One Piece - Television Tropes & Idioms

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"A man's dreams will never die!!!"

In a world of endless oceans and exotic islands, a Golden Age of Piracy has arisen following the demise of the infamous "Pirate King", Gold Roger.

Pirates from across the globe are searching for Roger's cache of treasure- known as One Piece- said to be hidden somewhere in the Grand Line, the most dangerous stretch of ocean in the world.

One Piece, a manga by Eiichiro Oda also adapted into an anime, is the story of Monkey D. Luffy, an ambitious but kind young man who dreams of following in the footsteps of his childhood hero, Captain Shanks, by becoming a great pirate. In fact, he plans to find One Piece and become the new "Pirate King". To that end, he's assembled a loyal crew of eclectic sorts:

Roronoa Zoro, a lazy former Bounty Hunter and student of three-swords fighting style. He carries a sword in each hand, and a sword in his mouth, and dreams of becoming the world's greatest swordsman by defeating Dracule "Hawk Eye" Mihawk.
Nami, a sly, spunky female thief and navigator who dreams of making a map of the entire world. She's quite greedy and obsessed with cash, often conning other characters, even her own crewmates. In her backstory, we find out why.
Usopp, a long-nosed, cowardly sharpshooter with a penchant for bragging and telling tall tales. Has the alter ego of Sogeking, the "King of Snipers". He dreams of becoming a great warrior of the sea, much like his father, with the side goal of visiting Elbaf, an island of giants and a "warrior's paradise".
Sanji, a snarky, girl-crazy, chain-smoking Chef Of Iron who saves his hands for cooking by fighting with his feet. He dreams of finding "All Blue", a sea where the four "regular" seas (not counting the Grand Line) converge, and therefore holds every species of fish in the world.
Tony Tony Chopper, a naive & adorable reindeer who also happens to be an expert doctor. He dreams of becoming a doctor that can cure any disease.
Nico Robin, mystery lady, archaeologist, and former agent of Baroque Works that dreams of finding the Rio Poneglyph, an enormous stone block that holds the world's "True History".
Franky, the crew's resident shipwright/cyborg/speedo enthusiast. Powers up on cola and dreams of making an invincible ship that can sail to the edge of the world. Word Of God is that he's based on Jim Carrey's Ace Ventura.
Brook, a fencing musician skeleton with an afro, a weird sense of humor, an odd obsession with seeing women's panties, and the power to come back from the dead. Once. After he's already decayed to a skeleton. He dreams of reuniting with the whale Laboon (who lives at the entrance of the Grand Line), who he had befriended fifty years ago.

Together, the Nakama crew of Straw Hat Pirates travel their world, making their way to and through the Grand Line, facing villainous rival pirates and the forces of the corrupt World Government.

The big gimmick to the show is that many characters on the show, including Luffy, have consumed a Devil Fruit, apparently magical fruits that grant the user incredible powers, at the cost of making them physically incapable of swimming. Luffy, for example, has eaten the Gum Gum Fruit, turning him into a 'Rubber-man' that is capable of stretching his body like elastic. The powers granted by the other Devil Fruits are a varied bunch, from producing natural soap to turning into a giraffe to becoming a being made of living ice.

One Piece suffers so much bad luck trying to be (properly) accessible in the United States, it reaches epic proportions that compares to a Terry Gilliam syndrome! Much to the outrage of fans of the series, 4Kids Entertainment picked up the rights to show the anime in the U.S. and proceeded to edit, rewrite and otherwise mangle it to an absolutely horrific extent, even by comparison to their previous works. Entire arcs were removed, almost all the violence was toned down and guns were either laughably passed off as "water pistols" or crudely redrawn into things like slingshots or weird telephone/shower-head/hammer things.

When 4Kids gave up dubbing One Piece in 2007, Funimation picked up the license and began redubbing the series, with better dialogue and greater overall faithfulness to the source material. Unfortunately, this was not enough to save the badly-wounded franchise's run on Cartoon Network, and the TV broadcast was canceled.

Then in 2009, it was announced that the series would be simul-cast on the internet

. And there was much rejoicing... until real pirates took the sub off the website before FUNimation put up an official link to it and released it early. After this, the whole simulcast was delayed for three months to tighten their security and prevent any future leakings.

But ever since then FUNimation simul-casts the series to the glee of all fans and no one managed to leak it ever again. They continue to produce One Piece on DVD, starting from the beginning uncut and unedited. AND IT'S HERE!!!

. So at least a happy ending there.

What's more Viz and the U.S. Shonen Jump are now releasing the manga five volumes per month starting to January 2010, allowing the English readers to quickly catch up with the Japanese audience (similar to their treatment of the Naruto manga). The U.S. Shonen Jump has also moved ahead to the Impel Down arc after finishing the Alabasta arc.

It has had far less trouble establishing itself in other parts of the world, especially its home country. In fact, One Piece is the best-selling manga of all time. So yeah, it's sort of popular.

There's a character page for them. There is an Abridged Series of this. Not to mention that it has it's own Crowning Moment pages.

If you are watching the English dub or haven't read the manga, there are spoilers below.

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One Piece provides examples of:

