Recap / One Piece: Egghead Arc

Short Summary:

The beginning of the end.

Whether it's real or not is for you to decide. If you ask me, those words are a relic from a bygone age.

— Atlas, Chapter 1062

Following the events in the Land of Wano, the Straw Hats set sail for the next island on the Log Pose. After a chance meeting with fellow Worst Generation member Jewelry Bonney, they arrive at the futuristic island of Egghead, owned by none other than Dr. Vegapunk. From there, the Straw Hats get caught up in a conflict between Vegapunk and the World Government—one that promises to have massive ramifications on the world at large. Meanwhile, the world's key players begin to make their respective moves as the hunt for the One Piece approaches its climax.

The Egghead arc provides examples of:

A - F

• Accidental Hero: Garp was fully content to allow Rocks to lay waste against the World Nobles for their hubris in stealing Fullalead's "treasure" and furthermore being dumb enough to descend from the Holy Land and putting themselves within reach of him. However, hearing the Roger was already heading to God Valley (apparently intent on stealing said treasure in the chaos) had Garp immediately involve himself solely for a chance to catch his rival. Their unseen team-up against Rocks and subsequent protection of the World Nobles from his wrath was entirely incidental to them trying to survive the fight against him.
• Accidental Truth: Upon catching wind of the incident at Egghead, Big News Morgans decides to twist the information and write an article claiming that Luffy had taken Vegapunk captive. Vivi is outraged since she knows Luffy well enough that she believes he wouldn't take someone hostage unless they deserved it, but Morgans doesn't care, since he'd rather catch the public's interest with a scandalous story instead of the truth. Chapter 1089 reveals however that after defeating all the Seraphim, the Straw Hat Pirates have captured York and are holding her hostage to squeeze info out of the Five Elder Stars, so they're holding a Vegapunk captive, just not the original.
• Advanced Ancient Acropolis: Shaka reveals that there was once an extremely technologically advanced ancient kingdom which existed 900 years ago in the past.
• An Arm and a Leg: Soon after being brought to Momoiro Island by the Revolutionary Army, Bartholomew Kuma returns to Marijoa in the midst of the Celestial Dragons still dealing with the fallout of Sabo's attack during the Reverie. Fleet Admiral Sakazuki damages his face and destroys one of his legs before he escapes towards his actual destination, Egghead.
• Arc Villain: St. Jaygarcia Saturn is the de facto Big Bad of the Egghead Arc, having reappropriated the Pacifista project and being responsible for Dr. Vegapunk turning Bartholomew Kuma into a Full-Conversion Cyborg.
• Awesome, but Impractical: Atlas brings up one of the drawbacks of being a One-Man Industrial Revolution: most of Vegapunk's technology can't be mass-produced because the rest of the world's technicians can't keep up with how advanced it is, nor fund it appropriately.
• Badass Army: Averted with Shanks' pirate fleet. In stark contrast to the other Emperor associated fleets which have been shown to each possess quite the military might, Shanks' is revealed to be mostly comprised of weaklings and jokes that are completely out of their league in the New World. His allied forces is thus considered to be notoriously weak compared to those of his pirate contemporaries. The only reason that they've survived in such a harsh sea however is because they're protected by Shanks and those few individuals associated with him that are more than strong enough.
• Badass on Paper: Thanks in part to one of his subordinates putting him in the center of the Cross Guild poster, the Marines believe Buggy is the leader of the organization and make him one of the new Emperors. Crocodile and Mihawk decide to let it stay that way so that Buggy will have the target on his back while they play The Man Behind the Man.
• Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work: Invoked by Mjosgard. During Charlos's second attempt to kidnap Shirahoshi, Mjosgard grants Sai and Leo permission to attack Charlos but forbids Fukaboshi from attacking him. When Fukaboshi demands an explanation, Mjosgard explains that, as pirates, Sai and Leo don't have to worry too much about the political fallout from attacking a Celestial Dragon; however, Fukaboshi, as a member of the Royal Family that rules Fishman Island, cannot afford to take a risk that could lead to the World Government painting a target on him and his country.
• Bait-and-Switch: What seems like a threat from an angry Kuzan to Blackbeard for his part in the chain of actions that led to Kuzan fighting Akainu and losing is immediately followed by everyone partying together while discussing said battle at Punk Hazard.
• The Big Bad Shuffle: Unusual for the series, the title of Arc Villain shifts from antagonist to antagonist throughout the course of the arc: Initially Lilith, the Satellite representing Vegapunk's innate evilness, seems to be the chief antagonist due to her attempting to mug the Straw Hats and later using them as guinea pigs to test out S-Shark's combat potential. However, she quickly becomes A Lighter Shade of Black once CP0 led by Rob Lucci arrive on the island to assassinate Vegapunk and the Satellite, though upon pursuing The Straw Hats, Bonney and Vegapunk to Labophase, Lucci and Kaku are double crossed and captured by Stussy, who is revealed to be The Mole for Vegapunk. To add insult to injury, the two are forced into an Enemy Mine due to the Seraphim going haywire and attacking everyone in the building indiscriminately. It is soon revealed that this was caused by York, Vegapunk's greed, in a bid to betray her fellow Vegapunks and become a Celestial Dragon. However, she gets defeated offscreen not long after the reveal, just in time for Kizaru and Saturn, Egghead's definitive Arc Villain, to arrive with a Buster Call in tow.
• Big Eater: York, one of Vegapunk's Satellites, can eat a ton of food; it's also her duty, to keep eating so the other satellites don't need to.
• Big Entrance: After hiding himself on Admiral Kizaru's ship since Chapter 1073, St. Jaygarcia Saturn officially makes his presence on Egghead known in Chapter 1094. He makes a big show of it, emerging from a summoning circle in the form of a Giant Spider.
• Bookends: The Straw Hats began their campaign against Kaido on Punk Hazard, an island and research facility that was closely associated with Vegapunk in the past. After finally taking down Kaido, the location they arrive at next is Egghead, another island and research facility associated with Vegapunk.
• Breather Episode: Subverted. The arc starts with far lower stakes than Wano and spends a good amount of time on comedy, exposition, and having the crew bounce off each other—leading the reader to expect a more laidback arc similar to Zou. Things start to ramp up with the arrival of CP0... and it only escalates from there.
• The Brute: Seraphim as a whole are this for Rob Lucci and the CP0 being that although the CP0 are powerful, at this point they were surpassed in power by the protagonists, so Seraphim are their best weapon to defeat Luffy's group and kill Vegapunk.
• The Bus Came Back: Fittingly for the first arc of the final saga, many characters make a return, namely Crocodile, Dracule Mihawk, Buggy, the Blackbeard Pirates, Hancock, the Kuja, Koby, Helmeppo, Rayleigh, Shakky, Pudding, Bonney, Tashigi, the Punk Hazard children, the former CP9 members, Stussy, Kuma, the Revolutionaries, Sentomaru, Kizaru, Garp, Wapol, Vivi, Dorry, Broggy, Oimo and Kashii. Even Golden Lion Shiki, who made his first and last manga appearance in Chapter 0, returns in Chapter 1096 (which is part of a Whole Episode Flashback sub-arc focusing on Bartholomew Kuma's past).
• Call-Back:
  • The Straw Hats insulting Zoro after he tells them not to worry about the missing Vivi is a call-back to another gag from after the Alabasta arc, where they similarly insulted him for saying they should have taken her by force if they wanted her to come along so badly.
  • Vegapunk used science to replicate the island and sea clouds from sky islands such as Skypiea. This brings back memories for the Straw Hats who were there, while Franky, who hadn't joined at that point, is delighted to discover those clouds.
  • During their fight, Luffy and Lucci get into a Punch Parry almost identical to the one they had back on Enies Lobby, albeit with them in their transformed states this time.
  • When Stussy betrays CP0, the very first thing she does is bite Kaku in the neck whilst he was in his awakened giraffe hybrid form like a vampire. Back in Whole Cake Island, she drank juice that Smoothie extracted from a giraffe, specifically juice that Smoothie wrung out via twisting the giraffe's neck.
  • Ratel brings to mind Nezumi from the Arlong arc; both are greedy, corrupt Marines who look like humanoid rats, are cruel to civilians, and attempt to steal treasure before getting the crap beaten out of them.
  • When Sanji met Stussy, he remembers seeing her in his attempted wedding with Pudding during the Whole Cake Island Arc.
  • When Lucci and Kaku propose a truce to fight the rogue Seraphim, Luffy and Zoro pull off the same disgusted face Oden and Whitebeard did in their flashback in the Wano arc.
  • Kaku's Gag Nose gets him compared to Usopp, just like when he first appeared in the Water 7 arc.
  • Dorry and Broggy destroying Kid's ship right after Shanks' stopped Kid from shooting their allies is not only a callback to them obliterating the Island Eater way back in Little Garden, but also one to to the scene where Lucky Roux shot the mountain bandit who pointed his gun at Shanks' head, showcasing once again that if anyone threatens to shoot those closely associated with Shanks then they should be prepared to be shot back.
  • Following the defeat of the Kid Pirates at Shanks' hands, the narration notes that the crew was completely eradicated in the exact same manner as when the Straw Hats were scattered by Kuma in the Sabaody arc.
  • Back in Impel down, Hancock misinterpreted Luffy's "Thank you" with an "I love you". Her seraphim clone, S-Snake, does the exact same thing here.
  • Back in Sabaody, when the crew worried about Rayleigh fending for himself, Shakky reassured them by telling them that Rayleigh was "a hundred times stronger than all of you". Here, Luffy says that he and his crew are "a hundred times stronger than the last time we've met" as he's fighting Kizaru, the Arc Villain of Sabaody.
  • In Who's-Who's battle with Jimbei, he is the one to explain the legend of Sun God Nika, including how slaves would pray to him in hopes he would come and free them from their bonds and bring smiles to their faces. Kuma's flashback reveals that Kuma and his father were two such slaves, with the latter telling his son tales of Nika to keep his spirits up before he was killed. These stories are implied to be what inspired Kuma to join the Revolutionary Army, as he admits to a young Bonney that he wanted to be a hero who freed slaves like Nika when he was growing up.
  • After escaping from slavery, Kuma fled to the Sorbet Kingdom with Ginny and supported her and himself financially by chopping and selling wood, calling back to the sketch Oda did of a young Kuma carrying a bundle of wood in SBS Volume 63.
  • In order to sneak out of the church she was raised in upon recovering from her illness, Bonney used her Age-Age Fruit powers to disguise herself as Conney, the Queen dowager of the Sorbet Kingdom. Bonney did the same thing in order to infiltrate the Reverie, where she discovered the current whereabouts of her father at the time.
• Call-Forward: In the flashback showing how Kuma and Ivankov met, as Ivankov sets off on his own adventure after escaping from God Valley, Kuma waves him off, saying he'll never forget Ivankov's face as long as he lives. Any reader who read through the Marineford Arc would know it's technically true, since Kuma forgets Ivankov's face after suffering Death of Personality due to becoming a Full-Conversion Cyborg.
• Can't Kill You, Still Need You:
  • Despite Imu's intense beef with the Nefertari family, they want Vivi captured alive.
  • The Five Elders order Vegapunk's execution, but decide to spare York alone, as only she is willing and able to supply them with the Mother Flame.
• Chekhov's Gunman: Although Prince Grus and Kujaku are formally introduced in this arc when Helmeppo requests their aid to save Koby, they actually appeared in the manga earlier during Capone Bege's cover story. They are the ones who temporarily arrested Lola in Dressrosa, having mistaken her for Chiffon, Lola's twin sister and Bege's wife.
• Child by Rape: It is never outright stated but very much heavily implied that Jewelry Bonney is one as her mother, Ginny, was kidnapped to become a Celestial Dragon's wife and after being thrown out for being infected, spent her last moments in life stating she has always loved Kuma.
