Characters / One Piece: Marines

aka: One Piece The Marines

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Main Character Index > World Government > Marines (Marine Admirals | Special Science Group) | Cipher Pol

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Marines

The Marines are the most prominent antagonist group in the series. The Marines (or the Navy in the English dubs; with 4Kids outright replacing "Marines" and Funimation referring to the Marine army itself as "Navy" interchangeably with "Marine") are the World Government’s law-enforcement military, being among the largest organizations in the world of One Piece. Their main job is to enforce the law, and thus they mainly hunt down pirates and criminals and act as peacekeepers, but sometimes they can be called in for more ruthless operations, like decimating whole islands whose population is tied to a notorious threat to the World Government. Not unlike the pirates they hunt, a number of its members are corrupt or power-hungry, or at the very least morally questionable, but there are also some that are genuinely heroic and good and uphold the ideals of "Justice" of the Marines.

The Marines maintain a presence all over the world and are considered one of its "Three Great Powers", alongside the Warlords and the Emperors. Although the Marines do not have the sheer military might of one of the Emperors, they have greater discipline, are allied to the Warlords, and have a better worldwide presence (which means they are also too spread out to combat the pirate threat effectively).

Following the Paramount War and the dreadful losses they suffered, the new Fleet Admiral Sakazuki has rebuilt the organization in the two years Luffy was absent, introducing more aggressive policies toward the pirate threat and conscripting people among the populace to refill their ranks.

For the Admiral and Fleet Admiral members, see their entries here.

For Vegapunk and the Special Science Group, see their entries here,

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In General

• Ascended Extra: Attach the photographer, who was originally an SBS joke, has become part of the One Piece character cast, occasionally making appearances from time to time in the story or background scenes. Because of repeated instances of leaving the lens cap on the camera, he gets kicked out of the marines and he is later under the employ of "Big News" Morgans.
• Asskicking Leads to Leadership: Rank is given based on fighting power, and the title of Fleet Admiral can be contested in a duel.
• Badass Army: As the premier military arm of the World Government, even with the threat of pirates that can literally destroy the world, they stand between global order and basically pirate Armageddon. Putting aside the circumstances behind his capture, even after the late Pirate King — Gold Roger inspired a generation of piracy with his last words, for over twenty years they've kept the world largely stable. The power of the top brass is enough to scare even the most brutal of pirates, or at least those less than an Emperor.
• Badass in a Nice Suit: Standard attire for high ranking Marines.
• Badass Long Coat: Standard issue for any Marine of Ensign and higher is a long white coat with the Japanese characters for "justice" on the back.
• Bunny-Ears Lawyer: A lot of the Marines have really weird personalities, look very strange and have strange quirks. Vergo continued being promoted despite always having food on his face. Maynard doesn't wear a shirt. Kizaru makes really weird faces when fighting pirates. Aokiji wears a sleeping mask. Sengoku wears a hat with a life sized seagull on top and brings a pet goat to work.
• Charles Atlas Superpower: Several soldiers of rank who trained at Marine HQ have acquired techniques of Six Powers. But no Marine officer has ever used all six techniques, which is generally reserved to the agents of CP9 and CP0.
• Cape Busters: The Marines essentially serve as this in the One Piece world, staffed by various Badass Normal people with extreme cases of Charles Atlas Superpower levels of physical stats, various Devil Fruit Users, and a nearly endless number of loyal mooks, for the purpose of protecting the common populace and World Government Kingdoms from marauding pirates and criminals with Devil Fruit Powers of their own. They have entire prison facilities and military weaponry made of Seastone to nullify Devil Fruit Powers and lock them away when needed and are the only ones seen capable of actually dealing superhuman criminal threats in an orderly manner.
• Coat Cape: Most officers wear their coats on their shoulders like cape, making them look larger and giving a sense of authority.
• Custom Uniform: Zigzagged. As explained by Oda in an SBS, lower ranked Marines have a standard uniform they must wear. Starting with the rank of corporal, Marines have the option of wearing other types of uniforms or even their own personal clothes as long as it's clear that they're Marines.
• The Dreaded: A Marine of significant reputation can easily become this for lower level pirates (Smoker). However, once a Marine hits the Admiral rank, they're automatically this to every pirate barring the Four Emperors and their respective crews.
• Even Evil Has Standards: As corrupt as the Government is and given their “scorched earth” policy on all matters involving the Blank Century, there’s something to be said about the fact that even they want to prevent anyone from learning how to awaken the legendary weapons. As in they wouldn’t dare to use them either.
• Everyone Has Standards: Though all the Marines are tough on pirates, there's still a variety of lines they don't cross. In terms of standards, there's the moral and relatively merciful (Aokiji and Smoker), the more ruthless but ultimately neutral (Sengoku), and the ones utterly driven to exterminate evil (Akainu). That being said, even the latter is exasperated with the Five Elder Stars' antics, as their obsession with image and appeasing the corrupt World Nobles hampers the Marines' ability to do their jobs effectively.
• Evil Running Good: Though most of the Marines are made up of volunteers dedicated to protecting the public from dangerous criminals and enforcing law and order on the seas, the top brass is mainly run by Ax-Crazy Knight Templar officials who are more than happy to wipe out entire islands or slaughter innocent bystanders to get their targets or simply remove a potential threat to their agenda. Not to mention being subservient to egocentric aristocrats like the World Nobles, really not liking it notwithstanding.
• For Great Justice: Official policy, as what the Marines do is for justice. Though their ideas of justice tend to diverge greatly:
  • "Absolute Justice" is the belief that any pirate or criminal, no matter the motives or intentions, are not just sinners who must be hunted down and killed without remorse, but that people associated with them, such as people who built things for criminals (like Tom being executed for building the Oro Jackson) and even their families (such as Luffy and Ace being targeted for being the sons of Monkey D. Dragon and Gold Roger, respectively). This is the philosophy that members like Sakazuki believes in and the one most endorsed by the Government.
  • "Moral Justice" is the belief that a criminal's motives and intentions should be taken into account when considering whether to punish them or let them go. This is the philosophy that Garp and Tashigi follow.
  • And then you have the personal definitions of Justice, which represent the Marine's individual personality. While some, like Sengoku^note "Reigning Justice" and Tsuru^note "Clean Justice" tend to have a foot in both philosophies, most personal definitions of Justice tend to fall into either the "Absolute" camp (Borsalino^note "Unclear Justice", Rob Lucci^note "Dark Justice", Aramaki^note "Determined Justice") or "Moral" camp (Issho^note "Blind Justice", Kuzan^note "Lazy Justice", and Smoker^note Preaches a personal definition, but in practice is closer to "Moral Justice").
• Four-Star Badass: Expect everyone from Marine HQ above Captain rank to be crazy tough and every Admiral is shown to be a Person of Mass Destruction.
• The Fettered: Played straight, but often deconstructed: How far they take "Justice" is shown as completely acceptable, no matter how many despicable things you have to do. This is expressed in the "Absolute Justice" philosophy.
• Giant Mook: Literally, and also overlaps with Elite Mooks. During the Paramount War, they deployed the Giant division to take on Whitebeard and his allies. Though given their Coat Cape, it may be safe to assume that the giants rank around Vice-Admiral rather than outright Mooks.
• Good Is Not Soft: While the morality of the Marines often differs, it should be noted that even "good" Marines and those who believe in "Moral Justice" aren't soft towards pirates, even good pirates. Aokiji, Smoker, and even Koby recognize that Marines and pirates like the Straw Hats will have to clash eventually.
• Hero of Another Story: Nearly all of them. Most have interesting backstories or hints thereof even — as this Continuity Porn-filled color spread indicates — the minor ones.
• The Hunter Becomes the Hunted: After the Onigashima War, in Chapter 1056, it's revealed that the Cross Guild has started issuing bounties on the Marines just like they do on pirates, making them targets of bounty hunters as well.
• Inter-Service Rivalry: The Marines generally don't get along too well with Cipher Pol, as Cipher Pol tends to be far more obedient to the World Government. Doubly so for the Marines' covert ops division, SWORD, to the point that X Drake and Guernica end up on opposite sides of the conflict during the Onigashima Raid.
• Knight Templar: The other side of the argument, some of them are so extreme that they consider that disobeying the law means not only your execution, but every last living relative or associate to be hunted down and exterminated along with their entire island (not helped by the fact that the Fleet Admiral himself once ordered an island of pregnant women and newborns to be brought into their custody, presumably killing the ones who refused to comply, all on the slim chance that Gold Roger’s son was among them); even the people who are not in any way involved with the issue may get caught in the gunfire (such as the ship carrying the civilians of Ohara during its destruction being shot down on the even slimmer chance that a criminal managed to get onboard). This is a large part of the "Absolute Justice" idea spouted by their higher ups.
• Morality Kitchen Sink: Marines in this story run the gamut from Hero Antagonists to Well Intentioned Extremists to Punch Clock Villains to Knight Templars to selfish Jerkasses. The majority are fairly decent people, though.
• Nice Job Fixing It, Villain:
  • Right at the beginning of the story, with Roger's execution: they have the Pirate King executed in front of the entire world, allowing him to send a message that would eliminate the threat of piracy, only for his last words to ignite an even greater pirate age than before.
  • Not necessarily villainy, but their announcement of Ace's execution in Marineford, and subsequently the war, results in the deaths of Whitebeard and Ace but also give Blackbeard the chance to steal Newgate's Devil Fruit power and take his place as one of the Four Emperors. Meanwhile, the various decisions made by the higher-ups after the war results in the resignation of Garp, Sengoku, and Aokiji, removing a large part of the Marines' overall power. There's also the fact that, like Roger before him, Whitebeard confirms with his last words the existence of One Piece and causes an even greater age of piracy to begin. This new era threatens to engulf the world because, after the defeat of Doflamingo, every major power is making moves: Blackbeard is gaining the most powerful devil fruit powers he can and is either using them himself or giving them to his crew, Kaido is making an army of artificial devil fruit users to "destroy" the world and has allied with the Big Mom pirates, the Warlord system has been annulled, which means they now have to contend with some of the strongest pirates in the world that used to work for them as well, and to cap things off, the ones connected to all of this are the Straw Hat Pirates, who they continually antagonize directly and indirectly and end up the worse for it. The two direct catalysts are trying to execute Ace and start the Paramount War, and going after the Straw Hat crew. If they hadn't hunted the Straw Hat Pirates and sent Kuma, none of them would have been separated and their decision to take time off in which they have become much stronger might not have occurred.
• Pyrrhic Victory: At the end of the Paramount War, while they do achieve their intended goal using Ace to lure out Whitebeard and killing the both of them, as well as some other big-name pirates, that's really the most they could be said to have accomplished; they lose plenty of their own men in the process, Whitebeard's pre-mortem confirmation of the One Piece's existence kickstarts a second age of piracy, Blackbeard turns coat and busts out Level 6 prisoners from Impel Down to serve in his crew and steals Whitebeard's Tremor-Tremor Fruit, and they fail to eliminate Luffy, who established himself as a potential threat with his charisma and Conqueror's Haki and was outed as the son of Dragon the Revolutionary. Of course, the World Government opts to completely cover up the "Pyrrhic" part to save face, which backfires when common citizens and even their own ranks are completely unprepared for the sudden surge in piracy following the war due to being Locked Out of the Loop.
• Punchclock Villain: Marines fighting pirates is heroic, with the methods being arguable. However the second part of the job is recapturing slaves for the World Nobles despite it being illegal, letting them kill civilians and providing protection if someone fights back. Garp has declined promotion partly to avoid having to do the more vilainous work, as Admirals have to rescue World Nobles if their victims fight back.
• A Taste of Their Own Medicine: By having a monopoly on the bounty system, the Marines ensure that all pirates in the world live on a knife's edge. By the end of the Wano arc, however, the pirate-led Cross Guild has issued bounty posters on various Navy officials, which makes the Marines enticing targets to bounty seekers as much as the pirates they have pursued.
• Tautological Templar: The more extreme members of the organization believe that since the Marines stand for "Justice", everything they do, no matter how despicably and indisputably evil, is justified if it's in pursuit of "justice". Even genocide is fine if it's to eliminate a small number of criminals that could possibly undermine their authority. The idea that anyone else could vanquish evil is by large an unacceptable one, since anyone not supporting them stands against justice.
• To Be Lawful or Good: A conflict within Marine hegemony stands as those who would follow "Absolute Justice," which means that pirates are to be captured and put to death, regardless of collateral damage to civilians (such as in the cases of Sakazuki, Onigumo, or Aramaki), and "Moral Justice," which is the much more heroic approach of only hunting the pirates that are a threat to civilians or at least hunting them much harder (with examples being Smoker, Fujitora, Tashigi, and Koby). It's typically the latter who are portrayed as being more in line with the stated goal of protecting the world. There are also different interpretations of both schools of thought, such as Kuzan's "Lazy Justice" (only doing the barest minimum and rejecting the notion of ruthlessness to those he does not deem a threat) and Borsalino's "Unclear Justice" (wherein he capriciously chooses when to get serious on random whims).
• Token Evil Teammate: Most Marines are ordinary people who believe in protecting the public from pirates, but there are some notable hardliners that push the cause to Knight Templar levels. By "notable", we mean "Vice-Admirals and up" — which means they're likely to assert the overbearing "Absolute Justice" idea to the lower ranks, thus making them look worse than they actually are.
• Villain Has a Point: They're one of the biggest antagonist faction in the setting, but when we look at the behavior of the pirates other than the Straw Hats (raiding, pillaging, kidnapping royalties for ransom, etc), perhaps such a heavy-handed approach is indeed, necessary.
• Would Not Hurt A Child: A Marine Mook refuses to kill Rika because she's just a little girl, even by Morgan's orders. He gets killed for it.

G- 5 Marines

Stationed at G-5, a Marine branch located in the New World, those Marines are known for being insane, cruel and merciless, torturing any pirates they can find. Despite this, they exhibit a great deal of loyalty towards Vice-Admiral Vergo, their base captain, as well as Vice-Admiral Smoker and Captain Tashigi.

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• Because You Were Nice to Me: Explains their loyalty towards Vergo. Actually a deconstruction in that Vergo revealed his kindness was only an act and started attacking his former men immediately after dropping the act, while they refused to acknowledge the Vergo attacking them as the real one despite all evidence to the contrary.
• Cannon Fodder: Vergo even calls them that! They're relatively more badass than other Marine goons, though.
• Cavalry Betrayal: When Vergo comes to Punk Hazard, he brutally wounded them with Shigan. Right in front of Tashigi. Ouch.
• Comedic Sociopathy: Most of their acts of cruelty and barbarism towards pirates has been Played for Laughs. Commodore Yarisugi, for example, the highest-ranking representative of them that's completely loyal to their old ideals, has a gag of his subordinates telling him he went too far when he does something unheroic like kicking a civilian.
• Cowboy Cop: Led by THE Cowboy Cop of the Marines: Vice-Admiral Smoker, once Vergo is exposed as a traitor and dies.
• Cruel and Unusual Death: Infamous for dealing these out to Pirates.
• The Dreaded: Their cruelty towards captured pirates makes them notorious and feared, even among other Marine branches.
• Enemy Mine: With the Straw Hat Pirates and Trafalgar Law during the Punk Hazard arc, to 1) defeat Caesar Clown, 2) rescue the kidnapped children, and 3) get out of the island safely. And in Smoker's case, 4) stop corrupt Vice-Admiral Vergo.
• Enhanced Interrogation Techniques: The things they do to captured pirates are infamously crazy and cruel.
• Even Evil Has Standards: They are cruel towards pirates, and overall rowdy. But when they mistakenly assumed Smoker was accusing them of covering up cases of child kidnappings by pirates, they got pissed, saying that even though they are army rejects, they still have their pride as Marines. They simply believed Vergo's nonsense when they accidentally did so.
• Fire-Forged Friends: They can never admit it to the world but working to save the giant children, saving each other, defeating Caesar, and taking down the corrupt Vergo has made them this with the Straw Hats. They are forced to play up the idea they hate them to keep from admitting the truth.
• Go Out with a Smile: The Marines who die to save Tashigi from Caesar’s gas are petrified with huge grins and thumbs-up.
• Gonk: Probably to highlight how uncivilized and thuggish they are compared to the average Marine, G-5's members aren't actually easy on the eyes, other than their leaders.
• Grey-and-Gray Morality: Despite all their cruelty, they are one of the few branches in the New World able to defend innocent lives from suffering EVEN WORSE under pirates, most of whom are absolute monsters who probably deserve what G-5 throws their way.
• Hero with an F in Good: They're known for doing hideous things that on surface are hardly considered "good", but they have a good heart and they do things that they did to help the populace. Although even their more cruel traditionalist forces, led by Yarisugi, beat the evil Caribou Pirates, who barely escape their wrath, so these Marines are certainly quite competent.
• Heroic Sacrifice: All for their lovely Captain-chan, complete with Dying Moment of Awesome.
• Informed Ability: They're supposedly stronger than your average Marine soldier, but they still get mowed down by the dozens every time they face off against a named character.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Despite all their faults, they truly and honestly mean well for the civilians of the New World, and absolutely adore their commanders.
• Might Makes Right: It's the New World, so they basically adopted this policy just to survive.
• Military Maverick: They are known for disobeying orders.
• Police Brutality: G-5 is basically a group of ridiculously powerful thugs. There's no other way to describe how they treat pirates, and even civilians.
• Ragtag Bunch of Misfits: Practically the entire Marine Branch. To elaborate, nearly all the mooks are powerful thugs who mean well, led by quirky commanding officers such as the sword-obsessed Tashigi, who they have a Subordinate Excuse with, and Smoker, who is the shirtless badass that scares the crap out of them while smoking two cigars and obsessing over catching Luffy. There's also the other two commanding officers as well, who are as every bit as quirky as the other two are.
• Rank Scales with Asskicking: Combines with Asskicking Leads to Leadership, because G-5 Marines are tougher than your average mook, and they just keep getting tougher the higher up the command ladder you go.
• Reassigned to Antarctica: Almost every Marine in G-5 was rejected from the main branches, either because they were too brutal, too crazy, or too insubordinate. Or any combination of the three. Which obviously leads to...
• Reassignment Backfire: ...with someone like Smoker in G-5, they really turn things around. Or at least, they aren't quite as rowdy.
• Scenery Gorn: The G-5 Base. Seriously, that thing is so battered and shoddily repaired it looks like a strong wind would destroy the entire thing.
• Selective Obliviousness: They refuse to acknowledge the Vergo attacking them as the real one. Tashigi doesn't have the heart to tell them otherwise.
• Subordinate Excuse: A lot of them seem to have a crush on Tashigi.
• Undying Loyalty: Despite all their faults, they truly are loyal to their commanding officers. To the point of being willing to die for them.

Vice-Admirals

In General

Vice-Admirals are some of the strongest warriors of the Marine army, capable of standing toe to toe against powerful pirates and New World captains with ease. Some of them follow moral Justice, but some of them are for the absolute Justice. Two members of the Giant Squad members are Vice-Admirals. They are all confirmed to be Haki users.

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• Animal Theme Naming: Many of the vice-captains are named after animals, with most of them being named after different breeds of dogs.
• Badass Normal: Many Vice-Admirals do not have Devil Fruits, yet they are some of the strongest warriors of the Marines apart from the Admirals and Fleet Admiral.
• Dual Wielding: Lots of them wield two weapons at the same time.
• Ki Manipulation: All the Vice-Admirals are confirmed to be Haki users.
• Mask Power: Ronse wears a large mask, but it doesn't do him any good.
• Our Giants Are Bigger: The size of the Vice-Admiral giants makes them excellent additions to the Marines.
• Recurring Extra: They all have names and appear more than once during the story, usually doing the same sort of things each time but rarely impact the plot all that much.
• The Worf Effect: Vice-Admirals are often used in both Canon and Non-Canon materials to establish the power and threat level of someone opposing the Marines, an example being Whitebeard bulldozing two giant Vice-Admirals at Marineford without effort.

(Former) Vice-Admiral Garp "The Fist"

(Former) Vice-Admiral Monkey D. Garp "The Fist"

Voiced by: Hiroshi Naka (JP), Brian Mathis (EN, Funi), Eduardo Liñan (Netflix) (Latin American Spanish)

Age: 76 (Pre-Timeskip), 78 (Post-Timeskip)

Debut: Chapter 92 (Manga), Episode 68 (Anime)

"So what if I dropped you off a few cliffs, tossed you into the midnight jungle, and tied you to a balloon and set you to fly away...? It was to make you a stronger man!"

The Marine famed for being the rival of Gold Roger, King of the Pirates. He's also Ace and Luffy's grandfather (adoptive in Ace's case) and, ironically enough, the father of the world's most-wanted criminal, Dragon the Revolutionary. Garp is a cheerful, affable fellow, an old friend of Sengoku, former mentor to Kuzan/"Aokiji", and current mentor to Koby and Helmeppo. While Garp is happy that his grandchildren are making their way in life, he is also sorely disappointed in both of them for becoming pirates instead of Marines, in particular blaming Shanks for influencing Luffy in becoming a pirate. Garp has been offered the promotion to the position of Admiral several times, but rejected all of them, as he believes the responsibilities that come with being an Admiral would severely limit his freedom.

Considered the "Hero of the Navy", Garp displays legendary feats of strength and toughness that made him one of the strongest people alive before the Great Pirate Era. It's said his punches can shatter mountains, and he can toss around cannonballs like he's pitching a soft ball. He's also a master of Haki, allowing him hurt even his grandson's rubber body with his fists.

After the battle at Marineford, he resigns from his position in active fleet service, but stays in the Marines as an instructor while still retaining his rank, training and teaching younger Marines.

His bounty that is given out by Cross Guild is 3 crowns — the equivalent of 3,000,000,000 berries.

