Dire

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

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

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 strengh. 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.

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.