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The age where pirates dream is over!? Eh!? Oi! Ze ha ha ha ha! People's dreams... DON'T EVER END!
~ Blackbeard's most famous quote.
Stop talking about justice and evil. No matter where you search in this world, there'll be no answer!
~ Blackbeard' speech about justice and evil.
Got your attention now. This is a wakeup call to all the boring peace lovers, the half-ass pirates, the fat-headed fools, and world government. The ignorant masses. We all must answer to the hand of fate. Zehahahahahaha! And fate has chosen me TO CONQUER THIS WORLD!!!
~ Blackbeard's message to the world.
Guys! Let's get this party started! ZEHAHAHAHAHA!
~ Blackbeard when ambusing the Heart Pirates in Episode 1092
Ahh, I see what yer sayin'! So that explains the folks who come straight for us... Unlike the usual mopes who sit around waitin' for clearance!! ZE HA HA HA HA!! I like your style!! But I'm not changing plans!! I'll take this tactic as far as I go!! Can the Navy really afford to abandon you to the cruel wind of fate... when you're known as a Hero far and wide? I'll put the question to the world!! and the damage it'll do the Government will be deep indeed!!
~ Blackbeard to Koby when learn about SWORD's true agendas

Marshall D. Teach, more commonly known as Blackbeard, is one of the main antagonists of the One Piece franchise.

He was once a member of Whitebeard's pirate crew before betraying him by killing a crew mate and stealing the Yami Yami no Mi. He is the cause of the Summit War due to capturing Portgas D. Ace and has become so powerful that he became one of the Four Emperors, a position he usurped from Whitebeard after killing him during the Marineford War.

Since then, Blackbeard has become the admiral of the Blackbeard Pirates, amassing a powerful fleet of pirates under his command. In addition, he is also part of the pirate group called the Worst Generation and currently has a bounty of 3,996,000,000 berries, making him the Yonko with the second highest bounty, as well as the most wanted pirate of the Worst Generation. He is one of Monkey D. Luffy's archenemies.

In Japanese, he is voiced by Akio Ōtsuka (who also voiced Big Boss, Venom Snake, and Solidus Snake in the Metal Gear franchise, All For One in My Hero Academia, and Thorkell in Vinland Saga) as an adult and Fukushi Ochiai as a child. In English, he has been voiced by the late Cole Brown and Chris Rager and Tyson Rinehart as a child.

Personality[]

This "New Era" they keep rambling on and on about is a load of crap! The era where pirates dream of treasure will come to an end!? Yeah Right! THE DREAMS OF PIRATES WILL NEVER END!!! AM I RIGHT!?
~ Blackbeard's opinion on the "New Era" that Bellamy and Sarkies boast about.

Many of One Piece's characters are given a distinct laugh. Blackbeard follows this tradition by starting his laughs with "Ze" (i.e. Zehahahahahaha!). This laugh is not present in the English Dub until the Banaro Incident. Blackbeard's personality seems to be a strange mix of courage and cowardice, high intellectual capacity and stupidity. While at times his character looks strong and fearsome, in others he will seem weak and ridiculous. He is apparently very cunning, deceptive, and treacherous, joining the Seven Warlords of the Sea in an elaborate and convoluted fashion for the sole reason of gaining access to Impel Down in order to find new crew mates and later resigning from it in front of the fleet admiral himself saying that he does not need it anymore.

He is also power-hungry and greedy, aiming to become the next Pirate King. His hunger for power led him to fashion a very cruel and vituperative way of recruiting only the best prisoners in Impel Down as comrades: he ordered them to murder each other and would only take the strongest ones who survived. Sengoku also expressed horror at learning Teach's brutal methods of getting recruits. Though he betrayed the Whitebeard Pirates, Teach takes comradeship with the crew he formed to a high level, made evident when he was willing to make a trade with the Marines for a battleship big enough to hold all of them comfortably for the sake of one crew member, Sanjuan Wolf.

Despite his obvious malevolent nature, he is also genuinely merciful towards his crew's well-being and is willing to take assaults intended for his crew. He also has an extreme thirst for adventure, regularly traveling from place to place. However, he tends to play it by ear. Blackbeard, like others who carry the Will of the D., has a strong belief in fate and the dreams of men, but unlike the others, is the only one who truly seems to take it to heart. He shares several attributes with Luffy, including having a voracious appetite, a carefree and effervescent attitude, a competitive and reckless nature, perseverance even if there may be grave consequences, and huge ambitions to follow his dream of finding One Piece and become the new Pirate King. Despite that, there is also a great contrast between him and Luffy: primarily, Blackbeard fears death and is willing to beg for his life whereas other D. carriers embrace it if it comes and is willing to betray his own friends for power. Just before his death, Whitebeard noted that Teach was not the one that Roger had been waiting for and dismissed Teach as being incapable of continuing Roger's legacy.

