Monkey D. Luffy

**Monkey D. Luffy** is the captain and founder of the Straw Hat Pirates, wherein he is one of the crew's top four fighters dubbed the "**Monster Quartet**", one of "The Worst Generation" (originally "The Eleven Supernovas"), and a rookie pirate from the East Blue. He is the son of Monkey D. Dragon, grandson of Monkey D. Garp, foster son of Curly Dadan, sworn brother of late "Fire Fist" Portgas D. Ace and Revolutionary chief of staff Sabo, and older half-brother of Monkey D. Aika. His lifelong dream is to find One Piece and become the King of the Pirates, who he believes has the most freedom in the world and its seas. He is also the main protagonist of the *One Piece* series.

## Statistics

* **Name**: Monkey D. Luffy, Straw Hat
* **Origin**: One Piece
* **Gender**: Male
* **Age**: 19
* **Birthday**: May 5 (Children's Day)
* **Classification**: Human, Straw Hat Pirates Captain, Supernova, Paramecia Devil Fruit User
* **Blood Type**: F, B
* **Height**: 174 cm (5'8.5")
* **Weight**: 62.6 kg (138 lbs)
* **Skin Color**: Light Tan
* **Eye Color**: Black
* **Hair Color**: Black
* **Relatives**: Monkey D. Dragon (Father), Monkey D. Star (Mother, deceased), Monkey D. Garp (Grandfather), Portgas D. Ace (Adoptive older brother, deceased), Sabo (Adoptive older brother), Curly Dadan (Guardian), Kamiya (Half-mother, deceased), Monkey D. Aika (Younger half-sister)
* **Alignment**: Good
* **Status**: Active
* **Class**: **S-Class**
* **Notable Attacks/Techniques**: Gum-Gum Pistol, Gum-Gum Bullet, Gum-Gum Bazooka, Gum-Gum Rifle, Gum-Gum Gatling, Gum-Gum Stamp, Gum-Gum Whip, Gum-Gum Battle Axe, Gum-Gum Rocket, Gum-Gum Balloon, Gum-Gum Bell, Gum-Gum Snake Shot, Armament: Hardening, Gum-Gum Jet Pistol, Gum-Gum Jet Gatling, Gum-Gum Jet Bazooka, Gum-Gum Jet Stamp, Gum-Gum Jet Bullet, Gum-Gum Red Hawk, Gum-Gum Hawk Gatling, Gum-Gum Eagle Bazooka, Gum-Gum Hawk Rifle, Gum-Gum Giant Pistol, Gum-Gum Elephant Gun, Gum-Gum Grizzly Magnum, Gum-Gum Elephant Gatling, Gum-Gum Kong Gun, Gum-Gum Rhino Schneider, Gum-Gum Culverin, Gum-Gum Double Culverin, Gum-Gum Kong Organ, Gum-Gum Leo Bazooka, Gum-Gum King Kong Gun
* **Voice Actor**: Mayumi Tanaka

## Appearance

Luffy is renowned for his trademark straw hat (from which he gets his nickname "Straw Hat Luffy"), which was lent to him when he was young by the legendary pirate captain, "Red-Haired" Shanks, who in turn received it from Gol D. Roger. Luffy also has a scar with two stitches underneath his left eye (which he earned by stabbing a knife under his eye to show Shanks that he was tough), black eyes, and short, messy black hair. He is also an average tall young man, with a surprisingly well-built, muscular physique, coupled with a slightly thicker neck, more pronounced deltoids, and better-defined chest. He has a large X-shaped scar on his chest, left after being gravely wounded by Akainu following the Battle of Marineford. Above his left pectoral, in between the scar on his chest and his collarbone is a red heart tattoo penetrated by an arrow with a white ribbon wrapped around; Nami's name is on the ribbon in black letters as a sign of his relationship with the Straw Hat navigator.

Luffy's main attire consists of an open, long-sleeved red cardigan with four golden buttons (which shows the **X**-shaped scar covering most of his chest he received by then-Admiral Akainu), a yellow sash tied around his waist, blue knee-length trousers with white cuffs and light-colored sandals.

