History Characters / OnePieceNami

* FanServicePack: Over the course of a few hundred chapters/episodes, Nami's physique changed greatly. Her breasts have gradually increased in size, from modest B's to full-blown F's. It's enough to make you think that the story hasn't been in ComicBookTime, but apparently, she's just prone to growth spurts. At the ages of 18 and 20. Every other week of her life. And the [[PerverseSexualLust fans]] [[RuleThirtyFour rejoiced]].

!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/MegumiToyoguchi [OVA], Creator/AkemiOkamura [TV series onwards][[note]] (briefly replaced by Creator/WakanaYamazaki when Okamura went on maternity leave)[[/note]] (Japanese); Creator/LuciChristian [Funimation dub], Creator/KerryWilliams [4Kids dub], Alison Lester [Odex dub, episodes 1-52], Chio Su-Ping [Odex dub, episodes 53-67], Cindy Cheekmore [Odex dub, episode 68-104] (English)[[note]]'''Other languages:''' Georgina "Gina" Sánchez (Latin American Spanish); Creator/DianaTorres (European Spanish)[[/note]]

** And keep in mind, this is the same universe where pathetic-looking runts (Coby) turn into outright [[{{Bishonen}} bishonens]] in less than a year (albeit with training), and where ordinary-sized children grow into 22-foot-tall monstrosities (Moriah). And both are human.

** When it comes to children, especially orphans or kidnapping victims, she will fight hard to protect them and keep them safe

The eighteen/[[TimeSkip twenty]]-year-old navigator of the [[Characters/OnePieceStrawHatPirates Straw Hat Pirates]], and the second of [[Characters/OnePieceMonkeyDLuffy Monkey D. Luffy]]'s recruits. Nami was initially introduced as a thief who detested pirates and stole from them, tagging along Luffy with dubious loyalty to him. However, it is revealed that her surrogate home, the Conomi Archipelago, was occupied by the Arlong Pirates and she only wished to buy her home back. When Luffy freed the archipelago from Arlong's grip, she fully joined the Straw Hats afterward.

Nami's years of thievery have given her a sly and wily personality, as she isn't above taking advantage of or blackmailing her own crew mates. Despite these greedy personality traits, she is still very loyal to the crew, [[OnlySaneWoman though they do get on her nerves from time to time]].

* AccidentalTickleTorture: In the English dub only, she screams "that tickles!" when Sanji hugs her at the conclusion of the Luffy's duel with Foxy.

* AntiHero: She starts off as a thief not willing to kill, but fine with putting pirates in situations where they are certain to die due to her past with the Arlong Pirates. After joining officially the Straw Hats, she still has the habits to steal and has remained quite greedy.

* ArtEvolution: In the anime, her eyes have been drawn lighter since the TimeSkip, going from dark brown to near orange. Furthermore, her eyes are originally drawn uniformly brown, with the irises only visible when she's showing strong emotion. Now, the irises are visible at all times (though the manga still generally follows the pre-TimeSkip design of "uniform brown unless emotional"). Also, like all of the women from early One Piece (such as Tashigi or Vivi), Nami becomes curvier and significantly more well-endowed over time as Oda's art style evolves.

* BadassBookworm: Nami is a highly skilled navigator as well as a talented cartographer, to the point where Arlong considered her skills on par with the fishmen "superiority" since they were superior to any fish-man's. When Luffy destroys her room at Arlong Park, maps of both bathymetric and geographic nature were seen, indicating Nami has a wide variety of cartographic skills. She is capable of formulating advanced equations in mere minutes to predict a precise course of action, although she usually needs to write the equations down on a physical medium when formulating them. She has the innate ability to sense changes in the weather, and can even predict the appearance of supposedly unpredictable cyclones in the Grand Line, even when running a high fever. The movie ''Strong World'' also shows that she performs better than a crew of scientists with some advanced equipment in predicting the weather.

* BarbieDollAnatomy: Averted. The front of her breast is clearly visible as she shows {{Sideboob}} during the Whole Cake island arc, in chapter 852, while it's hard to make out (most likely on purpose due to ''One Piece'' being a Magazine/ShonenJump manga), there is a line that forms part of a nipple. The rest can't be seen part because she's filthy, and partly due to the art style.

