Sandbox / One Piece: Franky

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Main Character Index > Straw Hat Pirates > Monkey D. Luffy | Roronoa Zoro | Nami | Usopp | Sanji | Tony Tony Chopper | Nico Robin | Franky | Straw Hat Grand Fleet

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"Iron Man" Franky

Voiced by: Kazuki Yao, Junko Noda [young] (Japanese); Patrick Seitz, Terri Doty [young, TV series], Greg Ayres [young, Unlimited Adventure] (English)^note Other languages: Galo Balcázar [One Piece Film Gold], Alfonso Obregón Inclán [Strong World, Z, Stampede], Manuel Campuzano, Sammir Hernández [child], Carlos Domínguez [young] [Netflix Dub] (Latin American Spanish); Miguel Ángel Pérez, Mercedes Espinosa [young] (European Spanish); Frank Engelhardt, Julian Manuel [young] (German)

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

Debut: Chapter 329 (Manga), Episode 233 (Anime)

^{Click here to see his Pre-Time Skip appearance} 

^{Click here to see Franky Shogun} 

"No matter what weapon you've got... Just BEING isn't a crime! Existing is not a crime!!!"

—Chapter 375

Franky, real name Cutty Flam, is initially the leader of the Franky Family, a gang of villainous dismantlers living in Water 7 who provoke the Straw Hats' wrath by mugging Usopp and stealing most of their money. But after fighting against CP9 together, he soon becomes friends with the other Straw Hats and becomes the crew's shipwright. His eccentric behavior (SUUUPPERRR!!) and habit of wearing very little other then his trusty speedos lead many to brand him a pervert (which he takes pride in), yet he is loyal and protective of his friends, often calling them his "little bros". He's also prone to striking poses and breaking out into torrents of tears at the slightest hint of anything sentimental. As his epithet implies, he is a cyborg known as BF-36 (BF = Battle Franky) due to being hit by a sea train, then washing up on a scrap yard and using said scrap to modify his body to keep from dying. He later uses blueprints from the world's best scientist to upgrade himself to BF-37 during the Time Skip.

His past is tied to Nico Robin's, as while she can read the location of the superweapon Pluton, he owns the blueprints themselves, with the plans having been passed down among the shipwrights of Water 7 for generations. After the World Government captures him along with Robin, he burns the blueprints and fights alongside the rest of the Straw Hats to save her. After the Straw Hats blackmail him through theft of his speedos at the end of the arc, he officially joins the crew.

His dream is to build and sail on what he deems the greatest sailing ship on the seas, which results in the construction of the Straw Hats' new ship, the Thousand Sunny.

He has a bounty of 394,000,000 berries.^note His first bounty of 44,000,000 is for his involvement in the Enies Lobby incident and his burning of the Pluton blueprints; it raises to 94,000,000 for his defeat of Señor Pink in Dressrosa. It raises to 394,000,000 for his defeat of Sasaki in Wano and becoming one of the senior officers within one of the Four Emperors crews.