## Personality

Luffy is carefree, impulsive, exuberant, and enthusiastic about living life to the fullest with great ambitions, having a huge appetite (which in fact makes him a glutton when it comes to food), and satisfying his endless curiosity with a goofy laugh and smile. He often thinks with his stomach and gorges himself to comical levels. Luffy may humorously resort to trickery and honestly ignores anything that doesn't interest him. His childish enthusiasm and attitude may make him seem like a naïve and hopeless fool yet Luffy always keeps his sights set on whatever drives him. He is caring and generally good hearted, but never good at lying, and is unable to see similarities with things with obvious connections. He doesn't allow someone or something getting involved in another person's fight, showing restraint (and sometimes rage) if it even concerns a friend. Knowing the dangers ahead, he is willing to risk his life to reach his goal to become the King of the Pirates, and protect his crew in anyway he can. His willingness to fight for his vision and his innate sense of fairness is what truly breaks many people's first impressions of him. At times, his daring desire to beat and overcome the odds against him earns him undeniable respect from onlookers. He also has a distinctive laugh (*Shishishi*).

He invites several species, such as Chopper, Blizzard and Brook, onto his crew generally for their personality but also because of his instinctual ability to be able to read people. He has even gained a reputation for being extremely reckless, and in some cases, insane, but his comes from trying to help or save others, especially in the face of authority. In fact, Luffy's most defining part of his personality is the ability to make allies out of absolutely anyone (including former enemies, rivals, villains and even Whitebeard himself), which is said by Mihawk to be the most dangerous ability in the world.

Despite being a pirate, Luffy is not without compassion, selflessness and a righteous heart. He despises evil and anyone who abuses others for their own ambition(s), and is merciful to even his enemies despite those enemies having tried to kill him and/or his crew for their own reasons.

As a true lover of adventure, Luffy feels he will never fear death as long he has dreams, trust, and his comrades. He treasures his friends more than his own family, placing absolute faith in them and sacrificing his entire being to keep them safe. Luffy is the glue who binds his motley crew together, as he believes he would never have had started his adventure if he was by himself. He never blames his comrades for their misgivings and accepts them wholeheartedly through thick and thin. Overall, his three dominant traits are his apparent lack of intelligence, his utter fearlessness, and his adventurous spirit.

## Abilities and Equipment

**Gum-Gum Fruit**: A Paramecia-type Devil Fruit that turns the user’s body into rubber, making the user a **Rubber Human**. The fruit’s major strength, as demonstrated by Luffy, is that the person can stretch their body like rubber at will, and makes them almost entirely immune to blunt attacks. The user’s ability to stretch and twist like rubber to extreme lengths not only makes them immune to injuries that originate from such, but it also allows the user to drastically increase the range of what would otherwise be a powerful close range attack, turning it into a devastating mid range attack. A stretched limb can also be used to store potential energy like a stretched spring, increasing the power of an attack. Owing to rubber’s insulating properties, the user is also highly resistant to electrical attacks, such as Eneru's **Rumble-Rumble Fruit**, inhale large amounts of air to generate a big gust of wind, and even withstand great pressure.

* **Gum-Gum Pistol**: Luffy’s signature attack. A standard straight punch, augmented with stretching. This attack can be used from short to long range.
* **Gum-Gum Bazooka**: Luffy stretches both his arms far back, and then hurls them forward, striking his opponent with both simultaneously.
* **Gum-Gum Bullet**: Luffy stretches one arm, far behind him while running, then snaps it back to deliver a short-distance, one-fisted powerful blow to an opponent.
* **Gum-Gum Gatling**: Using his stretching capacity to drastically augment the speed at which he brings his fists back and forth, Luffy launches torrent of consecutive punches at super high speeds. The hits land so fast that dozens of punches appear to connect simultaneously.
* **Gum-Gum Rifle**: Similar to the Gum-Gum Bullet, but Luffy twists his arm around as he stretches it behind him and hits the opponent at close range, putting a spin on them.
* **Gum-Gum Balloon**: A defensive technique wherein Luffy inflates himself rapidly through his mouth, further increasing his resistance to blunt attacks. With his inflated body, Luffy is capable of deflecting projectile attacks back at his attackers.
* **Gum-Gum Stamp**: Luffy stretches his leg out and hits his opponent with the bottom of his foot.
* **Gum-Gum Rocket**: Luffy’s main method of traveling long distances fast. He stretches out one of his arms or both and grabs a handhold, then retracts them, projecting himself high into the air at high speeds, over great distances, or even into an opponent.
* **Gum-Gum Battle Axe**: Luffy stretches one leg high into the air, then brings it crashing down on an opponent or structure, for massive damage, strong enough to destroy large buildings and ships in a single hit.
* **Gum-Gum Whip**: Luffy stretches his leg and kicks in a wide circle, striking multiple foes.
* **Gum-Gum Bell**: Luffy stretches his head back, and then snaps back in a brutal headbutt.
* **Gum-Gum Snake Shot**: Luffy moves his arm in a snake-like fashion and grips the enemy, possibly inflicting piercing damage.

