Ven Vendler

Vendler keeps his pale blond hair at shoulder length, with one long strand drawn back into a ponytail. Heavy eyeliner and dark lip color frame his face. His outfit reads as military pageantry: an elaborate blue tunic crossed with red stripes, gold shoulder pieces, a flowing cape, and tall dark boots that reach the knee. The crest of the Black Kingdom is stitched onto the back of the cape.

Bitterness defines him. The loss of his country left Vendler resentful and hungry for revenge, and he holds a particular scorn for royalty he judges weak or cowardly. Princess Vivi draws his contempt because pirates, rather than her own crown, kept her kingdom safe. He calls himself the true ruler the world deserves and pursues global domination without flinching at the lives he discards along the way. In his view a proper sovereign should crush enemies without personal effort, though he will descend into battle himself once schemes collapse.

Born heir to an unnamed realm and set to become its twelfth king, Vendler watched pirates raze his homeland and fled to survive. Years later, stewing over the protection the Straw Hats had given Arabasta, Ryugu, and Dressrosa, he ate the Mari Mari no Mi and conjured marionettes of those nations' princesses, framing Vivi, Shirahoshi, and Viola for crimes broadcast widely. When his men botched the abduction of Rebecca and led the Straw Hats to his island lair, he seized Usopp and Nami, cuffed Luffy with Seastone, and unleashed copies of famous figures against the crew and arriving Marines. Each puppet fell, and after Rebecca freed Luffy and even Rayleigh appeared to challenge his forgery, Vendler resorted to cloning himself, only to lose to Luffy. Smoker and Tashigi took him into custody and cleared the three princesses' names. He later turns up briefly in the 2025 show as a figure on Snitcher's jacket.