Dio Brando
Dio Brando is a male anime villain that features in JoJo's Bizarre Adventure.
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Biography
Dio Brando was the blonde haired male offspring of Dario Brando and an unnamed mother who faced constant abuse from her alcoholic husband. Similarly, Dio suffered from his abusive father and secretly despised him in part for causing such pain to his mother. By his teenage years, he was secretly poisoning his father in order to hasten his demise. On Dario's deathbed, his father told Dio that twelve years prior he had saved the life of a rich man named George Joestar. Joestar told Dario that his son was welcome to the Joestar estate in the future in gratitude for his actions. However, Dario told his son Dio that he could use his wits and wiles in order to usurp the estate for himself in order to become wealthy. After Dario's death, he was buried in a cemetery with Dio making his way to the home of the Joestars in order to conduct his secret plan. He arrived at the Joestar estate where he was welcomed by George Joestar who introduced him to his own son Jonathan Joestar. Dio Brando was adopted as a member of the Joestar family but he secretly began to undermine Jonathan Joestar at every opportunity in order to establish dominance in the household. This was because he intended to shatter his adoptive brother's spirit and place himself as the favored son of the family.
With his body over the castle ledge, Dio's form began to slowly disintegrate from the Ripple energy but he defied this death as he used his power to sever his head from the rest of his body. As such, his body was destroyed but his head managed to survive as it landed on the ground where it was recovered by his servant Wang Chan who took his master to safety. The pair remained in hiding whilst their enemies came to believe that Dio Brando had been slain. Dio's head was placed in a glass container to protect it whilst he plotted his return with him deciding to usurp Jonathan's body for himself. Thus, Wang Chan arranged for the two of them to be hidden onboard a ship that was taking people to America which also had Jonathan with his bride Erina Joestar. Wang Chan was ordered to only transform one of the ships occupants into a zombie whereupon his creature turned the rest of the crew. It was then that Wang Chan allowed himself to be seen by Joestar who pursued him which led to a confrontation with Dio.
Overview
Personality and attributes
In appearance, Dio Brando was a Caucasian man who typically had blonde hair.
He would claim that he was a victim of his upbringing that made him into an evil man but Speedwagon commented that Dio had been evil since his birth. Brando was shown to be highly manipulative as he moved into the estate of George Joestar and ingratiated himself to the man whilst plotting to usurp his wealth. At the Joestar residence, he felt that in order to establish dominance he needed to complete degrade, humiliate and bully Jonathan Joestar in order to control him. Such was the extent of his control that he desired to steal Erina Pendleton and when she rejected him he violently struck her. Dio was shown to be very vengeful as after being beaten by JoJo his act of revenge was throwing Jonathan's dog into the furnace to burn to death. He was not above utilizing murder to achieve his goals such as secretly poisoning his own father to kill him and later attempting a similar act with his adoptive father George Joestar. When faced with discovery, he hired criminals and tasked them with killing his adoptive brother Jonathan Joestar. Upon his discovery, he lulled Jonathan by acting on his feelings of brotherhood with Dio whereupon Brando attempted to kill him with a knife. This act only ended up with George Joestar being killed as he moved in the path of the blade with Dio showing no remorse as he used the blood to activate the Stone Mask.
With his transformation, Dio developed a god-complex believing him himself as a deity that was far above normal humans. He believed that his reign would be unending and last for uncounted centuries. When Zepelli challenged him and asked him to come to the ground, Brando angrily stated that a god did not fight in the dirt like lowborn mortals. He began to consider humans little more than cattle for his needs. When asked how many people he had fed on, Dio responded that he did not know and replied in kind whether his foe knew how much bread he had eaten in a day. He claimed to be a man of his word but often tricked those that attempted to bargain with him. An example of this was when he threatened to kill a woman and her child with the mother offering her life but begged that her baby be spared. Dio agreed and turned her into a vampire whereupon he did not stop her from feasting on her own baby stating that he had promised not to feed on the child but said nothing about her eating her own offspring.
Despite his hatred for Jonathan Joestar, he grew to respect him after the destruction of his body that left Dio in the form of a head. This was partly because he intended to take JoJo's body for his own. He even brooked no insult to his foe as he chastised one of his minions for degrading Jonathan.
Powers and abilities
Originally, Dio was an ordinary human being with no abilities. He was skilled in the use of poisons and had used this knowledge to secretly murder his own father. Similarly, he made use of such a practice to poison his adoptive father George Joestar.
After wearing the Stone Mask, Dio was transformed into an undead vampire with superhuman abilities. He was able to pass his vampirism to others by feasting on them and transforming them into zombies that served him. Dio was even able to resurrect the long deceased by returning them as vampires whereupon they served him whims. Dio demonstrated the ability to control the blood flow of his own body and actually cause it to turn to ice. This allowed him to freeze anything that touched parts of his body which he used to amazing effect against his enemies. Such a technique proved particularly deadly against Ripple users as it prevented them from unleashing their power against him. As a vampire, he had an amazing level of regenerative power where he easily survived gunshot wounds and managed to re-attach limbs that were severed from his body. In fact, he was able to continue to function even when his head was cut in half with Dio still being able to speak and simply moving the two parts of his head back together so that it could regenerate. Despite the destruction of his body, Dio was able to survive as a simple living head after he severed it from his disintegrating lower form. In this state, he could command zombies that were turned by his minions but could not engage in battle. However, he was able to project beams of energy from his eyes to kill his opponents. Furthermore, tendrils could emerge from the lower portion of his head that could be used to take over another person's body for himself.
Notes
- Dio Brando was created Hirohiko Araki as an antagonist in the JoJo's Bizarre Adventures universe.
- The character was voiced by actor Norio Wakamoto in drama CDs and by actor Nobuo Tanaka in the OVAs whilst Kenji Nojima along with Hikaru Midorikawa voicing Dio Brando in both the Phantom Blood animated film and video game as the younger and older incarnations, respectively.
- In the television anime, actor Takehito Koyasu voiced Dio Brando in JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: All Star Battle, and JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Eyes of Heaven.
Appearances
- JoJo's Bizarre Adventure:
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