When Emporio Kills Pucci Does the Universe Reset Again

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Let's face up it. We're all crying, too.

Given that Stone Ocean is the Grand Finale of the original continuity, of course there'south going to be tears had knowing that it's all coming to an cease. All the same, Role six decides to take the extra step in making its audience intermission down in tears not out of sentimentality, but by existence absolutely heartbreaking from starting time to end, more any JoJo office prior, and the results are something to behold.

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• Jolyne had a truly tough childhood. Her father was absent-minded for completely justified reasons, but it left astringent emotional scars due to his work equally both a marine biologist as well as dealing with enemy Stand Users, forcing him to go out his married woman and girl solitary. He was never there for her even when she was sick, got into trouble, etc., with the jail visit being the first in a long time.
  • The anime adds an additional moment where he had an obvious stand-in amanuensis exist around, highlighting how distant Jotaro was.
  • Even when he was in that location, Jotaro'south unflappable, silent and reserved demeanor that treats everyone with distant professionalism at this indicate—which usually was seen equally a trait that allowed him to continue nether force per unit area and be a leading force for others to follow behind—is utterly deconstructed. His lack of showing emotions in a conventional manner led to him actualization utterly blah and even cold to Jolyne who initially wanted him to support her, just gradually turned to utterly rejecting him with disdain. If it weren't for Pucci'south intervention, it's very likely Jolyne would've distanced herself from Jotaro even further.
    • It's not helped that Jolyne was expecting her mother to show upwards in the visitation room, simply got her father- the last person she was expecting.
  • This fanmade comic illustrates the aforementioned effect of Jotaro not being around when Jolyne was ill, from the perspective of Jolyne and her mother. Even if Jotaro had perfectly good reasons to not come domicile, it's still heartbreaking for both of them.
• After the catchy "I Want You lot" by Fell Garden, the sensual "Freek'due north Yous" by Jodeci, and the dramatic "Modern Crusaders" by Enigma, the option for the potential outset ending of the Stone Ocean anime, "Distant Dreamer" by Duffy, is a profound yet somber and melancholy sounding piece, which manages to capture the truly Bittersweet Ending of the part and the initial continuity.
• Jotaro having his Stand/Memory discs taken by Whitesnake, uttering to Jolyne that he always treasured her. Something she always wanted to hear, but washed in the most traumatic of circumstances.
  • What follows is Jolyne dragging her long-lost begetter to the shore with the intention on escaping the prison house island together. However, Whitesnake taking Jotaro's discs means he has lost his vital signs for the fourth dimension beingness and simply when he was well-nigh to reunite with his estranged daughter. This is specially upsetting to watch in the anime accommodation where Jolyne tries her best to revive Jotaro and fails complete with sad music and Fairouz Ai or Kira Buckland unleashing a gut-wrenching Skyward Scream. And this is just the fifth episode, meaning that it'south a red flag for what's to come for anime only fans... and a cruel reminder for manga readers of things not necessarily taking a stride forward in subsequently arcs.
• F.F.'s death, sacrificing herself to save Anasui and Jotaro's Memory disc.

  F.F.: Expect at me, Jolyne. This is my spirit. This is my intellect. I was alive.
  Jolyne: I'yard going to become your disc back from the priest! Your Foo Fighters disc! Then you can come up back!
  F.F.: But that will probably be another Foo Fighters. It probably won't be me. This is me. This is me saying bye.

  • Especially difficult to take when you lot realize Stone Sea's ending makes sure she won't come back considering it was Pucci who gave her life in first place.
• While Dontello is an unrepentant Jerkass willing to usurp Pucci to accept control over the Sky programme and more than willing to take children exist collateral damage for his program, his past is surprisingly tragic. His home-life was filled with corruption and his life was ruined when he hit past a pair of shoes from a glory land on him while he was walking habitation, leading to him existence accused of theft in spite of not being guilty of the crime and sent to prison where he almost died. His entire life was tormented by events exterior of his control and becomes no surprise that he builds resentment and anger.
  • His blood brother, Rikiel'due south life is heavily unsaid to not accept been better as his Stand'south subconscious utilise leading to him suffering afflictions that hindered his confidence for all of his life. With Pucci'southward assist removing that crippling status boosted his conviction to be a more cocky-assured man grateful for the aid and killing the heroes as a way to repay it, fifty-fifty though that said aid was to be a throw-away pawn to defeat/stall the heroes. And for it to be the highlight to his existence to be of some employ at all to anyone, is very pitiful indeed.
• Weather Study's death at Pucci's hands, something that would've concluded the conflict had Jolyne not arrived at the wrong time to give the Large Bad a take chances to kill the former. Everyone's thoughts on the matter do non aid.

