Buggy the Clown

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Buggy the Clown, from the anime and manga series One Piece.
Name in Japanese	バギー
Name in Romaji (Hepburn)	Bagī
English Name	Buggy
Epithet	"The Clown"
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Voice Actor (4Kids)
Japanese Seiyu	Shigeru Chiba
Appears In	Original Manga
First Appearance	Manga Chapter #9 Anime Episode #4
Species	Human
Bounty	15,000,000 Berry
Devil Fruit
Bara Bara no Mi
Translated name	"Chop Chop" Fruit/"Split Split" Fruit
English name	"Chop Chop" Fruit
Type	Paramecia
Power bestowed	Allows the user to disassemble and reassemble their body into multiple pieces. These pieces can be controlled independently and rearranged in any way the user desires.
One Piece Characters

Buggy the Clown (道化のバギー Dōke no Bagī) is a fictional character of the manga and anime One Piece. He is the captain of Buggy's Band of Pirates, his first mate is Mohji the Lion Tamer and his second mate is Cabaji the Acrobat.

1 Personality and Relationships
2 History
3 Abilities
4 Trivia
5 References
6 See also
7 External links

[edit] Personality and Relationships

Buggy will often feign intelligence, only to have his true incompetence revealed. Although he is not "stupid" in the traditional sense, he is prone to gross misjudgements that often cost him - usually this is due to his overconfidence. In the original Japanese version of One Piece, he inserts the word hade, which means "flashy" or "gaudy" into almost every sentence he speaks (Die with flash! You flashy bastard!).

The big, red nose on his face is, in fact, his real nose; a fact he is very touchy about, going so far as to destroy an entire town when a couple of kids made fun of his nose. Occasionally, he will mishear what others say as an insult about him or his nose, possibly due to paranoia.

He has a number of running gags in the series, including his habit of not noticing who he is speaking to until moments after greeting him (for example, when Ace appeared on his ship, Buggy first greets him politely. Then, when he realises he is on his ship, he blurts out 'Who the hell are you?'). He also has what some might consider 'dumb luck'; no matter what happens to him he is lucky enough to survive somehow (including being struck by lightning at Loguetown).

Buggy is one of the few villains to become reformed after facing Luffy, though only slightly. Before his loss he was willing to use his crew as human shields, afterwards he shows a lot more care about their well being. He also begins to accept people's kindness, though he can still be cruel to anyone who isn't a member of his crew or aiding him in his goals. He also is fun loving and displays a huge fondness for parties, admiring those who are equally fun loving (strangely, he shares this trait with Shanks).

Buggy is deeply afraid of Whitebeard and knows him from his days as a pirate apprentice when his captain's crew and Whitebeard's crew were always fighting. He even stopped his crew from attacking Ace for the fear of Whitebeard's wrath.

His primary goal right now is revenge against Luffy, for defeating him, and Shanks for ruining his dreams during his youth.

[edit] History

[edit] The Bitter Grudge

Buggy holds a bitter grudge against Red-Haired Shanks over the matter of his Devil Fruit curse. In their youth, both men were pirates aboard Gold Roger's ship and constantly argued over everything imaginable (in the flashback in the manga and the anime alike, they argue over whether the North or South Pole is colder). During a raid on an enemy ship, Buggy found a treasure map marking the location of a valuable underwater treasure; during the same raid, the crew retrieved a Devil Fruit: Bara Bara no Mi (バラバラの実 Chop Chop Fruit). Told of the fruit's value, Buggy switched the real fruit with a fake, and then ate the fake in front of the crew so he could sell the fruit which was worth a good amount of money. But, while privately gloating with both the map and the fruit in his possession, Buggy was surprised by Shanks; he hid the fruit in his mouth, and before he could remove it, Shanks surprised him again and he swallowed it - forever losing the ability to swim, and thus also losing his chance to get the treasure underwater.<ref name="Story2"> One Piece - Episode 08 and One Piece manga - Vol.3 - Chapter 19. Shanks and Buggy's history </ref>