• Child Soldiers: During the Marines' attempt to capture Boa Hancock, a new model of Pacifista are revealed called Seraphim, each bearing a strong resemblance to the original Seven Warlords of the Sea (Mihawk, Hancock, Doflamingo, Kuma, Moria, Crocodile, and Jimbei) in their youth. This works effectively against the Kujas and Nami, who were reluctant to fight something that looked like a child.
• City Wide Evacuation: Confronted with the possibility that an incident bigger than the destruction of Ohara is about to fall upon Egghead, Sentomaru orders the inhabitants to evacuate the island before the Marines arrive. When Saint Saturn hears the researchers are escaping on evacuation ships, he orders them all to be sunk immediately.
• Clap Your Hands If You Believe: The true origins of the Devil Fruits are the desires people held for their own futures. Every single Devil Fruit shown thus far originated as someone's dream.
• Clones Are People, Too: Vegapunk's stance on clones, as shown by the dialogue at the start of chapter 1072.
• Closed Circle: The Straw Hats, the Vegapunks, Bonney, and CP0 end up getting trapped with the Seraphim in the Labosphere together, due to the lasers mysteriously activating. This happens because York planned for the Seraphim to kill off everyone else there, leaving her as the sole survivor.
• Consolation Prize: Once Kizaru engages in battle with Luffy, Lucci drops his Revenge Before Reason façade and attacks Zoro after declaring he realises that he can't possibly defeat Luffy in his current state and that the head of a "Sea-Emperor's second-in-command" is a perfectly acceptable alternative.
• Contrived Coincidence:
  • Sabo was thought to have been wiped out near Lulusia because he is one of the few outsiders who knows of Imu's existence. It turns out that he was smuggling himself on a ship to there just as Imu gave the command to test the "Mother Flame" on the kingdom. Imu reasons for it "being in close proximity". The Elders hear that the people there are showing "sparks of rebellion" and want to make an example of it. Sabo being there turned out to be pure chance or, in their case, "fate" and, even then, he and a handful of rebels were out of range by the time Lulusia was annihilated.
  • Thanks in part to the Drawing Straws from the previous arc, the Straw Hats end up showing up on Egghead at around the time the World Government was planning an attempt on Vegapunk's. Slightly subverted in that Shaka believes their arrival was due to fate.
• Crippling Overspecialization: Lampshaded by Law when he and Blackbeard clash, with him saying that if all of Blackbeard's Ten Titanic Captains have Devil Fruit powers, that makes them all anchors. Blackbeard retorts that that's the trade-off with Devil Fruits, believing that the power is Worth It.
• Curb-Stomp Battle:
  • It is mentioned that the Kid Pirates were driven away by the Red Hair Pirates in their original offscreen fight without even encountering Shanks. Kid's rematch with Shanks' crew then lasts less than one chapter from beginning to end, with Shanks taking out the Kid Pirates with a single Divine Departure. And then, just to add insult to injury, Dorry and Broggy destroy Kid's ship.
  • The above only happened because Shanks, with his advanced Observation Haki, saw that if Kid were allowed to use his Damned Punk attack, he would have instantly annihilated the Red Hair Pirates fleet and slaughtered everyone. It's noted that the Red Haired fleet is notoriously weak compared to the fleets of other Emperors, because it's less of a fleet and more a number of wimpy pirate crews Shanks took pity on and granted his protection.
  • We don't even see Kuma take on Bekori's fleet. We just see the flaming ruins of the ships as the narrator comments on what a Foregone Conclusion it was.
• Curb Stomp Cushion: The Heart Pirates are annihilated in their battle with the Blackbeard Pirates (who are not even at full strength) on Winner Island, but they manage to get some good hits in before being defeated, and Bepo and Law are able to escape before Blackbeard can steal the Op-Op Fruit powers, snatching away total victory from him.
• Cut Apart: Despite Chapter 1060 making it look like Sabo had been caught in whatever it was that obliterated Lulusia Kingdom, it's revealed in Chapter 1083 that he and some of the citizens managed to survive because they weren't even on the island.
• Cute Giant: Atlas, one of Vegapunk's satellites, appears as a little girl who's as big as Kaido.
• Deal with the Devil:
  • York makes a deal with the Five Elders to mass produce the Mother Flame, in exchange for them to eliminate Stella and the other satellites while also making her a Celestial Dragon.
  • Kuma's effective death from loss of personality is revealed to be part of a deal with the demon-like St. Jaygarcia Saturn, who required his absolute obedience during the creation of the Pacifistas in exchange for Dr. Vegapunk curing Bonney's "Sapphire Scales" disease.
• Death from Above: Imu annihilates Lulusia in an instant with a mysterious force that rains laser bolts down on it.
• Death Wail: A Death of Personality variant, but the end of Kuma's flashback shows Vegapunk broke down in tears after completing his friend's modifications, turning him into a mindless cyborg.
• Deer in the Headlights: When Bonney encounters a rogue Pacifista controlled by Bluegrass, she freezes on the spot from shock. Sanji manages to save her, and calls her out on it.
• Description Cut: When Akainu is informed that the Straw Hats are on Egghead, he says to pass on to Rob Lucci that he is strictly forbidden from fighting with Luffy, now that he's an Emperor. It immediately cuts to Lucci fighting with Luffy, having intentionally ignored this order because It's Personal.
• Deuteragonist: Decidedly both Jewelry Bonney and Bartholomew Kuma, with their relationship serving as the driving force behind both character's stories as well as the emotional core of the arc.
• Disconnected by Death: While on Lulusia, Sabo contacted the Revolutionaries to tell them he wasn't the one who assassinated Nefertari Cobra and that he had seen Imu sitting on the supposed Empty Throne. Unfortunately, before he could mention the second part, said figure obliterated Lulusia with an unknown force. Subverted in that he survived, but was forced to cut the call short when the kingdom was destroyed.
• Disproportionate Retribution: When Luffy's group is confronted by a Pacifista cop for unintentionally stealing food and clothing, it assaults them with its mouth laser. Naturally, they feel that it's a bit extreme.
• Distressed Dude: Following the failed attack on Amazon Lily, Koby is kidnapped by Blackbeard.
• The Dog Was the Mastermind: The one who leaked Vegapunk's Void Century research to the Government, kidnapped the Cipher Pol agents sent to investigate, and turned the Seraphim against the others is revealed to be none other than York the Greedy, the Vegapunk satellite who eats to supply the other 'Punks with energy.
• Dramatic Irony:
  • The Marines' concern and fear over Luffy and Buggy being recognized as Emperors is juxtaposed with both of them being in a comically pitiful state — Luffy imprisoned in a cage for endangering his crew and Buggy reduced to a beaten disembodied head at the mercy of Crocodile and Mihawk.
  • During a flashback, Luffy was shown training for when he set out to sea, while declaring he wouldn't lose a single member of his future crew. This was while he was secretly being watched by Kuma, the man who would ultimately separate his crew.
• Dress-O-Matic: Among the many inventions made by Vegapunk found in Egghead are dressing room-like machines that allow those who use them to change their outfits instantaneously into ones that are more indicative of the futuristic Egghead.
• Dwindling Party: Just as the Straw Hats are about to leave Egghead with Vegapunk and his satellites, everyone in the Labophase facility is attacked by the Seraphim under orders by a mysterious assailant. Slowly, a number of the Vegapunks and some of the Straw Hats are taken out by the Seraphim as well as unknown culprit.
• Enemy Mine: Lucci and Kaku propose one to the group that is holding them as hostages, seeing how the Seraphim are being order to attack both them alongside the Straw Hats and Vegapunks. Luffy and Zoro are very reluctant to agree, since it's obvious they'll attack them the moment the truce is over, but are eventually convinced when they promise not to attack the weaker crew members.
• Entertainingly Wrong: Marco was worried about leaving Sphinx Island unguarded because he was afraid Weevil and his mother would discover the hidden village and tear it apart looking for Whitebeard's treasure while he was away. As it turned out, they did end up on the island while he away... and it's a good thing they did because corrupt Marines were going to start shooting the innocent villagers to get them to reveal the location of Whitebeard's treasure, and Weevil didn't take too kindly to them ransacking his self-proclaimed father's hometown.
• Even the Girls Want Her: As a Funny Background Event, a female journalist working for Morgans is so smitten by Vivi that she states she'll never wash the clothes she lent her again. A few chapters later, she's too busy swooning over Vivi to pay attention to Vegapunk's hugely important message.
• Evil Is Petty: Alpha had no reason to rip all of of Kuma's letters to Bonney, as the former was perfectly cooperative and the latter none the wiser, but she did so anyway. It also bites her in the ass, as finding Kuma it was one of the major reasons Bonney set sail.
• Exact Words: Caribou tries to protest when the Straw Hats arrive on Egghead, but Zoro reminds him they only agreed to take Caribou away from Wano, and nothing more.
• Explain, Explain... Oh, Crap!: In Chapter 1094, when the Pacifista all suddenly stop despite Atlas ordering them to give them protection, she is shocked because the Vegapunks have high authority over the Pacifista and no one can countermand it...except the Five Elders. Cue St. Jaygarcia Saturn making his arrival on the island.
• Eye Awaken: When Luffy activates Gear Five against Kizaru, we get a shot of the Iron Giant awakening by having its eyes glow.
• Failed a Spot Check: Despite fighting King in Wano and noticing the similarities between him and the Seraphim, Zoro doesn't realize said Seraphim have Lunarian DNA until Shaka spells it out for him, to Luffy, Lucci and Kaku's annoyance.
• Fling a Light into the Future:
  • Cobra asks Sabo to give Luffy and Vivi a message about their shared D heritage, and sacrifices himself to gain Sabo enough time to escape from Imu and the Five Elders.
  • According to Imu, queen Lily is the reason why the Poneglyphs were scattered around the world.
  • This is revealed to be the reason why Kuma saved and separated the Straw Hats back in Sabaody. He was moved by Luffy's similarity to Nika, and believes he will become the man who will save the world.
• Forced Sleep: Stussy can force whoever she drinks blood from to fall asleep.
• Foreshadowing:
  • When Stussy reveals her true allegiance, she can't stop the Seraphim because Lucci already ordered them to attack and since he's on the same authority level as her, she can't override his orders. When the Seraphim later appear to go rogue and won't obey the satellites' orders, it turns out to be because York gave them orders that the other satellites, with the same authority, can't countermand.
  • Bonney's true age is constantly teased through the arc up until The Reveal:
    • She's reintroduced as a young teenager while she's unconscious and trapped in water, making it apparent from the get-go that her age isn't what it usually seems.
    • Vegapunk, Saturn and even Kizaru refer to Bonney as "just a little girl" or similar a few times throughout the chapters. While it's easy to dismiss as patronization, it's a bit odd that it keeps happening...
    • In a more meta way, while Sanji usually goes hearts-in-eyes excited at any attractive woman, his attitude towards Bonney is more subdued and protective, without any hint of his usual pervertedness (that he even shows towards Stussy and Lilith in this arc). Oda probably didn't want him to lust after a twelve years old.
  • At the beginning of the arc, Lilith states, annoyed, that a creature's natural instincts always come back (referring to how the Sea Beast Weapons keep sinking ships even when she orders them not to). Chapter 1103 show that this extends to the mind-wiped Bartholomew Kuma, who despite being made into a Full-Conversion Cyborg, teleported halfway across the world to save his daughter.
• From Bad to Worse: First, CP0 arrives to assassinate Vegapunk and his satellites. Following CP0, a naval fleet commanded by Admiral Kizaru is dispatched to make sure that Vegapunk doesn't escape with Luffy. Accompanying Kizaru is one of the Five Elders — specifically, the Godhead of Science and Defense, Saint Jaygarcia Saturn. If that wasn't bad enough, York turns traitor and traps the Straw Hats, the Vegapunks, and CP0 in the Labosphere after ordering the Seraphim to kill all of them. To top this all off, a Blackbeard Pirate ship occupied by Van Augur and Catarina Devon has been spotted within the island's shoreline, with Caribou offering to tell them about Poseidon and Pluton. Even worse, the end of Chapter 1109 has the other four Elders arrive on Egghead.

