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* DudeWheresMyReward: After the Marineford War, [[spoiler:during the victory party on Amazon Lily, all the Supernovas (except Jewelly Bonney, who's a female), are upset that the only males allowed on the island are Luffy and his brothers, even though the Supernovas saved Hancocks life when she defected during the War. Hancock retorts that being allowed to moor on Amazon Lily's shore is a reward, as males aren't usually allowed to even get ''that'' far]].

** In Chapter 64, [[spoiler:when the Supernovas are talking about Big Mom and Kaido, Bege talks about Big Mom's crazy family, when the audience knows that his canon counterpart marries Big Mom's daughter Chiffon, and even has a son with her]].

* DudeWheresMyReward: After the Marineford War, [[spoiler:during the victory party on Amazon Lily, all the Supernovas (except Jewelly Bonney, who's a female), are upset that the only males allowed on the island are Luffy and his brothers, even though the Supernovas saved Hancocks life when she defected during the War. Hancock retorts that being allowed to moore on Amazon Lily's shore is a reward, as males aren't usually allowed to even get ''that'' far]].

* DramaticIrony: Due to his knowledge only going to the tail end of Dressrosa, Cross is unaware of events beyond it [[spoiler:and unknowingly upsets Sanji when he comments that maybe the Germa 66 aren't as bad as the Marines are making them out to be]].

** In the Lovely Island arc, Luffy crafts a device that, when pulling a rope, will bring all the food at the wedding to him. When he tries it at the end, ''he snaps all the church's supports in half''.

