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In fact, one of the reasons why the Whitebeard Pirates would defend Luffy is because he is Ace's beloved brother. Sabo was Ace's good friend and brother from ten years ago.

They had planned to become pirates by saving money to buy a pirate ship, a joint attempt that began five years before Luffy followed Ace to the Gray Terminal and to Sabo. Sabo was one of the two people Ace considered a brother along with Luffy. They performed an informal sakazuki ceremony together to seal their bond as brothers.

When Sabo sacrificed his happiness to save Ace's and Luffy's lives from his father 's wrath, Ace decided to forget Sabo for the moment, thinking that if Sabo would be happy, then he and Luffy should be proud. However, after Sabo was presumably killed at the hands of Saint Jalmack , Ace regretted his previous decision, flew into a rage, and attempted to kill the noble in revenge, but was stopped by Dadan, and later wept at the apparent loss of his brother, despite earlier claiming to Luffy that men should not cry.

Before dying, Ace mentioned Sabo as one of the reasons that ever made him want to live in the first place. Ace had a tattoo on his upper left bicep that spells "A S CE" vertically. The "S" crossed out is a tribute to Sabo as that was his jolly roger. Tragically enough, Sabo survived this event but because he had amnesia, he could not reveal himself to Ace or Luffy.

Ace died without ever knowing that Sabo was alive the entire time. Shortly after Ace's death, Sabo regained his memories and later visited his grave before he went on to inherit his brother's power to carry on his memory. Rouge was Ace's mother, who carried him in her womb for 20 months in order to protect the innocent child from the clutches of the World Government. Just before passing away, Rouge gave him the name Gol D. Roger , contrary to the previous belief that his father was Monkey D.

Before Ace was born, Roger requested Garp to watch over him on his behalf. However, Ace felt that he did not owe him anything, which is why he preferred the name of his mother, who died protecting him. Although Ace resented his father, he brutally beat up anyone who spoke ill of him. To this date, Ace was the one of the few pirates shown to speak ill of Gol D.

Roger, along with Squard , though many unnamed pirates on Level 6 of Impel Down were known to have grudges against the late Pirate King. Prior to Sengoku making it public to the world, Ace knew that Dragon is Luffy's father. Other than that, it is unknown what Ace thought about him and vice-versa. During a talk with Garp, Ace brought up the fact that both he and Luffy share the blood of infamous criminals.

It is also unknown if Dragon knew that Ace was the son of Roger before this fact was made known to the world by Sengoku or if he was aware of his father adopting Ace, though Dragon's closer subordinate Bartholomew Kuma did know. Vice Admiral Garp adopted Ace as a favor to Roger to give Ace a life free of the prejudice of being born from a family of pirates. Though he did come to see Garp as family, he did not approve of his violent behavior towards Luffy.

At one point he warned him to stop abusing Luffy going as so far to call him an "old piece of crap". Garp, who had promised to make fine Marines out of the two brothers, [34] was furious when he discovered that Ace had gone ahead to become a pirate instead. Though respectful of his "grandfather", Ace announced that he and Luffy would never have become Marines even if they want to. He disagreed with Garp and remains grounded on the idea that becoming Marines would not have been possible when both of their fathers were world class criminals.

Garp, in return, showed extreme sadness about Ace's execution, and cried about Ace's choice in a life of piracy and declared Ace as family.

Garp was also willing to kill Admiral Akainu for killing Ace. When Ace was dying, he thanked Garp for loving him and the latter broke down when his grandson finally died.

Curly Dadan , a mountain bandit who was blackmailed by Garp, became the foster mother for Ace and Luffy. Whenever Ace would nearly kill villagers for insulting his heritage, Dadan would get angry at the boy for his actions, to which Ace would snidely remark that he regrets that his victims did not die. Dadan also shows weariness at dealing with Ace, and gives the impression that she would refuse if not for Garp holding her gang's crimes over her head.

However, when the Nobles of Goa burned the Grey Terminal, Dadan led her bandits into the inferno to find Ace, Luffy and Sabo and when Ace refused to back down from confronting Bluejam, Dadan had the bandits take Luffy to safety while she stayed behind to stand beside Ace.

The two really care for each other as Dadan saved Ace from being burned and Ace was willing to steal medicine from town in order to treat Dadan's wounds. When Ace set out to become a pirate, she was sulking when she heard Ace's message that he was grateful to her. Ace seemed to like Dadan, and prior to his death, asked Luffy to tell her goodbye on his behalf and that he misses her.

The Emperor Shanks , was on relatively good terms with Ace, who seemed to greatly respect him primarily for his role in saving his adoptive younger brother, Luffy, from the Lord of the Coast during the incident with Higuma. After setting out to begin his life of piracy, Ace immediately sought out Shanks to meet the man in person and thank him on Luffy's behalf.

