Capone Bege

**Capone Bege** (カポネ・ベッジ, *Kapone Bejji*), also known by his monkier as "**Gang**" **Bege** (ギャング ベッジ, *Gyang Bejji*), is a fictional character and deuteragonist from the *One Piece* series. He is a mafia don-turned-pirate and the captain of the Firetank Pirates from West Blue. He also one of twelve pirates who are referred to as the "Worst Generation" and one of the heads of the Five Families of the West of the West Blue. During the timeskip, he was arranged to marry Charlotte Chiffon, and the two have a son named Capone Pez; as a result, he and his crew were once working under the Big Mam Pirates where he held a position of being a "rook" combatant. Bege is currently in an alliance with the Straw Hat Pirates in order to overthrow Big Mam.

Sometime during the timeskip, his bounty increased from 138,000,000 berries to 300,000,000 berries. Due to his allegiance and actions, he is the secondary antagonist of the *Zou Arc*.

"*.*"

—Capone Bege.

## Appearance

*Voice Actor*: Kyle Hebert (English), Naoki Tatsuta (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

Bege is a short man with a stocky build whose appearance is somewhat similar to that of a Mafia boss. He sports an oiled-up and slicked-back hairstyle befitting that of a crime don. His facial features have a very stern look to them further accentuated by his rather sharp but hooking beak-like nose. He also has five o'clock stubble on his upper lip. He has been seen smoking a cigar.

#### The Young Past Days

As a child, he had curlier hair and a shorter and rounder head. He wore a shirt and tie. He was also depicted as playing with guns, knives, and a fortress made of blocks, referencing his Devil Fruit abilities.

#### Pre-Timeskip

He wears a black-and-white pinstriped attire, complete with a green scarf around his neck, with the excess tucked inside the suit (making it look like a cravat). Like Crocodile, Bege wears very expensive golden rings with precious stones mounted on them, but because Bege has two hands, all his fingers (including the thumbs) have them. As for his personal effects, he has a pirate captain's coat with red and gold trimming and a western style cowboy hat, both of which he only seems to wear for traveling purposes.

#### Post-Timeskip

After the timeskip, he has a thick goatee and a darker hat. During the Zou Arc, he sported a pair of sunglasses resembling those worn by Pekoms. During the *Whole Cake Island Arc*, Bege wore a rose on the left breast of his suit. Curiously, in spite of being forty before the timeskip, he seems to have grown to at least Sanji's height as seen from their initial confrontation.

* Hair Color: Black
* Skin Color: Not Known
* Eye Color: Black
* Age: 40 (debut), 42 (after timeskip)
* Birthday: January 17th
* Height: 166 cm (5'5½") (debut, after timeskip)
* Weight: Not Known

## Personality

Despite being a notorious pirate, Bege is a refined gentleman of great sophistication. He dresses himself in fine suits, enjoys fine dining even on board his ship at sea, and also has an aesthetic hobby of looking at paintings. He is strongly appalled by things like bad table manners and rudeness. He usually maintains a reserved and calm demeanor. Due to his deep sophistication, Bege is very particular about cleanliness and hygiene as he ordered his men to tell the Straw Hat Pirates to take a bath to clean themselves and even give them new clothes to dress in as he strongly refuses to even talk to people who are dirty despite having an urgent important meeting for an alliance to assassinate a Yonko. He even goes to the trouble of forcing two of his enemies, Brûlée and Diesel, to clean themselves up and dress them in clean clothes.

However, he can be very impatient and ill-tempered and is not at all above injuring others, even his own crew, should they provoke his ire even the slightest as shown when he struck a crew member with a fork without so much as an apology. For so long as he is not agitated, he appears to be a pirate who prefers to avoid making a scene whenever as possible in order to not confront enemies that he might view as troublesome, such as Admiral Kizaru, Sanji, Brook, and the Mink Tribe. An example of this is when he was perfectly willing to meet Monkey D. Luffy, but had no qualms with using violence against the latter if he became angered.

