Vinsmoke Sanji

As the cook of the Straw Hat Pirates, Sanji provides an extremely valuable service to his crewmates. He is one of the crew's top four fighters along with Luffy, Zoro, and Jinbe. Sanji is also a member of the "Monster Trio" among the Straw Hat Crew due to his great strength. He currently has the fourth highest bounty in the crew after Luffy, Zoro, and Jinbe, at 1,032,000,000 Beli. Alongside Jinbe, Sanji is one of two members of the crew to fight without weapons or Devil Fruit powers in combat, until acquiring the Raid Suit, but then abandoned it as his dormant genetic enhancements awakened. While Luffy often fights the strongest enemies, Sanji and Zoro often end up fighting against enemies considered the second or third primary threat. On occasion, he would take on an opponent weaker than Zoro's; an example of this being Sanji fighting against Jabra of CP9, who had a slightly lower Doriki than Kaku, who lost to Zoro.

However, Sanji's and Zoro's opponents could be often characterized as matching (or countering) their particular fighting styles, such as his fight against another leg-based martial artist, Mr. 2, during the Arabasta Arc, while Zoro fought against Mr. 1, an assassin who ate a Paramecia-type Devil Fruit that made him a Fullbody Bladed Human resistant to swords. Although Sanji and Zoro usually let their rivalry impede their fighting performances, they have proven to be a near-unstoppable force if they agree to cooperate for the battle. As a member of the infamous Vinsmoke Family, Sanji was raised and trained from an early age alongside the rest of his siblings in warfare and combat. Their father modified them while their mother was still pregnant in order to endow them with superhuman abilities. However, due to Sora's own attempt at ensuring her sons would keep their emotions using a counter-drug, Sanji's genetic modifications were repressed, and he was born a normal human.

Because of this, Sanji could not keep up with Germa's extremely grueling training, resulting in his father's renouncement of him. However, he ended up encountering Zeff, a pirate captain turned chef who would teach him his own kick-based martial art, resulting in him attaining natural superhuman physical abilities and skills that have proven efficient against many powerful opponents. After joining the Straw Hat Pirates, he could defeat fish-men like Kuroobi, powerful assassins like Mr. 2, and mighty CP9 agents like Jabra. As a result, he earned a bounty of 77,000,000 Beli before exiting Paradise.

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Since returning from his training in the Kamabakka Kingdom and entering the New World, Sanji's strength grew exponentially and he has become an even more a powerful combatant, able to fight against some of the strongest pirates and fighters there. After the two-year timeskip, he became capable of breaking the stronger-than-steel neck of a Pacifista with a single Diable Jambe-enhanced kick, whereas his leg would have been seriously injured after using the attack twice on a Pacifista pre-timeskip. Against Charlotte Oven, Sanji could break his collarbone with a simple kick while moving too fast for his eye to follow, despite him being gifted with the sturdiest body of all the Charlotte sons. On Fish-Man Island, his kicks could injure the enormous fish-man Wadatsumi, who size even surpassed that of an ancient giant, and dealt him a critical blow. Sanji proved to be more than a match against his genetically modified siblings, Niji and Yonji, despite their bulletproof exoskeletons, breaking the former's jaw and smashing the latter's cheek in respectively, and only later losing against them on purpose due to their threats against Zeff. On top of the Whole Cake Chateau, he blocked a lightning-enhanced attack from the Emperor Big Mom with one of his techniques and Luffy's assistance.

During the Raid on Onigashima, he (alongside Marco) could hold off two All-Stars of the Beasts Pirates, King and Queen, while buying enough time for Zoro to recover. Afterwards, Sanji could temporarily overwhelm and fight on par with Queen, a top henchman of the Emperor Kaidou, and an Ancient Zoan user with extensive cybernetic enhancements and a bounty of 1,320,000,000 Beli. After wearing his Raid Suit for a third and final time, Sanji's latent genetic modifications were awakened during the same battle, which allowed him to gain the advantage over the All-Star and finally defeat him using a powerful combination of blue flaming kicks.

As a former prince of the Germa Kingdom, it can be assumed that Sanji would have had the same political and military power possessed by the rest of his family. However, due to his decision to renounce his title and status as a royal (as well as his father's decision to cast him out of the family), Sanji has willingly given up any and all claims to these kinds of advantages. Despite this, it has been shown that he still retains political authority over the Germa Kingdom's subjects as shown during his childhood, where the rest of the kingdom treated him with the same respect as they treated the rest of his family (despite his family's own poor treatment of him), and when he returned to the kingdom after 13 years, they continued to do so.


Here are a few pieces of trivia about Sanji:

• Sanji's full name is Vinsmoke Sanji, he is a member of the royal Vinsmoke Family, a group of genetically enhanced humans and the third son of Vinsmoke Judge
• Sanji is a skilled chef and is known for his culinary skills, he's also a powerful fighter and proficient in the use of "Black Leg Style" a unique fighting style based on using powerful kicks.
• Sanji's dream is to find the "All Blue," a legendary sea where all the fish of the world exist, and to be the chef of the Pirate King's crew.
• Sanji is one of the founding members of the Straw Hat Pirates, and the fourth crewmate to join.
• Sanji is known for his chivalrous and gentlemanly behavior, particularly towards women. He will often go out of his way to help and protect women, even if it puts himself in danger.
• He has a bounty of 177,000,000 berries before joining the straw hat pirates, his nickname is "Black Leg" due to the color of his trademark cigarette and the color of his legs when he uses his fighting style.
• He's a heavy smoker, and would always smoke when thinking or in a critical situation.
• Sanji's favorite food is curry, which he likes to make with various meats and vegetables.
• In the series, Sanji is known to be one of the strongest members of the Straw Hat Pirates, he's a skilled hand-to-hand combatant and a powerful fighter. He's also a key member of the crew, using his knowledge of cooking and his sharp senses to help the Straw Hats on their journey.