Charlotte Linlin/Abilities and Powers

Overview
As formerly one of the Four Emperors, Big Mom is one of the four most powerful pirates in the world. As the only female member, this effectively makes Big Mom the single most powerful female pirate in the world. The Five Elders have stated that she is one of the few people capable of stopping Blackbeard. When her fellow former Emperor Kaidou, known as the world's "Strongest Creature", threatened to kill her if she came to his territory, Big Mom simply invited him to try and said he would not be able to dissuade her. Even the Straw Hat Pirates recognized that she could crush them quickly and easily if they fought her recklessly.

As the captain of the Big Mom Pirates, Big Mom has amassed an extremely powerful crew, as well as several strong subordinates such as Jinbe, a fish-man and former Warlord of the Sea, and Capone Bege, a member of the Worst Generation. She possesses considerable influence within the Underworld as well, having connections to the Vinsmoke Family, which leads the legendary Germa 66. Those who marry her children automatically become part of her crew.

While under Big Mom's protection, Fish-Man Island was protected from pirate attacks, indicating a powerful influence similar to that of the late Whitebeard. She is known to destroy entire countries over sweets and is intimidating enough that even her underlings Pekoms and Tamago, who are powerful in their own right, are afraid of talking to her when she is angered. In fact, almost everyone, including her own children, has been shown to fear her. Ironically, this fear makes Big Mom stronger due to the nature of her Devil Fruit powers. Big Mom's arrival during a battle between her crew and the Sun Pirates and Germa 66 brought great jubilation to her crew, indicating that her presence would likely turn the tide of the battle in their favor. After regaining her memory Big Mom was also able to scare Queen of the Beast Pirates, with the latter even admitting that he did not stand a chance in battle against her, despite having defied her when she was amnesiac over oshiruko earlier. Even after being captured and held by pure Seastone chains and kept under watch of all three All-Stars of the Beasts Pirates, the crew continued to feed her sweets to keep her in a good mood, while constantly fearing her presence alone.

In spite of Big Mom's incredible strength, her greatest weakness is her wavering mental state. Whenever she enters her craving sickness, she will act wild and out of control, endangering everyone around her, including her allies, and becoming unable to think or act rationally until she gets the food she is craving. Similarly, if her portrait of Mother Carmel is damaged in any way, Big Mom will suffer a mental breakdown, falling to her knees and crying while becoming completely oblivious to everything around her, even when threatened, as seen during Bege's assassination attempt.

At the early age of six, Linlin's first known bounty was 50,000,000, implying that even at such a young age she was considered a significant threat. This bounty later increased to at least 500,000,000 and due to her status as a former Emperor, her current bounty is 4,388,000,000.

Intelligence Gathering
Big Mom's overall influence allows her to gather information about the backgrounds of people she is interested in, with said information being used to issue threats and demands. It is said that even demons would attend her tea parties if they were invited. She was even aware of the waterfall-climbing method used by ships to enter Wano Country with giant koi, with her intelligence gathering being praised as the best in the pirating business. However, her reach is not unlimited, as she was completely unaware of the existence of Mogura Port in Hakumai, which would have allowed the rest of her children to regroup with her safely by gondola.

Tactical Skills
Despite her childish personality, Big Mom is an incredibly skilled military strategist. as she is willing to break promises and betray potential allies to get what she wants. While putting up a fake front of desiring an alliance with the Vinsmoke Family, she had no intention of marrying off one of her favorite daughters, Pudding, to create this alliance. Instead, mother and daughter plotted together to lure the other family in to massacre them during the wedding ceremony, in order for Big Mom to acquire the Germa Kingdom's cloning technology. She also has her children to marry off powerful allies in order to bolster her crew's strength.

Strength
Big Mom has immense superhuman physical strength, demonstrated by her ability to climb tall buildings despite her massive size, throw punches with tremendous destructive power, and hurl Prometheus with extreme force using only a single arm. She was already born with her unnatural strength, as seen when she killed a large bear instantly with a single smack, merely intending to scold the animal, as well as broke several of a giant's bones by trying to slap a mosquito on his back, all when she was just 5 years old. When suffering from her cravings, she could destroy a village in Elbaf and defeat several armed giants without a single scratch, being described by Jorul as an "evil god in the form of a child". She was strong enough to not only break Jorul's sword with her fist when he tried to attack her, but also grab the giant's beard, flip him over her shoulder, and smash him into the ground with enough force to mortally wound him. Carmel believed she had the potential to become an admiral or fleet admiral in the Marines.