Bege is extremely sadistic and bloodthirsty. He does not crave power himself, but rather aims to destabilize the factions in power and watch the resulting struggle for power for his own entertainment. Everywhere he goes, he takes out the leaders of the groups opposing him in order to achieve this, only caring for his opponents' treasure and the bloodshed he will see from them later. He even decapitates animals simply to entertain himself. His enjoyment of chaos does not exclude that which is caused by someone other than himself, as seen when he grinned widely at the havoc caused by Luffy's duplicates during Big Mam's Tea Party.

Despite his bloodthirsty nature, Bege does have some degree of mercy and self-control. According to Jimbei, while he slaughtered leaders of powerful organizations, he left their subordinates such as mafia members of the other Four of the Five Great Families or pirate crewmates of infamous pirate captains alone and only viciously retaliated when they attempted revenge. Despite his initial enmity towards Luffy for the trouble he caused at Sabaody Archipelago as well as Luffy attempting to punch him for trying to kill Pekoms, Bege readily forgave Luffy after forming their alliance. When his Big Mam assassination plan started to go wrong, Bege only feigned betraying Luffy to avoid suspicion while secretly whispering to Luffy how their plans have started to fail. In fact, when Katakuri ordered Bege to kill Luffy, Bege outright refused and attacked Katakuri without hesitation to stop him from attacking Luffy.

Though he may not always be inclined to fight, Bege is a fearless man who will not hesitate to fight someone should it prove beneficial or necessary, regardless of how strong they are; his Devil Fruit plays a large role in that. When he does engage in battle, he tends to just walk into danger on his own, since he can easily summon numerous subordinates at any time and place to fight on his behalf. It also seems to be for this reason that he appears to view his crew as somewhat expendable, made apparent by the fact he did not seem bothered about smoking them out despite their protests. Bege appears to be very cunning and pragmatic, not being above taking hostages, bluffing, or shooting people in the back in order to accomplish his goals. Because of this, Bege seems to show a boastful side, where he bragged to the Straw Hats that he is also one of the pirates of the Worst Generation like Luffy.

After the timeskip, he and his crew became subordinates of the Big Mam Pirates. Rather than take on someone as powerful as Big Mam in direct combat, Bege submitted himself to her in order to gain opportunities to take her down. There, he sought to ensure that the wedding between Sanji and Pudding happened so that he could assassinate Big Mam. He was willing to silence members of the Big Mam Pirates such as Pekoms in order to ensure the success of his plot.

When he became a father, Bege showed a silly side in front of his son in order to make him laugh.

Bege can show appreciation towards his subordinates or outsiders that he has no hostile relationships with. Bege praised the Straw Hats for bringing Brûlée as her powers can be exploited to further improve their chances of escape after assassinating Big Mam.

Bege outwardly considers empathy towards others to be weakness and cowardliness, unbefitting of pirates. This is most evident when he shot Pekoms in the back after the latter was willing to show mercy to the Straw Hat Pirates in thanks for saving the minks. However, he has shown to deeply care for his family and crew, being willing to risk his own life against Big Mam if it meant protecting the few people that are close to him. When Oven captured Chiffon and used her as a hostage, Bege went to rescue her without hesitation even when his ship was being surrounded by Big Mam's fleet and refused to abandon her when Chiffon begged him to.

## Relationships

### Family

* Charlotte Chiffon (arranged wife)
* Capone Pez (son)

### Neutral

* Caesar Clown
* Pekoms
* Jimbei
* Straw Hat Pirates
	+ Monkey D. Luffy

### Enemies

* World Government
* Navy
* Blackbeard Pirates
	+ Marshall D. Teech
* West Blue Underworld
* Big Mam Pirates
	+ Big Mam

## Abilities and Powers

As captain of his crew and leader of one of the Five Families of the West, Bege has authority over all those under him. He also had great influence and power over the Underworld operations in the West Blue. As a rook combatant within the Big Mam Pirates, he was given the responsibility of being in charge of the Tea Party's security.

Bege has an excellent awareness of his surroundings. After taking Nami and Chopper hostage while bargaining with Sanji and Brook at Zou, he knew that Caesar was hiding nearby.

In addition, Bege has a strong will since he did not lose consciousness when Big Mom released a wave of Conqueror's Haki upon focusing on the broken picture of Mother Carmel, an event which caused many of the people present to faint.