Perhaps because of his strong belief in fate, Blackbeard is highly amoral, unethical, and unscrupulous. He believes that there is no inherent "good" nor "evil" in the world, jeeringly mocking anyone who expresses such belief. He is also very patient, conniving, manipulative and intelligent, having spent decades on Whitebeard's ship just to get his hands on the Devil Fruit he wanted, before killing Thatch and leaving the crew. His nihilistic tendencies are in line with the power of the Yami Yami no Mi he possesses, which is said to reduce everything to "nothingness". During his raid on Impel Down, he stated that his plans have not gone exactly as expected but is willing to take these surprises in stride. He handed Portgas D. Ace to the World Government and finally killed his captain Whitebeard. Despite this, he still displayed respect for his superiors during the events, referring to Ace as his authoritative commander, and said that he aspired to be like Whitebeard. He showed his ruthlessness when he killed Thatch, and with his crew's help finished off his former captain, Whitebeard.

Blackbeard is often very calm, composed, free-spirited, easygoing, relaxed, and cheerful, but he can be surprised and startled, such as when Coby told everybody present to stop the war, or when Whitebeard had held him by the throat. He is very politely contemptuous, sarcastic, mocking, and derisive towards those around him, such as when he taunted Luffy, about Ace's inevitable execution, or when he mocked Whitebeard for his age. He is also extremely overconfident and egotistical, and while he is very powerful, he tends to converse and/or taunt his opponents in the middle of battle. He has done this in every battle he has been shown in, and (as a result) he always suffers a heavy and painful attack while his guard is down. Such as when he taunted Whitebeard about being unable to use his powers, and nearly got cleaved in half with Whitebeard's bisento or when he boasted in front of Magellan and was nearly drowned by the Hydra attack, only surviving because Shiryu gave him and his crew the antidote.

His overconfidence also made him believe that he could do a trade with the Marines despite having betrayed them already, which once again proved a mistake. Since having acquired two Devil Fruit powers, he has developed a severe superiority complex, believing himself to be truly invincible and the strongest of them all, while revealing his goal of world domination. Despite his arrogance, Blackbeard does show a sense of caution, as he refused to fight Shanks and his crew as well as both the soon-to-be Fleet Admiral Akainu when he was aboard the Marine battleship that they wanted and Gol D. Roger's former right-hand man Silvers Rayleigh who came for Boa Hancock's rescue.

Blackbeard is crazy for power, as he is obsessed with powerful devil fruits such as when he obtained the Tremor-Tremor Fruit after killing the weaken Whitebeard. He spread out his crew to seek out to kill powerful devil fruit users and take their reincarnated fruits. He is more obsessed with the Flame-Flame Fruit originally from his former commander, Portgas D. Ace but failed due to eaten by Sabo.

He is also obsessed of Boa Hancock's Love-Love Fruit though Hancock said her devil fruit will not work in his favor due to her beauty is the reason how her devil fruit works, but he failed when Teach spared Hancock and kidnapped Koby instead due to Silvers Rayleigh's arrival. Now that both Big Mom and Kaido are gone, Teach is also intending to steal all the Road Poneglyph copies in Law's possession just so he could search the man with a burn scar. Blackbeard is also interested of Cross Guild's Marine hunting for bounty when he can hunt down any Marines he wants, which is the reason why he captured Koby. Blackbeard is also obsessed of Law's Op-Op Fruit as wondering what he would do with the fruit either kill Law to sell the fruit or use its powers or perhaps keeping Law alive to make Blackbeard himself Eternally Youth via to "Immortality Operation". Blackbeard is also a very careful pirate, as stated by Shanks. Unlike other powerful pirates, he never gained renown and remained concealed, and only makes his moves when he sees an opportunity for power. Blackbeard is willing to listen of Caribou's information but if it is not good enough, he will have Caribou executed.

Blackbeard also holds absolutely no tolerance for failures. As shown he brutalized Avalo Pizarro for failing him by allowing Koby and Gecko Moria to escape.

Appearance[]

Blackbeard is a fat man with a massive build, as his body is round with relatively thin limbs. He has a big mouth with several broken or missing teeth (though sometimes he does have a full set, which is an inconsistency error made by Oda), a pronounced crooked nose and a very large and hairy chest and torso. Long, thick, woolly black hair falls down the back of his neck, underneath a black bandana, and a small scruffy black beard grows around his jawline. As the series progresses, his beard becomes longer and scruffier. He is extremely tall, being exactly twice Luffy's height. At his first appearance in Mock Town, Teach wore an open buttoned white shirt with rolled-up sleeves, green trousers with black line patterns, a yellow sash around his waist and classic black swashbuckler boots complete with large bronze buckles.

