History Characters / OnePieceAnimalKingdomPirates

* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler:Notably, by the end of the Wano arc and almost 70 chapters later, Holdem is the only member of Kaido's crew to not face comeuppance for a heinous action - namely, burning down Okobore Town and scarring Tsuru, after which he disappears from the story.]]

* CurbStompBattle: [[spoiler:He earns Luffy's rage by telling him that he has tortured Tama and goes down in ''one hit'' from Luffy's Red Hawk without ever realizing what just happened.]]

* HowTheMightyHaveFallen: [[spoiler: Post-Wano, they went from one of the most fearsome pirate crews of the world to a bunch of defeated, broken-up bunch off stragglers, their status as an Emperor crew stripped. Rather appropriately, Onigashima, the seat of their power, is sent to the bottom of Wano's sea.]]

[[center: [- [[Characters/OnePiece Main Character Index]] > [[Characters/OnePieceFourEmperors Four Emperors]] > [[Characters/OnePieceWhitebeardPirates Whitebeard Pirates]] | '''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]]) -]]]

* HornedHumanoid: While they all appear to be humans, coincidentally enough, with the exception of X Drake [[spoiler:who's just a Marine undercover]], they all have a pair of horns (Who's Who's are fake, while Sasaki's, Black Maria's, Ulti's, and Page One's are real). This horned theme connects them and underlines their loyalty to Kaido.

* HornedHumanoid: While they all appear to be humans, coincidentally enough, with the exception of X Drake [[spoiler:who's just a Marine undercover]], they all have a pair of horns. This horned theme connects them and underlines their loyalty to Kaido.
* HornsOfVillainy: A distinctive traits of all of them is to have a pair of horns, except for X Drake who styled his hair like a horn (a visual clue [[spoiler:that he's not loyal to Kaido]]), and are notorious members of an evil pirate crew.

* NeckSnap: [[spoiler: Linlin punches Page One with such strength to break his neck even if he's in his full-dinosaur form, knocking him out of the battle in a second]].

* SeductiveSpider: Black Maria is a seductive woman dressed like a Japanese oiran. With her Devil Fruit, she's capable of turning into a spider hybrid that resembles an alluring jorogumo. Although the spider lower half of her transformation possesses a very cartoony face instead of a more realistic spider one, she nonetheless still retains her attractiveness in her human upper half.
* SpiderPeople: In her hybrid form, Black Maria turns her entire lower body into a spider while her upper half remains human, making her similar to the image of the [[Yokai Jorogumo]]. [[AllThereInTheManual In an SBS section]], Oda notes that this unusual division of human and animal traits is due to her disliking the Hybrid Zoan appearance and is likely achieved through taking some sort of drugs. Her native hybrid form is shown to transform her forearms and part of her face into those of a spider.

* TsuchigumoAndJorogumo: Her Oiran looks, musical talent with stringed instruments and Devil Fruit makes her a deadringer for the [[Yokai Jorogumo]], though rather than being based on the actual jorogumo spider (golden orb weaver) her Fruit allows her to turn into the more tarantula-like Rosamygale, closer to the Tsuchigumo.

She has eaten the Spider-Spider Fruit, Model: Rosamygale Grauvogeli, which allows her to transform at will into a massive black spider and shoot webs. She fights using brass knuckles or a Wanyudo on top of a polearm, and can also set her webs on fire.

* CuteBruiser: Despite her sensual and elegant demeanor outside of battle, she’s actually a crude and sadistic close-range brawler much like the rest of her crew, primarily using her fists to beat her enemies with little mercy- all while looking no less beautiful throughout.
* DarkActionGirl: Black Maria is an evil and sensual femme fatale able to fight on par with the rest of the higher officers of the crew. She can fight with fists powered up by brass knuckle, especially used when torturing someone, and a Wanyudo on top of a pole. During her fight with Nico Robin, Black Maria shows multiple deadly technique and sets on fire her brothel.
* ElegantClassicalMusician: A Japanese variation to the standard trope, but Black Maria is dressed like an ''Oiran'' and, when everyone is busy fighting, remains in the brothel, where the other women ask her to sing a lullaby, letting Black Maria show her singing and shamisen skills.
* EvilCannotComprehendGood: Black Maria is a malicious femme fatale who keeps men tangled in her web as pets and, when Sanji declares he wants to love all the women of the world, rather than considering it a chivalrous declaration, Black Maria considers it cheating and tells Sanji to love only her. After Sanji called for Robin's help, Black Maria mocks his choice, defining it cowardly and weak, while Robin and Brook counters that she doesn't understand the importance of trusting your own crew mates.

