Diavolo vs Giovanni is a What-If Death Battle between Diavolo from Jojo's Bizarre Adventure and Giovanni from Pokemon.
Description[]
What would happened if two powerful bosses of criminal organizations fought each other in a battle to the death?
Interlude[]
(*Cues: Wiz and Boomstick - Brandon Yates)
Wiz: The Italian mafia is maybe one of the more well-known and fearsome kind of criminal organizations around the world, and only a few men can join their lines.
Boomstick: But only the toughest of men can call themselves the boss of their own mafia.
Wiz: Like Diavolo, the mysterious boss of Passione.
Boomstick: And Giovanni, the powerful leader of Team Rocket.
Wiz: For this fight, we will not count anything that is not part of their standard arsenal.
Boomstick: Which means no Mega Mewtwo Y and no hypothetical King Crimson Requiem. He's Wiz and I'm Boomstick.
Wiz: And it’s our job to analyze their weapons, armor, and skills to find out who would win a Death Battle.
Diavolo[]
(*Cues: JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Golden Wind OST- Alba)
Wiz: Italy can look like a beautiful place with its magnificent architecture, deleicious food, and touristic paradises, but underneath all that resides one of the most powerful criminal organization in Europe: Passione.
(*Cues: JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Golden Wind OST- Crepusculo)
Boomstick: I mean, this mafia is so powerful that they could probably run the country if they wanted to.
Wiz: Not really. Anyway, probably the most terrifying thing of Passione is its leader, Diavolo.
Boomstick: The guy is so mysterious that no one knows who he really is.
Wiz: Born in an all female prison after a very strange pregnancy of two years, Diavolo was a pretty unique child.
Boomstick: As you could expect, prisons are not the best place to raise a child, so the prison guards sent little Diavolo to live with a priest in Sardinia, so he could have a normal life.
Wiz: Years passed and Diavolo grew to be a good person, and had a pretty normal life, until he decided to begin a quest for power where the first step was to erase any aspect of his past.
Boomstick: Yeah, if by "erasing the past", you mean that he set his entire town on fire and killed both his step father and his mom and then he faked his own death. Dude, that's pretty mess up.
(*Cues: JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders OST - Fire Shaman)
Wiz: Some time later, Diavolo join an excavation in Egypt where he found 6 golden Arrow heads.
Boomstick: And as many people would do, he went directly to sell them, but before he could sell the 6 arrow heads, the old lady that was buying him the arrow heads told him that the arrow heads had a great power so he should conserve one. Wow, what a nice old lady. I hope nothing bad ever happens to her.
Wiz: These are Stand arrows, objects with the ability to create Stands In a few word, a Stand is the physical manifestation of a person's fighting spirit. Every Stand has a unique power. Even if two Stands have similar abilities, they’ll still be drastically different from each other.
Boomstick: And Diavolo got one of the most broken Stand abilities: "Time Erasure". With this new power and the money he got from the Arrows, he returned to Italy and began his own Mafia, and no wonder that nobody wants to mess with him. He has one of the most powerful Stands in the town, King Crimson, and also, like other stands, King Crimson can only be seen by a Stand user and can only be hurt be another Stand.
Wiz: King Crimson is a short range stand with superhuman strength and superhuman speed, but all that is nothing compared to Its signature ability: the Time Erasure. With this ability, King Crimson can erase ten seconds of time where everybody except for his user will not feel or remember anything.
Boomstick: Like when I have a hangover.
(Cut to Wiz and Boomstick.)
Wiz: For example, while you're doing something like giving someone a bottle of water.
(Wiz proceeds to erase time with a device in his pocket while Boomstick is drinking a beer.)
Wiz: You will do the action during the erased time, but you will not remember what happened during the ten seconds the time erased extends, nor will you be able to interact with the world around you, leaving a feeling of confusion in many opponents.
(Wiz takes Boomstick's beer and hides it, then time returns to normal.)
Boomstick: Where’s my beer?
Wiz: Diavolo can also use a sub-Stand ability called Epitaph that can predict an opponent’s move in the next ten seconds, of course.
