Johnny Joestar ★ História

Main

Gallery

History

Games

Um resumo cronológico detalhado da vida de Johnny Joestar.

Passado

Johnny com seu irmão, Nicholas Joestar.

Jonathan "Johnny" Joestar, apelidado "Joe Kid", nasceu em 1872 em uma família de antigos aristocrátas em Danville, Kentucky – seu pai, George Joestar, era um rico dono de várias fazendas e um aclamado treinador de cavalos que haviam ganhado a Tríplice Coroa sete vezes. Ele era bem-sucedido o suficiente para sua família viver confortavelmente na Inglaterra durante vários anos.

Johnny tinha cinco anos quando ele montou em um cavalo pela primeira vez. George, ao ver Johnny observar os movimentos de um cavalo, lhe considerou um "gênio da equitação", algo em que Johnny também acreditava. Entretanto, o Sr. Joestar era estrito com Johnny e sempre pareceu favorecer seu irmão mais velho Nicholas.

Inúmeras coisas inócuas aconteceram a Johnny durante sua juventude. Uma vez, ele jogou seus livros escolares fora a caminho da escola porque ele não queria lê-los. Quando um de seus amigos adoeceu por causa de uma epidêmia, Johnny decidiu jogar de um penhasco a régua que ele havia emprestado para dito amigo, a segurando com gravetos. Outra vez, uma garota deu-lhe um trevo de quatro folhas de aniversário, mas eles ficaram separados e nunca mais se viram.

Certo dia na Inglaterra, Johnny encontrou um rato e o adotou, dando a ele o nome de Danny. No entanto, George foi estritamente contra trazê-lo a mesa. Quando Johnny desobedeceu seu pai e foi pego secretamente alimentando a ele durante a janta, George ordenou que Johnny afogasse o roedor como punição. De coração quebrado, Johnny não conseguiu se forçar a matá-lo, e seguiu a sugestão de Nicholas para deixar Danny livre no mato em vez disso, usando um rato empalhado da escola para enganar seu pai. Outro dia, Johnny estava admirando o cavalgar de Nicholas e incidentemente viu um jovem Diego Brando trabalhando lá como cuidador de cavalos. Nicholas decidiu andar em um cavalo novo, mas durante o meio da corrida, Nicholas caiu, e morreu na queda. Johnny ouviu Diego gritar ter visto um rato branco fugindo da comoção para dentro do mato, tendo assustado o cavalo de Nicholas, e assim Johnny acreditou que fosse culpa do Danny. Logo, Johnny passou a se sentir profundamente culpado pela morte de seu irmão.

Johnny em seu auge.

Sete anos depois, foi Johnny que ficou em destaque como um prodígio do hipismo. Ele era muito mimado: as pessoas trariam riquezas a ele, políticos e a realeza o visitariam, e garotas ricas dormiriam com ele. Durante uma dessas tais corridas, Johnny chegou em segundo lugar, atrás de Diego; ele destruiu o troféu por frustração.

Johnny é alvejado na coluna, ficando paraplégico

Certa vez, a sola das botas de Johnny começaram a cair, então ele voltou para casa para usar as botas de Nicholas. Contudo, George confrontou Johnny, afirmando que o buraco na bota de Johnny era responsabilidade dele e ele não deveria usar as botas de seu irmão. Isso levou a uma briga violenta entre pai e filho. Após ser furado por vidro, George disse que "Deus havia levado o filho errado" antes de finalmente expulsar Johnny da residência. Ainda, isso não parou Johnny, e ele viria a vencer o Dérbi de Kentucky aos dezesseis anos.

Em um fatídico dia, enquanto esperando na fila para uma peça, a garota com quem ele estava convenceu Johnny a furar na frente da fila e subornar os seguranças para retirar o garoto que estava na frente da fila - que passou a noite inteira esperando na fila.

O garoto atirou na coluna de Johnny, o paralisando da cintura para baixo e fazendo com que ele fosse parar no hospital, onde ele era fisicamente abusado. Após perder todos os amigos e respeito que ele ganhou como jóquei, ninguém lhe visitou durante sua estadia no hospital. Johnny viveu assim por cerca de dois anos.

Steel Ball Run

Conhecendo Gyro Zeppeli

Johnny milagrosamente levanta de pé ao encostar na esfera de aço.

Johnny é atraído ao lugar de início da corrida Steel Ball Run, por motivos os quais ele não entende de verdade. Johnny aparece pela primeira vez entre a multidão que testemunha o confronto entre Gyro Zeppeli e um apanhador de carteiras que tentou roubar dinheiro dele. Depois disso, quando Johnny lhe segue e encosta na esfera de aço que Gyro usou, que ainda estava girando, suas pernas se mexeram o suficiente para que ele ficasse de pé por um instante. Johnny vai atrás de Gyro, que impede ele de tocar na esfera de aço mas toca sua mão com sua palma, causando um reflexo que faz com que ele agarre um viga de madeira de uma casa próxima. Gyro elogia a força que ele tem na parte superior de seu corpo, mas nega que as esferas de aço possam fazê-lo andar novamente. Entretanto, Johnny não desiste; ele decide perseguir Gyro ao entrar na corrida para descobrir mais sobre as esferas de aço e começa tentando montar em um cavalo. Ele completa sua missão e compra o Slow Dancer, um appaloosa velho.

As tentativas iniciais de Johnny em montar seu cavalo fracassaram. Ele não conseguiu subir na sela e o cavalo selvagem lhe arrasta na terra pela sela e o pisoteia durante sua tentativa de domesticá-lo que leva o dia inteiro. Além disso, um pedaço de madeira furou sua perna. Mesmo assim, Johnny se certificou de não ser interrompido em suas tentativas de domesticá-lo, ameaçando os homens que lhe introduziram ao cavalo, dizendo que ele atearia fogo em si mesmo e cometeria suicídio caso ele fosse forçado a sair do cercado.

Ainda sem sucesso, Johnny se faz ser arrastado até a linha de partida mesmo assim, onde ele vê Johnny novamente e reitera seu desejo de descobrir a verdade por trás da esfera de aço. Impressionado, Gyro dá uma dica a ele e Johnny entende que o segredo jaz na rotação das esferas. É mostrado que Johnny domesticou o Slow Dancer, já que ele é visto lambendo sua bochecha e obedecendo o comando de Johnny para lambê-lo novamente. Johnny, depois de usar a dica de Gyro para utilizar o giro, volta para cima da sela do Slow Dancer, enquanto a Steel Ball Run tem início.

1st Fase

Johnny brevemente enfrenta Diego

Durante a primeira fase, Johnny segue Gyro num ritmo estável, determinado a impressioná-lo nessa fase. Na maior parte do tempo, Johnny fica atrás de Gyro entre os jóqueis líderes e observa Gyro enquanto ele se livra de seus oponentes. Quando Gyro decide cruzar uma floresta densa como atalho, ele decide ir junto, tendo um breve confronto com Pocoloco. Aqui, Johnny nota que as habilidades de Pocoloco são amadoras e interpreta errado o fechar dos olhos de Pocoloco como uma tentativa de deixar seu cavalo naturalmente tomar o melhor rumo. Johnny em vez dsso cavalga seu cavalo e faz ele pular por cima de alguns galhos, conseguindo se manter adiante. Enquanto Johnny tem habilidades superiores, a sorte de Pocoloco o deixa na segunda posição mesmo assim.

