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11Ah, ''Manga/OnePiece'', a series in the high seas [[RuleOfCool where physics are ignored]] unless they ''add'' to the awesomeness; what with the {{Pirate}}s and [[LawfulEvil World Government]] clashing with one another constantly. [[http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2013-11-21/one-piece-manga-has-345-million-copies-in-print-worldwide It's the number-one best selling manga of all time for a reason.]] It won't be easy listing all of the [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome hardcore moments]] this series brought us, but we'll sure as hell try.
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13'''WARNING:''' All spoilers for the series are unmarked.
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17[[index]]
18!!Super Rookies Era
19* Awesome/OnePieceSuperRookiesEra
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21!!New World Era
22* Awesome/OnePieceNewWorldEra
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24!!Live Action Series
25* ''Awesome/OnePiece2023''
26[[/index]]
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28!!Other
29[[folder:Cover Story Mini-Arcs and Chapter 0]]
30!!Cover Story Mini-Arcs
31* "Buggy's Crew: After the Battle!":
32** Credit where credit is due for Mohji and Cabaji. The two manage to duel each other starting midday and lasting well into the night after the rest of the crew has fallen asleep. Even ignoring how beaten they are, that’s an impressive amount of endurance.
33** Buggy rescuing his crew from the Bear Claw Tribe, especially since he had recently gotten his ButtMonkey status cemented. He ends it by firing a Buggy Ball into the village, completely obliterating it.
34* "Caribou's New World Kee Hee Hee":
35** Despite having every chance to abandon the island he washed up on and especially the old lady who found and nursed him back to health, Caribou ultimately decides to go back and liberate the island from Scotch's forces, [[DeadPersonImpersonation disguising himself as Commander Gabaru]] to lead the revolutionaries and outright ''killing'' Scotch (who is one of Kaido's top enforcers) by drowning him with his [[SwampsAreEvil Swamp-Swamp Fruit]]. And he did all that because the old lady [[EvenEvilHasLovedOnes reminded him of his own grandmother]], who raised him and Coribou since childhood.
36** The old lady loves her "grandson" so much that she chases off the revolutionary soldiers looking for him. And when Scotch burns her house and attacks her looking for "Gabaru", the old lady helps her "grandson" escape and challenges Scotch, despite her being... well, an old lady trying to fight one of Kaido's men. And after Scotch is defeated, it's revealed that she knew that "Gabaru" is really the SerialKiller Rookie Pirate Caribou all along, the real Gabaru having had died long before Caribou came in, but didn't tell anyone as to not break their hearts.
37* "Germa 66's Ahh... An Emotionless Excursion": Vinsmokes Niji and Yonji finally get LaserGuidedKarma in the form of Pudding, who is enraged by their merciless bullying of Sanji and punches them both in the face simultaneously.
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39!!Chapter 0
40* Gold Lion Shiki tries to get Gold Roger and his crew to join Shiki's massive fleet of ships, as well as get the information on one of the ancient weapons. Roger's answer is "I'm going to crush you all!" Now one might suspect this suicide, as Shiki has a fleet, whilst Roger has one ship, the Oro Jackson. However despite this -- and with a bit of help from the weather -- Roger's crew destroys half of Shiki's fleet, with Shiki himself getting a part of a (presumably his ship's) helm stuck in the back of his head. The battle was declared a "draw", we here at Tv Tropes call that a CurbStompBattle.
41** Apparently, Garp turned down a promotion to ''admiral''! Which means he isn't just merely as strong as a Vice-Admiral; he's probably one of the few men who can fight Whitebeard one-on-one!
42*** Shiki deserves many praises as well. It takes the current Fleet Admiral Sengoku and Vice-Admiral Garp to take him down, and their battle destroyed half of Marineford! In order to escape from Impel Down, he proceeds to ''cut off his own feet'', and then escape! Afterwards, he ties the swords he used to use in battle onto the stumps of his feet. He then uses these to walk around on. To top it off, he is creating a plan he is going to put in motion 20 years from then, I.E. the present day, which will create ''hell on earth!'' This OmnicidalManiac is one to ''never'' be underestimated!
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45[[folder:Movies and Filler]]
46* Movie 2: Luffy uproots an entire multi-story stone elevator and smashes it through several upper floors all the way to the throne room of Bear King's tower ''with his bare hands.''
