History Characters / OnePieceMarines

** Played with. The rank of Vice-Admiral is no "Janitor", but the man who rivaled the Pirate King Gold Roger would be at the top of the chain. Garp, however, is perfectly content with his current rank and has refused numerous promotions to Admiral. Sengoku explains that accepting the position would make him essentially a pawn of the World Government and the Celestial Dragons, which Garp despises.

* DoubleJump: He's seen briefly using Moon Walk in Chapter 1088, [[spoiler:so he can intercept Avalo Pizarro's giant hand]].

* BigBad: He's the main villain of the first part of Novel A, being the cause of Isuka joining the Marines and being Ace's final opponent in the part.

A Marine Vice-Admiral who confronts Ace in the first half of ''One Piece: Ace's Story''.

* FauxAffablyEvil: At first appears to be a NiceGuy when inviting Ace to join the Seven Warlords, but when Ace declines he immediately brings out his heinous side.

* KillItWithFire: He usually fights with flamethrowers.

* MissionControl:When SWORD is raiding [[spoiler:Fullalead to rescue Koby]], Grus is seen sitting atop a building and directing his teammates' movements.

* MissionControl: [[spoiler:When SWORD is raiding Fullalead to rescue Koby, Grus is seen sitting atop a building and directing his teammates' movements]].

* GreenEyedMonster: He seems to envy his fellow Marines if they have a higher reputation than him such as [[spoiler:Koby, the Hero of the Navy, whom he vowed to sabotage him]]. That doesn't stop from partaking in the rescue mission, though.

* GreenEyedMonster: He seems to envy his fellow Marines if they have a higher reputation than him such as [[spoiler: Koby, the Hero of the Navy, whom he vowed to sabotage him.]]

* MissionControl: When [[spoiler:SWORD is raiding Fullalead to rescue Koby, Grus is seen sitting atop a building and directing his teammates' movements]].

* ElementalRockPaperScissors: Smoker's Devil Fruit abilities gives him a distinct advantage over most others, and even allowed him to fight [[PlayingWithFire Ace]] to a standstill. [[note]]Their powers cancelled each other's out.[[/note]]

!!!'''Debut:''' Chapter 966 (Manga)

!!!'''Debut:''' Chapter 966 (Manga)

!!!'''Debut:''' Chapter 1061 (Manga)

* RedOniBlueOni: With Sengoku; Garp is the red oni, being HotBlooded and a RebelliousSpirit within the Marine ranks. Sengoku is the blue oni, being calculated and serious. The dynamic is upset somewhat when Sengoku gets impatient with Garp's family, yet Garp always brushes him off with a laugh... the one exception being Luffy invading Marineford.

-->'''Garp:''' Just look at this mess... Hmph... '''After all these years... I'm losing my edge!!!'''\\

* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: He's crude, strict, and kind of a lousy parent all things considered. But behind all of his prestige Hero of the Navy, he's a man that deeply loves his family and proteges, and his ConflictingLoyalty during the War on Marineford tears him apart on the inside.

->After Stelly asks Garp to make him a Celestial Dragon:
->'''Garp''': You want to become scumbags like them?

* TheOnlyBeliever: Downplayed. Garp is not the only one, but he believes in the ideals underpinning the very concept of the Marines, maintaining peace and protecting those who cannot protect themselves. Unfortunately, the organization is mired in red tape, answers to [[spoiler:an absolute tyrant]] who cares little for civilians, and his contemporaries and apprentices bog down the mission through a mixture of personal stubbornness over their own views on "justice" and pragmatic compromises with outright criminals.

-->'''Garp''': You better keep holding me down, Sengoku! Cause if you don't, ''I'm gonna murder that Sakazuki!''

* RedOniBlueOni: With Sengoku. Garp is the red oni, being HotBlooded and a RebelliousSpirit within the Marine ranks. Sengoku is the blue oni, being calculated and serious. The dynamic is upset somewhat when Sengoku gets impatient with Garp's family, yet Garp always brushes him off with a laugh.

** Since he is loyal to the Navy, the World Governments military, this technically means that he works for the Celestial Dragons, the one group of people he hates even more than pirates.
** As mentioned above, it’s even more ironic considering his own son is named Dragon.

* SinsOfOurFathers: An often-overlooked downside of his famous reputation is that Garp has a number of enemies from his heyday that would love nothing more than to get back at him through his descendants. Don Chinjao straight up admitted during his fight with Luffy that if he had known Dragon was Garp's son, he wouldn't have lived long enough to have Luffy in the first place. The only reason this isn't more of a problem is because Garp is seen as a hero by the public, and the fact that he had any descendants at all wasn't well-known until recently.

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* AmbiguousSituation: Hibari and Admiral Akainu are the only two characters in the entire story who speak in a specific Japanese dialect. There’s no way the two characters aren’t somehow connected, but so far there’s no indication of what that connection might be.

