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After Luffy defeated Crocodile in Alabasta, Lafitte tried to nominate Blackbeard to become one of the Shichibukai to take Crocodile's place, but in order to be accepted, Blackbeard must first build up a fearsome reputation.
Blackbeard: With Angus Macfadyen, Mark Umbers, Richard Chamberlain, Jessica Chastain. In 1717, Royal Navy Lieutenant Robert Maynard is sent to the West Indies on a secret mission to destroy notorious pirate ship The Queen Anne's Revenge and its crew.
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- Overview
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- Personality
- Abilities and Powers
- Major Battles
- Anime and Manga Differences
- Translation and Dub Issues
- Inspirations and Influences
Marshall D. Teach, most commonly referred to by his epithet "Blackbeard", is the captain-turned-admiral of the Blackbeard Pirates, and one of the Four Emperors that rule over the New World. He is also the only known person in history to wield the powers of two Devil Fruits, as well as being part of a special bloodline, which is only known to a small number of individuals, including his own crew and the Five Elders.
Teach started out his pirate career as an apprentice of the Whitebeard Pirates, then later became a member of the crew's 2nd Division. However, he murdered Thatch, the 4th Division Commander, in order to steal the Yami Yami no Mi, a rare darkness-based Logia Devil Fruit with the power to nullify the Devil Fruit abilities of others. He then fled from Whitebeard's crew and, after defeating the infamous 2nd Division Commander Portgas D. Ace and handing him over to the Marines, was awarded a position among the Seven Warlords of the Sea. He only held the position briefly, though, using it to infiltrate the great underwater prison Impel Down and escaping with multiple infamous Level 6 prisoners recruited into his crew. Upon arriving at the Summit War of Marineford, he resigned from his position and murdered Whitebeard, mysteriously stealing his quake-generating power. This, along with his victory in the Payback War and conquest of the majority of Whitebeard's territories during the timeskip, resulted in his acknowledgement as one of the Four Emperors, as well as him being considered a part of the "Worst Generation" along with the eleven Supernovas. After the Rocky Port Incident, he turned the island of Hachinosu into his base of operations with the ambition of having it officially accepted into the World Government as the Blackbeard Kingdom.
Teach initially had no bounty; however, after resigning from the Seven Warlords, recruiting several dangerous criminals to his crew from Impel Down, and becoming one of the Four Emperors, he received a bounty of 2,247,600,000. Following the downfalls of Kaidou and Big Mom during the Wano Country Arc, his bounty was increased to 3,996,000,000 for unknown reasons.
Due to his actions throughout the series, namely his key role in the deaths of Portgas D. Ace and Whitebeard, Teach consistently serves as one of the primary antagonists of the entire series. During the series' first half, he is an unseen minor antagonist in the Drum Island Arc, a minor antagonist in the Jaya Arc, the secondary antagonist of the Post-Enies Lobby Arc, and one of the main antagonists of the Summit War Saga (specifically, the secondary antagonist of the Impel Down Arc and one of the three primary antagonists in the Marineford Arc). During the series' second half, he is a minor antagonist in the Dressrosa Arc, a supporting antagonist in the Egghead Arc and serves as one of the overarching main antagonists in the Final Saga.
Teach is a very tall man with dark skin, being exactly twice Luffy's (pre-timeskip) height. He has a massive build as his body is round with relatively thin limbs. He has a prominent lipped mouth with several broken or missing teeth (though sometimes he does have a full set, which might be an inconsistency error made by Eiichiro Oda), a pronounced crooked nose and a very large and hairy chest and torso. Long, thick, woolly black hair falls down the back of his neck, underneath a black bandanna. He also has a black beard that grew around his jawline (hence his epithet).
At his first appearance in Mock Town, Teach wore an open buttoned white shirt with rolled up sleeves, green trousers with black line patterns, a yellow sash around his waist and classic black swashbuckler boots complete with large bronze buckles. During his raid on Banaro Island, he had added a large black and gold captain's coat over his attire, along with white beads on each wrist as bracelets and rings with gemstones on all of the fingers of both his hands (similar to his predecessor, Crocodile). At both of these moments, his beard was still small and scruffy.
