CHARACTER PROFILE
Dario Brando
- Primary work
- Phantom Blood
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Dario Brando (ダリオ・ブランドー, Dario Burandō) is a secondary character featured in the first part of the JoJo's Bizarre Adventure series, Phantom Blood.
Dario is the father of Dio Brando. An alcoholic and abusive man, he is primarily responsible for Dio's descent into evil. After a tragic misunderstanding, George Joestar I decides he owes him a favor, eventually adopting his son Dio into the Joestar family.
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Original image ↗ · Archived image ↗01Basic information
02Appearance
03Personality
Dario Brando is portrayed as a corrupt, alcoholic, and abusive father.↗
Dario is repeatedly portrayed as extremely immoral. When George woke up, Dario tricked him into believing he was saving him, hoping to exploit the gentleman's naïveté; when George later covered for him out of kindness, Dario couldn't understand the gesture.↗↗
He was hated by his own son, whom he would yell at and beat for the flimsiest reasons. His alcoholic nature was shared with Dio, who hated himself for resembling his father after getting drunk.↗↗
04Story
SPOILERS
Phantom Blood
Dario was a poor man in Victorian England who witnessed George Joestar I 's carriage crash one day in 1868. He immediately started looting the wreckage on the assumption that there were no survivors, even as a woman from a bar that he brought with him noted that the infant was still alive. George wakes up and assumes that Dario saved his life, feeling indebted to him.↗↗↗
For the next twelve years, Dario took out his frustration on his son Dio, who he grew to hate his father enough to poison him with Wang Chan 's assistance. Unaware that his own son was killing him, he tells Dio of the debt George still owes him on his deathbed. Dario gives Dio a letter to mail to the Joestar Mansion, in which he details his condition and asks the Joestars to adopt Dio.↗↗↗
05Plot details
SPOILERS
Personality
Being a petty thief, Dario has no qualm stealing from the dead, notably stealing a then unconscious George Joestar 's ring, believing him to be dead. He also told his companion to let George's child die.↗↗
Dario was an abusive husband and father, having presumably forced his wife to work to death. At some point, he asked his son to sell his dead mother 's clothes in order to buy more booze.↗↗
Appearances
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Episode 1: Dio the Invader (Death)↗
Phantom Blood Musical Scene 2: The Invader (Death)↗
Profile details
Status: Deceased (Part 1)↗
Date of Death: 1880 | December 30, 1880 (Movie)↗↗
Cause of Death: Fatally poisoned by Dio Brando↗
06Appearances
07Relationships
| Character | Relationship | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Dio Brando | Son | ↗ |
| Giorno Giovanna | Grandson | ↗ |
| Donatello Versus | Grandson | ↗ |
| Ungalo | Grandson | ↗ |
| Rikiel | Grandson | ↗ |
08Sources & attribution
- Dario Brando
Source text: JoJoWiki and its contributors. This entry has been reorganized and condensed for readability under CC BY-SA 4.0. Archived records reflect their capture dates. Referenced manga, anime, and artwork retain their respective copyrights.
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