History ThisBites / TropesRToT

** On the Marine side, Tashigi gets an epithet after arresting a hoard of corrupt Marines during the Sabaody Revolution: "Inquisitor."

* RequiredSecondaryPowers: Bentham 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.]]

* 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 EvilerThanThou, [[spoiler:ruthlessly killing him and taking his More-More Fruit as a replacement after losing out on the Tremor-Tremor Fruit]].

** With help from the Masons, "Devil Man" Gin, to break away from his past with Krieg as much as possible.

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** Cross/Sandersonia and Cross/Koala both get teased during the Road to Sabaody and Sabaody Revolution arcs; in the former, when Cross reveals his plan to [[spoiler:lure pirates as a whole into opposing slavery]], Sandersonia gets so excited she [[EngagingConversation declares herself ready to bang Cross there and then]]--Koala knocks the [[ScaledUp serpent-shifter]] out-cold to stop her going through with her intention, and then sheepishly admits she's almost as turned on herself. In the latter, when Sandersonia faints after seeing Luffy [[spoiler: punch out Saint Charloss]], the scene is set for a classic Literature/SleepingBeauty style TrueLovesKiss when Cross goes to wake her... whilst it's lampshaded by Cross [[DudeShesLikeInAComa noting how tacky the idea is]] and then subverted by him waking her up by booting her off of a table onto the floor, the shipping comes right back when Sandersonia admits to Koala that Cross in his "take charge" mode turns her own. Koala responds by admitting she feels the same way, but now is very much ''not'' the time to bring it up.

* SherlockCanRead: A variant early in the Navarone arc, where Cross manages to infiltrate Jonathan's office before contacting Jonathan himself. During the ensuing conversation, he casually threatens to inform the Vice Admiral's wife about Jonathan's eating habits (specifically, the fact that Jonathan throws out most of the meals she makes for him, due to the fact that they're full of vegetables -- which he hates). Jonathan's right-hand man, Lieutenant Commander Drake, can't help but mutter that Cross is "as impossibly well-informed as he painted himself, too", only for Cross to inform him that he found the food in Jonathan's garbage bin.

* RatedMForManly: The personification of the Boss of the Kung-Fu Dugongs that join the crew.
** And goes into TestosteronePoisoning during the Davy Back Fight... and witnessing [[AfroAsskicker Afro Luffy]].
** Boss and Franky [[PecFlex flexing]] at each other is so manly it makes Cross' chest hair grow.

** Later, in the Denouement, when [[spoiler:Akainu announces his plans to become Fleet Admiral]], [[spoiler:Aokiji]] shows up and challenges him [[spoiler:for the title]], [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone having realized the error of his mistakes that led to [[spoiler:the Tragedy of Marineford]]]]. To showcase his new creed, he [[spoiler:freezes his sleeping mask]] and breaks it, leaving behind his old mindset [[spoiler:of Lazy Justice for a new [[TheAtoner Justice of Atonement]]]].

** Later, in the Denouement, when [[spoiler:Akainu announces his plans to become Fleet Admiral]], [[spoiler:Aokiji]] shows up and challenges him [[spoiler:for the title]], [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone having realized the error of his mistakes that led to [[spoiler:the Tragedy of Marineford. To showcase his new creed, he [[spoiler:freezes his sleeping mask]] and breaks it, leaving behind his old mindset [[spoiler:of Lazy Justice for a new [[TheAtoner Justice of Atonement]]]].

** [[spoiler: Later in the Denouncement, when Akainu announces his plans to become Fleet Admiral, Aokiji shows up and challenges him for the title, having realized [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone the error of his mistakes that led to the Marinerford Tragedy]]. To showcase his new creed, he freezes his sleeping mask and breaks it, leaving behind his old blind Justice for a new [[TheAtoner Justice of Atonement.]]]]