Shanks was initially hostile until he learned Ace's reasons, and the two even celebrated their meeting. Shanks showed some concern for Ace upon learning that he was in pursuit of Blackbeard.

He personally sought out Whitebeard to vocally disapprove and attempted to persuade Whitebeard to recall Ace. After the announcement of Ace's execution, it was revealed that Shanks personally intercepted Kaidou , another of the Four Emperors, as the latter attempted to take advantage of the crisis and attack Whitebeard. It is unknown if Shanks ever discovered that Ace was the son of his late captain Gol D. Roger before this fact was made public by Sengoku.

Ace convinces Buggy to join his crew 's party. During his pursuit of Blackbeard , Ace happened across the Big Top while Buggy and his crew were partying. Attracted by the "very strong and sweet scent" of food, Ace boarded the ship unnoticed and proceeded to help himself - Buggy did not notice his presence until, upon hearing Buggy and Alvida say that they were in pursuit of Luffy but had no clue where he was, Ace offered to give them some helpful information.

Ace, being Ace, fell asleep moments later. Though Buggy's crew wanted to capture him, Buggy forbade it, knowing that Whitebeard would not hesitate to take revenge. After Ace woke up, the entire crew apparently enjoyed the rest of his momentary stay. Buggy himself seems to like Ace as after meeting Luffy on Level One, he mentions that Ace, unlike Luffy, happened to be a very swell guy and they were apparently drinking buddies for a while.

Buggy also told Luffy that he was very upset when he heard the news of Ace's scheduled execution. Like so many at the time, Buggy was shocked to see Ace fall to Admiral Akainu. The two dueled for five days until they both collapsed from exhaustion. Despite this scuffle, the two eventually became friends who deeply respected each other. During their time in Impel Down, they were cellmates and Ace asked Jinbe to take care of Luffy after he died, a wish that Jinbe at first refused despite their friendship as Jinbe did not feel like protecting anyone whom he considered to be a stranger.

This changed when he developed respect for Luffy and when Ace truly did die. Ace was on good terms with Luffy's crew after they met in Arabasta. The crew took a liking to Ace and questioned if he and Luffy were related given the former's politeness. Before parting ways, Ace entrusted them to look after Luffy. At Thriller Bark , Franky was excited to see Ace himself.

After the battle at Marineford during the Straw Hats' separation, they were gravely alarmed upon learning of his death. This led to them being deeply concerned about Luffy's well-being given how close they were and he died in front of him before he suffered a mental breakdown. Sometime during his journey, Ace arrived to the Kuri region in Wano Country , where he encountered a young girl named Tama.

They shared a strong bond that inspired Tama to became a Kunoichi. After Ace promised to return to visit her, Tama waited for him despite the terrible living conditions caused by the Beasts Pirates. When Luffy informed her of Ace's death, Tama was deeply upset and refused to believe him.

Yamato had met Ace at some point in the past. Yamato had tried to sail out of Wano with him, but her father's handcuffs kept her prisoner on Onigashima.

In the novel , Ace and Isuka's relationship was similar to Luffy and Smoker's relationship, except on more amicable terms. She attacked Ace and his crew, viewing it as her duty to enforce justice.

When she almost drowned, Ace threw her a life preserver, causing her to change her view about him. She attacked his crew several times since then, but Ace easily dealt with her with no grudges. Isuka then decided to try to get Ace to give up piracy, seeing him as a good person. After Ace stopped Draw's assault, Ace offered her a spot in his crew but she declined and parted ways with him on good terms.

Ace's main enemy was Marshall D. Teach , also known as "Blackbeard". Prior to his betrayal, Ace and Teach were on good terms, with the latter encouraging him to be commander after he declines the position.

Once Teach betrayed Whitebeard, Ace personally chose to hunt down for killing Thatch. However, as Shanks stated, Ace was strong and young, but the fact that he was appointed as Whitebeard's Second Division commander worried Shanks due to "that trust and reputation" getting in the way.

Shanks concluded that Ace was not ready to face Blackbeard, which was confirmed later when Ace confronted him and his crew.

At first, Blackbeard wanted him to join and hunt down Luffy, but Ace declined his offer and the two fought against each other. In the end, Ace was defeated and turned in to the Marines, thus granting Blackbeard the status of Warlord.

Ace meets Smoker in the Spice Bean. They met in Arabasta when Smoker was hunting for Luffy but found Ace instead. He tried to arrest the Whitebeard Commander though both were conveniently sent flying by Luffy.

Smoker soon ignored Ace and went after Luffy, something that caused Ace to intervene on his brother's behalf. Smoker questioned Ace's reason before he was informed they were brothers.

Ace also fought evenly with Smoker for a few moments, who even Luffy has yet to beat. The elements of their Logia Devil Fruits canceled each other out, and neither of them were able to gain the upper hand even though Ace was just trying to gain some time for the Straw Hats to get away.