Abhorrent Admirer: Zombie Lola towards Absalom. Also a subversion as she turns out to be a sympathetic character.
- Not to mention the real Lola toward any male who crosses her field of vision.
Achilles In His Tent: This was Usopp's whole deal during the CP9 saga.
Action Bomb: Averted, as the same power that gives Mr. 5 his explosive abilities keeps them from harming him.
Action Girl: Nami, Robin, and Tashigi, and Iva and Inazuma when they're in a "feminine mood".
Accidental Marriage: Possibly Luffy and Hancock. He at least "proposed".
Adaptation Decay: The anime is largely faithful, but it's hard to replicate the chaotic, everything-going-on-at-once pacing of the manga when you're trying not to overtake it.
Adaptation Expansion: Instead of relying on filler arcs to provide padding, the anime has recently taken to following a 1:1 chapter/episode pacing, expanding on and lengthing the already-present material. It also fully covered the fates of the other eight Straw Hats following their defeat by Kuma presented in the chapter that Luffy was traveling to Impel Down.
- Oda has admitted that despite the manga being so long and stuffed with ideas and happenings, if he had his way there would be even MORE. His editors tend to make him throw out a lot of ideas which aren't essential to keeping the story moving. These concepts often make it into the anime (this is also the origin of the tenth movie.)
A Day In The Limelight: Buggy; Coby; Helmeppo
Adult Child: Luffy, in personality and in the fact his birthday is "Children's Day".
Advancing Wall Of Doom: Rare non-videogame example. Chief Warden Magellan becomes this in the latter part of the Impel Down Arc, once it becomes clear just how overpowered he is.
Adventure Series: Pretty self-explanatory, really.
Adventure Towns: Though usually these are destinations for arcs, short or long, rather than Place of the Week.
Aerith And Bob: All over the place. Most of the groups tend to have members whose names have diverse linguistic origins. The nine enemy Supernovas actually stand out because the eight captains have a consistent naming theme.
A Father To His Men: Part of Whitebeard's reputation is that he sees every one of his crew members as a son, and will go absolutely berserk if something happens to even one of them. This includes taking on the ENTIRE World Government, including the Shichibukai, to rescue one.
- And of course, Ace and the other Division Commanders LITERALLY regard Whitebeard as a father.
- Recently, it's confirmed that this attitude extends to his allies, even if one of them does a little thing like stabbing him.
Affably Evil: Admiral Kizaru casually makes small talk with pirates before blowing them up real good.
- Nico Robin was first portrayed this way, but actually undermined the Big Bad at every turn, and joined the Straw Hats.
- Suprisingly, probable Big Bad Blackbeard is this to Luffy whenever they meet. Yeah, he tried to capture him that one time, and he handed Ace over to be executed, but doesn't mind if Luffy goes and saves him. Hell, he even praises Luffy for finding Skypeia and growing stronger. He genuinely seems to carry no grudges against people he slaughters/maims.
A God Am I: Eneru pretty well invokes this.
Air Jousting: Taken to its literal form between Gan Fall and Shura.
The Alcatraz: Welcome to Impel Down, the most highly secure prison on the planet and home to most dangerous criminals from all the oceans. Modeled after Dante's model of Hell, with multiple levels of torture and imprisonment, each more horrible than the last. Don't even think of escape, convicts, as this prison is built entirely underwater, and surrounded by sea monsters. There's also a secret sixth level, made especially for criminals too dangerous to exist, but its existence remains unknown to the public.
All Amazons Want Hercules: More specifically, they want your balls.
- Played fairly straight later in the same arc. All the Amazons are just dying to touch Luffy.
  - Most of them had never seen a man before. Plus, he's like the ultimate Stretch Armstrong. That alone makes him touch-worthy.
All Of The Other Reindeer: Chopper is a send-up of Rudolph, so...
Amusing Injuries: Whenever Nami beats someone up.
An Axe To Grind: Dr. Vegapunk's bodyguard, Sentomaru, wields a giant battle-axe, though he boasts that he doesn't even need it to take Luffy down.
- Very much earlier, the slightly less formidable Captain Morgan had an axe in place of a hand.
An Ice Person: Aokiji turns into living ice. Freezes stuff. Makes Incredibly Lame Puns about it.
Animal Motifs: The Seven Warlords of the Sea (bar one recent addition) all have animal themes. The Straw Hats too, though theirs are a bit vaguer. However, Oda has stated he's sure of at least one. He thinks.... that Chopper is a reindeer!
Animation Bump: Comes in several flavors. A handful of episodes are done in style that is much brighter and colorful and almost identical to the manga's art. Another handful of episodes are done in a more stylized manner that sacrifices detail for fluidity. The animation in general has recently been employing more detail and fluidity across the board, and the 10th Opening is exemplary of this.
Anime Theme Song: Over ten of 'em, all equally optimistic and catchy! Starting with "We Are!" by Hiroshi Kitadani, which is nearly classic among fans — the tenth theme is actually a remix of that song. The twelfth theme, "Kaze wo Sagashite" (Search for the Wind), is currently airing.
- Ending Theme: Many of these, too. Curiously enough, the first of these ("Memories") is probably the most non-action-y anime ending theme ever; all it features is the first five Straw Hats appearing one-by-one, and standing completely still.
- And, of course, there's the in fa mous and unforgettable "Pirate (C)Rap" created by 4Kids...
Annoying Arrows: The Rumba Pirates were able to spend their last minutes merrily partying and singing away, despite many having arrows sticking out of them. In the anime this goes on for nearly five minutes, though everyone but Brook dies before the end.
- And then of course there's Luffy's bedwetting "human pincushion" scene from Movie 6, though those at least were magic arrows
- Completely inverted in Amazon Lily with stone-splitting archery.
- Whitebeard does this with swords.
Arbitrary Skepticism: Luffy, whose crew includes a reindeer, a skeleton, and a cyborg, is shocked that Law has a bear in his crew.
Aristocrats Are Evil: The World Nobles and Wapol. The ruling family of Alabasta subverts this.
Armor Piercing Slap: Nami; at times Vivi
Arrogant Kung Fu Guy: Eneru and Rob Lucci. Both somewhat justified, since the former was literally invincible until Luffy came along, and the latter was a government Tyke Bomb.
Artificial Human: The Pacifistas, though the reason for their appearance is still a mystery.
Art Evolution: Oda's style has changed a lot over the years, becoming less round and cartoony, but also more variable. His panels are also much busier and full of activity, while in early chapters they were sometimes a bit barren.
- This has carried over to the anime, which has tweaked its character designs every now and then. The style has gotten more clean, with fewer superfluous lines and details, in order to make the animation more fluid. Watch any recent episode which contains a flashback to an early ep; the difference can be surprising.
  - Most noticeable with Chopper, who kept getting cuter little by little in the manga. In the anime, he remained the same for several years, then had his design changed to the cuter version all at once. Adorable, but jarring.
- Lest we forget Nami's ever-expanding breasts.
Art Shift: Three times in the anime: once in Movie 6 and in a later episode, the art (already done in a radically different style than the rest of the show) shifts to a black-and-white sketchy style. Then a minor shift appears in one of the more recent episodes: in the imagination of Boa Hancock, whose fantasy version of Luffy is drawn to look Bishonen in a completely non-Oda style, complete with sparkles.
- Set to happen again in the tenth movie's climatic fight, where Luffy looks like he'd just tapped into Spiral Energy.
Astonishingly Appropriate Appearance: Usopp is designed to look like Pinnocio. His long nose calls Pinnocio instantly, while his large boots, knobby body, and dark skin are specifically designed to look like wooden marrionette. Fittingly he's a constant liar, who desperately wishes to become a real man.
Authority Equals Asskicking: Every high-ranking Marine officer. Every one of them. Subverted in Smoker's case; he started as a mere captain and reluctantly rose to commodore. It's been said that he'd have a much higher rank if he were more obedient.
- Averted by Spandam, who's weaker than your average Mook and yet is the undisputed leader of CP9, even though Lucci disdains him and could snap him in half with one finger.
- Also subverted by the World Nobles, who seem to have virtually-absolute authority over all the people of Sabaody Archipelago, have the authority to call an admiral and battle fleet if someone ticks them off, and yet they have no fighting ability whatsoever, aside from being allowed to carry guns.
- Played straight with other pirate crews, where the captain is always the most battle-capable member of his or her crew. Justified in that... that's kinda how pirates work.
A Wizard Did It: The majority of the Devil Fruit powers seem to violate major, established laws of physics and causality, but that's okay because they're magical. Also it's cool.
Ax Crazy: Most of the Warlords have specific goals (Crocodile, Moria, Blackbeard), and some of them have codes of honor (Jinbei, Mihawk). By contrast, Slasher Smiling Donquixote Doflamingo appears to be absolutely batshit insane and just enjoys causing havoc and killing people.
Back Story: Everyone.
Badass Adorable: Chopper
Badass Bookworm: Nico Robin.
- And a flashback during the Skypeia arc reveals that Montblanc Norland was an awesome example in his day as well.
Badass Crew: The Straw Hats of course.
- In recent chapters, the Whitebeard Pirates have cemented themselves as one of the best examples of this trope.
Badass Family: The Monkeys, including Portgas D. Ace; depending on some theories, all the Ds.
Badass Grandpa: Luffy's actual grandpa, Garp. The man throws cannonballs like baseball pitches, for heaven's sake.
- And Whitebeard, obviously. Badass indeed.
- Silvers Reyleigh would likely also count.
- As would Gan Fall.
Badass Longcoat: Pick a high-ranking Marine officer or upper tier pirate captain. Any of them.
Subverted with Commodore Purin-Purin, and the Commodore that Portgas D. Ace kicked the ass of in the cover-story of the manga.
- Played straight by Mr. 5 of Baroque Works.
  - And recently, of all people, Alvida.
Badass Mustache: WHITEBEARD. The misleading name (which is because that part of his name in Japanese means any kind of facial hair) detracts nothing from its awesome manliness.
Red Baron: Most characters of consequence get a badass nickname of some kind. The entire Straw Hat crew get set nicknames once they get bounty posters. The most notable sets being:
- The Strawhat Crew: "Pirate Hunter" Zoro, "Cat Burglar" Nami, "Black Leg" Sanji, "King of Snipers" Sogeking, "Cotton Candy Lover" Chopper, "Demon Child" Nico Robin, "Cy borg" Franky, "Dead Bones" Brook, and, of course, "Straw Hat" Luffy.
- The Blackbeard Crew: "Supersonic" Van Auger, "Grim Reaper" Doc Q, "Champion" Jesus Burgess, Shiryuu "Of The Rain", "Colossal Battleship" San Juan Wolf, "Corrupt King" Abalo Pizarro, "The Great Drunk" Busco Shot, "Cresent Moon Hunter" Catalina Devon and, of course, Marshall D. Teach, AKA "Blackbeard"
- The Supernovas: Eustass "Captain" Kid, "Surgeon of Death" Trafalgar Law, "Red Flag" Diez Drake, "Sorcerer" Basil Hawkins, "Massacre Man" Killer, "Roar of the Sea" Scratchmen Apoo, "Mad Monk" Urouge, "Glutton" Jewelry Bonney, and Capone "Gang" Bege
- Not forgetting "Fire Fist" Ace, Marco "the Phoenix", "Diamond" Jozu, and, of course, Edward "Whitebeard" Newgate. "Flower Sword"" Vista may be a subversion.
- "Dark King" Silvers Rayleigh, Garp "the Fist", "Knight of the Sea" Jinbei, "Axe Hand" Morgan, Dracule "Hawk Eyes" Mihawk... Hell, almost every character who is at least a recurring character or villain or pirate or marine has a Badass Nickname.
Badass Normal: Usopp. Sanji and Zoro would also qualify, were it not for their superhuman strength.
- Mihawk is kinda this compared to the other Seven Warlords of the Sea, being the only one to so far possess neither Devil Fruit powers or Fishman abilities.
- Surrounded by guys who shoot lasers, freeze oceans and turn into Buddha, Garp stands out as a Marine capable of extreme badassery (he was the Pirate King's nemesis) despite having no apparent Devil Fruit power.
- Gold Roger himself also counts. To the best of our knowledge so far he had no devil's fruit powers. He appears to have the ability to understand any language, but that isn't what made him the greatest pirate to ever live.
Baddie Flattery: Foxy complimented Luffy on his new look before their fight.
- Rob Lucci in the anime commended Luffy during their battle for standing up to The World Government, but was too haughty to admit that a ~~rebel~~ pirate could actually be a Worthy Opponent for him.
- Blackbeard does this constantly.
Balance Of Power: Marine Headquarters + the Seven Warlords of the Sea vs. the Four Emperors.
- However, the Four Emperors aren't allied with each other, so that makes the balance even more precarious, to the point where the World Government was shitting itself at the prospect of Shanks and Whitebeard simply talking.
Bare Your Midriff: Almost every female main character at one point or another. The Movie 10 tie-in episodes also give us Largo, the male mariachi-themed aspirant for a position amongst Gold Lion Shiki's armada.
Base On Wheels: Capone "Gang" Bege is a base on legs. His insides appear to be more like a fortress, where an army of tiny people, cannons, and horses reside. And they grow larger when they get a certain distance away from him(a few inches).
Beat Them At Their Own Game: The Davy Back Fight, where one pirate crew challenges another to a series of games with crew members as the prize. Naturally, the Straw Hats win.
- Also with the CP9 who, confident they'll beat the SH, make a game out of rescuing Robin by keeping key on them. One of which will unlock Robin's shackles. Course we all know what happened there. And even earlier in Arlong arc, when the titled fishman throws Luffy into the water and proclaims its a game to save him to the other SHs (Zoro, Sanji and Usopp) by beating his Quirky Miniboss Squad. Three fishmen beatdowns later and Luffy freed to deliver some much overdue pain onto Alrong.
Beauty Is Never Tarnished: Nami's skin is still ~~practically~~ flawless, despite the fact that she's been slashed or stabbed more than any character besides Luffy or Zoro. Hell, this trope might count for everyone besides Zoro, who's the only one in the entire ~~crew~~ series to retain the scars from his battles.
- In the illustrations from an old light novel set in Loguetown, Nami does have a rather noticeable scar on her shoulder where she stabbed out her Arlong tattoo.
- Hancock in the current arc.
- The anthromorphic personification of this is the Sube-Sube Fruit which makes the eater so slippery that attacks slide right off them.
Berserk Button: Almost every Straw Hat has one. Never mess with Luffy's hat. Mind your manners around the ladies, or Sanji will make mincemeat of you. Mess with historical artifacts, and Robin will turn your spine into a pretzel... if you're lucky. And if you harm one of their own... RUN. RUN AS FAST AS YOU CAN.
- Other characters have them, too. If you so much as touch Luffy the wrong way, Boa Hancock. Gets. PISSED. And don't even think of mentioning Buggy's nose, or saying any words that sound like "nose", or mentioning round, red objects in general.
- Don't call Whitebeard a failure when Ace is in earshot. Unfortunately, this worked out in Akainu's favour.
Better Than It Sounds: The Filler arc G8.
Beware The Nice Ones: Luffy is a pretty nice guy. There are just some things he won't tolerate◊.
Beyond The Impossible: Each Finishing Move Luffy uses to knock out each Big Bad is more over the top and devastating than the last.
- Along with how much damage he takes before managing to pull off said finishing move.
BFS: Mihawk's sword, the Kokutou Yoru, is nearly as tall as he is, and about five times as wide, due to the cross-like hilt.
- Recently, "Vortex Spider" Squad used one, although it was somewhat justified as he needed it to stab the shit out of Whitebeard.
Big Bad: There's one for every arc, however the main antagonist of the series is shaping up to be either Blackbeard or the World Goverment.
- With four words, the Big Bad of the series seems to have been revealed.
  Blackbeard: THIS IS MY ERA!!!
Big Brother Is Watching: Thanks to his extremely advanced Mantra power, Enel is able to sense the movements and thoughts of EVERYONE on Skypeia. And thanks to his Devil Fruit power, he's able to punish anyone he wants with a giant frickin' lightning bolt. It seems like the only reason he doesn't just single-handedly wipe out all resistance completely is that he would get bored.
Big Damn Heroes: The Straw Hat Pirates, more often than not.
- Right in the middle of the ongoing war between Whitebeard's Pirates and the World Government, which is pretty much destined to end badly, Luffy and the Impel Down escapees fall in from the sky, being sent hurtling by Ivankov's Death Wink.
- Luffy and his crew are surprisingly bad at it however, often missing important deadlines and having to scrape together after the initial BDH moment. Most notably was how many times they didn't arrive on time to stop the war in Alabastor, prevent Enel from blowing up half of Skypia, and most recently failing to rescue Ace.
  - Whoa hold on there, you can't fault them for those instances Getting delayed by Crocodile sorta held them back not to mention having to give Vivi (the only one who could stop the war) safe passage so she won't get killed. Enel pretty much knocked out all of them out beforehand and incapicated Luffy for a moment. And techniclly they did rescue Ace, it was his descion to save Luffy by sacrifcing himself.
Big Eater: Luffy; Ace; Garp; Jewelry Bonney
- And Lucky Roux, one of Shanks' crewmates, who is notably the only big eater in the series who is actually fat (or indeed, in anything but amazing shape).
- Let's not forget crappy king Wapol, who is required by his Devil Fruit (which lets him take on the property of anything to eats) to constantly eat nonstop, ranging from metal to planks of wood. And yet his powers enable him to become as slim as the aforementioned examples.
Big Lipped Alligator Moment: "EVERYBODY! ZOMBIE NIGHT!"
- Also the royal guards from the Alabasta saga; they show up out of nowhere, having apparently drunken "death water" that gives you superstrength for a few minutes before killing you - a plot device, incidentally, that had never been mentioned before and hasn't been mentioned since. They take a few completely ineffective swings at Big Bad Crocodile, promptly keel over dead, and no one mentions them ever again.
  - This was mostly done to show how much of a Complete Monster Crocodile was. They wanted to kill him, but figured that even if they failed, they would die like warriors at his hand. Croc chose to deny them BOTH paths, and simply let them swing at them without doing anything, thus having them die from the death water in shame. Of course, he had already established himself as a thoroughly evil bastard and really didn't need to prove it any further. So Yeah.
Bilingual Bonus: Many and numerous.
Bishonen: Parodied with Sanji's Parage Shot, which is capable of literally beating people pretty. Iron Mask Duval was grateful, Wanze of CP7 was not.
- Recently in the anime, we get to see Luffy from Boa Hancock's point of view, where he is very, very Bishounen, complete with sparkles.
Bishonen Line: Rob Lucci uses Seimei Kikan to make his half-leopard form smaller and more maneuverable, but he has to change back to normal to use his strongest attack.
Blessed With Suck: A highly uncommon trait in this series, since important characters tend to be very good at exploiting their strengths, no matter how weak they may seem (see What Kind Of Lame Power Is Heart Anyway).
- Perhaps the most notable case is Brook, whose Yomi-Yomi Fruit allows nothing more than coming back from the dead. His soul took so long finding his body that it had rotted to only bones by the time Brook fully revived. Plus it's implied this power only works once, so Brook is now left with the negative effects of a Devil Fruit. Regardless, even Brook has found ways to put his light, bones-only body to good use.
  - The fruit also keeps you in whatever state you were in when it kicked in permanently, essentially bestowing semi-immortality; the user can't age or die of natural causes but they can be killed by other means. This turned out to be more of a curse for Brook since it led to him spending fifty years all alone on a deserted ship.
  - And the most horrific side-effect of all: if someone cuts off Brock's afro, it will never grow back.
Blinding Bangs: Carrot of the now disbanded Usopp Pirates.
Bloodier And Gorier: All of Zoro's fights compared to his last ones.
Bloodless Carnage: Rather odd example from one of the filler arcs when an amnesiatic Luffy and Zoro get into a fight. Luffy gets hit with Zoro's Oni Giri attack, which tears his vest and leaves visible cut marks that remain for the rest of the episode, but there's no blood, despite the fact that he was previously shown bleeding from a cut on his cheek.
- All fights are this way in the 4Kids version, replacing any blood with dirt and bruising.
Blood Upgrade: Pearl from Don Krieg's crew, who becomes more unpredictable when he realizes he's bleeding.
Bloody Murder: Crocodile's only weakness is liquid, as getting wet prevents him from using his sand powers. What does Luffy use when he has no water? His own blood.
- In the 4Kids version this was changed to sweat
Boisterous Bruiser: The giants of Elbaf are a Proud Warrior Race in this vein from what we've seen so far. Blackbeard fits the trope to a T despite being a villain. If anything, his cheerful big guy attitude is what makes his evil actions unsettling. His crewmate Burgess is one with a little bit of Blood Knight mixed in.
Born Of Clay: Eiichiro Oda himself is behind the story and character design of the upcoming Movie 10. The Big Bad, Gold Lion Shiki, recently got a mention in the manga as the only person to successfully break out of the world prison Impel Down.
Bowdlerise: 4Kids North American dub.
- The Japanese anime also did this occasionally, with respect to the manga. When Luffy gets hit by Jango's chakram, it originally goes straight into the back of his head; the anime changes this into a mouth catch that slightly cuts the corners of his lips. Belle-mère is shot through the head in the manga, while the anime just has her shot, period. There are various other incidences as well, though they're relatively minor.
