Seven Warlords Of The Sea

Seven Warlords Of The Sea (七武海)

The Seven Warlords of the Sea (七武海, Shichibukai?) are extremely powerful pirates who have allied themselves with the World Government. They hand over a fraction of their loot to the Government. Other pirates consider the Seven Warlords to be “government dogs”.ch.69 For their allegiance, the World Government pardons these pirates for their crimes and removes their bounties.ch.342 The Seven Warlords are loosely based on the privateers of Europe, government endorsed pirates considered heroes in their homeland and pillagers in others.ch.260

Blackbeard
Marshall D. Teach (マーシャル・D・ティーチ, Māsharu D. Tīchi?), better known as Blackbeard (黒ひげ, Kurohige?), is named after the real pirate Edward Teachch.474. The Dark-Dark Fruit (ヤミヤミの実, Yami Yami no Mi?) grants him the ability to create and control gravity fields, which are represented as a flowing darkness.ch.441 As a member of the Whitebeard Pirates,ch.159 he killed one of his crewmates to get hold of the devil fruit he had sought for several decades.ch.440 For that reason, he is pursued by Ace who eventually confronts him.ch.159 After defeating Ace and turning him in to the World Government, he is appointed the replacement for Sir Crocodile as one of the Seven Warlords of the Sea.ch.486 His ultimate goal, which he has already schemed, is to become King of the Pirates.ch.440 He is voiced by Akio Ohtsuka in the Japanese mediaep.146 and by Cole Brown in the Funimation English dub.ep.146

Blackbeard’s crew is made up of Jesus Burgess (ジーザス･バージェス, Jīzasu Bājesu?, G. Zass Burgess in the 4Kids dub), a brawny man who wears a wrestling mask, Van Auger (ヴァン･オーガー, Van Ōgā?, Van Ogre in the 4Kids dub), a sharpshooter nicknamed “The Supersonic”, Laffit (ラフィット, Rafitto?), a pale tap dancer, and Doc Q (ドクQ, Doku Kyū?), a sickly doctor nicknamed the “God of Death”,ch.234 who rides on an equally sickly horse named Stronger (ストロンガー, Sutorongā?).ch.223 Later in the series, the chief jailor of the World Government’s prison Impel Down, the swordsman Shiryu (シリュウ, Shiryū?), nicknamed “Shiryu of the Rain” (「雨のシリュウ」, “Ame no Shiryū”?), defects and is recruited into the crew.ch.549

Bartholomew Kuma
Bartholomew Kuma (バーソロミュー・くま, Bāsoromyū Kuma?) is one of the Seven Warlords of the Sea. He has a reputation to be the only Warlord truly obedient to the World Government.ch.474 He ate the devil fruit called Paw-Paw Fruit (ニキュニキュの実, Nikyu Nikyu no Mi?) and thus gained the ability to repel anything he touches with his palms, including physical objects such as people or air as well as abstracts such as pain and fatigue.ch.484,485 Kuma is the model for the Pacifista (パシフィスタ, Pashifisuta?), a class of experimental cyborgs, created by the Marine scientist, Doctor Vegapunk. Their bodies are made of a substance harder than steel and from their mouths they can shoot blasts so powerful that they melt even metal.ch.485 The other pacifista look just like Kuma, sharing his abnormally large stature, but lack the Warlord’s devil fruit ability. Instead, Vegapunk gave them the ability to shoot laser beams, like those created by Admiral Kizaru’s devil fruit ability, from the palms of their hands.ch.508,509 Kuma and his copies are voiced by Hideyuki Hori in the Japanese version of the anime.ep.399

Gecko Moria
Gecko Moria (ゲッコー･モリア, Gekkō Moria?) is the captain of the island sized ship Thriller Bark and one of the Seven Warlords of the Sea.ch.448 The Shadow-Shadow Fruit (カゲカゲの実, Kage Kage no Mi?) grants him the ability to control his shadow, allowing it to act completely independent from his body,ch.463 and to control the shadows of others.ch.455 Because his last crew was entirely annihilated in the New World,ch.481 he creates a completely obedient, immortal army of zombies by implanting stolen shadows into corpses,ch.457 patched up using the talents of the medical genius Doktor Hogback (ドクトル・ホグバック, Dokutoru Hogubakku?).ch.449 Moria is voiced by Katsuhisa Hōki in the Japanese version of the anime.ep.343

Hundreds of zombies make up the crew of Thriller Bark, the number of which grows even further as Moria uses Luffy’s shadow to revive the body of Oz (オーズ, Ōzu?) an extremely large giant who ruled a country of brigands during his lifetime five hundred years before his resurrection.ch.456–457 Moria also has Perona (ペローナ?) and Absalom of the Graveyard (墓場のアブサロム, Hakaba no Abusaromu?) under his command. Perona is a woman with the power of the Hollow-Hollow Fruit (ホロホロの実, Horo Horo no Mi?), allowing her to create various ghosts that can either explode upon command or cause severe depression in an opponent.ch.461,465 Absalom is a man augmented by Hogback with various animal parts, whose devil fruit ability allows him to turn himself and anything he touches invisible.ch.464 Oda said that, in preparation for drawing the Thriller Bark arc, he watched a lot of zombie movies and that because he dislikes scary things, he tried to create zombies which looked silly and funny in spite of the increased amount of black in his art during the arc.ch.500

