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Nail 'Em: Wano Arc introduces the concept of Sea Prism Nails. Overlaps with Depleted Phlebotinum Shells, woe betide to any DF user hit by one and unable to remove it. They also mention that only the Wano craftsmen are able to work Sea Prism to this level, thus explaining why they're not commonplace.
Names to Run Away from Really Fast: Quite a lot of pirates and Marines, actually. Arlong (actually given the translation Er-Long/惡龍 IE. "Evil Dragon" in the Taiwanese Versions), Don Krieg (krieg being German for war), Daz Bones (Mr. 1's real name), Bartholomew Kuma ("kuma" being Japanese for bear, and not the Caring kind), Fleet Admiral Sengoku ("sengoku" means "warring states" and was a feudal period of Japan's history), Admiral Akainu ("akainu" translates as "red dog"), Marshall D. Teach (Teach being the real Blackbeard's assumed surname), Dracule Mihawk, Crocodile, Capone Bege, Captain Kidd, and, oh, who are we forgetting... KILLER.
- Some of the protagonists have fear-inspiring names: Try Roronoa Zoro, for instance (the surname of a cunning pirate, and the forename of you know who).
- Impel Down's Captain of the Guard Sadie-chan, who takes her name from the word "Sadism".
- Inverted in a couple of cases. "Chopper" sounds scary, until you meet him and realize he's a cute li'l reindeer with self-esteem issues. A guy named Doflamingo sounds as threatening as potatoes, but he's actually one of the most deranged and frightening characters in the manga.
  - Whether or not Chopper is an inversion depends on the situation.
- Subverted by Shanks, who's shown to be a genuinely nice guy. Then double-subverted when it's revealed he's one of the Four Emperors, who can make the likes of Akainu back down.
Navel-Deep Neckline: A regular feature of fanservice-y female characters.
- In her first appearance, Boa Hancock sports a red piece of clothing that exposes half of her massive breasts and her midriff.
- Robin has this after the time-skip.
- Tashigi, but not by choice. In the Punk Hazard Arc, she and Smoker get their bodies switched and since Smoker likes to keep his shirt unbuttoned...
- Lately, since the general increase in Fanservice after the Time Skip, several female characters sport this on a regular basis.
Neck Snap: Robin often gets rid of the Mooks that attack her by bending their spines the wrong way. It is pretty unnerving to see.
Necromantic: One of the reasons that Dr. Hogback got into the profession of sticking shadows into corpses. He had a crush on a girl named Cindry, and she accidentally died. Hogback took her corpse and made it a zombie, but the new Cindry hates his guts.
Nepotism: Heavily implied (if not outright stated) to be the reason why Spandam is the Chief of CP9, despite being a General Failure and an all around waste of human life. His father, Spandine, was also Chief of CP9, and was decidedly more competent and had standards (unlike his son), though he was almost as much of a Jerkass.
Never Mess with Granny: Doctor Kureha. One hundred and forty years old and will kick your ass if you so much as look at her funny.
- Charlotte Linlin, aka Big Mom, one of the Four Emperors. Not only was she strong enough to easily tank Luffy in Gear Fourth but she destroys entire countries due to any perceived slight. (such as burning a country to the ground because they didn't give her enough sweets.) Even the World Government believe she could defeat Blackbeard even after he gained the Gura-Gura Fruit. Not bad for an overweight 68-year-old.
- Subverted with Gaburu's grandmother. While she courageously takes on Scotch to protect Caribou, she's quickly beaten and captured.
Never Say "Die": Given that it was 4Kids that did the initial English dub, it comes as no surprise that the anime was a victim of this. It got to dark energy disk-levels of absurdities (as well as shoddy editing) with Nami's flashback.
Never Say That Again: Robin tells Franky to never make a face or speak again while he's inside Chopper's body.
Never Smile at a Crocodile: Obviously Sir Crocodile. It also applies to the Bananadiles (huge crocodiles with a small banana-shaped thing on their head) and to the rivers of Luffy's home island. The 10th film offers the "Land Gator", a huge, flat crocodile living on Merveille. Later on, on Whole Cake Island the gang encounter a giant talking crocodile with a bowler hat who tries to eat them but leaves them alone when he realizes they're humans.
New Powers as the Plot Demands: An epidemic in the Enies Lobby arc. Each of the Straw Hats, save for Robin (who doesn't get any major battles due to being captive for most of the arc) and Franky (since this arc is his debut as a fighter) displays a new attack, form, or weapon.
