Dio Brando

Dio Brando is the main antagonist of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure.

* Dio Brando vs Esdeath
* DIO vs. Reverse Flash

## History

Dio was born the son of Dario Brando, an alcoholic and abusive father who he secretly despised - in part for having caused pain to his mother. On Dario's deathbed, he told Dio of his encounter with George Joestar twelve years prior, instructing Dio to go to the Joestar house and use his wiles to become wealthy. He was then adopted into the Joestar household and subsequently began undermining his new adoptive brother Jonathan at every opportunity. Dio was resolute to shatter Jonathan's spirit and take his place as the favored son, even going so far as to arrange for Jonathan's dog, Danny, to be burned to death.

After Jonathan discovered his plan of killing George Joestar to steal the family's fortune, Dio discovered that an ancient stone mask owned by the Joestars can turn people into vampires. He used it on himself and activated it with George's blood, turning himself into a vampire.

He formed a small army of vampire zombies and use it to battle Jonathan and his Hamon techniques, but he was eventually defeated. However, sometime later, Dio's disembodied head stole Jonathan's body while they were on a sinking ship.

Dio's new body was found and resurrected several decades later, and he formed an army of Stand users to fight against the new generation of Joestars.

## Information

### Background

* Species: Human-turned-vampire
* Age: 20-21 (Part 1), 122-123 years old (Part 3)
* Height: 6'5
* Weight: 231lbs
* Alias: DIO, Shadow DIO, Awakened DIO, High DIO, Greatest High DIO, Lord Dio (by his subordinates), Evil Incarnate (by Joseph Joestar), Punk Band Reject (by Wilson Phillips), Stone Mask Man (by Will A. Zeppeli), Neon Vampire, Mythical Dweller in the Dark, King of Kings, The Invader, Evil Messiah, Vampire Transcending Humanity, Tyrant Who Leads the Dead, Evil Presence
* Occupation: Lawyer (Formerly), leader of Stone Mask Vampires and his Zombie army, commander of his agents
* Archenemy of the Joestar family

### Powers and Abilities

* Vampire Physiology
	+ Blood Drinking
	+ Regeneration
	+ Immortality
	+ Vaporizing Freezing Technique
	+ Space Ripper Stingy Eyes
	+ Hypnosis
	+ Superhuman Senses
	+ Fusion
	+ Flesh Buds
	+ Necromancy
* The World
	+ Godly Physique
	+ Time Stop
		- Time Stop Barrage
* Clever Strategist