At the Seven Warlords of the Sea meeting at the Marine Headquarters, he added a pair of necklaces of red as well as golden-yellow and blue beads to his dark orange sash (dark yellow in the anime) and a traditional black tricorne hat over his grey bandana, as well as switching to a red shirt, while wearing his captain's coat like a cape. His beard had also gotten thinker and more noticeable at this point. He also has three flintlocks and a flask tied to his sash around his waist.
In SBS Volume 63, Oda drew the Seven Warlords of the Sea as children. Teach is shown wearing a baseball cap with a rolled up long sleeve shirt and green shorts. He is also wearing black curled tip shoes, and unlike his usual cheerful expression, is crying for an unknown reason.
Teach's personality seems to be a strange mixture of courage and cowardice, carefulness and recklessness, and intelligence and stupidity. While at times his character appears strong and fearsome, like he has full control of a situation, in others he will seem weak and ridiculous, struggling in ways that are unbecoming of a pirate of his stature. All those contrasting elements reinforce the idea that Teach is rather unpredictable and somewhat of an enigma, making him similar to series' protagonist Monkey D. Luffy to a great extent. It is worth noting that Teach was a rather gloomy and serious individual in his childhood, back when he was nothing more than an orphaned pirate apprentice, unlike his more outgoing and expressive adult self.
In general, Teach is perhaps the most realistic depiction of a pirate within the series, showing various degrees of greed, dishonesty, brutality, opportunism and cunning. This is a point Teach has in common with his crewmates for the most part, as they are known for being equally rowdy and violent. Having wild personalities under his command, however, does not bother Teach in anyway, as he believes that a pirate crew is primarily defined by its members being in sync about their goals and agendas, with relationships among personnel being a secondary concern. This means that Teach is willing to welcome in anyone who he thinks could assist him in achieving his objectives, whether they are infamous criminals from Impel Down, which is the case for half of his Titanic Captains, former Warlords, like Gecko Moria, or even former Marines, such as Kuzan.
As one of the Four Emperors, Teach is one of the four most powerful pirates in the world, proof of this would be having received a bounty of 2,247,600,000 during the timeskip and would later increase to 3,996,000,000 for unknown reasons, which is the second highest among the current Emperors. Also, as the admiral of the Blackbeard Pirates, Teach has absolute authority over the crew, with the crew itself staffed with extremely powerful and infamous individuals. Furthermore, as the current ruler of Hachinosu, he has dominion over the entire island.
Even before gaining any devil fruit powers, Jinbe, stated that he was still a fearsome individual at that time when he was a member of the Whitebeard Pirates. As great evidence of this, is that during this time he fought Shanks and left scars on his left eye; and although the exact circumstances of what happened are not known, Shanks declared that it was not due to carelessness, recognizing Teach as a dangerous threat. Likewise, Portgas D. Ace, before officially becoming 2nd division commander of the crew, believed that Teach could have become commander, but the latter refused. He managed to kill Thatch, the 4th division Whitebeard commander and escape from the Moby Dick and Whitebeard's territory seemingly with relative ease.
After gaining the powers of the Yami Yami no Mi, Teach managed to take on his former commander, Ace, another powerful Logia user. Such was his confrontation that many of the witnesses who witnessed it declared that his power was not of this world. When he defeated Ace and handed him over, the World Government quickly recognized his victory, so they granted him the position of Warlord of the Sea despite not having a bounty or reputation at the time.
After the Summit War of Marineford, the Five Elders believed that Teach had a huge lead ahead of anyone else to usurp the position of Emperor once held by Whitebeard. This predication came true after Teach and his crew managed to overwhelmingly defeat Marco and all the remaining members of Whitebeard's crew, officially becoming the new Emperor.
•Whitebeard Pirates vs. Roger Pirates (unseen)
•Teach vs. Shanks (details unknown, yet left Shanks with his scar)
•Teach vs. Thatch (unseen)
•Blackbeard Pirates vs. Drum Kingdom (unseen)
•Teach vs. Portgas D. Ace
•Blackbeard Pirates vs. Impel Down Guards (Level 1)
•While the manga has never depicted how exactly Teach killed Thatch, the anime shows that Teach literally stabbed him in the back.
