Magellan

**Magellan** (マゼラン, *Mazeran*), is a both fictional character and antagonist of the *One Piece* series. He is the vice warden of the World Government's underwater prison, Impel Down.

While he was the chief warden, it was thought that Portgaz D. Ace was being held in the prison. Monkey D. Luffy first encountered Magellan during his quest to rescue Ace before reuniting with his crew. When it seemed that Luffy has the advantage, he unexpectedly touched Magellan's poison and was imprisoned.

Later, the entirety of the prison staged a massive breakout. Luffy fought the warden in a rematch at the prison's entrance, this time with the aid of Galdino's strong wax. In the end, Magellan was defeated. However, the warden tried one last time to stop the escapes, only meeting resistance from one of Luffy's enemies turned friends, Bentham. For his failures to stop the jail's one and only mass-breakout two years later, Magellan was replaced by Hannyabal and demoted to Vice Warden.

He was the main antagonist during the *Impel Down Arc*.

"*Never forget that I have both the power and the authority to execute you all right now!*"

—Magellan.

## Appearance & Biography

*Voice Actor*: Jeremy Inman (English), Mitsuaki Hoshino (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

Magellan is a large man, about three times the height of a normal human. He has a face that resembles a mandrill, with very sharp teeth and a thick beard. His fingers closely resemble those of the Blue Gorillas.

#### The Young Past Days

When he was a young child, he was chubby and his horns were much smaller. He had hairy arms and his fingernails were painted black. He had a light colored long sleeve shirt with a three headed dragon on it along with light colored shorts and black shoes. He is depicted as watering some flowers. However, they die due to the poison oozing off his arm, showing that he already had his Devil Fruit power as a child.

Twenty years ago, while Magellan was still the vice-warden, he had the same attire as he did today, with the exception of the uniform being tan instead of black, and a green shirt.

#### Pre-Timeskip

He wears bat wings and horn-like ornaments on his head, the latter of which he can pull out and use as weapons. Underneath those horns, he has short black twintail-styled hair. Overall, Magellan resembles a devil. While most guards wear a white-colored uniform, Magellan wears a black-colored suit with a red shirt underneath. His suit features more buttons than those of his subordinates. Draped over his right shoulder is a piece of rope. He wears what appears to be the standard cap of Impel Down workers.

#### Post-Timeskip

After the timeskip, Magellan still wears the same attire as two years ago. He has gained scars on the left side of his face which cover his cheek and eye. Also, his left wing and his left horn are broken and have been repaired with sheet metal. All these scars and new designs on his appearance are very likely from the near death experience he gained from the level 6 inmates escaping.

* Hair Color: Black
* Skin Color: Not Known
* Eye Color: Black
* Age: Not Known
* Birthday: October 9th
* Height: Not Known
* Weight: Not Known

## Personality

"*We let a single intruder slip through our defenses... and look where we've ended up!!!*"

—Magellan complaining about the loss of security.
Magellan's biggest quirk is his severe diarrhea brought upon by his frequent consumption of poisoned food. His Devil Fruit ability gives him immunity from actually being poisoned, but it does not spare him from diarrhea. As a result, he spends approximately ten hours each day in the bathroom relieving himself and eight hours sleeping; even after suffering such conditions multiple times, he still insists on eating poisoned food. It has been hinted that he is actually agoraphobic and enjoys dark, enclosed spaces.

Though he only performs roughly four hours of duty per day as Warden of Impel Down, he still takes his role quite seriously and does not tolerate the prisoners' bad behavior. As he has permission to execute any one of them he sees fit, he shows no hesitation to drench them in his **Hydra's** lethal poison, when insulted by prisoners as seen with what happened on Level 6.

Magellan also takes great pride in keeping Impel Down's reputation of being impenetrable and inescapable, and felt personally insulted when Monkey D. Luffy became the first to stain that record since Shiki 20 years ago. Despite his demotion he is still considered the most reliable man of Impel Down.

Even when he was in a near death state Magellan wanted to take responsibility for the Level 6 convicts. Magellan's pride with Impel Down led him to reject the help of the Navy and any other outsiders, and instead took a risk and released Shiryu to assist, which turned out to be a critical mistake that nearly cost Magellan his life.

