Characters / One Piece: Thriller Bark Pirates

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Main Character Index > Seven Warlords of the Sea > Baroque Works | Donquixote Pirates (Donquixote Doflamingo) | Thriller Bark Pirates | Kuja | Sun Pirates

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Thriller Bark Pirates

The Mysterious Four and Undead^CharactersClockwise from the top: Gecko Moria, Victoria Cindry, Kumacy, Perona, Hogback, Absalom, Lola.

"With your strength, you'll just die anyway if you continue on your voyage. You're not fit for the New World!! It seems you have a couple of good underlings... but you'll still lose all of them!! Do you know why?!! I was like you once... trusting in my famous and talented crew. But I concluded long ago that it wasn't enough!! You can never count on your crew because they are mortal!! Zombies are already dead, so they have nothing to lose!! Zombies are immortal!! Even if they are purified, they are expendable soldiers and can be easily replaced!! I will take my army of undead warriors and seize the title of Pirate King!! You should all be thankful that your shadows will become my underlings!!"

—Gecko Moria (Chapter 481)

The large force of the undead that serves the living Mysterious Four, including the Warlord of the Sea Gecko Moria. Mainly composed of hordes of Frankensteinian Zombies, created by Moria's power and divided into four categories (Wild Zombies, Surprise Zombies, Soldier Zombie and General Zombie). Alive members include Absalom of the Graveyard, chief of the General and Soldier Zombies, Perona the Ghost Princess in charge of the Wild and Surprise Zombies, Doctor Hogback and his bodyguard Victoria Cindry, and the Elite General Zombie Ryuma the Samurai with Brook's shadow. Their strongest zombie is the special model # 900, Oars the Devil.

Moria's minions all serve on Thriller Bark, a ship vast enough to pass off for an island, and the ship dwells on the foggy Florian Triangle, waiting for unsuspecting navigators to be captured and their shadows stolen in order to swell their ranks. They are the main antagonists in the Thriller Bark Arc.

Unfortunately for them, the Straw Hats happen to end up in Thriller Bark, where Moria steals Luffy's, Zoro's and Sanji's shadow to make some powerful zombies, especially Luffy's. However, once the Straw Hats fight back, Moria has to gather all the shadows upon himself and after his defeat all the shadows are freed and the zombies become lifeless corpses, leaving the Mysterious Four as the sole members of the crew, but it doesn't last long since Perona gets sent away by Kuma and Moria loses his Warlord status after the Summit War.

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In General

• Creepy Cathedral: Although not one itself, the mansion in Thriller Bark resembles a Gothic-style cathedral.
• Doing In the Wizard: Every supernatural thing on the ship from the zombies to the ghosts to the haunted portraits can all be chalked up to the admittedly supernatural Devil Fruits the Mysterious Four possess and the macabre preferences of the same.
• Haunted House: Thriller Bark itself is a giant ship that has a Gothic mansion, graveyard, and zombies everywhere.
• Shout-Out: They and the entirety of the Thriller Bark arc as a whole is a giant one to The Nightmare Before Christmas, one of Eiichiro Oda's favorite movies, as well as to many Tim Burton's works and the famous monsters of literature.
• Sorting Algorithm of Evil: Averted. With the sole exception of Gecko Moria (and only because he has been controlling Oars), Thriller Bark is much easier to deal with than CP-9.

The Mysterious Four

In General

• Elite Four: The Mysterious Four are the most highest-ranked members of the crew and have authorities over the zombies. Moria, the captain of crew, is one of them.
• Rank Scales with Asskicking: Downplayed. They have the authority over the zombies (who cannot disobey their orders), and are definitely stronger than most of the zombies, but some of the general zombies like Ryuma or Oars are even stronger than them.
• Token Human: They are the only non-zombies of Thriller Bark (not counting the inhabitants whose shadows have been stolen).
• True Companions: In spite of Moria's claim to have made this new crew to not grow attached to anyone, the Mysterious Four share a strong bond. When things start going south for them. Hogback and Absalom make the effort to take Moria when they abandon ship, and Absalom saves Moria from Doflamingo and the Pacifistas at Marineford from an execution order. Perona considers Moria like a father, and also quickly leaves Mihawk after receiving news that Moria is still alive, hoping to find him. Moria also storms Blackbeard's island by himself looking for Absalom after he went missing. When he thinks Absalom is alive, Moria is clearly happy but his mood quickly goes south when he finds out that Absalom has been killed to get his Clear-Clear Fruit.

Gecko Moria

Gecko Moria

Voiced by: Katsuhisa Houki (JP), Chris Guerrero (EN), Edson Matus (Latin American Spanish)

Age: 48 (Pre-Timeskip), 50 (Post-Timeskip)

Debut: Chapter 449 (Manga), Episode 343 (Anime)

Devil Fruit: Shadow-Shadow Fruit

"Straw Hat, you bastard... just you watch! You think you had it tough so far? You don't even know tough! But don't worry... the real nightmare's waiting for you in the New World!"

The fifth of the Seven Warlords to be formally introduced and the main antagonist of the Thriller Bark Saga. Gecko Moria is the captain of the Thriller Bark Pirates, leader of the "Mysterious Four", and resides on a massive island/ship known as Thriller Bark, where he kidnaps unsuspecting travelers and uses the power of the Shadow-Shadow Fruit (Kage Kage no Mi) to strip them of their shadows and utilizes them to raise an army of zombies. He believes the undead to be superior to the living, as they can just be replaced when destroyed and do not possess souls. This way of thinking is due to his entire previous crew the Gecko Pirates being wiped out by the Emperor Kaido one year after Roger's execution in the land of Wano.

He loses his status as a Warlord after the World Government deem him too weak to continue carrying the title following his defeat against Luffy, though this was held off until the end of the Summit War as he was needed to fight against Whitebeard's forces. In the aftermath, he is rescued by his subordinate Absalom when Doflamingo attempts to kill him on the World Government's orders.

His bounty at the time he became a Warlord was 320,000,000 berries. With his expulsion and the eventual dissolution of the organization, his bounty has been reinstated but it's unknown if it has been raised since then.

