History OnePieceWholeCakeIslandArc / TropesKToN

** Big Mom's plan to kill off the Vinsmokes and steal their cloning technologies is horrifying... but not so much when one of her would-be victims is [[{{Jerkass}} Vinsmoke]] [[AbusiveParents Judge]]. However, it's downplayed in the case of Judge's sons Ichiji, Niji, and Yonji; while they have committed their share of atrocities, their monstrous behavior was completely Judge's fault.

** As of Chapter 862, Big Mom's [[KillEmAll wedding plans]] for the Vinsmokes unravel when Sanji's kindness leaves Pudding breaking down and unable to kill her groom-to-be, and Charlotte Katakuri's attempts to kill Sanji ends up killing the wedding priest instead, causing a public uproar. The commotion alerts the Vinsmokes' suspicions of something bad going on, and as the icing on the cake, Luffy and his Brulee-produced clones jump out of their hiding place in the wedding cake to confront Big Mom. Panic ensues.

* MortonsFork: As retribution for aiding the Straw Hats in their escape, Big Mom and her crew prepare to decimate the Sun Pirates and Germa 66. The last thing she says to them is [[YourSoulIsMine "Life]] [[KillEmAll or Death?"]]

** Big Mom's eldest son Charlotte Perospero is a stick-looking man who works as the Minister of Candy and never seems to get fat from eating the candy he loves. He can also [[BalefulPolymorph turn humans into candy]].

* KickTheDog:
** Everything Judge and his sons not named "Sanji" does is Kicking the Dog. Besides the physical and verbal abuse, they fit explosive bracelets onto Sanji's ''wrists'' to ensure his compliance to their demands, knowing it'll permanently ruin his cooking abilities even if he survived the initial explosion (though as Sanji later learns, he had duds on his wrist the entire time). In Chapter 839, Niji is about to throw his plate at Cosette, an innocent young chef, because her dish wasn't to his liking. After Sanji protects her and praises her cooking, Niji beats her within an inch of her life just to spite Sanji. However, in the case of Sanji's brothers, it's justified because they were engineered in utero to have no empathy at all, rending them unable to comprehend the depravity of their own actions, and influenced by Judge into thinking that Kicking the Dog on a regular basis is okay since being a royal Vinsmoke gives them the right to.
** Pudding decides to reveal Big Mom's plan to massacre Sanji and his family to Luffy, Nami, and Reiju for no other reason just to be a massive bitch. It helps that she has the power to alter memories, so she can gloat to them over and over again, with her targets none the wiser afterward. She also, in revealing Big Mom's plan and cracking insults about Sanji, betrays Sanji's trust shortly after he poured his heart out to her; the face Sanji has while making this discover is ''heartbreaking''.

* TheLostWoods: The Seducing Woods are full of all kinds of dangerous stuff: delicious treats to lure victims in, sentient talking animals dressed like humans (Not Minks, judging from Carrot's lack of a reaction), a weird giant stuck in the floor, ''duplicates of yourself which copy your every move like a mirror'', and the very trees themselves deliberately screwing travelers over by moving around and covering exits, to "play a game of death".

** Charlotte Anana became a KnifeNut at a disturbingly young age, and uses knives to stab her stuffed toys and torment her siblings, especially her balloon-loving brothers, Dragée and Dolce. As a result, said siblings hate her, to the point of one of them wanting to ''kill her''.

* KnifeNut:
** Charlotte Anana is a CreepyChild whose favorite pastimes is stabbing at her stuffed animals with knives. When her family's head cook refuses to give her knives, she runs off to complain to Big Mom. Disturbingly, Big Mom sees nothing wrong with her daughter's behavior and gets two of Anana's siblings to retrieve the knives for her, despite their protests.
** Flashback of Ch. 862 shows young Pudding becoming a KnifeNut after one insult to her ThirdEye too many.

* NiceHat:
** Big Mom's eldest son Charlotte Perospero wears a striped top hat that's adorned with lollipops.
** Big Mom's 14th daughter Charlotte Smoothie wears a huge, floppy hat that resembles a beret.
** Napoleon, one of Big Mom's personal homies, is shaped like a captain's hat that she wears. [[WeaponizedHeadgear It can also turn into a gigantic sword as well.]]

* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: The Whole Cake Island Arc is one of the series' story arcs with the most numerous characters, the vast majority of them being Big Mom's children. Characters are constantly introduced one way or another throughout the arc that there are times that it seems like almost every chapter/episode introduces at least one new character.

** The same thing happened to Katakuri, but with a twist; he went through a similar hellish childhood, but unlike Pudding, he didn't really care about his appearance because he had the strength to beat up his bullies. It was after [[AdultFear one of his younger sisters was viciously scarred]] in a RevengeByProxy that he started hiding all of his "weaknesses" from his family and the general public, and start protecting his siblings through sheer reputation. He's loved and admired for it... [[SlaveToPR but deep down, he isn't happy]]. Only Brulee, the sister who got hurt, knows about it, and she completely understands.

