Characters / One Piece: Trafalgar Law

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"Surgeon of Death" Trafalgar D. Water Law

Voiced by: Hiroshi Kamiya (Japanese); Matthew Mercer, Brittany Lauda [young] (English), Irwin Daayán (LatAm, Stampede), Geno Sánchez (LatAm, Red)

Age: 24 (Pre-Timeskip), 26 (Post-Timeskip)

Debut: Chapter 498 (Manga), Episode 392 (Anime)

Devil Fruit: Op-Op Fruit

"The weak do not have the right to choose how they die."

"Anyone inside Law's sphere is a helpless patient on his operating table!! This is his operating room! Inside this space, he reigns supreme and operates at will!"

— Smoker explaining Trafalgar Law's Devil Fruit ability (Chapter 661)

Trafalgar Law is the captain of the Heart Pirates and one of the eleven pirates dubbed with the moniker "Supernova". He's a very laid-back person, and while his speech is very polite, he has no problem with taking mocking jabs at people or giving them the middle finger. Law has eaten the Op-Op Fruit (Ope Ope no Mi), which allows him to create a spherical area wherein he can freely manipulate the objects inside, be it splitting them apart without permanently damaging them, levitating things into the air and moving them like telekinesis, or teleporting objects around. He gladly accepts new people to join his crew, and is also careful to deny any undeserved credit, though he does not like being ordered around at all.

Over the Time Skip, he's become one of the Seven Warlords of the Sea, a feat he seems to have achieved by handing over 100 pirates' hearts to the Government. It is also revealed that he was the only survivor of the North Blue country Flevance and a former member of the Donquixote Family. After an encounter in Punk Hazard, Law forms an alliance with the Straw Hat Pirates, an act that revokes his status as a Warlord, to take down Kaido. However, his main target is Kaido's ally "Joker", AKA Donquixote Doflamingo, whom he holds in contempt for the death of Corazon. Despite many grueling battles, the alliance manages to defeat Doflamingo in Dressrosa. The Heart Pirates continue their alliance with the Straw Hats (further allying with the Mink Tribe and samurais and ninjas from Wano) until they defeat Kaido and Big Mom (the latter having allied with Kaido in Wano).

He has a bounty of 3,000,000,000 Berries.^note His first known bounty is 200,000,000 berries. During the Time Skip, it rose to 440,000,000 million berries before being frozen as a Warlord. After the events of Dressrosa, his bounty is reinstated and rises to 500,000,000 berries, the second highest among the Supernovas (behind Luffy). Then, following Kid's and his victory over Big Mom during Act III of the Wano arc, his bounty increases to 3,000,000,000, tying him for first place among the Supernovas with Kid and Luffy (whose own bounty similarly increased for his defeat of Kaido).