**Gear Second**: Luffy pumps his blood rapidly with his legs to kick start the process which in turn, increases the speed of his blood flow, thus providing more oxygen and nutrients to various parts of his body which makes him faster and much stronger. It uses even more oxygen and energy, hence using up more food and he has to breathe harder. The increase in his metabolism causes him to be hungrier than usual or even a paralytic type effect after a long usage of it. Can be used to achieve a full body effect, or an effect on any single area of his body (e.g. the arm). The techniques in this mode are basically the same as the regular attacks, but greatly augmented by his enhanced attack speed and, consequently, attack power.

* **Gum-Gum Jet Pistol**: By pointing his other hand out to aim at his target, Luffy delivers a powerful, Gum-Gum Pistol so fast that the fist's movement is invisible (which is likely hard to dodge), and it truly seems like he shoots his opponent, except that the resulting impact is not akin to an actual pistol, but to a small hand-held cannon and powerful enough to propel the unlucky recipient several meters away.
* **Gum-Gum Jet Bazooka**: Luffy charges at his opponent at high speed, and delivers an incredibly fast and strong Gum-Gum Bazooka.
	+ **Gum-Gum Eagle Bazooka**: A Haki-enhanced version of **Gum-Gum Jet Bazooka**. Luffy hardens his arms with Armament Haki and stretches them both backwards. The arms then deliver a great impact to the opponent after Luffy blasts them forwards.
* **Gum-Gum Jet Gatling**: Luffy's strongest technique in Gear Second. Like the original Gatling, he unleashes a torrent of punches moving at high-speed so fast, after a volley, they seemingly connect simultaneously. The circles of air bursts from the punches surrounding Luffy, resemble the many barrels of an actual Gatling gun.
	+ **Gum-Gum Hawk Gatling**: A Haki enhanced version of **Gum-Gum Jet Gatling**. Luffy uses Jet Gatling while using Armament Haki on his arms to enhance the power of his punches.
* **Gum-Gum Jet Stamp**: A high-speed Gum-Gum Stamp that is both very fast and powerful.
* **Gum-Gum Jet Bullet**: An extremely fast, close-range punch with very great force. When attacking head-on, the stretching of the original Bullet along with the resulting snapback seem to occur almost simultaneously at once, making it virtually inescapable.
* **Gum-Gum Hawk Rifle**: A Haki enhanced version of **Gum-Gum Rifle** in conjunction with Second Gear. After entering said Gear, Luffy uses Armament Haki to harden his arm. He twists his arm to create a spinning punch and increase the power.
* **Gum-Gum Red Hawk**: Luffy uses his Armament Haki in conjunction with Gear Second to ignite his arm and strike his opponent with great force, creating a fiery explosion upon contact.

**Gear Third**: Luffy pumps air through his bones to make them gigantic. This gives his arm more mass and a larger area to attack with far greater strength. Previously Luffy turned into a chibi form after canceling the technique but after the two year timeskip he no longer shrinks in size. The techniques in this mode are basically the same as the regular attacks, but greatly augmented by his increased mass and power.

