What's going on? Everyone? Axle beats here for anime Uproar. One Piece
has always been filled with iconic, powerful groups of characters that the entire balance
of the world seems to be shifted around. We have the Admirals, the
Yanko, the Supernova, and the topic of today's video, the Seven Warlords
of the Sea. If you're enjoying our one piece content and you want to
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those videos as we do release them. And as always, there will be
spoilers ahead, so please proceed with caution. You have been warned. The
Warlords are, of course, a group of hired pirates who agree to work
with the World Government in exchange for amnesty. Basically, as long as they
come when the World Government calls for them, they have the right to do
anything they want. And while this might seem like a pretty insane idea,
it actually comes from our own real world history of privateer pirates. Essentially,
governments would hire pirates back in the day to attack merchant ships and village of
rival nations, which is a bit of a moral gray area, and just
like we might have questions about that sort of thing. Characters like Admiral Fujitora
and Smoker both opposed the warlord system in the World one piece as well,
with Fujitora even leading to the dissipation of the warlord system in its entirety.
However, their impact has already been felt by the world at this point.
Firstly, nations like Alabasta and dress Rosa, where warlords crocodile and do Flamingo
ran rampant are obviously greatly affected by the blind eye that the government turned towards
them. But then you have things like the Pasaphistas, which were created in
Kuma's image, or the more modern variants the seraphim, which seemed to be
the culmination of the World Government's experimentations on Kuma and other characters like King and
all of these seraphims seem to take the form of younger versions of the warlords
and will no doubt be used to stop anyone who stands against the World Government.
So far, we've seen S hawk, as Bear, S Snake,
and S Shark, but that leave the question of who else we're going to
see. The original seven warlords all had an animal theme to them, and
those seem to be the ones that are being first produced into Seraphim. But
of course, these seven Warlords of the Sea aren't only seven people. We
also have four replacements over the years, and one pirate who was asked to
be a warlord but turned it down. So are all of these pirates also
on the table, because if so, we could be in force some crazy
developments in the future. That said, because of the Seraphim, there have
obviously been eyes drawn back to the warlord and based on the ones we've seen
having very similar abilities to be warlords there based on we wanted to take a
moment to look back on all of the warlords, their stories, and their
abilities to give us an idea of what is to come. Because while many
of the warlords might not have aged amazingly well throughout the series, I'm looking
at you Maria as a unit, and in combination with all these Seraphim abilities,
they would be a truly terrifying force. Let's start things off with the
original seven animal inspired war lords. The first warlord that we come across in
the story is arguably one of the most threatening in the series. Dracuele Hawk
Eye Meehawk is the strongest swordsman in the world and is currently the highest known
living bounty on any character who is not a Yanco, that being three billion,
five hundred and ninety million. His design, as the name Draccuele might
suggest, is very reminiscent to a Gothic vampire mixed with a bit of a
Renaissance eras swordsman vibe, which, let's be real, is one of the
coolest things that Odah has ever come up with. It's just very clean,
very imposing, and gets the idea of his character across a rate away.
Mehawk, for the most part, is a stoic character, rarely showing emotions
and always carrying that air of superiority with him. That said, in situations
where he crosses paths with someone that he actually respects or who he takes an
interest in, he does seem to loosen up quite a bit. Specifically,
we've seen this with Shanks, Zoro, Loofy, Crocodile, and Checks No
Lightning mcguy. One of these things is not like the other as a whole,
though Mehawk prefers isolation. He makes his home and the essentially empty Muggy
Kingdom as a means of keeping distance from others. That said, we see
him allowing Zoro to stay with him in train, we see Prona becoming a
travel partner, and we see him visiting Shanks very early on the story.
So while he might prefer to be alone, he obviously isn't as cold and
standoffish as he might first appear. Speaking of Shanks, Meehawk was Shanks's rival
up until Shanks lost his arm to the Sea King when saving Lufy, and
at that point it was decided that the rivalry was no longer fair and Mehawk
lost interest in the rivalry altogether. They did, however, remain on fairly
good terms going forward, as Mehawk seems to genuinely respect Shanks in fact,
in marine for it. He even murmurs an apology to Shanks when he says
he's going all out against Lufy and leaves the battle when Shanks arrives, saying
that battling Shanks would be beyond the scope of his agreement with the World Government.
And take note of that battling Whitebeard was within the scope, Battling Shanks
is out of the scope. Now, that's all good and grand, but
what about what the people Mehawk doesn't like? While normally calm and collected,
Nehawk also has a bit of a playful, sadistic side and often acts on
his whims. Our first time learning about him, we have don Kreig attacking
him on the Grand Line, and then Mehawk destroying his fleet and following the
survivors back to the East Blue just to cut up their ship when he reached
them, all just because he was bored. He didn't even consider Kreig a
threat. He was just letting off steam. But let's talk about Mehawk's actual
abilities. One of the first things we see in the series is Zoro taking
on Mehawk, only for his greatest efforts to be stopped by what is essentially
a pocket knife, immediately showing an insurmountable gap in their abilities In terms of
power. We've seen him slicing through ships and massive icebergs from a long distance,
and when Marine Ford comes around. He's also shown to be fast enough
to keep up with Lufy's second gear with ease, not to mention his reaction
speed, being quick enough to deflect bullets and redirect them with his sword,
and all of this without ever seeing him really put in any effort at all.