Boa Hancock
The “Pirate Empress” (「海賊女帝」, “Kaizoku Jotei”?) Boa Hancock (ボア・ハンコック, Boa Hankokku?) is a woman of extraordinary beauty, the sole female member of the Seven Warlords of the Sea, captain of the all-female Kuja Pirates (九蛇海賊団, Kuja Kaizokudan?), and ruler of Amazon Lily (アマゾン・リリー, Amazon Rirī?), an island populated solely by women.ch.516 During their childhood, she and her two sisters were sold as slaves to the Celestial Dragons (天竜人, Tenryūbito?), who forced them to eat devil fruits. She and her sisters still bear the brand of the Celestial Dragons on their backs. To conceal their shameful past from their kinswomen the sisters concocted a story about having defeated a Gorgon, claiming that their strange abilities were the result of the Gorgon’s curse and that they have cursed eyes on their backs that would turn anyone who sees them into stone.ch.517,521 Hancock consumed the Mero Mero no Mi (メロメロの実?) which gave her the ability to turn anyone charmed by her into stone.ch.516,521 Eventually, she falls in love with Luffy.ch.522 She is voiced by Kotono Mitsuishi in Japanese.

Her younger sisters both ate a model of the Hebi Hebi no Mi (ヘビヘビの実?, lit. “Snake-Snake Fruit”). The middle sister, Boa Sandersonia (ボア・サンダーソニア, Boa Sandāsonia?), ate the anaconda model. The youngest sister, Boa Marigold (ボア・マリーゴールド, Boa Marīgōrudo?) ate the king cobra model. These fruits’ abilities allow them to turn into large snake-human hybrid creatures or pure snakes of their respective models.ch.519

Dracule Mihawk
Dracule Mihawk (ジュラキュール・ミホーク, Jurakyūru Mihōku?), better known as “Hawk-Eyes” Mihawk, is a member of the Seven Warlords of the Sea and the strongest swordsman in the world.ch.50,52,69 He is a pale skinned man who travels in a small boat that is shaped like a coffin.ch.50 In battle he either wields a knife that he carries as pendant around his neck or—if he fights a worthy opponent—a two-handed sword, with a black, single edged, curved blade.ch.51 Both weapons bear a resemblance to the Christian cross, a resemblance that was removed in the 4Kids dub by shortening their crossguards.ep.23 He is voiced by Takeshi Aono in the Japanese version of the anime.ep.24 In the English dubs he is voiced by Wayne Grayson for 4Kidsep.23 and by John Gremillion for Funimation.ep.24

Donquixote Doflamingo
Donquixote Doflamingo (ドンキホーテ・ドフラミンゴ, Donkihōte Dofuramingo?) is a member of the Seven Warlords of the Sea who has the ability to control others using movements similar to a puppeteer.ch.231 He believes that the Great Age of Piracy is nearing its end and a new age is about to begin.ch.303 He owns a large auction house on the Sabaody Archipelago, where human and people of other species are sold as slaves.ch.504 In the Japanese media, he is voiced by Hideyuki Tanaka.ep.151 In the Funimation English dub, he is voiced by Robert McCollum.ep.151

His crew is introduced as the Bellamy Pirates, captained by “The Hyena”, Bellamy (ベラミー, Beramī?),ch.222,223 named after the real pirate Samuel Bellamy,ch.230 whose Spring-Spring Fruit (バネバネの実, Bane Bane no Mi?) ability allows him to turn his legs into springs. Using this ability, Bellamy is able to bounce off surfaces to gain velocity for his attacks.ch.231 His first mate, “Big Knife” Sarquiss (サーキース, Sākīsu?), is a tall man who fights using an overly large kukri knife.ch.303

Jimbei
Jimbeich.69 (ジンベエ, Jinbee?) is a yakuza-esque whale shark fishman and the sole member of his species among the Seven Warlords of the Sea.ch.528 In exchange for the World Government granting him Warlord-status, he disbanded his pirate crew of fishmen, part of which became the crew of Arlong.ch.69 Though the World Government knows him as a pirate-hating pirate, he has a weakness for Whitebeard and his men, due to Whitebeard’s declaration that Fishman Island is his territory and thus under his protection, which scares off slave traders and pirates and brought peace to the area.ch.529 For refusing to raise a hand against Whitebeard, Jimbei is thrown into the world’s greatest prison, Impel Down, until he agrees to go to war against Whitebeard.ch.523