How King Crimson From JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Actually Works
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BY ELLE COLLINS/NOV. 5, 2020 1:50 PM EST
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, both the original manga by Hirohiko Araki and the popular anime based on it, is chock-full of so many big weird ideas and gonzo visuals that it can sometimes seem completely baffling to newcomers. In particular, the concept of Stands and their superpowers can be confusing even to devoted JoJo fans. As the series has gone on, the Stands have gotten both weirder and more powerful, which can make them that much harder to understand.
Each Stand is supposed to be a projection of its user's life force, so it tracks that as the villains of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure get progressively more outlandish (and they do), their Stands will inevitably follow them down that path into complete psychedelic surreality.
Perhaps the greatest example of this, at least in the anime so far, is King Crimson — the Stand of Diavolo, the primary antagonist of Vento Aureo (aka Golden Wind), part five of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure. Diavolo is a pink-haired mafia boss with multiple personalities, so naturally, his Stand is going to be pretty weird too — and King Crimson doesn't disappoint.
Join us as we break down how King Crimson from JoJo's Bizarre Adventure really works.
King Crimson is a Stand of singular strength
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First of all — and this is the easy-to-understand part — King Crimson is extraordinarily strong in melee combat. It tends to not just kill opponents with one hit, but also rend their bodies asunder. For example, King Crimson obliterates the upper body of a fortune teller with a single punch, and another time, it throws a pair of scissors so forcefully that they completely sever a character's foot. Those aren't the only times that King Crimson effortlessly severed limbs and demolished human bodies, but they're certainly two of the most striking. Its destructive power isn't limited to human bodies either, as we see when it brings down an entire wall with one punch.
So already, with just its basic quasi-physical strength, King Crimson is one of the most impressive melee Stands in the series, comparable to Jotaro Kujo's Star Platinum. Like Star Platinum, however, King Crimson's strength and speed are dwarfed by the power it wields over time itself.
It's also a Stand of godlike power ...
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King Crimson has the power to erase moments of time, up to ten seconds from the time the power was activated. During these chronal holes
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