History YMMV / OnePiece

** Zoro was also brought down to this ''hard'' after, starting from Chapter 1091, fighting toe-to-toe with Lucci, who was also a bit of a Memetic Loser himself. Not helping matters was Chapter 1105 where Nami sent Jimbe to help Zoro ''on the fight'' and also to not get lost. His status as such grew even ''more'' after Chapter 1107 not only showed Zoro ''still'' fighting against Lucci, but Sanji, who was also labeled a Memetic Loser, kicking away [[PersonOfMassDestruction Kizaru]]'s laser and confronting him. This led to an ''explosion'' of memes involving Zoro's apparent struggle against a previous foe.

* FairForItsDay: Gender-non-conforming characters always had a presence in the series, and especially in the earlier days, especially with the very infamous and unflattering Okama in the Kamabakka Kingdom, they were often drawn as caricatures and PlayedForLaughs - however, many of those characters proved themselves to also be very competent. For example: Bon Kurei, the first ''Okama'' seen in the manga, was a very deadly fighter enough to match Sanji blow-for-blow in their fight, and eventually ended up having a HeelFaceTurn and become an ally of the Straw Hats. Thanks to the manga [[LongRunner continuing into the modern day]], representation of gender-non-conforming and LGBT characters would significantly improve, especially in the Wano arc with the introduction of canonical trans woman Kiku, drawn as a StatuesqueStunner with none of the Gonk-ish caricatures of ''Okama'' characters, and gender-non-conforming Yamato[[labelnote:*]]It's [[AmbiguousGenderIdentity unclear]] in canon whether Yamato is a trans man, a cis woman who simply uses male pronouns, or some level of genderfluid/nonbinary ([[FlipFlopOfGod even official material can't seem to make up its mind]]), but regardless, he is non-conforming, sympathetically portrayed, and not drawn as an exaggerated caricature[[/labelnote]], who is born female but, since he considers himself the reincarnation of Kozuki Oden, also adopted Oden's gender. As if to affirm their identity even further, at one point the characters go into a gender-segregated bath house and Kiku goes in the women's side while Yamato goes to the men's side.

** Boa Hancock can fall under this, being an extremely self-centered [[DoesNotLikeMen misandrist]] and petty bitch who embodies ScrewTheRulesImBeautiful to such a degree that it's almost painful to watch. Her FreudianExcuse that she was enslaved by World Nobles doesn't make her misandry any less irrational, as there are plenty of female World Nobles and male slaves, and the later Fish-Man Island arc's narrative is quite adamant about not judging humanity as a whole based on the World Nobles. And all it took for the narrative to turn a blind eye at her attitude is that she fell for Luffy.

** Charlotte Linlin was born a freak of nature who had absurd physical strength even as a child. She started out as an innocent kid with a naive desire to make everyone get along, but would accidentally leave others either dead or injured due to her freakish strength. Her caretaker Caramel actively encouraged Linlin's behavior and did nothing to try to reel Linlin in, even after the child killed several giants in a hunger-induced rampage. It's really not hard to see how she ultimately became the tyrannical WomanChild that she is at the time of the main story.

** [[spoiler:Roger's laugh upon finding Joy Boy's treasure]] has quickly become one of the most famous and referenced panels of the manga.

** Tama [[spoiler:being a member of the Kurozumi clan is never mentioned in the main story at any point, only being discussed during an SBS in volume 105. Given that Tama is a very prominent character throughout the Wano arc and that one of the arc's major plotlines was the conflict between the [[CycleOfRevenge Kozuki and Kurozumi clans]], many feel that Tama's heritage being discussed in the main story could have been a great way to tie together the themes of the arc]].

* PeripheryDemographic: In Japan, ''One Piece'' is most often read by people who don't normally read manga. For [[MrFanservice very obvious reasons]], it is especially popular with middle-aged housewives. Thanks to its extremely long run and its handling of more mature themes, a good part of its readers are grown up adults in spite of it being a manga published in a magazine aimed at teens, and in Japan ''whole families'' read ''One Piece'' together, since people who started reading ''One Piece'' as kids might now have families of their own. It has also gathered the interest of many history buffs thanks to the [[ShownTheirWork often obscure]] references to many historical events, figures or famous legends, particularly around piracy.

