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Kuja
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Amazon Lily

"The nation of Kuja is a tribe of woman warriors. This is Amazon Lily, the island of women. Men are absolutely forbidden. If any man sets foot on this island, he forfeits his life.'"
Chapter 514

Amazon Lily is an empire populated by an all-female tribe called the "Kuja", located on the Island of Women in the Calm Belt. Since there are no men in their tribe and they're quite isolated from the rest of the world, Kujas tend to be ignorant and diffident about males, although some do leave the island and come back pregnant (and always with female children). Their culture resembles that of the Amazons and they are ruled by their empress Boa Hancock, who became a member of the Seven Warlords of the Sea to protect her island.

Every Kuja is quite strong and has some proficiency with Haki, and most of them wear really revealing outfits. Their most common weapon is a snake companion that can become a bow or a staff. However, only the strongest of them are part of the Kuja Pirates.


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    In General 
  • Action Girl: Nearly every one of them is a strong warrior, and it's said that all of them can use Haki.
  • Always Female: Amazon Lily is populated only by women, therefore all Kuja are female. It's revealed that they give birth exclusively to female babies; whilst there's no explanation for this, or why men are traditionally prohibited from settling on Amazon Lily, it does go a long way towards explaining why they're an Amazon-type culture.
  • Animal Motifs: Snakes are an integral part of Kuja culture. Their name means "nine snakes" in Japanese, which is reflected in the symbol of the Kuja Pirates. Their village contains large snake statues and many residents of the island even adorn snakes as fashion. The Kuja Pirates also use sea serpents (whose venom is known to be so potent that Sea Kings avoid them) to pull their ships across the Calm Belt. Not to mention their current royalty (known as the Gorgon Sisters) has the family name Boa, and two of them can turn into Snake People while the third wears a pair of snake-shaped earrings and can petrify people (evoking the snake-haired Medusa, the most famous Gorgon from Classical Mythology).
  • Badass Cape: When not in formal outfits, all Kujas wear a white cape and each of them is a proficient warrior.
  • Badass Normal: Most of the citizens of Amazon Lily are masters in the art of Haki. Even without their Haki, they are more than capable of fighting against strong opponents such as the Marines when the Marines invade their home after the Warlord system is abolished.
  • Beauty Is Best: Within the tribe, the stronger a Kuja is, the more she's considered as beautiful, regardless of her actual appearance. Boa Hancock, however, is not only the strongest woman of the Kuja, but also one of the two most beautiful women in the world. Hancock will always use her beauty to get away with things, or seduce people to turn them into stone with her Devil Fruit abilities, which only work on people who have naughty thoughts about her. Her Catchphrase is also "Why, you ask? Why, it is because I am beautiful". Luffy is the first one not to fall for her beauty, which she initially thought to be impossible.
  • Blind Obedience: All the Kuja's are fiercely loyal to Boa Hancock and agree with anything she says without question. The only one of them who will actively dissent from and criticize her is Nyon.
  • Brawn Hilda: A significant minority of Kuja are less than attractive, due to either being so musclebound it obscures their femininity or being so rotund they look almost spherical. These women are all still immensely strong.
  • Bullying a Dragon: Downplayed. They certainly aren't push overs themselves, and it's not like they are completely ignorant as to the ability of the Marines. However, it's implied that due to long being outside the reach of other factions (due to the nature of the Calm Belt) many of them simply don't realize the true scope of the World Government's power, and that if they keep antagonizing it, it could spell disaster. Nyon points this out to Hancock, noting that Amazon Lily can't keep acting like it's unassailable, due to the Marines having the means to traverse the Calm Belt on their own. This bites them in the ass after the Reverie, when Hancock's Warlord title is revoked. While they put up a good fight, they are completely no match for the new Pacifista's, the Seraphim, and cannot even scratch a single one of them. By the time the Marines and Blackbeard Pirates leave, Amazon Lily is in ruins and sevearl Kuja's are either injured or killed.
  • Does Not Like Men: While they're not outright man-haters, due to most of them being ignorant of men, they don't trust them, and freak out when they discover that Luffy is a guy. After Luffy endears himself to them, many of them become quite enamored with him.
  • Feather Boa Constrictor: Kuja are generally accompanied by a snake wrapped around them that also serves as a bow in combat. Nyon's snake instead serves as a cane, and Hancock's personal snake Salome can serve as a seat.
  • Floral Theme Naming: All the members of the Kuja tribe, save for Hancock, are named after flowers. Even the Island they live in is called Amazon Lily.
  • Fur Bikini: The majority of Kuja warriors wear just a furry bikini and a cape, in sexy amazon fashion. And often a snake tied around.
  • Impossibly-Low Neckline: Their formal outfit is a dress that starts below the shoulders.
  • Ki Manipulation: It's said that every Kuja is able to use Haki, and some use it for different purposes, mainly powering up their arrows.
  • Lady Land: They consist entirely of women trained in the ways of the warrior. While it is stated that women of the island that leave and return pregnant, always give birth to daughters, the population at large knows so little about men that it takes the intervention of Granny Nyon, an elder who actually did spend a prolonged period of time adventuring in the outside world, to even identify Luffy as male.
  • Locked Out of the Loop: Due to the isolationist nature of their society, most Kuja are ignorant of the broader happenings and nature of the world, to the point they aren't even aware Devil Fruits exist. The pirates in their society, due to being more traveled, are a bit more savvy to these sorts of things.
  • Ms. Fanservice: Most of the Kuja's are beautiful women wearing skimpy clothing.
  • Only One Female Mold: Averted. Despite Oda's female character design not varying much in contrast to his large variety of males, you'd have a hard time finding two similar Kujas. It's especially egregious because only an handful of them can be considered "gonk".
  • Panthera Awesome: Bacura, Sandersonia's pet, a huge and fierce panther used as executioner.
  • The Pretty Girl Is Stronger: Inverted. Their worldview is that "strength is beauty", therefore the "strong women are pretty". The women there run gamut from pretty normal looking, to amorous Gonks, to incredibly beautiful — the empress, Boa Hancock, is the strongest woman of the island and is considered beautiful by every inhabitant. Coincidentally, Hancock is not only the World's Most Beautiful Woman, aside from Shirahoshi, but also among the strongest women in the world, despite being normally built and physically smaller than her two weaker sisters.
  • Stripperiffic: The Kuja are all beautiful amazons, and for the most part their clothing are very skimpy and revealing, with a small top and a pair of panties as their standard outfit.
  • The Worf Effect: The Kuja's are some of the best Haki users and skilled fighters, yet against the new Pacifista's, the Seraphim, they are no match and cannot even so much as scratch a single one of them, showing of how strong the Seraphim are.

Kuja Pirates

    General 
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Hancock's pirate crew, composed by the strongest and toughest Kuja warriors from Amazon Lily. Their power is known and feared among the people, and they can all use Haki. Because of Boa's open unruliness, they are just as likely to attack Marines as they are other pirates. Moreover, the Sea Serpents they use to pull their ship intimidates Sea Kings, meaning they can freely sail through the Calm Belt, giving an exceptional natural defense to their island. Still, after meeting Luffy, they have become secret allies to the Straw Hats.


  • Amazon Brigade: They're literally Amazons, and only the strongest Kuja, who are already strong fighters on their own, can join the Kuja Pirates.
  • Badass Crew: As one of the Seven Warlords' crews, they are considered one of the strongest in the world, and the Kuja are renowned as fearsome warriors.

Gorgon Sisters

    "Pirate Empress" Boa Hancock 

"Pirate Empress" Boa Hancock

Voiced by: Kotono Mitsuishi, Kanae Itō [young] (Japanese); Lydia Mackay (English)note 

Age: 29 (Pre-Time Skip), 31 (Post-Time Skip)

Debut: Chapter 516 (Manga), Episode 409 (Anime)

Devil Fruit: Love-Love Fruit

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Boa Hancock and her snake, Salome

"Whether I kick a kitten... Tear off your ears... Even slaughter innocent people... The world will never cease to forgive my actions! Why, you ask? Why, it is because I am beautiful!"

The sixth of the Seven Warlords of the Sea to be introduced. Hancock is the Empress of the isolated Amazon Lily and captain of the Kuja Pirates. Renowned throughout the world for her beauty, she puts on the appearance of being distant, aloof, and, well, a jerk of the highest order, spoiled and selfish, prone to looking down on others. She's not above exploiting her reputation for all it's worth, as she causes most people to completely lose their composure and turn into gooey, love-struck morons. She uses the Love-Love Fruit (Mero Mero no Mi) which allows her to turn people who lust after her into stone.

However, she has a Freudian Excuse as her past was not a pretty one. She was at first a normal young girl who hung out with her sisters Marigold and Sandersonia and the Kuja pirates. At age 12, while sailing with the Kujas, the three sisters were captured by slavers. After that, the three pre-teen girls spent four hellish years under the thumb of the World Nobles, who among other things forced them to eat Devil Fruits and branded them like cattle. Being branded as slaves is a constant shame, and she would rather die than let it become known. When Hancock was sixteen, a man named Fisher Tiger appeared and while his goal was simply the liberation of the Fish-man slaves, he freed as many as he could without discrimination. The sisters later were taken in by Elder Nyon, Raleigh and Shakuyaku, and returned to the Kuja pirates; to not let the truth become known, they said that they had killed a Gorgon and thus were punished with their brands, gaining fame as the Gorgon Sisters. The psychological damage, however, had already been done.

She has also fallen madly in love with series protagonist Monkey D. Luffy, creating some hilarious scenes together. After all, watching a renowned Ice Queen fawn like a school girl over the completely love blind Luffy whenever he appears is pretty ridiculous.

Her first and only bounty at the time she became a Warlord was 80,000,000 berries. With the dissolution of the organization, her bounty has been raised to 1,659,000,000 berries.


