History Fanfic / ThisBites

On September 18, 2022, the Cross-Brain published Chapter 84, marking the end of the fanfic's events of the first half of the manga. As of this writing, ''This Bites!'' is on hiatus until Creator/EiichiroOda completes the manga.

And here is a demo for the future This Bites! [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYCrnR6K58U audio book.]]

On September 18, 2022, published Chapter 84, marking the end of the fanfic's events of the first half of the manga. As of this writing, ''This Bites!'' is on hiatus until Creator/EiichiroOda completes the manga.

-->''"Don don don don! Don don don do--"'' '''(click)'''

!Tropes contained in ''This Bites!'':

"—Of the SBS, signing off!"

It can be found on here ─ ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11515678/1/This-Bites FanFiction.net]]'', ''[[http://archiveofourown.org/works/4833515/chapters/11070479 Archive of Our Own]]'', ''[[https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/this-bites-one-piece-si.356819 Space Battles]]'', ''[[https://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/threads/this-bites-one-piece-si.22451 Sufficient Velocity]]''.

It can be found on ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11515678/1/This-Bites FanFiction.net]]'', ''[[https://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/threads/this-bites-one-piece-si.22451 Sufficient Velocity]]'', ''[[http://archiveofourown.org/works/4833515/chapters/11070479 Archive of Our Own]]'', and ''[[https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/this-bites-one-piece-si.356819 Space Battles]]''.

''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11515678/1/This-Bites This Bites! (Fanfiction.net)]]'' is a ''Manga/OnePiece'' [[SelfInsertFic Self-Insert]] FanFiction by [[https://www.fanfiction.net/u/4060717/Xomniac Xomniac]], with assistance from [[https://www.fanfiction.net/u/4024697/CV12Hornet CV12Hornet]] and [[https://www.fanfiction.net/u/3056662/The-Patient-One The Patient One]].

Also found on ''[[https://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/threads/this-bites-one-piece-si.22451 Sufficient Velocity]]'', ''[[http://archiveofourown.org/works/4833515/chapters/11070479 Archive of Our Own]]'', and ''[[https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/this-bites-one-piece-si.356819 Space Battles]]''.

''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11515678/1/This-Bites This Bites!]]'' is a ''Manga/OnePiece'' [[SelfInsertFic Self-Insert]] FanFiction by [[https://www.fanfiction.net/u/4060717/Xomniac Xomniac]], with assistance from [[https://www.fanfiction.net/u/4024697/CV12Hornet CV12Hornet]] and [[https://www.fanfiction.net/u/3056662/The-Patient-One The Patient One]].

** ARareSentence/ThisBites
** ShoutOut/ThisBites

** ThisBites/ARareSentence
** ThisBites/ShoutOut

-->"Until next time, this is Jeremiah Cross—"\\
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Also has it's own lemon. See here ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/17330882?view_adult=true]]''.

''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11515678/1/This-Bites This Bites!]]'' is a ''Manga/OnePiece'' [[SelfInsertFic Self-Insert]] FanFiction by [[https://www.fanfiction.net/u/4060717/Xomniac Xomniac]], with assistance from [[https://www.fanfiction.net/u/4024697/CV12Hornet CV12Hornet]] and [[https://www.fanfiction.net/u/3056662/The-Patient-One The Patient One]]. It is currently the most popular SI fic in the ''One Piece'' fandom, and the fourth most popular fic overall

''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11515678/1/This-Bites This Bites!]]'' is a ''Manga/OnePiece'' [[SelfInsertFic Self-Insert]] FanFiction by [[https://www.fanfiction.net/u/4060717/Xomniac Xomniac]], with assistance from [[https://www.fanfiction.net/u/4024697/CV12Hornet CV12Hornet]] and [[https://www.fanfiction.net/u/3056662/The-Patient-One The Patient One]].

''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11515678/1/This-Bites This Bites!]]'' is a ''Manga/OnePiece'' [[SelfInsertFic Self-Insert]] FanFiction by [[https://www.fanfiction.net/u/4060717/Xomniac Xomniac]], with assistance from [[https://www.fanfiction.net/u/4024697/CV12Hornet CV12Hornet]] and [[https://www.fanfiction.net/u/3056662/The-Patient-One The Patient One]]. It is currently the most popular SI fic in the ''One Piece'' fandom, and the fourth most popular fic overall.

''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11515678/1/This-Bites This Bites!]]'' is a ''Manga/OnePiece'' [[SelfInsertFic Self-Insert]] FanFiction by [[https://www.fanfiction.net/u/4060717/Xomniac Xomniac]], with assistance from [[https://www.fanfiction.net/u/4024697/CV12Hornet CV12Hornet]] and [[https://www.fanfiction.net/u/3056662/The-Patient-One The Patient One]]. It is currently the most popular SI fic in the ''One Piece'' fandom, and the fifth most popular fic overall.

