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“ | All of the world's treasure belongs to me! | „ |
~ Buggy |
“ | Hold on!! Please!! I'll do anything. I'll even... lick your boots clean! Just let me live! | „ |
~ Buggy shown his cowardice after being tortured by Crocodile and Dracule Mihawk. |
Buggy the Star Clown (in Japanese: 道化のバギー, Senryō Dōke no Bagī), also known publicly as Buggy the Clown, is a major character in the One Piece franchise. He is the captain of the Buggy Pirates, whose members looked like circus performers (excluding Alvida, a former pirate captain who joined Buggy's crew seeking mutual revenge on the series protagonists, Monkey D. Luffy). However, said crew were separated from him after he was arrested and sent to Impel Down, the most impenetrable prison in the One Piece world, and tearfully gave up on any hope of rescuing him.
Buggy managed to escape from Impel Down, however, and acquired a new following comprised of dozens of powerful prisoners of Impel Down, all of whom are hopelessly blinded by Buggy's extraordinary past. After the Summit War, his old crew members rejoined him, and he was invited to become a member of the Warlords. With his newly acquired powers and privileges, he established the Buggy’s Delivery mercenary group and set up his headquarters in the New World.
With the abolition of the Warlord system, he became a wanted man once again. After Kaido and Big Mom were defeated by Luffy, Eustass Kid and Trafalgar D. Water Law, Buggy and his crew joined Crocodile's new organization called the Cross Guild, along with Dracule Mihawk, though due to misconceptions spread by his followers, the public mistakenly identified him as the leader and deemed him as an Emperor of the Sea.
He has a bounty of 3,189,000,000 berries, having been raised from 15,000,000 berries making him one of the most wanted criminals.
He is voiced by Shigeru Chiba and Subaru Kimura as a child in Japanese, Brian Zimmerman in Odex's English dub, David Wills in 4Kids' English dub, and Mike McFarland and Kyle Igneczi as a child in the Funimation's English dub.
Past Life[]
Buggy was originally an apprentice on board the ship of the former Pirate King, Gol D. Roger (called Gold Roger by most characters), along with Shanks, who is another major character in the One Piece story. He and Shanks would argue constantly, usually over trivial things like whether the North Pole or South Pole is colder.
However, once their crew got a hold of a Devil Fruit, which are said to be cursed fruit that gives whoever eats them incredible powers at the cost of never being able to swim again. Said fruits are very valuable, so Buggy gets a plain to steal the fruit, and a treasure map the crew recently found, so he'll have the proper funding he'll need to find all the treasure he wants. When Shanks suddenly shows up, Buggy hides the fruit in his mouth, then accidentally swallows it. In his rage at Shanks, he also loses the treasure map, tries to go after it, but nearly drowns trying to get it and ends up having to be saved by Shanks. Since then, he's held a huge grudge against Shanks.
Before Roger was executed and the crew disbanded, Buggy witnessed his captain's public execution and broke down in tears. Afterwards Buggy and Shanks went their separate ways, though Shanks offered Buggy to join his crew, but Buggy refused to work under him. Interestingly enough, as apprentices, Buggy told Shanks that he would make a terrible pirate, as he called him "soft". Ironically, while Buggy struggled to become a pirate captain in his own right and is relatively weak compared to the pirates of the Grand Line, Shanks is among the first strongest and most feared pirates of all, the Four Emperors (四皇, Yonko).
Motives[]
Buggy key motivation for the things he does is obtaining treasure, and lots of it. This is why he dislikes Shanks, because he lost a "precious treasure" because of him. After his initial defeat from the hands of Luffy, one of his main goals is also to get his revenge and defeat him once and for all. He has also been seen looking for the lost treasure of Captain John, which is why Buggy agreed to help Luffy in Impel Down (Luffy was wearing an arm band which was actually captain John's treasure map that he had been looking for). Recently, a new goal had arisen: due to the Marines labeling him a major threat, and with the support of his new crewmates, he decided to attempt to take the head of Whitebeard, the strongest pirate in the world.
Marineford Arc[]
Buggy was then shocked to hear that Luffy's father was really Revolutionary Dragon and was left speechless by this news. He allied with Whitebeard for support on the promise of allowing him to take his head later.
When Whitebeard is killed by the Blackbeard Pirates, Buggy tried to flee but unwilling played a role in saving Luffy and Jinbe after Crocodile threw them in the air to get away from Akainu. He reunites with Shanks and returns Luffy's hat before deciding to escape with Shanks.
Post War Arc[]
Buggy reunited with his old crew and with his new one, his numbers expanded and became even more powerful.
