- [Narrator] Hello and welcome to The Grand Line Review,
your source everything One Piece
and today we are going to be taking a look
at a band of individuals who have been less than focused
on in modern times, being the Seven Warlords of the Sea
and whatever has become of this institution now,
these figures are directly linked
with the lifeblood of One Piece,
having driven a plethora of arcs and even entire sagas.
So we are going to honor this gaggle
by doing a classic One Piece ranking of every Warlord
that has ever been featured in the series.
And how are we ranking them, you ask?
Well, by the only metric that can even come close
to any sort of empirical judgment, being a vote
and as such, I put up a community poll to ask all of you
to vote for your favorite warlord,
which received over 15,000 responses, which is amazing
and I'm hoping statistically relevant.
So we are going to be making our way
through all 11 known Seven Bullets of the Sea here today
but before we get into it, we're also going to be playing
another one of our strange channel games here today,
because I want you to guess in advance
where a certain Crocodile is going to fall on this ranking.
So go ahead and choose any placement from one to 11
but if you are wrong, then as punishment,
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which is pretty nice, I promise.
But yes, let's see if you can correctly predict
just how popular Mr. Crocodile is.
What I can tell you right off the bat
is that he is not in dead last
because that position belongs to Edward Weevil,
who managed to amass a fairly pitiful 45 votes.
45 out of well over 15,000, it's not great.
And Weevil being in last place,
doesn't surprise me, not at all.
What does surprise me though,
is that there are actually 45 people in existence
on this planet who claimed that
he is their favorite warlord and I guess to be fair,
this could easily change in the future
and those 45 people could be time travelers,
but right now Weevil is at a massive disadvantage
compared to every other character on this list
because he hasn't really done many thing
or at least not anything that we've seen.
I guess what I will say for Weevil
is that he holds a whole lot of promise.
Very much seeming to inherit a degree
of the terrifying raw power
that his alleged father, Whitebeard was well known for.
He is a very strange player in the game of One Piece though.
And as the story very much rapidly approaches
towards some sort of end game,
Weevil's role in everything is very, very unclear.
So there is this nice air of mystery about him
at the very least that the other warlords
or most of the other warlords
don't really have at this stage but then again,
he also has quite a left field design to say the least.
Highly polarizing and the mixture of all of the above
is quite naturally going to land Weevil in dead last.
And continuing aboard the left field design train
in 10th place we have Gecko Moria
with a frankly underrated 147 votes.
And I say underrated because
no, Moria has never been my favorite character.
In fact, he's one of my least favorite.
I personally think he's unappealing on almost every level
with the sole exception of his past
the very idea of which is infinitely fascinating
and I would read a Gecko Moria prequel in an instant.
At the same time though,
I thought that Moria had a lot more support out there,
even amongst all a few Grand Fleet members
than was demonstrated here.
I mean, I get it, he's another very polarizing design
as well as a character who was the helm of a very tricky arc
being Thriller Back, which suffers greatly
from its general placement in the series
sandwiched by the Water Seven Saga on the Sabaody Arc.
Both of which are just so memorable and impactful,
so it's pretty hard for Moria to stand out here.
And when Moria does make his presence known,
whether it be in Thriller Bark, Marineford
or in much more recent times,
I guess he's just underwhelming.
So my deepest apologies to hardcore Moria fans,
all like 147 of you out there
but Moria's legacy of failure
will indeed continue here today.
So moving into ninth place
and we have a slight step up in vote count,
it will be Marshall D. Teach AKA Blackbeard
Who managed to zehaha his way into the hearts
and minds of 358 people.
And I suppose there could be any number of reasons
for this, Blackbeard is a bit of an enigma,
not just in the series but also when trying to box him
into things like this.
He's a really weird guy because he's been a part
of three separate groups.
You know he's a member of the Worst generation,
a former warlord of the sea and a current emperor,
but in each and every case, he's kind of an outlier.
He a was very late addition to the established
supernova group, turning them into the Worst generation.
He was only very briefly a warlord
before betraying the World Government and as an emperor,
he just doesn't quite carry the same feeling as Whitebeard,
Big Mom, Kaido and probably even Shanks.
And I think that's always going to leave Blackbeard
in a bit of a void with poles like this
but he does seem to have something of a solid fan base,
which is quite impressive for a character
so traditionally on popular.
Kind of like Weevil though,
Blackbeard's time is still very much yet to come,
so a few years from now,
this results may look very different.
But for now he is a nine, a nine out of lots.
Big leap forward now with number eight
and we find ourselves a whale shark by the name of Jinbei
with a total of 905 votes.
So not the most popular but certainly not the least either.
And Jinbei is one of those characters
who is perpetually growing on me and has been
ever since his introduction in Impel Down.
It did take me quite a long while
to warm up to them whale shark,
just as it took him quite a long while to actually
join the Straw Hats but looking back on things,
Jinbei is kind of the perfect warlord.
He is a staunchly honorable pirate
who aligned himself with the World Government
for the good of his people, kind of like Boa Hancock,
just without Hancock's streak of cruelty.
But Jinbei was a very solid force of balance
acting as something of a mediary
between not only fishermen and humans
but also pirates and the World Government.
At face value, he is probably the only warlord
who actually did what the position
was publicly intended to be.
One slight problem with ranking him
on a list of warlords though,
is that we as readers and watchers
never really got to experience Jinbei in that position.
By the time we did finally meet him,
he was stripped of his warlordness
and so he's just not really the first thought
many would have when this entire concept
turns up in conversation, oh well, poor fish.
Now in seventh place with a mere 82 votes than Jinbei,
I dare say we have Bartholomew Kuma,
a man who was the perfect warlord exclusively
from the perspective of the World Government that is.