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[[folder:Tropes A - C]]
* ARareSentence: Now has its own page. See [[ARareSentence/ThisBites here.]]
* ATruceWhileWeGawk:
** The battle between the Enies Lobby garrison and Galley-La, the Franky Family, the giants and the TDWS pauses when Nami, [[LoudOfWar amped by Soundbite]], proceeds to chew out Cross and Luffy for enjoying the Rocketman ride across to the Tower of Justice.
** [[spoiler: Hattori]] holds off on eviscerating Cross to let him [[EngineeredPublicConfession broadcast Spandam's activation of the Buster Call]] and let the director dig a ''very'' deep hole for himself.
* AWizardDidIt: Whenever people react to Soundbite being able to speak, Cross is able to erase any shock just by saying "Devil Fruit." This soon applies for pretty much any weird occurrence (like Brook), and many people often give a deadpan response to anyone who should be inured to the weirdness by now.
* AccidentalMisnaming: When the crew convinces Vivi to put their lives on the line along with hers to save Alabasta, Soundbite contributes by saying "ALL FOR ONE, '''ALL FOR ''ALL!"''''' WordOfGod states that he misquoted on purpose:
-->'''Xomniac:''' All of them for Vivi, all of them for all of Alabasta.
* AccidentalTruth:
** Tashigi tries to throw the Marines off the Straw Hat Pirates' trail by sending them to Jaya... which is, in fact, their current location.
** During the G-8 arc, [[spoiler:Cross tells Sanji that he's glad he's 1/3rd secret agent. Since Cross never saw anything past Chapter 800, the conclusion of the Dressrosa Arc, he has no idea how close to the truth he really is.]]
* AchievementsInIgnorance: Invoked, then averted. Cross doesn't tell Zoro that he's trying to cut through a diamond-hard seastone cage, because he thought if Zoro didn't know he couldn't do it, he might be able to. It doesn't work.
* ActionSurvivor: Cross, fullstop. In comparison to his crewmates, he isn't really a fighter. All of the battles he gets that aren't against Mooks into generally devolve to running from his enemy until he finds a way to either lose them or knock them out safely. Even then, he gets pretty injured, as attested by his many scars. The true reason as to why he qualifies for this is the fact that he ''doesn't'' really need to put himself in danger - as attested by Smoker - but he does so anyway for the sake of his friends and beliefs.
* ActuallyPrettyFunny:
** Cross's reaction to the second time Soundbite scares him with his powers.
** Miss Valentine's Day openly laughs at Cross's guess that she's Miss April Fool's Day.
** Cross eventually manages to get Carue to admit this in response to Soundbite's powers letting him speak coherently… in WesternAnimation/DonaldDuck's voice.
** Carue laughs when Cross answers Vivi's pondering of what Robin's game was by saying, "At a guess, I'd say baccarat."
** Usopp admits to this after Cross calls him a {{Tengu}}… though he promises that he's going to spike his food with hot sauce for the next week as payback.
** The Whitebeard Pirates share a laugh when Cross says the easiest way to guarantee that Whitebeard came down on someone with an unholy vengeance was... stealing his sake.
** Vivi admits that Cross telling Usopp to go for a swim in the White Sea (knowing that there is no bottom) was a little funny, though still not nice.
** Enel says that despite Cross's blasphemy, the scary story prank he played on the crew was hilarious.
** Jonathan [[LaughThemselvesSick falls off his chair]] when he hears what happened to Inspector Shepherd.
** Tashigi gets the giggles against her will when she hears what kind of state the Straw Hats left G-8 in.
** Buggy refuses to find any aspect of the Straw Hat crew funny... until Soundbite plays the full original WhosOnFirst routine over the SBS.
** Soundbite reluctantly smirks with amusement after Cross pulls a DuckSeasonRabbitSeason on him while [[spoiler:signing off from the SBS]] with Soundbite's own name and thereby tricking Soundbite into starting to sign off with Cross's name.
** Cross spots Robin giggling at Brook's various skull jokes.
** Cross's reaction to finding out he'd inadvertently created [[ScoobyDoo Mystery Incorporated]], One Piece Edition.
** Perona can't help but giggle at Donny and Brook pulling an AlasPoorYorick.
** Nami's reaction to Perona successfully TemptingFate ''and'' redirecting the backlash onto Cross.
* AdaptationalBadass:
** Conis can apparently fight on the level of Captain [=McKinley=] of the White Berets.
** [[spoiler:Hattori]] is actually a dangerous assassin capable of using the Six Powers.
** All of the Supernovas have considerably higher bounties than canon, along with there being more Supernovas as well.
** With the canon reveal that Lola is Big Mom's daughter and thus from the New World, she knows [[spoiler:Armament Haki]].
* AdaptationalHeroism: Don Accino was a villain in the anime; here, he starts out one but falls into this trope when Vivi offers him a position as a Royal Guardian for Alabasta, an offer he eventually accepts, after she reveals that [[spoiler: his Devil Fruit is one of six that were counted among Alabasta's national treasures]] and points out the benefits of accepting the position.
* AdaptationalVillainy: [[spoiler:In the manga, Zola, the zombie who had Lola's shadow, bonded with Nami and helped her to defeat Absalom. Here, [[ForWantOfANail because Absalom was defeated early and Nami's abduction was avoided]], she doesn't bond with the Straw Hats and instead is furious with them over defeating Absalom, and fights Lola and Raphey when the latter [[BerserkButton insults her lipstick]]]].
* AdultFear: How else would you describe the emotions of all the Straw Hats' loved ones [[spoiler:as the events against Lily Carnation are being broadcast to them and they have to listen to their children/friends/proteges slowly being digested]]?
* AdvancingWallOfDoom: A tidal wave of wax floods Rainbase at the end of Chapter 18, and it takes remarkably little time for there to be nowhere left to run.
* AffectionateGestureToTheHead: Robin does this a lot to [[spoiler: Merry in her human child form]]. The latter is slowly getting sick of it.
* AlienArtsAreAppreciated: In Chapter 24, Vivi says she's a fan of Creator/RobertLouisStevenson, and Robin says that she's more fond of Creator/HPLovecraft and Creator/MaryShelley.
* AlienCatnip: Conis, as a Skypiean, has adapted to living in a low-oxygen environment. So when she ventures down to the Blue Sea, the high concentration of oxygen has her slurring and hiccuping like a drunk driver.
* AllMenArePerverts: Seems to be the belief of Nami and demonstrated by the male members of the crew.
** AllWomenAreLustful: ... Then again there does seem to be quite a few moments where the female members of the crew are just as perverted as the male ones.
* AllOfThem: Miss Valentine's response to how many ships will be sent after the Straw Hats for attacking Enies Lobby.
* AllYourBaseAreBelongToUs:
** In Chapter 31, the "1000th Review Spectacular!", the Bleeding Heart Bounty Hunters attack the Going Merry by human cannonballing themselves onboard. Unfortunately for them, they manage to press a few {{Berserk Button}}s. The ensuing battle is so short it's painful.
** Chapter 52 has the aftermath of the Thriller Bark arc, and a heroic example at that: [[spoiler: so as to spit in the eye of Moria and his legacy, Lola has plans to co-opt Thriller Bark itself and turn it into a safe haven for pirates leagues better than Mock Town - named Skelter Bite.]]
* AllYourPowersCombined:
** Every Straw Hat (with a ranged attack) assists in [[spoiler:shooting down the World Government Flag]]. ''Every one.''
-->'''Cross:''' ''(holding up Lassoo)'' [[FrickinLaserBeams CANI-BLAST!]]
-->'''Conis:''' ''(frigidly)'' [[FrickingLaserBeams Burn Bazooka.]]
-->'''Nami:''' [[ShockAndAwe Lightning Bolt Tempo!]]
-->'''Zoro:''' [[RazorWind Three Sword Style, 108 Caliber Phoenix!]]
-->'''Usopp:''' [[KillItWithFire Special Attack: Firebird Star!]]
-->'''Sanji:''' ''[[RazorWind APÉRITIF!]]''
-->'''Chopper:''' '''[[StuffBlowingUp CHERRY BLOSSOM BLAST]] ''[[UpToEleven BLIZZARD!]]'''''
-->'''Boss:''' [[SufferTheSlings Half-Shell Style, Flying Fish Fastball Special!]]
-->'''Everyone:''' '''''ROCK BOTTOM BLAZE OF GLORY!'''''
** How the Six Powers interact to form the Six King Gun: using Iron Body and Paper-Art to balance strength, immobility, and flexibility, using the concepts of Moonwalk and Tempest Kick to feel and affect the air around oneself, using Shave to compress all the explosive movement into one single action, and Finger Pistol for the mentality to turn oneself into a living weapon.
* AlmightyJanitor:
** Despite the outward appearance of arrogance, Foxy is not only a dangerous fighter, but has an intelligence network extensive enough to fill Apoo with dread. It's heavily implied that the only reason his bounty is so low is that he has been actively attempting not to make a name for himself.
** Even though he's one of the weaker members, Blueno is the agent that Cross is adamant has to go down first due to his [[ThinkingUpPortals Devil Fruit]].
** For all their strength, as the ship guards the Kung-Fu Dugongs are technically the lowest ranking members of the crew. Boss deserves special mention, since he's outright stated to be just one notch below the Monster Trio in strength.
* AlphaStrike: The Straw Hats unload one on [[spoiler: an Awakened]] Moria.
* AncestralWeapon:
** T-Bone's sword, passed down from commander to commander of the 13th Royal Marine Flotilla.
** The Devil Fruits of the Alabastan Royal Guardians, kept within the kingdom's possession via a secret vault of fruit trees. Comprised of the [[NobleWolf Jackal]], the [[NobleBirdOfPrey Falcon]], [[spoiler:the [[HeatWave Rage]], the [[ClothFu Grace]], the [[DishingOutDirt Desert]] and the [[BlowYouAway Storm]].]]
* AndIMustScream:
** Quoted in full by Dragon [[spoiler:as he witnesses the BodyHorror of the Straw Hats stuck in Lily Carnation]].
** Played for laughs; Spandam somehow remains conscious through all of Franky and Robin's [[BattleDiscretionShot graphic]] retribution - although it doesn't quite count, since he still can scream.
* AndThatsTerrible: The Christmas Episode, at the tea party on Little Garden between Dorry, Brogy, Mr. 5, Miss Valentine, and Miss Goldenweek:
-->'''Dorry:''' You do realize that we won't help you off this island just for tea, yes?
-->'''Miss Goldenweek:''' That doesn't matter to me in the least, Mister Dorry. What matters is that today is Christmas, and neither of you have properly celebrated it for the past century. And that's terrible.
* AndThisIsFor: Vivi beating up Mr. 2 in Chapter 20. She slugs him in the throat for hurting Usopp, breaks his nose for attacking her country, and then gives him a GroinAttack [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking for his outfit.]]
* AnimalNemesis: Mr. 13 and Miss Friday end up becoming this for Cross and Soundbite. In fact, Cross's fights during each arc are usually with the enemy's animal, which are on his level.
* {{Angrish}}: Sanji's reaction to his wanted poster is written in symbols and according to Soundbite, was complete gibberish.
* ArcWords: What Cross first said to Smoker as part of his TheReasonYouSuck speech way back in Loguetown is recycled and refined in Alabasta, and afterwards used by Cross and Smoker himself multiple times to convince other Marines that the World Government is corrupt and need to be rebuilt from scratch.
--> "A good Marine follows his orders to the letter and sacrifices everything for the sake of Justice, while a decent Marine sacrifices everything for the sake of all… ''even'' Justice, if it comes down to it."
* ArmorPiercingResponse: When a Marine tries to convince Kashi and Oimo that Cross is lying about Broggy and Dorry being free rather than in Impel Down and is using Soundbite's powers to fool them, Cross admits it ''is'' possible but there's just one problem.
-->'''Cross:''' Just tell me... [[SpottingTheThread when we could have gotten their voices]].
* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking:
** In the Christmas Episode, Wiper binds and gags Aisa and uses her as the replacement for their broken Christmas Star. What did she do to earn this? Sneaking out to Upper Yard to gather Vearth, accepting a gift of roasted almonds from the Skypiean Conis rather than fighting to the death as a Shandoran should, and using her Mantra to figure out where they were hiding the Christmas presents. [[ITakeOffenseToThatLastOne That last one is what makes Laki think the punishment is appropriate.]]
** Why doesn't Smoker like Alabasta? The heat, the sand, and the fact that no-one there can roll a good cigar.
** The example under AndThisIsFor...
** The list of offenses Drake levels against Cross ends with the illegal importation of South Birds, an endangered species.
** While disrupting the Buster Call at Enies Lobby, Cross sows sabotage, mutiny, breaks in communication, and an impromptu birthday party for Akainu.
** Included in the things that piss off Don Accino the most are Cross talking, the Hirunos, anyone messing with his children, and "those annoying little Brussels sprouts that always seem to unravel in his throat."
* ArrangedMarriage: Don Accino arranges one between his youngest daughter and an heir of the Hiruno famiglia so he can merge his family and theirs together for more manpower against the ever-growing competition between bounty hunter families.
* AscendedExtra:
** The Straw Hats pick up a few minor or arc-specific characters to join the crew full-time, like [[spoiler:Lassoo, Conis, Su and Funkfreed]].
** Smoker, Tashigi, Hina, T-Bone, Jonathan, Tsuru, and the people of G-8 all get larger roles due to [[spoiler:being part of the New World Masons.]] For a similar reason, so do [[spoiler: Bartolomeo, Apoo, Foxy, Dorry, Broggy and Lola]].
* AskAStupidQuestion: When Commander Drake asks if Vice Admiral Jonathan is alright after a meeting with Cross, Jonathan reminds him that [[DeadpanSnarker he's a Vice Admiral whereas Cross is a member of a rookie crew and not a terribly strong member at that]].
* AssholeVictim: Several Marines come across the bound and MuggedForDisguise Inspector Shepherd during the Straw Hats infiltration of the base. None of them ever let him out of the closet he's stuffed in.
* AtLeastIAdmitIt: Cross responds to Aokiji's accusation of being a demon by saying at least he's honest.
* AwesomeButImpractical:
** Soundbite quickly realizes that [[spoiler:with his new transceiver, he can call every Transponder Snail in the world or none of them, no in-between]].
*** Somewhat averted in the latest chapters when he realizes that he can both call people like a regular transponder snail, and also that he can create a 'dead zone' the size of say [[spoiler:Enies Lobby]] where they are unable to receive [[spoiler:the SBS broadcast]] and thus unable to preempt the attack.
** While Cross and Nami could have the entirety of their weapons coated with seastone, they decide to only have parts of them (the orbs of Nami's Clima-tact and the knuckles of Cross' gauntlets) so that the crew's Devil Fruit users won't be "conked out" by touching them. This is doubly important for Cross since his gun and sword are also Devil Fruit users and coating his gauntlets entirely would leave them ordinary weapons whenever he held them.
* AwesomeByAnalysis:
** Scratchman Apoo figured out Soundbite's transponder number by a slight noise he makes [[spoiler:during SBS broadcasts]] which told him what model the transponder is, then calling shops in Loguetown to find out who sold it.
*** During the Enies Lobby arc he was able to figure out that [[spoiler:Foxy is allied with Cross]] and then coordinate an attack with both them and the Kung Fu Pirates on 'Task Force Cerberus' before they can join the forces on Enies Lobby.
** Law determines Luffy isn't dead yet while fighting [[spoiler:Lily Carnation]] because he can tell where each attack hit purely by sound and none are instantly fatal.
* AwesomenessIsAForce: When Cross meets up with Ace and tells him that [[spoiler:his brother Sabo is alive]], he ends up on the receiving end of Ace's Conqueror's Haki as a lie detector test. Cross describes it as a puny, insignificant human standing in front of the sun, a literal force of nature.
** This is often the description of other users of Conqueror's Haki, from Hancock's predatory world serpent and Sengoku's golden divine glow, to [[spoiler: Vivi's royal pharaonic countenance and Luffy's monstrous beast]].
* BackhandedApology:
** From the Straw Hats to Fukuro about his voice.
** From Cross to Amigo Pirate [[FatBastard Corto]] when [[IShallTauntYou taunting him]] incorrectly.
---> '''Cross:''' ''Toro, to-!'' Oh, wait, my apologies! Allow me to be more appropriate: ''[[YouAreFat fatso, fatso!]]''
* BaitAndSwitch:
** When Cross gets the newspaper after Crocodile's uprising, he finds three bounty posters instead of two. The first two are for Luffy and Zoro as canon, and everyone thinks the third is Cross's, but it's only at the end that the readers find out that it's [[spoiler:Vivi's]].
** On the [[spoiler:[=SBS=]]], Cross details the easiest way to make the [[TrueCompanions Whitebeard Pirates]] mad enough to bring their entire might on someone's head... stealing their sake.
*** [[ActuallyPrettyFunny Even the Whitebeard Pirates laughed at that one.]] Well, some of them did, others [[FaceFault Face-Faulted.]]
** Cross uses this twice in quick succession when Robin tries to seduce answers out of him. First, he tells her that he'll answer all her questions if she does one thing: tell the Straw Hats about the day Ohara died. Second, when Robin asks if doing so will make him trust her, Cross answers no; he already trusts her.
* BaitAndSwitchComparison:
** As they row away from Laboon:
--->'''Usopp:''' Seriously! Is this thing so big that it didn’t notice a freaking ''cannon'' firing into it or is it just slow!?
--->'''Cross:''' I think it’s more the former than the latter! After all, from my experience? The intelligence of animals can seriously surprise you at times!
--->'''Soundbite:''' '''REPRESENT!'''
--->'''Cross:''' After all, you’d expect a snail that can speak to have at least ''half'' a brain-cell…
--->'''Soundbite:''' ''OI!''
** As Zoro and Cross wonder why Franky can't stay in Water 7:
--->'''Zambai:''' Are you-! Right, one of you isn't local, the other's an idiot.
--->'''[[ComicallyMissingThePoint Zoro]]:''' Hey, Cross isn't ''that'' dumb.
* BallsOfSteel: [[ThePeepingTom Absalom]] has these, unfortunately enough. Turns out even a GroinAttack by a CuteBruiser can be {{No Sell}}ed if you can completely [[FeelNoPain turn off your sense of pain]].
* BattleDiscretionShot: Whatever the hell happened to Spandam when Robin and Franky finally got their hands on him is never outright stated. [[NoodleImplements Though apparently]], Spandam's [[{{Squick}} ribs somehow ended up where his eyes are (or should be)]].
* BatmanGambit:
** In Chapter 21, Miss Friday corners Cross and Soundbite, but she doesn't know which of two curtains they're hiding behind. Soundbite produces an obvious sneeze from the curtain where they're hiding, prompting Miss Friday to shoot up the ''other'' stall, having learned not to trust her ears from the last encounter with the pair. Once she's out of bullets, Cross takes her down.
** In Chapter 31, Soundbite tells everyone in earshot that a rat infestation is coming their way... causing Aisa to leap out of the barrel on the Merry she was stowing away in in fright.
** Chapter 34 has the Foxy Pirates being very pleased about having a Davy Back Fight broadcast [[spoiler: on the SBS]], with their tricks fully explained to the listeners, as it would entice other pirate crews to challenge them expecting a win, while only knowing a fraction of the Foxy Pirates' playbook.
** Chapter 37 has Cross needing to find a way to get Kaku and Kalifa to reveal themselves, so he convinces Franky and Iceburg that Robin has no desire to awaken the hidden weapons, the risk of which is the whole reason they hid the Pluton blueprints. This leads to Franky taking out the blueprints to burn them, causing the two [=CP9=] agents to make a grab for them. Cross then has Lassoo burn them, and taunts them, which results in them fully breaking cover.
** In Chapter 39: "Black Bart" Bartolomeo attacks a Celestial Dragon then calls the World Government to taunt them. He gets the [[MassOhCrap Five Elder Stars]] who proceed to send [[GeneralRipper Akainu]] and five battleships after them. All to draw off some of the World Governments fire power so the Straw Hats can save Robin.
** By broadcasting that Chopper has found Perona's real body and is planning to do [[AC:Science]] to her, [[AstralProjection Perona]] flies back into her real body in a heartbeat to protect it. Of course, this means that when Chopper puts her to sleep for real, there is no way she's coming back out.
* BavarianFireDrill:
** In Chapter 18, Cross pulls this to outfox a trio of Marine Mooks.
** In Chapter 32, Nami accidentally finds herself impersonating a Marine Captain and takes DrillSergeantNasty UpToEleven as she yells at a Marine for bumping into her.
** From the same chapter, in addition to what all the other crew are doing, Sanji and Luffy outsmart a group of Marines when they run away from Vice Admiral Jonathan by yelling in a panicked tone that Jessica (Jonathan's wife) just learned [[ThisIsUnforgivable he's been throwing out the meals she made him.]] Which is true.
** Cross had Soundbite use an approximation of Spandam's voice to order the Marines to shell the portion of the tower Spandam is in with mortars.
** Cross and Soundbite pull off an entire series of these to tie up the Buster Call ships into shooting each other.
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor:
** At multiple points, Vice Admiral Jonathan wonders why he thought it was a good idea to let the Straw Hats stress test Navarone.
** Fleet Admiral Sengoku wishes for the Straw Hats to engage in [[RapePillageAndBurn 'traditional piracy']] and when he hears them doing just that over [[spoiler: the SBS]], he plans on saying prayers for those who'll end up losing their homes. Then he recognizes the voices/names on the broadcast and realizes exactly which island they're destroying-- The Judicial Island, Enies Lobby, one of the Marines' three greatest strongholds.
--->'''Cross:''' We're going to take a leaf out of the pages of the big black book of piracy! Only… It's not the edition you were hoping for. We're tearing this straight out of the Four Emperors' personal playbook: you touch one of ours? ''We fuck you up.'' This goes beyond a mere rescue mission, this… this is nothing short of a ''crusade.'' We are going to ''pummel'' the men stationed here. We are going to ''take back'' our archaeologist. And besides making the World Government look like the idiots they are in the process? We are going to ''burn this fucking island TO THE GODDAMN BEDROCK'' AND CAST IT INTO THE FUCKING ABYSS IT'S HANGING OVER, SENDING IT RIGHT BACK TO WHERE IT FUCKING BELONGS! ''WHO'S WITH ME!?''
** Jabra taunts Luffy in hopes of getting the best possible fight. Unfortunately for him, he did so by not just pressing Luffy's BerserkButton, but slamming it with a sledgehammer. NoHoldsBarredBeatdown ensues.
* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: [[NiceToTheWaiter Cross gives a News Coo he meets a 900 Berry tip when he buys a 100 Berry newspaper from him.]] Then after the Alubarna battle, said News Coo, named Coo, gives Cross an edition of tomorrow's paper due to the very raw deal that the Straw Hats [[spoiler:and Vivi]] are getting.
* BerserkButton: Cross has a great habit of stomping on these to get people all riled up.
** Do not insult Tashigi's womanhood if you have any interest in ''not'' being castrated.
** Do not insult Emporio Ivankov in front of Mr. 2.
** Do not disparage Donquixote Doflamingo in front of Bellamy, or worse, tell Bellamy that Doflamingo will never respect him.
** Do not touch Nami's tangerine trees unless you have her express permission. Soundbite apparently took a single ''leaf'' once in the past, and [[NoodleIncident whatever happened]] put him off of them for good.
** Do not insult Sengoku's choice of goats as a pet. ''Not even if you're Akainu''.
** Do not harm Luffy if you have any interest in not being slaughtered by his family. While listening to the [[spoiler:SBS broadcast of the events on the Secret Island]], Squardo and Whitey Bay had to keep their Haki up lest they be incinerated just by being near Ace. Garp got to the point where he was prepared to rip [[spoiler:Lily]] apart with his bare hands. Dragon had no doubt that Luffy would win, but nonetheless swore to kill [[spoiler:Lily]] if Luffy didn't.
** Do not touch one of [[TrueCompanions the Straw Hats]]. [[YouWouldntLikeMeWhenImAngry You Wouldn't Like Them When They're Angry]].
--> '''Soundbite:''' '''Did you really ''think we would TAKE THIS SHIT''' LYING DOWN?'' [[TryingToCatchMeFightingDirty THEY WANT TO PLAY DIRTY]], ''that's their problem. BUT WHEN THEY TAKE '''[[ItsPersonal ONE OF OURS]]... we fight'' [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown BLOODY.]]'''
-->'''Cross:''' You touch one of ours? We fuck you up.
** Do not mention "sins of the father" anywhere near Ace unless you want to be extra crispy.
** Do not look down on Jabra [[CantCatchUp because you think he's weak]]. He gets enough of it from Lucci, and it ''really'' gets under his skin.
** Do not make light of a life-or-death struggle in front of Kalifa; she takes her assassination work very seriously. And thanks to Cross, really don't call her "bubbly".
** Amazingly, even the DirtyCoward SmugSnake Spandam has one: Do not insult his father.
** Do not insult [[MadDoctor Hogback's]] intelligence.
** Do not tell [[Series/InLivingColor Fire Zombie Bill]] that he's not funny.
** Do not mess with Bearsy whenever Perona is around, and especially don't call either of them creepy.
* BewareTheNiceOnes:
** Vivi. It was scary enough when she got angry at Cross for lying to her face about where the Rebel Army was (for good reason, and she apologizes for it later), but after escaping Rain Dinners and Smoker decides to try arresting the Straw Hats...well.
---> Tashigi was downright quaking in her boots by this point, the woman who had fearlessly cut down an assassin not an hour ago looking ripe to piss her pants. Smoker’s external reaction was one of stoic calm, but I could see the sweat dripping from his temple, and I’m pretty sure it wasn’t from the heat.
*** What makes this doubly impressive is that, for the first time, Vivi [[spoiler:invokes her family name as one of the 20 original world-creating kingdoms to do so]].
*** Later Vivi fantasizes (to the point of drooling) over having a Buster Call initiated on a World Government island like Enies Lobby.
** Shanks, as in canon. NiceGuy all the way through, but this line says it all:
---> '''Shanks:''' We'll see if the Golden Lion has bitten off more than he can chew by challenging [=[the Straw Hats]=]. And if he hasn't? '''[[ThisMeansWar Then he'll wish that he had.]]'''
* BeyondTheImpossible:
** The Water 7 doctor states (shouts) that even with a rubber body, it makes no sense at all that Luffy is still alive after his fight with Lucci, especially as he accumulated so much fatigue he should have lost consciousness two days ago ''despite the fight having been yesterday''.
** After Luffy mistakes Coby for [[Manga/FairyTail Natsu Dragneel]], Cross blows up at his captain's stupidity transcending time and space. And then Garp proves himself even stupider by [[spoiler: broadcasting Luffy's parentage on live radio]].
* BigBallOfViolence:
** Luffy and Lassoo get into a brawl when Cross orders Lassoo to maul him after Luffy ruins his second favorite jacket. The two end up in "a nigh cartoonish ball of violence, dust cloud and all."
* BigDamnHeroes:
** Quoted in full by Boss, Franky, and Cross/Soundbite as they join the battle on the Bridge of Hesitation.
** Sanji does this several times, once to save Cross from a raptor, another to save Nami, Vivi, [[spoiler: Merry]] and Carue from Absalom.
* BigDamnKiss: An example played for comedy - Nami lays one on both Cross ''and'' [[GirlOnGirlIsHot Robin]] when they deliver the [[MoneyFetish giant pillar of gold]] from Skypiea.
* BigEater: A standard part of ''One Piece'' is that Luffy has a ridiculous appetite. Frame of reference from when the crew learns from Crocus Baroque Works was trying to kill Laboon for a food supply that would last a few years for their town, which contains around 100 people:
-->'''Luffy:''' ''(flat look at Crocus)'' That's just stupid. This guy could only feed them for three weeks, tops.
-->'''Cross:''' ''(flat look at Luffy)'' Your answer terrifies me beyond all belief for ''so'' many reasons.
* BigNo:
** Everyone's response to when, after the Grand Line's weather between Reverse Mountain and Whiskey Peak, Zoro complains about them waking him up for that and asks if they could have handled it themselves.
** In the BreakThemByTalking below, Cross finally makes Vivi snap by accusing her of being a bounty hunter out of sadistic pleasure, resulting in this.
** This is the crew's response when Cross breaks out the StinkBomb bug repellent lotion on Little Garden. Cross vetos it.
** This is the crew's response when Cross threatens to use his new foghorn to make an enraged Nami calm down enough to listen to reason.
* BigYes: Cross when [[spoiler:Luffy orders ''all'' of the Straw Hats to shoot down the World Government flag in Chapter 39.]]
* BillBillJunkBill:
** After escaping an InevitableWaterfall, Nami asks if anyone else has any more impending disasters. These are the responses she gets: "Nope!; '''NO''' ''thanks!''; No...; Not at all, Nami-swan!; Cross is gonna be the third mate.; I'm good..."
** [[spoiler:When the Straw-Hats all join in in blasting down the WG flag]], Vivi doesn't join in for lack of a proper long-ranged attack. Why does this count? Because Boss, who is after her, does.
* BlowYouAway: In Strong World, [[spoiler: Vivi consumes [[SecretWeapon the aril of the Gust-Gust Fruit]] [[GodzillaThreshold in response to Shiki curbstomping the Straw Hats]] and becomes a Logia in the process.]]
* BodyHorror:
** The aftermath of [[spoiler:Enel's ElectricTorture]] practically melts Cross's skin inside his armor.
** [[spoiler:Lily Carnation.]]
** [[spoiler: Moria's [[OneWingedAngel Nidhogg]] form.]]
* BondOneLiner:
** After Tashigi knocks out Mr. 3 in Chapter 19:
-->'''Tashigi:''' That was for my men, you bastard...
** Nami to Kalifa in chapter 37:
-->'''Nami:''' Science lesson: be it a cloud or a body, Iron ''still'' conducts electricity.
** Conis to Captain Sharinguru in chapter 41:
-->'''Conis:''' We're all the heroes of our own story. Guess the world just found mine more interesting than yours.
* BookSafe: The priest who was supposed to perform the Accino-Hiruno wedding is revealed to have hollowed out his Bible and used it to store a flask of vodka.
* BotheringByTheBook: After [[spoiler:Vivi]] paralyzes Spandam, his Marine escort calmly stand back and wait for him to recover as he's the only one allowed to open the Gates of Justice.
* BoundAndGagged:
** Vivi trusses up Luffy to keep him out of the way during the Accino-Hiruno wedding.
** A partial example PlayedForLaughs in Strong World: After Usopp has finally had enough of his crewmates trying to call out to their comrades and attracting more dangerous beasts to them, he [[FlashStep Shave]]-gags them with duct tape.
* BrainBleach:
** After witnessing Nami on a ''dinner date'' with her gold, Robin desperately wishes for a way to wipe her memory.
** Turns out, Chopper has developed a prototype BrainBleach. He offers to dump it in everyone's dinner after they encounter a transvestite MagicalGirl.
** The Barto Club wish for some when their attack on a Celestial Dragon ship brings out [[FanDisservice said Celestial Dragon dressed only in his tighty-whiteys]] and [[InterruptedIntimacy one of his slaves]].
** ''Everyone'' who sees [[FanDisservice Kokoro's mermaid body]] wants some.
* BreakingTheFourthWall: A minor case in Chapter 25 when Cross says that he couldn't make up the events that he was reporting if he tried. Soundbite, or perhaps B.R.O.B. possessing him again, noted the irony.
* BreakThemByTalking:
** Cross's words are undoubtedly his most dangerous weapon; every time someone allows him to open his mouth, it proves to be more than they can handle. Vivi's masquerade as Miss Wednesday? Broken. Smoker and Tashigi's faith in the Navy's justice? Broken. Aokiji's unflappably nonchalant demeanor? Broken. Kaku and Kalifa's flawless masquerades? Broken. Hogback's intention not to tell the world about Thriller Bark? Broken. And those are just the ones he did on purpose.
** Aokiji's canon lecture to Robin still counts, but it's the last words he says to Robin that really count, as they shatter Robin's faith in the crew she had found.
---> '''Aokiji:''' You've found people who will protect you, Nico Robin. They're willing to take on the world for you, of that I have no doubt. [[ArmorPiercingQuestion But can they win?]] I ''seriously'' doubt ''that''.
*** They manage to repair the damage some, but ultimately, Enies still happens.
** Robin utilizes this against Spandam to slow him down on the Bridge of Hesitation. [[BerserkButton It doesn't turn out well for her.]]
* BrickJoke:
** In Chapter 6, Cross does some Tempting Fate that turns into Retroactive Wishing, ending with him wishing that a billion berries would fall from the sky. Nothing happens, and Cross loudly objects to the divine being not following the RuleOfThree. But in the Christmas Episode, it turns out that a billion berries DID fall from the sky…[[JackassGenie onto Johnny and Yosaku]].
** In Chapter 15, after Mr. 2 leaves and Vivi berates herself for not recognizing him based on the description she heard, Cross sarcastically asks Vivi if she wants him to suggest memory exercises then or wait for her to forget some touchy nation's customs. In Chapter 25, she rushes through a translation manual... and accidentally insults some touchy nation's customs.
** In Chapter 23, Cross first calls Koala "cuddly" [[spoiler: over the SBS]] and she immediately vows revenge. In Chapter 44, she gets her chance.
** During preparations of the Accino-Hiruno wedding, Luffy comes up with an exceedingly complicated rope invention for him to get to the food, only for Vivi to hogtie him before he can trigger it. After the Straw Hats get away, Luffy finally manage to set it off.
* BringIt:
** Cross's reaction when they arrive in Alabasta, and he reflects on why they're there, and what's ahead of them.
** Bartolomeo's reaction after [[spoiler:taunting the Five Elder Stars.]]
** Su shouts this to get the Thriller Bark Surprise Zombie ambush going:
---> '''Su:''' BRING IT THE HELL ON, YOU [[AddedAlliterativeAppeal PATHETIC PACK OF PATCHWORK]] ''[[AddedAlliterativeAppeal PALAVERS!]]''
** Cross does this to the Amigo Pirates when he takes them all on by himself.
* BrownNote:
** Soundbite learns to produce a sound that causes extreme nausea and disorientation in everyone who hears it, enabling Cross to take them down easier. [[CallingYourAttacks He and Cross christen it "Gastro-Phony" (going off of cacophony) in Chapter 25.]]
** When [[spoiler:DJ Gappa of Baron Omatsuri's crew, possessed by Lily, broadcasts on the SBS to invite them to come to their island]], the sheer fakeness being broadcasted sends chills up everyone's spine.
*** To say nothing of what happens when anyone tries calling Soundbite while on the island. All they get is a completely unholy sound, with a hint of ''something'' underneath. [[labelnote: What?]][[AC:[[spoiler:My fun. My toys. My food. Go away!]]]][[/labelnote]]
* BuccaneerBroadcaster: [[spoiler: In Chapter 22, B.R.O.B. gifts Cross with a Snail Transceiver, an outlawed piece of technology that allows Soundbite to broadcast to every other Transponder Snail in the world. The chapter's end heralds the birth of the Strawhat Broadcasting Station ([[MythologyGag SBS]]).]]
** Then, in Chapter 24, Soundbite begins what he confirms is going to be a RunningGag by interrupting and intercepting Cross [[spoiler:whenever he tries to start the SBS.]]
** Then there becomes a Buccaneer Broadsheet as well: [[spoiler: Coo and a few of his News Coo colleagues begin collaborating with Scratchman Apoo to create a newspaper that prints the truth, named the Free Feather Report.]]
* BullyingADragon:
** Kaku tries to invoke this for why the Straw Hats shouldn't challenge the [=CP9=]. Cross points out that as pirates, they fight the World Government as a matter of principle, furthermore the two are both outnumbered and outgunned.
** Spandam's habit of this comes back to bite him when Franky and Robin are given free access to him with no one around who's capable of stopping them.
** Corto of the Amigo Pirates tries to talk his brother and captain Largo out of attacking the Little East Blue and the attending Straw Hats, but Largo still decides to go through with it on account of their patron being a veteran and rival of Gold Roger himself, fully confident in the gift he gave them. Let's just say his confidence was misplaced.
* ButtBiter:
** Soundbite's EstablishingCharacterMoment; Chapter 1 ends with him chewing on Cross's ass.
** After joining the crew, Lassoo chomps Usopp on the rear in retaliation for some of his actions against Lassoo during Usopp and Chopper's battle with Lassoo and his former owners.
** [[spoiler: Merry in her child form; she bites ''Garp'' hard enough to leave marks]].
* ButtMonkey: Ironically, [[MadeOfPlasticine Cross]] is this to the Straw Hats, especially after his antics which oft lead him being the target of either Nami or Vivi's [[MegatonPunch ire]]. However, ever since taking Dr. Kureha's [[SuperEmpowering vitamins]], Cross has upgraded to...
