The following list is a list of minor characters in One Piece:

Portgas D. Ace

Portgas D. Ace is Monkey D. Luffy's older brother.

Ace first appeared in the Alabastan city of Nanohana; he was seen sleeping in the spicebean restaurant. He left Fuschica Village three years before Luffy, and he is an faithful crew to Whitebeard (Edward Newgate), his captain. He was in Alabasta to search for his former partner named "Blackbeard" who use to be Whitebeard's Crew. Blackbeard killed a crew and fled and now Ace is looking for him so he can kill him.

Ace has eaten the Mera Mera Fruit , one of the Devil Fruits, and is able to turn himself into fire (as Smoker can turn himself in to smoke).

Alvida

Alvida is an obese woman who is in charge of the Alvida Pirates Crew. She sees herself as the most beautiful lady in all of the 4 Seas, If someone disagrees, She'll smash them with an Iron club. She imprisoned Coby to be her cabin boy and was afried of her. She is defeated by Monkey D. Luffy in the beginning of the manga and anime, but she later comes back with the power of the Sube Sube Fruit, which makes her skinny, smooth and really beautiful. In Logue Town, she attempts to help Buggy the Clown execute Luffy, but fails once more. She is currently with Buggy somewhere in the Grand Line on Skull Island.

Sir Crocodile

Sir Crocodile is one of the Shichibukai, or Seven Armed seas when translated, who are pirates of incredible power who work for the government. Despite his government contract, Crocodile organised a crime syndicate called Baroque Works, which carries out plans in secrecy. His second in command, Miss All-Sunday (who is really Nico Robin) is the only one allowed to know that he is the head of the group.

Crocodile brought Baroque Works to Alabasta and worked there to incite a rebellion. He possesses the powers of the Suna-Suna (Sand-Sand) Fruit which lets him turn his body to sand and it a devil Fruit of the Logia type which is one of the most powerful. It is also noted that he had a hook for a left hand. He was looking for the ancient warship called the Pulton which he believe is buried somewhere in Alabasta. He wanted to be an Alabastan king with Pluton near him, but found out Pluton was not in Alabasta and plans to kill his Baroque Works vice president Nico Robin. He was defeated by Luffy, saved Nico Robin and King Cobra from the collapsing tample.

Jango(Django)

Jango (ジャンゴ Jango), spelled "Django" in the English anime and manga, is the first mate of Captain Kuro. He uses disks that double as chakrams to hypnotize people to his advantage in battle. "Django" is the spelling used by the United States version of One Piece released in the U.S. Shonen Jump by Viz.

Jango wears strange clothes, including a long coat covered in the disks he uses to fight and hypnotize, and black-lensed heart-shaped glasses. It can be assumed that his character was based on Michael Jackson and Steven Tyler, the Aerosmith's singer (look at his face, it's really him), as when he travels he usually moonwalks, and he uses flashy gestures similar to Michael Jackson's dance moves. Other notable similarities can be put between his trench coat and his heart shaped sunglasses.

Jango possesses the power of hypnosis, which he uses to put people to sleep and to make Captain Kuro's crew far more powerful and fierce. He is not, however, perfect with his hypnosis - when he puts people to sleep, he usually falls asleep as well. And when he hypnotized the crew to make them stronger, he also accidentally hypnotized Monkey D. Luffy - with unpleasant results.

Jango was ordered by Kuro to kill Kaya, but before he could kill her, Usopp hits him with his exploding stars. Jango was thought dead, but secretly survived. Through many adventures and lots of hypnosis, he ends up a Marine recruit, working alongside the disgraced Ironfist Fullbody, under the command of Hina (whom they both adore).

Gaimon

Gaimon is a character that gets his body imprisoned in an empty treasure chest after he loses his grip while scaling a small cliff on the mysterious Island of Rare Animals trying to find some treasure with his pirate crew. The crew leaves Gaimon stranded on the island. The treasure chest becomes his body and cannot be removed, however, he can still use his hands, head and feet. It takes 20 years for another person to find him.

