History Sandbox / OnePieceMonkeyDGarp

* AccidentalHero: [[spoiler:Garp earned the title of "The Hero" after [[EnemyMine he and Roger wound up teaming up with each other against Rocks D. Xebec during the God Valley Incident]], in the process protecting the World Nobles that Rocks was apparently targeting from the dangerous pirate's violence. However, Garp actually knew in advance Rocks would be starting a war with the World Nobles, as, [[IWarnedYou against his warnings]], they had taken a "treasure" from Fullalead that was apparently [[WorthIt valuable enough to instigate such open conflict]]. Garp had ''zero'' intentions of protecting the World Nobles from [[HoistByHisOwnPetard their own hubris]]: it was hearing that Roger was also heading to the Island and a chance to catch his rival that spurred him into action, [[GodzillaThreshold with their subsequent team-up being apparently born out of necessity in the chaotic melee]]. Garp is ashamed of it for [[HuntingTheMostDangerousGame the reason]] why the World Nobles had descended from Marijoa in the first place, and the slaughter they had already inflicted on an innocent population before he arrived and reluctantly [[KarmaHoudini defended them]] because of his duty]].

-->'''Garp''': You probably hate me for being so strict. But the reason I give you such hard training, and want you to become a Marine, is because I don't want you to go down the wrong path. That is my wish.

* EnemyMine: [[spoiler:He had to team up with Gol D. Roger of all people, in order to take on the Rocks Pirates 40 years ago.]]

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

** He is also dedicated to the marines, which is the military of the world government, which is ruled by the celestial dragons, whom he hates.

%%* ManlyTears: When feeling helpless to stop Ace's execution, and when Ace is killed by Akainu.

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

* ParentalSubstitute: Garp '''tried''' to be a father figure for both Luffy and Ace. But considering that [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext he just handed them off to mountain bandits to train them as Marines]], only visited to give them TrainingFromHell, [[WouldHurtAChild assaulted them]] for [[FantasyForbiddingFather their pirate dreams]] and endangered them by subjecting them to a HilariouslyAbusiveChildhood, he failed. [[EpicFailure Epically]]. To the point that not only did they go on to have strained relationships with him, but they also became ''pirates'' instead, just to get away from him. What did he ''expect'' would happen?

** 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.

* FailureKnight:
** He's one of the greatest Marines in history and hailed as a hero who vanquished dangerous pirates on the seas, but his son is "The World's Most Wanted Man" plotting to overthrow the system Garp upholds, something he's implied to consider a great failure despite his pride in his family.
** Despite (or because of) his rather backwards efforts to cause otherwise, his grandsons become powerful pirates due to his training to make them great Marines and he's forced to hunt them down.

-->'''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.
* KiManipulation:

->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.

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!!(Former) Vice-Admiral Monkey D. Garp "The Fist"

* AccidentalHero: [[spoiler:Garp earned the title of "The Hero" after [[EnemyMine he and Roger wound up teaming up with each other against Rocks D. Xebec during the God Valley Incident]], in the process protecting the World Nobles that Rocks was apparently targeting from the dangerous pirate's violence. However, Garp actually knew in advance Rocks would be starting a war with the World Nobles, as, [[IWarnedYou against his warnings]], they had taken a "treasure" from Fullalead that was apparently [[WorthIt valuable enough to instigate such open conflict]]. Garp had ''zero'' intentions of protecting the World Nobles from [[HoistByHisOwnPetard their own hubris]]: it was hearing that Roger was also heading to the Island and a chance to catch his rival that spurred him into action, [[GodzillaThreshold with their subsequent team-up being apparently born out of necessity in the chaotic melee]]. Garp is ashamed of it for [[HuntingTheMostDangerousGame the reason]] why the World Nobles had descended from Mariejois in the first place, and the slaughter they had already inflicted on an innocent population before he arrived and reluctantly [[KarmaHoudini defended them]] because of his duty]].

-->''You probably hate me for being so strict. But the reason I give you such hard training, and want you to become a Marine, is because I don't want you to go down the wrong path. That is my wish.''

* BadassNormal: Garp, the only Marine able to ever fight against the Pirate King Roger, does NOT have a Devil Fruit, and yet he's still one of the strongest characters in the series. His strength does not come from just his use of Haki, but rather from an absurd training regimen that he adhered to for years. It's revealed that he used armored Battleships as punching bags for decades, and it was one of his rules that no Haki or other sort of power was to be used. In the current day, the Battleship he used has a massive gaping dent from where Garp punched it for years.

* TheDreaded: Pirates all fear him, and with good reason, as he battled and cornered the Pirate King several times. However, this is deconstructed with Dadan's mountain bandits and his own family, as he would force them into compliance through intimidation and imprisonment whenever they try to speak up, question or object to his parental methods about dumping Luffy and Ace on them, having no idea how to train them into marines even if they wanted to. It also made his grandchildren fear him more than anything due to the TrainingFromHell he subjected them to during their HilariouslyAbusiveChildhood, giving them something of a distant and tense relationship with him when they reached adulthood.