** IronButtMonkey: Where he has withstood many an attack that should've killed him. Cross even lampshades it:
---> '''Cross:''' Did it say bad things about the past few weeks that an impact that should have, by all rights, split my head like an egg only hurt a little more than a common bump? Yes, by ''god'' yes.
* CallBack:
** Cross threatens Zoro with Chopper's medicine in Alabasta, causing Zoro to remark "So many colors, and I couldn't cut any of them." Later in Skypiea, Zoro threatens Cross with the same, prompting Cross to mutter, "So many colors, and none of them would listen." Lampshaded by Soundbite of course.
** When Sanji is informed that Princess Shirahoshi is underage and thus out of his range unless he wants to be a creep, he screams "CURSE YOU, FATHER TIME! CUUUURSE YOOOOUUUU!" Later, when Nami learns that a defeated Enel had flown off to the moon along with all her gold, she screams "CURSE YOU, ENERU! CUUUURSE YOOOOUUUU!" Bonus points for Soundbite responding with a deadpan "Seriously?"
** Cross tells Nami that her facing down Crocodile directly would lead to her being eviscerated in 10 seconds (8 to monologue, 1 to laugh, and 1 for the eviscerating). Nami repeats this for what the sea will do to them if they try finding a Knock-Up Stream without the help of a South Bird.
** When one of the Alabastan guards calls Cross and Soundbite scary for torturing the Unluckies with [[Literature/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy Vogon poetry]], Cross responds with "Pi~ra~te." Later in the story, Robin responds with the exact same phrase when Cross calls her out for playing dirty.
* CallForward:
** After Cross receives [[spoiler:the Snail Transceiver]] at the end of the Alabasta Arc, he comments that the odds of him finding a manual for the thing are about the same as Buggy becoming a Warlord. One wonders if he was trying to [[TemptingFate Tempt Fate]]...
** During the G-8 arc, Cross tells Sanji that he's glad he's 1/3rd secret agent. [[spoiler:Given that the Vinsmoke family is made up of assassins...]]
* CallingTheOldManOut:
** Tsuru does this to Sengoku when the full story of Ohara is broadcast, especially regarding why Sakazuki was never court-martialed for genocide. Sengoku responds with [[TheChainsOfCommanding the weight the Fleet Admiral has]] and [[NecessarilyEvil the lengths that have to be taken to win the war on piracy]], and as a result, [[WeUsedToBeFriends the bond the two veterans used to share is severely damaged.]]
** [[spoiler: Lola outright challenges Big Mom to come get her, if she's willing to brave ''the [[TheDreaded Florian Triangle]]''.]]
* CallingYourAttacks: In Chapter 15, Luffy, Usopp, Chopper, and even Zoro insist that Cross and Soundbite come up with names for their techniques.
** In Chapter 21, they finally begin doing so.
** Parodied by Conis in chapter 38. Since all of her attacks use guns, she simple announces which gun she's firing just before she does.
* CannibalismSuperpower: In Merveille, consuming the native animals or plants infused with Indigo's drugs [[PowerUpFood grant super strength and stamina]]. The strongest monsters (and the Straw Hats inadvertently) get stronger by consuming other monsters.
* [[CantKillYouStillNeedYou Can't Fire/Imprison You, Still Need You]]: Sengoku is very emphatic that literally the sole reason he has not dishonorably discharged and/or imprisoned Akainu is because his abilities are too vital to the Marines.
* CaptivityHarmonica: When Vivi and Nami are locked in cell at G-8, [[{{Troll}} Soundbite]] [[MockingMusic pipes in harmonica music]]. When Vivi yells at him cut it out, he opts for playing "Jailhouse Rock" instead.
* CasualDangerDialog:
** Chapter 7, while navigating the Grand Line's weather for the first time, after Cross has finished expressing how much he loves feeling alive, Nami snaps for him to get to work:
-->'''Usopp:''' What happened to you enjoying living your dream?!
-->'''Cross:''' ''(quietly)'' Nami's not a part of that dream, she's a goddamn course hazard!
-->'''Soundbite:''' ''Headstrong!'' '''NOT SUICIDAL!'''
-->'''Nami:''' ''[[IHeardThat I HEARD THAT!]]''
** Chapter 39, while fighting against the soldiers of Enies Lobby.
* ChekhovsGunman: The weakest potential [=CP9=] agent, Nero, turns out to be a lot more important than anyone realised: [[spoiler:In addition to Kalifa and Kaku's Devil Fruits, there was a third one in Spandam's possession meant for Nero when he got back to Enies Lobby. But since Nero was knocked out and never made it, that Devil Fruit sat in Spandam's office until Cross reached it and stole it, and it turned out to be the exact kind needed to [[HumanityEnsues turn Merry human]] and thus save her life.]]
* ChekhovsSkill:
** In Chapter 17, Cross tries to encourage Nami, who's still worried about her skills even with the Clima-Tact nearing completion, by telling her that she must have picked up a lot of useful skills during her run as a thief. Two chapters later, after For Want of a Nail leaves most of the Straw Hats trapped in the cage under Rain Dinners with no Mr. 3 to break them out, she remembers that talk and utilizes one such skill: lockpicking.
--->'''Nami:''' Crocodile might be a criminal mastermind, but he is a cheap bastard when it comes to locks. A South Blue double-tumbler deadlock ''without'' any of the typical security features or precautions one might expect? ''Please.'' I almost felt insulted.
** Ever since Cross recruited [[spoiler: Lassoo]] as his new partner and weapon, he's been training to carry him without much strain. By Little East Blue, Cross has noted that although all of [[spoiler: Lassoo's]] new upgrades has increased his weight to about 2 tons, Cross can carry him around no sweat, which says a lot about [[TookALevelInBadass how strong he is now]].
* ChristmasEpisode: Between Chapters 14 and 15.
* CliffHanger:
** Chapter 12 ends with Cross finding out that he's subconsciously spilled his guts about things that he shouldn't know for ''days'', and Sanji is nearby saying that they need to talk.
** Chapter 22 ends with [[spoiler:Vivi telling the world that she has been accused of treason]].
** Chapter 23 ends with Cross [[spoiler:bound and gagged]] and Chopper [[spoiler:having apparently gone mad and about to dissect him.]]
** Chapter 24 ends with the ship tilting and Usopp screaming that the Kraken is attacking them.
** Chapter 25 ends with the sky falling onto the Straw Hats (the start of the Skypiea arc).
** Chapter 26 ends with an escaped Mr. 13 and Ms. Friday tracking Cross to Jaya and prepared to tear him and Soundbite limb from limb.
** Chapter 29 ends with Enel appearing where Cross is and blasting him with lightning. And then the Cross-Brain goes on hiatus for the next week due to oncoming exams.
** Chapter 31 ends with the Straw Hats landing in Marine base G-8 on the island of Navarone.
** Chapter 34 ends with the Straw Hats running into Aokiji.
** Chapter 35 shows this not in the actual chapter, but the first preview the fanfic ever had that came after it. [[spoiler:The Straw Hats get hold of a poster of a certain...[[Anime/BaronOmatsuriAndTheSecretIsland festive island]]]]. What makes this even ''more'' of a cliffhanger? [[spoiler:Cross never actually saw the movie, [[CoversAlwaysLie just the poster of it]]. Yes, he saw a picture of [[http://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/onepiece/images/2/2f/Movie_6_Poster.png/revision/latest?cb=20100616025104 this]], [[WrongGenreSavvy without realizing]] that the movie itself involved '''''[[http://vignette4.wikia.nocookie.net/onepiece/images/f/f6/Lily_Carnation_True_Form.png/revision/latest?cb=20110602073502 this]]''''']].
** Chapter 37 ends with [[spoiler:Robin still handing herself to [=CP9=] to keep the crew safe, along with Cross's transceiver.]]
** Chapter 41 ends with [[spoiler:Sengoku and the Marine Fleet arriving at Enies Lobby]]. And he's '''pissed'''.
** Chapter 43 ends with [[spoiler:Blackbeard declaring he'll be Pirate King in front of Aokiji and a captured Ace, Whitey and Squardo, with Cross none the wiser, as Aokiji's [[AnIcePerson Hie Hie no Mi]] doesn't show up on a [[PsychicLink Vivrecard]]. ''Extremely'' dick move on Aokiji's part; he approached Cross earlier, shaken by the [[CantStopTheSignal revelations]] of Spandam's black book, begging for advice - and was told to ''[[DareToBeBadass stop being a doormat]]''. [[RedemptionRejection He crawls away with his tail between his legs without saying a word]]]].
** Chapter 44 ends with the Straw Hats trapped by the Accinno family.
** Chapter 50 ends with Soundbite outright '''[[OhCrap panicking]]'''. The reason? [[spoiler:Moria just '''[[TookALevelInBadass Awakened his Devil Fruit]]''']].
** Chapter 51 ends with Cross realizing someone had to wake up Moria even after being heavily sedated only for [[spoiler: Kuma]] to appear behind him before everything goes black after one touch.
** Chapter 54 ends with Hina calling T-Bone about a problem, and the chapter preview shows the beginning of ''Anime/OnePieceFilmStrongWorld''.
* ClothingDamage: Implied to be the result of Cross playing with a newly-acquired Flame Dial... with [[{{Fanservice}} Nami and Vivi]] being the unfortunate recipients. Su implies the same thing happened to Conis [[NoodleIncident at one time]].
* ClusterFBomb:
** Cross's reaction when he's inserted into One Piece.
** Cross's breathlessly relieved reaction after leaving Smoker's presence following his "The Reason You Suck" Speech.
** Soundbite's deafening reaction to finding out that the salt-filled vial that Kureha gagged him with was, in fact, filled with ''sugar'' instead.
** Chopper's reaction to being told he has five minutes to get Kobato roused and on their side before several injured Marines arrive. It even leaves ''Soundbite'' speechless.
** Nami's ([[NarrativeProfanityFilter thankfully-censored]]) [[{{Angrish}} reaction]] when she uses the Impact Dial during the Davy Back Fight. [[spoiler:Live on the SBS, much to her loved ones' frustration.]]
** Jabra drops a long one over the idea of not getting to ''finally'' fight Luffy after waiting since the Davy Back Fights.
** Cross gives one as a big BringIt to the Marine reinforcements swarming at them at the climax of the Enies Lobby arc.
* CombatPragmatist: Blueno tries to avoid entering his dimension to fight Sanji by throwing a couple grenades in via a hand sized door.
* CombinationAttack: Soundbite, after his [[spoiler: Awakening]], has a couple with Cross's other partner-weapons, [[spoiler: Lassoo and Funkfreed]].
** With [[spoiler: Lassoo]], [[MakeMeWannaShout Gastro-Cani Combo: Bass Cannon]].
** With [[spoiler: Funkfreed]], [[VibroWeapon Gastro-Pachy Combo: Treble Blade]].
** The two partner-weapons also have a combo of their own: [[ExcessiveSteamSyndrome Pachy-Cani Combo: Superhot Hell Riot]].
* ComicallyMissingThePoint:
** After Alabasta is out of sight, Nami looks back with tears based on what was yet to come. Cross tries to console her...
--->'''Nami:''' No, Cross, it's not that…It's just… looking back… I… I think that the crocodile on top of Rain Dinners might have been ''[[TheScrooge solid gold]]''.
--->'''Cross:''' ...WHAT IS YOUR MALFUNCTION, WOMAN?!
*** So much so, that it's ''Vivi'' that gives her the DopeSlap.
** While listening to Vivi [[spoiler:talk on the SBS]] about how a ruler's anger needs to be cold, controlled and legendary, [[{{Jerkass}} Hancock]] concludes that her anger isn't legendary ''enough.''
** When a doctor declares that during Enies Lobby, Luffy took "48 hours of Olympic-grade fatigue in a sixth the time" and should, by all right, be dead, Cross is surprised they have the Olympics.
** When [[FromTheMouthsOfBabes Apis suggests the Barto Club play a game of strip poker]], she thinks their shocked stares are because she said it wrong. She did not, of course; she's simply too ill-informed from Miss Goldenweek to understand the meaning of the game.
** Vivi manages to be a complete tyrant while managing the Accino wedding ceremony, which Cross and Soundbite call her out on.
--->'''Vivi:''' In my defense, I was just trying to make this wedding the best it could be!\\
'''Cross:''' ''We were supposed to ''tank'' the wedding, you blue-haired bimbo!'' The Accino kids wanted to make sure their sister ''didn't'' get married!
** When told she has an incredibly dark and twisted mind, Robin doesn't get why she would be offended by that.
** Why is [[DemBones Brook]] so appalled at his face? Especially since he's senile enough to get scared by it?
---> '''Brook:''' I'm starting to go yellow around my orbital sockets! Now how will I get all the hot young skeletons to love me?!
** When Tashigi informs Cross of Shiki [[spoiler:using the Snail Transceiver and]] broadcasting the Straw Hats' struggles in Strong World, he is miffed over the amount of viewers Shiki received in comparison to his listeners [[spoiler:on the SBS]].
* ComicallySmallDemand: While it wasn't intended as such, Cross's demand for flags that the Accino family stole turns out to be this. They're the ones who have to clean them all the time; Arbell outright says she'd rather eat her skirt than clean one more flag.
* CompellingVoice:
** Sovereign's Will, [[spoiler:a variation of Conqueror's Haki that Vivi unlocks. Everyone who hears it is forced to follow her orders, no questions asked. However, it can be countered by those who disrespect her or who can focus on things about her that they ''don't'' respect, as it is fueled by the listener's natural respect for her.]]
* CompensatingForSomething: Soundbite tells a double-layered variation of this to "Big Knife" Sarquiss; that his knife isn't big enough for him to compensate with.
* ContrivedCoincidence:
** How was [[NowYouTellMe Vivi]] to know that they'd show up at Water 7 right when the Aqua Laguna would be coming in on the next day? [[GenreSavvy Well, knowing the Straw Hats' luck...]]
** While fighting on the Bridge of Hesitation, of all the dropped swords he could pick up, Cross ended up grabbing ''Funkfreed'', which he lampshades. Fortunately, he turns it to his advantage and convinces Funkfreed to join him.
* CoolAndUnusualPunishment: In order for her to apologize properly for harming her father, Vivi requests that Robin write him a 20-page-long apology... with her real hands.
* CosmicLotteryWinner: Through all his TarotTroubles during [[spoiler:the battle against Baron Omatsuri]], Basil Hawkins sees this with Luffy, as no matter how he shuffles his deck, all the cards representing hope and victory end up at the top and the one representing disaster ends up on the bottom.
* CountingToPotato: Chapter 23. Maybe a typo, maybe not:
-->'''Cross:''' ''(to [[spoiler:Lassoo]])'' Hey, fine by me. One, the stronger I get the more damage I can take and dish out, and B. I want to be able to tote around a [[spoiler:badass cannon like you]].
* CovertPervert: Nami and Vivi who certainly don't mind Zoro training shirtless.
** Vivi and her "magazines" about hentai.
** [[BiTheWay Robin]] muses about royals and their...''[[{{UsefulNotes/BDSM}} excesses]]'' after Vivi [[spoiler:learns to use [[PowerPerversionPotential Sovereign's Will]]]]. It could have been just teasing, but then, it is [[NightmareFetishist Robin]].
* CrackFic: Consider:
** Soundbite assimilates Cross's iPhone.
** A MixAndMatchCritters expy of Donatello from ''Franchise/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles'' fights a zombie expy of [[Series/InLivingColor Fire Marshall Bill]], implied to be Creator/JimCarrey mode locked into that character.
** Soundbite quotes ''Franchise/BackToTheFuture'' ("Roads? Where we're going, we don't need roads"), only for Kokoro to counter by saying they will be going a lot faster than 88. Other than RuleOfFunny, there's no way she could have known that reference.
** Luffy mistakes Coby for [[Manga/FairyTail Natsu Dragneel]]. Right hair color, similar art style. But wrong universe and genre.
* CrackOhMyBack: Sengoku's 77 years of age finally catch up to him when he gets so incensed during the Enies Lobby arc that he suffers a ''heart attack''. It barely slows him down afterward, but he has to keep his temper in check unless he wants a repeat performance.
* CrazyPrepared:
** Mr. 3, when he catches up to Cross and Soundbite in Rainbase, had learned from his experience with Soundbite's powers, so he came prepared: breath control to keep him from hearing his breath, a wax vest to mask his heartbeat, a little tapper to make it seem like a heartbeat is coming from elsewhere, and earplugs to guard against Soundbite's distractions. The Unluckies, Ohm, and the Foxy Pirates are among others who used forewarning to guard against Soundbite's powers.
** Cross manages to a lesser extent due to knowing most of the plot up to Dressrosa, such as saving most of the gold they got from Skypiea to both repair/save Merry and purchase Keimi.
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: During the Omatsuri Island chapter, it's revealed that Buggy, one of the setting's ''weakest'' characters, [[spoiler:managed to escape from the island ''after'' Baron Omatsuri revealed the true form of Lily Carnation]].
* CryCute: Averted. When Robin breaks down in tears at Enies Lobby, Cross calls it "[[InelegantBlubbering messy, loud, and ugly]]" but insists it was absolutely beautiful for it's complete and undeniable sincerity.
* CrypticConversation:
** During the 1000 Review special, Cross asks his future-self Wyvern if he's caused anything [[Fanfic/NineMinutes Nine Minutes-ish]]. Fans of the story know he's asking if he caused a BadFuture.
** In Chapter 30, when Cross and Nami end up on Eneru's ship as he's about to take off to destroy Skypiea and then sail to the moon, Cross's reaction is to get a Vision Dial ready for the show. His response to Nami's rage? "Hey, Nami, did you ever pass on my request to Usopp to upgrade my armor with rubber sleeves? It would have come in handy earlier." When she understands that what he's saying is that Luffy is immune to Eneru's powers, and what he's preparing to take pictures of is Luffy beating Eneru down—and, in the same vein, that Luffy is on the way—she matches his Slasher Smile.
* CurbStompBattle:
** The Bellamy Pirates' assault on Cricket's home ends like this. All it takes is Soundbite's Gastro-Phony and Gastro-Blast techniques, and the whole crew is out with Cross or Luffy hardly having to lift a finger.
** Thanks to Cross's foreknowledge and cunning, Soundbite's listening, Lassoo's trick ammo and the rest of the crew's defensive reflexes, Satori is sent flying without even laying a hand (or ball) on the crew.
** Jabra slammed on Luffy's BerserkButton as hard as he could in hopes of getting the fight of his life. The resulting DeathGlare makes him fully aware that it was a fatal mistake, and what follows isn't so much a fight as a massacre.
* CurseCutShort: Very common. Most usually the following:
--> '''Assorted:''' ''CROSS, YOU SON OF A -!!''
* CutawayGag: When Don Accino wants to know how Lil managed to get up onto a lamp in his flag collection room, the scene cuts away to Skipper, Kowalski, Rico, and Private exchanging toasts to Lil.
* CuttingTheKnot: Cross's main strength as a tactician; he works best when he's allowed to work outside the box. It's why he's no good at strategy games like chess; he feels he works better when he's allowed to flip the table.
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[[folder:Tropes D - G]]
* DarkReprise: In Chapter 43, the narration shows Blackbeard's declaration that he'll be King of the Pirates. However, instead of filling the air with a resonance of pure fact, like what Luffy's declaration does to Cross, it fills everyone watching with existential ''dread''.
* DartboardOfHate: Tashigi throws darts at a certain blond's wanted poster.
* DeadGuyPuppet: One of [[spoiler: Moria's new Awakened abilities]] is the power to infuse dead bodies with inert shadows rather than living shadows and commands them with his will, making them into [[Myth/NorseMythology Draugrs]]. Soundbite even calls them "literal meat-puppets".
* DeadlyDodging: When Cross insults Bellamy to get him to spring at him full-speed, he hits the floor so that Bellamy ends up crashing into Mr. 13 who's chasing him from behind.
* DeadpanSnarker: Internally, Cross panics often when something panic-worthy happens. Externally, the only nervousness he usually shows is a fake smile; he often snarks about whatever they're going through.
* DeathGlare: Remembering his vow when he came to Little Garden, Cross gives one to Sanji when he objects to Cross stopping him from attacking a T-Rex for their hunting contest. He then turns his gaze on said T-Rex…who begins sweating.
* DefeatMeansFriendship: Kaku tries to invoke this, asking if there's a vacancy in the Straw Hat crew after Zoro beats him, only to be told that they had Franky lined up to be their shipwright, though Zoro does still say that Luffy would let him join if he really wanted to.
** Though it's played straight later, when [[spoiler: T-Bone defeats Lucci in one-on-one combat to swear his and [=CP9=]'s loyalty to the New World Masons.]]
* [[KilledMidSentence Defeated Mid-Sentence]]:
** Mr. 3 in Chapter 19. He focused all of his attention on Cross, giving Tashigi the opportunity to slash him from behind.
** Mr. 2 in Chapter 20, twice. First, when he's about to kill Cross, Chaka comes out of nowhere and saves him. Then when he's going on about how he's not defeated yet, Vivi delivers a few punches, knocking him down the stairs of Alubarna.
* DefectorFromDecadence:
** In the face of the Marines' undeniable corruption, [[spoiler:Smoker, Tashigi and Hina form the group Marine Integrity 3 (or [=MI3=]), to bring down the World Government and restore true justice to the Marines. Their ranks have swelled ever since, with Captain T-Bone and Vice-Admirals Jonathan and Tsuru joining them.]]
** Ever since the broadcast of Saul's actions caused the Giant contingent of the Marines to revolt, the Giant Marines have been looked at suspiciously by their colleagues. Them accidentally letting the Accinos into Alabasta without proper permission is TheLastStraw for Vice-Admiral Lacroix, [[spoiler: and he and the rest of the Giant Squad decide to mutiny and rejoin the Giant Warrior Pirates [[SelfFulfillingProphecy rather than have any more pressure from the higher-ups on their ass]]]].
* DefiantToTheEnd:
** Even [[spoiler:after enduring countless shocks and staring down Enel's 100,000,000 Volt Vari]], Cross does not back down, and his last effort is to spit in his face.
** Bartolomeo and his crew intend to make [[spoiler:Boa Hancock]] remember them for the rest of [[spoiler:her]] life when they see [[spoiler:her]] ship heading straight for them.
** With what she's faced from the likes of Arlong all through her formative years, even the likes of the Golden Age veteran Shiki threatening her is nothing Nami has already seen.
* DehumanizingInsult: When Shiki appears at the end of Chapter 56, he calls both Nami and Billy his '''property''' and demands the Straw Hats give them back. Naturally, their reaction is ''[[BerserkButton murderous rage]]''.
* DelayedOhCrap:
** Akainu brushes off Garp's remarks that he vaguely remembers the name [[spoiler:Baron Omatsuri]], until the latter yells at him that if he vaguely remembers it, that means it was someone he knew in his prime, back when he was hunting Gol D. Roger in the New World. Akainu promptly starts helping search the old records.
** While on the Rocketman, [[spoiler:Mr. 13 and Miss Friday]] try to attack Cross ''again'' but [[DidntThinkThisThrough realize too late]] that roughly the entire crew is present.
** The Giant Squad of the Marines has one when, in the process of blockading [[spoiler: the now-Revolutionary]] Alabasta, they let the Accino's enter the country on the premise of capturing Chaka and Pell for their bounties. It takes two days for them to entertain the idea that the Accinos might have been lying.
* DidIJustSayThatOutLoud: When the Straw Hats first meet Shiki, this is Leo's reaction after blurts out that he wants Shiki's legs (on account of Shiki's legs being Grade Swords, Oto and Kogarashi).
* DidWeJustHaveTeaWithCthulhu: Everyone's reaction when [[spoiler: Soundbite communes with the [[GeniusLoci Florian Triangle]] and reveals it's not as malevolent as everyone thought. In fact, if treated well, it's downright pleasant.]]
* DidYouJustFlipOffCthulhu: [[spoiler:After the B.R.O.B. that put Cross in ''One Piece'' in the first place]] gets on Soundbite's line, Luffy has a few choice words for him:
--> '''Luffy:''' STAY AWAY FROM MY CREW! ''(slams the mic down hard enough to crack the floor)''
** After attacking a Celestial Dragon's ship and stealing its Transponder Snail, Bartolomeo calls up the highest ranking member of the World Government it knows to taunt them. Then he learns he just taunted the ''Five Elder Stars''.
* DidntSeeThatComing: [[spoiler:Kuma's appearance on Thriller Bark at the end of Chapter 51 genuinely caught Cross by surprise, as he was under the impression that he had saved Ace from being captured by Blackbeard, and as such, Blackbeard didn't become a Warlord and Kuma didn't need to show up and report it to Moria]].
* DidntThinkThisThrough:
** The Unluckies probably should've waited for their concussions to wear off, else they might have reconsidered busting into a crowded train car to get to Cross, while his much-stronger crewmates are present.
** A dramatic example occurs when Cross finds a way to potentially [[spoiler:save Merry by having her eat a Devil Fruit]]. Namely, he has no idea how to [[spoiler:let her eat it]]. Fortunately, a solution is presented.
** Almost averted, but not quite when the Straw Hats plan to trap Absalom in a flooding room. [[spoiler: Merry]] took into account everything, including his animal muscles and the firepower he could carry, and reinforced the room accordingly... except for the facts that his muscles allow him to carry a lot more firepower than normal, and that the water pressure of the flooding room would help his efforts.
** Fire Zombie Bill is defeated after stealing Donny's snack and eating it. Said snack was onigiri, which is made with salt.
** Vivi and Conis's request to [[spoiler: learn the Poneglyph language]] from Robin has one little caveat: that one of Robin's long-suppressed childhood dreams was to be a teacher. And her finally getting the chance has her {{Squee}}ing like a little girl with her dolls.
* DisproportionateRetribution: Garp's reaction to [[spoiler:Merry]] and Cross for humiliating him [[spoiler:on the SBS]]? Forge Sengoku's signature so the former gets a bounty for [[spoiler:chomping on his ass]], and the latter gets ''one of the highest bounties in the world''. As in, "only Dragon and the Four Emperors have higher bounties" high.
* DoNotTauntCthulhu: Cross's TheReasonYouSuckSpeech to Aokiji has the latter decide to kill him.
* DoesNotKnowHisOwnStrength: Ryuma used to cut towers in half ''by accident'' while practicing at Thriller Bark.
* DontMakeMeDestroyYou: Cross offers to let Fukuro go if he simply stands down, as he wasn't involved in Robin's kidnapping and is JustFollowingOrders. Fukuro admits that he'd gladly take them up on the offer if not for Lucci's orders to fight them; while the Straw Hats scare him, the leopard-man scares him more.
* DontThinkFeel:
** Ace's instructions to the crew on how to unlock Haki follow this vein:
---> '''Observation's Haki:''' Listen really hard.
---> '''Armament's Haki:''' Concentrate willpower really hard.
---> '''Conqueror's Haki:''' Hell if I know, I've always just gone with my f%cking gut!
*** It's hard to tell if he was trolling Cross or actually trying to explain; a very furious Cross believes it's the former, but Zoro thought that the directions were reasonable.
** [[spoiler: Perona's]] advice to help Brook relearn AstralProjection.
* DoorStopper: ''This Bites!'' clocks in at over 1 million words already. The Cross-Brain has also said that their adaptation of the ''Strong World'' movie to the fic will clock in at over 100,000 words. AND that being said, the Cross-Brain has said that they plan to cover ALL of ''One Piece'' with the story going on hiatus until the manga finishes once they get to the two-year time skip.
* DopeSlap:
** Vivi administers one to Nami after she moans about missing getting Crocodile's gold-plated crocodile statue in Rain Dinners.
** After a filler adventure that started with [[ItMakesSenseInContext Vivi mis-translating octopus sign language and forcing Luffy into a surfing competition]], Zoro, Nami, Cross ''and'' Boss each administer one of these to Vivi when she offers to translate a goodbye.
** Robin gives herself one when she meets Garp.
* DoubleTake:
** Cross performs one while observing what a nice day it is in Water 7:
--->''The sun was shining...''
--->''The seagulls were cawing...''
--->''Clouds were drifting...''
--->''[[spoiler:Miss Friday]] was eating water-water meat on the railing of that upcoming bridge...''
--->. . .
--->''Waaaaaaaaait a second.''
** And another one when they're having a party in the Florian Triangle and he suddenly notices [[spoiler: Brook]] partying among them.
* DramaticallyMissingThePoint: Low-key compared to most, but Yoko from Little East Blue still hates all pirates for killing her Marine father, and especially Cross's [[spoiler: SBS]] saying that there's corruption in the Marines for disparaging her father's profession. Once they meet, Cross soon clarifies himself.
* DramaticIrony: Due to his knowledge only going to the tail end of Dressrosa, Cross is unaware of events beyond it [[spoiler:and unknowingly upsets Sanji when he comments that maybe the Germa 66 aren't as bad as the Marines are making them out to be]].
* DrowningPit: [[spoiler:Merry]] converts the girls' bathroom into one for Absalom that Nami and Vivi lure him into with a mirage. It almost works, but [[spoiler:Merry]] forgot to take into account that Absalom's {{Arm Cannon}}s are the equivalent of bazookas, and the subsequent frailty of the door to the water pressure.
* DrunkOnMilk: During the events of the Davy Back Fight, Coby and Helmeppo are mentioned once as being thoroughly sloshed. Two other Marines nearby aren't sure how this is possible, given that they were only drinking grape juice.
* DubNameChange: The author/authors have a tendency to use the Creator/FUNimation spellings for some of the characters' names.
** They use the spelling of Broggy for Brogy's name (pronounced BRAW-gee both ways).
** They use the spelling of Eneru for Enel's name (pronounced IHN-er-oo both ways).
* DuckSeasonRabbitSeason: Done by Cross one time when ending [[spoiler:the SBS]].
--> '''Cross:''' So, until next time, this is Soundbite—
--> '''Soundbite:''' ''And'' '''Jeremiah Cro'''—''WAIT'', WHAT?
* DuctTapeForEverything: Usopp uses it to gag Sanji, Conis and Mikey to keep them from drawing monsters to them with their screams. He lampshades the trope soon afterwards, [[CrowningMomentOfFunny making Foxy send Porche out to buy some at the hardware store]].
* DungeonBypass: Conversed at the end of Chapter 46; the crew asks Cross if they could skip the next arc, but they [[MoodWhiplash quickly change their tune]] when Cross tells them exactly what's at stake.
* DynamicEntry:
** Cross executes this twice, once when using Blueno as a stepping stone to reach a balcony, and once when [[BigDamnHeroes charging into the battle on the Bridge of Hesitation.]]
** [[spoiler: Merry]] does this to Iceburg.
* EarlyBirdCameo: Now has its own page. [[EarlyBirdCameo/ThisBites See here]].
* EatingTheEyeCandy: Nami, Vivi, and Robin all rather enjoy how often Zoro ruins a shirt during his training and neglects to put a new one on.
* ElectricTorture: This is what [[PsychoElectro Enel]] effectively delivers to [[spoiler:Cross]].
* EnemyMine: Cross and Tashigi team up in Chapter 19 to take down Mr. 3.
* EngineeredPublicConfession: Or, as Cross and Soundbite like to call it, "Candid Snail". Thanks to Cross' knowledge of canon and the transceiver they got from B.R.O.B., they manage to pull this trick several times on many World Government Officials and Marines (most notably Spandam and Vice-Admiral Onigumo), exposing their heinous plans, corruption and/or monstrous ideals to the entire ''world''.
-->'''Soundbite''': '''BUUU~STEEE~D!'''
* EntertaininglyWrong:
** With the amount of political trouble Cross has stirred up, [[spoiler: Dragon]] wonders what he was a student of in the other world, considering political science, business or philosophy. Cross simply replies that he loves a good story.
** Cross incorrectly assumes that Arbell and Salchow are the ones that need to be wed to cement the Accino-Hiruno political alliance. They're already married; it's Lil that's the bride.
* EpicFail:
** While stalling Wapol, Cross attempts to kick him away in the garbage-can like form he takes midway through his Slim-Up Wapol technique. It might have worked if that form didn't compress Wapol's mass into a singular point, but as it is, it only results in [[AgonyOfTheFeet a lot of pain in his foot.]]
** When Ace and Luffy battle the Billions, one of them fires a cannon at Ace. Instead of dodging in his fire state, Ace tries to pull a Garp and [[BulletCatch catch the cannonball]]. It doesn't kill him, [[BlownAcrossTheRoom but neither does it work.]]
* EurekaMoment: In Chapter 51, [[spoiler: when dealing with Moria's Awakened Devil Fruit powers, Su snarks that Soundbite is as helpless as the rest of them even though he's on the same level. This causes [[RageBreakingPoint Soundbite to snap and go into a rant]] that he's still a snail and his powers still have limits, and that Awakened abilities take god-tier amounts of energy to use, topped off by saying even Moria's pushing it since he just Awakened, and that even if he had ten times his normal energy, Soundbite wouldn't be able to use as much power as Moria's using for ten minutes without burning out. Upon reaching those last two words, [[VictoryByEndurance Cross and Soundbite realize how to beat Moria]]]].
-->'''Cross:''' ''(high-eying Soundbite)'' And ''that'' is why we stick together!
-->'''Soundbite:''' '''''That and'' you wipe my ass!'''
* EvenEvilHasStandards:
** Humorously invoked by Cross while confronting a slimmed-down Wapol.
--> '''Cross:''' No... no, the World Government is filled with monsters, but not even they would be inhuman enough to let a chin like that exist.
** When Buggy hears on SBS that the Straw Hats have landed on Omatsuri Island, he '''immediately'' tries to call them and warn them to leave, explaining to one of his stunned crew that for all his hatred of Luffy, he would never allow them to fall victim to what's waiting on the island.
** The [[spoiler:broadcasting of the horror that is Baron Omatsuri and Lily Carnation]] has Moria horrified, Buggy panicked, [=CP9=] aghast, Blackbeard outright incensed, and Sengoku and Akainu in full agreement that the island needs to be [[NoKillLikeOverkill Buster Called to high hell]].
*** The only one who is actively ''enjoying'' it is [[AxCrazy Doflamingo]], [[TheKnightsWhoSaySquee who is wishing he could replicate the horror]]. Not surprising when you know his bloodline. Even his own men find his reaction disgusting, and show their disapproval by vacating the premises.
** Some of the [=CP9=] are noted as looking highly uncomfortable while listening to Robin tell the story of Ohara.
* EveryoneHasStandards:
** Soundbite is a prankster who doesn't care a whit about being racist with the voices he gives to other animals. He does, however, have the decency to be sensitive and somber when it comes to matters involving death. Notable is his utter disgust when Vice Admiral Onigumo orders a battleship destroyed and its entire crew of marines wiped out with it in hopes of killing Luffy.
** Christmas brings out the best in everybody; the Baroque Works agents call a truce with the Little Garden giants (albeit at Miss Goldenweek's…insistence), Kohza and Cobra acknowledge a Christmas truce, heck, even ''Crocodile'' gets in on it by spending an extortionate amount of money to buy Robin a gift. The only one who's not shown being kinder is Doflamingo...and even he's a small step above his typical tyranny for those who know his true colors.
** Cross himself is an adrenaline junkie that laughs in the face of near-death, but even he freaks out when he sees a ghost ship worthy of Davy Jones (complete with Soundbite-assisted [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fe9W1gZPUs theme music]]).
** Cross and the Straw Hats are willing to do anything to [[spoiler:save Merry]]... except agree to B.R.O.B.'s suggestion of [[GenderBender the Ivankov treatment]].
** Boss, Manly Dugong that he is, balks at the idea of jumping into an abyss and landing on an arcing Rocketman to cross the gap to the Tower of Justice.
** Hattori may be trained as an assassin and is the pet to a World Government assassin, but Spandam's sheer incompetence led to him agreeing to Cross's proposal of a brief truce to let the latter make Spandam's eventual fate even worse.
*** Spandam in general has inspired this feeling. By the time [[spoiler:Cross tricks him into announcing his plans to overthrow the Five Elder Stars using Pluton]], even the World Government is thoroughly sickened of him. In the aftermath of Enies Lobby, several Marine higher-ups, including Aokiji, Tsuru, and Sengoku himself, are absolutely ''relishing'' at the thought of his eventual and inevitable punishment.
** Cross normally just laughs at Luffy's stupidity... but when it ''transcends the Shonen genre'', he completely loses it.
** The Accino family despises the Hiruno family for several reasons, one of them being that while the Accino family makes their targets delusionally happy in order to turn them in, the Hiruno family will torture their targets to the brink of death for kicks.
** Buggy absolutely refuses to enjoy anything the Straw Hats produce on the [[spoiler:SBS]]... except for them singing Bink's Sake.
** Robin may be a NightmareFetishist, but even she finds Cross [[TheDeadCanDance leading a bunch of zombies in a dance number]] to be overkill.
* EvilIsPetty: The World Nobles [[spoiler:have Vivi accused of treason]] because the Nefertari family refused to ascend with them 800 years ago.
