History Recap / OnePieceSabaodyArchipelagoArc

* AdaptationExpanion: Some of the fight between the Kid and Heart Pirates against the Pacifista is shown in the anime.

* AdaptationalHeroism: A minor example, but in the manga, Sanji, in one of his PlayedForLaughs perverted moments, wonders aloud if the Straw Hats could buy a beautiful slave girl, earning him a bop on the head from Nami. In the anime version, he instead expresses outrage at this same beautiful girl's mistreatment by being sold as a slave.

* NotSoDifferent: Quite a few parallels are drawn between Luffy and the two rivals he meets, Law and Kid. All three of them are powerful pirate captains with Devil Fruits, high bounties, and nasty reputations, who would have been easily capable of taking the Marines out single-handedly, but they all fight because none of them want to let the others show them up. Other members of all three of their crews also comment on how destructive and reckless they all are after seeing the havoc they've wreaked outside the auction house.

[[caption-width-right:350:[[WhamEpisode The arc actually ends]] [[DownerEnding more depressing]] [[CoversAlwaysLie than what this cover leads you to believe]].]]

->- '''Monkey D. Luffy''', Chapter 507

** It's heavily implied that at least some, if not all, of the other eight Supernovas will eventually become this as well, particularly Eustass Kid and his first mate Killer. [[spoiler: Later proven true in the Wano arc when Kid is revealed to possess Conqueror's Haki and teams up with Luffy and Law to take down Kaido.]]

* The Straw Hat Pirates are defeated[[spoiler:, though it's later revealed that Kuma's actions in separating them was actually a covert act to initiate TookALevelInBadass for all eight members.]]

-> ''I don't wanna hear where the treasure is! I don't even wanna hear if there IS a trasure or not! I dunno anything about it, but everyone sets off to sea to find out for themselves! If Pops [[note]] "Dark King" Silvers Rayleigh [[/note]] were to tell us anything here, then I'll quit on becoming King of the Pirates! If we're gonna have a boring adventure like that, then I would rather die!''

* ChekhovsSkill: Haki, which is finally named since its appearance back in the ''first chapter'', used by Luffy and Silvers Rayleigh.

* EvenEvilHasStandards: Kid is a sociopath with a huge body count, but he would never run a slavery ring. His reasoning is that AtLeastIAdmitIt, that he's a pirate and it's expected of him. But for the Marines and World Government, preaching "Justice" while operating slave rings to go unchecked makes them hypocrites.

* WhamEpisode: The crew utterly loses against Kuma, and each member is sent to a different island across the sea.

** One for the future: Trafalgar Law, who's introduced here as simply one of the Eleven Supernovas alongside Luffy and Zoro, later shows up out of nowhere in a BigDamnHeroes moment to save Luffy in the Marineford arc, and later becomes a ''very'' important character after the TimeSkip, to the point that he's pretty much the {{Deuteragonist}} of the Dressrosa arc.
** It's heavily implied that at least some, if not all, of the other eight Supernovas will eventually become this as well, particularly Eustass Kid and his first mate Killer.

** Zoro, who cannot move due to his previous injuries from Thriller Bark and must be carried from the battlefield, tries to tell Usopp to leave him behind so he can let the others escape. Usopp refuses, and Zoro is sent flying away a few minutes later anyway by Kuma.

* ICanStillFight: Deconstructed with Zoro. His injuries from Thriller Bark take its toll on him, though he clearly ignores it. But during a critical battle, he collapses at the worst time and needs to be carried away from the fight, while still insisting he can fight.

* ManChild: Saint Charlos really comes off as one, forcibly taking women as brides like child wanting to buy a new toy, and doing a happy dance after shooting Hatchan.

* Doflamingo's reference to "smiles" foreshadows one of his businesses in the New World.[[labelnote:spoiler]]"Smiles" refers to his counterfeit devil fruits.[[/labelnote]]

* The Straw Hat Pirates are defeated[[spoiler:, though it's later revealed that Kuma's actions in separating them was actually a covert act to initiate TookALevelInBadass for all eight members.]]

* WorthyOpponent: Law and Kid both see Luffy this way (and he appears to return the sentiment). They may see each other like this as well, but they're less friendly to each other than they are to Luffy.

