 The citizens of Alabasta have grown rebellious in recent years. Riots and uprisings have thrown the kingdom into turmoil. Then, one day, I learned of a secret organization called Baroque Works. The boss deceives his minions with talk of an ideal country. However, the true aim of Baroque Works is the conquest of Alabasta. Hello and welcome to One Piece 101, the series that breaks down everyone and everything in the One Piece world. And today we're going to be stepping into the realm of nostalgia to discuss some of the most classic villains in the entire series being Baroque Works. Baroque Works is a criminal organization that operated within the first half of the grand line and were introduced into the series during the reverse mountain arc. Going on to serve as the primary antagonist for the entirety of the Alabasta saga. The group was founded by former Wallard of the sea, Sir Crocodile, with the sole goal of throwing the kingdom of Alabasta into civil war so that he could take advantage of the chaos to reach upon a glyph said to detail the location of the ancient weapon, Bluton. And in order to achieve this, Crocodile crafted an incredibly complex and secretive society in which members were primarily anonymous. And in fact, up until the climax of the plan, the large majority of even Baroque Works upper staff had no idea that they were in fact working for Sir Crocodile who was only referred to by the codename of Mr. Zero. And these codenames would become a common feature through the top two tiers of agents within the organization which were referred to as the frontier and officer agents respectively. These individuals were placed in paired cells with a male member being given a number and a female member being referred to as a day of the week or a holiday. With a holiday name typically denoting a higher rank than the standard day of the week codenames. So to see this naming scheme in action, let's begin by examining the frontier agents. And the lowest ranking member we actually met in the series was Mr. Eleven. You may recognize him as the member who was captured by Smoker, but a fun little often neglected fact is that he also ended up dueling to Shiggy and he lost, thus losing his Mato Blade cashew in the process. But of course, Mr. Eleven went on to be assassinated by another branch of Baroque Works which we'll get into in a bit. But for now, it's important to note that his frontier partner was Ms. Thursday. Although unfortunately, we have never seen her because she ran away when the pair encountered Smoker's unit. And just while we're on the topic of unknown agents, rather unfortunately, we've never met Mr. Twelve or his partner Ms. Saturday either, although they were briefly mentioned by Vivi. Moving down the line though, the next pair we have are Mr. Ten and Ms. Tuesday who were never shown in the series. However, they were planned to be included at one stage with their concept art being displayed in one piece color walk too. However, next up we have a very familiar duo being Mr. Nine and Ms. Wednesday. Now, not only do they have the distinction of being the first Baroque Works agents we meet in the series, but Ms. Wednesday is actually Princess Vivi in disguise who managed to infiltrate the organization in an attempt to save her kingdom, Alabasta, from its nefarious schemes. Mr. Nine, however, had no ulterior motive in joining Baroque Works. However, he did become very loyal to his partner during their time together. Taking one step up, we have the partnership of Mr. Eight and Ms. Monday who were another rare example of loyalty within the organization, especially in the case of Mr. Eight, better known as Igaram, who like Ms. Wednesday was also an undercover agent for the kingdom of Alabasta seeking to thwart Mr. Zero's plans. Meanwhile, Ms. Monday followed a similar arc to Mr. Nine and in fact, these two cells of agents would make up the bulk of the forces who encountered the Straw Hats on Whiskey Peak and attempted to claim Luffy's bounty. However, after being thoroughly defeated by not only the Straw Hats, but also some officer agents of Baroque Works, the pairs split up with Vivi being taken in by the Straw Hats and Igaram, after seemingly being killed, making his way back to Alabasta. After this event though, Mr. Nine and Ms. Monday decided to form something of a partnership of their own, deciding to stay on Whiskey Peak and the two would even go on to have a child together. Beyond this, we have Mr. Seven and Ms. Father's Day, who denotes the first use of a holiday in the female partner's name, meaning that we must be getting into some serious territory. Well, so you'd think. It's actually hard to tell to be honest because they didn't do a whole lot other than guard crocodile's bomb at the climax of the Alabasta saga. Although I suppose Ms. Father's Day was responsible for sniping Pell out of the air, but in any case, these two were outplayed by Nefertari Vivi, the former Ms. Wednesday, thus failing their mission and falling into unknown status. Rather interestingly though, the Mr. Seven we know in the series was not the