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L'histoire de Jonathan Joestar en ordre chronologique.

Passé (1868-1880)

Jonathan Joestar est l'unique fils de George Joestar I et de Mary Joestar. Il est issu de la Famille Joestar, une noble famille anglaise avec des racines écossaises qui a fait fortune dans le commerce. Un soir alors qu'il n'était qu'un bébé, Jonathan et ses parents furent victimes d'un accident de carrosse. Lui et son père survécurent mais sa mère Mary périt durant l'accident. Peu après l'accident, George rencontra Dario Brando, un petit voleur sans importance, et crût que Dario les avait sauvé ; il accorda à Dario une faveur.

Jonathan vécut son enfance un peu seul sans sa mère ni véritable ami. Alors qu'il avait 5 ans, George offrit à Jonathan un chien, Danny. Lors de leur rencontre, le petit chiot Danny était effrayé et mordit la main de Jonathan, qui se mit à le détester. Cependant, un jour, Jonathan tomba dans la rivière et faillit se noyer mais Danny vint à son secours. Depuis, Jonathan et Danny furent de très bons amis et Jonathan le dressa.

Phantom Blood (1880)

“

C'est le genre de type qui s'endurcit quand on le frappe plus fort (奴はたたけばたたくほど成長するタイプだ！)

”

—Dio sur Jonathan

Jeunesse

Rencontre avec Dio Brando

Jonathan rencontre Dio pour la première fois

Un jour, un jeune Jonathan de dix ans vient au secours d'une jeune fille nommée Erina Pendleton qui se fait harceler par deux brutes, mais les deux brutes le battent, étant jaloux qu'il soit un gosse de riche. Lorsque Jonathan se relève, il refuse l'aide d'Erina et déclare qu'il voulait la protéger non pas pour s'attirer son attention mais simplement parce qu'il aspire à être un "gentleman" et que donc c'était simplement la bonne chose à faire. Lorsqu'il revient chez lui, Jonathan voit un carrosse arriver et rencontre alors Dio Brando, le fils de Dario que George a accepté d'adopter alors que Dario est mort de maladie. Jonathan salue Dio mais lorsque Danny accourt, Dio lui donne un coup de genou à la face, le faisant fuir. Jonathan s'énerve une première fois. Ensuite, c'est George qui accueille Dio dans leur manoir. Dio se montrant plutôt calme, Jonathan se demande s'il n'y a pas eu malentendu, mais Dio se met à brutaliser Jonathan derrière le dos de George. En fait, Dio prévoit d'harceler Jonathan et de l'isoler jusqu'à que ce dernier perde sa volonté, ce qui permettra à Dio de s'emparer de l'héritage de la famille.

Dio va systématiquement s'atteler à ruiner la vie de Jonathan. Grâce à son talent, Dio est meilleur élève que Jonathan et se comporte aussi mieux à table. George compare Jonathan défavorablement à Dio et impose des mesures disciplinaires pour punir son fils. Puis, Dio se mieux à "emprunter" les affaires de Jonathan (par exemple une montre à gousset) sans avoir l'intention de les rendre. Enfin, Dio médit sur Jonathan auprès des enfants de la région. Durant un concours de boxe organisé par les autres enfants, Dio défie Jonathan et gagne grâce à son meilleur niveau. Il va sournoisement appuyer son pouce dans l’œil de Jonathan juste pour le blesser, puis promet aux autres de montrer ses tours mais leur dit que Jonathan est un rapporteur. Jonathan se retrouve isolé de tous.

Cependant, Jonathan retrouve Erina et ils nouent une relation amoureuse. L'humeur de Jonathan s'améliore. Un jour, Jonathan et Erina vont se baigner ensemble dans la rivière et Jonathan grave sur un arbre un coeur avec leurs deux noms ensemble. Plus tard, Dio trouve la gravure. Ce dernier s'approche d'Erina et va donc voler le premier baiser d'Erina juste pour qu'elle soit couverte de honte et n'ose plus parler à Jonathan.

