Franky (One Piece)

Franky, also known as Cyborg, Cutty Flam, Bakanky and Iron Man, is one of the main characters from the One Piece series.
== Charactah Account ==
Franky is the shipwright of the Straw Hat Pirates. A cyborg from Water 7, he was originally the leader of the Franky Family, a group of ship dismantlers. He is originally from South Blue, but left 32 years ago as a four-year-old child. He was originally named "Cutty Flam" until he threw away his original name for his nickname per the request of Iceburg to hide his identity.
Franky and his followers were originally enemies of the Straw Hats until circumstances forced them to become allies. At the request of the Franky Family, Franky decided to join the Straw Hats to fulfill his dream of creating and riding a ship capable of circumnavigating the world, the Thousand Sunny.
He is the eighth member of the Straw Hat crew and the seventh to join Luffy's crew. He currently has a bounty of 94,000,000. Previously going by the epithet, "Cyborg" Franky, he has since gained the new nickname, "Iron Man".
== Appearance ==
=== Anime ===
* One Piece
* One Piece 3D: Rush! Trap Coaster
* One Piece 3D: Strawhat Chase
* One Piece 3D: Strawhat Chase - Infiltration! Thousand Sunny!
* One Piece 3D2Y: Overcoming Ace's Death! Luffy's Pledge to His Friends
* One Piece Film: Gold
* One Piece Film: Gold Episode 0 - 711 ver.
* One Piece Film: Red
* One Piece Film: Strong World
* One Piece Film: Strong World Episode 0
* One Piece Film: Z
* One Piece Movie 14: Stampede
* One Piece Special: The Detective Memoirs of Chief Straw Hat Luffy
* One Piece: Adventure of Nebulandia
* One Piece: Episode of Chopper Plus - Bloom in the Winter, Miracle Sakura
* One Piece: Episode of Luffy - Hand Island Adventure
* One Piece: Episode of Merry - The Tale of One More Friend
* One Piece: Episode of Sabo - Bond of Three Brothers, A Miraculous Reunion and an Inherited Will
* One Piece: Glorious Island
* One Piece: Heart of Gold
* One Piece: Romance Dawn Story
=== Manga ===
* One Piece
* One Piece Log Book Omake
* One Piece Party
* One Piece x Toriko
* One Piece: Strong World
=== Video Games ===
* Fighting for One Piece
* Jump Ultimate Stars
* One Piece Romance Dawn: The Dawn of the Adventure
* One Piece Thousand Storm
* One Piece Treasure Cruise
* One Piece: Burning Blood
* One Piece: Dance Battle
* One Piece: Dragon Dream!
* One Piece: Gear Spirit
* One Piece: Gigant Battle
* One Piece: Gigant Battle! 2 New World
* One Piece: Great Pirate Colosseum
* One Piece: Pirate Warriors
* One Piece: Pirate Warriors 2
* One Piece: Pirate Warriors 3
* One Piece: Pirate Warriors 4
* One Piece: Pirates Carnival
* One Piece: Super Grand Battle! X
* One Piece: Unlimited Adventure
* One Piece: Unlimited Cruise
* One Piece: Unlimited World Red
* One Py Berry Match
== Trivia ==
* Franky has three jolly rogers: One has been used by Toei Animation, and one drawn by Oda in a SBS, and a third post-timeskip jolly roger:
** The Toei jolly roger has Franky' skull viewed from the side, modified to look crescent-shaped, with sunglasses. The crossbones consist of a normal bone in the upper right, with bulky bones going from upper left to lower right having star marks on them. Behind that is a linked circle of chains.
** Oda's pre-time skip jolly roger has Franky's skull with his trade mark hairstyle. The right half of the skull above the jaw is black instead of white, with three white screws above the eye socket. It has normal crossbones behind the skull, but on either side of the skull and crossbones, it has Franky's bulky popeye arms with the star tattoos clearly showing.
** Oda's post-timeskip jolly roger has Franky's skull with a buzz-cut and sunglasses. The crossbones is made up of a saw and hammer. Behind the crossbones is Franky's BF-37 logo and in the background is a large star.
* Before the Straw Hats arrived at Water 7, Luffy drew a childish picture of what he wanted the future shipwright to look like. This bad drawing is similar in appearance to Franky.
* The first ship he built that managed to achieve his original goal of beating a Sea King was the BF-35 (the 35th 'Battle Franky').
** Franky also wrote BF-36 separately on both of his shoulders, making him the 36th Battle Franky and implying that he can kill a Sea King. The latter is confirmed during Thriller Bark, when he revealed his Hakugeki Ho.
** After two years of separation with the crew, he now has a huge cyborg body that has BF-37 on both of his shoulders, pointing out his new form making him the newest model, Battle Franky 37.
* When he is not working in his room within Sunny, he keeps his tools in his swim briefs.
** However, in the time skip, he now appears to store his tools inside his arms.
* Franky's current hair style after the two year timeskip first appeared in Mugiwara Theatre - Red-Hair of Class 3 - Sea Time.
* Franky also bears a resemblance to the American cartoon character "Popeye the Sailorman". They both share similarly large tattooed forearms, are both 34 years old (pre-timeskip), and both rely on food for immediate energy and power (spinach and cora, respectively).
* The name Cutty Flam is a reference to the sailing ships Cutty Sark and Fram.
* Despite Franky having a trademark soundtrack when he is in action, the soundtrack played wasn't developed to be a theme only for him, as the theme "Serious Battle" can be heard before in the series in Episodes 97 (when Luffy escapes from a Sandora lizard) and 114 (when Usopp uses his "Usopp Pound"). Apart from that, the complete soundtrack has a first part as one of Sanji's trademark themes and the second part as Chopper's trademark theme. This is maybe because the theme was created in order for Sanji, Chopper, and perhaps Usopp have a theme when they were fighting.
* One of the shirts Franky wears in opening 12 is the same shirt Luffy wears in the Dressrosa Arc.
* In the 4th Japanese fan poll, he came out as the thirteenth most popular character. While this was fairly high, it still made him the least popular of the Straw Hats. Franky's real name, Cutty Flam, was also ranked in 100th place in the same poll.
** In the 5th fan poll, he came out sixteenth, dropping 3 places, but was overtaken by Brook as the least popular Straw Hat.
* In One Piece: Pirate Warriors 3, Franky's taunt action for his post-timeskip version allows him to cycle between different hairstyles. It requires the player to hold the taunt button for 3 seconds for it to take effect, which is a reference to him having to press his nose for 3 seconds to change hairstyles.
* In the non-canon Lovely Land Arc, when the crew comes across some sail-less pirates, Franky revealed he had knowledge of the Davy Back Fights; however, in the Adventure of Nebulandia (which is also non-canon), when Foxy challenged the Straw Hat Pirates to the game, Franky was the one inquiring for what it was.
== Gallery ==
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== External Links ==
* Franky at One Piece Wiki
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