* **Gum-Gum Giant Pistol**: Luffy delivers a Gum-Gum Pistol with extreme force due to the larger size of his fist.
	+ **Gum-Gum Elephant Gun**: A Haki-enhanced version of **Gum-Gum Giant Pistol**. After pumping air into his fist to drastically increase its mass, Luffy uses his Armament Haki to harden it (appearing to be significantly harder than his regular Gear Third which has been likened to steel in the sense bullets ricochet off his Gear Third limbs instead of bouncing off), turning his arm black in the process. Luffy then attacks by launching his fist towards his opponent. This attack seems to be more densely pumped with air at the tip, forming a large round ball at his forearm, whilst the rest of his arm remains at the same size, although stretched.
* **Gum-Gum Grizzly Magnum**: After enlarging and imbuing both his arms with Armament Haki and gaining a considerable distance from his opponent, Luffy stretches his arms back and strikes with open palms simultaneously while in the air.
* **Gum-Gum Elephant Gatling**: After enlarging and imbuing both his arms with Armament Haki in a similar manner as Gum-Gum Elephant Gun, Luffy uses his stretching ability to bring his fists forward repeatedly in a blurry, rapid barrage of strong punches that creates the illusion of him having multiple arms.

**Gear Fourth**: In order to activate the technique, Luffy coats his arm in Armament Haki before biting into his forearm. Similar to how he activates Gear Third, he blows an incredible amount of air into his body, but this time he inflates his muscular structure before distributing the air throughout his body, with emphasis on his upper half. Luffy's proportions become warped and his body becomes much larger in size, with his arms, upper torso, and legs coated in Armament Haki. The coating across his torso resemble the wispy ends made from flames, giving it the appearance of tattoos, and he also gains shading around the inner and outer edges of his eyes. Gear Fourth also increases Luffy’s metabolism. Once Gear Fourth reaches its limit, it automatically deactivates and Luffy is left exhausted and unable to use Haki for ten minutes. Even afterwards, Gear Fourth is extremely taxing on Luffy's body and stamina.

* **Boundman**: Luffy's proportions become warped and his body becomes much larger in size, with his arms, upper torso, and legs coated in Busoshoku Haki. In this form, Luffy is continuously emitting steam in this form. As a side-effect, he is incapable of standing still on the ground, and instead constantly bounces on the spot. While Luffy is using Boundman, his physical strength and speed are increased whereas before, Gear Second's lack of strength and Gear Third's lack of speed made them ineffective individually.
	+ **Gum-Gum Kong Gun**: After compressing his fist into his enlarged forearm (and making it look like an actual cannon), Luffy unleashes a devastating short-range punch at his opponent. It was powerful enough to break through Doflamingo's own Haki-enhanced defense and blow the Shichibukai all the way from Dressrosa's palace to the middle of the city.
	+ **Gum-Gum Rhino Schneider**: After compressing both legs into his body, Luffy delivers a double flying kick. It has enough power to send the opponent crashing through dozens of buildings and across a town center.
	+ **Gum-Gum Culverin**: Luffy delivers a punch like a regular **Gum-Gum Pistol**, but if it is dodged, he can redirect his punch an unspecified number of times, without losing momentum, to still land with tremendous force. In addition, this punch does not need to retract back to his body right after being "fired" as the regular Gum-Gum Pistol does. It can sharply change its trajectory multiple times until it hits its desired target.
		- **Gum-Gum Double Culverin**: A dual version of the standard Culverin, Luffy pulls back both arms before punching his opponent with them.
	+ **Gum-Gum Kong Organ:** Luffy fires off several Kong Gun punches in rapid succession. This attack is similar to his **Gum-Gum Gatling**, and seemingly shows Luffy firing off dozens of punches simultaneously.
	+ **Gum-Gum Leo Bazooka**: Luffy winds up his two arms and launches them out with open palms, releasing a blast of air that can send a close ranged target flying at incredible momentum. It is executed very similarly to his Gum-Gum Bazooka.
	+ **Gum-Gum King Kong Gun:**Luffy blows a large amount of air into his arm, drastically increasing its size, before compressing his fist and unleashing a devastating blow. This was first used to defeat Doflamingo, and was powerful enough to break through the Shichibukai's Spider's Web and God Thread techniques simultaneously, as well as send him flying into the city below with enough force to completely level the town and cause the ground to be torn apart.

**Haki**: There are normally two types of Haki regular people can tap into: the Observation Haki which allows individuals to sense the presence of others, and Armament Haki which allows individuals to create an invisible armor around them. There is however a third type of Haki, Conqueror's Haki, that only a few individuals can use. Luffy is one of these people.