Jonathan tabasse Dio

Jonathan va plus tard apprendre ce qui s'est passé par le biais de deux des camarades de Dio. Jonathan retourne chez lui et confronte Dio pour le battre. Dio a d'abord l'avantage mais Jonathan se rappelle qu'il doit défendre l'honneur d'Erina et la motivation lui permet de rassembler la force de battre Dio. Alors qu'il tabasse Dio, un peu de sang asperge un Masque de Pierre accroché au mur et des piques sortent du masque, ce qui attire l'attention de Jonathan. George vient interrompre leur combat. Malgré tout, Erina n'ose plus revoir Jonathan et ce dernier lamente le fait que Dio ait réussi son plan. Plus tard, on retrouve le corps de Danny brûlé dans l'incinérateur. On pense qu'un cambrioleur aurait voulu se débarrasser du chien et bien que Jonathan ait des soupçons, il n'a aucune preuve. Jonathan pleure la mort de son chien dans sa chambre. Pour sa part, Dio a découvert la force intérieure de Jonathan et préfère changer de plan. Dio va dès lors se comporter comme un ami avec Jonathan pendant des années pour essayer de gagner sa confiance.

Jonathan adulte (1888)

Sept ans plus tard, Jonathan est devenu un fringant jeune homme. Il étudie à l'académie de Hugh Hudson dans laquelle il prévoit d'obtenir un diplôme en archéologie, étant devenu très intéressé par le Masque de Pierre. Pendant ses sept ans, Jonathan et Dio sont devenus "amis" mais Jonathan se méfie encore de Dio.

Rencontre avec Robert E. O. Speedwagon et sa bande

Jonathan combat Speedwagon

Alors que Jonathan et Dio sont sur le point de finir leurs études, George tombe malade. En fouillant dans la bibliothèque dans le cadre de son étude du Masque de Pierre, Jonathan retrouve une lettre de Dario Brando qui décrit qu'il avait les même symptômes que George actuellement. Jonathan suspecte que Dio soit en train d'empoisonner George pour s'emparer de l'héritage.

Jonathan n'a pas de preuve autre que la lettre et confronte Dio, qui le convainc presque. Cependant, Dio refuse de jurer au nom de son père qu'il est innocent et frappe Jonathan, qui le jette de la balustrade donnant sur le hall. Jonathan est désormais convaincu que Dio est coupable et décide de retrouver le poison pour connaitre l'antidote. Jonathan se rend à Ogre Street, une rue mal famée de Londres. Là, il rencontre le ruffian Robert E. O. Speedwagon et le bat, mais va l'épargner. Speedwagon est impressionné par le gentleman qu'est Jonathan et devient son ami. Il va guider Jonathan jusqu'à la boutique du Chinois Wang Chan. Wang Chan est arrêté, et on donne un antidote à George. Jonathan et la police attendent le retour de Dio au Manoir Joestar.

Dio le Vampire

Jonathan, Speedwagon, George et la police attendent le retour de Dio au Manoir Joestar pour l'arrêter. Cependant, Dio a découvert entretemps que le Masque de Pierre pouvait transformer les gens en Vampire. Après avoir feint son innocence sans succès, Dio capitule mais demande à JoJo de venir lui mettre les menottes personnellement. Jonathan s'approche et c'est alors que Dio brandit le Masque et un couteau. Dio essaie de poignarder Jonathan mais George s'interpose. Jonathan est choqué tandis que Dio met le masque et l'active avec le sang de George avant que les policiers ne luit tirent dessus. Dio tombe par la fenêtre. Jonathan tient son père George dans ses bras. Malgré sa tristesse, George est au moins heureux de mourir auprès de son fils. C'est alors que Dio revient à la vie et s'approche de Jonathan. Choqué, Jonathan hésite à tirer sur Dio et c'est Speedwagon qui tire dans sa tête. A l'horreur de tous, Dio est insensible aux balles et commence à massacrer les policiers, étant devenu un Vampire.

Combat au Manoir Joestar

Jonathan fighting Dio as the Joestar Estate burns around them

Dio slaughters the constables and breaks Speedwagon's arm. Seeing that Dio has become a monster, Jonathan resolves to fight this inhuman threat. However, Dio is supernaturally strong and can regenerate wounds, making Jonathan's fight a nearly desperate endeavor. Jonathan is forced to set fire to his home in hopes that the amassed heat would kill him. After luring Dio to the roof to let the fire build up, Jonathan tackles the Vampire so that they both fall into the flames. Dio crushes JoJo's ribs and kicks him away but Jonathan manages to stick a spear tip that Dio flicked into his shoulder into the wall as an improvised hold and ties his belt to Dio's foot, pulling him back down. Jonathan stabs Dio with the very knife that killed his father and somehow manages to make it so Dio is impaled statue of the goddess Venus, effectively trapping him in the flaming building. As Dio curses him, Jonathan manages to jump out of a window and remains alive despite many burns and injuries.