### Equipment

* Knives
* Road Roller Da
* Boat
* Oil Tanker Truck

### Feats

* Superior to vampires that can destroy walls with a single punch
* Casually bent a large metal spear
* Broke William Anthonio Zeppeli's leg with just his pinky finger
* Killed the Hamon master Dire in a single hit
* His Space Ripper Stingy Eyes can slice through concrete like butter
* The Space Ripper Stingy Eyes can also split huge clouds
* Casually sent both Zeppeli and Jonathan flying by merely twisting their arm
* Can walk up to walls like nothing
* Blocks a superhuman hamon-infused punch from Zeppeli
* Is superior to Tarkus and Bruford
* Killed Noriaki Kakyoin in one punch
* Easily broke free from Joseph Joestar's Hermit Purple
* The World can easily destroy concrete
* Tore apart a cat's limbs just by backhanding it
* Overpowered Jotaro Kujo's Stand: Star Platinum
* Casually lifted a 30-ton steamroller
* Possessed Jonathan’s body
* With one hand, threw a police officer’s corpse at another cop so hard the cop broke into pieces and his limb flew and broke Speedwagon’s arm
* Superior to Jack the Ripper, who collapsed a tunnel
* Space Ripper Stingy Eyes was able to disperse a cloud formation
* Casually cut his own head off
* The World can match Star Platinum, blow for blow
* Stronger than Justice, who created a large amount of fog
* Stronger than Dark Blue Moon, who created a giant whirlpool
* Stronger than Wheel of Fortune, who tunneled through a cliffside made of solid stone
* Easily deflected Kakyoin’s Emerald Splash with a finger flick
* Damaged Joseph by flinging debris at him
* Snapped off a stop sign and wielded it as a weapon
* Physically, one-shot Polnareff while sending him flying
* Kicked Jotaro through a building with The World
* In the OVA, punched through a tower Jotaro threw at him
* In the OVA, chucked a whole boat at Jotaro
* Likely stronger than Ghiaccio, who is stated to be capable of stopping a roaring train and even froze water
* Stronger than Will Zeppeli, who in the 2007 Phantom Blood movie created a Hamon shockwave which parted the clouds from just a handshake with his master
* Is just as strong as Jolyne Cujoh´s Stand: Stone Free, who can punch meteors that are pulled to earth in seconds
* The World is one of the strongest Stand in history
* Beat up a steamroller with his elbows
* Casually dodged a serial killer's knife attacks
* Robert E. O. Speedwagon compared his speed to that of a cheetah
* Speed-blitzed multiple police officers
* Can leap through buildings at high speed
* Deflected Hierophant Green's Emerald Splash with just a finger
* Reacted to Kakyoin's 20 Meter Radius Emerald Splash
* Outsped Star Platinum, who is massively faster than light in terms of combat speed
* Saw through Dire’s afterimages
* Space Ripper Stingy Eyes are functionally similar to water jets, which move at Mach 3
* Comparable to Jonathan, who outpaced an explosion even while dying
* Superior to Silver Chariot, who caught Hanged Man, a light beam, mid-movement
* Faster than Joseph, who once reacted to a ray of light from the sun
* Likely comparable to Kars through Joseph scaling, who blocked an ultraviolet ray beam
* Dodged Hol Horse shooting at him from behind point-blank, only to appear from behind without touching any spider webs
* Trolled Polnareff by moving him around the stairs before he can react
* The World threw dozens of knives in seconds
* The World can keep pace with Part 3 Star Platinum, and Dio refers to it as “too slow”, meaning he should scale above later iterations of Star Platinum, no longer in his peak
* Survived getting gunned down
* Survived getting shot in the head
* Kept on fighting after being set on fire
* Survived being impaled, burnt alive, and crushed by the Joestar manor
* Survived getting cut in half
* Survived a Sunlight Yellow Overdrive to the face
* Survived decapitating himself
* Survived only having his head intact and immobilized Jonathan Joestar
* Survived a ship's explosion
* Tanked a Hamon Overdrive from Joseph Joestar
* Survived getting his stomach punched through by Star Platinum
* Survived getting his leg chopped off by glass while flying through a window
* Tanked getting impaled through the head
* Survived getting his skull crushed twice
* Easily regenerated from having his knuckles broken
* Survived shoving his own finger through his skull
* Survived getting launched by Star Platinum, who shattered his skull in the process
* Survived having his arm cut
* Survived a barrage of punches from Star Platinum
* Is unaffected by a bullet directed to his head
* Unfazed by Kakyoin’s Emerald Splash
* After drinking Joseph’s blood, he is able to tank a barrage from Star Platinum
* Scales to the likes of Joseph Joestar and, therefore Kars, who were at the epicenter of a Hamon-amplified volcanic eruption strong enough to launch Kars into space
* Beat Jonathan in a boxing match
* Created an undead army in just one day
* Effortlessly defeated Joseph Joestar
* Easily killed Noriaki Kakyoin
* Survived over a century locked away at the bottom of the ocean
* Amassed an army of loyal followers within the span of 5 years
* Mentor/Friend to Enrico Pucci who would later avenge his death
* Defeated Dire and Polnareff
* One-shot two family members of the Joestars, Jonathan and Joseph
* Fought evenly with Jotaro, even killing him in an alternate universe
* In an alternate universe became the Ultimate Lifeform and gained a new ability: The Passion
* Achieved nigh-omnipotence in an alternate timeline with The World Over Heaven

### Weaknesses

* Sunlight
* Fully destroying Dio's brain can kill him
* The World can only stop time for 9 seconds, or 11 seconds while Dio is in a delirious state from the blood that he's absorbed, and Star Platinum, along with others who can move in stopped time, can move within Dio's frozen time for 2 seconds
* Any damage that The World experiences, Dio does as well, meaning that should The World be destroyed by an enemy, Dio will die as well
* Arrogant and takes too much pride in his time-stopping abilities