Talk:SWORD

Akainu has a Sword shaped tattoo in his arm. Maybe add a trivia reference? Blueicemonkey (talk) 11:04, September 19, 2019 (UTC)

First Appearance
We don't know when SWORD was created, or how long X-Drake has been in it, so is it correct to put it on the first appearance? NewBack (talk) 12:32, September 19, 2019 (UTC)

The group officially debuts in this chapter since we had no previous info of its existence. KingCannon (talk) 12:39, September 19, 2019 (UTC)

His Vivre Card stated he joined Kaido for an unknown reason, and he is seen reporting about Kaido's activities. Pretty clear he was a member before the timeskip, and it is unlikely to have happened after Sabaody. Rhavkin (talk) 17:12, September 19, 2019 (UTC)

I mean, literally the only thing we've seen change for Drake in the story is that he started serving under the Beasts Pirates...doesn't make much sense to assume that he was an actual pirate pre-timeskip before being integrated back into the Marines for SWORD. Kaido King of the Beasts (talk) 17:36, September 19, 2019 (UTC)

What KingCannon said. SeaTerror (talk) 18:03, September 19, 2019 (UTC)

Drake's rank
I think "captain" may be a misleading word for his role, as it can be in conflict with the actual "Marine Captain" rank. As the real word is "隊長" (Taichou), the same of the White Beard Division Commanders, and not "大佐" (Taisa), I think something like "Leader" would be good enough. Just a suggestion. 00:32, September 8, 2020 (UTC)

I think this might be my fault. I jumped on filling out this page quickly and ran with the weird Japanese -> French -> English translation. I was hoping someone would correct it eventually but here we are. Skyxkami (talk) 03:21, November 25, 2021 (UTC)


 * It's not based on whatever you added; it's based on the Japanese and was supported by the Viz and FUNimation translations. Dragonus Nesha (talk) 04:05, 25 November 2021 (UTC)

SWORD's role
After reading the recent chapter (1080), here's my conclusion about SWORD. - SWORD is a not a Special Forces, rather, it's a Black Operations unit, the organization is akin to ONI (Office of Naval Intelligence) where Marines has their own intelligence unit. This ops, however, most marines would see them resigning, but in reality, were reassigned to a Black Ops to do a clandestine mission. - Marines can disavow them anytime they wish should the failure is on them. - SWORD can disregard or not follow any protocol. Meaning, they're free to do as they please as long as Marines Command gives them mission and asset they need. - As Aokiji stated, SWORD can disregard or ignore certain command protocols and they can engage Yonkou without authorization. Special Operations normally follows the command protocol, but Black Operations barely follows any protocol, and they'll act they see fit as long as they carry out their duty from the Command. As for the new crew, let's welcome Tashigi to SWORD. Valkyrious (talk) 12:47, 9 April 2023 (UTC)