Kaido

**Kaido** (カイドウ, *Kaidō*), also known as "**Kaido, The King of the Beasts**" (百獣の王 カイドウ, *Hyakujū no Ō Kaidō*), is a fictional character and one of the antagonists of the *One Piece* series. He is the captain of the Beasts Pirates and one of the Four Emperors in the New World. He is the third to be mentioned by name and the last one to debut. He and his crew currently occupy Wano Country.

He is also considered to be the "**Strongest Creature in the World**" (最強の生物, *Saikyō no Seibutsu*), due to having an army of 500 Artificial Devil Fruit users in his crew of the Beast Pirates and is greatly feared as he himself cannot die.

He was first referred to by Monkey D. Garp in Water 7 and then directly mentioned by Gecko Moria shortly after he obtained Monkey D. Luffy's shadow; his title of Emperor was revealed just after the Straw Hat Pirates defeated Moria. He is the one who killed Gecko Moria's old crew. He also tried to attack Whitebeard when he tried to save Ace but was stopped by Shanks.

"*Joker! You better hurry up! I don't care if this boring world is destroyed! Let's start the greatest war the world has ever seen!*"

—Kaido.

## Appearance & Biography

*Voice Actor*: Not Known (English), Tesshō Genda (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

Kaido is an abnormally large, extremely muscular man, appearing at least six times the height of Eustass Kid, who stands at 205 cm (6'9"). He has a relatively small face, with yellow bloodshot eyes underneath small eyebrows (similar to those of an Oni), a hooked nose, a long chin, often with thick veins on his forehead, pronounced lines around his nose stemming from his angry sneering, and extremely pronounced crow's feet below his lower eyelid creases. He has very long, thick, swept-back black hair that resembles a mane, a wavy, waist-length fu-manchu mustache, and a spiky goatee along with a pair of long, thick, light horns curved forward on each side of his head. On his right abdomen, he sports a large, cross-shaped scar, and on the left side he has a red and gold tattoo resembling reptilian scales, going from his chest down the front of his left arm to end with a white skull at the lower forearm.

Kaido wears a dark blue feather coat draped on his shoulders, below which is a plain, dark purple, long-sleeved, close-fitting, and open shirt held together by a light rope belt, a shimenawa, below which hang various light tapes, ribbons, and two thick chains attached each to a separate fabric piece on each side. Below that, he wears unspecified dark pants, and slightly above his wrists are spiked bracelets.

* Hair Color: Brown
* Skin Color: Not Known
* Eye Color: Not Known
* Age: Not Known
* Birthday: May 1st
* Height: Not Known
* Weight: Not Known

## Personality

Kaido is a merciless and confident warrior who never misses an opportunity to gain an advantage in war, as evidenced by his plan to attack Whitebeard during the latter's attempt to save Portgaz D. Ace from execution. Kaido seems to harbor a general sense of unconcern for most things, including the very nature of the world and the lives of himself and his subordinates. He apparently desires excitement and chaos, as he is prepared to start the largest war in the world because he felt it was too mundane. This recklessness, coupled with his apparent inability to die, has caused Kaido to make attempting suicide his hobby. However, Kaido seems unusually invested in his goal of creating a formidable all-Zoan crew, to the point where he attempts to drown his sorrows in alcohol after receiving the news that he could no longer buy Zoan Devil Fruits in large quantities.

He is also pitiless and not open to negotiations or excuses, making it unwise to provoke or underestimate him; this is enforced dramatically when Don Quixote Doflamingo, a former Warlord and former World Noble known for his fearless attitude, was very afraid of angering Kaido when he became potentially unable to fulfill his end of their business deal due to Trafalgar D. Water Law holding Caesar Clown hostage. One of his crewmates later stated that Kaido would be very angry once he heard the news of the SMILE Factory's destruction. This unreasonable attitude caused a group of Kaido's subordinates including X. Drake to attempt to deliver the news of Doflamingo's defeat to the Emperor from a distance rather than approaching him in person. Kaido also has an immense interest in Raftel, having taken a Road Ponecliff under his ownership and also went to brutal extends of threatening Kozuki Oden for his knowledge and ruthlessly hunting down his three retainers Kin'emon, Raizo, and Kanjuro.

