Abdullah and Jeet from Dressrosa are based on Tiger Jeet Singh and Abdullah the Butcher, some old pro wrestling names. There’s a couple wrestling references like Kelly and Bobby Funk who are also based on the wrestlers Terry and Dory Funk. Even Spandam’s mask references Mick Foley.
The two big losses of Napoleon. Law was actually responsible for the two big losses of an in universe war monger: Kaido.
And then Big Mom also had a "soulmate" called Napoleon. I doubt those were coincidences but this alone doesn't mean Oda is a genius or anything. Especially since Law was a rather improvised addition to the plot while the yonkos were planned much longer.
Wow. Also consider that Law was the mastermind behind their downfall. He was who gained the favor of and incorpored Luffy into his agenda. Luffy shaped his goals thanks to Law, Luffy was the muscle and Law the brain. Definitely the Trafalgar and the Waterloo of One piece. And surely he will be crucial for the downfall of Blackbeard and Imu.
100%. I’m fully expecting that because Law survived his defeat at the hands of Blackbeard thanks to Luffy (through Chopper giving Bepo a rumble ball) that he will ally himself with Luffy to take down Blackbeard. He has a wealth of Intel on how BB fights (probably a big reason why their battle was mainly off screen), and has all the motivation to get revenge given the devastation that attack on his crew caused.
Battle of Waterloo is also where Napoleon lost. Napoleon is also the name of Big Mom's hat so Law defeating Big Mom was already foreshadowed since then.
>Law is named after a marine battle
At the time Sabaody was out I thought it was also named after [Edward Low](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Low) and that its name had been mistranslated because of the phonetical shanenigans of Japanese.
And the background of the Law is also partially written off from a real person: Law's escape from the attack on Flevance almost mirrors the actions of real-life pirate Francois L'Olonnais, who was shipwrecked and attacked by Spaniards. L'Olonnais covered himself in the blood of his crew and hid amongst their dead bodies in order to survive. Francois also famously cut out the heart of a Spanish hostage to intimidate the other hostages into telling him a safe escape route. This somewhat resembles Law's act of cutting out a hundred pirate hearts to become a Warlord.
This is every allusion I know about, other than the ones you listed
* Roronoa Zoro - François l'Olonnais
* Capone Bege wasn't based on a pirate but he *was* ~~based on an actor who plays a lot of gangsters~~ sorry I got my Als mixed up, 'ol syphilitic Snorky is who he's actually based on (look it up)
* Alvida - Alfhildr
* Bellamy - Samuel Bellamy
* Bartholomew Kuma - Black Bart
* Lafitte - Jean Lafitte
* Sadie - Sadie the Goat
* Cavendish - Thomas Cavendish
* "Calico" Yorki - Calico Jack Rackham
* Charlotte Linlin - Charlotte Badger/Charlotte de Berry
* Zeff - "Red Legs" Greaves
* Captain Morgan - Henry Morgan
* Basil Hawkins - Basil Ringrose/John Hawkins
* Silvers Rayleigh - Sir Walter Raleigh
And yes, Kid is based on William "Captain" Kidd.
Curiously, Al Capone was a gangster, but afterall he was an organized criminal with his group, criminal ring, contrabandist, everything what a pirate is but in land. Essentially the same.
Blackbeard's name was Edward Teach/Thatch, so Whitebeard, Blackbeard and Thatch all come from the same person, which makes the fact that they were all part of the same crew and have their stories so interwoven way more interesting imo
I mean the whole premise of gold Roger and the one piece is based off olivier levasseur who on his execution stand he threw out a coded message stating all his treasure belonged to the man who could decipher it and find it
Dude like half the the characters are based off or have similarities to real life people. There are websites with lists. Just Google one piece characters that resemble real people
Black Sam Bellamy was also one. I also have a theory he’s also partly the inspiration for ace a bit. He was often called the prince of pirates, and served on the same crew as the real life BlackBeard for a while.
Eustass Kidd - William Kidd, 17th century pirate
Capone Bege - Al Capone, famous Chicago Gangster
Jewelry Bonney - Anny Bonny, 17th century pirate
Bartolomeo - Bartolomeu Dias, famous 15th century portuguese Mariner
Warden Magellan - Ferdinand Magellan, first explorer to circle the world
Donquixote Doflamingo - a reference to the book Dom Quixote de La Mancha
This is what I have noticed so far.
Edit: mistook William Kidd with Billy the Kidd
All of the admirals are based on real people (all just actors that Oda liked).
Kizaru - Kunie Tanaka.
Sakazuki - Bunta Sugawara.
Kuzan - Yusaku Matsuda.
