Eons ago,
an omnipotent organism yearned to learn the meaning of "true omnipotence."
He could soar amongst the birds,
and reside within the watery depths of the sea.
His energies stemmed from the very Earth that bore him,
and he moved with the swiftness of water.
But this organism could not run under the Sun,
which is why he created the Stone Mask.
With it, he dreamt of the day when he could embrace those radiant rays,
and rule absolute over the Earth.
Episode
A God Amongst Men
But has Cars...
Has Cars been cast into the magma chamber?!
C-Curse you...!
He has!
M-My armor...
Needs to be as concrete as a crustacean's...!
I-I shall...
adorn my armor!
I-It melts...!
It's melting straight through his armor!
That magma's over 1000°C!
And I hope your corpse undergoes a thorough cooking, Cars!
Autsch!
H-He's dead!
Finally...
We've finally killed Cars!
Jojo, that explosion's set off a chain reaction for an eruption!
You can celebrate all you want after we're off this rock!
Grab ahold of me, my good Jerry.
A sweet scream...
A very sweet scream, indeed.
In fact, it's the very scream I've been waiting eons to hear, Jojo!
Cars...?
How is he still...?!
Cars's armor...?
Incredible...
It's composed from...
At first, Cars attempted to adapt a crustacean's carapace,
but no organic armor can withstand magma!
As a result, the molten-hot magma melted his armor away.
However, his secret, secondary defense compensated for his melted armor!
His secondary defense consisted of...
a bubble barrier!
By expelling bubbles,
Magma
Air
Body
Cars cooled the magma surrounding his body, which created a barrier of air!
While that air barrier only momentarily neutralizes the magma,
Cars can continuously counteract and cool the magma with his bubbles
in order to continue any activity within the magma chamber!
All life was borne from the crust of the Earth,
but at long last, Cars the Creator
has conquered the very lifeblood of the Earth!
Eons ago,
before the emergence of the Homo sapiens species,
an evolved hominid species had dominated the Earth.
This hominid species was strictly nocturnal,
as they would perish under the shine of sunlight.
For this reason, they we're forced to live underground.
Even without the aid of daylight, their longevity could be prolonged by hunting other organisms.
When the Neanderthal species emerged,
they worshipped their nocturnal counterparts either as gods or devils.
The nocturnal hominids were often impervious to Death,
which made reproduction a rather rare event.
As a result, their population was quite limited.
But their practices allowed for the establishment of a peaceful community.
However...
a cunning outcast was created from this very community.
There are prodigious powers still concealed within this shell of mine.
I shall unseal these concealed powers!
The cunning outcast created the Stone Mask.
His creation coaxed forth his imperishable powers,
but necessitated nourishment far greater than the norm.
Nourishment which would leave the presence of other organisms scant.
His creation would surely diminish the wildlife required for the community's survival.
As a result, the community became fearful of the Stone Mask.
They were fearful of the cunning outcast.
His continuance shall bring about calamity!
His existence must be eradicated from the Earth!
Kill the Cunning Outcast!
Hear me, imbeciles!
Do you not dream to walk under the daylight?!
Have you no ambition to stand omnipotent over all others?!
Who would dare to not triumph over Terror, itself?!
Death to the Doomed.
The Cunning Outcast exterminated his entire community,
including the very parents who bore him.
He adopted a child he had personally orphaned,
and together with his compatible contemporary, left on an ambitious adventure.
An adventure, which would have him hunting for a way to attain "true omnipotence."
10,000 years later,
the Cunning Outcast would finally attain "true omnipotence."
He is a god...
He is a true god!
He is a god amongst men, and men cannot kill a god!
We can only submit to his omnipotence!
Come again?
Sorry Jojo, but you'll have to speak up.
Ripple...
of Repulsion!
"Rip-ple?"
Ripple this!
Jojo!
It can't be...!
M-Melting?!
But how?!
How's me leg melting?!
Melting?!
That could only mean...
that...
I may utilize the Ripple!
You simpleton!
Now that I've vanquished my vulnerabilities, I too may utilize the Art of Mystics,
you incompetent "arsehole!"
Th-That's impossible!
From your wound, it would appear that my potency overpowers yours by a several hundred times!
His powers are a several hundred times more potent?!
Then it's like being struck by the Sun itself!
And the Sun would easily melt away and vaporize anything, even flesh!
Hurts, doesn't it?
How do you like being on the receiving end?
