When writing a story that will eventually have a 1-on-1 finale, there is so much building
to be done that will bring out the characters' fullest potential.
Let ideals clash, show different approaches towards life because that is what makes some
of the best work possible.
Duality.
Duality is everything.
Our days are dealing with the intricacies in the middle.
Art has gone about showing us the many beautiful examples of it, and here we will be going
over an animated one.
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure is chockfull of this, but you've already seen the title.
Giorno Giovanna and Diavolo have this excellent execution that sets them up to have a great
1-on-1 in terms of ideals.
That leads them to have high contrast in multiple areas.
The first example is one of their approaches towards the evolution of their character.
There are multiple ways to go about bettering flaws and problems with life itself.
However, these two have approaches that directly oppose each other.
Giorno's philosophy is one of growing.
Each experience he goes through is one that'll contribute towards his development as a person.
Even if he had failed in areas due to human error, he takes the means of learning from
these mistakes to better himself.
To him, growing is not about going back to mistakes to try to clear the errors of the
past.
It is the errors of the past that contributes towards growth.
For example, look to the White Album fight.
Giorno had messed up multiple times.
It was because of Mista guiding him with his resolve that he had realized the stance he
was taking on trying to hold control that he does not have, does not need to happen.
With the help of Mista, he was able to move forth.
Progress.
As for Diavolo, he believes that his past is something to be destroyed.
He believes the past is something that can come back to haunt the future if the person
has not gone about destroying it.
Rather than outright confronting his problems, he has worked in an extremely secretive fashion
to go about covering it up.
He thought that being this secretive would give less room for error, but there was always
a path for error to follow through.
By being as secretive as he was, he had given his enemies initiative and a direction to
go about to defeat him, which they did.
By trying to avoid his problems and living in fear of them, his problems had come to
take care of him directly.
Every one of them.
Next is how the characters function in battles and against enemies in general.
To preface this with a comparison, Giorno in battle is an actual fighter.
He contests with intelligence and strength.
Diavolo is more of an ambush predator.
He waits for his win condition.
He takes it when he can, and flies when he's unable to.
Either approach usually is ok, but how they act towards battles is what is vital in closing
it out.
Giorno goes about his battles in somewhat of an honorable way as he tries to break down
his opponents and tries to find where he can win.
Diavolo hides out and waits for his area to strike, and when he gets it, be sure to expect
some monologuing.
Diavolo talks down to his enemies regardless of his position in the battle as opposed to
how Giorno does it.
For example, Giorno Vs. Cioccolata.
Giorno had not said anything towards Cioccolata about anything until his win condition was
in the works.
Cioccolata had spent the whole battle talking down to Giorno and trying to catch his fear
and despair on camera.
It wasn't until Giorno securing his win that he said something about how much he detests
Cioccolata.
With Diavolo's case, his fight versus Bruno is a great example.
His "respect" that he had for Bruno had dissipated because of the decision Bruno made with defending
Trish.
So, throughout the battle, he spent his time talking down to Bruno.
Notice how his prideful demeanor cracks when Bruno shows his ability to read his attacks.
Even when he had got exposed when Bruno had made the read using the stairs, Diavolo had
cracked and then tried to put himself back on top of the fight.
Then, Bruno makes that final read and annihilates Diavolo's mental fortitude.
Diavolo is both figuratively and literally left standing.
Broken, like the broken man he is.
Also, to support the idea that Diavolo fights similarly to a Hyena, we can refer to the
Risotto fight.
He had got outclassed so bad; he had resorted to using his enemies as a secret weapon.
He even talks about how desperate that is as an attack but did it because a win is a
win to him.
Consider that, and that he tries to both talk down to Risotto and bargain with him.
"How humiliating would it be for your life to flicker away in front of the men who killed
so many of your subordinates?"
That is such a disrespectful sentence, by such a disrespectful man.
I love this example because it transcends battle.
Diavolo already doesn’t believe in respecting people that aren’t directly working for
him, and that respect isn’t exactly respect in the first place.
The relationship is one slight disagreement away from the other person potentially dying.
Meanwhile Giorno gives everyone a well amount of respect until they give a valid reason
for him not to.
A third example, repetition.
Both Giorno and Diavolo have a stance on repetition that actively impacts their life and the decisions
they make.
Giorno is vocally against repetition when it comes to conversations.
If he has to repeat himself more than once, it annoys him.
Why?
Well, when we look to Giorno's character how much communication matters in his life, it
makes sense.
Having to repeat yourself means that the conversation is not progressing.
It's stagnating.
That goes past conversations.
For example, look at when Giorno was trying to warn Mista about Sale.
Imagined if he had continued to try to get to Mista by yelling rather than think about
a different way to get to him.
He would be stagnating the mission and effectively failing it all together.
Repetition is a lack of progress in ways like this.
That is why Giorno has such a distaste for it.
If you're continuing to do something that is not working, it's best to change your methods.
Otherwise, it's insanity.
Or in Giorno's words, stupidity.
Diavolo, on the other hand, is an unintentional advocate for repetition.
By destroying his past, he is unable to learn from his past mistakes.
Which, in turn, creates repetition for the problems that he faces because he has not
learned how to defeat them.
Diavolo's methods toward problems in his life are his ever-stone.
It's the reason he has this inability to evolve.
To add another example to this, look to when Diavolo had chosen not to run away.
When this happened, he was praising himself and his decision because it looked like it
had paid off.
He had said, "It was a good thing I didn't run away" three times.
This scene describes Diavolo and his life experiences with the slightest of ease.
When it looks like everything has worked out for Diavolo, he praises himself and then goes
on about his life.
If it looked like it worked for him, that's enough to get it done.
If it looks like it has failed, and it tries to combat him immediately, then he can potentially
King Crimson it.
That is what happened with Bruno, that is what happened with Polnareff, and here it
happened with Giorno.
And guess what?
It didn't work out in any of them!
Except for Risotto.
It worked against him.
He has repetitive methods that do not work all the time.
It's like a gimmick in a fighting game.
Works on those that can't combat it and doesn't work on those that can.
In conclusion, the way these two differ has such an engaging and developed execution.
It's an opinion, but I believe that the evidence I've provided should at least give a ground
for this to stand on.
Giorno and Diavolo have such a good hero and villain dynamic going that has labbed with
to have the intricacies that it does.
I hope to go over more of it in a later video.
I expect it'll be more in the symbolism department than character.
Thank you all for watching.
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I feel like that's one of those creator and viewer disconnects because something that
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