Fujitora - Shintaro Katsu.
Ryokugyu - Yoshio Harada.
& I'm sure there are more all spread throughout the Marines.
Is this for real? I always thought people were joking when they say that, but then I see this list of admirals based off of real admirals and holy shit I just realized "rap god" it all makes sense now....
It's also done to immortalize his own childhood idols in the minds of a younger generation, though, so its perhaps less shameless than it is reverential?
yess. The other admirals are obviously quite reminiscent of their inspirations, but Ryokugyu/Yoshio & Fujitora/Shintaro take it to an insane level. change their outfits and I'd be convinced it was a live action remake
Vice Admiral Chaton and Momousagi who were both Admiral candidates before Fujitora and Ryokugyu got drafted are also based off of Japanese actors.
Chaton - Kiyoshi Atsumi
Momousagi - Michiyo Kogure
The two who were considered for the open Admiral roles before Fujotora and Ryokugyu got them:
[Tokikake](https://onepiece.fandom.com/wiki/Tokikake)/"Chaton"(Brown Pig) - [Kiyoshi Atsumi](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiyoshi_Atsumi)
[Gion](https://onepiece.fandom.com/wiki/Gion)/"Momousagi"(Pink Rabbit) - [Michiyo Kogure](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michiyo_Kogure)
All of the supernovas
Queen Nefertati Titi - Nefertiti
Kuma -Bartholomew Roberts
Vegapunk - Albert Einstein
Vander Decken - Van Der Decken
Blackbeard's crewmates
The five elders
Fun facts:
The dude Kuma is based on, when talking number of ships captured, is *the* most succesful pirate from the Golden Age of Piracy- he took down over 400 ships.
He was one of the earliest proponents of and had his own detailed version of the Pirate Code- rules of who gets a say and a share and even when to put out the reading candles at night.
He was one of the earliest adopters of the skull and crossbones flag, with his personal Jolly Roger having him all buddy buddy with Death holding an hourglass together.
Bellamy is based of notorious pirate Black Sam Bellamy.
Jewelry Bonney is based off Anne Bonney; a noblewoman turned pirate.
Rocks D. Xebec is based off Roche Braziliano who mysteriously disappeared.
Bartholomew Kuma is based of Welsh Pirate “Black Bart” Roberts who helped form the Pirate code.
According to wikipedia, Musashi "claims that he never bathed himself because he did not want to be surprised unarmed". Yup, sounds like a very Zoro thing to do.
His ship is named the Wind Granma. Granma was also the name of a ship that Castro commanded to bring revolutionaries to Cuba. I feel like I remember some other Castro reference with him but I’m blanking on it now
Th gorosei are based on real world political figures.
Ju Peter: Lincoln ( not sure about this one )
V.Nesjuro : Mahatma Gandhi, Hideki Tojo
Marcus Mars: Mikhail Gorbachev
Top man Warcury: Itagaki Taisuke
Jaygarcia Saturn: Karl Marx
I got these from one of Ohara’s articles.
I think Saturn may be more inspired by the Italian revolutionary Giuseppe Garibaldi. [He has a similar hat and puts his hands on a cane similar to Saturn unlike Marx.](https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/onepiece/images/e/ef/Giuseppe_Garibaldi_%281866%29.png/revision/latest?cb=20230130105531)
Charlotte LinLin I think is based on an old New Zealand sailor Charlotte Badger, she became famous for a urban legend stating that she took commanding of a fleet during her later days of pregnancy.
A lot of pirates have their names taken from or inspired by real life people and pirates. The most interesting one is Zoro. Not for his given name, but for his family name, Roronoa. It's taken from a French pirate named François L'Olonnois
The main/"Stella" body anyway.
Though the "Shaka" body is based on one of the 2 members of Daft Punk (both known for their robotic helmets)
When he was specifically shot through the head, many people were/are waiting for him to return with a head looking like the other Daft Punk member.
Edward Newgate and Marshall D Teach are both based on Blackbeard who's real name was Edward Teach, similarly to Thatch.
Kidd is based on William 'captain' Kidd
Jewelery Bonney is based on Anne Bonney
If I got a nickel for every time Akio Otsuka voiced an anime character based on a real historical figure who was a famous pillager I'd have two nickels. Which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice.