*** In the manga, for some time the scar was still visible a bit under her new tatto the times she wore sleeveless shirts, but by the Whisky Peak arc it completely disappeared. Maybe Oda thought it was too much of a hassle to draw.

* BorrowedCatchPhrase: When she claims to be a crossdressing man to get zombie Lola off her case, she uses Bon Clay's "Not joking around!"

* ButtMonkey: One of the rare female versions and one of the biggest '''''[[UpToEleven ever.]]''''' She's more so known as [[FieryRedhead that one chick who blows up at her crew mates idiocy]], and a {{greed}}y pirate girl, but whenever something goes wrong, ([[PlayedForLaughs which is all the damn time,]]) she'd be no better than ''[[CowardlyLion Usopp]]''. Best exemplified in the [[HalloweenEpisode Thriller Bark Arc]], where after Enies Lobby is all said and done, you would think that nothing could faze her. [[{{Bathos}} Cue the ghosts and zombies.]]

* CelibateHeroine: Her reason to not want to marry Absalom is (other than he's a creepy pervert) that she is way too young to get married and would rather go on adventures for the time being. While she regularly flirts with others to get what she wants, she is one of the four crew members (along with Robin, Luffy and Zoro) to never show unambiguous attraction to anyone.

** At the age of ten, after Arlong murdered her adoptive mother, Belle-mère, he promised her that if she drew maps for him and collected up 100 million beries, she could buy back her village and free the villagers from his rule. She agreed, despite the fact that she could’ve escaped any time she wanted to. Even after the rest of the village ([[BreakHisHeartToSaveHim seemingly]]) shunned her for selling out to Arlong, she stuck with it, believing that she was the only one who could help her village. This caused her to develop some serious trust issues and at the beginning of the story she doesn't truly trust or rely on anyone. Although she gets along with the Straw Hats, she doesn't think of herself as a part of the crew and, after being reminded about Arlong, she betrays them and takes the ship (not without some regrets, however). It's not until she's completely desperate and begs Luffy for help that she's able to actually trust someone and consider her their friend.
** After the two year timeskip, she does not over-react, scold, or hit the crew as often for their rash actions anymore, like when she decides to take part in activities such as [[spoiler:demanding money when the crew holds Ryugu Kingdom "hostage".]] In fact she now appears quite calm in the most daunting of situations, most notably when Fake Nami held a gun to her head, implying she has become fairly confident in her abilities.

* CloseToHome: Since she spent her childhood under Arlong's abuse, harming any children is the one thing that sets her off. Nami becomes very protective when she learns of the chilrdren's experiments at Punk Hazard and, during the Onigashima War, [[spoiler:Nami zaps Ulti for harming Tama, despite having tried to run from her just a few seconds before.]]

** In general, she seems to be the one who makes the day-to-day decisions of the crew, such as handling supplies. This is historically accurate, too, since real world historical pirate ships were run mostly by quartermasters, with captains usually only dictating navigation and combat.

* CryCute: Despite being a cunning and sly woman, Nami is very sensitive. Despite acting like a massive jerk for the first half of the Arlong arc, after Arlong has the treasure she amassed for ten years stolen, Nami breaks down crying, begging for help in one of the series most famous panels, emphasizing how weak she is at that point. She also cries a lot when Usopp and Luffy fight and when the former temporarily leaves the crew, and another one in Zou when she tells Luffy [[spoiler:that Sanji has been kidnapped by Capone Bege]].

* DoubleStandardAbuseFemaleOnMale: She beats her crewmates up very often, but never do said crewmates respond in kind. She does lessen on the beatings after the TimeSkip, though.
* DudeMagnet: [[WordOfGod Oda]] comments that Nami and Robin are considered very beautiful women InUniverse, and indeed many men are shown attracted to her, such as Sanji, who constantly flirts with her. Nami herself exploits her attractiveness as much as she can. Unfortunately, she ends up gaining the interest of [[InvisibleJerkass Absalom]], who even attempts to marry her via force. In the Wano arc, Nami shows her naked body to distract the enemies, and ends up distracting [[EvenTheGirlsWantHer many women as well]].

