Buggy the Clown

Buggy the Clown is a anime and manga male character who features in One Piece.

Biography

Origin

Buggy the Clown.

Buggy (Japanese: バギー, Hepburn: Bagī)

One of his crewmates was Shanks where he and Buggy often got into arguments with one another. On one occasion, the pair argued on which was colder namely the North Pole or South Pole which was when they were reprimanded by Silvers Rayleigh. Around 27 years ago, their ship raided another vessel that had a treasure map leading to the bottom of the sea. Buggy hid his find and kept the map to himself where later own he spoke to Shanks who revealed that the crew had found one of the fabled Devil Fruits. This attracted Buggy's interest where he learnt it gave the user powers but robbed them of their ability to swim. Upon hearing this, Buggy decided not to take the power as it meant that he could not swim to the treasure at the bottom of the sea. However, he did hear that a Devil Fruit was worth 100,000,000 Beli in the market and concocted a plan to steal it. He substituted the fruit with an ordinary one and claimed that the Devil Fruits were not real and thought to prove it by eating it in front of the crew. This allowed him to hide the real one which he intended to sell but when Shanks surprised him Buggy came to accidentally eat the Devil Fruit. During the incident, he fell in the water and lost the ability to swim nearly causing him to drown but Shanks came to save his life.

Sometime later, in the New World, Shiki the Golden Lion and his Golden Lion Pirates wanted to team up with the Roger Pirates to take over the world, and due to their massive fleet, Buggy advised Gol D. Roger to comply with Shiki's request. However, Roger refused, and the Roger Pirates fought the Golden Lion Pirates in the Battle of Edd War, which was ultimately declared a draw. One year later on an island in Paradise, the Roger Pirates had easily defeated a battalion of Marines when Buggy spotted the Whitebeard Pirates disembarking on the other side of the island. The Roger Pirates and Whitebeard Pirates battled each other for four days until their conflict settled into a gift exchange. During the ceasefire periods at night, Buggy noticed that Marshall D. Teach of the Whitebeard Pirates never slept, and pointed this out to Shanks after the battle, saying he heard that Teach had never slept in his life. Roger pleaded for Whitebeard to allow the samurai Kouzuki Oden to join his crew, and Whitebeard reluctantly agreed. The Roger Pirates were initially hesitant to accept Oden as a crew member, but they quickly warmed up to him.

One year after the Roger Pirates' dissolution, Roger was executed by the World Government in Loguetown. Buggy and Shanks were present at his execution, and they both wept. Afterwards, Shanks asked Buggy to join his crew, but Buggy refused and began operating on his own. With the Great Age of Pirates beginning, in order to escape the eye of the World Government, he concealed the fact that he was part of the Roger Pirates. Forming the Buggy Pirates, he started to plunder and pillage the weakest points of the East Blue. Two years ago, he and his crew raided Orange Town and forced the citizens to evacuate into a shelter outside the town to stay safe.

Orange Town

Buggy heard that a thief had stolen his treasure map to the Grand Line and ordered his crew to catch them. When one of his men tried to explain how it got stolen, Buggy misheard him and thought he mentioned his nose, causing him to become enraged and choke his subordinate before ordering him to be blown up with a Buggy Ball. He then told his crew to catch the thief and loot all of the town's treasure. Later, the thief Nami then arrived on the roof of the tavern and gave Monkey D. Luffy, whom she claimed to be her boss, to Buggy as a prisoner. She also gave the treasure map back, saying she and Luffy had a falling out and she wanted to join the Buggy Pirates. The Buggy Pirates started partying to celebrate the recovery of the map, and Buggy put Luffy in a cage and decided to have Nami execute him by shooting a Buggy Ball at him. When Nami hesitated, one of the Buggy Pirates decided to light the cannon fuse for her, causing Nami to strike him with her staff as she refused to act like a pirate. Buggy ordered his men to attack her, but they were stopped by Roronoa Zoro. Zoro cut Buggy into pieces, and Buggy pretended to be dead which allowed him to stab Zoro in the back with a disembodied hand. Luffy then insulted Buggy, and Buggy tried attacking him with a knife, but Luffy caught the knife in his mouth and broke it. Zoro got up and went to the cannon, parrying Buggy's knife attacks before flipping the cannon and shooting the Buggy Ball at Buggy and his crew. The Buggy Pirates ran away from the ensuing explosion, and after emerging from the smoke, they saw that Luffy, Zoro, and Nami were gone and had taken the key to Luffy's cage.