### Physical Abilities

Bege is physically fit. After his plan to assassinate Big Mam failed, he could run at great speed to get away from the Big Mam Pirates who were after them. He also has a strong tolerance to pain, as he could withstand having his body in his Big Father Form being smashed apart by Big Mom while calmly thinking up of a getaway tactic. Shortly after escaping the Whole Cake Chateau, Bege recovered enough to quickly flee despite some bleeding.

### Master Tactician

Bege is a masterful strategist who uses tactics and trickery, rather than direct physical force in battle. Contrary to his fellow pirates of the Worst Generation, who defeat their enemies with immense fighting power, Bege could defeat even infamous pirate captains of the Grand Line with his tactical genius alone. He is a deceptive master of bluffing, as he was able to easily coerce Caesar Clown, a highly crafty and manipulative expert liar in his own right, into surrendering himself with effective death threats. Even before he became a pirate, Bege could eliminate all his rival mafias from their leaders to their vengeful subordinates with tactical ingenuity. In fact, he noted that his failure to assassinate Big Mam was the first plan that ever failed.

To match his tactical prowess, Bege is extremely observant, able to detect potential weakness in powerful enemies and made strategies to exploit their specific weakness. During the Mother Carmel photo incident, Bege was able to perceive how Big Mam's body completely lost its tremendous resilience after someone accidentally dropped the photo of Mother Carmel. Bege even managed to estimate the time gap between dropping the photo and when Big Mam's tantrum started. Bege has incredible understanding of psychological warfare, as he could tell that his assassination plans could still succeed by seeing Katakuri's fearful expression, which Bege correctly deduced that he foresaw a horrifying future.

Bege could also give code names to certain crucial objects such as ear plugs, which he referred to as the Invisible Symphonia System. This allows him to give commands to allies to use it without his plans being foreseen by enemies as shown when Bege immediately ordered the Straw Hat Pirates to put on ear plugs by calling it by the given code name while the surrounding Big Mom Pirates were utterly confused by his words. His main strategy is to use his Devil Fruit abilities to launch ambushes and surprise attacks, which allowed him to swiftly defeat an unsuspecting Pekoms.

Bege could think extremely quickly even in dire times of extreme danger, allowing him to come up with improvised maneuvers and tactics should those he executed initially fail to meet the expected result, as seen when he was quick to devise a getaway tactic to his crew, family, and allies after his "Big Father" form was cornered by the Big Mam Pirates.

### Marksmanship

Bege is an extraordinary master in marksmanship. With a Tommy Gun, Bege could land multiple accurate shots on Katakuri, which caught him off-guard, which is an extremely notable feat as the latter is an extremely skilled master of Observation Haki who could see slightly ahead into the future. From an extremely far distance, Bege managed to fire a shot at Charlotte Oven with pinpoint precision from his ship at sea without hurting Chiffon.

### Devil Fruit

*Main article:* *Castle-Castle Fruit*
The **Castle-Castle Fruit** (シロシロの実, *Shiro Shiro no Mi* ; literally meaning "Fruit of the Castle-Castle") a Paramythia-type Devil Fruit, which was eaten by Bege, allows him to create and maintain a dimensional fortress inside his body, turning him into a "**Castle Human**" (城人間, *Shiro Ningen*). He can house a massive force of subordinates within his body, as well as horses and cannons. He manifests these objects outside his body by first manifesting ports and drawbridges on his person through which his "troops" could come out.

His insides also appear to that of a literal fortress, featuring stone brick rooms as well as drawbridges that can open and close, again putting into question whether Bege creates them at will or that his body truly does function like a fortress and has people run around his body at all times. When the objects and people within him reach a certain distance away from his body, shown by a pinkish layer of an unknown aura centered on Bege's location, they revert to full size as well as their real speed, resulting in large cannon volleys and cavalry seemingly popping out of nowhere from one man.

He could also transform into a gigantic fortress shaped golem with immense defensive power.

#### Techniques

* **Castle Tank** (キャッスルタンク, *Kyassuru Tanku*): Bege manifests tank treads around his leg area, allowing him to move at high speed, similar to Franky's technique. It is unknown if his legs are covered by the treads or transformed into them; the anime shows the latter. This was first used to escape Cat Viper after capturing Sanji and Caesar Clown in his body.

