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Overview

Gecko Moria is the captain of the Thriller Bark Pirates and a former member of the Seven Warlords of the Sea  who resides on Thriller Bark, the largest ship in the world. His bounty is 320,000,000, which was frozen until he lost his Warlord position.

In his youth, Moria served as captain of the Gecko Pirates, until a vast majority of its members were killed in a fight against Kaidou of the Four Emperors. This traumatic event led Moria to seek power through an army of zombies, constructed by his subordinate, Dr. Hogback.

He is the main antagonist of the Thriller Bark Saga who stole the shadows of Brook and various other beings with Kage Kage no Mi powers. He is also a major antagonist in the Marineford Arc where he took part in the Summit War of Marineford and sided with the Marines, along with most of the other Warlords.

After the end of the war, he was stripped of his title and was to be eliminated by Donquixote Doflamingo, but he managed to escape into the New World. Vegapunk later cloned Moria as one of the Seraphim to replace the Warlords. Two years after the war, he attacked the Blackbeard Pirates on Hachinosu, only to be imprisoned but he was assumed to be rescued by Perona with the help of Koby later on.

Devil Fruit

Moria ate the Kage Kage no Mi, a Paramecia-type Devil Fruit that allows him to manifest and control shadows as physical entities. Moria can manifest his own shadow and have it fight in his place, as well as split his shadow into a number of bat-like creatures that he can use to swarm his enemy. He can also instantaneously swap locations with his shadow. His shadow cannot be destroyed, and it will simply reform if it gets taken down.

As a basic law for nature, the body and the shadow are always the same shape. Normally, the shadow is slave to the body, but Moria can put the reverse into practice. By altering the shape of a shadow, he can change the shape of the body.

Moria can steal other people's shadows by cutting them off of the owner's body. People who have their shadow stolen are left in a coma for about two days. Furthermore, once someone's shadow has been stolen, sunlight becomes deadly to them, reducing them to ashes almost instantly if they are exposed to it. Victims of shadow theft also lose their reflection and don't appear in a photograph. The body and the shadow count as a single being, even when separated; this means that if the person dies, then the shadow will die with them. When stolen shadows are released, they automatically fly back to their original owners.

Moria can insert stolen shadows into his own body, causing him to become bigger and stronger. The more shadows he takes in, the more gigantic he becomes, though it also makes him uncoordinated. The stolen shadows can also be inserted into corpses, reanimating the corpse into a zombie loyal to Moria. When reanimating a zombie, the physical strength comes from the corpse itself, while the personality and fighting techniques come from the shadow and are identical to those of the shadow's original owner.

Shadows can also be placed into the bodies of living people, increasing their physical power and granting them the ability to use the fighting techniques of the shadow's original owner. However, since a living body already has a soul residing inside it, a shadow placed within a living body will only remain for 10 minutes. After that, the shadow will leave and fly back to its owner.

Weapons

Moria wields a giant pair of scissors, which he uses in conjuncture with his Kage Kage no Mi to sever people's shadows. He carries these with him all the time so he can steal shadows even during battle, such as when he took Robin's shadow.

The scissor blades can be disconnected at the joint, becoming two inverted swords for Moria. With shadows of capable swordsmen implanted into himself, Moria can become a swordsman with dual swords.

He is also seen with a sword during his battle against the Beasts Pirates.