The dude is serious business. And then you have his hockey, of
which Mehawk is skilled in both observation and armament. However, we haven't seen
any indication of Conqueror's hockey from him, while his armament is likely top tier.
What Mehawk is really known for is his observation hockey with eyesight that is
able to keep track of things moving at great speed, which allows him to
act with great precision, earning him the epithet hawk eye. And speaking of
which, his eyes do resemble that of a hawk, and there might be
more to that revealed in the future. Finally, we should talk about his
weapon, Yoru. Yoru is one of the twelve Supreme Blades and it's a
massive, curved black blade with a cross leg guard. It is devastatingly powerful.
However, he only uses it against people who have earned his respect.
For others, he always has his small knife inside his pendant, which despite
its size, can be combined with his mastery of swordsmanship to remain a deadly
threat. But what does this all mean for the s hawk seraphim abilities.
Well, firstly, all seraphim are likely extremely durable and seem to be upgraded
versions of the original Passapistas, complete with their laser based abilities, which are
similar to the Pica Picaomi. The bodies of the Seraphim seem to be artificial
lunarians, so we likely have a similar situation to King's flames being linked to
his durability. S Hawks specifically, though, is likely among the fastest models
of the Seraphim and uses a sword in combat. The interesting question here is
what kind of sword does he use? Is it just a knockoff Yoru with
an average blade, or was he supplied with another Supreme grade sword. If
the World Government does have access to other Supreme grade swords, this is probably
where I would want to put it if I was them. Today we've only
seen four of the twelve Supreme Grade those being Yoru, Shodai, Kettsu,
Muroku, Molghiri, and Ace, and I'm sure we're going to see a
few more within the World Government itself and maybe in the Revolutionary Army or among
the giants on Elbath, but it would be very interesting to see one of
the Seraphim holding a Supreme Gray weapon as welles Hawk will also likely have improved
observation abilities which might allow him to find enemies more easily, or maybe allow
him to fight in less visible conditions like fog. Notably, es Hawk,
like the other Seraphim, also has a tube full of liquid on his right
arm. That said, we still don't know what this is. It could
enable other abilities, or it could be some kind of fuel supply. We'll
have to wait and see, but for now, let's move on to jen
Bay. Gene Bay, of course, grew up in the Orphanage which became
the Fishman District, along with Arlong and Fisher Tiger, and at a very
early age he earned his black belt in Fishman Karate, showing himself to be
a prodigy almost immediately. As he grew older, he would become a soldier
in Neptune's army. However, he would eventually resign to going Fisher Tiger's son
Pirates. While in the Sun Pirates, gene Bay would earn a name for
himself, and after Fisher Tiger's death, he even racked up a bounty of
two hundred and fifty million, ultimately leading to the World government offering him a
position as warlord, which gene Bay would accept in hopes of building a better
future between fishmen and humanity, hoping to live a life which would work towards
the dreams of Queen Otohime and Fisher Tiger. That said, we don't really
get to see geene Bay working for the World Government, as our first interaction
with him is an impel down where he shared a cell with Ace because he
refused to go to war with Whitebeard. Since then, though, we've had
a much more flushed out look at gene Bay, starting with his position in
Big Mom's crew and working towards becoming a straw hat. He has always been
demonstrated to be incredibly powerful and impel down. We see him taking down huge
groups of guards with a single punch, not making contact with any of them,
and in Marine Ford he goes one on one beating Maria with literally no
effort. While definitely not on the level of admirals, he is able to
hold his own against any opponent, even managing to take similar attacks to the
one that killed Ace, and continuing on fairly well. Later on Fishman Islands,
we see him managing to punch Waatsume up into the air, as well
as beating the Tobiropo member Who's who in a fight in Wano, so it's
safe to say he's pretty powerful and considerably durable as well, all of which
is amplified when he's underwater as he's a fishman. On top of that,
he is such a master of fishman karate that his punches don't need to make
contact with his enemies, as just the particles of water in the air surrounding
him becomes strong enough to compress, twist, and launch back enemies around him.
He can even manipulate the water within people's body or secrete water from himself,
like Hody Jones did after overdosing on energy steroids. When it comes to
fishban karate and the manipulation of water, Genebay is just the expert. And
then you have to take into account his armament Hockey, which allows him to
do things like fight with Ace for five days on equal footing despite Ace being
a loggia user. It was shown to be rible enough to protect him from
Big Mom's kniac and from Who's Who's rokoshiki abilities, And of course Ginbay is
also a talented observation user. As a whole, He's just an extremely well
rounded fighter that, while probably not top tier, he's gonna do okay no
matter who he's against. He might not win every fight, but he'll probably
survive no matter who the opponent is. After wan O, Ginbey's bounty shoots
up to one point one billion as a result of him being a former warlord,
being instrumental in the founding of the Sun Pirates, having ties to Rigu
Kingdom, and being a former powerhouse member of the Big Mom crew, as
well as now being on another Youngko's crew in the Straw Hats. One point
one billion puts him in the top twenty known pirate bounties in the series Dead
or Alive, as a testament to how influential and powerful his character really is.
