Portgas D. Ace

Portgas D. Ace, also known as Fire Fist Ace and Hiken no Ace, is a character from the One Piece series.
== Charactah Account ==
Portgas D. Ace is Luffy's older brother by way of adoption, and the Second Division commander of the Whitebeard Pirates, the strongest pirate crew in the world. Like his younger brother, he is a big eater and a heavy sleeper, but unlike his brother, he is intelligent, polite, and gracious, much to the surprise of the Straw Hats when they first met him. He is somewhat protective of Luffy, and looks forward to meeting him on the high seas as pirates. However, his different family name hints at something else. As it turns out, Portgas D. Rouge was his mother only, and his father was actually Gold Roger.
Ace was much more intelligent, polite, and generally more bearable than Luffy, which prompted the Straw Hat Pirates to question whether he was truly related to their captain. While several people who knew Gol D. Roger noted Luffy is quite similar to the late Pirate King, Whitebeard himself claimed that Ace's personality was not at all like his father's. It seems that among the very few things the brothers shared was their recklessness as pirates (and their near-bottomless stomachs). In addition, Ace liked to party as much as his brother does. When he boarded Buggy'sship, he was drawn by the smell of food and decided to enjoy himself while he was there. Ace could be a bit inappropriate though as he once used a woman's skirt to wipe his face while he was dining at Spice Bean in Alabasta. 
== Appearance ==
=== Anime ===
* One Piece
* One Piece 3D2Y: Overcoming Ace's Death! Luffy's Pledge to His Friends
* One Piece: Episode of Sabo - Bond of Three Brothers, A Miraculous Reunion and an Inherited Will
* One Piece Film: Strong World Episode 0
=== Light Novels ===
* One Piece: Ace's Story
=== Manga ===
* One Piece
* One Piece Log Book Omake
* One Piece Party
* One Piece: Episode A
* One Piece: Strong World
=== Video Games ===
* Fighting for One Piece
* J-Stars Victory Vs
* J-Stars Victory Vs+
* One Piece Bon! Bon! Journey!!
* One Piece Bounty Rush
* 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! Swan Colosseum
* 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: 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
== Trivia ==
* Universal Studios of Japan has built a replica of Ace's and Whitebeard's tombs. Ace's epitaph says: "Ace, may your soul be eternal. Your brave soul will always be with us." This epitaph was also shown in Episode 663 of the anime.
* Ace has had three different pictures in his Wanted Poster throughout the series: the first in a filler episode in the Arabasta Arc; the second in an episode of Marineford Arc (originally as an image of the newspaper in the manga); and the third in the second volume of One Piece Magazine (taken from Chapter 158).
* Ace being captain of the Spade Pirates is a pun on the "Ace of spades", which is also named the "Death Card", a possible hint at his eventual death.
* In the 6th Japanese Fan Poll, Ace ranked as the fifth most popular character in the series, making him the most popular of the Whitebeard Pirates and also the most popular deceased character. In the 7th poll, he ranked at ninth place.
* Had Ace been a girl, he would have been named "Ann".
* Ace's birthday would likely have been in February and he would have been 21 when he died if he was born on time. Instead he was born in January and he was 20 because his mother held him in her womb for eleven months past his due date in order to protect him from the World Government, meaning he spent a total of twenty months inside her womb instead of the usual nine.
* The conversation between Ace and Garp in Chapter 525 was likely to make the audience believe that Ace's biological father was Monkey D. Dragon due to his brotherly relationship with Luffy, and that meant Garp and Portgas D. Rouge was their shared grandfather and mother respectively. However, in a later chapter, Ace's father is revealed to be Gol D. Roger, and in another chapter after that, it is revealed that he and Luffy were not related by blood, but rather their brotherhood was sworn by sharing drinks.
* Ace is the first known Devil Fruit user to die.
* His bounty, being at 550,000,000 before his death, was the highest amount revealed in the series before the timeskip.
* Ace's birthday, January 1, comes from his name since Ace is the first card in the deck.
* Ace's favorite food is Bhut jolokia peperoncino (ghost pepper spaghetti aglio, olio e peperoncino).
* In SBS 89, Oda showed Ace's possible appearances at ages 40 and 60 in two separate timelines.
== Gallery ==
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== External Links ==
* Portgas D. Ace at One Piece Wiki
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