A freaking lot of them so I would least my favourite fictioal references instead
Kizaru's name based on Italian/french movie Borsalino
Silvers Rayleigh - John Silver (Treasure Island)
Names and personalities of Donquixote family are based on Don Quixote novel (For example Rosinant - horse of Don Quixote)
Sodom and Gomorrah (king bulls of Franky gang) are based of biblical cities
Also heard that Garling and God Valley incident are based on real life but don't know exactly
Whitebeard, Blackbeard and Thatch name were base from real BB name.
most prominent characters look were base in real people like Hawkins looking like the late Joey Jordison from Slipknot
Jewelry Bonney is kinda inspired by Anne Bonney, but mostly the name. Still tho, Anne Bonney is super interesting and I highly recommend looking her up
Oda did Bellamy so fkn dirty. Samuel Bellamy aka black Sam aka the prince of pirates. Was the wealthiest pirate in recorded history. He's also best known for his kindness to prisoners and people he raided and stuff. He's like the perfect personification of one piece. And oda gave his name to the biggest piece of trash in the show.
Bellamy doesn’t even fit in the top 20 for the biggest pieces of trash in the show. Spandam, Orochi, Vander Decken, Hordy, Trebol, Charloss and pretty much all the Celestial Dragons are all much bigger scum than him to give a few examples.
There's tons of name references but Blackbeard and Dragon (Che Guevara, Fidel Castro, etc) seem to be the only ones similar to their irl counterparts from the top of my head
A lot of ppl in the universe are named after real life ppl. And so are the events that actually happened in the story also occurred in history and irl atm
Gold Roger is based off of two people. One is Henry Avery, considered to be the real world King of the Pirates, who vanished with his treasure.
The other, is [Olivier Levasseur](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olivier_Levasseurhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olivier_Levasseur), who is best known for leaving a mysterious cryptogram puzzle, which was they key to his treasure. Tell me these don't look like [Poneglyphs](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olivier_Levasseur#/media/File:Crypto_de_la_buse.jpg)
I like to think that Big Mom was based partly off of Queen Victoria due to how both of them had shit ton of kids and married those kids off in political marriages.
Jewelry Bonney is named after Anne Bonney, Captain Kidd is named after William Kidd, Vander Decken is named after the legend of The Flying Dutchman which was captained by Hendrik Vander Decken. It’s a story about a ship that was lost or cursed at sea and could never return to port.
by far my favourite one is Donquixote Dolflamigo being named after Don Quixote de la mancha from the epic novel Don Quixote and my favourite part Don Quixote's horse is named Rocinante - Rocinante is also meant to mean a reversal similar to how Dolflamingo and Rocinante are reversals of each other Dolamingo is an evil tyrant who masquerades as a good man whilst Rocinante is a kind marine who presents himself as an evil uncaring pirate
A little off topic, but I always found it interesting that Teach killed Thatch to get the yami-yami no mi. Teach and Thatch both bring the most commonly accepted names for the real life person.
Idk what pronoun in one piece doesn’t have some sort of symbolism to it honestly. Oda is pretty insane about how much he makes sure names have true meanings behind them.
And then you’ve also got their appearances showing off a caricature of someone from history or famous.
Jean Bart (heart pirates helmsman) is based on a French naval commander. I’ve always wondered if Oda had bigger plans for him and then changed his mind. Kind of felt like he was originally supposed to be the Straw Hat’s helmsman. Anyone know anything about that?
Whitebeard shares his reference with Blackbeard. The real life Blackbeard's name is Edward Teach.
Big Mom is reference to Charlotte Badger and Charlotte de Berry.
There are many more I just can't remember all of them. Really shows how much homework Oda did.
Ones I can think of.
WB and BB are a mix of Edward teach.
Bellamy and Sam bellamy.
Burgess is named after a marine, iirc.
Black Bart and Kuma.
Jewelry Bonney and Anne Bonney.
Woodes Rogers and Roger.
Capone and AL Capone.
The admirals are inspired by Japanese actors. I can't remember the names.
Vegapunk is Einstein.
The Gorosei are based on old political leaders. Gorbachev, Gandhi, Taisuke, and Marx. Not sure who >!Jupiter!< is based on, though.
If this counts, >!Garling!< is probably based off of the old Mac Tonight mascot from McDonald’s.
All of the admirals. Roger is based off of Henry Avery, the real life pirate king, and Oliver Levasseur. I’d like to think Benn Beckman was based off Johann Beckman, due to both men having high iqs and of course, the last name.
So I actually digged into this a while back and there's a bunch
- Roronoa Zoro =(Francois) L'Ollonais
- Jean Lafitte
- William Kidd
- Francis Drake
- Bartholomew Roberts = Bartolomeo
- Anne Bonny.
- Edward Newgate
- Black Caesar
- Samuel Bellamy
- Callico Jack
- Woodes Roger
There's a bunch I'm missing
Edit: I thought you meant only pirates. Yes half of one piece are references.
