Nah man, I can't let that slide.
Your points change a lot and I'm tired of keeping track so I will just refute your central claims
My points haven't changed at all. Dio flash freezes, was the the first thing I said, and I'm still saying it.
I just brought up SRSE because you somehow think Morb fleeing, luring or going range is somehow a thing that doesn't instantly get him ****** completely. i could bring up more but tbh it isn't needed, yeah I could mention Dio's other powers and abilities, but why even bother? Dio's main move that he uses almost as like a passive is just as good as any.
1. Morbius has a counter to ranged attacks shown to you. He liquefies himself to easily dodge or let the beams pass through. The beams are not a valid wincon. they do not negate durability. Morbius easily evades since Jonathan can without any special skill or the beams go through. The beams are not a wincon
Lad, in that VERY same scan it says it was hard as **** to do, and then he gets punched in the face because it strained him. Based on that scan, I'm lead to believe the exact opposite, it ISN'T a viable dodge method, and in fact leaves him open for a follow up attack.
Right there, your own scans.
"Those would've killed me if I hadn't morphed my body out of the way! But
the strain! AAGH! - Gets punched in the face".
And then GR walks up and punches him in the face. Are you joking right now lad? This is a useless counter, it's baffling to me you're legitimately arguing it while being ignorant to the very same line he says he did it. Honestly, I hope he DOES do that, it'd just secure Dio's win, especially if he was GR there, a head punch would kill Morb as Morb can't survive his head being flash frozen and broken.
Morbius doesn't easily evade, Morbius evades with effort and then gets tagged on the follow up because he can't do it multiple times in the row and doing such a thing leaves him open to follow up attacks, as you can see, in your own scan.
. Morbius easily evades since Jonathan can without any special skill or the beams go through. The beams are not a wincon
Jonathan barely evaded. And he still died on the boat. And in the first instance, Jonathan says himself, if he was even a inch off, he'd have had his brain destroyed.
"If I was another inch to the right. My brain would have been destroyed!".
Jonathan merely got lucky, that's it, Dio was a mere inch from blowing his head apart, and he pulled that off while in freefall as just a head himself without even being able to aim, something Morb isn't going to get him into such a position for him to miss like that by pure chance (Given Morb can't exactly vaporize Dio's body on contact rendering him a disembodied head in freefall).
And then factor in the whole "Dio moves his head slightly" and creates a huge arc with the beam, yeah no, Morb tries to pull what you said he'd do, he would die. And would Morb even expect Dio to randomly fire gigafuck beams? Idk lad.
This counter doesn't work, it might work for a second or two, but it'd just lead to his own downfall due to the strain.
DIO's weakness is his overconfidence, even when bloodlust he still shows off to his enemies for extended periods.
Ah yes, that's why he, upon contact, incapped Dire and then just went about killing him?
When bloodlusted, Dio's bloodlust is so strong that anyone with ESP or that can sense that shit would feel like an, and I quote, "an icicle shoved up your ass".
His overconfidence was the reason Dire's head wasn't frozen which nearly cost him.
Haha what the actual ****? No it wasn't? He didn't just opt to not freeze Dire's head, in fact, Dire's head WAS frozen and shattered moments after.
As you can see literally moments later if you stopped ignoring context. Dire is likely unironically just built diff (I mean, case and point, a "normal" human survived as a disembodied head long enough to attack Dio even though he was dead a million times over, he also talked, idk how he'd talk as just a head but it be like that), Dio did indeed froze his head, in fact the freezing continued
even after Dio lost contact with him. Think about that for aa second, and then realize the implications for how bad this might be for Morb. Needless to say as well, Dio isn't going to be caught offguard like he was with Dire, Morb is clearly a demon of sorts, Dio would expect him to survive as a head, not like Dire, a "normal human" doing that (tbh it's kind of insane, that's the best stamina feat from a human in all of JoJo).
and he speaks with Jonathan for so long that his sword conducted heat to the point that it was melting the ice faster than he could freeze it. That takes minutes.
