History OnePiece / TropesEToF

** In a flashback during the Amazon Lily arc, we see a very cute-looking girl with her hair in GirlishPigtails and wearing both ZettaiRyouiki and [[BareYourMidriff a midriff-baring outfit]]. Bad thing? That girl is [[spoiler: a 12/13-year-old Boa Hancock; she's also in chains alongside her sisters Sandersonia and Marigold (who are also pretty cute, if we ignore Sonia's huge head and how they're even more loli than loli!Hancock back then), and the three are utterly terrified since they're about to be subjected to ''at least'' four years of cruel punishments, tortures and humiliations coming from the World Nobles.]]

* FiveManBand: A couple of them:
** The original five Straw Hats from East Blue: TheLeader[=/=]TheHero[=/=]TheCaptain=Monkey D. Luffy; TheLancer=Roronoa Zoro; TheSmartGuy=Usopp; TheBigGuy=Sanji (a GeniusBruiser version); TheChick=Nami. Soon after, they get SixthRanger=Nefertari Vivi and TeamPet=Carue for a while.
** After the Straw Hats divide and conquer during the Dressrosa arc, each group forms one:
*** The Straw Hats who stay in Dressrosa: TheLeader=Monkey D. Luffy; TheLancer=Roronoa Zoro; TheSmartGuy=Usopp; TheBigGuy=Franky; TheChick=Nico Robin; SixthRanger=Trafalgar Law, Kin'emon, and Kanjuro.
*** The Straw Hats who head to Zou: TheLeader=Sanji; TheLancer[=/=]TheChick=Nami; TheSmartGuy=Tony Tony Chopper; TheBigGuy=Brook; SixthRanger=Momonosuke and Caesar.

* EverythingsEvenWorseWithSharks:
** [[KnightTemplar Arlong, with Hody Jones]] following in his example much later in the series.
** Jimbei is a subversion. Unless you fuck with Whitebeard. Then it's ''definitely'' played straight.
** Since one of Zoro's [[AnimalMotifs motifs]] is that of a shark, this trope applies to him.

* EverythingsBetterWithDinosaurs: The island of Little Garden is populated with Dinosaurs and other prehistoric Creatures. Also the pirate Captain X. Drake, who can turn into an ''Allosaurus'' due to having eaten a rare Ancient [[{{Animorphism}} Zoan type]] Devil Fruit.

** There's a debate on Wiki/TheOtherWiki as to whether or not [[Series/IronChef Sanji]] can do this.

* FalseUtopia. A common trope for the series due in part to its [[CrapSaccharineWorld bright and colorful aesthetic contrasting some surprisingly dark themes]] for its art style. A lot of the more lively, cartoony, or fantastic looking islands the Straw Hats visit have very dark political and social issues under the surface. A few examples; Skypeia (a heavenly-looking FloatingIsland under a madman's totalitarian rule), Fish-Man Island (a "mermaid paradise" that also has issues with human-Fish-man racism and de facto segregation of the class levels), the Sabody Archipelago (bright, colorful place with giant mangroves that's also known for being the slave trade capital of the world), Dressrosa (a rich, Spanish-themed kingdom where much of the population has been [[BalefulPolymorph reduced to]] LivingToys, forced to slave away while nobody remembers who they are), and Totto Land (a Candyland with talking trees and animals where all races live in harmony controlled by a psychopathic womanchild who’s one of the four most powerful pirates in the world [[spoiler: who takes two months off of her subjects’ lifespans every year, kills anyone who tries to leave, and rampages through the main island when she gets a craving that isn’t satisfied quickly enough]]).

** Nami getting pinned to the wall by an invisible Absalom when she was taking a bath -- again with the uncanny resemblance to a rape. DO. NOT. WANT.

