Even shittier villains like Kars or Tooru were more fun to read because of their flamboyant and exaggerated personalities. Diavolo had everything a jojo villain would need- a terrifying stand, a menacing presence in the story, great fights (Bruno vs The Boss, King Crimson vs Metallica etc) but he just lacked the charisma/personality that even minor villains like Risotto or Prosciutto had. I feel like Araki poured all of his creativity into making Doppio a quirky and intriguing character that he ran out of ideas for making Diavolo an actually interesting character and we were left with a generic "bad guy who does bad things". Which is a damn shame because Diavolo and Giorno being so shit is the one thing keeping Part 5 from being my favorite part.
Diavolo was the least fun villain in jojo
Didn't read but Risotto should've been the final boss
Diavolo is my favorite villain
Why tho?
Because he's legimitately terrifying, something all other Jojo villains were lacking. His split personality was simultaneously quirky and made him unpredictable and lengths he's willing to go to hide his identity, made him intriguing. I will say though his final moments were kind of disappointing
that's beacuse retards split doppio and diavolo
The sheer terror that his stand and presence brought made him fun for me. I know leaving stuff up to interpretation can be considered lazy but the fact that his backstory makes pretty much no sense adds to the intimidation his presence brings. He felt like a horror movie villain the babysitter can do nothing but run away from until the very end. Might not be deep but he was fun for me.
Araki himself split Diavolo and Doppio at the final arc which was one of the stupidest decisions he ever made since it stripped Diavolo of his most important quirk, his split personality, and made him into a generic villain without any depth since his backstory and even his very identity all depended on Doppio.
Pucci is the best villain because he's actually around and actively does shit.
>Araki himself split Diavolo and Doppio
agreed, he went full retard there
Pucci had a great backstory and interesting motivations but I feel like he was also lacking in the personality department as he lacked any defining character traits other than "Praise Dio sama" and all of his motivations were outweighed by that of Dio's. Pucci doesn't feel like a MAIN jojo villain and feels like Dio's sidekick than his own character.
I disagree.
Care to explain yourself?
No.
>I feel like Araki poured all of his creativity into making Doppio a quirky and intriguing character that he ran out of ideas for making Diavolo an actually interesting character
It's actually the other way around. Diavolo is a shitty generic villain and Doppio was what Araki came up with to try and compensate for that ( and also to act as a temporary nerf so the main villain gets to have a ''fight''). Doppio doesn't exist before the Risotto chapters, the plot falls even further apart if he did.
>The sheer terror that his stand and presence brought made him fun for me
I agree with that but I also get OP that Diavolo doesn't have much a personality or even an explanation for why and how he ends up being the mafia boss.
That's an interesting theory but it falls apart when you think about it. Araki creates characters based on their music influences and Diavolo is the prime example of this, with his character being based on the King Crimson album and it's fair to assume that Araki took inspiration from the song 21st century schizoid man as it would be weird for him to ignore such an important aspect of the album. So I think that Araki always wanted to create a main villain with schizophrenic tendencies but I agree that Doppio was the one to fight Risotto so that it felt like the main villain had a fight in which he had to seemingly go all out, even though Diavolo could easily solo Risotto if he came out.
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>lacked any defining character traits other than "Praise Dio sama"
>all of his motivations were outweighed by that of Dio's.
His goal of heaven was personal and the root of it started in childhood with Domenico's "death". Reread Heavy Weather.
I loved that he was a big loser most of the time. Just wanted to be left alone and kept being pushed around. Didn't even get a powerup at the end
While it's likely he found inspiration for Doppio (and Epitaph by that extension) in the ''Court of the Crimson King'' album, that would still be AFTER the fact. Diavolo's stand takes its name after the band and therefore everything relating to it further down the line logically takes some ideas from its albums and songs etc.
That however says absolutely nothing about planning the villain to be schizophrenic from the very beginning because it's quite literally not a factor nor implication in the story at any point before he decides to go to Sardinia. If he had Doppio before that, the 3rd party delivery of Trish would be either completely unnecessary or manage to have an actual ''middle-man'' at the drop-off point. Basically every newly introduced plot element contradicts what has happened in the chapters before and Araki self-admittedly just makes shit up as he goes along.
You introduce the Boss midway, he's insanely overpowered and likes to hide but oh, now he has to give chase and get into a fight, so you come up with a new excuse of how he actually gets around while hiding while also having a handy handicap so an encounter isn't over in a second.