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• Acrofatic: An extremely fat vampire-like dude who has the ability to outrun Luffy. He also showed no trouble walking on one of the chains holding Oars' corpse like a tightrope to implant Luffy's shadow.
• Adaptation Dye-Job: His hair is red in the manga but purple in the anime.
• All for Nothing: Moria plans to take revenge on Kaido, who massacred his former crew, by making an army of undead soldiers. Said soldiers, along with the secret weapon Oars, are beaten by the Straw Hats and, by the end of the Thriller Bark arc, Moria's zombies don't have a shadow anymore and are simply lifeless corpses, meaning Moria's plan to take down one of the Four Emperors, after years of work, got foiled by an upstart crew who accidentally ended up in Thriller Bark. Later events would imply that even if Moria had successfully mounted an army against Kaido, he would have been no match for the Emperor's forces anyway.
• Animal Motifs: The gecko, his clothing and overall features resembling a gecko, as well as a bat.
• Arch-Enemy: Kaido is his ultimate nemesis, because Kaido killed off his entire pirate crew and mutilated him in the past.
• Arc Villain: Gecko Moria is the main villain of the Thriller Bark arc, being the captain of the titular ship the Straw Hats ends up into.
• Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever: Himself in Shadows Asgard form, after absorbing a thousand shadows.
• Badass Decay: The In-Universe reason for his expulsion from the Warlord; his defeat at Luffy's hands results in him being viewed as having undergone such. And before that, he went from being a truly major threat befitting his title to a bitter, jaded, impotent washout who relied on his zombies for everything after Kaido slaughtered his entire pirate crew.
• Bad Powers, Bad People: His Devil Fruit works by ripping off people's shadows, also leaving them without a reflection. Oh, and they disintegrate in direct sunlight. He then takes these shadows and either absorbs them to make himself stronger or makes an army of zombie slaves. Honestly, what morally good use could a power like this be put to?
• Berserk Button: When Kuma visits Moria, he's his usual arrogant self, but when Kuma implies that the World Government thinks Moria could be defeated by the Straw Hats, he flies into a rage at the accusation of his weakness.
• Bolivian Army Ending: Act 1 of the Wano arc ends with Moria surrounded by Shiryu and Catarina Devon, with Marshall D. Teach watching it play out. Moria is later revealed to have been taken captive by the Blackbeard Pirates.
• Break the Badass: Moria's backstory is an all too common tale amongst pirates; a promising rookie who looked to hit it big and become the Pirate King, only to run afoul the insurmountable walls that are the Four (well, three at the time) Emperors of the Sea. In Moria's case, he challenged Kaido in his territory of Wano and came away with nothing but Ryuuma's corpse and a catastrophic defeat that pushed him across the Despair Event Horizon.
• Brilliant, but Lazy: Moria is indeed a badass competitor worthy of his title of Warlord. He's also currently a lazy bum whose motto is "You do it!" which made him extremely rusty.
• The Bus Came Back: After being absent ever since the Summit war and Doflamingo's attempted assassination, he pops up again with a small zombie army attacking Blackbeard's base for Absalom during Chapter 925.
• Can't Catch Up: After his defeat at Kaido's hands, he spent years trying to create a superpowered army to overwhelm his hated enemy with sheer force and numbers, managing to accumulate over a thousand troops by the time he ran afoul of Luffy. Simultaneously and unbeknownst to (and uncaring of) Moria, Kaido had been doing the exact same thing, but amassing a much mightier force of artificial Zoan-type Devil Fruit users with the aid of Moria's (at the time) fellow warlord, Donquixote Doflamingo.
• Casting a Shadow: His Devil Fruit lets him manipulate shadows. He can control his own shadow and make it combat in his place, cut a person's shadow to animate a corpse or even manipulate someone else's shadow to bend his body, as he does with Oars to mimic Luffy's stretchy ability.
• Classy Cravat: Moria wears a cravat to fit his horror villain theme and make him more similar to the classic imagery of a vampire. After the time skip, Moria wears a necktie instead.
• Combat Pragmatist: When he actually bothers fighting, Moria prefers the quicker and lazy way to finish off a fight and targets injured opponents to finish them off or distracts his stronger opponents with his devil fruit powers so his minions can finish off the others.
• Creepy Child: An SBS Question Corner page showing the Warlords as kids reveals Moria was a dick even as a kid (and with horns to boot), but he was more optimistic in expression than he is now. He also mentions that he used to be a very sociable person who relied on his own strength to do things and that he had many good friends, likely within his crew as well. Kaido murdering his first crew and severely wounding him turned Moria into the lazy, zombie-mook-reliant asshole he is now.
• Dark Is Evil: The wielder of darkness powers, he's a pretty unpleasant guy.
• Determinator: For all his shortcomings, Moria is at the least a very tenacious and brave man, never giving up on his ambitions despite all the trauma and failures he suffers in his life. Mihawk himself lampshades twice Moria is a difficult person to put down.
• Dual Wielding: The scissors he uses to cut off peoples' shadows can be split in two to be used as swords. And if he absorbs the shadows of several swordsmen, he can even become a Master Swordsman himself.
• Early Installment Character-Design Difference: Moria has normal teeth during his first appearance before he's later given a mouth full of fangs.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: While he's an evil pirate, Moria deeply cared for his former crew and their slaughter at the hands of Kaido and his crew is Moria's biggest source of trauma. In the present, despite him saying that he's made a crew of zombies so he doesn't have to get attached to anyone, Moria still cares for his fellow human mates, Perona, Absalom and Hogback and he's broken when he learns of Absalom's demise.
• Evil Counterpart: To Luffy. He revealed upon being confronted by the Straw Hats that he lost his beloved True Companions in the New World at the hands of Kaido (and still holds emotional trauma upon recalling that), and upon his defeat warned Luffy about the possibility of that happening to him, which come the very next arc, nearly did. Much like Crocodile above, he seems to act as a chilling reminder of what Luffy may become if he doesn't hold onto his dreams and his friends. Also, much like Luffy, Moria legitimately cares for his crew, as seen when Moria attacked an island Blackbeard was staying on just to rescue his crewmate Absalom and was stricken upon learning Absalom had been killed.
  • He can create other evil counterparts using his Devil Fruit power. By putting a person's shadow in a zombie, the zombie will become the shadow owner's counterpart. He has made one for Brook, and later Sanji, Zoro, and Luffy (before they go back to normal that is).
• Evil Laugh: His Signature Laugh, "Kishishishi!"
• Evil Redhead: In the manga, where his hair is colored red. The anime changed it to purple.
• Evil Wears Black: Wears a long, black coat and gloves.
• Explaining Your Power to the Enemy: Subverted. When Luffy confronts him, Moria tries to demoralize him by revealing that defeating him will not free the shadows that have been implanted in his zombies; he has to voluntarily order the souls to go back to their owners. However, he neglects to mention that, after a shadow has been implanted in a body, you can forcibly take it out without Moria's permission. In the case of a zombie, you can use salt or fire to free the shadow; if Moria is the one who has absorbed the shadows, you can just beat them out of him.
• Fangs Are Evil: Somewhat reminiscent of a vampire.
• Fatal Flaw: Moria's main flaw is his laziness. He's pretty capable and intelligent but his own laziness, as a result of losing his former crew to Kaido, leads him to not improving his skills and never fight at his fullest. It leads to his defeat at the hands of the Straw Hats and, eventually, to become too weak for his Warlord status.
• Fat Bastard: In a somewhat unique example to the rest of the series, his gut and just plain weird body type aren't examples of Stout Strength. He's genuinely just out of shape.
• A Father to His Men: Implied. The loss of the Gecko Pirates courtesy of Kaido hit him hard, leading him to believe that zombie army is the way to go to prevent such loss ever again. A more direct example is when he finds out that Blackbeard's crew has killed Absalom and he can be seen holding back his tears in grief and anger.
• Flunky Boss: A non-video game example, as he prefers to have his underlings do the work for him. His first fight with Luffy has him literally sitting on his ass, laying out, and offering commentary while Luffy tried, and failed, to get past Moria's shadow.
• Foil:
  • To Luffy, as both were pirate captains who sought to become the Pirate King and dearly treasured their crews, and were devastated when their crews were cruelly torn away from them by an opponent way out of their league (Kuma/Kaido). However, the difference is that what Kuma did isn't lethal and is reversible. It's only this difference that prevented Luffy from becoming the bitter, jaded, zombie-mook-reliant and lazy washout that Moria became.
  • To Brook. Both of them lost their entire crew during their adventures. Brook had his promise to Laboon to stop him from falling into despair but Moria, having nothing left, regressed into an angry, bitter washout.
• Formerly Fit:
  • During the time of Gol D. Roger's execution, the younger Moria appeared to be rather muscular (even having a chin), befitting his fearsome visage. In his prime, he could apparently survive a battle with an Emperor, while nowadays, he's little more than a punching bag for a pirate upstart (an admittedly powerful one, but still). It's implied that this was a result of Moria falling into depression after the deaths of his crew.
  • A brief flashback added to the Wano arc in the anime shows that when he fought Kaido, Moria looked roughly in the same shape as him.
• Freudian Excuse: After his True Companions were wiped out by Kaido in Wano one year after Roger's execution, he began avoiding new attachments and surrounding himself with completely replaceable — and nigh-indestructible — zombies.
• Good Scars, Evil Scars: His entire face and neck seem to be sliced vertically in half and stitched back again. Although 20-odd years ago, he had considerably fewer stitches, implying that it's either a fashion choice or Kaido really fucked him up bad during their battle.
• History Repeats: Despite his best efforts, he loses yet another dear friend to an Emperor. At least this time he still has Dr. Hogback, wherever he is.
• Hoist by His Own Petard: His Shadow Asgard move. Yeah, it turns him into a giant and gives him more strength. But it also makes him a bigger target and collected all of the shadows in one place for the heroes. What's more since he was weakened after being pummeled during the fight against Oars, he didn't have the strength to keep them in his body, having to alternate between fighting Luffy and trying to keep the shadows from escaping which eventually leads to his defeat.
• Horned Humanoid: He's one of few One Piece characters to have some.
• How the Mighty Have Fallen: Not even taking into consideration losing his Warlord status and nearly dying because he's become too weak, just compare his present self to how he used to be, back then when he was said to be a rival of Kaido. Having all of his True Companions slaughtered and his chin torn off really fucked him up.
• Hypocritical Humor: During the Marineford Arc, he engages in combat against Jimbei and comments on how Jimbei is so fast despite being so fat. Jimbei retorts that he does not want to be called fat by the likes of Moria.
• Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: His Lizard Horn Spear impaled even a colossal beast like Oars Jr. with ease.
• Impossible Shadow Puppets: Inverted with his Shadow Revolution, in which he controls the shape of the shadow to change the shape of the body casting it, due to the fundamental law of nature that the object and the shadow must always be of the same shape. He demonstrated this by turning Oars into a Rubber Man and a giant ball.
• Inconsistent Spelling: Databook Green uses Gekko Moriah. Viz and FUNimation, and thus TV Tropes, uses "Gecko Moria".
• I Was Quite a Looker: Downplayed. Being a gigantic, white-skinned, devil-like man with horns and fangs, he was never a looker by any account, but he sure wasn't as ugly in the past as he is nowadays when you look at the extremely fat character image in his folder.
• Large and in Charge: So very much to the zombies, except for Oars.
• Last Villain Stand: By the climax of the Thriller Bark Arc, he knows he's done for. Most of his zombie army has been stopped, his secret weapon Oars has been defeated, he himself is injured, and he's surrounded by the wounded but very vengeful pirates he's stolen the shadows from for years. However, the realization that his ship is leaving the fog it once resided in, the fact that the sun is starting to rise in the east and he himself being right in the middle of his Villainous Breakdown causes him to put it all on the line and unleash his Shadows Asgard, desperately trying to buy a few more minutes for the sun to rise and at least take the ones responsible for destroying his work down with him.
• Living Shadow: He can animate his shadow, which he calls Doppelman, to fight for him while he lazes around. Doppelman doesn't take damage, its form can be changed at will, it can fly, and it can even swap places with the real Moria.
• Made of Iron: He may lack strength, but think about it: he got up after being totally pummeled by Nightmare Luffy, alias Luffy with the skills and fighting power of 100 people combined to his own. He got up (though after some time), went One-Winged Angel and then survived two Gum Gum Giant Jet Shell in a row and a falling tower before finally fainting. He may not be good in direct combat, but he surely has one hell of a stamina!
• Manchild: He spent at least half of his screen time during the Thriller Bark Arc acting like this. Then he got serious.
• Meaningful Name: "Gekko" is Japanese for "moonlight", and also sounds similar to his Animal Motif, the gecko. Moria is a very creepy and dangerous location in Middle-Earth and, with a different accent stress becomes an old Italian word indicating the deaths of many (usually farm animals) after a plague/drought. Furthermore, from "Gecko Moria" you can get the word "Komori", bat, his second Animal Motif.
• Monster Clown: The checkered trousers and ridiculous boots he wears don't exactly fit your typical image of a fearsome necromancer. Plus, the whole attitude.
• Necromancer: Revives the undead by implanting shadows of his victims within them.
• Never Be Hurt Again: His reason for using zombies instead of living people for his Thriller Bark Pirates is so he will never form attachments and then feel pain when they die off, unlike what happened when Kaido slaughtered the Gecko Pirates. It doesn't quite work, as Blackbeard killing Absalom shows.
• Nightmare Face: During his Villainous Breakdown, when he reveals his Freudian Excuse, his eyes enlarge to the point of sporting bulging veins, his pupils shrink to an incredibly tiny size and combined with his Slasher Smile it makes him look completely unhinged.
• Ninja Log: The main problem with fighting Moria is that he can swap places with Doppelman at any time.
• Non-Action Guy: As far as a Warlord (who's expected by the government to fight and defeat other pirates regularly) possibly can be. He basically sits on his ass and lets his zombies and shadow clones fight for him, and his few offensive techniques involve using his powers without himself actually having to move much (such as launching his shadow like a spear from a standing position). When he does finally go One-Winged Angel and fight head on, Luffy beats him relatively easily.
• No Ontological Inertia: Double subverted. Initially, he tells Luffy that no matter what happens to him, the shadows he stole will never return to their proper owners unless he tells them to. However, once he absorbs all the shadows for his Shadows Asgard technique, the issue is simplified down to beating them out of his bloated mouth.
• Obviously Evil: Nothing screams "I'm evil!" more than a demonic appearance. He looked even more sinister back in the day when he was thin enough to actually have a jawline, and was also Hell-Bent for Leather, apparently. Though it's implied he wasn't nearly as bad a guy back then.
• One-Winged Angel: His Shadows Asgard technique where he absorbs a thousand shadows to become monstrous. This also counts as Clipped-Wing Angel since this form can be defeated by beating the shadows out of him, and he moves sluggishly in this form. Also crosses over into The Last Dance territory. Zoro even points out that the only reason he took this form was to stall for time in the hopes that the sun would rise before he was defeated so that all the shadow-less people would be vaporized in its rays, giving him an automatic win.
• Parental Substitute: To Perona. Oda said that he found Perona when she was still a child and raised her ever since, and she loves him like a parent, enough that she'd rush to his rescue when she hears that he's been captured by the Blackbeard Pirates.
• People Puppets: His Kage Kakumei (Shadow Revolution) involves his shadow invading Oars', allowing him to contort his body to match the shape of the shadow. Raises unsettling implications on the effect of someone who wasn't a pain-less zombie.
• Personality Powers: Moria has the power to manipulate shadows. Moria, likewise, is a shadow of his former self who never managed to recover from losing his crew.
• Pet the Dog:
  • He adopted the orphaned Perona years ago and provided her with a comfy and pampered life aboard the Thriller Bark.
  • Makes his first appearance in the time skip starting a fight on one of Blackbeard's favorite islands. Why? To rescue one of his few living minions — Absalom. He's genuinely happy and relieved when he sees Absalom is alive... which makes it heartbreaking later when he learns that "Absalom" is actually Catarina Devon, while the real Absalom is dead.
• Powers Do the Fighting: He's gotten very lazy and lets his own shadow do both offense and defense for him while fighting Luffy for the first time. Only when things gets serious he fights by himself. It enters Deconstruction territory when this habit of letting his shadow fight in his place causes him to become too weak to keep his Warlord title, which is even lampshaded by Jimbei during their fight.
• Power Levels: He is probably the most notable aversion of the concept of using bounties as this. He has the second-highest bounty of the Warlords prior to his removal yet is among the weakest of their member. He might have been living up to his bounty before, though, before his bad past with Kaido. Moria himself uses shadows as a power level, guessing correctly that Luffy has used 100 shadows to become Nightmare Luffy. So to try and one up him, Moria absorbs all 1000 shadows of Thriller Bark.
• Rank Scales with Asskicking: Subverted as he used others to fight for him, and as soon as he fights, he's a glorified punching bag. It's heavily implied that he used to be far more powerful before Kaido murdered his crew and turned him into the Flunky Boss that Luffy and co. dealt with.
• "The Reason You Suck" Speech: His rant against Luffy, stating that he's going to lose all his crew in the New World in his current state. He's proven right: none of the Straw Hats before the time-skip are anywhere near as powerful as they need to be to survive even their first battle against New World enemies and not long after this speech, Kuma does annihilate the Straw Hat Pirates scattering them all across the world, while during the Summit War Luffy is completely outclassed by the other fighters and goes through a trauma almost as severe as that which broke Moria.
• Reports of My Death Were Greatly Exaggerated: Despite rumors that he's killed by Doflamingo after the Summit war, Mihawk and several others attest that he's still alive and they are proven right when he appears in Blackbeard's territory.
• Scary Teeth: Has two rows of sharp fangs that he always shows off with his Slasher Smiles which emphasize his vampiric appearance.
• Screw This, I'm Outta Here: He didn't take the announcement that he had outlived his usefulness very well, and skedaddled with help from Absalom.
• The Shadow Knows: A fundamental rule of his Shadow power is that "the shadow always corresponds with the physical body". This is why those who had their shadows stolen by him disintegrate in the sun — since they cast no shadow, then they cannot exist. Exploiting this principle allows him to invert it with his "Shadow Revolution" technique — by warping the shadow, the physical body must then conform to the new shape.
• Shadow Walker: His Doppelman can fly far away safely, then he can switch places with his shadow.
• Shaping Your Attacks: Can turn his shadow in a flock of bats, a lizard-like spear and anything else he could imagine probably...
• Slasher Smile: His sharp teeth make his smug smile all the more creepy.
• Sole Survivor: Of his first crew, the Gecko Pirates. Over twenty years later, he still greatly mourns their loss.
• Squishy Wizard: Moria's Shadow-Shadow Fruit is very strong as it allows him to revive corpses and create a copy to fight for himself, but he's also out of shape and the physically weakest Warlord.
• Stealth Pun: He could be considered a shadow of his former self.
• Superpower Lottery: Like most of his fellow Warlords. In fact, his versatile Devil Fruit was the only thing that kept him in the Seven Warlords since he's otherwise weak without it. He can take anybody's shadow by snipping it right out of the ground as though it were paper, and no matter how strong they are, they will fall unconscious for a while, allowing him to do what he wants with their shadow without getting the tar beat out of him instantly. With the power to put the shadows in any potentially powerful corpse and no limit on how many he can stuff himself with (unlike others, the original user can stuff themselves with however many shadows they want) he could very easily raise an insanely powerful undead army. His Fruit also gives him several "passive attacking" techniques (creating shadow clones of himself, creating shadow bats to pester his foes, creating zombies to fight for him, etc.), which help make someone out of shape like him formidable regardless.
• Throw the Dog a Bone: Perona manages to get Koby, and by extension SWORD, to agree to set Moria free when he's imprisoned on Fullalead.
• Took a Level in Jerkass: His SBS appearance, while having a Creepy Child vibe, is clearly the most optimistic looking of the warlords as kids; cue the present where he's an ass to everyone. Having your entire pirate crew wiped out by a Jerkass Emperor can do that to you.
• Trauma Conga Line: Loses his first crew the Gecko Pirates to Kaido, loses to Luffy, double-crossed by the World Government and left for dead by Doflamingo, and finally loses one of his closest companions to Blackbeard... yeah, Moria fits. You can't help but feel a little bad for the guy, despite what a huge Jerkass he is.
• True Companions: With his first crew the Gecko Pirates, who were all killed by the Emperor Kaido in Wano one year after Roger's execution. Even after some years after their deaths, he still thinks rather fondly of them and remembering their fates enrages him greatly.
  • It's implied that he's this to the other members of the Mysterious Four, even if he doesn't admit it: When Moria fell to Luffy, Hogback and Absalom escaped Thriller Bark with him, even though they could have abandoned him. Perona never doubted Moria's survival after the Summit war and when she received news confirming he's alive, she prepared to travel to his current whereabouts. Moria, for his part, upon hearing of Absalom's capture, responded by storming an Emperor's favorite island, despite knowing that the Emperor in question was in residence at the time, to try and rescue him.
• Underestimating Badassery: He took it as a personal insult when Kuma arrived to inform him that the WG sent him to help beat Luffy. Moria insisted he'd defeat the "Straw Hat rookies" himself. Turns out Luffy was much tougher than he anticipated, which his loss of power didn't help in the slightest.
  • He thinks that his special 900th zombie Oars will be enough to defeat Kaido. Oars was defeated by just one rookie pirate crew, let alone an Emperor and his crew of far stronger pirates.
• Used to Be a Sweet Kid: While he did give off Creepy Child vibes, he did seem to show more optimism than he does now. He also used to do things with his own power and had a lot of friends, in contrast to the present where he would make his zombies do everything for him.
• Unknown Rival: Moria hates Kaido for killing his Gecko Pirates and has spent the rest of his life preparing for the day he can finally avenge them. From Kaido's perspective, Moria was just another rookie pirate among hundreds over the years who got too big for their britches and then were crushed by the Emperors. It's likely Kaido doesn't even remember Moria given that he never talks about him once.
• Unskilled, but Strong: While Moria's Shadow-Shadow Fruit grants him many powerful abilities and enables him to make an undead army to fight for him, Moria himself is lethargic, has almost no fighting technique, and demonstrates no known Haki abilities. Possibly a Justified Trope as far as the narrative goes, as considering his Doppelman never takes damage and can swap places with Moria at the drop of a hat, a Moria with even a little Observation Haki would be far, far out of the Straw Hats' league pre-Time Skip.
• Unwitting Instigator of Doom: His theft of Ryuma's corpse and sword Shusui is seen by some residents of Wano as the catalyst for the country's decline, which ultimately ended with Kaidou and Orochi taking it over.
• Villainous Breakdown: After his strongest zombie Oars is defeated by the Straw Hats and the Rolling Pirates, who all demand that he give their shadows back, Moria snaps, ranting about how he lost his old beloved pirate crew to Kaido and how Luffy and the Straw Hat Pirates will suffer the same fate due to being too weak for the New World, all while sporting a completely unhinged and terrifying Nightmare Face. Then he absorbs everyone's shadows into his body and uses Shadow's Asgard, which provokes a Mass "Oh, Crap!".
• Villain Has a Point: In the climax of his fight with Luffy, Moria mocks him stating at his current level he would only lose everything. The Sabaody arc would prove Moria's statements to be true, as when the Straw Hats are facing the Pacifistas and Admiral Kizaru, the crew would have been killed had Rayleigh and Kuma not showed up to save them.
• Weak, but Skilled: While "weak" is a bit much, he is the least powerful Warlord, as well as the least physically fit, to the point he gets derived of his Warlord title. However, thanks to great and creative use of his Devil Fruit, still proves to be a challenge for Luffy and the entire Straw Hat crew.
• Weakened by the Light: People who have had their shadows stolen by Moria will be vaporized in the sunlight. However, if their shadow returns to them before they're completely vaporized, they'll return to normal (see Impossible Shadow Puppets).
• With Friends Like These...: Out of all the Seven Warlords (or anyone, really), he's the most cordial towards Kuma, ordering his henchmen to shut up and not bother him when he arrived on Thriller Bark and entered his mansion. Though, he quickly lost his temper with him when he explained why he came, expressed that the latter's loyalty to the World Government made him wary of Kuma and took him using his Catchphrase^note "If you're going on a trip, where would you like to go?" as a challenge to a fight.
• Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds: The reason why he's a lazy, ineffectual joke of a villain who relies on his zombies to be a threat can be chalked up to the trauma of watching Kaido slaughter his entire Gecko Pirates and his subsequent vow to never lose another person working under his flag, which is honestly a pretty understandable and compelling motivation (not to mention the fact that one of his few true friends after that incident was murdered by Blackbeard's men). He's still a complete asshole, but at the core, he's also a deeply traumatized and broken man with maladaptive coping mechanisms.
• The Worf Effect: After losing to Luffy, in the Summit War, he's one-shotted by Jimbei which shows how much weaker he has gotten compared to his fellow Warlords and gets kicked out of the group after the war.
• Yank the Dog's Chain: As much of an asshole as Moria is, he's also a genuinely broken man who never recovered from having his entire crew slaughtered on his watch and it's obvious that after this, he still genuinely cared about his inner circle and after his humiliation at the hands of the Straw Hats (and later Jimbei) and narrow escape from death at the hands of Doflamingo, he still had them. Then Absalom was murdered by the Blackbeard Pirates and had his Devil Fruit eaten. Talk about ripping open old wounds.
• You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: Doflamingo told him that the World Government wants him dead after his bad performance in the Summit War.
• Zerg Rush: His Brick Bat technique turns his shadow into a flock of bats that he sics towards his opponents to overwhelm them.
• Zombie Apocalypse: His Devil Fruit powers enable him to revive dead bodies by implanting shadows within them. When the Straw Hats shows up he has already collected roughly a thousand of them, enough to inhabit an entire island.
• Zombie Mooks: He uses his Devil Fruit power to make them in place of a traditional crew.

