Don Quixote Doflamingo

**Don Quixote Doflamingo** (ドン・キホーテ・ドフラミンゴ, *Don Kihōte Dofuramingo*), also nicknamed as "**Heavenly Demon**" **Doflamingo** (天夜叉のドフラミンゴ, *Ten Yasha no Dofuramingo*), is a fictional character and one of the antagonists of the *One Piece* series. He was the captain of the Don Quixote Pirates, a former Warlord with a frozen bounty of 250,000,000 berries, the most influential underworld broker under the codename "**Joker**" (ジョーカー, *Jōkā*), and is a former World Noble of the Don Quixote Family descent. He was last seen locked up on a Navy ship heading for Impel Down.

He is the first son of the late Don Quixote Homing and the older brother of the late Rocinante, both of whom he killed out of feeling betrayed by them. Doflamingo became the king of Dressrosa after taking the throne from Riku Dold III eight years before the start of the series; he ruled the country tyrannically until he was stripped of his positions as a Warlord and king after he was defeated by Monkey D. Luffy near the end of the *Dressrosa Arc*, being arrested alongside most of his crew members by admiral Fujitora.

He is a major antagonist in the Navyford Arc where he took part in the Battle of Navyford and sided with the Navy, along with most of the other Seven Warlords , and the main antagonist of both the *Dressrosa Arc* and the *Dressrosa Saga* as a whole, being the impetus for the entirety of the saga's events.

"*The time is almost here. Go and lay the groundwork. A world where only true pirates can survive will soon be upon us. Those without power, flee while you can. The tide will bring those of unmatched power and the New Era will begin!*"

—Don Quixote Doflamingo.

## Appearance & Biography

*Voice Actor*: Robert McCollum (English), Hideyuki Tanaka (Japanese), Oliviero Corbetta/Claudio Moneta (Italian), Robert Encinas (Spanish), Tilo Schmitz (German), Not Known (Finnish), Not Known (Korean), Eric Missoffe (French), Dafnis Fernandez (Latin American Spanish), Eli Lulai (Hebrew)
*Voice Actor (Young)*: Not known (English), Tomoe Hanba (Japanese), Not Known (Italian), Not Known (Spanish), Not Known (German), Not Known (Finnish), Not Known (Korean), Not Known (French), Not Known (Latin American Spanish)

### Biography

Captain of the Don Quixote Pirates, one of the Seven Warlords of the Sea, and king of Dressrosa.

With the "String-String Fruit", he can create strings to swing through the air or clone himself. He can use Conqueror's Haki and Armament Haki.

He will do anything to reach his goals including slave trade on the on the Sabaody Archipelago.

### Appearance

Doflamingo is an incredibly tall (standing at 10', and as a comparison taller than Kuzan as shown in their confrontation), light blond-haired, very lean and muscular man with tan skin. He generally dresses in flamboyant clothes. In reference to his animal theme, the flamingo, his clothes are brightly colored, with his light pink feather coat most distinctly of all. Doflamingo sports a pair of curved, thin white sunglasses, which appear to serve as his eyesight with purple-tinted lenses. He also walks with an odd, bow-legged waddle (though he does not always walk like this), which is also a reference to his animal theme.

### In the Young Days

Even as a child, Doflamingo already had a liking for sunglasses, though he had not yet acquired his trademark ones. Before leaving Mariejois, Doflamingo wore the typical garb of the Celestial Dragons, and his hair fashioned the same style. After the family left Mariejois, his hair was changed to a simply neat and tidy in a bowl cut and his wardrobe consisted of simple fine clothes: a low-neck button up shirt with black striped and a frilled cravat. However, due to the harsh life on the run from angry citizens, Doflamingo's appearance started to turn more disheveled; in a SBS Volume 63 depiction, his shirt and hair grew messier and unkempt, going barefoot, sitting on a tattered chair near palm trees, smoking a cigarette.

At age 10, after gaining loyalty from his four closest childhood friends, he changed out of his tattered noble clothes for a more simple, yet cleaner, black shirt and white shorts. From this point onward, Doflamingo began to look more threatening. He eventually took on the appearance of a mob boss, wearing a black coat like a cloak over a pale lavender shirt with an unbuttoned collar, bole-colored shorts. His hair took on a spiky appearance, and he replaced his ordinary sunglasses with the trademark pair with spiral-shaped red lenses that he has now.

At age 17, his hair was longer than it is currently, he had two earrings on his left ear, and he sported a pair of goggles that he wore on his forehead. In addition, he also wore sunglasses similar to the ones he wears today, but they had a different temple design, and his signature feathered-mantle.

At age 25, when Law first came to him requesting membership in the crew, Doflamingo seemed to have done away with the goggles, but otherwise seemed the same in appearance; he wore a black dress shirt with a red tie and white pants with a bright red design, with his signature mantle over it, At age 28, during his trip to Minion Island he briefly wore a blood-red double-breasted suit with yellow-gold buttons, with matching blood-red dress pants and shoes, a pair of (dark green in the anime, black in the manga) gloves and changed his sunglasses to the ones he wears currently.

By the time he was 31, he had his hair cut down to the current length.

### In Present Time

He has a red shirt with black stripes, a purple belt, and black pants with red stripes. He also wears black dress shoes that are somewhat pointed. He is also seen often, if not always, smiling.

### Possible Future

Two years after the war, Doflamingo's outfit is somewhat less elaborate, wearing a plain, open shirt that has small, dark Jolly Rogers as cufflinks, a different belt, and pink striped pants. However, he switched his trademark sunglasses with a similar one with orange-red lenses and dress shoes. Post-timeskip, he drapes his feathered coat on his shoulders instead of leaving his arms in the sleeves, similar to many high ranking Navy officers and pirates alike. He also now wears a golden hoop earring on each ear.

Currently, after his defeat at Dressrosa, Doflamingo now has Sea-Prism Stone shackles on his arms, legs and entire chest, while chained to the floor of Tsuru's ship, he is also wearing a standard Impel Down prison uniform, with a few white bandages on his forehead as well. He was also given a new set of sunglasses.

* Hair Color: Light Blond
* Skin Color: Not Known
* Eye Color: Not Known
* Age: 39 (debut), 41 (after timeskip)
* Birthday: October 23rd
* Height: 305 cm (10'0")
* Weight: Not Known

## Personality

Doflamingo has immense arrogance, pride, and a carefree attitude. He seems to have a penchant for dramatic phrasing, as well as a habit of exaggerated posing when giving declarations. He fears few people, as he openly taunts Fleet Admiral Sengoku, sits on the table during the Seven Warlord meetings and shows only gleeful interest at the thought of warring with Whitebeard. He does, however, dislike it when people take rumors and speak them as facts, and does not cave into such prejudice from such false rumors, as seen when he grew irritated when Jora stated the incorrect belief that Amber Lead Syndrome was contagious.

"*The time is almost here. Go and lay the groundwork. A world where only true pirates can survive will soon be upon us. Those without power, flee while you can. The tide will bring those of unmatched power and the New Age will begin!*"

—Doflamingo's view on the coming of the "New Age".
He also has a habit of sitting in strange positions, like on the back of chairs, on tables, on barrels, and even on a pile of bodies in the middle of a war zone and on top of a wall. He is also completely calm and cool-headed in most situations; even when Baby 5 attacked him with what would be lethal blows, he simply dodged away casually while continuing to have his conversation over the phone.

Prior to the timeskip, Doflamingo has a complete and utter lack of fear and doubt, going as far as to rob the World Nobles of their tributes, so he could blackmail the government. He is rarely seen with any expression other than amusement by any turn of events regardless of whom they affect. Only on rare occasions does he let go of his trademark smile, such as frowning in annoyance at being summoned to Marie Jois, surprised when Raffit arrived unannounced and unnoticed until he made his presence known, and when Little Oars Jr. attempted to attack him directly. However, these moments were short-lived, as Doflamingo would usually just grin again.

The only genuine fear he showed then was reliving his childhood memories, which includes being attacked by a mob at age 8 because of their hatred for the Celestial Dragons. Doflamingo learned pain and hunger for the first time in his life and such events have left him suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder even up to age 25, causing him to have nightmares of the torture and waking up in fear and drenched in sweat. To cope with it, he drank copious amounts of alcohol. He is also shown to be deeply afraid of Kaido, since he was aware that the Emperor would kill him if he could not provide more SMILEs for his army of Zoan users.