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• Achilles' Heel: Because Franky did all his upgrades himself, everything (including his defenses) ended up in front, while his back is unchanged and vulnerable. Despite the upgrades he does on himself over the timeskip, this weakness remains. Senor Pink exploits his weakness to land on Franky's back with a suplex from the top of a tower, but Franky is resilient enough to survive it.
• Anatomy Arsenal: Thanks to extensive self-modification after being hit by the sea train, Franky turned his body into a cyborg. Most of his weapons are in his massive forearms, but he packs them in anywhere, as anyone who deals with his Nipple Lights can attest. Even his sideburns are two retractable blades.
• Anime Hair: His Post-Timeskip hair changing feature includes relatively normal and probable styles (Mohawks, goldilocks), to styles normally expected by anime standards, to downright bizarre changes like the shape of a cannon or a whale.
• Annoying Younger Sibling: Was very much this to Iceburg, who's shown in flashbacks constantly bickering with Franky about how irresponsible and selfish he is.
• The Apprentice: He and Iceburg were the shipwright apprentices to the late Tom.
• Arc Villain: Subverted. Early in the Water 7 arc, Franky is presented as if he would be the arc's main antagonist as his group is responsible for stealing the Straw Hats' money, an act which leads to the fallout between Luffy and Usopp. However as events further unfold, Franky's position of supposed villain shifts to unexpected ally with the reveal of the arc's true villains, CP9. At the end of the arc, the money is used to buy top-of-the-line material for the Straw Hats' new ship.
• Arm Cannon: Franky can combine both arms into a cannon for his most powerful attack, which he uses for the first time to finish off Fukuro. After the timeskip, Franky just needs his left arm, which is packed with an equally strong cannon. .
• Artificial Limbs: To a near exaggerated extent. He's a soda-powered cyborg, having rebuilt his limbs and much of his body from the wrecks of his old battleships aka Battle Frankys.
• The Atoner: Iceberg suggests that the creation of the Franky Family to give its members a living while stopping crime in Water 7 is Franky's atonement for indirectly condemning Tom to execution.
• Badass Biker:
  • In One Piece Film: Strong World, he made two motorcycles out of a giant crayfish, which he called Zarley Davidson, and a giant grasshopper, which he called Batta GT-7000.
  • Post-Time Skip, he has built the Black Rhino FR-U IV, a massive rhino-themed caterpillar track motorcycle.
• Bell-Bottom-Limbed Bots: He's got big, inflated forearms which becomes even bigger and boxy after the Time Skip. Justified in that he puts many things in there, such as ammunition, long chain, a shield and a box of tools.
• Big Fancy Sword: General Franky is equipped with a giant Marauder's sword, the "Franken".
• Big Little Brother: Franky is four years younger than Iceburg, but as an adult he easily towers over his adoptive brother, especially with his latest body modifications.
• Birds of a Feather: He and Usopp are both born craftsman. And despite their rough first meeting, they naturally bond over their love for ships and are both often seen tending to the Sunny once Franky joins the crew. The twelfth OP even sees the two buildling a suit of armor for an alpaca.
• Blatant Lies: He's not crying, damn it! HE'S NOT!
• Blow You Away: His Coup de Vent technique, which shoots a blast of compressed air at the opponent. After the Time Skip, he has a one-handed version which acts as a Hand Blast.
• Blue Is Heroic: Franky's a big-hearted dude represented by the color cyan or light blue.
• Bootstrapped Leitmotif: Franky's theme actually pre-dates Franky himself, originally being used for Usopp's 5-Ton Hammer escapade, and especially before that, when Luffy first meets Eyelash the camel.
• Boxing Battler: When he does fight hand-to-hand, he typically resorts to standard boxing moves, simply called "Franky Boxing". He's skilled enough at it that even when he doesn't have access to his arsenal, he's a tough customer.
• Bruiser with a Soft Center: Despite his tough persona, a Running Gag is that Franky gets extremely compassionate whenever he overhears or experiences a touching story or moment, causing him to cry uncontrollably.
• Building Swing: Like Luffy and Robin, he can use an expandable arm (his right forearm being connected to his bicep with a metal chain, in his case) to climb and swing from buildings.
• Bunny-Ears Lawyer: Despite all of his eccentricities, never doubt the genius of Franky's work. The Thousand Sunny alone is a testament to his genius at engineering and ship building, and he saved himself from the brink of death by turning his body cybernetic A perfect example would be a recent addition to his body, Nipple Lights.
• Character Catchphrase: "SUPER!"
• Chick Magnet: If his interactions with Señor Pink are any indication, plus the fact he spent his time as an underworld boss surrounded by two hotties everywhere he went, Franky's a real hit with the ladies.
• Child Prodigy: Tom took on a child Franky as a shipwright apprentice because he witnessed him make a cannon out of scrap that was lying about.
• Cloud Cuckoolander: With his eccentricity and his tendency to shout "SUPER!" whenever he can, there's no denying he's an odd man.
• Combat Pragmatist: A former gang leader whose body is loaded with weapons, Franky is the dirtiest fighter in the crew, comfortable with blasting regular human opponents with heavy ordinance and even outright lying about what his cybernetics do to throw enemies off. This is first seen in the Water 7 arc and then brought up with more emphasis in the Dressrossa arc where Franky is cut off from most of Doflamingo's top lieutenants, so he makes do by battling his hapless rank-and-file before Señor Pink challenges him to an honorable duel where they straightforwardly exchange their strongest attacks mano-a-mano until one of them can't get back up again.
• Combining Mecha:
  • While fighting Oars, Franky attempts to form a giant mecha with the other Straw Hats in Thriller Bark (he and the boys are just standing on each others' heads). Robin is mortified at the thought.
  • The Iron Pirate Franky Shogun is composed of two other vehicles, the Black Rhino FR-U IV and Brachio Tank V combined together.
