Most confusing power in JoJo

[tropicsbear]

(Before anything else; potential ⚠️ spoilers ⚠️ for all parts, both anime and manga, might be in the comments.)

The other day, I attempted to explain some Stand powers to a friend who has never watched JJBA before.

I think I was able to successfully explain King Crimson's abilities (or at least how I interpreted them) and it got me thinking; what is the most confusing power that you've come across in the series?

Comments

[samuraiter]

Perhaps the power of the author to make the series consistently awesome across all its different iterations?

Would love to know how he does that.

[tropicsbear]

Araki is a glorious mystery I've stopped trying to solve 😂

[momijizukamori]

Toss up between King Crimson and Killer Queen Bites the Dust, but I'm only partway into reading Stone Ocean (and haven't read SBR or Jojolion) so it's possible that will change.

Then of course Araki doesn't care about consistency so there's lots of powers you can explain in general terms but that don't make a lot of sense on close examination, like Risotto's (one, how does it make him invisible, two, there isn't nearly enough iron around to make the sort of shit he makes), or Bruno's (zipperspace void wtf).

[tropicsbear]

Oof yeah, I gave up on trying to figure out Bites the Dust's ability.

I have so many questions about zipperspace! For example; is that also the same space where Cream puts things? A mystery.

[memphistango]

I don't want to come off as insensitive to people who genuinely are confused by how King Crimson's "time erasure" works as opposed to "stopping time" or anything like that, but the more I looked into how it works, the more I feel like people just say they're confused by it for the meme.

Something that does make me ponder a little more about how stands work would be regarding Stands that look like objects (Hol Horse's Emperor, and by that I mean the bullet), or suits (Ghiaccio's White Album or Secco's Oasis) and how visible are these to non-stand users. Or heck, what would a non-stand user see when they look down at Coco Jumbo's shell? Not a latent stand user like Trish was (because unless someone can explain otherwise, my brain interprets that she was a little like Holly seeing stands before Spice Girl manifested), but one who has no stand and won't get a stand period. OR do object stands and suit stands not work in the same manner?

[tropicsbear]

the more I feel like people just say they're confused by it for the meme

I think there is some aspect of that as well. Like, I was confused by it, but not as much as I thought I would be based on how people react to it. The scene with Abbacchio's partner in "heaven" and picking apart his monologue helped a lot with figuring it out, imo.

I vaguely remember reading somewhere that Baby Face is visible to non-Stand users (absolutely horrifying) but I'm not sure about the suit-like Stands.