Absalom "of the Graveyard"

Absalom "of the Graveyard"

Voiced by: Hiroaki Miura (JP), Andrew Chandler (EN), Miguel del León (Latin American Spanish)

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

Debut: Chapter 444 (Manga), Episode 339 (Anime)

Devil Fruit: Clear-Clear Fruit

One of the Mysterious Four of Thriller Bark and leader of the Soldiers Zombies and General Zombies. He's a real pervert (to the point the zombies calls him "Ero-salom") but outside of that he's a really dedicated persona, even moreso than Hogback and Perona and is also really devoted to his boss, Gecko Moria. He has eaten the Clear-Clear Fruit (Suke Suke no Mi) which gives him the ability to become invisible and make invisible anything he touches. He also has his body modified with different animals body parts, making him much stronger.

He first "appears" on the ship where he harasses Robin and later drugs and kidnaps Nami to be his bride. Both his attempts are unsuccessful, the first one ends with him trading blows with Sanji, mad at him for both trying to marry Nami and "stealing" him the one Devil Fruit he would've eaten and, after a brief fight, he's defeated. And in the second attempt Nami wakes up and shocks him, knocking him out for good. At the end of the arc, he manages to recover and leave the island along with Hogback and an unconscious Gecko Moria.

At Marineford, he saves Moria's skin and after the two year time-skip he has become a reporter. At some point, he's abducted by the Blackbeard Pirates and killed to poach his Devil Fruit powers, with his ability going to Shiryu.

