[Spoiler Alert] For respect of those wanting to get into the
show. The information in this is going to be from
parts of part 1 of Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure “Phantom Blood”. This is a spoiler alert.
[Introduction]
Jonathan Joestar. The first Jojo and probably the most forgotten
one when it comes to the line of other Jojo’s. When compared to the other Jojo’s it seems
that Jonathan doesn’t have enough to be up to par. He has no stand and hasn’t trained
with Hamon enough to be considered an expert with it. Along with that he goes through many
situations on where he should die and he comes pretty close to, but he came out on top of
all of those. Then Dio shot him with pressurized body fluids and died, those are known as Space
Ripper Stingy Eyes. Even then, this isn’t a video to talk bad about Jonathan. It’s
to show how strong this Joestar is.
Now when researching how exactly Jonathan was, I had to piece the story together. Jojo’s
Bizarre Adventure and many other shows, books, and all of that follow the format of “The
Hero's Journey”. I had watched part one twice already so I began piecing the parts
together. Now usually the hero finds a huge benefit in the middle of this timeline which
is “The Reward”. Right before that is “The Ordeal”. Where the hero faces near
death, but comes out on top of it. Now think about the times where Jonathan has almost
died. That was about 3 times if I recall correctly. First was the fight with new vampire DIO.
The last one was another fight with DIO. The middle where Jonathan had got his benefit
was, the battle with Tarkus.
Tarkus was this gigantic warrior from the past made into zombie. Jonathan was trapped
in the Dragon’s den with Tarkus. Chained to what was thought an unbreakable collar,
that was where Jonathan's neck was broken. Until William Zeppeli had come to save him.
Zeppeli was split but then used Ultimate Deep Pass Overdrive and gave all of his hamon and
life energy to Jonathan. While that was the end of Zeppeli, that was the rising point
for Jonathan.
With Jojo’s newly found energy he lifted Tarkus with one arm, then held the chain holding
Tarkus with his foot. While doing that he began trying to break
the collar that was locked around his neck. Tarkus said that with not even the strength
that DIO had gave him, he couldn't break that chain.
Then with so much strength and screaming, Jojo broke that collar right now down the
middle. Now that's where I paused the show and was like “Damn, that's strong as hell.”
Now if you look at those bars, there's no holes in the bars, this is solid steel. That
when looking at it, really confused me. Steel doesn't really break, the only steel
I've seen break was a stop signs bar and that's filled with holes and all. To break not one
but 3 steel bars would be ridiculous. So I began doing the science for this, and I scienced
the f**k out of this.
So to estimate the size of the bars I made it about ½ inch in diameter to be pretty
generous. Jonathan is huge so this might of been even
bigger to fit the way that it did. So now to break steel there’s would be a
breaking stress point to break an inch of steel.
(An actual bar of steel. Not like one of those steel bars that hold a stop sign).
It came out to 400,000 kilonewtons or 89,923,577.54 pounds.
Which is pretty ridiculous. It only takes 2,300 newtons to crush a human skull.
Imagine what Jonathan can do with just him. Plus Humans can only produce 5,000 newtons
of force. Jonathan was pretty strong already, Hamon
has to give a huge boost to actual human strength. Along with that, he received the boost from
Zeppeli.
Let's add another bonus to Jonathan. Now punching is more on speed and not about
strength. Just because you can lift a certain amount
isn't going to make the punch stronger. The force on an object is equal to the mass
of the object multiplied by the acceleration of the object.
That mass being his fist and the acceleration being how fast he's throwing the punch.
So I began looking really close at when Jojo does the Sunlight Yellow Overdrive.
It looks there are many, many punches. Well there are but to make it specific there’s
1 punch that connects every 3 frames. 20 punches in the span of one second and to punch that
quick is insane. With that kind of speed, one punch would have
the force of 10.2 tons of force. Now think about how long he’s punching for
when doing Sunlight Yellow Overdrive. He’s punching for about 4 seconds.
Then Bruford is launched pretty far up. With that much force it should be sending
him soaring. Although I’m not really sure on all the
physics and what can the zombies made by DIO can take.
The thing with Jonathan being this strong there’s a reason for it.
Hamon had to give Jonathan that boost because if Jonathan didn’t have it, he wouldn’t
have a chance to fight Dio at the end of part 1.
Even then both of their strengths are ridiculously strong but then again we have people that
can destroy anything in one punch and planetary destroyers so 400k kilonewtons don’t seem
that bad when compared.