WARNING: The following contains spoilers for One Piece Chapter #1017 by Eiichiro Oda, Stephen Paul and Vanessa Satone, available in English now from Viz Media.
One Piece Chapter #1017 is full of revelations, including one that has to do with our favorite chef. As it turns out, Queen, one of the Disasters of the Beast Pirates, was a member of the strange research group known as the MADS, alongside Sanji’s father, Judge. And not only was Queen a researcher, but he’s also a cyborg.
In the chapter, when Sanji steps up to take him on, Queen recognizes him as one of the Vinsmoke children. Sanji asks Queen if he had been a part of Judge’s research group, which the All-Star confirms, along with his cyborg revelation. He then changes into his Man-Beast form, ready to fight Sanji one on one.
MADS was a research group that dealt with human experimentation. Some of the notable members included Judge, Queen and Dr. Vegapunk, though there could be more that haven’t been named. 24 years before One Piece‘s current events, the group performed experiments that the World Government deemed to be of a taboo nature, and thusly named the group illegal. All members were branded as criminals, but the government was more concerned with Vegapunk’s research into the Lineage Factor, so his group was absorbed into the Marines rather than being dissolved.
Sanji’s father, Judge, would go on to rule over the Germa Kingdom and would perform genetic modifications on his children, but Sanji was deemed a “failure.” He later disowned his family and ran away to become a chef. Meanwhile, his three brothers were turned into emotionless, superhuman soldiers. His sister Reiju was the only other Vinsmoke child to show signs of empathy and caring for others, though only when it wouldn’t threaten her way of life. After Big Mom tried to kill the Vinsmoke family during the “Whole Cake” arc, the Vinsmokes would align themselves with the Straw Hats and the Fire Tank Pirates.
While Judge and Vegapunk went on to work for the World Government and gained notoriety for their scientific breakthroughs, Queen joined the Beast Pirates and became one of Kaido’s All-Stars because of his strength. He’s a sadistic fighter, as shown when he revealed that he was only toying with Chopper during the Onigashima raid. He looks down on the Straw Hat doctor, believing himself to be a medical superior and that a cure for his Ice Oni Virus would never be created. He also ate an Ancient Zoan Devil Fruit, the Ryu Ryu no Mi, Model: Brachiosaurus. This allows him to transform into a long-neck dinosaur and into a human-brachiosaurus hybrid at will. We’ll have to wait until the next One Piece chapter to see whether or not Sanji is thrown off by these stunning revelations as the two square off.
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