Fake Straw Hat Crew

The Imposter Straw Hat Pirates are a group of pirates that are impersonating the original Straw Hat Pirates in order to benefit from their reputation. They first appear after the two-year timeskip.

Crew
The impostor Straw Hats dress in the style of the original Straw Hats, but otherwise look virtually nothing like them, nor do they act the part.


 * Monky D. Luffy: A tall, fat, middle-aged man who kills anyone who even remotely displeases him.
 * Fake Nami: A woman about Nami's height with an unusually large, oval head.
 * Fake Robin: A short, ugly woman.
 * Fake Sogeking: A big man wearing a bogus Sogeking mask.
 * Fake Sanji: A man with an afro.
 * Fake Zoro: A man with a beer gut and swords resembling those used by low-ranking marines.
 * Fake Franky: A thin person with an unusually long neck.
 * Fake Chopper: A fox wearing a hat and a painted mustache.

Brook does not appear to have a doppelganger in the impostor Straw Hats, no doubt due to his relatively recent addition to the crew. Having not been part of their more famous escapades, only those personally familiar with the Straw Hats would be likely to know him as part of the crew, if at all.

Recruits
Monky D. Luffy is using his namesake's reputation to gather a strong crew to take on the New World. He's said to have recruited about 100 people, ten of which have high bounties. Among them are:


 * "Wet-Hair" Caribou: A former pirate captain and brother of Coribou. Famous for killing marines.
 * "Blood-Spatterer" Coribou : A former pirate captain and brother of Caribou. Famous for killing marines.

History
The impostors seem to have begun their charade relatively recently on Sabaody Archipelago, as word of their activites has only just reached the Marines. Their captain has been using Luffy's reputation to recruit pirates with bounties over 70 million beli into their crew. Due to the long absence of the original Straw Hats, most people believe the frauds despite them looking almost nothing like the originals, save for clothing. So far, at least three pirate groups have merged with this crew, including ten men with high bounties. The two most infamous pirates to join are the brothers "Wet Hair" Caribou and "Blood-Splatterer" Coribou, infamous rookies who have bounties of 210,000,000 and 190,000,000 beli respectively.

They are first seen on Sabaody Archipelago in the bar where Nami was drinking, trying to recruit people for their pirate crew. Their captain, the man impersonating Luffy, sees Nami and attempts to invite her over for a drink. Nami's dismissal angers him, so the fake Nami holds her at gunpoint. Usopp uses his new Pop Greens to disable the fakes, and he and Nami leave the bar. Nami leaves behind a batch of Weather Balls which create a thunderstorm to shock them. Ignorant of their identities, the fake Luffy orders them killed.

Elsewhere, as fake Zoro, Sanji, Robin, and Chopper were walking along the streets, they come across the real Chopper, recognizing him as the Straw Hats' pet from his bounty poster. They decide to take him on in order to make their ruse more convincing, but an unknown group of people pursuing the real Robin suddenly kidnap the fake Robin, scooping her up into a large bag, under the impression that they have caught the genuine article.

In his search for Ussop and Nami, the fake Luffy shoots two people who look vaguely similar to them. The real Luffy accidentally bumps into him and apologizes, but the fake Luffy calls out to him, again unaware of who he's talking to.

Trivia

 * Due to their naive personalities, both Usopp and Chopper believed them to be the real Straw Hats. Usopp in particular was shocked by the presence of Sogeking, despite the fact Sogeking is his own alter-ego.
 * The recruitment fliers have Luffy's first name misspelled as "Monky".