* ForgotAboutHisPowers: Namely, every time one of the more powerful characters (usually one of the Straw Hats) gets locked in a trap they should have been able to easily escape with their SuperStrength. For example; in the Dressrosa Arc, Luffy finds himself locked in the halls of the coliseum while [[BigBad Doflamingo]] is outside attacking Trafalgar Law. He can't get through the Seastone bars on the windows, which is fair enough... but he seems to be forgetting the fact that he could simply punch a hole in the stone wall and walk right out.

* FantasyKitchenSink: The series features {{sea monster}}s, [[FishPeople Fish-men]], [[OurMermaidsAreDifferent mer-folk]], giants [[note]][[AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever Viking giants, Ogre-like giants]], [[OurGiantsAreBigger a mountain-sized giant...]][[/note]], [[KiManipulation ki abilities]], [[HollywoodCyborg Cyborgs]] and a team of killer androids... and those are just the fantasy staples. There are also [[ReinventingTheTelephone telecommunication]] [[OrganicTechnology snails]], a giant whale with a house built on the island poking out of the acidic lake in its stomach, [[LostWorld a dinosaur infested island]], [[HorseOfADifferentColor giant ducks as riding animals]], [[FloatingContinent islands in the sky]] (and most of them are populated by people from the moon), solid and liquid clouds, shells that can absorb and re-emit various things such as light, water, and the aforementioned clouds, [[TheMenInBlack secret agents]] with super Kung Fu, mushroom-induced hypnotic powers, and, lest we forget, [[AppliedPhlebotinum magical/demonic(?) fruits]] [[MetaOrigin that give you superpowers]][[note]]That allow for [[UpToEleven even MORE]] [[{{Troperiffic}} fantastic concepts]] including {{Animorphism}} and [[ElementalShapeshifter ElementalShapeshifters]].[[/note]]. [[WidgetSeries Indeed]]. [[SerialEscalation And it keeps getting crazier...]]

** Impel Down warden Shiryu appears to be based off of ''Riki-Oh's'' Washizaki, and, by extension, M. Bison. ''StreetFighter'' jokes have been made since Day 1.

