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Throughout the One Piece series, several pirates seem to be based upon real life pirates.
For example, Teach’s name and epithet is taken from real pirate, Blackbeard, since of all the real pirates Oda more than anything he likes. However, Blackbeard’s real name was Edward Teach, he was called Thatch until he became Captain of his own pirate ship and created Blackbeard.
In One Piece Marshall D. Teach, Thatch, and Edward Newgate (Whitebeard) all trace back to Edward Teach, Blackbeard is know as Teach until he murders Thatch and leaves that name, becoming Blackbeard with the killing of Whitebeard no longer “Teach”.
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