* MulticoloredHair: With his debut in Episode 788, Moscato's [[DelinquentHair pompadour]] is revealed to be half pink, half dark-blue.

* ManOfKryptonite: Brook's Devil Fruit powers turn out to be capable of exorcising normal Homies. The three Special Homies, that Big Mom supplied part of her own Soul, are immune to the exorcising effect, but Brook's still capable of harming them

** Unlike her brothers, Reiju subverts it - she loves Sanji and is incredibly disgusted by her family's abuse, but she joins in [[BystanderSyndrome because she had no other choice]].

** Katakuri and his triplet brothers, Oven and Daifuku, are all ''sixteen feet tall'', and are also Ministers of their own islands. Katakuri in particular is the tallest of the triplets and is constantly hailed as the symbol of what all Charlottes should be - strong, powerful, and ruthless.

** Ichiji, Yonji, and Niji take after their father closely in both [[AristocratsAreEvil behavior]] and [[MightMakesRight philosophy]]. It's later revealed to be an invoked and enforced trope in Chapter 852 - Judge wanted his sons to become the perfect {{Super Soldier}}s to wage wars with, so he experimented on them and outright surgically removed their ability to feel and understand empathy while in utero. Judge's wife, Sora, completely disagreed with this and took a drug that reversed gene-altering surgeries so she can protect her children from their father's plans, but only managed to preserve what little humanity Ichiji, Yonji, and Niji had left.

** Sanji is the complete opposite of his father in every way, despite having [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold his own flaws]]. While his older sister Reiju subverts this trope on the surface, it's then double subverted in a way - the only reason why she supports Judge is because she secretly fears being abused if she let her [[NiceGuy true colors]] show, which was what happened to Sanji when they were kids. In Chapter 852, it's revealed that this trope was what Sora wanted to invoke with her quadruplet sons, in her bid to preserve their humanity; she ended up only saving Sanji, and doomed herself to a slow death via drug poisoning.

* NegatedMomentOfAwesome: Nami's [[DivineBoltOfRetribution Zeus Breeze Tempo]] sadly became this in the anime. Whereas in the manga it took down all of the Straw Hats' pursuers except Big Mom, the army was instead defeated by everyone else in the anime, leaving only Big Mom as the only one the attack struck, who naturally {{No Sell}}ed it.

* KarmicDeath: This is what Reiju thinks her entire family deserves. She's incredibly disgusted with her family's LackOfEmpathy and [[TheseHandsHaveKilled the things she had to do]] for her father, and sees herself, her father, and her brothers not named "Sanji" as war machines and remorseless killers who will only blight the world if they continue to live. However, it's eventually {{subverted|trope}} when Sanji ends up rescuing his family at the wedding.

* KarmicDeath: What Reiju thinks her entire family deserves. She's incredibly disgusted with her family's LackOfEmpathy and [[TheseHandsHaveKilled the things she had to do]] for her father, and sees herself, her father, and her brothers not named "Sanji" as war machines and remorseless killers who will only blight the world if they continue to live. However, it's eventually {{subverted|trope}} when Sanji ends up rescuing his family at the wedding.

* MixAndMatchCritters: Big Mom said that she has a cross of a Longleg and a Longarm in her collection, called "Longlimb".

** 898: The Big Mom Pirates are stunned silent when Brûlée reveals that Luffy didn't escape Mirror World by evading Katakuri, but by actually defeating him.

** Everything Judge and his sons not named "Sanji" does is Kicking the Dog. Besides the physical and verbal abuse, they fit explosive bracelets onto Sanji's ''wrists'' to ensure his compliance to their demands, knowing it'll permanently ruin his cooking abilities even if he survived the initial explosion. In Chapter 839, Niji is about to throw his plate at Cosette, an innocent young chef, because her dish wasn't to his liking. After Sanji protects her and praises her cooking, Niji beats her within an inch of her life just to spite Sanji. However, in the case of Sanji's brothers, it's justified because they were engineered in utero to have no empathy at all, rending them unable to comprehend the depravity of their own actions, and influenced by Judge into thinking that Kicking the Dog on a regular basis is okay since being a royal Vinsmoke gives them the right to.
** Pudding decides to reveal Big Mom's plan to massacre Sanji and his family to Luffy, Nami, and Reiju for no other reason just to be a massive bitch. It helps that she has the power to alter memories, so she can gloat to them over and over again, with her targets none the wiser afterward.

** Big Mom's plan to kill off the Vinsmokes and steal their cloning technologies is horrifying... but not so much when one of her would-be victims is [[{{Jerkass}} Vinsmoke]] [[AbusiveParents Judge]]. However, it's downplayed in the case of Judge's sons Ichiji, Niji, and Yonji, since their monstrous behavior was completely Judge's fault.

