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| “ | Muda, muda, muda, muda, muda, MUDA! | „ |
| ~ Dio's catchphrase and Stand rush. Translates to "useless" in Japanese. |
| “ | Dio: JoJo, being human means having limits. I've learned something. The more carefully you scheme, the more unexpected events come along. As long as you are human... Jonathan: What? What do you mean?! Dio: I REJECT MY HUMANITY, JOJO! |
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| ~ Dio before becoming a vampire by attempting to kill Jonathan, instead killing his father George. |
| “ | Invulnerability! Eternal life! STAND POWER! Here lies the proof that none shall surpass the mighty DIO! Puny humans! I will rule you all! Bow before my power and knowledge! | „ |
| ~ DIO boasting about his strength after seemingly killing Jotaro. |
Dio Brando, also known as simply DIO, is the main antagonist of the JoJo's Bizarre Adventure franchise.
He is a megalomaniacal and sadistic vampire who is the sworn enemy of the Joestar family, becoming a burden to them even after his death, as well as being the arch-nemesis of Jonathan Joestar and Jotaro Kujo. Dio is hellbent on destroying them and the Joestar clan as a whole in his quest to obtain Godhood and take over the entire world, and is the father of Donatello Versus, Giorno Giovanna, Rikiel and Ungalo.
In Japanese, he was voiced by Isshin Chiba in the Heritage for the Future video game, Hikaru Midorikawa in the Phantom Blood video game and movie, Nobuo Tanaka in the 1993 OVA, Norio Wakamoto in the CD Drama, and Takehito Koyasu in the anime, All-Star Battle and Eyes of Heaven, who also voices Ukyo in Samurai Seven and Vearn in Dragon Quest: The Adventure of Dai as his young/true form. In the English dubs, he was voiced by Andrew Chaikin in the 1993 OVA and by Patrick Seitz in the anime, who also voices Dante Zogratis in Black Clover, Ghetsis from Pokemon: Generations, and Overlord from Transformers: Prime Wars.
What Makes Him Pure Evil?[]
In General[]
- Dio is responsible for almost all the events in the series; his influence is spreading to Diamond is Unbreakable, Golden Wind, and Stone Ocean, as he was the one who influenced Pucci, thus being responsible for all the events in Stone Ocean.
- If he successfully killed Erina and baby Lisa Lisa, or if they never survived the ship explosion, Kars would have more likely succeeded in all of his goals after he (alongside Wamuu and Esidisi) awakened, and Dio's Heaven Ascended counterpart is an example of what could have happened if he actually won.
- While his over-the-top and immensely hammy demeanor can come across as being quite comedic, none of his hammy moments detract from his villainy, since he is taken dead seriously in-universe. Besides, some of these moments can just show how much of a monster he truly is.
- While he has a tragic backstory of being born in the slums of London and having a deceased mother as well as an alcoholic and abusive father, it does not justify his actions, as he chooses to be evil even after getting a better life from the Joestar Family, and Speedwagon (who had a similar life) calls him out on how evil he still is; this causes him to stop making excuses and lying to himself and fully embrace being evil.
- While he genuinely loved his mother, as he killed his father out of revenge for her death and reacts angrily at anyone insulting her at ill will, he loses this quality sometime after renouncing his humanity (and he resented his mother for devoting herself to his father, according to Word of God).
- Even then, he became an alcoholic abuser and later willingly became a megalomaniacal vampire, even worse than his father, proving that he's abandoned any moral standards.
- While he respected his adoptive brother Jonathan, his "respect" is merely an obsession with Jonathan's body, as he brutally killed him in front of his wife and saw him as a detention to himself as he harbored his body.
- While it was stated that DIO spared some women he had sex with, who later went on to give birth to Giorno, Donatello, Rikiel, Ungalo, and presumably others, it was only because DIO wanted to have offspring that could continue his own legacy and help him achieve Heaven if necessary.
- Given how he callously treats and kills women, it's also possible that he raped them as well, although it is unlikely.
- While he can act polite and friendly to the people he's fond of, it is actually a facade to persuade them into becoming his loyal servants.
- Although his affability to Pucci seems more genuine, as Pucci shown being to be the closest to him out of any minion, it is ultimately left unconfirmed whether he actually cares for him, as it is possible he simply used Pucci as a means to achieve his vision of Heaven.
Considering how he ordered the death of Enya Geil, it's safe to assume he would eventually betray Pucci when Pucci outlives his usefulness.
- Although his affability to Pucci seems more genuine, as Pucci shown being to be the closest to him out of any minion, it is ultimately left unconfirmed whether he actually cares for him, as it is possible he simply used Pucci as a means to achieve his vision of Heaven.