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• 20 Bear Asses: Law gained the position of Warlord of the Sea by extracting 100 pirates' hearts and sending them to Marine HQ.
• Adaptation Dye-Job: He has yellow eyes and dark blue hair in the manga, but black hair and gray eyes in the anime. His Badass Longcoat in the Dressrosa arc is also changed from black in the manga to brown in the anime.
• Affectionate Nickname: Luffy originally just calls Law "Traffy" (or Torao in Japanese) because he can't pronounce his surname to save his life, but the nickname gradually morphs into an official nickname as the series progresses and they become close allies.
• Aloof Leader, Affable Subordinate: Law is the aloof and stoic captain of the Heart Pirates, a crew of friendly, energetic, and silly pirates.
• Always Someone Better: Although Law is considered a formidable opponent in the race for the coveted One Piece treasure and is recognized as one of the most noteworthy Supernova members of the Worst Generation, he ultimately falls short and loses out to his lively and youthful rival, Luffy.
  • While he's much more intelligent than Luffy, Law lacks the latter's charisma due to his overall gloomy nature and pragmatic tendencies. At times, characters who wave away Law's ideas will warm up to them almost immediately when Luffy proposes something similar or even if he requests that they simply listen to Law.
  • This also applies to combat. While Law's powers are more versatile and esoteric than Luffy's, Luffy outdoes him in sheer power, as seen with their respective fights with Doflamingo. Whereas Law is able to match Doflamingo enough to give him a decent fight, Luffy flat-out dominates him, and the only reason he didn't finish Doflamingo off in the first burst is because he briefly ran out of energy.
• Ambiguously Evil: Certainly more morally grey than any of the Straw Hats, and guilty of a lot of Offstage Villainy; however, since he's a rather mysterious and unpredictable character, it's unclear exactly how much of his nasty reputation is actually deserved, seeing how the Straw Hats appear much worse than they really are to the eyes of the world. The Dressrosa arc clears up some of the mystery surrounding him; though he is certainly cold, distant, and cruel, he doesn't appear to be truly evil, since he obviously has standards, seems to care about his crew, and goes out of his way to help his Straw Hat allies on multiple occasions.
• And Show It to You: His "Mes" technique allow him to remove the heart from a person's body. Thanks to the powers of the Op-Op Fruit, this operation isn't lethal, but the removed heart is very vulnerable and, if damaged, the owner dies.
• Animal Motifs:
  • The spotted seal, as suggested in SBS Volume 76. This goes with his spot-patterned attire and following his crew's Arctic animals theme. Fits him as it’s considered to be good luck.
  • In SBS Volume 95, Oda lists him as the snow leopard. Fitting as it represents courage, intuition, perception and creating karma. Which is what he does with Doflamingo.
• Anti-Hero: Despite the fact that Law has some similarities with a lot of the Straw Hats' enemies — he's a cold, cruel, and sadistic man who finds pleasure in torturing others and sowing chaos in the world — he nonetheless has a neutral alignment (relative to the Straw Hats) at worst and, as their ally, has been on the side of "good" since the timeskip, has standards and morals, is pretty decent towards his allies, and deeply loves his crew, his biological family, and Corazon. Furthermore, while Law certainly has a noble goal in wanting to avenge Corazon, the methods he uses — and is willing to use — to achieve it are pretty reprehensible: being willing to leave behind sick children who were poisoned despite the fact that he suffered the exact same fate as a child and only saving them as a favor to the Straw Hats (or so it seemed); sending 100 still-beating pirate hearts to the World Government, allowing the government to kill them or hold their lives in their literal hands^note Although they're in something of an Ambiguous Situation as apparently many of them were able to join Blackbeard later on; being prepared to possibly sacrifice the lives of thousands of innocent Dressrosan civilians by having a plan in which Kaido would rampage through the island to kill Doflamingo; and stating that he was willing to destroy the whole world if it meant he could achieve Corazon's wish.
• The Apprentice: From the age of 10 to 12, Law was an apprentice within the Donquixote Family who served as his Evil Mentors. He learned swordsmanship from Diamante, marksmanship from Gladius, martial arts from Lao G, and he continued to further his education under Doflamingo himself. Law intended to earn those skills to kill as many people as possible and become a ruthless killer like Doflamingo himself, but thanks to Corazon's course correction, Law ended up becoming an inverted version of A Pupil of Mine Until He Turned to Evil.
• Arc Hero: Law becomes a prominent ally during the Punk Hazard and Dressrosa Arc. His desire for revenge against Doflamingo is what drives him and the Straw Hats to Dressrosa and, aside from Luffy, he's the character who drives the arc's storyline the most.
• Arc Symbol: The Heart Symbol appears a lot on things pertaining to him. Such as the heart tattoo on his shoulders and back (which apparently the citizens of Flevance also had), him being appointed as the Heart Seat of Doflamingo's "card suit" top officers and being a former subordinate to a deceased Heart Seat member, the Op-Op Fruit being heart-shaped, and when he used his powers to switch two people's "souls", they're represented by a heart shape. Oh, and he can tear out actual hearts as well.
• An Arm and a Leg: Doflamingo cuts Law's right arm off with strings. Only temporary, as it is reattached and healed later by Leo and Mansherry.
• Armor-Piercing Attack: His Gamma Knife, a laser blade made of energy, penetrates through an opponent's skin and deals major damage to their innards, leaving no external wounds at all. And as Kaido can attest to, not even his dragon form's incredibly tough skin and scales can do anything to block the attack.
  • His Awakened techniques are a more straightforward example. By imbuing his sword with his K-ROOM technique, it can harmlessly pierce through opponents, which allows him to attack them from the inside, completely bypassing any external defenses, to the point where it manages to harm the otherwise Nigh-Invulnerable Big Mom.
• Armor-Piercing Question: Gives one to Doflamingo while the latter is trying to assert control over a situation quickly slipping out of his fingers:
  Doflamingo: Do you remember the message he tried to send? Corazon was trying to save Dressrosa! If you hadn't screwed up on that snowy day, these countless tragedies might have never occurred.
  Law: So even you consider them to be tragedies?
• Ascended Extra: He ranked in the top 10 in One Piece's official popularity poll after his first appearance. It's no coincidence that he's gotten more screen time since, becoming an important ally after the time skip in the same vein as Vivi during the Alabasta saga. He was ranked the 2nd most popular character in the series after Luffy from a poll taken in late 2014, beating Zoro who was consistently 2nd before. Law was already a major character by that point, but him beating so many established veterans is very impressive.
• Attractive Bent-Gender: When Law briefly becomes a woman Thanks to Doc Q's Devil Fruit, he gains a cute face and a slender, buxom figure.
• Awesomeness by Analysis: Law is shown to have figured out Hawkins's voodoo ability after seeing it in action all of once, without the need of any explanation but just by noticing some details. He immediately takes out the man's subordinates before pressing the attack and forcing Hawkins to defend since he no longer has any subordinates to pass his injuries to.
• Badass in Distress: Law and Doflamingo have a personal connection, and when the former goes to Dressrosa with the Straw Hats, he becomes Doflamingo's main target. During the Dressrosa arc, Law gets shot, captured, rendered unconscious, chained up, and has his right arm sliced off by Doflamingo.
• Badass Longcoat: During the Punk Hazard arc, Law wears a long coat, then changes it with a different one in Dressrosa. He gets yet another one for the raid on Onigashima in Wano.
• Beat Still, My Heart: Using his power, he can literally remove your still-beating heart, and you'll live through it, because his power makes it a non-fatal wound. He does this to Smoker in order to beat him. It's implied this is also what happened to the 100 pirates Law used as a way to enter the Warlord position.
• Benevolent Boss: His crew genuinely seems to like him, and are very happy when Luffy is able to tell them he's okay. Law also made sure to keep them out of the way for the Punk Hazard and Dressrosa arcs. An SBS later reveals that he's known at least the core members (Bepo, Shachi, and Penguin) since they were teenagers (or a kid in Bepo's case), so it's likely their relationship is deeper than just boss and subordinate.
• Best Served Cold: His plan of revenge against Doflamingo is one of big proportions, which includes him becoming a Warlord, allying with Luffy, and even a gambit that involves making Kaido angry at Doffy, and apparently has been done for about 13 years.
• Beware the Nice Ones: Despite being a near Perpetual Smiler and having a really laid-back personality, he has a really nasty reputation amongst his fellow Supernovas. How bad, you might ask? To join the Seven Warlords of the Sea, he extracted and delivered 100 pirate hearts to the World Government. Though he's established post-timeskip to be more of a Jerk with a Heart of Gold than outright nice.
• BFS: Carries a sword almost as tall as he is. Its name is Kikoku (鬼哭, lit. Demon Wail), and its size is justified since it's a nodachi. He has to carry it in hand because it is too tall to strap to his back.
• Big Brother Instinct: When Law was offered a (false) way out of Flevance, he refused to leave with the other children because his little sister Lami was still sick in the hospital.
• Big Damn Heroes:
  • Pops up in the middle of a three-way (technically four-way) war between the Blackbeard pirates, Whitebeard pirates, and Luffy's motley gang of Impel Down escapees, and the Marines and Seven Warlords of the Sea to rescue Luffy. That takes balls.
  • Later, he shows up in the middle of Luffy and Franky's fight with the Yeti Cool Brothers to take down the remaining brother before he could leave with Nami again.
  • He apparently did this in the past to help out Bepo, beating up two delinquents who were bullying him. Bepo and the delinquents in question — Shachi and Penguin — were so impressed by Law that they decided to join him on his travels and, eventually, they formed the Heart Pirates together.
• Bilingual Bonus: More of a bilingual hand gesture, but in Spanish, the middle finger is called "(el dedo del) corazón". So yes, there really is a hidden meaning behind it.
• Breakout Character: Law shot up high in the Character Polls ^note Higher than even some of the Straw Hat characters even. before he really ever did anything. Not coincidentally, he's gone on to become a major supporting character in the series; pulling a Big Damn Heroes moment during the Summit War Saga to save Luffy when the rest of his crew was Put on a Bus, and even getting upgraded to Deuteragonist during the Punk Hazard and Dressrosa arcs. By the time the Dressrosa saga was over Law managed to reach second place in the latest Character Poll, being the only character besides Luffy who has ever managed to rank higher than Zoro. His popularity enabled him one of the top-billing placements in the Stampede movie.
• Broken Pedestal: As a child, he admired and wanted to become like Doflamingo, until he bonded with Corazon as they searched for a cure for Law's Amber Lead Disease, with which they only succeeded at the cost of severe injury to Corazon. The final straw was Doflamingo murdering Corazon while claiming that Law's only importance, now that he'd eaten the Op-Op Fruit, was to die so Doflamingo could become immortal; after that, the pedestal broke so badly that Doflamingo went from Law's idol to his greatest enemy.
• Brutal Honesty: Law's very blunt whenever he expresses his thoughts and opinions to others.
• Buried in a Pile of Corpses: What he resorted to in order to escape his hometown when it was attacked. He provides the page image.
• Butt-Monkey: Ever since he allied himself with Luffy, Law has been forcibly dragged into the Straw Hats' hijinks, and more-or-less subjected to Luffy's numerous whims. His life in general ever since the Pirate Alliance saga started has been one long-running joke.
• Byronic Hero: Law is a particularly attractive character in the One Piece world, with more distinguished facial features like Shanks and Robin. He boasts enough charisma to gather a crew with 20 members. He is intelligent and cunning, having devised a plan for over 13 years to bring down Doflamingo's empire and hamper an Emperor's plan to increase his power. He has experienced two great losses in his life: first his family, friends, and homeland of Flevance, then the father-figure to whom he owes his life. Eventually, everything adds up to him being able to avenge his fallen hero (with Luffy's help) and also have enough determination go on living afterwards.
• Celibate Hero: Law is one of the few people in the world to have virtually no reaction to Boa Hancock's beauty, and unlike his crew, he also doesn't comment on the abundance of attractive women in Amazon Lily. In general, he seems more annoyed by matters of romance than anything; when Monet tries to playfully flirt with him, he just coldly ignores her, prompting her to comment on how "unsociable" he is.
