SPOILER WARNING: Part 1-9 spoiler details may follow.
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure is often noted for the amount of casualties and fatalities that occurs throughout the series. The following is a comprehensive list of the deceased (either physically or mentally) from Phantom Blood to The JOJOLands, as well as any other JoJo-related media.
- See also: List of Retired Characters
Please note that this list consists primarily of canonical deaths; the deaths of characters from one-shots or light novels not written by Hirohiko Araki listed below may or may not be considered canon.
Phantom Blood
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Stabbed in the heart by the Aztec Chief as a sacrifice for a ritual. | Chapter 1
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Blood absorbed by the vampiric Aztec Chief, after agreeing to become his life force. | Chapter 1
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At some point, this cannibalistic tribe disappears from history. Only their ruins are shown. | Chapter 1
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Died in an explosion caused by reasons unknown to history. | Chapter 27 Episode 5 (Flashback)
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Beheaded by an executioner following the orders of Elizabeth I in 1565. | Chapter 27 Episode 5 (Flashback)
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Beheaded in 1565 by Elizabeth I's executioner. Three centuries later, he is revived as a zombie by Dio Brando. | Chapter 27 Episode 5 (Flashback)
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Executed in 1565 by Elizabeth I's executioner. Three centuries later, he is revived as a zombie by Dio Brando. | Chapter 27 Episode 5 (Flashback)
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Becomes a vampire and is killed by the light from the morning sun. | Chapter 20 Episode 4 (Flashback)
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According to Dio, Dario "worked her to death". | Chapter 1 Episode 1 (Mentioned only)
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Dies in a carriage accident in 1868, as the carriage slips off the cliff due to the rain. | Chapter 1 Episode 1 (Flashback)
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Impaled on a wooden debris after a carriage accident. | Chapter 1 Episode 1 (Flashback)
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Poisoned in 1880 by his son, Dio Brando. | Chapter 1 Episode 1
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Unknowingly burnt alive by the Joestar family butler, when Dio traps him in a box put in the incinerator. | Chapter 5 Episode 1
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Dio kills the first vagrant by forcing his companion into stabbing him. The second vagrant turns into a vampire and is killed by the sunlight. | #1: Chapter 9 Episode 2 #2: Chapter 10 Episode 2
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Is mortally stabbed by Dio while protecting his son Jonathan. | Chapter 12 Episode 3
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His head is torn off by Dio after the latter becomes a vampire | Chapter 12 Episode 3
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| Dio drains one of the officers of his blood, and kills the rest of the officers by flinging the body at them. | Chapter 13 Episode 3
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Jonathan stabs the zombie in the head with a spear and decapitates him. | Chapter 14 Episode 3
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Jack the Ripper kills her by slicing her neck with a knife. | Chapter 18 Episode 2
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Eliminated as a zombie by Jonathan, who sends Sendo Ripple Overdrive through a brick wall where Jack was hiding. | Chapter 23 Episode 4
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Zeppeli uses the Sunlight Yellow Overdrive to karate chop one of them in the face. The body is sent flying into three more zombies, killing them. Speedwagon crushes one in the head using his sledgehammer. Jonathan decapitates the final one with Zoom Punch. | Chapter 25 Episode 5
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Disintegrated by Jonathan's Ripple. | Chapter 30 Episode 6
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Tarkus grabs the two bullies by their feet, crushes them and wrings them together to extract and drink their blood. | Chapter 31
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Sliced in half by the chains of Tarkus. He survives long enough to transfer his life energy to Jonathan. | Chapter 35 Episode 7
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Jonathan disintegrates him with two Ripple-charged punches. | Chapter 35 Episode 7
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Dies when Jonathan rips his tongue out and then stomps on his head. | Chapter 36 Episode 7
