Dio Brando

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## Entertainingly Detestable

### Alias

DIO
Lord Dio (by his minions)

### Powers / Skills

**Human**:
Exceptional intelligence
Psychological mastery
Manipulation
Law knowledge
Charisma
Deception
Persuasion
Vast wealth
Leadership
Endless craving for knowledge
Hand-to-hand combat prowess
Boxing mastery
Knifesmanship
**Vampire**:
Supernatural strength
Supernatural resilience
Supernatural survivability
Supernatural flexibility
Supernatural dexterity
Supernatural reflexes
Supernatural speed
Supernatural agility
Supernatural jumping
Supernatural stamina
Supernatural senses
Biological immortality
Agelessness
Superhuman regeneration
Limb reattachment
Healing
Blood absorption
Levitation
Flesh transmutation

* Biological fusion

Ice transmutation
Pressurized liquid vision
Spore parasite generation
Wall scaling
Hypnosis vision
Zombie conversion
Vampire conversion
Prehensile veins
Prehensile hair
**The World:**
Flight/Levitation
Intangibility
Stand intangibility cancellation
Supernatural condition
Speed punching
Speed kicking
Limited chronostasis
Telescopic vision
Finger extension
**Via Spore Parasites:**
Mutation inducement
Immortality bestowal
Regeneration bestowal

### Goals

Rule the world without any interference.
Reach "Heaven" in his own image.
Annihilate the Joestar bloodline (all failed).

### Most Entertaining Features

In all his appearances, he has a very laughably evil presence that makes him a fun character
His backstory is somewhat tragic despite it’s inability to justify his actions
His iconic stand
Spawning zillions of memes across the internet

### Most Detestable Traits

Has “Kick the Dog” moments, including 2 literal ones
He is very sadistic and cruel
Ultimately is the most evil character in the entire JoJo franchise.

### Type of ED

Power-Hungry Archenemy

**Dio Brando**, later known as **DIO**, is the main antagonist of the *JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure* manga and anime series.

He is a megalomaniacal vampire who is the most notable enemy of the Joestar family, and the arch-nemesis of Jonathan Joestar, as well as his great-great-grandson Jotaro Kujo.

In the anime, he was voiced by Takehito Koyasu in Japanese and Patrick Seitz in English.

## His Qualities

### What Makes Him Entertaining?

* Dio is one of the series’ most iconic characters, being the main villain of two parts, and having his presence (indirectly and directly) stretched toward all six parts of the series. He was even brought back in the alternate universe, and the protagonist of the ninth part, Jodio Joestar, has part of his name as homage to him.
	+ In fact, Hirohiko Araki himself considers Dio to be the true protagonist of JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure for how influential he is to the story.
* He keeps a laughably evil presence in all his direct appearances.
* His stand, The World, is arguably one of the most iconic stands in the show, and its ability to stop time and “MUDA” battlecry is equally as iconic. So does the “WRYYYYYY” noise he makes as a vampire.
* His design is very cool, and is even considered atractive by some people
* As laughable as he is, Dio also has an intimidating presence as well whenever on screen.
* He has a sympathetic backstory of being abused by his father who drove his mother to death, which makes him somewhat unintentionally sympathetic.
* Tons of his words make up different memes across the internet, such as:
	+ It was I, Dio!/Kono Dio da!
	+ I RENOUNCE MY HUMANITY, JOJO!
	+ How Feeble/Hinjaku Hinjaku
	+ THE WORLD!/ZA WARUDO!
	+ Time stop!/Toki yo Tomare!
	+ USELESS! USELESS! USELESS!/MUDA! MUDA! MUDA!
	+ Oh, you’re approaching me?
	+ Road Roller Da!
	+ WRYYYYYYYY!
* Overall, despite being too vile to count as a magnificent baddie, he is highly well-received across the fandom, which protects him from being a hate sink.

### What Makes Him Detestable?

* Ultimately, Dio is the most evil character in the JoJo franchise (at least in the original universe), as the other villains were either unleashed by his influence or failed to out-evil him.
* He is very sadistic and cruel, such as harassing multiple patrons and killing a cat at a nearby restaurant during a time-stop.
* Some of his memes show just how vile he is.
* To say that Dio has “Kick the Dog” moments is not enough, he literally fulfills the words of it by kicking Danny upon meeting him and then later putting him in an incinerator.
* He ordered Steely Dan (who is the hate sink) had Enya the Hag, one of his most loyal minions, killed for knowing too much despite she would most certainly not betray him.
* He is ultimately at his worst in the very first episode, where the whole episode is just him attempting to ruin Jonathan’s life.

## Trivia

* Dio Brando is the icon of the Entertainingly Detestable wiki.
* Dio, along with Diavolo are the only ED from *JoJo's Bizarre Adventure*.

## External Links

* Dio Brando on the Villains Wiki
* Dio Brando on the Pure Evil Wiki
* Dio Brando on the Jojo's Bizarre Adventure Wiki