G - M

• Gaia's Revenge: Of a sort; according to Vegapunk, Devil Fruits being the embodiment of human dreams makes them "abnormalities" in the face of nature, which is why the sea, which he calls "the mother of all life", makes it impossible for them to swim in. This may also explain why they taste so bad, as nature's way of trying to make people reject them.
• Gender Bender: Thanks to his feminization disease, Doc Q can force males to change into females which is seen being implemented on the Heart Pirates. Thanks to his experiences with Big Mom making him aware that intense and powerful enough Haki can resist and undo the effects of Devil Fruits, Law forcibly un-bends himself back into a man before fighting the Blackbeard pirates.
• Generation Xerox: Luffy and Bonney form a fast friendship and alliance - much like their respective fathers (and in Bonney's case, her mother as well) did years prior.
• Genetic Memory: The Lineage Factor used to create the Seraphim is essentially a DNA record of the Warlords they're based on. It contains not only the physical makeup of the Warlords but also their skills, personalities, and etc. This thus allows the Seraphim capable of using the same techniques that the Warlords they're respectively clones of use without prior training. It however also contains certain particular feelings that the Warlords originally had as best shown with S-Snake who inherited Hancock's crush on Luffy, something that completely overrides her programing.
• Glowing Mechanical Eyes: The giant robot under Egghead gains these as it reactivates.
• Godzilla Threshold:
  • Initially, St. Jaygarcia Saturn wanted his presence as he oversaw the Egghead incursion a secret. Unfortunately, thanks to Luffy's interference in Kizaru's mission and the Vegapunks regaining control of the Pacifista^note with the Five Elders being seemingly the only ones who can supersede their authority (unaware that Bonney secretly outranks them), his hand is forced and he is required to come on to the island personally.
  • At the end of Chapter 1109, with Vegapunk's pre-recorded message about to announce what sounds like a major World Government secret, the other four Elders are forced to join Saturn at Egghead as well in hopes of stopping the broadcast.
• Good All Along: Downplayed and Played With in regards to Weevil and Bakkins. While they are the firm belief that the late Newgate has left an inheritance for the two of them, Marco's fear that they would go as far as to attack his home island of Sphinx ends up being for naught, as it's shown that it's the Marines who took advantage of Marco's absence to find Whitebeard's supposed treasure and attacked it and Weevil and Bakkin defended the island for him.
• Good Is Not Soft: Shanks might be a Nice Guy, but once he sees how much damage Kid's Damned Punk will do to his fleet, he swiftly one-shots Kid and destroys his ship and his crew.
• Guest-Star Party Member: Like Law before her, Bonney ends up meeting and travelling with the Straw Hats starting in this arc. Later, Vegapunk, his satellites, and Stussy intend to travel with the Straw Hats as well to escape the government.
• Hackette: A variation, but Ginny was a skilled wiretapper and thief, who managed to leak out info about the World Nobles' hunting game, luring the Roger and Rocks pirates there as well as Marine reinforcements.
• Happy Ending Override:
  • For Moda from "Ace's Great Blackbeard Search". There she was reunited with her parents who were with the Marines and her dairy business was flourishing. Here she is left homeless with her livelihood gone, due to the destruction of her homeland, Lulusia. Moda's not only separated from her parents again, as a newly inducted revolutionary, she's now on an opposing side from them.
  • After helping defeat Kaido and Big Mom during the Wano Arc, gaining massive bounty increases, and having collected another Road Poneglyph, Kid and Law, plus their respective crews, are both utterly annihilated upon arrival on their following islands; Kid and Killer are one-shot by Shanks, with Brogy and Dorry sinking the Victoria Punk, while Law and the Heart Pirates are crushed by Blackbeard and his subordinates, and the Polar Tang is completely destroyed for good measure. Law and Bepo, both badly injured, only narrowly manage to escape.
• Healing Factor: Chapter 1094 ends with Bonney attempting to avenge Kuma by stabbing St. Jaygarcia Saturn in the chest. The following chapter reveals that Saturn deliberately allowed this to happen to demonstrate his self-healing ability to the masses.
• Heaven Versus Hell: Not literally, but two of the most prominent characters this arc are Bartholomew Kuma, a Good Shepherd who doesn't have a malicious bone in his body, and Jaygarcia Saturn, a major force behind the World Government who looks downright demonic in his One-Winged Angel form. It's slowly revealed that Saturn is directly or indirectly responsible for just about every awful thing that's happened to Kuma, from his enslavement as a child to his loss of identity as an adult.
• He Knows Too Much:
  • Lucci and his comrades are sent to assassinate Dr. Vegapunk and his satellites despite the scientists' loyalty and usefulness to the World Government for undisclosed reasons. They can only assume Vegapunk knows too much about matters inconvenient to the World Government such as the Lulusia incident. The man himself then explains the World Government must want to snuff him out because his research is based on preserving knowledge about the lost empire from the Void Century to attain a means of infinite energy for mankind.
  • Only the Five Elders are allowed an audience with Imu. Anyone else who knows about this figure is as good as dead.
    • Practically exploited on Cobra, who was eventually killed by Imu and the Five Elders for witnessing the former, after being interrogated about his letter. The Elders make it clear that Cobra's fate was sealed the moment he not only laid eyes upon Imu, but the fact that he saw someone actually sit upon the otherwise "Empty Throne".
    • Sabo manages to barely escape with this knowledge while trying in vain of both attacking the Elders while rescuing Cobra.
    • Wapol, who was spying on them from away through a crack in the wall, panics at the idea of falling victim to the trope too and runs away frantically.
• Heroic Second Wind: Luffy is completely worn out using his Gear 5 form. Sometime after Saturn enters the picture, Luffy stuffs himself with loads of food, recharging himself.
• Hive Mind: Played With. Vegapunk's satellites have enough individuality to function as separate people and interact between themselves as such, but they also share one mind; when York stuffed herself on food, all other satellites felt full until she relieves herself.
• Hologram: One of the futuristic wonders that Vegapunk has invented which Luffy and those accompanying him discover are holograms. These light based constructs are completely intangible unless one wears special gloves to interact with them.
• Hoist by His Own Petard: A long-term variation. Alpha ripping all of Kuma's letters to Bonney was intended to keep the latter in check, but it only caused Bonney to become suspicious, and eventually set sail; not before giving Alpha a well-earned punch to the face.
• Hope Spot:
  • Invoked by the Celestial Dragons during their triennial human hunts. They tell the quarry if they manage to survive the three weeks of the festival, they'll be set free. Ivankov points out that no one has ever survived any of their hunts, so there's zero chance they'll actually uphold this promise; the Celestial Dragons give their targets the sense of hope simply so they don't give up right away and make the hunt too easy.
  • In Chapter 1103, Kuma arrives and punches out Saturn, resulting in him being buried under the rubble. In the next chapter, Kizaru says "it's over" and the Vegapunks are able to move again, getting a chance to escape... only for Saturn to get up, regenerate from his injuries, and issue a Buster Call.
  • It is followed up by another one, where Dorry and Broggy arrive and interrupt the Buster Call, Bonney takes over the Pacifista and sees Luffy as Nika, regaining hope. But then Kizaru and Saturn mortally wound the Stella, with the latter deciding to summon the other four Elders, with Nusjro in particular taking down the Pacifista.
• Hostage Situation: Come Chapter 1089, the Straw Hat Pirates have managed to completely turn the situation around, having completely defeated the Seraphim, freed Vegapunk and captured York. They force her to contact the Five Elder Stars to squeeze info out of them so they can get a better bearing on their current situation and an idea of what's really going on in the World Government.
• Human Shield: Upon capturing York and realizing she's valuable to the World Government, Luffy tries to intimidate the Five Elders into calling off the fleet surrounding Egghead if they want her back. Unfortunately, they don't give into his demand and instead have Kizaru infiltrate the island.
• Humongous Mecha: As expected of an island owned by Doctor Vegapunk, Egghead is filled with these. Interestingly, one such mecha wasn't built by him, it was present on the island long before he was born, apparently constructed during the Void Century.