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* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness:
** The two prototype versions of "Romance Dawn" are markedly different from the final version of ''One Piece''. For one thing, adventurous pirates are called Peace Mains, and raping-and-pillaging pirates are called Morganeers. There's also a conspicuous lack of CallingYourAttacks, and Luffy was apparently much smarter than the final version.
** Kuina dying by falling down some stairs in Zoro’s backstory doesn’t mesh very well with later One Piece. [[TruthInTelevision While it’s a shockingly sudden and very realistic]] way for someone to die, One Piece characters- up to and including children- eventually came to be well known for being MadeOfIron as the series went on. So for someone who was stronger than the already-abnormally-strong kid Zoro to just fall down some stairs and die… it would seem ridiculous happening to any character today, even if they were just a child.
** Given the manga was only supposed to run for 5 years before Oda expanded the story, this was bound to happen. In the beginning, the Grand Line was a crazy, mysterious ocean barely anyone could survive. Later, it's established not only that plenty of perfectly normal people are native to the Grand Line, but pretty much any pirate worth his salt can navigate it. Then, it turns out there's a previously unheard of second half to the Grand Line known as the New World, while the "crazy mysterious" first half is now known as Paradise.
** Laugh Tale was originally called Raftel in English before its meaning was revealed, and it was implied to simply be at the end of the Grand Line with only Gol D. Roger-level pirates able to reach it. Post time-skip, it's revealed that reaching Laugh Tale isn't just following the Grand Line to the end, but is somehow impossible to find without the Road Poneglyphs to create a map.
** At the beginning of the series, the very existence of Devil Fruits were questioned and doubted by characters. Some of whom had never heard of them, some of whom didn’t believe in them at all. They were at least considered a myth. As the story progressed, it has been shown that there are many prominent people with Devil Fruit powers, some of whom are high-ranking members of the government/military. And in a world of famous pirates, many of the most powerful and well-known have Devil Fruit powers as well. The idea that people don’t know they exist, seems impossible. Now, the encounter rate for a Devil Fruit user may be low outside of the Grand Line. It might be very unlikely that most people would meet a Devil Fruit user. But it makes sense that they would’ve heard of Aokiji for example, and his amazing ice powers. Especially in a world where cameras and telephones exist. The story also shows us that information about serious events are capable of spreading fairly easily. For example, everyone who the Straw Hats had met up until that point in the story, read about the events in Marineford. But even before Marineford, it should’ve been impossible to keep a secret about a man who can turn into a giant Buddha statue. Everyone would know. As the series progressed, the idea of Devil Fruits as a myth or well kept secret, has steadily eroded away.
*** Alvida was the first person to make the claim that Devil Fruits were a myth, however she managed to find and consume a Devil Fruit in no more than A WEEK of meeting Luffy, and didn't even go to the Grand Line to do it. Which means somewhere between getting punched into the sky, and meeting up with Buggy, she just HAPPENED to stumble across a "super rare" Devil Fruit.
*** Buggy's backstory. The pirate crew he was in as a boy wasn't sure Devil Fruits existed and he was even able to get away with stealing one by eating a fake and pretending it didn't do anything and Devil Fruits themselves were a myth. The dubiousness of that besides, given how common Devil Fruits became later on, we eventually learned that said crew was that of the Oro Jackson, aka Gol D. Roger's pirate crew, a group that should have been encountering Devil Fruit users left and right. But then again, who said they were already in the Grand Line during the flashback, and plus, it should be over 24 years before the present time, so these factors justify this example a little bit.
*** A retcon about Sanji also included an extra tidbit about availability of information on Devil knowledge. When he first met Luffy and the others, he was as naive about Devil Fruits and their effects as most of the other characters in the beginning. Zeff even had to tell him that Devil Fruit users can’t swim. Later once Devil Fruits are established more commonly in the series, Sanji is retconned to having not only have known about Devil Fruits, but have an intimate knowledge of them thanks to a book he read! Meaning that Devil Fruits are so common as to have their own reference materials in the world of One Piece, making the earlier examples of people doubting their existence even weirder.
*** The taste of Devil Fruits themselves. Nowadays, they're universally treated as tasting disgusting, but in the early chapters, they were treated as tasting mediocre at worst. When a young Luffy ate the Gum-Gum Fruit, he had no real issues with eating it, simply telling Shank's crew that it didn't taste that good. And when a young Buggy accidentally ate the Chop-Chop Fruit, he had no reaction to its taste whatsoever (though in the latter's case, it's possible that since he swallowed it whole, he didn't even have a chance to taste it).