• Cool Shades: He always wears a pair of sunglasses.
• Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: Despite how he usually behaves, you really really don't want to get in a fight with him. Two close subordinates of Doflamingo learned this in a very painful way.
• Cruel to Be Kind: While he respects Usopp's devotion to his ship, he realizes that it would be suicidal to set out on a journey with the Going Merry, which can't even reach the next island. He then tries to get Usopp to abandon the Merry by tearing chunks off of the ship, and then by throwing him into the water under the ship so he can get a good look at the damage.
• Cybernetics Eat Your Soul:
  • Inverted. Despite being part robot, he's one of the most emotional Straw Hats, being extremely quick to laugh, cry, or get angry.
  • Played for Laughs after the timeskip, as he occasionally repeats instructions in a robotic voice and (sometimes) adds the suffix "-robo" or "-mecha" to sentences, though it's implied he's showing off. Robin jokes (maybe) that she can't really consider him "human" anymore.
  • On SBS 101, Oda imagines a Bad Future version of Franky who is fully roboticized by age 50. At age 70, this Franky-gone-wrong would turn himself into a battleship.
• Cyborg: After being swept up by the sea train, Franky rebuilt his body with ship parts and tools, making him fully robotic (sans his back, which he could not reach). During the time-skip, Franky upgrades his body with Vegapunk's technology. Even the epithet on his Wanted poster is "Cyborg Franky".
• Dark and Troubled Past: After being thrown overboard by his pirate parents, Franky was taken in at Water 7, and trained to be a shipwright along with adoptive brother Iceburg. His mentor, Tom, was prosecuted for building Roger's ship, the Oro Jackson, but cut a deal where he would build the Sea Train. After building it and four lines, he was framed by the World Government when they used ships built by Franky to attack Water 7. When they tried to take Tom to Enies Lobby to be executed Franky tried to stop the Sea Train, and got run over in the process.
• Debt Detester: He's noticeably grim when he states that with Kuma's personality now being completely overwritten, the Straw Hats owe him a debt they can never repay.
• Determinator: He had enough strength and willpower to turn himself into a cyborg... after getting hit by a train!
• Dr. Fakenstein: A subtle example; while he doesn't mess around with corpses, he is a talented engineer who is more than willing to modify his own body and his name sounds close enough to Frankenstein's. One Halloween-themed artwork also had him cosplaying as a Frankenstein's Monster, just to drive the point further.
• Drink-Based Characterization: Cola, which is his favorite drink as Oda confirmed which is justified as the drink is his main source of fuel.
• Eagleland: While the USA obviously doesn't exist in the world of One Piece, Franky's appearance and personality are a very over-the-top mishmash of various stereotypes the Japanese have about Americans, and Oda claimed in an interview that if Franky were real, he'd hail from America. A full analysis can be found halfway down this page.
• Emergency Transformation: He rebuilt himself from the scraps of a derelict ship after being hit by a train. Heck, this guy gives Tony Stark a run for his money, appropriately enough.
• Energy Weapon: After the time skip, he's developed a Finishing Move called the Franky Radical Beam as a replacement to his Coup de Vent, firing a highly destructive laser from his arms. According to One Piece Film: Z, he can wipe out the highly durable Pacifistas with this technique.
• Exposed to the Elements: He seems to have no issue wearing just a speedo in frozen environments like Vegapunk's lab or Punk Hazard.
• Expressive Hair: His hair style automatically changes according to what he's fueling himself with at the time. While he usually uses cola, which makes it stand up in a sort of pompadour, it tends to hang-down and wilt when he's running on empty, has a more onion-like shape if he uses vegetable juice and a more wavy style when using tea. Post-Time Skip, his hair can change between infinite styles with a push on his nose. Oda has decided to make this a Running Gag.
• Expy: According to Eiichiro Oda, his initial look is based on Ace Ventura.
• Fanboy: Following the Time Skip he becomes an unashamed fanboy of Vegapunk because he studied his inventions and was deeply impressed by them. He's outright gushing when he meets him (Or rather them) in person during the Egghead arc.
• Fartillery: He can channel his Coup de Vent attack out of his posterior ...resulting in a name change to Coup de Boo.
• Finger Firearms: Before the Timeskip, he had the "ability" to open his finger like a door hinge and fire a bullet.
• Foil: His past in relation to Nami's; both grew up adopted with a sibling, with both children and the parent all the same gender. While Nami's adoptive parent was a former Marine killed by a Fish-man, Franky's adoptive parent was a Fish-man killed by the Government to which the Marines are associated.
• A Fool and His New Money Are Soon Parted: Zigzagged, and ultimately subverted. Back when he was a villain, Franky and his Family blew a lot of the money they stole from the Straw Hats on booze and parties, and a large part of the remainder went into the huge party the crew had to celebrate their victory in Enies Lobby. However, most of the money went to a much better use, as Franky used it to buy some Adam wood which he used to build the Thousand Sunny.
• Foolish Sibling, Responsible Sibling: While they're not brothers by blood, Franky had this dynamic with Iceberg. One guess as to who was the former.
• Friend to All Children: Or more specifically to all boys (girls react to him and anything he does with a blank stare). After the Timeskip, most kids he comes across tend to get starstruck at the sight of (what they think is) an actual robot right in front of them. And Franky is all too happy to oblige in showing his features to them. In Punk Hazard, he steps up with Sanji to hold off the guards from killing the kids being experimented on, saying disappointing them is not an option.