A good cyborg slave boy who is hinted to have had
an incredibly tragic past,
one that I am both eager and quite apprehensive
to eventually learn about
because I know that there will be tears.
But Kuma also happens to be another one of those
historically, unpopular characters doing quite terribly
in the official polls conducted by Weekly Shonen Jump.
And that is something that always, always surprises me
because he's embedded into pretty much
every great faction of One Piece.
You know he was introduced as a warlord
working for the World Government
but having come from the famed realm of piracy
and even the king of his own nation.
And then of course he was revealed as a revolutionary.
I mean, there is no one else in this series
who can claim to be as closely associated
with the three great factions of One Piece,
being the revolutionaries, the World Government and pirates.
And I'm sure that Kuma will have his time in the spotlight
at some stage, however, that is not today
and today has earned him a mighty seventh place,
seven out of 11, look, it's not so great.
So moving on to number six, we have Sir Crocodile
and ding, ding, ding, if you guessed sixth place
for Crocodile then congratulations
but if you guessed any of the number,
then you need to pay up and subscribe
to the Grand Line Review so welcome to the Grand Fleet,
it is a pleasure to have you.
But with every result on this list,
I think Crocodile shocks me the most.
I was honestly expecting him to be somewhere
in the top three, probably not first or second
but crocodile is just such a classic face of One Piece.
However, I guess he's just being a bit left in the dust
for maybe too long now.
Having made extraordinarily minimal appearances
in the entire New World Era,
which has left room for many others to take the stage.
I love Crocodile though.
He's one of my favorite characters, full stop
but then again, I am an old man
and I do have great nostalgia
for going through the days of Alabasta,
which is always going to be a tough task
for any new material to trump.
However, a whopping five characters did beat Crocodile
and they beat him quite comfortably, I might add.
One of which is Boa Hancock,
the pirate empress who scored a very impressive,
almost 1600 votes to land her in fifth place.
Impressive but not too shocking considering Hancock
is very consistently ranked in the top 10 characters
of One Piece in general.
So she has a pretty incredible following
that I'm not quite sure I understand.
I mean, I do like her, I really like her,
especially her bizarre quirks with puppies
and baby seals and the like,
but the whole doting on luffy stuff
does get a bit much for me at times.
Regardless Boa Hancock is the pirate empress
and a true false to be reckoned with so it is nice
to see her breaking into the top five here today.
But in fourth place,
we now find one Buggy the Clown
with a pretty sizable vote increase,
almost totaling 2000, almost, not quite.
But what is not to like about Buggy?
It's always fun to watch someone completely incompetent
just continue to fail upwards
and I'm hoping that he will eventually find his way
into being one of the emperors of the sea.
And that may be quite possible
as Oda has once stated that Buggy was his favorite villain,
although this was quite some time ago
and his opinion has since changed.
Even so, Buggy is an inseparable feature of One Piece,
a character who will always hold relevance,
whether it be great or small in some capacity.
And I do have to say every Warlord on this list,
Buggy is by far the funniest and most expressive
and as such, it's always a good time
when Buggy happens to be on a page or on screen,
so and yeah, just go ahead
and take your popularity, Mr. Clown.
Now in third place though, we have a more cool dude,
bribing Trafalgar Law,
a man who will probably never rank outside of the top three
of any list he so happens to be on.
What I do need to point to though
is that he really didn't defeat Buggy by all that much,
just over a 100 votes,
so it looks like there is some serious competition
at play here for the bronze medal
and if I ever redid this poll in the future,
then I think Law could very easily fall to the Clown.
But I also don't really know what to say about Law
that I haven't stated elsewhere at great length.
I mean, he's one of Oda's finest design characters
without question from an aesthetic standpoint
and he has a captivating history and personality
to back it up, a true phenomenon of the series.
Not quite enough of a phenomenon to be a threat
to the top two on this list though,
with our second place finish, Donquixote Doflamingo
being wildly ahead with an almost 800 vote gap,
which is quite insane.
But then again, Doflamingo is arguably the warlord
of One Piece.
Everything that Crocodile represented in the classic era,
Doflamingo took and evolved in the New World
becoming one of the most well loved antagonists
in the entire series.
And it's very rare that I meet
who does not like Doflamingo.
I mean, not so much personally
because the string boy is a pretty massive prick
but he plays that role so, so well
that it's difficult not to admire that in the story.
And I actually shut it to think what Dressrosa
would have been like with a lesser villain,
like say Gecko Moria.
There were just so very few characters in One Piece
who were capable of shouldering Mega Rocks
and Doflamingo happens to be one of the better examples.
In fact, with the amount of people I've met
who take issue with both Big Mom and Qaeda,
Doflamingo may in fact be the best example.
However, he is certainly not the most popular warlord
because that honor will be bestowed upon
our number one finisher who is Dracule Mihawk.
The only character who managed to pass the 3000 vote mark
in this poll, an undisputed cool guy, extraordinaire,
Mihawk has been a truly dominant presence
in One Piece ever since the glory days of Baratie.
He was our first experience of real power in the series
and he kind of still remains the pinnacle of power
to this day, seemingly unreachable by our main characters,
almost 1000 chapters into the story.
In fact, Mihawk's only problem in this world
is that there is no one capable of capturing his interest.
He is a very lonely vessel in such of a challenge
that simply does not exist, at least not yet.
But as such, it is no surprise that he has gone on
to dominate this list here as well.
Yet another achievement to add to the great pile
of Mihawk grand jar.
And they you have it, all 11 seven warlords ranked by you
wonderful Grant Fleet members.
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you'd like to see poled
because I really do enjoy finding out what it is
you guys love.
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