Tropes A to B (Adaptation-Induced Plot Hole, Arc Villain, Berserk Button, Beware the Silly One, Big Brother Instinct, Bowdlerise, Break the Cutie) | Tropes C to D (Call-Back, Chekhov's Gun, Cliffhanger, Combat Pragmatist, Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass, Curb-Stomp Battle, Dark and Troubled Past, Deconstructed Character Archetype) | Tropes E to F (Early Installment Weirdness, Famous Last Words, Foreshadowing) | Tropes G to J (Heart is an Awesome Power, Hypocrite) | Tropes K to M (Laser-Guided Karma, Logical Weakness, Mass "Oh, Crap!", Moral Myopia, Muscles Are Meaningless) | Tropes N to P (Nice Job Fixing It, Villain, Oh, Crap!, O.O.C. Is Serious Business) | Tropes Q to S (The Reveal, Shout-Out, Spanner in the Works, Superpower Lottery) | Tropes T to Z (Wham Episode, Wham Line)
- In the Water 7 saga, the Foxy Pirates challenge the Straw Hat crew to a best 2 out of 3 Davy Back Fight, where pirate crews bet their own members in competitive games. After the Straw Hat crew won the second round, it was time for them to choose a member from the Foxy crew. Because the third round is a fight between captains, Nami suggests choosing Captain Foxy so that they would win the third round by default. The Foxy Pirates then begin to yell and jeer at her for such a dirty tactic, never-mind the fact that they have been blatantly cheating throughout the competition, something Robin was quick to point out.
- In Water 7, the Franky Family brutally beats up Usopp and steals the money he was carrying. The Straw Hats, in turn, raided their base and beat the living crap out of everyone there. Franky is furious that anyone would dare to harm his family, never mind that his family started the entire conflict. However, the Straw Hats are pirates and the Franky Family are bounty hunters who protect the city; they assumed that Usopp, as a pirate, stole the money in the first place.
- Spandam. The best example of this would probably be his calling Robin a selfish bitch for refusing to die so he can get a promotion. Not long before that, he was ranting about how great and kind he was and what a bitch Robin was, apparently forgetting about condemning all the Marines under his command to death and refusing to retract the command in order to save face. Damn pirates, always getting in the way of justice.
- Absalom from the Thriller Bark arc. When he's not running from Zombie!Lola's attempts to force him into marriage, he's trying to force Nami into marriage.
- Boa Hancock Does Not Like Men because the first men she met in her life (she lives in a Lady Land) captured her and sold her to the World Nobles as slaves, which has also left her with a fear of being subjugated thereafter. At her debut, Hancock is highly arrogant, shows little concern for the well-being of her subjects, and generally believes that everyone has to capitulate to her (and most people will); this doesn't exactly give her much moral high ground over the World Nobles, let alone the entire male sex. Unlike Gild Tesoro below, Hancock is portrayed as a sympathetic character, whose aforementioned traits haven't disappeared after the reveal of the Freudian Excuse, albeit toned down and portrayed more comedically. At the same time, it is shown that she does care for her subjects and fears that The Reveal of their secret past would destroy them.
- On that topic, Hancock's younger sisters Marigold and Sandersonia happily enable her behavior. When Luffy (who had earlier gone out of his way to conceal their slave marks while they were trying to kill him) asks Hancock to go to Impel Down so he can rescue his brother, they start screaming about what a cruel, selfish man he is and demand that Hancock petrify him.
- Also, Arlong. Fish- and Merfolk have been victims of Fantastic Racism from humans for a long time. So when Arlong comes into a position of power, what does he do? Enslave a town of people, kill a girl's surrogate mother before her eyes and then forces the girl to work for him, and basically go on and on about how fish people are "the superior species" and being a racist jerk. It is later revealed that Arlong based his operations and priorities (tyranny, slavery and hoarding wealth) on his knowledge on human society, and he was trying to obtain the freedom and power he couldn't get as a fishman on a dry land by trying to act like a human, more specifically the Celestial Dragons, arguably the most sickeningly evil characters in the series.
- Arlong's spiritual successor, Hody Jones, is even worse since he lacks Arlong's love for his fellow fishmen. He rants about the evil humans have done to fishmen and how anyone who sympathizes with humans are traitors who needs to be killed. Unlike Arlong, he never experienced any misdeeds or racism from humans. He's just a product of living in a very negative environment where hatred against humanity is often preached. He also coldly murders innocents, fishmen, mermen, and human alike to achieve his goals and enslaves humans and rides around on them like horses. Jimbei outright calls this playing Celestial Dragon.
- Hody also displays this trope outside his misanthropy. Vander Decken, who Hody had allied with to kill off Shirahoshi, decides to hurl the country-sized boat Noah down on Fishman Island, putting everyone on the island, including Hody's crew, in danger of being squashed. Hody labels Decken a traitor for this and climbs up the ship to give him a piece of his mind. However, Hody himself decides that dropping Noah on Fishman Island is a good idea, and tries to kill Decken to shut off his powers while the ship is still above the island. Evidently, he wasn't mad that Decken was going to crush his crew, but just himself, casually acknowledging that thousands of his men are going to die and planning to replace them with human slaves.
- While we're on the subject, the Celestial Dragons absolutely live for this trope. Descendants of the kings that founded the World Government, they have become incredibly insular and aloof to the point that they believe that having their every whim fulfilled is much more important than the lives or freedom of anyone else. Get in their way on the street? They'll happily have you shot, or enslave you, depending on their whims. They take Moral Myopia to a whole new level.
- Donquixote Doflamingo is another major example. Yes, his life did in fact go to hell (to where he still has nightmares about it and tends to drink), and it all changed when he was taken in by a gang of teenagers who quickly made him leader because of his Conqueror's Haki. It is obvious Doflamingo, and by extension his crew, considers crimes against him to be worthy of death. This makes a lot more sense when it comes to light that he was born a Celestial Dragon and his family left the nobility and that's where his attitude comes from.
- Viola is a minor example, expressing a mild distrust of men (nowhere near as much as Hancock above) because they all lie to her. She says this to Sanji, who had been captured and beaten up because she manipulated him.
- Gild Tesoro, the Big Bad of One Piece Film: Gold was once enslaved by the World Nobles. Toward the end of the film, he's displaying the exact same god complex over everyone.
- Pekoms wholeheartedly serves one of the Four Emperors, Big Mom, who is notorious for destroying entire countries when they fail to give her what she wants. He later learns how this feels when the crew of another Emperor destroys his own country when they aren't given what they want, promptly flying into a screaming rage and swearing vengeance on the culprits.
- Vinsmoke Judge is The Social Darwinist who thinks Virtue Is Weakness, and that Might Makes Right. He's not afraid to use his own soldiers as Human Shields, and spends most of the arc threatening Sanji's father-figure Zeff to get his cooperation. When he realizes that the Big Mom Pirates are going to kill him and his family, he breaks down and begs for his life. Those around him, even his own family, mock Judge for his Villainous Breakdown.
