Diavolo

He later used this opportunity to kill Leone Abbacchio. Likewise, in Rome, he used a chance encounter with Bruno to get close to Polnareff and kill him. Perhaps Diavolo's most effective tactic was during his confrontation with Risotto Nero, during which he used both the presence of Team Bucciarati, Risotto's own scalpels, and his own weakened state to manipulate Aerosmith into only shooting Risotto.

Although Diavolo could exert subtle control over his own soul, he is still subject to soul-manipulating powers such as Chariot Requiem.

Spiritual connection As Trish Una's father, Diavolo has a spiritual connection to her. Instinctively, he can sense that she is truly his daughter, and he could sense that she was alive despite being told that the plane she was on had crashed. Intelligence Diavolo is a talented tactician and is generally smarter than the average person.

As a testament to Diavolo's abilities, the Boss created a powerful gang whose influence spread throughout Italy within a few years. To avoid being tracked by his enemies, Diavolo showed ingenuity in carrying out his orders, using proxies, computers, dead drops, or even using the Stand abilities of his subordinates so that only they could access the messages. During combat, Diavolo usually relies on the power of his King Crimson and prefers simple tactics such as erasing time and preparing for a fatal blow. However, Diavolo has also shown to be quite observant, taking note of any event and keeping an eye on his enemies' abilities. He notably predicted that Giorno Giovanna's wit would be a real hindrance to his plans and kept a close eye on him. Diavolo also continued to observe the apparently defeated Team Bucciarati from afar and managed to correctly analyze their state of mind and subsequently roughly guess their goals. Diavolo was the first and only person observant enough to see through Chariot Requiem's ​​mechanism and guess its weaknesses, allowing him to effortlessly disable the Stand. Diavolo has demonstrated the ability to think on his feet, not panicking when being pursued by Bruno Bucciarati and Narancia Ghirga in a body deprived of hemoglobin and quickly using the surrounding fauna to replenish his blood.

According to Diavolo, it takes about 10 seconds for him to completely take over Doppio's body, but transforming back into Doppio is instantaneous.

While Doppio is under his control, Diavolo has quite a few abilities that border on omniscience. He was able to tell that a taxi driver had not seen the photo of Donatella that Doppio was carrying despite his subordinate's beliefs, and was later able to see Risotto in hiding. Diavolo also appears to be able to manipulate Doppio's memories, as Diavolo remembers everything and can see everything that happens to Doppio, but not vice versa, though how much of this is based on Doppio's possible poor memory is unknown. Diavolo can communicate with Doppio through any object without controlling them, giving the subordinate the assurance that their alter ego is another person. While we have not heard the quality of these "summons" or whether objects alter the quality of Diavolo's voice, Doppio can always hear his alter ego's voice through the object. Doppio also sometimes forgets that he was able to communicate with Diavolo, but he never realized that he was using a broken or non-phone object. These "phones" have ranged from ice cream to frogs, cigarettes to toys, and of course, Doppio always carries a broken or disassembled phone headset with him.

Manipulation of the soul Diavolo, for unknown reasons, has exceptional knowledge of souls and their mechanisms, and is equally adept at manipulating his own soul. Diavolo demonstrates unusual knowledge of souls, such as being able to tell the state of a dying Bucciarati and then correctly deducing that he can only see souls. Knowing that family members' souls share the same "smell", Diavolo is able to give a shard of his soul to Doppio to disguise himself as Trish's soul. Furthermore, under the influence of Chariot Requiem, Diavolo was able to control which body he could go in, when he could not otherwise freely control it.

When at a disadvantage, Diavolo is patient, carefully blasting away at the enemy before using a single critical attack, making him the most dangerous enemy during any battle, regardless of King Crimson's removal time.

In his youth, the teenager named Diavolo was described as being dim and timid, but well-meaning. He also expressed a desire to become a sailor and have a girlfriend, Donatella, and they were close enough to have a child together. Due to the lack of further information and Diavolo's alternate personality disorder, it is unknown if this was a facade or if he was truly like this before. Either way, his secretiveness and ruthlessness were already present: he hid his mother underground and burned his home village to the ground to hide his past.

For unknown reasons, Diavolo spared his mother's life despite being trapped underground, and his old friend Donatella is alive despite his willingness to kill his daughter. Diavolo's Stand is King Crimson, an extremely powerful Stand with immense physical strength and the ability to erase time for up to 10 seconds, as well as predict everything that will happen within the next 10 seconds. While it has some limitations, King Crimson makes him essentially invincible in combat, as it can either anticipate and counter an enemy's actions or make them meaningless by erasing the time frame in which they occur. Despite being likely human, Diavolo and Doppio have many minor abilities to change their appearance. Doppio appears to be around 17 years old, shorter than Bucciarati. However, when attacking the same person as Diavolo, he appeared to be a head taller, if not bigger, as well as muscular. Also, when Diavolo takes over, Doppio's freckles disappear and his voice becomes deeper, and it may be possible that his hair can become longer or shorter than Doppio's.

