Fisher Tiger

**Fisher Tiger** (フィッシャー・タイガー, *Fisshā Taigā*), also known by his both monikers as the "**Adventurer**" (冒険家, *Bōkenka*) and "**Hero of Slaves**" (奴隷解放の英雄, *Dorei Kaihō no Eiyū*), is both a fictional character and ally from the *One Piece* series. He was a sea bream merman and the founder and original captain of the Sun Pirates. Tiger's bounty was 230,000,000 Berries.

"*.*"

—Fisher Tiger.

## Appearance

*Voice Actor*: Gabe Kunda (English), Kōji Ishii (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

Tiger, as a sea bream merman, had round eyes, salmon-pink colored skin, a flat nose, wide lips with slight peach fuzz, a thick dark beard and sideburns, and a spiky dorsal fin on the back of his head, sprouting from under his long, curly hair. He was an exceptionally large merman, being at least a full head taller than Jimbei (who is 9'10"), coupled with a broad and muscular physique, with his long legs being quite thin in comparison. The crew's Jolly Roger was on the center of his chest, covering his slave brand.

#### The Young Past Days

When he was younger, he did not have any peach fuzz above his lips, nor did he have his trademark beard, and his hair was shorter and notably straight. He donned what appeared to be a simple A-shirt.

#### To The Days He Died

As an adventurer, he wore a dark olive bandana and a dark-blue T-shirt with a picture on it portraying a pink hippo with its mouth wide-open, which read: “**Frog? No - Hippo**”, paired with plain pants held up by a belt and simple sandals. He was also seen carrying around a large backpack, with many pockets and a coil of rope attached to it.

As the captain of the Sun Pirates, he switched to a camouflage patterned bandanna, paired with a sleeveless, open shirt, which bore the same pattern as his bandanna during his first appearance, but was later changed to a simple striped one, revealing his muscular chest and his crew’s tattoo, and black pants, but retained his sandals. The most visible addition was a captain's coat which hung from his shoulders like a cape, and sported the crew's jolly roger on the back.

* Hair Color: Black
* Skin Color: Salmon-Pink
* Eye Color: Black
* Age: Not Known (Deceased)
* Birthday: November 5th
* Height: Not Known
* Weight: Not Known

## Personality

Tiger is said, by Boa Hancock, to be a reckless person, and very brutal as he was believed to have challenged Marie Jois directly head on and then burned the entire city down to free all merman slaves. However, this was only due to Hancock's first impression, and contrary to it, Tiger could be compassionate and very merciful, and did not approve of senseless violence, as he ordered Jimbei and Arlong not to kill any humans. He was very idealistic, making the principles of liberation and freedom the basics of the Sun Pirates, and worrying that Queen Otohime might have compared him to the bloodthirsty and cruel Arlong, seeing them as similar individuals.

Before he attacked Marie Jois, he appeared to be friendly, greeting Jimbei and Arlong as close friends after returning to Merman Island from an adventure.After the attack, he got more serious, yet remained friendly enough to treat others with respect.

While Queen Otohime wished for interspecies cooperation between mermen and humans, Fisher Tiger, up to the moment of his death, seemingly believed that mermen and humans should remain separate. Even though he hated humans (at least according to Hancock's first impression), he did not discriminate them when it came to slavery, and liberated every one of them during his raid of the holy city. He also did not believe in revenge on the humans for their discrimination, thinking that it would only cause more hatred and resentment. His compassion to humans was further demonstrated when he vowed to take a child who was a former slave back to her hometown, going as far as to mark her with his own jolly roger to lift the burden of slavery off her back. Tiger did smile happily when Koala was reunited with her family, and it was an immensely symbolic final act for a man who had lived such a dualistic life as adventurer, hero, slave and pirate captain, as the town gladly accepted Koala back while condemning Tiger to death and betraying him to the Marines.

There was also a darker side to Tiger's personality, as he claimed that the "demons" residing inside him were the most terrifying ones; a statement which left Jimbei blank, suggesting his crew did not know about this trait of him. This, along with the depths of his personality, were all revealed in his deathbed: after being captured and enslaved by the World Nobles and escaping, he saw the "madness" of humans, and grew to hate them for it. Despite this, he agreed with Otohime's ideology of improving relationships between the two races, and regretted making it difficult with his own actions. He tried to befriend humans, but being fought to the death by the future admirals made him to realize that no matter how much effort he put in, he could never love a human. To this end, he refused a transfusion of human blood due to it being tainted with hatred for mermen. Since he could not accept humans despite trying his hardest, his last hope on changing the interspecies relationship was the next era, such as Koala, who does not know about the hatred, and asked his crew not to reveal the tragedy that befell the Sun Pirates, nor their hatred towards humanity.

## Relationships

### Friends/Allies

* Revolutionary Army
	+ Koala
	+ Hack

### Enemies

* World Government
* Navy
	+ Sakazuki

## Abilities and Powers

Tiger is a legendary figure among mermen, known for his many feats and his amazing will. Without fear of the consequences of challenging the World Nobles and their guards, he then proceeded to rampage across Marie Jois and free all the slaves imprisoned there, including both mermen and humans. Not only did he succeed in performing such an astonishing deed, he also founded and became the captain of the Sun Pirates, the strongest and largest pirate crew composed of mermen to ever roam the Grand Line. It was from such a group that all of the mermen pirate crews in the present day (except the Flying Pirates and the New Fishman Pirates) came from. His notoriety from the events at Marie Jois and his status as the captain of the Sun Pirates eventually earned him a bounty of 230,000,000 berries, an impressive act, considering it was his first bounty. In his younger days, he was able to command the Mermen District with his strength and in the anime, he was also able to beat Arlong and Jimbei (who already has a black belt in Fishman Karate as kid).

