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* In ''[[One Piece]]'', the [[Murder, Inc.| Cross Guild]] is an organization of smugglers and mercenaries whose leaders include such powerful and notorious pirate captains as Sir Crocodile and DraculaDracule Mihawk, the leader being... [[Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain| Buggy]]? Yes, and here's how it went down: In order to fund the new organization, Crocodile went to Buggy to call up on a huge debt Buggy owed him; Buggy, whose own smuggling operation was failing, offered to advertise the Cross Guild free of charge, in exchange for being made a member, and agreement that he felt would help him pay back Crocodile and gain reputation for his own business in one move. However, it worked only too well. Buggy's employees, being completely enamored by his (undeserved) fame from the Impel Down fiasco and mistaking Crocodile saving him out of loyalty, created flyers that portrayed Buggy as the leader of the Guild, and distributed them worldwide, before Buggy could even review them. Thus, everyone who learned of the Cross Guild mistook Buggy for the leader, with Mihawk and Crocodile as his subordinates. Even the World Government took notice, naming him one of the new Four Emperors. Naturally, Crocodile and Mihawk were... upset, but then Mihawk (being a pragmatic type) convinced Crocodile that having Buggy as a puppet leader would stave off unwanted attention from them, and that it would be a simple matter to eliminate Buggy if they had to. Thus, Buggy is now leader of one of the most powerful pirate organizations in the world, but only in name.