I always felt that this major injury didn't exactly kill him permanently. If they left him in the shadows Dio would have probably regenerated after awhile. Only reason he didn't get to is because Jotaro and Joseph left his body out in the sun to burn.
maybe with enough blood supply cuz he didn't immediately regen his leg when it got cut off, but had the accountant get it for him, but maybe he can't cuz it's Jonathan's body and he still don't have full control over it
Half of his body just exploded, it would take a while to heal. Also, I'm pretty sure it is specifically stated that he *can* heal from this. His body is still alive at that point, he is only properly killed when the remaining half of his body gets destroyed by the Sun.
People forget (mainly due to the anime cutting a lot of content for part 1) is that it took Dio at least two weeks to heal from his first battle with Jonathan.
What? Yes we do
Edit: Nevermind, read later comments, you are correct that it isn't as severe as in the manga (I'm assuming, I haven't read the manga but what you said lines up with what I remember from the anime)
Dio could regenerate from that as well, and far quicker, as Straizo is, of his own admission, not willing to train his abilities and prefering to kill Joseph as quick as possible. This means he is far weaker than Dio, (which is evident by the fact that Straizo can just break stone).
Unlike what most of the fandom thinks, neither Vampires or Pillar Men in Jojo have Majin-buu levels of regen: if a limb is destroyed, it´s gone forever unless you use someone else´s.
Dio has a tendency to get split apart. Horizontal, vertical, right arm, left leg so on and so forth.
Hks brain has been cut into more pieces more often than he has used it.
maybe it's just an anime thing, but wasn't there a Death message as they pan out from this shot? it was like, dio and the world, utterly defeated, dead.
Thats fair but it doesnt really disprove what i said. And regardless i also specified that DIO very well can be an exception but he would still be severely injured and unable to heal.
Except Chiptrick also ignores some other rules, like how he can switch between users, works against his users and can became Rohan's second stand for a short period of time.
Laws changed with stands a bit. If he had been given blood, he could have regenerated, but it would require alot of blood, similar to pillar man awaking.
It’s actually kinda implied that he can. Like I remember the Speedwagon doctors saying something along the lines of ‘his cells are still active DIO’s body needs to be exposed to sunlight’ or something like that so over time he could probably heal up from that
Also just as an aside I head canon if DIO could reconstruct his body from his stand exploding his head would regenerate to be Johnathan’s
Or worse it *is* jonathan and he became a vampire because Dio infected his body. Knowing Jonathan he'd probably just use Hamon on the spot to pull a Streizo killing himself before he has a chance to hurt anybody.
By the time Dio got blown up, he had managed to make Jonathan's body completely his. He told Vanilla Ice earlier that he only needed the blood of one more person, and then drank the blood of Joseph and that random civilian during his fight with Jotaro. But then again, DIO is briefly shown using a Hermit Purple like stand said to be Jonathan's posthumous stand, so it's likely that while DIO's head would've regenerated from Jonathan/DIO's body had it had the time to heal, Jonathan's trapped soul might've still remained inside a reanimated DIO
Couple of things, one, a shot to the shin bone like that hurts like hell. SP basically violated his entire bone structure, and a haemorrhage in the thigh can make you bleed out in seconds. His brain was damaged too
Two, he was still weakened even after getting Joseph's blood, he says he's in full control now but that only goes so far
Three, no available blood to heal.
Also, and I rarely see people point this out, Jotaro punched DIO's weak shin. Earlier when talking to hol horse, DIO demonstrated that the left side of his body was weaker and healing slower by burning both his index fingers with a cig. DIO kicked at Jotaro with his left leg (which had been injured and had apparently not healed fully), and Jotaro countered with a punch, destroying DIO's whole left side (and head).
Aside from it breaking his soul, it exploded his brain. Not even vampires come back from that kind of damage.
Iirc, he even told Polnareff that had he just swiveled the sword around when stabbing him, DIO would've died.
Yeah but there’s a limit to how much damage a JoJo Vampire’s brain can take before dying.
Dio survived getting vertically cut in half down to his torso and was able to regenerate from that, and he also healed from when Star Platinum caved part of his skull in.
So it seems that Vampires can survive any injury so long as their brain is more than 50% intact. Sure, he was cut in half, but both sides were still relatively intact save for the middle.
I think it’s because he was trying to hide/control Suzy Q. instead of regenerating.
If anything, I’d argue that Pillar Men can recover from having a decent portion of their brain destroyed seeing as they’re essentially Vampires on steroids, to say nothing about The Ultimate Lifeform.
It´s still ridiculous to assume they can recover from anything, (that´s not the only situation that I can think of in the anime/manga), because fans often give them NLF capabilities in comparison to vampires, when there is nothing stating they could regenerate infinitely (as most often their hypothetical duels go).
I just don´t believe there is enough reason to believe they have infinitely superior regen to Dio´s, Hamon notwhistanding.
I never said that they can recover from anything, just that Vampires have a limit to their regeneration, as would Pillar Men, though to a lesser degree given that they’re practically better than Vampires in every single way.