* SymbolicallyBrokenObject: After a bitter argument between Tsuru and Sengoku about the morality of the latter's actions (including letting Admiral Akainu escape justice for committing genocide), Tsuru exits Sengoku's office with such force that a picture of her, Sengoku, and Garp falls to the floor and shatters, with a crack in the glass separating [[WeUsedToBeFriends the two former friends]].

* TitleDrop: Plenty, courtesy of Cross>

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

* TitleDrops: Cross drops a weak "This Bites..." after Soundbite attacks his crotch.

* {{Slapstick}}: In addition to the usual hi-jinks with the Straw Hats, Cross ends up being a magnet for this, receiving no shortage of bonks on the head and {{Groin Attack}}s. Of course, it goes both ways as Cross isn't afraid to give Vivi a conk on the head in return.

* {{Slapstick}}: In addition to the usual hi-jinks with the Straw Hats, Cross ends up being a magnet for this, receiving no shortage of bonks on the head and {{Groin Attack}}s. Of course, it goes both ways as Cross isn't afraid to give Vivi a conk on the head Cross is not afraid of giving Vivi a conk on the head in return.

* SlapstickKnowsNoGender: Cross is not afraid of giving Vivi a conk on the head if she ticks him off too much, especially when she gets over-excessive with the {{Groin Attack}}s. And this soon goes for the rest of the female crewmembers too.

* TemptingFate: All the time.
** One notable instance in Chapter 9: when Vivi is trying to rouse the crew before dawn, Cross begs to be allowed to sleep if it's anything less than falling off the edge of the earth. Not long after that, the Grand Line draws their ship towards an InevitableWaterfall.
** Tsuru in Chapter 24, much to Sengoku's ire.
** Cross of all people makes the cardinal sin to Murphy right before the Straw Hats [[spoiler: [[Anime/BaronOmatsuriAndTheSecretIsland accept an invitation to a certain festive island]]]], when he says, "What's the worst that could happen?"
** [[TooDumbToLive Spandam]], in Chapter 39. Multiple times.
** Right at the end of Chapter 41, Cross does so and considers afterward that he should have punched himself with his Impact Dial for doing so.
** One not played for laughs: [[spoiler: Cross exults after checking Ace's Vivre Card and finding it still intact, and celebrates over successfully stopping the Paramount War. At the end of the same chapter, [[InSpiteOfANail he, Squard, and Whitey have been captured by the Marines]] courtesy of Aokiji giving Blackbeard an unexpected opening.]]
** Robin does this near the end of Chapter 25, then again in Chapter 42. Lampshaded on the latter:
-->'''Robin''': Why did I open my mouth? I know ''better'' by now, so ''why?''\\
'''Lassoo''': Infectious insanity?\\
'''Robin''': ...yes, that sounds about right.
** In a canon {{Omake}}, Doflamingo states that after the show the Straw Hats put on at Enies Lobby, even after facing Big Mom and Kaido, and knowing that his underlings threw a party in his castle, he can't be bothered to do anything about it. That quickly changes when he sees that said party's guests are ''Red-Haired Shanks and his crew''.
** Lil Accino declares there's no way the captured Straw Hat pirates would be able to escape their icy prison, let alone find their coffers and loot them. Nami proves her wrong on both counts.
** More than a few times in Chapter 46, from thinking that the wedding would actually go off alright at the start, to commenting that the chapel was still in one piece at the end of it.
** In Chapter 47, it's even discussed by Cross giving a lecture [[spoiler: on the SBS]] of everything ''not'' to say to tempt Murphy.
** According to Gin, Krieg declared "Nothing can stop us now!" as they reached the peak of Reverse Mountain. Shortly afterward, they ran into Mihawk.
** After recovering from his injuries, Lucci finds himself challenged by [[spoiler: Captain T-Bone, for him and [=CP9=] to join the New World Masons if he loses.]] Lucci accepts, thinking it'll be a short fight. No dice.
** It doesn't take long for Cross to forget his own lecture though, as he proudly states that after Thriller Bark, his actions had already defused the biggest bomb to come and it'll be relatively smooth sailing from there on out.
---> '''Nami:''' You, who gave a seminar just yesterday about taunting fate, and who just waved the ''mother of all red capes'' in fate's face.
