What if Dio Survived as Joseph Joestar? 

Imagine DIO saying OHHHH NOOOO! like Joseph!

Jotaro after being trolled: "For God's sake, gramps! Avdol, Iggy and Kakyoin just died! HAVE A BIT OF SERIOUSNESS!!!!" Joseph: "Seriousness? Listen, kid. You are talking with a guy that, with your age, killed a vampire and four fitness Aztec Gods with the help of a nazi-cyborg, an italian who used bubbles as a weapon and a hot chick who turned out to be his mom after watching her bathing. Seriousness doesn't exist in my vocabulary."

Love to picture Pucci getting a text (or an email I guess) from Dio that's just like "would you still love me if I looked 68 specifically"

Caesar watching from Heaven how Joseph trolls his grandkid just after being resurrected: "Could someone explain to me why I sacrificed my last reserve of energy for this idiot?!"

"You thought you'd face DIO again, but it was me, JOSEPH"

Joseph: "Come on, Jotaro! It was just a prank! You cannot deny it was funny!" Jotaro: "Wanna hear sonmthing funny? I just got a call from a woman you met years ago in the city of Morioh. She told me her child is recovering from a mysterious disease similar to the one Mom had" Joseph: "Sh*t..."

Imagine almost dying, and your first idea when waking up is to troll your grandson. Fycking madlad.

Love how part 3 shows for most of its duration a mature and reasonable old Joseph, depicting him as a different person from the happy-go-lucky young idiot from part 2. Then BAM, Joseph suddenly behaves like a happy-go-lucky idiot in the last episode, showing us that that the cocky youngster who defeated four Aztec vampires never completely disappeared 🥲

The one counterpoint to everyone universally thinking dio couldnt impersonate joseph is dio spent like 8 years pretending to be Jonathan's best friend, Jonathan could still tell there was something wrong and i think jotaro could too but people have very little faith in dio. Id also think possibly josephs body could send out a similar distress signal, especially since he has his full head and brain

simple plan for Dio to defeat Jotaro in this situation: - ask Holly if you can sleep over for the next month while you recover - kiss Jotaro's forehead every night and say "good night sweet prince" - eventually Jotaro will become desensitised, so in one of the last couple days of the month, smack his head with a shovel instead of kissing him; since his guard was down, he'll die.

DIO: "Ah. Wait, what happened to The World?" *Summons Green Green Grass of Home* DIO: "...What the fu-"

Speaking of vampiric Joestars, there's actually an amazing fan-manga called "Until We Eternally Rest" in which Dio turns JoJo into a vampire with the Stone Mask, and despite of that monstruos transformation and all the suffering it makes him feel, he never stops being a pure innocent being. 😢

I wonder how he would react to being able to safely feel sunlight for the first time in over a century.

I believe that DIO would never be able to act like Joseph, he is way too cocky and like you said "vampirism makes you think that you are untouchable". so he will probably just blow his cover and get killed in the ambulance or just outside of it (edit, I just finished the vid and you already said it sooo yeah)

Poor Jonathan. Just when he thought his soul could finally rest, his nemesis took posession of his 70-year old grandson. Damn DIO. 😅

You know, this would be a great premise for another Stardust Crusaders OVA movie with Jotaro going solo this time and potentially unlocking a new ability. Maybe he learns how to use Hamon, extends his Time Stop duration, get a completely new ability, or all of the above.

this would be just another episode of kosaku kowujiri episode, like when kira took over someones life, but the stakes are high on this one

Overall a bit of a reach tbh, we know that being a vampire can physically change even master hamon users like Straizo. In the measure that Joseph is dead, Dio taking over his body through his blood fully would just be instantly very obvious. Holy would also probably still be ill. I think it would be harder for Jotaro to fight his grandpa’s body than his estranged great great grandpa’s, but he’d still fold him to save Holy, and avenge the other crusaders. Also, it’s a bit convoluted to assume he’d become a normal person again, when his vampiric blood would be the only thing allowing him to survive in Joseph’s body anyways. If the vampiric blood gets neutralized, he just fades away and dies-- just like he did in canon, pretty much. Idk, not your hardest hitter, tbh.