- Zoro gives this trope something of a lampshading during his fight with Mr. 1. When he learns that Mr. 1's power grants him a steel body, Zoro thanks him. His reasoning? When the battle ends, Zoro will have learned how to cut through steel.
Next Tier Power-Up: Began during the Alabasta arc, done in the Skypeia arc with a few characters, but most apparent during the Enies Lobby arc (see Took A Level In Bad Ass below).
- Kuma sent each of the Straw Hats to islands relevant to their abilities, resulting in a major upgrade to all the Straw Hats when they get back together post Time Skip.
- Doflamingo showed the concept of awakened Devil Fruits late in the Dressrosa Arc. Among other things, it made his Paramecia powers behave more like a Logia.
Nice Job Breaking It, Hero:
- The government's attempts to find Roger's unborn baby. They were never able to find the child, because the mother deliberately stayed pregnant for twenty months through sheer force of will in order to protect her child. That child would later grow up to be one of strongest pirates in the world: Portgas D. Ace, Commander of the Second Division of the Whitebeard Pirates, and the older adoptive brother of Monkey D. Luffy.
- The World Government tries to put Gold Roger to death so they can discourage piracy. Roger screws it up by inspiring the Golden Age of Piracy with his words about One Piece. Apparently, having failed to learn from this mistake, they try it again with Ace, knowing that Whitebeard will surely try to prevent it. Killing both would send a much bigger warning. While they succeed in killing both, Whitebeard does as Roger did and confirms the existence of One Piece, ruining the entire plan. Then, Blackbeard shows up and steals Whitebeard's earthquake powers, putting the power to destroy the world in the hands of someone who would actually do it. See Villain Ball below for more details.
- Immediately afterward, we find that Jimbei wasn't just blowing smoke when he said that several islands were safe only because of Whitebeard. After word of Whitebeard's death gets out, we find out that several islands on the Grand Line and in the New World have instantly become hellholes now that the nearby pirates realize they can do whatever they want without fear of a reprisal from Whitebeard. Nice one, Marines; if you were trying to create peace, you just took a HUGE step backward from that.
  - To add icing to their failure cake, the Marines have run themselves ragged with their war on Whitebeard, and now lack the resources and people to properly protect all of the islands that they could previously protect. Oh, and now they also have a much stronger pirate to worry about who just couldn't care less about the balance that Whitebeard had provided. Epic Fail doesn't even begin to describe the consequences of their actions.
- Turns out that Trafalgar Law and the Straw Hat Pirates' actions in Punk Hazard are the direct cause of current events in Dressrosa, as Doflamingo's pretending to follow their demands to abdicate his role of Warlord and as king of Dressrosa was such a blow to Dressrosa's rebels that it pushed them past the Despair Event Horizon and resolved them to go out in a blaze of glory Suicide Attack. Even Robin displays a horrified Face Fault right alongside Usopp and Franky when they realize this.
Nice Mean And In Between: The original three Straw Hat Pirates: Luffy is nice, Nami is mean and Zoro is in-between. Both Zoro and Nami can be said to be jerks with hearts of gold, but Nami is more actively unpleasant (beating up people when they act stupid, manipulating them for favors and money), while Zoro is just very reserved and slightly antisocial. Zoro and Nami's roles switch in more dramatic situations (such as the case of Usopp leaving the crew), when Nami is more likely to let compassionate feelings or worries take over, while Zoro keeps his cool and isn't afraid to state the harsh truth or threaten people.
Nigh-Invulnerable:
- Logia users combine this with Intangibility, which makes them a step above Zoan and Paramecia.
- The Marines' Siege Walls in the battle of Marineford are the only known thing to successfully tank Whitebeard's Shockwave attacks.
- Bobby Funk's body is apparently tough enough to survive being hit by an axe. Not just a normal axe either, but a Haki-reinforced one, and the axe shattered against his body.
- Big Mom is stated to be an "iron balloon" who cannot be scratched by any weapon. She blocked a giant's sword with her arm when she was five years old...and the sword snapped in two. She has to be severely mentally weakened in order for her bodily defenses to drop.
- Although Kaido doesn't seem as impervious to damage as Big Mom, as he has a large scar on his chest, it was stated that no execution weapon has ever worked on him, and he fell 10,000 meters and wasn't injured at all upon landing, only complaining of a headache. He likes to test his seemingly invulnerability by attempting to commit suicide in ridiculous ways.