  Jolyne: It can't be... was it because we crashed the car? Because I came hither? [...] Weather... Just ane more time... I want to talk to you one more time... in the breeze... I want to be able to speak to you.

  Anasui: Weather came dorsum to life when he left that prison. I can tell. So don't think also securely about what happened to him. These past few days, Weather was happy. Weather was already saved.

• The entire climax of the part, the Darkest Hour of the unabridged JoJo universe, with Pucci causing the unabridged apocalypse via Fabricated In Heaven.
  • Anasui plans to cede himself so Jotaro can land a hit on Pucci. F.F. dying for him clearly resonated with him. When he mentions the plan to the group, he likewise jokingly mentions marrying Jolyne once again to Emporio... until Jolyne finally agrees to, seeing that he'southward inverse for the better, and that his programme has hope... Not that information technology matters, since Pucci uses the adult female he loves to kill him from a distance.
    • Anasui's decease is practically tragic as every bit this previously crazed murderer who dismantled his quondam girlfriend and her fling for petty reasons, tried his best to improve in the faint hope of being noticed by Jolyne, going every bit far as trying to get her father'south blessing to maybe marry her. Only for him to die before anything meaningful could happen, and in a spitefully ironic way by Pucci on height of it. Thankfully, his incarnated self in the new universe is implied to have the romantic human relationship that the original lacked, though at the price of being not exactly beingness the same person the fans grew to know.
  • Jotaro has a risk at killing Pucci... until he notices knives falling toward Jolyne. He moves her out of the way, only it takes only enough time for the time finish to stop. He tried to save his daughter and kill Pucci, and concluded up declining at both. Non only that, but the concluding thing he sees earlier dying is Jolyne getting hit by knives, and so he ends up dying knowing that he failed. And just as the cherry on top, the method of his expiry (having his face sliced open up) is exactly how Boingo and Thoth predicted he'd die all the fashion back in Part 3. Information technology may have taken almost thirty years to take hold of up, only Thoth's predictions are ever 100% accurate.
  • Ermes futilely tries to attack Pucci. Tries. In ane barbarous dive, Jotaro'south face and Ermes' arms get sliced off by Pucci.
  • Jolyne'due south death, where she smiles at Emporio before standing up to Pucci one last fourth dimension as he closes in. And so a page and a one-half later, y'all meet her getting ripped apart like tissue paper by Pucci's stand up every bit Emporio breaks down in tears. All that remains is her stand'southward sunglasses, which quickly disintegrate under accelerated time as a colony of butterflies palpitate off.
  • The Joestar deaths are especially saddening as it'due south the first time since Jonathan that a Joestar died during their Part, when they normally survive beyond the end after suffering some close calls, with the initial assumption that both would survive with the bulk of their allies dying or at worse, Jotaro pulling a Heroic Sacrifice to allow Jolyne to become the win. Instead, the previously unstoppable Jotaro who had managed to overcome impossible odds, to die brutally and suddenly with his daughter, a young woman who managed to build upwardly the skills and conviction to be an impressive force of skilful for future allies, be snuffed out with ease past Pucci. It actually hammers in how hopeless the situation has become when the chief heroes die with the simply one left being a child whose Stand isn't fifty-fifty combat-oriented facing what is substantially a Physical God at this signal, and the tragedy of the seemingly invincible family finally dying. Due to Josuke and Giorno being not involved in the electric current state of affairs as well every bit Joseph being as well old to fight, as far as anyone knew, the lineage of the Joestars would've ended in a bitterly tragic manner if not for the reset bringing them back, merely though non entirely as the people the fans came to know- due to being different people with dissimilar experiences shaping their outlooks.