* EvilLaugh:
** Kureha gives one of these during her RightBehindMe moments.
** Blackbeard gives one [[spoiler: when telling Aokiji his dream of becoming Pirate King]].
* ExactWords: Cross corrects Smoker that he didn't say anything about good Marines being a myth. There are far too many good Marines, but not nearly enough decent ones.
** Conis' gift to the Straw Hats wasn't ''guns'' but a [[spoiler:''gunner'']].
** After Spandam's incompetence helps completely humiliate the World Government and he announces his intention to overthrow the Five Elder Stars, Sengoku calls him and tells him to report to the Five Elder Stars and receive everything he has coming to him. Idiot that he is, Spandam thinks he's being ''rewarded''.
** ''Luffy'', of all people, invokes this in chapter 43.
-->[[spoiler: Merry said that her dream is to sail the seas with us, and our goal coming to Water 7 was to make it so that that could happen. Who cares if she can't become a ship anymore? She's still alive and with us, and she can still live her dream. Isn't that good enough?]]
* ExactlyWhatIAimedAt: [[spoiler:While fighting a giant frog and scorpion in a tree canopy, Cross whipped out Funkfreed and seemed to randomly strike at the pair, without landing a hit on them. However, the scorpion and frog then hear a creaking sound underneath them and realize that Cross was actually cutting away at the vines they were standing on, with one last stab [[FloorboardFailure causing the pair to fall to the ground]]]].
* ExplainExplainOhCrap:
** Vice Admiral Jonathan has a civil, friendly even, conversation with Cross about why the latter is terrible at chess. There's too many rules and no matter what you do, it has to follow those rules but sometimes, Cross just wants to flip the board. This and the accompanying explosion let Jonathan know that Cross just metaphorically flipped the board on their little game.
** When Cross sees Miss Friday in Water 7, Lassoo asks where Mr. 13 was, with Soundbite agreeing, calling him a water rat in the process. It was as Soundbite was saying that that he and Cross remember they are currently on a canal street, and realize from where Mr. 13 will be coming from.
** Cross remembers what exactly Nidhogg is as he explains it to the crew and realizes what Moria is doing. [[spoiler:Nidhogg is the dragon at the end of the world and Moria is going OneWingedAngel]].
** Through the discussion about how survival of the fittest is an EnforcedTrope on [[Anime/OnePieceFilmStrongWorld Merveille]] (Dr. Indigo injected his strength-boosting toxins into the wildlife, animals beat other animals, [[CannibalismSuperpower consume their bodies and the toxins inside them]] and grow even stronger), Luffy, Boss, and Cross and his partners realize why the beasts are following them: the animals have been driving them into the paths of the alpha beasts (which they inevitably beat), the ones who had consumed enough toxin to stand strong alone until now, and as such have invited the other animals to feed on their corpses and grow even stronger in a very short amount of time. And since these animals have been trained to believe that eating the strong will make them stronger, they've already set their eyes on their final targets, those that have established themselves as the strongest on the archipelago. Guess who that is?
** Yet another one for Strong World -- through their discussion, Cross and Vivi figure out exactly why Shiki has villages filled with inhabitants living on his floating archipelago: ''super-weapon test targets''.
* {{Expy}}:
** The [[TeenageMutantSamuraiWombats Teenage Dugong Warrior Squad]], [[Franchise/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles Leo, Mikey, Raphey and Donny]].
** The two South Birds the Straw Hats end up getting [[Advertising/TheManYourManCouldSmellLike are constantly arguing which of their Tribes is better, Swagger or Bear Glove.]] The former is a smooth-talking ColdHam, and the latter is a macho LargeHam. Their names are ''actually'' Isaiah and Terry, to boot!
*** And then they get Zoro and Sanji arguing in the same way.
** The four best Fierce Penguins of the Accino Family, [[WesternAnimation/ThePenguinsOfMadagascar Private, Rico, Kowalski and their leader Skipper, the Mad Penguin of Gascar]].
* EyePop: In Chapter 25, many of the [[spoiler:octopi]] do this after Luffy defeats their leader, doing it rather than the more expected JawDrop because [[spoiler:they don't have jaws to drop.]]
* FaceDoodling:
** In Thriller Bark, the male TDWS members do this on a sleeping Raphey and Boss, [[ForTheLulz just because it's funny.]]
** In Strong World, Raphey herself does this to Perona's prone body due to boredom being stuck alone guarding the Thousand Sunny.
* FaceFault: Too many in Chapter 43 to list.
* FailedASpotCheck:
** During the Alubarna banquet in Chapter 22, Cross is so exuberant out of successfully [[HumanKnot tying Luffy's tongue around his own head]] that he neglects to check what he's eating: [[PlotAllergy biscuits]].
** After Enel is defeated, Conis is so distraught over losing her island, her father, [[spoiler:and contemplating her decision to join the Straw Hats]], that she doesn't notice her father standing behind her comforting her.
* FamedInStory: The Straw Hats were infamous already in canon, but thanks to [[spoiler:the SBS]], their public connection is a lot more personal and in-depth. Everyone knows how insane, loyal and ''[[BewareTheSillyOnes dangerous]]'' they are.
* FateWorseThanDeath: Cross is adamant that the only way Spandam will survive the Enies Lobby arc is if he, Cross, can find a way to make it so he was wishing for death.
** One of the Marines at Enies Lobby tells his comrades to make sure Chopper doesn't take him alive, even if they have to shoot him themselves.
* FireForgedFriends: Or Fire-Forged [[FriendlyEnemy Friendly Enemies]], anyway; the aftermath of the encounter with Mr. 3 results in Tashigi developing respect for Cross.
* {{Flashback}}:
** The first half of Chapter 23 covers the details that the tail end of Chapter 22 skipped over.
** Multiple ones compose half of Chapter 33.
* FlatWhat:
** Chapter 14, following TheReveal and Cross's tearful begging to stay on the crew:
-->'''Nami:''' ''(solemnly)'' Alright, Cross, we'll let you stay on the crew… But first… you have to answer a few questions for us……Cross, listen to me ''very'' closely. I need to know… How rich are we going to get?
-->'''Cross:''' ''(mentally)'' …what. ''(out loud) What.''
** Chapter 25... several times.
** Chapter 32, during the accidental landing in G-8, when the crew realizes that Vivi and Carue are being pampered in luxury by a barrack of overly-chivalrous Marines.
** Chapter 38, Sengoku goes from FlatWhat to BigWhat when he realizes the island the Straw Hats plan to pillage and burn is Enies Lobby.
* FlippingTheBird:
** Cross does this to Van Augur from several miles away when his sniped seagulls land on the Merry. And he even manages to [[DodgeTheBullet dodge the sniper's next bullet too]].
** Cross does this to Robin when [[MultiArmedAndDangerous she]] asks him to help zip her up.
** When Soundbite fails to induce {{Head Desk}}ing in Cross on account of it not being the universe screwing with him, Soundbite invokes B.R.O.B. to try again. In response, the AllPowerfulBystander makes a tree branch fall into Soundbite's face with some twigs curled into the above gesture.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: When the Straw Hats first encounter the Florian Triangle, they manage to fight off its aura of doom and gloom by throwing a party, that actually turns the fog yellow with joy. [[spoiler: Turns out that that's the main feature of the [[GeniusLoci Triangle]]: [[FisherKing produce fear and it will reflect fear, but produce joy and it will reflect joy too]].]]
* ForgotAboutHisPowers: Soundbite, for a brief period in Chapter 24, forgets that he has the option of using his Gastro-Blast technique to destroy his gag. And Cross comes within an inch of dying before he reminds him of it.
* ForScience: The mentality of [[spoiler:Chopper's Mr. Hyde-esque alter-ego, created by using a serum to access his Devil Fruit's human intelligence.]]
* ForTheEvulz:
** When [=CP9=] investigated several countries that formed a trading coalition, said coalition was found to be completely innocuous. Rather than simply withdraw, they utilized the worse case scenario to pit every country at war with the others and stole all possible liquid assets which were added to the Celestial Dragons' tribute.
** Hiuo Hiruno nearly rots off Vivi's arm upon meeting her just for the hell of it. It's only Don Accino's intervention that saves her arm.
* ForWantOfANail:
** Quoting this very trope, in fact. Back on Little Garden, the Unluckies were chasing Cross. Because of that, they didn't interrupt Sanji's conversation with Mr. 0. Because of that, Crocodile never had a reason to doubt Mr. 3's loyalty. Because of that, Mr. 3 got a chance to explain himself. Because of that, Mr. 3 is assigned to literally white-washing Rainbase with his powers. Because of that, countless Marines and civilians end up dead, the Straw Hats end up with no way out of Crocodile's cage, and Cross ends up in an EnemyMine with Tashigi.
** Because Cross told Smoker that they were helping Alabasta's "heir apparent", Smoker passed this information to his superiors, which, via Cipher Pol, went all the way to the top. [[spoiler:And as a result of the [[EvilIsPetty pettiness of the World Nobles]], Vivi was declared an associate of the Straw Hat Pirates, and hence, a pirate herself, something no royal status can protect her from. Thus, the only course of action is for her to join the Straw Hats full-time.]]
** Because Cross and his group completely [[CurbStompBattle curb-stomped]] Satori, they proceeded on before Wiper had organized the Shandians to attack Enel's territory. Because of this, Enel's other priests were unoccupied at the moment, which means that Ohm, the deadliest of the priests, is fully free to intercept them.
** [[spoiler:Luffy being pincushioned by Baron Omatsuri's RainOfArrows, and it being broadcast on the SBS worldwide, including to the Revolutionaries, restores Sabo's memory of his adopted brothers way earlier than in canon.]]
** Because Kokoro heard Yokozuna speaking (thanks to Soundbite), [[LadyDrunk she got more drunk than usual]]. Because of this, hearing Merry's love for her crew hit her harder than usual, so she came up with a plan to get Tom's two apprentices to help the Straw Hats with their ship problem. Because of this, Franky and Iceburg met with the Straw Hats earlier than Cross expected, and Kokoro told them, as Tom's apprentices, to build a ship worthy of the Pirate King's successor... within earshot of the [=CP9=] agents that were looking for Tom's apprentices, who were known to have the Pluton blueprints in their possession.
** [[spoiler:Because of the SBS]], [[BloodKnight Lucci and Jabra]] find out about Luffy's {{Determinator}} status and fighting prowess long before they actually meet. When the assault on Enies Lobby comes, determined to get a good fight without [[CantCatchUp Lucci]] getting in the way, Jabra is the one that ends up fighting Luffy on the roof, after taking out Blueno.
** Because of all the building-up Cross has been doing to Usopp's confidence, he suspects that he's no longer immune to Perona's depression-inducing ghosts, meaning Cross has to come up with a new plan when they arrive at Thriller Bark.
* FreudianTrio:
** Meta example: As of Chapter 26, the three authors designate themselves as this, calling themselves the Cross-Brain; Xomniac is the Ego, [=CV12Hornet=] is the Superego, and The Patient One is the Id.
** Additionally, the three mates of the Straw Hat Pirates seem to be this: first mate Zoro is the Id, second mate Nami is the Superego and, appropriately, third mate Cross is the Ego.
* FriendlyEnemy: As in canon, Tashigi and Smoker are this for the Straw Hats, [[spoiler:as is Hina after she throws in her lot with the former two to bring down the World Government, forming the organization Marine Integrity 3, or [=MI3=] for short. In Chapter 30, Captain T-Bone joins the party, making the organization [=MI4=]. After the events at Omatsuri Island, Vice Admiral Jonathan joins, making the organization [=MI5=]. And in Chapter 40, Vice Admiral Tsuru joins, making the organization [=MI6=].]]
** Vice Admiral Jonathan stays friendly with the Straw Hats, Cross in particular, throughout their confrontation. Upon losing, his only reaction is to respectfully acknowledge their success. [[spoiler:It stays this way when he joins Marine Integrity as well, making it [=MI5=].]]
* FromBadToWorse: The Straw Hats' assault on Enies Lobby, for the Marines and the World Government. Sengoku is so enraged that he plans on attacking the island with all available government forces. Unfortunately, fate is working against him.
** The Straw Hats are currently running rampant at one of the three major government strongholds trying to rescue Nico Robin, having turned Oimo and Kashi against the men stationed there. Not only that, but it's being broadcasted live on the SBS, for the entire world to hear, indelibly humiliating the Marines by making them look every bit as incompetent as Cross makes them out to be. [[spoiler:And then Robin finally tells the truth about Ohara, with the entire world as her audience]].
** Not only that, but the Straw Hats' assault has the incited the other Super Rookies to commit dangerous acts, and it even causes some of the Emperors to act out, either to one-up the Straw Hats and/or to draw Marine attention away from them. In brief:
*** Shanks goes on a rampage in the New World, tying up every Marine on that side of the Grand Line.
*** Cavendish decided he's getting overshadowed, so he raids a supply ship headed for Totland... ''just'' as Big Mom starts craving for the specific thing he stole, sending ''her'' on a rampage and forcing the World Government to send Jinbe, Doflamingo, and Kuma against her in hopes of calming her down. Not only that, Cavendish is deliberately leading her to Wano, aka '''''Kaido's''''' territory, escalating the conflict.
*** Bartolomeo attacks a Celestial Dragon's yacht, and then insults one of the ''Five Elder Stars'', who send Akainu and five battleships after him.
*** Capone Bege raids Fort Lumose, cleaning the place out and stealing a ''full quarter'' of the Marines' liquid assets.
*** X. Drake and Basil Hawkins somehow managed to piss off Moria, sending the last available Warlord on a wild goose chase all around the Florian Triangle after them.
*** Eustass Kid and Killer attack Blackarm Island (implied to be the island where [[Anime/OnePieceFilmZ Z]] trains his recruits), drawing out a conflict that needs to be resolved soon if the Marines want high-quality recruits to replace all their incoming losses.
*** Scratchmen Apoo and Captain Dugong attack Task Force Cerberus, capsizing all their ships in the process.
*** Jewelry Bonney and Trafalgar Law team up and attack Marine Base G-76, taking it over and then allowing the surrounding public to run roughshod over the place, with the former even procuring a direct line to Marineford ''just'' to rub it in Sengoku's face.
*** And finally, Urouge did ''something'' at Kyuka Island that left several high-ranking Marine officers shivering in horror.
** If that weren't enough, [[spoiler:Robin's tell-all on Ohara causes Water 7 to finally cut off the World Government. Several Marines (mainly giants) mutiny after hearing of how Saul (who was popular among other giants) died and that they had been hunting his ward for over twenty years]]. This forces Aokiji to be left behind so he can [[spoiler:quell the mutiny non-lethally]].
** The final straw is the crew outright ''disintegrating'' the World Government's flag during the SBS. Sengoku is so overwhelmed and enraged that he can't even go into his Buddha form any more and instead suffers a ''heart attack''. It is, as he puts it, by far and away the most humiliating incident for the Marines and the World Government since Roger's execution. And it's only going to get worse from there.
** And boy, does it get worse in Chapter 40. Spandam, being the idiot that he is, [[spoiler:had an operational black book. For [=CP9=], a covert black ops unit whose missions are so ethically and morally wrong that the World Government doesn't even acknowledge their existence for plausible deniability. A black book that Cross happens to find, and summarily reads for the SBS]]. Sengoku is so fed up that he's not even surprised anymore, just angry.
** And it all comes to a head in Chapter 42. 8% of the countries that comprise the World Government have seceded or been overthrown, another 12% are in the middle of or combating revolutions and uprisings, Marine HQ has lost contact with several Marine bases and vessels all around the world, and pirate activity is at an all-time high. To summarize, the entire day is labeled "'''The Darkest Day in the Entire History of the World Government.'''"
** Even the aftermath isn't letting up on them. The Marines' public opinion is at an all-time low, with more resignations in twenty-four hours than there have been in the last two ''years'', effectively making them a SlaveToPR for a good long while. In light of this, Sengoku reassigns every Marine that follows "Absolute Justice" to the New World so they are out of the public eye and can't make things worse, significantly decreasing the available manpower they have in Paradise. Sengoku himself is suffering severe health problems following the heart attack he had during Enies Lobby due to his age, and has to restrain himself from getting angry -- a trial, considering the antics the Straw Hats are guaranteed to get into.
** [[SerialEscalation And on top of all of the above,]] the secession of Water 7 has badly hamstrung the World Government's ability to replace the small-to-medium-sized ships that they lost in the above chaos, especially with the financial trouble Bege's raid and the secession of a large chunk of their tax base has caused. When building an ''entirely new shipyard'' is the best option available, and they ''still'' can't afford that, you know things are bad.
* FryingPanOfDoom:
** When Cross warns Nami about Usopp's…'liberties' in building her Clima-Tact, she resolves to involve herself in the blueprints. Cross recommends that she considers "Five Cast Iron" for the meeting, a combination of the five iron golf club and this trope. Usopp ends up looking the way he did after the fight with the Mr. 4 pair.
** During the G-8 Arc, Jessica finds out that her husband Jonathan had [[ThisIsUnforgivable not only been throwing out the meals she had made for him, but he had been giving them to his subordinates and lying about it instead.]] A listening [[Advertising/TheManYourManCouldSmellLike Isaiah]] suggests giving him a workover with a "Nine Cast Iron".
* GargleBlaster: In Chapter 52 Nami, Zoro, and Cross accidentally exchange sake with South Blue COMRADE-grade vodka. Not only is it enough to affect even [[NeverGetsDrunk Nami and Zoro]], it's usually used to tan Sea King hide.
* GenreSavvy: Cross in Chapter 20. Taking up a plan to subdue the rebel army before they can reach the city? Knowing their success rate, plans on something going wrong. Knocking down Mr. 2 with near-fatal force? Knowing how strong he is, encourages getting away from him before he gets his second wind.
** The rest of the Straw Hats are also getting wise to a certain combination of factors: Cross has knowledge of the future, he goes LaughingMad when his adrenaline spikes, and it always starts with a "Pff." So when the crew hears that initial snort, they know that trouble isn't very far away.
*** Robin has even begun to preempt this by one step: the moment she sees the CheshireCatGrin that precludes a [[TheGadfly Gadfly]] like Cross doing or saying something incredibly stupid, she quickly uses her powers to [[HandGagging Hand Gag]] him.
** When Boss is sneaking around outside the Puffing Tom, one of the guards asks if the other heard a seal. The second remarks on the insanity of a seal being nearby during Aqua Laguna, only to shut up when the first points out they're on the Grand Line.
** In Chapter 41, Zoro knew that despite Kaku's words, he was going to use Iron Body in their final clash. Skilled or not, Kaku isn't truly a swordsman, but an assassin and an assassin is more concerned with getting the job done than honor.
* GenreShift: Chapter 38. ''[[spoiler:Anime/BaronOmatsuriAndTheSecretIsland]]''. Nuff said.
* GetAHoldOfYourselfMan:
** Cross delivers one to Chopper [[spoiler:to snap him out of his MadDoctor alternate persona. Given that this seems the most effective way to do so, and that Chopper's research is actually useful,]] Chopper receives a lot of them as the story goes.
** If the Boa sisters ever find themselves [[HeroicBSOD lost in the horrific memories of their slavery]], Salome is trained to bite Sandersonia and Marigold to snap them out of them.
* GilliganCut: During the G-8 arc, Vivi ends up staying in the brig for a bit longer than they planned, and she says she can handle it. Cut to her in the brig, on her last nerve, blowing up at Soundbite for playing the harmonica.
* GirlOnGirlIsHot:
** Cross tries to get Nami and Vivi to [[InvokedTrope invoke]] this to inspire Scissors to fully run across the Sandora River. The girls disapprove. [[GroinAttack Violently.]]
** In the Skypiea Arc, Nami ends up kissing Robin in the midst of her [[MoneyFetish gold-fueled euphoria.]]
** Weaponized by [[HoneyTrap Nami and Vivi]] to trap Absalom at Thriller Bark.
* GivingUpOnLogic:
** Cross takes very little time to do this after he's dropped into One Piece, remembering how much ItRunsOnNonsensoleum.
** Wiper does the same thing after he and the Shandians are absorbed into the madness that is a Straw Hat party.
** Vivi finally succumbs to the insanity of the Grand Line when [[RatedMForManly Boss negotiates with Franky]] in a {{Pec Flex}}ing duel, shattering his shell in the process. And later somehow getting a new one.
* GladIThoughtOfIt: Bartolomeo taking credit for [[spoiler: punching a Celestial Dragon in the face, when it was actually Gin that did it.]]
* GodzillaThreshold:
** Vivi fiddles with the [[SecretWeapon Sirocco-charm container]] that her father gave her whenever she is faced with a particularly terrifying enemy, as if contemplating crossing a threshold there is no going back from. [[spoiler:It contains the seed of an active Logia Devil Fruit. As of Chapter 57, she already crossed it after the Straw Hats' HopelessBossFight against Shiki and consumes the seed, making her a Logia.]]
** Cross contemplates appealing to B.R.O.B. to [[spoiler:save Merry]], but given their JerkassGod status...
*** As it turns out, it does agree to give Cross a chance if he puts on a good enough show. And if he doesn't, it will still consent to [[spoiler:saving Merry]]... if Cross considers [[GenderBender the Ivankov treatment]]. [[BrainBleach No one objects when Cross refuses.]]
* GoneHorriblyRight: Cross makes a distraction to escape Mr. 13 by telling the mob surrounding them that they were fighting because Mr. 13 said that Kaido was the strongest of the Four Emperors. Unfortunately, all the pirates have very strong opinions on who they think is the strongest, resulting in a brawl that sets Mock Town on fire, much to Vivi's [[OhNoNotAgain chagrin]].
* GoombaStomp: Cross pulls this on the Unluckies when they go after him in Jaya. Soundbite even [[LampshadeHanging Lampshades]] it by playing the ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBros1'' music.
* GotVolunteered: Leo, Kung-Fu Dugong and Straw Hat ship guard, gets tasked as Zoro's sparring partner/training dummy due to being the only other sword user on the ship (until Brook shows up). Later, his fellow apprentices Mikey and Donny are shanghaied into being assistants for Sanji and Chopper, respectively.
* GracefulLoser: Foxy is surprisingly accepting about having to be a Straw Hat. [[spoiler:Or so he thinks]].
** "Long" John "Silverteeth" is outright happy to lose to Leo as it means he finally gets a satisfying death.
* GratuitousJapanese: Most techniques are translated into English, but Haki stays Japanese.
* GratuitousSpanish:
** The voice that Soundbite gives Scissors the giant crab.
** Abound with the Amigo Pirates.
* GreenEyedMonster: Dr. Indigo towards Chopper. He has spent the last 20 years building up his magnum opus scientific achievement for Shiki, only for Chopper to show up [[spoiler: on the SBS]] and proceed to display medical advancements that are in danger of completely upstaging the clown.
* GrievousHarmWithABody: Cross ends up as Luffy's weapon against the Billions.
** Luffy does it again, this time with a random Marine, in Navarone.
** And Cross gets a chance to do it himself to the Amigo Pirates.
* GroinAttack:
** In Chapter 20, Vivi and Nami do this in unison to Cross after, in an attempt to keep Scissors scuttling along the Sandora, he encourages "[[GirlOnGirlIsHot hot girl-on-girl action]]."
** Also in Chapter 20, Vivi gives one of these to Mr. 2., noted under AndThisIsFor above.
** Once again, Vivi does this to Lieutenant Commander Drake after he insinuates that Cross was somehow involved with Baroque Works.
** [[spoiler: [[CuteBruiser Merry]]]] delivers one to Absalom. [[BallsOfSteel It doesn't go nearly as well...]]
* GrowingWings: In Merveille, Conis's vestigial wings suddenly grow in size in response to Su's suffering as they fall and all the [[PowerUpFood SIQ-laced bushmeat]] she'd been eating. However, her limited flying abilities are cut short due to unfamiliarity in using them and sudden muscle sprains.
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[[folder:Tropes H - L]]
* HairpinLockpick:
** With Mr. 3 attacking Cross and Tashigi, his powers could not be used to Luffy and the others from their cage in Rain Dinners. Fortunately, thanks to Cross's inspiration, Nami was able to free them using this.
** [[spoiler:Perona]] easily escapes a set of seastone handcuffs because only one hand was cuffed and she used a hairpin to pick the lock. She even notes that no female pirate worth the name goes without a hairpin for the exact purpose, which Nami, Vivi, Robin, Merry agree with. Even Raphey, who doesn't even have hair.
* {{Headdesk}}:
** In Chapter 23, Cross does this after Soundbite gives the Teenage Dugong Warrior Squad their name.
** In Chapter 28, Cross does this after Isaiah, perching on Pierre's head while the latter is in his hybrid form, says "[[Advertising/TheManYourManCouldSmellLike I'm on a horse.]]"
** In Chapter 33, Vice Admiral Jonathan does this when he realizes the full extent of the chaos the Straw Hat Pirates are capable of causing.
** Chapter 37 has Vivi doing this after [[TestosteronePoisoning Boss]] successfully negotiates with Franky by [[PecFlex flexing]].
** Chapter 42, when Sengoku hears that Admiral Kizaru (with the inadvertent help of Nami), has ended up refracting himself out of the fight, he does this. While in his Buddha form. ''Denting the Gates of Justice in the process.''
** Chapter 44, when Cross realizes that he and the crew were captured by the Accinno pirates and a certain quartet of ''[[WesternAnimation/ThePenguinsOfMadagascar Fierce Penguins]]''.
** Chapter 48 has Soundbite try to invoke this in Cross twice, once with [[Franchise/ScoobyDoo Mystery Inc.]] and once with {{Music/Thriller}}. Cross shrugs off the first one, the second one, ''he joins in''.
* HearingVoices:
** At the crux of Robin's decision at Enies Lobby, [[spoiler:thanks to Soundbite and his powers, Jaguar D. Saul's voice becomes so loud it is heard and projected from beyond the grave]], giving her that last bit of assurance.
** [[spoiler:The voice of the previous Pirate King helps his successor stand and take down Lucci.]]
* HeelFaceTurn:
** Given the GrayAndGreyMorality of One Piece, this is a little shaky, but [[spoiler:after witnessing the political pettiness of their superiors, Smoker, Tashigi and Hina outright tell Cross that they want to ally with him to bring down the World Government. As of chap. 42 Captain T-Bone, Vice-Admiral Jonathan and Vice-Admiral Tsuru join them in treason]].
* HeelRealization: Cross's words on tolerance and "perpetuating hate for hate's sake" make Hancock, Marigold, and Sandersonia realize they've become far too similar to the World Nobles they despise.
* HelpingWouldBeKillstealing:
** Squardo and Whitey appealing to Luffy and Ace's honor as pirates is the only thing that stops the [[BigBrotherInstinct latter]] [[spoiler:from rocketing off to immolate Baron Omatsuri alive]].
** During the plan to trap Absalom, Sanji is in place to stop anything from happening to Nami and Vivi who are acting as bait, but Nami asks him to give them the opportunity to fight first, wanting the chance to prove to themselves that all their training was worth it. As it turns out, they were right to keep him in reserve.
* HereWeGoAgain: This is the general air when [[spoiler: Perona appears on the Sunny and asks for passage to another island of her liking - she snuck on like Robin, she asks the crew to "take responsibility" like Robin, she bribes Nami with treasure like Robin, and she asks to borrow some of the women's clothes like Robin]].
* HeroOfAnotherStory:
** It seems that some of the adventures from anime filler-arcs, movies, and video games that this story is skipping over are still happening, just to other crews. For example, Bartolomeo has Apis from the Warship Island arc as a member of his crew, and Smoker & Tashigi apparently traveled to the island where the plot of the [[UsefulNotes/{{Wii}} Nintendo Wii-exclusive]] ''One Piece: Unlimited Adventure'' takes place [[spoiler: and met [[GuardianEntity Popola]], who is hinted by Tashigi to be the unknown possible fifth member of the New World Mason [[MemoryWipingCrew Cleaners division]] if Smoker can convince him to join.]]
** Just about all of the Super Rookies have their own battles during the Straw Hats' assault on Enies Lobby.
* HeroicBSOD:
** Cross has a brief one in Chapter 19, when he realizes that it was his presence and intervention that resulted in Mr. 3 getting a second chance and killing countless civilians and Marines in Rainbase. It doesn't last long, however, before he refocuses his attention on the one who's ''more'' to blame.
** One PlayedForLaughs: Nami suffers a stroke, heart attack and aneurysm all at once when Zoro manages to pay off his debt.
** Foxy goes catatonic when [[spoiler: [[WorldsStrongestMan Whitebeard]] calls into the SBS during the broadcasted Davy Back Fight, and Luffy manages to impress him.]] It takes Cross's foghorn to snap him out of it.
** More than a few people faint, have heart attacks or go catatonic when [[spoiler:they hear the events on [[Anime/BaronOmatsuriAndTheSecretIsland the Secret Island]]]].
** Kiwi, Mozu and Paulie go temporarily numb when they think about what would've happened had they ended up antagonizing the Straw Hats.
** Tashigi undergoes one after Enies Lobby due to learning the atrocities the Marines commit and that the corruption goes all the way to the top.
* HeroicRROD:
** Carue breaks every bone in his legs after [[spoiler:breaking the sound barrier and knocking Funkfreed out in one kick]].
** Conis ends up dislocating her shoulder after one use of Wiper's Reject Dial.
** [[spoiler:Overusing her newfound CompellingVoice]] ends up disabling Vivi herself.
* HeroicSacrifice: As in canon, Zoro offers his head to Kuma in place of Luffy's and Cross's, but when he hears that his head is only worth one of their lives, not both, [[spoiler: Nami steps up in Cross's place.]]
* HeroWorshipper: Su admits that Conis is this for Cross, and she herself is this for Soundbite.
* HiddenDepths:
** Captain T-Bone of the Marines is one of the few benevolent and caring Marines out there who is loyal to the World Government, the ideals of justice and has a hate for anything crooked or corrupted under his watch. A conversation with Smoker reveals that his Marine contingent in the West Blue was assigned to the manhunt for Nico Robin alongside 12 other contingents, but T-Bone and his men protested that the ensuing collateral damage made the amount of force too high. Unfortunately, this dissension got out by means of one of their own, and his superior [[spoiler:Vice-Admiral Sakazuki]] disapproved greatly and completely exterminated his entire flotilla, only sparing T-Bone's life because he claimed he saw the evils of his men and promised to devote himself to the Marine's Divine Justice from then on. But despite this conversion (which Smoker wonders if it was genuine or done out of fear for his life) he has retained his core morality and benevolence to this day. Chapter 30 reveals it to be the latter.
** Conis has trained alongside the White Berets in order to help defend Angel Island's borders from other pirates, and is said to be as dedicated as Captain [=McKinley=] himself. If that's not enough, [[spoiler:her mother was a '''[[SecretLegacy Roger Pirate]]''']].
** Foxy had bought Big Pan the Wotan from [[SlaveryIsASpecialKindOfEvil Sabaody Archipelago]]. Also, the whole reason he is building up his crew with the Davy Back Fights is to weather the storm when the battle for the throne of the Pirate King reaches flashover.
** What was it that drove Buggy, someone who has seen the insanity of the New World, to swear off exploring the Grand Line and made him stay firmly in the East Blue? [[spoiler:[[EldritchAbomination Lily Carnation]]]]. [[spoiler:His old crew weren't even that lucky.]]
** Robin wore cowboy hats while in Baroque Works, because they reminded her of Saul and helped her feel strong in times of stress.
** Why are Mr. 13 and Ms. Friday so [[MadeOfIron stupidly tough and relentless]]? They're from Kuraigana Island; you know, the island filled with sword-wielding primates?
** Boss somehow knows Grand Line Standard Sign Language.
* HiroshimaAsAUnitOfMeasure:
** [[spoiler:When they notice that the Going Merry's ''talking'' audibly on the SBS, Pekoms says he wants no part of seizing the ship even if Big Mom wants it, stating that the antics of the Straw Hat crew are ''Emperor'' levels of crazy. At ''minimum.'']]
** During the escape from Enies Lobby, Nami's actions lead to Cross making one of these comparisons later on:
-->'''Cross''': "''You'' decided to fry ten battleships with enough voltage to power New York City, and ''yes'' that is impressive where I'm from!"
* HistoryRepeats: Jabra betrays Blueno, knocks him out and leaves him for dead, then after Luffy [=KOs=] him, the wolf-man gets back up a while later in an outright berserk rage... and is promptly finished off by a recovered Blueno and a [[TheDoorSlamsYou stone door]]. Now think about the Baratie arc and what happened between Don Krieg and Gin. Kinda similar, no?
* HomemadeSweaterFromHell: Perona made a few of these for the Christmas season, and forces Absalom and Doctor Hogback to wear them (though it takes her using one of her more powerful, fear-inducing techniques before Absalom agrees to it).
* HomeRunHitter: Luffy's [[PipePain pipe staff]] + Gum-Gum Pinwheel + Gum-Gum Rifle = Gum-Gum Home Run. Bye-bye, Satori.
* HorrifyingTheHorror: Hogback, proponent of necromancy, is aghast at the capabilities of [[spoiler:[[EldritchAbomination Lily Carnation, bringing an entire crew back to life with hardly any problems whatsoever]]]]. Ivankov, master of the Horm-Horm Fruit and witness to all its biological changes without batting an eye, throws up [[spoiler:when he sees the BodyHorror that is Lily Carnation with its embedded prey]].
* HopeSpot:
** Foxy invokes this when he gets a new crew member from a Davy Back Fight. The new crew member can cheat once during that Davy Back Fight, and that one only, to help their former crew.
** Cross invokes one on Spandam after his ToThePain speech, where he tells Spandam he's not going to do any of that to him. Instead, he's going to do something '''far''' worse: let Robin and Franky do whatever they want to him.
** Perona has one after she hears that Chopper has got his hands on her real body. When she [[CatapultNightmare wakes up in her real body]] and sees no mad doctor looming over her, she hugs one of her top-hatted stuffed toys in relief... only to remember that she doesn't ''own'' any top-hatted stuffed toys.
* HopelessBossFight:
** Cross compares fighting Kuma to being worse than fighting Mihawk. With Mihawk they can at least run if he doesn't care enough. Against Kuma, they can't fight ''or'' run.
** Earlier, the Straw Hats suffered their first major defeat at the hands of [[AnIcePerson Admiral Aokiji]]. In Strong World, their first fight against [[PowerFloats Shiki the Golden Lion]] ends in failure when he uses [[DishingOutDirt Lion's Threat:]] [[BuriedAlive Earth Bind]].
* HumanityEnsues: [[spoiler:What happens when the Going Merry consumes the Human-Human Fruit, Model: Child.]]
* HypocriticalHumor: Lampshaded when Cross is trying to convince Zoro to tell them what he knows about Mr. 9 and Miss Wednesday:
-->'''Cross:''' Zoro, if you know something that could be important, then you ''need'' to tell us! ''None'' of us can afford to spare any information, otherwise we risk jeopardizing the crew!
-->'''Soundbite:''' ''(sotto voce) Hy~po~cri~te!''
** Zoro calls Cross out on his hypocrisy about sharing info after TheReveal. Unlike above, this is pure {{Hypocrite}} and no humor.
** In Chapter 14, after tricking Kureha into forfeiting her right to keep them there, all of the medical costs, ''and'' all the food in the castle:
-->'''Vivi:''' Evil. You guys are all pure ''evil.''
-->'''Cross:''' Hey, what can I say? We're ''pirates!'' It's kind of our M.O.
-->'''Vivi:''' Oh, no, I don't have any issues with that, don't worry! I'm only ''realizing'' it just now is all.
-->'''Luffy:''' ''(cackling and sticking out his tongue)'' Heheheh, you're pretty dumb, Vivi!
-->'''Nami, Vivi, and Cross:''' ''(deadpan)'' And you're one to talk?