* ItsPopularNowItSucks: ''One Piece'' is the best selling manga in history and the second best selling comic book of all time behind the ''ComicBook/{{Superman}}'' series. It's also been consistently popular all over the world for almost two decades. Naturally, some people are taken aback by this popularity and consider the series overrated. Notably, the series didn't suffer from this in the West at first due to [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff being overshadowed]] by ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'' while it was still running,[[note]]largely thanks to the [=4Kids=] dub putting a hamper on the Western populaity of ''One Piece'', causing ''Naruto'' to receive the brunt of this trope instead and for some people to root for ''One Piece'' as a relative (emphasis on the "[[OverlyNarrowSuperlative relative]]") underdog especially as it was removed from the clutches of ''[=4Kids=]'',[[/note]] but started becoming a victim of this trope after ''Naruto'' ended and ''One Piece'' rose to take its place worldwide.

* ItsPopularNowItSucks: ''One Piece'' is the best selling manga in history and the second best selling comic book of all time. It's also been consistently popular all over the world for almost two decades. Naturally, some people are taken aback by this popularity and consider the series overrated.

** In a similar vein to giants, the Marine Vice-Admirals in general are treated as a joke. Aside from Garp, their only major appearances in the story involved them getting [[TheWorfEffect worfed]] by other characters (i.e. Whitebeard effortlessly beating a couple of them in Marineford). In fact, many fans were rolling their eyes when [[spoiler:a Buster Call was initiated on Egghead with ''nine'' Vice-Admirals, instead of the usual five plus Admiral Kizaru, involved]].

* LoveToHate: [[SharkMan Arlong]], [[DiabolicalMastermind Sir Crocodile]], [[AGodAmI Eneru]], [[SmugSnake Spandam]], [[KnightTemplar Admiral Akainu]], [[EvilCounterpart Blackbeard]], [[MadScientist Caesar Clown]], [[AgentPeacock Doflamingo]], and [[CorruptPolitician Saint Saturn]] are many things, but forgettable villains aren't one of them.

** Saint Saturn quickly cements himself as one of the most monstrous and loathsome characters in the series (a feat onto itself) responsible for [[spoiler:every single horrible thing to ever happen to Kuma's family]]. So it's no surprise that [[spoiler:Kuma decking him in the face with a MegatonPunch that sends him flying across Egghead, through several buildings which then fall on him]] is one of the most satisfying moments in the series.
* CharacterPerceptionEvolution: Hody Jones was originally seen as a [[ReplacementScrappy flat replacement]] of Arlong, lacking the traits that made him a memorable antagonist. Overtime fans have come to see him as a [[RealismInducedHorror shockingly realistic]] portrayal of how racists can be made from being born in an environment that encourages those viewpoints with nothing to oppose them.

** Right from the beginning of the series, Oda's intent was subvert expectations with regards to morality: that pirates could do good things and Marines could do bad things. Characters within the series have even lampshaded this ambiguity, juxtaposing Blackbeard and Akainu, along with Luffy and Coby. It hasn't stopped fans from trying to pick a side. All in all, The dynamic between pirates and Marines is more a case of GreyAndGreyMorality, while fans tend to simplify it to pure Black and White.

** Marines are often played as evil by the fandom; the Marines are run by corrupt {{Jerkass}}es and {{Smug Super}}s, while the pirates are romanticized as freedom-loving people who want to live life to the fullest outside the law. For the most part, the Marines are portrayed as morally questionable, and several good pirate crews are seen (such as the Straw Hats). However, it is made clear that crews like the Straw Hats are exceptions. Several pirates are evil, cruel, and murderous, many of them infinitely worse than most Marines. For the most part, the Marines are at least trying to do the right thing, and want to protect people from pirates and other criminals. The dynamic between pirates and Marines is more a case of GreyAndGreyMorality, while fans tend to simplify it to pure Black and White.

* CharacterPerceptionEvolution: Hody Jones was originally seen as a [[ReplacementScrappy flat replacement]] of Arlong, lacking the traits that made him a memorable antagonist. Overtime fans have come to see him as a [[RealismInducedHorror shockingly realistic]] portrayal of a how racists can be made from being born in an environment that encourages those viewpoints with nothing to oppose them.