Ecstatic, from the sound of your screams.
And your screams beckon me to silence you.
Jojo!
I'm done for...
Cars is coming in...
for the kill.
Jojo didn't try to break from that belief.
He was without fear, without pain, and without any regret,
because he thought that he did all that he could do.
Cars the Creator met the cold eyes of a man who lay before him,
who was calmly awaiting his impending death.
Stroheim shared Jojo's beliefs.
Paralyzed and static from shock,
he understood how a frog felt before falling prey to a python.
This is the Art of Mystics...
My Mystic Meddler, this ceremony shall end with my ascension into Omnipotence...
after I've channeled Ripple energy into you!
Rip-ple...
Potency that is far-beyond my own...
Melt away into the oblivion of that magma chamber!
Channel it, will you?!
What's this?!
The Ultimate Aja?!
What's this?!
The Ultimate Aja?!
The Ultimate Aja!
At that moment, not even Jojo realized why he attempted to block Cars with the Ultimate Aja.
Unconsciously, he felt an attraction between the hand holding the Ultimate Aja and Cars's Ripple.
But subconsciously, Jojo's body knew the truth!
Subconsciously, his body was fighting for survival!
Jojo's subconsciousness empowered his survival instincts with a great shove!
Th-The Ultimate Aja's actually a Ripple amplification apparatus!
With that amplification of Cars's Ripple energy,
the volcano's eruption occurred within an instant,
and breached the bedrock!
Th-That eruption blasted them both
and the bedrock sky-high!
Th-This...
is a pressure I've never experienced!
But did...
you honestly believe that I'd let the eruption blast me away, Jojo?!
I shall take to my wings to avoid entering the atmosphere!
Aeternum vale, Jojo!
Thank God for Gaia's Grace!
The eruption blasted my bloody arm all the way up here!
And now you'll ask,
"Was this all a part of your plan, Jojo?!"
Was this all a part-!
It was at this very moment, when Cars was caught off guard by Jojo's severed arm,
which would determine his doom!
The volcanic ash that Cars could've avoided had struck their target,
propelling him beyond the troposphere!
Was this all a part of your plan, Jojo?!
You bet your arse it was!
I've got a plan, a scheme, a trick for every smelly pickle in the pocket!
Boy, can I bluff...
But at least I can finally have the last laugh!
Volcanic ash from the eruption blasted far-beyond the troposphere and well into the stratosphere,
but even Cars couldn't be killed by an eruption from the Earth!
However, that eruption...
expelled Cars beyond Earth's atmosphere and straight into outer space!
Stars?!
I-It cannot be...!
It's finally finished...
Nanna Erina...
Stroheim...
Great-Uncle Speedwagon...
Smokey...
and Lisa Lisa...
I'm out, everybody...
Jo...
JOJO!!!
Eight hours later,
after Stroheim was rescued from Vulcano Isle, he had only this to say to Speedwagon.
February 28, 1939
An eruption off of Vulcano Isle ended...
Joseph Joestar's life.
I've entered outer space?!
If I can expel the all the steam from my abdomen in order to reverse my trajectory,
I can re-enter Earth's atmosphere!
I-I've failed!
I-I'm freezing!
O-Oxygen is being sapped from my body!
The deeper into space I drift, the quicker the oxygen deprivation!
I-I can't fly back!
I CANNOT RETURN!
Cars would never return to Planet Earth.
He became an amalgamation of inorganic and organic matter,
and drifted aimlessly throughout the galaxy.
To the undying Creator, Death was all that he dreamt of,
until one day, when every transient node in Cars's cranium ceased to function.
New York City Outskirts April 1939
Our Father in Heaven,
hallowed be your name.
Your kingdom come,
your will be done,
in Earth as it is in Heaven.
Goodbye, Jojo...
Come to think of it, we've only know each other for 'bout half-a-year.
But I'll never forget you...
'Til the day I die...
Never.
Miss Erina, I think it's time we went on our way.
Let us be off.
Let me be...
Guess who?
Hello everyone.
You guys will never guess how annoying it was to not get picked up from Newark.
I had to ask around to find out that you're all having a service.
Took a while, too!
Hello, Mistress Lisa Lisa.
How're you holding up now?
Hey Messina, how's the arm?
I really wanted to ask Stroheim to hook me up with a decent prosthetic,
but we're at war with the Third Reich and all that jive.
Who the Hell are you?!
Show some respect and shut yer trap, Jerk!