** Wiper has a moment in the Christmas Special. One of the reasons for stringing Aisa to the totem pole is because she accepted a bag of almonds from a Skypiean instead of fighting to the death as a Shandoran warrior. That doesn't stop him from enjoying the almonds himself.
** In Chapter 17, after Cross digs himself to sleep (see The Penance below), Toto refuses to let him dig anymore until he gets some rest.
-->'''Cross:''' This from the coot who's been digging all night alongside me, as well as through several sandstorms?
-->'''Toto:''' Wait until you're my age, ''then'' you can be as hypocritically stubborn as you want to be.
** In the aftermath of the Alubarna battle, Sanji finds himself trying to avoid people complaining about walls he'd kicked down during the battle. Cross and Usopp love the hypocrisy, only to find themselves running into people complaining about a bar (where Cross fought the Unluckies) and the ruins outside the city (where Usopp and Chopper fought the Mr. 4 pair).
** Chaka and Pell trade barbs about [[FurryReminder animalistic behaviors]] in their Zoan forms (self-licking and preening) respectively, before Igaram tops them by commenting on the increase in flea and lice population.
** When he sees [[spoiler: Merry's human form]] bring out crates and piles of dirt from inside her coat, Paulie, the guy who hides enough rope on him to rig a battleship, asks [[{{Hammerspace}} where she held all of that]].
** When Garp chastises De Lis of the Marines' Giant Squad for letting the Accino bounty hunter family into a blockaded country ''without'' checking if they had permission from the Marines first, De Lis takes offence, considering what the absent-minded vice-admiral recently revealed [[spoiler: on the SBS]].
---> '''De Lis:''' I DON’T WANT TO HEAR IT FROM YOU, MR. I-REVEALED-THAT-THE-REVOLUTIONARY-HAD-A-SON-WHO’S-THE-STRONGEST-ROOKIE-ON-THE-SEAS!
** When Vivi considers taking up drinking, Nami removes the bottle she was going to knock back on account of preventing her from developing a habit. But since Nami already has a habit and a [[NeverGetsDrunk tolerance]], she can drink it just fine.
* IAlwaysWantedToSayThat:
** After Cross fails to learn Kureha's secret to eternal youth (guessing the most prominent theory in the fandom):
--->'''Cross:''' Still, in the future, I'll have a legitimate reason to use the phrase 'once more, the secret to eternal youth has eluded me!'
** Itomimizu, the Foxy Pirates' announcer, finally gets his chance to [[spoiler:start and interrupt the SBS.]]
** Cross apparently has a bucket List Of Things He Wants To Say At Least Once In The Right Context[[superscript:[[TradeSnark TM]]]].
---> 1. ''(During the Davy Back Fight) LLLLET'S GET READY TO '''RRRRUMBLLLLLLLLE!'''''
---> 3. ''(While on Little East Blue)'' FIRE MAIN CANNON! [[note]]Franky stole this one.[[/note]]
---> 4. ''(During the attack on Thriller Bark)'' The cavalry has arrived!
---> 9. ''(When invading Judge Baskerville's courtroom)'' Order in the court.
** In chapter 48, Cross is happy he finally gets to use the world "bamboozle".
* IAmNotLeftHanded: Ryuma is normally weighted down with molten lead. Once he lets it all out, he becomes fast and strong enough to ''cut through the Florian Triangle's fog'''.
* IChooseToStay: [[spoiler:Vivi had always planned on leaving Carue behind when she left with the Straw Hats, but Carue wanted none of that and came along anyway.]]
** [[spoiler:Su does the same thing when Conis joins the Straw Hats.]]
* IdiotBall: A brief moment from Nami in Chapter 21, when she's talking about the effectiveness of lightning as an attack:
-->'''Cross:''' Yeah, just as long as you’re not fighting someone who ate a Devil Fruit that makes them immune to lightning.
-->'''Nami:''' …Are we going to be fighting someone like that?
-->''(Cross and Soundbite give her flat looks, {{beat}}, then Nami facepalms)''
-->'''Nami:''' Right, stupid question.
* IfIWantedYouDead: Cross and Robin do this on behalf of Aokiji, stating that if he was there to kill them, he'd have sunk their ship from ''miles'' away.
* IgnoreTheFanService: Cross has forced himself to do this a few times, especially whenever his female crew members try to get a rise out of him by showing some skin.
* IHeardThat:
** The above example from Casual Danger Dialog.
** The Christmas Episode, in response to Merry chastising Carrot, Pepper, and Onion's caroling:
-->'''Kaya:''' Oh, don't listen to that old goat. In my opinion, I think he might be going a little deaf in one ear, if you know what I mean.
-->'''Merry:''' ''(somewhere in the depths of the mansion)'' I heard that!
** Two examples during the G-8 arc:
*** Nami, Usopp, Vivi and Carue interject when Cross says that they have the [[LovableCoward "breaking down and panicking"]] part covered.
*** Vivi interjects when Cross says that [[NowYouTellMe forgetting potentially dangerous things]] is her job.
* ILied: The Authors. Multiple times.
* ILikeThoseOdds:
** When Cross 'learns' from Luffy that they have to climb the Drum Rockies to get to a doctor:
-->'''Cross:''' Sheer rock faces?
-->'''Luffy:''' Looks like it!
-->'''Cross:''' Inhospitable temperatures?
-->'''Usopp:''' I think I might have frostbite already, and that's just down here…
-->'''Cross:''' Ravenous beasts?
-->'''Soundbite:''' '''I heard''' ''ten'' '''SPECIES''' ''ON THE WAY HERE'' ALONE! '''WANTED TO ''EAT US ALIVE!'''''
-->'''Cross:''' So… overall, it's a deathtrap?
-->'''Dalton:''' That's… a bit much, but accurate.
-->'''Cross:''' ''(grinning goofily)''…Is it my birthday?
** When storming Enies Lobby, Soundbite and Paulie sum up the odds as over 2,500 Marines and World Government Agents versus roughly 70 Straw Hats, Franky Family members, and Galley-La workers.
-->'''Zambai:''' Doesn't seem fair, does it?
-->'''Usopp:''' No, it really doesn't. These poor bastards don't even stand a chance.
-->'''Cross:''' Please... you say that as if they ever did.
* IllPretendIDidntHearThat: When first informed by Smoker, Tashigi, and Hina of their planned coup against the corrupt government, T-Bone starts walking out of the room, loudly talking to himself about meeting Smoker the next day.
* IllNeverTellYouWhatImTellingYou: Garp does this twice [[spoiler: on the SBS]], first about Luffy's parentage, and then about [[spoiler: Vivi's Sovereign Will.]]
* InconvenientSummons: While showing off for the Straw Hats, Franky calls out Kiwi and Mozu for their dance, even if Kiwi was in the shower at the time. [[MegatonPunch She doesn't take it too well.]]
* INeedAFreakingDrink:
** Cross and Nami get this sentiment when Luffy, Masira and Shoujou start singing.
** Wiper gets this sentiment when he finds himself the OnlySaneMan in a Straw Hat party.
** Smoker, Hina, Tashigi and a visiting Captain T-Bone get this sentiment when Su joins Soundbite [[spoiler:on Cross's SBS]].
** Mr. 5 gets this when they realize Su has joined Soundbite full-time [[spoiler:on the SBS]].
** Foxy shares a cask of rum with Apoo as he tells him exactly what kind of insanity he's getting into.
* InJoke: [=CP9=] has one of these in the Christmas Episode, when Galley-La and Iceburg are meeting in Blueno's bar, and Blueno, as a Christmas present, gives Lucci a bag of catnip. It takes every measure of control that Kaku and Kalifa have not to burst out laughing, and Hattori doesn't even try, rolling on the floor cackling.
* InMediasRes: Chapter 46 starts with Cross and Soundbite watching the Accino-Hiruno marriage fall to pieces, and then it proceeds to show exactly how the chaos started.
* InSpiteOfANail:
** Cross's attempted interventions seem to result in keeping the crew safe… only for him to take the hit instead. This happens with [[spoiler:the prehistoric bacteria on Little Garden]], [[spoiler:the initial meeting with Mr. 2]], and [[spoiler:the 1st round of the Davy Back Fight]].
** Cross warns Vivi about the bomb in the clock tower ahead of time, and she includes that warning in her message to her father that she sends to Alubarna. Due to the moles in the Royal Army, Baroque Works gets wind of it, and the army they amass together with the Mr. 7 pair's sniping skills results in them guarding the bomb successfully against the siege until the war begins.
** As Vivi finds out, one of Cross's biggest fears in this world is, despite everything he's tried to do, failing to stop the Paramount War.
** Despite Cross's planning, [[ObsessedWithFood Luffy]] still ends up revealing himself to Jonathan.
** Cross manages to stop Foxy from shooting the horse Shelly, but after witnessing Foxy's callous attitude, Luffy still ends up accepting the Davy Back Fight anyway. When the rest confront him about it, Luffy says [[SmartBall that he already knows the Fight's risks from Shanks's stories]], but he also knows about the one-on-one Captain's Fight at the end, and he wants to beat up Foxy for pretending to be a pirate.
** [[spoiler:Despite Cross's promise, Merry's keel is still broken beyond all hope of saving.]]
** [[spoiler:Robin still hands herself over to [=CP9=] to keep the crew safe.]]
** A downplayed example: Shu still manages to rust part of Yubashiri's blade. Though it isn't destroyed, the blacksmith at Water 7 can't repair it in time before Zoro leaves with the crew, and so it's left at Water 7.
** [[spoiler:Despite Whitey and Squardo's assistance, Ace still loses to Blackbeard and is captured by the Marines... on account of Aokiji sticking his nose in at exactly the wrong moment.]]
* IncrediblyLamePun: Cross wonders if it'd be this to make a tongue-tied joke after wrapping Luffy's tongue around his neck like a scarf.
** Bartolomeo makes one when he hears Eneru went to the moon:
---> "...He's a ''literal'' lunatic."
** Salchow makes one that even has his wife Arbell [[LamePunReaction thinking it's horrible.]]
---> '''Cross:''' Concede to our demands, and ''maybe'' we'll make this a mutually beneficial arrangement, rather than merely bouncing your heads off the cobblestones and being on our merry way. So, you game?
---> '''Salchow:''' Er... don't you mean on your sunny way?
* InertiaIsACruelMistress: Ace's attempt to catch a cannonball send him flying back several feet.
* InevitableWaterfall:
** The Straw Hats encounter one in Chapter 9 as part of random Grand Line madness.
** The rescue team encounters one in Chapter 29 on the way to the Ordeal of Balls, as in canon. Cross sees it coming, of course.
-->'''Cross:''' Oh, come on, don't tell me you didn't see the 'inevitable waterfall' cliché a mile off.
-->'''Su:''' ''(whimpering)'' I hate you, Cross.
-->'''Everyone else:''' ''JOIN THE CLUB!''
** The Straw Hats encounter the big drop on their way out of Skypiea. Cross, Conis and Su all see it coming.
* InsaneTrollLogic:
** Quite apart from his nonsense of direction, Zoro seems to have this attitude in regards to training, believing that broken bones heal stronger than they were before. Even in ''One Piece'', that remains untrue, and Chopper is simultaneously infuriated and horrified.
** The Bleeding Heart Bounty Hunters' rationale that since the WG cannot be trusted, Vivi's [[spoiler:bounty is fake]], and since all pirates are evil, she would never work with them willingly, therefore the Straw Hats kidnapped her.
* InsistentTerminology: Cross objects to being called a kid or brat, being 18. He also objects to Vivi's nickname for him, Mister Jeremiah, which comes across as implying he's much older than he is. The insistence ends in Chapter 18, when he finally gives up.
** Merry is very emphatic that Thousand Sunny is her big brother despite being younger than her. According to her, he's going to be King of the Seas so there's no way he can be anything less.
* InstantExpert:
** [[spoiler:Thanks to hearing the Voice of All Things, Soundbite can listen to objects and figure out their functions.]]
** Boss, who has explicitly said that he has spent his life learning to ''learn''. After only 10 minutes with a [[spoiler:Six Powers cheat sheet]], he can replicate it to its full effect.
** Subverted with Kalifa who realizes she can clean anything, including her opponent's mind. But her attempt to wipe Nami's mind clean instead merely erases several years of stress.
** [[spoiler: Turns out ships assimilate parts of the crew that make up their soul, knowledge, memory and fighting skill. Only now with her human body, Merry can actually use that info.]]
* InsultBackfire: Cross and Mr. 2 in Chapter 20:
-->'''Mr. 2:''' My, my, what a ''mouth'' you have on you, dear. Didn't your mother teach you any better?
-->'''Cross:''' Momma taught me how to smack a ''bitch''.
-->'''Mr. 2:''' Flattery will get you nowhere, boy.
* InterspeciesFriendship:
** Once Su gets her voice as a LittleMissSnarker, she and [[TheGadfly Soundbite]] get along like a house on fire.
** Likewise for Boss and Franky, due to similar attitudes.
* InTheBack: Amigo Pirate Largo nails Cross in the back with a throwing knife after he beats his brother Corto. However, due to how many [[TookALevelInBadass levels of badass Cross has been taking]], all it does is tick him off.
* IResembleThatRemark:
** Scratchman Apoo states with a smile that Vivi's statement about all Long-Arm Tribe members only putting in effort for making money and causing trouble is harsh, stereotypical, downright racist, and absolutely correct.
** Corto of the Amigo Pirates takes real offense to Cross goading him like a matador bull, by charging at him exactly like a bull, complete with snorting and pawing.
* {{Irony}}: During the fiasco that is the Accino-Hiruno wedding, Cross declares that due to Oda's stance on romance, short of Absalom's attempts, he'll never have to go through another wedding ever again, especially not one done for the sake of a political alliance. [[spoiler: Boy, will he eat his words when he reaches Totland...]]
* IsItAlwaysLikeThis: When the Straw Hats see Franky and Iceburg arguing the moment they come into contact:
-->'''Leo''': Uh, are they...''always'' like this?\\
'''Paulie''': ''(With an exasperated sigh)'' Sadly, yes. Seriously, half of Water 7 sets their clocks to these damn fights...\\
'''Kaku''': Half nothing, I take my lunch breaks whenever they clash.
* IsThisThingStillOn:
** Cross accidentally broadcasts a few of Blackbeard's crimes when they encounter him during the Knock-Up Stream launch.
** Cross's [[spoiler:torture by Enel and the surgery to save his life]] are broadcasted worldwide because everyone (including Soundbite) forgot they were still broadcasting.
** [[spoiler:The entirety of the battle with Baron Omatsuri, '''INCLUDING ALL THE STRAW HATS BEING DEVOURED''']], is broadcast as well.
*** Averted about halfway through when the characters [[spoiler:who remain]] realize it's still broadcasting but keep it going so as to be a warning to all would-be travelers to stay away from [[spoiler:Omatsuri Island]].
* ITakeOffenseToThatLastOne:
** Chapter 7.
-->'''Cross:''' Zoro, you're a lot of things: you sleep too much, you're focused on swords to an unhealthy degree, you’re grumpy—
-->'''Zoro:''' I am ''not'' grumpy.
-->'''Soundbite:''' '''[[LampshadeHanging THAT'S ]]''' ''[[LampshadeHanging what]] '''[[LampshadeHanging you]]''''' [[LampshadeHanging PROTEST?]]
** Chapter 25: After Robin accidentally insults everything about Shogun Octavio and his country (due to Vivi not reading the translation guide thoroughly), Octavio says he would have laughed off all of them except they insulted his surfing ability, which is unforgivable.
** Chapter 25, after the chapter's events, a couple of listeners express their thoughts:
-->'''Buggy:''' A Devil Fruit user being a natural surfer, better than someone who was literally born for the sport? That’s just insane.
-->'''Alvida:''' It does sound ridiculous when you say it like that, doesn’t it? About as ridiculous as [[CallBack surviving an execution attempt thanks to a lightning bolt striking the tower.]]
-->'''Buggy:''' Indeed.
-->'''Alvida:''' Or as ridiculous as how losing some freckles can make a world of difference in helping people perceive your natural beauty.
-->'''Buggy:''' Yes, that's… just as ridiculous.
-->'''Alvida:''' Or as ridiculous as a nearly no-name clown-themed pirate from the East Blue managing to survive two days in the Grand Line, much less two months.
-->'''Buggy:''' Okay, now that’s just insa—WHAT THE HELL DID YOU JUST CALL ME, WOMAN!?
* ItCanThink:
** Perona freaks out when she realizes [[spoiler:it wasn't Baron Omatsuri's crew inviting everyone to the island, but [[EldritchAbomination Lily Carnation]]]].
** This is the effect that Chopper's [[spoiler: increased intelligence]] has on his [[TheBerserker Monster Point]]: [[spoiler: it might not be smart enough to communicate, but it is smart enough to learn]].
* ItMakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext: Cross warns Sanji that Luffy and Boss riding a giant bug doesn't make any more sense with context than without.
* ItemCrafting: After Thriller Bark, Usopp and Franky decide to do something with all the [[PowerNullifier seastone]] the crew had collected from Enies Lobby and Lovely Land, using it to craft new weapons or attachments, like a butterfly knife for Robin and pommel caps for Zoro's swords, or [[EquipmentUpgrade upgrading existing equipment]] like Nami's Clima-Tact and Cross' armor.
* ItRunsOnNonsenseoleum: As befits [[Manga/OnePiece its origin]]. Devil Fruits in particular are called out:
--> '''Cross:''' Um... Devil Fruits are bullshit, Awakened Devil Fruits make mere bullshit their bitch?
* ItsAllMyFault: [[spoiler:When Cross manages to speak with Merry's Klabautermann directly, she has this mentality for being too weak to carry her crew through the Grand Line. She even asks Cross why he isn't blaming her for being too weak.]]
* ItsPersonal: Unlike the rest of Baroque Works' agents who hold no real grudge against the Straw Hats, [[AnimalNemesis the Unluckies]] have made it clear they will only retire after they've brutally killed Cross and Soundbite.
* JadeColoredGlasses: Tashigi ends up getting a pair when she hears about the atrocity that is Ohara, much to Smoker's chagrin.
* JawDrop: It's a ''One Piece'' fic, of course this is a staple. Specially abundant in Chapter 25.
* JerkassGods: B.R.O.B., the omnipotent being that dumped Cross into the One Piece world is obviously this.
* JokeAndReceive:
** When De Lis calls HQ for confirmation, she gets Garp saying that the Accinos never did make any requests.
--> '''Garp:''' Why, did they trick you into letting them into Alabasta or something?
--> '''De Lis:''' ''(EyeTwitch)'' Um... well...
--> ''({{Beat}})''
--> '''Garp:''' ...You did, didn't you.
** When Vivi asks Robin about learning [[spoiler: the Poneglyph Void language]], Robin jokes about Vivi learning it herself. [[MyGodYouAreSerious She quickly stops laughing when she realizes that Vivi is serious.]]
* KitchenSinkIncluded:
** While a literal kitchen sink isn't present, the trope is referenced when, at Whiskey Peak, Cross talks Nami into joining him in "Looting everything that isn't nailed down, and a lot that is!"
** It happens again during the Enies Lobby arc, as Jewelry Bonney and her crew (along with the Heart Pirates) invade Marine Base G-76; Bonney calls Sengoku to inform him that her crewmates are "taking whatever isn't nailed down, and they're bringing in crowbars for whatever actually ''is''".
* KneelBeforeZod: Enel demands that Cross acknowledge his [[AGodAmI godhood]]. Cross refuses.
* LamePunReaction:
** When Bartolomeo makes his "lunatic" joke about Enel, Hina whacks him, and when he objects considering that they're under a truce, [[spoiler:Goldenweek]] claims that he deserved it.
** After Salchow's pun about the Straw Hat crew going on their "sunny" way instead of their "merry" way, his wife Arbell slaps him.
* LaserGuidedKarma: For all of Spandam's crimes, when the Marines finally court-martial him, he is thrown into Impel Down's Level [[spoiler: 5, the perfect location for Ivankov to find him, capture him, and squeeze all the info out of him for the Revolutionaries.]]
* LastNameBasis: Partially due to having a different naming convention, all of the Straw Hats call Cross by his last name instead of Jeremiah. This is also on account of Cross much preferring to be referred to as, well, Cross instead of Jeremiah, or any variation thereof.
* LateToThePunchLine: While hearing the WhosOnFirst routine, Mr. 4 starts laughing at the beginning of the joke when the skit is halfway through.
* LaughingMad:
** Cross becomes this whenever things get too dangerous; that is, [[InHarmsWay when his adrenaline spikes]].
** Garp, whenever [[spoiler:Cross's SBS comes on]]. It's so much that he causes tremors when he gets going, much to Sengoku's frustration.
** Montblanc Cricket, when he hears the Golden Bell ring in the sky.
** Miss Valentine after the Barto Club's ship gets towed by Sea Kings.
** Chopper goes crazy when he hears his original epithet and bounty.
** Moria breaks into a fit after witnessing his army's defeat at the Straw Hats' hands and [[spoiler: when his Devil Fruit Awakens]].
* LemonyNarrator: For satirical or comedic purposes. Not common, but not exactly rare in more recent chapters.
* LetMeGetThisStraight: How Paulie sums up the situation at Enies Lobby:
-->'''Paulie:''' So, let me see if I've got this straight. Two days ago, I thought that [[TheMole Kaku and Lucci being government agents]] was nonsense, [[GovernmentConspiracy CP9 was a myth]], and [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge charging Enies Lobby on a rescue/revenge mission]] was something that nobody in the world was crazy enough to do. Then along came the [[WeirdnessMagnet Straw Hat Pirates]]. I don't think I need to say any more than that.
* LetsYouAndHimFight: Invoked by Cross and Soundbite to get the Unluckies that are pursuing them in Jaya off their backs. Soundbite goads [[ColdSniper Van Augur]] to start shooting at Ms. Friday, and when that doesn't stop Mr. 13, Cross finds Bellamy and insults him to his face to spring him right at him, [[DeadlyDodging and by extension, Mr. 13.]]
--> '''Cross:''' Excuse me, is it true that Doflamingo's spring-heeled ''dickweasel'' can be found here, or is this the wrong bar?
* LetUsNeverSpeakOfThisAgain:
** In Chapter 19, while waiting for Tashigi's restraints to melt, Cross tells her the story of why Zoro wants to become the greatest. Both agree that the conversation never leaves the house they were in.
** In Chapter 22, Usopp, Sanji, and Cross get caught in hypocrisy when the damages caused by their battles with Baroque Works is exposed to one another, and as such decided to call it even and never speak of it.
** The whole incident with "[[{{Crossdresser}} Magical Girl Inferno Aniki]]".
** When Cross finds out from B.R.O.B. that the secret of Luffy's [[BigEater speed-eating]] is a ThingManWasNotMeantToKnow.
** The memories of [[spoiler:Anime/BaronOmatsuriAndTheSecretIsland]] have been [[RepressedMemories repressed by the entire crew]].
** Fukuro and [[spoiler:Hattori]] have this reaction in Chapter 40 shortly after busting each other's chops about taking so long with their respective opponents.
* LittleMissSnarker: Once she gets her voice, Su, Conis's cloud-fox, proves to be this, [[SirSwearsALot in addition to having a particularly rough vocabulary]]. Much to Conis's chagrin.
* LockedOutOfTheLoop: Thanks to Cross and a special function of his [[spoiler:transceiver]], Spandam is completely unaware of the degree to which the Straw Hats are decimating Enies Lobby until they are practically right outside his window.
* LodgedBladeRecycling: Minus the recycling part, but Cross does pull out a throwing knife that gets lodged in his back, and after the battle, Chopper proceeds to [[DiscussedTrope discuss]] exactly why this is a stupid trope.
* LogicalWeakness:
** As revealed in Chapter 14, in order to use the Noise-Noise Fruit's powers, Soundbite needs to be able to speak coherently; if he's gagged, his powers are useless. [[spoiler:Or at least until Chapter 40, when he Awakens his Devil Fruit.]]
** In his light form, Kizaru is vulnerable to being refracted right out of the battlefield, [[spoiler:such as by a mirage.]]
** Because Iron Body requires tensing your body to endure a blow, being forced to relax negates it entirely.
** Boa Hancock's [[TakenForGranite Love-Love Beam]] doesn't work on anyone/anything with no interest in humans or someone too young to feel lust.
** [[spoiler:Vivi's]] [[CompellingVoice Sovereign's Will]] relies on the victim's respect for the wielder so if they don't respect the wielder enough or focus on what they don't like about them, it can be easily broken or outright ignored.
* LookBehindYou:
** Cross pulls this twice in Little Garden to convince someone from Baroque Works that a T-rex is right behind them. The first time, it's Soundbite using his powers. The second, there really is one.
** Right before Cross is about to be cuffed, Soundbite begins sounding alarm bells, warning them that something dangerous is coming. Tashigi is skeptical...and then comes the AdvancingWallOfDoom.
* LooseLips:
** Cross, from the time they leave Little Garden to the time they leave Drum, courtesy of [[spoiler:Primal Cholera-induced delirium from Little Garden]].
** Vivi's blurting of Crocodile's identity is [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] by Cross when she asks to be let in the loop of {{Secret Keeper}}s.
-->'''Cross:''' But pleeeeease promise me that you won't blab anything we need to keep secret to anyone who shouldn't know it?
-->'''Vivi''': ''(FaceFault)'' T-that was one time!
* LoudOfWar: In Chapter 31, Cross discovers that his transceiver has a foghorn button built in. He very quickly comes to love it.
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* MadDoctor: Kureha seems to have rubbed off on Chopper a bit too much; when the latter hears from Cross about the typical treatment for small bone fractures, his thought process carries him away to the point where Cross is scared that the reindeer wants to dissect him.
** And in Chapter 24, he comes close to doing so thanks to his experimentation with his Devil Fruit's human intelligence [[spoiler:turning him into Mr. Hyde]].
* MadeOfPlasticine: Cross, at least as far as the One Piece world is concerned, where MadeOfIron is the default. He gets put under for ten minutes from one of ''Nami's [[MegatonPunch Idiot Punches]]''. This ends as of Chapter 14, thanks to Kureha's medicine.
* MagicFeather: When Luffy, [[SuperDrowningSkills a Devil Fruit user]], [[ItMakesSenseInContext has to win a surfing competition against an octopus]], Boss gives him what he describes as "Dugong Surfing Elixir" that would enable Luffy to surf with the best of them. In actual fact, it was merely Boss' fermented seaweed juice. ''[[ItRunsOnNonsensoleum It still works.]]''
* MamaBear: Despite her professional behavior, Kureha is most definitely this for Chopper. When she finds out that Cross knows about Chopper's past and wants him to join the Straw Hat Pirates, she pins him to the bed, a scalpel inches from his throat, looming over him like death. Note how she refers to Chopper as she asks the question:
-->'''Kureha''': Do you ''actually'' care about my son, or are you just playing on his insecurities to shanghai him into your little pirate band?
* ManlyTears: Both Wiper and Cricket shed a few when promising to meet up in Skypiea.
* MassOhCrap: When Ryuma decides to go all out against Zoro, every other zombie in the area flees in terror.
* MeaningfulEcho: Robin tricks Cross into seeing her in her underwear because "It's an older sister's job to embarrass her younger siblings." A few chapters later, Cross finally gets his revenge on Robin that he hinted at back during the Alabasta arc by giving her a noogie.
-->'''Cross''': [[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming It's a younger brother's job to embarrass his older sister.]]
* MeaningfulName: Soundbite the snail. Power from the Noise-Noise Fruit and a tendency to bite.
** The Sirocco charm-container. A sirocco is a Mediterranean wind from the Sahara that can achieve hurricane speeds. Fitting that such a container contains [[spoiler:the aril (pomegranate seed) of the Logia-type [[BlowYouAway Gust-Gust Fruit]], the Devil Fruit of one of the Royal Guardians of Alabasta]].
* MercyLead: As thanks for [[spoiler:killing Lily Carnation]], Sengoku informs the Straw Hats that the Marines are on their way to the island.
* MidBattleTeaBreak: In this case, mid-battle pit stop: During Cross's one-on-many battle with the Amigo Pirates, one of Lassoo's trick shells misfires, and Cross calls a time-out for Usopp and [[spoiler: Merry]] to fix it. [[RefugeInAudacity His opponent Corto is so dumbfounded that he can't respond]] until the repairs are done, Cross calls time-in, and promptly [[BlownAcrossTheRoom blasts him off his feet]].
* MindVirus: It's stated that the reason for [[spoiler:the crew's [[OutOfCharacterAlert out-of-character moments]] on [[Anime/BaronOmatsuriAndTheSecretIsland the Secret Island]], leading to their bonds fracturing,]] is all due to [[spoiler:Lily Carnation's pollens]]. [[spoiler:And the more human someone is, the more they are susceptible to it.]]
** The only ones not as affected were [[spoiler:Luffy, Conis, Soundbite, and Robin]], one of whom is [[spoiler:a Skypiean]] and the others being Devil Fruit users.
*** [[spoiler:Chopper, Boss, and the TDWS]]'s reactions are not shown due to them being off-camera, and the latter five had already been [[spoiler:caught by Lily Carnation]].
* MirthlessLaughter: Robin utters Saul's "Dereshishishi" laugh when the memories of Ohara and the Buster Call come back. It's chill-inducing.
* MixAndMatchCritter: The Kung-Fu Dugongs, being seals with turtle shells. [[HotSkittyOnWailordAction Vivi says that some Alabastan marine-biologists say that there were originally manatees and sea turtles that... Yeah.]] And this is strongly suspected to be true, given how the dugongs both vehemently insist that it isn't and do so in an extremely unconvincing way.
* MomentKiller: Soundbite does this a lot.
** In the Christmas Special, there's an interesting twist in that it's breaking up a somber moment: when the crew reflects on how they're spending Christmas Eve away from home and family, Soundbite cuts them off with a loud "'''TIS THE SEASON,''' '''''JACKASSES!'''''" A moment of anger passes before they realize that it's Christmas Eve, not a time for moodiness.
** In Chapter 24, after Usopp gives a heartfelt speech to his father through [[spoiler:the SBS]], Soundbite cuts into the following solemn silence by loudly saying "DADDY'S BOY!" Usopp is predictably furious.
** In Chapter 27, after Cross consoles Nami for the events in Mock Town, resulting in her laughing and crying in euphoria, the heartfelt moment comes to an abrupt end when Luffy, Masira, and Shoujou begin singing. The mood then abruptly becomes "INeedAFreakingDrink".
** In Chapter 39, during the standoff between [=CP9=] and the Straw-Hats, Kumadori wonders if Cross would give him an autograph if he asked. Fukuro promptly {{Dope Slap}}s him.
** In Chapter 48, Sanji somberly remarks how as a kid [[DarkAndTroubledPast he wanted the Clear-Clear Fruit so he could just disappear, and the women wonder what he could be talking about]], only for Carue to correctly guess he'd also spy on women.
* MoodWhiplash: Chapter 13. So, Cross has just been made aware of the fact that he's blurted out a ''lot'' about their adventures that he shouldn't know, and Sanji seems ready to interrogate him. With a face that is, quote, 'serious as a nuclear winter,' Sanji calmly demands that Cross tell him everything he knows about one person that he mentioned in his sleep… Princess Shirahoshi.
-->'''Cross''': …Wait, ''what!?''
-->'''Sanji''': ''(love mode)'' You heard me! Tell me about the Mermaid Princess! The most beautiful creature beneath the seas, an exquisite example of feminine form, truly Aphrodite incarnate! You have to tell me all about her, I beg of you, I'll do whatever I have to! Just tell me about her!
** And the whiplash continues as Cross lists three reasons that Sanji cannot be her knight in shining armor. He remains in love mode as Cross says that she's 20,000 feet below the surface; he instantly changes to burning fury when Cross says that a villainous stalker is after her, forcing her to stay in solitary confinement; and he instantly changes to hit the DespairEventHorizon when Cross informs him that Shirahoshi is no older than 14/15.
-->'''Sanji''': ''WHHHYYYYY!? CURSE YOU, FATHER TIME! CUUUURSE YOOOOUUUU!''
::: Finally, once he gets over that, it's back to his no-nonsense understanding of the true gravity of the situation.
** In the following chapter, after TheReveal, it happens again in the same situation: after Cross tearfully begs for forgiveness, Nami solemnly asks him to answer one question… how rich they're going to get. Sanji then jumps in asking about the beauties they'll find, Zoro briefly attempts to chastise them [[NotSoAboveItAll before caving and asking about]] [[BloodKnight their future fights]]…yeah.
** In Chapter 23, Koala goes from contemplative to furious when she hears herself described as prominent and cuddly.
** In Chapter 24, Cross quickly revises his opinion that Chopper should never [[spoiler:go Hyde again]] when he hears that he almost doubled the Rumble Ball's effectiveness within the first few minutes before he [[spoiler:went insane]].
** In Chapter 29, Cross's mood switches from sleepy to panicked when Hina suggests letting [[spoiler:[[TheMole Vergo]]]] in on [=MI3=].
** In Chapter 32, Sanji flip-flops between terrified and loving when he hears the NoHoldsBarredBeatdown Nami is executing on Jonathan.
** During [[spoiler:the events of Movie 6]], Broggy congratulates Dorry for remembering where he heard about [[spoiler:a flower that messes with the minds of its victims]], before both [[OhCrap panic when they realize exactly what the Straw Hats are facing]].
** In Chapter 43, [[spoiler: Merry]] goes from lamenting that she can't swim anymore, to jubilant that Usopp has a solution, to furious that said solution is an inner tube.
** In the same chapter, post-Enies Lobby victory celebration, Cross, Zoro, Nami, Vivi and [[spoiler:Merry]] are watching the sunrise after [[spoiler:successfully negotiating with the remnants of [=CP9=]]], and then the scene cuts to [[spoiler:Aokiji and a newly minted Warlord Blackbeard watching Ace, Squardo, and Whitey in a Marine brig.]]
** In Chapter 44, [[spoiler: Merry]] is indignant that they're naming the Straw Hats' new ship without Franky present, but changes her tune when she hears what name Franky had his mind set on.
** Chapter 47 has a few when meeting Brook:
*** Conis is initially perfectly pleasant to Brook, until Merry informs her that the walking dead are not natural occurrences on the Blue Seas. Conis proceeds to pass out.
*** Leo doesn't want Brook anywhere around the crew, but when Cross says he's a swordsman, he instantly welcomes the newest person to take Zoro's attention off him.
** The moment when Vivi and Conis [[spoiler: ask to learn the Poneglyph language]] from Robin goes from heartwarming to hilarious when Robin shows just how... ''[[{{Squee}} suppressed]]'' her dream of being a teacher was.
** Perona flipflops between worrying if Nami is okay and being assured that she is okay while the two of them escape from Shiki's palace.
* MookHorrorShow: Four of the ''weaker'' Straw Hats (Nami, Chopper, Cross, and Soundbite) instill such terror into the Marines they fight at Enies Lobby that the one calling for reinforcements is reduced to simply repeating "Oh god" over and over.
* MoreExpendableThanYou: Zoro offers his head to Kuma for Luffy like in canon, but [[spoiler: with the addition of Cross and his infamy and Zoro's head not worth both, Nami offers herself as well]].
* MortonsFork:
** Cross faces this in regards to Little Garden, and Nami falling prey to the Kestia. He has two choices: either allow Nami to come within an inch of death with the payoff of getting Chopper, which is much harder to face now that she's his friend, or save her from the Kestia at the cost of, in all likelihood, never meeting Chopper and, worse still, dooming Drum to Wapol's returning tyranny. In the end, [[spoiler:he chooses the second option…only for a ''different'' prehistoric bacterium to infect ''him'' instead, setting the crew en route to Drum anyway.]]
** Cross faces this again when their encounter with Mr. 2 draws nearer. On the one hand, letting him go would mean a town burning down and a lot of trouble for everyone. On the other hand, if they got rid of him, the Straw Hats would never escape Hina at the end of the Alabasta arc nor, much later, would Luffy succeed in his jailbreak from Impel Down. Unlike the above, Cross has no difficulty making up his mind and taking the first option, though he still hates it.
** Another one occurs as the crew draws close to Thriller Bark; Cross contemplates making sure Usopp's confidence remains low to make sure they still have a trump card against Perona, especially considering how dangerous her powers are, but ultimately discards it in favour of the other option of making his own plans for her. Considering what might have happened in canon with Usopp's self-esteem and Merry, it was a smart decision.
** Turns out that avoiding this is the reason [[StatingTheSimpleSolution the Marines haven't dispatched an Admiral against the Straw Hats]]. The CurbStompBattle the Admiral would dish out to the Straw Hats would [[NoKillLikeOverKill seem excessive]] and make the Marines appear weak if they need to send in an Admiral to beat a mere bunch of rookie pirates. And in the slightest chance that [[DefeatingTheUndefeatable the Straw Hats manage to defeat one of the Marine's Greatest Military Powers]], it would convince the Warlords to rebel and throw the balance of the Three Powers off-kilter.
* MouthingTheProfanity: During the Enies Lobby crisis, [[spoiler:a Marine base that was being overrun couldn't contact assistance because their Transponder Snail refused to transmit, it having been inspired to rebel thanks to Soundbite. It then adopted a Soundbite-like grin before mouthing two ''very'' specific words. If it wasn't obvious enough, The Patient One mentioned that the second word was "you"]].
