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[[folder:"The Straw Hat Crew"]]
* [[AntiHero Anti-Heroes]]: They don't really care about politics, and as a rule have a "live and let live" attitude when it comes to the oppressive customs of countries they visit. Barbaric cruelty towards the helpless and/or innocent WILL rouse their anger, but in general they only fight tyrants when ItsPersonal.
** That being said, due their friendliness and generally kind nature they tend to make friends wherever they go. As a result, they almost always indelibly come in conflict with oppressive regimes harming their new allies. When they topple said regime to save them, they earn the friendship of all the inhabitants of island they liberated.
* BadassCrew
* BadassFamily: They may be a RagtagBunchOfMisfits, but there's no denying that they're ''family''.
* BerserkButton: There are three ways you can get on the bad side of the ''entire'' crew. You harm one of them, one of their friends or if you are a sadistic bully towards decent people.
* BewareTheSillyOnes: They are one of, if not THE most eccentric crews on the Grand Line. They are also one of the most powerful and legendary ones as well, having defied the World Government several times and have practically gotten away with it. They've broken into one of the most secure government facilities in the world, while Luffy, TheCaptain, has also broken into the other two. One of them, he broke into ''twice''.
** To clarify: The crew wages war on the World Government's courthouse and makes a mess of it [[spoiler:later nullified by the Buster Call out right destroying the whole island bringing down thousands of armed guards and the World Government's best assassins in the process.]] Then Luffy breaks into and out of Impel Down, [[spoiler:an underwater prison/fortress/hell and then breaks out with 240 other prisoners (only one other pirate had ever gotten out ever)]] and then arrives at the Marine Headquarters [[spoiler:in the middle of a war with said escapees. By falling out of the sky in a battleship.]] A few days later he strolls back into the Headquarters, makes a statement by ringing a bell and having a [[DueToTheDead moment of silence]] and then walks out. 
* BlackSheep: Most crews in the Grand Line are a GangOfHats of some sort, even those lead by very high bounties. They all seem to follow a basic theme and match in general dress and follow the captain. Averted with this crew. Each member of the Straw Hat crew falls under a different theme from the others but despite this lack of uniformity, they are very well rounded and capable, even those who didn't think they had a theme at first.
* BreakTheCutie: All of their backstories have shades of this, to varying degrees.
* BullyHunter: As of the Sabaody Archipelago Saga, the Straw Hats have become feared amongst tyrants and despots for being this trope.
* BunnyEarsLawyer: They're an utterly random collection of individuals, quirky as hell (even the relatively saner ones), and about as far from normal pirates in this series as one can get. Get on their bad side, though, and they'll show you just how they earned those seemingly ridiculous bounties.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: ALL of the crew members have a painful past that makes you wanna give them a hug, especially Robin and Luffy.
* TheDreaded: The crew has such an infamous reputation that unless they're a veteran New World pirate or a vice-admiral class (or higher) fighter, no one would dare to get on their bad side.
* DysfunctionJunction: With the exception of [[ThePollyanna Luffy]] [[spoiler: at first]], all of them have complicated quirks that somehow mesh together in a weird family bond unlike any other crew in the series.
* FireForgedFriends: Really becomes evident during the climax of the Arlong arc, and reinforced during the Enies Lobby arc.
* FromNobodyToNightmare: To the world's eyes, Luffy started off as an overly-ambitious kid. Two years and a whole lot of adventures later, his crew is considered legendary, and the manga isn't even over yet!
* HeroesFightBarehanded: Monkey D. Luffy fights without weapons at all, while [[TheLancer his first mate Zoro]] ([[WhatExactlyIsHisJob Well, the closest thing he has to a first mate]]) is a swordmaster.
* HeroicNeutral: They're pirates who do not commit acts of piracy. All around, they're the nicest crew in the series. When you closely examine their heroics though, you'll notice they very rarely go after any of the antagonists until one of their own gets targeted. This extends to people they consider allies as well.
* HiddenDepths: Whether indicated in backstories or present events in the story, none of them are exactly what they seem at the surface.
* HypercompetentSidekick: Everyone is this to Luffy. Unless it's fighting, eating, or personal/friendship related, Luffy sucks at it. Luffy himself has acknowledged this.
* TheIdealist: A whole crew of them, unified by their unwavering desire to achieve their collective dreams.
* ImprobableAge: The crew as a whole qualifies, considering how powerful and well-known they are. Most of the crew are teenagers or young adults, and even the oldest members of the crew are fairly young (Even Brook, who is 90 post-timeskip, died at age 38, which isn't terribly old).
* JackOfAllStats: As a whole, they are not physically stronger, faster, or smarter than other crews or the Marines. However, with each crew member falling under some varying niche, it allows them to exploit a weakness their opponents have, or one crewman cover the others when their weakness is exploited. For instance, when faced against Perona on Thriller Bark, [[spoiler:only Usopp could stand against her as he was such a pessimist, her pessimist-causing ghosts became depressed by touching him.]]
* {{Lovable Rogue}}s: Especially Brook and Chopper.
* [[OneManArmy One Man Army or One Woman Army]]: Each of the crew members, except for Usopp (And even he is getting closer to being one).
* ParentalAbandonment: Most all of them had adoptive families; Usopp's the only member so far who's even shown to have both biological parents. 
* [[spoiler: PartyScattering: At the end of the Sabaody Archipelago arc, courtesy of Bartholomew Kuma. They get back together after the TimeSkip.]]
* ThePiratesWhoDontDoAnything: Their only legitimate act of theft was to steal some gold from the Shandorians... who would have given them far more if they hadn't run away!
* ThePowerOfFriendship: The mere hint that one of their companions is troubled or in danger by an outside force will make them rise up to defend the friend. Even making them withstand what should be normally fatal attacks or situations simply because their friends need them.
* RagtagBunchOfMisfits: The crew consists of a rubber man, a swordsman, a thief and meteorologist, a cowardly sniper, a kick-boxing chef, a shape-shifting reindeer doctor, an archeologist, a soda-run cyborg, and a living skeleton.
* RedBaron: All members have one, to go along with their badassery. The only one whose nickname isn't badass is Chopper, whose [[BadassAdorable cute appearance]] led the Marines to believe he's the crew's pet.
* SirSwearsALot: The ''entire'' male crew's mouths could use a ''serious'' scrubbing with industrial-strength disinfectant; somewhat justified in that they do ''literally'' "swear like sailors." The Taiwanese translation of the manga in particular give them vocabulary ''so'' foul and vulgar it would make ''{{Eminem}} himself'' blush in embarrassment.
* SpannerInTheWorks: This crew is the main reason why several villainous plots on the Grand Line haven't succeeded. It's either because they befriended someone who just happened to be directly affected by said plot, or thwarted said plot unknowingly while trying to accomplish a completely different goal.
* TookALevelInBadass: They start out well enough with Luffy, Nami, and Zoro. But with each arc finished, they LevelGrind to a stronger point of Badass and gain a new member, each one even more awesome than the last. [[spoiler:Then there was their jump after the time skip, to the point a previous [[ThatOneBoss hurdle]] was taken out with a basic attack.]]
* TrueCompanions: This series was the original TropeNamer before finally being changed (after 3 attempts). See: Nakama.
** Their bond is so strong, that they literally '''''declared war on the world''''' for one of their own.
* TwoGirlsToATeam: Robin and Nami to the guys.
* VitriolicBestBuds: Read any chapter and you're likely to find one of them yelling at another one (Sanji and Zoro, though, take the cake on this one). Don't ever let that fool you, though, they're as close as family.
* UndyingLoyalty: No matter whatever hardships they face, no matter the burdens they carry, not a single member of this crew will ''ever'' betray Luffy. '''''Ever'''''. Likewise, this crew is the main reason why Luffy bothers continuing to ''live''.
* UnwittingPawn: [[spoiler:Possibly to Trafalgar Law, depending on what exactly his true intentions are]].
** [[spoiler:Turns out they're more of [[SpannerInTheWorks Spanners In The Works]] since Law's plan isn't going as smoothly as he liked. For one, the captain felt the need to not follow it through because he got too pissed off with the target, and sent him flying]].
** [[spoiler:[[LampshadeHanging Mentioned by Law himself.]] When Smoker confronts him about this after the battle at Punk Hazard is over, Law mentions he is not so sure who is using who. He is referring to Luffy's plan of fighting ALL OF THE YONKO. This makes sense as before we found out it was Kaidou, Luffy had plans to fight 3 out of the 4. Shanks because of their promise, Blackbeard for retribution and Big Mom to free Fishman Island. With Kaido being targeted by Law, this alliance serves Luffy's purposes to take down all of them, as long as Shanks is last.]]
*** [[spoiler:It became evident in Chapter 700 that Law, despite being the one who's calling the shots on the plan they have to take down Kaido, is not the one control, and probably never was in the first place. He's eventually going to realize that Luffy does what he wants and does not give a damn about the consequences. Then he'll realize that he's being sucked into Luffy's circle, just like Luffy's entire crew did when each of them first met him]].
* WildCard: There exists a tentative stability between the pirates and the Marines, which most crews can be expected to abide by. The Straw Hats are not one of those crews.
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[[folder:"Straw Hat" [[color:red:Monkey D. Luffy]]]]
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-->''"I'm gonna be King of the Pirates!"''

->Voiced by: MayumiTanaka (JP), UraraTakano (OVA); Bella Hudson (EN, 4Kids), ColleenClinkenbeard (EN, Funi), Diana Perez (Latin American Spanish)

Monkey D. Luffy is TheCaptain of the [[TrueCompanions Straw Hat Pirates]]; your average seventeen/[[TimeSkip nineteen]]-year-old {{Shonen}} IdiotHero, son of [[spoiler:Dragon, a revolutionary slated as "The Worst Criminal In the World"]] and grandson of Garp, a humongously powerful Marine vice-admiral who had cornered the Pirate King himself on several occasions. Wants to find One Piece and [[ToBeAMaster become the Pirate King]]. Ate the Gum-Gum Fruit (''Gomu Gomu no Mi'') at the age of seven, giving him stretching powers that he has become quite a master of. [[spoiler:Also, after training with Silvers Rayleigh, he has mastered the 3 types of ''Haki'' (literally "Ambition").]]

His dream of becoming the Pirate King comes from an incident in his youth involving mountain bandits and a sea serpent that resulted in his idol Shanks losing his left arm. Before leaving Luffy's village the very next day, Shanks gave him his straw hat, telling him to give it back when he's become a great pirate.