After Gaimon shrinks when he gets stuck in the chest, he can no longer scale the cliff. He has to protect his treasures somehow, so he would use his gun and his spooky voice to drive away intruders. Monkey D. Luffy and the whole crew passes the trial and they begin to become friends. However, when Luffy finally gets to the top of the cliff, Gaimon realized that the treasure chests were empty too and he had been protecting a nonexistent "treasure" for 20 years. Then, he considers the animals as his treasures, and vows to protect them.

Gin

Gin, known as Ghin in the English anime, is Don Krieg's right hand man. Gin is given a plate of food by Sanji for free when Gin is starving on the Baratie. When Don Krieg's forces come to take over the Baratie, Gin is ordered to kill Sanji. Gin, a person who tortured and killed other people with his clubs, could not make himself kill Sanji. Gin is punished by Don Krieg.

Gold Roger

Gold Roger is the former Pirate King, and the previous owner of the legendary treasure known as The One Piece. Gold Roger was quite fearless, those who saw him just before his execution claim that he smiled gleefully just before his death. In the anime, two men jabbed spears into his heart. In the English anime's opening animation, the narrator claims he was hanged, while the English manga says they "lopped off his head." The original Japanese manga, however, never reveals how he was executed (which may or may not become an important plot point in the future).

The death of Gold Roger marked the beginning of the age of pirates. This was because his legendary treasure; The One Piece was now up for grabs, so people took to the seas in search of it.

Later on in the manga Dr. Kureha reveals that his true name was Gol D. Roger. The significance of the middle initial "D." (which is shared by Luffy and his brother Ace) could suggest Gol D. Roger was related to Luffy in some way.

Kaya

Kaya is a rich girl who gets an inheritance after her parents die. Kaya becomes sickly, and her servant Klahadore often tends to her. One day, Usopp, the town liar, listens in on a conversation between Klahadore and Jango, a hypnotist. Klahadore, also known as Captain Kuro, reveals that he plans to kill Kaya for her money. Usopp tries to warn Kaya about the plot, but Kaya believes that he is lying; therefore she hits him when he insists that he is telling the truth.

Kaya is later informed of the truth by Merry, another servant of hers. Kaya confronts Kuro during a battle between Kuro and his men and Monkey D. Luffy, Usopp, Nami, and Roronoa Zoro (Roronoa Zolo in the English anime and manga). Kuro reveals that he tried to kill Merry. Kaya aims a gun at Kuro, but she drops it and cries after Kuro talks about how he was publically at her side and how much he wants to kill her. Usopp tells his "pirate crew" (in reality a group of children who lie along with Usopp) named "Usopp's Pirates" (known as the Veggie Pirates in the English anime) to protect Kaya. The members, Carrot, Onion, and Pepper, flee with Kaya to the forest. Jango chases after them and attacks the group. When the children try to sneak up on Jango, he attacks them and threatens to kill them. Kaya threatens to kill herself unless the children are kept alive. As she has not yet signed a will that states that Kuro is to get Kaya's worth when she dies, Jango would be in trouble if she kills herself at this point, so he agrees to leave the children alone. In the English version of the anime, it is explained that Kaya tries to use Jango's chakrams against him, but the chakrams will not let her use them.

The children pretend to be knocked out when Jango forces Kaya to sign the will. Right before Jango is able to slice her throat apart, Usopp's pirates ram him with a shovel. After Jango knocks them away, Usopp and Zoro appear. Zoro slices off a branch with his sword, while Usopp hits Jango+

with his Secret Technique Shooting Star attack, saving Kaya's life.

After the incident, Kaya gives the Going Merry to Luffy and his group of pirates as gratitude for saving her life.

