Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-30966312-20180814013025/@comment-44335674-20191111002521

Kingasdfg wrote: As I recall, the original plan was always that Star Platinum would be able to stop time, and The World would be able to do it as well because it was originally meant to have the abilities of all the Tarot card Stands. Araki realized this would make DIO unstoppable, so it was ultimately scaled back to just having the same ability as Star Platinum, probably because Araki had already planned most of the fight around stopping time. I agree with that last part, probally Araki had planned that DIO would use mainly Star Platinum's powers during the last fight, but when he noticed that it was too OP too have all 6 stands in one, he changed it to only have the powers of Star Platinum. Or it could be that since The World and Star Platinum where the first stands to be created, he had already planned for them to have similar powers, only that DIO would have the other crusaders' powers as well.