Crocodile

Early One Piece


One Piece Green: Secret Pieces revealed that an early concept of Crocodile was capable of making up very hard riddles, similar to the villain Riddler from DC Comics.

Major Battles

 * Crocodile vs. Whitebeard (unseen)
 * Crocodile vs. Puppu
 * Crocodile vs. Monkey D. Luffy (Desert)
 * Crocodile vs. Tsumegeri Guards
 * Crocodile vs. Chaka
 * Crocodile vs. Monkey D. Luffy (Arabasta Palace)
 * Crocodile vs. Nico Robin
 * Crocodile vs. Monkey D. Luffy (Tomb of the Kings Mausoleum)
 * Crocodile, Monkey D. Luffy, and Jinbe vs. Minorhinoceros, Minokoala, and Minozebra
 * Crocodile, Mr. 1, and Jinbe vs. Marines (outside Impel Down)
 * Crocodile and Mr. 1 vs. Whitebeard Pirates
 * Crocodile vs. Donquixote Doflamingo vs. Jozu
 * Crocodile vs. Donquixote Doflamingo
 * Crocodile vs. Dracule Mihawk
 * Crocodile vs. Admiral Akainu
 * Crocodile, Andre, and Whitebeard Pirates Commanders (minus Ace, Jozu, and Thatch) vs. Admiral Akainu

Filler Battles

 * Crocodile vs. Bullet (Unseen)
 * Crocodile, Lucci, Luffy, Hancock, Sabo, Law, Smoker, and Buggy vs. Bullet
 * Crocodile vs Roronoa Zoro

Appearance
In the manga, Crocodile's skin color is a more natural light skin color, as opposed to the anime's gray skin. In the manga, the poison hook beneath his golden one is far thinner than in the anime.

Impel Down Arc
In the anime it is partially seen how Crocodile changes outfits, as his shoes are laced by the Emporio Ivankov's Dancers. In the manga, Minozebra is defeated by Crocodile's Sables, while in the anime he is defeated by Jinbe's Gosenmaigawara Seiken. In the manga, Minorhinoceros is defeated by Jinbe's Gosenmaigawara Seiken, while in the anime he is defeated by Crocodile's Sables.

Marineford Arc
In the anime Crocodile mentioned that they were falling down out of the sky because of Ivankov. He is in fact blaming the okama, but this was proven wrong in the next episode, where it showed detailed explanation on what happened on their way to the war. The conversation between Akainu and the Whitebeard Commanders and Crocodile was extended in the anime.

Dressrosa Arc
In the manga, when the world learns of Doflamingo's sudden resignation from the Seven Warlords, Crocodile is not specifically shown or even confirmed to appear, only a shadowy figure with a long non-fur coat over his shoulders with a cigar in his mouth. In the anime, the cigar is removed but the coat was changed to Crocodile's trademark fur coat and Crocodile's golden hook is shown, confirming his identity in the anime.

Translation and Dub Issues
In the 4Kids dub, Crocodile underwent several edits. After his first fight with Luffy, Crocodile dangled Luffy upside down with his hook instead of impaling him with it. Strangely, in the next episode of the dub, Luffy was right-side up with Crocodile's hook being around his neck, but was still hanging upside-down in some shots. Another edit Crocodile suffered was that instead of being weakened by Luffy's blood in the final fight, he was weakened by his sweat. In spite of this, it was roughly edited- there were a few frames where the blood can still be seen. Also, in the hidden tomb with Nico Robin, he merely hit her in the back. In the original version, he impaled her through the back.

Additionally, scenes with Crocodile smoking cigars were cut. However, in one episode, 4Kids forgot to edit his cigar at one point. His personality was also changed to be much more sarcastic in the 4Kids dub, such as calling Luffy "desert doodoo". Also, due to cutting out the Little Garden arc, his feeding Mr. 3 to his Bananawani was for pointless reasons, which itself was a plot hole as he said he ordered Mr. 3 to follow the Straw Hats since they left Loguetown when he didn't even know about them yet.

Cultural References

 * In a mock-trailer in episode 50 of the anime series Gintama, a Crocodile lookalike of Kondou Isao (the stalker) is seen charging towards Shimura Tae. He is knocked away by a "Gomu Gomu Pistol" move pulled off by Tae as she yelled, "Gomu Gomu".