He has a bounty of 400,000,000 Berries.
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* AcquiredPoisonImmunity: [[spoiler:Because of his fight with [[PoisonousPerson Magellan]] and subsequent healing by Ivankov in Impel Down, his body was resistant against the poison given by a Fishman assassin two years later, and also Caeser Clown not long after]].
* AintTooProudToBeg: Vivi teaches Luffy that violence isn’t always the right answer during Drum Island arc. He shows [[CharacterDevelopment he learned his lesson]] when he begs help for [[spoiler: Sanji in Fishman Island]]. PoseOfSupplication is also seen in Impel Down, where Luffy shows his gratitude to unconscious Bon Clay. 
* AlwaysSaveTheGirl: He puts his friends before everything else. See AntiHero for more details.
* AngstComa: Granted, there's a large physical component of exhaustion to it as well, but it's [[spoiler:Ace's death]] that sends him into [[BlankWhiteEyes white-eye]] gape-mouth land. It's actually so bad that Luffy doesn't even notice he's lost his prized straw hat, after it falls off him while Jinbei is rushing him to safety. This actually lasts two whole weeks for him, and when he wakes up, he flips out.
* AnimalMotifs: [[CaptainObvious A Monkey, duh]]. Although a video game once had his motif as a lion, which is also a good fit, if you think about it. Lazy as hell, eats huge quantities of meat, courageous, and he will ''slaughter'' you if you mess with someone from his group.
* AntiHero: At the beginning of the series, he was [[ThePiratesWhoDontDoAnything a criminal in name only.]] He was sometimes [[InnocentlyInsensitive a bit rude,]] and beat up [[KnightTemplar "good]] [[TheSocialDarwinist guys"]] who really deserved it, but that was all. [[DarkerAndEdgier Later on]], his morality has caused a mild InternetBackdraft due to his [[AlwaysSaveThegirl certain questionable actions.]] 
** Luffy has admitted that he ''doesn't want'' to be a hero. He'll help people if he deems that he "likes them", would rather die than leave a comrade behind, and [[ThePiratesWhoDontDoAnything doesn't do typical pirate things like rape and pillage]], but he doesn't necessarily care what people think of him, and if the situation calls for it, he [[TryingToCatchMeFightingDirty fights dirty]] and uses his enemies as human shields or human weapons (on one occasion) and destroys public property freely in his many battles and uses trees and buildings as weapons.
** However, he does admire heroes enormously. His reasons for not wanting to be one is among the lines of him viewing heroes as ''completely'' selfless. In which case, his refusal stems from the expectations, he, as a hero, would have to do that would bother him, i.e. sharing meat. He immediately agreed to be one after [[spoiler:Jinbei promised he would get his meat rather than having to divide among the people. Trust me, ItMakesSenseInContext.]]
** For the curious, the specific instance that caused many fans to believe he'd slid further down the scale was when he released half the inmates of Impel Down in his quest to save his brother, ignoring [[AntiVillain Hyannibal's and Magellan's]] frankly-very-good arguments as to why they should stay locked up. Of course at the time he was desperate and, as Ivankov mentions, they needed as much of a force as possible to get out of Impel Down. Especially when you're fighting your way from the bottom level to the surface with hundreds of Marines in your way.
*** Still, even [[spoiler: after the time skip, long after Ace had already died, he has yet to show any sort of guilt for the dozens of criminals he freed. Then again, seeing as how they fought together with him during the war, he might see them as good guys.]]
* {{Asexuality}}: One of the closest examples for the trope that Shonen manga is probably ever going to get. WordOfGod mentions that Luffy is more interested in adventure than women, and that there will be no real romance in ''One Piece''. See ChasteHero below.
* AwesomeButImpractical: [[DangerousForbiddenTechnique His Gear 2nd technique]] [[CastFromHitPoints slowly shaves off his life]], and overusing it in a single fight can (or at least it used to) tire him out and leave him open to attack. But Gear 2nd is DAMN awesome.
** [[spoiler:After the TimeSkip, he seems to have improved it by having only single a body part(s) under Gear 2nd's effects at one time.]]
** A much straighter example would be Gear 3rd, which slowed him down and left him completely vulnerable to Rob Lucci when he tried an extensive use of it. He gets around this later by using it almost exclusively for finishing blows.
* AwesomenessByAnalysis: He observed the [=CP9=] members using [[FlashStep Soru]], and he soon began using an even faster and superior version of the move while in Gear Second. 
* {{Badass}}
** BadassAdorable
** BadassBoast: "I'M GONNA BE KING OF THE PIRATES!!!!!" It may not sound like much to our ears, but this statement is considered utterly shocking in-universe, as many mere mortals are scared to challenge the world like this.
*** In the Alabasta arc: "I am the man who will surpass you [Crocodile]!" Considering he said that to one of The Seven Warlords of the Sea, right after he rebuffed the above statement, that's really something.
*** And in the Thriller Bark arc: "Tell that idiot Moriah, that if he lays a hand on my crew, I'll blast this island till there's nothing left!" Important to note that then Moriah was also a Warlord, one with a higher bounty than him.
** BadassFamily: Just the latest in the Monkey line to cause headaches for the World Government.
** BadassLongcoat: Wears one in ''OnePieceStrongWorld''.
* BadLiar: The only way his lies could be more blatant would be if a neon sign appeared on top of his head and flashed "I AM LYING" every time he lied.
* BalloonBelly: Comes with being a BigEater and his elastic nature. Actually uses it in combat to great effect. [[spoiler:After the TimeSkip, he has learned to more accurately return the projectiles upgrading his belly into an AttackReflector.]]
* BerserkButton: Get between him and his food, and he will be angry. Touch his hat without permission and he will pound you. Hurt one of his [[TrueCompanions crew]], or for that matter, one of your own, and you are '''dead'''.
** Tell Luffy you're going to become the Pirate King before he does and his response is usually a finishing move. 
** That depends on the person. Some have claimed they are going to be the Pirate King and he just boasts how it will be him, leading to them becoming TheRival and/or WorthyOpponent. [[CurbStompBattle Crueler and evil characters though...]]
* BewareTheNiceOnes: You ''reeeeally'' don't want to make him angry. Seriously.
** ''OnePieceStrongWorld'' should have been called ''Luffy Gets Angry: Shit Goes Down''.
** The same can be said of the sixth movie, the only time besides the aforementioned tenth movie when Luffy ''kills'' the BigBad. 
* BigDamnHeroes: Gets quite a few.
** During the Marineford arc, he manages to pull this trope off as he and the rest of the Impel Down escapees crash down from the sky, ''ship and all!''
* BigEater: The elastic stomach probably helps. At multiple points, he eats until his entire body is horribly distended. He can then digest it in about five seconds.
** [[JustifiedTrope Makes sense]], if you see how much energy he uses on a day to day basis, let alone during a fight.
* {{Bishounen}}: At least from [[ImagineSpot Hancock's point of view]]...
** Luffy has brown eyes, apparently.
* BloodBrothers: [[spoiler:With Ace and Sabo. None of them were related of course, but they were very close and even made a ceremony of drinking sake and became brothers.]]
* BookDumb: Very much so when it comes to science and medicine -- he once tried to heal a wounded Zoro by pouring booze on his face because "Zoro likes sake, so it'll make him better". However, he's a genius in combat, social skills, and politics, beating "wittier" enemies like [[ImplacableMan Eneru]]. 
* BornLucky: He has been described as having the Devil's Luck. While the lightning bolt that saved him on the execution platform may have been Dragon's doing, he's survived a number of encounters due only to extreme good fortune.
** Basil Hawkins later says that no matter the situation Luffy always has a slim chance of survival. Combine this with Luffy's determinator mentality and brilliant luck...
* BreakTheCutie: Unlike Nami, Chopper, Franky and Robin who have a traumatic past that defines their personality, Luffy’s BreakTheCutie moment happened in present story line. Afterwards he TookALevelInBadass but if/how it affected him personality wise is yet to be seen. 
* BullyHunter: In spite of his adamant claims to ''not'' be a hero, Luffy does NOT gracefully tolearte over-entitled assholes who use their positions and power to flagrantly bully those weaker weaker than they are; he has a particularly sore spot towards {{Bad Boss}}es who mistreat loyal employees who they should be taking care of. Doing/being either of the above in front of him is a one way ticket to being pounded into the pavement. Note that this attitude of Luffy's is contagious; associate with him long enough and you will also catch his intolerance towards bullies (as shown with the originally cynical and unfeeling Zorro), even if you were once (working for) a bully yourself.
* ButtMonkey: Constantly a victim of (comical) abuse from his crew mates due to his stupidity, and he frequently ends up in strange situations that keep him from fighting. 
* CatchPhrase: "I'm gonna be Pirate King!"
* CementShoes: Arlong did this to him in their fight. Luckily, the [[KryptoniteFactor normal vulnerability to water of a Devil Fruit user]] only stops them from controlling their own powers instead of negating them entirely, allowing the townspeople to stretch his head out of the water so [[CPRCleanPrettyReliable they could give him CPR when he drowned]].
* CharlesAtlasSuperpower: Thanks to the TrainingFromHell his grandpa put him through, he's strong enough to destroy steel with his bare hands, knock out large sea monsters, and ''push apart two buildings he was stuck between''. And that's not even using his Devil Fruit ability.
* ChasteHero: Though he knows what romantic relationships ''are'', he just isn't interested... [[EpilepticTrees maybe]].
** And, believe it or not, it becomes a plot point!
* ChickMagnet: He's one of the only characters in the series to actively have women falling for him, ranging from [[StalkerWithACrush Alvida]] (post-{{Gonk}} phase), to almost the entirety of [[LadyLand Amazon Lily]]. His reactions range from being suitably creeped-out to complete obliviousness.
** He's funny, strong-willed, enthusiastic, ''insanely nice to nearly everybody he meets'', and incredibly righteous. Naturally, [[TruthInTelevision he has plenty of real life fangirls]].
*** He's also young, cute, and seriously well-toned. The girls don't go gaga just because of his personality.
* CloudCuckooLander: When he tries to be at his sharpest outside of battle, he can only pull this off. Most of the time he's something between TheDitz and TheFool.
* CombatClairvoyance: After the timeskip, Luffy has mastered Kenbunshoku Haki, a power that allows one to anticipate an opponen's next move. He has learned it to such an extent that he can [[SpiderSense sense where his enemies are]].
* CombatPragmatist: Luffy is not adverse to hitting below the belt or taking {{Human Shield}}s when necessary... or if it's amusing.
* CompellingVoice: A manifestation of his PureAwesomeness. It used to be involuntary and basically limited to really desperate shouting. He doesn't need to actually speak to use it anymore.
* ConfusionFu: Luffy, unlike the other characters, seems to fight freestyle. Being rubber makes this befitting. It even turned into an advantage against Eneru, who can read minds. Luffy simply ricocheted his moves off a wall, making it impossible for anyone, including himself, to predict their path.
* CripplingOverspecialisation: He's very useless at anything but having fun, eating, sleeping, being happy and amiable, and beating people up. He gathers his crew around him over the course of his adventure because he knows he can't go on without their help.
** He acknowledges this during the Arlong arc when Arlong sneer down at him for keeping friends. He retaliates by picking up a pair of swords and waving them wildly in Arlong's face, to no avail. Arlong sneers at him some more, for now trying something he knew he couldn't pull off, and Luffy comes out with this {{Tearjerker}} of a line, while the camera pans over each crew member that fulfills each job:
-->I know! Of course I can't use swords, you idiot! I can't navigate! I can't cook! I can't even tell lies! This is why I need my friends if I want to survive!
* CrossdressingVoices: Voiced by a woman in both the original Japanese and both English dubs.[[hottip:*: This is confirmed to be a requirement from Toei. The line producer at Funimation implied that they would have rather cast a man, but were overruled. He got used to Colleen's interpretation of Luffy pretty quickly.]]
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Often both a badass ''and'' a moron at the same time.
** He actually tries to weaponize his idiot nature in the Eneru fight, in order to defeat his mind-reading. It works, but he also becomes too stupid to remember to attack.
* CursedWithAwesome: Like all Devil Fruit users, he's gained incredible powers at the cost of never being able to swim and being branded a freak forever. Not that either of these facts bother him, though. And unlike other DF users, this does not scare him away from water sports.
** It bothers him less than other DF users (like, say, Buggy) because Luffy was ''never'' able to swim even before eating the Gum-Gum fruit. The Red-Haired Pirates nickname for him was "Anchor".
* DeathGlare: He always stares down enemies, and when pissed gives these. Two particularly intense faces occur, 1st was right before he defeated Lucci with his [[RapidFireFisticuffs Jet Gatling]]. And the 2nd one was to Jinbei while he was having a truly epic FreakOut on Amazon Lily. 
** [[spoiler: Later becomes one of his regular abilities thanks to Haki]].
* DefeatingTheUndefeatable: Many of his opponents. Eneru is probably the best example, as he spent most of the Skypiea arc proving how strong he was.
** Somewhat subverted too. A big part of the character development of Luffy comes from the realization that it's impossible for him to beat the most powerful Marines and pirates of the New World. [[spoiler:Cue 2 years training with the Pirate King's first mate]].
* DelayedReaction: Used ''a lot'' of times for comedic effect.
* DespairEventHorizon: After [[spoiler:Ace's death]], there is a look of despair on Luffy's face that has never been seen before.
** Actually, that look was seen once before... when he was melting alive from Magellan's poisons. He felt as if he was ''dying'' when [[spoiler:Ace was killed]].
** FromBadToWorse, [[spoiler:soon after he regained consciousness and the realization kicked in, Luffy questioned his ability to become the Pirate King for the first time in his entire life. He becomes so depressed that [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness he admits defeat and his own weakness,]] another first.]]
** [[spoiler:It was so bad that the only reason Luffy bothers continuing to live his life anymore is because of his crew and the fact that Ace would've wanted him to continue to follow his dream. Without either of those Luffy would've been completely and utterly broken]].
* {{Determinator}}: Luffy powers through injuries that should have killed him several times over, often without outside assistance. In no particular order, he's been dehydrated to a dessiccated husk, skewered, cut, drowned, blown up, bitten (a ''super'' strong shark bite, mind you), beaten to a bloody pulp, stabbed, crushed, covered in arrows (in one of the movies), frozen, burnt, shot by ''lasers'', and poisoned to the point of '''melting''', yet is still alive and kicking.
** The poisoned part was almost a subversion, because it all but killed him. He was healed by Ivankov, but the technique used was explicitly reliant on the patient's will to live and even Ivankov was shocked that Luffy recovered in a few hours, despite his initial estimate that it would take days for Luffy to recover, if he recovered at all.
* DeusExitMachina: He's the strongest of the crew along with Zoro, and the most likely to get lost, trapped or otherwise unable to initially participate in battle until the most powerful enemy remains.
* [[spoiler:DidYouJustFlipOffCthulhu]]: Is prone to this. 
** [[spoiler: At Enies Lobby when Spandam is talking shit about how the World Government is unstoppable, he orders Sogeking to burn their flag, effectively declaring war on the WG and all 170+ of its member nations.]]
** [[spoiler: After learning that Big Mom of the Four Emperors is going to destroy Fishman Island because they were unable to give her her monthly 10 ton delivery of candy (due to Hody destroying the candy factory and the Straw Hats eating the remaining candy), Luffy does what no other pirate would dare do—he takes the Transponder Snail (i.e. a phone in the One Piece world) from Big Mom's subordinate and tells her ''he'' himself ate all 10 tons of her candy and that it's too dangerous to leave her in charge of the island, so when he gets to the New World he's going to kick her ass and ''claim Fishman Island as his OWN territory''; [[ThisMeansWar Big Mom declares war on the Straw Hat Pirates]]]].
* DisappearedDad: Luffy was apparently unaware that he even ''had'' a father.
** Come to think of it, where's his [[MissingMom mother?]]
* TheDitz: [[AllThereInTheManual In one of the data books]], his intelligence score was a whopping 1/5.
* TheDreaded: Due to his actions during the Paramount War and along with his actions while with his crew (such as Enies Lobby and Saobody), Luffy's become so infamous that anyone who isn't as strong as one of the Seven Warlords of the Sea instantly fears him. For instance, at Corrida Colosseum, while incognito, he accidentally gives his real name and everyone immediately freaks out. They only stop once they see the sign on his back that says 'Lucy,' and start remembering rumors about him being an eight-meter tall giant.
* DumbIsGood
* DumbassHasAPoint: There have been moments where he surprises his crew by saying something that actually makes sense.
* DynamicEntry: How did he get to Marineford? Well, it overlaps with BigDamnHeroes, 'cause he dropped a ship out of the sky! (It wasn't intentional, but that doesn't make it any less awesome)
** [[spoiler:Done again in the Fishman Island arc when he leaps out of a shark's mouth and kicks Hody Jones just as he's about to assassinate the king]].
* EnemyMine: Seems to have a knack for pulling this off, even in the most unlikely of cases. Mihawk actually considers this his most dangerous ability.
* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: Luffy gets called "Straw Hat" by pretty much everyone he fights, with rare exceptions.
* {{Expy}}: Of [[Manga/DragonBall Son Goku]], in a spiritual sense. Oda said he designed Luffy based on what 'manliness' meant to him as a child. Incidentally, Luffy met Goku in the ''Dragon Ball x One Piece - Cross Epoch'' crossover. He even got to ride on the Flying Nimbus.
* FatalFlaw: Wrath. Luffy's inability to control his volcanic-rage is precisely what led to [[spoiler:Kuma attacking and dispersing his crew around the world, leaving him all alone in the world for two years.]]
* FlashStep: When using [[SuperMode Gear Second]].
* FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling: Definitely the former when compared to Ace.
* FreakOut: When [[spoiler: he recovers from his HeroicBSOD and realizes Ace is truly dead]]. In the anime, he also freaks out [[spoiler: when Kuma scatters his crew]], and when [[spoiler: Ace is killed]]. The latter example is particularly terrifying, to say the least.
* FriendToAllLivingThings: At one point, he was able to befriend a ''[[spoiler:Kraken]]''.
** [[spoiler:ChekhovsSkill and ChekhovsGun]]: [[spoiler:And thanks to that, now said Kraken is helping him in the fight against the New Fishmen Pirates. [[CurbStompBattle Not that he or his crew really needed it, but still.]]]]
* FunPersonified: Seriously. [[IdiotHero On top]] [[GenkiGuy of]] [[PureAwesomeness everything else]], his powers are genuinely like something taken out from a TexAvery cartoon.
** Apparently done on purpose - WordOfGod claims that he made Luffy a rubber man partly because he wanted the hero's fights to always have an element of silliness or the bizarre in them.
* FunnyAfro: He dons one fighting against Foxy. [[RuleOfCool It helps him win]].
* FunSize: The after effect of his Gear Third technique causes him to shrink into a chibi version of himself. [[spoiler: He overcomes this weakness after the timeskip.]]
* GenerationXerox: He has been compared to Gold Roger by multiple people who've encountered him. Given his simple outlook on life and violence towards anyone who hurts his friends, he can also be seen as a GenerationXerox of Shanks.
** According to [[WholesomeCrossdresser Ivankov]], Luffy is very similar to his father.
* GoOutWithASmile: Just like anybody else with D. as their middle initial, he's prone to this trope. Notably, he smiled before Buggy almost cut his head off at Logue Town.
* GoodOldFisticuffs: He fights predominantly with his fists, although he discovered an attack involving blasting PureAwesomeness.
* GratuitousEnglish: Alot of his attacks are in English, particularly in Gear Second.
* GreaterNeedThanMine: It does not matter that he is badly hurt and freezing to death, or poisoned to the point of ''melting'', his friends come first. He never even asks for himself to be helped, merely begs for whoever is there to aid his companions.
* HeavySleeper: Seems to be a family trait.
* [[YouCanBarelyStand He Could Barely Stand...]]: But he STILL got up and kicked Lucci's ass.
* TheHero: He ''is'' the main protagonist, after all.
* HeroicBSOD: Gets hit with this '''hard''' [[spoiler:when Ace gets killed]].
* HeroicRROD: His Gear Second [[spoiler:pre-TimeSkip]] shortens his lifespan with each use, and will eventually wear him out if overused. Gear Third also might count, although it only shrinks Luffy temporarily after each use, with no mentioned long-term effect. [[spoiler: And even that weakness he overcame after the TimeSkip.]]
** When Ivankov gave Luffy his "miracle treatment" to heal Luffy of Magellan's poison, it took an additional ten years off Luffy's lifespan. Add this to the Gear Second, and the regular damage Luffy takes, and Oda seems to be strongly implying that Luffy will die young.
* HilariouslyAbusiveChildhood: Child abuse isn't funny... except when it involves [[RefugeInAudacity throwing the child down a ravine, leaving him in the in the wilderness]], and [[CrossesTheLineTwice attaching enough helium balloons to him to make him float into the sky]], all for the purposes of increasing his survival skills. After hearing about it, his crew immediately realizes just where Luffy got his strong will to live from.
* HollywoodHealing: His battles only leave story relevant scars, like his trademark one under his eye he got in Chapter 1 or [[spoiler:the new X shaped scar Akainu gave him]]. 
* HotBlooded: In fine Shonen fashion. He's a more tranquil version, however.
* HowDoIShotWeb: As a child who had recently eaten the Gum-Gum Fruit, Luffy was rather unskilled with his stretching powers -- especially when compared to his mastery at the start of his journey. His signature Gum-Gum Pistol? His first attempt bounced off the ground and back into his own face.
* IconicOutfit: The straw hat, in universe, as seen in the "From the decks of the world" cover story and [[spoiler:at the end of the Fishman Island arc. The new shipment to the island will include straw hats. Why? Because the kids want to play heroes!]]
* IdenticalGrandson: Garp looked identical to Luffy when he was a kid. Even now you can see the resemblance, as Garp looks like a much older and brawnier Luffy.
* IdiotHero: One of the poster boys.
** In a bit of a subversion, Luffy is actually quite smart for a Shonen Hero, and not just in combat; he has shown an understanding of basic physics, social skills, survival skills, and politics. The 'Idiot' part comes from his simple outlook on life; while he understands that the current of Reverse Mountain has a scientific explanation, he prefers to just call it a "Mystery Mountain" because it's easier and more fun. That sort of description extends to several other subjects.
* IGaveMyWord: His word is the greatest thing he can give. He takes it seriously. How serious? He promised Robin he'd be her friend forever, so when she was taken from him, he went on a rampage resulting in the complete annihilation of a World Government island, thousands of dead mooks, and a staggering two hundred MILLION increase in his bounty.
** He also ignores his word when he feels like it. He gave his word to Hachi repeatedly that he would not mess with a World Noble no matter what happened. [[BlatantLies He totally kept his word.]]
*** In that case, the World Noble in question had just ''shot'' Hachi, so it was conflicting with his major BerserkButton involving his friends getting hurt. He even apologizes to his crew immediately afterward, knowing that he's just gotten everybody in serious trouble.
* ImNotAHeroIm: Invokes this with Jinbe. He says he likes heroes, but he knows he's a pirate.
* ImmuneToBullets: They simply bounce off, though in the beginning of the series he claimed to still not like getting shot.
** Considering how often it's happened since then, he probably got used to it pretty quickly.
** Actually made his rubber bodies' ability to bounce bullet back into a weapons back in the time-skip.
* InnocentlyInsensitive: Towards ''everyone'' at some point, but the standout example would have to be [[spoiler:the Mermaid Princess, Shirahoshi.]]
* IThoughtItWasForbidden: Even though Gear Second reduces his overall lifespan, he tends to use it more and more often, to the point at which he resorts to it for most of his major fights since Enies Lobby.
* JerkassFacade: He pulls this sometimes to get his point across. Rarely lasts long.
* KiAttacks: [[spoiler:After the two year time skip, he has completely mastered Haki and can use it to power up his already strong attacks and [[CombatClairvoyance predict enemy attacks]], just like Eneru and his priests]].
** [[spoiler:When he uses Armaments Haki, his body turns [[http://www.mangareader.net/one-piece/605/11 dark and shiny]], as if his rubber body has gone through a form of vulcanization.]]
* {{Kiai}}: See the end of his fight with Rob Lucci.
* KindheartedSimpleton
* KnuckleCracking 
* TheLeader: A combination of Type III (Headstrong) and Type IV (Charismatic). Has some shades of the Levelheaded Type II, but only when the situation is truly dire.
* LeeroyJenkins: Does this whenever he's NOT trapped somewhere and can't fight, but the most notable straight example was at the beginning of the assault on Enies Lobby, where he actually took off full speed into the heart of Enies Lobby during the middle of planning, causing his allies to nearly be wiped out. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPqKRPU3aXM Perfectly summed up here.]]
* LightningBruiser: Possibly the fastest and most agile member of his crew, he also has incredible durability and strength. WordOfGod is that only Zoro matches his physical power.
* LikeFatherLikeSon: While not spending any of his childhood with his father, he has nonetheless taken after him with his will and dangerous unpredictability, and both are stakes in the World Government's side.
* MagneticHero: Directly acknowledged by Mihawk:
-->It's not some kind of special power, but he has the ability to make allies of everyone he meets. And that is the most fearsome power on these high seas!
* ManChild: A perfect example of the trope. Technically averted before the timeskip, as he was still a teenager, but played straight afterwards.
* TheMessiah: Really became obvious during the Whitebeard War, although it was alluded to after the Enies Lobby Incident.
* MoralityPet: To Hancock. 
* MrFanservice: Has plenty of fan girls in-universe and in real-life.
* MyGreatestFailure: [[spoiler:[[WhamEpisode The Death of Portgas D. Ace]]]].
* NiceGuy: [[BerserkButton Just don't touch]] [[TrueCompanions any of his friends]], [[TrademarkFavoriteFood his meat]], or [[NiceHat his straw hat]].
* NiceHat: It's even on his Jolly Roger!
* NoSenseOfDirection: Not as terrible as Zoro's, but it's still really bad.
* [[NoTrueScotsman No True Pirate]] Has a brief argument with Nami regarding this trope when discussing Kuro, whom he considers unworthy to be a pirate.
* NumberOneDime: His trademark straw hat is a gift from his idol Shanks, and he treasures it to the point where if he gives it to someone else, it's really saying something. Likewise, if someone ever dares damage it, ass will be kicked in great quantities.
** Its importance may have been elevated recently, given that a flashback revealed [[spoiler:that the hat may have belonged to Gold Roger himself]].
* ObfuscatingStupidity: Possibly, if the AlternateCharacterInterpretation above is the truth.
* ObliviousToLove: He has ''no'' idea how Hancock feels about him.
** Averted, at least after the TimeSkip (and possibly before). He knows, but just doesn't care.
* OlderThanHeLooks
* OneManArmy 
* {{Otaku}}: 
** He displayed a surprising [[BeetleManiac interest in beetles]] at Jaya and Skypiea.
** And he remarks about things that are, "So cool/awesome!!!" Especially robots, cyborgs, lasers, any sort of beam weapon, cannons, and really ANYTHING you can relate back to Super Robot anime and manga.
* ParentalAbandonment: While not an integral part of his character, his father willingly left him to go help the rest of the world, his mother hasn't even been mentioned, and his Grandpa made no attempt to at least have him raised near him. Luckily, though, his foster mother and brothers made up for this void, and the only time he ever showed sadness over being lonely was in childhood before meeting Ace.
* PersonOfMassDestruction
* PintsizedPowerhouse: Rather puny in comparison to most of his opponents. He's 19 years old and just 5'8", while his opponents range from above 6' to being freaking giants (literally!). Regardless, the large size disparity seems to make no difference for him; He's able to smack around a Pacifista (Cyborgs who are all about 22'6" feet tall) just as easily as he can smack around somebody like, say, Captain Kuro (an average sized human being).
* [[ThePiratesWhoDontDoAnything The Pirate That Doesn't Do Anything]]: Luffy's not interested in pillaging and raping, unlike other Pirates in the series, but only became a Pirate for the sake of adventures. He mostly fights with other Pirates and the Government, but leaves civilians alone.
** In the Romance Dawn pilot, he says the Morgania pirates are the ones who pillage and rape, while Peace Mains fight Morgania pirates and look for adventure.
** Though he does cause lots of property damage, and he's not opposed to stealing available loot if an opportunity arises. Then there was that prison break...
* PlotArmor: Lampshaded by Basil Hawkins. He tried several times to calculate a scenario which Luffy couldn't possibly survive, but Luffy always had at least a slim chance.
* ThePowerOfFriendship: He always believes in his crew, even when they appear to betray or murder one of their own.
* PowerPerversionPotential: Yes, everything stretches, as the inhabitants of [[LadyLand Amazon Lily]] discovered.
* PowerOfTrust: Luffy is an ''excellent'' judge of character, successfully allying even with former enemies, both as permanent crewmates (Nico Robin, Franky) and as temporary allies (various other members of Baroque Works). [[spoiler:It will be put to the ultimate test with his alliance with rival supernova captain-turned-Warlord Trafalgar Law.]]
* ThePromise: He made one with Ace and Sabo when they were children to go out to sea and live their lives free of regrets.
** Not to mention the one with Shanks, that he'd return his Straw Hat to him one day after he became a great pirate.
* PureAwesomeness: So awesome that simply by yelling with sufficient fury, he can knock out an audience of women warriors or hundreds of marines/grunt pirates. [[spoiler:It's because he possesses Supreme King Haki]].
** Hell, after the TimeSkip, all he has to do is glare at most weaker opponents and they're on the ground, foaming at the mouth.
** Taken to new, ludicrous extremes when, in chapter 634 of the manga, he [[spoiler:knocks out 50,000 members of the New Fishman Pirates with nothing but a Haki-powered gaze! The kicker? He did that so his other crew mates could have someone to fight. It is heavily suggested he could have wiped them all out if he wanted to!!!]]
* RapidFireFisticuffs: His Gatling, Pistol-Shotgun, Storm, Fireworks, Cannon, Jet Gatling, and Jet Cannon techniques.
** And now we have [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome Elephant Gatling]]
* RealMenEatMeat
* RedOniBlueOni: The red to Zoro's blue, although Zoro can be a little red sometimes.
* RightMakesMight: If one has a strong ambition, one will always prevail in the end.
* RubberMan: Refers to himself as such. Thanks to consuming the Gum-Gum Fruit.
* SacrificedBasicSkillForAwesomeTraining: '''So much'''. He's tough as hell, but he has absolutely ''none'' of the most basic pirating skills. Lampshaded as part of a BadassBoast when he fought Arlong.
* SecretLegacy: The mysterious "Will of D." that several characters have mentioned.
** Goes a bit further when [[spoiler:he's revealed to have Roger's hat and can hear the voices of Sea Kings like the man himself could.]]
* SharedFamilyQuirks: Even before Garp was revealed as Luffy's grandfather, they both showed a Bunny-Ears Lawyer mentality, being more concerned with eating most of the time, often being absent-minded and a tendency to randomly fall asleep.
* ShowyInvincibleHero: Luffy earned the record-breaking bounty of 30 million belli for a rookie in East Blue where he won all his fights. [[{{Badass}} Smoker]] being an odd exception to the rule. And the East Blue Saga covered a hundred manga chapters! Even in the early parts of his adventure in the Grand Line, Luffy’s win record continued and it seemed like [[{{Determinator}} nothing]] [[InvincibleHero could stop him]] [[ToBeAMaster until he reached his goal]]. But then it was [[SubvertedTrope subverted]]. [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown Repeatedly]]. [[BreakTheCutie And hard]].
* ShutUpHannibal: Has done this numerous times against the [[BigBad Big Bads of the current arc]]. Prominent examples include against Arlong, Crocodile, Bellamy, Spanda, and Caesar Clown.
* SignatureMove: The Gum-Gum Pistol, Bazooka, Gatling, and Balloon are his 4 most iconic moves, although he typically uses their gear 2nd versions now.
* SmartBall: While some of the times he's right are the result of his [[CloudCuckoolander bizarre]] or [[DumbassHasAPoint poorly thought out]] guesses being correct, there are times when he's more reasonable than usual, such as when he tells Vivi that people will die no matter what she does, and defeating Crocodile, rather than intercepting the rebels, is the surest way to stop the rebellion.
* SpannerInTheWorks: Quite possibly the greatest version of this trope. Ever. Without going into detail, let's just say that most of the arcs, movies, and video games involve him entering the scene and completely ruining the villain's plans right when they're about to be finished. Every time.
** More often than not, he never even went in intending to stop the villain or knowing the villain even had an evil plan. He is literally just an unexpected variable that happened to mess up the scheme because the villain did just ONE thing wrong. That thing is usually trying to preemptively eliminate him.
** Reversed with Blackbeard's master plan. Everything Luffy did just worked in favor of Blackbeard's plans, even speeding them up significantly, the most obvious example being the Impel Down incident.
* SpellMyNameWithAnS: He's known as Ruffy in some foreign editions, most notably the German translation.
* SuperDrowningSkills: The most common victim of the Devil Fruit users in his crew. Of course, he couldn't swim even before getting his Devil Fruit powers, hence why Shanks's crew nicknamed him "Anchor".
* SuperMode: His [[LightningBruiser Gear Second]] and [[MightyGlacier Gear Third]] techniques.
* SuperpoweredEvilSide: Subverted with Nightmare Luffy. He's a scary, giant, evil-looking [[Comicbook/IncredibleHulk Hulk-like]] figure, and Nami and Usopp were initially afraid of him, but he's actually still Luffy on the inside. Just REALLY serious. However, that could be something to do with shadows inside him, since Usopp and Nami noticed he behaves differently.
* TerribleArtist: Luffy attempted to paint his logo on the ''Going Merry''. The rest of the crew hated it so much they had Usopp paint over it. Later, he successfully paints his logo on Laboon. It looks as competent as you'd expect for this trope.
* ThanksForTheMammary: Luffy accidentally gropes Boa Hancock when he was hiding under her dress since how he was latched onto her kept her from walking straight. The act nearly causes Hancock to orgasm but was forced to hold up her facade in front of the Marines.
* ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill: [[spoiler:Lately, after the timeskip, he uses Gear Second attacks for ''everything''. Considering how strong he already is and the fact that he has Haki, his normal Gum Gum attacks should be more than enough to solve his problems, rather than senselessly shorten his lifespan to beat a few minor enemies]].
** [[spoiler:He may not have the drawback post-time skip. Still this trope though, as he doesn't ''need'' to go SuperMode.]]
* ThirdTimesTheCharm: Against Crocodile, though there is a case to be had in his confrontations with Eneru and Rob Lucci. 
* TimeToUnlockMoreTruePotential: By the end of the first half of the series, approx. time around the Sabaody Arc, his skills and power are simply no longer enough to beat anybody or anything stronger than a single Pacifista (with the support of his entire team at that...). [[spoiler: Thankfully, he got better and after two years of training, he can now also defeat a Pacifista in a single hit (along with a giant KRAKEN, for that matter...)]]
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Meat. Any kind of meat. ([[spoiler:Although he's not as fond of seafood, as revealed by the Fishman Island arc.]]) Eating it even makes him stronger, and if he's not fighting or playing, he's always seen eating meat.
* TranquilFury: If you piss him off enough to make him enter this mode, you're fucked. Luffy usually starts his fights in UnstoppableRage mode, and finishes them in TranquilFury mode, when his enemy has really pissed him off.
* TrainingFromHell: Went through this in childhood. It involved being thrown into jungles at night and tied to balloons, apparently.
* TraumaCongaLine: [[spoiler:The Paramount War is one HUGE BreakTheCutie moment for our hero, starts during the Sabaody arc, gets many times worse in [[TheAlcatraz Impel Down]], AND he finally rescues his brother only for that brother to lose his life protecting him, he is VERY LUCKY that he is able to return to being himself.]]
* ThroughHisStomach: A surefire way to get Luffy to be your best friend.
* TrouserSpace: Where he keeps the "octopus"...
* UberMensch: Luffy refuses to follow the typical code of pirates, a code that revolves around pirating for treasure rather than your dreams, and does not harm civilians and steal. On one occasion, this even got him ridiculed and beaten, but he still stands strong by his beliefs.
** Although he's not completely opposed to stealing available loot when an opportunity arises (see Skypiea). Granted, they were gonna give him the gold anyway, but he didn't know that. 
* UnskilledButStrong: Initially with regards to Haki; he starts out only being able to make people submit to his power, and only during the TimeSkip does he learn how to use its forms.
* UnstoppableRage: On Enies Lobby, the soldiers were literally being sent flying by the hundreds from the moment Luffy got there, and it wasn't over until 3000 had been defeated and he had made his point -- shit was getting serious.
** [[spoiler:On Fishman Island, Luffy has recently began annihilating a massive amount of {{Mooks}} without discretion. He has currently taken out 50,000 without even touching them (which is, mind you, more than ''16 times'' the amount he defeated on Enies Lobby), using his Haki, and now he has begun actually attacking them physically. By the looks of things, and considering there was only 100,000 Mooks to start, the rest of his crew might not even be necessary to win the battle]].
* WaistcoatOfStyle: Until the TimeSkip.
* WeaponOfChoice
** ElementalPunch: He can't generate [[ShockAndAwe electricity]], but his immunity to it (because he's rubber) allows him to harness it and supercharge his attacks. So far, the only attack he used with this ability was his "Giant Thor Axe", which, needless to say, was ridiculously strong.
*** [[spoiler:His Gomu Gomu no [[IncendiaryExponent Red Hawk]] attack.]]
** MultiArmedAndDangerous: Subverted -- His gatling gun techniques only make the illusion that he's grown more arms. But played straight in the sense that it still causes an impact equivalent to being hit by multiple punches at the same time.
* WhenAllYouHaveIsAHammer: Most of the situations he's gotten into have been solved through liberal use of punching the right guy ''in the face''. Prior to Marineford, it's typically his ''only'' strategy, many times literally just asking whose ass he has to kick.
** It's fitting, as one of his stronger techniques is also called Gum Gum Mallet and Gum Gum Giant Mallet, which both mean hammer.
* WithMyHandsTied: He [[spoiler:one-shoted Vander Decken with his arms chained]].
* WorthyOpponent: Smoker. [[spoiler: This has become especially apparent when Smoker was willing to transfer into the ''worst'' marine base on the Grand Line, just so he could wait for Luffy in the New World. He waited ''two years'' for someone that the world thought dead, because he knew that Luffy would return to the sea sooner or later. Luffy sees him this way as well, as when [[FreakyFridayFlip Smoker was stuck in Tashigi's body]] Luffy refused to fight him until he was at full strength.]]
* WouldHitAGirl: Examples include Alvida, Ms. Valentine's Day, Vivi (as Ms. Wednesday and later in a GetAHoldOfYourselfMan), Boa Marigold and Sandersonia.
* XMarksTheHero: He got an X-shaped scar across his chest from [[spoiler: Akainu's attack at Marineford]].
* YouAreNotAlone: After his [[spoiler:HeroicBSOD he suffered from Ace's death, he finally comes out of it when he is reminded he still has his crew who still need him and he needs them.]]
* YourSizeMayVary: Luffy's iconic Straw Hat, through the many ArtEvolution phases Oda went and experimented on, our hero's hat has gone from ''fedora sized'' to ''sombrero sized'', though it's not an increasing constant, it may get smaller or bigger depending on the arc.
** Luffy himself is also an example. He's never been tall, but at the start of the series he was mostly average-sized, especially compared to the civilians in the background. Nowadays, he is the shortest character in the series who is not a {{Gonk}}, an animal, a child, or a woman (though most female characters are still taller than him). His body shape also changes from arc to arc. During East Blue and from Skypiea to Water 7, Oda has went for his signature lanky, long-legged style. In other arcs, like the more recent ones, Luffy is drawn with rather short legs and the head-to-body ratio of a young child, which makes him look much shorter than he actually is. Additionally, Oda tends to rapidly switch Luffy's mood from "goofy and light-hearted" to "serious" 'in-between just two pages' from time to time; this often results in him visually gaining a few inches and muscle seamlessly as well as changing his head-to-neck ratio from "childish" to a more mature look. His height is 172 cm (5'7") before the timeskip and 174 cm (5'8") after the timeskip for the record.
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[[folder:"Pirate Hunter" [[color:green:Roronoa Zoro]]]]
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-->''"I am going to be the world's greatest swordsman! (...) Whether a hero or a villain, everyone's going to know my name!"''