* CoolOldGuy: Silvers Rayleigh. Despite 20 years of inactivity, he holds his own against [[PersonOfMassDestruction Admiral Kizaru]]...[[BadassNormal WITHOUT Devil Fruit Powers]]!
* CrapsaccharineWorld: Sabaody may look like a friendly tourist spot with many a bubble-related attraction and fun amusement parks. But it is also a lawless region where kidnappings and slavery are commonplace, and and a common vacation spot of the World Nobles, who can do whatever they want due to their lineage; the price of touching or attacking them in any way is to summon an ''Admiral'' to their aid.

** Disco calls the actual owner of the auction house, Donquixote Doflamingo after Luffy busts up the joint. Doflamingo tells him he can keep the shop, as "slaves" are out, [[Recap/OnePiecePunkHazardArc but "smiles" are in]]. Also, the World Nobles visit the place because Doflamingo, the owner, used to be one himself.

* IdenticalStranger: Well, kind of. The reason why Duval is so bitter at the Strawhats is that he happens to look exactly like the "artist's rendition" of Sanji's wanted posters.

* WakeUpCallBoss: The Pacifista (PX-4) for the Straw Hat Pirates. Arguably Sentomaru and Kizaru as well; if Kuma had not sent the Straw Hats away, they would've gotten easily captured before even reaching the New World.

-->'''Doflamingo:''' Right now, I've...or should I say "we've" been called together by the Marines. Say, how do you like the sound of this for the future?...Whitebeard Pirates vs the Seven Warlords of Sea.

After adding Brook to the crew, the Straw Hats continue on their journey to their next destination: Fishman Island, where they can cross over into the New World. They reach the Red Line, signifying that they've made it halfway around the Grand Line, but cannot find a way to get to the other side, nor to Fishman Island. Luffy, Robin, and Brook try to take the submarine down to see if they can find anything, but are forced to stop after reaching a 5000m depth to keep from being crushed by the pressure. As they return to the surface, they're attacked by a sea king; Luffy easily defeats it, but to everyone's surprise, it spits up a mermaid and a starfish who land on the deck of the ''Thousand Sunny''. The mermaid introduces herself as Camie, and the starfish is her mentor and friend Pappagu. In gratitude for saving them, Camie wants to treat the Straw Hats to takoyaki (fried octopus) from the takoyaki stand where she works. However, when she tries to contact her boss (the owner), whom she calls "Hatchin" (since she adds a "-chin" to the end of everyone's names), she finds, to her dismay, that he has been captured by the Macro Gang, a trio of Fishmen who frequently kidnap Camie and Pappagu to try to sell them into slavery on the black market, where mermaids fetch a very high price. Pappagu explains that Hatchin always rescues them, and normally defeats the Macro gang easily. This time, though, Macro and his men recently teamed up with a much larger and more dangerous group of thugs called the Flying Fish Riders; furthermore, it's likely that Hatchin picked a fight with them under the belief that they had kidnapped Camie again (since they were gone for a while due to being eaten by the sea king), and was captured as a result.

The Straw Hats agree to help Camie and Pappagu rescue Hatchin, though Zoro, Nami, and Sanji are a bit wary of the fact that his name sounds a lot like that of Hatchan/Hachi, one of Arlong's old henchmen. Camie asks the fish in the nearby water to lead them in the direction of Sabaody Archipelago's Grove 44, the same direction as the Flying Fish Riders' hideout. Elsewhere, the leader of the Flying Fish Riders--"Iron Mask" Duval--orders a few of his men to attack the pirate ship that rescued Camie in an effort to retrieve her. However, when they do so and report to Duval that the ship she's on is that of the Straw Hats, Duval orders them to retreat, instead wanting to lure them to the hideout so that he can attack them personally, as he has a grudge against "that man" from the Straw Hat crew. It's then revealed that "Hatchin" is indeed the same Hachi who once fought the Straw Hats as part of Arlong's crew. He is horrified when he realizes that Camie is on board their ship, since he is sure they will want nothing to do with him once they realize who he is due to all of the horrible things he did to Nami.

