Musings about Part 1 Dio
I touched upon part 1 Dio before here as part of the analysis of his ideology.
Aside from this, I haven’t really written that much about part 1 Dio because I feel like he’s still kinda searching for himself at that point. He becomes a vampire and most of what we see of him from then on is really just him experimenting with his new abilities and learning about his new state of being.
Most of the vampiric abilities he uses within Part 1 are him pushing his new body to its absolute extremes; for example dropping his temperature so low that he can literally freeze people, or heating up and compressing the liquid in his eyes so much that he can pop his pupils open and shoot the liquid out like a laser which can cut through stone.
I was planning to make its own post about this, but it fits well here;
In case you didn’t know, yes, that is what Space Ripper Stingy Eyes attack is. It’s not lasers. It’s Dio literally ripping his pupils open to charge up and shoot a straight shot of liquid that’s so hot it can burn through anything.
Aside from this, I haven’t really written that much about part 1 Dio because I feel like he’s still kinda searching for himself at that point. He becomes a vampire and most of what we see of him from then on is really just him experimenting with his new abilities and learning about his new state of being.
Most of the vampiric abilities he uses within Part 1 are him pushing his new body to its absolute extremes; for example dropping his temperature so low that he can literally freeze people, or heating up and compressing the liquid in his eyes so much that he can pop his pupils open and shoot the liquid out like a laser which can cut through stone.
I was planning to make its own post about this, but it fits well here;
In case you didn’t know, yes, that is what Space Ripper Stingy Eyes attack is. It’s not lasers. It’s Dio literally ripping his pupils open to charge up and shoot a straight shot of liquid that’s so hot it can burn through anything.
I’ve seen people question why he doesn’t use this attack in part 3, but there are honestly several reasons. An attack like this is and has always been used as a very last resort. This is even further established in Eyes of Heaven;
If Dio is the first character KO’d in this game, he will shoot a Space Ripper Stingy Eyes attack straight forward and will actually be able to damage the enemy in his sight before he dies. It’s a last-ditch effort type attack.
Its aim is terrible, as he can only shoot it straight forward, and there seems to be a tiny bit of charging time before he can shoot it. Add that to the fact that he’s likely completely blind during the attack, and you have a perfect blend for a “attacks not to use in a stand battle, especially against Star Platinum” smoothie.
Another thing that happens in part 1 when he becomes a vampire is, that he starts building a more extreme ideology, but that gets changed quite a bit later on as he spends 100 years alone in a coffin. Now, DIO is obviously very comfortable in being evil, but he doesn’t flaunt it quite as much. DIO settles in Egypt and runs his little operations and projects in secret, not really disturbing the local population as much. His end-goal would affect the entire world, but he doesn’t seem to want to rule the world, that’s not what he’s after. He’s matured.
Young Dio on the other hand… takes over and eats an entire town of Windknight’s Lot and then turns its residents into his evil zombie army. Young Dio is HIGH on that power and therefore makes a lot of big, essentially useless moves. He’s testing and tasting his new life as a vampire and he absolutely revels in it.
One thing I love that I don’t see many people bring up is how creative he is.
Half of his zombies are mishmash monsters that HE built. He got SUPER into chimeras and had obviously an absolute blast making them.
Look at some of these guys;
Its aim is terrible, as he can only shoot it straight forward, and there seems to be a tiny bit of charging time before he can shoot it. Add that to the fact that he’s likely completely blind during the attack, and you have a perfect blend for a “attacks not to use in a stand battle, especially against Star Platinum” smoothie.
Another thing that happens in part 1 when he becomes a vampire is, that he starts building a more extreme ideology, but that gets changed quite a bit later on as he spends 100 years alone in a coffin. Now, DIO is obviously very comfortable in being evil, but he doesn’t flaunt it quite as much. DIO settles in Egypt and runs his little operations and projects in secret, not really disturbing the local population as much. His end-goal would affect the entire world, but he doesn’t seem to want to rule the world, that’s not what he’s after. He’s matured.
Young Dio on the other hand… takes over and eats an entire town of Windknight’s Lot and then turns its residents into his evil zombie army. Young Dio is HIGH on that power and therefore makes a lot of big, essentially useless moves. He’s testing and tasting his new life as a vampire and he absolutely revels in it.
One thing I love that I don’t see many people bring up is how creative he is.
Half of his zombies are mishmash monsters that HE built. He got SUPER into chimeras and had obviously an absolute blast making them.
Look at some of these guys;
Look at how PROUD he is of them!! He’s SHOWING THEM OFF!
Absolutely adorable.
A lot of people also apparently fail to realize the importance of these experiments because I often see people ask what the point of the dog-men was. Whether Dio ever planned to sue it this way or not, perfecting his flesh transmutation skill was the one and only reason he survived. That was the same skill he used to fuse his head with Jonathan’s body.
I guess one last thing that comes to mind right now is something I already addressed in its own post; Dio’s anger issues.
I love that Dio is fully aware that anger is one of his biggest weaknesses, and I love that this, mixed with his paranoia, is something that’s notable throughout his character from start to finish. I especially love that Dio, being aware of his anger issues, actively works to subdue them, striving to appear as an extremely calm, smooth, peaceful person to the point of intimidation, because he knows that if he loses grip of his anger, he might do something stupid.
Absolutely adorable.
A lot of people also apparently fail to realize the importance of these experiments because I often see people ask what the point of the dog-men was. Whether Dio ever planned to sue it this way or not, perfecting his flesh transmutation skill was the one and only reason he survived. That was the same skill he used to fuse his head with Jonathan’s body.
I guess one last thing that comes to mind right now is something I already addressed in its own post; Dio’s anger issues.
I love that Dio is fully aware that anger is one of his biggest weaknesses, and I love that this, mixed with his paranoia, is something that’s notable throughout his character from start to finish. I especially love that Dio, being aware of his anger issues, actively works to subdue them, striving to appear as an extremely calm, smooth, peaceful person to the point of intimidation, because he knows that if he loses grip of his anger, he might do something stupid.