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Akainu
Akainu has a sucky past and that's why he's such a dick.
It seems like something Oda might do. Akainu is probably one of the most hated characters in the series right now and one has to wonder where exactly he picked up the doctrine of absolute justice. I think he might've been a nice guy when he was younger, and I mean younger than when he attacked Ohara. Perhaps he spared/let a pirate crew go and they ended up killing his wife and kid or some other person who's important to him.- If that was the case, he'd elicit more Sympathy for the Devil after crossing the Moral Event Horizon, which isn not currently the case.
- Oda often introduces villains as pure evil to rile up the audience and then flesh out their characters after their defeat. We just haven't seen his side of the story yet.
- It would quite reasonably explain Akainu's Inspector Javert and Knight Templar tendencies where pirates are concerned, and why he embodies the Marines' "Absolute Justice" as much as he does—perhaps at some point in his past, likely back when he was still a rookie Marine or even before he joined up, pirates murdered someone close to him (a family member, a best friend, or even a role model), and that incident caused Akainu to see all pirates as worthy of execution. And to expand a little further on this WMG, it could be that, unfortunately, over the years his hatred of them got so twisted to the point that he began to perceive anyone who objected to his methods of pirate-hunting even a little bit as equally deserving of death, such as when he turned his fury on Marines who wanted to leave the Marineford battle due to being demoralized and would have killed Coby for speaking out about the war's pointlessness if not for Shanks's intervention. However, it really wouldn't explain his willingness to blow up a passenger-ship on the off-chance that one of the Oharan scholars MIGHT have sneaked on board to escape the Buster Call that day.
- We seen a picture of him as a child. He looked battered and had blood on his shorts and a knife. There also the fact he had a marine hat on him with justice writing on the front.
- It certainly wouldn't be the first time Oda introduced a villain as being exceptionally vile, only to reveal real-life years later that the villain in question had a very believable Freudian Excuse. Arlong and his crew, for instance, were introduced as racist Fishmen who would enslave innocent islanders, kill a woman in front of her children, and kidnap one of those children before subjecting her to emotional, psychological, and at times physical abuse for the next eight years. Only long after the fact did we get the reveal that Arlong and company were lashing out due to the death of their captain and father-figure, and most if not all of them had been subject to years of slavery and racist abuse by humans prior to that. In light of that, whatever Akainu's Freudian Excuse might be will possibly be on similar tear-jerking and tragic grounds, in which case he may well be someone who Jumped Off The Slippery Slope.
- Going by Sakazuki's apparent age, he was almost certainly a child when the Rocks Pirates were rampaging across the world. Given his bloody design as a kid, he was involved in a lot of combat whether by choice or not. That alone would explain why he has no tolerance for pirates: He's seen the absolute horror they can inflict firsthand.
Jewelery Bonney is Akainu's daughter
That absolutely explains:- Why Akainu came personally for the trade
- Why he didn't torch the island in an attempt to kill all the pirates
- Why he wasn't his usual heartless [shower] self
- Why the BB crew ransomed her instead of killing her
- Why there's a constantly apparent age gap between them (she never seems to want to go older)
- Why she's so good at acting immature
- How?
- What hurts this theory is that if anyone was going to kill a family member for being a pirate, its Akainu, and the fact that Blackbeard was shocked to see the Admiral when he showed up. Blackbeard would've seen that coming. I don't buy it, I think its something bigger... (See bottom of page.)
- Jossed — her father is Bartholomew Kuma, who was a Warlord of the Sea at the time and had presumably made some deals for her safety.
Akainu will get a relatively happy ending
Because Oda wants to troll his audience, especially fangirls, as it has become evident from some of one piece's past events.- Why not? Even Crocodile, Enel, Wapol and Rob Lucci relatively had a 'happy' ending.
Akainu didn't have an elemental advantage over Aokiji.
In fact, the Hie Hie no Mi and Magu Magu no Mi are equal opposites among Logias. Cold vs Heat... Just look at the Aokiji's monstrous freezing abilities, such as covering a chunk of ocean for a week and instantly halting giant tsunamis. While Akainu's magma would melt Aokiji's ice upon contact, but Aokiji could just freeze the magma into solid rock (Which might in fact be Akainu's elemental weakness that makes him tangible). This went on back and forth throughout the whole battle until Aokiji's stamina finally ran out.- Except that, when you think of it, cold is more limited than heat. What good would -200 degrees get to you against 10.000 degrees or more?
- Just because he's only been shown to freeze water and people so far does not mean he only has that much freezing power. Who knows, maybe he's perfectly able to take out 10.000 degrees worth of heat from Akainu's magma. (throwing physics completely out of the window, but it's One Piece anyway) Besides if the difference in power is really that large, how could Aokiji survive during the extremely long duel?
- Also, Magma is 1300C , nowhere near as hot as Serius A
- Knowing One Piece, it's entirely possible that Aokiji can reach, or get damn near, Absolute Zero.
- It wouldn't even defy physics (at least, not anymore than being MADE OF ICE already does). Ice at Absolute Zero just means Aokiji would be creating water particles with no energy. Of course, upon exposure to the world they would gain energy, but depending on how long it is before it hits you, it would still be well below 200 deggrees C. Akainu, on the other hand, creates rock partickles with LOADS of enery, but you can't compare how far below 0 degrees Aokiji is with how far above it Akainu is. While 0 degrees is when ice turns back into water, magma turns back to rock at variable rates depending on the rocksin it, but magma isn't actually fully molten (especially as he's using it like a solid projectile). So the temperature of it would be maybe 1,200 degrees, but would turn back to rock fairly easily. So it's arguble which would win.
- Most magma from deep in the mantle has a highly mafic composition, but as it rises and begins to include remelted minerals from the rock above and around, it builds a higher silica content. The most basaltic and ultramafic magmas, according to Bowen's reaction series, contain minerals such as olivine, pyroxines, and plagioclase feldspar. These are the minerals which crystallize out of the melt first (or re-melt last) at a temperature of about 1200 degrees Celsius. However, basaltic magmas tend to be very oozy and liquid. They flow easily and are less explosive due to trapped gas and volatiles being able to escape with little effort. Hawaiian lava flows of pahoehoe and aa are the best examples of this. Yet from what I've seen in the manga, Akainu seems to like making more...solid projectiles or fists with his magma. In that case, I suspect a far more felsic composition. A magma rich in silica quartz is much more viscous than a basaltic magma. The silicon-oxygen tetrahedra in the melt cause other atoms to form sticky chains, which would make this rhyolitic magma much easier to hold a shape such as a fist. It also traps gas bubbles more readily, causing it to be more prone to explosive eruptions. If we assume the most extreme, a rhyolitic magma made of pure melted quartz, it would require a temperature of about 600 degrees Celsius in order to begin crystallizing into solid quartz. Most magmas range from around 700 to 1300 degrees Celsius, with basaltic magma tending to be hotter than rhyolitic. So assuming Akainu uses the maximum temperature of 1300 degrees (as temperature also plays a role of how sticky or fluid a magma is), then it ultimately boils down to the mineral composition of the magma in question to determine how much Akoji would need to chill it before it crystallized into solid rock. That's not even factoring in that some of the ice would obviously melt, and the liquid water would prompt hydromagmatic eruptions of the magma. Of course, I'm not sure if it's better to be hit by a cold, solid rock than by a hot, molten one considering that both have been known to kill volcanologists in real life.... ... Apologies for the wall of text, I need to stop browsing TV tropes after my geology lectures.
- Just because he's only been shown to freeze water and people so far does not mean he only has that much freezing power. Who knows, maybe he's perfectly able to take out 10.000 degrees worth of heat from Akainu's magma. (throwing physics completely out of the window, but it's One Piece anyway) Besides if the difference in power is really that large, how could Aokiji survive during the extremely long duel?
- And now chapter 658 is out, Punk Hazard is the site of Akainu's and Aokiji's battle which was so cataclysmic it permanently changed the weather. It seems this WMG might be right, as the cold and hot sides are treated as equal opposites rather than the hot side destroying the cold one.