* EnemyMine: [[spoiler:He had to team up with Roger of all people, in order to take on the Rocks Pirates 40 years ago.]]

* EpicFlail: He swings around a ball and chain the size of a goddamn ''battleship''!
* EveryoneHasStandards: While a proud Marine, he has utter disdain for the World Nobles, refusing to serve them and openly calling them shitbags in public despite the possible repercussions. [[spoiler:Being forced to defend them during the God Valley Incident put quite the sour taste in his mouth, and it's one of the reasons why he doesn't speak about that battle at all]].
* FailureKnight:
** He's one of the greatest Marines in history and hailed as a hero who vanquished dangerous pirates on the seas, but his son is "The World's Most Wanted Man" plotting to overthrow the system Garp upholds, something he's implied to consider a great failure despite his pride in his family.
** Despite (or because of) his rather backwards efforts to cause otherwise, his grandsons became powerful pirates due to his training to make them great Marines and he was eventually forced to hunt them down.
** He fails to protect his grandsons during the Battle of Marineford which ended in Ace's death, and Luffy being gravely injured and traumatized before Garp's eyes. Ace's death means he also failed to fulfill his promise to Roger and Rouge to protect him from harm.
* FantasyForbiddingFather: Grandfather, but still applicable.; Luffy and Ace wanted to be pirates as children, and he angrily chides them for even mentioning it. It's justified with the revelation about their fathers, who are notorious criminals (one being his ''son'', Monkey D. Dragon), and he wants them to become Marines. Unfortunately for him, Luffy and Ace became powerful pirates on their own, which was something he didn't want happen.

* FeelingTheirAge: It's implied by a few that despite the awe-inspiring strength he still shows, being in his seventies has rendered Garp not quite as powerful as he used to be. [[spoiler:He admits this himself in a PlayedForLaughs moment on Fullalead where he ravages an entire city square with a single Conqueror Haki-infused punch, surveys the damage... and then scoffs to himself.]]

** Additionally 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.
** He hates the Celestial Dragons, but still named his son Dragon. Who later grew up to become a revolutionary that also despised the Celestial Dragons.

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

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

* 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.

** He fails to protect his grandsons during the Battle of Marineford which ended in Ace's death, and Luffy being gravely injured and traumatized before Garp's eyes. Ace's death means he failed to fulfill his promise to Roger and Rouge to protect him from harm.
* FantasyForbiddingFather: Grandfather, but still applicable. Luffy and Ace wanted to be pirates as children, and he angrily chides them for even mentioning it. It's justified with the revelation about their fathers, who are notorious criminals (one being his ''son'', Monkey D. Dragon), and he wants them to become Marines. Unfortunately for him, Luffy and Ace became powerful pirates on their own, which was something he didn't want happen.

* FeelingTheirAge: It's implied by a few that despite the awe-inspiring strength he still shows, being in his seventies has rendered Garp not quite as powerful as he used to be. [[spoiler:He admits this himself in a PlayedForLaughs moment on Hachinosu where he ravages an entire city square with a single Conqueror's Haki-infused punch, surveys the damage... and then scoffs to himself.]]
-->''Just look at this mess... Hmph... '''After all these years... I'm losing my edge!!!''\\

** Visually speaking, in his youth he resembled a cross between Ace and Luffy. As the series goes on and the readers learn more about Garp, it gradually becomes clear that despite being on opposite sides of the law, Garp is the person Luffy resembles the most, even more so than Shanks or Roger (something Aokiji noted when he first met Luffy). They share similar personalities and quirks, similar fighting styles, and even similar senses of morality, as they both hate the World Nobles. This is only reinforced when Oda released drawings of an older Luffy at ages forty and sixty, revealing that (in an ideal future) Luffy will grow up to be a dead ringer for Garp.

* TheDreaded: He was this to pirates, and with good reason, as he is remarked to have cornered the Pirate King several times. However, this is deconstructed with Dadan's mountain bandits and his own family, as he would force them into compliance through intimidation and imprisonment whenever they try to speak up, question or object to his parental methods about dumping Luffy and Ace on them, having no idea how to train them into marines even if they wanted to. It also made his grandchildren fear him more than anything due to the TrainingFromHell he subjected them to during their HilariouslyAbusiveChildhood, giving them something of a distant and tense relationship with him when they reached adulthood.

* EnemyMine: [[spoiler:He had to team up with Gol D. Roger of all people, in order to take on the Rocks Pirates 40 years ago.]]