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• Abusive Parents: Played for Laughs. Garp subjects his grandchildren, Ace, Luffy and Sabo, extreme training and corporal punishment when they fail his training or misbehave, at least what he sees as "misbehaving".
• Accidental Hero: Garp earned the title of "The Hero" after he and Roger wound up teaming up with each other against Rocks D. Xebec during the God Valley Incident, in the process protecting the World Nobles that Rocks was apparently targeting from the dangerous pirate's violence. However, Garp actually knew in advance Rocks would be starting a war with the World Nobles, as, against his warnings, they had taken a "treasure" from Fullalead that was apparently valuable enough to instigate such open conflict. Garp had zero intentions of protecting the World Nobles from their own hubris: it was hearing that Roger was also heading to the Island and a chance to catch his rival that spurred him into action, with their subsequent team-up being apparently born out of necessity in the chaotic melee. Garp is ashamed of it for the reason why the World Nobles had descended from Marijoa in the first place, and the slaughter they had already inflicted on an innocent population before he arrived and reluctantly defended them because of his duty.
• Adaptation Dye-Job: His hair is white in the manga but grey in the anime.
• Almighty Janitor:
  • Played with. The rank of Vice-Admiral is no "Janitor", but one would figure the man who rivaled the Pirate King Gold Roger would be at the top of the chain. Garp, however, is perfectly content with his current rank and has refused numerous promotions to Admiral. Sengoku explains that accepting the position would make him essentially a pawn of the World Government and the Celestial Dragons, which Garp despises.
  • After the Time Skip, Garp gives up his Vice-Admiral status and becomes a Marine instructor. He's still important and strong enough to be assigned as an escort to the Reverie, a post worthy of an Admiral.
• Awesomeness Is a Force: During the assault at Pirate Island, Garp shows that he's not just a Conqueror's Haki user, but an immensely skilled and powerful one, capable of infusing it into his attacks, something that Kaido notes "only a handful" of the best Conqueror's Haki users are capable of.
• Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other: It became clear during the Paramount War that despite the absolute fear Luffy has for his grandfather, he does love him, and doesn't have it in him to act or wish harm onto Garp. As Luffy was mere feet away from Ace, Garp stood in his way out of duty, stating that if Luffy wanted to get to Ace, he would have to kill him. Ultimately, Luffy told him he didn't want do it, but Garp forced his hand — and then he falters, allowing Luffy to punch him and clear the way to Ace, showing that his love for his grandchildren outweighed his duty. In fact, the anime provides Garp's reasoning for his harsh training in a flashback, with this line:
  Garp: You probably hate me for being so strict. But the reason I give you such hard training, and want you to become a Marine, is because I don't want you to go down the wrong path. That is my wish.
• Badass in a Nice Suit: Wears the exact same suit as Sengoku back when Roger was still around. Makes sense, as they kicked ass as a team.
• Badass Normal: Garp, the only Marine able to ever fight against the Pirate King Roger, does not have a Devil Fruit, and yet he's still one of the strongest characters in the series. His strength does not come from just his use of Haki, but rather from an absurd training regimen that he adhered to for years. It's revealed that he used armored Battleships as punching bags for decades, and it was one of his rules that no Haki or other sort of power was to be used. In the current day, the Battleship he used has a massive gaping dent from where Garp punched it for years.
• Bare-Fisted Monk: Similarly to his grandson, Garp fights mainly with his fists.
• Benevolent Boss: When he orders his men to fix a wall he broke and they tell him they'll only do it if he helps instead of pulling rank on them he agrees and in the next scene he's shown doing exactly that.
• Boisterous Bruiser: He's as loud and brash as he's powerful.
• Bunny-Ears Lawyer: The crap he was able to get away with, including arguing with the Fleet Admiral (both 20 years prior and recently, the former when he's being offered a promotion) and going wherever he wants to without his superior's permission, is balanced by his amazing service and legendary status among the Marines as "Garp the Hero", who alongside Sengoku, in Kong's words, "carried the Marines on their backs". He is considered one of the legendary figures during the era of Roger, having been the only one to corner him and battle as his equal. So that would give him a little lee-way amongst their ranks which he still holds even after retirement. In addition, whenever he's shown to be not on active duty he spend his days annoying the crap out of his fellow Marines officers by doing things like forcing them to come along and have snacks with him or just lounging around the Marine Headquarters bragging about his grandson.
• Charles Atlas Superpower: Garp can easily punch through rock and metal, throw cannonballs with his bare hands at speeds higher than if they were fired from a cannon, carry and lift an iron flail that is several times larger than a battleship and, according to himself, pulverize eight mountains by using them as sandbags in preparation for his fight against Don Chinjao. His monstrous strength is finally displayed in full during the raid on Fullalead that SWORD conducts to rescue Koby, pulling off feats such as obliterating an entire town square with a single Haki imbued punch, tossing around a former Admiral, and throwing the monstrously huge San Juan Wolf into the sea without even trying. Part of his training regime is using battleships as punching bags, where the use of Haki or Devil Fruit powers (the latter he doesn't have) is prohibited, and he passes this method on to his students.
• Chekhov's Gunman: Appears (relatively) early in the series as an officer who takes Koby and Helmeppo under his wing, though his face and importance are not revealed until hundreds of episodes later.
• The Coats Are Off: Does this sometimes during his Let's Get Dangerous! moments, such as chasing the Straw Hats, or fighting alongside Sengoku against Shiki. His taunt action in the Pirate Warriors series of video games is actually him removing his Marine coat. See above to see the type of wear he had.
• The Cobbler's Children Have No Shoes: He's a legend of the Marines, while his son is "The World's Most Wanted Man" and his grandsons are powerful pirates.
• Cold Equation: Garp lectures to young Marine students that they should not sacrifice their lives in order to save elderly citizens because the old are halfway to the grave already, whereas the young still have their best days ahead of them. Garp practices what he preaches, ordering his younger subordinates to retreat and leave him behind into uncertain demise.
• Cool Mask: Eiichiro Oda used the same design for Garp as he used for Luffy's unnamed grandfather in the Romance Dawn pilot stories but didn't want readers to realize this too quickly. So he gave Garp a bulldog mask in his initial appearances. He wasn't revealed as Luffy's grandfather until Chapter 431 of the manga and Episode 313 of the anime.
• Cool Old Guy: He doesn't like his grandson being a pirate, but he isn't exactly in a hurry to arrest him either. He also took Koby and Helmeppo under his wing and turned them into badasses.
• Control Freak: Zig-Zagged: Garp constantly hitting his grandkids for wanting to be pirates, putting them through Training from Hell much to their discontent and angst, and forcing his expectations onto them and telling them how he wants them to live certainly implies this. Yet he leaves them behind to be raised by mountain bandits to become marines.
• Declining Promotion: He has been offered the promotion to the rank of Admiral multiple times, and rejected all of them, claiming that the rank would only keep him from having the freedom he already has. Part of the reason is because he doesn’t want to be a pawn of the Celestial Dragons, which he despises. Flashbacks implies that he successfully got away with this for at least 20 years under 2 different Fleet Admirals.
• Didn't Think This Through: Not only did he think that leaving his grandkids in the care of mountain bandits would turn them into navy soldiers, but Garp thought that making Luffy and Ace, both of whom are the children of notorious criminals, into marines would automatically keep them safe from the World Government, which wouldn't be guaranteed regarding their absolute justice and their tendency to annihilate anyone just for being related or connected to criminals in any way, as Ace points out to Garp at Impel Down, though Garp doesn't seem to take note on this.
• Dramatically Missing the Point: He blames Shanks for "corrupting" Luffy into wanting to become a pirate, even though his Training from Hell meant to turn Luffy into a marine has repeatedly endangered his life and made him miserable and completely terrified of his grandfather, essentially making him resent the idea of joining the navy. It's implied that Luffy was inspired by Shanks because of the freedom and adventure that comes with piracy, and that Luffy wanted to choose his own path, make his own decisions and take control of his life by living it the way he wants to live, as opposed to how Garp wants him to live and get as far away from his grandpa as possible.
• The Dreaded: He was this to pirates, and with good reason, as he is remarked to have cornered the Pirate King several times. However, this is deconstructed with Dadan's mountain bandits and his own family, as he would force them into compliance through intimidation and imprisonment whenever they try to speak up, question or object to his parental methods about dumping Luffy and Ace on them, having no idea how to train them into marines even if they wanted to. It also made his grandchildren fear him more than anything due to the Training from Hell he subjected them to during their Hilariously Abusive Childhood, giving them something of a distant and tense relationship with him when they reached adulthood.
  Sanji: Luffy, is your grandfather really...?
  Luffy: He is. Don't try to fight him!
• Enemy Mine: He had to team up with Gol D. Roger of all people, in order to take on the Rocks Pirates 40 years ago.
• Entitled Bastard: Downplayed: While he is proud of his grandkids and loves them dearly, he still demands respect from them even after attacking them for not complying with his wishes, punching Luffy for defending Shanks' honor, and again when he felt Luffy's farewell to him was too casual, saying he wants his grandson to love him. In fairness it's kind of hard for your relatives to love you when you keep hitting them all the time, as Luffy pointed out.
• Epic Flail: It's the size of a Goddamn battleship!
• Everyone Has Standards: Even he has disdain for the World Nobles, refusing to serve them and openly calling them shitbags in public despite the possible repercussions. Being forced to defend them during the God Valley Incident put quite the sour taste in his mouth, and it's one of the reasons why he doesn't speak about that battle at all.
  (After Stelly asks Garp to make him a Celestial Dragon): "You want to become scumbags like them?"
• Failure Knight:
  • He's one of the greatest Marines in history and hailed as a hero who vanquished dangerous pirates on the seas, but his son is "The World's Most Wanted Man" plotting to overthrow the system Garp upholds, something he's implied to consider a great failure despite his pride in his family.
  • Despite (or because of) his rather backwards efforts to cause otherwise, his grandsons become powerful pirates due to his training to make them great Marines and he's forced to hunt them down.
  • He fails to protect his grandsons during the Battle of Marineford which ends in Ace's death, and Luffy being gravely injured and traumatized before Garp's eyes. Ace's death means he also fails to fulfill his promise to Roger and Rouge to protect him from harm.
• Fantasy-Forbidding Father: Grandfather, but still applicable. Luffy and Ace wanted to be pirates as children, and he angrily chides them for even mentioning it. It's justified with the revelation about their fathers, who are notorious criminals (one being his son, Monkey D. Dragon), and he wants them to become Marines. Unfortunately for him, Luffy and Ace became powerful pirates on their own, which was something he didn't want happen.
• A Father to His Men: Garp is very protective towards his proteges, because he has full hope in the future generation of marines that he's raising. During Marineford, Garp is horrified at seeing Koby put himself in danger during his speech to every combatant there and, during the Final Saga, he's completely throws protocol out of the window and leads an attack on Fullalead in order to save his protégé, outright stating that they should have thought twice about kidnapping Koby - not only does he call Koby the future of the Marines, but also "irreplaceable". In turn, his men loved Garp dearly, enough that Grus, Koby and Helmeppo all shed tears when realizing he willingly let himself be left behind rather than retreating with the rest of SWORD.
• Feeling Their Age: It's implied by a few that despite the awe-inspiring strength he still shows, being in his seventies has rendered Garp not quite as powerful as he used to be. He admits this himself in a Played for Laughs moment on Hachinosu where he ravages an entire city square with a single Conqueror's Haki-infused punch, surveys the damage... and then scoffs to himself.
  Garp: Just look at this mess... Hmph... After all these years... I'm losing my edge!!!
  Pirates: Oh, shut up!!! You can't possibly do more damage than this!!!
• Fling a Light into the Future: After saving Koby and realizing he can't win against the majority of Blackbeard's crew combined, Garp uses all his strength to let the younger marines escape. After being defeated, Garp is still smiling, confident that the newer generations will win against Blackbeard.
• Follow in My Footsteps: Garp wanted Luffy and Ace to become Marines, and the Training from Hell he subjected them to was to prepare his grandsons for life in the Navy. He actually succeeded in getting Dragon to join the Marines, but Dragon quit after failing to find any true justice in the Navy.
• Generation Xerox:
  • He looked just like Luffy in his youth, and it gradually becomes clear that despite being on opposite sides of the law, Luffy takes a lot after Garp, even more so than Shanks or Roger (something Aokiji noted when he first met Luffy). They share similar personalities and quirks, similar fighting styles, and even similar senses of morality, as they both hate the World Nobles. This is only reinforced when Oda released drawings of an older Luffy at ages forty and sixty, revealing that (in an ideal future) Luffy will grow up to be a dead ringer for Garp.
  • Aside from his similarities with Luffy, Smoker's relationship with Luffy is extremely similar to the relationship Garp had with Roger. While Smoker chases after Luffy because he was the first pirate to ever escape him, it becomes clear that Smoker can't find it in himself to hate Luffy — an issue that also plagued Garp, as he was never able to hate Roger. In fact, by the time of the Pirate King's execution, the two had pretty much become Fire-Forged Friends (even if Garp would never admit it), so much so that Roger entrusted Ace's safety to him.
• Good Old Fisticuffs: Garp has thrown cannonballs like baseballs and a seriously massive flail for long range, but when it's up close and personal, he starts swinging with his bare knuckles. He earned his epithet, "The Fist", when his punch won out in an all-or-nothing duel against the continent-splitting headbutt of Chinjao.
• Good Scars, Evil Scars: He has a scar over his left eye.
• Go Out with a Smile: While it's unclear if he's dead, he's laughing cheerfully as his former apprentice Kuzan freezes him solid, content in the knowledge that everyone else has escaped to safety.
• Ground Punch: His attack Galaxy Punch causes a whole town square on Fullalead to explode with one strike.
• Heavy Sleeper: Garp often falls asleep spontaneously and without warning, which is where his grandchildren get it.
• Hero Antagonist: Garp is an heroic character but, as a marine, he's on the other side of justice compared to Luffy, who is a pirate, and is a minor threat at the end of the Water 7 Saga.
• Heroic Sacrifice: Garp willingly lets himself be left behind on Fullalead after successfully rescuing Koby, his last scene being him surrounded by the Blackbeard Pirates as Kuzan freezes his whole body while Garp himself laughs heartily.
• Hypocrite: He hates pirates and considers Shanks a bad influence on Luffy, yet he sends his grandchildren away to be raised by mountain bandits. The mountain bandits themselves actually lampshade the irony and hypocrisy of this.
  • Despite claiming he has no sympathy for criminals, he treats Dadan like an old friend. Through in an intimidating and opposing kind of way.
  • He is also dedicated to the marines, which is the military of the world government, which is ruled by the celestial dragons, whom he hates.
  • There's his promise to Gold Roger to raise his son Ace after he died, only to irresponsibly hand him off to mountain bandit Dadan to look after him. To be fair, he couldn't exactly take Ace with him on his Marine duties...
• I Let Gwen Stacy Die: The stress of having to oppose one grandson trying to rescue the other one while also fighting between his loyalty to family versus duty basically broke him when he tried to Take a Third Option by doing both and failing miserably. Even though he puts on a cheery facade, deep down he feels guilty about not doing enough to save Ace and refused to defend himself when Dadan beat him up for being a fence-sitter.
• I Let You Win: During the Paramount War, Garp loses to Luffy in one punch, despite being the only person in the series who has ever genuinely scared Luffy, because he let him win intentionally with the hope he could save Ace. Sengoku realizes it.
• Innocently Insensitive: Possibly regarding his parenting style. He takes his grandson Luffy to be raised by mountain bandits in order to keep him away from "bad influences" like pirates, even though Luffy hates mountain bandits because one tried to kill him before being saved by Shanks. Luffy even voiced how Shanks saved his life and how he loathes mountain bandits, only for Garp to double down on his belief that Shanks "corrupted" Luffy, and his grandson is "spouting nonsense".
• Insane Troll Logic: His idea of turning his pirate-loving grandsons into good, strong Marines? Have mountain bandits raise them. Even the bandits are aghast at his thought process.
• Irony:
  • The very incident that earned him the epithet "The Hero", is the one he dislikes talking about the most. This is because he had to team up with a pirate — Gol D. Roger, no less, to stop the Rocks Pirates. He also was forced to save the Celestial Dragons, who he despises.
  • Since he is loyal to the Navy, the World Governments military, this technically means that he works for the Celestial Dragons, the one group of people he hates even more than pirates. It’s even more ironic considering his own son is named Dragon.
• I Warned You: In the past, he warned the government not to mess with Fullalead, knowing the pirates there would get back at them if they did. Which is what happened. When Kong asks him to go defend the Celestial Dragons at God Valley he outright refuses, pointing out that he did warn them and they brought it on themselves. He ends up going anyway though when he hears Roger is there as well.
• I Was Quite a Looker: He looked remarkably hunky as a young Marine◊, very much resembling a mixture of Ace and Luffy.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: He's crude, strict, and a lousy parent all things considered. But behind all of his prestige as Hero of the Navy, he's a man that deeply loves his family and proteges, and his Conflicting Loyalty during the War on Marineford tears him apart on the inside.
• Ki Manipulation:
  • He is a master of Armament Haki. He's so masterful with it that when he clashes with Don Chinjao in the past, Garp with his Haki fist and Chinjao with his Haki continent-splitter drill head, Garp not only won, he flattened Chinjao's drill head. Also, his usage of Armament is so extensive it reaches the point of instinct: If he wants to hit (and hurt) something or someone, he'll damn well will hit it. It’s implied that he’s capable of using Observation Haki as not only is it stated that anyone who’s at least a Vice-Admiral is capable of using the standard versions, but also Koby is recommended to ask Garp to teach him how to use it.
  • Chapter 1080 also shows that he's an incredibly skilled user of Conqueror's Haki, able to infuse it into his attacks like Kaido and Luffy, something that "only a handful" of the most skilled Conqueror's Haki users can do.
• Let's Get Dangerous!: For most of his appearances, Garp is perpetually holding back in some fashion, be it due to his not taking the situation seriously, or his emotional conflicts during the battle at Marineford leading to him being unwilling to fight his grandson. It's only towards the end of the series when he joins SWORD in rescuing Koby from the Blackbeard Pirates that he shows his full strength.
• Lightning Bruiser: As one of the strongest fighters of the world without any Devil Fruit, Garp is as insanely fast as he's powerful, being able to casually Speed Blitz Kuzan while chiding him for "growing soft" and appearing as a mere blur of speed as he attacks Avalo Pizarro. The reaction every Blackbeard Pirate has to his incredible speed is utter fear.
• Like a Son to Me: Ace is the son of Gol D. Roger, Garp's greatest rival, but the latter has come to genuinely love the boy as his own surrogate grandson, to the point he remains conflicted between his marine-side and fatherly-side during the entirety of the Summit War.
• Like Father, Like Son: Grandson in this case, as both he and Luffy both share gluttony, narcolepsy and a tendency to say secrets without knowing the consequences of saying them until after it’s done.
• Living Legend: To the people of the One Piece world he is THE Marine, even decades after his heyday. Of course he's done several legendary things, like fighting Roger several times, but what he's most famous for is saving the world from the Rocks Pirates that came one generation before Roger.
• Loved by All: Garp's reputation as both a war hero and a mentor to new generations of Marines is big enough to outweigh his continual resistance to any orders given to him in favor of his own judgement, up and to including continually refusing promotions just so he doesn't end up becoming one of the pawns used to protect the Celestial Dragons.
• Made of Iron: Being stabbed in a sneak attack doesn't stop Garp from quickly counterattacking with a punch, and barely moments after he eats a punch square to the face from Kuzan while delivering one of his own which sent both combatants flying. And even when both attacks start to visibly take their toll on him, Garp still manages to bowl over Kuzan with a punch, then unleashed a massive attack that severely injures Avalo Pizarro by cracking Fullalead's skeleton rock nearly in half.
• Mentor Occupational Hazard: He's the mentor to Koby, Helmeppo and Kuzan, and fittingly he disappears after rescuing the first from the last by facing down a full half of the entire Blackbeard Pirates alone.
• My Greatest Second Chance: Garp raids Fullalead in a rescue attempt to save Koby from Blackbeard. Garp is fully prepared to die to save his apprentice, having likely wanted to ensure he saves Koby whereas he did nothing when Ace died two years prior and wanting to atone for his inability to save his grandson.
• Mysterious Middle Initial: The D in his name, shared with his son and grandson, is part of the Will of D, a mysterious legacy that somehow connects them all to the World Government and the Celestial Dragons.
• Never My Fault: He blamed Shanks for corrupting Luffy into wanting to be a pirate and scolded Dadan and her mountain bandit family for failing to train him and Ace into becoming Marines, even though the bandits, who as criminals have no experience in obeying the law, wouldn't know how to train the boys as such even if they wanted to. Not to mention, Garp's Training from Hell made him a horrible Parental Substitute for Luffy, who became terrified for his life whenever in the presence of his grandfather and wanted nothing to do with Garp or enlisting in the Navy because of that. Which is what led to him being inspired by Shanks due to the romanticism of piracy and adventuring in the first place. Apparently Garp never thought that he himself was the reason why his grandchildren turned out the way they did, due to his poor insight and misguided attempts to put them on the "right" path through Tough Love.
• No Listening Skills: Some people he knows view him as having this, since fleet admirals Sengoku and earlier Kong regularly gets livid by his constant Refuge in Audacity and can't do anything because of Garp's reputation, and his grandsons and the Dadan family because of his disgust in the former's pirating dreams and their own desires and the latter being intimidated by him whenever they speak against him. Luffy even told him that he continuously voiced his refusal and disinterest to be a marine and that it was Garp's fault for ignoring him and disregarding what he wanted.
• No-Sell: Garp breaks out of Kuzan Ice Ball with no difficulty since his haki is powerful enough to counter most powers of Devil Fruits.
• Not Afraid to Die: Just like his grandsons and all the other carriers of "Will of D."^note except Blackbeard, he is in no way afraid of his own death.
• Oblivious to His Own Description:
  • He calls Luffy an idiot for saying goodbye to him so casually, stating that he wants his grandson to love him, even though Garp himself is an idiot for thinking that endangering and subsequently traumatizing Luffy his entire childhood would instill a desire to become a marine. Garp also thought that his boss would let him get away with letting Luffy go for being his grandson.
  • After Sengoku reveals Luffy's relation to Dragon, Garp comments how it wouldn't change anything since Luffy's reputation is already "ruined" and calls him and Ace "damn fools" for becoming pirates. This is coming from the guy who regularly endangered them through near lethal experiences their entire childhood, beats them up whenever they speak out against or stand up to him, and left them alone to be raised by mountain bandits, all for the sake of making them marines, which might not even guarantee their safety even if they do try to enlist. It makes you wonder who the bigger fool is.
• One-Man Army: During the raid on Fullalead Garp mowed down countless pirates, ran over through Blackbeard's Titanic Captains without issue, fend off Kuzan and inflicted massive property destruction backed up by only three other Marines.
• The Only Believer: Downplayed; Garp is not the only one, but he believes in the ideals underpinning the very concept of the Marines, maintaining peace and protecting those who cannot protect themselves. Unfortunately, the organization is mired in red tape, answers to an absolute tyrant who cares little for civilians, and his contemporaries and apprentices bog down the mission through a mixture of personal stubbornness over their own views on "justice" and pragmatic compromises with outright criminals.
• Opt Out: He wishes to step down from his position in the Marines, after all that's happened in the Whitebeard War. He doesn't exactly go out, instead becoming a Veteran Instructor.
• Papa Wolf:
  • He's about to confront Akainu for killing Ace until Sengoku stops him. Garp isn’t just pissed at Akainu over killing Ace, he’s livid at Akainu for trying to take another one of his grandsons, since Luffy was his next target.
  "You better keep holding me down, Sengoku! Cause if you don't, I'm gonna murder that Sakazuki!"
  • Garp completely willing to take on the entire Blackbeard Pirates roster to protect Koby, his protege, and demonstrates that he isn't playing by reducing an entire town to rubble in one punch.
• Parental Hypocrisy: Garp is about to beat on Luffy when they both fall asleep. When Garp wakes up later, he then wails on Luffy for falling asleep despite having done so himself.
• Parental Neglect: Although Garp was Luffy and Ace's guardian, he wasn't their primary caretaker. It's implied that a combination of Makino, Mayor Woop Slap, and the various townspeople of Windmill Village were in charge of the actual work of raising Luffy up until he was seven, whereupon his care was passed onto Dadan, who had already been raising Ace since he was a baby. Garp, meanwhile, spent upwards to several months at sea to fulfill his duties as a Marine and could only visit his grandsons a few times a year, if that. This is one of the reasons why Luffy was so susceptible to Shanks's influence and why both boys were eventually motivated to become pirates; Garp wasn't around nearly enough to influence them, and when he was, it was in such a way that it only made them more determined to follow their dreams despite his protests.
• Parental Substitute: Garp tried to be a father figure for both Luffy and Ace. But considering that he just handed them off to mountain bandits to train them as Marines, only visited to give them Training from Hell, assaulted them for their pirate dreams and endangered them by subjecting them to a Hilariously Abusive Childhood, he failed. Epically. To the point that not only did they go on to have strained relationships with him, but they also became pirates instead, just to get away from him. What did he expect would happen?
• Parents as People: He loves Ace, Luffy, and Sabo - but he also put them through Training from Hell during their Hilariously Abusive Childhood to make them strong Marines, and that was when he was around at all. But in turn, that was because of his fear that due to who Ace and Luffy's fathers were, they would be hunted down by said Marines like dogs if they weren't on their side, (though there is also the likelihood that they'd be killed anyway even if they did join). However, because of this he constantly disregarded what they wanted or how they felt in the process of forcing the lives that he wanted them to have, as it was shown when he dragged Luffy to be raised by Dadan without either of their consent and just leaving them to deal with it. He kept forcing his expectations onto them and deciding their lives and futures for them instead of letting them become their own people, make their own choices, and accepting them for who they are and what they want to be. If anything, this might've enforced their desire to be pirates even more to achieve freedom and to get away from him.
• Person of Mass Destruction: Garp's Galaxy Impact attack shows that he is fully capable of matching Devil Fruit users with only his physical strength and Haki prowess in this department.
• The Power of Love: He claims that he can punch through Luffy's rubber defenses because he uses a "Fist of Love!"
• Punny Name: When his name is translated into Japanese, garp means koi. Koi is a decorative fish, but in other context with different kanji it means love. Garp's signature attack Fist of Love (Ai yaru Kobushi) is a hidden reference to his name as it uses another word for love instead of koi.
• Red Baron: He has two: Garp the Fist and the Legendary Marine Hero. The first was earned because his punch blunted the invincible drill cranium of Don Chinjao, and the second was earned when he (alongside Gol D. Roger) defeated the captain of the dreaded Rocks Pirates thirty-eight years ago.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: With Sengoku; Garp is the red oni, being Hot-Blooded and a Rebellious Spirit within the Marine ranks. Sengoku is the blue oni, being calculated and serious. The dynamic is upset somewhat when Sengoku gets impatient with Garp's family, yet Garp always brushes him off with a laugh... the one exception being Luffy invading Marineford.
  Sengoku: "Hey Garp! Your family's messing things up again!!"
  Garp: "LUFFY, NOOOOO!!!"
• Refuge in Audacity: Can brag about the achievements of his criminal grandson in front of Sengoku, and the only punishment he gets is Sengoku stealing and eating his crackers.
  • A subverted example occurs at the end of the Water 7 arc. He made an official report that he let Luffy go because he's his grandson. Predictably, Sengoku pulled rank and sent him back to do the job properly.
• Sacrificial Lion: His Heroic Sacrfice allowing Koby and the rest of SWORD to escape Fullalead solidifies just how big a threat the Blackbeard Pirates are in the face of the final arc.
• Sink or Swim Mentor:
  • He seems to feel that throwing a child into a bottomless ravine, among other things, was an appropriate way to train him to be a strong Marine. Luffy's endless will to live has been attributed to this training, though.
  • He then realized that his endless amount of time away from home was not working towards his goal of making Luffy a Marine, so he left him with a friend and her underlings to raise into being a Marine alongside Ace. Said friend was a mountain bandit. He was asking for it, really.
• Sins of Our Fathers: An often-overlooked downside of his famous reputation is that Garp has a number of enemies from his heyday that would love nothing more than to get back at him through his descendants. Don Chinjao straight up admitted during his fight with Luffy that if he had known Dragon was Garp's son, he wouldn't have lived long enough to have Luffy in the first place. The only reason this isn't more of a problem is because Garp is seen as a hero by the public, and the fact that he had any descendants at all wasn't well-known until recently. Garp also points out that it’s pointless to punish an old man like himself over his son and grandsons’ long list of crimes.
• Slasher Smile: He frequently gives a devious toothy grin when entering combat, as seen when he prepares to rain absolute cannonball hell on the Thousand Sunny and when he decimates Fullalead's pirate defenders.
• So Proud of You: Spends the final part of the Fullalead raid beaming in pride about how much Koby has grown and he's the only person who does not in any way underestimate Koby in any way, even bursting into gleeful booming laughter as he sees Koby truly unleash his might.
• Taking the Bullet: Invoked. When Shiryu is about to stab Koby, Garp jumps between them and gets stabbed instead. Shiyu comments that this was exactly what he hoped for.
• The Slow Walk: In the anime, once Akainu kills Ace he is seen walking towards the Admiral with an incredibly brutal snarl on his face, all too willing to rip Akainu apart. He would gladly have done so as well, but Sengoku stopped him.
• There Was a Door: Invoked Trope. He reveals himself to the Straw Hats on Water 7 by punching through a wall explicitly because it looked cool. He was nice enough to repair it afterward, though.
• Tough Love: Garp is the way he is because of this concept. No matter how harsh he was on Luffy and Ace with their Training from Hell as he desperately attempted to impose the lives of Marine soldiers onto them, he only wanted to protect them from a world that would only ever want to see them dead. The trade-off was that he made a poor Parental Substitute, leaving them in the care of mountain bandits to become marines and barely spending quality time to bond with them and get to know them better, and even when he was around his insane training regimens regularly endangered the kids and made them completely terrified of him. If anything, his poor and unorthodox parenting methods made them want to become pirates even more to get away from him. Admittedly, while the brothers do recognize that their grandfather loved them, and they do love him in return to a degree, it ultimately isn't enough to sway them from pursuing the lives they wanted or even want anything to do with him, since they don't have a problem knowing that, as pirates, they'll have marine hero Garp as their enemy.
• Training from Hell: He inflicted harsh training to anyone under his tutelage, his own grandsons included. His own training exercises involves punching battleships with his bare hands without Haki and smashing apart mountains in preparation to face Don Chinjao.
• Turn Out Like His Father:
  • He tries so very hard to make his grandson, Luffy, a Marine like himself. However, he fails and Luffy becomes a highly wanted pirate, much like his own father, who is the leader of a revolutionary army and the most wanted man in the world. Ironically, in the Water Seven Arc, Luffy and his crew proclaim war against the world government, much like his father did. This is ultimately averted, however, in that Garp loves both his son and his grandson and is in fact quite proud of them. He just didn't want Luffy to be a pirate because it meant, as a Marine, he'd have to oppose his own grandson.
  • The same goes for preventing Ace from ending up like his father, Gol D. Roger.
• Uncanny Family Resemblance: Garp in his younger days looked very much similar to his grandson, Luffy. In an SBS, Oda's drawing of an older Luffy also shows that a 60-year old Luffy would resemble his grandfather. This is especially uncanny, since Dragon has no Strong Family Resemblance to either men despite being a generation between the two.
• Uncertain Doom: After being seen laughing cheerfully and full of life in spite of being impaled and in the process of being frozen, commanding his subordinates to leave him behind, the narrator declares him as "missing" leaving his survival uncertain.
• Veteran Instructor: Not long before the Time Skip, he resigned from active service and became an instructor for teaching young Marines. Even before that, he also turned cabin boys Koby and Helmeppo into hardened Marine officers.
• Vetinari Job Security: His son is the most dangerous man in the world, his grandson is an infamous pirate and his adoptive grandson was a member of the Whitebeard Pirates and the son of Gold Roger but despite this, and despite being able to brag about these facts to his boss (albeit who is also his best friend), he retained his position as Vice-Admiral, even turning down several promotions, because he's a legendary Marine hero who cornered Gold Roger numerous times and defeated the Rocks Pirates.
• Wacky Parent, Serious Child: Him (acts like an older version of Luffy) and his son, Dragon (who is always shown as serious).
• Why Couldn't You Be Different?: Played straight and subverted. He laments the choices his grandsons made in life, having wished they would become strong Marines. However, this is not out of disappointment, but because he never wanted to be put in the position of having to arrest and potentially execute them. Regardless of their behavior, he has always been proud of them, and expresses this sentiment aloud — in front of Sengoku, no less.
• Why Did You Make Me Hit You?: This is more or less his reaction when Luffy and Ace expressed their desire to be a pirate or talk back to him about what they want or thought. He also said that Luffy owed him an apology after Garp hit him.
• World's Strongest Man: During his younger days he was a contender for the title of strongest person in the world, personally cornering Roger on many occasions. In fact, Garp and Roger teamed up to defeat Rocks, a very powerful pirate in his own right. So powerful that three of the original Emperors trace their origins to him. Even in his old age, Garp is still one of the physically strongest people in the entire narrative.
• Worthy Opponent: He was considered a worthy opponent to Gold Roger, being the only marine able to go toe-to-toe with the former King of Pirates. Knowing he would soon die, Roger entrusted Garp with the life of his unborn child, Ace.
• Wrestler in All of Us: Most of his attacks boils down to punching his enemies really really hard, but at times he'll also grab, smash and toss them around, as his Blue Hole attack demonstrates.
• You Never Asked: Sengoku gives this as the reason why so few have heard the reason why Garp became the hero of the Marines. He's not the kind of person to lie about what happened battle at God's Valley if asked to tell the story but because he is ashamed of the event he will never bring it up on his own.
• Your Size May Vary: Goes from roughly a head above Helmeppo (which is tall but not excessively so) in his introductory mini-arc to almost twice Luffy's size at Marineford.
• Zero-Effort Boss: At Marineford, to Luffy, because of an I Let You Win scenario: Garp didn't want to fight his grandson, especially when said grandson was trying to save his other, older, adoptive grandson from execution.