Later, the Straw Hats, Camie, Pappagu, and Hachi celebrate with the latter's takoyaki, with Nami making it clear that she hasn't completely forgiven Hachi for everything he did but nonetheless being civil to him. Duval and the Fish Riders (now calling themselves the Rosy Life Riders) stop by the ship to apologize and thank them again; it's revealed that Sanji kicking Duval in the face has rearranged the latter's bone structure and made him extremely handsome, causing Duval to completely give up his grudge against the Straw Hats. Wanting to repay them someday, Duval gives Sanji the number for his Transponder Snail so they can call him if needed before his group takes their leave. Hachi, Camie, and Pappagu tell the crew that the only way a group of criminals like them can reach the New World is by passing through Fishman Island, but to do so, they will need to get a special coating job for their ship that will allow it to travel underwater to the necessary depths, which can be done by a professional at Sabaody Archipelago. The crew heads there, and find that the archipelago is actually a group of 76 giant mangrove trees growing close together, forming a sort of island. Before the crew disembarks, Pappagu explains that the Straw Hats must be careful, since the archipelago is very close to both the holy land of Mariejois and Marine Headquarters, meaning that the island will be filled with both Marines and "World Nobles". Hachi then makes them promise not to defy the World Nobles under any circumstances.

Luffy, Nami, Chopper, Robin, Brook, Hachi, Camie, and Pappagu disembark to go find the coating craftsman, Hachi's friend Ray; shortly afterwards, Nami and Robin break off from the others to go shopping. Zoro later leaves the ship on his own to take a walk, while Usopp, Sanji, and Franky stay behind to (in Usopp's and Franky's case) do maintenance on the ship and (in Sanji's case) guard Nami's treasure. Nami notes to Robin that Camie has been on edge since they arrived on the island, and that she and Hachi are concealing the fact that they are a mermaid and Fishman. Robin replies that mermaids and Fishmen have been the subject of horrible discrimination in the past (having even been classified as "fish" up until 200 years ago), and it's likely that some of that racism still remains. Meanwhile, while walking through town, Luffy's party comes across a man begging for his metal collar to be taken off, only for the collar to explode shortly afterwards. Hachi reveals that the man was an escaped slave, and the collars are programmed to blow up if they try to run away. Soon after, the slave's owners--a man named Roswald and his daughter Shalria--show up and shoot the already-badly-injured man. Luffy wants to attack them, but Hachi stops him, noting that the the pair are World Nobles and reminding him of his promise. Hachi and Pappagu later explain to the rest of the group that the World Nobles (also known as the "Celestial Dragons") are descended from the 20 kings who founded the World Government 800 years ago, and are thus treated as gods and consider themselves to be above humanity. They have become extremely entitled and cruel over the years as a result, with each generation worse than the previous, and are literally allowed to whatever they please. Furthermore, harming a Celestial Dragon in any way will result in the perpetrator being hunted down by a Marine Admiral.

Luffy's party arrives at "Shakky's Rip-Off Bar", where they meet Shakuyaku a.k.a. Shakky, Ray's business partner. Ray is not there, but Shakky is glad to see Hachi again and welcomes the group inside for some tea and drink. She is also glad to meet Luffy, whom she has read about frequently in the paper; as a former pirate herself, she is a fan of his. She tells them that Ray has been gone for around six months, but she isn't worried, since he frequently spends time drinking and gambling in some of the more lawless parts of the island. She gives the group recommendations for where they could find him, but warns them to be careful when wandering around town, since her information sources tell her that, including the Straw Hats, there are currently a large number of powerful rookie pirate crews on the island; a total of eleven of the pirates (Luffy and Zoro being two of them) from nine different crews carry bounties of over 100 million berries, earning them the title of "The Eleven Supernovas", and Luffy's 300 million bounty is only the second-highest among them. Elsewhere, the other nine Supernovas engage in various antics around the town. Capone "Gang" Bege (Firetank Pirates captain, bounty 138 million) tries to enjoy a meal at a restaurant, but is irritated and offended by the horrible table manners of the nearby "Big Eater" Jewelry Bonney (Bonney Pirates captain, 140 million). A waiter rushing to get more food for her accidentally spills spaghetti on a crewmate of "The Magician" Basil Hawkins (Hawkins Pirates captain, 249 million), who tells him to brush it off. Outside, "Roar of the Sea" Scratchmen Apoo (On Air Pirates captain, 198 million) and Eustass "Captain" Kid (Kid Pirates captain, 315 million) are squaring off. In a different part of town, Kid's crewmate "Massacre Soldier" Killer (Kid Pirates fighter, 162 million) fights with "Mad Monk" Urouge (Fallen Monk Pirates captain, 108 million) until their battle is broken up by "Red Flag" X Drake (Drake Pirates captain, 220 million), to the disappointment of the nearby observing "Surgeon of Death" Trafalgar Law (Heart Pirates captain, 200 million). Shakky also adds that Kid having the highest bounty is a result of him causing mass civilian casualties, so she's rooting for Luffy's crew instead. Luffy is minorly interested about his rivals, but decides to leave to go look for Ray. When Shakky tells them that Ray occasionally enjoys visiting Sabaody Park (the island's amusement park), Luffy and the others jump at the opportunity to go.