Garp will run afoul of Sakazuki somehow.
Regardless of Garp's reputation as "The Hero", a few problematic details remain.- Garp's son is Public Enemy #1.
- Garp's grandson is a pirate with a mid-nine-digit bounty who has defeated Cipher Pol 9 as well as multiple Warlords. He also broke into Impel Down to retrieve Ace, and gave the World Government hell at Marineford.
- Garp also raised the son of Gold Roger (aiding and abetting an enemy of the state).
- Not to mention that Sakazuki killed Garp's adopted grandson, which would very easily make the feeling mutual.
When Akainu finally breaks, he will be...uncomfortably calm.
In fact, he'll be smiling. Won't even be a Slasher Smile, either, just a warm, friendly smile that hides the fact that his dreams have been crushed and a lot of people are going to pay for letting them die. It will probably be the most horrifying thing ever published in Shonen Jump. Akainu will be killed by the next owner of Mera Mera no Mi
.Because the only thing even more satisfying than having him defeated by Luffy's hand would be having him defeated by the power he considers inferior to his own.- Well now we have the next user of mera-mera, I support this WMG.
- Pardon me for sounding passive-aggressive. The whole point of the Magu Magu no Mi being superior to the Mera Mera no Mi was that Akainu was just stronger than Ace by a mile, and yet this theory takes this as a huge plot point for a major villain's death. Also, we're gonna have Akainu, who happens to arguably be Luffy's most personal opponent yet—he's the only villain to have ever scarred Luffy for heaven's sake!—sidelined to someone who wasn't even there for Ace's death. I bet Sabo doesn't even know it was Akainu who killed Ace, all he knows is that Ace died at Marineford.
Making Akainu Fleet Admiral is going to bite the world government in the ass. Hard.
Akainu has shown that he hates being under the Celestial Dragons. It's possible he's eventually going to turn against them and the rest of the World Government in a coup and establish a military dictatorship with the marines.Plus, every other decision made by the Government following the Marineford war have backfired on them. Why not one more?
- Given that the Revolutionary Army is infiltrating the Reverie, specifically to take out the Celestial Dragons, this one might come to a head very soon.
Akainu is going to die in a deservingly ironic way, but not necessarily a satisfying one.
As of this writing, Akainu has been seething at his desk for months and his bosses are treading on what few actual principles he has, and it's unlikely Oda isn't going to put more on his plate before his time in the series is over, especially not where Luffy and Sabo are concerned. This could all be leading up to a moment where Akainu, licking his wounds after his recent devastating defeat, happens upon the truth that Imu is the true ruler of the World Government. The revelation that he's been lied to for most his life might prove to be the straw that breaks the camel's back, throwing himself at Imu out of blind rage only to get brutalized by the same power that made Sabo bleed, ending Akainu's life in a way not dissimilar to what he did to Ace. However, any catharsis this might bring about could be weakened if Imu proves themself to be more vile than Akainu by a significant margin, and considering they're arguably responsible for him in the first place...
That, or Akainu somehow lives. I mean, he's already stupid powerful and people rarely die outside of flashbacks anyway.
- I fully agree that Imu's existence is going to cause some serious upheaval in the Marines command structure. We're talking mass desertions at least. Whether or not Akainu will blow his stack and try to take them out will depend heavily on how the news is broken.
Other Admirals (including former Fleet Admirals)
When Sengoku and Garp fought together, Garp used Sengoku as a projectile
Sengoku's Buddha form is just the kind of thing that Garp would throw for an ultimate attack. It's probably what they used to defeat Shiki. World Government Commander in Chief Kong is Garp's father
Several points for this one:1. Monkey D. Kong! It just fits!2. Garp doesn't seem to get into much trouble with Kong when he was Fleet Admiral, despite ignoring his orders and slamming the door in his face. He could maybe get away with it due to Kong being his father (although he gets away with fooling around in front of Sengoku too, so his hero image/usefulness probably comes into it too)3. We've seen that humans can live very long lives in the One Piece world, Dr Kureha being the prime example at 141 years. Garp is at least 60, and if Kong was his father he'd be at least 90, so Garp's father being alive isn't TOO farfetched. Kong looks quite old.4. This one is a bit stretched but all of the Monkey family have some kind of mark on the left side of their face (Luffy and Garp's scars, Dragon's tattoos). Kong has a scar on the left side of his face. Sengoku's Buddha form gives him more abilities then having a golden body & shockwaves
As seen here
, a "enlightened" one has the ability to grow really big, "Mahima", shed his skin to regain youth, "Prakamya" (Why he looks still young for a guy at least in his 70's), good with animals, "Vastiva" (The goat) and other abilities. All three admirals will also be powered up after the time skip.
Kizaru will have learned to set up dozens of laser beams to fire at a single location and become invisible while he does so by bending light around himself. Aokiji will learn how to freeze the air itself, giving him a far greater area to work with. Akainu will send magma under the ground, letting it burst out and engulf his opponents anywhere he wants. All three will also learn to use Haki far more efficiently.- Actually, I think Akainu can do a version of that already. That said, with them and the Shichibukai, such characters will not likely get such a massive boost as most seem to be at the zenith of their powers, unless Fleet Admiral Whoever demands it, but the slope for Luffy and Co is high enough as it is.
- Jossed...sort of. Aokiji (Kuzan) has left the Marines and Akainu (Sakazuki) is the new Fleet Admiral. None of the three pre-timeskip Admirals have shown to have increased fighting capabilities, though Kuzan has apparently learned much over the past two years.
Kizaru will kill someone that carries the Will of D.
Akainu killed Ace. Aokiji killed Jaguar D. Saulo. Maybe Garp or someone else could be next...- Or he already has in the past, and we get a flashback of it sometime in the future.
Sengoku's palm blasts are the same as Sentomaru's.
Whatever that may be. Aokiji's apparent agelessness and lazy demeanor are both side-effects of his Devil Fruit powers.
Think about it for a moment. Aokiji was already a Vice Admiral 20 years before the story began, and looked pretty young then. He still looks very young now, and far younger than Kizaru or Akainu. This could be a side effect of his Devil Fruit power, the Hie Hie no Mi or Chill Chill Fruit. Since he can turn into ice, naturally ice can slow metabolism to near zero. As a result, he would age very slowly. The lower metabolism would also depress his personality somewhat, permitting him to take things easier than either of the two other Admirals (or anybody else in the Marines, for that matter).Aokiji will become an ally to the Straw Hats.
As of Chapter 650, it's been revealed that he left the Marines after Akainu took over Sengoku's former position. Considering that he already dislikes the corruption that's been going on under his watch, perhaps he'll team up with the Straw Hats at some point to take down the World Government, even if he doesn't actually join them.- Would it be too bold to say that as soon as I read the chapter, I saw Aokiji as a crewmember? He's certainly got a personality that wouldn't seem too out of placenote , and the Straw Hats do lack a Logia crewmember...
- While certainly not impossible (for the moment), that would necessitate Aokiji being given all sorts of things in common with the Straw Hats: a Dark and Troubled Past, a dream to motivate him to go with them, and an actual team-up scene (which we haven't gotten yet, anyway).
- He could fulfill the role of an uncle in the Straw Hat "family," however.
- Why is it that people have forgotten that Aokiji killed Saul right in front of Robin, nearly killed Robin herself and participated in the death of Ace?, while its likely that he will join the Strawhat's massive army of friends in what i predict as being the massive final battle to take down the government, there is no way that Luffy would ask him to join the crew.
- While certainly not impossible (for the moment), that would necessitate Aokiji being given all sorts of things in common with the Straw Hats: a Dark and Troubled Past, a dream to motivate him to go with them, and an actual team-up scene (which we haven't gotten yet, anyway).
- The theory seems a lot more unlikely now that it's been made known that Aokiji is allied with Blackbeard, AKA Luffy's nemesis.
