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Dio is the
final boss of World Heroes 2. Because of the failure of his previous
creation, Geegus, Damudo created a
new, stronger, better artificial soldier: Dio. However, Dio developed his own
consciousness and now roams different eras, killing many people. "Neo
Dio" is an improved version of Dio that returns to exact revenge. Neo
Dio's name translates into "New
God" (and is ironically spelled similarly to Neo Geo).
Fun Facts: Neo Dio parodies some of Dio
Brando's lines from JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, including "Wryyy!"
and "Muda muda!". Visually, Neo Dio shares a resemblance to Ikuro Hashizawa
when he transforms into Baoh, and is apparently based on the "Ultimate Life
Forms" of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure
(hence some of his win quotes).
   
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Updated: Jan. 8th, 2023
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Neo Dio's design was
kinda weak in the original World Heroes series, if you ask me. (I've seen better JoJo references in fighting games.) The real Dio says hi, btw. It would be cool to see them fight. Anyway... for the boss of WH2, Neo Dio wasn't a bad design. In the sequels, Dio got some cooler moves and became more fleshed out at least, but there still
seemed to be something missing about him.
More importantly, SNK completely
revamped and reinvented Neo Dio in NeoGeo Battle Coliseum. Yeah, his
"darker" version is definitely badass and it was cool to see him cross over into a KOF-style game. After
such a long absence (since the World Heroes series died in just a few years), it
was totally unexpected and pretty awesome to see Neo Dio actually make a comeback in NGBC. His new moveset and animations in NGBC are incredible!
On a side note, Neo Dio's redesign interestingly shares some similarities with Gill.
I guess Gods really don't need to wear clothes.
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