Magellan seems to find it amusing whenever someone he does not particularly like gets poisoned or suffocated by his powers, evident when he was seen chuckling at Hannyabal after he sighed a poisonous mist at the latter's direction. While he also does not tolerate Hannyabal's poisonous (the actual term used is punned with the word distant) comments he himself is prone to use them against himself. It is also shown that he is not as emotionally stern as Hannyabal, as he clearly went head over heels with and easily pursuaded by Boa Hancock, while the vice warden remained focus and serious with the crisis they were having. Despite the silly aspects of himself, he is an extremely serious combatant, speaking little and never toying with his opponent. His ruthlessness applies not only to the prisoners, but also to his own men as well, as seen when he was berating a guard who was accidentally poisoned by his **Hydra**.

He will also not tolerate any of his own men who abuse their power, as he dismissed Shiryu for killing prisoners for fun and had him jailed in Level 6, this intolerance renders Magellan unable to forgive, as even though he accepted Shiryu's assistance, he only postponed the death sentence, rather than retracting it.

## Relationships

### Enemies

* Basil Hawkins
* Straw Hat Pirates
	+ Monkey D. Luffy

## Abilities and Powers

As the former warden of Impel Down, Magellan had full control of the prison. However, after the timeskip, with Hannyabal now the warden and Magellan having been demoted to vice warden, his control of the prison is second to Hannyabal. According to Mr. 2 Bon Clay, Magellan is known to silence even the most ultimate of prisoners. Indeed that all the prisoners are afraid of him. Even two former Seven Warlords of the Sea, Crocodile and Jimbei, were concerned of Magellan's upcoming arrival.

He has both the authority and the ability to execute any of the prisoners within Impel Down as he sees fit. Despite being occupied by intense diarrhea for 10 hours per day, sleeping for another 8 and recessing for another 2, Magellan is still capable of easily coordinating the defense squads of Impel Down in case of a potential break-in or break-out, as well as being fully aware of all the mechanics of the prison's traps. However, since Magellan's work hours are limited by his diarrhea, Shiryu was considered more dangerous.

He also easily dispatched Blackbeard and his crew when they first met. However, according to Shiryu, this happened because they underestimated Magellan's strength. Magellan was later badly beaten by the Blackbeard Pirates.

### Physical Abilities

Even without his Devil Fruit powers, Magellan is far stronger than normal humans, as he easily blocked a wax-covered Gum-Gum Champion Stamp with one arm, as well as pillars of stone hurled at him by Inazuma with both of his forearms. He also pinned down Ace with just one arm when the young pirate attempted to get away.

He is also incredibly resilient, as he took many of Monkey D. Luffy's Gear Second attacks straight on (an impressive feat as Luffy's Gear Second attacks are capable of breaking through strong defenses quite easily) and managed to stand back up to continue fighting with no lasting injuries, as well as receiving multiple shots of cannon fire without any resulting injuries.

Magellan is relatively unfazed by the boiling temperatures of Levels 3 and 4 or the sub-zero temperatures of Level 5 in Impel Down.

### Devil Fruit

*Main article:* *Venom-Venom Fruit*
The **Venom-Venom Fruit** (ドクドクの実, *Doku Doku no Mi*; literally meaning "Fruit of the Poison-Poison"), a very powerful Paramythia-type Devil Fruit power, that eaten by Magellan, grants him the allows him to generate and manipulate poison, making him a **Poison Human** (毒人間, *Doku Ningen*). Magellan can produce these poisons in different strengths and forms, such as breathing simple and minor toxic gas to put subordinates in place, blowing tear gas-bubbles to stun the opponents, or create an extremely fatal liquid poison. His most infamous technique, one that is well-known to most prisoners within the walls of Impel Down, is a poisonus, winged, three-headed dragon called the **Hydra**; the attack is composed of corrosive liquid poison that causes lethal nerve-paralysis and melts the victims at the same time. His Hydra also had the power to easily defeat the Blackbeard Pirates with little to no effort, although Shiryu stated that the crew had severely underestimated Magellan.

Magellan usually creates a thick layer of liquid poison around him as armor, and including his high endurance, he has an advantage against close-quarter combatants who rely on physical contact. Because of the fruit's powers, Magellan is immune to all types of poison. Poison gives food flavor for him, but while he is immune to the poison, the food instead afflicts him with diarrhea. This is a big problem for him since he loves to eat poisoned food. The effects of the Wax-Wax Fruit seem to neutralize Magellan's poison, as seen when Mr. 3 blocked an attack with his Candle Wall. Another example is when Mr. 3 fashioned wax armor for Luffy, allowing Luffy to attack Magellan without poisoning himself.