  • Accidental Marriage: She believes that she is married to Luffy after he hugs her. However, she is too shy to ever talk to him about this and her Parental Substitute later clears up her misunderstanding. Even still, Hancock remains very determined to marry Luffy.
  • Accidental Misnaming: Because Luffy is a complete airhead, he always calls her "Hammock". He eventually starts to call her by her correct name, which she, due to being crazily in love with him, interprets as a proposal for marriage.
  • Adaptation Dye-Job: Like Robin, her eyes are brown in the manga but blue in the anime.
  • Allergic to Love: A variation. Kuja Empresses are prone to a form of lovesickness; more specifically, Kuja Empresses become sick when they fall in love, but suppress it out of necessity or other reasons. Surprisingly enough, it's quite lethal. Many former Empresses have died from it since their royal position and the island's laws prohibit them from being with the person they love. Gloriosa, the former Empress and mother figure to the Boa sisters, was one of the few survivors since she actually left the island to pursue the man she fell in love with. Hancock does the same by pursuing and helping Luffy.
  • Aloof Dark-Haired Girl: Has thigh-long black hair, and is extremely aloof and indifferent to anyone who isn't Luffy, Rayleigh, or her sisters.
  • Animal Motif: Like with every Warlord, Hancock follows an animal theme which is reflected in her name: the boa. She has snake-shaped earrings, owns a large snake (like most Kuja) and the snake completes her Medusa motif.
  • Anti-Hero: After falling for Luffy she becomes a major ally for Luffy and does everything she can to help him but is still utterly cold and ruthless to her enemies and will not hesitate to kill anyone who dares to defy her or harm Luffy and remains far from a saint. Over time she becomes nicer and more mature towards her people and grows into a more proper heroine, even willing to leave her island to protect her people from other threats.
  • Antiquated Linguistics: Uses a very regal and archaic manner of speech. For instance, she ends her sentences with the old-fashioned copula ja (which sounds like one word for "snake") instead of da.
  • Arc Villainess: She's the main antagonist of the Amazon Lily arc until she falls for Luffy.
  • Ascended Extra: She's the second character after Luffy from One Piece who is included to the J-Stars Victory VS character roster. What makes it really impressive is the fact that not even the other Straw Hats — yes, not even Zoro — are in the game. And not only that, Hancock is the second fighting female character despite not even a main character like Rukia or Kagura or Lala who are just supporting characters in the game. This, coupled with her character being a huge Breakout Character may have something to do with her ascended status, as she even serves as a Deuteragonist during the 3D2Y special and the Carbonic Acid King Arc.
  • Asskicking Leads to Leadership: The Kuja are a warrior culture, where the strongest are the rulers. And Hancock is hands down the strongest woman on the island, having taken the position from Nyon at some point. She's capable of pulverizing multiple petrified enemies or a Pacisfista's head, with a single kick from her bare leg. She's also very fast and one of the few (including Mihawk and Doflamingo) to leave unscathed from the Paramount War.
  • Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other:
    • Hancock generally acts like an ungrateful brat towards her adopted mother figure Elder Nyon. However, deep down she does respect her and is grateful for her caring for her after her escape from slavery (though she'll never actually admit it).
    • Despite her cruel and haughty behavior towards her fellow Kuja, deep down Hancock truly does care for her people, even admitting to Luffy she constantly lies to them out of fear that she would forever shame her brethren if they ever knew their current Empress was a slave. After the Marine and the Blackbeard Pirates attack Amazon Lily, Hancock admits so long as she stays on her island the Marines will keep coming and is deciding to leave to protect her people.
  • Badass Adorable: The adorable side isn't as prominent as in other characters in the series, but she does have moments where she looks pretty damn cute and they're primarily towards Luffy.
  • Badass Boast: Delivers a declaration of her strength to her people when the Marines are targeting her after the Warlord System is abolished.
    Boa Hancock: Don't panic! You seem to have forgotten something. The reason they chose us to be the Seven Warlords was for our strength!
  • Badass Cape: Two of them, each with a slightly different design, and the only items in Hancock's wardrobe that are neither form-fitting nor stripperiffic. But it sure helps her look regally intimidating.
  • Bad Boss: Zigzagged. When she first meets Luffy, she punishes her own subjects for minor violations without a thought, like petrifying Marguerite, Sweet Pea and Aphelandra with barely a care, and cruelly destroys a statue that three children made of her to present as a gift because she's too vain to see something made from dirt and mud as a compliment. After she falls in love with Luffy, Hancock become much nicer but still lies to her people about her past and origins, fearing she wouldn't be accepted by them if the truth came out. Fully subverted by the raid by the Marines and Blackbeard that Hancock has matured past this mindset to the point she acknowledges the Marines will keep attacking her home so long as she stays there and decides to leave and reunite with Luffy to protect her people.
  • Bad People Abuse Animals: She has zero qualms with kicking baby animals, showing that she's a mean person.
  • Bait the Dog: Played for Laughs, she's introduced literally kicking a puppy but then has her Freudian Excuse revealed and becomes nicer after she falls in love with Luffy but, while it appears she's mended her ways, she kicks a kitten and a baby seal to make it clear she hasn't changed that much.
  • Because You Were Nice to Me: Hancock falls in love with Luffy despite being a man not just because he had the balls to assault a World Noble, but because he's kind to her and does not discriminate her for being a slave, something that helped her melt the ice in her heart.
  • Becoming the Mask: Because of her violent past, Hancock spent so much time putting up walls around her she became this cold, cruel and haughty woman so as to never appear weak or vulnerable to anyone that it truly became a part of her for years to come. After developing feelings for Luffy, she slowly sheds this cold mask and become nicer to the people close to her.
  • Beneath the Mask: Hancock acts cruel and arrogant most of the time, but this is all a mask to hide her true self. Deep down, because of her past as a slave, the real Hancock is a deeply scared and vulnerable woman who is terrified of being taken advantage of or being enslaved again. Luffy, Elder Nyon and her sisters are the only people that she genuinely can feel like she can be open and comfortable around as her true self.
  • Berserk Button: Seeing either her or her sisters' naked backs thanks to the slave mark they all have on their backs will make them furious. Luffy found this part out the hard way.
  • Big Damn Heroes: She saves Luffy from getting killed by Smoker by kicking him away during the Paramount War.
  • Big Eater: In the Amazon Lily arc, she pretends to have wolfed down several plates of meat in order to hide Luffy (who was stowing away in her room) from the Marines outside. This leads to a hilarious moment where the Marines, who made a bet that they'll sport mohawks if she did indeed eat a lot of food, see her carting out a large pile of plates and are so shocked that all of them instantaneously start sporting mohawks from the sheer incredulity.
  • Bitch Alert: The very first thing she does is to kick a kitten and demand to know who placed the kitten in her path, establishing her as a vain and mean woman.
  • Bratty Teenage Daughter: Despite being a grown woman, Hancock acts like a spoiled brat to her adopted mother Nyon despite the latter's kindness and mercy. Boa Hancock becomes a bit nicer to Nyon after falling for Luffy.
  • Breakout Character: Hancock became a major fan favorite despite her time as an antagonist, but because of her lovey-dovey behavior, cutesy looks, a huge Ms. Fanservice and hilarious affections for the protagonist Luffy, and the fact of how very strong she is made her extremely popular with the fandom. Even more impressively, is in the 5th and 6th fan poll, despite not having appeared in the series for a long time, Hancock ranked 10th in both fan polls, and outranked half of the straw hats in both polls and is regarded as the most popular of the Warlords at the time and the 2nd most popular female character in the series (right behind Nami). Even more impressively is the fact she outranked Robin, who's been in the series far longer than Hancock. The global fan polls even has her ranking 7th in the Worldwide votes, making her the 3rd most popular female character (behind Nami and Robin) and still has had very little screen time prior to the votes.
  • Bring It: When Marine allies attack Amazon Lily to capture/kill her after the abolishment of the Warlord System, Hancock sits proudly on her throne and reminds her subjects that she was made a Warlord because she's one of the strongest and most influential pirates of the world.
  • Broken Ace: Boa Hancock is a beautiful, strong, elegant and wanted by almost every man and woman in the world, but she's also completely screwed up because of her horrifying past as a slave.
  • Broken Bird: Hancock was utterly destroyed in her pre-teen years as a child slave tortured into almost insanity alongside her sisters, Marigold and Sandersonia, by the World Nobles, to the point that she wished to die rather than enduring her slave condition.
  • Brooding Boy, Gentle Girl: Gender Inverted: she's the troubled Brooding Girl to Luffy's optimistic Gentle Boy
  • Brown Note: Subverted. The residents of Amazon Lily believe that there is a set of cursed eyes on the backs of her and her sisters that will turn anyone who sees them into stone, placed after killing a Gorgon. In actuality, there is a Slave Brand there. They hide it because they are ashamed.
  • Buxom Beauty Standard: While the series revolves around a World of Buxom, Hancock stands out as the bustiest of all the average sized women in the series to make her stand out as the world's most beautiful woman.
  • Character Development: Out of all the Warlords, past and present, Hancock is probably the only one that goes through any growth as a character since her introduction, with the possible exception of Law. She starts out as a spoiled, selfish and an overall bitch of a woman who cares more for herself than her people. Then she falls in love with Luffy and becomes warmer and more open towards others. She begins to show more care towards her subjects and act more as a proper ruler of her home island, along with showing more affection, especially towards Luffy. The Marines and the Blackbeard Pirates attack has her taking a more mature stance on leading her people that she puts herself on the front line to protect her people as well as deciding to leave her home to protect her family and fellow Kujas knowing the Marines are after her only.
  • Clingy Jealous Girl: She is jealous of the women in Luffy's crew (whom she's never so much as seen, only having heard their names) and fears that Luffy will choose them over her (not that it's likely to happen).
  • Clothing Damage: Used gratuitously in the "3D2Y" special, when she gets into a Cat Fight with a member of Bryndi World's crew who uses a cloth dissolving acid in an attempt to "embarrass" her and throw her off guard. Predictably, she is not amused and proceeds to pummel her. Also note: this is never seen in the actual story since she's never actually injured on-screen by another character until chapter 1059.
  • Combat Stilettos: She sees nothing wrong with kicking people in the face with her high heels in the middle of a warzone.
  • Cool Big Sis: Hancock is very strict, if not cruel, to her underling but is a genuinely caring figure towards her sisters who in turns love and admire her.
  • Crush Blush: Although Hancock is normally a severe and cold-hearted woman, whenever Luffy's in her presence or when she's thinking about him, she blushes and becomes meek and submissive.
  • Crush Filter: Hancock fantasizes about Luffy being a total Bishōnen. In reality, he's... cute, in a way, but not so pretty.
  • Cuteness Equals Forgiveness: She is considered to be so beautiful that she is never blamed or held accountable for anything she does. She even gets away with retaining her status as one of the Seven Warlords of the Sea by the World Government despite pretty much fighting for Luffy's cause and slowing the other Warlords down in a major battle.
  • Cuteness Proximity: Completely averted: Hancock completely immune to any kind of cuteness whatsoever and kicks baby animals habitually.
  • A Day in the Limelight:
    • Hancock acts as the Deuteragonist to Luffy during the 3D2Y Special revolving around the two working together to rescue her sisters from Burndy World and his crew.
    • She reclaims her Deuteragonist role in the Carbonic Acid King Arc when she reunites with Luffy during a bath, with the arc focusing on her and Luffy fighting the Cindre Guild alone without any of the Straw Hats involved in the fighting.
    • During the One Piece Film: Stampede, Hancock serves as a final fighter along side Luffy, Smoker, Buggy, Sabo, Law, Crocodile and Lucci in their combined efforts to take down Douglas Bullet.
  • Dance Battler: Her fighting style consists mainly of kicks, with lots of spinning.
  • Dark Action Girl: She's a cruel, vain misandrist who lives up to her Warlord title thanks to her Kick Chick skills and Taken for Granite powers. She is also considered one of the mightiest warriors in all the seas and one the strongest women of the world. Downplayed when she performs a Heel–Face Turn and becomes Luffy's ally, although she doesn't become much nicer overall.
  • Dark and Troubled Past: At the age of 12, while traveling on the Kuja Pirates ship, Hancock and her younger sisters were kidnapped and sold to the World Nobles as their slaves. They were horribly branded like cattle as slaves, force fed Devil Fruits for sick entertainment and endured utter hell for four long years until Fisher Tiger freed them. Despite being freed and taken in by Elder Nyon as a surrogate mother, the damage to Hancock's behavior was already done and she hides her insecurities by being cold and distant to everyone.
  • Dark Secret: Hancock is determined to never let anyone see the Mark of the Celestial Dragons on her and her sisters' backs because it would reveal that they have been enslaved. They fabricated a lie to prevent anyone from seeing them: they were cursed and whoever sees the eyes on their backs gets turned into stone. Hancock admits to Luffy she would rather die than let anyone learn she was a slave.
  • Defiant to the End: Even with Blackbeard choking the life out of her, Hancock refuses to please his demands and keeps his crewmembers as hostage, while still looking down on him as he's about to snap her neck.
  • Defrosting Ice Queen: At first Boa Hancock hates Luffy and sees him as just another lowly and despicable man. She treats him coldly and wants him dead because he has seen the "Hoof of the Rising Dragon" on her back. Once Luffy proves her his goodwill and that he doesn't make fun of her because of her past, he gains Hancock's trust and she falls hopelessly in love with him.
  • Despair Event Horizon: When revealing Luffy her past as a former slave, Hancock says the Celestial Dragon inflicted her such terrible tortures that she wished nothing else but dying. Thankfully, Fisher Tiger freed her and her sisters.
  • Determinator: No matter how many times she's rejected, Hancock remains confident in one day marrying Luffy.
