One Piece: Goals of Every Emperor Past and Present

Emperors are the pirates who function captains for the highest 4 crews the World Authorities finds essentially the most threatening. They themselves are usually fairly robust as effectively, with most of them being close to inconceivable to beat in one-on-one fight.

However this truth does not cease them from surrounding themselves with the highest brass when it comes to pirates. Most emperors at present management a number of territories, have an abundance of assets, and usually have a top quality of life, at the least so far as pirates go. Even so, no pirate will get that massive with out some higher ambition driving them, and the emperors all have pretty bold objectives.

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Edward “Whitebeard” Newgate

Captain of the Whitebeard Pirates

• Debut: Chapter 159 (Manga), Episode 95 (Anime)
• Standing: Deceased, No Longer Emperor
• Satan Fruit: Gura Gura no Mi (Previously)

The late Edward Newgate was an orphan on the island of Sphinx. This island was a territory that was too poor to pay for the World Authorities’s safety, rising the crime and corruption within the space. In consequence, Newgate had a tough childhood, which seemingly was a cause he turned to piracy. Whitebeard had a stint as a member of the Rocks Pirates, an notorious crew of highly effective people who he claimed had been the sort to refuse to take orders. Someday after the crew disbanded, he fashioned his personal, the large group often known as the Whitebeard Pirates.

This crew was recognized for being extremely massive, necessitating 16 divisions, every with its personal commander. Moreover, there have been quite a few separate crews that affiliated themselves with Whitebeard, performing as subordinates. Newgate additionally gave his flag to quite a few territories to “declare” them, primarily performing as their protector. Nearly all of his spoils went to Sphinx, presumably as a type of humanitarian assist.

Whitebeard didn’t take care of the One Piece, not like different emperors, and even refused to be advised of its location. As a substitute, he appeared to concentrate on his crew, whom he thought of his household. Because of Whitebeard’s lack of family members rising up, sustaining his household gave the impression to be his largest ambition. He additionally appeared involved with defending territories that seemingly could not afford authorities assist, even exterior Sphinx. Each of those ambitions appear to coincide with a higher purpose of serving to the deprived, whether or not they had been individuals on ravaged islands, or merely youths who turned to piracy. His love did have limits, nevertheless, as he forged out his longtime crewmate, Marshall D. Educate, for murdering and betraying Thatch, one among his former division commanders.

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Charlotte “Huge Mother” Linlin

Captain of the Huge Mother Pirates

• Debut: Chapter 651 (Manga), Episode 571 (Anime)
• Standing: Unclear, No Longer Emperor
• Satan Fruit: Soru Soru no Mi

Charlotte Linlin was an orphan whose mother and father had been incapable of defending her. She was raised in an orphanage in Elbaf, the place Mom Carmel, a covert human trafficker, hoped to promote her to the World Authorities. She was massive, close to invulnerable, and had a voracious urge for food, whilst a toddler. She could have unintentionally eaten Carmel and her fellow orphans, because of being unable to quick, per Elbaf custom.

One in every of Linlin’s essential objectives was to safe each race in Totto Land and its surrounding islands, which served as her territory. She taxes the residents on her islands with one month of their life (which she steals from their souls along with her Satan Fruit) in change for six months on the islands. Two of her daughters have additionally claimed that she doesn’t permit individuals to voluntarily exit her territory.

Linlin additionally wished to turn into King of the Pirates and had a purpose of acquiring the One Piece. Linlin appeared largely profitable in her purpose of integrating varied races, with the bulk being seen in her territory, or in any other case collected by her. Nonetheless, there have been just a few races, she had but to combine. Essentially the most notorious stumbling block is the giants, who despised Linlin as a race after her actions in Elbaf. She tried to clean issues over with an organized marriage, however her daughter, Lola, left her husband-to-be, Loki, on the altar. After failing to go Lola’s twin, Chiffon, off as her sister, the giants hated Linlin much more for her deception. One other race that’s unseen on her islands is the Lunarians, who’re considered largely extinct. Linlin requested the only real survivor of the race, King, to accompany her, however he refused. Linlin additionally has 85 youngsters, the results of a number of marriages to husbands of quite a lot of races.

Linlin’s purpose of discovering the One Piece has confirmed up to now to be considerably much less profitable than her different ones. She hopes to leverage her daughter, Pudding’s three-eye powers, to safe an edge, however Pudding herself is not sure of if this can work. Because of Linlin’s defeat and presumed (albeit unconfirmed) loss of life at Onigashima, her crew is much much less highly effective than it was earlier than.

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Kaido

Captain of the Beasts Pirates

• Debut: Chapter 795 (Manga), Episode 736 (Anime)
• Standing: Unclear, No Longer Emperor
• Satan Fruit: Uo Uo no Mi, Mannequin: Seiryu

Kaido was frequently valued for his bodily energy, however little else. The quite a few betrayals he suffered up to now in addition to the experiments he endured on Punk Hazard gave him a burning anger on the world. He based his crew with fellow take a look at topic, Alber (who would later be often known as “King”), which might come to be often known as the Beasts Pirates.

Kaido’s objectives included taking over the World Authorities and creating an all-Zoan pirate crew, in addition to ultimately turning into the Pirate King. Kaido additionally appeared to commonly try suicide, seemingly out of anguish for lack of a succesful challenger. Kaido has up to now failed each single purpose. Though he has been held hostage by the World Authorities, he has did not defeat them definitively, and it’s unclear how he would stand as much as a mixture of their strongest forces. His efforts at an all-Zoan crew had been bolstered by the SMILE initiative, which gave a lot of his members imperfect synthetic Zoans, however after their manufacturing was halted, a lot of his lower-ranked members, in addition to those that consumed failed smiles, had been with out Zoan powers.