But aside from his just fear battle abilities, gin Bay is also a
masterful helmsman who can understand and manipulate the water around the Sunny to allow his
crew to battle or to escape, or to fight regardless of the situation they
find themselves in. We even see him traveling through a massive wave while being
chased by Bigmong. He can also communicate with animals on some level, although
it is specifically with sea creatures. Interestingly, this is supposed to be only
for murfolk, but Genebay is capable of doing it as well. Most notably,
he does this to summon a massive pod of whale sharks to help escape
the combat as Lufi and the prisoners are leading Intel down. Finally, Genebay
is obviously where the S Shark seraphim comes from. It appears like a younger
gene Bay with lunarian features. But where it gets interesting is that S Shark
seems to have an artificial version of Senor Pink's swim swim fruit, allowing him
to swim through solid surfaces and to use fishmen karate with the ground that he
liquefies. This is notable for so many things. Firstly, if S Shark
has a devil fruit, he can't swim in water, so he can't get
the normal benefits that a fishman would have in water, but he instead replaces
those with on land effects, or at least in land effects. Second,
it means that the World Government managed to make another successful artificial devil fruit.
More specifically, this is a fruit that is perfect for Jane Bay and not
one that the World Government should have access to directly. As I said,
the original swim swim fruit user is Senor Pink and while Dofi is a warlord.
This implies that the government was able to access not only the warlord's fruits,
but also their crews, meaning the Seraphim have the potential for any devil
fruit belonging to any warlord or their crew, which opens a lot of doors
for them. If that's the requirement at all, It could be even more
broad than that. They might simply be able to duplicate any fruit in the
encyclopedia. However, if that was the case, I doubt they would have
needed to perform experiments on Kaido to duplicate his fruit. Speaking of the copied
version of Kaido's fruit is weaker and a bit faulty compared to the original,
so these fruit might not be optimal either. It's probably safe to say that
they don't up to the original versions of these fruit, but I would imagine
they are still fairly powerful either way. On to the next warlord with Bartholom
Kuma. Bartholomy the Tyrant Kuma is a twenty two foot tall man who looks
like a missionary, carrying a Bible everywhere he goes. As the name Kuma
suggests, he is based on a bear and has several bear like features,
but the most iconic of which are the popads on his hand, which come
from the devil fruit he has. Prior to becoming a warlord of Kuma was
the king of the Sorbet Kingdom. However, he was deposed by his people
for being a tyrant. His daughter, Bonnie, though, suggests that there's
more to the story, and then he is simply someone who was painted as
a tyrant by the World Government for standing up against them while he was king.
Exiled from his nation due to the World Government's intervention, Kuma would become
a pirate and eventually joined the Revolutionary Army in the opposition to that World government.
In doing so, he racked up a bounty of at least two hundred
and ninety six million berries. However, eventually he would be captured by the
Marines and was originally sentenced to life imprisonment, but Vegapunk took an interest in
his unique body and got him a pardon in exchange for becoming a test subject.
Through the experiments performed on him, Vegapunk would turn him into the first
Pasafista, a living cyborg weapon. On top of this, his clones would
be turned into future models of Pasaphista's. Finally, Kuma would lose his entire
sense of self little by little as he was replaced with more and more machinery,
though there does seem to be at least a shred of the original Kuma
still inside based on recent chapters. So let's talk Kuma's abilities. Firstly,
we gotta mention his devil fruit. The Papa fruit is a paramecia that puts
pawpads on his hands. These allow him to completely deflect anything that comes into
contact with him. At a base level, this means he could stop things
like swords, punches, or cannonballs with his hands. But this is a
very unique fruit in how it allows for some more complex and imaginative options.
Kuma can deflect pockets of air as blasts towards his enemy, or he can
condense that air in front of him into an extremely pressurized ball that devastates anything
it touches. He can propel things like pain out of people and make them
into their own, separate and tangible thing. And most importantly, he can
bounce himself or others to make them move at incredible speeds to wherever he would
like, even to locations that would take several days of flight to reach,
and then we have his pacifistam modifications, each of which give him a boost
to his natural strength, speed, and durability. Prior to being fully converted
into a machine, Kuma was strong enough to completely overwhelm the entire straw Hat
crew without any real resistance, moving too fast for them to react, not
being able to be damaged by them, and just overall demonstrating what a terrifying
force of power he was. He also has lasers very similar to the Pica
Pica gnomi, which are strong enough to melt steel. All of these extra
adaptations seem to be the baseline for the seraphim that followed him, except in
their cases they also have the extra lunarian traits and other devil fruits in place
of the papap fruit. However, the s Bear seraphim based on Kuma also
does seem to have this papap fruit, as he was used to transport CP
zero onto Egghead Island almost instantaneously. So with that said, it is likely
the case that if a warlord already does have a fruit, and if an
artificial version of that same fruit is available, and the seraphim modeled after them
will use that same fruit, and in es Bear's case, this means that
he is able to offer some astonishing mobility and defensive abilities for whoever is using
him at that time. Next up, the snake Princess Boa Hancock aka the
Pirate Empress. We love Boa in this house? Does she kick puppies?
Yeah? Is that a problem? No? She's hot. Unlike the previous
warlords, Boa doesn't have any animal features herself, but she does have a
pet snake to fill in that gap. There's a joke there, I'm sure,
but we're gonna move on. When she was twelve, Boa and her
sisters were captured by slavers and sold to the royal government. It would be
held there for four years until Fisher Tiger liberated them. While they were held
as slaves, though these sisters were experienced unimaginable horrors, and the meadow metronomy
would be force fed to Boa because the captors thought it would be fun.