  • Devoted to You: Hancock is so desperately in love with Luffy that she accepted to obey the World Government and participate in the war against the Whitebeard Pirates because Luffy asked her to, so he could get a chance to save Ace. This is something that she wouldn't have done even for the sake of her empire.
  • Divine Date: Downplayed. Her romance with Luffy, with the latter is unknowingly the incarnation of Sun God Nika.
  • Does Not Like Men: She is a notorious man-hater. She does, however, have a Freudian Excuse: The first men she saw in her life were the World Nobles, who enslaved her and her sisters for four years when she was just twelve. The only exceptions when it comes to her man-hating nature is Luffy, whom she has fallen in love with, and Silvers Rayleigh, who helped her in the past after she escaped from slavery. Any other man she merely tolerates at best.
  • Dragon Lady: She shares many traits with the archetype, though she's somewhat of a newcomer when it comes to being a vamp.
  • Early-Bird Cameo: A prototype version of Boa, shown only from the back, appeared in a 1999 Shonen Jump cover, nine years before her proper debut. This was enforced, as Oda was asked by his editors to give a preview of future foes.
  • Easily Forgiven: After hearing about her past, Luffy puts aside her attempt at killing him and his new friends, Marguerite, Aphelandra and Sweetpea. She's also somehow managed to maintain her title as a Warlord despite openly attacking Marines and Pacifistas during the Marineford War, possibly justified by her being too useful for the world government.
  • Embarrassing Tattoo: The slave mark on her back; she fears that its exposure would reveal her past as a slave and ruin her reputation as Snake Empress. The Kuja tribe is told that she has Gorgon's Eyes that will petrify anyone looking at it (actually her Devil Fruit power) to prevent them from seeing it.
  • Everyone Has Standards: She can be a total bitch, but her hatred of the World Nobles and what they have done to countless slaves does hold merit, as even she admits no one should endure what she and her sisters went through.
  • Even the Girls Want Her: Boa Hancock is the World's Most Beautiful Woman and not even girls are immune to her beauty and all of the inhabitants of Amazon Lily fawn over her, although admittedly they are her subjects. And thanks to her Love-Love Fruit power, she uses that affection as a weapon, such as on Domino to prevent her from finding out about Luffy.
  • Exact Words: During the Paramount War, as a Warlord, Hancock participates on the sides of the Marine but, once Luffy joins the war, Hancock switches to attack some Marines to support him. While the Marines are angry at her, Hancock points out she agreed to fight Whitebeard and his allies, but never stated she would call the Marines her allies.
  • Expository Pronoun: She uses "Warawa wa" instead of "Watashi wa", to refer to herself. Both are polite ways of saying "I am", the former is much older.
  • Finger Gun: Her Pistol Kiss technique allows her to blow a kiss from her fingertip like a bullet. She has a large-scale variation of this technique called the Slave Arrow.
  • The Fighting Narcissist: Hancock has both the looks and the power to back up her arrogance. She is considered the world's most beautiful woman, and she isn't above of abusing this status , while one of the strongest warriors in the series, enough to be part of the Seven Warlords and leave the Paramount War unscathed.
  • Force Feeding: When she was a slave, Hancock did not want the Love-Love Fruit but the World Nobles forced her to eat it as a sick form of entertainment.
  • Forehead of Doom: Her bangs are parted to expose her very large forehead.
  • Form-Fitting Wardrobe: All of her outfits cling tightly to her curves in almost scandalous ways, and both (yes, even her "conservative" qipao-like dress) have a thigh-high side slit.note 
  • Freudian Excuse: At the age of twelve, Hancock and her sisters were abducted by slave traders and sold to the World Nobles as slaves. During that time, she was branded like cattle, force fed her Devil Fruit and suffered four long years of torture, until she and her sisters were freed by Fisher Tiger and then returned home. THIS hellish ordeal changed Hancock and she became cold, cruel and harboring nothing but hatred towards men in general. Even with her adopted mother's love and kindness, Hancock refused to ever drop her guard again, fearing of being taking advantaged again.
  • Freudian Excuse Is No Excuse: While Hancock spent a tragic past at Marijoa, that doesn't justify her cruelty to her subjects despite their loyalty and devotion towards her. She petrifies Marguerite and her friends without hesitation for merely trying to defend Luffy and tries to justify her actions because she's beautiful. While Marguerite and the others never hold any ill towards her, it just makes her come off as vindictive and no better than the World Nobles who enslaved her. Nyon takes a moment to call her out on how she had turned as cold as ice to justify her behavior towards others.
  • Godiva Hair: In a scene where she's bathing, her hair conveniently covers her breasts when she stands up. Justified because One Piece is aimed at young teens.
  • God Save Us from the Queen!: Downplayed slightly, in that while she's never openly oppressive to her subjects, her initial attitude towards them ranges from apathetic to downright callous. When a Vice-Admiral flat out warns her that if she continues to defy the government's authority, they will turn their guns on the Kuja, she just scoffs at him, and when Nyon warns her that the Marines have the power to potentially sunder the entire island, Hancock seers at her, saying that it's her right to decide the country's fate. This changes after she meets Luffy, and she becomes more considerate and caring to them. This comes to a head when she elects to leave Amazon Lily after becoming a target for both Blackbeard and the Marines to protect her people from them.
  • Going Commando: As seen in all of her outfits, and in the 3D2Y special, Hancock doesn't wear any underwear.
  • Graceful Ladies Like Purple: During the Paramount War, Hancock wears an elegant purple dress that underlines her feminine curves and her graceful fighting style.
  • Graceful Loser: Even with her sisters being defeated by Luffy, she doesn't hold a grudge even before falling for him, being more grateful that they are fine and their secret is safe.
  • Happily Adopted: "Happily" may be a bit of a stretch, as Hancock frequently mistreats her adopted mother figure Nyon, but deep down is truly grateful for taking her and her sisters in and raising them after their escape from slavery.
  • Hates Being Touched: Because of her horrifying past as a slave, Hancock can't stand anyone touching her. Unless you're Luffy or her family. When Blackbeard has her by the throat, Hancock just yells for him to get his disgusting hands off of her as she struggles to break free.
  • Head-Turning Beauty: Comes with being the World's Most Beautiful Woman, everyone is in awe upon seeing her. The only one to be truly immune to her charms is Luffy, due to being an Oblivious to Love Chaste Hero. This is weaponized by her Devil Fruit, which grants her the ability to turn into stone whoever recognizes her beauty. Many have had to resort to stabbing or poisoning themselves to even have a chance at being distracted from her weapon-grade (literally) hawtness.
  • Heel–Face Turn: She's introduced as a vain and spoiled woman who's antagonistic towards Luffy but, after falling in love with him and learning he's punched out a Celestial Dragon — the World Nobles that, at one time, owned Hancock and her sisters as slaves —, she mellows to him and gradually reveals her nice side until she becomes a properly good woman.
  • Heroic Seductress: After turning a new leaf, she becomes a powerful ally of the heroes whose fighting style heavily involves using her beauty to turn people to stone. She's pretty low effort about it, though, because she's World's Most Beautiful Woman and has severe intimacy issues, so she neither wants nor need to do much to make people fall in love with you.
  • Hidden Heart of Gold: Her interactions with Luffy show that she's not as heartless as she lets on, as Nyon fears for a time, and that she has a nicer side. Her benevolence is reinforced over time as Hancock grows as a proper Empress for her people, going as far as to decide to leave her home in order to protect them from any further attacks by the Marines, something her old self would have never done.
  • Hopeless Suitor: Any reasonable chance Hancock had to be with Luffy got intentionally trampled pretty fast. Not that it's a surprise since One Piece has always been a strictly No Hugging, No Kissing series. Or that it matters at that since Hancock takes literally everything Luffy says as a declaration of love, and Luffy himself being oblivious every step of the way.
  • Horrible Judge of Character: Hancock hates all men regardless of the circumstances. Even though her hatred of them is understandable considering the circumstances behind it, it causes her to believe all men are selfish and cruel. For that reason, when she meets Luffy (who accidentally sees her slave mark), she refuses to listen to his pleas about how he arrived on her island and condemns him on the spot. Only after the ordeal between him fighting her sisters and covering Sonia's back, Hancock is willing to give Luffy the benefit of doubt.
  • Humanizing Tears: As cold as she can be, even she's brought to Tears of Joy learning that Luffy had the courage to punch a World Noble despite knowing of the consequences. This causes her to open up to Luffy and tell him of her past, crying and shivering from remembering of her painful memories. After the war, Hancock cries in worry over Luffy's condition and the pain he is in over losing his brother Ace, showing that she has become much more empathic.
  • I Gave My Word:
    • For all her faults, Hancock, in spite of her hatred of men, is a woman who will honor her word. She tells Luffy she would undo the petrification on the others or help him get off the island as a choice and, while she suspected he would choose the latter, she still returns her fellow Kuja back to normal as promised.
    • After losing to Blackbeard, he plans to kill her to take her powers at the cost of losing several of his crewmembers and Koby losing many of his fellow Marines. Realizing how dire the situation is, Hancock promises she will undo the petrification on both parties on the condition they leave her island. Unfortunately, Blackbeard doesn't believe her and is about to kill her until Rayleigh shows up to resolve the situation. Once he settles both parts, she keeps her promise and returns everyone back to normal and they leave.
  • I Love You Because I Can't Control You: Part of the reason why Hancock falls in love with Luffy is due to the fact that he's the only one who can resist her charms, while everyone else she comes in contact falls head over heels for her. The other (and central) part comes from how she admires his good qualities.
  • I Owe You My Life: Despite never meeting Fisher Tiger in person, and while she was terrified of the brutality he displayed that day, Hancock admits she owes him a debt she can never repay due to him dying few years later, for freeing her and her sisters from the bonds of slavery. That explains why she allows Jimbei to take sanctuary with Luffy on Amazon Lily in the aftermath of the Paramount War, as one of the few exceptions to its policy of no men — Jimbei was one of Fisher Tiger's comrades when he was alive and succeeded him as captain of the Sun Pirates.
  • Impossible Hourglass Figure: Being the world's most beautiful woman, Hancock's body has the right curves accentuated in an extremely cartoonish way, much more than the average One Piece woman.
  • Incompatible Orientation: She falls for Luffy but, despite being the World's Most Beautiful Woman, she doesn't have any chance to win his heart because he's a Chaste Hero. The narration lampshades it but also says that it's entertaining to see her pointlessly attempting to win his heart.
  • Inferiority Superiority Complex: She sees everyone, except for her sisters and Luffy, like worms for her to step over. Once her past as a slave is revealed, it becomes clear that her haughty behavior comes from trauma and fear of being abused again instead of arrogance.
  • Informed Ability: Her sisters state that she has Conqueror's Haki, but she has never used it. Her Devil Fruit powers already allow her to incapacitate her foes by turning them into stone.
  • Ironic Echo: Nyon exclaims that "Love is like a hurricane!" when she realizes that Hancock fell in love with Luffy and the utterly improbable situation of the Snake Princess answering a call to be summoned to fight for the World Government on a man's behalf presented itself. When Hancock during the Paramount War is questioned by Sentomaru why she is aiding Luffy when she is a Warlord, she replies, "love is like a hurricane!", to his puzzlement.
  • Irony: Like every Kuja, she's a notorious man hater (albet for a very good reason), yet she falls in love with Luffy for being one of the nicest and bravest men she's ever met. She could just about get any man to fall for her, yet Luffy is completely oblivious towards her advances and cares for her as a close friend at best.
  • It's All About Me: Despite being the queen of Amazon Lily, Hancock acts like a spoiled child and doesn't care for her citizens, believing that they should all serve her because she's beautiful. Momonga calls her out on this attitude and Hancock's sisters acknowledge Hancock's selfishness is very notable. After falling for Luffy she becomes a little more selfless. Her decision to leave her home after the Marine and Blackbeard Pirates attack has her showing she's moved past this mindset and matured, making the tough decision to leave the island to protect her people.
  • Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Though "heart of gold" is a vast overstatement, Hancock isn't as heartless as she lets on (a trait that almost exclusively shows around Luffy), and her backstory gives her a really good reason to act the way she does. She mostly acts cold-hearted and distant because of her days as a slave; her showing no weakness or mercy is a way for her to ensure that such a thing will never happen again. As even still, Hancock does show genuine love and kindness towards her younger sisters and the man she loves Luffy when alone with. And yes, even her adopted mother Elder Nyon. With Blackbeard and the Marines nearly destroying her home, Hancock declares her intentions of leaving the island to protect her people from further harm.
  • Karma Houdini: Boa Hancock commits many terrible actions such as petrifying Momonga's crew and her own Kuja (she later turns them back) and betrays the World Government multiple times when she helps Luffy break into Impel Down and changes sides during the Paramount War, but doesn't get any punishment for her actions. This is in line with her claims that she can do whatever she wants because she's the world's most beautiful woman. When the Warlord system is revoked during the Levely, Hancock is among them at the time they're all ordered to be hunted down, but she won't go down without a fight.
  • Karma Houdini Warranty: For all her actions in abusing her Warlord position, being such a horrible ruler to her subjects, along with being indirectly responsible for the mass break out in Impel Down, Hancock's Warlord status was revoked upon the end of the Reverie, resulting in her home island being nearly destroyed, her people wounded from the Marines and Blackbeard and Hancock herself nearly dying against Blackbeard along with her visibly worried and scared from the whole ordeal that she now has to leave the island and reunite with Luffy. It's a sad affair to see her in such a vulnerable state, but one can't say she didn't have it coming. Besides, it may be good for her in the long run.
