Onigumo

Vice Admiral Onigumo (オニグモ中将) is a Marine officer, and one of the five vice admirals who led the Buster Call on Enies Lobby. His name was revealed in the third databook.

Appearance
Onigumo is a tall man with a scary-looking face and his eyes always semi-closed. He is usually seen smoking a cigarette, has long brown hair and wears an ancient war helmet with a small, traditional, Japanese dragon on it, and a long red plume hanging from it. Under his Marine coat he wears a double-breasted gray suit over a dark green shirt with a silver tie. He also has a golden loop earring on his left ear.

Personality
"With a moment of hesitation, how can you protect the future, from a criminal who is trying to escape? Fire!" Onigumo is a firm believer of the Absolute Justice philosophy, and is willing to sacrifice anything to defeat what is defined as "evil". This was shown when a soldier pleadingly argued against Onigumo's order of destroying a fellow Buster Call ship and 1000 comrades just to kill Monkey D. Luffy, which led Onigumo to shoot him in cold blood.

Despite his calm exterior at such moments, he is capable of rage and shock, as when the Buster Call failed, and when Monkey D. Garp was defeated by his grandson, respectively.

Abilities and Powers
As a Marine vice admiral, Onigumo is capable of commanding a Buster Call alongside four other vice admirals. He also used a flintlock to shoot a soldier for questioning the doctrine of "Absolute Justice".

He also had enough skill and speed to pin down Marco and clasp a Kairoseki-cuff onto his wrist.

Weapons
Unlike most other vice admirals, Onigumo seems to prefer sabers, rather than katanas. Using both of his hands and with the aid of his six spider-like appendages, he's capable of wielding eight sabers at the same time with extreme skill and deadly precision. He was also seen wielding a pistol to shoot one of his subordinates.

Haki
It was stated that all vice admirals possess Haki, so Onigumo can also use the ability. However, he has not yet been shown using it.

Miscellaneous Skills
Referencing to his name (鬼蜘蛛), Onigumo appears to be able to grow three pairs of spider-like black arms from his hair as well as a spider's abdomen on his back. With these spider-like appendages and his own two human arms, he is capable of wielding a total of eight sabers, in a similar fashion to Hatchan's Six Sword Style and Hyouzou's Eight Sword Style. These spider-like arms seem to be produced from his elongated hair. If this power stems from a Devil Fruit or not is currently unknown. If it doesn't, another explanation is that it could be the use of Life Return, controlling the movement of his hair in a similar fashion to Kumadori. This explanation would also make sense, as there seem to be some shared forms of martial arts forms between Cipher Pol agents and elite marines.

Enies Lobby Incident
He was the one who commanded three ships to attack a fellow Buster Call ship with all its 1000 fellow sailors on board just to target Monkey D. Luffy, who was fighting on it with Rob Lucci, though he had confidence that Lucci would survive. Onigumo also shot a soldier who was against the idea of sacrificing 1000 comrades to take down Luffy, enforcing his views on "Absolute Justice".

He was last seen shouting insults at the personnel of the Gate of Justice for closing it down (though in reality it was closed up by Sanji).

Fall of the Golden Lion
He was seen in the ending of One Piece Film: Strong World along with Strawberry and Yamakaji, as he witnesses the flying archipelago Merveille fall into the ocean. He and the others capture what was left of the Golden Lion Pirates after they were defeated by the Straw Hat Pirates. He later sees their ship falling from the sky, warning his crew that the Straw Hats were the ones in the ship.

Escorting Ace
He is later seen again during the Impel Down arc waiting to transfer Ace to Marineford, and telling his squad not to let their guard down for a second during the procedure, then telling Ace to take a final look at the sky since he will no longer be able to do so once he arrives in Marineford for his execution.

Battle at Marineford
He was seen holding eight swords along with his fellow vice admirals preparing to battle the Whitebeard Pirates and their allies. When the battle began, he was shown cutting down the Whitebeard Pirates with little effort. During the war he attacked First Division Captain Marco, slapping Kairoseki handcuffs around one of his wrists, in order to disable Marco's Devil Fruit-based regenerative abilities giving Admiral Kizaru an opening to shoot him. Onigumo was later shocked when Monkey D. Garp had fallen to his grandson, Monkey D. Luffy. In the anime, he rallies the morale of the Marines around him to pick up their swords and to bring justice through fear to the retreating Whitebeard Pirates. After the death of Whitebeard and the arrival of Shanks, he stood down upon order from Fleet Admiral Sengoku.

Major Battles

 * Marines and Shichibukai vs. Whitebeard Pirates and allies
 * Onigumo and other vice admirals vs. Oars Jr.
 * Onigumo and Admiral Kizaru vs. Marco

Anime and Manga Differences
In the anime during the Battle of Marineford, after the death of Ace and Whitebeard, Onigumo was seen giving a speech to lower ranking soldiers on how they should seize this momentum they are gaining by pursuing the escaping pirates, to show the world "justice" and to ensure that no more pirates will dare rise after this victory if the Marines can show how merciless they can be towards evil. In an ironic sense, this made said marines that followed this speech appear evil.

Translation and Dub Issues

 * "Onigumo" (鬼蜘蛛) is the Japanese name for a genus of orb-weaving spiders (Araneus ventricosus). However, based on the kanji directly, it can also mean "demon spider".

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