Badass Grandpa: Difference between revisions

** "Dark King" Rayleigh certainly qualifies. He was the first mate of the former Pirate King, and even after about 20 years is able to fight toe to toe with a Marine Admiral Kizaru, one of the strongest fighters in the World Government, and in the case of this particular Admiral, capable of moving at the speed of light.

** And recentlyat one point, {{spoiler|he swam across the Calm Belt. A strip of ocean filled with giant sea creatures that even the most hardened Marines & Pirates avoid}}. Why would he do this? Because {{spoiler|His boat sank in the Grand Line, so he had to swim through part of the ''Grand Line'' in order to ''get'' to the Calm Belt. No problem for him, of course. He had a message to deliver. As impressive as that sounds, the fact he is able to swim at all proves he ''has no Devil Fruit power''. Think about that for a minute. Rayleigh has no Devil Fruit power, but was able to stand up to Kizaru, who has one of the most powerful Logia Fruit powers.}}

** Edward "Whitebeard" Newgate, called "The Strongest Man in the World" {{spoiler|has the power to create earthquakes and massive tidal waves.}} He controls a massive fleet of pirate ships, and is stated to have the power to destroy the world. Unlike many of the examples on this page, whose fighting abilities seem unaffected by aging in the slightest, the story makes it clear that age has ''already'' more than caught up with Whitebeard. He pulls off some of the most destructive and [[Badass]] stunts seen in ''[[World of Badass|One Piece]]'' yet, and he does it all as a [[Handicapped Badass|sluggish, half-dead shadow of the man he used to be]].

** Villainous example, when Five Elders member [https://onepiece.fandom.com/wiki/Jaygarcia_Saturn| Jaygarcia Saturn] finally decides to [[Orcus on His Throne| get his behind off his throne]] and become involved during the Egghead Arc, he proves a deadly adversary towards the heroes, his unnamed Zoan Devil Fruit letting him go [[One-Winged Angel]] and turn himself into some sort ofa bull-spider-human [[Hybrid Monster]] (or more specifically, a yokai called the Ushi-oni). In this monstrous form, his mere presence causes everyone on Egghead Island to experience an ominous feeling of dread; he can injure normal people or knock them prone simply by looking at them, and was able to outfight Atlas, Sanji, and Bonney by himself, all while barely even ''noticing'' when Bonney impaled him with her rapier. This old geezer is ''thoughtough''.