Speedwagon manages to take Jonathan to a hospital, where he ends up seeing Erina for the first time in seven years. Despite Dio's actions in the past, it did not change Erina's feelings for Jonathan as she nursed him back to health.

Rencontre avec Will Anthonio Zeppeli

Jonathan training with Zeppeli

After being discharged from the hospital a few days later, Jonathan meets Will Anthonio Zeppeli, an Italian martial artist trained in the art of Sendō. Zeppeli punches Jonathan in the stomach but the blow somehow heals his remaining wounds. Zeppeli then reveals that Dio survived the estate burning and offers to teach Jonathan to utilize respiratory-based solar energy called Ripple in order to defeat Dio and destroy the Stone Mask. After a little week of training, Jonathan is capable of using the Ripple. JoJo drives away a zombified Wang Chan who has been sent to kill him, but Wang Chan escapes. Jonathan later learns from Speedwagon that Dio had apparently set up base at Windknight's Lot, resulting in the disappearance of several of its citizens.

L'attaque de Jack l'Eventreur et arrivée à Windknight's Lot

Drawing near to the village, the group is attacked by a newly zombified Jack the Ripper sent by Dio. Zeppeli offers the zombie's defeat as a final test for Jonathan, giving him a glass of wine and ordering him to defeat Jack without spilling a drop. Jonathan eventually realizes that the wine is infused with a Ripple that detects people nearby. Realising how the Ripple can travel through materials, he detects Jack before defeating him by transmitting Ripple through the wall.

Once at Windknight's Lot, Jonathan and his group are unknowingly led by a hypnotized boy named Poco to a graveyard where Dio's large number of minions ambush them the moment night falls.

Combat contre Bruford

Jonathan using his Sunlight Yellow Overdrive on Bruford

Dio reveals himself at that time, having learned of the Ripple fighting style and shows off his ability to flash-freeze anyone that touches him, preventing the Ripple from reaching him with bare-handed attacks. Zeppeli's arms are frozen and Jonathan's arms are almost lost too. Sure of his ultimate victory Dio then reveals his strongest zombie warriors, the knights Bruford and Tarkus.

Bruford attacks Jonathan with his hair, planning to suck his blood through them. Jonathan cannot transmit the Ripple but manages to burn the hair with a burning Ripple and strikes his own arm. Impressed by Jonathan's spirit and wits, Bruford requests Dio to let him fight the human in a duel. Dio accepts and leaves the place. Bruford takes their battle underwater, where Jonathan is at a disadvantage as he was unable to breathe air in during the fall. Recalling a lesson from his late father, Jonathan dives deeper into the water where he finds air bubbles trapped underneath rocks; using these to breathe, Jonathan is able to generate enough Ripple to force Bruford out of the water. Bruford tries to finish off Jonathan with his sword, but Jonathan channels Ripple through the zombie's sword to literally disarm him before unleashing a flurry of 'Sunlight Yellow Overdrive' punches. As Bruford breaks down, he regains his human soul and in respect for Jonathan leaves him his sword, which he renames from Luck to Pluck.

Combat contre Tarkus

Jonathan battling Tarkus

Tarkus steps in, crushing the remains of Bruford. Zeppeli's arms have been defrosted thanks to Speedwagon but even the Ripple master is wounded because of Tarkus' sheer strength. Cornered at the edge of a cliff, Jonathan and Zeppeli create a leaf-based hang-glider that magnetized with the Ripple and jump along with Speedwagon and the young Poco. Mid-flight, the group sees an ancient knight's battleground where these warriors once trained. Tarkus jumps into the glider and forces the heroes to land on a balcony. Jonathan enters inside and is ambushed. He is collared and finds himself in the Chamber of the Two-Headed Dragon, where two warriors are chained together by the neck, with the chain going up to the ceiling. Unable to breathe properly, Jonathan is at a disadvantage but Poco bravely sneaks into the room to open the door for Zeppeli. Zeppeli steps in, having realized that this is the moment of his death. Despite Zeppeli's intervention, Tarkus manages to tie Zeppeli with the chain and violently yanks it, cutting Zeppeli in half and breaking Jonathan's neck. However, Zeppeli uses the last of his strength to crawl to Jonathan's side and transfers him his Ripple. Empowered, Jonathan heals and easily defeats Tarkus. Jonathan also has to see his Ripple master give him a last goodbye before passing away. Afterwards, Jonathan cremates Zeppeli's body before resuming the search for Dio.