** At the end of Chapter 38, immediately before the broadcast begins, Cross subverts Oimo and Kashi, who then destroy the island's gates as the Straw Hats' opening attack. In Chapter 39, meanwhile, we find out that said giants were so effective that the Marines stationed on the island had grown lax, leaving little resistance against the invasion. Additionally, Soundbite coerced the Watchdogs into turning against the agents on the island, and with Cross's forewarning added to the mix, the invasion force makes it to the courthouse practically unscathed, all while vindicating Cross's opinion of the Marines being incompetent.
** It's actually ''worse'' for what's happening ''off'' of the island: the Straw Hats' assault incited the other Super Rookies to commit dangerous acts, and it even caused some of the Emperors to act out, to one-up the Straw Hats and/or to draw Marine attention away from them. In brief:
*** Shanks went on a rampage in the New World, tying up every Marine on that side of the Grand Line.
*** Cavendish decided he was getting overshadowed, so he raided a supply ship headed for Totland... ''just'' as Big Mom started craving for the specific thing he stole, sending ''her'' on a rampage and forcing the World Government to send Jinbe, Doflamingo, and Kuma against her in hopes of calming her down. Not only that, Cavendish deliberately led her to Wano, aka '''''Kaido's''''' territory, escalating the conflict.
*** Bartolomeo attacked a Celestial Dragon's yacht and then insulted one of the ''Five Elder Stars'', who sent Akainu and five battleships after him.
*** Capone Bege raided Fort Lumose, cleaning the place out and stealing a ''full quarter'' of the Marines' liquid assets.
*** X. Drake and Basil Hawkins somehow pissed off Moria, sending the last available Warlord on a wild goose chase all around the Florian Triangle after them.
*** Eustass Kid and Killer attacked Blackarm Island (implied to be the island where [[Anime/OnePieceFilmZ Z]] trains his recruits), drawing out a conflict that needed to be resolved soon if the Marines wanted high-quality recruits to replace all their incoming losses.
*** Scratchmen Apoo and Captain Dugong attacked Task Force Cerberus, capsizing all their ships in the process.
*** Jewelry Bonney and Trafalgar Law teamed up and attacked Marine Base G-76, taking it over and then allowing the surrounding public to run roughshod over the place, with the former even procuring a direct line to Marineford ''just'' to rub it in Sengoku's face.
*** And finally, Urouge did ''something'' at Kyuka Island that left several high-ranking Marine officers shivering in horror.
** If all of that weren't enough, [[spoiler:Robin's tell-all on Ohara causes Water 7 to finally cut off the World Government. Several Marines (mainly giants) mutiny after hearing of how Saul (who was popular among other giants) died and that they had been hunting his ward for over twenty years]]. This forces Aokiji to be left behind so he can [[spoiler:quell the mutiny non-lethally]].
** The final straw is the crew outright ''disintegrating'' the World Government's flag over the SBS. Sengoku is so overwhelmed and enraged that he can't even go into his Buddha form anymore and instead suffers a ''heart attack''. It is, as he puts it, by far and away the most humiliating incident for the Marines and the World Government since Roger's execution.
** And boy, did it get worse in Chapter 40. Spandam, being the idiot that he is, [[spoiler:had an operational black book. For [=CP9=], a covert black ops unit whose missions are so ethically and morally wrong that the World Government doesn't even acknowledge their existence for plausible deniability. A black book that Cross happens to find, and summarily read for the SBS]]. Sengoku was so fed up that he's not even surprised anymore, just angry.
** And it all came to a head in Chapter 42.
*** In the immediate area of Enies Lobby? They've lost the entire island, [=CP9=], a dozen battleships, and thousands of soldiers. [[spoiler:Kizaru]] is MIA and the Gates of Justice will need months' worth of repairs. The Straw Hats, meanwhile, robbed the Tower of Justice of everything that they could carry, accomplished their goal, and sailed away with zero casualties.
*** As for the rest of the world? 8% of the countries that comprise the World Government had seceded or been overthrown, another 12% were in the middle of or combating revolutions and uprisings, Marine HQ lost contact with several Marine bases and vessels all around the world, and pirate activity rose to an all-time high. To summarize, the entire day is labeled "'''The Darkest Day in the Entire History of the World Government.'''"
** [[SerialEscalation Even the aftermath didn't let up on them]]. Three key factors played into the long-term trouble they were getting into.
*** First, the Marines' public opinion fell to an all-time low, with more resignations in twenty-four hours than there had been in the last two ''years'', effectively making them a SlaveToPR for a good long while. In light of this, Sengoku reassigned every Marine that follows "Absolute Justice" to the New World so they are out of the public eye and can't make things worse, significantly decreasing the available manpower they have in Paradise. Sengoku himself was suffering severe health problems following his heart attack and had to restrain himself from getting angry. A trial, considering the antics the Straw Hats are guaranteed to get into.
*** Second, the secession of Water 7 has badly hamstrung the World Government's ability to replace the small-to-medium-sized ships that they lost in the above chaos, especially with the financial trouble Bege's raid and the secession of a large chunk of their tax base has caused. When building an ''entirely new shipyard'' is the best option available, and they ''still'' can't afford that, you know things are bad.
*** And last but certainly not least, [[spoiler:Vice Admiral Tsuru, a Marine on par with Sengoku and Garp for power and influence]], surrendered to Cross's influence and joined what almost immediately became the [[Characters/ThisBitesNewWorldMasons New World Masons]].

** By the end of the Marineford, the Marines have [[spoiler:completely failed in their objective of executing Ace]]. What they get instead, is [[spoiler:the defection of eight thousand mutineers]], the loss of twenty-nine of the fifty battleships they deployed (thirteen destroyed, seven severely damaged, and nine stolen), the loss of nearly all their Pacifistas [[spoiler:and [=BioMEGAs=]]], the loss of [[spoiler:three]] Warlords, a [[spoiler:crippled admiral]], billions of beris in damage, the loss of over ''thirty thousand'' loyal Marines and counting, the increasing destabilization of the world's BalanceOfPower, and a shit-ton of humiliation and loss of face that they may likely ''never'' recover from. Compared to that, the [[spoiler:death of Whitebeard, whose death canonically caused a power vacuum for than if they'd left him be, with every reason to suspect it will happen here as well]] is a very, ''very'' small consolation prize.

** Chapter 38, Sengoku goes from FlatWhat to BigWhat when he realizes the island the Straw Hats plan to pillage and burn is Enies Lobby.