Vice-Admiral John Giant

Vice-Admiral John Giant

Voiced by: Masaharu Satō (JP), Eiji Takemoto (JP, episode 294), Hisao Egawa (JP, episodes 473+), Marc Thompson (EN, 4Kids), Tyson Rinehart (EN, Funi), Jorge Badillo (Netflix) (Latin American Spanish)

Debut: Chapter 96 (Manga), Episode 45 (Anime)

John Giant is a Vice-Admiral in the Marine Headquarters, and the first giant to ever enlist in the Marines.

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• Badass Longcoat: John Giant is one of very few characters who actually wears his coat like a coat instead of a cape on his shoulders. And it is quite bedazzled.
• Connected All Along: Indirectly, but turns out John Giant was actually sold to the Marines by Mother Carmel in her role as a child trafficker, meaning that he shared the same Bitch in Sheep's Clothing parental figure as Big Mom herself. The fact that John Giant is confirmed to be an Elbaf giant also implies that he knew both iterations of the Giant Warrior Pirates (the original group and the new one lead by Hajrudin).
• A Dog Named "Dog": John Giant is... a Giant.
• Foil: While not pointed out in the series itself, he very neatly falls into this for the only other important Giant Vice-Admiral in the series, Jaguar D. Saul. Not only is John Giant an Elbaf native (whom Saul disliked as a whole for their warrior mindset) and both are physically as different as day and night (with John Giant being utterly clean shaven before the Time Skip and Saul rocking one hell of a leonine beard) but far more importantly is the fact that in terms of philosophy and morals they seem utterly opposed to each other as well considering that John Giant is a proud Knight Templar follower of "Absolute Justice" and follows said dogma without hesitation while Saul is a literal Gentle Giant who was absolutely horrified at the sheer depravity the World Government was willing to sink to keep themselves in power and his last moments were spent being a epic Papa Wolf towards Nico Robin. In fact, the only thing that they share is the fact that they are Giants working for the Marines and they are willing to give all they have for their respective ideals.
• Early-Bird Cameo: He appeared just after the Arlong Park arc delivering his very first seen Rousing Speech.
• Large Ham: Absolutely bombastic in his speeches about justice and he wastes no opportunity to loudly proclaim just why the Marines are the pinnacle of justice while anyone who opposes them are villains who must be taken down at all costs.
• Ki Manipulation: A case of Informed Ability because we have yet to see him use it, but as a Vice-Admiral this means that John Giant should be capable of using Haki. This also makes him the very first Giant seen with the ability to do so in the series.
• Knight Templar: While not as sociopathic about it as Akainu or as creepy about it as Onigumo, every speech he gives shows that John Giant is a firm believer of "Absolute Justice" who considers anyone who opposes the Marines to be a force of unredeemable evil to be eliminated at any cost, no matter what and uncaring of the circumstances. Interestingly, he shares the same Hidden Eyes motif his fellow "Absolute Justice" practitioners do most of the time as well.
• Our Giants Are Bigger: A native of Elbaf, he absolutely dwarfs the majority of his fellow Marines and makes Whitebeard (himself a pretty humongous dude as far as humans are concerned) look small in comparison.
• Perpetual Frowner: Every time he appears in the series he seems to wear either a very prominent scowl or a sneer on his face and at his most relaxed he wears a stone cold stoic look on his face. The only moment he loses it is when he has a major Oh, Crap! moment upon realizing that he's nothing but a pebble in Whitebeard's way just before the other man utterly dominates him.
• Recurring Extra: The most active and seen Giant among the Marines, but despite his habit of being a Large Ham fond of uttering speeches and being absolutely wrecked by Whitebeard during the War Of Marineford, he's not an important Marine in the great scheme of things.
• Rousing Speech: He throws these around like candies. They tend to all be based around how the Marines are the ultimate force of good in the world in his mind and because Right Makes Might then, of course, the Marines can never fall against the evils in the world. Despite how impressive he is at giving them, however, in terms of walking the walk he tends to fall flat on his face — as Whitebeard shows him quite readily.
• The Worf Effect: Props to the guy for trying to pull a You Shall Not Pass! against the World's Strongest Man, but for all his attitude and pride as a Marine John Giant is manhandled with hilarious ease by Whitebeard and basically treated like a glorified punching bag by the MUCH more powerful man in a show of force that proves that standing against Whitebeard is an absolutely wasted effort unless you are obscenely powerful yourself and someone like Whitebeard eats Giants for breakfast.

Vice-Admiral Smoker "The White Chase"

Vice-Admiral "White Chase" Smoker

Voiced by: Ginzo Matsuo (JP, episodes 48-79), Mahito Oba (JP, episodes 94+), Joseph Murray (EN, Odex, episodes 48-77), Paul Pistore (En, Odex, episodes 78-104), Russell Velázquez (EN, 4Kids), Greg Dulcie (EN, Funi); Juan Carlos Tinoco (4Kids), Dan Osorio (Netflix) (Latin American Spanish)

Age: 34 (Pre-Timeskip), 36 (Post-Timeskip)

Debut: Chapter 97 (Manga), Episode 48 (Anime)

Devil Fruit: Plume-Plume Fruit

"You think you're dealing with run-of-the-mill pirates and then they do something extraordinary. Well, on these seas, it's either shape up or ship out. Grow strong or perish. Whose idea was it to come here anyway?"

Smoker is a tough Marine, who, when first introduced, was tasked with catching pirates that visited Loguetown before sailing for the Grand Line. After Luffy evades him (with some help), Smoker decides to leave Loguetown to pursue the Straw Hats. Unlike many other Marines in One Piece, Smoker does not follow the rule of Absolute Justice and follows his own brand of justice, which he later preaches to Tashigi. Smoker's view on justice also allows the Straw Hats to remain free even being pirates during the Alabasta arc, warning Luffy that as a Marine, next time, he will have to try and capture him. He doesn't care for those who make too much noise around him, claiming that it disrupts his pace. He has eaten the Plume-Plume Fruit (Moku Moku no Mi), a Logia-type allowing him to turn into smoke.

Despite his stern, businesslike manner and appearance, Smoker is a good man with a soft side. In Loguetown, when a little girl bumped into him and dropped her ice cream on his trousers, he takes it in good heart, and even gives her money to buy a new cone with two extra scoops. He also shows respect and even protective kindness to his subordinate, Tashigi. He even went as far as letting Luffy go after Zoro was ordered to save Smoker from drowning.

During the time skip, he achieved the rank of Vice-Admiral, two ranks above his previous position of Commodore, and is still Tashigi's superior as he runs G-5's Unit 01.

