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* ShutUpHannibal: While fighting ''Big Mom'', of all people, Brook coldly replies to her death threats and remains confident that none of his allies will die.
-->'''Big Mom:''' ''Ma ma ma ma! That worst-case scenario you envision is rather tame!! Sanji not returning?! That's the worst thing you can imagine?! Nobody dies?!''
-->'''Brook:''' ''Young Lady, what kind of idiot draws up plans with the expectation of dying?''
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* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: Inverted. Nami's shocked to see a talking alligator. ''Luffy'' of all people points out that she really shouldn't be surprised by something like that at this point and reminds her that Chopper (a humanoid reindeer) and Carrot (a bunny mink) are with them.
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** All of the Vinsmoke siblings resemble Sanji to some degree, with PeekABangs and UnusualEyebrows; Yonji is noted to be Sanji's splitting image, sans the PeekABangs.
** The Vinsmoke siblings also resemble their deceased mother to some degree and inherited her PeekABangs, with Reiju resembling her the most (if a bit fierce-looking).

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** All of the Vinsmoke siblings resemble Sanji to some degree, with PeekABangs bangs and UnusualEyebrows; Yonji is noted to be Sanji's splitting image, sans the PeekABangs.bangs.
** The Vinsmoke siblings also resemble their deceased mother to some degree and inherited her PeekABangs, bangs, with Reiju resembling her the most (if a bit fierce-looking).



* ThirdEye: Pudding has a third eye that she hid with PeekABangs for a good portion of the arc until her EvilAllAlong moment. It's later revealed in Chapter 853 that her father comes from the Three-Eye tribe, a race of people whose third eye allows them to read poneglyphs. Big Mom hopes Pudding will awaken this power in time so she can go to Raftel, though Pudding points out as a HalfHumanHybrid, it is very unlikely.

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* ThirdEye: Pudding has a third eye that she hid with PeekABangs bangs for a good portion of the arc until her EvilAllAlong moment. It's later revealed in Chapter 853 that her father comes from the Three-Eye tribe, a race of people whose third eye allows them to read poneglyphs. Big Mom hopes Pudding will awaken this power in time so she can go to Raftel, though Pudding points out as a HalfHumanHybrid, it is very unlikely.
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* TearsOfFear: During his VillainousBreakdown when he learns Big Mom plans to murder the Vinsmokes, Judge [[FaceDeathWithDespair cries out of fear]].
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** Judge, Reiju, and Niji share Sanji's preference in kicking (although Niji does punch as well). Ichiji has his ability to keep a cool head when it counts, while Niji has Sanji's [[HotBlooded temper]] turned UpToEleven (and not PlayedForLaughs either). In addition, all of Sanji's siblings have his [[HandsomeLech perverted tendencies]] (though it's gender-inverted with Reiju).

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** Judge, Reiju, and Niji share Sanji's preference in kicking (although Niji does punch as well). Ichiji has his ability to keep a cool head when it counts, while Niji has Sanji's [[HotBlooded temper]] turned UpToEleven up to eleven (and not PlayedForLaughs either). In addition, all of Sanji's siblings have his [[HandsomeLech perverted tendencies]] (though it's gender-inverted with Reiju).
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** Perospero ends up losing his arm thanks to Pedro's attack but uses his candy powers to make a artificial arm. However this doesn't magically heal the wound and, after hours of helping Big Mom chase the Straw Hats, has to bow out to get it properly treated.

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** Perospero ends up losing his arm thanks to Pedro's attack but uses his candy powers to make a artificial arm. However this doesn't magically heal the wound wound[[note]]The stump was implicitly cauterized by the explosion[[/note]] and, after hours of helping Big Mom chase the Straw Hats, has to bow out to get it properly treated.treated. When he makes the announcement that Big Mom was satisfied, he is too weak to get up from his chair.

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* TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior: One of Big Mom's younger children, Anana [[EstablishingCharacterMoment establishes herself]] as one of Big Mom's more disturbed kids in her first appearance by complaining to Big Mom that the head chef won't let her borrow his knives which the little girl intended to use to mutilate her stuffed animal. Rather than reprimand Anana, Big Mom asks two other children of hers, Dolce and Dragee, to fetch the knives for their sister. To this, the two little boys remark that every time they give Anana knives, she manages to pop their balloons. One other sibling at that moment also asks Big Mom to stop encouraging Anana's psychotic behavior and another disturbingly threatens to kill Anana one day for being so rotten to the core.


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* TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior: One of Big Mom's younger children, Anana [[EstablishingCharacterMoment establishes herself]] as one of Big Mom's more disturbed kids in her first appearance by complaining to Big Mom that the head chef won't let her borrow his knives which the little girl intended to use to mutilate her stuffed animal. Rather than reprimand Anana, Big Mom asks two other children of hers, Dolce and Dragee, to fetch the knives for their sister. To this, the two little boys remark that every time they give Anana knives, she manages to pop their balloons. One other sibling at that moment also asks Big Mom to stop encouraging Anana's psychotic behavior and another disturbingly threatens to kill Anana one day for being so rotten to the core.