Actual case of lol fiction, they definitely weren't standing around for 15 minutes or however long it'd take for that to happen, even using the anime it wasn't even minutes, and the anime has a bad case of Freeza time syndrome (Example - Jotaro vs Dio, in the anime that fight lasted like a hour of screentime, but in the manga it's explicitly stated to have only lasted less than 150 seconds from Kakyoin's death to Dio's death. Talking is just a free action in JoJo, time and time again, especially with Dio, dude can talk for like two minutes straight within five seconds of time stop) but ignoring that, you realize Jonathan is the worst possible example to use for anything because Dio has a specific vendetta against him and his hatred for Jonathan clouds his judgement at times? He doesn't do this shit with others. I mean, he LITERALLY just finished flash freezing and shattering a dude to pieces, and then proceeds to the exact opposite on Jonathan because he wants him as a minion more then he wants him dead.
He never learns from this weakness as he kept showing off his stand ability rather than instantly killing his foes. Look at Silver Chariot dude, look at Jotaro, etc.
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What did he mean by this? There is no less than 4 different statements explicitly saying Dio learns from his mistakes so they do not happen again, not only from himself but from OTHERS. And that's just off the top of my head, I could probably compile a small book if I dug.
But oh we're bringing Part 3 Dio into this? Oh boy, talk about shooting yourself in the foot, I'm not even gonna bother with anything except the main arc to prove my point, there's more but this should suffice. The part where he is so overly cautious it's ridiculous? Bruh.
Hey let's go through examples.
1. Chariot?
Ah you mean when he was explicitly trying to recruit Polnareff because he thought it'd be a waste to kill a valuable and powerful potential ally, and when Pol basically told him to go **** himself, Dio was like "Aight k, I guess you'll die" and the only reason why Pol survived was because Jotaro and friends smashed down the wall, letting sunlight flood the room which saved Pol's ass from certain death.
Aka you're leaving out context, forgetting to mention Dio knows Pol's capabilities extensively and everything he can do, and is trying to convince him to join him, and the moment Pol refused Dio was mere seconds away from killing him and only survived because his friends saved his ass? The time stop spam was a scare tactic fyi in order to make Pol submit, Dio makes that clear.
2.
Killed Nuke the moment he "betrayed him", maiming him and slicing him into bits.
3.
Dio actually did try to kill them all in one go without letting them fight back or what not. As soon as he killed Nukesaku, the squad were trying to figure out where Dio was, they suddenly all felt such an overwhelming killing intent (thanks ESP) that they straight up jumped out the ******* window into the sunlight to flee from Dio (Thankfully they prepared ahead of time by letting light flood the room, making a lot of the room a place Dio is unable to enter). Joseph himself confirms if they stayed there, they'd probably all be dead by now (He says, while having only free falled for a few seconds).
Aka you kinda left out the first time Dio actually engaged with them, bar Pol who he was trying to recruit, he
immediately went in for the kill without letting any of them retaliate, they were only saved because Dio's pure bloodlust tipped them all off he they were all about to die. So I really have no idea what the **** you're talking about, Part 3 Dio is ruthless as all hell, Jotaro just got lucky because Dio felt like testing his Stand and knew he could defeat Jotaro going by his knowledge.
Fyi Joseph also confirms later that the only reason they were'nt super giga dead was because Dio can only stop time for a few seconds, if he could do it longer, they never would have gotten a chance at all and he would've killed them all where they stood.
4.
In the car chase, when HG gets to close, DIO immediately has TW punch the dude, the only reason why he wasn't maimed to hell and back was because TW's punch launched him out of its own range. Kakyoin himself says as much "I attacked him from about ten meters away. If I was any closer, I would've been killed".
Kakyoin only survived because he just so happened to of been at the edge of TW's 10m manifestation range, if he was any closer, Dio would have straight up killed him. Kak was cautious and deduced from experience with Stands that Dio likely had a Power Type and thus, small AOE of just a few meters, and he still almost died.
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Dio then proceeds to ******* yeet the senator at them so hard it totals the vehicle and they have to flee on foot)
5. Kakyoin's death, Dio chases the fleeing Kakyoin, but Kakyoin set up a trap, the 20m ES. Kakyoin and Dio have only
one exchange. And then Dio kills him without him having any way to fight back. And mind you, this is AFTER Kakyoin narrowly avoided being killed by Dio twice over and in those instances, Kak wasn't even given a chance to talk back, he merely lucked out both times. So yes, 2 times against Kak where Dio went for the kill without being overconfident, and the third time Dio and have had a quick exchange before Dio murked him.