* FanPreferredCouple:
** Outside of Harem fics, it's unusual to find any works that mention romance that don't have Franky/Robin as a couple.
** Likewise, Usopp and Kaya are almost always either implied or stated to be a couple, which received a promotion to canon in the live action series.
** As far as non-canonical pairings, Zoro/Sanji has the single largest number of tags on Website/ArchiveOfOurOwn, followed by Luffy/Trafalgar Law. Those are the two largest pairing tags for the fandom ''as a whole''.

** Don Krieg, who aside from his endless arsenal of weapons is no stronger than the average marines, is endlessly hyped up as powerful precisely for that reason, with many edits of him coming back to the story and crush any powerful adversary the story needs to defeat.

* CharacterPerceptionEvolution: Hody Jones was originally seen as a [[ReplacementScrappy flat replacement]] of Arlong, lacking the traits that made him a memorable antagonist. Overtime fans have come to see him as a shockingly realistic portrayal of a how racists can be made from being born in an environment that encourages those viewpoints with nothing to oppose them.

** Sanji was always dunked on by a good handful of fans. However, what is perhaps the straw that broke the camel's back is when the Egghead Arc saw him getting knocked out by Saturn's DeadlyGaze and rendered immobile and helpless while supposedly weaker individuals like Bonney and [[spoiler:Kuma]] were seemingly unaffected by it or able to snap out of it. Cue uproar of fans calling him a "hype tool". And just when his status as such seemed to be dying down in Chapter 1107 where he squares up against Kizaru, the following chapter has him not only kicked away by the latter but also carrying Vegapunk's body to escape. This caused many fans to call him "Runji". The fact that Oda once jokingly said to Hirata, Sanji's VA, that Sanji will no longer have any highlight scenes in the future is not helping matters. And what drives the knife even further is when Episode 1095 of the anime, which came out around the same time as Chapter 1108, had Sanji getting thrown across the room by S-Shark, despite the manga [[AdaptationalWimp not featuring a such scene]].

** Sanji was always dunked on by a good handful of fans. However, what is perhaps the straw that broke the camel's back is when the Egghead Arc saw him getting knocked out by Saturn's DeadlyGaze and rendered immobile and helpless while supposedly weaker individuals like Bonney and [[spoiler:Kuma]] were seemingly unaffected by it or able to snap out of it. Cue uproar of fans calling him a "hype tool". And just when his status as such seemed to be dying down in Chapter 1107 where he squares up against Kizaru, the following chapter instead has him not only kicked away by the latter but also carrying Vegapunk's body to escape. This caused many fans to call him "Runji". The fact that Oda once jokingly said to Hirata, Sanji's VA, that Sanji will no longer have any highlight scenes in the future is not helping matters. And what drives the knife even further is when Episode 1095 of the anime, which came out around the same time as Chapter 1108, had Sanji getting PunchedAcrossTheRoom by S-Shark, despite the manga [[AdaptationalWimp not featuring a such scene]].

** Sanji was always dunked on by a good handful of fans. However, what is perhaps the straw that broke the camel's back is when the Egghead Arc saw him getting knocked out by Saturn's DeadlyGaze and rendered immobile and helpless while supposedly weaker individuals like Bonney and [[spoiler:Kuma]] were seemingly unaffected by it or able to snap out of it. Cue uproar of fans calling him a "hype tool". The fact that Oda once jokingly said to Hirata, Sanji's VA, that Sanji will no longer have any highlight scenes in the future is not helping matters.

** The World Government is either a necessary evil that is needed in order to maintain order in a world populated by criminals with insane powers and monster strength, and which has to ShootTheDog more times than it would like or it's a hopelessly corrupt organization that hides its flagrant abuse of power behind the pretense of justice for the sake of maintaining the status quo. Even Oda can't seem to make up his mind on the matter, though later arcs, where the Government does progressively more horrific stuff, seem to imply that he has.
*** What complicates matters is that it's usually only the Marines that are sympathetic with most of their crimes coming from serving the World Government.