• Full-Conversion Cyborg: He started out human, until he was hit by a train. This required him to transform himself into a cyborg to survive, with only some of his organs and back remaining unchanged due to his being incapable of reaching it. During the two-year timeskip, Franky further modifies his body to the point where he appers more mechanical than organic.
• Full-Name Basis: To Robin, when he first joined the crew. It eventually switches to First-Name Basis. Justified, as Nico Robin was a sort of bogeyman to him when he was younger, and as he gets to know her she stops being a mythic figure and becomes a person.
• Gadgeteer Genius: Franky was able to remake his own body into a Cyborg, and displays immense skill in all manner of construction from ships, land vehicles. weapons, and basic carpentry.
• Gatling Good: There's a machine gun in the knuckles of his left hand.
• Genius Bruiser: He built fully functioning robotic prostheses out of random junk from scratch and attached them himself, while severely injured. He's also the largest of the Straw Hats by a good margin, with a body that is mostly made of literal iron.
• Gentle Giant: It becomes apparent that beneath the hard metal shell of his gigantic body is a really soft center.
• Good Scars, Evil Scars: After the Time Skip, Franky now has two stitch-mark scars on his torso running down from the back of his neck indicating that he had sewn his skin back on.
• Gratuitous English: He probably spouts the most English outside of combat than any other character.
• Heel–Face Turn: Initially introduced as the leader of a gang who acted as villains for most of the Water 7 arc.
• Hidden Depths: Iceberg suggests different reasons for why he became a mob boss. Recruiting the bums and thugs off the streets gives them stable employment, and the job they do (hunting down pirates and dismantling their ships) is good for Water 7 as a whole.
• Hot Blooded Sideburns: Weaponized; his "Franky Triangle Jacker" consists of him plucking off his sideburns and throwing them like sharp boomerangs.
• Humongous Mecha: The Iron Pirate Franky Shogun is a massive robot replica of himself, down to having his pompadour only it's a drill. It's also equipped with a huge sword and various weapon systems. Though in a hilarious subversion of what normally would be expected of a giant mecha, it proved pretty useless in its first appearance, as the only attacks that actually hit the opponents were the ones used by Franky himself when he hops out of the cockpit. Robin wonders why he even brought it out in the first place. Double-subverted HARD when it wiped out Baby 5 and Buffalo. And Franky reveals that he has a scaled-down copy of the Thousand Sunny's Gaon Cannon, called the General Cannon, built into the thing. Nothing says surprise quite like getting hit by a compressed air stream that can blow up an entire ship.
• Hyperspace Arsenal: How he fits every gizmo inside his body is probably best left unanswered.
• Iconic Outfit: Open, loud red Hawaiian shirt? Sharp black shades? Inappropriately small blue speedo? It could only be SUUUUUUUUUUUUPER Franky of course!
• Immune to Bullets: Bullets will simply bounce off his iron body, especially important when he's literally Taking the Bullet for Robin during the Enies Lobby arc. However, he's only immune in the front and not the back; after all, none of his modifications reach his back.
• Important Haircut: He got one of these after the Time Skip, but can revert to his old style or change to a new one by pressing his nose for more than three seconds.
• Improbable Hairstyle: Since the timeskip, he can change his hairstyle by pressing his nose. Some of them are really bizarre, like rifle-shaped hair.
• In-Series Nickname: His real name is Cutty Flam, but Iceburg considered it weird and gave him the nickname Franky because of that. When Franky returned as a cyborg to Water 7, he used his real name to talk Iceburg, and after a secret meeting, Iceburg told him to use "Franky" as his new legal name instead when he entrusted him the blueprints of Pluton.
• Inelegant Blubbering: Will bawl his eyes out whenever he hears a sad story. Considering that almost everyone in the One Piece world has some kind of tragic past, this happens a lot.
• Instant Awesome: Just Add Mecha!: Invoked; his weapons and robotics are enough to make the boys of the crew squeal in delight when he deploys them, and he's generally very appealing to little kids in-series. Even more self-serious characters like Sanji are impressed by his work (although he doesn't go crazy over all of it like Luffy does). On the other hand, women (like Robin and Nami) just don't understand what's so great about robots.
• Insult Backfire: He takes "pervert" as a compliment.
• It Runs on Nonsensoleum: His cyborg functions are powered by carbonation! So is the ship he made, for that matter. It may also serve as a Pun and a joke on Steampunk, since the most popular brand of cola is Coke and coke is a type of fuel that was used in steam engines.
• It's Personal: He takes on CP9 because of his grudge against Spandam for getting his mentor and father figure killed. He also has a vested interest in saving Robin, because keeping her out of government hands prevents their access to the ancient weapon Pluton.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Franky starts out seemingly just a bully who picks on the weakest and most vulnerable of the Straw Hats just because he can. During Enies Lobby, more of his Hidden Depths get shown, revealing that he's actually a massive softie with a tough exterior. Even his previous jerkishness was mainly Franky's way of trying to protect Water 7 and the thugs and outcasts who looked up to him. Even after his Heel–Face Turn, he's abrasive and boisterous, but is still has his soft center.
• Kavorka Man: Given his obscenely Frankenstein like appearance after the time skip, it's amazing he can charm Señor Pink's hired help the way he can. Though given that said hired help was also attracted to Señor Pink, it's possible that they were admiring his manly attitude more than anything.
• Kick the Dog: In one scene Franky and a couple of enemy agents see each other at a distance, said agents decide they have no reason to attack an unknown bystander, on the other hand Franky just starts shooting them. It is never justified why he attacked them, though given his history with government agents, it was probably just out of spite.