He’s even additional faraway from his purpose of being King of the Pirates, though it’s apparently one he had, seeing as his subordinate, King, promised to not lose till that point (which he ultimately broke after Zoro managed to defeat him.) Kaido’s quite a few suicide makes an attempt have additionally failed, which makes individuals not sure if he did in the end die within the volcano at Onigashima.

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Shanks

Captain of the Crimson Hair Pirates

• Debut: Chapter 1 (Manga), Episode 4 (Anime)
• Standing: Alive, Present Emperor
• Satan Fruit: None, as of now

Shanks is one thing of an enigma when it comes to his final ambitions. Like most of his fellow emperors, he apparently needs to seek out the One Piece. Aside from that, little is understood of his final agenda. His ties to the 5 Elders and presumed sway over the World Authorities (imagined to be because of World Noble heritage) muddies his potential objectives considerably.

He’s notably keen on Luffy, defending him a number of occasions and wishing for him to turn into an amazing pirate, however he acknowledges that the 2 at the moment are technically enemies, a truth not helped by Yasopp gunning down one among Luffy’s subordinate crews.

Like Whitebeard, he appears to have an curiosity in humanitarian assist, defending Elbaf, in addition to different territories, and taking over weak subordinate crews with this presumed intention. Nonetheless, his precise ambitions are at present unknown, along with his restricted presence being the supply of hypothesis.

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Marshall D. Educate “Blackbeard”

Captain of the Blackbeard Pirates

• Debut: Chapter 223 (Manga), Episode 146 (Anime)
• Standing: Alive, Present Emperor
• Satan Fruit: Yami Yami no Mi and Gura Gura no Mi

Blackbeard is dedicated to his objectives and can spend a number of years reaching them. His first purpose, discovering the Yami Yami no Mi, was one he spent a number of years with the Whitebeard Pirates in an effort to accomplish. He appeared to make no bones about betraying them after the actual fact. He additionally turned a warlord regardless of having no bounty, as a pretense to seek out essentially the most ruthless criminals to spherical out his crew. He’s now an Emperor, who has most of Whitebeard’s territories underneath his thumb, and there are few profitable efforts towards him at this level. He additionally managed to steal Satan Fruit powers for his top-ranking members, with most of them killing and stealing them from earlier customers.

With all these objectives fulfilled, Blackbeard’s present ones are considerably shrouded in thriller. He appears to love the thought of a nation of pirates and has flirted with the thought of 1 even endorsed by the World Authorities. He additionally has an curiosity within the One Piece, however like others, how far alongside he’s in the direction of reaching it appears considerably unclear. Having at present kidnapped Pudding, he’s additionally trying to make use of her for this purpose.

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Monkey D. Luffy

Captain of the Straw Hat Pirates

• Debut: Chapter 1 (Manga), Episode 1 (Anime)
• Standing: Alive, Present Emperor
• Satan Fruit: Gomu Gomu no Mi (Hito Hito no Mi, Mannequin: Nika)

Luffy is primarily targeted on turning into the King of the Pirates, with different objectives much less clear. He additionally appears to want for the utmost quantity of freedom attainable, with quite a lot of his altruistic and egocentric objectives intersecting at this level. Some speculate his final purpose is to, in actual fact, grant everybody “freedom.”

In contrast to most different captains, he appears to have a definitive edge when it comes to discovering the One Piece, along with his crewmate, Nico Robin, being one among a uncommon few who can learn poneglyphs. Luffy additionally has the Voice Of All Issues, which might probably assist him in the direction of this purpose. That mentioned, there are nonetheless many difficulties in his path to turning into the Pirate King, specifically poneglyphs, discovering Raftel, and most significantly defeating those that would cease him.

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Buggy

Figurehead of Cross Guild

• Debut: Chapter 9 (Manga), Episode 4 (Anime)
• Standing: Alive, Present Emperor
• Satan Fruit: Bara Bara no Mi

Buggy is a current contender within the race to seek out the One Piece. Like his former crewmate and fellow emperor, Shanks, Buggy was a Roger Pirate. Nonetheless, he missed discovering the One Piece along with his crew the primary time, because of a illness he had that Shanks stayed behind to assist him recuperate from. In contrast to different emperors, Buggy is definitely fairly weak as a pirate. That mentioned, a capability to seek out robust allies, and a significantly exaggerated status, have led him to repeatedly fall up into greater echelons of piracy.

Buggy was forcibly built-in into Crocodile and Dracule Mihawk’s new marine-hunting mercenary group, Cross Guild. This was because of an unpaid debt Crocodile needed to gather. Nonetheless, in trying to repay him by way of publicity, Buggy was inadvertently made the chief, a mistake the 2 co-leaders ran with to make him a scapegoat.

Nonetheless, at a current assembly, he drove Cross Guild to seek out the One Piece. They had been, after all, energized by the purpose. That mentioned, Mihawk and Crocodile had been much less enthused. Mihawk appeared to assume the purpose was far more tough than turning into the World’s Strongest Swordsman, and Crocodile’s dream of turning into the Pirate King died way back when Whitebeard harshly defeated him. Even so, the 2 will seemingly work in the direction of it to maintain up appearances, if nothing else.