  • Ki Manipulation: She is the master of all forms of Haki and one of the few who can use the Conqueror's Haki. She, like any Kuja warrior, can use Armament Haki, and frequently does so to make her kicks extra deadly.
  • Kick Chick: Whenever she isn't turning people into stone with her powers, she kicks them hard with her shapely legs.
  • Kicking Ass in All Her Finery: Boa Hancock wears a purple and elegant dress for battle during the Paramount War, where she comes out unscathed after defeating dozens of enemies.
  • Kick the Dog: In a rather literal version, the very first thing she does is kick a kitten that simply happened to be in her path. In the very next chapter she destroys a clay statue of her that the tribe's children worked on, claiming that it ruined the aesthetics, before proceeding to toss the tribe's elder through a window (granted, she did know said elder was Made of Iron), and if that isn't enough, in the next chapter, she petrifies three of Luffy's newfound allies when they try to reason with her. Luckily for the side of good, that just happens to be one of Luffy's Berserk Buttons... After he beat her and made her fall in love with him, she has sort-of done a Heel–Face Turn, but she's still at it — a few chapters later, she kicks a puppy and a baby seal in her path. All the Kuja tribe forgives her for all that, though, because Screw the Rules, I'm Beautiful!, as she herself says.
  • Lack of Empathy: Hancock makes it very apparent that she doesn't even care who she kills or harms, claiming she will always be forgiven because she is beautiful, and doesn't show any kind of concern for her fellow Kuja, like seeing Marguerite nearly being destroyed, except for her sisters. Hancock partially mellows down after falling in love with Luffy and shows some concern for her people to the point that, after the attack by the Marines and Blackbeard, Hancock decides to even leave the island to protect her fellow Kuja from future attacks.
  • Lady in Red: When first introduced, she wears a revealing red blouse that shows much of her chest and a loose sarong that exposes her long, slender legs with the green symbol of the Kuja adorned on it. She is also quite beautiful.
  • Lady of War: She puts a whole new meaning to Love Hurts when she turns anyone who pisses her off (but lusts for her) into stone. In close combat, she favors graceful and whirling kicks to the face, which have a certain elegance of their own, and when combined with her stone powers are freaking effective.
  • Laugh of Love: Hancock tends to be more cheerful whenever she's around Luffy, whom she's fallen in love with, especially in the English dub.
  • Leg Focus: Boa Hancock usually has at least one of her long and sleek legs fully bare to mid-thigh at a minimum, and the anime camera seems obsessed with close-up shots of her fine thighs. This is especially whenever she sits in her usual outfit.
  • Logical Weakness: At least in regards to her Devil Fruit powers, they would only work on people who could actually see her beauty. This is seen in her and Luffy's fight against Sebastian, a Wotan (Fish-man/giant hybrid) member of Byrndi's crew. She is surprised that he shows no attraction to her before he lifts his sunglasses and reveals that he's blind.
  • Love Redeems: Hancock starts off as a personification of the Screw the Rules, I'm Beautiful! trope, an absolute dog-kicking bitch to everyone except for her two younger sisters. However, after disclosing her Dark and Troubled Past to Luffy and falling in love with him, she begins to turn around and eventually becomes an overall nice person (to her allies, anyway). Not to say that Luffy returns her feelings, but still.
  • Little Big Sister: Despite being a Statuesque Stunner, Hancock is of realistic size while her younger sisters are both over four meters tall.
  • Long Hair Is Feminine: Has long thick black hair down to her thighs and is one of the most beautiful women in the world.
  • Love Hurts: Hancock weaponizes this, being so beautiful nearly everyone is attracted to her, and her devil fruit power allows her to turn into stone whoever thinks she's beautiful. Also, ironically applies to her when she first has feelings for Luffy, with her love becoming an almost deadly disease that leaves her suffering in a bed for a long while.
  • Love Makes You Dumb: Because of her strong feelings for Luffy, the usually cold and level-headed Hancock regularly misunderstands a lot of his actions as romantic, and she acts very innocent and childlike. During the war at Marineford, she jeopardizes her position as Warlord, potentially risking the wrath of the Government, all to protect Luffy.
  • Lust Object: Hancock takes advantage of the overwhelming lust people feel towards her beauty and uses her Mero Mero fruit power to turns them to stone.
  • Mad Love: Even after Luffy flat out rejects her marriage proposals, she's still crazy about him and keeps misunderstanding anything he tells her as a proposal.
  • Manipulative Bitch: Hancock is not above using her beauty to entice men into doing her bidding, like when the Marines visit her island and she has them give her crew all their provisions, which they do much to Momonga's frustration. She later does this for a more heroic intention to help Luffy break into Impel Down and when she gives him the key to Ace's cuffs.
  • Medusa: Her theme, along with her sisters Sandersonia and Marigold, is based off Medusa from Greek Mythology, and they're collectively called the Gorgon Sisters. Hancock has the power to turn people into stone while each of her sisters has eaten a devil fruit that turns her into a snake.
  • Moral Myopia: Does Not Like Men because the first men she met in her life (she lives in a Lady Land) captured her and sold her to the World Nobles as slaves, which has also left her with a fear of being subjugated thereafter. At her debut, Hancock is highly arrogant, shows little concern for the well-being of her subjects, and generally believes that everyone has to capitulate to her (and most people will); this doesn't exactly give her much moral high ground over the World Nobles, let alone the entire male sex. Unlike Gild Tesoro — whose girlfriend suffered a similar fate at the hands of the World Nobles, and who acts pretty much the same as they do — Hancock is portrayed as a sympathetic character, whose aforementioned traits haven't disappeared after the reveal of the Freudian Excuse, albeit toned down and portrayed more comedically. At the same time, it is shown that she does care for her subjects and fears that The Reveal of their secret past would destroy them.
  • Ms. Fanservice: Comes with being the World's Most Beautiful Woman. She wears very revealing and formfitting outfits that accentuate her curves.
  • Naked First Impression: Luffy first meets her while she's taking a bath. She's only concerned about the fact that he saw her naked back, though, since it's where her Embarrassing Tattoo is located
  • Navel-Deep Neckline: The outfit she wears in the Amazon Lily arc is a red dress that leaves all of her large cleavage exposed, plus some abdomen to capitalize on her Devil Fruit abilities. Most of her dresses tend to not cover all of her cleavage.
  • Never Be Hurt Again: Hancock acts like a selfish and cruel woman in front of her people in an attempt to appear strong and confident to reassure her people that they are safe. However, she does it out of fear of being taken advantage of again due to her years as a slave. Acting like this for years ended up causing the facade to become a real part of her personality. Elder Nyon even comments on this, fearing that her own adopted daughter had truly become cold as ice up until she finally drops her guard after falling in love with Luffy.
  • Nerves of Steel: Hancock is one of the most strong-willed women in the series. Whether it be the Marines or Government, Hancock is fearless at any of the consequences that should befall her because of her strength and beauty. Even as Blackbeard has her by the throat, she doesn't even flinch as he's choking the life out of her and still looks down on him in utter contempt.
  • O.O.C. Is Serious Business: Hancock is normally arrogant, confident and fearless with herself with just about anything she does, but the aftermath of the Marines and Blackbeards invasion nearly destroying her home and almost dying at the hands of Blackbeard has caused her to be visibly scared for her and her people if she stays on her home island any longer, so much that unlike the others present, she has her head resting against Rayleigh's leg unsure what to do. That is how scared the poor woman is.
  • One-Woman Army: Since almost everyone is attracted to her, Hancock can use their lust to turn them to stone and defeated an entire Marine battalion this way within seconds. Even without this power, she's still very strong physically and has Conqueror's Haki, making her an extremely formidable opponent to the point of her having Story Breaker Powers if she was more than a supporting character. Blackbeard even lampshades this, as her powers alone petrified most of his crew, two of which are some of his commanders. Deconstructed because, unlike other former Warlords like Mihawk and Weevil who have only themselves to look after, Hancock has her family and an entire island of civilians to protect from the Marines, as the toll of fighting for days (if not weeks) begins to gradually wear her down, physically and mentally. In the end, without her power, the rest of the Kuja tribe is unable to handle the Marines or the Blackbeard Pirates.
  • Ontological Inertia: Hancock reveals in chapter 1059, when Blackbeard has her in his grasp and intends to kill her and steal her power, that only the current user of the Love Love Fruit can undo their own creations. As such even if she was killed, or her Devil Fruit stolen and given to another, the new user wouldn't be able to undo the petrification that she has already performed. After hearing this Koby realises that Hancock's power is even more fearsome than he thought.
  • Pet the Dog:
    • For all her flaws, Boa Hancock genuinely loves her younger sisters and has a very close and strong bond with them.
    • In an almost literal sense, she's very caring and affectionate to her pet snake Salome.
    • Despite being surprised that Ace isn't Luffy's brother by blood, Hancock goes out of her way to get the key to his cuffs and gives it to Luffy.
    • After the war, her sisters note that Hancock barely sleeps or eats after learning from Law that Luffy's chances of survival are very low, to the point she couldn't help but worry over him.
    • Once the ordeal with the Marines and Blackbeard are over, Hancock, realizing her people will continue to be in danger so long as she stays on Amazon Lily, decides to leave to protect them. This act shows how much she's matured as a ruler, going from a spoiled brat to a queen willing to go great length for her citizens.
  • Proud Beauty: She's extremely proud of being the World's Most Beautiful Woman. She manipulates everyone with her beauty with the exception of Luffy, to the point where she provides the page quote for Screw the Rules, I'm Beautiful!.
  • Purple Is Powerful: During the Marineford War, she wears a purple dress with matching high heel pumps. And she kicks ass left and right throughout the war.
  • Pyrrhic Victory: Hancock fights off waves of Marines and defeats most of them, but they get further on the island than she thought, along with Blackbeard showing up and defeating her in an effort to take her Devil Fruit. Although Rayleigh shows up and defuses the situation and Hancock ends up protecting her people, Amazon Lily is nearly destroyed, the town is in shambles, the Kujas are wounded, and Hancock herself acknowledges that she has to leave the island to protect everyone from further attacks.
  • Raven Hair, Ivory Skin: She has long, black hair and fair skin, and is considered to be the World's Most Beautiful Woman.
  • Reasonable Authority Figure: Hancock is introduced as a vain and selfish woman used to having her own way like a spoiled child. But after Luffy defeats her sisters, she offers him either a trip off the island or to free Marguerite, Sweet Pea and Aphelandra, believing he'd pick the former; but he doesn't - and, after proving she can trust him, she agrees to help him leave anyway. After developing feelings for him, she helps him reunite with his crew; although she saddens upon his departure (if anything, she would love to go with him) Hancock knows she has her people to rule and can't just abandon them. The Marines and Blackbeard rampaging her island demonstrates her growth as a proper ruler, as she initially agrees to Koby's request to unpetrify both the Marines and Blackbeards crew members so long as they both agree to leave. Following their departure she admits to her family she intends to leave the island to ensure her fellow Kuja are safe from other attacks, knowing so long as she stays, they will keep attacking their home.
  • Required Secondary Powers: Her Love-Love Fruit works on anyone who feels lust for her. This makes it heavily dependent on the user being attractive, which is no problem for the World's Most Beautiful Woman. One reason Blackbeard is willing to leave her in peace is, as she points out, it's her personal beauty that gives her Fruit much of its power; in someone else's hands it would not be as effective.
  • Running Gag:
    • Her habit of looking down on others so much that it gets reversed, and she starts looking up, which is frequently lampshaded immediately after.
    • Her habit of kicking away small, cute animals, like puppies, kitten or baby seals, that mysteriously always manage to wind up in her way.
    • Her overactive imagination in regards for her love for Luffy causes her to think of anything he does is romantic to the point she gets mad when anyone tries to keep her from spending time with him.
    • Since being hugged by Luffy, as well as Nyon clearing up the misunderstanding, Hancock now becomes very determined at the idea of marrying him to the point just about anything he does for her makes her think they are engaged only to be corrected by Nyon.
  • Sadistic Choice: After Luffy defeats her sisters and he once again begs her to turn Marguerite and the others back to normal, she agrees but tells Luffy she can turn them back or give him a way off the island and that he can only choose one. This also overlaps with Secret Test of Character, as Hancock honestly thought Luffy would choose the latter, but once he requests to turn them back without a second thought does she see he can be trusted and later falls in love with him.
  • Samaritan Relationship Starter: She begins to see Luffy differently from other men when he covers the back of her sister Sandersonia while they are fighting so that nobody could see the World Nobles' slave mark on her. Then reinforced when he chooses to save Marguerite, Sweet Pea, and Aphelandra rather than benefit himself, especially since he visibly doesn't even take time to consider.
  • Say It with Hearts: Whenever her darling Luffy is on her mind, her speech tends to have hearts around them.
  • Screw the Rules, I'm Beautiful!: Boa Hancock is aware of her status as the world's most beautiful woman and takes full advantage of it by using her beauty as an excuse for all the terrible things she does, being aware that she will be forgiven just because she's beautiful. The only exception is Luffy, who doesn't fall for her beauty and doesn't forgive Hancock for petrifying his friends until she turns them back to normal and reveal him her past. During the Paramount War, Boa Hancock openly betrays the Marine to help Luffy, an action that normally would get her Warlord status revoked but keeps it even after the war until the dissolution of the Warlord system. Though there are a few characters besides Luffy who resists her beauty, including Vice-Admiral Momonga, Smoker, and Trafalgar Law and calls Hancock out for her action, but she doesn't care as she knows the others would forgive her.