• Characterization Marches On: Was introduced as a laid-back but powerful pirate who really only showed his mean side when angered and was a Perpetual Smiler the rest of the time. After the time-skip, he was portrayed as much more serious and smiled much less often, in addition to his ability for cruelty being a little more apparent. To be fair, he was engaged with the difficult task of defeating Doflamingo at the time and has had to consistently deal with the Straw Hats' wacky hijinks.
• Chekhov's Gun: He got his right arm severed by Doflamingo. Later, he uses that severed arm (with it holding his sword) for a surprise attack on Trebol.
• The Chessmaster:
  • Comes off as this more-and-more as the series goes on, particularly in the Punk Hazard arc, where he proposes an alliance with Luffy in order to take down an Emperor, starting with blackmailing Doflamingo.
  • By the time Law has arrived in Wano, he has gotten so used to Luffy's antics, that in Chapter 977 he (correctly) expects Luffy to recklessly charge into the fray and has incorporated this factor into his plans to assault Kaido and Orochi's palace.
• Close to Home: Law is disgusted when he finds out that Caesar Clown was drugging the children of Punk Hazard to ensure that they stayed. In the Dressrosa Arc it's revealed that, as a child, Law and many other children were doomed to die due to the build up of Amber Lead in their bodies after generations of mining the stuff, so seeing Caesar's treatment of the giant children brings Law tragic memories of his childhood.
• Closet Geek: It leaks out more and more as Law repeatedly shows that he's Not So Above It All. According to Oda (SBS Volume 82), one of his hobbies is collecting commemorative coins. In Zou, he joined the other male Straw Hats in being excited to meet a real ninja (Raizo) and asking him to perform tricks for them. In Wano, he reveals that he's a fan of comics, in particular the ones written about Sora and Germa 66 (Sanji's villainous family), and is able to explain in detail what kind of abilities the Germa member Stealth Black, Sanji's counterpart in the comics, is able to use.
• Combat Medic: "Surgeon of Death" is more than a Red Baron, though thankfully for Luffy it doesn't actually refer to his medical skills.
• Combat Pragmatist: When it comes to a fight, Law focuses on conserving his stamina and will use any tactic he needs to win, including damaging himself or using his own removed limbs to damage his enemies if it gives him an effective opening.
• The Comically Serious: When face-to-face with the Straw Hats' antics, he doesn't seem to know how to react, leaving him with either a deadpan or annoyed expression when they're doing things like tying an incapacitated Chopper to his head. Law also frequently talks about perfectly benign or even good things, such as the fact that Kin'emon is in the bathroom due to diarrhea and the fact that he successfully healed the children on Punk Hazard, in such a dour and creepily cryptic way that he makes them sound utterly horrific.
• Cool Boat: His Heart Pirate's vessel, the Polar Tang, is not only a Shout-Out to the Beatles' Yellow Submarine (which conveniently is Law's colour theme), it is also based from the real life TRAFALGAR-class submarine of the Royal Navy, which is the only one of its class that can traverse through thick ice and operates on nuclear power. Also equipped with 7 jetbeam propulsion, perhaps explaining how it could escape through the frozen water of Aokiji's Ice Age and avoid Kizaru's light beam simultaneously, two Logia-type Admirals who are hot on their pursuit during Luffy's rescue in Marineford.
• Crazy-Prepared:
  • Hid regular iron chains to swap with Seastone chains around a laboratory in case he was betrayed and captured by some mistake. Which comes to pass.
  • He spends 13 years plotting his revenge against Doflamingo. Once his scheme is put into motion in Punk Hazard, the entirety of Doflamingo's empire — his SAD production, artificial Devil Fruit manufacturing, arm dealings, business partnership with Kaidou — starts crumbling down within the span of days.
  • As it turns out, there is a purpose to Law saving Luffy in Marineford and then allying with him later. He firmly believes in the D lineage and what it can do, so allying with a fellow D will therefore increase his chance of taking down Doflamingo and anything that stands in the way of his goal. The fact that Doffy is revealed to be a former World Noble who naturally thinks of the Ds like boogeymen is just icing on the cake that Law goes to exploit.
• Creepy Child: As shown in an SBS◊, Law used to be one: the scalpel-and-frog toting type. Subverted, he was a mostly normal kid who was learning to become a doctor. Played straight after Flevance's destruction: he became a suicidal and nihilistic child who wanted to cause as much destruction as possible before dying. He wrapped himself up in bombs and asked Doflamingo if he could join his crew. It was because of this that Doflamingo thought he would grow up to be his right-hand man. Eventually averted: Corazon's efforts to save him as well as crying in sympathy for his pain wore him down and he dropped his destructive desires.
• Creepy Good: For a pirate, Law has a surprisingly functional moral compass and really isn't such a bad guy deep down. He admits he does not like killing due to the hippocratic oath (unexpected for a guy nicknamed Surgeon of Death), expresses disgust for Doflamingo's treatment of Dressrosa's citizens and declares his faith in the Straw Hats. Still, that doesn't stop him from being cruel to his enemies and generally intimidating and unfriendly, though.
• Creepy Shadowed Undereyes: Which is getting more prominent after the Time Skip, and appropriately works as nice Guyliner.
• Curb Stomp Cushion: Unlike Eustass Kid's Suicidal Overconfidence which led to him and his whole crew getting completely wasted by Shanks in mere seconds, Law and his crew actually managed to deal notable damage to Blackbeard and his Crew. In the end, while Blackbeard very clearly won without too much trouble and Bepo had to pull one last desperate trick in order to escape with his Captain, Law very clearly was Defiant to the End against Blackbeard and managed to deal some pretty substantial blows before going down and his crew even got their licks in. Teach actually looks battered after their fight, in fact.
• Cynicism Catalyst: Having his home, friends, and family be completely razed to the ground by the World Government for having a lead disease everyone had completely wrong information about, and for being constantly refused proper treatment because of said wrong information, didn't do his sanity much good.
• Dangerous Forbidden Technique: The Op-Op Fruit can grant eternal youth at the cost of the user's life. Doflamingo claims that he didn't want Law to eat the Fruit back when Law was his valued subordinate for this reason.
• Dark and Troubled Past Law was born in Flevance, a beautiful and prosperous city known for its beautiful White Lead. It was discovered early that the material is actually a slow yet fatal poison, but the government tried to cover up for profit. By the time everyone found out about its side effects, the entire country has succumbed into lead poisoning. As an attempt to cover up corruption, the government spread a rumor about "White lead disease" being contagious and quarantined the country. Citizens wanted to live and tried to break out, which caused a war and ended up resulting in Flevance genocide. Law's parents were shot dead, his friends at school and church were tricked and killed, and his little sister was burned alive. After everything, he decided to join Doflamingo's crew to kill as much people as possible before his inevitable death by poison at 13. Corazon, Doflamingo's younger brother, then began helping him search for a cure to his disease. Over 6 months the two grew closer together, as Corazon understood what Law's pain was like and went to great effort to find a cure for him. When Corazon obtained the Op-Op Fruit for Law, the solution to his disease, he was killed by Doflamingo. Corazon had also managed to set an escape for Law from Doflamingo's grasp. Corazon was the father-figure who loved and saved Law while Doflamingo only valued Law as an instrument to die for him; Law then set forth to carry on Corazon's goal to stop Doflamingo's evil.
• Deadly Doctor: "Surgeon of Death" is pretty much a synonym to this trope's name.
• Deadpan Snarker: Practically his primary means of communication with the idiots of the Straw Hat crew and friends.
  Bartolomeo: Oi! Trafalgar! I threw yours [wanted poster] out in the trash but just in case you were wondering, it went up to 500 million.
  Law: Oh. Thanks. This is me caring.
• Death Glare: Can do a very frightening one when he gets pissed. It became a Running Gag with Baby 5. He looks so scary that he brings Baby 5 to tears, who then clings to Buffalo for protection.
• Defeating the Undefeatable: With Eustass Kid, he manages to defeat Big Mom on Onighashima after a grueling battle. The reaction of their crews is proud disbelief.
• Defeat Means Friendship: According to SBS Volume 84, this is how he met Shachi, Penguin, and Bepo. The latter was being bullied by the former two when Law stepped in and beat the crap out of them; all three were attracted by Law ever since, and the rest is history.
• Defector from Decadence: He was once part of Doflamingo's crew, having been recruited with the intention to mold him into the Third Corazon and Doffy's future right hand man, but after he killed Corazon, Law's father-figure, he defected from it and started plotting revenge.
• Defiant to the End:
  • In fact, he starts taunting both Caesar and Vergo when they start squeezing his heart. Noticeable, since it's one of the few times in the Punk Hazard arc that he is not merely stoic and focused.
  • When Doflamingo prepares to shoot him and offers him the chance to instead die with his Dangerous Forbidden Technique and get one wish, Law wishes... for Doflamingo to bring back Rocinante and show remorse to Dressrosa, then flips him off and says that he'll never beat the Straw Hats.
  • Despite his defeat at Blackbeard's hands and it becoming increasingly apparent that he's about to be killed for his Devil Fruit, the only begging he does is to Bepo, not wanting to leave the rest of the crew behind.
• Detachment Combat: His favorite way of attacking enemies. Unlike Buggy, he does this to other people, disorienting them too badly to fight properly. Fortunately for his victims, they can put themselves back together as long as he lets them live.
• Determinator: A natural trait considering he is a D. Specific to Law however is he devised a plan over 13 years to have revenge on Doflamingo for the death of Corazon. When the plan failed, he met Doflamingo in a battle that leads to having his arm severed but still wanting to finish off Doflamingo personally in a failed attack. As Luffy took over the fight, Law remained at the site, determined to observe the outcome and meet the consequences of victory or death.
• Dishing Out Dirt: He can use his Tact technique to make rock spikes come out of the ground to hit foes.
• Difficult, but Awesome: The Op-Op Fruit is regarded as having the highest potential out of all Devil Fruits. When Law first ate it, however, he couldn't even use it to heal Corazon from gunshots and a beating because he needed the medical knowledge of what he was doing first. It also tires him out simply by using it. When he's rested and knows what he's doing? The guy can cut mountains and flip battleships with ease.
• Dissonant Serenity: Given the nature of his powers, and the fact that he's a Perpetual Smiler, his fights tend to lead to this.
• Distressed Dude: The Dressrosa arc was not kind to him. By the end, he was beaten, shot, had childhood trauma shoved into his face, kidnapped and chained by Doflamingo, carried around helplessly by Luffy, beaten again, and had his arm ripped off by Doflamingo, and had his life force shortened for overusing his Devil Fruit.
• Doctor's Orders: The fact that he can, to an extent, warp reality (i.e issue order on everything) inside his "room" is a practical application of this.
• Does Not Like Spam: He hates bread. Was just a one-off comment when he was staying onboard the Thousand Sunny, but an official artwork by Oda (requested by a fan) showed Luffy and a monkey trying to force-feed Law some bread, which escalated into a full-on brawl. He also doesn't like umeboshi (pickled ume fruit).
• The Dog Bites Back: Law's entire plan was this. His intentions weren't to go after Kaido; while that would be a nice bonus, his goal was really to get revenge on Doflamingo. If Law doesn't kill Doflamingo himself and dies during their fight, then the destruction of the SMILE factory will ensure that Doflamingo will die anyway at the hands of Kaido.
• Domain Holder: Has the power of the Op-Op Fruit, which allows him to perform spontaneous operations (hence the name) on anyone or anything inside a sphere of space created by him, which he calls "Room". He uses his medical knowledge to inflict whatever effects he wants with minimum effort. Also, he carries around a great sword as his scalpel.
• Doomed Hometown: He hails from a city called Flevance or "The White City", which was centred around the mining of the fictional mineral Amber Lead. However, its people eventually suffered from Amber Lead Syndrome as the mineral was poisonous (something that the World Government had hidden from them). The disease turned their bodies white and caused excruciating pain before killing them, and it was also hereditary. Worse, the royalty fled from the island, abandoning them. Because the neighboring countries thought that the disease was contagious, they quarantined the city. Out of desperation, the people of Flevance started a war with the neighboring kingdoms and their city was burned to the ground.
• The Dreaded: Law was so notorious and feared that he managed to become one of the Seven Warlords of the Sea.
• Dr. Jerk: His blunt attitude makes him this. Such as when Jimbei asked him what would happen if Luffy keeps rampaging around after Law treated him, he simply said that Luffy's wounds would open up and he'd die.

