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“ | Who do you think I am? There are plenty of rookies who are all talk. Just like you, Straw Hat Luffy. | „ |
~ Crocodile to Luffy after beating him in their first battle. |
“ | Dogs that run away to lick their wounds have no right to speak of justice. That is a rule of this sea. Now, why don't you go back to your Marine headquarters and discuss your justice some more? | „ |
~ Crocodile to Tashigi. |
“ | Just like old times, huh? Did you miss me? | „ |
~ Crocodile meeting Luffy in Impel Down |
Sir Crocodile, formerly known as Mr. 0, is a major antagonist in the One Piece franchise and is the longest-running major antagonist in the series. Despite being a villain, he becomes a major temporary ally during the Impel Down and the Marineford Arcs.
He was the president of a crime organization called Baroque Works and is a former member of the Seven Warlords of the Sea (called the "Shichibukai" (七武海, Seven Military Seas) in the Japanese versions). After he was defeated by the young rookie, Monkey D. Luffy, he was arrested and sentenced to life imprisonment in Impel Down (a maximum security prison known for being inescapable) Level 6. He was able to escape, however, with the help of Luffy and several other prisoners from Impel Down.
Following the events of the war at Marineford, Crocodile began travel to the New World with his right hand man, Daz Bonez. After the dissolution of the Seven Warlords, he later founded a new organization called the Cross Guild, along with his former colleague Dracule Mihawk and formed an alliance with Buggy the Clown, though it is widely believed by the public that Crocodile is under Buggy's leadership.
He has a bounty of 1,965,000,000 berries, having been raised from 81,000,000 berries making him as one of the most wanted criminals, due to his immense strength and twisted intellects.
He is voiced by Ryūzaburō Ōtomo in the Japanese version (who also voiced Aaroniero Arruruerie in Bleach, Dabura in Dragon Ball Z, Black Doom in Shadow the Hedgehog, Hell's Chef in Gregory Horror Show and King Cold in Dragon Ball Z Kai), and John Swasey in the English version, who also voiced All For One in My Hero Academia and Hakumen no Mono in Ushio and Tora.
Biography[]
Not much is revealed about Crocodile's past other than the fact he had witnessed Gol D. Roger's execution, and became a member of the Seven Warlords of the Sea in his early 20's. At another point he fought Whitebeard,one of the Four Emperors, and suffered a heavy lost causing Crocodile to hold a lifelong grudge towards him.
When he was first introduced, Crocodile was planning to use Baroque Works to stage a faux rebellion and conquer the desert kingdom of Arabasta. His true motive for doing this was to gain access to the poneglyph, special hieroglyphs, that lead to the location of Pluton, a powerful battleship said to have enough power to conquer the world. However, he was betrayed by his former partner, Nico Robin, and was defeated by Luffy. As a result of his true identity being revealed, the World Government stripped him of his title and sent him to Impel Down Level 6 (a lowest floor for the world's worst of the worst criminals to be imprisoned).
Later on, when Luffy broke into Impel Down to rescue his brother, Portgas D. Ace, he ran into Crocodile, and while he was still angry at him for what he had done, Luffy let him go after Emporio Ivankov insisted since Ivankov knew enough of Crocodile's secrets from his past to help keep Crocodile in line. Crocodile helped Luffy and the others escape from Impel Down but Crocodile only agreed to do this because he wanted to kill Whitebeard, the strongest pirate in the world during the Marineford War. However, during the war he lost interest in killing Whitebeard and even saved Luffy and Jinbe from Akainu to ensure the World Government would not have their way. After the war, Crocodile and Mr.1 planned on traveling to the New World.
Crocodile appears when he sees the news of Luffy and Law's alliance. He reads of Totto Land incident. After the Seven Warlords disavowed due to his and Donquixote Doflamingo's actions, Crocodile contacted his former colleague, Dracule Mihawk (who intend to leave his island and relocate) respecting the latter enough for being called a "Marine Hunter" in the past and offered Hawkeye to join him as his business partner since they are widely to be the people who are distrustful towards others. Mihawk is convinced and accepted to become Crocodile's partner only for Mihawk wanting to be in peace. He and Mihawk teamed up and created Cross Guild (a Marine hunting organization). After defeating Vice-Admiral Stainless and his fleet, he and Mihawk also formed an alliance with Buggy the Clown. However, they eventually beaten Buggy up because of Buggy's mistakes of being the leader of Cross Guild and an Emperor. Crocodile agreed to Mihawk to let Buggy live as a fake figurehead and while he and Mihawk will run operations in the shadows to avoid any unwanted attentions, when they can always dispose of Buggy at anytime if the need arise.
