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| ~ Joseph's catchphrase as he's reading his opponent |
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| ~ Joseph's catchphrase during Stardust Crusaders |
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Articles About Joseph Joestar
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| Main Continuities | Original - New Continuity |
| Alternate Continuities | SFC Game - OVA - Anime |
| “ | Did you see it? The thorns from my hand? That is my Stand! It can reveal faraway visions and place them on film. Of course, I gotta bust an expensive camera every time I use it! | „ |
| ~ Joseph Joestar to Jotaro Kujo |
| “ | Did you see it? The thorns from my hand? That is my Stand! It can reveal faraway visions and place them on film. Of course, I gotta bust an expensive camera every time I use it! | „ |
| ~ Joseph Joestar to Jotaro Kujo |
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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Note: Credit to JoJo's Bizarre Encyclopedia Early Life
Battle Tendency (1938-39)
Joseph goes to Mexico in search of Speedwagon, revealed to be alive in a secret underground Nazi facility where the Nazis are trying to revive a man who seems to have been trapped in a stone pillar for 2,000 years. Here Joseph meets the Nazi Rudol von Stroheim. Unfortunately, the Nazis are successful in awakening the man, who is christened "Santana" before he kills most of them. Joseph battles Santana and manage to defeat him with Stroheim's help before he seemingly died. Before Stroheim dies, the Nazi reveals that three more "sleeping pillar men" have been discovered underneath the Colosseum in Rome and that Joseph must stop them and meet with an ally. In Rome, Joseph meets Caesar, a trained Ripple user near his age who is supposed to show Joseph the ropes. At first, they are unable to do anything but argue; Caesar blames Jonathan Joestar for causing the death of his grandfather Will Anthonio Zeppeli through his incompetence. Caesar brings a Nazi named Mark to drive them to the Colosseum, where they find the three pillar men, Wamuu, Esidisi, and Kars, awakened. Mark is casually killed by Wamuu, enraging Caesar and causing the pair to fight him. Unfortunately, even with his American Ripple-Infused Clackers, the untrained Joseph is unable to stand a chance. Luckily, he manages to talk them out of killing him promising to train for a whole month for a rematch. To ensure that Joseph does not chicken out, Wamuu and Esidisi both end up inserting a "wedding ring" inside Joseph's heart and throat. They explain that the rings are internal time bombs set to release poison into his blood if he does not defeat them and retrieve the antidote they carry within a month. Joseph realizes that he will have to train or die, and Caesar introduces Joseph to his master Lisa Lisa, who also reveals that the motives of the pillar men are to seize the Red Stone of Aja to become perfect life forms. Ripple Training
Joseph finds Loggins murdered by Esidisi, who learned of the Super Aja in Lisa Lisa's possession. Denied his chance to pay back his teacher for the hell he went through, Joseph finds himself nearly outwitted by Esidisi before managing to defeat him with both his new skills and a sleight of hand strategy involving his wool hat. Joseph ingests the antidote in his opponent's nose ring, but doesn't realize that his attack only reduced Esidisi to a disembodied nervous system. Esidisi then takes over Suzi Q's body to mail the Red Stone to Kars in Switzerland while taking a last stand to deal with Joseph and the Ripple Users. Joseph and Caesar manage to safely force Esidisi out of Suzi Q by using opposing ripples and then watch as the Pillar Man is dissolved by the sunlight. Joseph mentions being impressed by Esidisi's resolve and loyalty, having gone so far to help Kars succeed. Lisa Lisa discovers that Esidisi sent the Aja to Switzerland, and the Joestar Group leaves Venice for the Alps. In Switzerland