Kohza

Kohza is Princess Vivi's childhood friend and an leader of the Suna Suna Clan. (Suna=sand)

11 years ago, when Vivi was five years old, Kohza who is Vivi's age he went into the palace without his father Toto to bag King Cobra to save his oasis hometown Yule. At this point, Alabasta had a drought and Yule was drying up, because his father told him a king can do anything. He told the king to sent rain but the king told Kohza that he does not have to power like God to do that, Toto rushed in and scold Kozha for sneaking in without his notice. Cobra excused them and asked them to live in Alubarna, Toto approved that but Kohza rejected it, he went off cying and bumped into Vivi. Vivi insulted him calling him an crybaby, these two got in a fight. Ingram, the royal guard captain went berserk at this and tried to get Kohza and kill him while Cobra had to pull him from doing that, Toto almost commited suicide to beg for forgivness, that's when Cobra hand-chopped the two to calm them down and informed them that it's only a kiddy fight. Vivi and Kohza went outside, the boys support Kohza while the girls support Vivi. Vivi won the fight, so Kohza made her a sub-leader for the Suna-Suna clan and they became friends.

Later, some thugs begin to harass Vivi, and they wanted to kidnap her. Kohza and the Suna-Suna clan defended Vivi and told her to run. They tried to stop the thugs but they are too big for them, so almost almost all of the clan was wounded. Vivi ran into the ruins as the crazed thugs chased her, Kohza followed. When one of the thugs found her, Kohza jumped in, one of the thugs pulled out a knife and stabbed Kohza near the left eye giving him an permanant scar. Kohza managed to knocked out the thug, Kohza was bleeding, the other thugs almost kidnapped Vivi, but Cobra and Ingram came to the rescue just in time to kick the thugs down. Chaka and Pell, the two bodygaruds showed up and wonders why the king is far from his palace. Kohza and the other clans were taken to the palace for medical treatment, and Kohza developed a relationship with Chaka.

8 years have passed, and the drought struck Alabasta again by the Dance Powder, which steals rain from other clouds. This incident was known as Dance Powder Scandal. It started in Elmulle, some carriers were bringing the bags of Dance Powder to Alubarna, the cart wheel was broken and the bags fell off and ripped up, since the powder was illegal to use, it was exposed. When people were asking what it, one carrier lied to them that the king was ordering them, thus people beginning to blame the king. the people started to get mad at the king, the rebellion was stirring up, yet no one knew it was really the work of the Baroque Works, who's boss was Crocodile, one of the seven gods of pirates.

Dr. Kureha

Kureha, an old doctor, taught everything she knew to her student, Tony Tony Chopper.

Captain Kuro

Captain Kuro, a.k.a. Klahadore, is the dreaded head of the Black Cat Pirates . He is also known as Kuro of the Thousand Plans for his elaborate plans that never fail. He uses deadly sharp claws hidden in his hands to attack with. He has incredible speed and stealth and was the scourge of the seas until he vanished three years ago by stagin his own death during a sea battle with the navy.

Captain Kuro set up an elaborate scheme in a small village he came to live in, in order to live free from pursuit with great wealth. He took the name Klahadore and secretly killed the wealthy parents of Kaya, who lived on the island. He then became the servant of Kaya for the next three years. When three years passed, he contacted his old first mate, the hypnotist Django, and arranged for the Black Cat pirates to siege the village, force Kaya to write and sign a will leaving all her wealth to Kuro, and then kill Kaya.

His plan goes awry when he is overheard by Monkey D. Luffy and Usopp when he speaks to Jango about his plans. Luffy, Usopp, Roronoa Zoro, and Nami fight with the Black Cat Pirates. Luffy ensures that his plan is a failure; Usopp saves Kaya from Django in the nick of time, Zoro defeats the Meowban Brothers (Siam and Butchie), and Luffy defeats Captain Kuro.

Captian Kuro is first introduced in the manga in Chapter 23 - Introducing Captain Usopp (as Klahadore) and is defeated by Luffy in Chapter 40 - Usopp Pirate Crew.

Vivi

Vivi is the princess of Alabasta. Not much is known about her, other than she contantly has a strange looking duck-like bird named Carue around her at all times,and she does indeed join Luffy's crew temporarily, before going back to her Alabastrian home to rule it.

