I Was Wrong About Gecko Moria 

He didn't join Blackbeard because he killed Absalom, the person he specifically came there to save, his friend, his nakama. Something you forgot to mention is that he genuinely cares about the human members of his crew, he literally adopted Perona

Things I genuinely love about Moria: -His completely out-there design -His laugh -His insanely creative use of his devil fruit powers -The fact that he's one of the villains that actually care for the well-being of their crewmates, like when he came out all the way by himself to Blackbeard's hideout to get Absalom and got visibly shaken up to learn about his death. Likely a leftover from his Kaido-trauma. In turn, even Perona was overcome with joy after finding out he survived Marineford. -Serving as an ominous warning for the New World -Being the catalyst for one of my favorite fights in the entire series (Strawhats VS Oars & Moria) -👁 *_S H A D O W ' S A S G A R D_* 👁

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Gecko Moria is one of those characters who wasn't well liked when he debuted, but has become much more interesting with what we know now.

I love the parallels between him and Kuma. Kuma has a small lower body and big upper body moria has a big lower body and small uppet body, both adopted a pink haired girl, both lost their love ones. Moria looks like a Demon while Kuma is more of the holy guy. Both seemingly died at marineford only to come back for their loved ones a few arcs later....

It makes sense that Moria didn't join Blackbeard, he killed Absolom who he really cared about, you don't attack a yonko base for someone you don't care about.

My money's on him joining Cross Guild. That's where all the loose warlords seem to be ending up, and it'd be fitting for him to embrace his role as a jobber and help Buggy fail upwards to Pirate King. Not to mention all those strong Marine corpses waiting to have shadows stuffed in them.

It's crazy how the world governament tried to get rid of the only warlord that was actually doing his job of taking down other pirates. Like Mihawk most of the time sleeps, the only one crew he stopped was Krieg's and even then it was actually Luffy that crushed his dreams, meanwhile right after being defeated by Mihawk Don Krieg immediately tried to get a new ship to continue his journey. Crocodile, Doflamingo and Hancock are busy doing their own things. The same you can say for later warlords like Law, Buggy and Teach. Jinbe is Jinbe and he does the exact of opposite of following orders. Other than Kuma the other two most efficient warlords were Moria and Weevil. Moria being a pirate with his ambitions already crushed by Kaido now crushes other pirates' dreams. Moria was the only warlord thar wasn't schemeing against the world governament, all he wanted was to make an army of zombies to take down Kaido, technically helping the world governament and the marines 😭

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I quite liked the thriller bARC and Moria in general. Kinda feel that Moria is just sunken deep into a semi-functional depression. Eating a lot, gaining weight, unable to find the energy or real desire to do much of anything, replacing those he lost with Zombies and such.

Finally that one guy in the comments asking for a gecko moria video will be happy

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Part of me likes his desing. He is desinged after Vampire mythology, having his body shaped as an onion as is the most known vampire weakness. His power removes peoples shadows and makes them weak to sunlight, and zombies can be purified with salt which is also a weakness to vampires or dark spirits.

One of my favorite things about Gecko Moria is that despite the trauma he went through losing all his friends/crew to Kaido, and despite taking measures to never let himself get attached to his crew again by using zombies, he can't help but still form close bonds with Absolom and Perona (and to a lesser extent Dr. Hogback), going as far as to march into a Yonko's territory once again just to get his friend back. To me this is surprisingly noble of Moria, and shows that deep down he is still a very passionate and caring person, even if he doesn't want to be one. I think Moria is a very good villain because he parallels what could have happened to Luffy if he had given up and choose to wallow in despair after losing his crew only one arc later.

I still love Thriller Park, as it is one of the most comedic arcs in the series. It was also a perfect breather arc between two huge emotional arcs.

Ever since Moria reappeared in the story, I've been so eager to see more of him. Knowing that he pretty much went through his own version of what Luffy did on Sabaody, with his crew/friends getting taken from him, makes me wish they would do a One Piece novel MORIA. Then again there are tons of characters I'd love to see novels for. But getting to learn more about Moria's crew, their journey and their eventual demise just seems like it'd make for some damn compelling reading.