Buggy proclaimed that it would be an embarrassment to be beaten by three thieves, and so had his beast tamer Mohji go on his lion Richie to defeat Zoro.[30] Later, Buggy heard that Mohji had been defeated, and so decided to destroy the entire town with Buggy Balls. Mohji then returned and revealed that he had been defeated by Luffy rather than Zoro. After Buggy blew up one row of houses, he was confronted by Orange Town's mayor Boodle. Buggy easily overpowered Boodle by choking him with a detached hand, but Luffy then came and removed his hand from the mayor's neck. Luffy insulted Buggy again, causing the clown to become enraged and immediately fire a Buggy Ball at him. Luffy then ballooned his body with the power of the Gomu Gomu no Mi, causing the Buggy Ball to bounce off of him and destroy the tavern. Buggy and Cabaji used their crewmates to shield themselves from the blast and emerged unharmed from the tavern wreckage. Zoro then dueled with Cabaji, and when Cabaji moved to attack Zoro from above, Buggy detached his hand to try to restrain Zoro. However, Luffy stomped the hand into the ground, allowing Zoro to dodge the attack and defeat Cabaji. After winning, Zoro revealed that he and Luffy were actually pirates, which surprised Buggy. Luffy proclaimed that he would become the Pirate King, which Buggy mocked due to his perceived difference in their abilities.

Buggy noted that Luffy's straw hat looked similar to Shanks', and Luffy responded that this was indeed Shanks' hat. Buggy assaulted Luffy with fast blade attacks using his detached hands and legs, and targeted the hat, eventually plunging his knives into it. Buggy revealed that he knew Shanks, and Luffy, enraged that the pirate had damaged the hat and tried to invoke Shanks' name, began to pummel and overwhelm him. Buggy told Luffy about his grudge on Shanks and how it made him determined to seize all the treasure on land that he could; having noticed Nami sneaking toward his shed to steal his treasure again, Buggy detached his torso and flew to attack her. However, Buggy's torso fell to the ground after Luffy kicked his groin, causing him to split his body parts into small pieces and fly them around at rapid speed. Buggy then tried attacking Nami again, but was stopped again, this time by Luffy tickling his feet. Nami attempted to hit Buggy with the bag of his treasure, but he intercepted it before sending one of his detached hands to try to stab her from behind. However, Luffy then charged in and kicked Buggy in the face. As Luffy obtained his map to the Grand Line, Buggy elevated his head into the air and attempted to reform his body to resume fighting, but only his hands and lower legs returned to him as Nami had tied up all his other parts. Luffy then stretched both of his arms back and hit Buggy with his outstretched palms, sending him flying off of the island.

Grand Line

Reduced to a head, arm and legs, he was forced to row a small raft through the ocean where he struggled to avoid being attacked by carnivorous fish. He came to reach an island where he attempted to eat a small bird only to be attacked by its bigger parent. Buggy's initial efforts to trap the larger bird failed and he was nearly eaten alive but the bird spat him out as he tasted bad which saw him landing on the Island of Rare Animals. Whilst there, he came to be attacked by Gaimon at first who looked to protect the animals but the two eventually bonded over their unusual bodies. Buggy set back out to sea the next morning but was attacked by a large crab that destroyed his raft. However, the pirate Alvida then arrived and brought Buggy on her ship as she shot the crab. Buggy was shocked to see that Alvida was pursuing Luffy, and the two of them formed a Pirate Alliance to get revenge on him. The next day, Buggy spotted his ship the Big Top docked at an island, but was aghast upon disembarking to find Mohji and Cabaji lying on the ground defeated. Buggy, Alvida, Mohji, and Cabaji then went to confront the cannibalistic Kumate Tribe, who were cooking the rest of their crew to eat and were examining Buggy's captured body parts. Buggy brought his parts back to him and fully reformed his body, and he, Alvida, Mohji, and Cabaji defeated the Kumate Tribe as his crew welcomed him back.