During his raid on Banaro Island, he had added a large black and gold captain's coat over his attire, along with white beads on each wrist as bracelets and rings with gemstones on all of the fingers of both his hands (similar to his predecessor, Crocodile). At the Seven Warlords meeting at the Marine Headquarters, he added a pair of necklaces of red as well as golden yellow and blue beads to his dark orange sash and a traditional black tricorne hat over his gray bandanna, as well as switching to a red shirt, while wearing his captain's coat like a cape. He also has three flintlocks and a flask tied to his sash around his waist. In the Volume 63 SBS, Oda drew the Seven Warlords as children. Teach is shown wearing a baseball cap with a rolled up long sleeve shirt and green shorts. He is also wearing black curled tip shoes, and unlike his usual cheerful expression, is crying for an unknown reason.

After the time skip, Teach has grown a long beard that he has split into multiple sections, very much like his real life basis. He also wears a new hat with his Jolly Roger embroidered on it. He wore a black captain robe, orange feathered coat attached to his hat, black pants with blue flower patterns. He also has a pair of sunglasses.

Relationships[]

Allies[]

  • Blackbeard Pirates: Blackbeard somewhat cares for his crew, as he ordered Jesus Burgess and Augur to withdraw from his fight with Ace because they weren't ready to fight him and they were concerned for him after Ace attacked him. He was not opposed to new recruits, as he used the Seven Warlords status to invade Impel Down Level 6 to recruit powerful criminals, including Shiryu who saved them from being poisoned by Magellan. Each of them were very pleased to see him succeed at taking Whitebeard's power, showing belief in their leader. However, they are not above disrespecting him, as seen when Pizarro jokingly asked to replace him or when they laughed at him being rejected by Bonney. Lafitte jokingly threatened to kill Pizarro by saying they served Blackbeard. He was addressed as "Captain Teach" but later "Admiral Teach" (although Burgess always called Teach as captain instead of Admiral when Laffitte keeps reminded Burgess). Blackbeard assigned his crew to hunt down powerful devil fruit users to kill them and take their reincarnated fruits. He showed concern for them when Kuzan froze them and did not risk shattering them in this helpless state. He believes in their ability, as he sent Burgess to Dressrosa to take Ace's Flame-Flame Fruit. According to Gatz, The Ten Titanic Captains are Blackbeard's personal guards who are protecting him and he has full belief in their capabilities. With his ambitions and thirst for power, it is shown Blackbeard doesn't even care about his crew or his subordinates as called them all as "idiots" such as Peachbeard, as well as both Vasco Shot and Catarina Devon (his top executives who were petrified by Boa Hancock). Blackbeard is now very abusive to his crew as he rode on top of Doc Q's head and giving both Doc Q and Stronger pain, due to his overweight body. Blackbeard refused of Van Augur's suggestion to retreat when they are just getting started during their clash with Law. After both failed attempts to kill Hancock for her devil fruit and later steal Road Poneglyphs from Law, Blackbeard later assigned both Devon and Augur to invade Egghead where their mission was completed. Teach then beats up Pizarro for allowing Koby to escape. He contact Laffitte to report when he revealed the World Government's situation and the Celestial Dragons began to starve due to the Revolutionary Army.
  • Kuzan: After his resignation as an Admiral due to his hatred towards Sakazuki, Blackbeard meet Kuzan and offering him to join his crew. Kuzan agreed and became the Titanic Captain of the 10th ship. Blackbeard tells Aokiji about the Road Poneglyphs and the man with the burned scar. Unlike his crew, Kuzan calls Blackbeard by his name instead of addressing him as Admiral. When hearing Koby is a member of SWORD, Kuzan recommended Teach to call off his deal with the World Government as he explained of SWORD's true agendas, but only for Blackbeard to refuse. While Teach is away to deal with Law, Kuzan will make sure that Koby won't escape Hachinosu. For capturing Garp, Blackbeard praised Kuzan for having the semi-retired Marine Vice Admiral more value prize than Koby.

