Talk:Gold Experience Requiem/@comment-43451001-20190810031107

Not super knowledgeable, but it seems like we're missing a lot of information about what would and wouldn't work against GER. It only shows up that one time in the manga, and it's basically used as a Deus Ex Machina, so we don't learn much about its restrictions, limitations, etc. We only have its word for it that it's invincible (and let's be honest, EVERYONE in Jojo's says they're invincible).

For instance: how does the Stand determine what's an attacker? Is it omnicient? If it isn't, you could get the drop on it with something that doesn't look like an attack until it's too late. Like Rock-Paper-Scisors Boy -- by the time GER realizes there's an attacker, he's already lost the power to nullify the attack.

What are GER's range/time limitations? We never see it affect something outside its field of view, or undo something that didn't occur while it was standing there. Not sure how you'd leverage this to your advantage (still none of your attacks could get close to it), but some Jojo's character could probably think of a way.

How does it deal with passive Stands that don't require an action? (Given that it specifically nullifies "actions.") Wouldn't it still be affected by things like Superfly, Jailhouse Rock, the photograph ghost's prison, etc? None of those require the user to do anything, so there's no action for GER to nullify.

Can it nullify the user's actions? It never says it can't, but it also never says it can, and "doesn't work on user" is a pretty common Jojo's limitation. If it doesn't, you could trick Giorno into walking off a cliff or something, and GER wouldn't be able to undo it.

Does it prevent actions or rewind actions? I've seen people say the former, but in the manga/anime it definitely looks like the latter; if so, there's a lot you could get him with, if you somehow nullified GER before it could react. (Eg: "HEAVEN'S DOOR!" "Cannot rewind Rohan's actions.")

Then there's fringe cases like Bites the Dust and Tusk Act 4 -- Bites the Dust is passive (I think) and blows you up even if you rewind time, whereas Tusk Act 4 is immune to a variety of space/time shennanigans, because infinity I guess. I feel like a Tusk vs GER fight would come down to "Which OP Stand does Araki want to look the coolest?"

I know Araki probably isn't bringing GER back, but I kind of wish he'd given it more time, so it could have become an actual Jojo's Stand, instead of an OP plot device. Araki's whole thing is showing us a crazy-powerful Stand and then having the characters outwit it somehow, so it's pretty out-of-character for him to be like, "Nah, sorry guys, you just can't beat it."

[Also sry I am putting way too much thought into this]