Aokiji will join the Strawhats
I have a very solid reasoning for that. So solid that it will blow your mind away. Well,here it goes...ahem,if he does,I will be the one laughing, while if he does not, I will have nothing to lose. Fujitora was behind the giant black hole that was pulling Capone Bege`s ship towards it
Kizaru will fight and lose to Blackbeard.
So far, nobody has gotten Kizaru to be completely serious in a fight. Now, given how Oda did his reasearch involving Rayleigh arriving to fend off Kizaru, and that a black hole will absorb anything, including light...- Yeah, but black hole's also pull EVERYTHING IN EXISTENCE! People seem to think that BB will obliterate Kizaru, but there's no reason for this belief. BB power is over GRAVITY, not the effects of a black hole, so I actually believe that Kizaru will be the only one who is invulnerable to his ability, as it requires enormous gravity, on the scale of pulling STARS, to affect light with gravity, and I don't think BB has that kind of juice. BB named one of his attacks "Black Hole" but that doesn't mean he is one. Even if his powers affect Kizaru, they'll only affect him as much as they effect everyone else, and we've already seen WB butcher BB when he was half dead, so Kizaru could easily do the same.
Random and connected predictions for Ryokugyu
- They are a normal sized person with realistic proportions and attractive no matter what gender they have. All admirals have been massive and increasingly realistic looking so why not?
- Ryokugyu will have no devil fruit or special racial ability, just haki and martial arts. Master of all previously seen martial arts in the series and uses them better than anybody else.
- Alternatively, Ryokugyu will have eaten a Zoan fruit, rounding out a trio with Fujitora's Paramecia and Kizaru's Logia.
- Both Jossed — he ate the Woods-Woods fruit, a forest Logia.
- Ryokugyu will be a woman. Why not? We have seen so far in the one piece franchise we have seen 7 male current or former admiral so one female would be a bit fair.
- Jossed.
- Ryokugyu will possess all three Haki's.
- Ryokugyu will be the child of Akainu or have some connection to him to hint at his past.
Fujitora blinded himself because he's seen the Rio Poneglyph on Raftel and knows what happened during the Void Century
- Fujitora saw the truth with his own eyes, but was so disgusted by it that he couldn't look at the world the same way.
Fujitora and Ryokugyu are Admirals recruited from both Wano and Kano alike as a means of preventing the countries from warring with each other and to suppress Kaido's rise to power.
- It's been said that Wano and Kano were recently in combat. It would make sense if the World Government decided to conscript the strongest warriors from each country as ambassadors and as a token of goodwill, as representatives of both countries in both terms of military might and power. Suppose the World Government made a compromise that in exchange for the countries' best warriors, they would meet the needs of both warring nations, thus bringing about peace. The only problem is one of these Admirals is a known dissenter against the World Government. Fujitora, while the other probably took on the position as Admiral to keep a close watch on their nation with Kaido on the prowl- hence why Ryokugyu has yet to appear, due to keeping a close eye on Wano. Given how theories abound that Ryukogyu is modeled after a famous samurai, it makes sense that this character would show up in Wano, as it would be the perfect time to introduce them. On top of that, we have not seen them in action, and perhaps that's because this Admiral has decided to become a squatter. Sure, the Admirals have just about free clearance to come and go across the world, and all of them have done so thus far, but perhaps one of them is more of a seat-warmer who is a symbol of broader scope authority within their homeland. Maybe Ryokogyu thought that becoming an Admiral and all the power it came with would be enough to check Kaido's threat, and the idea of having the ability to authorize a Buster Call if necessary as a last resort would make even an Emperor like him think otherwise. Finally, Wano's borders are closed to the world, so Ryokugyu might be adhering to that policy by choosing to stay inside the country and show loyalty towards their homeland and not be a lapdog of the World Government.
Admiral Ryokugyu can perform photosynthesis and it is tied to his Devil Fruit.
He's even some sort of Devil Fruit (perhaps a Plant Logia) that enables him to perform photosynthesis, thus explaining why he doens't need to eat, he makes his own food. In addition, it probably has given him green coloration, hence the Green Bull.
Fujitora know something about Im/Ym's existence.
Or a least knows that there might be someone else pulling the strings than the Five Elder Stars. Of course, this could be simply a case of either Foreshadowing or Accidental Truth by Oda. When Fugitora saw what Doflamingo was doing to Dressrosa, he expressed his disgust at the World Government to Vice-Admiral Maynard using used a rather peculiar tense when describing them.- Fujitora: "Does the World Government… pretend to be a God or something?!"
There'll be an Orange Theme Admiral
There will be a marine by the name of Jaegar who follows Kizaru's lax pace and uncertain sense of justice but will be ruthless in execution like Akainu. He/She was once a noble who left the high-class life to become a bounty hunter who hunts down pirates for sport and is willing to sacrifice civilians if it means hunting down his/her targets and taking their heads as trophies along with their weapons and spoils.During the timeskip the bounty hunter joined the Marines and became a Vice-Admiral in hopes of fighting stronger opponents (particularly the Yonko and the Revolution Army) and is currently stationed at G-1 Headquarters.Jaegar is the one who encourage Unit 01 of G-5 to torture any pirates they capture to satisfy their blood-lust and trained Aramki to be immune to fire in his forest form.Kizaru will step down as a admiral , leaving one Admiral seat for Jaegar to fill,following the secondary color theme of Fujitora and Ryokugyu, Jaegar will be given the alias "Shuzumi" ( Orange Rat).For Shuzumi's devil fruit it'll be the Tori Tori no Mi: Model Suzaku Kuzan won the duel that terraformed Punk Hazard
But made Sakazuki take on the role of Fleet Admiral anyway. Either because he legitimately didn't want it to begin with, or because he had a larger plan to infiltrate the Blackbeard Pirates and used the duel to leverage Sakazuki into supporting him. Alternatively, they're both in on this plan from moment one and the entire duel was a ruse.- This one seems pretty Jossed. Kuzan himself says he lost the duel and his leg with Akainu choosing to spare him. If that really was a ploy, then Kuzan is an absolute legend for sacrificing his leg just to keep up a ruse.
Kuzan allied himself with Blackbeard because he knows about Imu.
He was never okay with most of what the World Government did, but a job was a job and he likely just resigned himself to many of the atrocities he committed or bore witness to while bending the rules as much as he could. Learning that he took part in everything he did for absolutely nothing because he was serving a puppet government that violated every rule he was taught? THAT was likely what pushed him over the edge. He's serving Blackbeard as a means to an end because he has the best shot at taking down the entire World Government, either by destroying it or exposing its secrets, and he's playing the long game and will ally himself with the Straw Hats when he sees a good chance to do so. It would also explain why Garp's fate was left uncertain; it wouldn't be the first time that Kuzan has used his Devil Fruit to let someone fake their death, and he wouldn't kill Garp when he likely knows nothing about Imu and would be easily swayed to Kuzan's side once he learned the truth.Ryokugyu and Who's Who are brothers.
They have similar racist jerkass personalities, plus they have identical mouths (Who's Who's face is concealed, but we can assume he resembles Ryokugyu). They are likely both from an aristocratic family, explaining their racist and elitist mentalities. Vegapunk
Vegapunk can hear the Voice of All Things.
It explains how he managed to find a way to get objects to "eat" Devil Fruits, and also why he's said to have scientific knowledge a whopping 500 years ahead of his time: he has objects (maybe even individual atoms) actually dictate to him the laws of physics and the secrets of the universe. Not only would it be an awesome and fairly original concept, it would establish him as an interesting villain, since he abuses the Voice of All Things for personal gain and would be insanely difficult to defeat given his unique store of superior knowledge. Vegapunk will be a Badass Cyborg
And he will be paired up against Franky in the inevitable arc with him as a villain.- Of course, this assumes that Vegapunk is a villain. Considering the fact that he complied with Kuma's request to allow him to help the Straw Hats one last time, this seems unlikely.
