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Jonathan is the main protagonist of the series' first story arc, Phantom Blood. In late 19th-century England, the young son of a wealthy landowner, Jonathan Joestar, meets his new adopted brother Dio Brando, who loathes him and plans to usurp him as heir to the Joestar family. When Dio's attempts are thwarted by JoJo, he transforms himself into ...
Jonathan and Dio develop an interest in a mysterious stone mask that reacted to Dio's blood being spilt in the battle. [6] [7] Jonathan learns that the mask was used by the Aztecs to bring the wearer immortality. [2] In 1888, after becoming old enough to inherit the Joestar fortune, [6] Dio deliberately poisons Jonathan's father, George. [8]
Dio, having stolen Jonathan's body at the end of Part 1, fathered a few sons bearing the Joestar bloodline while awakening use of Stands in Jonathan's descendants. In the alternate universe depicted in Parts 7 and 8, Johnny Joestar marries Rina Higashikata with the Higashikata Family becoming a distinct branch of the Joestar family.
Upon entering the Joestar estate after his father died, Dio tried to take everything from Jonathan and killed Jonathan's dog, Danny. However, Dio underestimated Jonathan and his retaliation for forcefully kissing Erina Pendleton causes Dio to spend the next seven years feigning to be Jonathan's friend.
[a] The first six parts take place within a single continuity whose generational conflict stems from the rivalry between Jonathan Joestar and Dio Brando, while the latter three parts take place in an alternate universe where the Joestar family tree is heavily altered. Part 1 Phantom Blood (ファントムブラッド, Fantomu Buraddo)
After being presumed dead for 100 years, he has returned from his slumber and attached his disembodied head to the decapitated corpse of his longtime foe, Jonathan Joestar. He uses the Stand The World, [r] a high-power, short-range Stand similar to Star Platinum, which is capable of stopping time for brief intervals.
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In 1984 Dio, the vampiric enemy of Jonathan Joestar, emerges from the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean after stealing Jonathan's body. [9] Dio develops a manifestation of life energy known as a Stand, causing Jonathan's descendants Joseph Joestar, Holy Kujo, and Jotaro Kujo [9] to also gain Stands in 1987. Holy, lacking the strength to control her ...