I'd also count Joseph too tbh, Dio said one thing to him ("You're next. I'm going to drink your blood!" being basically all he said (The convo about Erina and what not is anime only, they extended Dio's convo with Joseph in the anime, in the manga Dio says one sentence before lunging in for the kill). Joseph tried to flee,
and Dio straight up says he's not going to let him escape. But speaking of Joseph.
6.
When Joseph is fleeing from above, Dio uses his ability to cut him and goes to punch his ******* head off without even giving him a chance to say anything or counter. Though he stops, but why does he stop? It's sure as hell not overconfidence, it's because Joseph was using his Stand as a conduit to course Hamon through himself, if Dio followed through on killing Joseph, he'd have actually killed himself and Dio figured this out before it was to late. To which Joseph says "You figured out I was using Hamon and then refused to punch me. You cautious son of a bitch". Yes, that's right, DIO nearly killed Joseph so fast he barely even had time to react, he only stopped because Dio isn't stupid, in fact he's extremely cautious and smart, and goes out of his way to not take any unneeded risks usually unless he KNOWS he can afford to, he didn't follow through on the kill because he figured out mere contact with Joseph would vaporize himself and he'd die.
Oh yeah and Joseph also says
"If you could stop time any longer, you'd have killed us all back at the mansion, you wouldn't have needed to come after us".
Which refer to the above scene where he nearly killed them all at his mansion immediately but they sensed it and fled, Joseph confirms if he could stop time long enough, they all would have straight up died and never would've got away, because as said, Dio is egotistical but he ISN'T dumb, if he can kill you and has no reason not to, he's going to kill you, and if you're a threat to him, you're likely dying too. And if you're an unknown foe? Probably dying too because it's risky. Only two cases exist where Dio just threw a fight, out of like ten times as many fights as that, that's saying a lot (Given the two instances were reasonable).
7. But yeah he can't touch Joseph, so he tells Joseph "Yeah cool dude, you figured me out? Watch this lol".
Dio smashes debris into him, and when Joseph is stunned, he stops time, goes up to Joseph, and plants a knife in his neck, killing him. (And yes, Joseph did die here, being revived after the fight doesn't change that).
Joseph never stood a chance, and Dio easily countered Joseph's only saving grace that saved him from immediate death on the fly. Joseph hard countering Dio saved his ass for a total of a few seconds.
8. I will give you Jotaro, Dio did indeed go out of his way to not kill Jotaro immediately, but you're also forgetting some key bits of info. One, Dio knows everything Jotaro can do (At least, he think he does, but the only thing he doesn't know, is something that Jotaro himself doesn't even know and jotaro learning how to stop time within a minute after going months without knowing it was a thing is honestly fair for Dio to overlook, doubly so as this has never happened before or after in all of JoJo media). Two, he actually was going in to kill Jotaro, but Jotaro rolled up, to which Dio was like "Dude wtf? You're not running away?", Jotaro was like "Nah I gotta get close to beat your ass", and Dio decided to humor him.
In fact, Dio says he always wanted to test The World against Star Platinum, which is honestly, the only real reason why he's humoring Jotaro in the first place, it's because Dio himself always wanted to fight Jotaro to see who was better, if he didn't have that personal reason to let Jotaro live a extra few seconds he wouldn't have, and that's against Jotaro in particular, he would have died. And you know how I know this?
Because RIGHT AFTER Dio is done comparing his strength and speed with Star Platinum, he goes "Ha playtime is over, I'm satisfied, I'm way stronger lol. I learned from my mistakes 100 years ago, you all must die quickly and mercilessly, I'll kill you in one blow". Paraphrased of course, cue Dio stopping time and going in to kill Jotaro in one blow.
Yes, again, Dio in a very specific situation is able to be goaded into not killing right away, but you know what's funny? This specific situation only saved Jotaro for a few extra seconds (Yes, seconds. The entire Dio fight from Kakyoin's death to when Jotaro defeats Dio is stated to last not even 3 minutes). As soon as Dio was satisfied in testing, he went in to kill Jotaro in one blow.