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Eaten by his mother after she is transformed into a zombie. | Chapter 36 Episode 7
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Dio kicks the chimera into the air and stomps on it, killing it. | Chapter 37 Episode 8
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Led to a quick death after Jonathan catches his snakes and charges them with the Ripple. Doobie's snakes betray their master and bite him, causing the Ripple to be injected throughout his body. | Chapter 37 Episode 8
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Jonathan kills one by grabbing its head and smashing it into the bars of a window, slicing its head open from the impact. Straizo, Tonpetty and Robert E. O. Speedwagon kill the remaining offscreen, and two are killed by Dio's eye beams. | Chapter 38 Episode 8
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Dio freezes Dire's body and shatters it. The head lives long enough for a final attack. | Chapter 38 Episode 8
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Straizo traps them with a falling chandelier and melts them by transmitting the Ripple into it. | Chapter 39 Episode 8
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Styx is shot in the head via a booby trap installed in Dio's coffin. | Chapter 42 Episode 9
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A zombie attacks her with an axe and she falls down the stairs, dying while carrying her baby in her arms. | Chapter 43 Episode 9
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Jonathan crushes Wang Chan's head and sends a Ripple throughout his body. The corpse flies into the ship's machinery, causing the ship to explode. | Chapter 43 Episode 9
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They are engulfed by the ship's explosion and burn to ashes. | Chapter 44 Episode 9
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Shot in the throat by Dio's "Space Ripper Stingy Eyes", dies from his wounds afterward. He survives long enough to save Erina, a baby and to catch Dio. | Chapter 44 Episode 9
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Battle Tendency
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With the exception of Kars, Esidisi, Wamuu, and Santana, the entire clan is killed by Kars. | Chapter 112 Episode 26 (Flashback)
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A corpse discovered by the Speedwagon Foundation. It is unknown how it died. | Chapter 45
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They are killed by Kars, Wamuu and Esidisi. | Chapter 64 Episode 14 (Mentioned only) Chapter 104 Episode 23
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Murdered by his superior officer in the British Air Force during World War I. Said officer was a zombie. | Chapter 108 Episode 24 (Flashback)
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After he kills George Joestar II, Lisa Lisa avenges her husband by killing the zombie with the Ripple. | Chapter 108 Episode 24 (Flashback)
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Passed away while Mario was still a part of the family. | Chapter 89 Episode 20 (Mentioned only)
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Killed by one of the Pillar Men's traps. When Caesar accidentally activates it, Mario pushes him aside. Spears thrust out of the wall, hook Mario then pull him into the wall, where he is to be eaten by the Pillar Men. | Chapter 89 Episode 20 (Flashback)
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Presumably die in a plane crash while attempting to kidnap Robert E. O. Speedwagon. | Chapter 46 Episode 10
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Murdered by Straizo. | Chapter 46 Episode 10
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Murdered by Straizo. | Chapter 46 Episode 10
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Kills himself in his battle with Joseph Joestar by overloading his own vampire body with the Ripple. | Chapter 52 Episode 11
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Stroheim orders for everyone except one courageous boy to be killed in order to use their blood for awakening Santana. | Chapter 53 Episode 11
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Santana eats the Vampire by fully absorbing it into his body. | Chapter 54 Episode 12
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Santana dives into the soldier's head through his eyes, then tears himself out of the man's body. | Chapter 57 Episode 12
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They attempt to shoot Santana's body host with their machine guns but Santana fires the bullets back at them through his fingers and they all die. | Chapter 57 Episode 12
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Their hands are fused together by Wamuu. Wamuu then touches their officer's head and drains the life force of everyone at the same time. | Chapter 64 Episode 14