Boomstick: Ok, I get it. This guy is super powerful, but how can he maintain his identity so secret to the point no one knows who he is? Don't you need a public identity to live at least a normal life and not be a hobo?
Wiz: Yes, he has one, but at the same time, he doesn’t.
Boomstick: What do you mean?
(*Cues: Golden Wind OST Vol.3 - Diavolo Theme)
Wiz: Diavolo suffers from a special mental condition that literally divides his soul into two different personalities: Diavolo and Vinegar Doppio.
Boomstick: Like that guy from that James McAvoy movie?
Wiz: While Diavolo is violent and prideful, Doppio is kind, honest, and a little bit cowardly, and in case Doppio has to fight, he can use Epitaph and part of King Crimson's power, and despite not being an official statement, some people believe that Epitaph is not really a sub-Stand ability, but rather Doppio's own Stand.
Boomstick: Ok, I mean, that makes sense, but how can this whiny kid be the intimidating boss of the mafia...
(Doppio transforms in Diavolo and attack the Fortune teller).
Boomstick: HOLY SHIT, how he can he even do that?
Wiz: Apparently, Diavolo can change his appearance at will, depending on what personality is controlling the body.
Boomstick: Wow, I didn't know having multiple personalities can make you alter your physical appearance.
Wiz: It doesn't. However, Diavolo's condition seems to resemble a mental disorder from real life known as Dissociative Identity Disorder, a condition that has symptoms like memory gaps, hallucinations, and headaches.
Doppio: I don't feel so good... my head hurts...
Wiz: And this condition is usually instigated from a childhood trauma, but in the case of Diavolo, he didn't suffer any trauma in his childhood. He was just born that way.
(*Cues: Counterattack : Jojo's Bizarre Adventures : Golden Wind OST Vol.3 Finale)
Boomstick: Well, it doesn't matter who is in control of the body because we can all agree that Diavolo is a fucking badass, right?
Wiz: Absolutely.
Boomstick: I mean, Doppio is so freaking smart that even without King Crimson's full power, he defeated an even more experienced Stand User, and if that's what can Doppio do, imagine what Diavolo can do.
Wiz: Both Diavolo and Doppio have achieved many impressive feats like won multiple battles against Stand users like Polnareff, Bruno Bucciarati, and Risotto Nero.
Boomstick: Who has one of the better Stand names on the show: METALLICA!
Wiz: King Crimson is so fast that it can match the speed of other Stands like Gold Experience and Silver Chariot.
Boomstick: Do you remember that guy? The knight Stand that can move at the speed of light?
Wiz: Also, considering that King Crimson is said to have an A in destructive power, this means that he is in the same league as other stands like Star Platinum or The World, who in one occasion lifted a sixty ton steamroller.
Boomstick: Unfortunately, Diavolo is not perfect.
Wiz: Diavolo is susceptible to underestimating his opponents due to his great ego and pride, which ultimately resulted in his downfall.
Boomstick: Like the time he fought a stupid kid with a dream and end Ed up in a infinite loop of death, and also if King Crimson is hurt, Diavolo feels the same pain and vice versa. Same goes for either of them dying.
Wiz: But even with his downsides, never underestimate the power of the Crimson King of Italy.
Giovanni[]
(*Cues: Pokémon The Origins - Welcome to the World of Pokémon!)
Wiz: This is Kanto, one of the most well known regions in the Pokemon world thanks to his technological advances like the Pokémon Storage System, the invention of the revolutionaries Pokedex and Master ball, or for being the home of the famous Mouse Pokémon Pikachu.
Boomstick: And also for being the home of the criminal organization Team Rocket and his leader Giovanni
(*Cues: Pokémon The Origins - Giovanni Theme )
Wiz: As Leader of Team rocket Giovanni is owner of his own game corner, what is a fancy word for casino, and base his economy in the commercialization of Pokémon that he obtains with questionable legal methods.
Boomstick: This guys literally capture Pokémon without poke balls and then they sell them in their "not casino" like toys, jesus, and that's not mentioning the time they killed a Marowack, Rest in peace Skull head mommy.