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• Altar the Speed: Justified, as Absalom's first attempt at marrying Nami results in the room being crushed and his guests killed, he orders the zombie minister to skip the unnecessary stuff and go straight to the kiss. However, Oars's rampage makes it impossible for Absalom to actually kiss the bride, and the marriage is foiled definitively by Sanji
• And Now You Must Marry Me: After he gets Nami unconscious, Absalom gets her dressed like a bride and prepares for the two to get married. Fortunately Sanji crashes the party before Absalom completes it.
• Asshole Victim: When he's killed by the Blackbeard Pirates, Moria mourns him, but given his tendency for sexual predation, it's unlikely that the reader will.
• Attention Deficit... Ooh, Shiny!: Towards Nami in a wedding dress. Results in him and Sanji both trying to make speeches, and stopping mid-speech to comment 'Oh, I thought she was an angel/goddess/siren' at multiple instances.
• Badass Longcoat: Wears a quite regal longcoat.
• Bad Boss: Played with. He lets his General Zombies come to his wedding, and seems distressed to see them all killed by Oars in one go. He's ready to punish, maim and kick his sub-ordinates when they insult him, but they do call him 'pervert' a lot, so it's reasonable, and they are zombies after all.
• Berserk Button: Don't call him a pervert. Doesn't help he has a Delayed Reaction to it sometimes, allowing for multiple instances to build up a rage.
• BFG: He has a pair of pulse-activated bazookas strapped to his arms which he turns invisible to surprise his enemies.
• Blush Sticker: Clearly seen displaying this upon ogling Nami in the shower to express intense arousal. And then one more time during their forced marriage scene, upon believing that he was indeed going to kiss her.
• Body Horror: Has allowed Hogback to cut him open and graft on pieces of animals to help his combat abilities turning him into a something reminiscent of Frankenstein's monster.
• Bunny-Ears Lawyer: Outside his perverted tendencies, he's actually a really determined and dedicated man, to the point of being arguably more competent than Perona and Hogback.
• Bus Crash: As of Chapter 925, he has been captured and killed by the Blackbeard Pirates, and Shiryu has stolen his powers.
• Combat Pragmatist: Although he possesses Super-Strength, he relies more on sneak and surprise attacks using his Devil Fruit power. Like attacking with invisible bazookas tied to his forearms or stabbing Sanji in the back.
• Dude, She's Like in a Coma: Attempts to marry Nami while she is drugged unconscious. During the second attempt, she wakes up and is not amused.
• Embarrassing Nick Name: His own zombie subordinates call him "Erosalom", naturally he doesn't like it a bit.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: While perhaps the most vile of the Mysterious Four (although Hogback is also more vile in different ways), he was still genuinely loyal to Moria and saved Moria's life. Likewise, Moria was genuinely worried about him when he went missing to the Blackbeard Pirates.
• Even Evil Has Standards: As loathsome as he is, he finds the way Perona treats Kumacy to be overly-harsh.
• Evil Counterpart: To Sanji. The two even take a break during the battle to gush over how great Nami looks in a wedding dress. Not to mention they both have the same desires, lusts and practices. Except that Absalom is actually worse, since he lacks Sanji's chivalry, and is even ready to harass the lovely young women he encounters. Hell, one of the first things we "see" him do is just that, harassing Robin on the Thousand Sunny.
• Hand Blast: His Dead Man's Hand attack looks like this, but it's actually due to a pair of bazookas he strapped to his arms that he made invisible.
• Handsome Lech: Even worse than Sanji, since he actually does the stuff that is not OK, and isn't chivalrous. He's such a pervert the zombies call him "Pervsalom".
• Hate Sink: He pretty much exists to creep the audience out. He is a perverted scumbag who uses his invisibility powers to spy on bathing women and at one point tries sexually assaulting Nami in the shower. And yet he tries to dodge Lola's advances and has the gall to call Sanji a pervert. Even Oda was shocked that people were drawing fan art of Absalom and voting for him in character polls. Few were sad to learn that he was killed off by the Blackbeard Pirates.
• Hyper-Competent Sidekick: Mostly relative, but given how lazy his boss, Gecko Moria, is and how goofy and immature his fellow Mysterious Four colleagues are, Absalom is the only one to actually organize the zombies and run the day to day operations of Thriller Bark, despite his own eccentricity.
• Hypocritical Humour: Absalom calls Sanji a pervert for wanting his Devil Fruit to peek in women's baths, something he himself is notorious for doing. In response, Sanji kicks him in the face, saying he doesn't want to hear it from him.

  Those Two Zombies: HE'S GOT A POINT!!

• I Love the Dead: Defied. When Hogback suggests Absalom he can make a zombie bride for him, Absalom refuses, saying he wants a real, living woman.
• Incredibly Lame Pun: Guilty of many of these. As Oda stated, even his sense of humour is invisible!
• Invisible Jerkass: Emphasis on the jerk part. He not only uses his powers to peep on Nami, he molests her, and it's strongly implied he's done this before.
• Intrepid Reporter: Oda confirms in SBS Volume 71 that Absalom has been reporting a lot of big news under the name "Absa" using his Devil Fruit. He was at the Battle of Marineford and he was also the one who revealed the alliances between the Supernovas.
• Invisibility: His Devil Fruit ability, allowing him to become an invisible man. He can also turn anything he touches invisible, like a pair of bazookas tied to his arms. Although Absalom preferred use of his power is to peep and harass beautiful women.
• Lecherous Licking: Upon attacking the Straw Hats for the first time, he takes advantage of the surprise to cop a feel at Robin AND lustfully lick her face and upper body.
• Made of Iron: He claims his body, which has the hide of an elephant surgically grafted to it, will shatter the legs of anyone who tries to kick him. Until Sanji comes along that is.
• Mix-and-Match Critters: Hogback added to his human body the face of a lion, muscles of a bear and gorilla, and the skin of an elephant.
• Moral Myopia: He is repulsed by Zombie Lola's attempts to force him into marriage. He then spends most of the arc trying to forcefully marry Nami while she was drugged unconscious (and this is after he all but molested her).
• "Not So Different" Remark: The zombies watching his and Sanji's fight remark that as much as Sanji tries to be noble, he and Absalom are more similar than different. One important difference is showcased, though: Absalom, unlike Sanji, is willing to involve innocents in his fights.
• Oh, Crap!:
  Sanji: With all those animals in you... you'll make formidable mince meat...
  Absalom: -becomes momentarily visible from fear, and panics, kicking Sanji violently-.
• Only Sane Man: Outside of the times he's acting like a perverted creep, Absalom is actually the most sane and normal of the Mysterious Four as well as the most competent at his job.
• The Peeping Tom: Spies on Nami in the shower. One of the reasons Sanji is mad at him. (Not because it's bad, but because he's always wanted to do it. And always wanted the Devil Fruit that Absalom ate.)
• Retired Monster: During the timeskip, he starts a new life as a reporter without any apparent regret toward his past actions.
• Shout-Out: With his Devil Fruit power and his body parts' transplant, he's a mix of the invisible man and Frankenstein's monster, fitting with the arc's references of horror.
• Skip to the End: Since he's marrying a drugged woman who wouldn't be happy if she woke up in the middle of the ceremony, he's impatient at both his wedding attempts and ask the priest to hurry up.
• Super-Strength: Has the combined muscles of a bear and gorilla and a weight of 300 kilograms thanks to all the animal parts Hogback grafted onto his body.
• Villainous Rescue: Saves Gecko Moria from his "execution" at the end of the Paramount War.
• Wedding Deadline: To make the marriage "official", Absalom decides to kiss an unconscious Nami but Oars causes the island to shake and Absalom constantly misses her, until Sanji stops the ceremony for good.
• What Is This Thing You Call "Love"?: Parodied. After Nami attacks Absalom with a lightning the latter, due to his body, is barely fazed, and thinks this is the feeling of love.
• Would Hit a Girl: In contrast to Sanji, who is almost as perverted as him, Absalom doesn't respect women and would molest or hit them without remorse. He shoves Nami against a wall when she's naked and puts her in a headlock, he also nearly blows Nami apart with his invisible arm cannons, which particularly enrages Sanji. Absalom also hits Lola when she interrupts Absalom’s second attempt to marry Nami, which angers Nami herself and makes her stand her ground against the Invisible Jerk Ass.

Doctor Hogback

Doctor Hogback

Voiced by: Hiroshi Iwasaki (JP), Marcus D. Stimac (EN), Enrique Cervantes (Latin American Spanish)

Age: 45 (Pre-Timeskip), 47 (Post-Timeskip)

Debut: Chapter 446 (Manga), Episode 340 (Anime)

"I practiced surgery for money, but all those annoying patients just kept coming to me incessantly, from all over the world! "Please save my father!" "Please save my child!" It was such a pain!!! I could save the lives of those whom no other doctor could treat!! Now can you understand why a man of my genius is in such pain?!"

—Chapter 468

One of the main antagonists of the Thriller Bark arc, Dr. Hogback was a world-famous surgeon whose skills were considered miraculous. He disappeared ten years before the beginning of the main storyline. Chopper once idolized him, and is surprised to discover he was in Thriller Bark all along. He claimed to the Straw Hats that he arrived on the island to study the zombies there. He is assisted by his zombie servant Victoria Cindry, who is prone to smashing plates and making cutting remarks, especially about him.

The crew later discovers that he was the one who helped create the zombies, and is working for one of the Seven Warlords of the Sea: Gecko Moria. He reveals to Chopper and Robin the truth of his disappearance and involvement with Moria: He hated the fame his skills as a doctor gave him, and that Victoria Cindry was a celebrity he fell in love with, but died in an accident. Depressed over the news of her death, he resigned. However, Moria contacted him with the promise of bringing Cindry back to life, and so he stole her corpse and disappeared to Thriller Bark, revived her as a zombie, and created Moria's undead army.

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• Affably Evil: Subverted. While one of One Piece's nastiest villains, he gives the Straw Hats a warm welcome and offers them a dinner. Of course, that's before they learn the truth about him.
• Bait the Dog: When the Straw Hats arrive outside his mansion, he is quite genial and welcoming of them, claiming that he has come to Thriller Bark to study the zombies and learn the nature of the boundary between life and death. It's soon revealed that he actually is the co-creator of the zombies of Thriller Bark, and the more that is learned about him, the more increasingly unpleasant he turns out to be.
• Beware the Silly Ones: The guy has some very comical moments, especially with Victoria Cindry, but he's possibly one of the most loathsome villains in the entire series. He approaches being as bad as Spandam when he delivers his Motive Rant and mistreats the zombified Cindry near the end of the Thriller Bark arc.
• Blessed with Suck: He considers his great talent as a doctor this, since it caused a lot of people to ask for his help.
• Broken Ace: Used to be a brilliant and renowned doctor, but quickly got disillusioned about his job and only cared about the money. And, after Cindry's death, he's so broken that he abandons his job.
• Broken Pedestal: To Chopper. He idolizes Hogback as a renowned doctor, but all of that goes out of the window when he learns that Hogback doesn't feel any happiness in his work except for getting the money, as well as the fact that Hogback makes zombies.
• Celeb Crush: He had one for Victoria Cindry to the point of obsession. However, he doesn't really care for her as a person, but only of her beautiful face and body.
• Cool Shades: He wears a pair of circle shades.
• Didn't Think This Through: Robin tricks Hogback into ordering her and Chopper to jump off the tower, and he, despite knowing they wouldn't obey, does. He also doesn't realize that he accidentally ordered Dog Penguin and Jigoro to jump out of the tower.
• Dr. Jerk: In his Back Story, despite his world-renowned skills as a doctor, Hogback became disillusioned with his job as more patients came to him begging for his miraculous talents. The only reason he even continued was not of a desire to help people but for the money, then he became even worse when Moria employed him. Chopper, who initially admires Hogback, calls him out after hearing his backstory and declares that he's not worthy of being called a doctor.
• Even Evil Has Standards: Hogback regularly steals corpses to turn them into obedient zombies, but even he condemns Absalom's peeping habits.
• Evil Laugh: Gives a high-pitched "Fosfosfosfosfos!" Changed to "hos hos hos!" in the French version.
• Expy: He's a Mad Doctor who makes corpses ready to be revived into zombies, do we need to add more?
• Fangs Are Evil: Hogback has a long pair of vampiresque canine that complete his evil appearance.
• Fat Bastard: Hogback's phisique is based off the Penguin from Batman Returns, and is a corrupted doctor who uses his medical skills to make living corpses.
• Foil: Hogback contrasts Dr. Hiluluk. Hogback used to be a brilliant and renowned doctor, who doesn't care about his patients but only about the money, and got quickly tired of his job. Dr. Hiluluk was a Back-Alley Doctor and a terrible one, but still kept doing his "job" despite all his failures even when the others didn't want him to, simply because he wanted to help the others. Also, Chopper used to admire Hogback until his true colors are revealed, while Hiluluk is his mentor and Chopper considers him "the greatest doctor of the world".
• A God Am I: Boasts to have achieved a skill in medicine that doctors could only dream of: mastery of life and death, through the creation of the zombies at Thriller Bark.
• Gonk: His appearance is as nasty as his personality. He's got a round body with slim limbs and a vampire-like face with a long nose.
• Kick the Dog: He orders the zombified Cindry to kneel, kicks her and orders her to lick the floor just to prove how she obeys every order he gives. He then admits that he does not care for Cindry's personality, only the beauty she had. These words and actions disgust Chopper, who loses any respect he had for the mad scientist.
• Mad Doctor: He was once an O.K. doctor, until he became disillusioned with his work and when his idol Cindry died. Then he met Moria, who promised him to give him a way to bring Cindry back if he worked under him to make zombies.
• Made of Iron: Despite not having any inhuman ability, he somehow survives Oars stomping on him.
• Morality Pet: Victoria Cindry, when she was alive. She was the only patient of his that he cared for, and he even had a crush on her. However, she turned down his offer to marry her, as she was already engaged, and shortly thereafter had an accident and died. This made Hogback twisted in his pursuit to conquer all ailments, even death itself. Downplayed, because he just cared about her appearance and not about Cindry herself. Completely averted with zombie Cindry, who he considers just a mere object of his possession.
• Non-Action Guy: Hogback has no combat skills of his own, so, when Chopper and Robin face him, he lets Cindry, Dog Penguin and Jigoro fight for him.
• Only in It for the Money: Hogback reveals that he didn't care for his patients and became a doctor just to become rich and famous. Chopper is not pleased to learn that his idol is nothing but a greedy person.
• Screw This, I'm Outta Here: After accidentally ordering Jigoro and Dog Penguin to jump from the tower, he decides to run away and orders Cindry to buy him some time, but she doesn't obey.
• Signature Laugh: His laughter is a high-pitched "fosfosfosfos!"
• Stalker with a Crush: He's so obsessed with Cindry that his room is filled with pictures of her.
• Start of Darkness: While he was never a nice person, Cindry's rejection and her later death are what caused him to become a Mad Doctor who changes corpses into zombies.
• Too Dumb to Live: Really wasn’t a smart idea to keep badmouthing zombie Cindry when her already shaky obedience was his only hope while pinned under rubble with Oars approaching...
• Unexplained Recovery: Oars accidentally stomped on him while he was pinned under rubble and unable to escape. By the end of the arc, he’s alive with only minor injuries.