Oh yeah, you know what's also funny, the fact Dio straight up learned from his mistakes, unlike how you claim he doesn't learn, he straight up says himself that he will kill the joestars quickly, and mercilessly. And as we see, that is VERY much the case, he tried to kill the whole group immediately, Joseph confirms twice. He ******* murked Kakyoin, he would've killed Pol the moment they started fighting if he wasn't saved and later does tries again, Joseph barely lucked out in dying quickly, but that just prompted Dio to counter him and stick a knife through his neck, and that's without getting into the non main characters he's ****** up. And then he does nothing but try and kill Jotaro without retaliation, Jotaro just asspulls his way to victory even though Dio did just about everything he could right.
But let's continue.
9.
Jotaro spontaneously learns how to stop time, this shocks Dio drastically and stuns him. Jotaro survives, because this is an ACTUAL case of Dio's egotism coming into play, he is so taken aback by Jotaro even MAYBE being able to move while time is halted, that he's awestruck and doesn't finish killing him.
Looks bad tho right? Not really.
Dio follows Jotaro, stops time, though he's cautious now because Jotaro might be able to move in stopped time, Dio moves cautiously, notices magnets, deduces that it was just a trick by Jotaro to save himself, and then Dio goes in to land a killing blow on Jotaro again, with Dio even saying that all this did was postpone his death by mere seconds. It took Jotaro spontaneously learning how to move in stopped time to save his own ass, something which is a lone outlier in the history of that universe, and you know what Dio did? Proceed to try and kill Jotaro again in time stop in a single killing blow while also being cautious now that Jotaro poses a potential threat and Dio isn't sure what Jotaro is capable of.
Of course Jotaro actually big brained and the magnets were bait and he actually really COULD move in stopped time, but that doesn't change the fact Dio acted accordingly and tried to kill Jotaro in one hit here.
10.
The Dio fight has now changed tempos, Dio knows Jotaro is dangerous, so he must find out ways to kill him without entering Star Platinum's range due to risk of being manhandled by Plat. So, Dio adapts, in this case, he gathers a bunch of knives, stops time, and throws like 40 knives at extreme speed within stopped time, thus he can attack Jotaro at range without entering Plat's 2m AOE. And even though he just seen a bunch of knives stab Jotaro in the limbs and chest, he follows up and throws another knife aimed at his head "just to be safe". Dio even says that while he MAY HAVE THE ADVANTAGE, he isn't stupid, even if he's winning he's still not gonna let his foe get the upperhand if he can avoid it or leave himself at risk.
This shows Dio's ability to adapt to the situation and unforeseen circumstances in the midst of a fight, as with Joseph, while also mitigating his foe's ability to retaliate back without risk to himself, all the while doing shit to put his foe in a awful situation, if not kill them straight up.
11. Jotaro is full of holes and has a knife stuck in his head, he's still alive though, just pretending to be dead so he can catch Dio offguard. But wait? Dio isn't a idiot, and he is
stupidly cautious. As he says himself "better safe then sorry", while Jotaro seems to be dead, and most would think he's dead, Dio is cautious, he needs to make sure his foe is dead. So you know what he does? He grabs a pole to extend his reach so he can mitigate Star Platinum's 2m AOE, in case Jotaro is in fact alive and just playing dead (Which he is), and then tries to cut off Jotaro's head. Jotaro would have died here if not for Pol coming in to save his ass at that exact second.
Jotaro would've died here, all due to Dio's cautious and merciless nature.
12.
Pol saved Jotaro, but Dio stops time, caves his chest in, knocks him out cold, and then, you guessed it, Dio goes in to kill the unconscious Pol. This causes the pretending to be dead Jotaro to panic, because as he says himself "Oh shit, Polnareff is going to die!".
And that's not all, pay attention to what Jotaro says, it'd be easy to save Pol's life, he just needs to show that he's alive before Dio finishes killing Pol, but as Jotaro says, while Dio will go straight for Jotaro he WON'T enter Star Platinum's AOE, instead Dio will avoid the risk and danger of his foe and stop time immediately and attack with long range as Jotaro can't fight against that, to which Jotaro unironically says that if Dio finds out he's alive (In which case Dio will go straight for Jotaro with long range while avoiding danger because he's cautious), he's ******. So Jotaro taps the ground, Dio's hears this and focuses his attention on Jotaro, thus saving Pol's life.