Two years after the Battle of Navyford, he would continue to maintain his confident smile while everything was under control. However, when Law defeated Vergo and threatened the SAD supply, and even mocked him for his lack of fear and doubt as signs of overconfidence, Doflamingo finally expressed true anger and worry. When Law finally destroyed the SAD supply, captured Caesar, and used that to threaten Doflamingo into abdicating his position as a Warlord, Doflamingo finally lost his composure and showed utter panic and intense anger.

Doflamingo also showed signs of fear of someone's ability when Admiral Fujitora brought down a meteorite during the three way confrontation between the admiral, Law, and him. Upon finally losing control over Dressrosa, Doflamingo succumbed to fear, despair, and fury. Doflamingo became so frustrated by all this that he decided to just laugh everything off. While discussing with Law about how his father abandoned the status of Celestial Dragons and how he was setback from acquiring eternal life, Doflamingo became more and more frustrated as he relived the past. Furthermore, when Doflamingo becomes furious, the veins in his head begin to pop out. Should he hold utter contempt for his victims, Doflamingo has a habit of shooting his victims with a gun, as shown with his father, brother and Law.

"*Weaklings can't pick their way of death.*"

—Doflamingo, passed onto Trafalgar Law
Doflamingo seems to live by a "might is right" philosophy, believing that the strong are the ones who make the rules and will be the only ones capable of living in the "New Age". Due to his belief in this "New Age", Doflamingo seems to lose interest in other things easily, as seen with his leadership over of the Bellamy Pirates and the ownership of the Human Auctioning House. He also threatened to quit the Seven Worlords if the orders given by the World Government are not satisfactory to his likings or if they annoy him, and that he never really cared about the World Government from the beginning. Though a firm believer of the "New Age" philosophy, Doflamingo, unlike his former subordinate Bellamy, himself seems to have an open opinion on dreams, though dreams themselves do not seem to interest him at all; despite his belief, he does not seem to oppose becoming the King of the Pirates.

Doflamingo likes to toy around with his opponents and victims in a sadistic and cruel way, as seen when he gleefully forced two Marines to try to kill each other, and forcing Bellamy and Sirkees to fight each other and suffer injuries before dealing the final blow, all the while laughing at their pain. During the battle of Navyford, all of Doflamingo's confrontations had been for the sake of personal amusement, hinting at a sadistic side, such as when he is seen laughing joyfully after severing Oars Jr.'s leg. His sadistic side is further shown as when he shot Law with lead bullets, as a cruel reference to Law being sick from lead poisoning from when he was a child. This puppeteering nature is implied by Law when he claimed that they will not act the way he expects them to.

Doflamingo also possesses an extremely bloodthirsty mentality as he brutally punished a gladiator for not shedding any blood for the spectators of his Colosseum fights and casually licked some of the blood from his gladiator victim off his own face. He also believes in the existence of an inherent cruelty in all human beings regardless of personality that is brought by the excitement of seeing blood and death. He would go as far as committing patricide at the age of 10, and fratricide at the age of 28, both incidents stemming from his contempt for his victims' actions.

Doflamingo has proven himself to be an underhanded businessman, as he has no intention of parting with certain goods despite placing them up for sell or prize, such as the Flare-Flare Fruit and Gol-Gol Fruit, and would be furious should these goods fall into outside hands. This suggests he places these events simply to earn all the profits, and then forcefully retrieve the item from the buyer/winner.

Doflamingo has immense pride in his flag, and he will let people sail under it, but has great expectations for them and will not hesitate to dispose of them should they fail him, viewing their lack of strength as tarnishing to his name. He does not have much respect for people he considers weak, and desires to only associate himself with the strong, being quick to cast aside the weak. Though he could not care less for weaker people, he does seem to have some interest in improving them if possible, as he will point out their flaws and occasionally give them second chances to please him.

Despite his apathy for the weak, he often seems to make alliances with promising rookies. He adopted Trafalgar Law, Buffalo, and Baby 5 into his crew and apparently did it very early on their journeys, and treated Law and Baby 5 as though they were his younger siblings; It is extremely difficult to join his crew, as most people, especially children, were chased off.

However, he does have an extremely strong sense of loyalty, duty, camaraderie and compassion to the subordinates who had been with him for a long time, as he expressed remorse when he had to discard Monet and Vergo, felt disappointment when Law betrayed him, and went out of his way to destroy eight towns simply to protect Baby 5 from her personality flaws. This is also displayed by his anger when Trafalgar Law took his subordinate Jora hostage. He is also much more lenient toward his crewmates' failures. Despite his loyalty, compassion, duty, camaraderie and devotion to his crew, he can still be annoyed by their antics; such as Trebol being too close while chatting with him, as evidenced by his irritated frown. He cares enough for the officers of his crew that he protected Trebol from Trafalgar Law without a moment of hesitation.

Though his care for his new family seems genuine, he will not hesitate in sacrificing any of them when he sees it necessary, as he intended to force Rocinante to sacrifice his life to perform the Perennial Youth Operation for Doflamingo's immortality, a plan that he switched to Law when realizing that Law ate the Op-Op Fruit intending to "educate" the boy into seeing the importance to die for him.

"*Curse your "bloodlines" then...!! You people were born as lowly trash, destined to be controlled!! You humans and I are completely different!*"

—Doflamingo expressing his status as superior.
When he was 8 years old, he had the spoiled and violent attitude typical of a Celestial Dragon, wanting slaves and expecting subservience from commoners. He also had a habit of ending his sentences with "eh" as a result of being around Celestial Dragons who spoke with this speech pattern, which eventually disappeared when he was brought out of that atmosphere and his ties and values from his former life were slowly broken. Even after his father took him away from such a life of luxury, Doflamingo clung onto his heritage, believing he still has the rights of his lost origins, complaining that he did not want to live inside a rundown shack despite being hunted, and resents his father to this day for taking it all away from him. Doflamingo's arrogance stems from his heritage and he hypocritically states that what he despises the most is being looked down upon, while looking down on the world of commoners that he has been condemned to living in to this day. He believes that his suffering from his father's choice is greater than anything anyone else has suffered, deeming those instances as child's play comparing to his own miserable childhood.

Despite hating the Celestial Dragons for rejecting his return and swearing revenge on them, Doflamingo continues to believe to this day that he is nothing short of being their equal (if not superior), and that he has the blood of a god flowing through him, something he would flaunt at his opponents. Believing his heritage to be the supporting pillar to his greatness, and that one's bloodline is the determining factor to superiority, Doflamingo held humanity with contempt, ceaselessly flaunted his title in front of Luffy, even in his final moments before Luffy defeats him, believing a mere commoner never had a chance to defeat him.

Born and raised in the comfort of Marie Jois, an 8 year old Doflamingo was as oblivious of the outside world as the rest of his former compatriots, infuriated that commoners did not bow to him, unaware of their hatred for the World Nobles' abuse of their diplomatic immunity, and did not understand what genuine suffering was. As he suffered hunger, pain and persecution, however, Doflamingo's knowledge matured, allowing him to understand what true suffering humanity goes through first hand — though unlike his father and brother, Doflamingo in no way sympathized with the commoners' anguish nor feel any regret for them, and instead swore vengeance against all of them for daring to bring pain onto him, all the while his sadistic nature makes even more people suffer for many years to come: he continued to have anyone who offended him in even the slightest manner utterly destroyed, having burned down an entire town for poor pavement; he ran a slave shop and forced Dressrosa civilians and dwarves into slavery to insult how many slaves suffered at the hands of Celestial Dragons; he even mocked the commoners' sufferings in revenge, using the fact that one boy was killed by sixteen shots from a Celestial Dragon to be the homage of his attack against Luffy, referring the sixteen string bullets as "holy ammunition".

Instead of accepting how the World Nobles caused much suffering to humanity, Doflamingo cursed his father and brother for their kindness bringing them down to the mortal world, and that they deserved to die to redeem themselves in his eyes. Due to his matured outlook of life in the commoner's world, Doflamingo became very observant of the environment people grew up in, as he officially adopted Law for seeing the boy's sufferings from the tragedy of the White City while disliking prejudice based on inaccurate rumors (and did not cave in to such in regards to Law's illness), and later rescued the sisters Monet and Sugar from the extremely unfortunate environment they grew up in. In contrast, he saw the Bellamy Pirates as little more than rowdy ruffians unworthy of his positive attention, showing little to no respect for them.