** After watching Buggy TemptingFate [[UpToEleven in the worst possible way]], Chief Guard Saldeath remarks to Smoker that none of their forces are close enough to get to Buggy and the others fast enough to give karmic retribution, nor is anyone among them other than Magellan and Hancock who have the power to deliver said retribution, leading to the conclusion that ''a third force'' is going to react to Buggy's cry. Cue the Caribou Pirates and the World Pirates invading Impel Down at Level 3.

* GraveRobbing: Turns out that looting vessels [[spoiler:resting in Davy Jones's Locker]] is the ship equivalent of this, and [[spoiler:Merry, despite being freaked out to be there, still]] sees it as a sacred place for ships who have earned their eternal rest, and so resolves to protect it from a bunch of fish men who plan to dismantle the vessels before undergoing [[spoiler:her]] timeskip training.

** [[spoiler:Believe it or not, thanks to the [=SBS=] broadcasting the horrors of Omatsuri's island to the world, Sabo ended up regaining his memories sooner than he did in canon, allowing him to do something he wasn't able to do in canon...pull a BigDamnHeroes and ''save Ace'' at Marineford]].

** [[spoiler:After Ace prevents him from getting Whitebeard's Tremor-Tremor Fruit, an angry Blackbeard does in Byrrand World to claim his More-More Fruit as a replacement]].

*** In the immediate area of Enies Lobby? They've lost the entire island, [=CP9=], a dozen battleships, and thousands of soldiers. [[spoiler:Kizaru]] is MIA and the Gates of Justice will need months' worth of repairs. The Straw Hats, meanwhile, robbed the Tower of Justice of everything that they could carry, accomplished their goal, and sailed away with no fewer allies than they came with.

* DeathByAdaptation: Variant – in-story, Big Mom's 27th daughter is Charlotte Macarron, who dies two years before the events of the story. Her canon counterpart is Charlotte ''Joconde'', who is alive and well, and debuted in the source manga about six months after the release of the chapter in which Macarron's status was given. WordOfGod explains this away by saying that as of Macarron’s death, Linlin and her family pretend that she never existed to begin with.

* ForeverWar: Eden's Cinders, the island where the Jewel Tree Adam is located, is under one of these thanks to [=CP9's=] influence according to the black book Cross read in Enies. [[spoiler: It's also the place Conis and Su got sent to after being flown by Kuma's Paw-Paw power.]]

** When Cross and Brook's exhibition match gets invaded by a powerful [[BearsAreBadNews bear pirate captain]], Cross tries to flip the script further by [[TemptingFate intentionally saying he's glad one of the Supernovas is not getting involved]]. Hawkin decides to send his cursed sword Shichiseiken to fight in his stead, which [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere scares off Brook and Bearington and gives Cross and Funkfreed an excuse to leave while Zoro takes his place]]. Zoro, however, becomes furious when he learns that [[Anime/TheCursedHolySword Shichiseiken had tormented his old friend Saga]], turning their match into a full-out battle that causes massive property damage to Skelter Bite.

** The idea of [[spoiler:Vivi permanently]] joining the Straw Hats is given a tragic twist. [[spoiler:Vivi's love for her country and how serious she takes her royal responsibilities]] make it impossible for it to happen, no matter how close friends the Straw Hats are. Here, [[spoiler:the World Nobles learn about her infiltration of Baroque Works and use it to frame her for treason, forcing her to flee Alabasta to save herself and her countrymen.]]
* DefeatMeansFriendship: [[InvokedTrope Deliberately Invoked]] with [[spoiler: Foxy the Silver Fox, and by extension his ''entire crew'' at the end of the Davy Back Fight.]]

** Though it's played straight later when [[spoiler: T-Bone defeats Lucci in one-on-one combat to swear his and [=CP9=]'s loyalty to the New World Masons.]]