Até os 1,000 metros finais, Johnny continua incontestado até Diego aparecer por trás dele. Vendo que Diego está usando outros competidores de para-brisa, Johnny propositalmente quebra o ataque para-brisa ao fazer o Slow Dancer, afundar, chutando pedras em Diego, e então acelerando para fugir dele. Independentemente, Johnny termina em quinto lugar.

Ainda determinado a seguir o jóquei napolitano, Johnny impressiona Gyro o suficiente para ele lhe dar sua segunda lição a respeito do Giro. Contando a ele o segredo por trás da rotação, Gyro dá a Johnny uma pedra para rotacionar e forma uma parceria com ele. Daqui para frente, eles andam juntos e planejar terminar juntos como os vencedores da Steel Ball Run.

2 Fase

Batalha contra Mrs. Robinson

No começo da segunda fase, Johnny dá uma olhada no mapa do deserto do Arizona e avisa Gyro de que eles cruzaram uma terra muito hostil onde há um risco real de morte de sede e os lugares com água são poucos. Ele propõe que eles sigam a rota aconselhada os ligando a um poço d'água a 50 km da linha de partida. Todavia, quando Gyro decide cortar por 150 km de deserto, Johnny não tem outra escolha senão segui-lo. Outro competidor, Mrs. Robinson, segue-os.

Johnny é ferido pelos espinhos de cacto cholla

Seis horas na segunda fase, Johnny e Gyro momentaneamente param para verificar se estão no caminho certo, embora Gyro rapidamente assegure Johnny disso, fazendo ele ficar nervoso. Enquanto eles cuidadosamente navegam o deserto tentando ficar de olho em Mrs. Robinson, algo rapidamente voa por eles e fura a orelha de Gyro. Logo, eles são atacados de todos os lados pelo que Johnny descobre serem espinhos de cacto, vindos de um cacto cholla explosivo espalhado pelo terreno. No entanto, eles não tem certeza se Robinson, que se manteve longe deles, é quem está atacando. Quando uma série de espinhos precisamente corta seus bridões e vão em direção ao seu rosto, não há mais dúvida de que Robinson está tentando matá-los de algum jeito. Johnny fica desmontado e fala para Gyro continuar na frente mesmo, mas Gyro decide confrontar Robinson. Robinson revela que ele está cruzando um enxame de moscas dentro dele para enviá-los em direção aos chollas, mas Gyro consegue usar o giro para derrotá-lo indiretamente. Os dois conseguem continuar sua corrida.

A noite cai, e Johnny e Gyro acampam. Treinando o giro, Johnny consegue criar uma rotação conclusiva com uma rolha. Gyro vê outro cavaleiro, e levanta a questão de sua segurança. Johnny procura por sua arma em suas coisas e acidentalmente acha jornais cortados na bolsa de Gyro, apenas para ser parado por Gyro que encerra o assunto de seu passado.

Batalha contra a Família Boomboom

Ao pôr-do-sol, a família Boomboom ataca Johnny & Gyro

Logo, eles são abordados por Andre Boomboom, um também competidor que alega ter sido mordido por uma salamandra manchada venenosa. Andre pede fogo para esquentar sua faca. Gyro relutantemente chuta um galho em chamas até ele, e Andre procede a cortar a pele envenenada enquanto ele se enforca. Ele aparentemente desmaia e Gyro calmamente chuta sua faca para longe. Gyro imediatamente nota que sua bota foi rasgada por algum motivo. Enquanto isso, Johnny também olha para a lista de competidores e nota que Andre é parte de uma família de três que também está competindo. De fato, o resto da família Boomboom se aproxima. De repente, o pé de Gyro é invdaido por aço e os dois percebem que estão lidando com inimigos que estão assassinando a competição. Eles percebem que a habilidade dos Boomboom é um poder magnético quando a pistola de Johnny é desmontada e os pedaços são atraídos para os pés de Gyro. Pior, Gyro perde uma esfera de aço quando ele uma no patriarca, Benjamin Boomboom, e ela desintegra-se. Mantendo a calma, Gyro joga sua esfera restante em uma pdra, fazendo um pedaço de pedra atravessar Andre. Mesmo assim, a dupla foge. Enquanto eles se afastam dos Boomboom, o magnetismo enfraquece mas Benjamin havia conseguido jogar um pouco do sangue de Andre em Johnny e faz o caúboi Mountain Tim crer que Johnny é o culpado do homícidio que eles cometeram durante a primeira fase.

Johnny desperta uma habilidade que gira suas unhas

Logo, Mountain Tim alcança Johnny e Gyro e os três sentem os efeitos do magnetismo. Percebendo que eles estão sob risco de morte caso colidam, Gyro transforma uma rocha próxima em poeira rica em ferro que acerta Mountain Tim. Mountain Tim usa seu poder Oh! Lonesome Me para se amarrar a uma pedra e o mal-entendido entre os três é esclarecido. Mountain Tim também explica seu poder e apresenta o conceito de Stands aos dois. A família Boomboom aparece e prende todos em areia ferrífera. Mountain Tim descarrega seu revólver em L.A. Boomboom mas Benjamin reflete as balas com seu Stand. Os heróis são imobilizados e Johnny é agora o único que pode salvá-los ao pegar uma das balas de Tim e usar o giro nelas. Quando os três estão prestes a colidir, Johnny consegue gerar uma rotação... que é, então, parada quando Benjain pisoteia sua mão. Desesperado, Johnny percebe que a rotação ainda está lá e sus unhas estão girando. Johnny instintivamente dispara suas unhs, que cortam Benjamin em dois e cortam o pé de L.A. após Johnny de alguma forma pular por cima dele. A família Boomboom é derrotada. Johnny percebe que ele adquiriu uma habilidade de Stand porque ele está em uma Palma do Diabo. Furioso, L.A. promete que eles morrerrão assim que alguém do país de Gyro colocar uma recompensa em sua cabeça. Já que ele está envolvido nessa batalha, Johnny leva Gyro a revelar seu passado como executor do Reino de Nápoles, cujos esforços para vencer a Steel Ball Run são ameaçados pelos inimigos de seu reino.