Doflamingo has an unbreakable will to survive with pride, refusing to plea or die even when citizens tortured him in a failed attempt to break him, while swearing aloud to live through it to kill everyone in revenge; compared to how Homing and Rosinante were begging for mercy, Doflamingo's willpower utterly horrified his father, brother and the torturers alike. Even when being hunted down by the Celestial Dragons, Doflamingo managed to escape them due to his will to live. His strength to live on brought about a desire for immortality, which is the main reason he wants the Op-Op Fruit. For this, he was prepared to force his brother, Rocinante, to eat it (unaware that Rocinante already possessed another power) and then order Rocinante to give up his life in exchange for giving Doflamingo eternal life, knowing that even though Rocinante is a traitor, he still could not reject his orders. This setback from immortalizing himself angers Doflamingo whenever this failure is mentioned.

As a former Celestial Dragon who remains fanatical with the associated privileges and history, Doflamingo has an innate fear for those who bear the middle initial "D." in their names, knowing that such people are the Celestial Dragon's natural enemies. Rocinante believed that this alone made Law in danger of being anywhere near his older brother, and that if Doflamingo should find out, he would kill Law. Indeed, when Law reveals his hidden name, Doflamingo became shocked, and though dismissing the "D." being his natural enemy as an idiot superstition, he became reckless in battle, attacking Law furiously while leaving himself close to his attack range.

Like many other characters he has a unique laugh, being "Fuffuffuffuffuffuffu", or in characterized English, "Heh heh heh heh".

## Relationships

### Friends/Allies

* Don Quixote Pirates
	+ Trebol
	+ Vergo
	+ Diamante
	+ Pica
	+ Sugar
	+ Jora
	+ Lao G
	+ Senor Pink
	+ Gladius
	+ Buffalo
	+ Monet
* Disco
* Beasts Pirates
	+ Kaido
	+ Jack

### Family

* unnamed Mother (deceased)
* Don Quixote Homing (father; deceased)
* Don Quixote Rocinante (younger brother; deceased)

### Neutral

* Dressrosa civilians
* Caesar Clown
* Baby 5
* Bellamy Pirates

### Enemies

* World Government
	+ Navy
		- Issho
* Trafalgar D. Water Law
* Straw Hat Pirates
* Convict Gladiators
* Riku Family
* Kyros
* Dwarves
* Kozuki Momonosuke

## Powers and Abilities

As the captain of the Don Quixote Pirates and a powerful former member of the Seven Warlords of the Sea, Don Quixote Doflamingo had complete authority over his crew. He was active in the realm of underworld brokering (including slavery, production and distribution of weapons of mass destruction, and Devil Fruit trafficking) in the New World, and the most resourceful and influential broker there was. In addition, he was the king of Dressrosa, which gave him dominion over an entire kingdom. Upon his defeat at the hands of Luffy, Doflamingo was stripped of his title of King. Being able to deceive the entire world that he resigned from the Seven Warlords is considered to be an impossible feat by anyone less than a World Noble, as Doflamingo was indeed one, which gave him the privilege to do as he pleased on a global scale, without any fear of repercussions. Upon his father dragging him away from such a luxurious life he lost all the privileges; however, he has managed to obtain knowledge of the Marie Jois' national treasure, which, when used in combination with the powers of the Op-Op Fruit, could shake the foundation of the world, a fact he used to blackmail the Celestial Dragons when they failed to kill him, allowing him to regain (to a limited extent) the privileges of a Celestial Dragon and mobilize the CP-0 to falsify his resignation from the Seven Warlords of the Sea. As further proof of his power, he is able to face off against former Warlord Crocodile and later emerge unharmed. He similarly showed no fear of Admiral Fujitora. He also has an unusually fast recovery rate even by Warlord standards, as he regained consciousness shortly after the battle between himself and Luffy.

Ten years before the current story-line Doflamingo managed to steal riches from the World Nobles and by threatening the World Government, earned himself the status of Warlord. His reputation was also enough to force king Riku Dold III to gather money from Dressrosa's citizens to avoid fighting against him.

He is the only Warlord known to fight one of his colleagues, Gecko Moria, and seriously injure him (though he was aided by a small group of Pacifistas and Moria had yet to recover from his injuries from the war). Whoever ordered him to take out Moria apparently had enough confidence in his strength to have him kill a fellow Warlord, and was highly disappointed when he allowed Moria to escape before the final blow could be dealt. He claimed that the one who gave him the order to kill Moria was of higher rank than Sengoku, those being either the Five Elder Stars or Commander-in-Chief Kong, or somebody else of high rank within the World Government.

He is so powerful that Law suggested that if Doflamingo resigns from his position, the Navy will send their top fighters, the admirals, against him. This was also confirmed when Kuzan told Smoker to immediately warn Sakazuki about Doflamingo, and the fleet admiral should dispatch the admirals. His strength over the lower ranked Naval officers was enforced when Doflamingo toyed around with Vice Admirals Mozambia and Stainless, and then later defeated Vice Admiral Smoker, both occasions with tremendous ease, showing that he has the ability to take down at least a Vice Admiral at Smoker's level (who's formidable as a Logia-class Devil Fruit user). He is so strong that Law, a super rookie and a Warlord, chose not to fight until he encountered Doflamingo to save energy and have a higher chance against him. In the anime, he is feared by the bloodthirsty Fighting Fish, who are known for their extreme ferocity, as evidenced when a school of them around Green Bit, who were attacking the Thousand Sunny, fled in terror when they saw him approaching the ship.

Aside from his tremendous combat skills, Doflamingo had great amounts of influence on the world, being a Warlord and a world famous pirate. He was also known as Joker, the most powerful broker in the underworld. He had the Bellamy Pirates under his authority, as well as powerful subordinates such as Vice Admiral Vergo and Monet, as well as formerly Trafalgar Law, who was a fellow Warlord. He had Vergo installed into the Marines as a spy, thus having a trusted and convenient Marine under his command. Doflamingo was also associated with the former World Government scientist, Caesar Clown, but did not trust him and placed Monet as a deep cover agent to monitor his actions. He declared Caesar Clown to be his direct subordinate, which in turn instantly cleared all of Caesar's crimes and could not be arrested by the government any longer. Upon being defeated this is rendered null and void, as such he is a criminal once again.

Doflamingo's influence extended to several countries at war, as he was the only one providing weapons for them. His defeat made them unable to support themselves any longer and forced many of them to surrender.

In addition, Doflamingo was the owner of the once-most popular Human Auctioning House in Sabaody Archipelago, but gave it to Disco when he lost interest in slave-trading in favor of the Battle of Navyford and the New Age. His abandonment of the auction hall made it succumb to ruination, further demonstrating the power of his influence (and the consequences for the lack of it). He seemed to have a lot of connections as he was able to acquire the reborn Flare-Flare Fruit.

He is well-versed in psychological warfare, as he prepared to use the fruit as bait to break apart the alliance between Luffy and Law, believing that Luffy would never allow anyone else to have it. True enough, after learning of the fruit being offered as the grand prize at the Corrida Colosseum, Luffy immediately entered himself into the contest to try to win it. This displays great insight from Doflamingo towards other people. He also used his influence to have the media print out falsified news of his resignation from the Seven Warlords of the Sea in order to set a trap for his foes. Upon Sugar's defeat, Doflamingo regained control over Dressrosa via turning everyone else against his enemies with prize money and the chance to survive, showing ample strategic preparation and flexibility.

### Physical Abilities

Don Quixote Doflamingo is one of the most powerful pirates to appear so far. He has displayed physical abilities of superhuman strength, reflexes, spryness, dexterity and speed, with excellent reaction time.

Doflamingo has also shown considerable hand-to-hand combat expertise, specializing in a kick-based style of combat, as he was able to deliver a single roundhouse kick to his opponent badly wounding him and fluidly dodge his attack in an instant.

### Agility

Doflamingo has considerable reflexes and agility. He was able to dodge Oars Jr.'s attacks with relative ease and completely jumped over Oars Jr.'s gigantic body. He was fast enough to escape through the eye of Crocodile's sandstorm and exit unscathed.