Liam finally talks about Gecko Moria..i can sleep happy now.

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Also though its not entirely Moria himself, I have high hopes that S-bat could show us some ways Moria could of been fighting,

Moria is a pendulum going from extreme independent ambition to complete dependent apathy, he's the cautionary tale that mirrors Luffy especially how they both faced Kaido in wano. People who struggle with motivation can greatly empathize with his experience and his weird bottom heavy visual design perfectly conveys the idleness that he is currently used to and I hope that when we see him again in the manga that he is in better shape with new found ambition as he left the florian triangle of his own will for a comrade and not because he was ordered to like at marine ford.

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Moria is like the most underrated One Piece antagonist alongside Don Krieg. And Moria is also underrated in the powerscaling department, too, because while him in the present was likely the weakest Warlord of the original 7, Moria in his prime was definitely one of the strongest Warlords as he once considered a rival to Kaido.

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FINALLY, THE GECKO MORIA VIDEO!!!

Thriller bark is one of my favorite arcs. I was laughing throughout the whole island. Loved it.

Non ironicly Moria was always one of my favorites

I think Moria was the closest we came to seeing an awakened paramecia devil fruit until Doflamingo

i finished one piece because i heard you talking about gecko morias backstory maybe 6 months ago, and it made me want to watch one piece because just this guys story alone was so good, and 6 months ago i started watching, and maybe around 1-2 months ago i finally caught up to the latest episodes.

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Moria is one of my favorite Villians because of how much he cares about his crew, obviously he lost his friends to Kaido which sent him on a depression arc but also on Hachinosu he went looking for absolam and when he found out one of his few friends had died he went on a rampage. Additionally Perona and Absolam both love Moria a lot so I think Moria is a good character, pretty fine Villian

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Moria was also (obviously) inspired by dracula, a figure who is often characterised by the loss of a loved one and reborn with the obsession of this repressed feeling. This is reflected by his will essentially dying after losing his beloved crew and him trying to cope with it by creating immortal soldiers. Another thing I really like about his powers is how he essentially turns anyone who got their shadow stolen into a metaphorical version of himself. Pirates with no shadows need to give up on their wills and dreams to hide for the rest of their lives just like he does in the florian triangle in fear of loss.

Gecko Moria, I love you.

Liam finally talks about Gecko Moria..i can sleep happy now

you might want to redo this video after moria story post blackbeard encounter, where he rediscover his passion for becoming a pirate and when he eventually plays a major role in the final arc

Not only Moria is Grand Line's Don Krieg, both their arcs ended with a sudden warlord intrusion Zoro had to deal with. Go figure.

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Moria.... is an interesting foe. he's sandwiched between fan favorite rob luchi, and marine admiral kizaru. He has one of the STRONGEST devil fruits around, and was someone whom at one point was a rival to kaido. He also SURVIVED/ESCAPED from kaido upon he defeat. He didn't get killed, nor imprisoned. I've alway felt the hate on him.. was a little much. IT was clear by the end of the arc that the moria we fought wasn't moria at his peak/prime. And the fact is... that 'broken moria' STILL nearly took out the crew for good.... okay yes that was oz.. but oz was HIS at that point and moria has joined the fight to let oz have stretching powers... FURTHERMORE oz told moria to not help.. moria has used oz ball to attack the crew but oz stopped the attack and said it was his fight. I think C is very fair. A LOT of moria importance/legacy is lost to use reading in order.. we learn a LOT MORE about moria and how strong he USED TO BE much later. Comparing kaido to him.. and finding otu the 2 have a rivalry in the past(when both were weaker) and seeing him one man army go to save absolam is... kind of epic. BUT we should judge them for their time as a villian... and his time as a villian.. was a little bit of a let down.