A Josuke swap would be a cool 2 part video, Gappy in DiU and Josuke in Jojolion

I think DIO would wait at the hospital until Jotaro left to investigate his mansion, and tell the Speedwagon foundation he needs to go alone to America to wait for his wife (he would first ask them if she's home), then he would go on his own to reunite with Pucci and accelerate as much as possible the heaven plan, since that would also allow him to travel back time by resetting the universe and become a vampire once again

here's how i think Part4 would change. Jotaro would stay MUCH closer to Josuke, basically becoming a surrogate father for Josuke, he teaches him new techniques, unique things he could do with his stand, etc. this would make Josuke a better fighter but also closer to how Joseph fights in Part2

Honestly I really didn't like that Joseph survived part 3... He had a nice sendoff, one last conversation with Jotaro as a spirit, a bit of advice. And part 3 ending would be much more impactful showing that going after Dio had a huge cost and repercussions. Holly and Suzie Q would find out about everything, that would've been interesting to see as well since they were mostly left out. Of course this would change part 4 significantly, but I feel like this scenario has potential as well. And Joseph doesn't play a huge role in it anyway. I wouldn't prefer Dio surviving in Joseph's body at all, but I would've preffered to see Joseph die at the end of part 3

I always thought that maybe Joseph is more likely to become a vampire than just becoming DIO since that is also how Vanilla ice became one, even with the Hamon thing because how would DIO be able to drink Joseph's Hamon infused Blood if it hadn't dissipated in the time it took for them to circle back to his body? Edit: I'd think that Joseph would try and find a way to make a fake copy of his corpse and have it be blown away like the real deal would under the sun, then he'd keep himself in his part 3 physique until he uses his(Joseph's) connections to regroup with Pucci and continue with the Heaven plan. I know he engraved the 14 words on The World but if they ever still need the diary then Josuke would also be at risk, since the other option was Jotaro, and Dio of all people would know that would be better as a last resort, so all they have to do is to get this other young Joestar to repair the diary, and continue their plan as early as when Part 5 rolls around

THANK YOU KALEB (i posted that)😂godbless you my dude

I'm hyped for a part 2! 😁 Honestly this is a pretty interesting and comedic idea at the same time

Another W video as usual 😮‍💨🤝🏿

As established in GoldenWind, he would still have The World as his stand not hermit purple as seen in the manga/show But yeah would be nuts

I feel the best thing he could do would be to try and find Gorno early on essentially raising him to do what he couldnt and hope his stand can beat Star Platinum while still keeping the heaven plan as the trump card.

3:20 dio,jonathan,jotaro and joseph are all the same height lmao

Ngl I’d love the idea of Joseph and Dio sharing a body

How strong would be Jotaro if he didn't take a break

I just imagine Jotaro reaching DIOSEPH with a 20 minutes timestop after having to defeat 700 generic stand users on his way 😭

If Jotaro travels with Polnareff, DIO is 100% without a doubt, cooked. Jotaro and Polnareff go to Italy, Diavolo gets his shit fucked up by Jotaro. If Polnareff lives and travels with Jotaro, things are just easier. Same thing happens to Kira, he gets his shit fucked up but isn't able to escape and switch with Kosaku, when there's an extra ally fighting with them. Eventually when Jotaro does kill DIO again and if he hasn't started the heaven plan as soon as possible, then Pucci is cooked. If he does the same thing as setting up Jolyne, hes gonna have to fight Jotaro, and Polnareff breaking Jolyne out of prison and any plus one Jotaro has would drastically change how that part goes completely. Putting it short, Pucci dies quickly, no heaven plan is initiated.

Thank you Kaleb very cool.

Would Dio have Josephs knowledge from using his brain? If so the idea of him learning about Santana and recruiting him sounds really cool to me. He could break him out using his stand or having someone else fit for the job do it. Then he could give Santana a stand. Pucci could find one that works in tandem with the pillarman abilities too. That'd be a scary ally, and with Joseph gone the only one with hamon that could keep Santana in check would be Dio.

A part 2 to this video would be awesome

This scenario is some crazy scenario and yet it's very interesting !

What if that first PillarMan, Santiago came back and turned good?

Great video but also shout out to the spicy thumbnail

Well that'd be a weird family reunion for Josuke

if dio couldnt be vampire anymore on joseph joestar body he could tell speedwagon foundation that he needed a stone mask to anaylse the source of it(scummy excuse) then use it boom you get young joseph with part 1 dio abilities.

Love the vid Kaleb, sent you email btw.

what if Kaleb I.A. rejected his humanity would Jobber Joestar stop him?

