Alibaba

Alibaba (アリババ, Aribaba) is a Rook in the Chess Pieces.

Appearance[]

Alibaba wears a white turban with a jewel set it it with a red scarf wrapped around his neck. He wears a mask like many Pawns and some Rooks of the Chess, as well as a blue shirt paired with dark blue pants. He wears two bracers on each of his forearms and a bangal on his right arm at the bicep.

Personality[]

Alibaba is arrogant, overly confident, and ambitious. He strongly believes rank doesn't symbolize strength, and foolishly thinks he is on par with the Knights.

Etymology[]

History[]

Second Great MÄR-Heaven War[]

War Games[]

Alibaba first appears during the 3rd Round of the War Games. He is the first to go up when Alan wants to go first, claiming the other Chess Pieces there are too weak to fight him and that victory will make him a Knight.

As soon as the match begins Alibaba activates his Guardian ÄRM, Genie's Lamp. While doing this he tells Alan not to look down on him for being a mere Rook, as the Chess hierarchy doesn't necessarily dictate strength but a mastery of ÄRMs and more importantly their accomplishments in battle, citing Loco's victory over Nanashi. He continues to monologue that his ÄRM will give him impressive victories and rubs the lamp like ÄRM calling forth the great genie from within. Alibaba claims that out of all the ÄRMs he has, this Guardian is the most attuned with his "sixth sense" and that even Knights would have a hard time with the pair. Alan casually taunts Alibaba and his Genie to attack. The Genie charges towards Alan but he destroys the Guardian bare handed with a single blow.

After destroying Alibaba's Guardian, Alan walks up to him and delivers a powerful punch to his stomach. He then comments that Alibaba had made three major mistakes as he grabs him by the neck of his shirt to drag him uphill to the volcano's crater. As he drags him he goes over the mistakes Alibaba made. The first was to completely synchronizing with an ÄRM takes time, in addition concentration, sixth sense and magic must be raised through training and if once synchronizes with a guardian that also has a will of its own then even more time is required. The act of sending him to attack right at the start of battle proved that Alibaba was an idiot. The second mistake was he wasn't ready to fight someone like Alan. The third mistake was disrespecting Alan. He then drops Alibaba into the crater to fall into lava and walks back, both teams alarmed by Alibaba's sudden and apparent death.

In the anime, however, Alibaba lives, as Phantom used a Dimension ÄRM to bring Alibaba to safety. Alibaba then hunts down and captures the Princess of Reginleif. Alibaba is defeated again, however, through the efforts of Ginta Toramizu, Jack, and Loco and apparently dies.

After the War Games[]

Alibaba, who once again survived, reappears during the end credits of the final episodes, cheering up Fuugi while he cries over the Princess of Reginleif's marriage to Carl.

ÄRMs[]

Alibaba's ÄRMs are:

• Genie's Lamp: A Guardian ÄRM in the shape of a lamp that releases a large genie with a will of its own, that attacks with an apparent "mega punch". Alibaba claims that it is troublesome to control even for Knights, though this could be a retort on his part. This was destroyed by Alan.