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His hands are fused together with the hands of all the other Nazis by Wamuu. Wamuu then touches the officer's head and drains the life force of everyone at the same time. | Chapter 64 Episode 14
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Wamuu passes by him, which devours half of his body. Caesar euthanizes him with the Ripple. | Chapter 66 Episode 14
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Esidisi impales the former with his foot. Posthumously, Esidisi injects his scalding blood in Loggins, making it boil and simmer from the inside-out. | Chapter 76 Episode 17
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Evaporates from sunlight exposure after being forced out of Suzi Q's body by Joseph and Caesar's Ripple. Prior to this, Joseph destroyed his body during their battle and reduced him to a brain. | Chapter 82 Episode 18
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| Kars slices a car they are driving in half, along with the driver's hands and half of the steering wheel. The car flips off the road and explodes, killing the two. | Chapter 83 Episode 18
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| Kars slices across the cabin they were in and swiftly decapitates all of the soldiers. | Chapter 84 Episode 18
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Mortally wounded with a point-blank "Divine Sandstorm" from Wamuu, then crushed by a piece of the ceiling. Survives long enough to steal the cure for Wamuu's Wedding Ring of Death. | Chapter 92 Episode 20
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Quickly destroyed by Lisa Lisa, who casually walks by him as her scarf transfers Ripple energy throughout his body. | Chapter 94 Episode 21
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| Joseph charges the Ripple into his tongue, melting his face apart. | Chapter 96
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| Wamuu fires a crossbow and obliterates the head of one of Joseph's horses. | Chapter 101 Episode 22
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Wamuu worn down by Joseph's Ripple attacks and his Atmospheric Rift, then Joseph manages to throw oil and burning tissue in Wamuu, making him explode. Wamuu survives for a short while as a head then dies. | Chapter 104 Episode 23
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A vampire that was killed by Lisa Lisa. His disguise as Kars deceives Lisa Lisa, allowing Kars to stab her in the back. | Chapter 105 Episode 23
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| Lisa Lisa kills some while Wamuu kills the others out of respect for Joseph. Kars stabs the three with his blade and drains their blood. The remaining vampires are finally killed by ultraviolet lights from Stroheim, the Speedwagon Foundation Special Technology Fighting Team, Stroheim's ultraviolet army and later by the sun itself as it rose. | Chapter 106
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| One of them is killed by Kars's squirrel. | Chapter 109 Episode 25
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Dies in 1943 during the Battle Of Stalingrad, as mentioned in the epilogue. | Chapter 113 Episode 26 (Mentioned only)
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Dies peacefully in 1950 at the age of 81 during the epilogue, surrounded by her family and friends. | Chapter 113 (Mentioned only) Episode 26
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Dies in 1952 of a heart attack at the age of 89 during the epilogue. | Chapter 113 Episode 26 (Mentioned only)
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Stardust Crusaders
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He creates the sword which the Stand Anubis is bound with around the 1480s. After he dies, Anubis is left without a user and begins to search for users on its own. | Chapter 198 SC Episode 29 (Mentioned only)
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She's raped and murdered by J. Geil in 1984. | Chapter 127 (Mentioned only) SC Episode 5 (Flashback)
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He dies after Kakyoin destroys his Stand. However, he manages to kill the plane's pilots before dying and taunts the group that they'll never get to DIO. | Chapter 124 SC Episode 4
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He's killed by his imposter in Hong Kong shortly before the arrival of the Joestar Group, with his body being thrown into the sea. | Chapter 128 SC Episode 6 (Mentioned only)
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He sinks to the bottom of the ocean after having half of his Stand's head ripped off, inflicting similar damage to himself. | Chapter 129 SC Episode 6
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The first one: A hook from Strength pierces him through the back of his head and hangs him.