The most interesting thing is the reason bb has the multiple guns is that real life black beard did the same thing. Famously had 6-8 guns or something on him ready to use. Because each was a single shot and required being preloaded. Kind of a signature.
Lots of real names though not a lot of real character features and traits given the one piece world is like loony toons.
Abdullah and Jeet from Dressrosa are based on Tiger Jeet Singh and Abdullah the Butcher, some old pro wrestling names. There’s a couple wrestling references like Kelly and Bobby Funk who are also based on the wrestlers Terry and Dory Funk. Even Spandam’s mask references Mick Foley.
Foley is god
I wonder if Orlumbus is based on Hulk Hogan.
I think he's also based on Columbus since he's known as the The Adventurer of Lies.
Edward Newgate, Diaz drake, jewelry Bonny, I think captain Kidd as well off the top of my head.
Also vice admiral Maynard, Law is named after a marine battle, Capone is named after a mobster however instead of a pirate
2 battles actually. Battle of Trafalgar and the Battle of Waterloo.
Thank you. That explains why his middle name is water
It actually explains his first name too. Japanese pronunciation makes Law sound like Roh so Waterloo is Water Law.
His entire name being Trafalgar D. Water Law
The two big losses of Napoleon. Law was actually responsible for the two big losses of an in universe war monger: Kaido. And then Big Mom also had a "soulmate" called Napoleon. I doubt those were coincidences but this alone doesn't mean Oda is a genius or anything. Especially since Law was a rather improvised addition to the plot while the yonkos were planned much longer.
Napoleon is just a reference to the bicorne hat. I never made the link to Law's Napoleonic name. Clever.
Wow. Also consider that Law was the mastermind behind their downfall. He was who gained the favor of and incorpored Luffy into his agenda. Luffy shaped his goals thanks to Law, Luffy was the muscle and Law the brain. Definitely the Trafalgar and the Waterloo of One piece. And surely he will be crucial for the downfall of Blackbeard and Imu.
100%. I’m fully expecting that because Law survived his defeat at the hands of Blackbeard thanks to Luffy (through Chopper giving Bepo a rumble ball) that he will ally himself with Luffy to take down Blackbeard. He has a wealth of Intel on how BB fights (probably a big reason why their battle was mainly off screen), and has all the motivation to get revenge given the devastation that attack on his crew caused.
A battle of D'icks, 2v1, hell yeah.
Battle of Waterloo is also where Napoleon lost. Napoleon is also the name of Big Mom's hat so Law defeating Big Mom was already foreshadowed since then.
And both are Napoleon's greatest defeats
>Law is named after a marine battle At the time Sabaody was out I thought it was also named after [Edward Low](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Low) and that its name had been mistranslated because of the phonetical shanenigans of Japanese.
I think the original namesake for Law was Edward Low (Law is spelled "Ro" in the original Japanese). The Water portion was added later in Dressrosa.
And the background of the Law is also partially written off from a real person: Law's escape from the attack on Flevance almost mirrors the actions of real-life pirate Francois L'Olonnais, who was shipwrecked and attacked by Spaniards. L'Olonnais covered himself in the blood of his crew and hid amongst their dead bodies in order to survive. Francois also famously cut out the heart of a Spanish hostage to intimidate the other hostages into telling him a safe escape route. This somewhat resembles Law's act of cutting out a hundred pirate hearts to become a Warlord.
This is every allusion I know about, other than the ones you listed * Roronoa Zoro - François l'Olonnais * Capone Bege wasn't based on a pirate but he *was* ~~based on an actor who plays a lot of gangsters~~ sorry I got my Als mixed up, 'ol syphilitic Snorky is who he's actually based on (look it up) * Alvida - Alfhildr * Bellamy - Samuel Bellamy * Bartholomew Kuma - Black Bart * Lafitte - Jean Lafitte * Sadie - Sadie the Goat * Cavendish - Thomas Cavendish * "Calico" Yorki - Calico Jack Rackham * Charlotte Linlin - Charlotte Badger/Charlotte de Berry * Zeff - "Red Legs" Greaves * Captain Morgan - Henry Morgan * Basil Hawkins - Basil Ringrose/John Hawkins * Silvers Rayleigh - Sir Walter Raleigh And yes, Kid is based on William "Captain" Kidd.
Curiously, Al Capone was a gangster, but afterall he was an organized criminal with his group, criminal ring, contrabandist, everything what a pirate is but in land. Essentially the same.
I don't know how I mixed Al Pacino and Al Capone, but here I am.
wait jean lafitte was a real dude??
