History Recap / OnePieceJayaArc

* OhCrap: The Bellamy Pirates appropriately react this way upon realize that Luffy's bounty is legitimate.

* BalanceOfPower: It's very subtle, but this is the arc where the Three Great Powers (the Marines, the Seven Warlords of the Sea, and the Four Emperors) and the influence they hold in the world's politics are established. The Five Elder Stars are introduced in this arc as well.

* CosmopolitanCouncil: The Five Elder Stars.

** The Five Elder Stars mention the "Three World Powers" years before the concepts of the Emperors is properly established.

* OmniscientCouncilOfVagueness: The Five Elder Stars. We don't even learn their individual ''names'' for ''[[Recap/OnePieceEggheadArc eight hundred chapters]]''.

* MakeMeWannaShout: Shoujou uses sonar to explore the ocean floor, and also utilizes sound as a form of attack.

* SmugSnake: The Bellamy Pirates think way too highly of themselves.
* StealthHiBye: Lafitte, one of the Blackbeard Pirates, somehow manages to break in a highly-secure private meeting with the Seven Warlords. More impressively, he's wearing tap-dancing shoes. Although he could have flown in through an open window.

* {{Anticlimax}}: Gloriously [[InvokedTrope invoked]]. After all the build-up given, Bellamy goes down in a single punch to Luffy.

* OmniscientCouncilOfVagueness: The Five Elder Stars. We don't even learn their individual ''names'' for ''[[OnePieceRecap/EggheadArc eight hundred chapters]]''.

* OmniscientCouncilOfVagueness: The Five Elder Stars. We don't even know of their individual names[[note]][[NoCelebritiesWereHarmed Though we know what some of them look like]][[/note]].

* GreaterScopeVillain: Bellamy himself sails under the flag of Donquixote Doflamingo, one of the Seven Warlords of the Sea, and acts under Doflamingo's philosophy of a new age of piracy, although in his own interpretation of it. This is revealed only after the conclusion of Skypiea though.

* GreaterScopeVillain: Bellamy himself sails under the flag of Donquixote Doflamingo, one of the Seven Warlords of the Sea. This is revealed only after the conclusion of Skypiea though.

Luffy, Zoro, and Sanji empty the bags of stuff they brought up, which is mostly worthless due to rust from old age, but Luffy has struck gold (so to speak) by finding a map of Skypeia, a country in the sky. Luffy is eager to go, but the others point out that they have no idea how to actually get there; however, Robin reveals that she stole an Eternal Pose to the nearby Jaya Island from Masira's ship (just in case), so the crew goes there in the hopes of obtaining more information. After arriving on the island, Luffy and Zoro leave to explore the town; Nami, knowing that the two are almost certain to get into a fight if they go alone, tags along with them. Sanji wants to go with her, but Chopper and Usopp beg him to stay in case someone attacks the ship. They then notice that Robin is gone, too. In town, Luffy, Zoro, and Nami come across quite a few violent vagabonds, and Nami, despite making Zoro and Luffy promise not to fight anyone (not wanting to be kicked out of town before finding the information they need), has a difficult time keeping them to it. The trio finally manages to reach a nice hotel outside the downtown area, but are almost immediately forced to leave, since the hotel is being rented out to the Bellamy pirates (whose captain has a 55 million Berry bounty and was seen earlier killing a guy who was beating him at cards). Some of Bellamy's crew members show up and rudely demand that the three of them leave; they comply, but are pissed off. After they leave, one of Bellamy's crew recognizes Luffy from his (now outdated) 30 million Berry Wanted poster, and decides to tell Bellamy about it. Luffy, Zoro, and Nami head to a bar downtown, where they meet a man who immediately further annoys Luffy (and the feeling is mutual) by liking the bar's cherry pies that Luffy hates, and hating the booze that Luffy loves. They get into a brief, childish competition before the man leaves.\\

* Bellamy would disappear until Dressrosa, when we could re-emerge again under Doflamingo's charge.

Despite his words, Nami is still very angry when they get back to the ''Merry'', demanding to know why Luffy and Zoro didn't fight, but they are merely perplexed by her attitude. Robin then comes back, revealing that she not only got provisions for the crew, but also found the information they were looking for, as well as a map of Jaya Island; on the other side of the island lives a man named Montblanc Cricket, who supposedly can tell them what they need to know about Sky Island, so the crew sets sail. Along the way, they run into the also-very-monkey-like Shoujou, Masira's brother, whose crew of pirates rules the territory surrounding Jaya; when Shoujou learns of what the Straw Hats did to his brother, he tries to attack them using high-powered sonar abilities, but this just ends up doing more damage to his own ship than to the ''Merry'', and the Straw Hats escape successfully. Soon after they leave, Bellamy overhears a man in the bar telling his table about Robin's inquiries, who assumed that she simply wanted the gold that Cricket supposedly possesses. Upon hearing this, Bellamy decides to go visit Cricket as well to steal the gold for himself.\\

* EverythingsBetterWithMonkeys: The Saruyama Alliance, though they only have the appearance of such.

* Montblanc Cricket's house is just half of a hut built directly on the very edge of a cliff. There's a second floor, but no stairs to reach it. The fate of the other half of the building won't be known until the following arc.