[Kaleb] Part 3 of Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure, Stardust
Crusaders.
In the midst of so-so coloring, half-baked villains, and a actual pretty good set of
main characters; you have holes.
Not the holes caused by Justice, Wheel of Fortune, or Vanilla Ice, but the holes caused
by writing.
But the thing with holes, you don’t really know how deep it is if you look into it.
So me and xForts are going to be looking into the most known plotholes and explain how there’s
some sense.
There’s two parts of this video and the other part is going to be on xFort’s channel,
so check that out right after.
Now onto these holes.
So a very common question is how did Joseph not die after being drained by DIO.
We also had seen his soul go to the land of jobro’s so how exactly did he come back?
Well this is a question commonly asked after watching part 4, because we had seen Josuke’s
grandfather die even though he had been restored.
In a part 3 perspective, it makes sense.
Refilling the blood that was taken, and also this is mix of vampire and hamon blood.
Both having regenerative capabilities, and the last thing needed was a restart on his
heart.
This isn’t in order of what was needed to revive Joseph, because it’s actually reversed
when stating them.
Jotaro had learned how to restart the heart in the fight with DIO, and it was an element
incorporated with Joseph’s death in mind.
Jojo also had originally been more realistic when it came to earlier parts, and I know
how the word realistic and Jojo sounds ridiculous when you first approach it, but actually makes
sense when you connect the dots.
For example, there’s things that wouldn’t be feasible in the world of Part 3, but later
on become very much real when going into later parts.
Now it is to contradict the past parts, or is it just because Araki had forgot how he
had done things previously.
Well Araki states he doesn’t have the best of memory really, but for the sake of art
I’ll say that he makes it contradict on purpose.
Except when it comes to Joseph Vs. Josuke’s grandfather, because that element in Part
4 was really all for the final fight where it had seemed that Okuyasu had died.
To sum it up, Joseph had been revived because of Jotaro learning something he has never
seen or even thought was possible.
Hamon and vampire blood is good for you.
And the reason for it all was connecting points in the plot, and it doesn’t make sense in
later parts because in those parts they are meant to contradict the past.
Next one is going to be covered by xForts.
[Julien] Thanks for having me on Kaleb, So there was
always one thing that bothered me about Stardust crusaders ending and It wasn’t until reading
part 6 did this plot hole even come to my attention, Where the hell was Pucci during
part 3?
Ok so i know that these videos are all about just part 3 so i will keep this segment as
spoiler free as possible, just that pucci and dio knew each other and that pucci’s
stand is whitesnake, a very powerful stand.
So Araki took a bit of a gamble in part 6 and risked retconning pretty much DIO’s
entire character and some events from part 3 as it was pretty clear the role DIO played
in part 6 was not even conceptualized during the time of Part 3’s creating but In the
end I think araki was successful at bringing dio back into the story and introducing new
lore and motives.
So in 1987 DIO hiding from sunlight in a church in America meets Enrico Pucci and gives him
a arrow head that would later be drawn to him and grant him the stand Whitesnake's,
the ability to to steal memories and stands in the form of disks.
DIO and Pucci became good friends through the few years they new each other and would
often visit each other each other sometimes DIO would come to Pucci in america sometimes
Pucci goes to DIO in egypt, but most importantly they shared the same goal, to achieve heaven.
So with stardust crusaders taking place in 1989 and DIO and Pucci’s relationship forming
just a year before in 1988 It would have made sense for Pucci to have been part of DIO’s
alliance as a sort of Vanilla ice character but even closer to DIO.
I mean Pucci really would have came in handy too having the ability to steal stands and
all, but to explain the lack of Pucci in part 3, DIO might not have wanted Pucci involved
in this part of his life as DIO and Pucci were taking their lives in a new direction
trying to attain heaven and DIO viewed the Joestar bloodline as nothing but a lingering
piece of the past that would be easily dealt with to tie off that loose end in his life,
and considering how confident DIO was it might not have even crossed his mind to have a friend
involved no matter how powerful their stand may be, or possibly DIO knew deep down that
he was afraid of the Joestars and their prevailing natural and didn’t want to risk having anything
happen to Pucci as no matter what happened to DIO Pucci would still be able to carry
out their mission, but the most realistic explanation for why wasn’t pucci in part
3, honestly Araki probably hadn’t even thought of Pucci as a character yet...
[Kaleb & Julien] Kaleb: So this one is a really puzzling one,
and I’m pretty sure that we’re not going to get an answer for this in the future of
Jojo.
It’s going to be one of those things that had actually ended up being left for the fans
to figure out and that is how Jotaro and DIO can both stop time.
The World is known for it’s ability of stopping time, but how can star platinum stop time?
How are they the same stand?
[Julien] Julien: Some people may say that star platinum
and the world being the same type of stand is an ass pull or deus ex machina, as we come
to learn throughout the series that all stands are unique and this is true, except for when
it's not.
Some of the final stand users the crusaders encounter in the part have the same type of
stand, the D’arby brothers and they are blood relatives.
And since a majority of DIO is Jonathan a blood relative of Jotaro wouldn’t it make
sense for it to be possible that they share the same type of stand?
And for the final battle and conclusion to the joestar brando rivalry I thought having
both Jotaro and DIO have the same abilities worked out well and made for an intense and
enjoyable fight considering how evenly matched they were, The final fight going any other
way that Jotaro quite literally invading DIO’s world just wouldn’t have felt the same.
But i'm sure kaleb has a much better and interesting explanation for star platinum and the worlds
cross over of abilities.
Kaleb: I believe that the reasoning in Star Platinum and The World being the same stand
lays in the tarot cards.
The tarot cards were a huge element of part 3 that had even been the inspiration for writing
characters and how they were developed.
For an example you can refer to my Polnareff video.
But focusing on the Star and the World tarot cards.
The Star symbolizes hope, spirituality, renewal, and inspiration.
The World symbolizes completion, integration, and accomplishment.
The Star reversed symbolizes a lack of faith, despair, and discouragement.
The World reversed symbolizes a lack of completion, and lack of closure.
Individually you can see how the symbolizations can reflect on a character’s attributes,
and how some were the downfall of a character.
You have DIO who had seemed a lot stronger due to him believing to be full and complete,
but that actually wasn’t the case at all and ended up being the death of him.
Then there’s Jotaro who was always angry and confident, but started to lose when he
didn’t believe in himself as much.
So taking that into account, can we get a meaning if we put the star and the world together?
Yes, we can.
Reason why is because he goes from Star Platinum, to Star Platinum: The World.
So when you put the two together, you get a large boost of inspiration.
“No limits in your future, luck, fate, and you get all you ever wanted.”
Which taking this into account means that Star Platinum turning into Star Platinum:
The World was a device of fate for Jotaro.
We know that DIO is always fated to lose, even if it does take a long time.
If I was to put perspective on it, first picture DIO.
He’s just in awe like “Star Platinum and The World are the same stand??
Why?!?”
Then both Jotaro and Araki are drawn in and point at DIO and just say, cause screw you
that’s why.
I can’t vouch for the fate in Jojo always, but it helps clean up a lot of messes inside
of it.
Except when you get to Eyes of Heaven because that’s something you want to be deeper than
what it actually is, but it just isn’t.
Some stuff in Jojo can’t be answered with, “It’s just like that cause”, but this
is one of things that can be.
Except it’s not just because, it’s just a Deus Ex Machina that we will forever have
embedded.
Which we can’t write off because it’s a thing
that very much exists so it’s just more on accepting it.