They were both present during Gold Roger's execution. After refusing Shank's offer to join his crew, they separated ways and haven't seen each other.<ref name="Shanks 10"> One Piece Manga - Chapter 434, Shanks and Buggy seperate</ref>

[edit] Terror in Port Town

Buggy's first appearance in the series had him terrorizing a town named "Port Town", taking out random buildings with cannonballs (including his special "Buggy Balls", one of which is capable of taking out entire blocks). Monkey D. Luffy happened to fall into the village when Buggy shot down a passing seabird that was attempting to eat him. After Nami (who had robbed Buggy of a map of the Grand Line) double-crossed both Luffy and Buggy in that order, he set about trying to kill both of them. During his battle with Luffy, Nami stole and tied up his separate body parts, leaving him with just his head, hands and feet - and leaving him helpless to stop Luffy from beating him.

After losing his battle with Luffy, Buggy was separated from his body parts for a long period of time. He found himself on various adventures (as depicted in the "Buggy: After The Battle" title page story arc), one of which had him meeting up with Gaimon. After leaving Gaimon's island, Buggy was attacked by a giant crab - and then saved by a mysterious, beautiful woman who turned out to be Luffy's old foe, Alvida. Learning that Luffy now had a price on his head, Buggy was more than happy to join forces with Alvida.

[edit] Buggy's Revenge

The two pirates found Buggy's Band, which had fallen into ruin under the command of Richie, Mohji's pet lion. Reunited with his body parts, Buggy pulled his crew out of trouble and resumed hunting after Luffy.

The second battle between the two crews took place in Loguetown, where Buggy's Band attempted to execute Monkey D. Luffy. Buggy and Alvida's plans were thwarted due in part to the marines, various pirates and rather unlucky weather (which may or may not have been caused by Dragon).

Currently Buggy is sailing the Grand Line with Alvida and his crew and has met up with Portgas D. Ace who has promised to show him the way to Luffy. Buggy in his youth also crossed paths with Whitebeard's crew; Whitebeard recollects Buggy because of his nose and his affiliation with Shanks. This is most likely the reason he is kind to Ace and shows great fear of Whitebeard. <ref name="Story1"> One Piece manga - Vol.28 - Chapter 243, Buggy and Ace</ref>

[edit] Abilities

Buggy accidentally consumed the Bara Bara no Mi, a Devil Fruit (Cursed Fruit in the English anime), which allows him to separate his body parts and control them independent of each other, but robbed him of the ability to swim. The abilities gained from this fruit also make Buggy immune to attacks from knives or swords; any such attack just separates him into his component parts. In addition, most of his body is capable of flying through the air - with the crucial exception of his feet. It should also be noted that, even though the parts are separate, Buggy can still feel what the part feels(for example, when Luffy attacked Buggy, he separated his torso from his waist, only to find that Luffy was aiming for the crotch. Needless to say this left him with a rather painful result). He also seems to require either a fixed distance from his detachments, or keep them within his line of vision, in order to manipulate them separately.

[edit] Trivia

In a recent Japanese Fan Poll, Buggy the Clown in currently ranked the 30th most popular character in One Piece.
Buggy was originally going to be called "Boogie". The creator of One Piece, Eiichirō Oda, saw a movie and saw that the name "Boogie" was taken. Oda quickly thought up the new name.
One of Oda's more mature SBS questions asked if Buggy's lower regions were also able to split and fly off. Oda replied 'yes' as every part of Buggy's body could fly off.<ref name="SBS1"> SBS questions: One Piece Manga - Vol.12 Chapter 103, Fan question: If Buggy's upper body bodys can fly off, can his lower parts fly off too?</ref>
Another SBS question regarding Buggy's hair revealed that the pirate captain's hair is styled into a pair of pigtails.
In an interview for Shonen Jump, Oda once stated Buggy was his favourite villain.