Zoro Roronoa

Zoro Roronoa, also known as Pirate Hunter Zoro, Marimo, Zorojuro and King Of Hell, is one of the main characters from the One Piece series.
== Charactah Account ==
Roronoa Zoro is the nineteen/twenty-one-year-old swordsman of the Straw Hat Pirates. Recruited as a mildly notorious bounty hunter in East Blue, he grows into a monstruously powerful man who doesn't even need a Devil Fruit ability, using a unique Santoryu sword style in battle, wielding a sword in each hand along with one in the mouth. After the time skip, he manages to master Haki as well. Zoro mostly drinks and sleeps in his spare time (when he's not training his ass off), but becomes a real demon in battle that can defeat five hundred Mooks in two seconds. Often wears a green bandanna on his forearm that he ties around his head when he gets dangerous. Moreover, he is Luffy's number two, sometimes acting as a voice of authority when the crew's future must be decided, and regularly happens to battle the dragon of the current big bad the crew are fighting, which is an occasion to hone his swordsmanship.
Similar to Luffy's goal, Zoro wishes to become the greatest swordsman in the world as a promise to his childhood rival Kuina, whom he wanted to win against but never could because she died in an accident. Unlike Luffy, however, he needs only to defeat Dracule "Hawk Eyes" Mihawk, the current greatest swordsman in the world, to do so. He actually meets up with Mihawk fairly early in the story, but failed to land a single hit and was sliced by Mihawk's BFS for his trouble. Mihawk, however, held back just enough to leave Zoro alive, and told him to challenge him again when he was ready. In a strange twist of events, he is trained by Mihawk to be a stronger swordsman to protect his crew. For giving up his pride for the sake of others impresses Mihawk enough to agree. 
== Appearance ==
=== Anime ===
* Nissan Serena x One Piece 3D: Mugiwara Chase - Sennyuu! Sauzando Sanii-gou
* One Piece
* One Piece 3D: Rush! Trap Coaster
* One Piece 3D: Strawhat Chase
* 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: Z
* One Piece Movie 01
* One Piece Movie 02: Clockwork Island Adventure
* One Piece Movie 03: Chopper Kingdom of Strange Animal Island
* One Piece Movie 04: Dead End
* One Piece Movie 05: The Curse of the Sacred Sword
* One Piece Movie 06: Baron Omatsuri and the Secret Island
* One Piece Movie 07: The Giant Mechanical Soldier of Karakuri Castle
* One Piece Movie 08: The Desert Princess and the Pirates: Adventures in Alabasta
* One Piece Movie 09: Episode of Chopper Plus - Bloom in the Winter
* One Piece Movie 14: Stampede
* One Piece Recap
* One Piece Special: Adventure in the Ocean's Navel
* One Piece Special: Open Upon the Great Sea! A Father's Huge, HUGE Dream!
* One Piece Special: Protect! The Last Great Performance
* One Piece Special: The Detective Memoirs of Chief Straw Hat Luffy
* One Piece: Adventure of Nebulandia
* One Piece: Cry Heart
* One Piece: Episode of Alabasta - Prologue
* One Piece: Episode of East Blue - Luffy and His Four Crewmates' Great Adventure
* One Piece: Episode of Luffy - Hand Island Adventure
* One Piece: Episode of Merry - The Tale of One More Friend
* One Piece: Episode of Nami - Tears of a Navigator and the Bonds of Friends
* One Piece: Episode of Sabo - Bond of Three Brothers, A Miraculous Reunion and an Inherited Will
* One Piece: Episode of Skypiea
* One Piece: Defeat the Pirate Ganzack!
* One Piece: Django's Dance Carnival
* One Piece: Dream Soccer King!
* One Piece: Emergency Planning, A Perfect Strategy for the One Piece
* One Piece: Glorious Island
* One Piece: Heart of Gold
* One Piece: Romance Dawn Story
* One Piece: Take Aim! The Pirate Baseball King
=== Light Novels ===
* One Piece: Defeat Him! The Pirate Ganzack
* One Piece: Loguetown Arc
=== Manga ===
* Cross Epoch
* Food Wars! Shokugeki no Sanji
* One Piece
* One Piece Log Book Omake
* One Piece Party
* One Piece x Toriko
* One Piece: Boichi Covers Zolo vs. Mihawk
* One Piece: Vivi's Adventure
=== Video Games ===
* Battle Stadium D.O.N
* Fighting for One Piece
* J-Stars Victory VS
* J-Stars Victory VS+
* Jump Force
* Jump Super Stars
* Jump Ultimate Stars
* Jumputi Heroes
* One Piece Romance Dawn: The Dawn of the Adventure
* One Piece Thousand Storm
* One Piece Treasure Cruise
* One Piece: Aim! The King of Berry
* One Piece: Become the Pirate King!
