What is Diavolo? 

What are you talking about "no powerup" Him taking his shirt off was the powerup

You could have just said ''my waifu'' and ended the video there you know, no need to stretch it

"The biggest lie the Devil ever told, was to convince the world that he didn't exist" Sound like someone we know...?

I think Diavolo isn't actually the Devil, but is a metaphor for the Devil. Kinda like how Giorno isn't really Jesus, but is a Jesus like figure, being the son of Dio, which is literally God in Italian.

Diavolo being the devil is probably the most possible explanation. Araki described jojo as (very roughly) humanity vs evil. For example, Dio is the antagonist, because he rejected his humanity. So the devil is *clearly* not human and evil.

What is Diavolo? An Italian.

I love how the character is basically an evil version of the Holy Trinity (whether intentional or not) : 1. The Father ( Diavolo) 2.The Son (Doppio) 3. The Holy Spirit (King Crimson)

"Confusion... will be my epitaph..."

The second theory is my favourite. Doppio being possessed by a demon (not litteraly the devil though) has a lot of backing.

1:02 “fruitless endeavour” very punny, ocean man lol

Answer number 4. He's alternative universe Yugi. By attaining ancient Egypt artifact the crazy haired boy was possessed by the spirit of the pharaoh. Now he continues his life like any other boy but when he duels something strange Happen. His voice deepens he seems taller and more confident. It's like he's a completely different person

I spoiled myself for this video by listening to Gucci Cast

I think #3 can be explained by the need to protect the identity of the Boss. He speaks through King Crimson so that he doesn't reveal himself to the audience. After he is revealed in Rome, he doesn't use KC to speak, but rather does it for himself.

I'll do you a better one Why is Diavolo?

Here's my idea, Diavolo isn't the devil, he's the Antichrist. The Antichrist is prophesied to fight the son of God (giorno) for the fate of the world, which is exactly what Giorno and Diavolo do.

Explanation 2 is essentially the symbolic layering to explanation 3. That's how I like to see it

but what if king crimson is the devil?, like the name suggests I thonk good

An evil being that possesses and takes over other people's body is totaly possible in the jojoverse when we already have yokais, vampires and aliens. That also fits the themes of jojo as a whole, humanity vs evil. Explanation 2 has totaly convinced me

I personally think Explanation 2 is the true explanation. There is so much symbolism to support this. With all the points in the video, we can also add into the fact that Dio, which means God in Italian, sends out Giorno, the son of Dio (God) to banish Diavolo (the Devil). (Light spoilers below) I don't think this may be entirely relevant, but there's also the symbolism within the stairs that Polnareff had gone through. In Part 3, Polnareff was below the steps before Dio, which is God. In Part 5, We see Polnareff at the top of the stairs with Diavolo at the bottom, which is the Devil. It could be said that Polnareff had ascended to "godhood" or heaven (not the Heaven you know..), but another interpretation I like is that Polnareff never ascended or descended the stairs, but is instead in the same spot. It's just that Dio is still above him and Diavolo is below him, and that he his purpose will always remain the same - to guide someone towards victory, and forever serve, which is the Chariot tarot card that he has been destined with.

“So, this line implies that she just suddenly ballooned with a child, which is...” Me: “...BIZARRE??” “...Unusual?” Me: 💔

At least Doppio is in Heaven.

"stripping mafioso"

The stand I meant was Super Fly, not Fly High lmao

So we all just gonna forget Diavolo was literally just king crimson during the "Diavolo Emerges" arc when their sould were being swapped

Everyone is asking 'What is Diavolo?' but not asking 'How is Diavolo?'

Explanation 4: Diavolo is an absorb twin who's soul survive and takes over causing his body to manifest. in place of Doppio's.

Fun fact: King Crimson is a synonym for Beelzebub

Don't you hate it when you develop a second personality and suddenly became a mob boss?