  • Jotaro's death is especially sad due to his Papa Wolf desires to protect Jolyne having spent the latter one-half of his life keeping Jolyne away from the danger of his fate of a Joestar that she would besides inherit if she got involved, by isolating himself from her for her entire life to proceed her safe- but for that isolation and abandonment issues to be the exact reason why she's put in danger, equally her abandonment bug from that conclusion to be distant leads to a series of events that she becomes a delinquent with parental bug, and eventually, an unwitting pawn to be exploited past his enemies though the alternative of her being effectually his cause against evil isn't a pleasing outcome either. His attempts at making up for the lost time lead to him being comatose for the majority of the part for protecting her and his death at the easily of Pucci to protect her again, is rendered meaningless as she dies soon after. It paints the invincible Jotaro in a vulnerable and human light, seeing any potential of having a stable relationship be squandered past Pucci. Thankfully, the reset has their incarnated selves having an implied better relationship, but not exactly being the same people that the fans had come to know.
  • Emporio witnessing all this, seeing all of his friends die. It gets worse as he tries to shoot Pucci several times, and when Jolyne sacrifices herself, information technology dawns on him that he'southward the only ane left to finish the most unbeatable Pucci.
  • Jotaro and Jolyne's deaths become even worse when 1 learns that Joseph Joestar is yet alive in 2012. If not for the Reset Button that revived them, he'd have outlived his own grandson and great-granddaughter.
    • Non to mention that without said Reset Button, Joseph (and Polnareff if you count having his soul trapped in a turtle) would accept been the Sole Survivor of the Stardust Crusaders, outliving all of them despite being the oldest.
• Even if he'due south the villain and kills most anybody in the climax, Pucci'southward backstory is pretty tragic - things become catastrophically incorrect not for just him, only two other characters, on an about Shakespearean level. A woman's baby is stillborn, so she switches it with one of a pair of twin brothers. Those brothers were Pucci and Weather, the latter of which unknowingly concluded up in a human relationship with his sister, Perla. Pucci attempts to break them up indirectly (due to having learned the truth from the adult female's confession at church), but the detective he hired in the process turns out to have ties to a detest group that goes later on Weather condition and Perla for beingness a mixed-race couple. Perla kills herself, believing Conditions to take died from the beating, but he hasn't - and his powers prevent him from taking his own life. Information technology'southward no wonder all that pb Pucci to believe You Can't Fight Fate.
  • While his actions using Made In Heaven caused the deaths of almost the unabridged chief cast and countless inadvertent deaths via the speeding of the universe had his expiry well-deserved at the hands of Emporio with the Stand, Weather Report- both of which, had every reason to hate him. Information technology's all the same tragic for a formerly good-natured young man whose life was ruined by events outside of his command, manipulated into evil past a monstrous vampire, forced to live the fact that he inadvertently caused his sis'south expiry through a lack of oversight for his actions, and his well-intentioned desire to improve the lives of others being irreparably destroyed by the easily of his victims, to then be Retgone from existence. Unlike previous master villains who were monstrous from birth and had their demises coming in cathartic and well-deserved fates, Pucci was someone who could've been a ameliorate man to guide others positively under different circumstances and that potential was forever lost due to unexpected tragedy and corruption dooming him to his demise for attempting to aid others in a misguided way, causing him to a jaded manipulator. The only positive is the small promise that his twin Weather Report and his sis, Perla didn't suffer the same fate every bit in the original universe- leading to a roundabout manner to give the latter happiness, even if he isn't there to see it.
• The Bittersweet Catastrophe itself. Pucci dies and his soul is left in the collapsing Made In Heaven-verse, and the resulting universe has Function vi erased from the main continuity, allowing the main cast to survive and lead much happier lives (especially Jotaro and Jolyne, who take a better bail thanks to Pucci no longer existing to transport DIO's followers afterward the sometime)... simply every bit a upshot of time beingness reset, the bond and experience shared between the remainder of the main bandage members is erased, leaving Emporio to behave the trauma of Part 6 solitary as his friends are unable to remember him. Emporio's friends are live—but in a mode, most of them are just in biology and basic personality ^note Pucci had no impact on Parts 1-v, meaning Jotaro would logically still have those memories, but he'due south just one fellow member of the vii-member cast. While it'south definitely non as bittersweet every bit information technology could have been, there's still some tears to be had.
  • Hit hard with Emporio crying at seeing his friends, now having forgotten the events of the part, which at present serves as the page image.

