Fake Straw Hat Crew

Within the Return to Sabaody Arc, these frauds serve as the central villains. Because the wider world assumed Luffy's genuine crew had died two years earlier, Black and his followers seized on that belief, dressed to resemble the originals, and staged a triumphant comeback that let them trade on the reputation the real pirates had built.

Their stolen Jolly Roger copies Luffy's skull-and-straw-hat emblem, though it is rendered in jet black. Drowsy, half-lidded eyes and a grin that sits flatter and meaner give it a nastier edge. Eight members mimic individual Straw Hats, yet Brook has no double, since his late arrival, his musical fame, and his skeletal body would make any imitation pointless. The name itself is officially rendered in translation.

Combat was never this group's strength. Their whole strategy leaned on borrowed notoriety rather than ability, so Black hid the fact that his personal bounty amounted to just 26,000,000 while gathering pirates whose reputations could carry him into the New World. He accepted only captains valued at 70,000,000 or more, eventually assembling roughly one hundred recruits across three crews, ten of them bearing bounties. This echoes how Bellamy, back in the Jaya Arc, once threw his weight around inside Mock Town.

Once the truth surfaced, the whole scheme unraveled fast. A single blow from Sentomaru's axe flattened Black, while the real Luffy dropped four impostors at once with a burst of Supreme King Haki. Treating comrades as disposable assets rather than friends, the fakes abandoned their unconscious captain, blamed him for forcing the charade, and pleaded with Caribou for mercy.

Demalo Black, called Three-Tongued, impersonated Luffy as an obese man quick to shoot anyone who annoyed him. Manjaro stood in for Zoro, Chocolat for Nami, Mounblutain for Sogeking, Drip for Sanji, Nora Gitsune (a pet fox) for Chopper, Cocoa for Robin, and Turco for Franky. The recruits included the brothers Caribou and Coribou, feared for slaying Marines, both of whom signed on hoping to murder the Straw Hats from within; Caribou was wanted for 210,000,000, while his brother's price sat at 190,000,000. Albion and Lip Doughty were likewise among the higher-bounty captains drawn in by the ruse.