I think the actual answer is #3, he is King Crimson. I'll say why but it's a spoiler for the anime. So you have been warned. At end when Gold Exp. Requiem appear, it is essentially a mirror of King Crimson if #3 is true. It's a stand that can think on its own, as it informs Diavolo that not even its master, Giorno is aware of it's full power yet, but it considers Giorno a partner, unlike Davolo, who only sees Doppio as an underling. Not to mention the one who beats the boss is essentially not Giorno, but GER. It's be pretty fitting and poetic, if a sentient stand who stands as a friend was the who defeated an evil stand who throw away it's owner.

Love how the background music is 21st Century Schizoid Man and Epitaph! Great vid!

Diavolo is ambiguous in more than one way

I believe doppio is the original personality suffers from DID. And diavolo is the split that took over. Its even states in the manga panel before the fight with nero that the " bosses personality comes out when doppios identiy is at risk of being found out".

So you finally made that Diavolo you and xforts have been talking about.

I think option 1 and option 3 are the most likely options. Option 3 is especially interesting to me. We know that Stands can have personalities of their own, and not necessarily one that is always advantageous to the user. Having a Stand having its own agenda is really interesting.

Dopio’s mother case kinda reminds me of the way Virgin Mary was the one chosen to be Jesus’ mother. Think about it, the mother’s belly grew randomly in less than a day, in the case of Virgin Mary, she conceived Jesus through the Holy Spirit while still a virgin. Both cases are bizarre IMO

Thoery 2 fits the most. Because in biblical lore, the devil's purpose is to deceive others to their demise. During part 5 so far, Diavolo deceived the main gang while they were delivering Trish, deceived Abacchio by turning in a kid, and deceiving Bruno by changing his aura. The devil could also change physically to any appearance to suit his need. The theory stacks up pretty well

What is Diavolo? Why, he's the best main villan of course

This video is fascinating

I think the third theory fits the best out of the three, thematically. Giorno is the son of DIO (God), and was born under anomalous circumstances like Doppio. However, Giorno's destiny shaped him into the Christ-like figure he would become. Just like how Doppio's dark fate would transform him into a diabolical figure. Both came from weird circumstances, but both in the end were became who they did because of the hands of fate. So I think three fits the most.

I honestly just prefer the idea that Diavolo and Doppio are just two separate souls.

I’m pretty sure it’s “explanation 1”, but hey, we will never know, that’s the beauty of Diavolo, the mistery. Keep up the good work! :) I like how you explained all the theories and not just the one that you believe the most.

*sees title* Dave Bautista: “I’ll do you one better why is diavolo”

It's a type of sauce. No wonder he's so saucy

I have a possible explanation for Doppio/Diavolo - instead of it being Demonic Posession, what if it was a Pillar Man invading his mother's body? We've seen they can slip into VERY tight spaces and even wear people like skinsuits. Both Santana and ACDC are shown to do this. It's even possible the Pillar Man slipped inside of Doppio's mother's womb and formed a fleshy human body around it from her own cells. Effectively impregnating her with itself, the human skinsuit effectively being born as Doppio and Diavolo being the Pillar Man's chosen name. We even see ACDC take control of Suzie Q and speak in his voice when doing so, and that's when he's just a brain.

He is my beloved manly Goth Queen

Maybe the father of Doppio is the Devil.

Technically Dio Brando didn’t get a power up before the final fight in Phantom Blood

I have a theory that his stand is so powerful that it became it’s own personality and can control the body. That shows why doppio sees king crimson when talking on the plane

Honestly, the Anime made Diavolo one of my favourites

Of course, now the question becomes; is the anime now MORE canon than the manga? Just having to ask that question says just how much David Productions are putting into this cartoon (I still like explanation 1 the best though, because it explains Epitaph better)

Technically Giorno did put Diavolo in hell after killing him

I'll take explanation 3. The idea of an evil Stand that's so sentient it can accurately be a human real is interesting.

I thought the second explanation was the weirdest, but the more you talked about it the more I felt LITERAL chills down my spine. Now I'm fucking terrified and love the second theory

I think Araki was going for basically a fusion of #1 and #3, with Doppio having DPD, and after gaining his stand, his alternate personality manifesting as King Crimson. The idea was to have it parallel religious iconography, what with "Diavolo" and Giorno being the son of "Dio". But DP wanted to more heavily lean into #2, because they convey the story from a slightly different perspective, due to the change in medium.

