Dio Brando

Dio Brando, also known as DIO, is one of the main characters from the Jojo's Bizarre Adventure series.
== Charactah Account ==
Dio was originally a scornful child of a petty thief in 1800s England. After poisoning his own father, he is adopted by George Joestar and makes it his goal to utterly ruin Jonathan's life in order to become the estate's sole inheritor. When that plan fails, Dio ends up using the stone mask to become a vampire and plans to take over the world for himself; however, a daring battle with Jonathan ends with him left as disembodied head. Sometime later, Dio makes his return on a ship when he turns most of the passengers into monsters and announces he would take Jonathan's body for his own and manages to deliver a fatal blow to his foe, though Jonathan uses the last of his strength to ensure Dio would not be able to escape as the ship explodes and sinks to the bottom of the sea.
Dio would eventually resurface during The '80s in Stardust Crusaders, having attached his severed head to Jonathan's body to resume his goal of obtaining his ideal world, but meets resistance from Jonathan's descendant Jotaro Kujo. After meeting with Enya Geil, he gains a Stand called The World.
== Appearance ==
=== Anime ===
* JoJo's Bizarre Adventure
* JoJo's Bizarre Adventure (2000)
* JoJo's Bizarre Adventure (TV)
* JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Phantom Blood
* JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Phantom Blood Pilot
* JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders
* JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders - Battle in Egypt
* JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stone Ocean
* JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stone Ocean Part 2
=== Light Novels ===
* Jorge Joestar
=== Manga ===
* JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Crazy Diamond's Demonic Heartbreak
* JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Over Heaven
* JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Phantom Blood
* JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders
* JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stone Ocean
=== Video Games ===
* Cult Jump
* GioGio's Bizarre Adventure
* J-Stars Victory Vs
* JoJo's Bizarre Adventure
* JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: All Star Battle
* JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Eyes of Heaven
* JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Heritage for the Future
* JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Last Survivor
* JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Phantom Blood 
* JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Shooters
* Jump Ultimate Stars
* Jump Super Stars
== Trivia ==
* Dio's name is derived from the Italian word for "God", befitting his megalomaniac personality and his project to create a new world for him and his subordinates as implied in Stone Ocean. His Heaven Acension DIO form also fits as well due to warping reality to his liking.
* The style of Dio's name in Part 1 is written normally, whereas DIO's name in Part 3 onward is written in English and completely capitalized.
** Despite this, Giorno's picture of him has "Dio Brando" imprinted on it, even though his original name would have been long forgotten by then.
* The trick DIO used on Hol Horse by instantly going through spider webs without damaging them is likely a reference to Bela Lugosi's first scenes in Dracula(1931).
** Out of coincidence, Dio shares two of his Japanese voice actors and his English anime voice actor with the CastlevaniaW version of DraculaW, those being Hikaru MidorikawaW in the OVA and the PS2 game, Norio WakamotoW in the Audio Drama, and Patrick Seitz in the anime. Midorikawa voices Dracula's reincarnation in the series, Soma Cruz, while Wakamoto and Seitz voice Dracula himself.
* The bridge Jotaro defeats DIO on is the Qasr al-Nil BridgeW, which connects downtown CairoW to Gezira IslandW and the ZamalekW district. Its coordinates are 30.043747°N 31.229464°E.
* In Araki's top Ten Favourite Characters in 2000, DIO ranked as 10th, being the third main villain in the countdown.
* Dio and Diego's themes in Eyes Of Heaven are remixes of each other. This is true for both Dio Brando and Scary Monsters Diego, as well as DIO and Alternate Diego. This makes sense as Diego is the reboot of sorts counterpart of Dio.
* After totally losing his body and becoming just a head, Dio became totally infertile. Dio was only able to have children because he stole Jonathan Joestar's body. Dio Brando had a relationship with four different women, who gave him four different children (Dio only slept with the women and he abandoned them all when they were still pregnant, so he never had direct contact with his "children", and none of them of his "children" have his DNA, they all have Jonathan's DNA. So technically Dio never had children, biologically or as a adoptive father).
* One reason Jonathan's body would reject Dio's head would be transplant rejection. Transplant rejection occurs when the recipient's immune system attacks the transplanted organ or tissue. The immune response protects the body against potentially harmful substances ("antigens") such as microorganisms, toxins and cancer cells. The immune system distinguishes "proper" from "strange" and reacts against substances it considers "foreign". In other words, that meant Jonathan's body was still fighting Dio's head.
* Dio died when his head was destroyed by Jotaro Kujo, with the narrator confirming Dio's death in the Manga and Anime. Jotaro and Joseph decided to expose Jonathan's body to the sun to give to the soul of the first JoJo a way to finally rest in peace.
* Araki considers Dio to be 'the true protagonist' of Phantom Blood. Araki developed Dio's character design before Jonathan. Dio also makes his debut first before Jonathan. Araki pondered in deciding what would be the scariest factor, and decided that "evil from the past" coming to get the present descendant would be the most frightening thing. Dio was developed with this in mind. After him, Jonathan Joestar of 'light' was designed to counter Dio's 'darkness'.
* In a spring 2018 interview with Shueisha's Kotoba magazine, Araki describes how Blade RunnerW had influenced his work back when it premiered. He mentions Dio's blond hair and muscular build in particular as being influenced by the Blade Runner character, Roy Batty.
* Dio is stated to be Bisexual by Araki in a 2007 interview.
== Gallery ==
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== External Links ==
* Dio Brando at JoJo's Bizarre Wiki
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