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• A Lady on Each Arm: Used to be the case with the Square Sisters; Mozu and Kiwi back in his mafia days. Even two years later at the final stages of the Dressrosa Arc shows that he's still got it, having smitten some of Señor Pink's fanbase with his charm.
• Large Ham: Undoubtedly the hammiest of all the Straw Hat Pirates. His full introduction to the series is accompanied by background drum riffs and smoke machines he pre-installed for dramatic flair. He once responds to a sad backstory by playing a somber tune on his guitar.
• The Leader: Before becoming the shipwright of the Straw Hat Pirates, Franky is the underworld boss of Water 7 and the leader of the Franky Family.
• Legally Dead: "Cutty Flam" has been officially declared dead by the World Government, so all crimes under this name cannot be charged at him. He can only be charged under his new name, Franky, which is also why his Wanted poster has the name "Franky" on it.
• Leitmotif: Franky Eyecatcher.
• Likes Older Women: Unlike Sanji, Brook, and Usopp, Franky has no interest in young beautiful women as he and Señor Pink stated in their battle Franky only kissing Qween (Smile factory Manger) to shut her up. Franky does however show interest in older women like Robin, and did show excitement when Nami ripped up Kalifa's clothes shouting "AOW!" and giving the thumbs up.
• Lost in Translation: Some of the situations involving Franky and the word "pervert" are actually Japanese pun-based jokes involving "Hentai!" (abnormality) and the more traditional Toku phrase "Henshin!" (transform) commonly used in Sentai series. While "hentai" can also mean "metamorphosis", its more common meaning of "weirdo" or "pervert" creates obvious humor.
• Luckily, My Shield Will Protect Me: Hilariously parodied. The forearm is actually much larger than the Iron Pirate Franky Shogun's shield.
• Mad Scientist: Played for Laughs. He is a prodigy in cybernetics who has added some truly bizarre features to his cybernetic form, such as having his legs extend forward to become a "centaur", detachable sideburns that can be used as boomerangs, the function to fart with such force that he is able to "rocket jump", and in the timeskip, he added functions like nipple lights and the ability to change his hair by pressing his nose.
• Made of Iron: In order to become a literal example of this, he somehow survived getting run over by the sea train, which would otherwise kill any normal person. After becoming a cyborg, he's still pretty durable even if he gets heavily damaged or injured.
• Magnetic Hero: Because of his unbiased and protective attitude, he is quick in making friends and allies with the most unlikely of individuals, such as street thugs and pirates. He is seen as a 'big brother' figure, and is admired by many for his efforts to protect them, such as Nico Robin and the Franky Family.
• Man of the City: According to Iceburg, Franky's tied his whole identity and purpose to Water 7 because he felt responsible for their adoptive father Tom's death. He took the downtrodden dregs of the city and formed the Franky Family to get them off the streets, who he had work as salvagers and bounty hunters to give them legitimate work, and said work was intended to protect the city by taking out pirates that approached it. Joining the Straw Hats is Franky's chance to finally see the rest of the world for himself and better find himself as a person.
• Manly Man: Franky's really used to showcase Oda's viewpoint on gender. He alone is a ripped, overexposed bruiser with a heart of gold that other men, especially young boys, are impressed by.
• Meaningful Name: His name Franky is derived from Frankenstein. Franky's body has been modified thanks to Franky's science.
• Meaningful Rename: His original name was "Cutty Flam" but Iceburg decided to nickname him "Franky" because "Cutty Flam is a weird name". This became his new legal name later on, especially since "Cutty Flam" is Legally Dead.
• Mighty Glacier: The slowest Straw Hat in the crew; Oda says that he would rank last in a 50 meter race with the rest of the crew because he weighs the most. Not that he's snail-slow or anything, but he runs and moves about as fast as a normal, athletic man his age and size is expected to. But when it comes to raw strength, he's easily the 5th strongest Straw Hat, just behind the Monster Trio and Jimbei.
• Must Make Amends: After failing to save Tom, Frank gave up his true love of building ships. He instead did the best he could to support Water 7 with the Franky Family, giving the destitute and hopeless a new purpose while hunting down dangerous pirates. Iceberg recognizes he was doing this as a sort of penance, and after Enies Lobby convinces Franky he can finally stop denying his own desires.