I'm still onto explanation one. I think Diavolo is a split personality that after living in Doppio's body for a while he gained an identity and a soul of its own, similarly to Foo Fighters in part 6. Not to mention with how many psychological problems he has (Diavolo is paranoid and Doppio is schizophrenic and bipolar) has, also having multiple personalities is not surprising at all.

Everyone keeps asking "how is Diavolo", but no one asks "Where is Diavolo?"

Diavolo is the And that’s why he’s the best villain

Honestly explanation 2 has been my go to even before the anime. Diavolo's unnatural birth both reminds me of a virgin Mary situation and horror movies like the omen. Plus the fact that he and Doppio have separate souls to the point that they can exist in different bodies. That's definetly something more than a mere personality disorder.

I think Diavolo is his own father, and Doppio the actual child. I really don't know about how the "Vinegar Doppio" persona plays out in the real world, but we do know he was known as "Diavolo" in the village records themselves.

Legend says Diavolo was born with an N word pass

My theory is that king crimson was originally the stand of doppio's father, which was a post mortum stand that would possess the next person in the bloodline. Doppio developed eulogy, which fused with the much stronger king crimson to create the time erasure. That's why trish got possessed by diavolo when doppio died and why diavolo talks to doppio like a child.

What is Diavolo? A miserable little pile of secrets!

[Spoil Crackpot theory] What if stands are just spirits like devils and the other beings that get transferred by silver chariot are angles

*Video:* What is Diavol- *Me:* Hot

So Dio(god) impregnated a woman and made giorno(jesus) SO the devil made a baby (doppio) and possesed the kid(Diavolo)? Is what im getting from this

Also, in support of theory #2, the noises when Doppio's eyes shift are really interesting. Some unholy screeching and raspy noises. Just something I thought might support the theory, especially since we've never heard something like that before in JoJo... Completely unique to Diavolo.

I think it's a mix of the 3... Doppio had darkness in him since his born, which can be the devil. Once he got the Stand Arrow & received a stand, the stand actually got to be the Devil's, who had no actual body to use.

have you ever thought about diavolo being like a "parasite" personality more than a split personality? i'll only say to check what happened when scr swapped everyone's souls (spoiler ahead) also notice that when doppio died, diavolo hasn't

#3 would very cool and have a lot of potencial, but Diavolo talking mostly with KC could be simply explained by his secretive personality and the fact that Doppio probably dont know much more on Diavolo than the main cast but seems to be familiar with King Crimson. #2 Is the best explanation, not only because it explain his birth, but because it reinforce the duality with DIO (a topic that nobody discuss a lot by the way): both would be supernatural beings in a human's body gathering a lot of human minions for their own profit, being close to only one person (Doppio/Pucci), and having for ultimate goal to transform humanity, DIO want it to achieve heaven, and Diavolo (this is my own theory about King Crimson Requiem) want it to lost foresight ability, and so fall into a sort of "hell"

To me Diavolo is just the "real" Doppio. When Doppio grew too paranoid and ambitious, he split his personality to protect his growth as Diavolo. "But there's two souls" well this is JoJo's and the line between soul and personality is pretty thin. Also with Araki drawing all the antagonists, Doppio was the only one present from the two, so to me that just shows that there's actually no difference between the two. It's just our Doppio.

my take on it is that both 1 and 3 are true. we know that people with DID tend to manifest a more forward, aggressive personality while being more meek in their original state- doppio and diavolo’s dynamic lines up well with a textbook case of DID with some araki exaggeration. we know that personality splits generally occur in the developmental years and that doppio had fully manifested diavolo by his teenage years. we also know that his daughter, trish, starts naturally developing her own stand at age 15, so it’s plausible that this is around when doppio did the same. however, diavolo serves not just as doppio’s split personality, but also his stand. after all, stands are the user’s fighting spirit and both consciously and subconsciously protect the user- much like how a split personality tends to “protect” the person afflicted with DID. in the jojoverse, it seems totally plausible to me that those with stand potential who develop DID would have their secondary personality BE their stand because of this. diavolo being king crimson also makes a lot of sense because this is how his soul and identity are consistently represented and also because of a small but important detail thats consistent between the manga and anime- diavolo’s eyes. they have the exact same design as king crimson’s- no pupils, an almost “fractured” look, and a triangle that mirrors whatever direction he’s facing. this being a hint toward diavolo being king crimson is compounded by the fact that when bruno occupies diavolo’s body, his eyes suddenly become perfectly normal in shape and design. also, the “crimson king” was originally an epithet for the devil... or, il diavolo. because of all this, i believe that diavolo is a combination of a stand and doppio’s DID manifesting simultaneously and therefore being “combined”