* FanServicePack: Over the course of a few hundred chapters/episodes, Nami's physique changed greatly. Her breasts have gradually increased in size, from modest B's to full-blown F's. It's enough to make you think that the story hasn't been in ComicBookTime, but apparently she's just prone to growth spurts. At the ages of 18 and 20. Every other week of her life. And the [[PerverseSexualLust fans]] [[RuleThirtyFour rejoiced]].

* FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling: The rash, thieving Foolish to Nojiko's level-headed, straight-lace Responsible. To top it off, [[RedOniBlueOni Nami has red-orange hair while Nojiko has blue hair]].

* FormerBigot: Nami used to be a TragicBigot towards fishmen because they were heavily involved in her DarkAndTroubledPast. But after hearing the story of the slavery of fishmen from Hatchan and later, the story of Jimbei's late boss Fisher Tiger and late mermaid queen Otohime who fought for fishmen's rights in different ways, she has a change of heart and she renounces all of her hate towards fishmen, except for those who really did bad things.

* {{Greed}}: One of her main traits. If there's money to be made, count her in! She started off as treasure-obsessed, and would do nearly anything to get large amounts of money, which includes raiding a Marine's base during the confusion of an attack. This is justified a couple arcs in: She wants to use the money for the REAL Greed-monger, her then-captain, so she could buy him off and he'll leave her hometown alone.
** The fact that it's a defining characteristic of hers is played with in her in-betweener. [[spoiler: Even after Arlong is dealt with, she's still just as greedy, justifying it by saying that she's now free to use her money as she pleases.]]

** Nami doesn't trust Robin when she first joins, and calls Luffy, Chopper, and Sanji idiots for being easily swayed by Robin to allow her to join up despite her history with Crocodile. She then goes to tell Robin that she herself won't be as easily swayed as she doesn't trust her. However, as soon as Robin casually offers up a bag of gems, Nami does a complete 180 and gets easily swayed. She even called her [[CoolBigSis "Sis"]].

* IconicOutfit: She has 3 of them; Her very first (the white shirt and orange skirt), her Enies Lobby outfit (the [[FanService infamous]] cuttoff brown blouse and blue skirt) and her first TimeSkip outfit, the bikini top and jeans. She's also always seen wearing a Log Pose on her wrist like a watch.

* ImpossibleHourglassFigure: While initially she's just a NoodlePeople, from the Alabasta arc it's body has "developed" enough to be visible and it's much more defined after the TimeSkip.

* TheLadette: She skirts the edge of this trope. She's very feminine in her dress, cute in her mannerisms (when she wants something) and knows how to manipulate men (Sanji, not that that takes much) with her looks. On the other hand, she can out-drink Zoro, who is a bit of an alcoholic, drops the sweet talk when she isn't trying to scam you out of your money going for insults instead, and shows no fear playing hardball with men much stronger than her (even if she's just doing the negotiations, and intends to step back and let the stronger crew members do the actual beating). Of all the pirates, she probably come the closest to "raping pillaging and stealing." Zoro often comments that Sanji's attentions to her (and Robin, but whatever) are even more pathetic taking into account that Nami is more of a man than the cook himself. Even if she does like to look pretty.

* MagicStaff: Her Clima-Tact, her main weapon. [[WeatherControlMachine can even create small-scale weather effects]] which Nami is able to use very strategically. After the time-skip the weather effects are not so small anymore. Ironically, Usopp only designed it as a staff with magic tricks for entertainment during parties.

* MarsAndVenusGenderContrast: Nami proves to be an archetypal character for this trope. As the series unfolds, it's clear Nami simply doesn't get men's way of thinking, whatever it is values, attitudes, behaviors, codes, intentions, decisions or actions. Specifically, she doesn't understand the tacit communication between Luffy and Zoro (as seen in Buggy arc), is the only character who hates to be in a Wanted poster (in contrast with general cheerfulness male characters react to publications and updates of those posters) and her opinions and advices are usually disregarded in topics like adventures, honor or discipline and respect, who are important for men (like her permission for Luffy and Zoro to fight Bellamy in Jaya arc, her attempt to ruin Luffy's adventure in Skypiea and her refusal to have a campfire in Upper Yard, the whole Usopp affair in Water 7, or the "Monster Trio" accepting or supporting the "Davy Back Fight" challenge against the Fox Pirates). Even after the {{Time Skip}}, that situation doesn't change at all, as seen in [[spoiler:Punk Hazard arc]] or the [[spoiler:Whole Cake Island arc, where Nami decided to cut bonds with Sanji, only to see how Luffy, unlike her, shows totally loyal with him, overriding her decision in the process]].

