FEATURE: EVERYTHING IN JOJO’S BIZARRE ADVENTURE IS DIO’S FAULT

With every season that goes by, JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure gets more… well… bizarre. What started as a rivalry over rank and station has turned into a multigenerational battle with talking dogs, magic summons, and psychedelic torture dances. And all of it comes down to Dio.

Anyone who’s seen Part 1 knows that Dio Brando is initially to blame for the Joestar bloodline’s biggest problems . But his influence has been at work for centuries, to the point that things we associate inextricably with the series are on his big weird shoulders.

There are lots of reasons to blame Dio for pretty much everything in JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure, and not just the fact that we’re too scared to step to Kars. Here are just a handful:

Part of being a Joestar is being prepared for supernatural circumstances. Even before the events of the series, the bloodline was long and well-respected, with a penchant for crossing paths with the paranormal. But with the introduction of Dio, it was less “crossing paths” and more “living under the same roof.”

Dio’s social climbing schemes initially saw him making Jonathan Joestar’s life a by-the-book hell. It wasn’t enough to attempt to steal the Joestar family fortune: he would make Jonathan suffer along the way. But upper-class intrigue was just the beginning.