The Buggy Pirates and Alvida tracked Luffy and the Straw Hat Pirates to Loguetown, and as Alvida reintroduced herself to Luffy while he was on Gol D. Roger's execution platform, Buggy and his crew made their entrance by blowing up a fountain. Buggy sentenced Luffy to a flashy execution, and he had Cabaji pin Luffy to the execution platform. Buggy swung his sword at Luffy's neck, but in a stroke of miraculous fortune, a bolt of lightning struck the platform which incapacitated Buggy and allowed Luffy to escape. Buggy quickly recovered from the lightning strike and ordered his crew to go after the Straw Hats, assuming that Mohji had burned down their ship. He and Alvida raced toward the coast but were then suddenly grabbed by plumes of smoke as Marine Captain Smoker apprehended them. The Marines successfully rounded up and captured the Buggy Pirates and wrapped Seastone nets around Buggy and Alvida to prevent them from using their Devil Fruit abilities. However, a massive gust of wind suddenly blew through the street and freed the Buggy Pirates, allowing them to escape. The crew regrouped under a porch as a storm started, and Buggy decided that they would head into the Grand Line immediately.

The Buggy Pirates went to an island in the Grand Line and searched for treasure in a cave. However, they had gone to the wrong island, as miners proceeded to enter the cave and put the pirates to work. Later, Buggy and his crew became excited to hear that Luffy now had a 100,000,000 Beli bounty, believing that it would make them even more infamous once they got their revenge on him. As the Buggy Pirates started partying, Portgas D. Ace of the Whitebeard Pirates came aboard and said he could give them information about Luffy. Buggy was hostile toward Ace until he learned who he was, and Ace then suddenly fell asleep. Buggy's subordinates asked if they should kill Ace and become famous, but Buggy ordered them not to as he knew that they would anger Whitebeard by attacking a member of his crew. Ace then woke back up and took part in the party as he drank with Buggy. According to an article in the newspaper read by Gloriosa, Buggy was captured by the Marines after accidentally wandering into a Marine garrison which he thought was a cave containing Captain John's treasure. After being captured, he was imprisoned in Level 1 of Impel Down.

Marineford

Buggy attempted to sneak out of the prison but was caught and chased by the Blugori. He ended up running alongside Luffy, who revealed he had snuck into the prison. After some initial shock and hostility, the two of them ended up teaming up to fight the Blugori. To Buggy's great surprise, Luffy was able to quickly defeat each of them with just one punch. Luffy then revealed that he was going down to Level 5 to save Ace, and Buggy initially refused to go along with him. However, he then noticed that Luffy was wearing an armband that pointed to the location of Captain John's treasure, and so offered to take him down to Level 4 in exchange for the armband. To his complete shock, Luffy gave him the armband right then even after finding out it was a treasure map. Buggy and Luffy ended up crashing through the guard room and into Level 1's Crimson Hell, and Buggy detached his feet from his body, allowing him to carry Luffy through the air on his back while his feet traversed unharmed through the spike-covered terrain. The duo reached a pit leading to Level 2, and Luffy immediately jumped in. Buggy considered taking the armband and making his escape, but he was then beheaded by a Blugori, causing the rest of his body to fall down to Level 2. Luffy and Buggy were immediately confronted by the Basilisk from Level 2's Wild Beast Hell, and Buggy was left in shock at Luffy's vastly increased power as Luffy used Gear 3 to defeat it. The prisoners asked the pirates to free them, and Buggy decided to let them out to create chaos that would shield him. However, the prisoners ultimately decided to stay imprisoned as long as the boss of Level 2 was still around, and Buggy had to admit to Luffy that he was lying about being able to reach Level 4. However, Galdino then arrived and said that he could guide them through the level. Buggy, Luffy, and Galdino were then chased by the other wild beasts. Galdino took them to the stairs leading down to Level 3, where they encountered the boss of the level, the Sphinx. When the Sphinx started attacking, Buggy and Galdino made a pact to work together to escape and use Luffy as bait. Galdino created wax clones of himself to distract the Sphinx, but as he and Buggy attempted to go back up to Level 1, the Sphinx's repeated attacks caused the floor to fall out from under them and sent them falling into Level 3. After landing in the very hot Starvation Hell, the trio and the unconscious Sphinx ended up being caught in a net made of Seastone. However, the Sphinx then woke up and tore the net apart, and Buggy and Galdino climbed up to the rafters, bidding farewell to Luffy as he continued looking for a way down. Buggy and Galdino then heard singing, and found Bentham, a former associate of Galdino, in one of the cells. They released Bentham, who went off to join Luffy.