And the Ultimate Lifeform is better than the previous two, likely being able to regenerate from even less.
For Vampires, as long as the brain is more than 50% intact or if the pieces are mostly whole/halves they’ll survive. For Pillar Men I’d argue that they could survive having up to 60% of their brain destroyed, and for the ULF (Ultimate Lifeform) it’s possible that Kars could regenerate from a few bits of his brain/a few cells.
i interpreted it as jotaro destroying the world, which is essentially dios soul. The world doesnt get the vampiric regeneration that dio does. so destroying the world kills dio.
stands reflect damage to the physical body, not the soul
dio already had his vampiric regeneration weakened by jonathan's body, and was basically blown up
Because "The World" was destroyed. Since it was his stand and therefore his spirit, the body is alive but in the same state that Jotaro was without Start Platinum (During the events of Part 6).
DIO's stand, half of his body, and his brain literally exploded. In part 1, Dio needed 2 weeks to heal from his far less extreme wounds after the mention fight. He couldn't just literally regenerate from this as fast as any other injury, plus DIO literally died here.
It's weird most people don't realize that since the World was killed, Dio was killed.
I also think that's why he caught on fire, to let you know his being was obliterated.
the left part of his body is still not completely fused with Jonathan(don't remember where it's stated, but I'm pretty sure it's stated in part 3) so that side is less vampiric and is in general weaker. After getting Joseph's blood, DIO thought he was already perfect and attacked Jotaro with his weak side and got hit with such a strong blow to his leg it' broke the body. Even if DIO survived, it would take a lot to regenerate from this and since there is nothing to cover him and no one to save his body from Jotaro, he get's destroyed by the sun. If Jotaro was not a smoker, he'd probably have learned Hamon and killed DIO then, but well. He does smoke
My personal headcannon is that it was because Jotaro damage dio through the world, destroying his soul and his stand (Jotoro killing dio was a result of him cracking the world itself and the damage being transfered to dio, with is odd since usually stands cant be damage to such degree, usually just refleting the damage the user recieved insted of the oposite)
Yes and no. User to Stand damage is kinda weird. Jotaro was full of holes in his body in the fight against kira but star platinum didnt recieve any damage from that. It appears that stands just reflects extreme injuries such as limb loss. In the other hand stand to user damage is more direct, if you punch the face of th stand the user most of the times will also fell the impact. Theres exeptions for both cases too, like substands such as sheer heart attack with have a degree of tolerance to damage they reach before they start to reflect the damage to the user
He couldn't regenerate because he died when Star Platinum destroyed The World. Stands are manifestations of their users' "life energy," which is essentially a metaphysical essence that differentiates inanimate objects from living beings. When a Stand is destroyed, the user dies (except for when they don't*) because they simply cease to have a spirit and become an inanimate object (also known as a corpse.)
(*Author's Note: Automatic Stands and Stands which are bound to objects are exempted from this rule. I don't know why, but I imagine it's because those Stands don't require their users' entire life energy.)
His stand was fucking destroyed by jotaro, i don't think he can recover from that easily, and yes, >!i know about heaven's plan and that one of the steps is auto-destroying the world!<
Dio’s regenerating powers are probably not as good as you imagine. While it is true that he has come back from a lot of fatal injuries, he has never done so particularly quickly unless he’s able to drink blood at the same time.
Off the top of my head, his biggest injuries were:
1. Getting bisected by Jonathan (he was able to push the two halves together again and also had a small sip of Jonathan’s blood)
2. Getting beheaded by Jonathan (was unable to regenerate a new body and was forced to steal Jonathan’s, and then spent nearly 100 years trying to fuse with it properly - it is also implied that he drank a lot of blood when he emerged from the coffin to speed up the process
3. Losing a leg to a pane of heavy glass falling on it (he put the leg back on and then drained a woman to death to speed up the healing)
4. Getting his skull caved in by Jotaro and then pulped by Star Platinum (he was able to drink from Joseph, restoring his body - had Jotaro destroyed his brain, he probably would have just flopped down “dead” like in the above image)
And that’s it. Every other time Dio had an intact brain and blood to drink. This time, his head exploded.
It was a good call to put his body in the sun to destroy it, although honestly I don’t see him coming back from the destruction of half his body anytime soon.
It´s really astounding how people believe all regen in fiction has to be Majin-buu´s level. IRL humans have shown, for example, to bring back cut fingers with enough time.
Possibly, I would say his stand got damaged, so it did more damage than if he was just cut in half regularly, meaning his body was repairing his soul in a way since that is how a stand is connected.
I still don't get how people claim to be Jojo fans and say all this shit I read in this thread:
1) Dio specifically reveals to Hol Horse that his left side is weaker than his right, that he yet hasn't fully adjusted to Jonathan's body and shows him with a cigarette how much slower the regeneration is slower in his left finger when he burns it. (This is not random, Araki knew exactly how he is going to end the fight)
2) The first time Jotaro surprises Dio and punches him during stopped time Dio falls on the glass window of a shop, the glass shatters, falls and chops his Left Leg Off.