** In the face of the Marines' undeniable corruption, [[spoiler:Smoker, Tashigi, and Hina form the group Marine Integrity 3 (or [=MI3=]), to bring down the World Government and restore true justice to the Marines. Their ranks have swelled ever since, with Captain T-Bone and Vice-Admirals Jonathan and Tsuru joining them.]]

* DerelictGraveyard: The appropriately named Davy Jones's Locker with wrecked ships and derelict boats as far as the eye can see. [[spoiler: Also Merry's time-skip training ground after Kuma sends her there. Naturally, she faints as soon as she realizes where she is.]]

** The absence of the other two Admirals could also count, considering Akainu was sent after Bartolomeo after he attacked a Celestial Dragon's ship, and Aokiji had to stay behind in Marineford to [[spoiler: curb a very violent giant rebellion]].

* DidWeJustHaveTeaWithCthulhu: Everyone's reaction when [[spoiler: Soundbite communes with the [[GeniusLoci Florian Triangle]] and reveals it's not as malevolent as everyone thought. In fact, if treated well, it's downright pleasant.]]

* DidntSeeThatComing: [[spoiler:Kuma's appearance on Thriller Bark at the end of Chapter 51 genuinely caught Cross by surprise, as he was under the impression that he had saved Ace from being captured by Blackbeard, and as such, Blackbeard didn't become a Warlord and Kuma didn't need to show up and report it to Moria]].

* DiesDifferentlyInAdaptation: [[spoiler:Unlike in canon, where he was set ablaze by Zoro's final attack, Ryuuma chose to willingly end his existence by seppuku. He had no regrets, his last words saying he lived a good life]].

--> '''Oimo and Kashi:''' WE WENT THROUGH FIFTY YEARS OF INDENTURED SERVITUDE BECAUSE OF A ''FISHING COMPETITION?!''

** Cross's [[StaticStunGun Shock]] [[LawmanBaton Baton]] is destroyed on the Bridge of Hesitation, but he hastily replaces it with a sword that turns out to be [[spoiler: the elephant-sword Funkfreed, who joins the crew proper]].

* DontCreateAMartyr: This is one of the primary purposes for the existence of [[spoiler:the Seventh Hell, Serpent]]. The captives are all political prisoners whose deaths would only martyr them and encourage rebellion, so Cipher Pol AIGIS-0 quietly "disappears" them to be [[spoiler:eternally imprisoned and left to rot in the World Nobles' personal prison]] in a spot so remote, no one knows it exists except the Nobles themselves, the highest officials of the World Government, and its guards. Ironically, it makes it paradoxically both the best and the worst place that [[spoiler:Cross could be sent to for his two-year training since no one would have expected to find him in the one place he would have wound up had the World Government had their way with him.]]

* DramaticIrony: Due to his knowledge only going to the tail end of Dressrosa, Cross is unaware of events beyond it [[spoiler: and unknowingly upsets Sanji when he comments that maybe the Germa 66 aren't as bad as the Marines are making them out to be]].

* DungeonBypass: Conversed at the end of Chapter 46; the crew asks Cross if they could skip the next arc, but they [[MoodWhiplash quickly change their tune]] when Cross tells them exactly what's at stake.

** [[spoiler: Merry]] does this to Iceburg.
** [[spoiler:[[CombinationAttack "GUM-BARRIER CANNONBALL!"]] ]]

** After getting a visual component added to the [[spoiler:[=SBS=]]], thousands of women all over the world get to enjoy as well. Some even call in and try to have someone convince Zoro to cover himself in olive oil. Much to Cross' chagrin.

* {{Emoticon}}: Since Visual Transponder Snails are unable to talk, Gif, the VTS taken from Strong World, uses emojis to "communicate" with others.

* EngagingConversation: After Cross spells out to his compatriots exactly what his plans are for Sabaody Archipelago, [[spoiler: Sandersonia]] all but tries to jump his bones only for [[spoiler: Koala]] to knock her out, who isn't holding herself back any better.
* EngineeredPublicConfession: Or, as Cross and Soundbite like to call it, "Candid Snail". Thanks to Cross' knowledge of canon and the transceiver they got from B.R.O.B., they manage to pull this trick several times on many World Government Officials and Marines (most notably Spandam and Vice-Admiral Onigumo), exposing their heinous plans, corruption and/or monstrous ideals to the entire ''world''.

