“I kept thinking over everything that has
been ever since Jonathan came to see me in London, and it all seems like a horrible tragedy,
with fate pressing on relentlessly to some destined end. Everything that one does seems, no matter
how right it may be, to bring on the very thing which is most to be deplored.” Since this is a video on Dio Brando in Phantom
Blood, you may be asking yourself “Well, I don’t remember this quote. Maybe this was in some notebook excerpt in
the manga.” It’s not, this is a quote pulled from Bram
Stroker’s “Dracula.” Yeah, there are some similarities. Well for one, we have a character named Jonathan
with a strong will and confronts a vampire with a very evil and dark soul. Both the vampires have a name that starts
with D. The same Jonathan also stabs the vampire in the neck. Araki are you robbing me? Araki: No dude, I swear it’s just a coincidence. “Yeah, I believe you, but what about that
time you said Phantom Blood shares similarities with Fist of the North Star and Dracula on
purpose.” Araki: Ah dude I was just messing around. Me: … Araki: … Ok I might have stolen
Jesus. Dio Brando is one of or if not the most powerful
person in Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure. Not powerful as in strength, but powerful
as in power. Power in leading, power in fear, and a power
that transcends physical presence. Dio doesn’t need to be alive to have an
effect over those in the living world. He’s a being that had set so many plans
that would work with him being alive or dead. It’s even pretty easy to say that he did
more when he was dead than when he was alive. Though how is it possible to do so much? Is it just due to him being an intellectual
being? Possibly, but being an intellectual being
wouldn’t be enough to do everything he did. Dio had done something that none of us can
physically do on the same scale as him. Dio has transcended past humanity. What does this mean? To most it would just be symbolism for him
rejecting his human form and transforming into a vampire, which would be higher than
a human on the food chain, but I don’t think that’s what he means. The answer lies in the many things Dio had
done. This isn’t on the many people he had executed
or drank, but those that he kept alive. Ideals of vengeance, steps to a better future,
or even friendship. Or, whatever that was that scene in itself
is a mystery. Being evil has been affiliated with being
a killer of sorts, and having plans of trying to execute more people on a larger scale. A lot of villains want to destroy the Earth,
a lot of villains want the lower-class to take over everything above, but what about
the other types of villains. There many types, but I want to talk about
those that want the best for the world, but they achieve that through the most heinous
ways. DIO is one of these villains. Not Dio Brando, but the matured DIO. Imagine that everyone in the world could see
their fate. While thinking that seeing your fate would
cause you to try to change it, but what if your fate had already taken that into account. How do we not know that us being the sentient
beings we are is an illusion? What if everything we’re doing and everything
that happens to us is our subatomic particles acting in a specific order that had already
been set for us. Would you continue to live your life if fate
told you that everything you’re going to do is futile to what happens to you in the
end. It’s genuinely puzzling for me, because
I’m not even sure how I’d be able to comprehend that. DIO had wanted us to see our fate and not
waste anytime living futile lives, because at that point, why continue to suffer? DIO has this god complex without even trying
to, he happens to just understand everything on a higher plain. Can I even say the goal that this version
of DIO had created is evil, or is it somewhat of a blessing? I have this respect for this version of DIO,
a person sculpted by the time he had to think in solitude. He had developed this more matured mindset
with a plan that would impact the whole world once he touches back into the world. That’s DIO, but who was Dio Brando? Well, let me ask a question to set perspective. Say that life is bad in all ways possible. Everything that could go wrong, went wrong. Your job as someone who wants to continue
living is to fight through all that wrong that’s being thrown at you, but while having
all this bad, you have on good thing in your life. This one thing had been there for you forever,
and would never willingly leave you. That’s until this one thing is beaten furiously
and perishes. The one thing keeping you intact had been
taken away from you, and you’re forced to continuously live with what had caused them
to die. You have all the reason to be furious and
even hate the world that you live in, but what do you do? Do you exact revenge on the world that had