Les trois venant d'un pays lointain

The group heads toward Windknight's Lot. Attacked by a citizen turned into a Zombie named Adams, Jonathan easily dispatches him. Immediately after, Jonathan meets with an unknown man who attacks him. The man uses a special technique to lock Jonathan's arm with his legs but Jonathan headbutts him. Impressed, the warrior named Dire calls off the fight and reveals himself as a Ripple user that Zeppeli called for help. Tonpetty, Straizo, and Dire have come to help the group.

Combat contre DIO au château

Jonathan's final battle with Dio

The group reach Dio's castle where Jonathan saves Poco's sister from Doobie before confronting Dio. Facing his archenemy again, Jonathan confesses that he's come not to vanquish evil, but to avenge his fallen friends and loved ones. Dire is nonetheless the first to attack Dio, and is quickly defeated. After Dire is killed by Dio's freezing powers, Jonathan gets the idea to counter Dio's freezing by channeling his Ripple through Luck and Pluck. Dio, livid over Dire's last attack, summons his zombies to take care of the others while he deals with Jonathan one-on-one. Thanks to his sword and Dio's eye wound, Jonathan manages to split Dio's upper body vertically, but Dio's resilience allows him to shrug the sword cut and the Vampire traps Luck and Pluck into his stomach, freezing Jonathan's arms through the sword. Jonathan counters Dio's stratagem by placing Luck and Pluck's tip into a fire nearby, forcing Dio to break away from Jonathan. Finally, Jonathan set his fists on fire to remove Dio's advantage and lands a Ripple-infused punch into Dio's stomach while sending him plummeting off the edge of the balcony. Despite everything, Jonathan mourns for Dio and collapses from exhaustion. After recovering, Jonathan's group destroys the Stone Mask.

Mariage avec Erina

Jonathan and Erina marry

Two weeks after the Windknight's Lot incident, Jonathan marries Erina and the two board a ship heading to America for a honeymoon.

Combat final contre DIO

In the middle of the ocean, Jonathan's honeymoon is cut short as he spots Wang Chan lurking near and Jonathan is led to the ship's cargo bay/engine room, where he encounters a bodiless Dio. Dio explains that he's developed some respect for Jonathan and has decided to steal his body, as this body is the only one worthy of him. Dio then shoots beams of pressurized eye fluid at Jonathan. Jonathan's throat is hit and he agonizes, although Dio was aiming at the head for an immediate death. Regardless, Dio orders Wang Chan to rip off Jonathan's head while warning him to be both respectful and wary of his new body. Using the last of his Ripple, Jonathan destroys Wang Chan's head and manipulates his body to obstruct the engines. Jonathan intended this to cause an explosion that would sink the ship and hopefully put an end to Dio for good.

La mort de Jonathan Joestar

Jonathan dies with Dio in his arms

While Erina was content to die with him in his final moments, Jonathan beseeches her to escape with an infant whose mother died protecting her from the zombies that Wang Chan sired. Dio explains that his coffin is explosion-proof and makes a last-ditch attempt to take Jonathan's body at that time, only to be stabbed and restrained by Jonathan. In his mind, Jonathan reflects on his and Dio's remarkably interwoven history. Erina is shoved into the coffin alongside the baby and Jonathan makes his last good bye to her, wishing her to be happy. Dio attempts to convince Jonathan to let him go with promises of immortality, only to realize that he had already died before the two were consumed in the inferno caused by the ship's explosion. Thanks to Jonathan Joestar's heroic sacrifice, the Joestar Family survives through Erina and their unborn son, and Dio is sealed at the bottom of the sea.

Legacy

Dio using Jonathan's body as a vessel.

Jonathan's story was known only to a few, namely his son George Joestar II and later his grandson Joseph Joestar and his descendants. Despite Jonathan's last act, Dio manages to take the headless body of his rival for his own and resurfaces from the ocean depths a century later. Once freed, the renamed DIO uses Jonathan's body to impregnate a few women: resulting in the births of Giorno Giovanna, Donatello Versus, Ungalo, and Rikiel. DIO then pierces his new body with the Bow and Arrow, awakening the ability to use a Stand. DIO also gave Enrico Pucci one of Jonathan's bones to enact his dream of 'ascending to Heaven'.

Jonathan's body reduced to ashes.