->Child Voice: MegumiUrawa (JP); Andrew Rannells (EN, 4Kids), BrinaPalencia (EN, Funi)
->Adult Voice: KazuyaNakai (JP), WataruTakagi (OVA), MarcDiraison (EN, 4Kids), ChristopherSabat (EN, Funi), Gabriel Basurto (Latin American Spanish)

Roronoa Zoro is the nineteen/[[TimeSkip twenty-one]]-year-old swordsman of the Straw Hat Pirates; he utilizes ''Santoryu'' (literally "Three Sword Style") in battle, wielding one in each hand along with one in the mouth. Mostly drinks and sleeps in his spare time (when he's not training his ass off), but becomes a real demon in battle that can defeat five hundred {{Mooks}} in two seconds. Often wears a green bandanna on his forearm that he ties around his head when he [[LetsGetDangerous gets dangerous]].

Similar to Luffy's goal, Zoro wishes to [[ToBeAMaster become the greatest swordsman in the world]]. Unlike Luffy, however, he needs only to defeat Dracule "Hawk Eyes" Mihawk, the current greatest swordsman in the world, to do so. He actually meets up with Mihawk fairly early in the story, but failed to land a single hit and was sliced by Mihawk's {{BFS}} for his trouble. Mihawk, however, held back just enough to leave Zoro alive, and told him to challenge him again when he was ready. [[spoiler:Ironically he is ''trained'' by Mihawk to be a stronger swordsman.]]

His bounty is 120,000,000 Berries.
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* [[spoiler:AintTooProudToBeg]]: [[spoiler:After defeating the Humandrills, he has to beg Mihawk to teach him to get stronger for the Straw Hats' sake]].
** Also before this, he [[spoiler: begged Kuma to take his head instead of Luffy's when he defeated the Straw Hat Crew in Thriller Bark.]]
* AntiHero: Zoro can be particularly brutal, as he's a BloodKnight. He was even described by other pirates as being capable of exuding a massive killing intent. Zoro has also stated several times of his willingness to kill. 
* {{Asexual}}/CelibateHero: The only male member of the crew not to peek in the girls' bathroom during the Alabasta arc, and shows a general lack of interest in the opposite sex. He's even proven immune to Nami and Robin's feminine wiles. This is probably a case of "[[CelibateHero thinks love is a distraction]]", since he seems to focus almost completely on his fighting ability. Alternatively, Zoro may simply [[{{Asexual}} not care about sex and romance in general]]. May also have something to do with his first female friend, Kuina, dying on him.
* {{Badass}}: One of the more prominent examples in the series.
** BadassArmFold: [[http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/zoroblood.jpg In this pic,]] which completely cements his {{Made Of Iron}} credentials.
** BadassBaritone: He has the deepest voice in the crew, and is undeniably BadAss. 
** BadassBoast: From chapter 642:
--> '''Zoro:''' You want to kill me?! You couldn't even kill my '''boredom'''!
** He also made a spectacularly badass one as a ''child'' which doubles as ThePromise when reacting to Kuina's death:
-->'''Zoro:''' I'll become the world's greatest swordsman, I'll become so famous, my name will heard out even in Heaven!"
** BadassLongcoat: After the two-year timeskip.
*** {{The Coats Are Off}}: [[spoiler:Zoro removed the top part of his coat when he got serious in the battle on Fishman Island]].
** BadassNormal: He's the strongest member of the crew on par with Luffy, and yet he doesn't have any Devil Fruit powers; his power comes from sheer skill and training. In fact, he can take on and defeat Devil Fruit users.
*** EmpoweredBadassNormal: [[spoiler:He tapped into his potential for Haki during the timeskip]].
* BerserkButton: Don't try to hurt Chopper. It'll make the big guy decide to go back on his policy not to fight for revenge.
** Insulting Robin is another good way to get your ass kicked. '''Hard'''.
*** It's safe to say he would do the same thing for all of his [[TrueCompanions crew]].
* BigBrotherInstinct: Out of all the crew, it's ''Chopper'' he seems to have a huge soft spot for.
* BigBrotherMentor: To a degree, towards Luffy.
* BigDamnHeroes: He often jumps out of nowhere to save someone at unexpected moments. He shielded Nami from Mr.1's attack, stopped Kuma from taking Luffy, and [[spoiler: post TimeSkip, stopped King Neptune's Trident.]]
** [[spoiler: More recently, he stopped Hyouzou from attacking Robin. However, considering Robin's lack of concern prior to his intervention and Zoro's offhanded apology over it, the two probably see this particular example more as Zoro stealing Robin's kill than this trope.]]
* BloodierAndGorier: His fights compared to the others ''as well as his own''.
* BloodKnight: Completely apathetic to everything around him, but once you say you want to fight, voila! You got his interest!
* BrainwashedAndCrazy: In episode 223 of the anime.
* BullyHunter: By the Sabaody Archipelago Saga, Zorro has adopted Luffy's hatred of bullies, and had to be physically retrained by another pirate from killing a Dragon-Noble who casually murdered the fiancé of an innocent nurse he enslaved.
* CharlesAtlasSuperpower: Up to Eleven.
* CloudCuckooLander: You wouldn't guess it from his usual demeanor, but Zoro just has some moments of total daffiness, and is completely serious during all of them. He yells like Tarzan while swinging on a vine. When Nami has trouble swinging, [[GenreSavvy he claims it's because she "didn't do the call"]]. When he's being turned into a wax statue, [[StabTheSky he raises his sword into the air]] and advises everyone to [[DyingMomentOfAwesome strike a pose]].
** Feet stuck in wax? Handcuffed to someone? ''Cut off the offending body part''.
* TheComicallySerious
* CreepyGood: Zoro is one of only two members of the Straw Hats to have killed in the past. Zoro is willing to chop his own feet off to join a fight and creeps the others out with his sheer determination and willpower, not to mention his monstrous strength.
** Usopp, Nami, and Chopper frequently find him "creepy" or "nuts" depending on the situation.
* CutenessProximity: Adequately explains his huge soft spot for Chopper.
* DeadpanSnarker: Zoro has a really dry wit, and has thrown out some pretty badass {{Pre Asskicking One Liner}}s.
* DeathGlare: Not as prominent as Luffy's but he can pull it off. In fact he managed to [[spoiler: beat Monet, a ''logia'' user, by this alone to the point she was frozen in fear and couldn't reassemble herself after he cut her.]]
* DefeatingTheUndefeatable: Zoro's ultimate goal.
* {{Determinator}}: You ''really'' can't keep this guy down.
** His fight against Mr. 1 comes to mind. You must see the amount of punishment Zoro endured during that fight to believe it.
* DiagonalCut: Most notably, how he finished off Mr. 1.
* EmbarrassingRescue: [[spoiler: Tashigi finds his help ''really'' embarrassing.]]
* EvenEvilHasStandards: While he isn't evil, Zoro is pretty damn brutal, and not above killing or seriously injuring the {{Mook}}s he encounters. However, even he is visibly disgusted by Crocodile's willingness to murder an entire country of innocents for personal gain, angrily snarling ''The term "not-human" was created to describe scum such as you.''
* EyepatchAfterTimeskip: Subverted. He hasn't been shown to use an eyepatch (so far), but he is in fact missing an eye after the timeskip. This has yet to be explained. 
* FantasticFightingStyle: his Three-Sword Style.
* FightingSpirit: This is basically how his ''Asura'' technique works.
* {{Flanderization}}: Relatively minor case. What started out as having a bad sense of direction eventually becomes being so directionally retarded that in the G8 arc he even manages to bend time and space through the power of getting lost.
* FriendToAllLivingThings: Sort of. An octopus was seen stuck on him when he came back up from inspecting a shipwreck. Later, a South Bird was staying near him (though it was to get his food). Chopper, a half-reindeer, usually clamps on his head when he's scared.
* FullPotentialUpgrade: Yubashiri and Kitetsu III were this, as a filler episode's flashback showed Zoro having a tendency to break his second and third swords until he got them.
* GogglesDoNothing: He did attempt to use them once, in order to shield his eyes from an enemy's flash attacks. This did little good, given that the goggles aren't tinted.
* HeavySleeper: This guy can sleep ''anywhere'' at ''any time'', even sleeping through a storm like it was smooth sailing.
** Or during a snow storm, he doesn't even wake up after being thoroughly COVERED in SNOW; he's even wearing short sleeves.
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:Offers his life in exchange for Luffy's before a [[TooPowerfulToLive nigh unbeatable foe]]. Instead, said foe allows him to take in all of Luffy's pain and exhaustion, which was supposed to be a traumatic enough experience to kill him. [[NoOneCouldSurviveThat Naturally, it doesn't]]. Keep in mind, this was all the pain and exhaustion from someone ''made of rubber''. Everything that he was able to endure thanks to his Devil Fruit powers, forced into a (technically) normal human body.]]
** AND, all this was forced into him ON TOP of his own, already superhuman, damage.
* HighPressureBlood: Has an infinite supply of it.
* HollywoodHealing: [[http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=226 "Band-aids heal everything."]]
* HowDareYouDieOnMe: Implied to be a source of angst involving the best friend he never got over. It's especially heart-wrenching when you consider that the other Straw Hats were at least assured they were unconditionally cared about by their own loved ones, no matter how tragic the circumstances.
* IfIWantedYouDead: A rare non-villain example. [[spoiler:When he fights Monet, she knows he can use Haki and in one attack vertically cuts her in half but holds back on the Haki to not kill her. She knows she should be dead and this near-death experience brought on a fear that is enough to keep her from properly reforming.]]
** NotWorthKilling: [[spoiler: He could've easily killed Monet if he used Haki, but he didn't, deciding that leaving her with her resolve just as broken as her body was enough. However, he did say to Tashigi after she cut her down, that he'd have finished her off himself]].
* ImplausibleFencingPowers: Who else can sword-swing with their mouth?
* ImprobableAge: One of the biggest badasses in the series is 19?
** He's 21 now, but has the maturity and appearence of someone who's at least 27.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold
* KatanasAreJustBetter: Why do you think he carries three at a time?
* [[spoiler: KiAttacks]]: [[spoiler: As revealed by Luffy, he can now use Haki after the time-skip. We don't know yet which type of Haki he specializes in, though.]]
** [[spoiler:He used Busoshoku Haki to cut [[AnIcePerson Monet's]] cheek, ''[[SwordBeam at long range]]''. Its also implied he can use Kenbunshoku Haki.]]
* TheLancer: To Luffy, again.
* LetsGetDangerous: When the bandanna comes on, Zoro will usually use some crazy attack that destroys his opponent, and usually the environment around them. Lampshaded during Enies Lobby.
* LetsYouAndHimFight: An interesting case where the villains barely had to do anything to provoke Luffy into fighting Zoro at Whiskey Peak. They had all been beaten up by Zoro and Luffy was mistakenly led to believe that Zoro did this for the fun of it, when the villains were "nice" to him and the crew beforehand, giving them food and partying with them, all the while waiting for the chance to kill them all.
* LightningBruiser: His physical strength is equal to Luffy's, and he can react fast enough to dodge ''bullets'' fired at ''point-blank range''.
** [[spoiler:Post time skip: He's faster than a Fishman, ''while underwater''.]]
* MadeOfIron: To a mind-blowing extent. Zoro is the trope image for a reason. He refuses to be incapacitated even after Mr. 1 practically puts him through a meatgrinder. This is most noticeable in the anime, which often downplays how badly Luffy and others are hurt in their fights -- it is kinda hard to do with Zoro, as he almost always fights swordsmen.
* {{Mangst}}: He still carries [[MementoMacGuffin Wado]] [[TragicKeepsake Ichimonji]] everywhere.
* MasterSwordsman: Zoro's ultimate goal. [[spoiler:He was also trained by a MasterSwordsman -- Dracule "Hawk Eyes" Mihawk.]]
* MeaningfulName: His surname is based on that of real life pirate Francois L'olonois.
* MrFanservice: Qualifies in most areas, most notably that he looks ''great'' with his shirt off, which happens [[ShirtlessScene more often than not]].
* MultiWielding: He often ''triple-wields'' katanas, with one in each hand and one [[CutlassBetweenTheTeeth in his]] ''[[CutlassBetweenTheTeeth mouth]]''. This being anime, of course, it's always quite effective, as absurd as it would be in real life. It goes even farther, however, with Zoro eventually learning to ''nonuple-wield'' -- that is, use nine swords at once, or at least create the appearance of this. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]], since Zoro's style isn't nearly as effective unless he uses three swords.
* NeverGetsDrunk: One of the greatest examples. Zoro can hold ridiculous amounts of alcohol. Even after out-drinking thirteen people, Zoro went on to fight ''one hundred trained assassins'' at Whiskey Peak with no problems whatsoever. He didn't even have a hangover next morning.
** In the newest chapter, 669, this is somewhat subverted. He, [[ChivalrousPervert Sanji]] [[spoiler:[[FreakyFridayFlip (in Nami's body)]]]], and [[DemBones Brook]] all get hit by a sleeping gas that is somehow supposed to use alcohol to knock out even the heaviest of drinkers. Zoro does end up falling asleep from the fumes, but it also takes him longer than Sanji or Brook to succumb; long enough that he can slice a needle-laden mountaintop that they're headed toward in half so that they don't all die or get horribly injured.
* NoSenseOfDirection: This man is capable of getting lost in a ''[[RunningGag straight hallway]]''.
** This man is capable of getting lost when a door ''[[UpToEleven was in front of him]]''.
** This man is capable of getting lost when it shouldn't be ''[[UpToEleven physically]] [[RuleOfThree possible]]''.
** At one point, Chopper got so fed up with his lack of direction that he offered to make Zoro a medication for '''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6YWikAsteI hopeless idiocy]]'''.
** And when he wants to get away from someone, he'll end up running into them anyway.
** Even the zombie that had his shadow also got lost when following a large group of zombies.
* NumberTwo: In times of emotional crisis for the crew, he's taken responsibility of the crew and reminds Luffy of his duties as a captain, solidifying his position as this. This is most obvious in regards to Luffy's duel with Usopp.
* OneManArmy: [[spoiler: Post TimeSkip, he managed to defeat most of the Neptune Army soldiers by himself, and after his capture, he plans to do the same with Hordy's men now. Even Usopp [[LampshadeHanging calls him one.]]]]
** Much earlier, in one of the more awesome moments of the series, he single-handedly defeated 100 expert bounty hunters in Whiskey Peak.
* OverdrawnAtTheBloodBank: To [[SerialEscalation an increasingly ridiculous degree]].
** In the 5th movie, the villain says his Cursed Sword will drink all of Zoro's blood. Poor thing probably would have exploded from overfill.
** They made fun of this in Episode 523. They showed Zoro looking at ''nine pint bags of blood'' that were being transfused into Sanji, angling as if ''he had given it all''.
* ParentalAbandonment: There has been no mention of his parents at all. All we know is that he trained at the dojo at a young age.
* PerpetualFrowner: Zoro used to smile and laugh quite frequently in early arcs. This changed after his defeat at the hands of Mihawk. Since then, he kind of developed a bad temper as pointed out by Sanji in the Arlong arc. 
** Debatable, but it seems he got better post-Time Skip.
** He's also prone to smiling and laughing during the parties the Straw Hats and friends have at the end of most arcs.
* PetTheDog: He has his moments with kids. He's not usually ''trying'', but they're there.
* PowerGlows: Occasionally, he will glow when he performs any of his more potent attacks as well as creating illusions, thought of by Kaku as being the power of his spirit.
* PreMortemOneLiner: 
** To Kaku:
--->'''Zoro (''to Kaku''):''' Bring on the hardship. It's preferred on the path to carnage!
** To Monet:
--->[[spoiler:'''Zoro:''' (''to Monet'') Have you ever seen a wild beast, that is never guaranteed to bite a person? I haven't.]] 
** [[spoiler: Subverted, because he actually didn't intend to kill her, just leave her broken so she won't be able to endanger his crew-mates. She might as well have been dead though]].
* QuitYourWhining: Says this to Chopper after he gets forcibly taken into Foxy's crew as a result of the Straw Hats losing the first round of the Davy Back Fight.
* RatedMForManly: Taken as far as possible.
* RazorWind: His Tatsumaki and Pound Hou techniques.
** [[spoiler:After the TimeSkip, his Tatsumaki gets mixed with DoNotTouchTheFunnelCloud as well.]]
* RedOniBlueOni: The blue to Luffy's red.
** [[spoiler: Post-TimeSkip: In an extended scene in episode 519 of the anime, when [[VitriolicBestBuds he and Sanji]] [[VolleyingInsults start fighting]], Zoro has a blue aura and Sanji has a red one. The [[PlayedForLaughs battle fury is so intense]] that all that is seen are the two {{Battle Aura}}s colliding with each other. [[OffscreenMomentOfAwesome A shame we don't see the actual fight]], since it would've spoiled the {{Canon}} reveals of their new post-TimeSkip [[TookALevelInBadass abilities]].]]
* SlasherSmile: He shows a great deal of enthusiasm when it comes to getting into fights.
* TheSouthpaw: While it is clear that Zoro is ambidextrous, he seems to be predominantly left-handed. He keeps all of his swords sheathed next to his right hip, meaning it would be easier to pull a sword with his left hand. When wielding a single sword, Zoro usually uses his left hand. His single sword techniques have nearly always been executed with his left hand.
** Also, in Movie 5, in his fight against Saga, Saga stabbed Zoro's left hand after telling him that he had "lost his dominant sword hand in battle."
* SpellMyNameWithAnS: The FanWank over the Zoro vs. Zolo debate is ridiculous, especially considering that his name is an intentional reference to Franchise/{{Zorro}}. Not helping matters is that in the US (at least for TV and the manga), it has to be "Zolo" or the producers will get sued by the people that own ''Franchise/{{Zorro}}''.
* TheStoic: He's a lot more reserved than most of the crew, often taking negative events without losing his composure. He's often the crew's voice of reason.
** NotSoStoic: However, [[TheComicallySerious this doesn't stop keep him from getting mad at]] [[IdiotHero Luffy]], [[CowardlyLion or]] [[ChivalrousPervert the]] others.
*** Also when getting hit by Perona's Hollow-Hollow Fruit power.
* StrangeMindsThinkAlike: After Luffy's explanation on the difference between pirates and heroes: heroes share meat, pirates don't, for which Zoro was not there, Zoro gives an incredibly similar analogy, except he substitutes booze for meat.
* [[AxCrazy Sword Crazy]]: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PC8T1i3inHs The accusations may be justified]].
** Well, if [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotSymbolic certain names of his attacks ''are'' symbolic]], it's actually very possible he's not quite right in the head.
** Zoro seems quite aware that he's crazy. However, as stated, ''he'' is the only one allowed to call himself that.
* TerrorHero: Zoro paralyzes his enemy by a display of strength and pure killing intent. The enemy is [[spoiler: Monet from Punk Hazard arc]]. 
* ToBeAMaster: His goal is to become [[MasterSwordsman "the greatest swordsman in the world"]].
* ToughLove: Toward Chopper, when lecturing him on the consequences of being a pirate during the Davy Back Fight, and to [[spoiler: Usopp, forcing the sniper to swallow his pride, apologize for his selfishness and beg before being allowed back on the crew at the end of the Enies Lobby arc.]]
* TragicKeepsake: Wado Ichimonji, his only consistent sword, used to belong to his childhood friend/rival Kuina, and after her death he uses it to remind himself of their promise to become great swordsmen.
* TrashTalk: Zoro is the Straw Hat Pirates' resident trash talker in a fight. He enjoys telling his opponents things like "The reason you've never lost is because you've never met me", and of course, he always gives out a "Post Asskicking One-Liner", in which he usually comments on how his opponents were a mere stepping stone for him.
* UnscrupulousHero: He is one of the most vicious and brutal of all the Straw-Hats, and he and Robin are the only ones who suggest killing as a first resort. It should be noted that while he's quite willing to use lethal force against people who attack him, he has been shown to go out of his way to help allies and bystanders. 
* VitriolicBestBuds: With Sanji. The two make quite an impressive team... When they're not fighting, arguing, or hurling insults at each other (which is to say, most of the time). 
* VolleyingInsults: Gets into this quite frequently with Sanji.
* WeaponOfChoice: His three [[KatanasAreJustBetter katanas]]: Wado Ichimonji, Sandai Kitetsu, and Shuusui. He's consistently had Wado Ichimonji, but had gone through several other swords before getting his current remaining pair.
** ILikeSwords
*** CutlassBetweenTheTeeth: His fighting style relies on it.
*** EvilWeapon: Sandai Kitetsu's curse has lead all its previous owners to violent deaths. Zoro sees it as a problem child, but he is too sword-crazy to back away from the challenge. 
*** FlamingSword: Yaki Oni Giri (Flaming Demon Slash). Used once with actual fire, and in one of the [[TheMovie movies]] with magic fire. He also stated that he would love a flaming sword as a weapon.
*** LickingTheBlade: He does this a couple of times. Not surprisingly, there was much [[{{Squee}} squeeing]] from the [[FanGirl female fanbase]]. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9zuB6IhU3c=related See here]].
*** SwordSparks: Again, his fight with Mr. 1.
* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotSymbolic: His attacks often contain references to Buddhism and mythical demons. Ironically, Zoro himself claims to be atheist.
** Also, references to food, like Oni Giri (Demon Slash).
* WhatExactlyIsHisJob: {{Fanon}} typically pegs him as the First Mate, but this has yet to be explicitly stated in-story.
** Luffy took him on board because he wanted a 'champion' in his crew. Especially if he's the future "World's Greatest Swordsman" to balance out the future Pirate King.
* WhatYouAreInTheDark: Zoro fully intended to sacrifice himself as part of a deal with Kuma to spare the rest of the Straw Hats. When he made this deal, he was under the assumption that everyone else was unconscious.
* WhenHeSmiles.
* WisdomFromTheGutter: Zoro is ''the one'' to impart knowledge about how a pirate should behave within their group; aspects such as respect, roles and trust are brought up by him when the Straw Hats are in the middle of some inner conflict as seen during the Davy Back Fight and Water 7. Interesting to note is that Zoro only does this when Luffy, the Captain, isn’t the one voicing this out or he is also participating in the turmoil; the exact course of action a First Mate would take, if they ever had one.
* TheWorfEffect: Often loses to main villains of the arc, especially Buggy, Arlong, Eneru, Oars and Moria, and Kuma in order to show how powerful they are.
** WorfHadTheFlu: On the other hand, a good chunk of those opponents were immune to swords, to varying degrees. Buggy can't be cut at all because swords only disconnect his floating body parts. In Arlong's case, Zoro was recently really run through the gauntlet, had already been in a fight, and was using a type of sword he wasn't used to, so it was hardly surprising there. Eneru is made out of [[ShockAndAwe pure electricity]], so he couldn't be touched. Kuma doesn't count: he didn't just beat Zoro, he ''curbstomped the entire Straw Hat crew and everyone else.''
* WouldHitAGirl: He will cut a girl if he has to.
** WouldntHitAGirl: Somewhat played with. His childhood friend Kuina may have been the only girl that he was willing to fight seriously. In [[spoiler:his fight with Monet at Punk Hazard]], Tashigi claims that Zoro is holding back due to a [[PoliticallyIncorrectHero dismissive attitude towards women]]. [[spoiler: Subverted, after proving to Monet that he will cut a girl if necessary.]]
*** To be fair though, all of that is just Tashigi assuming and she has a history of throwing such comments around. Also back in Whiskey Peak, Zoro did knock out a bounty hunter posing as a nun with the broad end of his sword (even apologizing for it) and beat Ms. Monday by simply knocking her out with a face palm. So more or less, he won't cut a woman unless absolutely necessary, but has no problem using blunt force against them. 
*** And the real reason Tashigi holds that opinion is because of Zoro's inability to fight her prior to the TimeSkip. However, the main reason Zoro wouldn't fight her after the first time is because of her similarities to Kuina, both physically and personality-wise. This is something that she has absolutely no knowledge of, and hence her belief that he has a dismissive attitude towards women.
* YouCanBarelyStand: Happens to him ALL the time, with his [[OverdrawnAtTheBloodBank fight with Mr. 1]] being a defining example. 
**  Also the Kuma incident at Thriller Bark. [[spoiler: Zoro took in ''all the pain Luffy had accumulated during his fights with Oars and Moriah. The entire area around him was covered in blood afterwards, and Zoro, though still standing and unflinching, looked like he was ready to die on the spot.]] 
* YouCantGoHomeAgain: It's not that Zoro can't go home. It's just that he doesn't know the way, seeing how he's got a lousy sense of direction.
* YoungerThanHeLooks: Can you believe that somebody who [[MrFanservice looks]] [[ShirtlessScene like]] [[RuleOfSexy that]] is 19 ([[TimeSkip And later 21]])? Of course, he drinks like a fish, and has been [[TrainingFromHell training]] himself for about half his life to kick ass.
* [[YouGottaHaveBlueHair You Gotta Have Green Hair]]: Sanji likes to make fun of him this way, calling him "Marimo" (Moss Head).
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[[folder:"Cat Burglar" [[color:orange:Nami]]]]
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-->''"What good is treasure if I'm all alone? I'd rather have nothing at all!"''