• Hunting the Most Dangerous Game: Kuma's flashback reveals the World Nobles engage in an especially cruel version of the trope every three years, where they pick an island unaffiliated with the World Government, and hunt and slaughter everyone in it, plus any unruly slaves they've brought along to punish, for sport. It was during one of these events on God Valley that Kuma met Ivankov.
• I Never Got Any Letters: One of the most infuriating parts of Kuma's flashback is him sending Bonney letters to "give her a lifetime of love" in the one year before he goes through his Death of Personality and them getting intercepted by Alpha, Bonney's Cipher Pol "caretaker", who proceeds to tear them and throw them in the trash while sporting a Goblin Face. She doesn't give a good reason for doing so either, the letters just disgust her.
• If I Wanted You Dead...: A variation. While Lilith is thinking that she has the Straw Hats cornered, Shaka is quick to remind her that they are an Emperor-level crew, and specifically draws her attention to Zoro and Robin, hanging back and keeping their eyes trained on her, informing her that either one of them could "slaughter [her] in an instant" if they so chose to.
• Implied Rape: While the actual word is never outright uttered, it's clearly implied that this is what befell Ginny after she was kidnapped to become a Celestial Dragon's wife and next appeared with her baby, Bonney, in her arms. Further leading credence to this is her spending her last moments in life attempting to tell Kuma that she has always loved him.
• Internal Reveal:
  • Franky, Usopp, Sanji and Nami learn about the Void Century from Shaka, to their shock. They also learn about the legend of Nika the Sun God from the real Vegapunk.
  • The Straw Hats also fully witness Luffy's Gear 5 form compared to the glimpses in Wano and the Wanted posters. Nami remembers that this is how Luffy defeated Kaido.
  • Sabo (and by extension, Dragon and Ivankov after he tells them), Cobra and Wapol find out about Imu's existence, a fact known to the audience since the Reverie arc.
  • In chapter 1106, Bonney finally discovers that Luffy is the Sun God her father spoke so highly of.
• It's Personal: Luffy finds Atlas heavily injured by Lucci and fights the agent in her defense. Although Luffy isn't one to let her be killed like that, he does it under the argument that she had offered food to his group earlier.
• Laser Blade: One of Vegapunk's discarded inventions, which Bonney salvages from a junkyard, is a lightsaber-like device. Turns out it was considered a failure because it had a side-effect of drawing in bug swarms.
• Last Note Nightmare: The hololive collaboration promotional song 未来島 ~Future Island~ is a mysterious and peppy track about the crew meeting the eccentric Dr. Vegapunk only for the last few dozen seconds to tumble into a sinister rap stanza that warns of the treachery to come.
• Leeroy Jenkins: True to her violent/angry nature when Atlas confronts Rob Lucci she springs into action and gets ready to throw a Megaton Punch at him, despite Shaka's warnings that she can't handle him. It doesn't end well for her.
• Leave No Survivors: After Kuma arrives on Egghead and attacks Saint Jaygarcia Saturn, the Elder Star decides that there are too many dangerous elements to the World Government gathered on the island in the form of the Straw Hats, Vegapunk, Bonney and Kuma, and promptly initiates a Buster Call, intending to totally destroy the whole island and ensure none of his enemies leave alive.
• Leave No Witnesses: Most of the Egghead workers are evacuated before the Marine fleet arrives to lay siege to the island. When Saint Saturn is told many of Vegapunk's workers escaped on ships out to sea, he orders the Marines to track them down and kill them immediately, just on the off chance one of them might have also learned something about the Void Century. This eventually escalates to the above...
• Literal Split Personality: In order to do more, Vegapunk has created six satellites of himself, each one holding an aspect of his personality.
• Locked Out of the Loop: When Lucci was covertly transmitting intel to the Marine fleet and made an attempt to assassinate Vegapunk that Stussy intercepted, it was obvious that Kaku wasn't in on what he was up to. Nevertheless, Sanji encased him in a Seastone bubble to ensure he stayed out of what was happening.
• Mass "Oh, Crap!": Pretty much everyone, regardless of allegiance, reacts this way when Saint Jaygarcia Saturn takes the field. Luffy, Zoro, Sanji, Jimbei, Kizaru, and Lucci all immediately take note of his ominous, otherworldly presence, with even those on the side of the World Government reacting with fear and unease.
• Matter Replicator: One of Vegapunk's inventions that Luffy comes across immediately after discovering that Atlas is real and not another hologram is what's essentially a food replicator. This machine that Luffy and his comrades come to enjoy is explained by Atlas to be capable of turning various raw ingredients into a variety of unique dishes. Unfortunately, it's far too advanced for regular engineers that aren't on Vegapunk's level for it to be mass produced much to Atlas' chagrin.
• Meaningful Name: It is revealed in this arc that the Pacifista are named as such because Vegapunk intended them to protect the weak and helpless, not to be weapons of war. Unfortunately, Jaygarcia Saturn, being the Godhead of Science and Research, had different plans for them.
• Meanwhile Scene: At certain points, the arc pivots between several major players, showing what they've been getting up to while the Straw Hats are on Egghead, culminating in a series of 10 chapters focusing on those people only from Chapters 1079 to 1088. Highlights include:
  • The Blackbeard Pirates' ambush of the Heart Pirates after the latter left Wano, taking their Road Poneglyph rubbings.
  • The Kid Pirates' ill-fated attack on the Red Hair Pirates at Elbaf, and take their Road Poneglyph Rubbings in the process..
  • Garp and SWORD's assault on Fullalead to rescue Koby.
  • Marco returning to Sphinx and learning about Weevil's time there.
  • Vivi and Wapol laying low at the World Economic Journal HQ after the Reverie.
  • Cross Guild discussing their next move at Emptee Bluffs.
  • Sabo returning to the Revolutionary Army to debrief about the Reverie.
  • A flashback showing the aforementioned events that happened during the Reverie.
  • The whole world experiencing an earthquake from Lulusia's destruction.
  • A flashback showing Bartholomew Kuma's backstory.
• Mêlée à Trois: It's shown that the God Valley battle initially began as a three-way conflict between the Rocks Pirates (leading an armada of unaffiliated pirate crews from Pirate Island), the Roger Pirates, and the Marines (defending the Celestial Dragons alongside God's Knights), led by Garp, before Roger and Garp joined forces against Rocks.
• Memory Jar: Vegapunk has been keeping a large paw-shaped bubble containing Kuma's memories. Bonney is able to access them by touching it, though what she sees is too hard for her to watch them in one sitting.
• Modified Clone: The Seraphim aren't just simply mere copies as was the case with the previous Pacifista model. They have been modified to also incorporate Lunarian traits and capabilities in order to make them stronger. They also appear to be younger versions of those they've been modeled after.
• Multiple-Choice Future: Bonney's age manipulation Devil Fruit powers are expanded upon within this arc. One of the things revealed about them is that she's capable of more than just simple aging akin to what Shinobu does with her own Devil Fruit powers. Bonney is able to age people and things up based upon what they would be like in certain possible futures. This is best exemplified when she aged herself up into a musclebound older version of herself instead of becoming what she normally looks like, basically what she would be like in some distorted future.
• My Brain Is Big: Vegapunk's Brain-Brain Fruit makes his brain grow in size the more knowledge he learns. In a flashback, he is shown to have a huge head that looks almost like a light bulb, and by present day, his brain is big enough to fill the entire upper half of Egghead while his head itself is cut to avoid being a burden. The apple-like hat on top is said to be a wireless link to his brain, stored in a Labophase facility above called the "Punk Records".
• Mystery Episode: Although the arc starts out as merely being future themed, it slowly turns into one with elements that wouldn't be out of place in a typical Mystery Fiction story. The main mystery here being that there seems to be someone who appears to be secretly sabotaging Vegapunk's escape if not outright targeting him, doing things such as lowering the Frontier Dome to allow CP0 access and secretly ordering the Seraphim to apparently take out everyone within the Labophase facility including CP0. The culprit is eventually revealed in Chapter 1078.
• Mystical Plague: Doc Q is revealed to have eaten a Devil Fruit that gives him the ability to create and spread diseases of which are of the more fantastical variety since one of them involves turning those infected into women.

