Talk:Gold Experience Requiem/@comment-87.112.216.56-20150528150937/@comment-4148373-20180629055701

The "reduced to zero" thing isn't the best description of what it can do, in that it doesn't really match it's observed effects well. It's more like, where King Crimson erases the cause and keeps the effect, GER erases the effect and keeps the cause...sort of. Even that's not exactly the best description, as it doesn't entirely mesh with the death-loop.

Under that understanding, Tusk wouldn't win, because Tusk Act 4 is not instantly deadly, to both body and soul. Which is pretty much what you'd need to kill Gio and GER. Maybe not even then, since Chariot Requiem outlived Polnareff. In which case, it'd erase Gio's death, since it's not destroyed when he dies.

As for Tusk moving a rock after Johnny died, that was actually the Stand from the Shakedown Road arc. I think it's implied the lingering energy from the Corpse went from Johnny's hand to the fallen tree leaves underneath him, and granted them a Stand. Which then accelerated his body into a rock, killing him quickly, rather than leaving him to slowly waste away. One last gift from JC, I guess.