List of Deceased Characters

This Article contains a list of emotional,curious and bizarre deaths along the series.

Part I

In his and Jonathan's fight against Bruford and Tarkus, William Zeppeli dies to Tarkus to save Jonathan, but not before he transfers his hamon powers to Jonathan who then defeats Bruford. Also, Tonpeti predicted his death and William was aware of it, for this motive he died without a regret.
Jonathan Joestar's death at the end of part I is very tragic as his only chance to finally have a happy life was ruined once again by Dio and also was the first time in the series that the main hero of his/her part died. However his death could be considered a good ending and a bad ending at the same time for Phantom Blood; the bad being that Dio finally managed to kill Jonathan and would later take possesion of his body, but the good being thanks to Jonathan's sacrifice, Dio's plans were ruined and put on hold for 100 years as he needed a long time to recover and let the fusion with his head and Jonathan's body to be stable enough for him to move and also Erina and Lisa Lisa were saved.

Caesar Zeppeli, who is ultimately defeated by Wham due to his overconfidence in close combat, uses the last ounce of his strength to take Wham's lip piercing that contains the antidote to the ring that Wham placed on Joseph's heart. He loops his headband through the ring and encases it in a bubble of blood held together by his ripple. The ripple bubble ultimately adds onto Joseph's existing ripple and the headband is worn by Joseph during his battle with Wham.
After Cars initially demonstrates the power of his ripple on Joseph's body, he attempts to kill Joseph with that same ripple. However, Joseph reflexively held up the Red Stone of Asia, causing Cars' ripple to collide with the Red Stone of Asia and unleash a surge of energy powerful enough to shoot Cars into space. Cars, incapable of dying, floated around space helplessly until he stopped thinking and desired death.

Avdol is a rare case in the series as he was the only characther to die twice. The first time was when he was protecting Polnareff from Hol Horse's attack. Due his popularity the character rises again to defeat Cameo and it was revealed that instead of killing him Hol Horse's bullet only knocked him out. His second and real death was at hands of Vanilla Ice who dissintegrate his body with a surprise attack of his stand Cream.

Noriaki Kakyoin was very young when he died. He confronted Dio on his own and was defeated by The World. However he didn't die in vain; being as smart as he was he discovered the nature of Dio's Stand. Using his last bit of energy, he made an attack at a clock tower to tell Joseph and the others about The World's time stop ability.

Yoshikage Kira didn't know when he died. Even after being killed by Star Platinum and Echoes Act 3, Kira is somehow existing as a spirit who doesn't know who he is and is just a vagabond.

Polnareff's death combined with Silver Chariot Requiem's ability, gave him a second chance at life when his spirit was put into Coco Jumbo's body. While is human body had died and his soul stuck in the turtle's body he was still alive.
Diavolo is maybe the victim of the worst death in the entire series, having to die for eternity. It can be considered that he never "died" actually but is trapped in an infinite series of near death situation.
Buccellati has a weird fate. According to Rolling Stone, Buccellati would die peacefully a little after the beginning of the story. However, he was able to avoid this fate with the help of Mista by destroying Rolling Stone, even though this cost not only his life, but Leone Abbachio's and Narancia Ghirga's lives as well. He died after his fight with Diavolo, but Giorno managed to bring his soul back with Golden Experience, leaving Buccellati as a walking dead unable to feel anything, including pain. In the final battle against Diavolo, Buccellati is able to stop Diavolo from piercing himself with the arrow, by stopping Silver Chariot's requiem ability and returning everyone's souls into their original bodies; after that, his soul is showed going to heaven.

Foo Fighters choose to die instead of live again when Jolyne Kujo gives her the choice. Her reason was that it wouldn't be the real her but another F.F the revived one.
The end of Part VI featured the most unexpected death of the series. Made in Heaven kills Jotaro Kujo,Hermes Costello, Narciso Anasui and even the protagonist Jolyne Kujo.

Similar to Cars's fate, Magenta Magenta was trapped by a wire in the bottom of a river . He can't drown thanks to his stand, 20th Century Boy, but he can't escape either. Paralized and waiting for Diego's help he waited for a long time and eventually stopped thinking.
Zeppeli's Fate persist in Steel Ball Run. In a final epic battle between him and Funny Valentine, Gyro dies from his own wounds.However, Gyro didn't die without teaching a final lesson to Johnny.
The second Diego Brando died, when his head from another universe came in contact with him.Strange enough, Funny Valentine was dead already but appearently the condition of not interference between universe were not an D4C Ability.

As far as we know Yoshikage Kira (JoJolion) was found dead near the Wall Eyes where the Josuke (Jojolion) was found. With Chapter 17 revealing Josuke is a fusion of Kira and an unknown person it is yet unknown at this point if Kira is alive or properly dead.