Night and Day Duo: Master Cat Viper and Duke Dogstorm are this on Zou, serving as the island's King of Night and Ruler of Day, respectively.
Nightmare Fetishist: Perona, who thought her animal zombies were the cutest things ever. Also Robin, who declared Thriller Bark's zombie cerberus "cute."
Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot:
- Brook is a zombie pirate with a touch of ninja thrown in.
- Franky and Bartholomew Kuma are both Robot Pirates, the former being a shipwright.
- Being a series about pirates, almost everyone fits this trope, with some hitting multiple levels. You have a pirate thief navigator, pirate fish kung-fu, pirate reindeer doctor, pirate pervert chef, princess bounty hunter...
- And then the "navigator" is now a ninja, too!
Nobody Poops:
- Averted. Luffy has asked Brooke and Camie if they poop. Also, it seems that there are toilets on the Sunny. It's probable that people do poop, we just never see it.
- Inverted with Warden Magellan, who spends 10 hours per day suffering from the diarrhea caused by his love of eating horribly poisonous food (which he is immune to dying from thanks to his Devil Fruit making him a Poison Man). With eight hours of sleep, this leaves him only six hours to do his job.
No Celebrities Were Harmed: It's a recurring gag to have a character here and there whose appearance is inspired by a real-life celebrity.
- Jango (Michael Jackson).
- The Admirals Aokiji, Kizaru, and Akainu (based on Yusaku Matsuda, Kunie Tanaka, and Bunta Sugawara respectively).
- Franky (Jim Carrey)'s Ace Ventura.
- Eneru is based off Eminem.
- ~~King (Queen?)~~ Emporio Ivankov closely resembles Tim Curry as Dr Frank-N-Furter from The Rocky Horror Picture Show. The design is actually based on a different actor playing the same role.
- Brook is probably based on Slash. It's more obvious when he's still alive.
- Dr. Hogback looks a lot like Ozzy Osbourne from the neck up.
- Several of the pirates share the names and/or are based off of real life pirates. The most obvious being Blackbeard, but Captain Kidd and Bellamy as well.
- Lafitte is based off of Marilyn Manson.
- Basil Hawkins is based off of Joey Jordison.
No Indoor Voice:
- Monkey D. Luffy in the 4Kids dub.
- Tilestone of Galley-La in the original. It gets so bad that his coworkers force him to stand several feet away just to carry on a normal conversation.
- In his few appearances so far, Kaido has been shown shouting quite a lot.
No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: Captain Kuro took advantage of the kindness of Kaya's father.
No-Harm Requirement: In later arcs, Sanji's "Wanted!" Poster says "Only Alive" instead of the usual "Dead or Alive" on other posters. It's because his long-lost father, Judge, an influential person in the underground business, used his connections to make the Marines change the requirement of Sanji's capture so he could bring Sanji back and use him for an arranged marriage.
No-Holds-Barred Beatdown:
- Crocodile thoroughly trounces Luffy and leaves him for dead in their first encounter, and Aokiji does something similar later on.
- :Oars Jr. vs. three of the Seven Warlords of the Sea. It can't even be called a fight. Oars Jr. takes the full brunt of Kuma's Ursus Shock attack, gets his leg sliced off by Doflamingo's Razor Floss, and finally gets freaking impaled by Gecko Moria's shadow spear.
- Sanji's three brothers did this to him a lot in their childhood, as Sanji's lack of genetic modifications made him significantly weaker than them. He caught up to them in adulthood, but ultimately faced this again after their reunion when the brothers held Zeff hostage.
No Hugging, No Kissing: The series eschews romance in favor of focusing on themes like camaraderie and friendship, and what romance there is usually just pokes fun at the concept as a whole... Or that's how it used to be in the first 15 years or so. Oda has been slowly introducing romance as a concept in the series, with the biggest milestone being the actual depiction of Kyros's and Scarlett's relationship... and the one with Sanji and Charlotte Pudding, which is eventually revealed to be an act by Pudding, who had planned to murder Sanji and his family. However, when Sanji sees through her hidden third eye, she starts developing real romantic feelings for him, and Sanji treats her with a far greater degree of maturity than the typical nosebleeds he gets for any other beautiful woman. The series has come a long, long way to say the least. Eiichiro Oda going from single to married with two children has probably been a factor in this change.
"No. Just… No" Reaction: Robin to some of Franky's more ridiculous antics. As a human being, it is too embarrassing to mention how many times she forbids him from docking or making facial expressions or speaking ever again ( last two when he's in Chopper's body).
