Bear King emerges as the central antagonist in the second theatrical film, commanding the Trump Pirates with an iron grip over Clockwork Island. His tyrannical reign hinges on control of the island’s central mechanism, a device he exploits to extort obedience from its citizens. Black-haired and marked by distinctive whiskers, his attire merges card-suit patterns with ursine flourishes—a fur-lined jacket and a hat resembling a teddy bear anchoring his eccentric yet intimidating presence.
Seven years before the film’s timeline, he overthrew Clockwork Island, enslaving its scientists to forge the King Cannon, a colossal drilling weapon designed to fuel his quest for the title of Pirate King. To maintain dominance, he menaces the populace with annihilation, threatening to detonate the island’s structural key and plunge it into ruin. Ruthless and tempestuous, he crushes opposition through executions and obsessive coercion, notably targeting Nami as a bride-to-be through blackmail against her crew.
Combat prowess flows from his Kachi Kachi no Mi Devil Fruit, transforming his body into stone-hardened armor while channeling searing heat from his limbs for fiery assaults. His arsenal includes the seismic-wave-firing King Cannon and a modified handgun loaded with explosive drilling rounds, tools that amplify his destructive reach.
In the film’s finale, Bear King initially overwhelms Luffy using his mineralized form and thermal strikes. Luffy retaliates by repurposing the King Cannon’s projectile via his Gomu Gomu no Screw attack, spiraling Bear King into the island’s heart and triggering its collapse. Surviving defeat, he later surfaces on the Nanatsu Islands, resuming his hunt for a bride. A botched proposal leads to a head injury from a fall, after which he is hospitalized and retrieved by his subordinate Honey Queen.
His arc reflects unrelenting ambition and brutality, though subsequent schemes pale against his Clockwork Island machinations. As a dictator weaponizing technology, he embodies themes of despotism and the peril of unbridled authority within the franchise’s narrative tapestry.