Eiichiro Oda may have just revealed Whitebeard's original first mate

The One piece saw the author, Eiichiro Oda, wrap up one of his most exciting flashbacks yet, the God Valley shot. Ever since its first mention 6 years ago, the God Valley flashback has been the talk of the fandom, and now it has finally been fully revealed. On the fateful island of God Valley, Oda made light of many things One piece mysteries like Rocks' death, Blackbeard's early life, how Shanks ended up with the Roger Pirates, and the existence of Davy Jones, along with some other important stuff. Even though it was all absolutely massive, Oda didn't stop there.

He also went on to reveal the main characters in God Valley and One piece In chapter 1165, the author introduced the character that he is likely to become Whitebeard's original right-hand man before Mark, named Polo Gram. Not much is known about Polo Gram and fans don't know what happened to him. But the fans definitely appreciated it little drops of lore about whitebeard pirates.

Polo Gram was probably Whitebeard's original first mate

As fans have come to know, Whitebeard did not begin his pirate career with the Whitebeard Pirates. Long before that, he was actually a member of the Rocks Pirates, sailing under the flag of Captain Rocks D. Xebec. Unfortunately, the Rocks Pirates broke away after the events of God Valley and the death of their captain.

Afterwards, many of the former Rocks Pirates became respected and feared captains and led their own pirate crews, which included Whitebeard himself. Not much is known about the origins of the Whitebeard Pirates, but Oda may have just revealed the very first person to join Newgate on his adventures, and it's a man known as Half a gram.

Polo Gram, during the God Valley days was captain of the Polo Piratesa crew that made it to God Valley, among other places. Polo and Whitebeard met there. Polo was a big fan of Whitebeardand invited him to sail with him in his ship—a proposal which Whitebeard refused.

sometime after Polo Gram had to end up joining Whitebeard himselfand this is evident from the fact that he looks just like Marco. Along with his son, he probably stayed with Whitebeard for a long time. In that case, Polo Gram would be the first member of the Whitebeard Pirates.

Polo Gram was the father of Marco, Whitebeard's First Division commander

Polo Gram is definitely an interesting addition to Oda's story. Said to be Whitebeard's first officer through his apparent association with Whitebeard's First Division Commander, Marco the Phoenix. They have the same look and it's quite obvious that he is Marc's father. Some have mentioned the possibility of Polo dying and being reincarnated as Marco, but that wouldn't make sense since Marco was already 7 years old at the time of God Valley.

As such, the idea of ​​Polo being reincarnated after he dies and rises as a phoenix is ​​nothing more than an idea that doesn't make much sense. Polo is undoubtedly Marco's father. Not only that, but The names Polo and Marco are an obvious play on words related to the famous explorer known as Marco Polo. Fans are definitely wondering what happened to Polo and what led to Marco later taking his place as a member of the Whitebeard Pirates.

Eiichiro Oda's One Piece will be on hiatus next week. One Piece Chapter 1166 will be released in two weeks. The official release date of One Piece Chapter 1166 is November 23, 2025. Fans can read the chapter for free on Manga Plus.

Release date

October 20, 1999

Network

Fuji TV

directors

Hiroaki Miyamoto, Konosuke Uda, Junji Shimizu, Satoshi Itō, Munehisa Sakai, Katsumi Tokoro, Yutaka Nakajima, Yoshihiro Ueda, Kenichi Takeshita, Yoko Ikeda, Ryota Nakamura, Hiroyuki Kakudou, Takahiro Imayomura, Yashiôhiro Mayuū Shishido, Hidehiko Kadota, Sumio Watanabe, Harume Kosaka, Yasuhiro Tanabe, Yukihiko Nakao, Keisuke Onishi, Junichi Fujise, Hiroyuki Satou

Writers

Jin Tanaka, Akiko Inoue, Junki Takegami, Shinzo Fujita, Shouji Yonemura, Yoshiyuki Suga, Atsuhiro Tomioka, Hirohiko Uesaka, Michiru Shimada, Isao Murayama, Takuya Masumoto, Yoichi Takahashi, Momoka Toyoda

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  Mayumi Tanaka

  Monkey D. Luffy (voice)

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  Kazuya Nakai

  Roronoa Zoro (voice)