During the events of Stardust Crusaders, DIO decides to completely integrate Jonathan's body to perfect his Stand by using Joseph's blood as a catalyst, but ends up being utterly defeated by Jonathan's great-great-grandson, Jotaro Kujo. After DIO's death by Jotaro's hand, he and Joseph expose what remained of Jonathan's body to the sun as an apparent end to their generational feud with DIO, allowing Jonathan to finally rest in peace.

JORGE JOESTAR

A young Jonathan, Dio, and Erina

The information below derives from a source not written by Araki. As such, it may or may not be considered canon.

Jonathan Joestar has a minor role in the light novel JORGE JOESTAR. After Erina enters Dio's coffin to escape the explosion of the ship on their honeymoon trip, she looks back wondering if she could somehow get Jonathan inside as well. However, Jonathan is using the last of his strength to hold Dio in his arms and Erina would not be able to move him in time. As the explosion hits, Dio escapes from Jonathan's grip and decapitates him before barely attaching his head to Jonathan's body. He impales Jonathan's feet to a stick of wood embedded in the tattered side of the coffin, allowing him to travel along with Erina.

Jonathan's head

While on his voyage with Erina, Dio would often use Jonathan's name to torture her, claiming things like Jonathan died because of Erina. A day later, Erina realizes that Dio must have brought Jonathan's head with him. After Dio throws Erina underwater while torturing her, she sees Jonathan's head bobbing up and down under debris of the ship near the coffin. Erina swims to Jonathan's head assuming he would look like a Zombie but his flesh miraculously hadn't decayed and he still looked alive. Even Dio is surprised to see Jonathan's condition, thinking he had made Jonathan a zombie with his blood. Erina ends up keeping Jonathan's head with her, feeling that he is still alive. When she and Lisa Lisa are rescued by a fisherman, she hides his head in a torn piece of her dress. Erina has hope that Jonathan will get his body back from Dio someday and keeps his head at her home's basement in La Palma.

When Dio gets his Stand, Jonathan's body also awakens a Stand named The Passion. It can see the futures of any of his descendants.

The Passion (ザ・パッション)

Debut

JORGE JOESTAR Chapter 14: Desolation Row

Type

Close-Range, Foresight, Reconnaissance, Natural Non-Humanoid

Ability

Descendant Precognition

Eventually, Jonathan's head moves with Erina and George Joestar II to their basement in England.

Tonpetty tells George II that Jonathan was barely a man at all. He was a spoiled boy, weak willed, not very smart, and prone to taking the easy way out. However, Jonathan always had a glimmer of courage.

In the final battle against Dio Brando, Jorge Joestar ^{(Universe 37)} cuts off the supplementary head from the Saint's Corpse and places Jonathan's head on the stump. Jonathan's head fits on the body perfectly, as it was actually his body originally. During Dio's earlier fight against Kars, Dio's body had split apart into pieces in the second universe, becoming what people in the Steel Ball Run race thought was the corpse of a holy man.

Jonathan claims to be Dio

Erina wraps her shawl around Jonathan's waist so he wouldn't be naked. For a moment, Jorge could see Jonathan's Stand The Passion around his head. Jonathan revives and suddenly starts laughing, claiming that he is actually Dio since Dio had given him his blood after cutting off Jonathan's head on the boat. Everybody is shocked aside from Erina who could tell that he is joking. She scolds him by saying he should at least thank everyone for their help instead of joking like that.

Group hug

Jonathan states that he couldn't remember anything after he passed out in the ship but he felt like he was watching a very long dream and what he just did was an inside joke between him and Dio, referencing what Joseph Joestar does in the future. When Dio was using The Passion to watch the futures of Jonathan's descendants, Jonathan had also been seeing them. Erina and Jonathan have a tearful reunion. Erina hesitates mentioning what happened to their son, George II, and Jonathan looks confused. He had figured out that George was hiding inside a parallel world within the body of the 37th universe's Jorge. George leaps out of the parallel world and the Joestar family all have a group hug.

37th universe's Jonathan

37th Universe

An incarnation of Jonathan appears in the 37th universe, living in America with his father George Joestar I ^{(Universe 37)} and adopted brother Dio Brando ^{(Universe 37)}.

Jonathan's grandson Joseph Joestar ^{(Universe 37)} describes Jonathan as a gentleman, kindhearted, handsome, and so athletic that he played rugby with younger men until quite late in life. Jonathan eventually dies trying to stop his brother Dio from robbing a train.