The next day, the group discovers a likely hideout for the Pillar Men and Caesar is eager to go fight them. Joseph voiced being against going after Kars in daylight, sensing a trap. This result in Joseph saying words that drive Caesar off the edge as he leaves to do the job himself, Joseph learning his friend's story and changing his mind. However, by the time he and Lisa Lisa arrive, they see Caesar had already died fighting Wamuu and used the last of his strength to get the Pillar Man's lip ring. Out of respect for Caesar, Joseph decides to not take the antidote until he defeats Wamuu. Joseph and Lisa Lisa decide to pursue the likely wounded Wamuu inside the mansion. Joseph and Lisa Lisa find Kars and Wamuu but also find themselves outnumbered by Kars´s Vampires. Lisa Lisa bluffs destroying the Super Aja unless the Pillar Men accept her terms to settle things in two one-on-one showdowns at the Skeleton Heel Stone arena. Sent to retrieve the stone, Joseph notices the photo of an infant with Erina, Speedwagon, and Straizo and confronts Lisa Lisa about it. She tells only half of the photo's significance before Joseph engages Wamuu in a deadly Roman chariot race-battle. Wamuu initially gets the upper hand, but Joseph still manages to counter his dangerous attacks and destroys Wamuu´s body with only his dissolving head. Joseph, in a sign of honor to the warrior, gave Wamuu some of his own blood to ease his pain before drinking the antidote to give his opponent peace of mind. Kars proves to be less honorable than Wamuu and breaks his promise to fight Lisa Lisa one-on-one and sacrifices one of his weaker Vampires in order to defeat her. Angered by Kars' treachery, Joseph then challenges Kars, who looks upon him as a weak Ripple user and not even worth fighting seriously. All seems to be over in this fight against Kars until a newly rebuilt Stroheim and his Nazi soldiers, Speedwagon, and Smokey arrive to help. As the two fought on, Joseph is eventually given the decision to choose between his life or Lisa Lisa's, but is able to counter the whole situation and send Kars flying into the spike pit below. Stroheim and his Nazi soldiers blast Kars with ultraviolet light, but unknowingly gave him the light necessary for his Super Aja-embedded stone mask to trigger and transform him into the ultimate life form. Taking the Super Aja while running off, Joseph steals one of the Germans' airplanes to lead Kars away while devising a strategy to defeat him. Joseph then assumed he could kill Kars using the planet: namely crashing the plane with Kars on it into a volcano. Though it appears Kars is dead while sinking into the magma, the Pillar Man evolved a continuous and inorganic porous material to protect himself while digging his way out and slicing Joseph's arm off. When all seemed lost, Joseph unconsciously defends himself from Kars' enhanced Ripple by having the Super Aja redirect the attack into the ground. This causes an eruption that blasts the land the two fighters are on into the air, with Joseph distracting Kars long enough to be knocked out of Earth's orbit by debris. But gravity runs its course and Stroheim assumes Joseph dead at sea near Italy. Back Home
Pre-Stardust Crusaders (1942-87)
Manifesting his Stand Hermit Purple at the age 65, Joseph would learn that Dio Brando resurfaced after being last heard of in 1889. Joseph is further livid to learn that his Stand manifested because of DIO, who succeeded in taking the body of Jonathan Joestar. Joined by Muhammad Avdol who helped him understand the nature of the Stands, Joseph spent the next few years attempting to track down DIO to no avail. In 1987, Joseph is called by Holy who needs his expertise in an "evil spirit" that his possessing her son Jotaro Kujo. Joseph arrives to the JFK Airport where he bumps into a Japanese man. While he initially apologized for bumping into him, Joseph realized the man's nationality and kicks him. Joseph then subsequently explains his hatred of the Japanese due to one marrying his daughter and convincing her to move to Japan. In contrast, Joseph is content with his Japanese-made Sony Walkman and after putting his headphones on, he boards the plane to Japan. Stardust Crusaders (1987-88)
A few days later, to Joseph's horror, Holy's own Stand manifest and begins to slowly kill her due to lack of fighting spirit. The only means to save Holy within the next fifty days is to find and kill DIO to break his link to the Joestar line. Jotaro's Stand, later named Star Platinum, deduces a fly in the background of one Hermit Purple's photographs depicting DIO. Joseph contacts the Speedwagon Foundation to care for Holy after Avdol confirmed the fly to be native to Egypt as the group are joined by Kakyoin as they leave the airport. But in-flight encounter with DIO's homicidal assassin Gray Fly results in deaths of the pilots as Joseph is forced to take the wheel and manages to successfully land it 35 km off the coast of Hong Kong. The group later enter the city and discussed their status over a meal. With Joseph's suggestion to ensure a path where there be less risks for civilians, the group decides to take a sea route through the Indian Sea that should get them to Egypt within 50 days. After ordering the group delicacies by mistake due to his inability to read Kanji, they find the French tourist Jean Pierre Polnareff who joined their meal to be another of DIO's assassins. Following the duel between Avdol and Polnareff, the latter is refused to be controlled by a Flesh Bud, the Frenchman confronts Joseph at the dock about his prosthetic hand before joining the group in both their quest and his own agenda. At sea