Enemies[]

  • Whitebeard Pirates: Blackbeard was once a member of the Whitebeard Pirates Second Division. However, after breaking the iron rule in Whitebeard's ship of killing the fourth division commander, Thatch. He later fought and turned over Ace, as well as killed his former captain and stole his Devil Fruit. During the Payback War, Blackbeard and his crew defeated the Whitebeard Pirates led by Marco, which Blackbeard earned as an Emperor. Marco voices how Blackbeard was an ungrateful villain and voiced his anger that he lost to him which resulted in the disbandment of the Whitebeard Pirates.
  • Monkey D. Luffy: Blackbeard is one of the archnemesis of the young Straw Hat Pirate captain and his newly fellow Emperor, Monkey D. Luffy. He met him in Mock Town and they insulted each other's favorite foods and almost got into a fight until Zoro reprimanded them. When Luffy was leaving to Sky Island, Blackbeard attempted to capture him to give him to the World Government for a position on the Seven Warlords of the Sea after learning of his bounty. He was surprised Ace told him that Luffy was his brother. After he captured Ace and turned him over for his execution, Luffy held a great hatred towards Teach after learning his name in Impel Down. The two fought briefly until Jinbe broke it up, Teach admitted he underestimated Luffy because he found his strength impressive but did not stand in Luffy's way before congratulating him on making to Sky Island and this far in his adventures. After time-skip, Blackbeard deemed Luffy to be amusing despite being enemies. In Dressrosa, Blackbeard was told by Burgess of how Luffy was present at the Corrida Stadium. Intrigued, Teach greeted Luffy and mocked him of how Burgess will win the Flame-Flame Fruit, making it as if Ace joined his crew after he declined when he was alive. He also laughed at Luffy declaring they won't get Ace's power. After the events in Totto Land, Blackbeard's amusement for Luffy has increased and tell him it is too soon for him to become an Emperor. Upon learning of the war in Wano, Blackbeard is excited for Luffy's upcoming clash with Kaido and his crew (which ended up in Luffy's victory and rise as an Emperor (just like Blackbeard himself)).
  • Portgas D. Ace: Ace was Blackbeard's commander before he betrayed the Whitebeard Pirates. The pair initially got along with Teach encouraging Ace to take the Commander title, since he didn't want it. They became sworn enemies after Teach killed Thatch which caused Ace to pursuit on Blackbeard to avenge Thatch's death. Blackbeard and Ace fought, though Teach offered him a chance to join him but Ace outright refused after learning he was targeting Luffy. Blackbeard voiced disappointment at Ace's beliefs and they clashed and Blackbeard emerged victorious and handed Ace to the World Government for the title of a Warlord of the Sea. Two years later, he tried to defile Ace's memory by claiming the reincarnated Flame-Flame Fruit but thanks to Sabo this was averted.
  • World Government: As a Yonko and part of the Worst Generation, Blackbeard deemed to be one of the greatest threat to the World Government (besides his nemesis, Luffy). Pre-Timeskip, He handed Ace to the government for the title of Warlord but discarded the title after achieve his goal of strengthening his crew. The marines were shocked that he had use the powers of two devil fruit powers and became enemies with the Government and Marines when he attempted to destroy Marineford. When invaded Baltigo, the Government send Marines and Cipher Pol to clash against Blackbeard and his crew before the Yonko himself and his crew fled. After his failed attempted to kill Boa Hancock, Blackbeard initially captured 800 marine soldiers but released when Koby surrendered himself to Blackbeard as his prisoner. Due to Cross Guild, Blackbeard and his crew hunts marines whatever they want for the bounty. Teach intend to use Koby as a bargaining chip just so the World Government to make Hachinosu as an official country for criminals. Despite his attempt would be in vain, Blackbeard wants to see Koby if he gets disavowed from the Marines due to the World Government doesn't wants to lose him for being a hero. Jaygarcia Saturn is aware of Teach's lineage but realizing his intention of taking over the world, proven to be more of a threat to the World Government. Despite losing Koby, Blackbeard's negotiation with the World Government remains unchanged as he will use Garp as a bargaining chip instead.
  • Jewelry Bonney: After killing Whitebeard, Blackbeard captured Bonney and her crew to exchange for the Marines' ship. He mocked her on being weak but offered her to join him as his mate and sexual partner, only to be rejected after she kicked him. After learning the situation, Blackbeard left Bonney to be arrested by Akainu and fled.