N - R

• "Nations of the World" Montage: A short montage showing some of the countries of the world is shown when Vegapunk's message starts.
• New Tech Is Not Cheap: It's noted that regardless how wondrous Vegapunk's many futuristic projects may be, they are extremely expensive to fund. It's also the main reason why Vegapunk didn't join Dragon's Revolutionaries despite having similar goals, as Dragon has too little money to properly finance Vegapunk's ideas.
• Nice Job Fixing It, Villain:
  • As Vegapunk lampshaded, by erasing Ohara, the World Government pretty much confirmed that all the theories Ohara had about the Void Century were true.
  • During Kuma's flashback, Cipher Pol's Alpha intercepting and destroying Kuma's letters to Bonney before they reach their destination, is what makes Queen Dowager Connie suspect that something is amiss since there's no way Kuma wouldn't write Bonney any letters. This makes her look into the matter herself, which leads Alpha to get her cover as a government agent blown and Connie organizing an escape for Bonney.
• No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: Despite having become a changed man and repaying Queen Otohime's kindness by protecting her daughter, Myosgard is still executed for his noble actions since they go against the values of his fellow Celestial Dragons.
• No-Nonsense Nemesis:
  • A back-to-back example. Upon confronting the Kid Pirates, Shanks first asks his Red Shirt Army to get out of the way and checks the status of his opponents to ensure a fair fight. Kid grows impatient and charges his Damned Punk to get rid of Shanks' fleet, but Shanks senses this and, realizing the threat Kid poses to his crew, leaps over and strikes both him and Killer down instantly. Then Dorry and Broggy slice the Victoria Punk in half for good measure.
  • As the situation on Egghead escalates, once the full Five Elders descend on the Island, they set themselves up at the greatest overarching threat, even compared to the likes of Ciper Pol and an Admiral, by embracing this trope in full. With less then 10 minutes before Vegapunk's broadcast happens, they make full use of their Psychic Link to coordinate their efforts around the island in near-complete silence, unleashing ceaseless devastating attacks on their targets and barely even bothering to converse at all, only to kill those who've so forced their hand.
• No One Gets Left Behind:
  • Subverted. When Bepo is forced to flee with Law from the Blackbeard Pirates, Law tries to get him to go back for the rest of their crew. Bepo is unable to, but tells Law to trust that the others will be okay on their own.
  • Defied by Garp. When he had given a lesson about saving an old man and a child while there's only a boat big enough for two people, Koby responds that he'd get out of the boat and let the civilians get to safety, only for Garp to chuck something at his head and retort that the right answer was to leave the old man behind, saying it was more important to save the young when the old man doesn't have much longer to live, much to the objection of one of Garp's fellow instructors. This ends up foreshadowing Garp telling the battleship that rescued Koby to go on while he was left on Pirate Island, saying they were the future of the Marines.
• Not a Game: What Rob Lucci tells Atlas when she gets ready to throw a Megaton Punch at him, right before he nearly destroys her with one move.
• Not Helping Your Case: Kaku tries to appeal to Luffy and Zoro to free him and Lucci from their bonds to help against the Seraphim, only to grow frustrated when Lucci gives bluntly honest answers about how CP0 came to the island to assassinate Vegapunk and intend to kill him and everyone else if given the chance.
• Not in This for Your Revolution: When Kong calls up Garp to help protect the Celestial Dragons in God Valley from the pirate invasion, he refuses, because he abhors the Celestial Dragons and sees this as their karmic comeuppance for stealing Pirate Island's sacred treasure. It's only when Kong says that Roger was seen headed towards God Valley that Garp immediately rushes over there as fast as possible, and once there makes it clear he's only there to fight Roger.
• Nothing Is the Same Anymore: Both the Kid Pirates and the Heart Pirates, who played a major role in the vanquishing of both Kaido and Big Mom, are soundly defeated along with Kid and Law at the hands of Shanks and Blackbeard respectively, reminding that the Emperors are still nothing to be trifled with.
• Nothing Personal: During the siege on Egghead, Kizaru makes it clear several times that his mission to eliminate Vegapunk is difficult for him and he wants to get it over with as soon as possible.
• Not Worth Killing: Jaygarcia Saturn deems Bonney to be this in a rare show of mercy only because of her true age, saying that she's "just a girl," when told about her presence on Egghead. He tells his men not to waste the effort necessary to capture or kill her, and to simply let her go. He changes his mind once she becomes a personal threat to him.
• Now You Tell Me:
  • It's revealed that CP0 agent Stussy knows a lot about Vegapunk, the "Satellites" and the structure of their laboratory, but she tends to not share what she knows with Kaku until he eventually springs a laser trap. Rob Lucci rightfully calls her out on this and orders her to share this sort of information faster. Justified in that Stussy's loyalties don't necessarily align with the World Government.
  • During their first meeting with Atlas, Luffy, Chopper, Jinbe, and Bonney get some food and attire from a couple of the replication machines in town. After Atlas departs, they encounter a Pacifista designated as police officer who attacks them for stealing. Bonney is flabbergausted not just because the nearly infinite stuff from the machines isn't free, but that nobody, not even Atlas had told them.
• Obfuscating Stupidity: York openly acts like an airhead whose only concerns are eating and sleeping, but she's been feeding ultra-sensitive intel to the World Government for three months, concocted and enacted a plan to get rid of the other Vegapunks, and found a way to keep them in the dark despite their daily brain updating.
• An Offer You Can't Refuse: In exchange for curing Bonney's terminal disease, Vegapunk greedily requests Kuma for his lineage factor and appearance to be used as the template for a force of robot soldiers. Feeling a bit guilty, Vegapunk earnestly explains the robots are meant to uphold the peace against pirates, to which Kuma has no objections. Unfortunately, Saint Garcia Saturn was wiretapping their conversation and intended for the Pacifistas to be used purely as tools of destruction. The Elder Star sends Kizaru to Egghead and forces Kuma to sacrifice his life as part of the deal, on top of placing Bonney under surveillance to keep Kuma from disobeying his orders.
• Offscreen Moment of Awesome: By the time we return to the Straw Hats in Chapter 1089, they've already totally defeated all the Seraphim, having suffered no casualties and only minor injuries to show for it, discovered York's treason and defeated her as well. It's a bit jarring considering the various battles with the Seraphim weren't going very well the last time we saw them, but good work from the Straw Hats.
• Oh, Crap!: Lucci, who's normally in control of his emotions, looks shocked when Stussy betrays CP0.
• Oh, No... Not Again!: Upon seeing that Kizaru has arrived, a lot of the Straw Hats are noticably worried, recalling their last encounter with him on Sabaody when he nearly cornered them. All except Luffy, who points out one major thing the others have forgotten...they're a lot stronger than they were two years ago.
• Once More, with Clarity:
  • Chapter 1082 shows the flashback at Roger's execution with Buggy refusing to be part of Shanks' crew, but with more context. It shows that Buggy actually did want to partner up with Shanks, even swallowing his own pride to do so, but rescinded the offer when Shanks said he didn't want to go for the One Piece^note at least not yet, thinking Shanks was spitting on Roger's last wishes for him.
  • Chapter 1102 is a recap of the story so far through Kuma's perspective, from Luffy defeating Arlong to Kuma being made into a Pacifista. It shows that Kuma had kept tabs on both Luffy and Bonney, that he indeed separated the Straw Hats because it's too early for them to go to the New World, and that he has faith that Luffy will become the hero that will change the seas and speculated that he at the very least carries Nika's will.
• One-Hit Kill: Shanks takes out both Kid and Killer in a single sword slash, with the latter not even being the main focus of the attack. Several mooks also collapse from Shanks' mere presence as he lands the hit.
• Opposite-Sex Clone: Three of Vegapunk's clones are female rather than being male like him.
• Our Demons Are Different: Initially hinted at by their silhouettes during the flashback with Cobra, the Five Elders are revealed to be able to turn into what are esentially devil-like beings. The first of which is Saturn who upon coming through a pentagram-like summoning circle takes on a Zoan hybrid-like form of a gyuki complete with ox horns and spider legs. Later on, the rest of the Elders follow suit by arriving at Egghead via their own summoning circles in their own yokai-esque forms. Of note, while the transformations the Five Elders take have characteristics reminscent of those granted by Zoan Devil Fruits that have been awakened with some even having hybrid and full on ones, the creatures the Elders turn into are specifically identified rather than the typical convention of revealing the name of the Devil Fruit a user has eaten. This along with the Elders' summoning circles and seeming immortality has made it somewhat unclear if they are simply Mythical Zoans Devil Fruit users or something completely different.
• Out of the Frying Pan: A flashback in Chapter 1058 shows what happened after the Marine armada showed up to capture Buggy after the Warlord system was disbanded. Buggy was rescued by Crocodile (and Daz Bonez), who basically single-handedly wiped out the fleet. While Buggy's men were overjoyed, Buggy was internally panicking because he knew the only reason Crocodile would bother rescuing his sorry hide was to demand payment for the loan he was given in the past (which he cannot pay back). With the Marines, they would've arrested him at worst, but Crocodile would've had no qualms about just killing him.
• Pensieve Flashback: Our first glimpse of Kuma's Dark and Troubled Past is shown this way, with Bonney being an invisible and helpless witness to Kuma's younger self getting brutally beaten for attempting to escape slavery prior to the World Nobles' hunting tournament in God Valley.
• The Perfectionist: Vegapunk created a near-perfect copy of Kaido's Devil Fruit, but considers it a failure because he couldn't get the dragon's color right.
• Plaguemaster: Doc Q is revealed to have eaten the Sick-Sick Fruit. It lets him conjure and spread diseases among his enemies, and given this includes a disease that causes men to instantly transform into women, they don't seem bound by conventional disease concepts either.
• Plot-Based Voice Cancellation: In the flashback to Cobra's assassination, just before he died, he shared the contents of Nefertari Lili's letter with him to tell Luffy and Vivi. However, the audience was unable to hear what he was saying due to the noise Imu and the Five Elders were making while attacking.
• Precursors: According to Shaka, there used to be a kingdom just as highly advanced as Egghead nine hundred years ago.
• Raygun Gothic: Egghead and its technology have this appearance.
• Race Against the Clock: Role-inverted. Vegapunk's post-mortem recording will reveal the truth about the world in ten minutes, forcing Saturn to try to end the broadcast ASAP, going so far as to summon the other Four Elders.
• Red Herring: Lilith, Atlas, and Shaka each introduce themselves to the Straw Hats as Vegapunk, which some see as a far cry to what the real Vegapunk [Stella] is described. Before finally meeting him, it is revealed that they, along with Edison, Pythagoras, and York all share his name as one Hive Mind known as "Satellites".
• Reed Richards Is Useless: Played With. While a number of Vegapunk's advancements have been shown being employed by the World Government prior, many of those shown in this arc are mentioned being way too advanced to be properly mass produced by regular technicians, too expensive to fund, and etc. As a consequence, these setbacks render many of Vegapunk's more futuristic inventions incapable of being used to their full potential by the rest of the world.
• The Reveal:
  • After being alluded to since Dressrosa, it's revealed that the "invention" Vegapunk's been working on to replace the Warlords was the Seraphim—clones of the Warlords combined with Lunarian DNA.
  • We finally learn the nature of Bonney's connection to Kuma — he's her father.
  • This arc has Dr. Vegapunk fully appear in person, sixteen years after he was first mentioned.
  • Jaguar D. Saul has survived the destruction of Ohara.
  • Momonosuke's Devil Fruit is only considered a failure because it turns the user into a pink dragon rather than a blue one.
  • CP0's Stussy is the first Artificial Human created by MADS, is a clone of a former Rocks pirate named Miss Buckingham, and her loyalties ultimately lie with Vegapunk.
  • The Five Elders' names are revealed, as Saints Jaygarcia Saturn, Marcus Mars, Topman Warcury, Ethanbaron V. Nusjuro, and Shepherd Ju Peter. They all can easily regenerate from wounds and transform into giant beasts.
  • As Bonney and the audience finds out, Kuma was a slave when he was a child.
  • The mysterious tenth Titanic Captain of the Blackbeard Pirates is revealed to be none other than Kuzan.
  • The final Road Poneglyph is revealed to be in the possession of the mysterious man with a burn scar, first alluded by Kid at the end of the Wano arc.
  • The Nefeltari Family are revealed to carry the Will of D. Furthermore, it's revealed that Vivi's ancestor, Nefeltari D. Lily, was responsible for scattering the Poneglyphs to the ends of the earth.
  • The Lineage Factor not only includes personality and skills, it also includes feelings, as demonstrated with S-Snake inheriting Hancock's crush on Luffy.
  • Kuma is revealed to be part of a race called the Buccaneer Tribe, who committed a grave crime against the world in the past. In addition, Kuma's the only survivor of this race, and Vegapunk chose him as the template of the Pacifista project because Kuma's lineage would grant the clones enough strength and power to be nigh-unstoppable.
  • It's revealed that the God Valley incident was caused when the Roger Pirates and Rocks Pirates arrived at the World Nobles' population elimination tournament to take back a mysterious treasure that the Nobles had stolen from Pirate Island.
  • Monkey D. Dragon is revealed to be a former Marine who quit due to how they enforce justice.
  • The reason Kuma agreed to the Pacifista project is so that in exchange of Kuma being cloned, Vegapunk would cure Bonney of her Sapphire Scales infection with a stem cell transplant, and he was forced to have his personality and memories erased by Saint Saturn.
  • Ever since Chapter 1067, Kuma suddenly started acting like his old self again, despite his supposed Death of Personality following the Straw Hats' Party Scattering back at Shabody Archipelago. In Chapter 1104, it is explained that Dr. Vegapunk installed a self-destruct mechanism (as ordered by St. Saturn during the flashback sequence in Chapter 1102) designed to reduce Kuma to a vegetative state should he turn against the Elders in any way, and Saturn activated this mechanism a few days after Kuma was rescued by the Revolutionaries. Vegapunk speculates that Kuma's nature as a Buccaneer somehow caused this failsafe to backfire.
• Revealing Cover-Up: Invoked. Cipher Pol agents were sent to Egghead to investigate allegations that Vegapunk was researching Poneglyphs. Vegapunk is looking into the Void Century, but he has hidden it so well that the agents found nothing and left the island with no idea. The conspirator thus abducted them before they could report in, meaning as far as the World Government was concerned, their agents went to Egghead then disappeared without a trace which, as the conspirator hoped, they found mighty suspicious.
• Robotic Reveal: After Lucci hits Atlas with two consecutive Six King Guns, her face cracks and reveals a lot of smoke and sizzling mechanical components. Even Chopper lampshades that healing her might be more Franky's forte than his own.
• Robot Me: Vegapunk's clones appear to be robot bodies that house his different aspects.

