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There were quite a few villains throughout the third part of JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure, Stardust Crusaders. Each of these foes had a unique ability that threatened Jotaro and his friends’ success. Reaching DIO became harder and harder as the heroes struggled against powerful Stands that required strategy and cunning, not just brute force, to beat.
Luckily, Joestar descendant Jotaro Kujo and his grandfather, Joseph Joestar, had the help of amazing friends Avdol, Kakyoin, Iggy, and Polnareff, each of whom brought a different strength to the table. Though many of them did not make it out alive, they eventually succeeded in their endeavor.
10 Yellow Temperance Was A Cruel Villain
The Stand, Yellow Temperance, was able to take Noriaki Kakyoin’s form, which made him a tricky opponent at first. When Jotaro tried a direct attack on the Stand, it hurt him. The Stand’s user, Rubber Soul, and Yellow Temperance became a major problem when they threatened to consume Jotaro Kujo and kill him.
Eventually, Jotaro caught up with Rubber Soul, and Star Platinum beat him to a pulp, proving that while the Stand was indestructible its user was not. Rubber Soul was a cruel villain who hurt innocents, but he was not as strong as he was wicked.
9 N’Doul’s Geb Was A Challenging Foe
N’Doul’s water-based Stand, Geb, was a foe that proved especially deadly as the Joestar team was traveling across a desert. Geb incapacitated one of the Joestar team members, an admirable feat that many of the villains had yet to achieve, when it slashed Kakyoin’s eyes.
Because N’Doul was blind, he used the ground to track his enemies. Upon learning this, the Joestar crew took to the skies thanks to Iggy’s stand, The Fool. They were only able to find and defeat N’Doul because of Iggy.
8 Enya’s Justice Was Almost Deadly
Enya the Hag’s Stand, Justice, constituted another close call for the Joestar crew, and another villain, Hol Horse, was also caught in the crossfire. Enya had a vendetta against the group for killing her son, Polnareff’s arch-nemesis, J. Geil (the Hanged Man). So, she attempted to kill them when they came to stay at her abode.
Justice was a slippery Stand because it was made of a fog-like substance that enveloped much of the ghost town Enya resided in. Justice could use any injury its foes sustained to puppet them, just as it did to Hol Horse. Star Platinum only defeated the Stand by inhaling it.
7 The Sun Would have Boiled Everyone If They Hadn’t Found The Trick
The Sun was a tough stand that was not so much about raw power as it was about strategy and trickery. It sucked the water and energy from the Joestar crew, causing them great distress. Not only could the Sun emit a formidable amount of heat, but it could also shoot dangerous rays from itself.
Eventually, Kakyoin figured out the secret behind the stand. There was a boulder in the middle of the desert that looked suspiciously similar to another. The team fractured the mirror and incapacitated the Stand’s user who was hiding behind it by propelling a rock in that direction. However, it could have gone south if the heat had gotten to their minds before they made this observation.
6 Pet Shop’s Horus Had Iggy On The Ropes
Horus, a Stand wielded by an animal, Pet Shop the falcon, gave Iggy the dog, another animal dog Stand user, a run for his money with its ice attacks. The Stand’s speed and raw power were enough to prove a considerable challenge for Iggy’s stand, The Fool. Iggy even lost a paw in the encounter.
Usually, a Stand that focuses on overt physical attacks is not as effective, especially since Jotaro’s Star Platinum is always too fast to be hit and packs too much of a punch. However, Iggy alone had a lot of trouble with Horus.
5 Death Thirteen Was Tough To Tackle
Death Thirteen was another problematic Stand, and the reason it was so difficult to beat was not necessarily because of the Stand’s overt power or ruthlessness. First, it worked through dreams and trapped people there. If they were to get out, they would not remember what had happened.
Second, the Stand’s user was a baby. So, even if the members of team Joestar did remember outside of the dream, it was hard to fight an infant. Furthermore, those trapped in the dream could not get out on their own.
4 J. Geil’s Hanged Man Gave Polnareff A Run For His Money
J. Geil’s Hanged Man Stand was tricky because it hid within reflective surfaces and was an effective assassin by doing so. Paired with Hol Horse and The Emperor, a stand that took the form of a gun, the duo was assured the win. So, when Jean Pierre Polnareff rushed into battle, things took a turn for the worse for him.
J. Geil had killed Polnareff’s sister, and so his appearance triggered Polnareff, who wanted to kill the foe at any cost. The cost, however, was Avdol, who was shot in the process. Fortunately, this was all part of the plan, since the Joestar team figured Polnareff would rush in without a solid plan of his own.
3 D’Arby’s Osiris Almost Trapped Multiple People
Daniel J. D’Arby the gambler and his Stand, Osiris, almost pulled off a feat that only Vanilla Ice could have matched. He almost ensnared the souls of multiple members of the Joestar crew. If it had not been for the intelligence and coolness of Jotaro Kujo, they might have been lost for good.
Both Polnareff’s and Joseph Joestar’s souls were captured by Osiris, and Kakyoin’s was also bet as collateral during Jotaro’s match. Luckily, Jotaro had some tricks up his sleeve.
2 Vanilla Ice’s Cream Killed Two Of The Group And Almost Beat Polnareff
Vanilla Ice’s Stand, Cream, had the highest body count of the villainous Stands when it came to killing Jotaro’s teammates. Thanks to Polnareff’s inability to keep up, both Avdol and Iggy were lost. They jumped into the line of fire to prevent Polnareff’s death, but they were killed in his place.
The loss of Avdol and Iggy was one of the saddest and most painful moments in the Stardust Crusaders. While it did give Polnareff more resolve, it was still one of the hardest fights to watch of the season.
1 DIO’s The World Was The Big Bad
While The World did not have the body count of Vanilla Ice’s stand (thanks to Joseph Joestar being revived at the last second), The World proved a much more difficult opponent because DIO was the wielder of the Stand. It took a lot of strategizing to defeat The World, and even then, it was close.
Noriaki Kakyoin figured out the trick to stopping The World, and he was able to relay the information in the nick of time, just before he passed on, making the main villain’s defeat possible.
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