  • Shanks: They first met twenty-six years ago, with Shanks amazed by the latter's ability to not sleep while Teach did not think much of him and the two kept their distance. Prior to or after Roger's execution, the pair fought, and Blackbeard was the one who gave Shanks a scar over his left eye with his metal claw. Ever since, Shanks has remained wary of Teach and warned Whitebeard to recall Ace who was hunting Teach, to no avail. When Shanks arrived to end the war, Blackbeard was initially surprised but laughed in amusement to see him again and taunted his scar, angering the latter. However, he was not above exercising his sense of caution by refusing to fight Shanks and his crew for the time being and left Marineford when knowing he is not yet ready to fight Shanks. During the time-skip, Shanks is still in his pursuit for Blackbeard to stop him, when he thought he was at Wano. But Blackbeard retained his sense of caution when he is still not ready yet for his fight with Shanks.
  • Boa Hancock: Due to him being Luffy's arch-nemesis and for the invasion on Amazon Lily, Blackbeard is also a mortal enemy and failed-attempted killer to the former Warlord, Boa Hancock. Teach came to Amazon Lily just to kill Hancock and steal the Pirate Empress' Love-Love Fruit. He defeated the Snake Princess and grabbed her neck in front of Koby and the Kuja Pirates when the Snake Princess was off-guard. Although he is impressed that no wonder, she is the empress due to her immense strength. Hancock angrily demand Blackbeard to get his filthy hands off of her, shown her hatred and disdain towards the Emperor (similar to her love interest, Luffy's own hatred towards Teach). He admired of her power when she told him that her beauty is the reason how her powers works. Blackbeard torments Hancock while she may have great power, but her neck was too thin. As she told him she will undo his crew's petrification if he leaves, but Blackbeard knows of Hancock's trickery that she would petrify him if he lets her go, when Teach strongly disagreed as he is still going to kill her to steal her devil fruit due to the Snake Princess being too dangerous, only for his attempt to be foiled as Rayleigh arrived to drive Blackbeard off, causing the Emperor to spare the former Warlord and kidnapped Koby instead. Hancock absolutely abhors Blackbeard worse than other men for choking her and being Luffy's arch-nemesis, when comparing her hatred towards Teach to Luffy's own hatred towards him commonly. Despite sparing her, Blackbeard's actions has caused Hancock to ultimately leave her home, Amazon Lily (due to all the damages the island sustained) in her quest to reunite with her love interest, Luffy (Blackbeard's archnemesis) to provide her own safety.
  • Silvers Rayleigh: Blackbeard is an enemy of Rayleigh since their old crews fought many years ago. When Blackbeard arrived at Amazon Lily to kill Hancock and take her Devil fruit, Rayleigh arrived to prevent this attempt and drove Blackbeard and his crew off, where Blackbeard was forced to let Hancock go when Teach has no intention to fight the "Dark King" due to his fears of him when the former First Mate of the Roger Pirates scares Blackbeard with his Advanced Conqueror's Haki. Rayleigh on the other hand, admitted that Blackbeard would defeat him due to his advanced age as Blackbeard's threats grows greatly. Rayleigh mockingly called Teach as "Whitebeard's old cabin boy".
  • Monkey D. Dragon and the Revolutionary Army: Blackbeard is an enemy of Monkey D. Dragon (Luffy's father and Garp's son) and his Revolutionary Army. He invaded and destroyed Baltigo in attempted to steal their weapons and possibly get the Flame-Flame Fruit from Sabo. However, it failed when Blackbeard and his crew retreated from Baltigo due to the Marines and Cipher Pol. Dragon and his subordinates are shown to be unharmed from his conflict with Blackbeard and relocated to Momoiro Island (the main base of one of his commanders, Emporio Ivankov). Blackbeard shown excitement about the Revolutionary Army's assault on Mary Geoise to free their comrade, Bartholomew Kuma as well against both Admirals Fujitora (again) and Ryokugyu. He assigned his right-hand man, Laffitte to keep an eye on the Revolutionary Army and their next moves.
