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a cartoon duck posted:Mostly though it's that Star Platinum would be the world's most Stand if it didn't have sudden time stopping powers. Gonna assume you meant world's worst stand there? Star Platinum just being insanely strong, fast and precise hold up pretty well as a power in part three though because most stands just have one utility. There's a bit of power creep later on though where lots of stands are strong AND have an additional power, so compared to them vanilla Star Platinum would be pretty awful. Its kind of disappointing that in a series where unorthodox solutions to beat powerful stands are a big part of the entertainment value that the way Jotaro beats TIME STOP is just to spontaneously develop that power himself. Araki gets better with solving unbeatable powers by part 6, Jolyne turning herself into a mobius strip to survive pucci's stand is my favourite trick anyone has pulled in Jojo's, ever. It was really great in a story so heavy with utterly bullshit stand powers that Jolyne was just crazy inventive with her power of turning into string. I'm glad Araki reset the entire universe to dial everyone back a bit, all the stands in SBR and Jojolion have been relatively restrained, even D4C had a bunch of drawbacks and needed to have Jesus' corpse to become super powerful.
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Err, yeah, I meant Star Platinum is the world's most boring stand, what with its power being punching really fast, a power that's already shared by many Stands even in Part 3. Hell, being the fastest melee stand was already kinda Silver Chariot's thing. It's just kinda jarring to read through progressively crazier stands and then look back to Star Platinum.
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DICKS FOR DINNER posted:Actually, this is explained as Jonathan's body developing a stand with the same utility as Hermit Purple. It doesn't really come up again, but it does give Dio and Joseph awareness of when the other one is watching them. I don't think they ever show him using it other than right before everyone boards the plane with Tower of Gray on it, though.
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Spacedad posted:Dio suddenly not using almost any of his crazy vampire powers and the hamon not really coming up hardly ever in part 3 is one of those quirks of the series, really. There's other stuff like Dio's mysterious ability to see and communicate through the hermet purple's precognition being used upon him, suggesting stuff about bigger and broader psychic powers instead of very specific stand use. Eh, I never had a problem with DIO ditching his vampire powers. Why'd you even need to shoot eyebeams when you can just stop time and have your magic ghost punch a hole in somebody instead?
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a cartoon duck posted:Err, yeah, I meant Star Platinum is the world's most boring stand, what with its power being punching really fast, a power that's already shared by many Stands even in Part 3. Hell, being the fastest melee stand was already kinda Silver Chariot's thing. It's just kinda jarring to read through progressively crazier stands and then look back to Star Platinum.
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Apr 16, 2013 08:31
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Cerebral Bore posted:Eh, I never had a problem with DIO ditching his vampire powers. Why'd you even need to shoot eyebeams when you can just stop time and have your magic ghost punch a hole in somebody instead? To make sure someone is dead without having to risk going into the range of their punchy magic ghost? 
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Star Platinum posted:To make sure someone is dead without having to risk going into the range of their punchy magic ghost? That's why you have knives, for what good it did DIO.
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Cerebral Bore posted:That's why you have knives
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Apr 16, 2013 21:13
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Soulcleaver posted:Or stop signs. Or road rollers.
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Apr 16, 2013 21:21
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Waffleman_ posted:Or road rollers. Or pantsless henchmen.
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Apr 16, 2013 21:35
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space ripper stingy eyes probably hurts a lot to use
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Apr 16, 2013 22:04
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Relin posted:space ripper stingy eyes probably hurts a lot to use Actually I think that it's just a kinda crummy attack when you get down to it. I mean, Joseph figured out a way to beat it with just a couple of shot glasses, so Star Platinum would have no problems with deflecting it.
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Cerebral Bore posted:Actually I think that it's just a kinda crummy attack when you get down to it. I mean, Joseph figured out a way to beat it with just a couple of shot glasses, so Star Platinum would have no problems with deflecting it. Jotaro would have had four hands to hold shot glasses with--the attack is basically suicide!
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Apr 16, 2013 22:27
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Raku posted:Jotaro would have had four hands to hold shot glasses with--the attack is basically suicide! Jotaro is the king of drinking games.
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Kaiser Mazoku posted:Jotaro is the king of drinking games. "What are you gonna do? DRINK THE SHOT, D'ARBY!"
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Kaiser Mazoku posted:Jotaro is the king of drinking games. I could see Jotaro winning all the drinking games at uni. He'd just line up them shots and ORAORAORA's them all down in no time. On the flipside, nobody was willing to play beer pong with him anymore after that time when he knocked the ball through the table.
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Apr 16, 2013 22:40
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I'm currently on part 4, and want to know if anyone ever tried to build a dog death tally throughout the series. Really, in part 3 they randomly put a dog besides kayoin only to kill it on the next panel!
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nerdz posted:I'm currently on part 4, and want to know if anyone ever tried to build a dog death tally throughout the series. Really, in part 3 they randomly put a dog besides kayoin only to kill it on the next panel! I think the go-to theory is that Araki secretly just really hates all animals, but particularly dogs.
