History Characters / OnePieceTheFourEmperors

** In addition, he becomes a Warlord with a former bounty of 0, being an absolute unknown before then.

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The Four Emperors (四皇, ''Yonkou'') are the most notorious and feared pirate leaders in the ''{{One Piece}}'' world, who, alongside their powerful crews and numerous allies, each rule over large territories of the New World like overlords. They are widely considered to be the strongest pirates in the world as well as the candidates closest to becoming the Pirate King, and a single Emperor's crew and alliance is strong enough to challenge the World Government's forces. Thankfully for the world at large, the Four Emperors function independently from each other, sometimes fighting each other in power struggles mainly contained within the New World part of Grand Line.\\\

Amongst the original four, only Shanks and Whitebeard were seen to be benevolent, while Big Mom and Kaido were far more immoral and nefarious. Their bounties have not been revealed; with the exception of a past bounty issued to Big Mom (500,000,000 berries), no number has ever been given to let us fully grasp the danger they presently pose, but later developments suggest that they are among those whose bounties go up to at least ten figures — a level of bounty reserved for people whom the government and onlookers consider to be near-unstoppable monsters.\\\

The Four Emperors (四皇, ''Yonkou'') are the most notorious and feared pirate leaders in the ''{{One Piece}}'' world, who, alongside their powerful crews and numerous allies, each rule over large territories of the New World like overlords. They are widely considered to be the strongest pirates in the world as well as the candidates closest to becoming the Pirate King, and a single Emperor's crew and alliance is strong enough to challenge the World Government's forces. Thankfully for the world at large, the Four Emperors function independently from each other, sometimes fighting each other in power struggles mainly contained within the New World part of Grand Line.

Amongst the original four, only Shanks and Whitebeard were seen to be benevolent, while Big Mom and Kaido were far more immoral and nefarious. Their bounties have not been revealed; with the exception of a past bounty issued to Big Mom (500,000,000 berries), no number has ever been given to let us fully grasp the danger they presently pose, but later developments suggest that they are among those whose bounties go up to at least ten figures — a level of bounty reserved for people whom the government and onlookers consider to be near-unstoppable monsters.

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!Four Emperors at the Start of the Story

!New Emperors

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* SuperPowerLottery: All of them are big time winners, besides Shanks. Whitebeard can create earthquakes and tsunamis, Big Mom rips people’s souls and Kaido’s a freaking giant dragon. Blackbeard specifically gunned for one of these in his search for devil fruit power and only after acquiring the power of Darkness that he made his move.

* PerpetualFrowner: Whenever the Emperors were mentioned early on, his various prototype silhouettes always sported [[SlasherSmile Slasher Smiles]]; however, when we see his final design in person, he constantly has an angry grimace instead.

* BadassInCharge: Scaring a Sea King by staring at it? Check. Crossing blades with Whitebeard, the WorldsStrongestMan, and walking away from it? ''Check''. Forcing Kaido to back off when he wanted to catch Whitebeard by surprise? '''Check'''. [[spoiler:Stopping a war just by threatening to take down anyone on either side who wants to continue?]] '''''Check'''''.

* FriendlyEnemy: For the most part, anyway. He had nothing but encouragement and praise for [[spoiler: Ace and, later, Luffy and Whitebeard.]] It's definitely one-sided, though, as all of them utterly despise him.
** Though, it should be noted that he brutally dismissed [[spoiler:Hannyabal's]] belief in the pursuit of justice while beating him down. [[{{Hypocrite}} Guess it's OK to follow your ambitions as long as you're a pirate, not the people chasing them.]]

* FriendlyEnemy: For the most part, anyway. He had nothing but encouragement and praise for [[spoiler:Ace and, later, Luffy, and then later Whitebeard]], but he brutally dismissed [[spoiler:Hannyabal]]'s belief in the pursuit of justice.

* BondVillainStupidity:
** [[spoiler: In an attempt to break Luffy's spirit and make him a minion, Kaido throws Luffy in jail. With Kid. Who he also failed to turn. Yeah, nothing's wrong with this picture.]]

* FatalFlaw: [[TheAlcoholic Alcoholism]] and [[ArrogantKungFuGuy Arrogance]]. As the undisputed WorldsStrongestMan and a NighInvulnerable Tank with enough power to put ''billion-bounty pirates'' down in one swing ([[spoiler:read: Luffy]]), Kaido himself is pretty much the only thing standing in the way of his ambitions. And, in his case, his preference to getting wasted drunk over dealing with imminent problems and his refusal to acknowledge that any rookie could ''possibly'' foil him (''despite those same rookies already foiling him once before'') has led to some dumb decisions that will probably not end up well for him.

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!!Kaido "King of the Beasts"

* FatalFlaw: [[TheAlcoholic Alcoholism]] and [[ArrogantKungFuGuy Arrogance]]. As the undisputed WorldsStrongestMan and a NighInvulnerable Tank with enough power to put ''billion-bounty pirates'' down in one swing ([[spoiler: read: Luffy]]), Kaido himself is pretty much the only thing standing in the way of his ambitions. And, in his case, his preference to getting wasted drunk over dealing with imminent problems and his refusal to acknowledge that any rookie could ''possibly'' foil him (''despite those same rookies already foiling him once before'') has led to some dumb decisions that will probably not end up well for him.

** Kaido has '' drinking'' problem and his EstablishingCharacterMoment is drunken rampage laced with BlackComedy. Big Mom has an ''eating'' disorder and her rampage was PlayedForDrama.