3) It is exactly the same left leg of the World Star Platinum punches in the final clash, the World's leg is weaker because its stand user hasn't fully recovered or is rather prone to lose that leg again.
4) But very important, do not forget, I think Araki did this for audiences that might argue Dio's leg could have completely healed, after escaping the road roller, Jotaro sweeps both of Dio's legs AND when Dio launches his attack it is milliseconds after he has blinded Jotaro with the blood from his OPEN wounds, you see the right leg doing that, but of course the left leg would be even slower to heal. So when the World lands the kick on Star Platinum's punch his Left Leg isn't even healed, it's barely holding Dio's weight.
5) When Dio explodes notice how his left leg gets chopped off mid air, that's exactly the same spot it was cut by the Glass window and/or Star Platinum's sweep.
6) Note that Dio is being arrogant, having just sucked Joseph off, and despite his general paranoia let's his guard down and doesn't think twice much of not using that leg.
7) The only way to kill Dio at this point would be to destroy the World, which is exactly what happens, or expose him to the Sun, which is what they do to be absolutely sure this mf doesn't come back. Because they now know how paranoid he is and that he may have other ways of coming back even if he really dies. But remember it is at that point Dio dies, before getting exposed to the sun, it is revealed on the screen that "Dio dies, the world is utterly defeated" AND when he explodes blue fire comes out of his body to emphasize he really died from that and AFTER that we have the scene of them taking his blood and giving it back to Joseph and then they expose him to the Sun, even more as "seal the deal" act and paying tribute to all the people that were lost to Dio.
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Because the Stand is an extension of your soul. Essentially, Dio's stand was destroyed, so his soul was destroyed. he may have been physically alive, but he would have been brain dead
My biggest gripe is that how was that damage inflicted in the first place when the only way to harm a vampire up until then was with hamon.
Most would say Jotaro damaged the stand and then the damage transferred to Dio, but that just doesn't sit right with me.
But there's absolutely nothing wrong with this. Stands are manifestation of people's souls, so damaging it and in turn damaging the body of a vampire absolutely makes perfect sense. Even more, The World being a stand doesn't seem to be able to bypass Hamon in any way, as DIO didn't use The World to get rid of Joseph covered in Hermit Purple but instead a knife.
at least because he destroyed his stand, and the stand is the personification of his soul, which means he actually destroyed the vampire's soul and therefore there was no point in regeneration
He needs to suck someone’s blood to regenerate and Jotaro just didn’t let him do that, plus he didn’t really have the strength to anymore, is what I always thought
Dio doesn't really have regeneration. If you cut off his arm, unlike with say Piccolo, he can't regrow it. Now, if he put his arm back in place or someone else's arm there, he could heal that, but he cant flat out regrow parts of his body that are just flat out gone like Alucard from Hellsing.
He _could've_, but it would take a very long time + lots of blood.
People seem to think that Jotaro killed Dio after punching The World, but Dio only actually died after being exposed to the sun.
I’m pretty sure it’s because his stand was literally shattered. And the stand is the manifestation of the soul. So if his soul was destroyed then the body would just be like a mech without a pilot.
I guess it mostly the fact they put him under uv lights. We see straizo almost immediately recover from a similar injury tho so this always felt weird to me.
I thought it was because Jotaro destroyed his stand along with Dio, essentially destroying his fighting spirit and body, making it take longer for him to regenerate and enough time to have his corpse burn in the sun. Also he needs a direct source of blood to quickly regenerate right?
Pretty sure it’s because he didn’t have any blood left. We see that Dio needs blood to heal, both in part one and part 3 (part one when he told Wang Chen that his body was weak and he needed blood, part 3 when he needed the store clerks blood to heal his leg) also, his head has been fucking exploded, which is where the vampirism stems from, without that his body can’t really do much on its own.
There are quite a few different answers in the comments, but I think basically all of them play a role in DIO's death. His still weakened state after just taking on Joseph's (Hamon filled) blood, The World being destroyed, his head (and quite a large portion of his body) having just exploded. And the fact that he still was "alive" and they still had to burn him. For what it's worth, I think all of these are important pieces in DIO's death, and without one he might have been able to regenerate before morning (if he was still able to, I for one am pretty sure his soul died with his stand).
Joseph states there are three ways to kill a vampire when he fights straizo which are hamon, sunlight and destroying the brain. Dio's brain exploded so he died.
he could, but you gotta remember Star Platinum had just broken The World, damage of that magnitude doesn't just reflect physically but to the psyche, so Dio was temporarily incapacitated
he might have regenerated if he had been given the time to recuperate, physically and mentally, but they tossed him into the desert sun long before that could happen
His head was destroyed...
Polnareff tried it with silver chariot... Missed ever so slightly by the right, and DIO even said what he attempted was smart. But unfortunate because of time stop and regeneration.
Was it not explicitly stated in part 1 that you can only kill a vampire by destroying their brain, using hamon, or gwtting them into the sun? His head exploaded.
