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Joseph Joestar
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Articles About Joseph Joestar
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| Main Continuities | Original - New Continuity |
| Alternate Continuities | Genesis of the Universe - OVA |
| Non-Canon | Famicom Jump II - SFC Game - Heritage for the Future - Jump Super Stars - J-Stars Victory Vs |
Background
Joseph Joestar is the main protagonist of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Battle Tendency and an ally in JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders and JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Diamond is Unbreakable. He is the 2nd JoJo of the JoJo's Bizarre Adventure series. He is also the second most recurring JoJo in the series after his grandson Jotaro Kujo and is one of its most well known characters.
Joseph is a natural-born Hamon user and eventual Stand user, wielding the psychic photographic Stand, Hermit Purple. Joseph meets the fantastic threats approaching him throughout his life with initiative and impressive ingenuity, battling Vampires, the Pillar Men, and malevolent Stand users.
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General Information
Name: Joseph Joestar, JoJo (Nickname)
Origin: JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Battle Tendency
Sex: Male
Age: 18 in Battle Tendency (Joseph is stated to be 18 and was born on September 27th, 1920. Even though Battle Tendency starts in 1938 and ends in 1939, Joseph would still be 18 as Battle Tendency takes place over the course of 6 months), 69 during Stardust Crusaders (Noted during Stardust Crusaders that it's been 100 years since the end of Phantom Blood, which ended in the year 1889, making the year 1989 and Joseph 69 years old), 79 during Diamond is Unbreakable (Noted to be officially 79 years old), 91 during Stone Ocean (If he's still alive, he would be 91 by this point as Stone Ocean ends in March 21st, 2012)
Classification: The Second JoJo, Joestar, Hamon User, Stand User
Species: Human
Occupation: Real Estate
Status: Unknown (The fate of Joseph is after Stone Ocean is unknown)
Alignment: Chaotic Good (Defended a poor black kid from a racist cop, though is a naturally sadistic person, despite this Joseph will always do the morally right decision, even while beaten and battered, lured Wamuu away from Caesar Anthonio Zeppeli and Speedwagon so they could be safe)
Codex Statistics
Key: Pre-Hamon Training | Post-Hamon Training | Stardust Crusaders
Tier: High 10-B, 9-C with Tommy Gun, 9-B with Rage Power, 9-A with multiple grenades | 9-B, Far Higher Environmental Destruction with the Super Aja | High 10-B, 9-B with Hamon. Unknown with Hermit Purple
Cardinality: Finite
Dimensionality: 3-D
Attack Potency: Above Average Human level (Easily overpowered a police officer and caused him to bleed with a single punch. Sent a gangster flying with a punch. Easily overpowered a giant brute while running away from Straizo), Bone level with Tommy Gun (Used a tommy gun to attack Straizo), Wall level with Rage Power (When Joseph loses control of his temper he instinctively activates Hamon, allowing him to do things like easily break a police officer's finger with a bottle cap. Can crack a part of a pillar by throwing clackers at it. Should be comparable to Will Anthonio Zeppeli, who can spilt a rock in half and destroy brick), Room level with multiple grenades (With multiples grenades, Joseph can create an explosion of this size) | Wall level (Trained to the point where he could passively emit his Hamon), Far Higher Environmental Destruction with the Super Aja (The Super Aja amplifies Hamon energy, which allowed Ultimate Kars' Hamon to cause a volcanic eruption to climax (See Note)) | Above Average Human level (No longer uses Hamon passively, and seems to only really be able to use overdrive), Wall level with Hamon. Unknown with Hermit Purple (Hermit Purple is not directly a fighting stand and more so an information gathering one)
Durability: Above Average Human level, Wall level with Rage Power (Was able to withstand being launched into metal with enough force to break it), Higher by concentrating Hamon (By concentrating Hamon into a specific part of their body, Hamon users can resist being pierced by pressurized oil, knifes, spikes) | Wall level (Was able to withstand jumping off of a horse carriage moving at 60 MPH. Can withstand being smashed into a broken horse carriage), Higher by concentrating Hamon | Above Average Human level, Wall level with Hamon, Higher by concentrating Hamon. Unknown with Hermit Purple
Striking Strength: Above Average Human Class, Wall Class with Rage Power | Wall Class | Above Average Human Class, Wall Class with Hamon. Unknown with Hermit Purple
Lifting Strength: Athletic Human, Superhuman with Rage Power (Should be comparable to Jonathan Joestar, who can pull back Tarkus, who is far bigger than Jonathan, who is 195 centimeters tall) | Superhuman | Athletic Human, Superhuman with Hamon