Despite letting Buggy to benefit both him and Hawkeye, Crocodile and Mihawk are shown disapproval of Cross Guild's ship and taken Buggy to the torture room where they brutalized him even further out of their disgust of the new ship's tasteless design. Crocodile discussing to Mihawk about their actions to the Marines just as they've planned. But in order to form their utopia and a strong military force, they must established their overwhelming strength (which Mihawk perceived it). Buggy tries to convince them to go after One Piece and defeat the 3 of the Four Emperors. However, Crocodile and Mihawk find Buggy to be extremely delusional as they refused to oblige as they have no interest to fight Luffy, Shanks or Blackbeard. But, Buggy crossed both Crocodile and Mihawk by using a Den-Den Mushi and announcing to set sail in their quest for One Piece, much of Crocodile and Mihawk's rage towards the Clown.
Appearance[]
Crocodile is a tall man with a large chest, broad shoulders, muscular arms and legs, and a thick neck. He has faded skin and nape-length black hair, which is kept neatly slicked back, although strands tend to fall in front of his face for the duration of battles. Crocodile has various battle wounds, most incredibly a long-stitched scar at the bridge of his nose that stretches across his face and a massive hook made from a tough gold alloy in place of his left hand. His eyes are deep-set and heavy-lidded, and his skinny eyebrows are characteristically drawn upward in the middle. This gives his ordinary facial expression a feeling of condescension and distrust. Crocodile speaks with a deep, relaxed voice, and he is usually viewed smoking a thick cigar produced by his company. In the anime, his skin is truly of a grayish color.
His outfit theme is meant to convey the image of an Italian mafia boss. In his unique appearance, Crocodile wore a bright orange, black-striped button-up vest over a long-sleeve peach shirt, a blue scarf, dark brown suit pants, and polished black footwear with gold buckles. He wore a long, thick, dark-pelted fur coat over his shoulders. In Impel Down, Crocodile wore a horizonal stripe prisoner outfit. He later wore an outfit similar to his original outfit, he wore a black suit, black vest, black pelted fur coat, gray suit pants and green tie. After timeskip, he retained his black outfit (from the Summit War Saga). In the Final Saga, Crocodile wore a new suit similar to his Arabasta outfit such as a white shirt, a purple diamond-shape stripped vest, black pants, orange scarf and a black fur coat (resembles to the Summit War Saga).
In all his appearances, he wears a single gold hoop earring in his right ear, and he usually has several golden rings with different colored gemstones on every finger except the ring finger, for motives unknown (in the anime version of the Arabasta Arc, it was his middle finger that was once bare. This has since been corrected in recent arcs).
Personality[]
“ | Weakness is a sin. | „ |
~ Crocodile. |
Crocodile presented himself as a sophisticated businessmen with great pride and confidence, both in his influence and actual power. During his time as a Warlord, Crocodile was seen by the public as a hero of sorts, particularly in Arabasta where he would help the citizens stop criminals and pirates from doing harm. In reality, this was merely a façade on his part as part of his plan of obtaining Pluton.
Crocodile is in fact a sadistic individual that takes delight in making his enemies suffer in multitude of ways, including drowning them in sand or feeding them to his pet crocodiles. Crocodile valued military might above all else and that it was the only thing that mattered most to him. He believed that the goals and dreams that one may have to becoming the Pirate King meant nothing and would inevitably lead them to their demise. Likewise, Crocodile had no interest in pursuing any further goals in the New World and was contempt with his domination over Arabasta. Crocodile hold a complete distrust towards others.
Due to his egotism, he has no tolerance for weaknesses or cowardice as he deemed Mr. 3 as a useless piece of trash and was willing to have him be killed. He also highly disliked those that would insult him leading him to outright killing them. However, for this very reason, he comes off being extremely arrogant and often lets it get the better of him, which would ultimately lead to his downfall against Luffy.
Following his imprisonment, Crocodile appears to have mellowed out, somewhat. He has lost interest in seeking to obtain Pluton or greater power of any sorts and is more contempt to remain in prison, even when his former henchmen were willing to help him escape. While most of the prisoners in Impel Down appeared to be miserable, Crocodile seemed to be the only one that was enjoying his time there. During his time, he appeared to have develop a soft side for his right hand man, Daz Bonez AKA Mr. 1, who he would later offer him to join him to the New World, which he obliges without any hesitation for his fiercely loyalty towards Crocodile.
It isn't until he encounters Luffy once more in Impel Down where he decides to leave Impel Down for good, but for his own personal reasons. As he learned that Whitebeard would take part in the battle against the Marines, Crocodile looked forward to the opportunity of taking his head. However, at the same time, he was willing to put this goal aside and aid Luffy against the Marines, including saving him from both Mihawk and later Akainu. He even went as far as to help the Whitebeard Pirates save Portgas D. Ace from his execution, though he insisted this was because he did not want the Marines to feel victorious in any way.
When he managed to escape from the Marines entirely, he was very eager to be travelling in the New World once more, showing signs that the ambitions he had once ridiculed and given up on are now dreams he wishes to accomplish.