This proved to be rather short-lived, however, as a more powerful version of Magellan's poison, **Kinjite**, which forms the **Venom Demon: Hell's Judgment**, was used and dissolved the wax armor Luffy was wearing. Venom Demon: Hell's Judgment appears as a gigantic, skeletal-looking demonic beast, and Magellan has stated that the poison used is powerful enough to "destroy Impel Down itself." Not only is the poison more lethal and caustic than Hydra, but it also spreads out from any surface it touches, literally "infecting" everything, including stone. It is unknown whether there is any antidote for this poison, but seeing that it instantly kills the afflicted once the infection completely covers the victim, no such antidote may exist.

#### Techniques

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

* **Hydra** (ヒドラ, *Hidora*): Magellan's signature technique. After producing vast amounts of liquid poison from his body, Magellan is able manipulate it in the form of a three-headed dragon. It seems that it can even separate itself from Magellan to pursue escaping foes. Alternatively, he would produce a dragon head of liquid poison from his arm which would extend to attack a single opponent. With this creature, Magellan is able to engulf any opponent in deadly poison. The level of toxicity is so overwhelming that it actually causes the unfortunate victim to dissolve. The poison acts on the nervous system, paralyzing the victim and making them suffer excruciating pain until they die. This technique seems to be very infamous within the walls of Impel Down, as the prisoners all know and fear its name and properties. Fire seems to neutralize the liquid the Hydra is made of and prevents it a bit from completely reforming. Should one of its heads be burned, it does not completely recover even when Magellan retracts the creature back into his body. This concept is similar to weakness of the mythological Hydra for which the technique is named after. While the Hydra could regrow a severed head, it could not if the base of the head was burned. This was first seen being used on a prisoner. In the anime, this attack appears to be self aware, distracted by Mr. 2 posing as Luffy (or simply the head following Magellan's will).

* **Chloroform Ball** (クロロホルムボール, *Kurorohorumu Bōru*): After chewing and blowing up some of his poison like bubble gum, Magellan spits the bubble at high speed towards an enemy. Upon impact, the bubble explodes and releases a cloud of poison gas. The gas acts like tear gas and causes things like, tear eyes, severe sneezing, and immobilizes the enemy and anyone else near the vicinity. The name of the technique comes from *chloro*benzalmalononitrile, or CS tear gas. This was first seen being used against Luffy.

* **Venom Road** (ベノムロード, *Benomu Rōdo*): While producing his **Hydra**, Magellan completely engulfs himself in the liquid poison. While engulfed, Magellan quickly travels within one of his Hydra's necks and out of its mouth to where he would want to go. Magellan has also used this for vertical travel as well. This was first seen while battling against Luffy. This is similar to Admiral Kizaru's "Sacred Yata Mirror", albeit at a much slower speed in comparison.

* **Venom Blowfish** (毒フグ, *Doku Fugu*; literally translated as "Poison Blowfish"): Taking a deep breath, Magellan inflates his body slightly in order to withstand a physical blow. This is apparently strong enough to withstand against a Gear Second attack. While in this stance, Magellan can blow poisonous liquid bubbles with similar properties to the **Hydra**. This technique is named after the Poison Blowfish and its defensive ability against predators. Its principle is similar to Luffy's **Gum-Gum Balloon** technique. The name of this attack is a pun as "Fugu" has different meanings as "emergency" or "deformation" as well as "pufferfish". This was first seen being used against Luffy. In the anime, Magellan did not inflate his body like a balloon for defensive purposes, but instead just shot poisonous liquid bullets at his opponent.

* **Venom Cloud** (毒・雲, *Doku Gumo*; literally meaning "Poison Cloud"): Breathing out large amounts of his poisonous breath, Magellan creates a fog-like cover in an area. This poisonous fog not only blurs the sight of any opponent caught within in, but also slowly weakens them as well, by gradually robbing away their strength, eyesight, and hearing. This attack's name contains a pun since *Gumo* can also mean "Spider" and when first released the shape of the cloud resembles a spider. This was first seen being used against Luffy. In the anime, Magellan claims that the fog is a part of him, and that it is alive, supported when Luffy blew the fog away, it simply reformed around him.

