You're all a bunch of amateurs who can only do make shift repairs. You have this great ship, but you don't even have one ship right? Fine. I'll take care of it. Your shipwright's gonna be me. Hello and welcome to One Piece 101, the series that breaks down everyone and everything in the One Piece world. Today we are going to be delving into the life and times of the cyborg shipwright of the straw hat pirates, Frankie. Frankie isn't incredibly outgoing cybernetic man who first made his appearance in the series during the Water Seven Arc, as an antagonist actually, but despite that he was an extraordinarily talented shipwright and harbors a dream of one day crafting and sailing aboard a ship capable of circumnavigating the globe. And before we go much further I should say that Frankie is not this wonderful cyborg's name, and he was originally called Cutty Flam. Furthermore as with all of the straw hats Frankie has had a bit of a rough beginning in life. He was born in South Blue as the child of two pirates who had a very young age threw him overboard into the ocean. Luckily he was rescued by a legendary shipwright named Tom, who was most famous for designing and constructing the Aurojaxon, a vessel that was used by the pirate king Goldie Roger. Frankie then became an apprentice of Tom, along with another boy named Iceberg. Settling in on the island of Water Seven in the Grand Line, Frankie learnt an incredible amount from Tom, although this knowledge was mainly used to build small scale battleships known as the Battle Frankie series. However during Frankie's childhood his mentor Tom was put on trial for building the Aurojaxon. Now however Tom was able to strike a deal with the world government that would allow him to be pardoned if he was able to construct a revolutionary sea train. Frankie was highly involved in this effort giving 14 years of his life to assemble the Puffing Tom and its tracks. Unfortunately this story was destined to end in tragedy though, as Spandam, the then leader of CP5, framed Tom in an attempt to gain the blueprints for the ancient weapon pluton, which were in Tom's possession. But the truly tragic portion of this plan was that Spandam commandeered the 35 Battle Frankie's and used them to attack Water Seven, making it appear as if Tom and his apprentices were responsible. Tom was then put on trial and sentenced to death, leading Frankie to denounce his own creations for allowing this situation to have occurred in the first place. Tom then taught Frankie one final, very important lesson, which is that shipwright must always be proud of their creations, and proceeded to announce in public that he was exceptionally proud to have built the Aurojaxon. Tom was then escorted to his execution destination of any slubby, on the very sea train that he had designed and constructed. In a desperate attempt to stop the train, Frankie stood on the tracks and planned on using his own body to stop the Puffing Tom, which was less than successful, leaving Frankie on the verge of death. After this incident, Frankie was destroyed both physically and mentally, although he was able to use his knowledge to fix his body by using some spare parts, turning himself into a cyborg in the process, as well as labeling his new body the 36 Battle Frankie. His new body granted Frankie superhuman strength, although rather interestingly, Cola was chosen to be the power source for his bionic enhancements. However, even when running low on Cola, Frankie still possessed an exceptional degree of strength and durability in his new form. But Frankie's drive and expertise for engineering would not allow him to simply stop there, as he was also able to modify his body to breathe fire, launch his fist connected to a chain, as well as mount a wide variety of hidden projectile weapons within himself. Furthermore, he also possessed an ultimate attack of swords, known as the Kud event, in which Frankie sucks in massive amounts of air, with the goal of firing a compressed blast at opponents. Resumed dead, Frankie would make himself known to iceberg four years after Tom was taken away for execution. During this time, I spoke had become the mayor of Water Seven, and formed an alliance with the world government. The very idea that one of Tom's form of pupils could do such a thing, disgusted Frankie, leading the two to argue, however, eventually I spoke presented Frankie with the blueprints for Pluto, believing that they would be safer with him. Frankie remained in Water Seven, still guilt-stricken and blaming himself for Tom's death, but now he turned to the industry of demolition and robbery, forming a rather large back alley gang that became known as the Frankie family. However, despite this fall from Grace, Frankie's dream remained intact, and he poured all of his ill-gotten gains into a fund to buy Ademud in order to construct his dream vessel. Now one of the groups Frankie would end up stealing from just so happened to be the straw hats, who had arrived on Water Seven to fix their ship. This would also result in Usopp becoming heavily injured, and the straw hats taking revenge by destroying the Frankie house, after which Frankie picked a direct fight with Luffy. So not the greatest of starts joining the crew, I must say. However, over the events of the Water Seven and any Saby Arks, Frankie would form an alliance with the straw hats in order to defeat CP9. We went on to