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JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure’s (JJBA) sixth part, Stone Ocean, is filled from one arc to another with intense fights and moments of danger. Protagonist Jolyne Cujoh and her allies usually overcome these challenges through a combination of raw power and tactical skill.
However, Jolyne finds victory and success as much by luck (or “fate,” as the series calls it) as by her effort, grit, and strategic knowledge. Luck’s influence is apparent in many of the most important fights in the series and also plays a major role in the survival of both Jolyne and her allies over the course of Stone Ocean.
WARNING: This list contains SPOILERS for JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: Stone Ocean.
10 Gwess Doesn’t Understand Goo Goo Dolls
Gwess’ Stand, Goo Goo Dolls, allows her to shrink Jolyne to the size of a mouse and order her around. At this point, Jolyne has not yet awakened her own Stand, Stone Free, and is incapable of defending herself.
Fortunately for Jolyne, Gwess has also only recently awakened Goo Goo Dolls and seems not to understand its full strengths and limitations. When Jolyne sneaks away on a scouting mission for Gwess, the distance reverses Jolyne’s shrinking effect. Had Gwess better understood her own Stand, as most characters in JJBA do, Jolyne might have found escape impossible.
9 Kenzou Gives Up His Advantage to Gloat
Dragon’s Dream carries a reputation as one of the most difficult Stands for JJBA fans to understand. Unlike most other Stands before it, Dragon’s Dream uses abstract concepts derived from Chinese Feng Shui rather than manifesting physical attacks. Dragon’s Dream does not actively aid its user, Kenzou, but provides all combatants with information to show the “lucky” and “unlucky” spots in a room.
Kenzou understands perfectly how to use the information from Dragon’s Dream and dominates Foo Fighters in their combat. However, Kenzou loses to Foo Fighters when, gloating about his godlike power, he relies on his own skill and surrenders the literal luck advantage to his opponents.
8 Ermes knocks Out McQueen’s Stand Disk
Thunder McQueen’s Stand, Highway to Hell, allows him to “link” his life with another person. If McQueen suffers injury or death, the linked person suffers in the same way.
McQueen links his life to that of Ermes, causing her repeated injury as he tries to hang himself and drown himself. Ermes only escapes death at the last moment when she slams McQueen’s Stand-granting disk from his head. As McQueen has suffered much trauma up to this point, which failed to dislodge the disk, Ermes is quite lucky that her last-ditch effort worked.
7 Westwood kicks Jolyne Instead of Punching
Guard Westwood’s Stand, Planet Waves, can summon devastating, flaming meteoroids toward the user. However, these meteoroids always disintegrate the moment before they would harm Westwood. Jolyne severely wounds Westwood during their fight, but the constant meteoroids are nearly impossible for her to counter.
She only wins when Westwood throws a final kick instead of a final punch. Jolyne pulls off Westwood’s boot, then puts it in the path of a meteoroid which drives the flaming boot into Westwood’s face. Had the guard thrown a punch, the meteoroid would have caused him no harm.
6 The Green Baby Is Childishly Curious
The mysterious Green Baby’s Stand, Green, Green Grass of Home, shrinks any creature which the Green Baby considers a threat. Upon determining Jolyne and Anasui to be enemies, the Stand traps them within a bottle and nearly kills a shrunk-down Anasui.
However, when Jolyne breaks the bottle to free Anasui, the Green Baby suddenly stops seeing Jolyne as a threat and dismisses its Stand. The Green Baby only fails to kill its opponents because of its infantile curiosity at the star-shaped Joestar birthmark on Jolyne’s shoulder.
5 Jolyne’s Instincts Grant Her Victory Over Rikiel
Rikiel’s Stand, Sky High, gives him influence over cryptid-inspired creatures which Stone Ocean calls “rods.” These creatures can steal health and physical capability from Rikiel’s enemies, and he uses this power to cripple and nearly disable Jolyne. Rikiel damages her hypothalamus, forcing Jolyne to see afterimages instead of his actual position.
With her vision disabled and senses muddled, Jolyne closes her eyes and contemplates how she has relied on inexplicable foresight to survive in Green Dolphin Street Prison. Stone Ocean’s theme of fate manifests as Jolyne blindly lashes out and lands a solid kick on Rikiel.
4 Weather Report Finds a Portrait of Van Gogh
Ungalo’s Stand, Bohemian Rhapsody, conjures characters from seemingly infinite fictional stories, causing humans to be drawn into those characters’ stories and subjected to the unchangeable fate of that narrative universe.
Stone Ocean’s theme of inescapable fate results in not even the most powerful characters being able to escape the dangers of their story worlds. However, Weather Report forces an awakened painting of Van Gogh to design a superhero with the power to return all fictional characters to their universes. Had Weather Report encountered a non-artist character instead, this would seemingly have been impossible.
3 Johngalli A Shoots Jolyne in the Chest
Shortly after awakening Stone Free, the sniper Johngalli A lures both Jolyne and her father, Jotaro, into his line of fire. The assassin lands a clean shot to Jolyne’s chest. However, Jolyne reacts immediately, forming a woven vest between her skin and the bullet.
This reaction saves Jolyne’s life, but still causes a flesh wound and knocks her to the ground. The force of a sniper bullet is so great that Jolyne likely survives only because of the location of the shot. Had Johngalli A hit Jolyne in the head, even her defenses might not have saved her life.
2 Foo Fighters Has Healing Powers
It is common in JJBA for a defeated villain to join the hero’s team, but this is a rare occurrence in Stone Ocean. Of the many enemies Jolyne defeats, only Foo Fighters become her ally and support her efforts. Throughout the series, Foo Fighters use their ability to multiply in water to provide first aid and sometimes even advanced healing to their allies.
Without this healing ability, Jolyne and her friends would have surely succumbed to injury early in the series. For example, the Stand Marilyn Manson steals Ermes’ liver, and without Foo Fighters’ healing, Ermes would have likely died.
1 Jolyne Gives Emporio a Stand Disk
Stone Ocean’s theme of inevitable fate plays a central part in the story’s climax. Having reset the universe, Pucci hunts down Emporio, the only person left who can challenge the priest’s vision of heaven on Earth. Within the reset universe, all people understand every event which will occur. Only Pucci can alter the future.
At the moment Pucci tries to kill Emporio, the boy places Weather Report’s Stand disk between himself and the attacking fist, causing Pucci to alter fate and give Emporio the Stand which kills Pucci. Had Jolyne not given Emporio this disk, Pucci would have succeeded.
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