S - Y

• Samus Is a Girl: Played With. Vegapunk is still one individual, but split himself into six satellites, three of which (Lilith, Atlas and York) are female.
• Serial Escalation: During the Enies Lobby Arc, the protagonists faced off against the members of CP9 amidst a Buster Call, a fleet of ten Navy battleships led by five Vice-Admirals. During this story arc, they now face off against the even higher ranked CP0 (which include the promoted Lucci and Kaku, now with awakened Devil Fruit powers) amidst a siege of one-hundred Navy battleships led by nine Vice-Admirals, an Admiral, and the Five Elders themselves.
• Sea Sinkhole: One was created by firing the Mother Flame and obliterating Lulusia.
• Security Cling: Nami clings to Robin's leg after Lilith sics Egghead's sea beasts on the Sunny.
• Slave Liberation: In Kuma's childhood, Ivankov and Ginny encouraged their fellow slaves to try and escape the World Nobles' cruel hunting game on God Valley.
• Small Role, Big Impact: In flashbacks of Kuma's past, it's revealed that Ginny, a fellow child slave of the Celestial Dragons, singlehandedly caused the God Valley incident by secretly wiretapping and leaking news of the Slave Hunting Competition there and its rewards to the world beforehand.
• The Smart One Turns Traitor: Stussy is the one who gives Lucci and Kaku invaluable information about Egghead's structure, such as trap placement and how the Control Chip Hierarchy system works on Vegapunk's creations. Just when CP0 has cornered Vegapunk and his "Satellites", she betrays CP0 by biting Kaku on the neck and draining him. She takes out Rob Lucci shortly after and reveals herself to be loyal to Vegapunk.
• Spanner in the Works:
  • Thanks to the Staw Hats' unexpected arrival, CPO's attempt to assassinate Vegapunk was disrupted, resulting in the situation escalating as the World Government dispatches a gigantic marine fleet lead by Admiral Kizaru to the island.
  • Shanks is unknowingly this to both Crocodile and Mihawk. Crocodile planned to use Cross Guild to resume his original project of creating a utopia with Mihawk supporting him and Buggy being forced to be a figurehead for their group. But after Buggy learns that Shanks is making his move to get the One Piece, he finally stands up to Crocodile and Mihawk and broadcasts to Cross Guild they're going for the One Piece. With the crew excited for Buggy's new plan, Crocodile and Mihawk are furious that they're force to go along with it and Crocodile's project is put on hold.
• Stellar Name:
  • Dr. Vegapunk's satellites are named after celestial bodies, from stars to meteorites.
  • The Five Elders' names are derived from the planets in the Milky Way, namely Mercury, Saturn, Jupiter, Venus and Mars.
• Strong Empire, Shriveled Emperor: Inverted with the Red-Haired Pirates Fleet. Shanks and his crew are some of the biggest badasses in the world, and Shanks is a serious contender for World's Strongest Man. The other ships in the fleet, however, are laughably weak. To the point that Kid, after using his Observation Haki to gauge their strength, wonders out loud if they're even still in the New World. This is because Nice Guy Shanks allows these weak crews to fly his Jolly Roger for protection from stronger crews who won't mess with them for fear of angering Shanks.
• Strong Family Resemblance: According to her silhouette, Vivi's distant ancestor Lily looked strongly like Vivi does in the present.
• Sustained Misunderstanding: Even after all this time, Chopper is still believed to be a mere Team Pet of the Straw Hats and receives a piddling bounty of 1,000 after the events of Wano.
• Synchronization: Due to being all linked together, Dr. Vegapunk and his satellites are all capable of experiencing the same feelings simultaneously to some degree. This is best showcased with them all feeling hunger at the same time of which gets immediately rectified the moment York serves her purpose as being basically their shared stomach by eating and digesting a huge quantity of food.
• Take Me Instead: It's revealed in Chapter 1088 that the reason Koby had been taken prisoner by Blackbeard on Amazon Lily was because Blackbeard's crew had taken a battleship with 800 soldiers captive, and Koby offered to be taken in their place if he let them go.
• Tastes Like Friendship: Atlas letting Luffy and co eat as much as they like immediately endears her to him. When she's nearly destroyed by Lucci, Luffy goes to fight him without a second thought.
• Tears of Joy:
  • Robin is so happy to hear Saul survived that she sheds tears of joy and thanks Vegapunk for carrying on the will of Ohara.
  • In Kuma's flashback, Ginny is so happy at finally eating until her belly's full that she breaks into tears, which causes Kuma to cry in turn.
• Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: Neither the Straw Hats nor CP0 are happy about the idea of a truce, and Lucci makes it crystal clear that he intends to kill Luffy first after the Seraphims are dealt with.
• Teleportation:
  • Van Augur is revealed to have eaten the Warp-Warp Fruit which gives him the ability to teleport himself as well as others across long distances.
  • Dr. Vegapunk has developed an invention that employs a form of teleportation that he uses for his main body. It's still not perfect as he's first seen teleporting directly into the exact same space the ancient robot hidden on Egghead is in. Despite the teleportation accident resulting in half of his body being stuck within the robot, Luffy manages to pull him out freely with no ill effects on the doctor's being.
• Ten Little Murder Victims: While not apparent at first, there seems to be a mysterious individual in Egghead who appears to be working behind the scenes against Vegapunk. It's only when the Straw Hats are about to leave Egghead with the Vegapunks that this person's actions are more overtly noticed with them taking out the surveillance snails and attacking Pythagoras. The culprit then proceeds to order the Seraphim to target everyone in the Labophase facility including CP0, an act that many of the Vegapunks can't seem to override leading to Shaka to make the assumption that the one behind all this might actually be one of the Vegapunks among them who has turned traitor; an assumption proven right when York reveals herself as the culprit.
• There Is Another: Robin learns she's not the only survivor from Ohara, as Saul also made it.
• The Whole World Is Watching: Vegapunk specifically rigged his message to travel across the Marines' comms lines, allowing it to be broadcast worldwide.
• Time Zones Do Not Exist: Averted. When Vegapunk's message gets broadcast worldwide, Dressrosa is shown at daytime, but Water 7 is shown at nighttime, with Iceburg's young secretary needing to wake him up. This is also the reason why Vegapunk waits ten minutes before announcing his message proper, so that people in the world can prepare video Transponder Snails.
• Tranquil Fury: Saturn rarely raises his voice when angered. Even when he assumes his full beast form, he's blindingly enraged, but doesn't utter a sound.
• Transformation Is a Free Action: During their rematch, Lucci allows Luffy to transform to Gear 5. He is impressed, but Luffy immediately punches him before he does anything else. Luffy then allows Lucci to transform into his new Awakened Leopard form before they continue fighting.
• Tomorrow Land: Egghead, as an island said to be 500 years more advanced than the rest of the world, most certainly is this. It's later played with; it turns out that part of Egghead's advanced technology is replicating technology that existed 900 years in the past.
• Total Party Kill: After Kid is utterly defeated by Shanks with a single attack that also brings down Killer, their ship is completely destroyed by Dorry and Broggy, with everyone onboard falling into the sea. The narration notes that it was the day that the Kid Pirates were completely annihilated.
• Two-Donor Clone: The Seraphim are a new Pacifista model that use not only the pirates who worked for the World Government as their basis but also Lunarian material as well. The Seraphim of Jimbei and Dracule Mihawk also copy Senor Pink and Daz Bonez's respective Devil Fruit powers.
• Uncertain Doom:
  • Following the destruction of Lulusia Kingdom in Chapter 1060, it's not until Chapter 1082 that reveals that Sabo and some of the citizens managed to survive, because they weren't even on the island at the time (they were on a boat just offshore).
  • Whether Big Mom survived falling in Wano's underground magma chamber is also unknown, and invoked in-universe. A Blackbeard Pirate mook believes she's dead, but Pudding isn't convinced.
  • Following Kid's defeat at the hands of Shanks, Kid's subordinates express concern that Kid is going to die, but the chapter ends before his death can be confirmed one way or another, with the entire crew's fate up in the air.
  • Following Koby's rescue, Garp has been left at the mercy of the Blackbeard Pirates, leaving it unknown whether they killed Garp (who is established to have a Cross Guild bounty worthy of an Admiral) or took him hostage as a replacement for Koby (whom they intended to use as leverage to turn Fullalead into a kingdom recognized by the World Government).
• Underestimating Badassery:
  • When Lilith captures the Straw Hats and surrounds them by weaponized sea beasts, she's unimpressed by the goofy behaviour of most of the crew and hopes to loot their riches. Shaka then warns Lilith that Zoro and Robin could kill her at their leisure and asks her to escort them to him.
  • Rob Lucci underestimates Sentomaru's Undying Loyalty towards Vegapunk and his determination to see his mission through. While he does take him out rather easily despite his "Ultimate Defense", Sentomaru manages to stay conscious long enough for the Seraphim to provide aid to Chopper in order to carry Atlas to safety and to prevent them from aiding CP0 before Luffy knocks out Lucci.
  • In this arc we find out that the Marines utterly failed to capture all the Warlords, even with huge battalions and fleets of battleships, with the only exception being Weevil, and even then his capture needed Admiral Aramaki to be successful. In particular, the Marines had no idea Hancock's Devil Fruit powers were irreversible except by her own will, making her a far more dangerous opponent than they initially thought.
  • Averted with Shanks in regards to Kid. He's confident but cautious as he goes to fight him, and when he senses Kid inflicting major damage to his fleet and men, Shanks immediately zeroes in on Kid and takes him out.
  • Koby has a low bounty in the Cross Guild and is thought of by the villains as a small fry who can't do anything without Garp's help. It's then seen that he's been inhumanly strong for a long time already, but due to his low self-esteem even his comrades are surprised when he shatters Pizarro's giant arm with a punch.
  • The Elder Stars don't bat an eye at York's claims that she used the Seraphim to wipe out the Straw Hats. So then both the Elders and Kizaru are flabbergasted when it turns out she's been captured by them.
• Universally Beloved Leader: Readers are finally given a look at how the Red Hair Pirates operate, as Shanks sets out to fight Kid's crew with the aid of Dorry and Brogy. The citizens of Elbaf worship the ground they walk on and are willing to donate to their cause even though they offer protection free of charge. His fleet is actually mostly composed of elderly and weakling goofball pirates who he's very serious about protecting.
• Un-person: After Imu annihilates Lulusia, the Five Elders declare the kingdom never existed in the first place and give a stern warning to the communications officers that were eavesdropping that what they heard did not happen.
• The Unreveal:
  • The arc confirms that the dream shared by Roger and Luffy is not about being the Pirate King, but what comes after it. Even then the scene cuts away yet again as Luffy tells his crewmates about it, with most of them reacting in shock and remarking Luffy's dream is such an absurd idea. Whatever it is, he claims that Shanks, Ace, and Sabo laughed after hearing about it as well.
