Foxy

Foxy the Silver Fox (銀ギツネのフォクシー Gin-gitsune no Fokushī) is the captain of the Foxy Pirates.

Personality
Foxy is a cheater and trickster, who participates in the Davy Back Fight, a contest between pirate crews where the winning team can steal crew members from the losing team. Most members of Foxy's crew joined him because he won them in this contest. However, they seem to be genuinely enthusiastic about being in the Foxy pirates, and wholeheartedly cheer on their crewmates and captain in the Davy Back Fight.

Though he acts supremely confident most of the time and seems quite fond of himself, Foxy is extremely sensitive to insults or criticism. Any offensive words from others cause him to instantly become depressed, and he usually ends up losing his footing and falling to the ground, barely supporting himself with his arms, while a black cloud suddenly appears over his head. Luckily for Foxy, all it takes is a few kind words from anybody to perk him up again. In the anime, Nami and Usopp used this weakness to their advantage by alternately hurling insults and compliments at Foxy non-stop, leaving him emotionally (as well as physically) paralyzed and unable to help his team during the roller race.

Abilities and Powers
Foxy is a cunning character who uses his Devil Fruit powers as well as various other tricks to aid in him cheating.

Devil Fruit
Foxy ate the Devil Fruit Noro Noro no Mi (ノロノロの実 Slow Slow) which allows him to fire microscopic particles as beams of light that can slow down his enemies or other objects for 30 seconds (he demonstrates this by slowing down a cannon ball fired at him... only to get hit by the cannonball anyway when he was gloating over its power for too long). When he cheats, he frequently uses these powers to increase the impact of his attacks or stop his opponents in their tracks. Luffy manages to beat this power by using a shard from a mirror he found on Foxy's ship, reflecting the Noroma photons back at him, then delivering a final blow with a 30 second delay.

When Foxy uses his Noro Noro no Mi powers, he always holds his hands in the same position: his thumb, ring and middle fingers are pressed together while his other two fingers are pointing upwards. Apparently, his Noro Noro Beam happens whenever he does this. During the Doughnut Race he was about to use his Noro Noro Beam when Robin sprouted hands on his arms, grabbed his fingers, and (painfully) repositioned his fingers so that he was aiming at himself - - it worked.

Other
Aside from his Devil Fruit powers, Foxy uses various other tricks that aren't dependent on his powers. These range from disguises to using equipment that would otherwise be considered cheating in normal standards.

The following are named techniques of Foxy that don't use his Devil Fruit powers:


 * Foxy Upgrade: Realizing that Luffy cannot be seriously injured by normal punches, Foxy places blue spiked glove covers on his boxing gloves. The sharp points allow him to do more damage.


 * Foxy Shichihenge (Foxy Seven-Change Disguise): Foxy disguises himself in costumes to trick his opponent so that he can set up a sneak attack. Though he believes them to be brilliant, the disguises are so poor that only a complete moron (i.e. Luffy) would be fooled by them.


 * Foxy Counter Blow: Foxy slips a bear trap shaped like a fox's head on the end of his boxing glove and punches his opponent with it.


 * Overhead throw of revenge: a technique used by Foxy on Luffy when he lost the captain fight, basically he just flips the opponent over his back and smashes him into the ground... only to wind up smashing himself into the ground as Luffy's limbs are rubber

Apart from his regular tricks, Foxy possesses a giant mechanical punching machine called the Gorilla Puncher #13 which he can pilot to use against his opponent in the Combat portion of the Davy Back Fight. The machine's punches are capable of being set on fire and are supposedly even capable of burning sea monsters.

The following are named techniques that Foxy uses with this giant robot:


 * Noro Marble Coach Devil: Foxy traps his opponent in a chamber with the Gorilla Puncher coming towards them. At the same time, he reflects his beams all over the chamber using its mirrored back wall and Mirror Racket. Even if his opponent manages to dodge all of the beams and punches, unless they think quickly they'll be eventually crushed against the back wall by the Gorilla Puncher. Luffy was able to counter this technique by smashing the mirror wall with his fists and escaped


 * Gorilla Puncher Golden Hit: Foxy punches his opponent with all of the Gorilla Puncher's flaming fists at once. This technique was powerful enough that it almost knocked Luffy out.

Davy Back Fight
Originally in the manga, when Foxy's crew faces Luffy and the Straw-Hat Crew, they play two three-match games. In the first game, the Donut Race, the Straw-Hats lose Tony Tony Chopper to Foxy. In the second round, Groggy Ring, Zoro and Sanji manage to beat their opponents and thus win back Chopper and with great aplomb the final round, Combat, Luffy triumphs over Foxy. He then decides to take Foxy's flag as his prize, instead of taking a crew mate.

However in the anime, in the second round after Sanji and Zoro win, Luffy picks a horse that Foxy had stolen which is given to the horses original owner, leaving Chopper with Foxy. In the final round of the game, Luffy wins again, and reclaims Chopper.

Unfortunately, Luffy stupidly accepts another round of games, and barely loses the first two matches, along with Chopper and Nico Robin, respectively. In desperation, Nami makes a deal with Foxy that who ever wins would take 500 people from the other captain's team. While the Straw Hats do not have nearly enough people, the deal allows Foxy to claim the Straw Hats' children and all descendants as his crewmate until he has enough people (which has Sanji wondering what his child would look like with fantasy's on having a child with Nami). In the final game, a duel between captains, Monkey D. Luffy wins and takes Foxy's pirate flag, along with Chopper, Robin, and 497 of Foxy's 499 subordinates, which he accepts, then dismisses. When he realizes that the Foxy logo is on the Foxy pirate ship's sail as well, Luffy offers to make them a new logo. The crews part without hard feelings, despite the crudity of Luffy's artwork.

Later in the One Piece series, in a filler arc, The Straw Hats meet up with Foxy again. Luffy saves Foxy, and the two subordinates that were not taken from Foxy, Hamburger and Porche. Foxy's old boat has been taken over by other pirates that Foxy originally won in an earlier Davy Back Fight. Luffy takes the ship back for Foxy, but then Foxy decides to get revenge on the Straw Hat crew. The Straw Hats easily defeat Foxy, but allows him to retain his dignity, but most likely will still follow Luffy to One Piece/Raftel.

Anime and Manga Differences
While the anime depicted Foxy's coat as purple, in the 2007 Calendar, Oda showed that Foxy's coat intended to colored silver as per Foxy's epithet. The calendar showed what Foxy's coat was meant to be colored but unfortunately showed an incorrect coloring of Foxy's nose contrasting how it was colored in the cover of Volume 33 of the manga.

Merchandise
He was featured in the One Piece Full Color R Gashapon series.

Trivia

 * Foxy's fight record is 920 wins 1 loss (against Luffy).
 * Foxy was in the Japanese version of One Piece Grand Battle Rush!, however he was one of 4 characters that was cut from the English version of the game. The Davy Back Games were turned into mini-games with Usopp and the Veggie pirates as the challengers instead, although his crew are still seen in the background of the mini-games.
 * Foxy was the first villain to ever been saved by Luffy (anime only).
 * Foxy seems to be given distinct laugh. Foxy follows this tradition with a "Feh" (i.e. Fuehfehfehfeh!).
 * In a recent character popularity poll, Foxy was voted the 95th most popular character in One Piece.