Singapore
Terror in India
Pakistan
Arabia
Joseph and his companions stop by a village and buy a Cessna in order to fly across the desert, with a baby. However, Kakyoin has a nightmare in the middle of the flight and becomes so agitated Joseph crashes. Although everyone survives, they are stranded in the desert. Kakyoin, suspicious of the baby, is knocked down and everyone goes to sleep, where they are attacked by Death Thirteen. Fortunately, Kakyoin manages to defeat the Stand as he summoned Hierophant Green. He does not remember due to Death 13's powers and feeds Mannish Boy food, which unbeknownst to him has poop in it. The Red Sea
Egypt
Kakyoin and Avdol are given to the care of local doctors, and although Jotaro is acting strange, nothing unusual happens. Joseph is attacked by Mariah and her Stand Bastet and becomes magnetized alongside Avdol. Having every metallic object attracted to them is a huge handicap, but Joseph manages to surround Mariah with Avdol and uses her power to his advantage by having himself and Avdol collide with each other, crushing Mariah. After receiving a call from the Speedwagon Foundation, Joseph informs everyone that Holy had only four or five days left to live. In order to speed things up, they then take a train from Luxor to Cairo. Egypt: Cairo
During several days, Joseph's search continues, but it is Iggy who guides everyone toward DIO's Mansion. Battle in Dio's Mansion
Not out of the cellar yet, Joseph, Kakyoin and Jotaro notice that another battle is taking place as they try to escape. Joseph, Jotaro and Kakyoin meet Nukesaku, a Vampire, and bully him into indicating where DIO is. They decide to flank DIO from the outside of the building, breaking through a wall to enter a second time, and interrupt Polnareff and DIO's clash. Joseph alongside everyone follows Nukesaku to the room where DIO sleeps, but Nukesaku somehow is teleported inside a the coffin in the middle of the room, and Joseph, sniffing an ambush, flees through a window with the rest of the party. As the sun sets, Joseph decides that they flee because fighting the Vampire without the slightest hint of his power is suicidal. He and Kakyoin flee first whereas Polnareff and Jotaro wait in ambush in order to follow DIO. The Final Battle
However Kakyoin devises a plan to force DIO to use his power openly. DIO stops time, taking everyone by surprises and punches through Kakyoin. However Kakyoin manages to tip off Joseph about the true nature of The World. Joseph manages to decipher the cryptic message Kakyoin leaves in regards to DIO's power and even figures out some of The World's weaknesses, but DIO is too strong anyway. Joseph is stabbed through the throat and taken out as he meets with Jotaro and warns him against The World. Later DIO sucks the entirety of Joseph's blood to power himself up, and Joseph seemingly dies, his specter talking one last time to Jotaro, who manages to kill DIO. The Long Journey Ends
Later, Jotaro and Joseph took the remainder DIO's body outside, where it evaporated with the rising sun. They then gave one final moment of thought for Kakyoin, Iggy, and Avdol. At the airport, Joseph and Jotaro gave a final goodbye to Polnareff, who was finally ready to return to his home country of France. Joseph asks Polnareff to come with him to America, knowing that the latter had no one waiting for him back home. Polnareff refused the offer, stating that despite being alone, France was his homeland. The trio gave their final goodbyes and left, promising to see one another again someday. In Japan, Holy awoke fully healed and freed from the curse. Even miles away, she knew her son and father were coming home. Post Stardust Crusaders
During this time he gained a great-granddaughter named Jolyne Cujoh, but it is unknown if they have interacted with each other. Joseph also learns of the illegitimate son from his fling with Tomoko Higashikata, who kept the child's existence a secret until he was 16 years of age. As Suzi Q got upset that he was unfaithful to her, Joseph added Josuke to his will. When Joseph attempted to use his Stand to get a picture of Josuke, he discovers an ominous figure in the photos instead, prompting Jotaro to go to Morioh to investigate. Diamond is Unbreakable (1999)
