Wired Beck

Tall, brawny, and fair-haired, Beck sports sideburns and a flattop. His striped suit leaves the shoulders and much of the chest bare, cinched by a pair of leather straps, and he rounds out the look with several metal rings on his wrists and a belt strung with beads.

Beck is a brutal woman-hater who holds that females deserve punishment, and at some earlier point he strangled his own girlfriend. A verbal tic runs through his speech, capping nearly every line with the syllable zura, roughly the equivalent of "okay," delivered in a voice grating enough that Joseph reacts to it with open disgust.

Before his transformation, Beck was a fugitive convicted of strangling his girlfriend. After breaking out of custody he was turned into one of Kars's servant vampires, gaining full command over his body and the unusual talent of growing splinters from anywhere on it. His preferred method of attack is to harden the hair sprouting from his limbs into spikes, then, using startling speed, lunge in for a lethal embrace.

He first appears while trying to keep Joseph Joestar and Lisa Lisa from reaching Kars, hiding as though fused into a door. Joseph at first mistakes his spread of digits for ten fingers on one hand before realizing it is his power at work. When Beck emerges and confronts Lisa Lisa, she brushes him with her Ripple-charged scarf and simply walks on. Joseph explains that she has flooded his body with Ripple energy, and before Beck can even finish questioning it, the effect takes hold and he dies on the spot.