Dio Brando

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## Evil-doer

* DIO
* Dio Brando
* Shadow DIO
* Awakened DIO

### Alias

DIO
Shadow DIO
Awakened DIO
High DIO
Greatest High DIO
Lord Dio (by his subordinates)
Master Dio (by Alessi)
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
Pure Evil
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

### Resources

**Human**:
Exceptional intelligence
Expertise in psychology
Manipulation
Extensive knowledge of law
Charisma
Deception
Persuasion skills
Leadership
Endless craving for knowledge
Hand-to-hand combat prowess
Expertise in boxing
Knifesmanship
**Vampire**:
All abilities he had as a human amplified
Superhuman strength
Superhuman resilience
Superhuman endurance
Superhuman speed
Superhuman dexterity
Near-instantaneous regeneration
Immortality
Ability to stick to any surface
Ability to shot high-pressured liquid from his eyes
Cyrokinesis
Hypnosis
Necromancy
Teleportation
Ability to convert victims into zombie minions
Ability to convert people into vampires
Ability to create Flesh Buds
Levitation
Superhuman senses
Precision
**The World:**
Ability to freeze time (evolves as the story progresses)

### Hobby

Drinking blood from attractive young women.
Reading.
Making minions.

### Goals

Inherit the Joestar family's fortune (failed in all incarnations).
Rule the world.
Reach "Heaven".
Annihilate the Joestar bloodline (all failed).

### Moral Event Horizon

Sexually assaulting Erina to spite Jonathan.
Killing Danny.
Killing his adoptive father George Joestar I.
Draining the blood of hundreds.
Forcing a vampire to devour her infant child.
Brainwashing Kakyoin and Polnareff.
Sending Steely Dan to kill Enya.
Killing Kakyoin.
Draining Joseph's blood to empower himself.

### Kill Count

Hundreds (directly)
Countless (indirectly)

### Crimes

Mass murder (inc. child murder by proxy)
Patricide
Abuse
Animal cruelty
Vandalism
Attempted world domination
Conspiracy
Mutilation
Corpse desecration
Rape
Kidnapping
Sabotage
Terrorism
Destruction
Assault
Brainwashing
Mass torture

### Type of Villain

Power-Hungry Vampire

**Dio Brando**, also known simply as **DIO**, is the main antagonist of the *JoJo's Bizarre Adventure* franchise.

He 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, being hellbent on destroying them in his quest to take over the entire world.

He fathered Giorno Giovanna and three other sons, the latter three being under the rule of his friend Enrico Pucci, whereas Giorno became the boss of Passione to stop the drug trade. More than just a powerful vampire, Dio Brando wields the Stand known as **The World**, which grants him the ability to stop time itself.

## Roles

He is the main antagonist of the first universe, serving as the main antagonist of both *JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Phantom Blood* and *JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders*, an unseen antagonist in *JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Battle Tendency*, a posthumous antagonist in *JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Diamond is Unbreakable* and *JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Golden Wind*, and the posthumous overarching antagonist of *JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stone Ocean*.

In the second universe, the universe's alternate version of himself, Diego Brando, appears as the secondary antagonist of *JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Steel Ball Run*, while Dio himself makes a brief cameo in *JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: JoJolion*, wearing the Stone Mask.

He is also the main protagonist of the light novel *JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Over Heaven*.

## Portrayals

He was voiced by the following actors in the following works:

* Norio Wakamoto in the drama CD adaption for *JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders*.
* Isshin Chiba in *JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Heritage for the Future*.
* The late Nobuo Tanaka in the OVA for *JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders*.
* Kenji Nojim in the PS2 video game adaptations of *JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Phantom Blood* as a teenage Dio.
* Hikaru Midorikawa in the PS2 video game adaptations of *JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Phantom Blood* as an adult Dio.
* Takehito Koyasu in *JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: All-Star Battle*, the 2012 anime series, and all subsequent appearances.
* Andrew Chaikin in the English dub of the OVA.
* Patrick Seitz in the English dub of the anime.

## What Makes Him Pure Evil?

### *In General*

* While he seemingly has a tragic backstory, being born in the slums of the UK, having a deceased mother and alcoholic and abusive father, it does not justify his actions as he choose to renounce his goodness 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.
* While he seemingly loved his mother, as he killed his father out of revenge for her death, and reacts angered at anyone insulting her at ill will, he seemingly loses this quality sometime after renouncing his humanity.
* While seemingly respectful of Jonathan, insulting Wang Chan for taunting Jonathan while he was dying and attempting to have him kill Jonathan painlessly, he seems more fanatical and superficial after harboring his body, seeing Jonathan as a detention to himself.
* While it was stated that DIO spared some women he had sex with, who later went on to give birth to Giorno, Rikiel, Ungalo, Donatello and presumably others, it was more than likely that DIO wanted to have offspring that can continue his own legacy or possibly even bodies that he can drain blood from to claim Jonathan’s body as his own.
* While it seems like he has a more friendly view of Pucci, as he was shown being closest to him out of any minion, it’s ultimately left unconfirmed whether he actually cares for him, as it’s possible he just used him in order for him to continue to achieve Heaven.

