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* TheStationsOfTheCanon: Played with. Before Alabasta, Cross makes minor changes but allows all major events to go as per canon. The rails, however, are irreparably broken thanks to two major events at the conclusion of Alabasta: [[spoiler: Vivi's bounty forcing her to flee her kingdom and Cross obtaining the Snail Transceiver from B.R.O.B]]. From then on, the subsequent stations are crossed in outrageous and unpredictable ways.

* RequiredSecondaryPowers: Betham shows that in addition to his ability to remember any face he's touched, he has an incredible ability to accurately follow the train of thought of those he's copying through role-playing as them based on his interactions with them, allowing him to make surprisingly correct predictions about them. [[spoiler: This is what allows him to figure out that Cross knows about the future by following the breadcrumbs their brief interactions left for him.]]

* RedBaron: As in canon, pirates have an etiphat, though thanks to Cross's involvement, many of Straw Hats have different titles:
** Rather than being called "Cat Burglar", Nami is referred to as "Weather Witch" and has a high enough bounty to make her one of the ''thirteen'' Supernovas.
** Since the string of events that led to him adopting the Sogeking persona were avoided, the World Government know that "Sniper King" is Usopp.
** Rather than being called "Cotton-Candy Lover" and being seen as a pet, Chopper is now called "Spark of Genius" and is recognized as a threat.
** Of the TB! recruits, Vivi is called "Corsair Princess", the dugong are referred to as "Man of the Sea" Boss Dugong and "Desciples of the Sea", Teenage Dugong Warrior Squad (including "Half-Shell Blade" Leo), Conis is named "Angel of Destruction" with her cloud fox Su being dubbed "Cottontail", the [[humanized Going Merry]] has gained the epiphat of "White Menace", and Cross and Soundbite are being called the "Voices of Anarchy".

* RewardedAsATraitorDeserves: After being rescued from [[spoiler:Impel Down by Teach, Byrnndi World]] attempted a mutiny against him, personally aiming to kill him. He discovered too late that his soon-to-be-ex-captain was MoreEvilThanThou, [[spoiler:ruthlessly killing him and taking his More-More Fruit as a replacement after losing out on the Tremor-Tremor Fruit]].

* TaughtByExperience: How does Chopper know how to [[KnifeNut throw scalpels so well]]? No, Kureha didn't teach him; he just examined all his memories of ''her'' throwing things at ''him'', and replicating her technique.

* RewardedAsATraitorDeserves: [[spoiler:After being broken out of Impel Down by Teech, Byrnndi World attempted a mutinty within the Blackbeard Pirates involving the new recruits. Unfortunately, he discovered too late that Blackbeard was MoreEvilThanThou, ruthlessly killing him and taking his More-More Fruit as a replacement after losing out on the Tremor-Tremor Fruit]].

* RewardedAsATraitorDeserves: [[spoiler:After being broken out of Impel Down by Teech, Byrnndi World attempted a mutinty within the Blackbeard Pirates involving the new recruits. Unfortunately, he discovered too late that Blackbeard was MoreEvilThanThou, ruthlessly killing and taking his More-More Fruit as a replacement after losing out on the Tremor-Tremor Fruit]].

* ScrewDestiny: Cross makes it his goal to use his future knowledge to prevent the most tragic events in the canon series from happening, the two biggest of which are Merry's destruction and the War of the Best. [[spoiler:While he managed to save Merry thanks to a Devil Fruit that made her human, [[YouCantFightFate he was unable to prevent the War of the Best, as the Government hid the warning signs too well]].]]

** Soundbite and Sanji make comments about annoying pigeons and giraffes respectively, and far away, Hattori and Kaku take offense.

** [[spoiler:''Merry'', thanks to Cross getting a Zoan Devil Fruit for her.]]

** [[spoiler:Ace survives his execution, courtesy of the Revolutionaries appearing at the last second to protect him right as Akainu has him dead to rights. Even more amazing is that, if B.R.O.B is to be believed, there was no way Cross could have saved him and Merry as their deaths were fixed.]]

* TheStationsOfTheCanon: Played with. Before Alabasta, Cross makes minor changes but allows all major events to go as per canon. The rails, however, are irreparably broken thanks to two major events at the conclusion of Alabasta: [[spoiler: Vivi's bounty forcing her to flee her kingdom and obtaining the Snail Transceiver from B.R.O.B]]. From then on, the subsequent stations are crossed in outrageous and unpredictable ways.

*** As X Drake approaches the Straw Hats with murderous intent [[spoiler: for getting him and all the Supernovas involved in a battle with Kizaru and were nearly curb-stomped until Rayleigh stepped in]], he stops short when he is met with a collective two dozen-eyed DeathGlare expression that rivals the one given to "Golden Lion" Shiki. Drake immediately turns around and distances himself from the ''other pirates'' (not the '''monsters''' which was crossed out) and quickly leaves the scene.