Roger , desired to execute him but was unable to touch him due to Ace joining Whitebeard's crew. When Blackbeard defeated and turned him in, they seized the chance and made Ace's execution their highest priority.

It appeared that Ace shared a similar fate with Nico Robin and Luffy - his sole existence was a sin to the World Government , being the child of the "world's greatest evil". Admiral Akainu earned Ace's scorn for badmouthing Whitebeard as Ace and Luffy were making their retreat, provoking Ace to turn back and let his chance to escape Marineford slip away. He attacked Akainu in fury over the insult, but discovered that his fire was inferior to that of Akainu's magma.

Akainu was able to burn Ace and eventually kill him. As commander of the 2nd division of the Whitebeard Pirates, Ace had authority over the lower-ranking subordinates. In addition, as one of the top commanders of the Whitebeard Pirates, he was one of the strongest and most highly-regarded pirates on board under Whitebeard himself.

At one point, while being captain of the Spade Pirates, he was even asked to join the Seven Warlords of the Sea but refused. Luffy commented on how he never defeated Ace in a single fight, despite Luffy already having the power of the Gomu Gomu no Mi Ace did not consume the Mera Mera no Mi until after he left: Luffy was surprised by Ace's new power when Ace stopped Smoker from capturing him in Nanohana. Ace was trained by Garp, who had hoped to turn him into a fine Marine, and possibly Dadan, the two of whom were responsible for training Luffy to the level of power he held before becoming a pirate.

Ace also held a fearsome reputation. It was revealed that Ace received an invitation to join the Seven Warlords of the Sea while he was still captain of the Spade Pirates, though he refused the offer, which had subsequently raised his bounty over ,, and attracted even more attention to him across the New World.

According to Sengoku, Ace had especially immense potential, with Ace's own crew noting Ace getting stronger with every fight he has been in. Roger's son. He went on to say that in time, Ace could potentially become the next Pirate King if he continued on, which was the most important reason why the World Government was willing to start a war with Whitebeard. He was also a capable navigator, as he was seen wearing a Log Pose on his left wrist, while traveling from island to island in search of Luffy and Blackbeard on a simple raft.

This also shows he was a skilled tracker. Aside from the powers granted by the Devil Fruit he consumed, Ace possessed immense physical strength and endurance which he attained from the extremely rigorous training in the harsh environment of Mt. Colubo that consisted of him hunting and fighting wild beasts since childhood and traveling in precarious trap-filled locations.

His incredible physical prowess were supplemented by his extraordinary fighting skills. Even in his early childhood, he was able to beat some local thugs who spoke ill of his father "half to death" and during his first meeting with Luffy, he was also shown sitting on top of a huge bull he killed with his staff.

As a child, he could also easily break a giant tree with a single kick. In his childhood, before he acquired the Mera Mera no Mi, Ace was able to beat Luffy in every single sparring match, despite Luffy's untrained Gomu Gomu no Mi abilities. Ace demonstrated his strength during his battle with Blackbeard: he was able to take Blackbeard's punches, which were so powerful that the first made Ace cough up blood and the second nearly broke his neck, and retaliate quickly afterwards.

Van Augur noted that, as expected of the Whitebeard Pirates' 2nd division commander, Ace's basic combat skills were quite formidable even without his Devil Fruit powers. He had shown to fight equally with both Yamato and Jinbe in the past, both being situations where his adversaries used Haki and in addition in Jinbe's case, Fish-Man Karate to nullify Ace's Logia powers.

Ace and Jinbe in particular had nearly killed each other in a fight that lasted for five days straight. Ace then survived a battle with Whitebeard that took place immediately after, showing immense stamina and durability.

As a testament to his stamina and endurance, he was one of the few people to be able to take a "baptizing" in boiling water in Impel Down without flinching, which is considered an impressive feat. Ace ate the Mera Mera no Mi, a Logia -type Devil Fruit that allowed him to create, control, and transform his body into fire.

He could create and unleash massive amounts of fire for large-scale damage, as well as utilize small precision attacks. Later, after his death, it was revealed that Ace's burning fists also had the power to annihilate entire cities. Ace primarily used his flames for a wide variety of offenses. He could shoot fire bullets and spears, release powerful fire cannons, unleash massive waves of fire, and create fire balls, both a single large one for large-scale destruction and multiple small ones that could explode.

His signature attack was transforming his fist into fire and sending it forward as it greatly increased in size, earning him the name "Fire Fist Ace". His flames could also be used defensively, he could create a massive wall of flames to block his opponents, and the heat of his flames could deter his opponents from attacking him for fear of getting burned.