In a different part of town, another Celestial Dragon named Charlos (the son/brother of Roswald and Shalria from earlier) passes through an area where several of the Supernovas--Hawkins, Apoo, Bonney, Bege, and Urouge--are lounging with their crews. All present kneel before him as is custom, but when a group of doctors carry a badly injured patient past him to the emergency room without bowing, Charlos knocks the injured man off the stretcher onto the ground, claims the pretty female nurse treating him for his 13th wife, and shoots her fiance when he tries to protest. Suddenly, Zoro passes by on his walk, drinking his booze, and when everyone stares at him, Zoro--not realizing who Charlos is or why he's important--rudely asks him if he needs directions. Charlos immediately tries to shoot him, but he dodges the bullet and prepares to draw his sword; however, before he can attack, Bonney intervenes and uses her powers to trick Charlos into believing that he successfully shot and killed Zoro, which is enough to get him to leave. Afterwards, Bonney angrily scolds Zoro for almost attacking a World Noble and bringing an Admiral down on them, but Zoro indifferently brushes her off and leaves to take the nurse's injured fiance to the hospital, to Bonney's exasperation. The other observing Supernovas are impressed with Zoro's high level of bloodlust, but also incredulous at how crazy the crew members of the Straw Hats really are. Back on the ship, Sanji, Usopp, and Franky receive a call from a frantic Chopper, telling them that Camie was kidnapped from the amusement park, but they have no idea who the culprits are or where they went. Sanji decides to turn to another group of people from that line of work for help in finding her--their new friends from earlier, the Flying Fish Riders. Meanwhile, Drake and Apoo both separately express shock at a huge piece of news from the paper: the Marines have sentenced Whitebeard's second division commander, Portgas D. Ace, to execution, which is certain to incite a war between Whitebeard and the Marines.

The Riders eventually find out which auction house Camie was sold to and pick up the various Straw Hat members around town to head over there. At the auction house, Camie struggles against her captors and defiantly tells the auction house's manager, Disco, that her friends will come for her; he starts to beat her, but doesn't get far before he is suddenly knocked out by (unbeknownst to most present) a blast of Conqueror's Haki from one of the other prisoners--an old man named "Dark King" Silvers Rayleigh, alias "Ray" (Hachi's friend). The auction starts, with Supernovas Kid (and Killer) and Law (as well as a few of their other men) and the Celestial Dragons from earlier (Roswald, Shalria, and Charlos) among those in attendance. Nami, Sanji, Chopper, Franky, Hachi, and Pappagu arrive outside the auction house thanks to the Fish Riders, but when they are unable to threaten the guards outside to give Camie back, Nami decides to try to play by their rules and buy Camie back legally using their treasure from Thriller Bark (which adds up to around 200 million Berries). Unfortunately, when Camie comes up for sale, Charlos immediately bids 500 million on her, which no one else can match. As the Straw Hat group is debating what to do, Luffy and his Fish Rider (as well as Zoro, whom they picked up on the way) literally crash down the door as they arrive. Luffy immediately tries to run to the stage to save Camie, but Hachi tries to stop him, since Camie is now wearing an exploding collar that will kill her unless they can find the keys to get it off. While trying to hold Luffy back, Hachi accidentally exposes himself as a Fishman, to the disgust of the snooty rich people present, and Charlos shoots him (to Luffy's absolute fury) with the intent of claiming him as a slave. Though Hachi tries to hold Luffy back--accepting his punishment as retribution for what he did to Nami in the past--Luffy ignores him and punches Charlos in the face, sending him flying across the room and knocking him out, to the delight of Law and Kid and the horror of the other auction attendees.