Now, why would a bunch of grown men feed the love love fruit to
a child? I don't know, but it is probably related to her immense
hatred for men. You can fill in the blanks yourself. The love Love
fruit which they fed to her was hopefully not very useful as a child,
but as an adult it is pretty impactful for her allows her to prey on
the lustful or perverse feelings of others and turn them into stone. We've seen
this used on large groups of people all at once, as they swooned over
Hancock. But even in the rare circumstance that someone is not attracted to her,
she's able to combine her fruit with her own body, meaning that if
she kicks someone, for example, the part of the body that she kicked
will turn to stone and become brittle. Anything turned to stone by Oah will
remain stone until she undoes the effect herself, and even if she dies,
they won't return to normal. Otherwise. That said, if part of your
head was turned to stone and cracked off, I'm not sure it would be
a great idea to turn it back to normal. Either way, it's a
pretty powerful fruit in her hands, which also leans into her title of snake.
Princess Boa is the ruler of the Kuja, an isolated group of women
who live on Amazon Lily who are fiddingly based on Themiscira and the Amazon women
of Greek mythology. Likely this is also why BoA's abilities seem to be so
similar to the Greek gorgon Medusa. No men are allowed to enter Amazon Lily
other than Lufy and Raleigh, and any who do make it onto the island
will be turned to stone by Boa. It's kind of a perfect defense for
her island. It is also important to note that while Boa was a warlord,
she literally never did anything the government wanted because she hates them so much.
Even the call to Marine Ford and the threat of losing her war lordship
was not a good enough reason to get her to act on their behalf,
and it was only because Lufy needed a ride to impel Down that she agreed
to go. But even when the war started, she was as much a
threat to the Marines as she was the pirates. Naturally, a few situations
would lead her fruit to being much less effective. Firstly, if the opponent
is blind, like Fuji Toora, they're probably less likely to be hit by
the effects. Not that she is an extra flirty and seductive when she wants
to actually turn people to stone anyways, so if she flirts the right way,
I'm sure that could still work. Then we have people like Lufy who
are just unaware of what sexuality is, and they are entirely unaffected, or
in cases like Mehawk and Smoker, where they're just too serious or too strong
willed and are able to resist the effects. In general, even outside of
her fruit, though, Boa is pretty powerful. She's strong enough to kick
through Stone or knock away Smoker, and she's incredibly agile and quick. I
consider her fighting style to be very similar to Sandy's, although he seems to
pack a much bigger punch or kick, and exchanged for getting to enhance her
kicks with the Love Love fruit. She's a real force to be reckoned with,
and that's probably why her bounty is one billion, six hundred and fifty
nine million. In terms of hockey, Boa has access to observation, armament,
and conqueror sackey, although we rarely see her using any of these.
Finally, Boa can be pretty deceptive and cunning unless Lupi is around. When
he is, he turns into a complete doting dummy. Now let's talk about
s Snake. Obviously, she is a younger looking Boa with all the normal
seruph and bonuses. But I am curious as to how the devil fruit will
be implemented. I'm hoping they don't go with the it works the same way
look at this child and turn to stone, because that could be awkward.
But there are two ways I could see it working. Firstly, isolate the
ability that turns people to stone. I don't see this happening as most of
the artificial devil fruits seem to be weakened, not enhanced versions of the original.
So if we're going to keep it, I would like to go with
the second option, where we play it off as a gag. We have
this seraphim who is totally confident in her powers and trying to turn people to
stone, and they're just like, I think I'm gonna pass actually, and
that could be a bit of a fun bit. Of course, we don't
know if she'll even have the same devil fruit or if it will be replaced
with something else, but time will tell. Next up, we have Crocodile.
While not having any animal features himself, like Boa, it's made up
for by his pets. Crocodile has an entire collection of banana wannie, basically
giant crocodiles. Yes they're crocodiles. I know the dub calls them banana gators,
but look at their teeth. Those are some giant crocodiles, and they
have bananas growing out of their head. Now, it could also be argued
that the scar across crocodile's face is meant to look like a crocodile's mouth,
but personally, I'm not big on that IDEA crocodile himself looks more like a
mob boss fitted with a giant, poisonous pirate hook, and that's pretty fitting
considering he ran an underground pirate crime syndicate called Broke Works. His original goal
in the series was to use his immunity as a warlord to go unimpeded as
he took over Alabasta. To do this, he would use rain powder and
his devil fruit to bring a several year long drought to the country and place
the blame on King Cobra as he positioned himself to be a hero in the
people's eyes. All of this to gain access to the Royal Tomb, where
he could use Nico Robin to read the ponoglyphs and locate the ancient weapon Pluton,
a ship so powerful it could obliterate an entire island and effectively make him
the king of the world. And that is kind of Crocodile in a nutshell.
He is manipulative, he's willing to ruin other people's lives to get ahead,
but most of all, he is organized and looks at the big picture,
often relying on others to do the dirty works so that he can remain
in the clear. That said, he's also very prideful and very much an
opportunist. For example, even though he hates Lufy, he's willing to work
with him to escape impelled down, even if he needs a bit of coaxing
from Eva, who seems to have some dirt on him that he doesn't want
to be made public. Something to note about Crocodile is that while he can
be a bit of a bastard, it is also undeniable that his underlings are
completely loyal towards him, with the best example being das Bones, who would
just about die for Crocodile if he wanted him to. This being incredibly relevant
as he and Kneehawk came together with Buggy to create the Cross Guild. Meehawk
has seemingly no experience with any sizeable crew, and Buggy is Buggy. So
Crocodile, with his excellent sense of organization and leadership is monumentally important for this
group. Between the three of them, Mehawk seems to bring some legitimacy and
power, Buggy seems to bring enthusiasm and his cult of personality, and Crocodile
keeps things running efficiently. But let's talk devil fruit because his is a doozy.