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One (the first): Chapter 130 SC Episode 7 The others: Chapter 131 SC Episode 7
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Killed by Ebony Devil in doll form when it slices his face off with a blade. | Chapter 134 SC Episode 8
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He is killed after Polnareff destroys his Stand, Ebony Devil. His body is found punctured with several holes in a toilet stall. | Chapter 135 SC Episode 8
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He gets wrapped by Yellow Temperance. His owner attempts to free him by pulling his leash, which ends up decapitating him. | Chapter 138 SC Episode 9
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He's stabbed to death by Polnareff's Silver Chariot. After stabbing J. Geil's tongue and tossing him into the air, his body is left hanging upside down by a gate. In the OVA, he is instead punched into a barbed fence. | Chapter 145 SC Episode 11
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His face is torn with a scalpel by Empress, when he tempts to cut the 'excrescence'. | Chapter 147 SC Episode 12
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She explodes after Joseph kills her Stand Empress, revealing her true appearance. | Chapter 149 SC Episode 12
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She's assassinated by Steely Dan, who triggers a spore lodged inside of her by DIO. | Chapter 161 SC Episode 16
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#1: He dies involved in the precipitation of the helicopter caused by Geb. #2: His head gets torn from the body by Geb hidden in the bottle, when Joseph attempts to offer him water. |
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He commits suicide by using Geb to strike through his head, correctly anticipating that he would be interrogated by Jotaro. | Chapter 188 SC Episode 26
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He is thrown out of the bus onto a utility pole and killed from his neck being impaled on it, just as Tohth predicted. | Chapter 189 SC Episode 26
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His chest is accidentally lacerated by Chaka possessed by Anubis. | Chapter 193 SC Episode 28
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They are accidentally killed by his friend's son. He is stabbed in the head when Chaka is possessed by Anubis. | Chapter 193 SC Episode 28
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Pet Shop decapitates the two dogs. The owner of the dogs finds their dead remains being eaten by Pet Shop. | Chapter 222 SC Episode 38
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After he manages to find the lair of DIO, he is crushed by a huge ice stalactite created by Horus, and dies. | Chapter 222 SC Episode 38
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He dies when Iggy bites his beak shut as he is charging an ice attack from his mouth. His beak shatters, and the sheer energy stored makes his head explode. | Chapter 226 SC Episode 39
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Avdol's body is erased by Vanilla Ice's Stand, Cream. In the OVA, Avdol is killed and vaporised by Vanilla Ice. | Chapter 239 SC Episode 42
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Violently kicked by Vanilla Ice, which gravely wounds him. He spends the last of his strength to save Polnareff and dies from extreme over-exhaustion. In the OVA, Iggy's lower body is erased by Cream and he is kicked to death by Vanilla Ice. | Chapter 244 SC Episode 44
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He cuts his head off to prove his loyalty to DIO but is brought back to life as a vampire, although he is unaware of it. Polnareff pushes him into some sunlight coming through a window with Silver Chariot, disintegrating him. In the OVA, Vanilla Ice remains human. Silver Chariot slices the upper half of his head clean off. | First death: Chapter 238 SC Episode 42 Second death: Chapter 245 SC Episode 44
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They are ran over by Wilson Phillips as he is forced to do so by DIO. | Chapter 251 SC Episode 45
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DIO violently throws him at Joseph's truck. It is unknown if he died beforehand or if he dies from the impact. | Chapter 252 SC Episode 45
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Is punched through in the abdomen by The World and sent into a water tank. Survives long enough to figure out DIO's ability and give Joseph a hint. | Chapter 254 SC Episode 46
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DIO asks her to bring back his severed leg to him then drinks her blood to heal himself. | Chapter 258 SC Episode 47
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Star Platinum punches The World's leg to deflect its kick. The resulting force and impact cause The World and DIO's bodies to explode. Afterwards, his corpse is left in the desert to disintegrate by the morning sun. | Chapter 264 SC Episode 48
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Cut in half by Silver Chariot. His death is exclusive to the OVA adaptation. | SC Episode 3 (OVA)
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Diamond is Unbreakable
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They are killed by Yoshikage Kira on August 13, 1983. | Chapter 331 DU Episode 17
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His throat is slashed by Yoshikage Kira, and his corpse is hung on a clothes hook. His soul ends up in Ghost Girl's Alley. | Chapter 331 DU Episode 17
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She is stabbed in the back by Yoshikage Kira. Like Arnold, her soul ends up in Ghost Girl's Alley as well. | Chapter 331 DU Episode 17