### *Phantom Blood*

* After Dio came into Joestar's life, he deliberately tries 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, stealing the first kiss of his love interest, Erina 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 all for himself. This was *after* the Joestars had given him a second chance and adopted him into a rich and loving family.
	+ While he became affectionate towards Jonathan later, this "affection" shows in Dio taking over his body.
* He used the Stone Mask on two people who yelled at him when he was drunk, throwing a bottle of wine at the first and breaking his mouth before cutting his throat and then using his blood to turn on the mask and turning the second into a vampire.
* After he was called out by Speedwagon, Dio happily renounces his humanity and stole the Stone Mask and tried to kill Jonathan with a dagger to use his blood to put it on the Stone mask and become a vampire, but accidentally killed his adoptive father instead, not caring if he killed his adoptive father as he wanted him dead anyway just to steal his fortune and would start targeting Jonathan after killing a few cops and a butler.
* Drained the blood of several people to regain his vitality after being injured by Jonathan.
* After becoming a vampire, he then made the world's most notorious serial killer, Jack the Ripper, his minion for defeating Jonathan and presumably forcing him to eat one of his victims after he killed her.
* He sets his sight on a village called Windknight's lot for his domination plan while draining the population's life one by one so that he could both feed off their blood and make a zombie army out of them.
* Experimented on several people to morph them into becoming his loyal chimeras.
* Kidnaps and murders a woman by crushing her head. Afterwards, he has his minions devour her corpse.
* Made a mother into a vampire, 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 vampire.
* Froze Dire's entire body (except for his head) and shattered it, killing him instantly.
* He attacks a ship full of people with thousands of his vampires, killing many people in the ship (including Lisa Lisa's mother), slowly killing Jonathan right in front of a horrified Erina in order to steal his body, which both Erina and baby Lisa Lisa (who gets adopted by the Joestars) survived the ship explosion, including Dio (who was thought to be dead).

### *Battle Tendency*

* Even when he was gone, he is still indirectly responsible for the murder of George Joestar II, as one of his survived minions killed him. Enraging Elizabeth Joestar that she murdered it and killed a general who witnessed it. Being accused of treachery for murdering her husband and the general (who she did murder), forcing her on the run, her emotions consuming her and forcing her to leave the United Kingdom, never saying goodbye to her son Joseph and becoming known as "Lisa Lisa", leading to Joseph thinking both his parents had died.
* Upon his return to land after a century, killed the crew of a fishermen's vessel to revitalize himself.

### *Stardust Crusaders*

* Upon Jonathan's death, he took a hold of his body and created children with it.
* He told his ideas of "Heaven" to Enrico Pucci, which results in him shaping the latter into a villain and nearly destroying the Joestar bloodline and causing the start of the alternate timeline.
	+ Though Dio's treatment of Pucci seemingly suggests they had a genuine friendship, given that he treats most of his minions this way until they become a liability, this is very likely a façade. Furthermore, these flashbacks were told from Pucci's point of view, Pucci never saw Dio's true nature.
* He brainwashes Noriaki Kakyoin and Jean Pierre Polnareff into his loyal servants, forcing the heroes to fight and ultimately release them from his control.
* He sends multiple Stand user assassins to eliminate Jotaro and his group.
* While recovering, he drains the blood of multiple women.
* 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.
* Manipulates several people to become his servants.
* He doesn't care about anyone but himself, viewing his allies as mere pawns than actual people and showing no care if they died or retired.
* Sliced Nukesaku to pieces for opening his coffin.
* Forcing Senator Phillips to drive for him to chase the Joestars (who was trying to reason with Dio), by psychologically tormenting him through a loop so he can prevent him from escaping, causing him to lose his sanity, and even going as far by 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 will he 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 threw his dead body at the destroyed truck that Joseph Joestar and Kakyoin were driving.
* Kills Kakyoin by punching a hole through his stomach.
* During one of his time stops, 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 for no reason whatsoever.
* Launches a knife at Joseph’s neck in his time stop, temporarily killing him as Jotaro watches.
* During his fight with Jotaro, he drains the blood of a woman to regain his strength.
* Killed a pair of cops and forced one of them to shoot Jotaro.
* Attempted to decapitate Jotaro to make sure he stays dead.
* Attempts to decapitate Polnareff after incapacitating him.
* Drains all of Joseph's blood from his body to grow stronger and successfully claiming the body of Jonathan Joestar. Then he forces Jotaro to watch in order to enrage him.
* Attempted to kill Jotaro by dropping a steamroller on him. Then saying he will drain all of Jotaro’s blood, if there was any left.

### *Post-Stardust Crusaders*

* After his death, the flesh buds he'd 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.
* He gave the Stand Arrows to Yoshihiro Kira as well as Mr. Nijimura, causing the former to give Killer Queen to his son Yoshikage Kira, who used it to kill several people in Morioh, and Keicho, the latter's son using 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.
* His actions also greatly affected his minions such as Mariah and Hol Horse, who had PTSD due to his actions.
* Overall, Dio is responsible for almost all the events in the series, his influence spreading on 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.