Justice.
It’s one of the biggest elements to any story of good against bad.
Depending on the type on conflict it either goes from justice to others or justice for
ones-self.
In JoJo, it’s the most common conflict of the Joestars versus Dio, but how it all works
out is a lot different when it’s the second time around.
This all begins with Jonathan Joestar against Dio in Part 1.
The relationship isn’t as blatant as many try to make it out to be.
Dio suffering from the way life treated him left him with an inferiority issue and the
pain of not knowing genuine good after the death of his mother had created this character
to be seen as entirely evil when that wasn’t really the case.
Then there’s Jonathan being the product of Dio’s energy towards the world and the
case of being left behind that his father puts onto him when Dio was adopted.
For all the evil that Dio commits when the part goes further on, Jonathan leaves it to
himself to be the one to stop Dio.
While Dio has done all these things to Jonathan, the time spent between the two and the pain
of being unable to be the one to change Dio for the better is what’s weighted on to
Jonathan.
And Dio carries massive respect for Jonathan since he’s aware of him being the one that
pushed Jonathan enough to cause his growth as an individual.
It was a completely different take on a situation similar to what Dio had faced and he was the
reason for it.
The efforts made between the two was a constant fight for the top, and it was great because
one being lower than the other was the drive to push that one above the next one, but the
outcome was an inevitable fate.
Jonathan didn’t have to go to try to stop Dio, but to him he did because he felt that
he was the only one to truly take Dio out.
All the hamon warriors can attempt to take Dio out, but none of them shared the experiences
that those two shared and probably wouldn’t do so well against them, plus even if they
did go without Jonathan, the battle wouldn’t care any weight because of what we built up.
Which is what makes the next area of this interesting.
Jotaro and Joseph against Dio is obviously iconic for the franchise, but the weight held
for it originally isn’t made as strong.
Once the characters are established it makes a lot more sense for it.
Jotaro and Joseph have a direct issue if Dio is to continue to live.
Kakyoin, Polnareff, and Avdol to nearly the same extent have more personal reason which
makes their ties a lot more important than characters like Dire or Straits.
But the thing is, it’s more so treated as a final boss that needs to be stopped.
None of the Stardust Crusaders care about who Dio was before, nor could they know because
the only one that knew the true issues with Dio is Dio and the only one that attempted
to carry that weight and neutralize Dio’s mindset is Jonathan.
Dio doesn’t hold any respect for Jotaro or any of the Stardust Crusaders.
While they do need to stop him, the Stardust Crusaders aren’t something that constantly
tower above Dio after he gets ahead of them.
Let me show you an example.
Let’s say Death Note because the effects are a lot easier to see here.
You have our in quotes “good” character against our “evil” character.
The fight between the two is a constant fight on who can get ahead of the other to stop
them before it’s too late.
People can try to stop evil, but their efforts will most likely fall flat on their face because
of the gap between normal people and evil.
Good is the one that needs to stop evil the only way they know how, and once it looks
like good has finally finished off evil, evil wins, but now instead of fighting good, evil
now must deal with the descendants of good.
An interesting comparison here is that you have the emotional descendant and the ideal
tough willed descendant, both are very intelligent.
At this time, evil has matured and got a lot to work with, but now they’re still missing
something that made them as good as they were when they were fighting against their equal.
But without that in-mind, it seems that descendants can’t pose that much of a threat, so they
don’t deal with it directly.
They try to have others deal with the descendants, but to no surprise they were destroyed and
unable to do anything when it came to the end.
BOOM, and that’s how you line up JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure with Death Note.
On a serious note, for those that watched both you can understand where I’m going
with this.
It’s argued that Death Note after L was a lot and possible even worse for it because
of the lack of contest and weight to the battle.
When it comes to Joestar versus Dio ordeal and the need to stop him, it’s not made
as strong when it’s done with descendants because of how it’s made out to be with
Dio.
To Jonathan, Dio is a completely unfortunate kid who’s now a product of how his life
was originally and someone to be stopped so that he doesn’t make the world worse for
it.
To the Stardust Crusaders, Dio is just evil that needs to be stopped.
This also transfers over into Death Note, with L’s understanding of Light’s simplistic
take on what’s right and wrong and how smart Light truly is.
To Near, by directly quoting him, Light is really just a serial killer.
That’s why taking on the mantle is a lot different than being the ones there.
With Jonathan stopping Dio he would be at peace with what happened because of Dio and
most of all be at peace with himself, that’s speaking on when he did and how that felt
like for the small time that he believed that was the case.
With the case of Stardust Crusaders, the stop to Dio is a stop to evil and there all that
goes.
It’s not until Part 4 and then on that not only Jotaro but the viewer can see how deep
Dio’s ties ran inside of the world which cause Jotaro to look more into people and
understand that it’s a lot more than he originally believed.
While it doesn’t give him reason to believe that there was a lot more he should’ve looked
into Dio for, it makes him understand the mind of a believer and potentially get an
idea of what Dio was like originally.
This also was supposed to progress into my topics of justice in part 2, 4 and then on,
but I’m going to be saving that for later.
For now, take this part as the first part being the first Dio area, we’ll be going
over more later on.