- Badass is a matter of opinion but he is a Cyborg of sorts — he replaced the top of his skull with an antenna connecting him to a database representing his brain.
Vegapunk ate the Hito Hito no Mi.
Vegapunk has found a way to replicate the effects of devil fruits powers, as we have seen with the pasifistas using Kizaru's light beams, perhaps Vegapunk ate Hito Hito no Mi at a young age and thus became 'enlightened' and is omniscient.Knowing the truth about devil fruits, he discovered a way to make copies of them, starting with the one he himself ate.following this theory, it is possible that impel down's demon guards are called 'awakened zoans' because, like Chopper, they were animals that ate copies of the Hito Hito no Mi.At some point one of these copies found its way to drum kingdom?- While I wouldn't put it past Vegapunk to conceive of a way to duplicate a fruit, that would only work for Chopper's case if true. It's true that Vegapunk's intelligence could be the result of Hito Hito enlightenment but I imagine a duplicate fruit could only be created once before it would muddled with established devil fruit rules. The Awakened Demon guards are most likely human guards that ate Zoan and then awakened by Vegapunk. Their human/animal appearance is similar to Chopper's monster form, Chopper himself being a human/animal hybrid that knows of tweaking Zoan transformations.
- The latest SBS has told us that there are different models of the Hito Hito no Mi, just like other Zoans, so it's possible if Vegapunk is indeed a possessor of it, he has a different brand of person then Chopper and Sengoku.
- While I wouldn't put it past Vegapunk to conceive of a way to duplicate a fruit, that would only work for Chopper's case if true. It's true that Vegapunk's intelligence could be the result of Hito Hito enlightenment but I imagine a duplicate fruit could only be created once before it would muddled with established devil fruit rules. The Awakened Demon guards are most likely human guards that ate Zoan and then awakened by Vegapunk. Their human/animal appearance is similar to Chopper's monster form, Chopper himself being a human/animal hybrid that knows of tweaking Zoan transformations.
- Subverted; he ate the Brain-Brain Fruit, a Paramecia which lets his brain store an indefinite amount of information and recall everything.
In a similar vein to Leonard of Quirm of Terry Pratchet's Discworld books, Vegapunk will be True Neutral, due to mild insanity, and will neither help nor hinder the strawhats in the future.
And, as is evident with his willingness to grant Kuma's final wish, does not serve the world government out of patriotism, belief in justice or want of power, but simply because they supply him with funding and space to do what he wants ( again, similar to the Discworld character). of Terry Pratchet's Discworld books, Vegapunk will be True Neutral, due to mild insanity, and will neither help nor hinder the strawhats in the future.- On an alternate note, Vegapunk doesn't actually want to serve the World Government at all and is being forced to conduct his research and experiments against his own will. Sentomaru isn't his bodyguard, he's more like a jailor. Then again, I also have the theory that...
- I thought that at first, but I reckon if Vegapunk was being held against his will, he would have done a Daedalus by now and invented a way to escape.
Vegapunk is actually a really nice guy
Baldimore's residents claim Vegapunk was a guy who just wanted to help people, and the World Government gave him the funding to do it. He may not be a mad scientist, but a really nice old man, and the WG just controls what information he receives about the world.- Very, very, VERY plausible, when you consider that he seemed willing to agree to Bartholomew Kuma's deal to turn him into a complete cyborg in exchange for implanting a hidden command to protect the Thousand Sunny until the Straw Hats returned from their respective locations following the Time Skip.
Vegapunk, or someone else involved with Pacifista project is a double agent
Because a) They allowed Kuma to fulfilled his last wish, to protect a pirate ship b) It seemed wasted that RA would just let Kuma essentially dead, they would lose their source of information. Plus, a double agent would probably able to reverse theproject, making Kuma gained his identity again.Dr. Vegapunk will remain The Faceless
- Jossed — he's an Expy of Einstein.
When Vegapunk appears, if he appears, he will give Phineas and Ferb vibes.
- Could you elaborate? Do you mean he will be like Phineas or Ferb? Dr. Doofenshmirtz? What exactly do you mean?
Dr. Vegapunk is revealed to be bald
His birthplace is called Baldimore, and he's a scientist. I'm willing to bet that it will be some sort of gag upon introducing him that he's discovered so much about devil fruits, but the one thing he's been trying to figure out is a way to prevent male pattern baldness. I could totally see this happening.
- Jossed.
Five Elders and Imu
The Gorousei will be revealed to be incredibly powerful
Given the rest of the upper command structure in the One Piece's world, this seems quite reasonable.- Some do have visible muscles and the Gandhi-looking guy carries a sword. It's plausible.
- Confirmed. All five are Devil Fruit users and Warcury can use Conqueror's Haki.
- As of Chapter 1108, things aren't looking well for Saturn. Maybe he'll turn out to be the weakest of the Five Elders?
More specifically — the Gorosei with the sword was Mihawk's mentor, and may or may not have been his predecessor in the World's Greatest title.
- And Mihawk's affiliation with the Shichibukai is partly, perhaps even wholly, out of lingering affection for his old sensei.
The reason why the Gorousei are afraid of the Great Powers collapsing
They maintain their authority and credibility to their citizens if there are enemies that the public can openly despise, such as pirates and revolutionaries. An enemy that will distract the public from the Gorousei's real operations. Enemies that are portrayed as evil fuckers that make the extremists amongst the Marines more well-intentioned in the I Did What I Had to Do sense. Without that seething hatred for criminals, the public would eventually grow more suspicious of the World Government and its shady actions, which would lead to more open revolts all over the place. The Gorosei are immortal
Related to the above post.The Op-Op fruit is known to be able to grant eternal youth, at the cost of the user's life, and is sought after by the former Tenryubito, Doflamingo. He knows that it really can do this because it has been used either five or six times in the past, to grant immortality to the Gorosei, and to Im/Ym.- This explains why they appear the same age now as when they gave the order for Ohara to be destroyed.
Name of the Government's top leader
Considering the World Nobles have a deep god complex, believing themselves to the the creators of the world. King Im, the hidden leader of the world government, is so named because it is actually short for "I'm" or "I am." God, in the Bible, is sometimes referred to as the one called "I am." This figure will believe himself to be either God, or the inheritor of His command. Mihawk is Im.
Of the original Seven Warlords, Mihawk is the only one whose background has yet to be explored in any detail. All we know is that he's extremely powerful and does as he pleases.- Mihawk and Im have the same eyes.
- Mihawk's sporadic appearances suggest that this is when he's playing the role of Im.
- Adding on to this, he's also the only Warlord who lacks a crew and power base of any kind which is peculiar given the purpose of the warlords is to keep other pirates in check.
- Shanks in spite of being a Yonkou is able to arrange meetings with the Gorsei and is shown respect by them. It could just be his friendly nature allows him to parlay even with the government OR being the former sparring partner to the world's ruler gives him special privileges if not a secret agreement to keep the other Emperors in check.
- Big problem though. We have seen a younger Mihawk in flashbacks and his age is listed. While Im is likely a immortal from the time of the WG founding (Though his position could in fact be hereditary. Im being immortal is only speculation at this point.)
- Oda has lied about character information before to hide surprises, so that age is not one-hundred percent reliable.
- Alternately Mihawk is Ims son, it would fit all the above including his younger age in addition he is based on Dracula, whos name literally translates to "son of the dragon" , a fitting name for the son of the highest celestial dragon, Im is also treated as some sort of god, and Mihawk carrys around a cross necklace and a cross shaped sword, a symbol associated with the son of god, and when carrying his sword on his back it even resembles the way Jesus had to carry his own cross
Im/Ym Is Luffy's Mother.
I know it's really out there, but we don't know much about this queen. Not only that, but we also don't know all that much about Dragon's past. If true, it would probably cause a big uproar if it was ever revealed. Alternatively, Im/Ym Is Nami's Mother (or father).
Do we really know anything about the girl's biological family prior to being adopted. Luffy's the son of the Revolutionaries' leader, so it would be a fun parallel for one of his closest friends to be the daughter of his opposite number. Even more alternatively, Im/Ym Is the mother of both Luffy and Nami, and the two are actually siblings.