Batalha contra Oyecomova

Oyecomova ataca Gyro e Johnny

Johnny, Gyro e Mountain Tim chegam uma cidade de parada onde eles podem colocar seus cavalos para descansar. Aqui, Gyro notavelmente recebe uma carta de seu reino lhe informando ele de que eles preparam um Cavalo Zumbi para o uso dele, uma ferramenta que lhe ajudará a curar ferimentos e fatigas. Todavia, o terrorista napolitano Oyecomova chega na cidade. Devido a sua habilidade Boku no Rhythm wo Kiitekure, Oyecomova transforma tudo em que ele toca em bombas-relógio e ele cria uma explosão que detona o hotel. Johnny e Gyro estavam em um celeiro ali próximo e foram então poupados da explosão, e um Mountain Tim ferido lhes avisa sobre Oyecomova, mas o terrorista pega Gyro desprevinido e encosta em sua mão. Gyro deve sacrificar uma perna para aguentar explosão com o uso de suas duas mãos, mas ele consegue acertar Oyecomova uma vez. Oyecomova sai para pegar o Cavalo Zumbi, com Johnny e Gyro no encalce. Na região montanhosa, ele consegue transformar água, vespas e até fumaça em bombas. Apesar de seus esforços para continuar na cola dele, Oyecomova consegue se manter longe do alcance dos ataques de Gyro. Porém, enquanto Oyecomova assopra a fumaça de seu cigarro, Johnny põe suas unhas giratórias em uma teia de aranha que Oyecomova puxa, esperando achar vespas com as quais ele não pode ser ferido. Com as unhas giratórias perto dele, elas podem aprimorar as esferas de aço de Gyro ao reforçar sua rotação no ar e Gyro consegue arrebentar o rosto de Oyecomova com suas esferas de aço. A dupla é vitoriosa.

Nas montanhas, Johnny e Gyro finalmente adquirem o Cavalo Zumbi, um fio posto na parede de um penhasco como um afresco de cavalo. Usando o fio, Gyro costura sua perna e se recupera.

Procurando as Partes do Cadáver

Johnny vê um Braço mumificado no seu próprio

Enquanto Johnny e Gyro continuam sua jornada, eles são atacados por outro competidor, Fritz von Stroheim. Gyro rapidamente derrota o ciborgue alemão mas Johnny começa a questionar o quão importante o prêmio da corrida pode ser, agora tendo quase perdido suas vidas várias vezes. De repente, Johnny vê um Braço Esquerdo mumificado fundido ao seu próprio corpo, embora ele rapidamente desapareça dentro dele. Ele rapidamente percebe seu significado relacionado as habilidades de Stand e a Palma do Diabo.

Battle Against Pork Pie Hat Kid

The duo are in sight of Monument Valley, the end of the second stage. However, Gyro suddenly disappears as Johnny is distracted by a flock of birds. Then, his horse Valkyrie also suddenly disappears. Johnny feels something dragging him upward but saves himself by cutting his hoodie, allowing to stay in the valley, but he only knows that the attacks are coming from above. Slow Dancer then disappears under his nose and he falls to the ground. It is only then that he sees a hook coming out of the underside of a feather. Unable to cut the metal with his spinning nails, Johnny must cut his cheek to free himself but now two hooks are coming back from falling feathers. Chased by the hooks, Johnny shoots the ground to create a dust cloud and use the spinning nails as makeshift wheels to go hide under a nearby rock shelf. Using the reprieve, Johnny analyzes what he's seen and realizes that the enemy seems to be seeking something, and is probably after the mummified arm. Indeed, Pork Pie Hat Kid, a Stand user and a subordinate of President Funny Valentine is doing exactly that with his stuff.

Johnny meets his Stand, which somehow activates his feet

Under the rock, Johnny knocks away a scarab, but another hook comes from under it. Johnny is hooked by the two enemy hooks and loses his grip on the rock. Suddenly, a strange creature emerges from his arm, carves the words "movere crus" on his arm, goes to his feet, and makes his toenails spin. This shoots the nails through the scarab directly at the Pork Pie Hat Kid and stops the attack. More importantly, Johnny makes a connection between the Corpse Part and his moving leg and also guesses that the true purpose of the Steel Ball Run race is to gather the other pieces of this Corpse, which seems to have miraculous properties. Johnny sees that a Steel Ball has made a groove on the soil, giving away the direction of the enemy. Determined to save Gyro and keep the Corpse, Johnny decides to fight the enemy and slowly crawls toward Pork Pie Hat Kid's base, covered in earth. To root him out, Pork Pie Hat Kid releases Slow Dancer so that it returns to its rider and then sets the area on fire with oil. However, Johnny carves a crude statue of himself with a piece of wood and tricks the Kid into attacking it, allowing him to shoot through the feathers. As he seemingly defeats his opponent, Johnny dubs his ability "Tusk". When Johnny finally reaches Gyro and the Pork Pie Hat Kid, the latter ambushes him by using Gyro to make his hooks appears. Johnny is unable to attack Pork Pie Hat Kid and must yield or else the both of them die. Devastated, Johnny ejects the arm and loses his Stand. Johnny despairs but then Gyro reveals that he made the nails on the left arm spin too, acting as a trap for Pork Pie Hat Kid, who is shot in the face by the nails.

Johnny names his Stand "Tusk"

Gyro retakes the arm under Johnny's anxious eyes, but the Neapolitan confirms that he isn't after the Corpse but simple victory and gives Johnny back the Left Arm. Johnny and Gyro discuss the true nature of the race, and Gyro theorizes that this Corpse must belong to some saint, knowing that relics can bless entire nations with good luck. That said, Johnny and Gyro resume their race, determined to get the Saint's Corpse or win it respectively.

The other top contenders have arrived. Johnny and Gyro dash toward the finish line, with Diego Brando, Sandman contesting their lead. Incidentally, Johnny stumbles upon a stray newspaper and sees the photo of a mountain whose top exactly resembles the word "movere crus" carved on his arm. Gyro is distracted and ends up finishing fourth, behind Sandman in third place, Johnny in second place and Diego in first place. However, the race doesn't stop and the competitor directly enter the 3rd stage: the Rocky Mountain Breakdown, crossing the eponymous mountain chain towards Cannon City.

Third STAGE

Battle Against Scary Monsters

Diego turns into a dinosaur and attacks Johnny & Gyro

In the Rocky Mountains, Johnny and Gyro meet with an unhorsed and visibly hurt Diego Brando. While Gyro tries to check up on him, Johnny advocates leaving Diego. Indeed, the British jockey even pridely tells them to go away. Soon enough, Diego catches up to them, strangely lively for someone who was wounded moments ago. The three of them decide to spend the night in a village to avoid the cougars. As he prepares the dinner, Johnny notices Diego's strange behavior and soon enough, he turns into a feral dinosaur. A fight ensues but the dinosaur has an advantage in his kinetic vision allowing it to discern and avoid fast projectiles. Gyro manages to stun the dinosaur with a surprise attack. Both escape the house, still pursued by Diego who breaks out of the house, and notice on the horizon the "movere crus" mountain. As they lead Diego away with a Steel Ball Diego expects to return to Gyro, the duo realize where the next corpse part is.

