Stands gift users powerful abilities that surpass the limits of humanity, but some Stands are just as deadly to their wielders as they are to potential opponents. Each of the multitudes of Stands within JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure is equipped with its own strengths, weaknesses, and combat specialties, ranging from the discreet and defensive to the aggressive and imposing. Users of these abilities seek to manipulate their opponents and environments in ways that complement their Stand’s unique nature and ensure the upper hand in battle.
However, even with their vast powers, certain Stands include major drawbacks that, when wielded improperly, could easily endanger or even kill those who attempt to utilize them. The owners of these Stands would be far better off avoiding combat altogether or at least carefully considering their options, rather than taking any chances.
10 Survivor – Control Over The Aggression Of Others
In the Stone Ocean arc, the Survivor Stand is gifted to Guccio by the Stand Whitesnake, granting control over tentacle creatures that increase the aggression of anyone who comes into direct contact through water sources. Affected victims ignore pain, become highly reckless, and gain the ability to identify enemy strong and weak points.
The violent chaos wrought by those affected by the Survivor Stand creates ample distraction and manipulation opportunities, though victims can easily turn against the user if alternate targets are absent. An incautious user faces the threat of attack by enraged assailants who are incapable of mercy.
9 Lovers – One Must Experience Pain To Cause Pain
During the desert adventures of Stardust Crusaders, Dio’s henchman Steely Dan wields the Lovers Stand against Joseph Joestar and his party. When the Lovers Stand’s user receives damage, the victim experiences pain fourfold, courtesy of the microscopic organism inserted into the brain.
Although the Lovers Stand has the potential to incapacitate an opponent fairly quickly, relying on the Stand to win battles requires sacrifice on the owner’s part via harming their own body. At the very least, emerging victorious leaves the user with various scrapes, bruises, and persistent aches that linger long after the fight ends.
8 Boku No Rhythm Wo Kiitekure – Tiny Bombs That Are Easily Overlooked
Boku no Rhythm wo Kiitekure features in the Steel Ball Run arc as the Stand of Oyecomova and allows the user to plant a limitless number of pin-shaped bombs onto any touchable surface. When the pins spring, powerful explosions erupt that heavily injure or damage nearby enemies or structures.
Though powerful and versatile, the user is not immune to the planted explosions. With the small size of Boku no Rhythm wo Kittekure’s bombs, users must depend on a strong memory to memorize each pin’s location in order to avoid being caught in their own traps.
7 Sun – It’s Hard To Escape The Heat
In the Stardust Crusaders arc, Jotaro and his allies face off with Arabia Fats, a servant of Dio whose Stand, known as Sun, manifests a flaming miniature star that targets enemies with searing light rays. Although its heat alone nearly proved lethal to Jotaro’s entire party, the Sun Stand makes no distinction between user and victim.
Anyone who moves within range suffers from heat exposure, requiring Arabia to remain far away to avoid being cooked by his own Stand ability. Poorly thought-out preparation before activating the Sun Stand can quickly lead to the user’s agonizing death.
6 Highway To Hell – What Goes Around Comes Around
Appearing in Stone Ocean, Highway to Hell is the Stand of Thunder McQueen and inflicts any damage the user receives back on the victim. If the user dies, the victim also dies in the same manner and position, regardless of the victim’s distance from the user.
The Highway to Hell Stand’s ability to incapacitate opponents is only beneficial when the user targets body parts that are of the least personal hindrance when injured or lost. At its least harmful, conquering opponents requires multiple physical wounds or, at its worst, demands the user’s own life.
5 Super Fly – The Near-Inescapable Tower That Isolates Its User
In the Diamond Is Unbreakable arc, Josuke and his friends encounter Toyohiro’s Super Fly Stand, which exists as a transmission tower that traps anyone who enters, including the user, until another person steps inside. Escape attempts morph the occupant’s body into steel, as experienced by an unsuspecting Josuke.
Although Toyohiro led a self-sustained life within it, any owner of the Super Fly Stand who enters the tower without basic survival supplies exists at the mercy of a human replacement. If nobody passes through, death by hunger, thirst, and oppressive loneliness are terrifyingly inevitable.
4 Sky High – Parasites That Can Go Out Of Control
Sky High appears in the sixth arc, Stone Ocean, and is wielded by the villain Rikiel. The Sky High Stand gives control over a species of parasitic insects, known as “rods,” that feed off body heat and afflict or disable targeted areas of the body with diseases.
Sky High’s safety is dependent on the user’s emotions and becomes harder to control during moments of doubt or anxiety. Faltering leaves the user’s own body exposed to the rods and the diseases they cause. Without medical treatment, the Sky High Stand’s afflictions easily turn lethal to distracted users.
3 Ticket To Ride – A Supernatural Enigma That Overtakes The User
In the seventh arc, Steel Ball Run, Ticket to Ride is the temporary Stand of Lucy Steel, which manifests after a host body fuses with the divine, ancient skeleton known as the Saint’s Corpse. While Saint’s Corpse is merged with its host, the Ticket to Ride Stand forces the occurrence of bizarre coincidences that shield the host from danger and achieve all desired outcomes.
Although the Ticket to Ride Stand gifts users with near invincibility, Saint’s Corpse gradually takes over the user’s body and consciousness entirely. Unless Saint’s Corpse separates from the host, the user loses their identity.
2 Notorious B.I.G. – The User Needs To Be Dead For It To Work
In Vento Aureo, the fifth arc, Team Bucciarati encounters the relentless Stand Notorious B.I.G., belonging to the villain Carne. Upon its user’s death, Notorious B.I.G. draws from its owner’s hate to restore its physical form, after which it seeks out and absorbs available forms of energy to grow, mutate, and recover. Notorious B.I.G.’s ability to absorb Stand attacks renders enemy Stand powers useless.
As the Notorious B.I.G. Stand only activates its true power when the user dies, Notorious B.I.G. is useless to the user while they still live. The unfortunate user inevitably becomes their personal Stand’s food source.
1 Milagro Man – The Curse Of Infinite Money
In the eighth arc, JoJolion, Milagro Man appears as a Stand that curses its user with continuously replicating money that cannot be given away or spent. Attempting to spend acquired money returns the currency to the user in greater amounts, and the Milagro Man Stand continues functioning until its owner dies from the weight of the built-up currency.
Survival depends on transferring the Milagro Man Stand to somebody else by tricking them into stealing and destroying a cursed bill. A current user who cannot prove deceptive enough dooms themself to a crushing fate.
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