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• Enemy Mine:
  • What he wanted his alliance with Luffy to be. Luffy, however, never saw it like that, viewing it instead as a friendship agreement. Though Law still tries to deny it, it's implied that, at some point, he stopped seeing it this way, too.
  • Forms a straighter example with Eustass Kid during the raid on Onigashima in Wano, especially once the two of them face off against Big Mom together. Kid is Not in This for Your Revolution and refuses to officially join Luffy's and Law's alliance, and Kid and Law make it pretty clear that they don't particularly like or trust each other, but they're nonetheless more than willing to work together to bring Big Mom down.
• Enfant Terrible: As a result of his truly horrific Dark and Troubled Past, Law (understandably) became a misanthropic, sadistic, nihilistic Creepy Child who sought to destroy the entire world and kill as many people as possible in the time he had left. Fortunately, due to Corazon's love, he became marginally better, but he's still a pretty immoral pirate nonetheless.
• Establishing Character Moment: His debut shows him of as a rather unsettling pirate who doesn't hesitate to flip off Eustass Kid (who is the Supernova with the highest bounty). This foreshadows that he's not someone to be trifled with, as well as someone who shares Luffy's disrespect for authority. He also shows a softer side by freeing Jean Bart later on.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Downplayed since he's not actually evil, but is known for his cruelty and sadism, and is certainly guilty of Offstage Villainy. Despite this, Law deeply loves his crew, his biological family, and Corazon.
• Face Death with Dignity: As typical of a D., though he doesn't die, Law doesn't cower in the face of certain death.
  • When Doflamingo gives him a last chance to surrender and perform the operation on him for immortality, Law mocks him and tells him to piss off.
  • After Blackbeard destroys his ship and has him cornered, Law doesn't beg for his life even for a second and tries to ensure his crew get off safely even if they have to leave him behind.
• "Facing the Bullets" One-Liner: When Doflamingo has Law completely at his mercy, he tells Law that if he performs the immortality surgery on him, he'll grant Law whatever he desires. Law agrees to his offer... with his request being for Doflamingo to bring Corazon back to life and kiss the ass of everyone in Dressrosa.
• A Father to His Men: Law deeply cares about his crew. During Egghead when Blackbeard has Law on the verge of death after stealing his Poneglyph rubbings and destroying his submarine, the only thing on Law's mind is the safety of his crew.
• Fire-Forged Friends: With the Straw Hats. While he's still exasperated by some of their antics, it’s clear that he's come to respect them in his time working with them.
• Flipping the Bird:
  • Does this to Kid at one point. In the anime, this was censored to Law giving him a smug smile.
  • Does it toward Doflamingo after claiming that he'll never beat the Straw Hats, before Doffy starts shooting him.
• Fluffy the Terrible: His crew, the "Heart Pirates". The name doesn't makes sense until we find out Law uses his power for tearing out the live hearts of his enemies. This gets even more clever as it's revealed that Law was once a member of the Donquixote family, who uses a card suit motif. The Heart seat of Doflamingo's Top Executives was supposed to be for Law before he defected. And as another bonus, the reason why he left was due to the death of Corazon, Doflamingo's brother. Corazon is Spanish for "heart", and Corazon was Law's idol, so the "Heart Pirates" might actually be named in tribute to him. It turns out the Heart seat of Doffy's Top Executives was Corazon's, and after his death it was left vacant for Law to take up.
• Flower Motifs: Dutchman's Pipe Cactus, as revealed in SBS volume 95.
• Foil:
  • Law contrasts his Arch-Enemy, Donquixote Doflamingo.
    • Doflamingo is brightly-colored and flamboyant, Law is darkly-colored and grim.
    • There are so many contrasts between them, but perhaps the most important one is that Doflamingo is a World Noble and Law is a D., whose respective lines are also arch-enemies. Doflamingo claims not to care for the conflict, but it's what finally cements his hatred of Law and causes him to give up on recruiting Law back to his side. Law actually doesn't care for it ^note especially since the reason he hates Doflamingo so much is for killing someone important to him, who just happened to also have World Noble heritage, but brings it up to exploit how much it pisses Doflamingo off. This also shows their attitude towards their own lineages as well: Doflamingo is obsessed with his World Noble heritage because it's the only thing that puts him above the common people, but at the same time hates the World Nobles themselves for rejecting him. Law doesn't know much about the Will of D. and doesn't care much for it by itself, but still firmly believes in his fellow D. carriers thanks to their many actions throughout history.
    • As someone who is Not Afraid to Die, he also provides a contrast to Doflamingo's Immortality Seeker. Doflamingo, while it hasn't been prominent, has a clear fear of death that led to his obsession over the Op-Op Fruit. Law, on top of being a D, has no fear of death considering that the only reason he survived to this very day was for the sake of the man who saved his life and gave him the chance to live at the cost of his own. Thus, he has no interest in his Devil Fruit's ability to grant immortality and gleefully mocks Doflamingo when the latter attempts to coerce him into using it on him.
• Foreshadowing: The Jolly Roger for the Heart Pirates is strikingly similar to the Jolly Roger of the Donquixote Family, hinting at a connection between Law and Doflamingo which receives a significant amount of development later on.
• Four Is Death: Fittingly for the Surgeon of Death, his former bounty is at 440 million.
• Freak Out: While still a young boy attending the academy in Flevance, Law was a kind and devoted child aspiring to become a great doctor like his father and mother while happily going to festivals with his beloved family. Upon the destruction of his homeland, the annihilation of his classmates and family, and being diagnosed with no more than 3 years to live, Law suffered a mental breakdown, becoming unstable and eventually desiring to join Doflamingo's crew so he could destroy everything around him. Only after having been cured of his illness by Corazon did Law have a change of heart.
• "Freaky Friday" Flip: He has the power to do it to other people by using the Op-Op Fruit to switch their hearts. Not literally, mind you, more like a cartoonish heart that seems to represent their soul or whatever. (He can literally steal hearts, too, but that's an entirely different thing.)
• Freudian Excuse: Law is a distrustful, morally gray man with streaks of cruelty. This is due to his traumatizing childhood: Law's homeland was poisoned by the World Government for generations for profit, then once the symptoms showed up, the country was quarantined and massacred to silence the people. Law's friends were tricked and killed, his parents were shot, his little sister was burned alive, and 10-year-old Law ended up escaping by hiding under a pile of corpses. Having lost everything he loved and bearing a deadly poison within, Law decided he wanted to spend the last three years of his life killing as many people as possible and joined the Donquixote Pirates, where he met Corazon. Corazon took a dying Law and escaped, trying everything to cure his Amber Lead Disease and guide Law back to hope, and ended up being killed for stealing the cure for Law. While still a cynical and bitter man, it was thanks to Corazon that Law didn't end up a crazed murderer.
• Friendly Enemy: He is willing to save a rival pirate because even a relationship with a future enemy is still a relationship. Ironically, he ends up becoming friends with Luffy for real two years later.
• Friendship Denial: He would never admit it, but Law has grown to become a genuine friend of the Straw Hats over the course of the New World. Played for Laughs when he and the Straw Hats go their separate ways at the end of the Wano arc.
  Law: If we ever run into each other again out there, we're total enemies. If people die, so be it.
  Luffy: Yeah, totally.
  Chopper: See ya later, Traffy!
  Law: Shut up.
  Chopper: Aww!
• From Bad to Worse: Played for laughs with his alliance with Luffy. Law looks like he could break down and cry any minute now from the Straw Hat crew's eccentric natures, and all of Law's plans with the Straw Hats just sort of go up in smoke despite his best efforts, planning, and pre-preparation (which turn out to be things like a crude map drawn by Bepo in a marker pen, not even having an official map of Dressrosa). And then played more seriously when Doflamingo outgambits Law and basically gets Fujitora to revoke Law's Warlord status by putting him on the spot (though Fujitora specifically gave Law a way to get around this and Law refused to take it), so then Law had to deal with Doflamingo AND a Marine Admiral at the same time. The whole thing escalated when Usopp managed to undo Sugar's curse on all the toys, causing mass chaos in Dressrosa and forcing Doffy to initiate the Birdcage plan; at that point, Law decided that even though he originally wanted to just destroy Doffy's SMILE factory, Doffy now had to be personally stopped, even if Kaido would be pissed off at Luffy and Law as a result.
• From Nobody to Nightmare: Trafalgar Law went from being the sole survivor of a genocide who was doomed to die as a child to one of the most powerful, feared, and unpredictable pirates in the series.
• Gang of Hats: All of the Heart Pirates (minus the Captain and newest Jean Bart) wears the identical white boiler suit (and orange for the white talking bear). Post timeskip shows Jean Bart wearing the same outfit as the rest of the crew.
• Genocide Survivor: Trafalgar Law's backstory had his hometown of Flevance massacred by neighboring countries due to a lie being spread about a skin disease called, "Amber Lead Syndrome", claiming that it was contagious. In reality, it was not contagious, it was a hereditary disease caused by generations of the kingdom's populace mining for the Amber Lead and turning it into various goods. The World Government and the kingdom's royalty were fully aware of how deadly amber lead was and that the disease was not contagious, but didn't reveal it to the public because of all the money they were making from trading amber lead goods. Once the symptoms became more and more noticeable, the royalty fled the country and abandoned the people, leaving them to fend for themselves as the neighboring countries quarantined the borders and then started killing the people to "contain the disease". This eventually culminated in the people grabbing weapons to fight back, only for the countries to invade and slaughter them under the obviously fake excuse of, "self-defense", ending with the entirety of Flevance being wiped out. Law only managed to survive by hiding under a pile of corpses that were being wheeled out of the country.
• Goal in Life:
  • Ever since Doflamingo murdered Law's Parental Substitute Rocinante when Law was 13, he's spent the next 13 years (literally half his life) planning to get Revenge on Doflamingo and bring down his entire empire, even if he dies trying (in fact, Law's dialogue with other characters about it indicates that he expects to die in the process). Thanks to his alliance's victory in Dressrosa, with Luffy defeating Doflamingo, this goal is finally achieved.
  • Afterwards, from Zou onwards, his new life goal is not too dissimilar to Robin's: Law wants to learn about the history and hidden secrets of the world, and more specifically, the Secret Legacy of the Will of D., of which Law is also a member.
• Good Hair, Evil Hair: Sports a goatee, which usually indicates a mysterious persona, antiheroism, and an outsider.
• Guest-Star Party Member: He allies with the Straw Hats in Punk Hazard, and is present all through Dressrosa, Zou, and Wano. He's become such a prominent one in the canon storyline that it carries over to several non-canon appearances in movies and video games as well, including Pirate Warriors 2, Coliseum Mode of Unlimited World Red, World Seeker, Stampede, and Film: Red.
• Half the Man He Used to Be: The Op-Op Fruit lets Law slice a target without truly harming or killing them, meaning he can leave his opponent as a shambling collection of body parts. Notably, of all the victims of this during the Punk Hazard arc, only one of them wasn't a victim of his.
• Handicapped Badass: Doflamingo severs his right arm in the heat of their battle. Doesn't stop him from grinding Doflamingo's organs to mush with his remaining hand via Gamma Knife, or grievously injuring Trebol using his severed arm. Afterwards, Law reattaches back his arm
• Happily Adopted: There's many good reasons why Law considers Corazon to be the most important person in his life.
• Heart Is an Awesome Power: When he first demonstrates his power, it seems a bit odd, and he's quite literally dwarfed by Luffy and Kid's physical abilities. Two years later, he's slicing up battleships for lulz and it's implied he became a Warlord by sending the Marines 100 still beating pirate hearts. And then he cuts a mountain in half, while informing Doflamingo that the new generation has arrived. Later, Doflamingo reveals that the Op-Op Fruit is considered to be among the most valuable Devil Fruits out there. Specifically, with the Op-Op Fruit's potential to grant someone eternal youth — though, ultimately, at the cost of the user's life. He also literally gained his awesome power from a heart-shaped Fruit.
• Heel–Face Revolving Door: Played with. Law is introduced as The Rival for Luffy alongside Kid, then saves Luffy's life, then seems to have gone full Heel by becoming a Warlord, then swings into Face territory when we realize his true intentions in Dressrosa. However, his motives and end goal never really changed, he's spent the whole time gunning for Doflamingo, it just took a long time for that to come to light.
• Heroic RRoD: Apparently, using his Devil Fruit powers is physically draining, so Law tries to defy this trope by preserving his energy before upcoming major fights.
• Herr Doktor: According to Volume 88 of the SBS, he would be a doctor from Germany in real-life.
• Hidden Depths: Beneath the veneer of cruelty that he's built up for himself over the course of his career as a pirate, Law has real empathy and compassion for others, even if he rarely shows it. He displays genuine disgust for Caesar Clown's experiments, acquiesces to the Straw Hats' requests to save the young children trapped by the Mad Scientist, and values his partnership with them so much that he goes out of his way to keep them out of his personal conflict with Doflamingo. To the point that if Luffy dies in the battle against Doflamingo, Law fully intends to follow him as penance for dragging him into what he considers his battle. He's also something of a Closet Geek.
