Hamlet

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Hamlet (ハムレット, Hamuretto) is a Shinuchi (second-rank officer) and a Gifter of the Beasts Pirates, who ate the — an Artificial Zoan that lets him take on giraffe traits. He debuts among the Headliners inside Onigashima’s Skull Dome during the Raid on Onigashima, where Luffy and Jinbe plow past him and fellow Shinuchi Fourtricks (Chicken SMILE). Later, after being tamed by Tama’s Kibi Kibi no Mi power, he defects to become an ally of the Ninja-Pirate-Mink-Samurai Alliance (since disbanded) — his giraffe form is commandeered as a mount by Usopp during the castle’s collapse.

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Wano Country

• Debuts in Ch. 994 as a Shinuchi Headliner (Giraffe SMILE) alongside Fourtricks, bypassed by Luffy and Jinbe inside Skull Dome.
• Tamed by Tama (Kibi Kibi no Mi) and becomes an ally of the Ninja-Pirate-Mink-Samurai Alliance (per ch1017).
• In Ch. 1030, Usopp borrows the giraffe-form Hamlet as a mount while the escapees regroup on the burning castle stairs.

Notes

• Name meaning (SBS-confirmed): Oda states in SBS Vol. 98 p.118 that the Shinuchi are named after card games — “Hamlet” is the card game Hamlet (devised by games scholar David Parlett), with Shakespeare’s Hamlet as a secondary literary layer; sibling Shinuchi “Fourtricks” is the trick-taking game Four Tricks. #technique/sbs-leak
• Rank: Shinuchi (second-rank officer, a subtier of Headliner) and a Gifter (received an animal SMILE), per the Beasts Pirates hierarchy tracked on Animal Kingdom Pirates.
• His devil fruit is an Artificial Zoan SMILE (Giraffe); see SMILE.

Sources

• https://onepiece.fandom.com/wiki/Hamlet