42 Facts About Roronoa Zoro

Roronoa Zoro, known as "Pirate Hunter" Zoro, is a fictional character in the One Piece franchise created by Eiichiro Oda.

Roronoa Zoro is the crew's combatant, and one of the two swordsmen of the Straw Hat Pirates, the other being Brook.

Roronoa Zoro has an extremely poor sense of direction, which is a running gag throughout the whole series.

Roronoa Zoro was originally planned to be part of Buggy the Clown's pirate crew and would have been recruited by Luffy away from Buggy.

Roronoa Zoro's surname was based on the Japanese pronunciation of French pirate Francois l'Olonnais.

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Roronoa Zoro commonly wears a plain white shirt, black pants, and a light-green, haramaki sash that holds his three swords.

Roronoa Zoro has a black bandanna tied around his left biceps that he only wears on his head while in a serious battle.

Roronoa Zoro has three golden earrings in his left ear, which denotes his three swords style.

Roronoa Zoro has a heavily scarred torso, having a diagonal cut mark from the top left to the bottom right of his torso due to fighting Dracule Mihawk.

Roronoa Zoro has scars on both of his ankles, which he obtained from trying to cut his own legs off to escape the candle prison of Mr 3 in Little Garden.

In Funimation Entertainment's dubs of the entire One Piece franchise, adult Roronoa Zoro is voiced by Christopher Sabat with Cynthia Cranz playing the role of child Roronoa Zoro for episode 2 and by Brina Palencia for the rest of the franchise.

Roronoa Zoro tried seeing the original actors' works to avoid getting a more specific delivery.

Roronoa Zoro is confident but often acts in a very comical manner.

Roronoa Zoro had never called Sanji by his name in the original Japanese manga, he uses phrases like "dumb-cook", etc.

Unlike Luffy and most of the other Straw Hat Pirates, Roronoa Zoro has been known to kill his opponents if he has to, though never in cold blood.

Roronoa Zoro tends to retain a maniacal grin and serious glare when battling a worthy opponent.

Roronoa Zoro has a stern, serious, and distanced personality, but unlike Robin, he often reacts in a goofy and exaggerated comic style due to his short-tempered and impatient attitude.

Roronoa Zoro is often displayed as being well aware of dangerous situations and the people around him.

Roronoa Zoro often reminds others of the harsh facts, which shocks some of the other crew members, although they usually decide he is right.

Roronoa Zoro is an atheist because he stated that he does not pray to any god, could not care one way or the other, and has never believed in anything except himself.

Roronoa Zoro never tries to escape from a fight or use trickery to win, believing that doing so is cowardly and scorning anyone who uses such tactics.

Roronoa Zoro is uniquely known as an expert of Santoryu, where he wields a third sword with his mouth in combat.

Roronoa Zoro is proficient in Armament and Observation Haki, as well as one of the few known characters who possess Conquerors Haki.

Roronoa Zoro uses an advanced form of Armament Haki to shoot a short blast of Haki from a distance.

Roronoa Zoro first appears as a captured criminal awaiting his execution at the hands of the Marines.

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Roronoa Zoro initially did this because he got lost seeking to face the best swordsman in the world, Dracule Mihawk.

Roronoa Zoro is later easily defeated at Mihawk's hands at the Baratie restaurant and pledges to Luffy that he would never lose again.

Originally Roronoa Zoro threatened to kill Luffy if he ever got in the way of this goal.

Roronoa Zoro listens to his captain's order and follows the order until the very end.

On Jaya, Roronoa Zoro followed Luffy's orders not to fight an enemy in a bar no matter what and followed it without hesitation.

Roronoa Zoro even slapped Luffy with the reality that being a pirate isn't a game.

Roronoa Zoro offers to sacrifice his life for Luffy, proclaiming that Luffy will be the man to become Pirate King.

Roronoa Zoro begs Kuma not to take Luffy and to take him instead.

Roronoa Zoro told Kuma that he is even willing to give up his dream of becoming the world's greatest swordsman for Luffy's dream.

Roronoa Zoro has made several appearances in other media, including, but not limited to, every One Piece licensed electronic video game to date, including Jump Super Stars and Jump Ultimate Stars.

Roronoa Zoro will be portrayed by Mackenyu in Netflix's live action adaptation of One Piece.

Roronoa Zoro is always among the top three most popular characters, usually only below Luffy in popularity.

Roronoa Zoro ranked second in every Shonen Jump character popularity poll except the fifth, where he ranked third after Trafalgar Law.

Furthermore, in a 2007 poll by Oricon, Roronoa Zoro was voted as the 4th most desired character to receive a spinoff.

Holly Ellingwood from Activeanime praised Roronoa Zoro's fight against Luffy as one of the best moments from the 10th DVD from the series released by Viz Media, praising the action scenes.

Sabat's work with Roronoa Zoro has resulted in him being nominated in the category "Best Voice Actor " in the Society for the Promotion of Japanese Animation Awards from 2008.

Roronoa Zoro is the only Straw Hat whose dream is directly combat-related.