• Hidden Heart of Gold: Law is cold, blunt, and distant. However, for all his faults, Law has shown time and again that despite what others think of him due to his reputation, he truly has a good heart and true compassion for others in spite of his jaded outlook on life.
• Honorary True Companion: Law becomes this to the Straw Hats thanks to their alliance. Initially, Law wanted to keep it as strictly an Enemy Mine relationship, but Luffy being Luffy, pulled him closer to the fold. By the time the Dressrosa arc ends, they're pretty much best friends and Law himself is the only one in denial about it.
• Honor Before Reason: Near the tail end of the Dressrosa arc Law refuses to run to safety with Robin and the others when Luffy is fighting Doflamingo. In Law's eyes, he's the one who got Luffy into this mess in the first place. If Luffy dies, then so should he.
• How Do I Shot Web?: In the flashback, just after he ate the Op-Op Fruit, he tried to heal the wounded Corazon to no avail. The latter reminded him that this power is "not magic" and his medical expertise should help him.
• Humble Hero: More like "humble anti-hero", as Law isn't the nicest of people, but he's surprisingly quite humble in regard to his own reputation.
  • After freeing Jean Bart during the Sabaody Archipelago Arc, when Jean thanks Law for freeing him. Law states he should thank Luffy since he was the one who caused the ruckus; Law was just taking advantage of the situation.
  • After defeating Doflamingo and reuniting with his crew, which praises him for his victory, Law gives most (if not all) of the credit for Doflamingo's defeat to Luffy.
  • After his and Kid's win over Big Mom, while Kid is furious he didn't become an Emperor for his win, Law takes his massive bounty increase in stride and doesn't let it go to his head.
• I Owe You My Life: For saving his life, Law became indebted to Corazon. At the same time, he feels the freedom he obtained because of Corazon can't be repaid until he accomplishes Cora's greatest wish to stop his evil brother's madness.
• Icy Gray Eyes: Gray eyes in the anime. Fitting considering how cold and unapproachable he is.
• Immortality Inducer: According to Doflamingo, the ultimate technique of the Op-Op Fruit is to grant another person eternal youth. This fact has made it one of the most highly sought-after Devil Fruits in the world. But using it will cost the user their life. If word of that ever got out to the masses, Law would become one of the most wanted men on the planet. It's implied that though Corazon's death defined Law's future, Law himself had already lost any chance he had of living a normal life the moment he ate the Fruit.
• In-Universe Catharsis: In the Dressrosa arc, he settles the score with Donquixote Doflamingo, the one who killed Corazon when Law was a child, after obsessing with revenge for thirteen years. When the dust settles, Law is finally able to move on with his life.
• Informed Ability: According to Doflamingo, Law learned marksmanship from Gladius, but Law is never seen using a gun in the present.
• Informed Flaw: Seems as such at first. Law is stated to be a coldly cruel pirate, and even Kid seemed a bit wary of the rumors surrounding him. From what was seen of him, though, Law seems to have a very friendly relationship with his crew, took pity on an enslaved pirate captain, and risked his life to save Luffy for no particular reason. Subverted to high hell, though, given the "resume" he sent to Marine HQ for a position among the Seven Warlords of the Sea.
• In-Series Nickname: He's been referred to as "Traffy" (or Torao in Japanese) by the Straw Hats since the Punk Hazard Arc, as Luffy cannot pronounce Law's surname to save his life.
• Intergenerational Friendship:
  • With Wolf, the eccentric old inventor that allowed a young Law, Bepo, Shachi, and Penguin to live with him for several years on Swallow Island. He's also the one who invented and built the Polar Tang, eventually gifting it to Law when he formed the Heart Pirates.
  • Also applies to Rudd, a police officer on Swallow Island who gets along well with Law and excitedly shows Wolf a newspaper featuring the latest exploits of the Heart Pirates in the North Blue. .
• Ironic Name: His name is Law, and he’s a notorious outlaw.
• It Amused Me:
  • Or rather, It Will Amuse Me. His stated reason for saving Luffy from the Marines was because it'd be "too lame" if he had died then and there.
  • This is Law's fighting style in general. His ability allows him to cut his opponents' body parts without actually killing or harming them. In his first on-screen fight in the series, he was juggling the body parts of Marines.
  • After defeating Tashigi and leaving her alive, and then after chopping her in half, she demands that Law finish her off. He instead taunts her and decides it would be more fun to cut her into even smaller pieces.
• It's Personal: He made things personal with his former boss, Donquixote Doflamingo, when he betrayed him and killed two loyal subordinates, along with setting him up to be royally fucked over. It all started however, when 13 years ago Doflamingo murdered his younger brother Corazon, who had saved Law's life.
  • He ended the alliance with the Straw Hats, revealing to Doflamingo that he only intended to have them destroy the SMILE factory to ensure that no matter what happens, Doflamingo will die, as he was the main target all along. Law never intended to go after Kaido, as his desire to have revenge on Doflamingo for murdering Corazon 13 years prior, and as much as he would love to see the chaos that would enfold after Doflamingo's death, he is fully prepared to die if necessary to get his revenge.
  • Later on, he would also admit outright to Luffy that despite doing as many indirect things as possible to screw Doflamingo over, due to how his plans against him started to fall apart, Law himself decides to settle with hurting Doflamingo directly like several others have wanted to do as well.
• Jade-Colored Glasses: Zig-zagged somewhat. He began as a somewhat creepy but still kind child, then became a cold, cruel, evil, heartless, sadistic, misanthropic nihilist after the genocide of Flevance, but then ended up softening slightly due to Corazon's influence. Nowadays, while he's still cold, cruel, and sadistic, he's also capable of compassion and empathy, and he dearly loves his crew and Corazon, has become quite close to Luffy, and tends to treat his allies pretty well.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: In his backstory, he used to be quite the jerk (a jerk with a bad past, but still), but then his idol Corazon's actions made him more caring towards the lives of his closest associates. Nowadays, he's still rather cold to everyone, but if someone close to him needs helping, he will do it.
  • He has a soft spot for sick (and poisoned) children, which is not surprising considering his past.
  • He does have some regard for innocents, and seems to want to keep them out of his or the alliance's conflicts:
    • He clearly is enraged by Doflamingo's treatment of the Dressrosan citizens. When asked what his final wish is, Law demands that Doflamingo bring Corazon back and follows that with a demand for Doffy to "lick the ass of every single citizen in this country".
    • He also does his best to protect the Straw Hats from Doflamingo, even stating that they have nothing to do with the conflict between Law and Doffy.
    • He points out to Luffy that their alliance staying in Zou after it was attacked by Jack is a bad idea, asking what will happen to the citizens there if Zou is attacked again.
  • Seen more in Wano when, after Luffy becomes a hero of Leftover Town by stealing fresh food and bringing it to them, Law expresses disgust at the idea of a benevolent pirate... and yet, despite his reputation as a "cruel" pirate, it's established in the previous chapter that he avoids killing people whenever possible. And was even stealing food for some of Wano's starving citizens himself.
• Katanas Are Just Better: His weapon of choice is a nodachi, which he uses as a sort of "doctor's scalpel" when using his powers to chop things up at long range.
• Ki Manipulation: He is a confirmed user of Haki, which is probably how he was able to cut Smoker's heart out.
• Kick the Dog: "The weak do not have the right to choose how they die." is a line he tells Tashigi when she berates him for not killing her after slicing her apart. It's a line he picked up from his former captain, Doflamingo.
• Knight in Sour Armor: Law is willing to help others if need be, but he won't be thrilled about it. It goes to show he's still a doctor at the end of the day.
• Kubrick Stare: Complementing his intimidating presence to the opponents. Occasionally accompanied by the mysterious vibes of Hidden Eyes and Face Framed in Shadow from underneath his hat.
• Laser Blade: His Gamma Knife technique has him making a small blade of Pure Energy that is used to cut through internal organs.
• Laser-Guided Karma:
  • For all his deeds, he gets his own heart removed and squeezed by Vergo, briefly passing out in agony.
  • For all the limb-cutting that he did, he gets his right arm severed by Doflamingo. Painfully, of course.
  • That being said, he also gets the positive version of this, in a big way. Despite being rivals in their search for One Piece, Law and his crew risk their lives to rescue Luffy from Marineford. This act of bravery earns Law Luffy's trust and admiration, leading to their eventual alliance. Together, they succeed in defeating Doflamingo and his empire, a goal Law had been pursuing for thirteen years. Throughout their battles, Luffy and his allies save Law's life multiple times. This alliance proves to be fruitful, as they ultimately defeat Kaido and Big Mom's alliance in Wano, gaining access to the former Emperors' Road Poneglyph rubbings and increasing their bounties and reputations. Although only Luffy is named Emperor, their joint efforts and Law's sacrifices are instrumental to their success.
• Last of His Kind: Law is the only known survivor of the country of Flevance.
• Lean and Mean: While he isn't extremely thin, he does stand out since the standard male in One Piece is either big and very muscular or massive and extremely muscular. He's not as mean as many of the pirates in the setting, but is significantly colder and more anti-heroic than the Straw Hats.
• Leitmotif: Trafalgar Law Eyecatcher
• Love Makes You Crazy: A noble and platonic example. All throughout Dressrosa, Law delivered some long, dramatic, pretty uncharacteristic speeches that claimed that everything he was doing was for the sake of his "most cherished person", Corazon, that he only bothered to live this long in order to fulfill his wishes, and that he would happily destroy the entire world if it was for his sake. He specifically refers to Corazon as his savior. And even after having his arm cut off and being on the verge of death, he still forced himself to crawl forward towards Doflamingo, all for the sake of avenging Corazon.
• Love Makes You Evil: Not truly evil, but definitely willing to go to some pretty dark places. However, he's a very sympathetic and platonic example. For the sake of avenging and fulfilling the greatest wish of his "most cherished person", Corazon, Law did a lot of downright nasty things, which included, among others, sending 100 still-beating hearts to the World Government; initially being willing to abandon sick and dying children — despite the fact that he suffered from the same fate as a child and that he was disgusted with the person who did this to them — because healing them would be too big of a bother; being willing to destroy the entire world; and much, much more.
• Madden Into Misanthropy: The Law that appeared before Doflamingo looking to destroy everything in sight, and even the Law today, is the way he is because of his very traumatic childhood: He grew up in Flevance, or "The White City", where the people were slowly dying from Amber Lead poisoning. While studying to become a doctor and grow up to treat the illness, the war the country became involved in killed his family and everyone he ever knew. And he only survived by hiding in the dead bodies carted out of the quarantine zone. That would screw up anyone.
• Mad Doctor: When he treats Luffy and Jimbei, he notes that they won't be able to feel the pain anyway because they already passed out, even if he doesn't use anesthesia, and determines that it's going to be a "fun" operation. Not to mention the deal with his "operation room" power and the antics he does with it.
• Meaningful Name:
  • The Heart Pirates were most likely named after Corazon, which means "heart" in Spanish.
  • Law's full name, Trafalgar D. Water Law, seems to be taken from two famous battles in real world history, the Battle of Trafalgar and the Battle of Waterloo. This takes on a deeper meaning when one considers that the name of Big Mom's sword is Napoleon. Napoleon faced his greatest naval defeat in the Battle of Trafalgar and he was ultimately defeated in the Battle of Waterloo. Fittingly, Law achieves the impossible while working with Eustace Kid by dragging the Emperor drown from her throne.
• Magnificent Mustaches of Mexico: Subverted when he's rocking one in the Dressrosa Arc, during his disguise towards Green Bit.
• Messy Hair: In fact, without the hat he resembles Luffy. He's still quite attractive though.
• Mind over Matter: His "Tact" technique, which allows him to levitate stuff inside Room.
• Morally Ambiguous Doctorate: Subverted. Despite the way he announces his profession (on top of being a pirate), and the fact that his Red Baron is "Surgeon of Death", he is a pretty damn skilled doctor, because he was able to save both Luffy and Jimbei from the brink of death, despite how serious the injuries they had received during the war were. Ironically, he probably doesn't have the One Piece world's version of a medical degree due to his circumstances as a teenager and young adult. Being on the run as a pirate makes higher education challenging. However, both of his parents were doctors, so it can be argued that he was instead apprenticed very young.
• Mr. Fanservice: Just look at him and try to say he isn't.
• The Most Wanted: The Ope-Ope Fruit is stated by Doflamingo to be the "ultimate Devil Fruit" thanks to its extreme versatility, miraculous medical applications, and ability to grant eternal youth (at the cost of its user's life). When it was last up for sale thirteen years ago by the Barrels Pirates, it's estimated worth was at least 5 billion berries to the Marines and other potential buyers. This makes the fruit nearly as valuable and sought after as Gol D. Roger himself, though this isn't reflected in Law's bounty.
• Multiple Gunshot Death: Subverted. Doflamingo became infuriated with Law's revenge ploy; mindlessly emptying his pistol into Law while ranting and belittling him for not holding the heart seat and misunderstanding the tribute to Corazon that Law represents. Doffy even says along the lines of "Luffy will be surprised to find your body" after he does it. Law isn't killed however, having switched his body with a corpse before being shot.
• Mysterious Middle Initial: The D in his name is attributed to the mysterious "Will of D", which somehow connects Law and a few other notable individuals throughout the story to the World Government and the Celestial Dragons.