A really strange one, but this got stuck in my head after I wrote the 'Nami's mother/father' one.Basically, Dragon somehow falls in love with and courts the secret leader of the World Government, she becomes pregnant with his child. However, because of their opposed worldviews, they come to blows and split around the time Im gives birth to non-identical twins at Foosha Village. Im tries to leave with her newborn children against her partner's wishes, but only manages to take the girl, having to flee before she can get the boy too, who remains with Dragon.
On Im's side, she eventually decides it's unfitting for the ruler of the world to have a child running around, either selfishly or because she'd rather have her daughter raised elsewhere, has her sent away to Okyol Kingdom or thereabouts, unaware (or perhaps all too aware) of the war about to go down there which would eventually lead to the girl being raised by Bell-mere. Whether or not the name Nami was given to her by Im or by someone else afterwards is unclear, but it was after Dragon and her parted ways, meaning he has no way of identifying his other child (something that Nami thinking she's a year or two older than she actually is makes even more difficult), so has instead opted to not speak of her, but may tell Luffy he has a sister when he finally sees his son again.
On Dragon's side, he eventually leaves Luffy alone in Foosha Village, either because the government is after him or for other reasons, unaware that the boy's eventually dream of being the Pirate King would unknowningly lead him to recruit his lost sister onto his crew...
As I said, a really strange idea, but it stuck with me.
Im is an ancestor of the Nefeltari dynasty
The Nefeltari dynasty was one of the founding members of the World Government, & the only one to voluntarily remain back in the lower world instead of ascending to the status of World Nobles. What if there's more to it? Perhaps they were not only one among the twenty other founding dynasties, but the leader among all of them. Im could have been the then monarch of the dynasty & the one who led the nascent alliance to victory, thus cementing his/her status as the ruler of the new world. Perhaps he/she forced the other Nefeltaris to stay away from Mariejois & the story about how the Nefeltaris voluntarily gave up on the World Noble status is just a rumor started to cover up the fact that one of them is running the show from behind the screens. Or maybe the ancient Nefeltaris (other than Im) were decent people & had a What Have I Done epiphany after seeing the results of their victory & refused to follow Im to Mariejois. It would explain Im's odd interest in Vivi(as unlike Luffy, Blackbeard or Shirahoshi she isn't an active or potential threat to the world goverment) & why her photo is the only one which has not been cut up, shredded or stabbed. On the Doylist level it would also add to the drama if Cobra & Vivi start asking too many questions about the Void Century only to stumble upon the leading role their distant ancestor played in it. Im is for the most part, a badass normal
Im ate a devilfruit(or other unrevealed source) to become immortal, but has no additional powers, when they fight there is no special power or flashy equipment , they use pure haki ,Rokushiki and other martial arts skills trained over hundreds of years.- Jossed — they and the Five Elders each show some form of transformation when they attack Sabo during Cobra's murder, along with some form of Tendrils of Darkness.
Im and the World Government already found Raftel/Laughtale
The Road Poneglyphs indicate 4 locations that, when used to make 2 intersecting lines, reveal the final island's location. 2 intersecting lines, 4 points at their ends, and a point in the middle also makes the symbol on the flag of the World Government. Coincidence? Doubtful. Im uses the Water-Water fruit
Imu is Vivi
We already know that the alleged ruler of the world has some kind of connection to her, seeing as how in Imu's second appearance, Vivi's photo is both the only one that is not destroyed and the only one that they are physically holding. Also, Vivi just so happens to go missing when her father is killed right when Imu finally starts making moves? Very suspicious. I'm not going to say that they're the same person, but it could be possible that Imu is some kind of second personality that manifests randomly in her body.- Jossed
Imu is a Devil Fruit user, and their power is to basically Ret-Gone things.
With them referring to themselves as "mu" which can mean "void", and their appearance basically being a black shadow devoid of anything but two piercing eyes, they could be going for an empty void theme with Imu. They seem to have some kind of power, creating black, pointed tendrils in which they used to impale Cobra as well as what they did to Lulusia and how the Five Elders proclaimed the aforemention kingdom never existed. It's quite possible this could just be their words, but what if it's not and anything Imu destroys begins to fade from other people's memories and history itself? A possible name for the fruit could even be the Mu Mu no Mi, or the "Void-Void Fruit." Going along with all the "Imu is X's mother/father", Imu will be a Voice of the Legion against the Straw Hats and play with their failures.
Think the Aparoid Queen from Star Fox: Assault. When the Straw Hats face Imu, they'll all succumb to their power and be faced with the voices/faces of those whom they cherished in their lives basically telling them they're worthless or have failed them.
The Devil Fruits of the Five Elders.
It's a pretty common theory that Imu might possess the Devil Fruit. But why have only one Devil Fruit, when the devils are multitude and manifold? There'd be more than enough models to go around for all of the Elders and still leave a bunch to spare.- St. Jaygarcia Saturn's fruit is Model Satan. Because of the pun.
- Jossed it's the Ushi Ushi/Gumo Gumo no Mi:Gyuki
- Warcury's DF is that of the Zou Zou no Mi: Model Garuda
- Mars could have eaten the Tori Tori no Mi: Fenghuag Model
- Nusjuro's devil fruit is the Hito Hito no Mi: Asura Model
- Peter's fruit power might be the Hito Hito no Mi Umibozu Model
Imu's Devil Fruit is the Hito Hito no Mi, Model: Umibozu.
The Hito Hito no Mi, Model: Umibozu gives them powers over shadows and water to counter Luffy's association with fire and light. Imu will reveal to look like something like a shriveled corpse crossed with either Voldemort or Yzma.
It is highly likely that Imu was given immortality through the Op Op Fruit's immortality-granting technique, but what wasn't mentioned was that being immortal didn't come with staying the same age they were when made immortal, resulting in Imu still being alive, but also looking like a shriveled-up mummy underneath their garbs. The Five Elders' Devil Fruits
Are all Awakened Mythical Zoans, along with Imu's. And Awakening a Mythical Zoan is how they got their rank as an Elder in the first place.
- Saturn's is the Spider-Spider Fruit, Model: Tsuchigumo (purse web spider)
- Another has the Ox-Ox Fruit, Model: Ushi-Oni, while another has a mythical Bird-Bird Fruit.
- Saturn is most likely the one with the Ushi-Oni fruit
- Confirmed as of Chapter 1094
- Warcury has the Horse-Horse Fruit: Model: Baku due to his sillhouette having tiny ears and huge tusks, which resembles the Baku the most out of all the Yokai.
- Mars's devil fruit could be the Tori Tori no Mi:Model Suzaku, Nusjuro's is Hito Hito no Mi:Shinigami Model and Ju Peter's the Hito Hito no Mi;Model Boogeyman
The Five Elders are Devils
Saturn summoning himself to the island through a pentagram is like nothing we've seen before in One Piece. His very arrival sent shivers down the spines of powerful haki users. Perhaps the Five Elders aren't just wielders of particularly nasty Devil Fruits, but the Devils the Fruits are named for to begin with.
Ju Peter will betray Imu.
Remembering Greek Mythology in play, after Uranus was overthrown by Kronos, Kronos' reign didn't last all that long and was seized by none other than Zeus, whose reign is the most detailed. Zeus divided the Earth between himself, Poseidon, and Hades; Poseidon and Hades correlate to Neptune and Pluton. Oda may very well replicate something similar to that while cutting out the middle man by having it that while the Ancient Weapons are in an all out attack with Neptune and Pluton either destroying or severely damaging Uranus, Ju Peter will see that as the perfect opportunity to attempt to seize power.
V. Nusjuro, while not the most vile of the Gorosei, is the grouchiest one.
Saint Ethanbaron V. Nusjuro appears to be the one with the angriest expression of them all, is considerably callous in comparison to the other Gorosei excluding Jaygarcia, and considering how the planet Venus is known for having acid rain, it could play as a motif for V Nusjuro himself.
