"I told you the time limit was an hour...but that's just when the cage closes completely. There are injured people out there, and elderly folk who can't stand. Suckling little infants as well! Who will be the first to die? Within 30 minutes people will be sure to start dying somewhere! And within 40...we will be able to hear their screams from here! Within 50...this country will be stained red as a crushed tomato with their blood! And in an hour...no voices will be left to cry out!"
While many of the baddies from One Piece range from mere insensitive jerks to all-out line-crossing assholes, there are a few villains who put all others to shame. Characters are listed by the arcs where they have the most impact; they may have appeared earlier or appear later.
All spoilers are unmarked. You Have Been Warned!
Original manga & anime
- Kuro Arc: The titular Captain Kuro "of a Thousand Plans", aka Klahadore, was once a feared pirate running from the existence of bounty hunters and marines. As a result, Kuro hatched a scheme by slaughtering every marine on a ship—save one—and has his henchman Jango hypnotize a crew member and the surviving marine to make them think they were Captain Kuro and his captor, leading to the execution of the fake Kuro. After fleeing to Sugar Island, he disguised himself as a butler of a kind and sickly girl named Kaya after her parents died. It was revealed that Kuro plotted to have his former crew arrive and slaughter the island while he'd have Kaya hypnotized to write him as the beneficiary of her will before he murdered her. After Kaya bought him a gift of new glasses, Kuro heartlessly crushed them and attempted to kill her other servant. When Kaya said she'd have just given him the money, he admitted he just wanted her dead for the sake of his ego. Kuro was also planning on killing his crew to complete his disappearance and when, fighting Luffy, used an attack that led to them being nearly massacred by him.
- Fish-Man Island Arc: Hody Jones is a fish-man with all of Arlong's hatred of humans but none of his care for his fellow people. Disgusted by the benevolent Queen Otohime's petition that intended to improve relations between humans and fishmen, Hody Jones hired a human to burn the signature box. Hody then assassinated Otohime and framed the human for it, proudly bragging about his crimes when they're discovered. When he takes over Fishman Island, he declares that all of the fishmen who had signed Queen Otohime's petition will be executed. When his ally Vander Decken uses his Devil Fruit power to send the giant ship Noah after Princess Shirahoshi, Hody severely wounds Vander Decken to cause the latter's powers to deactivate in an attempt to have Noah crash down on Fishman Island.
- Dressrosa Arc: "Heavenly Demon" Donquixote Doflamingo is steadily revealed as the epitome of selfish egomania whose own brother describes as having been born an evil madman, despite his servants' Undying Loyalty towards him. In the guise of "Joker," Doflamingo is a mover and shaker in the criminal underworld where he participated in a slave trade for the pleasure of the corrupt Celestial Dragons. When conquering his old kingdom of Dressrosa, Doflamingo enslaved the people by turning many into toys and making their loved ones forget them, and framing the good-hearted King Riku Dold by forcing him to attack the people he loved so much to make Doflamingo a "hero" for removing him. It is also revealed he planned to brainwash Trafalgar Law into being his loyal slave who would gladly trade his life to bring Doflamingo immortality, executing his own brother Rosinante when Rosinante tried to save Law. In his crowning moment of evil, Doflamingo attempted to massacre everything in Dressrosa, his own men included, gleefully proclaiming he would just find a new country and "family." Even upon his defeat, all Doflamingo cares about is seeing the news so he can appreciate the chaos the world is thrown into by recent events.
Anime filler
- Rainbow Mist Arc: Wetton was once the feared leader of the Wetton Pirates who unleashed his men to rampage through Ruluka Village. Ordering his men to burn the city to the ground and murder even the women and children, Wetton himself nearly kills six children before all but one steal his ship and escape to another dimension in the Rainbow Mist. Without a ship, Wetton dominates the survivors and forcefully becomes their mayor, demanding ridiculous taxes over fifty years and having those that can't pay worked to death in labor camps to build his Rainbow Tower. The Straw Hats soon arrive and come into conflict with Wetton as he uses the Tower to form a bridge through the Mist to rob the ship graveyard on the other side. As Luffy defeats him, Wetton destroys the bridge and abandons dozens of his men, even his son and grandson, to death to keep the treasure and doom his enemies in the process.
Movies & Specials
- Dead End Adventure: General Gasparde was a former Marine who turned to a life of piracy out of boredom. Eight years prior to the movie, Gasparde attacked the town Elena, murdering the majority of its inhabitants, attempting to drown the 3-year-old Adelle, and enslaving two of its survivors. During the Dead End Race, Gasparde has the bookie of the race give all competing pirate crews a fake Eternal Pose that leads them to a Marine stronghold, leading to dozens of crews being sunk. Soon afterwards, Gasparde does the same thing to the bookie who helped him rig the race. When Luffy points out that Gasparde was more than capable of winning the race normally, Gasparde reveals that it was primarily done to cure his boredom.
- Baron Omatsuri and the Secret Island: Lily Carnation is a terrifying creature that lives on an isolated island, who has struck a deal with Baron Omatsuri to keep his "crew" alive forever in exchange for providing Lily with regular entertainment and food. Over the years, Lily and Omatsuri have engineered the shipwrecks of hundreds of crews, all of them devoured by Lily after being put through twisted "games", and their dead likenesses are then used by Lily as puppets to further populate Omatsuri's "crew". Lily gets sadistic joy from its actions, and after failing to consume an entire family including small children, it devours and takes on the forms of Luffy's friends in a twisted mockery while trying to kill him.
- Episode of Chopper Plus: Bloom in Winter, Miracle Sakura:
- Wapol is the former king of Drum Island. To control the citizens of Drum, Wapol forced 20 doctors into servitude and ordered the exile of all other doctors from the country. In an attempt to have Dr. Hiluluk executed, Wapol lies that all 20 doctors under his service are ill, leaving sick citizens to suffer, all to trick Hiluluk into coming to the castle. When Dalton insults Wapol for laughing at Hiluluk's suicide, Wapol has Dalton beaten to near death before imprisoning him. When Blackbeard attacks Drum Island, Wapol abandons the kingdom to its fate, taking the 20 doctors with him. Returning to Drum Island intending to continue his reign, Wapol decides that the citizens of Drum have became too insubordinate. As a result, he makes a plan to detonate his brother's spore bomb in an attempt to poison all of the citizens of Drum, with only those who beg getting an antidote. When Musshuru begs for Wapol's help after being defeated by Luffy, Wapol simply eats his brother to gain his powers and attempts to detonate the spore bomb, deciding to poison every citizen to death. A cruel and selfish tyrant, this interpretation of Wapol proves to be far more heinous than his canon counterpart.
- Musshuru, Wapol's older brother, was exiled from Drum Kingdom at the age of 13 for detonating a spore bomb and killing countless innocents to kill his boredom. When Wapol frees him from his exile and brings him back to the country so they can regain control, Musshuru suggests that they cause an avalanche as a way to make their presence known. After arriving at a village destroyed by the avalanche, Musshuru is disappointed that only one village was destroyed. When Wapol suggests the two poison every citizen of the country to death, Musshuru gleefully agrees with the idea, stating that it would be fun to launch the bomb. During his fight with Luffy, he unapologetically poisons Chess and Kuromarimo with his spores when they get in the way of his attack.
