Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-30966312-20180814013025/@comment-38952966-20200822074349

Ellie Bites the Dust wrote: ok so basically, in the simplest terms i can think to say, Star Platinum and The World are both close ranged punchy Stands, as you know but, that's not the only way they are similar, they are litterally the same Stand, when DIO stabbed himself with the Stand Arrow, Jonathan Joestar's body reacted, and caused all the Joestars to gain Stands, Holly gained her Stand, but was too mentally weak to handle it, same with young Josuke, Joseph Joestar and Jotaro Kujo, however, are mentally strong willed, and gained Stands, DIO himself got two stands, thanks to his body containing the soul of both DIO and Jonathan Joestar, he got his own Stand, The World, and Jonathans Stand (as seen in Chapter 122: "Head To Egypt", where DIO uses Jonathans Stand to watch the Joestar Egypt Tour Group. thanks to how this works, Joseph obtained his own version of Jonathans Stand without the use of an Arrow, which Abdul dubbed "Hermit Purple", which has all the same abilities of Jonathans Stand. Jotaro obtained his own version of The World, which Abdul dubbed "Star Platinum", which has all the same abilities of The World. same stats, same timestop, same star finger, which i'm sure DIO would of used if it wasn't quite useless unless you're constrained like in Chapter 129: "''Dark Blue Moon (3)". '' do you understand? (also, if Holly and Josuke weren't too mentally weak to use Stands, DIO would most likely also have his own versions of Crazy Diamond and Hollys Stand)

Joseph doesn't have Hermit Purple because of DIO. Hermit Purple is Hamon manifested as a Stand. Araki's comments basically confirm this. DIO can use it because Jonathan's mastery of Hamon left behind in his body. It's also why DIO stops using it after a while; the better DIO fuses with Jonathan's body, the weaker his Hermit Purple gets.

Weirdly, Star Platinum and The World don't actually have the same stats, but Stand stats are mostly bullshit anyway. The idea that The World would have the abilities of all the Joestar Stands has never been confirmed and has no traceable source.