  • The Five Elders begin to unleash their powers when Sabo confronts them, but they are framed in shadow like Imu as they do so and are not seen in action before Sabo manages to get away. That being said, Saturn's powers are shown in Chapter 1094, with the rest of the Elders following suit in Chapter 1110.
  • Some of the God Valley incident is shown from Kuma's perspective as he uses his newly acquired powers to save people from a genocide festival. What Rocks and his crew were after in that island and the reason they clashed against Roger and lost are still left a mystery.
• Unseen No More: After sixteen years of being The Ghost since he was first mentioned, Dr. Vegapunk appears in person, though his six satellites are introduced beforehand.
• Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Ginny ended up inadvertently causing the God Valley incident by leaking top secret information on the World Nobles' tournament there, which lead to the Rocks and Roger Pirates arriving to take back something the Nobles had stolen from Pirate Island. Of course, it's also inverted as it did lead to the end of Xebec, and Ginny did intend to cause a fight between pirates and marines.
• Vagueness Is Coming: Saturn had sent a ship to sink and slaughter the escaping researchers of Egghead, but the end of chapter 1105 shows that the attack ship had been sunk itself by an unidentified assailant. One of the surviving Marines frantically tries to call Kizaru to inform him that "They" are heading towards Egghead.
• Video Wills: As Vegapunk comes very close to dying, a prerecorded message of his starts playing throughout Egghead automatically, preparing to reveal "the truth of this world".
• Villain Ball: Alpha, the CP8 agent assigned to watch over Bonney, disguised as a nurse, in the flashback rips up all the hundreds of letters Kuma continuously sent to Bonney, simply because she found such intense sentimentality and devotion disgusting. However, Kuma's allies in the Sorbet Kingdom realize there's no way someone like Kuma wouldn't be sending letters to Bonney like he promised he would, eventually discover the "nurse's" true identity, and hatch a plan for Bonney to escape. Had Alpha not done something so cruel for petty reasons, they might never have been inspired to break Bonney out.
• Villain Forgot to Level Grind: Downplayed with regards to the CP0 Agents. Rob Lucci and Kaku have both gotten stronger and have even Awakened their Devil Fruits, but they're no match for Luffy and Zoro.
• Villain No Longer Idle: For a considerable time, the Five Elders have been ruling as The Omniscient Council of Vagueness. Many assumed they were merely a group of old bureaucrats with no combat skills, especially since their fellow aristocrats, the World Nobles, were generally weak in actual combat. However, St. Jaygarcia Saturn, one of the Five Elders, proves everyone wrong when he arrives on Egghead and single-handedly takes on the Straw Hat crew. Unlike anything shown in the manga before, he demonstrates extraordinary abilities that bordered on black magic. And this was even before Saturn summoned the other Elders.
• Villainous Rescue:
  • When the Straw Hats are attacked by robotic sea beasts, Lilith prevents them from being eaten by taking the Thousand Sunny over the hands of her giant mech. However, she actually has the beasts under her control and tries extorting the crew for their riches.
  • During the Reverie, Wapol accidentally rescued a kidnapped Vivi as he was running frantically away from Pangaea Castle
• Villain Respect: Kaku takes a moment to console the gravely injured Sentomaru, telling him that he performed his duty admirably and that it's a shame it came down to CP0 fighting him and taking him out.
• Wham Episode: The entire Reverie flashback sequence has been one sledgehammer of a reveal after another. First, Imu reveals their existence to Cobra. Then, Imu reveals that Cobra's ancestor, Lily, is responsible for scattering the Poneglyphs around the world. Then, Cobra reveals that the Nefeltari family are all bearers of the Will of D. Then, it's revealed that Wapol, of all people, witnessed that entire interaction and leaked it to Big News Morgans.
• The Worf Effect:
  • Atlas goes all Leeroy Jenkins on Rob Lucci who proceeds to nearly destroy her in one move, demonstrating to the audience that despite the Straw Hats' collective power increase and Luffy being on the level of an Emperor now, the former CP9 member and current CP0 leader is still someone not to be underestimated.
  • Science Captain Sentomaru who previously was a force to be reckoned with gets easily taken out by Lucci while he's talking with Luffy. Sentomaru remarks he wasn't distracted and put his guard up, but Lucci still pierced through it.
  • Despite growing much stronger during the timeskip and Awakening his Devil Fruit, Lucci falls victim to this by being unable to land a single clean hit against Luffy in his Gear 5 form while taking massive damage himself during their first rematch.
  • After being shown to have grown more powerful post Enies Lobby, Kaku is taken out with just one bite from Stussy, who is revealed to be a Technically-Living Vampire and a clone of a former Rocks pirate member.
  • Eustass Kid has proven himself to be no pushover, working together with Trafalgar Law to take down Big Mom. However, that doesn't stop him and his crew from being obliterated by Shanks in a Curb-Stomp Battle that ends with Kid very possibly dead, and his ship destroyed. His strength is still shown when he is the very first onscreen character that makes Shanks genuinely fight to win, even for a few seconds.
  • Similarly to the above example, Law as well, who arguably had a major role in defeating both Doflamingo and Big Mom, has his crew attacked by Blackbeard, who proceeds to destroy his ship and almost kill him, and is only alive due to Bepo taking him and fleeing from the place.
• Worf Had the Flu: Zigzagged. When the Revolutionary Army attacks Marijoa, they end up encountering Admirals Fujitora and Ryokugyu, and end up faring pretty well against them, fighting them to a standstill. However, it's noted that the Admirals can't go all-out because Marijoa is one of the few places where even the sociopathic admirals like Ryokugyu have to care about collateral damage and civilian casualties, but it's also noted by the Cipher Pol members that, even with the handicaps, the Revolutionary Army captains are still doing very well against the Admirals.
• Would Hurt a Child: Several Zig-zagging cases occur, with The Reveal that Jewellery Bonney is actually only a 12-year old child who spends most of her time in an adult body thanks to her Devil Fruit.
  • Bonney's go-to tactic in a fight in either ageing somebody into a body too young or too infirm to fight with and then beating the crap out of them, but in her case when she's beating up a child-aged marine, it's more like fighting somebody in her own age group.
  • Vegapunk is extremely against harming her, even when she blames him for Kuma's conversion into a cyborg, and refuses to fight back when she's attacking him in a rage over it. He even goes as far as to secretly program Bonney is as the true highest authority in the Pacifista's command chain, above even the Five Elders, out of fear that the World Government would one day try to have Bonney killed by the likeness of the beloved father who sacrificed so much for her — which does indeed end up happening.
  • The Marines overall are unaware of Bonney's true age and thus treat her like an adult pirate, even being enraged and determined to kill her when they learn that Bonney has control of their Pacifistas, out of fear for the damage she could do with that power and unaware of the greater context. That said, it's left unclear if knowing about Bonney's true age would dissuade some of them in any case. Kizaru is aware from the start, but is clearly reluctant to directly harm her, even if his duty compels him to. He priorities trying to attack Vegapunk over Bonney at several points, kicking her aside when forced to, but still pulling his punches, and upon landing a seemingly-fatal blow on Vegapunk, opts to lie down after Gear 5 Luffy slams him into a ship, clearly emotionally distraught by his actions and unwilling to further contribute now that the priority of the marines has shifted to killing Bonney at all costs.
  • The Five Elders plays this remorselessly straight. Not only do they unhesitatingly agree with Imu's decision to wipe out the Kingdom of Lulusia and all his civilians, young and old, Saint Saturn is revealed to be directly responsible for a good deal of the suffering Bonney and Kuma went through in the past. He reveals this to her face directly just before ordering his marine escort to shoot her, merely because he desires that any believers in the myth of the Sun God Nika die with that faith broken first and foremost in the most despair-inducing circumstances possible, so as to try and undo the existence of the Hope Bringer. When the Five Elders learn that Bonney supplants them in the Pacifista command chain, all of them label her the second-most important target after Luffy, with a kill-on-sight order. Vegapunks' thoughts show that he was aware revealing this would make the Elders and the World Government relentlessly hound Bonney for the rest of her life, so he only revealed it at the last possible moment.
• Xanatos Speed Chess:
  • Rob Lucci engages is this against both Dr. Vegapunk and the Straw-Hats and is shown to be very good at it, managing to turn a previously disadvantageous position^note Being in a foreign scientific island full of high-tech traps, surrounded by the overpowered Seraphim who are being order to take CP0 out. into an advantageous one with one fell swoop ^note He quickly takes out Science Captain Sentomaru which allows him and CP0 to take control of the Seraphim.
  • Saint Jaygarcia Saturn did this when it's revealed that he was the cause of Ginny contracting Sapphire Scales, having experimented on her while she was captured by the Celestial Dragons. Upon learning that her disease had been passed down to her daughter Bonney and that Kuma was looking for a cure for her, he took advantage of the situation to force Kuma into a position where he'd become a weapon of the World Government, allowing it to get a free Warlord without any free will and a clone army.
• You Didn't See That: A very dark example happens when some Marines intercept communications between Dragon, leader of the Revolutionary Army, and his subordinate Sabo. After Sabo, who had just begun sailing away from the kingdom of Lulusia, reveals that he saw someone sitting on the Empty Throne, and has learned of the existence of Imu, the secret ruler of the World Government, someone tells the Marines that they did not intercept any communications and that Lulusia never existed, just as Lulusia is literally and figuratively wiped off the map.
  • Another example happens when Saint Jaygarcia Saturn arrives on the battlefield. All marines are told that anyone who is Commodore Rank or below is forbidden from even looking at him, and when he catches a rank-and-file marine doing so, he pops his head with a glance.
• You Have Outlived Your Usefulness:
  • Played With in regards to Vegapunk, whose assassination was ordered despite how useful he still is.
  • Played straight with Bonney, who Lucci claims to have served her purpose.
• You Killed My Father: Bonney went to Egghead to demand answers as to why Vegapunk turned her dad Kuma into a cyborg, ready to kill him if she doesn't like what she hears. After she learns the truth, she directs her grudge towards Saturn, who actually ordered Kuma's cyborg transformation.
• Your Head A-Splode: When Saint Saturn lands on Egghead, an announcement rings out warning everyone that no Marine officer below the rank of Commodore is even allowed to make eye contact with him. One does so despite the warning and his head explodes with a bloody splatter.