Being the only loggia among the original seven warlords, Crocodile has the Suna
Suna noomi, or the sand sand fruit. This allows him to turn his
body into sand and makes him impervious to any attacks that don't include hockey.
That said, he is extra week to water, as any liquids whi solidify
him and make him vulnerable to attacks. At the same time, though,
anything he touches with his right hand can be completely dehydrated and shriveled, including
any water that would touch him. So while water does counteract him more than
others, he also is a counter toward water itself. It's kind of a
who hits who first situation. With his fruit, Crocodile can produce and manipulate
sand however he would like. He can create dust devils or sandstorms, turn
the lower part of his body into sand, and propel himself forward similar to
flight, and he can even make things like plants, people, animals,
or even inorganic material like buildings completely turned to dust. Crocodile has a lot
more going for him than most of the other warlords, but most importantly,
he's just very well rounded and effective. That everything he does is smart,
confident, powerful, charismatic, and his devil fruit is insane and speaking of
which, it's one that a seraphim would be mind blowingly powerful if it had
its Pretty interesting though, especially because we've seen a loggia being integrated with other
pasafistas with the Pika Pica Nomi, so we aren't really sure if logia can
be introduced in the same way as other fruits, so we'll have to see
how that actually plays out in integrating that fruit with the new seraphim. I'd
say that at a base it would be able to create and manipulate sand while
also dehydrating things. I'm not sure if it would be able to turn itself
into sand like a normal logi it does, though. Next up the warlord
with one of the coolest devil fruits and the most useless personality, Gecko Moria.
His name is based on a pun where Toka gay means lizard in Japanese
and kagay means shadow, so the dark and gloomy dude gets the name lizard.
That said, in terms of design, he's obviously a lot more like
a bat, but I guess we're not going with that. Moria comes in
just a little bit taller than Kuma, and his body is almost completely opposite.
Wakuma looks incredibly top heavy, like a dude who's never worked out his
legs in his life. Moria instead looks like a bowling pin. And I
gotta say, of all the warlords, Moria is probably tied for my least
favorite. He's just kind of really super lame to me. But let me
know if you agree in the comments. Maria had a bounty of three hundred
and twenty million when he led the Gecko Pirates against the Beast Pirates and Juano
twenty years ago. In this battle, Maria's entire crew was killed, leaving
him with nothing, so instead he looked towards creating an undead crew that could
rival Kaido. Before leaving Juanna, he would pillage Reuma's grave, stealing his
body and Machi suite, and then would return to the West Blue, where
he constructed through ler Bark and joined the warlords. From here, he would
have people like Absalom, Perona, and doctor Hogback joined his crew, and
together they would create and lead his zombie Island. With the power of his
devil fruit, Moria would set up through ler Bark in the Florian Triangle to
prey on lost ships, abducting their crew and stealing their shadows to create more
zombies. Eventually he would find Brook and five years after that the straw Hats
would arrive and put a stop to him. Recently, we saw him attacking
Hachinosu Island and Blackbeard. However, we have yet to learn what happened in
this incident, other than finding out that Absalom was killed and that Blackbeard ended
up inviting Maria to join his crew. While Maria is a bit of a
dud, his devil fruit most certainly isn't. The kage kage Nomi or shadow
shadow fruit enables Maria to steal the shadows of other people and insert them into
other bodies. If he places them into a living body, that person becomes
more powerful. If he places them into a dead body, he can create
a zombie that he has complete control over. In the event the shadow belongs
to someone with significant willpower. They might not be under his control immediately,
but over time they will quickly begin to listen to him. There doesn't seem
to be a limit to how many zombies Maria can control, and the power
of the zombie is proportional to both the shadows original owner and the strength of
the new body that they find themselves in, which is why Brooks shadow in
Willyuma's body was stronger than Brook was. So hypothetically, Maria could create an
infinite and all powerful army if he got his hands on enough people. For
those whose shadows have been stolen, they will fall into a two day long
coma and then must stay out of direct sunlight or they will burst into ashes
and die, and once they die, the zombie their shadow is in will
also be killed off. The only way to break this curse without Maria's permission
is for the zombie housing their shadow to consume salt. Even without zombies,
though, the fruit offers some really cool powers for Maria. He can manifest
his shadow into a tangible physical form that can be used to grab or attack
others or to protect Maria. He can produce a nearly invulnerable shield, or
he could make a shadow copy of himself that effectively functions like a Loggia user,
being completely malleable and able to move however Maria would like him to.
On top of that, Maria can instantly swap places with this shadow whenever he
wants, making him super difficult to pin down. That said, Maria has
no mention of hockey, which is so pathetic. Finally, Maria can remove
of the shadow from his zombies and consume them to power himself up. As
we see with shadow Asgard, the more he consumes, the stronger he gets,
but also the more disgusting he looks. The implications this offers in a
Seraphim probably being called s bat are pretty obvious. Being able to create an
army to multiply their own strength or to create a shadow double is just ridiculous.
It means that along with the army of seraphim, you'll also have to
contest with an army of zombies, and as the Seraphim seemed much stronger than
Maria, they could definitely collect shadows belonging to much stronger people. Next up,
we have someone with a fairly similar power in some regards to Maria's Do
Flamingo with his feather Boa styled after a Flamingo, is probably the most just
straight up evil of the original warlords. Originally he was a celestial dragon.
