Bartolomeo (One Piece)

Bartolomeo is a male manga and anime character who features in One Piece.

Biography

Bartolomeo (Japanese: バルトロメオ, Hepburn: Barutoromeo)

During his early years, Bartolomeo was a kingpin of a mafia with 150 towns under him. Two years ago, he was at Loguetown when Luffy was about to be executed by Buggy. He witnessed what he called a miracle, seeing Luffy getting saved by a lightning strike. Ever since then, Bartolomeo followed Luffy's exploits from Arabasta, to Enies Lobby heading up Impel Down. After Luffy's exploits at the Summit War of Marineford, he decided to set sail. One year ago, Bartolomeo became a big-time rookie pirate. Gaining infamy on the high seas for attacking innocent civilians.

Bartolomeo entered a tournament at the Corrida Colosseum to compete for the Mera Mera no Mi. After Maynard defeated Bartolomeo's subordinate, Gambia, Bartolomeo in turn defeated the Vice Admiral, before leaving to fight in the tournament. As B Block was about to start, he was seen walking into the arena while the announcer listed all the details about him. Upon entering, he declared that he would send everyone to hell. As the audience showed their dislike towards him, Bartolomeo first taunted them and then threw what appeared to be a bomb at the audience, which scared them and made them panic. The bomb turned out to be a simple black ball though. After having mumbled that the audience disgusts him, Dagama scolded him and told him that he is making himself unpopular. Bartolomeo simply responded that he did not need to be popular among the likes of them. After the fight started, Bartolomeo pointed out that it was not really a battle royale anymore when Dagama was shown to have teamed up with Elizabello II, Tank Lepanto, and other fighters to take out Bellamy. Dagama simply stated that the ends justify the means. While everyone fought, Bartolomeo was seen laying down and nonchalantly watched the others fight. Later, he calmly started urinating off the side of the ring only to be booed by the crowd. Hack came to take him out with a Fish-Man Karate attack, but Bartolomeo blocked it using his Devil Fruit ability, damaging Hack's hand in the process. Bartolomeo then proceeded to finish off the fish-man. Bartolomeo later fought against Bellamy. However, like Hack, Bellamy ended up taking damage whenever he attempted to attack Bartolomeo. Despite not having the upper hand, Bellamy still managed to grab him, saying that he should not underestimate his power. Before Bartolomeo could retaliate, Elizabello finally threw his legendary 'King Punch' which seemingly took out every remaining gladiator in the arena. When the announcer looked at the arena and said that no one could have possibly survived that punch and was about to declare Elizabello the winner of B block's battle royale.

Overview

Personality and attributes

In appearance, Bartolomeo was a light-skinned, tall and lean yet muscular man. He has light green-colored hair in a wild, Mohawk style and no eyebrows. He has a demonic looking face, sharp fangs, and a ring piercing on his nasal septum. There are two lines tattooed under his right eye that curve towards his ear, and brownish-orange eyes. He has a dark tattoo on his chest of a thick ring with an opening on the top, wings on the sides, and long fangs on the bottom. He wears a dark purple coat with a stripe down each sleeve and a plumed collar and cuffs. On the back of it is a face with its head on fire with two crossing sabers just underneath it. He has a light-colored ring-patterned belt with a chain on the left. He has a weapon tucked in the front of his baggy checkered trousers, and has light ruffled dark boots on his feet.

Bartolomeo can be rather vulgar and laid-back at times, as during the battle royale in B Block, he was lying on the sides watching the battle and then casually urinated off the side of the ring in front of all the spectators. His overall attitude and lack of refinement made him a very unpopular person among the audience, who booed Bartolomeo at every turn. During his formal introduction, Bartolomeo is said to be ranked number one on the 'pirate we wish most to disappear' list.

Powers and abilities

Bartolomeo was tenacious with a great amount of durability, as shown when he took a by two explosions by Gladius' attack and got up quickly both times.

It was noted that he had eaten the Bari Bari no Mi (バリバリの実, Bari-Bari Fruit) that was a Paramecia (超人パラミシア系, Paramishia-kei)-type Devil Fruit (悪魔の実, Akuma no Mi). This allowed him to create barriers and turning him into a Barrier Human (バリア人間, Baria Ningen?, VIZ: "Barrier-Man"). By crossing his fingers, Bartolomeo was able to create protective barriers that were seemingly indestructible. It was shown though that he could only sustain one barrier at a time.

He was classed as one of the Supernovas by the Marines that consisted of any rookie pirate who had managed to earn a bounty of over 100,000,000 Beli.

Notes

• Bartolomeo was created by Eiichiro Oda where he featured in the setting of the One Piece universe.

Appearances

• One Piece:

External Links

• One Piece Wiki Entry

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