* OneWomanArmy: Nami has ''more'' than earned her place as this. She was already fairly powerful, but in the climax of the Whole Cake Island Arc, she and Luffy alone were able to take down half of Big Mom's personal PraetorianGuard -- the only reason they even lost was due to the enemy having such superior numbers (and Charotte Galette [[NoSell no-selling]] her powers, without which she's just an athletic but overall weak human).

* ShockStick: Her Perfect Clima Tact, essentially a super-taser on a stick, can create lightning strikes and other electrical discharges under the right conditions. It has other weather related functions, as well.

* SquishyWizard: While she is not gifted with superhuman speed, strength or toughness, in fact, she's probably the weakest (physically) character in the crew after Usopp, she's still manages to keep up in fights because her Climatact and all it's variations allow her a wide-variety of extremely versatile and powerful effects. She can emulate the powers of multiple Devil Fruits, and she can usually avoid getting hit by crafting illusions or just making herself invisible.

* TeenGenius: When we are first introduced to her, she is eighteen and knows the ins-and-outs of sailing various kinds of ships, an almost entirely instinctive knowledge of climatology and meteorology, and an incredible knack at cartography that she had been refining since she was only ten years old. Eiichiro Oda states she was the third smartest character introduced in the East Blue Saga. The other two were pirates with years of experience, one being the first-mate of one of the most powerful men in the world. So yeah, she's smart.

** At the age of ten, after Arlong murdered her adoptive mother, Bellemere, he promised her that if she drew maps for him and collected up 100 million beries, she could buy back her village and free the villagers from his rule. She agreed, despite the fact that she could’ve escaped any time she wanted to. Even after the rest of the village ([[BreakHisHeartToSaveHim seemingly]]) shunned her for selling out to Arlong, she stuck with it, believing that she was the only one who could help her village. This caused her to develop some serious trust issues and at the beginning of the story she doesn't truly trust or rely on anyone. Although she gets along with the Straw Hats, she doesn't think of herself as a part of the crew and, after being reminded about Arlong, she betrays them and takes the ship (not without some regrets, however). It's not until she's completely desperate and begs Luffy for help that she's able to actually trust someone and consider her their friend.

* MissingMom: [[ParentalSubstitute Bellemere]] died saving her and her adoptive sister by being shot by Arlong himself. [[ForcedtoWatch Nami saw the whole thing]]. Her birth mom, on the other hand, is likely a casualty of war.

* OnlyOneName: Although several other characters, including some of the Straw Hats, also count, she's especially notable in that she ''literally'' has only one name. Being orphaned when she was a baby, it was her adoptive mom Bellemere who named her Nami, and her surname has been lost to history, as has her birth-given name. Belle-mère also had only one name, so no adoptive surname exists for her, either.

* PersonaNonGrata: When Nami returned to her village the day after Bellemere's murder, supposedly having joined the Arlong Pirates for money, Genzo demanded that she never set foot in the village. Subverted after Genzo learned the real reason behind her actions. He allowed her to pass through the town to reach her childhood home, but didn't say anything to her [[CruelToBeKind to prevent her from realizing that the other townspeople knew about her quest to buy the village from Arlong, so that she could give up if it got too difficult for her.]]

* CowardlyLion:
** While not as Chopper and Usopp, she does not have the fear immunity that the rest of the crew have. This is justified out of pragmatism than anything else, since she is completely untrained in physical combat and knows when she can't win a fight. After the TimeSkip and two years of training, she's become much stronger and is no longer as cowardly, like when her doppelgänger points a gun at her head and she doesn't even flinch.