Non-Human Head:
- Oda the mangaka occasionally portrays himself as a guy with a fish for a head.
- A Recurring Extra referred to as "Pandaman" appears to be a muscular man with a panda's head.
Non-Serial Movie: There are currently 13 movies produced by Toei Animation. While most of them can fit into the anime's continuity fairly well, there are a few, such as 3, 9, and 13, that cannot.
- The tenth, Strong World, was actually written by Oda, and so was mentioned In-Universe Manga and a few anime episodes were a prequel to the movie.
Noodle Incident: The "Rocky Port Incident," where all we know about it is what people were involved. Law was the mastermind, while Coby protected the citizens.
Noodle People: A number of characters are somewhat lanky, but this trope reaches its zenith with the women, who are very often frighteningly rail thin. They have gotten a little bit better due to recent Art Evolution, though.
- Some characters are of average breadth... offset by a ridiculous height. The Admirals are a perfect example of this.
No One Could Survive That!:
- Pell got nuked... and survived.
- Even before that, Igaram's decoy ship was blown up in an explosion so big it dwarfed the island of Whiskey Peak.
  - To be fair, given how Luffy escaped death after his first fight with Crocodile, it's likely Robin had a hand in Igaram's survival. How she might have done it, though, is anybody's guess.
- In many ways, Bartholomew Kuma firing a massive air-compressed bomb, the resulting explosion covering all of Thriller Bark was a massive case of this. Not only did everyone present survive, but Zoro got up to attack him, followed by Sanji on his feet as well.
  - Only mildly subverted that Kuma was aware that they survived his attack. Just not so much when he allowed Zoro to take in Luffy's pain.
- After a short fight with Magellan, Luffy was so badly poisoned that his death was all but guaranteed. Even when Emporio Ivankov healed him all it did was raise his survival chances to 2 or 3%.
- Subverted again with Whitebeard getting ganged up on by Blackbeard's entire crew after losing half his head to the same Admiral that killed Ace, and dying. Granted, the losing half his head thing could be playing it straight.
  - Technically, the description of the wounds from the Marineford arc Whitebeard took at the time of his death are worth noting for this. Whitebeard had taken 267 slashes/stab wounds, 152 gunshot wounds, and 46 wounds from cannon balls, not counting the damage done by the Marine Admirals. All this while having been shown to have failing health for most of his previous appearances.
- Franky when he presses a self destruct button because it looked like a pirate symbol. The incident was dubbed the Nightmare of Baldimore◊.
- Happens to Doflamingo when Law severely damages his internal organs with Gamma Knife. However, Doflamingo survives and gets back up by repairing his organs with his strings.
- Kaido essentially embodies this trope, attempting various suicidal stunts including jumping 10,000 meters out of the sky but surviving every time.
No OSHA Compliance: Quite a few of the World Government's facilities where large numbers of soldiers or personnel are expected to be present. Enies Lobby, for example, is situated above a massive void to the center of the planet and yet there's no safety rails at all. Impel Down also counts, as some of the hellish environments the prisoners are forced to suffer in affect the guards as well (they don't seem to be too fond of being sent down to patrol the 100+ degree heat of Level Four...).
Normal Fish in a Tiny Pond: This is a major theme in the East Blue saga. The burgeoning Straw Hat Pirates are comprised of some of the strongest individuals in East Blue, but as Mihawk, Smoker, and Dragon show, that means nothing compared to the Grand Line, especially the top tier fighters of the world.
Normally, I Would Be Dead Now: Happens every so often. Though usually it applies to Luffy and or Zoro.
Nosebleed: Deconstructed. Sanji, having not seen a woman for two years spontaneously has nosebleeds when he sees one, causing massive bloodloss and in need of a blood transfusion. Of course, he has a rare blood type and the Straw Hats are on Fish-Man Island, where it's illegal to mix blood between humans and Fish-men.
No Sense of Direction: Both Luffy and Zoro, although Zoro is much, much worse. Seriously, how does he do it?! In the G-8 filler arc, he managed to get lost in a straight corridor.
- What, you think that is bad? Zoro gets lost in a straight line —a dead end— on the "Red Light, Green Light" ("Darumasan ga Koronda") filler game in the Long Ring Long Land arc! He looks astonished saying the path is gone... cue Sanji criticizing Zoro's poor sense of direction from the obviously correct pathway.
