Garp Monkey D.

About Monkey D., Garp

Affiliation: Marine Occupation: Vice Admiral Epithet: Garp the Fist Birthday: July 6 Monkey D. Garp is a legendary Marine officer and one of the Navy's greatest heroes. He's best known for repeatedly cornering Gold Roger, the Pirate King, throughout his career—a feat that even Whitebeard acknowledged as remarkable, noting that Garp was one of the few people alive who truly understood the seas during Roger's era. Garp took charge of Luffy's early training, putting the kid through brutal exercises designed to toughen him up. He threw Luffy into valleys, abandoned him in dangerous forests, and strapped him to balloons at dangerous heights. Eventually, Garp left both Luffy and Ace in the care of Dadan, though his intensive methods had already left their mark on the future pirate. Garp's first real appearance comes in Koby's story arc, where he's escorting Captain Morgan as a Marine officer. He falls asleep on the job—Morgan takes the opportunity to strike him and escape with Helmeppo as a hostage. When Garp wakes up, he's completely unharmed, having apparently smashed a cannon in the process of getting up. When Koby begs to pursue Morgan, Garp gives him the go-ahead. After the boys return and offer to accept punishment, Garp surprises them with a different solution: he decides they're too much trouble for anyone else to handle, so he'll take over their training himself. He brings them both back to Marine HQ and starts molding them into proper Marine officers.

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