Merchandise


As a prominent character, he has been featured in the fan merchandise. Crocodile has been featured in the One Piece Anime Heroes and twice in the One Piece Gashapon Grand Battle sets. Crocodile has also been released in the P.O.P. Portrait of Pirates series. He's also appeared in One Piece Super Effect - Devil Fruit User, Super Effect Keychain, and One Piece The Combining Prison Impel Down!! with Jinbe. He has recently been released in the Figuarts Zero line.

Enemy Appearances

 * Treasure Wars 2 Welcome to Buggyland
 * Aim! The King of Berry
 * Dragon Dream!
 * One Piece: Pirates Carnival
 * One Piece: Round the Land
 * One Piece: World Seeker

Support Appearances

 * One Piece Romance Dawn: The Dawn of the Adventure
 * One Piece: Pirate Warriors
 * One Piece: Dance Battle
 * One Piece: Great Pirate Colosseum

Non-Playable Appearances

 * Jump Ultimate Stars

Errors and Corrections

 * In the serialization of a Cover Story Mini-Arc, Crocodile was once shown to have both hands, and no hook. This was corrected for the release of the volume and is now published with the hook correctly placed on his left arm.
 * In Episode 117 of the anime (roughly at timing 19:55), Crocodile was seen lighting his cigar with both hands (his hook is nowhere to be seen, and so are his numerous rings).
 * When Igaram first mentioned Crocodile's former bounty, he said it was 80,000,000. However, when Crocodile was introduced in person, his infobox said his bounty was 81,000,000.

Trivia

 * Miss Goldenweek's Rainbow Color Trap reveals that his dream was to become the Pirate King.
 * His animal theme is the crocodile. His name, the Bananawani he kept as pets, and his large scar (which resembles a "crocodile's smile") are all reflections of this theme.
 * The soundtrack playing during Crocodile's defeat is Dvorak's New World Symphony, specifically the 4th movement, "Allegro con fuoco". It was the third time in the anime when a piece of classical music was played in the anime (The first being Buggy and Gaimon's farewell, during which Chopin's Etude in E Major played, the second being Dr. Hiriluk's last speech, during which Ave Maria was played and the fourth being when the zombies claimed Absalom as their leader, with Ludwig van Beethoven's rendition of (Ode to Joy).
 * Crocodile is the first Seven Warlords of the Sea to be defeated by Luffy.
 * Crocodile is the only one of the original Seven Warlords to possess a Logia Devil Fruit.
 * In the 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th Japanese fan polls of most popular characters, Crocodile was ranked the 15th, 25th, 28th, 15th, 18, respectively.
 * In the 2nd and 3rd he is ranked as the second most popular of the Seven Warlords of the Sea, after Dracule Mihawk in both cases, in the 4th as the third most popular, after Trafalgar Law and Boa Hancock, and in the 6th as the fourth most popular, after Law, Hancock and Donquixote Doflamingo.
 * Crocodile draws many connections to the J.M Barrie play and novel Peter Pan in his approach.
 * His profession as a pirate refers to the pirate Captain Hook, as does the hook hand he possesses.
 * His name and connection to crocodiles refers to the Crocodile who is Hook's greatest nemesis and has constantly tried to eat him after he ate his hand leading to the obtaining of his hook hand.
 * His obsession with time and a time bomb refers to the constant usage of time associated with the story: the Crocodile who wishes to eat Captain Hook has an alarm clock in his stomach which causes him to tick every time he approaches causing the pirate to be fearful whenever he hears clocks. Likewise in the 1953 Disney adaptation of the story, one of his climactic schemes is a time bomb he uses to blow up Peter Pan's base of operation at a precise time, similar to his ultimate scheme of destroying both sides of the Arabasta civil war at a precise time in Alubana.

SBS-Based Trivia

 * In SBS Volume 56, a fan asked Oda why Crocodile was wearing his own clothes since he was still in prisoner clothes after he's released, Oda replied that he went to Newkama Land and got his clothes from there. This is depicted in the anime.
 * Crocodile's birthday, September 5, comes from the Japanese transcription of his name's first and third syllables since 9-5 can be derived from cu-co.
 * It was noted that if the World Government had known that Crocodile was the head of Baroque Works, his bounty would be at least doubled to 162,000,000.
 * Crocodile's favorite foods are crocodile meat and tomatoes, while his least favorite food is ketchup.