Diavolo has also demonstrated an inability to empathize with or even understand the emotions and morals of others, especially righteous ones, as well as an inability to properly interact with anyone, largely due to his overwhelming pride and antisocial secretiveness. When Bucciarati rebels, Diavolo openly theorizes that Bucciarati simply wanted to overthrow him or was being opportunistic in his presence, not counting that hurting his own daughter greatly angered Bucciarati. He also forgot that Squadra Esecuzioni would be upset with Diavolo after killing Sorbet and Gelato, but sent them to investigate Donatella's house, allowing them to uncover Trish's existence. When interacting with others, Diavolo tends to act quite respectful towards his opponents and subordinates, as long as they are obedient and competent. He praises both Risotto and Bucciarati for their resourcefulness during battles, and offers Risotto an honorable death. On a smaller scale, he praises a fortune teller who can pinpoint his past as "the best of the best", and gives him a brutal but painless death. However, Diavolo is also domineering and aggressive, thinking in absolute truths and steering his interlocutor around; when angered, he is prone to shouting insults and issuing death threats. Diavolo approaches fights coldly, treating confrontations as a chore to maintain his superiority. Diavolo prefers to dispatch his victims quickly, using his King Crimson to confuse them and kill them in one fell swoop. As seen in his fight with Bucciarati, Diavolo is shown to be slightly amused (or at least by his stoicism) by his opponents' futile efforts, and regularly boasts of his seeming invincibility. As a pragmatic man, Diavolo still approaches situations carefully, especially when commanded by Doppio, and is unable to use his full power.

As a determined and assertive crime lord, Diavolo has no qualms about taking shortcuts or directly engaging in unpleasant affairs if these actions are the quickest and easiest route to an end. King Crimson's ability is an echo of this and perhaps the source of it, leaving nothing but the results of situations, especially those he himself deems worth preserving. He abuses his Stand's power as a means to draw the most favorable conclusions to his problems while boldly proving the claim of his philosophy to anyone he encounters. Diavolo shows a degree of priority for these results and answers, particularly when he, upon meeting Polnareff, whom he thought he had killed years ago, only asks him why he must have the Arrow before attacking once more, rather than how he learned the name of Passione's boss or even how he managed to survive being thrown off a cliff into rocky waters. For Diavolo, maintaining stability within Passione is secondary to maintaining power and his status as boss; a mentality that eventually realizes the corruption of Naples, worsens the drug problem in the city, and ultimately leads to Giorno Giovanna joining the gang in an effort to overthrow his boss. Diavolo commands the obedience of his subordinates only through greed or fear, causing the organization to even become corrupted within itself, with members turning against each other and many people plotting against him. Diavolo is also unforgiving of those he considers enemies, especially traitors. If anyone tries to get close to his alter ego Doppio and thinks too much about his past, Diavolo will furiously rebuke them for it. For example, he nearly gouged out the eye of a taxi driver who robbed Doppio and was chasing him, and outright and brutally killed a fortune teller who correctly recognized his history.

The Mafia Boss has no doubt that he is destined to remain at the "top", as he describes it, forever. This disproportionate pride not only stems from his idea that people grow from conquering their past (and thus he has grown greatly from his constant attempts to erase his history of any kind), but is also reinforced by a firm belief that he is blessed by fate; Diavolo's past involved unusual circumstances, such as an unnaturally long pregnancy in a prison where all the women believed his birth to be nothing short of a miracle, and then finding the six Arrows that would grant him an unusually powerful Stand and immense wealth. As an extension of the idea that he is blessed by Fate, Diavolo also considers himself to be extremely lucky. He readily accepts any hardship as a "test" that he will have to overcome to prove himself above everyone else, and while he may be prone to anxiety or despair, his pride will prevail and he will constantly choose whether or not to confront any challenge. This causes him to foolishly face Gold Experience Requiem, even though he foresaw Giorno Giovanna's death and had no idea of ​​his new powers. Against Requiem, Diavolo's confidence crumbled when it confronted his time-erasing and predictive abilities and left him powerless. When he found himself trapped in an endless death loop, unable to do anything about his situation, Diavolo panicked, and his final appearance in the story had him scared when a little girl approached him; his pride, confidence, and to varying degrees, sanity are completely crushed by his constant "accidental" deaths. Aside from his own philosophy of overcoming the past in order to grow up, Diavolo also lives by another thematic philosophy, which is the result of being the only things that matter in the world.