On the way to Josuke's house, Joseph and Josuke discover an "invisible baby" which turns out to be a Stand User. As the two are unable to see it, they decide to travel to a baby store and purchase clothing and supplies (unbeknownst to Josuke, Joseph spends most of his money). There's a brief bonding period between the two before the baby begins to cry and go out of control from a lack of mother. When the baby's carriage becomes invisible as well and rolls down a hill into a pond, Josuke panics about not being able to locate the baby in the water and blames Joseph for the situation. Joseph, however, cuts himself to stain the water with his blood, thus allowing Josuke to find the baby. He says he did it because he wanted to make Josuke proud. Throughout the rest of the part, Joseph is seen taking care of the baby and travelling with Josuke to places around town. At one point, he comes across a sulking Yukako and gives her advice on how to get Koichi to be interested in her, particularly by visiting Aya's Salon. Later that day, Joseph and Josuke decide to head to Kameyu department store, where they eventually meet up with Yukako, Rohan and Koichi and his family. At the store, a flash from Rohan's camera causes the baby to cry, forcing Joseph to run out of the building, but not before bumping Koichi into Yukako's arms. By the end, Joseph adopts the baby and names her Shizuka - this, however, leads to further conflict with his wife Suzi Q, who believes the baby to be another "secret child". When he and Jotaro leave Morioh, Joseph assures the latter that the people of the town have "hearts of gold", and that Josuke and his friends will be able to handle any future threat. Josuke himself sees Joseph off, though he ends up stealing his wallet using Crazy Diamond's power. Stone Ocean (2012)
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Codex Statistics
Key: Pre-Hamon Training | Post-Hamon Training | Stardust Crusaders
Tier: 10-A, 9-C with Tommy Gun, 9-B with Emotional Empowerment, 9-A with multiple grenades | 9-B, Higher with Crossbow, Even Higher with Fire Bomb, Far Higher Environmental Destruction with the Super Aja | 10-A, 9-B with Hamon. Unknown with Hermit Purple
Name: Joseph Joestar, JoJo (Nickname), Josef Joestar (Fake name he put in Enya's guest book)
Origin: JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part 2: 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 in 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 it the year 1989 and Joseph 69 years old), 79 in Diamond is Unbreakable (Noted to be officially 79 years old), 91 in 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)
Dimensionality: 3-D
Attack Potency: Athlete 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), Peak Human level with Tommy Gun (Used a tommy gun to attack Straizo), Wall level with Emotional Empowerment (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, a Hamon user who uses a non-destructive type of Hamon, who can spilt a rock in half, destroy brick, and harm Jonathan Joestar, who can dent metal armor), Room level (With multiples grenades, Joseph can create an explosion of this size) | Wall level (Trained to the point where he could passively emit his Hamon), Higher with Crossbow (Grabbed to bigger crossbow, which is more powerful than the smaller one. The smaller crossbow shoots an iron ball bearing that is able to smash stone, turn Wamuu's head into mush, destroy a vampire horse's head, and nearly kill Joseph himself), Even Higher with Fire Bomb (His fire bomb can create an explosion of this size), 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)) | Athlete 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: Athlete level, Wall level with Emotional Empowerment (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 | Athlete level, Wall level with Hamon, Higher by concentrating Hamon. Unknown with Hermit Purple
Striking Strength: Athlete Class, Wall Class with Emotional Empowerment | Wall Class | Athlete Class, Wall Class with Hamon. Unknown with Hermit Purple
Lifting Strength: Athletic Human (In his old age, Joseph could casually lift a police officer with one hand and was able to chase Mariah for a short time while metal objects were attracting to him), Peak Human at the peak of his strength (At the peak of his strength, Joseph was able to rip a wooden poll in half in his old age), Superhuman with Emotional Empowerment (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, Peak Human at the peak of his strength, Superhuman with Hamon