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* VillainousLegacy: Played with. Mother Carmel unintentionally started one with Big Mom when she took her in and enabled her bad habits as a "natural born killer" so that way she could have one final, hefty payday when she inevitably sold her to the government. Unfortunately, she died before that could come to fruition, and her status as a slave trader was never made public, so no one knew of her villainy. However, her ''lies'' live on, as Big Mom never knew the truth about her and made it her personal goal to fulfill Carmel's "ideals" after she "disappeared". Alas, she fell under the care of Streusen, who enabled her even ''more'', and thus that dream was further twisted by her selfishness and insanity, and eventually, cruelty. End result? A pirate Emperor that has wreaked havoc across the world for over ''sixty years'', who is desperately trying to fulfill a dream that was based on falsehoods.

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Played with. Mother Carmel unintentionally started one with Big Mom when she took her in and enabled her bad habits as a "natural born killer" so that way she could have one final, hefty payday when she inevitably sold her to the government. Unfortunately, she died before that could come to fruition, and her status as a slave trader was never made public, so no one knew of her villainy. However, her ''lies'' live on, as Big Mom never knew the truth about her and made it her personal goal to fulfill Carmel's "ideals" after she "disappeared". Alas, she fell under the care of Streusen, who enabled her even ''more'', and thus that dream was further twisted by her selfishness and insanity, and eventually, cruelty. End result? A pirate Emperor that has wreaked havoc across the world for over ''sixty years'', who is desperately trying to fulfill a dream that was based on falsehoods.
* VillainousLineage: Played with. While most of Big Mom's children like Brulee, Perospero, and Cracker have inherited her penchant for bloodshed and insanity, a few like Moscato, Praline, Chiffon, and Lola avert it by being completely benevolent people. Pudding is a double-subversion as she only became the way she is now by being subjected to years of cruel abuse and bullying as a child for being three-eyed, with no one to turn to for help.
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* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome:
** If your headshot is on a wanted poster, it will give the Vinsmokes easy leverage to hunt down your true identity. Sanji found that out the hard way when his wanted poster and bounty was updated after his battle with Duval back in Sabaody Archipelago, allowing Judge to bring him back for the alliance with Big Mom.
** When Cracker's biscuits get soggy, they become edible like in real life.
** Luffy may be tough, but when confronted by Big Mom's entire force after coming off both a tough 10 hour fight with Cracker and getting beat up by Sanji (who's trying to get Nami and him to turn back). Even he can only last so long before he's ultimately defeated.
** When Capone Bege checks to see if Luffy and the gang are ready for the plan, they were already asleep. Considering they spent the entire day fighting off Big Mom's crew, searching for each other (and Sanji), and having the meeting to discuss the plan hours before the wedding, they never got a chance to rest.
** Later, when he faces off against Charlotte Katakuri, Bege points out to him ([[BadassBoast in an epic manner]]) that if he can change the future that he looks into, so can everyone.
** Pudding grew up bullied, unloved, and treated like a useful asset than a person all her life, creating a severe inferiority complex and a duplicitous nature. Thus, when she's given her first compliments, the first thing she does is go against her family and help the Straw Hats escape Totto Land.
** After the Straw Hat-Firetank Pirate Alliance saves the Vinsmokes and Bege's assassination plot fails, they end up completely surrounded and overwhelmed by the enraged Charlotte family, who are all incredible powerhouses compared to the protagonists. The only miracle they had was Whole Cake Chateau suddenly tipping over and falling...
** Even though Streusen managed to save everyone from being crushed by the Whole Cake Chateau by transforming it into whipped cream and sponge cake, the people at the bottom of the chateau are still in danger if they're instantly crushed by the falling debris, or trapped underneath the cream and cake.
** Katakuri's Haki-based foresight relies on his tremendous concentration. When he is distracted and provoked into a rage during a vulnerable moment, he loses the ability to foresee things.
** Big Mom's crew may have a lot of strong and powerful people, but when Oven tries a YouShallNotPass on Bege's tank ship, he's immediately run over due to the size of the ship.
** Big Mom ends up getting slimmer after going eight hours chasing after the Straw Hats without a bite to eat, which has not gone without comment from her own children.
** Katakuri's desire for a beloved public image, and his efforts to keep it up, puts him under ''tremendous'' stress, so he has "snack times" where he could wind down and be himself in the comfort of isolation. If he did not have even that pleasure, then he would either go insane from the pressure, or slip up when everyone's watching.
** Perospero ends up losing his arm thanks to Pedro's attack but uses his candy powers to make a artificial arm. However this doesn't magically heal the wound and, after hours of helping Big Mom chase the Straw Hats, has to bow out to get it properly treated.
** Whenever Big Mom goes on hunger-induced rampages, it's depicted realistically and horrifically as one would expect of a gigantic creature, human or not, rampaging in a populated area. People are ''terrified'' for their lives and are at great risk of either being killed by Big Mom, or getting killed by the falling debris from the surrounding buildings. These incidents are treated ''seriously'' by Big Mom's children, many of who are the equivalent of governors of their specific territories, and they take measures to ensure the safety of the general populace. It also happened in Elbaf when Big Mom was a child; when she went on a rampage during fasting, she not only razed the village looking for food, she killed one of the legendary giant heroes with her bare hands while crazed. As a result, the giants of Elbaf are not on good terms with her, even if they forgave her thanks to Mother Carmel's persuasion.
** Engineering one's children to have no fear or empathy at all will create exactly that: monsters that are incredibly cruel and completely unafraid of dying. Because of Judge's experiments, the Vinsmoke boys are utterly messed up through no fault of their own, and are unable to become good people because they can't understand the cruelty of their actions. When the Vinsmokes are rounded up for execution by the Charlotte family, Reiju notes how Judge's actions blew up in his face horribly, as his sons accept their death and ridicule him for being "pathetic".
** When Katakuri reveals to Brulee that his reputation of being perfect since he was born is a lie, Brulee reveals she already knew. This isn't just because she saw him through the mirrors, but also because she, along with his other siblings who are within his age group, grew up with him when they were kids so they knew what he was like before doing the "perfect brother" act. But when younger siblings who are way out of his age group, like Flampe, sees his mouth for the first time, they will be shocked by it due to Katakuri keeping his true self a secret from everyone, including his own family.
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* SecretTestOfCharacter: Pudding unwittingly gives one to Sanji while trying to horrifying him into shock, at which point she will shoot him. Sanji passes the test by actually complimenting Pudding's Third Eye (which we see in a flashback that ''everyone'' treated Pudding cruelly because of that), dropping Pudding's guard enough that she isn't able to harm him any more.
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** One for the heroes' side. During the fight with Brulee, Chopper admits to Nami that they completely underestimated the power of a Pirate Emperor and will need re-think their approach after they regroup. Indeed a chapter later, Nami reflects on Chopper's words upon seeing Luffy having trouble against one of Big Mom's sons. Considering Luffy had to go Gear 4th just to stand a chance definitely says something.

