Hannyabal

**Hannyabal** (ハンニャバル, *Hannyabaru*), is a fictional character and antagonist of the *One Piece* series. He is the warden of Impel Down. He was first introduced in the *Impel Down Arc* as the Vice Warden and secondary antagonist, but when the massive pirate breakout started in the jail, Hannyabal attempts to stop the escapees, after he was impersonated by Bentham. He attempts to fight Luffy using his double-bladed naginata Kessui believing Ace's execution will make the world better. Suddenly, he is knocked away by Marshall D. Teech.

During the two year timeskip after the massive breakout, Hannyabal was promoted to Magellan's former position as Chief Warden and is now in charge of Impel Down.

"*On behalf of my Warden, I sentence you to death to protect or citizens' future!*"

—Hannyabal.

## Appearance & Biography

*Voice Actor*: Bradford Jackson (English), Tetsuo Gotō (Japanese), Not Known (Italian), Not Known (Spanish), Not Known (German), Not Known (Finnish), Not Known (Korean), Not Known (French), Not Known (Latin American Spanish)

### Appearance

Hannyabal is a large pot bellied man that resembles a cross between a devil and an Egyptian pharaoh. His brow ridge is shaped like horns, his chin is shaped like a pharaoh's false beard.

#### The Young Past Days

As child Hannyabal was rather chubby. He wore nothing but a leaf-skirt and a pair of black sandals. He's depicted as a fire-dancer.

20 years ago, when Shiki escaped the prison, Hannyabal was seen wearing the standard militaristic white uniform that normal guards wear. He still wore the nemes and the bat-like wings, but he also wore a cap over the former.

#### Pre-Timeskip

Now, he goes bare-chested in reference to his great endurance and he wears a nemes with yellow and green stripes, the striped head cloth worn by pharaohs, with his hair coming from inside the nemes. His face in particular is designed in such a way that it looks like a Hannya mask. He wears demon-like wings on his back and also carries a pitch fork around, another common symbol linked to the devil.

After his original nemes had been stolen by Mr. 2 Bon Clay, his new one has a fox figurehead attachment on top that resembles the Egyptian jackal God of Death Anubis and has blue stripes instead of the green stripes. Overall, his appearance is an allegory to the underworld.

#### Post-Timeskip

After the timeskip, he now wears an outfit similar to Magellan, but without the horns that Magellan wears. He also appears to have gained a significant amount of weight.

* Hair Color: Black
* Skin Color: Not Known
* Eye Color: Black
* Age: Not Known
* Birthday: August 28th
* Height: Not Known
* Weight: Not Known

## Personality

He has a habit of saying he owns everything and then having to apologize afterwards for getting ahead of himself. He does this because he is an ambitious person. He also seems to be prone to "Freudian Slips", which often give insight to his previously mentioned, ambitious qualities and his somewhat dark brand of humor. Hannyabal usually tries to show off how tough he really is to the prisoners by going into the Freezing Hell of Level 5 without weapons and almost completely naked, a reason he is admired amongst the guards.

He is emotionally more stern than most characters and can maintain a clear mind even in the presence of Boa Hancock, remaining unaffected by her charms. Despite this, he seems to be easily infatuated with beautiful women, as he let slip of his true ambitions towards Hancock. This might have been because "she wasn't his kind of woman" as later he was easily seduced by Nami (who was really Bentham in disguise) and by Olive in the anime.

Hannyabal's desire to become Warden by eliminating Magellan causes him to willingly jeopardize the security of Impel Down, such as letting prisoners run away, if it means for a chance to pin the blame on his superior. In short, Hannyabal cares more about his own position than the security and welfare of the prison, however he seems only willing to let prisoners escape if they are relatively harmless (ex. Buggy and Mr. 3) and shows genuine concern when powerful prisoners escape, like Crocodile and Jimbei.

Despite his seemingly lack of seriousness most of the time, due to his desire to get Magellan fired, Hannyabal may get serious when the situation gets to the extreme, especially if he risks getting fired too. When this sudden change occurs, it can surprise even people who know him.

Even though his ambition gets the better of him most of the time, those selfish aspects of his disappear completely when he feels the safety of civilians are on the line, such as dangerous prisoners escaping. It turns out that he is a considerate person who became a gaoler to protect the lives of innocents by keeping criminals in prison. Furthermore, he was the only high ranking gaoler who was never shown torturing the inmates or to enjoy doing so.

This other side of his personality is the reason he became a gaoler in the first place, and the level of willpower he displays in this mindset is reminiscent to Luffy himself. Even when completely overwhelmed and near the brink of death, he will force himself to stay conscious and keep dangerous prisoners from escaping even when he barely has any strength left. Almost paralleling Luffy in many of his fights, he will grab onto his opponent limbs while on the ground and nearly beaten, to just barely hold them back before getting up and continuing to fight.

His ideology towards pirates capable of great destruction like Luffy, Jimbei or Crocodile is very different from most naval officers who believe in Absolute Justice. To him, he doesn't damn pirates and revolutionaries as evil or enemies of the World Government. He damns them because most committed grand crimes, and regardless of what those crimes were, they have enough power to create great alarm to the normal citizens of this world. He loathes the glorification of piracy, as those reputations were all created by breaking the law and becoming criminals, including Ace and Luffy. And thus, if powerful criminals are able to escape, the citizens of the world would fall into panic knowing dangerous criminals remained unchecked in the world and can even escape from Impel Down. He is willing to lay down his life even in a losing battle for this belief.