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• Almighty Janitor: It's heavily implied that Smoker's Cowboy Cop tendencies are the main reason why he's only a Marine Captain at the beginning of the series, despite being a massively skilled combatant with Logia powers. Even his promotion to commodore is still somewhat under-ranking but, by the Punk Hazard Arc, he's become a Vice-Admiral, a rank that accurately assesses his abilities.
• Badass Biker: It spouts smoke and can cross the ocean! And it runs on him!
• Badass Longcoat: Adds this on top of his regular jacket post-Time Skip.
• Baritone of Strength: In both Japanese and English, his voice is equally as deep and badass as he is. Inverted in French, where his voice would be appropriate for an anti-tobacco PSA.
• Benevolent Boss: Although he's a stern leader, Smoker cares a lot about the wellbeing of his subordinates. He also listens to Tashigi's input and respects her judgement.
• Bowdlerize: The 4Kids dub renamed him "Chaser" and removed his cigars.
• Black-and-White Morality: Downplayed: Smoker like the majority of Marines believes that pirates are evil, and the navy is just and virtuous, but is aware that the World Government isn't perfect and has its flaws, but upon meeting Luffy, it questions his world views. In order to remove this lingering doubt from his mind, he becomes obsessed with capturing Luffy out of pride and fear that he could become a threat to the world, but by over the course of his chase he begins to see more of the government and navy's corruption, such as being awarded a Medal of Dishonor for the Straw Hats taking down Crocodile, the marines' merciless massacre of pirates near the end of the Paramount War, and G-5 Commander Vergo being The Mole for Doflamingo and kidnapping children for Mad Scientist Caesar Clown, however his pride as a marine keeps him from admitting or seeing the complex moralities of the world around him.
• Bruiser with a Soft Center: While a stern marine, Smoker has a particularly soft spot for children that's implied to extend to Luffy, however begrudging he is about it.
• Cigar Chomper: Smoker (at least his pre-Time Skip version) is part of the trope page image. He is often seen smoking a cigar... or even two at the same time!
• Combat Pragmatist: Fights with Seastones infused in his weapons, which is essentially Kryptonite to anyone who's eaten the Devil Fruit.
• The Comically Serious: He tends to become part of the punchline whenever sharing screentime with the Straw Hats, plucky goofballs that they are while Smoker is very stoic and serious.
• Cool Shades: Following the timeskip, Smoker wears a pair of sunglasses that complement his biker-inspired look.
• Cowboy Cop: For the most part, the only book he goes by is his when it comes to rules.
• Dark and Troubled Past: Implied. This picture of Child!Smoker shows him as a aggressive young boy carrying a nail-studded bat and covered in bruises and scrapes, while a mangy dog sits next to him.
• Determinator: No matter what, he must capture Luffy. His obsession has brought him to quite a few compromising situations on occasion (to world-saving degrees).
• The Dreaded: Smoker has become every bit as infamous as Luffy has (to pirates, at least), and with good reason: Luffy has never actually beaten him (though he could now, but it would be extremely close).
• Dub Name Change: His name is "Chaser" in the 4Kids dub.
• Elemental Rock-Paper-Scissors: Smoker's Devil Fruit abilities gives him a distinct advantage over most others, and even allowed him to fight Ace to a standstill. ^note Their powers cancelled each other's out. However, it would later be revealed that Ace was holding back by only using his Devil Fruit; Ace knew Armament Haki at the time while Smoker did not.
• Enemy Mine: During Alabasta, he and Tashigi ultimately refused to arrest the Straw Hats due to the situation involving the country (and because Luffy ordered Zoro to save Smoker's life), and they eventually ended up helping them. Ironically enough, during the Punk Hazard arc, he's stuck in this situation again with Luffy, and with current Warlord of the Sea Trafalgar Law along for the ride as well. He seemed rather pissed off about it, but considering him, it was to be expected. Either way, he clearly respects Luffy and co. more than he would ever be willing to admit.
• Establishing Character Moment: In his debut, a little girl accidentally bumps into him and drops her ice cream onto his pants. Her fearful father expected Smoker to get angry...but he instead gives the girl enough money for a larger scoop to make up for the wasted dessert. Even earlier, it's established that despite his scary attitude, he doesn't unnecessary yell at a subordinate for distracting him from making a tower made of stacked stones and blames it on himself.
• Face Palm: He is seen doing one at the end of Chapter 697 when the G-5 Marines admit, with tears in their eyes, they love the Straw Hats for helping save the children and all they went through together.
• A Father to His Men: The fact that he went against Doflamingo, despite obviously knowing that he stood no chance attests to this as it was to protect his men. Said men even begged Doflamingo to spare his life, as he would be the only one to take care of "riff raff" like them. Smoker may be harsh, but he cares more than he is willing to admit, and it shows.
• Foil: To Vergo in Punk Hazard. While Vergo is renowned for his patience towards his men in the G5, Smoker is much more strict and harsh with them. However, it is revealed that Vergo had been faking his fondness for his men the entire time, and viciously turns on them, while Smoker genuinely cares for his men underneath it all and fights for their lives. And if he ever gets promoted to Admiral, he will become one to Sakazuki and/or Kizaru, due to having a color-themed moniker like all the other Admirals and being a good-natured Marine.
• "Freaky Friday" Flip: With Tashigi in Chapter 663, courtesy of Law's DF powers.
• Friend to All Children: Has a huge soft spot for children, as seen in his very first appearance. Later, on Punk Hazard, despite his aversion to working with pirates, he's persuaded by Tashigi to work together with the Straw Hats and Law when she points out the lives of the children kidnapped by Caesar Clown are at stake.
• Generation Xerox: Smoker's current relationship with Luffy is extremely similar to the one that Luffy's grandfather, Garp "The Hero," had with the previous Pirate King, Gold Roger. Surprisingly (or rather unsurprisingly, seeing as how Luffy and Smoker's relationship has been leading towards this as well), the two ended up becoming Fire-Forged Friends, and Roger trusted Garp as much as he did his own crew. Garp, though unwilling to admit this, proved him right by taking in his son, Ace, as his adoptive grandson in order to protect him from the World Government and the Marines.
• Hero Antagonist: He may be rather tough and hardcore regarding pirates, but at his core, he's a good man who does what's right and follows Moral Justice as opposed to the Absolute Justice favored by more hardline Marines and their higher-ups like Akainu or Kizaru. He also doesn't go too far in the process of this justice; he only antagonizes the Straw Hats because they're pirates, and if doing the right thing means taking their side, he'll do it without a second thought and worry about the rest later.
• Honor Before Reason: He openly insults his superiors when they try to give him credit for saving Alabasta rather than admitting it took a group of pirates to fix things. Earlier on, he also gives Luffy a slight reprieve in exchange for Luffy saving his life.
• Humiliation Conga: Downplayed. In the Punk Hazard arc, Smoker loses his duel with Law along with his heart, then he and Tashigi are forcibly swapped of their bodies which resulted in Luffy laughing at his predicament, and then gets kidnapped against his will and has to beg Law to free him and get his body back, and then has to witness his men liking Luffy which pisses him off.
• Hyper-Awareness: When stuck in Rainbase, he was able to identify which gator ate the key by remembering exactly what its growl sounded like.
• I Let You Win: In the latter half of the fight against Vergo, he purposely lets himself get trounced, largely as a distraction so Law can regain his heart (Vergo even noticed something was off about his fighting style as he was making himself a bigger target by turning into smoke). Before then though, Smoker was beating the stuffing out of him.
• Irony: Roger inspired many people to become pirates, whereas Smoker was inspired to become a Marine. Furthermore, considering how far Smoker falls into the Garp-esque Moral Justice, Roger would probably be pretty pleased with how he turned out.
• I Owe You My Life: After Zoro saves his life at Rainbase on Luffy's orders, he considers himself indebted to the Straw Hats, though he immediately pays them back by letting them run away instead of arresting them on the spot.
• It's Personal: Has a moment of this during the Punk Hazard Arc. Let's just say he took Vergo's betrayal of the Marines rather badly.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Smoker can be harsh at times, but there's no denying that he cares. The "Heart of Gold" part comes out more when around children.
• Ki Manipulation: Now that he's a Vice-Admiral, he can use Haki. Like Luffy, he can use Armament Haki to harden his fists making it look like it turned into iron.
• Knight in Sour Armor: He's rough and harsh to everyone, but he follows his own more moral kind of "justice" unlike the typical Marines.
• Lawman Baton: He wields a big Jitte tipped with Seastone to better fight Devil Fruit-powered opponents.
• Lightning Bruiser: He's a big, strong man who can use Armament Haki, and he's also quite fast on his feet even without his Devil Fruit. With his Devil Fruit, he's got an incredible mobility advantage over most of the cast, and even over most other Logia users aside from Eneru and Kizaru.
• Medal of Dishonor: Smoker is furious at his promotion given for Alabasta's salvation when it is the Straw Hat Pirates who were the country's saviors; his participation in it was negligible at best compared to even Tashigi. The Government was basically cornered at this point; either cover up the truth with this sham of a medal, or openly admit that pirates saved a country from one of their own rogue privateers, so what do they do? They give the credit to the highest-ranked Marine closest there, who just so happens to be far stronger than his current rank and is just getting a more accurate one. Thus, an immense weight is lifted from his heart when he learns that Fujitora manages to prevent it from happening again with Dressrosa. As it turns out, one of the main motivations for Fujitora's actions was Smoker's own laments over what happened in Alabasta, as he admits to Fujitora that the only reason he didn't reveal the truth is because he lacked the power and influence to do so.
• Luminescent Blush: He sports a brief (though still angry) one after Luffy smiles and refers to him as "not a bad guy" in response to him letting the Straw Hats go in Alabasta. Man's a softie, alright.
• Mr. Exposition: Whenever he is around, he's the one to inform the reader of until-then unknown information, most recently by anticipating the involvement of Caesar Clown in the events on Punk Hazard.
• Mr. Fanservice:
  • A shirtless badass that constantly smokes with white hair and is super protective of his subordinates? No idea why he'd be popular.
  • Turns into Ms. Fanservice when he gets switched into Tashigi's body and still decides to keep an open shirt. Naturally, Tashigi wasn't too thrilled about this. He even tore her bra off.
• Nigh-Invulnerability: Like all Logia Devil Fruits, he is difficult to injure. In Smoker's case, he's Made of Air.
• No Shirt, Long Jacket: In almost all his outfits, he wears a Badass Longcoat or jacket, but no shirt to go with it. Not even while in Tashigi's body; he opens her outfit as much as is allowable. Hell, he even tore her bra off.
• Oh, Crap!:
  • Gets an epic one in the anime on the side lines after Vergo is enraged and imbues his entire body with Haki.
  • Get another, more subdued one when Doflamingo appears at Punk Hazard.
• Only Sane Man: During the Marineford arc, Koby, Tashigi and him were this, as the only Marines who had realized that their comrades had lost it and were going on a blood-fueled petty massacre of pirates who no longer wanted to fight when other Marines were dying and they still had the belligerent Blackbeard Pirates causing chaos all around Marineford.
• Out of Focus: Deliberately for the first half of the Grand Line and the manga after the Alabasta arc. Smoker's logia abilities meant that Luffy didn't stand a chance in hell at beating him since he had no idea about Haki at the time. Since that's no longer a problem, he and Tashigi are bound to get their roles expanded.
• Papa Wolf:
  • Orders Tashigi and his men to keep away from Law, knowing full well that they don't stand a chance against him and looks close to shedding a tear for the men that got blown up on the ship.
  • Chapter 684 can attest to that as well, as Smoker lays a beatdown on Vergo for allowing the G-5 children to be kidnapped and experimented on by Caesar Clown, and passing it off as a shipwreck.
• Person of Mass Destruction: Strangely, Smoker is the only canonical Logia user who subverts this. He has the least destructive Logia power in the entire series. It's great for catching pirates, though.
• Pet the Dog:
  • We know he's not such a bad guy after he buys ice cream for a little girl who accidentally spilled her original cone on his pants, and even gives her enough to pay for a larger scoop.
  • In the Alabasta Arc, when he finds Luffy eating, he decides to patiently wait until he's done... which causes Luffy to recognize him and run away. Again.
• Present Absence: Smoker was last seen heading to Vegapunk's island with Tashigi at the tail end of the Dressrosa arc. When the Straw Hats arrive there, Tashigi is shown at a nearby naval base and even tags along with SWORD when they head off to Fullalead to save Koby, but Smoker is nowhere to seen.
• Rank Up: Went from Captain to Commodore, much to his ire. He got over it eventually (perhaps due to the fact that the rank was more accurate concerning his strength level) and used the perks the new rank entailed to go chasing after the Straw Hats. After the Time Skip, he became a Vice-Admiral.
• Reasonable Authority Figure: One of the very few Marines who isn't either incompetent or a sociopathic, dog-kicking asshole. While he still hates pirates and still obsessively pursues Luffy, he practices Moral Justice instead of the Absolute Justice that most of his bosses spout, and will help out civilians if needed instead of bulldozing through them just to get at a wanted criminal. He is also furious with how the World Government handles things, particularly the Alabasta event coverup that got him a Medal of Dishonor (even though his new rank matches his power level accurately than before).
• Red Baron: He's known as "The White Hunter" because he has white hair and is extremely persistent with his targets.
• Shaping Your Attacks: His smoke powers can be used to create constructs or alter the shape of his body. "White Snake" for example lets him extend his arm as a trail of smoke to extend his reach. Or he can use "White Vine" to ensnare a target in a smoky trail.
• Smoking Is Cool: Often seen chomping on two cigars at once. In the 4kids dub, this was edited to display him breathing smoke, instead.
• Spanner in the Works:
  • Smoker's obsession with capturing Luffy in the New World is what led to his appearance in Punk Hazard. More specifically, Law taking his heart is what allowed him to trick Caesar into taking back Monet's heart, an act that would prevent her from blowing up Punk Hazard to stop the protagonists, via her death from the unknowing Caesar stabbing her heart (which he thought was Smoker's).
  • Smoker's anger over the Alabasta coverup would later inspire Fujitora, chapters later, to reveal, to the entire world, that it was pirates who stopped Doflamingo and ended his reign of terror over Dressrosa, not the World Government or the Marines. This busted the World Government wide open on its ass, with no way to cover it up or save face in light of such incompetence, not after so many people found out.
  • All of this makes Smoker just as responsible for the abolishing of the Warlord System as the Straw Hats. On top of the Fujitora situation, Smoker's aid in the Punk Hazard arc (including the Monet situation) allowed Luffy and Law to survive and make it to Dressrosa, where they would defeat Doflamingo and expose his treachery to the inhabitants of the island. And, in the Alabasta arc, Luffy would have never been able to find and defeat Crocodile without the help of Tashigi, who had been sent to Alubarna by Smoker to take control of the situation when the civil war broke out (something Smoker only thought necessary when, during one of his chases after Luffy, he found out about Crocodile's plans for Alabasta). Tashigi would then be the one to publicly expose Crocodile's crimes and arrest him. Both of these events would cause Cobra and Riku to motion for the end of the Warlord System at the Reverie — a motion that ultimately passed with a majority vote.
• Stalker without a Crush: Downplayed: Smoker is obsessed with capturing Luffy for being the first pirate to escape under his watch, being saved by Dragon and smiling when he was about to die, a trait shared by Gold Roger during his execution. To chase him, Smoker goes as far as to abandon his post and follow him to the Grand Line, all the way to Alabasta, and even the new world, believing Luffy could be a potential threat, to the point of Smoker becoming a sort of Inspector Javert. However, he doesn't let his fixation on Luffy get in the way of his other marine duties, such as hunting down other pirates and partaking in the Paramount war, though he won't hesitate to attack Luffy when he discovers his arrival, disregards all other criminals around him who are more in some ways even dangerous than straw hat, and becomes even more determined to catch him when he discovers he's Dragon's son. Although whenever the two face a bigger threat Smoker would be forced to put his hunt on hold to work with Luffy in order to defeat the respective arc's Big Bad, much to Smoker's chagrin After the Time Skip, he tracks Luffy to Punk Hazard by deducing where he might go based on his personality.
• Steven Ulysses Perhero: A man named "Smoker", who chain-smokes cigars like Duke Nukem chews bubblegum, and is a Logia user who can use and turn into smoke.
• Super Drowning Skills: Would've met his end at Rainbase if Luffy hadn't told Zoro to save him.
• Super-Persistent Predator: For Luffy who reminds him of Gol D. Roger, ever since they first met in Logue Town. As mentioned before, his obsession with capturing Luffy and turning him in to the World Government has made him the right man in the wrong place, such as the Punk Hazard Arc.
• Super Smoke: Can create, control, and turn into smoke thanks to his Devil Fruit.
• Sympathetic Inspector Antagonist: Sure, he may be chasing after Luffy, who obviously isn't evil, but that is justified by Luffy being a pirate, and a rather chaotic one at that. It also helps that unlike most Marines in the series, he isn't a complete and utter dick, he clearly cares about civilians a lot more than they do, and is extremely protective of the subordinates under him.
• Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: Really hates the idea of working with Luffy and Law to form a counter-attack to Caesar Clown.
• Walking Shirtless Scene: He wears a jacket, but leaves it constantly open. It leads to a bit of awkwardness when he ends up in Tashigi's body and decides to keep the look.
• Wake-Up Call Boss: Smoker was literally the third strongest character in the East Blue Saga, after Mihawk and Dragon. He's the first Logia-eater that Luffy fights at a time when Luffy didn't know what Logias were, and gets soundly beaten more than once as a result. He was also far stronger than his original rank implied, and his strength made the Straw Hats wary when they had to face over a hundred of the same rank in the Enies Lobby arc. Smoker also serves to showcase the difference in power between East Blue and the Grand Line; he's technically the same rank as Morgan and Nezumi, but they're branch Captains to his HQ Captain, and accordingly look like ordinary Mooks next to him.
• Weak, but Skilled: By Logia standards. He doesn't have the Person of Mass Destruction abilities of someone like Eneru or Akainu, nor does he have Crocodile's sheer lethality. He makes up for it by using it to augment his already-impressive physical prowess and close combat abilities. He can't reduce a city block to rubble in one shot or teleport up to you and instantly turn you into a mummy, but he can whoop your ass, let your attacks harmlessly phase through him, then smash you upside the head with a Haki-empowered jitte from half a block away when you try to run.
• Wild Card: Apparently, over the Time Skip he earned infamy as the Marines' "stray dog". Considering his personality and past actions, it doesn't take an idiot to figure out that his rebellious nature hasn't changed in the least.
• The Worf Effect:
  • After nearly capturing Luffy, he's easily blown away by the powers of the newly introduced Monkey D. Dragon.
  • After defeating Luffy again at Marineford, is beaten down by Hancock to demonstrate her usage of Haki.
  • Was defeated, and has his heart removed by Law.
• Worf Had the Flu: After surviving a severe beat down, he is easily defeated and almost killed by Doflamingo.
• Worthy Opponent:
  • He's actually managed to beat Luffy handedly in each of their fights (if only because of his Logia powers though, Luffy can't exactly fight what he can't hit), but despite that, he has a certain level of respect for Luffy because he's the one pirate who's always managed to escape from him. This is to the point that even when Ace, one of the most infamous pirates and Whitebeard commander is in front of him, he opts to chase Luffy.
  • In fact, Smoker's decision to leave his post to chase Luffy was in itself an acknowledgement of Luffy's Worthy Opponent status, as it serves as one of the first real endorsements after Shanks that Luffy has the potential to be the Pirate King.
  • Not to mention that Luffy has saved his life before.
  • Luffy seems to feel the same. When he met Smoker after the Time Skip, currently stuck in Tashigi's body, he wanted to postpone their fight until Smoker was back in his own body. Smoker was rather annoyed.
• Younger Than They Look: Smoker is only in his mid-thirties, but looks like in his forties. Funnily enough, when Tashigi is in Smoker's body, Smoker's face looks much younger than usual due to the soft facial expression.

Vice-Admiral Tsuru "The Great Tactician"

Vice-Admiral Tsuru "The Great Tactician"

Voiced by: Minori Matsushima (JP), Juli Erickson, Pam Dougherty (Adventure of Nebulandia) (EN)

Age: 74 (Pre-Timeskip), 76 (Post-Timeskip)

Debut: Chapter 234 (Manga), Episode 151 (Anime)

Devil Fruit: Wash-Wash Fruit

"You're a million years too early to defeat me."

Vice-Admiral Tsuru is a Marine known from the era of Gold Roger, that is famed for her brilliant tactical mind. She's rather soft-spoken and doesn't say much these days, but she continues to have a uniquely special importance in the Marines, besides Garp and Sengoku. She's rather considerate to the pain of her colleagues, as shown during Ace's execution; she told Garp that he's not to blame as Sengoku began a speech to reveal that Ace is Gold Roger's son. She has eaten the Wash-Wash Fruit (Woshu Woshu no Mi), which grants her the ability to literally hang people out to dry if they have a certain amount of evil in them.

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• Almighty Janitor: Not to Garp's extent, but Vice-Admiral doesn't quite capture her position within the Marines. She's not the fighter some of the others at her rank are (though she's no pushover, and was powerful enough well into middle age for even Doflamingo to flee as soon as he saw her) but she's quite capable of bossing about Admirals and has been noted as being "invaluable" for her tactical skill.
• Amazon Brigade: Leads an all female squad of Marines.
• Cool Old Lady: She's pushing 80 years old, but she's a snarky, cool professional who's feared enough that she can cow Doflamingo and trade barbs with him.
• Cuteness Proximity: In Chapter 796, she goes from chewing out Sengoku for his attitude and Fujitora for not going after the Straw Hats to gushing over how darling Mansherry is when she comes looking for donors for her healing dandelions.
• The Dreaded: Fourteen years ago, just hearing that she was on her way to apprehend him was enough to get the fearless and collected Doflamingo to drop everything and skedaddle with his crew. Even in the present day as a warlord he still refers to her with the "San" honorific.
• Famed In-Story: While not too much is known about Tsuru, it's clear that she is a very big deal among her fellow Marines based on how other characters talk about her.
• I Was Quite a Looker: This◊ is her way back when she was just a Mook.
• Kid with the Leash: She seems the only one who can order Doflamingo around and be obeyed without fault.
• Ki Manipulation: As shown in the Vivre Cards, Tsuru is capable of both Armament and Observation Haki.
• The Mentor: Towards Gion, according One Piece Volume 777.
• Never Mess with Granny: She may look old and frail, but she can turn pirates into what amount to living towels on a clothesline and is still a formidable physical fighter, even if she isn't quite what she used to be. Even Doflamingo respects her, and he's willing to disrespect Admirals if he feels like it.
• Old Soldier: She was already gray-haired back during the age of Gol D. Roger. Time has given her more wrinkles, but not made her any less of a badass.
• Personality Powers: Her Wash Wash Fruit is highly effective against evil pirates - fittingly, she's not nearly as much of a hardliner as other Marines and is actually a kind woman.
• Reasonable Authority Figure: She's much less aggressive than a lot of her colleagues, and is noted to be very kind behind her non-nonsense exterior. True enough, her power only works on sufficiently unscrupulous enemies.
• The Rival: Was Doflamingo's Marine rival before he became a Warlord, chasing him for more than a year from North Blue to the Grand Line. Appropriately, she is the one who listens to him make his last speech after his defeat in Dressrossa.
• Sugar-and-Ice Personality: Garp outright states she is an empathetic woman although she does not show this disposition very often. And indeed, while most of the time we see her Tsuru is strict and has little patience for the quirks of others, in Dresrossa she shows a very notably gentle and even grandmotherly side with not only her own Amazon Brigade but Manshery was well. And before that during the Battle of Marineford, she shows a great deal of compassion and understanding towards Garp's emotional state due to the situation, even offering genuine words of comfort.
• Theme Naming: Like a few other female characters in the series, she's named after a bird. In her case, Tsuru is Japanese for "crane".
• True Companions: There are some implications that she's actually considerably closer to both Garp and Sengoku than being mere acquaintances. Not only is it hinted that all three were actually quite close during their first years as Marines but both men are close enough to her that they are the only people who call her Tsuru-Chan and Tsuru is one of the very few people who can openly show annoyance towards them with impunity. It all hints to a deeper connection that just mere co-workers that joined at the same time.
• Worthy Opponent: While the jury's out on whether he truly respects her (and how she feels about him, but odds are that she has never respected him), Doflamingo certainly fears her. Back during his pirate days, just seeing her ship was enough to get him to abandon whatever he was doing and run like hell, and when he was captured after the events of Dressrosa, he was unfailingly deferential and polite to her, and this is someone who has casually mouthed off to Admirals.

(Former) Vice-Admiral Jaguar D. Saul

(Former) Vice-Admiral Jaguar D. Saul

Voiced by: Takeshi Kusao (JP), Mark Stoddard (EN, Movie 8), Cole Brown (EN, TV series), Juan José Hernández (Episode of Alabasta, LatAm), Gerardo Reyero (Netflix LatAm)

Age: 105

Debut: Chapter 392 (Manga), Episode 275 (Anime)

"Listen carefully, Robin. You are all alone right now, but someday, without a doubt, you will meet friends! The sea is vast... Someday, for sure, you'll find friends who will protect you! No one is ever born into this world completely alone! Somewhere out at sea, I know they're waiting. Go and find your friends, Robin!!"

—Chapter 397

A giant who was a former Vice-Admiral Marine who had ties with Robin. It was his unit that captured Olvia (Robin's mother) and her exploration team upon finding out they were studying The Blank Century. When it was ordered they be executed and their home island Ohara destroyed by Buster Call, Saul found the punishment to be way too extreme. He freed Olvia and defected from the Marines, ironically winding up washed ashore on Ohara. There he befriended a young Robin as he built himself a raft to leave the island, but the Buster Call arrived before then. He tried to help Robin escape, but was caught by Aokiji and fell in battle defending Robin. His last words encouraged Robin to find her friends out on the sea. It's noted he had a D in his name, and smiled in the face of death as most D's tend to do.

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• Badass Boast: "You wont get off easily, having made me your enemy!"
• Beware the Nice Ones: Saul's a friendly guy that quickly asserts he's not some barbaric meathead from Elbaf like some Giants and quickly befriends Robin. He was also a former Vice-Admiral before deserting, a position not given to weaklings. When the Buster Call on Ohara commences, Saul single-handedly smashes five of the ten battleships to protect Robin. It takes a fellow Vice-Admiral, Kuzan, to take him out.
• Black Sheep: Despite being a Giant, he despises the warriors of Elbaf and is much more calm and cool-headed. Oda explained that there are many other giant-inhabited islands like Elbaf. Ironically, it's Elbaf that takes him in after the Buster Call on Ohara, and help him recover the Ohara library from the bottom of the lake.
• Defector from Decadence: As the Buster Call ships come to Ohara, he stops caring about his Marine affiliation and thrashes them to protect Robin.
• Face Death with Dignity: Just like the rest of the D carriers (and other badass characters), he dies laughing, with a huge smile on his face. In the Egghead Arc, Shaka (indirectly) reveals that he actually survived and is in hiding in Elbaf.
• Fiery Redhead: He has red hair and is a talkative and all-around jolly guy, especially for Robin.
• Gentle Giant: He's a giant and gentle enough to be a good friend for Robin. He also hated unjustified violence, which led to him deserting from the Marines, so that he can follow his own justice.
• Human Popsicle: Aokiji freezes Saul with his Ice Time Capsule technique, apparently killing him in the process.
• Inconsistent Spelling: His name has been officially romanized as "Saul" or "Sauro", depending on the localization. The latter closely follows the katakana spelling.
• Irony: The Giants of Elbaf he so despises are the ones who ensure that both his life and the research done by the scholars of Ohara survive the Buster Call.
• Mysterious Middle Initial: The D in his name comes from "The Will of D", a mysterious legacy that connects Saul and a few other notable individuals (including the main character, Monkey D. Luffy) to the World Government and the Celestial Dragons. He said that everyone in his family had the initial, but he didn't know what it meant.
• Names to Run Away from Really Fast: Jaguar. In a twist, however, he's as much compassionate and kind as he's a fearsome giant.
• Nice Guy: He's a kind-hearted person who believes that killing harmless "criminals" who can't defend themselves are way too extreme and questions whether the archaeologists of Ohara are really looking for a weapon. He didn't want to participate in the Buster Call unless Sengoku would give him proof that the people of Ohara are really as evil as the World Government claims. He soon frees Olvia from her prison after he listens to her side of the story, and he deserts from the Marines. When he strands on Ohara, he immediately befriends Robin and later protects her while also giving her hope for the future.
• Non-Lethal K.O.: Kuzan's attack (appropriately named "Ice Time Capsule") doesn't in fact kill him, but instead safely freezes him. Shaka (indirectly) reveals to Robin, much to her delight, that he survived and went to Elbaf.
• Oh, Crap!: He reacts with a huge shock to the news that the island he's stranded on is indeed Ohara, about to be targeted by a Buster Call.
• Only Friend: Aside of Ohara's librarians, Saul is the only person to treat Robin nicely.
• Our Giants Are Bigger: He does seem slightly smaller than other Giants seen in the series, but he's also not from Elbaf, which can explain it. Like other Giants, Saul displayed a natural Super-Strength, as he's capable of lifting a Marine battleship with his hands.
• Reasonable Authority Figure: Even as a Marine, he's against gratuitous violence against the enemies, as he scolds one of his men for shooting a cannonball at the archaeologists' ship.
• Reports of My Death Were Greatly Exaggerated: It was long believed he had been killed during the Buster Call on Ohara, but several hundred chapters later during the Egghead Arc, Shaka (indirectly) reveals that, although he was badly injured, Saul managed to survive and escaped to Elbaf. While his name remains hidden, his silhouette is clearly Saul's.
• Signature Laugh: "Dereshishishishi!" Robin takes note of it and imitates it as a child.
• What the Hell, Hero?: He's clearly shocked by the World Government's plan to obliterate Ohara, and chews out Kuzan when he witnesses the evacuation ship being blown up by Sakazuki.