* AbusiveParent: Most of her "crew" are related by blood. But they're just an army to her at best and "food" at worst. She has no empathy for any of them. She killed her son, Moscato, in a food craving induced rampage and never showed any kind of remorse for it and wants to murder [[spoiler:Lola]] for ruining a marriage pact that could have made her Pirate King. Not even her favorite is safe from this trait, [[spoiler:thanks to her ThirdEye, which Big Mom sees as weird and/or just a tool for her to eventually become the Pirate King.]]
** Speaking of her hatred [[spoiler:for Lola]], she tried to force [[spoiler:her twin sister Chiffon]] into this same marriage and when that didn't work out, she started beating her black and blue- to the point where she had wounds that took ''years'' to heal- simply because (you guessed it) she looks like [[spoiler:her twin sister]]. She ''still'' attacks her on sight and has basically turned her into an outcast, forcing her to stay with [[spoiler:Bege]] at all times.
** Plus, if one of her kids is an asshole? She ''enables'' their bad habits. When her little daughter Anana tattles on the Head Chef because she wants the chef's knives so that she can stab her plush toy with... Mom doesn't mind that even when some of the other members of her family ask her not to encourage this behavior, by off-handedly saying that everyone has 100 to 200 people they want dead and accept the idea as a fact. [[spoiler:Being raised by someone who enabled ''her'' bad habits might have something to do with this.]]
* AccidentalMurder: [[spoiler:When she was a very young girl, she possessed the strength to kill, but was unaware of it. But when she got older, she gained full awareness of her deadly strength... [[AxCrazy and all hell broke loose.]] She also (likely) ate Mother Carmel and isn't even aware she did so, which is a major part of her FreudianExcuse.]]
* AchillesHeel: The portrait of Mother Carmel that Linlin would place in an empty seat directly in front of her during all Tea Parties. If this portrait is damaged in anyway, from either being simply knocked off the table to being shattered into pieces, Linlin would enter a psychological crisis that would leave her fragile, both physically and mentally. So much that simply falling on her knee would leave a bruise and slight bleeding, which is thought impossible due to her iron skin.
** RemovedAchillesHeel: Combined with ItOnlyWorksOnce, with the portrait now destroyed for good, there is now nothing that can set off Big Mom's screaming fits and render her physically fragile.

* AdvancingBossOfDoom: Once she goes into her hunger rage, the whole 'fight' against her boils down to running for dear life until someone can find a way to calm her down, while all attacks thrown at her barely slow her down.

** She is said to have some sort of "eating disorder" that causes her to fly into an unstoppable, psychotic rage if she can't have one specific food that she's craving. She becomes incapable of recognizing or listening to anybody and she goes so far as to [[spoiler: murder her own son]] during her rampage. [[spoiler:She has had it ever since she was 5!]] Even worse, she doesn't seem to remember her actions after calming down, being completely unaware of any wrongdoing on her part, as seen with [[spoiler:her not knowing that she killed her own son and, in the backstory, the giant hero Yorle.]]

** As a child, [[spoiler: she displayed a very poor grasp of the world around her. Examples include treating wild predatory animals like children, and nearly mutilating her fellow orphans of other races because she assumed that something was wrong with their non-human bodies.]]

* AndCallHimGeorge: After capturing Brook, she decides to hang on to him like a pet because of how unique he is, instead of just sticking him in her collection like everything else.

* AnArmAndALeg: As dangerous as it is to be her subordinate, trying to leave her employ is even more so. Prior to Jimbei, nobody who has dared made it to see the next sunrise. Jimbei shows us why that is. Big Mom sees leaving her employ as losing a part of her army, and demands an "equal exchange." To decide that, she brings out a roulette wheel, or dartboard, with crudely-drawn body parts on it. Later reports claim Jimbei backed off, terrified of the "price." It's later made clear by Brulee that it's a sham, and the game is designed to kill whoever plays it. Jimbei's instincts were pretty spot-on. Even then he may have taken the risk, but he also realized the large numbers listed with the various penalties implied that she would also kill/maim a number of his comrades equal to those numbers.
* AnimalMotifs: Pigs, appropriately enough, as shown in a color spread depicting characters in the Chinese Zodiac.

* ArchEnemy:

** She's this to the Giants of Elbaf due to [[spoiler: destroying their village and massacring a large number of them as a child during one of her hunger-induced rampages, including one of the eldest warriors when he tried to stop her, which was considered a very undignified and dishonorable death in their race]]. While she tried to smooth things over by marrying [[spoiler:Lola]] to Prince Loki, [[spoiler:Lola's]] decision to run away was likely interpreted as Big Mom not upholding her end, and she consider this yet another reason why she isn't the [[SheIsTheKing Pirate King]] yet.

* AttackOfThe50FootWhatever: She's honestly like something out of a horror movie. Her dream is for her entire family to become as gigantic as she is.

* BadBoss: She '''ATE''' one of her subordinates (multiple in the anime) for no real reason. She's also known to kill her subordinates (many of which who ''happen to be her own children'') when they fail her or when she's in one of her hunger-induced rampages. In fact, it wouldn't be wrong to say that she's more liable to kill members of her crew than enemy pirates and marines are -- after all, at least her subordinates don't have to live with those people everyday like they do with her.
* BadPowersBadPeople: She has eaten the Soul-Soul Fruit and routinely takes portions of people's lifespans, scattering those soul fragments on inanimate objects to create an even more [=LSD=] trippy version of ''Alice in Wonderland's'' "Wonderland." She also sometimes uses fragments of her own soul to accomplish this.
* BaitTheDog: [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]]. We always knew that Big Mom was a nasty piece of work, but she initially appeared to have some HiddenDepths and redeeming qualities, such as her promising to honor her deals and her desire to create a utopia for all races. But we find out later she's a ConsummateLiar without the decency to even stick to her promises, and furthermore, her desire to create a utopia [[spoiler: is just an ''extremely'' skewed attempt to mimic Mother Carmel's ideology.]]
* BeautyIsBad: She was [[http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Charlotte_Linlin?file=Charlotte_Linlin_at_Age_28.png a beautiful]], StatuesqueStunner not unlike her daughter Smoothie at age 28, a far cry- a '''really''' far cry- from the physical monstrosity she would grow to be. However, seeing as how she was already cruel and psychotic by her pre-teen years, she was no doubt just as bad during this time as well.

