Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-7673575-20170627191710/@comment-32493704-20171217001823

Honestly, I also think it's kinda bullshit that Star Platinum and The World are essentially the same stand, but really it can be explained relatively easily. Plot convenience. It was convenient to the plot that The World and Star Platinum were equal in power. It was convenient to the plot that Star Platinum is capable of stopping time.

Another thing that doesn't stick with the idea of "The World being Jonathan's stand" is it's design. The World's design is heavily inspired by Dio's Holy Diver album cover, along with sharing a color scheme representative of DIO himself (The color scheme thing isn't consistant throughout the entire series, however during Part 3, most of the stands seem to match their user's color scheme). Along with that, take the idea of The World, it essentially represents, by name and stand stats, that DIO is the strongest being in the entire world, it's a narcissistic stand, which simply doesn't match up with Jonathan's caring nature.