"Ghost Princess" Perona

"Ghost Princess" Perona

Voiced by: Kumiko Nishihara (JP), Felecia Angelle (EN), Jessica Ángeles (Latin American Spanish)

Age: 23 (Pre-Timeskip), 25 (Post-Timeskip)

Debut: Chapter 443 (Manga), Episode 338 (Anime)

Devil Fruit: Hollow-Hollow Fruit

"Horororo...this should be fun! Well, for me at least."

^{Click here to see her Post-Time Skip appearance}

"If you weren't cute, you wouldn't even have the right to serve me! Horo Horo Horo Horo!"

—Chapter 449

One of the Mysterious Four of Thriller Bark, who commands the Zombie Animals and Ambush Zombies of the island ship. She has eaten the Hollow-Hollow Fruit (Horo Horo no Mi), that allows her to create ghosts as well as sending out an astral projection of herself (at the cost of having to keep her body still). During the Thriller Bark caper, she was defeated by Usopp and later blasted off the island to Gloom Island by Bartholomew Kuma. Zoro soon joins her and they reach a truce in regard to their situation. Helps guide Zoro back to Sabaody two years later so he can reunite with the rest of the Straw Hats, even keeping the Marines at bay so they can escape. Then, she goes back to Gloom Island and stays there with Dracule Mihawk in his mansion.

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• Adaptational Curves: Pre-timeskip Perona is actually less buxom than most One Piece women, but flashbacks of her in the anime as well as the video game One Piece: Burning Blood conspicuously give her a much more pronounced bust. Subverted for her post timeskip design though, since her new figure in the manga actually does match those proportions.
• Astral Projection: One of her Devil Fruit's powers is to separate her own spirit from her body, although this leaves said body vulnerable. She can also make her projection huge.
• Bad Boss: She constantly tells her extremely loyal bodyguard Kumacy to stop talking because his voice isn't cute.
• Bare Midriffs Are Feminine: Her first outfit has a cropped blouse that exposes her stomach and which, aside of complimenting her gothic lolita look, communicates her feminine and childish personality. After the time-skip, however, she wears a full dress, which shows how much she's matured over the years.
• Be Careful What You Wish For: Kuma sends her to the exact sort of place she wanted to escape to when he "pushed" her, a beautifully dark castle. Except there are no servants to tend to her whims like there were on Thriller Bark. Also, despite that, it's not vacant as it's the home of Dracule Mihawk.
• Big "SHUT UP!": To Kumacy whenever he speaks, demanding he remain silent. Unfortunately, this prevents him from letting her know about Brook's first appearance on Thriller Bark and that Usopp, Nami, and Chopper are hiding inside him.
• Corner of Woe: Her more common attack, the Negative Hollow, makes anyone negative about him/herself through a contact with the ghost, forcing the target into one.
• Cowardly Boss: As soon as Usopp reveals he's immune to her Devil Fruit and defeats her minions, Perona runs away because "[it] isn't fun anymore." Usopp chases her until he eventually has to fight her in her bedroom.
• Curb-Stomp Battle: Tries to fight Kuma despite knowing his strength. He instantly sends Perona away before her negative hollows could touch him.
• Cute, but Cacophonic: She's a cute girl, but her voice can get pretty high-pitched and loud, and let's not get into her laugh...
• Cute Ghost Girl: Subverted in that she's not actually a ghost, but is able to control ghosts. Although she can become one via astral projection.
• Cuteness Proximity: Has a great love for cute animals, it's not a coincidence she's the leader of the animal-looking wild zombies.
• Dark Magical Girl: She's assertive and likes to fight (as long as she's not in any physical danger) but she's also incredibly lonely and longs for companionship. Part of her Heel–Face Turn is based around finally warming up to Zoro simply due to time and proximity and ending up as Mihawk's sidekick of sorts.
• Elegant Gothic Lolita: Both of her pre- and post-timeskip outfits follow lolita fashion, fitting her ghastly, gothic nature.
• Emotion Bomb: The "Negative Hollow" is a "Despair" type. Whoever gets hit by it will be afflicted with negative thoughts about themselves and sit in a Corner of Woe.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Despite mistreating him most of the time, Perona really cares for Kumacy and is upset when Sogeking purifies him. She also starts to cry upon reading of Gecko Moria's presumed death. In an SBS Oda revealed that Perona was raised by Moria since a young age and she views him like a father.
• Flight: She's almost always seen levitating and moves around flying most of the time, especially post-timeskip where she seems to have obtained more power.
• Girlish Pigtails: She has a pair of huge twintails pre-timeskip, to emphasize her childish personality. She now wears a more womanly hairdo.
• Girls Love Stuffed Animals: She used to have a teddy bear and has asked Hogback to make a zombie with the same appeareance (Kumacy, her servant). She's really upset when Sogeking purifies him. After the two year time skip, she has the teddy bear again and, visiting the now abandoned Thriller Bark, she's happy to find Kumacy's body.
• Girly Girl with a Tomboy Streak: Her interests are incredibly girly, but her speech patterns are incredibly masculine.
• Goth Girls Know Magic: She's lonely, wears Gothic Lolita clothing, and can use her Devil Fruit powers to create ghosts.
• Happily Adopted: Oda revealed in an SBS that Moria found Perona when she was a child and has raised her since then. Because of this, she views him as a father figure. While her actions abandoning the crew can be considered questionable on how much she cares for her adoptive parent, she tries to take out Kuma on behalf of Moria before she leaves. Perona is deeply saddened when she hears of Moria's presumed death but strongly believes he's still alive. She's very happy to learn that Moria is still alive and leaves Mihawk in a hurry after reading a news article that implies bad news for Moria.
• Hates Being Alone: Although she gets her wish fulfilled when sent to a creepy castle, she's deeply upset that it's mostly unpopulated by other humans. When Zoro arrives she's overjoyed at having some company.
• Having a Blast: Can create explosive "mini-ghosts" that blow up at her command. The burst caused by only one of these is strong enough to damage granite walls.
• Heel–Face Turn: Thanks to Kuma, being alone and in need of company results in her befriending Zoro when he lands there too. After the time-skip she even helps the Straw Hats escape from Sabaody Park when the Straw Hats reunite.
• High-Heel–Face Turn: The only girl of the Mysterious Four and the only one to turn over a new leaf (not that she has much choice, given the situation in which Kuma has thrown her).
• Huge Guy, Tiny Girl: After being sent to Mihawk's island, Perona ends up living with him. However, Mihawk dwarfs her at 6'6 while she stands only 5'2.
• I Choose to Stay: At the end of the Thriller Bark arc, she got expelled by Kuma to Kuraigana Island and chose to remain there with Mihawk in his mansion. She's now helping him with the tilling of his island.
• Intangibility: Her Devil Fruit gives her the ability to float and be intangible, just like a ghost. Subverted when it's revealed to be an Astral Projection while her real body is elsewhere.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: She's a bratty, pampered and childish young lady that can be a lot to handle. But her interactions with Zoro after Thriller Bark show that she's capable of feeling concern for others. And she is genuinely grateful to Moria for giving her a home and a comfty life.
• Mad Bomber: She really enjoys using her explosive Mini-Hollows in her fight with Usopp.
• Nigh-Invulnerable: Though not a Logia-user, her Devil Fruit allows her to project an intangible ghost that she can use her powers through. Her real body is still vulnerable, though.
• Nightmare Fetishist: She finds zombie-stuffed animals adorable.
• Non-Standard Character Design: Her eyes are completely round, with only a few eyelashes visible at the bottom, and instead of colored irises like most female characters, she has large black dots that gain concentric circles when she's shocked, essentially an enlarged version of the male iris design.
• Odd Friendship: She's a childish young woman who bonds with the serious and mature Zoro and Mihawk; however, it's Justified since she had nobody else to be with for those two years. As a cover story shows, she even chooses to go back with Mihawk after Zoro leaves.
• Oh, Crap!: Perona completely scared when Usopp uses her katsaridaphobia (fear of cockroaches) against her and submerges her of cockroaches and weeps like a scared child. She has a more serious scared reaction when she sees Kuma has arrived on Thriller Bark.
• Older Than They Look: She's currently twenty-five years old. This trope is more so in play before the Time Skip though, where she's 23 but her manner of dress and bratty attitude make it easy to mistake her for a teenager. She's also only 5'2, and therefore one of the shortest humans in the series.
• Parasol of Prettiness: She has a pink parasol with eyes and a pair of horns, to go with her gothic lolita design.
• Perky Female Minion: She becomes Mihawk's quirky companion post-timeskip, which is quite a feat given how reclusive Mihawk usually is.
• Perky Goth: She's always a goth-esque character but, especially pre-timeskip, her personality is more cheerful and her outfit features a lot of pink.
• Pink Means Feminine: As the only female member of the Mysterious Four and a classically cutesy young lady, pink is heavily emphasized in her design from her hair to her attire.
• Raised by Orcs: Raised by Gecko Moria and views him as a father figure, to the point of breaking into tears after hearing about his supposed death. With her cruel demeanor, you have to wonder if Moria rubbed some of his personality and values off on her... or if he just spoiled her.
• Red Baron: Her epithet "Ghost Princess", because of her ghost-themed Devil Fruit that allows her to create spirits.
• Regal Ringlets: Post time-skip her hair gets curled, making her looking more regal.
• Remote, Yet Vulnerable: By creating a ghostly projection of herself, she can attack at high distances but her body is left defenseless. For this reason she resorts hiding her body in her bedroom while she fights.
• Semantic Superpower: The Hollow-Hollow Fruit lets Perona create and control ghosts, even her own spirit. And there doesn't seem to be a limit to the attributes of these ghosts as she control anything from their size, tangibility, and even volatility. The only limit displayed is that she can't control other people's spirits, at least not directly save for Negative Hollow affecting others' emotions.
• Signature Laugh: Her laugh "Horohorohorohoro!" Fitting with her Devil Fruit, the Horo Horo no Mi.
• The Smurfette Principle: Among the Mysterious Four, she's the only female.
• Squishy Wizard: Though she can do an amazing variety of things with her power, she is unused to being directly attacked and goes down almost immediately when Usopp finally finds her.
• Superpower Lottery: With her Negative Hollows, she can make anyone depressed about themselves by just a contact with the ghosts (unless they are already very negative about themselves), this regardless of their strength.
• Swiss-Army Superpower: The Hollow-Hollow Fruit gives her incredible versatility: she can create projections of herself, including gigantic one, create ghosts that few if any people have a defense against (she can directly attack people's emotional states, something that nobody else has proven themselves capable of) and explosive ghosts, and she can do it without ever exposing herself to danger. And who's to say that she couldn't create other types of ghosts?
• Throw Down the Bomblet: Perona's Mini Hollow attack creates miniature ghost bombs that explode when she snaps her fingers.
• Token Good Teammate: Of the Mysterious Four, she lacks the detestability of Hogback and Absalom or the obsession with power of Moriah. She's also the first of the four to make a proper Heel–Face Turn when she befriends Zoro and helps him reunite with his crew.
• Weaksauce Weakness: Her Negative Hollows don't work if the target is already exceedingly negative.
• Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: She hates cockroaches (katsaridaphobia), a trait Usopp capitalizes on during his fight against her.
• Wild Take: Makes the famous "Enel-face" when she realizes Usopp is immune to her negative hollows.
• Womanchild: Though she's in her twenties, she acts more like a preteen, being obsessed with cuteness and covering her room with pink. She also loves cute things and wants to rule over a nation of them. After the time-skip, she grows a more mature persona.