Vice-Admiral Momonga

Vice-Admiral Momonga

Voiced by: Shinichiro Ota (JP), Francis Henry (EN)

Debut: Chapter 420 (Manga), Episode 302 (Anime)

Boa Hancock: Your crew is down to one.
Momonga: One is not the same as none.

A Marine Vice-Admiral who's the go-to Vice-Admiral of the series. He's been an HQ Marine since the days of Roger. He's also a stand out among the high ranking Marines in that he seems to care about his crew. He can also use Rokushiki.

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• Badass Normal: Consistently shown to be one of the most powerful Marine Vice-Admirals in the setting while having no Devil Fruit powers whatsoever. All of his superhuman abilities are based on Rokushiki and Haki, yet every-time he fights he proves himself to be a very skilled combatant, showing his title of Vice-Admiral is well-earned. At Marineford, for example, he is way above Luffy's level when they clash.
• By-the-Book Cop: He's one of the most professional marine, with none of the quirks, oddities, and eccentricities that most One Piece characters have, he even lets pirates go because he has a more important mission.
• Double Jump: Knows the Rokushiki skills Geppo and Soru, using them to great effect against Luffy.
• Implausible Fencing Powers: Momonga can kill a Sea King from the inside with a single slash.
• Katanas Are Just Better: He uses a katana as his weapon, and he is proficient at it.
• Nerves of Steel: When Boa Hancock paralyzes his entire crew by turning them to stone, he manages to avoid it by stabbing his own hand to distract himself without hesitation.
• Not So Stoic: While he remains composed most of the time, Hancock's beauty still manages to fluster him a few times. It takes effort for him to resist it.
• Old Soldier: Despite really not looking it at all, Momonga is actually one of the older serving Marines seen in the series, having been an adult member during the height of The Roger Pirates's era and having served for more than 20 years when he first appears in the series.
• Only Sane Man: The only one on his entire ship that actually keeps a level head around Hancock.
• Reasonable Authority Figure: One of the upper level Marines who's neither a General Ripper nor a Blood Knight - he's consistently professional and rational.
• The Stoic: Momonga is always exceedingly composed, calm, and professional.
• Surrounded by Idiots: Momonga is easily annoyed by his crew when they fall prey to Boa Hancock's charms.

Vice-Admiral Onigumo

Vice-Admiral Onigumo

Voiced by: Keiichi Sonobe (JP Episode 305), Takahiro Fujimoto (JP Episode 308+), Lucas Schuneman (EN, Funi)

Debut: Chapter 420 (Manga), Episode 302 (Anime)

Devil Fruit: Unnamed Spider Zoan Fruit

"With a moment of hesitation, how can you protect the future, from a criminal who is trying to escape? Fire!"

A vicious Marine who takes part of the Buster Call against Enies Lobby. He has eaten a Devil Fruit that turns him into a spider, and can use Life Return to animate his hair and wields eight swords.

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• Bad Boss: At Enies Lobby, when a Marine questions Onigumo's decision to blow up a fellow Buster Call ship and sacrifice thousands of fellow soldiers to ensure Luffy's death, Onigumo's answer is to shoot him.
• Bad Powers, Bad People: Onigumo is a remorseless Marine Vice-Admiral and has a power that lets him turn into a spider.
• Combat Pragmatist: When fighting at Marineford, he uses seastone cuffs when fighting Marco in order to cancel Marco's Devil Fruit ability.
• Cool Helmet: He wears a war helmet with a plume, which is befitting of his status as a Vice-Admiral of the Marines.
• Establishing Character Moment: In one of his first scenes, he shoots one of his subordinates who questions Onigumo's decision to destroy another Buster Call ship and possibly murder thousands of Marine soldiers just to ensure Luffy would die. This establishes Onigumo as a Knight Templar who is willing to sacrifice anything to ensure absolute justice.
• General Ripper: As a believer of "Absolute Justice", Onigumo is willing to blow up a Marine ship with thousands of Marine soldiers on board just to kill the criminal Luffy. He is also willing to murder a subordinate Marine for questioning his orders.
• Good Smoking, Evil Smoking: It's just a cigarette, but he smokes it like Crocodile smokes his cigar, and does it with an evil sneer on his face.
• Hidden Eyes: In almost all of his appearances, his eyes are obscured. Much like Sakazuki, it gives you an idea of the sort of Marine he is.
• Knight Templar: He is a firm believer in "Absolute Justice" and will do whatever it takes to ensure that criminals face justice, even if it comes at the cost of numerous Marine soldiers. He is also willing to kill subordinates who question his orders.
• Meaningful Name: His name means "demon spider", and his Devil Fruit allows him to turn into a spider.
• Multi-Armed and Dangerous: Onigumo can animate his hair into multiple extra arms, each of which wields a sword.
• Not So Stoic: Onigumo is often serious and composed, never showing any emotion and keeping his devotion to the job, but breaks when the Buster Call fails and Garp loses to Luffy.
• Sinister Scimitar: He wields up to eight sabers in combat, and he is a very ruthless and bloodthirsty Vice-Admiral who will not hesitate to execute his own men.
• Spider People: His Devil Fruit allows him to become a spider, and he can use his fruit to transform his hair into six additional appendages to hold swords with.
• Voluntary Shapeshifting: With his Devil Fruit, he can morph his body or parts of his body into a spider. He uses this ability to turn his hair into extra appendages to use his swords with.
• We Have Reserves: During the Buster Call on Enies Lobby, he is willing to destroy a Buster Call ship and all one thousand crewmen on-board just to kill Luffy.

Vice-Admiral Doberman

Vice-Admiral Doberman

Voiced by: Eiji Takemoto (JP), Bradley Campbell (EN)

Debut: Chapter 420 (Manga), Episode 302 (Anime)

A grim and bloodthirsty Vice-Admiral who was summoned in for the Buster Call of Enies Lobby, and fought in the Summit War.

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• Even Evil Has Standards: Doberman may be a General Ripper and a ruthless Vice Admiral, but even he is disturbed by Saturn callously dismissing potential casualties.
• General Ripper: Has no problem leaving injured soldiers behind, and wanted the heads of Ace and Whitebeard displayed in front of the world.
• Good Scars, Evil Scars: Doberman has numerous x-shaped scars along his face and neck.
• Katanas Are Just Better: Like fellow Buster Call-leading Vice-Admiral Momonga, it's his weapon.

Vice-Admiral Strawberry

Vice-Admiral Strawberry

Voiced by: Eiji Takemoto (JP), Ken Marmon (EN)

Debut: Chapter 420 (Manga), Episode 302 (Anime)

One of the Vice-Admirals who partakes in the Buster Call on Enies Lobby, who has a very tall head.

Ten years prior to the beginning of the story, when Strawberry was still a Rear-Admiral, he was the commanding officer responsible for the ambush on Fisher Tiger, which resulted in the latter's death. He was also the one who took notice of Jimbei's strength, which led to the fish-man to become one of the Seven Warlords of the Sea.

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• Anime Hair: Subverted. He seemingly has a pillar-shaped haircut, but it's actually his cranium that is this long.
• Dual Wielding: He wields two giant Dao in combat.
• Reasonable Authority Figure: During the Buster Call on Enies Lobby, he opens fire only after all the Marine troops and government officials left the island.
• Use Your Head: In an SBS, Oda notes that due to his long head, Strawberry is good at using headbutts.

Vice-Admiral Yamakaji

Vice-Admiral Yamakaji

Voiced by: Yasunori Masutani (JP), Mahito Ohba (Episode 475 onwards) (JP), Babs Ipaye (EN)

Debut: Chapter 420 (Manga), Episode 302 (Anime)

A constantly smoking and often smiling Vice-Admiral who helps lead a Buster Call on Enies Lobby.

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• Cigar Chomper: He usually smokes cigars whenever he appears.
• Katanas Are Just Better: He wields a katana as his weapon of choice.
• Perpetual Smiler: Most of the time when he appears, he's constantly grinning.

Vice-Admiral Dalmatian

Vice-Admiral Dalmatian

Voiced by: Kouji Haramaki (JP), Philip Weber (EN)

Debut: Chapter 553 (Manga), Episode 462 (Anime)

Devil Fruit: Dog-Dog Fruit: Model Dalmatian

A Vice-Admiral with strong hand-to-hand fighting skills, including the ability to use Shigan. He ate a Devil Fruit that allows him to turn into a Dalmatian, and seems to always be in his hybrid form.

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• Beast Man: Dalmatian ate the Dog-Dog Fruit model Dalmatian and can turn into a giant dog-man hybrid. He's always seen in hybrid form.
• Curb-Stomp Battle: Luffy gets his ass handed to him trying to get past Dalmatian and Momonga.
• A Dog Named "Dog": Literally, his name is Dalmatian and he can turn into a Dalmatian. It could be just a nickname though.
• Finger Gun/Finger Poke of Doom: Seems to be proficient in using Shigan, an ability used by members of CP9.
• Voluntary Shapeshifting: His Zoan allows him to transform into a Dalmatian. He has so far only ever been seen in hybrid form.

Vice-Admiral "Shark Cutter" Bastille

Vice-Admiral "Shark Cutter" Bastille

Voiced by: Tsuyoshi Koyama (JP), Christopher Wehkamp (EN)

Age: 36 (Pre-Timeskip), 38 (Post-Timeskip)

Debut: Chapter 553 (Manga), Episode 462 (Anime)

A Marine Vice-Admiral. He was sent to Dressrosa in order to ambush and capture the various criminals who were participating in The Corrida Colosseum tournament.

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• BFS: His weapon is a huge cleaver-like sword.
• Chained by Fashion: Wears a chain over his Marine coat.
• Chekhov's Gunman: He was first seen during the Marineford War arc, but only got a proper introduction and role later during the Dressrosa arc.
• Cool Mask: Wears an iron, horned mask that covers the top half of his face. Sabo breaks it during their brief clash at Dressrosa
• Mission Control: His role during the end of Dressrosa's arc.
• Mr. Exposition: After everyone but Rebecca is knocked out in the Corrida Colosseum's block D, Bastille tells his subordinates the backstory of the Serial Killer Hakuba and that he's Cavendish's Superpowered Evil Side. This exposition reveals that the reason Rebecca won the battle of block D is because of Hakuba's Super-Speed.
• No Historical Figures Were Harmed: Visually, Bastille is based off the Man in the Iron Mask, as evidenced by his own iron mask and being named after the fortress where the legendary prisoner was being held at one point.
• Verbal Tic: "Dara". Seems to be used more often if he's upset.
• The Worf Effect: Sabo effortlessly KO's him when they go toe-to-toe, breaking both his signature mask and sword. Showing how strong Sabo has become after eating the Flame-Flame Fruit, meaning that no one below the grade of Admiral can face him.

Vice-Admiral "Demon Bamboo" Vergo

An executive of the Donquixote Pirates who entered the Marines as a spy. See his page here.

Vice-Admiral Maynard "The Pursuer"

Vice-Admiral Maynard "The Pursuer"

Voiced by: Hiraku Hanada (JP), Brian Barber (EN)

Debut: Chapter 705 (Manga), Episode 634 (Anime)

AKA "Capman". He infiltrates Dressrosa as one of the gladiator competitors in the Corrida Colosseum. After identifying many big-names among the New World pirates, he discusses it with his fellow Marines.

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• Cool Shades: As "Capman", he wears sunglasses.
• Cowboy Cop: He enters the tournament against orders to find out who is attending the Colosseum. Kinda ironic when he questions Fujitora for not taking action against Doflamingo after he is exposed.
• Meaningful Name: He's named after the real-life Royal Admiral John Maynard, who killed the real Blackbeard.
• What the Hell, Hero?: Does this to Fujitora when he doesn't go after Doflamingo even after he is exposed to Dressrosa, and he releases the "Birdcage" in response. Fujitora simply replies that the WG can't play God with the lives of citizens, then he does it to Fujitora again when he refrains from going after Luffy and Law due to rolling an apparently unfavorable number on his die.
• The Worf Effect: Both on the giving and on the receiving end. First he defeats Gambia, one of Bartolomeo's strongest crewmembers, offscreen. Then Bartolomeo repays the favor by KOing Maynard offscreen, before his match up no less!

Vice-Admiral Gion (Momousagi, "The Peach Hare")

Vice-Admiral Gion "Momousagi"

Voiced by: Yuka Komatsu (JP), Mallorie Rodak (EN)

Debut: Chapter 907 (Manga), Film: Gold (Anime)

Known by her alias Momousagi, Gion is a Marine Vice-Admiral. She was one of the candidates for the promotion to Admiral during the timeskip, despite ultimately not being selected.

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• Asskicking Leads to Leadership: On top of knowing Haki and wielding a sword, Gion is strong enough to be considered for the promotion to Admiral during the timeskip. Considering that all of the known Admirals (current and former) have been revered in the One Piece world as individuals of mass destruction and immense power, this should say enough about her capabilities.
• Everyone Has Standards: While Luffy is a pirate and thus her enemy, she'd offput by Garp's lack of worry about Luffy being targeted by Emperors.
• Heroic Seductress: According to material from Gold, she uses 'seductive hospitality' to get pirates into trouble.
• No Celebrities Were Harmed: Although she didn't get promoted to Admiral, she too has the appearance based off a Japanese actor. In her case she's based off Michiyo Gokure.
• Pink Means Feminine: She wears a pink Marine shirt, her Marine jacket has sleeves that are pink at the end, and her alias "Momousagi" literally means "pink rabbit". She's one of the few female Vice-Admirals.

Vice-Admiral Tokikake (Chaton, "The Brown Pig")

Vice-Admiral Tokikake "Chaton"

Voiced by: Nobuyuki Hiyama (JP), Joel McDonald (EN)

Debut: Chapter 907 (Manga), Film: Gold (Anime)

Known by his alias Chaton, Tokikake is a Marine Vice-Admiral. He was one of the candidates for the promotion to Admiral during the timeskip, despite ultimately not being selected. He seems to be friends with Admiral Fujitora.

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• Asskicking Leads to Leadership: On top of knowing Haki, Tokikake is, along with Gion, strong enough to be considered for the promotion to Admiral during the timeskip. Considering that all of the known Admirals (current and former) have been revered in the One Piece world as individuals of mass destruction and immense power, this should say enough about his capabilities.
• Dogged Nice Guy: He's a friendly marine who has asked Gion out a hundred times to no luck.
• The Friend Nobody Likes: According to Gold supplementary material he's not much liked by his fellow Marines. He is, however, popular among the general public outside of the Marines.
• No Celebrities Were Harmed: Although he didn't get promoted to Admiral, his appearance is still based off a Japanese actor. In his case he's based off Kyoshi Atsumi, and his clothing resembles the ones the actor wears in the Tora-san film series.

Vice-Admiral "Ship Cutter" T-Bone

Vice-Admiral "Ship Cutter" T-Bone

Voiced by: Tomomichi Nishimura (JP), Kenny Green (EN)

Debut: Chapter 365 (Manga), Episode 255 (Anime)

"I hate crooked swordsmanship!"

A Marine Captain in charge of a squad of Marines escorting CP9 aboard the Puffing Tom as they escorted Nico Robin and Franky to Enies Lobby. T-Bone is a renowned Marine known to cut pirate ships to pieces as easily as cutting steak.

Sometime during or after the Time Skip, he's promoted to Rear-Admiral. Sometime afterward he received further promotion, becoming a Vice-Admiral.

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• All-Loving Hero: T-Bone is honorable and kindhearted to an outright comedic extreme.
• Badass Cape: T-Bone wears a cape with a high collar with the word "Justice" printed on it, in lieu of a coat. He doesn't hesitate to rip a piece of it to bandage a wound of his men, even if it's a bug bite.
• Clean Cut: T-Bone is famous for delivering clean straight cuts through anything from pirate ships to sea kings. In his own words, he hates "crooked swordsmanship", so all of his cuts are perfectly straight lines. He cuts a hole in the sea train with perfect 90-degree angles.
• Cool Sword: T-Bone fights with a two-handed double-edged straight sword to go with his knight-esque appearance. It gets destroyed in T-Bone's clash with Zoro.
• Face of a Thug: His gaunt features make T-Bone almost look like a zombie, but he's the most honorable Marine: he hates playing dirty, genuinely wants to help the innocent and cares a lot about his men.
• A Father to His Men: T-Bone is very compassionate and cares about his men's safety above all. Parodied in that he tends to fuss over any minor problems they might have in an overly dramatic fashion, making his men feel uncomfortable. With that said, they're also very loyal to him as well despite this tendency.
• From Dress to Dressing: When one of his men is injured, even with something as minor as a bug bite, T-Bone will rip a piece of his cape off to bandage the wound. After Sanji leaves a broken swath through the Marines, T-Bone has bandaged so many men that his cape is reduced to less than half its length.
• Irony: His name is a pun on steak, but he's actually a vegan.
• Killed Offscreen: T-Bone is killed by a civilian looking to cash in on his bounty from the Cross Guild so that he can feed his starving family. Considering the kind of person that T-Bone was, he likely didn't fight back.
• Large Ham: T-Bone is well-meaning but overly dramatic in his compassion. He frets over the smallest thing and is a little too willing to sacrifice himself for the cause.
• Rank Up: He's introduced as a Captain during the Water 7 arc. After the Time Skip, he's reintroduced as a Rear-Admiral during the Reverie arc, and later has become a Vice-Admiral when his death is reported during the Egghead arc.
• Sacrificial Lion: One of the most compassionate Marines to ever appear in One Piece, and he's reported killed by a starving citizen who wanted to claim the bounty issued by Cross Guild for T-Bone to feed his family in order to show how difficult the Marines' position in the world is now.
• Sword Beam: T-Bone can launch straight angled sword beams that cut cleanly through almost anything.
• Universally Beloved Leader: Was a popular and respected figure by Marines and normal citizens alike, enough that his death sent shockwaves around the world.
• Worthy Opponent: Zoro seems to consider him this, remarking to himself that T-Bone is strong. Even though their fight is very short, Zoro sends him words of respect as opposed to the usual trash talking he gives defeated opponents.
• Wrecked Weapon: In their short clash in front of the Sea Train, Zoro destroys T-Bone's sword.

Vice-Admiral Doll

Vice-Admiral Doll

Voiced by: Toa Yukinari (JP)

Debut: Chapter 1061 (Manga), Episode 1090 (Anime)

A Marine Vice-Admiral and the commander of the Marine base G-14.

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• Action Girl: She is one of the few high-ranked Marines who are female. That said, she is briefly seen fighting a Pacifista.
• Animal Theme Naming: Her name is a homonym for "dhole", a breed of dog, fitting as almost all of her colleagues participating in the Buster Call on Egghead are also named after breeds of dogs.
• Collared by Fashion: Wears a metallic spiked choker befitting the dog motif of many vice-admirals.
• Goth: She has a goth look complete with a spiked collar.
• Older Than They Look: She looks like a young adult, but seeing as to how she used to work with Jaguar D. Saul over 20 years ago, which means she should be in her mid-thirties at minimum...

Vice-Admiral Draw

Vice-Admiral Draw

Debut: One Piece: Ace's Story

A Marine Vice-Admiral who confronts Ace alongside Isuka in the Sabaody Archipelago.

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• Adapted Out: Despite being the Big Bad of the first part of Ace's Story, he is completely omitted from the manga adaptation. Instead of meeting Draw in the Sabaody Archipelago, Ace meets Rayleigh.
• Big Bad: He's the main villain of the first part of Ace's Story, being the cause of Isuka joining the Marines and being Ace's final opponent in the part.
• Destructive Saviour: He is willing to use his flamethrowers to fight pirates, even if it means burning down his surroundings. And he doesn't take responsibility for it either.
• Faux Affably Evil: At first appears to be a Nice Guy when inviting Ace to join the Seven Warlords, but when Ace declines he immediately takes the opportunity to kill him.
• Fire-Breathing Weapon: Wields two flamethrowers capable of burning down entire towns when in battle.
• Flamethrower Backfire: A non-fatal example, as while Ace burns the fuel tank on his flamethrowers and injures Draw from the explosion, Draw is still able to continue fighting afterwards.
• General Ripper: He is really eager to kill pirates.
• Hate Sink: He is a depraved Marine officer with a hate boner for pirates, similar to Akainu, but lacks any redeeming qualities that make the latter less detestable. He would go as far as harming innocent lives just for the sake of killing pirates, and then would just blame it on said pirates for making him fight and putting the civilians in danger.
• Inconsistent Spelling: "Draw", or "Dorrow"?
• Ki Manipulation: Like with all the Vice-Admirals, Draw can use Haki.
• Mythology Gag: Him pretending to save Isuka from her village's destruction which he caused is very reminiscent to one of Oda's earlier works Monsters, where Cyrano pretended to save Flare from her village's destruction which he caused.
• Never My Fault: When he sets the slums ablaze while fighting Ace, he proceeds to blame the latter for making him fight and putting the citizens in danger.

Other Marine Officers

Rear-Admiral "Black Cage" Hina

Rear-Admiral "Black Cage" Hina

Voiced by: Tomoko Naka (JP), Kathleen Delaney (EN, 4Kids), Jennifer Seman, Rachael Messser (Stampede) (EN, Funi); Rebeca Gómez (Netflix) (Latin American Spanish)

Age: 32 (Pre-Timeskip), 34 (Post-Timeskip)

Debut: Chapter 171 (Manga), Episode 127 (Anime)

Devil Fruit: Cage-Cage Fruit

"Hina mad."

Another Marine Captain who is a close friend of Smoker from their training days and is the object of Jango and Fullbody's affections. She is quite competent at restraining criminals due to her Cage-Cage Fruit (Ori Ori no Mi) powers, which allow her to create iron shackles.

Sometime during or after the Time Skip, she's promoted to Rear-Admiral.