Buggy and Galdino later encountered the Jailer Beast Minotaurus, who chased them to Luffy and Bentham's location near a pit going down to Level 4. Buggy introduced his new weapon, the Muggy Ball, to the other three, and launched it at Minotaurus from his shoe. The Muggy Ball's explosion injured Minotaurus, and successive attacks from Bentham, Luffy, and Galdino defeated it. However, the attacks resulted in the floor collapsing from beneath them, sending them down to Level 4, the Blazing Hell. As they walked in the intense heat, Bentham recalled that the kitchen was on this level. Buggy wanted to follow Luffy to the kitchen, but Galdino held him back and forced him to hide; he pointed out that the level was heavily guarded and that Impel Down would likely send their top forces, including the warden Magellan, after them. When Magellan confronted Luffy, Buggy and Galdino decided to take advantage of this and ambush the forces guarding the way back up, believing they had a chance of overpowering the vice warden Hannyabal. Hannyabal actually allowed them to go through the gate, but they attacked him anyways, causing him to easily defeat them. They were then sent to the interrogation room and were later freed by Bentham who was disguised as Hannyabal. With Luffy having been poisoned by Magellan and sent to Level 5, Bentham wished to go and save him, much to Buggy and Galdino's dismay. As Hannyabal, Bentham led the duo into the Freezing Hell of Level 5; however, upon being confronted by ferocious wolves, Buggy and Galdino ran away and left Bentham to help Luffy alone. Buggy and Galdino managed to avoid the guards by hiding behind walls created by Galdino's wax, and over the next 20 hours they managed to sneak all the way back up to Level 2. As the prison forces headed down toward Level 4 to deal with chaos there, the duo used wax keys to free the prisoners on their level and start a riot. Buggy quickly took leadership of the prisoners, and they happily followed him as their savior. When Buggy's group reached Level 1, they were confronted by all four Jailer Beasts, but the Beasts were suddenly taken down by Luffy, Bentham, and their allies from the lowest levels.

Overview

Personality and attributes

In appearance, Buggy the Clown was a male human with pale skin, a long red nose, and distinctive clown-themed features. He wore a bandana with a skull and crossbones adorned with a clown nose, emphasizing his circus motif. His hair was bright blue and tied into two large ponytails resembling pigtails. Buggy’s costume was elaborate: he wore face paint with exaggerated red lipstick and eye markings, a striped shirt, sash, baggy pants, and oversized shoes. His most distinctive feature was the clown makeup and red nose, which made him stand out immediately in his crew and in battle.

Buggy’s personality, as first shown, was cruel, flamboyant, and theatrical. He relished destruction, laughing loudly as he blasted Orange Town with his cannon for sport, showing no regard for civilian lives. He was quick to anger, especially when mocked for his nose or reminded of his past with Shanks, and his temper often overrode his tactical thinking. Despite this, he displayed cunning in manipulating fear and using hostages, and he took pride in his role as captain, demanding absolute loyalty and obedience from his crew.

Buggy was very vain and egotistical person who sought to be glorified and feared by others.

Buggy was highly opportunistic, often taking advantage of chaotic situations to advance his own goals. He demonstrated a willingness to feign alliances or retreat strategically if circumstances became unfavorable, showing a pragmatic side beneath his flamboyant exterior. He frequently leveraged fear and intimidation, using his clown-like appearance and theatricality to manipulate opponents, but his planning was often impulsive and reactive rather than methodical.

In addition to opportunism, Buggy displayed a persistent sense of self-preservation. Even when outmatched, he prioritized escaping danger while still maintaining his ego and reputation. This drive often led him into humorous situations, as his attempts to appear heroic or threatening would clash with his survival instincts. Despite these traits, he could exhibit bursts of bravery when personally motivated, particularly when treasures, status, or his crew’s loyalty were involved.