However, his father Homing, decided that he wanted to live among the common
people. The people, though in his new town, rejected the don Quixote
family, burning down on their mansion, attacking them and forcing them to live
in a small shed and eat from garbage in retribution for the evils enacted by
the other world nobles. Dofi hated his father for making this choice, and
even more so when the living conditions caused his mother to fall ill and pass
away. However, the breaking point came when the villagers got together lynched the
remaining family members, stringing them high up on a wall above flames, and
berated them and shot at them. Here, Dophie would awaken his conqueror's hockey
and declare that he would burn the whole world to the ground. Soon after,
he would be found by Treble and start the Do Flamingo family. This
would go pretty well for him until his brother Rosinante would betray him, acting
as a double agent for Sengokup, leading Dophy to trust very few people and
becoming an even more angry person. Dofie would try to get the ape Ope
Noni so that he could have someone perform the immortality surgery on him. However,
Rosinante instead gave this to Law and then hid him away so that he
could not be found. Over the following years, Dophie would gain a bounty
of three hundred and forty million berries before being picked up by the world government
to act as a warlord, and like Crocodile, he would use this immunity
to conquer a nation. He chose dress Rosa, using his devil fruit to
cause the king to attack his people that in, presenting himself as a hero
who would step in to save them, only to become their next mad king.
This would last until Lufi and the straw Hats showed up and free the
nation from them. That said, Dophy is one of the most important characters
in the series, as he seems to be informed about some of the secrets
of the world. He knows about the immortality surgery, he knows about the
secret treasure of Marie Joas, and he talks about an upcoming war for the
empty throne. It seems like many of the unanswered questions that the audience still
has. Dophi has the answers too, So let's talk devil fruit. Dophi
has the itto eto noomia, or the string string fruit. This allows him
to create and manipulate strings that are incredibly durable and super sharp. It's a
very versatile ability and offers a lot more than you might think. For example,
Dophy can attach these strings to clouds and use them to swing from like
Spider Man, meaning he can essentially fly as long as it isn't too clear
of a day. Then we have Dophy's go to ability parasite attaching strings to
people, he can control every movement they make. He can make string clones,
a giant shrinking bird cage that slices through everything in his path. He
could slash through things with his strings, raise their temperature, to melt through
things, shoot strings like bullets, and like a million other things. And
that's before Awakening, where he turns everything around him into strings as well that
he can control. Dophy is basically evil Spider Man on crack, and that's
before we even get to his hockey, having Conqueror's hockey strong enough to knock
out the majority of g five marines in punk hazard armament hockey that is top
tier, allowing him to cut Smoker, resist Lufy's jet gatling, and send
Lufy flying with a punch, as well as being strong enough to resist laws
slicing abilities inside of room and also having observation Mackey. Although it's unclear to
what level, the dude is crazy strong, crazy, versatile, and it's
obvious why he was able to push Lufy to as much of his limits as
he did. Much like Maria Serafim, a dope Flamingo Serafim model would be
crazy. Having access to all of these string string fruit abilities would make that
model an absolute threat, but it's what happens when paired with the other Serafim
models that makes it a very terrifying ability. This is kind of where the
combos begin to come into play, because together warlords can do some insane stuff.
Imagine in the situation where we have S Bar S, Snake, s
Bats and s Flamingo names pending Bear launches Snake into a group where she uses
her devil fruit to turn people into stone. Then you have Bat and Flamingo
walk in to steal their shadows and put parasites on them, meaning we can
create a zombie that's just as strong as they are, also controlling their main
body, and all of this can happen within a matter of seconds. And
in the background, I don't know, you have s sharks swimming through the
ground and cheering them on or something. We've seen the warlords fruits in isolation,
but as a team, their possibilities and combos are kind of endless.
That said, though, that wraps up the original seven, so let's talk
about their replacements. Jane Bay resigned and Crocodile, Do, Flamingo, and
Maria would all have their warlordships reversed. The first replacement would be Blackbeard Marshal
d Teach. Blackbeard remains to be one of the most interesting mysteries remaining in
the One Piece world. There are theories on just about every aspect of his
character, from his origins and being tied to rocksty Zetec to his weird body
which allowed him to eat two devil fruits and that doesn't require sleep, And
of course we have him being referred to as a they by Lufy and Zoro,
and not in the typical pronoun sense, but instead seeming to imply they
are multiple people. There's just so many unanswered threads about him, and it's
hard not to be interested. As he might assume by his name, Blackbeard
is based on the real life Blackbeard Edward Teach. Interestingly, though, the
real Blackbeard seems to have had his identity divided among three different characters on Whitebeard's
crew, with his first name Edward being given to Edward Newgate's Whitebeard Teach being
given to Marshal d Teach, and Thatch the alternative spelling of his name being
given to the person that Blackbeard would need to kill to get the Dark Dark
Fruit. And yes, I know Whitebeard's last name is from reference to the
prison. I was just talking about his first name aside from his name.
