Diavolo

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## Entertainingly Detestable

### Powers / Skills

High intelligence
Charisma
Leadership
Strategic thinking

### Goals

Become anonymous to the world.
Kill all the members of the Assassination Team.
Kill Bucciarati and his gang.
Attain Requiem and erase his existence.

### Most Entertaining Features

Katsuyuki Konishi and Kellen Goff's entertaining performance.
His stand, King Crimson, is widely infamous due to its confusing ability.
Has a mysterious vibe due to his origin.

### Most Detestable Traits

Encouraged drug trade in Italy, which affected children, for sheer profit.
Tried to kill Trish, his own daughter out of paranoia.
Left Doppio to die to save his own skin.

### Type of ED

Enigmatic Crime Lord

**Diavolo** is an overarching antagonist of *JoJo's Bizarre Adventure*. He is the main antagonist of *JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Golden Wind*, and the overarching antagonist of its modern parts. Diavolo is the leader of Passione, a major crime syndicate boasting of having stand users. Despite ordering Bucciarati to protect his daughter, Diavolo is revealed to have far more sinister designs for her and Team Bucciarati.

## His Qualities

### What Makes Him Entertaining?

* Has a majestic and entertaining demeanor, due to both Katsuyuki Konishi and Kellen Goff's voice acting.
* Had a mysterious origin, with him and Doppio being born of a mysterious pregnancy, with both him and Doppio sharing two souls.
* Despite only using Doppio due to them sharing the same body, Diavolo had several Laughably Evil moments with him, which doesn't detract from his paranoiac nature.
* Due to selling the Stand Arrows to Enya Geil, Diavolo is arguably the reason why Part 3 and beyond exists as it does: due to Dio Brando gaining The World, Joseph Joestar, Jotaro Kujo, Josuke Higashikata and Giorno Giovanna gained stands due to DIO's connection to the Joestar lineage via Jonathan's body, thus using their Stands to thwart the goals of evil-doers.
	+ The Stand Arrows also gave rise to several skillful enemies, such as DIO himself, Yoshikage Kira, the Assassination Team and Enrico Pucci attaining Whitesnake.
	+ Koichi Hirose, Okuyasu Nijimura, all of Team Bucciarati as well as Jolyne's teammates in prison inevitably gain their own stands due to the Stand Arrows sold by him.
* Eventually gained the Stand, King Crimson and its sub-stand, Epitaph. While King Crimson allows him to skip time between 0.5 to 10 seconds and Epitaph allows him to see the skipped time, Diavolo is clever enough to manipulate things so that he could technically fulfill the conditions without harming himself.
* Skilfully led Passione from its humble origins to a syndicate dreaded across Italy: despite Diavolo's own reclusive nature, Passione eventually gained connections across powerful positions in Italy, such as the media and government.
* Tricked Polnareff into thinking he has him cornered, while actually luring him into a trap to finish him off. Polnareff only survived due to Diavolo mistakenly assuming he finished him off.
* Despite having Cioccolata and Secco in his elite team, Diavolo expressed disgust towards their lack of restraint and wanton evilness, if only due to pragmatism.

### What Makes Him Detestable?

* Is ultimately too paranoiac to his own detriment, despite Trish knowing *nothing* about him, Diavolo still manipulated Team Bucciarati into delivering her so that he could kill her himself, turning Bucciarati, who was earlier respectful towards him into wanting him dead.
* To increase his profits, Diavolo encouraged drug trade and corruption across Italy, leading to teenagers becoming addicts and corruption festering across Italy, leading to several of Team Bucciarati down the criminal life.
* Underpaid his Assassination Team, despite their effectiveness for the evulz, leading them to turn against him and seize his drug connections.
* Brutally tortured Sorbet and Gelato only due to them trying to find his identity out, leading to him killing Sorbet and Gelato committing suicide out of fear.
	+ In the anime, he ordered Cioccolata and Secco to do the above.
* Despite Doppio caring for him and obeying him like a loyal subordinate, Diavolo callously left him to die so that he could kill Team Bucciarati.

## Trivia

* Diavolo was considered to be a Hate Sink before Word of God specified him as his fourth favorite character due to having a mysterious vibe and Evil is Cool moments.

## External Links

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