Levando em conta que o corpo não era 100% dele nesse ponto, que a regeneração dele é dependente de ingestão de sangue para ser acelerada e o desgaste do combate. Até faz sentido ele demorar pra se regenerar e não conseguir impedir de ser queimado no sol
The brain is gone thats how he survived the fist movie
Jonathan cut him up but still left his head *somewhat* okay cuz only a cut but jotaro Fucking blew his face up
I don’t know if this has been said below in the comments, but Part 1 Dio’s regeneration probably could have, but Part 3 DIO is much weaker with his regeneration powers. In part 1 he mended his body after it was split in half by JoJo, but in Part 3 when he lost his leg, he required blood from the lady to heal
TLDR: Part 1 Dio most likely, Part 3 DIO, no
I think his head blew off. I wonder if a vampire can survive a full brain destruction. My guess is rest it would regenerate as a feral amnesiac if enough life force is given to it through blood
His brain completely destroyed, the only thing keeping him alive from part 1 to part 3 is by cutting his head out and finding a new body, you can see in the final episode of part 1, he can’t generated his body, so he have to kill and took Jonathan body, that’s why you always aim for the head, Jonathan!
I always felt that this major injury didn't exactly kill him permanently. If they left him in the shadows Dio would have probably regenerated after awhile. Only reason he didn't get to is because Jotaro and Joseph left his body out in the sun to burn.
They explicitly state that this is in fact the case.
That he would come back if left there?
maybe with enough blood supply cuz he didn't immediately regen his leg when it got cut off, but had the accountant get it for him, but maybe he can't cuz it's Jonathan's body and he still don't have full control over it
Half of his body just exploded, it would take a while to heal. Also, I'm pretty sure it is specifically stated that he *can* heal from this. His body is still alive at that point, he is only properly killed when the remaining half of his body gets destroyed by the Sun.
People forget (mainly due to the anime cutting a lot of content for part 1) is that it took Dio at least two weeks to heal from his first battle with Jonathan.
Was it cut?, I feel it was stated that the house fight fucked him up pretty good
We don't get to see crippled burnt Dio husk recruiting Jack the Ripper
Really?, wow, I could swear I have an image of Dio in the wheelchair in the anime, I guess I just moved the manga panel to there
No, I'm pretty sure you're right, I remember it too, and I haven't read the manga for part 1 aside a few panels.
You are correct, he is wheelchair bound but his injuries aren't as bad as the manga showed
Yeah, he really only showed up injured for one scene where he introduces himself to Jack, sucks him, and it goes to next scene iirc
part 1 is a bit gayer than I remember
he succ the jacc the rip the man the
We definitely see that in the anime
but we do
Not burnt shirvelled husk, just scarred weak dio
What? Yes we do Edit: Nevermind, read later comments, you are correct that it isn't as severe as in the manga (I'm assuming, I haven't read the manga but what you said lines up with what I remember from the anime)
Meanwhile Chad-Straizo healed from a puddle of blood in a few minutes
That true. What the actual fuck was that about?
Dio could regenerate from that as well, and far quicker, as Straizo is, of his own admission, not willing to train his abilities and prefering to kill Joseph as quick as possible. This means he is far weaker than Dio, (which is evident by the fact that Straizo can just break stone). Unlike what most of the fandom thinks, neither Vampires or Pillar Men in Jojo have Majin-buu levels of regen: if a limb is destroyed, it´s gone forever unless you use someone else´s.
and don't forget, that was just regular Jonathan with No hamon
Doesn't hamon essentially cauterise vampires preventing regeneration
yeah , thats kinda why DIO stole Jonathans body. I think the same also goes for pillermen. cause hamon is just a little blast of sun kinda
i remember him saying it in the anime tho
Surly he could re generate from the blood?
I thought you need a chunk of brain for regeneration (at least for vampires)?
Dio has a tendency to get split apart. Horizontal, vertical, right arm, left leg so on and so forth. Hks brain has been cut into more pieces more often than he has used it.
Yeah including his brain.
2 ways to kill vampires, sun and destroying the head too.
Wouldn’t 2 body’s be regenerated??
maybe it's just an anime thing, but wasn't there a Death message as they pan out from this shot? it was like, dio and the world, utterly defeated, dead.
DIO - The World - Obliterated His very soul was destroyed.
no, damage to the stand reflects damage to the user's body, not soul
Yeah but if a stand dies its user does as well. Even if Dio is an exception due to him being a vampire bro was not gonna heal very fast lmao
>Yeah but if a stand dies its user does as well. cheap trick fight disproves this
Even of it is inconsistent the fsct is thats how Araki intended for it to work considering it’s literally stated as a rule in the part 7 manga
SBR was written like 15 years after SDC
Thats fair but it doesnt really disprove what i said. And regardless i also specified that DIO very well can be an exception but he would still be severely injured and unable to heal.
Cheap Trick being separate from it's user is explicitly part of it's abilities.
Except Chiptrick also ignores some other rules, like how he can switch between users, works against his users and can became Rohan's second stand for a short period of time.
Dude was cheating frfr
Cheap Trick is an independent stand, Rohan still had Heaven's Door with him
Cheap trick doesn't disprove this. Cheap trick didn't die until rohan took him to the alley.