Though, Teach, at least in his post time skip section of the story,
looks much more like the real Blackbeard, although much bigger, much dirtier
somehow, and much grosser. We know that as a child, Teach was
picked up by the Whitebeard pirates, and over the years he would be offered
the role of division commander. However, he would turn this down to keep
attention off of himself. He was instead trying to buy time until the Dark
Dark Fruit appeared, and when it did he would kill Thatch to steal the
fruit and leave the Whitebeard Pirates while creating his own crew. Of course,
sometime before leaving the white Beard Pirates, he would come across Shanks and their
battle would leave a scar across Shanks's eye, as well as giving Shanks a
powerful sense of concern towards Blackbeard. We don't know exactly when this happened,
but we know Shanks already had his scar when he was staying in Fusha,
so it was a while back. Anyways, After Crocodile is removed from the
Warlord's teach sends Lafitte to the World Government to get him the title of warlord
despite not having a bounty at this point, which is very interesting considering he
had been a pirate on one of the most renowned crews for several decades.
As a warlord, he would capture Ace and give him to the World Government
so that he could be executed and thus triggering Marine Ford. However, while
everyone was busy preparing for that war, he broke into Impel down, reaching
level six and forcing the criminals at that layer to fight to the death.
Whoever survived be picked up for his crew, along with the previous head jailer
of Impel down Cherie. From here, he would wait until the Battle of
marine Ford was approaching its end and everyone was exhausted, then arriving with his
new buffed up crew, who seize the opportunity to take on Whitebeard, kill
him, and steal his devil fruit, making black Beard the only character in
the series with two fruit, both of which are insanely broken. From here,
he would enter the New World and become a Yanko. He sets up
base of operations in Hatchinosu Island, then going on to steal some of the
most powerful devil fruits that he could find in order to create the ultimate devil
fruit, empowered fruit, and that kind of brings us up to where we're
at right now, with his final bounty resting at a three billion, nine
hundred and ninety six million. Black Beard, of course, has access to
armament hockey powerful enough to stop a sword slash from s Hawk on Amazon Lily,
a slash that cut an entire mountain in half, an observation hockey that
allows him to tell how powerful other people are. We often see him gaging
how strong Lofy is with just a glance. That said, we still haven't
seen Conqueror's hockey on him, but let's be real, he probably has it.
Of course, we do know that he has two devil fruits. Firstly,
the Dark Dark Fruit, a unique loggia that turns the user into darkness.
However, it does not make them intangible to damage like every other loggia
does, but instead actually makes them feel more pain than they normally would.
With this fruit, black Beard is able to pull anything into his darkness,
and on a larger scale, he could absorb things like fire, weapons,
people, or entire towns, which can be released whenever he would like them
to be. He also has some control over gravity to some extent, being
able to pull people towards him from a distance. Most importantly, though,
anyone he touches will have their devil fruit abilities negated while they're in contact,
which is a huge game changer. It's implied that this fruit might also be
tied to black Beard's ability to steal other devil fruits, but we still don't
have enough information on that. And then there's the fruit that he stole from
white Beard, the quake. Quake Fruit a him to create vibrations and shockwaves
that can travel through any medium. Ground water or even air. These are
strong enough to shake or rip apart in entire island, and it said that
the fruit has the ability to destroy the entire world. When he first gets
it, he does have some difficulty controlling this ability by limiting its destructive force,
but by the time the time Skip rolls around, it's safe to say
he's mastered or at least improved his skill with it. That said, we
haven't seen too many moments of him using this fruit outside of just slamming it
for the biggest impact that he can make. Now here's the big question.
Will there be a Blackbeard Seraphim? And this question is relevant for all of
the replacement warlords because between Blackbeard and Law, the devil fruits that they have
are just ridiculous. A seraphim model of Blackbeard's fruits could absorb anything, destroy
anything, and turn off anyone's devil fruit. Of all the seraphim, this
is the one that would have the most potential for eliminating any enemy they came
across, which is why it really matters if the World government is making this
model or not. And speaking of Law, let's get into him next.
Named after the battles in which Napoleon lost in those being Trafalgar and Waterloo and
being converted to Trafalgar d water Law. He was born in the country of
Fleavence in the North Blue and lived in White City. His parents were doctors
who trained him and his sister in the craft. However, the town had
been poisoned by amber Lad and everyone there would die before reaching adulthood. Apparently
the world government knew about this amber Led situation and just didn't tell the public,
which is not very cash money. Instead, they put the city into
quarantine, and Law would only survive because he snuck out hidden under a pile
of corpses, eventually finding his way to do Flamingo's crew. Here, Corazone
would take him under his wing and tell him that the d clan were the
natural enemies of God, as well as force feeding him the Apepomi and sacrificing
himself to save Law. Law. It would go on to form the Heart
Pirates, named after a Corozone which means heart in Spanish, and would earn
enough renown to be labeled one of these supernovas. He would take part in
marine Ford sort of as He's say of Lufy, and during the time skip
he would be responsible for the Rocky Port incident, then bringing the hearts of
one hundred pirates to the World government and earning the status of warlord. Finally,
he would create an alliance with the straw Hats to take down Doe,
Flamingo, Caido, and Big Mom, earning his new bounty of three billion.
When it comes to his devil fruit, Law has a big one.
The ape Apeomi allows Law to create a spherical operating room in which he is
basically a god. He can freely manipulate anything within that room, rearrange body
parts, swap the locations of two items, and do really whatever he wants.
He can cut people in half without injuring them, or make precision cuts
with radio knife, or even swap people's personalities into a new body. The
possibilities really are endless with this fruit. We even see him awakening this fruit
on Guano as he fights Big Mom, and it drastically increases the amount of
damage he can do, especially with things like puncture surge. Basically, he's
Hella, versatile and super strong, but the most important thing he can do
is the immortality surgery. Whoever the previous user of the fruit apparently was gave
their life to make someone else immortal or something along those lines. It's kind
of vague when Dophie explains it, but again, we have some interesting questions
when it comes to the seraphim. Can the World Government artificially create this fruit?