Zombies

In General

• Blind Obedience: After a while, all zombies lose will and personality and become fully obedient to their masters, even if the order is detrimental to themselves.
• Copied the Morals, Too: A side-effect of their creation has them inheriting the personality and morals of their shadow's original owners, such as the zombie created from Sanji's shadow inheriting his policy to never kick a woman, Zoro's inheriting his principles about being a swordsman, and Oars inheriting Luffy's desire to be King of the Pirates. This makes them difficult to control in their early state, but it's downplayed in that most of these personality traits eventually vanish and the zombies become completely loyal to Moria and his officers.
• Conservation of Ninjutsu: When they fight in hordes, they are easily dealt with, but the ones who face the Straw Hats single-handedly prove to be a threat.
• Dropped a Bridge on Him: All the general zombies are quickly destroyed by Oars once the latter is revived.
• Elite Mook: The General Zombies, an immortal army of powerful warriors, mercenaries, pirates, assassins, knights and snipers, immune to pain. They also have the good sense of carrying around water buckets in case they're attacked with fire.
• Feel No Pain: All the zombies cannot feel any pain. Ironically, they can feel tired.
• Mix-and-Match Critters: Many Wild Zombies and some General Zombies.
• Moveset Clone: The zombies to their shadow's original owners, since they copy their fighting style and (at first) their personality.
• Our Zombies Are Different: Thriller Bark's "zombies" are corpses with other people's shadows injected into them, inheriting their personalities which are slowly erased, but eventually go Brainwashed and Crazy, becoming loyal soldiers. So essentially they're not zombies, but suffer an undead "Freaky Friday" Flip with amnesia while the original hosts become fatally vulnerable to sunlight.
• Replacement Goldfish: All of them are this for Moria's old crew, which was killed by Kaido years before the beginning of the story. Moria says he basically created an immortal crew which he doesn't need to grow attached to.
• Spooky Painting: Some of the Surprise Zombies are stitched inside painting frames and can pop out of them.
• Weaksauce Weakness: Salt. If a Zombie swallows salt the shadow is removed and goes back to the rightful owner.
• Zombie Apocalypse: Played for laughs and not taken seriously. What Measure Is a Non-Human? is however taken seriously at least with Chopper.
• Zombie Gait: Parodied by the Soldier Zombies, who at first move like this... then suddenly sprint forward at full speed. Only to stop after a few seconds to catch their breath.

General Zombies

Oars "The Devil"

Oars "The Devil" (Zombie 900)

Voiced by: Mayumi Tanaka (JP), Colleen Clinkenbeard (EN), Ayari Rivera (Latin American Spanish)

Age: 159

Debut: Chapter 456 (Manga), Episode 350 (Anime)

"I will become... the Pirate King!"

—Chapter 458

A humongous Giant from a clan known for its evil nature and who rampaged throughout the world 400+ years ago, only to die of the cold in the Northern Continent, his body was found by Gecko Moria and was redesigned by Dr. Hogback to be Special Zombie #900.

When Moria steals Luffy's shadow, and put it inside Oars. Moria feels that he has found the perfect zombie to become Pirate King with, but after a incredible battle with the Straw Hat Pirates, Oars is crippled, and his shadow eventually finds its way back to Luffy, re-dying once more. However, before he died centuries ago, he had at least one child, and his name lives on with his grandson Little Oars Jr.

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• Achilles' Heel: Oars' right arm had to be surgically reattached by Dr. Hogback, so it's permanently weaker than his left arm. The Straw Hats are able to focus their efforts on that arm until Luffy is ready for the finishing blow, whereby then Oars loses all control of his arm and cannot block the Giant Bazooka.
• Acrofatic: The Straw Hats are often shocked by how easily he can avoid attacks, given that he’s over 200 feet tall and fairly portly.
• Ambiguously Human: Most Giants seen in the series look like super-sized humans, but Oars is much bigger and looks more like a titanic demon in looks.
• Ass Kicks You: Gomu Gomu no Butt Stomp, in which he crushes his enemies with his butt. It's his own original invention.
• Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever: He's huge, four times the size of normal giants, and was the largest character introduced in One Piece (before Sanjuan Wolf steals this title).
• Attention Deficit... Ooh, Shiny!: He gets fooled quite easily. Luffy's fault.
• Barbarian Long Hair: He has messy blonde hair that goes down to his waist.
• Big Eater: After being resurrected, he spends a lot of time eating. Again, Luffy's fault.
• Big Red Devil: Whether or not this was intentional, his appearance is somewhat Satanic, and he was known as "The Devil".
• Curb-Stomp Battle: The start of his battle against the Straw Hats is completely on his side. The Straw Hats manage to put up a good fight and topple him a good amount of times once they have caught their Heroic Second Wind, but then start falling one by one again when Moria shows up and controls Oars. He's later on the reciving end against a Luffy powered by 100 shadows, until Luffy's body releases them.
• The Dragon: To Moria, he's his strongest zombie and the enemy faced last besides Moria himself.
• Dumb Muscle: Having Luffy's shadow fueling him doesn't help his case, but he was a dumbass even in life, as he went into a cold region and died because all he wore was a loincloth. He still has the strength you'd expect from an humongous creature like him.
• Exposed to the Elements: Oars died because he went to an extremely cold environment with nothing but a loincloth, resulting in him freezing to death.
• Fat Bastard: He's very fat (to the point that Moria put a "cockpit" in his belly), and he was once feared as a monstrous figure.
• Feel No Pain: As a result of being a zombie, he doesn't feel any pain, making him even harder to stop because doesn't flinch from any attack, but this comes back to bite him when he fails to realize how serious the injuries he's taking are. When his spine is broken, Oars doesn't even realize why he can't move.
• God Guise: It's said that in his past, his followers worshiped him as a God.
• The Heavy: He's not only The Dragon to Moria, but also the toughest and most active threat to the Straw Hats during the Thriller Bark arc. By comparison, Moria is a much weaker foe, even after absorbing all of the shadows in Thriller Bark.
• Horned Humanoid: He's got a big pair of horns to go with his Oni look. Though they're not quite so useful when one falls down on them, though.
• Implacable Man: Bordering on The Juggernaut, all the Straw Hats fight him and they he goes down only after a long and wearysome fight which involves breaking his spine so he cannot move anymore.
• Kill It with Ice: He died because of the cold and Moria found his body completely frozen.
• Lightning Bruiser: Not only he's as strong and tough as you'd expect from a giant of his size, with Luffy's shadow as his power, he's almost just as fast as he is, given his much larger frame.
• Loincloth: It bites him in the ass when he reaches an Arctic region.
• Made of Iron: As a gigantic zombie that doesn't feel pain, Oars endures everything the Straw Hats send at him. To defeat him, they have to make sure he cannot move anymore.
• Offstage Villainy: In his past, Oars led an army of his clan that took over islands and kingdoms, but when he is seen in the present, it's as his Zombie self.
• Our Giants Are Bigger: Oda states that he's a giant much bigger than the average one in the same vein there are humans much larger than the average human. It's shown that he's four times the size of a normal giant.
• Person of Mass Destruction: Considering he's 100 feet or so tall, he destroys buildings as easily as a normal sized person destroys Lego structures.
• Psychopathic Manchild: Man-child comes from his personality gained from Luffy; Psychopathic comes from the fact that he does whatever he wants, even beating up people for no reason.
• Rapid-Fire Fisticuffs: Luffy's Gomu Gomu no Gatling is one of the few attacks he can imitate. (Without the stretching however...)
• Red Baron: "The Continent Puller", as he "dragged whole islands" to his kingdom to form a giant domain all for himself.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: A red one for Nightmare Luffy's blue. He's got the same personality as Luffy (at the beginning) while Nightmare Luffy is serious and stoic.
• Rubber Man: Sort of. While he himself has no such abilities, with Gecko Moria controlling his shadow his limbs can stretch like Luffy's.
• Spanner in the Works: Before he finally comes under Moria's full control, Oars ends up doing random things that ends up hindering all of Thriller Bark. Perona's Negative Hollows would have caught five of the Straw Hats, but Oars just happened to crash through the stairway, scattering everyone. He also single-handedly defeated all of the General Zombies, robbing Moria of some of his best fighters.
• Too Dumb to Live: Oars died from heading into a cold region wearing naught but a loincloth. Then again, Oars. Jr was quite grateful for the hat Ace made that protected him from the elements, so it could be that Oars simply couldn't find any protective clothing his size. Still, even if that was the case, he probably could have left for warmer waters before he started getting frostbite.
• Ungrateful Bastard: Played for laughs when Moria asks him to be his Dragon and he ignores him while having fun on his "adventure".
• Unwanted Assistance: Invokes this toward Moria should he do anything more than help him stretch.
• Vocal Dissonance: Luffy retains his usual voice in this body.

Ryuma

Shimotsuki Ryuma

Voiced by: Chō (JP), Yoshimasa Hosoya (JP, Monsters anime) Ian Sinclair (EN), Robbie Daymond (EN, Monsters anime), Óscar Flores (Latin American Spanish)

Age: 47

Debut: Chapter 448 (Manga), Episode 342 (Anime)

"Yohohoho!"

"The famous blade of the legendary samurai... Shusui! With you as its master, this blade will surely be satisfied."

—Chapter 467

A very powerful samurai from the Wano Country who has become legendary for having killed a dragon. He's also the protagonist from Oda's previous one-shot Monsters from Wanted! (1998), which is canonically part of One Piece's story. After his death, Gecko Moria took his corpse and revived him as a General Zombie with Brook's shadow, making him one of Thriller Bark's strongest zombies. His zombie number is unknown but is likely in the 800s series due to being a general zombie.

Brook tries to get back his shadow twice, but due to his weaker body, Ryuma wins both fights, and after the second victory he tries to cut his afro but is stopped by Zoro. He engages in a duel with the swordsman, which he then loses and gives up his precious sword Shusui to its new master.