Back at Shakky's Ripoff Bar, Rayleigh formally introduces himself to the Straw Hats and reveals that he was the first mate on Pirate King Gold Roger's ship many years ago. He further reveals many more truths about the Roger Pirates to them: that, rather than being captured as much of the world believes, Roger actually gave himself up to the Marines, since he'd come down with a terminal illness four years prior and knew that his time was almost finished. Shortly after his diagnosis, Roger and his crew went on one last three-year-long journey together, during which they conquered the Grand Line and Roger came to be known as the Pirate King (which pleased him, since he enjoyed doing things in the flashiest possible way). Joining them on this expedition was Crocus, the current lighthouse-keeper from Twin Capes (whom the Straw Hats met along with Laboon), who served as the doctor of the crew in order to ease Roger's suffering. After they completed this journey, the Roger Pirates disbanded, and a year later, Roger turned himself in. Though his execution was supposed to serve as a warning to other pirates, Roger managed to instead use it to spark the Great Age of Piracy with his infamous last words encouraging others to seek out his treasure. Rayleigh also states that Red-Haired Shanks and Buggy the Clown were cabin boys on Roger's crew, and that Shanks is the one who told Rayleigh about Luffy, noting that Luffy reminded him of Roger. Robin asks Rayleigh how Roger was able to leave behind the message on the gold bell in Skypeia, wondering if his crew knows the truth of the Void Century. Rayleigh states that they do indeed know, though not because they could actually read the poneglyphs (rather, it was because Roger had the ability to hear the "Voice of All Things"), but he encourages Robin to discover the answer for herself by continuing her journey, to which she agrees. Usopp starts to ask Rayleigh where the treasure of One Piece is; however, Luffy interrupts, insisting that he wants to discover it himself and doesn't want to go on a boring journey where he already knows the destination, and further clarifying that he wants to be Pirate King not for wealth, fame, or power, but because that's the "freest man on the sea", which further endears him to Rayleigh and Shakky. Rayleigh agrees to coat the Straw Hats' ship for free, but since it's a three-day process, the crew decides to leave Shakky's bar, head to town, and split up in order to lay low as much as possible, each taking a piece of Rayleigh's vivre card so they can meet up more easily. Unfortunately, shortly after they leave and before they split up, they encounter another Pacifista, whom they too mistake for the real Kuma.

Elsewhere, Marine Admiral Kizaru (meaning "Yellow Monkey", real name Borsalino) arrives on the island, searching for his subordinate Sentomaru. Though Supernovas Bege and Bonney separately manage to use their powers to escape from the Marines without encountering Kizaru, others aren't so lucky: despite Hawkins, Urouge, Drake, and Apoo teaming up to fight Kizaru and a third Pacifista, he defeats all of them with relative ease using the incredible speed and power of his Glint-Glint Fruit, a light-based Logia type. Before he can capture or kill any of them, though, Sentomaru finally gets in touch with him and informs him that their main targets are the Straw Hats, so Kizaru leaves to confront them instead since they are his main priority. Meanwhile, the Straw Hats narrowly manage to defeat and deactivate their Pacifista opponent by working together and combining all of their skills, but are left extremely worn out from the experience--especially Zoro, whose injuries from Thriller Bark begin to act up again. Sadly, they get no time to rest, as they are shortly thereafter confronted by Sentomaru and yet another Pacifista. The Straw Hats try to split into three groups of three, but the group of Nami, Sanji, and Franky is cornered by the Pacifista; Luffy, Chopper, and Robin are kept at bay by Sentomaru, who manages to bypass Luffy's normal immunity to blunt force attacks and actually hurt him; and, worst of all, Kizaru arrives and attacks the group of Zoro, Usopp, and Brook, completely incapacitating the already-severely-injured Zoro with one of his light beams. Kizaru prepares to finish Zoro off with one more beam while the Straw Hats, who cannot harm Kizaru with his Logia intangibility, try in vain to stop him; however, just before Kizaru kills Zoro, Silvers Rayleigh shows up and diverts the blow, rescuing him.

