Talk:The World (Steel Ball Run)/@comment-30112880-20161029204828/@comment-24300265-20180307112728

Johnny had Tusk in every version of the world Valentine visited (that we saw) but they were at different stages of development. (we never saw if Diego had a stand in any of alt verses, so it's unclear if all Diegos had the world but it was over-written by Scary Monsters in the Root-world or he simply never passed into a Devil's Palm and thus never awakened his stand except in the verse where AU Diego came from.

In some he had Act 3, or act 2. in one he only had Act 1 Tusk.

The real question though is what stand did the alt valentines have that managed to actually fight Johnny and kill Gyro despite them having Tusk? D4C is the guardian of the Heart and tied to the Root World of the Corpse.

No other Valentine has D4C until Valentine gives them his soul to replace him.

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Stands mostly come just from entering a Devil's Palm and having the potential. Though most people can't handle it and die, so such places are thought of as cursed.

The Devil's Palms are created from the Stand Meteor, that instead of landing in Greenland as in the Main-verse, exploded over America and the pieces fell where the Saint's remains were enshrined. People erronously believe they can move because there are multiple Devil's Palms but they only reveal themselves when people with the potential to develop a stand enter them.

Everyone except Poco-loco, Blackmoore, and Mike O explicitly mention entering a Devil's Palm at some point during their journey either recently or in the past.

Gyro and Johnny ran into one during the Boom-Boom Family arc, but it remains unclear if that caused their stands to develop or they had already begun to develop them and getting the arm there and the eye later merely accelerated their stand development (Ball-Breaker however looks extremely close to the Guardian of the Eyes stand, albeit more organic but it's overall design siluette is the same as the complete version seen on on the statue rather than the half-version he summons with Scan, so Gyro at least definitely had his stand majorly influenced by the stand the Turbo Eye granted, even after he lost the part).

But Tusk exists in the same form even worlds without the corpse, so that's definitely Johnny's stand 100%.

As we saw with Johnny, possessing a Corpse part greatly enhances which acts he can summon, they basically act like a power amplifier, letting him use versions of his stand he can't use naturally.

Since after losing all the corpse parts, he couldn't use Act 3 anymore for awhile and was stuck with Act 2 for 2 arcs before regaining it's use without needing the parts.