Buggy is very vain and egotistical and seeks to be glorified and feared by others. When he was nine years old, he complained that the Whitebeard Pirates were receiving more attention in the newspaper than his crew, the Roger Pirates. Buggy is a showman, and his actions are frequently designed to bring attention to himself. He injects the word "flashy", into almost every sentence he speaks. and frequently uses it to describe his actions, such as giving Monkey D. Luffy a "flashy execution".