This is, however, somewhat justified, as the family members in the JoJo's Bizarre Adventure universe share a mystical spiritual connection, as Diavolo and Trish are able to sense each other's souls and know where the other is, as well as whether they are alive. However, Diavolo is pragmatic enough not to make a killing spree every time he is about to be discovered, most notably using his power to confuse a hotel cleaner just long enough for him to erase any traces of his presence. Once he learns of a Passione member trying to investigate him, they will be labeled as traitors and become an example of his wrath and absolute power. The most notable are

Sorbet and Gelato , whom Diavolo has killed and, in Sorbet's case in particular, cut up and framed in formaldehyde, then delivered to the Squadra Esecuzioni as a grim warning of the fate that awaits potential traitors. Diavolo is also persistent in keeping his identity a secret, even from Doppio, his most trusted subordinate and alter ego. His second most prominent personality trait is his pride and confidence, first in his nigh-invulnerable Stand King Crimson, and then in himself. Operating under the philosophy that King Crimson makes him invincible as it allows him to see and avoid "pitfalls" in the future, as well as allowing him to manipulate fate and reality by choosing to nullify arbitrarily chosen events, he is justifiably boastful of King Crimson's power. Diavolo in particular claims that anyone's actions against King Crimson are futile, which is somewhat true. Secondly, Diavolo has a deep belief in his innate superiority over humanity, using epithets such as "Emperor" or "King of Kings" or like other major antagonists in the series, and using the prefix I (この, kono?) to proclaim his name as a sign of superiority over others.

To grow, we must conquer the mistakes of our past. The past... even when you break it into pieces and bury it in stone, it crawls out like a "worm". The biggest personality trait Diavolo displays is his obsession with erasing any trace of his history and keeping his presence a secret from the world, a compulsion he tries to fulfill by any means necessary. As he believes that the mistakes of the past, or simply the past itself, are something that must be defeated and destroyed so that people can move on with their lives. He is exceptionally concerned about his past, associating it with fear and being afraid of anyone finding out about it. Even within the already hidden hierarchy of Passione, Diavolo does his best to hide his identity and his face, giving orders through a few confidants or via computer so that no one ever meets him in person. Diavolo lives most of his life in the shadows, hinted at constantly traveling around Italy while hiding in the body of Doppio, his alternate personality, and sleeping exclusively in motels and hotel rooms. This obsessive trait of erasing his past is also an allegory for King Crimson's inherent imperfections, particularly Epitaph's ability; while he can look into the future to avoid any mistakes, the Stand's ability cannot erase any omissions or "failures" in his life that have already occurred, forcing him to try to correct his mistakes through his own personal, manual efforts. Diavolo has a strong tendency to hunt and kill those who attempt to reveal any personal information, or are simply susceptible to leading their enemies to him, as evidenced by his willingness to kill even his own family if it means keeping his identity safe - something made very high-profile by his attempts to kill his daughter, who had never even met Diavolo and only knew what her mother had passed down.

Diavolo is a tall man in his thirties with a lean and semi-muscular build. In his first appearance, covered in shadows except for his bright eyes, he appears to have short, slicked-back straight hair and is wearing a suit and tie.

His appearance changes dramatically when he is fully revealed: Diavolo has long hair, with a leopard-like pattern with various spots that part in a zig-zag pattern; his bangs are propped up and parted slightly to the side. The rest of his hair is cut straight at his shoulders. In earlier depictions, Diavolo's various hairstyles were combed straight, inconsistently, ranging from small strands to his hair. His shirt, hidden under Doppio's sweater, appears to be made of intricate wire mesh: it covers his shoulders and torso, but down his back and stomach are connected by circles that are hidden under his belt, ending at the back. On his arms are elegant flower sleeves that lead to a pair of bracelets. He also shares a pair of studded pants and seemingly bottomless leather boots with Doppio. In most of his appearances, Diavolo has a slightly hunched posture when standing. His eyes are unique, as his irises are "fragmented", forming spots and shards of whole irises with a triangular shape highlight. However, while Bruno Buccellati controls his body, they become normal with circular highlights.

His alter ego, Doppio, has a very different appearance. Because Doppio is an entirely separate soul sharing a body with Diavolo, they even have different muscular builds.

Diavolo is the main antagonist of the fifth installment of the JoJo's Bizarre Adventure series, Golden Wind, and the fourth main antagonist in the series. He is mostly known as the "Boss" of the Passione gang, which corrupts the city of Naples by distributing drugs on the streets, making Giorno Giovanna and Bruno Bucciarati his biggest enemies. Due to his obsessive secrecy, almost no one knows about his appearance, name, and past. Diavolo is also the father of Trish Una, and orders Bucciarati's gang to bring her to him, while also guarding her from the members of Squadra Esecuzioni.

Diavolo is secretly an alternate personality of Vinegar Doppio and is the user of the monstrously powerful Stand King Crimson.