Time stop + star finger + ora ora ora

Don't you think Dio would have Joseph's memories and would be able to see everything he knows about the Red Stone of Aja? Maybe he could retrieve it and try to make a mask like the one Kars used and then do the Heaven Plan

would love to see a video about if jotaro and polnareff switched and jotaro caught diavalo instead of polnareff

Dio while in Joseph’s body he would still have hermit purple and hamon, since when he had Jonathan’s body he used Jonathan’s version of hermit while having the world at the time when he was trying to implant a flesh on one of the crusaders. (The World, Hamon and hermit sounds like a scary thing to go against)

7th year of asking for a what if video on Magician's Red Requiem. I will NOT give up.

“you thought I was simply your grandfather! BUT IT WAS ME! DIO!”

Alright yeah, I wanna see a continuation of this as a stream or something

Unless i m understanding something wrong, you can be a vampire while knowing hamon (dire straight) you just cant use it.

Honestly, I think one thing that would really let Jotaro go toe to toe, or even surpass, the new enemies and Dio would be the fact that he has discovered/developed his own Time Stop ability now. He would probably just steamroll over the new enemy stand users, and be able to go toe to toe with Dio much better.

DIO would be caught the moment he tries to say "OH MY GOD" and instead yells "OH MY ME".

Good topic

I could see Dio looking for the arrowheads, the gem, and the mask. That or trying to to get Kar's body so he could absorb it, while he's frozen, and his minds panicking.

i'd like a larger scale of this idea

If that happens would DIO have a british accent. Jospeh speaking in a british accent would be funny.

I wanna hear about a story where Dio loses his plan as he becomes joseph He tries to be joseph, and he is dio as an hidden alter ego he recovers his will partialy, in the form that he qanted to make the human land more safe he uses hermit purple and goes on an adventure with a team of atand users, to stop the baddies Hamon and the vampire essence weaken each other. So dio has weak last resort level vampire powers, and no hamon So he has no significant way to deage and stay young He has a challenging body, hermit purple, some traces of Joseph's genius, and U guess the world as well, but in a new form

Considering Holly and Josuke were sick due to DIO's curse, if DIO did in fact survive as Joseph, wouldn't they both succumb to it and die within a few days? Man Jotaro would be wrecked beyond all belief.

Honestly I’m interested to see what could’ve happened (even if it barely changes things)

Imagine DIO having to go through his own Kosaku Kawajiri arc, but it's Joseph Joestar...

Imagine Dio running around in a vampirized younger version of Joseph after using the stone mask. Would be a crazy villain.

OH MY GOOOOOD from dio would be a giggle

The more understandable is dios blood may have made joseph slightly vampiric

Tell me why tf Jotaro looks more like a 17 year old in the part 3 flashback in stone ocean than he ever did in actual part 3

Now i need a spinoff with dio pretending to be joseph for years, having no stand, powers nor any coherent escape plans so he pretends to be jotaros grandpa which, you know, dio being dio, a polar opposite of joseph on everything would be funny as hell

After thinking about it I figured Joseph should have been revived as a vampire the way Vanilla Ice was. Maybe it didn't happen that way since DIO had a bunch of Joseph's blood in him but I would have liked to see vampire Joseph in future parts, that could have been fun.

I think dio taking back the part of his body that wasnt destroyed would be hilarious because of the difference in build

I guess if he did come back the way Joseph played it, he would be dead.

Recall dio had agents throughout

i mean, Dio literally had 2 stands, its only showed once but he also have a kind of hermit purple

You should do a what if Johnathan took control of his body after dio took it in part 2

I love to imagine a hypothetical part 4 where Josuke main antagonist is Dio in Joseph's body but he is a vampire from the blood he received so it's Dio in young joseph body against Josuke and Jotaro fit as the mentor as he already is in part 4

8:50 imagine Dio going after Diavolo and Kira to recruit them, only for it to turn into a fight, with him having to kill them both and ridding the world of them. Ironic? Hilarious? Hilarious

“Where did my meat go?”

A wise man once said: "OH MY GOD!!!"

Just imagine if Joseph's consciousness is still in the body while DIO is in control? In a sense this sorta reminds me of Sukuna for some weird reason.