** Cross ends up doing to same for [[spoiler: Chew]] when he's the only one that can. [[spoiler: This is despite his disdain for the ex-Arlong Pirate.]]
*** But in the middle of explaining why to [[spoiler: Chew and Kuroobi]], Hachi ends up taking a shot for him.

*** Of course, it gets right back up ''[[{{Determinator}} for the fourth time]]'', causing Luffy to comment that he finally understands annoying it is to fight someone like himself.

** Discussed on a much wider scale in regards to the slave trade in Saboady. Everyone out there who is powerful enough to intervene, possesses knowledge of the problem, ''and'' would be inclined to help are all tied up fighting other battles and literally cannot afford the division of resources ending the slave trade would take.

* TheStoolPigeon: The secretary of Saboady's government would ''[[SubvertedTrope like]]'' to be one. [[spoiler:She handles all the dirty money funneled through to her PointyHairedBoss and could positively wax poetic on all the sources, shell companies, and everything, but has no idea who to turn to when everyone in the chain, both above and below, is either corrupt as hell or likely to talk to someone who is. [[DoubleSubversion Then the Straw Hats arrive with an epic plan provided by Cross]].]]

** [[spoiler: Buggy absolutely hits this]] in Chapter 80, when [[spoiler: he has his past as a Roger Pirate revealed to the entirety of the world in Marineford. [[InnocentlyInsensitive Luffy accidentally hitting his last nerve]] by saying he finally got the fame and respect he wanted only drives him further into this, since in reality what he wanted was to live his days out as a reasonably feared but still below the radar pirate, instead of the absolute insanity and migraine-inducing nightmare that being a New World Pirate entails.]]

** Chapter 64 has [[spoiler: Vice-Admiral Strawberry]] hit [[spoiler: Koala's]] last nerve, by correctly assuming that he was responsible for the death of someone she cared about, and then declaring himself blameless [[TautologicalTemplar because as a Marine, all his actions are just and his victims fully deserving of punishment]]. He quickly comes to regret it.

* SinsOfOurFathers: Brutally deconstructed during the [[spoiler:Marineford]] arc. When Sengoku announces to the world [[spoiler:that the reason they're executing Ace is that he's Roger's son, not because of any genuine crimes he committed, Cross deftly points out that they're illegally executing a man over a grudge against a guy who has been dead for '''twenty years''', while at the same time throwing away countless lives and destabilizing the balance of the world by going to war with said man's captain, one of the four most powerful pirates on the planet. Once that's said, all of Sengoku's attempts to justify the execution ring hollow, especially after Ace makes it adamantly clear that he ''hates'' Roger and has no intention of following his footsteps]].
I** Further deconstructed in the chapter "Denouement": [[spoiler:long before the Marineford War arc began Cross outright noted that Dragon ''couldn't'' intervene, despite his ties to Ace, because it risked sullying the message of who the Revolutionary Army are; an opposition to the tyranny of the World Government. As Dragon [[LampshadeHanging explains]] to Nico Robin when they meet, the fact that Sengoku admitted that Ace was being executed for his ties to Roger and not his crimes as a pirate immediately changed the context from "legitimate execution" to "another display of tyranny", as being related to a criminal does ''not'' make a person into a criminal even under the World Government's laws.]]

* TraumaCongaLine: Happens to [[ThoseTwoBadGuys Kuroobi and Chew]] of all people. They learn Queen Otohime was not killed by a human but rather a fishman that looked up to them, that their misanthropic speeches against humans were responsible for turning that same fishman and his friends into humanity-hating monsters who did the first-mentioned action to destroy any chance of peace between humans and fishmen, and topped off with Koala, [[BigotryException the only human they considered a friend]], berating them for their bigoted actions and telling them [[WeUsedToBeFriends they are no longer friends]].

* TimedMission: Enies Lobby, even more so than canon. Not only has Lucci used Shave to get Robin much closer to the Gates of Justice, but Sengoku is on his way there as well.

** [[spoiler: While sailing undercover with the Straw Hat Pirates, Koala finds herself on the same battlefield as Vice-Admiral Strawberry, the man responsible for instigating Fisher Tiger's death, and immediately jumps to fight him, potentially revealing the Revolutionaries' association with the Straw Hats be damned. Granted she does call in to Dragon first, and though Dragon gives permission, he says she'll be taking it up with Karasu later, and if need be, he'll sign her burn notice himself.]]
** [[spoiler:While in Impel Down, Luffy had to hold back Squard and Whitey Bay from going after Blackbeard when the latter ran past them towards Level Six.]]

