Absalom

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One of the masters of Dr. Hogback’s mansion on Thriller Bark, introduced as an unseen “invisible man.” He is part of the night’s bounty hunt, but on hearing the captain’s 300-million bounty he fixates instead on Nami as a prospective bride. Heard and named this chapter but not visually shown — his invisibility implies a Devil-Fruit power not yet named on-page.

Arc-by-arc updates

• Grabbed Nami in the second-floor hallway (pp. 7-8) while remaining unseen; she insists she was grabbed by an invisible man while the skeptical Usopp/Chopper disbelieve her.
• Abandons the bounty hunt for a personal obsession: “Hogback… I was looking for a bride! I like that woman! I’ll make her mine!” (p. 7) — fixating on Nami and loading the arc’s forced-wedding subplot. See Invisible Beast-Growling Intruder Aboard The Thousand Sunny.
• Heard and named this chapter but not visually shown (he is invisible). first_appearance held for his first on-page (visible) reveal forward (~Ch. 449).

Thriller Bark (Ch. 449) — first on-page appearance; commander of the zombie soldiers & generals

• First shown on-page via his intro card: “ABSALOM OF THE GRAVEYARD — Commander of the Zombie Soldiers & Zombie Generals” (p. 18). Rallies the army for the night hunt: “We, the zombie generals, will put an end to the pirates!”
• The zombies mock him as a pervert who “likes to peep on ladies” (p. 12). His invisibility-related power is implied by the framing but is not named on-page .

Thriller Bark (Ch. 451) - rallies the zombie generals; names his bride outright

• Rallies his zombie “generals” (incl. Captain John) to find and capture the Straw Hat intruders (p. 2).
• Openly names his intended bride - “one of the pirates that entered the island,” a “strong-minded and elegant… delicate, living human” (= Nami) - and rebuffs the warthog-zombie Lola’s proposals (pp. 4-5), escalating the forced-wedding setup. See Invisible Beast-Growling Intruder Aboard The Thousand Sunny.

Thriller Bark (Ch. 453) - first on-page action; grabs Nami and names himself

• First on-page action: grabs Nami in Perona’s Wonder Garden, sizes her up as his “bride,” and gives his name outright - “My name is Absalom!!” - vowing the wedding is set with “all the preparations made” (pp. 6-7).
• Powers: an invisible man (no fruit named on-page here); fires a concussive blast (p. 11). Zapped by Nami’s Thunder Charge but keeps standing (pp. 7-8).
• Asserts Master-rank over Perona’s wild zombies, who resent his interference (“this is out of your jurisdiction”) (pp. 9-10).

Thriller Bark (Ch. 454) - invisible hunt; barges into Perona’s room; pursued by Lola

• Invisible, hunts the “three pirates” and barges into Perona’s room demanding information (pp. 8-9).
• Pursued the whole time by the lovesick warthog-zombie Lola, who wants to marry him (p. 3); “Namizo” (Nami) weaponizes Lola’s lunge at him as cover for the trio’s escape. See Invisible Beast-Growling Intruder Aboard The Thousand Sunny.

Thriller Bark (Ch. 455) - at the dance hall; overruled by Perona

• At Moria’s dance hall; wants to chase the escaping Luffy but is overruled by Perona (p. 17). Notes his “bride” (Nami) was among the three causing trouble at the courtyard (p. 16).

Thriller Bark (Ch. 456) - recognizes the shadow-thief’s method; refuses to deal with the intruder

• On hearing a zombie general’s shadow was removed, says “there’s only one man I know who can do that” - recognizes the shadow-thief’s method (Brook) (p. 11).
• Refuses to handle the intruder: “I don’t care. It’s not my problem” (p. 12).

Thriller Bark (Ch. 457) — abducts Nami to marry her; vanishes

• Abducts Nami: invisible, he physically grabs her — “this woman is going to marry me today” — masks her scent with a stronger smell so she cannot be tracked (defeating Sanji’s nose), dodges Usopp’s Viper Star Six, and vanishes with her, ordering the zombies to “capture them and bring them to Master Moria” (pp. 15-17). The forced-wedding plot escalates from declaration to act. See Invisible Beast-Growling Intruder Aboard The Thousand Sunny.

Thriller Bark (Ch. 458) — the forced wedding is prepared

• Orders the captured, unconscious Nami dressed and taken to the wedding hall; the forced wedding ceremony is set to begin “at any time” (p. 15). See Invisible Beast-Growling Intruder Aboard The Thousand Sunny.

Thriller Bark (Ch. 460)

• Staging a forced wedding to Nami, starting within the hour; “indisposed”/dancing at the ceremony, which pulls most of the zombie generals away from the defense and infuriates Moria (pp. 10-12).

Thriller Bark (Ch. 461)

• His abduction plot reaches the altar: the forced wedding to Nami is shown in progress at the Thriller Bark church, with vows recited by a zombie priest before a cheering undead crowd (pp. 18-19). See Invisible Beast-Growling Intruder Aboard The Thousand Sunny.