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** One for the heroes' side. During the fight with Brulee, Chopper admits to Nami that they completely underestimated the power of a Pirate Emperor and will need re-think their approach after they regroup. Indeed Indeed, a chapter later, Nami reflects on Chopper's words upon seeing Luffy having trouble against one of Big Mom's sons. Considering Luffy had to go Gear 4th Fourth just to stand a chance definitely says something.
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* ShipSinking: Sanji's potential relationship with Pudding was hit with a warhead in chapter 850 when it was revealed that she was EvilAllAlong, dashing the hopes of Pudding/Sanji fans in one fell swoop. However, once Pudding's past was revealed and Sanji brought out the nice side of her that was repressed by all the hurt and anger, this seems to have been subverted.

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* ShipSinking: Sanji's potential relationship with Pudding was hit with a warhead in chapter Chapter 850 when it was revealed that she was EvilAllAlong, dashing the hopes of Pudding/Sanji fans in one fell swoop. However, once Pudding's past was revealed and Sanji brought out the nice side of her that was repressed by all the hurt and anger, this seems to have been subverted.



** Similar to the ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'' tribute cover, the cover of chapter 839 is one big tribute to ''Manga/{{Kochikame}}''. This along with other tributes found in other [[Magazine/ShonenJump Weekly Shonen Jump]] around the same time such as ''Manga/{{Toriko}}'' and ''Manga/MyHeroAcademia'' were made to commemorate Kochikame coming to an end after 40 years of publication.

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** Similar to the ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'' tribute cover, the cover of chapter Chapter 839 is one big tribute to ''Manga/{{Kochikame}}''. This along with other tributes found in other [[Magazine/ShonenJump Weekly Shonen Jump]] around the same time such as ''Manga/{{Toriko}}'' and ''Manga/MyHeroAcademia'' were made to commemorate Kochikame coming to an end after 40 years of publication.



** Sanji's siblings eventually get in on this, too - after being nearly killed during the tea party, the Vinsmokes, now very pissed off, decide they want to shake things up and dish out some payback for the Charlotte family. Through Niji, they wrangle information on the Straw Hats' rendezvous location from Mont-d'Or, which leads to Germa 66 making a rather unexpected appearance on Cacao Island. The result was Oven's army failing to get Luffy ''and'' Sanji, as the Vinsmokes' timely intervention allowed them both to escape fast towards the ''Thousand Sunny'', while the enemy side is having a hard time dealing with Germa forces.