* MundaneUtility: Soundbite's Gastro-Blast technique is a devastating attack that no human should be able to survive. It shatters bones and steel with a blast of pure sound...and can also be used to make a steak so tender that it literally melts in your mouth.
* MusicalisInterruptus: Courtesy of Iceburg, Rocketman's smokestack cuts into Sniper King's introduction.
** And Robin does the same to Cross's ''Thriller'' routine. Complete with RecordNeedleScratch.
* MustMakeAmends: After both opposing the Straw Hats on the way to Enies Lobby and his unconscionable blowout at Cross and Bartolomeo at their last meeting, T-Bone finds himself wanting to restore his honor, and he gets the opportunity by [[spoiler: beating a recovered Rob Lucci to get [=CP9=]'s loyalty to the New World Masons]].
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Cross's reaction after he [[spoiler:kills the Kestia before it can bite Nami]].
* MyGodYouAreSerious: Robin's reaction when both Vivi and Conis [[spoiler: ask to learn the Void Language of the Poneglyphs]].
* MyHovercraftIsFullOfEels:
** Vivi, when she accidentally uses [[ItMakesSenseInContext the wrong sign-language dialect to communicate with octopi]].
** Spandam, when talking with Kaku via sign language (since a furious Sengoku is on the nearby Transponder Snail):
---> '''Kaku:''' ''I want a raise.''
---> '''Spandam:''' ''The monkey prunes on the roof at midnight.''
* MythologyGag: After riding a T-rex on Little Garden, Cross justifies himself to Usopp and Luffy by declaring it a "man's romance".
** In Chapter 22, Cross creates the [[spoiler:Strawhat Broadcasting Station, which he abbreviates as SBS]].
** In Chapter 44, it's revealed that Nami didn't pose in a bikini for her bounty poster this time. ''Vivi'' did.
* NarrativeProfanityFilter:
** After learning that Kureha gagged him with a vial of ''sugar'' rather than ''salt'', Soundbite's reaction is not written coherently. The reactions to it are, however:
--->'''Cross''': ''(rubbing a finger in his ear and whistling in awe)'' Wow…
--->'''Nami''': I… lost track of what he was saying halfway through, though I ''think'' he managed to insult your family back to its… ''tenth'' generation?
--->'''Vivi''': I [[{{Polyglot}} know twelve different languages]], but… I didn't recognize a third of what he said.
--->'''Kureha''': KAK KAK KAK! Either way, he's got quite the mouth on him!
** Chopper and Nami's examples under ClusterFBomb.
* NeverGetsDrunk: Nami, due to all those nights in Arlong's crew trying to drink her mother's death away.
* NeverHeardThatOneBefore: Marine Captain Very Good has this to say about puns relating to his name:
-->"Spare me, Jeremiah Cross. I have heard every joke in the book, not even you could say one I haven't endured before."
* NiceHat: Cross steals a Marine cap in Chapter 18. Tashigi confiscates it early in their Enemy Mine in Chapter 19, but gives it to him to keep afterwards when he earns her respect.
* NiceJobFixingItVillain:
** Intent on getting the fight with Luffy that he has waited for without Lucci getting in the way, [[BloodKnight Jabra]] takes out [[ThinkingUpPortals Blueno]] before he can regroup and report back to Spandam, solving the Straw-Hats' problem of the foolproof backup plan to get Robin out of their reach.
** The fact that Jabra kept [[spoiler:a Six Powers cheat sheet]] in his room for review greatly helped Boss when he got his flippers on it.
** Thanks to Spandam having such a [[ItsAllAboutMe superiority complex]] that he kept an operational black book for [=CP9=], ''a black-ops organisation whose actions are all but clandestine'', in his possession, Cross is able to broadcast [[spoiler:on the SBS]] enough DirtyBusiness to permanently tarnish the WG's reputation.
** During their CatFight, Kalifa attempts to use her Bubble-Bubble Fruit to wash Nami's mind blank of any thoughts, but all she ends up doing is washing away all of Nami's stress instead. As such, she later [[spoiler:doesn't hesitate to jump into the churning waters between the Tower of Justice and the Bridge of Hesitation, in order to get to and activate the controls that close the Gates of Justice.]]
* NightmareFace: Hiuo Hiruno's face takes on an expression Cross describes as a "soulless mask with three gaping holes where her eyes and mouth should be".
* NobodyPoops: Averted. Even aside from Cross's biscuit problem, when [[spoiler:he gets the Primal Cholera on Little Garden that is the crew's reason for going to Drum this time]], he has some severe symptoms that involve a bed with a hole, a bedpan, and him not wearing pants.
* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: What does Vivi get for her 2 years in the Baroque Works organization, working for and trying to bring down the man who's trying to destroy her kingdom? [[spoiler:Being accused of treason and forced to leave Alabasta, never to return.]]
* NonSequiturThud:
** Cross jumps a little too much while up on a tree branch when Luffy comes out of nowhere and surprises him. After he hits the ground, he starts singing "A Bicycle Built For Two" while Soundbite sings some strange amalgamation of "Yankee Doodle" and "Old [=McDonald=]".
** After one of Nami's gold-euphoric dances, Vivi is left with dizzy eyes and mumbling how she doesn't want to learn ballet because Kohza would laugh at her.
* NonverbalMiscommunication: This applies given that the city of octopi the Straw Hats run into communicate mainly by eight-tentacled sign language... and Vivi and Robin end up [[MyHovercraftIsFullOfEels insulting the shogun, his lineage]] and his [[SeriousBusiness surfing skills]] when Vivi accidentally uses [[AccidentalUnfortunateGesture the eight-tentacled dialect instead of the eight-jointed-limbed dialect]].
* NoodleImplements:
** Whatever Eustass Kidd did to get his bounty raised to 110 Million involved a potato peeler and a corkscrew, and completely freaked Cross out.
** Subverted when Nami threatens Cross with a mirror, straight razor, needle, and thread. She plans to emasculate him and make him watch.
* NoodleIncident:
** So many bizarre things happen on Little Garden that Cross suggests that they make it this, referring to it thenceforth as the 'Little Garden Affair' (though that's only after Luffy wrecks the diagram that they had just finished putting together detailing said bizarre things).
** Chapter 14 reveals that Luffy once tried to eat guns. [[CaptainObvious According to him, they taste bad.]]
** In Chapter 21, after seeing that Zoro's fight with Mr. 1 went...about as bad as it did in canon, and Zoro attempts to shrug off Cross and Nami's assistance:
-->'''Cross''': If these wounds don't lay you out, then I can guarantee you that Chopper will. Do you want him to break out the good drugs again, hmm? ''Do you?''
-->'''Zoro''': ''(shuddering and looking panicked)'' So many colors and I couldn't hit any of them...
** In Chapter 26, Cross precedes the main subject of his [[spoiler:SBS broadcast]] by mentioning that he was recuperating from somehow making two of the crew's females and Sanji angry through some sort of mishap involving what was most likely a Flame Dial. Chapter 28 reveals that it probably involved ClothingDamage, and Conis had a similar incident at some point.
** In Chapter 34, Itomimizu of the Foxy Pirates mentions a lost court case which means he can say "The humanity" instead of "The sapient-ity".
** In Chapter 35, perhaps in one of the more literal uses of the trope, Su mentions an incident that involved Conis, some form of overloading, and macaroni and, in Conis's words, "so much cheese".
** It appears that in-between chapters Cross and the gang encountered [[TheGiantMechanicalSoldierOfKarakuriCastle Ratchet]] and Randolph (the Marine-turned-actor from one of the specials), and both times Vivi managed to screw things up in her own personal fashion. But as the reader has no clear idea as to what happened, it counts as a Noodle Incident.
** Turns out the Red-Haired Pirates rampage/party took them all the way to Dressrosa and made them black out for ''two days''. One of the first things they say upon waking up is telling Doflamingo "sorry about [his] city."
** Whatever the hell Urouge got up to on Kyuka Island. Though apparently it's not so much {{Squick}}-inducing as ''{{Nosebleed}}''-inducing.
** Several were mentioned in Chapter 47, including talking squirrels, The Case of the Missing Brunch, the Sandbank Inferno Incident, the Great Lobster Blowout, and an instance where Zoro got so lost they found him on another island.
*** Though the Sandbank Inferno Incident is later detailed via an omake.
* NoSell:
** Out of rage, Cross attempts to punch Mr. 3 after the above Heroic BSOD. Mr. 3 neutralizes it with hardly a thought, and even lampshades it.
** [[spoiler:Enel's [[BigBrotherIsWatching Logia-powered Mantra]] is completely unaffected by Soundbite's attempts to block him out.]]
** Bartolomeo, Miss Goldenweek, Apis, and Lindy are all immune to [[spoiler:Boa Hancock's Love Love Beam]]. Miss Goldenweek due to having basically emotionally castrated herself, Lindy due to having such bizarre sexual preferences, Bartolomeo because [[{{Fanboy}} he's too dedicated to Luffy]], and Apis... because she's too young to feel lust.
** Garp completely ignores Vivi's [[spoiler: [[CompellingVoice Sovereign's Will]]]], since he doesn't respect her authority.
* NoSympathy: The only response of the Five Elder Stars after [[spoiler:listening to the Straw Hats' horrific ordeal against Lily Carnation]] are how they'd lost a potential anti-pirate weapon, which didn't even take out one of the biggest thorns in their side.
* NotCheatingUnlessYouGetCaught: The Straw Hats take massive advantage of this during the Davy Back Fight. After all, it can't be proven they're responsible for the mass of fog and heavy wind that covered the field just before the second round, or that they beat the hell out of the Groggy Monsters under the cover of said fog.
** Among pirates, everyone is fully expected to cheat at cards. It's only punishable if someone can prove it. Notably, in a game of poker against Boss, Chopper, Robin, and Zoro, Soundbite was the only one without a royal flush. ''Robin and Zoro even had the same suit.''
* NotEvilJustMisunderstood: [[spoiler: ''[[GeniusLoci The Florian Triangle.]]'' The thing about it is that it [[FisherKing reflects the emotions of its inhabitants]], and it reflecting people's fear of it as well as Moria's reputation resulted in [[EldritchLocation its aura of death and terror]]. But if filled with cheer and joy, that too will be reflected as a world of pure ''celebration''.]]
* NotHyperbole:
** When Cross threatens to turn Luffy into Greninja (that is, wrap Luffy's tongue around his neck like a scarf), he's dead serious.
** When Cross wonders if Hamburg is even human, Itomimizu tells him that's the multi-million beri question, before explaining that the Foxy Pirates actually have a betting pool that large.
** During the Loguetown arc, upon receiving his rigging, Nami jokingly calls Soundbite the 'God of Noise'. [[spoiler:After he Awakens his Devil Fruit]], he claims that it's no longer hyperbole.
** Apparently, being called 'hammers' isn't just a nickname regarding Devil Fruit users being unable to swim. [[spoiler:As Cross learned when he was saving a sinking Merry]], Devil Fruit eaters are actually as heavy as hammers in water.
* NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer: While broadcasting that Luffy got into a surfing contest against the Octopi Shogunate Octavio, Cross reassures listeners that he couldn't make this up if he tried.
** During [[Advertising/TheManYourManCouldSmellLike Isaiah and Terry's]] introduction, Soundbite insists he's not even changing their dialogue.
** Soundbite insists he's not lying that the [[spoiler:SBS broadcasts]] actually have shaken up the faith of several Marines.
* NotMeThisTime:
** Played with. Water 7 being on fire is mostly Cross's fault, but part of it was actually Franky's doing from a few years back.
** Then again with Cross's bounty, and the obscenely high number thereupon. In Sengoku's own words:
---> '''Sengoku:''' "OHH, ''HELL'' NO! YOU ARE ''NOT'' PINNING THIS MESS ON ME! I ORDERED AN ENTIRELY ''SANE'' BOUNTY OF 500 MILLION PLACED ON THAT MADMAN'S HEAD AND NOT A ''BERI'' MORE! ''THIS!?'' I WOULDN'T PUT A BOUNTY LIKE THIS ON THE SON OF DRAGON, ''AND I'M BEING GODDAMN LITERAL HERE!''"
*** Who ''is'' responsible? Garp, for Cross humiliating him [[spoiler: on the SBS]].
* NotSoAboveItAll:
** When Cross decides to act like [[VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorney Phoenix Wright]], Robin plays along as the judge, finding the whole thing rather amusing.
** Later during the G-8 arc, she sits down for a game of chess against Vice-Admiral Jonathan.
-->'''Robin:''' The middle of a life-or-death situation, and I find myself playing a friendly game of chess with the person responsible for every bit of danger in that situation. I can't deny it any more. I ''love'' being a Straw Hat Pirate.
** Hina desperately tries to remain professional while her crew has a dance party behind her while listening to music playing during the [[spoiler:SBS broadcast]], until she finds herself joining in.
* NotSoDifferent: Jabra ''could'' have been able to use this against Luffy...and then he had to [[DefiedTrope defy this trope]] by [[spoiler:calling Blueno weak, after he was already on shaky standing with Luffy]]. Naturally, [[BerserkButton Luffy is pissed]].
* NotSoOmniscientAfterAll: Cross's foreknowledge doesn't go past Chapter 800, which is where the manga was when he was pulled in, but it also doesn't include the One Piece movies, including [[spoiler:[[Anime/BaronOmatsuriAndTheSecretIsland one of the darkest films in One Piece]], '''''ever''''']]...
* NotSoStoic:
** In Chapter 18, when the crew arrives at Rainbase, Zoro ''whoops'' at the thought of not having to traverse the desert anymore. It takes a minute for them to believe that he's actually Zoro.
** As of Chapter 25, it seems that Robin's losing her status as TheStoic a lot faster than in canon.
*** Such as completely losing her calm countenance when Cross gives her a noogie.
*** Or Vivi and Conis fulfilling one of her childhood dreams by offering to be her students in [[spoiler: Void Language]], which gets her outright {{Squee}}ing.
** After Cross pulls his Davy Jones ghost story prank on his listeners, [[TheStoic Zoro, Robin, and even Wiper]] are laughing fit to bust.
** Dragon bursts into laughter when he hears the Straw Hats annihilate the World Government's flag.
* NotWorthKilling: Cross specifically states he finds the Unluckies too pitiful to make them the first enemies he kills, regardless of how determined they are to kill him.
* NothingIsTheSameAnymore: The status quo of the world is no more, thanks to the events of the Enies Lobby arc (detailed under FromBadToWorse above), as stated by Elder Nyon. The Straw Hats have completely destroyed the reputation of the World Government, and it causes a domino effect that leads to a severe loss of manpower for the Marines, shifting the BalanceOfPower in favor of the Four Emperors and unleashing chaos across the seas.
* NowYouTellMe:
** Due to Luffy disliking spoilers to his adventures, a lot of Cross's canon knowledge is held off unless it's really important. This means that for most of the minor hiccups that happen in canon, Cross just lets them play out and then tells the crew after the fact.
** He does use his knowledge to defuse Vivi's tendency to use this trope, though.
* ObfuscatingStupidity: Implied to be the case, at least to an extent, with Mr. 4. Miss Merry Christmas objects to his decision of [[spoiler:giving Lassoo to]] Cross, saying that Cross had helped stop them and save the kingdom. 4 uses that as his own reasoning, and in response to a surprised Christmas considering aloud how she wondered sometimes how moronic he ''actually'' was, he smiles.
* ObligatorySwearing: And how.
* OffscreenTeleportation:
** After Zoro decided he wanted a drink, Soundbite stopped paying attention for ten seconds. Somehow this was enough time for Zoro to get halfway across a massive Marine base and find a refrigerator with booze, despite ''walking'' the entire time.
** However [[spoiler: the Revolutionaries]] got Cross from Water 7 to [[spoiler: Baltigo]] and back in mere hours.
* OhCrap: Many.
** In Chapter 1, Cross has this reaction upon seeing the tropical forest he wakes up in, until he realizes that it's ''not'' Little Garden.
** In Chapter 3, pretty much anytime that Cross crosses paths with Smoker.
** In Chapter 6,
*** Cross has this reaction as soon as he gets past his adrenaline rush-induced haze to remember exactly what the sounds are that he hears as he's coming down Reverse Mountain: Laboon.
*** Then he does it again when he runs over the rest of the Baroque Works saga in his mind, and still thinks he's forgetting something. The thing he's forgetting? The crazy weather between Reverse Mountain and Whiskey Peak.
** In Chapter 8, Cross and Vivi have this reaction when Mr. 5 and Miss Valentine show up.
** In Chapter 9, everyone has this reaction as soon as they get to the InevitableWaterfall.
** In Chapter 10, Cross has this reaction when he runs into Mr. 5 and Miss Valentine again. With nobody there to help him except Soundbite. And the two Baroque Works agents eager to kill him.
** In Chapter 12, Cross has the biggest and most plot-worthy one thus far after hearing that due to his sickness, he had some of his mental barriers weakened… meaning that for a few days, [[LooseLips he had been unconsciously running his mouth]] with knowledge that was not meant to leave his mind, ''in front of his entire crew.''
** In Chapter 13, Cross has this reaction at least once while trying to stall Wapol.
** In Chapter 14, the first thing Cross learns upon waking up is that Kureha has given him some vitamin supplements of her own design, meaning that Cross is now as MadeOfIron as the average person in One Piece. On one hand, he's in significantly less danger of dying. On the other hand, he's now fair game for Nami's Idiot Punches, and considering that he's currently staring down Kureha's medical bills…
** In Chapter 15, Cross has this reaction after Mr. 2 touches his face.
** In Chapter 21, Cross manages to solicit this reaction from both of the Unluckies: Miss Friday when he prepares to snap her goggles back on her face, sending her into a nosedive to the ground; and Mr. 13 when he lights the lighter he got from Tashigi...while said otter is soaked in liquor.
** Chapter 25's look at the Red-Haired Pirates has one of the new recruits having this reaction... when he finds out that Lucky Roux is Sea-King fishing and he needs ''bait''.
** In Chapter 25, this is reaction of everyone when, like in canon, they witness the shipwreck falling from the sky that kicks off the Skypeia arc. Except for [[LaughingMad Cross]].
** In Chapter 27, Tashigi gets this reaction when Cross tells on [[spoiler:the SBS]] that the Marines she tried to deflect from the Straw hats were sent right at them instead. Within earshot of Smoker.
** Chapter 28 has a MassOhCrap ([[TheGadfly except Cross and Soundbite]]), when Usopp goes for a swim in the White Sea, and his tether starts paying out [[ExplainExplainOhCrap as they realize he's swimming in a bottomless cloud]].
** Another MassOhCrap happens when, after Cross's ghost story about [[Franchise/PiratesOfTheCaribbean Davy Jones]], the campfire goes out, the place lights up with green lights, and a tentacled, crab-clawed shadow steps out to terrify the whole crew senseless. In Cross's opinion, their expressions are priceless.
** One for Conis when Cross wakes up from Enel's initial attack, sees Conis, and thinking he missed the whole battle, [[OpenMouthInsertFoot makes a statement about how he wished he could've seen Enel's face when Luffy kicked the crap out of him]]... not realizing he was only knocked out for a second and a very unamused Enel is still nearby.
** Usopp has one when he realizes that he, as the outsider Sniperking, just told Luffy, the captain of the crew of TrueCompanions incarnate, that [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere Usopp ran away because he was too scared]] and sent Sniperking in his place, right before a mission to save one of their own. Luffy instantly grasps the implications, and he doesn't like them one bit.
** In Chapter 37, Sengoku goes from FlatWhat to BigWhat when he realizes that the Straw Hats are storming Enies Lobby.
** In Chapter 39, Kaku and Kalifa get one when they realize that Cross called them "long-neck" and "bubbly", ''long'' before they ever received their Devil Fruits.
** All of the Straw Hats' reactions when Sengoku and the Marine fleet finally show up at Enies Lobby.
** In Chapter 48, Perona has a big one when she hears that [[MadDoctor Chopper]] has his sights set on her real body.
** Chapter 50 has Cross and Soundbite doing this... because [[spoiler: Moria's Devil Fruit has just AWAKENED]].
* {{Omake}}: Several, written by both the Cross-Brain and their fans.
** One in particular is a non-canon {{Crossover}} [[spoiler:between this fic and the shipgirls of ''VideoGame/KantaiCollection'', when the latter's base plays host to a certain goat-horned pirate shipgirl.]]
** A canon one is Doflamingo returning to Dressrosa after dealing with Big Mom and Kaido, only to find that his castle was host to a Red-Haired Pirate party.
** Two more fan-created canon Omakes include the scenes where [[spoiler: [=CP9=] join the New World Masons]] and when [[spoiler: the Accino family arrive in Alabasta and join the kingdom in Revolution]].
* OneDegreeOfSeparation:
** Captain T-Bone was a Marine soldier in the West Blue who was ordered on the sea-wide pursuit of Nico Robin. When he and his men protested against the unreasonable amount of force, they were sold out by [[spoiler:Vergo]] and the entire division massacred by [[spoiler:Akainu]]. T-Bone barely survived.
*** And when she hears about [[spoiler:Vergo]], Hina, who served with him under Tsuru, is suitably shell-shocked.
** Vice Admiral Jonathan trained together with Bell-mère.
** [[spoiler:Lily Carnation]] is the monster that chased Buggy out of the Grand Line and into the safety of the East Blue.
** Mr. 13 and Ms. Friday are from Kuraigana Island.
** Don Accino's Hot-Hot Fruit [[spoiler:is one of six Devil Fruits passed through Alabasta's Royal Guardians for generations, until several were lost or stolen (one of which is the Sand-Sand Fruit)]].
** Garp spars with Boss's teacher and role model Sifu Dugong on a yearly basis.
** Boss Dugong has history with the Fierce Penguins under the command of the Accino family, in particular [[spoiler: [[WesternAnimation/ThePenguinsOfMadagascar Skipper, the Mad Penguin of Gascar]].]]
** [[spoiler:By virtue of the ParentalSubstitute-type bond he shared with Corazon/Donquixote Rocinante, Trafalgar Law is technically the adoptive grandson of Sengoku. Sengoku is unaware of the relation while Law is unaware of how deep it is. The only people who are aware of their connection are Cross and members of the New World Masons.]]
* OneSteveLimit: Averted with [=MI5=] member Lieutenant Commander Drake, and X. Drake the Supernova.
** Also Leo (or Leonardo) of the TDWS, and Leo the Tontatta from the Dressrosa Saga.
** Also [[spoiler: the Going Merry when she becomes human, and her designer, Merry the butler of Kaya]].
** It's a point of contention during the Little East Blue Arc, when Boss the Straw Hat dugong ship guard meets Boss the mutant beetle, who was renamed Boss Kabuto by the villagers to differentiate, and the beetle's friend Yoko is not happy about her friend's name being stolen.
* OneWingedAngel: [[spoiler: Maybe even worse than his canon Shadows Asgard, Awakened!Moria mutates his own shadow and transforms into one named Nidhogg for his final assault on the Straw Hats. He is still beaten by Luffy.]]
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: One of the Galley-La workers is only known as Colts Guy because everyone forgets his name.
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness:
** In Chapter 25, the normally courageous and [[RatedMForManly manly]] Boss scouts underwater after Soundbite drives off a giant octopus, and promptly jumps back on the ship shouting that they have to leave ''now''! Turns out a giant tortoise (large enough to have an entire ''city'' on its back) was surfacing under the Going Merry.
** Cross manages to cause two in Chapter 26, one without even realizing it.
*** First he breaks Robin's facade as TheStoic by telling her he'd explain his otherworldly knowledge when she tells the crew about the day Ohara died.
*** Second, [[spoiler:during his SBS broadcast,]] Cross speaking out against the inhumanity of slavery and the evil of the Marines for allowing it causes Boa Hancock to declare him and anyone associated with him to be exempt from Amazon Lily's LadyLand law.
** Terry drops his usual serving of LargeHam when he and Isaiah tell the Shandians exactly what happened to Jaya and Shandora.
** PlayedForLaughs in Chapter 31 when Nami is so ecstatic over getting an entire ''pillar'' made of gold that she not only agrees to give massive amounts of money away, but even lets Cross take some tangerines from her orchard. However, she still won't forgive Zoro's debt.
*** Cross convinces her to set aside most of the gold after he explains the gravity of the Going Merry's situation, namely that Merry simply wasn't built for the Grand Line and is currently ''dying'' from the damage that's built up.
** In Chapter 35, after the crew's loss to Aokiji, Luffy goes back on his hatred of spoilers and tells Cross he can reveal anything he wants if it'll help them get stronger.
*** From the same chapter, Cross's TheReasonYouSuckSpeech makes Aokiji fly into a murderous rage.
** Aplenty in ''[[spoiler:Anime/BaronOmatsuriAndTheSecretIsland]]'':
*** How serious is Garp recognizing [[spoiler:Baron Omatsuri]] from his glory days? Serious enough to make [[GeneralRipper Akainu]] falter.
*** Upon figuring out where the Straw Hats are, Buggy immediately puts his hatred of them aside and tries to phone in a warning, [[EvenEvilHasStandards as even his enmity couldn't justify leaving them to what's on the island]].
*** Even though none of the Straw Hats realize it themselves, everyone listening [[spoiler:to the events of the SBS as they unfold with Baron Omatsuri]] can sense something's wrong as [[SanitySlippage the crew's bonds slowly fall apart]].
*** [[spoiler:The transmitted horror that is Lily Carnation]] has even stoics like Basil Hawkins [[NotSoStoic in flusters]] and [[BigEater Jewelry Bonney]] devoid of her appetite.
*** Luffy fighting to save his crew has a listening Kureha drop her vanity and outright shout for Luffy to save Chopper, calling him her son.
*** And the aftermath of [[spoiler:Baron Omatsuri's attack]] has Garp calling and telling Luffy that he's [[SoProudOfYou So Proud Of Him]], and Sengoku offering Luffy a Warlord position, even knowing it'll be refused, and even showing a hint of respect.
** Every time Cross manages to [[spoiler:[[RunningGag actually start the SBS himself]],]] even before interrupting him was a thing. By the time the third incident rolls around, many of their listeners have [[OhCrap realized]] this trope is in effect.
*** The first time, it's to [[spoiler:reveal that Vivi was joined the Straw Hats full time due to being wrongly accused of treason]].
*** The second time, while no one noticed at the time [[spoiler:the SBS started]], it's the broadcast that starred [[spoiler:Omatsuri Island.]]
*** The third time, it's to announce that they're [[spoiler:going to rescue Nico Robin[[note]]yes, Cross revealed that the mystery crewmate who joined since Alabasta is her[[/note]] and raze Enies Lobby to the ground.]]
*** The fourth time, it's to announce the beginning of their interview with Dr. Hogback, and the prepared sacking of Thriller Bark.
*** The fifth time (even if it's Soundbite aping his voice), it's to announce a special guest on their ship: [[Anime/OnePieceFilmStrongWorld Shiki the Golden Lion]].
** Upon learning the Straw Hats have declared war on the World Government, [[spoiler:[[NotSoStoic Dragon and Boa Hancock]]]] begin laughing their asses off.
** In Chapter 52, Nami [[spoiler:not only declares Cross' debt to her clear but says she owes him one.]]
** In all their years of knowing and fighting him, Sengoku and Garp have never heard Shiki the Golden Lion ever ''[[EvilGloating gloat]]'' to them before. So once he does after his 20-year hiatus, Garp soon realises what he's doing - grandstanding to upstage the current show people of the new age, the Straw Hat Pirates.
* OpenMouthInsertFoot:
** During the scene in the palace baths, after Cross finishes telling Nami he has too much respect for her to peep on her, she manages to call him up to the wall to talk to him, only to give him an eyeful of ''Vivi'' instead. The first thing Cross comments on is whether she's dedicated with the hair dye. Vivi's stool, meet Cross's cranium.
** When Cross wakes up from Enel's initial attack and sees Conis, he makes a statement about how he wished he could've seen Enel's face when Luffy kicked the crap out of him, thinking that he missed the whole arc... not realizing he was only knocked out for a second and a very unamused Enel is right next to them.
** Since Usopp never leaves the crew in Water 7, while acting as Sniper King to try to pretend to be someone braver, he essentially states that 'Usopp' deserted from the mission of rescuing Robin without any significant reason. Luffy is not pleased by the implications.
** One of Nami's fanboys on Little East Blue, when he lets slip that to make the perfect statue that she first saw, they had made a lot of practice ones which had turned into Nami ''nudes''.
* OpenSaysMe:
** Conis does this a couple of times to get through doors. It helps to be [[CuteBruiser 4 times stronger]] than a normal human.
** Soundbite quotes this [[MakeMeWannaShout to get through a safe door]].
** Both Sengoku and Garp lend their strength to breaking down the Gates of Justice.
* OutOfCharacterAlert: Invoked by Cross in Chapter 20 to force Mr. 2 to drop his disguise of Usopp:
-->'''Cross:''' HEY, 'USOPP', EMPORIO IVANKOV IS AN OVERRATED HACK!
-->'''Mr. 2:''' ''[[BerserkButton THAT'S A BARE-FACED LIE!]]'' ''([[OhCrap stricken look]])''
** Zeff realizes something's dreadfully wrong [[spoiler:[[Anime/BaronOmatsuriAndTheSecretIsland on the Secret Island]] when he hears Sanji refuse someone food]]. And that's just one of the alerts.
-->'''Zeff''': Sanji... he would never say that. Not in a thousand years, not if his life depended on it, not if every woman in the ''world'' begged him to say it.
** Cross invokes this again: by convincing Iceburg and Franky that Robin has never wanted to revive the Ancient Weapons, they decide that they don't need to keep the Pluton's blueprints around anymore... forcing the two hidden [=CP9=] agents to make a grab for the blueprints once Franky brings them out to burn them.
** Robin and Vivi note that Cross isn't snarking as usual when they enter the Florian Triangle and he is put off on how unnatural and devoid of life the sea is.
* OutrunTheFireball: Cross does this when leaping off the Bridge of Hesitation.
* ParanoiaGambit: After Robin joins the crew, despite Cross's friendliness towards her, she remembers that after their first meeting, he promised that they'd meet again, and he'd pay her back. Cross informs her that he doesn't plan on getting her back anytime soon, because he needs to think a long time about what to do. And meanwhile...she can worry about it.
* ParentalFavoritism: In a canon omake, Don Accino says that Lil is his favorite of his children.
* ParentheticalSwearing: After learning the truth of Ohara, Tsuru responds to Sengoku's orders with an "At once" that sounds far more like "Fuck you".
* PassThePopcorn: With the Straw Hats' adventures on [[Anime/OnePieceFilmStrongWorld Merveille]] being broadcasted, Vice-Admiral Jonathan asks his subordinate to bring up the whole damn popcorn cart.
* PhoneCallFromTheDead: During Enies Lobby, Soundbite gets hijacked twice by characters who are dead by this time with choice words for two specific people.
** Chapter 39 has [[spoiler:Jaguar D. Saul]] provide Robin with one final pep talk that finally convinces her to live and stay with the Straw Hats.
** Chapter 42 has '''[[spoiler: GOL D. ROGER HIMSELF]]''' encourage Luffy to stand once more and finally beat Rob Lucci, telling him [[PapaWolf he will kill his]] [[TrueCompanions friends/crew]] [[PapaWolf if he lets Lucci go]]. [[spoiler: He also adds that Luffy wears his old hat well.]]
* PistolWhipping: Conis eventually learns how to do this with Boss's tutelage. [[CuteBruiser With a]] ''[[{{BFG}} bazooka]]''.
* PlotAllergy: Eating biscuits gives Cross an instantaneous and horrible case of diarrhea. It's unclear why, and it's not much of a plot point; it's barely even a RunningGag.
* PokeInTheThirdEye: Soundbite's Gastro-Scramble move fills the air with white noise, blocking out anyone who's listening, even Enel. [[spoiler:Or so he thinks...]]
* PowerBornOfMadness: [[spoiler: Moria's VillainousBreakdown directly leads to his Devil Fruit Awakening]]. Hardly the EnlightenmentSuperpowers it usually is...
* PowerOfTrust: During TheReveal in Chapter 14, after Zoro calls Cross out on his {{Hypocrisy}} about telling dangerous secrets, Cross admits he didn't tell the crew about his future knowledge because he didn't trust them to not freak out and kick him off the crew. It's literally enough to [[TearJerker drive him to tears]]. But of course, [[TrueCompanions this is the Straw Hat Pirates we're talking about]], so this is the predictable outcome.
* PowerUpFood: Thanks to Dr. Indigo's toxin drugs, practically every piece of fauna (and a good chunk of flora) on Merveille is this: the toxins grant super strength and stamina to whoever ingests them, and they remain in the body and blood of the consumer even after death, meaning anyone or anything that consumes the consumer's flesh will become empowered too.
* PrideBeforeAFall:
** The World Noble Saint Jamolomew participates in the usual practice of [[KickTheDog dog-kicking]] a storeful of civilians. When the news about Enies Lobby breaks and the civilians realize there are no Marine reinforcements available for retribution, [[TheDogBitesBack it's the last bit of pride Jamolomew has]].
** Hogback's pride in creating a zombie army results in him happily explaining what he does [[spoiler:over the SBS]].
* PrecisionFStrike:
** Vivi's thoughts about [[spoiler:being branded a criminal by the World Government]] is apparently, "Fuck every last one of those bastards who [[spoiler:banished me from my home]], ''hard''."
** Conis' response to Soundbite saying it's a good day to die: "Fuck that, it's a good day for someone else to die."
* ProperlyParanoid: While he comes across Nami and Vivi bathing together, Absalom hesitates due to his instincts telling him something's wrong. At least he does until Vivi drops the soap. Unfortunately for him, he was right to be suspicious.
* ProportionalArticleImportance: When Cross shows Zoro and Nami the newspaper telling about half of Alabasta's royal army defecting, Zoro ends up looking at the wrong end.
-->'''Zoro''': [[DramaticIrony And we should care about this 'Kidd' brat...why?]]
* PsychoactivePowers:
** After getting [[spoiler: Ohm's Eisen Dial]], Nami finds that unless she actively wills them not to, the clouds she creates respond to and act upon her more unconscious desires - like throttling Cross for being an idiot.
** [[spoiler: Moria's Awakened Shadow-Shadow Fruit gives him immense [[CastingAShadow umbrakinesis]] over his area of awareness, but outside of that, the shadows animate of their own volition and recreate scenes from his broken memory.]]
* PublicSecretMessage: In Chapter 23, Cross utilizes [[spoiler:the SBS]] to send a coded message to [[spoiler:Sabo]], phrased so that nobody other than [[spoiler:his brothers and the Revolutionaries]] could discern its recipient, to tell him about [[spoiler:his brothers]].
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[[folder:Tropes R - T]]
* RageAgainstTheHeavens: Cross curses the BROB that sent him into One Piece for his horrible luck twice in Chapter 21, once after the machine-gun toting Miss Friday traps him in a wide-open area, and once after discovering that said vulture's last action before passing out disabled Soundbite's powers, which means the Straw Hats have no way of stopping the rebellion before Luffy beats Crocodile. The latter is much more blatant:
-->'''Cross''': You’re enjoying this, aren’t you? Let me repeat myself: if I live through this, I had better have some damn good form of compensation coming my way, BECAUSE YOU FUCKING OWE ME!
** Chapter 22 shows that B.R.O.B. heard him, and grants his wish.
* RageBreakingPoint:
** Enies Lobby is one long series of these for Sengoku, who, just when you think he can't get any angrier...well. Ultimately, this becomes a detriment as, [[CrackOhMyBack due to his old age]], his body can't handle the stress, culminating in him suffering a (non-fatal) heart attack.
** Doflamingo clearly hits his in the aftermath of the Enies Lobby debacle (where he had to deal with both Big Mom ''and'' Kaido) when he finds the Red Hair Pirates in his throne room and the city badly damaged. His underlings start panicking when they notice one of the walls literally coming apart at the seams.
** Once Luffy's group finally find the Sunny after a week of searching Merveille, one last group of enhanced beasts attacks, but Luffy is so frustrated that he finally tells them off - [[spoiler: with '''Conqueror's Haki''']].
* RapidFireNo: Perona gives one, capped with a BigNo, when she hears that [[MadDoctor Chopper]] has got his hands on her real body.