I feel as if each continuity of manga and anime could have different interpretations to them. The manga would still have more ties to explanation #1 and the anime would have more ties to explanation #2.

Ah, I love Diavolo so much, It's really interesting to see so many different concepts about his character, all the explanations make sense and I really enjoyed hearing them. Even if there's no definitive anwser to who or what Diavolo is, it's still very fun to talk about it.But as for the third explanation, the thing with Diavolo using King Crimson to talk is mostly functional, becase as Shadow Diavolo, King Crimson was used for the readers/viewers to see Diavolo's emotions and expressions, because we can't really see them the pitch black face. And as his soul in Chariot Reqiuem is presented as King Crimson, it might be simply used just to show us, that there's Diavolo, because he can't really use his body or any other, if we saw two Diavolo's I think it would've been confusing for the readers to distinct Diavolo and Bucciarati in Diavolo's body. And then, probably we would've seen King Crimson in the infinite death loop, because it probably wasn't Diavolo's physical body, as he would teleporting all over the world, and as GER can manipulate souls, it's pretty much for sure just Diavolo's soul suffering.

*EPISODE 36 SPOILER ALERT* Episode 36 literally confirmed theory 3, and adds some relation to theory 2. Diavolo is indeed King Crimson, and King Crimson is a demon who possesed a boy (Doppio). It answered so many questions!

I personally think that doppio’s stand is epitaph and because his separate personality is so strong it gained its own stand (aka king crimson) and when doppio transforms into diavolo I think that is both of the personalities merging to create a separate being (with their stands merging aswell). As for the explanation as to why ‘separate personality’ told doppio that he has given him part of is power and so on, well I think that ‘separate personality’ constantly lies to doppio in order to secure his superiority or just because he knows doppio won’t be able to understand. And also as for the explanation as to why doppio picks up random objects as phones, well I think this is the only way the two personalities can converse with each other because doppio is too dim witted to realise that he actually has two personalities. For doppio he thinks he is just speaking to his boss when in actual fact he’s speaking to his evil self.

I believe that Doppio developed MPD early on, but after his darker personality stabbed itself with King Crimson, it caused such a division within that changed the split personalities; turning the darker personality into its own whole identity which was dominant over Doppio. This is why King Crimson is the dominant whole of the stand - whereas Epitaph is just a small face within King Crimson.

Me: "The devil? Come one, you can't be serious. I mean, Araki's always flirted with religious symbols, but he'd never actually-" *Remembers Part 7* *Sweat*

21st Century Schizoid Man playing while you talk about Diavolo is the best

I was considering making a D&D villain based on Doppio/Diavolo, and your second theory is a perfect inspiration.

I used to think that he just suffered from dissociative identity disorder (with the drastic physical changes just due to araki being araki), but after the anime adaptation, I thought that maybe Doppio/diavolo was born with two souls to begin with, hence the baby’s different eye colours. And that diavolo just happened to be the “dominant” soul that has more control over the body? I still can’t really explain the “She wasn’t this big this morning” though.

JoJo started with two brothers fighting over inheritance, and now we’re watching the son of god fight a male stripper with dissociative identity disorder.

My personal theory is that Diavolo has had his stand since before he was even born. The reason his mother suddenly got very pregnant was that Diavolo, while still in her womb, used King Crimson to "erase" his own time, leading him to either revert to being a fetus, or simply ceasing to exist for a time. When King Crimson's power finally released, Diavolo reappeared in her womb, leading to the sudden pregnancy and labor. As for Doppio, Doppio is simply what happens when Diavolo "erases" his own time to hide. It reverts him back to how he was before he became aware of his stand. You can also see this when Diavolo disguises himself as a child right before killing Abbacchio. It is all just an application of King Crimson's ability to erase time.

