Fighting past thousands of soldiers, including the Marine's top fighters, the Admirals, Luffy manages to free Ace from his handcuffs, and they begin to leave., gets into a fight, loses, and dies to protect Luffy.. • The Marines don't get off that easily either as they suffered massive casualities, lose Sengoku, Garp, and Aokiji all via resignation, having failed to recapture the worst criminals from the Grand Line that escaped from Impel Down, and have to deal with a level of piracy worse than ever. They may have gotten Whitebeard and killed off Gol D. Roger's bloodline,.
•: The Giant Squad on the Marines' side and Oars Jr. On the Pirates'. Also Sengoku when he reveals his Devil Fruit powers. He stole the visual Den-Den Mushi as the war raged on, to essentially make a promotional of himself. •: Luffy and Ace. Sadly, it doesn't last long. •: Ace is successfully executed and Blackbeard gains Whitebeard's power.
•: Whitebeard. •: Why Oars Jr. Was so desperate to save Ace, as Ace was the one who made him a hat to protect him from the elements.
•: Not a good idea to diss Whitebeard when Ace is nearby. Unless you have a superior Devil Fruit than his. • Killing any of Whitebeard's sons is a. • Don't make boasts about sinking Marineford near Sengoku. •: Akainu and Blackbeard. Also all the Warlords (yes, really, all of them are there) and the Admirals.
•: Amusingly enough, Buggy - when the prospect of having sinks in, he immediately decides that he can aim higher, and swears to go after Whitebeard's head. He even steals the visual Den Den Mushi, and hogs the the spotlight, preventing the public from watching the battle taking place. • •: This arc has several moments with various characters. Notables include Trafalgar Law, who shows up in the middle of the battle at Marineford to rescue Luffy, and Red-Haired Shanks and his crew, who come in to stop things when they get out of hand at the end. •: In the last stages of the war, the Blackbeard Pirates appear, or rather it's better to say they were finally noticed in Marineford, with six new members fresh from Impel Down itself. They kill Whitebeard together as Blackbeard steals his devil fruit power, and the crew leaves when Shanks arrives calling an end to the war.
•: The anime censors the fight between Whitebeard and Akainu where in the manga, Akainu manages to horribly burn the left side of Whitebeard's face. In the anime, this was changed to him singeing his mustache and instead burning a hole in Whitebeard's body, giving him two such wounds from an earlier attack Akainu did. And Blackbeard. •: When Admiral Akainu delivers a devastating blow to Whitebeard, Marco sees this and rushes towards his captain. Kizaru uses this moment to shoot Marco from behind with two lasers and Vice Admiral Onigumo seizes him and places seastone handcuffs on him which disables his devil fruit power. Kizaru then takes the opportunity to attack Marco again.
This gets the attention of Jozu who is fighting Admiral Aokiji. While Jozu is distracted, Aokiji freezes Jozu's entire body leaving him frozen for the entire war. Three Warlords (Kuma, Doflamingo & Moriah).
Result: Oars Jr. Gets curb-stomped. Worse, any of the three Warlords could've handled Oars Jr. By themselves, their attacks together were all critical, and their alliance was incidental.
Moriah was even annoyed with Doflamingo for attacking him - because he wanted his corpse intact. • And later, Jimbei vs. Moriah: The latter gets taken down in a single punch. The anime even amusingly the ease that Moriah went down with a line by Jimbei telling his fallen opponent to train harder before fighting, highlighting Moriah's.
To be fair, Buggy didn't intentionally go after him and was literally dragged into it. Also, his Split-Split Fruit actually prevents him from being harmed by Mihawk's slashes.at least directly - Buggy got annoyed at him and fired one of his Muggy Balls at him, Mihawk responded by slashing it,.