Demalo Black
- Name
- デマロ・ブラック (Demaro Burakku)
- Epithet
- Triple-Tongued
- Status
- alive
- Affiliation
- Fake Straw Hat CrewG-4
- Bounty
- ฿26,000,000
- First seen
- Ch. 601
First seenCh. 601≈฿26,000,000Ch. 1115Last seenCh. 1115
“Triple-Tongued” Demalo Black · alive · the impostor “Straw Hat Luffy” · captain of the Fake Straw Hat Crew
Profile
An impostor who posed as Straw Hat Luffy to recruit a 100+-strong grand fleet at Grove 46 on Sabaody Archipelago, exploiting the rumor that the real Straw Hat was dead. His own bounty is only 26,000,000 berries and his epithet is “Triple-Tongued” (三枚舌 — a liar’s tongue). When the Navy and the Pacifista squad attack, he is exposed and knocked out by Sentomaru, then identified by PX-5; his recruits scatter in panic.
Arc-by-arc updates
Return to Sabaody (Ch. 601) — first appearance; the fraud exposed
- Fronts the Fake Straw Hat Crew as “Monkey D. Luffy,” flaunting a counterfeit ฿400,000,000 bounty to draw a grand fleet of recruits at Grove 46 (pp. 3-11). Believed the real Straw Hat was dead.
- Decked by Sentomaru — “You’re not Straw Hat, you piece of trash!!” — then scanned and named by PX-5: “Triple-Tongued Demalo Black, bounty 26 million” (pp. 10-11). The impostor operation collapses and the recruits panic and scatter.
- First / last on-page appearance this window Ch. 601.
Final Saga — imprisoned (Ch. 1115) — shown
Notes
- Etymology : coffee-theme “Black” = black coffee; “Demalo” ≈ Spanish de malo (“of evil”) and likely a nod to real-world serial impostor Ferdinand Waldo Demara (“The Great Impostor”) — fitting for an impersonator; epithet “Triple-/Three-Tongued” (三枚舌, escalating 二枚舌 nimai-jita “double-tongued” = liar). See frontmatter
etymology. Source: One Piece Wiki — Demalo Black.