Burgess Jesus

Burgess Jesus (バージェス・ジーザス, Bājesu Jīzasu), nicknamed as The "Champion" (チャンピオン, Chanpion), is both a fictional character and antagonist from the J-Stars' Fairy One Piece Tail series created by Hiro Mashima and Eiichiro Oda.

He is the helmsman of the Blackbeard Pirates being one of its original members. He often proclaims himself a champion and challenges anyone to fight him to prove that he is stronger. He likes picking fights with others as he is a wrestler who wants to be the strongest.

He appears to be loyal to Blackbeard and his plans. After the time-skip, Burgess became one of the Ten Titanic Captains of the Blackbeard Pirates, being captain of the First Ship.

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 * —Burgess Jesus.

Appearance & Biography

 * Voice Actor: Phil Parsons (English), Tetsu Inada (Japanese), Not Known (Arabic), Not Known (Basque), Not Known (Brazilian), Not Known (Catalan), Not Known (Chinese), Not Known (Dutch), Not Known (Finnish), Not Known (French), Not Known (German), Not Known (Greek), Not Known (Hebrew), Not Known (Hungarian), Not Known (Italian), Not Known (Korean), Not Known (Norwegian), Not Known (Polish), Not Known (Portuguese), Not Known (Romanian), Not Known (Russian), Not Known (Serbian), Not Known (Spanish), Not Known (Swedish), Not Known (Thai), Not Known (Brazilian Portuguese), Not Known (Castilian Spanish), Not Known (European Spanish), Not Known (European Portuguese), Not Known (Latin American Spanish), Not Known (Latin Spanish)

Appearance
Burgess Jesus is an unusually big, tall, broad, broad-chested, broad shouldered, tan-skinned, muscular man, with a broad upper body and a thin lower body in comparison. He has curly violet hair reaching down to his shoulders and always wears a dark brown mask with orange decorations on it, which covers the upper part of his face but reveals his eyes and his nose. He appears to be based on Luchador wrestlers based on his name and the face mask of Mexican origin.

Pre-Timeskip
He wears a sleeveless black shirt and a pair of white pants with ruffles coming from the base then reaching up to his knees; he also wears black bands tied around both elbows. Burgess also appears to be always wearing a championship belt, a belt which wrestlers only obtain from winning many matches or to show that they are extremely skilled in wrestling. It is unknown if Burgess obtained this belt from his mastery in wrestling or if its just there for his wrestler appearance.

Post-Timeskip
After the timeskip, Burgess has grown a beard and become even more muscular. His hair has also turned a lighter shade than what it was two years ago.

While at the Corrida Colosseum, Burgess dons the traditional gladiator attire of sandals and a loincloth, as well as his trademark belt. In addition, his right arm is armored, with his shoulder being covered by a plate pauldron, all held in place by a harness across his chest. He also wears a pair of black gloves. When he first entered the Colosseum as Mr. Store, he was wearing a light green paper bag mask which has eyeholes in it and the name "Store" which is colored aqua-blue and Happy written in black upside-down on the forehead.

His regular outfit after the timeskip is mostly the same as two years ago. However, he now wears a vertically striped black and white sleeveless shirt that has the same orange symbol as his luchador mask and he now wears a pair of brown gloves. In Dressrosa, he also carries a green bag which has swirly patterns on it.

After battling Sabo, he received several injuries including a bone sticking out of one of his legs, which has some of the flesh and muscles on his leg burned off completely. It appears he also lost some or all parts of his mask which he had to obscure.


 * Hair Color: Violet
 * Skin Color: Tan
 * Eye Color: Black
 * Age: 27 (debut), 29 (after timeskip)
 * Birthday: December 25th
 * Height: 355 cm (11'8")
 * Weight: Not Known
 * Bounty: At least 20,000,000 berries

Personality
Burgess is brutish and ogre-like, and is also very loud and overbearing. He seems to be overconfident, as he climbed buildings and challenged random people in Jaya, proclaiming himself as the Champion. He also appears to have an intense love of combat, wanting to test his skills out on anyone he finds. He especially enjoys strong opponents, as shown when he found out that Luffy was fighting at the Corrida Colosseum.