Could a seraphim sacrifice themselves to make someone else immortal? Could they make
more than one of this fruit and produce an infinite army of immortal World Government
employees. There is a lot of implications based on what the answers to these
questions are. Moving on to Buggy the Clown. Buggy has continued to fail
upwards through his entire life and kind of amazing, starting as a crew member
of the Roger Pirates along with Shanks, but as the crew was dissolved,
he chose to forge his own path rather than becoming a member of Shanks's crew,
and he could say that they both did equally well as Shanks became a
young Coe pretty quickly, and by the start of the story, Buggy had
wrapped up a bounty of fifteen million. Well, he did his best.
Buggy was kind of a gag character, but his crew was surprisingly passionate about
him and extremely loyal, and this kind of continues through the entirety of the
story. His greatest skill is his charisma and his ability to bluff rather than
anything relevant on the battlefield. Buggy would be captured by the Marines and brought
to impel Down, where he partners with Loofy to escape and free a ton
of prisoners who would become fully loyal towards him. He was just kind of
in the right place at the right time, and at Marine Ford everyone sees
him at a stage where he had just aped from impel Down. It's revealed
that he was on Roger's crew, and he, at least to others,
seems to talk to Whitebeard like that are an equal, And suddenly there's this
weird mythos and legend around his character. To everyone else, he's suddenly a
pirate of pedigree who had done the impossible and stood on equal footing with the
world's strongest man. Added that he already has a cult following, and Buggy
finds himself to become a force of nature, a cult of personality. The
world government offers him the position of warlord, as the following that he had
established could be seen as a threat, and that's kind of where things sat
for a bit, that is, until the dissolution of the warlords. When
the world government began hunting them. Buggy joins together with Meehawk and Crocodile to
form Proscille, offering bounties instead on marines in retribution for them hunting the warlords.
However, Buggy again would be given credit for this and was now seen
as someone who had both Crocodile and Meehawk, two legends in their own right,
working under him. His legend grew as a result, and as did
his following, and because of the string of being in the right place at
the right time, he's given the title of Yanko and a bounty of three
billion, one hundred and eighty nine million, which is wild Buggy's devil fruit,
while not anything crazy, isn't really terrible either. He has the chop
chop fruit, a devil fruit, allowing him to bisect his body at any
point and make those separated parts move in any way that he wants, as
long as they're within a range. Furthermore, as long as his feet are
on the ground or being carried, the rest of him can fly. And
finally, this also makes him immune to being cut or sliced in a similar
way to Lufy being immune to blood force damage. It has about the same
creative range as base form Loofy and the gum gum fruit in the Chop Chop
Fruit kind of hairlow each other in a lot of ways. However, like
I said, Buggy isn't about battle prowess. It's much more about how people
see him. If he had a seraphim I mean meh, it could bisect
itself, but I don't really think it would be as useful as the other
ones unless it was specifically hunting down swordsman like Zoro or Leehawk. And finally,
our last warlord is Edward Weevil, the supposed son of Whitebeard and my
other least favorite warlord along with Moria. We don't have a ton about this
dude. At some point, it seems like he was just kind of introduced
just to be forgotten. Weaville looks like a big, round Viking who doesn't
seem to quite all be there, definitely more brawn than brain. Apparently he
joined the Warlords during the time Skipp, and his hobbies include hunting down the
white Beard pirates and their allies, while Weavill isn't about that whole thinking thing.
He does allow his mother to tell him what to do and freely control
him. Basically, all there is to this guy is that he's strong,
He believes he's the heir to white Beard's legacy, that white Beard's crew is
unworthy, and that he hates Blackbeard for killing his supposed father. He had
a crew to bounty of four hundred and eighty million before becoming a warlord,
and after becoming a warlord, he continued to cause catastrophes such as killing over
six hundred civilians. Evil has not been shown to use a devil fruit yet,
but instead seems to use a naki not a like white Beard did,
along with armament and observation hockey. If all the seraphim do end up getting
a devil fruit, I'd imagine the Blackbeard one will get the Darkness fruit,
while Weevils would get the qua quake fruit. Well, I'm sure there'd be
several other options that would work as well. I wish there was more to
say about Wevil, but there just isn't at this time, so maybe we'll
get more information in the future. Now, finally, I do want to
mention one thing that could be super interesting. While he never became a warlord
port Gisdi. Ace was offered the position of warlord, and I doubt we'll
see it, but a Seraphim modeled after Ace could be a phenomenal storytelling device,
especially if he had to battle against either Sabo or Loofy in the future.
And that's where we're going to end it, covering all eleven of these
seven Warlords of the Sea, with a bonus mentioned for Ace. I think
looking to these guys offers a really interesting perspective on what might be to come.
But even if it doesn't, there's just some of the most interesting and
unique characters in the series in this group, and out of all of them,
I think my personal favorites would probably be Mihawk and Law, but really
they're all very cool except Maria and Weevil. Let me know who your favorites
are in the comments down below, and let me know if you hate those
two as much as I do. Also, you can tell us if you
think that we'll see Seraphim modeled after the replacement four lords, and what do
you think of the idea of an Ace Seraphim. Of all that said,
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