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What about Chili Pepper?
Imma be completely honest wit u chief I completely forgot how chili pepper lost i just vaguely recall the fight with Josuke.
imagine if dio had regenerated but with no stand and no soul, as just a husk of himself with no will to do shit.
Itd be a fitting end tbh he kinda deserves that. But also thered be a slight chance we couldnt revive Joseph:(
Why didn’t he heal from cutting his own head off? Why did he need Jonathan’s body? Because there’s a limit to what he can regenerate from.
Laws changed with stands a bit. If he had been given blood, he could have regenerated, but it would require alot of blood, similar to pillar man awaking.
I think he wanted Jonathan's body rather than needing it
He needed Jonathan's body because Hamon prevents vampires from regenerating.
Hamon hadn't reached his head yet.
And? It still prevents the body from regenerating each limb.
It’s actually kinda implied that he can. Like I remember the Speedwagon doctors saying something along the lines of ‘his cells are still active DIO’s body needs to be exposed to sunlight’ or something like that so over time he could probably heal up from that Also just as an aside I head canon if DIO could reconstruct his body from his stand exploding his head would regenerate to be Johnathan’s
That'd be a fucked up impostor-like storyline.
Or worse it *is* jonathan and he became a vampire because Dio infected his body. Knowing Jonathan he'd probably just use Hamon on the spot to pull a Streizo killing himself before he has a chance to hurt anybody.
By the time Dio got blown up, he had managed to make Jonathan's body completely his. He told Vanilla Ice earlier that he only needed the blood of one more person, and then drank the blood of Joseph and that random civilian during his fight with Jotaro. But then again, DIO is briefly shown using a Hermit Purple like stand said to be Jonathan's posthumous stand, so it's likely that while DIO's head would've regenerated from Jonathan/DIO's body had it had the time to heal, Jonathan's trapped soul might've still remained inside a reanimated DIO
Couple of things, one, a shot to the shin bone like that hurts like hell. SP basically violated his entire bone structure, and a haemorrhage in the thigh can make you bleed out in seconds. His brain was damaged too Two, he was still weakened even after getting Joseph's blood, he says he's in full control now but that only goes so far Three, no available blood to heal.
Also, and I rarely see people point this out, Jotaro punched DIO's weak shin. Earlier when talking to hol horse, DIO demonstrated that the left side of his body was weaker and healing slower by burning both his index fingers with a cig. DIO kicked at Jotaro with his left leg (which had been injured and had apparently not healed fully), and Jotaro countered with a punch, destroying DIO's whole left side (and head).
Aside from it breaking his soul, it exploded his brain. Not even vampires come back from that kind of damage. Iirc, he even told Polnareff that had he just swiveled the sword around when stabbing him, DIO would've died.
He can regenerate his brain, he needs time though
Yeah but there’s a limit to how much damage a JoJo Vampire’s brain can take before dying. Dio survived getting vertically cut in half down to his torso and was able to regenerate from that, and he also healed from when Star Platinum caved part of his skull in. So it seems that Vampires can survive any injury so long as their brain is more than 50% intact. Sure, he was cut in half, but both sides were still relatively intact save for the middle.
Not even Pillar Men are safe from this: Esidisi was reduced to a literal brain and couldn´t regen even while possesing Suzy Q.
I think it’s because he was trying to hide/control Suzy Q. instead of regenerating. If anything, I’d argue that Pillar Men can recover from having a decent portion of their brain destroyed seeing as they’re essentially Vampires on steroids, to say nothing about The Ultimate Lifeform.
It´s still ridiculous to assume they can recover from anything, (that´s not the only situation that I can think of in the anime/manga), because fans often give them NLF capabilities in comparison to vampires, when there is nothing stating they could regenerate infinitely (as most often their hypothetical duels go). I just don´t believe there is enough reason to believe they have infinitely superior regen to Dio´s, Hamon notwhistanding.
I never said that they can recover from anything, just that Vampires have a limit to their regeneration, as would Pillar Men, though to a lesser degree given that they’re practically better than Vampires in every single way. And the Ultimate Lifeform is better than the previous two, likely being able to regenerate from even less. For Vampires, as long as the brain is more than 50% intact or if the pieces are mostly whole/halves they’ll survive. For Pillar Men I’d argue that they could survive having up to 60% of their brain destroyed, and for the ULF (Ultimate Lifeform) it’s possible that Kars could regenerate from a few bits of his brain/a few cells.
Yeah, you may be right.
He was healing, it was just taking a long ass time and they exposed him to the sun before he could recover
Dio had his Stand and brain destroyed in one shot
His head was destroyed completely. Destroying a vampire's brain is another way to kill them besides sunlight/UV and hamon
Actually he could've regenerated from this but they burned him in the sun light at the end of part 3
Unless I'm remembering the scene wrong, *Dio's head exploded*.
i interpreted it as jotaro destroying the world, which is essentially dios soul. The world doesnt get the vampiric regeneration that dio does. so destroying the world kills dio.
stands reflect damage to the physical body, not the soul dio already had his vampiric regeneration weakened by jonathan's body, and was basically blown up
it is oblious, jotaro destroyed dios soul not the body
And the left side of "His" body was too weak
no, he very much destroyed the body dio didn't die from this wound, they had to burn his boy in the sunlight
He dead
It was said he could, that's why they burned Jonathan's body rather than bury it
Is he stupid?