Again, Dio goes in for a killing blow without much if any ******* around, and Jotaro basically goes on a tangent about how Dio is cautious and if Dio figures out he's actually alive he's so ****** it's not even funny.
13.
Dio is focused on Jotaro now, but due to Dio's cautious nature, he won't approach him due to the risk of Plat. So you know what Dio does? He takes a cop, has him shoot Jotaro, just to see if Jotaro or his body reacts, in order to confirm if he's dead. Jotaro has Plat catch the bullet before does anything bad thus he doesn't react, something which you'd think would fool Dio. But no, Jotaro says himself Dio is going to make absolute certain he's dead because Dio is paranoid as ****, because yes, Dio is cautious and learns from his mistakes. Dio then proceeds to use his super hearing to see if Jotaro is breathing, Jotaro holds his breath in response. Thus we have him not breathing and not reacting to being shot, but nah, Dio is cautious to the point he goes and checks something that Jotaro would have no real way to fake, the being his own heartbeat. Dio listens if his heart was beating to see if he was dead, so Jotaro, no shit, has his own Stand phase into his chest, and stop his own heart (Something Jotaro notes might even kill himself).
Dio doesn't hear the heartbeat so he's like "Ah cool, I thought maybe he revived himself somehow but I guess I was imagining it". Dio being the hardass he is, decides he's going to cut off Jotaro's head anyway JUST TO BE SAFE. Dio is so ******* careful and merciless that he's willing to cut off the head of a corpse filled with knives, a knife through the head, that doesn't react to stimulus like bullets, isn't breathing, isn't moving and has no heartbeat.
The only reason why Jotaro survives is because he managed to, through the utmost bullshit, convince Dio he MIGHT be dead, to have Dio enter the edge of Plat's AOE. And the funny thing is, Jotaro actually still would have died, he got lucky because Star Platinum, his Stand, restarted his heart after he lost conscious and nearly died trying to get past Dio's shit, and mind you, this actually is extremely lucky, most Stand's can't do what Star Platinum did, Star Platinum is just built different (As you'd expect from the most "invincible" Stand at the time).
14. Jotaro managed to get his second real hit on Dio due to a combination of luck, his own big brain plays, his Stand being sentient and saving his ass, Pol saving his ass, smarts, and just a bunch of shit. Dio then proceeds to fool the **** out of Jotaro, Dio is on the ropes, so he tries to "flee", and Jotaro tries to stop him, he manages to trick Jotaro in launching his ass down a street, because this was his plan, trick Jotaro into think he was escaping and subtly luring him to the right spot and have Jotaro himself be his escape plan, launching him toward the, at the time, deceased Joseph, which Dio used to heal his wounds as well as power himself up so much, he becomes more powerful than he's ever been.
And then he becomes literally high off the blood and then yeah, NOW he's actually up his own ass and does some stupid shit, now you can say Dio's personality is a weakness. But even then, only barely, when they start fighting again after Dio is done having an episode because he's high as a kite, he fought Jotaro for a total of like NINE SECONDS (Yes, nine seconds), flat out stated, nine seconds, one time stop worth of fighting. And then Dio was like
"aight cool anyway HERE COMES THE KILLING BLOW". And then goes into trying to kill Jotaro again. after the high wears down he still proves himself smart, after Jotaro asspulls his way to victory by learning how to stop time himself, avoiding Dio smashing a ******* ROAD ROLLER on him, and then time stopping Dio himself and smashing his legs. And you know what Dio does in response?
Spray the blood from his legs onto Jotaro's eyes blinding him before pivoting into a kick to try and take his head off, killing him, with Dio even saying he doesn't give a shit if he plays dirty, all that matters is he fulfills his goals.
Even when high and at his WORST, Dio still makes actual attempts to murder fast, efficiently and still plays smart.