** Do ''not'' get between her and her sweets. ''Especially'' if her eating disorder kicks in- if that happens, she becomes an OmnicidalManiac. And the act of '''destroying''' her sweets before she gets the chance to enjoy them is a proven [[TraumaButton trigger]] for her disorder.

* BigEater: Her appetite is as big as she herself is huge. [[spoiler:This was a source of problems as a child, where one of her first hunger-induced rampages caused her to ''destroy the village of Elbaf''.]]

* BondVillainStupidity: She ''could'' have easily executed [[spoiler: the Vinsmoke Family in their sleep on their first night in Tottoland, but instead, she deliberately shuns that option because she wants to kill them all at a huge, overindulgent party so everybody can dance on their bodies and eat cake (literally).]] This, of course, gives the Straw Hats and their allies time to figure out her plans and come up with a counterattack. She also does this to Luffy, Nami, and Brook, keeping them imprisoned/captured and toying with them rather than executing them immediately. So, naturally, they escape. This is justified as she a habit of engraving the folly of going up against her into her enemies before she kills them, as well as to make an example out of them, but it backfired hard in the Straw Hats' case.

* CannibalismSuperpower: It wasn't on purpose, and she had no idea about how it happened, but she gained her Devil Fruit power by [[spoiler:accidentally eating Mother Carmel, who had the power at the time]].

* TheCollector: Along with being obsessed with creating a country for all races, Linlin's also very interested in the strangest and most unique creatures, and her daughter Brûlée points Chopper out as a likely candidate for her menagerie. Chapter 847 shows a part of said collection in the palace's library, courtesy of the powers of her son Mont-d'Or.

* ControlFreak: A trait she shares with Judge Vinsmoke. All she cares is that she gets ''her'' way and her family is there to cater to her whims as she sees fit. So if she says they're gonna marry someone, then their opinion is invalid and they'll do so without question. If they refuse, then it doesn't matter if they're her blood, she won't hesitate to have them killed on the spot. [[spoiler: Lola is one such example as she ran out on a marriage that would've supposedly put her closer to becoming the Pirate King.]]

* CreepyChild: [[spoiler: A tragic case, as 5 year old Linlin was just too big and too strong for her own good; she would severely injure the other kids in her orphanage and even ''kill'' wild animals without any understanding of what she had done. She also developed her eating disorder at this age, going on a blind, murderous rampage when asked to fast for an Elbaf tradition.]]

** She's infamous for decimating ''entire islands'' just for not providing enough candy for her. She considers this a perfectly reasonable reaction to someone who failed to hold up their end of a bargain.

* EdibleThemeNaming: The charlotte is a French cake, and she also named most of her children after other food items (Pudding, Praline, Moscato...).

* EqualOpportunityEvil: Big Mom takes a lot of pride in the fact that Totto Land is home to people from ''all'' species. She became pretty angry when someone mentioned that wasn't true, since the island has no giants. [[spoiler:As it turns out, this is her completely genuine attempt to copy her maternal figure Mother Carmel, just twisted by her insanity.]]

** And then a third one right afterwards when she's gone ''[[UnstoppableRage completely psycho]]'' over the lack of a croquembouche and presently decimating the daylights out of '''her own country''', right down to ''killing one of her own sons for getting in her way.'' This is where we met the side of her that a giant would refer to as a '''demon.'''
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Mother Carmel clearly means ''something'' to her, as [[spoiler:her picture being damaged will send her into a VillainousBSOD to the point she's rendered vulnerable. It's eventually revealed that Carmel was the only person who was ever genuinely nice to her and treated her well. This is made horribly tragic as it's eventually revealed that Carmel was a slave trader who didn't give a shit about her.]]

* EvilMatriarch: Despite her horrifying physical appearance, she has 39 daughters, one of which is to be married to Sanji as part of a political alliance with the Vinsmoke family, and 46 sons, each of which she marries off in order to extend her power. This doesn't stop her from ''murdering one of her own children on a whim'' during a hunger-motivated, psychotic episode. So, yeah, she's not winning any mother of the year awards.

** [[spoiler:She has abandonment issues stemming from the disappearance of Mother Carmel and the other orphans she grew up with, which explains why when someone joins her crew, they marry into her family, and if they want to leave her crew they have to spin the wheel and essentially die. She doesn't want anyone to ever leave her again... by any means necessary. She also lived among the giants as a child, until she unknowingly caused herself to be banished due to her eating disorder, which (along with her idea from Carmel that people should see "eye to eye") is both why she's so intent on getting Caesar's growth formula for her crew, and puts her treatment of Lola for ruining her alliance with them in a whole new light.]]
** [[spoiler:Her only parental figure after Mother Carmel's 'disappearance' was Streusen, her future chef, who not only found her apparently ''eating'' Mother Carmel alive funny, but actively encouraged her worst habits from age six onward. This not only goes a long way to explaining how she ended up as twisted as she is and how she went from causing pain without meaning to to [[{{Sadist}} actively enjoying it]], but why she more or less raises her children the exact same way.]]

