History Characters / JoJosBizarreAdventureJosephJoestar

* SoLastSeason: As the last shown Hamon user by the time Stands are introduced, he gets hit with this ''hard''. While Hamon can be used against humans to a degree, it cannot innately harm Stands, making it practically useless in most fights from this point onwards. Even DIO, the one opponent that should be most vulnerable to Hamon, can practically ignore it entirely using his Stand. This isn't helped by neither Joseph's old age, lack of Hamon training, nor his fairly weak Stand. By the time of Part 4, he pretty much drops Hamon entirely. Not that it matters much, as age had reduced him from a Hamon warrior capable of defeating the UltimateLifeform to a senile old man barely able to walk on his own.
* SoleSurvivor: [[spoiler:of the Part 3 group, he remains the only one alive with half of the group dying at the end of the Part with the other two dying in Parts 5 and 6 in situations that leave them technically dead as their physical self and as their own individual]].

* StayInTheKitchen: Displays this attitude towards Lisa Lisa, showing concern for her when she is about to fight Kars because she is a woman, even though she as his mentor has shown herself to be a far more skilled Hamon user than him. [[spoiler:His concern is validated when it turns out Kars had no intention of fighting fair and attacks her when her guard is down.]] [[DownplayedTrope It was him being cautious about the enemy, which turned out to be right, but even he too underestimated how low his enemy would sink]].
* StealthPun: Joseph cheats ''everything!'' He cheats at cards, he cheats in formal combat with Wamuu, he cheats the Hell-Climb Pillar, he ''tries'' to cheat Daniel J. D'Arby, helped Jotaro cheat to beat Terrence D'Arby, [[spoiler:he cheats death at the ends of Part 2 and Part 3 and, by virtue of still being alive and out of the story at the end of Part 6, cheats the family curse of dying a violent, young death... and, oh yes, he cheats on his wife]].

* IWasQuiteALooker: Gets this by ''Diamond is Unbreakable''. In Part 2, he was a very handsome, muscular young man, and even in Part 3 he gained quite rugged looks even as an old man. But by Part 4, old age has caught up to him, and he looks like a feeble and decrepit old man.

* SoProudOfYou: Once he gets to know Josuke he comes to feel great pride in his son and fully believes that he and his friends can handle any challenges that come their way in the future. He can't help but chuckle when Josuke manages to swindle his wallet from him before he leaves Morioh, clearly impressed that his boy managed to out guile him.
* StayInTheKitchen: Displays this attitude towards Lisa Lisa, showing concern for her when she was about to fight Kars because she was a woman, even though she as his mentor has shown herself to be a far more skilled Hamon user than him. [[spoiler:His concern is validated when it turns out Kars had no intention of fighting fair.]]

* {{Stripperific}}: His IconicOutfit bares the most skin out of any of the main characters' after Jolyne's (sometimes as much or even ''more'', depending on the panel). So of course, the official artwork for the anime is going to stick him in [[http://danbooru.donmai.us/post/show/1308657/ a belly shirt and pair of pants that looks ready to either fall off or burst]], then milk it even further by [[http://danbooru.donmai.us/post/show/1318750/ giving him Jolyne's pants]] and making his outfit [[SerialEscalation even more revealing]].

** Gave an eulogy for Esidisi after seeing his VillainousValor and shows Wamuu sincere respect by easing the pain of his death with his own blood.

* ForgotAboutHisPowers: A few situations they get into would be easily resolved by Joseph using his Hamon abilities from ''Battle Tendency''. The show does say that Joseph is out of practice at using those abilities, but considering Joseph has been preparing to face DIO (an enemy he knows is vulnerable to Hamon) for three years and the first time it took him a month to learn those skills, it seems odd that Joseph had no occasion to get reacquainted with his abilities over a weekend. The more egregious moment where Hamon might've solved everything is in Joseph's bet against Daniel J. D'Arby, as Joseph had learn to manipulate liquids with Hamon, including making them keep their shape ''even in the absence of a glass''. There's no way Joseph should've lost that bet if he thought of using his Hamon. However, this can be justified with the fact that people can see Hamon being used, and thus D'Arby would be able to see that he was cheating and take his soul as he only penalised cheating if they were caught.

* WeakButSkilled: In Part 3, Hermit Purple is easily one of the weakest Stands in the series, but nonetheless, Joseph's superior skill and combat experience allows him to occasionally defeat stronger Stands like the Empress.