Being somewhat of a showman, his actions were frequently designed to bring attention to himself. He often used the word "flashy" (派手に hade ni?) in almost all his sentence ("Flashily die! You flashy bastard!") and frequently used it to describe his actions.

He was shown to be extremely sensitive about his big red nose and would immediately execute anyone who pointed it out. He frequently tends to mishear people as talking about his nose when in reality they are talking about something completely different, and sometimes he even mistakes his own speech as referring to his nose and gets angry at people around him for it.

As a fighter, he was crafty where he allowed himself to be cut him to pieces on one occasion and pretended to be dead in order to stab his opponent with a detached hand whilst they were off-guard.

In addition to wanting followers, Buggy loves to find treasure and spends most of his time following maps leading to great riches; when he was on the Roger Pirates, he stated that the most important thing to a pirate is the physical treasure they find. Buggy is extremely possessive over the treasure he takes and will kill anyone who attempts to steal from him. When Shanks accidentally caused him to lose a treasure map during their apprentice days, Buggy developed a grudge against him that has lasted for three decades.

Powers and abilities

Originally, Buggy was an ordinary human being though one skilled as a pirate. As a human, Buggy possessed the basic physiology of an ordinary man, with no superhuman traits. He relied on his natural agility, his flamboyant presence, and his command of his crew to exert power. Buggy demonstrated average human resilience, though his intimidation tactics and theatrical presence compensated for his otherwise normal physical attributes. His physique was lean but not muscular, relying on trickery and his crew rather than personal brute strength.

He later came to accidentally eat a Paramecia (超人パラミシア系, Paramishia-kei) type Devil Fruit (悪魔の実, Akuma no Mi) with this being the Bara Bara no Mi (バラバラの実, Chop-Chop Fruit). This turned him into a Splitting Human (バラバラ人間 Barabara Ningen?) whereby he could separate the parts of his body. As a result, this made him immune to slash attack as he could divide his body to evade any damage. He could use it to detach his hand and strangle a person from a distance where he could lift them into the air whilst he stood still. Beyond his feet, he was able to separate his disassembled body parts levitate and control them telekinetically. Buggy could launch his body parts at high speed allowing him to strike a distant target with strong degree of force. He used this ability to surprise enemies, bypassing their defenses with attacks from unexpected directions. However, his powers came with a limitation: his feet had to remain grounded, anchoring his body even as other parts separated.

Among the techniques used by him included:

• Bara Bara Ho (バラバラ砲 Bara Bara Hō?, literally meaning "Split Split Cannon") :
• Chi o Hau Bara Bara Ho (地をはうバラバラ砲 Chi o Hau Bara Bara Hō?, literally meaning "Earth-Crawling Split Split Cannon") :
• Bara Bara Ho Kirihanashi (バラバラ砲切り離し Bara Bara Hō Kirihanashi?, literally meaning "Split Split Cannon Dismember") :
• Bara Bara Senbei (バラバラせんべい Bara Bara Senbei?, literally meaning "Split Split Rice Cracker") :

In terms of weapons, he was shown to frequently make use of knives. He was capable of holding them between his fingers to wield them like claws. They were used in conjunction with his Devil Fruit power by flying his detached hands and trying to strike people from afar where he was also able to throw the knives with power and accuracy.

Upon becoming a captain, he assembled his own crew of pirates called the Buggy Pirates (バギー海賊団, Bagī Kaizokudan).

After the Warlords were outlawed, Buggy found himself 'leading' the Cross Guild that was a successor group actually controlled by fellow ex-Warlords Crocodile and Dracule Mihawk. With Buggy's inflated reputation, he was grudgingly retained as figurehead leader, and gained recognition as one of the new Emperors. Emboldened, Buggy has declared his intent to become the Pirate King, putting Cross Guild in pursuit of One Piece.

He made a powerful cannonball that he referred to as his Buggy Balls (特製バギー玉, Tokusei Bagī Dama) that were incredible powerful munitions. These immensely powerful cannonballs could instantly demolish an entire row of buildings.

Notes

• Buggy the Clown was created by Eiichiro Oda where he featured as an antagonist in the setting of the One Piece universe.

Appearances

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External Links

• One Piece Wiki Entry

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