Didn’t SP also destroyed The World? Which ultimately means that the very soul of Dio was disintegrated?
Because "The World" was destroyed. Since it was his stand and therefore his spirit, the body is alive but in the same state that Jotaro was without Start Platinum (During the events of Part 6).
DIO's stand, half of his body, and his brain literally exploded. In part 1, Dio needed 2 weeks to heal from his far less extreme wounds after the mention fight. He couldn't just literally regenerate from this as fast as any other injury, plus DIO literally died here.
It's weird most people don't realize that since the World was killed, Dio was killed. I also think that's why he caught on fire, to let you know his being was obliterated.
the left part of his body is still not completely fused with Jonathan(don't remember where it's stated, but I'm pretty sure it's stated in part 3) so that side is less vampiric and is in general weaker. After getting Joseph's blood, DIO thought he was already perfect and attacked Jotaro with his weak side and got hit with such a strong blow to his leg it' broke the body. Even if DIO survived, it would take a lot to regenerate from this and since there is nothing to cover him and no one to save his body from Jotaro, he get's destroyed by the sun. If Jotaro was not a smoker, he'd probably have learned Hamon and killed DIO then, but well. He does smoke
My personal headcannon is that it was because Jotaro damage dio through the world, destroying his soul and his stand (Jotoro killing dio was a result of him cracking the world itself and the damage being transfered to dio, with is odd since usually stands cant be damage to such degree, usually just refleting the damage the user recieved insted of the oposite)
stands can be damaged damage to the user and stand are reflected both ways
Yes and no. User to Stand damage is kinda weird. Jotaro was full of holes in his body in the fight against kira but star platinum didnt recieve any damage from that. It appears that stands just reflects extreme injuries such as limb loss. In the other hand stand to user damage is more direct, if you punch the face of th stand the user most of the times will also fell the impact. Theres exeptions for both cases too, like substands such as sheer heart attack with have a degree of tolerance to damage they reach before they start to reflect the damage to the user
He couldn't regenerate because he died when Star Platinum destroyed The World. Stands are manifestations of their users' "life energy," which is essentially a metaphysical essence that differentiates inanimate objects from living beings. When a Stand is destroyed, the user dies (except for when they don't*) because they simply cease to have a spirit and become an inanimate object (also known as a corpse.) (*Author's Note: Automatic Stands and Stands which are bound to objects are exempted from this rule. I don't know why, but I imagine it's because those Stands don't require their users' entire life energy.)
You can't regenerate if you're dead
Araki forgot moment. In part 2, Straizo heals after being completely exploded in a matter of seconds.
Brain have been destroyed, guys did you even watched JoJo?
Because he's not doctor who
When a stand gets killed/destroyed, the user dies
His head is gone
He didn’t have access to any blood, so he couldn’t heal that much damage quickly enough to avoid the sun destroying him
Vampiric healing is pretty slow without blood. Even smaller injuries take a good bit of time.
It takes a lot of time to regenerate. He stayed as a head for weeks.
He was regenerating but his body was taken to the sun before he could come back to life.
Well, he could, but it would take a while, also... Did u forget about the fact that his stand also exploded?
Skill issue
His stand was fucking destroyed by jotaro, i don't think he can recover from that easily, and yes, >!i know about heaven's plan and that one of the steps is auto-destroying the world!<
Getting his stand shredded has to have made it like a soul and body shredding. So he is maxed out he needs a nap.
His brain exploded
His f*cking soul (stand) was destroyed, what do you want him to do? Restore his very essence of being?!?!
His stand was destroyed, which translates into his own body being destroyed, unable to be regenerated.
Dio’s regenerating powers are probably not as good as you imagine. While it is true that he has come back from a lot of fatal injuries, he has never done so particularly quickly unless he’s able to drink blood at the same time. Off the top of my head, his biggest injuries were: 1. Getting bisected by Jonathan (he was able to push the two halves together again and also had a small sip of Jonathan’s blood) 2. Getting beheaded by Jonathan (was unable to regenerate a new body and was forced to steal Jonathan’s, and then spent nearly 100 years trying to fuse with it properly - it is also implied that he drank a lot of blood when he emerged from the coffin to speed up the process 3. Losing a leg to a pane of heavy glass falling on it (he put the leg back on and then drained a woman to death to speed up the healing) 4. Getting his skull caved in by Jotaro and then pulped by Star Platinum (he was able to drink from Joseph, restoring his body - had Jotaro destroyed his brain, he probably would have just flopped down “dead” like in the above image) And that’s it. Every other time Dio had an intact brain and blood to drink. This time, his head exploded. It was a good call to put his body in the sun to destroy it, although honestly I don’t see him coming back from the destruction of half his body anytime soon.