  - ... Except for one: According to the anime guide One Piece RAINBOW, Sanji is 20. Word Of God in the manga states unequivocally that he's 19, and none of the characters are getting any older. This may have to do with Japanese broadcast TV standards, which allow adults to be shown smoking ("adults" being defined as anyone age 20 or over), but not minors.
- Another instance in the anime. During Sanji's fight with Absalom, Absalom stabs him in the back with a knife, and Sanji manages to locate him thanks to him stepping in a pool of his blood. However, thanks to the Akihabara Massacre about a week prior, the knife and blood was hastily edited out in the anime, resulting in Sanji apparently getting hit with a normal blow and locating Absalom without help. Foreign broadcasts, and presumably the DVDs, remain unedited.
Breaking The Fellowship: As of Chapter 513, the Straw Hats are scattered by Kuma. As of writing, they have yet to reunite.
Brick Joke: There's one every now and then. One that isn't entirely a joke but becomes funny through the effect: Luffy lunges at Wapol, saying "Gomu Gomu Bul—" right before a three-chapter flashback. Once the flashback is over, it cuts right back to Luffy finishing the "—let!" as he punches Wapol. Even funnier is that it lands on the last page of the volume and comes out of nowhere after all that flashback.
- There's a Running Gag about Sanji's wanted poster not resembling him in the least. Then, they encounter Duval, a poor sap who perfectly resembles the poster, and has been pursued by bounty hunters due to mistaken identity.
  - And in chapter 0, it's revealed he was born that way.
Bring My Brown Pants: Usopp tends to balance out Luffy's red shirt moments nicely, to the point it just gets funnier when you notice they wear the garments in question. Though currently, Buggy had done this not so literally (maybe) when Whitebeard called him out on wanting to take his head.
Broken Bird: Robin's detached nature is due to years of being a fugitive from The Government and persecution due to her ability to read Poneglyphs. It wasn't until the Straw Hats actually declared war on The Government to prove how they considered her one of their own that she realized that she had found her place.
Broke Your Arm Punching Out Cthulhu: This happens to Wiper, who is exhausted from "killing" Eneru, who restarted his own heart, and eliminated the former.
- Subverted in the case of Luffy (naturally), who should've been completely exhausted from taking in 100 shadows to pulverize Oars, but when the former rises up to fight again, Luffy prepares to get up, ready for action, merely stating "Damn, I'm too tired for this!" then leading the Straw Hats to defeat him anyway, with him giving the finishing blow.
- In the same battle, the Big Bad Gecko Moria took in a thousand shadows and Luffy simply went into Gear Second, made Moria spit some of the shadows out, before using Gear Third on top of it and knocking him into the mast, defeating him. Using either one of the Gears puts great strain on him, so you can imagine how stacking them worked out.
- Played painfully straight one arc later. When confronted with Impel Down's chief warden Magellan, whose entire body is covered in paralyzing, flesh-melting poison, Luffy decides to strike him down with one Gear Second-enhanced attack, hoping that poisoning can be resisted with sheer willpower. Magellan takes the attack head-on, seems knocked out for a brief second, then swiftly recovers and curbstomps Luffy who is nearly disabled by poison.
- Also his fight with Rob Lucci, where he was pretty much crippled afterwards.
- And let's not forget Luffy's battle with Crocodile, where he had to be bleeding profusely, covered in his own blood, to be able to hit Crocodile. Coupled with that Crocodile's poison hook had infected Luffy with a lethal poison multiple times thruought the fight. By the time Crocodile had finally been knocked unconscious, Luffy was laying there dying of poison.
Bunny Ears Lawyer: The author, Odacchi. Seriously, the fans wouldn't put up with all the unexplained nonsense he comes up with if he wasn't so darn good at it!
Calling Your Attacks: In fine Shonen form, though it should be noted that Ussop tends to enjoy subverting this by deliberately miscalling his attacks in order to throw opponents off.
- Averted with Hawkeyes (who's one of the most no-nonsense guys in the series) and Whitebeard (who's probably well past the whimsey age).
Call To Agriculture: Gan Fall, the pumpkin farmer.
Camp Gay: Bon Clay (Mr. 2), and DAMN proud of it.
Canon Immigrant: Ryuuma the zombie samurai in the Thriller Bark arc. The character is originally from an early Oda one-shot, Monsters, which pre-dates One Piece and had no relationship to the series originally, but now has place somewhere in its distant past; Ryuuma's feat of slaying a dragon (mentioned by Hogback) happens there. He died at old age, still a great swordman, and an unspecified time later Hogback and Moria found his corpse and reanimated it with Brook's shadow. Since Ryuuma was a prototype of Zoro in some aspects, it's almost natural he got to fight with him.
Cant Catch Up: Nami and Usopp. Becomes a major issue for Usopp in particular.
- Especially when his inventions put Nami significantly closer to the others than he is. This is also specifically pointed out by Zoro, who mentions (but not in front of Usopp) that Usopp has become an insanely powerful fighter, easily able to fight off a squadron of marines by himself, it's just that everybody he's fighting is so strong that he hasn't noticed.
Card Carrying Villain: Bellamy
Cargo Cult: Eneru, Brook, and to an extent, Boa Hancock and her younger sisters.
Cast Of Snowflakes: Oda is one of, if not the king of this trope.
Catch Phrase: Franky's energetic "Super!"
- Also, Luffy's "I'm gonna be the Pirate King!" ("Kaizoku-ou ni, ore wa naru!")
Cat Girl: Nami's got a subtle cat theme but that's about as far as it goes. There's several Cat Boys, from the Zoan user Rob Lucci to the Black Cat pirates, who wear cat ears.
Charles Atlas Superpower: The only Devil Fruit powers that grant any additional strength are Zoans, and just about everyone thus shown to have those were plenty tough even before using then. Arguably, the only character with Super Strength who isn't an example of this trope is Chopper, who was(blue nose aside) merely an ordinary reindeer before coming across the Human Human Fruit.
- Then there's CP 9's Rokushiki, which involves techniques allowing its users to make themselves Made Of Iron, do a Double Jump, deliver a literal Fingerpoke Of Doom and more, all through just Training From Hell.
Charlie Brown From Outta Town: Sogeking
Chaste Hero: Luffy, clueless little lug that he is. This actually helps him immensely on Amazon Lily; he's immune to the powers of Boa Hancock's Devil Fruit because he honestly doesn't feel any lust towards her.
Chekhov's Gun/Chekhov's Gunman: Oda is not one to waste detail. Everything and everyone from Ace's Vivre Card to Sanji's wanted poster to the first mate on a ship from a flashback who turns out to be Silvers Rayleigh come into play; even insignificant details such as the sun tattoo that Arlong's crew sports play roles later on.
- This got the 4Kids version into trouble more than once, as they cut out Vice-Admiral Garp, Laboon, and the giants Dorry and Brogy, all of whom are extremely important further down the line.
- Recently, Oars Jr. who got beaten down by the Shichibukai before managing to really do anything, has turned out to have collapsed over where the Marine's siege walls were to come up, keeping them from being pulled up to their full height and giving the Whitebeard pirates a fighting chance as a result.
- Perhaps the ultimate example of this trope concerns Silvers Rayliegh a character who showed up for ONE PANEL in an early chapter(in a flashback). He is not seen again for over TEN YEARS of real-world time, at which point he turns out to be extremely an important person, both to the plot and to the world of piracy in general.
Cheerful Child: Chimney, Miss Goldenweek. In spite of the latter being a grown woman and hardened criminal, that is.
Chef Of Iron: Sanji
- Don't forget his mentor, 'Red Leg' Zeff and pretty much the entirety of the Baratie's staff. Plus, I suppose Wanze counts.
Cherry Blossoms: Featured prominently with Chopper.
The Chessmaster: Quite a few One Piece villains, and they do it superbly. Captain Kuro is appropriately titled "Kuro of A Thousand Plans". Crocodile is perhaps the greatest example so far, manipulating an entire country for four years, pushing it ever closer to self-destruction, whilst keeping it secret from even the World Government and even lauded as a hero. Eneru is insane, but he is clever. He manipulated a final assault on him on Upper Yard from Shandians, the Straw Hats' adventurous natures and unleashed his subordinates on them, turning it to a survival game. He also successfully checkmated even Nico Robin when she tried to use knowledge she thought he didn't have against him. And took a nasty shock for it.
- Also, Commander Jonathan from the G8 filler deserves a mention for out-smarting and out-maneuvering the Straw Hats on multiple occasions, and even used actual chess pieces to plan out his strategies.
- Sengoku nicknamed The Buddha and the Strategist for good reason.
  - Of course, now that his devil fruit power has been revealed, we know he isn't just called "The Buddha" because of his enlightenment.
- Marshall D. Teach, othwerwise known as "Blackbeard", looks like he desrves this role so far, playing the Whitebeard Pirates and the World Goivernment in the master plan to become "Pirate King".
Chivalrous Pervert: Sanji, who has never actually really tried anything with a girl, and would rather die than hit one.
Circus Of Fear: Buggy and his pirate crew.
City Of Canals: Water 7
Cloud Cuckoo Lander: Gedatsu
- Even funnier when you realize he lives on Skypeia, a Sky Island floating on a cloud...
Comedic Sociopathy: Sanji is guilty of a lot of this, especially in the anime. Sometimes he's an outright Jerk Ass toward the male members of the crew during their downtime; that said, he knows when to drop the obnoxiousness and get serious when his friends are in trouble.
- Mildy justified at times. Sometimes the only way to keep Luffy from raiding the kitchen every five minutes it to resort to armor piercing kicks.
Commedia Dell Arte: One of the forms of Filler is an Elseworld starring the same characters in 19th century Japan. It has the pleasant side effect of giving more limelight to some of the more colorful (but less threatening) villains of the series by placing them in a situation other than Beyond The Impossible combat.
Complete Monster: Spandam of CP9, every World Noble seen so far, Admiral Akainu and the World Government's rulers. Even the worst pirates in the series don't approach the monstrous behaviour of those connected with the World Government.
Conservation Of Competence
Conspicuous CG: The Thousand Sunny is very often rendered in full CG during full-bodied sailing shots. There're also a few examples in the movies, such as the stem of the Lily Carnation in Movie 6, the island turtle in Movie 7, Crocodile's sand in Movie 8, and the lions that Shiki conjures up out of stone and earth in Movie 10.
Convection Schmonvection: Ace and Akainu have the power of fire and lava, respectively, and can both use their powers without instantly frying absolutely everyone standing in close proximity.
Cosmopolitan Council: The Council of Kings.
Cool Boat: The Going Merry and the Thousand Sunny definitely qualify for this. A number of other ships from the One Piece world could also hold this title.
Cool Train: The sea trains in Water 7.
Cowardly Lion: Usopp and Chopper in particular, though Nami can be like this at times as well.
- Though with her, it's usually just as much a case of biding her time.
Culture Chop Suey: An early episode had Rice Balls (edited out by 4Kids to be cookies), even through the pirates are mostly based on Western fictional depictions of pirates.
Culture Clash: It's not a good idea to go around cutting down trees without consulting the natives first, even if it's for a good cause. Or killing giant animals that they worship.
Cracking Up: Luffy's Lets Get Dangerous moments.
Crapsaccharine World: On the off chance the World Goverment isn't oppressing you, the Pirates are.
Crazy Awesome: Pretty much every aspect of the series.
Crazy Prepared: Crocodile. See his hook as one example.
Creator Cameo: The character Odacchi from the One Piece Soccer Special, who was not only named after Oda but was voiced by him as well.
Cross Counter: This occurred during a brief brawl that Luffy had with Zoro on Whiskey Peak.
- Also happened numerous times in the fight between Sanji and Mr. 2.
Cross Dressing Voices: Everyone who's voiced Luffy and Chopper in the original and both dubs.
- This happens to Sentomaru too, with the result that the axe-toting sumo sounds like an old lady who smokes like a chimney. The dissonance is pretty wild but at the same time works pretty well.
Crosses The Line Twice: Boa Hancock. Kicking a kitten? Cliché but amusing way to establish a villain as a Jerkass. Having said character pull a Heel Face Turn and subsequently kick a puppy and a baby seal at the same time? Hilarious.
Crouching Moron Hidden Badass: Luffy, and occasionally, Sogeking.
- And Shanks' crew were this way in Luffy's flashback. Another one of the ways in which Luffy takes after his mentor.
Crowning Moment Of Awesome: Many and frequent.
Crowning Moment Of Funny: See above.
Crowning Momentof Heartwarming: Quite a few of these too.
Crowning Music Of Awesome: Oh just guess...
Crystal Dragon Jesus: Eneru
Cue The Sun: Inverted in episode 405. It is only when Luffy in down on the ground sobbing over the disappearance of his friends that the light from the sunset filters through the trees.
- Also inverted near the end of Thriller Bark, where the sun rising was a very BAD thing.
- Much, much earlier, however, this was played straight in Episode 43 after the fall of Arlong Park.
Cut And Paste Translation: The 4Kids dub is a pool of its own digitally erased blood. Most people unanimously declare it a Macekre.
Curb Stomp Battle: Oars Jr. It doesn't matter that you're so immensely huge that you dwarf giants, do not mess with the Shichibukai, YOU. WILL. NOT. WIN, especially if one of them wants your corpse for his undead army.
- Earlier on, Luffy beats down Bellamy with one punch. See, there's a reason he wasn't fighting Bellamy earlier; until he made it personal, there was no point.
  - Keep in mind, he used a single, unstretched punch, at Bellamy, who was traveling at intense speeds straight at him.
- And incredibly depressingly, the end of the Sabondy Archipelago arc. The Straw Hats face (and take beatings from) a Pacifista, Admiral Kizaru, Sentomaru, and Bartholemew Kuma, all in a row with almost no time to rest in between. And it ends with Kuma scattering the Straw Hats to the four corners of the world with almost no effort. Luffy's crew never even had a chance. It was absolute, utter defeat.
- Even moreso when Luffy fought Magellan. After being told numerous times that there was no way he could possibly win, they proved it since Luffy couldn't hit Magellan without getting poison on himself until even his endless determination couldn't keep him going.
- More recently Luffy fought his grandfather Garp and there was lots of manly banter before Luffy punched him into a wall skipping what could have been an epic fight. Damn you Oda!
  - That can hardly be called a fight, as opposed to Garp being unable to bring himself to kill Luffy and Ace, letting Luffy go through the only way he could: by receiving a massive punch in the face. And judging by his reaction after watching the punch, Sengoku knew that was exactly what happened.
Cursed With Awesome: Eating a Devil Fruit permanently robs the eater of the ability to swim. The powers they give usually more than make up for this fact.
Cute Ghost Girl: Perona initially subverted this slightly by controlling ghosts rather than being one, though its played straighter later on, when she reveals that she can project her consciousness out as a ghostly version of herself.
Cutlass Between The Teeth: A key part of Zoro's fighting style.
Cybernetics Eat Your Soul - This is what happened to Kuma.
- Completely averted by Franky, who is almost entirely metal, but the most boisterous member of the Straw Hat Crew.
Dance Battler: Sanji; Mr. 2 Bon Clay
Dark Action Girl: Boa Hancock
Darwinist: Captain Morgan; Arlong
Day Of The Week Name: Several code names in Baroque Works.
Deadly Upgrade: Chopper's three rumble balls. Arguably Luffy's Gear Second as well, since Lucci has said that his life span is being used up twice as fast whenever he enters it.
- Ivankov's Emproio Vigor Hormones can give a powerful adrenelin boost, but will have equally powerful side effects afterwards.
- As noted above, Kuma.
Deal With The Devil: For reasons as yet unknown, Kuma (said to despise the World Government) agreed to be the prototype for Vegapunk's Pacifista project.
Death By Childbirth: Portgas D. Rouge, although justified in that she purposefully extended her pregnancy for 20 months at the cost of her life so that her son wouldn't be connected to Gol D Roger.
Death By Origin Story: All over the damn place. Since (almost) nobody dies in the current storyline any tragic death happens via flashback.
- Special mention must be made however of Brook - he died in his OWN origin story. For a bit.
Death Glare: An actual power; some pirates are so badass people actually faint in their presence.
Defeating The Undefeatable: Luffy defeating Eneru, although that was more to do with being a Rubber Man, defeating Rob Lucci of CP9, and defeating Gecko Moria, with a thousand shadows within him.
Defeat Means Friendship: As of the current arc, several major enemies the Straw Hat pirates have been up against are on their side, though Bon Kurei is the only one that actually considers them a friend, the rest are just along for the ride.
- Earlier than that, Mr. 2 Bon Kurei tries to invoke this trope with Sanji after their fight. Sanji just kicks him in the face anyway.
- Whitebeard's crew takes this to an extreme. After they kick your ass, you become a part of the family whether you want to or not.
Defensive Feint Trap: A favorite tactic of Usopp's.
Defrosting Ice Queen: Boa Hancock
Dem Bones: Brook
Demon Head: Any time someone gets angry at Luffy, especially Nami.
- Or at anyone else who does something stupid.
Department Of Redundancy Department: The name of Usopp's alternate persona, Sogeking, is a Portmanteau of the Japanese word "sogeki" (sniper) and the English word "king". When he gets a bounty, the poster gives him the Badass Nickname "king of snipers" Sogeking.
Designated Girl Fight: Nami is a major offender; Robin's been noticeably immune, though.
- An extremely contrived version of this appears in Impel Down, where one character turns himself into a girl for the express purpose of fighting the sole female member of the Quirky Miniboss Squad.
Determinator: A lot of the male characters including and especially, Luffy, Zoro and even Usopp.
- This trope has been increasingly subverted throughout the series, however. Determination is fine, but there are clear points in which not even Luffy, Sanji, or Zoro can power through their injuries or defeat the truly top-tier opponents they face. A running subversion is Luffy's exhaustion after using the Gears to fight Big Bads... regardless of his determination or the threat to his life, he cannot move when he's that tired.
  - In the current Whitebeard arc this has been deconstructed rather well. Luffy has more determination and guts than anybody there, but the enemies he faces are simply too damn strong.
Deus Exit Machina: Trope Namer for the redirect Eaten By A Snake.
Did You Just Flip Off Cthulhu: Sanji gets electrocuted by Eneru, and then says "Thanks for lighting my cigarette." Then he tells him before fainting "To get ready to cry." That moment was totally awesome.
- To a significantly lesser extent, Luffy telling WHITEBEARD to shut up and that he's going to be King of the Pirates and impressing the old man could be said to fall here.
- There's also Buggy completely gimping Mihawk's swordsmanship after Luffy used him as a human shield. Too bad he had to chuck that bomb at him afterwards...
Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu: The Straw Hats and Shandian forces are all but entirely defeated by Eneru, and Nami is too scared of his awesome power. It's starting to look like he might be the Almighty God after all. And then, Luffy appears and kicks him in the stomach. Open a can of whoop-ass that momentarily knocks him out, makes him afraid to challenge him, and when he finally reaches him, he finishes him by knocking him through a giant bell in the air.
- Wiper killed Eneru first by wearing Seastone skates, and puts him in lock firing a Reject Dial on his chest. However, Eneru's powers allowed him to restart his own heart, leaving Wiper very exhausted, despite the fact he should be dead himself.
- The Straw Hats defeating Oars, a zombie giant about four times the size of normal giants. He also known for conquering an entire continent. And then in the same battle the Big Bad Gecko Moria grew to a massive size by taking in the strength of 1000 shadows (including Luffy's) to increase his power. Luffy used both Gears together and used a punch on Moria that caused the island-sized boat to brake in half, knocked Moria into the main staff/tower, and then the tower fell on Moria, knocking him out and releasing all the shadows.
Dirty Old Man: Averted in general with the exception of Brook, who gets bonus points for being a Dirty Old Man post-mortem.
Disappeared Dad: Dragon and, less spoilerifically, Yasopp.
- And of course GOL D. FUCKING ROGER
Disney Death: Unless it's a flashback, no one with a name dies in One Piece. Ever. Pell and Conis's father are two perfect examples. Arguably Kaku as well, and more recently, Oars Jr. Dear GOD, Oars Jr.
- As much as One Piece follows this trope, there are a handful of characters who are seemingly killed with no indication that they could be alive. The examples are Mr. 13, Miss Monday, Nero and Bellamy.
- Well, Merry technically "died", making her death the first real significant death in the series.
- And let's not forget a certain someone who got impaled through the chest with a fist of magma...oh god, Ace...
- 267 slashes, 152 shots, 46 cannon blasts, and half of his face being burnt off later, Whitebeard is dead. Fare thee well.
The Ditz: Luffy; Gedatsu; Porche of the Foxy Pirates
Dojikko: Tashigi. Less extreme version of the trope so far, though.
The Don: Capone "Gang" Bege, modeled after Al Capone and head of a mafia-style pirate crew.
Dope Slap: When someone isn't getting hit with an Armor Piercing Slap, it's this.
Double Jump: Geppou, although it goes a lot further than just double-jumping...