->Voiced by: AkemiOkamura (JP), WakanaYamazaki (JP, temporarily), MegumiToyoguchi (OVA); Kerry Williams (EN, 4Kids), LuciChristian (EN, Funi); Georgina "Gina" Sánchez (Latin American Spanish)

The eighteen/[[TimeSkip twenty]]-year-old navigator of the Straw Hats, Nami was initially introduced as a thief who detested pirates and stole from them. Her years of thievery have given her a sly and wily personality, as she isn't above taking advantage of or blackmailing her own crew mates. Despite these greedy personality traits, she is still very loyal to the crew, [[OnlySaneWoman though they do get on her nerves from time to time]], and their journey would have been nigh impossible without her near-supernatural abilities to read the ocean currents and predict weather phenomena, leading some to wonder if she's actually a witch. She uses a weapon called the Clima-Tact, later upgraded to the Perfect Clima-Tact [[spoiler:and currently the Sorcery Clima-Tact]].

Her dream is to draw a map of the world, which she was unable to realize until Luffy managed to free her and her island from the tyrannical rule of the [[FishPeople Fishman]] pirate Arlong. She owes a great deal to the others and especially Luffy for this, and is often the only member of the crew other than Zoro to personally confront or remind him of the deep, gut-wrenching choices that he must face.

Her bounty is 16,000,000 Berries. 
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* ActionGirl: Not at first, but starts growing into the role after being given her Clima Tact.
* AntiHero: Starts off as not willing to kill, but fine with putting pirates in situations where they are certain to die due to her past.
* ArmorPiercingSlap: She's one of the few characters able to render Luffy a bruised and bloody mess. WordOfGod says that it's because her blows are "emotionally and spiritually charged".
* AuthorAppeal: Oda is HappilyMarried to Chiaki Inaba, the actress who played her in the ''Jump Festa'' stage performances. Oda thinks his wife is incredibly sexy (and let's be fair, she ''is'' very pretty), and as a kind of tribute to her, altered Nami's design to show it off.
* BadassAdorable
* BadassNormal: No Devil Fruit powers, but the Clima-Tact more than makes up for it.
* BareYourMidriff: A few of her outfits sport this, but [[http://images.wikia.com/onepiece/images/4/48/2yearNami.jpg her first timeskip design is the most evident case of this.]]
* BathingBeauty: Gets a few of these scenes occasionally.
* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: Double subverted. The serious damage she recieves during her more intense fights does show, but as soon as the fights are over, in any of the more minor battles, and in the long run overall, her skin is absolutely flawless.
* BerserkButton: Do not spend money without consulting her first. Do not steal anything from her, especially if she stole it first. And, above all else, do not hurt the people she cares about.
* BrownEyes
* CantCatchUp: Usopp somewhat fixes this problem for her. She's not quite as strong as her crewmates, but she's got a respectable record, taking out Miss Doublefinger from Baroque Works and Kalifa from [=CP9=].
* CatFight: Gets into these all the time, but her fight with Kalifa in which Nami herself is scantily clad and getting rubbed all over [[FanService by the buxom, fishnet-fond Kalifa using her]] [[ItRunsOnNonsensoleum "Slippery wet soap powers"]] takes the cake.
* CowardlyLion: Less than Chopper and Usopp, but she does not have the fear immunity that the rest of the crew have. This is justified out of pragmatism than anything else, since she is a completely untrained in physical combat. 
* DangerouslyShortSkirt: Twice. The first was [[http://images.wikia.com/onepiece/images/6/6e/W7.jpg in the Water 7 arc]], when she didn't fight at all. The second was [[http://images.wikia.com/onepiece/images/a/a6/Nami_PerfectClimaTact.JPG in the Enies Lobby arc]], where she more than proved her worth as an ActionGirl.
* DoubleStandardAbuseFemaleOnMale: She beats her crewmates up very often.
* EarlyBirdCameo: In the manga, she first appears in chapter 8. In the anime, however, she makes an appearance in the very first episode, before Luffy himself.
* ElementalPowers
** BlowYouAway: [[spoiler:Enemy face, meet tornado in a stick.]]
** ShockAndAwe: Her Perfect Clima Tact, essentially a super-taser on a stick, can create lightning strikes and other electrical discharges under the right conditions.
* ExpositoryHairstyleChange: In the manga, as of recently.
* FanServicePack: Over the course of a few hundred chapters/episodes, Nami's physique changed greatly. Her breasts have gradually increased in size, from modest B's to full-blown F's. It's enough to make you think that the story hasn't been in ComicBookTime, but apparently she's just prone to growth spurts. At the ages of 18 and 20. Every other week of her life. And the [[PerversesexualLust fans]] [[RuleThirtyFour rejoiced]].
* FieryRedhead: One of the more [[PunchyLove emotional]] members of the crew. "True to her looks, she's so bold!"
* FireIceLightning: The [[WeatherControlMachine Clima-Tact's]] most basic function is to create three types of air bubbles named the Heat Ball, Cool Ball, and Thunder Ball. It used to be a slight subversion in that with the first version of the Clima-Tact, the Heat and Cool Balls were useless as attacks, and tended to be used for weather manipulation only. Once it got upgraded, the Heat and Cool Balls became strong enough to inflict damage to enemies (albeit relatively minor damage) in their base form.
* {{Gainaxing}}: In the 7th movie, sometimes they bounce wildly when she moves very little.
** It's also the case in the 12th movie. [[spoiler: Though you could say that this is compensating for the fact that she spends most of the movie as a kid.]]
* GuileHeroine: Her usual approach; when she first meets Luffy, she calls him [[HilariousInHindsight "Boss"]] to [[LetsYouAndHimFight get the guys chasing her off her tail]].
* HotWitch: Often called a witch, with her weather control capabilities and seductive nature.
* HypocriticalHumor: Nami doesn't trust Robin when she first joins, and calls Luffy, Chopper, and Sanji idiots for being easily swayed by Robin to allow her to join up despite her history with Crocodile. She then goes to tell Robin that she herself won't be as easily swayed as she doesn't trust her. However, as soon as Robin casually offers up a bag of gems, Nami does a complete 180 and gets easily swayed.
* JerkassFacade: Acted like this during the Arlong arc to try to prevent the Straw Hats from interfering in her business with Arlong, but it came [[TearJerker crumbling down]] along with her attempts to resolve the situation herself.
* LightFeminineAndDarkFeminine: The light to Robin's dark. 
* [[spoiler:LittleMissBadass: In the twelvth movie, after [[FountainOfYouth she was temporarily turned into a kid]] by Ain.]]
** [[spoiler:LittleMissConArtist: She takes advantage of that to trick some Marine soldiers into giving her info about Z.]]
* LongHairIsFeminine: Post-TimeSkip.
* {{Meganekko}}: Sometimes when she's at work.
* MetaGal: Spends a lot of her early appearances reacting to Luffy and Zoro's inhuman abilities. Actually, almost everyone falls into this role when introduced to the wackiness of the Straw Hat Crew, but the more human members (like Nami) keep it up longer. Like most of the other characters, she now reacts to how strange the people that the Straw Hats meet are instead.
* MoneyFetish: She's such a classic case that she's the page picture. See [[MrViceGuy Ms. Vice Girl]] below.
* MsFanservice: Most conventional in the world, as she's: stacked, [[{{Gainaxing}} bouncy]], [[TheTease flirtatious]], and [[BareYourMidriff rarely covers her stomach]].
** Now after the time skip we have: [[WalkingSwimsuitScene bikini top]], low-riding pants that expose her hips and upper crotch-lines, high heels, and [[LongHairIsFeminine much longer and free-flowing hair]].
*** Taken up to eleven in the "Glorious Island" movie tie-in; most of the focus is on Nami bouncing around in a tiny bikini.
* MsViceGirl: She is obsessed with money and often cons other characters (including her own crewmates) out of their hard-earned cash. Despite this, her good qualities still outweigh her greed. In the Arlong Park arc, it's shown exactly why she's so fixated on getting rich. The habit doesn't exactly die after the fact, but she slowly gets better about it, at least.
* MundaneUtility: Weather control makes a great weapon. It also makes showering anywhere a lot easier.
* NeverGetsDrunk: Nami can hold her liquor just fine. She out-drinks fifteen people and goes on like it was nothing. She may even be better than Zoro, as she actually outdrank more than him.
** She actually does get a little tipsy in the Fishman Island arc, but not outright drunk.
* TheNotSecret: She asked Nojiko to keep her efforts to steal to buy her village back from Arlong a secret, even after Genzo had her banished from the village for joining Arlong Pirates, knowing that the villagers struggled to pay the tribute. It turns out that Genzo, unwilling to believe she'd join the pirates willingly, got Nojiko to tell him the truth, but decided to keep it a secret from Nami so she could run away if she was unable to go on.
* NotSoAboveItAll: Gets her fair share of this. She can be just as goofy as the rest of the crew.
* OnlySaneWoman: Has bemoaned how their crew always seems to attract the weird ones. 
* OutOfFocus: Her dream as a child was to drawn maps of all places she visited, and eventually a World Map itself; Arlong made her dream a nightmare, but when Nami parted ways with her village to join Luffy's crew, she expressed again her dream to draw maps; since then however, Nami isn't seen drawing maps of any kind -- though one may assume that she's doing so ''off-screen'', because the map-making in itself (as opposed to achieving the goal of a ''complete'' World Map) is not necessary to move the plot forward. That said, she can be seen drawing maps in anime filler multiple times, as well as some of the openings and endings.
* PirateGirl: She wasn't ''at all'' proud to work with Luffy at the start of the series due to watching a pirate kill her mother and being basically enslaved by that same pirate at the start of the series. Thanks to Luffy intervening, however, she now embraces her role as a pirate, as it has brought her many great friends and ''lots'' of [[MoneyFetish money]]. 
* ProudBeauty: She's attractive, she knows it and knows how to use it at her advantage.
* SandInMyEyes: When she's captured at Weatheria and put in jail for trying to steal meteorological equipment, she reads about [[spoiler: Ace's death]] in the newspaper and breaks down crying, causing her captors to freak out and release her. She quickly reveals that it was just an act, and she makes off with the equipment she stole, along with one of the meteorologists, who notes that she still hasn't stopped crying.
* ScienceHero: Meteorological science.
* ShamelessFanserviceGirl: She isn't ashamed to show her body to others as long as they pay her afterwards. 
* ShesGotLegs
* ShouldntYouStopStealing
* ShowSomeLeg: Nami tends to use her charm to her advantage.
* SurroundedByIdiots: Just before the crew entered the Grand Line, Oda was asked who had the highest and lowest IQ of all the characters introduced so far; he replied that Shanks's first mate, Captain Kuro, and Nami were the smartest (in that order), but he couldn't decide which characters were the dumbest because almost every other character is an idiot or a [[CloudCuckooLander space case]].
* TattooedCrook: Very important to her backstory, and hot.
* TheTease: Two words. HAPPINESS PUNCH. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gc0KjmZjuXg Observe!]]
* TeenGenius: When we are first introduced to her, she is eighteen and knows the ins-and-outs of sailing various kinds of ships, an almost entirely instinctive knowledge of climatology and meteorology, and an incredible knack at cartography that she had been refining since she was only ten years old. [[WordOfGod Word of God]] states she was the third smartest character introduced in the East Blue Saga. The other two were pirates with years of experience, one being the first-mate of one of the most powerful men in the world. So yeah, she's smart.
* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: Tomboy to Vivi's Girly Girl, though it's all relative as neither is very tomboyish or girly.
** Also the more [[HotBlooded passionate]] and [[{{Tomboy}} headstrong]] of the two ladies aboard the Thousand Sunny, although her hobbies are much more girly than Robin's, whose are just... ''weird''.
* TookALevelInBadass: Every time she gets a new Clima Tact (i.e. in Alabasta, Enies Lobby, and after the timeskip), but special mention needs to go to her after the timeskip, where she electrocutes ''a whole bar'', takes down Fishman soldiers (who are 10 times stronger than normal humans, mind you) like they were nothing, and even displays the ability to make herself invisible with mirages to steal a very important document from Fishmen on power-increasing steroids. Also, she is far less of a coward than before: for example, she doesn't even flinch when having a gun pointed against her temple.
* TookALevelInKindness: Gradually as the series has gone on, but especially after the timeskip.[[spoiler: From forgiving Hatchan, to immediately hugging Usopp and Chopper when they reunite, to even immediately forgiving Jinbei for letting Arlong loose on East Blue,]] she's come a pretty long way from the JerkassFacade she started out with.
** Not to mention, she hits her crewmates far less often, starting after the timeskip.
* {{Tsundere}}: Type A. Gets pissed at the idiotic nature of her crew despite being very close to them; completely understandable, of course. Becomes less and less pronounced as time passes, slowly replaced with exasperation.
* VictoriasSecretCompartment: ...Or as [[Creator/EiichiroOda Oda]] calls it, "The Hidden Nami Valley!"
* WalkingSwimsuitScene: Post TimeSkip.
* WeakButSkilled: Her knowledge of the weather and her tools have gotten her out of tight spots more than once. Note the "weak" here is only in correlation to her crew.
* WeaponOfChoice: Her [[WeatherControlMachine Clima Tact and later Perfect Clima Tact]]. Before those she used a normal wooden quarterstaff.
** CoolSword: One of her new techniques is to create a [[spoiler:wind sword]].
** MagicStaff: It even creates small-scale weather effects.
* WeatherControlMachine: Her Clima Tact, to an extent.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Originally she was going to be [[AnAxeToGrind an axe-user]]. [[http://images.wikia.com/onepiece/images/c/cd/Nami_Battle-Axe_Green.png No,]] [[http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/File:Nami_Battle-Axe.png seriously!]]
* WingdingEyes: Whenever anything related to cash is mentioned.
* YouAreNotAlone: Upon learning [[spoiler:Arlong back stabbed her and stole her fortune she would have used to buy her village's freedom, she starts crying and begs Luffy for help. He simply puts his hat on her head and moves Zoro, Sanji, and Usopp to attack Arlong for making her cry.]]
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[[folder:"The King of Snipers" [[color:gold:Usopp]]]]
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-->''"I am the Great Captain Usopp!"''