It´s really astounding how people believe all regen in fiction has to be Majin-buu´s level. IRL humans have shown, for example, to bring back cut fingers with enough time.
cause his stand died which is basically his soul
You're asking this after seeing his stand explode? lol
Possibly, I would say his stand got damaged, so it did more damage than if he was just cut in half regularly, meaning his body was repairing his soul in a way since that is how a stand is connected.
I still don't get how people claim to be Jojo fans and say all this shit I read in this thread: 1) Dio specifically reveals to Hol Horse that his left side is weaker than his right, that he yet hasn't fully adjusted to Jonathan's body and shows him with a cigarette how much slower the regeneration is slower in his left finger when he burns it. (This is not random, Araki knew exactly how he is going to end the fight) 2) The first time Jotaro surprises Dio and punches him during stopped time Dio falls on the glass window of a shop, the glass shatters, falls and chops his Left Leg Off. 3) It is exactly the same left leg of the World Star Platinum punches in the final clash, the World's leg is weaker because its stand user hasn't fully recovered or is rather prone to lose that leg again. 4) But very important, do not forget, I think Araki did this for audiences that might argue Dio's leg could have completely healed, after escaping the road roller, Jotaro sweeps both of Dio's legs AND when Dio launches his attack it is milliseconds after he has blinded Jotaro with the blood from his OPEN wounds, you see the right leg doing that, but of course the left leg would be even slower to heal. So when the World lands the kick on Star Platinum's punch his Left Leg isn't even healed, it's barely holding Dio's weight. 5) When Dio explodes notice how his left leg gets chopped off mid air, that's exactly the same spot it was cut by the Glass window and/or Star Platinum's sweep. 6) Note that Dio is being arrogant, having just sucked Joseph off, and despite his general paranoia let's his guard down and doesn't think twice much of not using that leg. 7) The only way to kill Dio at this point would be to destroy the World, which is exactly what happens, or expose him to the Sun, which is what they do to be absolutely sure this mf doesn't come back. Because they now know how paranoid he is and that he may have other ways of coming back even if he really dies. But remember it is at that point Dio dies, before getting exposed to the sun, it is revealed on the screen that "Dio dies, the world is utterly defeated" AND when he explodes blue fire comes out of his body to emphasize he really died from that and AFTER that we have the scene of them taking his blood and giving it back to Joseph and then they expose him to the Sun, even more as "seal the deal" act and paying tribute to all the people that were lost to Dio. Kind regards Jojo fans, hope you appreciate this!
His head was split into half not to mention even if he was able to regenerate it would have taken soo much time that he would die from sunlight
to introduce pucci
want a better question? if he can regenerate from any body part, why doesn’t he duplicate himself?
Maybe he could have but his stand was destroyed so that probably isn’t as easy to regenerate
I always wondering if there are any (including JoJo) regenerative characters got killed due to the persisting destruction from the other side ?
Sure there are. Like the famous FMAB fire spam scene.
Stand damage is different from normal damage.
Because the Stand is an extension of your soul. Essentially, Dio's stand was destroyed, so his soul was destroyed. he may have been physically alive, but he would have been brain dead
My biggest gripe is that how was that damage inflicted in the first place when the only way to harm a vampire up until then was with hamon. Most would say Jotaro damaged the stand and then the damage transferred to Dio, but that just doesn't sit right with me.
But there's absolutely nothing wrong with this. Stands are manifestation of people's souls, so damaging it and in turn damaging the body of a vampire absolutely makes perfect sense. Even more, The World being a stand doesn't seem to be able to bypass Hamon in any way, as DIO didn't use The World to get rid of Joseph covered in Hermit Purple but instead a knife.
at least because he destroyed his stand, and the stand is the personification of his soul, which means he actually destroyed the vampire's soul and therefore there was no point in regeneration
it was a skill issue tbh
His soul was destroyed.
His head exploded lmao
He needs to suck someone’s blood to regenerate and Jotaro just didn’t let him do that, plus he didn’t really have the strength to anymore, is what I always thought
Dio doesn't really have regeneration. If you cut off his arm, unlike with say Piccolo, he can't regrow it. Now, if he put his arm back in place or someone else's arm there, he could heal that, but he cant flat out regrow parts of his body that are just flat out gone like Alucard from Hellsing.
He _could've_, but it would take a very long time + lots of blood. People seem to think that Jotaro killed Dio after punching The World, but Dio only actually died after being exposed to the sun.
blood.
Cause he got cooked
His soul directly exploded from this, even if he could I doubt he could put up a fight
I’m pretty sure it’s because his stand was literally shattered. And the stand is the manifestation of the soul. So if his soul was destroyed then the body would just be like a mech without a pilot.
I might be remembering wrong but I think the speed wagon foundation kept dios body under UV lighting in the ambulance for Joseph.
Giorno Stepped on a Crack
I don't know but when it comes to regeneration in japanese media it usually has a weak point that stops the regeneration all together.
My boy was devastated to learn jotaro copied his stand and couldn't find the reason to live
I guess it mostly the fact they put him under uv lights. We see straizo almost immediately recover from a similar injury tho so this always felt weird to me.
