Gasparde of One Piece

Gas bath was a former admiral who had betrayed the navy and started a life as a pirate. He had eaten of the candy fruit. That he is still alive is quite unlikely.

Appearance

Gasparde was a very tall and muscular man, even towering over Luffy by several heads. He had blond hair and a very rigid looking face. Even in his pirate days, he still wore the coat from his days in the Navy. Underneath he wore plain black pants, but they were held up by an ornate belt. A purple scarf was tied around his neck.

Personality

Gasparde was a rather arrogant man who didn’t care about human lives at all. To him, the only thing that mattered was getting his way. He also didn’t mind killing people for his pastime, as it happened in the Dead End race, where almost all participants were killed. Furthermore, he liked to provoke inferior opponents, such as Luffy, whose straw hat he severely damaged. Such things were just a “game” to Gasparde. Although he was a pirate, he hated the sea.

Skills & Strength

In his time in the Navy, he held a very high post as an admiral. When he later formed his own pirate gang, he received a bounty of 95 million berries. Because of his strength, he was seen by all other pirates as the favorite in the Dead End race. He had a large gang under his command, but with the exception of Needless, they had no strong fighters to show for it.

As you can see from his muscular physique, he had tremendous physical strength with which he could even hurt the rubber man Luffy with his punches.

Once upon a time, he had eaten of the Candy Fruit (Jap. Ame Ame no Mi), making him extremely strong as a Logia user. His body could now transform into a green, sticky, and thick sugar mass. This made him immune to physical attacks, and his opponents would be stuck in his body after their attacks. Furthermore, he could also harden this mass to grow spikes from his body. However, if Gasparde was hit unexpectedly, his body would be normal and vulnerable. However, he could prevent this by paying attention. However, Sanji found his weak point, the flour, which he brought to Luffy so that he could injure him.

Past

At an unknown time, Gasparde joined the Navy, but left after working his way up to the rank of Admiral. He wanted to finally rule by his strength and no longer be subordinate.

Eight years before the plot of the movie, he raided the village of Shuraiya Bascúd and looted it. Only Shuraiya and his sister Adelle survived, so Shuraiya swore revenge and became a bounty hunter.

Present

The night before the race

The day before the great race, a member of Gasbad’s pirate gang suddenly stood before the captain. It was the only one not defeated in the brawl against Luffy and Shuraiya, whereupon the ex-admiral taunted him. Gasparde then wanted to invite the two victors to join his gang, but they refused. As Luffy also insulted Gasparde in the process, he was attacked by Needless, but the captain interrupted the fight. If the two changed their minds, they could always come on the ship, Gasparde said before leaving. Back on his ship, he was met by Anaguma, who needed money for medicine from old Biera. The captain promised her this if she could shoot a pirate, which she intended to do. Gasparde was glad of this and went to his cabin.

The Dead End Adventure – Just a Game

Early in the morning, the race began and Gasparde was quickly able to take the lead, having switched the Eternal ports to Partia with those to Navarone as a joke, causing dozens of pirates to perish there. Willy saw through him, however, and fought Gasparde and his gang, but the latter won easily. Gasparde now received Shuraiya coming on deck to fight him. He first had Needless compete, but he lost. Against Gasparde, however, the bounty hunter could do nothing in the fight, and was defeated. The race seemed to be won, when Gasparde heard a shout from afar: it was Luffy, who was in front of Navarone, but was now chasing Gasparde to take revenge instead of continuing the race.

Whoever wins, survives!

Luffy furiously charged at Gasparde’s ship and kicked the whole gang off of it. He was now going to go after Gasparde, but the defeated Shuraiya got back up and intervened. So that he would not be killed, Luffy knocked him unconscious. Now the fight between Luffy and Gasparde began. The latter was far superior at first and severely damaged Luffy’s straw hat to provoke him even more, causing the latter to get very angry and fight Gasparde harder, but still couldn’t do much against the latter’s logia power. Gasparde continued to make fun of him, insisting that he was just a game to pass the time anyway, which Luffy couldn’t understand. Eventually, however, Sanji brought his captain a bag of flour, and after a brief exchange of blows with Gasparde, he noted why: when Gasparde is covered in flour, he can’t use his devil power to avoid the attacks. So Luffy was able to hurt him with several fierce attacks.

An attempt to throw Gasparde into the raging cyclone with the Gomu Gomu no Bowgun failed, as Gasparde was able to hold onto the figurehead of his destroyed ship. He jumped down covered in spikes, but Luffy struck again with a powerful gum-gum bazooka. He ignored the spikes piercing his hands and managed to hurl Gasparde into the cyclone. Luffy was rescued by Biera shortly after. It is unlikely that Gasparde survived, as he was a Devil Fruit user who got caught in a cyclone.

Miscellaneous

• He is one of the few filler and movie characters designed by Oda himself.