Vampires (吸血鬼, Kyūketsuki) are undead creatures featured in JoJo's Bizarre Adventure. Many vampires serve as antagonists in the first three parts, with their bloodlust to drink blood and become stronger.

With DIO, the last known Vampire, being defeated by Jotaro Kujo, Vampires have not appeared in any part since Stardust Crusaders, possibly making them extinct.

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What is the origin of Vampires in JoJo's Bizarre Adventure?

JoJo's Bizarre Adventure vampires originate from preternatural experiments, not diabolical sources or burial rites. They are created using a Stone Mask or by receiving vampire blood. The last vampire, DIO, was defeated by Jotaro Kujo, suggesting their possible extinction.

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How did DIO, the last known Vampire, meet his end?

Jotaro Kujo is responsible for the defeat of DIO, the final Vampire in JoJo's Bizarre Adventure. DIO attempted to kill Jotaro using his power, The World, and a steamroller in their climactic battle. Despite DIO's efforts, Jotaro successfully defended against his attack, leading to DIO's downfall and potentially marking the end of Vampires in the series.

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What is the significance of the Stone Mask in the creation of Vampires?

The Stone Mask, designed by Kars, is pivotal in vampire creation. It is activated by blood, triggering stone tendrils that pierce the wearer's skull and brain, altering their DNA to create a vampire. The mask can also be combined with the Red Stone of Aja, providing vampires with sunlight immunity.

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Can Vampires like DIO fly in JoJo's Bizarre Adventure?

Indeed, DIO, a vampire in JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, can fly. He can stay afloat in the air without the need for wings. This ability, along with his heightened senses and extraordinary strength, underscores his vampiric nature.

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What is the 'space ripper stingy eyes' in relation to Vampires in JoJo's Bizarre Adventure?

In JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, the 'Space Ripper Stingy Eyes' is a vampire ability. It generates two pressurized fluid jets from the eyes, capable of cutting through stone and splitting clouds. Characters like Dio and Straizo use this power after their transformation into vampires, launching a pressurized liquid from their eyes that can pierce human skin.

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Origin

Vampires were created by the Pillar Men with acupuncture techniques that they developed through the use of the Stone Mask. The purpose of the vampires was to become food for the Pillar Men and to explore human potential. This would then lead the Pillar Men to discover the Red Stone of Aja, which can be combined with the Stone Mask to make them perfect, granting them immunity to sunlight and allowing them to rewrite their DNA.

Vampires can be created in two ways. One way is to wear the Stone Mask while exposing it to blood. The other way is for a vampire to give a corpse some of their own blood. According to the dynamics of the arts of the Ripple and Will Anthonio Zeppeli, all living beings on Earth bear energy from the sun, but vampires are considered beings whose natural "flow" of energy has been reversed and perverted. As such, the Ripple was created to fight off vampires, and its process allows users to return this "flow" back to normal and revive the souls of vampires for a last moment before their death.

Vampires

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Mummy	Aztec Chief	Vagrant	Will's Father	Dio Brando
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Straizo	Vampire Prisoner	Wired Beck	Kars's Vampires	Bad Breath Vampire
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Vampire Horses	Kars's Double	Nukesaku	Vanilla Ice	Alejandro Torres

Zombies

Main article: Zombie

A secondary undead, created by a vampire who dons the Stone Mask, is commonly referred in part I and II as a Zombie (屍生人(ゾンビ), Zonbi, lit. "Undead Person"); "Undead" (亡者(アンデッド), Andeddo, lit. "the deceased") is also sometimes used.

Powers and Abilities

Vampires are known for their battle cry "WRY" (ウリイ, Uri) and numerous superhuman traits. The most obvious abilities are their raw strength, regeneration, blood-sucking tentacles at their fingers and near-immortality. On top of that, many vampires are capable of manipulating their bodies in creative and unique ways. Some as skilled as Dio have created their own unique abilities.

It is heavily implied that vampires progress in their control of their anatomy through blood consumption, and may be the explanation behind Dio showing more impressive feats of regeneration and durability than someone such as Straizo.

Abilities discovered by Dio Brando

• Zombie/Vampire Creation: During his time as a Vampire, Dio could create Zombies either from a living human or the cadaver of the deceased. The Zombies are also strong creatures, but less so than their vampiric creator. Therefore, they will obey him. The process of zombification involves the injection of a vampire extract into one's blood vessels. In Stardust Crusaders, DIO perfected this technique to sire other Vampires.
• Enhanced Senses: Demonstrated by DIO when placing his ear to the ground to listen for Jotaro's heartbeat or passing vehicles, Vampires appear to have greatly heightened senses.^[1]
• Wallcrawling: Dio has shown being able to walk on walls and hang from ceilings.

• Space Ripper Stingy Eyes (空裂眼刺驚(スペースリパー・スティンギーアイズ), Supēsu Ripā Sutingī Aizu, lit. "Space Splitting Eyes Spiked Surprise"): Creates two pressurized fluid jets from the eyes. Strong enough to cut cleanly through a stone column and split huge clouds.
• High-level Regeneration: The body is able to live even after having vital body parts amputated. It will regenerate and the body parts can reattach themselves. Vampires can also control their detached body parts. However, Vampires can still die if their head is damaged sufficiently.
• Vaporization Freezing Technique (気化冷凍法 , Kikareitōhō): A freezing ability enabling vampires to freeze their own body parts and transfer the loss of energy by touch. It is able to cancel out the Ripple by freezing the blood in the user's body.