* FemmeFatale: Black Maria is a very attractive woman dressed like an oiran who lured many men who she keeps tangled in her web as they plead for her and constantly declare their love to her. After capturing Sanji and forcing him to call for Nico Robin's help, Black Maria decides to add him to her collection. She also presents a tattoo on her back saying "女難" which translates to "women trouble" but is also the Japanese expression for femme fatale.
* TheFightingNarcissist: Black Maria is full of herself as near all her moves have the word "Mari" in it in some form or another such as "Mari-nette", "Mari-Apprehend" and "Mari-cade". Ironically the only move that isn't named after her is the knuckledusters she wields: Orian Knuckles. She also takes it very personally when Robin slaps her face hard enough to make her bleed at the beginning of their fight, leading her to declare her intention to break Robin's face. This obsession with her own appearance, which she keeps in her hybrid form through drugs, prevents her from fully benefitting from her natural Zoan toughness and makes her human half a vulnerable point.

* GiantSpider: Her spider-based Devil Fruit, combined with her humongous size, allows Black Maria to turn into a truly gigantic spider or spider-woman hybrid. Ironically, real life Rosamygale were tiny, under a centimeter in size.
* GiantWoman: She's an extremely gigantic, beautiful woman who's about the same size as Kaido. From the bust-up alone she's nearly as tall as the other Tobi Roppo sat down and needs to be placed on a different floor from the other five to be at the same eye-level. When the Tobi Roppo are gathered before Kaido to be ordered to [[spoiler:search for his son]], it is shown that the absolutely massive King is barely taller than ''her waist''. [[AllThereInTheManual The Vivre Cards later reveal that she's 820cm (26'11"), making her the second tallest member of the Animal Kingdom Pirates after Jack]].

* HighClassCallGirl: Black Maria is a very attractive woman dressed as an ''Oiran'' and smokes from a kiseru, a kind of elegant pipe and has an impressive set of hair decorations associated with courtesans such as a comb, hairpins, and sword blades, while her personal quarters are built to resemble a traditional Japanese brothel. Like most oirans, Black Maria is very good at singing and playing the shamisen.
* HoneyTrap: Black Maria seduces and lures Sanji with a song first and then by staging an assault to a woman; once she's captured him, she uses him as bait for Robin, the true target of the mission Kaido gave Black Maria. However, Black Maria's feelings for Sanji aren't completely fake, but that actually makes her [[EntitledToHaveYou even worse]].

* LazyBum: In contrast to the other Tobi Roppo, who are ambitious and hungry for achievments, Black Maria is content to do the bare minimum of her station. Instead of hunting Yamato, she chooses to party with Kaido, and even when the war begins in earnest, she deliberately keeps away from the combat and relaxes with her subordinates, only setting traps for stray warriors to wander into.

* MinorInjuryOverreaction: When Robin arrives to save Sanji, she enters the fray by creating a gigantic arm to slap Black Maria in the face hard enough to draw blood. While it didn't do any serious damage, being such a ProudBeauty Black Maria took the slap very personally and, during her beatdown of Robin, voices her desire to break Robin's face with her brass knuckles.

* OhCrap: Just when she thinks she has Robin at her mercy. Robin uses a move taught to her by Koala and Sabo to attack the ceiling and put out the flames around them. Then follows it up with a new clone body move, Demonio Fluer, a ''extremely'' scary and demonic looking version of Robin. Maria is so taken aback by the sight it allows Robin to set up her up for her finishing move.

* PlayingWithFire: Black Maria weilds a flaming weapon to set ablaze her flammable webs and limit Nico Robin's movements, turning the fight into a BattleAmongstTheFlames until Brook puts the flames out.

* PowerFist: After having caught Sanji, Black Maria resorts to beating him bloody with a pair of knuckledusters to make him call for help so she can lure out Nico Robin. Then she pounds on Robin significantly when once she manages to pin her, and says it's her preferred method of hurting people.
* ProudBeauty: She unapologetically insists Sanji fall in love with just her when attacking him, and later has no problem stripping out of her kimono to proudly show off the tattoo on her back, even electing to spend the entire battle sans upper clothing (save for a sarashi around her chest).
* {{Sadist}}: Black Maria describes in gruesome detail to Sanji how she intends to torture and eventually kill Robin once she captures her, all while smiling and lolling her tongue. Then she savagely beats him up with brass knuckles until he asks Robin for help, while he is restrained, and does the same to Robin when Maria restrains her during their fight.

* SeductiveSpider: Black Maria is seductive woman dressed like a Japanese oiran. With her Devil Fruit, she's capable of turning into a spider hybrid that resembles an alluring jorogumo. Although the spider lower half of her transformation possesses a very cartoony face instead of a more realistic spider one, she nonetheless still retains her attractiveness in her human upper half.
* SpiderPeople: In her hybrid form, Black Maria turns her entire lower body into a spider while her upper half remains human, making her similar to the image of the ''jorogumo''. Oda notes that this unusual division of human and animal traits is due to her disliking the Hybrid Zoan appearance, and likely achieved through taking some sort of drugs. Her native hybrid form is shown to transform her forearms and part of her face into those of a spider.
* SpidersAreScary: Subverted, although she's part of a villainous crew and has a spider-themed power, Black Maria is mostly affable and while her spider form includes the head, said head sports a cartoony face with a normal mouth full of rounded teeth rather than a spider-like head with fangs and chelicerae. This is rather noticeable as in One Piece have previously appeared spiders drawn in a more realistic manner.