Kaido is highly confident in his power and considers himself to be far above the likes of Supernovas, referring to their actions as "little pirate games", even refusing to take the Straw Hat Pirates and Heart Pirates seriously despite them crippling his SMILE trade; this is reinforced by his belief that defeating a Warlord is nothing to be impressed with and his dismissal of Don Quixote Doflamingo as being weak.

Kaido is a very heavy drinker and, while drunk, his mood changes erratically, such as when he quickly went from being melancholic over his inability to increase the number of his Gifters and fulfill his dream of having a crew consisting of only Devil Fruit users to becoming angry and violent, brutally beating his subordinates and cursing Luffy and Law.

Kaido has also shown to be extremely cruel even towards children. After he brutally murdered Kozuki Oden, he viciously insulted Oden right in front of his son Momonosuke, ruthlessly adding mockery to Momonosuke's sorrow and hopelessness.

Like other people, Kaido has a unique laughing style: "Worororo" (ウオロロロ, *Uorororo*).

## Relationships

### Friends/Allies

* Beasts Pirates
	+ Jack
	+ Scotch
* X. Drake
* Don Quixote Doflamingo
* Caesar Clown
* Scratchmen Apoo
* Shogun of Wano Country

### Enemies

* Ninja-Pirate-Mink-Samurai Alliance
	+ Heart Pirates
		- Trafalgar D. Water Law
	+ Straw Hat Pirates
		- Monkey D. Luffy

## Abilities and Powers

"*People often say "If it's one-on-one, Kaido will win." On land, sea, and air... among all living things, he is a pirate who is known as the "strongest creature"!!!*"

—Ending narration of Kaido's introduction.
As one of the Four Emperors, Kaido is indeed among the strongest pirates alive, renowned as the "Strongest Creature in the World". He attempted to take Whitebeard's life, something few would dare, and subsequently clashed with Shanks. When Gecko Moria was in his prime, Kaido fought him and emerged victorious, having killed his entire crew. The Five Elder Stars mentioned Kaido as one of the few people able to stop Blackbeard. His strength was also recognized by his fellow Emperor Big Mam, who could not fathom the idea of Monkey D. Luffy defeating him.

Additionally, Trafalgar Law stated Kaido to be able to easily kill Don Quixote Doflamingo, a world-famous and extremely powerful pirate in his own right. Law speculated that even with an alliance with the Straw Hats, their chance of defeating Kaido is only about 30%, although the statement is questionable, seeing as at that time Law was not serious about fighting him. Kaido in fact defeated another member of the Worst Generation, Eustass Kid, whose bounty is 470,000,000 Berries, with apparent ease, and refused to take Law and Luffy's alliance seriously regardless of what they accomplished, due to viewing the defeat of a Warlord as being nothing special.

Similar to the other Four Emperors, Kaido has many underlings and other pirates allied with him and is able to claim self-governing islands as his own territories. With Caesar and Doflamingo as his associates, Kaido has created an army of over 500 Artificial Zoan-type Devil Fruit users, his Gifters.

### Physical Abilities

Befitting his bulk, Kaido has tremendous physical strength, and is capable of swinging his weapon hard enough to send a normal-sized person flying into the distance in one blow. He once sunk nine enormous prison ships singlehandedly.

Perhaps the greatest sign of Kaido's strength is his apparent inability to die due to his tremendous toughness and durability. He has been caught and tortured 18 times, and people as powerful as the Navy and other Four Emperors have attempted to execute him 40 times only to fail as Kaido survived every single attempt because every single execution weapon broke when being used on him. Most notably, Kaido has jumped from 10,000 meters from the sky onto the ground, creating a massive shockwave strong enough to sink a large ship nearby, and emerged only with a headache; it has even become a hobby for him to attempt suicide, only for it to fail.

### Weapons

Kaido wields (wih a single hand) a giant, metallic kanabō fitting for his size. It is sharply, irregularly spiked and has a round, bulgy striking end portion tapering toward the spike-free handle portion, which is tipped with a large ring. In conjunction with his immense strength, Kaido can use it to smash adversaries over vast distances.