* **Armament Haki**: Luffy has displayed a high level of proficiency with Armament Haki. He's capable of covering a large portion of his body with Armament: Hardening on a whim, and at his highest intensity, can cover almost all of his body at once. He has somehow found a way to harmonize the armored defense of Hardening with his rubber-like body, forcing almost all physical force to bounce straight off.
	+ **Armament: Hardening**: This technique somehow uses Armament Haki to drastically harden any part of the user's body. When Luffy uses it, the arm he applies it on becomes black and shiny, much like vulcanized rubber.
* **Observation Haki**: Luffy has displayed some proficiency of Observation Haki, capable of allowing him to sense his opponents even from a distance and dodge attacks faster than him, which comes in handy against tougher opponents, catching them off-guard sometimes.
* **Conqueror's Haki**: Luffy is the standard for proficient Conqueror's Haki usage, at first using it unconsciously before learning how to master it under Rayleigh's instructions. He is capable of generating a massive aura that can cover over several kilometers with such intensity that the air seemingly discharges electricity when coming into contact with any resistance.

**Master Hand-to-Hand Combatant**: Luffy's fighting style consists of adept hand-to-hand combat, supplemented with his physical prowess and the abilities of the Gum-Gum Fruit. Such skill allows him to hold his own against combat specialists like Rob Lucci. Unlike Zoro or Sanji, Luffy's fighting style is completely improvised; it follows no particular code of honor, and so if necessary, he will attack women or animals, hit below the belt, attack his enemies even if they have their backs turned or are otherwise unprepared or unsuspecting, use enemies as human shields and even bite his opponents. While fighting, Luffy has been shown to be highly adept at improvising, and regularly comes up with creative counterattacks and unusual techniques to use against his enemies. This however leads both enemies and allies alike to wonder if Luffy is taking the fight seriously, especially when he comes up with ridiculous and over the top moves (like Crocodile when Luffy became Water Luffy), which prompts Luffy to respond that he's always serious.

* **Six Powers**: A special, superhuman martial arts style primarily used by the members of CP9.
	+ **Soru** (*Shave*): By kicking the ground at least 10 times in the blink of an eye, Luffy propels himself across short distances at enhanced speed.

**Immense Strength**: As captain of the Straw Hat Pirates, Monkey D. Luffy has immense physical strength, and is capable of lifting up large boulders, breaking stone, shattering steel with his bare hands, pushing apart large buildings and shoulder flipping a huge man. Additionally, Luffy has always fought the strongest villain of the entire *One Piece* series (except in the Romance Dawn Arc). Luffy's sheer physical strength and dexterity is a result of his grandfather's unorthodox training methods (such as being thrown into a bottomless ravine, tied to a balloon, thrown into a forest at night, etc.) and he claimed he had a punch as powerful as a pistol even at seven years of age.

* **Enhanced Jaw Strength**: He also possesses extraordinary jaw strength, as seen where he had almost chewed through the metal bars of the cage Buggy put him in; he shattered Jango's steel chakram with his teeth alone. He also ate the cage that Gekko Moriah put him in, and managed to give Rob Lucci a small bite wound, as well as break the steel chain used to bind Nami (in Franky's body) in the Punk Hazard Arc. His greatest feat in this area, however, was that he managed to make Jimbei, who is known to have an extremely high tolerance towards pain, yell out in pain when he bit the fishman's arm.

**Immense Speed and Reflexes**: Luffy also possesses tremendous speed and reflexes to match his strength and endurance. In fact, on more than one occasion, Luffy was able to anticipate moves and counter attacks that would normally be beyond his field of vision due to his sharp reflexes. He is also shown to increase in strength quite dramatically in a short period of time, most noticeably being the fight against Minotaurus, where the first time it took the combined efforts of Mr. 2, Mr. 3, and Buggy just to beat him, but the next time, Luffy defeated him with a single **Gum-Gum Jet Pistol**.

**Enhanced Agility**: Luffy is also shown to be extremely agile to the point where he can perform flips, rolls and dodges. In many fights, Luffy is seen being able to react to foes faster than him, like Kuro, Arlong, Bellamy, and Enel. After learning the CP9's Soru technique to enhance both speed and strength, he became even more so. After the timeskip he has become even faster, being able to dodge attacks even while in Third Gear, and even creating enough friction while running at full speed to set the ground on fire.

