The World



The World (世界 (ザ・ワールド) Za Wārudo) is a stand featured primarily in Part III: Stardust Crusaders. Its user is supervillain Dio Brando and it is named after the Tarot card The World of the Major Arcana. 

Personality/Appearance
The World resembles Dio Brando in several ways, having a tall muscular body and the same green heart motifs. It has what seems to be a stopwatch on the back of each hand, symbolizing its power to stop time.

It has never shown any personality, however, in Stone Ocean, it was hinted that if not for Dio's own personality it would go out of control.

Powers
The World is similar to Jotaro's Star Platinum with its phenomenal strength, senses and stamina, but also faster and more accurate.

Its defining power is the ability to stop time (possibly in a limited area) allowing only itself and Dio to act. Given Dio's weakened state during Stardust Crusaders, however, this ability only works for a few seconds before time resumes flowing.

He also has at least a measure of Joseph's psychic abilities (specifically, the ability to create a vision on a photograph). A possible explanation for the fact that The World has psychic powers that are only used once is that Hirohiko Araki originally intended it to have the power of all of the Stands, or possibly the power of the Stands of the Joestar lineage, due to Dio inhabiting the body of Jonathan Joestar.

It's implied in Stone Ocean that Dio wanted to use his Stand to create a perfect world for himself and a handful of subordinates. He enlisted Enrico Pucci as his living "conscience", in case he would go crazy and be "off track".

Trivia

 * The World has evolved into an internet meme "Za Warudo". This started from the game and in the anime when Dio Brando would stop time. He would shout out "The World!" in the Japanese dub but because of the voice acting: It was pronounced: "Za Warudo".
 * It has a great physical resemblance to the Stand, Crazy Diamond of Josuke Higashikata and they both share an ability relating to time manipulation.
 * It is implied that it would be Jonathan Joestar's stand, if he had been one to awaken it, as Jotaro Kujo, his descendant has a similar power to this.