Dario Brando

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Dario Brando
 Manga
 Anime
 Film

Japanese Name

ダリオ・ブランドー
Romanized Name

Dario Burandō
Namesake

Marlon BrandoW[1]
Dario ArgentoW[1]
Profile
Age

52-53
Birthday

1827[2]
Feb 11, 1827 (Film only)
Gender

Male
Nationality

British
Other Information
Media
Manga Debut
 Chapter 1
Prologue
Final
Appearance

Chapter 12
Youth with Dio (1)
Anime Debut

Episode 1
Dio the Invader
Japanese Voice Actor

Tadashi MiyazawaW (Anime)

Dub Voice Actor

Steve KramerW (English Dub)

Go out there and take this useless world for all you can get.
“ ”
—Dario Brando to his son
Dario Brando (ダリオ・ブランドー Dario Burandō) is a minor character in Phantom Blood.
Dario is the father of Dio Brando. An alcoholic and abusive man, he is primarily responsible
for contributing to Dio's descent into evil. After a tragic misunderstanding, George Joestar
I decides to give him a favor and adopts his son Dio into the Joestar Family.

Contents
 Appearance
 Personality
 History
o Phantom Blood
 Chapters / Episodes
 Video Games
o Phantom Blood (PS2)
 Trivia
 Gallery
 References
 Site Navigation

Appearance
Dario appears as an elder man with a stocky build. Balding save some hair on the back of
his head and a white beard, he bears a scar crossing his forehead, and is missing several
teeth.

Dario has a tattoo on his chest of a cross with the words 'In memory of mother' visible.

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Personality
Dario Brando is portrayed as a corrupt, alcoholic, and abusive father, as well as extremely
immoral. 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 Jonathan, then a baby, die. When George woke up, Dario tricked him into
believing he was saving him, hoping to exploit the gentleman's naivete. When George
covered for him out of kindness, Dario couldn't understand the gesture.[2]

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Dario was an abusive husband and father, having presumably forced his wife to work to
death. He was hated by his own son, whom he would yell at and beat for the flimsiest
reasons. At some point, he asked his son to sell his dead mother's clothes in order to buy
more booze. His alcoholic nature was shared with Dio, who hated himself for resembling
his father after getting drunk.[3]
Nonetheless, he cared about Dio enough to let him be adopted within the Joestar Family.[2]

History
Phantom Blood

Dario Brando "saves" George Joestar.

Dario was a poor man in Victorian England who witnessed George Joestar I's carriage
crash one day in 1868, looting the wreckage on the assumption that there no survivors. But
as a girl he made his accomplice noted the infant is still alive, Dario was seen by George,
who assumed that Dario saved his life and felt indebted to him. But even when George
later learned the truth when the head inspector alerted him that Dario was in jail from trying
to pawn Mary Joestar's wedding ring, George pressed no charges and asked Dario to
become a good man for his family. But even after receiving money from George to start a
hotel, Dario ended up back in poverty and worked his wife to an early grave.[4]

Dario's tombstone.
For the next twelve years, Dario took out his frustration on his son Dio as he grew to hate
his father enough to secretly murder him with poison he got from Wang Chan. With Dario
unaware that his own son was killing him, he died telling Dio of the debt George made to
him and tells his son to take advantage of it. However, Dio was unaware of the letter Dario
had sent to the Joestar Mansion, which would play a role in exposing his attempted murder
of George seven years after his father's death.