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BACKGROUND INFO (FEEL FREE TO SKIP TO REVISION)
For the uninformed, Dio Brando is a villain from JoJo's Bizarre Adventure . He is the primary antagonist of Phantom Blood (Part 1) and re-appears as the antagonist again in Stardust Crusaders (Part 3).
Through use of the Stone Mask , Dio Brando rejects his humanity and becomes a vampire, granting him a variety of abilities, all primarily focused around total manipulation over his own body. He can pressurize fluids in his eyes and shoot pseudo-lasers, he can rid a part of his body of heat, causing it to freeze it and anything that it touches, he has super strength, agility and more.
When he resurfaces in Stardust Crusaders (under the name DIO) after a 100 year slumber, he is noticeably weaker, manipulating others into fighting on his behalf. When he eventually does fight the Stardust Crusaders, a lot of his former vampire abilities are strangely absent.
REVISION
It is baffling to me, but apparently there is a lot of misconception around DIO. There is a large amount of people that believe DIO is unable to use his vampiric abilities from Phantom Blood.
I want to state this first and foremost: It was never stated that DIO had lost his vampiric abilities!
I am unaware of where this misconception comes from, though I do have a guess. I believe some people take his interaction with Hol Horse as some sort of proof that he is physically weaker. While yes, DIO did admit that his body was weaker than before, there is nothing to suggest that being weaker prevents him from using his vampire abilities. Furthermore, DIO himself states that once he drained Joseph's blood, his body has been the strongest it has ever been. If we take the previous logic as true, that being weak somehow prevents him from using vampire abilities, then we almost must take the reverse true, that being stronger than ever before allows him to use his vampire abilities.
Fuurthermore, DIO actually DOES use his vampire abilities, several times actually. He uses his super-hearing to see if Jotaro's heart is beating from a distance.He uses his vampiric Regenerationn to recover from shattered legs in mere seconds. He creates biological flesh buds to brainwash his opponents. People just don't see him use his "exciting" abilities and therefore he doesn't have it? Its just cherry picking at this point, he either DOES have vampire abilities or he DOESN'T. He is a vampire or he isn't.
People suggest that him never using it against Jotaro is also proof that he does not have it. Well, no . Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. Him not using it doesn't mean he cannot use it. He chose not to. Whether or not that was a good decision is up to the reader. It's just a case of PIS, and thus cannot be used as proof that he does not have it.
This would mean we would no longer separate any abilities from DIO and Dio Brando, as it would be redundant seeing as how they share the same abilities.
TL;DR - DIO clearly still has his Phantom Blood abilities
For the uninformed, Dio Brando is a villain from JoJo's Bizarre Adventure . He is the primary antagonist of Phantom Blood (Part 1) and re-appears as the antagonist again in Stardust Crusaders (Part 3).
Through use of the Stone Mask , Dio Brando rejects his humanity and becomes a vampire, granting him a variety of abilities, all primarily focused around total manipulation over his own body. He can pressurize fluids in his eyes and shoot pseudo-lasers, he can rid a part of his body of heat, causing it to freeze it and anything that it touches, he has super strength, agility and more.
When he resurfaces in Stardust Crusaders (under the name DIO) after a 100 year slumber, he is noticeably weaker, manipulating others into fighting on his behalf. When he eventually does fight the Stardust Crusaders, a lot of his former vampire abilities are strangely absent.
REVISION
It is baffling to me, but apparently there is a lot of misconception around DIO. There is a large amount of people that believe DIO is unable to use his vampiric abilities from Phantom Blood.
I want to state this first and foremost: It was never stated that DIO had lost his vampiric abilities!
I am unaware of where this misconception comes from, though I do have a guess. I believe some people take his interaction with Hol Horse as some sort of proof that he is physically weaker. While yes, DIO did admit that his body was weaker than before, there is nothing to suggest that being weaker prevents him from using his vampire abilities. Furthermore, DIO himself states that once he drained Joseph's blood, his body has been the strongest it has ever been. If we take the previous logic as true, that being weak somehow prevents him from using vampire abilities, then we almost must take the reverse true, that being stronger than ever before allows him to use his vampire abilities.
Fuurthermore, DIO actually DOES use his vampire abilities, several times actually. He uses his super-hearing to see if Jotaro's heart is beating from a distance.He uses his vampiric Regenerationn to recover from shattered legs in mere seconds. He creates biological flesh buds to brainwash his opponents. People just don't see him use his "exciting" abilities and therefore he doesn't have it? Its just cherry picking at this point, he either DOES have vampire abilities or he DOESN'T. He is a vampire or he isn't.
People suggest that him never using it against Jotaro is also proof that he does not have it. Well, no . Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. Him not using it doesn't mean he cannot use it. He chose not to. Whether or not that was a good decision is up to the reader. It's just a case of PIS, and thus cannot be used as proof that he does not have it.
This would mean we would no longer separate any abilities from DIO and Dio Brando, as it would be redundant seeing as how they share the same abilities.
TL;DR - DIO clearly still has his Phantom Blood abilities