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• Action Girl: Able to take down Okama Kenpo master Bon Clay with ease.
• The Bus Came Back: Hina doesn't appear for almost 300 chapters of absence before reappearing after the Time Skip at the start of Whole Cake Island arc.
• By-the-Book Cop: To Smoker's Cowboy Cop, and noted to be a major reason why Smoker's been able to get away with so much without getting fired.
• Bowdlerise: The 4Kids dub removed her cigarette.
• Cool Shades: Wears a pair of sunglasses at Marineford, complimenting her "tough woman" look.
• Cleavage Window: Her jacket is left unbuttoned and keeps her large chest exposed.
• Dude Magnet: Downplayed; Jango and Fullbody have both been head-over-heels for her from the moment they saw her, much to her disappointment.
• Escort Mission: She's been tasked with escorting Vivi's family to the Reverie safely. She manages to get them there safe and sound but she isn't able to take them back due to Cobra's assassination and Vivi's disappearance.
• Extra-ore-dinary: Her Devil Fruit lets her create iron shackles through various ways.
• Lady Drunk: Chapter 586's cover depicts her drunk while drinking with Smoker at Alabasta.
• Lady of War: She has a cool demeanor, wears elegant suits, and is a competent fighter.
• Ms. Fanservice: Big breasts, a cleavage window, while making smoking look cool and being hot overall.
• Rank Up: Hina goes from a Captain pre-timeskip to a Rear Admiral post-timeskip.
• Smoking Is Cool: She's almost always seen with a cig. It helps complement her Lady of War image.
• Third-Person Person: Hina has the habit to refer to herself in the third person in her early appearances, but she drops this habit after the timeskip.
• Tsundere: She criticizes Smoker's habits, but it's clear she respects him enough to help him out.
• You No Take Candle: Has a habit of talking very simply when addressing herself.

Commodore Brannew

Commodore Brannew

Voiced by: Shinichi Yamada (JP), John Swasey (EN); Roberto Mendiola (4Kids), Raymundo Armijo (Netflix) (Latin American Spanish)

Age: 54 (Pre-Timeskip), 56 (Post-Timeskip)

Debut: Chapter 96 (Manga), Episode 45 (Anime)

A Marine based in Marine Headquarters who issues the bounties to criminals and gives briefings to the high-ranking Marines at HQ.

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• All There in the Manual: His name was first revealed in a databook.
• As You Know / Mr. Exposition: His job is literally to inform the high-ranking Marines of the current situations and events. And later lampshaded by Sakazuki, who says, "I already know that, Brannew!"
• Bearer of Bad News: Is the one to tell Sengoku that the World Government intends to cover up the mass breakout of Impel Down's Level 6 prisoners. Sengoku is understandably displeased.
• Cool Shades: He's an high-ranking Marine who's never seen without his shades.

Captain Tashigi

Captain Tashigi

Voiced by: Junko Noda (JP), Chio Su Ping (EN, Odex, episodes 48-77), Emlyn Morinelli(EN, Odex, episodes 78-104), Priscilla Everett (EN, 4Kids), Monica Rial (EN, Funi), Liliana Barba (Latin American Spanish)

Age: 21 (Pre-Timeskip), 23 (Post-Timeskip)

Debut: Chapter 96 (Manga), Episode 48 (Anime)

^{Click here to see her before the timeskip}

"Why don't you kill me? Is it because I'm a woman? A woman may not be as strong as a man ...but to go easy on my is an insult! Oh, I wish I were a man! I don't carry a sword just for looks, you know!"

Tashigi was first introduced when the Straw Hat Pirates docked in Loguetown, where she was stationed. Smoker, her superior officer, seems to regard her as a protege; the two work very well together. While adept at sword fighting, she is unusually clumsy, which tends to get on Smoker's nerves. She is also very well-versed in katana, knowing their names and origins. Zoro often feels highly uncomfortable around her due to her striking resemblance to his late friend Kuina, who she fights like and even shares philosophies with.

Like Smoker, Tashigi has her own view of "Justice" which differs from the Marines' own definition, and will fight for what she sees as the right thing to do. Tashigi's stated goal is to remove all Meido, a class of famous swords, from the hands of those who would use them for their own selfish ends.

During the Time Skip, she Took a Level in Badass and achieved the rank of Captain, which means she received five promotions in the span of two years and now runs G-5 along with Smoker. She's also revealed to be a user of Haki.

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• Action Girl: She's definitely worthy of being Smoker's right hand man, and she's a brilliant swordsman to boot. The only problem is that a lot of the people she ends up fighting (or trying to fight) are just outright better than her at it because they've got years of a life at sea, and all of the toughness that forces into them to survive, behind them.
• Ain't Too Proud to Beg: After she gets her original body back in Chapter 677, she begs Law to free her and Smoker. Smoker is disgusted by the very idea of pleading for mercy from a pirate, but Tashigi points out that it's not just their lives on the line, but also those of their subordinates and the children experimented on by Caesar Clown, and they must put aside their pride in such a situation.
• Anti-Villain: Much like Smoker, her villainy mainly relates to her opposition to the Straw Hats. Beyond this, Tashigi is a good and just woman who will, above all else, do the right thing no matter what, even if it costs her pride or status.
• Art Evolution: Like Shanks, her design has changed a lot in the Whitebeard War Saga, to the point that many did not recognize her right away.
• Badass Adorable: Especially post Time Skip. She's a cute and kind young woman with glasses, but also a skilled swordswoman and Marine Captain.
• Battle Trophy: Offscreen Tashigi fought two opponents, Mr. 11 of Baroque Works and pirate captain Billy the Orca Killer, defeating the former and took their famed swords, the "Kashu" and the "Yamaoroshi" respectively.
• Bespectacled Cutie: She's a cute and kind young woman with glasses, which are a source of humor given her clumsiness and Blind Without 'Em tendencies. She's also got a bit of Hot Librarian going on post Time Skip with the way she ties her hair.
• Blade Enthusiast: Tashigi is obsessed with legendary swords, particularly of the Meido set. She has a book detailing all of them on her person at all times and gushes whenever she finds one. Her Goal in Life is to steal every weapon of the series away from wicked people who would abuse such weapons for their own gain.
• Blind Without 'Em: A running gag is that she's so near-sighted that without her glasses she will often speak to random people, thinking that they're Smoker.
• Blunt "Yes": After accusing Zoro of thinking she's weak because she's a woman.
  Zoro: What do you think I am, some kind of joke?
  Tashigi: Yes.
• Break the Cutie: She didn't take the things she learned at Alabasta very well, and frowned for a lot of her appearances since then. Fortunately, she's still as cheerful and kind as ever. It's just that the audience doesn't get to see that side of her as often due to the seriousness of the situations she's thrown in.
• Bullying a Dragon: She has a bad habit of picking fights she can't win. This isn't caused by overestimation of her own abilities so much as her Plucky Girl tendencies (see below) and her bad habit of losing her head/ability to assess risk when excited by the prospect of a fight. Additionally, her stated goal is to remove all the Meitou from those who'd misuse them for selfish aims. Considering the theme of "conviction is strength" in One Piece, her doing this is actually very consistent with the show.
  • Not so much bullying as trying to provoke, but counts regardless. During the Battle of Marineford she spots Vista of the Flowered Sword, a division commander in the Whitebeard Pirates who can hold his own against Mihawk. She decides to try and fight him. She couldn't beat Zoro when he was holding back, and Vista is a New World pirate. Fortunately, events conspire to keep her from trying.
  • Then she went and attacked Trafalgar Law, the guy whose powers pretty much make swordsmen Too Dumb to Live if they dare approach him. She got bisected for her trouble, though Law's powers make that fate nothing more than a temporary annoyance.
  • One would also question why she attacked Luffy who is undoubtedly stronger and has probably learned Haki, while she's stuck in a body she barely knows how to use. Tashigi's starting to make a habit out of this.
  • She attacks and manages to cut Monet, a Logia user, which almost averts this trope. Unfortunately, that was a lucky shot while Monet was distracted, and in a fair fight Monet has the clear upper hand. She does strike Monet down, but only when Zoro had drawn Monet's attention and seriously damaged her resolve.
• The Bus Came Back: After not making a single appearance since Dressrosa, Tashigi comes back into the picture during the Egghead arc.
• Can't Catch Up: Even though she does Take a Level in Badass after the Time Skip, she's still hopelessly outclassed by Zoro.
• Clark Kent Outfit: Unlike a good percent of women in One Piece she doesn't dress scantly◊ and is more reserved with her body. She's actually buxom as hell◊ but hides it with her clothes.
• Cute Clumsy Girl: When she's not sword fighting, she's pretty absent-minded.
• Dead Person Impersonation: Zoro accuses her of this, but it's clear that he wasn't so rational at the time. Unresolved grief can do that to an otherwise stable guy.
• Determinator: Even after being cut in half by Law, she still crawls up to him with a broken sword to try forcing a fight out of him.
• Dude Magnet: Her subordinates find her attractive and aren't afraid of saying it. Much to her chagrin.
• Entertainingly Wrong: Thanks to his refusal to fight her seriously during their battle, Tashigi accused Zoro of being sexist. Zoro actually has no issues fighting women so much as he has issues fighting Tashigi, who shares her face with the girl that inspired his dream. To defeat her would mean tarnishing the memory of his greatest rival. Otherwise, it's fairly obvious Zoro isn't sexist — the only reason Tashigi hasn't realized the truth herself is due to her own insecurities.
• Fanservice Pack: Post-Time Skip, her breasts have grown much larger than previously, and her hips have gotten wider. The Punk Hazard arc just so happened to force a situation to show just how much her...assets have expanded. Granted, she wasn't the one in her body at the time, but still. Especially noticeable with her, as none of her appearances beforehand ever drew attention to her physical attractiveness.
• Flash Step: During the time-skip, she learns how to use Soru, which lets her move very fast.
• Flower Motifs: She tends to wear different floral designs on her t-shirts.
• "Freaky Friday" Flip: With Smoker in Chapter 663, courtesy of Law's DF powers.
• Friend to All Children: Like her superior officer Smoker, she has a huge soft spot for children. She convinces a reluctant Smoker to cooperate with the Straw Hats and Law on Punk Hazard by pointing out the kidnapped children will remain in danger at Caesar Clown's hands, and is later shown doting on them after Clown has been dealt with.
• Guest-Star Party Member: Tashigi isn't a member of SWORD, but she joins them alongside Garp when they raid Fullalead to rescue Koby.
• Half the Man He Used to Be: In Chapter 661, when Trafalgar Law cut her in half with his powers. Since this isn't fatal or permanent, she gets put back together a few chapters later.
• Heroic Ambidexterity: Tashigi is shown to alternate between hitching her sword to her left and right sides, suggesting that she's capable of comfortably drawing it with either hand.
• Honor Before Reason:
  • When Zoro defeats her in Loguetown, she's upset with him because he didn't kill her instead of being upset that she lost.
  • Tashigi specifically tells her fellow officers to not touch the Straw Hat Pirates, once they collapse from exhaustion after a hard war with Baroque Works. Even after a marine says they are at their most vulnerable stat, Tashigi forbids it, as they are the true saviors of not just their lives, but all of Alabasta.
• How Do I Shot Web?: When she ends up in Smoker's body, she has some difficulty making use of his Devil Fruit powers.
• Humiliation Conga: Like Smoker, the Punk Hazard arc isn't kind to her either. First she's easily defeated by Law who then openly mocks her for being weak, is forcibly body-swapped with Smoker who goes on to wear her clothes in a provocative manner (including ripping off her bra and showing cleavage) and smoking in her body. Then has to beg for Law to free her just to save the children, is humiliated in front of the person she wanted to defeat and has to be saved by that individual, ending up in a compromising situation with him.
• Identical Stranger: To Kuina, resulting in Zoro preferring to run away from her rather than fight.
• Inspector Javert: Along with Smoker.
• Jerkass to One: Tashigi is very cordial to everyone around her, even pirates. This does not apply to Zoro, who often takes childish jabs from Tashigi due to her insecurity in regards to his strength.
• Ki Manipulation: Confirmed to have Haki after the timeskip.
• Lancer vs. Dragon: Tashigi certainly knows that Luffy is a world class threat, but tends to focus on Zoro due to her personal grudge with him.
• Leeroy Jenkins: She really seems to have a bad habit of rushing into fights against stronger opponents. Example being Zoro (who more or less just humored her on the first meeting), Nico Robin (despite Cobra's plea to back down knowing what Robin was capable of), Luffy during the Marineford War as well as Vista (see Bullying a Dragon above), and most recently Trafalgar Law.
• A Mother to Her Men: In the anime, she tried to run into a hallway full of deadly gas to rescue the Marines trapped inside (and had to be physically restrained to prevent her from doing so). She was also willing throw away her honor as a Marine and beg for her life while at Law's mercy, recognizing it as the only way to ensure her subordinates' safety.
• Navel-Deep Neckline: Normally, she keeps her shirt buttoned. When body-swapped with Smoker, however, he decided to keep his open-shirt look while in her body. She was not amused.
• Nice Girl: She may be an Inspector Javert when it comes to pirates, but she's a very kind young woman; and even then, she's far more merciful towards pirates than other Marines.
• Only Sane Woman: During the Marineford arc, she, Koby, and Smoker are the only Marines who have realized that their comrades have lost their mind and are going on a blood-fueled petty massacre of pirates who no longer want to fight when other Marines are dying and they still have the belligerent Blackbeard Pirates causing chaos all around Marineford.
• Perpetual Frowner: After the Alabasta arc. It might also have something to do with generalized job dissatisfaction. Though despite that, she fortunately hasn't lost any of her kindness, and even smiled during the party held to celebrate Caesar Clown's defeat; she even genuinely laughed when her subordinates said they might grow to like the Straw Hats. She also has a pretty wide smile after learning of Doflamingo's defeat (and the fact that Fujitora prevented it from being covered up) so she may be getting over the events at Alabasta.
• Plucky Girl: It's implied this is one of the reasons Smoker respects her.
• Rank Up: When she's introduced in Loguetown, she's a Master Chief Petty Officer. After the Alabasta incident she's promoted and becomes an Ensign by the time after the Enies Lobby incident. After the time-skip, she's become a Captain.
• Reasonable Authority Figure: When she's not fighting, she comes off this way. So much so that the parents of the kids that went missing i.e: kidnapped by Caesar even asked for her by name.
• Subordinate Excuse: As a Captain post-Timeskip, a large number of her subordinates seem to be smitten with her, much to Tashigi's irritation. They are incredibly loyal despite their lecherousness and often outright thuglike behaviour, however. Vergo attacking Tashigi is what gets the G-5 Marines to finally start fighting back against him, although they assume that he's an imposter. And it doesn't change how the fight goes.
• Theme Naming: Like a few other characters in the series, her name comes from a bird, the common snipe. That's another trait she shares with Kuina; both girls are named after ground-living birds that Oda for some reason thought were flightless, as reflections of their characters.
• To Be Lawful or Good: In Alabasta. She chooses good, but having to choose at all puts her in a brief Heroic BSoD.
• Took a Level in Badass: First thing we see her doing post-Time Skip is redirecting a cannon ball with her sword. Later she's shown blocking Zoro. Considering Zoro's own level in badass, and the fact that he was training with Mihawk, that's quite a step up.
• Unkempt Beauty: Short hair, bad clothes, no makeup, wears glasses, and still looks impossibly delicate and beautiful. She grows her hair out during the timeskip, but the rest of this trope still applies.
• Vapor Wear: See her Navel-Deep Neckline entry above. It's actually kinda noticeable that Smoker!Tashigi isn't wearing anything underneath that shirt once it's unbuttoned, but it's actually revealed in an SBS that Smoker tore it off.
  Smoker: I tore it off. You got a problem with that?
• Worthy Opponent: Tashigi hates Zoro for insulting her pride as a warrior, but in spite of that she certainly has a great deal of respect and admiration for him and his fellow Straw Hats; enough so that she ordered her men to not arrest them after the battle of Alabasta, in honor of their courage in saving the desert kingdom from being torn apart by Crocodile.

(Former) Captain "Axe-Hand" Morgan

See his entry on the Blue Seas page.

Captain Nezumi

Captain Nezumi

Voiced by: Tamotsu Nishiwaki (JP), Chuck Powers (EN, Odex), Dan Green (EN, 4kids), Vic Mignogna (EN, Funimation, original voice), Derick Snow (EN, Funimation, replacement voice); Ernesto Lezama (4Kids), Fidel Garriga (Netflix) (Latin American Spanish)

Age: 34 (Pre-Timeskip), 36 (Post-Timeskip)

Debut: Chapter 69 (Manga), Episode 31 (Anime)

A corrupt Marine Captain of Navy Base 16 in the East Blue. Takes bribes from Arlong.

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• Animal Motifs: He has whiskers on his face, little ears on his hood and is even called a mouse by Hachi. He's more like a rat though personality-wise.
• Astonishingly Appropriate Appearance: It's only appropriate that a corrupt, sleazy Dirty Cop would look like a humanoid rat.
• Dirty Cop: He's only too happy to overlook Arlong's tyranny so long as he gets a cut of the tributes.
• Dirty Coward: He takes bribes from Arlong and after Arlong is defeated, tries to take the reward and all the wealth for himself. Luffy and his crew objected to his attempts to rain on their parade.
• Evil Is Petty: Him issuing the bounty for Luffy counts as this since he's not doing it for any moral reasons but rather to get revenge on Luffy and his crew for humiliating him.
• Fantastic Racism: He internally notes his disdain of Fish-man after leaving Arlong Park as quickly as possible but he's willing to overlook his disgust for money.
• Hate Sink: He provides Nami with quite a bit of In-Universe Catharsis after Arlong is defeated.
• I Never Said It Was Poison: His rather accurate "guess" at how much money Nami has stashed away gives it away to Nami that he's in cahoots with Arlong and the Fish-man is playing dirty.
• Laser-Guided Karma: He willfully ignored the blight of the Conomi Islands, looking the other way as Arlong committed atrocities, and then stole Nami's hard earned money, even shooting Nojiko when she tried to resist. So its rather fitting that soon after Arlong's fall he and his men get stomped by the Straw Hats when they try to claim the valuables in Arlong Park, gets a personal beating by Nami for shooting Nojiko, and is forced to pay reparations for the Conomi Islands and return all of the money he stole back to the villagers.
• Meaningful Name: Shockingly, his name means "Rat".
• Screw the Rules, I Have Money!: He gets along with Arlong extremely well due to their shared views on money.
• Signature Laugh: Hyik hyik hyik...
• Small Role, Big Impact: He hasn't been seen once since the Straw Hats left the East Blue for the Grand Line. But he's the Marine responsible for Luffy's first bounty.

Enies Lobby Buster Call Captains

Captains Berry Good, Sharinguru and Shu

Berry Good voiced by: Keiichiro Yamamoto (JP), Jason C. Miller (EN)
Shu voiced by: Ryohei Nakao (JP), David Matranga (EN)

Debut: Chapter 426 (Berry Good and Shu, Manga), Chapter 428 (Sharinguru, Manga), Episode 309 (Berry Good and Shu, Anime), Episode 310 (Sharinguru, Anime)

Berry Good's Devil Fruit: Berry-Berry Fruit
Sharinguru's Devil Fruit: Wheel-Wheel Fruit
Shu's Devil Fruit: Rust-Rust Fruit

The Marine captains who all participate in the Buster Call on Enies Lobby.

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• Adapted Out: While Sharinguru does appear in the anime, his Wheel-Wheel Fruit powers are never shown.
• Be the Ball: Captain Berry Good splits into dozens of rapidly-bouncing balls when struck using his Berry-Berry Fruit.
• Elite Mooks: They're more effective than the other lower-ranking Marines during the Enies Lobby Buster Call as they manage to inconvenience the exhausted Straw Hats for a while with their Devil Fruit powers.
• Make Them Rot: In the anime only, Shu's Rust-Rust Fruit allows him to rust living organisms as well as metal, which he proves by rusting Zoro's arm.
• Meaningful Name: Sharinguru's name is a portmanteau of the Japanese words sharin and guru, which mean "wheel" and "spin" respectively.
• Small Role, Big Impact: Captain Shu is a very minor character who only appears during the Buster Call on Enies Lobby, but he is the person who destroys one of Zoro's swords, Yubashiri, by rusting it with his Devil Fruit power. This forces Zoro to fight with two swords for a good portion of the Thriller Bark arc until he gets a replacement.
• Spectacular Spinning: Captain Sharinguru ate the Wheel-Wheel Fruit, enabling him to turn various parts of his body into rapidly-spinning wheels for an exceedingly painful-looking attack (unless you happen to be a cyborg, of course). For some reason, he's never seen using this power in the anime.

Commander Donquixote Rocinante

Doflamingo's brother. After Doflamingo killed their father, Rocinante was found by Sengoku who took care of him. Years later, Rocinante joined the Donquixote Pirates as an undercover spy for Sengoku.

Lieutenant Commander "Double-Crosser" Jango

Lieutenant Commander "Double-Crosser" Jango

Voiced by: Kazuki Yao (JP), Jaime Meldrum (EN, Odex), Pete Zarustica (EN, 4Kids), Kenny Green (EN, Funi); Carlos Íñigo (4Kids), José Arenas (Netflix) (Latin American Spanish)

Age: 27 (Pre-Timeskip), 29 (Post-Timeskip)

Debut: Chapter 25 (Manga), Episode 9 (Anime)

Originally Kuro's first mate for the Black Cat Pirates, becoming their captain for three years while Kuro posed as Kaya's butler Klahadore. He joins the Marines under Captain Hina after Luffy defeated his former Captain.

During his times as a pirate, he used to have a bounty of 9,000,000 Berries.