''''' [[Characters/JoJosBizarreAdventureStardustCrusaders Stardust Crusaders]]:''''' [[Characters/JojosBizarreAdventureStardustCrusadersTheJoestarGroup The Joestar Group]] ([[Characters/JoJosBizarreAdventureJotaroKujo Jotaro Kujo]] | [[Characters/JoJosBizarreAdventureJeanPierrePolnareff Jean-Pierre Polnareff]]) | [[Characters/JoJosBizarreAdventureEgyptNineGloryGods Egypt 9 Glory Gods]]\\

'''''[[Characters/JoJosBizarreAdventureGoldenWind Golden Wind]]:''''' [[Characters/JoJosBizarreAdventureTeamBucciarati Team Bucciarati]] ([[Characters/JojosBizarreAdventureGiornoGiovanna Giorno Giovanna]]) | [[Characters/JojosBizarreAdventureDiavolo The Boss]]\\

'''''[[Characters/JoJosBizarreAdventureBattleTendency Battle Tendency]]:''''' '''Joseph Joestar''' | [[Characters/JoJosBizarreAdventureKars Kars]]\\

'''''[[Characters/JoJosBizarreAdventureJojolion JoJolion]]:''''' [[Characters/JoJosBizarreAdventureJoJolionTheHigashikataFamily The Higashikata Family]] | [[Characters/JoJosBizarreAdventureToru The Mastermind]]\\

* TheWorfEffect: His fight with DIO in Part 3 is a double-pronged version of this trope. Joseph's first proper fight in Part 2 was his curb-stomp victory over Straizo, who was at least as strong as DIO was in Part 1. This established how difficult his fight with the Pillar Men would be compared to Jonathan's fight with DIO in Part 1. Joseph's fight with DIO in Part 3 is completely one-sided in the latter's favour, showing not only how much stronger DIO had become since Part 1, but also how the World made him much more dangerous than the Pillar Men (all of whom Joseph defeated single-handedly). DIO also proved to be so crafty that none of Joseph's usual tricks could do more than slightly delay his inevitable defeat.

** His grandson Jotaro calls him ''jiji'' (old man).

* AffectionateNickname: While Joseph inherited Jonathan's nickname [=JoJo=], Speedwagon never addressed Jonathan by that nickname, but he always calls Joseph "[=JoJo=]". Similarly, Erina who switched from calling her husband "[=JoJo=]" to his real name upon marriage, refers to her grandson as "[=JoJo=]".
* AlliterativeName: '''Jo'''seph '''Jo'''estar

* UnstoppableRage: During his confrontation with Kars, he gets angry at Lisa Lisa losing and starts beating a bunch of vampires, before getting overwhelmed.

* OutOfCharacterMoment: By all indications, he seemed to be HappilyMarried to Suzi Q, so there was no indication of any reason why he would cheat on her and father [[HeroicBastard Josuke]] four years prior to ''Stardust Crusaders''.

* TheAce: Joseph was ''devastatingly'' handsome in his younger days, has many skills of a magician, and is the only [=JoJo=] to have both Hamon and Stand abilities. Later, he became a wealthy real estate tycoon, maintained a HeroicBuild into his late sixties, successfully led the party that destroyed DIO [[spoiler:although he temporarily got killed]], and ended up being one of the only [[spoiler:two members]] born in the Joestar family to live long lives (the other being [[spoiler:his daughter Holly]]).

* CaptainCrash: To the point that Jotaro refuses get into any aircraft with him. He states in the flight to Hong Kong in Part 3 that this is the third plane he's had to make an emergency landing with. He practically lampshades the trope and states that surviving a 3rd plane crash was already well beyond pushing his luck. His luck will still take him a long way beyond that. Amusingly enough, his dream as a youth was to become a pilot like his father.

** [[PlayingWithATrope Played with]] in regards to his actual mother [[spoiler: Lisa Lisa]]. He has been separated from her ever since he was so little, and the first time he met her again was when [[spoiler: she taught him Hamon in a [[SinkOrSwimMentor very strict]] way]]. Therefore, while he still has respect for her and risked his life to save hers from [[spoiler: Kars]], it seems he finds it hard to actually treat her in any motherly way, especially considering that he never got to know that she was his mom throughout the series. Part 3 implies that he eventually does find out, though.

* HammerSpace: In his fight with Straizo, he pulls out a fully-assembled Thompson submachine gun from under his coat that he was never hinted to be carrying prior to doing so.

* ForgotAboutHisPowers: Essentially lost all capabilities with Hamon come Part 3, never even thinking to use them before [[spoiler:his clash with DIO, who at that point was too powerful and cunning to be challenged by him.]] A jarring example would be where Anne is at risk of drowning and Jotaro has to save her, despite the fact that Joseph could easily walk on water using Hamon in his youth.

** Despite holding her as a hostage to interrogate her, Joseph still buys her a kebab. A shame it was from Steely Dan, who kills her right after.

* IdiotBall: He sees Straizo take a hostage and assumes he's bluffing. This is despite the fact that for all he knew, Straizo murdered [[spoiler:Speedwagon]] in cold blood, and he outright said he planned to kill Erina. He found out the hard way he wasn't bluffing.

** With regards to a certain moment, completely unaware that he was perpetrating it. [[spoiler:You know how he peeped on Lisa Lisa? ''That's his mother.'' [[OhCrap Imagine how he felt when he was told the truth.]]]]

* PetTheDog: His friendship with Smokey is built on this, as he's the only companion of Joseph's that he doesn't sass or prank in any way despite the fact that their first meeting involved him stealing his wallet.