### Strength and Endurance

A testament to his power is that over the course of the series until the Dressrosa Arc, he had never been injured by any other character during a battle. This is noteworthy as he was present in the war between the Marines and Whitebeard Pirates, a battle in which most of the series' strongest individuals, such as Sengoku, were in some way injured. He also showed enough strength to equally clash against Crocodile's hook with just a kick. When Baby 5 attacked him and actually hit him with an explosive round, one that he did not even attempt to dodge, Doflamingo took no damage at all and continued his conversation, not even paying attention to it. He also effortlessly dodged all other attacks from her. He was able to block a Diable Jambe enhanced kick from Sanji with his knee and block the subsequent barrage of kicks that followed with his arm without taking damage; an impressive feat since Sanji's kicks can effortlessly break rocks and even the hard metal body of a Pacifista.

Even with his already impressive speed and strength, Doflamingo possesses a monstrous amount of durability, pain-tolerance and stamina even by Warlord's standards. Even as an 8-year old — freshly out of the Celestial Dragons inner circle and therefore still physically weak from being pampered — he survived the various tortures the mob put him through, never breaking in nor begging, and instead swearing revenge; part of Rocinante's reason for seeing his brother as a monster is this refusal to submit to the pain as Rocinante and Homing did. He managed to prevent himself from being completely frozen by Kuzan, as shortly after the ice encased him, he shattered the frozen prison, showing absolutely no pain or discomfort from doing so. He took a direct attack from Luffy's Red Hawk, a move that caused even a steroid-enhanced Hordy Jones to spew blood, and recovered in mere moments, though he did cough up a little bit of blood upon being struck. However, Law stated shortly afterwards that the attack only managed to inflict superficial damage to the Warlord. Even after taking Law's Gamma Knife, and then quickly followed by a point-blank Counter Shock, which ruptured his organs, he was able to stitch them back together and continue fighting Luffy and taking several Haki-enhanced Gear Second and Haki-enhanced Gear Third moves claiming they felt like tickles, and were *weak.* Even after taking numerous blows from Luffy in Gear Fourth, to which sent Doflamingo rocketing through dozens of buildings and a mountain he was still able to fight and even control his Haki and awakened powers. Furthermore, despite being so severely exhausted and injured, Doflamingo was able to fight dozens of powerful gladiators and defeat them all with little effort. After all this, it took Luffy's powerful King Kong Gun to finally knock him unconscious.

Furthermore, he has tremendous strength, as his leg strength is so great that he managed to produce a 360 degree razor-sharp shock wave, enough to cut through all three of the Dressrosa palace towers in one swing, almost instantly, similar to Kaku's *Rankyaku: Amane Dachi*, but using only one leg and without the preparatory spinning. Because of his height, width, size, and build he can effortlessly carry around a full grown human being without tiring, like the former Warlord, Trafalgar Law. He even managed to give Luffy a devastating kick even though he was defending with Haki, a maneuver which Luffy was able to easily block Hordy with, while at the same time sustaining no injury.

### Devil Fruit

*Main article:* *String-String Fruit*
The **String-String Fruit** (イトイトの実, *Ito Ito no Mi*, literally meaning "Fruit of the Thread-Thread"), a Paramythia-type Devil Fruit, which was given to Doflamingo by Trebol, granting him the ability to create and manipulate strings, making him a "**String Human**" (糸人間, *Ito Ningen*). He usually moves his fingers accordingly to bend them as he pleases for either manipulating people like puppets or bifurcating his targets. The strings are extremely thin and some may even be invisible, making it almost impossible to notice and avoid them. He has shown himself capable of controlling more than one person at the same time without apparent effort.

Using his "Parasite" move, he can make his victims move to his will by moving his fingers accordingly. Doflamingo mainly uses this power to force comrades to fight (and even kill) each other, while Doflamingo himself sits at the sidelines and watches. Every one of his victims being controlled was unable to resist his powers and therefore was rendered completely helpless. This ability is even powerful enough to stop the physically strong "Diamond" Jozu in his tracks, preventing him from further attacking Crocodile.

The strings can also be used for cutting, allowing Doflamingo to effortlessly slice off body parts and destroy weapons. He managed to cleanly sever Oars Jr.'s right leg in one swift motion and decapitated Crocodile, though Crocodile's powers only made this a nuisance (due to them not being imbued with Armament Haki). When Issho brought down a meteorite on Green Bit, he crossed his strings to form a net, and sliced the meteorite into small pieces to protect himself from harm. As a further testament of his strength with his fruit, one of his clones was able to easily slice through the back of Bobby Funk (controlled by Kelly). Bobby's body had earlier proven impervious to an axe coated in Armament Haki.

He can also glide or fly in midair by attaching his strings to clouds, creating a "Sky Path", as seen when he did so to cross over the seas to reach Punk Hazard from Dressrosa. Currently the only known limitation of his abilities is that he cannot float where there are no clouds, meaning that he loses his ability to fly.

In the case of an emergency, Doflamingo can use strings to repair his internal organs as a crude way to staunch the worst effects, though it is not considered actual healing or regeneration.

Doflamingo's mastery of his Devil Fruit is so advanced that he was able to awaken his powers, being able to even turn his surroundings into string. The great extent of his Devil Fruit abilities led the Marines to wrap him in Sea-Prism Stone shackles upon his arrest, even though a single pair of handcuffs can neutralize Devil Fruit powers.

#### Techniques

The named techniques that are used by Doflamingo that involve the Devil Fruit are as follows:

##### Offensive Techniques

* **Parasite** (パラサイト, *Parasaito*): Doflamingo attaches his strings onto his targets' spine at the base of the neck and manipulates their movements like marionettes; usually, only single strings seem to attach to them, at least when more than one is targeted. The controlled can still control their head, but everything below the neck is manipulated by Doflamingo, as seen when the controlled are still able to talk and make their own facial expressions, which contradicts their forced actions. Although Doflamingo is commonly seen moving his fingers in a similar manner to how a marionettist manipulates a marionette while controlling people (it visually mimics the marionette cross with a few alterations (both middle and pinky fingers are extended while the index and the ring finger are curved back at the upper digits while the thumb sticks out)), it does not seem to be necessary, due to the fact that he can control many individuals at the same time (which also makes it seem that Doflamingo does not have to concentrate on the control(s) at all) and, in the anime, he was able to control with both hands in his pockets. While just barely visible, the strings used with this technique are so strong that they can completely and instantly disable the likes of the physically extremely strong "Diamond" Jozu and Sanji, even keeping his victims trapped floating mid-air, and none of his shown victims were able to resist at all. That was until Luffy managed to break free from the control by getting the strings to snap off his body by the sheer brute strength of his Gear Fourth being activated (interestingly, in Luffy's case, more strings were attached). The technique was first seen used to force Vice Admiral Mozambia to attack Vice Admiral Stainless during the Jaya Arc, and its name was revealed during the Dressrosa Arc in the flashback during Doflamingo's takeover of Dressrosa eight years before the start of the series, when he demonstrated the ability to take control of King Riku and many of his soldiers at the same time from far away. This attack was incorrectly named **Marionette** (マリオネット, *Marionetto*) in *One Py Berry Match* and *One Piece: Burning Blood*. The literal kanji reading would be "Kisei'ito", via the primary reading acting as a pun like with many of his other attacks.

* **Penta-Chromatic String** (ゴシキート, *Goshikīto*; literally meaning "Five Color Strings"): Doflamingo swipes his hand to slash his target with five strings coming out from his fingers. In the anime, the strings initially appear to be of a mere spider web white color, although a shimmering of colors within each string can be seen; this is changed later on, making each string one solid distinct color: red, yellow, green, blue and purple. Also, when Issho brought down a meteor, Doflamingo used a similar technique by crossing two **Penta-Chromatic Strings** together to form a net-formation, though smaller in comparison and, unlike **Spider's Web**, able to slice through matter. It was first clearly shown being used against the G-5 Navy on Punk Hazard during their short confrontation and named when Doflamingo used it against Sanji during the Dressrosa Arc. The name of this attack comes from the color change strings display when reflecting light (shown correctly only in the game *One Piece: Burning Blood*).

