Dire

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Dire
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Namesake*	Dire Straits (Along With Straizo)
Profile
Age	late 40s to early 50s
Birthday	1860's
Gender	Male
Other Information
Hair Color	Blonde
Status*
Date of Death	1888
Media
Manga Debut	Vol. 4, Chapter 36. The Three From A Far Away Country
FinalAppearance	Vol. 5, Chapter 38. Thunder Cross Split Attack(Death)
Anime Debut	Tomorrow's Courage
Game Debut	JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Phantom Blood (PS2 Game)
Japanese Voice Actor	Yukitoshi Hori (Game) Taketora (Anime)

Dire (ダイアー Daiaa) is a minor ally featured in Part I: Phantom Blood. Dire is a hamon ("ripple") user and a student of Ripple Master Tonpetty.

Synopsis

History

Dire was a good friend of William Anthonio Zeppeli , who trained with him and Straights to be ripple masters under Tonpetty.

Phantom Blood

He first introduced himself after a short match against Jonathan Joestar, where Dire used his Thunder Split Attack and revealed that he only attacked Jonathan to test his strength. Before Dio Brando and Jonathan had their last fight, Dire fought Dio to avenge Zeppeli. However, even Dire's best attack, the Thunder Cross Split Attack, didn't stand a chance against Dio's Freezing Attack, which completely turned his body into ice and then shattered it. Dire, now only a head, was able to use his last ounce of ripple energy to shoot a rose into Dio's eye. For that, Dire's head was turned into ice as well and destroyed.

Gallery

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  Young Dire and young Zeppeli

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  Dire testing Jojo's ability

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  Dire performing his most powerful attack on Dio

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  Dio destroys Dire's frozen body

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  Dire's last attack, shooting a ripple charged rose at Dio



Trivia

• Guile from Street Fighter appears to be based on Dire. However, due to Guile's military background, it seems more logical that he has been inspired by Rudol von Stroheim, who also shares a similar hairstyle.