** Kurozumi Orochi claims to be motivated by a desire to avenge his clan's persecution at the hands of Wano's inhabitants. However, this doesn't quite line up with his actual actions. For starters, he was perfectly content to live out a comfortable life working for the Kozuki clan and only took action upon finding out that ''he'' would have become shogun if not for the birth of Kozuki Sukiyaki. Later on, Orochi was completely apathetic when his clansman Kurozumi Higurashi was murdered by Kaido, only becoming angry at the pirate after Orochi himself was negatively affected by the New Onigashima Plan. Finally and perhaps most damningly, Orochi did absolutely nothing to help any of his clansmen who didn't help him come to power, with many of them (Such as [[spoiler:Tama and her family]]) suffering ''because'' of Orochi's regime. In the end, Orochi comes off less like the avenger he claims to be and more like a [[ItsAllAboutMe purely selfish tyrant]] only interested in using his clan's persecution as a tool to excuse his own monstrous actions.

* ArcFatigue: Possibly the series' AchillesHeel. The series is well known for its many, many, ''many'' characters, most with their own distinct backstories and motivations, as well its multilayered, and intricate narrative, and penchant for extravagant fight scenes that often escalate as they progress. Consequentially, arcs (and fights at that) have a tendency to last a long time, to the point they can start to wear out their welcome, with some taking ''years'' to be resolved. Not helping matters is that outside circumstances often cause the series to take frequent breaks. It's even worse in later arcs of the anime (especially those that occur after the 2 year TimeSkip) due to the producers using every {{Padding}} technique they can think up just to make sure that they don't [[OvertookTheManga overtake the manga]].

*** The Davy Back Fight is this in the anime due to how the arc was vastly extended. The Foxy Pirates only battled the Straw Hats to one Davy Back Fight in the manga while the anime pulls the Davy Back Fight ''twice'' back-to-back. This ends up feeling really repetitive as it increases the fight's game events you have to watch through from 3 to 6. Not to mention that Foxy and his crew aren't the most interesting or important of villains, which leaves some people feeling that they've overstayed their welcome during the second Davy Back Fight.

** Oda's love of multi-chapter flashbacks, multiple characters, {{Call Back}}s, and [[ChekhovsGun all tropes Chekhov]] comes to a head at Dressrosa. To wit: 2 and a half years in real life spent on the same island, about 10 individual flashbacks, a little over 50 named new characters, the ''reintroduction'' of several old characters, and 102 chapters of content. This makes it the second longest arc in the series after Wano.
*** Unsurprisingly given the {{Padding}}, Dressrosa in the anime ended up going even ''longer'' with 118 episodes aired in total; 16 more episodes than there were chapters.

** ''One Piece'' is a manga planned more with a volume basis than with a weekly basis, resulting in some arcs appearing to be too long and dragged out if read chapter by chapter every week. However, many fans say that, if read in its entirety, the pacing problems are absent. This results in many arcs to be re-evaluated much more positively after a complete read.
** Both the anime and manga have over a thousand episodes and chapters, respectively, as of this writing. With the manga, you can easily get the volumes to read at your own pace, but the anime has long arcs, some of them filler, that started off with adapting the chapters at a good pace, but after a while has resorted to adapting either one chapter per episode, or ''less'' than even that, so knocking out dozens of episodes by binging the show is the best way to watch it, especially when Oda loves to use ContinuityPorn, {{Continuity Nod}}s, and likes to [[TheBusCameBack bring back older characters]] after they previously appeared in earlier arcs. It's much more rewarding to binge the show in short bursts than it is to watch week to week.

** The [[MemeticMutation legendary]] [[http://i420.photobucket.com/albums/pp282/TerryOsaka/Reaction%20Images/phpITNb8EAM.jpg Enel Reaction face]]. Enel, the BigBad of the Skypeia Arc, spends majority of it in AGodAmI mode because he could NoSell whatever attack was sent his way. This expression finally came about when Enel realized that not only could Luffy hurt him, but he was also immune to his electricity attacks.

** Big Mom has been shown to treat her family absolutely horrendously, whether it be abusing them physically and/or emotionally, sucking out their life force, sending assassins after those who defected, and even ''[[EatenAlive eating them,]]'' and this is ''on top'' of her being a [[EvilIsPetty petty,]] [[KickTheDog dog-kicking]] [[TheCaligula tyrannical despot.]] [[spoiler:You'd have to be a patron-goddamned-saint to watch her get bloodied up and brutalized by Law and Kidd, then subsequently blown up by several bombs, and ''not'' feel any sense of euphoria from it.]]
** Good luck watching [[spoiler: Orochi getting immobilized by Hiyori, burned alive by a fire attack [[HoistByHisOwnPetard that he himself ordered]] and getting finished off by [[BodyguardBetrayal Denjiro]] without any sense of relief after everything the bastard did[[labelnote:Including, but not limited to...]]Usurping the throne from Oden, copiously going back on his promises, starving the people of Wano, feeding people SMILEs because [[EvilIsPetty he was bothered by their gloomly mood]], killing Yasuie and generally being a massive piece of shit to everyone in his vicinity[[/labelnote]]]].