No Swastikas: The flag of the Whitebeard Pirates, as well as Ace's back tattoo, while originally sporting manji (very similar to swastikas) are changed to vertically-aligned crossbones in the anime. The manga later followed suit after the author's editors told him the symbol was now off limits. In neither case does this diminish even slightly the sheer badass of either Ace or Whitebeard, making you wonder why Oda felt he needed it in the first place.
- The VIZ manga never edits out the existing swastikas, instead adding an editor's note explaining that manji is NOT the same thing as a swastika.
Not Blood Siblings: Ace, Sabo and Luffy are not related to each other at all, yet consider themselves to be brothers.. Ace does still look a lot like Luffy and shares many of the Monkey family's traits, although that could be explained by Garp raising him along with Luffy.
Not in Front of the Kid: Queen Otohime stops the Fish-men from releasing years upon years of pent-up anger and oppression in a brutal massacre with one simple phrase: "The children are watching."
The Not-Love Interest: There's a few dynamics like this here and there due to Oda's No Hugging, No Kissing policy. Most notably between Luffy and Hancock, as she pretty much acts as his Action Girlfriend without actually being his girlfriend or any sort of romantic partner to him (much to her disappointment).
- Nami and Sanji's personality types and general interactions show echoes of the type of friendship that usually heads towards a Relationship Upgrade in most stories, but in One Piece? His chivalry either leads to her thanking him purely as a friend only or, more often, smacking him on the head when he ruins the moment by saying something stupid.
"Not So Different" Remark: During the Marineford War, Doflamingo mentions to Crocodile that they aren't that different. It's revealed in the Dressrosa Arc that Doflamingo destroyed a current-standing monarchy and took it over years before Crocodile went after Alabasta.
Not-So-Harmless Villain: Recurring villain Buggy the Clown and crew's recent appearances are beginning to suggest that they might mean business after all. It has also been said by Oda Buggy has the potential to be at Shanks' level, he just didn't train or face tough enough foes to gain experience.
- Gin of Don Krieg's crew, who was so shell-shocked from his encounter with Mihawk and nearly starving to death that it would have been difficult to peg him as Krieg's actually pretty damn tough right-hand guy before The Reveal.
Not Quite Saved Enough: Luffy spent a year searching for Ace, going from the bowels of Impel Down Prison to Marineford, fighting insanely strong enemies, making unusual alliances, enduring his allies' heroic sacrifices, and literally gambling his life away so he can get to Ace, and just as he's been freed he's killed by a stronger fighter. At least Ace got to say his last words.
Not Rare Over There: The Straw Hat Pirates decide to act like pirates for once and make off with a bunch of gold from the Skypieans... but it turns out that gold is extremely common there and they'd be happy to just give it away.
- Very few people in the East Blue have Devil Fruits, but in the New World, almost every notable pirate has one and most powerful pirate crews consist of multiple Devil Fruit users.
Not The Illness That Killed Them:
- The legendary pirate king, Gol D. Roger, found out he had a terminal illness shortly before his final voyage. Once he reached the final island on the Grand Line and learned all there was to know about the world, he disbanded his crew and surrendered to the Marines knowing they would execute him, because he wanted to go out dramatically with the whole world watching rather than passing quietly of a disease. With his Final Speech, Roger inspires countless thousands of people to set to the seas and kicks off the story.
- Dr. Hiriluk suffered from an incurable sickness that was gradually killing him. His illness went into remission for a while after he was awed by the sight of a grove of flowering cherry blossoms, and it inspired him to practice medicine and find a way to share the cherry blossom miracle in his wintery homeland. His adoptive son and apprentice Chopper attempts to cure him with a rare mushroom, not knowing it is extremely poisonous (Hiriluk ate the mushroom knowing full well of its lethality because he saw how badly injured Chopper had gotten in the search for the mushroom.) Ultimately, he dies by committing suicide, by blowing himself up, to spare Chopper from accidentally killing his own father figure or allowing the corrupt king to execute him.
Now You Tell Me: Pretty much the entire crew at Vivi when they go traveling through the lands of Alabasta and get caught up by all of its various dangers and traps.
Nuclear Weapons Taboo: One has to wonder how Igaram's ship at Whiskey Peak blew up in a fireball depicted to be twice as big as Whiskey Peak itself. Not to mention how he could've possibly survived it.
#1 Dime: Luffy's hat. The hat is a gift from his idol Shanks, the first token of his career as a pirate, and his symbol. It holds a lot of emotional value to Luffy, who's promised to cross the Grand Line and eventually join up Shanks to give the hat back to him.
