JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part 3: Stardust Crusaders Chapter 128 Discussion

Polnareff gets all the ridiculously-low-to-the-ground body angles.

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                        Did he just punch Iggy? Damn it.



So we also learn that the "Dio" there is not actually Dio. Makes sense I guess in some ways with the circumstances.

"Dio" looked really menacing

Cream ate half of Polnareff's foot, holy shit. I've never seen the two of them be so afraid and I'm just as horrified as well, seeing him leaving absolute destruction in his wake.



Iggy tricked Vanilla Ice by having the Fool make a sand decoy of DIO. They might've shown him his picture when he was with the Speedwagon Foundation so he'll be able to identify and sicc him on sight so it's not much of a stretch to have him know what DIO looks like.

Ouch, a part of his foot is gone.

Vanilla Ice won't fall for that trick.

Good chapter but I'm pretty sure Iggy has never seen Dio so how he managed to make a more or less accurate fake is a bit meh.

I was so carried away I forgot to mention the fact that we got the layout of Dio’s mansion.  That’s a cool touch and it only helps to collide this fight into the rest of the group making a dynamic encounter.  A tangible place of contact is one of my favorite aspects of battle shounen, I love seeing the way each party member crashes into the others.  Now, I don’t know if it will go there but I do hope so.



For now, the duo that started as rivals, Polnareff and Iggy, were fighting for their lives.  Barely dodging the stand and Ice even taking a bite out of Polnareff’s foot to stagger his movement, things looked bad.  The instant ability to devour chunks of the world is terrifying in itself, but Polnareff and Iggy managed to hide and create a sand Dio.  I genuinely believed Dio had entered the scene and I panicked.  Going with my topic of tangibility in the battle arena, the destruction was felt by a carefree Dio, reading a book as confident as ever alongside the Joestars and this following up with Dio’s appearance made sense.  As if he wanted to check out what's taking so long.  And as sand Dio went to slice at Ice’s back, he evoked the image of Santana facing the sun to me.  A level of tenacity and grit that even when about to die, he simply acts, and does whatever it takes.



I do have to wonder though, how did Iggy know what Dio looked like!  Did Iggy have a run in with Dio before or did Polnareff tell Iggy how to design the sand clone?  Alternatively, Joseph has collected pictures of him and as Kajo_Senpai69 suggested, that could be a simple answer.  With that understood, I still question how they emulated his voice and how they actually knew Vanilla Ice's name, I don't recall it being mentioned to the two of them.

^Lol I was thinking the same thing.