* RatedMForManly: The personification of the Boss of the Kung-Fu Dugongs that join the crew.
** And goes into TestosteronePoisoning during the Davy Back Fight... and witnessing [[AfroAsskicker Afro Luffy]].
** Boss and Franky [[PecFlex flexing]] at each other is so manly it makes Cross' chest hair grow.
* RealityEnsues:
** As skilled as Kalifa is, she still isn't going to master her new powers in an hour.
** While [[spoiler:becoming a shipgirl]] gives Merry a chance to heal from her life-threatening injuries, that doesn't negate the fact that [[spoiler:she ''has'' life-threatening injuries in the first place]].
** After Thriller Bark, Cross realizes he's beginning to forget details of the manga as it's been over half a year since he read any of it. While he still knows the important parts, some of the particulars are starting to fade. Furthermore, his knowledge is incomplete to begin with as the manga isn't complete and he never saw any of the movies.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Iceburg quotes the trope by name as part of why he worked with the World Government.
* ReassignedToAntarctica:
** Dragon, upon getting information about certain WG covert ops, sends Hack and Koala to the South part of South Blue.
** Akainu and Onigumo, courtesy of Sengoku. After the debacle with Enies Lobby, in response to all the calls for dishonorable discharge and court-martial, he sends the Red Dog and the Spider to the front lines of the New World against the Emperors, to show the public why they still need them. Along with them are other Marines who espouse "Absolute Justice", just to make sure they don't make things any worse than they already have.
* RefugeInAudacity:
** How do Boss, Zoro and Sanji win their round in the Davy Back Fight? Beat up the opposition before the game even begins under cover of fog. How do they defend themselves when they're spattered with the opposition's blood? [[BlatantLies Declare that they went hunting under cover of fog.]] How do they rationalize ''that''? Easy; they're ''badasses''.
** Cross bursting into the Franky House, plopping down on the couch, and drinking Franky's cola is odd enough that Franky doesn't react until the Unluckies burst in.
* RestrainedRevenge: Cross finally repays Robin for almost killing him during their first meeting, letting Chopper almost dissect him, and encouraging the {{Groin Attack}}s from the other girls... by giving her a noogie.
* RetroactiveWish: In Laboon's stomach:
-->'''Cross''': Well, at any rate… maybe we actually ''are'' in the belly of a whale? The walls could be painted or something.
-->'''Zoro''': You ''can't'' be serious.
-->'''Cross''': ''(taking an oath-taking pose)'' May a Sea King strike me down should I lie!
-->''(cue giant squid coming out of the water)''
-->'''Usopp''': AAAAGH! SEA KING!
-->'''Cross''': ''(panicking)'' May the Sea King be struck down should I lie!
-->''(cue three giant harpoons promptly killing the squid)''
-->'''Cross''': ''(stares blankly, and then looks up)'' May a billion berries fall from the sky should I lie!
-->''({{Beat}})''
-->'''Cross''': Seriously? What omnipotent divine being worth their divine salt doesn't [[RuleOfThree do things in threes?]]
-->'''Soundbite''': '''RIPOFF!'''
** But as shown under BrickJoke above, it wasn't quite a ripoff.
* RhetoricalQuestionBlunder:
** Cross wonders during an [[spoiler: SBS broadcast]] who came up with the Davy Back Fight, only for someone to call and tell him: ''[[spoiler: [[WorldsStrongestMan Whitebeard]]]]''.
** After seeing [[GenerationXerox Roger in Luffy and Tom in Iceburg]], Garp wonders where ''his'' incarnation in this new generation is. Coby pipes up behind him.
* RightBehindMe: Frequent.
** Smoker pulls this in Loguetown. Cross and Soundbite are suitably terrified.
** Mr. 5 and Miss Valentine pull this in Whiskey Peak. Cross and Vivi are suitably terrified.
** A ''velociraptor'' pulls this in Little Garden. Cross and Soundbite are suitably terrified.
** Kureha pulls this in Drum. Cross is suitably terrified.
** Smoker pulls this in Chapter 27. Tashigi is... well, you get the idea.
** Averted during the Skypiea arc. Donny asks if Satori is behind him, but all that there is is his mass of trick balls.
** Pagaya pulls this after Enel is beaten. Cross is... startled.
** [[spoiler: Kuma]] pulls this after Moria is beaten. Cross doesn't even have time to be suitably terrified.
** Fabre, mayor of Little East Blue, pulls this on Boss. Boss is... ''not'' suitably terrified.
** A variation. Tsuru warns the Straw Hats of Shiki [[spoiler: on the SBS]] with him nearby on the Sunny. The Straw Hats are ''very'' terrified.
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge:
** Sanji goes on a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown on Ohm for hurting Conis. It's so much that he actually [[IncendiaryExponent sets himself on fire]].
** [[spoiler: While watching the events of Movie 6 as transmitted by Soundbite]], Garp is so anguished at seeing his grandson's pain that he makes plans to go to that island and tear the monster apart with his own two hands, ''before'' [[NoKillLikeOverkill the biggest Buster Call in history]] blows the island off the map. To be in the same room as him and his rage during those plans is suffocating, even for the Admirals.
** The Enies Lobby arc is just one massive finger from the Straw Hats to the World Government, by airing their rampage on the Judicial Island ''live'' and encouraging all of their rivals and two of the Four Emperors to wreak havoc all across the Grand Line. Then, they put the icing on the cake by exposing the World Government's deep-rooted corruption and their overall disregard for human life in favor of absolute control, initiating global civil unrest and causing several countries to go revolutionary (including Water 7). The aftermath is so bad that the Marines have established a task force solely dedicated to dealing with everything having to do with the Straw Hats and their antics.
* RousingSpeech: During his fight with Lucci, Luffy gets one not only from Cross but also from people all over the world, including all the Supernovas, Aisa, Dadan, Bartolomeo, Hancock, [[spoiler:and Gol D. Roger himself]].
* RulesLawyer: Played right into the ground during the Davy Back Fight, especially Cross's insistence that Soundbite and Lassoo are full-fledged crew members so that Foxy can't get all three of them in the same round.
* RunningGag:
** The line "I am... conflicted." seems to be this.
** Cross setting towns on fire with his antics.
** Assorted crew members contemplating setting the world on fire.
** Soundbite interrupting Cross [[spoiler: whenever he tries to start the SBS]]. And after that, other people start [[SerialEscalation interrupting Soundbite interrupting Cross]].
** People shouting "CROSS, YOU SON OF A-!" only to be [[CurseCutShort interrupted or cut off]].
** Cross hitting the [[LoudOfWar foghorn button]].
--->'''Cross:''' I love this thing.
--->'''Everyone else:''' ''WE KNOW!''
** Every time someone gets caught cheating at anything.
--->Pi~ra~te.
** In ''The Battle of Kinpaku Island'', the phrase "(minus Lucci)" is added after anytime [=CP9=] was mentioned while Lucci was still in the hospital.
** Somebody moaning "''Why'' did it have to be the Straw Hats?"
* SadisticChoice:
** [=CP9=] faces this in Enies Lobby. Either they do their jobs and try to defeat the Straw Hats who, quite apart from their reputation, [[spoiler:treated their third strongest member like a punching bag]], or they attempt to flee and risk [[DragonInChief Lucci]]'s blatant death threat for doing so. They unanimously choose the former, and unanimously regret it. Most notably in the conclusion of Nami versus Kalifa, right before the coup de grâce:
--->'''Kalifa:''' ...I should have tried my luck with Lucci.
--->'''Nami:''' Considering how you chose to face ''us'' instead? Yes. You should have.
** The Marine fleet sent to suppress the Straw Hats also face this choice, when they see that their own commanders are willing to kill anyone in the way of killing the pirates. Either they stay to do their jobs and possibly get slaughtered in the crossfire, or they [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere try to run]] and face the wrath of [[GeneralRipper Admiral Akainu]]. They ultimately choose the former, and suffer for it.
** When Zoro tries offering his head to Kuma to save both Luffy and Cross, the Warlord tells him that his one head isn't worth both, and tells him to choose who to save. Luckily, he wasn't the only one who stayed conscious during Kuma's first onslaught...
* SanitySlippage:
** Over the course of [[spoiler: Anime/BaronOmatsuriAndTheSecretIsland]], the Straw Hat crew slowly starts to disintegrate. Cross in particular goes from a cheerful, loyal member of the crew to a [[spoiler: demented game show host who delights in seeing his friends get ripped apart for ''ratings''.]]
** Sengoku does not take the ongoing stress during the Straw Hats' assault on Enies Lobby very well.
* SarcasticClapping: Mr. 3's entrance in Chapter 19, after Cross's "The Reason You Suck" Speech to Tashigi.
* ScareEmStraight: In the face of [[spoiler: Sakazuki's lava powers]] and certain death, the Marine T-Bone renounced the betrayal of his flotilla, condemned them all as evil, and swore to be a steadfast, uncrooked pursuer of justice and duty of the World Government. But the deaths of his men and his change in morality slowly ached at him until, in the face of Cross's steadfastness to his ideals, he could not refute the shame of his actions any longer.
* ScrewDestiny: Cross makes it his goal to use his future knowledge to prevent the most tragic events in the canon series from happening, including Merry's destruction and the War of the Best. [[spoiler:While he managed to save Merry thanks to a Devil Fruit that made her human, [[YouCantFightFate it looks like the War of the Best is still coming]].]]
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere:
** Sanji and Luffy escape a group of Marines when the former yells, "Jessica just found out Jonathan threw away a meal she made for him!" Every Marine present promptly sprints out of there.
** Terry and Isaiah decide to stay at Marine Base G-8 when the Straw Hat insanity grows too much for them.
** During the attack on Enies Lobby, roughly half the Marines run away yelling things like, "I didn't sign up for this."
** Cross and Leo try to "[[{{Series/Mythbusters}} de-ass the area with the quickness]]" when Sanji, Usopp, and Zoro go after them (Cross for making them all see [[FanDisservice Kokoro's mermaid body]], Leo for holding back in their fights). They don't escape.
** After being warned of the sheer insanity of Cross' explanation for how he knows so much, Mozu, Kiwi, Lulu and Tilestone all haul ass out of there.
* SchmuckBait: During Su's solo run through Thriller Bark, Soundbite warns her not to go to a certain room if she knows what's good for her. As soon as he breaks contact, Su immediately heads in that direction, only to regret it when she runs into Tararan.
--> '''Soundbite: Dare I ask WHY?'''
--> '''Su:''' ...I wanted the challenge?
* SecretKeeper:
** Prior to TheReveal in Chapter 14, Soundbite was the only one who knew that Cross knew a lot more than he was letting on, but even he didn't know everything; it seems that somehow his knowledge from the Internet doesn't extend to ''One Piece'' itself.
** Post-Reveal, the crew keeps his secret; the outsiders that have learned the truth about Cross thus far are Ace, Vivi's family, Iceburg, Paulie, Zambai, Dragon, Koala, and the New World Masons.
** Zoro and Nami also serve as this; whenever there's sensitive information that needs to be handled properly, Cross shares it only with the first and second mate… and Soundbite, of course. Though in Chapter 24, as part of penance towards Vivi, Cross agrees to let her in on it as well, and in Chapter 43, [[spoiler:Merry]] comes in as well, having technically been a part of it all along.
** In Chapter 28, Cross writes down all of his relevant knowledge for the Skypiea arc, knowing that he won't be able to speak freely while Enel is around. He asks Robin to help him out, because she's the one with experience in being discreet when one slip-up could mean death, because her powers will help him write faster...and because she'd just use said powers to peek at his notes anyway.
** [[spoiler:When the Marine training grounds were moved to Navarone, Jonathan ended up telling Instructor Zephyr about their endeavors to bring down the Government, asking him to be a member. Though Zephyr closes off when he hears they're getting intel from pirates, he is sympathetic enough to their cause to keep their secret.]]
** Lassoo and Funkfreed become this to Soundbite after the snail tells him what he witnessed: [[spoiler: that both Zoro and Nami find their dreams less worthy than Luffy's and Cross', and that if they knew, the conflict would tear the crew apart.]]
* SecretTestOfCharacter: Porche tries to seduce new crew members to the Foxy Pirates as one such test. She's rather pleased when Cross threatens her over it.
* SeenItAll:
** The Yagara bulls are experienced enough that not only do they barely blink at attempted hijackings, they consider members of "the Union" to be newbies until they get in their first high speed chase.
** [[spoiler:Dragon doesn't even blink at the idea of Cross being from an alternate dimension where he read the story of their world]]. According to him, once you've seen all the seas like he has, nothing really surprises you anymore (except maybe your own father being an unfathomable idiot).
* SelfInsertFic: Obviously.
* SequenceBreaking: [[spoiler: Brook meets up and joins the Straw Hat crew as soon as they meet him and Cross tells his story, long before they even reach Thriller Bark.]]
* SeriousBusiness:
** The Great Octopus Shogunate takes the sport of surfing very, ''very'' seriously.
** Cross accidentally starts a town-wide brawl when he sics some pirates on Mr. 13 by claiming the Otter said that Kaidou was the strongest Yonkou.
** Apparently even Kaidou and Big Mom participate in the Davy Back Fight, though they bid entire crews rather than individuals. [[PragmaticVillainy They do this to bolster their forces and fight each other without destroying most of the New World in the process.]]
* [[spoiler:ShaggyDogStory]]: [[spoiler:For all the crew's efforts, Merry's keel still snapped, meaning she's still doomed.]]
** But...[[spoiler: in the end, Cross found a way to save her, though [[HumanityEnsues she'll no longer be the ship of the Straw-Hats]].]]
* SheatheYourSword: Cross explains to Nami exactly how Luffy and Zoro won by letting Bellamy beat them up: a bunch of nobodies were doing all they could to rile Luffy up and get him to react, to etch themselves into his memory for all eternity... and failed miserably.
* ShellShockedVeteran: Boss Kabuto, the mutant beetle from the Little East Blue Arc, doesn't have good memories about Strong World.
* ShipSinking: WordOfGod states that, for the simple reason that none of the three authors have skill in that particular area, they have no plans of putting any pairings into the story. The closest they ever get is emphasizing the already canon ShipTease between Vivi and her ChildhoodFriend Kohza.
* ShoutOut: Has its own [[ShoutOut/ThisBites page]].
* ShutUpHannibal: [[spoiler:When Cross reveals that callers can call in and be on the SBS, Doflamingo tries to horn in on the show. Cross hangs up on him. Repeatedly.]]
* SideBet:
** When all of the crew sans Luffy is swallowed by the whale, Cross offhandedly says that he bets ten Berries that Luffy will take another entrance and meet them inside the whale. Nami takes the bet, and after Luffy shows up, Cross grouses about not having wagered a thousand Berries instead before Nami reluctantly pays up.
** Usopp bet Sanji at one point that Cross was actively trying to get himself killed. In Chapter 24, Sanji pays up.
** The News Coos apparently have a betting pool going involving the love life/lives Straw Hats in general and/or Cross in particular. When Su says that Conis is (platonically) enamored with Cross, Coo mentions winning the 2000 to 1 odds bet.
* SignatureLaugh: It's ''One Piece'', so this trope is very common. Noteworthy, however, in that Cross has one:
-->'''Cross''': PFFFFHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
** As a VoiceChangeling, Soundbite has a lot of laughing styles, but his most common is a combination of 'Hee's, 'Hoo's, and 'Ha's.
** Lassoo's laugh is "Hweehweehwee", taken directly from Muttley of Wacky Races.
** Su's laugh is "Tseeheeheehee".
** The Unluckies have the EvilLaugh of "Tsahahaha".
** [[spoiler: Dragon's is "Shishishishi"]], just like his son.
** [[spoiler: Hancock's]] is "Snahahaha".
** Monet's is "Yukeeheeheehee".
** [[spoiler: Merry's human form]] is "Mwahahaha".
** [[spoiler: [[WhenSheSmiles When she laughs genuinely,]] Robin laughs just like Saul.]]
---> [[spoiler: '''Robin: ''' Dereshishishi!]]
** T-Bone's is "Fahahaha".
* SkewedPriorities:
** Nami's misery as they leave Alabasta, not because [[spoiler:Vivi is forced to come with them after being assigned a bounty]], but because they didn't get the solid-gold crocodile statues from Rain Dinners.
** When Yasopp finds out that Usopp has become a Straw Hat Pirate [[spoiler:from Cross's SBS broadcast]], he and Shanks instantly get into a brawl. Yasopp is pissed because Shanks' protégé dragged his son away from his quiet, safe life; Shanks is pissed because Yasopp's SpitTake caused him to waste good booze.
** Despite Arbell wanting the Accino-Hiruno wedding to be sabotaged for the good of their family, Vivi couldn't resist the opportunity to direct the dream wedding she's been planning since she was a child.
* SlapstickKnowsNoGender: Cross is not afraid of giving Vivi a conk on the head if she ticks him off too much, especially when she gets over-excessive with the {{Groin Attack}}s. And this soon goes for the rest of the female crewmembers too.
* SlasherSmile: Common. Some examples:
** Mr. 5 and Miss Valentine have these on Little Garden when they meet Cross alone.
** Used frequently enough with Kureha that Cross compares her to the Grim Reaper no fewer than three times.
** At the end of Chapter 19, Cross has this reaction after they leave Luffy behind to fight Crocodile...and the rest of the crew agrees to let him give out some spoilers about the upcoming battles.
** Smoker, of all people, gives one in Chapter 23, after Hina [[spoiler:becomes convinced that he, Tashigi, and Cross are right about the corruption in the people they follow, and asks what he has in mind to fix it.]]
** Sengoku gets a gold-plated, [[VillainousBreakdown crazy-ass]] grin when, amidst all the chaos on Enies Lobby, Spandam idiotically reveals his plan to get control of Pluton and possibly overthrow the Five Elder Stars. The Fleet Admiral takes great pleasure in telling him to report to Marineford to receive "everything he has coming to him".
** Trafalgar Law and the Heart Pirates get several when they hear Doctor Hogback begin to verbally dig his own grave [[spoiler: on the SBS]].
** When Chopper gets his hands on Hogback at last, Cross reminds him not to do anything he wouldn't do. When Lassoo points out his whole "[[ToThePain Spandam]] episode", Cross gets one of these and replies that ''that's exactly the point''.
* SmallNameBigEgo:
** As Robin puts it, Spandam's delusions of grandeur are so great they actively [[IRejectYourReality rewrite his memories]], making him see himself as the competent beloved chief of [=CP9=] instead of someone they wouldn't piss on if he was on fire.
** Largo is convinced that his crew can take on the Straw Hat pirates if they use their "secret weapon". In reality, the entire crew is beaten by Cross and his partners.
* SmartPeoplePlayChess: Zigzagged. Vice Admiral Jonathan and Robin both play chess and play well, but Cross admits to being a beginner at best. [[ConfusionFu There's too many rules for him.]]
* SneezeCut: A few times during Strong World:
** Soundbite and Sanji make comments about annoying pigeons and giraffes respectively, and far away, Hattori and Kaku take offence.
** Woop Slap makes a comment about Cross, causing him to sneeze at just the right moment to dodge an attack.
* SoleSurvivor: Aside from Robin and Moria, a few other characters have this in their expanded backstory.
** Marine Captain T-Bone, once of the 13th Royal Marine Flotilla. When his crew protested the excessive force chasing after Nico Robin, [[spoiler: one of their own, Vergo, sold them out to Sakazuki]], who promptly massacred them to a man.
** Pickles of the Foxy Pirates. He was taken in a Davy Back Fight from his old crew, right before they were killed in a battle with the Marines.
** Buggy. [[spoiler: His old crew landed on a [[Anime/BaronOmatsuriAndTheSecretIsland Secret Island]] and only the clown made it off alive.]] Can you blame him for wanting to [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere stay out of the Grand Line]] from then on?
* SpannerInTheWorks:
** The Unluckies. If the For Want of a Nail in Chapter 19 wasn't enough, in Chapter 20, Cross attempts to use Soundbite's powers to stop or stall the Rebel Army outside of Alubarna. Unfortunately, the Unluckies arrive and snatch the snail, scrapping that plan. And even after they're beaten, Miss Friday manages to disable Soundbite's powers until Luffy beats Crocodile.
*** For a while, it actually became something of a RunningGag that the Straw Hats' plans never worked out as planned, to the point that the characters started making note of in their planning sessions. This was particularly frustrating and humiliating for Cross, as he is the official tactician for the crew. But starting after Skypiea, things start going much better.
** Granny Kokoro proves to be this to Cross' plans. Sloshed out of her mind, she browbeats Iceburg and Franky into feeling the love that the Going Merry has for her crew, and encouraging them, as Tom's apprentices, construct a ship worthy of the Oro Jackson's successor... ''within earshot of Iceburg's secretary and one of his best shipwrights''.
** Aokiji. Post-Enies Lobby, when he came across an island hosting a big pirate brawl, he decided to halt the whole thing with an Ice Age... [[spoiler: giving Blackbeard the perfect opportunity to swallow up his now-frozen opponents.]]
* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Rayleigh's name is spelt as "Raleigh" on occasion.
* SpitTake:
** In Chapter 24, Yasopp spits out his grog when he hears [[spoiler:on the SBS]] that Usopp has joined Luffy's crew.
** In Chapter 31, Robin spits out the jerky she's chewing on when she realizes it came from Nami kissing her, who got it from kissing Cross.
** In Chapter 32, Sanji chokes on his cigarette when Cross tells him he's glad he's part secret agent.
*** And he does it again in Chapter 43 when Cross talks about sibling relationships.
** In Chapter 38:
*** The entirety of the Red-Haired Pirates do this (Shanks twice) when Cross [[spoiler:succeeds in starting the SBS]], recognizing from the previous times he did that that what happens next is likely to be fraught with trouble.
*** Ace also gets this reaction when he learns that the Straw Hats just broke down the gates of Enies Lobby.
** In Chapter 41, Cross does this when Vivi says [[spoiler: she unlocked a variation of ''Conqueror's Haki'']].
** In Chapter 43, Robin does a full one (with drink this time) when Cross tells her just what [[GenderBender he would've done]] to [[spoiler: save Merry]]. Photographed for posterity, too.
* SpringtimeForHitler: Tashigi tries to invoke a FailureGambit on the Marines tasked to chasing down Cross, by telling them that the Straw Hats have gone to a complete backwater place that Marine patrols actively avoid: Jaya. Given that this happens during the start of the Skypeia arc...
* {{Squee}}: When she first lays eyes on the pillar of gold, Nami gives one so loud it knocks Cross out and sends the rest of the crew reeling.
* StatingTheSimpleSolution:
** Commander Drake asks why Vice Admiral Jonathan hasn't simply shot Terry and Isaiah, to which Jonathan responds that he can't afford the two million-beri fine.
** Drake does it again when he asks Jonathan why the Marines haven't dispatched an Admiral to take out the Straw Hat Pirates. Aside from one of them being a BloodKnight on the other side of the Red Line while the other two are BrilliantButLazy, Jonathan mentions the MortonsFork scenario above.
* StealthPun: In Chapter 16, after Luffy plows through a dozen or so buildings to get to a restaurant, sending Smoker and Ace flying in the process:
-->'''Cross''': ''(referring to Luffy)'' Are you a human, a monster, or some freak force of nature?
-->'''Soundbite''': ''D:'' '''all of the above!'''
** The [=MI4=] leaders and Cross all have code names based on the western zodiac. Smoker's? [[IronicNickname Cancer]].
* SuddenlyShouting: While calmly summing up Cross, Luffy, and Ace's antics in Nanohana, Vivi suddenly starts yelling demanding to know why the town is on fire.
* SuicidalOverconfidence: Even knowing the Straw Hats are standing in the way of their goal, even knowing they left the governmental island of Enies Lobby a smoking wreck behind them, Captain Largo of the Amigo Pirates still decides to go through them to get their mission, because their benefactor Shiki and the asset he gave them will give them the edge they need to win. He's soon disabused of that notion.
* SuperEmpowering:
** [[spoiler:WordOfGod stated shortly after the release of Chapter 28 that Cross ''will'' eat a Devil Fruit. He revealed nothing, however, about which fruit it will be nor when he will eat it, though the second special confirmed that it will be post-TimeSkip.]]
** [[spoiler: To survive past the Enies Lobby arc, the Going Merry eats the [[HumanityEnsues Human-Human Fruit, Model: Child]].]]
** [[spoiler:During the Strong World arc, Vivi eats the Gust-Gust Fruit, becoming the first Logia of the Straw Hat crew]].
* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial:
** Chapter 13:
-->'''Cross's Narration''': I most decidedly did ''not'' squeal like a stuck pig when ''a'' dozen different scalpels buried themselves in the wood around my head.
** Chapter 35:
-->'''Cross's Narration''': ''(faced with a furious Sanji)'' I most certainly did ''not'' swallow heavily.
** Chapter 43:
-->'''Third Person Narration''': After a minute or so, Tashigi re-entered the room, furtively swiping at eyes that were pointedly not red or fluffy.
* SwitchingPOV: The entirety of [[spoiler: the event with Baron Omatsuri]] is told through the perspectives of people around the world [[spoiler: as they listen to the SBS and the horror that the Straw Hats have found themselves in.]]
* TakeAThirdOption: Don Accino finds himself in a dilemma with regards to his bounty hunting rivals, the Hiruno Famiglia: Either he marries his daughter Lil off to cement his alliance with a family he absolutely despises, or have his family's livelihood slip away when the bounties become too strong to capture and cash in. Luckily, Vivi gives him a third way out: [[spoiler: with his Hot-Hot Fruit being one of Alabasta's treasures, Accino can become one of Alabasta's Royal Guardians and assure his family's future by protecting a country that has seceded from the Government.]]
* TakingTheBullet: Both Boss and Robin take Moria's shadow attacks that were aimed at Chopper and Cross. They both at least make it out of it.
* TakingYouWithMe: During Crocodile's arrest, [[spoiler: when he is questioned regarding Vivi's connection to the Straw Hats, he tells them exactly what they want to hear to have a bounty placed on her head and drag her down with him.]]
* TalkingAnimal: Thanks to Soundbite's voice-granting powers and the ability to communicate with other animals (being a snail and all), he can make any mostly-land-based animal (sea creatures have a different dialect) the crew comes across this... usually with very humorous results.
* TastesLikeChicken: Cross says this both for the elephant tuna that Sanji got in Loguetown and the Sandora Dragon that they grill up in Alabasta. He lampshades how very nonsensical it is in the latter instance.
* TaughtByExperience: How does Chopper know how to [[KnifeNut throw scalpels so well]]? No, Kureha didn't teach him; he just examined all his memories of ''her'' throwing things at ''him'', and replicating her technique.
* TearsOfJoy:
** Cross sheds a few after the Straw Hats learn everything he's been hiding from them but they still accept him anyway.
** [[spoiler: Shanks]] is sobbing after a full night of [[spoiler: listening to the SBS, hearing the Straw Hats face down Lily Carnation, and finally hearing Luffy triumph]].
** [[spoiler: The SBS's]] talk about tolerance and the stupidity of hatred for hatred's sake elicits these tears from both Koala and Jinbe, especially when the latter hears some fishchildren say how stupid racism is.
** Abound from everyone when [[spoiler: Merry ''lives''.]]
** Brook, Laboon and Crocus all break down when they hear that the former is alive and the latter two are waiting for him.
* TeethClenchedTeamwork: Cross attempts to invoke this trope when he meets Mr. 5 and Miss Valentine again by exposing Mr. 0's identity to them, putting them on Baroque Works' hit list too. Unfortunately, the Unluckies aren’t around to witness it, so all that it accomplishes is reaffirming their desires to kill him.
* TemptingFate: All the time.
** One notable instance in Chapter 9: when Vivi is trying to rouse the crew before dawn, Cross begs to be allowed to sleep if it's anything less than falling off the edge of the earth. Not long after that, the Grand Line draws their ship towards an InevitableWaterfall.
** Tsuru in Chapter 24, much to Sengoku's ire.
** Cross of all people makes the cardinal sin to Murphy right before the Straw Hats [[spoiler: [[Anime/BaronOmatsuriAndTheSecretIsland accept an invitation to a certain festive island]]]], when he says, "What's the worst that could happen?"
** [[TooDumbToLive Spandam]], in Chapter 39. Multiple times.
** Right at the end of Chapter 41, Cross does so and considers afterwards that he should have punched himself with his Impact Dial for doing so.
** One not played for laughs: [[spoiler: Cross exults after checking Ace's Vivre Card and finding it still intact, and celebrates over successfully stopping the Paramount War. The next time we see Ace, [[InSpiteOfANail he, Squardo and Whitey have been captured by the Marines]] courtesy of Aokiji giving Blackbeard an unexpected opening.]]
** Robin has done so a couple of times. By the second time she remarks that she should've known better.
** In a canon {{Omake}}, Doflamingo states that after the show the Straw Hats put on at Enies Lobby, even after facing Big Mom and Kaido, and knowing that his underlings threw a party in his castle, he can't be bothered to do anything about it. That quickly changes when he sees that one of said party's guests is ''Red-Haired Shanks''.
** Lil Accino declares there's no way the captured Straw Hat pirates would be able to escape their icy prison, let alone find their coffers and loot them. Nami proves her wrong on both counts.
** More than a few times in Chapter 46, from thinking that the wedding would actually go off alright at the start, to commenting that the chapel was still in one piece at the end of it.
** In Chapter 47, it's even discussed by Cross giving a lecture [[spoiler: on the SBS]] of everything ''not'' to say to tempt Murphy.
** According to Gin, Krieg declared "Nothing can stop us now!" as they reached the peak of Reverse Mountain. Shortly afterwards, they ran into Mihawk.
** After recovering from his injuries, Lucci finds himself challenged by [[spoiler: Captain T-Bone, for him and [=CP9=] to join the New World Masons if he loses.]] Lucci accepts, thinking it'll be a short fight. No dice.
** It doesn't take long for Cross to forget his own lecture though, as he proudly states that after Thriller Bark, his actions had already defused the biggest bomb to come and it'll be relatively smooth sailing from there on out.
---> '''Nami:''' You, who gave a seminar just yesterday about taunting fate, and who just waved the ''mother of all red capes'' in fate's face.
---> '''Zoro:''' [[PunctuatedForEmphasis You. Complete.]] ''[[PunctuatedForEmphasis Idiot.]]''
** In Strong World, Robin {{Face Palm}}s multiple times when Bartolomeo asks how things can get worse.
* ThatCameOutWrong: When Cross learns Vice Admiral Jonathan conned Akainu, he cheerfully states he knows some people who'd love to hear that ([=MI4=]), only to realize his mistake when Jonathan suddenly [[BewareTheNiceOnes becomes far more serious]].
* ThatsWhatSheSaid: Defied. When Boss tells Cross that the dugongs will go in hard at a moment's notice, Raphey warns Mikey that she'll twist his head a full 360 degrees if he says this line.
* TheDeadCanDance: And [[Music/MichaelJackson with the only appropriate song playing]] courtesy of Soundbite, Cross can't help but join in. [[RecordNeedleScratch At least until Robin cuts in]].
* TheDitz: With Vivi now having a permanent place on the crew [[spoiler:due to her undeserved bounty]], her tendency to act before [[NowYouTellMe remembering, considering or displaying all available information]] is shown in a lot more detail. An example is how she mistranslated the sign language of an ancient civilization of octopi and got everyone mad at the crew, because she failed to read through the whole translation book properly and thus didn't notice the particular dialect for people with joints.
* TheDogBitesBack: Since all the Marines are tied up dealing with the aftermath of Enies Lobby, there is no one left to save [[PrideBeforeAFall Saint Jamolomew]] from his victims, bystanders and his own entourage [[WhosLaughingNow when they've all had enough of his blustering crap.]]
--> '''One of Jamolomew's entourage:''' What this is... is ''Justice''.
* TheDreaded:
** Upon seeing four of the ''weaker'' members of the Straw Hat crew in Enies Lobby, every Marine present freaks out.
** [[EldritchLocation The Florian Triangle]]. Even the Four Emperors know better than to actively antagonize it. [[spoiler: Which is what keeps Big Mom from storming it to get back her daughter Lola who had set up shop in there.]]
* TheFaceless: Subverted; for the first twenty-one chapters and the ChristmasEpisode, the author gives no description what Cross looks like aside from his clothes, but [[http://nouin.deviantart.com/art/Cross-and-Soundbite-Commission-587057354 he did have a picture]] before the story stated that he was around 6' (Chapter 26) with dirty blond hair (Chapter 22).
* TheGadfly: Soundbite. Also, B.R.O.B., the Bastard Random Omnipotent Being responsible for sending Cross into One Piece. Also Cross himself, to a SOMEWHAT lesser degree than Soundbite.
* TheModestOrgasm: ''Nami'' of all people, when Cross tells her, during TheReveal, just ''how'' rich they'll get in the future. Her MoneyFetish just gets more and more excited until [[JizzedInMyPants she just can't take it anymore]].
* TheOneThingIDontHateAboutYou: Lucci actually rather likes that Soundbite can make Hattori talk on his own.
* ThePasswordIsAlwaysSwordfish: Chapter 15, [[spoiler: after Mr. 2 obtains Cross's face]]:
-->'''Cross''': PASSWORD! ''NOW!''
-->'''Zoro''': Okay, how about 'Swordfish'?
-->'''Cross''': ''[[DefiedTrope BETTER PASSWORD!]]''
* ThePenance: Cross feels like such a heel for lying to Vivi about the Rebel Army's location that while the crew is in Yuba, he joins Toto in digging up water and doesn't stop until he falls asleep on his feet. And when he wakes up, he would've kept on digging if Toto hadn't called him out.
* ThePromise:
** Cross makes the promise to keep Merry sailing with them when he first meets her Klabautermann. [[spoiler: It's a rollercoaster of emotions and trials and many seemingly hopeless moments, but in the end, he '''[[EarnYourHappyEnding does]]'''.]]
** When Cross and Laki deny Aisa the chance to stowaway with the Straw Hats, she makes this vow as the crew is sailing away.
---> '''Aisa:''' YOU WON'T STOP ME FOREVER! SOMEDAY, I'LL BECOME ONE OF THE STRAW HAT PIRATES, I PROMISE IT! ''I PROMISE!''
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech:
** Going off of an impulse, Cross gives one of these to Smoker about the Marines in general, and the corruption therein. It's effective enough that Smoker gives him a tactical baton and leaves despite Cross revealing himself to be a pirate. Of course, that changes when he finds out exactly which crew Cross belongs to.
** Cross's explaining to Ace about his canon fate contains a few shades of this, on account that the reasons he did not run away from an unbeatable enemy badmouthing Whitebeard was his own stubborn pride, and even a lack of faith in his captain.
** Cross gives Tashigi a brief one of these in Chapter 18 after she corners him.
*** He gives her a longer one in the next chapter when he finally gets fed up with her pirate prejudice.
** [[spoiler:This is the majority of Cross's first SBS broadcast, directed solely at the World Government.]]
** Cross gives another one to [[spoiler:Enel]] in Chapter 30 that does not go over well. It gets him [[spoiler: [[ElectricTorture electrocuted]] several times, but he just keeps on going]].
*** And the trend continues with Aokiji.
** Cross has a few harsh words for T-Bone when he temporarily lapses into his "all pirates are bad and have no rights" mentality, but some equally harsh words for Bartolomeo to remind him that there are some pirates out there who are just as evil as claimed. Bartolomeo being reminded of his raids on civilian islands really hammer the point home.
** Luffy delivers one to Moria during his beatdown, that Moria has let his defeat at Kaido's hands consume his whole life until he's nothing but a ghost, and ghosts don't become Pirate King.
* TheReveal: Of the fact that Cross is from another world.