** Many fans believe that One Piece's story is divided into "sagas" collecting story arcs of varying lengths, totalling 30 arcs collected into nine sagas, and that this is an official idea. This is decidedly ''not'' the case in the Japanese, and never has been (least of because there exists no such verbal distinction in Japanese). The actual official listings for story arcs had existed for years, including the volume blurbs, but only became widely known [[https://twitter.com/newworldartur/status/1541152825249521664 with the publication of the 25th anniversary website.]]

** It's a widely held misconception even on [[Website/TVTropes this very wiki]] that Devil Fruits will transfer their powers to the nearest regular fruit when the user dies, likely inspired by a panel in Punk Hazard where a fruit becomes a Devil fruit. This simply isn't the case: the ''only'' concrete information that Oda has given on the matter is that Devil Fruits reappear ''somewhere'' in the world after their users death: if it were true, it would beg the question of why every marine, pirate and bounty hunter wouldn't be carrying around a fruit basket, especially during executions.
** Due to her similarities to Vivi and Shirahoshi (in terms of design and role) and the fact that she's related to the king, Rebecca is often regarded as one of the princess characters. Her meeting Vivi and Shirahoshi as well as her nickname being "Phantom Princess" don't help in that regard. Despite her blood relation to King Riku III, she was not born a princess, since her mother Scarlett was declared dead in order to escape her position as a princess. While Rebecca ''does'' become a princess, it happens ''after'' the conflict of Dressrosa is resolved, and she only holds that position for a few days before completely abandoning it in order to be with her father Kyros. She's currently a maiden-in-waiting for the true princess of the arc, Viola her aunt, who also has a similar role to Vivi in the Dressrosa arc, but is rarely ever compared to either of the three girls.
* ContinuityLockout: '''So very, very much.''' It is a true test of character to try to describe the series to a person who has never heard of it. It's especially one of the reasons why the [=4Kids=] dub is despised since the dub had a tenancy to skip ''entire story arcs'', creating a lot of continuity-related plot holes.

** Donquixote Doflamingo, while never exactly a ''nice'' kid, suffered a childhood of persecution that left him filled with hatred towards the world. He was later approached by Trebol, who enabled Doflamingo to act on his hatred and actively encouraged all of his worst impulses, sending the kid on a downward spiral where he murdered his father in cold blood and formed a pirate crew. While you really can't feel any sympathy for him by the time of the story, you easily tell how he ended up as twisted as he did.
** Charlotte Linlin was born a freak of nature who had absurd physical strength even as a child. While she started out as an innocent kid with a naive desire to make everyone get along, but would accidentally leave others either dead or injured due to her freakish strength. Her caretaker Caramel actively encouraged Linlin's behavior and did nothing to try to reel Linlin in, even after the child killed several giants in a hunger-induced rampage. It's really not hard to see how she ultimately became the tyrannical WomanChild that she is at the time of the main story.

** Donquixote Doflamingo gets hit by this ''hard''. His tragic back story combined with his very good looks (which are enhanced by the fact that he was around with an open shirt) make him very popular, which leads to a significant part of the fanbase to depict him in a significantly more positive light in fan content. This is despite the fact that he's a bloodthirsty psychopath who killed his own father and brother, installed a reign of terror on Dresrossa, and who's ultimate goal is to create a world in which he could trample over anyone he wants to.

* EstrogenBrigade: While being primarily a Shonen meant primarily for teen boys, the (surprisingly varied) amount of attractive men and no small amount of HoYay assured a dedicated female fanbase.

** Arlong the Sawshark fishman who sought to conquer the East Blue, was the series first truly great and threatening villain, showing what a pirate of the Grand Line is capable of, and being the most dangerous enemy Luffy faced in the East Blue Saga.