**Immense Endurance and Durability**: His endurance and durability is incredible; taking continuous, deadly assaults from powerful opponents that would have killed a normal person easily in most of his fights, yet still being able to stand up and continue fighting effectively.

* **Poison Resistance**: After surviving being poisoned by Magellan, Luffy developed an immunity to most poisons, causing him to be unaffected when Caesar Clown attacked him with poisonous gases.

**Supernatural Survivability**: This willpower even lets him survive far beyond what normal people are capable of, as demonstrated when he was poisoned very far beyond what a human is capable of surviving, only living on despite his critical condition through sheer willpower. This is also shown when he survives through Emporio Ivankov's **Healing Hormones** ability, which even with a slim chance of surviving had not only survived the endeavor, but made a recovery in twenty hours when the normal time for the healing procedure is two days. This was later shown with Basil Hawkins' "fortune telling" ability, as despite doing it multiple times, he could never get Luffy's chances of survival to reach 0.

**Tactical Ingenuity**: He also appears to be intelligent enough to at least understand fundamental concepts, such as rubber being a natural insulator, which might be why he did not bother ducking out of the way of Enel's lightning attacks as it would have been pointless because of his immunity. He also was able to develop new techniques such as "Second Gear" and "Third Gear", using logical concepts and knowledge of rubber and its properties. While easily noticeable as the least strategic member of his own crew, largely due to his tendency to simply barge in head-first into battle (often without any kind of battle plan or even any knowledge of his opponent's abilities), Luffy is a highly adaptive combatant. He is constantly coming up with ways to keep ahead of his foes, either by taking advantage of his own strength and Devil Fruit powers or utilizing the opponent's own strengths (along with their weaknesses) against them. This causes even warriors long considered unbeatable to have trouble keeping up. Also, even if most of the time he acts instinctively, in some cases Luffy has shown to be intelligent enough to give some orders to his crewmates in the wake of making a strategy or simply making things go as he prefers. This usually ends up being an advantage for the crew. When Luffy fights, he relies heavily on his instincts, which, interestingly enough, are mostly correct. Even as early as the Arlong Park Arc, after getting bitten he managed to escape with his arm still in one piece by slamming Arlong's head to loosen his jaw to get it out instead of simply pulling it. He picked out the real Mr. 3 from a bunch of wax look-a-likes on a hunch. He also destroyed Eneru's "**Raigo**" using the gold ball as a conductor, but according to Oda he had no real idea what he was doing and was acting out of instinct. Before even learning Observation Haki, Luffy could easily dodge any attack by relying on his instinct as shown in his battle against Eneru and Rob Lucci.

**Strong Willpower**: His vast strength is only exceeded by his enormous willpower, as demonstrated on several occasions, most noted of all in the Thriller Bark Arc when he manages to take in 100 shadows without passing out, compared to normal humans, who can only take in 2 or 3.

**Charisma**: According to Dracule Mihawk, Luffy has the most dangerous ability in the world: that of turning anyone around him into his allies, including former enemies. Luffy's powerful charisma has earned him many powerful friends and allies in times of need, allowing him to escape the tightest situations. In a conversation between Ace and Vivi, it is shown that Ace is somewhat aware of this ability, as he mentions that Luffy has a strange charm that causes people to gather around him. In fact his charm is great enough that he earned the respect of Whitebeard after talking with him for a few seconds and later on he earned his complete faith to save Ace as Whitebeard ordered his crew and allies to back up Luffy, what more is that he achieve this in one day.

## Weaknesses

Luffy cannot swim and becomes immobilized if more than half of his body is covered up in water.

Armament Haki, Fishman Karate, and Seastone nullifies his Devil Fruit powers and his resistance to blunt impact, thus making him vulnerable like regular people.

Lacks intelligence in education.

Very reckless and obstinate; not bright outside of combat.

Is apparently vulnerable to bladed weaponry.

Excessive usage of Fourth Gear renders Luffy unable to use Haki for 10 minutes.

Fourth Gear greatly increases Luffy's metabolism, making his body burn calories much faster and greatly lowers how long he can remain in combat.