John Giant

Where most of his kind carry a bulky, rounded build, John keeps a frame that reads as broadly human despite his towering scale. Curly brown hair sits above a face capped by a heavy, jutting chin. In One Piece Film: Z a mustache is added to that face.

His uniform is far from standard issue. The white officer's robe has been dressed up with yellow trim, red edging, and an ornate collar, and a row of medals rides over his left chest to mark his standing. He tops it with a red bicorne bearing the Marine emblem, and unlike many senior officers he actually threads his arms through the sleeves of the coat rather than draping it. An orange shirt, loose trousers, and boots round out the look, while a katana scaled to his body rests across one shoulder.

John carries himself with a grave, no-nonsense bearing. His devotion to the Marines runs deep enough that he threw himself at Whitebeard during the conflict at Marineford, accepting mortal danger for the sake of his duty.

His giant heritage gives him raw might and stamina many times beyond what an ordinary person could muster, and his rank places every lower officer under his command. The true ceiling of his power stays unclear, since the opponent he challenged was Whitebeard, who put the Vice Admiral down with little effort. As an officer of his grade he counts among the Haki users, all vice admirals being credited with that talent. In combat he fights as a swordsman, wielding an oversized katana fitted with a clover-shaped guard and a tassel bound around the scabbard.

Born on Elbaph in a distant era, he lost his parents young and fell into the hands of the trafficker Carmel, who passed him to the Marines and made him their first giant recruit. He delivered a speech on justice when Luffy's debut bounty was announced, relayed the Buster Call order during the Enies Lobby affair, and answered the summons to Marineford for Ace's execution. There he assembled the assembled troops, charged the advancing pirates, and struck at Whitebeard, only to be blocked, toppled by a quake that tilted the island, and finally laid low by a quake-charged blow to the chest.