47* Movie 4: [[ItsPersonal Luffy going totally aggro on Gasparde]] as soon as he decides to attack and discard the straw hat Shanks gave him. He knocks Gasparde into a ''cyclone'' to finish him off.
48** The fact that Nami was able to completely repair Luffy's hat from suffering the most damage it ''ever'' has to date, exceeding that in canon. It also may serve as an explanation of how his hat acquired its string, as Nami agreed to repair it after it was recovered from the fight, so as not to lose it again, and this movie preceded the Jaya Arc, where the string first appears.
49* Movie 5, during the fight against Saga: "If that sword is the strongest, then I must be the very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very strongest!"
50* Movie 6:
51** After being pissed off at his attempt to take the lives of his entire crew and nearly succeeding, for the first and perhaps only time, Luffy punches Baron Omatsuri so hard that it '''''kills''''' him. However, he had been possessed by Lily, a monstrous parasitic plant beforehand, so his death may not be Luffy's fault but a side effect of having that plant destroyed, causing all the people it revived to turn into plants, as well as its host.
52** While Luffy was able to take down Baron Omatsuri, he wasn't responsible for the plant Lily's death -- that honor goes to the father/captain of the Tearoom pirates. Despite not having any training or fighting experience, he takes up a bow, no matter how much he's shaking, while his children cheer him on, and manages to shoot an arrow straight at the approaching plant dead-center, killing it. Note that Lily was an abomination that ate people and warped reality, and its killer was ordinary and even a bit of a coward. Bad'''ass.'''
53* Movie 7: It reveals the origins of Luffy's Gear Second Technique, when Luffy's legs get compressed from trying to hold back the pressuring weight coming down from Ratchet's giant turtle mecha. This causes Luffy's legs to pump more blood through his body. As a result, Luffy suddenly powers up and knocks the mecha away ''with one punch.''
54* A good three-fer from ''Anime/OnePieceFilmStrongWorld''.
55** First naturally, we have Luffy, filled with righteous fury and with a little help from the weather, managing to defeat Shiki, a legendary pirate who fought Gold Roger himself. Even Shiki can't believe that he'd been bested by someone from the world's weakest sea, East Blue, not once, but twice.
56** Then there's Nami, who works to sabotage Shiki's plans by destroying the beast repellent Daft Green, despite the fact that exposure to the toxic substance poisons her, and Shiki poisons her even further when he discovers what she's been doing. Even after this, she feeds his men false information, so that his floating base gets caught in a giant storm, destabilizing things even further.
57** Finally, there's Usopp, who during the crew's second meeting with Shiki, channels his Water 7 self and scathingly chews Nami out for leaving them and joining Shiki's crew and how Luffy wouldn't forgive her, despite the fact that Shiki has a gigantic boulder over his head. Granted, he didn't know her real motivations yet, but coming from Usopp, who's usually comic relief and had left the crew in the past himself, this is a pretty gutsy thing for him to do. He helps set up Luffy's final attack.
58** And again from the 10th movie, the utterly Badass, {{Determinator}}, awesome scene where the Straw Hat crew, [[BadassInANiceSuit dressed in classy suits]], storms Shiki's stronghold.
59--->'''Luffy:''' Nami didn't come here as a sacrifice. She came as a vanguard!!\
60''(Straw Hats get their [[{{BFG}} guns]] out.)''\
61'''Luffy:''' Brace yourself, Golden Lion Shiki. We are the main force!!!\
62''(Straw Hats start firing.)''
63* Filler though it may be, but Episode 59 has a pretty good one. While the Commodore is prepping the [[{{BFG}} Super Giant Cannon]] to destroy the ''Going Merry'', Nami and the others are trying to turn the ship around. Usopp, with a single shot of one of their cannons, hits the SGC perfectly and caused it to go off and destroy it.
64** Grandpa Ryu spends most of the arc worn out and barely able to move. Then Eric manhandles his little friend Apis. The dragon gets ''ticked off'' and with one swing of his wing sends Eric ''flying'' out of sight. Then emits a roar so loud it causes waves. While he doesn't have enough strength to take care of Nelson too, it takes more or less a small Navy fleet bombarding him with cannon fire to bring him down. Note, Ryu is more or less on his ''deathbed'' here.
