The Straw Hat Pirates

The Straw Hat Pirates are a pirate crew that originated from the East Blue, but have various members from different areas. They are the main focus and protagonists of the anime and manga One Piece, and are led by the main protagonist, Monkey D. Luffy. The "Straw Hats" are named after Luffy's signature hat that was given to him by Red-Haired Shanks, and are first referred to as the Straw Hat Pirates by Smoker in Alabasta.[3] The crew sailed on the Going Merry, their first official Straw Hat ship, up until the Water 7 Arc. After the Enies Lobby Arc, they obtain a new ship called the Thousand Sunny. The Straw Hats currently consist of nine members whose combined bounties equal Beli1,570,000,100[1]. Following the events on the Sabaody Archipelago, all nine members were separated from one another. For two years, they trained in relatively isolated locations, becoming stronger for the sake of helping each other.[4] They then reunited and have since become an active and massive force in the New World.

The crew's Jolly Roger is a cartoonlike depiction of a traditional skull and cross-bone with the skull wearing Luffy's trademark straw hat. In addition to being on their flag, the jolly roger has also been shown on the sails of the Going Merry and the Thousand Sunny. Luffy Draws Straw Hat Jolly Roger The Straw Hat Jolly Roger drawn by Luffy. Laboon Anime Infobox Laboon's Straw Hat Jolly Roger. Ending 14 Straw Hat Jolly Roger Straw Hat Jolly Roger from Ending 14. Franky Shogun's Straw Hat Symbol Franky Shogun's Straw Hat symbol. Crew MembersEdit See also the associated category: Straw Hat Pirates. As a result of Luffy's choice in who joins the crew, the Straw Hats are notable for being one of the most varied, if not bizarre, pirate crews in the One Piece world. Their ranks have members so vastly different from one another that it almost seems random in retrospect. These include a doctor who is a shape-shifting reindeer that can be mistaken for something else depending on his form, such as a gorilla when full human or a tanuki when in his usual mid-form; a cyborg for a shipwright who has very eccentric behavior and wears almost nothing except shirts and swim briefs; and a lively, undead, perverted skeletal musician. If their former lives and activities are considered, it only adds to the crew's collective strangeness: their swordsman was a former bounty hunter, their cook a fugitive prince from a family of royal assassins, and their navigator a burglar who specialized in stealing from pirates. Their archaeologist also worked for a criminal organization formerly run by a Shichibukai. The Straw Hats have four Devil Fruit users: Luffy, Chopper, Robin, and Brook. The majority of them are also fairly young, with only three members being thirty or older, although the two oldest members are just as childish as the others. Unlike most crews, they consider their ships to be crew members.[5] During the Dressrosa Arc, the crew temporarily split in half, with one group staying to finish business on Dressrosa and the other heading on to Zou in order to protect Caesar Clown and Momonosuke.[6] The group heading to Zou (Sanji, Nami, Chopper and Brook) was referred to as the Curly Hat Pirates (ぐるわらの一味 Guruwara no Ichimi?), named after Sanji, the de facto leader of the group[7] ("Twirly Hat Pirates" in the Funimation Sub).[8] This same group forms the core of the Sanji retrieval team (サンジ奪還チーム Sanji Dakkan Chīmu?) during the Totto Land Arc, but with some personnel changes: Luffy has resumed leadership, Sanji is missing at Whole Cake Island, and the minks Pedro and Carrot are accompanying them in their quest to "retrieve Sanji".[9] Nefeltari Vivi is the crown princess of Alabasta, who ended up travelling with the Straw Hat Pirates for most of the Alabasta Saga. She was asked to become a member of the crew by the other Straw Hats after spending a lot of time with them, but ultimately, she decided to remain in Alabasta in order to fulfill her royal duties. Jinbe was the second captain of the Sun Pirates and a former Shichibukai. He was invited by Luffy to join the Straw Hat Pirates, but declined due to having unfinished business with his Yonko superior, Big Mom; however, he promised that, once he was ready, he would return to Luffy again and request to join his crew. In the game, Legend of the Rainbow Island, a young boy named Dias joins the crew. At the end of the game, however, he leaves the crew. His overall inclusion in the crew's history is considered non-canon, as it is part of a video game. [v · e · ?]Straw Hat Pirates Members Monkey D. Luffy Post Timeskip Portrait Roronoa Zoro Post Timeskip Portrait Nami Post Timeskip Portrait Usopp Post Timeskip Portrait Sanji Post Timeskip Portrait Monkey D. Luffy Roronoa Zoro Nami Usopp Sanji Tony Tony Chopper Post Timeskip Portrait Nico Robin