According to Bege, she can single-handedly wreak havoc on towns and sink battleships without any effort. During a craving-caused rampage of hers in Sweet City, it was estimated that she might even bring down her mountain-sized castle itself if no one were to stop her. Katakuri also noted that his mother can destroy Totto Land itself and cause even worse unimaginable destruction. She was able to break through the metal doors of her castle's treasure room, which even her daughter and Sweet Commander Smoothie could not break through, just by walking into them. Even while sleeping, she could smash the stone floor around her bed by simply tossing and turning, as well as do the same with a slap while half-asleep to merely kill a fly. Big Mom also easily damaged Bege's Big Father fortress form, which was said to be impervious to cannon-fire. Later on, Big Mom easily defeated the Raid Suit-wearing Germa 66 commanders Vinsmoke Judge, Vinsmoke Niji, and Vinsmoke Yonji by herself, the latter two being genetically enhanced superhumans, without incurring so much as a scratch on her person. She can also walk through the ground unscathed without being slowed down. While in an amnesiac state, she easily overpowered the powerful Ancient Zoan user Queen, jumping up to his head, grabbing it and smashing it into the ground with tremendous force before effortlessly lifting and throwing him into a wall and sent Luffy flying into a wall with a slap, despite him defending with Busoshoku Haki. She was also able to clash equally with her fellow former Emperor Kaidou for two days without being injured. Even when magnetically bound to the side of a tower after being weakened, Big Mom possessed enough strength to rip the entire tower out the ground simply by turning around.

Durability and Endurance
Big Mom also possesses tremendous superhuman durability due to her extremely tough skin, being compared by Sanji and Capone Bege to an iron balloon. She is able to destroy cities, sink ships, and resist cannon and gun fire without receiving a single injury. It is said that no weapon can pierce her skin. She is also able to grab Prometheus, put him in her hair and ride on him for a long period without getting any burns despite Prometheus being a miniature sun. However, it loses its toughness completely when she is in a psychological crisis, such as when someone dropped Mother Carmel's photograph that she holds dear to the point that just falling to her knees could cause her to bleed. Brook's Soul Solid, which he used to cut through the tough hide of powerful dragon from Punk Hazard, failed to leave a single mark on her skin. She easily crushed Vinsmoke Judge's spear with her teeth when he tried to attack her with it. Big Mom later took a massive thunderbolt from Zeus that was empowered by Nami's Weather Egg, which was powerful enough to create a giant crater in the ground and was completely unfazed by it. This is a tremendous feat, as a regular unenhanced thunderbolt from Zeus was powerful enough to knock out Vinsmoke Judge in one hit. Later on, she withstood the force of Pedro's suicidal explosion—a massive blast powerful enough to grievously injure her son Perospero, despite him wearing a Candy Armor to mitigate its effects—only to rise again absolutely unscathed. Shortly afterwards, she took a point-blank hit from the Thousand Sunny's Coup de Burst and was once again completely unaffected by it. While in an emaciated and hungry state, she also took the full force of Jinbe's Buraikan and quickly recovered without apparent damage. She also withstood Queen falling onto her head with the full weight of his brachiosaurus form and suffered no significant damage. However, even at full strength, Linlin's durability is implied to have limits, as both Bege and Brûlée believed that falling from the top of Whole Cake Chateau would have actually killed her.

She also has a very high level of stamina and endurance. She was able continue to act normally after being wrapped one hundred times in 100% pure Seastone chains and receiving one hundred shots of heavy strength tranquilizer that is normally used for wild animals. No other character in the series has been shown to be able to ignore the weakening effects of Seastone, even without being injected with tranquilizer.

Besides her tremendous strength and durability, Big Mom's body also possesses other abnormal characteristics. Her metabolism seems to be extremely fast, which can limit her endurance. While suffering from a craving for wedding cake, she quickly burned through her excess fat, becoming much slimmer mere hours after the craving fit had started. While she is significantly more agile in this skinnier state, her skin seems to become much less durable, as she received superficial burns and bruises after being struck by her homie Zeus' discharged lightning, which she had withstood without issue while in her heavier state. This, however, seems to be a secondary effect of her cravings, as she was able to fight Kaidou for two days without getting slimmer or weakened while in her normal state of mind. Her sense of smell also seems to be extremely acute, as she was able to catch the wedding cake's scent despite the ship carrying it being several miles away and barely visible in the horizon.

Speed and Agility
Despite her enormous size, Big Mom is extremely fast in combat as she instantly caught up with Luffy, Sanji, and Reiju. She is also incredibly agile, as shown with her Marma-Raid attack, in which she jumps in the air and spins forward vertically.

Ultrasonic Scream


Big Mom also has the ability to emit an extremely loud shriek when psychologically destabilized. Her scream is powerful enough to send nearby objects flying and completely incapacitate those around her, causing them to either faint or cover their ears in pain, even individuals as powerful as Luffy or Sweet Commanders Smoothie and Katakuri. The Vinsmoke siblings, who were genetically enhanced to have superhuman fortitude, were also shaken by her scream until they were given earplugs. The sheer pressure from her scream, along with her Haoshoku Haki, can destroy incoming projectiles before they reach her body, providing a form of defense in lieu of her usual bodily toughness.

Devil Fruit


After the death of its previous owner, Carmel, Linlin somehow acquired the powers of the Soru Soru no Mi, a Paramecia-type Devil Fruit that allows her to manifest peoples' souls as an ethereal substance that she can grab hold of, so long as the intended victim feels fear. She can then steal the soul from the victim, taking away their lifespan by an amount of her choosing. She can take a person's entire remaining lifespan, thus killing them instantly, or she can just take part of that person's remaining lifespan, leaving their lifespan that much shorter. However, this ability has no effect on those who do not fear her or cannot hear her voice.