Bro not putting Moria in at least b tier just pissed me off

I love Gecko moría and i loved thriller bark; it's like a Halloween special, only it's not just a special, it's a whole damn ark!

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Its time for my king Gecko Moria!

He was able to escape from Doflamingo and a squad of pacifistas, too. That's impressive.

His backstory is similar to crocodile, but crocodile got stronger from his loss instead of weaker. Crocodile lost to Whitebeard and Moria lost to kaido. Both didn’t want to become the Pirate king anymore, but they still had ambitions. For example crocodile didn’t want to be a pirate king anymore, but wanted to become the king of the world

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Every main antagonist is designed to counter an aspect of Luffy. Luffy is motivated to help his friends, so they can achieve their dreams. Moria wants others to achieve his dream for him because he failed; directly countering Luffy.

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Moria was the only Warlord doin his fuckin job with no ulterior motives against The Navy/WG and they did everything to fuck him over.

I'd love to hear about Foxy of the Foxy Pirates next.

You either die as a hero like luffy or u live long enough to see urswlf become gecko moria😢 i hope he returns and he gets even stronger i like how he cares about his crew

Hi Liam I have a question how is a Pirate Crew travelling backwards on the grandline considering that the log pose just points to the next island is it only possible with eternal poses and vivre cards?

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The fact that he was willing to not only re-face his new world traumas, but also DIRECTLY challenge the possible final boss of the series just to check up on one of his old crewmate was by far the most underrated moment of his character arc imo. For the entirety of the series he was written as a tragic luffy who lost all of his crew and seeing him slowly come back to his older self after having to face another loss really puts my hopes up for the future of his character.

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I have see two (and a half) follow ons from Moira's story. 1. Moria Himself is now out and about(presumably) and alot of people seem to want him to be a cross guild member, however possible. 2 . Moria's clone 'S-Gecko' (I don't think theres a canon name yet) is theoretically Moria but without such trauma/ laziness with a Paramecia power so that could be a 'rematch' for Luffy. 3. Finally And I whole heartedly doubt this one would come true, it would be interesting to see if one of the worst generation e.g Apoo or Kid, will end up like Gecko Moria, a washed up pirate (alternatively they could become Crocodiles) as a repeating cycle.

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I’ve noticed something he has a basic set up for every single title card he uses. He just changes it up every single one is a person pulling holding something right in front of them with their right hand I mean not every single one it gets changed sometimes, but he uses it a lot. Nothing wrong with that I just think it’s cool

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That is a lot of assumptions on Moria getting away from Teach during Garp's attack. I mean, the guy is the embodiment of Sloth, which seems to be the real theme of the Seven Warlords, the Seven Deadly Sins. Really, the best thing about and to come out of Thriller Bark was Perona.

Moria is one of my favorites. His care for his crew mixed with his amazing devil fruit and laugh just makes me not able to dislike him

Loved Gecko Moria from the beginning. He is a great character, a shadow of a man, controlling shadows, while in the shadows. Him and Bellamy stuck with me hard from the get go Which is why I developed a bit of hatred for Doflamingo. First he goes after Bellamy, then Moria, then Bellamy again

If luffy lost his crew in sabaody instead of being teleported, than luffy would have became gecko moria

Warlords are warlords for a reason they all have skills and abilities the government deems a huge threat, even someone as weak as Gecko Moria. If utilized on the battlefield correctly he can turn your numbers against you. All those dead fodder soldiers and pirates can be reanimated by his abilities.

I have an idea for a video Man On The Internet, a What-If video. So we’ll explore how things would’ve gone down if: 1. Luffy went to Winners Island, Law went to Elbaph, and Kidd went to Egghead 2. Luffy went to Elbaph, Law went to Egghead and Kidd went to Winners Island. How do you think these scenarios would work?

