Dio Brando

* Part 1
* Part 3

## Introduction

After becoming a vampire and later a Stand user, Dio has gathered around him many minions and is responsible for many major events of the series, from the death of Jonathan Joestar to the Joestar Family's sudden acquisition of Stand power, and his legacy persists throughout the series. He is the wielder of the immensely powerful The World.
Dio is the father of Giorno Giovanna, the main protagonist of Part 5, as well as a handful of other illegitimate offspring.

Dio's most recognizable characteristics are his boundless ambition and his love of power. Abused by his father, being underprivileged and having lived in the most miserable living conditions, Dio set for himself the goal of becoming the richest, then the most powerful being on Earth. To do so, Dio used anything or anyone that he could in order to further his goals, disregarding any kind of morality that would restrain the range of actions available to him. Using either manipulation, seduction, or plain violence, Dio constantly sought to become more and more powerful, and to 'attain heaven'. Dio enjoys being in a position of power and has repeatedly stated how great he felt being in a dominating position no matter what it cost, be it selling his humanity for unholy and forbidden power as a member of the undead, or to gain powers that could eventually have him reshape the world as according to his image and worship him as a god. On the contrary, Dio never tolerated that someone could stand up to him or equal him in power, and was enraged and deeply disturbed at the thought several times.
## Introduction

After becoming a vampire and later a Stand user, Dio has gathered around him many minions and is responsible for many major events of the series, from the death of Jonathan Joestar to the Joestar Family's sudden acquisition of Stand power, and his legacy persists throughout the series. He is the wielder of the immensely powerful The World.

Dio is the father of Giorno Giovanna, the main protagonist of Part 5, as well as a handful of other illegitimate offspring.
## Character Details

DIO is arguably one of the strongest characters showcased in the series, being able to defeat many Hamon users with relative ease, notably Dire and Zeppeli, even before acquiring his Stand. During Part 3, he gains The World and its ability to manipulate time, coupled with his vampiric powers, and in addition Jonathan Joestar's Stand. It took the combined efforts of Kakyoin, Joseph Joestar, Jotaro Kujo and Polnareff, four powerful Stand Users able to boast many other opponent Stand Users in combat, to defeat the awakened DIO, with Kakyoin and Joseph being killed in battle (albeit Joseph was revived later), and Jotaro and Polnareff sustaining severe injuries.

## Powers and Stats

**Tier:** Easily **9-A**, Higher **8-D**, Easily **8-B** (Would easily outscale his minions), **8-A**, Higher with The World, **Low 7-C**

**Name**: Dio Brando

**Series**: JoJo's Bizzare Adventure

**Age**: 20 - 21 (Part 1), 121 (Part 3)

**Classification**: Vampire, Stand User

Powers and Abilities:
**Superhuman Physical Characteristics**, **Immortality** (Types: 1, 2, 3, 5 and 6), **Acrobatics** (Dio is a very Atheletic person, even as a human, he is capable of doing flips and jumping high up into the air.), **Regeneration** (Mid: After being hit in the head by Jotaro, Dio starts experiencing symptoms of an extreme concussion, likely brain damage considering we see an X ray of his head and his skull shattering. We then see him drink Joseph's blood, and then not only regenrate from it, but become vastly more powerfull, with his timestop duration being increase nearly 3 fold), **Self-Sustenance** (Type 1 & 2, Survived at the bottom of the ocean without any air or food for over a hundred years), **Body Control**, **Biological Manipulation** (Dio is shown to control his body in any way he wants, even putting back his splitted body together, or by controlling his veins to reattach to an arm that was severed), **Pain Suppression** (Doesn't seem to phased in terms of pain while having his head severed from his body, or when Jotaro, smashed his head in to make it seem like it was made of fabric), **Enhanced Senses** (Is able to hear Jotaro's heartbeat from several metres away), Mind Control (Dio can control his minions by placing a flesh bud so accuratley in their head that if anyone attempts to pull it out, that person will die), **Flight**, **Healing** (Can fix Pucci's deformed foot just by laying his hands on it), Necromancy, **Power Bestowal** (Dio can turn dead people into a vampire, by throwing his blood on them), **Non-Physical Interaction** (DIO is able to interact with Stands on his own without using The World), **Extrasensory Perception** (With his vampire abilties, Dio's perceptions have been increase quite a lot, he can easily hear heartbeats through concrete just by laying his ears on the ground), **Aura**, Indomitable Will (Only those with incredible fighting spirits are able to develop and use a Stand, if someone was to devolop one without it, it would be slowly killing them, an example of this is Jotaro's mother, Holly Kujo), **Telepathy**, **Time Manipulation** (Can manipulate time with his stand, The World, to bring everything to a complete halt)