Despite, or perhaps because of his profound love for combat, Burgess also appears to be a sore loser, unable to accept defeat even when he is critically injured. He is also willing to use whatever dirty and underhanded tactics he can should he or his allies be unable to win in a fair fight, as evidenced by how he joined the rest of the Blackbeard Pirates in their nine-on-one assault against Whitebeard or tried to goad Sabo into approaching him by taunting him about Ace's last request and him not being there to save his brother so he could stab the revolutionary with a hidden knife.

He has a much more serious nature than his captain, as he scolded Blackbeard for laughing when they lost the Straw Hat Pirates. However, he seems to have become quite laid-back after the time-skip shown when meeting Luffy in the Corrida Colosseum hallways and letting his captain talk to him.

Late into the Dressrosa Arc, Burgess also displayed a ruthless opportunistic mindset, willing to take advantage of Luffy and Natsu's weakened state to kill him and take Luffy's Devil Fruit and Natsu's Magic, despite the fact that they were the country's best chance at saving them from the oppressive Doflamingo. This is further shown when he tried to kill Sabo just to get his hands on the Flame-Flame Fruit when he interfered in his attempts to kill Luffy, believing that it was his right to have the fruit.

He is also very determined and stubborn as he ignored his injured state and infiltrated Sabo's ship and so he could find the Revolutionary Army's headquarters and managed to stay hidden for days before informing his comrades.

After Blackbeard became a Emperor and began going by the new title of "Admiral Teach", Burgess repeatedly forgets to address Blackbeard by this moniker and habitually calls him "Captain Teach", prompting Laffitte to remind him several times in the past not to do this. According to himself, he is attached to the crew's raft.

Burgess' signature laugh is "Wiiihahaha!"

Friends/Allies

 * Blackbeard Pirates
 * Blackbeard
 * Augur Van
 * Laffitte

Neutral

 * Kuzan

Enemies

 * Worst Generation
 * Straw Hat Pirates
 * Luffy D. Monkey
 * Jimbei
 * Fairy Tail
 * Natsu Dragneel
 * Whitebeard Pirates
 * Newgate Edward
 * Marco
 * Revolutionary Army
 * Sabo
 * Koala

Abilities and Powers
Burgess is one of the most powerful members of the Blackbeard Pirates. He managed to defeat every challenger he fought in Mock Town with ease and won the A Block of the Corrida Colosseum battle royale within seconds all without a single injury. After the time-skip, he is the Captain of the First Ship of the Blackbeard Pirates.

Based off of his attempt on Luffy and Natsu's lives for the Gum-Gum Fruit (Luffy's) and Fire Dragon Salyer Magic (Natsu's) and his conversation with Sabo, he is also capable of stealing supernatural abilities from others. The procedure for this is still unknown.

After the time-skip, at the Corrida Colosseum just his mere presence was enough to terrify all the nearby gladiators. He is also, according to Gatz, part of a group of Ten Titanic Captains that personally guard the Emperor, Blackbeard.

Despite his huge size and having been gravely injured at the time, he was able to infiltrate one of the Revolutionary Army's ships and stayed hidden from them while on Baltigo, showing that he is considerably skilled at stealth and infiltration.

Physical Abilities
Burgess has tremendous physical strength. He easily ripped an entire building off its foundations and threw it at Ace across a great distance. In the Corrida Colosseum, he completely overpowered all of his opponents in Block A (including a giant in the anime) by himself single-handedly within seconds. Burgess's strength also extends to his legs as he jumped down from the Dressrossa palace to the second level without a scratch, allowing him to make it to Luffy's location in a very short amount of time, a feat that greatly shocked Koala.