* AristocratsAreEvil: This arc is the introduction to the World Nobles, who are by far the worst people in the story. Examples: Blowing up a slave, riding a slave like a horse, shooting at a wounded man because he "dared" to get in their way, knocking a wounded man off a stretcher because the nurses carrying him weren't bowing to the Noble, grabbing a woman off the streets and taking her as a 13th wife, against her will, etc. And later, purchasing a mermaid for the SOLE purpose of putting her in a tank full of piranhas in order to watch the chase, and gunning down a Fishman just to claim him as a free slave.

** From the Arlong arc: Fishman supremacy and the sun tattoo the Arlong Pirates had are a result of discrimination experienced by Fishmen and Merfolk. Hachi, who was an EliteMook that Zoro fought from that arc, appears again, but has had a HeelFaceTurn and befriends the Straw Hats.

* ExactWords: Kuma's parting words to Luffy - "You and I will never meet again" - will have a much bigger impact come the Marineford arc.

* HypercompetentSidekick: Arguably Sentomaru to Kizaru.

* KnightTemplarParent[=/=]MoralMyopia: Saint Roswald demands that the men of the Straw Hat crew be worked until they starve and that the women be stuffed for what [[PunchedAcrossTheRoom Luffy did to his son Saint Charlos]]. Saint Charlos, mind you, just shot Luffy's friend just for being a Fishman, and shot at Luffy for simply confronting him.

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!! Main Summary

* FuryFueledFoolishness: Luffy, when he witnesses Charlos wounding Hatchan, snaps and punches Charlos out, which ultimately leads to the heroes being separated by Kuma.

* HypocriticalHumor: When Luffy, Law, and Kid (all three of whom have rather bizarre abilities thanks to their Devil Fruits) are fighting the Marines, after all three of them demonstrate their powers to get rid of the cannonballs being shot at them, RubberMan Luffy tells the other two, "You guys have some weird powers." [[ExtraOreDinary Magnet Man]] Kid then replies, "''Yours'' is surely the weirdest."

** No one is terribly upset when Luffy hits Saint Charlos. The only issue anyone has is the fact that it would send an admiral to the island, but after what happened to Hachi, no one really cared.
** Nor does anyone care when Saint Roswald is crushed by a falling Usopp, or when Saint Shalria is knocked out by Rayleigh.

* KnowWhenToFoldThem: Luffy tells his crew to separate and run when confronted with Admiral Kizaru, Sentomaru and another Pacifista (which they previously exhausted themselves taking one down). It doesn't work.

* ExtraOreDinary: Eustass Kid's unnamed-devil fruit ability.

* FailureIsTheOnlyOption: There was absolutely zero way the Straw Hats were going to have a happy ending at the end of this arc. The absolute best case scenario of Kuma sending them all away to train is still bittersweet at best, but it's far better than their deaths or capture at the hands of Kizaru, which was the alternative.

** Disco calls the actual owner of the action house, Donquixote Doflamingo after Luffy busts up the joint. Doflamingo tells him he can keep the shop, as "slaves" are out, [[Recap/OnePiecePunkHazardArc but "smiles" are in]]. Also, the World Nobles visit the place because Doflamingo, the owner, used to be one himself.

* AristocratsAreEvil: This arc is the introduction to the World Nobles, who are by far the worst people in the story. Examples: Blowing up a slave, riding a slave like a horse, shooting at a wounded man because he "dared" to get in their way, knocking a wounded man off a stretcher because the nurses carrying him weren't bowing to the Noble, grabbing a woman off the streets and taking her as a 13th wife, against her will, etc. And later, purchasing a mermaid for the SOLE purpose of putting her in a tank full of piranhas in order to watch the chase, gunning down a Fishman just to claim him as a free slave.

* AristocratsAreEvil: Introduction of the World Nobles who are, by and far, the worst humans in the story. Examples: Blowing up a slave, riding a slave like a horse, shooting at a wounded man because they "dared" to get in their way. Grabbing a woman off the streets and proclaiming her to be a new wife, etc.
** Purchasing a mermaid for the SOLE purpose of putting her in a tank full of piranha in order to watch the chase, gunning down a fishman just to claim him as a free slave, kicking a wounded man off a stretcher as punishment because the people carrying him weren't bowing to the noble, yeah...

* BerserkButton: Harming one of his friends comes up again for Luffy, though in this example, the (literal) trigger was a douchebag who shot Hatchan and did a HappyDance over it. His World Noble status (to the surprise of nearly everyone present) didn't save him from a punch to the face.
* BetterToDieThanBeKilled: One of the slaves bit his tongue and choked on his blood to avoid being sold.

