JoJo’s bizarre adventure: Diavolo’s fate was the darkest in JoJo's history

Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure has introduced terrifying villains who have challenged the Joestar family by placing them in intense, often horrifying circumstances. However, none of these villains have met a fate quite as harrowing and existentially torturous as Diavolo across the eight-part series. Diavolo was the major antagonist of Part 5: Golden Wind. He was the main leader of a mafia organization. He dominated the underworld and ruled over Italy.

Giorno Giovanna and his team seek to overthrow him and reform the gang from within. What makes him unique is that Diavolo was terrifyingly powerful, yet he lived in constant fear of being discovered. He preferred to keep his identity hidden. He has erased his own past, maintained a dual personality (through his alter-ego Doppio), and continued to kill countless people under his rule.

His stand was called King Crimson, and it had the power to erase time and foresee the immediate future. Therefore, for most of the story, Diavolo in Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure was overconfident with this ability and was sure he was invincible. But it was his obsession with taking control over everything and his belief in being so superior that he did not think about the consequences which led to his downfall.

During the final climax of Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure: Golden Wind, Giorno Giovanna gets hold of the mystical Stand Arrow, an artifact capable of evolving Stands. And with this, his stand evolved to Gold Experience Requiem (GER). While King Crimson erases time to take control over the future, GER takes over and resets his actions. Finally, GER delivers what may be the most poetic and horrifying punishment in all of anime and manga.

Diavolo is trapped in a perpetual cycle of dying. This ending is darker than any other JoJo Villain because none of their fates quite match Diavolo’s in terms of raw existential dread. His end is the literal translation of horror as a concept.

When being compared to other villains, Dio Brando died after knowing his plans failed, Kars was successful in becoming the ultimate being, but is now a floating rock in space. Pucci reset time, but was eventually killed. Diavolo, however, will never get the satisfaction of going to the afterlife.

The Philosophical Horror of Diavolo’s Fate in JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure

Diavolo’s fate in this series is one of philosophical horror in JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure. His ending is similar to a concept most famously explored by philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. It implies that he will relive his doom again and again till the end of time.

This will keep on tormenting him as he can never come out of this nightmare. Diavolo was a man who sought complete control over time and reality, and GER ensured that he suffered a punishment worse than death.

He will never get the satisfaction of dying, as time will loop the moment he dies, and he will find himself in a new scenario, reliving a new kind of death. Now he does not have any control over anything. The worst part is he doesn’t die in the same way — he dies differently each time, and remembers every version. There’s no logic to it, no learning from it, and no escape.

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In conclusion, fans of Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure argue that no one deserved such an end. But when compared to what his actions were and the number of innocent lives lost, and the trauma he inflicted on his daughter adds up.

His end seemed like poetic justice because during his life, he tried to erase others’ realities, and now his own has become an endless purgatory. In a series known for being flamboyant and over the top, Diavolo’s fate remains the darkest chapter because he does not die, but because he never stops dying.

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