* ADayInTheLimelight: The special "Episode of Nami" TV Special that aired between episodes 560 and 561. A retelling of the Arlong Park Arc. Actually post TimeSkip Nami reminiscing while on their way to Fish-man Island.

** In the [[TheGiantMechanicalSoldierOfKarakuriCastle 7th movie]], sometimes they bounce wildly when she moves very little.

* {{Greed}}: One of her main traits. If there's money to be made, count her in!
* GuileHero: "Heroine" in her case. To compensate for her lack of Devil Fruit powers (Robin, Brook, Chopper), [[{{Cyborg}} technological enhancements]] (Franky), and [[LightningBruiser monstrous physical/Haki skills]] (Luffy, Zoro, Sanji), her usual approach is the tactical one; when she first meets Luffy, she calls him [[HilariousInHindsight "Boss"]] to [[LetsYouAndHimFight get the guys chasing her off her tail]]. In the Totto Land arc, she manages to defeat [[BadBoss Charlotte Cracker]] this way - [[spoiler:using her Clima-Tact to soften up his Biscuit Soldiers so Luffy can eat through Cracker's defenses and gain a more powerful form]]

* ShouldntYouStopStealing: For some time after her reason for stealing (i.e freeing her village) ceases, she still keeps her stealing habit.

* TomboyWithAGirlyStreak: Although she's mostly an unabashed, aggressive tomboy, Nami still loves shopping and dressing up.

* AdaptationDyeJob: Her hair is yellow-orange in the manga, but veers toward reddish-orange in the anime. The Oda-directed ''Strong World'' and ''Film Z'' notably make it purely orange, similar to the way the former lightened Robin's skin before she has become permanently light-skinned post-TimeSkip.

* BadassBookworm: Nami is a highly skilled navigator as well as a talented cartographer, to the point where Arlong considered her skills on par with the fishmen "superiority" since they were superior to any fish-man's. When Luffy destroys her room at Arlong Park, maps of both bathymetric and geographic nature were seen, indicating Nami has a wide variety of cartographic skills. She is capable of formulating advanced equations in mere minutes to predict a precise course of action, although she usually needs to write the equations down on a physical medium when formulating them. She has the innate ability to sense changes in the weather, and can even predict the appearance of supposedly unpredictable cyclones in the Grand Line, even when running a high fever. The movie Strong World also shows that she performs better than a crew of scientists with some advanced equipment in predicting the weather.

* {{Gainaxing}}: In the 7th movie, sometimes they bounce wildly when she moves very little.
** It's also the case in the 12th movie. Though you could argue this is compensating for the fact that she spends most of the movie as a kid.

* LittleMissConArtist: She takes advantage of that to trick some Marine soldiers into giving her info about Z.

* MundaneUtility: Inverted. Nami asks Usopp to make her a weapon so that she can participate in battles like the rest of the crew and Usopp makes her the Clima-Tact. In his instructions, Usopp reveals he designed it with magic tricks to entertain during the parties but Nami is able to use them in combat. Completely averted after she improves the Clima-Tact to give it new combat tricks.

* MsFanservice: Most conventional in the world, as she's… stacked, [[{{Gainaxing}} bouncy]], [[TheTease flirtatious]], and [[BareYourMidriff rarely covers her stomach]]. After the time skip we have… [[WalkingSwimsuitScene bikini top]], low-riding pants that expose her hips and upper crotch-lines, high heels, and [[LongHairIsFeminine much longer and free-flowing hair]]. Taken up to eleven in the "Glorious Island" movie tie-in; most of the focus is on Nami bouncing around in a tiny bikini, with her breasts larger than ever before. Her wardrobe seems to shrink for each story arc as she's down to the bikini top and short shorts in the Dressrosa storyline.

* MsFanservice: Most conventional in the world, as she's… stacked, [[{{Gainaxing}} bouncy]], [[TheTease flirtatious]], and [[BareYourMidriff rarely covers her stomach]]. After the time skip we have… [[WalkingSwimsuitScene bikini top]], low-riding pants that expose her hips and upper crotch-lines, high heels, and [[LongHairIsFeminine much longer and free-flowing hair]]. Taken up to eleven in the "Glorious Island" movie tie-in; most of the focus is on Nami bouncing around in a tiny bikini, with her breasts larger than ever before. Her wardrobe seems to shrink for each story arc as she's down to the bikini top and [[WhoWearsShortShorts short shorts]] in the Dressrosa storyline.