** You can't one up a bastard-8 foot plus tall knight-marine-Godfather-pirate who kills people by touching them named Crocodile...unless you are a silent-8 foot plus tall super strong gangster-pirate-monk who is also a sword named DAZ BONES. He's like Raven from [[Franchise/{{Tekken}}, only bigger, stronger, a pirate, has no need for weapons, and has the greatest name ever hands down. His loss or rather, both of their losses, lost the Straw Hats fans.

** Rob Lucci along with his fellow [=CP9=] assassins for being brilliant and badass fighters whose skills have made them into the governments best assassins and pushing the Straw Hats to their limits.
** [[KnightTemplar Admiral Akainu]] for being a ManipulativeBastard, Determinator, and unstoppable HeroKiller, whose actions in Marienford showed off his overall badassness and control over the power of the magma Devil Fruit have labeled him to being one of the prime candidates for being Luffy’s [[ArchEnemy most personal enemy]].
** Donquixote Doflamingo, in addition to being one of Luffy’s most monstrous enemies, the unique abilities of his String Devil Fruit, whose actions being similar to Crocodile but far more successful in his plan to take over a kingdom and spent years secretly oppressing his people without anyone noticing for years.

** Kaido’s right Hand King the Wildfire, In addition to his full mastery of his Pteranodon Devil Fruit, he also possesses the natural abilities of his race the Lunarians. Who was able to keep Roronoa Zoro on his toes at every turn giving him the first serious fight in the New World.

* FairForItsDay: Gender-non-conforming characters always had a presence in the series, and especially in the earlier days, especially with the very infamous and unflattering Okama in the Kamabakka Kingdom, they were often drawn as caricatures and PlayedForLaughs - however, many of those characters proved themselves to also be very competent. For example: Bon Kurei, the first ''Okama'' seen in the manga, was a very deadly fighter enough to match Sanji blow-for-blow in their fight, and eventually ended up having an HeelFaceTurn and become an ally of the Straw Hats. Thanks to the manga [[LongRunner continuing into the modern day]], representation of gender-non-conforming and LGBT characters would significantly improve, especially in the Wano arc with the introduction of canonical trans woman Kiku, drawn as a StatuesqueStunner with none of the Gonk-ish caricatures of ''Okama'' characters, and gender-non-conforming Yamato[[labelnote:*]]It's [[AmbiguousGenderIdentity unclear]] in canon whether Yamato is a trans man, a cis woman who simply uses male pronouns, or some level of genderfluid/nonbinary ([[FlipFlopOfGod even official material can't seem to make up its mind]]), but regardless, he is non-conforming, sympathetically portrayed, and not drawn as an exaggerated caricature[[/labelnote]], who is born female but, since he considers himself the reincarnation of Kozuki Oden, also adopted Oden's gender. As if to affirm their identity even further, at one point the characters go into a gender-segregated bath house and Kiku goes in the women's side while Yamato goes to the men's side.

** One Piece fans and ''Franchise/PiratesOfTheCaribbean'' fans can get along quite well thanks to similar pirate theme between the two and Jack Sparrow, who is more or less an adult, Devil Fruit-less version of Luffy.

* GatewaySeries: Regardless on how bad the bowdlerizing is, at least the 4Kids dub had made some viewers become fans of the manga before or after they found out the source material.

** In general, most One Piece arcs tend to follow the same formula and, while some argue that each arc manages to have its own identity and different feel, other fans have gotten sick of the formula and the series has gotten too repetitive; it doesn't help that its length means there have been many arcs and therefore it's very easy to find the plot-formula.

** Kelly Funk from the Dressrosa colosseum, for his incredibly weird and out-of-left-field Devil Fruit power that lets him [[EquippableAlly turn into a jacket.]] If you asked One Piece fans to name some of the ''worst'' Devil Fruits in the series, his would often come up, on the grounds of [[WhatKindOfLamePowerIsHeartAnyway "Do you really want to be the guy who can turn into a jacket".]]

** Monkey D. Dragon, despite being the protagonist's father, being the leader of the Revolutionary Army, and having the title of "The World's Worst Criminal," has fans commonly dunk on him for the fact that he doesn't do anything onscreen besides [[MrExposition deliver exposition]] and that he never rescues his captured teammates, like Ivankov or [[spoiler:Ginny]]. It's especially glaring considering that Dragon was introduced during the Loguetown arc, at the beginning of the story and, for over a thousand chapter, has a minimal impact on the main plot.