** When Buggy hears on SBS that the Straw Hats have landed on Omatsuri Island, he '''immediately''' tries to call them and warn them to leave, explaining to one of his stunned crew that for all his hatred of Luffy, he would never allow them to fall victim to what's waiting on the island.
** The [[spoiler: broadcasting of the horror that is Baron Omatsuri and Lily Carnation]] has Moria horrified, Buggy panicked, [=CP9=] aghast, Blackbeard outright incensed, and Sengoku and Akainu in full agreement that the island needs to be [[NoKillLikeOverkill Buster Called to high hell]].

** Kid may agree with Shiki's virtues of having [[MightMakesRight strength be the law of the seas]], but it's the idea that the weak only exist to serve the strong that he finds distasteful; loyalty and enemies are earned, not given.

** The crime families of Sabaody. At least the ones who are native to the archipelago. They may deal in all manner of crime, but they do ''not'' deal in slavery and they positively ''loathe'' those that do.
** The residents of Impel Down loathe the [=BioMEGAs=] because of this trope. The Impel Downers incarcerate and torture to exact retribution for the suffering and misery their victims inflicted on the outside world. The [=BioMEGAs=] are just mindless killing machines that exist to indiscriminately slaughter whatever is in front of them.

*** Spandam inspires this from pretty much everyone. By the time [[spoiler: Cross tricks him into announcing his plans to overthrow the Five Elder Stars using Pluton]], even the World Government is thoroughly sickened of him. In the aftermath of Enies Lobby, several Marine higher-ups, including Aokiji, Tsuru, and Sengoku himself, are absolutely ''relishing'' at the thought of his eventual and inevitable punishment.

** Blackbeard gives one [[spoiler: when telling Aokiji his dream of becoming Pirate King]].

* EyeScream: [[spoiler: Stussy puts Marguerite's eye out with a Finger Pistol when she and Luffy try and stop the Aigis-0 assassin from killing Hancock]].

** Cross is adamant that the only way Spandam will survive the Enies Lobby arc is if he, Cross, can find a way to make it so he was wishing for death.

** Throughout the Saboady Archipelago arc, Disco is shown to be rather confident and high-spirited despite the Straw Hats and their allies laying waste to the slavery market. At first, it appears like it's because he has a member of the Donquixote Familia backing him up as an enforcer, but it's actually because [[spoiler:he's been DeadAllAlong and his body was actually one of Doflamingo's Black Knight puppets]].

* ForScience: The mentality of [[spoiler: Chopper's Mr. Hyde-esque alter-ego, created by using a serum to access his Devil Fruit's human intelligence.]]

** Because Cross told Smoker that they were helping Alabasta's "heir apparent", Smoker passed this information to his superiors, which, via Cipher Pol, went all the way to the top. [[spoiler: And as a result of the [[EvilIsPetty pettiness of the World Nobles]], Vivi was declared an associate of the Straw Hat Pirates, and hence, a pirate herself, something no royal status can protect her from. Thus, the only course of action is for her to join the Straw Hats full-time]].

** [[spoiler:Luffy being pincushioned by Baron Omatsuri's RainOfArrows, and it being broadcast on the SBS worldwide, including to the Revolutionaries, restores Sabo's memory of his adopted brothers way earlier than in canon.]]
** Because Kokoro heard Yokozuna speaking (thanks to Soundbite), [[LadyDrunk she got more drunk than usual]]. Because of this, hearing Merry's love for her crew hit her harder than usual, so she came up with a plan to get Tom's two apprentices to help the Straw Hats with their ship problem. Because of this, Franky and Iceburg met with the Straw Hats earlier than Cross expected, and Kokoro told them, as Tom's apprentices, to build a ship worthy of the Pirate King's successor... within earshot of the [=CP9=] agents that were looking for Tom's apprentices, who were known to have the Pluton blueprints in their possession.