* **Full-Scale Rook!!: The Big Father** (ルーク イン・フォラ・グレーセ ビッグ・ファーザー, *Rūku In Fora Gurēse: Biggu Fāzā*; literally meaning "Castle at Full Size: Big Boss"): By raising his pinky and middle fingers, Bege transforms his entire body into a gigantic, heavily armed and fortified fortress-like golem, towering even the massive Big Mom. The golem has a large number of cannons that can fire from various points in its body. The golem has immense defensive capabilities, and can easily resist cannon fire, and is resilient enough to withstand being smashed apart by an enraged Big Mom, who could easily destroy cities and sink battleships, for a limited period of time. However, it is still Bege's body and any damage done to it still injures him, and should it be destroyed, Bege himself will die and anyone within will be thrown out into the open. This was first used to protect all his allied forces after the assassination attempt on Big Mam failed. *In Voller Größe* is German for "In/At full size".

### Weapons

Bege's internal body contains several cannons which his subordinates can use in order to fire at nearby targets outside their captain's fortress body.

Bege has a spear made of Sea-Prism Stone which he had one of his subordinates use in order to restrain Caesar Clown.

When Bege shot Pekoms on Whole Cake Island, he wielded a flintlock. For use in assassinating the Vinsmoke Family, he and other members of the Big Mom Pirates were given Walkers. As he betrayed the Big Mam Pirates, Bege pulled out a Tommy gun.

When Big Mam started her strange scream, Bege used a KX Launcher in his attempt to assassinate Big Mam.

## History

### Past

Bege grew up in the West Blue, where he became the boss of one of its Five Families of the West. He quickly became infamous due to quickly bringing down rival mafias by going directly for their bosses. However, he only stole money and precious items from the mafias he brought down, being content to watch the struggle for power that would ensue afterwards without gaining any power of his own. Bege accumulated many enemies, but managed to repel all of them with his Devil Fruit powers. He finally grew bored with his dominance and sailed to the Grand Line as a pirate. However, his methods did not change, as he targeted renowned pirate captains while leaving their crews intact.

## Synopsis

### Summit War Saga

#### Sabaody Archipelago Arc

Like the other Supernovas, he entered the Sabaody Archipelago after having traversed one of the Grand Line's seven initial paths. He entered a restaurant in Grove 24 and ate while watching Jewelry Bonney's gluttony, disgusted by her lack of manners. Because this was spoiling his meal, Bege ordered his men to shut her up. One of them objected, warning him that they should not cause an incident that would draw the attention of the Navy Headquarters. In response, Bege attacked him with his fork.

He then witnessed Roronoa Zolo walking in the path of a World Noble, nearly causing the call for an Admiral to the archipelago, if not for the intervention of Bonney. He also noted that even if the Straw Hat Pirates were as crazy as rumors would have it, Zoro was truly insane for drawing his blade against a World Noble.

He then read the latest news that Portgaz D. Ace, Whitebeard's second division commander was to be executed in public, much to his shock as most other Supernovas did.

When he heard how Luffy attacked a World Noble, he ordered his crew to set sail for Merman Island immediately, saying he did not wish to deal with a Navy Admiral. However, he was later surrounded by a horde of Marine soldiers all by himself, but he calmly told them that they have already lost in sheer military force, backing it up by calling forth what was essentially a small army from his body, as well as firing small cannons (which expanded into regular sized cannonballs).

#### Marineford Arc

He watched Ace's execution, which was being broadcasted at Sabaody, meaning that he managed to escape capture by the Marines. When people started to wonder if Whitebeard truly sold out his allies after the broadcast was cut off, Bege remarked that Whitebeard did not become a legend by doing such things.

#### Post-War Arc

After the war ended, he commented that, in an instant, Whitebeard's territorial waters were transformed into a sea of blood, implying that his territories lost their protection and it was only a matter of time before chaos ensues.

Later, while in the New World, he was eating in his ship when it was apparently drawn toward an incredibly large, black object in the sky above him. As the ship shook violently, Bege complained to his crew to steer better. He and his crew screamed out in terror, but could do nothing as they drew nearer to the object.

