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| - "Gold" Roger, real name Gol D. Roger, is the great legendary pirate that started the Great Age of Pirates on his execution scaffold twenty-two years ago. His legendary treasure, One Piece, is sought after by pirates the world over, and the one who reaches the hidden island Raftel at the end of the Grand Line and finds it will inherit his title of Pirate King. He just happens to be Ace's dad.
* Badass: To Shrouded in Myth proportions, but considering that he was not only the “Pirate King” but was rivals with Whitebeard and Garp, completely annihilated Lion Shiki, every member of the crew seems to be undeniably Badass and as the Captain it's implied that he was the strongest member of his crew… Yeah, Badass all the way
* Badass Mustache: While not as epic as Whitebeard's, Roger has some impressive lip hair.
* At first, it seemed like they were implied to be nose hair, though.
* Cheshire Cat Grin
* Fire-Forged Friends: Specifically invokes this with Garp, reasoning that they are as good as friends given how long they've known each other, and on this principle trusts Garp to protect his newborn son from the Marines. Despite Garp's initial disbelief, it works.
* Generation Xerox: An odd example. Flashbacks show that in his younger days, Roger really did look almost exactly like Luffy. Despite that, there are no indications that he and Luffy are blood related in any way('D' initial aside, of course).
* Gun and Sword: Seen wielding both in Chapter Zero.
* Hidden Eyes: It wasn't until Sabaody Archipelago, over five hundred chapters into the story, that his eyes were shown to the reader.
* Luke, I Am Your Father: Not Luffy's, but Ace's.
* My Death Is Just the Beginning: "I won't die... partner."
* My Name Is Not Durwood: In a flashback, he complains to Whitebeard about the Government calling him "Gold" Roger instead of his correct name.
* Obfuscating Stupidity : Many people compare Luffy to him, but since he knows Poneglyphs like Robin and her mother fluently, he may be just Brilliant but Lazy.
* Except that, according to Rayleigh, Roger was only able to read the Poneglyphs through an undefined ability to hear "the voice of all things". Rayleigh goes on to fully admit that the crew lacked the intelligence to fully understand and interpret what the Poneglyph actually meant.
* Offstage Villainy: Though he is largely a flashback character and thus we haven't seen much of him at all, every flashback always seems to present him positively. By contrast, pretty much every villainous act he's done (slaughtering Squad's crew, for example), is always presented via word of mouth of his victims.
* Posthumous Character: Being dead, all insights on his character are done through either second-hand information or flashbacks.
* Secret Legacy: The mysterious Will of D. that a number of characters possess. Apparently, he actually knew what it meant.
* Thanatos Gambit: His last words about the location of his treasure sparked the Great Age of Pirates.
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