## Relationships

### Enemies

* Straw Hat Pirates
	+ Monkey D. Luffy

## Abilities and Powers

As the current warden of Impel Down, Hannyabal has full control over Impel Down.

Unlike Magellan or the Four Demon Guards, Hannyabal seems to lack a feared reputation for the prisoners to acknowledge, as Buggy and Mr. 3 stated that they had not heard anything about him. However, this was misleading, as he is one of the most powerful enforcers in Impel Down, being more powerful than any of the four Jailer Beasts and second only to Magellan himself. A possible explanation is that he will not fight unless it's an extreme emergency, such as a prisoner from Level 5 or Level 6 trying to escape. If not, he will not move a finger and leave the job to the Jailer Beasts or Magellan. He easily defeated both Buggy and Mr. 3 without a single scratch on him, even after taking a direct hit from Buggy's Muggy Ball (which was enough to severely harm the Demon Guard Minotaurus and annihilate the entire platoon of gaolers guarding the door to Level 3 ). On the other hand, the guards seem to know him to be a powerful fighter and enforcer. Magellan himself claimed that Hannyabal is the only person worthy to be his successor as Chief Warden of Impel Down, and this is later proven when after the two year time-skip Hannyabal was shown to have indeed succeeded Magellan as Chief Warden.

Hannyabal also seems to have a resistance to extreme temperatures, as he is known to walk through the Freezing Hell with nothing more than his loincloth and nemes, as well as tolerating the extreme heat in Level 4 in the very same attire. He is also very resilient to physical strikes, and is capable of withstanding some of Luffy's Gear Second attacks and get back up on his feet.

### Weapons

*Main article:* *Bloodsucker*
**Bloodsucker** (血吸, *Kessui*; literally "Blood Sucker"), a polearm based on a double-bladed naginata (a Japanese halberd) serves as his signature weapon, which he is quite skilled in wielding. With a katana on each side, he is capable of performing a variety of attacks with it, and, most surprisingly, is also able to spin it wildly and create flames to deter any opponent. The fact that he's capable of using with such skill a weapon with two blades, which could potentially injure an inexperienced user, as well as the enemy, is a testament to his swordsmanship.

Weapon-wise, Hannyabal was also seen wielding a pitchfork, like many of his subordinates, but instead has not been seen using that in battle (except in the anime).

#### Techniques

The named techniques that are used by Hannyabal that involve the Weapon are as follows:

* **Hannya Carnival: Inferno Hell Wheel** (ハンニャカーニバル 焦熱地獄車, *Hannya Kānibaru: Shōnetsu Jigoku Guruma*; literally meaning "Hannya Carnival: Blazing Hell Wheel"): Along with fanfare being played by guards alongside him, Hannyabal twirls the sword in such a way that it creates two flaming wheels at his sides. This was first seen used against Monkey D. Luffy.

## History

### Past

#### Shiki's Escape

20 years prior to the start of the current story Shiki made his escape from his holding cell by cutting off his legs. Hannyabal found Shiki sitting on the rafters of Level 6 asking him if he had seen Shiki's swords. A shocked Hannyabal then shouted for help from Magellan (then only the vice-warden), but not before shouting he wanted a promotion.

## Synopsis

### Merman Island Saga

#### From the Decks of the World

After the timeskip, it is shown that Hannyabal has finally achieved his dream of becoming the warden of Impel Down, though he appears to have gained some weight.

## Battles

### Canon

* Hannyabal and Impel Down Guards vs. Buggy and Galdino
* Hannyabal and Impel Down Guards vs. Bentham
* Hannyabal vs. Monkey D. Luffy (interrupted by Marshall D. Teech)

### Non-Canon

* Hannyabal vs. Bentham (disguised as Nami)

## Anime and Manga Differences

In an anime flashback, it was stated that twenty years ago was about the time Hannyabal joined the prison, and the first prisoner he had to deal with was Olive, who seduced him to lower his guard, and then tied him up and stole his clothing, for escape, and would have succeeded if not for Magellan interfering. Magellan then gave him a speech on how every single guard is important for the security of the prison.

In the anime, when he adorned his new fox-headed nemes he commented that this one was supposed to be for when he became warden.

## Translation and Dub Issues

While some translations may use "Hannibal" as the English spelling for his name, this is wrong. The name Hannibal in Japanese would be written like this: ハンニバル (hannibaru), while Hannyabal's name appears in the manga as ハンニャバル (hannyabaru), a clear combination of both Hannibal and Hannya which is ハンニャ.

## External links

* Hannya - Wikipedia article about Hannya masks in general for which Hannyabal's face resembles.
* Hannya - Japanese Architecture and Art Net Users System article about Hannya masks in general for which Hannyabal's face resembles.
* Masks of Japan - Article about Japanese masks which include Hannya masks for which Hannyabal's face resembles.
* Pharaoh - Wikipedia article about pharaohs.
* Devil - Wikipedia article about the Devil.
* Naginata - Wikipedia article about Naginata, which is the weapon Hannyabal wields.
* Hannyabal *One Piece Encyclopedia*

## Notes & Trivia

* The fox on his fox-head nemes is drawn in a style that resembles the jackal head of Anubis, an Egyptian god associated with the dead.
* His appearance might be based off the Amarna style in Ancient Egyptian art. It's also a reference, as is his name, to Japanese Hannya masks.
* In the 5th fan poll, Hannyabal ranked 69th making him the most popular of the Impel Down staff.