I love your video man...the third theory is amazing and comes to a perfect circle based on the information we got from the manga and the anime together

Great video about my fav character. I appreciate the effort explaining such a peculiar pg.

I predicted the time when you upload so I comment early! (Now with proofreading)

I was waiting for this video from the moment you talked about it in Gucci Cast

my personal theory is that the identity of diavolo is somewhat linked to the concept of the arrow. what made me think of this is the pattern in his eyes, with a triangle "piercing" the center of the eye. so i had this thought that what the arrow does essentially is create a second being out of your original self - as you said, pleasant or not. it's even made very clear when you see that a requiem stand becomes a being of it's own, independant. i think the different leads presented in the show all point to something we could maybe agree on, and it is that diavolo is a supernatural being - his birth, the pattern in his eyes, his phenomenal presence and aura, etc. so my theory is that in terms of writing diavolo was written like "what if we applied the concept of the arrow to a human who was born that way". i see doppio as the "original" being who's being parasyted/posessed by this entity which awoke in him - demon like in the second possibility of the video, maybe some kind of alien like we got in part 4, or even some ancient energies linked to the pillar men and/or the arrow ; or maybe even a bit of all of this. the cool part is it's compatible with the theories depicted in your video, since in fact diavolo could also be the physical manifestation of king crimson, and that maybe doppio was born with them both, as the son of a human mother and a demonic creature like the pillar men, who we can link to the arrow and the "ancient civilizations and ancient evils" theme running through the whole series.

Love how The Court of Crimson King instrumental is playing in the background

Pretty hot tbh

Being completely honest, I believe it is all three. The symbolism and the way reality bends within part 5 makes for a great number of abstract concepts, the biggest one being the duality between Giorno and Diavolo, understanding the mind of Araki in this part of Jojo is the hardest and sometimes the themes even get blurry. My idea is that Araki wanted to express darkness in its purest form, where it has no name or origin, avoiding the past and living within itself to the end of time, consuming all that is in front of it. Diavolo was represented with the image of anger and merciless strenght, while Doppio is the image of sentimentalism, innocence and sometimes loneliness, bonded only by the pain and rejection of the past. Thinking about the religious symbolism it all comes clear that Giorno, being the rightful avenger and creator of life, defeats not only the terrible evil of the devil, but also the resentment and pain within Doppio, freeing him from the suffering of he's own life. King Crimson and Epitaph might be the biggest symbols here, showing us not only the mind state of Doppio and Diavolo, but also the themes that Araki worked to represent. King Crimson being a band of abstract art, and Epitaph being posibly their darkest and saddest song. King Crimson being both the Devil and Diavolo, and Epitaph being fear, innocence, loneliness, pain, ignorance, necessity, and Doppio at the mercy of he's own mind.

The third theory seems really cool. We've been told that personalities manifest into stands so it will be pretty cool to see one exception where it's a rouge stand manifesting a personality.

Nice touch with the music in the background at the start

Everybody asks "What is Diavolo?" Not "How is Diavolo?"

Diavolo is hot. That is what diavolo is. Hot.

All explanations are interesting and reasonable. Before anime I too thought the 1st version was the right one, but now I prefer 3rd explanation. I though it qas just Dioavolo's quirk that he mostle expresses himself through his stand. But I like the idea that the stand can not only harm the user (like Cheap Trick) but even overtake his whole body and mind. Thanks for your video, it was gureto!

Great video, been waiting for this since you mentioned it on Gucci cast

Imagine if Diavolo got King Crimson Requiem. He'd be unstoppable and might even tango with Heaven Dio.

Most others I see: Diavolo came from Doppio's anger Me: Doppio came from Diavolo's cowardice

I think Doppio's birth is more symbolic rather than literal. Diavolo was also there before he got King Crimson which was shown by what happened in his own past.

Explanation 3 has been basically my head canon for years and it shouldnt need to be more complex or simple than that