• My Greatest Failure: His Battle Franky ships being stolen by Spandam and used to attack the judicial ship in order to frame him, Tom, and Iceberg, injuring the latter two in the process. This motivated his decision to give up on making ships.
• Naked People Are Funny: He almost never wears pants and instead bares a speedo at all times, which should tell you the kind of weirdo he is. The Straw Hats stole his speedo to convince him to join them, causing Franky to rampage towards Water 7's docks with his little man flailing around, to the horror of every onlooker he passes.
• Never Gets Fat: He drinks a lot of cola, and never gains a pound. Although justified, since his body is mostly robotic and the cola actually gives him more strength!
• Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: On the island he was sent to, he unintentionally self-destructed the laboratory of Dr. Vegapunk, the smartest man in the One Piece world. His lab was considered a treasure to the Marines.
  • He ended up doing this twice.
  • In his past, all the ships that he built end up getting used to frame him, Tom, and Iceberg for attacking the judicial ship as part of Spandam's plan to confiscate Pluton's blueprints.
• The Nicknamer: Not long after joining, he sticks to calling his new crewmates by nicknames, calling them by attribute-related monikers like "curly eyebrow" or "skeleton" instead of their real names (Except for Robin, who he referred to by her full name). He stops using nicknames as he gets closer to his crewmates.
• Nigh-Invulnerability:
  • Franky's armored body can resist almost anything, even more so after the time skip. Only from the front, though. He couldn't reach his back so it's totally unarmored.
  • His Iron Pirate robot is even tougher, able to take a barrage of ordinance from Baby 5 that she claimed would have been enough to damage a Pacifista. She had to turn into a sickle to penetrate its armor.
• No Celebrities Were Harmed: Some fans believe he might be based off of Jim Carrey.
  • His post-Time Skip body seems to modeled after Henry Rollins.
  • He was also created after Eiichiro Oda heard all of Kazuki Yao's voice work as Jango and Bon Clay, specifically designed to give him a permanent casting role. Before this, Oda had actually intended to make him humorously diminutive.
• No Shirt, Long Jacket: Downplayed. Franky's standard outfit keeps his shirt permanently unbuttoned, leaving his chest and his abs exposed. Starting from the Punk Hazard Arc, however, Franky's outfits cover his body, although he sometimes unbutton them to shoot lasers from his nipples.
• Odd Friendship: With Brook. He's initially the only Straw Hat to hold prejudice against Brook for being a skeleton that would only have a miserable life if he carried on in society. An opinion that Robin scolds him for. But once hearing the story of carrying on with the promise to meet Laboon, he grows to have great respect for Brook. After the time skip, Franky believed Brook wouldn't return to the crew becoming a famous rock star, but is overjoyed to see him after 2 years and continues to show him respect even greeting him first on Zou before the other Straw Hats.
• Only Known by Their Nickname: He was renamed by adoptive brother Iceberg, who found his real name silly. Everyone has called him Franky ever since.
• O.O.C. Is Serious Business: On Egghead he actually wears pants. Given how much of a special occasion that getting to meet the Doctor Vegapunk is for him, it's not hard to see why he'd let this one slide.
• Out of Focus: Zoro, Robin, Usopp, and Franky are all completely absent during the Whole Cake Island arc due to heading for Wano instead. This mirrors Nami, Chopper, Sanji, and Brook's absence during most of the Dressrosa Arc.
• Outside-Context Problem: When Franky is first introduced, The Straw Hats don't know how to really fight him since he's a cyborg. They actually think he's a Devil Fruit user. CP9 has a better advantage since half of them have lived in Water 7 for five years and personally know him. Those who don't know or understand Franky's abilities have a hard time countering him, especially since he's literally Made of Iron.
• Power Palms: He can shoot a burst of highly compressed and destructive air from his palms.
• Power Source: Cola is his main source of power. Other drinks can work too but gives him a different personality per beverage. Pre-timeskip, whenever he's out of energy, his hair droops.
• Powered Armor: The "Franky Shogun" mecha-suit, which he also refers to as "Armored Me", is a small mecha that Franky controls to fight stronger enemies. It can fire laser beams, highly compressed bursts of air, and wield a giant katana, among other things. Luffy, Usopp, and Chopper personally consider it the coolest thing ever, likening it to a Humongous Mecha. Still, Franky is unhappy that the Marines apparently mistook it for his real body, as his Wanted poster since the Dressrosa Arc features the suit rather than his real face.