* One Piece: Big Secret Treasure of the Seven Phantom Islands
* One Piece: Birth of Luffy's Dream Pirate Crew!
* One Piece: Burning Blood
* One Piece: Chopper's Big Adventure
* 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: Going Baseball
* One Piece: Grand Adventure
* One Piece: Grand Battle!
* One Piece: Grand Battle! 2
* One Piece: Grand Battle! 3
* One Piece: Grand Battle! Rush!
* One Piece: Grand Battle! Swan Colosseum
* One Piece: Grand Line Dream Adventure Log
* One Piece: Great Pirate Colosseum
* One Piece: Legend of the Rainbow Island
* One Piece: Ocean's Dream! - Oceans of Dreams
* 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: Round the Land
* One Piece: Super Grand Battle! X
* One Piece: Treasure Battle!
* One Piece: Treasure Wars
* One Piece: Treasure Wars 2 Welcome to Buggyland
* One Piece: Unlimited Adventure
* One Piece: Unlimited Cruise
* One Piece: Unlimited World Red
* One Py Berry Match
* Set Sail Pirate Crew!
== Trivia ==
* Zoro has his own jolly roger, like all the Straw Hat crew. It has Zoro's bandanna, two swords instead of crossbones, and a sword in its mouth (the white hilt suggests that it is Wado Ichimonji, which is always the one that Zoro holds in his mouth when using Three Sword Style).
** After the timeskip, the skull gains Zoro's three earrings and the left eye is closed with a vertical scar over it to match Zoro's own eye. The swords that make up the crossbones are more detailed: the blade pointing towards the right is dark, suggesting that it is Shusui while the other is Sandai Kitetsu.
** Another jolly roger is seen on his armor in the cover of Chapter 699. This jolly roger is a regular skull with three swords crossing behind it.
* Zoro is the only member of the crew that Luffy personally sought out to invite before they actually met.
* Zoro is the only Straw Hat Pirate to be named after a real-life pirate, this being François l'Olonnais.
* It was revealed in an interview with Oda and Rurouni Kenshin author Nobuhiro Watsuki, whom Oda worked for as an assistant before starting One Piece, that Oda intended to make Zoro a one-eyed character very shortly after starting One Piece, around a decade before Zoro would go on to lose his left eye.
* Zoro is the first known person since Ryuma to kill a dragon, an act which made the latter a legend. Both of them also killed the dragon the same way, by decapitation in the air.
** Zoro would later repeat this feat in the fight against King, this time decapitating a fiery construct of a dragon.
* Zoro and Killer share some similarities as members of the Worst Generation: they are the only members who are subordinates (with a lack of an apparent position in their crew) rather than a captain, they are both swordsmen, and they are the only ones who do not have a Devil Fruit power (although Killer has the weaknesses of a user after eating a defective SMILE).
** As a result, Zoro is the only member of the Worst Generation not to have a Devil Fruit at all.
** Also he, Luffy and Eustass Kid are the only known members of the Worst Generation who can use Haoshoku Haki.
* Zoro's reintroduction to the series after the timeskip is reminiscent of how Mihawk was introduced. Both sliced a galleon in two and both seemingly did so due to an interrupted nap.
* Zoro has had the most English dub voice actors out of all the Straw Hats (2 as an adult, 4 as a child).
* In Japanese fan polls, Zoro was consistently the second most popular character, until his position was usurped by Law in the fifth poll, but he reclaimed it in the sixth poll. Furthermore, in the attack popularity polls his Three Sword Style Ogi: Sanzen Sekai came in 2nd.
* Prior to Zoro's first official bounty of 60,000,000 at the end of the Arabasta Arc, a newspaper on the cover page of Chapter 77 listed him as "wanted" with a bounty of 1,000,001. However, this is not considered canon due to being part of the Animal Theater rather than a Cover Story.
* Zoro has the highest known starting bounty for a native of the East Blue with a 60,000,000 bounty, surpassing Luffy's initial bounty of 30,000,000. This does not count Sanji (77,000,000), however, since he is technically from the North Blue.
* Zoro's desire in earning the epithet, Jigoku no Ou mirrors Silvers Rayleigh's own epithet, Mei-Ou, both have the literal meaning of a "King of Hell".
== Gallery ==
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== External Links ==
* Roronoa Zoro at One Piece Wiki
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