->Voiced by: KappeiYamaguchi (JP), JasonGriffith (EN, 4Kids), SonnyStrait (EN, Funi)

Usopp serves as the crew's sharpshooter, and previously served as the (barely competent) repairman for the ship. He had a reputation on his home island of being a serial liar who claimed that pirates were attacking, which came back to haunt him when pirates ''[[CryingWolf actually attacked]]''. He's a rather boastful seventeen/[[TimeSkip nineteen]] year-old who likes to tell tall tales (several of which actually do come true, after a fashion), though he's more prone to hiding behind the stronger crew members such as Zoro when he actually gets into a fight. However, when push comes to shove he is very dependable. He specializes in the use of a slingshot, called the Galaxy Slingshot (''Ginga Pachinko''), which he replaced with the Kabuto [[spoiler:and later the Black Kabuto]].

His dream is to better himself and become a brave warrior like his father Yasopp, who serves on board the ship captained by Shanks, Luffy's idol. According to WordOfGod, he is the physically-weakest member of the crew, and his worries about not being able to [[CantCatchUp keep up]] with the stronger members and resulting inner turmoil put him at odds with Luffy during one story arc, and ultimately resulted in the creation of an alter ego dubbed Sogeking which he uses to draw on his inner strength and courage.

His (or rather Sogeking's) bounty is 30,000,000 Berries
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* AbnormalAmmo: It was one thing to be shooting hot sauce and gas bombs, among other things. [[spoiler:Now he's shooting seeds which instantly grow into ''man-eating plants'']].
* AchillesInHisTent: Water 7 and Enies Lobby, as a result of Luffy changing ships and [[CantCatchUp feeling that he'll always lag behind the others]].
* AstonishinglyAppropriateAppearance: One look at his nose should tell you he's a liar.
* {{Badass}}
** BadassBeard: He grows a goatee during the TimeSkip.
*** [[http://images4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20120714113234/onepiece/images/8/88/Usopp-Film-Z.png One of his outfits]] in ''One Piece Film Z'' gives him a full beard and BadassMoustache. Both fake, of course, but still pretty funny and cool.
** BadassBoast: "I am the great Captain Usopp! I have destroyed islands with my 8000 followers!"
*** Now in the manga: [[spoiler: "It's true, I've deteriorated...I used to lie a lot more...NOW I CAN ACTUALLY DO THOSE THINGS!" Hell yeah.]].
*** Subverted in chapter 695: "I'll take on any enemy with their back to us."
** BadassNormal: He doesn't have the superpowers of Luffy or the super strength of Zoro and Sanji, but he's still capable of challenging opponents much stronger than him... when he gathers the courage to do so, that is.
*** It's implied that after the TimeSkip, confronting fearsome opponents is less of a problem for him now.
* BadLiar[=/=]ConsummateLiar: Alternates between these.
* BigDamnHeroes: To himself with his own alter ego.
** Sogeking saving Robin while she was on the brink of the Gates of Justice certainly counts.
* BondBreaker: The entire argument and fight between himself and Luffy over leaving or keeping a heavily damaged Merry. Why do you count him here? [[spoiler:The entire debacle happened ''before'' we found out that Merry was sentient.]]
* ButtMonkey: Every now and then.
* CallingYourAttacks: While everyone in the series does this, Usopp subverts this trope by deliberately ''[[GenreSavvy mis]]''[[GenreSavvy calling his attacks]].
* CantCatchUp: Part of the reason he temporarily leaves the crew.
* CharlieBrownFromOuttaTown: Sogeking.
* ConfusionFu: Mixes a bit of this into his fighting style, including [[CallingYourAttacks calling the wrong attack names]] and randomly attacking his opponents with a Rubber Band Of Doom.
* CowardlyLion: Once his bravado wears off.
* CrazyPrepared: His fight with Luffy shows us what Usopp can really pull off with a little prep time and prior knowledge of his opponent.
** Then, he made a hundred ways to apologize to him. Spent days doing that, and in the end none of them were of any use, but intention is what matters.
** [[spoiler: His boast during his fight with Daruma indicates that he has improved his ability to put together CrazyPrepared-style battle strategies on the fly.]]
* CryingWolf: Comes back to bite him in the ass when pirates really do come to his island.
* DisappearedDad: His father Yasopp left his family behind to be part of Shanks's crew, but they don't hold it against him.
* DubNameChange: The French manga has him renamed "Pipo" (a word for "lie") to keep the MeaningfulName.
** The Funimation dub changes his alter ego's name to "Sniper King".
* FakeUltimateHero: His tall tales eventually gained him this status in Skypeia, where cover stories show a "Rubber Band Land" (as he'd claimed he'd destroyed the Giant Jack with his "Usopp Rubber Band") featuring a statue of himself looking not unlike Shandian hero Calgara.
* FriendlyTarget: Suffered through this during the Water 7 arc.
* GadgeteerGenius: His main contribution to the crew.
* GagNose
* [[spoiler:GreenThumb:]] [[spoiler:After the TimeSkip, he's able to fire off things ranging from man-eating plants, to seaweed, to bamboo spears.]]
** [[spoiler:FantasticFlora]]: [[spoiler:Some of the Pop Green plants are quite strange, such as a plant that has a bouncy bubble on it and a wolf-shaped bushes, the bulbs of which release ''shock waves''.]] 
* [[spoiler:HeavyVoice]]: [[spoiler:Has one after gaining weight on the Bowin Islands.]]
* ImprobableAimingSkills: He's able to take out soldiers several hundred yards away while standing on the roof of a building that's a good couple hundred feet tall. While it was very windy. With a goddamn slingshot/staff thing.
** Notably, the soldiers he's shooting at point out that even if they were able to aim reliably at this distance, their rifles ''couldn't shoot that far''.
* InferioritySuperiorityComplex: He often alternates between bragging and being either cowardly (when played for laughs) or deeply insecure in his skills (when it isn't). This has lessened with CharacterDevelopment during and after the Water 7 arc.
* KiddieKid: Usopp was introduced as a 17 year old young man who spent his time hanging out with a bunch of 8 year olds and told outrageous lies for no real reason other than the fun of it. Part of his character development is him turning from this into a true man like his father.
* LargeHam: He gets a little theatrical when boasting, but it's when he's being Sogeking that he really begins to ham it up.
* LetsGetDangerous: Sogeking
* LovableCoward: In Chapter 695, he says this:
--> '''Usopp:'''"Leave all wounded enemies with their backs to us to me!"
* MilesGloriosus: In his introduction chapter.
* MrFanservice: After the timeskip. ''[[HelloNurse Hello]]'', Mansopp!
* NeverBareheaded: He always has some kind of headgear on.
* OvershadowedByAwesome: WordOfGod pegs him as the guy who will always be the weakest of the crew. Lampshaded when [[spoiler:he says he can't keep up with the rest of the crew's "monster" strengths during the Water 7 arc]]
* PaperThinDisguise: Sogeking. Only Luffy and Chopper failed to realize that it was actually him.
* PossessionImpliesMastery: Played straight. Usopp can operate or make wondrous inventions out of anything he can put his hands on, including a cannon (which he's never operated before), advanced fireworks, and the bizarre "Dials" of Skypiea (which he could never, ever, have seen or researched). His immediate understanding of any object in his possession would border on [[Series/{{Heroes}} intuitive aptitude]] if he weren't so miserable at making repairs to the ship.
* PunnyName: It's a cross between "uso", the Japanese word for lie, and "{{aesop}}".
* RunningGag: The "Rubber Band of Doom" attack, consisting of Usopp simply flicking a rubber band at the enemy. Whenever Usopp gets in a long string of attacks, expect the Rubber Band of Doom attack to show up right in the middle.
* SmallNameBigEgo: When he lies, he speaks of himself as a MartyStu. Only Chopper believes him, though.
* StrongFamilyResemblance: He look like a combination of his mother and father's traits.
* SuperSpeed: While it's not really super-human in itself, he's still a very fast runner. By fast I mean "being as fast as a Pacifista while carrying Zoro".
* TheSmartGuy: He's come up with some decent plans and tricks to use in battle over the years. During their duel, he even discovered ways to bypass Luffy's innate rubber defense.
* TheStoryteller: He frequently tells stories, and his name is a reference to Aesop.
** There's actually a RunningGag throughout the series of Usopp's stories actually coming true.
* TeamNormal: Along with Nami. Causes some self-worth issues at one point, but he eventually gets over it and becomes an ever-increasingly BadassNormal. 
* TenMinuteRetirement: In the [=CP9=] saga.
* TookALevelInBadass: Again, Sogeking. Anyone who's read this far knows what I'm talking about.
** Post-timeskip, damn! He has broader shoulders, large biceps, and [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment muscles]], [[GeorgeTakei oh my]]!
* TrickBullet: all of his ammunition.
* TroubledFetalPosition: Ended up here at the beginning of the Skypiea saga. Drowning, then falling, might do that to somebody.
* WalkingShirtlessScene: Post TimeSkip. 
* WeakButSkilled: Physically the weakest of the crew (WordOfGod says he always will be, no matter what), but he's able to come out on top through a wide array of tools and gadgets.
** The best example of this for [[strike:Usopp]] Sogeking would be sniping soldiers on top of the tower at Enies Lobby... where the wind was against him and not even guns can fire accurately. At a range guns can't even reach!
** [[spoiler:His tools and gadgets now include summoning man-eating plants. Not to mention he's actually pretty buff now]].
* WeaponOfChoice
** BratsWithSlingshots: It's his primary weapon, after all. Later, he upgrades to the Kabuto, a [[XOnAStick slingshot/staff hybrid]].
*** [[spoiler:His Black Kabuto turns out to be a LivingWeapon, it can change into a carnivorous plant called Chomping Grass that can eat things and spit them back out.]]
** DropTheHammer: The few attacks that don't involve his slingshots seem to be this; a slight subversion in that two of his hammers are anything but deadly. Although both of them seem to have some sort of psychological effect on the target.
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[[folder:"Black Leg" [[color:blue:Sanji]]]]
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-->''"The Marines may not be concerned with me right now, but soon I, Black Leg Sanji, will be the most infamous of all!"''

->Child Voice: IkueOhtani (JP), VeronicaTaylor (EN, 4Kids), ChristineAuten (EN, Funi)
->Adult Voice: HiroakiHirata (JP), David Moo (EN, 4Kids), EricVale (EN, Funi), Noe Velasquez (Latin American Spanish)

Sanji is the crew's [[SmokingIsCool chain-smoking]], nineteen/[[TimeSkip twenty-one]]-year-old chef. [[ChefOfIron There is not a dish he cannot cook]], [[ChivalrousPervert a pretty girl he will not woo]], [[VolleyingInsults or something he will not argue with Zoro over]]. As a chef, he believes that he cannot afford to harm his hands, and so uses a fighting style which uses [[ExtremityExtremist only his feet]] called the "Black Leg Style" (''Kuroashi no Waza''). He and Zoro argue and fight so regularly that it almost borders on FoeYay.

His dream is to find a legendary patch of sea called All Blue, where one can find species of fish from all over the world. His mentor, former-pirate-turned-restaurant-owner Zeff, is one he shares his dreams with, and Sanji worked under him as a way to pay Zeff back for saving his life when the two were stuck on a rock with barely any food when Sanji was a child.

Sanji has also shown some ButtMonkey tendencies lately, as he's become the butt of an ever-increasing list of jokes, including a ugly, poorly drawn bounty poster that no one has any trouble identifying him with, a man who ''resembles'' said bounty poster coming for revenge, and most recently, [[spoiler:Kuma blasting him to an island filled with, of all things, transvestites, leading him to declare that [[IronicHell he is in Hell]]]]. [[spoiler:While there, he learns of a special recipe to make the consumer stronger and trains with the 99 Newkama Kenpo masters.]]

His bounty is 77,000,000 Berries.
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* ABNegative: It turns out Sanji has a rare blood type. [[spoiler:This becomes extremely problematic when the {{Nosebleed}} after {{Nosebleed}} he'd been suffering and had been PlayedForLaughs after being exposed to real women again caused him to go through all of Chopper's stock of that specific type. As a result, when a mermaid tries to keep him hidden by stuffing him into [[MarshmallowHell Marshmallow Heaven]], he has such an [[HighPressureBlood epic]] gusher that it becomes life-threatening]]. Further complicating the situation was the issue that [[spoiler: due to some latent racism between humans and merfolks, those who had the blood type refused to donate either out of discrimination or fear of the enforcers of the regime.]]
* AddedAlliterativeAppeal: The VIZ translation of the manga takes his regular attack names (one-word French cooking terms, for the most part), and adds a second word, usually alliterative with the first, to them, resulting in names like "Trompine Treader" and "Mouton Mallet".
* AllAccordingToPlan: He's the tactical mastermind of the crew and pretty much all of his plans work out the way he wants them to. But the most notable incident still is his Mr. Prince, complete with him saying those exact words while smiling deviously. 
* AllLoveIsUnrequited: The chances of him actually scoring with anyone he's wooed are practically nonexistent.
** [[spoiler:Although the Mermaids seem to like him a lot. Too bad he developed a WeaksauceWeakness to them. Until meeting Shirahoshi, that is]]. 
* AlmightyJanitor: At least at first. During the Alabasta Arc, he goes around kicking ass without even being recognized as a Straw Hat. He wasn't as well known as even Usopp at that point, but he'd still in the top three.
* [[AttentionDeficitOohShiny Attention Deficit ... Ooh Pretty Lady]]: Despite the above AlmightyJanitor and below Badass instances, Sanji will likely lose his train of thought if a pretty woman comes into his focus. [[spoiler:One instance on the Punk Hazard arc is him chasing to help Nami and Robin but stops when he sees Monet. Not only does he stop, but the Marines who are following him stop as well to comment on how beautiful she is.]]
* {{Badass}}
** BadassBeard: After the TimeSkip.
** BadassInANiceSuit: Quite spiffy looking with that blue pinstripe shirt and classic black suit.
** BadassNormal: Not normal by our standards, but he's the only Straw Hat to not use either a Devil Fruit or a weapon, so he's literally just going with the rest of the crew and fighting with his bare feet.
*** EmpoweredBadassNormal: [[spoiler:During the timeskip he discovered Haki]].
** CulturedBadass
* BareFistedMonk: Well it's technically Bare ''Footed'' Monk.
* BerserkButton: Never insult his culinary skills, waste food, mistreat a woman, or [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9dytJmH3GWg steal his dream]] of eating the [[{{Invisibility}} Clear-Clear Fruit (''Suke Suke no Mi'')]].
** Yeah, and saying he can't protect people? Don't do that. Just... don't.
** [[spoiler:Weaponized for his Hell Memories attack.]]
* BeyondTheImpossible: Let's face it, no remotely important characters in ''OnePiece'' are remotely realistic, as far as their abilities are concerned.
** But who else goes as far as to perform ''plastic surgery'' in the middle of battle by rapidly kicking their opponent in the face?
** But who else ignites their feet for a special attack without getting burned, while underwater?
* BigDamnHeroes: "Mr. Prince", followed later by "The Hunter".
* {{Bishonen}}: A masculine example.
** A little less Bishonen after he grows out his facial hair during the timeskip, however. The transition from the thin teenage stubble to a full goatee has made him considerably less "young and pretty" looking.
* BondOneLiner: Has a habit of giving these after winning major fights.
* BrooklynRage: In the 4Kids dub, ''and only the 4Kids dub'', Sanji was given a [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uV-XdyuQngM&feature=related thick Brooklyn accent and an angry disposition]]. 
* ButtMonkey
* BurningWithAnger: As a RunningGag he bursts into flames when he's sufficiently enraged.
** [[spoiler:After the TimeSkip, he's weaponized it.]]
* CatchPhrase: "Crap" as a prefix (e.g. his nickname for Zeff, "Kuso Jijii", means "Shitty Old Man"). It's almost a tic, since he uses it when describing non-crappy things, like 'dates' with Nami. This pisses her off enormously.
** '''~MELLORINE!!!~'''
*** For a while after the time skip: "IIIII NEEEEED LADYYYYY!"
* CharacterizationMarchesOn: It's strange to think that he once (in the manga at least) almost shot Nico Robin, albeit an instinctive reaction to Vivi being threatened. [[WhatHappenedToTheMouse What ever happened to that pistol, anyway?]]
** He knows he can't hit her, so he grabbed a pistol hoping it would intimidate her. It doesn't work.
** As for the pistol, either it was just owned by the whole crew or Nami took it or had it given to her, because at one point (at least in the anime), Nami is seen holding it while preparing to fend off a possible attack.
** A different thing is [[HandsomeLech how he used to be able to attract women]]. Very, very weird when you look at his more [[CasanovaWannabe recent]] [[ButtMonkey portrayals]].
*** [[spoiler:Actually, it may just be the main cast. Both the [[CreepyCrossdresser New Kamas]] and the Mermaids seem to like him a lot]].
*** [[spoiler: And now, he has actually seemingly succeeded in pulling in a dancer on Dressrosa named Violet; she's actually ''returning'' his advances!]]
** Sanji used to be more reserved and often always irritable, now he's not only high-strung, but he goes into goofy states of mind when involved with women.
* CharlesAtlasSuperpower: Considering his legs are strong enough to casually kick away large sea monsters, he definitely qualifies.
* ChefOfIron: A classic Type 1, and [[BerserkButton he despises Type 3]].
** And 2. He has only used knives to attack a foe once and only because a technicality allowed him to. He doesn't even use his hands in combat, as he says they're tools for cooking.
* TheChewToy: Started to become this roughly around Enies Lobby, when he learned Kokoro was a mermaid.
* ChivalrousPervert: Sees himself as a KnightInShiningArmor, while at the same time has no objections to engaging in voyeurism. Not to mention he's still incredibly loyal to his friends.
** In the twelvth movie, [[spoiler: he even weaponizes his perviness with Sexy Fire, where thinking of Nami's sexiness sets him of fire !]]
* CookingDuel: Gets into a few in anime {{Filler}}. [[SupremeChef He always wins, of course]].
* DanceBattler: Uses only his feet to fight, resulting in this on occasion.
* DefeatByModesty: [[spoiler:During his (filler) duel against the substitute "Queen" of Kamabakka, he's soon forced to resort only to weak, low kicks because his opponents keeps peeping at his bloomers when he tries to kick him. (Sanji having been forced to wear a dress to get Caroline to fight him.)]]
* [[spoiler:DoubleJump: After the TimeSkip, he can replicate [=CP9=]'s Geppou, except he calls it "Sky Walk", and fly; that's what you get for running away from {{Creepy Crossdresser}}s [[TrainingFromHell for two straight years]].]]
* TheDulcineaEffect: To the point that he later develops a "damsel-in-distress" sixth sense.
* EvenTheGuysWantHim: Duval's slip of the tongue reveals he's got a crush on Sanji. And he had the drag queens on Okama Island hitting on him and dressing him up for two years. Poor guy.
* EverythingSoundsSexierInFrench: His attack names.
** ARMEE DE L'AIR ROBO SHOT!!! sounds better than "Air Force Robot Shoot". 
* ExtremityExtremist: His legs, of course.
* [[spoiler:FakeoutMakeout: With a woman named Violet, Its vague enough that it could be just a hug though.]]
* [[spoiler:FlashStep: One of the skills he obtained during his stay on Momoiro Island.]]
* FastballSpecial: His ''Armée de L'air'' combo moves, in which he uses his powerful legs to launch his friends in the direction of the enemy.
* {{Flanderization}}: In Sanji's very first appearance, he was able to have actual ''conversations'' with women he was attracted to and attempted to woo. Now? [[LovableSexManiac Not]] [[CasanovaWannabe so much.]]
* FoodPorn: Any scene where he's cooking/ serving food inevitably turns into this, as demonstrated [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=feSSzf8nKj4 during the filler G8 Arc.]]
* FoolForLove: Fool? He's a self-confessed ''slave'' to love.
* GeniusBruiser: Is very smart as well as strong and extremely fast.
* GirlOnGirlIsHot: Possibly. In one SBS Question Corner, the crew is asked what kind of season on what kind of island they like best. Sanji's reply is "I like Robin on a Nami island!"
* GoingNative: On the island of [[spoiler:transvestites]]...
* GratuitousFrench: Most of his attacks are cooking terms in French.
** Which wasn't kept in the 4Kids dub, instead giving every attack a corny food pun.
*** The French attack names were reinstated for the Funimation dub.
* GuileHero: Pretty good at making strategies, this trait was notably seen in the Alabasta as "Mr. Prince". [[IShallTauntYou With the amount of taunting]] and misdirection that went [[MagnificentBastard Crocodile's]] way, I think it's pretty safe to say he was the closest thing to a rival {{Chessmaster}} (after [[ReverseMole Nico Robin]]) in that arc.
** TheStrategist: Proven to be one of his defining characteristics at least twice in every arc that followed Alabasta.
* HandsomeLech --> CasanovaWannabe: At first, his perverted tendencies were accompanied by women actually finding him attractive and charming, but later on, his advances are always met with rejection and/or physical abuse.
** [[spoiler:Seems to be going back the other way. Both the [[CreepyCrossdresser New Kamas]] and the Mermaids seem to like him a lot]].
*** [[spoiler: ...Aaaaannnnd now of course, Sanji has met the beautiful dancer Violet on Dressrosa who, shockingly, actually seems to ''like'' him. As in ''she'' was the one to start flirting with ''him''. [[ThrowTheDogABone It seems his luck has finally turned for the better]].]]
* HonorBeforeReason: Thanks to nearly starving to death as a kid, Sanji has no problem feeding a starving man. Even if that starving man and his crew of equally-starving pirates are obviously planning to attack him afterwards.
* HopelessSuitor: He seemed like this back when Nami was the only girl around he could try to woo most of the time. This changed once other ladies joined the crew and it became more and more apparent he'd hit on anything with shapely hips and a nice rack (though given ''this'' series, those two criteria apply to about 95% of the post-pubescent girls the Straw Hats encounter).
* HotBlooded: Usually when the ladies are in danger or he's sufficiently angry, he gets so HotBlooded that he actually [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-PGMyg5hY04 bursts into flames]] for comedic effect. It's also the author's explanation for him being able to pull off Diable Jambe, breaking the laws of physics in the process. ItRunsOnNonsensoleum indeed.
* HumiliationConga: To sum up, [[spoiler:he was defeated by Kuma, sent on a island full of Drag Queens, is accidentally mistaken for a crossdresser by the inhabitants, chased along the whole island, forced to fight the "Queen" in dress and make up, humiliated and tricked into becoming a crossdresser himself. Thankfully, he got better.]]
** [[spoiler:Let's not forget how he was forced to admit that his poorly drawn Wanted Poster is actually him in order to get Ivankov to tell him about what happened to Luffy. This is such a monumental strain for him it actually results in ''BloodFromTheMouth''.]]
* IncendiaryExponent: Weaponized, via his ''Diable Jambe'' technique.
** [[spoiler:A Post-TimeSkip cover seems to imply that he went to PlayingWithFire as well.]]
* InLoveWithLove: Practically oozes this trope as part of his ChivalrousPervert personality. 
* IronicHell: Blasted to an island of [[spoiler:transvestites]] at the end of Sabaody and forced to join in. [[spoiler:Kuma]] must have a twisted sense of humor... Also see TrainingFromHell below.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Towards the male members of the crew.
* JizzedInMyPants: Though with massive nosebleeds instead. After spending 2 years on an island full of transvestites, it's become rather easy to set him off.
* [[spoiler: KiAttacks]]: [[spoiler: Post time-skip, he has awakened Haki. However, we still don't know which type he specializes in]].
** [[spoiler:He can use [[SpiderSense Kenbunshoku Haki]] which he used in ''Nami's body''. Also according to Luffy, he can use Busoshoku Haki.]]
* KnifeNut: Sanji firmly believes that kitchen knives should not be bloodied in battle, as they are sacred instruments meant solely for the preparation of food. When fighting an opponent whose armor and weapons were made of food, though, Sanji decided that using knives to get rid of the armor would be no different from using knives to prepare a meal and displayed an incredible knife-fighting style.
* LightningBruiser: Of the Hard-Hitting-Speedster variation, as he's the second fastest member of the Straw Hats while his physical power is roughly the same as that of Zoro and Luffy.
* LovableSexManiac: Very much so. 
* LoveCanMakeYouGonk: He can make some pretty strange facial expressions when he's gushing over pretty women.
* MadeOfIron: One of his latest stunts was to [[spoiler:fight a Kraken 5000ft underwater. It was so fast that he didn't even suffer from the pressure.]]
* [[spoiler:ManIFeelLikeAWoman]]: [[spoiler:When Law puts his heart in Nami's body, Sanji can't resist the urge to peep at or feel him/herself up.]]
* [[MarshmallowHell Marshmallow Heaven]]: Has received this twice, both times from [[spoiler:beautiful mermaids]], much to his delight.
* {{Megane}}: Sometimes wears glasses. Much to the fangirls' joy!
* [[spoiler:[[MistakenForGay Mistaken For]] [[WholesomeCrossdresser Crossdresser]]: By a whole flock of crossdressers]].
* MrFanservice: Unfortunately for straight male ''One Piece'' fans, looking for art of him on the internets will cause pages and pages of HoYay and Bishonen pictures with Zoro. And unfortunately for him, none of his fan girls in real life can reach him through the computer screen.
* MusclesAreMeaningless: His torso became fairly well built after the time-skip, developing more defined abs than he previously had; but his overall physique remains very slim, with his limbs actually being just about as skinny as Nami's limbs. But, regardless, he can still send men twice his size and muscular-build flying with a single kick and launch giant monsters into the air like nothing. Interestingly, while other characters frequently [[LampshadeHanging notice Luffy's oddly powerful muscles]], nobody seems to call Sanji out on this one. 
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Oda [[WordOfGod confirmed]] in the latest SBS that Sanji was modeled after SteveBuscemi.
* {{Nosebleed}}: It happens so much during a period of shock after being separated from women he actually needs a blood transfusion.
* OhCrap: Usually calm and composed, he had an epic one [[spoiler:when he realize who exactly are the inhabitants of Momoiro.]]
* PeekABangs: His left eye has always been covered by his hair, though WordOfGod said that it was perfectly functional under there. He's even held a pair of binoculars up to it before. Later on, [[spoiler:he switched the bangs to the other side, revealing that both his eyebrows swirl in the same direction]].
* PlayingWithFire: His "Diable Jambe" technique involves lighting his effing leg on FIRE, [[FrictionBurn via friction]], and attacking with it. Interestingly, while Oda joked that his Hot Blood is what allows him to do it, it seems to be turning into a true ability, with him bursting into flames during his anger and characters commenting on it on enough occasions to make one wonder if it was just a joke or not.
** [[spoiler:Confirmed to be canon in chapter 646. Sanji, [[ItRunsOnNonsensoleum in some kind of way]], can actually ignite his entire body on fire by "thinking of those 2 years in hell" and then transfer that fire onto his opponent with a kick. It's pretty epic.]] 
** This actually makes sense (or at least as much sense as you would expect in the world of One Piece). After all, Zoro's Asura technique is made possible through the use of his fighting spirit. Who's to say Sanji can't make flames via the same principle? This power of fighting spirit is very similar to the already established power of Haki, aka Willpower.
* PrincelyYoungMan: You could sort of consider him one, not to much by virtue of him thinking he's a prince, but the fact that he treats Nami and Robin like princesses and sort of thinks of himself as their knight.
* PunnyName: His name is a pun on the way the Japanese say "3 o'clock". However, the word Sanji can also refer to something that is a terrible, horrible accident that makes one want to avert their eyes and break out the BrainBleach. Veeeerry appropriate.
* RaisedByDudes: He was raised primarily by men who taught him to cook and fight. Which makes his obsession with women a bit more...understandable.
* RealMenWearPink: He cooks with a pink panda decorated apron.
** It's funny you... *cough* *cough* [[WholesomeCrossdresser mentioned pink]]...
* SharpDressedMan: A suit is his standard form of attire, usually only wearing more casual clothes during transitions between arcs.
* SmokingIsCool: Due to FCC regulations, both TV English dubs had to cover this up. They did it by either editing his cigarette out altogether ({{FUNimation}}), or by turning it into a lollipop ([[FourKidsEntertainment 4Kids]]).
* SuperNotDrowningSkills: Notable considering half the Straw Hat crew have Devil Fruit powers and can't swim at all. Way back in the Arlong Arc, he held his own against a fishman ''underwater'', and he was down there for several minutes.
** [[spoiler:He has an underwater version of [[DoubleJump Sky Walk]] called "Blue Walk" and is said to be as fast as a fishman, which is pretty fast considering they're the ''third fastest swimmers in the sea'']].
* SupremeChef: Makes some of the best damn food you'll find on the Grand Line. And he joined the crew to fulfill his dream of finding some mysterious and awesome ingredients that can only be found in the All Blue, so he can cook even ''better''.
* [[spoiler: TakeMeInstead: During the Thriller Bark arc, to save Luffy from Kuma, and prevent Zoro from sacrificing his life. It doesn't work, as the latter knocked him out for the exact same reason.]]
* TakenForGranite: PlayedForLaughs. After his two years in "Hell", he is so susceptible to women's looks that just LOOKING at Hancock does this to him. [[spoiler:Shirahoshi as well.]]
* TeamChef: It's a good idea to not insult his cooking skills. He'll beat you up for it. And probably suspend your eating privileges. 
* TheWorfEffect: [[spoiler: Really the only reason him and Vergo fought was to build up the latter's threat level]].
** Before the timeskip, Sanji is easily defeated by Ivankov to put his power in perspective.
** Let's not kid ourselves. The only worse offender of this than Zoro is Sanji. It happens to him once an arc, including freaking FILLER arcs. Notable examples include Enel (couldn't even hit Enel once despite wearing shoes with rubber soles), Smoker (in the manga), Arlong, Blueno (after revealing Robin's intentions, Sanji had no use for holding back and still got beat), and Absalom (possibly a deconstruction, since it was really just a penguin fighting as Sanji, though the other zombies note he's quite powerful).
* ThrowTheDogABone: After thirty painful months, Sanji finally meets mermaids, and they ''like'' him. He's even able to resist nosebleeds for a while to play with them.
** Similarly, Oda ocassionally decides to spare him and let him at least touch a woman, and on two separate occasions he has had his face stuffed in into a girl's breasts. Nosebleeds ensue.
* [[TrainingFromHell Training From]] IronicHell: Sanji has become so fast that he can now [[LightningBruiser move at an absurdly fast speed UNDERWATER while maintaining his superior kicking power]]. He got the skill from running away from transvestites on that scary island for two full years.
** He also gained the skill to run on air. So, yeah, he can fly.
* UnusualEyebrows: His eyebrows twirl into two big ol' spirals on the ends; and, predictably, they are often the source of ridicule. Oddly enough though, both of his eyebrow spirals curl ''to the right'', meaning his eyebrows are asymmetrical on his face. Which may explain why he chooses to hide one of eyes at all times [[PeekABangs with his hair.]]
* VitriolicBestBuds: He's not shy about insulting or arguing with the male Straw Hats, especially Zoro, but he's also willing to go quite far in defending them despite claiming to only care for the women.
** And before he even joined, there was his relationship with Zeff. The two slung so many insults at each other and got in so many fights that the other cooks at Baratie were surprised to find out how much the they actually cared about each other.
* VolleyingInsults: Quite often with Zoro, as well as his surrogate father Zeff.
* WeaksauceWeakness: [[WouldntHitAGirl He refuses to harm women in any way]], though he is capable of blocking their attacks. This causes near-fatal problems during the fights with Bon Clay and Kalifa. Nami even criticizes him on this trait.
** Made 100 times worse as a side effect from the TrainingFromHell. For a time, even looking at a woman would cause him to faint.
*** [[spoiler:After seeing Shirahoshi, he made a full recovery.]]
* WhatTheHellHero: Again played for laughs when he learns about [[LadyLand exactly where]] Luffy got sent by Kuma.
** On a more serious note, [[spoiler:kicks Luffy and tells him to think before he speaks after he tells Usopp, in a fit of anger, to leave if he disagrees with his decision. Luffy apologizes, but it's too late.]]
** He also was not very happy to hear about [[spoiler:Jinbe being responsible for Arlong being released to East Blue]], although it turns out that [[spoiler:Nami]], the one who would be most upset with [[spoiler:Jinbe]] is more forgiving.
* WifeBasherBasher: Repeat: [[BerserkButton Abusing women in front of Sanji]] is a BAD idea; as in an [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown "ending up on the WRONG-side of a one-sided ass beating"]] bad-idea.
* WorfHadTheFlu: He might have won against Gin, but the wounds he sustained while Pearl beat him up while he was unable to retaliate due to Zeff being held hostage immobilized him at a crucial moment.
* WouldntHitAGirl: As a result of a "strict upbringing". See also WeaksauceWeakness above.
** According to an [[WordOfGod SBS]], it's not that Sanji won't hit a girl, it's that he can't hit a girl for some reason. Apparently it frustrates him. 
*** Also deconstructed once, when a GenreSavvy female enemy used it against him so he wouldn't be able to help [[spoiler:Robin.]]
** {{Averted}} ''one time'', when the crew first met Robin as a member of Baroque Works after Whiskey Peak. When they all drew weapons on her, he held a pistol to her head. Usopp even [[LampshadeHanging hung a lampshade]] on how out-of-character the act was; he reasoned she was a threat to Vivi. ''Then'' he noticed what Robin actually looked like. Cue hearts in the eyes.
** In video game adaptations, he can be forced to fight against female enemies, and in some cases, he will [[ApologeticAttacker apologize with each attack]]. 
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[[folder:The ''Going Merry'']]
The Straw Hat Crew's first ship, a caravel-class ship designed by Merry in East Blue for Kaya to give to the Straw Hats (then comprising Luffy, Zoro, Nami, and Usopp) to reward them for taking out Captain Kuro and his Black Cat Pirates. Over time, the ship came to be loved by the crew as a home and as a friend, so much so that it literally took on a life of its own and became just as much a part of the crew as any of them. [[spoiler:Unfortunately, the Going Merry took an inordinate amount of damage during its "lifetime", being blown up, impaled, and even sliced up multiple times. Eventually, the Going Merry could no longer continue and received a VikingFuneral.]]