taken everything from you, or does the world deserve to be made better so that no one else
experiences what you had experienced? The second option seems the most honorable
and hopeful, but why would you go for the second one? If the world has only given you bad, why try
to make it good for everyone else? Why not just make it good for you? Why not make it work under you? You’re the only person looking out for yourself
in this problematic world. You deserve better. You are the number one of your life. Matter of fact, you will be the number one
of all of life. There will never be wrong in the world for
you, if you own it all. They’re giving the chance to do so, will
you take it, or live how you do. Dio Brando had made this decision. A child raised in the darkest slums of London. Raised by an unfit father, and had lost his
mother at an early age. The only one who he had seen any good in throughout
his entire childhood. While he was only raised on the streets, he
had become this cunning teenager overtime. Poisoning the father that had caused him grief
which would’ve left him to a less annoying life alone, but the debt of George Joestar
had ended up being the opportunity that Dio had wanted and needed. During the years in the Joestar manor, Dio
had helped with growing more than focusing on his growth. He had originally believed that it wouldn’t
be that difficult to raise throughout the ranks of life. He believed that because there hadn’t been
someone that he saw as a match to him. If it wasn’t for Dio contributing to Jonathan’s
development, he wouldn’t even stand a chance in the future. Jonathan had matched Dio’s intent and intellect
with will and conviction. Seeing that since he could be matched, the
only way to get him out of the way would be to kill him, but that wasn’t going to be
easy since he had be figured out. So, what’s one to do in that situation. Well, I thought about this in a different
way. As a human, or as any living thing on the
real earth, there will always be something or someone that can match you or something
else. For a strong lion, there will be a strong
lion. For a smart person, there will be someone
that either matches them or even exceeds them. Dio was on the same level of ground as any
other human even thought he had attributes that puts him ahead of many, but he was still
human. Quoting from Dio specifically, “There’s
a limit to human ability.” As a human, he will share the same limitations
as anyone else, but what if he can transcend that? Which he does. With his newfound power, he had shown the
large difference between humans and vampires. Even with those differences, he was still
put down by a human Jonathan. This alone shows where Dio stood and would
stand for the rest of the franchise. Attempting to put himself ahead of the game,
and it worked against a large amount of beings, but he always found himself being checked
by those with bigger limitations on them. He had crossed so many lines to put himself
ahead of others, even by doing the most immoral things, but all those things had contributed
to those working against him. By doing evil, he had made the power of good
stronger. While I couldn’t agree with the things that
Dio or even a lot of villains do, I can appreciate what they’re unintentionally doing. It’s fine to have evil in the world, because
all of that evil contributes in making good stronger. Even if there’s a world where evil rules
over all, there will always be an underdog of conviction. That’s how it goes in fiction. Unless you have some story where nothing gets
better and it’s just spiraling down a hole of despair, because that’s just terrible. Why would I want to read something like that
when I can just experience everything going wrong myself? Dio had pushed people to their limits, and
they broke those limits just because their conviction was strong enough. He had unintentionally got a group together
that was meant to destroy him. He had unintentionally created an exact opposite
to him that had beaten him, despite him winning in the complete end. Even then, he respected his counter, and became
him, but even then, he was still countered again. There will always be a counter out there. It’s possible they don’t exist at the
moment of evil happening, and maybe they’re raised under those wanting to defeat said
evil. Remember, corruption breeds conviction. That’s not a quote from someone I’m trying
to remember something, but it’s very vague. It’s probably not even corruption. Maybe cataclysm, or chaos, or crisis, or cruelty. Maybe it was a Cruel Angel Thesis, I don’t
know. You get the point. I hope you guys enjoyed this, although it
wasn’t that scary for being a Halloween special. I’ll see you guys in the one, until then,
peace out and hail Cthulhu. What. You still here? I don’t have jump scare, I believe in build
up.