** A lot of fan art from the Japanese fandom tends to play up Uta's ([[ImpliedLoveInterest implied]]) feelings towards Luffy to [[{{Yandere}} yandere]]-tier obsession, likely due to the fact that [[spoiler:Uta was especially determined to keep Luffy trapped in Uta World, even going as far as to ask him to quit being a pirate and stay with her while lingering around Luffy's unconscious body in the real world.]]

** As it has been pointed out multiple times by multiple people in the industry that ''Toei approved '''every single alteration''' 4Kids made to One Piece''. Changing a gun into a spring-controlled mallet... thing? Somebody at Toei approved that. Digitally altering Laboon into an easily-destroyed iceberg to completely skip a rather important dozen-plus episodes of plot simply to get to the "cute" character more quickly (and causing ''severe'' {{plot hole}}s had the show run for much longer)? Yep, somebody at Toei signed off on that too. The "One Piece Rap"? A Toei exec... well you get the idea.
** It's also widely believed that ''One Piece'' was the root cause of 4Kids' financial woes, but ''WesternAnimation/{{Chaotic}}'' actually played a much larger role in that due to how much they spend on its entire inception combined with the economic recession of the late 2000s.

** Many [=SMILE=] users appears for just one single scene or even as a background character, but many of them have such goofy and absurd designs that gain the attention of many fans. Particularly Four Tricks, Hamlet and Briscola ([[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff the latter is beloved by Italians due to being named after an Italian card game]])
** [[spoiler:Female Law as a result of the Heart Pirates being infected by Doc Q's "disease" on Chapter 1063 and Episode 1093 has recieved a lot fanart as of its release in both the manga and anime alike for being an official Rule63 design.]]

** Creator/AlejandroOrozco is considered one of the best Mexican voice actors of the modern era, but the tone he used to voice Usopp in the Latin American Spanish dub of One Piece in Netflix is considered as not good by the fanbase. This has decreased over time, however, as Orozco started to adapt better to the character during the Alabasta saga, and fully dropped the shrill tone he used during the early arcs when voicing Usopp in ''[[Anime/OnePieceFilmStrongWorld Strong World]]'' and ''[[Anime/OnePieceStampede Stampede]]'', at which point the fanbase warmed up to his performance.

* SelfFanservice: Despite Yamato's figure being very similar to most female characters in the series (thin with large breasts), it is very common for fanart, especially from the western side of the fanbase to draw him much more muscular and masculine looking that he's drawn in the manga.

* SmurfetteBreakout: [[Anime/OnePieceFilmRed Uta]] is the only main antagonist in a One Piece movie to be female and is by far the most popular. The amount of fanart and promotional material she's received in comparison to [[Anime/OnePieceFilmStrongWorld Shiki]] or [[Anime/OnePieceFilmGold Tesoro]] is rather staggering.

** Ryokugyu/Aramaki was the second of the two new Admirals ot be introduced after the TimeSkip, and unlike Fujitora, who put in an impressive showing, Ryokugyu didn't. While he did curb stomp both King and Queen, it's made abundantly clear that they were both fighting with a massive handicap, as they were still injured and exhausted from their fights with Zoro and Sanji, respectively, something that Ryokugyu himself points out. He then proceeds to fight against Yamato, Momo and the surviving Akazaya Nine, none of whom (except for Yamato, who can stall Kaido for a while) are particularly challenging opponents for an Admiral. Then, finally, before that fight can conclude, he is sent running when Shanks uses his [[FanNickname WiFi Haki]] to intimidate him from clear across the country. All of this has led fans to brand him as a coward who runs from fights where he doesn't have an overwhelming advantage, and declare him the weakest Admiral in the series by far.

*** What complicates matters is that it's usually the Marines that are sympathetic with most of their crimes coming from serving the World Government. So it comes down to whether the Marines really need the World Government.

** In the Egghead Arc, [[spoiler:Saint Jaygarcia Saturn is absolutely despicable, but his presentation of his terrifying devil fruit power as well as being an absolute menace once he arrives to Egghead Island did give a LoveToHate quality to him. In contrast, Alpha, who was the caretaker of Bonney while Kuma was working for the goverment became even more hated due to her unecessairly cruel action of ripping up Kuma's letters that were sent to Bonney, and geerally being abusive to her.]]