Burgess also possesses massive endurance, as seen (pre time-skip) when he took a direct hit from a Tremor-Tremor Fruit strike from the former Emperor Whitebeard, as well as Fleet Admiral Sengoku's shockwave in his Buddha form without suffering much damage. In Dressrossa, Burgess took Sabo's Flame Dragon King at point blank range, which blasted him with enough firepower to smash him through buildings, and recovered enough to quickly resume the battle. After being defeated by Sabo in a heavily injured state, Burgess survived being brutally burned by Sabo's Fire Fist after his failed attempt to steal the Flame-Flame Fruit. Despite suffering this much damage, Burgess could stow himself away on a ship of the Revolutionary Army travelling to Baltigo for an extended period of time without any medical treatment, allowing him to contact Laffite to inform him of his location in Baltigo while still on the verge of death.

Burgess is also an immensely powerful and skilled wrestler. His wrestling attacks such as elbow strikes and lariats can generate massive shockwaves that can demolish buildings with great ease.

Haki

 * Main article: Haki

Observation Haki
Burgess possesses the ability to use Observation Haki.

Armament Haki
Burgess demonstrated the use of Armament Haki when he hardened his elbow armor in an attempt to resist Sabo's attack in the Corrida Colosseum final round. However, his Haki was not strong enough to counter Sabo's own Armament Haki imbued attack, which was able to shatter his armor.

Techniques
The named techniques that are used by Burgess that involve the Haki are as follows:
 * Shockwave Elbow (波動エルボー, Hadō Erubō; literally meaning "Wave Motion Elbow"): Burgess attacks with an elbow strike powerful enough to cause huge shock waves upon the impact. It was first seen during the finals of Corrida Colosseum against a Fighting Fish, sending it flying away, and at the same time a shock wave to the audience, causing massive destruction. In the anime, his arm vibrates while preparing for the attack and his elbow emits vibrational waves similar to those of Eight-Impact Fist techniques.


 * Galleon Lariat (ガレオンラリアット, Gareon Rariatto; literally meaning "Unsinkable Battleship Lariat"): Burgess swings his arm at his opponent, resulting in a shockwave powerful enough to cut buildings several meters away completely in half. This was first used against Sabo.

Weapons
During the battle of Marineford, he was seen using two pistols against Whitebeard.

When Burgess tried to kill Luffy and Natsu, he wielded a large dagger.

Early Life
Some time after joining Blackbeard's crew, Burgess and the entire crew attacked Drum Island and forced the cowardly King Wapol to flee.

Canon

 * Burgess Jesus and Augur Van vs. Ace D. Portgas
 * Blackbeard Pirates vs. Magellan (unseen)
 * Blackbeard Pirates vs. Newgate Edward
 * Blackbeard Pirates vs. Fleet Admiral Sengoku
 * Blackbeard Pirates vs. Bonney Pirates
 * Blackbeard Pirates vs. Whitebeard Pirates (under Marco, unseen)
 * Burgess Jesus vs. Corrida Colosseum Group A
 * Corrida Colosseum Finale
 * Burgess Jesus vs. Fighting Fish
 * Burgess Jesus vs. Lucy
 * Burgess Jesus vs. Sabo
 * Blackbeard Pirates vs. Revolutionary Army (unseen)
 * Blackbeard Pirates vs. Cipher Pol (unseen)

Non-Canon

 * Burgess Jesus vs. Garp D. Monkey

Name
In the English dub, Burgess' surname was changed to "G. Zass", keeping the phonetic pronunciation, but changing the actual spelling.

Etymology

 * His name resembles that of the real life pirate, Samuel Burgess.
 * His birthday is on Christmas Day, a reference to his name, "Jesus".

Notes & Trivia

 * When his face is shown unmasked for the first time, it is not seen in full view. This is likely a reference to Luchador culture, as it is considered shameful for a masked wrestler to be unmasked, causing the loss of their character identity/alter ego identity in the ring and their exposure of their true identity.
 * Of the original five Blackbeard Pirates, he had the lowest bounty at 20,000,000 Berries.
 * Burgess' favorite food is protein.