Doflamingo

Biodata

Background and History

Fall from Mary Geoise

The Donquixote Family was Dressrosa’s royal family before it moved to Mary Geoise roughly eight hundred years ago and became part of the Celestial Dragons. The Riku Family subsequently took Dressrosa’s vacant throne 85.

When Doflamingo was eight, his father, Homing, gave up the family’s Celestial Dragon status and brought his wife and sons to live among ordinary people. Civilians who had suffered under Celestial Dragons hunted the family, burned their home and forced them to live in a garbage dump. Doflamingo’s mother, Natiyavida, died of illness 162.

After Doflamingo escaped an attack by civilians with a burst of Conqueror’s Haki, he killed Homing and took his head to Mary Geoise, hoping to regain his former status. The Celestial Dragons rejected him, and he swore to overturn their world 157 162.

Trebol, Diamante and two others later gave Doflamingo the String-String Fruit and helped him establish the Donquixote Family in the North Blue. His younger brother, Rosinante, left the family, joined the Marines and eventually returned undercover to stop him 162.

Law and Corazon

Doflamingo recruited the gravely ill Trafalgar Law into the Donquixote Family, suggesting that a Devil Fruit traded by the organization might cure him. Law spent two years with the family before Rosinante, known as Corazon, took him away to seek treatment 159 161.

Corazon obtained the Op-Op Fruit for Law and entrusted him with information intended to save Dressrosa. Law unwittingly delivered it to Vergo, Doflamingo’s undercover agent, who exposed Corazon. Doflamingo sealed Minion Island with the Birdcage and killed his brother thirteen years before Law’s later confrontation with him 140 161 162.

Taking Dressrosa

Doflamingo threatened King Riku with a massacre unless he surrendered the throne or raised ten billion Beli from Dressrosa’s citizens. After Riku borrowed the money, Doflamingo controlled him and his soldiers, forcing them to attack civilians and burn the country. Doflamingo and his officers then appeared as rescuers, defeated the controlled soldiers and won public support 109.

Under his rule, Tontatta were imprisoned in the factory, including Princess Mansherry. People were also transformed into toys by his subordinate Sugar. The Tontatta and their allies organized to rescue the prisoners, restore Riku’s honor and overthrow Doflamingo 98 99 108.

Appearance

• Wears sunglasses and a feather coat; he uses the coat defensively with Armament Haki 111 168.

Personality

Doflamingo takes pride in his Celestial Dragon bloodline and treats ordinary people as inferior. He resents his father for relinquishing their privileged status and delights in manipulating others, including making Dressrosa’s citizens turn against one another 134 157 168.

He regards his subordinates as family and intervenes to protect them: he held back when Law threatened Jora and attacked Law when Trebol was endangered. His treatment of Bellamy was markedly different; Doflamingo admitted that he had used him for amusement and never intended to admit him to the family 101 156 157.

Abilities and Skills

String-String Fruit

Doflamingo can produce and manipulate strings for movement, combat and control 101 111.

• Aerial movement: He attaches strings to clouds to travel through the air; Law notes that this method cannot pursue a target if there are no clouds 101.
• Five Color Strings: A slashing attack used against Sanji and, alongside a clone, against Luffy and Kyros 100 133.
• Bullet String: Fires string projectiles from a fingertip 112.
• Spider Web Wall: Creates a string barrier capable of blocking and cutting falling masonry 163.
• Puppetry: Controls other people’s movements, using this ability against King Riku, Bellamy and Luffy 109 157 168.
• String clones: Creates doubles that can fight independently under his control; one continued moving after Kyros severed its head 133 157.

Birdcage

Doflamingo forms a vast cage of sharp strings around an area. He used it on Minion Island and later around Dressrosa 133 161.

• Dressrosa’s residents could not cut its strings with swords or damage them with cannons 133.
• He can shrink the cage inward, threatening to slice apart everything inside 164.
• He can dismiss it himself, as he did while escaping Dressrosa 173.

Devil Fruit Awakening

Doflamingo’s awakened String-String Fruit affects his surroundings, allowing him to turn buildings and ground into strings 167.

• White Line Shield: Raises thick strings from the ground to block an attack 167.
• Off White: Turns the ground into waves of string 168.
• Thousand Arrows: Piercing Heart: Feather Thread: Attacks with numerous Armament Haki-coated strings 168.

Haki and Endurance

• Conqueror’s Haki: As a child, Doflamingo knocked out civilians attacking his family; he later clashed with Luffy using it 162 165.
• Armament Haki: He coats his body, clothing, attacks and strings for offense and defense 111 133 168.
• Endurance: He continued fighting after Law’s Gamma Knife and endured repeated Gear Fourth attacks before Luffy defeated him in the footage 164 165 167 168.

Equipment

• Pistol — Used to shoot Law and to threaten him with execution 111 163.
• Feather coat — Coated in Armament Haki to block Law’s sword thrust 111.

Relationships

• Rosinante / Corazon — Doflamingo’s younger brother and an undercover Marine. Doflamingo killed him after Vergo exposed his efforts to protect Law and warn Dressrosa 140 161 162.
• Trafalgar Law — Former Donquixote Family member who sought revenge for Corazon and allied with the Straw Hats to stop SMILE production. Doflamingo also wanted Law to use the Op-Op Fruit to grant him immortality 101 112 140.
• Monkey D. Luffy — Opponent who fought Doflamingo in the system’s Dressrosa footage and defeated him with King Kong Gun 165 168.
• Trebol — One of the men who helped establish the Donquixote Family and gave Doflamingo the String-String Fruit 157 162.
• Vergo — Donquixote Family officer who operated undercover in the Marines and exposed Corazon 157 161.
• Bellamy — Admirer who wanted to join Doflamingo’s family; Doflamingo manipulated, mocked and defeated him 69 156.
• Kaido — An underworld business associate. Doflamingo fled toward Onigashima and sought him out after Dressrosa came under attack 102 173 174.
• King Riku — Dressrosa’s former king, whose reputation and throne Doflamingo stole through a staged massacre 109.

Story Role and Major Arcs

The Dressrosa footage

The system’s footage shows reports that Doflamingo had abdicated and resigned as a Shichibukai. CP0 later tells Dressrosa’s citizens that both reports were false, revealing the reach of his influence 79 84 85.

In the projected conflict, Doflamingo and Fujitora corner Law. Doflamingo defeats and shoots Law, then takes him to the palace. When unrest spreads and the toys are freed, he encloses Dressrosa in the Birdcage and announces a game: citizens can end it by killing him or bringing him the heads of the people he names 64 111 114 133 134.

Law and Luffy confront Doflamingo on the New King’s Plateau. Doflamingo cuts off Law’s right arm and survives Gamma Knife, but Luffy ultimately breaks through his defenses with King Kong Gun. The system declares Luffy the winner; Doflamingo, watching in the present, dismisses the footage as no guarantee of reality 163 164 165 168.

Present-day Dressrosa

After the footage exposes his secrets, Doflamingo acts in the present and deploys the Birdcage. A projected future version of Luffy attacks him; Doflamingo dismisses the cage and flees toward Onigashima 158 173 174.

Kaido’s interference allows Doflamingo to escape, but the God from Beyond the Domain reports that his accomplices have been brought to justice, the Riku family rescued and Dressrosa liberated from the Donquixote Family 174.