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• Names to Run Away from Really Fast: He's named after a (or rather, two) historical war, and a notoriously cruel real life pirate. And dude is surely good at stirring up chaos if he wants to.
• Nerves of Steel:
  • He's able to keep his cool and perform surgery on Luffy and Jimbei even while his submarine is being knocked back and forth by the Marine Admirals' attacks, and the rest of his crew panicking as they're jostled around.
  • During the moment when Doflamingo chooses to taunt him over Corazon's failed attempt to save Dressrosa, Law dismisses the idea that the situation could have been averted, which even surprises Doflamingo on how level-headed he is. Then, when he taunts the beaten and bloodied Law again and offers to let him die via the Immortality Surgery in exchange for one last wish, Law smiles, agrees... and wishes for Doflamingo to bring Corazon back to life and then lick the asshole of every single citizen in Dressrosa, before promptly flipping him off and telling him that he'll never beat the Straw Hats or get Caesar back.
  • During the Onigashima Raid, Law displays this with Eustass Kid when they are unaffected by Big Mom's Soul Pocus, which is only possible if her target isn't afraid of her.
    "Do they not have a single ounce of fear for an Emperor of the Sea?!"
  • During the Egghead Arc and his defeat at Blackbeard's hands, Law isn't afraid of the latter in the slightest while he is about to be killed, and his only worry is about his crew.
• New Era Speech: Gives a very notable one to Doflamingo at the end of the Punk Hazard arc as he destroys the SAD production room—an action which sets off a domino effect that ends with the downfall of Doflamingo, the abolition of the Warlord system, Big Mom and Kaido being torn down from their thrones, and the Straw Hats and the Cross Guild rising to the rank of Emperor.
  "It's been two years since the Paramount War. And who exactly has been moving events? You've done nothing more than maintain peace and tranquility. Whitebeard only left his mark on our times. The Navy has bolstered itself with new strength. None of the other big players have acted... as though they've only been preparing. That war was nothing more than a prologue. Like you've always said, a new age is coming with unmatched power. An age of the daring and mighty! Well, now I've destroyed the gears. And no one can turn back!"
• Ninja Log: His "Shambles" move allows him to switch things around — that includes switching himself with objects. He even uses a literal log when saving Sanji from Doflamingo.
• Noble Demon: Law may have sent one hundred hearts of pirates to the Marines as his application to become a Warlord, however he reacts with disgust to Caesar's disregard to the children, knowing they would die and the Mad Scientist just doesn't care.
• No Badass to His Valet: Despite his massive power, having a huge bounty, and being an ally to Luffy, Bartolomeo does not care about him at all as he throws Law's new bounty poster in the trash and refuses to give him any of his provisions, but is more then willing to give it all to Luffy.
• No Celebrities Were Harmed: Bears more than a passing resemblance to Mystery, the Pickup Artist, in both looks and dress. May help explain his popularity. Also to the well-known Italian Moto GP World Champion Valentino Rossi, who is also conveniently known as "The Doctor".
• Noodle Incident: Law is considered the mastermind of the "Rocky Port" incident, which also involved Koby and Blackbeard. Very little is known about this incident other than the fact that it took place at Fullalead, involved Blackbeard defeating Wang Zhii of the Rocks Pirates, and that this is how Law came to possess the 100 beating pirate hearts that he gave to the World Government.
• No One Gets Left Behind: After being defeated by Blackbeard and having to be saved by Bepo who was forced to flee, Law tries to get the Mink to go back for the rest of the crew. Bepo replies that he can't but advises Law to trust that they'll be okay and eventually find their way back together.
• No-Sell: During the Raid on Onighashima, Law is unaffected by Big Mom's Devil Fruit abilities, as he simply isn't afraid of her.
• Not Afraid to Die: Comes with being a D. He doesn't fear death and faces his doom with a smile on his face.
  • While having his heart squeezed by Caesar and Vergo, instead of begging for mercy Law merely taunts them into squeezing it harder. This, along with Law's own admission that he doesn't care if he has to die to get his revenge on Doflamingo, were one of the first real indicators of his real name.
  • Likewise, after having his arm cut off and beaten by both Doflamingo and Trebol, Doflamingo offers Law anything in exchange for the immortality operation. Law just flips him off, tells him where he can stick his offer and states the Straw Hats are gonna kick his ass before Doflamingo shoots him again.
• Not Distracted by the Sexy: Not outright pointed out, but Law is one of the very few men not taken by the extreme beauty of Boa Hancock and the rest of the Kuja Pirates. It could be that he is "a doctor before all else" kind of person and that his mellow and laidback personality makes it much more difficult for him to be visibly flustered and swept away.
• Not So Above It All: Since their alliance, Law has been simply shocked at how goofy the Straw Hats are, despite their reputation for being a thorn in the World Government's side. This has actually been happening in small doses ever since the alliance was established. The more time Law spends with the Straw Hats, the more susceptible he is to taking part of their hijinks. It's not long before he realizes that Luffy's not going to be the Unwitting Pawn that Law expected him to be, or that he was never really in control of the alliance in the first place.
  • Law keeps his cool as being the Only Sane Man... until Sanji says he's making sandwiches for breakfast and Law admits he doesn't like bread, only to make a shocked face as he realizes to have said something silly.
  • In the Zou arc, Law joins the crew on speculating cool things that a ninja like Raizo can do. He specifically says "a clone jutsu would be nice." Sure enough, clone jutsu is one of the techniques Raizo displays seconds after.
  • The Wano arc reveals that Law, as someone who originally lived in the North Blue, was an avid comic book fan and used to read the comic strip of Sora and the fight against the evil Germa 66. He therefore immediately recognizes Sanji's Germa raid suit and explains in detail what "Stealth Black" is capable of.
  • While fighting Big Mom along with Kid and Luffy, Law immediately take part in a stupid challenge Luffy declares (whoever dodges out of the way of one of Big Mom's fireballs first loses) as soon as Luffy says he'd lose if he didn't play.
  • When he's fighting Big Mom alongside Kid, he gets jealous when he thinks Kid's starting to upstage him. It says something when Kid of all people is the more reasonable one in that situation.
• Not So Stoic: The antics of Luffy's crew are beyond even his ability to resist.
• Not What I Signed on For:
  • After finding out just what Caesar Clown was doing with the kids, he basically told him that he wanted no part of it and was done working with him.
  • On a more humorous note, Law's pirate alliance doesn't quite turn out the way he'd anticipated, mostly because Luffy sees the alliance as a friendship pact rather than a business relationship. Which seems to have rubbed off on Law as well, since Admiral Fujitora tells Law he'll be given a pass for everything he's done if he just says the Straw Hats are his minions (since the Seven Warlords are allowed to do such things) and Law defiantly says that Luffy is his partner.
• Odd Friendship: Out of all the Straw Hats, excluding Luffy, Law gets along the most with Robin. They both have a deep desire to learn the truth of the Void Century and the Will of the D. It helps that Law admits he trusts Robin enough to divulge his true name to her and spends time alone with her looking for Poneglyphs after the Raid on Onigashima.
• Oh, Crap!:
  • His reaction upon realizing that a) Doflamingo did not actually abdicate his post on the Warlords, b) that he used that whole ordeal as a way of luring him into his territory, and c) that he and Admiral Fujitora are closing in on him and preparing to kick his ass. A part of that is the implications of what Doflamingo did. Fooling the entire world just for a mere ten people is something way beyond the power of a Warlord. The only people who have the power to pull off such a thing... are the World Nobles. It's understandable that Law would freak out at the possibility that one of the Seven Warlords of the Sea is a World Noble, let alone the most psychotic and dangerous one.
  • Another one is when he realized that Doflamingo is going to use the Birdcage.
• Omnicidal Maniac: After witnessing everyone he loved died as a child, he desired to become like Doflamingo and cause as much destruction as possible, also feeling that's all he could accomplish before he died of his lead disease. This is no longer the case after Corazon managed to save him from his illness and showed him compassion.
• Only Sane Man:
  • In comparison to the Straw Hats. As time goes on, it becomes evident that not even he is immune to their hijinks.
  • Zigzagged, when compared with his own crew, who have a penchant for "Super Sentai" Stance and other goofy behavior. However, for example in Chapter 919, Law talks about Kin'emon being in the bathroom all day due to diarrhea in such a way that he made it seem like Kin was dead and haunting the land as a ghost. Luffy even called him out for being so creepily cryptic!!
• O.O.C. Is Serious Business: In Chapter 798, Law speaks with retired Fleet Admiral Sengoku about Cora's death, both of them reminiscing over the fact that the only other person who truly remembers and loved Donquixote Rocinante is someone who, at any other time, would be their mortal enemy. Throughout the entire exchange, Law is nothing but respectful and polite to Cora's adoptive father, only raising his voice once to express his own love and devotion to Corazon. All Sengoku requests in return for Cora's Heroic Sacrifice is that Law continue to live a free life, which is what Rocinante would've wanted.
• Organ Theft: Law’s Devil Fruit allows him to steal the hearts of people, either for a quick kill, to blackmail them into doing his business or as an insurance that they won’t attack him later on, as he did with Smoker, Tashigi and Monet.
• Papa Wolf: In Chapter 938, when Shinobu accuses Bepo, Shachi, and Penguin (who've been captured) of spilling the details of the Alliance's now-leaked plans to the enemy. He furiously insists that his crew would rather die than betray them and that Shinobu shouldn't insult them, states that he'll prove this to her after they're rescued, and gives her a massive Death Glare when she states that captured alliance members should just be killed to keep them from talking.
• Perpetual Smiler: Which verges on Dissonant Serenity. The trait is downplayed after the timeskip.
• Person of Mass Destruction: Especially considering he cut a mountain range in half.
• Pet the Dog:
  • While his introduction more or less establishes Law as a dangerous man who isn't afraid to pick a fight with the likes of Eustass Kid, he is also shown to be capable of kindness by releasing Jean Bart from being a slave to the World Nobles, after which the former captain thanks Law by willingly joining his crew.
  • He and his crew show up to save Luffy at Marineford, completely out of nowhere and with no obligation to do so. While it's certainly possible that he had his own agenda for doing so (or because of Luffy and Law both being carriers of the Will of D.), the fact still remains that Law greatly risked his and his crew's lives to save a rival pirate he only met once.
  • On a similar note, when Law tells Buggy to hand Luffy over to his care, Buggy gives him both Luffy and Jimbei, since he'd been guarding them both. Jimbei was a complete stranger to Law, and given the nasty reputation he'd acquired and the fact that he was only there for Luffy, Law could have easily left him behind; however, he instead treated and saved both of them nonetheless.
  • Despite his desire for revenge on Doflamingo, Law has no desire for the Straw Hats to get in the crossfire, stating that their conflict has nothing to do with them. This leads to him taking many risks to save their lives.
  • Knowing how much Robin wishes to know about the Void Century and the Will of D., Law tells her everything he knows about the matter because he trusts her. Given Law's serious trust issues, that says something.
  • Before leaving Wano, Law gives Kid a copy of the Road Ponygliph citing that, while he still doesn't like Kid, Law believes that Kid had earned a copy for being such a vital ally to them during the fight against Kaido.
• Plot Parallel: Law's and Doflamingo's pasts are shown back-to-back, reflecting how both of them as children had the same seething hatred against a world that screwed them over. Doflamingo was given the means and encouragement to act on that hatred, murdering his own father in cold blood and committing heinous atrocities whenever it suited him. In the end, Doflamingo's hatred twisted him into the irredeemable monster he currently is, now driven by a desire to take revenge on the entire world by fueling Kaido's plans to plunge the world into a chaotic war. Law was saved from his hatred by Cora, whose subsequent murder at Doflamingo's hands caused Law to change his goals from revenge on the entire world to revenge on only Doflamingo. When Doflamingo meets his downfall in the Dressrosa arc, Law is able to move on with his life in a far healthier direction, now driven by a desire to discover the "Will of D"'s meaning.
• Psychotic Smirk: His glorious one when finally getting access to the SAD room causes a lot of people to once again question his intentions.
• Rank Scales with Asskicking: When he's a Warlord, he beats Smoker in a one-on-one fight, a feat that not even Luffy has managed (though admittedly one he probably could now). On a more general note, he's the captain of the Heart Pirates and seems to exercise his authority in the role more than Luffy does; he is also almost certainly the strongest member. The Dressrosa Arc reveals he was taken in as a child by Doflamingo to become his future right-hand man and the third holder of the title of Corazon. As a result, in his youth Law receives rigorous training and an extensive education in order to prepare him for his future role as the Number Two of the Donquixote Family. Following his defection, he uses the skills he was taught against his former crew and kills the first 'Corazon' Vergo during the events at Punk Hazard, lands a devastating blow to Trebol that leads to his defeat, and even manages to deal near-fatal damage to Doflamingo, all while gravely incapacitated.
• "The Reason You Suck" Speech:
  • Gives a rather nice one to Doflamingo, deriding him for his years of complacent arrogance and underestimating the Straw Hats, and outright stating all his best-laid plans will finally fail.
  • At the climax of the arc when Law has Doflamingo completely at his mercy, he calls out the warlord for his self-serving concept of family:
  "You brought together people you could use and called them a 'family'. And when your own brother Cora tried to stop your madness, you killed him."
• Red Oni, Blue Oni:
  • Law and Kid are the two most prominent Supernovas at Sabaody but their personalities contrast greatly each other's: Kid is a Fiery Redhead while Law is a collected snarker.