## History

### Past

Not much is known about his earlier life, but sometime when he became a pirate, he had been defeated seven times and was captured eighteen times by the Navy and the other Four Emperors, causing him to live as a criminal. During those captures, Kaido was repeatedly tortured and given the death sentence forty times. However, no execution device was effective on him, and Kaido managed to sink nine massive prison ships.

At one point in his life, he fought with Warlord, Gecko Moria and defeated him in the New World; though the details of the battle are unknown, Moria lost his entire crew.

Kaido also managed to gain possession of a Road Poneglyph, one of the four Ponecliffs that could reveal the location of Raftel when deciphered.

Sometime within the last four years, he began collaborating with the Warlord Don Quixote Doflamingo and the rogue Marine scientist Caesar Clown to create an army of artificial Zoan Devil Fruit users, via SMILE.

## Synopsis

### Summit War Saga

#### Navyford Arc

When Whitebeard attempted to save Ace from his execution at Navyford, Kaido tried to attack him. However, Shanks intercepted Kaido before he could reach Whitebeard. It is unknown how their encounter ended, but Shanks arrived unscathed at Navyford by the end of the war.

### During the Timeskip

Sometime during or shortly after the timeskip, Kaido and the shogun of Wano Country executed Kozuki Oden and pursued his son and retainers in order to interrogate them about a secret Oden knew about Raftel. He told Momonosuke that his father was a foolish lord and killed his mother in addition to his father.

### Dressrosa Saga

#### Dressrosa Arc

Kaido went up to Ballon Terminal, where he encountered Urouge, who learned of his intention to attempt suicide and allowed him to proceed. Kaido jumped off the Sky Island and landed 10,000 meters below on the Kid Pirates' base. However, he only received a minor headache and found himself face-to-face with the Kid, On Air, and Hawkins alliance. After cursing Whitebeard for having been able to die, Kaido yelled that Doflamingo needed to make preparations for battle before promising to start a massive war due to the world boring him.

### Four Emperor Saga

#### Zou Arc

After their encounter, Kaido formed an alliance with Scratchmen Apoo and badly defeated Eustass Kid, placing him in a cell. After Jack's defeat, Apoo contacted Kaido in his fortress, revealing that they had lost all contact with Jack's fleet after they went to attack Zou for a second time.

After learning that Jack's attempt to rescue Doflamingo failed, Kaido was enraged at not being able to acquire any more SMILEs, which meant he could not gain any more Gifters. As he drowned his sorrows in alcohol, Kaido's despair turned to rage when his subordinates mentioned Monkey D. Luffy and Trafalgar Law, causing him to smash one out of the building with his mace. Kaido angrily stated that the two Supernovas were nowhere near him in power, pointing to the defeated Eustass Kid as an example.

## Battles

### Canon

* Kaido vs. Gecko Moria's first crew (unseen)
* Beasts Pirates vs. Red-Haired Pirates (unseen)
* Kaido vs. Eustass Kid (unseen)

## Translation and Dub Issues

Kaido's epithet, *Hyakujū* (百獣), literally translates to "Hundred Beasts". However, in Japanese, its meaning is somewhat closer to something along the lines of "all kinds of beasts."

## Notes & Trivia

* As with Charlotte Linling, Kaido's silhouette from Monkey D. Garp's explanation greatly differs from when he made his first appearance. He was originally portrayed as having a wide face, a pointy beak-like nose, and a sinister grin when shown in the silhouette. However, Kaido's final design featured some continuity with the original, as he retains a similar shaped nose and brow upon his reveal.
* In Japanese culture, the type of rope Kaido wears as a belt, shimenawa, is used to denote that the area within it is important or sacred.
* Kaido seems to be heavilly inspired by Oni of Japanese mythology. Common traits include horns, a massive stature, and use of a kanabō club as a primary weapon.
* The episode of Kaido's physical anime debut aired on the 1st of May, Kaido's birthday.
* In the anime, the color palette of Kaido's dragon scale tattoo is very similar to the coloration of Doflamingo and Caesar Clown's SMILE.
* Kaido's name may be based on the Japanese liquor, kaidou (海童).