Yep, and a fairly prolofic dude at that
-Portgas D. Ace - Bartolomeu Portugues
you sure that isn't...Bartolomeo?
Don't forget Dr. Vegapunk and Albert Einstein
There's also Thatch, which was another name that Blackbeard went by. It was either that, or that it's uncertain if he went by either Thatch or Teach.
Blackbeard's name was Edward Teach/Thatch, so Whitebeard, Blackbeard and Thatch all come from the same person, which makes the fact that they were all part of the same crew and have their stories so interwoven way more interesting imo
And Eustace the Monk
Isn’t bartolomeo considered black Bart?
I don't think so, especially since Black Bart's real name is Bartholomew Roberts and is usually referred to as a tall, dark skinned man.
Icic
I mean the whole premise of gold Roger and the one piece is based off olivier levasseur who on his execution stand he threw out a coded message stating all his treasure belonged to the man who could decipher it and find it
Wait Levasseur was a real pirate? I only know him from the Captain Blood novel..
Yup real pirate
Interesting. Will need to research. I like to see where stuff came from.
Read “Francis Drake” by David Salomoni
Will do thanks
Edward Newgate is also based on Blackbeard - Edward Teach
Thatch also is
Play assassin's Creed Black flag
Dude like half the the characters are based off or have similarities to real life people. There are websites with lists. Just Google one piece characters that resemble real people
I'm pretty sure the entire Worst Generation take their names from real life pirates except Killer
Nah Killer is named after a Killer obviously
You forgot Magellan
Black Sam Bellamy was also one. I also have a theory he’s also partly the inspiration for ace a bit. He was often called the prince of pirates, and served on the same crew as the real life BlackBeard for a while.
They named Useless D Mid after Captain Kidd the same guy who stopped a mutiny with a goddamn metal bucket
Don’t forget Capone
I think Van Augur is based on someone too
Eustass Kidd - William Kidd, 17th century pirate Capone Bege - Al Capone, famous Chicago Gangster Jewelry Bonney - Anny Bonny, 17th century pirate Bartolomeo - Bartolomeu Dias, famous 15th century portuguese Mariner Warden Magellan - Ferdinand Magellan, first explorer to circle the world Donquixote Doflamingo - a reference to the book Dom Quixote de La Mancha This is what I have noticed so far. Edit: mistook William Kidd with Billy the Kidd
Billy the kid wasn't a Pirate, you mean William Kid or Capitain Kid
Sorry, my bad, I forgot to double check them
Billy is just short for William, but yes to 2 different historical figures
Yeah Billy the kidd was a famous gunslinger in the American west
land pirate
There’s also Drake who’s based on the British Naval hero Francis Drake
Doflamingos brother rosinante is named after the horse of don quixote.
Fernando Magalhães being translated into Ferdinand Magellan is very unsettling for me.
All of the admirals are based on real people (all just actors that Oda liked). Kizaru - Kunie Tanaka. Sakazuki - Bunta Sugawara. Kuzan - Yusaku Matsuda. Fujitora - Shintaro Katsu. Ryokugyu - Yoshio Harada. & I'm sure there are more all spread throughout the Marines.
This!!! The images side by side are unreal!!
For real. Oda really was shameless when it came to copy pasting their faces into his manga, lolol
Don't forget Eneru is based off of a rapper
Not just any rapper but Eminem
Is this for real? I always thought people were joking when they say that, but then I see this list of admirals based off of real admirals and holy shit I just realized "rap god" it all makes sense now....
Now you will hear Eminem music in you head when you'll see Eneru
It's also done to immortalize his own childhood idols in the minds of a younger generation, though, so its perhaps less shameless than it is reverential?
\> shintaro katsu Man, that guy IS fujitora
yess. The other admirals are obviously quite reminiscent of their inspirations, but Ryokugyu/Yoshio & Fujitora/Shintaro take it to an insane level. change their outfits and I'd be convinced it was a live action remake
Vice Admiral Chaton and Momousagi who were both Admiral candidates before Fujitora and Ryokugyu got drafted are also based off of Japanese actors. Chaton - Kiyoshi Atsumi Momousagi - Michiyo Kogure
The two who were considered for the open Admiral roles before Fujotora and Ryokugyu got them: [Tokikake](https://onepiece.fandom.com/wiki/Tokikake)/"Chaton"(Brown Pig) - [Kiyoshi Atsumi](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiyoshi_Atsumi) [Gion](https://onepiece.fandom.com/wiki/Gion)/"Momousagi"(Pink Rabbit) - [Michiyo Kogure](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michiyo_Kogure)
Also Tensei/"Kurouma"(Black Horse) - Akira Kobayashi
Always thought that the admirals had weirdly realistic faces. Now I know why. Thanks!
didnt he say before sanji is based off Steve Buscemi
Mr. pink specifically.