* TsuchigumoAndJorogumo: Her Oiran looks, musical talent with stringed instruments and Devil Fruit makes her a deadringer for the Jorogumo {{Youkai}}, though rather than being based on the actual jorogumo spider (golden orb weaver) her Fruit allows her to turn into the more tarantula-like Rosamygale, closer to the Tsuchigumo.
* UnderestimatingBadassery: Maria's fight with [[WouldntHitAGirl Sanji]] left her thinking the Straw Hats are nothing against Kaido and that she'll have an easy time capturing Robin. But when Robin and Brook take over the fight, she finds herself having a tough time even landing any hits on them nor that her illusion mist even ''works'' on them and starts to become more frustrated at the battle goes on. She does manage to pin Robin for a bit by catching her off guard with her webs and finding out attacking her limbs damages her. But Robin recovers and uses some moves taught to her by Sabo and Koala, ultimately ending the fight with her new Demonio Fleur move.
* VillainousBreakdown: When Robin reveals her Demonio Fleur move on her, Maria is so utterly taken aback by the new form that Robin is able to grab her before she has a chance to counter again. Maria's left yelling for Robin to let her go and that ''she's'' supposed to be helpless before Robin twists her spine and ends the fight.

* WallCrawl: In her hybrid-form, Black Maria's legs let her walk on the walls or the ceiling. She uses this ability to chase after Sanji, and during her fight with Nico Robin and Brook to attack them from multiple directions and avoid their attacks.
* WrongContextMagic: In her hybrid form, Black Maria becomes a centaur-like being, with her human torso emerging from a full spider, unlike the humanoid-beast form every hybrid Zoan becomes. This is caused by drugs that Black Maria takes to keep her beauty in her hybrid form.

* {{Stripperiffic}}: Mizerka wears just a little more than a bikini, like any standard female member of the Animal Kingdom Pirates, while her crotch area is covered by Gorijiro's crumbs.

A particularly large Number with a long neck and a large main of dark hair. He appears alongside Jaki and Juuki to confront the Straw Hats as they approach the Live Stage.

* FlamingWeapon: Black Maria wields a long polearm with a wheel at the tip. Inside the wheel is a Gifter named Wanyudo that generates flames by running along its path, allowing Maria to burn others by striking them with the polearm.

* GoodOldFisticuffs: After having caught Sanji, Black Maria resorts to beating him bloody with a pair of knuckledusters to make him call for help so she can lure out Nico Robin. Then she pounds on Robin significantly when once she manages to pin her, and says it's her preferred method of hurting people.

She has eaten the Spider-Spider Fruit, Model: Rosamygale Grauvogeli, which allows her to transform at will into a massive black spider and shoot web. She fights using brass knuckles or a Wanyudo on top of a polearm, she can also set on fire her web.

* BellyMouth: Black Maria's Zoan manifests very differently from others in the series, giving her lower half the shape of a spider, including its eyes and mouth, distinct from her own original body.

* BadAssNormal: Strictly and explicitly averted. Any crewmember above fodder must have a devil fruit or SMILE ability. And it doesn’t matter if their ability is of any actual use, either.

* AdaptationalBadass: In the manga he just tortures a child with pliers and goes down in one Red Hawk without ever showing what's so special about his sword. The anime shows how his blade is special and adds a filler scene of him taking down some bandits with ease before [[VillainousValor fighting Shutenmaru himself]], [[AdaptationInducedPlotHole even if the latter is as strong as Jack]], the and holding up despite being injured, before using his fire blade to cause a wildfire that quickly spreads.

* AmazonBrigade: Black Maria is the leader of a squad made almost exclusively by women, which means [[WouldntHitAGirl Sanji]] has no way to defeat Black Maria's squad.

* SmallRoleBigImpact: Who's-Who is a minor villain in the Wano Arc, but [[spoiler:his failed escort mission of the Gum Gum Fruit back as a [=CP9=] agent allowed it to fall into the hands of the main protagonist. He also introduces lore for the Sun God Nika who turns out to the be intricately connected to the fruit.]]

* ElegantClassicalMusician: A Japanese variation to the standard trope, but Black Maria is dressed like an ''Oiran'' and, when everyone is busy fighting and she remains in the brothel, where the other women ask her to sing a lullaby, letting Black Maria show her singing and shamisen skills.