** [[spoiler: Her past life flashbacks reveal more: She used to have somebody she loved dearly, Mother Carmel, before she mysteriously went missing. She was abandoned in Island of Elbaf by her parents. Her idea of an utopian land where every race of the world can live in peace was Mother Carmel's idea, although Big Mom thoroughly twisted it]].
** She also has a desire of making everyone be as big as her so that everyone including her can see each other eye-to-eye, although she seemed to take it more literally than others.

* HorrorHunger: As mentioned, she's devoured her henchmen. But it gets '''far''' worse when her cravings for random sweets kick in. If that happens, give her what she wants, or ''don't stand in her way.'' [[spoiler: And when she does get what she craves, ''do not stand close to her, or the food while she's eating, or there's a chance she'll devour you too!'']]

* HumiliationConga: Her Tea Party went ''way'' off the rails. [[spoiler:It began when her assassins failed to off Sanji, followed by the wedding cake getting obliterated, sending her into a hunger rampage while in full view of her guests, which included some of the most powerful Media heads. Then Jimbei defied her in full view of her guests, and to her shock, he is immune to her powers as he does not fear death. Then Brook managed to sneak in and smashed her most cherished possession, sending her off to a Villainous BSOD, which was the cue for Bege's assassination attempt. But things went bad for the rebels for a while, her coming back to her senses and about to deliver a curb stomp to them... only for the Tamatebako bomb going off and send her big fancy castle crashing down to the island. She survived, but all in all, she ended up being humiliated in front of her guests, her children having to protect her despite her considering them as lowly, her entire massive home being obliterated, and her not getting the wedding cake she's been looking forward to. By the time the arc ends, her home is in ruins, two of her strongest children and subordinates were defeated in combat, the people she ''desperately'' wanted dead all escaped, Zeus [[HeelFaceTurn betrayed her entirely]] for Nami, depriving her of one of her three strongest weapons and the news generally considers that Luffy was the "victor" of the entire mess, getting him promoted to the '''Fifth''' Emperor in the global scene, while making her and her crew look vulnerable for the first time in decades]]. Safe to say, she's left absolutely, wholly enraged by the entire situation.

** [[spoiler: She also effectively disowned Lola's twin sister Chiffon for looking too much like Lola, beating her so viciously that she basically forced her to hide out on the outskirts of the country just to get out of her sight]].
** [[spoiler: And just to round it all out, Big Mom rejected Lola and Chiffon's father, Pound, as a husband, calling open season on him at the hands of the rest of the family.]]

* ImpossiblyDeliciousFood: [[spoiler:Luffy preventing her from eating the wedding cake at the Tea Party causes this to be her craving when her eating disorder kicks in. Since she's never tasted the cake, the food she's craving is a cake filled with all the fantasies of what it possibly could have tasted like -- a cake that is literally impossible to make for anyone short of the greatest chef in the world. Even with the aid of Pudding and Chiffon, the two people who specialized in what the cake supposed was to be (chocolate chiffon cake), the task still would have been impossible. Luckily for the Big Mom Pirates, Sanji, who ''is'' the greatest chef in the world (or at least close to it), was still present within their territory and fully capable of not only recreating the intended cake, but also making it taste even ''better''. ''Un''luckily for them, they had just tried to assassinate him and his family -- Sanji only got involved in the baking process because Big Mom rampaging would make the Straw Hats' escape even more difficult, especially after Perospero lied to Big Mom and claimed they had stolen the cake]].

* InterspeciesRomance: Considering one of her daughters, Charlotte Praline, is a shark mermaid, it's known that at least one of her husbands has to be a fishman or merman. She also has mixed race children with the Three-Eyed Tribe, the Longarm Tribe, the Longleg Tribe and the Snakeneck Tribe at the very least. Seeing as how she's ''obsessed'' with creating a nation of rare species, it's likely she [[ReallyGetsAround specifically seeks men of these varied races out]].
* InsaneEqualsViolent: Big Mom is undoubtedly ''insane'' and mentally disturbed, and very violent. [[spoiler:PlayedForDrama, as it's shown her more malevolent tendencies are the result of how various people reacted to her mental issues instead of actually trying to help her. At first any damage she caused was because she genuinely didn't know any better]].
* InTheBlood:
** Averted, surprisingly. Most of her children shown to date have been decent and kind people, and even though they've been shipped off for ArrangedMarriage, they are all HappilyMarried and love their spouses more than life itself. Praline (29th) even goes so far as to state that she'd back her husband, Aladdin of the restored Sun Pirates, over her Mama. [[WeHardlyKnewYe Moscato (16th)]] tried to stop Big Mom during her rampage before she either killed someone or destroyed the city. She ended up killing him.
** Seems to be played straight with her older children Perospero (1st), Brûlée (8th), Cracker (10th). This leaves Lola, Chiffon, Praline, and Pudding ([[spoiler: Though not without some ''serious'' CharacterDevelopment and VillainousBreakdown first in Pudding's case]]) as her only benevolent children thus far.
* InvincibleVillain: Possesses immense physical strength and durability; absolutely nothing can normally even scratch her skin and she can shatter rock with a half-conscious slap. Just to show how strong Big Mom is, she blocks Luffy's Gear Four King Kong Gun with one arm almost casually, and this is an attack that once cracked a city in half. Most of the Whole Cake Island arc consists of the Straw Hats and their allies simply trying to ''get away from her'' because they know fighting her directly would be suicide. By the end of arc, [[spoiler: Big Mom hasn't suffered any injury whatsoever (aside from a wounded pride perhaps), while the Straw Hats barely manage to escape by the skin of their teeth with heavy casualties, which is still counted as an incredible achievement.]]
* {{Irony}}: [[spoiler: Her mother figure Carmel was a liar and a nasty piece of work not unlike Big Mom herself... ''but'', due to Carmel trying to pass herself off as a loving mother, it appears that she didn't actually raise Linlin with any twisted values; Big Mom just so happened to end up evil ''anyway'' after Carmel disappeared]].