* **Overheat** (オーバーヒート, *Ōbāhīto*): Doflamingo shoots a thick rope made of condensed strings from his palm and whips it at the target. **Overheat'**s range can go from the sky of Green Bit all the way to Dressrosa, a distance of many kilometers, and is strong enough to cut through a building at that range. It was first seen being used in his fight against Sanji in an attempt to finish him off. The anime has an added effect of the whip, exuding high amounts of heat, causing it to glow a fiery orange and steam. In the video game *One Piece: Pirate Warriors 3*, Doflamingo stretches the rope far back, then slams it onto the ground causing a powerful explosion upon impact (but not before binding up his foes first with **Parasite**); the rope can fired at tremendous speed and with no obvious warning. The literal kanji reading for this would be "Chouka Benito".

* **String Pistol** (タマイト, *Tamaito*; literally meaning "Bullet String"): Doflamingo points at his opponent with his index finger and fires a small bundle of strings from it, as if he were firing a gun; he can shoot multiple rounds from both hands simultaneously. It was first seen being used in the fight against Law on the iron bridge.{ It was used earlier in the anime, when Doflamingo was chasing Law on Green Bit. The attack's power and effect are similar to **Finger Pistol**, but it has the advantage of the longer range of a normal gun. The name of this attack is a pun with *tamaito* (玉糸), the Japanese name for dupion silk, which comes from a double cocoon formed jointly by two or more silkworms.

* **Black Knight** (ブラックナイト, *Burakku Naito*): Doflamingo forms a clone of himself made entirely out of compressed strings. The technique was used to survive Kyros' attempted decapitation, with Viola remarking that she had never seen it before herself, suggesting that it is rarely used given her ability to see everything going on in Dressrosa. Doflamingo has shown great skill in manipulating his clone to orchestrate combined attacks with his real body, such as a double **Penta-Chromatic String** or unravel it for use of **Torikago**. Apparently, the clone is very physically strong, able to simply swat a Jet Pistol from Luffy. Finally, since the clone consists entirely of strings, it does not feel pain and nor does it carry physical pain back to Doflamingo, unlike other devil fruit copies. Viola called the clone **Marionette** (マリオネット, *Marionetto*, Law similarly referred to it as a "string puppet", Trebol referred to it as **String Joker** (糸ジョーカー, *Ito Jōkā*; literally meaning "String/Thread Joker") when he asked Doflamingo where it had flown off to after one of them confronted Luffy and Law, and the technique was formally named when the real Doflamingo created a clone in his battle against Law and Luffy. In the anime, during Doflamingo's final battle against Law and Luffy, the clone glows sky blue to violet and the strings are visible as white flashes to distinguish it from the real thing. In *One Piece: Pirate Warriors 3*, the clones each have strings attached to them (like an actual marionette) which also serves as a visual cue thus allowing the player to tell the difference between the **Black Knight** string clones and the real Doflamingo. In *One Piece: Burning Blood*, it appears under the name **Tread Clone**. **Black Knight'**s literal Japanese kanji specific reading would be "Eiki'ito" while **Marionette'**s is "Ayatsuri Ningyou" (the Japanese term for marionette).

* **Fulbright** (フルブライト, *Furuburaito*): Doflamingo creates five detached strings from his hand and throws them downwards to impale his target from above. This attack was first used against Law in their second encounter at Dressrosa's royal palace. In the anime, a similar unnamed attack was used against Law during their battle at the bridge. The literal kanji reading would be "Kouburai'ito".

* **Thread Saw** (糸ノコ, *Itonoko*; literally meaning "Fretsaw"): Doflamingo creates a string from the heel of his foot and attaches the other end to his leg. Holding the opponent down with his arms, he then uses the taut string as a saw to sever the opponent's limb. The produced cut is rather jagged, making it very hard to reattach any severed limbs. This was first seen used to cut off Law's right arm in their second encounter, and named by Trebol. This attack gets its name from the real world cutting tool called the fretsaw, which consists of a metal frame and a thin blade held under tension.

* **Athlete** (アスリイト, *Asurīto*: Doflamingo attaches several long strings to his foot and kicks his opponents, cutting them. This was first seen used against Luffy in their final fight, who, despite blocking the blow with his arms while also using Busoshoku Haki, still took damage and fell into Trebol's trap. The literal kanji reading would be "Sossoruito".

###### Awakened Techniques

* **Break White** (ブレイクホワイト, *Bureiku Howaito*: Doflamingo creates two large, thick sheets of string that wrap around his opponent and crush them. This was first used during Doflamingo's fight against Law and Luffy, to attack Luffy in mid-air, but Luffy managed to avoid it, although in the anime it demonstrated some sentience as it continued to attack Luffy after it missed him the first time. The literal kanji reading would be "Aranami Byakuito", with "aranami" being a term that also refers to the "stormy seas".

* **Off White** (オフホワイト, *Ofu Howaito*): Doflamingo creates two large masses of strings from the ground near him before swiping at an opponent with them. This was first used to counter Luffy's **Gum-Gum Double Culverin** in their final fight. In *One Piece: Pirate Warriors 3*, Doflamingo uses this technique to defend against Luffy and Sabo's **Gum-Gum Fire God Magnum**, however the attack manages to burn through the strings. The literal kanji reading is "Tate Byakuito".

* **Billow White** (ビローホワイト, *Birō Howaito*): Doflamingo turns several buildings into towering masses of strings before sending them at an opponent. This was first used against Luffy in their final fight. The literal kanji reading is "Oonami Byakuito", with "oonami" also being a term for a surge.

* **Ever White** (エバーホワイト, *Ebā Howaito*): Doflamingo kneels and touches the ground with his hands before turning a vast amount of the surrounding area into string. This was first used against Luffy in their final fight. The literal kanji reading is "Unabara Shiranami"; "unabara" being a term for the deep sea, while "shiranami" (lit. white wave) is not only a term for a whitecap/white-creasted wave, but also a term for a thief. This Doflamingo's only technique with the "ito"-suffix that does not have the "string/thread kanji" for it.
	+ **Flap Thread** (フラップスレッド, *Furappu Sureddo*): Doflamingo condenses the vast amount of string from Ever White into countless points before sending them at his opponent in the formation of two wings. He likens this technique to "a thousand arrows". It is possibly a homage to his childhood while he was being tortured as someone wanted to fire a thousand arrows at Doflamingo and his family. This was first used against Luffy in their final fight. The literal kanji reading would be "Hanegeki'ito".

* **God Thread** (ゴッドスレッド, *Goddo Sureddo*): Doflamingo summons sixteen thick strings which he refers to as and sends them at his opponent in a piercing formation. It is possibly a homage to his childhood while he was being tortured as a father cried out that the Celestial Dragons shot his son sixteen times with a pistol; Doflamingo's cruel way to mock the said father, as well as showing how much he desperately wants to regain his title as a World Noble. This was first used against Luffy at the end of their final fight, but was broken through by his **King Kong Gun**. In the anime, this attack, was enhanced by Armament, was able to pierce into Luffy's **King Kong Gun**, slightly, but was incapable of stopping it. In *One Piece: Burning Blood*, it appears as Doflamingo's Ultimate Attack and after God Thread skewers the opponent the threads explode outward. The literal kanji reading would be "Kami Chuusatsu".

##### Support Techniques

* **Sky Path** (空の道, *Sora no Michi*; literally meaning "Sky's Path"): Doflamingo attaches his strings to clouds, allowing him to move through the air. He was first seen using the technique to travel from Dressrosa to Punk Hazard, but there were not enough clouds for him to be able to complete the journey. When Doflamingo was attacking the Straw Hats and Law at Green Bit, Law instructed the Straw Hats to sail along a route without any clouds, as doing so would prevent Doflamingo from pursuing them.