* SinsOfOurFathers: Brutally deconstructed during the [[spoiler:Marineford]] arc. When Sengoku announces to the world [[spoiler:that the reason they're executing Ace is because he's Roger's son, not because of any genuine crimes he committed, Cross deftly points out that they're illegally executing a man over a grudge against a guy who has been dead for '''twenty years''', while at the same time throwing away countless lives and destabilizing the balance of the world by going to war with said man's captain, one of the four most powerful pirates on the planet. Once that's said, all of Sengoku's attempts to justify the execution ring hollow, especially after Ace makes it adamantly clear that he ''hates'' Roger and has no intention of following his footsteps]].

** When Yasopp finds out that Usopp has become a Straw Hat Pirate [[spoiler:from Cross's SBS broadcast]], he and Shanks instantly get into a brawl. Yasopp is pissed because Shanks' protégé dragged his son away from his quiet, safe life; Shanks is pissed because Yasopp's SpitTake caused him to waste good booze.

** Drake does it again when he asks Jonathan why the Marines haven't dispatched an Admiral to take out the Straw Hat Pirates. Jonathan replies that aside from one of them being a BloodKnight on the other side of the Red Line while the other two are BrilliantButLazy, there's also the scenario mentioned under MortonsFork.

** Dr. Hogback says that Absalom has a [[{{Invisibility}} transparent]] sense of humor.

** Cross sheds a few after the Straw Hats learn everything he's been hiding from them but they still accept him anyway.
** [[spoiler: Shanks]] is sobbing after a full night of [[spoiler: listening to the SBS, hearing the Straw Hats face down Lily Carnation, and finally hearing Luffy triumph]].

** Abound from everyone when [[spoiler: Merry ''lives''.]]
** Brook, Laboon, and Crocus all break down when they learn that the former is alive and the latter two are still waiting for him.

** Robin has done so a couple of times. By the second time, she remarks that she should've known better.

* RealityEnsues:
** Despite having foreknowledge of the adventure the Straw Hats are on, Cross doesn't recall every little detail immediately as evidenced when Laboon and the chaotic weather on the way to Whiskey peak ''both'' blindside him in the space of a single chapter.
** Despite Cross's foreknowledge, certain situations are set up by the environment and the preparation of opposing forces that they're basically inevitable no matter how he tries to circumvent them, such as the Merry getting her keel cracked and Robin being taken by [=CP9=].
** As skilled as Kalifa is, she still isn't going to master her new powers in an hour.
** Carue kicks Funkfreed (whose hybrid body is metal because he's an Elephant ''sword'') at supersonic speeds. Funkfreed is knocked out, [[FragileSpeedster but Carue's leg is broken]].
** While [[spoiler:becoming a shipgirl]] gives Merry a chance to heal from her life-threatening injuries, that doesn't negate the fact that [[spoiler:she ''has'' life-threatening injuries in the first place]].
*** More amusingly, while she is [[spoiler:[[HumanityEnsues transformed into a human]], the variant Devil Fruit she ate specifically turns her into a ''child'' with all the emotional maturity thereof.]]
** After Thriller Bark, Cross realizes he's beginning to forget details of the manga as it's been over half a year since he read any of it. While he still knows the important parts, some of the particulars are starting to fade. Furthermore, his knowledge is incomplete; he only read up to Chapter 800 of the manga and he never saw any of the movies, which hits especially hard since Strong World was part of the canon, meaning he was completely unprepared for Shiki.
** As strong as Zoro is, even he can't completely recover from near-fatal injuries in a matter of weeks- this is proven when he struggles during the final fight with Shiki's forces.
** After Cross airs almost the entirety of their security measures, Impel Down upgrades their security heavily.
** Minotaurus charges Luffy at the same time Sadi realizes Luffy has a counter. She yells a warning to Minotaurus, but the fact is as an awakened cow Zoan, Minotaurus's hooves just can't get the traction needed to dodge, evade, or slow down in time.
*** Of course, it gets right back up ''[[{{Determinator}} for the fourth time]]'', causing Luffy to comment that he finally understands annoying it is to fight someone like himself.

* SigilSpam: Played with in the Alasbasta arc, where Cross asked an arrested Baroque Works agent why the agents had emblem tattoos when their organization was supposed to be a 'cloak-and-dagger' operation. The agent revealed it was a combination of a lot of alcohol, a lot of boredom, and the fact that nobody was even supposed to learn about Baroque Works' existence.

---> [[spoiler: '''Robin: ''' Dereshishishi!]]

* SigalSpam: Played with in the Alasbasta arc, where Cross asked an arrested Baroque Works agent why the agents had emblem tattoos when their organization was supposed to be a 'cloak-and-dagger' operation. The agent revealed it was a combination of a lot of alcohol, a lot of boredom, and the fact that nobody was even supposed to learn about Baroque Works' existence.

->''Cross'': Wait, we meet ''two'' loonies with the same delusion!