Squard

"Great Whirlpool Spider" Squad is an infamous New World pirate who allied himself with Whitebeard.

Appearance
Squad has a bald top, but wavy hair that flows long downwards. He is always seen sticking his tongue out. He also has sharp teeth.

He also wears a spider design on his forehead, with a diagonally-placed headband that attaches to it. The spider has a spiral design at its bottom. He wears a long coat and long pants that goes up to his waist.

Abilities and Powers
Squad has managed to make himself an infamous reputation in the New World, and has managed to ally himself with Whitebeard. His strength or ability as a captain seems to be highly respected by Whitebeard, as he was Whitebeard's first choice in leading the counter attack against the Marines.

Squad is a swordsman, and he wields a normal sized katana and an oversized one, the latter which is used to stab through Whitebeard's chest.

Past
While Gol D. Roger was still alive, he killed all the members of Squad's crew, which led Squad to carry an intense hatred towards the Pirate King.

Marineford arc
Squad and his crew are first seen, along with a fleet of 42 other infamous pirate crews, allied with the Whitebeard Pirates, attacking Marineford to save Portgas D. Ace from his execution. When Whitebeard changed his strategy due to Ace's execution being moved to an earlier time, he tried to contact Squad to have him lead the New World pirate allies to attack the Marine battleships. However, according to Squad's crew, he had disappeared to an unknown location, leading Whitebeard to contact the Decalvan Brothers next.

Squad appears on Whitebeard's ship, apologizing for being absent when Whitebeard needed him. As Whitebeards announces that he will now join the fray himself, Squad pledges his continued allegiance to Whitebeard, saying that he will continue to help him. However, to Whitebeard's surprise, Squad suddenly impales him through the chest with his blade. When Marco attacks him, asking him the reason for his actions, Squad claims that Whitebeard had betrayed him twice: the first time when he didn't tell him that Ace was the son of Gol D. Roger, the man Squad hates the most for having killed his first crew; the second time when he sold his New World's allies to the Marines for saving Ace. Admiral Akainu, in fact, following the orders of Sengoku, has deceived Squad, using his shock for knowing of Ace's origins for making him believe Whitebeard's betrayal. Having understood this, Whitebeard hugs Squad, telling him he loves him anyway, and starting his last attack against the Marines, leaving Maelstrom on the Moby Dick crying for his mistakes.