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* AnthropomorphicPersonification: Merry's [[http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Klabautermann Klabautermann]], a ghostly manifestation of a ship's spirit that is born out of its crew's love for it. Unfortunately, a Klabautermann being seen by its crew is a sign that [[spoiler:their ship will soon meet its doom]]; Merry's gets seen in the midde of the Skypeia Arc, and true to form, [[spoiler:she is immobilized due to accumulated, ''terminal'' damage to her keel]] once the Straw Hats reached Water 7 at the beginning of the Enies Lobby Arc, and by the end of the arc [[spoiler:she is finally laid to rest]].
* BigDamnHeroes: She comes all the way from Water 7 to aid the Straw Hats and co. in Enies Lobby, her timely surprise appearance allowing them to escape certain doom at the hands of the Buster Call fleet that had finally cornered them.
* CoolBoat: Merry is the Straw Hats' main form of transportation.
* {{Determinator}}: Water 7's dreaded Aqua Laguna and a violent rainstorm didn't stop her from coming to her crew's rescue in Enies Lobby [[spoiler:despite her physical form being barely held together by Iceburg's temporary fixes]]. The Buster Call fleet comprised of the Marines' most immense and armed-to-the-teeth battleships didn't even make her flinch (not that they managed to hit her in the first place). The only thing that did stop her was [[spoiler:her keel (the ship equivalent of the human body's spine) finally giving in to all the damage it sustained over the past several arcs, causing the ship to essentially break ''in half'']].
* [[spoiler:FinalSpeech]]: She delivers one to the Straw Hats in order to assure them that [[spoiler:she neither blames them for her death nor has any regrets, as she had been truly happy throughout the time she was with them]].
* [[spoiler:GoOutWithASmile]]: If she had a face, it would've been smiling during her [[spoiler:VikingFuneral]]. As it is, we have to settle for her figurehead's drawn smile and the implication of her happy tone during her [[spoiler:FinalSpeech]].
* MadeOfGood: Franky says that a ship's Klabautermann is basically born out of a crew's love for their ship, [[spoiler:though it only truly manifests when it's soon to be doomed.]]
* SapientShip: Implied at first, but then shown explicitly when she sails to Enies Lobby without a crew.
* TearsFromAStone: Technically, it was a splash from a wave, but it happened during the climax of the fight between [[spoiler: Luffy and Usopp, as a way to underline the tragedy the crew was facing.]]
* UndyingLoyalty: The motivation for the feats described in her BigDamnHeroes and {{Determinator}} entries.
* [[spoiler:VikingFuneral]]: She is given this after she is finally [[spoiler:broken irreparably following her BigDamnHeroes feat]].
* [[spoiler:WoundThatWillNotHeal]]: [[spoiler:The cracked keel. The Galley-la shipwrights, the best in the One Piece world, tell the Straw Hats that it would be better to get a new one]].
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[[folder:"Cotton Candy Lover" [[color:pink:Tony Tony Chopper]]]]
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-->''"See...? Now I'm a real pirate!!"''

->Voiced by: IkueOhtani (JP), KazueIkura (JP, temporary), LisaOrtiz (EN, 4Kids), BrinaPalencia (EN, Funi)

Tony Tony Chopper serves as the ship's doctor. He's a reindeer who was cast out of his herd for having a blue nose, later compounded by eating the Human-Human Fruit (''Hito Hito no Mi'') and being feared by the people of Drum Island as a monster. Although he initially mistrusted humans, after having met and joined the Straw Hats, he has become very curious about the world and is eager to please.

Although he doesn't normally look that way in his default form, he's not exactly a wimp when it comes to fighting. In his most humanlike form, he's quite tall and very strong. He has certain combat advantages in each of his three regular forms, and has developed a drug called the ''Rumble Ball'' to unlock more, though it carries considerable risk. In terms of personality, he's a bit naive and gullible, occasionally experiences bouts of paranoia (especially early on as he learns to trust humans), and gets combative when praise is heaped on him (though his body language usually betrays more positive feelings).

His dream is to become a doctor capable of curing all disease, due to his accidentally hastening the death of his already sickly father-figure, Dr. Hiruluk. He has also resolved to prove himself as a man worthy of being a pirate, which sometimes seems at odds with his child-like behavior and gullible personality.

His bounty is 50 Berries.
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* AllOfTheOtherReindeer: A send-up of Rudolph.
* ArtisticLicenseBiology: The incident where Chopper's left antler got cut off was six years prior to his introduction. Surely he would've grown several new sets by now, right?
* BadassAdorable
* BarefootCartoonAnimal: Except for when he's Chopperman.
** HalfDressedCartoonAnimal: {{Inverted}}: Whereas this trope typically refers to animal characters not wearing pants, usually he doesn't wear a shirt.
* BeastMan: In his Heavy Point.
* BerserkButton: First, do not call yourself a "Doctor" and hurt people like Hogback does. Second, [[spoiler:Do Not turn innocent children into drug addicts and call it for their own good.]]
** He's not a tanuki! Or a gorilla! (Heavy Point) Or a beetle! (post-time-skip Horn Point)
* BishounenLine: His Horn Point form looks notably more human after the time-skip. (But Luffy called him a beetle due to the horns.)
* BreakoutCharacter: Chopper ended up becoming the series' mascot, with most of the series' merchandise being Chopper related and even getting his own Spinoff.
* BrokenPedestal: Dr. Hogback. He was unwilling to admit that he was connected to Moria, but declared he was no longer worthy of being called a doctor after learning this.
* CherryBlossoms: Just check out his introduction.
* CombatMedic
* CowardlyLion: Like Usopp, he can be a scaredy-cat at times. Once push comes into shove, however...
** [[spoiler: Not so much after the TimeSkip, it seems. He's already faced down a particularly vicious [[EverythingsEvenWorseWithSharks Shark Fishman]] without losing his confident grin for a second.]]
** [[spoiler: Luffy raising the fear level to one of the four emperors was too much even for the new Chopper.]] 
* CrossdressingVoices: Being a RidiculouslyCuteCritter, naturally he's voiced by women.
* CryCute: Being a bit of a scaredy-cat, and very, very cute, he does this a lot.
** [[spoiler: He seems to have to gotten over this Post-TimeSkip.]]
* CuteBruiser: Oh so much!
* DeadlyDoctor: Developed a drug specifically to be used for battle, albeit only on himself.
* DeadlyUpgrade: The Rumble Balls give him access to four extra forms (in addition to his default three) for a period of three minutes. If he takes two within six hours, he loses control of his transformations. If he takes three, he ends up in "Monster Point", an uncontrollable beast who is a danger to his comrades and himself.
** [[spoiler:He can now control Monster Point for a few minutes but is still drained for a two to three hours afterward.]]
* EatTheDog: Sanji jokes about him being their emergency rations.
* EnemyScan: Brain Point gives him the power to scan for his enemy's weak points. [[RememberedICouldFly He doesn't use it much anymore]].
* {{Expy}}: Of [[RudolphTheRedNosedReindeer Rudolph]], natch. Unfortunately, while Rudolph is able to gain acceptance, Chopper's situation gets ''even worse'' after he eats the Human Human fruit, and when he encounters the herd years later while searching for a cure for Hiruluk, he gets attacked by them for no good reason.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: A minor case at best, but the hat that he wears in the 10th movie is what he eventually wears after the {{Time Skip}}.
* FunnyAnimal: In his Walk Point, which is his true form.
* GeniusDitz: He's a doctor and really knows his craft, but he may be even more excitable than Luffy (he believes Usopp's tall tales, for one). [[spoiler: He also didn't seem to be able to know the Fake!Straw Hats were fake right away.]]
* HalfHumanHybrid: His Brain Point, though all his forms bar Walk count.
* HalfDressedCartoonAnimal: Initially {{inverted}}, as he wore shorts but usually not shirts. He wore a jacket in Enies Lobby, but no shirt under. {{Averted}} since the time skip, since he now wears an A-shirt.
* HeyItsThatVoice: The Japanese voice actress of Chopper, Ikue Otahni, is also the same voice actress who does Pikachu from {{Pokemon}}.
* HonorBeforeReason: When [[TheDitz Gedatsu]] drowned one of his enforcers with his swamp cloud attack, Chopper felt duty-bound as a doctor to save him. This did involve [[WorstAid going into "Heavy Point" and beating on his chest]].
* HourOfPower: Actually three minutes of power, but that's all the time he needs to kick somebody's ass with his Rumble Ball.
* IAmNotWeasel: People often mistake him for a tanuki, a raccoon, or a gorilla.
** [[spoiler: This has followed him through the TimeSkip as well. His new Horn Point form makes Luffy think he's a stag beetle, much to Chopper's irritation.]]
* InASingleBound: Jumping Point.
* IntellectualAnimal: At age 17, the DoogieHowserMD of intellectual animals.
* JerkassFacade: When he receives mushy praise, he responds with mild insults, though usually while waving his arms cutely or doing a happy dance.
** At the beginning of episode 128, the royal doctor of Arabasta [[LampshadeHanging hung a lampshade on it]] when he "translated" Chopper's insults as gratitude.
** He likely picked this up from [[{{Tsundere}} Dr. Kureha]], who never openly complimented his growing skill as a doctor, and literally chased him off with her stash of ornamental weaponry when he left, but obviously respected his skill and cared about him (and still does -- after he left, she referred to him as "my stupid son").
* KidAppealCharacter
* LightningBruiser: His ''[[IKnowKungFu Kung Fu Point]]''.
* LuckilyMyShieldWillProtectMe: Guard Point.
* TheMedic: His role in the crew as doctor.
** CombatMedic
* MightyGlacier: His ''[[TopHeavyGuy Heavy Point]]'', ''[[MegatonPunch Arm Point]]'' and ''[[AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever Monster Point]]'' forms.
* MyGreatestFailure: When his mentor/father figure Dr. Hiriluk fell ill, Chopper tried to nurse him back to health. He only succeeded in getting him killed.
** Possibly {{subverted}}: Apparently, Dr. Hiriluk ''knew'' the mushroom was poisonous, but used it anyway to hasten his death, as he had a terminal illness, in addition to making his adoptive "son" feel good about himself. Then he [[HeroicSacrifice blew himself up at Wapol's castle]] before the mushroom could kill him.
* NeverBareheaded: He always wears his pink hat.
** Post-time skip, he is always wearing his new cap.
* NiceGuy
* NiceHat: Given to him by Dr. Hiriluk. Best not to ask how he managed to get it on there.
** Or how he puts it on, as several times he's been seen without it, and later with it on.
* PowerFist: In Arm Point.
* RidiculouslyCuteCritter
* RunningGag: Chopper's complete inability to hide behind corners. He hides backwards so only his head is hidden and ''the rest of his body'' is exposed.
** When somebody gets injured, Chopper has a tendency to call for a doctor, only for someone nearby to remind him that ''he's'' the doctor.
** See IAmNotWeasel above.
** When complimented, he acts like a tsundere and says it doesn't affect him, while doing a happy dance that totally shows how he really feels (See JerkassFacade). Nami even lampshaded it by saying he's the kind of guy who just can't hide his feelings.
* ScreamingWarrior: He hollers and screams like Creator/BruceLee while in Kung Fu Point. 
* SoLastSeason: While his Rumble Ball transformations are fairly versatile, they've been getting noticeably less and less effective as the series has worn on. It got an upgrade, so he has fresh, new transformations now.
** [[spoiler: It seems that all of his original forms have become stronger. Even better, he doesn't even need the Rumble Ball for most of them anymore.]]
* SpeaksFluentAnimal: He can talk to animals due to [[AnimalTalk being an animal himself]].
* SpeciesSurname: The "surname" portion of his full name, "Tony Tony", comes from "''tonakai''", the Japanese for "reindeer".
* SuperDeformed: A result of his ArtEvolution.
* SuperDrowningSkills: He likes to jump in the water to save Luffy, forgetting that ''he can't swim either''.
* SuperPoweredEvilSide: Brought on by using three Rumble Ball [[VoluntaryShapeshifting transformations]] in a short period of time.
** Though it's not so much "evil" as it is an uncontrollable monster that attacks everybody.
** [[spoiler:After the timeskip he can control it, albeit only for three minutes.]]
* TalkingAnimal: His Devil Fruit gives him the intelligence and abilities of a person. Maybe even moreso, considering [[DoogieHowserMD he was an experienced doctor]] [[ImprobableAge at age 15]].
* TapOnTheHead: When he was with Dr. Kureha, she had him give patients concussions as a form of anesthetic.
* TeamPet: What the Marines assume him to be, hence his ridiculously low bounty of 50 Berries. He'd probably have a much higher one if they took him seriously.
* TokenNonHuman
* VocalDissonance: Chopper keeps his high voice regardless of whether he's in his adorable man-beast form or his badass battle forms.
** Averted in the 4Kids dub, where Chopper in his huge humanoid form sounds rather manly indeed.
* VoluntaryShapeshifting: Chopper's primary fighting style relies on his hybridization and augmentation of human and reindeer parts.
** After [[spoiler:the TimeSkip, he no longer needs the Rumble ball for six of his transformations.]]