Travel Speed: Athletic Human (Was able to run a long distance in a short timeframe) | Superhuman (Should be comparable to Will Anthonio Zeppeli, who can disappear from Pre-Hamon Jonathan's sight and then appear in front of him) | Superhuman (His Hamon training allowed him to briefly keep up with Kars, who is superior to Santana, who is superior to Vampires such as Dio Brando, who was noted to have the speed of a leopard, who moves at around 36 mp/h. Kars is also comparable to Wamuu, who can blitz trained soldiers fast enough to create afterimages with Kars also being comparable to Esidisi, who while possessing a human could travel from the bottom of a mansion to one of the higher floors in seconds)
Attack Speed: Supersonic (Was capable of planting grenades on Straizo without him noticing. Straizo is a Vampire that is superior to Dio Brando, who's weaker self can react to Star Platinum, which can stop a bullet from hitting Jotaro Kujo) | Supersonic (Can block attacks from Kars, who is superior to Santana, who is superior to Vampires such as Straizo and Dio Brando), Massively Hypersonic with Autopilot (Instinctively blocked an attack from Ultimate Kars, who can dodge volcanic rocks that could fly into space, meaning they were traveling at escape velocity, which is Mach 33), Speed of Light with the Super Aja (With the Super Aja, a flawless Red Stone of Aja, it can absorb and redirect light out from a singular point on the stone. This allows Hamon users to conduct Hamon through it to fire said light) | Supersonic (Blocked an attack from Sliver Chariot, who was able to tag DIO)
Reaction Speed: Supersonic (Dodged and blocked Straizo's Space Ripper Stingy Eyes, an attack that can blitz Jonathan Joestar) | Supersonic, Massively Hypersonic with Autopilot (Instinctively blocked an attack from Ultimate Kars) | Supersonic (Blocked an attack from Sliver Chariot)
Stamina: Athletic Human, Superhuman with Rage Power (Should be superior to Will Anthonio Zeppeli during his early years of training were he could run dozens of Li without need for catching his breath. Hamon can allow users to go long periods of time without food, drink, or rest and run for hundreds of kilometers with ease) | Superhuman | Athletic Human, Superhuman with Hamon
Range: Standard Melee, Extended Melee to Several Meters with Clackers (Used American clackers to attack, which he can through this far), Extended Melee to Several Meters with Hamon (Hamon users can use their Hamon to extend their limbs. Hamon users can create blades of liquid sharper than scalpels and can shoot them from their mouth. Hamon users can shoot Hamon through walls to attack their opponents. Hamon users can shoot Hamon through water to hit their opponents from large distances. Hamon users can use metal to send Hamon towards their opponents. Hamon users can Hamon infused bubble to attack their opponents), Several Meters with Boomerang Clackers, Tens of Meters with Grenades (Caused explosions that spanned this wide), Hundreds of Meters with Tommy Gun & Red Stone of Aja | Standard Melee, Tens of Meters with Hermit Purple (Hermit Purple reaches farther then The World which's maximum range is ten meters), Planetary with Spirit Photography (Hermit Purple can gather information about people far away, through technology such as cameras, allowing Joseph to spy on DIO with this ability)
Intelligence: Genius Intelligence (Could tell from a crooks dominant hand which pocket he held the brass knuckles in, could tell what he'd say next, and then easily read his movements. Tricked Straizo by having him attack a mirror instead of Joseph himself, catching him off guard allowing him to attack him. Could quickly throw a grenade and leave several on one's back without them noticing. Figured out a way after seeing it be used once to counter Space Ripper Stingy Eyes. Tricked a Nazi general by making it look like he was trying to attack him when he was realistically going for the cactus to cause the Hamon to explode on it. Tricked Santana into jumping into a well being hit with full sunlight from both sides. Tricked Wamuu into not killing him through manipulating his warrior's pride. Calculated the momentum of being launched to allow him to get past the oil barrier and get to the top of the surface. Was able to control his Hamon in just three days. Joseph's fighting style has him get a read on his opponent and using their mind against them. Noted to be a genius trickster)
Powers and Techniques
Equipment
- American Clackers: In order to come up with a special attack, Joseph invented a fighting style that involved infusing the Ripple into a pair of normal American Clackers. Once infused, the Clackers become a lethal weapon, as the user is able to rip through an opponent's skin using them, and from there the Ripple can enter the body, thus inflicting massive damage. Because of their shape and aerodynamic design, someone who is trained in the Clackers' use is able to easily maneuver them around their body, even having the ability to make them seemingly disappear by hiding them behind their back.