Blackbeard

Blackbeard is the captain of the Black Beard pirates. Along with Van Auger (a sniper), Jesus Burgess (a fighter), Doc Q (a doctor), and Lafayette (an ex-policeman), his pirate group has pillaged the Drum Kingdom, leaving its king to flee. Later, Lafayette tried to nominate Blackbeard to become one of the Seven Armed Seas, but in order to be accepted, Blackbeard must first build up his reputation to be feared. Therefore, he planned to capture Luffy, who has a 100 million bounty on his head. Yet he seems unaware that Ace is afer him

Iceburg

Iceburg was the founder of the Galley-la ship company, and the mayor of Water Seven, a water canal based city, much like Venice. He was also an apprentice to Tom, the legendary merman shipwright who built the Oro (Gold) Jackson, Gold Roger's ship, and the Sea Train, a ship resembeling a train which runs on tracks. He later employed carpenters with talents both in carpentry and fighting, and therefore, able to eradicate any pirate threat which endanger his company or city.

Later, he was pressed by the CP9 to hand over the blueprints for Pluton, an ancient warship which is one of the ancient weapons.

Franky

Franky was known as Cutty Flam in his early life. Tom, the legendary shipwright took him as another apprentice after he was thrown out by his parents. He usually wears shirt and swimpants only, and particularly skilled in constructing devices out of scraps. The name Franky was first said by Iceburg since the name Cutty Flam was too strange.

There was an CP5 leader name Spandam who tries to buy the Pluton blueprint from Tom. When Tom won't coorperate, He had one of his man to use the Battle Franky that Franky build to fire at the Jury ship; thus framing Franky, Tom and Iceburg. After they prepare to take Tom away, an enraged Franky attacked Spandam.

Franky got ran over by the Sea Train, while he tried to stop it, since Tom was being accused of a crime he did not do. His dying body drifts to a scrapped ship and he immediately replace most of his body parts with metal, and he practically became a cyborg. Back in Water Seven, he organised a bounty hunter/dismantler group called The Franky Family.

His family attacked Usopp and stole the 100 million berries; the wounded Usopp goes after them to his hideout to get them back only to get beaten up. Franky then left to spend the berries. After Luffy wiped out the Franky Family to avange his friend, he decide to change the ship because it was irrepairable; Usopp sees himself weak and quits the crew.

Usopp challenges Luffy to a duel to win the ship. Usopp loses the duel but gets to keep the ship anyway. The dishearted Luffy and his crew leaves Usopp alone with the empty ship. Later, when Franky finds his hideout and his family beaten up, he swears revenge.

Enraged he goes to find Luffy to challage him to a fight. Beacuse Iceburg was shot by Nico Robin, the Straw-Hat Pirates were to blame; the shipwights was after both the brooding Luffy and Franky so ethier won the fight. Luffy tried to reason with the angry mob but to no avil, Franky became pissed off at the shipwigths for inturrping his figth, he perform the Coup de Vent that blows the ships up, giving Luffy and Nami time to escape.

Franky later found Usopp and took him and his ship to his warehouse. Franky wanted to use Usopp as a bait to lure Luffy to his lair so Franky can finish figthing him. He had his family running around Water 7 spreading the news for the Straw-Hat to hear saying things like "Franky is holding that long-nose freak! He is beating him to a bloodly plup!!"

But in the warehouse Franky develop a warm friendship with Usopp. Franky who was also a shipwright inspected the Going Merry and told Ussop that it's ineeded irrepairable and tries to dismantel GM but Usopp who was so extremely attacted to the ship tries to fight Franky only to find himself get thrown in the water under the ship and saw the kneel badly damaged.

Usopp of course tries to repair the ship again; Franky told him to quit that because no matter how many times he does that the ship will sink anyway. The angery Usopp, rudly told Franky to shut up but he confessed that he knew this all along and told Franky about an strange figure who repaires his ship to an orginal state back in Skypedia.

Franky understood him and told him about a ship spirit called the Klabauterman; a ship that repairs itself. Usopp realize it was Going Merry who repairs itself and had talked to him.

After a breif discussion, thier was the knock on the door. It was none other than CP9. Franky tries to encourge Usopp to go back to his friends again; Yet Usopp was so hard-headed, he got in the arguement with him. Franky tries to reason with him but was cut of when he saw his "Square Sisters" getting knocked down by Califa.