[[/folder]]

[[folder:"Demon Child" [[color:purple:Nico Robin]]]]
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-->''"I want to live! Take me out to sea with you!"''

->Child Voice: Anzu Nagai (JP)
->Adult Voice: YurikoYamaguchi (JP), YukoKobayashi (JP, temporary), VeronicaTaylor (EN, 4Kids), StephanieYoung (EN, Funi)

AdventurerArchaeologist, [[HeelFaceTurn ex-]][[TheDragon Dragon]], and [[MrExposition Ms. Exposition]], Nico Robin is one of the darker and more enigmatic members of the Straw Hats. Entering the story as the partner of BigBad Sir Crocodile, Robin asked to join the crew because Luffy had forced her to live, rather than die. Despite some initial mistrust, she gradually settled into the crew. Since those early uncertain days, she's become something of the crew's TeamMom, and occasionally plays the role of CoolBigSis for Nami. Her Devil Fruit, the Flower-Flower Fruit (''Hana Hana no Mi''), lets her sprout replicas of her limbs [[spoiler:, and later her entire body,]] from any surface. She is twenty-eight years old (thirty post-TimeSkip).

Unfortunately, her past eventually caught up to her and it was revealed that she's been on the run from the World Government for twenty years, after [[DoomedHometown her home island of Ohara was razed]], and a large bounty was placed on her head. However, after the rest of the crew proved that they were willing to essentially declare war on the World Government in order to get her back, she realized that she had finally found her place in life, and that she was not a burden to her new friends.

Her dream is to learn the history of the Void Century, a passage of time blacked out by the World Government, which is said to be written in a lost language scribed onto huge stone cubes called Poneglyphs[[hottip:*:Moreover, she believes that the "Rio Poneglyph" has the information she's looking for]]. Simply learning the language of the Poneglyphs is a capital crime, and is the reason that everyone on her island, including her mother, were killed by the Marines. She is now one of only a handful of people in the world who can read them, allowing her to not only discover the true history of the world, but also to potentially revive a lost superweapon.

Her bounty is 80,000,000 Berries.
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* AbsoluteCleavage: Depends on the outfit, but it shows up quite a bit.
* AdaptationDyeJob: Her eyes are brown in the manga, ''[[OnePieceStrongWorld Strong World]]'' and ''[[Anime/OnePieceFilmZ Film Z]]'', but they're blue in the anime. 
* AdventurerArchaeologist: Also skilled at assassination. 
* AffirmativeActionGirl: Let's face it, that's what she is, even though she is ''much'' more developed and less blatant than usual.
* AllOfTheOtherReindeer: She was treated as an outcast on Ohara after eating a Devil Fruit. It got even worse after she was given a bounty, as people constantly either threw her away in fear of being considered criminals, or [[BitchInSheepsClothing acted nice to her only to stab her in the back by selling her location to the Marines]].
* AloofDarkHairedGirl: Robin is this trope; she's the third tallest member of the crew (6'2"), has long flowing dark locks, is widely considered to be the most attractive member of the crew, and has an austere and sophisticated personality.
** Heck, she won a poll run by [[TheWikiRule the One Piece Wiki]] for the single most attractive woman in the setting, ''beating out Hancock and Shirahoshi'', who ''canonically'' hold that title. 
* AlwaysSaveTheGirl: Cares more about the Straw Hat pirates than the entire rest of the world, given that they are the only ones since Ohara to care for her.
* AntiHero: One of the most brutal members of the crew. 
* AntiVillain: Initially joined Baroque Works if for no other reason than to survive long enough to read a Poneglyph, and had no personal interest in power, until becoming an AntiHero. 
* {{Badass}}
** BadassAdorable: Maybe not as adorable as Luffy, Nami or Chopper, but still really cute.
** BadassBookworm: She uses her powers to break grown men's spines in half and snap their necks (which is obviously either an instant kill or bound to cause a lot of pain), and then once the adventure is over she kicks back and studies her archaeology and history books.
* BareYourMidriff: Happens on and off through the series.
* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: Typically abandons her colleagues to save herself when the Marines close in on her, knowing that they'd betray her given the chance, but when the Straw Hat Pirates don't do that, she gives herself up to the Marines in order to ensure their safety.
* BerserkButton: Don't bring up her nickname or speak of Ohara unless you want a beatdown. Also, don't destroy historical artifacts in front of her, or she will REALLY make you regret it.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Despite her mean streak, she's generally extremely mature and sophisticated.
* BloodIsSquickerInWater: A RunningGag is her casually pointing this out whenever possible.
* BondBreaker: Her leaving with the [=CP9=] really soured things for the Straw Hats. 
* BrokenBird: Thanks to being pegged for death due to a GovernmentConspiracy, it wasn't until the Straw Hats came to save her from Enies Lobby that she realized that she had finally found her place.
* TheChessmaster
* TheComicallySerious: To the point that even when the ''entire crew'' is open-mouthed and bulging their eyes at the sight in front of them, [[spoiler:even ''Zoro'']], she retains her composure completely.
* CoolShades: Part of her post timeskip attire. Usually wears it [[EveryGirlIsCuterWithHairDecs over her head]], but she was recently seen wearing it during the fight in Fishman Island.
* CreepyGood: Robin is one of only two members of the Straw Hats to have killed in the past (she used to be an assassin and TheDragon). She is the only member who still uses her powers to kill (Or at least severely injure), and frequently makes morbid comments about death. Her power to grow body parts from any surface also adds to her creep factor.
* CryCute: Good grief; [[http://e5.www5.babidou.com/pic/2006/8/21/ccc/renwu/luobin/&#32599;&#23486;5.jpg Robin in tears]] is ''so'' adorable you'd want to hug and protect her. Seriously, it makes you completely forget she was the right-hand lady of one of the most vicious mass-murderers in the Grand Line.
* DangerouslyShortSkirt: Miniskirt, specifically.
* DarkActionGirl: Her powers enable her to break your back or neck with very little effort, even if you beg or cry for mercy.
* DistressBall: Slammed with this one. A full fifth of the series is spent on a storyline involving the Straw Hats trying to save her from a life of imprisonment and inevitable death at the hands of the World Government. And on the off-chance that ''that'' wasn't enough, [[spoiler:Kuma]] blasts her to a frozen and inhospitable island where she's [[spoiler:made a slave of the World Government anyway]], and forced to work on the construction of a massive bridge. [[DesignatedVictim The poor woman just can't get a break]].
** At least the second time, she [[spoiler:was saved by Revolutionaries more or less instantly]] and was not bound with [[KryptoniteFactor Seastone]], anyway, making her status as "distressed" questionable at best.
* [[spoiler: DoppelgangerAttack]]: [[spoiler: She can make full body copies of herself with her powers.]]
** [[spoiler: Chapter 643 seems to indicate that she can even switch places with them.]]
* EnigmaticMinion: She played this role before her HeelFaceTurn. In fact, as far back as her ''first appearance'', she was often assisting the Straw Hats and Luffy in particular as they took on Crocodile. Crocodile himself was wary of her, which worked out in his favor.
* FanServicePack: After the timeskip, her breasts have gotten larger and rounder.
* {{Gainaxing}}: In Movie 7, when she [[VictoriasSecretCompartment pulls a piece of paper out of her cleavage.]]
* GenerationXerox: She came from an island of archeologists, can even read the Poneglyphs, and looks ''exactly'' like her mother, with dark hair.
* [[spoiler: GiantFootOfStomping]]: [[spoiler: Uses a gigantic variation after the TimeSkip.]]
* GratuitousForeignLanguage: When [[CallingYourAttacks calling up her devil fruit powers]], she does so in three different languages -- none of which are Japanese. "Fleur" is the French for flower. Before that, the number of appendages she wants to use in Spanish. After, the act she is performing in English.
* GroinAttack: "Dos Fleur... Grab!" [[ShareTheMalePain Poor, poor Franky]].
-->'''They'll all come off! Just like tangerines!'''
* GuileHeroine: Doesn't show often, but it's true. It's too bad on the occasions it does show, it's against pretty ''good'' {{Chessmaster}}s.
* HappilyFailedSuicide: Twice.
** After her hopes of finding the Rio Poneglyph were crushed in Alabasta, she decided to stay in the crumbling Royal tomb, when she could have escaped with her powers. An UnwantedRescue occurs in the form of Luffy, which makes Robin want to keep on living after all, and she joins his crew.
** Later, fearing that her friends would eventually betray her and throw her away, she decides to surrender to the World Government, on the condition that they leave the other Straw Hats alone. However, when the Straw Hats raid Enies Lobby to save her, and even burn down the World Government's falg, essentially ''declaring war on the entire world'', Robin realizes that her friends will never betray her, and that she really wants to live.
* HeelFaceTurn: Started out as Crocodile's [[TheDragon Dragon]] before [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness she outlived her usefulness]].
* HeroicSacrifice: Subverted by the Straw Hats’ equally heroic [[UnwantedRescue rescue mission]], [[FlashBack a heartbreaking flashback]] and following heartwarming [[IDontWantToDie ”I want to live!”]] cry.
* HeroicWillpower: Having her shadow ripped out took about 15 minutes, tops, for her to get back on her feet. To put this in perspective, the average person would be incapacitated for ''three days''.
* HeyYou: One of Robin's main characteristics, and also one of the most overlooked due how subtle it is, it's very rare for Robin to actually utter the name of someone she's talking to (or just referring to) in any dialogue; Robin's defense mechanism to protect her feelings pushes her into being as impersonal as possible to people she meets, however, when Robin found her place with the Straw Hats she started going by names, although so far Luffy is the only recurring character whom Robin will always call by name.
* IcyBlueEyes
* ImpossibleHourglassFigure: Post-timeskip.
* InterruptedSuicide: After her hopes of finding the Rio Poneglyph were crushed in Alabasta, she decides to stay inside the crumbling Royal Tomb. She is wounded, but considering her powers she could have escaped if she had wanted so. The UnwantedRescue comes in form of Luffy. It takes some time and the PowerOfFriendship, but this becomes HappilyFailedSuicide. 
* LadyOfAdventure
* LadyOfWar
* LargeHam: It turns out that Robin is the biggest overactor of the crew. Subversion in that she only does this for musicals.
** Justified: she thought it was supposed to be an opera. Normally she is quite serious.
* LightFeminineAndDarkFeminine: The dark to Nami's light. 
* LoveRedeems: Non-romantic example. Robin was on the verge of giving up on her life until Luffy showed her that even one who has faltered and done wrong is worthy of love, and worth dying for.
* MagicPants: Begins making use of this when she [[spoiler: gains the ability to create [[MesACrowd full-body clones]], as she also develops the ability to create outfits out of nowhere to clothe them with. Notable in that she blatantly avoided this trope up until this point(and actually still does, the full-body clones being the only application of her powers that have any clothes).]]
* [[spoiler:MesACrowd]]: [[spoiler: She has recently become able to create complete duplicates of herself.]]
* MinoredInAssKicking
* MissingMom: Her mother Olivia was away trying to research the Void Century, and the two didn't see each other until Ohara's destruction.
* MoralityPet: Chopper. She bonds with him very quickly after doing her damndest trying to dispel his image of her being really scary, and she generally has his welfare in mind during battle. She also becomes really pissed at Franky after [[spoiler: Franky talks with his regular potty mouth and scowl in Chopper's Body]].
* MsExposition: As the resident BadassBookworm of the Straw Hats crew, she's often the one explaining the world of One Piece for [[IdiotHero Luffy's]] and consequently the audience's benefit.
* MsFanservice: Oh yeah. Wears somewhat [[HellBentForLeather fetishistic]] [[OfCorsetsSexy outfits]]? Check. A tendency to end up bound (if not gagged)? Check. [[GoGoEnslavement Sporting]] AbsoluteCleavage on a [[ViolationOfCommonSense frigid island in the middle of a blizzard]]? Check. In all fairness, that last one wasn't really her fault or intentional.
* MultiArmedAndDangerous: Her most common use of her [[TouchedByVorlons Devil Fruit power]] is sprouting arms on her opponent(s) and putting them in submission holds.
* NervesOfSteel: Was the only one who didn't react when Luffy brought Brook, a LIVING SKELETON, aboard the ship for the first time. Extra points when said skeleton bluntly asked her to show him her panties and she STILL doesn't react.
* NiceHat: As Miss All Sunday, she always wore a white cowboy hat. She still occasionally does, or sometimes a purple one.
* TheNicknamer: Robin rarely address her crewmates by name, ''any name'', she's very fond of HeyYou; when she does go by name, it will be a simple nickname like Long-nose-kun (Usopp), Bushido-san (Zoro), Cook-san (Sanji) & etc. The only crewmate she will always call by name is Luffy, the captain himself, and this was after she found her place with the Straw Hats, before that she addressed him as Straw Hat, like all his foes. 
** Considering her past, this is probably her defense mechanism. Due to her bounty, everyone acted like a BitchInSheepsClothing to her, pretending to be nice only to stab her in the back later by revealing her position to the Marines (And sometimes being damn hypocritical in the process), so nicknaming everyone was a way to prevent her from getting attached to them. However, during the events in Enies Lobby, she realizes that she has finally found her TrueCompanions, and gradually stops using nicknames.
* NightmareFetishist: Possibly the only one besides Luffy who can find a monstrous, three-headed, decaying zombie dog ''cute''.
* NightmareFuelStationAttendant: In times when members of the crew have befallen an uncertain fate, she usually suggests that they suffered the most gruesome demise possible, or otherwise points out macabre points of trivia.
* PerkyGoth: She sort of has a taste for the macabre. To name a few examples, she suggested "Being of Darkness" as a name for the Thousand Sunny and even called the Cerberus on Thriller Bark "cute".
* PetalPower: For some reason, pink flower petals appear whenever she uses her DF powers.
** This is explained from her DF's name: Flower-Flower. The limbs sprout from the ground "like flowers". Don't think about that too closely, though.
* {{Sexophone}}: Her theme music.
* ShesGotLegs
* ShoutOut: Her look after the timeskip may remind people of [[TombRaider another]] AdventurerArchaeologist.
* SquishyWizard: Robin is squishy compared to the freaks of nature that inhabitat the Grand Line. If you manage to get past her long range power you have a good chance at victory. As a result, once the enemy gets in position to give her direct blows, she's screwed.
* StatuesqueStunner: She's 6'2 (6 feet and 2 inches tall), dwarfing all of the other Straw Hats except Franky and Brook, who keep in mind are themselves 7'5 and 8'8, respectively. This is not a very impressive height in the One Piece world (see the OurGiantsAreBigger trope for a full diagnostic on height variations in the One Piece world), but would be ''huge'' if she were a real life woman.
* TheStoic: Like Zoro, [[http://www.mangafox.com/manga/one_piece/v46/c442/13.html she is much more reserved than most of the crew]], and unlike the others, has not had a single FaceFault -- this is lampshaded in one of the anime's ending themes.
** Perhaps not the same ending theme, but one involves shots of each of the crew looking normally, before switching over to a crazy expression, with two exceptions; Zoro, who simply falls asleep, and Robin, who goes from reading books to... reading more books.
** NotSoStoic: Enies Lobby. That's all.
* {{Stripperiffic}}: [[http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20120719170359/onepiece/images/c/c8/Robin-Film-Z.png Her second outfit]] for the ''Anime/OnePieceFilmZ'' is going to be this.
* StrongFamilyResemblance: The only difference between Robin and her mother is that the former isn't a WhiteHairedPrettyGirl.
* SuperDrowningSkills: As a Devil Fruit user, she is affected by this, though the only times she's ever been in danger of this was during the seventh [[TheMovie movie]] and the climax of the Enies Lobby arc.
* TeamMom: WordOfGod described her as being like this. 
* TemptingFate: Her somewhat macabre sense of humor often unnerves her companions.
* [[WrestlerinAllofUs There's a Wrestler in All of Us]]: Robin specializes in submission locks and her most common form of attack is taking down an enemy from a distance in this manner using her powers. After the TimeSkip, she even takes it up a notch and one of her moves involves making a [[DoppelgangerAttack clone]] of herself to take down the legs in a submission hold while she herself performs a diving-neck snap. [[MusclesAreMeaningless On a Fishman twice her size]]. A Fishman who, like all Fishmen, is said to naturally be 10 times stronger than the average human. [[PrecisionFStrike Damn]].
* ThighHighBoots: Occasionally. 
* TsurimeEyes
* UnscrupulousHero: She is one of the most vicious and brutal of all the Straw Hats, breaking spines, going for the [[GroinAttack groin]], and using sneak attacks.
* UnwantedRescue: First, when Luffy saves her from the crumbling Royal tomb. Then in the [=CP9=] saga, when the crew goes to save her she doesn't only complain, she uses her powers violently on her comrade Usopp to make him and all the other Straw Hats to understand that she wants to die. Thanks to ThePowerOfFriendship, she realizes she doesn't really want to die and it becomes a HappilyFailedSuicide.
* VictoriasSecretCompartment: She's also guilty of hiding things down her AbsoluteCleavage.
* WatchingTroyBurn: [[spoiler:As a child, she saw her hometown going up in smoke.]]
* WeakButSkilled: Robin is no stronger than your average athletic human woman. However, skillful use of her Devil Fruit powers enables her to take on foes much bigger and/or much more powerful than she is. 
* WhenSheSmiles: She actually smiles rather often, but again, she looks [[http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20121111041040/onepiece/images/3/32/Robin_laugh.png so darned CUTE]] you'd forget that she was the right-hand lady of a mass murderer.
* YouAreNotAlone: For much of her life she was alone from people of her island shunning her, [[spoiler:to her being hunted for her bounty and being an enemy of the world Government.]] She truly realized the Straw Hats loved her and were her TrueCompanions when they [[spoiler:burned the flag of the World Government, declaring war on the entire system, so they would be the same as her.]]
* YourSizeMayVary: Robin's height is fairly inconsistent in the anime. She's officially listed as being 6'2 both before and after the timeskip, but she frequently has been shown to be shorter than Zoro when standing next to him while he's only 5'11. However, her height is more consistent in the manga. 
[[/folder]]

[[folder:"Cyborg" [[color:cyan:Franky]]]]
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-->''"I'm feeling especially super this week!"''

->Child Voice: JunkoNoda (JP), Terri Doty (EN, Funi), GregAyres (EN, Unlimited Adventure)
->Adult Voice: KazukiYao (JP), PatrickSeitz (EN, Funi)

Franky, real name Cutty Flam, is the crew's shipwright. His eccentric behavior ([[{{Catchphrase}} SUUUPPERRR!!]]) and habit of wearing speedos lead many to brand him a pervert (which he takes pride in), yet he is loyal and protective of his friends, often calling them his "little bros". He's also prone to striking poses and breaking out into torrents of ManlyTears at the slightest provocation. Initially, he was the leader of the Franky Family, a gang of villainous dismantlers who provoked the Straw Hats' wrath by mugging Usopp and stealing most of their money. As his epithet implies, he is a cyborg known as ''BF-36'' ([[FunWithAcronyms BF = Battle Franky]]) due to being hit by a sea train and washing up on a scrap yard and using said scrap to modify his body to keep from dying. [[spoiler:He later uses blueprints from the worlds best scientist to upgrade himself to ''BF-37''.]]

His past is tied to Nico Robin's, as while she can read the location of the superweapon Pluton, he actually owns the blueprints themselves, having been passed down among the shipwrights of Water 7 for generations. After being captured by the World Government along with Robin, he burned the blueprints and fought alongside the rest of the Straw Hats to save her, and eventually joined them after being blackmailed through theft of his speedos.

His dream is to build and sail on what he deems the greatest sailing ship on the seas, which resulted in the construction of the Straw Hats' new ship, the Thousand Sunny.