** Because [[spoiler: Funkfreed]] is now a member of the Straw Hat Pirates, he brings along a lot of Cipher Pol's information when he joins Cross. When Cross meets Trafalgar Law some of that info comes in handy to make Law amenable to listening, allowing Cross to forge an alliance with him before they reach the New World.

*** That detail which leads to said plot point is replaced by [[spoiler:Rayleigh breaking Kizaru's leg which Luffy feels compelled to remember. Also, Kizaru gets thrown straight out of Sabaody leaving only Sentomaru, 2 Pacifistas, and Kuma as the last enemies.]]

* FourTemperamentEnsemble: Cross and his confidants.

** Foxy is surprisingly accepting about having to be a Straw Hat. [[spoiler:Or so he thinks]].

** Cross himself deconstructs the idea of someone from the real world being thrown into a fictional universe. While Cross did get his wish for some god-like force to send him to the world of one of his favorite mangas, the force that did is a sadistic bastard who did it for his own amusement and didn't even give him a choice. Additionally, other than his foreknowledge, Cross has no special abilities and is actually ''[[MadeOfPlasticine extremely]]'' fragile due to MadeOfIron being the baseline for the universe. Case in point, Nami was able to knock him out for several minutes with one punch. B.R.O.B. even admits they threw Cross into the One Piece world expecting them to die quickly, mentioning that the earliest would have been back at Loguetown, by being killed by Smoker for saying the wrong thing to him. They also wholeheartedly admit they've been doing this countless times over before Cross, "throwing ants into a giant pond to watch them drown".

*** Cross' foreknowledge is also deconstructed. While it gives him an advantage in planning, he has to be careful with what he reveals and when, lest it blow up in his face. And the further in the story he goes, the more his actions divert events away from his knowledge of the baseline events, meaning more and more unexpected outcomes happen as a result.

** Cross himself deconstructs the idea of someone from the real world being thrown into a fictional universe. While Cross did get his wish for some god-like force to send him to the world of one of his favorite mangas, the force that did is a sadistic bastard who did it for his own amusement and didn't even give him a choice. Additionally, other than his foreknowledge, Cross has no special abilities and is actually ''[[MadeOfPlasticine extremely]]'' fragile due to MadeOfIron being the baseline for the universe. Case in point, Nami was able to knock him out for several minutes with one punch.

* FromBadToWorse: The Straw Hats' assault on Enies Lobby, for the Marines and the World Government. Sengoku is so enraged that he plans on attacking the island with all available government forces. Unfortunately, fate is working against him.
** The Straw Hats are currently running rampant at one of the three major government strongholds trying to rescue Nico Robin, having turned Oimo and Kashi against the men stationed there. Not only that, but it's being broadcasted live on the SBS, for the entire world to hear, indelibly humiliating the Marines by making them look every bit as incompetent as Cross makes them out to be. [[spoiler:And then Robin finally tells the truth about Ohara, with the entire world as her audience]].
** Not only that, but the Straw Hats' assault incited the other Super Rookies to commit dangerous acts, and it even causes some of the Emperors to act out, either to one-up the Straw Hats and/or to draw Marine attention away from them. In brief:
*** Shanks goes on a rampage in the New World, tying up every Marine on that side of the Grand Line.
*** Cavendish decided he's getting overshadowed, so he raids a supply ship headed for Totland... ''just'' as Big Mom starts craving for the specific thing he stole, sending ''her'' on a rampage and forcing the World Government to send Jinbe, Doflamingo, and Kuma against her in hopes of calming her down. Not only that, Cavendish is deliberately leading her to Wano, aka '''''Kaido's''''' territory, escalating the conflict.
*** Bartolomeo attacks a Celestial Dragon's yacht and then insults one of the ''Five Elder Stars'', who send Akainu and five battleships after him.
*** Capone Bege raids Fort Lumose, cleaning the place out and stealing a ''full quarter'' of the Marines' liquid assets.
*** X. Drake and Basil Hawkins somehow managed to piss off Moria, sending the last available Warlord on a wild goose chase all around the Florian Triangle after them.
*** Eustass Kid and Killer attack Blackarm Island (implied to be the island where [[Anime/OnePieceFilmZ Z]] trains his recruits), drawing out a conflict that needs to be resolved soon if the Marines want high-quality recruits to replace all their incoming losses.
*** Scratchmen Apoo and Captain Dugong attack Task Force Cerberus, capsizing all their ships in the process.
*** Jewelry Bonney and Trafalgar Law team up and attack Marine Base G-76, taking it over and then allowing the surrounding public to run roughshod over the place, with the former even procuring a direct line to Marineford ''just'' to rub it in Sengoku's face.