* WhoWearsShortShorts: Quite a few of her [[TheFashionista many, many,]] ''many'' different outfits feature a pair of these.

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* BorrowedCatchPhrase: When she claims to be a crossdressing man to get Zombie!Lola off her case, she uses Bon Clay's "Not joking around!"

* DudeMagnet:[[WordOfGod Oda]] comments that Nami and Robin are considered very beautiful women InUniverse, and indeed many men are shown attracted to her, such as Sanji, who constantly flirts with her. Nami herself exploits her attractiveness as much as she can. Unfortunately, she ends up gaining the interest of [[InvisibleJerkass Absalom]], who even attempts to marry her via force. In the Wano arc, Nami shows her naked body to distract the enemies, and ends up distracting [[EvenTheGirlsWantHer many women as well]].

* TragicBigot: Downplayed. Her experience with the Arlong Pirates left her not outright racist, but with the impression that all Fishmen are violent and oppressive toward humans, which made her initially reluctant to go to Fish-Man Island. Then the Saboady Archipelago arc shows her that Fishmen actually suffer far more prejudice from humans than vice versa, and Hachi, one of the less malevolent members of the Arlong Pirates, pulls a HeelFaceTurn.
* {{Tsundere}}: Gets pissed at the idiotic nature of her crew despite being very close to them; [[OnlySaneWoman completely]] [[SurroundedByIdiots understandable]], of course.

** Whacks a young boy who's seeking {{revenge}} against Arlong on the head [[CruelToBeKind in order to prevent him from getting himself killed]].

* XRaySparks: Commonly happens to her enemies after she hits them with a thunderbolt tempo.

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* BrokenTears: After Arlong [[KickTheDog decided to go back on his word and send corrupt Marines to confiscate the money Nami stole]], Nami completely breaks down, sobbing as she stabs at the shoulder tattoo Arlong gave her and screaming at Luffy to leave her and Cocoyashi behind to no avail. Cue Luffy and the Straw Hats' CurbStompBattle on the Arlong Pirates]].

* DangerouslyShortSkirt: She wears short skirts two times in canon. The first was [[https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/onepiece/images/b/bf/Nami%27s_First_Outfit_Water_7_Arc.png/revision/latest?cb=20130927194940 in the Water 7 arc]], when she didn't fight at all. The second was [[https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/onepiece/images/6/6a/Nami_Enies_Lobby.png/revision/latest?cb=20130509032406 in the Enies Lobby arc]], where she more than proved her worth as an ActionGirl. Her battle outfit in ''Film Z'' has one as well, though in that case it's partially justified: since she was turned into a kid, her outfit is child-sized, and thus looked a lot shorter when she returned to normal.

* ShesGotLegs: Most of her outfits pre- and post-TimeSkip consist of short skirts and shorts that emphasize her legs, so they're often the first thing people see. It helps that Creator/EiichiroOda's wife is Chiaki Inaba, the ''incredibly'' attractive actress who once played as Nami, so Oda based her character on her as a tribute. Her legs are PlayedForLaughs in the gag comic "Mugiwara Theatre - Red-Hair of Class 3-Sea Time", where she's depicted as a school bully who would wear a DangerouslyShortSkirt and charge anyone who saw her legs 100,000 berries.

** She'll gladly take and steal money, but the idea of being bought [[BerserkButton really angers her]].

** At the age of ten, after Arlong murdered her adoptive mother, Bellemere, he promised her that if she drew maps for him and collected up 100 million beries, she could buy back her village and free the villagers from his rule. She agreed, despite the fact that she could’ve escaped any time she wanted to. Even after the rest of the village ([[BreakTheirHeartToSaveThem seemingly]]) shunned her for selling out to Arlong, she stuck with it, believing that she was the only one who could help her village. This caused her to develop some serious trust issues and at the beginning of the story she doesn't truly trust or rely on anyone. Although she gets along with the Straw Hats, she doesn't think of herself as a part of the crew and, after being reminded about Arlong, she betrays them and takes the ship (not without some regrets, however). It's not until she's completely desperate and begs Luffy for help that she's able to actually trust someone and consider her their friend.