  • During their time working together as co-leaders of an alliance, Luffy is the Red Oni, as per usual, to Law's Blue Oni. Law generally keeps his emotions under control and prefers to plan well ahead for several different contingencies, while Luffy is a Hot-Blooded Leeroy Jenkins who can rarely be bothered to follow any kind of plan.
• Relative Button: Go ahead, insult Donquixote "Corazon" Rocinante in front of Law. We dare you. When Doflamingo insulted Corazon right in front of Law, Law's response was to — despite being on death's door — drag himself over to Doflamingo and electrocute his liquefied insides.
• Removed Achilles' Heel: Awakening his Devil Fruit gives Law the ability to create a mobile version of Room, negating his previous weakness of not being able to affect anything outside the sphere. Though this comes at the cost of the area of effect becoming a lot smaller.
• Required Secondary Powers: Notably averted, at least in regards to the medical applications of the Op-Op Fruit. The Fruit is only useful to someone who is already a trained doctor, implying that Law's great feats of abilities with his Fruit come not just from any inherent power of the Fruit itself but from his own knowledge of medicine and anatomy. When he tried to heal Corazon as a child, he had to be reminded that the Fruit was not magic.
• Restored My Faith in Humanity: Owing to his absolutely horrible childhood and his terminal illness, he joins the Donquixote Family to take revenge on a world that failed him by killing as many people as he could. Donquixote Rocinante causes a change of heart in Law through the unwavering kindness that he shows to him. Because of Rocinante's influence, Law forgoes his sheer nihilism in favor of mere cynicism.
• The Reveal: In the past, Buffalo and Baby 5 wanted to know his full name. He eventually caved, revealing it's Trafalgar D. Water Law.
• Riches to Rags: In the flashback scenes, he began as a little boy who comes from a wealthy, reputable family of doctors who used to live in a castle-like home and wore tailor-made suits. Was forced to crawl among the dead bodies as a fugitive after the Flevance tragedy struck before he eventually encountered the Donquixote Pirates at the dumpster and became one of his flunkies.
• The Rival: During their time together in the New World, Law tries to be a rival to Luffy, since they both aim to reach Laugh Tale (Luffy wants to be King of the Pirates, while Law may or may not want this as well but certainly wants to learn the true story of the Will of D), and reminds him that, once the alliance is over, they will be fighting, but Luffy always laughs it off and treats him as a buddy.
• Roaring Rampage of Revenge: Trafalgar Law has dedicated half his life to one against Donquixote Doflamingo for murdering Donquixote Corazon/Rocinante, and the events resulting from this revenge spree led to the Dressrosa Arc.
• Sacrificial Lion: His Curb Stomp Cushion against Blackbeard despite defeating Big Mom with Kid and Luffy's victory over Kaido reminds the audience that the remaining Supernovas are far from invincible.
• Sadistic Choice: Gives one to Doflamingo after he and the Straw Hats capture Caesar. Either Doflamingo quits the Seven Warlords of the Sea and goes back to being a regular pirate, after which Law will give Caesar back to him to continue making SMILE Devil Fruits for Kaido, or he doesn't and lose the manufacturer for SMILES. He's screwed either way, because if he stays, he won't be able to produce SMILES for Kaido and will have to face his wrath, and if he quits, the Admirals will hunt him down. Ultimately fails, though, since Doflamingo has the connections to fake quitting the Warlords.
• Saved by the Phlebotinum: Law was saved from his otherwise-lethal lead disease thanks to Rocinante feeding him the Op-Op Fruit.
• Secret Legacy: Law was completely unaware of the significance of the "D" in his name, just like most of the D. carriers in the series such as Luffy — all he knew is that he had to keep it a secret. However, Corazon, and presumably Doflamingo, knew about it, or at least enough to warn Law to stay away from his brother. After he and Luffy bring down Doflamingo's empire, Law's new goal in life is to uncover the secrets of the Will of D.
• Secret Secret-Keeper: During their entire time together, Rocinante/Corazon hid the fact that he was a Marine from Law because didn't want Law to hate him. Once he indirectly revealed the truth to Law during his final face-off with his brother, Law's thoughts reveal that he had known the truth all along, but didn't care.
• Shock and Awe: Adding to his surgery motif, he can apparently use his palms as defibrillator paddles in an attack called "Counter Shock".
• Sincerity Mode: The scene in Punk Hazard where Luffy asks if Law will betray him and the latter says "No" is Played for Laughs, with Usopp understandably being skeptical, especially since pirate alliances usually end in betrayal and Law has a shady reputation on top of that. By the conclusion of their alliance, though, he really hasn't truly betrayed the Straw Hats. He didn't tell them at first that his true goal was defeating Doflamingo rather than Kaido, but this was mainly to keep them out of a personal feud between the two of them, and he does confess it to Luffy later in a moment of vulnerability; also, while Law does try to end the alliance briefly during Dressrosa, this is right after Doflamingo threatened the Straw Hats, and he drops it by the time that he and Luffy reach the final battle. Even after the conclusion of the Dressrosa arc, where Law has gotten what he really wanted most out of the partnership with Doflamingo's downfall, he remains all-in on the alliance's plan to bring down Kaido and sticks with the Straw Hats and the rest of their allies to the end, parting on amicable terms when they all go their separate ways after Wano.
• Sole Survivor: Excluding the royal family who escaped early, he is the last known survivor of Flevance.
• Space Master: He has the power of the Op-Op Fruit, which lets him create a sphere of influence called a "Room" that serves as his "operating table". Law can cut, rearrange, and piece together any object or living being in any way he chooses while they remain whole and intact. Even if he cuts you in half, your top and bottom will work and move just like normal, except now separated from one another. He can also do Swap Teleportation of objects in the Room.
• Spanner in the Works:
  • Despite their rivalry, Law demonstrates admirable bravery by rescuing Luffy during the intense battle at Marineford. This selfless action not only solidifies their bond but also grants Law the ability to combat sinister schemes with the same determination and vigor as Luffy. Their resulting alliance in Punk Hazard destroys many villains' ongoing plans. This not only derails Doflamingo's 10-year rule but also devastates Big Mom's gigantification project and Kaido's SMILE factory plan.
  • Law is the main responsible for the Dressrosa arc. By allying with Luffy, Law puts the Straw Hats on a collision course with the Donquixote Family, and the resulting conflict escalates to the point that it involves nearly every major power in the world, including the Revolutionary Army and the World Nobles. The thing is, he doesn't care about any of it. Everything he has done for the last thirteen years to this very day has been for the sake of avenging Corazon's murder and killing Doflamingo. Also, during the final battle of the arc, despite being incapacitated by Doflamingo, Law still manages to interfere in the fight from the sidelines.
• Spell Blade: His Radio Knife technique has him channeling electricity to his nodachi to cause Wound That Will Not Heal.
• The Stoic: Although he initially is shown to smile often, after the timeskip he's almost perpetually frowning and rarely flinches.
• Straight Man and Wise Guy: Law is very serious and, during their time together as allies, clashes often with Luffy's idiocy and quirkiness.
• Sugar-and-Ice Personality: Seems cold, heartless, and a tad evil, but actually harbors deep feelings of affection towards his late saviour Corazon, who's possibly the only one who saw his amiable smiling side since the Flevance tragedy. Usually calm and calculating, he can be blinded by hot-blooded fury, especially concerning Doflamingo. The guy is also generally polite in his speech and even takes off his hat at the dining table but didn't hesitate to rudely flip other people off, either.
• Super Doc: Law is quite possibly the best doctor in the One Piece world, as his Devil Fruit allows him to perform all kinds of miraculous surgeries and he's studied medicine since he was a kid.
• Superpower Lottery: Literally everything inside his "Room" is his to command, and post-Time Skip he's been shown to create battleship- and even mountain-sized "Rooms." There's no known way around it once you're inside the "Room," either, apart from having sufficient Haki. His power of surgery, aside from conveniences like swapping people's bodies, taking out their heart, and personality transplants, is also later revealed to be able to grant eternal youth at the cost of his own life. Even so, Law actually has several ways to easily One-Hit Kill characters while inside his Room, whether it be through dismembering them from afar, teleporting them away, or taking away (or crushing) their organs. What keeps it from being a Story-Breaker Power are the drawbacks from its use, which include draining Law's stamina and sometimes even his own lifespan. Doflamingo outright stated that many people consider this to be 'The Ultimate Devil Fruit'.
• Surrounded by Idiots: Watch his face whenever he’s interacting with the Straw Hats in his first few appearances. You can tell he’s asking himself "are these dumbasses really the legendary Straw Hats?” Eventually, however, he’s around them long enough that he accepts and works with their numerous eccentricities.
• Swap Teleportation: He can swap two objects' positions as long as they're both inside his "Room". He can also swap himself with another object or person.
• Swiss-Army Superpower: His powers revolve mainly around surgical techniques.
  • His main use of his power is to cut things with his sword before using "Tact" to jumble things up.
  • He can use his hands as defibrillators for short range Shock and Awe attacks.
  • Within his Rooms, he has Swap Teleportation of the objects inside them.
  • In the third act of the Wano Arc, Law reveals new abilities: he can give objects Room-like qualities like the ability to expand (K-ROOM), or give special properties to a Room's own boundary (R-ROOM).
• Symbol Motif Clothing: Law wears the emblem of the Heart Pirates on his hoodie, on the hem and sleeve of his all-new dapper Badass Longcoat and on the chest of his most recent fabulous feathery-necked outfit. Besides, all the Heart Pirates including his submarine, even his own Transponder Snail, wear the insignia with pride. The emblem was created in honor of the man who saved his life and whom he now dedicates his life to avenge, Corazon.
• Taking You with Me: What he tried to do to Doflamingo.
• Tall, Dark, and Handsome/Tall, Dark, and Snarky: Both apply, as he is fairly tall and slender, very good-looking, a much darker shade of gray morality-wise than the Straw Hats, and quite the Deadpan Snarker.
• Tattooed Crook: Has several "smiley" tattoos on his arms (Oda says jolly rogers in North Blue are typically this shape), as well as DEATH on his fingers. Also has a big heart-shaped tatoo on his chest. In fact, he's got tats all over his upper body.◊
• Taught by Experience: As Law progresses in the New World, he grows as a fighter and improves during his adventures. He manages to awaken his Devil Fruit powers and plays a vital role in helping defeat Big Mom alongside Kid. As a testament of his growing strength, during his fight with Blackbeard and his officers, Law manages to resist Doc Q's Sick-Sick Fruit powers with Haki, something he mentions he learned from fighting Big Mom and Kaido. Even though he is defeated by Blackbeard, unlike Eustass Kid being brutally defeated by Shanks, Law fares better and deals substantial damage to the Emperor, leaving Blackbeard notably worn out after the fight.
• Then Let Me Be Evil: After the world abandoned and killed everyone in his country because of their Amber Lead Syndrome, and after the world continued to ostracize, hate, and even try to kill him for being a "white monster", Law decided that, hey, he might as well be the monster everyone says he is and join the Donquixote Pirates in an attempt to destroy the world. While he lost the utter nihilism he had as a child because of Corazon's love, he's still a pretty vicious and feared pirate.
• Thou Shalt Not Kill: While fighting Basil Hawkins, he expresses a distaste for killing. However, he is perfectly fine with people dying as a result of his actions as seen with Vergo^note Law left him helpless in a room about to explode., Monet^note Law gave her heart to Ceasar, passing it off as Smoker's. When Ceasar tried to kill Smoker by stabbing the heart, she was killed., and Doflamingo^note While Doflamingo didn't die, Law's plan was to essentially provoke Kaido into killing him.. Though it was shown that Law was willing to make an exception for the Donquixote Family, since he explicitly states many times that he wants Doflamingo dead.
• Tiger Versus Dragon: Law has "Tora" (tiger) in his Japanese name (and sometimes is called "Tora-guy" by Luffy) and he has a personal vendetta with Doffy, a former Celestial Dragon.
• Together in Death: After doing everything he can in the final fight against Doflamingo before being forced to leave the rest to Luffy, he requests that Cavendish leave him in the flower fields to watch the battle. If Luffy wins, he wants to be there to see it; if Luffy falls, then as penance for dragging his partner ("friend" being implied) into this fight, he'll allow Doflamingo to kill him and join Luffy and Corazon in death. Cavendish agrees — on the caveat that he'd be allowed to stay as well, and tells Law that he won't die unless Cavendish does first.
• Took a Level in Badass: Pre-time skip he was a rookie captain, just about strong enough to reach the halfway point in the Grand Line with a bounty of 200 million Berries, and was barely capable of facing a Pacifista allied with Kid's crew and survive. Two years later, his bounty doubled before the WG approached him for a Warlord position; he apparently regularly heads off to a closed-off, highly toxic island with extreme climates on both halves, and home to ex-cons, a variety of strange creatures and giant children calling it his "favorite holiday spot"; and he is capable of defeating Vice-Admiral-level opponents. He takes another one by the Raid on Onigashima, having seemingly improved his endurance and Awakened his Devil Fruit. The creative and devastating powers he displays prove enough to severely injure Big Mom, who Law later defeats with help from Eustass Kid.
• Took a Level in Jerkass: Justified. Losing his home, friends, and family at a young age, coupled with only three years left to live caused Law to become cold and apathetic towards the world in general, not caring who he kills so long as he gets to make the world burn. It's only after having his life saved by Corazon did Law's outlook does not change for the worst.
• Trademark Favorite Food: He likes onigiri and grilled fish.
• True Companions: Law clearly loves and is protective over his crew, and they clearly reciprocate his feelings. This is emphasized in Chapter 938, where Law snarls at Shinobu when she suggests that his crew betrayed them, unhesitatingly beginning to abandon the plan and throwing himself in harm's way in order to save his crew, and gets positively furious when she threatens to kill them.
• Tyke Bomb: Law was raised by Doflamingo to be his right-hand man. To this end, he taught him just about everything he (and his execs) knew about fighting.