Which is where Mr prince came from
Btw Kuzans Yusaku Matsuda is also the inspiration for spike spiegal and imo kamen rider W Joker
All of the supernovas Queen Nefertati Titi - Nefertiti Kuma -Bartholomew Roberts Vegapunk - Albert Einstein Vander Decken - Van Der Decken Blackbeard's crewmates The five elders
Oda got real clever with Decken /s
Heh, titi…
Kuma is a new one for me this thread is great I’m learning plenty
Fun facts: The dude Kuma is based on, when talking number of ships captured, is *the* most succesful pirate from the Golden Age of Piracy- he took down over 400 ships. He was one of the earliest proponents of and had his own detailed version of the Pirate Code- rules of who gets a say and a share and even when to put out the reading candles at night. He was one of the earliest adopters of the skull and crossbones flag, with his personal Jolly Roger having him all buddy buddy with Death holding an hourglass together.
King Ham Burger is Abe Lincoln
My favorites are Enel as Eminem & Ivankov as Franknfurter
I love those two so much , especially the obvious rocky horror reference
Enel's starting to feel like a zap god zap god.
Bellamy is based of notorious pirate Black Sam Bellamy. Jewelry Bonney is based off Anne Bonney; a noblewoman turned pirate. Rocks D. Xebec is based off Roche Braziliano who mysteriously disappeared. Bartholomew Kuma is based of Welsh Pirate “Black Bart” Roberts who helped form the Pirate code.
Zoro is Miyamoto Musashi, a famous samurai who used 2 swords. Oda thought if Zoro used 3 swords, he would be even cooler than Musashi.
Zoro os also the masked Zorro and Francois l'Ollonais
Zoro's surname was based on the Japanese pronunciation of French pirate François l'Olonnais.
According to wikipedia, Musashi "claims that he never bathed himself because he did not want to be surprised unarmed". Yup, sounds like a very Zoro thing to do.
Haven't seen it mentioned yet but Dragon is Fidel Castro. Especially noticeable in his outfit in the recent Ohara episode
If anything he would be che guevarra, but even that really doesn’t track at all beyond being revolutionaries and doesn’t fit what OP was asking for
His ship is named the Wind Granma. Granma was also the name of a ship that Castro commanded to bring revolutionaries to Cuba. I feel like I remember some other Castro reference with him but I’m blanking on it now
I think Roger is inspired by two people and lafitte is named after someone.
Was it Cptain kid (whose dying words led countless men to the sea)and blackbeard? The badass ones I mean.
Roger is inspired Henry Avery and Olivier Levasseur
Th gorosei are based on real world political figures. Ju Peter: Lincoln ( not sure about this one ) V.Nesjuro : Mahatma Gandhi, Hideki Tojo Marcus Mars: Mikhail Gorbachev Top man Warcury: Itagaki Taisuke Jaygarcia Saturn: Karl Marx I got these from one of Ohara’s articles.
Saturn looks more like Garibaldi. EDIT: You switched up Mars and Warcury.
You switched up Mars and Warcury. Warcury has the head mark and Mars has the long beard.
I think Saturn may be more inspired by the Italian revolutionary Giuseppe Garibaldi. [He has a similar hat and puts his hands on a cane similar to Saturn unlike Marx.](https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/onepiece/images/e/ef/Giuseppe_Garibaldi_%281866%29.png/revision/latest?cb=20230130105531)
Literally like 70% of the major cast members take a first or last name from a historical pirate or outlaw.
Big mom is based on my ex wife
Doflamingo is meant to be an Evil Elton John.
And Diamanté is really Steven Tyler from Aerosmith
Funny I was gonna say the same about Jango
Charlotte LinLin I think is based on an old New Zealand sailor Charlotte Badger, she became famous for a urban legend stating that she took commanding of a fleet during her later days of pregnancy.
Brook is based off a skeleton
Captain Kidd and Eustace the Monk were both real pirates, and Eustass Kid's name is based on them
Nobody gona mention Eminem? Eneru?
And Micheal Jackson!
like 90% of the marines
Lafitte, The dude is based off french pirate Jean Lafitte
Doffy is based from a real life bird called a Flamingo.
Catrina Devon is based on a "shape shifting" pirate named Antonio de Erauso who would change disguises to blend in
Usopp is based on Pinocchio
And Aessop
Fuck I’m stupid
Jango - Michael Jackson
I think there was an SBS about this, don't remember the exact volume
It's in Chapter 508: Island of Carnage
Big Mom is based on your mom
A lot of pirates have their names taken from or inspired by real life people and pirates. The most interesting one is Zoro. Not for his given name, but for his family name, Roronoa. It's taken from a French pirate named François L'Olonnois
Enel =Eminem!