•In the anime, the fight between Teach and Whitebeard is slightly extended, as Teach punched Whitebeard several times while having the latter in his grip. He also shot Whitebeard in the heart with his flintlock and fired several more times before ordering his crew to join in. In the manga, he simply ordered them to attack right after surviving one of Whitebeard's quake bubbles. Also, the wound he received from the Whitebeard's bisento was not as brutal as it was in the original manga. In the manga, the Yami Yami no Mi was in Teach's left hand and the Gura Gura no Mi was in his right. In the anime, they are reversed.
•In the anime, the fight between Teach and Sengoku is also extended, with the former's quake punch and the latter's shockwaves tearing apart Marineford. Sengoku knocked Teach back with another shockwave, but he retaliated by tilting the island just as Whitebeard had done. Jesus Burgess jumped into the fight to assist but was knocked back by the intervention of Garp.
•When Teach shifted the seas, the tsunami saved the Heart Pirates from a naval bombardment and a longer scene of people escaping Sabaody Archipelago is shown.
Name and Epithet
Initially, the "Teach" portion of his name was romanized Teech in all official English translations—the VIZ manga, Funimation-dubbed anime and Simulcast subtitles, and 4Kids' localization of the video game Pirates Carnival. This is an accurate transliteration of the katakana (ティーチ?) used in the original Japanese, albeit weaker in the intended allusion to the historical pirate "Blackbeard" Edward Teach. Interestingly, all of Funimation's home-releases of the anime render the name as Teach, in both subtitles and translations of on-screen text. In contrast, the VIZ manga continues to favor Teech. For a time, some minor debate also existed—similar to that surrounding Whitebeard—as to whether Blackbeard was the "proper" translation of the epithet Kurohige (黒ひげ?), as Hige (髭（ひげ）?) is a generic term for facial hair that applies to both mustaches and beards, and Teach had virtually no beard during his first few appearances. However, this became moot from the Impel Down Arc on, when Teach began wearing a prominent beard.
Laugh
During his earliest appearances in the Jaya Arc, the Funimation-dubbed anime made no attempt to adapt his distinct "Zehaha" laugh. However, from the Post-Enies Lobby Arc on, the laugh was generally retained.
Other
In the original manga and anime, Teach comments "I'd thought thirty million too low for his Haki" (あの覇気で３千万はねえと思ったが?) on seeing Luffy's updated bounty. However, both the Funimation anime and the VIZ manga translate this line with "even thirty million", producing the opposite implication: that Teach (much like the Bellamy Pirates) had thought Luffy was not even worth his pre-Arabasta bounty. (Notably, this line was also the first to explicitly name Haki. As the term's significance would not be revealed until the Amazon Lily Arc, neither Funimation nor VIZ acknowledge it in their respective translations.)
Teach is, in many aspects, designed as a fictionalized version of "Blackbeard" Edward Teach, possibly the most notorious pirate in (Western) history and Eiichiro Oda's personal favorite pirate. In addition to his name, epithet, and general viciousness, Teach's in-story history parallels his historical counterpart's in several areas:
•Initially unknown, he rises to utter notoriety within three years (the historical Teach was active as "Blackbeard" for only three years, from 1716 to 1718).
•His rise is facilitated by the betrayal of a fellow pirate (the historical Teach acquired many men and at least one ship by usurping the authority of fellow captain Stede Bonnet; by some accounts, Bonnet was, much like Portgas D. Ace, arrested and executed while trying to pursue revenge).
•He has sought government authorization, if only temporarily (the historical Teach, in addition to probably originating as a privateer, briefly accepted a pardon from North Carolina governor Charles Eden in 1718).
After the timeskip, Teach has also begun wearing a long, multi-braided beard—an element common to nearly all contemporary descriptions and illustrations of the historical Teach.
Two related characters would derive looser inspiration from the historical Teach: "Whitebeard" Edward Newgate took on his given name, while Thatch took on an alternate spelling of his surname (also reported by some sources as a deliberate alias).
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