History Characters / OnePieceBaroqueWorks

** [[spoiler: During the Egghead Arc, Crocodile again becomes a major threat by creating the Cross Guild to succeed Baroque Works, allies with Mihawk, absorbs the Buggy Pirates, makes their leader a PuppetKing and tries to repeat Operation Utopia, along with issuing bounties on the Marines, resulting in him getting a massive bounty increase (more than '''24''' times larger than his pre-freeze bounty) and the Guild being considered an Emperor-level threat. However, Buggy overrides his plans by forcing the Cross Guild to go after the One Piece, with Crocodile unable to do anything about it. Even the Marines consider him to be less of a threat than his partner Mihawk or the PuppetKing Buggy, giving them larger bounties than Crocodile's.]]

** [[spoiler: After the Paramount War, Crocodile bides his time, collecting capital in order to form Cross Guild as a means to disrupt the Marines operations (and just from what little we've seen, it's been frighteningly effective at it). But that wasn't the extent of his plans. He also manages to recruit Dracule Mihawk, securing one of the strongest men on the planet as an ally, and does so by making his pitch to the world's strongest swordsman right at the moment he would be the most open to suggestion (while being attacked by Marines as his home had become no longer safe) and telling Mihawk just what he knew would convince him. Then there's Cross Guild's methods; providing riches to anyone that kills a Marine. While pirates may seem like the most likely candidates to go for these bounties, in reality it's ''desperate civilians'' that are lured into chasing Cross Guild's bounties. Civilians that can no longer go home after collecting, since they've just killed a high ranking marine and are forced to go on the run. Cross Guild, of course, welcomes them in, increasing their numbers with desperate people who are capable of killing powerful marines. And all this is just the ''first step'' to his ultimate goal of building a military superpower... until Buggy puts a kibosh on that by forcing the Guild to go after the One Piece, with Crocodile being unable to do anthing.]]

** [[spoiler: After the Paramount War, Crocodile bides his time, collecting capital in order to form Cross Guild as a means to disrupt the Marines operations (and just from what little we've seen, it's been frighteningly effective at it). But that wasn't the extent of his plans. He also manages to recruit Dracule Mihawk, securing one of the strongest men on the planet as an ally, and does so by making his pitch to the world's strongest swordsman right at the moment he would be the most open to suggestion (while being attacked by Marines as his home had become no longer safe) and telling Mihawk just what he knew would convince him. Then there's Cross Guild's methods; providing riches to anyone that kills a Marine. While pirates may seem like the most likely candidates to go for these bounties, in reality it's ''desperate civilians'' that are lured into chasing Cross Guild's bounties. Civilians that can no longer go home after collecting, since they've just killed a high ranking marine and are forced to go on the run. Cross Guild, of course, welcomes them in, increasing their numbers with desperate people who are capable of killing powerful marines. And all this is just the ''first step'' to his ultimate goal of building a military superpower... until Buggy puts a kibosh on that by forcin the Guild to go after the One Piece, with Crocodile being unable to do anthing.]]

Baroque Works is a fearsome organization of bounty hunters based in Paradise. Under their official job as bounty hunters, Baroque Works' ultimate goal is to take over the Kingdom of Alabasta . The agents all have code names based on numbers (men) or days (women) and can count on a large number of mostly nameless {{mooks}}. The Officer Agents are the strongest members, as almost all of them ate a Devil Fruit. They and their respective partners have ranks from 1 to 5. Beneath them are the Frontier Agents, who have ranks from 6 to 13, and further beneath the unranked members, the [[{{mooks}} Billions]]. They are the main antagonists in the Alabasta Saga.

** [[spoiler: After the Paramount War, Crocodile bides his time, collecting capital in order to form Cross Guild as a means to disrupt the Marines operations (and just from what little we've seen, it's been frighteningly effective at it). But that wasn't the extent of his plans. He also manages to recruit Dracule Mihawk, securing one of the strongest men on the planet as an ally, and does so by making his pitch to the world's strongest swordsman right at the moment he would be the most open to suggestion (while being attacked by Marines as his home had become no longer safe) and telling Mihawk just what he knew would convince him. Then there's Cross Guild's methods; providing riches to anyone that kills a Marine. While pirates may seem like the most likely candidates to go for these bounties, in reality it's ''desperate civilians'' that are lured into chasing Cross Guild's bounties. Civilians that can no longer go home after collecting, since they've just killed a high ranking marine and are forced to go on the run. Cross Guild, of course, welcomes them in, increasing their numbers with desperate people who are capable of killing powerful marines. And all this is just the ''first step'' to his ultimate goal of building a military superpower.]]

!!!'''Lassoo's Devil Fruit:''' [[{{Animorphism}} Dog-Dog Fruit, Model: Dachshund]]

!!!'''Devil Fruit:''' [[{{Animorphism}} Mole-Mole Fruit]]

* OvershadowedByAwesome: She's one of the strongest members of Baroque Works, but far weaker than higher ranked agents.