Crocodile (One Piece)

Crocodile, also known as Desert King, Mr. O and Sir Crocodile, is a character from the One Piece series.
== Charactah Account ==
Crocodile is the second of the Seven Warlords of the Sea to be formally introduced and serves as the main antagonist of the Baroque Works Saga. During his early travels, he eventually became disillusioned and began to view those who sailed for fortune and glory to be two-bit upstarts.
Crocodile secretly formed a criminal organization called Baroque Works, whose public aim was to take over the prosperous country of Alabasta and create a utopia and lead it as its president. To accomplish this, he worked to undermine the influence of Alabasta's King by publicly defeating criminals before the royal army could, and by exploiting a drought in order to pit the kingdom against an army of rebels. His Devil Fruit, the Sand-Sand Fruit (Suna Suna no Mi), lets him turn into and control sand, a very useful ability in the desert kingdom of Alabasta.
After Luffy defeats him and his plot to take over Alabasta is revealed to the World Government, Crocodile loses his status as a Warlord and is imprisoned in Impel Down. He is later freed by Luffy to aid him in his prison breakout and participates in the Paramount War. Following the war, Crocodile and Daz Bonez enter the New World.
== Appearance ==
=== Anime ===
* One Piece
* One Piece Film: Strong World Episode 0
* One Piece Movie 8: Episode of Alabasta - The Desert Princess and the Pirates
* One Piece Movie 14: Stampede
* One Piece: Episode of Alabasta - Prologue
=== Manga ===
* One Piece
* One Piece: Strong World
=== Video Games ===
* Fighting For One Piece
* Jump Ultimate Stars
* Jumputi Heroes
* One Piece Bon! Bon! Journey!!
* One Piece Bounty Rush
* One Piece Odyssey
* One Piece Romance Dawn: The Dawn of the Adventure
* One Piece Thousand Storm
* One Piece Treasure Cruise
* One Piece: Aim! The King of Belly
* 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: Going Baseball
* One Piece: Grand Adventure
* One Piece: Grand Battle! 2
* One Piece: Grand Battle! 3
* One Piece: Grand Battle! Rush!
* One Piece: Grand Battle! Swan Colosseum
* One Piece: Great Pirate Colosseum
* One Piece: Pirates Carnival
* One Piece: Pirate Warriors
* One Piece: Pirate Warriors 2
* One Piece: Pirate Warriors 3
* One Piece: Pirate Warriors 4
* One Piece: Round the Land
* One Piece: Super Grand Battle! X
* One Piece: Treasure Battle!
* One Piece: Treasure Wars 2 Welcome to Buggyland
* One Piece: Unlimited Adventure
* One Piece: Unlimited Cruise
* One Piece: Unlimited World Red
* One Piece: World Seeker
* One Py Berry Match
== Trivia ==
* Miss Goldenweek's Rainbow Color Trap reveals that Crocodile's dream was to become the Pirate King.
* Crocodile's animal theme is the crocodile. His name, the Bananawani he kept as pets, and his large scar (which resembles a "crocodile's smile") are all reflections of this theme.
* The soundtrack playing during Crocodile's defeat is Dvorak's New World Symphony, specifically the 4th movement, "Allegro con fuoco". It was the third time in the anime when a piece of classical music was played in the anime (The first being Buggy and Gaimon's farewell, during which Chopin's Etude in E Major played, the second being Dr. Hiriluk's last speech, during which Ave Maria was played and the fourth being when the zombies claimed Absalom as their leader, with Ludwig van Beethoven's rendition of (Ode to Joy).
* Crocodile is the first Warlord to be defeated by Luffy.
* Crocodile is the only one of the original Seven Warlords to possess a Logia Devil Fruit.
* In the 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, and 7th fan polls of most popular characters, Crocodile was ranked the 15th, 25th, 28th, 15th again, 18th, and 17th, respectively.
** In the 2nd and 3rd fan polls, Crocodile is ranked as the second most popular of the Seven Warlords of the Sea, after Dracule Mihawk in both cases, in the 4th as the third most popular, after Trafalgar Law and Boa Hancock, and in the 6th as the fourth most popular, after Law, Hancock and Donquixote Doflamingo.
* Though no direct inspirations have (thus far) been confirmed by Eiichiro Oda, Crocodile's appearance and methodology strongly evoke two iconic villains of Western pop-culture:
** Peter Pan's Captain Hook, the archetypal hook-handed pirate, who is also strongly associated with crocodiles (though in hostility rather than fondness); moreover, the 1953 Disney adaptation also centers his climactic scheme on a time-bomb.
** The James Bond franchise's Blofeld, the archetypal "mastermind" who affects a façade of legality and respectability while operating a secret criminal syndicate (complete with "numbered" executives) to instigate war and pursue weapons of mass destruction; moreover, 1967's You Only Live Twice depicts him with a distinct facial scar, as well as a fondness for elaborate deathtraps using exotic animals.
* Crocodile's birthday, September 5, comes from the Japanese transcription of his name's first and third syllables since 9-5 can be derived from cu-co. His post-timeskip bounty revealed in Chapter 1058 also includes an extended version of this pun: 1,965,000,000, with 9-6-5 being read as Cu-Ro-Co.
* It was noted that if the World Government had known that Crocodile was the head of Baroque Works, his bounty would be at least doubled to 162,000,000.
* A fan asked Oda why Crocodile was wearing his own clothes since he was still in his prisoner clothes after his release, and Oda answered that he went to Newkama Land and got his clothes from there. This is depicted in the anime.
* Crocodile's favorite foods are crocodile meat and tomatoes, and his least favorite food is ketchup.
== Gallery ==
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== External Links ==
* Crocodile at One Piece Wiki
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