  • Secret Test of Character: After Luffy defeats her sisters and he begs Hancock to return Marguerite and the others back, the latter, seeing that he hid Sonia's slave mark, offers him a choice: he may either take a ship and leave the island to reunite with his crew or she will release the women who helped Luffy from her powers. She makes this offer anticipating he'll reveal his true nature by taking the ship, but Luffy immediately chooses the latter and bows in gratitude before Hancock. This convinces her to reveal her and her sisters' past, earning her respect and love for Luffy and allowing him the use of a ship.
  • Self-Proclaimed Love Interest: She claims to be Luffy's soul mate, despite the fact Luffy has never shown even a passing romantic interest in her. Elder Nyon mentioned that Hancock is under some sort of "love sickness," and whatever it is seems to be affecting her pretty badly. She interprets even the vaguest, most nonchalant show of affection or camaraderie from Luffy as a sign that he's her husband and that they are meant to be together for eternity. It's also a hint of her Dark and Troubled Past, which started breaking Hancock when she was just 12-years-old — deep down, the powerful Amazon Queen is still an emotionally stunted young girl... and Luffy was among the first men who was kind to her.
  • Sexy Slit Dress: She wears a lot of dresses with slits in them as part of her role as Ms. Fanservice and the World's Most Beautiful Woman.
  • Shameless Fanservice Girl: She doesn't appear to have much issues with others seeing her naked; she only avoids it so no one can see the Slave Brand on her back. The second time Luffy crash lands on her bath, Hancock is so excited about seeing him again that covering herself up doesn't even cross her mind or even fighting Cidre men naked (so long as they don't see her back).
  • Ship Tease: Subverted. When asked by a fan, Oda made all her personal information that dealt with romance — from her astrological sign to her blood type — sync up with Luffy's to be the perfect match, and she is even named after Thomas Hancock, the English inventor who founded the British rubber industry. She should be the perfect match for Luffy... but alas, he is a Chaste Hero. It also doesn't really help she takes every action he does as romantic towards her.
  • Show Some Leg: Her power allows her to turn anyone attracted to her into stone, and she's described as the World's Most Beautiful Woman, so she often defeats her enemies by seducing them first and then attacking them with her Love-Love fruit. For those who are attracted to her, the only known defense is to distract themselves with pain; for example, Marine Vice Admiral Momonga stabs his hand with a knife to avoid being turned to stone.
  • Shrinking Violet: She is as far as possible from being a Shrinking Violet... until she gets around Monkey D. Luffy, that is, which transforms her into one quite easily, but he's far too dense to even realize the connotations.
  • Single-Target Sexuality: She despises all men, however, when it comes to Luffy, she has made it explicitly clear that no matter what the circumstances, even if he was the son of demons, she'd still love him. The Egghead Arc reveals that her feelings for him are so strong that they've literally become encoded in her DNA and end up being inherited by her Seraphim clone S-Snake.
  • Single Woman Seeks Good Man: She falls in love with Luffy Because He Was Nice To Her. Well, that, and he punched out a World Noble, one of only two people in the world with the guts to go through with it. And the World Nobles were those who actually enslaved and tortured Hancock and her sisters nearly into insanity, making her the... really troubled person she is. It does get played straight also that Hancock loves him because he's also a kind, selfless brave man.
  • Skewed Priorities: Played for Laughs. After the Marines and Blackbeard attack her and her home, Hancock mentions she should go and marry Luffy, much to Nyon's annoyance. Subverted as Hancock does acknowledge the seriousness of the situation and decides to leave her home to protect her people from further attacks.
  • Slave Brand: The Hoof of the Rising Dragon, branded onto her and her sisters' backs by the World Nobles. Doubles as a Mark of Shame, to the point they've made up a false legend about a Gorgon's curse so that no one would want to look at their backs.
  • Smitten Teenage Girl: After befriending him, she falls in love with Monkey D. Luffy. Besides him being a Chaste Hero, she is also a fair bit older than him (he was 17 and her 29 pre-timeskip, and both 2 years older after.) Furthermore, she acts very bashful and gooey around him, much like a smitten teenager despite being an adult. Tragically, this is justified due to her wrecked psychological state. She was kidnapped at no older than 12 and sold into slavery by the World Nobles along with her sisters and suffered for several years until they were let free by Fisher Tiger. The entire ordeal scarred her and her sisters mentally, with remembering the incidents sending them into trauma shock. As such, it's implied the trauma stunted her emotional and mental growth.
  • The Smurfette Principle: Despite all of the changes and replacements throughout the story, she remains the only female member of the Warlords.
  • Somebody Doesn't Love Raymond: She is very proud of being the World's Most Beautiful Woman and uses it to screw the rules. Her charm pretty much works on everyone, even on her all-female subjects... except when she encounters Luffy, who's such a Chaste Hero that he's completely immune to her charms. This initially leads her to decide that he cannot be allowed to live. Then she falls in love with him.
  • Sour Outside, Sad Inside: She's a high-and-mighty empress who treats anyone who isn't one of her sisters or Luffy like scum, but she became like that after going through one hell of a Dark and Troubled Past where she was enslaved and tortured by World Nobles. Behind that cruel exterior, Hancock is still a sad and traumatized young girl.
  • Statuesque Stunner: She's very tall, standing at 191 cm/6'3" according to official sources, and is also very obviously beautiful both to readers and in-universe characters. In fact, she is considered the World's Most Beautiful Woman by both men and women. Justified since she's the empress of Amazon Lily.
  • Stripperiffic: Somewhat justified in that, since her primary petrification attack needs her opponents to lust after her, wearing revealing clothing makes a lot of sense.
  • Sugar-and-Ice Personality: She pretends she is a cold person and a jerk to her people and acts cruelly to her enemies, but cares about her sisters and becomes as soft as a marshmallow whenever Luffy is around.
  • Superpower Lottery: The Love-Love Fruit grants her the ability to petrify anyone, man or woman, whose heart is even slightly moved by her (read: experiences lust). A basic side-effect is that nearly everyone finds her so unnaturally attractive, their judgement is affected, making them susceptible to petrification. While she can directly transform a person into stone by making a heart-shaped gesture with both hands and firing a beam through it, she can also partially petrify her opponents with her physical abilities too, and petrify entire armies with a blow of a kiss (one that blossoms into a massive heart that fires arrows, but still). This is also deconstructed, that while this is a very powerful ability, because Hancock was forced to eat her Devil Fruit, she never wanted it in the first place since this was originally used for cruel forms of entertainment. When Blackbeard is about to kill her, Boa reveals that she is the only person who can free those she petrifies, as even if her ability were stolen by someone else, the unique circumstances with which she uses her petrification powers guarantee other users cannot reverse her petrification, giving her a very useful bargaining tool in the case that someone tries to capture or kill her. Unsurprisingly, Blackbeard himself tries to steal her fruit as soon as the World Government abolishes the Warlord system.
  • Supreme Chef: Downplayed. Initially Hancock is a very poor cook, unable to make the simplest meals. During the two-years timeskip, Hancock is determined to prove herself worthy of being Luffy's wife and trains herself in the art of cooking until she becomes able to cook any of Luffy's favorite meals.
  • Surrender Backfire: She agrees to Koby's demands about turning the Marines and Blackbeard's crew members back to normal so long as they leave the island. Unfortunately, Blackbeard doesn't believe her and chooses to kill her and cut his losses so long as he can take her powers.
  • Taken for Granite: Her Devil Fruit power can turn people to stone if their mind is filled with lewd thoughts. As a result of her beauty this includes anyone in her general vicinity other than Luffy, who is immune thanks to the power of sheer weapons-grade obliviousness. She can even petrify inanimate objects in some cases, for some reason. She doesn't need them to lust after her to do this, as her Slave Arrow and Perfume Femur attacks turn anything they touch into stone. Also, anyone who turns into stone can only turn back if she chooses for them to, as not even people who could use her fruit in the future have the ability to bring them back.
  • Taking You with Me: Implied. Once Blackbeard has her by the throat, Hancock reveals if she dies, his subordinates she turned to stone will stay petrified forever, even if someone else inherits her powers. While she does offer to return his men and Koby's fellow Marines back to normal if they promised to leave, Blackbeard isn't willing to take that risk and tries to go for the kill.
  • Tears of Joy: Seeing that Luffy really did assault a World Noble and didn't regret his actions, Hancock, for the first time in years, breaks down, crying in utter relief that there are still people out there brave and foolish enough to defy them.
  • Thinks Like a Romance Novel: In the anime, she daydreams about Luffy at the beginning of every episode while they're on the boat in transit from The Island of Women to Impel Down. This is justified: from age 12 to 16, Hancock (alongside her sisters) was a slave of the World Nobles, an experience that severely stunted her social skills.
  • Took a Level in Cheerfulness: Her newfound love for Luffy helps her learn to loosen up and become more open and overall warmer towards others. She now smiles and even laughs like a girl in love when around Luffy.
  • Took a Level in Kindness: It's only thanks to Luffy's influence on her that Hancock's kinder side begins to shine, to the point she's learned to treat her fellow Kuja's a lot nicer and rule them better than she ever did. Her newfound benevolence as a ruler has her making the tough choice of leaving her home to protect her people from further attacks from the Marines, even if she has no idea where to go.
  • The Unfought: Despite being the main villain of the Amazon Lily arc, Luffy never directly fight her. Instead, he fights her sisters and then earn her trust after covering Sandersonia's slave tattoo. Afterwards, Boa Hancock become a valuable ally.
  • Ungrateful Bitch: Hancock constantly mistreats her adoptive mother, Nyon, who is exiled from the Kuja tribe because she visited the outside world. When Nyon remarks that if she hadn't been living on the outside world, she would have never found Hancock and her sisters and raised them, Hancock just coldly dismiss it as a "small debt" from the past. Though deep down she is grateful for Nyon for what she did but is too prideful to admit it.
  • Universally Beloved Leader: Deconstructed. Hancock is worshiped by everyone (baring Elder Nyon) on Amazon Lily as the current Empress for her beauty and strength. However, Hancock is a horrible ruler to her people: she's selfish, spoiled, cruel and vain, willing to kick innocent animals that get in her path or petrify her fellow Kujas Marguerite, Sweetpea, and Aphelandra just for trying to defend Luffy for something he doesn't even mean to do. She justifies her actions by using her beauty as an excuse to be forgiven. Luffy calls out her subjects on Hancock's bullshit that she petrified her own people and they just wave it off like nothing all because she's beautiful.
  • Unknown Rival: She views Nami and Robin as rivals for Luffy's heart. Not only are they both unaware that Boa hates them for being the sole women on Luffy's crew and are thus that much closer to him, but they also have yet to even meet her in person. Oh, Luffy doesn't have romantic feelings for anyone.
  • Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Downplayed but Boa helping Luffy sneak in to save his brother brings dire consequences in Impel Down as it leads to many Level 6 inmates escaping and causing havoc, thus helping Blackbeard into recruiting many powerful crewmates, and leading to Magellan's demotion.
  • Used to Be a Sweet Kid: A brief anime scene shows a pre-teen Hancock as a cute, even rather sweet cabin girl from a Kuja ship. Then she and her sisters were kidnapped, branded, force-fed Devil Fruits, and totally traumatized — which is the big reason she's such an asshole.
  • Vapor Wear: Her open top makes it clear she doesn't wear a bra.
  • Violently Protective Girlfriend: Although she's not his girlfriend anywhere but in her own mind (where she believes they are engaged), Boa Hancock gets VERY upset when someone threatens Luffy. When Smoker attacks Luffy, she threatens to rip him to pieces and feed him to wild dogs. This can be handy, considering that she is actually significantly stronger than Luffy until the time-skip.
  • Virginity Makes You Stupid: Played for Laughs when Luffy's around. Her cold behavior completely changes, and she melts into a surprisingly cute Smitten Teenage Girl, who squees around Luffy and tends to his every need.
  • When She Smiles: When she is around Luffy, she genuinely smiles in a way that the other Kuja have said is unusual of her. And her smiles are adorable when she drops her guard.
  • Wild Card: Hancock is a Warlord but is not actually loyal to the World Government: she doesn't go to any meeting, petrifies Marines without a second thought and, during the Paramount War, she temporarily betrays the Marines to help Luffy.
  • Womanchild: She is one of the strongest females around and one of the Seven Warlords of the Sea. However, when around Luffy, she acts much like a preteen girl in love. In fact, even before her crush on Luffy, she still displayed the maturity of a child, thinking the entire world revolved around her due to her attractiveness, and she can act like a sulky teenager when it comes to her mother figure and demanding as a queen. Justified since she was kidnapped, Made a Slave and tortured within an inch of her sanity when she was at most a pre-teen girl. It's a sure thing that such terrible incidents completely stunted her emotional development. On a lighter note though, this also makes her alike to the man she loves, Luffy, who has a childish sense of wonder and attitude.
  • World's Most Beautiful Woman: Her Kuja subjects consider her as the most beautiful woman in the world. The rest of the world consider her similarly, only rivalled by the "Mermaid Princess" Shirahoshi; this is because the Kuja equate beauty with strength, and Hancock has a decent claim on also being the strongest woman in the world.note 
  • Would Harm a Senior: She frequently abuses her adopted mother Elder Nyon with acts of violence. Her worst is throwing her out of a window for scolding her.
  • Youngest Child Wins: Inverted, as it is clear that Hancock seems to be the luckiest of the siblings in spite of being the oldest. Whereas Marigold is a straight-up Gonk, with her oversized, chubby-seeming build and ill-defined face, and Sandersonia is a Butter Face with the body of a tall yet voluptuous woman and an oversized flat-featured head, Hancock is the World's Most Beautiful Woman. Whereas the sisters all are masters of Haki, Hancock is the only one who possesses Conqueror's Haki and is a contender for one of the strongest women in the world whose bounty far surpasses her sisters and is in the billions.