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• Actually, I Am Him: Inverted in Monsters. He expresses a desire to duel "the swordsman king" who is said to be the greatest swordsman in the land. After he kills the dragon and leaves town, one of the residents remembers that the title "swordsman king" is what people decided to call Ryuma after he saved them.
• Absurdly Sharp Blade: Being a very strong samurai, Ryuma can casually slice stone walls with his sword.
• Affably Evil: Despite being revived as a zombie and thus being loyal to Gecko Moria, he still keeps his sense of honor.
• Back from the Dead: Moria revives him using Brook's shadow, however, the revived Ryuma doesn't identify with the original.
• Blade Lock: Due to using the same moves as Brook, when fighting the two blades often clash together. And, when alive, he beheaded a dragon with just one hit.
• Canon Immigrant: He's originally a character from Monsters, a one-shot story Oda wrote 2 years before he started One Piece.
• Charles Atlas Superpower: He killed a giant dragon with just one hit. Even as an undead, he's very strong.
• Climbing Climax: During his fight with Zoro they start to climb the tower until the fight ends with the two swordsmen fighting on the roof.
• Curb-Stomp Battle: Ryuma only needs a fraction of his strength to defeat Brook.
• Evil Counterpart: Due to having Brook's shadow, he has a near-identical fighting style and a similar personality, including the same Signature Laugh, which in Ryuma's case borders with Evil Laugh. Unlike Brook, who is a Straw Hat's ally and eventual crew member, he's a zombie of Gecko Moria's crew.
• Evil Laugh: His laugh is a mockery of Brook's "yohohoho!", which from Ryuuma sounds like "Yohohahaha!"
• Famous Ancestor: An SBS reveals Ryuma is the ancestor to the Shimotsuki Family of Wano. Among them include Shimotsuki Kozaburo, the man who forged Zoro's sword, the Wado Ichimonji, and Kozaburo's own descendants: his son Koushiro and his granddaughter Kuina. A later SBS reveals this also includes Zoro himself, who is the grandnephew of the former Daimyo of Ringo, Shimotsuki Ushimaru, through Ushimaru's older sister Furiko.
• Generation Xerox: During the Wano arc, many of the natives remark that Zoro uncannily resembles Ryuma. On top of the physical resemblance, Ryuma was also a one-eyed samurai. They also share similar fighting styles and codes of honor, due to Zoro being trained by one of Ryuma's descendants. Zoro even cuts off the head of a dragon at Punk Hazard, like Ryuma did in legend. This resemblance is one of the main reasons why many Wano natives eventually come to hold Zoro in such high regard. Unsurprisingly, Zoro turns out to also be his descendant, furthering the parallels.
• Graceful Loser: Played With. Ryuma recognizes his defeat and even gives Zoro his sword, but comments about being ashamed for having allowed this samurai's body to suffer defeat.
• I Am Not Left-Handed: Upon seeing his fight with Zoro, Brook notices that Ryuma has used only a portion of his strength when fighting him.
• Irony: When alive, he heard of a warrior known as King, and thought he could be a Worthy Opponent for him, but didn't know that was how the people he saved called him.
• Katanas Are Better: His weapon, Shunsui, is a katana, which he then hands to Zoro. Justified, as he comes from Wano, the local equivalent of Ancient Japan.
• Kill It with Fire: Zoro defeats him setting him on fire with Flying Dragon Blaze (Hiryu Kaen).
• Legendary in the Sequel: Played with, since One Piece isn't exactly the sequel of Monsters (it's just that the one-shot takes place in the same world much earlier). In the one-shot story, he was already famous (though he didn't know), but by the time of One Piece's story, he has become a legend in his country.
• Master Swordsman: He was considered "the world's strongest swordsman" when he was alive, and even as a zombie manages to be a little challenge for Zoro.
• Mirror Match: Ryuma fights twice against Brook and, while he looks different, he uses the same moves because he has his shadow. He wins both matches because he has a stronger body.
• National Weapon: Kin'emon mentions that Ryuuma's Shunsui is Wano Country's national treasure. When Zoro infiltrates in Wano, he gets caught because they immediately recognize Shunsui.
• Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot: He's a zombie samurai revived using a pirate's shadow.
• One Degree of Separation: Downplayed. After he's revived as a zombie by Gecko Moria using Brook's shadow, Ryuma is defeated by Zoro, the best friend of his descendant Kuina, and who also wields a sword that was forged by her grandfather, another of Ryuma's descendants. Then it turns out Zoro is also his descendant.
• Perpetual Poverty: When alive, Ryuma had poor money management skills, so he often found himself in need of money.
• Person of Mass Destruction: During his duel with Zoro, they both casually slash walls and destroy the building. Brook even comments they both use the "power of destruction".
• Razor Wind: Ryuma can generate cutting wind with the sword strong enough to slice walls.
• Red Baron: Along with the title of "King", he later became known as "Sword God" due to his unrivaled skill with a blade.
• Samurai: Being a warrior from Wano Country (which is based on feudal Japan), Ryuma used to be a samurai when he was alive. Moria resurrects him as a zombie samurai.
• Scarf of Asskicking: Wears a blue scarf around his neck and is a samurai legendary for his sword-skills.
• Signature Laugh: Having Brook's shadow, he has his famous "Yohohoho"!
• Take Up My Sword: After being defeated, Ryuma willingly parts with Shuusui and gives it to Zoro, whom he considers a worthy owner.
• Tranquil Fury: In Monsters, he was absolutely enraged when he learned the truth about the dragon incident and heard Flare breaking down in tears.
• World's Best Warrior: When alive, he was believed to be the world's best swordsman.
• Worthy Opponent: Considers Zoro a true warrior to the point he believes Shunsui's soul would be satisfied to serve under him.
• You Are Already Dead: He uses Brook's Hanauta Sanchou: Yahazugiri on Brook himself.

Jigoro "of the Wind"

Jigoro (Zombie 850)

Voiced by: Kazuya Nakai (JP), Christopher Sabat (EN), Alfredo Gabriel Basurto (Latin American Spanish)

Age: 59

Debut: Chapter 452 (Manga), Episode 346 (Anime)

A General Zombie who's revived with Zoro's shadow. While alive, he was a famous swordsman who killed a thousand pirates to defend his family. As a zombie, at first he's a proud and arrogant warrior, until he turns into a zombie fully devoted to his masters.

He fights (with Hogback, Cindry and Dog Penguin) against Robin and Chopper, until Hogback accidentally orders him and Dog Penguin to jump out of the tower, and they do.

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• Disney Villain Death: Jumps out of the tower after Hogback accidentally orders him to do so.
• Dual Wielding: Just like Zoro, he fights with three swords, with the third one in his mouth, and uses his same moves.
• Enemy Civil War: After having accidentally attacked Dog Penguin, the latter attacks him back, and the two begin a quarrel in the middle of a fight.
• Non-Indicative Name: Jigoro's nickname, aka Jigoro "of the Wind". It's not clear why he's called that way and he doesn't show anything that can be related to the wind.
• No Sense of Direction: It shouldn't be surprising, from a zombie with Zoro's shadow.
• One-Man Army: He killed a thousand pirates when alive, and it's safe to say, considering his shadow's owner, that zombie Jigoro is as much strong.
• Papa Wolf: In life, Jigoro sliced 3000 pirates and more just to protect his family.
• Razor Wind: Just like Zoro, he uses the 108 Pound Phoenix technique and makes sharp air slashes.
• Smug Super: He's very proud of his ability as a swordsman, though he loses his pride along with his emotions after slowly losing his personality.

Tararan

Tararan

Voiced by: Kazunari Tanaka (JP), Todd Upchurch (EN), Eduardo Martínez (Latin American Spanish)

Debut: Chapter 452 (Manga), Episode 346 (Anime)

One of the General Zombies. He's a giant, literal spider monkey that has the job to capture ships using his web. His zombie number it's unknown but, considering he's a general zombie, it's probably a number in the 800s series.

He fights Franky and Nico Robin until Brook arrives, defeats and purifies him.

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• All Webbed Up: He can create huge and resistant web with the purpose to block other ships so that its crewmember's shadow are used to make new zombies. He's the one who blocks the Thousand Sunny at the beginning of the arc.
• Attack Its Weak Point: After enduring Franky's and Robin's attacks, Brook manages to cut him by hitting his weak spot.
• Eye Scream: Downplayed. During their clash, Robin slaps his eye, hurting him. Then Tararan makes the situation worse by accidentally putting his own web into both his eyes.
• Giant Spider: Tararan is giant spider with the head, hands and tail of a monkey. Even his subordinates, the spider-mice, are giant spiders, albeith much smaller than him, with the head and tail of a mouse.
• Large and in Charge: Tararan is a huge spider-monkey zombie and, not only is he a general zombie, therefore one of Thriller Bark strongest ones, but he also commands an army of smaller spider-mice which he sends against Franky and Robin.
• Made of Iron: Hogback modified all of his threads to make them immune to most sword attacks. Tararan himself also endures an heavy beatdown from Franky.
• The Minion Master: Tararan commands a group of spider-mice, small zombie-mice with spider legs. Tararan call them to assist him in the combat against Franky and Robin.
• Mix-and-Match Critter: Like many zombies, Tararan's body is made up of multiple animal parts, which in this case are from a giant spider and a giant monkey.
• Out of the Frying Pan: After Nico Robin slaps his right eye, Tararan instinctively covers his eyes with his hands, but accidentally shoots spider web into both his eyes, worsening his condition.
• Power Palms: Unlike most spiders, Tararan shoots spider web from his palms rather than his behind.
• Signature Laugh: His laugh is "A-a-a-a-a", just like that of a monkey.
• Verbal Tic: Has the habit of beginning his sentences with "Monkey, monkey".
• Visual Pun: He's literally a "spider-monkey".

Captain John

Captain John

Voiced by: Hiroshi Okamoto (JP), Ken Marmon (EN), Julio Bernal (Latin American Spanish)

Debut: Chapter 451 (Manga), Episode 344 (Anime)

One of the General Zombies and a former pirate captain.

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• The Alcoholic: The zombie of Captain John is always drinking, even when he raises from his coffin. Despite the fact that zombies take the personalities of the stolen shadows, chapter 1096 reveals that John used to have the same habit when he was alive.
• Back from the Dead: Moria revives him using an unidentified shadow to serve as one of his special zombies.
• Chekhov's Gunman: Captain John is referenced a number of times: He's first mentioned in the Jaya Arc, when Buggy and his crew are searching for his treasure. In the Thriller Bark Arc Captain John appears as one of Moria's zombies and Luffy grabs an armband from Moria's treasure. In Impel Down, Buggy reveals that the armband is the key for John's treasure. John is mentioned again in Chapter 957, during the Wano Arc where it's revealed that he used to be a crewmember of the Rocks Pirates, working under the titular Rocks D. Xebec.
• Invisible Holes: As a zombie, when he drinks the alcohol just comes out straight through his chest wounds.
• Map All Along: His armband is in actuality the map to finding his treasure.
• Pirate Booty: John was a famous pirate who left behind a treasure nearly as great as the One Piece, which Buggy is looking for for a good chunk of the story.

Other Zombies

Hildon

Hildon

Voiced by: Taiki Matsuno (JP), Jerry Jewell (EN), Rafael Escalante (Latin American Spanish)

Debut: Chapter 444 (Manga), Episode 339 (Anime)

A zombie that resembles a vampire. He acts as the messenger between the mysterious four. His zombie number is 21.

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• Bait the Dog: After Nami, Ussop, and Chopper first arrive on Thriller Bark and escape Cerberus, they ecounter Hildon, who is friendly and offers to take them to safety at the mansion of Dr. Hogback. It's soon revealed that he is working with Hogback and the rest of the Mysterious Four to steal the Straw Hats shadows.
• Fangs Are Evil: He has a long pair of vampiresque canines, a hint that he's not as benevolent as he appears.
• Flight: Is able to fly using his wings.
• Our Vampires Are Different: With his bat-like arm/wings and his long canine, Hildon's design take a lot of inspiration from the classic vampire.