"Jerk?"
"Jerk?!"
Did you call me a "jerk?!"
Calm yourself, boy.
Take him that-a-way.
You...
We're gonna have to teach this turd some manners.
Could it be true...
Why don't you make this easy on us?!
Hey Jagoff, did you just call Joseph Joestar a jerk?!
JOJO!
He really is alive!
"Alive?"
C-C'mon guys.
What's got you all so spooked?
You're all acting like you've seen a ghost!
Why the bloody Hell's my name on that gravestone?!
S-So is this whole service meant for...
Jojo, you haven't made a full recovery yet,
so do try to keep dry.
Take this umbrella.
S-Suzie Q, is that you?
What's that ring doing on your ring finger?
W-Wait, so you didn't know about me wifey here?!
"Wifey?!"
I am, aren't I?
But being introduced as your "wifey" makes me...
It makes me so shy.
Yunno?
No, I dunno!
Oy, love of me life, don't tell me...
that they don't know about that bedrock tilting toward the sea,
and my falling into the ocean to be rescued by a Venetian fishing boat...
And, that they don't know about you nursing me afterwards for a whole two weeks in Venice...
For chrissakes, you sent them a telegram, didn't you?!
A-A telegram...?
You sent them one, right?!
C-Could you cut that creepy creaking out?
Sorry, Honey!
It completely slipped my mind!
Oh no!
I can't believe that busty bitch didn't tell you guys!
C'mere!
JOJO IS ALIVE!
I said I was sorry, okay?
No-kay, Cookie!
No!
Jojo...
Elisabeth Joestar
Lisa Lisa, AKA Elisabeth Joestar, revealed her true identity to Jojo,
and later immigrated over to the USA.
In 1948, Elisabeth was remarried to a Hollywood screenwriter.
Erina Joestar
Erina Joestar continued her work as an elementary schoolteacher
until 1950, when she passed away in the presence of her loved ones at the age of 81.
Robert Edward O. Speedwagon
For Robert Edward O. Speedwagon,
the oil baron, and the SPW Foundation's founder,
he continued playing a pivotal role in developing the USA's medical industry and economy
until 1952, when he passed away after suffering a heart attack.
He was 82 at the time of passing, and was a lifelong bachelor with no surviving family.
For Smokey Brown,
he held a job while attending college, and graduated with a B.S. in Political Science.
Smokey Brown
Eventually, he became the first African-American to be elected mayor in his home state of Georgia.
For Rudolf von Stroheim,
he would never be able to reunite with Jojo.
In 1943, at the Battle of Stalingrad,
Rudolf von Stroheim
the proud Sturmbannführer achieved an honorable death in battle.
Sieg heil!
And as time passes us by...
JFK International Airport in New York City, 1987
another adventure awaits,
Jojo!
Whoopsies, sir.
I'll bet that stung like a bee.
Hate to say it, but you should've kept a better eye out, yeah?
Oh, these sorts of bumps will always occur.
"Expect the unexpected," as I always say.
Hold on.
You wouldn't happen to be Japanese, would you?
I am, actually.
Then you can expect this from me!
The flight bound for Tokyo, Japan will be departing at 3:08 PM.
All passengers flying aboard Alitalia Airlines Flight 285 bound for Tokyo,
It's been twenty-some-years since my beloved Holly married that snooty Nip...
please gather at Gate 3.
Why in the bloody Hell did she follow that wanker halfway around the world?!
I'll bet that boy of her's has forgotten his ol' grandpappy already.
Goddamn the day my Holly was taken by that Nip!
But...
I do adore the SONY Walkman.
Once, four folks arose from the fires of Hell
and awoke from their pillars after eons of eternal slumber.
Their ambition for power assembled
the blood of a few bombastic braves.
But one brave, whose fate was bound in his blood,
shot a sly smirk at his destined demise.
He would deceive the darkness and dodge the danger!
He would exploit the flaws of the foes he faced!
And his memory would live on for all posterity!
He's like a bloody storm!
Red-hot like a bloody stone,
but would he be ever free of the cursed fate of his family?
Who can say, but the bonds of these braves
will never be buried.
JOJO's
Bizarre Adventure
Battle Tendency
End
Canary Islands off of the Coast of Africa, 1983
We've finally hit the mother-lode, boys!
B-Be calm now!
Be careful with that crane, boy!
We're hauling up a hundred-year-old hoard, we are!
L-Let's open this trunk up!