# Za Warudo Za Warudo / WRYYYYY is the time-stopping battle cry of vampire villain Dio Brando from JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, a Japanese transliteration of the English words 'The World.' In the mid-2000s, Japanese Flash animator qwerqwer1234 turned Dio's attack into a stick-figure Internet gag called mudah.swf. The clip grew into the go-to template for time-stop, steamroller-drop joke edits across YouTube. ## Origin The phrase first appeared in chapter 248 of Hirohiko Araki's JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, published December 16, 1991, when Dio uses his Stand to walk Jean Pierre Polnareff down a staircase in frozen time[8]. The Japanese pronunciation 'Za Warudo' was fixed in the Stardust Crusaders OVA series, whose final episode aired November 18, 1994[3]. The meme itself traces to a Japanese stick-figure Flash animation called mudah.swf, made by a user known as qwerqwer1234[1]. The exact posting date is lost, since the Infoseek original is only reachable through Wayback Machine captures[2]. - **Platform:** JoJo's Bizarre Adventure manga (source) / Albino Black Sheep and Newgrounds (viral spread) - **Creator:** qwerqwer1234 (mudah.swf Flash animation) - **Date:** 1991 ## Overview The meme pairs Dio Brando's shouted 'ZA WARUDO' with an inverted-color freeze frame, a visual shorthand for his Stand power to stop time[1]. Edits typically cut to the character throwing knives or dropping a steamroller from the sky, both lifted from a 1998 Capcom arcade fighter where that finisher first appeared[3]. The ZA WARUDO / WRYYYYY format works like a visual version of the owned/pwned joke: a normal scene gets interrupted by Dio halting time to crush a target under absurdly heavy objects[3]. Fan edits swap in characters from unrelated anime, games and news clips while keeping the inverted color freeze and screamed catchphrase intact[9]. ## How to Use A ZA WARUDO edit typically starts with a normal clip, snaps to inverted colors with the katakana text 'ザ・ワールド' on screen, and ends with Dio or a stand-in dropping something impossibly heavy, a steamroller being the common convention. A screamed 'WRYYYYY' often closes the bit. ## Frequently Asked Questions ### What is Za Warudo? It is the katakana reading of 'The World,' the time-stopping Stand used by Dio Brando in JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, and the catchphrase he shouts when he activates it[3]. ### Where did Za Warudo come from? The power first appeared in chapter 248 of the manga, published December 16, 1991[8], and the Japanese pronunciation was popularized by the Stardust Crusaders OVA that finished airing November 18, 1994[3]. ### What does Za Warudo mean? 'Za Warudo' is Japanese katakana for the English phrase 'The World,' the name of Dio's Stand[8]. ### How do you use Za Warudo? Edits typically freeze a scene in inverted colors with the katakana 'ザ・ワールド,' then show Dio dropping knives or a steamroller as a punchline, in the style of qwerqwer1234's mudah.swf[1]. ### Is Za Warudo still popular? The gag has stuck around online for close to two decades, with the 2015 'DIO ZA WARUDO compilation' passing ten million views[6] and the 2018 h_raze Nest parody clearing one million[7]. ## References 1. [https://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/mudah]() 2. [https://web.archive.org/web/20060827165807/http://qwerqwer1234.hp.infoseek.co.jp/mudah/]() 3. [https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/za-warudo-wryyyyy]() 4. [https://www.albinoblacksheep.com/archive/march2006]() 5. [https://qwerqwer1234.newgrounds.com/]() 6. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCw7ysE--5Q]() 7. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DefXS17jZwE]() 8. [https://jojo.fandom.com/wiki/Chapter_248]() 9. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7wzJ6EJdvY]() --- Source: https://meme.com/memes/za-warudo-wryyyyy Published by meme.com — The Internet Meme Library