Wano Country Arc[]
Following the Levely Closure, Buggy discovered that he and the other Shichibukai had been dissolved as they sent Marines to arrest him. Buggy, while ordering his men to fight for him, decided to cowardly escape in the chaos. After Crocodile took care of the Marines, Buggy's cowardice was exposed to the rest of his organization after both Crocodile and Dracule Mihawk brutally torturing him, many of whom turned on him, though some still blindly idolized him. Crocodile and Mihawk decided to let Buggy live for now and use him as a fake figurehead while they runs operations in the shadows to avoid unwanted attentions as well they're planning to dispose of Buggy at anytime when the need arose, leaving the clown terrified out of his mind while his followers remain oblivious to his situation.
Egghead Arc[]
After a civilian killed Vice-Admiral T-Bone, Buggy given the man money for his family and recruited him into Cross Guild because the Marines will hunt the man. The Shipwrights created a giant ship with a ship figurehead of Buggy causing both Crocodile and Mihawk taking Buggy to the "meeting" room (which is the torture room) where he was brutalized by both Mihawk and Crocodile again out of their disgusts for creating such a tasteless ship, to the point where Buggy openly asks them to kill him rather than live like this. When Mihawk and Crocodile are discussing their next move, Buggy, upon learning that Shanks is now making his move to obtain the One Piece, tries to convince them to find One Piece as well take down Shanks, Luffy and Blackbeard, deciding that even if he was able to become an emperor like Shanks by coincidence, then he might as well take another chance to become the king of the pirates since his luck has taken him this far. However, the duo declined and brutalized Buggy for being extremely delusional, accusing him of making them fight the four emperors for him. Buggy, having fed up with their abuse and treatment towards him, decides that he'd rather go for broke for his dreams rather than continuing to live like this, countering that they don't need to fight the other emperors, they simply need to get to the treasure first, and in an act of defiance used a Den Den Mushi to announce Cross Guild to set sail to find One Piece, earning the ecstatic cheers from the crew and the wraths of both Crocodile and Mihawk.
Powers and Abilities[]
While Buggy is a formidable fighter (he's been able to hold his own as an apprentice, fighting the Whitebeard pirates from time to time along with the rest of his crewmates), his arrogance and greed get the best of him and he doesn't fight to his fullest potential. And while he was a considerable villain with the series started out, he has become less and less of a threat when more powerful villains were introduced (during the Impel Down arc, former Baroque Works members (including Crocodile himself) and later during the Egghead arc, Dracule Mihawk have pointed out how weak and cowardly he is compared to them). Despite having a large bounty, Buggy didn't obtain any great powers as he is still weak.
One of his main abilities includes the powers of the Chop Chop Fruit (バラバラの実, Bara Bara no Mi), which allows him to separate his body parts and controls them as he wishes, usually by levitating them away from his body. This also makes him immune to cutting and slashing attacks. However, his feet have to remain grounded in order for it to work properly. In addition, his body parts can only float/fly a certain distance away from his core body or his feet (i.e., Luffy has to carry Buggy feet in order for him to fly away). Also, he can still feel what happens to his separated body parts, and he can end up losing them if they aren't in sight.
Buggy also uses a number of bladed weapons, particularly knifes. He tends to hold either one knife at a time or three knives in one hand. He also has blades in his shoes, which he can use to throw his legs and cut his opponent, like a buzz-saw. Buggy's posed prized weapon, though, is the Special Buggy Balls (特製[とくせい]バギー 玉[だま], Tokusei Bagī Dama), which are capable of destroying an entire town. In the Impel Down arc, it is revealed that he was able to compact the power of a Buggy Ball into a smaller portion which he calls the "Muggy Ball".
Quotes[]
“ | Why didn't anyone tell me that's his dad?! | „ |
~ Buggy when learning Luffy's father. |
Trivia[]
- Despite having Higuma as the first antagonist introduced in manga and Alvida as the first in anime, Buggy is the very first major antagonist Luffy faced in the One Piece story, as Higuma and Alvida has less significant roles later in the story than Buggy.
- He was also the first villain Luffy opposed in the series who was a Devil Fruit user.
- Buggy is beloved by the community for his unfathomable, notoriously good luck and his penchant for reaping enormous benefits despite his sheer incompetence. In simple terms, Buggy keeps failing upwards no matter what he does. Despite being one of the weakest enemies Luffy has ever faced and constantly finding himself in life or death situations, Buggy keeps escaping and or winning from pure dumb luck and gaining exponentially more notoriety in the process. He is then almost immediately rewarded for these events due to the world at large believing he keeps succeeding due to supposedly being an unstoppable powerhouse when in reality he's one of the weakest members of his own organization.
- Buggy is Oda's favorite villain.
- His favorite food is hot dogs; he does not like tomatoes.
External Links[]
- Buggy on the One Piece Wiki
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