I thought it was because Jotaro destroyed his stand along with Dio, essentially destroying his fighting spirit and body, making it take longer for him to regenerate and enough time to have his corpse burn in the sun. Also he needs a direct source of blood to quickly regenerate right?
Head gone 🤷
Pretty sure it’s because he didn’t have any blood left. We see that Dio needs blood to heal, both in part one and part 3 (part one when he told Wang Chen that his body was weak and he needed blood, part 3 when he needed the store clerks blood to heal his leg) also, his head has been fucking exploded, which is where the vampirism stems from, without that his body can’t really do much on its own.
His head is *gone*
There are quite a few different answers in the comments, but I think basically all of them play a role in DIO's death. His still weakened state after just taking on Joseph's (Hamon filled) blood, The World being destroyed, his head (and quite a large portion of his body) having just exploded. And the fact that he still was "alive" and they still had to burn him. For what it's worth, I think all of these are important pieces in DIO's death, and without one he might have been able to regenerate before morning (if he was still able to, I for one am pretty sure his soul died with his stand).
because his head was destroyed im pretty sure
1# he isn't peak dio anymore 2# he had to pull himself together to heal it back
His head exploded, no brain left to regenerate the rest of the body
he's stupid
Why does no one understand that he just didn’t have the time to regenerate and the blood needed to speed up the process
When Araki was writing him, he forgot that dio can regenerate
Dios head was destroyed along with half his body. Dio still needs a brain to function that and his stand aka soul was destroyed to.
His head (and by extension his brain) was completely destroyed. If at least some part of the brain was intact, then he could regenerate his body.
Joseph states there are three ways to kill a vampire when he fights straizo which are hamon, sunlight and destroying the brain. Dio's brain exploded so he died.
Reading is good! can we start the story now?
he could, but you gotta remember Star Platinum had just broken The World, damage of that magnitude doesn't just reflect physically but to the psyche, so Dio was temporarily incapacitated he might have regenerated if he had been given the time to recuperate, physically and mentally, but they tossed him into the desert sun long before that could happen
His head and his half of body is exploded but there is a chance to be healed if he get blood somehow.
Because Jotaro’s That Guy.
Is he stupid
He likely would have recovered, but he'd be dead anyway since the sun was close to rising. Even Jotaro says he'd by dust by then.
He has a limit to how much he can regenerate, especially to his head. He even says Polnareff almost killed him when he impaled his head.
he was being nice
He would need a loooooooot of blood
Probably cause the brain exploded
Is he stupid?
He was hit by a bit of hamon as well
Because his fucking head was destroyed!
well, his head was gone so all that was left was Jonathan
he needs more blood and it must be fresh as well
His head was destroyed... Polnareff tried it with silver chariot... Missed ever so slightly by the right, and DIO even said what he attempted was smart. But unfortunate because of time stop and regeneration.
It is because the damage count is that high that he could regenerate fast enough and got obliterated
He can, it just takes time, and Jotaro probably kept watch of his body just in case he did regenerate.
It destroyed his left side, and it is stated in the anime that his left side is weaker than his right but thats just what I think.
I think he might be stupid
\*HAMON\*
Strong Cleave
Was it not explicitly stated in part 1 that you can only kill a vampire by destroying their brain, using hamon, or gwtting them into the sun? His head exploaded.
Because he's dead bozo nyahahahhahaha
Levando em conta que o corpo não era 100% dele nesse ponto, que a regeneração dele é dependente de ingestão de sangue para ser acelerada e o desgaste do combate. Até faz sentido ele demorar pra se regenerar e não conseguir impedir de ser queimado no sol
No head?
Sun.
His stand died
His head exploded, remember that he couldn’t regenerate after cutting his head off
Cuz his fucking head exploded 😭😭😭
They explain this in like episode 5 about when someone's stand is destroyed
People forget that this isn't DIO's original body
His brain got destroyed, he explains how that could kill him when polnareff attacked him
You die when your stand dies
The brain is gone thats how he survived the fist movie Jonathan cut him up but still left his head *somewhat* okay cuz only a cut but jotaro Fucking blew his face up
I don’t know if this has been said below in the comments, but Part 1 Dio’s regeneration probably could have, but Part 3 DIO is much weaker with his regeneration powers. In part 1 he mended his body after it was split in half by JoJo, but in Part 3 when he lost his leg, he required blood from the lady to heal TLDR: Part 1 Dio most likely, Part 3 DIO, no
I think his head blew off. I wonder if a vampire can survive a full brain destruction. My guess is rest it would regenerate as a feral amnesiac if enough life force is given to it through blood
Do you see any people in this scene
Maybe cuz it was hes stand that fot atacked i dont know
His brain completely destroyed, the only thing keeping him alive from part 1 to part 3 is by cutting his head out and finding a new body, you can see in the final episode of part 1, he can’t generated his body, so he have to kill and took Jonathan body, that’s why you always aim for the head, Jonathan!
i just thought that jotaro destroyed the world and that would force consciousness out of dio so he would just die