Stardust Crusaders
100 years later, Dio's severed head reattached itself to Jonathan Joestar's lifeless body (giving Dio the same star birthmark as the members of the Joestar family). Dio's casket is recovered by fishermen, who he kills as he is awakened. He finds that he is now in the year 1985. After returning to land, he develops a Stand (a sort of ghostly bodyguard), giving him vastly powerful new abilities on top of his vampiric ones. For most of Series 3, Dio is out of scene and in the shadows, and the question of exactly what his Stand The World can do is a mystery. Jonathan Joestar's grandson Joseph Joestar, protagonist of part 2 Battle Tendency, identifies Dio as the nemesis of the Joestar family whom he and Jotaro Kujo are destined to fight.
In Series 3, many of Dio's offensive vampiric abilities do not appear, though he displays a new ability described as "evil implants"; parasites generated in his hair that attach themselves to and brainwash victims (in the fighting game JoJo's Bizarre Adventure it is the vector of attack in the move called "Charisma"). Dio's Stand The World, as a sort of brother power to Jotaro's Star Platinum, possesses great speed, strength, and is able to stop time, making him appear to teleport or move at impossible speed. Dio's ambition is to create a perfect world for himself and his servants. In the interim, he seeks to drain the blood of the Joestar lineage, which will help him to fully fuse with Jonathan Joestar's body and take better control of The World.
At the end of the arc, Dio mainly battles Kakyoin and Joseph. Kakyoin succeeds in leading Dio into a vast barrier created by his Stand, trapping him. Dio uses The World to stop time, allowing him to ignore the barrier and approach Kakyoin to deliver a fatal blow. Before dying, Kakyoin deduces The World's time-stop ability and uses his last strength to give Joseph this message. Joseph then warns this to Jotaro before he is also killed by Dio.
After a long battle between Dio and Jotaro, Jotaro finds his own ability to stop time just before Dio drops a steamroller on him, proceeding in time-stop to break Dio's leg. Jotaro's intention was for the two to end the fight with a final blow once Dio's leg had healed. Dio, determined not to lose, squirts blood from his open leg into Jotaro's eyes. Dio then attempts a final kick with The World, which Jotaro blindly counters with a punch from Star Platinum. Star Platinum's hand breaks on The World's leg, but the punch sends a fissure through The World and through Dio, shattering him completely above the waist. Jotaro and doctors from the Speedwagon Foundation transfer Dio's blood to Joseph Joestar, reviving him. Later, they lay Dio Brando's remains in the Sahara Desert to evaporate with the rising sun.
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