Despite the dinosaurs, Johnny & Gyro reach the Eyes

However, a bear that Diego has killed turns into another dinosaur. The duo hides in a sewer where they are assailed by small rat-dinosaurs. These dinosaurs are killed but manage to mark their odor on the duo. The sewer leads to a cliff, but even there, some raptors are waiting for them and Diego tracks them thanks to the mark. Worse, Johnny and Gyro have been scratched by the dinosaur and slowly begin their own transformation. Noticing that Johnny's metamorphosis into a dinosaur is slowed by the Corpse Part, the duo try to reach the new Corpse Part on a nearby peak. They jump across a ravine and Gyro uses his Steel Ball on a tree to create a rope. However, both are stopped at the last moment by Diego and the horde of dinosaurs. Diego seizes the Eyes and Gyro has turned enough to become an ally to Diego. The true enemy, Valentine's Subordinate Dr. Ferdinand, appears riding a raptor. In a position of strength, Ferdinand calls Johnny out on his petty goals with the Saint's Corpse, not realizing who he is dealing with. To turn the situation around, Johnny relinquishes his Left Arm. He partially transforms into a dinosaur and uses his tail to propel himself towards Ferdinand, knocking the Eyes out of his hands. Gyro gets one of the eyes and is cured. Thanks to his new ability, Gyro can defeat Dr. Ferdinand, who is eaten by cougars he had previously turned. However, Diego gets away with the other Eye and seemingly keeps his dinosaur powers.

Rest of the Third STAGE

Johnny and Gyro then ride safely toward the end of the third stage. As every competitor races to finish first, Gyro and Diego try to take a shortcut through the lake instead of going around it. Johnny admonishes him, criticizing his lack of real, selfish drive he needs to come out on top. At first, Gyro is angry at Johnny and criticizes him, but Diego manages to come out victorious of this duel. Johnny nonetheless finishes before Diego. Surprisingly, Johnny isn't the stage winner: the racer Hot Pants has already crossed the finish line some time before.

Fourth STAGE

Encounter With Ringo Roadagain

The fourth stage begins for Johnny and Gyro: 1250 km through the Great Plains to Kansas City. They ride peacefully for about 600 km.

Hot Pants attacks Gyro with Cream Starter

In a forest, Johnny and Gyro find a fresh cow's corpse and take some meat from it. They then meet Hot Pants, the competitor who won the previous stage. Hot Pants attacks them both with his Stand Cream Starter, believing they killed a cow he specially had placed on his route. Cream Starters sprays flesh, which blinds and chokes Gyro and Johnny. Fortunately, Johnny defuses the fight by shooting a nail into the ground, proving that neither of them has the weapon that killed the cow. Hot Pants calls off his attack but doesn't apologize as the two still took meat from the cow. The three go on their separate ways and Gyro mentions that he discerned the word "turbo" during the fight. However, the most important elements are the lines and circles engraved on the letters, from which Gyro guesses a set of coordinates near Kansas City. Suddenly, they notice that they are in sight of the cow carcass again. Likewise, Hot Pants has been going in circles. Johnny, Gyro and Hot Pants are still on bad terms but decide to cooperate to limit their time loss. They see a nearby house and decide to go ask the residents for direction.

Johnny encounters Ringo Roadagain

However, the three also meet Gaucho, another competitor who is also lost but also expresses anger against the resident of the house, who said that they would have to kill him to ever go out of theses woods. Gaucho shouts and challenges the inhabitant to a gun duel and the gunslinger named Ringo Roadagain appears. After a quick duel, Ringo kills Gaucho and salutes him. Shocked, the three leave and try to go out of the woods again without success. Despite trying to mark their way out, Johnny has somehow managed to carve contradictory directions. Resigned to fight, the trio prepares their fight and Hot Pants throws his Cream Starters onto the house's roof beforehand. They confront Ringo, who asks Johnny to be the first duelist. Hot Pants then attacks and melts Ringo's gun hand, but Ringo uses his power Mandom to rewind time to 6 seconds ago. He avoids the ambush. Johnny attacks but is shot in the head while Hot Pants is shot in the chest and taken out. The near unconscious Johnny manages to signal to Gyro that he's still alive. Lying near Ringo, he witnesses the gunslinger scribing a message and give it to a messenger pigeon. Gyro comes challenging Ringo to a gunfight, and prevails. Then healed by Cream Starter, Johnny warns Gyro about Ringo's message, which contained the coordinates of the next Corpse Part. Checking on Hot Pants, Johnny sees that Hot Pants is secretly a woman. Deeming her gender irrelevant, Johnny chooses not to disclose this to his partner.

Continued Rivalry With Diego Brando

Gyro and Johnny defeat Diego, though he is sure to return

Near Kansas City, Johnny and Gyro meet Sandman who warns them of an incoming tempest. Yet, when Sandman informs them of Diego's route, they decide to run after him. In the storm, Johnny and Gyro finally catch up to Diego. Diego lets them approach once but suddenly turns into a dinosaur and leap above them. He warns the two to stay behind or be killed before he leaves. Johnny sees that Diego is systemically using the optimal route and proposes to wait for a mistake, but Gyro takes the initiative and challenges Diego. From behind, Johnny guesses that Diego is attacking somehow and intervenes, aiming at Diego with his nails. Diego attacks Johnny but Gyro manages to throw a Steel Ball at Diego's face. Diego is unhorsed and his horse Silver Bullet is injured, putting him temporarily out of the race. Gyro yells at Johnny for robbing him of a square victory and apologizes afterwards.

Encounter With Blackmore

Lucy presents the Spine to Johnny and Gyro

Suddenly, they see Lucy Steel approach. The duo is wary but she shows them the Spine, explains how she discovered Valentine's schemes and begs them to help her husband Steven. However, Johnny hears a change in the sound of the rain and the agent Blackmore appears. Johnny is immobilized by rain blades and tries to shoot Blackmore, but the agent sends his hand push Johnny into the blades. Thankfully, Gyro defeats Blackmore, who then dies from the bullet wounds Lucy inflicted earlier. The Spin then suddenly enters Johnny's body. Nauseous, Johnny falls from his horse but the ground then draws a map of the Great Lakes indicating where the next Corpse Parts are. Lucy then reveals what she knows about the President's plot and explains that Valentine has the Heart, making him a Stand user. Thus, Gyro shoves Lucy on Johnny's horse as he doesn't accept any woman on his saddle: it would make the goddess of victory jealous. He also lets loose Lucy's horse to erase any trace of her presence. Gyro enlists her in a plan to steal the Heart from the President and though Lucy wanted to ask for their protection, Gyro tells her that she wouldn't want to live her whole life in fear of reprisal. To protect her husband, Lucy will have to go out to steal the Corpse Part. To help her, Gyro gives her the Right Eye since he still has his Spin mastery. Lucy reluctantly agrees.

On the way to Kansas City, Lucy seems to have explained her backstory and then falls asleep. Gyro doesn't believe that Steven Steel wouldn't have touched her. Johnny also asks why he didn't want Lucy on his horse and Gyro explains that the goddess of victory would be jealous and he'd lose sight of victory.

Johnny and Gyro finish the fourth stage in Kansas City in third and fourth place because of their detour. They then see Diego crossing the line, sure that he will get back at them eventually.

Fifth STAGE

Battle Against Sandman

En route for Chicago, the next finish line, Johnny and Gyro ride peacefully for around 300 km.

Near the Mississippi, Johnny and Gyro decide to rest near a barn as other top competitors pass by to think about the way to cross the Mississippi. Gyro thinks of a song, the "Cheese Song", which Johnny seems to appreciate. As they set up camp, the duo discusses a letter the Vatican sent to them. After Gyro asked them if there was any saint who died in America, the letter suspiciously denies it.

