Board Thread:Manga Discussion/@comment-26912075-20161224030557/@comment-4148373-20181024050245

Zodazzle wrote: Youhadabadday wrote: Either that, or it could convert anti-life energy to life energy, essentially making a Zombie, Vampire, Pillarman, etc, into a human with vampiric abilities.

After all, this is the stand of a Vampire's son we are talking about here.
 * cough* necropost *cough*

All aside, these are just straight up wrong. Gold Experience doesn't "inject life" so much as he just gifts things life. Secondly, stands haven't been called spirt hamon since part 3, and Part 5 even proves that they aren't even hamon. Lastly, vampires/zombies/pillar men are already lifeforms as is, so gifting life would just do the same that Gold Experience did when it punched Bruno. ...Pretty sure Part 3 proved Stands weren't Hamon when they gave DIO a Stand. If they were, summoning The World should have killed DIO, no?

That aside, After having looked into it, I'm not entirely sure Gold Experience would actually have the exact same effect on Vampires and Pillar Men, though I hesitate to say it would be exactly the same as Hamon.

Barring Kars' super Hamon, it's never been shown to harm living beings, when used directly on them. Quite the opposite, as shown when Zeppeli is introducing the concept, and splits a boulder through a frog, leaving it unharmed. Hamon and life force also often seem to be equated, such as in the reduced aging and increased healing effects.

This may indicate that the Pillar Men and Vampires, who are burned by this energy, aren't exactly alive in the same way as most life-forms. A mystical angle for their powers would certainly explain how they can manage to reassurect people so long dead that their brains should have rotted to nothing, with their memories intact. The Hamon thing could, admittedly, also be entirely tied to the sun angle, but I don't think it's entirely cut-and-dry that GE would treat them like any other life form.

That said, I don't think Gold Experience's fists would actually act like Hamon. The most likely scenario, if Vampires and the like aren't treated as living, is that they'd be fair game for Gold Experience to create new life from. The other likely option I could see, for Vampires and Zombies, would be to restore them to "life", reversing the effects and reviving them in a human form. Possibly while keeping any body modifications.