After founding Cross Guild, Crocodile takes his business very seriously when he has no interest of claiming the heads of Luffy, Shanks or Blackbeard when he considered Buggy's intentions of overthrowing the 3 of the Four Emperors just for the One Piece treasure to be very delusional. Crocodile declared pirating is business. He viewed Buggy to be nothing more than a lowly pirate who is a very deluded and ignorant weakling when the Clown doesn't know how to devise a plan. Like Mihawk, Crocodile considered Luffy's newly title as one of the Four Emperors to be generally well earned for defeating and usurping Kaido unlike Buggy (who Crocodile always viewed him to be worthless, pathetic, cowardly and weak).
Powers and Abilities[]
“ | I've worked hard to develop my Devil Fruit powers. I can use them to make any weapon I want... unlike some fools who are satisfied with their powers as they are. I continually condition myself and improve my skills! | „ |
~ Crocodile boasting about the proficiency of his powers to Luffy during their first battle. |
Crocodile ate the Sand Sand Fruit (Suna Suna no Mi) a Logia type devil fruit, and is able to turn his body into sand as a result. Not only that, but he can also manipulate sand around him to create sandstorms or fissures, as well as extract the moisture from people and objects, turning them into sand. This is accomplished by touching the object or person with his remaining hand. Like other eaters of the Devil Fruit, he cannot swim and loses his powers when immersed in water or touched by seastone, but another unique weakness is that he loses his ability to turn into sand when he is soaked in water or is touched by something soaked in water. The same also applies to other fluids as they solidify the sand (i.e., Luffy was able to fight Crocodile using his own blood). According to Emporio Ivankov, Crocodile also have a precious weakness when the Revolutionary commander is willing to reveal it if Crocodile choose to betray him and Luffy.
After timeskip, Crocodile became stronger than he was before. He easily destroyed Vice-Admiral Stainless' fleet (who were coming after Buggy).
Crocodile also has a large hook made of a hard gold alloy, which he can use to slash and stab opponents. The golden part of his hook can be taken off to reveal a poisonous hook underneath. Should that hook break off, he also has a knife concealed underneath the hook.
Quotes[]
“ | Kuahaha! I've hear you've lost your Warlord perks, Hawkeye. | „ |
~ Crocodile to Mihawk after the Seven Warlords abolishment. |
“ | Come here, then. This doesn't sound so bad, right? If we team up together, we'll be an organization the Navy can't ignore. You were once known as the Navy Hunter. You and I are the same... in that we don't trust others. | „ |
~ Crocodile to Mihawk when suggesting to team up after the Seven Warlords Abolishment |
“ | Cross Guild was supposed to be under me and Hawkeye. So tell me, why are you considered the boss, Buggy?! | „ |
~ Crocodile when brutalized Buggy. |
“ | The word "humiliation" isn't enough to express how I feel. | „ |
~ Crocodile to Buggy. |
“ | And... you're an Emperor of the Sea? You've made quite a name for yourself... Clown... | „ |
~ Crocodile to Buggy when brutalizing him with his hook. |
“ | That's true. | „ |
~ Crocodile agreeing of Mihawk's suggestion of disposing Buggy at any time if the need arises. |
“ | I can't believe you're deluded enough to buy your own con. Remember, we're only letting you keep that title of yours because it benefits us. | „ |
~ Crocodile after stabbing Buggy with his hook. |
“ | We're not "playing pirates" here!! This is serious business. You don't have a clue, let alone a plan. | „ |
~ Crocodile to Buggy after brutalized him for his ignorance and delusions |
Trivia[]
- Crocodile was originally designed to be the main antagonist of One Piece, before growing interest in the series prompted the writers to expand the overall plot.
- Also, Crocodile was designed as an arch-enemy and villainous counterpart to Luffy; both characters started with similar dreams, and both suffered soul-crushing defeats in pursuit of them. But while Luffy steadfastly continued to pursue his goals, Crocodile abandoned them, believing dreams, hopes, and faith in others are worthless qualities, and only sheer power mattered.
- He is the only two of the original Shichibukai to possess a Logia Devil Fruit (besides Blackbeard).
- So far, Crocodile has defeated Luffy many times than any other canon-antagonist (only surpassed by Kaido who defeated Luffy four times), defeating him on two different occasions and nearly defeated him a third time. A record rivaled only by non-canon villains Byrnndi World from the 2Y Anime Special and Former Marine Admiral Zephyr from the One Piece Movie: Z, who defeated Luffy twice and three times respectively. Both of those characters have died however, while Crocodile was still alive before the time skip in the series and is presumed to be alive after.
- He seems to be a reference to Captain Hook, a pirate villain who lost his hand to a crocodile, later replacing it with a hook. In Crocodile's case, however, he uses crocodiles as trained attack beasts, and how he lost his hand has yet to be explained.
- His signature laugh is Kuhahahaha.
External links[]
- Crocodile on the One Piece Wiki
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