Talk:Gecko Moria

Correct article title?
Shouldn't this article really be titled "Gecko Moria"? Since when does English words have two "k"'s in them and end with an "h"? Gekko Moriah sounds as stupid as Jinbei, Zolo or Hordi.

It was confirmed in a databook. Gekko, with two k's means moonlight. It was Gecko Moria up until we learned the correct spelling from the databook. 23:04, February 2, 2013 (UTC)

But why does his last name end with an "h"? Even in the romanization it doesn't do that.

Dunno. I don't come up with the romanizations, I just move the pages. If I had to guess, maybe so it could look similar to the English female name Moriah (Mo-rai-uh), but that's just me. 23:13, February 2, 2013 (UTC)

@Sewil, there's no need for an actual reason. Why "Luffy" and not "Lufy", "Luffi", or "Ruffy"? We don't know, Oda chooses what looks best to him.

@sff9, But he never romanized it as "Moriah" to begin with, but to "Moria", so who came up with the "Moriah" name?

I don't think it was ever romanized as Moria, that's just how the scanlators decided to spell it. Oda comes up with all romanizations. 23:53, February 2, 2013 (UTC)

Exactly. And no-one has yet used "Moriah". So why is it there I ask?

Because it was first seen in a databook, and he hasn't appeared since his name was romanized so there's no reason to use it. Moriah is there because it is correct. What we (and scanlators) do is we take the spelling closest to how the name is pronounced and use that until we get a romanization, if we do at all. 00:21, February 3, 2013 (UTC)

Oda didn't choose it, sff9. Whichever assistant worked on the databook did. SeaTerror (talk) 03:12, February 3, 2013 (UTC)

And Oda approved on it. 03:14, February 3, 2013 (UTC)

@ST, whatever, my point was there's no need for an explanation. (Though, in this case, I think the romanization is too original for it not to be Oda's. Nevermind anyway, we'll never know.)

Bounty active again
Since Moriah was revoked of his Shichibukai title, isn't his bounty active again once Doflamingo told him that the World Government dismissed him for deeming him too weak to carry on his Shichibukai title? I mean, even though he is not seen again since then nor heard of I think there should be the reference where he is deprived of the Shichibukai near the one showing his (former) bounty from chapter 455.--212.150.174.180 13:19, April 26, 2014 (UTC)

Until we have evidence that he's still alive, we can't say his bounty is active again.

13:24, April 26, 2014 (UTC)

We actually do. One of the databooks mentioned that he was spotted a few times either in Paradise or the New World. It should already be on there. What we don't know is if the Marines want to downplay his escape and retracted his bounty so they wouldn't look incompetent. 14:15, April 26, 2014 (UTC)

They couldn't reinstate his bounty since they already had the newspapers print that he died during the war. 21:42, April 26, 2014 (UTC)

If you really want to get technical, then his bounty would have been temporarily reinstated from the time his status was rescinded until the time Doflamingo should have killed him. And did the papers actually print the story or was that just what they were going to do assuming everything went to plan? 17:59, April 27, 2014 (UTC)

Didn't Perona read that Moriah died in the paper? I thought that was the source we had for his alleged death.

18:42, April 27, 2014 (UTC)

Yeah, you're right, it was in chapter 592. I only checked that after I posted. 18:48, April 27, 2014 (UTC)

So are we dropping this topic, since he's been reported dead and they can't have an active bounty on a dead guy?

18:55, April 27, 2014 (UTC)

Yeah. He's dead on paper, which means his bounty is retracted, assuming he hasn't done anything to draw attention to himself and get a new bounty or his old one reinstated. 23:50, April 27, 2014 (UTC)