    Boa Sandersonia and Boa Marigold 

Boa Sandersonia and Boa Marigold

Debut: Chapter 516 (Manga), Episode 409 (Anime)

Known respectively as Sonia and Mari for short, they are Boa Hancock's little sisters, though it's hard to guess comparing their heights. Along with their older sister, they were slaves of the World Nobles and were freed by Fisher Tiger; since then, they and Hancock have been living a lie about why their backs cannot be shown, claiming that they have Gorgon eyes on their backs and anyone who sees them turns to stone, when in actuality they have "The Hoof of the Celestial Dragon" on their backs, marking them as property of the World Nobles. They are very devoted to their older sister Boa Hancock, and support her in any of her decisions.

Sandersonia and Marigold are part of the elite Kuja warriors and former slaves of the Celestial Dragons. Both of them were forced to eat the Snake-Snake Fruit (Hebi Hebi no Mi), respectively the Anaconda Model and King Cobra Model. Their Devil Fruits allow them to become two large and strong woman-snakes.

They both have a bounty of 40,000,000 Berries, frozen until the Warlord system is abolished.


Tropes that pertain both of them:

  • Action Girl: They are two of the Kuja's strongest fighters and a master of Observation Haki in Sandersonia's case or Armament Haki in Marigold's case.
  • Affectionate Nickname: They are called Sonia and Mari for short.
  • Badass Cape: Just like all the other Kuja pirates, they wear a cape to distinguish them from the common citizens of Amazon Lily. In their case it also helps hide the slave brands on their back. Sandersonia's cape gets accidentally burned by Marigold during their fight with Luffy but the latter hides the slave brand before the others could see it.
  • Big Little Sister: Despite being Hancock's younger sisters, they're much, much bigger than her, as they're twice her height. And Hancock is not short by any means, standing at 193cm.
  • Big Sister Worship: They're both very devoted to her older (though not "bigger") sister Boa Hancock and even ignore some of her meaner aspect of her personality.
  • Brown Note: Subverted. The other residents of Amazon Lily believe that each Gorgon Sister has a mark that will turn anyone who sees it into stone. During their fight with Luffy, one of the Sisters' cape is accidentally burned off and Hancock orders the bystanders to evacuate so they won't see the mark. In actuality, the marks are Slave Brands they are hiding because they are ashamed of their traumatic pasts as slaves.
  • Co-Dragons: They're Hancock's sisters (therefore the closest members to her) and among the strongest of the Kuja Pirates. In the Amazon Lily's arc, they fight Luffy in behalf of their sister.
  • Curse: Subverted. The other Kuja believe the Gorgon Sisters have these special powers because they are cursed, and have eyes on their back that turn whoever sees them into stone. It's actually a lie spread by the Gorgon Sisters themselves, who don't want others to know they were enslaved in the past, while their special abilities are given by Devil Fruits they were forced to eat.
  • Defeat Means Friendship: After their defeat at the hands of Luffy, and the fact he prevented their secret from being revealed, the latter earns their friendship.
  • Does Not Like Men: Just like Hancock and most Kujas, they have a disdain for men, with the only exceptions being Rayleigh and Luffy.
  • Force Feeding: They didn't want to eat her Devil Fruit, but, when they were slaves, they were forced to do so to amuse their masters.
  • Freudian Excuse Is No Excuse: They both were slaves and suffered horribly from their past. While their circumstances are tragic as to how they act around others, along with their hatred of men in general, that does not justify their cruelty towards their subjects. Their fight with Luffy is a prime example, as because he's a man (who also accidently saw their sister's slave mark), they condemn him on the spot without trial. Even as they fight him, they are willing to kill a petrified Marguerite, who did nothing to deserve such cruel treatment, out of spite to hurt Luffy. Their actions only make them come off as no better than the World Nobles who enslaved them.
  • The Heavy: Downplayed. While Hancock remains an active antagonist who interacts with Luffy, Sandersonia and Marigold are the ones who fight him in the arena, on their sister's behalf. When they are "defeated", Hancock stops antagonizing Luffy.
  • Heel–Face Turn: While they start off as antagonists, they follow Hancock, when the latter falls in love with Luffy, into becoming allies of the Straw Hats. Although neither of them don't exactly become nicer in general.
  • Just Toying with Them: They toy with Luffy for most of the fight, dodging or parrying his attacks to show off, but once Luffy goes Gear 2nd, they are forced to go all out.
  • Laser-Guided Karma: For their actions in trying to kill Luffy and Marguerite, they get a well-deserved beating by Luffy and suffer burns from the ordeal, with their slave marks almost revealed to their subjects and are left humiliated by the whole ordeal.
  • Lovely Angels: Sandersonia and Marigold are two sisters who fight together in combat, combining their fighting styles and types of Haki for a deadly combo that puts Luffy on the ropes.
  • Made a Slave: They spent most of their childhood as slaves of the Celestial Dragons, until Fisher Tiger freed them. Sandersonia still has bad memories about this experience and even goes into a brief Heroic BSoD while hearing Hancock telling their past to Luffy.
  • Medusa: As the name says, the Gorgon Sisters' concept and powers revolve around the gorgon sisters from Greek Mythology, especially Medusa. Sandersonia and Mari have each eaten a Zoan-type Devil Fruit which turnsù them into snakes, while Hancock's Devil Fruit gives her the ability to turn the other people into stones.
  • Morality Pet: Sandersonia and Marigold are the only ones (before Luffy comes around, that is) that Hancock doesn't act like an asshole towards. Justified because they're her sisters and have always been together and shared the same experiences.
  • Moral Myopia: Marigold and Sandersonia happily enable Hancock's behavior. When Luffy (who has earlier gone out of his way to conceal their slave marks while they were trying to kill him) asks Hancock to go to Impel Down so he can rescue his brother, they start screaming about what a cruel, selfish man he is and demand that Hancock petrify him.
  • Oh, Crap!: Sandersonia and Mari are shocked to see that Luffy possesses Conqueror's Haki and realize that he's much more than what they believed.
  • Prehensile Hair: With their Snake Hair Possession (Hebigami-Tsuki) attack, they can shape their hair into large snakes. Sandersonia shapes it in more snakes, while Marigold sets it on fire too.
  • Punny Name: All their attacks with "hebi" (Japanese for "snake) in them can taken to be either Japanese for snake or a romanization of the English word heavy.
  • Red Oni, Blue Oni: Although not too developed, their personalities are immediately set apart: Sandersonia is playful and mischievous and Marigold is stern and serious.
  • Satellite Family Member: Most of their characterization and actions in the story revolve around their older sister, Hancock.
  • Scaled Up: Courtesy of the Snake-Snake Fruit powers, they can turn into giant snakes, though the story only shows them in their hybrid form.
  • Shipper on Deck: At first, they are mortified on Hancock falling in love with Luffy, who is both a man and, well, an idiot. However, after seeing how much warmer their sister has become because of Luffy and seeing he is a Nice Guy to her, they support her affections and the idea of their sister marrying him one day.
  • Snake People: Their hybrid form is those of a giant snake-woman, with a serpentine and legless body but two legs, a vaguely human face and hair.
  • Slave Brand: Like Hancock, they bear the "Hoof/Claw of the Rising Dragon" on their backs, burned onto them as marks of their slavery to the World Nobles. It doubles as Embarrassing Tattoo. During their fight with Luffy, Sandersonia's almost gets revealed in front of all the Kujas, but Luffy understands the situation and covers it.
  • Underestimating Badassery: They both underestimate Luffy's skills as a fighter, thinking of him as a joke. While they do overwhelm him in the first half of the fight, once Luffy gets serious they get their asses kicked by him and almost have their dark secret revealed.
  • You Have GOT to Be Kidding Me!: Once they learn that their older sister Hancock has fallen in love with Luffy, the both of them are so dumbfounded all they can do is stare dumbfounded over the turn of events.

Boa Sandersonia

Voiced by: Chiwa Saitō (JP), Lindsay Seidel (EN)

Age: 28 (Pre-Timeskip), 30 (Post-Timeskip)

Devil Fruit: Snake-Snake Fruit, Model: Anaconda

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Sandersonia is the middle child of the Gorgon Sisters. She is the more emotional member of the family, as she's usually quite cheerful but at the same time bursts into crying much more easily when thinking about her past. While in combat, she teases and torments her opponent. She is proficient in Observation Haki, to the point of being able to easily dodge Luffy's Gatling Gun attack, and can control her hair to shape them into snakes.


  • Butter Face: Downplayed, but Sandersonia has a beautiful body and a disproportionately large head with a flattened face that resembles that of a snake.
  • Combat Clairvoyance: Sandersonia's specialty is Observation Haki. With it, she can move her body to dodge every single hit of Luffy's Gatling attack by predicting it in advance.
  • Curtains Match the Window: Both her eyes and her hair are sea green, a color that can be associated with snakes.
  • Fashionable Asymmetry: She wears a stocking with colored motifs on her left leg.
  • Genki Girl: When not in combat, where she's more sadistic, Sandersonia is childish and cheerful, a contrast to Marigold's stoic personality.
  • Long Neck: She gains a very long neck in her half-snake form, to better cement her as the anaconda-model snake Zoan.
  • Nonchalant Dodge: Thanks to her Observation Haki, she easily dodges Luffy's Gatling.
  • Oh, Crap!: When her cape is set on fire and the slave brand on her back is about to be revealed in front of all the Kujas, Sandersonia is terrified but helpless, since she can't cover it without falling to the spikes around the arena. Thankfully, Luffy helps her.
  • Overly-Long Tongue: Has a long forked tongue that often sticks out from her mouth, adding to the snake elements in her appearance.
  • Panthera Awesome: Instead of a snake like most of the Kuja, she has a giant panther named Bacura as a pet.
  • Sadist: She enjoys tormenting her victims before defeating them, such as when she decides to crush Marguerite's petrified body right in front of Luffy.
  • Trauma Button: Her experience as a slave has really scarred her and she breaks down crying and screaming as Hancock explains their past to Luffy. Mari, despite being very shaken herself, has to calm her down with a hug.
  • Walking Swimsuit Scene: Her main outfit, aside from the white Kuja cape, consists of a normal bikini, unlike most Kujas' fur bikinis.

Boa Marigold

Voiced by: Kimiko Saito (JP), Julie Mayfield (EN)

Age: 26 (Pre-Timeskip), 28 (Post-Timeskip)

Devil Fruit: Snake-Snake Fruit, Model: King Cobra

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Marigold is the youngest of the Gorgon Sisters. She is the most stern of her family, and only shows some emotion when she's being slightly playful in combat. She is proficient in Armament Haki, and is able to hurt Luffy with blunt attacks, and can control her hair, shaping into snakes and even set them on fire.