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Apr 17, 2013 22:22
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Maremidon posted:I think the go-to theory is that Araki secretly just really hates all animals, but particularly dogs. Immortals have no need for lower forms of life.
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mikeycp posted:Immortals have no need for lower forms of life. So what dose he have against Italians?
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dbzfandiego posted:So what dose he have against Italians? ITALIANS: Useless. The lower the lifeform, the higher the pasta production, as they need to continue their race. However, the Ultimate Being has no need for pasta. There is but one lunch.
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I think that food-based stand from part 4 was one of my favorites. Was it Pearl Jam? I always wanted to see a stand that could translate any language. I'd call it Flaming Lips. Actually, what bands/songs/albums would make cool stands? I've got a list half a mile long from a failed college project a million years ago but I'd love to hear other people's ideas so I don't sound like I'm the world's largest JoJo sperg.
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Apr 18, 2013 16:31
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Like, 90% of the songs off Born This Way.
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The Muffinlord posted:Actually, what bands/songs/albums would make cool stands? I've got a list half a mile long from a failed college project a million years ago but I'd love to hear other people's ideas so I don't sound like I'm the world's largest JoJo sperg. Godspeed You Black Emperor
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The Muffinlord posted:Actually, what bands/songs/albums would make cool stands? I've got a list half a mile long from a failed college project a million years ago but I'd love to hear other people's ideas so I don't sound like I'm the world's largest JoJo sperg. Anything Daft Punk, especially Harder Better Faster Stronger (which could have the cool acronym HBFS).
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Bro Enlai posted:Godspeed You Black Emperor I had actually used Black Emperor, which was a stand that allowed its user to move at incredible speed, but didn't give him accelerated perception to match. I got the idea from the tiger beetle, which lunges at prey with enough speed that its nervous system can't keep up. I also had Whitestripes, who had the ability to control any vehicle remotely with his mind.
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Waffleman_ posted:Anything Daft Punk, especially Harder Better Faster Stronger (which could have the cool acronym HBFS). could have been a stand of four dudes specializing in defense, trickery, speed and attack.
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I'd make my own Jojo ripoff comic with stands named after musicians but the copyright gestapo would never let me.
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Apr 18, 2013 18:49
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My friend promised me if he ever had a stand it would be Space Jam.
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Soulcleaver posted:I'd make my own Jojo ripoff comic with stands named after musicians but the copyright gestapo would never let me. That's kind of what we're doing here Dogbutt posted:My friend promised me if he ever had astand it would be Space Jam. I can see it now, a tall short-range stand with control over the user's personal gravity field. ...I think I'm going to have to do some sketching when I get home. The Muffinlord fucked around with this message at 18:54 on Apr 18, 2013 |
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Oingo Boingo - Little Girls Effect: You cant stop watching moeblob anime
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Dogbutt posted:My friend promised me if he ever had a stand it would be Space Jam. I thought Space Oddity could be a stand that was a big astronaut suit with galaxy space effects leaking out of where the glass on the helmet should be. It would turn the area around it into space - cold, pressureless and with no gravity - and the user could wear it in order to survive or use it to fight like a regular stand. Never really 100% sold on the name, but I ended up doodling some astronauts in silly poses because I liked the idea. Other neat stand names would be The Chain which would be pretty similar to Stone Free but with chains. Just looking through my music now, The Big Money, Green World, Electric Nation, Visiting Statue, King of the Streets, DARE - a lot of song names transition pretty well into Stands, they just need a kind of neat sounding noun or even just a phrase. I hope eventually one of the songs used in the anime becomes a stand, that'd be a nice little self-referential nod. Like calling a stand Roundabout or something.
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Dogbutt posted:My friend promised me if he ever had a stand it would be Space Jam. So it's gonna be a Stand that can combine with any other Stand to make it even better?
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Justin Beiber, Baby - Stand turns user into a baby. You cant attack the baby, because what the gently caress, why would you punch a baby. Everyone gets mad at you for punching a baby and you go to jail.
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Apr 18, 2013 21:29
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Let's go with a song that hasn't been released yet. Daft Punk's Get Lucky. It gives you the power to be as good at games of chance as D'arby without having to cheat.
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Meme Emulator posted:Justin Beiber, Baby - Stand turns user into a baby. You cant attack the baby, because what the gently caress, why would you punch a baby. Everyone gets mad at you for punching a baby and you go to jail. Death 13's user already has this as a non-Stand ability, though.
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The Muffinlord posted:That's kind of what we're doing here Isn't that basically what C-Moon does kind of?
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Apr 18, 2013 21:55
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I think a stand that gives the user a Midas Touch would be sweet. Like, anything they touch turns into feathers or something. Call it If I Could Fly or something like that.
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Dogbutt posted:Isn't that basically what C-Moon does kind of? C-moon was more like everyone's gravity. I guess maybe a better description would be "gravity only affects you how you want it to, even if that way makes zero sense", so you could flip to the ceiling and stuff.
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Jumping Jack Flash was kind of like that.
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