Phantom Blood[]
- After Dio came into Joestar's life, he deliberately attempted to make Jonathan's life as miserable as possible by kicking Jonathan's dog Danny when they first met due to his hatred of dogs, attempting to gouge his eye, spreading rumors about him to his friends, forcefully stealing the first kiss of his love interest, Erina Pendleton from him, and burning Danny alive just for the emotional impact.
- In addition to all of this, he also attempts to murder Jonathan's father to gain wealth for himself. This was after the Joestars had given him a second chance and adopted him into a rich and loving family. While his disdain for higher classes is understandable due to his miserable past and Victorian classism, his cruelty towards Jonathan, Danny, and Erina nullifies any justifiability for his initial actions.
- While he became affectionate towards Jonathan later, this "affection" shows in Dio taking over his body. Even though he did show genuine respect towards Jonathan by chastising Wang Chan for mocking the Joestar, it is too minor of a prevention.
- Additionally, while Dio is implied to have had some shred of respect for Jonathan, with him even being rather affected upon realizing he was dead, these qualities were quickly subverted in Stardust Crusaders after Dio desecrated his corpse and made several attempts to kill his descendants.
- He had been plotting to use the stone mask on Jonathan thinking it would give him a slow and painful death. However, upon hearing that Jonathan was at Ogre Street, a dangerous street in London, he was uncaring of what could’ve happened to him.
- He used the Stone Mask on two people who yelled at him when he was drunk, with Dio throwing a bottle of wine at the first and breaking his jaw before proceeding to cut his throat. He then utilized the first man's blood to activate the mask before turning the second into a vampire, almost resulting in his own death.
- After having his plans found out by Jonathan, he took advantage of his adoptive brother's kindness and love for him by attempting to manipulate him with a sob story, planning to kill him once he lowers his guard.
- Speedwagon, who shared a similar background to him, having also grown up in poverty and lived in the slums of London, stated that Dio Brando was "born evil" and that his poor childhood was not a good excuse for his terrible actions. After he was called out by Speedwagon, Dio stops deceiving himself and happily renounces his humanity to become a full-blown card-carrying Pure Evil, stealing the Stone Mask and trying to kill Jonathan with a dagger to spill his blood on the Stone Mask and become a vampire, accidentally killing his adoptive father instead, not caring about his death as he wanted him dead anyway just to steal his fortune. He would then target Jonathan after killing a few constables and harming Speedwagon.
- He drained the blood of many people to regain his vitality after being injured by Jonathan.
- After becoming a vampire, he then converted the world's most notorious serial killer, Jack the Ripper, into his undead minion in order to defeat Jonathan. He presumably forced Jack to eat one of his victims after he murdered her.
- He sets his sight on a village called Windknight's Lot for his domination plan, draining the population's lives one by one for the purpose of feeding off their blood as well as creating a zombie army out of them.
- He experimented on several people to morph them into his loyal chimeras.
- He kidnaps and murders a woman by drinking her blood and crushing her head. Afterwards, he has Jack the Ripper devour her corpse.
- He hypnotizes a boy named Poco and uses him to lure Jonathan's group into the cemetery so he can kill them.
- He freezes Zeppeli's arm and tries to kill him until Jonathan arrives to save him. He then tries to kill Zeppeli and Jonathan (who has Poco on his shoulder) by knocking them off the platform to make them fall to their deaths.
- When Zeppeli angrily asks him, "How many people have you drained of their blood?" he jokingly asks, "How many loaves of bread have you eaten in your life?" indicating he has a high body count.
- He converted a mother into a zombie, promising that neither he nor his minions would harm the mother's child in exchange, and watched with glee as she devoured her infant child, sadistically noting the irony that neither he nor his minions hurt the child, but she did as a zombie. Though he did not directly force or order the mother to eat her infant, he nonetheless displayed sadism with no remorse upon the act.
- He kidnaps Poco's sister and tries to have her join his side via seduction. When this fails, he orders his zombie, Doobie, to devour her until she is saved by Jonathan.
- He sadistically disrespects Zeppeli’s death to Jonathan to emotionally hurt him.
- He freezes Dire's body and shatters it, killing him instantly.
- He attacks a ship full of people with thousands of his zombies to exact revenge and continue his world domination plan in America, killing many people in the ship (including Lisa Lisa's mother) and slowly killing Jonathan right in front of a horrified Erina in order to steal his body. Both Erina and baby Lisa Lisa (who is later adopted by the Joestars) survived the ship explosion, along with Dio (who was thought to be dead). Before the ship was destroyed, Dio ordered his zombies to devour Wang Chan’s corpse, showing no compassion for his death at Jonathan’s hand.