- Bottle Cap: He used Ripple to pop the cap off of a cola bottle at a corrupt police officer and two tequila bottles' corks against a pair of Nazi soldiers, in the form of high speed projectiles.
- Tommy Gun: He used a Tommy gun to shoot Straizo and then strike him with the stock charged with the Ripple. This was followed by secretively attaching a grenade to Straizo's scarf, the pin of which was attached by strings to the pins of several other grenades Joseph had managed to plant on Straizo's back.
- Wool Hat: He used the yarn of a wool hat (which is highly conductive of the Ripple) to form a net underneath the spike-filled arena to use against Esidisi.
- Sledgehammer: He wielded a large sledgehammer in the chariot race against Wamuu, which he slathered in oil to improve its conduction of the Ripple. Joseph also used a heavy crossbow to fire a Ripple-charged iron ball at the wall of the arena, where it rode around the entire wall before launching off and hitting Wamuu from behind.
- Hermit Purple: Joseph's Stand, Hermit Purple, manifests itself as a tangle of thorny vines, which Joseph can wield as both a weapon and a hazardous defense. Furthermore, it has been shown to conduct the Ripple, which makes Hermit Purple one of the more effective Stands against those weak to it such as Vampires. Joseph develops the Stand after DIO pierces Jonathan's body with the Arrow, upon which it responded to DIO and Enya awakening The World, at the same time influencing the whole Joestar family, which also granted them stands.
Notable Techniques
- Hamon: Joseph inherited the Hamon and its capabilities from his grandfather, Jonathan Joestar, as well as his mother, Lisa Lisa. In addition, he uses techniques commonly present in stage magic to confuse his foes. After his Hamon training, Joseph frequently combines his Hamon with other objects to perform complex and creative attacks. Later in Stardust Crusaders, he shows that he is able to pass the Hamon through his Stand, Hermit Purple. However, as he grew older, due to neglecting his Hamon training, he became unable to do the same things he was capable of when he was younger and ended up aging at a relatively normal pace. Aside from his intelligence and slight of hand, Joseph also possessed arguably superhuman physicality. His build and physique undoubtedly contributed to this, but it is more likely that the bulk of his physicality came from his natural affinity for the Hamon, and later his extensive training in its use. He demonstrated humanly impossible strength and speed on a number of occasions. During his fight with Straizo, he was able to dodge a point blank blast from the the Vampire's Space Ripper Stingy Eye attack, and on several occasions was able to hold his own in hand to hand combat with the Pillar Men. During his battle with the Pillar Men, Joseph had demonstrated several techniques similar to his grandfather's.
- Hamon Overdrive: A basic use of Hamon where the user imbues on attack with Hamon. Joseph is first shown using this on a racist cop in New York, where he imbued a bottle of coke with Hamon, sending the cap flying into the cop's finger, breaking it.
- Hamon Hair Attack: When Santana was able to shoot him, Speedwagon, and Stroheim, Joseph used Stroheim's hair to block the bullets, keeping them in the air using his Hamon.
- Hamon Hypnosis: When Joseph was briefly fighting Caesar Anthonio Zeppeli, he used his Hamon to control as bird to make it fly into his mouth.
- Hamon Beat: When climbing the Hell Climb Pillar, Joseph imbued both his arms and legs with Hamon to grab onto pressurized oil that was being sprayed out, allowing him to launch himself to the wall in order to climb the pillar.
- Hamon Beat Overdrive: Joseph traps an opponent with 100% wool string with and imbues it with Hamon. Joseph used this to destroy the body of Esidisi.
- Rebuff Overdrive: When Wamuu jumped at Joseph, he counterattacked by imbuing his elbows with Hamon and attacking his legs.
- Zoom Punch: Joseph is able to use Hamon to dislocate his shoulder to extend it. The Hamon softens the pain of the dislocation allowing him to attack from a distance.