• Prone to Tears: Whenever Franky hears a sob-story, his eyes turn into rivers. He does it so often it's a personality trait. Since the time-skip, he seems to have grown past his usual Sand In My Eyes routine (such as in Dressrosa where he openly admits that the tragedy of the country's backstory is bringing him to tears), and become more honest about his emotions.
• Red Baron: His epitaph on his wanted poster is "Cyborg". After Dressrosa it becomes "Iron Man".
• Ridiculously Fast Construction: Played for Laughs several times during the Thriller Bark arc when, among other things, he builds a bridge with flower motifs and frills in the time it took the others to blink, and builds a staircase leading up to super-giant Oars as fast as another crewmember is able to climb it. Best shipwright/carpenter/engineer ever.
• Rocket Punch: With all of the homages to fighting robot series in his character, it's no surprise he can do this. Though, cleverly, his hand is attached to his forearm with a chain so it comes back after being fired. He can only perform this with his right arm.
• Sand In My Eyes: Every time he cries prior to the time-skip, he vehemently and poorly denies it.
• Scenery Censor: In episode 321 of the anime, his family snatches his speedo and takes it to the Straw Hats to get him to go with them, making him run through town bottomless. While the show has no problem showing his rear end, they occasionally use this to obscure the front.
• Science Hero: Considering he's built an army's worth of gadgets that operate on cola, it's hard not to fit this trope.
• Screams Like a Little Girl: In the English dub he and Brook do this when Oars is about to throw a tower at them. In his defense though that's probably an appropriate reaction to have in that situation.
• Self-Surgery: On the verge of death after being run down by a train when he was 26 years old, Franky rebuilt himself using spare parts from an abandoned ship. As he was alone at the time, he was unable to modify his back, making it the only part of his body that is still flesh and blood.
• Shameless Fanservice Guy: He's totally unbothered by the "no pants" situation.
  • His flashback even has him reluctantly wear pants because Iceberg tells him too.
  • When the Franky Family tries to force him to leave with the Straw Hats by stealing his underwear, he never tries to cover up when running after them; eventually, he even lets the Straw Hats keep it while striking his signature pose in public! Even when he finally relents, he leaps onto the Sunny still half-naked while Zoro tells him to Please Put Some Clothes On.
  • In his canon Filler segment on Vegapunk's island, he declines pants because he wants to keep his "freak" reputation.
• Shoulder Cannon: Has a couple of 'em that dislocate his shoulder blades. He gets a Shoulder Rocket Launcher and a more functional Shoulder Cannon after Time-skip.
• Shrouded in Myth: Because of his antics in the island of Baldimore, he caused "The Nightmare of Baldimore", and he accidentally set fire to the tiger skin he was wearing to mask himself and ran out scaring the suspicious Marines chasing him, becoming "The Burning Beast of Baldimore" to make legends for generations to come.
• Sibling Yin-Yang: With Iceburg (adoptive that is); throughout their childhood, Iceburg was the dutiful, respectful sibling while Franky was violent and disruptive. This continues into their adulthood with their roles in Water 7. Iceburg becomes the beloved mayor of the island who unites all the shipwrights and helps maintain the city's prestigious status as the shipbuilding capital of the world. Franky takes over the city's seedy underbelly, reining in the criminal element and using them to keep the city safe from pirates, and is even celebrated by the city's lowlifes as the face of Water 7's underworld. Together the two of them make Water 7 a better place to live.
• Super-Strength: While his combat abilities may still be below the monster trio, his physical strength is very likely to be on par with them. He gives Luffy a run for his money when they first meet (as enemies). So he's likely still high up there after his post-Time Skip upgrade.
• Swiss-Army Appendage: Franky's arms have both been modified to add extra utility and weapons. His right fist is detachable and connected to a chain, allowing him to use it as a ranged punch or grappling hook; his left arm has multiple weapons built into it, including finger guns, a wrist-mounted machine gun, and a cannon with a targeting scope in his palm.
• Tank-Tread Mecha: He can turn his legs into tank treads for faster movement.
• Team Dad: According to Oda, he's of the bumbling variety. And true to that, he's a big, protective bruiser who enjoys entertaining his younger crewmates and his sentimentality lets him be a source of comfort. He certainly was one to the Franky Family as well. Amusingly, after Jimbei officially joins the crew, a later SBS gave Jimbei the new title of Team Dad and Franky got the official designation of "perverted granny" (despite Franky being younger then Jimbei).
• Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: During the battle of Enies Lobby, despite Franky wanting to save Robin from CP9, the other Straw Hats don't trust him with many of them, justifiably, holding a grudge against him for beating up Usopp and stealing their money, which inadvertently led to Usopp leaving the crew. Thankfully after proving his worth to the Straw Hats by protecting Robin, freeing her from her Sea Prism Stone handcuffs, and fighting alongside them the Straw Hats warm up to him and, by the time he uses the money he stole to build them a new ship, they are ready to adopt him into the Crew as their shipwright.
• Testosterone Poisoning: Acting like a mob boss in Water 7, the Cool Shades he almost always wears, Large Ham tendencies, pretending he isn't crying when he gets saddened by something, not to mention a battle of one-upmanship in being "manly" against one of Doflamingo's executives (who happens to be a man dressed like a baby...) — Let's face it, he is this trope.
• That Man Is Dead: As part of Iceberg's plan to hide the Pluton blueprints, "Cutty Flam" died when he tried to stop Tom from being taken by the Government.
• This Is a Drill: There's a drill on the top of the Iron Pirate Franky Shogun's head.
• Throwing Your Shield Always Works: One of the the Iron Pirate Franky Shogun's attack, General Shield Boomerang, consists of throwing away the shield. Ironically, it's also the only way to make the shield useful, since its comically small and doesn't even cover the forearm.
• Top-Heavy Guy: Franky was of rather normal proportions before his accident with the Puffing Tom, albeit a bit lanky. After he rebuilt himself, his arms and torso have become much wider and bulkier, while his legs haven't changed much. This is even more extreme after the Time Skip, where further modifications have made him a lot taller and his arms massive, while his legs haven't changed a bit. Oda reveals in one SBS that he has to sleep on a special cushion due to his inability to lay dow normally thanks to the massive spheres on his shoulders. Franky Shogun, just like him, has massive arms and an even bigger torso, but stick-like legs.
• Trouser Space: Apparently he keeps the hammer he uses to build things in his speedo...
• Trrrilling Rrrs: His Japanese voice-over emphasizes a lot of his 'R's.
  "Good smell! Flllllavor!"
• Unfortunate Names: His real name is Cutty Flam. Iceberg, one of the few who knows it, was the one who convinced him to change it.
• Vitriolic Best Buds: He and Iceburg can't go five seconds without getting into dumb arguments, but the two of them are brothers through and through. Iceberg even lampshades it.
  "Look at us... we yell as soon as we look at each other. You jerk! I'm glad you're alive!"
• Walking Swimsuit Scene: He is a Parody of this in every sense of the word, considering he wears a speedo.
• We Can Rebuild Him: More like "He Can Rebuild Himself". He became a cyborg after being run over by the Puffing Tom, surviving, and then refitting his own body with mechanical parts. In fact, he's rebuilt himself twice! After causing the "Nightmare of Baldimore" and incinerating his own skin, he rebuilds himself into an even bigger and more powerful body, incorporating plans from Dr. Vegapunk himself.
• Worthy Opponent: He considers Señor Pink to be worthy; the two of them reached an unspoken agreement during their fight to take each other's blows without even attempting to avoid them until one of them finally fell. Afterwards, Franky says he'd like to meet Señor again and hear the story of his wife Russian over drinks.
• Would Hit a Girl: As his fight against Baby 5 can testify.
• Wrestler in All of Us: He randomly busts out a German suplex against the Smile factory leader Kyuin, despite having never used such maneuvers before. It's implied that he learned it from fighting Señor Pink, who almost exclusively uses the manoeuvre to attack.
• You Killed My Father: Franky utterly loathes Spandam for arresting his mentor/father-figure Tom and sentencing him to death and Franky does his best to make Spandam's life absolute hell every time they come into contact. When Spandam kicks Tom unconscious upon arrest, Franky promptly breaks his face with the butt of a rifle (permanently disfiguring him), causing Spandam much grief. But if that wasn't enough, when meeting him again after twenty years, Franky, despite being chained, bites Spandam's skull and refuses to let go, forcing Kumadori to separate them. But Franky doesn't just perform physical revenge for Tom, he also burns Tom's blueprints for Pluton, the Ancient Weapon (which the The Government have been seeking for years) directly in front of Spandam's face, causing Spandam to go spare.

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