Post Timeskip Portrait Franky Post Timeskip Portrait Brook Post Timeskip Portrait Tony Tony Chopper Nico Robin Franky Brook Ships Going Merry Portrait Thousand Sunny Portrait Going Merry ‡ Thousand Sunny Allies Heart Pirates Portrait Kozuki Family Portrait Mink Tribe Portrait Heart Pirates Kozuki Family Mink Tribe [Click here to see the legend of the symbols used] At the end of the Dressrosa Arc the crew becomes the leader of an alliance called the Straw Hat Grand Fleet, which involves seven groups who sided with Luffy in the conflict between himself and Doflamingo, becoming subordinate to the Straw Hats, while maintaining their status as individual crews with their own free will. (In a similar manner to the relationship between the Bellamy Pirates and Donquixote Doflamingo.) See also the associated category: Straw Hat Pirates. [v · e · ?]Straw Hat Grand Fleet Representatives Cavendish Portrait Bartolomeo Portrait Sai Portrait Ideo Portrait Cavendish Bartolomeo Sai Ideo Leo Portrait Hajrudin Portrait Orlumbus Portrait Leo Hajrudin Orlumbus Crews Beautiful Pirates Portrait Barto Club Portrait Happo Navy Portrait XXX Gym Martial Arts Alliance Portrait Beautiful Pirates Barto Club Happo Navy XXX Gym Martial Arts Alliance Tonta Corps Portrait Giant Warrior Pirates Portrait Yonta Maria Grand Fleet Portrait Tonta Corps Giant Warrior Pirates Yonta Maria Grand Fleet [Click here to see the legend of the symbols used] Cavendish, Bartolomeo, Sai, Ideo, Leo, Hajrudin and Orlumbus asked to become Luffy's subordinates by offering him a cup of sake. Luffy refused but said they would still be bonded by their fight against Doflamingo and they would help each other out at anytime. However, the captains decided to drink the sake anyway, pledging to come to Luffy's aid whenever he needed them, while Luffy was not obligated to do the same. The Straw Hat Grand Fleet, consisting of 5640 people, was then formed, and a party ensued as their fleet departed from Dressrosa. Crew StrengthEdit “ The Straw Hat crew has left nothing but sheer miracles in its wake. ” — Trafalgar Law remarking on the crew's aptitude to overcome any challenge.[10] Despite having a small number of members, the Straw Hats are a very powerful crew. Their captain has continuously defeated people who are renowned for their incredible strength such as Crocodile, Gekko Moriah and Donquixote Doflamingo of the Shichibukai,[11][12][13] the highly feared tyrant Enel from Skypiea,[14] and the infamous Rob Lucci of the CP9.[15] The crew itself has done things which most would think impossible and completely insane like defeating an entire organization (such as Baroque Works,[3] CP9[16] and the Donquixote Pirates[17]), punching a World Noble and breaking in and out of the judicial island, Enies Lobby. In fact, after the incident that occurred at Enies Lobby, the World Government has labeled them as a very dangerous crew since their actions endangered the balance of the Three Great Powers. All of them have at least one talent at which they are virtually perfect at and each member is, more or less, a formidable if not downright fearsome fighter in their own right. While all of them have amazing strength in one way or another, three of them, the captain, the swordsman, and the chef, have such astonishingly inhuman strength that the rest of the crew have dubbed them the "Monster Trio". So far, four of the nine current members are shown to have awakened their Haki. Luffy is shown to use all three types; Zoro and Sanji have wielded two types; whilst Usopp has recently manifested Kenbunshoku Haki in Dressrosa when he sniped Sugar. “ On our journey across the islands, all of us became stronger without even noticing. ” — Part of Zoro's speech to Nami and Chopper about Usopp Each member in the beginning has some fairly high fighting abilities, but as they progress, each member has had to become stronger due to each opponent they encounter either being significantly stronger than the last or having required them to develop new skills or techniques to combat new opponents. Two of the Straw Hats greatest attributes are their charisma and unpredictability. With their extremely friendly personalities, they manage to make all the right friends in all the right places, which eventually accomplishes their goals (though it was never their original intention). These friends and allies have proven to be useful depending on the location or objective, and thus the Straw Hats seem to have no regrets fighting for their sakes given the circumstances, and vice versa. Due to this, and the Straw Hats reputation and impressive bounties, there are many laymen who believe the crew is made up of hundreds, if not thousands of members. They also tend to act upon their emotions, throwing normal logic out of order. By using the freedom granted by their status as pirates, they tend to