Wiz: But Giovanni wasn't always this powerful mob boss, In his youth Giovanni much like other kids had the dream of one day became a Pokémon trainer.
Boomstick: In fact, Giovanni didn't just become a Pokémon trainer, he became the Gym leader of Viridian City.
Wiz: And according to some people Giovanni is the strongest Gym leader in the Kanto Region, but his vision about the world changed and started to look at Pokémon more like instrument for business rather than partners.
Boomstick: And so he started Team Rocket... Wiz I have to do this question, Why is his organization called team "rocket"?
Wiz: I don't really know, but what I know is that Giovanni really has what it takes to be the boss of team rocket.
Boomstick: Yeah, the guy is expert in battle, with a lot of years in Pokémon battles in his back, but What would be of a Pokémon trainer without a Pokémon.
Wiz: Giovanni has used many Pokémons throw the years, but for this battle we are going to use one his most popular and beloved Pokémon, Rhydon.
(*Cues: Pokémon The Origins - Battle! Trainer Music)
Wiz: Weighting two hundred sixty four pounds and standing six feet, three inches tall Rhydon is a monster.
Boomstick: Half ground type and half Rock Type Rhydon Priories Attack and defense over speed
Wiz: Rhydons are extremely durable, their bones are more than one thousand times more resistant than human bones and can resist temperatures of three thousand six hundred degree Fahrenheit.
Boomstick: And giving their types Rhydons can withstand attacks from Fire, poison, normal, rock, Flying and Electric type attacks.
Wiz: Rhydons can learn a bunch of attacks like, Horn Attack, Stomp, Horn Drill, Fury Attack, Take Down, Megahorn, Rock Slide, Rock Blast or Earthquake.
Boomstick: And because Giovanni's Rhydon is a trained Pokémon that means he can learn attacks that other Pokémons from his species couldn't learn in the wild, like Body Slam, Fissure or Mega Punch.
Wiz: Rhydon can also use other attacks that can alter the stats of his rivals in the battle field.
Boomstick: With Tail Whip he can decreases the Defense of his target.
Wiz: with Scary face he can decrease his target's speed.
Boomstick: Man, Rhydons are so cool that they can even break diamond with their freaking horns.
Wiz: To break a diamond Rhydon should be able to hit with a pressure of 87022800 PSI.
Boomstick: Holy hell, Is that all he can do?
Wiz: Yes, but Giovanni can push the limits of Rhydon even further be making him evolve with protector, turning him into the powerful Rhyperior, in fact, it was Giovanni the one who discovered the existence of this evolution.
Boomstick: Awesome.
Wiz: As Rhyperior, he can learn new moves like Hammer Arm, Stone Edge, Ice Punch and Thunder Punch.
(Cut to Wiz and Boomstick.)
Boomstick: You know Wiz, I felt inspired be Giovanni and Rhyperior, so I decided to upgrade my own Pokémon.
Wiz: Boomstick you don't have.
(Boomstick searching something off screen).
Boomstick: Just give a moment, and... here it is.
(Holds up Mr.Snappy who has a gun stick in his back).
Wiz: That's your turtle with a gun.
Boomstick: I Know, isn't that awesome.
Wiz: And how do you expected him to fire the Gun?
Boomstick: I don't know, with his mind, I think you where the smart here.
Wiz: Boomstick, There's no way he can fir...
(Somehow Mr.Snappy fires the gun in his back and Wiz falls to the ground).
Wiz: Oh my liver.
Boomstick: IT WORK, You did it Mr.Snappy... Are you ok Wiz?
Wiz: Anyway, despite all the incredible power of Rhydon or Rhyperior, Giovanni can also assist his Pokémon in battle with the help of items like the Liechi Berry or the life Orb that can increase his Pokémon already crazy strength.
Boomstick: And with the Silph Scope he can see Ghosts.
Wiz: With the Intellect of Giovanni and the Incredible Power of Rhydon, together they are formidable duo.
Boomstick: Giovanni has Battle Pokémon trainers and Pokémons like the Kanto Champion Red, the space Pokémon Deoxys, and the leader of the elite four Lance.
