Barrels Pirates

Diez Barrels raised this North Blue outfit after abandoning the Marines, and he padded its ranks in part by strong-arming his own son into joining. That son, called Dory at the time and later renowned as X Drake, was judged the crew's most powerful fighter, even as his father regarded him as short on nerve. The band succeeded in piling up a considerable fortune and, against the odds, laid hands on the fabled fruit called the Ope Ope no Mi.

Ignorant of the fruit's ability to bestow endless life, they saw no reason to eat it and meant instead to sell it at a price running into the billions. That choice sealed their ruin, since holding onto such a treasure pulled in enemies far above their strength.

Powerful enough to gather riches, the crew nonetheless stood nowhere near the level required to stand against Donquixote Doflamingo and his pirates, which left them wholly at the broker's mercy. As they lingered on Minion Island to deliver the Ope Ope no Mi to the Marines, Donquixote Rosinante crept into the mansion and made off with the fruit by way of the Nagi Nagi no Mi. Doflamingo then turned his string powers on the pirates who stayed behind, compelling the men to cut one another down before the rest of his crew stripped the corpses.

Barrels himself met his end personally, shot dead by Doflamingo, a savage finish for the entire outfit. Their reach had stretched far enough to secure a fabled Devil Fruit, but never far enough to hold onto it.

Two members carry names, and both had served as Marines before drifting into piracy. Captain Diez Barrels bore a surname that means ten in Spanish, rendered as X in Roman numerals, foreshadowing the family name his son would come to use. Dory, the lone survivor, was standing beyond the wire cage when the slaughter began and refused to aid his dying crewmates, fleeing instead.

He went on to rejoin the Marines, climbing to Rear Admiral and a captaincy in the secret unit SWORD, and eventually founded his own crew. All the while he kept his SWORD ties hidden, and in that state he rose to become a Super Rookie counted among the Worst Generation. Tellingly, he bore Doflamingo no grudge for killing his father, a measure of how little regard remained.