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Name: Sir Crocodile, Sa Kurokodairu
Epithet: Mr. 0
Age: unknown
Species: Human
First Appearance: Manga Chapter #127, Anime Episode #76
Bounty: Formely 81,000,000 Berry
Power bestowed : Allows the user to become, create, and control sand. Sir Crocodile has trained his powers so that he remains sand at all times as well as being able to create massive sandstorms. Lastly, Sir Crocodile is able to drain the moisture out of any object, living or otherwise, with his powers.
Crocodile is the central villain of the Alabasta arc, as well as puppetmaster of the events during the Whiskey Peak and Little Garden story arcs. He is a former member of the Shichibukai, a Devil Fruit user (Sand Sand Fruit, Suna Suna no Mi), as well as president incognito of the crime syndicate, Baroque Works. Crocodile is the longest running primary villain of the series, as well as the first opponent to hand the series' hero, Monkey D. Luffy, a total defeat. First by impaling him through the chest with his hook, then later by absorbing all of the water out of his body. Both times Crocodile left Luffy for dead, a mistake he would later come to regret.
Before achieving Shichibukai status, Crocodile's former bounty was 81,000,000 belli, but it has been stated that if his bounty had represented his actual threat level during the Alabasta arc, it would be at least double that.
In a recent Japanese Fan Poll, Crocodile is currently ranked the 25th most popular character in One Piece.
Crocodile has traits that are an amalgamation of the previous primary villains of One Piece. He has Morgan's influence on the public, powers gained by way of a Devil Fruit (ala Buggy), Kuro's knack for planning, Arlong's cruelty, Krieg's carelessness for his subordinates and Wapol's dictatorous ambitions.
During public appearances, Crocodile poses as an aloof but courageous vigilante, often quickly and efficiently dispatching rogue pirate attacks before the Alabasta guard are able to respond. These acts help better his image among the people, while additionally undermining Nefertari Cobra's ability to protect his subjects. In private, however, Crocodile is brooding and perceptive. While constructing the idea for Project: Utopia, Crocodile projected every possible pitfall and prepared multiple contingencies as corrective measures. After hearing about Mr. 2 Bon Clay's encounter with the Strawhat Pirates, Crocodile was able to deduce that the white bands tied around each Strawhat arm were a safeguard against Mr. 2 Bon Clay's infiltration.
Crocodile is most well known for his sadism, impatience, apathy, and opportunism. Although quite reserved, Crocodile is quick to painfully punish anyone who fails him, even his own officer agents. After succeeding in driving the Alabasta Rebels from the city of Yuba with a relentless bombardment of sandstorms, Crocodile continued to invoke storms simply to spite the old man Toto who was intent on keeping the city alive.
Miss Goldenweek's Rainbow Color Trap reveals that his dream once was to become the Pirate King. From this, it can be assumed that he was, once upon a time, not too different from Luffy, but his experiences on the Grand Line must have corrupted him.
Many of One Piece's primary villains were given distinct laughs. Crocodile follows in this tradition with a staccato, monotone laugh. This does not carry over in the English dub, however.
Years before the start of One Piece, Crocodile used his government ties among the Shichibukai to secretly establish the organization Baroque Works, which was intended to transform the sand kingdom Alabasta into a fanatical military nation with himself as de facto ruler. This motive was disguised as Crocodile's desire to build an "ideal nation", and would be codenamed by Baroque Works officers as Project: Utopia.
Alabasta proved to be an ideal target for Crocodile; not only was it the richest nation introduced in the series thus far, it had a plethora of natural resources and an easily manipulable populace. Using scandals to inflame the people's nationalistic pride and revolutionary fervor, Crocodile was not only able to politically divide the country, but was able to establish himself as a venerated hero. Furthermore, Crocodile's gifts from the Suna Suna no Mi granted him nigh-invincibility in Alabasta's desert terrain. Finally, Crocodile learned (and sought from Nico Robin) that Pluton, one of the ancient weapons of the One Piece world, was buried somewhere in the kingdom.
To preserve his public image and ensure the success of his intrigue, Crocodile adopted the alias Mr. 0 (in accordinance with the Baroque Works codename policy), and issued all orders through his Vice-President, Miss All-Sunday. Prior to a day before the initiation of Project: Utopia, only Miss All-Sunday, Mr. 8, and Miss Wednesday were aware of Mr. 0's true identity. Impersonality is one of Crocodile's strongest traits; he is best able to preserve himself by not trusting a single soul, even among the members of his own company.
Despite his god-like powers, Crocodile has one weakness; if his clothes or skin are saturated by any liquid, or if he is hit with a wet object, his body loses the ability to become sand, allowing physical blows to harm him. Luffy used this to his advantage in his 2nd and 3rd battles against Crocodile. First by using water from a barrel on his back and this finally his own blood from wounds Crocodile had given him eariler (in the english dub this is changed to sweat with Luffy explaining that his skin wasn't getting enough air due to being underground.) This weakness is not crippling, however, for Crocodile can simply absorb any offending liquid through his right hand.
Sir Crocodile was finally defeated when Luffy, despite being poisoned during their fight, hits him with a Gomu Gomu no Storm. Knocking Crocodile through the roof of the catacombs through solid bedrock and into the air where he landed in the middle of the war he started, finally exposed for the criminal he was. Following his personal defeat in Alabasta and the collapse of Baroque Works, Crocodile was detained by Chief Petty Officer Tashigi and incarcerated by Captain Smoker. As a disgrace to the World Government, Crocodile was stripped of his Warlord status and his bounty reinstated. Though Miss Goldenweek breaks him and other Baroque Works members out of prison, he and Mr. 1 decide to stay behind. In the final cover panel of this mini-arc, Crocodile and Mr. 1 (along with the newly imprisoned Mr. 2 Bon Clay and Mr. 3) were transported to the Marine prison Impel Down. Whether or not he and the other three will escape is unknown; The four remaning are powerful people, and it's doubtable to many as to whether a cage made of Seastone will restrain Crocodile. The intelligence and cunning he has displayed have led many to doubt such a prison would hold him. Because of this fact, and his own refusal to be rescued by Miss Goldenweek, it is believed that he's staying in prison by his own will. His reasons for doing this are, as of yet, unknown.
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