Roronoa Zoro


 * The subject of this article is sometimes called "Roronoa Zolo".

Roronoa Zoro is a pirate, former bounty hunter and one of the main protagonists of One Piece. He was the first member to join the Straw Hat Pirates, and to date is universally considered the largest threat and most dangerous member in the crew after Luffy. He is famed as a master swordsman, user of the Santōryū style, and his great strength sometimes leads others to believe he must be the true captain. Being labeled as one of the "Monster Trio," he's one of the top three fighters in the crew. Zoro was labeled as one of the eleven pirates referred to as "The Eleven Supernovas," having a bounty of 120,000,000.

Appearance
Zoro is an average sized, muscular young man. He almost always carries around his three swords, bundled up with a green haramaki over his right hip, allowing him to easily draw them with his left hand. His right hand is usually seen resting over them, though he can also use this hand to pull his swords out before sitting down. He has three identical gold earrings on his left earlobe. Zoro normally keeps a black bandanna tied around his left arm. He ties the bandanna around his head when he is fighting seriously against an opponent.

Zoro's shirt varies from time to time, but he consistently wears black trousers tucked inside black boots. Zoro is most commonly seeing wearing a plain white shirt with three buttons at the collar, but after this shirt is effectively torn to rags due to the incident at Thriller Bark, he wears a different shirt with each arc.

His body is covered with scars from his many battles, most notably the one acquired during the Baratie Arc, when he lost a duel with the world's greatest swordsman, Mihawk. Zoro was left with a massive scar stretching from his left shoulder to his right hip. In the Little Garden Arc, he tried to free himself from a wax prison by cutting off his feet. Although he did not entirely succeed, he gave himself a scar around each ankle. These scars are marked by black stitches.

Zoro's other remarkable feature is his green hair, which Sanji often teases him about by calling him 'marimo' (moss-ball, moss-head in the Viz Manga and FUNimation dub).

After the two years timeskip, Zoro has a new scar running down his left eye (though on his first appearance in chapter 598's cover page, the scar was incorrectly placed on his right eye), and was hinted in chapter 599 that he may have lost it during his training with Mihawk. His neck appears much thicker and more muscular. Zoro now wears a long, open dark-green coat, closed on his waist by a red sash, in which his swords are now tucked. He has no shirt underneath, and his green haramaki is visible under the coat. There is also a cross on the sword that he is holding. He may have modified his sword during his training.

According to Oda, Zoro resembles a shark. Oda uses the color green to represent Zoro, and he smells of steel.

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 * Captain Morgan arc
 * Kuina
 * Mihawk
 * Santōryū
 * Straw Hat Pirates
 * Tashigi
 * Bounty Hunters
 * Swordsmen

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