Travel Speed: Athletic Human (Was able to run a long distance in a short timeframe. In his old age, Joseph was able to chase Mariah for a short time while metal objects were attracting to him), Superhuman with Emotional Empowerment (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) | Athletic Human, Superhuman with Hamon
Combat Speed: Supersonic (Was capable of planting grenades on Straizo without him noticing, who is a Vampire that is superior to Dio Brando, who's weaker self can react to Star Platinum, which can tag Anubis, after it had gotten faster than Sliver Chariot and later parried blows from an faster Anubis and Sliver Chariot, with the latter being able to block point blank gun fire while weakened, which results in these speeds {}) | 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, which was able to attack Noriaki Kakyoin before he could kill Manish Boy with Hierophant Green, which can block an attack from The World, which can tag Star Platinum), Supersonic with Hermit Purple (Used Hermit Purple 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 (In his old age, Joseph was able to chase Mariah for a short time while metal objects were attracting to him), Superhuman with Emotional Empowerment (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 (Joseph's stamina is worst than before), Superhuman with Hamon
Range: Standard Melee Range, Extended Melee Range to Several Meters with Clackers (Used American clackers to attack, which he can through this far), Extended Melee Range 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 Range, 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 (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. Ables to easily drive a motorcycle in the desert. 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. Can ride around and battle on horse carriages[1]. Able to pilot an airplane while being attacked. Was able to figure out how to ride a camel in a short amount of time. Piloted a plane across the desert. Along with Muhammad Avdol, Joseph is able to pilot a submarine. Joseph's is skilled at the "Coins and Glass" game. Noted to have good gambling skills by Jotaro Kujo)
Powers and Abilities
All previous powers and abilities, Superhuman Physical Characteristics (Trained to the point where he could passively emit his Hamon), Improved Martial Arts (Fully mastered Hamon and by extension mastered Sendo), Energy Projection (With the Super Aja, shoots out an energy beam), Fire Manipulation (Used a match to sue the Super Aja), Explosion Manipulation (Used oil to blow up Wamuu), Flight (Able to fly an Nazi airplane)
All previous powers and abilities with exception of Superhuman Physical Characteristics as he no longer uses Hamon passively, Extrasensory Perception (Stand users are able to perceive the souls of the deceased. Stand users can perceive ghosts and other supernatural forces. Stand users can perceive and enter the Ghost Girl's Alley which is invisible to regular people along with being a gateway to the afterlife. Stand users can see Stands which are completely invisible to regular people), Aura (Stand users have an aura around them when their Stand is activated), Summoning (Stand Users can summon their Stand into battle or for other purposes they so choose), Sheer Will (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. Stands are tied to the mental abilities of the user, with Stands becoming weaker if the user's mental abilities are weakened), Metaphysics Manipulation (Spirit Manipulation; Stands are a powerful apparition, created by the users own life energy), Enhanced Senses (Stand users can feel Stand energy emitting from a Stand user, allowing them to sense the presence of a Stand user. Stand users can sense the power of a Stand), Flight (Able to fly an airplane), Aquatic Breathing (With scuba diving gear, Joseph can breath underwater for a period of time)
Is a user of Hamon, granting him the following: Superhuman Physical Characteristics, Acrobatics & Air Manipulation (Hamon users can launch themselves into the air and jump up high distances), Afterimage Creation (Hamon users can create afterimages), Body Control (Hamon users can extend their limbs with Zoom Punch), Surface Scaling (Hamon users can focus their fingers into a specific spot to scale up oily surfaces. Joseph was able to use his Hamon to stick to oil being spewed out of a pillar), Water Manipulation (Aquatic Flow & States of Matter Manipulation; Hamon users can use their Hamon to control water. Hamon users are able to solidify and sharpen liquids with Hamon), Penetration Damage (Physical Penetration; With Hamon Cutter, Hamon users can create blades of liquid sharper than scalpels. With Bubble Cutter, Hamon users can create sharp