** Big Mom takes this trope, [[UpToEleven turns it up to eleven, and breaks the knob trying to turn it up further.]] If you look at everything she does and everyone she keeps around her, there is nothing she keeps or cares for unless it brings her pleasure or some manner of service. Anything that doesn't serve her in some capacity, she destroys or kills. If her children can't provide her with protection or bring her new power through their marriages, she ignores or worse, abuses them. If anyone tries to leave her crew, they are set-up to be killed. Her random cravings do not end unless she's given what she desires. Seriously... everything in Totto Land is more or less designed to serve Big Mom and everyone else is secondary.

** Sanji: As a Vinsmoke and as someone who directly took part in ruining her tea party, Sanji's not very high on Big Mom list.

* KickTheDog: [[spoiler: When Chiffon desperately pleads to her to stop her attack on Bege by informing her that they're married and have a child together (Big Mom's grandchild), Big Mom just screams that Chiffon's face pisses her off and that she's going to kill ''her'' as well before recommencing her attack, reducing poor Chiffon to tears]].
* KickTheSonOfABitch: Big Mom's plot to brutally slaughter the [[spoiler:Vinsmoke Family]] is certainly despicable, but it's hard to feel ''too'' bad for [[spoiler:Vinsmoke Judge]] (especially when he has a very pathetic VillainousBreakdown upon learning her plan) because he's an [[AbusiveParent abusive]] [[{{Jerkass}} asshole]]. The same applies to [[spoiler:Ichiji, Niji, and Yonji, though on a slightly downplayed note because of the [[FreudianExcuse tragic circumstances]] behind their awful behavior (which, for the record, is pretty much completely Judge's fault)]].
* KnightOfCerebus: Of course, being an Emperor, it was expected that facing her and her crew would be much more difficult than anything that's come before; but on top of that, she's easily the most violent, terrifying, and homicidally insane foe the Straw Hats have ever faced. Amazingly, despite the [[SugarBowl bright colors and fairy-tale like aesthetic of the surroundings on her island]], almost every scene she's in manages to suck the fun out of story's tone until she's gone.
* KnightTemplar: [[spoiler: Her motivation for everything she's done was to follow Carmel's "dream" of creating a "perfect nation" with no discrimination and racism (which, for the record, wasn't ''actually'' Mother Carmel's dream). So, what did Big Mom decide was the best way to do that? Why, ravage entire countries and force people to listen to her commands (''or die'') so they can become "perfect" like her own nation, of course]].
* LackOfEmpathy: After recovering from her first on-screen hunger rage, by eating ''living cream puff tourists'', she is completely unconcerned about the damage to her own capital city, including her son's fate. [[HairTriggerTemper She then begins to get enraged again, the moment she suspects that Jimbei wants to leave her crew.]]

* LeanAndMean: Not normally, but after a prolonged period in one of her hunger cravings, Big Mom slims down considerably. The effect only serves to [[UncannyValley make her even more unsettling though.]]
* ALighterShadeOfBlack: Compared to her fellow malevolent Emperors, she come off a little like this. While Kaido is a sadistic killer who wants to start the war to end all wars out of sheer boredom and disgust with life and Blackbeard is a conniving, [[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder backstabbing]] [[DirtyCoward coward]], Big Mom comes off as a very mentally unwell woman [[spoiler:whose abandonment and treatment as a child left with a badly broken psyche]] morphed her into the person she is today. She's also the only one of the three with a genuinely benevolent goal (namely creating a place were all races can live together as equals), even if it's horrifically twisted by her insanity, cruelty, and selfishness.

** To her own children: Most of her children, as specially the older ones take after her evil traits.
** To Mother Carmel: She knowingly shaped her ideal "Utopia" after Carmel's own. Unknowingly, [[spoiler: she also was a shrewd businesswoman with a talent for acting and lying, just like Carmel, though Carmel's idea of "coexisting different races" was a farce, while Big Mom's is genuine, bar a few exceptions.]]
* LiteralMinded: Her goal to turn everyone into her size? [[spoiler: It all originated from a innocent misunderstanding of Mother Carmel's words ''"Seeing others eye to eye"'', which a very young Linlin at the time thought were ExactWords rather than a figure of speech.]]

* MamaBear: When Luffy defeats Cracker, she sends an entire army to go after him. But [[spoiler: this is ''inverted'' with Lola, who she despises so much she's ready to send assassins after her.]] In general, she is protective of her family members, but if they fail her in some way she won't hesitate to punish them. She's also far more amiable to her kids that are actually proven useful to her in some way, seeming to ignore those who don't, at best, and beating them ''herself'' at worst.
* ManiacTongue: She gets quite slobbery during her hungry rampages.

** She ate one of her subordinates because he happened to be nearby when he gave her bad news. Doubly so to her son during her first on-screen "hunger rage" where she ''ate'' forty years of his lifespan because the capital city didn't have the sweets she was craving, on hand.