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She dies in 1986 from a disease, causing her husband to become depressed and be frequently violent towards his children. | Chapter 282 DU Episode 5
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Killed by Anjuro Katagiri as he violenly bit its snout off. | Chapter 269 DU Episode 2
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Murdered by Anjuro Katagiri. Angelo spit his dead dog's blood into his mouth with Aqua Necklace materializing in it, making it then burst out of his ears. | Chapter 269 DU Episode 2
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He dies from internal bleeding after mistakenly drinking a bottle which contained Anjuro Katagiri's Stand, Aqua Necklace disguised as whiskey. | Chapter 270 DU Episode 2
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Red Hot Chili Pepper attacks Okuyasu but Keicho shoves him aside. Red Hot Chili Pepper pulls him into an electrical outlet and he dies, electrocuted on the wires of a utility pole. In the live-action movie, Keicho is killed by Sheer Heart Attack. | Chapter 283 DU Episode 5
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It's killed by Josuke before it could eat the human couple (merged into a cube of flesh) in the fridge. | Chapter 327 DU Episode 16
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It's killed by Josuke who uses Crazy Diamond to flick a bullet through its chest. | Chapter 329 DU Episode 16
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Touches a doorknob turned into a bomb by Killer Queen and is disintegrated. | Chapter 346 DU Episode 22
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He's killed by Kira's Sheer Heart Attack, which first explodes his hand off and then drives into his mouth. It explodes again and bursts his body in the process. | Chapter 354 DU Episode 22
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He's found dead in the beauty salon Cinderella with a hole in his abdomen. Kira also has Aya take out his face and fingerprints so that Kira can steal his face and identity. | Chapter 364 DU Episode 24
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She was made into a bomb by Killer Queen and is blown up before she can tell Josuke and the others information about Kira's identity. | Chapter 364 DU Episode 24
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It's killed after falling on glass broken by Shinobu Kawajiri during an attempt to scare away the cat. It is later revived in the form of Stray Cat. | Chapter 392 DU Episode 30
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Kira touches him and makes him blow up, disintegrating him entirety with the exception of his ears. | Chapter 410 DU Episode 34
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Kira disintegrates her whole body (save for her hand) with a controlled detonation from Killer Queen. | Chapter 410 DU Episode 34
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Killed by Cheap Trick's power when Rohan sees Masazo's back. His corpse turned into a small husk. | Chapter 413 DU Episode 33
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Is tricked by Rohan in Ghost Girl's Alley and the malicious spirits take him away. As this happens, Rohan uses Heaven's Door to command Cheap Trick to go to Hell (although whether or not Hell exists is unknown even to Rohan himself). | Chapter 417 DU Episode 34
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Kira transforms Rio's underpants into a bomb and leaves them hanging from a twig. The neighbor of Rio touches her underwear and explodes. | Chapter 431 DU Episode 38
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He originally dies before the events of Part 4 due to cancer. In the final battle, Josuke baits Kira into detonating a bomb right next to Yoshihiro's photograph. Thus, he ceases to exist after the photo burns up. | Chapter 433 DU Episode 38
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An ambulance ironically backs over his body, which seemingly crushes his head. Reimi tricks Kira's ghost in the Ghost Alley and Kira is dragged away by the swarm of hands. In the one shot Deadman's Questions, Kira exists as a amnesiac ghost who is just a vagabond. | Chapter 437 DU Episode 39
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His soul is ascended to heaven, after Yoshikage Kira's demise. | Chapter 439 DU Episode 39
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Her soul is ascended to heaven alongside Arnold's, after Yoshikage Kira's demise. | Chapter 439 DU Episode 39
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Murdered by Anjuro Katagiri. | DU Episode 1
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Drama CD
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She commits suicide in 1989 by jumping out of the window of the music room in Budogaoka High School. Her soul now haunts the school. | Drama CD Vol. 1: A Ghost Story from Budogaoka High
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Movie
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Is murdered by Anjuro Katagiri in his own home with his wife tied up beside him. Anjuro murdered him by stabbing him in the neck with a fork | JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Diamond is Unbreakable - Chapter 1 (film)
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He and Masaya Yoshizawa are by a fountain when Aqua Necklace attacks Hirata by entering his mouth and rupturing his internal organs. | JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Diamond is Unbreakable - Chapter 1 (film)
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