Hermit Purple manifests itself as multiple, purple, thorn-covered vines that spawn from Joseph's hands. The vines are strong enough to support his own weight and long enough to bind someone completely.
Hermit Purple is consistently portrayed as being purple across all media featuring it, befitting its name.
Hermit Purple represents the Tarot Card The Hermit, which symbolizes introspection and contemplation, best represented in the Stand's powers of divination.
Abilities
Hermit Purple's vines are relatively weak, but they provide Joseph with considerable divination ability, enabling him to divine and materialize any type of information, such as an image, a location or even thoughts.
Joseph demonstrated that he can use the vines as ropes, whose movements he can control at will. Their length and resistance make it possible for Joseph to swing from place to place[1] and tie someone.[2] The vines have limited resistance as a sufficiently strong Stand or even a strong Vampire can break them.[2] The vines are dexterous enough to manipulate a video game controller.
Divination
Hermit Purple divining information from a television
Hermit Purple's main ability is to divine information. By using any object or material in conjunction with Hermit Purple, Joseph Joestar can display any information he wishes to see. To date, he has used Hermit Purple to:
Produce psychic photographs by destroying a camera.[3] The broken camera then produces a photograph which will reveal the information as it is in that moment of time, such as a person in their current situation.
Produce live psychic videos on a television.[4] It can either randomly display different TV channels to formulate a coherent sentence which will show a person's thought or film a place, even the most improbable ones such as the interior of Joseph's brain.
Analyze machinery to see if it has been tampered with in some way as he did with Telence T. D'Arby’s video game cartridges and console.
Conjure a map out of dust on an unpaved road, with precision on the location of a desired item.[5]
Ripple Transmission
Joseph has shown the ability to transmit the Ripple through Hermit Purple as an extension of his body. Joseph has used this property of Hermit Purple to attack DIO[2] or prevent him from touching him by wrapping himself in it.[6]
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Hermit Purple.jpg|JOJO A-GO!GO!
HermitPurple first.png|Hermit Purple's first appearance
HermitPurple tv.png|Hermit Purple used for spirit listening through TV
HermitPurple map.png|Hermit Purple used for spirit photography through dust
DIO HP Photo Manga.png|DIO using Hermit Purple to takes a photo of Joseph and Jotaro
DIO HP Crystal Ball.png|DIO's Hermit Purple used on a crystal ball
HermitPurple part4.png|Hermit Purple in Diamond is Unbreakable
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HermitPurpleShade.png|Hermit Purple in the OP, Bloody Stream (the vine next to Joseph Joestar)
JosephStandCard.png|Hermit Purple and it's tarot card
Hermit purple.gif|Hermit Purple used Divination through the television
File:HermitPurpleEffect.png|Joseph's Hermit Purple "taking" a spirit photo.
File:Hermit Purple plane.png|Joseph's Hermit Purple used on a plane.
File:Hermitpurplebrain.png|Joseph's Hermit Purple projecting what's on Joseph's brain onto a TV.
File:Hermitpurplemap.png|A map of Varanasi made with Joseph's Hermit Purple's ability.
File:DIO HermitPurple Camera.png|DIO using Hermit Purple on a camera.
File:DIO HermitBall.png|DIO's Hermit Purple used on a crystal ball.
File:Hermit Purple crumbling.png|Hermit Purple crumbles away as Joseph dies.
HermitPurple.png|Hermit Purple Stats
Hermit Purple's (Part 4) stats.png|Hermit Purple's stats in Diamond is Unbreakable.
Hermit Purple Part 4.png|Hermit Purple being used by Joseph Joestar in Part 4
HermitPurplePt4_KeyArt.png|Hermit Purple Key Art
Hermit Purple's thorns can briefly be seen in the background of the second opening of the JoJo TV anime, "BLOODY STREAM". This acts as foreshadowing, as the episodes that the second opening is attached to adapt Battle Tendency, and Joseph does not develop Hermit Purple until the following part, Stardust Crusaders.
Manga Appearances
Anime Appearances