Draco In Leather Pants: In-universe, Boa Hancock explicitly invokes this to get away with crossing the Moral Event Horizon and still remain loved by all her subjects, as well as by anyone else who's ever met her, a group of people that is largely composed of her victims. In the real world, just replace "subjects", with "fandom", and you've got a textbook-case of this trope in action.
Boa Hancock: No matter what I do, whether I kick a kitten, tear off your ears, even slaughter innocent people. The world will never cease to forgive my actions. Why, you ask? Why, it is because I am beautiful.
Dressed To Kill: CP9. Carrying out assassinations and government conspiracies while looking absolutely sharp.
- But it's also important to note that several members of CP9 look really ridiculous wearing suits like that, especially the fat Fukurou and the hyperactive Kabuki actor Kumadori.
- This seems to be spread to the Marine as well. Just look at Admiral Kizaru.
- The entire Straw Hat crew get into the art in the tenth movie. Probably the only time in the series outside of colorspreads that you are going to see Luffy wearing a dress shirt, suit, and tie.
Dr Jerk: Doctor Kureha. The residents of Drum Kingdom call her a witch, although if you say it to her face, she ~~just might~~ will kick your ass.
- And Dr. Kureha is Mother fricking Teresa compared to Dr. Hogback.
Dropped A Bridget On Him: Sanji is not amused when he finds out he landed on an island full of transvestites.
Dual Wielding: And triple-wielding, and sextuple-wielding and nonuple-wielding...
- The sextuple-wielding thing is a little easier to understand when you mention that it was an octopus man who did it.
  - The triple-wielding, on the other hand, is by a guy who uses his mouth for the third sword.
- X Drake dual wields a cutlass and an axe. Of course, that's when he's not using his Devil Fruit Power to assume the form of a T-REX.
Dub Induced Plot Hole
- First, there's the skipping of the Laboon arc, which, for those of you who don't know, featured the Straw Hats meeting a whale living at the entrance of the Grand Line. Said whale was kept by a pirate crew as a pet until they decided that it would be too dangerous to take him into the Grand Line, so they left him there and told him that they would be back... and fifty years later, they're still not back. It was this arc that introduced the concept of Log/Eternal Poses (or Grand/Eternal Compasses for dub viewers), but it gets worse; Much, much later on, it's revealed that the Straw Hats' future musician and eighth member was a member of this crew, the only one who survived the journey, and reuniting with the whale was his whole reason for joining them in the first place.
- Then, there's the skipping of the Little Garden arc, which was the Mr. 3 team's introduction. This arc provided much character development for Usopp, and inspired him to visit the giants' island, Elbaf, one day. In addition, Sanji acquires an Eternal Pose to Alabasta in this arc, which meant that the Straw Hats could set sail for it immediately instead of waiting a year for their Log Pose to record Little Garden's magnetic field. Then, there's the "Mr. Prince" subplot, which starts in this arc and eventually leads to the Straw Hats escaping Crocodile's death trap in Alabasta. Lastly, Mr. 3 makes another appearance in the Alabasta arc, but since he hasn't ever met the Straw Hats in the dub, this leads to some awkward plot holes.
- Since one of Sanji's defining characteristics is being unwilling to fight women, the German dub's decision to make one of his opponents (who he ended up cracking the skull of) a woman was quite awkward.
  - That's not even getting into the fact that the Straw Hats' meeting Broggy and Dorry are what enable Usopp to get Oimo and Karsee to Heel Face Turn in Enies Lobby.
  - Unfortunately for 4Kids, they did not anticipate Oda's faithfulness to all tropes Chekov's.
Ducks In A Row: The original five Straw Hats were introduced in successive story arcs.
Dumbass Has A Point: Luffy to Vivi during the Alabasta Arc. Even his crewmates were amazed at his logic.
Dumb Muscle: Gedatsu; Hamburg of the Foxy Pirates; Oars Jr.
Dysfunction Junction - The Straw Hats, where all of them have some sort of scarring past. And other characters too!
Early Bird Cameo: Nami, introduced during the Buggy arc in the manga, appeared in the first episode of the anime, even before main character Luffy.
Easily Forgiven: Averted pretty hard in regards to Usopp leaving the crew.
Elegant Gothic Lolita: Perona
Elemental Rock Paper Scissors: Used a few times when fighting Logias are concerned. Crocodile can't dissolve into sand if he's wet, Enel's lightning has no effect on Luffy's rubber body, and Akainu can punch through Ace's stomach because...his lava is hotter than Ace's flames?
- More likely it is because magma/lava is a compound of both extreme heat and rock, thus Ace's fire is negated or smothered when it comes in contact with the magma and thus able to damage Ace.
- Lava, for the most part, is hotter than fire; after all, it is, by definition, the point where rocks melt. Fire usually doesn't do that. As for why it lets him hurt Ace, Logia Fruits and their weaknesses still haven't been fully explored yet, so who's to say what makes sense or not?
Eigen Plot - Used quite a bit. Typically, each of the Straw Hats will manage to get paired off with an opponent that matches their abilities; Zoro goes head to head with swordsmen(or failing that, The Dragon), Sanji fights opponents who use martial arts.
- Initially subverted in Enies Lobby: Kalifa's first opponent was Sanji, the Straw Hat who is least equipped to fight her. After he gets his butt kicked, Nami tags in, and lo, Nami's new weapon is the perfect counter for Kalifa's Devil Fruit.
- Usopp generally subverts this by getting into fights with opponents that are quite a bit stronger than him(Chuu, Miss Merry Christmas and Mr 4, Jyabura), but then it's played straight on Thriller Bark where his cynicism makes him immune to Perona's powers.
Elseworlds: The various omakes released with the data books often take this route. So far, they've portrayed the Strawhats as middle-aged housewives, mythological creatures, members of The Mafia, fairy tale characters, and even parodies of the classic American superhero.
- Several anime fillers also seem to run in an alternate timeline with the characters being put into a Feudal Japan setting.
Enemy Mine: Pretty much the entire Impel Down arc where Luffy has teamed with Buggy the Clown, Mr. 3, Crocodile, and Mr. 1.
Ensemble Darkhorse: PORTGAS. D. ACE. He basically popped into the story, introduced himself, showed off his hot shirtless physique, blasted a Marine fleet with his fire powers, then left without really doing anything. Since then, he has had precisely one fight scene in the manga before getting some serious James Bondage. These few exploits (not even enough to fill a volume) were enough to rocket him to the very top of the popularity polls, and he is often (if not always) the most popular non-Straw Hat character regardless of his minuscule screen/panel-time.
- Just the fact that he was usually the most popular non-strawhat makes it that much more shoking when he becomes the first major character (besides Merry) to die outside of a flashback. In a series when a minor character can be at the center of a explosion with a 5-km diameter, that means a LOT.
- Trafalgar Law zoomed up to the top ten in the latest popularity poll before he even did anything. He was a hot guy with a fuzzy hat and had a high bounty. That was it. He did turn out to be one of the more interesting of the 11 Supernovas, though.
- The series' tendency toward Laughably Evil Quirky Miniboss Squads has let a few of the minor villains gain fanbases. Especially Kaku, who plays Laughably Evil to great effect in his fight with Zoro and placed high in the polls for his efforts.
Estrogen Brigade Bait: A large portion of the male cast fits into this trope: Luffy, Zoro, Ace, Smoker and Trafalgar Law, to name a few.
- For the ladies who prefer their men older...I present to you Shanks.
- Let's not forget Sanji, who most recently became bait for a very different sort of Estrogen Brigade, much to his dismay.
- Yorki: A drunken blonde cowboy pirate who loves singing and cute animals. Delicious.
Evasive Fight Thread Episode: Happens multiple times in the Marineford arc.
Even The Girls Want Her: Boa Hancock and Alvida, to an extent. Given the nature of her Devil Fruit power, this proves quite useful to Hancock.
- More than just the girls, with Hancock. She's used her "the target must lust for you" petrification attack successfully on snakes.
  - Snakes? Pff. Snails!
- One of CP 9's operatives, Kalifa, gets this reaction from Nami before their fight in Enies Lobby.
Nami: She's so sexy! I want her as my secretary! Wait, what am I saying? I'm not a guy!
Everything's Better With Princesses: Nefertari Vivi; Boa Hancock
- Interestingly, the former doesn't like acting regal and even dressed in casual clothing, after she was exposed. The latter, ironically is in actuality an empress and given her vanity and ego, how she named herself, or allowed her subjects to nickname her the "Snake Princess" is a mystery. Oh wait, she's called the "Pirate Empress" as well!? That's an even more grandiose title than anyone than the one who will own One Piece! And she has both titles!? Nice to see some royalty is humble, huh(!)
- Then again, she's an empress who is also a pirate, so put two and two together and ... yeah.
- Let's not forget Hancock's other official title of Warlord of the Sea.
Everything's Better With Spinning: If we tried to list every instance of this trope, we'd be here all day. However, Mr. 2 should be noted as a particularly big believer in this trope.
Everything's Even Worse With Sharks: Arlong. Jinbei is a subversion. Unless you fuck with Whitebeard. Then it's definitely played straight.
- And since one of Zoro's motifs is that of a shark, this trope aplies to him.
Everything's Funkier With Disco: Zombie Night!
Everything's Worse With Bears: Bartholomew Kuma. Also a subversion, as he's spared the Straw Hats twice, even though he had orders to kill them the first time, and he's supposedly the Warlord who's most loyal to the World Government.
- Played straight as of the arrival of the World Government's Pacifista Army.
- Played straight with Kumacy, Perona's pet Zombie Teddy Bear.
- Also played straight with Bear King, Big Bad of the second movie.
- Bepo, of the Heart Pirates, is a Kung-Fu Bear. Subverted, as he's a pretty nice guy... er, bear.
Evil Counterpart: Possibly Blackbeard and his men.
- Buggy is definitely an evil counterpart to Luffy. For one thing, their names are somewhat similar, but more importantly, their Devil Fruit powers are similar in effect but fundamentally opposite and provide invulnerability to opposite kinds of attacks; Buggy is immune to being cut (while cutting is one of the only ways to injure Luffy) and Luffy is immune to blunt force (which is one of the only things that can injure Buggy). They also share rather similar ideals and goals, though Buggy had put his on hold in favor of being the big fish in a small pond until Luffy defeated him.
Evilutionary Biologist: Dr. Indigo, member of the Flying Pirates, is the one responsible for the experiments to create Shiki's army of mutated animals.
Excited Episode Title: Both in how they're written and how Luffy says them.
Expository Theme Tune: The 4Kids dub theme, positively dripping with Totally Radical and absolutely no sense of irony.
Expressive Hair: Mr. 3, Franky
Expy: Impel Down warden Shiryuu appears to be based off of Riki-Oh's Washizaki, and, by extension, M. Bison. Street Fighter jokes have been made since Day 1.
- According to Oda himself:
  - Django was inspired by Michael Jackson
  - Franky was inspired by Ace Ventura and one of his friends.
  - Eneru was allegedly inspired by Eminem
  - Brook was inspired by Slash
  - Ivankov was inspired by Tim Curry's portrayal of Dr. Frank-N-Furter
Extreme Doormat: Cindry, Dr. Hogback's assistant/object of lust. To the point that she'll actually lick the floor if he orders her to. She does regain some volition in the end though, right before being sacrificed for Moria's One Winged Angel.
Eyepatch Of Power: Oda Eiichiro has done the unthinkable: in the entire 500+ chapters of his manga about pirates, not one person has appeared with an eyepatch. Not even one. In an interview he has stated that he has that particular adornment saved for a specific character. Suffice to say this character will be EPIC.
Eye Shock: The cast does this when they find out that Dorry's alive.
Facial Composite Failure: Sanji's Wanted Poster.
Family Unfriendly Violence: Most of the fighting in the series isn't terribly graphic, but occasionally we get stuff like Crocodile impaling Luffy, Doflamingo slicing limbs off, or Akainu literally punching part of Whitebeard's face off!
Fan Disservice: Some think that Kokoro's mermaid form qualifies as this. Sanji seems to think so anyway.
- A fairly amusing gag regarding this occurs when the Straw Hats meet Caimie, a younger, much more attractive mermaid. Sanji and Zoro literally erase their own memories of Kokoro so they can pretend Caimie was the first mermaid they ever met.
Fandom Nod: The published lists of questions answered by the creator. Sometimes serious answers that add to canon, mostly humorous ones that...don't.
- Also, when Luffy's Gomu Gomu Gatling was voted the most popular attack of the series, its upgrade, Jet Gatling, was used to defeat the next Big Bad.
Fan Dumb: There's a segment of readers who still believe Boa doesn't love Luffy. They're quite vocal about this because they apparently want Luffy to be with someone else.
- Especially stupid considering it's not even necessary. That potential relationship is already hindered enough both due to Luffy being completely unaware of it, and Hancock being not quite able to bring herself to spell it out for him in terms he can understand.
- You know what? It's Fan Dumb all around whenever there's a One Piece ship war; when you ignore everything else the story has to offer in favor of arguing over shipping in a show that's never going to have romance as a serious subplot, there's no help for you.
- Ace's death has apparently started up a segment who believe that Ace's death has caused the series to be Ruined Forever.
Fan Service: Not too much of it, fortunately, but as a case in point: Nami vs. Kalifa.
- And after that, the fanservice levels were suddenly cranked up to 11. Weird fanservice, but still fanservice.
Fantasy Kitchen Sink: The series features sea monsters, ki abilities, mushroom-induced hypnotic powers, fish-men, not to be confused with mer-men, telecommunication snails, a giant whale with an entire lake inside his stomach, giant riding ducks, dinosaur islands, viking giants, islands in the sky, shells that can control the weather, Hollywood Cyborgs, MIBs with super Kung Fu, and, lest we forget, magical/demonic(?) fruit that gives you super powers.
Fartillery: Franky's Coup de Boo
Fate Worse Than Death: Spandam. It was richly deserved.
- Word Of God states that this is the only reason Luffy doesn't kill his opponents. He believes that letting them live to watch their hopes and dreams fall apart around them is this. However, it is often subverted during the cover stories, where a former villain would go through a series of events that result in them becoming even better off then their original goals would have made them.
Feather Boa Constrictor: Just about everyone in Amazon Lily.
Femme Fatale: Boa Hancock, Nico Robin at first, Captain Hina seems to be this as well.
The Fettered: The Marine and the World Government play this trope completely straight. This is not a good thing.
Filler: Not that much of it, but fans are sadly more prone to remembering Rainbow Mist and Warship Island over the gem G8.
Fetish Fuel Station Attendant: Nico Robin...
Fire Forged Friends: Why the Straw-Hats joined the Straw-Hats, with no exceptions.
Finger Twitching Revival
Five Man Band: The Straw Hats were this before Franky joined.
The Hero: Luffy
The Lancer: Zoro
The Big Guy: Sanji (a Genius Bruiser)
The Smart Guy: Nami
The Chick: Usopp
Team Pet: Chopper
Sixth Ranger: Robin
Flash Step: Soru
Floating Continent: An entire saga was based around one.
- And in recent events, Nami has gotten herself tossed onto one by Kuma.
- And the Born Of Clay Big Bad for Movie 10, Gold Lion Shiki, has his own personal collection of the things for his base, Strong World.
Fluffy Tamer: Attempted by Luffy with Thriller Bark's cerberus.
- Mohji of Buggy's crew thinks he's this, though the only animal he seems capable of taming is his pet lion.
Foe Yay: Surprising absolutely no one, we have Doflamingo, who jokes about how Crocodile siding with the pirates instead of the World Government is "making me jealous".
Foreshadowing: If you've read the story long enough, you'll realize that most, if not all, of the major events or characters had been hinted at prior to coming into the story, sometimes hundreds of chapters in advance. In one case, in the first chapter.
Four Kids Entertainment: The ones who mercilessly Bowdlerised this series before the Japanese studio handed the license over to FUNimation.
Freak Out: Many for alot of characters mostly used comedy. But probably one of the most notable one is Luffy at the end of 574. Luffy looked scary before but...damn.
Freudian Excuse: You've got to feel for some of the Big Bads. Gecko Moria had his entire crew wiped out, leaving him the last man standing. Boa Hancock was kidnapped and sold into slavery at the age of twelve, branded, possibly raped, and (based on what we know of the World Nobles) treated like absolute shit for four years while being used and abused for their satisfaction. It's also been implied that Crocodile went through some serious shit.
Fridge Logic: In the latest chapter its revealed that Blackbeard picked up a few new crew members from Impel Down, one of whom is a hugantic freaking giant whose head alone is nearly as large as Marineford HQ building. Sooo...how did they fit him inside Impel Down? For that matter, where did BB get a ship large enough to hold him and still make it to Marineford in time?
- Brook constantly brings up the impossibilities of being a skeleton and yet being able to see, using the bathroom, dying when you're already dead etc. etc.
Funny Afro: Eiichiro Oda considers afros comic gold, it seems.
- Inverted in Fleet Admiral Sengoku's case. He and his afro are to be taken seriously.
Funny Aneurysm Moment: Ace's debut scene, sans a flashback a few episodes back, shows him apparently having up and died while eating; it turns out he just fell asleep and Hilarity Ensues... except now he is dead so... yeah.
Fur Bikini: Most of the inhabitants of Amazon Lily wear these.
Gag Boobs: Due to Oda's art style, many females are extremely well endowed. However, for a somewhat more solid example, based on her measurements, Nami has F-cup breasts. That's... pretty big.
Game Breaking Injury: Tons of examples. See link for more details.
Gender Bender: Emporio Ivankov can transform even the most manly of men into shapely women, and vice-versa,as well as himself.
- And thanks to the wonders of the SBS we now have ones for the Straw Hat crew◊, featuring cheery and mellowed out former men and absolutely psychotic and Ax Crazy former women.
General Ripper: Akainu (when he was still known as Sakazuki) actually ordered his Buster Call warship to fire at an evacuee ship to remove the threat of any archaeologist escaping. Even the man who ordered the Buster Call in the first place was horrified by this. Recent evidence shows he hasn't mellowed out one bit.
Giant Equals Invincible: Completely averted. All being huge in this series means is that you're that much more obvious a target. Just ask Oars Jr. and pretty much the world's entire population of Sea Kings.
Girl On Girl Is Hot: Franky was rather pleased when Nami was searching Kalifa for the key.
Give Me A Sword: Happens during Zoro's fight with Hatchan.
Go Out With A Smile: All who carry the middle initial of D. are known to do this when they die. Those seen so far include Gol D. Roger, Jaguar D. Saul, Portgas D. Rouge, and Portgas D. Ace.
Gondor Calls For Aid: Twice during the Marineford arc, all manner of pirate captains from the New World come out to support Whitebeard and Ace. Then later after Luffy unwittingly unleashes his Haki and stuns the heck out of even the most badasses there. All the pirates (inculding Whitebeard and even Crocodile of all people) focus on helping him get to the gallows to rescue Ace.
Gonk: Kokoro; Lola; several women of Amazon Lily.
Good Scars Evil Scars: Almost every character has at least one. An interesting case is Psycho For Hire Rob Lucci: his back bears a massive scar shaped like the emblem of the World Government (who are supposed to be the "good guys"), yet his story arc demonstrated that the opposite was true.
- Gecko Moria and Crocodile have scars bisecting their faces. Zoro's got a big honkin' scar right across his chest from his encounter with Mihawk, Shanks has a facial scar from fighting Blackbeard, and Luffy has a scar where he stabbed himself in the face to impress Shanks (Shanks was not amused).
- Not quite a scar, but similar in nature and meaning is Chopper's broken antler. His right antler is broken off at the base and reattached with a strip of metal. He lost his horn fighting All Of The Other Reindeer to get what he thought was a miracle cure to heal his mentor/father figure.
  - These are somewhat justified; they're pirates, after all.
Gorgeous Gorgon: The Boa Sisters, though they're not actually Gorgons. And in the cases of Marigold and Sandersonia, they require a very specific definition of gorgeous.
The Government: In business for nearly eight hundred years, and Heaven help you if you know about one of their conspiracies...
Government Conspiracy: All information on the century preceding the World Government's rise to power has been erased, save for the ancient Poneglyphs. Any knowledge of these stones is forbidden under penalty of death. Past measures include levelling an entire island and placing a massive bounty on an eight-year-old girl. The Water 7 and Enies Lobby story arcs revolve around this conspiracy.
- Lesser cover-ups include crediting Smoker for Crocodile's defeat, and ordering Kuma to eliminate all witnesses in Moria's case.
Grandma What Massive Hotness You Have: Doctor Kureha, who's close to 140 years old, and though her face looks close enough to what it should to be "not-hot", her body is smoking hot.
- Shakky also counts, as she states that she quit being a pirate forty years ago.
Gratuitous English: When Trafalgar Law activates his powers he says "Room" followed by "Shambles".
- What, it's not Justified? His ability puts the 'room' in 'shambles', makes sense if you see it.
- Zoro also happens to call Luffy "Captain" several times. He also says "Thankyou". But then again, he's voiced by Kazuya Nakai. Viewers are probably half expecting him to scream PUT YA GUNS ON!! any time.
