
Buggy the Star Clown (in Japanese: 道化のバギー, Senryō Dōke no Bagī), also known publicly as Buggy the Clown, is a clown pirate captain and a major antagonist in the manga and anime One Piece. He first appears as the main antagonist of the Orange Town Arc, but later becomes a major ally during the Impel Down Arc and the Marineford Arc.
He is the captain of the Buggy Pirates, whose members looked like circus performers (excluding Alvida, a former pirate captain who joined Buggy's crew seeking mutual revenge on the series protagonists, Monkey D. Luffy). However, said crew were separated from him after he was arrested and sent to Impel Down, the most impenetrable prison in the One Piece world, and tearfully gave up on any hope of rescuing him.
Buggy managed to escape from Impel Down, however, and acquired a new following comprised of dozens of powerful prisoners of Impel Down, all of whom are hopelessly blinded by Buggy's extraordinary past. After the Summit War, his old crew members rejoined him, and he was invited to become a member of the Warlords. With his newly acquired powers and privileges, he established the Buggy’s Delivery mercenary group and set up his headquarters in the New World.

With the abolition of the Warlord system, he became a wanted man once again. After Kaido and Big Mom were defeated by Luffy, Eustass Kid and Trafalgar D. Water Law, Buggy and his crew joined Crocodile's new organization called the Cross Guild, along with Dracule Mihawk, though due to misconception spread by his dimwitted followers, the public mistakenly identified him as the leader and deemed him as an Emperor of the Sea in such an ingenuine way.
He has a bounty of 3,189,000,000 berries, having been raised from 15,000,000 berries.