Wiz: And for a Rhydon, Giovanni's Rhydon is quite fast, being able to match Red's Charizard Speed, Who can move at a speed of 1045 miles per hour, and Rhydon is likely even faster, acording to the pokemon entries of Rhyhorn, the pre-evolution of rhydon, they can run so fast that they can take down an entire skycraper, using the minimun size for a building to be considered a Skycraper and the average weight of a Rhyhorn we deduced that Rhydon can run 9538102 mph .
Boomstick: Is there something they can't do?
Wiz: Giovanni is talented but not flawless, he can sometimes underestimate his opponents, making him lose the battle some times, and because of the Rock and Ground types of Rhydon he is vulnerable to attacks from water, grass, fighting, ice, steel and ground type attacks, and also Rhydon needs Giovanni's indications in battle, other wise he would be just like other wild Rhydon.
Boomstick: Yeah, but who cares, just because you have the chance, that doesn't mean you can just challenge the leader of team rocket and expect to win.
Giovanni: A child like you can not even begin to understand what I hope to achieve, hahaha.
Pre-Death Battle[]
Wiz: All right the combatants are set! Let's end this debate once and for all!!
Boomstick:It's time for a Death Battle, Mafia style!!
Death Battle[]
Doppio is walking on an empty street when suddenly he starts making phone noises
Dopio: Turururururu, uh?, where does that sound come from?, Tururururururu, that sounds like my phone
Doppio starts searching for his cell phone in his bag
Doppio: where is it?
He finally find his phone and answers
Doppio: Hello, this is Doppio
Diavolo's voice sounds inside of Doppio's head
Diavolo: Doppio, my sweet Doppio
Doppio: Boss, is that you?
Diavolo: Listen carefully Doppio, Maybe you haven't noticed it yet but there has been someone following you this all time
Doppio: What! where?
Diavolo: Don't alter yourself, I will be there as fast as I can, and remember
Giovanni appear from behind Doppio
Giovanni: You are Vinegar Doppio, Isn't it?
Doppio: AH!
Doppio drops his phone and then he crush it with his foot
Doppio: No, I don't know Nobody with that name, no if you excuse me I have somewhere else to be
Doppio tries to run away but Giovanni takes a Ultra ball from his pocket and throws it to the air, in mid air Rhydon comes out of the ultra ball and lands in front of Doppio blocking his path
Giovanni: I'm gonna be clear with you, my name is Giovanni and You and Your organization have been giving me some trouble for a while, so I decided that the best solution to solve this problem was to talk to your boss, But It just happened that no one knows where find him, But I heard about a kid name Doppio that may know where to find him
Suddenly Rhydon gets throw to Giovanni at high speed, and Epitaph appers in Doppio's forehead
(*Cues: traitor's requiem instrumental)
Doppio: I don't know who you are, but if you try to do something to the boss I will make sure that the last thing you ever feel is nothing more than pain. DID YOU HEAR ME BASTARD!
Giovanni: So the hard way it is then
Giovanni and Rhydon stand up from the ground, then Giovanni takes a Liechi Berry out of his pocket and feeds it to Rhydon
Giovanni: If this is how things are going to be, Rhydon use Take Down
Rhydon: RAAAAAAAh!
Rhydon starts running at high Speed to use Take Down against Doppio, but it is reveal that all this was an Epitaph's prediction
Giovanni: If this is how things are going to be, Rhydon use Take Down
Rhydon: RAAAAAAAh!
Rhydon starts running at high Speed to use Take Down against Doppio, but Doppio use King Crimson's arms to stop Rhydon's attack, and then he use them to lunch Rhydon into the air, and starts running towards Giovanni
Giovanni: Rhydon, quick, use Rock Slide
In mid air Rhydon is surrendered be rings of light, the rings of light turn into rocks that are launch toward Doppio, but Doppio quickly sees a prediction of him being hit by the rocks and turns to see the the rocks flying at him
Doppio: ah!