- Franky is also more likely to use english than lot, particularly his "SUPER!" Catch Phrase.
- Luffy and Usopp use English when calling their attacks after they've transformed into Gear Second or Sogeking.
  - Luffy has nearly all of his special move names in English starting with Gomu Gomu No, Pistol, Machine Gun, Bazooka, etc. To the point that non-English names are actually notable exceptions, such as Fuusen (Japanese name for balloon).
- More recently, Ivankov.
- Though it should be noted that everyone is apparently speaking English anyway.
- Overall, One Piece is a lesser offender for this trope.
Grail In The Garbage: How Zoro acquired one of his swords, having found it in a bin of cheap swords. Of course, it sort of belonged there, considering it's cursed to cause horrible death for the wielder.
Gratuitous French: Sanji and Robin's attacks. Sanji's voice actor actually pulls off the French pretty well, with only some L/R issues.
- Robin mixes in a little Gratuitous Spanish with her attacks.
Gravity Sucks: One of Blackbeard's abilities.
Green Lantern Ring: ~~Lots~~ All of the Devil Fruits seem to have no real upward limit on how they can be used, save for the user's imagination. It's specifically stated that Devil Fruit abilities never grow stronger with use; their users grow more creative.
- A prime example is Luffy's Gear Second; who expected that being made out of rubber would let you manually pump your own bloodstream to speed up your body's systems? Or inflate your bones in order to make your punches more powerful?
- Kuma's also a great example: He has the ability to push stuff. Big froopin doop, right? WRONG. Kuma's power lets him push damn near anything. Up to and including the abstract concept of pain. And he can control the speed of the push as well, meaning you might find you're being pushed across the room, or being pushed TO AN ISLAND ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE WORLD.
- Haki seems to be going this way, too. The concept existed some time before the Amazon Lily arc, but it wasn't until then that most of its effects were explored: Cancelling Devil Fruit defenses, movement prediction, jacking the power of your weapons Up To Eleven, and good old fashioned knocking people out.
Groin Attack: Buggy is a victim in episode 8, Kalifa gives one to Sanji while his leg is raised to head level (chivalrously stopped short of her face of course), and when Franky's turn comes in the anime they do a quintuple take of it.
- The Franky bit counts as a Crowning Moment Of Funny.
Growing The Beard: Happens literally in the case of Blackbeard, whose namesake grows thicker and darker with every major appearance.
- In the case of the series itself, many fans note that One Piece really started coming into its own during the Arlong Arc, and even after a few hundred chapters, simply hasn't stopped getting better since.
Guns Akimbo: Used somewhat often, notable examples being Daddy Masterson and Braham.
Handsome Lech: Sanji, it's likely Absalom was this before he became a Biological Mashup.
Hannibal Lecture: Said by Hannyabal. Go figure.
Happy Dance: Chopper's got one he breaks into whenever someone compliments him (while trying to act angry about it).
Harmless Freezing: Semi-averted. After being frozen by Aokiji, great care is taken during the thawing processes of Luffy and Robin to avoid shattering through thermal expansion, and they are out of commission for a while after being defrosted. Not completely realistic, but better than most cases.
- Played straight with the Impel Down escapees who were frozen and then instantly thawed via magma.
Harsher In Hindsight: News of Ace's death came shortly (as in within days) after Funimation released the first dub episodes of the Alabasta arc on their site. Said arc featured him as a Guest Star Party Member for a few episodes. It makes things unsettling..
- Double wammy: Episode 437 also came out this week. Luffy's determination to reach Ace is to the point that he gets up even though poisoned, and beats his head against the bars of a cell to break out. Even considering the expression on Luffy's face, watching that scene was hard.
- The anime's not quite there yet but remember Bon Clay's Heroic Sacrifice and his facing down Magellan while Luffy and co. got away? Yes? Remember Bon Clay's last words to Luffy? "YOU MAKE SURE YOU SAVE YOUR BROTHER!!!" ...Ouch.
- And that part of the Alabasta arc is also when Ace gives Luffy the vivre card and says "If you hold onto that, we'll surely see each other again." YEAH, UH, OUCH.
Heavy Sleeper: Luffy; Ace; Zoro; Garp
Heel Face Turn: Robin; Franky; Hatchan; Duval
- To a lesser extent many villains. While they mostly dont usually go so far as to join the winning team, they do reform to some degree (Buggy) or at least stop being being evil (CP9).
Hero Antagonist: Well, the protagonists are pirates, so at some least some of the people after them aren't just in it for the hyper-corrupt government. Good examples at this point are Smoker, Tashigi, Aokiji, T-Bone, Garp, and Coby. Though it is occasionally a point of contention, the staff of Impel Down have a strong case going for them as well, Hannyabal in particular.
Heroic BSOD: Luffy when Ace dies, he has to be carried catatonic from the battlefield.
Heroic RROD: Gear Second puts much strain on Luffy, though he has been using it in short bursts without much trouble recently.
Heroic Sacrifice: Pell.
- The jailbreak of Impel Down succeeded only because Mr. 2 stayed behind.
  - Mr. 2 is the king of this trope, having managed no less than three instances of it over the course of the series.
- And now it's all but certain we're about to get one from Whitebeard, notably just after stopping an attempt at this by Squardo.
  - Akainu just punched half his face off.
- Ace saving Luffy.
Hey Its That Voice: The series is populated with veteran seiyuu/voice actors who have had numerous roles. It's hard not to notice.
- Luffy is Krillin, Yajirobe, Koenma, and Pazu.
- Zoro is Mugen, Hijikata and Date Masamune.
  - Funimation: Yamcha, Piccolo, and Vegeta.
- Nami is Risa Koizumi and Shuzo Matsutani.
  - Funimation: Miss Yukari, Haruko Kamio
- Usopp is Ranma, and Inu-Yasha, and L. And Tombo. Oh, and the live-action voices of Artemis and Son Goku
  - He's also Nin-Nin. Try getting that image out of your head
  - Funimation: Krillin, Maes Hughes
- Sanji is Sha Gojo.
- Chopper is Pikachu and Gash Bell. And his mentor, Dr. Kureha, is Son Goku, Son Gohan, and Son Goten.
- Robin is Dr. Ritsuko Akagi.
- Franky's voice previously appeared as Jango and Mr. 2 Bon Kurei from this series, and has played Dark Schneider, Fujiwara Shinobu and Judau Ashta elsewhere.
- Brook is Shin-chan's grandfather Ginnosuke and Vice Principal Uchiyamada.
- Ace is Ataru, Kai Shiden, and Piccolo.
  - Funimation: Roy Mustang
- Shanks is Char Aznable.
- Aokiji is voiced by Takehito Koyasu, who's been in every anime ever since he started voice acting.
- Hancock is Sailor Moon, Excel, and Misato. Cue fanservice and shotacon joke.
- ... You know what? I should stop before this gets out of hand.
  - Funimation Vivi is interesting.... Whatever do you mean, out of hand?
  - Honestly though, it's Winry Rockbell.
High Pressure Blood: Mainly centered around Zoro. It got especially ridiculous during his fight with Mr. 1.
Hollywood Cyborg: Franky; Kuma
Hollywood Evolution: The crux of Shiki's plan to take over the world.
Hollywood Healing: Bandaids heal everything... sort of.
- Subverted when Zoro's bandages were taken off after it was believed he healed from the time when he took in all Luffy's pain and fatigue from fighting Oars and Moria into himself. However, when the Straw Hats were fighting a Bartholomew Kuma copy, the pain returned with a vengeance, and took even more punishment from Admiral Kizaru.
- Averted horrifically when Arlong rips off Zoro's torso bandages to reveal the gaping, bleeding, very poorly stitched wound inflicted by Mihawk. Also in several other cases where bandaids only hide a wound that requires proper medical attention, such as the anime-only Puzzle.
Zoro: HEAL EVERYTHING
Chopper: "This is going to be your new rectum."
Hit And Run Tactics: Usopp uses these tactics as standard procedure.
Hollywood Voodoo: Basil Hawkins
Holy Shit Quotient: Tends to rise the farther along the Grand Line the Straw Hats sail.
- With a very sharp increase ever since Amazon Lily, and especially since the start of the Marineford arc.
Honor Before Reason: Sanji is completely unwilling to hit a female for any reason whatsoever. While originally, this may have counted as a mere personality quirk, it became a serious issue at Enies Lobby where Kalifa nearly killed him because he was unwilling to fight back.
- At one point when one of Shanks' crew wants to take revenge on Whitebeard for insulting him, Shanks tells him that his life is more important than honor.
  - Played with with Whitebeard. When Shanks tells him that Ace isn't ready to fight Blackbeard, he laughs at him and tells him that Blackbeard's crimes are unforgiveable, and that he has to be shown that you can't live on the sea without morals. However it's later revealed that Whitebeard had a bad feeling about Teach, and discouraged Ace from going after him, even if his code dictates it. He was just covering for Ace. When Ace is captured Whitebeard is perfectly willing to go against the entire World Government to bring him back, but he's very strategical, and scolds his sons whenever they rush in without thinking it through.
Hook Hand: Crocodile
Hot Amazon: Boa Hancock. Considered to be one of, if not, the most beautiful woman in the world. Naturally, she falls for Luffy.
- The rest of Amazon Lily has a weird sort of subversion. See, Amazon Lily's women are pretty much split between Hot Amazon or Gonk. However, under their philosophy, the strong are beautiful. So a really strong gonk could be considered more beautiful than a Hot Amazon. Boa's still the strongest and hottest, though.
How Do I Shot Web: When Kaku first uses his Devil Fruit, he accidentally changes into a full giraffe instead of a half-giraffe as intended. After that, however, he gets the hang of the applications of his new power suprisingly quickly.
- Nami's first fight with the Clima Tact was this trope non-stop. It doesn't help that she was trying to read the instruction manual while under fire... and that about two thirds of the functions of the weapon were party gags. Dammit Usopp.
Humans Are Bastards: Pretty much the view of a lot of Fishmen and probably some Merfolk. But given what they used to do them, and in some areas still do, it's not hard to see why they would see them that way. In a show of Fantastic Racism, one Fishman climbed the Red Line and set fire to the city of Marejois in the name of all Fishmen, after freeing all the slaves, including the human ones, even though he hated humans.
- Of course this was no excuse for what Arlong did
- Tony Tony Chopper also initially distrusted humans, and he subconsciously makes up for his growing trust for them when they compliment him by dancing and insulting them.
  - Although not quite humans (I think), the same went for Skypeians, removing the Shandians from their own land. This inspired Wiper to conclude All Skypeians Are Bastards.
Human Popsicle: Little Garden arc, when Mr.3 tried to lock Vivi, Nami and Zoro in wax.
The Hyena: Hamburg; Miss Valentine
- Also Bellamy, whose Badass Nickname was "The Hyena".
Hyperspace Arsenal: Franky and Don Krieg. With the former, Heaven knows where he finds the space for all that weaponry... Oh wait, don't answer that.
- No, he's got that space full, too.
- Then there's Garp, who pulled out a massive iron ball and chain that was around three-quarters the size of the ship he was standing on (and presumably storing it in).
Hypocritical Humor: When Buggy reveals his splitting power, Luffy calls him a freak.
Hypno Fool: Jango
I Am Not Weasel: Tony Tony Chopper is occasionally mistaken for a tanuki, or in his Heavy Point, a yeti or gorilla.
I Am Your Opponent: This is a shonen series, so this is obviously used a lot. Notably, it's one of the only 'rules' of fighting that Luffy really gives a shit about.
Idiot Hero: Luffy
I Have No Son: Inverted with Ace and Roger.
- And played straight with Whitebeard toward Blackbeard.
Ignored Enemy: Mr. 5 and Miss Valentine got this in the duel between Luffy and Zoro.
- This becomes comic when Monster Chopper was rampaging through the Tower Of Justice, as Nami tries to talk some people sense into him, completely ignoring CP9 agent Kalifa, which annoyed her, and eventually prompted her to attack Chopper, and later Nami.
I Knew It: It was always a belief among the fanbase that Luffy and Ace were not directly related. However, nobody thought that Ace is the son of Gol D. Roger.
I Know You Are In There Somewhere Fight: Ivankov vs. Kuma.
I Let You Win: Garp's "fight" against Luffy can be seen as this.
I Would Say If I Could Say: Alot of Brook's jokes revolve around him doing or saying he'll do stuff, then note that he can't because he's a skeleton(even though he still can but...)
Ill Girl: Kaya. She got better.
Impaled With Extreme Prejudice: Both Luffy and Robin get this from Crocodile in the Alabasta Arc.
- Whitebeard gets this from one of his captain allies, with a BFS, no less.
- Now ACE has been impaled by Admiral Akainu. With his fist. And looks like Ace is dead.
Implacable Man: Magellan, the prison warden of Impel Down.
Impossibly Cool Clothes: The duds the Straw Hats wear in the Unlimited video games. They're pretty insane.
Incendiary Exponent: Sanji — cue jokes about the "burning sensation" in his feet.
- Boa Marigold combines this with Prehensile Hair
Inelegant Blubbering
Ink Stain Adaptation: The 4Kids dub.
- *rubs* The memory won't come out! IT'S NOT COMING OUT!!!
Inspector Javert: Captain Smoker and his crew.
Instant Awesome Just Add Mecha: Made out of wax rather than metal, but it's the thought that counts.
Instant Dogend: Chain-smoking Sanji.
Instrument Of Murder: The chancellor of Alabasta's saxophone.
- The pirate Scratchmen Apoo is an instrument of murder. No, he doesn't USE an instrument of murder, he IS one.
Internal Reveal: When the Straw Hats were brought to the Shabondy Islands, they were in search of a man who could prep their ship for fishman island. Then the readers were told that this person was the Pirate King's Number Two, which made fans eagerly await his inevitable meeting with Luffy.
In The Blood: The World Government is a major believer in this. Whitebeard ignores it completely.
Invisibility: Absalom
Ironic Echo: When Blackbeard reveals the Power Nullifier aspect of his Devil Fruit powers, he states that all of the overconfident fruit users of the world will be powerless against him. He later tries this against Whitebeard, and promptly gets a chunk gouged out his shoulder for his trouble. Whitebeard then notes that Teach is too reliant on his Devil Fruit Power.
- Kind of funny since Teach's power thus far is one of the more limited ones around, it's just been mostly fisticuffs
  - Eh, not anymore. Now we definitely know why Blackbeard was so fixated on that particular Devil Fruit.
Ironic Hell: Sanji in Kamabakka Kingdom, the "kingdom of transvestites".
It Got Worse: The Water 7 and Sabaody Archipelago arcs.
- Also, Arabasta.
- By far the biggest case of this is in chapter 574, as Ace dies, making the entire last few arcs a failed mission.
  - And then, right after that, the Blackbeard Pirates show up to finish off Whitebeard off. And their ranks are swelled by a bunch of extremely powerful never-seen-before criminals that Blackbeard just freed.
  - And now it just got WAY worse: Blackbeard's ability has allowed him to take Whitebeard's Quake Quake ability as well as his own. Pretty much the entire world had an Oh Crap moment at that one.
It Runs On Nonsensoleum: Oda usually gives ridiculous answers to questions about how things work, usually as a joke and an added reason of avoiding the question.
- Like Zoro being able to talk with a sword in his mouth because his soul allows him to...
- Or Sanji's Diale Jambe not burning his leg because his heart is burning even hotter...
- Brook's afro survived after his death because it has deep roots...
- Nami's punches hurt Luffy's spirit...
  - Nami, the first member of the Straw Hats to learn haki!
- Franky's body is powered by cola...
- How did T-Bone survive his encounter with Zoro? It just happened. It just happened in a manly way.
James Bondage: Ace in Impel Down.
Jerkass Facade: A lot of women in One Piece, including Nami, Nico Robin, Doctor Kureha and Boa Hancock.
- "Red Leg" Zeff does this to his cooks, including Sanji.
Jesus Taboo: Eneru ran into this problem. In the televised Funimation dub he was called King instead of God, while Viz went the Dragon Ball route and simply used the untranslated equivalent Kami instead, though they also still occasionally refer to him in a more neutral sense as a god.
- Played straight with Jesus Burgess being translated as G. Zass Burgess in the Funimation dub.
Joker Jury: The Eleven Just Jurymen, made up of condemned criminals who vote guilty to take as many others down with them as they can.
Kangaroo Court: The Eleven Just Jurymen and Chief Justice Baskerville.
Karma Houdini: Eneru and Doktor Hogback get away with nothing more than some bruises. First is the most psychotic villain in the series, second is one of the most disgusting.
- In Eneru's case, this is more because killing him isn't enough to stop him. Letting him fly away to the Moon was really the only way to get rid of him.
  - Plus, considering his sheer ego, the fact that he ended up abandoning his genocide to run away suggests that both his mind and his pride took a much more severe beating than his body did, which is how Luffy likes to deal with his enemies anyway.
The Khan: Moria's reaction to seeing Luffy again after his humiliation at Thriller Bark probably qualifies.
Kiai: In Chapter 519, Luffy did this... and knocked out a large number of the Amazonian audience.
- And now another repeat performance by Luffy in Chapter 569 in the Marine Headquarters just as his brother was about to be executed, knocking out not only the executioners but even some Marines and New World Pirates, as well as getting the attention of every high-ranking person on both sides, particularly Sengoku!
Kick The Dog: Pirate Empress Boa Hancock's mission in life is to kick every cute fuzzy animal that crosses her path.
- As about less literal examples — how about every single significant villain?
  "Just who in blazes had the gall to place a kitten in my path?!!"
Killed Off For Real: Rest in peace, Portgas D. Ace and Edward Newgate.
Kon Tiki Plot: One of Luffy's goals towards the end of the Skypeia arc was to prove Montblanc Norland was not a liar.
Knight Templar: Many of the notable underlings of the Word Government. Some of the others, like Smoker, seem Knight Templarish, until you remember that The Pirates Who Dont Do Anything, like Straw Hats, actually are exceptions.
- Admiral Akainu in particular deserves a honorary mention for blowing up a refugee ship out of suspicion that some people, targeted by World Government, might be aboard.
- And CP9, but especially Rob Lucci, whose personal doctrine of "Dark Justice" has put his Knight Templar tendencies to Beyond The Impossible levels.
Kryptonite Factor: People with Devil Fruit powers can have their abilities stripped away through contact with Seastone or by submerging them in water (which they're unable to swim in, and which cancels their powers). People who ate Logia Devil Fruits often have additional, unique weaknesses that remove their Blob-like intangibility.
Kryptonite Is Everywhere: While Seastone is actually used quite sparingly, Nico Robin still suffers from this since virtually all fights she's involved in are against Logias or incredibly large people, pretty much the only kinds of villains her Clutch attack can't take down instantly.
- Not really. Her Clutch is fairly weak against opponents who have sufficient edge in physical strength (as do most important enemies by now). Not only the created arms are only as strong as Robin's normal arms (i.e., not very), but she feels pain as if her normal body was hit when they are damaged (see the fight against Zoro-shadow zombie for example).
- Interestingly subverted in Crocodile's case: his major weakness? Moisture. In the ocean-heavy world of One Piece, this would normally qualify as a Weaksauce Weakness, but Crocodile's main plan took place on an island consisting mainly of desert, and part of the plan itself involved stopping what little rain the place did get, so actually finding anything wet that could be used to render him vulnerable turned out to be pretty tricky. Magnificent Bastard, indeed.
Lady Land: Amazon Lily Island
- Inverted when Sanji is sent to an island full of transvestites.
Lady Of War: Nami; Nico Robin; Boa Hancock; Hina
Lampshade Hanging: Chapter 577 is appropriately titled, "Major Events Piling Up One After Another"
Lantern Jaw Of Justice: What's hidden inside Hannyabal's chin? COULD IT BE DREAMS??!!
Large Ham: Foxy
- FRANKY could also qualify for this trope. C'mon: SUUUUUUUUPER!!
- And Kumadori.
- Blackbeard certainly seems to be this way; his crewmate Jesus Burgess seems to enjoy joining in as well.
- As filler would have us believe, Robin when she acts on stage.
- Even lampshaded: Stop talking so loud, Tilestone!!!
Laughably Evil: Where do I start!? There's too many of them! Buggy The Clown, and even that is because he's sensitive about his nose. Wapol when he ate the fat out of his body and became slim. Mr. 4 and Miss Merry Christmas, and Mr. 2 Bon Clay before his Heel Face Turn. Foxy when he acts very arrogantly, only to be insulted and feel down. Spandam in every scene, where he isn't doing something horrible, including when he burnt himself with his own coffee. And some Lampshade Hanging of when Kaku of CP9 turned into a giraffe.)
- Boa Hancock was as well by in one amazon's words, "looking down on someone so much, she's looking up!" But she wasn't so much evil than an ice queen waiting to defrost. And she did a Heel Face Turn. Although not in front of her subjects, though.
Lawful Evil: CP9 and the employees of Impel Down.
- Impel Down is rather debatable, though. Despite the demonic appearance of the head staff, keep in mind that the vast majority of their prisoners are pirates who don't fit into the Straw Hat mold. Even the punishments, which are incredibly harsh by the standards of any real civilized society, make a terrible amount of sense when you consider how ridiculously strong and vicious such prisoners can be. It's really the only way to keep them pacified.
- Expect that some of them acually enjoy dishing out the punishments to the prisoners. Say they're just Anti Villains, sure, but does someone who literally has orgasmic glee from the screams of suffering prisoners, or someone who poisons prisoners so badly they start to melt alive for pissing him off, then they're still this. It's their duty, sure, but this trope still counts.