"If I can't ever do it, then why do anything at all?" That's my motto in life

I feel that Moria fits perfectly at that point of the story, as he is a warning for what lies ahead for the Strawhats both in how strong those in the New World are as well as the mental fortitude required to become pirate king. We do see a glimpse of his prior ambition when he uses Shadow Asgard, showing that he is worthy of being a warlord. He is strong, stronger than Luffy even. But Moria loses because he lacks the will to truely fight. He still has his ambition, but it's like his crew: its a zombie version of it. Its reanimated as a misshapen reflection of what it once was. And something like that will never be enough.

Finally some moria love never thought I'd see it

Honestly, I wish Moria had come later on in the story, cuz then we might've explored his past and feelings more. Being a man broken by lost intrigues me as a fellow man afraid of/heavily affected by loss.

It makes me curious about how strong the Moria Seraphim is. Maybe that reveal would give an insight into his potential

I think people seem to oversee the simularity between crocodile and Moria. Both in their youth were strong rectless rookies, kinda like the supernovas back then in sabaody. And when they joined the new world they both did the eustass captain kid, ran their head into 1 emperor and both got decimated and barely escaped. And after that both are in a way depressed and thought "nah mate, i cant do this on my own". So Moria started using zombies to never lose his friends again and crocodile searches for the ancient weapon because he sees no other way to defeat whitebeard. And i kinda like them both for them, thats kinda realistic

I'd like you to talk about Foxy. The guy who if he had trained a little, or learned Haki, could have been on par with kaido

Hearing what mori said about luffy losing his friends, really wish oda did a flashback to it while luffy was losing them all would have added a bit more to (I enjoy seeing characters suffer when they are presented as stoic or the heroes it's a guilty pleasure of mine and makes me love that character all the more)

I'm not the biggest Moria fan (more of a Buggy guy when it comes to villains) but I do find it funny how much people down play, just remind you he easily defeated Luffy in their first encounter due to his DF hax, and had not been so dead set on using the Luffy's shadow it would have been over for the rubber boy. Later on he's one of the first and few villians where it takes all the Strawhats to take him down (granted he was piloting an Oni Mech) and even with that Luffy had to resort to having 100 shadows stuffed into him to even really compete at the time (which substantially boosted his stats so one can only wonder what prime Moria would have been like). Moria only really lost to a combination of his own lost drive, the Strawhats teamwork, and even to his own to an extent, like yeah he's weaker than the other Warlords but he's still powerful in his own right. If Oda ever decides that Moria will get the Crocodile treatment and he gets his fighting spirit fully back (he did go and confront Blackbeard head on) it will be very interesting to see how he would fight.

Moria is one of my favorite antagonists just because of his aesthetics alone. He was someone that went toe to toe with Kaidou in his prime, but we didn't meet him in his prime. We met him as a traumatized shell of a man after watching all his nakama get slaughtered. But he still never stopped moving forward, ironically enough. He came up with this batshit insane plan no one else would have thought of, much less put into motion. And even though the entire point was to avoid forming new emotional attachments, he still made three new nakama along the way. The thing is that it still wasn't enough. Not only did Luffy take him down, but the whole zombie apocalypse thing would never have worked in the New World where everyone and their mother has haki and even his strongest zombies would still be OHKOd by sea salt. Moria was out of shape and out of practice, which became painfully obvious in the Marineford war. The whole thing on Hachinosu is interesting because the Blackbeard Pirates could have killed him and ended his character arc along with his life. But instead, we got him refusing to submit because of what they did to Absalom, his nakama. We're not done with Moria. It might not even be crazy to think he's going to get his groove back when he does return again. I wish we got to know more of his backstory because if he only started doing the zombie thing post-Kaidou, why did he steal Ryuma's corpse in Wano? At what point in his career did he realize he could even do that with shadows? He does not get enough credit for his sheer creativity with his devil fruit. The way he uses it, he's basically a budget Big Mom. In fact, when we met Pound on Whole Cake Island and he told us about the Soru Soru no Mi, he specifically mentioned Big Mom couldn't bring corpses to life with it. Which is a very strange thing for someone to just say unprompted. Interesting to note that his Seraphim clone takes after his old appearance. I think when we see S-Gecko in action, Luffy is going to write it off as a weakling and get incredibly surprised.

