Wapol
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| Tin-Plate Wapol
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| Tin-Plate Wapol, from the anime and manga series One Piece. | |
| Name in Japanese | ワポル |
| Name in Romaji (Hepburn) | Buriki no Waporu |
| English Name | Tin-Plate Wapol |
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| Voice Actor (4Kids) | Sean Schemmel |
| Japanese Seiyu | Bin Shimada |
| Appears In | Original Manga |
| First Appearance | Manga Chapter #131 Anime Episode #79 |
| Species | Human |
| Bounty | None |
| Devil Fruit | |
| Baku Baku no Mi | |
| Translated name | "Chomp Chomp" Fruit (Baku being a Japanese onomatopoeia for the sound of chomping, as in eating) |
| English name | Munch Munch Fruit |
| Type | Paramecia |
| Power bestowed | Allows user to devour and digest anything. Any item consumed can be reconfigured into the users body (i.e. Wapol eats a cannon and can thus grow one out of his body.) |
| One Piece Characters | |
Tin-Plate Wapol (ブリキのワポル, Buriki no Waporu) is a character from the anime and manga "One Piece".
Wapol's name is likely derived from the word "Waffle" - significant to his eating habits, and possibly Politician, referring to his status as King. Could also be based on Napoleon. His name could have also come from the first Prime Minister of Great Britain, Robert Walpole.
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[edit] Personality and Relationships
Wapol was once prince of the region, and succeeded his father (a beloved king by the Drum people) as monarch when his father died. Wapol proved to be a spoiled and corrupt king. Before Wapol's ascension to power, the Drum Empire possessed the most numerous and skilled doctors in all of Grand Line.
He thinks he is more important than anyone else in his kingdom. He has no time nor care for political events concerning the world that do not affect his country, such as Dragon and the movements of his revolutionaries. He also displays a huge lack of diplomacy skills altogether in dealing with other Kings. In the original version, he has a habit of saying "hippo" (kaba) when he means "idiot" (baka), probably because everybody feared to correct him. In the dub, he has a Russian accent.
[edit] History
[edit] Wapol's accession to Power
King Wapol is the former ruler of the Drum Empire (now Sakura Kingdom), originally named for the "Drum Peak," mountains which support Wapol's castle. Wapol exiled all of these doctors, with the exception of his personal 'Isshi-20' (20 Doctors). These doctors were forced into servitude by Wapol as he believed he could control the citizens of Drum by forcing them to personally beg him for medical treatment. Only two other doctors, Hiruluk and Kureha, managed to elude Wapol's grasp.
Wapol then laid a trap for Hiruluk, who, shortly after eating Tony Tony Chopper's poisoned mushroom, received a memo explaining that the 'Isshi-20' were all gravely sick. Fearing for Drum's only 'real' doctors Hiruluk traveled to Drum Castle, where he learned that the 'Isshi-20' were all fine and it had all been a scheme of Wapol's to trap him. Instead of fearing for his life, Hiruluk expressed relief that the Doctors were all fine, and in what is possibly one of the most powerful speeches in the series, he declared that neither a knife, a gun, nor a poisones mushroom can kill a man; a man can wonly truly die when he is forgotten. He then drank a potion that made his body explode,saying: "This was Really a wonderfull life!!.
Horrified over Wapol's treatment of Hiruluk and of the country as a whole, Dalton, Wapol's Army Captain, turned against him, claiming, "There is no medicine for stupidity!". Wapol then threw him in jail for his actions.
[edit] Wapol flees in Fear
Wapol continued to rule tyrannically over the Drum Empire until Blackbeard landed; the powerful pirate ravaged the entire kingdom and in a cowardly display Wapol abandoned his country and fled to the seas. According to Dalton, Wapol was the fastest of the ones who fleed Drum. Ever since then, Wapol had been traveling in a submersible ship with whomever decided to remain loyal to him.
Dalton kept the country together after Blackbeard's departure, and he helped fight back against Wapol when the former king returned. In gratitude, the people of the newly formed Sakura Kingdom (named after the pink snow created by a chemical of Doctor Hiruluk), elected him king.
[edit] The fight with Luffy
At some point, Wapol ate the Baku Baku no Mi (バクバクの実, Munch Munch Fruit), which allows Wapol to eat virtually anything (even himself to reduce his body mass) and takes on the properties of his food. Wapol uses this power many times against Monkey D. Luffy, (for instance he chomps his two advisors into a single warrior, or shoots bombs from his "Munch Munch Factory" pistol arms). He even tries to eat all the weapons inside his massive armory room to turn himself into a superweapon. Unfortunately, or luckily, depending on the point of view, Nami manages to steal the key from him when Wapol catches her.
In the end Luffy is able to send Wapol out of the kingdom again with a very long version of Gomu Gomu no Bazooka.
[edit] The fate of the spoilt King
After Wapol's second exile from his homeland, he wandered around the Grand Line, eating various things. He eventually was able to use his "Baku Baku Factory" power to produce toys. These toys gained the attention of many, and soon Wapol had an industry on his hands. He was last seen a married and wealthy CEO becoming far more wealthy than he was even as king, however it's unknown whether he will meet up with Luffy again.
[edit] Trivia
- Many of One Piece's primary villains are given distinct laughs. Wapol follows this tradition by starting his laughs with a long "Ma" (i.e Maaaa ha ha ha ha!)
- As with most side stories, Wapol's mini-arc in which he founded his toy company does not occur in the anime.
- Wapol is also a playable character in One Piece: Grand Battle 2 and One Piece: Grand Adventure.