Even before achieving his legendary status, he was a famous adventurer in his own right, kept in high regard by the inhabitants of Merman Island, who were more than willing to hear of his numerous adventures. During one of such adventures, Tiger was taken as a slave by the World Nobles, and yet managed to escape, something which prompted him to attack Marie Jois in order to free all the other slaves.

### Leadership

Tiger possess extraordinary charisma and leadership, having managed to form the Sun Pirates, an enormous merman pirate crew, consisting of both former mermen slaves and other mermen who simply joined Tiger solely out of admiration, including Arlong and Jimbei.

### Physical Abilities

Tiger has tremendous strength and fearsome fighting skills. He climbed the Red Line with his bare hands (10,000 meters from the ocean surface) and single-handedly invaded the extremely well-guarded Holy Land of Marie Jois alone and freeing all the slaves by himself. He can break a cannon with just a grip and defeat Kadar, a Navy rear admiral, with just a single kick to the face.

He also possessed immense stamina and endurance. Even after being shot many times from all directions, which would lead to fatal blood loss that resulted in his death, he managed to resist and fight back against the ambushing Navy to the end, a feat which was commented upon by the ones assaulting him.

He is also extremely fast even on dry land. Even when severely injured, he could dash towards an attacking Navy in a moment and send him flying meters away with a punch without the Navy managing to react or shoot him.

### Weapons

During his attack on Marie Jois, he was seen carrying many weapons. He wielded a large saber and a massive pistol. He also had two more sheathed swords by his side and a bazooka-like weapon strapped to his back.

## Synopsis

### Legacy

Respecting their captain's last wish, the crew never revealed the truth to Merman Island (although Jimbei did reveal the truth to Neptune and Otohime via a letter). As such, many believed that Tiger was denied a transfusion due to humans' refusal, when in truth he refused the available blood on board. Arlong, enraged over his captain's death, returned to Foolshout Island in an attempt to murder the ones who betrayed Tiger, and his hatred for humans intensified, ignoring Tiger's last wish of ending the cycle of hatred. When captured by then Vice Admirals Kuzan, Borsalino, and Sakazuki, Arlong lied to the Navy about Tiger being denied a blood transfusion by humans to preserve his honor. Jimbei believed that becoming a Seven Warlords of the Sea and helping human/merman relations was something that Fisher Tiger would have wanted. After Jimbei joined the Government, Arlong was released and parted ways with the Sun Pirates simply because Tiger is no longer among them, and decided to bear the hatred of mermen.

Many mermen seem to look up to Tiger after his selfless efforts at liberating the imprisoned members of his race, so much that Hammond likened Luffy to him since the Straw Hat captain also assaulted a World Noble. The New Merman Pirates in particular thought of Tiger as a hero and the circumstances of his death furthered their hatred towards humans, especially since they do not know the truth behind Tiger's reason of attacking Marie Jois and death. However, the officers did not feel this way, for his death made them "realize" that he *was not* the hero everyone saw him as. Hordy Jones, in particular, heard from Jimbei that Tiger had desired interspecies harmony, which did not stand well with him and his subordinate officers.

Though it resulted in his death, Fisher Tiger's act of returning Koala to her village had a positive effect on Koala, who later went on to join the Revolutionary Army and became the army's assistant Merman Karate instructor.

## Battles

### Canon

* Fisher Tiger vs. Marie Jois
* Sun Pirates vs. Navy (numerous times)
* Fisher Tiger vs. Rear Admiral Kadar
* Sun Pirates vs. Navy (Foolshout Island)
	+ Fisher Tiger vs. Kuzan, Borsalino, and Sakazuki

### Non-Canon

* Fisher Tiger vs. Jimbei, Arlong, and other Merman District citizens

## Translation and Dub Issues

His name comes from ***tai*** (タイ), the Japanese name for sea bream. Hatchan once called him **Boss Tai** (タイのお頭, *Tai no Okashira*) and this is a pun of "**tai with its tail and head**" (鯛の尾頭付き, *tai no okashira-tsuki*), which also means a whole sea bream.

## Notes & Trivia

* Tiger had a really rare blood type which none of his crew members share.
* In China, tigers have always been a fiercely bitter rivals to the dragons. In the original folklore, Queen Otohime's namesake sea-goddess turned into a dragon after giving birth to her son. While Otohime and Tiger both wanted peace and do not seem to be particularly resentful towards each other, their different views on how that peace should be made somewhat mirrors that of their animals: tigers are usually depicted as lunging ahead to bulldoze through their opponents while dragons are revered for fighting using their patience and wisdom.
* Like their animals, both Fisher *Tiger* and the Celestial *Dragons* are considered "noble" for different reasons (freeing slaves and ancestry respectively). Ironically, while Tiger's boldness mirrors that of his animal's, the World Nobles seem to be far from wise or patient. And while the eternal battle between the animals represents balance and Tiger's actions threw Marie Jois into disarray, it can be argued that it was already in turmoil by the World Nobles' slavery, prejudice and arrogance; Tiger set it straight by objectively freeing their slaves and bringing about one of the greatest challenges to their authority.