Moria is a really fascinating character to me, as a warning and foil to Luffy. I actually read a theory recently that Thriller Bark is a portion of God Valley, and the theorist posited that maybe Moria was himself a survivor of God Valley. The idea blew my mind, and would add so much to his character (again, retroactively), but I just thought it was cool.

I'm genuinely happy for the "Where's the Gecko Moria video?" guy :,-) Here's your video, buddy. He did it

Moria has a VERY lethal fruit too. Just go out at noon, and rip the shadow away from your target.

Haki plays a strong part against fruit power users, in some point of their battle back in their early days Moria must have attempted to cut kaido's shadow but didn't work because of kaido's conquerors haki, just like Law can't use Tact to Kaido or can't move Kaido with his fruit powers

Maybe Moria isn't right for One Piece's world but he would THRIVE on Westeros

Another point of comparison between Moria and Luffy is that quote you used, "Why do anything myself when I can have people stronger than me do things for me". That contrasts Luffy's belief that his crew can do the things he can't do, so Luffy's role is to do the things that the others can't do.

Where’s that person who kept requesting the Moria video? 🤣 Are you happy now?

Interesting that he mixed so many zombies with animals after losing to Kaido. Like he was imagining that power for himself

I think one point you haven’t talked much about is his devil fruit. His is (like hancock’s) a win condition, as long as he can rip your shadow during a sunny day. But the setting where he chose to live undermines the strength of his fruit. Pre-Kaidou Gecko Moria in a sunny-enough setting would have probably wip the floor with Luffy at that point, who is quite careless against one-trick-ponys (like Perona’s Negative Hollow)

Completely wishful thinking here but I think it would be really interesting for a little later at some point to see a Moria who somehow has reignited his ambition and is regaining or even has fully regained self-reliance. We've already passed his arc so he very likely won't be a main antagonist of any arc in the future (especially since we have so many good villains built up and so few arcs left in the story) but seeing him either as a side-villain or as a temporary ally to the strawhats in some situation would be cool, especially if we get to see the full extent of his devil fruit

An interesting piece of trivia that most people don't seem to be aware of is that Jinbe and Moria have the same (JP) voice actor! I love both of their voices. Thriller Bark is my favourite arc overall. It had amazing pre-timeskip comedy, good pacing even in the anime, and Moria is such an interesting contrast to Luffy in terms of ambition. I really really want him to encounter Luffy again, and just do a full double-page spread of "HUHHHH???" in response to Luffy likely casually mentioning that he beat Kaido.

Thriller Bark is one of my favourite arcs, and the Kage Kage No Mi is straight up my favourite Devil Fruit, so I really can’t help but be very fond of this scary balloon clown man

I like how creative his devil fruit is. Although I don’t find him super interesting. Especially since he failed his dream

Gorlock the destroyer is a "human;" but you can tell when you look at their "design" that theirs was a tragic tale.

You know, I just rewatched the entire Enis Lobby Arc. And I thought of a Villain that would make an interesting video for you: Spadam. The Rip off of Mankind from the WWE. I feel like what he lacks in real power, he makes up for in the overarching theme of the One Piece World. And that is: Giving Power to those who don’t deserve it.

Moria did move away from his place of inaction when the life of his friend was on the line , he came to hachinosu to save absalom just to realize his friend is already dead

It just clicked in my slow brain, Moria and big mom both bring things to life, sort of , one with shadows and one with souls

Is Kuma gonna be on here. His presence in Sabaody and Thriller Bark is freaking terrifying

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I think the silliest part of his plan was when he though all he needed was Luffy's shadow to go take on Kaido.

I feel like Moria could work well joining cross guild. A Cross divides an area into 4 parts, so they could have a fourth former warlord up top. And it would give him a chance to reunite with Perona since she was last with Mihawk who is also in charge of Cross Guild.

I would love too see moria get shredded again like he was in the past and look super cool again. He needs a glow up!!!