Doppio gets hit be 2 rocks but he catch the third rock with king crimson's right arm and throws it back to Rhydon who does not flinch at the attack, he falls back to the ground and makes the ground tremble
Giovanni: Rhydon, Fury Attack now
Before Rhydon lands the first hit on Doppio, Doppio counters the first hit with his King Crimson's power and then they get into a fist flurry and counter each other blow for blow
Giovanni: This kid is not normal, he can attack Rhydon with out touching him
Giovanni takes Silph Scope and puts it on his face, with the Silph Scope he can now see King crimson
Giovanni: Rhydon use Earthquake
While Doppio and Rhydon still in their exchange a flurry of blows Rhydon hit the ground with his right leg, because of this the ground starts trembling and Doppio loose stability
Giovanni: Now Rhydon, Mega Punch
In a quick prediction Doppio sees the attack coming and tries to block it with King crimson, but when Rhydon hit him with Mega Punch, the punch is so powerful that smash Doppio against a nearby Store
Giovanni: What a waste of time, Rhydon, end with this once and for all
Rhydon nods and starts running towards Doppio who lais in the ground among the debris of the store bleeding
Doppio: This creature is too powerful to handle it myself, but all he does is follow that man's instructions, maybe if I get rid of him first, that animal will not have more instructs to follow and will be more easy to eliminate
Then Doppio sees three silver knives on the floor, he grabs them and using Kimg Crimson's arm he throws them at high speed, Rhydon sees the Knives coming in his direction so he stop running and tries to block them with his arms, but turns out the knives were thrown towards Giovanni, who can barely react to the attack and gets hit be two knives in the chest and the third one in his arm, because of this Giovanni falls to the ground, after seen his trainer fall to the ground Rhydon gets notoriously angry, so he furiously charged at Doppio, but his attack is stop by a fully manifest King Crimson, Doppio is Shown walking out of the shadows, but his eyes are different now, and his body starts changing, He isn't Doppio Anymore, Now Diavolo is in control of the body, the Sky turns red and every turns dark, sign that King Crimson is Erasing Time
Diavolo: Don't worry my dare Doppio, you have done a good job, but now let me take it from here
Diavolo starts walking slowly to get Behind Rhydon while he take off Doppio's sweater and he starts talking to Rhydon
Diavolo: You and your master have been nothing but a mere annoyance, and I will not tolerated this kind of insolence, But I can't deny that you have fought with passion, so let me give you the gift of a quick death
Finally behind Rhydon, Diavolo tries to strike piercing Rhydon's back with a fatal blow (In short words he tries to donut him with King Crimson) however Rhydon does not flinch at the attack and then the time gets back to normal
Diavolo: WHAT!
Without little warning Giovanni appears behind Diavolo and Punch him in the face, after being punch by Giovanni Rhydon use Scare Face against Diavolo
Rhydon: RAAAAAAAh!
Diavolo: What is happening?!
Then Diavolo gets smacked by a powerful tail hit
Giovanni: I must admit, I that knife attack really surprised me, but I sugest you to practice your aim
It's reveal that the two fist knives hit a Protector (The item) that was under Giovanni's suit, meaning the only knife that wound Giovanni was the one that hit his arm (I know, pretty convenient), Giovanni takes the Protector from his suit and Rhydon walks to his side
Giovanni: Are you thinking what I'm Thinking?
Rhydon nods
Diavolo: You think you can Usurp my throne? ONLY I DIAVOLO HAVE THE RIGHT TO BEING IN THE TOP OF THE WORLD
Diavolo stands from the ground and Erase Time with King Crimson, then Diavolo stars walking at Giovanni, when he gets close to Giovanni he notice that Rhydon is Glowing and that his appearance is changing but he doesn't care and gets a meter in front of Giovanni
Diavolo: And those who don't belong in my world don't deserve nothing rather than death
The time resumes
Diavolo: DIE GIOVANNI
King Crimson hits him in the Chest, the sound of his Ribs being broken can be hear, but before he can go any further he gets distracted by an enormous Stone arm that almost hit him but that he dodge, Rhydon has evolved into the even more powerful Rypherior
Giovanni: Rhyperior use Thunder Punch
(From this point the "Time Skip" is only seen from the perspective of Giovanni and Rhyperior) Rhyperior runs at Diavolo, His fist get surrended by an electric energy and tries to hit Diavolo but The Crimson emperor Dodges every attack and Erases time multiple times to Hit Rhyperior from behing, basically smacking him all over the place like a Punch bag, Giovanni notice the pattern and gives Rhyperior the last instructions
Giovanni: RHYPERIOR BEHIND YOU
Rhyperior quickly turns around and Grabs Diavolo arm who is fainting and then the Drill Pokémon proceeds to throw him violently against a wall, In the impact almost every bone in Diavolo's body broke
Giovanni: Rhyperior, Finish him with Horn Drill, NOW!