** From the Arlong arc: Fishman supremacy and the sun tattoo the Arlong Pirates had are a result of discrimination experienced by Fishmen and Merfolk. Hacchan, who was an EliteMook that Zoro fought from that arc, appears again, but has had a HeelFaceTurn and befriends the Straw Hats.

** It's heavily implied that at least some, if not all, of the other eight Supernovas will eventually become this, as well, particularly Eustass Kid and his first mate Killer.
* CoolOldGuy: Silvers Rayleigh. Despite 20 years of inactivity, he held his own against [[PersonOfMassDestruction Admiral Kizaru]]...[[BadassNormal WITHOUT Devil Fruit Powers]]!
* CrapsaccharineWorld: Sabaody may look like a friendly tourist spot with many a bubble related attraction and fun amusement parks. But it is also a lawless region where kidnappings and slavery are commonplace, and the home of many a World Noble, who can do whatever they want due to their lineage, and with the price of touching them being to summon an ''Admiral'' to their aid.

* CurbStompBattle: The SH get a three way one from Kizaru, Sentomaru, and ultimately, Kuma.

* DidYouJustFlipOffCthulhu: When they first meet, Law literally flips off Kid, who has the highest bounty out of the Supernovas.
** Scratchmen Apoo almost does this to Admiral Kizaru.

* DivingSave: Bonney did this to Zoro to save all of them from having an Admiral come after them. Zoro dodged the World Noble's bullet, but she stopped him from attacking the World Noble.
* DownerEnding: The arc ends with the Straw Hats losing in a CurbstompBattle against Kizaru, Sentomaru and a Pacifista. They are then teleported to opposite sides of the world by Kuma.

* EasilyForgiven: Subverted with Hachi. At first, when the Straw Hats realize that ''he'' (as in, one of Arlong's former underlings) is Camie's captured friend, they ''don't'' forgive him right away and are inclined to just abandon him there. However, Nami decides to keep their promise to Camie and save him; once she gives permission, the rest of the Straw Hats seem to let go of their grudge against him. By the arc's halfway point, he has already genuinely become their friend.

** Luffy, Kid, and Law versus the Marines outside the Human Auctioning House.

** Disco calls the actual owner of the Human Auctioning House which happens to be Donquixote Doflamingo after Luffy busts up the joint. Doflamingo tells him he can keep the shop, as "slaves" are out, [[Recap/OnePiecePunkHazardArc but "smiles" are in]]. Also, the World Nobles visit the place because Doflamingo, the owner, used to be one himself.

* FromBadToWorse: Starting with Camie's kidnapping and goes downhill from there.

** Hachi from the Arlong arc has made one prior to his appearance in this arc. He now owns a takoyaki stand and acts as a protector for Camie. Initially, the Straw Hats still hold their grudge against him, but let go of it pretty quickly once it's clear that Hachi is sincerely a good guy and is truly sorry for the things he did while working with Arlong. As a result, he forms a genuine friendship with them.

* KnightTemplarParent[=/=]MoralMyopia: Saint Roswald demands for the men of the Straw Hat crew to be worked until they starve and the women to be stuffed for what [[PunchedAcrossTheRoom Luffy did to his son Saint Charlos]]. Saint Charlos, mind you, just shot Luffy's friend just for being a Fishman, and shot at Luffy for just so much as confronting him.

* LightningBruiser: Sentomaru was able to outrun ''Luffy'' (albeit exhausted from fighting a Pacifista), despite having the build of a sumo wrestler.

* MassOhCrap: The entire auction house when Luffy punches Charlos in the face. Not because the man didn't deserve it, but because they all know what attacking the world nobility means.
* MechaMooks: Pacifista.

* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Luffy ordering his crew to run away from Admiral Kizaru. For someone who would always stand his ground and fight to the end no matter the odds, this is significant.

* TheDon: Capone Bege, captain of the Firetank Pirates.
* WakeUpCallBoss: The Pacifista (PX-4) for the Straw Hat Pirates. Arguably Sentomaru and Kizaru as well; had Kuma not sent the Straw Hats away, they would've gotten easily captured before even reaching the New World.

* WhamEpisode: The crew utterly lose against Kuma and are sent to random islands across the sea.