Near the Mississippi, Johnny & Gyro are attacked by sound dinosaurs

Suddenly, Johnny burns himself on the coffee pot and notices that the towel he was holding between the handle and his palm has been mysteriously shredded. Hearing strange noises, the duo notice the presence of an enemy. When Johnny tries to break the barn's door to check inside with an axe, the axeblade is destroyed and Johnny warns Gyro in time about the trapped barn. The barn crumbles but its pieces are still dangerous. While Johnny scares away the horses, Gyro sees Dot Han coming out of the corn field. However, Dot Han is revealed to only be used by the real enemy when they see his body is also getting destroyed. Gyro loses a first Steel Ball against Dot Han. The barn crumbles on Johnny who tries without success to deflect the planks with his nails and Gyro loses his second ball when he tries to deflect the planks too, and the Ball is destroyed. Johnny tries to dig a hole on the ground but it is too shallow and he laments how useless his nails are. Johnny decides to let himself die but the pieces of the destroyed Steel Ball dig a hole for Johnny to hide in. Johnny is alive, but Gyro is out of weapon. As they see dinosaurs with sound effects written on them, the duo now knows that there are dealing with Diego, teamed up with another enemy. For his part, Johnny's confidence is in shambles.

As he hangs onto Gyro's horse, Johnny remembers his sad past and despair takes him. He shoots one of the small dinosaurs into pieces, but its companion then throws the pieces at Valkyrie and Gyro and Johnny are cut. Witnessing this, Johnny understands the ability has something to do with sounds. The duo approaches the Mississippi and they are forced to jump down toward the river bank. The dinosaurs surround the duo, but Gyro has had enough of Johnny's despair and teaches him the next step in the Spin. The Neapolitan thus presents the Golden Rectangle, from which a perfect infinite spiral can be made. If Johnny can spin his nails in this ratio then he will be able to harness the power of infinity, but Johnny exclaims that he cannot do it. As the sounds begin to set their bodies on fire, Gyro declares that if Johnny says he cannot do it three more times then he will give him his specially designed belt buckle as a reference. Spinning a rock, Gyro shakes the dinosaurs off them for Johnny to shoot, but the latter sees that his power hasn't increased at all. They both plunge into the river.

Johnny says he cannot use the Golden Rectangle and asks for the buckle, but Gyro still refuses. A new group of creatures has appeared on the river bank and they begin to spread their sound into the water. Gyro tells Johnny to look for a place where there aren't any sound, where the enemy should be able to produce the sounds they want. As Johnny asks for the buckle again and Gyro refuses, Johnny shoots towards a specific piece of the field, uncovering Norisuke Higashikata. To buy more time, Gyro rotates the water to ward off the sound but some of it still passes through and Gyro is dismembered. Despairing, Johnny sees Sandman nearby and calls for help, but Sandman suddenly leaps at Norisuke and stabs him, revealing himself as the true enemy. Johnny reaches his nadir.

Johnny acquires Tusk ACT2

However, Johnny realizes that Gyro's ancestors found the Golden Rectangle from deep observation of the nature surrounding them. With this new insight, Johnny is now able to discern the omnipresence of the Golden Rectangle in all things. Tusk evolves. Johnny's nails now rotate around his fingers like an axis, granting them much more power at the cost of a slow nail regeneration. Johnny shoots Sandman who nonetheless deflects the nails. Johnny despairs again but soon sees that the holes the nails make persist, and even move around to pursue and destroy the enemy. Johnny has four shots when Sandman decides to confront him in close quarters. He shoots three nails but Sandman is able to protect himself with his sound. Johnny then shoots his last nail, purposefully missing Sandman and hitting a butterfly behind him so that it lands on him. Nonetheless, Sandman sacrifices his hand to save his heart. Believing Johnny out of ammunition, Sandman approaches Johnny, who reveals that he has created a small Steel Ball out of Gyro's belt buckle. Johnny thus shoots Sandman in the throat, killing him.

Rest of the Fifth STAGE

Hot Pants Steals Johnny's Corpse Parts

Johnny is victorious but Hot Pants appears. She takes Johnny's Corpse Parts, only leaving a vertebrae, and knocks him out. When he wakes up, Johnny finds that Hot Pants has nonetheless made them cross the Mississippi and healed their wounds.

The duo eventually reaches Chicago and finish the 5th stage of the Steel Ball Run at the 4th place for Gyro and 5th place for Johnny.

Sixth STAGE

Sugar Mountain's Trials

Johnny & Gyro obtain the Ears and Right Arm from Sugar Mountain

At the beginning of the sixth stage, Johnny and Gyro thus travel North, through the cold and snowy parts of the United States. During their travel, Johnny experiments with his nails, finding new uses for them and learning that he can drink herbal tea or chew herbs to make his nails grow faster. Since Hot Pants has revealed herself as an agent from the Kingdom of Naples, the duo suspect that the identity of the Saint must be exceptional.

Later, Gyro detects Eleven Men that are trailing them. Gyro loses a Steel Ball in a shallow puddle, only to see a nearby young girl having it. The girl runs away, leading them to a massive tree in the forest. Johnny realizes that the Corpse Parts are near and accidentally makes mushroom fall in another puddle. Nonetheless, the duo investigate the tree where they see that the girl has turned a hole into her home. The blind girl, named Sugar Mountain, soon gives them propositions between items they have lost in the puddles and much more precious versions of said items. Gyro answers truthfully at first because he wants his Steel Ball back, but soon understands that she is handing them both if they answer truthfully. Exploiting this, the duo amasses a small fortune in precious gems, matsutake mushrooms, bank notes and other goods. Eventually, they get the trick and acquire the Ears and the Right Arm. However, Sugar Mountain then warns them that they have to spend everything in a fair trade before sunset or they will be absorbed into the tree itself.

Battle Against the Eleven Men

Johnny and Gyro are attacked by the Eleven Men

Johnny and Gyro then head to Milwaukee, having to spend their fortune and still pursued by the Eleven Men. When they meet a farmer and try to buy a piece of land, the farmer refuses out of suspicion, showing that the task is not as easy at it seems. Worse, Gyro begins to turn into a tree when he tries to give some money to smooth things out and thus they cannot even give away their wealth. Thankfully, the duo manage to trade the mushrooms for a hill nearby. In Milwaukee, Johnny and Gyro try their best to spend everything but their wealth keeps increasing despite everything while their spending is not enough. Worse, their pursuers are catching up. Johnny and Gyro decide to go to an underground casino to gamble their money away, but as soon as the croupier decides to cheat, Johnny and Gyro begin to turn into trees. They are immobilized and cannot either take their money back as the ball rolls and the Eleven Men suddenly barge in.

Johnny must use Tusk ACT2 to cheat and win the round, freeing the duo. One of the men approach, and Johnny shoots him twice. However, the rest of the group has suddenly disappeared. Unbeknownst to them, the Eleven Men are using their collective power, Tattoo You!, to merge together, and they take Gyro by surprise by emerging out of the first dead man. Gyro is shot in the arm and loses one Steel Ball. The shootout continues but while they eliminate some enemies, the duo quickly runs out of ammunition. They are forced to hide behind a column and there are still eight enemies. Johnny kills one, but he only has one nail bullet now, and Gyro is bleeding to death. Gyro tries to negotiate with the gangsters besides them but they prefer to stand aside. Seeing a pistol nearby, Johnny aims to take it but is prevented from reaching it by the enemies. By dragging the corpses, the men surround Johnny and Gyro. Thankfully, Gyro concludes a trade with the gangsters in the casino. For all of their wealth, the gangster accept to give Gyro and Johnny a roll of string and shoot down the Eleven Men, all of whom die but a last one who flees.