Leitmotif: Each member of the Strawhat crew except the ships have one.
Lets Split Up Gang: During the flight from the Pacifistas.
Libation For The Dead: After the crew defeat Arlong, Genzo pours sake on Nami's mother's grave.
Light Is Not Good: Admiral Kizaru. That smile of his may fool you for a short time, but if you did any form of piracy in your life, then expect him to literally kick your ass, and a light-based explosion to blow you into itty-bitty pieces. The only reason why he doesn't go after the Seven Warlords of the Sea is because he's not legally allowed to. It's only midly subverted (at least from his perspective) that he believes he's right and the pirates, no matter what reason, are sinners.
Lightning Bruiser: The zombie giant Oars. No, really. I know what you're thinking. The words "giant" and "zombie" would imply he's slow moving, but in a battle, he would disappear from the scene to give a serious counter-attack. He avoided Franky's ammunition at point blank range and knocked him out with a kick. Some Lampshade Hanging was made on this. It was finally explained that since he had Luffy's shadow in him, he would have his agility. No, seriously.
- Also Lucci, Kaku and Jyabura of CP9 in their Zoan-produced forms, Nightmare Luffy and Kuma.
Like You Would Really Do It: Pending some sudden reversal, I think it's save to say that Oda's absolutely subverted this one as much as it can be subverted.
Loads And Loads Of Characters: Seriously. The author even gives names and backstories to background characters who don't have any speaking lines, and who may or may not turn out to be Chekhov's Gunmen several hundred chapters down the line.
- Of course, since the manga hasn't finished yet, you never really know who's going to be a Chekhovs Gunman.
Lost Technology: Pluton and Poseidon
Luke I Am Your Father: Luffy's father is the world's most wanted criminal, Monkey D. Dragon, and his grandfather is the legendary Vice-Admiral Monkey D. Garp.
- And then, our expectations get twisted when it turns out that Ace's father is actually Gol D. Roger.
  - Both Ace and Luffy were aware of this. Ace didn't tell anyone other then Whitebeard because he didn't want the World Government to find out, and Luffy didn't tell anyone because You Didnt Ask.
MacGuffin: The "One Piece".
- Though, admittedly, nobody's ever seen it or knows eactly where or what it is or how to find it, and it's not exactly an immediate goal, either.
  - The characters seem to think of it as something of a MacGuffin as well. Luffy turns down an offer of information about it because that would make his adventure less interesting.
- Chapter 0 seems to hint that it may be a weapon of mass destruction through Golden Lion Shiki's assertion. Roger doesn't protest or confirm this however...
  - Roger doesn't seem like the kind of guy who would consider a nuke to be a treasure.
  - Whitebeard finally gives some information on One Piece before he dies.
Made Of Iron: Everyone, but especially Zoro; while Franky and Mr. 1 are literally Made Of Iron.
- Usopp can take way more punishment than he should be able to, as well.
Magic A Is Magic A: Most of the Devil Fruit powers are given some sort of expository explanation beforehand, and they tend to be used very consistently.
Magic Mushroom: Luffy once ate a mushroom which caused mushrooms to grow all over him.
Magic Pants: At least two-thirds of the Devil Fruit users.
Magnetic Hero: Lampshaded by Hawkeye in reference to Luffy: "This is... the most dangerous ability in this world!"
Magnificent Bastard: A number of the series' Big Bads, particularly Crocodile and Doflamingo.
- Pretty telling in Doflamingo's case, considering we still don't know all that much about him.
Making A Splash: While deadly enough on land, once in the water Fishman Karate can produce effects like splitting waves and throwing around streams of water with the force of cannons.
Mama Bear: Bellemere is the earliest example within the series. Chef Zeff and Whitebeard also serve as Papa Wolves. The queen of this, however, is Portgas D. Rouge for staying pregnant for nearly two years, by sheer willpower, to ensure Ace's safety.
Man Of Wealth And Taste: Crocodile
- And from what we've seen so far, Donquixote Doflamingo.
Mask Power: Usopp / Sogeking after the Enies Lobby arc.
Master Apprentice Chain: Luffy was inspired by Shanks who apprenticed under Roger.
Meaningful Funeral: Just try not to cry when they consign the Going Merry to the depths.
Meaningful Name: Many names. Usopp is a combination of "Aesop" and the Japanese word "to lie"; the One Piece Blackbeard and Whitebeard are named Teach and Edward, respectively, after the real-life "Blackbeard" Edward Teach; a gangster-themed Supernova is named Capone; and Donquixote Doflamingo, a man who doesn't believe in dreams, is named after the most iconic dreamer in Western literature.
- Ironically, Doflamingo shares one trait with his namesake, namely the fact that neither realize that their beliefs are merely a product of their own insanity.
- Silvers Rayleigh has a double meaningful name combined with Fridge Brilliance. For starters, silver is commonly held to be the second most valuable metal after gold, which is fitting as Rayleigh is Gold Roger's second in command. The name 'Rayleigh' may be a reference to Lord Rayleigh, a physicist who explained the phenomenon known as Rayleigh scattering, an effect whereby light can be scattered by particles that are smaller in size than wavelength of light. Reference Rayleigh's fight with Kizaru, a light Logia.
Mecha Mooks: The Pacifistas, though they are very powerful thanks to being Made Of Diamond.
Mega Manning: Blackbeard
Megaton Punch: Kuma prominently, though Luffy's pulled it off a few times.
Memetic Badass: Buggy is actually becoming an in-universe example.
Men Dont Cry: Averted, all the Strawhats have cried several times, regardless of sex.
- With the recent chapter, After Ace dies, there not a dry eye in the house from the pirates. Whitebeard and Garp's expression are especially painful.
  - Forget the pirate's expressions after Ace's death, after WHITEBEARD'S death they're crying their eyes out.
Meta Origin: The Devil Fruit. Nearly everybody has them. Paramecia-type give you superpowers, Zoan-type turn you into an animal and Logia-type effectively give you complete control over an element. These powers can be given to humans, animals or even inanimate objects, and most recently "awakened" Zoan-type Devil Fruit have shown up. As have Ancient and Mythical Zoans, making what was previously seen as the least useful type seem quite a bit more worthwhile; X Drake's Ancient Zoan turns him into a T-Rex, while Marco the Phoenix's Mythical Zoan turns him into exactly what you'd expect.
Million To One Chance: The reputed odds of someone possessing the Haoushoku "Overlord" Haki. Luffy, Boa Hancock, and Whitebeard are all confirmed to have it, and it's been implied that Shanks has it as well.
Minor Injury Overreaction: Pearl
Misfit Mobilization Moment: The Straw Hats' Power Walk to Arlong's base of operations.
Missing Mom: Several characters are affected or motivated by the lack or loss of their mother. Nami, Usopp, Robin, and most recently Ace.
Mood Whiplash: The Water CP 9 arc is the king of this trope.
Mooks: And how. The low-class soldiers will charge in by the hundreds, then get carted back out again a short time later on a single, massive stretcher, never once questioning why they should willingly get themselves beat up or what's so great about the world government anyway. The best example of mooks since the stormtroopers.
Monster Mash: Thriller Bark. It even has a nod to Thriller by Michael Jackson.
Moral Event Horizon: It was known that the Marine had taken part in some very questionable activities such as the the Buster Call, but killing innocent pregnant women and babies just because they were worried that Gol D. Roger might have had a child? Not cool, guys. Not cool. That's not even getting into some of the acts of villains from previous arcs.
- While he was no saint before, Akainu has crossed this (to the point of invoking the wrath of even Garp) by performing the first killing outside of a flashback against Ace.
- Heck he crosses it much earlier when he blew up a rescue ship of innocent civillans out of paranoid reasoning that an archaeologist could've snuck aboard. There's sensible and there's just plain madness. And this guy is nowhere near the former.
Most Common Superpower: Uh-huh. The seventh movie takes this to Beyond The Impossible levels.
Mr Vice Guy: Despite Nami's greed and Usopp's cowardice, both are decent, even heroic characters underneath.
Ms Fanservice: Quite a few, but Nami and Robin in particular.
Multi Armed And Dangerous: Hatchan
- And technically, Nico Robin.
- And Omigumo.
Multiple Demographic Appeal: Adult female readers compose one of the manga's largest audiences.
My Favorite Shirt: Luffy's hat
Mysterious Parent: Dragon
Myth Arc: The past history of the world and the crimes of the World Government, as well as the long term plans of several villains.
Nakama: The heart and soul of the story.
Names To Run Away From Really Fast: Quite a lot of pirates and Marines, actually. Don Krieg (krieg being German for war), Das Bones (Mr. 1's real name), Bartholomew Kuma ("kuma" being Japanese for bear, and not the Caring kind), Fleet Admiral Sengoku ("sengoku" means "warring states" and was a feudal period of Japan's history), Admiral Akainu ("akainu" translates as "red dog"), Marshall D. Teach (Teach being the real Blackbeard's assumed surname), Jaguar D. Saul, Dracule Mihawk, Crocodile, Capone Bege, Captain Kidd, and, oh, who are we forgetting... KILLER.
- Some of the protagonists have fear-inspiring names: Try Roronoa Zoro, for instance (the surname of a cunning pirate, and the forename of you know who).
- Impel Down's Captain of the Guard Sadie-chan, who takes her name from the word "Sadism"
- Inverted in a couple of cases. "Chopper" sounds scary, until you meet him and realize he's a cute li'l reindeer with self-esteem issues. A guy named Doflamingo sounds as threatening as potatoes, but he's actually one of the most deranged and frightening characters in the manga.
  - Whether or not Chopper is an inversion depends on the situation.
Narm: YMMV, but Luffy's face in the main panel◊ (MAJOR DEATH SPOILER!!!) takes a bit of the seriousness out of it.
- He's showing the same face as when he himself was dying from Magellan's poison, effectively showing that Luffy died once again. Still fairly Narmy, though.
  - This troper finds that it reminds her of the face on the Fullmetal Alchemist Nightmare Fuel Unleaded page.
Never Say Die: With only a couple of exceptions, if you aren't in a flashback, if you have a name and if you are on One Piece, you are doomed to immortality.
- After over 10 years, this trope has officially been subverted, Ace has become the first major character to die on screen. Followed a few chapters later by Whitebeard.
New Powers As The Plot Demands: Endemic in one manga arc.
Nice Hat: A number of characters: Luffy, Chopper, Robin (every now and then), Brook, and Ace.
- And now the Big Bads and Knight Templars, and Psychos For Hire: Buggy, Arlong, Sengoku, Rob Lucci wears a top hat like Brook, and amusingly enough Bartholomew Kuma, who wears a bear hat.
Nice Job Breaking It Herod: The government's attempts to find Roger's unborn baby.
Nightmare Fetishist: Perona, who thought her animal zombies the cutest things ever. Also Robin, who declared Thriller Bark's cerberus "cute."
Nightmare Fuel: The sixth movie.
- Not to mention, the zombies of Thriller Bark.
  - Admittedly, the Everybody Zombie Night! bit chucks this one right into the Nightmare Retardant bin. Hee hee.
Nightmare Fuel Station Attendant: Robin. Her upbringing at the hands of cruel fate has left her with an extremely morbid sense of humor, which she is most fond of displaying when the crew is in actual mortal peril. The other Straw Hats are not amused.
- Could be a subversion, though, as she seems well enough aware of how uncomfortable her jokes make the other crewmembers. Maybe she just likes to watch them squirm...
Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot: Brook, Franky, and Bartholomew Kuma
- Many others also qualify but these three count on a more literal level. Franky and Kuma are both Robot Pirates and Brook is a zombie pirate with a touch of ninja thrown in.
No Celebrities Were Harmed: It's a recurring gag. Notable examples include Jango (Michael Jackson), the Admirals Aokiji and Kizaru (based on Yusaku Matsuda and Kunie Tanaka respectively), and Franky (Jim Carrey).
- Eneru is supposed to be based off Eminem.
- ~~King (Queen?)~~ Emporio Ivankov pretty much is Tim Curry as Dr Frank-N-Furter from The Rocky Horror Picture Show.
- What, nobody's mentioned that Brook is based on Slash? It's more obvious when he's still alive.
No Indoor Voice: Monkey D. Luffy in the 4Kids dub.
- Tilestone of Galley-La in the original. It gets so bad that his coworkers force him to stand several feet away just to carry on a normal conversation.
No Holds Barred Beatdown: Crocodile thoroughly trounces Luffy and leaves him for dead in their first encounter, and Aokiji does something similar later on. The fight, if it can be called that, against Kuma is a slightly less malevolent example, since although the Straw Hats can do absolutely nothing to him, the crew is effortlessly defeated and scattered across the seas rather than being killed.
- Then there's Luffy's fight against Magellan, the warden of Impel Down, whose poison powers force Luffy to get treatment that takes off ten years of his life.
- Oars Jr. vs. three of the Shichibukai. It can't even be called a fight. Oars Jr. takes the full brunt of Kuma's Ursus Shock attack, gets his leg sliced off by Doflamingo's Razor Floss, and finally gets freaking impaled by Gecko Moria's shadow spear.
No Hugging No Kissing: The series eschews romance in favor of focusing on themes like camaraderie and friendship, and what romance there is usually just pokes fun at the concept as a whole.
Non Serial Movie: There are currently nine movies produced by Toei Animation. While most of them can fit into the anime's continuity fairly well, there are a few, such as 3 and 9, that cannot.
Noodle People: A number of characters are somewhat lanky, but this trope reaches its zenith with the women, who are very often frighteningly rail thin. They have gotten a little bit better due to recent Art Evolution, though.
No One Could Survive That: Pell got nuked... and survived.
- In many ways, Bartholomew Kuma firing a massive air-compressed bomb which the resulting explosion covered all of Thriller Bark was a massive case of this, as not only did everyone present survive, but Zoro got up to attack him, followed by Sanji on his feet as well.
  - Only mildly subverted that Kuma was aware that they survived his attack. Just not so much when he allowed Zoro to take in Luffy's pain.
- More recently after a short fight with Magellan, Luffy was so badly poisoned that his death was all but guaranteed. Even when Emporio Ivankov healed him all it did was raise his survival chances to 2 or 3%.
  - Subverted with Ace who took a direct attack from an admiral and died.
  - Subverted again with Whitebeard getting ganged up on by Blackbeard's entire crew after losing half his head to the same admiral that killed Ace, and dying. Granted, the losing half his head thing could be playing it straight.
  - Technically the description of the wounds from the Marineford arc Whitebeard took at the time of his death are worth noting for this. Whitebeard had taken 267 slashes/stab wounds, 562 gunshot wounds, and 46 wounds from cannon balls, not counting the damage done by the Marine Admirals. All this while having been shown to have failing health for most of his previous appearances.
No Sense Of Direction: Both Luffy and Zoro, although Zoro is much, much worse. Seriously, how does he do it?!
No Such Thing As Bad Publicity: As hilarious and/ or atrocious as the 4Kids dub was, it still attracted people who eventually became fans of the original language anime, the Funimation dub or the manga.
No Swastikas: The flag of the Whitebeard Pirates, as well as Ace's back tattoo, while originally sporting manji (very similar to swastikas) are changed to vertically-aligned crossbones in the anime. The manga later followed suit after the author's editors told him the symbol was now off limits.
- Later editions of the VIZ manga keep the mark with a short editor's note explaining that manji =/= swastika.
Not So Harmless: Recurring villain Buggy the Clown and crew's recent appearances are beginning to suggest that they might mean business after all.
- Gin of Don Krieg's crew, who was so shell-shocked from his encounter with Mihawk and nearly starving to death that it would have been difficult to peg him as Krieg's actually pretty damn tough right-hand guy before The Reveal.
Not Quite Saved Enough: Luffy has spent the last year searching for Ace, going from the bowels of Impel Down Gaol to Marineford, fighting insanely strong enemies, making unusual alliances, enduring his allies' heroic sacrefices, and literally gambling his life away so he can get to Ace, and just as he's been freed he's killed by a stronger fighter. At least Ace gets to say his last words.
Number One Dime: Luffy's hat
Obi Wan Moment: Roger; Bellemere; Hiruluk; Tom; Saul
Obligatory Swearing: Perhaps in an effort to distance itself from 4Kids and the general perception of One Piece being overly kiddy, the uncut Funimation dub is one of the more foulmouthed dubs heard. Though the strongest they ever go is "shit" (courtesy of Buggy and Sanji), it is a bit jarring to count up a total of thirty swears in one particular episode.
- Chopper has a similar tendency, though only when he's being complimented, showcasing his insecurity and dislike of humans by dancing in joy while insulting them.
Obviously Evil: Gecko Moria; Hannyabal; Magellan.
- Perhaps subverted in Moria's case with the revelation that he was just like Luffy at one point, since he had good Nakama) who were all wiped out by Kaidou, with him barely surviving. Imagine, Moria like Luffy!?
- Possibly subverted by Hannyabal and Magellan as well. They look evil and certainly are vicious opponents (and Hannyabal is a pretty blatant Starscream), but they're also the ones in charge of keeping the most dangerous criminals in the world imprisoned; most of whom aren't like the Strawhats and actually deserve to be locked up for life.
  - It should also be noted that Magellan doesn't go out of his way to harm prisoners, and he helped take down the previous Head Warden who was going around killing them.
  - After Chapter 543, the subversion is pretty obvious at least in Hannyabal's case.
Ocean Punk
Oddly Common Rarity: Devil Fruit, in the East Blue Arc they were rare. In the Grand Line, it's much more common for pirates to have them. Four of the nine members of the Strawhat crew(including Luffy himself), Devil Fruit powers.
- Remember, Devil Fruits were only stated to be rare while the story was still happening in the East Blue, and Don Krieg specifically stated that they were far more common on the Grand Line, going so far as to note that finding ways to effectively take on Devil Fruit users would be essential if he was to get anywhere on the Grand Line.
Odd Name Out: The Shichibukai have Blackbeard, who doesn't have an animal theme. The Blackbeard Pirates begin with Doc Q, who is not named after a historical pirate like the rest (although they later pick up Shiryuu, who is also not included in this naming theme). Of the Eleven Supernovas (including Zoro), only Luffy and Killer are not named after historical pirates — and Killer's real name is unknown, so his status is debatable.)
Oh Crap: Rob Lucci who remained calm and determined during the extremely long and grueling fight with Luffy, finally was shocked to the core in the last seconds of the fight when Luffy refused to fall down even after taking his ultimate attack (much weaker version of which disabled Luffy for a time just a few minutes earlier) straight to the chest.
Only A Flesh Wound: Massive amounts of blood loss keeping Roronoa Zoro down? Nope, he's good! Subverted when he initially seems to be recovering just fine from his battle with Kuma, only for his injuries to bite him in the ass much later.
Only Sane Man: Nami; occasionally Zoro
- Robin is an interesting case, as while she is The Stoic (and, on the surface, the only vaguely sane crewmember), she also blithely accepts all of the crew's weirdness with a motherly chuckle while providing her own morbid brand of weirdness. She appears to be the only sane one, but doesn't really take the role of Only Sane Man.
Ooh Me Accents Slipping: In the 4Kids dub, not only were the accents themselves both out of place and laughably fake (you'd think they'd never even ventured outside of Manhattan, judging by the Sanji's pathetic "Joisey" schtick), but they also had a tendency to stray quite a bit from whatever it was they were attempting.
- The "best" example is probably Shanks, whose dubbed accent wandered all over the place, but seemed most like a bad impression of Bert the Chimney Sweep... though it's pretty much impossible to tell what they were after, really.
Opt Out: Vivi
Or Is It: The Thriller Bark arc ends with the Rolling Pirates sailing out of the Florian Triangle celebrating Moria's defeat and the destruction of his zombie army by the Strawhat Pirates. The Florian Triangle is safe for ships again right? Cue an enormous shadow appearing in the fog behind their ship...
- In an anime-only moment, Law and Kid's fight with the Pacifista, which isn't shown in the manga, ends with them finally smashing it into the ground. Then its eyes light up and it just stands up again as if nothing had happened. Oh Crap.
Our Mermaids Are Different: Mermaids have their fins split into two when they reach age 30. Guess this solves the Mermaid Problem.
Out Of Focus: The Straw Hats have largely been (literally) pushed out of the story so that the focus could be shifted to Ace and the Whitebeard Pirates, only making cameos on the chapter covers.
Overdrawn At The Blood Bank
Papa Wolf: Don't mess with any of Whitebeard's crew members, especially Ace. He'll storm into the heavily guarded Marineford just to get Ace back.
- Luffy too. Hurt one of his friends, strangers he's never met or even your own crewmates, and you better be prepared to suffer a humilating defeat.
- Zoro tends to be like this towards Chopper.
Parental Abandonment: Seems to be the root of some daddy issues Ace has. He disowns his biological father, Roger, and even goes so far as using his mother's surname, "Portgas".
People Puppets / Razor Floss: Turns out Doflamingo's powers are a combination of these.
Pet The Dog: We know Smoker's not so bad after he buys ice-cream for a sad girl.
- Also, it's clear that Zoro has a soft spot for kids and cute animals. This would explain his fondness for Chopper.
Phlebotinum Overload: If a human were to eat two devil fruits, they would be destroyed instantly. Blackbeard somehow managed to circumvent this and stole a second power from a corpse.