U-Y

• Undying Loyalty:
  • Law is very loyal to Donquixote Rocinante aka Corazon. Law outright states that Corazon is his most cherished person, that the only reason he bothered to live was to fulfill Corazon's goal, and that he would happily destroy the entire world and die as long as it was for Corazon's sake. Law's entire grudge with Doflamingo stems from Doflamingo killing Corazon, which causes Law to dedicate his entire life, as well as being willing to die, in order to bring Doflamingo down in his revenge. Law was so devoted to Corazon that he is willing to do what Corazon wouldn't do in the end, no matter how horrible his older brother was, how much he hated him, and how much Doflamingo honestly needed to die — pull the trigger. In addition to all of that, it doesn't hurt that it's heavily implied that Law named his crew after Corazon and even tattooed his smile onto his chest.
  • Law also feels extremely loyal towards his crew. He snarls at Shinobu's suggestion that his crew would ever betray them, unhesitatingly beginning to abandon the plan and throwing himself right into danger in order to save them once they were captured, and becomes murderously enraged when she threatens to kill them.
• Ungrateful Bastard: Played with. Doflamingo considers Law to be ungrateful, since he spent years raising Law to be his top lieutenant only for Law to turn against him. However, he also acknowledges that if the specific incident that Law is raging against him for had never happened, then Law would have been the third "Corazon". Law's reasons for betraying Doflamingo are justified. Doflamingo is a maniac with no conscience concerning anyone outside of his own crew, but his younger brother Rocinante, also called Corazon, was gentle and kindhearted. He was responsible for saving Law's life from an otherwise incurable disease, spending half a year traveling around the world looking for a cure and getting gravely injured in the process. But shortly afterwards, Corazon is killed by Doflamingo for being a mole working for the Marines. And the kicker was that Doflamingo fully expected Law to repay his "debt" by sacrificing his own life to make Doflamingo immortal and bragged about this to the dying Corazon, unaware that Law overheard and saw all of this.
• Unspoken Plan Guarantee: Downplayed. During his and Luffy's fight with Doflamingo, Law says something about their "secret plan"; Luffy, who was really angry at that point, screams "screw the plan!" and goes after Law instead. Turns out Law's "plan" was relying on Doflamingo to make Luffy angry enough, and as Luffy comes at him, Law activates Room and switches himself with the distracted Doflamingo — who then gets hit by Luffy's Red Hawk. He reverses it when Luffy manages to make his way back up to Doflamingo, revealing he isn't dead after he was shot again. This time Luffy rushes Doflamingo but Law switches Luffy with himself, getting close enough to land a fatal blow on Doflamingo.
• Used to Be a Sweet Kid: Despite his dour appearance even as a child, Law was a much warmer person than he is now. It was his country's war and the illness that caused it, that took that away from him. Doflamingo's influence seemed to be the nail-in-the-coffin. Thankfully for all, his close relationship with Corazon helped him regain the little compassion and mercy he does still have.
• Visual Development: Law's appearance after the Time Skip coincides with his new Warlord title, level of power, and manners: from the laid-back, smiling yellow-themed hoodie-wearing hipster-style Supernova to the lugubrious terrifying Warlord who is clad in black, The Grim Reaper-like Black Cloak, complete with the High Collar of Doom. Between Punk Hazard and Dressrosa, he goes back to the hipster look (seemingly coinciding with his start to fall into the pace of the Straw Hat crew), before hybridizing the two for his "disguise" outfit in Dressrosa. However, he is always wearing the same spotted skinny jeans.
• When He Smiles: Post-timeskip, Law has pretty much become a Perpetual Frowner, and the smiles he does sport are usually some kind of Slasher Smile. So, on the few occasions that he does smile genuinely (such as during the celebration of Doflamingo's defeat, after reuniting with his crew, when Luffy declares that he's going to defeat Kaido, and a few times as a child in his flashback), they definitely stand out.
• Wild Card: Despite being rivals, Law saves Luffy from Akainu, but then quickly makes it known that he doesn't consider Luffy an ally. During the Time-Skip he joins the World Government as one of the Seven Warlords, but only in an effort to get revenge on Doflamingo; he sacrifices the title in Dressrosa in an effort to stall for time and doesn't really care about losing it permanently afterwards. And he's perfectly willing to ally himself with Luffy to take down his fellow Warlord along with one of the Emperors, because Luffy is also a Wild Card and it can only help to double down in this situation.
• Wild Take: He is hilariously prone to these in the company of the Straw Hats. Luffy alone pulls out more of these from him than he had in the entire first half of the manga. And that was back when he was more relaxed.
• Worth Living For: Law, along with his friends, family, and city, were used up by the World Government to dig up the Amber Lead for wealth, and then all of them were cruelly abandoned thanks to a disease that would kill him before he even reached adulthood. Because of that, he wanted to destroy everything in sight — until Corazon showed him love and compassion, and eventually succeeded in getting the means to cure Law of his disease. Law fully intended to spend the rest of his life with him — but then Corazon was killed. Now, the only reason why Law bothered living to this very day was to kill Donquixote Doflamingo, Corazon's murderer. After Doflamingo's defeat, Law is finally able to get closure by meeting Corazon's surrogate father, Sengoku. Holding a burden that Corazon might have been motivated to serve the Will of D, Sengoku assures him that his actions have nothing to do with the D but were made out of love for Law, and that he should continue living free if he really wanted to pay tribute to Corazon's actions.
• The Worf Effect: Law and the Heart Pirates experience a decisive defeat at the hands of Marshall D. Teach, Doc Q, Jesus Burgess, and Van Augur. Although to their credit, it was at least a Curb Stomp Cushion.
• Worf Had the Flu:
  • He gets taken down by Vergo because Vergo has his heart. Once he gets it back, Vergo goes down in one move.
  • By the time he finally got his one-on-one fight with Doflamingo, he had fought Admiral Fujitora and Doflamingo at the same time, while having to watch Caesar and then protect the Straw Hats. So, he was pretty tired heading in, which is even worse for him than normal as his Op-Op Fruit specifically relies on his stamina.
  • When he fights Doflamingo on the castle roof, he's been hauled around in seastone cuffs with untreated bullet wounds combined with the exhaustion from his earlier fights. On top of that, he's also facing Doflamingo and Trebol alone since Luffy got sidetracked by Bellamy.
• Worthy Opponent: Law considers Luffy a worthy rival and, upon meeting him in Punk Hazard, offers him an alliance to take down Kaido.
• Wound That Will Not Heal: He can inflict uncurable wounds with his Devil Fruit power and his medical skills.
• Xanatos Gambit: His plan for revenge on Doflamingo, which he allied with the Straw Hats for. Law made it so that even if Doflamingo kills him in their battle, the destruction of the SMILE factory will ensure that Kaido will finish the job for him and kill Doflamingo himself.
• You Can't Go Home Again: Law's hometown, the "White City" of Flevance, was completely wiped out after the entire populace developed White Lead Disease as a result of decades of mining and refining toxic white lead. The royals and government officials knew that the illness was caused by the white lead and thus not contagious, but they did not stop the spread of misinformation. This leads to the entire city being quarantined and subsequently annihilated to "contain" the disease. Law only managed to survive by being smuggled out of the city hidden in a pile of corpses.
• Your Days Are Numbered: When he first met Doflamingo as a child, Law claimed he only had 3 years left to live. This is because of the amount of Amber Lead in his body, the poison which would ensure he would die before he reached adulthood, just like his peers, had they not been killed beforehand. He survived because Corazon had stolen the Op-Op Fruit from other pirates and was responsible for saving Law. The Fruit granting the ability to modify and restructure the body was the perfect solution to removing the Amber Lead.

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