** Luffy's fight with Zoro at Whiskey Peak. It's been made clear lately that Luffy would do anything to protect his crew and he believes in them completely, so it seems kind of odd now that he instantly attacked Zoro for supposedly killing a bunch of strangers who fed them (who were actually assassins) without even asking him about it first.
** The death of the often forgotten minor character Pudding Pudding in the Arlong Park Arc. Considering an equally unimportant guy like Caribou from the Fish-Man Island Arc can survive having his ship destroyed at the bottom of the ocean, it's kind of odd that Arlong was actually allowed to kill Pudding Pudding (in similar fashion as Caribou to boot, since he sent his ship to the bottom of the sea).
** When a type of power called “Haki” got introduced in the series, said power presented itself as more of a concept with little to no visual cues whenever a character used it, as the series progressed Haki became a standard ability for any self-respecting strong individual in the New World and more visible effects started being attributed to the several forms on Haki usage: Color of Armament (makes the person physically stronger) has the user coating their bodies with a black metallic second skin, Color of Observation (makes the person very agile, with great perception and great sight) shows the user’s eyes often glowing upon activation, Color of the Conqueror (mysterious form with several unknown properties, albeit an obvious one is overpowering will) shows a monochrome blast being activated and when users of the same ability clash, a black lightning shock will surge. The original usage of Conquerors Haki by Shanks was also different, it showed the Sea King get scared and run away while later victims were knocked out completely. Observation Haki originally had seeing glimpses of the future as a normal thing, with Luffy displaying this in Marineford before he even knew what Haki '''was''', but this is later said to be an extremely advanced and rare technique.
*** Speaking of Haki, [[spoiler:Ace being shocked that Teach can touch him now comes across as this because it's since been revealed to be a common thing in the New World for people to be able to touch Logia Fruit users using Haki and Teach is an experienced New World pirate. The point is further hammered home by Teach commenting that Ace is probably not used to his enemies being able to hit him. The Ace novels makes it even weirder since they establish Ace himself developed Armament Haki to fight Vice Admiral Draw. There's also no indication Ace could use Haki at the time since he didn't even try to use it on Blackbeard, opting to fight with his Devil Fruit exclusively]].
*** Haki also goes from a rare and mysterious ability to something basically everyone in the New World can use (except Conqueror's Haki), which makes it all the weirder that New World level characters who appeared before the timeskip didn't seem to use it. Mihawk, Doflamingo, Jimbei, Ace, and some Marines who were all later confirmed to be Haki users never displayed any of its abilities pre-timeskip despite later showing to be high level users, while Crocodile and Moria, warlords supposedly among the strongest and most infamous Pirates not connected to the Four Emperors, suddenly seem like small potatoes compared to virtually all the New World characters since both are shown to be incapable of using even basic Haki.
** Big Mom. When she was first introduced (in Fish-Man Island, not her silhouette) looked almost like a cephalopod, had acidic saliva, and was seen casually '''eating''' a member of her crew, but when she was formally introduced she not only looked completely different, the saliva thing was gone and she was specifically shown to consume others lifespan with her Soul-Soul Fruit rather than eat them literally. Her personality also changed, as on Fish-Man Island she was intrigued or even impressed by Luffy challenging her, and agreed to shift the islands debt to him, but by the time Tottoland came about she had displayed absolutely none of this honorable behavior, being a bat-shit crazy loon who dismissed Luffy as basically nothing and was enraged that he and the Sanji retrieval team would dare oppose her.
*** The first of the Big Mom Pirates to appear such as Bobbin, Pekoms, and Tomago, were not connected to Big Mom outside of being her subordinates despite calling her "mama", while basically every other member of the crew introduced after was either her biological child or a homie created from her power.
** Kaido was first introduced as a DeathSeeker who made a hobby of attempting to kill himself simply to see if he ''can'' be killed, traveling to a sky island just to jump off. Later, he's shown to remain in Wano and no mention of his death wish has been made since.
*** Kaido was also a LOT bigger when introduced, appearing roughly as big or bigger than an Elbaf giant. Later, his height is comparable to Big Mom and he's actually shown to be a hair '''shorter''' than Gecko Moria, who's only about knee high to an actual giant.