  • Artistic License – Biology: While it’s true that some cobras can spit venom, the King Cobra isn’t one of them, and isn’t even a true cobra.
  • Barrier Warrior: She's a master of Armament Haki, which she uses to deflect enemy attacks like Luffy's Bazooka.
  • Blood Knight: Implied. Marigold is always calm and stoic, even when Hancock reveals Luffy their terrible past, and the only time she displays some emotions is during her fight with Luffy.
  • Brawn Hilda: Marigold is very rotund-looking woman, with a broad, drooping belly and puffy features that make her look quite fat. She's also a very strong fighter.
  • Flaming Hair: During her fight with Luffy, she sets herself alight for her Snake Hair Possession: Salamander attack. It accidentally burns Sandersonia's cape.
  • Formerly Fit: Mari was thin as a child, as seen in a flashback where she and her sisters escape from Mariejois but in the present she's fat, to invoke an operatic Valkyrie vibe. (Oda says it's actually muscle).
  • Giant Flyer: Her pet is not a snake but an unnamed huge hawk.
  • Playing with Fire: She can set her hair on fire when using Snake Hair Possession.
  • Poisonous Person: Thanks to being a cobra-model snake Zoan, she has the ability to spit venom, in the form of noxious purple gunk. When it splatters across a surface, it starts to vaporize, filling the air with toxic fumes.
  • Super Spit: In her cobra form, Mari can spit venom from her mouth.
  • The Stoic: She has a serious expression most of the time and rarely shows any emotion, although it's clear her experience as a slave has scarred her as well.
  • Technicolor Toxin: The poison she spits is purple, making it look more dangerous and supernatural.

Other Members

    Marguerite 

Marguerite

Voiced by: Masumi Asano (JP), Whitney Rodgers (EN)

Age: 16 (Pre-Timeskip), 18 (Post-Timeskip)

Debut: Chapter 514 (Manga), Episode 408 (Anime)

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A member of the Kuja who happens to find Luffy after he lands on Amazon Lily, along with her friends Sweetpea and Aphelandra. Due to not having met any man before Luffy, she's very naive about them, and there's the Running Gag of her wishing to see Luffy's "golden balls" (Japanese slang for male testicles). Like all Kuja, she was initially mistrustful of Luffy since he was a man. However, as time goes on, she forms the closest attachment to Luffy of the three, especially after he saves her in the arena trial.

She fights using a snake that can turn into a bow to shoot Haki-imbued arrows. She's also seen using a dagger.

She joins the Kuja Pirates during the Time Skip.


  • Badass Adorable: She doesn't get to fight onscreen much, but enough to qualify for the badass part. Hell, she even become a member of the Kuja Pirates after the timeskip, which most definitely means she's stronger than she looks. And she's a naive but kind woman.
  • Badass Cape: Just like all the Kuja warriors, she wears a white cape.
  • Beauty, Brains, and Brawn: Among the three Kuja who find Luffy, Marguerite is the brain, as she's the unofficial leader of the trio and the one who makes decisions and gives orders.
  • Combat Stilettos: Strangely for an amazon, her boots have heels, and she has no problem fighting while wearing them.
  • Fashionable Asymmetry: Has a black and white striped stocking only on her right leg.
  • Fur Bikini: Just like a classic fanservice-y amazon, she has a furry outfit that doesn't cover much.
  • Hairof Gold Heartof Gold: Has blond hair, and is a kind and compassionate woman.
  • Innocent Innuendo: She really wants to see Luffy's "kintama" (aka: testicles), but there's no malice in that, it just originates from her naivete.
  • Ki Manipulation: She can use Haki to make her arrows more powerful.
  • Ms. Fanservice: Just look at how cute she is, and how much skin she reveals!
  • Oh, Crap!: Her reaction as she's Taken for Granite by Hancock, resulting in a statue with a scared expression.
  • Spell My Name With An S: Fans aren't sure whether her name is supposed to be spelled "Marguerite" or "Margaret".
  • Taken for Granite : Happens to her, Sweetpea, and Aphelandra after they reveal they are the ones who found Luffy. She gets better after Luffy's fight with Sandersonia and Marigold, though.
  • Taking the Heat: Takes the blame for Luffy's presence in Amazon Lily to prevent him from fighting in the arena, and gets turned into stone. Thankfully, Luffy can handle himself and frees her.
  • Took a Level in Badass: Apparently, during the time-skip she has become strong enough to become a member of the Kuja Pirates.
  • Would Not Hurt A Child: Refuses to fight S-Snake for being a child

    Aphelandra 

Aphelandra

Voiced by: Akemi Okamura (JP), Sarah Wiedenheft (EN)

Debut: Chapter 514 (Manga), Episode 408 (Anime)

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A member of the Kuja tribe, arguably the tallest besides Sandersonia and Marigold, and one of the three who find Luffy after he lands on Amazon Lily. Like the other two, she forms a close attachment to him after he saves them. She's a kind and innocent woman and is also shy and submissive despite her size. She responds to orders and requests in a very militaristic manner, complete with right-handed salute.

She wields a large Jian sword proportionate to her size and apparently is proficient enough to join the Kuja Pirates during the Time Skip.


  • Apologetic Attacker: She's so nice she apologizes to Luffy right before blocking his attack and slamming him back.
  • Badass Adorable: She is tall, kind, and insanely cute, but remember: she's a Kuja warrior.
  • Beauty, Brains, and Brawn: Among the three Kuja who find Luffy, Aphelandra is the beauty, being the most naive and cute of the three.
  • BFS: Carries around a large Jian sword fitting her size.
  • Funbag Airbag: Weaponized when she uses her humongous bosom to stop Luffy's escape.
  • Gentle Giant: She's the tallest of the Kuja warriors, towering over nearly every single one of them, and also one of the nicest and most innocent.
  • Giant Woman: Downplayed. She's not huge, but she easily tops 10 feet in height and normal women only reach up to her legs.
  • Nice Girl: Aside from an initial mistrust of men, she's the nicest of all the Kuja, to the point she even apologizes before slapping Luffy during his escape.
  • Oh, Crap!: Her reaction as she's Taken for Granite by Hancock, and her petrified face keeps this expression.
  • Statuesque Stunner: She is incredibly moe with her innocent personality and cute appearance, and really, really tall.
  • Taken for Granite : After learning she, along with Marguerite and Sweetpea, are the ones who found Luffy, Hancock punishes them with her Devil Fruit powers. She's turned back to normal after Luffy's fight with Sandersonia and Marigold.
  • Taking the Heat: Along with Sweetpea, she joins Marguerite and takes the blame for Luffy's arrival in Amazon Lily, and gets promptly turned into stone.
  • Took a Level in Badass: During the time-skip, she has improved enough to join the Kuja Pirates.

    Sweetpea 

Sweetpea

Voiced by: Kujira (JP), Doug Goodrich (EN)

Debut: Chapter 514 (Manga), Episode 408 (Anime)

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A member of the Kuja tribe, and one of the three who find Luffy and gets on good terms with him after he saves her, Marguerite, and Aphelandra. She has a funny habit of describing the events she's living with complex quotes, as if she's writing a novel.

After the Time Skip, she becomes a member of the Kuja Pirates.


  • Beauty, Brains, and Brawn: Among the three Kuja who find Luffy, Sweetpea is the brawn, as she has a corpulent, masculine-like build compared to the other two's feminine bodies.
  • Brawn Hilda: She's not exactly cute, is quite plump and is a Kuja warrior.
  • Bunny-Ears Lawyer: She has a habit of recounting the current situation as if it's a chapter of a novel.
  • Girlish Pigtails: Her hair is kept into two pigtails, although neither her appearance nor her personality is girlish at all.
  • Gonk: Despite being called "Sweetpea", her appearance isn't sweet at all, especially compared to the other Kuja, who are, for the great majority, beautiful women. Her Kuja warrior outfit is still just as Stripperific as the others.
  • Ironic Name: The sweet pea is a petite and fragile flower, but she's actually a very fat and masculine woman.
  • Oh, Crap!: Her reaction as she's Taken for Granite by Hancock, which remains as she's a statue.
  • Purple Prose: In-Universe. She describes every event in an extremely convoluted way, like using "a race against time" to describe that Luffy doesn't have much time left before the mushrooms consume him. In the Viz manga, she instead starts a majority of her sentences with "chapter" (i.e. "Chapter—An Emergency").
  • Taken for Granite : Boa Hancock turns her, Marguerite and Aphelandra into statues as punishment for having found Luffy. She gets better after Luffy's fight with Sandersonia and Marigold.
  • Taking the Heat: Along with Aphelandra, she joins Marguerite and takes the blame for Luffy's arrival in Amazon Lily. Boa Hancock turns them into stone as a punishment.
  • Took a Level in Badass: During the time-skip, she has improved enough to join the Kuja Pirates.

    Ran 

Ran

Voiced by: Umeka Shoji (JP), Clarine Harp (EN)

Debut: Chapter 516 (Manga), Episode 410 (Anime)

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A member of the Kuja pirates. She's among the most knowledgeable and analytical member of the crew, as seen when she commentates Luffy's fights in the arena.

She has a snake that can morph into a bow and use it to shoot arrows and, like all Kuja, is a Haki user.


  • Cleavage Window: She doesn't wear a fur bikini top like most Kuja, but has a tank top with a hole that reveals some of her cleavage.
  • Combat Commentator: She's quite perceptive, and when Luffy is fighting Bacura and later Sandersonia and Mari, she comments how strong he is or that he has Conqueror's Haki.
  • Ms Exposition: She explains to a child, and therefore the audience, about the Gorgon Sisters' curse and eyes on the back. (However, that story is revealed to be a lie).

    Daisy 

Daisy

Voiced by: Chigusa Ikeda (JP), Mary Morgan (EN)

Debut: Chapter 516 (Manga), Episode 410 (Anime)

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One of the Kuja Pirates. She's always seen smiling and ends every sentence with her laugh "Zahahaha".

She's never seen fighting, though, being a Kuja Pirate, she must be one of the strongest Kuja.


  • The Hyena: She can't say anything without laughing. She laughs so often it borders on being a Verbal Tic.
  • Meaningful Name: In the language of flowers, "daisy" can mean "cheer", a very appropriate name for a woman who laughs a lot.
  • Perpetual Smiler: There's not a moment where her grin disappears from her face.
  • Signature Laugh: The only Kuja to have a distinct laugh. In her case, it is "Zahahaha".

    Cosmos 

Cosmos

Voiced by: Hiromi Nishikawa (JP), Anastasia Muñoz (EN)

Debut: Chapter 516 (Manga), Episode 410 (Anime)

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One of the Kuja Pirates. She's a fat and cheerful woman.

Her abilities are never shown, but she should be strong if she's a Kuja Pirate.


  • Big Fun: She's a really fat woman and is constantly seen smiling.

    Rindo 

Rindo

Voiced by: Satomi Sato (JP), Jennifer Green (EN)

Debut: Chapter 516 (Manga), Episode 410 (Anime)

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One of the Kuja Pirates. She's very aloof, but also loyal and respectful toward her duties.

She's the best sniper of the Kuja Tribe. Instead of the common snake-bow, her weapon is a large bazooka rifle.


  • BFG: Her weapon is a bazzoka almost as big as her that shoots harpoons.
  • Cold Sniper: Although her weapon is a tad too flashy for an actual, silent sniper, she's one of the most stoic Kuja.
  • Navel-Deep Neckline: A particular example because, unlike most Kuja who wear a bikini top, she wears a jacket left open.
  • Smoking Is Cool: She's a badass sniper and there's always a cigarette hanging from her mouth.
  • The Stoic: She's always serious, and not even the presence of a man in Amazon Lily surprises her.

Pets

    Salome 

Salome

Debut: Chapter 516 (Manga), Episode 409 (Anime)

Hancock's pet snake. Unlike the rest of the snake-like weapons on Amazon Lily, Salome is larger and more accustomed for direct combat.