Once she has them, Big Mom can infuse the stolen souls into objects to give them life, turning them into beings called homies, which act as her servants. Nearly anything can be made into a homie, including animals, plants, minerals, liquids, furniture, food, buildings and even intangible things such as fire, air, and light. Anything made into a homie gains human-like attributes, such as the ability to walk and talk. The only things that cannot be made into homies are people and corpses.

She can also consume her own soul in order to make herself bigger and stronger, as well as infuse souls into her own skeleton, allowing her to heal her own broken bones by commanding them to return to their proper structure.

She can also create incarnations of her own soul that will complete the task of collecting souls.

Special Homies


In addition to creating homies from the souls she has taken from others, Big Mom can use fragments of her own soul to create "special homies", which are far more powerful than regular homies due to being made from fragments of her own incredibly powerful soul. Her special homies originally consisted of Zeus, a thundercloud summoned with her left hand; Prometheus, a sun summoned with her right hand; and Napoleon, a bicorne she wears on her head. These three special homies are Big Mom's most powerful weapons.

Zeus can unleash extremely potent lightning bolts, powerful enough to instantly knock Raid Suit users unconscious and shower entire battlefields in lighting. Prometheus' flames are capable of burning fire-resistant opponents and he can expand to a tremendous size to incinerate entire forests. Big Mom can also combine their powers to manipulate the weather and create massive storms. She can also ride either Zeus or Prometheus to fly through the air at high speed. Napoleon can telepathically receive information from other homies and relay it to Big Mom, and can also reveal a retractable blade and hilt, allowing him to transform into various swords with devastating offensive power, which he can use to both attack on his own or be wielded by Big Mom in combat, where she can swing him with enough force to cleave through entire islands.



During the Straw Hats' invasion of Totto Land, Zeus was captured by Nami and turned into her servant, although Big Mom managed to reclaim him during the Fire Festival raid on Onigashima. However, after once again losing Zeus during the battle against the Worst Generation on the rooftop of the Skull Dome, Big Mom, angered by Zeus' perceived incompetence, and at Prometheus' suggestion, decided to replace him with a new thundercloud special homie named Hera, who proved to be much stronger (punching a massive hole in the Skull Dome) and more in sync with her fellow special homies than Zeus ever was, allowing for Big Mom and her homies to use stronger and more complex moves. Big Mom later had Hera attempt to consume Zeus in order to merge their souls together and increase her power.

While Big Mom's homies have often given her a major advantage in battle and maneuverability, they have also been exploited as a form of weakness where various characters have used strategies that involved separating her homies from her. The result often put Big Mom in unfavorable situations that her opponents would then use as an opportunity against her.

Haki
Big Mom is one of the very few people in the world who is capable of using all three forms of Haki. Law stated that he could not directly move Big Mom around inside his ROOM due to her Haki being too strong.

Haoshoku Haki


Big Mom possesses immense mastery in the usage of Haoshoku Haki. She was first seen using it at Sanji and Pudding's wedding to knock a man out for questioning her relationship with Mother Carmel. When her portrait of Carmel was destroyed, a distraught Big Mom unleashed her Haki, which, along with her loud screams, incapacitated most of the party guests.



When she fought with Kaidou at Onigashima, the clash of their Haoshoku Haki created a massive shockwave that split the heavens. Big Mom is among the "handful" of users who can imbue with Haoshoku Haki into themselves, as signified from the black lightning emanating from the imbued area. As such, this drastically increases her attack power, supplemented by her natural physical strength and Busoshoku Haki.

Busoshoku Haki


Big Mom is an immensely skilled user of Busoshoku Haki. By hardening one of her arms, she easily blocked Luffy's Kong Gun, a notable feat, since that attack had been shown to be capable of breaking through the powerful Haki defenses of highly skilled Busoshoku Haki users such as Doflamingo, Cracker, and even Katakuri. Her casual use of Busoshoku sports a flame-like pattern at its ending, same as when Luffy and Katakuri use their strongest attacks.

She is also capable of using the advanced application of projecting her Busoshoku Haki out from her body, allowing her to strike opponents without directly making contact with them.

In the anime, when Big Mom uses advanced Busoshoku Haki, it is shown as a yellow and red colored flowing aura.

Kenbunshoku Haki
Big Mom possesses the ability to use Kenbunshoku Haki.

Swordsmanship


Big Mom's bicorne, Napoleon, can reveal a hidden blade and handle and become her personal weapon. Using it in combination with her monstrous strength allows her to unleash powerful shockwaves that can cause massive destruction. None have yet shown to prove able to withstand Napoleon's powerful strikes, as even Jinbe was overwhelmed by the blade despite putting up his best Haki defenses. Napoleon can also be engulfed in Prometheus's flames to increase its attack power.

Weapons
She was seen wielding a flintlock and a normal sword in her youth.