Dio Brando

"Everyone survives in pursuit of peace of mind. ... Aren't you uneasy, preparing to fight me, knowing you may die? ... If you join me, I will give you peace of mind that will last forever."

- Dio to Polnareff. Dio Brando, later known as just DIO, is a major antagonist and overarching villain of the JoJo's Bizarre Adventure manga/anime. Dio was born the son of Dario Brando, an abusive alcoholic whom Dio despised for his poor treatment of both him and his mother. He would later be adopted by George Joestar, a wealthy nobleman whose life Dario had supposedly saved (when in actuality he was just attempting to rob what he believed to be a dead man's corpse), after his father's death. It was hear that he met Jonathan Joestar and mercilessly taunted and abused him at every opportunity in order to further his own agenda of becoming wealthy and powerful. This abuse abruptly ended after Jonathan finally stood up to Dio after he forced himself onto his girlfriend Erina.

Seven years down the line Dio attempted to poison his adopted father in order to gain the Joestar estate for himself, planning to kill Jonathan with a mysterious stone mask which he had been researching. Testing the mask on a random man he found that rather than killing him it instead turned him into a vampire who almost killed him, but he was saved by the sun rising and turning the man to dust. On his return to the Joestar mansion he was confronted by Jonathan who had found out about his plot and had alerted the police who were ready and waiting to arrest him. Cornered and left with nothing to lose Dio wore and activated the stone mask using the blood of his adopted father, who jumped in to save Jonathan when Dio attempted to stab him. He was gunned down by the policemen but he survived due to his vampire powers and after fighting with Jonathan in the burning remains of the mansion he was impaled and presumably killed by fire. However it was later revealed he survived and set about with his plan to rule the world.

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