65* The G-8 arc. Despite being filler, it is made of awesome.
66** Sanji's impersonation as a Marine chef is one of his finest moments. After being challenged by the Marine base's staff, which thought that he and Luffy were snobby chefs from Mariejois, Sanji showcases not only his fine culinary skills in preparing 100 delicious meals but also his resourcefulness and understanding of cooking with the unused parts of the ingredients previously used by the kitchen staff. It's telling when the Marines ultimately decide to scarf down Sanji's simply-made yet delicious meals over the lavish ones their own cooks made for them. Definitely one of the highlights of the G8 Arc!
67--->'''Sanji:''' This is a battlefield, isn't it? It's important to make your food taste good. [[ArmorPiercingQuestion But isn't exhausting your ingredients the worst thing you can do?]] It doesn't matter if you spend ten thousand berry or one million berry. You should never waste your food. Every cook has a duty to make sure that every bit of their ingredients is used with love. Just like loving every bit of a lady. [[ParentalSubstitute An old fart]] taught me that.
68* Vice-Admiral Jonathan. Despite being the main antagonist of a Filler Arc, he proves himself to be a Badass. How? He nearly captures all the Straw Hat Pirates ''without fighting once.'' Just using careful deduction and being an overall {{Chessmaster}}, he figures out where each pirate is. Even better, Sanji notes that no one can be ''that'' relaxed without having a few tricks up his sleeve. This is before we learn that Haki is required to become a Vice-Admiral. When standing face-to-face to Luffy, he cares more about trying to figure out why they'd come to his base and the endless puzzle that is what they had to gain for the Alabasta incident. And finally, when is said and done, he merely notes that, despite losing, it gave the men something to do. He isn't even that upset when he lost. ''Awesome.'' He probably would have captured them if SmugSnake Commander Shepherd didn't get involved. In the end, Shepherd gets to go home in shame. He'd come looking for a reason to shut the fortress down. Instead, the entire incident ''vindicated'' the fortress since they basically drove off a rising crew of infamous pirates and came out much better for it.
69* ''Anime/OnePieceFilmGold'':
70** The KansasCityShuffle the Straw Hats pull on Tesoro. For most of the film, it seems like the Straw Hats are trying to rob Tesoro's vault to pay their debt, only to be caught when it's revealed that there is no vault. However, the Straw Hats ''real'' goal (Which they didn't tell Luffy, since he CannotKeepASecret) was to have Franky rig Tesoro's pipe system to spray sea water all over the ''Gran Tesoro'', washing off the gold dust Tesoro uses to control everyone.
71** Usopp figures out how to beat Baccarat's utterly broken Luck-Luck Fruit powers; He tricks her into playing a slots machine, using up all of Baccarat's stolen luck on a single jackpot. And this on top of the physical strength needed to run to the casino, ''carry' a slots machine back and ''shoot'' out from his slingshot to boot!
72* ''Anime/OnePieceStampede'': Towards the end of the film, Luffy comes into possession of the [[MacGuffin treasure]] that everyone's been chasing throughout the entire movie, an Eternal Log Pose to Laugh Tale, the island where the One Piece is located. Luffy is quite literally holding the thing that will guarantee that he achieves his dream, or would, at the very least, give him a colossal advantage. So what does he do? He destroys it. Crushing it in his hand without a moment of hesitation, telling Rob Lucci and Sir Crocodile that he "doesn't need it." Even better? A later flashback reveals that Gol D. Roger thought the same, saying that anyone who needed an Eternal Pose to Laugh Tale would be incapable of finding the One Piece, and throwing it into the ocean. By destroying it, Luffy proved himself to be the exact kind of person who deserves to find the One Piece.
73* At the end of ''Anime/OnePieceFilmRed'': Shanks is holding Uta in his arms as she dies. As the Marines try to arrest her, Shanks tells them, in no uncertain terms, that if they try to take her away, [[PapaWolf he will kill them]]. He then lets out quite possibly the most powerful blast of [[AwesomenessIsAForce Conqueror's Haki]] ever seen in any piece of ''One Piece'' media. Not only does it manage to knock out several Vice Admirals, but the two Admirals facing Shanks, Fujitora and Kizaru, are visibly shaken by it. Fujitora decides to back down, and Kizaru is visibly sweating.
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