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• Adaptational Jerkass: The anime doesn't adapt his cover story, and as a result Jango doesn't get his Pet the Dog moment where he sacrifices his freedom to save Fullbody.
• Almighty Janitor: Though less than "Almighty", he is far tougher than a typical Seaman recruit, as he's formerly a high-ranking pirate (as far as East Blue pirates go, anyway). He is still quite weak, however, as he's unable to withstand Luffy's outburst of Conqueror's Haki.
• Badass Longcoat: As a member of the Black Cat Pirates, he wears a long trench coat. He loses it after becoming a Marine.
• Bunny-Ears Lawyer: As a Marine, he and Fullbody have mutual fondness for both dancing and Captain Hina that occasionally gets in the way of their missions. Hina just manages to put up with it, though. This man is capable of clear-cutting full grown trees by flinging chakrams, after all.
• Catchphrase: When hypnotizing someone, he triggers the command with "One, Two, Jango!"
• Changed My Mind, Kid: In his cover story, he uses the confusion of a sudden pirate attack to escape capture from Fullbody. However, when the pirates gain the upper hand by taking a hostage, he comes back to help his new friend Fullbody out.
• Cloud Cuckoolander: His love for disco and tendency to hypnotize himself by accident make him a pretty strange character. He's also one of the few villains who immediately swallows Usopp's usual "8,000 men" lie.
• Day in the Limelight: He gets to star in the Mini-Adventure: Jango's Dance Paradise, where he befriends Fullbody and joins the Marines. He's also the focus of one of the anime specials, "Jango's Dance Carnival".
• The Dragon: He is Kuro's right-hand man in the Syrup Village Arc and his most powerful ally thanks to his hypnotic powers.
• Easily Forgiven: In One Piece Stampede, he doesn’t really seem to hold Kuro’s plan to kill him against his ex-captain, as he gives Kuro a friendly call over his Transponder Snail to tell him about the Pirate Festival, which Kuro decided not to attend.
• Hazy-Feel Turn: He goes from being a pirate to a Marine, meaning he's become a more decent person, but since pirates and Marines have a broad variety of members in terms of morality, his views on justice aren't easy to pin down, only that he's still opposing the Straw Hat pirates.
• Heel–Face Turn: On the other hand, considering his specific captains, it’s easy to see that Hina is a big step up from Kuro, with Hina being an ardent follower of Moral Justice, while Kuro wasn’t a follower of Moral anything.
• Heterosexual Life-Partners: After going toe-to-toe with Fullbody in a dance competition, the two bond and become close friends, to the point that Fullbody is willing to get demoted just to save Jango from being imprisoned. After Jango joins the Marines, the two are always together.
• Hoist by His Own Petard: He uses hypnosis to power up his crewmen, but Luffy also gets hypnotized, wipes out the charging crew with ease, and later tears apart the figurehead of their ship to use as a club.
• Hopeless Suitor: Towards Hina, along with Fullbody though he doesn't seem to mind and keeps trying regardless.
• Hypno Fool: Whenever he uses his hypnotic powers, Jango has to drop the brim of his hat in front of his eyes to not hypnotize himself. However, he often forgets and gets himself hypnotized as well.
• Hypocritical Humor: Kicks off his onscreen introduction as a Marine by stating that he hates pirates. Fullbody is quick to point out that he used to be one himself.
• Laser-Guided Amnesia: It's implied that he can use his hypnosis to make people forget things, as seen in his cover story where he prepares to erase himself from Fullbody's mind, but this is never seen successfully carried out (Jango and Fullbody immediately get distracted by Hina's presence and Jango joins the Marines instead).
• Making a Spectacle of Yourself: One of Jango's most defining features are his heart-shaped glasses with pink lenses and yellow frames. He wears them to hide his eyes which are also heart-shaped.
• Mass Hypnosis:
  • A favorite tactic back as a member of the Black Cats is to hypnotize the entire crew to make every member stronger. He's not really shown using it afterward.
  • In the animated short "Jango's Dance Carnival", while trying to escape from the Marines, Luffy causes a giant disco ball on an island to swing like a pendulum. Jango, also being chased by Marines, grabs a microphone and uses the swinging disco ball to hypnotize the entire island to "dance until [they] drop" when the music starts. Everyone on the island is compelled to dance, including the Straw Hat Pirates and Jango himself.
• No Celebrities Were Harmed: Very obviously based off of the King of Pop. Though his face resembles Steven Tyler.
• Pet the Dog: In his cover story, Jango is given the perfect chance to escape the Marines, but turns it down in order to save his newfound friend Fullbody from an invading pirate crew.
• Red Baron: "One-Two" Jango as a Pirate. After joining the Marines, it is changed to "Double-Crosser" Jango.
• Rings of Death: Jango uses bladed rings both as a pendulum for hypnosis and to tear into an enemy from afar or up close.
• Same Character, But Different: As the anime doesn't adapt his cover story, an anime-only watcher will most likely find Jango reappearing at the tail end of the Alabasta arc as a Marine and as best friends with Fullbody to be completely out of nowhere.
• Silly Walk: Moonwalk à la Michael Jackson.
• Spell My Name With An S: His name is sometimes spelled "Django" in translations.
• Stealth Pun: Jango of the Black Cat Pirates, or in Japanese, Kuroneko no Jango.
• Subordinate Excuse: Doesn't even try to hide that he has become Hina's subordinate out of an infatuation with her. In his cover story, it's implied that Hina is his only reason for joining the Marines in the first place, as Jango is ready to part with Fullbody and the Marines until the moment he sees her.
• Sunglasses at Night: Constantly wears Heart-shaped sunglasses, which hides his heart-shaped eyes.
• Weak, but Skilled: He's hardly very imposing physically, but his hypnotism is highly effective.
• Would Hit a Girl: Cuts Nami In the Back as soon as her guard is down; and of course, he's expected to execute the whole Kaya's will plan.
• Would Hurt a Child: Jango makes no fuss about Kuro's order to murder Carrot, Pepper, and Onion for interfering with his plan.
• Wrong Context Magic: All of the characters' supernatural abilities in the One Piece world come from eating a Devil Fruit, but Jango gained his hypnotic abilities after eating the cap of a mushroom that grew on his chin. (That thing on his chin is the stalk still there.)
• Your Mind Makes It Real: When he hypnotizes some of the Black Cat Pirates to make them think they're strong, it seems to have the effect of actually making them stronger.

Lieutenant Commander "Double Iron-Fist" Fullbody

Lieutenant Commander "Double Iron-Fist" Fullbody

Voiced by: Hideo Ishikawa (JP), Brian Zimmerman (EN, Odex), Tom Wayland (EN, 4Kids), John Burgmeier (EN, Funi); Alejandro Vargas Lugo (4Kids), Eduardo Ramírez (Netflix) (Latin American Spanish)

Age: 26 (Pre-Timeskip), 28 (Post-Timeskip)

Debut: Chapter 43 (Manga), Episode 20 (Anime)

Introduced as Marine Lieutenant "Iron-Fist Fullbody" with a fondness for beautiful women and drinking fine wine, he also serves to show off the abilities of a newly introduced Sanji by provoking him until finally receiving an ass-kicking.

After bonding with Jango, Fullbody is demoted to a Seaman Recruit for defending a pirate, and he, along with Jango, join up with Captain Hina.

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• Adaptational Jerkass: The anime didn't adapt Jango's cover story, and as a result Fullbody doesn't get the Pet the Dog moments that come with that.
• Almighty Janitor: Though "Almighty" is a bit of a strong word for him, he is considerably tougher than his current rank would imply, justified since he's a former Lieutenant who has been demoted. It helps that Hina treats him as if he still has his old rank, giving him duo missions with Jango against entire pirate forces, giving him his own ship to command, and basically treating him and Jango as Co-Dragons. His ability to withstand Luffy's Conqueror's Haki without a problem means that he's close enough to Luffy in power at the time to be able to resist it, which is a highly impressive feat.
• Break the Haughty: In his first scene, Fullbody is an arrogant marine who abuses of his ranks and pretends to be a wine expert, but Sanji corrects Fullbody and beats him as he tries to punch him.
• Bunny-Ears Lawyer: Fullbody and Jango have mutual fondness for both dancing and Captain Hina that occasionally gets in the way of their missions. Hina just manages to put up with it, though.
• Character Development: Introduced as a haughty and arrogant man who was more obsessed with maintaining his image as a Cultured Badass than actually doing his job. After meeting Jango and getting demoted, he no longer cares what other people think of him, and freely acts like a crass goofball at all times. Shifting his focus away from his image has also allowed him to become both stronger and a more likable guy as a result.
• Closer to Earth: While he enjoys screwing around with Jango, he is consistently shown to be the more rational and restrained half of the duo.
• Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: His cover story proves that the Straw Hats aren't the best barometers of determining which Marines are competent (as they are all monstrously strong). He proves himself extremely dedicated to his job when it counts (and actually seems to value civilian lives much more than other Marines), and is more than capable of kicking ass. After joining with Hina, he and Jango take over fully-manned pirate ships completely on their own
• Cultured Badass: Fullbody is stronger than the average human and pretends to be a refined man while on a date. One trick he uses is to give a restaurant instructions to serve a specific wine, so he can pretend to identify it by the taste. However, Sanji sees through this and serves him something else entirely. Fullbody drops this image completely after being demoted.
• Extremity Extremist: As his title would imply, he fights exclusively with punches.
• Foil: To Sanji. Both are introduced at the same time and are portrayed as thinking of themselves as being gentleman despite their crass and rude personalities. The difference is that while Sanji genuinely is suave, cultured and chivalrous in spite of his unruly nature, Fullbody simply rigs situations to make himself appear to be more sophisticated than he actually is. In addition, both are Extremity Extremist, but while Sanji only fights with his feet, Fullbody favors his fists.
• Friend-or-Idol Decision: Fullbody voluntarily accepts a demotion to Seaman Recruit rather than allow his new friend Jango to be convicted for being a pirate.
• Heterosexual Life-Partners: After competing in a dance-off, Fullbody and Jango become best buddies, to the point the former gets demoted to protect his new friend and the two are always seen together.
• Hopeless Suitor: Towards Hina, though he doesn't seem to mind that his affection isn't reciprocated.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: His first appearance involves him being a rather arrogant individual who's willing to get his waiter in trouble for humiliating him, though to keep appearances he seems to try and keep it mostly hidden. Despite this, he's not corrupt and legitimately cares about protecting civilians.
• Meaningful Name: He's introduced as a self-styled wine connoisseur.
• Nice to the Waiter: He wasn't. Unfortunately for him, the waiter had a Hair-Trigger Temper and was completely capable of giving at least as good as he got. Oh, and he wasn't a waiter.
• Officer and a Gentleman: Attempted to give himself this persona back when he was a Lieutenant, but got called out on faking it by Sanji. After being stripped of his officer position, he stops trying to seem like a gentleman.
• Pet the Dog: Fullbody is introduced as a self-absorbed Jerkass in the Baratie arc, but Jango's cover story shows that Fullbody is not devoid of good qualities. He doesn't hesitate to put his own neck on the line to defend a civilian town when it's raided by pirates and, more to the point, Fullbody willingly lets himself get demoted in exchange for his newfound friend Jango receiving his freedom back.
• Rank Up: Inverted, he got ranked down after he tried to make the other Marines consider not capturing his new friend Jango. Based on SBS 98 however, he ends up playing this straight as said SBS mentions that he's a Lieutenant Commander post-Time Skip.
• Red Baron: "Iron-Fist" Fullbody. After joining Hina's crew, he upgrades to "Double Iron-Fist" Fullbody.
• Sharp-Dressed Man: Wore a crisp white suit when he first appeared to go with his phony gentleman persona.
• Smug Snake: In his first appearance, he was rather full of himself, and antagonized Sanji despite Sanji being a much stronger fighter. Completely gone after being demoted.
• Subordinate Excuse: Doesn't even try to hide that he joined Hina out of an infatuation with her.
• Took a Level in Badass: Though he hasn't been shown fighting anyone personally since joining Hina, his tougher-looking appearance and upgraded nickname indicates that he has in fact done this.
  • Unlike Jango and pretty much half of the remaining mooks present at Marineford, he actually managed to withstand Luffy's outburst of Conquerors' Haki just fine. A number of the Marines knocked out by the Haki were also wearing uniform coats, which typically indicates an officer; Fullbody was able to resist despite being (technically) only an enlisted man.
• Took a Level in Kindness: After getting the crap kicked out of him by Sanji and abandoning his attempts at appearing refined, he reveals himself to be a legitimately decent guy with an admirable sense of justice.
• Would Hit a Girl: In the anime, he shoves his date to the floor when she protests his attempts to humiliate Sanji. Since he'd already pushed Sanji's buttons by wasting food, he gets beaten up in retaliation.
• You Don't Look Like You: Looks almost completely different after getting demoted to a recruit, with only his pink hair, tan skin and scar identifying him as the same character.

Ensign Isuka "The Nailer"

Ensign Isuka "The Nailer"

Debut: One Piece: Ace's Story

A Marine who comes into conflict with the Spade Pirates throughout the Grand Line.

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• Action Girl: Isuka is a capable swordswoman. However because Ace is a Logia user and she doesn't know Haki, she doesn't exactly pose a threat to him. She is still a threat to Ace's subordinates at first.
• Anti-Villain: While she does nominally act like an antagonist towards the Spade Pirates, she doesn't act too antagonistic towards them.
• Adapted Out: She's a fairly prominent character in the first volume of Ace's story, but is excluded in Boichi's manga adaptation due to it being far shorter in length.
• A Mother to Her Men: Deeply concerned for the soldiers working under her. The first time she comes into conflict with the Spade Pirates, she risks her life to save them when one of her ships capsizes.
• Broken Pedestal: She looked up to Draw, the Vice-Admiral who brought her into the Marines after she lost her parents. She loses her respect for him when she finds out that he doesn't care if civilians die as collateral damage. In fact, her hometown wasn't destroyed by pirates, but instead as collateral damage from Draw's actions.
• Doomed Hometown: Her hometown was burned to the ground, taking her parents' lives. She assumed it was done by pirates, when it was actually done by Draw.
• Fiery Redhead: An energetic redheaded woman.
• Friendly Enemy: Isuka is ostensibly enemies with Ace, but they evidently have a soft spot for each other. Isuka is very big on the idea of Ace either becoming a Marine or joining the Warlords while Ace, for his part, offers Isuka a spot on his crew and is rather saddened when she turns him down.
• Friend to All Children: Became a Marine so that children wouldn't need to suffer like she did.
• Hero Antagonist: As a follower of moral Justice, she's a good person even if she does oppose Ace.
• Heroic BSoD: Breaks down crying when she realizes that Draw was the one who actually killed her parents.
• Implied Love Interest: Isuka is described as "Ace's lover" in some of Oda's sketches. While their relationship in the actual story isn't romantic, the two of them clearly do have a soft spot for each other.
• Inspector Javert: Spends a lot of time chasing after the Spade Pirates, although she does mellow out a bit later on. Nevertheless, she is always on the side of justice out of principle.
• Mythology Gag: Her being saved by Draw from her village's destruction only to find out later he was the one who caused it is very reminiscent to a scene in one of Oda's earlier works Monsters, where Flare was saved by Cyrano from her village's destruction only to find out later he was the one who caused it.
• No Place for Me There: Isuka nearly joins Ace's crew at the end of the first volume of One Piece: Ace's Story but ultimately turns down his offer, much to Ace's disappointment.
• Out-Gambitted: In her first clash with the Spade Pirates, she personally boards their ship as a decoy to distract Ace and his crew as other Marine ships surround them. It almost works, but Deuce tricks them crashing into a reef.
• Red Baron: Is nicknamed "The Nailer" for her tendency to skewer pirates with her blade.
• Tsundere: She's very harsh on Ace most of the time, as she's a Marine and he's a pirate. It's clear, however, that she does genuinely like him as she's very big on the idea of him joining the Marines or becoming a Warlord.
• Villain Decay: In the eyes of Masked Deuce, Isuka is The Dreaded the first time she appears, but when the Spade Pirates reach Sabaody, he sees her as a nuisance his friends and he can escape from consistently.

Naval Bureau of Investigation Director Kurouma (Tensei)

Naval Bureau of Investigation Director Kurouma (Tensei)

Debut: Chapter 1054 (Manga)

The director of the Naval Bureau of Investigation.

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• Animal Theme Naming: His Marine alias, Kurouma, translates to "Black Horse," fitting in with the zodiac naming scheme of several Marine characters.
• Mr. Exposition: He's pretty much there to tell the reader about the events that occurred during the Reverie, and the effect they had on the world at large.
• No Celebrities Were Harmed: His design is based on Japanese actor Akira Kobayashi.
• Remember the New Guy?: The bureau he's in charge of has never been mentioned even once prior to his introduction.
• Shout-Out: According to author Eiichiro Oda, the scene where Kurouma talks to Akainu at the end of the Wano arc was a reference to Battles Without Honor and Humanity. The series stars Bunta Sugawara and Akira Kobayashi in leading roles, and they served as the inspiration for Akainu's and Kurouma's designs respectively.

(Former) Belle-Mère

A former Marine of unknown rank hailing from Cocoyashi Village in the East Blue. After coming upon two young orphans on a battlefield, she retired from the Marines to raise them as her daughters. See her entry here.

SWORD

In General

A group of Marines who have turned in their resignations, but still operate as part of the navy. Unlike regular Marines, they can disregard orders and take on missions without needing clearance in exchange for the Marines taking no responsibility for their safety and being allowed to cut ties with them at any time.

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• Covert Group: SWORD is officially more secret than Cipher Pol, since only a handful of marines outside of it know about its existence. Their secrecy is helped along by the World Government disavowing all knowledge of their existence and the activities of their members if they're caught.
• Interservice Rivalry: While SWORD and Cipher Pol are both part of the World Government, the two organizations don't get along terribly well. The organizations don't share information with each other and have a lot of ideological differences, leading to quite a bit of tension on both ends.
• Military Maverick: All members of SWORD have technically resigned from the standard Marine hierarchy, and therefore aren't required to follow normal protocols. This allows them to do things like attacking Pirate Emperors without being authorized by the higher-ups. The drawback is that, if they're captured or discovered, the World Government will disavow them and leave them to their fate.
• Opposites Theme Naming: The name "SWORD" contrasts the official name of CP0, Cipher Pol Aegis Zero. In Greek mythology, the Aegis was a shield used by the gods. Fittingly, CP0 work directly under the Elders and the Celestial Dragons. Contrasting CP0 is SWORD, an organization which also specializes in covert ops, but is less about serving those in power as it is about countering powerful pirate crews.
• Rank Up: As discussed in the SBS of Vol. 107, it is still possible for SWORD members to get promoted, even after having handed out their resignation.
• Roaring Rampage of Rescue: SWORD raids Fullalead with Garp to rescue Koby, and they pretty much destroy the island.
• Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right!: The SWORD agents are given free reign to ignore marine orders and regulations to do what they feel needs to be done but, on the other hand, should they be in danger, the Marines wouldn't do anything to help them.
• The Squad: SWORD is an elite off-the-book unit of the Marines, and each member is given a name and face.

(Former) Rear-Admiral X. Drake

A former Rear-Admiral, X Drake publically defected from the Marines and became a pirate. He is currently a member of the "Worst Generation." In reality, X Drake actually never left the Marines and is currently the captain of the Marines' covert ops division, SWORD.

See his entry here.

Rear-Admiral Prince Grus

Rear-Admiral Prince Grus

Voiced by: Satoshi Hino (JP)

Debut: Chapter 966 (Manga), Episode 1090 (Anime)

Devil Fruit: Glorp-Glorp Fruit

A Rear-Admiral stationed at Marine Base G-14. A member of SWORD who has eaten the Glorp-Glorp Fruit (Gunyo Gunyo no Mi), allowing him to create and manipulate clay.

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• Actually a Doombot: A group of pirates shoots down a group of marines, but said marines are revealed to actually be clay golems created by Prince Grus as a diversion.
• Dishing Out Dirt: Prince Grus' Devil Fruit lets him manipulate clay at will.
• Early-Bird Cameo: Prince first appears in Bege's cover story alongside Kujaku and one of his golems, before appearing in the series proper at the start of the Egghead arc.
• Golem: The main use of Prince Grus' Glorp-Glorp fruit is to create an army of clay golems. Said golems behave a lot human-like. When they are taken down, they melt instantly.
• Green-Eyed Monster: He seems to envy his fellow Marines if they have a higher reputation than him such as Koby, the Hero of the Navy, whom he has vowed to sabotage. That doesn't stop from partaking in the rescue mission, though.
• In-Series Nickname: Since his surname is Prince (Purinsu), he's called "Ouji" (which is Japanese for "prince") by his colleagues.
• Mama's Boy: The large cap he's wearing is from his mother. As a kid, he kept bumping into things because he's looking down while walking, so the large cap prevents him from bumping.
• Manly Tears: They're difficult to see, but he's clearly frowning and has a half-visible tear below his eye when Garp tells him and the rest of the "Rescue Koby" team to retreat without coming back for him.
• Mini-Me: Prince Grus uses his Devil Fruit to create a little golem of himself.
• Mission Control: When SWORD is raiding Fullalead to rescue Koby, Grus is seen sitting atop a building and directing his teammates' movements.
• Mistaken Identity: During Bege's cover story, he arrests Lola after getting her mixed up with Chiffon.
• Mook Maker: He has the power to manipulate clay, and uses it to create golems that follow his orders.
• Pretty in Mink: He sports a large fur coat, going with SWORD's rapper-style appearance.
• Walking Shirtless Scene: Prince Grus keeps his upper clothes unbuttoned, exposing his ripped chest as a visual clue of his strength and confidence.

Rear-Admiral Kujaku

Rear-Admiral Kujaku

Debut: Chapter 966 (Manga), Episode 1090 (Anime)

Devil Fruit: Whip-Whip Fruit

A Rear-Admiral stationed at Marine Base G-14, who is a member of SWORD and the granddaughter of Vice-Admiral Tsuru. She has eaten the Whip-Whip Fruit (Muchi Muchi no Mi), which allows her to make anything she whips obey her commands, even inanimate objects.

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• Animal Theme Naming: Like her grandmother Tsuru who is named after the crane, Kujaku is also named after a bird — the peacock.
• Combat Sadomasochist: Kujaku fights by whipping her enemies or inanimate objects into submission with her devil fruit power, which calls the image of a dominatrix.
• Dominatrix: She uses a whip-based Devil Fruit and she can dominate whatever she whips, including inanimate objects, into obeying her commands.
• Early-Bird Cameo: First appears in Bege's cover story alongside Prince Grus and one of his golems, before properly appearing in the story at the Egghead arc.
• Like Mother, Unlike Daughter: Tsuru, Kujaku's grandmother, is a very stern, stoic woman and fights by "cleaning" her foes, while Kujaku is a dominatrix who outright flirts with her enemies during combat.
• Ms. Fanservice: Kujaku is a Dominatrix who fights by whipping both people and objects into submission.
• Whip of Dominance: Fitting for a flirty, Dominatrix-like character, The Whip-Whip Fruit allows her to implant obedience into whatever she uses her whip on. The effects of the whipping can affect even inanimate, immobile objects, such as buildings. If the user orders an object to move with her whip, it will do so regardless of whether it is physically possible or not.

Captain Koby "the Hero"

Captain Koby "the Hero"

Voiced by: Mika Doi (JP), Chio Su-Pang (EN, Odex), Kayzie Rogers (EN, 4Kids), Leah Clark (EN, Funi — younger), Micah Solusod (EN, Funi — older); Adriana Casas (4Kids), Angélica Villa (Netflix) (Latin American Spanish)

Age: 16 (Pre-Timeskip), 18 (Post-Timeskip)

Debut: Chapter 2 (Manga), Episode 1 (Anime)

^{Click to see him before joining the Marines}

"If I succeed, that's fine. If I die, that's fine also."

Koby is first introduced as a cowardly Chore Boy on board Alvida's ship. Through fear of being smashed by her Iron Mace, whenever she asked him who was the loveliest on the sea, he would reply, 'You are, Miss Alvida'. With the help of Luffy, he finds the courage to pursue his dream of leaving her and becoming a Marine.