---> '''Zoro:''' [[PunctuatedForEmphasis You. Complete.]] ''[[PunctuatedForEmphasis Idiot.]]''
** In Strong World, Robin {{Face Palm}}s multiple times when Bartolomeo asks how things can get worse.
** After two very unexpected and confusing visitors to Takoyaki 8, the probationary employee Kuroobi utters, "First an old friend and ex-slave who became a Revolutionary, then a high-ranking member of a Warlord's crew, now all we need is a Marine walking in and this day will be ''perfect''!" Guess who ends up walking in shortly after?
** Tashigi declares that so long as she is a Marine, she will not set foot on the new pirate town of Skelter Bite. Cross's answer? Disguise her as a pirate and shanghai her onto the crew!
** Bege invites Nami for a tour of his castle-body, obliquely challenging her by saying that stealing even a spare beri from him is impossible. Nami walks away with [[ExactWords a single spare beri]], along with [[VillainRespect Bege's respect]].
** Law tells Cross that he is numb to any more news he could drop on him. Cross tells him Sengoku is his grandfather.
** Faced with a blindingly-fast skeleton swordsman and a freaking [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot grizzly bear pirate]] in a cage match, Cross decides to gamble with Murphy to get him out by saying that things couldn't get worse. Hawkins obliges with a cursed sword combatant that sends ''everyone'' running for the hills when Zoro realizes he defeated his friend Saga to get it and decides to fight it himself.
** After Luffy warns Buggy not to do so, Buggy decides to take it up to eleven with yelling that there's no one able to take down Luffy, that no other [[spoiler:[=BioMEGAs=] ]] will come, that no one else is going to attack Impel Down, and that he's living the best day of his life. The result? Both Saldeath and Smoker discovering him through the security ''and'' the Caribou Pirates and the World Pirates breaking into Impel Down.
*** The very next chapter, Luffy mentally likens the whole tirade to 'not just tempting fate, but challenging its manhood'.
** Crocodile ''purposely'' invokes this by stating to move before anything else can go wrong, wanting to face the threat now before later while they're ready.
--->'''Squard''': Are you trying to make things bite us in the ass?!
--->'''Crocodile''': Yes, so that it happens now rather than later.
--->'''Squard''': ...fair point.
** [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] on the way out of Impel Down. Galdino says it's the perfect time to say 'nothing can stop us now'. Buggy retorts that if there is anything that can stop them now, they're ''heading straight for it''.

* ThisExplainsSoMuch: After being attacked by the Unluckies for a ''[[{{Determinator}} third]]'' time, Cross asks them what kind of hell did Crocodile dredge up to find them. Their response? [[spoiler:Kuraigana Island]]. Cross comments that actually fits.

** Cross finds himself negotiating an armistice with the Sea Kings, and wanting to extend their armistice to [[spoiler: his Divine allies in the Marines]], the Elder asks for one to identify themselves. Cross has two that also double as a WhamLine for the Elder: "[[spoiler:Joy Boy]]".

** After Luffy warns Buggy not to do so, Buggy decides to take it UpToEleven with yelling that there's no one able to take down Luffy, that no other [[spoiler:[=BioMEGAs=] ]] will come, that no one else is going to attack Impel Down, and that he's living the best day of his life. The result? Both Saldeath and Smoker discovering him through the security ''and'' the Caribou Pirates and the World Pirates breaking into Impel Down.

* ShedArmorGainSpeed: During their duel in Thriller Bark, with Zoro able to fight at his full potential this time due to having Funkfreed as a replacement, Ryumma revealed that his body had been weighted with liquid lead, and decided to release it in order to fight more freely. Upon seeing Ryumma cutting loose, the other zombies in the area promptly took cover.