So no, you're wrong, objectively wrong. Dio in Part 3? He's cautious, merciless, efficient, kills right away when given the chance and PREFERS killing immediately, goes out of his way to avoid risk and danger, will counter his foe's fighting style to circumvent danger while effectively killing them, will abuse all that he has at his disposal to kill. And goes on record saying he LEARNED from his **** ups in his youth, and even in the fight alone we see him learn, adapt and then react. And that's JUST that one arc, this goes all throughout the Part, he even goes so far to kill Enya, one of his most loyal and helpful allies because she was caught by the enemy and she
might of revealed the secret of his powers to give his foe's an edge. She didn't even do it, even while dying, she refused to say anything. But alas, Dio murdered her and planted flesh buds within her head as a precaution (As in, he has fleshbuds with his allies on the offchance they might put him at a disadvantage). And that's just the tip.
i could go on, it is true in Part 1, he's FAR more up his own ass, it's also true he's not as dumb as you're twisting him to be. Case and point, in their youth, Jonathan put him on his ass, so Dio, knowing that Jonathan is a threat and that what he was doing wasn't working, decides to over the course of
7 years pretending to be friendly and form a bond with Jonathan, just to trick him so later on in life, he'd be offguard.
But even then, in Part 1 he's shown to learn, even after becoming a vampire.
On the boat he was cautious of Jonathan, his opening move was an attempt to blow Jonathan's brain out with SRSE, something with Jonathan barely avoided (Now I know what you might be thinking, "see, Jonathan dodged! So could Morb!", I would like to remind that Dio is a head in a jar at that moment and can't do the simple act of turning his head or aiming himself. Nonetheless he caught Jonathan in the neck, crippling him, and if he had a body, Dio would've just liked, moved his eyes slightly to adjust the aim or arc the beam).
He's also still cautious, telling Wang that even though Jonathan might be dying, to still watch out and be careful of retaliation. It's not Dio who ***** up, it's his dumbass ally that doesn't take Dio's warning and gets struck by Jonathan's Hamon mind shit.
Hey look at that, ignoring further context or later revealed information. "Dead" in this case is undead, a minion, a zombie in the current fight, as Dio later explains extensively. And I hope you realize Dio was talking about
in the past in the initial instance, when he sent Tarkus and Bruford ("the two knights" in question) after Jonathan (Which he straight up mentions there), at the time he didn't want Jonathan to be undead, he was giving Jonathan special treatment because they grew up together as he says himself. And then in that fight Dio STILL gives Jonathan special treatment, as you'll soon see. You conflating the previous fight in Dio wanting Jonathan to just die to how he went about it in his final fight, his opinion changed, says so himself.
I'll explain this to you as straightforward as I can. Dio actually DIDN'T want Jonathan to be dead, and he actually WAS giving him special treatment, you know we know this? Because he literally ******* says so himself.
Here look, I'll walk you through it.
1. Jonathan attacks Dio. Dio freezes his arms, immobilizing them.
2. Dio, now this is the important part, Dio flatout says that he's going to turn Jonathan into his minion, yes, you read that right. Dio doesn't want to kill Jonathan, he wants to TURN HIM, not freeze him into a billion pieces, he had an ulterior goal.
3. He immediately grabs out and rips out his CAROTOID, he does this to prevent Jonathan from making any movements, fleeing or doing anything of the sort as, Dio says himself, it's a very delicate artery and if he moves, he'll cut it. Thus Dio has Jonathan in a disadvantage.
4. Jonathan kicks anyway, Dio flash freezes his leg over to immobilize it.
5. Dio says that's going to make a slight cut to insert his essence - which turns those into his zombie minions.
6. Speedwagon tries to interfere and Dio gets his minions to fend them off, he goes back to, and again, says that he's GOING TO TURN JONATHAN INTO A MINION.
7. Jonathan says, now this is important, that Dio made a mistake.
If you freeze my entire body, I cannot release the Ripple (Hamon), but you also cannot extract my life force . You haven't completely frozen me.
You see that? Jonathan flat out explain what happened there, Dio ****** up, he wanted Jonathan, in particular, to become his minion (Precisely BECAUSE it's Jonathan getting special treatment),but in order to do that, Dio must not freeze Jonathan's body. Yes, as you can guess, based on the fact they flat out tell us, Dio was sandbagging, he actively went out of his way to NOT FREEZE Jonathan, or freeze him to the point he stopped his bloodflow, because if he did, he wouldn't be able to insert the extract and he'd kill Jonathan. And yes, the body needs circulation in order for the extract to turn them into a zombie, and Dio's flash freeze's main gimmick, is halting blood flow, it's something he just can't do there.