Imu groomed the Gorosei into being evil
Perhaps Imu found the Gorosei as children and slowly manipulated them into serving Imu and believing their ideology.
Marcus Mars is the Token Evil Teammate of the Gorosei
Topman Warcury is the Token Good Teammate of the Gorosei
Topman Warcury is the closest to Imu
Considering how we're seeing the Straw Hats going in reverse planetary order with Pluton, then Neptune, then Uranus (In the form of the Mother Flame), and Jaygarcia Saturn, not only will they most likely encounter each Gorosei in reverse planetary order, but it also means that Mercury (As Warcury) will be the last one the Straw Hats face off. Further evidence is how his beast form is most likely a Baku, a yokai known for feeding on dreams, and since dreams are very important in One Piece, what could be a more perfect evil than something that exists to destroy dreams? Lastly, the dream-destroying could even be literal in that Warcury may be helping Imu by feeding on their constant nightmares of dying (Given how Imu parallels Doflamingo the most of all the villains, who suffered nightmares of his childhood torment).
- Whenever the Elders appear in the story, Warcury is more often than not at the center, lightly hinting at a slightly superior status - the first among equals, as it were.
- In chapter 1110, as the Elders enter the fray and begin attacking Luffy and the heroes, Warcury is the only one to do absolutely nothing on-screen, indicating that Oda may be saving him for a little later and with a little more focus in the long run.
- His name is "Top" man.
One of the Five Elders is a Dirty Old Man
Because why would Oda miss the opportunity to use another funny pervert trope? This is a shonen after all!
- Although considering how vile the Five Elder Planets are, if it does happen, it would be more Played for Horror rather than for comedy.
The other four Elders can use Conqueror's Haki
They just haven't bothered to do so, given how much they look down on others.
The Gorosei have specific weaknesses that can kill them
For example, Saint Ethanbaron V. Nusjoro being the Bakotsu, a skeleton horse yokai that was burned to death, and having a similar freezing power as Brook, may have a weakness to fire.
Imu is an Omnicidal Maniac who has previously attempted to purge the world in a massive flood and they intend to do it again
Considering how Ch 1113 confirms that the world is going to sink into the ocean and the Gorosei are set on hiding that information and Joy Boy had the Noah, it's very likely that Imu attempted to destroy the entire world to make it their own, but Joy Boy saved more "undesirables" that Imu wasn't aiming for with Noah. And considering how this manga loves to repeat certain themes with the villains as well, Imu could reveal to be parallelling Enel and Doflamingo by having it that Imu now plans to either do it all over again or to go even further and leave absolutely no survivors except for themself.
Imu gained immortality not only because of a Mortality Phobia, but also because their previous attempt at flooding the world nearly killed them
It's quite possible that had they never gotten the immortality surgery, they would have died from using their powers to flood the world... but that immortality didn't exactly mean they would be at full strength again right away, and so, is barely moving because they are still physically weakened from using that much power long ago.
Imu wants Vivi to access the Dance Powder
I doubt Imu is capable of love and switching bodies isn't exactly a good idea when your powers don't come with that. If anything, I think it's because not only would they want a companion in a similar manner as Peter Pan and Wendy, but also to ensure that they have the means of accessing the Dance Powder, and Imu will use it to help with creating a massive flood to wipe out everyone.
Imu will eventually boil, but it won't kill them
Just a throw-in that during the eventual fight against Imu, they will be underwater without dying due to immortality and their Umibozu powers... but either Sabo or Akainu will use their heat powers to boil Imu while they're still underwater, causing great pain and leading to a Villainous Breakdown of frightening proportions.
Future tropes that could possibly apply to the Gorosei and Imu
- Saint Jaygarcia Saturn:
- The Bully, Dirty Coward, Paper Tiger due to seeming to especially go after those who are weaker than him and showing some fear towards those who are clearly stronger than him.
- Saint Ju Peter:
- Saint Marcus Mars:
- Saint Ethanbaron V. Nusjoro:
- Saint Topman Warcury:
- Imu:
- Complete Monster
- Hate Sink: Will likely turn out to be the most depraved and vile villain in all of the series; likely will not be meant to fall under Love to Hate.
- Used to Be a Sweet Kid
- Mortality Phobia
- Face Death with Despair
- Ain't Too Proud to Beg
- Psychopathic Manchild
- Age Without Youth
- Never Grew Up
Cipher Pols
The CP9 will have an Enemy Mine run-in with the Straw Hats
As the CP9 are now on the lam and seem to have become pirates themselves in the process, they might have a chance to reconcile with their former enemies much like Hachan or at least admit that they are no longer enemies. They might even be potential allies sometime in the future, seeing as how Oda loves to reintroduce old characters!- Jossed — The now CP0 reconciled with the government at some time during the time skip.
The powers that CP9 used are Haki-based.
All of them are Color of Armaments except Paper, which is Color of Observation. Color of Armaments allows users to form an armor-like coat around themselves at its most basic (Iron Body), but it can also be used to augment strength (Finger Pistol and Shave) and shot off as a projectile (Tempest Kick). Moonwalk may be a combination of increasing leg speed and shooting off haki from one's feet to propel oneself upwards. The CP9 have become even stronger after the time skip
It wouldn't suprise me if all of the CP9 have become much stronger since fighting the Straw Hats at Enies Lobby.- Confirmed
One or more members of CP9 will have defected to the Revolutionary Army after the timeskip.
- While Lucci (and possibly Kaku) rejoined Cipher Pol and became part of CP0, other ex-CP9 members were less forgiving of how they were treated by the government after their escape from Enies Lobby and defected to the Revolutionaries.
At least one of the Cipher Pol agents seen with Carmel is still alive and active
Compare the agent sitting down with Carmel to this agent seen in Dressrosa and Wano. The outfits are identical and the heights look about the same. Even the masks are similar; the "ears" on the former resemble the robotic-looking parts on the latter. This would make him very old indeed. The other two I'm not so sure about but it definitely feels like something Oda would do. Fukoro's Doriki reading
It's been shown Doriki can be measured by Fukurou's "Te-awase". Yet he had a reading for himself. How? Simple — he isn't the only one with the ability; it can be theorized that every generation of CP9 had at least one member who could use it, and they probably aren't the only ones, since new agents are being trained regularly by non-CP9 members. He probably had one of their former agents and / or a trainer measure his before the others arrived from Water 7. Other
Tashigi is Kuina
They don't just look similar — they also both have an interest in swords. What if Kuina didn't die by falling down the stairs and breaking her neck, but instead fell into a coma and lost her memory, yet still retained part of her personality vis-a-vis her interests in swordsmanship?- If this prediction is accurate, it would be hilarious because of how 4Kids edited out her 'death'). Pity we'll never see how 4Kids would've dubbed this scene.
- Kuina's father wore glasses, and Tashigi wears them as well. Coincidence? Lots of people start needing glasses during young adulthood. Also, maybe she did break her neck; but, because ''THIS. IS. ONE PIECE'', characters end up surviving bad injuries all the time when they have the sheer will to live. Given the story's history of handling (or avoiding) death and serious injuries, this is plausible.
- The glasses bit is an especially good point. A lot of those little details often end up being crucial...
- Interest in swords isn't the only thing they have in common. The anime changes this and makes her kind of sullen and distant, but she was more open and almost sunny in the original manga in a way that's similar to Tashigi. And it's possible that Smoker unconsciously reminds her of Zoro due to their similar looks and personalities. (Even their Pet the Dog moments are practically identical!) Finally, both characters are named after flightless birds, which was noted in an SBS question. It's a somewhat common trope in anime and manga for two people who are really the same person to have names that are either an alternate reading of the characters in the word or have near-identical or parallel meanings.
- Not to mention having the same birthday.
- Here's another thing: Oda's already done the "Person with coincidental resemblance to another character" thing with Sanji and Duval. It's really, really unlikely he's going to do the same thing twice in this case.
