The World/fr

"Le pouvoir de "The World" est de, comme son nom le suggère, de régner en maître sur le monde entier !"

- DIO,

The World (ザ・ワールド（世界）) est le Stand de DIO, apparaissant dans la troisième partie de JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, Stardust Crusaders.

C'est un Stand extrêmement puissant qui contrôle le temps et dont le manieur a des pouvoirs surhumains. The World est un stand ésotérique, à la fois vénéré et craint par presque tous les personnages de Stardust Crusaders.

Apparence
The World a l'apparence d'un humanoïde grand et très musclé - ressemblant fortement à DIO lui-même en silhouette. Il porte un casque couvrant la moitié haute de son visage, incliné à un angle raide de la base de son front vers un sommet situé au-dessus de l'arrière de sa tête d'environ la moitié de sa hauteur, laissant la face d'un triangle inversé visible à l'avant; le tout a une apparence similaire à une.

Il porte deux petits sur son dos connectées à l'arrière de son masque via des câbles courts à double crête; les cylindres sont peut-être fixés par des bretelles épaisses, striées ou gonflées allant de l'arrière de sa taille sur ses deux épaules vers l'avant. Le dos de ses deux mains est décoré avec des cadrans d'horloge. Son menton, la base de son abdomen, son entrejambe et ses genoux sont surmontés de cœurs. Il a des plaques d'armure sur ses tibias, et ses sabots portent des orteils incurvés et pointus, similaires à ceux des DIO.

Dans le manga couleur, The World est complètement jaune. Dans l'anime, il a la peau grise, des motifs de cœur vert et des vêtements dorés. Dans l'OAV, The World a la peau grise, des motifs de cœur en bronze et des vêtements en ivoire.

Il porte le nom de la carte de Tarot, la dernière carte des Arcanes Majeurs et symbolique du hasard tectonique: le début d'un nouvel ordre mondial.

Il est révélé dans le Journal de DIO qu'il avait l'intention de graver 14 mots sur son Stand pour s'en souvenir, bien qu'on ne sache pas s'il l'a fait avant sa mort.

Personnalité
Le Monde ne montre aucune personnalité particulière, même s'il sourit parfois en cognant ses victimes, laissant entendre qu'il peut s'agir d'une entité plutôt cruelle qui prend plaisir à causer de la douleur. Son Cri de combat est {{nihongo|Muda Muda Muda!|無駄 無駄 無駄!||lit. "Inutile, inutile, inutile!"} }, cependant, il semble parfois que ce soit DIO lui-même qui crie.

The World itself doesn't make much attempts at speech. In the anime, The World makes grunting noises while fighting Star Platinum, and in the English dub, the grunting sounds are replaced with growling noises.

Abilities
The World is an exceptionally powerful Close-range Stand much like Star Platinum as noted by Noriaki Kakyoin and Jotaro Kujo, but boasting an effective manifestation range of approximately 10 meters. Despite requiring a close distance to inflict damage, its overwhelming physical might and near unstoppable control over time undeniably make it one of the most dangerous Stands in the entire series.

Extreme Physical Power: The World possesses phenomenal strength, senses, precision, and incredible speed, being able to easily punch Kakyoin right through his abdomen. DIO claims that The World is even stronger and faster than Star Platinum since it bested the latter in a clash of rapid punches between the two. However, it is unclear if this is an aspect of DIO's vampiric nature or simply having greater experience with his Stand. Its main offense is generally characterized by a flurry of speedy punches and the occasional kick.

Time Stop
The World's signature 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.

In the stopped time, DIO can move his own body freely along with any object he touches that he wishes to move, allowing him to strike his defenseless enemies, move to a superior position, and toy with his victims. All force applied by DIO during the time stop continues to exist after the time stop. This is seen when the objects that DIO throws can momentarily move during the stopped time before grinding to a halt. A flurry of thrown knives could fly for several meters before stopping near Jotaro.

Another unique feature of the time stop is how DIO can seemingly levitate in stopped time. Since no forces other than the time stopper's exist during a time stop, there is no force of gravity, allowing DIO to move freely in space as he wishes, with the assistance of his stand.

It is notable that DIO needs to consciously activate Time Stop, which means that surprise attacks can prevent him from stopping time.

Despite time not actively progressing, DIO quantifies the duration of The World's time stop using seconds.

Because of DIO's weakened state in Stardust Crusaders, this ability initially only works for up to 5 seconds in DIO's frame of reference before time flows again. However, thanks to DIO's immortality, the duration of stopped time increases as DIO becomes more accustomed to The World and the scar around his neck heals, reaching a maximum of nine seconds towards the end of Stardust Crusaders.

However, had he not died, the period during for which DIO could have stopped time would have continued to grow, seemingly indefinitely.

Steel Ball Run
A similar version of the Stand appears in the seventh part of the JoJo's Bizarre Adventure series, Steel Ball Run.

JORGE JOESTAR
The World also appears in the novel . After Dio becomes an ultimate being like Kars, The World is capable of stopping time for nearly one hour.

While battling Dio, Kars develops his own enhanced copy of the Stand, known as The World Ultimate. Dio also awakens this version of the Stand after seeing Kars use it.

Eyes of Heaven
An evolved form of the Stand named The World Over Heaven appears in Eyes of Heaven, wielded by Heaven Ascension DIO.

Détails

 * The World's name and power and the stair scene with Polnareff are a possible reference to the song "Stargazer" by Ronnie James Dio (DIO's namesake), verse 3:
 * "All eyes see the figure of the wizard" "As he climbs to the top of the world" "No sound, as he falls instead of rising" "Time standing still, then there's blood on the sand"
 * The World's design may have been inspired by the large figure on the album cover of, also by Ronnie James Dio.
 * The World was the first Stand to be created and designed by Araki, specifically to contrast with Jotaro's Star Platinum from the very beginning.
 * The World's tarot card is the only card not to have "Lucky Land" written on it.
 * Coincidentally, the tarot card of The World was at one point referred to as "Time" in the deck.

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