>>109979022>Its scary since he actually cares about his underling and vice versa.Well, no. Not vice versa at least.
DIO's underlings have their own reasons for following him and a good portion of them are personally drawn to him, but DIO doesn't care about any of them. Not even the most devoted ones like Vanilla Ice. In fact he states the moment he arrives on the Joestar Manor that he hates dogs because they are subservient to people (which doesn't stop him from having minions crawl and chatter all over him in Part 1, but that really just reinforces how much he thinks himself superior to the human race).
The only one he cared about was Pucci, and Pucci was a friend, not an underling.
But it would be very easy for DIO to amass followers. Even if he doesn't have the Arrow, he has a lot of different ways to mind control people, on top of his charisma.
On top of his hypnotism, which there would be no Ripple users around to deal with, and his ability to create zombies, the fleshbuds could be much more of a threat here since only a character with extreme precision on top of enough strength and speed to take them off would be able to deal with them.
He doesn't even need to stick to low tier villains. A good bunch of medium to even high tier ones would prefer to join him, and he could just fleshbud the unwilling ones.