Victoria Cindry

Victoria Cindry (Zombie 400)

Voiced by: Houko Kuwashima (JP, Zombie), Naomi Shindo (JP, Alive), Jamie Marchi (EN), Iarel Verduzco (Latin American Spanish)

Age: 24

Debut: Chapter 446 (Manga), Episode 340 (Anime)

"It would be good if plates completely ceased to exist..."

Hogback's personal zombie servant and (one of the few zombies who's fully human-like). Her zombie number, 400, is tattooed on her calf. Being a zombie, she's very obedient to Hogback and disobeys him only when he tells her to not break any plates, since she has a passionate hate toward them (to the point of serving meals directly on the table). This hate toward plates comes from Margaret, a servant whose shadow is infused in Cindry's body. After Gecko Moria is defeated, Cindry becomes a dead body and Margaret gets back her shadow.

When Victoria Cindry was still alive, she was a nice and famous stage actress whom Hogback was in love with, but she rejected his proposal of marriage because she already had a fiance. After she died, twelve years before Thriller Bark's events, Hogback resurrected her and turned her into his personal servant.

During her fight with Hogback against Robin and Chopper, the latter, after hearing her story, tries to bring back some of her humanity with words. In the end, she manages to disobey Hogback's last order and smiles.

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• Attractive Zombie: While most of the zombies are in various stages of rotting, or are a mixture of different animal parts, Cindry just has bluish skin. Justified, given that Hogback actually cares about her appearance.
• Cloudcuckoo Lander: Her hate of plates is really bizarre for a servant, especially because she refuses to serve anything (even soup) on a plate.
• Deadpan Snarker: Cindry can be really nasty with her comments directed at Hogback. It's likely not really her personality when she was alive, but the shadow of the person that reanimated her.
• Emotionless Girl: Being a zombie, she never smiles and her eyes are dull. Until the end.
• Extreme Doormat: Being a zombie, she's compelled to obey Hogback's orders (except when plates are involved). This is Played for Drama after Chopper learns of her story and how Hogback treats her like a mere object.
• Fighting from the Inside: Chopper's calls awaken Cindry's remaining humanity but it's not entirely enough to overcome a zombie's loyalty. This manifests as Cindry periodically becoming paralyzed and expressing unusual emotions.
• Heroic BSoD: After Chopper manages to bring back some of her humanity, she gets shocked and can't move for a while.
• "I Know You're in There Somewhere" Fight: While Victoria Cindry is long dead, Chopper tries to bring back zombie!Cindry's remaining humanity. He succeeds.
• Improbable Weapon User: She uses a series of plates as throwing weapons.
• Inconsistent Spelling: In some translations, Cindry's name is romanized as "Thindolly". The German dub uses "Thindolly" as the zombie's name to distinguish her from the original Cindry and Hogback calls her by both names interchangeably.
• Ms. Fanservice: Being a zombie doesn't detract any from her beauty and she wears a fan-servicey outfit.
• Not So Stoic: She generally doesn't show any emotion until her fight with Chopper, where she shows anger, she cries and, in the end, she smiles.
• Perpetual Smiler: When she was alive, Victoria Cindry was always seen smiling. Averted by zombie Cindry.
• Replacement Goldfish: A very creepy version. Hogback resurrected Cindry as a zombie to have her, since Victoria Cindry rejected his advances.
• Satellite Character: Cindry is Hogback's personal servant and doesn't do anything that isn't his order. Justified since she's made exactly for this purpose.
• Tragic Monster: When she temporarily gets some of her memories back, she begins to cry, only to still remain a zombie slave to Hogback.
• Two First Names: Victoria is Cindry's family name. If you read her full name, some might interpret either name as the first one. It also suits her background as a famous actress.
• Waif-Fu: Hogback gives Cindry's corpse a superhuman strength, but physically she's still a slender woman.
• What Measure Is a Non-Human?: Upon learning of her story and how Hogback mistreats her, Chopper gets really angry.

Kumacy

Kumacy

Voiced by: Hiroshi Iwasaki (JP), Ray Hurd (EN), Óscar Garibay (Latin American Spanish)

Debut: Chapter 449 (Manga), Episode 343 (Anime)

The commander of the wild zombies and Perona's servant (being based on her teddy-bear). He wears a surgical mask on his mouth because Perona doesn't like his voice, and constantly shut him up whenever he tries to speak. He's very loyal to Perona and attacks anyone who tries to harm her.

During the Thriller Bark Arc, he attacks Usopp, who is fighting Perona, until the sniper shoves some salt in his mouth, making him expel his shadow. After the two year timeskip, Perona finds his body (not decomposed yet) still at Thriller Bark.

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• Accessory-Wearing Cartoon Animal: He wears only a hat and a surgical mask.
• Bears Are Bad News: Try to hurt Perona and he'll destroy you.
• Killer Teddy Bear: Although he's not exactly a teddy-bear, he's a zombie bear based upon Perona's teddy-bear, and he's even stronger than a normal bear.
• Lightning Bruiser: He can tear up stone and Usopp notes he's also very fast.
• A Lizard Named "Liz": Only in his original language. He's a bear ("kuma" in Japanese) named Kumacy. Justified since it's probably a childish name given by Perona.
• Not Now, Kiddo: Due to Perona always shushing him, he's unable to tell her anything important, such as when he tried to wake her when Brook was invading Thriller Bark or when he tries to tell the others that Nami, Usopp, and Chopper were hiding in his body. When the three were exposed, Perona accused Kumacy of aiding them and still wouldn't let him explain the situation.
• The Quiet One: Invoked by Perona, who instantly berates Nekumashi if he tries to speak because she thinks he's not cute when he speaks.
• Rank Scales with Asskicking: He's the commander of the wild zombies, naturally he's also one of the strongest zombies.
• Running Gag: Perona berates him whenever he talks, even after she has asked him a question. Also, it doesn't matter if it's Perona, someone always interrupts him.
• Satellite Character: His character revolves completely around his master, Perona.
• Spell My Name With An S: Some translations refer to him as "Kumaci"
• Vocal Dissonance: How Perona sees him; his cute (to her at least) appearance is ruined by his incredibly deep voice.
• Wide Eyes and Shrunken Irises: His eyes are big and round and constantly wide open while the irises are very small, making him having permanently this expression.

Dog Penguin

Dog Penguin

Voiced by: Hiroaki Hirata (JP), Eric Vale (EN), Noé Velázquez (Latin American Spanish)

Debut: Chapter 451 (Manga), Episode 345 (Anime)

"A power that can't be measured! A power that makes the impossible possible! A power that blows everything away! The name of that tempest is... LOVE!!!"

—Chapter 453

A penguin zombie with a dog face who's reanimated with Sanji's shadow. Since Moria didn't recognize Sanji in his bounty poster, he put his shadow in an ordinary Wild Zombie, giving him much strength.At first, Dog Penguin is chivalrous like his shadow's owner, but quickly loses memory and personality (except his rivalry with Jigoro, who has Zoro's shadow).

During his fight (with Hogback, Cindry and Jigoro) against Chopper and Robin, the doctor accidentally orders him and Jigoro to jump out of the tower, and they obey.

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• Accessory-Wearing Cartoon Animal: He only wears an hat and a bow.
• Almighty Janitor: Since Moria didn't recognize Sanji in his bounty poster, he put his shadow in a Wild Zombie but he has the strength of a General Zombie. Dog Penguin himself laments how his body is too weak for him.
• Blind Obedience: Averted at first, when he still has some personality, to the point of attacking Absalom instead of hurting a woman. Played straight after he loses personality, to the point he even obeys the (accidental) order to jump out of the tower.
• Disney Villain Death: Accidentally invoked by Hogback, who orders him to jump out of the tower. And he does exactly that.
• A Dog Named "Dog": He's a combination between a dog and a penguin and his name is Dog Penguin. Justified since he's supposed to be a simple wild zombie, and Hogback didn't bother to give him an actual name.
• Enemy Civil War: He and Jigoro never get along, due to their respective shadows, and attack each other during their fight against Robin and Chopper.
• Extremity Extremist: Just like Sanji, he specializes in kicks, despite having very short legs.
• Mix-and-Match Critters: He's a penguin with a dog's face.
• Pint-Sized Powerhouse: Dog Penguin might be small, and he complains to have a fragile body, but, thanks to Sanji's shadow, he's among the strongest zombies.
• Red Herring Shirt: He's introduced along with other two zombie penguins, making the audience think he's just another zombie mook like the others, but it turns out he has Sanji's shadow.
• Weak, but Skilled: Has all the fighting skills of Sanji, but is limited by his small and weak body. It still makes him more than a match for the regular Wild Zombies, however.
• Wouldn't Hit a Girl: Zig-zagged. At first, having Sanji's shadow, he refuses to hit any woman. However, after he slowly loses his will, Dog Penguin loses this trait and attacks Robin under Hogback's order.

Lola

Lola

Voiced by: Aya Hisakawa (JP), Alex Moore (EN), Andrea Soto (Latin American Spanish)

Debut: Chapter 476 (Manga), Episode 370 (Anime)

"Oh, when you get angry it just makes me want you more!!! Give me your finger, Absalom! I love you!"

—Chapter 451

A zombie warthog with a white bride dress, who was revived with Lola's shadow. Just like her shadow's owner, she's determined to get married, though she doesn't propose to any men she meets but instead fully concentrates on Absalom. Her zombie number is unknown.

Despite an initial mistrust, she befriends Nami, with the latter trying to pass for a man but zombie Lola quickly seeing through her lie, and even saved the pirate from one of Absalom's marriage attempt. After Oars's defeat, Moria removes Lola's shadow with his ''Shadow Asgard", turning zombie Lola back into a lifeless corpse.

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• Abhorrent Admirer: She's constantly trying to kiss Absalom or trick him into marrying her, much to his horror. Besides this, she is actually a nice person.
• Affably Evil: Once you befriend her, she's a really nice person... ahem, warthog. The only reasons she could be listed as "evil" are because she's one of Moria's zombies and because she kills any possible enemy between her and Absalom.
• And Now You Must Marry Me: She attempts to marry Absalom multiple times against his will.
• Clingy Jealous Girl: She doesn't like when Absalom shows interest in other girls, to the point of attempting to murder them.
• Determinator: It doesn't matter how many times Absalom rejects her, she still keeps trying to marry him. Nami's (fake) support makes her even more determined.
• Dual Wielding: She duel wields a pair of katana.
• Dude, She's Like in a Coma: A rare gender flipped example. She finally manages to marry and kiss Absalom after the latter has been knocked out by Sanji and Nami.
• Dumb Muscle: Subverted. Lola apparently believes Nami's lie about being a man, but later Lola reveals that she knew that Nami wasn't telling the truth stating that it was rather obvious.
• Heel–Face Turn: Not that Lola was much of a Heel to begin with, but she does initially oppose the Straw Hats due to her misunderstanding that Nami is trying to marry Absalom. After Nami clears the whole situation up the two quickly become friends, and later Lola helps rescue Nami from Absalom when he's attempting to marry her while the other Straw Hats are busy fighting Oars.
• One-Steve Limit: Averted. She has the same name as her shadow's original owner, Lola.
• Pink Means Feminine: She's a female zombie warthog and is completely pink.
• Single-Target Sexuality: Unlike the original Lola, who proposes to everyone she meets, zombie Lola wants to marry only Absalom.
• Tertiary Sexual Characteristic: If being pink isn't a big enough hint (especially if you read the black and white manga), she has lipstick and long eyelashes that tells you she's female.
• Token Good Teammate: To all of the zombies of Thriller Bark, as she has clearly been working for Moria for awhile but she still retains her free will and is only antagonistic toward the Straw Hats when she thinks that Nami is trying to get between her and Absalom. After Nami clears the misunderstanding, she gets much friendlier.
• What Does She See in Him?: Given that Absalom is a bigger pervert than even Sanji or Brook, one has to wonder why she wants to marry him so badly.

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