capture both Straw Hat member Niko Robin, as well as Frankie himself, in order to gain the plans for Pluto. But this essentially ended in Frankie burning the plans right in front of them, and joining the straw hats in an incident that led to the complete destruction of the judicial island of any Saby, the very island that Tom was taken to in order to be judged and executed. After this incident, Frankie used the Ademud that he had purchased with the straw hat stolen money to build their new vessel known as the Thousand Sunny. However, as a result of his actions on any Saby, a bounty of 44 million berries had been issued on Frankie's head, and the Frankie family begged the straw hats to take him with them. And after a plot concocted by the two groups involving the theft of Frankie's spedos, the Saby, eventually acquiesced and took on the role of shipwreck for the straw hat pirates. Simultaneously, finally forgiving himself for what had happened to Tom, all those years ago. Following this Frankie's personality became noticeably more joyful and even more outgoing if that's even possible, often reveling in his latest inventions or modifications and constantly shouting his trademark phrase, super. And purely as a result of being an awesome Saby, Frankie is exceptionally popular with the younger members of the crew, being Luffy, Usop and Chopper. All the Fuma constantly amazed by the bizarre things that he is able to do. In contrast, the more mature members of the crew tend to simply ignore Frankie's antics, particularly Nami and Robin. But that said it needs to be noted that Frankie is one of the older members of the crew, and despite his outlandish persona, he is capable of maturity worthy of his years. Those moments are just a few and far between. And so Frankie travelled with the crew until they were forcibly separated by Botholmukuma on Saby de Acapelago and proceeded to find himself on Kara Kuri Island. No, no, not the disappointing one from the movie, but the real Kara Kuri Island, which turned out to be the birthplace of the most famous scientist in the One Piece World, Dr. Vega Punk. Upon exploring his laboratory, Frankie discovered a series of old blueprints for a legion of things that Vega Punk wanted to build. Frankie then proceeded to accidentally press the self-destruct button in the lab, in an event that would become known as the Nightmare of Baltimore. And having himself been caught in the explosion, all Frankie's skin was completely burnt off. However, the destruction of the laboratory led to discovering an entrance to a second lab. Frankie took up residence in the lab during the two-year time skip, using Vega Punk's research as a launching pad to build himself a new body, dubbed Battle Frankie 37. And by the time the straw hats were reunited, Frankie was a completely transformed being, stronger, more durable and now capable of firing lasers, as well as illuminating his nipples. But Frankie's post-time skip functionality seems almost endless, actually. He has a body modification for seemingly every scenario, and at this point it's probably an easy question to ask ourselves exactly what Frankie isn't capable of. Furthermore, he returned to the straw hat crew with Frankie Shogun, a giant mech made of wapo metal that can be piloted by Frankie, and is even officially recognised as Battle Frankie 38. And with all of these new possibilities in mind, Frankie now continues his journey to achieve his dream of circumnavigating the globe on the ship that he built. Some more fun facts about Frankie. The nickname Frankie actually comes from iceberg, who gave him the name because he thought Cutty Flam was far too weird a name. Frankie's personality can change radically depending on which beverage is powering him at any given time. For example, when he drinks fresh juice, he becomes very concerned about health, stating that health is number one. In addition to being responsible for the nightmare of Baltimore incident, Frankie created a further incident when a tiger skin Rokki was wearing over his exposed mechanical face-caught fire and he ran screaming out into the open. To buy standards, he appeared to be a blazing tiger-like entity, and this incident became known as the legend of the sacred burning beast of Baltimore. Frankie's favourite foods are hamburgers French fries, and basically anything that pairs nicely with cola. However, his least favourite food is marshmallows, because they are apparently too soft. Prior to arriving at water, seven leafy drew a terrible portrait of what he was looking for in a ship, although in retrospect, it does kind of resemble Frankie. And finally, a truly useless fact. When transforming, Frankie generally uses the phrase hen-tie, which is a less commonly used version of the word hen-shin. Although this frequently gets confused with the more generally accepted meaning of the word hen-tie, being pervert or perverted. So to enemies witnessing Frankie's transformations, it just sounds like Frankie is yelling pervert. And that pretty much does it for Frankie. If you enjoyed this video, then feel free to like, favourite or subscribe, and if you are in any way keen on supporting the SenderPenner channel, then please do check out my Patreon, Discord, server or Twitter, the links to a charity handy description below. And finally, please do comment with who, what or where you'd like to see featured on the next one piece 101.