Jonathan Joestar

Jonathan Joestar is the protagonist of Phantom Blood and the first JoJo of the JoJo's Bizarre Adventure series.

He is characterized as being kind, honest, and loyal, as a direct counterpart to his adopted brother, the evil Dio. He sacrifices himself at the end of Part 1 in order to defeat Dio, but his sacrifice was in vain, as Dio was able to survive and attach his severed head onto Jonathan's post-mortem.

Jonathan fathered one child with his wife Erina before his death, George Joestar II, and through DIO using his body to procreate, is technically the father of Giorno Giovanna, Rykiel, Ungalo, and Donatello Versus.

Physical Appearance
Jonathan is a large physically fit man. He has blue longish hair and blue eyes. His usual outfit consists of him wearing a large blue short-sleeve crop top. He wears a backpack and grey jeans with brown boots.

Occasional Appearances
In Dio the Invader, as a 12-year-old boy, he has well-kept blue hair and wears a fancy suit over a white undershirt.

In Dio the Invader, as an adult playing rugby, he wears a large, long-sleeved jersey with white and aquamarine stripes.

In A Letter From the Past, when confronting Dio about poisoning their father, he wears a formal suit with a white ascot.

In Overdrive, on his walk with Erina when he first meets Will A. Zeppeli he wears a similar outfit to that of when he was young, but it is brown, and he wears a pink scarf.

In Overdrive, following his father's death, he wears some weird ass sweater over a brown long-sleeved shirt and wears a baseball cap backwards on his head.

In The Final Ripple! he wears a black tuxedo during his wedding with Erina.

In Who Will be the Judge? Jonathan appears in a flashback in the Part 3 art style.

In the JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: The Animation Season 1 official reveal, Jonathan wears an outfit similar to that which appears in the Volume 4 illustration.

In Beyond II, Jonathan is revived, and wakes up rejuvenated after having his head reattached. (non-canon)

History
Jonathan was born into the rich Joestar family in the late 1860s. When he was a young baby, he was in a carriage accident, which caused the death of his mother and the fateful meeting of his father, George Joestar, and Dario Brando.

10 years later, when Jonathan is 12, Dario Brando passes away, and his son, Dio, is adopted by Jonathan's father. The two of them instantly become rivals, while Jonathan tries to welcome his new brother, Dio is plotting the downfall of the Joestars so that he may steal their fortune.

Age
In the first episode Jonathan is 12 years old, and then in the rest of Part 1 he is 20 years old.

Personality
Jonathan is described, mostly by himself and by other people, as a true gentleman. He never acts out of his own self-interest, which directly mirrors his archrival Dio.

Hamon
Having been taught this ancient technique by Will A. Zeppeli, Jonathan harnesses the sun in order to defeat vampires and zombies such as Dio and his minions.

Some of his attacks:

 * Zoom Punch- Allows him to dislocate his arm and stretch it a few feet in order to hit an opponent.
 * Sunlight Yellow Overdrive- Sends Hamon through his body directly.The Passion ico.png

The Passion (non-canon)
In Part 3, using Jonathan's body, DIO is able to use a Hermit Purple-like Stand to spy on the Stardust Crusaders. This is intended to be Jonathan's latent Stand ability (named "The Passion" in the non-canon light novel Jorge Joestar,) which has the basic powers of Hermit Purple, those being clairvoyance and Hamon transmission.

Part 1: Phantom Blood

 * Episode 1: Dio the Invader
 * Episode 2: A Letter from the Past
 * Episode 3: Youth with Dio
 * Episode 4: Overdrive
 * Episode 5: The Dark Knights
 * Episode 6: Pluck for Tomorrow
 * Episode 7: The Successor
 * Episode 8: Bloody Battle! JoJo & Dio
 * Episode 9: The Final Ripple! (death)

JORGE JOESTAR

 * Chapter 1: Tsukumojuku (mentioned)
 * Chapter 3: Wounds (mentioned)
 * Chapter 5: Box (corpse)
 * Chapter 7: Airplanes (mentioned)
 * Chapter 9: Cliff (mentined)
 * Chapter 11: Gremlin (mentioned)
 * Chapter 13: Enemy (mentioned)
 * Chapter 15: Beyond (mentioned)
 * Chapter 16: Beyond II

Part 2: Battle Tendency

 * Episode 10: JoJo of New York (mentioned)
 * Episode 11: Master of the Game (mentioned)
 * Episode 14: Ultimate Warriors from Ancient Times (flashback)
 * Episode 20: Caesar: A Lonely Youth (flashback)
 * Episode 21: A Hundred Against Two (flashback)
 * Episode 24: The Bond That Binds JoJo (mentioned)
 * Episode 25: The Birth of a Superbeing!! (flashback)
 * Episode 26: The Man Who Became a God (photograph)

Part 3: Stardust Crusaders

 * Episode 1: A Man Possessed by an Evil Spirit (mentioned)
 * Episode 2: Who Will Be the Judge!? (flashback)
 * Episode 24: High Priestess, Part 2 (mentioned)
 * Episode 36: Hol Horse and Boingo, Part 1 (mentioned)
 * Episode 39: The Gatekeeper of Hell, Pet Shop, Part 2 (flashback)
 * Episode 42: The Miasma of the Void, Vanilla Ice, Part 1 (mentioned)
 * Episode 46: DIO's World, Part 2 (mentioned)
 * Episode 47: DIO's World, Part 3 (flashback)
 * Episode 48: The Faraway Journey, Farewell Friends (mentioned)

Trivia

 * Jonathan's birthmark, which is a staple among members of the Joestar Family, is never shown in the manga, but in the anime, it is retconned into the Tarkus and Bruford fight.
 * The animators for the Part 4 OP "Great Days" intended for Jonathan to be added somewhere in the OP, but the writers stopped them, and included the rising sun at the beginning to be a representation of him.
 * It is a misconception that Jonathan was named after a restaurant that Araki went to called "Jonathan's" as he was actually called Jonathan Joestar because Araki wanted to have a protagonist who's name had alliteration, like the name Steven Spielberg.