He was also able to stop powerful ice attacks from Aokiji , a Marine Admiral. Ace also had practical uses for his Devil Fruit powers; he would heat up any fish he would find in the seas for his crew when they had no food to eat and he was able to traverse the seas in a one-man boat that was specifically designed for him and propelled with flames from his feet. Ace was one of the very small number of people in the world who could use all three types of Haki.

Ace possessed Haoshoku Haki , which he initially had no conscious control over. He first demonstrated the ability at 10 years of age when he rendered the Bluejam Pirates except for Bluejam unconscious after an outburst of rage.

He was never seen using this Haki apart from in his childhood, save for in video games such as during the activation of his Kizuna Rush in Pirate Warriors 3 and the manga adaptation of the novel. Upon awakening it, he was capable of fighting on equal grounds with Vice Admiral Draw with Busoshoku Haki. Although Ace has never been seen using Kenbunshoku Haki in the main story or the novel, nor has he been confirmed to have it in the databooks, in the manga adaptation of the novel, he was shown to have been trained by Thatch in its usage and uses it in conjunction with his Devil Fruit powers in his duel against Whitebeard.

Ace carries around a knife but is never seen using it. However, in flashbacks of attempts to assassinate Whitebeard, Ace was shown using various weapons, including an axe and a knife. As a child, he used a long bo staff made from pipe as a weapon. When Ace first meets Luffy's crew, he tosses them a piece of paper and leaves. However, in the anime, his time with the Straw Hats was extended and he journeys with them for a while.

During the journey though, Ace's bead necklace kept appearing and disappearing in-between scene changes, most likely due to mistakes from the animators. In the manga, it is unknown if Ace can light things on fire from a distance without spouting flames that make direct contact.

However, in the anime, he is shown lighting a cigarette for Sanji simply by pointing his finger. During his meeting with Shanks in the anime, Ace stated that he would become the Pirate King. At no point in the manga did Ace show this ambition, and later he would aim to make Whitebeard the Pirate King.

Also in the anime, Ace stated that he wanted to show the world his power by taking Whitebeard's head. Ace's reason for going after Whitebeard's head was never explained in the manga. Ace - as depicted in Episode as a ten year old child. Note the resemblance to his appearance as an adult. In Episode , Ace is depicted as a child similarly to how he appeared as an adult.

While in the manga, Ace is almost always wearing a tank top during his childhood, in this episode he is depicted without a shirt, and is seen wearing a red beaded necklace identical to what he wore as an adult. This can be considered a contradiction to the manga, as Ace didn't start wearing his necklace until he was a teenager, and only stopped wearing shirts when he joined the Whitebeard Pirates in order to showcase his "pride and joy" - Whitebeard's Jolly Roger.

It can be presumed that Toei Animation did this because Ace's actual childhood appearance hadn't been revealed yet in the manga. In the anime, Ace and Luffy's fight against the Marines after Luffy unlocked Ace's handcuffs was expanded and Ace showed more of his attacks. Throughout the manga, the anime adaptation, and the specials 3D2Y and Episode of Sabo , Ace's death has been somewhat censored and slightly changed.

In the anime, when Ace was struck through by Akainu, his beaded necklace broke apart and fell all over the ground, and one bead ended up rolling to Whitebeard's foot, who picked it up tearfully.

In the manga, as well as the specials, the necklace remained intact. In the anime, Ace also was covered in less blood than in the manga and the specials. The anime and 3D2Y also omitted the smoke coming from his wound. Ace has been a choice character in many forms of merchandise. Dragon Ball Z x One Piece. His looks apparently have not changed much from the original, except for his hat design and the fact that he was supposed to wear sunglasses.

Ace's manji is very similar to a swastika. All this made Ace one of the most popular One Piece characters, not only in the story but amongst fans. Being so loved meant that fans built an emotional attachment to him, making his death all the more tragic. But how and when exactly did Ace die?

Ace, on the other hand, had no clue who Teach was or what his intentions were. Teach managed to defeat Ace and handed him over to the Marines. This catalyzed the Marineford War, one of the most legendary arcs in One Piece.

Ace was eventually set free by the pirates. However, he opted to give his life in place of Luffy in order to save him from Admiral Akainu. Not only was this gem of a character gone, but it was surprising because One Piece was not known for killing off characters. Every One Piece fan who hates Akainu knows this is his most heinous crime.

A crime that took the nicest pirate away from his many fans. Akainu attempted to manipulate Squard to betray Whitebeard. He then proceeded to brutally injure Whitebeard and kill Ace. Of course, this prompted a mass attack on Akainu, despite the possibility of him killing his adversaries.

For those wanting to know which episode of One Piece Portgas D. The answer is simple. He wanted to give Luffy the desire to grow stronger. Luffy was very weak before the Timeskip. Oda also used the same card, and it is very common in the world of manga and anime. Looking back at it, I think Oda made the right choice, and you should expect something similar to come in the future of One Piece as well. All posts. Newcomers' Community.