Following the formation of the Cross Guild, Koby was given his first and only bounty of 5 stars—equivalent to 500,000,000 berries.

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• A Day in the Limelight:
  • Koby stars in his own mini-adventure where, alongside Helmeppo, he joins the Marine and trains under Garp.
  • Koby gets lot of spotlight during the Egghead Arc. Between him being a member of SWORD, being labelled as a "Hero" thanks to his involvement with Blackbeard, his capture by the Blackbeard pirates, his unusually high bounty, and his displayed immense strength and Garp's statement that Koby will be the "Future of the Marines", it looks like the story will paint him as someone who will be a major character in the Final Saga.
• Accidental Hero: By standing up to Akainu, Koby ends up buying Luffy and Law the precious time they needed to get to safety.
• Adaptation Expansion: Episodes 68 and 69 of the anime adapt the Diary of Koby-Meppo cover story, more thoroughly fleshing out Koby's and Helmeppo's experience in the Marines than the manga did. Sadly this was the last time Toei would adapt a cover story.
• All-Loving Hero: Koby's aspires to join the Marines to ensure justice for the world. There's also this quote from the Marineford War.
  "That's enough!! Let's stop this!! Stop fighting!! It's a waste of human life!! Each and every soldier... has a family waiting for him at home!! We've achieved our objective!! We've broken the pirates' power!! So why are we chasing them?! It's not necessary!! This is pure bloodlust!! Some of the wounded can be saved if they're treated right away!! But we're consigning them to death and creating more casualties to boot!! The soldiers who die from here on are... they're just... just... they're fools who will die for nothing!!" (Chapter 579)
• Animal Motifs: According to an SBS, his motif is the dolphin. Dolphins feel and know their comrade's emotions and thoughts and thus are considered to be a symbol of empathy. This reflects Koby's kind nature and growing Haki.
• Audience Surrogate: Before Usopp is introduced, Koby serves the role of audience representative, being a relatively normal person introduced to the weirdness of Luffy and reacting like most readers would.
• Badass Normal: After training under Garp, Koby begins learning Rokushiki and using Haki to keep up with Devil Fruit users and other dangerous pirates prowling the seas. After the timeskip, he's risen to the rank of Captain, is officially a Rokushiki master, and is powerful enough to be part of the assault force against Amazon Lily after the Seven Warlords of the Sea are stripped of their political immunity. And then to stop attacks from some of the strongest Blackbeard Pirates.
• Butt-Monkey: Before becoming a Marine, he's a short guy who happens to end up in many situations that are uncomfortable for him, all these being Played for Laughs.
• The Cabin Boy: Koby used to be the cabin boy of Alvida's pirate group until he opted out and joined the Marines. There, he starts again as a cabin boy, along with his friend Helmeppo, until some time later (after training with Vice-Admiral Garp) they become proper Marine officers.
• Can't Catch Up: While he has improved himself by a tremendous amount in a very short amount of time, Luffy already had an entire lifetime of fighting experience under his belt when he and Koby first met, and has only grown stronger since then, leading to their clash at Marineford to result in a Curb-Stomp Battle on Koby's end.
• Character Development: Under Garp's instruction, Koby's timidity has been replaced with confidence, although he remains polite, self-effacing, and apologetic if he feels he has done something overly ambitious (such as publicly stating his goal to become a Marine Admiral).
• Charles Atlas Superpower: At the beginning of the series, Koby is an average kid who gets impressed by simple displays of strength. After some harsh training under Garp (and training in secret as well), Koby learns some Rokushiki in a very short time. By the battle at Fullalead, Koby has become strong enough to destroy a gigantic hand made of stone. Just like Garp and Kuzan, Koby trains by using battleship as punching bags without the use of Haki or Devil Fruit powers (the latter he doesn't have), and at least in the early part of his training course, Koby also used to throw 200 extra punches at night to compensate for his natural lack of strength, which is how his punches became so powerful.
• Chronic Hero Syndrome: His first course of action after getting set free from prison in the middle of an Emperor's hideout is to help all the innocent civilians trapped there. His care for the people makes Koby one of the most beloved marines.
• Commonality Connection: Rebecca is quick to befriend him when she realizes he's also a friend of Luffy's.
• Competence Zone: Koby reached the rank of Marine Captain before being twenty. Kyros, after hearing about Koby's strength and achievements, expects him to be an older, seasoned veteran instead of a young man.
• Cowardly Lion: Even back when he was an untrained and timid boy, Koby still managed to muster up the guts to stand up to Alvida after some prodding from Luffy. While his cowardice is almost completely gone after he finishes his Training from Hell, he's still shown to be scared out of his wits while giving Akainu his What the Hell, Hero? speech, though not without good reason.
• Curb-Stomp Battle: On the receiving end of one against Luffy during the Marineford arc, where he is instantly defeated by a single Gum Gum Bullet before getting a chance to land an attack.
• Dark and Troubled Past: He was forced to join a pirate group two years prior to the storyline.
• A Day in the Limelight: He and Helmeppo star in their own cover story, "Koby and Helmeppo's Chronicle of Toil", where both find themselves involved with Morgan's escape attempt and begin to train under Garp.
• Decoy Protagonist: In the anime, Koby is the point-of-view character for the start of the first episode, with Luffy not appearing until roughly halfway through.
• Determinator: Knowing how weak he is, Koby not only followed Garp's intense training regime, but he pushed himself even in the resting moments to become stronger as fast as he could.
• Determined Defeatist: He's quick to doubt his own abilities, and will sheepishly apologize for being ridiculous after declaring his dream of becoming an Admiral, but is nonetheless more than willing to do whatever it takes to get stronger, including suffering through months of nonstop Training from Hell. This is displayed perfectly after he is completely destroyed by Luffy at Marineford, where he immediately declares himself to be too weak, only to vow to become even stronger just as quickly.
  "It's no good... I need to become much, much stronger."
• Did You Just Flip Off Cthulhu?: Calls Akainu out for the senseless massacre he was causing during the Summit war. His actions are considered to be so incredibly ballsy that it momentarily stops the war due to every single person who witnesses it, up to and including Blackbeard, engaging in a Mass "Oh, Crap!".
• Distressed Dude: Koby gets kidnapped by Blackbeard following the failed attack on Amazon Lily.
• Double Jump: Koby uses Moon Walk, which consists of jumping multiple times in the air, during the raid at Fullalead so he can intercept Avalo Pizarro's giant hand.
• Dude Out Of Distress: Downplayed. While imprisoned at Pirate Island, Koby is freed by Perona, however, he makes saving innocent people enslaved by the Blackbeard Pirates his number one priority and organizes a mass escape on his own. It's fully played straight when he is the one to stop Pizarro's last attempt to prevent the escape.
• The Empath: After unlocking Observation Haki, Koby is able to sense people dying around him during the Paramount War, thanks to Haki.
• Endearingly Dorky: His shyness often puts him straight into the trope. Just watch his flustered interactions with Kyros and Rebecca when he first met them.
• Enhanced Punch: His mastery over Armament Haki grows to the point that he's able to have his own variation of Garp's Galaxy Impact attack called Honesty Impact. While not as destructive as Garp's attack, this attack is still incredibly powerful and able to completely destroy Pizarro's gigantic stone hand with just one blow.
• Foil: Koby becomes Luffy's Marine counterpart. While both are talented young men who aim to become the best of the best in their respective fields, Koby is much more reserved and self-deprecating than Luffy is. This is most apparent when Koby declares that he will become an Admiral, where, in contrast Luffy's constant enthusiasm when declaring himself to be the next Pirate King, he shows embarrassment and immediately apologizes for his behavior afterwards. Also, while Luffy ate a Devil Fruit and thus lost his ability to swim (and was a bad swimmer even before that) in exchange for wacky Rubber Man powers, Koby's underwater prowess is comparable to Fishmen (having outswam torpedoes to protect a ship from pirate attack) and his Charles Atlas Superpower abilities lack the inherently comedic aspect of Luffy's powers. Additionally, Luffy is, alongside Dragon, Ace and Kuzan, one of the people who ended up not following or straight up leaving the path that Garp laid out for them, whereas Koby continues to follow Garp's will of becoming the future of the Marines.
• Flash Step: By the time he meets Luffy in Water 7, he's been taught Soru. It's the only Rokushiki form he's been taught, however. In the special Luffy episode, he uses what seems to be Rankyaku and Shigan though it could have simply been punching and kicking at a flash-step pace.
• Friendly Enemy:
  • With Luffy. They're good friends, but they just happen to be on the opposing sides of the law.
  • During his interactions with Boa Hancock after the Marines arrive at Amazon Lily, he's nothing but polite, kindhearted and keen in finding a less violent resolution between both sides.
• Good Scars, Evil Scars: He has received a scar on his forehead during his Training from Hell. After the timeskip, it seems to have gotten bigger.
• Goggles Do Nothing: Subverted. His glasses early on just make him look dorky and adds to his weak looks. After his growth spurt and training, he keeps them on his forehead, where they don't appear to do anything for him. However, in his first appearance after the timeskip, he's lowers them onto his eyes when reading a newspaper article about Luffy, showing that they are specifically reading glasses.
• Guest-Star Party Member: Koby is Luffy's very first traveling companion, who acts as his Cowardly Sidekick up until Morgan's defeat, after which he leaves to join the Marines.
• Hero Antagonist: He's a completely heroic and kindhearted young man, as well as one of the few Marines who isn't morally gray or outright corrupt in any way, but he will inevitably always be on the side that opposes Luffy due to him being a pirate.
• Heroic Self-Deprecation: Koby thinks far less of himself than he reasonably should. He's surprised that SWORD actually came to save him when he's kidnapped and is outright baffled to find out that none other than Garp is there leading the charge.
• Heterosexual Life-Partners: While they start out as enemies, Koby and Helmeppo become good friends during their early days in the Marines and are almost always seen together. When Koby got kidnapped by Blackbeard, Helmeppo pleads Garp in tears to free him.
• Hostage Macguffin: Teach kidnaps Koby after the failed raid on Amazon Lily because he plans to use him as a bargaining chip for the World Government to officially recognize Fullalead as a proper country. Both Koby and Kuzan point out that this is a ludicrous idea, but Blackbeard laughs it off and says it's worth a try anyway.
• Humble Hero: Befitting of his timid personality. After Koby successfully intercepts a torpedo and deflects it away from the Dressrosa royal family's ship, he tells them that it must've missed. When Kyros expresses his admiration for Koby and calls him a hero, Koby blushes and denies it.
• I Got Bigger: It seemed like intense training with Garp combined with some growth spurt really made him taller, from a little boy whose height is around Luffy's chest to being almost as tall as him. In only a couple of months in universe.
• I Regret Nothing: Koby learns from Luffy to stand for his own causes, starting with standing up to Alvida despite his terror and being ready to stand by his words even in the face of death. When Akainu tries to kill him in the Paramount War, he believes he has no regrets for giving his speech to the Marines.
• Inconsistent Spelling: Different translations have spelled his name as both "Coby" and "Koby" at various points. In the manga, it was finally romanized on his boat as "Koby" in Chapter 903, almost 21 years after his first appearance. In Germany, his name is spelled "Corby".
• Loved by All: Koby is more or less the model Marine, and basically everyone likes him for it. Even Blackbeard has genuine respect for him. The fact that he saved civilians during the Rocky Port incident must've helped.
• Meaningful Name: Koby’s name refers to his hair color: kobi pink.
• Nice Guy: One of the only Marines who genuinely believes in true justice. During Marineford, he sheds Tender Tears for fallen Marines and pirates alike, and expresses complete horror at the needless destruction Akainu was causing.
• Noodle Incident: Koby is considered the hero of the Rocky Port incident, which Blackbeard and Law were also involved in. Not much is known about what actually went down outside of bits and pieces of information.
• Not Distracted by the Sexy: Might actually be because of his status as an All-Loving Hero, actually. During his confrontation with Boa Hancock at Amazon Lily, all of his interactions with her has him being legitimately sympathetic, treating her with utmost respect and making it obvious that he has little interest in truly fighting any of the Kuja and despite his normal Endearingly Dorky behaviour not once is he flustered by her in any way. This is further cemented when it shows that he's utterly immune to her Love-Love abilities as well.
• Oblivious to Love: Koby is honestly surprised to see Hibari show up on Fullalead to save him when she blatantly has a massive crush on him.
• Older Than They Look: Somehow manages to be this and Younger Than They Look thanks to his growth spurt. Before it happened, he looked like a short and scrawny child of around 12, but he was actually already a teenager of 16 years, the same age as Vivi.
• Only Sane Man: Is the first one to call out everyone at the Battle of Marineford for their behavior. In front of a raging Knight Templar psychopath who has shown absolutely no reluctance to use extreme force. Talk about badass.
• Power Incontinence: During the Paramount War, he spontaneously develops Haki powers, specifically Observation Haki. The only problem? He can't stop hearing "voices". It severely freaks him out when he continually feels people dying during the War and others thoughts immediately after.
• Red Baron: After the timeskip, he gained the epithet of "Hero".
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: The more restrained and cautious blue oni to Luffy's reckless red oni. Completely reversed in his dynamic with Helmeppo, where he's the reckless red oni.
• Shrinking Violet: A male version. He has become much more confident since training with Garp, though he's still prone to bouts of self-consciousness.
• Spider-Sense: Awakens Observation Haki in the aftermath of the Paramount War.
• Stronger Than They Look: Despite his Pretty Boy looks and his Endearingly Dorky personality, a combination of training under Garp and absolutely pushing himself to his physical brink during his time training has made Koby a lot stronger post Time Skip. During the raid at Fullalead, most of the Blackbeard Pirates all jeeringly and unrelentingly mock Koby when he stands against Pizarro as none of them think for a moment he's capable of doing anything against the other Pirate. When Koby shows he's more than capable of stopping him in his tracks, the jeering completely stops and changes to incredulous horror. Even his fellow Marines (outside of Garp and Helmeppo) are completely flabbergasted about how powerful Koby truly is.
• Take Me Instead: Koby becomes Blackbeard's hostage because he trades himself for his fellow Marines.
• Tears of Joy: After seeing Luffy's achievements in the newspaper in Chapter 903, he wept with excitement. Rebecca immediately noticed them and figured out he was a friend of Luffy's too.
• Tender Tears: Sobs uncontrollably when standing up to Akainu during the Summit war. Completely justified in that he's both shedding tears for the fallen soldiers and their families and completely scared out of his wits.
• To Be a Master: In contrast to Luffy's dream of becoming the King of Pirates, Koby wants to become an Admiral.
• Took a Level in Badass: Koby begins the story as a weak child who's more of a load to Luffy than helpful but, after training under Garp's wing, Koby learns some of the Six Powers and, during the Time Skip, he becomes a Marine Captain. As revealed by Oda, Koby becomes a Rokushiki master with advanced Haki.
• Training from Hell: He and Helmeppo go through some harsh training under Vice-Admiral Garp to become strong marines in a very short time. In a flashback during the raid at Fullalead, Helmeppo told Garp that, despite the nightmarish training, Koby pushed himself even while he was supposed to rest.
• Visual Development: Koby has a drastically different appearance when he shows up during post-Enies Lobby compared to the start of the series.
• What the Hell, Hero?: Gives an absolutely epic one to the bloodthirsty Marines who are letting the casualties pile up during the war with the Whitebeard pirates, stopping the entire war for the duration. Nearly gets him vaporized by Akainu after the act.
• Worthy Opponent: Now that he's managed to become a Marine, his new goal is to become this to Luffy. He still has quite a ways to go.
• You Don't Look Like You: Besides having pink hair and having his old glasses inconspicuously perched on his forehead, he looks completely different after training with Garp.
• Younger Than They Look: Somehow manages to be this and Older Than They Look thanks to his growth spurt. After it, he looked his actual age of 16, but after the timeskip, he's come to look even older than that, appearing older than Luffy despite being a year younger than him.

Commander Hibari

Commander Hibari

Voiced by: Shiori Mikami (JP)

Debut: Chapter 1061 (Manga), Episode 1090 (Anime)

A Marine commander and a member of SWORD. She seems to be good friends with Koby and Helmeppo.

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• Big Damn Heroes: She saves Koby from some of Teach's thugs by shooting flower rounds before they can open fire on him.
• Custom Uniform of Sexy: She wears a cropped short military pocketed shirt instead of the standard Marine uniform.
• Friendly Sniper: Hibari is a sniper working for a heroic group of marines and her rifle makes the enemies' gunpowder bloom into flowers.
• Girls Love Stuffed Animals: She has a small teddy bear on the backpack she carries around which she has treasured as a good luck charm ever since she was little. She gave it the name Kopy after Koby found it on a battlefield when she lost it.
• Girly Girl with a Tomboy Streak: Hibari has a number of girly characteristics like hearts on her uniform, a small teddy bear on her backpack, and a blatant crush on Koby. She's also a trained sniper for a special unit in the military.
• Harmless Freezing: After saving Koby, she gets suddenly frozen by Kuzan. While Kuzan rarely plays this trope straight, this time he does, because Tashigi is able to thaw Hibari out none the worse for wear.
• Heart Symbol: She wears hearts on her uniform as a sign that, while a Marine commander, she's still a young girl.
• Remember the New Guy?: She's seemingly a close friend of Koby and Helmeppo, but she isn't mentioned until very late into the story.

Lieutenant Commander Helmeppo

Lieutenant Commander Helmeppo

Voiced by: Kouichi Nagano (JP), Brian Zimmerman (EN, Odex), Sean Schemmel (EN, 4Kids), Troy Baker (EN, Funi, episode 2-3), Mike McFarland (EN, Funi, episode 68+); Luis Alfonso Padilla (4Kids), Daniel Lacy (Netflix) (Latin American Spanish)

Age: 20 (Pre-Timeskip), 22 (Post-Timeskip)

Debut: Chapter 3 (Manga), Episode 2 (Anime)

^{Click here to see him before he joined the Marines}

Helmeppo is initially a coward who hides behind his father's wealth and power. Having a father who is powerful and greatly feared, he comes to shun other people and see them as lower than himself, until he learns that his father doesn't love him at all.

After being forcefully recruited into the Marine, Helmeppo befriends Koby and becomes a good person.

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• Adaptation Expansion: Episodes 68 and 69 of the anime adapt the Diary of Koby-Meppo cover story, more thoroughly fleshing out Koby's and Helmeppo's experience in the Marines than the manga did. Sadly this was the last time Toei would adapt a cover story.
• Ain't Too Proud to Beg: After Koby is kidnapped by Blackbeard, Helmeppo begs Prince Grus to send in a Seraphim to save him.
• Badass Longcoat: Wears a Marine officer's coat after the timeskip. Notably, he's one of the only Marines who actually wears his coat rather than donning it as a Coat Cape.
• Badass Normal: Not to the extent of Koby, but he has managed to go from a cabin boy to a Lieutenant Commander in a very short amount of time, and has all of the talent being able to do so suggests.
• Beauty Equals Goodness: It might be hard to call him beautiful, exactly, but after his Heel–Face Turn, character development, and growing up in the Marines, Helmeppo has gone from being gonk to having a tall lean form comparable to the attractive male characters in One Piece, a less horrendous looking hairstyle, his face is more chiseled and his clef chin is noticeably de-emphasised, as well as hiding his still squinty, untrustworthy eyes behind sunglasses so nobody can see them.
• Can't Catch Up: Afraid that he's going to lose out to Koby, especially after he learns that Koby has spontaneously developed Haki.
• Character Development: After his father kidnapped and held him hostage, Helmeppo started to lose his Spoiled Brat qualities and becomes nicer, as well as tougher.
• Combat Clairvoyance: Latest chapters revealed that he can use Observation Haki, though not as well as Koby can.
• Cool Shades: After he leveled up, he wears an odd-looking visor, signifying his newfound badassery.
• A Day in the Limelight: He and Koby star in their own cover story, "Koby and Helmeppo's Chronicle of Toil", where both find themselves involved with Morgan's escape attempt and begin to train under Garp.
• Dual Wielding: His favored weapons are a pair of large kukri knives.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: When he was a Spoiled Brat, Helmeppo genuinely loved his father and thought the feelings were reciprocated.
• Even Evil Has Standards: He bullies people and acts like an ass, but he would never murder a kid (even when he's literally holding a gun to a kid's head, he's shaking and ultimately can't go through with it). Probably why he eventually has a Heel–Face Turn.
• Face of a Thug: His small, beady eyes make him look like a haughty thug at all times, even when he's acting genuinely decently. This is likely the reason why he covers them with a visor at almost all times after concretely making his Heel–Face Turn.
• Heel–Face Turn: Started out a villainous spoiled brat, but after being taken under Garp's wing along with Koby he became a good guy.
• Heterosexual Life-Partners: With Koby — they became good friends during their early days in the Marines and are almost always seen together.
• Kick the Dog: In his first appearance, he orders a Marine soldier to throw a little girl over a high wall just because she's trespassing. Turns into a sort of retroactive Pet the Dog when it's revealed that his fathers' orders would have called for the girl's execution, child or not. By getting her out of there as quickly as possible, he may have saved her life.
• Kukris Are Kool: Zoro even remarks on his choice of weapon when they fight.
• Overlord Jr.: Started out as this. He was a sniveling jerk who does whatever he likes as his dad controls the town. He eventually realizes his dad doesn't care about him, and manages to do a Heel–Face Turn.
• Princely Young Man: The Spoiled Brat type.
• Punch-Clock Villain: Although he later changed his ways.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: Has grown to become the more reserved and sensible part of the duo he forms with Koby.
• Riches to Rags: Lost his luxurious, privileged lifestyle after his father was kicked out of the Marines. This led to Helmeppo maturing.
• Smug Snake: Originally he was a smug jerk, until he...
• Took a Level in Badass: Along with Koby, he becomes a lot tougher thanks to his training under Garp. In recent chapters, he was able to single-handly subdue and apprehend an entire pirate crew aboard a submarine.
• Took a Level in Kindness: Being reduced to a mere cabin boy enabled him to learn some much-needed humility. Notably, Helmeppo is outright sobbing when Koby is kidnapped by Blackbeard—quite a far cry from the brat who threatened him at the start of the series.
• Visual Development: Helmeppo has a drastically different appearance when he shows up during post-Enies Lobby compared to the start of the series.
• Voodoo Doll: During his Marine training, and before his Character Development, he tried to use such a doll to curse Luffy, almost certainly without any success.
• "Well Done, Son" Guy: Got over this issue with his and Koby's cover mini-arc, when his father kidnapped him, and Helmeppo stood up to him and showed him up for the bastard he truly is.
• Would Hurt a Child: Maybe. He did order a soldier to throw a little girl over a wall, but it may have been a Pet the Dog act since his father would've done something way worse.
• You Don't Look Like You: He looks completely different after becoming a Petty Officer, to the point where Luffy and Zoro don't have any idea who he is after meeting him for the first time afterwards. His Cool Shades, which cover up his distinct eyes, are a major contributor to this.

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