Akainu

> If we're doing this, we have to be thorough. If even one of those scholars had managed to sneak aboard that ship, then all of the sacrifices we've made today would be in vain. However small, we cannot allow any evil to thrive.
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> Sakazuki's view on destroying the ship of survivors during the Buster Call at Ohara.

> Gold Roger, the King of the Pirates, and Dragon the Revolutionary. To think that the two of you were adopted brothers all these years. What a victory it'd be to end both bloodlines. Everyone-else can escape. The two of you are the only targets I'm after. **Say... *goodbye*.**
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> Akainu swearing to both kill Luffy and Ace.

> If you're going to declare war, ya could've consulted with me first, ya damned brats!
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> Sakazuki when learning Luffy is on Egghead.

**Sakazuki**, known by his formerly Admiral alias **Akainu**, is one of the main antagonists of the *One Piece* anime and manga series, and one of the main antagonists of the Marineford Arc. He is the current fleet admiral of the Marines, giving him absolute power over the entire organization. He's one of the two arch-nemeses of Monkey D. Luffy (besides Marshall D. Teach/Blackbeard).

He is voiced by Fumihiko Tachiki in the anime and Michio Nakao as a child. In the English Dubbed version, he is voiced by Andrew Love (who also voices Uragami from *Parasyte: The Maxim*.)

## What Makes Him Pure Evil?

* In his first appearance, he orders a ship full of people to be killed near the island of Ohara because he thinks there could be a researcher on the ship. The ship contained not only many civilians, but even Marine soldiers who were there to escort the people off the island. His actions put him past the Moral Event Horizon and shocks his other colleagues such as Spandine and Aokiji, who denounced his actions as excessive, even by the World Goverment rotten standards.
* He is seen murdering at least one Marine soldier for leaving the Marineford War. His killing is extrajudicial and demonstrates that he is willing to kill his own subordinates when they displease him.
* He deceives Squard into believing that Whitebeard intended to sacrifice the other crews in order to save Ace and caused Squard to turn on Whitebeard and stab him.
* He is usually shown to be in a foul mood and often yells at his underlings if they are not doing a satisfactory job as seen during the events that led up to the Levely. He is also highly temperamental and easy to provoke as seen with his interactions with Sengoku and Rob Lucci.
* Unlike a portion of the Marines and veteran marines like Garp and Sengoku who show some respect for pirates, Akainu shows no respect or consideration for them. He generalizes all pirates to be evil and does not show any reservations towards using extreme violence against them. For instance, during the war in Marineford, out of all the marines, Akainu is shown causing the most amount of destruction to his enemies, killing many of them with his Meteor Volcano attack.
* He did not help Garp and Sengoku in their fight against the Blackbeard Pirates, despite the bigger threat they possessed, especially considering that Blackbeard recently stole the vastly destructive Gura Gura No Mi; endangering the lives of civilians, marines, and pirates equally. Instead of focusing of the Blackbeard crew, he opted to go after Luffy and the Whitebeard Pirates, only to satisfy his rotten ideology.
* Just as Ace prepares to flee, he insults Whitebeard in his successful attempt to enrage Ace and fight a losing battle, easily overpowering him and later killing him, causing all the effort and sacrifices made to save Ace to be in vain.
* He causes the first present-day story death by killing Portgas D. Ace. Ace's death was so traumatic to Luffy that it causes him to have a mental breakdown which left him in an immobile state where he could not react to anything in his environment. Ace's death later breaks Luffy's spirit. Compared to other villains, Akainu is the only one who managed to do something that affected Luffy that much on a personal level.
* After Ace's death, he then attempts to kill Luffy while he was in a traumatic state, only to be stopped by Marco.
* He also attempted to kill Whitebeard, after the former confronts him angrily due to Ace's recent passing. Although Akainu did not kill him, he left Whitebeard very injured and exhausted; this being an important factor for his later death at the hands of the Blackbeard crew.
* His defeat by Whitebeard's part is never played for sympathy or comedy at all, only for satisfaction.
* He encouraged the Marines to escalate the war by telling them to destroy the Whitebeard Pirates. He intended to have all the Whitebeard Pirates and their allies killed when they stood in his way to murder Luffy. He was enraged at not getting the opportunity to murder Luffy and wanted to kill the pirates that stood in his way.
* He attempts to murder Koby, a Marine like himself, when the latter tries to tell everyone to de-escalate the war since he was angry with him for standing in his way of trying to go after Luffy, and intended to murder him in front of other Marines and pirates alike until Shanks saved him.
* Sending Kizaru to Egghead to eliminate both Luffy and Dr. Vegapunk
* He lacks any of the redeeming qualities or sympathetic/comedic moments that most villains like Caribou or Buggy have. He has demonstrated on multiple occasions that he is willing to murder both Marines (the people he is supposed to work with) and civilians (the people he is supposed to serve and protect) as long as it serves what he considers the greater good. He values the concept of Absolute Justice above the lives of civilians and his teammates out of what truly amounts to just a sense of egocentric pride. This point is also demonstrated when he shows apathy to the people of Dressrosa after Donquixote Doflamingo's downfall and was more concerned about supporting a cover-up to save his reputation as Fleet Admiral, and was further displeased when Fujitora exposed the incident rather than allowing for a cover-up to happen, to which he had Fujitora banned from entry into any Marine base until he dealt with Law and Luffy first. He was even shown to be angry when Fujitora entered Mary Geoise (the capital of the World Government) and ordered Ryokugyo to kick Fujitora out (only for Ryokugyo to secretly disobey the order, because he needs to fight Fujitora in order to kick him out, which he is not interested in doing out of laziness).
	+ Furthermore, when Fujitora later works with Riku Doldo III and Nefertari Cobra when the two kings (who had suffered at the hands of both Doflamingo and Sir Crocodile) are proposing to disband the Seven Warlords of the Sea at the latest Levely, he considers Fujitora's plan naive due to the recent pirate alliances, despite that Fujitora already has a plan to replace the Seven Warlords. This clearly ignores the severity of the actions that both Crocodile and Doflamingo had caused to the people of Arabasta and Dressrosa, and that the World Government did little to stop it as both of them were part of the Seven Warlords (though several Marine officers did get involved in both incidents due to the Straw Hats being there), which made the disbandment of the Seven Warlords necessary, and also shows he cares more about the World Government's reputation and it being seen as infallible than anything else.
* While there have been other evil Marines in the series like Vergo, Nezumi, and Morgan, Akainu surpass all of them in terms of heinousness, crossing the line various times.
* Even though he is shown to have a rough childhood, it does not detract from or justify all the atrocities he committed later in life in the pursuit of "Absolute Justice".
* According to Akoiji,he explicitly states Akainu was upset that he had to fight him to the Death,it was for pragmatic reasons,so he can see himself as an a hero in front of the marines,it isn't necessarily a disqualifying factor,and held no concern for his former colleague Aokiji for leaving the Marines.

## Trivia

* Among all the Pure Evils in *One Piece*, Akainu is the only one who is a Marine and World Government worker rather than a pirate. Which is ironic as Akainu hates pirates, but his behavior is worse than most pirates in the franchise. And it's also double ironical the fact he is the only member of the corrupt and malicious World Governmental organization that is supposed to bring peace to the world stopping criminals but constantly fails, to be Pure Evil. As the other members at least had some redeeming qualities, freudian excuse, suffered from off-screen villainy, failed the standards or simply were not sufficiently characterized.

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