- American Clackers: In order to come up with a special attack, Joseph invented a fighting style that involved infusing the Ripple into a pair of normal American Clackers. Once infused, the Clackers become a lethal weapon, as the user is able to rip through an opponent's skin using them, and from there the Ripple can enter the body, thus inflicting massive damage. Because of their shape and aerodynamic design, someone who is trained in the Clackers' use is able to easily maneuver them around their body, even having the ability to make them seemingly disappear by hiding them behind their back.
- Clacker Volley: Joseph chucks the Clackers into his opponent's direction. This can be done a number of ways, but to produce the best and most surprising effect, he can hide them behind his back. From there, Joseph can slingshot them from behind his back at the enemy in all directions.
- Clacker Boomerang: Joseph throws both pairs of Clackers into a beam or pillar behind the opponent. This is in order to fool them into assuming he missed. One is thrown into the partition, causing one side of it to be lodged in place. The other side grabs onto the second pair of Clackers, and essentially flings them back towards the opponent from behind, much like how a boomerang works.
- Spirit Photography: One of its special abilities (shared with Jonathan's stand) is to use cameras, televisions and other things to perform a form of fortune telling referred to as spirit photography. When introduced, it was demonstrated that he had to smash an expensive Polaroid camera to do this, and the camera would dispense a picture of DIO. Later on he is seen using televisions for this ability without having to damage them.
Other
Standard Tactics: Joseph's fighting style has him get a read on his opponent and using their mind against them. He will in conjunction use his Hamon with clackers or other weapons and attacks along with surveying his environment to fight his opponent.
Weaknesses: If he can't breath he will eventually run out of Hamon. If Joseph were to use Ultimate Deep Pass Overdrive he will rapidly age until he becomes an old man. If A Hamon user's Hamon unable to connect with its target, the target will be unaffected. A way to prevent Hamon from connecting is by freezing the users way of attacking with it before it could reach it's target. Joseph cannot fight against those he can't get a read on. | Same as before. | Same as before, If A Stand is damaged, the user will by proxy take damage and if they're damaged, their Stand will take damage. A Stand's energy or power is inversely proportional to their range of operation, the farther away the Stand goes, the weaker, slower, and less precise its movements become. The less air a Stand user has the weaker their Stand becomes. If a Stand user becomes unconscious their Stand will deactivate. Stands that imbue themselves into objects, take the shape of an item, or merge with a user’s body can be seen by normal humans. Stands are tied to the mental abilities of the user, with Stands becoming weaker if the user's mental abilities are weakened. Stands require the spirit to fight in order to be used or else the Stand will harm it's user making them sick with a deadly fever.
Note: Due to Ultimate Kars having Hamon hundreds of times stronger than Joseph's, Joseph's Environmental Destruction wouldn't scale to the potency of Kars'.
Trivia
- As an Englishman, he is famous for often saying various phrases in English. His catchphrases include "OH! NO!" (Used both in Part 2 and Part 3) and "Oh! My! God!" (used in Part 3 and Part 4) as a few examples.
- In part 3, Joseph is mistakenly called American by some characters, despite being British. This is due to the fact that Joseph was traveling through countries in Asia, and it is common that most people who do not speak English do not know the accent differences of the different dialects of the English language.
- A running gag in Part 3 has Joseph lose parts of his prosthetic hand, or even the hand itself, when enemies attack him, but later appearing with it intact without any definite explanation.
- Joseph is a name of Hebrew origin (the original version of the name is Yosef) that can mean "He will add", "Taken away" or "Praise, Fame taken away". The name can be transliterated in katakana as ジョセフ (Josefu).
- Joseph has survived four plane crashes (two in Part 2 and two in Part 3); this was brought up twice throughout Part 3.
- Joseph is the only person to be able to use both Hamon and have a Stand of his own.
- According to Straizo, non-organic objects can only conduct Ripple if the user is touching them. Despite this, Joseph managed to maintain non-organic objects imbued with Ripple after they left his hands on two separate occasions: during his initial fight with Wamuu, with his clackers, and during his final fight with Wamuu, with the metal ball ammunition for his crossbow.
- Joseph, out of all the JoJos, had lived the longest life to date.
- Araki said once that he thinks Joseph is "a little dumber but still alive" when Stone Ocean takes place, bringing his oldest confirmed age to ~91.[2]
References
- ↑ JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Battle Tendency Chapter 53
- ↑ Weekly Shonen ｢｣ (JOJO冒險 荒木飛呂彥100問專訪); Q75, April 5, 2003
Gallery
| Joseph Joestar's Gallery |
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| Hermit Purple's Gallery |
Battle Records
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