To Accept Loss

A shared toast in defeat

As the sun sets, Gyro suddenly transforms into a tree, to Johnny's surprise. He realizes with horror that he must trade the Corpse Parts, but as Gyro transforms and begs Johnny to trade them away, Johnny clings to the Corpse Parts who means the potential use of his legs. Still, at the last moment, Johnny trades the Ears and the Right Arm with the last of the Eleven Men, crying as he asks for a half empty bottle of wine in exchange for the Corpse Parts. Having saved Gyro, Johnny share the bottle with him and has a toast to the next Corpse Part and the goal. Incidentally, the Ears and Right Arm create a map to the next Corpse Part as they get exchanged.

Battle Against Wekapipo and Magent Magent

The duo attacked by a Steel Ball

Eventually, Johnny and Gyro attempt to cross the Michigan Lake via a frozen strait. However, they deem the ice too thin for the moment to safely cross. More problems arise, as the other top competitors appear to cross the straits, a wild wolf cub has been following them since Johnny gave it scraps of food, and Johnny senses that the Legs are nearby. Gyro mentions the natives' route, a hidden path in the ice that the natives might have built by reinforcing the ice with logs.

Johnny must use his nails to shoot down the Wrecking Ball's satellites

Nonetheless, their thoughts are interrupted when they notice two other agents of the government approaching to attack: Wekapipo and Magent Magent. Wekapipo suddenly throws a Steel Ball which shoots the small beads embedded on it at the duo. Indeed, Wekapipo is a former guard of the Kingdom of Naples who also masters a style of Spin. While Magent Magent goes to their left on his sled, the pair realizes that they cannot see the left side of things anymore. Johnny is forced to turn to spot Magent Magent and shoots, but the agent also unveils his Stand 20th Century BOY, which makes him invulnerable as long as he's sitting or kneeling. Meanwhile, Gyro's left hand is wounded and Wekapipo throws two Balls. Gyro's Ball are surprisingly pushed aside by Wekapipo's Steel Balls and Johnny has to shoot down the satellites coming at them. This allows Magent to shoot the wolf. Sadly, Gyro's second hand is also wounded. The pair realizes that they are deprived of references for the Golden Rectangle, which depowers Gyro's Spin considerably. The left side ataxia kicks in. Gyro protects Johnny from two bullets, but then takes a third bullet in the guts. Nonetheless, Gyro is able to take out Magent with one of his own bullets.

However, Wekapipo is still more powerful than them. Johnny's nail thankfully have grown back. During the next throw, Johnny shoots every nail to cover Gyro as the Neapolitan runs towards the wolf and Johnny takes a satellite in the guts, taking him out of the fight. From there, Johnny witnesses Gyro's win against Wekapipo thanks to a lucky start of snowing that allows Gyro to use the snowflakes as references. Johnny then pieces together how the agents could have found the wolf after they observed the map created in Milwaukee. Wekapipo is defeated but Gyro explains that Wekapipo's sister is in the care of the Zeppeli Family, thus he accepts to help them find Lucy Steel. Luckily, they also find the natives' path and Johnny finally understands that the wolf is the host for the Legs. The duo thus acquires these Corpse Parts.

Being in a victorious stroke, Johnny and Gyro cooperate to cross a treacherous ravine hidden by the snow, this way, they manage to overtake Pocoloco and finish at the 1st and second place of the 6th stage.

Seventh STAGE

Battle Against Axl RO

Johnny and Gyro ride undisturbed for 12 days, until they are 145 km for Philadelphia, near Gettysburg.

After setting up camp, Johnny and Gyro spot Hot Pants, who hurriedly rides to Gettysburg. Hastily abandoning their camp, the duo pursues her into the town. They reach a strange garbage dump and enter inside from two sides, only to see a nun. Unaware of Hot Pants' true sex, he investigates further inside the building. Meanwhile, Johnny interrogates Hot Pants but instead is warned of an enemy ability as she gets covered in a strange film. He cannot throw away things and must purify himself with water. Suddenly, a knife Johnny had left at the camp reappears and merges with his body. Overwhelmed by the amounts of stuff he's discarded over the years, Gyro is easily defeated by the enemy Stand, Civil War.

Jesus appears to Johnny

Warned, Johnny tries to go outside to his water canteen, but is pursued by Danny, his old pet mouse. Johnny tries to shoot Danny who hides in a boot. Johnny shoots it and sees blood but when Johnny grabs it, he sees visions of Nicholas blaming him for his death and covering him in film. Johnny reaches Slow Dancer but is attacked again by Danny, who avoids all of his shots and merges with him. Thankfully, Johnny aimed one of his nails at his canteen; he pierces it and manages to douse himself in water. The mouse then comes out of Johnny's body and escapes the water. Seeing a well nearby, Johnny shoots the ground and manages to find more water. Suddenly, Johnny as a a vision of Jesus, telling him not to to shoot if his heart is wavering. Confused, Johnny sees his legs twitch. Danny comes back, but Johnny wards him off.

Johnny then crawls back inside the garbage dump, where he too starts to see random objects he's discarded over the years. He's attacked by Danny and in the struggle, some of his stuff merges with him. Johnny finally shoots Danny down at it scurry inside of a cabinet, but it summons the specter his father George Joestar. George prevents Johnny from using his canteen and repeats how he wished Johnny had died instead of Nicholas. Shaken, Johnny witnesses Jesus again, repeating what he said earlier. George attacks and Johnny is forced to stop him by shooting George's ear. Gyro has been listening to the ground and tells Johnny the location of Valentine's Subordinate, Axl RO. Johnny shoots Axl in the throat, which kills him. However, the power of Civil War brings him back and transfers the specters of Axl's own victims to Johnny. Swarmed by specters that tear him apart, Johnny sees Jesus again telling him not to shoot if his heart is wavering, and Johnny takes the hint. He shoots himself and unlocks Tusk ACT3.

Johnny now wield Tusk ACT3

He is now able to go inside of the holes made by his nails, and displace himself. Thanks to the increased mobility, Johnny escapes the horde of specters and retaliates against Axl RO. With his newfound ability, he can move his hand into unusual places, allowing him to shoot from unexpected angles too. Nonetheless, Axl is protected in the dump because of Civil War. The ghosts take Johnny's part of the Spine, and Axl is able to assemble the Saint's Corpse minus the Skull and leaves the dump, leaving Johnny at the mercy of the ghosts. Using Tusk ACT3, Johnny manages to catch up and with his hand, drags the Corpse towards the hole. Axl is shocked because the hole destroys everything save Johnny and it could endanger the Corpse. Axl foolishly stabs Johnny in the throat, killing him. Thus, all of Johnny' sins are transferred to him. Axl RO is cornered. However, someone then shoots Axl from outside. It is Funny Valentine, who has come to collect the pieces of the Saint's Corpse, and leaves. Johnny has lost all the pieces.