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** Sanji's siblings eventually get in on this, too - -- after being nearly killed during the tea party, the Vinsmokes, now very pissed off, decide they want to shake things up and dish out some payback for the Charlotte family. Through Niji, they wrangle information on the Straw Hats' rendezvous location from Mont-d'Or, which leads to Germa 66 making a rather unexpected appearance on Cacao Island. The result was Oven's army failing to get Luffy ''and'' Sanji, as the Vinsmokes' timely intervention allowed them both to escape fast towards the ''Thousand Sunny'', while the enemy side is having a hard time dealing with Germa forces.



** In Chapter 863, Jimbei is more successful - [[ImNotAfraidOfYou his conviction and faith in Luffy is so strong that Big Mom is unable to take his soul]]. Everyone is amazed; even Chopper is moved to tears!

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** In Chapter 863, Jimbei is more successful - -- [[ImNotAfraidOfYou his conviction and faith in Luffy is so strong that Big Mom is unable to take his soul]]. Everyone is amazed; even Chopper is moved to tears!



** A number of Big Mom's daughters are very good-looking compared to their {{Gonk}}y 68 year old mother. [[AllThereInTheManual The SBS of volume 86]] however reveals that Big Mom was actually [[IWasQuiteALooker quite a looker in the past]] most especially when she was 28 years old. Given Big Mom's appearance back then, it's clear where some of her prettier daughters got their good looks.

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** A number of Big Mom's daughters are very good-looking compared to their {{Gonk}}y 68 year old 68-year-old mother. [[AllThereInTheManual The SBS of volume Volume 86]] however reveals that Big Mom was actually [[IWasQuiteALooker quite a looker in the past]] past]], most especially when she was 28 years old.28-years-old. Given Big Mom's appearance back then, it's clear where some of her prettier daughters got their good looks.



** Streusen, Big Mom's head chef, is a zigzagged example - everything he makes tastes extremely delicious, but only the foods he bothers to make. His Cook-Cook Devil Fruit can turn anything into food, but they're just crappy-tasting knock-offs of the real thing.

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** Streusen, Big Mom's head chef, is a zigzagged example - -- everything he makes tastes extremely delicious, but only the foods he bothers to make. His Cook-Cook Devil Fruit can turn anything into food, but they're just crappy-tasting knock-offs of the real thing.



* TheUnfavorite: Played with. Sanji was viciously bullied by his quadruplet brothers and mistreated by his father because he was a "dud" - he was no stronger than a normal kid, and he continued to show kindness when he should have none. On the other hand, his mother Sora loved him; because he was the only one to retain his empathy after Sora took a gene surgery-reversing drug to preserve her then-unborn quadruplet sons' humanity, she saw Sanji as her biggest accomplishment. Sanji's sister Reiju loves him just as much, but could only show it in secret for fear of being abused as well.

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* TheUnfavorite: Played with. Sanji was viciously bullied by his quadruplet brothers and mistreated by his father because he was a "dud" - -- he was no stronger than a normal kid, and he continued to show kindness when he should have none. On the other hand, his mother Sora loved him; because he was the only one to retain his empathy after Sora took a gene surgery-reversing drug to preserve her then-unborn quadruplet sons' humanity, she saw Sanji as her biggest accomplishment. Sanji's sister Reiju loves him just as much, but could only show it in secret for fear of being abused as well.
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* StupidEvil: Vinsmoke Judge. In an uncanny callback to Hody and Don Krieg of the Fishman Island and Baratie arcs, respectively, Judge is just a normal fish in a big pond who thought he was invincible based on his own warped definition of "strength". His beliefs and lack of empathy for others prevented him from realizing just how unrealistic his plans were. To wit:
** He really thought he could conquer the North Blue with only his fleet of clones and his genetically-enhanced children all who were physically and psychologically altered save for one, Sanji. This ends up destroying his family since his wife Sora died trying to protect her children from their father, Reiju became a suicidal StepfordSmiler, the Vinsmoke boys are utter brats with no chances to redeem themselves because of their literal lack of empathy, and Sanji ran away to escape the abuse he endured for not being like his family.
** When his family was ousted from power in North Blue, Judge decides to ally himself with the hedonistic, backstabbing Big Mom by virtue of her being strong, naively thinking she'll honor her word. Except she didn't; she only wanted the Vinsmokes' cloning technology and nearly succeeded in killing them all in a farce of a wedding.
** All his work in keeping Sanji passive and obedient (via blackmail and having Reiju fit him with explosive bracelets that turn out to be duds) until the day he married Pudding to seal the alliance with Germa 66 and the Big Mom Pirates turned out to be all for nothing. So when he and his children were rounded up for execution, he realizes what a big mistake he made, and starts bawling and pleading for someone to save him.

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