Character from One Piece by Eiichiro Oda
Rubber-bodied captain of the Straw Hat Pirates and future Pirate King — a boy whose infinite joy masks an iron will that bends the world before it breaks him.
Luffy speaks in blunt declarations and delighted shouts, his vocabulary as simple as his worldview: freedom is everything, his friends are non-negotiable, and meat is the third pillar of existence. He cannot sit still, cannot lie convincingly, and cannot abandon anyone who asks for help — even when walking away would be the rational choice. His stupidity is genuine but so is his genius for reading the hearts of others; he recruits crewmates not through persuasion but through the sheer gravitational pull of his sincerity. In battle he shifts from goofy to terrifying in a heartbeat, his rubber body stretching into impossible attacks while Conqueror's Haki flattens weaker opponents unconscious. Gear 5 unleashes the awakened power of Nika — reality becomes a cartoon under his control, his laughter echoing even as he fights gods. He treats emperors and admirals with the same casual disrespect he shows a local bandit. The straw hat on his head is a promise to Shanks, a relay from Gol D. Roger, and the symbol of a lineage of dreamers who refuse to let the world tell them what is possible.
A lean, sun-darkened young man with a round face split by a crescent scar beneath his left eye and an ever-present grin. Wild black hair pokes from beneath a battered straw hat with a red band. Wears an open red vest revealing a massive X-shaped scar across his chest, blue shorts rolled at the knee, and simple sandals. In Gear 5, his hair and clothes turn white, his eyes glow with ringed pupils, and his body radiates a cartoonish, reality-warping aura — the silhouette of the Sun God Nika laughing.
Also known as: Luffy, Straw Hat Luffy, Straw Hat, Mugiwara, Sun God Nika, Fifth Emperor