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** Rob Lucci is all "wtf no" at Spandam beating up a helpless, restrained Robin.

** Arlong, with Hodi Jones following in his example much later in the series.

** Like Luffy, Blackbeard carries the "D" name, wants to be Pirate King, encourages others to follow their dreams, and is gradually getting stronger and building his crew as he goes. Unlike Luffy, well... Luffy's nakama are all {{Determinator}}s; Blackbeard's crew believes in the cruel workings of fate. Luffy's nakama stick by him no matter what; Blackbeard's crew contemplate ditching him if his plans fail. Luffy is a MagneticHero; Blackbeard acquires subordinates via [[SadisticChoice cage matches]]. Luffy gets serious in a fight and smiles at death; Blackbeard [[SlasherSmile grins evilly]] in battle and screams hysterically at the prospect of dying. Luffy never interferes in another's fight (or asks for assistance); Blackbeard has his crew finish his dirty work for him. The list goes on.

* TheForbiddenZone: The Calm Belts, despite their pleasant name, are one of the deadliest places in a world of sailing ships. Bordering the north and south side of the Grand Line, the Belts are regions where there are no ocean currents or wind; any ship which enters is permanently becalmed and their crew must use other means of propulsion or die. In addition, the Belts are the nesting grounds of the Sea Kings, which are both more numerous and larger than anywhere else on the planet. The Belts are the reason the Grand Line cannot be entered anywhere outside Reverse Mountain.

* FriendlyPirate: The Straw Hat Pirate crew consider themselves to be pirates, but they abide by a code of honor and will never harm innocents, frown upon traditionally cruel pirate behavior and will even fight against them if they ever encounter any.

* FountainOfYouth: Part of Bonney's Devil Fruit power. It doesn't provide MagicPants, which explains her skimpy outfit.
** Ain from the 12th movie ''Anime/OnePieceFilmZ'' ate the Modo Modo Fruit, which allows her to make objects and people younger. It works on inanimate objects as well though, unlike Bonney's (Though it still doesn't provide MagicPants in case a person gets regressed). [[spoiler: With it, she transforms Nami and Chopper into kids, Robin into a teenager, and also uses it on Brook. Of course, [[DemBones it doesn't change much]] in his case]].

** Kuina dying by falling down some stairs in Zoro’s backstory doesn’t mesh well with later One Piece. [[TruthInTelevision While it’s a shockingly sudden and very realistic]] way for someone to die, One Piece characters- up to and including children- eventually came to be well known for being MadeOfIron as the series went on. So someone who was stronger than the already-abnormally strong kid Zoro just falling down some stairs and dying definitely does not feel like something that would happen in modern One Piece, even to a child.

* FakeTown: [[spoiler:Whiskey Peak]] appears to be a peaceful town that welcomes pirates, [[spoiler:but it is actually a trap to capture pirates set up by a group of bounty hunters part of a group called Baroque Works]].

* {{Flight}}: In-universe, it is claimed that there only five known types of Devil Fruits that grant flight. Despite this, so far we've seen six total: three flying Zoans (Pell, Marco and King), two Paramecia (Shiki in the canonical [[Anime/OnePieceFilmStrongWorld Movie 10]] and Buffalo), and whatever it is Lafitte has.
** If you count Miss Valentine and Machvise you can count 8.

** The island nation of Wano Country is very clearly this for feudal Japan, what with its isolationism and its ''samurai''. "Wa-no-kuni" is in fact an old way to refer to Japan.

** The Levely arc introduces a number of nations that have clear analogues to real-world places: Ballywood is based on the United States (including a "King Ham Burger" who resembles Abraham Lincoln), the Kingdom of the Dead is based on Mexico, Roshwan Kingdom is based on Russia, and Tajine Kingdom is based on Morocco. There are also unnamed delegates who strongly suggest there are countries in the ''One Piece'' world themed on the United Kingdom[[note]]This may be Rommel, as the few times it's shown, the architecture evokes that of Westminster[[/note]], on Germany, and on the Inuit as well.

** The Reverie arc introduces a number of nations that have clear analogues to real-world places: Ballywood is based on the United States (including a "King Ham Burger" who resembles Abraham Lincoln), the Kingdom of the Dead is based on Mexico, Roshwan Kingdom is based on Russia, and Tajine Kingdom is based on Morocco. There are also unnamed delegates who strongly suggest there are countries in the ''One Piece'' world themed on the United Kingdom[[note]]This may be Rommel, as the few times it's shown, the architecture evokes that of Westminster[[/note]], on Germany, and on the Inuit as well.

** Dressrosa is a mix of Spain and Italy, as seen in several details (for examples, typical dishes ate by Luffy and co include paella and pasta). In this arc we're also introduced to the people of "Ka no Kuni" (the Flower Country), who seems to be based on China.

** The island nation of Wa-no-Kuni is very clearly this for feudal Japan, what with its isolationism and its ''samurai''. "Wa-no-kuni" is in fact an old way to refer to Japan.