Don Krieg's Pirate Armada

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Don Krieg's Pirate Armada (海賊艦隊, Kaizoku Kantai) is a fictional band of pirates from the anime and manga One Piece, led by Don Krieg.

They consisted of a fleet of 50 pirate ships and 5,000 pirates that posed as a fearsome force in the East Blue until Don Krieg attempted to conquer the Grand Line. Their crew was wiped out by Hawk-Eyes Mihawk, leaving one sole remaining ship that managed to escape, carrying Don Krieg and his surviving crew members away from the Grand Line.

Contents 1 Part in the Story 2 Pirate Flag/Ship 3 Crew Information 3.1 Don Krieg 3.2 Gin 3.3 Pearl 3.4 Other crewmates 4 Crew Strength 5 See also

[edit] Part in the Story

The crew is first seen when a starving Gin goes into the floating restaurant Baratie and demands food. Due to his lack of money and status as a pirate, he is kicked out, but Sanji takes pity on him and gives him free food. Delighted, Gin returns to his crew and brings all of them to the Baratie, too. When Don Krieg recovers his strength, he reveals his intentions to steal the Baratie and use it to return to the Grand Line. This shocks his crew, who were both feeling gratitude towards the chefs and didn't want to go back to that pirate graveyard, but out of fear of their captain, they comply.

However, as luck would have it, Mihawk trailed them and wrecks their last ship. However, once he defeats Roronoa Zoro, who had challenged him to a duel, he decides that he has had enough fun and leaves everyone to their own devices. Krieg decides to continue his attack. When Gin is forced to kill Sanji, however, he comes to a tough decision and goes against his orders. In response to this, Krieg uses a poisonous gas in an attempt to kill him.

After a long battle, Luffy manages to defeat Krieg, but even after the battle is over, Krieg unconsciously gets up and demands to continue the battle, only to be knocked down by Gin. Gathering the entire crew in a small boat, Gin declares that as a dying wish, he wants to bring his captain back to the Grand Line like he wanted, and sets off. It is unknown if they have survived.

[edit] Pirate Flag/Ship

Krieg's flag is a standard Jolly Roger with two hourglasses to the sides, to show to their victims that their time is up.

[edit] Crew Information

[edit] Don Krieg

Captain (17,000,000 berry bounty)

See Don Krieg for more.

[edit] Gin

• Seiyuu: Ono Ken'ichi
• Voice Actor (4Kids Entertainment):

First Mate

Gin the Man-Demon (鬼人のギン, Kijin no Gin), known as Ghin in the English anime, is Don Krieg's First Mate. Gin is given a plate of food by Sanji for free when he is starving on the Baratie. When Don Krieg's forces come to take over the Baratie, Gin is ordered to kill Sanji. Gin, a person who had tortured and killed countless others with his weighted cannonball-tipped tonfas, could not bring himself to kill Sanji (Sanji is the only person to ever treat Gin to an act of kindness). For this, Gin is punished by Don Krieg, who orders him to drop his gas mask while Krieg releases the deadly poison MH5. They find he was always stronger than Krieg and was only living in his shadow, but despite this brush with death, Gin survives, and carries away the defeated Don Krieg (along with the rest of the crew) in a small boat. Thus, fans are not sure if Gin is alive or dead from breathing the poison. Gin said that he now wants to follow in Don Krieg's footsteps by going to the Grand Line, hoping to see Luffy there.

The Japanese word gin (銀), pronounced with a hard "g", literally means "silver", but an "h" was added to the spelling in the English dub. This was probably done because the name's visual similarity to the English word "gin", and the likelihood of it being mispronounced as such.

[edit] Pearl

• Seiyuu: Kawamoto Hiroyuki
• Voice Actor (4Kids Entertainment): Dan Green

Second Mate

Don Krieg's second mate, also known as Pearl the Iron Wall (鉄壁のパール, Teppeki no Pāru). A towering man, Pearl's ensemble includes wearing two iron plates covering his front and backside, as well as two smaller plates with large pearls embedded in them for strong, blunt attacks. Said to have been raised in a jungle. He has a personal bounty of 6 million belli. Pearl is noted to start panicking if he is struck and injured directly, protecting himself by causing friction sparks to ignite his body with a defensive layer of flames. This unusual tactic comes into play when Krieg's pirates attempt to capture the Baratie, when Pearl fights against Sanji and Luffy. He is initially (and accidentally) knocked out, but soon recovers and thrashes Sanji around (as Gin was holding Zeff hostage). Gin, however, finishes Pearl himself by shattering his iron plate shielding, claiming he reserved the right to kill Sanji himself. In the English dub, he has a "surfer dude" accent.

[edit] Other crewmates

The following crewmates although named do not appear in the series they do appear in the One Piece Blue Data book:

• Ideaman: Staff Officer of Planning
• Hustle: Combat Instructer
• Kagikko: Locksmith

[edit] Crew Strength

Don Krieg's Pirate Armada was militarily the most powerful pirate crew in the East Blue, due to their vast numbers of men, weapons and ships. However, contrary to their reputation as the toughest crew in East Blue, the Krieg Fleet appears to rely on numbers over strength, individual crewmen appearing less skilled than their counterparts in other East Blue crews. They overestimated their crew's strength against Hawk-Eyes Mihawk and the Grand Line itself. They were finished off by Luffy and Sanji. Don Krieg himself relied on weaponry, believing with enough weapons you can win anything, a mistake that cost him and his crew victory. Krieg keeps his crew together using fear--despite how mad and ridiculous some of his orders may seem, his crew will follow them out of fear of being killed, which is another factor that limits their strength. However, some crewmates like Gin have genuine respect for Krieg.

[edit] See also

• Dracule "Hawkeye" Mihawk
• Baratie arc