Doffy or Donquixote Doflamingo, also known as “Joker,” is a major antagonist in the One Piece manga and anime series. He is the former Shichibukai, a powerful pirate alliance with the World Government, and the captain of the Donquixote Pirates. Doflamingo is one of the main antagonists of the Dressrosa Arc and is considered one of the most formidable foes the Straw Hat Pirates have ever faced.
Doflamingo is renowned for his ruthlessness and cunning, as well as for his capacity to influence and subdue others thanks to the Devil Fruit. He has a sadistic bent, enjoys inflicting pain and suffering, and his ultimate objective is to rule over the world. Doflamingo, despite his evil deeds, has a terrible history that illuminates his reasons and inner struggle. He is also a complicated character.
Doflamingo is the main enemy and a significant challenge for the Straw Hat Pirates and their friends throughout the Dressrosa Arc. He engages in several violent and perilous battles with the protagonists while also using his strength and influence to deceive the residents of Dressrosa and turn them against the Straw Hats.
Donquixote Doflamingo: Doffy’s Backstory

One Piece’s villain Donquixote Doflamingo has a terrible and complicated past that explains his goals and the occasions that helped him become who he is today.
The highest social class in the One Piece universe, the Celestial Dragons, gave birth to Doflamingo as the third son. Doflamingo was raised to think he was superior to everyone else and had the right to do whatever he wanted by his nasty and haughty family. Doflamingo’s mother was slain in one of these attacks when he was a little boy because of his family’s affluent status, which made them the target of assassination attempts.
Doflamingo and his family were forced to relocate to an isolated island in the Grand Line after his mother passed away. Doflamingo resented his family and the society that had rejected him due to being tormented and teased by the other kids there because of his status as a Celestial Dragon. He started to have ambitions to become a pirate and take over the world, and eventually, he left the island to do so.
Doflamingo established the Donquixote Pirates while a pirate and rose to notoriety. He grew to be very powerful and influential and got involved in many criminal operations, such as smuggling weapons and slaves. His ultimate objective had always been to seize power over the underworld and then the entire planet.
Doflamingo’s history depicts a complex and disturbed man haunted by his past and motivated by profound anguish and wrath, despite his ruthless and brutal deeds. His tragic past gives his role as a villain in the One Piece plot more depth and nuance. His experiences as a Celestial Dragon and an outcast on the isolated island influenced his worldview and thirst for dominance.
Donquixote Doflamingo: Doffy’s Purpose
In the One Piece tale, Donquixote Doflamingo wants to conquer the entire world and exercise absolute power. He contends that the weak should be subjugated and used for the benefit of those in authority, while the powerful should be allowed to do as they choose.
Doflamingo’s need for power results from his difficult upbringing and involvement with the Celestial Dragons, a race of humans that rule the planet with an iron grip and believe themselves to be above all others. Doflamingo, expelled from the Celestial Dragons, turned to piracy and founded the Donquixote Pirates to take over the underworld and, ultimately the entire globe.
Doflamingo pursues this objective throughout the narrative by influencing governments, dominating criminal enterprises, and gathering strong allies. He sets his eyes on eliminating the Straw Hat crew and their friends to attain complete power and control since he sees them as hurdles to his ambitions.
But as the stories go on, it becomes obvious that Doflamingo’s thirst for power is motivated by his internal conflict and suffering. He is a tragic guy with many flaws who wants to protect the people he cares about despite committing horrible acts of cruelty and violence. Ultimately, his story warns about the risks of pursuing power at all costs and the significance of empathy and compassion in moving past the hurt of the past.
Donquixote Doflamingo: Doffy’s Power

The “Ito Ito no Mi,” a potent Devil Fruit that Donquixote Doflamingo has, enables him to make and control strings composed of an unidentified substance as powerful as steel. These strings are flexible enough for Doflamingo to control, entangle, and slash his opponents.
Doflamingo can control and shape living and non-living things, including people, structures, and even clouds. He can manipulate people and items remotely while also using his strings to make intricate puppets, like the controlled corpses he employs in combat. He may also add Haki, a unique form of energy that strengthens the user’s attacks and defense, to his strings.