** If that weren't enough, [[spoiler:Robin's tell-all on Ohara causes Water 7 to finally cut off the World Government. Several Marines (mainly giants) mutiny after hearing of how Saul (who was popular among other giants) died and that they had been hunting his ward for over twenty years]]. This forces Aokiji to be left behind so he can [[spoiler:quell the mutiny non-lethally]].
** The final straw is the crew outright ''disintegrating'' the World Government's flag during the SBS. Sengoku is so overwhelmed and enraged that he can't even go into his Buddha form anymore and instead suffers a ''heart attack''. It is, as he puts it, by far and away the most humiliating incident for the Marines and the World Government since Roger's execution. And it's only going to get worse from there.
** And boy, does it get worse in Chapter 40. Spandam, being the idiot that he is, [[spoiler:had an operational black book. For [=CP9=], a covert black ops unit whose missions are so ethically and morally wrong that the World Government doesn't even acknowledge their existence for plausible deniability. A black book that Cross happens to find, and summarily reads for the SBS]]. Sengoku is so fed up that he's not even surprised anymore, just angry.
** And it all comes to a head in Chapter 42. 8% of the countries that comprise the World Government have seceded or been overthrown, another 12% are in the middle of or combating revolutions and uprisings, Marine HQ has lost contact with several Marine bases and vessels all around the world, and pirate activity is at an all-time high. To summarize, the entire day is labeled "'''The Darkest Day in the Entire History of the World Government.'''"
** Even the aftermath isn't letting up on them. The Marines' public opinion is at an all-time low, with more resignations in twenty-four hours than there have been in the last two ''years'', effectively making them a SlaveToPR for a good long while. In light of this, Sengoku reassigns every Marine that follows "Absolute Justice" to the New World so they are out of the public eye and can't make things worse, significantly decreasing the available manpower they have in Paradise. Sengoku himself is suffering severe health problems following the heart attack he had during Enies Lobby due to his age and has to restrain himself from getting angry -- a trial, considering the antics the Straw Hats are guaranteed to get into.
** [[SerialEscalation And on top of all of the above,]] the secession of Water 7 has badly hamstrung the World Government's ability to replace the small-to-medium-sized ships that they lost in the above chaos, especially with the financial trouble Bege's raid and the secession of a large chunk of their tax base has caused. When building an ''entirely new shipyard'' is the best option available, and they ''still'' can't afford that, you know things are bad.
** The Sabaody Revolution. First, Cross broadcasts the Straw Hats [[spoiler:and the other Supernovas essentially raiding every slave shop on the island, stealing all their wealth and freeing all the slaves, ensuring the World Government can't go after them without nuking their already fragile reputation]]. Then, he airs a live interview with [[spoiler:Saint Charloss]], exposing all the [[spoiler:decadence and corruption in Mariejois]] for the entire world to hear. And then finally, after suffering a severe TraumaCongaLine, he decides to play ''hardball'' by interviewing [[spoiler:Silvers Rayleigh]] on the SBS, subsequently exposing the truth about [[spoiler:Roger's capture and execution]] and '''vaporizing''' the Navy's last shred of credibility. That final parting shot is what finally drove [[spoiler:Sengoku to turn in his resignation]].
** How can Luffy breaking into Impel Down and causing a riot as he tries to free Ace get worse for Impel Down? [[spoiler:The heads of Caribou Trafficking and the World Pirates also break in to launch their own invasions of Impel Down at the same time.]]