  • Koby: Koby once helped Blackbeard of overthrowing Ochoku (former member of the Rocks Pirates), allowing Blackbeard to rule over Hachinosu. Blackbeard saved Koby from Boa Hancock (who Koby failed attempt to arrest her because he is still too weak). Koby tries to convince Blackbeard to not kill Hancock because a successor of the Love-Love Fruit won't undo her petrification ability which he doesn't care about his crew until Rayleigh arrived to prevent Blackbeard from killing Hancock. After he failed to kill Hancock when he is returning back to Hachinosu, Blackbeard captured Koby as a prisoner which that revealed Koby actually surrendered himself to the Emperor in exchange to release the 800 Marine hostages. Blackbeard intend to use Koby as a bargaining chip to have the World Government to make Hachinosu as official country for pirates known as the "Blackbeard Kingdom". Koby revealed to Blackbeard that he is a member of SWORD and the World Government won't accept the Emperor's offer. Despite his deal would be in vain, Blackbeard decided to keep Koby alive to continue his plans due to the Marine Captain as a hero when Teach shown his confident of wanting to see what would the people (that Koby swore to protect) reacts if he has been disavowed from the Marines. Koby soon escaped from Hachinosu, but Blackbeard's crew managed to capture Monkey D. Garp (the grandfather of Teach's archnemesis, Luffy).
  • Trafalgar D. Water Law: After his failed attempted to kill Hancock, Blackbeard is an enemy of Law, who he ambushed and mocked for being cold to his fellow Worst Generation and intends to take all of the poneglyphs from him when knowing one of the three crews who left Wano would show at Winner Island now that both Big Mom and Kaido are gone. Law in turn looks forward in fighting with him, declaring the the winner will take all. Blackbeard defeated Law and sank his submarine. Blackbeard then tells Law now that his ship is destroyed, Law and the Heart Pirates are no longer considered as a pirate group anymore. He revealed to Law that the 100 pirates in Rocky Port are in Hachinosu and wanted revenge on the Surgeon of Death for stealing their hearts and giving them away to the World Government for the Warlord title as well he planning to build a party and giving them Law's heart. Blackbeard pondering about kill Law and steal Ope Ope no Mi as an additional bonus or force the Surgeon of Death to make Blackbeard himself eternally youth via immortality operation. Teach was about capture Law until Bepo used his Sulong form and escaped with Law to the ocean. Blackbeard order his crew to don't let Law escape but failed and Law got away.
  • Charlotte Pudding: After Big Mom's downfall, Blackbeard sent his crew to Totto Land of capturing Big Mom's 35th daughter, Pudding and bring her in as a prisoner for Teach's quests to seek out the Road Poneglyph copies and the man with the burned scar. Blackbeard's 2 lower ranking crewmates were assigned to guard Pudding while he is fighting Law. The two crew members mocked Pudding about Big Mom, believing she is dead at both Kid and Law's hands and declared the new era only happened when the old legends were torned down. In Episode 1093, Pudding declared she will never submit to the likes of Blackbeard. He wrapped his arm on Pudding only for Big Mom's daughter (much like Boa Hancock) to show her hatred and disgust towards Teach.
  • Monkey D. Garp: For being the mastermind responsible of the Summit War and the arch-enemy of his grandson, Blackbeard is a mortal enemy of Luffy's grandfather, Garp. Garp holds a grudge on Blackbeard for allowing his adoptive grandson Ace to be killed and steal Whitebeard's powers. After Blackbeard went out, Garp invaded at Hachinosu to successfully rescued Koby but allowing himself to be captured. Blackbeard sees Garp as a "consolation prize" and intend to him as a bargaining chip to negotiate with the World Government due to his legendary reputation to be far greater than even Koby. Blackbeard somewhat respects Garp by saying there aren't many people can easily kill Garp due to his strength despite his old age.
  • Gecko Moria: Teach and Moria used to be colleagues of the Seven Warlords. After killing Absalom and having Shiryu to steal his powers, Moria hold a great hatred towards Blackbeard. Blackbeard offered Moria to join his crew, but he refused. However, Moria was imprisoned by Blackbeard. After returning to Hachinosu when Law got away from Winner Island, Blackbeard discovered that Moria escaped.
  • Akainu: While the Marines are enemies to Blackbeard after resigning from the Warlords, Akainu was more concerned about killing Luffy due to his bloodline and heritage during the Summit War. When the Blackbeard Pirates defeated and captured Jewelry Bonney, they intended to hand her to the Marines in exchange of a ship. However, when they spotted Akainu was onboard, Blackbeard immediately retreated alongside his crew due to the Admiral's threat. Hearing Blackbeard is fighting Trafalgar D. Water Law at Winner Island, Akainu is furious that he must wait for the outcome of the battle between Blackbeard and Law.