first agent to hold this code name as the previous Mr. Seven was actually sent to recruit Zoro into the organization. However, he was killed by the future store hat swordsman. And what you're seeing right now is a sketch that Oda drew in an SPS of what the original Mr. Seven would have looked like. Handsome devil he is. Now, sadly for our final two frontier agents, Mr. Six and Ms. Mother's Day, this is another pair that have never actually made an appearance but were mentioned by Vivi. In fact, the only information we have in regards to anything concerning these roles is another SPS question where a fan asked how Mr. Seven's appearance would change if he were promoted to Mr. Six, which is a fantastic picture because if it wasn't obvious by now, the appearance of all male agents are heavily inspired by plastering them with their literal number. But with that, we have dealt with the frontier agents and it's time to move on to the highest grading in Baroque works with the officer agents. And commencing this upper echelon, we have Mr. Five and Ms. Valentine, more uncommonly known as Gem and Mikita respectively. These two are very notable because they are both double-foot users with Mr. Five wielding the Boma Boma Noomi and Ms. Valentine having consumed the Kyo Kyo Noomi, making them immediately more dangerous than any of the agents we've previously examined. These two first appeared on Whiskey Peak having been sent by Mr. Zero to deal with a spy within their ranks. Although whether or not they knew that both Ms. Wednesday and Mr. Eight were spies is a bit vague, but it didn't matter anyway because the two of them, along with Ms. Monday and Mr. Nine, teamed up against Mr. Five and Ms. Valentine anyway. Although their ultimate defeat came by the hands of Luffy and Zoro, who knocked them out in a single strike after the agents got in the way of their fight. The pair would later appear on Little Garden teaming up with other officer agents but were beaten once again by the straw hats, although to be fair, it was a much harder for battle this time around. Next up is Mr. Four and Ms. Merry Christmas. Both of whom were present for Operation Utopia on Alabaster with Ms. Merry Christmas, real name Drowfee, being a Zoan type Devil Fruit user who can transform into a fearsome mole beast. Meanwhile, Mr. Four's only real skill lies in being able to hit things super hard with a bat, hence his real name Babe being named after Babe Ruth. And while he himself isn't a Devil Fruit user, his dog gun certainly is. Last up is a gun that has somehow quote unquote, eight, the Inu Inu No Mi model Duxand and spends its life sneezing out explosive baseballs for Mr. Four to hit our opponents. And despite this sheer dog power, this hell would go on to be defeated by the straw hat combination of Usopp and Chopper. Edging closer to the top, our next dynamic duo consists of Mr. Three and Ms. Golden Leak, also known as Galdino and Marianne. Now these two are the first pair of agents that I would actually call incredibly dangerous as Mr. Three has a Paramecia type Devil Fruit that allows him to conjure and manipulate wax, although he is somewhat mentally held back by his artistic nature, which means that he can't operate on anything less than a grand scale. Now, Ms. Golden Leak also has an incredible power, although contrary to popular belief, it is not a result of a Devil Fruit. Ms. Golden Leak is simply such a good painter, allegedly a realist, that she can manipulate emotions and actions simply through her artistic ability alone. And together, these two came very close to defeating the straw hats, but thanks to some heroics from Usopp and Karoo, that was not meant to be. Now we move to Mr. Two, Bon Clay, whose real name is Bentham. He is a unique existence with imbaroque quirks because he does not have a partner as he represents both male and female due to his Okama nature. As a result, he gets assigned a combination of code names, being a number and a holiday. So Mr. Two is obvious, but in case you're not aware, Bon Clay is a specific knight of the Obon Festival. Now, holding onto one of the highest ranks within the organization, Bon Clay holds some amazing skills both in his combative abilities of Okama Kempo, as well as his Devil Fruit, the Manamaninomi, which essentially allows him to take on the appearance of others, which he mainly used to impersonate the King of Alabasta and was an integral aspect in sparking the nation's civil war. However, during Operation Utopia, he was defeated in combat by Sanji. And finally, for the officer agents, we have Mr. One and Ms. Doublefinger, being Darth Burns and Zala. Both of these figures are Devil Fruit users of the Super Supernomi and the Togetogetomi respectively, and their powers are incredibly handy for conducting assassinations. Despite this, Ms. Doublefinger would go on to be bested by Nami, while Mr. One was impossibly cut down by Zora. But then of course we arrived back at the top with Sir Crocodile as Mr. Zero, but he also had a partner, codenamed Ms. Olsande, better known these days as Niko Robin, archeologist of