spinning discs made of bubbles), Life Manipulation & Plant Manipulation (Can cause a wilted flower to bloom), Enhanced Senses (Hamon users can feel changes in air flow when on alert), Radar Sensing (Hamon users can use things such as wine or cloth as a life detecting radar), Water Walking (Hamon allows one to walk on water), Electricity Manipulation (Electricity Surging & Conducting; Hamon can shock people, Joseph Joestar used this to knock out a pilot just from touching him. Those hit by Hamon attacks describe it as if there was electricity running through their attacks), Fire Manipulation (Hamon users can light their arms on fire using Scarlet Overdrive), Precognition (Premonitions & Analytical Prediction; Hamon users can see someone’s future through touching them. Hamon users can see the future during battle), Biological Manipulation (Hamon can reorganize one's cell and make their functions go haywire. Hamon users can use Hamon to confuse the bodies of others), Reflection Manipulation & Counter (Attack Reflection; Hamon can redirect attacks through the use of objects imbued with Hamon), Longevity (Hamon keeps you in your prime much longer than usual), Healing (Hamon energy can heal broken bones, including a broken neck. Hamon can heal diseases like Gangrene), Pain Manipulation (Hamon energy can soften physical pain), Vibration Manipulation & Energy Manipulation (It is also called Ripple, as it creates vibrations that turn into energy waves), Light Manipulation (Hamon utilizes the powers of the sun allowing it to glow), Explosion Manipulation (Hamon can incur explosions), Durability Negation (Hamon can conduct through living organisms, thus ignoring durability. Can stop ones heart with Hamon), Non-Physical Interaction & Metaphysics Manipulation (Spirit Manipulation; Hamon can conduct over and affect Stands. Stands are consistently referred to as spiritual energy, beings that are a powerful apparition created by the stand users own life energy, with it being known physical objects such as guns can't hurt Stands), Purification (Hamon was shown to restore Bruford’s humanity), Self-Sustenance (Nutritional Self-Sustenance & Restful Self-Sustenance; Hamon can allow users to go long periods of time without food, drink, or rest), Magnetism Manipulation (Life Magnetism Overdrive magnetizes living things to bunch them together, such as leaves. Hamon can be positively and negatively charged), Gliding (Hamon users can magnetize leaves and use them to glid across large distances), Hair Manipulation (Hamon users can use even hair and weaponize it to block attacks), Absorption & Power Bestowal (Hamon users can transfer their life energy to other allowing those who absorb it grow stronger from it. Those affected by Hamon Hypnosis grow stronger from it), Sleep Manipulation (Hamon can put animals to sleep), Blood Manipulation (Hamon can stop bleeding. Hamon users can create bubbles made of blood. Hamon users can infused Hamon into blood), Organic Manipulation (Botany Applications; Hamon can harden cocked pasta), Mind Manipulation (Hamon Hypnosis allows for the user to control the mind of whoever they touched with Hamon. Hamon users can use Hamon Hypnosis to read information from one's subconscious), Animal Manipulation (Able to inject Hamon into an animal to control them. Joseph used this to control the Vampire Horses during his chariot battle), Pierce Resistance (Minor Pierce Resistance;By concentrating Hamon into a specific part of their body, Hamon users can resist being pierced by pressurized oil, knifes, spikes), Cloth Manipulation (Hamon users can harden cloth with their Hamon), Heat Manipulation (Hamon is hot enough to burn hair). Resistance to Poison Manipulation (Users of Hamon can expel poison from the body using blood control), Absorption & Biological Manipulation (Hamon users can resist the Pillar Men trying to absorb them into them, which Joseph describes as them using their own cells to expel digestive fluid to devour the persons cells), Corruption & Necromancy (Hamon users can expel Dio's vampiric extract which can turn one into an undead Zombie out for blood), Fire Manipulation (Hamon users can resist fire)
Standard Equipment
- 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.
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Joseph launching a bottle cap with Hamon
- Tommy Gun & Grenades: 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.
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Joseph's Tommy gun
- Motorcycle: To travel towards Mexico to learn more about the Pillar Man mentioned by Straizo, Joseph would travel across North America by motorcycle.