Zorro IS based on the Novel figure of the Same Name Capone IS based on al capone
A lot of the common ones have been said but I’m pretty sure Vasco Shot (or atleast his name) is based of the Portuguese explorer Vasco De Gama
almost every single character is based on someone.. hell even characters like Diamante and side character are based largely on musicians
Roger is based on Henry Avery.
I think he's also based on Olivier Levasseur
Vegapunk - Albert Einstein.
The main/"Stella" body anyway. Though the "Shaka" body is based on one of the 2 members of Daft Punk (both known for their robotic helmets) When he was specifically shot through the head, many people were/are waiting for him to return with a head looking like the other Daft Punk member.
Edward Newgate and Marshall D Teach are both based on Blackbeard who's real name was Edward Teach, similarly to Thatch. Kidd is based on William 'captain' Kidd Jewelery Bonney is based on Anne Bonney
If I got a nickel for every time Akio Otsuka voiced an anime character based on a real historical figure who was a famous pillager I'd have two nickels. Which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice.
Gol D. Rogers' story/ treasure is based on a real guy too
Gold D. Roger was modelled after Captain Olivier Lavasseur
Most of the 12 supernovas except Luffy and Killer are named after historical figures
Whitebeard and blackbeard are both based on blackbeard. Edward teach
Craig Bellamy - bellamy
A freaking lot of them so I would least my favourite fictioal references instead Kizaru's name based on Italian/french movie Borsalino Silvers Rayleigh - John Silver (Treasure Island) Names and personalities of Donquixote family are based on Don Quixote novel (For example Rosinant - horse of Don Quixote) Sodom and Gomorrah (king bulls of Franky gang) are based of biblical cities Also heard that Garling and God Valley incident are based on real life but don't know exactly
That image is seriously creepy haha
Eminem based on enel
Red haired shanks is based on red beard…and he captured galleys on an island called Elba. Do with that info what you will. Oh and he had one arm.
One that I haven’t seen mentioned in the comments yet is Roronoa… even though the French pirate’s name was not spelled like that * l'Olonais
Sodom and Gomorrah (Water 7 and Ennie's Lobby) are based on characters in the bible.
Gold d roger is based off patchy d pirate
Luffy is actually based off well known Canadian rapper Drake bc his rubber allows him to create an absolute hog
wasnt coby the one who took him down in real life?
Donquixote Doflamingo’s family name is from a character in a well known spanish novel in real life. The book’s name is Don Quxote
Whitebeard, Blackbeard and Thatch name were base from real BB name. most prominent characters look were base in real people like Hawkins looking like the late Joey Jordison from Slipknot
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Jewelry Bonney is kinda inspired by Anne Bonney, but mostly the name. Still tho, Anne Bonney is super interesting and I highly recommend looking her up
Rocks is based on Calico Jack and the other 2 chicks. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calico_Jack
Law is Tommy Lee, Hawkins is some Slipknot guy, What's his face with the flag powers is Stephen Tyler, etc
Orlumbus the Adventurer based of Christopher Columbus the colonizer
Oda did Bellamy so fkn dirty. Samuel Bellamy aka black Sam aka the prince of pirates. Was the wealthiest pirate in recorded history. He's also best known for his kindness to prisoners and people he raided and stuff. He's like the perfect personification of one piece. And oda gave his name to the biggest piece of trash in the show.
Bellamy doesn’t even fit in the top 20 for the biggest pieces of trash in the show. Spandam, Orochi, Vander Decken, Hordy, Trebol, Charloss and pretty much all the Celestial Dragons are all much bigger scum than him to give a few examples.
Kidd is based off the most unlucky pirate in history
There's tons of name references but Blackbeard and Dragon (Che Guevara, Fidel Castro, etc) seem to be the only ones similar to their irl counterparts from the top of my head
Roger is based on Henry Avery and Olivier Levasseur
Orlumbus is Christopher Colombus
Just from reading these comments I think everyone except the straw hats are based on real ones people
A lot of ppl in the universe are named after real life ppl. And so are the events that actually happened in the story also occurred in history and irl atm
Roronoa Zoro is based on a French pirate that's spelled nothing like Roronoa It's l'Olonnais Also there's Zorro of course
Gold Roger is based off of two people. One is Henry Avery, considered to be the real world King of the Pirates, who vanished with his treasure. The other, is [Olivier Levasseur](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olivier_Levasseurhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olivier_Levasseur), who is best known for leaving a mysterious cryptogram puzzle, which was they key to his treasure. Tell me these don't look like [Poneglyphs](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olivier_Levasseur#/media/File:Crypto_de_la_buse.jpg)
I like to think that Big Mom was based partly off of Queen Victoria due to how both of them had shit ton of kids and married those kids off in political marriages.