### During the Timeskip

At some point, Bege and his crew wandered into Big Mam's territory and were defeated. Unlike the other Supernova-led crews who had tried to challenge her authority, the Firetank Pirates chose to ally with her, and Bege decided to join her family by accepting one of her daughters as his wife. They then became subordinates of the Four Emperors. To officially seal the alliance, Bege married Big Mam's 22nd daughter, Charlotte Chiffon. The two later had a son named Capone Pez.

During one of Big Mom's tea parties, the photo of Mother Carmel dropped on the floor. Big Mom responded by giving out a giant shriek that incapacitated everyone in her vicinity. During that moment, Bege noticed that Big Mam scraped her knees and bled.

### Dressrosa Saga

#### Dressrosa Arc

Bege and his crew accompanied the Big Mam Pirates while they chased the Thousand Sunny in the pursuit of Caesar Clown. Much to his and the Big Mam Pirates' shock, the Thousand Sunny group was able to fight back and escape their clutches.

After the downfall of the Don Quixote Pirates, Bege acknowledged Doflamingo's defeat and stated his intention to capture Caesar.

### Four Emperor Saga

#### Zou Arc

Bege and Pekoms arrived on Zou eight days later with the intention of capturing Caesar and bringing Sanji to Big Mam's Tea Party. However, when Pekoms discovered that his homeland had been destroyed and the Straw Hats had saved it, he agreed to spare the Straw Hats in gratitude. However, Bege got annoyed that Pekoms was letting his emotions overrule their mission and used his Devil Fruit powers to shoot the mink in the back.

Bege sent his men out of his body and they captured Sanji's group and Caesar. He took the chained pirates inside his body and gave them an invitation to Big Mom's wedding tea party, at which her 35th daughter, Pudding, would marry Sanji, the third son of the Vinsmoke Family.

A shocked Sanji dropped his cigarette on the ground, and Bege quickly stamped it out. Sanji refused to attend the wedding, but Bege said he did not have a choice as he manipulated his fortress to threaten the Straw Hats, saying that Big Mam's will would be done as his real body moved away from Zou. Eventually, Sanji asked for a paper to write a note to his crew, but he used the opportunity to eject his crewmates from Bege's body. Before Bege and his men could act, Sanji held Caesar hostage, and Bege noticed Cat Viper standing behind him. Cat Viper asked what had happened to Pekoms, and Bege fled Zou with Sanji and Caesar in tow.

## Battles

### Canon

* Firetank Pirates vs. Navy
* Firetank Pirates vs. Big Mam Pirates (unseen)
* Capone Bege, Jimbei, and Pedro vs. Charlotte Katakuri
* Bege vs. Charlotte Lingling, Charlotte Perospero, and Katakuri

## External links

* Al Capone - Wikipedia article on the real life mobster Capone Bege is named after.
* Capone Bege *One Piece Encyclopedia*

## Notes & Trivia

* Bege is the only Super Rookie from the West Blue, the only one to not be voted one of the most popular characters in the 4th Poll of One Piece, and one of the two (along with X. Drake) whose birthday was not revealed in *SBS Volume 60* (it was revealed later on in *SBS Volume 64*).
* In the 6th *popularity poll*, Bage ranked 51st.
* He was the shortest Super Rookie with a height of 166 cm (5'5") prior to the timeskip. In chapter 812, he is shown to now be slightly taller than Sanji, who stands 180 cm (5'11") tall.
* He is the only member of the Worst Generation known to be married and be a parent.
* Bege's rank as "Rook" as part of the Big Mam Pirates is a reference to the Chess piece "Rook", which is also referred to as "Castle", matching his Devil Fruit abilities.
	+ Additionally, the Firetank Pirates' Jolly Roger and ship design resemble a castle.
* Bege being stated to cut off animals' heads may be a reference to *The Godfather*, in which Tom Hagen, the consigliere of the Corleone family coerced a target into doing what the eponymous Godfather wanted by having the head of the target's prized stallion decapitated.

### SBS-Based Trivia

* Bege's surname and name was taken with two criminals. Surname Capone was taken with real-life 1920's american gangster, Alphonse "Al" Capone, and name Bege with English privateer, William le Sauvage.
* Bege also shares his birthday with Al Capone, with them both being born on January 17th.
* Bege's favorite foods are meatballs and tomatoes, and his least favorite food is tomato juice.
* Bege's hobbies are looking at paintings and playing at board games.