His bounty is 44,000,000 Berries.
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* {{Badass}}
** BadassBaritone: In the Funimation dub, as he's voiced by PatrickSeitz.
** BadassBiker: In ''OnePieceStrongWorld'', he made two motorcycles out of a giant crayfish, which he called Zarley Davidson, and a giant grasshopper, which he called Batta GT-7000.
*** [[spoiler:Post-TimeSkip, he has built the Black Rhino FR-U IV, a massive rhino-themed caterpillar track motorcycle.]]
* [[BlatantLies Blatant Liar:]] He's not crying, damn it! [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial HE'S NOT!]]
* BlowYouAway: His [[GratuitousFrench Coup de Vent]] and [[{{Fartillery}} Coup de Boo]] attacks.
* BootstrappedLeitmotif: Franky's theme actually pre-dates Franky himself, originally being used for Usopp's 5-Ton Hammer escapade.
** Actually, it even appears before that, when Luffy first meets Eyelashes.
* BunnyEarsLawyer: Despite all of his eccentricities, never doubt the genius of Franky's work. A perfect example would be a recent addition to his body, [[spoiler:Nipple Lights.]]
* {{Catchphrase}}: [[GratuitousEnglish "SUPER!"]]
** After the TimeSkip, it borders on VerbalTic.
* CloudCuckoolander
* CoolShades
* CyberneticsEatYourSoul: PlayedForLaughs after the timeskip, as he occasionally repeats instructions in a robotic voice and (sometimes) adds the suffix "-robo" or "-mecha" to sentences. Robin jokes (maybe) that she can't really consider him "human" anymore.
* {{Cyborg}}: It's even his epithet.
* DoesNotLikeShoes: He is always barefoot.
* [[EmbarrassingFirstName Embarrassing Real Name]]: Cutty Flam. Iceberg, one of the few who knows it, was the one who convinced him to change it.
* EmergencyTransformation: He rebuilt ''himself''. From the ''scraps of a derelict ship''. After ''being hit by a '''train'''''. Heck, this guy gives [[IronMan Tony Stark]] a run for his money, [[MadeOfIron appropriately]] [[IncrediblyLamePun enough]].
* FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling: While they're not brothers by blood, Franky had this dynamic with Iceburg. One guess as to who was the former.
* FullNameBasis: To Robin, when he first joined the crew. It eventually switches to FirstNameBasis.
* FunnyAfro: Since he can change hairstyles at will after the timeskip, he sometimes goes with afros.
* GeniusBruiser
* TrouserSpace: Apparently he keeps the hammer he uses to build things in his speedo...
* HeelFaceTurn: Initially introduced as the leader of a gang who acted as villains for most of the Water 7 arc.
* [[spoiler:HumongousMecha: The Iron Pirate Franky Shogun.]]
** [[spoiler:CombiningMecha: Its composed of the Black Rhino FR-U IV and Brachio Tank V.]]
** [[spoiler:ThisIsADrill: On the top of the head.]]
** [[spoiler:BigFancySword[=/=]KatanasAreJustBetter: The Marauder's sword, the [[PunnyName Franken]]]].
** [[spoiler:LuckilyMyShieldWillProtectMe: Hilariously parodied. The forearm is actually ''much'' larger than the shield.]]
** [[spoiler:ThrowingYourShieldAlwaysWorks: General Shield Boomerang!]]
** [[spoiler:In a hilarious subversion of what normally would be expected of a giant mecha, it proved pretty useless in its first appeareance, as the only attacks that actually hit the opponents were the ones used by Franky by momentarily coming out of the cockpit. [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] by Robin, who wondered why he had brought it out in the first place.]]
** [[spoiler:BlowYouAway: Until Franky revealed that he has a scaled-down copy of the Gaon Cannon, called the General Cannon, built into the thing. Nothing says surprise quite like getting hit by a compressed air stream that can blow up an entire ship.]]
* HotBloodedSideburns: Weaponized. His "Franky Triangle Jacker" consists of him plucking off his sideburns and throwing them like sharp boomerangs.
* HyperspaceArsenal: How he fits everything inside his body is probably best left unanswered.
* ImportantHaircut: He got one of these after the TimeSkip, but can revert to his old style or change to a new one by pressing his nose for more than three seconds. 
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold
* LargeHam: Natch. He once responded to a sad backstory by playing a somber tune on his guitar.
* MadeOfIron: Or rather steel.
* MyGreatestFailure: His ships being stolen, used to attack the judicial ship in order to frame him, Tom and Iceberg, and injuring Iceberg and Tom in the process. This motivated his decisiont o give up on making ships.
* NakedPeopleAreFunny: Buttnaked!Franky, anyone?
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: On the island he was sent to, he unintentionally [[spoiler:self-destructed the laboratory of Dr. Vegapunk, the smartest man in the One Piece world. His lab was considered a treasure to the marines]].
** He ended up doing this twice.
** In his past, all the ships that he built end up getting used to frame him, Tom and Iceberg for attacking the judicial ship as part of Spandam's plan to confiscate Pluton's blueprints.
* TheNicknamer: He used to nickname his crewmates, calling them by attribute-related monikers like "curly eyebrow" or "skeleton" instead of their real names (Except for Robin, who he referred to [[FullNameBasis by her full name]]). Much like Robin, he stops using nicknames as he gets closer to his crewmates.
* NighInvulnerable: Only from the front, though. He couldn't reach his back so it's totally unarmored.
** At least it was unarmored before the timeskip. Post-timeskip, that weakness is no more.
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Some fans believe he might be based off of JimCarrey.
** His post-TimeSkip body seems to modeled after [[BlackFlag Henry Rollins]].
** He was also created after Eiichiro Oda heard all of Kazuki Yao's voice work as Jango and Bon Clay, specifically designed to give him a permanent casting role.
* ItRunsOnNonsensoleum: His cyborg functions are powered by carbonation! So is the ship he made, for that matter.
** It may also serve as an IncrediblyLamePun and a joke on SteamPunk, since the most popular brand of cola is [[RealLife Coke]] and [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coke_%28fuel%29 coke]] is a type of fuel that was used in steam engines.
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: He was renamed by Iceberg who found his real name silly. Everyone has called him Franky ever since. 
* ParentalAbandonment: Abandoned by his pirate parents and adopted by Tom, who died when he was a young adult.
* PowerSource: He's gotta have his Cola.
* RidiculouslyFastConstruction: Played for laughs several times during the Thriller Bark arc, when, among other things, he built a bridge [[RuleOfFunny with flower motifs and frills]] in the time it took the others to blink, and built a staircase leading up to super-giant Oars as fast as another crewmember was able to climb it. Best shipwright/carpenter/engineer ever.
* SandInMyEyes: Often brought to ([[ManlyTears manly]]) tears by sentimental backstories. He always denies it.
** Dammit, he ain't crying!
* SceneryCensor: In episode 321 of the anime, his family snatches his speedo and takes it to the Straw Hats to get him to go with them, making him run through town bottomless. While the show has no problem showing his rear end, they occasionally use this to obscure the front.
* ScienceHero
* ShoutOut: Franky's cry of "Yatte Yaruze!" ("Let's Do It!") during the Oars fight when the Straw Hat pirates 'dock'. Kazuki Yao is famous for [[{{Dancougar}} Fujiwara Shinobu of Dancouga]], whose catchphrase whenever the Cyber Beast Force formed the Giant Robot was... "Yatte Yaruze!"
** And his pre-TimeSkip hairdo was apparently inspired by a [[AceVentura certain pet detective.]]
* ShroudedInMyth: [[spoiler:Because of his antics in Vegapunk's home island, he caused "The Nightmare of Barujimoa", and he accidentally caught the tiger skin he was wearing to mask himself on fire and ran out scaring the suspicious Marines chasing him, becoming "The Burning Beast of Barujimoa" to make legends for generations to come]].
* TeamDad: According to Oda. He's of the [[BumblingDad bumbling]] variety, however, and he has a lot of ShipTease with TeamMom Robin.
** He certainly was one to the Franky Family as well.
* TrrrillingRrrs: In the anime. "[[GratuitousEnglish Good smell! Flllllavor]]!"
* WalkingSwimsuitScene
* WeCanRebuildHim: More like [[WeCanRebuildHim He Can Rebuild HIMSELF]]. As previously mentioned, he became a cyborg after being run over by the Puffing Tom, surviving, and then refitting his own body with mechanical parts. [[spoiler:In fact, he's rebuilt himself twice! After causing the "Nightmare of Barujimoa" and incinerating his own skin, he rebuilds himself into an even bigger and more powerful body, incorporating plans from Dr. Vegapunk himself]].
* WeaponOfChoice
** AnatomyArsenal
*** ArmCannon: [[CallingYourAttacks Weapons Left!]]
*** {{Fartillery}}: Coup de Boo.
*** [[spoiler:FrickinLaserBeams: After the time skip, he's developed this as a finishing move called the Franky [[TotallyRadical Radical]] Beam as a replacement to his Coup de Vent.]]
*** GatlingGood: Beans Left!
*** RocketPunch: [[CallingYourAttacks Strong Right!]]
*** ShoulderCannon: Has a couple of 'em that [[{{Squick}} dislocate his shoulder blades]]. [[spoiler:He gets a Shoulder Rocket Launcher and a more functional ShoulderCannon after Time-skip.]]
** FightingWithChucks: [[CallingYourAttacks Heavy Nunchuk!]] It's made from two stone pillars attached to already large steel nunchuks. Thriller Bark only, for now.
* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Styled after Ace Ventura's, even.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:"Humming"/"Soul King" [[color:grey:Brook]]]]
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-->''"I really am glad to still be alive!"''

->Voiced by: YuichiNagashima (AKA: "Cho") (JP)

Brook is the crew's musician. He ate the Revive-Revive Fruit (''Yomi Yomi no Mi''), which enabled his spirit to reanimate his corpse after he died. [[BlessedWithSuck (Un)]][[CursedWithAwesome fortunately]], after his death, his spirit got lost for an entire year before finding his body, and it had [[DemBones decayed into a skeleton]]. [[spoiler:He later developed the ability to control his own soul.]] Deprived of his shadow by the Warlord of the Sea, Gecko Moria, he was adrift within the gloomy Florian Triangle until he met the Straw Hats by chance. He's something of a DirtyOldMan who repeatedly asks Nami and Robin to show him their panties, and he also has the distinct habit of making [[IncrediblyLamePun cringe-inducing]] puns relating to his skeletal state at every opportunity. He's eighty-eight/[[TimeSkip ninety]] years old, though he doesn't age after dying at the age of thirty-eight. He is also a fencer who executes extremely fast attacks and can use music as a form of hypnosis.

His dream is to reunite with Laboon, a whale who lives at the entrance to the Grand Line, whom the Straw Hats had previously met. Fifty years ago, the baby whale had befriended the pirate crew Brook was a part of, but they had to leave him behind as their travels became more dangerous. After his shadow was recovered from Gecko Moria, Brook happily accepted Luffy's invite to join the crew, pleased to have finally found new friends to call his own.

His bounty is 33,000,000 Berries.
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* AfroAsskicker
* TheAloner: It's implied that Brook developed his bizarre humor and IncrediblyLamePun tendencies as a means to entertain himself while he was stuck alone on a ship full of (inanimate) dead people for half a century.
* [[spoiler:AnIcePerson: One of his new abilities is freezing things with his sword, by channeling ''[[CreepyAwesome the chills of ]] TheUnderworld''.]]
** [[spoiler:FreezeRay: Doubles as a SwordBeam, he can fire the energy of his soul at his opponent with his sword which freezes them.]]
* [[spoiler:AstralProjection]]: A power he developed [[spoiler:over the TimeSkip]].
* BackFromTheDead: The Devil Fruit he ate let him come back to life after being killed. Once. Though he's harder to kill a second time.
* BadassGrandpa: He's ''90 years old''.
* BerserkButton: Don't belittle the pain and emptiness of death. He lost everything to it, and he can't stand people just simply throwing their lives away.
** Don't dare attack his crew. "I already lost a crew once. You won't make me lose another!"
** [[spoiler:He can't stand throwing away the lives of others either, as exemplified by his response to [[BadBoss Zeo]] in Chapter 645 when the New Fishman Pirates commanders begin killing off their soldiers:]]
-->[[spoiler: '''Zeo:''' Those who choose not to die in battle will die here, by my own hands! Your deaths shall be left as our grudge towards humans!!]]\\
[[spoiler: '''Brook:''' Stop right there! Those are your men!! And you, what would you know?! It's not like you've died before! Die and be left as a grudge!!? That's absurd! Nothing is left behind! After death, living things are all just bones!!]]
** How dare something turn up its nose after trying to eat him. Bone has plenty of nutritional value!
* BewareTheSillyOnes
* BlessedWithSuck: His Devil Fruit only returns someone from the dead once, and his skeletal body doesn't seem to offer much additional resistance against damage and pain (if anything, it's arguably worse in this regard). So, basically, all he's got is SuperDrowningSkills. Still, it's not all bad; he moves faster and is much lighter due to having no flesh.
** Also, he can instantly heal himself by drinking milk. [[RuleOfFunny Yeah, right]].
*** Partly subverted, as he shows that he's not 100% recovered after making the above claim.
** His SuperDrowningSkills are partially balanced by his ability to dash across water because he's so light. He can also jump extraordinarily far and high. Yes, even becoming a skeleton who can't swim can be turned into an advantage in this series.
*** Plus, he doesn't really suffer the same effect of internal damage as the rest of the crew. Stabbing him in the eye just chips his skull, stabbing in the ribs notches them, and a blow to the gut does nothing unless it hits his spine. All three happen within what is probably no more than thirty seconds in universe during his fight to retrieve his shadow.
** [[spoiler:After the TimeSkip, he's learned how to remove his soul from his body. Both the women's baths and getting messages to people when he's locked up are now within his reach.]]
*** The TimeSkip further reveals that [[spoiler: there's an inexhaustible energy that allows his soul to continue living in the world. Depending on additional revelations in the future about what this means, his power may well border CursedWithAwesome.]]
*** As it turns out, he can also now draw on the power of the soul to strike enemies with the ''freezing fire of the dead.'' His sword becomes coated in a blue flame that's freezing cold.
* BrickJoke: Throughout the series, Luffy keeps suggesting that they need a musician for a crew member next, his suggestion getting shot down every time. 300+ episodes later...
* CameBackWrong: Well, it happens when your soul get lost in a fog-laden sea and your body decomposes as a result before it can reach it.
* CatchPhrase: "[[DirtyOldMan Excuse me Miss, may I see your panties?]]"
** Includes variants such as "may I borrow some money?" should panties be unavailable.
*** These are all variants on a running joke (which works better in japanese because of the billions of levels of politeness they have built into their language), in which he asks extremely rude things in an extremely polite manner. 
** "SKULL JOKE!!!"
*** YOHOHOHOHOHO! (not that every character in this manga doesn't have their own distinctive laugh, but his gets props for being the traditional pirate-y one. 
* CoolOldGuy
* TheDeadCanDance: And sing, and play just about any instrument.
* DeathActivatedSuperpower: His Devil Fruit powers only kicked in after he died. Although he was still unable to swim.
* DemBones: While his Devil Fruit brought his soul back into the realm of the living, by the time he found his body it had already decayed to a skeleton.
* DiagonalCut: When he chops up Talleran.
* DirtyOldMan: And dead to boot!
* ExpressiveMask: OK, not exactly a mask, but the trope still applies, as Brook's skull contorts to match his emotions.
* FightsLikeANormal: He relied on his swordsmanship due to not being able to utilize his Devil Fruit for combat. After the TimeSkip however, this is no longer the case.
* FragileSpeedster: Fast enough to rival the Monster Trio in speed, but his body is not the toughest thing around.
** In the canonical movie ''OnePieceStrongWorld'', Brook individually slices millions of ants within milliseconds of each other so quickly that the ants [[YouAreAlreadyDead don't realize they've been cut until his traditional three steps afterward. He did it again to a moth later in the film]].
* FunnyAfro: That somehow survived even after he died. Luffy finds it to be an endless source of humor.
* GallowsHumor: More literally than most.
* GentleGiant: He's the tallest member of the Straw Hat crew, and also the kindest and most even tempered.
** NiceGuy: While the crew is made up of goodhearted people, all of them can be really offensive or act like jerks when you meet them... except for Brook, who just comes off as a kind old man with bad manners.
* GhostlyChill: Weaponized.
* GhostPirate: The skeletal variant.
* GoMadFromTheIsolation: You can see some slippage during his fifty year isolation, with things such as hallucinations of his crew alive and well again.
* HumanHummingbird: His running style.
* IaijutsuPractitioner: His fighting style is a combination of this and classical fencing.
* IGaveMyWord:
--> "That death isn't an apology! Because a man once said... That they would absolutely come back!!"
* ImmortalImmaturity: Brook has a serious side, but is very quick to join in on the unnecessary playfulness that the younger members make. He claims to just love having fun.
** Considering he was [[TheAloner alone for over 50 years]], he's probably making up for lost time.
* IncrediblyLamePun: They are his favotite types of jokes -- they really bust his gut. But... WAIT! [[SelfDemonstratingArticle HE DOESN'T HAVE A GUT!!! YOHOHOOOOOOO!!!! SKULL JOKE!!!]]
* InsaneEqualsViolent: Greatly subverted. As described by some of the [[TheAloner other]] tropes [[GoMadFromTheIsolation listed]], Brook is not entirely well. As [[GentleGiant described]] by still [[NiceGuy other]] tropes, he is also the [[ThePollyanna least likely]] to even act like a jerk, let alone be particularly violent as pirates go.
* IntergenerationalFriendship: Brook is old enough to be Franky’s grandfather or Luffy’s greatgrandfather! 
* ItRunsOnNonsensoleum: His entire existence.
** Acording to the OtherWiki, his Devil Fruit allows him to function like a normal human despite not having the necessary organs to do so.
** He's finally given an explanation. It's not organs, or muscles, [[spoiler: it's his ''soul'']]!
* LetsGetDangerous: For all his antics, Brook did manage to amass a large bounty while he was still alive, and can hold his own on a fight, though he's not as badass as Zoro is in swordsmanship.
* MusicalAssassin: Brook sometimes uses his music as a weapon.
* NiceHat: A top hat... that somehow can sit on his afro without falling off.
** Replaced by a big gold crown two years later. It's like his hair is some kind of hat adhesive.
* NinjaPirateZombieRobot: Yes, yes, yes, and no. Brook isn't a robot. That's Franky.
* NobodyTouchesTheHair: He'll try to prevent enemy combatants from contact with his hair at any cost. This is because being a skeleton, he considers it his only visible trait still the same from when he was still alive, and it won't grow back if it gets cut off again(and considering his sole purpose now is to meet up with [[TeamPet Laboon]] again, he kinda needs Laboon to still be able to recognize him somehow). He protects it to such an extent that he loses his very first real fight in the series in order to avoid damage to his hair.
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Brook is undoubtedly based on famous guitarist [[http://images.mirror.co.uk/upl/m4/nov2008/6/0/677F22B0-D9A0-3C76-E668D24B6D686263.jpg Saul "Slash" Hudson.]] The resemblance is more noticeable in his [[http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20090801031852/onepiece/images/thumb/c/c3/Brooklivethumb.jpg/120px-Brooklivethumb.jpg younger appearances.]]
* NoSell: Has a habit of doing this to enemy attacks. Some examples include:
** Pierce or shoot him, and it goes right through gaps in his body harmlessly (unless you strike his bones directly).
** Suck the moisture out of him? There's nothing left to drain.
** [[spoiler: Decapitate him? He simply reattaches his head.]] 
* OfficerAndAGentleman: Simultaneously played straight and subverted to humorous effect.
* OurSoulsAreDifferent: Due to the effect of his Devil Fruit. [[spoiler:Even more so after the TimeSkip]].
* ThePollyanna: [[TearJerker "If we're going to die,]] [[HeroicSpirit we might as well]] [[CrowningMusicOfAwesome enjoy it..."]]
* PowerPerversionPotential: First thing he did once he learned to separate soul and body at will: Women's baths.
* PullingThemselvesTogether: A natural extension of being a living skeleton, which he unveils after the timeskip.
* PungeonMaster: See below!
* RandomSmokingScene: In the movie ''OnePieceStrongWorld''. (While dressed like a hippie. Exactly what he's smoking is anyone's guess.)
* RunningGag: "(common expression including a body part). Oh, wait, I don't have (body part)."
** "Yohoho! [[DontExplainTheJoke Skull Joke]]!"
*** *Insert Skull Pun here.* Yohohohohohohohoho!
*** He even does this mere moments from apparent death. Let it never be said he isn't dedicated to the practice.
** 45 degrees!
*** And not a radian more!
* SadClown: Especially in his introductory storyline.
* ScarsAreForever: Even 52+ years later and with all his flesh gone, whatever head injury he once suffered remains visible.
* [[spoiler:SoulPower]]: [[spoiler:During the TimeSkip, he learned the true power of his Devil Fruit: the power to control the inexhaustable energy of his soul.]]
* ShoutOut: An extremely tall, quirky, musical talking skeleton? [[TheNightmareBeforeChristmas That seems familiar...]] Or quite possibly another old skull with incredible power [[Literature/TheDresdenFiles and a love of racy material ...]]
* StealthPun: (Combined with PunnyName and FridgeBrilliance) His becoming the Soul King, because (apart from [[DemBones his skeleton]] and [[FunnyAfro his hair]]) that's the only part of him remaining after he [[BackFromTheDead came back to life]]. [[spoiler:And after the TimeSkip, his soul can become mobile at will]].
* SuperDrowningSkills: As with all Devil Fruit users, he sinks like a stone in water. Though one would assume, since he has no organs, that this wouldn't be as inconvenient for him, his body still seems to act as if it has the organs even if they don't physically exist. Like Chopper, he also forgets he can't swim, but he can at least run on the surface of the water.
* TookALevelInBadass: Possibly has the most new abilities after the time skip. Despite being one of the (relatively) weaker crew members before the time skip he gets paired to fight with the New Fishman pirates' second in command, defeating him effortlessly too.
* {{Undead}}: Of the DemBones variety.
* UpperClassTwit: Not really upper class, it's just a facade that he puts on, but he would not be out of place in ''BlackAdder''.
** Up for debate. His background implies he held the position of captain of an unnamed kingdom's army before becoming a pirate, so it's equally possible that he was upper class first and the twit part developed from being TheAloner.
*** Hey, if he wasn't before, "Soul King" definitely is.
* VocalDissonance: He's a living skeleton with creepy (and downright horrific) abilities. Yet his voice is amazingly soft, calm and musical. In fact, most of time he sounds as if he were about to burst into a good, healthy laughter anytime. 
* WalkOnWater: Due to his light frame, he can dash across the ocean's surface for a short time. How long is only limited by endurance.
* WeaponOfChoice
** MagicMusic: He has used violin chords to put people to sleep.
*** [[spoiler:Post-TimeSkip, he can use music to hypnotize people into seeing illusions, such as a festival.]]
** SwordCane: His primary weapon.
*** [[spoiler:During the timeskip, the longarms sharpened the blade and it was given the name Soul Solid.]]
* YouAreAlreadyDead: His signature attack, ''Hanauta Sancho: Yahazu Giri'', involves slicing his opponent once at [[YouCannotGrasptheTrueForm incomprehendible]] speeds (literally -- unlike [[Manga/FistOfTheNorthStar with Ken's attacks]], the audience literally never even sees Brook do so much as FlashStep in this attack), and then slowly walks away. After 3 steps, Brook sheathes his sword... followed by his confused opponent then suffering what's usually a fatality. 
* YourSizeMayVary: Brook is ridiculously tall, but sometimes sloppy animators forget this fact while others exaggerate it. In other words, his height depends on the art director of an episode. Officially, he's 8'9.
* YouShallNotPass: He tried this against a Pacifista to protect Zoro at Sabaody Archipelago. It didn't go very well.
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