Vampire
Origin
Vampires were created by the Pillar Men with acupuncture techniques that they developed through the use of the Stone Mask. The purpose of the vampires were to become food for the Pillar Men and for the exploration of human potential. This would then lead the Pillar Men to discover the Red Stone of Aja, which can be combined with the Stone Mask to make them perfect, granting them immunity to sunlight and allowing them to rewrite their DNA.
Vampires can be created in two ways. One way is to wear the Stone Mask while exposing it to blood. The other way is for a vampire to give a corpse some of his own blood.
Zombies
A secondary undead, created by a vampire who dons the stone mask, is commonly referred in part I and II as a Zombie. While the zombies found in Part I: Phantom Blood were typically lesser beings that had no vampire abilities, the discrepancy between the two is much more vague in Part's II and III.
Powers and Abilities
Vampires have numerous superhuman traits. The most obvious abilities are their raw strength, regeneration, and near-immortality. On top of that, many vampires are capable of manipulating their bodies in creative and unique ways. Some as skilled as Dio have created their own unique abilities.
Abilities discovered by Dio
- Space Ripper Stingy Eyes: Creates two pressurized fluid jets from the eyes. Strong enough to cut through a whole column.
- Regeneration: The body is able to live even after having vital body parts amputated. It will regenerate and the body parts can reattach themselves. Vampires can also control their detached body parts.
- Freezing Touch: Able to freeze their body parts and transfer this to over objects. It is able to cancel out the Hamon by freezing the blood in the user's body.
- Fusion: Can create half-man half-beast creatures by fusing different species.
- Spores: Can insert Evil Implants in the brain to control living beings.
Differences with Popular Culture Vampires
- The crucifixes and garlic have no effect on JJBA vampires. Hamon as a sunlight force could affect normal vampires.
- JJBA vampires have reflections and can be photographed.
- Vampires are commonly converted when they are bitten by another vampire. In JJBA the vampires are created wearing a Stone Mask or receiving blood from a vampire.
- Another myth of popular culture is that vampires can turn into bats, wolves or other animals. In JJBA vampires can manipulate their own body becoming humanoid monsters. This also means JJBA vampires can't fly as bats.
- Normal Vampires suck blood through a bite to the neck of their victims. JJBA vampires suck blood through tentacles in their fingers. However, like traditional vampires, JJBA vampires are shown to bear fangs.
- In some myths, killing the main vampire, cures all the humans. In JJBA killing the main vampire does not reverse the transformation of other vampires.
- In some myths vampirism is genetic. In those myths, cases of male vampires conceiving a child with human woman result in the child being a half-vampire (Dhampir). Dio Brando's sons show no indication of having inherited his vampirism.