**Attack Potency:** **Small Building Level** (Should vastly be above his Part 1 self, who is easily above a random vampire, that can create craters on a wall), **Higher**, With Jonathan's Body, **High-Rise Level** (Should easily be far stronger than he was before, although he is weaker in terms of regeneration, since Jonathan's Hamon, is destroying his body, his attack power shouldn't be effected by this.), **Higher**, with **The World**, **Multi-City Block Level** (Should vastly be above his old self, after sucking in Jonathans blood), **Town Level** (Comparable, if not stronger than Jotaro, who had an earlier feat where he could suck in all of the fog that took up an area of 22 km's)

**Speed:** Atleast **Hypersonic** (Can fight on par with Jonathan, who can react to things like explosions and "fluid jets", that move at nearly Mach 3 speeds), At least **FTL+** (Should easily be faster than Hol Horse, who can manipulate his bullets to dodge swings from Silver Chariot, the same Silver Chariot can blitz stands who move at the speed of light), **Higher**, **FTL+** (Can easily fight on par and move faster than characters like Kakyoin, who should be comparable to Polnareff's Silver Chariot in terms of speed), Likely **Massively FTL** (Is vastly faster than characters like Silver Chariot, who can move very close to MFTL speeds, considering this feat was done by someone like Polnareff, and of course Dio being vastly above that, Dio should likely be in the MFTL range)

**Durability: Small Building Level** (Should vastly be above his Part 1 self, who is easily above a random Zombie, that can create craters on a wall), **Higher**, With Jonathan's Body, **High-Rise Level** (Should easily be far stronger than he was before, although he is weaker in terms of regeneration, since Jonathan's Hamon, is destroying his body, his attack power shouldn't be effected by this.), **Higher**, with **The World**, **Multi-City Block Level** (Should vastly be above his old self, after sucking in Jonathans blood), **Town Level** (Comparable, if not stronger than Jotaro, who had an earlier feat where he could suck in all of the fog that took up an area of 22 km's)

**Stamina: Very High** (Can fight on par with Jotaro and other Stardust Crusaders members for a few chapters)

**Intelligence: Genius** (Though he may be arrogant and full of himself, Dio is a cunning, pragmatic opponent who is willing to do anything necessary to succeed in a fight, no matter how underhanded he has to be. He experiments with his powers, not just his vampiric ones but the limits of his Stand, pushing himself further and further in search of strength, which he uses to brutal effect in fights. With The World, DIO does not pull any punches, moving to finish fights as quickly as possible by stopping time and unleashing a lethal strike, though he can be goaded into actually fighting against an opponent. When fighting against Jotaro, DIO utilized everything at his disposal to defeat him, throwing knives at him from a safe distance to test the limits of his ability to move in stopped time before cautiously making sure he was dead. Even then, DIO's next move was to decapitate him anyway, just to be safe.)

**Weakness** (As a vampire, Dio will die if Sun Light hits him)

**Notable Attacks and Techniques:**

* **The World:**

The World's power is its ability to stop time, allowing only itself, Dio and anyone with the same power, to act within the duration of stopped time.[5]DIO is able to use this ability consistently, as shown as he is able to stop time with little to no fatigue, although this might be due to his vampiric nature or greater experience with his Stand.
While time is stopped, Dio can move his own body, as well as his Stand freely, along with any object he touches, allowing him to strike his defenseless enemies, move to a superior position, and toy with his victims.

* **Blood Sucking:**

All vampires, including DIO, consume the blood of living creatures to sustain themselves. Unlike traditional vampires, they suck their victims' blood with their hands, digging the fingers directly inside the target to suck their blood. Blood consumption will strengthen a vampire and heal them if they were weakened before. In a weakened state, a vampire will instinctively crave blood and may attack any victim to regenerate.

* **Space Ripper Stingy Eyes:**

Dio is able to pressurize bodily liquid in his eyeballs and then create small openings in his pupils, eventually unleashing two fluid jets. This ability, later referred to by Straizo as "Space Ripper Stingy Eyes", is one of Dio's most lethal abilities, powerful enough to slice through stone. It's unknown if DIO is able to use it with Jonathan's body as he never uses it in Stardust Crusaders, though he is able to utilize the ability with it in JoJo's Venture and the Stardust Crusaders drama CD.

* **Flesh Buds:**

Di0 is able to manipulate his hair to create parasites, which he can then insert into a human's head, to control even those that he cannot otherwise manipulate usually. These flesh buds pierce through the skull into part of the brain, making the victim compliant to Dio's charisma. As explained by Joseph, the parasite will gradually consume the victim's brain.
If anyone external attempts to remove the bud, it will sprout tentacles in an attempt to invade the intruder's brain as well. If necessary, DIO can give permission to someone to activate the spore's tentacles from a close distance. The spores possess another effect in case DIO himself ever dies: according to Keicho Nijimura, DIO's cells mutated his father into a greenish unkillable animalistic form upon DIO's death. Presumably, this is a side effect of the flesh buds that all Stand users containing flesh buds suffer from.