Thriller Bark (Ch. 462) — the wedding interrupted by the quaking island

• His wedding to Nami in the church is disrupted by Thriller Bark’s shaking (“I can’t even kiss my bride!!!”); demands to know the cause and is told the ship is caught in a giant sea current (p. 14). See Invisible Beast-Growling Intruder Aboard The Thousand Sunny.

Thriller Bark (Ch. 463) — named in full “Sir Absalom”; the Mysterious Four; flushed out by salt

• Named in full as “Sir Absalom,” confirmed as the invisible man, one of the Mysterious Four (謎の四人), and commander of ALL the zombie generals; weighs over 600 lbs yet has no bounty (pp. 14-15, 19).
• Body augmented by Hogback: Hogback surgically transplanted “the power of the wilderness” (beast capability) into his living human body — onlookers think it impossible that Sanji can knock him back (p. 16).
• Hauls the drugged, unconscious Nami toward a forced wedding, calling her “the bride”; intercepted and kicked off her by Sanji (pp. 10-15). See Invisible Beast-Growling Intruder Aboard The Thousand Sunny.
• Confirmed as the invisible “beast” who peeped on Nami in the bath and licked Robin on the Thousand Sunny — the offenses that detonate Sanji’s rage (pp. 17-19).
• Techniques shown: “Hands of the Dead” (p. 16) and “Invisi-skating” (escape via invisibility, p. 18). Flushed out of invisibility when Usopp’s Salt Ball makes him react (“it tastes so salty”), letting Sanji connect (p. 18).

Thriller Bark (Ch. 464) — Devil Fruit named; true body revealed; defeated by Sanji

• Devil Fruit named on-page: the Clear-Clear Fruit (Suke-Suke no Mi) — invisibility of the user and anything they touch (pp. 7-8), which is how he produces his arm-bazookas and attacks from nowhere. First on-page naming of the fruit (by Sanji).
• True body revealed: a surgical chimera built by Hogback through “transplant after transplant” — head of a lion, skin of an elephant, muscles of bears and gorillas, weighing over 600 lbs; “the Clear-Clear Fruit is nothing but an accessory to my true strength!!!” (p. 11).
• Named techniques: Mystery Man Handler and Mystery Man Kicker (pp. 12-13).
• Defeated by Sanji. His attempt to abduct and invisible-marry Nami fails; Sanji beats him into the floor with Extra Hachis Hash (pp. 15-16). The “hunts Nami for a bride” plot is foiled. See Invisible Beast-Growling Intruder Aboard The Thousand Sunny.

Thriller Bark (Ch. 469)

• Invisible, exploits the chaos of Oars smashing into the church to snatch the still-drugged, sleeping Nami away from Sanji — “The bride is mine this time!!!” — and announces he’ll wed her elsewhere while the sleeping drug lasts (pp. 13-16). (last_appearance advances 0464→0469.)

Thriller Bark (Ch. 471) — defeated by Nami; claimed by Lola

• Resumes the forced wedding in a side room of the wedding hall, moving to kiss the groggy Nami (“you’ll become the Graveyard Queen!!”); reasserts his invisibility (“I’m an invisible man”) (pp. 7-8, 13).
• Defeated by Nami: already spent from his earlier fight with Sanji (“that man,” “back on the bridge”), he collapses after Nami’s Thunder Charge: Swing Arm and is left unconscious — the warthog-zombie Lola promptly claims him as her husband (pp. 13-16). See Suke-Suke no Mi.

Thriller Bark — aftermath (Ch. 483)

• Wakes (slapped by Hogback) to find the shadows gone and Moria defeated; among the surviving villains regrouping (p. 11).

Thriller Bark — escape (Ch. 486)

• Leads the surviving crew in cloaking and sailing Thriller Bark away (“Release the invisibility cloak!!”), abandoning the search for the missing Perona (p. 2). See Perona Vanishes From Thriller Bark Unexplained.
• Relays that the three zombies (Gyoro, Nin, Bao) reported Kuma came to deliver the Warlord-replacement news before disintegrating (p. 3).

Referenced — Big Mom’s flashback (Ch. 847) — referenced, not present

• Recalled in Big Mom’s flashback of Lola’s proposing days (“Absalom’s mine!!”, p. 14) — a Thriller Bark-era callback tied to why Lola fled her arranged marriage. Referenced only; not present on-page.

Death revealed — Fullalead (Ch. 925) — reported dead; corpse retained

• Revealed dead. He had “wandered into” the Blackbeard Pirates’ lair at Fullalead seeking them out; they killed him, Shiryu took his Clear-Clear Fruit (Suke-Suke no Mi) invisibility, and Catarina Devon offers Moria his retained corpse (“Want to take his body? We’ve still got it,” p. 8).

SBS reveals

Notes

• devil_fruit: Suke-Suke no Mi — named on-page Ch. 464 (“the invisible man of the Clear-Clear Fruit”, per Sanji). Held BLANK pre-0464 per anti-spoiler ; filled now that the fruit is named in-window.