Dio Brando/Abilities and Powers

Vampire Abilities

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Space Ripper Stingy Eyes

Dio is able to walk on walls and regenerate his body faster than fire can consume it. A bullet to the head fired at point-blank range is only able to momentarily stun him. He is able to pressurize liquid in his eyeballs and then create small openings in his pupils, eventually creating two fluid jets (referred to as "Space Ripper Stingy Eyes") powerful enough to slice stone and kill living things. He is also able to vaporize his bodily fluids rapidly enough to freeze anything he touches. His seemingly supernatural abilities are explained as him exercising the full potential of the human body.

All of this, however, is at the expense of having a body sustained by sheer willpower alone, rather than vital energy. A sufficiently powerful vital force - specifically, sunlight or the Hamon force - will negate the sustaining force's presence and disintegrate the long-unliving body. Like all Jojo vampires, Dio sucks blood through tentacles in his fingers and has been seen at least once drinking blood from an unnamed girl.

In part 1, Dio's powers are more bio-organic and slimy, but for the most part in part 3 he only utilizes the "evil implants" - a parasite that brainwashes Polnareff and Kakyoin and is generated from Dio's hair (In the fighting game JoJo's Bizarre Adventure it is the vector of attack when he uses the move "Charisma").

Stand Abilities

About a year after gaining his stand, Dio discovered that The World is capable of stopping time. At first, he could only do this for a very short amount of time but, by the end of Part III, he is able to stop time for a maximum of 9 seconds. When using this ability, Dio often seems to be teleporting or moving at impossible speeds. The ability is best known for Dio's activation and cancellation phrases "O Time, stand still!" (時よ止まれ, Toki wo tomare!) and "And now, time resumes again." (そして,時は動き出す, Soshite, toki wa ugokidesu).

Due to the familial connection between Jonathan's body and Jonathan's descendants, Dio is able to sense the presence of other Joestars. He was even able to tell when Joseph used Hermit Purple to take a psychic photograph of him, as well as instinctively know that his acquisition of a stand also awoke stand abilities in Jonathan's descendants.

Dio is also able to create a vision on a photograph, similar to Joseph's Hermit Purple. This ability is only shown once and is stated to be a stand power which awoke in the body of Jonathan Joestar.

In Games

• Blazing Fists (MudaMuda)
• Blazing Strike
• The World, Road Roller
• Eye-Crushing Kick
• The World, Circle of Knives
• The World, Time Stop
• The Touch of Evil (Charisma)