Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-28702329-20180609141525/@comment-34634218-20190719200422

IndigoWizard wrote: Nabukun wrote: Well all of these are dead wrong. Harmless twists at worst.

The worst asspull ever in Jojo is having Dio, who up to part 3 was just the ambitious asshole, all of a sudden, have a convoluted and nonsensical plan to "reach Heaven" he wrote down on a diary we never heard of, requiring precise coordinates and gravitational conditions, a friend that we've never heard of and which is badly out of character considering how much Dio sees himself above others, and that Jotaro all of a sudden read but never talked about, just so Pucci can steal his memory because he somehow just knew Jotaro knew about the plan.

Jotaro having timestop, Joseph and the Aja Stone, Requiem, these are end-part stuff. At worst, it lessens the impact of the final fight of a given part.

The diary is the prompt of an entire part. Part 6 is built on an asspull. This fucking diary ruined an entire part. It also retroactively kinda ruins Part 3 since Dio already completed the plan and just had to fly to Cape Canaveral instead of waiting 50 days for Jotaro. Nothing could have prevented him from doing this. It contradicts the whole idea of DIO needing Joestar blood in Part 3.

On don't give me that "but Dio talked about peace of mind" crap. When he took Joseph's blood, he was full-on "bow before me, humans!" mode. That peace of mind crap was a way to psyche Polnareff. I would argue that the 'reach heaven' thing was just a way to psyche Pucci, and that Dio enlisted Pucci to help him really conquer the world(by doing what he called 'achieving heaven').

Aside from that, Dio probably found the way Pucci sucked up to him to be entertaining, sort of like how he said 'I'm glad. . ." when Vanilla Ice slashed his own head off for Dio.

Dio's personality is still that crazy, flamboyant power-fantasy guy we see in Part 3, but he's also still the very smart guy we saw in Part 1, so he used whatever insight he got from his oceanic contemplation and somehow figured out the nature of the universe or something. Anyway, what I'm saying is, the 'reaching heaven' stuff isn't that inconsistent with his personality since it's really just another degree of 'take over the world!'

Probably Dio waited for Jotaro so that he could fight Jotaro. If Dio killed Jotaro and co., he'd know they were gone. If Dio ran off to achieve heaven and Jotaro caught up, it'd be a surprise + Jotaro would be vengeful and therefore more dangerous due to Holly being dead.

This is my best explanation. tbh i feel like the way dio was portrayed in part 6 is way more similar to how he was in part 1, if anything part 3 oversimplified him and made him kinda ooc, and part 6 pulled him back more to what i think would be a logical progression of post- coffin time dio. ass pull or not i feel like part 6 kinda made dio as a character more believable, and not just a stereotypical "crazy falmboyant bad guy who yells a lot"