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Story Impact

• Pudding and Koby have been kidnapped by the Blackbeard Pirates, and Garp launches a rescue mission to retrieve the latter. The mission is a success, but as Koby and his fellow Marines escape Fullalead, Garp is forced to stay behind, his fate unknown.
• Centuries ago, there was a kingdom technologically advanced like Egghead. This kingdom was destroyed by the 20 nations that would one day form the World Government.
• The precious books from Ohara were salvaged and kept safe on Elbaf, and Vegapunk studied them to continue their research. Jaguar D. Saul is also revealed to have survived the Ohara incident.
• Devil Fruits are hinted at by Vegapunk to be embodiments of possibilities for human evolution and desire.
• Miss Buckin, Weevil's Mother, is actually Buckingham Stussy, the person Stussy was cloned after. She also used to be a former Rocks member, is a "self-styled scientist" and used to be freeloading off of MADS.
• The Kid Pirates are near-instantly wiped out at the hands of Shanks.
• Kuzan is confirmed to be Blackbeard's tenth Titanic Captain.
• The Heart Pirates are defeated in the battle with the Blackbeard Pirates.
• Buggy joins the hunt for the One Piece, forcing Mihawk and Crocodile to go along with him.
• Major events that occured during the Reverie and its aftermath are revealed:
  • Nefertari Cobra met the Five Elders in front of the Empty Throne to question them about the mysterious dissappearance of his ancestor Nefertari Lily, a member of the First Twenty who failed to reach Albasta after refusing to become a World Noble. Cobra is forced by the Elders' refusal to answer his questions by presenting a letter concerning his family passing the Will of D across generations. Cobra is confronted by Imu, who reveals "D" is the World Government's sworn enemy and that Lily was responsible for spreading the Poneglyphs around the world. Knowing he would be silenced, Cobra reveals his family bears the "D" initial.
  • Imu murders Cobra with the event witnesseed by Wapol, who spirited Vivi away while fleeing, and Sabo, who reveals Imu's existence to Dragon and Ivankov. The Elders fabricate the story that Sabo is Cobra's murder as part of their cover up.
  • Saint Mjosgard is executed by Saint Figarland Garling of Mariejois's Holy Knights for the "crime" of siding with the Neptune Royal Family over his fellow noble Charlos.
• Jewelry Bonney is revealed to be only twelve years old chronologically, having used the powers of the Age-Age Fruit to turn herself into someone older. But the Devil Fruit power's aging properties only work within possibility and gradually becomes limited with experience.
• Bartholomew Kuma is revealed to be a "Buccaneer", a race that's different from humans, explaining his large size. He was also a slave before he met Ivankov and Bonny's mother Ginny, fellow slaves whom he helped in the God Valley Incident as a means of escaping the Native Hunting Competition and obtain their freedom. Kuma later joined the Revolutionary Army and gained his "Tyrant" epithet from propaganda by Sorbert Kingdom's former king in response to being deposed for his corrupt policies.
• Monkey D. Dragon used to be a Marine, but he left the Navy after becoming disillusioned with the organization. Ivankov was among his first recruits before Kuma and Ginny join their group to liberate Sorbet from a corrupt king.
• Ginny was later recaptured and taken by a currently unknown Celestial Dragon as his wife while subjected to Saturn's experiments, contracting the Sapphire Scales disease in the process. She is then released and used her remaining time to return to Sorbet Kingdom with her child Bonny, dying as a result. Kuma adopts Bonny soon after.
• When Bonny is revealed to have contracted the Sapphire Scales disease from her mother, Kuma offered himself as the template for Vegapunk's cyborg clone experiments so Bonny can be cured. The"Pacifista" designation is also revealed to come from Kuma's description of himself as a "weak-willed pacifist." But Saturn, the one who inflicted Ginny with the disease and with a grudge against Kuma since the God Valley incident, insist on additional conditions that force Kuma to become a Warlord and a cyborg who would gradual suffer a Death of Personality.
  • Vegapunk acts against Saturn's demands for the application of a self-destruct mechanism, instead installing a total shutdown switch that would allow Kuma to run on pure instinct and rush to rescue Bonney. He also installed a program in the Pacifistas' software to recognize Bonney's commands to outrank any made by the Five Elders. Saturn is furious enough by Vegapunk's actions to mortally wound him and call down a Buster Call on Egghead.
• When Saturn's Buster Call commences a countdown sequence where Vegapunk's computer will broadcast a recorded message worldwide in which Vegapunk intends to reveal the full truth of the world, Saturn summons the other Elders to his location as they make an attempt to prevent an international incident.
• Brogy and Dorry know of the Sun God Nika, and arrived in Egghead amongst the conflict with their crew to retrieve Luffy.
• Devon and Augur have landed on Egghead for an unknown reason before teleporting to another island to escape Saturn via Augur's acquired Devil Fruit powers. The two encounter Caribou who requests to join the Blackbeard Pirates by offering to share with them the whereabouts of both Poseidon (Shirahoshi) and Pluton.
• Borsalino appears to deliver a killing strike upon Vegapunk, and is soon after confronted by Sanji, who blocks one of his light-based attacks with a kick. Not long afterward, Luffy enters the fray and overpowers the Admiral, leaving the man wounded and unwilling to fight, his spirit broken after striking down his longtime friend.

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