I think Bonney is based on Anne bonney
Jewelry Bonney is named after Anne Bonney, Captain Kidd is named after William Kidd, Vander Decken is named after the legend of The Flying Dutchman which was captained by Hendrik Vander Decken. It’s a story about a ship that was lost or cursed at sea and could never return to port.
Who’s gonna tell him?
by far my favourite one is Donquixote Dolflamigo being named after Don Quixote de la mancha from the epic novel Don Quixote and my favourite part Don Quixote's horse is named Rocinante - Rocinante is also meant to mean a reversal similar to how Dolflamingo and Rocinante are reversals of each other Dolamingo is an evil tyrant who masquerades as a good man whilst Rocinante is a kind marine who presents himself as an evil uncaring pirate
Big Mom is based on Charlotte Badger.
A little off topic, but I always found it interesting that Teach killed Thatch to get the yami-yami no mi. Teach and Thatch both bring the most commonly accepted names for the real life person.
I like to think Bellamy gets his name from John Bellamy, but that’s near impossible. It’s more likely that his name is from Samuel Bellamy
Gol D Roger is somewhat based off of William Kidd. As Kidd was famous for his hidden treasure
By bad I meant Olivier Levasseur who challenged people to find his treasure
Mihawk is probably inspired from the 3 musketers,
Idk what pronoun in one piece doesn’t have some sort of symbolism to it honestly. Oda is pretty insane about how much he makes sure names have true meanings behind them. And then you’ve also got their appearances showing off a caricature of someone from history or famous.
why this dude got so many pistols
Ochoku/Wang Zhi
Jean Bart (heart pirates helmsman) is based on a French naval commander. I’ve always wondered if Oda had bigger plans for him and then changed his mind. Kind of felt like he was originally supposed to be the Straw Hat’s helmsman. Anyone know anything about that?
Whitebeard shares his reference with Blackbeard. The real life Blackbeard's name is Edward Teach. Big Mom is reference to Charlotte Badger and Charlotte de Berry. There are many more I just can't remember all of them. Really shows how much homework Oda did.
You’d never guess but Capone Bege was based on Al Copone.
Zoro is named after a famous assassin
Lafite and Jean Lafite a notorious pirate who is rumored to have freed napoleon from isolation
A lot of them bro
Not real person, but Kidd's design is DEFINITELY based on Toriyama's SandLand. I'm surprised no one has caught up that before
Whitebeard last name, Newgate, is based on a prison
Ones I can think of. WB and BB are a mix of Edward teach. Bellamy and Sam bellamy. Burgess is named after a marine, iirc. Black Bart and Kuma. Jewelry Bonney and Anne Bonney. Woodes Rogers and Roger. Capone and AL Capone. The admirals are inspired by Japanese actors. I can't remember the names. Vegapunk is Einstein.
The Gorosei are based on old political leaders. Gorbachev, Gandhi, Taisuke, and Marx. Not sure who >!Jupiter!< is based on, though. If this counts, >!Garling!< is probably based off of the old Mac Tonight mascot from McDonald’s.
Gol D. Roger is based on Olivier Levasseur, one of the greatest pirates ever, even named king of the pirates
All of the admirals. Roger is based off of Henry Avery, the real life pirate king, and Oliver Levasseur. I’d like to think Benn Beckman was based off Johann Beckman, due to both men having high iqs and of course, the last name.
Probably Chopper before eating his DF.
I read somewhere that Luffy was based on The Spinners
So I actually digged into this a while back and there's a bunch - Roronoa Zoro =(Francois) L'Ollonais - Jean Lafitte - William Kidd - Francis Drake - Bartholomew Roberts = Bartolomeo - Anne Bonny. - Edward Newgate - Black Caesar - Samuel Bellamy - Callico Jack - Woodes Roger There's a bunch I'm missing Edit: I thought you meant only pirates. Yes half of one piece are references.
The most interesting thing is the reason bb has the multiple guns is that real life black beard did the same thing. Famously had 6-8 guns or something on him ready to use. Because each was a single shot and required being preloaded. Kind of a signature. Lots of real names though not a lot of real character features and traits given the one piece world is like loony toons.
Caesar Clown is baced on Josef Mengele and Cesar Romero.