

At the end of JoJo season 3: [Stardust
Crusaders,](http://jojo.wikia.com/wiki/Stardust_Crusaders) episode 48:

> Dio Brando killed Joseph Joestar using 'The World'. Later on, Dio drained
> his blood entirely and left Joseph Joestar as a husk.

However, Jotaro was able to revive

> Joseph by transferring blood from Dio's dead body into his Grand Dad.
> ([YouTube reference](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jh-H4Dwv5GQ))

**What I'm trying to understand though is why**

> **Joseph did not turn into an undead vampire**.

Because I remember the episode before that, Dio had previously used his blood

> to turn [Vanilla Ice](http://jojo.wikia.com/wiki/Vanilla_Ice) into a vampire
> (the one with the "self-eating" Stand).


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How could "this character" come back to life without becoming a Vampire at the end of Stardust Crusaders?


I think it is due to the fact Dio was dead and utterly destroyed, the blood
was just "normal" blood without any immortal vampiric properties. Plus it is
technically not Dio's blood but Jonathan Joestar's.

It is only my theory.


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No hard facts are given on this one (at least none translated that I was able
to find).

But a common theory is Hamon. Joseph was a naturally gifted Hamon user. So the
theory is that the blood started to turn Joseph into a vampire, but his
natural Hamon purified it at the same time, so he was restored to life as a
normal human (or as normal as Joestar can ever be).

Also, DIO had only consumed Joseph's blood an hour earlier, so the blood may
have still counted more as Joseph's than anything else.

But most importantly, Jojos in general runs on Rule of Cool and Rule of Funny.
You shouldn't try to apply to much logic to it.


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DIO's head was destroyed so the thing that was making Jonathan's body
Vampirish effect was gone except for the weakness to the sun part. The blood
will disappear when in contact with the sun. So if a jojo got some of the
blood, some of their blood will evaporate in the sun. Also Joseph was not
reduced to a husk, a cup of blood can't drain a whole human. It's just that
too much blood was lost to the point where he couldn't keep consciousness and
soon would die of blood loss.


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