the straw hats. However, Baroque Works is a bit more expansive than this, featuring too much larger groups of individuals known as the Millions and the Billions. In total, there were 1,800 millions serving in Baroque Works, all of whom also seem to adopt codenames, with the ones we're aware of being Ms. Catharina, Mr. Beans and Mr. Shimizu. Now, as for the Billions, they are rather counterintuitively a higher rank than the Millions, and there were about 200 of them in existence. They say counterintuitively, because you'd think that there would be more Billions than there are Millions, but whatever. And just like the Millions, we only know the names of three of them, which are Mr. Mello, Akumai, and Mr. Love, who quite notably wears a jacket declaring his love for Ms. Valentine at all times. Billions are very interesting though, because they are the group directly in line to be promoted to frontier agents, and each of them is actually said to be about as strong as the agents who were assigned numbers higher than 10. So that would be Mr. 11, Ms. Thursday, Mr. 12, and Ms. Saturday. In fact, speaking of Mr. 11, the Billions are the group responsible for killing him, although most of the Billions were defeated in an instant by Port Gastiais, unleashing a feast he can upon them. And the final faction we need to consider are the Unluckies. These two creatures, being codenamed Mr. 13 and Ms. Friday, serve primarily as personal messengers for Crocodile himself. However, they are also charged with executing agents who fail or betray the organization. These two were eventually defeated by Sanji on Little Garden, and were captured by the Marines who bribed them with a nice hot bowl of Donburi to provide information on Brokeworks agents. Now, as you've been informed, Brokeworks was mainly quashed by the Straw Hats, who helped stop the Civil War in Alabasta, with Monkey D. Luffy going on to beat Sir Crocodile, who was then arrested, along with many of his top officer agents. However, this was certainly not the end for the organization, as their story continued in the Miss Golden Weeks Meet Brokeworks cover story in which Marianne leads a rescue mission to break her former colleagues out of jail, leading to great success for all, but Crocodile and Dars Bones, who for no satisfactorily given reason, decide to remain in jail, and Mr. 3 and Bon Clay are captured in the process, with all four of them being sentenced to impale down. For the agents who did escape though, they all settled down together and started a business known as Spider's Cafe, which was named after one of their previous meeting spots. And as far as we're aware, to this day, the agents are still running their business. For the others though, they would go on to be a prominent feature of the impale down arc, with Galdino, Dars Bones, Crocodile, and of course, Bon Clay, becoming members of Luffy's jailbreak gang. And Bon Clay even went so far as to quote unquote sacrifice himself to impersonate the warden in order to allow them to escape. When I say quote unquote sacrifice, I mean that he somehow survived his encounter with Magellan and remains an impale down to this day as the new queen of level 5.5. Meanwhile, the other three went on to be present at Marineford for the Paramount War, with Galdino being the one who ultimately provided the key to Ace's freedom. However, brief that freedom was, and after the war, he went on to join the crew of Buggy the Clown, who received an invitation to become a warlord of the sea. During this time, Crocodile and Dars Bones very much formed their own separate party, although they did both assist Luffy directly, but following the conclusion of the war, they both entered the new world where they are still lurking at the time of this recording. Some more fun facts about Baroque works. During the end portion of the Miss Golden Week cover story, she activated a special colors trap that revealed the dreams of most of the officer agents, including Mr. One's dream to become a superhero and Crocodile's dream to become the pirate king. The name of the organization comes from the artistic movement Baroque, which swept across Europe in the early 17th century and is characterized by an incredibly detailed and ornate style which was applied to painting, architecture, dancing, music, and essentially any form of the arts available at the time. Miss Doublefinger's code name actually refers to New Year's Day, which when written as a date would be a double one. And apparently when Oda talks about dates, he uses his fingers to represent the month and the day. So he gave Zala the code name of Miss Doublefinger rather than Miss New Year's Day, despite the fact that it was essentially an in-joke for him and him alone. Also coincidentally, Oda's birthday is on New Year's Day. And finally, a truly useless fact. In the second one-piece movie being Clockwork Island Adventure, a representative from Baroque Works was allegedly present, as the organization's Jolly Roger can be seen behind the going merry when it is captured. 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