act erratically, either helping people, or picking a fight, simply because it is something they wish to do. Both these attributes have been shown to destroy the carefully laid plans of criminal masterminds with large influential organizations, which took them years to cultivate, like those of the three former Shichibukai (Crocodile, Gekko Moriah and Donquixote Doflamingo), as well as the former 'God' of Skypiea, Enel. Overall, their most unique strength is the fact that the Straw Hat crew, on many occasions, are extremely lucky, being able to achieve many things that would be considered impossible feats. This includes various wild escapes from Marine captures and ambushes; confronting, defeating and escaping Shichibukai and World Government led organizations with no casualties; managing to reach Skypiea via the Knock-Up Stream without losing anybody while simultaneously escaping the Blackbeard Pirates, and escaping the flagship of a Yonko while badly damaging it in the process. In fact, some of these lucky accomplishments are considered miraculous in hindsight. “ I'll do whatever you cannot do. And you do whatever I cannot do!!! ” — Part of Sanji's speech to Usopp While each member can hold their own by themselves, what makes the Straw Hats truly strong is their teamwork, which has become more important as the series has progressed. When one of them is incapable of doing a task, another can help out in their place instead. This helps the crew very much in facing odds that may be too much for them if they work separately. When at sea, the Straw Hats tend to be relaxed, playing with each other, training, reading or whatever else they may do to occupy themselves. They can maintain this attitude even in the unstable waters of Paradise, New World or even in their descent down to (and ascent from) Fishman Island. However, whenever a crisis pops up, like storms, tidal waves, large sea life or falling ships, the crew instantly snap out of their relaxed state and swing into action. They all seem to know their place and will do what they should in the circumstances. Most of the time though, they tend to sail at a casual pace, without rushing. After the two year time skip, even though they have been dormant for some time, the Straw Hats are talked amongst pirates on a legendary level. Even Sentomaru casually comments that pirates are not like what they used to be. He calls the impostors of the Straw Hats a wasteful trash when Demaro Black boasts of his lineage in front of him, prompting Sentomaru to take him down with a single blow of his axe, and then saying that the real Monkey D. Luffy would never have done so. The crew has gained legendary status since they first set sail, on par with all the other major crews of the world, even the Blackbeard Pirates. They are currently the only known pirate crew to openly wage war against the World Government and have practically gotten away with it. It still stands that they are the only pirate crew to have escaped from every branch of law enforcement that the government could throw at them; the Shichibukai, Cipher Pol, Impel Down, and Marineford have all failed in their attempts to hold down the crew (with the captain penetrating and escaping from the latter twice by himself). Perhaps as a testament to their strength, they are the only known crew where every single member has a bounty on their head. When news of them resurfaced, the entire Marine organization was thrown into a frenzy to stamp out their revival whilst the rest of the pirates cheered on. It is possible that their fame had led many to join the ranks of piracy, for when the fake Straw Hats started recruiting pirates, many flocked to join up, and were also greatly shocked when the "Monster Trio" gave a show of a small fraction of their power. Chapter 628 The Straw Hats' new fighting styles after two years of training. By the end of their two-year long training, it could be presumed that the Straw Hats have grown exponentially in individual power, as some of them took their self-imposed training under the tutelage of prominent figures of the sea like Silvers Rayleigh, Dracule Mihawk, Emporio Ivankov, and Monkey D. Dragon. Each member of the Monster Trio (Luffy, Zoro and Sanji) have shown to be able to defeat a Pacifista in a single attack, whereas it took the combined efforts of the entire crew to barely beat one before. Luffy easily destroyed a Pacifista with a single Haki-embedded Jet Pistol[18] as well as Zoro and Sanji, the latter using his Diable Jambe, both dealt crippling blows to a Pacifista with raw strength. Zoro and Sanji each used attacks that likely would have been sufficient to destroy the Pacifista on their own, had they not been trying to outdo each other. Another example of the Monster Trio's strength is that they were able to defeat a sea monster such as the Kraken (a creature