Battle Tendency[]
- Even when he was gone, he is still indirectly responsible for the murder of George Joestar II, as one of his survived zombie minions killed him. Enraging Elizabeth Joestar, she murdered the zombie that was disguised as a general. Being accused of treachery for murdering her husband and the general (who she did murder) forced her on the run and to leave the United Kingdom while adopting the name "Lisa Lisa." She never had the opportunity to say goodbye to her son Joseph leading him to believe that both his parents had died.
- His influence was so great that it drove Straizo into madness because he secretly admired Dio's youth, beauty and power, fueling Straizo's own obsession with preserving his own youth and power like the megalomaniacal vampire. This led him to betray his Hamon students and Speedwagon in Mexico, using their blood to activate a Stone Mask to turn himself into a vampire. These events kickstarted the events of Part 2, since Straizo indirectly led Rudol von Stroheim and his team of Nazis to find and awaken Santana the Pillar Man for testing, as well as kidnapping and psychologically torturing Speedwagon in their base.
- Upon his return to land after a century, he killed the crew of a fishermen's vessel to revitalize himself.
Pre-Stardust Crusaders[]
- Upon Jonathan's death, he took ahold of his body and sired children with it. Four of the women he slept with were lucky to leave with their lives intact, because everyone else that DIO slept with was murdered and drained of their blood for DIO to rejuvenate himself with.
- Once he obtains and awakens his Stand, The World, it causes a curse within the Joestar Bloodline. Jonathan's descendants, Joseph Joestar, Holly Kujo, Jotaro Kujo, and Giorno Giovanna, were given their Stands because of it, as well as the infant Josuke Higashikata. But because Holly and young Josuke barely possessed any fighting spirits, they were doomed to soon die slowly and painfully because of it. Even if DIO had no idea this would happen, he likely would not have cared either way.
- He communicated his ideas of "Heaven" to Enrico Pucci during his lowest point in life, which resulted in him shaping the latter into a villain and nearly destroying the Joestar bloodline. His influence also shaped Enrico's brother, Domenico Pucci/Weather Report, into becoming a suicidal misanthrope since he got his Stand when Enrico was accidently impaled with the arrow that was given to him out of grief due to Perla's death, thus giving the two of them stands because of their linked blood, similar to the Joestar Family Curse.
- Though DIO's treatment of Pucci seemingly suggests they had a genuine friendship, this is very likely a façade given that he treats most of his minions this way until they become liabilities. Furthermore, these flashbacks were told from Pucci's point of view; Pucci never saw DIO's true nature. It is also likely that DIO ultimately befriended Pucci for the purpose of achieving his vision of Heaven and not out of genuine care for him.
- His ideas of Heaven were not done out of altruism whatsoever. He only desired to achieve this goal so he could rule all over humanity as the self-proclaimed god of the entire universe while being in control of their fates/destinies.
Stardust Crusaders[]
- While recovering, he drains the blood of multiple women after having sex with them and killing them.
- He brainwashes Noriaki Kakyoin and Jean Pierre Polnareff into his loyal servants by attaching a flesh bud to their brains, forcing the heroes to fight and ultimately releasing them from his control. He also lies to Polnareff saying that he will help him find the person who raped and killed his sister, despite that same person being a member of DIO’s agency.
- He put on a charismatic façade so that he could also brainwash Muhammed Avdol at some point, though the latter was intelligent and aware enough of DIO's danger to run away.
- Once Holly's health begins to decline due to DIO's curse upon the Joestar Bloodline, this forces Jotaro, Joseph, Kakyoin, Avdol, Polnareff, and Iggy to take a fifty-day journey to Egypt, with the mission to put an end to DIO once and for all, in order to free the Joestar Bloodline of his influence and save Holly and the world.
- He sends multiple Stand user assassins to eliminate Jotaro and his group, uncaring of the damage and casualties they cause.
- He sends Steely Dan to successfully assassinate Enya when she knows too much, despite being endlessly loyal to him and the one who awakened his Stand in the first place.
- He manipulates several people to become his servants such as N’Doul.
- He has no empathy for anyone but himself, viewing his allies as mere pawns rather than actual people and showing no care if they died or retired.
- When Hol Horse tries to kill DIO for his treasures, as well as after finding out and being disgusted by the fact that he uses women as mere playthings and food, DIO threatens to kill the latter if he does not fight the Crusaders. Afterwards, he uses his stand to appear behind Hol Horse, striking immense fear into the mercenary.