  

• Fusion: An ability that allows a vampire to graft parts of different organisms together. Dio displays this ability by creating animal/human hybrid zombies as pets and later grafting his disembodied head on the decapitated body of Jonathan.
• Flesh Buds (肉の芽, Niku no Me): A vampire's cells can spawn these Flesh Buds and insert them into the brains of living beings to control them. If someone tries to remove the spore, it will grow tentacles in an attempt to kill both the host and the one trying to remove it. The process can be accelerated by anyone able to manipulate life at a cellular level.
• Hypnosis: This ability was once used by Dio to hypnotize Poco into luring Jonathan into a trap. This ability is possibly nullified by the Ripple, because of the fact that Poco's consciousness appears to return after being subjected to it.^[2]
• Teleportation: Dio also shows the ability to disappear by fading into darkness, though this power was only used by him in the anime.^[3]

Other Abilities

• Superhuman Strength: Vampires are exceptionally strong beings. One weakened Vampire could destroy a brick wall with one punch, DIO himself could lift a road roller and jump high in the air with it. A measurement of Straizo's strength set his finger pressure as 325 kg/cm².
• Superhuman Agility: Vampires are very agile, their speed having been likened to that of a cheetah by Speedwagon. They able to jump several meters up in the air (a weakened Straizo could jump up to 4.22 meters in the air). Other demonstrations of agility include casually hanging from a ceiling and leaping great distances.
• Immortality: Vampires do not age or get sick, possessing the eternal life that allows them to live for thousands of years, maintaining the same appearance as when they became vampires.

• Blood Sucking: Vampires consume the blood of living creatures to sustain themselves. Unlike traditional Vampires, they suck their victim's blood with their hands, digging the fingers directly inside the target to suck their blood. Blood consumption will strengthen a Vampire and heal him if he was weakened before. In a weakened state, a Vampire will instinctively crave blood and may attack any victim to regenerate.
• Bodily Mastery: Like Vaporization Freezing and the Stingy Eyes, other properties of the vampire's body can be manipulated to lethal degrees. The vampire Wired Beck had the ability to form numerous spikes all over his body from his body hair, as well as form a camouflage when wedged into a wooden doorway. The vampire Nukesaku displayed the ability to grow a second face at the back of his head with female features to deceive opponents, but needed to manipulate his body to match his new face's visual orientation.
• Ripple (波紋, Hamon): The vampire Straizo, having previously learned the art of the Ripple as a human, could continue to use the breathing technique after turning into a vampire. Doing so was tantamount to suicide, however.
• Stands (スタンド, Sutando): Like humans with unusually strong spiritual power and determination, vampires also can develop and control Stands, as they are typically a reflection of the wielder's spirit. Like humans, destruction of the Stand will result in death of the Vampire user.

Differences with Popular Culture Vampires

• Apart from sunlight, JoJo vampires are unaffected by traditional weaknesses such as crosses.
• Vampires are commonly converted when they are bitten by another vampire. In JoJo, vampires are created through the use of a Stone Mask or receiving blood from another vampire. Otherwise, Zombies are the result.
• Another myth of popular culture is that vampires can turn into bats, wolves or other animals. Vampires are also capable of squeezing through small crevices. In JoJo, vampires are limited to manipulating their own bodies in various inhuman ways, but show no indication of using their bodies in either of the above manners. However, Kars, a Pillar Man and the creator of the Stone Masks, has been shown to be capable of such transformation when he becomes the ultimate lifeform. Santana has also been shown to break down his own body in order to pass through small gaps in a ventilation shaft.
• Normal vampires suck blood through biting the neck of their victims. JoJo vampires are mostly seen sucking blood through blood vessels in their fingers. However, like traditional vampires, JoJo vampires are shown to bear fangs, but can also spit them out like high-speed projectiles. In the anime, Dio has been implied to be able to suck blood with his fangs.
• In some myths, vampirism is genetic. In those myths, cases of male vampires conceiving a child with human women result in the child being a half-vampire (technical term being a Dhampir). Dio Brando's sons show no indication of having inherited his vampirism, although on one occasion Giorno has been shown to use his and other vampires' characteristic "WRYYY" battle cry. It should be noted however, that the circumstances behind their births were not straightforward, as Dio was adjusting to Jonathan's body and not fully vampirized.
• Rather than stemming from an infernal or diabolical origin, such as stories of how Dracula became a vampire upon selling his soul to the devil or are the result of improper burial and spiritual rites, vampires in JoJo are given more preternatural and almost science fantasy origins in that they are the byproduct of experiments that taps into a more forbidden and malignant aspect of nature, not unlike how the Bow and Arrow creates Stands.

Gallery

Vampiric Draining represented in the manga

The 100 vampires under Kars's command

Vampire Horses

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