DIO and Jotaro's Anger
An neat difference between Jotaro and DIO is how they experience anger.
Throughout the final battle, DIO actively tries to sass Jotaro to make him angrier and angrier. He mocks Jotaro, continuously calls him weak, talks down on his entire bloodline, brings up his friend’s deaths several times, all while he keeps bragging and boasting about his own power and his great destiny. |
It’s important to remember that DIO sees his anger as one of his bigger weaknesses. It’s a negative trait of his that he’s been trying to repress since childhood. This is exemplified when he slaps Erina and immediately looks appalled by himself, not for hitting a girl, but for letting himself get so worked up.
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He tried to piss off Jotaro in an attempt to weaken him, break his concentration, and make him blind with fury, hoping that Jotaro would start to make reckless moves. Needless to say, that plan backfired pretty badly for him, as Jotaro instead uses his anger to fuel himself and only grows stronger from it.
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Jotaro and DIO’s fits of anger show themselves in the opposite way.
DIO’s is explosive, while Jotaro’s is silent and festering. DIO snaps and loses his composure, striking with uncalculated blows, while Jotaro accumulates his anger to release when the time is right. This trait was somewhat shown before, in the Steely Dan fight. It’s a personality trait that DIO wished he had, but he hasn’t realized Jotaro had it until it was too late as, just like most other characters, he couldn’t read Jotaro. |