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Joseph's motorcycle
- Drag Disguise: To sneak inside a Nazi outpost in Mexico, Joseph wore a drag costume to trick the guards into thinking he was a party girl. However due to the costume's poor quality Joseph was unable to trick the guards and instead used Hamon to incapacitate them.
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Joseph's disguise
- 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.
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Joseph's American Clackers
- Prosthetic Hand: During his battle with Ultimate Kars, Joseph's hand would be sliced of by Kars, which would get replaced by a prosthetic given to him by Stroheim. Joseph's prosthetic would get destroyed in multiple battles and would replaced by the Speedwagon Foundation.
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Joseph blocking Sliver Chariot with his hand
Optional Equipment
- Nazi Disguise: After knocking out two Nazi soldiers, Joseph took their clothing and snuck into a Nazi outpost. Using this disguise Joseph was able to sneak into a Nazi lab where he would find Speedwagon and the Pillar Man Santana.
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Joseph disguised as a Nazi solider
- Skeleton Heel Stone Weaponry: 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.
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Joseph with a sledgehammer
- Nazi Military Aircraft: In his plan to defeat Ultimate Kars, Joseph would steal an unoccupied Nazi military aircraft and would lure Kars towards a volcano near Italy and would crash into both Kars, dragging him into the volcano. The aircraft would be destroyed in an explosion when it crashed into the volcano's center.
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Joseph driving a Nazi Military Aircraft
- Cessna: Joseph and the rest of the Joestar Party would use an Cessna to travel across the Arabian dessert. Joseph would crash the Cessna on accident due to Kakyoin's nightmares caused by Death 13.
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Joseph driving a Cessna
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.
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Joseph running Hamon through Hermit Purple
- 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.
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Joseph using Hamon Overdrive on Kars
- 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.
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Joseph blocking Santana's bullets
- 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.
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Joseph's Hamon controlled pigeon attacking Caesar Anthonio Zeppeli
- 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.
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Joseph sticking onto moving oil
- 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.
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Esidisi being cut by Hamon Beat Overdrive
- Rebuff Overdrive: When Wamuu jumped at Joseph, he counterattacked by imbuing his elbows with Hamon and attacking his legs.
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Wamuu being hit by Rebuff Overdrive
- 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.
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Joseph using Zoom Punch on a Vampire
- Joestar Secret Technique: The Joestar Secret Technique is a technique were one runs away from their opponent to lead them somewhere that would put them at a disadvantage. Joseph has used this twice in the series, the first time in his battle against Straizo, and the second in his battle against Ultimate Kars. Joseph taught this technique to his grandson Jotaro Kujo, who used it against Rubber Soul.
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Joseph running away from Straizo
- 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.
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Joseph attacking Wamuu with Clacker Volley
- 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.
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Joseph's clackers coming back at Wamuu
- 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.
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Joseph summoning Hermit Purple
- 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.
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Joseph using Spirit Photography on a camera.
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. | Same as before. | Joseph no longer uses Hamon unless he needs to and instead will use Hermit Purple in combat.
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. Joseph will not admit defeat. | Same as before. His crossbow is so powerful he can't draw the string back himself and has to fall off a horse to do so. | 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 its user making them sick with a deadly fever. When one's Stand is shrunken to a microscopic level it has a hard time phasing through object. Keeping a Stand shrunken to a microscopic level is exhausting for the user. Stands can't be summoned in dreams, with the user only being able to use their Stand if they pass out while using their Stand.
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.[3]
References
- ↑ JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part 2: Battle Tendency Chapter 53.
- ↑ JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part 2: Battle Tendency Chapter 53
- ↑ Weekly Shonen ｢｣ (JOJO冒險 荒木飛呂彥100問專訪); Q75, April 5, 2003
Gallery
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Battle Records
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- Keys: Joestar had their latest Keys from their respective parts and Volume 1-6 Key was used for Ruby.
- Conditions: Gauntlet, Ruby does not take a break in between fights, and speed equalized.
- Location: SBA
- Restrictions: None.
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