the dumb araki forgot discourse is mostly about "forgotten" stand abilities (when most wouldnt be particularly useful outside the specific situations they get used in) but the one power i think araki shouldve reused later but didn’t was all the bullshit body stuff santana does

all the other pillar men are capable of the same stuff, but they only use their predefined "mode" powers outside of their occasional tricks involving going into peoples bodies or absorbing through contact

esidisi possessing suzi q is the only real santana-like body fuckery after that

well that and ultimate kars, but his powers are presented as something new he can do because he’s the ultimate life form and not stuff they could all do before

there’s also that one vampire who merged with a door and turned his body hair into spikes but he’s not a pillar man

also people complain more about stands replacing hamon than they do about vampires, but they're the real loss from parts 1-2 to the rest of the manga

all vampiric enemies have really cool body horror inspired powers

that's why part 2 is still my 2nd favorite part

the appeal of early jojo not present in the later parts is the lurid body horror stuff and 80s shonen fun

the appeal of later jojo from part 3 on is the "puzzle fights" with both sides trying to trick and outsmart one another

part 2 has both the lurid body horror and the clever puzzle fights, despite not having stands i would consider it the most "jojo" of any jojo part

the actual point of this thread is that i think all the body horror stuff in jojo is cool and there should be more of it

i liked the stuff Spin could do in part 7 and a lot of the rock stuff in part 8 because it brings back some of that body horror