saiyan hair]] and the ability to put a gravity well on anything by saying "Freeze"; this can apply to anything from a person's hand to a ''car''.

** {{spoiler|Sandman from part 7, real name Soundman,}} has something similar.

** And subverted when Alessi tries to turn him into a child, knowing that his Stand hadn't manifested then. {{spoiler|It backfires horribly, as Jotaro was every bit as violent and badass as a child.}}

* [[Utopia Justifies the Means]]: This is Enrico Pucci's motivation in part 6. {{spoiler|His plan involves using the fusion of his Stand and a homonculus of Dio to accelerate time to the point where the cosmos undergoes both a Big Crunch and a Big Bang, and everything repeats as before, just without anyone who died during the acceleration. The utopia is supposed to come from the fact that those who got to live through the singularity will subconsciously remember everything that ever happened to them in the previous, ''identical'' cycle. This means that they will be imbued with a kind of fatalism, immensely dampening any shock, horror, agony, etc. that they would otherwise experience. Basically, Pucci's idea of "paradise" is "a world without surprises".}}

* [[What Do You Mean It's Not Awesome?]]: The entire series.

* [[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.

*** 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]].

** Wham, Cars' [[The Dragon|dragon]], plays it completely straight just before, though.

* [[Xanatos Roulette]]: The end of part 2. Technically it was all coincidence, but that didn't stop Joseph from taking credit for it and saying he planned it all along.