Number Two: Quite a few examples; usually, The Lancer, The Dragon, and/or the first mate of a particular crew or organization tends to be this. Oda at one point even drew a color spread consisting entirely of the Number Twos to the world's most prominent pirates:
- Major heroic or anti-heroic examples include Zoro to Luffy, Bepo to Trafalgar Law, Silvers Rayleigh to Gold Roger, Marco to Whitebeard, Sabo to Dragon, and Benn Beckman to Shanks.
- On the villainous (or at least anti-villainous) side, we have Killer to Eustass Kid, Shiryu to Blackbeard, Katakuri to Big Mom, and King to Kaido.
Nurture over Nature: Word of God confirmed that one of the themes of the story is "heredity doesn't matter and family is who you choose."

Obfuscating Stupidity: Compare Iceburg at the end of Water Seven to Iceburg when we first met him. He very nearly fooled even the secret agents who spent five years watching him with the act.
Obi-Wan Moment: A few mentors face death with dignity, leaving the crying to those they leave behind. Bellemere reassures Nami while being shot by Arlong and Corazon calmly settles his business with Doflamingo while hiding Law.
Obligatory Swearing: Perhaps in an effort to distance itself from 4Kids and the general perception of One Piece being overly kiddy, the uncut Funimation dub is one of the more foulmouthed dubs heard. Though the strongest they ever go is "shit" (courtesy of Buggy and Sanji), it is a bit jarring to count up a total of thirty swears in one particular episode.
- Chopper has a similar tendency, though only when he's being complimented, showcasing his insecurity and dislike of humans by dancing in joy while insulting them.
Objectshifting: This is the fate of anyone failing a contest at the Colosseum of Dressrosa: they are dumped into a pit and turned into Living Toys. While they retain human memory and personality, they are unable to do anything but the bidding of the Donquixote Family and are, for the most part, unable to say anything about it; plus, almost everyone who ever met them will be made to forget that they were human.
Obviously Evil: Gekko Moria, Spandam, the newer additions to Blackbeard's crew, Blackbeard himself, ALL Level Six inmates, Wapol, the Celestial Dragons, Captain Morgan, Caesar Clown, Donquixote Doflamingo, Kaido.
Occam's Razor: Played with. The Straw Hats receive a distress call that mentions how cold it is, but the island it came from is boiling hot. While Usopp puzzles over this, Luffy suggests the caller was just an idiot.
Ocean of Adventure: The large bulk of the story takes place in the setting's island-strewn global ocean, following the adventures of a crew of nominal pirates as the pinball between an endless series of strange islands and misadventures.
Ocean Punk: It's not called "The Great Age of Piracy" for nothing. The whole world is a big ocean filled with islands and with one continent, the Red Line. The main means of transportation is by ship, which leads to widespread piracy.
Odd Name Out:
- The Seven Warlords of the Sea have Blackbeard and later Buggy, who don't have animal themes.
- The Blackbeard Pirates begin with Doc Q, who is not named after a historical pirate like the rest (although they later pick up Shiryu, who is also not included in this naming theme).
- Of the Eleven Supernovas (including Zoro), only Luffy and Killer are not named after historical pirates.
- The three ancient weapons are named Pluton, Poseidon, and Uranus. They're all classical gods, but the fact that Hades/Pluto and Poseidon/Neptune are two members of the "big three" Olympian gods led many to believe that the third weapon would be named after the third member of the trio, Zeus/Jupiter, as opposed to Uranus, one of the primordial gods.
Odd Reaction Out:
- When the Straw Hat crew enters Thriller Bark territory for the first time, they first meet Brook the skeletal musician playing an eerie music. The entire crew screams in fright... except for Robin, who keeps being stone-faced.
- During Baroque Works' meeting in Rainbase, Crocodile demonstrates his Touch of Death on Mr. 3. All the other agents are visibly horrified — except Mr. 1, who takes it with the usual cold-blooded stoicism.
Ode to Food: Big Mom's introduction is through a villainous song about a wedding cake.
Official Couple: Very few, seeing how One Piece is in a world with No Hugging, No Kissing. In fact, most of the official couples are married though usually one of the spouses (usually the mother) is dead. Examples are Usopp's parents (mom dead, father a pirate), Vivi's parents (mom dead, father a king), Princess Shirahoshi's parents (mom killed, father a king), and Rebecca's parents (mom killed, father missing but was actually turned into a toy and has been watching over her the whole time. Also Roger and Rouge, being Together in Death.