* **Birdcage** (鳥カゴ, *Torikago*; literally meaning "Birdcage"): Doflamingo's ultimate technique. He exudes immense amounts of strings from the center of a palm or a previously created string construct like a string clone, unravelling it, which shoot high into the sky as a concentrated beam. When high enough, they diverge to rain down to all sides in an umbrella-like fashion to cover a large area, even the whole Dressrosa, creating a gargantuan, razor-sharp wire-domed force field, slicing absolutely everything that passes through it, from cutting physical things to even severing such immaterial things as the signals of Transponder Snail to the outside. The singular bars are incredibly strong, with even multiple mountain-sized meteorites being unable to dent them, let alone breach through them. Generally, the **Birdcage** is Doflamingo's last resort for any desperate situation where he cannot allow anyone in the area to escape, such as when he prevented his brother from escaping from him with the Op-Op Fruit by covering a portion of Swallow Island (unaware at the time that it was already eaten by Law) more than a decade before the start of the series, or in the event that, during the Dressrosa Arc's midpoint, Sugar fainted, the effects of the Hobby-Hobby Fruit on Dressrosa's citizens were cancelled and the reconverted people rebelled, so that he could no choice but to kill everyone so no one would reveal the country's dark secrets. The **Birdcage** will remain standing as long as Doflamingo is conscious and, should he desire, he can cause the cage to slowly but surely close in, eventually cutting anything inside apart, as when he desired for the "endgame" after his entire crew (sans Trebol and himself) were defeated; Doflamingo can freely control the shrinking rate. The cage does not contract towards its original center point: instead, it slowly converges on Doflamingo's position as it shrinks. With enough physical force, the **Birdcage'**s advancement can be halted for a brief duration. Logically, one can also escape the **Birdcage** if one is immune to cutting damage, as Buggy would be able to do so via his Chop-Chop Fruit powers.
	+ **Parasite (Enhanced)**: Doflamingo's **Parasite** can be enhanced when used in combination with the **Birdcage**, to the point that those "marionette" strings can spread all across the entirety of Dressrosa in the cage's confines and control an extremely large amount of people simultaneously without any apparent strain on Doflamingo, causing extreme mayhem.

* **Spider's Web** (蜘蛛の巣がき, *Kumo no Sugaki*; literally meaning "Spider's Web"): A defensive technique. As the name implies, Doflamingo creates a huge web made of string that protects him from incoming projectiles. This was first used to block a massive piece of the Dressrosa Royal Palace, thrown at him by Law's powers during their final fight. In the anime, he can layer them on top of one another and they can easily withstand Armament Haki-enhanced Gear Second and Gear Third techniques while merely being pushed back, rather than being damaged in any way.

* **Repair Operation** (修復作業, *Shūfuku Sagyō*; literally meaning "Repair Operation"): Doflamingo uses his strings to stitch together his internal organs have they been injured, acting as a rudimentary form of first aid; however, this is only a temporary measure as this does not heal him, just minimizes further damages (this was evidenced during the final stage of his battle with Luffy, when Doflamingo was still suffering some pain of Law's Gamma Knife time after). It was first used to treat the devastating effects of Law's Gamma Knife. The anime depicted the necessity for Doflamingo to repeatedly renew the strings for the recuperation to last, being shown to repeatedly touch his stomach with his open palm to do so.

### Haki

*Main article:* *Haki*
Doflamingo possesses both Armament Haki and Conqueror's Haki. His Haki powers were first revealed during his fight against the G-5 Navy, when he used Armament Haki in conjunction with his Devil Fruit ability to cut Smoker, a Logia type user, seriously wounding him, and Conqueror's Haki to knock out the majority of G-5 soldiers. His Conqueror's Haki first awakened when he was around ten years old, when being pursued again by North Blue citizens who tried to continuously torture his family in revenge, knocking them all out, thus saving him.

He was also able to harden his body enough to resist Luffy's Jet Gatling without any visible injury, and counterattack with an enhanced punch that injured Luffy and sent him flying back a considerable distance. His Armament Haki, however, is not strong enough to block sharp or bladed objects, as seen when he grasped Law's sword and cut his hand slightly as a result.

### Weapons

Doflamingo was given an obsidian-black flintlock pistol with luxurious gold plating by Trebol at 10 years old. Doflamingo was first seen using it after he defeated Trafalgar D. Water Law at Dressrosa, firing three shots in rapid succession to brutally wound Law. It was loaded with lead ammunition, infecting Law with lead poison as a mocking reference to Law's past with the Amber Lead Syndrome. This pistol was apparently reserved for Doflamingo to kill people he particularly disliked, as he used it to kill his father and brother.

10 years ago, he was also shown using a sword when he nearly executed King Riku Dold III.

## History

### Childhood

Doflamingo is a descendant of one of the royal families that formed the World Government and moved to Marie Jois. However, when Doflamingo was eight years old, his father Homing chose to cease being a World Noble and live a normal, but still somewhat well-off, life along with his wife and two children. After moving to an unknown northern country, Doflamingo was still accustomed to his old lifestyle as a World Noble and arrogantly expected the commoners to bow for him. Despite his father renouncing his World Noble title, the people who they tried to live among resented them due to their longstanding hatred for the World Nobles. Subsequently, the people of the country persecuted him and his family. They burned down their mansion and drove the Don Quixote Family into a makeshift shaft on a junk pile, forcing the children to eat out of garbage cans out of desperation. When Homing called the World Nobles for their help, only to be rejected, Doflamingo overheard this and was silent with shock. Sometime later, Doflamingo's mother died from illness, due to the deplorable household they were forced into.

Eventually, the angry citizens tracked them down to their shack and, unable to contain their anger at the former World Nobles, attacked Doflamingo, Rocinante, and Homing. The three Don Quixotes were lynched and severely beaten, but they ultimately survived, and it was then that Doflamingo swore to kill *everyone*, which horrified his father, brother and the mob. The memory of this experience would stay with Doflamingo for many years, and would go on to blame his father for all this suffering from thereon.

At some point, Doflamingo met Vergo, Trebol, Pica, and Diamante and displayed the ability to use Conqueror's Haki, knocking out a mob who tried to lynch him. Impressed, Trebol believed Doflamingo to be chosen by heaven and then gave Doflamingo the String-String Fruit and a pistol, giving Doflamingo the power to exact revenge on anyone he wanted to kill.

At the age of ten, Doflamingo then decided to kill his father to regain his former status as a World Noble. With the pistol gifted by Trebol, Doflamingo shot Homing in the head while ignoring Rocinante's pleas to not kill him. He then returned to Marie Jois with his father's head in an attempt to regain his old status as a World Noble, but he was rejected as one of a "family of traitors" by the Celestial Dragons. Since then, he swore revenge on the Celestial Dragons for rejecting him. Doflamingo managed to flee Marie Jois with knowledge of the Celestial Dragon's national treasure, which would later allowed him to blackmail his former compatriots to grant him the equal rights that he lost.

After returning to North Blue from Mariejois, Vergo, Trebol, Pica, and Diamante then elected Doflamingo as their leader and swore to build him up into the next Pirate King and promised to never let anything stand in his way. Their devotion for him is such that they would kill any and everyone who would so much as offend Doflamingo in even the slightest manner. Trebol shot down some thugs who hurt Doflamingo and they went as far as burning down an entire town for having poor pavement that made Doflamingo trip.

### Ascent to Piracy

When he was 17, he was present at Gol D. Roger's execution in Roguetown, smiling as usual.

He finally reunited with his younger brother, Rocinante, when he was 24 after his younger kin went missing for 14 years. About one year after this, Vergo was enlisted in the Marines under Doflamingo's orders, and he ascended the ranks for fifteen years, eventually becoming a vice admiral, while keeping his true identity hidden from everyone outside of his affiliates, thus granting Doflamingo the most trusted and convenient Navy officer available to him. Vergo's mission left the Corazon title for Rocinante to succeed.

At age 25, he encountered a 10-year old Trafalgar Law in North Blue at a port town called Spider Miles. While strapping himself with bombs, Law asked Doflamingo to let him join. After Law had been with the crew for about a week, Doflamingo was seen having a meal with his "family". Law held a grudge against Corazon for throwing him out of a window, but Doflamingo warned Law not to lay a hand on his brother. The crew then learned that Law was sick with the Amber Lead Syndrome. Jora thought the disease was contagious until Doflamingo corrected her. They then heard how Law escaped the extermination of Flevance. Later, Doflamingo perused a book about Flevance, while drinking some wine, and fell asleep while putting the book on top of his face.