* NeverMessWithGranny: She's a badass grandma due to being a powerful pirate in her sixties and by the virtue that a number of her older children are stated to have children of their own.

* NoSell: [[spoiler:Nami's powered-up [[ShockAndAwe Thunderbolt Tempo]] (for which she used Zeus as a conductor) '''''FAILS TO EVEN SINGE HER.''''']]
* ObliviouslyEvil: [[spoiler: As a little girl she would try to do things like straighten the arm of a kid from the long arm tribe or rip the fin off a fishman kid, which could have led to disaster had Carmel not been there]]. Also present during her bouts of her 'Eating Disorder', as she seems to genuinely have no control of herself nor memory of what she did during her 'hunger rage'. Given the circumstances of her raising and clear insanity, it's not entirely clear whether Big Mom is actually capable of understanding ''any'' of her actions are wrong, as [[spoiler:neither of her ParentalSubstitute figures ever seemed to discipline her or tell her that her actions were wrong unless it suited them; Carmel (who only seemed to intervene when it was detrimental to her own goals) ''wanted'' a killer to sell the Marines at a high price, Streusen saw her as a meal ticket and ''laughed'' at her eating Mother Carmel.]]

* OffingTheOffspring: Not even her own children are safe when she goes off on a hunger rage. Her 16th son Moscato's fate was this after she yanked off his lifespan, though in that case Big Mom supposedly couldn't control herself or recognize him at the time [[note]] This is actually debatable with new information. Big Mom calls Pudding and Chiffon out by name during her latest hunger craze, contradicting earlier claims that she couldn't recognize her kids [[/note]]. Even disregarding that, her kids are all aware (all of them but Lola, anyway) that she has no problem with killing them at any time if they fail her.
** [[spoiler: More recently, she also did this to her fifth son Opera during a rampage she fell into after the Whole Cake Chateau collapsed.]]

** Furthermore, [[spoiler: chapters 866 and 867 reveal that Big Mom's entire motivation for throwing tea parties stems from the happy memory of her 6th birthday party being ruined by Mother Carmel and all of her friends suddenly disappearing on the spot. She's basically a ''severely'' regressed adult with massive abandonment issues obsessively and repeatedly trying to recreate her happiest childhood memory. Add in her ReallyGetsAround tendencies with men as an adult and Sigmund Freud would probably have a field day with her]].

** Surprisingly enough. Outside of her extreme cravings, she can be rather reasonable and even forgiving. For one, she was willing to let Jimbei part ways with Big Mom, even after she married one of her daughters to Aladdin (his subordinate)... at least with a price he has to pay. She even was willing to allow the other Straw Hats go free and alive at Sanji's request, provided Sanji doesn't try to pull anything. Though the leer she gives him makes it clear that she's still not someone to be crossed, no matter who you are. [[spoiler: [[SubvertedTrope In truth,]] she actually is planning to have Sanji and the Straw Hats killed and only told him this to keep him happy and unrebellious.]]
** [[spoiler: All in all, subverted and somewhat exploited. Big Mom is skilled at making herself merely ''appear'' to be reasonable and nice (when in a good mood) which draws people in and makes them think they can make a deal with her and come out better than her. In reality, she always sets things up so it will all go in her favor, and anyone who attempts to defy her invariably is killed, one way or another.]]

** Possibly some overlap with NeverBeHurtAgain. It can be reasoned that after [[spoiler:having her family abandon her twice (once by her real parents, the second time when Carmel vanished)]], Big Mom's established this policy so as to prevent being abandoned yet again. She invites and welcomes anyone who wants to join her crew and become her friend. But if they try to leave, she ensures they not only die for attempting to do so, but they suffer for it as well.
* TheReveal: Why are Tea Parties so important? [[spoiler:Her 6th birthday was a Tea Party which was the best day of her life. She was surrounded by Mother Carmel who she thought loved her and the rest of the smiling orphaned children who were of different races. Oh and she ate delicious cake. Unfortunately, on what was the happiest day of her life, Mother Carmel and all of her friends vanished without a trace. This event where everyone disappeared is so traumatic for her, she's living her whole life just trying to recreate that day. Working towards a dream of having a family of all the races the same size as her, having tea parties with them, eating cake and having her photo of Mother Carmel across her seat]].

** She finds it amusing to keep [[AndIMustScream live humans trapped helplessly]] in menageries.
** When she defeats other pirate crews that invade her territory, she makes sure to either humiliate and maim them before kicking them out ''or'' - for those who really cross her - makes them spin a roulette wheel to decide their punishment (which, of course, is actually rigged to kill the spinner no matter what they land on).
** [[spoiler:Subverted when she was a child, as while she ''did'' cause a lot of damage and pain, she genuinely had no ill intent or idea what she was doing was wrong and [[DoesNotKnowHisOwnStrength most of it was due to not knowing how strong she actually was.]] Given the closest thing she ever had to a father ''laughed'' at her devouring Mother Carmel and the other orphans alive, it's not hard to guess where she learned to enjoy the suffering she caused..]]

* StartOfDarkness: [[spoiler: It's heavily implied that Mother Carmel's sudden disappearance was hers. Big Mom was already a CreepyChild who would unintentionally cause destruction everywhere she went, but when Mother Carmel disappeared and she got raised by Streusen instead right afterwards, she turned into a ''monster'']].
* StrongFamilyResemblance: [[ZigZaggingTrope Both played Straight and Averted]] to varying degrees with her many children. Brûlée and Perospero resemble her the most, both looking like much thinner versions of her, while some of her kids such as Pudding and Katakuri don't look like her at all. Then there's [[spoiler:Lola]] and Chiffon who look more like a mix between her and their father Pound. And as for why so many of her daughters are attractive despite her revolting appearance, an SBS later reveals that she was once beautiful herself as a younger woman, so her genes aren't quite as bad as previously thought.

