[Introduction] "Your favorite MC loses to Giorno Giovanna!"
"The strongest character of your universe?
Ha, say hello to Giorno!"
"That's the strongest move of your verse?
Psht, guess who beats that, Giorno Giovanna."
If you ever get into arguments about fictional characters and have that one JoJo friend,
you've probably heard things like this.
Giorno Giovanna and his evolved stand, "Gold Experience Requiem," are a known problem starter
when it comes to versus battles.
There's a lot of people that hear that he's so broken, but why is it.
And how far do his abilities go.
We'll be going over that here.
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[Revert to Zero] Gold Experience Requiem has the power to revert
actions and willpower to zero.
Well, what is zero?
Let's look at our primary example in Diavolo.
Here we can see Diavolo talking down to Giorno; this is the state of zero here.
After this, he goes on to attempt to strike Giorno and take him out.
But!
It turns out that he's never actually left his initial spot.
We see him try to take out Giorno, but that event never happened.
All the time that passed after the point of zero didn't happen.
That is Gold Experience Requiem's "revert to zero" ability.
Now some may be thinking, "Well, wait, I've seen something like this before!"
And you probably have.
A typical connection I see people make is Itachi's Izanami.
I've even seen people make a connection to Yoshikage Kira's "Bites the Dust".
But, that just covers the loop aspect of it.
What makes G.E.R so special isn't just the ability, it's the range and level it's used
at.
To do that, we must look to Diavolo.
Diavolo's stand is "King Crimson", with it "erase time" and see into the future, both
up to 10 seconds.
Now to manipulate time itself is a considerably large feat, as it's the 4th-dimension, or
well at least how it's interpreted.
Imagine this, if life or well, or consciousness perceives everything in 3 dimensions, time
itself stands out of it.
Now imagine this, Diavolo stands outside of time with the ability to manipulate it.
That makes him a threat with 4th-dimensional capabilities.
But, seeing as that he has a 10-second limit, he's most likely on the lower end, as characters
do similar things with no limit present.
But!
Now there's Gold Experience Requiem, who stood outside of Diavolo's "time erasure" with the
ability to revert it.
They stood outside of the outside.
So, considering in just this ability alone, they define themselves as an extremely powerful
character.
Let's use an example.
Say we have Naruto and Kurama.
They're cool, neutral mindset.
But now, it's time to attack, and then they shoot a bijuu bomb.
What would happen here?
Well, from what we've established, nothing.
Nothing would happen here.
Gold Experience Requiem can and would revert the action and mindstate Naruto had back to
the neutral point before the attempt.
Nothing gets done.
Now, this doesn't automatically mean that Giorno has won.
This situation means that there is going to be no progress whatsoever in the fight.
Because let's consider the characters we have here.
We know that Naruto is strong.
He's taken a lot of beatings and given a lot of them out too.
Let's say we take Naruto down to a point where the biggest thing he could destroy would be
a whole country in one go, right?
And the largest thing he could get hit by is a move of the same caliber.
Country-level attack potency and durability, for the sake of the scenario.
In what small time we've had with Gold Experience Requiem, and the feats we've seen with regular
Gold Experience, it would be pretty hard to put Giorno on that level.
So, say Giorno can't harm Naruto to damage, he can't win off of strength alone.
Then there's Naruto, who can't harm Giorno at all.
With both fighters unable to do anything, you call this a stalemate as nothing is progressing.
Now there are arguments I've seen about the potential capabilities of G.E.R.
Like let's say it becomes a war of attrition or Giorno has time to try different life-giver
forms to defeat Naruto, but that's not the conversation I'm having here.
The idea is that Giorno can stalemate a lot of fictional characters out there.
He can defeat a lot outright too, but it's the idea that he has this power to stalemate
people that would, in most cases, completely take him apart down to the atom.
Frieza can blow Earth up and breathe in space, that doesn't matter because he'll never get
the opportunity to blow the Earth up, as Gold Experience Requiem will revert it to zero.
Things like that.
That's a ridiculous power, and it's all Giorno's to hold.
Or well, more so just Gold Experience Requiem as it's the one in control here.
In addition to the unfathomably strong ability that is reverting to zero, we also have the
"Infinite Death Loop."
[Infinite Death Loop] The "Infinite Death Loop" is what I believe
to be an extension of the "Revert to Zero" ability.
If Gold Experience Requiem were to kill you, you would experience death infinitely.
It's more so that what will kill you happens, but you never actually reach the end because
the next death situation occurs right after that, and then that continues infinitely.
So, what's happening here?
Well, the "Infinite Death loop" is a manipulation of reality.
Usually, when there's a cause of death, there's the effect that is death, following suit right
after.
Gold Experience Requiem manipulates reality to where the effect doesn't exist to the situation.
It just becomes another cause.
In addition to that, every death is different from the last.
So, when considering the extent of power that Gold Experience Requiem has, it's safe to
say that this is not your usual suspect.
The best opponents you can find for Giorno usually happen to be the ones that put his
capabilities into question.
There are many characters out there in fiction, but that's not necessarily the case when it
comes to JoJo.
And that's
Gold Experience Requiem.