Defeated, Johnny and Gyro finish the seventh stage at the sixth and seventh place in Philadelphia.

Eighth STAGE

Shot By Someone

Main article: Chocolate Disco (story arc)

Main article: D4C (story arc)

Johnny is shot by someone NSFWTAG

In Philadelphia, Johnny and Gyro have no Corpse Parts anymore. After dispatching other agents of Valentine on the way, the duo decides to steal the Right Eye from Diego. They follow him his trail and stop near a park. The duo discusses the situation and how to corner him. However, Johnny also sees unknown horse traces, meaning another person is involved and soon enough they also witness Wekapipo following Diego. Johnny want to clarify first that they will have to use lethal force, especially if Diego defends himself. This statement appalled Gyro, who yells at Johnny that they will simply beat him up and take the Eye. Gyro then goes to scout the area. However, Johnny then sees D-I-S-C-O and Funny Valentine surround him from both sides of the street corner.

However, Valentine's Stand Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap, activates its power. Johnny is shot from behind, in three different coexisting universes: by Diego, Wekapipo and Valentine respectively. However he manages to escape in the sewers. From there, Johnny observes the rest of the battle but doesn't intervene. Johnny is present when Diego is dragged into an alternate universe but returns, making Wekapipo and his counterpart collide to kill them and free himself from the portal. Johnny then slips back into the sewers. Gyro finds Johnny near the docks, and Johnny explains how Valentine's abilities work to Gyro.

Johnny is more determined than ever to get the Corpse and wipe his slate clean

Despite Gyro's reluctance at continuing a seemingly lost fight, Johnny briefly stands up, showing that he's this close to regaining the use of his legs. Johnny then dramatically rants about his goal to retrieve the Corpse Parts which will allow him to get back to normal. Thus Gyro accepts to follow Johnny, mentioning another level of Spin which could defeat Valentine. Gyro explains that the stirrups were invented to absorb the power of the horse and that there is a way to further power up their Spin. With that information in mind, pursuing the President is still impossible but they decide to go find Lucy Steel.

Chasing Funny Valentine

Johnny and Gyro spot Diego and Hot Pants who have allied themselves. Knowing they have a the President's trail, they also follow the pair to find Valentine. With a pair of binoculars, they observe the fight happening in the cars and Johnny sees Diego dying. Just before engaging Valentine, Johnny and Gyro reveal each others' secret. Johnny learns that Gyro's name is "Julius Caesar Zeppeli" and he reveals that he's excited by bug bites on girls. That said, they now ride towards the President's train and aim for the engineer at the locomotive. However, Johnny notices that a panel keeps coming towards them from behind. Even more strangely, the duo has already reached New Jersey. Suspicious, Johnny shoots down the "warning bear" panel. Suddenly, a school of fish jumps out of a hidden pond and attacks them. Johnny is unharmed but Gyro's finger is bitten. As they approach the train, the duo still see the broken panel pursuing them. They realize that the land itself is converging towards the train. When they reach the locomotive, they notice that the train engineer is only one of Valentine's victim, stuck halfway inside of a mirror and forced to hold the lever. Valentine finally notices Johnny.

Valentine is secure inside of the wall of light

Johnny attacks and shoots several nails in the train. While Valentine cannot get rid of the bullet hole with D4C and is wounded, he puts his hand in the light emitted by Lucy and the damage is transferred to peasants nearby. The President realizes the true nature of the blessing he's been granted. Astonishingly, when Valentine jumps out of the train, he is secure inside of the light. Johnny's nails reveal themselves to be ineffective as the bad is directed elsewhere and the President suffers no damage. Johnny thus realizes the nature of the power too. Trapped, Johnny cannot escape the President but Gyro manages to interrupt D4C by throwing a Steel Ball at its hand before it can chop Johnny. Nonetheless, Valentine remains impervious to Johnny's Tusk and a small cut he inflicts on Gyro moves towards Gyro's internal organs. Johnny manages to stop the train by shooting at the coupling and detach the locomotive.

Observing the train from afar, Johnny despairs at the President's power. However, Gyro shows the Ball he's thrown: some of Valentine's hair has stuck itself to the Ball, meaning that it is possible to attack through the light. Gyro tells Johnny to let their horses gallop at their most natural pace, will create a natural Golden Rectangle from which the duo can create the Super Spin.

Reaching the Super Spin

Johnny's arm is cut by D4C

The duo now charges at the President with the intent of using the Golden Spin. Valentine dashes between them but using the pocket dimension, can freely flatten himself and stick to the ground beneath the rails. Valentine forces Johnny to separates from Gyro. Johnny hastily shoots a bullet but it is imperfect and thus deflected. Although he momentarily manages to reach the Super Spin, Johnny hits a tree branch, giving Valentine the occasion of cutting off his hand. Johnny is unhorsed and pinned down by D4C. However, a combination of Gyro throwing one of his Steel Balls and Steven Steel entrusting Lucy with the Neapolitan distracts Valentine away from Johnny. Valentine is forced to pursue Gyro towards the coast.

Meanwhile, Johnny manages to destroy the huge cut that converges on his heart with Tusk ACT3. Picking up Gyro's Steel Ball, he notices that Valentine's ear has stuck to it without the President realizing it. Johnny makes haste to join Gyro and seeing Valentine touching his face, sees that the latter also has noticed the existence of the Super Spin. Johnny tries to warn Gyro about Valentine and tells him to shoot the one with the missing ear, but Gyro understands that he must attack D4C. Still, Gyro fails to create a Super Spin and thus is mortally wounded. As Johnny tries to join the fight, Gyro shouts to Johnny his last lesson: "The shortest route was a detour; it was the detour that was our shortest path". Gyro then dies by Valentine's hands.

A Roundabout Path

Tusk ACT4

To hammer in Gyro's head, Valentine empties a revolver on Gyro's corpse. Heartbroken and enraged, Johnny hastily attacks Valentine without the Super Spin and thus wastes his nails on ineffective attacks. The President manages to slit Slow Dancer's throat and unhorse Johnny. As Valentine approaches him to deal the last blow, Johnny understands Gyro's message, and uses the Steel Ball on Slow Dancer's hind leg. Kicked into the air, Johnny absorbs the Golden Scale into himself and unlocks Tusk ACT4. Johnny shoots his last nail toward Valentine. Valentine is hit, and witnesses Tusk ACT4 breach through the wall of light and pummel D4C. Pummeled into the ground, Valentine disappears in another universe.

The Final Shootout

Johnny and Valentine's final duel

Johnny waits for the President's eventual return, growing back the nails of his only hand. When Valentine does come back, he surprisingly yields and proposes a deal. If Johnny releases him from the infinite rotation caused by Tusk then he promises to bring back Gyro and leave them be. Johnny is at first suspicious and argues that it isn't the same Gyro that he lived with. Valentine dismisses the argument, stating that the essential is that Gyro will be there in this world. He also makes an elaborate speech about his goals, his duties as a President, and how he misses his father. As a last reassurance of his goodwill, he takes out an alternate Cream Starter from his pocket and gives it to Johnny as a gesture of good will so that he can heal himself and everyone. Almost convinced, Johnny nonetheless tosses Valentine's old revolver his double discarded earlier, exposing Valentine as treacherous.