* HarmlessFreezing: After saving Koby, she gets suddenly frozen by[[spoiler: Kuzan who averts this trope.]]

* PyrrhicVictory: At the end of the Paramount War, [[spoiler: while they do achieve their intended goal using Ace to lure out Whitebeard and killing the both of them, as well as some other big-name pirates, that's really the most they could be said to have accomplished; they lose plenty of their own men in the process, Whitebeard's pre-mortem confirmation of the One Piece's existence kickstarts a second age of piracy, Blackbeard turns coat and busts out Level 0 prisoners from Impel Down to serve in his crew and steals Whitebeard's Tremor-Tremor Fruit, and they fail to eliminate Luffy, who established himself as a potential threat with his charisma and [[AwesomenessIsAForce Conqueror's Haki]] and was outed as the son of [[TheMostWanted Dragon the Revolutionary]]. Of course, [[SlaveToPR the World Government]] opts to completely cover up the "Pyrrhic" part to save face, which backfires when common citizens and even their own ranks are completely unprepared for the sudden surge in piracy following the war due to being LockedOutOfTheLoop.]]

* StrongerThanTheyLook: Despite his PrettyBoy looks and his EndearinglyDorky personality, a combination of training under Garp and absolutely pushing himself to his physical brink during his time training has made Koby a ''lot'' stronger post TimeSkip. [[spoiler: During the raid at Fullalead, most of the Blackbeard Pirates all jeeringly and unrelentingly mock Koby when he stands against [[GeniusLoci Pizarro]] as none of them think for a moment he's capable of doing anything against the other Pirate. When Koby shows he's ''more'' than [[EnhancedPunch capable of stopping him in his tracks]], the jeering compleatly stops and changes to [[MassOhCrap incredulous horror]]. Even his fellow Marines (outside of [[SoProudOfYou Garp]] and [[HeterosexualLifePartners Helmeppo]]) are completely flabbergasted about how powerful Koby truly is.]]

* ByTheBookCop: He's maybe the most professional marine, with none of the quirks, oddities, and eccentricities that most ''One Piece'' characters have, he even lets pirates go because he has a more important mission.

* ImplausibleFencingPowers: Momonga can kill a Sea King ''from the inside''.

* NotSoAboveItAll: {{Downplayed}}. In his initial encounter with Boa Hancock, he's all business and doesn't appear at all DistractedByTheSexy, [[AllMenArePerverts unlike his crew.]] When she uses her Love-Love Beam to turn his crew to stone however, Momonga stabs himself in the hand to distract himself and avoid getting frozen. This shows that while he's ''definitely'' more sensible and task-oriented than [[SurroundedByIdiots his crew]], he's not a complete CelibateHero and does find [[WorldsMostBeautifulWoman Hancock]] attractive, with his later moments of NotSoStoic further establishing this.
* NotSoStoic: That said, while he does better than most, Hancock still manages to fluster him a few times.

* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: One of the upper level Marines who's neither a GeneralRipper nor a BloodKnight - he's consistently professional and rational, the latter of which is not a trait that people like Akainu aspire to.
* TheStoic: In his screentime he is exceedingly composed, calm, and professional.

* AstonishinglyAppropriateAppearance: Beneath their uniform jackets and hats, a lot of higher-ranking marines, Vice-Admirals or higher, tend to wear fashionable suits of varying colors and some, such as Akainu, appear to have tattoos under their clothes, giving off the impression of {{Yakuza}}. Fitting for a group that, for all it's preaching of justice and having more honor than pirates, [[HeWhoFightsMonsters tend to prove themselves as just as bad as the criminals they're opposing.]]

* PyrrhicVictory: The Marineford War results in this. [[spoiler: While they do achieve their intended goal using Ace to lure out Whitebeard and killing the both of them, as well as some other big-name pirates, that's really the most they could be said to have accomplished; they lose plenty of their own men in the process, Whitebeard's pre-mortem confirmation of the One Piece's existence kickstarts a second age of piracy, Blackbeard turns coat and busts out Level 0 prisoners from Impel Down to serve in his crew and steals Whitebeard's Tremor-Tremor Fruit, and they fail to eliminate Luffy, who established himself as a potential threat with his charisma and [[AwesomenessIsAForce Conqueror's Haki]] and was outed as the son of [[TheMostWanted Dragon the Revolutionary]]. Of course, [[SlaveToPR the World Government]] opts to completely cover up the "Pyrrhic" part to save face, which backfires when common citizens and even their own ranks are completely unprepared for the sudden surge in piracy following the war due to being LockedOutOfTheLoop.]]

* GeneralRipper: Has no problem leaving injured soldiers behind, and wanted the heads of Ace and Whitebeard displayed in front of the world. At Enies Lobby, he attacks one of his subordinates because they refused his order.

* GeneralRipper: Has no problem leaving injured soldiers behind, and wanted the heads of Ace and Whitebeard displayed in front of the world.