** Katakuri's childhood bullies were in a similar age group as he. [[ForWantOfANail Unlike Pudding]], he had the strength to physically fight back, so instead they all fled from him whenever they saw him.

* LackOfEmpathy: Save for [[WhiteSheep Sanji]], [[TokenGoodTeammate Reiju]], and their deceased mother Sora, all of the Vinsmokes have a complete lacking in compassion. Judge knows what it is, but thinks VirtueIsWeakness and hammered it into his other sons Ichiji, Niji, and Yonji, and psychologically altered then so they are utterly incapable of feeling compassion. As a result, Sanji's brothers are complete assholes who won't hesitate to discard their own soldiers or brutalize their own servants if it'll convenience them.

** Besides Big Mom herself, her 14th daughter, Charlotte Smoothie, is a very large woman who, as a Sweet Commander and the Minister of Juice, possesses a lot of power and respect.

* NobodysThatDumb: When Vinsmoke Niji sees the army Big Mom is sending out against Luffy, he comments that Luffy couldn't be dumb enough to remain where the Vinsmokes left him with an army like that coming. [[WhoWouldBeStupidEnough Shows how little he knows about Luffy]].

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** On the flipside, Reiju receives the positive variant. As a child, she tended to Sanji's wounds whenever he was beaten black and blue by their cruel brothers, and when Sanji was left to rot in the family dungeons by Judge, Reiju uses her SuperStrength to free her brother and helps him escape to East Blue. Years later, Sanji would return the favor by having Reiju be taken to the infirmary after he found her mind-wiped and tormented by Charlotte Pudding, and despite Reiju's pleas for him to escape with the Straw Hats and let her be killed by Big Mom, Sanji decides to go back for her sake and saves her along with the rest of his family anyway during what was her darkest hour.

* NoHonorAmongThieves: The Vinsmokes and Big Mom had every intention of stabbing each other in the back from the very beginning of their VillainTeamUp. Capone Bege ''also'' intended to assassinate Big Mom at the wedding despite working for her, with Caesar Clown going along for the ride. ''Every'' group involved in the wedding planned to stab one another in the back from square one. Ironically, despite his distrust of Big Mom, Judge believed she would honor her word in helping the Vinsmoke dynasty secure North Blue once again... and discovered the opposite in the worst way possible when he and his children were trapped and rounded up for execution during the wedding. Faced with death, Judge starts screaming at Big Mom's betrayal, shouting that there should be honor among thieves as Big Mom's children ready their guns.

** Sanji is named after the Japanese word for "three", a number that in Western countries is associated with social alienation. He was abused and treated as TheUnfavorite by his family (save for Reiju and Sanji's deceased mother) for being weak and compassionate, to the point of running away to East Blue while still a child.

** Essentially, the failure of the Vinsmoke Assassination Plot can be traced back to the Charlotte Family's own misdeeds and arrogance. Big Mom's abuse of Chiffon leads to her siding with her husband Bege and ''his'' assassination plot, giving him access to all her inside knowledge and indirectly leads to stranding Pekoms on Zou and giving the Straw Hats an in to Totto Land. Trying to execute the Vinsmokes in the first place gets the Straw Hats involved in Bege's assassination plot, because Sanji found out and was ultimately too compassionate to abandon them to their (arguably well-deserved) fate. Pudding's terrible childhood, in which others, including ''her own mother'', ridiculed her for having a third eye leaves her vulnerable to Sanji's sincere comment of its beauty, causing her to collapse in tears. Finally, the Tamatebako, which exploded, destroying Whole Cake Chateau and allowing the protagonists and their allies to escape, was only present because Big Mom refused to give Fishman Island leeway in sending in their tribute after their candy factory was destroyed during the New Fishman Pirates' brief takeover. Had the Big Mom or the rest of her family shown compassion or integrity in any of these instances, their plan wouldn't have failed so badly.

** As a result of having his emotions irreversibly tampered with by Judge in utero, Vinsmokes Ichiji, Niji, and Yonji are completely apathetic about the prospect of their own deaths, [[FaceDeathWithDignity showing not the slightest hint of losing their cool when surrounded at gunpoint]]. Niji only laughs that they managed to land in this situation, with no weapons or raid suits to defen Ichiji even calls Judge's (understandable) panic at the situation "pathetic".

** As a result of having his emotions irreversibly tampered with by Judge in utero, Vinsmoke Ichiji is completely apathetic about the prospect of his own death, [[FaceDeathWithDignity showing not the slightest hint of losing his cool when surrounded at gunpoint]]. Ichiji even calls Judge's (understandable) panic at the situation "pathetic".

** Katakuri went through a similar hellish childhood, and it was because of this that he became extremely insecure as an adult. Unlike Pudding, who delighted in hurting others, Katakuri went to extreme lengths to hide everything "undesirable" about himself, and present the image of a stoic and handsome warrior to the public and his family. He's loved because of this image... [[SlaveToPR but deep down, he isn't happy]].

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