* EpicFlail: It's the size of a Goddamn ''battleship''!
* EveryoneHasStandards: Even he has disdain for the World Nobles, refusing to serve them and openly calling them shitbags in public despite the possible repercussions. [[spoiler:Being forced to defend them during the God Valley Incident put quite the sour taste in his mouth, and it's one of the reasons why he doesn't speak about that battle at all]].
* FailureKnight: He's one of the greatest Marines in history and hailed as a hero who vanquished dangerous pirates on the seas, but his son is "The World's Most Wanted Man" and a revolutionary plotting to overthrow the system he upholds, something he's implied to consider a great failure despite his pride in his family. Despite (or because of) his rather backwards efforts to cause otherwise, his grandsons became powerful pirates due to his training to make them great Marines and he was eventually forced to hunt them down. He failed to protect his family during the Battle of Marineford which ended in Ace being killed and Luffy being injured and traumatized before his eyes. He also failed to fulfill his promise to Roger and Rouge to protect Ace from harm, specifically because of his own unconventional means of raising him.

-->'''Garp''': You probably hate me for being so strict. But the reason I give you such hard training, and want you to become a Marine, is because I don't want you to go down the wrong path. That is my wish.

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

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

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

* {{Irony}}: The very incident that earned him the epithet [[RedBaron "The Hero"]], is the one he dislikes talking about the most. [[spoiler:This is because he had to team up with a pirate -- Gol D. Roger, no less, to stop the Rocks Pirates. He also was forced to save the Celestial Dragons, who he despises.]]

!!(Former) Vice-Admiral Monkey D. Garp "The Fist"
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/HiroshiNaka (JP), Brian Mathis (EN, Funi), Eduardo Liñan (Netflix) (Latin American Spanish)
!!!'''Age:''' 76 (Pre-Timeskip), 78 (Post-Timeskip)
!!!'''Debut:''' Chapter 92 (Manga), Episode 68 (Anime)

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->''"So what if I dropped you off a few cliffs, tossed you into the midnight jungle, and tied you to a balloon and set you to fly away...? '''It was to make you a stronger man!"'''''

Monkey D. Garp is a Marine famed for pursuing Gold Roger back during the olden days. He's also Ace and Luffy's grandfather (adoptive in Ace's case) and, ironically enough, the father of the world's most-wanted criminal, Dragon the Revolutionary. Garp is a cheerful, affable fellow, and is a friend of Sengoku and apparently Bartholomew Kuma as well. While he is happy that his grandchildren are making their way in life, he is also sorely disappointed in both of them for becoming pirates instead of Marines, in particular blaming Shanks for influencing Luffy in becoming a pirate. Garp has been offered the promotion to the position of Admiral several times, but rejected all of them, as he believes the responsibilities that come with being an Admiral would severely limit his freedom.\\\

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-->''You probably hate me for being so strict. But the reason I give you such hard training, and want you to become a Marine, is because I don't want you to go down the wrong path. That is my wish.''

* GenerationXerox:
** Visually speaking, in his youth he resembled a cross between Ace and Luffy. As the series goes on and the readers learn more about Garp, it gradually becomes clear that despite being on opposite sides of the law, Garp is the person Luffy resembles the most, even more so than Shanks or Roger (something Aokiji noted when he first met Luffy). They share similar personalities and quirks, similar fighting styles, and even similar senses of morality, as they both hate the World Nobles. This is only reinforced when Oda released drawings of an older Luffy at ages forty and sixty, revealing that (in an ideal future) Luffy will grow up to be a dead ringer for Garp.
** Aside from his similarities with Luffy, Smoker's relationship with Luffy is extremely similar to the relationship Garp had with Roger. While Smoker chases after Luffy because he was the first pirate to ever escape him, it becomes clear that Smoker can't find it in himself to ''hate'' Luffy -- an issue that also plagued Garp, as he was never able to hate Roger. In fact, by the time of the Pirate King's execution, the two had pretty much become FireForgedFriends (even if Garp would never admit it), so much so that Roger entrusted Ace's safety to him.

* {{Irony}}:
** The very incident that earned him the epithet [[RedBaron "The Hero"]], is the one he dislikes talking about the most. [[spoiler:This is because he had to team up with a pirate -- Gol D. Roger, no less, to stop the Rocks Pirates. He also was forced to save the Celestial Dragons, who he despises.]]

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

* MyGreatestSecondChance: [[spoiler:Garp raids Fullalead in a rescue attempt to save Coby from Blackbeard. Garp is fully prepared to die to save his apprentice, having likely wanted to ensure he saves Coby whereas he did nothing when Ace died two years prior and wanting to atone for his inability to save his grandson.]]

* OneManArmy: [[spoiler: During the raid on Fullalead Garp mowed down countless pirates, ran over through Blackbeard's Titanic Captains without issue, fend off Kuzan and inflicted massive property destruction backed up by only three other Marines]].

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

* {{Irony}}: The very incident that earned him the epithet [[RedBaron "The Hero"]], is the one he dislikes talking about the most. [[spoiler:This is because he had to team up with a pirate -- Gol D. Roger, no less, to stop the Rocks Pirates. He also was forced to save the Celestial Dragons, who he despises.]]

-->'''Garp''': You probably hate me for being so strict. But the reason I give you such hard training, and want you to become a Marine, is because I don't want you to go down the wrong path. That is my wish.

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

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