Ace is much more intelligent, polite, and generally, more bearable than Luffy, which prompted the Straw Hat Pirates to question whether she was truly related to their captain. While several people who knew Gol D. Roger noted Luffy is quite similar to the late Pirate King, Whitebeard himself claimed that Ace's personality was not at all like her father's. It seems that among the very few things the brothers shared was their recklessness as pirates.