Rhyperior's horn Starts spinning and Rhyperior charges at Diavolo with it
Diavolo: How could this...
The impact Results in a explosion that left nothing more that dust in the air and a mist blood
Giovanni: (Bleeding and almost fainting) I think that we will stop the searching for today.
KO!
Conclusion[]
(*Cues: Pokémon The Origins - Giovanni Final Battle Theme)
Boomstick: That was brutal, even for Jojo standards.
Wiz: This was a really unique match. Diavolo surely could handle Rhyhorn's overwhelming strength thanks to his ability to see the future through Epitaph and King Crimson’s superior speed, but that's about it.
Boomstick: Giovanni and Rhydon overshadowed Diavolo and King Crimson in almost every other category.
Wiz: Now let’s make the comparisons, King Crimson hold a solid advantage in speed through being able to match Silver Chariot in speed, who is said to be as fast as or even faster than light. Compared to Rhydon, who can move over over 9,000,000 miles per hour, this means that King Crimson is seventy times faster than the Drill Pokémon.
Boomstick: But what can you do with so much speed when your opponent surpasses you in everything else? Like strength, durability, and versatility.
Wiz: King Crimson has shown to be able to break granite with his own fist with ease, which means that he can strike with two hundred and twelve tons of force.
Boomstick: But that pales in comparison to Rhydon, who can break through the toughest of diamonds using his horn.
Wiz: Using an official artwork of Rhydon to measure the area of his horn, we deduced that this area is 39 square inches. Multiplying this with the amount of pressure required to break a diamond of those characteristics, Rhydon can strike with more than one million tons of force.
Boomstick: And also, it didn't matter how strong KC was since he couldn’t really hurt Rhydon because his bones were one thousand times stronger than human bones.
Wiz: An average human bone can support one thousand kilograms of force at best, which means Rhydon’s bones and the rest of him can support one thousand tons of force, so he can take any hit King Crimson throws at him.
Boomstick: And Rhydon’s moveset was more versatile than anything KC can do, so basically, he had more ways to end the fight than not. Seriously, is there anything these two aren't prepared for?.
Wiz: Well yes, with the obvious answer being the erasing time, certainly Giovanni or Rhydon couldn't be prepared for an ability like that, but even then, thanks to Giovanni's more amount of experience in the battlefield and clever mind, he could figure out King Crimson’s power, like other people have done in the past.
Bruno Bucciarati: I was right. One may call your power invincible, but that same ability also has its limitations.
Wiz: And there was no way Diavolo could avoid his fatal destiny forever through predicting all of his opponent’s moves since Epitaph’s predictions show an unavoidable future that could give him time to react at best.
Boomstick: Or you know, he can just evolve Rhydon into Rhyperior and smash Diavolo like a ragdoll.
Wiz: In the end, Diavolo’s speed and unexpected abilities offered a good fight, but Giovanni and Rhydon where just too tough, strong, and experienced for Diavolo and King Crimson to handle.
Boomstick: This was for sure a Gold Experience.
Wiz: The winner is Giovanni.
Trivia[]
- The connections between Diavolo and Giovanni are that they are both leaders of a criminal organization inspired by the Italian mafia and both were defeated by kids (Giorno at 15 years old and Red at 11 years old respectively) and they technically don't fight for themselves (Diavolo uses his Stand, King Crimson, and Giovanni uses his Pokemon).
- Also both have a daughter and a son respectively (Trish Una and Silver) that rebel against them.
- Ironically, the last name of one of Diavolo's enemies (Giorno Giovanna) is the feminine form of the Italian name Giovanni