- He turns his servant Vanilla Ice into a vampire when the former decapitates himself in order to prove his loyalty by offering blood, with DIO declining it since he needed Joestar blood. This causes the deaths of Muhammed Avdol and Iggy since DIO sent him as one of his final defenses against the Stardust Crusaders.
- To show once more that he has no care for his minions, he neglected to tell Vanilla Ice that he had turned into a vampire. The latter didn't realize it until it was too late, when Polnareff used the sun to his advantage to exterminate the vampiric Stand user (although he deserved it)
- He torments Polnareff by using The World to toy around with him before attempting to kill him until Jotaro, Joseph, and Kakyoin arrive.
- He slices his servant Nukesaku to pieces for opening his coffin and to taunt the Stardust Crusaders.
- When the bodyguard of the American politician known as Senator Wilson Phillips confronts DIO for trying to enter his limo without any permission or authorization, DIO breaks and mutilates his arm as he leaves him there to scream in agony.
- He forces Senator Wilson Phillips (who was trying to reason with him) to drive for him to chase the Joestars by psychologically tormenting him with his stand so he can prevent him from escaping, causing him to lose his sanity, and even going as far as forcing him to drive on the sidewalk when there was a traffic jam, thus forcing him to kill many people on the sidewalk. When Senator Philips asked if he would spare him, DIO coldly replied "No," which only psychologically tormented him even more, as it made him believe it was all just a dream, and he threw his dead body at the destroyed truck that Joseph Joestar and Kakyoin were driving.
- He kills Kakyoin by punching a hole through his stomach.
- When Joseph vowed to kill DIO and take back Jonathan's stolen body in honor and memory of the late Erina Pendleton, DIO simply laughs and mocks him by insulting her.
- During one of his time stops, he kills a nearby cat by dismembering it and placing its dead organs on the plates and in the drinks of nearby patrons, burning a woman with her cigarette lighter, and stabbing the fork into the cheek of a woman eating dinner as well as knocking out a man for no reason whatsoever.
- He launches a knife at Joseph’s neck in his time stop, temporarily killing him as Jotaro watches.
- He sadistically tells Jotaro that he had killed Kakyoin, and that he will hunt down Polnareff after killing Jotaro.
- During his fight with Jotaro, he drains the blood of a woman to regain his strength.
- He attempts to kill Jotaro by throwing knives at him, sadistically remarking that his death will be more brutal than Joseph's.
- He kills a pair of cops and forces one of them to shoot Jotaro.
- He attempts to decapitate Jotaro to make sure he stays dead.
- He attempts to decapitate Polnareff after incapacitating him.
- He drains all of Joseph's blood from his body to grow stronger and successfully claim the body of Jonathan Joestar, and he forces Jotaro to watch in order to enrage him.
- He brutally beats Jotaro, breaks his ribcage, collarbone, and arm, and sends him flying.
- He attempts to kill Jotaro by dropping a steamroller on him, then gloats by saying he will drain all of Jotaro’s blood, if there is any left.
- When Jotaro shown his honor by allowing him get up and heal his leg injuries for one last standoff, he internally insulted him by declaring that his integrity is worthless as “rat sh*t” and it’ll be his downfall.
- Furthermore, he also declares that being victorious, no matter the method, is the only thing worth living for and that how he would do it didn't matter in the slightest, showing that he has no remorse for all of his heinous crimes.
- He makes one last attempt to kill Jotaro by blinding him with his blood and attempting to roundhouse kick his head off, which ultimately fails as Jotaro uses his stand to put all of his power into deflecting the attack and punching the weakest side of DIO's body, which causes him to explode and die for good. This was a well-deserved fate after all the pain and misery he had caused.
- In the Stardust Crusaders OVA only, he hurls boats and cars towards Jotaro (as well as using Senator Wilson’s corpse as a projectile when he tried to kill Joseph and Kakyoin), not caring about the civilian causalities that he caused, then he forcefully pries a bus door open to get to Jotaro, and sadistically murders a number of innocent bystanders for no reason, including a young boy, while licking their blood off his hand.
Post-Stardust Crusaders[]
- His actions also greatly affected his minions, such as Hol Horse, who developed PTSD due to his actions.
- After his death, the flesh buds he had previously implanted into his minions activated, either ensuring agonizingly painful deaths or turning them into grotesque monsters and causing them to lose their sanity. Mr. Nijimura suffered this fate, and there were likely several more who did as well.
- Because it is implied that numerous agents of his still remain even after DIO's demise, such as the vengeful Johngalli A, Jotaro is forced to divorce his wife and leave his family behind because being with them will only attract enemy Stand users to them. This causes Jolyne Cujoh to grow up with resentment towards her father.