  • Accessory-Wearing Cartoon Animal: Salome is drawn in a very cartoonish way and wears a skull on her head, giving her a more royal appearance compared to the other snakes and underlining that she's the empress' pet.
  • Action Pet: Salome is Hancock's pet snake and, while she doesn't directly attack opponents, she supports her owner in battle.
  • Amazing Technicolor Wildlife: Like most snakes from Amazon Lily, Salome is of unnatural and cartoonish colors. She's the only one to be white with pink spots, making her stand out more as the pet of Boa Hancock, Amazon Lily's ruler.
  • Ambiguous Gender: Salome's exact gender is never revealed in the manga, but a databook reveals that she's female.
  • Feather Boa Constrictor: Salome is very big for a snake, so much that Hancock uses her as a throne, giving the latter a "Queen of the Jungle" vibe.
  • Loyal Animal Companion: Her primary role with Hancock is to demonstrate her loyalty and devotion to her master.
  • Morality Pet: Pun aside, Salome is one of the few that Hancock truly cares for and treats with love and respect.
  • Mysterious Animal Senses: Being a snake, Salome has the ability to track down things on the ocean floor: she's able to sense Whitebeard's seaquake before it arrives, and helps Hancock follow Law's submarine so she can help Luffy after the Paramount War.
  • Perpetual Smiler: She almost always has a big and goofy smile on her face.
  • Skeletons in the Coat Closet: Salome wears a skull on her head, giving her a more "royal and tribal" appearance.
  • Speech-Impaired Animal: Salome sometimes behaves smarter than a simple snake and tends to let out a hiss when trying to talk to Hancock.

Kuja Islanders

Those who aren't members of the Kuja Pirates remain in Amazon Lily, and thus have little knowledge about the outside world. While not as strong as the Kuja Pirates, they're still proficient warriors.

    "Elder Nyon" Gloriosa 

"Elder Nyon" Gloriosa

Voiced by: Ako Mayama (JP), Nancy Sherrard (EN)

Debut: Chapter 514 (Manga), Episode 408 (Anime)

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Commonly referred to as "Elder Nyon", she's the ex-ex-ex-empress of Amazon Lily. She's an elderly lady who lives on the outskirts of Amazon Lily, as a consequence of leaving the island and abandoning her duties, after she came down with "love sickness", and somehow surviving when her predecessors didn't. However, during her time away, she learned several things about the world outside the isolated island, including about the opposite gender (and is the only not misandrist Kuja), the politics of the world and she also met a member of the Roger Pirates, Silvers Rayleigh and Shakuyaku; and discovered Boa Hancock and her sisters, Sandersonia and Marigold, who were previously missing for four years after they were enslaved by the Celestial Dragons, taking care of them and eventually bringing them back home. For this reason she's very close to Boa Hancock and cares about her despite the latter's constant mistreatment of the old lady.

Thanks to all of her experience of the outside world, she's very wise, and doesn't believe (most) of Hancock's lies. Gloriosa takes her role as a senior figure to the Kuja Amazons very seriously, and is something of an adviser to the empress "Snake Princess" Boa Hancock (despite their often antagonistic relationship), and her interest in current affairs keeps Hancock informed; important considering her Warlord position. When Luffy arrives on the island, she's surprised by his spirit, his luck and his kindness. She informs Luffy of Ace's execution, and warns him of the dangers that follow, and is surprised to see him survive both Impel Down and the Paramount War in two days.


  • Blasé Boast: Even at her rather advanced age, being thrown off a window by Hancock barely fazes her: she sticks a perfect landing no worse for wear, and calmly reassures the Kujas nearby that they need not be concerned.
    "Aged as I may be, I am still a Kuja warrior. I have not grown decrepit!"
  • Category Traitor: Due to having left Amazon Lily, she's considered a traitor among the Kuja. While the Kuja Empress of that time forgave Gloriosa after she returned, she lives in the outskirts, isolated from the other Kuja.
  • Cloudcuckoolander's Minder: She's always been the Straight Man to Boa Hancock but becomes this once Hancock falls in love with Luffy, as she constantly reminds her that none of Luffy's actions mean they're married.
  • Cool Old Lady: As expected of a former empress, she's a wise old woman who's not afraid to call Hancock on her bad behaviour. Hancock chucking her out of a window doesn't bother her much.
  • Deadpan Snarker: She has her moments where she snarks at Hancock's strange behavior, such as in Chapter 1059, after the Marine and the Blackbeard Pirates have assaulted Amazon Lily.
    Hancock: Sigh... at this point, I just want to be married to Luffy...(heart)
    Nyon: You mean at every point.
  • Destination Defenestration: When Hancock loses her patience with Nyon during their argument over whether to answer the Marines' summons, Hancock throws her out the window. Nyon lands safely and is more annoyed than anything, but it goes to show how cruel Hancock can be.
  • Foreshadowing: Amazon Lily has been protected for years due to the island being inside the Calm Belt. However, the Marines' new battleship designed by Dr. Vegapunk make them able to traverse the Calm Belt with ease and can attack the island at any point. As pointed out by Elder Nyon, Hancock's title of Warlord is the only thing protecting the island from outside forces. Come the Reverie, the Warlord system is abolished and Hancock's means to protect her people, which results in the Marines and the Blackbeard Pirates invading Amazon Lily, nearly destroying the island.
  • Gonk: She's a short elderly woman who looks has a very wide face and very wrinkly looking. During her days with the Rocks Pirates she was a very beautiful woman who dressed similar to Boa Hancock.
  • The Hermit: Downplayed. She doesn't live that isolated from the others, but she still has little contact with the rest of the Kuja tribe, save for Hancock, her successor.
  • I Was Quite a Looker: A flashback to the events of God Valley shows she looked lovely as a young woman.
  • Miniature Senior Citizens: She's both the oldest and the shortest of the Kuja tribe.
  • Ms. Exposition: She reads a lot of newspaper to keep herself informed about the world's events and is the one to inform Luffy's about Ace's capture and future execution. She's even surprised that an infamous pirate like Luffy has such an ignorance of the world. She also explain Hancock about the "love sickness".
  • Mysterious Past: She is a former Empress of Amazon Lily from three generations ago until Shakuyaku took over and left because she fell in love with a man, but nothing else is known other than she lived with Rayleigh and Shakky for some time on Shabody Archipelago until the arrival of Hancock and her sisters after escaping from the World Nobles and raising the trio as her daughters. Chapter 1096 reveals she was also a former member of the Rocks Pirates and seemed to want to settle something important on God Valley 38 years ago.
  • Oh, Crap!: She's shocked to learn that a man (Luffy) is on Amazon Lily.
  • Only Known by Their Nickname: Everyone calls her "Elder Nyon". The only exception is Silvers Rayleigh, who's a close friend of hers.
  • Only Sane Woman: The one resident of Kuja island who doesn't sycophantly agree with everything Hancock says, although she sometimes believes Hancock's lies too or is momentarily swayed by her acting cute. She's often the voice of reason for Hancock, as she constantly urges Hancock to be more responsible.
  • Parents as People: She tried to raise the Gorgon Sisters with love and kindness after their days as slaves at the hands of the World Nobles, but they were too distrusting of others to ever let their guard down again.
  • Parental Substitute: She's the Gorgon Sisters' adopted mother and raised them as her own daughters.
  • Properly Paranoid: She frequently warns Hancock to take her title of Warlord seriously since it's the only thing protecting Amazon Lily. Her fears are proven right once the recent Reverie disbands the Warlord system all together, making Amazon Lily a target for the Marines.
  • Retired Badass: She's, after all, former empress of the Kuja, who live under the philosophy "strength is beauty", as well as a former Rocks pirate. However, her known combat power at present is that of an average old woman, but remains very wise.
  • Straight Man: Being one of the wisest Kuja and having raised the Gorgon Sisters, she's the only one who can really stand up to Hancock, and she often has to be the one to remind Hancock of her duties as empress and Warlord, if not cajole her into doing them. However, Hancock doesn't always listen to her. This become even more extreme when Hancock falls in love with Luffy, as she even has to remind her that a hug doesn't mean being married.
  • Verbal Tic: She often says "nyo" in her sentences. This is presumably part of the origin for her nickname.
  • You Owe Me: Frequently reminds Hancock of the debt she and her sisters owe her for housing them after they escaped from their enslavement and raising them as her daughters. While Sonia and Mary acknowledge this, Hancock acts like a brat about it calling it a "small debt" from the past (though deep down she is very grateful toward her adopted mother but is too proud to admit it).

    Kikyo 

Kikyo

Voiced by: Yuriko Yamaguchi (JP), Rachel Robinson (EN)

Debut: Chapter 514 (Manga), Episode 408 (Anime)

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One of the Kuja Warriors. She's a serious and severe leader, although she deeply cares for her friends and panics when Sonia is about to crush Marguerite. She's the one more opposed to Luffy's presence, to the point she wants to kill him. Even after Luffy has become a friend of the Kuja, she still doesn't like his antics.

She uses a snake that can become a bow, and by using Haki she can turn her arrows into explosive projectiles.


  • Anime Hair: Her hair is arranged into a really weird ponytail.
  • Feather Boa Constrictor: Like most Kuja warriors, she has a snake as a pet that can be used as bow.
  • Jerk with a Heart of Gold: She's the Kuja who likes Luffy the least, and the only one to not enjoy Luffy's funny antics. But as harsh as she may be, Kikyo does like her fellow Kuja warriors, and is a stern but well-meaning leader.
  • Ki Manipulation: Can imbue Haki to her arrows to make them explosive.
  • Knight Templar: She wishes to kill Luffy at any cost, but out of desire to protect her people. After Boa Hancock and the rest of the Kuja become allies with Luffy, she drops this even if she doesn't like him.
  • Makeup Is Evil: Downplayed. She's not evil, but she wears makeup on her face and is the one who dislikes Luffy the most.
  • Made of Explodium: After being imbued with Haki, her arrows explode on contact with anything.
  • Only Sane Man: She's the only Kuja who does not replicate Luffy's antics.
  • Perpetual Frowner: She's always serious and not even a party can get her to crack a smile. The only non-serious expression she has is when she's panicking when Sandersonia attempts to break Marguerite.
  • Stripperiffic: It's rare to find a Kuja whose outfit doesn't reveal much skin, but she arguably has the most revealing outfit.
  • Token Evil Teammate: While "evil" is an exaggeration, she's the one more hostile toward men in Amazon Lily, although it's out of a desire to protect her people.

    Belladonna 

Belladonna

Voiced by: Tomoko Naka (JP), Dana Schultz (EN)

Debut: Chapter 514 (Manga), Episode 408 (Anime)

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The doctor of Amazon Lily. She's smart, as she can deduce that the Gorgon Sisters' power don't originate from killing a gorgon, and, fittingly for her role, has wide medical knowledge and is able to quickly heal Luffy after his body is infected by mushrooms while keeping her cool, although she doesn't understand the cause of Boa Hancock's sickness (actually love).


  • Bilingual Bonus: Belladonna, aside of the name of a plant, means, fittingly, "beautiful woman" in Italian.
  • Goggles Do Nothing: She has a pair of googles with large lenses that are always on her forehead.
  • Impossibly-Low Neckline: A particular example because she's always seen wearing the formal attire, which fits this trope.
  • Meaningful Name: She's a doctor named Belladonna, which is also a medical plant.
  • The Medic: She's the doctor of Amazon Lily, whenever there's an illness among the Kuja, she's the one who intervenes.
  • Non-Action Guy: She's the only Kuja who doesn't show any fighting skill, although she balances it by being an expert doctor.
  • The Stoic: She mantains her composure all the time, even when she sets Luffy on fire to destroy the mushrooms' roots and when she can't identify Hancock's illness.
  • Token Wholesome: Zigzagged, her outfit is still pretty sexualized, but she's the only Kuja not seen wearing a Fur Bikini or an extremely revealing outfit, this could be justified by her not being a warrior.

    Nerine 

Nerine

Voiced by: Aiko Hibi (JP), Michelle Rojas (EN)

Debut: Chapter 514 (Manga), Episode 408 (Anime)

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A member of the Kuja tribe who's very curious about men. Upon meeting Luffy, she takes note of everything about him and uses him as a standard for all other men, to the point that she starts to believe that all men are made of rubber.


  • Innocent Bigot: Although she's friends with Luffy, she treats him and other men like another species. Justified by the incredible cultural isolation of the Kuja.
  • I Thought Everyone Could Do That: She is constantly making observations about Luffy that she assumes applies to all men, such as rubber arms and Our Nudity Is Differentnote 
  • Ki Manipulation: As with all Kuja, she can use Haki. Her main use is to imbue her arrows with Haki to make them explode upon contact with the target.
  • Made of Explodium: Her arrow become explosive after being imbued with Haki.

Alternative Title(s): One Piece Boa Hancock

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