A small duel ensues. Valentine sends out D4C and aims at Johnny with his revolver but Johnny hits Valentine in the throat. During the last exchange of shots, Johnny sees Gyro's spirit giving him a last goodbye. Johnny then shoots Funny Valentine in the head and kills him for good. Devastated, Johnny cries for his lost friends. He subsequently heals Lucy and regains the use of his legs.

A New Enemy

Johnny fights an alternate Diego Brando.

After Johnny finally kills Valentine, Johnny contemplates the situation. Uninterested by the Steel Ball Run, Johnny decides to travel to the Kingdom of Naples and return Gyro to the Zeppeli Family. Suddenly, Johnny sees that the Saint's Corpse has gone missing again. Another sudden enemy has stolen the Corpse and the horse prints suppose that one of the competitors of the race is the culprit. Determined not to let anyone else get it, Johnny pursues the thief, only to discover it is none other than Diego Brando (or rather, a Diego from an alternate world). Johnny is at first surprised by the appearance of Diego's new stand THE WORLD. A flurry of knives appears out of thin air and stabs him while Diego and his horse suddenly teleport. However, Johnny quickly works out the nature of its power thanks to his experience with Ringo Roadagain. Diego too has the advantage of already knowing Tusk's powers and the Golden Spin technique.

Johnny arrives at the fifth place in Union Beach and quickly boards a boat to New York.

Ninth STAGE

Battle Against Alternate Diego Brando

Complaining about the slowness of his boat, Johnny has no choice but to rest and consider the best route through the streets of New York. When he lands, Johnny sees his father George waving at him and presenting him Nicholas's boots, as a form of reconciliation. Crying, Johnny resumes his race. Johnny eventually finds Diego in the alleys of Manhattan. Diego stops time again and sets up wires on whom Johnny nearly crashes. He shoots the wall and uses the debris to shield himself and shoots a nail in the direction of Diego, who discovers that he best not even touch Tusk ACT4. Later, Diego splashes Johnny with oil and lights him on fire, forcing Johnny to open the pavement and go into the sewers. Diego loses sight of Johnny but predicts Johnny's actions and using his own fangirls as human shields.

Johnny attacks Diego on Brooklyn Bridge

Finally, the competitors reach Brooklyn Bridge. On there, Johnny catches up and prepares to fire. Meanwhile, Diego uses his "5 seconds" to create a pincer move: he fires a gun from the front while THE WORLD attacks Johnny's back. Johnny is badly hurt again and falls from his horse. Johnny seemingly misses his shot when his nail hits the bridge itself. However, he had accumulated enough spin to make one final attack, sending Tusk ACT4 climbing up THE WORLD's leg. Nonetheless, Diego already planned for this and has THE WORLD cut off its own leg off and throw it at Johnny, Diego manages to beat the Spin user with his own technique. He then remounts his horse and leaves Johnny to die.

End of the Race

Steel Ball Run Race Statistics
Stage	Placement	Points
First	5th	30
Second	2nd	50
Third	2nd	50
Fourth	4th	35
Fifth	5th	30
Sixth	2nd	50
Seventh	7th	20
Eighth	5th	30

Having lost the race and the Corpse, and now dying as a result of his own attack, Johnny nearly sinks into despair. However, before his life can come to an end, Steven Steel appears. With Steven's help, Johnny performs Tusk ACT4's infinite Spin power on himself to reverse its effects. Johnny is never seen completing the ninth and final stage of the race and ends with a total of 295 points.

At Journey's End

Johnny fondly reminisces his adventure

After the race, Johnny prepares to leave New York in order to return Gyro's corpse to his family, intending to honor him one last time. In there, he is stopped by the former staff of the Steel Ball Run who refuses to have a corpse onboard. Tusk ACT4 prevents them from doing anything. On the ship, he meets Norisuke Higashikata and his daughter Rina, and begins a romantic relationship with her. Looking at Gyro's Steel Ball and reminiscing his adventure, Johnny warmly smiles.

Post Steel Ball Run

Johnny at 29 years old

According to family tree left in the 1987 edition of Norisuke Higashikata's record of the Steel Ball Run race, Johnny had married Norisuke's daughter, Rina Higashikata, in 1892 and had a son and daughter with her. Their family lived on a farm, though Johnny would travel to Japan by request of the Japanese government to teach horsemanship, and also contributed to the importation of foreign fruits. According to the old man on Shakedown Road, about nine years after the marriage, Rina was stricken with an incurable disease that gave her on-and-off amnesia and origami-like folded skin. Johnny thus brought Rina back to Morioh, so that she could live in her native town.

Johnny pierces his son's head with the Golden Spin.

After agonizing over his wife's condition, Johnny turned to stealing the Corpse from the vault and brought it back to Morioh to cure her. The American government as well as Lucy Steel reacted from having the Corpse stolen and pursued the perpetrator, but by taking advantage of a certain privilege and sneaking aboard a ship crossing the Atlantic and Indian oceans, Johnny narrowly evaded them into the Pacific.

With the government pursuers still following, Johnny took the Corpse and hid it at the roots of the Meditation Pine by the coast of Morioh and then fetched Rina and their infant son, George, by carriage. Using the Holy Corpse's power to cure disease (more accurately described as a power to remove), the curse was removed from Rina, but was unfortunately forced upon George instead.

Having promised not to use the Corpse anymore, but willing to use it again to cure his son, Johnny mounted his horse and placed his child atop the case containing the Corpse. After gaining a certain amount of velocity, Johnny activated the Golden Spin and shot his son using Tusk ACT4. He took the curse upon himself and was shot in the head.

Johnny's death.

After falling to the ground, the Stand, Les Feuilles, reveals itself, at which point a large boulder lands on Johnny's head, crushing his skull. Thus, Johnny Joestar's life ends at the age of 29, on the evening of November 11, 1901. However, these details remain vague, as they are mentioned as a legend which is stated to have many variations.

His body is discovered the next morning by Rina, Lucy, and the other American government officials, lying next to George and the case containing the Corpse. Lucy and the others retrieve the corpse in a suitcase belonging to the Speedwagon Oil Company and take it back with them to America. Due to the lack of witnesses, everyone believed Johnny had been murdered and the prime suspect was his wife, Rina Higashikata, who was released later when the incident was classified as an accident. Six months later, a Jizou statue was erected in memory of Johnny Joestar and he was buried in Morioh.

JORGE JOESTAR

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

In the light novel JORGE JOESTAR, an incarnation of Johnny appears in the 37th universe. According to Funny Valentine ^{(Universe ?)}, Johnny played a major role in the Steel Ball Run race of this universe. However, instead of gathering the Saint's Corpse parts, they were gathering nine Holy Grails. Like his original universe counterpart, Johnny ^{(Universe 37)} was forced to drop out along the way.

Jorge Joestar does not know much about him but Johnny seems to be an ancestor of his adoptive family.