* **Venom Demon! Hell's Judgment** (ベノムデーモン 地獄の審判, *Benomu Dēmon Jigoku no Shinpan*; literally meaning "Poisonous Giant Soldier: Hell's Judgment"): Magellan's ultimate attack. He produces an enormous amount of liquid red poison, that he calls **Kinjite** (禁じ手, *Kinjite*; literally meaning "Forbidden Hand"), and, from it, he forms into a massive devil-like entity that mimics his every movement, with its head and hands resemble those of **Magellan's**. The color of this poison liquid is crimson-colored and releases a noxious smoke to go along with it. The poison made from Hell's Judgment is so toxic that it affects even non-organic objects, with the poison spreading like a disease over everything that makes contact with it, even if not directly, and seems to kill the afflicted victims right away once the infection spreads all the way throughout the body (which seems to be at a very rapid rate). Magellan claimed that this technique is potent enough to destroy all of Impel Down. The name of the poison of the technique , "Kinjite", comes from the specific term for "foul moves" in sumo wrestling. In the anime, Magellan did not explain the powers of the Venom Demon, nor name the Kinjite poison, but its effects were obvious regardless.

## History

### Past

#### Early life

Sometime during his childhood, Magellan ate the Venom-Venom Fruit. This had a rather adverse effect, as a flower he was caring for died from the poison dripping from his body.

#### Shiki's Breakout

Twenty-two years ago, when Shiki escaped from his cell and from the great prison, Magellan (who was still Vice-Warden at the time) went to his cell and was shocked to find that Shiki had severed his own shackled legs to make the breakout possible.

#### Shiliew's Incarceration

Another incident in the past, Magellan was seen confronting his colleague, Chief Jailer Shiryu of the Rain, who was murdering prisoners of Impel Down for sheer pleasure. After Shiryu displayed his apathy towards Magellan's objections and went on a rampage, the Warden decided to strip Shiryu of his position as Chief Guard and sentence him to Level 6 of the very prison that they both guarded until his death sentence.

## Synopsis

### Summit War Saga

#### Post-War Arc

After the end of the war at Navyford, Sengoku was informed that Magellan gained consciousness in an infirmary bed after receiving a severe beating. In spite of being in such bad shape, Magellan claimed to want to take the responsibility, even going as far as to wanting to commit suicide for his failure.

### Merman Island Saga

#### From the Decks of the World

After the time skip, the once feared Magellan has been demoted to vice warden while his former subordinate, Hannyabal, became the warden of Impel Down. Also, Sadi has recently fallen in love with Magellan.

## Battles

### Canon

* Magellan vs. Shiryu (past battle, unseen)
* Magellan vs. Monkey D. Luffy (Level 4)
* Magellan vs. Prisoners rioting in Level 2
* Magellan vs. Blackbeard Pirates (Level 4)
* Magellan vs. Emporio Ivankov (Level 3)
* Magellan vs. Inazuma (Level 2)
* Magellan vs. Monkey D. Luffy, Mr. 3 and prisoners of Impel Down (Level 1)
* Magellan vs. Mr. 2 Bon Clay (unseen)
* Magellan vs. Blackbeard Pirates (unseen)

## Anime and Manga Differences

In episode 446, Hannyabal had a flashback concerning his past. Olive was the first prisoner he dealt with and she successfully had the new jailer lower his guard, knocked him out and stole his clothes. Unfortunately for her, almost right after she donned the uniform and remarked on Hannyabal's naïvety, she was caught by Vice-Warden Magellan, who appeared behind her. Olive was then taken into custody by two guards while she struggled pointlessly.

In the manga, Shiryu wanted to help Magellan and told the jailers to contact Magellan because he wanted to help him. But in the anime, Magellan decided to ask Shiryu to help them. In the manga it does not show Bon Clay blocking Luffy from attacking Magellan, and does not show Bon Clay trying to confuse Magellan with the Clone-Clone Fruit.

## External links

* Diarrhea - Wikipedia article about the condition that Magellan suffers from.
* Devil - Wikipedia article about the Devil.
* Magellan *One Piece Encyclopedia*

## Notes & Trivia

* His name resembles the name of a famous Portuguese maritime explorer Ferdinand Magellan.
* In the anime, the prisoners on Level 6 always like to call Magellan "**Diarrhea Man**" (下痢野郎, *Geri Yarō*; literally translated as "diarrhea rascal" or, more colloquially, "shitty bastard"); the FUNimation sub translation for this term is **Shit Man**. Each is a reference to Magellan's penchant for eating poisoned food and thus suffering from diarrhea for ten hours every day.
* Like Caesar Clown, Magellan's sinister face and goat horns makes him resemble a stereotypical image of a demon; particularly Baphomet, a pagan deity famously depicted as a winged humanoid goat