Pilot Movie: An OVA was released by Production I.G. a year before the Toei anime began airing, featuring a completely different voice cast and animation style.
Pirate Girl: Almost every female character.
Pirates: Come on guys, how'd we miss this one?
The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything: The Straw Hats rarely pillage and steal like typical pirates — their one actual attempt backfired without them even knowing.
- Then again, they seem to be more focused on adventure... and obliterating a rival pirate crew or organization a day.
- Averted with most of the other pirate crews.
Playing Both Sides: The Alabasta Civil War was manipulated by Sir Crocodile.
Playing With Fire: Portgas D. Ace, also Marco, one of Whitebeard's commanders.
Post Episode Trailer
Power Glows: A few examples here and there. A few of Zoro's attacks briefly manifest a glowing aura around himself, while Sanji's Diable Jambe technique has his whole foot glowing red-hot. Averted with Luffy's Gear Second technigue in manga illustrations, while the anime plays it straight by giving him flush skin and a shiny, sweaty sheen, possible as a visual Shout Out to Goku's Kaioken technique.
- Hey, Gear Second shares the same sound effect as Dragonball's, why not visual as well?
Power Levels: At first, Wanted Posters were seen as a fairly reliable way of gauging a pirate's Power Level. This idea slowly went by the wayside: Robin had a bounty of 79 million at the age of 8 due to her knowledge rather than her power; Sir Crocodile, with a bounty of 81 million (Word Of God confirms that he would have been worth at least twice as much if the government had known more about him), has fought evenly with some of the highest-bountied pirates in the series; and Chopper, despite wreaking untold destruction at Enies Lobby, has a bounty of only... 50. Not 50 million, not even 50 thousand; just 50.
- The CP9 agents used a straight system with units called "dourikis."
Power Nullifier: One of the abilities of Blackbeard's Yami-Yami Fruit.
The Power Of Friendship: Essentially, if you don't have any friends, you suck.
Power Perversion Potential: According to Oda, yeah, Robin can sprout extra breasts and Buggy's penis can fly. Same goes for Luffy who can stretch all, yes all his body parts. And in the recent manga chapters, one amazon mistook his penis for a stretchy mushroom.
- Let's not forget her persuasive tactics against Franky. How direct!
- Franky keeps his hammer in his speedo.
- So, the the hammer is his penis.
Power Up Food: Devil Fruit.
- Played with by Luffy, who thinks he can heal/get stronger when he eats meat.
- Done straight with Brook, who doesn't heal on his own, but can repair his skeletal body by drinking milk, since milk helps strengthen bones. Sanji immediatly points out it doesn't work that way.
Power Walk: Doubles as an early Crowning Moment Of Awesome.
Precursors: The lost civilization from the "Blank Century" which created the Poneglyphs.
Prehensile Hair: Kumadori; more recently, Sandersonia and Marigold, and even more recently it appears Onigumo manages to be both this and a spider-hybrid at the same time.
Protagonist Centered Morality: Tons of it. It's a running theme of the show. No matter how horrible things someone has done, Luffy and crew will still cause lots of damage for them if they've been friendly enough. Similarly when Luffy's brother, who in flashbacks was implied to have been a real marauding pirate, or at least not the least bit shy of assassination attempts, was put in prison for his actual crimes, Luffy still cluelessly broke free an awful lot of the nastiest types of pirates (i.e. mass-murderers, plunderers, and rapists) from prison in an attempt to free him. And then there's Boa Hancock who is generally an immensely conceited, ungrateful, disloyal, bullying, murderous sadist, or rather a genuinely evil human being, but she's nice to Luffy (and nobody else) so that's okay...
- Then again, they're practically saints compared to The Government and a lot of the people associated with it.
Proud Warrior Race Guy: The Viking-inspired Giants from the island of Elbaf, itself described as a "Warrior's Paradise". Also Wiper, and the Shandian Warriors, inspired by Wiper's ancestor: Calgara.
Psycho Electro: Eneru
Psycho For Hire: Two Words: Rob Lucci. While the Marine Corps's doctrine of "Absolute Justice" is already quite Knight Templarish, Lucci takes this Up To Eleven with his "Dark Justice". He has admitted he enjoys killing. At the age of thirteen, he murdered 500 hostage soldiers for the crime of allowing themselves to be captured, before taking the pirate captain's head. Much later, Lucci says that while executing missions perfectly is his duty to the World Government, for him it's all about the blood.
- Some of the Seven Warlords of the Sea are Psychos For Hire, especially the demented Donquixote Doflamingo. They've all proven they're a threat, so the Government made a deal with each one, freezing their bounties if they'd agree to only attack other pirates. Hey, What Could Possibly Go Wrong? Well, one started a civil war in an attempt to take over a country. Another created a zombie army to take over the world. Still another one changed sides after the Government decided to pick a fight with the one guy who he would never fight. The lone female is in love with Luffy and undermining the government's efforts to stop him. The newest member only joined as part of his plan, so he could bust out some dangerous criminals so they could help him kill Whitebeard so he can steal Newgate's world-destroying powers. Doflamingo just plain likes being a psycho.
Pungeon Master: Brook and his Skull Jokes.
Pure Awesomeness: The mere presence of very powerful people is sufficent to knock out weaker ones.
Put On A Bus: The Sabaody Archipelago arc has Kuma send Luffy's entire crew to various islands via his Devil Fruit power. It's currently unknown when or how the bus trip will end.
Putting On The Reich: The guards at Impel Down have an awfully familiar sense of style... Ironically, they are probably the nicest group of World Government people we have seen yet.
- Amusingly enough, the 12th opening shows Hannyabal and bunch of jailers doing what is unmistakably the Heil Hitler salute, just as the extremley cheery theme goes "Yay!"
- Considering they the main jailers also have demonic traits(With Magellan and Hannyabal it looks like they are demon people, Sadi-chan is either actually a demon or just going with the look) I think it was a concious decision to make them look as evil as possible. Just to make the reveal that they're one of the few parts of the World Government or Marines that aren't corrupt, monstrous Knights Templar, CompleteMonsters or completely incompetent even more surprising.
Quirky Miniboss Squad: Numerous, including Baroque Works, CP9, and the Four Enigmas.
Ragtag Bunch Of Misfits: Plenty, but the Strawhat crew quickly stands out epspecially when they add a reindeer-man, a cyborg and an undead skeleton to their ranks.
Rain Aura
Ralph Wiggum: Gedatsu, one of Enel's four Priests, is not stupid. He's got a portal to the Stupid Dimension where his brain should be!
Rasputinian Death: WHITEBEARD. What he went through simply has to be seen to be believed.
Razor Wind: Many of the attacks in the series, namely Cipher Pol 9's "Rankyaku", Luffy's "Gomu Gomu Jet Whip" and Zoro's "Poundo Hou" and "Tatsumaki" techniques. Mr. 1 is a pretty blatant example, since he can slice things up just by waving his hands. We don't even see any wind.
- Also, Eric the Whirlwind in one of the Filler arcs. If you count those.
Real Men Eat Meat: Luffy's favorite food.
Red Oni Blue Oni: Taken to a pretty much literal sense with Oars and Nightmare Luffy.
- Also Dorry and Broggy, who were called the Red and Blue Ogres.
- Sanji and Zoro have a weird mix of this, with Sanji normally being Red, passionate and romantic, and Zoro being cold and deadpan, when they get into fights however Zoro gets his smile on and Sanji quits acting like a fool.
- We also have Luffy and Zoro, one being hot-headed, headstrong and wild, with the other being calm, serious and controlled (most of the time).
- Orange-haired and red-eyed Nami who gets easily annoyed at the moronity of the crew, versus black for Robin who laughs at their antics has only once ever had a Demon Head (at an enemy).
The Red Sonja: Alvida is infatuated with Luffy because of this trope, though she's apparently okay with killing him. Luffy doesn't really care.
- She explains this. If he's able to be killed, then he wasn't the man she was looking for. She has faith in his ability to survive.
Refuge In Audacity: Oh so very much.
Rescue Arc: The Enies Lobby Arc revolves around the Straw Hats trying to save Robin from the clutches of the World Government, who plan on harvesting her knowledge and kill her for being able to read illegal inscriptions.
- The Impel Down arc begins with Luffy's attempt to rescue his brother Ace from the most fearsome prison in the world.
- After failing to spring Ace, Luffy decides to bust out of Impel Down (a prison considered impregnable), with an army of over 200 rowdy criminals including two Revolutionaries, two Shichibukai, and a partridge in a pear tree, and head to Marine Headquarters to join the Battle Royale With Cheese and attempt to stop Ace's execution.
The Reveal: Ace is actually Roger's son.
Reverse Mole: Nico Robin. Also possibly Bartholomew Kuma as a mole in the World Government for Dragon, though we didn't get more than vague hints regarding this.
The Revolution Will Not Be Vilified: Dragon is leading a revolutionary war against the tyrannical, slave owning, massacre happy, conspiracy loving World Government. Fisher Tiger rescued slaves and lead an attack against the incredibly corrupt and decadent nobility. Other revolutionaries are shown freeing Robin from a work camp. The worst thing anyone to do with the Revolution has been shown doing is Ivankov's Gender Bender antics. Now Oda may turn this around when we learn more about the Revolution but so far they've been portrayed as entirely heroic.
- Though if you pay attention one of the Revolutionaries seems to have just shot someone execution-style in the coverstory, usually something that isn't seen as very humane, but it remains to be seen what the overall attitude of the movement is.
Ridiculously Cute Critter: Chopper. Also baby Laboon in flashbacks.
Right Makes Might: According to the author, those who have stronger convictions will always prevail.
- Wait, so does that mean that, at least at this stage of the game, Kuma, Magellan, and Kizaru's convictions are stronger? Interesting.
- Prevail, Luffy can be beaten, but he'll win in the end.
- "Justice will prevail, you say? But of course it will... Whoever wins this war, becomes Justice!" - Donquixote Doflamingo on the Whitebeard-Marineford battle
Royals Who Actually Do Something: Vivi
Rubber Man: Monkey D. Luffy himself.
Rule Of Funny: Tons of things. For one, it's the only reason that Chopper and Brook always jump in to save Luffy when he falls overboard, despite the fact that not only do they share his Super Drowning Skills, one was never able to swim in the first place and the other has had them longer than the other two combined.
Running Sequence
Scary Shiny Glasses: Captain Kuro and Admiral Kizaru. Though with the latter he's very cheery. Unfortunately almost every pirate is afraid of this guy and that's before having some knowledge what he can actually do.
- Kuma also manages to pull this off in the anime, despite the fact that he's technically not wearing glasses.
- Rayleigh in the anime, too.
Schizo Tech: In a world with relatively old-fashioned technology, we have things like cyborgs that are capable of firing laser beams from their mouths, though this is Hand Waved by saying that the mind behind said laser-firing cyborgs is several centuries ahead of its time.
- Franky was sent by Kuma to a futuristic winter island where the mind in question was born.
- They also apparently have flat-screen TVs and stereo speakers. Seriously.
  - Its a wonder what snails can do.
- Justifiable - most of the islands are separated by wild weather, sea kings and wonky magnetic fields. One region's advances take a long time to spread, except when it is beneficial for the World Government or Marines who can bypass those obstacles.
Screwed By The Network: It remains to be seen if FUNimation's TV dub can overcome its shortchanging by Cartoon Network, which pretty much demanded that they turn the previous dub's failure into an instant smash success, all while keeping continuity with the 4Kids dub. For reasons known only to network management, the series was pulled amidst steadily improving ratings, to be replaced by shows no one watched.
Senseless Sacrifice: A nonlethal comedic variant. There's been at least one instance where Luffy fell into the water, and Chopper, and later Brooke dove in to save him, forgetting that they are also Fruit Eaters, and can't swim either. Zoro saved them each time, though.
Shapeshifter Guilt Trip: Subverted and then played straight as Sanji has no problem kicking Mr. 2 around when he looks like Usopp, but the minute he transforms into Nami...
Shonen: One of the more well-known.
Shonen Upgrade: Began during the Alabasta arc, done in the Skypeia arc with a few characters, but most apparent during the Enies Lobby arc (see Took A Level In Bad Ass below).
Significant Birth Date: Luffy's birthday is on Children's Day (May 5), Usopp's is April Fool's Day, and Chopper's is Christmas Eve. Sanji's, Franky's, and Brook's are word puns. Zoro's birthday is also a word pun, but it falls on Armistice Day.
- Coincidently, Eiichiro Oda was born on January first.
  - Wait, isn't January first Ace's birthday with January 4th being Oda's? That's what was said in the SBS.
Single Stroke Battle: Zoro vs. T-Bone
A Sinister Clue: Inverted with the main cast, they all have something special on their left side, like Usopp's armband, Chopper's antler plate, Nami's tats, Zoro's earrings, Luffy's scar, Sanji's covered eye, in fact there's a list somewhere that contains all the important left things.
Sinister Shades: Vice-Admiral Kuzan, before he became Admiral Aokiji)
- And Donquixote Doflamingo.
Sinister Surveillance: Eneru during his time as God literally turned Skypeia into Big Brother in Heaven by using his unique mantra ability to hear the thoughts of everyone on the island. Intruders, "blasphemers" and those who his men haven't eliminated yet are punished by him as he fires a column of lightning from above.
Sliding Scale Of Realistic Versus Fantastic: Firmly on the fantastic end.
Sliding Scale Of Silliness Versus Seriousness: This series doesn't so much ping-pong back and forth as it occupies both extremes simultaneously.
- It's quantum!
Smoking Is Cool: Sanji. Although in the manga he's warned that it'll destroy his tastebuds.
- Both dubs, under the rule of No Smoking, omit this, with the 4Kids version lazily replacing the cigarette with lollipops and FUNimation just plain editing it out altogether.
- And Smoker
Smug Snake: If the villains aren't a Magnificent Bastard or Complete Monster, they are this, especially Foxy and Buggy.
- Nico Robin started out as this, but she outlived her usefulness to the Big Bad and was impaled and Left For Dead. After being rescued by Luffy, she pulled a Heel Face Turn.
Sorting Algorithm Of Evil: Justified in that the Grand Line acts as a natural selecting factor: the farther you go, the more powerful enemies you're likely to encounter, because only the strong get that far.
- But subverted by Mihawk, Aokiji, and Kuma, who wipe the floor with their chosen opponents and don't kill them only because they have ulterior motives.
- Also subverted in the opposite fashion by the Flying Fish Riders, who are far weaker than the Straw Hats' previous opponents, and easily defeated.
- Subtly averted with the henchman of Gecko Moria in the Thriller Bark arc, as they go down much easier than the previous arc's villains, CP 9.
- No mention of the Sabaody Archipelago arc? First the Straw Hats run into a Pacifista, a cyborg duplicate of the Warlord of the Sea Bartholomew Kuma, that they defeat with great effort. They are then immediately confronted by another Pacifista, Admiral Kizaru and Sentomaru. The Straw Hats are utterly annihilated and only saved from being killed by the timely intervention of the real Kuma.
- Though easily tearing through the nameless mooks, Luffy's not having much luck with the heavy hitters present at Marineford, having to be bailed out by his allies almost every time he confronts a named character.
Spell My Name With An S: Luffy to Ruffy and Zoro to Zolo.
- To be fair, though, Zoro's name change was justified by the fact that the owners of Zorro threatened to sue.
- Not to mention Enel/Eneru.
- Is it Oz, Odz or Oars?
  - Wordof God says Oars, as his descendant's ship's sail carries the name.
- One of Whitebeard's subordinate Captains(the one that shanked Whitebeard), has variously been refered to as Squado, Squad, Squardo, Spardo and many other names besides.
Spoiler Opening: While most of the openings confine themselves to just showing new characters, the fifth and sixth featured previews of upcoming scenes, while the third showcased Robin as a crew member... nearly twenty episodes before her Heel Face Turn. Oops.
- The 11th opening just goes right ahead and pretty much shows every new character and such from where the anime currently is right up to the current manga arc.
- The 12th opening spoils the hell out of Impel Down and Marineford.
Squick: The thought of Ace's mother, Portgas D. Rouge, holding him in her womb for twenty months just to keep the Marine from finding out he Gold Roger's son.
- Dr. Hogback. Pretty much everything he does.
The Starscream: Hannyabal
- And shockingly, a recent flashback reveals that Ace was one when he first joined Whitebeard's crew.
Start Of Darkness: When Fishmen first appear in the series, they seem like little more than racists who terrorize innocent humans for sport. As it turns out, they've got a damn good reason to distrust, if not outright hate, humanity for the things they've forced Fishmen to endure. Not that unrepentant murderer Arlong is going to be turned by giving him a hug or anything, but you can definitely see where his species is coming from.
Story Arc: Not counting some filler, the show entirely consists of arcs of different length.
Strange Salute: The White Berets of Skypiea.
- Also, the Marine's own salute is palm-inwards.
  - Justified by the Word of God as the Marine works with tarred objects and deem it disrespectful to show one's superiors blackened hands, hence the inward salute.
  - This comes from British Naval practice in the Golden Age of Piracy.
Straw Vulcan: Bellamy derides the Straw Hat crew for chasing fairy tales, and even provides a logical explanation for ships falling from the sky. However, this is meant to portray him as a villain... except he totally has a point. They ARE chasing fairy tales.
- No, that would make him a rival/antagonist. What makes him a villain is that he's an asshole.
Stupid Sexy Flanders: Chick Ivankov. Brr...
Super Drowning Skills: Anyone who has a Devil Fruit loses the ability to swim. On top of that, they can't use their powers to get out of the water (though it's suggested that others can still take advantage of their powers — at one point, to keep him from drowning, Luffy's neck was forcibly stretched to lift his head above water).
Super Mode: Zoro using his Asura technique and Sanji using Diable Jambe. Both of whom super badass to begin with, they just took it to the next level.
- Parodied by Tony Tony Chopper in Filler, who turns into Chopper Man and can fly.
- Subverted by Franky who changes a centaur in reverse. However when he locks you with his extra legs, he can make a more powerful ultimate punch than usual, finishing the opponent. Interestingly, when he last did this and defeated his opponent, he yelled "SUUUUUUPER!" for good measure.
Superpower Lottery: Devil Fruits come in three types. Paramecia gives you some quirky ability. Zoan allows you to transform into an animal. Logia types grant you utter control over an element of nature, allow you to produce it in massive quantities from your body, and allow you to turn into that element to become practically invincible. And then there are Mythical Animal Zoans, which are even rarer and give the user all the power of, say, a phoenix. Yeah...
- Then again, it seems that those with Paramecia powers can get pretty creative with their uses, and some Paramecia-type fruits are incredibly powerful, see: Magellan, Sengoku, Jozu, and Whitebeard.
- Also it is a lottery in the sense that it is nearly impossible to know before eating the fruit what kind of power it will give you (although apparently books on the subject exist, they do not appear to be widely used or very accurate).
- In addition, you can't simply "test" the fruit on an animal or some other hapless slave. Once even one bite is taken, the entire fruit turns into a regular (if albeit horrible tasting) fruit.
- Theoretically, if you ate a Zoan fruit that turned you into a fish, you'd be screwed since there's also a rule that you can only eat one, and you cant swim.
- And now it turns out that the real Game Breaker power of Blackbeard's Dark Dark Fruit is that he can circumvent the 'lottery' and just take the powers he wants from the person who already has them. Though at the moment it's not clear whether the target has to be dead or the process just takes more time than Blackbeard would have had against a still-living Whitebeard.
Super Smoke: Captain Smoker; some Logia
Suspiciously Specific Denial: In a flashback in episode 8, when Shanks tries to get Buggy to join the celebration, Buggy blurts out about not stealing anything. (He did.)
Take Me Instead: Both Zoro and Sanji offer themselves up to save Luffy from Kuma, resulting in one of the most powerful scenes of the series.
Take My Hand: Robin does this a lot with her powers whenever characters fall overboard or from other precarious places. Luffy and Nami attempt (and fail) this right before the latter is vanished by Kuma, and Luffy reaches out towards Ace in the anime's 10th opening.
Tattooed Crook: Nami; Ace; Franky (among others)
Taught By Experience: The farther the Strawhat Pirates have gone into the Grand Line, the more skilled, inventive and more powerful the group became.
Team Mom: Nami frequently comes across as this, although Word Of God places Robin in this role.
Tear Jerker: Flashbacks never end well.
- Not just flashbacks. There are so many occasions where great injustices are committed right as things are going on.
- And Pell's Heroic Sacrifice.
- As well as the Heroic Sacrifice of Mr. 2 Bon Clay. Bon-chaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan!
- Don't forget Going Merry's funeral. Especially sad if you're sentimental.
- Ace's death.
- And now Whitebeard's.
Tender Tears
Terrible Trio: Toei is doing their darnedest to turn Foxy, Hamburg, and Porche into this in the anime... and have largely succeeded.