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->"''Listen up... you can pour drinks on me, you can throw food at me... you can even spit on me; I'll just laugh that stuff off. But... good reason or not'', '''''nobody hurts a friend of mine!'''''"

->"''I am only one man with one heart... call me a demon, call me a monster...'' '''''but I can't be the strongest forever!'''''"

->"''Joker! You better hurry the hell up! I don't care if this boring world is destroyed!'' '''''Let's start the greatest war the world has ever seen!'''''"

->"''Bring me sweets! If you do, I'll make a promise with you! A promise of peace! And of a dream country! If you listen to what I say, you will all live happily! And if you don't listen... you're being selfish!'' '''''And I'm gonna kill you!'''''"

->"''This "New Era" they keep rambling on and on about is a load of crap! The era where pirates dream of treasure will come to an end!? Yeah Right! Zehahahahahahahaha! THE DREAMS OF PIRATES WILL NEVER END!!! AM I RIGHT!?''"

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!!Kaido "of the Beasts"

Shanks is Luffy's idol, has inspired him to partake in a life of piracy, captain of the [[Characters/OnePieceRedHairPirates Red Hair Pirates]] and one of the Four Emperors that rule over the New World. Unlike Whitebeard (or presumably Kaido) he doesn't lord this status over everyone else, preferring to travel to different stops and party, with a special fondness for drinking. When Shanks was younger, he and Buggy were both apprentices in the Roger Pirates, the crew of the late Pirate King, "Gold" Roger, and clashed with Whitebeard's crew several times. They were subordinate to Silvers Rayleigh, the first-mate of the crew, and spent their time fighting each other. Both of them attended their captain's public execution, where they parted ways to form their own crews. Sometime afterward he became the rival of Dracule Mihawk, and their duels are now legend throughout the Grand Line, remembered even by Whitebeard.

Edward Newgate, better known as Whitebeard, was the captain of the [[Characters/OnePieceWhitebeardPirates Whitebeard Pirates]] and considered to be the most powerful of the Four Emperors ruling over the New World (the second half of the Grand Line), and the only person to have ever battled the Pirate King to a draw. With Roger's death he became the "[[WorldsStrongestMan Strongest Man in the World]]", and this reputation made him the most feared and respected person in the world. However, 22 years had passed since the Pirate King's death and, although Whitebeard was still greatly feared, he was getting old and the world was slowly changing and new and ambitious individuals were looking to rise to the top and take his place.

Despite his stubborn and prideful attitude and fearsome reputation, Whitebeard has a strong sense of morality and honor and believes that all pirates should follow a moral code. He regards every member of his crew and of his 43 allied crews as a son or daughter; in turn, he is regarded as a father figure by all of them as well. As such, there is a strong sense of camaraderie and kinship amongst his crew, and Whitebeard is willing to go to great lengths to protect his "sons".

He ate the Tremor-Tremor Fruit (''Gura Gura no Mi''), which allows to generate massive, destructive vibrations and trigger tsunamis and earthquakes.

Kaido is the general of the [[Characters/OnePieceBeastPirates Beast Pirates]] and the third of the Four Emperors to be mentioned, and the last one to make an appearance. Consequently, he's one of the more enigmatic figures of the series. The deepest insight we have to his character comes from Trafalgar Law, who called Kaido ''the'' strongest "creature" in existence. Not man, "creature," so he's ''at least'' on the same level as Whitebeard. It is also revealed that he and Big Mom knew one another in the past and that he owes her a debt from back then.

The first thing we learned about Kaido is that he's the one who sent Gecko Moria over the deep end, so he's far from a pleasant fellow. As a testament to his strength, he tried to make a grab for power by attacking ''Whitebeard'' before he arrived at Marineford, but Shanks prevented him from doing so.

Following the War of the Best, Kaido's coming into conflict with a bunch of younger, ballsier pirates. Drake attacked one of his favorite islands just after the WarArc, while Law's allied with Luffy in order to take him down. At least in part because of that, Kaido's assembling an army of Zoan Users from the artificial SMILE fruits developed by Caesar. Doflamingo, under the alias of Joker, is the one supplying the SMILE fruits to Kaido.

The captain of the [[Characters/OnePieceBigMomPirates Big Mom Pirates]] and the third introduced of the Four Emperors and the last to be named, Big Mom is the only female member. A sixty-eight year old woman who is abnormally huge and has an incredible capacity for destruction, Charlotte Linlin has been in the business of piracy since she was a tyke, and became widely feared by all for her utter lack of restraint, never learning how to reel in her freakish strength. But the one thing that people fear about her above anything else is her boundless appetite, which often propels her into hunger-crazed rampages that resemble ''blitzkriegs''.

She's the queen of the nation of Totto Land, which comprises Whole Cake Island (her base of operations) and its surrounding archipelago of 34 islands, and the incredibly polygamous matriarch of the daunting Charlotte Family. She offers her protection to islands if they provide enough candy to feed her sweet tooth, but [[DisproportionateRetribution watch out]] if she's not satisfied. It is revealed that she and Kaidou were crewmates once.

Her notoriety is ''not'' enough to deter Eustass Kid from destroying two of her allied ships after the TimeSkip. Nor was it enough to deter Monkey D. Luffy from personally challenging her for control over Fishman Island, which she accepted. This does NOT mean she isn't as dangerous as the other three. On the contrary, out of the Emperors shown, she's by far the most crazy, ruthless, and overall '''terrifying''', and among other things, is introduced by showing her eating some of her own men like snacks, because she'll devour virtually anything that can pass through her lips, even without meaning to.