Others[]

  • Caribou: Caribou is an admiring fan of Blackbeard. Hearing that he discovered two Ancients Weapons (one on Fishman Island and the other at Wano), he decided to inform Blackbeard. Caribou addressed Blackbeard as "Mister Teach". Hearing Caribou has information for him, Blackbeard allowed him to come to him, but if the information is not good enough, he will just execute him.
  • Crocodile: Crocodile is Blackbeard's predecessor of the Seven Warlords. Crocodile recognized Blackbeard as a former member of the Whitebeard Pirates and used his former status to enter Impel Down. Blackbeard revealed to Crocodile that it was all parts of his plans to have new recruits and asked Crocodile if he wants to hear, but only his predecessor to replied that he doesn't need to hear it and doesn't care about it. When founding Cross Guild, Crocodile's actions has caused Blackbeard and his crew to gain an interest of Marine hunting when he can do whatever he wants to capture/kill Marines for the bounty.

Powers and Abilities[]

Teach has shown himself to be a powerful pirate in his own right, with Shanks, Whitebeard, and the Gorosei even stating he was unsettling.

  • Skilled Tactician: Teach proves himself to be a skilled tactician, as he joined the Whitebeard Pirates to find the Dark Dark Fruit and deceived his crew for decades to make plans for his future betrayal of them. He even schemed up a successful convoluted plan to join the Seven Warlords to reach Impel Down and recruiting the most powerful prisoners to strengthen his crew. He also stole the dead Whitebeard's power to make himself, renowned as the first person to use two devil fruits at the same time. Marco even speculated he already had plans to do so, which wouldn't be improbable as he invaded Impel Down during most of the war and allowed Whitebeard as well as his crew to exhaust and injure themselves by fighting the marines, the Seven Warlords, and Admirals. Teach would return in the final stage and finish Whitebeard while his crew were unable to aid him. The Gorosei feared he was likely to succeed Whitebeard as an Emperor, with his growing infamy. This was proven correct, as Teach used his knowledge of Whitebeard's territory and took it over after defeating the remnants of the Whitebeard Pirates led by Marco in the Payback War. With Big Mom left Totto Land, Blackbeard managed to capture Charlotte Pudding as a prisoner when he sent Aokiji and Van Augur to successfully abducted Pudding, while Totto Land was defenseless without Big Mom.
    • Battle Tactics: Knowing one of the three pirate crews (that defeated Big Mom and Kaido) leaves Wano and comes to Winner Island, Blackbeard set an ambush upon Law and his Heart Pirates into a trap for his attempt to steal all of the Road Poneglyph copies from the former Warlord.
  • Skilled Captain: Blackbeard formed a crew of five people in a manner of months while pursued by Ace. This shows a good sense of charisma and leadership skills, as his crew was quick to jump to his defense when he was attacked by Ace. Now an admiral, Blackbeard amassed a newly formed fleet of loyal pirates.

Physical Abilities[]

  • Strength: In his younger days, Teach landed a scar on the face of the Yonko Shanks, who became wary of him since their duel and called his wound a fatal mistake of carelessness. Teach was once offered the position of commander on Whitebeard's ship, which was notable as he lacked a devil fruit at the time, proving his strength was on par with the other commanders. He was able to defeat Portgas D. Ace (the second division commander of the Whitebeard Pirates) in a one-on-one battle. He easily defeated Jewelry Bonney (his fellow member of the Worst Generation who has a bounty 140,000,000 berries) and later Boa Hancock (a former Warlord who has a bounty of 1,659,000,000 berries). Even Rayleigh admitted himself that he cannot beat Blackbeard due to his advanced age. He managed to defeat Trafalgar D. Water Law (his fellow member of the Worst Generation who has a bounty of 3,000,000,000 berries after defeating Big Mom). He was able to seriously injured Luffy, Ace and later Law when they were at the mercy of his darkness. He's also able to knock back Whitebeard with a few punches. He also injured Boa Hancock when he initially chokes her at her neck, notably he was the first person in the series to injure her.
  • Endurance: Teach is shown many times to have immense superhuman endurance, taking all of Ace's and Whitebeard's attacks and being shot by Luffy's Gum Gum Jet Pistol in the gut then crashing into a stone wall without being injured. These are noteworthy as his powers increase the damage he takes and could of have been considered fatal. He also took the damage from Trafalgar D. Water Law's awakening abilities when the latter fries Teach's inners.
  • Willpower: Though he is a cowardly fighter, Blackbeard has a strong willpower when he is unaffected by the Conqueror's Haki. But he can be imitiated by Advanced Conqueror's Haki when Rayleigh used it to scare Blackbeard, forcing him to spare Boa Hancock and leave Amazon Lily.

Devil Fruits[]

ZEHAHAHAHA! The gravity of darkness that returns all into nothingness... and the power of earthquakes that destroys everything... I've obtained it at last! Now, nobody is a match for me!
~ Blackbeard of his two devil fruits.

Blackbeard is the first and, so far, only person to wield two Devil Fruit powers at the same time. After Whitebeard's died, Blackbeard used an unknown method managed to obtain Whitebeard's devil fruit the Tremor Tremor from his deceased body. During the timeskip, Jinbe mentioned to the Straw Hat Pirates that Teach and his crew are hunting and stealing powerful devil fruits from other users, suggesting that Teach may have added even more powers to his arsenal. He attempted to have a third Devil fruit such as Hancock's Love Love Fruit and later Law's Op Op Fruit, but didn't manage to acquire either of them (since he spared Hancock due to Rayleigh and Law escaped from Teach's grasp due to Bepo).