** And then there's Marineford. Oh, ''Marineford''. The moment Luffy arrives, things go to complete and utter ''shit'' for the Marines. To wit:
*** Cross and Soundbite stop holding back the latter's powers and start causing havoc all across the battlefield.
*** Garp and Sengoku expose [[spoiler:Buggy]] as a [[spoiler:Roger Pirate]]. Instead of painting a target on him, however, it just causes him to snap and start wreaking havoc all over, distracting Mihawk away from Luffy for the rest of the battle.
*** After Doflamingo tries to go after Luffy, Hancock intercepts him, putting the last of the Warlords out of the equation, because Perona refuses to go after Luffy herself.
*** Then, just when they're about to raise the seawall, the Divine decide to pull their gambit with [[spoiler:T-Bone and Hina leading ''the entire Black Cage Fleet'' in a wide-scale mutiny, also breaking the gears for the walls in the process]]. Sengoku is promptly horrified, and only just barely manages to avoid getting into an argument in Cross over his part in what happened.
*** This is then followed by the arrival of Jormugandr, [[spoiler:which has expanded to include ''every single Cipher Pol unit'' outside of Aegis-0, who turn the tide even further against the Marines. At this point, the Whitebeards don't even bother being surprised anymore]].
*** And perhaps the crowner: [[spoiler:Gol D. Roger publicly reveals his ability to contact the living from the grave to ask Luffy to save Ace]]. This is the one that causes Sengoku to outright ''snap'' and finally order Ace's execution. And even ''that'' goes downhill when [[spoiler:the executioner, Isuka, reveals herself to be a turncoat too, and blows the execution stand to escape with Ace]]. And after that, it just gets worse and worse.
** By the end of the Marineford, [[spoiler:the Marines have completely failed in their objective of executing Ace]]. What they get instead, is [[spoiler:the defection of eight thousand mutineers]], the loss of twenty-nine of the fifty battleships they deployed (thirteen destroyed, seven severely damaged, and nine stolen), the loss of nearly all their Pacifistas [[spoiler:and [=BioMEGAs=]]], the loss of [[spoiler:three]] Warlords, a [[spoiler:crippled admiral]], billions of beris in damage, the loss of over ''thirty thousand'' loyal Marines and counting, the increasing destabilization of the world's BalanceOfPower and a shit-ton of humiliation and loss of face that they may likely ''never'' recover from. Compared to that, the [[spoiler:death of Whitebeard, whose death canonically caused a power vacuum for than if they'd left him be, with no reason to suspect it won't happen here as well]] is a very, ''very'' small consolation prize.

** By the end of the Marineford, [[spoiler:the Marines have completely failed in their objective of executing Ace]]. What they get instead, is [[spoiler:the defection of eight thousand mutineers]], the loss of twenty-nine of the fifty battleships they deployed (thirteen destroyed, seven severely damaged, and nine stolen), the loss of nearly all their Pacifistas [[spoiler:and [=BioMEGAs=]]], the loss of [[spoiler:three]] Warlords, a [[spoiler:crippled admiral]], billions of beris in damage, the loss of over ''thirty thousand'' loyal Marines and counting, the increasing destabilization of the world's BalanceOfPower and a shit-ton of humiliation and loss of face that they may likely ''never'' recover from. Compared to that, the [[spoiler:death of Whitebeard]] is a very, ''very'' small consolation prize.

*** And perhaps the crowner: [[spoiler:Gol D. Roger publicly reveals his ability to contact the living from the grave to ask Luffy to save Ace]]. This is the one that causes Sengoku to outright ''snap'' and finally order Ace's execution. And even ''that'' goes downhill when [[spoiler:the executioner, Isuka, reveals herself to be a turncoat too, and blows the execution stand to escape with Ace]].