** The first one, incorporating Luffy, Zoro, Nami, Usopp, Sanji, Chopper, Vivi, and Carue happens in Chapter 14.
*** Offscreen, the other Straw Hats inform Cobra, Igaram, and [[spoiler:Lassoo]], and they subsequently inform Chaka, Pell, Kohza, and the Supersonic Duck Squadron.
** The second one, incorporating Boss, the TDWS, [[spoiler:Conis]], and [[spoiler:Su]] happens in Chapter 38.
** The third, incorporating Robin, Franky, Iceburg, Zambai and Paulie happens in Chapter 43.
** The fourth, incorporating the newly rechristened New World Masons [[note]]Smoker, Tashigi, Hina, T-Bone, Jonathan, Tsuru, Bartolomeo, Foxy, Dorry, Broggy, Apoo and Marigold[[/note]] happens in Chapter 44.
*** And one to [[spoiler: Dragon and Koala]] a while before.
* TheUnintelligible: The beasts of [[Anime/OnePieceFilmStrongWorld Merveille]]. They're basically evolving so fast that their communication skills are completely foreign to regular animals like Soundbite or the other animal members of the Straw Hats.
* TheUnreveal: [[spoiler: Cross's post-Enies bounty amount, other than ''really really big''. WordOfGod is that they're waiting for Oda to release one of the Emperor's bounties in order to get a comparison.]]
* TheWorldIsJustAwesome: Cross has this reaction from time to time, such as when entering the Grand Line.
* ThereIsNoTry: Defied in Chapter 8:
-->'''Soundbite''': ''I'll…'''try…''''' ''(DeathGlare)'' '''Quote Yoda''' ''AND DIE.''
* TheseAreThingsManWasNotMeantToKnow: However the hell Luffy can eat so much in the blink of an eye. An attempt to use Foxy's [[TimeStandsStill Slow-Slow powers]] on Luffy to see exactly how he did it forces B.R.O.B. to [[RewritingReality erase that piece of time from existence]].
* ThisCannotBe:
** Blueno and Fukuro get this reaction: Blueno when Sanji manages to affect the real world while locked in his door dimension (something that can only be done with incredible strength); Fukuro when Boss reveals that within half an hour, he's [[spoiler: learned the Six Powers enough to replicate the Six King Gun.]]
** Soundbite says as such when [[spoiler: Moria's Devil Fruit '''Awakens''']].
* ThisExplainsSoMuch: After being attacked by the Unluckies for a ''[[{{Determinator}} third]]'' time, Cross asks them what kind of hell did Crocodile dredge up to find them. Their response? [[spoiler:Kuraigana Island]]. Cross comments that actually fits.
* ThisIsGonnaSuck: Very common.
** Spoken word-for-word before Luffy rockets Cross, Zoro, Sanji, and himself onto the Merry in Loguetown.
** Cross has a thought process like this as they draw nearer to Little Garden.
** Cross has a similar thought process as he leaves the safety of his room to stall Wapol from being able to eat the royal armory or the giant cannon until Luffy arrives.
** In order to get out of Kureha's extortionate medical bills, Cross makes a deal with her that if he can get the armory open, without using the key that Luffy destroyed in his fight with Wapol, without leaving his bed, within five minutes, she'll cancel all of the payments, let them go, ''and'' give them free access to the castle's food storage, and if he can't, he'll be her indentured servant for life. Kureha accepts the deal, and she visibly loses all hope as soon as Cross says two words:
--->'''Cross''': Hey Luffy!
::: He then proceeds to tell Luffy that he can get a lot of food if he can break open those doors. One minute later, the armory doors have been obliterated. Two minutes later, Kureha reluctantly gives them directions to the pantry.
** In Chapter 16, this happens to Cross…
*** When Smoker and Ace meet up with Luffy.
*** When Luffy begins fleeing from Smoker, and his rubber arm grabs Cross's shoulder.
*** When Luffy recommences fleeing from Smoker, grabbing Cross's ankle.
*** When Cross is about to tell Ace and Luffy that [[spoiler:Sabo is alive]], knowing that [[KnightTemplarBigBrother Ace]] won't believe him.
*** When Luffy decides to use Cross [[GrievousHarmWithABody as a human flail to take out the Baroque Works Billions]].
** In Chapter 17, this is Cross's mental state as the crew approaches Yuba, knowing who Vivi is looking for there, knowing she'll not find them there, and knowing that he had lied to her face about it.
---> '''Cross:''' Pray for me.
** In Chapter 18, right before, yet again, Luffy grabs ahold of him and begins dragging him as he runs.
** In Chapter 25, the vast majority of the crew has this reaction once they find out that Luffy has to win a [[spoiler:surfing contest against an octopus]] to save their lives.
** In Chapter 27, this happens...
*** When Leo realizes that Zoro, [[ExplainExplainOhCrap who hasn't had a proper swordsmen spar in ages]], is about to spar with him.
*** When Vivi and Carue begin to regret their decision of sparring with the Kung-Fu Dugongs.
*** When Donny, who is sparring with Nami, realizes what could happen if Sanji catches him.
---> '''Leo/Donny/Carue''': ''I'm/We're gonna diiiie...''
** In Chapter 30, even after [[spoiler:bravely delivering his TheReasonYouSuckSpeech while being subjected to ElectricTorture by an increasingly frustrated Enel and [[DefiantToTheEnd spitting in his face in response to his final offer to repent]]]], Cross cannot help but flinch before [[spoiler:100 million volts about to be put through him]].
** In Chapter 35, this is quoted...
*** ...by Soundbite when Aokiji challenges Cross to BreakHimByTalking.
*** ...by Cross before Chopper explains that his [[TheBerserker Monster Point]] [[spoiler: was originally controlled by his unconscious mind... [[MadDoctor which now isn't]] [[GeniusBruiser so unconscious any more]].]]
** In Chapter 39, Jabra deliberately stomps on Luffy's BerserkButton and has just long enough to think "I just fucked up." before Luffy gives him a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown.
** In Chapter 40, Tsuru thinks this [[spoiler: when she decides to throw in her lot with the clandestine Marine coalition she was looking into to clean up the Marines' act]], only to find out what kind of insanity she's stepping into.
--> '''Tsuru:''' ...bother.
** In Chapter 41, Carue states this verbatim when he realizes that Funkfreed isn't a MightyGlacier but a LightningBruiser.
** In Chapter 48, the Marine taskforce created to deal with the Straw Hats adjourns their meeting as soon as the [[spoiler:SBS]] starts with Rear Admiral Brannew outright saying they were giving the eulogy of another island.
** Quoted by Cross and Conis when Chopper details his plan for neutralizing Oars.
* ThisMeansWar: Listening to the horror happening on [[spoiler: [[Anime/BaronOmatsuriAndTheSecretIsland the secret island]]]], has virtually every superpower in the world, from Whitebeard, to Ace, to Dragon, gunning to sink the island into the sea, with the Marines planning on sending ''[[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill every Buster Call they have]]'' to make sure. And even that pales in the face of [[CharlesAtlasSuperpower Garp's]] rage.
* ThouShaltNotKill: Cross has a notable aversion to actually killing anyone. He panics initially taking down a Baroque Works Mook in Whiskey Peak, and a Marine Mook in Alabasta, until he confirms that they're alive. It's solidified, however, when he has Mr. 13 at his mercy, the assassin having just tried to kill ''him''. Even considering the fact that he's [[WhatMeasureIsANonHuman just an otter]] ultimately isn't enough, and he settles for simply knocking him out...albeit brutally. Chapter 37 reveals that he's well aware of the fact that he'll need to kill one day, but he refuses to let the Unluckies be the ones that drive him to it.
* TimedMission: Enies Lobby, even more so than canon. Not only has Lucci used Shave to get Robin much closer to the Gates of Justice, but Sengoku is on his way there as well.
* TiredOfRunning:
** After having his country yanked around through the machinations of a Warlord and the negligence of the World Government, [[spoiler:Vivi's persecution and bounty]] is the last straw for Cobra, and through a RousingSpeech, [[spoiler:declares Alabasta's secession from the World Government.]]
** Watching her mistress be oppressed by a cruel God for several long years, as well as watching her be forced to send innocent people off to be smited, once she gets the chance to talk without any chance of Enel hearing her, Conis's pet fox Su lets out everything she wants to say, declares Enel a tyrant, and begs the Straw Hats to defeat him.
* ToBeContinuedRightNow: In Chapter 36, after [[spoiler:Merry heartbreakingly confirmed she was going to die]], it seemed like the chapter would end there on a cliffhanger, then the writers pull an Oda-style troll and add a Part 2, stating that while the cliffhanger is their style, the chapter still wasn't long enough.
* ToThePain: Before carving into [[spoiler:Cross]], mad scientist [[spoiler:Chopper]] explains exactly what he's going to do.
** Cross lists off his ideas on how he'll torture Spandam to the man. It's enough to impress the wardens of Impel Down, and leaves ''[[TooKinkyToTorture Sadi]]'' giddily taking notes!
--->'''Cross:''' [[CutHisHeartOutWithASpoon ...and then I would make you]] ''eat'' [[NoodleImplements the salsa]].
** Moria screaming these at the Straw Hats is the least of his VillainousBreakdown.
* TogetherInDeath: Luffy has [[spoiler: Brief and Papa Tearoom bury Baron Omatsuri with his crew,]] stating that he was alone in life but shouldn't have to be alone in death.
* ToiletHumor: Even discounting Cross's biscuit problem, there was the incident of [[spoiler: him getting Primal Cholera that was the reason for going to Drum in this timeline]], and an incident involving his face, the camel Eyelashes, and Luffy mistaking it for chocolate.
* TooDumbToLive:
** Cross's thoughts on why one of the Baroque Works moles in the Royal Army tattooed the company's emblem on his shoulder. The defeated soldier says it was a combination of a lot of alcohol, a lot of boredom, and the fact that nobody is supposed to know about Baroque Works in the first place.
** Spandam. [[spoiler:The man kept a ''black book'' for [=CP9's=] operations just to stroke his own ego. The fact that he hid it in a safe doesn't detract from this -- the book shouldn't even ''exist'', seeing as [=CP9=] is a covert black ops unit whose own existence isn't even officially recognized as far the World Government is concerned. All reports should have been summarily destroyed once confirmed. Once Cross finds it, it becomes the whistleblowing equivalent of a Golden Transponder Snail.]]
* TookALevelInBadass:
** In Chapter 19, when Tashigi asks Cross if there's any way to break Mr. 3's wax, he informs her that the only swordsmen capable of cutting anything are those capable of cutting nothing. A short while later, after Mr. 3 impales her, she manages to figure out what that means, cutting through Mr. 3 and his wax to defeat him.
** Vivi and Carue, after joining the Straw Hats full-time, have new weapons made for them by Usopp, a pair of crescent chain-scythes named Lion Cutters for Vivi, armor, wing and talon-blades for Carue.
** Luffy unlocks a prototype Gear Second (Gear 1.5) as far back as Skypiea.
*** And a prototype Gear Third (Gear 2.5) as far back as Navarone.
*** And ''[[spoiler: Armament Haki]]'' at the climax of Enies Lobby.
** Leo learns how to cut steel when Donny suggests that Mikey be the new leader of the TDWS.
** Nami gets her hands on Ohm's Eisen Whip full of Iron Clouds.
** All over during the Enies Lobby Arc:
*** Boss learns and develops his Full-Shell Style, [[spoiler: his version of the Six Powers. Even the Six King Gun]].
*** Usopp and Carue both learn how to [[FlashStep Shave]].
*** [[spoiler: Soundbite '''Awakens''' the Noise-Noise Fruit]].
*** Vivi [[spoiler: awakens a CompellingVoice that is shortly thereafter confirmed to be a variation of ''Conqueror's Haki''.]]
** Villainous example: [[spoiler: after waking up and finding his zombie army annihilated, Moria's Devil Fruit does some ''[[EnlightenmentSuperpowers Awakening]]'' of its own]].
** Near the end of the Grand Line, Cross has grown into this, when he takes down the entirety of the Amigo Pirates on his own with minimal assistance from his Devil Fruit partners.
* TookALevelInKindness: Due to the conveniently timed [[spoiler:SBS broadcast]], Boa Hancock spares Marguerite after the latter reasons that she has Devil Fruit powers and that it was due to a DarkAndTroubledPast. Thinking about the whole thing more, [[HeelRealization she realizes just how many of the World Nobles' habits she and her sisters had adopted]], and decides she should listen to Elder Nyon and seek therapy.
* TragicKeepsake:
** While they aren't actually his, Robin wore cowboy hats to remember Jaguar D. Saul and used them as a source of strength.
** Nami reveals she kept the old shirt she got as a hand-me-down from Nojiko as it was the last gift Bellemare gave her.
* TrainingFromHell: As soon as Cross has it hammered home exactly how dangerous being an ordinary human in a WorldOfBadass is, he begins training under Zoro, who proves to be a DrillSergeantNasty. Not long after that, he ropes Usopp (and Carue) into joining him, and persuades Sanji to train Nami and Vivi.
* TrainingMontage: This is shown while Luffy, Usopp and Chopper are looking for the South Bird and Masira is busy upgrading the Merry: Zoro and Leo spar to both see how Leo can improve and give Zoro a good fight, Sanji and Boss spar to break in Boss's new weapon, Vivi and Carue spar with Raphey and Mikey to help get the former used to their new weapons, Donny helps Nami with her staff-fighting, Robin "weight-lifts" [[LoopholeAbuse using her extra arms]], Shoujou helps Soundbite hone his Gastro-Blast technique, and Cross goes running with Lassoo in his bazooka form to get used to the weight.
** In Chapter 35, after gaining knowledge on future techniques and other info that they can use to get stronger from Cross, they enter another one: Zoro perfects the Nine Sword Style: Asura technique and works on Iron Body; Sanji works on Diable Jambe, Tempest Kick, Moonwalk, and Shave; Conis figures out just how much of a WalkingArsenal she can become while Su makes sure she doesn't overload herself; Lassoo joins them; Usopp and Nami work out how to integrate the Eisen Whip into the now Perfect Clima-Tact; Cross tests his new armor and general fighting style with Mikey and Donny's help, the remaining dugongs train in their own way, and Vivi and Carue are...[[LameExcuse running laps]] while presumably working with the necklace they gained in Alabasta. Luffy, notably, is absent for the first half of this regime because he's rendered unconscious by [[DeadlyDoctor Chopper]], who worked to lessen, if not outright prevent, the lasting effects that [[DangerousTechnique Gear Second or its prototype]] will have on Luffy.
* TranquilFury:
** In Chapter 2, Cross displays this to Luffy shortly after joining his crew, his face expressionless as he issues a very cold speech threatening to maim him if he steals his meat. To everyone's awe, it works.
** In Chapter 17, let's just say Vivi's not happy when she finds out that Cross lied to her about where the Rebel Army was in Alabasta.
** In Chapter 30, [[spoiler:Captain T-Bone displays this when talking about the person who sold out his men to Akainu. It's Vergo]].
** In Chapter 32, Jessica finding out that her husband has been throwing out the food she's made leaves her speaking in a tone described as the eye of a hurricane.
** Three, ''very'' notable examples in Chapter 39, all from the [[spoiler: SBS broadcasting the Ohara incident]], and [[spoiler: Spandam taunting Robin afterwards]]:
*** Tashigi goes past horrified and disgusted, and reaches the point that [[JadeColoredGlasses she can't feel anything but cold rage]].
*** Luffy reaches a whole new level of calmness...which, for him and in this case, [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness is downright]] ''[[TranquilFury scary]]''.
*** Lassoo's reaction is a very steady, "I'm going to eat him."
** In Chapter 44, Sengoku makes very clear to Akainu that the only reason he's not in the middle of an UnstoppableRage is because [[CrackOhMyBack he's too old to do so without heart problems]]. Nonetheless, he is furious and all but begging Akainu to give him a reason to lock the admiral away.
* TrustPassword: After the initial encounter with Mr. 2, Cross forms one of these with the rest of the crew, and makes it twofold for extra security. It's utilized in Chapter 21:
-->'''Nami''': Who is the second greatest traveler in the world?
-->'''Cross''': That would be Pandaman, ranking right below Gol D. Roger!
-->'''Nami''': Wrong answer! Pandaman doesn't exist.
-->'''Cross''': ''That's a lie!'' Pandaman is real, just like the great Goda!
* TwistedEchoCut: Immediately after Trafalgar Law states that Luffy's fight with Lily Carnation isn't over, the story cuts to Basil Hawkins wondering how could it possibly not be over despite being many miles away. Law was using AwesomeByAnalysis while Hawkins was using TarotTroubles to reach the same conclusion.
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[[folder:Tropes U - Z]]
* UltimateShowdownOfUltimateDestiny: Even in ''Manga/OnePiece'', this is SeriousBusiness. Cross's lie that he and Mr. 13 were fighting over who is the strongest of the Four Emperors (and Mr. 13 said Kaido) leads to a street brawl among the onlookers that ends up setting half of Mock Town on fire.
* UnfoldingPlanMontage: Used twice for Cross's big plans, once when escaping from Navarone, and once when invading Thriller Bark.
* UngratefulBastard: Soundbite has no respect for the News Coos and the difficulty and bravery in their jobs. It's later revealed that it's because Coos, and birds in general, eat snails.
* UnwantedAssistance: The trope's older, pre-split title is quoted by Nami when Robin bribes her with Crocodile's jewels to get her on her side, much to Vivi's ire.
--> '''Nami''': C-C'mon Vivi! [[NotWhatItLooksLike Th-this isn't what it looks like!]]
--> '''Robin''': [[DeadpanSnarker Even though it really is.]]
--> '''Nami''': N-n-no, it isn't! I'm, ah, I'm... ''(Grabs the bag of jewels)'' [[LameExcuse See, I'm stealing from her, I stole this!]] I-It was all just a ''ruse'' to get close to her! Cat Thief Nami strikes again! Hahaha...
--> '''Robin''': [[PullTheThread Actually... Those jewels were always intended for you, so really, all you're doing is taking my gift a little early.]]
--> '''Nami''': STOP HELPING ME!
* UpToEleven: Cross's "explanation" behind Awakened Devil Fruits can be summed up this way.
-->'''Cross''': Um... Devil Fruits are bullshit, Awakened Devil Fruits make mere bullshit their bitch?
-->'''Boss''': ''(nods)'' Your logic is sound.
** Cross says as much when Garp proves himself dumber than Luffy.
** An anonymous caller asks if it was TemptingFate to say his parents would never figure out that he switched his father's hair gel and mother's hair dye. Cross's reaction sums it up perfectly.
-->'''Cross''': There's a difference between TemptingFate and running up to fate, punching him in the nose, and yelling 'Come have a go if you think you're hard enough!' You get three guesses which category ''that'' falls into, and the first two don't count.
* {{Ventriloquism}}: The basis of the Noise-Noise Fruit; it enables the user to emit any sound that they've ever heard, forward or reversed, at any volume, anywhere within range of the user's senses. Soundbite had a naturally extended range of a quarter mile already due to being a Transponder Snail, but once he's fitted with a standard rig for a Transponder Snail, that already impressive range at least quadruples.
* VerbalBackspace: When talking about how incredibly large and well armored Oars is, Cross is about to say even Mihawk would have trouble before admitting that Mihawk would cut him in half without even looking up from his newspaper.
* {{Vibroweapon}}: A combo made by placing Soundbite on Funkfreed's sword form. It helps Cross battle against the [[DeadGuyPuppet Draugrs]].
* VillainHasAPoint: Cross may disagree on the World Government's policies on many levels, but the one thing he's in full agreement with is the presence of Impel Down's Level 6; that there are some people in this world bad enough to lock up for the rest of eternity.
* VillainRespect: [[MagneticHero Luffy]] manages to get this a lot:
** [[BloodKnight Lucci and Jabra]] admire Luffy's {{Determinator}} status and fighting ability.
** Crocodile respects Luffy's ability, mostly since it proves he didn't lose to some pathetic rookie but rather the next rising star.
** Sengoku respects Luffy enough to [[spoiler:offer him a Warlord position after Luffy defeats Lily Carnation and has Baron Omatsuri buried with his crew]].
*** This goes the other way in that Cross actually respects Sengoku. Though he loses a good amount of it in Enies Lobby.
** To say nothing of virtually all of the other Supernovas, including characters like Kidd and Bege.
** The Straw Hats cause so much chaos that Doflamingo openly declares that he can't wait to see the sheer madness the Era of the Straw Hats will bring.
** Cross's ToThePain speech to Spandam impresses Sadi-chan enough to have her copy down his ideas and state that if he weren't a pirate, he'd make executive at Impel Down within six months.
* VillainousBreakdown:
** Bellamy has one when he hears Luffy's proclamation (amped by Soundbite), that the City of Gold did exist in the sky all along.
** The entirety of the Enies Lobby incident is this for Sengoku, who is increasingly stressed out and enraged by the ongoing actions of the Straw Hats and the other Super Rookies (even suffering a ''heart attack'' over it). By the time [[spoiler:Spandam spills the beans on his plans to overthrow the Five Elder Stars, live on the SBS]], he has a SlasherSmile on his face when he informs Spandam of his eventual fate once he returns to HQ.
** Moria has a big one, on account of the Straw Hat Crew sedating him and completely annihilating his zombie army before he woke up. So big, in fact, that [[spoiler: his Shadow-Shadow Fruit '''[[EnlightenmentSuperpowers AWAKENS]]'''.]]
* VitriolicBestBuds: Cross and Soundbite. While not as bad as Zoro and Sanji, they're both snarky, and Soundbite's pranking tendencies often get on the human's nerves, as do Cross's insults. Point of reference for how much they really care: Cross was ready to tear Miss All Sunday apart when she stole him (who, as a point of reference, is not only a future crewmate but also a powerful assassin who he had pretty much no chance of surviving a fight with in a haze of rage), and Soundbite's concern for Cross when he fell ill was as clear as day.
* VoiceChangeling: Soundbite can mimic any sound he's ever heard, backwards, forwards, or any other way you can think of. This is, however, the only way that he can speak, which results in him using an amalgamation of different voices for his sentences. Chapter 17 reveals that he's fully capable of picking one voice and sticking with it, and he explains his reasoning for doing otherwise: when he gives animals the ability to speak with his powers, he determines their voices based on what/who they are. The voices he gives them suit them, but his own voice is all of the voices.
* WaxingLyrical: When the Straw Hat crew enters the Florian Triangle, Cross starts singing ''Bink's Brew'' to stave off the unnaturalness of the dark fog. Pretty soon his whole crew is singing along, [[spoiler: and when Brook finds them and joins in, Cross makes it a worldwide sing-along affair through the SBS.]] And it is beautiful.
* WeCanRuleTogether: A non-villainous example: [[spoiler:Dragon offers Cross a partnership in the Revolutionary Army after Enies Lobby]]. He's turned down though.
* WeHaveBecomeComplacent: Enies Lobby is so secure that no one would ever think of attacking it. As a result, the Marines stationed there treat it as a vacation post and are completely unprepared when it actually does get attacked.
* WeakButSkilled: Cross and Soundbite. Cross has a good tactical mind and knowledge from another dimension, but even with Zoro's Training From Hell to increase his stamina, Kureha's miracle vitamins to increase his durability, and Usopp's custom-made armor to increase his strength, his physical capabilities remain at the point where the only enemies he can reliably fight on his own are {{Mooks}}. Soundbite's Noise-Noise Fruit powers make him masterful in bluffing out and disabling his opponents, as well as mustering reinforcements in seconds, and he's developed a few genuine attacks. But without his powers, he's only a snail. With their wits combined, however, and Lassoo as the main source of firepower, they're easily formidable enough to have a place with the Straw Hat Pirates.
* WeaksauceWeakness: Completely justified with Soundbite's weakness to salt; he is, after all, a snail. Also to a lesser degree, flour, as it completely clogs up his throat and renders him temporarily mute.
* WhamEpisode: Three in a row.
** Chapter 22. Small wham: [[spoiler:Lassoo joins the crew.]] Bigger wham: [[spoiler:B.R.O.B. pays back Cross's RageAgainstTheHeavens with a Snail Transceiver, a device enabling him to connect to every other snail in the world at once. He uses it to start up a radio program.]] Then ending with a massive wham: [[spoiler:Vivi joins the Straw Hats permanently...because the World Government has falsely accused her of treason.]]
** Chapter 23. Notable occurrences in chronological order: in retribution for [[spoiler:Vivi, Cobra declares Alabasta's secession from the World Government]]; the newly formed [[spoiler:Dugong Pirates]] help the Straw Hats escape the Black Cage Corps, and then [[spoiler:five Dugongs join the Straw Hats]]; and last but not least, the second infuriating cliffhanger in as many chapters as the final scene shows Cross [[spoiler:bound and gagged]] and Chopper [[spoiler:playing MadDoctor and about to dissect him.]]
** Chapter 24. Chopper officially becomes an AdaptationalBadass thanks to [[spoiler:developing a formula that essentially turns him into Mr. Hyde]], and Smoker, Tashigi, and Hina [[spoiler:enlist Cross's help as an informant for their new goal: forming a coup to take down the World Government and restore the integrity to the Navy]].
** Chapter 31, Skypiea Arc wrap-up. Soundbite's Devil Fruit is revealed to enable him to [[spoiler: hear the Voice of All Things]], Conis and Su, [[spoiler: inspired by Cross's defiance to Enel and his description of the world, decide to join the Straw Hats as their gunner, just like her mother did with the Roger Pirates]], and a lot of the crew is outfitted with Dial Weaponry, including Nami [[spoiler: getting Ohm's Eisen Whip]].
** [[spoiler: Anime/BaronOmatsuriAndTheSecretIsland]]. [[spoiler: Witnessing Luffy get impaled by the Baron's RainOfArrows elicts enough anguish in Sabo to restore his memory]], Luffy's relation to Garp [[spoiler: is revealed to the world]], and he gains the respect of [[spoiler: Sengoku after he kills the monsters that are Lily Carnation and Baron Omatsuri, [[CryForTheDevil yet allows the latter to be buried with his crew]]]].
** Chapter 42 has a wham worthy of Garp's Fist: [[spoiler: [[HumanityEnsues Thanks to another model of the Human-Human Fruit]], '''[[SparedByTheAdaptation Merry lives]]'''.]]
** More whams from Chapter 43, the post-Enies Lobby wrap-up: Cross replaces his baton with [[spoiler: Funkfreed]] and, [[spoiler: [[InSpiteOfANail in spite of all of Cross's efforts]], Ace, Whitey and Squardo still lose to Blackbeard and are captured by the Marines... [[SpannerInTheWorks thanks to Aokiji's unprecedented interference]]. And due to Ace not being "injured", Cross has no clue and thinks his efforts have worked.]]
** Chapter 50's ending: [[spoiler: Moria Awakens his Devil Fruit and uses a technique called "Niflheim".]]
** Chapter 52 is one wham after another: [[spoiler: Nami absorbs Cross' pain, Lola joins the Masons and turns Thriller Bark into a pirate's haven, the Florian Triangle is revealed to [[GeniusLoci be alive]] and becomes harmonious, Su has Coo use his resources to track down a legend called the Children of Inari, and ''Perona'' ends up traveling with the Straw Hats!]]
** The preview for Chapter 57 ends with [[spoiler:Vivi finally consuming the seed of the Gust-Gust Fruit, making her a Logia]].
* WhamLine:
** This line at the end of Chapter 22:
---> '''[[spoiler:Vivi]]''': Because the World Government [[spoiler:has unjustly and erroneously accused me of treason]].
** And this line in Chapter 23. [[spoiler:Like daughter, like father]]:
---> '''[[spoiler:Cobra]]''': Today, I declare [[spoiler:Alabasta's formal secession from the ranks of the nations of the World Government!]]
** This line in Chapter 31:
---> '''Cross:''' Soundbite… YOU CAN—! ''*lowers his voice* You can [[spoiler: hear the Voice of All [[PrecisionFStrike motherfucking]] Things?!]]''
** The voice in Chapter 39 that encourages Robin to live:
---> '''[[spoiler:Saul]]''': The sea's a vast place. So I guarantee... someday you'll find friends who won't ever leave you. No matter who you are, ain't nobody born into this world to be alone! Your friends are right there waiting for you, Robin. All you gotta do is get back to them! Share your life with them... and never let them go!
** A mysterious voice encourages Luffy in Chapter 42:
---> [[spoiler:A D-shaped smile flashed through Luffy's head.]]
---> '''[[spoiler:Roger]]''': ''[[spoiler:You wear my old hat damn well.]]''
** Chapter 50:
---> '''Soundbite''': ''(about [[spoiler:Moria]])'' [[spoiler:'''[[EnlightenmentSuperpowers HE FIGURED IT OUT...]]''']]
* WhatKindOfLamePowerIsHeartAnyway: A Devil Fruit that allows you to turn into a human child would be pretty much useless for anyone. [[spoiler:Unless they happen to be an inanimate object, like a ship.]]
** The spy/assassin it was originally intended for might have been able to use it for infiltration and similar purposes.
* WhatTheHellHero: Everyone is all but shouting at [[spoiler: the SBS during the events of Anime/BaronOmatsuriAndTheSecretIsland]], as they listen to the Straw Hats [[OutOfCharacterAlert slowly turn on each other]]. [[spoiler: [[MindVirus Through no fault of their own though.]]]]
* WhenAllYouHaveIsAHammer: Cross relies first and foremost on his wits and his partners' wits and powers, having neither weapon skills nor the time and discipline to develop them (at least until he gets [[spoiler: Funkfreed]]). To that end, he had Usopp build arm and leg armor for him, and while the upgrades to it after the Skypiea arc don't quite put him in the OneManArmy category, they definitely make him formidable enough that he's no pushover without his partners.
* WhosOnFirst: Cross and Soundbite ''weaponize'' the dialogue to get the drop on a Government Agent who got the drop on them.
** Followed by Soundbite broadcasting the original sketch to the entire world. Busted guts abound.
* WorthIt:
** Cobra [[spoiler: declares Alabasta's secession from the World Government due to them scapegoating Vivi and driving her into exile. He comes right out and says [[Heartwarming/ThisBites she's worth whatever comes]].]]
** Cross's opinion of the scary story prank he pulled on the rest of the crew and their guests, even if it got him mobbed and beaten up afterward. [[BatmanGambit Just like he wanted.]]
** Cross and Soundbite say this as they hang out of Rocketman's window, in response to Nami's criticism that they'll die.
* WorthyOpponent: [[spoiler:Lucci]], of all people, decides that the moment he can, he's cashing in all his vacation time so he can find Luffy and have the fight of his life. Jabra agrees with this assessment. Several chapters later, when his fight with Luffy concludes, [[spoiler:Lucci]] smiles and states "It was a hell of a fight" before losing consciousness.
** Though later, the leopard-man finds another worthy of the title: [[spoiler: Captain T-Bone, when he manages to outlast the Zoan in a bloody battle lasting ''two full days and nights''.]]
** Zoro admits after defeating Kaku that he was the best fight he'd had in a long time.
* WouldHitAGirl: Cross has no qualms about giving Vivi a conk on the head if she gets too generous with the {{Groin Attack}}s.
* WouldHurtAChild:
** One of Hody's thugs tries to make a couple kids eat a Transponder Snail for [[spoiler:listening to the SBS]], or else he'll kill them. Fortunately, Jinbe steps in and says anyone who tries similar will answer to him.
** Absalom has no qualms in hitting [[spoiler: Merry in her child form]].
* WreckedWeapon:
** Cross's tactical baton gets cut up on the Bridge of Hesitation.
** Shu still manages to rust Yubashiri, and although it can be repaired, Zoro leaves it behind on Water 7.
** Leo's katanas break when he manages to pull of a Razor Wind attack on Long John Silverteeth. After his defeat, John offers his swords in replacement.
* WrittenRoar: The way Xomniac writes Soundbite's ClusterFBomb is taken directly from Berserker of ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight''.
* WrongGenreSavvy:
** Captain Sharinguru thinks himself a comicbook hero and that the Straw Hats are the villains. Conis reminds him that everyone is the hero of their own story right before blasting him.
** After confronting the Amigo Pirates, the serum that they had received from Dr. Indigo, and some hints about flying islands from Boss Kabuto, Sanji, [[GenreSavvy who's very familiar with comic book storylines]], figures they'll be encountering Indigo and his allies soon and wants Cross to start preparing plans now. Cross, who never watched the movies, provides a counterpoint in Oda's love for playing the long game, and with the perpetrator's apparent power level, this particular ChekhovsGun will most likely only be fired long into the New World. Unfortunately for Cross, ''Anime/OnePieceFilmStrongWorld'' is coming up right on schedule...
* YearInsideHourOutside: Just before dropping Cross into the One Piece world, B.R.O.B gave him the courtesy that upon reaching the end of the story, he'd be returned to the exact moment he left, so no one would know he'd been gone.
* YouAreNotAlone:
** [[spoiler: Cross does his level best to hammer this into Robin's head in an attempt to avoid the events of Enies Lobby.]]
*** [[spoiler: He later uses it to snap her out of a HeroicBSOD when the Buster Call begins leveling the island around them.]]
** Cross says as much to Marigold when they meet via [[spoiler: the SBS]], that Amazon Lily can count on his support.
** Bartolomeo and the other pirates don't even hesitate to help out their [[spoiler: Marine]] comrades in the [[spoiler: New World Masons]], not when the East Blue is at stake.
* YouAreFat: Several times in Chapter 54: Be it Cross commenting on Lassoo's increased weight that the dog-gun takes offense to, or Cross [[IShallTauntYou taunting]] his opponent Corto with fat-insults.
* YouCanTalk: Everyone's reaction to Soundbite first translating AnimalTalk in [[{{Ventriloquism}} real time]]. ''Including Carue.''
-->[[WesternAnimation/DonaldDuck I CAN TAWK?]]
** Which is the start of the RunningGag of Soundbite making ''all'' the {{Intellectual Animal}}s' voices [[Shoutout/ThisBites Shout Outs]].
* YouHaveGotToBeKiddingMe:
** Cross's reaction when he first meets Soundbite, realizing that a Transponder Snail ate a Devil Fruit. Shortly afterwards, he has this reaction again when he draws the conclusion that eating his iPhone gave said snail access to the Internet.
** Nami and sometimes Usopp's reactions to Cross's adrenaline junkie tendencies.
** Everyone’s reaction to the InevitableWaterfall.
** Nami and Vivi's reactions to finding out what the importance of their dancer outfits is: making it so that Scissors can get across the Sandora by dancing for him.
** Jabra's reaction right before [[spoiler:Luffy]] delivers the coup de grâce.
* YouJustHadToSayIt: In Chapter 39, after Spandam tempts fate one time too many, with an apoplectic Sengoku on the Transponder Snail that Kaku is holding.
-->'''Kaku''': A-Ah, Fleet Admiral? Before you proceed to rip my superior a new one… executive permission to speak freely?
-->'''Sengoku''': '''''Make it fast.'''''
-->'''Kaku''': Thank you, sir. ''(gives Spandam a flat look)'' You ''had'' to say it, you absolute ''[[PrecisionFStrike fucking]]'' idiot.
* YouWouldntLikeMeWhenImAngry:
** Soundbite parodies this trope in his response to Su's punishment for him teasing [[spoiler:the human Merry]].
--->'''Soundbite''': "PUT ME DOWN! You wouldn't like me when I'm revengening!"
** Quoted by Cross once they hear the news about what [[spoiler: Shiki]] is doing to the East Blue and the hometown of a good chunk of the Straw Hats.
* ZorroMark: Rather appropriately, Zoro's Three-Sword Style Burst: Five-Sense Ravager technique does this by etching the Straw Hat's Jolly Roger into a target.
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-->Until next time, this is Jeremiah Cross—"\\

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* TVTropesWillRuinYourVocabulary: The Straw Hats are starting to use the language from TV Tropes, thanks to Cross.

** Buggy refuses to find any aspect of the Straw Hat crew funny... until Soundbite plays the full original WhosOnFirst routine [[spoiler:over the SBS]].

** What was it that swore Buggy, someone who has seen the insanity of the New World, off the Grand Line and made him stay firmly in the East Blue? [[spoiler:[[EldritchAbomination Lily Carnation]]]]. [[spoiler:His old crew weren't even that lucky.]]

** Sovereign's Will, [[spoiler:a variation of Conqueror's Haki that Vivi unlocks. Everyone who hears it is forced to follow her orders, no questions asked.]]

** Soundbite is a prankster who doesn't care a whit about being racist with the voices he gives to other animals. He does, however, have the decency to be sensitive and somber when it comes to matters involving death. Notable is his utter disgust when Vice Admiral Onigumo orders a battleship destroyed in hopes of killing Luffy.

* MixAndMatchCritter: The Kung-Fu Dugongs, being seals with turtle shells. [[HotSkittyOnWailordAction Vivi says that some Alabastan marine-biologists say that there were originally manatees and sea turtles that... Yeah.]]