- Last year in American SJ, to celebrate the speed-up of the manga, they had their own SBS-style Q & A. Someone had asked Oda why Tashigi looked like Kuina. His answer: "It's just a coincidence. There's no backstory like Tashigi turns out to be Kuina's sister or something...[Laughs]"
- Because Oda totally has never given misleading answers in the SBS to avoid giving away plot twists. Nope. Never. Who're Ace and Whitebeard again? Seriously, why would Oda spoil what could potentially be one of the most powerful events in the story with an SBS? IMO, I like this guess because like people have mentioned before on this wiki, Zoro never got any confirmation that Kuina cared for him as much as he obviously does for her. (which is conspicuous considering the other crew members' flashbacks) Does wanting that to happen make me too soft-hearted?
- Wasn't trying to prove anything, it just had to do with the topic. I don't care for the Tashigi=Kuina theory.
- Tashigi being Kuina doesn't explain the FUNERAL PROCESSION SCENE in Zoro's back-story; plus it's already been explicitly stated by Oda that the two are not the same person and are not related.
- That funeral procession only happens in anime filler. Not canon. And frankly, given Oda's track record, I strongly suspect he isn't being truthful. Why set up a conflict like this only for it not to lead to a big reveal? That's nothing like OP's typical epic internal logic.
- Jossed. they recently had a cover (somewhere 620-630) where her father places a newspaper (with news about zoro in it) against her tombstone.
- Wasn't trying to prove anything, it just had to do with the topic. I don't care for the Tashigi=Kuina theory.
Tashigi is Kuina's twin sister
We know nothing of Kuina's mother. We have two identical (except the glasses) female swordswomen from the East Blue. So what if Koshirou and Kunina/Tashigi's mother were from rival sword schools. They had a brief affair, but could not stay together because of their families. Swordswoman got pregnant, gave birth to twins, and gave Kuina to Koshirou to raise as his heir, while keeping Tashigi for herself. The real reason Smoker is still chasing Luffy despite how he's proven to be an excellent person is because....
...he's having a textbook case of a mide-life crisis. Not being able to capture him in Logue town reminded him that he's just started to grow old, and he doesn't want to let go of the feeling of infallibility he had as a younger man. He doesn't want to let go of the past and just admit he was wrong. It even explains his sweet-but-slightly-weird protectiveness of Tashigi; he wants to feel like the cool hero with the adorable, somewhat dependent side-kick/girlfriend, even though in reality she probably doesn't have those kind of feelings for him in return and probably wants to grow up completely and become more of her own person. Pretty soon, reality is going to crash down hard on the poor guy.- Nah, Smoker's just Lawful Stupid that way.
- Also, he is still in his prime at 34/36 years old
- Or he's just genre savvy enough to know that Luffy and his crew are almost always going to be running fighting people much worse than them. While chasing Luffy, he can find and get rid of a lot of terrible pirates and corrupt Marines!
Tashigi and Smoker have an intimate relationship that they keep hidden to their colleagues
In Chapter 217, at the tail end of the Alabasta Arc, we see Smoker on the deck of a ship among the sea, completely shirtless (not even his jacket on), and Tashigi comes out from the inside, dressed casually and with a jacket on her shoulders. He says something like "morning miss" (although in a teasing tone) and pours her some coffee. Their following dialogue is professional, but there seems to be no other people on the ship beside them. It's not necessary to think they have some stable relationship beside their professional one — it may have been even just a one-night stand — but right that moment it's hard to not have the impression of a couple that has just spent a night together. This would also explain why, much later in the series, Smoker seems to have no problem with being in Tashigi's body — he may already know it well...The Pacifista's are made out of Wapol steel
(for the uninformed, I'm referring to his cover story which showed a special form of steel was discovered to be made when he chews regular steel that made him so much money). It explains how they're impossibly strong, plus it fits with how Oda has been integrating seemingly unimportant details from the cover stories into the main plot (like how Hachi's showed he was still free and going about and Miss Goldenweek's story showed Crocodile and Mr.s 1-3 were sent to Impel Down).- Impossible. The Pacifistas were being developed even before Wapol started creating his Wapometal. The jury's still out on what the newer models are made of, but the original Pacifistas aren't made of Wapometal.
The Pacifista that Kuma force-pushed into the sky during the battle on Shabondy will feature in a short cover story series.
A village of peasants will find the terrifying death machine and somehow repurpose it as a sort of golem; alternatively, an oppressed and subjugated people could find it and use it to rout World Government troops stationed there and claim freedom. This is assuming Kuma sent it somewhere it might do some good. Sengoku's goat has vampire powers
The Goat ate the Vampire Vampire fruit, which would explain why the thing hasnt aged at all in 20 years and would also turn it into a REVERSE CHUPACABRA which is ball-busting awesome and very Oda-like.Impel Down was built bottom-up.
Impel Down actually started off just holding the most dangerous criminals. Therefore Level 6, being the oldest, has no real tortures at all. Later on, they decided to expand by building on the layers above. For Level 5, they decided to go with a freezing torture. By doing this, Level 4 ended up with enormous heat. So that became the burning level. Naturally, Level 3 was made as it was because they just left the excess heat as is due to the structure of the prison. And the above two levels are even more recent, thus their tortures seem more "creative". Level 1 being the most recent, has the hole connecting to Level 2 because it was only at that period of construction did they realize this addition. Hence, there are no other connecting holes.- As a corollary, the warden's office actually started out at Level 5 but was moved to Level 4, out of symbolism.
Sengoku's goat ate another model of the Hito Hito no Mi than Chopper did
Only instead of studying medicine, he studied inventing under Dr Vegapunk and created a robot slave that he named Sengoku. Sengoku's goat is a Zoan
More specifically, a deep cover agent of the Revolutionaries. The gull on Sengoku's hat may also be involved.- Like a microphone or camera? Alctually, this too hilarious not to be wrong.
- I say Sengoku's hat is actually a hat, except that it ate the gull-gull fruit, and will display its awesome powers at an appropriate moment.
Sentomaru is a double-agent, or at least wants to make friendly contact with the Straw Hats.
No reason other than the manner he was calling after Luffy in their second meeting. Seems more that his tone was sympathetic than it was calling after a heinous criminal. Close to the end of the story, the Marines will fall apart (probably from the inside out), and people will see the higher-ups as corrupt.
Having the Marines get the last laugh in the war won't be a good way to end the story. For an organization people have been rooting against since the start, they need an epic downfall. I think that people like Garp and Smoker will be the ones to ultimately get the job done. The World Government was founded by pirates.
The Twenty Kings that overthrew the Ancient Kingdom were really a band of pirates similar to the Straw Hats. At the end of their adventure, they fought the capital and Ancient Weapons of the then-current world order, and won, only to find that they now had the responsibility of running the world. The World Nobles are the descendants of these pirates, and still act like pirates. They also now have an unlimited source of treasure and entertainment (the world). The Gorosei are the current actual pirate "crew", and they don't want anyone to know about this, so they covered up their founding. This would explain why the government is so evil, and why they are so ineffective against piracy (especially with their executions), and even support it (with the Shichibukai). They want piracy to thrive, but not to overthrow them. Going a bit off topic, the bizarre features of the Grand Line islands, the Den Den Mushi, and the devil fruits are all Lost Technology that the twenty pirates broke with their antics. Mariejois is really a ship in dry dock on top of the Red Line.
The city is always covered in clouds, and what would a better flagship for the World Government be? Smoker will become an Admiral
Up until this point Smoker has pretty much been Luffy's rival, constantly following (And has actually beaten him on all of these occasions as well) and is powerful enough to have become a vice-admiral. Who's to say he won't eventually be promoted to Admiral?- I have a follow-up WMG to that: Smoker will receive credit for putting an end to Caesar Clown and his Smile production, possibly even taking the credit for what Law will eventually intend to do to Kaido, and become promoted to Admiral, paralleling the end of the Alabasta story. Alternatively...