- Also, Buggy is this to a degree in the manga.
Thanatos Gambit: Roger turned himself in to the World Government, and then reversed their intended effect of his execution with his last words. What was intended to be a lesson to all pirates ended up causing an Age of Piracy, arguably making the entire series a Thanatos Gambit. So Yeah.
The Aloner: Brook
The End Of The World As We Know It: Whitebeard's powers, which involves creating earthquakes that can conjure massive tsunamis, can apparently cause this.
- Considering that most of the One Piece world seems to be water, and since he can create tidal waves, I'd say that there is no "apparently" about it.
  - And now that power is in the hands of Blackbeard, making the threat arguably worse considering how he is much less morally conscious than Whitebeard was.
Theme Naming: The Seven Warlords of the Sea are all named after animals, many women are named after birds, and everyone on Amazon Lily is named after a flower.
- There's also Gold Roger and Rouge, both named after the Jolly Roger (or the French version jolie rouge, in Rouge's case).
There Was A Door: Garp went of his way to smash through the wall of the home the Straw Hats were in simply to punch Luffy in the head. When his own subordinates ask why he would not simply go through the door, he simply said "It was cooler". At least he was polite enough to help repair the wall.)
They Should Have Sent A Poet: when the Going-Merry goes up Reverse Mountain.
They Wasted A Perfectly Good Plot: Your Mileage May Vary of course, but there are instances of characters being introduced with hints of backstories, intriging designs, and character quirks only to be completely dropped soon after. The most egregious example are the General Zombies of Thriller Bark, who almost literally had a bridge dropped on them.
Third Times The Charm: Luffy's fights against Crocodile. He lost the first two, and took him down in round 3.
This Is Something He's Got To Do Himself: Luffy takes this attitude during Zoro's duel with Mihawk. When Johnny and Yosaku attempt to intervene, Luffy holds them back and tells them to wait until the end, despite obviously wanting to help Zoro himself.
This Is Sparta: I am WHITEBEARD!
- THIS IS MY ERA!!!
This Is Unforgivable: If Luffy sees you betraying your own Nakama, you better start praying.
- Subverted when Boa Hancock petrifies her subjects, which made Luffy initially very angry. But when Hancock reversed the process and Luffy learned her Dark And Troubled Past, and the effect it had on her, he instantly forgave her.
- Similarly averted when Franky found out that the Straw Hats pulled this exact trope on the Franky Family and even said the words "This is unforgivable, Straw Hat!", almost turning into a Cycle Of Revenge. However, a series of circumstances allowed the Straw Hats and the Franky Family to work together, and in the end, Franky even pulled a Heel Face Turn, and joined the Straw Hats.
Those Two Guys: Coby and Helmeppo; Johnny and Yosaku; Jango and Fullbody...
- Buggy and Shanks were implied to be seen as this as seen in flashbacks to their apprentice days aboard Gold Roger's ship.
Too Cool To Live: Whitebeard is rapidly approaching this, given the newer chapters and what he's said. of course, knowing Oda, who knows?
- As of chapter 576, Whitebeard finally dies. Considering the amount of badass awesome Oda stuffed into him, I'm not too surprised.
Took A Level In Bad Ass: Then there's Coby and Helmeppo. Hard to believe that the former was a chubby cry baby and was much shorter than we see him now, and the other was a Smug Snake idiot son, of one of the story's earliest (and perhaps most inefficient) Big Bad.
Touched By Vorlons: Or in this case, the Devil Fruits.
Traintop Battle: Franky's fight with CP9 member Nero atop the Puffing Tom.
Tranquil Fury: Luffy when "fighting" Bellamy
- Whitebeard when pwning Akainu after he kills Portgas D. Ace. Especially effective knowing what he does if anyone so much touches a hair on his "sons" since he's such a Papa Wolf. Killing one would only produce this. Even having nearly half his face burnt off merely gives a response of "I'm just getting started". The manga title is even called "Silent Rage".
Transvestite: Mr. 2 Bon Clay and the natives of Kamabakka Kingdom.
Treasure Map: Rarely comes up, suprisingly enough.
- Though one did play a pivotal role in Buggy's Backstory.
Tyke Bomb: All of CP9 apparently, but Rob Lucci was the the most infamous.
- Averted in the case of Luffy and Ace who were trained from young ages by their grandfather to become strong sailors in the Marine... only to become two of the world's most wanted pirates.
The Unfunny: Robin and Zoro alternately play this for the crew. Outside the Straw Hats, Kaku became a low-level Ensemble Darkhorse by being a particularly hilarious Unfunny.
Ungrateful Bastard: Shiki at the start of movie 10, granted he was already a prick to begin with but still The Straw Hats go out of their way to warn him and his crew incoming of an typhoon that not even his weather staff can predict. After they avoid it, how does he show his gratitude? By kidnapping Nami and nearly killing the crew by dropping them dozen of feet from the air. Say the least thats reason enough alone for Luffy to go gunning for him.
Universal Poison: Averted with Magellan. His Doku-Doku no Mi gives him command over all poisons, running the gamut from minor irritants to paralytic agents to full-on stone-melting corrosives. Even with antidotes for some individual poisons, once he hits you with lethal doses of about a dozen different poisons you're beyond the help of medical science. Luffy found out the hard way that Magellan's poison wasn't just a Standard Status Effect he could Determinator his way through.
Unpleasable Fanbase: For a while the fans have been whining to ViZ about how their chapter releases are too slow when compared to Naruto or Bleach. Understandable. After all, it's been 6 years, and they're just finishing Alabasta. However, now that Vi Z is releasing all the remaining volumes during the first half of 2010, many fans are rejecting, and even boycotting them for things such as minor name changes, lack of profanity etc., trying to make them out to be the new 4Kids.
- Don't start on the streamlining of the anime to some circles of fans, all names must be in Japanese to appease them.
The Unreveal: Most any time crucial information regarding either the One Piece or the Will of D. The former when Silvers Rayleigh is about to tell Luffy what is on Raftel He is told by Luffy to stop, and then Luffy says that if the secret is revealed to him now, he'll quit adventuring altogether. The latter we have a flashback of a conversation between Gol D. Roger and Whitebeard concerning the true nature of the Will of D., but it is cut off, and Whitebeard dies a few pages later.
Unscaled Merfolk
Unwanted Harem: Luffy has an entire ISLAND'S worth in the Kuja Amazons, who immediately take a liking to him after he does the gorgon sisters one of the biggest favours they could ever ask for.
- In this case, it's not so much an "unwanted" harem as that Luffy is too naive to understand what a harem is.
Up To Eleven
Verbal Tic: Too many characters to list, and the unique laughs for characters are practically a whole subtrope.
Victory Pose: Franky's got a little dance he does whenever he wins a fight. Or wants to win. Or happens to be doing something he feels warrants the use of a victory dance. Which is alot of things.
Villain Ball: The World Government is Lawful Evil and generally does things that make a twisted kind of sense regardless of their position on the other end of the Moral Event Horizon. Then they decide to start a war with Whitebeard just because they believe that the son of the Pirate King is automatically the biggest threat to the world.
- Then again, they're killing several birds with one stone: Preventing Ace from taking his father's place as Pirate King, killing the strongest pirate Whitebeard, and using both events to frighten the rampant pirates into submission years after Roger's execution achieved the opposite effect.
- They forced Whitebeard to attack them in their home turf, they knew that if they could seperate Whitebeard from his Division leaders they could take them out seperatly, and they knew that the Admirals where strong enough to accomplish that. If they can prevent Whitebeard from destroying Marineford then they just took out one of the biggest threats to the goverment at a small cost.
  - Well, that plan failed. The island is in two, and the HQ itself is destroyed.
  - Hell, that plan backfired completely. In addition to outright demolishing Marineford, Whitebeard, in his last words, declares to the entire world that One Piece does, in fact, exist, which may very well rekindle the Pirate Era. Sengoku is very clearly not pleased.
  - No shit, just look at the guy's expression.
Villainous Breakdown: Crocodile and Moria had really epic ones. Also, Spandam though his multi-stage breakdown was pathetic rather than frightening.
Villainous Crossdresser: Mr. 2 Bon Clay, who later does a Heel Face Turn.
Villainous Harlequin: Buggy the Clown
Vocal Dissonance: Noticable with characters like Chopper (in his combat forms), Miss Monday, and Fukuro.
Vocal Evolution: If you compare the acting from the very start of the anime, to now... well, it speaks for itself.
Volleying Insults: Sanji and Zoro
Wacky Wayside Tribe: Filler uses this now and again, to give a side-voyage for the anime while the manga gets ahead. In canon, the just-introduced Kuja Tribe on the island of Amazon Lily already appears to fit the trope to a T.
Wake Up Call Boss: In-universe, non-video game examples of this trope: Aokiji and Kizaru. The first beats Luffy into the ground so thoroughly that he is inspired to invent the Gears in order to protect his friends from stronger enemies. Kizaru, along with Sentomaru, absolutely annihilates the Straw Hats before they get saved by Kuma. Recent events suggest that all of the Straw Hats are about to level up like crazy in order to survive the New World.
- Akainu counts, as the "Yeah, I can kill of a significant character and get away with it" boss.
Wanted Poster: De facto Power Levels on Grand Line.
Wave Motion Gun: The Thousand Sunny's Gaon Cannon.
Weak But Skilled: Ussop and Nami in particular, using gadgets and tactics in their battles. Robin should also count as far as Devil Fruit powers go, since she isn't physically any stronger than a normal person, but her power lets her use leverage and devestating creativity against her foes.
Weak Willed: Luffy.
Weaksauce Weakness: To quote Franky: "What I just said [about being Made Of Iron] does not apply to my backside!!"
- It apparently doesn't apply to certain other areas either...
Weapon Of Mass Destruction: Pluton and Poseidon
Well Intentioned Extremist: Contrast the rest of the Marine, Aokiji is a basically good person who doesn't usually go out of his way to prosecute people for the sligtest mistake. During the Enies Lobby arc, however, he orchestrated the kidnapping of Nico Robin, gave Spandam all kinds of authority, and allowed them to issue a Buster Call all on the idea that Robin's very existence was a threat to the stability of the world.
- There's also Ohm, who just wants to save everybody from fighting and ruining the inherent happiness they were born with...by killing everybody so they can no longer suffer.
Wham Episode: Chapter 513/Episode 405. That is all.
- Chapter 550 with its shocking revelation.
  - We could honestly just call the the entire Whitebeard vs. Marine thing a wham ARC, with the number of things that keep popping up and changing the tide of the battle. Ace and Whitebeard die, the Marines and Whitebeard Pirates are devestated. Blackbeard appears ready to attempt to become Pirate King. One Piece might go from being a Crapsaccharine World to just a Crapsack World.
  - And now we've got the Wham to end all whams... Ace dies! Onscreen to boot. Holy. Shit.
  - I believe you meant "HOLY FUCKING SHIT ACE IS DEAD JESUS CHRIST OH MY GOD".
  - With an even bigger Wham piled on right afterwards Whitebeard dying after Blackbeard orders his crew to gang on the bloody, battered man. A secondary minor wham on top of this is that this the first truely horrible thing we've seen Blackbeard do,since he even used to be one of the more likeable characters, supporting Luffy in Jaya, and serves as his Moral Event Horizon.
  - And 577, aptly named "One Outrageous Development After Another," Blackbeard absorbs Whitebeard's powers (which was previously thought to be impossible.) He now has the power of TWO devil fruits, one of which is a Logia that can negate other devil fruits, the other of which is a Paramecia that can LITERALLY destroy the world.
  - "Destroy the world" is a mistranslation. Quake-Quake fruit has the ability to "shake the world". The observed upper limits on it is creating large tsunamis. Still powerful enough to terrorize everyone, but not exactly planet-wrrcking.
  - When the only major landmass in the entire world is one thin strip, and you have the power to cause TSUNAMIS, then yes, DESTROY THE WORLD.
What Do You Mean Its For Kids: While most fans claim One Piece isn't a children's series/ manga, it very much is... mostly.
What If: The question poised for the 9th One Piece movie: Episode of Chopper, which panned out a little differently then from the original story
What A Senseless Waste Of Human Life: The Buster Call attack. The last one had a battleship fire at another, still fully-manned battleship... just to get Luffy.
- And before that, in Robin's flashback, they fire on a passenger ship full of innocents just in case a archeologist snuck on board.
What Do You Mean Its Not Symbolic: A pretty humorous example is Buggy becoming Moses in a recent chapter, while singing Joy to the World.
What Kind Of Lame Power Is Heart Anyway: Oda is a GOD when it comes to subverting this trope. Got a lame power? Take a few classes at the feet of Master Oda and you too can kick ass and take names. Just to give a few examples:
- Mr.3, whose power is to generate and shape wax. Lame right? Wrong. The wax is VERY strong and he can create ALOT of it
- Or Emporio Ivankov's ability to manipulate hormones. What are hormones? Those things that are commonly associated with sex, right? So Ivankov can make people want to have sex? WRONG(well, maybe, but not only). In fact, it allows him to do all kinds of crazy shit, everything from gender changing to healing to making his face grow to the size of a house.
- The Ursa-Example would have having to be Bartholomew Kuma. His power? He can push things. Sure he's got other powers unrelated, but pushing things is lame, and to add insult to injury he has cute little bear paws on his hands. Oh wait, did I forget to mention that he can push things at the speed of light? Including himself? Including theabstract concept of pain?
What The Hell Hero: Hannyabal gives one to Luffy in Impel Down, pointing out that many of the prisoners his group has freed deserve to be locked away, as they would otherwise be terrorizing innocent people. Case in point: Crocodile. Luffy's response? Basically, he didn't care. Your Mileage May Vary (his brother's life was at stake), but for many this was a shocking turn for Luffy. Possibly done to create a parallel between Luffy and Blackbeard.
- Lest we forget Luffy is, technically, a Villain Protagonist. Sure, he may have more morals in his left pinky toe than the entire World Government has put together, but he is a pirate, and no matter how he acts sometimes, he's perfectly aware of what that means.
When All You Have Is A Hammer: Quite a few Devil Fruit users, but especially Luffy. Though for such an idiot, he comes up with surprisingly creative ways to use his "hammer".
Where Did They Get Lasers: The 4Kids dub, which had any and all firearms either painted bright colors, or changed into the even less plausible squirt-guns.
- Though if you think about it, squirt guns are exactly the right thing to have against Crocodile.
- Waterguns are the least of their crimes. Helmeppo's gun is replaced with some weird hammer contraption, and in Luffy's origin story, the bandit's gun is turned into a pop gun. The pirate who kills the bandit's gun remains in tact, although there's a line tacked on stating "it was loaded with blanks"
The White Prince: Helmeppo
Whole Episode Flashback: In the Skypeia arc this took three whole episodes and it was of the tale of the ancient past, anyway, and in the Enies Lobby arc, it took two episodes and a double-bill special flashback.
Winged Humanoid: The apparent application of Lafitte's Devil Fruit.
- The inhabitants of Merveille have feathers growing out of their forearms, though they themselves don't know why or how. After Shiki's defeat and the return of their island to the sea, they discover that they can indeed fly.
Wolverine Claws: Captain Kuro
The Woobie: Chopper, Robin and Brook. Also Coby in the beginning.
- And now Ace, who had been convinced since childhood that Gold Roger was a Complete Monster, and as his son, Ace himself was no better.
World Of Ham: A world that has so much raw emotion, such hilarity, and so many opportunities for Manly Tears, with incredibly heroic heroes and absurdly villainous villains... I mean, it's not just any given group of characters; it's not just the scenery: it's the entire setting. It's EIICHIRO ODA who is THE LARGE HAM; characters just act ACCORDINGLY! That guy is WORSE than STAN LEE!!!
- Which is probably why he never puts (serious) romance in the forefront of the action: THE SHEER EMOTION WOULD MAKE THE UNIVERSE COLLAPSE!!! It's not a matter of taste! IT'S A SAFETY PRECAUTION!!!!
The World Tree: The Tree of Knowledge from Robin's past.
The Worf Effect: In full swing during the Marineford arc. Whitebeard, Jozu, and Marco easily repel the initial moves of Aokiji, Mihawk, and Kizaru respectively. The latter three all curb-stomped the Straw Hats. Also, three of the Shichibukai quickly bringing down Oars, Jr., whose ancestor's zombie took all nine Straw Hats and then some.
- All the giants present in Marineford serve as prime examples for this, first to show the strength of Oars Jr. compared to regular giants, then to show the strength of the five present Warlords of the Sea, twice to show just why Whitebeard is called the Worlds Strongest Man, and once in-universe when Luffy showcases his badassness to Whitebeard and his pirates by knocking a Marine giant out of his way with a Gigant Rifle.
- Luffy seem to taking hit from practically all manner of named marines in this arc Case in point: Kizaru instantly targets him as he enters the battlefield and if not for Iva would've been blasted to kingdom come. Then Kuma (the real one) appears and almost smokes him, once again Iva to the rescue. He runs into Smoker again after so long since Alabasta and despite his new powers, STILL can't land a hit on the guy and gets pinned down, Hancock bails him out. Then he runs into Mihawk and almost sliced to pieces. Once of WB's subordinate saves him. He finally gets to the platform and faces the Admirals, through makes the smart choice of just rushing past them. Still not enough though and he knocked back and stabbed by Aojiki. Marco thankfully saving him Say the least Nyon wasn't kidding when she said he'd be an "ant in a storm''.
  - Shouldn't count in Luffy's case , since every time he had to get bailed out he was fighting opponents that were obviously stronger than him, especially clear with all the logia types, since he still can't bypass their defence.
  - Not to mention that he's still exhausted from his recovery from Magellan's poison (and by all rights should still be resting for days yet, except that he's doping enough to stay standing) and is more concentrated on reaching Ace than he is on actually fighting his opponents. He tried to run past Mihawk, but Mihawk's reactions (unlike Hina's) are fast enough to track him and his attacks fast and powerful enough to hit him if he's even slightly distracted, while Smoker's Logia nature and seastone jitte make him Luffy-Kryptonite, at least until Luffy learns to properly use his Haki. The entire Impel Down Arc happened literally hours before the Marineford one, so he's basically running on fumes during this fight.
Wouldnt Hit A Girl: Sanji, and how.
Xanatos Gambit / Xanatos Roulette: Sir Crocodile.
- Sengoku is also quite proficient at this.
- Blackbeard. Nobody knows what his real goals are, but he spent years in Whitebeard's crew in the background, waiting to find a certain Devil Fruit. Immediately then struck out on his own, after getting it, to gain infamy and become a Shichibukai. Which he achieved originally intending to target Luffy after Ennis Lobby but switched off to capturing Ace as his ticket in. Then his most recent moves include breaking into Impel Down to recruit some of the most dangerous pirates in the world, using Luffy's breakout as a cover. Along with bringing said prisoners to Marineford to finish Whitebeard off themselves, after both the Whitebeard pirates and the Marines' forces have been devastated by each other. All this presumably for his dream of becoming Pirate King.
- Said goal is to steal Whitebeard's power and declare the new age, the Age of Blackbeard, seems well paid off in the end.
X Meets Y: Dragon Ball meets... pirates?
- Jojo's Bizarre Adventure, with pirates.
- Or Popeye the Sailor meets Anime.
- Or Pirates Of The Caribbean meets X-Men.
- Or Awesome meets Crazy?
You Are Number Six: The male agents of Baroque Works.
You Gotta Have Blue Hair: Buggy, Tashigi, Vivi, Ms. Doublefinger, Franky, Iceburg, Ivankov... did we miss anybody?
- Strangely, Zoro (with his green hair) is the only one in the series whose hair color is ever treated as abnormal.
You Have Failed Me: The fate of any Baroque Works agent who fails their mission. Crocodile attempts this on Mr. 3 but Mr. 3 survives.
You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: Baroque Works and the Kuroneko Pirates have poor employee benefit packages.
You ~~Rebel~~ Pirate Scum: Quoted mostly by members of CP9, but a common sentiment among World Government personnel.
You Shall Not Pass: Done by Ivankov and Inazuma to delay Magellan. Hannyabal invokes this when confronting Luffy, while standing on a bridge, swinging a flaming staff. Then Blackbeard comes along and renders it a moot point.
- This exact line was later used again by Vice Admiral John Giant on Whitebeard, who subverted it by launching John across the island.
- And now Garp has done this to stop Luffy from getting to Ace!
Zombie Gait: Subverted; most of the zombies are of average speed and intelligence, have distinct personalities, and can even disobey their masters in some instances. Justified by the fact that these zombies actually have "souls"... just not their own.
- The aversion is lampshaded when Nami, Usopp and Chopper openly expect the zombies to be slow as per cliche, and then are shocked when the zombies dash at them.
  - ... only to have to stop moments later to catch their breath.

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