- After the time skip alive couples have began appearing. Sai and Baby 5, Aladdin and Praline & Chiffon and Bege are married couples with both parties alive and are show to be very affectionate.
Offscreen Romance: Oda has stated that he isn't very good at writing romance, so this is to be expected; one example is how Mr. 9 and Miss Monday hooking up and having a child after the Time Skip when, in their previous appearances, they only interact as fellow members of Baroque Works. Subverted, however, by Rebecca's parents Kyros and Scarlet; there's a dedicated flashback story about how the two get together, even if it's mostly shown in short romantic montages.
Offstage Villainy: Eustass Kid. The only rookie with a bounty higher than Luffy's before the timeskip. Reason being is his violent behaviour (read: killing anyone who laughed at him), yet we don't really see it ever happen. Until Chapter 594, that is.
- In general, any pirates that aren't explicitly antagonists will usually have only verbal indication of how they got their bounty, if that.
Older Than They Look: Dr. Kureha is 140-years-old and has the body of a 20-year-old, and certainly the vitality of one too, based on her capacity for violence. Heck, even though her face DOES show her age somewhat, she still doesn't look a DAY over 90...
Once an Episode: Not in the manga proper, but ten SBS sessions ended with Oda interviewing one of the Japanese voice actors for the Straw Hats. The trope comes into play during each interview — Oda asks the interviewee what SBS really stands for. ...All of them didn't get the answer right. ^note
One-Book Author: With the exception of Emlyn Morenelli, none of the actors from the Singaporean or "Oden" dub have done anything except One Piece.
One Degree of Separation: Nearly every main character in the series has a connection to another or more.
One-Man Army: Capone "Gang" Bege, one of the Supernovas, is literally this. His Devil Fruit power allows him to store miniaturized soldiers and supplies inside his body, releasing them (and transforming them back into full size) to do battle. This basically makes him a human-sized walking fortress.
- Who are we kidding? The whole series is ''filled'' with One Man Armies.
One-Steve Limit: Averted; because there's so many characters, some of them inevitably end up sharing names, especially if you count filler material:
- There are two different characters named Scotch — a cyborg living on one of Kaido's islands and one of Caesar Clown's Yeti Cool Brothers (although it should be noted that the former is only named in one of the data books).
- Counting filler material, there are three "Puddings" (Aka Purin's); one was a Marine commodore murdered by Arlong years ago (albeit named Purin Purin), another is Sanji's bride-to-be Charlotte Pudding, and the last is the non-canon shoe-shiner boy "Pudding" featured in Movie 12.
- There are two characters named Scarlet; the big gorilla in Shiki's crew from Strong World, and Rebecca's mother in the Dressrosa arc; albeit the latter character's name is spelled "Scarlett", with two "t"s.
- Long before X Drake and Jewerly Bonney's appearances, two filler characters, from the G-8 arc and second TV special respectively, were also named Drake and Bonney.
- The Wano Country arc introduced Tsuru, a tea shop owner completely unrelated to the Vice-Admiral of the same name. To differentiate her, Wano's Tsuru is sometimes referred to by fans as "O-Tsuru".
- For an English language-only example, two characters are named Carrot; a young boy from Usopp's pirate crew, and a young female Mink introduced much later. This doesn't apply to the Japanese version, where their names are different. For the English versions, fans often refer to the boy by his Japanese name of "Ninjin" to avoid confusion.
- Holding the record for the series, there are four characters named Billy: A pirate in Loguetown, a bandit in Alabasta, a cook working for the Marines, and an electric bird in Merveille. All of them are non-canon, meaning the manga could produce an official Billy at any moment.
One, Two, Three, Four, Go!: Opening 15, "We Go!", has the refrain "Ichi, ni, sunshine, yon, WE GO!"
One Super One Powerset: Devil's Fruit abilities are stated to never get stronger per se, but you can discover new and better ways to use them. You can also "awaken" a Devil Fruit ability to gain a greater variety of abilities. It is also a rule that you can only use one, that you'll die if you try to gain a second, but Blackbeard seems to have found a way around that.
Only a Flesh Wound: Massive amounts of blood loss keeping Roronoa Zoro down? Nope, he's good! Subverted when he initially seems to be recovering just fine from his battle with Kuma, only for his injuries to bite him in the ass much later.
Only Flesh Is Safe:
- The Float-Float Fruit power is a bit of a mixed-case: it is a levitation power that can only affect the user himself — and inanimate objects. All other organic matter and lifeforms are immune to direct use.