Big Mom ate the Soul-Soul Fruit (''Soru Soru no Mi''), which allows her to take portions of souls out of a person (reducing their lifespan) and redistribute them into inanimate objects and even animals, granting them sentience and/or anthropomorphism.

As a result of forcing one of Luffy's crew members to follow her jurisdiction, Luffy dropped everything and made her priority number one. So did a few other major names among pirates, including at least three who seek to directly betray her. However, if there's one thing Big Mom hates more than anything else, it's being scorned by her own family and allies. It's not just a proven cause of a death, but ''comprehensive blood purge.'' This is enough to make the whole lot of them agree it's better to ''avoid'' a direct one-on-one battle with her and come after her from afar if they can help it, but she has also has hundreds of highly capable and extremely dangerous family members at her disposal, all of which comprise a massive hitch in their plans.

* BadPowersBadPeople: She ate the Soul-Soul Fruit and routinely takes portions of people's lifespans, scattering those soul fragments on inanimate objects to create an even more [=LSD=] trippy version of ''Alice in Wonderland's'' "Wonderland." She also sometimes uses fragments of her own soul to accomplish this.

* SuperPowerLottery: She ate the Soul-Soul Fruit, allowing her to take the lifeforce from anyone she touches. She can then use this lifeforce to give life to [[AnimateInanimateObject inanimate objects]]. Everything in Totto Land is alive thanks to this power, [[WeatherManipulation including the weather]], which obeys her every whim. Her vast numbers of children hint that it even gives her an [[LifeDrinker increased lifespan]]. In combat, one hit is good enough to steal a person's soul, so she can essentially kill anyone she can get her hands on. All this is on top of being giant by human standards and being a freak of nature born abnormally powerful to the point she could easily kill full grown giants at ''age five''.

* YourSoulIsMine: She ate the Soul-Soul Fruit, which allows her to steal the life essence of a person, gaining years of their life for herself and killing them in the process. She can then use this lifeforce to create {{Animate Inanimate Object}}s, which is how everything in her kingdom is alive. She routinely takes portions of a person's lifespan as a "tax" for staying on her islands, which is how she's amassed such a collection of life.

Captain, later admiral, of the [[Characters/OnePieceBlackbeardPirates Blackbeard Pirates]] and an ambitious former member of the [[Characters/OnePieceWhitebeardPirates Whitebeard Pirates]], specifically in the second division led by Portgas D. Ace, whose fate seems entwined with Luffy's, and currently one of the Emperors. He ate the Dark-Dark Fruit (''Yami Yami no Mi''), a Logia which affords him the power of darkness. All-in-all, he's a somewhat difficult man to read. Like others with the initial "D." in their names, he's kind of a big deal.

Beginning as a as a no-name pirate who made an impact on Luffy in Jaya, Marshall D. Teach "Blackbeard"'s relevance to the story and the One Piece world took a dramatic turn when he defeated Ace and turned him over to the Marines, securing a position as one of the Seven Warlords of the Sea. However, his newfound status was merely a a means to an end, as he entered Impel Down during the Marineford war and recruited some high-bounty pirates into his crew, then then headed to Marineford during the climax of the Whitebeard war, and with his crew finished off a weakened Whitebeard, somehow taking Whitebeard's Tremor-Tremor Fruit (''Gura Gura no Mi'') power for his own before departing after Shanks' arrival. Two years later, it's revealed that he took over Whitebeard's territory and is now one of the Four Emperors, having taking over Whitebeard's vacant spot. He and his crew are now searching for high level Devil Fruit users to kill so they can steal their powers.

After the timeskip, Blackbeard doesn't make his first real appearance until chapter 925, a good 8 years removed from his last in-the-flesh appearance. Additionally, his henchmen, old and new, regularly appear to wreck havoc on anyone they cross path with.

* ObfuscatingStupidity: As a member of the Whitebeard Pirates, this guy took on Shanks and gave him three scars, and that was ''before'' he ate the Dark-Dark Fruit. After his betrayal, he defeats Ace, one of Whitebeard's division leaders, with little effort. ''Then'', through a combination of [[AsskickingEqualsAuthority strength]] and [[XanatosSpeedChess shrewd planning]], he assembled a [[BadassCrew crew]] from Impel Down, the most dangerous prison in the world, culminating in [[spoiler:killing Whitebeard '''and stealing his Devil Fruit power!''' (Did we mention that he's the ''only'' one known to combine two Devil Fruit powers and survive?) Put simply, there's a '''damn''' good reason he was able to replace Whitebeard as one of the Four Emperors.]] And this came from a guy who claimed that he didn't have that much ambition.

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* KarmaHoudini: He committed major atrocities over the course of the series (i.e. years of piracy and backstabbing, invading Drum Island, etc.) and somehow managed to ''not rack up a bounty.'' It gets even worse later on when he creates one of the greatest battles in history and walks away with everything he wanted without consequence. Of course, as he becomes one of the Four Emperors, it's likely that he'll get one.

She holds the record for being the youngest person in the series to receive a bounty, gaining a 50,000,000 berry bounty at just ''six years old''. Her last known bounty after that (as an older child) was shown to be 500,000,000 berries, already as formidable as Luffy and Law alike. She is also the only Emperor so far who has been ''known'' to receive a bounty, let alone one to gauge her massive threat level in the present day.