several times larger than the Thousand Sunny itself) without much of an effort underwater, where all their strength is greatly decreased. Afterwards Zoro, Nami, Usopp, and Brook defeat all the troops stationed in the Ryugu Palace with ease. The crew also easily took out the 100,000 lower members of the New Fishman Pirates which consisted of about 70,000 fishmen and 30,000 humans with Luffy alone taking out about 50,000 people with a single burst of Haoshoku Haki. Even the weaker members, Nami and Usopp, became strong enough to take down the fighters of the Donquixote Pirates; (who are both Devil Fruit Users) Buffalo and Baby 5, all by themselves. Oda once stated that Usopp is, and if possible always will be, the weakest member of the crew. Usopp is a superb marksman, a genius inventor, and Kenbunshoku Haki user, who defeated two of the Donquixote Pirates executives. In addition to their strength, the Straw Hats have established unofficial, and temporary alliances with other pirates, non-pirates, and sometimes Marines and royalty when fighting against powerful enemies, but they gain a permanent friendship with their allies when they came to their aid and support them on several occasions whenever they cross paths. In the Punk Hazard Arc, the Straw Hat Pirates entered into an official alliance with Trafalgar Law and his Heart Pirates with the goal of defeating Kaido. During the Zou Arc, the Straw Hat Pirates and the Heart Pirates extended their alliance to join forces with the Mink Tribe and the Kozuki Family of Wano Country in order to help bring down not only Kaido, but the Shogun of Wano as well, making the alliance even more powerful. Following the battle with the Donquixote Pirates, the Straw Hats' allies who participated in the battle organized themselves into seven divisions and formed the Straw Hat Grand Fleet which numbered a total of 5640 members, giving the Straw Hats significantly larger amounts of manpower similar to the Whitebeard Pirates. Professions and CapabilitiesEdit Name Profession Capabilities Epithet Monkey D. Luffy Captain Fighting Genius Free-Fighting Style Gomu Gomu no Mi Three Forms of Haki "Straw Hat" (麦わら Mugiwara?)[19] Roronoa Zoro Swordsman Haki Powerful Swordsman Santoryu "Pirate Hunter" (海賊狩り Kaizoku Gari?)[20] Nami Navigator Bo Staff Fighter Cartographer Skilled Navigator Thieving Expert Weather Controller "Cat Burglar" (泥棒猫 Dorobō Neko?)[21] Usopp Sniper Cannoneer Creative Inventor Compulsive Liar Pop Green User Skilled Artist Tactical Wit Versatile Arsenal Haki "Sogeking" (そげキング Sogekingu?) "King of the Snipers" (狙撃の王様 Sogeki no Ō-sama?)[21] "God" (ゴッド Goddo?) Sanji Chef Black Leg Style Haki High Culinary Expertise Martial Artist Tactical Wit "Black Leg" (黒脚 Kuro Ashi?)[21] Tony Tony Chopper Doctor Advanced Medical Skills Animal Speech Comprehension Free-Fighting Style Hito Hito no Mi Kung Fu Rumble Ball Wrestling "Cotton Candy Lover" (わたあめ大好き Wataame Daisuki?)[21] Nico Robin Archaeologist Assassination Expert Clandestine Operative Free-Fighting Style Hana Hana no Mi Historian Poneglyph reader "Devil Child" (悪魔の子 Akuma no Ko?) Franky Shipwright Boxing Cyborg Modifications Engineer Master Shipwright Versatile Arsenal "Cyborg" (鉄人 Saibōgu?) "Iron Man" (鉄人 Tetsujin ?) Brook Musician Fast Swordsman Fencing Style High-Class Musician Yomi Yomi no Mi Hypnotism "Humming" (鼻唄 Hanauta?) "Soul-King" (魂王 Souru Kingu, Tamashī-ō?) BountiesEdit “ We'd never have tried anything here... if you hadn't attacked us first!! ” — Usopp as he prepares to fight Neptune and his soldiers Though they are pirates in name, the Straw Hat Pirates do not engage in the stereotypical activities of pirates. They are all kindhearted for the most part, and only fight in self-defense, or in vengeance for their friends. In fact, before the Enies Lobby arc, when CP9 initiated the conflict by blackmailing Nico Robin and detaining her, the Straw Hats mostly fought only other pirates (with the exception of Luffy and Zoro, who took down the dreaded Axe Hand Morgan and several of his unwilling subordinates,[22] and Sanji, who beat up Fullbody and possibly some other unfortunate Marines prior to becoming an official Straw Hat[23]) - it seems they were considered dangerous to the World Government and given bounties simply because they called themselves pirates. They are considered villains by the World Government and the general public who aren't familiar with them. While this is a hassle for them, like most other pirates, the majority of the Straw Hats see their bounties as a form of achievement, a sign of how much fame and recognition their actions have produced. Nami notes that, as pirates, they are used to taking blame and being portrayed as the villains. Their current bounties total up to Beli1,570,000,100.

The straw Hat old bouties

The Straw Hat New Bounties

The Straw Hat jolle roger