So yeah no, try again. Jonathan not only got special treatment, but Dio merely went out of his way to just immobilize him with superficial freezing as he had no intent on freezing him to the point of lethality and in fact couldn't if he was to turn him.
3. If Morbius punches DIO, ONLY his hand will be frozen.
Lol Jonathan doesn't count, was sandbagging, And YES, Dio still intended on making Jonathan his zombie, as right after he punched and went lol one touch I could freeze you, 2 seconds? Your whole body solid. But then goes on to say that while he admires his spirit, he's just a monkey to him and
You will become my zombie!
>If DIO grabs Morbius, he freezes the entire body leaving the head so you can hear how amazing he is or how he wants you in his army before he kills you.
Except lol didn't happen, why don't you show what happened moments later Instead of being disingenuous..
Against Dire he actually DID remove the moisture from his head and flash froze it, it just was delayed because Dire is a cool dude, upon death, Dire's head immediately froze and broke into pieces, even though Dio had since stopped touching him.
Unless you want to argue Dio can touch you once and if he so chooses, can have his flash freeze continue even after contact has ceased, which would just **** Morb even harder as even after they let go or stop contact, the freezing will continue.
And yes, there you go, in that second scan you posted, if you weren't dishonest and just decided to remove the rest of the context you'd know that no, he can't.. Jonathan can't regen as a zombie or vampire after being frozen (Zombie regen isn't that good, it enables them to come back from broken bones, deep stab wounds, and can heal things like fingers but that's it),
BUT that it's flatout explained that NO, Dio CAN'T freeze Jonathan, because there MERE ACT of freezing him would prevent the zombie essence from taking effect in the first place. Thus even if a zombie COULD regen from being flash frozen to a lethal extent, it wouldn't even matter because Dio cant turn him into one if the blood flow or body is frozen beyond just superficially, which is why when Dio freezes Jonathan in all those instances, it's only in parts and only surface level without actually freezing beneath the skin.
And honestly? There's no way you missed that, no offense, but I'm beginning to think you're straight up lying and being dishonest instead of just forgetting, because mere pages after that they explain that, straight up countering your argument explicitly. You're objectively wrong here. Flat out false, not even subjective.
>Morbius hypnotizes DIO on the spot.
Unless, like, he's frozen, can't make eye contact because most of his body is frozen or is immobile, was struck by Dio in the head or some place, or several dozen other things that would prevent that from transpiring.
> DIO's overconfidence is so bad that it WILL be his downfall. Thanks to DIO not immediately freezing Dire's head, Dire was able to counterattack with his head before Dying.
See above, you're being dishonest as ****, hell; even in that same scan, don't know how you missed it but... DIRE'S HEAD FROZE OVER AND SHATTERED. Like my dude, come on now. That's something Morbius can't do, hell, even doing that to Morb would kill him, as his whole body, neck down, is frozen solid, and Morb can't survive as just a head. And even if he could, as shown with Dire anyway, even if you try and ignore it being a Dire exclusive thing and not something that's going to happen to Morb without proper feats on his end, his head would still be frozen and shatter apart without any force needed mere moments later because again, his head still froze over and broke after Dio stopped making contact with it, hell even in this situation, if Morb mindhaxed Dio (lol), Morb would still lose as his head's going to freeze and break in a few moments anyway even if Dio stops doing whatever it is he's doing.
So no, bad argument, and bordering on flatout wrong given it did happen and even in that situation Morb lacks the ability to live as just a head, can't survive when everything neck down was turned to solid ice (effectively leaving the only biomass of his that is even still his, being his head), and even if he does something, he's going to die in a second or two anyway as seen with Dire.
>Thanks to DIO's overconfidence, Jonathan had enough time to conduct heat from a fire through his sword to escape.
Speedwagon actually showed up and distracted Dio, causing Dio to stop injecting his essence to turn Jonathan into a zombie, and for Dio to inform his minions to fend off and keep away Jonathan's allies. As soon as Dio was done doing that, he turned to Jonathan, said he's going to turn him, and then Jonathan was like "lol you think bitch".
If Speedwagon didn't interfere or if, in case you forgot, Jonathan had multiple allies fighting behind Dio, Dio would have actually got his essence in time, Jonathan lucked out tbh.
Oh but I hear you say, "Dio said stuff before that!".
Yes he did, but what did he say?
Only three things, to paraphrase.
