In One Piece, there are so many characters that it’s often difficult to determine who is a hero and who is a villain. This is especially true when some characters start as villains and become a hero, like Nico Robin, or when the character is considered a hero that just so happens to side with the villains, like Koby.
However, like all stories, there are many characters fans and viewers dislike and find annoying or straight-up hate, even among the characters considered the heroes of the long-running show. But like all characters, they have qualities that can be considered admirable or interesting to fans and viewers, despite their weaknesses.
10 Iceburg’s Reasoning
Despite being an engineer, shipbuilder, and shipwright, Iceburg is one of the few protagonists who is more a man of words rather than action. He even constantly gets mad at Franky for his liking to make weapons and causing problems that could have been prevented if thought through more.
Iceburg is a very reasonable man and, while sometimes aloof, good at thinking things through while in stressful situations, even after he was attacked at Water 7 by CP9. He stayed calm and tried to make rational decisions on how to make things better for his people while also helping the Straw Hat Crew.
9 Bartolomeo’s Carefree Lifestyle
After first meeting Bartolomeo during the Dressrossa arc, it is safe to say that he cares little for decency when it comes to being in public. He gives little care to his behavior, acting as he wishes and following his own intuition, much like the style of his idols, Luffy and the Straw Hats.
When he is insulted or antagonized, it isn’t beneath Bartolomeo to throw false attacks as a scare tactic or just throw worse insults back. The only times he seems to care about his actions is when he is around the Straw Hat Pirates, when someone speaks ill of his idols, or when he sees an ally in trouble.
8 Vivi’s Loyalty
As one of the unofficial members of the Straw Hat crew, Vivi is one of the least-liked heroes of the show due to how she was written to be almost a perfect princess, lacking only in physical strength and memory lapses. Because of how she is written, many viewers are personally not a fan of her.
However, one of Vivi’s qualities that viewers do like about her is her loyalty to her nation and her friends. Many of her actions that fans get to see are to protect those she considers a friend, such as when she defended Shirahoshi after the two-year gap, or to protect her kingdom of Alabasta.
7 Usopp’s Storytelling
Throughout the series, Usopp is known for his wild tales that are either partially true with a self-promoting twist or untrue altogether. His tales would always be grand, and sometimes it would just be a passing lie to help others around him feel better and more light-hearted despite being a pessimist himself.
Usopp gained his great storytelling skill to entertain his friend Kaya who lived as a sickly girl in his home village up until Luffy and Zoro took him into the starting of the Straw Hats. Afterward, Usopp only shares his tales with Chopper or people he considers either gullible enough to believe him or gullible enough to listen.
6 Brook’s Musical Abilities
Despite being nothing more than a perverted skeleton, Brook is one of the most vocal of the entire Straw Hat crew. It comes from him not only being the oldest out of the entire crew with many stories to tell and experience but also the musician and a famous singer across the seas.
Brook is musically gifted in not only his original instrument of a violin but also piano and guitar and more than likely many others. With his music, Brook has pulled many friends, and even enemies, together on joyous occasions to celebrate and even used his music to make it through the two-year gap.
5 Hatchan’s Care
Upon first meeting the octopus fishman Hatchan, or Hatchi, he doesn’t seem very smart and is extremely gullible, even asking names to find his opponents. However, afterward, when meeting up with him at Sabaody Archipelago, he is a lot wiser.
But one thing that didn’t change is how much Hatchi cares for those he considers in danger or a friend, as he will follow or work with those he cares for or feels apologetic too. He even vocalizes his feeling of shame to Nami even though he had no need to and shows the Straw Hat crew around the archipelago.
4 Carrot’s Cunning
Introduced during the Whole Cake Island arc and a contender for the next being to join Luffy’s Straw Hat crew, Carrot is similar in personality to Luffy. The two of them are similar in they both want to protect those they care for all the while being quite childish in their actions and fighting.
However, unlike Luffy, Carrot uses more cunning and smarts when she is fighting, somehow even gaining more intelligence from transforming under the full moon. She is curious and open to learning so that she can better protect those whom she cares for.
3 Yamato’s Stubbornness
Being the child of Beast King Kaido, Yamato is expected to be strong and powerful in his own way. However, many fans of the show are not a fan of him because of how much power they see in him right off the bat as an ally to the crew and potential next member.
Much like Luffy and a few others of the crew, Yamato is very stubborn and will stand for his own beliefs as well as the man he identifies as—Kozuki Oden. He even goes against his imprisonment and breaks free to have similar experiences to what Oden had with the Whitebeard and Roger Pirates.
2 Shirahoshi’s Curiosity
Being the youngest child and only daughter of King Neptune, Shirahoshi lived a sheltered life primarily that of seclusion thanks to Vander Decken after she rejected his proposal. As she was sheltered, this also gave Shirahoshi a fragile personality where she would cry at any given moment, a quality that even Luffy didn’t like as it was annoying.
However, Shirahoshi is really curious about the world outside the room she was kept in, wanting to follow in her mother’s footsteps in bringing the human world and fishman world together. She doesn’t want to stay on Fishman Island and wants to experience what she missed in her childhood.
1 Boa Hancock’s Strength
Being the empress of Amazon Lily and captain of the Kuja Pirates, it is without a doubt that Boa Hancock is a powerful being. However, she isn’t well-liked among fans due to her narcissistic personality and use of her beauty to get out of situations she personally doesn’t like, as well as her unconditional love for Luffy despite him turning her down.
Despite her personality, Boa Hancock is still quite physically strong as she is seen fighting when she has to. Usually, she will rely on her beauty or her devil fruit ability to end a fight or disagreement, but it isn’t beyond her to use physical strength as well.
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