After Doflamingo woke up from a nightmare about his childhood, Jora and Machvise brought Law before him. He then announced that Law became an official member of the crew. Law reminded Doflamingo that he would die in three years time, but Doflamingo went on to explain that their "family" dealt with underworld businesses and told Law of a possibility for survival: obtaining a Devil Fruit power that could heal him. He further explained that if Law was lucky to find one before his life expired, he would raise and train him to be his right-hand man in ten years. Doflamingo later noticed that Corazon had a wound, but he wrote a note saying that he was attacked by an enemy. During the next two years, Doflamingo and his crew spread their influence as they traveled to the Grand Line. They participated in various activities such as looting, making business deals, and collecting bounties. Doflamingo also had his crew members teach Law various forms of combat.

While the crew engaged in a battle with the Marines out at sea, Law and Corazon suddenly left. Senor Pink showed Doflamingo a note from Corazon, saying that he left to find a cure for Law's illness. Six months later, Doflamingo contacted them via Transponder Snail. After asking them about their search for a cure, Doflamingo asked Corazon and Law to return to the crew. He also revealed that he had found information on the Op-Op Fruit and wanted Corazon to eat it and heal Law, unaware that his younger brother already possessed another Devil Fruit power. He explained to Corazon about his plan to steal the Op-Op Fruit from a trade that was going to occur on Rubeck Island and told Corazon to rendezvous with him on Swallow Island three days before the exchange. After speaking with his younger brother, Doflamingo then had a meeting with Diamante, Trebol, and Pica. They expressed their suspicion of Corazon being a Navy informant, seeing no Navy soldiers knew of their whereabouts during Corazon's absence. However, Doflamingo found it uncomfortable to believe that his younger brother was a traitor.

Doflamingo and his crew later arrived at Minion Island where the pirates who had the Op-Op Fruit were based. After his arrival, he was informed of Corazon's treachery by Vergo. Doflamingo expressed his disappointment and deduced that Corazon had stolen the Devil Fruit. He then used Birdcage to prevent Corazon from escaping.

Doflamingo later confronted Rocinante after he was captured and beaten by the rest of the Don Quixote Pirates. Rocinante pointed his pistol at him and revealed his Navy rank. Doflamingo then demanded the whereabouts of Law and the Op-Op Fruit. Rocinante revealed that Law already ate it and misinformed him that Law escaped the birdcage safely and was in the custody of the Navy. When Buffalo and Baby 5 informed Doflamingo that they intercepted a transmission saying that Navy took a boy into custody, Doflamingo dispelled the birdcage and prepared to go after Law. After Rocinante firmly declared that Law would not obey him, Doflamingo shot Rocinante multiple times before leaving. When they returned to their ship, the crew came under fire by Tsuru's squadron, though managed to escape.

One year later, Doflamingo and his crew held an auction for the Gol-Gol Fruit, though he did not intend to actually sell it. Guild Tesoro went to the auction and sent criminals to kill many people, allowing him to gain possession of the Devil Fruit. Doflamingo got angry and sent assassins to kill Tesoro, but they all failed.

### Takeover of Dressrosa

Ten years ago, a thirty-one year old Doflamingo started building his powerful reputation by stealing money from the World Nobles and blackmailing the World Government to attain the position of Warlord. One night, Doflamingo appeared at Dressrosa in Riku Dold III’s chambers. After Riku recognized him as a descendant of the Don Quixote Family and commented on his feats as a pirate, Doflamingo stated his demand, asking for a 10 billion fee until the dawn of the next day in exchange for leaving the country alone. To avoid war, Riku Dold agreed to the demand.

Just as the money was being gathered, Doflamingo, from behind the scenes, used his Devil Fruit ability to control Riku and made him rampage in the city of Sebio. As panic and confusion spread throughout the kingdom, Doflamingo proceeded to take control of the soldiers as well, making them attack innocent civilians against their will. As he gleefully watched from the shadows, Doflamingo and his top three subordinates waited for the right moment to step in and act as saving heroes in the eyes of Dressrosa's citizens. While Doflamingo continued to control Riku Dold III, his subordinates managed to take control of the castle with the help of an inside spy (Monet) and also took princess Viola hostage. Once the citizens' trust for their king was shattered and they gave in to despair, Doflamingo, Diamante, Pica and Trebol appeared and defeated the king and his army, passing themselves off as heroes and setting the grounds for the Don Quixote Pirates' takeover of the island.

He then held Dold captive at the palace. When Kyros arrived to confront Doflamingo, he told the former gladiator that he had sent subordinates to kill his wife and child. When Doflamingo was about to execute Dold, Kyros attempted to attack him, losing his leg and getting transformed into a toy by Sugar in the process. Despite this, Kyros managed to escape the palace with Dold.

After that night, Doflamingo ascended to the throne. He claimed that the former king was responsible for making Dressrosa a poor country and promised wealth to the citizens. In the meantime, he had his subordinates hunt down anyone with an affiliation to the previous king.Because he found Viola's Devil Fruit ability to be useful, he spared Riku Dold's life on the condition that she would aid the Don Quixote Pirates. With the castle bearing his smiley, the Don Quixote Pirates used the island as their base. Doflamingo used his weapon trading to instigate wars by supplying arms to various factions including the enemies of the Flower Country.

Doflamingo, using Sugar's Devil Fruit ability, turned those who opposed him into living toys, erasing their past and making the people close to them forget who they were. In addition, he enacted two laws that created segregation between humans and toys.

The Bellamy Pirates also swore their allegiance to Doflamingo, and were permitted to use his Jolly Roger.

Some time after gaining a powerful influence in the underworld while using the alias Joker, Doflamingo formed a three-way alliance with the rogue Navy scientist, Caesar Clown, and Kaido of the Four Emperors, in order to create the SAD and Zoan artificial Devil Fruit, to create an army of Zoan-type users within the New World. However, needing Caesar for the SAD production and not trusting him, Doflamingo assigned Vergo to act as an intermediate. Doflamingo provided cover for Caesar's research with the assistance of Vergo, who officially reported the kidnapped children to have died in accidents at sea. He also placed Monet as a deep cover agent to monitor the deranged scientist.

He murdered all eight of Baby 5's boyfriends and destroyed the towns they originated from on the way, due to wanting to protect her from rash decisions because she was unable to refuse any request.

Eight years ago, the Don Quixote Pirates attempted to kill Guild Tesoro and his crew again, but Tesoro's crew was too strong for them to defeat. Doflamingo decided to use Tesoro as a business partner instead, and gave him connections in the World Government. It is unknown what Doflamingo intended to do to Tesoro in the future.

After Crocodile's defeat at Alabasta two years ago, Doflamingo did not believe the official reports of a Navy officer like Smoker defeating him. He noticed Luffy's increase in bounty and asked Trebol to gather information about him. He was quite shocked that Luffy is a 'D'.

## Synopsis

### Sky Island Saga

#### Jaya Arc

Doflamingo was introduced through his attendance at a meeting held by the World Government, supervised by Fleet Admiral Sengoku after the arrest and dismissal of Crocodile as a member of the Seven Warlords of the Sea.

At Marie Jois, Vice Admiral Stainless and Mozambia were seen fighting. One stated that he had no control of himself, his hands were moving by themselves. Vice Admiral Tsuru told the Warlord Doflamingo to stop. After being asked to halt with his antics, Doflamingo took matter further by having the two Naval officers draw their swords ready to kill each other. Just then, Sengoku walked into the room and asked Doflamingo if he was there for a battle. Doflamingo mocked him, and Bartholomew Kuma backed Doflamingo up by stating they now had a target. Surprised that 2 of the 6 remaining Warlords came, Sengoku started the meeting. Doflamingo and Sengoku exchange comments on the success of pirating. Just then, Mihawk arrived, commenting on the behavior of the Navy and other Seven Warlords he had heard from outside the room. Doflamingo stated Mihawk was the least expected person to show up and Mihawk replied that he was there to be merely a spectator as the meeting was about pirates of particular interest to him.

They were then interrupted by another person, a silhouette of a man was seen greeting himself as an observer also, but stating he wished to participate in the meeting. He was identified by Tsuru (in the Anime by Mozambia) as Raffit, a policeman who was renowned for his violent ways and exiled from the West Blue. He stated he wished to put forward his captain's name for appointment to the position of Warlord. The name of "Teech" was put forward by Raffit. He was told that because Teech is an unknown pirate, he being a Warlord will have little deterrence to other pirates, and thus the government can hardly accept Raffit's request for the nomination of Teech. However, Raffit stated they were working to change this and to remember the name of the Blackbeard Pirates.