My fav season❤

FINALLY

I love this theory

Joseph saying wwwrrrryyy would be hilarious

W video

I like to think Joseph's body just purified the blood. Hamon is a vampires kryptonite after all

That would have been cool. Dio hopping from joestar to joestar when they get old until he can fully strike again, or maybe he just doesn't and escapes into silence more akin to his personality of Part 6. Maybe he pulls some minor strings here and there idk it would have been interesting to see how he reacted to the many parts of the series, knowing the Joestars aren't just.. "anything" he can just mess with, maybe he helps Pucci and makes it to the next world, isn't that what he always wanted? in that way he would have won by doing nothing and being lowkey which would have been so much more interesting and harder for him rather than just punching by force. What do you think? That would have been all the vengeance he needed. Ahhh Jojo.... never overachieve when you can always just do what's expected. Honestly I'll take that idea for myself lol.

I think the reduction of crusaders could be a boon to jotaro, he has high experience working with polnareff and if they're attached to the hip they're almost unbeatable

Joseph (Dio) : OH SHIITTTT *throws a road roller*

I could see a scenario where Hole Horse, Polnareff, Oingo and Boingo team up with Jotaro to take out DIO for good in case he decides and succeeds to take over Joseph's body.

Quick question: Wouldn't Giorno technically be part vampire, even if it's a small amount?

i would love to hear Matt Mercer's jotaro say "G what's goin on why you trippin"

If this did happen if not the heaven plan then Dio might try to find his children since they were powerful stand users in their own right. Also Araki did say Dio would raise his sons right.

i feel like you REALLY underestimate how easy it'd be to just bonk jotaro on the head while he isn't looking

08:50-09:15. Flesh Buds? Zombification?

Considering Vanilla Ice didn't fully turn into s vampire post-resurrection via Dio blood until after Polnareff mortally wounded him, would it actually be plausible for Joseph to turn into a vampire once he actually dies eventually?

No way would Dio continue existing as Joseph. He’d be found out immediately by Jotaro even if he tried to hide it. Jotaro wouldn’t even need to employ the “Weird Al test” to discover it was Dio.

What if Joseph's body starts sending a signal. Holly would die, and there would be no part 4.

I imagine DIO being in Joseph's body the same thing as Diavolo possessing the gang members in Part 5. Joseph's consciousness would be in his body and he still would be controlling, but, unwittingly housing DIO's soul inside of him.

Jotaro is pretty good at investigation (as seen in Part 4), so I imagine he'd go to the hospital where Hol Horse is being kept if Dio got away in Joseph's body to try and interrogate Hol Horse for information on Dio. Hol Horse likely wouldn't have anything to say on the matter, but it's also pretty likely that Boingo would be there too (and if not Hol Horse could bring up the existence of Boingo as someone who could potentially help). With Thoth, finding Dio isn't guaranteed, but it would give Jotaro a glimpse into the future which could hold some very useful clues as to Dio's whereabouts. I think this is a very possible and useful path for Jotaro to take, and it fits with Araki's style of writing.

later on part 4 jotaro would receives a call that joseph is acting strange and he has to check on him/alternative is while they're fighting mostly DIu villains he gets pierced by atoms father arrow. sptw vs vampiric with 200 iq unknown stand.. would that be onesided?

If Dio did escape from Jotaro and hid away with Joseph's body, I would see it going like this; Jotaro is going to be tunnel visioned on finding and stopping Dio which means he would not go to Morioh, so it's part 4 without Jotaro which isn't going to end well. Part 5 is going to be pretty much the exact same unless Polneraff never goes to Italy, instead sticking by Jotaro OR if Dio and Pucci attempt to recruit Giorno. Throughout this constant searching, Jotaro would not feel safe enough to settle down to have Jolyne. At this point, Jotaro would not have the Morioh warriors, anyone from Golden Wind, or the Stone Ocean cast (besides maybe Weather Report) that he could call for back-up. Dio and Pucci would likely go along with their plan to achieve heaven and knowing how intelligent Pucci is they would most likely pull something similar to the first of Stone Ocean where Jotaro gets clapped by White Snake. On the other hand, I don't think Jotaro would sacrifice himself to save Polneraff (like what he did to stop Jolyne from getting shot) because Polneraff would rather die with Dio being killed as well, pretty much doing what Anasui did at the end with Pucci. TLDR; Either Dio would win or in the end Jotaro would have no one left

That would mess me up since my Goat would be dead.