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.

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.549īartholomew Kuma (バーソロミュー・くま, Bāsoromyū Kuma?) is one of the Seven Warlords of the Sea. 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.146īlackbeard’s crew is made up of Jesus Burgess (ジーザス･バージェス, Jīzasu Bājesu?, G. Tīchi?), better known as Blackbeard (黒ひげ, Kurohige?), is named after the real pirate Edward Teachch.474.

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