"I have your carotoid, I'll make you a zombie". - A warning to Jonathan to try and get him to stop attacking and informing him what he's going to do.
"I have your carotoid, do not move, or I'll tear it out. I'm going to make you a minion". - Another warning but Dio this time makes himself more explicit he's telling Jonathan not to attack because if he does he very well might kill himself, and that he will become a minion.
Then speedwagon tries to interfere and Dio has to take a moment to tell his minions to keep them away, if Speedwagon or outside help wasn't there, this would not have happened.
Then Dio turns around and goes "Ok now I'm gonna turn you".
You're acting like Dio was actually being dumb as shit or lethally overconfident, he wasn't, he said some shit, but everything he said was things you'd expect in that situation, and some of it was even acting as a warning to inform his foe not to try and pull anything aka an actual smart idea, and half of it was because of outside forces, aka not an actual fair complaint, if they weren't there Dio would have actually made it in time. Not to mention, Jonathan was actually helpless for all intents and purposes, if they were anywhere else Dio also would've succeeded, he just didn't notice the fire behind him (Which, fyi, he learns from and in the future is far more aware of his environment).
>BOTH CHARACTERS HAD THE MEANS TO COUNTER,
Uh, no, they didn't, again, in case you forgot, Dio was trying to do something, very specific against Jonathan, and something he wanted to do even after Jonathan escaped. Dio had no means to counter, because his counters would've probably killed Jonathan and he was, despite your claims, trying to prevent that, and flash freeze was explicitly stated to not be an option for his goals. And Jonathan couldn't counter either, he got lucky having his swing be placed in a fire and then having Dio have ulterior motives for him in particular and for his allies to distract Dio momentarily, it was a chain of actions that ended in victory. Things that aren't going to be the case in this match as Dio doesn't have a personal vendetta against Morb, and Morb is kind of obviously a vampire or demon so Dio isn't even gonna try to turn the already monster into a monster.
>THEREFORE Morbius will definitely counter with hypnosis.
Why? DIO ALWAYS lets his characters attack first,
Except all those times he didn't my dude, you brought up Part 3, you're not just gonna get to ignore it now.
And mind you, Dio's attitude changed BECAUSE he learns from his mistakes and is said as much by multiple sources. Dio after his fight with Jonathan
never lets his foes attack first, he always attacks as soon as they start fighting.
so Morbius hypnotizes once he realizes his hands gets frozen after the first strike.
Except no, we're not using Dio using flash freeze for the first time, and we aren't using Dio actively going out of his way to not freeze his foe beyond a specific superficial point for an ulterior goal that only applies to a specific character. It's better to think of Morb punching the same way Dire got treated, that being, frozen and immobilized on contact. In which case, see above.
If for some reason Dio wants to freeze his body, DIO never freezes the entire body, whether he wants to take life force or not, so Morbius STILL counters with Hypnosis.
For some reason? You mean willing to kill (And Dio willing to kill
always goes for quick kills, and sometimes, he won't even say anything).
Dio literally froze Dire's entire body within the span of one panel, so fast that it was said to be an instant. This is how Morbius is going to have to fight. And Morb, again, is going to be ****** if he engages in CQC. And again at range.
Also you're so caught up on disingenuous Dio actions that you kinda left out the fact that Morb himself talks in fights as well, ignoring your exaggeration of Dio's behavior, Morb isn't much different in terms of talking and saying shit. You're being dishonest, disingenuous, actively left out context and information and that's almost all you've done, like come on man you know better.
Also I want it be known, I was gonna vote Morb at first when I was under the impression he had High-Mid Regen and was like 8 tons+. b̵u̵t̵ ̵t̵h̵e̵n̵ ̵I̵ ̵l̵e̵a̵r̵n̵e̵d̵ ̵h̵e̵ ̵w̵a̵s̵ ̵l̵i̵k̵e̵ ̵o̵n̵l̵y̵ ̵h̵a̵l̵f̵ ̵t̵h̵a̵t̵ ̵a̵n̵d̵ ̵h̵i̵s̵ ̵r̵e̵g̵e̵n̵ ̵i̵s̵ ̵w̵h̵a̵t̵e̵v̵e̵r̵ ̵ ̵ Voting Dio still under the fact that isn't the case tho.