History Characters / OnePieceWhitebeardPirates

* IJustWantToBeSpecial: A variation. Ace wants to be a normal ''pirate''. As he is the son of the Pirate King, Gol D. Roger, who went out of his way to find a woman with the D. initial to bear his child, Roger intended for Ace to be [[TheChosenOne the next king]] and fulfill whatever prophecy was left behind by [[spoiler:Joyboy at Laugh Tale]]. Ace himself wants nothing to do with his father or any predestined fate, simply choosing to pull himself up by his own bootstraps and reputation.

* IJustWantToBeSpecial: A variation. Ace wants to be a normal ''pirate''. As he is the son of the Pirate King, Gol D. Roger, who went out of his way to find a woman with the D. initial to bear his child, Roger intended for Ace to be [[TheChosenOne the next king]] and fulfil whatever prophecy was left behind by [[spoiler:Joyboy at Laugh Tale]]. Ace himself wants nothing to do with his father or any predestined fate, simply choosing to pull himself up by his own bootstraps and reputation.

* IJustWantToBeSpecial: A variation. Ace wants to be a normal ''pirate''. As he is the son of the Pirate King, Gol D. Roger, who went out of his way to find a woman with the D. initial to bear his child, Roger intended for Ace to be [[TheChosenOne the next king and fulfil whatever prophecy was left behind by [[spoiler:Joyboy at Laugh Tale]]]]. Ace himself wants nothing to do with his father or any predestined fate, simply choosing to pull himself up by his own bootstraps and reputation.

* NobodyCallsMeChicken: Or rather "Nobody calls ''Whitebeard'' chicken, but the principle is the same. The whole reason he gets caught by the Marines in the first place is because he went after Blackbeard for betraying Whitebeard and disgracing the Whitebeard pirates. Then when he's finally been rescued, all Akainu has to do is insult Whitebeard again for Ace to abandon his escape attempt and charge headfirst into battle in a blind rage. This gets him killed.

* BornInTheWrongCentury: Its been noted by several characters that he probably would've been happier as a Revolutionary, which wasn't quite an option by the time he set out.

* AllThereInTheManual: We only see them taking care of Whitebeard in a chapter. What happened to them before the events of Marineford is revealed in an SBS.

* TheMedic: An entire squad of nurses.

* TheStarscream: Whitebeard recruited Ace by outright kidnapping both him and his crew, and Ace decided to overthrow Whitebeard. Over time, Ace grows fond of Whitebeard until becoming totally loyal to him. Ironically, Whitebeard apparently has been grooming Ace to be his successor.

* DropTheHammer: He is only seen wielding a [[{{BFS}} massive]] wooden Hammer than anything else from his pockets.

[[center: [- [[Characters/OnePiece Main Character Index]] > [[Characters/OnePieceFourEmperors Four Emperors]] > '''Whitebeard Pirates''' | [[Characters/OnePieceAnimalKingdomPirates Animal Kingdom Pirates]] ([[Characters/OnePieceKaido Kaido]] | [[Characters/OnePieceLeadPerformers Lead Performers]]) | [[Characters/OnePieceBigMomPirates Big Mom Pirates]] ([[Characters/OnePieceBigMom Big Mom]] | [[Characters/OnePieceSweet3Generals Sweet 3 Generals]] | [[Characters/OnePieceCharlotteKatakuri Charlotte Katakuri]] | [[Characters/OnePieceCharlottePudding Charlotte Pudding]]) | [[Characters/OnePieceBlackbeardPirates Blackbeard Pirates]] ([[Characters/OnePieceBlackbeard Blackbeard]]) -]]]

* OvershadowedByAwesome: Many of his most significant battles led to his defeat, and he had no chance of winning a rematch, which gives an illusion of weakness. Except Ace was anything ''but'' weak. His opponents were Blackbeard, who was cunning and could disable his Fruit, Admiral Akainu, who had superior Fruit, Haki and experience, and was also nearly unstoppable compared to anyone, and Whitebeard, who was the WorldsStrongestMan. In short, his losing record is because he kept fighting the best of the best, those who had the best chance out of everyone against him. This was shown when he finally fought a powerhouse whom he did have a single advatange against (in terms of Fruit), as he was able to block a named attack from Aokiji.

* TheBusCameBack: [[spoiler:He makes a return during Wano's third act to prevent the Big Mom Pirates from climbing up Wano's waterfall]].

* HoldTheLine: [[spoiler:Marco knows that he can't defeat or hold off King and Queen forever, so he keeps at it long enough for Zoro to recover from his injuries. Once that's done, he happily steps aside to let Zoro and Sanji, the "star players," take over.]]
* KiManipulation: He's a confirmed Haki user and has clashed with Kizaru, who has eaten a light Logia.

* NighInvulnerable: His power is not a Logia type, but this trait is kind of a given when you're a phoenix... although, unlike a Logia, he doesn't turn intangible but rather regenerates from injuries quickly and immediately. However, since he can actually heal from injuries and not just have attacks phase through him, he's considerably more resilient than a mere Logia. Logias cannot actually heal from any real damage they receive, such as Haki attacks, they're just really good at dodging attacks in a very fancy way. Marco tanks any and all hits, and heals up afterwards, and that's on top of the physical boost all zoan-fruit users receive upon eating their fruit.

* TheWorfEffect: Although he's Whitebeard's most trusted commander and one of the strongest pirates of the One Piece world, Marco is often beaten by other enemies to emphasize their strength and threat-level, like the admirals in Marineford and King at Onigashima. Marco's own healing abilities allow him to get up after being worfed to fight again. Although, being fair, he ''is'' fighting against two opponents in the same weigh class as him ([[spoiler:one of whom has also won the SuperpowersLottery]]), and has spent quite some time being retired.

* KiManipulation: Jozu is confirmed to use Armament haki.

* NighInvulnerability: Not to the same extent as other characters, but he ''is'' literally made of diamond and is resistant enough to tank a slash from Mihawk, the world's strongest swordsman, is if it was nothing.