Lucky Roux

Lucky Roux is a member of the Red-Haired pirates and one of Red-Haired Shanks main crewmembers.

Appearance
He is very fat and is always seen eating a rack of meat. Out of the the entire crew, he appears to have changed the least over the years and shows little in the way of aging signs. Most of the time, Lucky Roux is shown smiling happily.

Personality
Lucky appears to be a very fun loving pirate who is often seen hanging around another one of Shanks's crewmembers, Yasopp. He is the first person to actually kill someone in One Piece and sets the stage for the series; a pirate's life is a dangerous one.

He has a very large appetite and in the manga he is seen swallowing a whole barrel of Sake by himself in the background while the crew was at the bar Makino worked in. He is always shown holding a large rack of meat in at least one hand.

Abilities and Powers
He was able to sneak upon on one of Higuma's men and shoot him without anyone knowing until it was too late, all that while eating. Besides that, there is no other indication of his strength. Reports of Lucky Roux being the fastest man in the world has been passed off as a myth and thus is untrue to this date.

Weapons
So far he has been seen using a type of gun called a flintlock.

Past Story
How and why Lucky Roux came to join the Red-Haired Pirate crew is unknown.

Lucky Roux is first seen in Luffy's past, amongst Shanks' crew. He joined in with his crews fun while they were bragging about a pirates life in front of Luffy. He is next seen supporting his captain when a bandit pulled out a pistol on him and threatened to kill him by killing the bandit first.

Present Story
He is fighting or standing back and watching his captain stopping Kaidou.

Major Battles
N/A

Early One Piece
Lucky Roux seems to have been the end product of redrawing of a previous fat member of Shanks' crew who appeared in the Romance Dawn in several panels. Notably, Lucky Roux appears in a panel that itself is a repeat from the orginal Romance Dawn, also in the same part the human chain when the crew is dancing about a pirate's life, he also has mirrored pose that is identical to the orginal fat crew member from the orginal Romance Dawn.

Translation and Dub Issues
"Roux" translates from French as "russet-red". In the 4Kids dub, the scene where Lucky Roux shoots the bandit was edited so that he instead shoots a cap gun near the bandit's head. Shanks was then given added dialog, implying that the bandit just passed out, rather than being killed ("When he wakes up, tell him it was a cap gun").

Although his name can be either "Lucky Roux" or "Lucky Roo," the most common form is "Lucky Roux". He is known by "Lucky Roux" in the official English versions as well.

Apperances Outside of the Series
A character that looks like Lucky Roux appears in a pirate crew in an episode of the Nicktoons cartoon Kappa Mikey. Since the series is known for its random references to anime (as the series takes place in Japan and the main characters are actors for a fictional anime). This is likely the staff's nod and referance to One Piece as the episode the Lucky Roux look-a-like appears in deals with pirates and the show's anime references are usually to what the episode's theme is. For example the same episode that the Lucky Roux look-a-like appears in also dealed with in video games, thus a couple characters from a popular video game series from Japan were featured in the episode.

Trivia

 * It is likely that his name is a reference to Lucky Luke, a fictional cowboy (gunfighter) from the "Lucky Luke" Franco-Belgian comicbook, created by Morris de Bevere. Lucky Luke's is known as "The man who shoots faster than his shadow".