Made in Heaven
Stairway to Heaven (alt. Made in Heaven) is a stand power featured in Part VI: Stone Ocean.
Abilities
- Time Acceleration: Claimed by Dio Brando to be the ultimate stand, Stairway to Heaven has the ability to control the gravitational forces of the earth, moon and possibly the entire universe. As gravity changes, Stairway to Heaven is able to speed up the flow of time to a point where it is impossible for any living being to catch up, with the exception of its user, Enrico Pucci, and God. The nature of the time acceleration even reduces the abilities of time stoppers like Jotaro Kujo, who noted that he was able to stop time for a drastically shorter amount of time due to the stand's time acceleration abilities.
- Universal Reset: As time continues to travel, the universe will hit the vanishing point, and a new universe will be created where everything repeats itself accordingly to "fate". Anyone that is killed by this stand in the previous universe will not cease to exist, but simply replaced by a similar substitute. The stand's user may then alter things and create the perfect world they desire.
However, despite being able to speed up time and move at incredible speeds, the user of the stand is not invincible while doing so. Pucci was injured by an overdose of oxygen when Emporio Alnino used Weather Report to increase the oxygen concentration in his ghost room. When the user of the stand is killed, the universe resets again into an alternate timeline.
Trivia
The original name of this stand was based on the song Stairway to Heaven, by Led Zeppelin, but later in the tankōbon release, it was changed to Made in Heaven, the name of a single by Freddie Mercury and an album by Queen. The reason for this was probably that Made in Heaven, with such lines as:
I'm taking my ride with destiny
Willing to play my part
Living with painful memories
Loving with all my heart
or
When stormy weather comes around
It was made in heaven
When sunny skies break through behind the clouds
I wish it could last forever,
fits the story of Part VI more than Stairway to Heaven does.
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