    "Emporio. My name is... my name is Emporio."

• Even later the universe itself resets to give the Joestars and their friends a happy ending, there is still i casualty—Foo Fighters. Because F.F. was just made sentient by Pucci, Pucci's erasure causes her erasure, and she is not present with the others when they reunite with Emporio (Jotaro isn't present either, simply his daughter mentions that they're going to run into him, proving that he'due south at to the lowest degree still live). The Loss of Identity inflicted on the master cast is deplorable, but at least they survived—F.F. doesn't even get that much.
• Jolyne's post-Reset Push name change to Irene symbolizes that in that location's no demand for another JoJo, making it the near stark reminder that the principal continuity has no more adventures to be held. Pucci is at present Ret-Gone, significant that in this rebooted universe DIO'south influence ended back in 1989, when Jotaro obliterated the vampire with Star Platinum. There will always be Stand users to fight, but the most powerful of them have been dealt with. While this is a happy catastrophe in many ways (the most obvious existence that Jotaro, Jolyne, and the rest of the Joestars can finally alive a happy life after over 100 years of fighting), it'southward likewise bloodshot in that all their baroque adventures are at an terminate.
  • Even taking into account the different branches of the Joestar bloodline, Josuke and Giorno don't have much to go along from either. Sure, they're not affected by Pucci'due south erasure, given they never met him or DIO and weren't killed past Made In Heaven, but the Terminate of an Era applies just as much to them as it does to the master branch. Josuke was born before DIO'southward death but didn't become involved in the world of Stands until after DIO'south decease, making him the to the lowest degree continued to the long Joestar-DIO war, and while Giorno is DIO's legacy made flesh, his rigid adherence to the dignity of the Joestar Bloodline means that the last of DIO's evil has been purged. With Josuke now a protector of Morioh and Giorno having admission to the overpowered Gold Feel Requiem, Stand users on par with Yoshikage Kira and Diavolo will never exist able to ascension over again. The closest nosotros have to a proper continuation of DIO'south legacy is his three sons other than Giorno—merely because that they only awakened their Stands from the now-Ret-Gone Pucci, fifty-fifty this seems to exist a expressionless cease (and assuming they do awaken their Stands even without Pucci, Jotaro would probable have them dead to rights every bit presently as he found out). For the Joestars, the moniker of "JoJo" is now goose egg more than an Antiquity Name, a mere homage to their glory days.
  • Assuming Jotaro retains his memories of Parts 3-four in the rebooted universe, he'll still have to live with the trauma of losing his friends 1-past-1 in the fight with DIO, also as whatever trauma he got past hunting down Yoshikage Kira. The universe has finally given him and his daughter a normal life, but one has to wonder if he can even savor it later all he'southward been through. The alternative isn't any better, and is arguably worse—if he doesn't call back Parts 3-iv, and so how much of Jotaro every bit we know him was saved afterwards the reboot?
• In a meta sense, the fact that this part is the last time the original continuity was ever visited. For those who have read from Phantom Blood it can be very saddening to encounter the story that started with Jonathan and DIO come to a close especially after all the time spent reading (or watching) each role of the story. Though for long time fans it may hit them even harder seeing as how the earliest fans have been keeping upward with the franchise since 1987 and with Stone Ocean catastrophe in 2003 that meant 16 years of reading JJBA. While Steel Brawl Run is considered one of the best parts in the franchise, it's still tough for a lot of people to fully realize that Stone Ocean was the last we'd ever run into of all the classic characters and locations.

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