Don Krieg

Krieg is enormous and heavily muscled, with purple-gray hair and pronounced sideburns. By the time he meets the Straw Hats his locks are cut short and bandaged, a result of the wounds he took on the Grand Line, though his wanted poster shows him with a long, untamed mane. Fur trim runs through nearly everything he wears.

His defining feature is the bright gold armor that doubles as his primary weapon. A full chest carapace, oversized shoulder plates each bearing his Jolly Roger, and arm guards together hide a startling arsenal: ten gun barrels, belt-fed spear launchers, a flamethrower, a deployable metal net, and the launcher for his feared MH5 poison shell. Underneath the plating he keeps a brown shirt, fur-lined gloves concealing diamond-studded gauntlets, and a built-in gas mask to shield himself from his own toxin. Out of combat he drapes a regal fur coat over a spotted yellow vest, a heavy gold chain at his neck. After the timeskip his hair grows back long, his frame bulks up further, and he sports what look like sunglasses.

Cruel, deceitful, and swollen with arrogance, Krieg measures everything by victory and dismisses honor and mercy as worthless sentiment. He places total faith in raw numbers and firepower, and when reality contradicts him he refuses to learn, reaching instead for some new underhanded angle. After watching Mihawk's swordsmanship shatter his fleet, he simply assumed the swordsman must possess a Devil Fruit. His hypocrisy runs deep, scolding his crew for bristling at insults yet flying into a rage when Luffy questions his fitness to be Pirate King.

He treats his men as disposable tools, holding them in line through fear and gunning down anyone who hesitates or shows compassion. He felt no grief over his annihilated armada, already plotting to rebuild from East Blue's scattered crews and even to scuttle his own damaged flagship for a replacement. True to the Foul-Play name, he stages false surrenders and Marine disguises to ambush victims. When Baratie's cooks fed his starving crew, he repaid the kindness by trying to seize the ship and slaughter its staff. Defeat by Luffy stripped away his last shred of composure, leaving him demanding a rematch despite crippling injuries.

By Carne's account, Krieg began as a convict who hijacked a Marine vessel and murdered its commanding officer, then built his reputation through repeated treachery until his crew swelled into a five-thousand-man fleet, reckoned the deadliest pirate force in East Blue. Styled the Pirate Fleet Admiral and certain of his own invincibility, he sailed for the Grand Line chasing One Piece. Seven days in, Dracule Mihawk of the Seven Warlords carved his fifty ships apart, and only a sudden storm let Krieg flee with a single battered flagship.

Limping home, his starving men learned from the loyal Gin that the restaurant-ship Baratie would feed anyone, even pirates. Sanji's kindness fed them, but the moment Krieg recovered his strength he turned on his hosts and claimed the vessel for himself, routing the cooks and even shrugging off a point-blank bazooka shot. He demanded the logbook of head chef Zeff, only for Mihawk to reappear and cleave his flagship again. Luffy then stood against him. Through a brutal, drawn-out fight, Luffy weathered the spear barrages, the explosive Battle Spear, the spiked cape, and the MH5 gas, shattering Krieg's supposedly indestructible armor with a Gomu Gomu no Bazooka and finally smashing him into the dock. Refusing to accept the loss, Krieg rose again, only for Gin to knock him out and carry him and the crew away. Two years later he resurfaces on the pirate island Hachinosu alongside Gin and Pearl, listening to Vegapunk's worldwide broadcast.