- He gave the Stand Arrows that Enya gave him years prior to Yoshihiro Kira as well as Mansaku Nijimura, causing the former to give Killer Queen to his son Yoshikage Kira, who used it to kill several people in Morioh (including Shigechi Yangu, Kosaku Kawajiri, and Aya Tsuji), as well as using the stand to abuse and torment Hayato Kawajiri. Although Enya and Diavolo are to blame for that, DIO still played a part in it.
- Because of DIO's flesh bud, Keicho Nijimura used his Arrow to attempt to empower someone capable of freeing his father from his fate, causing several deaths among people who couldn't withstand having Stand abilities. This also makes him responsible for the villainous actions of Anjuro "Angelo" Katagiri (as a stand user), Tamami Kobayashi, Toshikazu Hazamada, Yukako Yamagishi, and Akira Otoishi. (Since they were pierced with the chance of having a stand that is strong enough to kill Mr. Nijimura.)
- Because Yoshihiro had one of the arrows in his grasp thanks to DIO and Enya, he used it to awaken even more stand users, such as Ken Oyanagi, Yuya Fungami, Stray Cat, Toyohiro Kanedaichi, Teronsuke Miyamoto, and Cheap Trick. (As stated before, DIO still played a part in causing this to happen, despite Diavolo being the true catalyst.)
- Because of his manipulation, Pucci desired to continue DIO's work even after he was long gone, and he had the means to do it because DIO extracted a bone out of Jonathan's stolen body and gave it to Pucci so he could resurrect it, sacrifice 36 souls for the Green Baby to be born, and merge with it by reciting 14 phrases. And because the bone belonged to Jonathan Joestar (which was evident by the Joestar birthmark on it's neck), it corrupted the Joestar Bloodline even more since the fusion between Pucci and the Green Baby suddenly had the Joestar birthmark grafted on both the former and Weather Report's necks. DIO intended for this to happen
- It is heavily implied that Jotaro Kujo suffers from PTSD after fighting DIO. Not only does he not seem to like talking about him, but he goes absolutely berserk when he sees that Yoshikage Kira has punched a hole through Koichi Hirose (like DIO did to Kakyoin), as well as when Kira mentions that he still has 20 seconds left (like how DIO taunted Jotaro during stopped time), and when Kira simply mentions the word "futile" or "useless" (which reminded Jotaro of DIO's stand cry "MUDA MUDA MUDA").
- His reasoning for having Koichi Hirose investigate one of DIO's illegitimate children, known as Giorno Giovanna, was understandable since Jotaro was worried that his offspring would continue to spread his influence and be as vile as he was. While this was true for the other three, it thankfully wasn't for Giorno. Even though Koichi never knew the full extent of DIO's heinousness since he was already dead, his name being simply mentioned gave him flashbacks of when he was brutally pierced in the neck with the stand arrow and when he witnessed Keicho being murdered by Akira's stand: Red Hot Chili Pepper. (These events can be traced back to DIO since Keicho shot Koichi and Akira with the hopes that they could conjure a Stand strong enough to free his father from the fate that DIO's death inflicted on him)
- When he witnesses Enrico Pucci throwing a barrage of knives towards his daughter Jolyne during the near end of Stone Ocean, Jotaro screams a scream of utter despair as he sees the knives (which reminded him of how DIO did the same to him back in Stardust Crusaders). This makes him indirectly responsible for his death, as well as the deaths of countless others via Pucci's Stand, Made in Heaven, during the universal reset.
- Even though Emporio Alniño undid everything that DIO and Pucci had planned for the new universe by killing the latter, he was still left with immense and irreversible trauma, even when those that Pucci killed were brought back with the same souls, yet altered personalities. DIO is to blame for all of this.
Trivia[]
- In the video game Eyes of Heaven, he is shown to have respect for his son Giorno, as he is portrayed as having fondness and pride towards him, but given how it differs from the canon to the original JoJo universe, it does not affect DIO's status. However, this is not the case with his Heaven Ascended counterpart, as he even tried to kill his own son who stood in his way.
- His alternate universe counterpart Diego "Dio" Brando cannot qualify as Pure Evil since he is more sympathetic by comparison.
- However, the alternate counterpart of Diego qualifies as Pure Evil, due to the fact that he lacks the latter's redeeming qualities, and has shown to be just as evil as his original universe counterpart.
External Links[]
- Dio Brando on the Villains Wiki
- Dio Brando on the Ultimate Evil Wiki
- Dio Brando on the JoJo's Bizarre Wiki
- Dio Brando on the Entertainingly Detestable Wiki
- Dio Brando on the VS Battles Wiki
- Dio Brando on the Shonen Villains Wiki
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