### Water 7 Saga

#### Long Ring Long Land Arc

At Mock Town Bellamy and Sirkees were having an unexpected battle against one another. The reason behind the battle was the unexpected return of their true leader: Warlord member Don Quixote Doflamingo. He felt upset that his "symbol" was being used in shame to deride foolish dreams, such as the existence of a city of gold in the sky. Although Bellamy begged for forgiveness and stated that he would never shame the flag ever again, Doflamingo saw no use for him, and used his powers to have Sirkees attack him. With this done, Doflamingo touted the beginning of a "New Age" where only worthy pirates exist and the trash is abandoned.

## Battles

### Canon

* Don Quixote Pirates vs. Barrels Pirates
* Doflamingo vs. Don Quixote Rocinante
* Seven Warlords of the Sea and the Navy vs. Whitebeard Pirates and their allies
	+ Doflamingo, Bartholomew Kuma, and Gecko Moria vs. Little Oars Jr.
	+ Doflamingo vs. Atmos
	+ Doflamingo vs. Crocodile vs. Jozu
	+ Doflamingo vs. Crocodile
* Doflamingo and some Pacifistas vs. Gecko Moria
* Doflamingo vs. Baby 5
* Doflamingo vs. G-5 Navy
* Doflamingo vs. Smoker (interrupted by Kuzan)
* Doflamingo and Issho vs. Trafalgar Law
* Doflamingo vs. Sanji
* Doflamingo vs. Trafalgar D. Water Law
* Doflamingo vs. Kin'emon
* Doflamingo vs. Kyros
* Doflamingo vs. Monkey D. Luffy (Royal Palace)
* Doflamingo, Trebol, and Bellamy (controlled by Doflamingo) vs. Monkey D. Luffy and Trafalgar D. Water Law
* Doflamingo and Trebol vs. Monkey D. Luffy and Trafalgar D. Water Law
* Doflamingo vs. Monkey D. Luffy (Palace rooftops/Dressrosa streets)
* Doflamingo vs. Corrida Colosseum gladiators
* Doflamingo vs. Viola
* Doflamingo vs. Monkey D. Luffy

## Anime and Manga Differences

### Jaya Arc

In the manga, Doflamingo's actions during the Warlord meeting after Crocodile's title was revoked were noticed by Tsuru. In the anime, his actions were noticed instead by Mozambia.

### Navyford Arc

At the moment when Sengoku revealed the relationship between Dragon and Luffy in the manga, Doflamingo stated that was the reason why Ivankov was with Luffy. In the anime, he did not say anything and was only briefly seen smiling.

### Colorization

Doflamingo's signature pistol was different in color schemes. The anime portrays the pistol as in the present, but in the flashback, the pistol that Doflamingo received from Trebol and later used to kill his father was merely an ordinary pistol. The manga shows it as the ornate pistol when Trebol gave it to him.

### Conqueror's Haki

In the manga, Doflamingo awakening his Conqueror's Haki during his childhood was only mentioned. In the anime, Doflamingo was shown using Conqueror's Haki on the mob who hanged him and his family over the wall of fire right after he swore to kill them.

## Translation and Dub Issues

His family name, Don Quixote, is possibly due to the translators believing it was inspired by the titular character of a novel.

The Yaksha part of his epithet, Heavenly Demon, refers to demons of dual personalities who guard natural treasures hidden deep under the earth and roots, from Buddhism, Jain, and Hindu folklore. The English manga translated it into "Heavenly Demon", since "Yasha" in Japanese also means "demon".

## External links

* Don Quixote — Wikipedia article about the main character of a famous Spanish novel, after which this character is presumably named.
* Flamingo — Wikipedia article about the animal Doflamingo's animal theme is based on.
* One Piece *One Piece wiki*

## Notes & Trivia

* Doflamingo's flag was the first "smilie" style Jolly Roger to be seen in the series. Doflamingo also stated that slavery is "out", but smilies are "in". With the introduction of SAD and his illicit underground network trafficking in man-made Zoans, "SMILE", the meaning behind his words and symbol become much clearer.
* His surname is a reference to Don Quixote, the main character of the famous Spanish novel "*El ingenioso hidalgo don Quijote de la Mancha*", while his given name, Flamingo, is a bird whose plumage resembles Doflamingo's flamboyant jacket and likely comprises it.
* In the 5th Fan Poll, Doflamingo ranked 17th, making him the 3rd most popular of the original Seven Warlords, and 4th most popular over all. This also ranks him as the second most popular major antagonist of the series.
* Doflamingo is the second antagonist (the first being Caesar Clown) to have his own original soundtrack, the theme is called "Don Quixote Doflamingo" and is part of the One Piece New World Soundtrack.
* Doflamingo shares some very notable parallelisms with Crocodile:
	+ They both have been Warlrods, both arrested after Luffy sending them crashing to the ground unconscious.
	+ They both were leaders of a powerful criminal organization with multiple Devil Fruit users with codenames (both including a bomber, a human that can change their weight, a user that can change their limbs into steel, a user that uses their powers for art, and a user that can mobilize underground).
	+ They both operated under the façade of celebrated heroes in their respective countries, committing dark dealings that contributed to the countries' deterioration.
	+ Crocodile was the main antagonist of the second saga of Part 1 (*Alabasta Saga*), while Doflamingo was the main antagonist of the second saga of Part 2 (*Dressrosa Saga*).
	+ They both are Devil Fruit users and have mastered their powers to high levels, able to severely distort the surrounding environments.
	+ They both drape furry coats as capes for their common clothes.
	+ They both were present at Roger's execution.
	+ They both are over 40 years old.
	+ They both aimed to control a whole country (with Doflamingo having succeeded) with similar plans: by framing the current king for unforgivable crimes against the people, while appearing later as the hero.
	+ They both have earned the scorn of said country's princess who aimed to kill them for their crimes (Vivi for Crocodile and Rebecca for Doflamingo).
		- They were also both spied by said country's princess who went by a codename as well to keep their fathers alive (Crocodile by Vivi as Ms. Wednesday for Nebra and Doflamingo by Viola as Violet for Dold).
	+ They both contrabanded illegal substances (Boogie Powder and SAD).
	+ They both acted cruel to subordinates that they deemed useless and unworthy of their military powers (Crocodile discarded Galdino, Doflamingo discarded Bellamy).
	+ They both attempted a genocide of the respective countries they were trying to control, both failing in the end.
	+ They both were attacked in a way that would have decapitated them if they did not have Devil Fruit powers, but instead avoided harm altogether (Vivi attacked Crocodile with her Peacock Slashers but he dissipated into sand, Kyros appeared to lop Doflamingo's head off with his sword but Doflamingo had faked him out with a clone made of string).
	+ They both were defeated by Luffy in a way that wrought havoc on the nearby residential areas where they had fought him (Crocodile was knocked out of an underground temple containing a Ponecliff, causing the road and some buildings above it to be thrown asunder, Doflamingo was sent crashing into the ground with such force it leveled all of the surrounding buildings).
		- Also the way Luffy destroys Doflamingo's string clone is similar to Crocodile's defeat, as they both are sent up to the ceiling and were beaten up by an attack which involves Luffy punching them multiple times until the ceiling gets destroyed as they fall to the ground.
* Doflamingo's sunglasses being broken by Luffy paralleled Kuro's glasses breaking at the end of his fight with Luffy; both characters were closely associated with their glasses.
	+ Furthermore, Doflamingo has always hidden his eyes behind some form of frames even in flashbacks to his youth. His eyes have been scarcely seen; his right eye has been glimpsed twice — once after waking up from a nightmare and again after his glasses were broken. His left eye, however, has never been seen uncovered.
* Doflamingo's favorite food is lobster. His least favorite is barbecue, due to trauma he went through as a child.
* In the SBS of Volume 83, a reader asked Oda why Viola and Doflamingo called each other "Violet" and "Doffy" in chapter 788. Oda replied that there is a deep secret behind this, but because it is a pretty adult part of the story, he could not tell the reader more.
* Doflamingo is the very first Paramythia-type Devil Fruit User who revealed that he had his Devil Fruit power awakened.