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* AntiHero: Starts off as a thief not willing to kill, but fine with putting pirates in situations where they are certain to die due to her past with the Arlong Pirates. After joining officially the Straw Hats, she still has the habits to steal and has remained quite greedy.

* BreakHisHeartToSaveHim: A platonic example. In the Arlong Park arc, Nami tries to make the Straw Hats leave Cocoyashi since she's so close to paying off her debt to Arlong and buying back her town's freedom, and she doesn't want the Straw Hats to get hurt. After she finds out Arlong broke his promise [[KickTheDog and confiscated her money]], she goes through a ''heartbreaking'' HeroicBSOD, and as a last resort she screams at Luffy to go away and leave her and her town alone. What follows is a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown as the Straw Hats completely thrash the Arlong Pirates.

* BrokenBird: She is shown to have been spectacularly broken as a little girl in the Arlong arc (due to the brutal murder of her adoptive mother and her years in Arlong's crew). That was until Luffy defeated Arlong that she was no longer broken. However, while she warmed up to pirates thanks to the Straw Hats saving her and her town from captivity, it took her a while to feel she could start trusting Fishmen in general after the devilish impression she got from the Arlong Pirates, which Hatchan found out the hard way.
* BrokenTears: After Arlong [[KickTheDog decided to go back on his word and send corrupt Marines to confiscate the money Nami stole]], Nami completely breaks down, sobbing as she stabs at the shoulder tattoo Arlong gave her and screaming at Luffy to leave her and Cocoyashi behind to no avail. [[ThisIsUnforgivable Cue Luffy and the Straw Hats]] [[CurbStompBattle opening a can of whoop-ass]] [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown and bulldozing Arlong's crew]].

* CerebusRetcon: Initially played straight with Nami's [[MoneyFetish greed]] and distrust of pirates. In the Arlong Park Arc, we find out her hometown was taken over by pirates and she struck a deal with the leader to buy back the town from him if she gathered enough money. Ultimately subverted, when this arc was over, Nami is still obsessed with money and treasure. Even in the flashback to Nami's past, she was stealing things before Arlong showed up. It likely has more to do with her poor background.

* CynicismCatalyst: The death of Belle-mère at the hands of Arlong caused Nami to hate pirates with a passion. She ultimately gets over it after Luffy defeats Arlong.

* ShesGotLegs: Most of her outfits pre- and post-TimeSkip consist of short skirts and shorts that emphasize her legs, so they're often the first thing people see. It helps that Creator/EiichiroOda's wife is Chiaki Inaba, the ''incredibly'' attractive actress who once played as Nami, so Oda based her character on her as a tribute. Her legs are PlayedForLaughs in the gag comic "Mugiwara Theatre - Red-Hair of Class 3-Sea Time", where she's depicted as a school bully who would wear a DangerouslyShortSkirt and charge anyone who saw her legs 100,000 belli.

* ImpossibleHourglassFigure: While initially she's just a NoodlePeople, from the Alabasta arc it's body has "developed" enough to be visible andit's much more defined after the TimeSkip.

* WomenAreWiser: Along with Robin, she often has to express common sense since few of her male crewmembers, especially her captain Luffy, possess it. On the other hand, Nami has her own blind spots (such as the promise of wealth) and has to be reeled in by the others in turn.

* MoneyFetish: She's such a classic case that she's the current image for that page. See [[MrViceGuy Ms. Vice Girl]] below.

The eighteen/[[TimeSkip twenty]]-year-old navigator of the Straw Hats, and the second of Luffy's recruits. Nami was initially introduced as a thief who detested pirates and stole from them, tagging along Luffy with dubious loyalty to him. However, it is revealed that her surrogate home, the Conomi Archipelago, was occupied by the Arlong Pirates and she only wished to buy her home back. When Luffy freed the archipelago from Arlong's grip, she fully joined the Straw Hats afterward.

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