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From Stardust Crusaders onwards, Jojo characters adopted Stands as their primary supernatural ability – a concentration of their very life energy into a powerful and often humanoid form.
Quite a lot of Stand types can be observed in the series, varying in range, power and speed. Jotaro’s Star Platinum, for example, is a fast and powerful humanoid Stand, but it can only unleash its power at close range. In contrast, Mista’s Sex Pistols is a long-range Stand that allows the user to keep their distance from enemies.
For The World, Dio’s frighteningly strong Stand with the ability to stop time, however, range is mostly irrelevant.
Furthermore, Stands usually manifest as one of five forms – natural humanoids, resembling humans; artificial humanoids that look like cyborgs; natural non-humanoids, which can appear as animals or other organisms; artificial non-humanoids, such as weapons, tools or vehicles; and phenomena, in which a form is mostly absent.
Stands effectively replaced Hamon/Ripple techniques by Part 3. Jojo’s creator, Hirohiko Araki, explained in an interview that he developed Stands after being told by his editor at Shueisha that Hamons had become old and overplayed.
Mr. Araki added that Stands greatly expanded Jojo’s potential to create more interesting and varied fights without needing to raise an antagonist’s power level to unreasonable levels, as was common with the tournament arc formats of many series at the time.
In Part 3, beloved vampiric psychopath Dio Brando shed his name from Part 1, simply rebranding himself as “DIO” in capital letters. This is intended to show that he had discarded any relation to his miserable human life and fully recognized himself as a superior being.
“Dio” in Italian can also be translated to “God,” which is fitting for DIO’s megalomaniacal tendencies and desire to rule over the entire world.