The two Devil Fruit powers Blackbeard currently has are:

  • Dark-Dark Fruit - A logia class Devil Fruit that is said to be the evilest power of them all which grants the user to control the power of darkness. It can also give the user the ability to nullify any other Devil Fruit power. Teach has shown complete mastery over this power and gained it by murdering a fellow crew mate on Whitebeard's ship. He searched decades for this fruit and joined Whitebeard's crew because of it since he correctly believed he'd have a better chance to find it. It is implied that he may have used this power to steal Whitebeard's power.
  • Tremor-Tremor Fruit - A paramecia class Devil Fruit that is considered the strongest in its class. It grants the user the ability to create earthquakes. It was originally eaten by Whitebeard but after his death, Blackbeard stolen the reincarnated fruit from Whitebeard's deceased body through unknown means. Marco speculated that Teach's strange body permitted this act. He initially had little control and had to acknowledge how the power was erratic for him. After the timeskip, he has better control over it and casually created an earthquake when Moriah invaded his territory. He also made a massive destruction on Amazon Lily during his failed attempted to kill Boa Hancock, causing her to leave her home.

Haki[]

Blackbeard possessed two forms of Haki:

Armament Haki[]

Blackbeard can imbue his body with shiny black armor to bypass Devil Fruit Users including Logia.

Observation Haki[]

Blackbeard can sense presence of individual and dodge with his own speed.

Quotes[]

A hand of darkness to call forth the void. A hand of light to shake the heavens and bend the earth. Both are mine and the world will tremble with my every step. Only a fool would dare defy me.
~ Blackbeard after stealing Whitebeard's devil fruit powers.
Zehahahahahaha! Pretty as a picture aren't you Red Hair? Those scars are a nice touch.
~ Blackbeard upon seeing Shanks at Marineford.
Zehahahahahaha! Zehahahahahaha! You know what fine, I got what I came here for after all, and I'm not looking for a fight with you guys, well not yet at lest. Come on fellows let's pack it up! Zehahahahahaha! Zehahahahahaha!
~ Blackbeard to Shanks, deciding to stop fighting at Marineford.
Zehahahahaha... An Emperor...? It's still too soon for you, Straw Hat...!!
~ Blackbeard reading news of Totto Land Incident.
Zehahaha. It's been a while, hasn't it, Trafalgar Law?! (Law: What do you want?!) Is that any way to speak to a fellow member of the Worst Generation? When you, Kid and Straw Hat left Wano, I knew one of ya would end up here. But I had no way of known which of you would show!! With Big Mom and Kaido gone, the world's gonna turn on its head! Sounds fun, huh?! Zehahahahaha!! Kaido had one, didn't he?! Just how many Lode Poneglyph rubbings have you got?! I'll be takin' them off your hands!!
~ Blackbeard confronting Trafalgar Law.
You know, I just don't buy it!! The way I see it, if I let go, you'd just turn us to stone, right? I honestly don't think any man can resist your charms. This is a real head-scratcher... But I guess I gotta kill ya.
~ Blackbeard to Hancock while choking her.

Trivia[]

  • Marshall D. Teach is based on the real-life Edward "Blackbeard" Teach, a notorious English pirate. Both his surname and Whitebeard's first name (Edward) are taken from the real-life pirate. Thatch, the Whitebeard crew Blackbeard murdered is also an alternative spelling for Edward Teach's surname.
  • Blackbeard is the first One Piece character who managed to obtain another Devil Fruit ability from its late former user, and the first One Piece character who has safely controlled two Devil Fruit powers at the same time.
  • Due to his actions, Blackbeard is definitely the catalyst of the Summit War Saga and even the entire One Piece story prior to New World event. He caused Ace's arrest and is indirectly responsible for his death, also killing Whitebeard. Blackbeard is also the one who gained most profits after the end of Marineford Arc - including Whitebeard's Devil Fruit ability and some new crew members - which making him one of the Four Emperors as well as one of the main antagonists of the entire One Piece story line.
  • Blackbeard and Akainu are considered to be one of Monkey D. Luffy's most personal arch-enemies, as Blackbeard in particular is responsible for kickstarting the events that led to his brother's death.
    • Due to his ultimate ambition of becoming the Pirate King, Blackbeard is also both an archenemy and an evil counterpart to Luffy.
  • Despite having a letter "D." as his middle name, Blackbeard rarely has any feature of the "Will of the D." unlike other "D.". Unlike other selfless "D." heroes like Luffy, Ace, Garp, Dragon and Law, Blackbeard has a great fear of death and showed a little sense of honor.
    • So far, Blackbeard is also the only two villainous "D"-bearer along with Rocks D. Xebec.
    • So far, Blackbeard is also the only "D"-bearer to show fear of death.
  • Blackbeard's signature laughter is "Zehahahaha".
  • Blackbeard's favorite foods are cherry pies and kebabs. His least favorite food is gravy.
  • Blackbeard's blood type is F (same as his archnemesis, Luffy)
  • Blackbeard is the one of the two Emperors who usurped the position from the previous Emperors beside Luffy.

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