- Jossed — The Wano situation is a wash for the Government, and the news reports Luffy's hand in it.
Smoker will join Luffy's crew
He's been shown to perfectly willingly disobey orders and has a strong sense of justice. He's disagreed with a lot of their decisions so it's entirely possible that they'll push him too far and he'll leave/do something against them. Even if he doesn't join the straw hats it's still possible he could leave the Marines.- If that happened, Tashigi and his entire crew would follow him as renegades.
The reason why the WG are looking for Bonney
...is because they want Bonney to return the Gorosei to young again. There's still a functional Ancient Weapon... and it's controlled by the Tenryuubito
This explain how they can hold such enormous power despite being hated by basically everyone. Impel Down was originally meant to be the Noah's Ark
It always bugged me how illogical Impel Down is (for example, if you have to have a burning level AND a freezing level, why would you put them right next to each other)? And why making a prison that's so ostentatious waste of space? Think of it — there are whole forests in there and from what we saw, the prisoner cells themselves occupy pretty small fraction of all that space. I think it originally had a very different purpose and it wasn't built by the current civilization. Perhaps Impel Down was the Noah's Ark of the One Piece world, laden with various biotopes to host animals and plants when the water started to cover the world. It was built sturdy to survive the flooding (after all, have you seen anyone in One Piece making large-scale underwater constructions? Impel Down surpasses everything on the Fishman Island) and eventually, when the WG was formed, its secure location made it ideal to be repurposed as a prison. Tashigi is eventually going to become Zoro's Replacement Goldfish /Doppelgänger Replacement Love Interest
Exactly What It Says on the Tin. I'm kinda surprised this hasn't been suggested earlier. Coby will be the last person Luffy faces before reaching One Piece.
He was the first person Luffy met on his journey, and he'll be the last.- Taking into consideration that Coby has managed to unlock Haki, which is a prerequisite to becoming an Admiral, which is Coby's goal, it's certainly possible that Coby will be, at the very least, one of the last persons Luffy faces...or maybe they'll end up having a relationship akin to Garp and Roger back in the day.
- Afterwords, he will hand himself over to be executed just like Roger because all of that strain that he has put on his body shortened his lifespan to the point where he only has a few months left and he will set about another great age of pirates with his death, thus making the story come full circle.
- I actually believe this considering that Luffy said to Coby after Enies Lobby (Not exact words): "The next time we meet, you are going to be stronger and we will cross fists with each other."
- That next time was at Marineford where he got one shotted by Luffy decking him in a smoke screen.
Zoro and Tashigi will become friends eventually
- As a counterpoint to Tashigi being Kuina theories and Tashigi/Zoro shipping, I theorize that Tashigi and Zoro will eventually develop a platonic relationship after Zoro tells Tashigi more about Kuina.
- With Tashigi being very nice and reasonable but also a bit of an Inspector Javert, I doubt they'll bond just over a talk about Kuina. I could see them platonically bond if her trust in the Marines is shaken just enough (I.E., not enough to make her quit, but enough to make her realize some pirates are good).
Tashigi is Kuina's clone.
Well, cloning exist in One Piece world, so it is a possibility.We don't know anything at all about Kuina's mother, so maybe it was her initiative to bring her daughter back from the dead by creating her clone and she knew someone who could do so. Someone like Dr. Vegapunk, maybe?
: Tashigi was born 11 months before Kuina. Unless they're both clones of some other person, Tashigi being a clone can be considered Jossed.
A splinter faction of the Marines will be mobilized to oppose the World Government
Fujitora, Smoker and Garp will resign from the Marines and join Aokiji in forming a splinter faction made up of former Marines and World Government officials who have defected from them because of their corruption and will instead have a desire to expose the World Government. This will enable them to take advantage of disestablishing the Seven Warlord system. Soldiers will wear uniforms similar to the Marines but will differentiate from them with a more vibrant color scheme. The Marine ships will appear with different colors. With this new faction, they will now be able to aid the Straw Hats and the Revolutionaries to take on the World Government.
Donquixote Mjosgard is working with Dragon.
To free the slaves, and stop the World Nobles. Garp was sold as a child to the WG by the Mountain Witch.
Garp is almost a decade older than Linlin and could have been, given the stated M. O. of the MW being to sell a child only once every 2 years, easily sold off before Linlin's arrival on Elbaf. This will also be a Freudian Excuse for Garp, as it will turn out that being as dedicated to the Marines as he was all up until the Summit War because since his earliest life they were all he ever had. Being a D. and all, he was bound to have had a miserable childhood and seen the Marines as a means of giving himself a purpose in life.Sentomaru is from Wano
A bit obvious maybe, but he is based on a figure in Japanese folklore, his name is written in kanji and we know he is from somewhere in the Grand Line. Also, since he used to be Vegapunk's bodyguard and the latter could actually finally appear, we could perhaps see more of him in this arc. The World Nobles use Mermaids as a means to an end to achieve immortality.
One may ask why Mermaids are so highly valued as slaves in the setting. Well, there's an interesting answer. The Japanese equivalent of a mermaid (A Ningyo) is said to give those who eat it's meat either extreme longevity or immortality. In Japanese, Ningyo are even what Merfolk are called. Meanwhile, the World Nobles seem to have made little to no move to destroy Fishman Island despite having all the power in the world to do so. And why would that be? Because mermaid meat can grant immortality. This could explain how the Five Elders haven't aged a single day since the Ohara Incident, or how Im is seemingly immortal. While the dumb World Nobles value them because they're "pretty", the ones actually in on the game understand their secrets and how they could grant immortality. Koby's future
Koby will eventually achieve his dream of becoming an Admiral in the Navy... and then surpass it, by becoming Fleet Admiral.The secret treasure of Mary Geoise is Uranus, the final Ancient Weapon
This is what makes the Celestial Dragons so powerful, the fact that their leader Im has access to such a weapon. Possibly even Im himself is Uranus. Uranus in Greek mythology was the god of the sky, so it would be fitting for it to be associated with the Celestial Dragons (who see themselves as both literally and figuratively above humanity) and Mary Geoise (the physically highest place on the planet).- Considering what happens to the Kingdom of Lulusia in Chapter 1060 (destroyed by beams of light raining down from some kind of giant dark cloud), it seems to imply that Uranus is under control of Imu, and used to eliminate those who threaten to reveal the truth of the World Government.
Marine Bounties
Sakazuki 4,816,354,000
Borsalino 3,112,345,600
Issho 3,810,000,000
Aramaki 3,292,690,000
Monkey D. Garp 5,520,000,000
Sengoku 5,100,059,000
Tsuru 5,326,000,000
Kong 5,900,000,000
John Giant 519,000,000
Comil 101,000,000
Momonga 700,100,066
Onigumo 280,000,000
Doberman 108,000,000
Strawberry 150,000,000
Yamakaji 145,805,200
Lacroix 168,690,000
Lonz 162,640,000
Stainless 41,004,000
Mozambia 63,000,000
Cancer 69,000,000
Dalmatian 111,101,000
Bastille 171,447,000
Smoker 314,465,896
Maynard 57,710,429
Gion 131,100,066
Tokikake 310,109,055
Doll 10,000,000
Sicily 65,000,000
Akehende 54,845,100
Catacombo 60,252,200
Kadar 56,729,000
Hina 196,174,330
T Bone 91,029,200
Daigin 82,400,000
Yarisugi 86,400,000
Brannew 93,260,000
Kibin 9,000,000
Very Good 9,100,000
Shu 3,200,000
Sharinguru 7,000,000
Gorilla 5,180,560
Tashigi 106,540,000
Koby 151,350,000
Nezumi 12,120,036
Ratel 5,600,000
Ripper 1,630,000
Helmeppo 71,600,000
Glove 1,427,309
Zott 3,100,000
Stalker 9,280,000
Rokkaku 6,190,659
Makko 6,500,000
Isuka 50,000,000
Bogard 112,250,000
Candre 5,190,000
Sentomaru 310,100,010