- Gladius' Pop Pop Fruit power is to make any non-organic object inflate and then pop, potentially spreading harmful shrapnels. Played with that it can be used on Living Toys as they're made of non-organic matter.
Only I Can Defeat Him: Usually, Luffy is the only who can defeat the strongest antagonist of each arc while the rest of the Straw Hats deal with his subordinates.
- Subverted in the Fish-Man Island Arc. The Big Bad of that arc was defeated by Zoro with one slash, and it became increasingly clear that any one of the Monster Trio could have defeated him. The fact that he was the strongest and the leader of the antagonists, no matter how weak he was compared to them, is the only reason why Luffy bothered to fight him at all.
Only Mostly Dead: Luffy, after getting covered in poison and thrown into level five of Impel Down.
- Zoro, after his fight with Mihawk, then Hatchan, then much later, Mr. 1
Mr. 1:"What's your secret, swordsman? You've taken too many hits! You've lost too much blood! Don't you know you're dead?"
The Only One Allowed to Defeat You: Zoro has this mindset against Mihawk. And, to a more obsessive extent, Gold Lion Shiki feels this way towards Roger. So much so that he spends 20 years working on a plan to eradicate the "new age" that he feels is an insult to the age he and Roger lived in.
- Invoked on the villainous side during Luffy's fight with Katakuri; Katakuri's sister Flampe tries to help him take down Luffy, but he was not happy to find out about her assistance and shouted at her to not interfere.
Only One Female Mold: Initially this was true except for the rare Token Mini-Moe; Oda finally decided to be just as outlandish with women as he was with men.
Only Sane Man: Nami is the most level-headed of the group and unlike Robin, isn't content with letting the crew doing whatever they like. She's the most outspoken in taking the safe road and not making waves as she seeks to ensure the crew's/her safety but she will be occasionally sidetracked by money. As the number two, Zoro has bouts of sanity but he'll never say no to fight, and does Luffy provokes them.
- Robin is an interesting case, as while she is The Stoic (and, on the surface, the only vaguely sane crewmember), she also blithely accepts all of the crew's weirdness with a motherly chuckle while providing her own morbid brand of weirdness. She appears to be the only sane one, but doesn't really take the role of Only Sane Man.
- In Buggy's Impel Down crew, Mr. 3 is the only one that can see Buggy isn't all-powerful.
- As other pirates see it, the world is this to the Straw Hat pirates. No ordinary pirate would dare even disrespect the World Nobles. The Straw Hats not only have no idea who those people even are at first, but both Zoro and Luffy attack them (Zoro was stopped, Luffy succeeded). The reactions of the other pirates range from impressed to angry.
- As of Chapter 579, Coby. He realizes how much of a waste of human life the Paramount War is turning into and loudly begs everyone to stop fighting.
  - Smoker and Tashigi realized what the Marines were doing was wrong as well; Coby was just the first to say anything about it.
Only Six Faces: Averted. While in the earlier years there were some characters that looked familiar, particularly the women, now a days every single character has a very distinctive look. Even one shot characters that die the chapter they're introduced or random people littering the background. The only time characters look the same is when it's done deliberately due the the characters being related or being used to draw parallels between a character and another character with a similar world view from a previous generation. Of course, given the sheer size of the setting, this involves a lot of Gonk going around...
Ontological Mystery: Several big ones.
- What is One Piece?
- Where do Devil Fruits come from and how do they work?
- What happened during the Void Century?
- What is the Will of D.?
Opt Out: Vivi ultimately refuses to join the Straw Hats because she's still attached to Alabasta. All of them still see her as a True Companions.
- Also, Jimbei. He's already accepted to be part of the Straw Hat, but when the Sun Pirates are attacked by Big Mom's forces, he cannot bring himself to not help his former crew and promises Luffy to join him later.
- Usually, anyone Luffy asks to join his crew will Opt Out at first until Luffy wins them over - the main exception being Robin, who uniquely invited herself onto the Merry. (Usopp and Brook are sort-of inversions: Usopp almost immediately agreed to sail with the Straw Hats but didn't say "I join" per se, something that gets brought back up during his mutiny against Luffy in Water 7; Brook also agreed immediately, but left just as quickly to get his shadow back from Thriller Bark, and once Moria is beaten joins for real without any fuss.)
Ordered Apology: Inverted, Zoro demands Luffy to wait until Usopp apologizes to Luffy of his own volition. It can also be seen as a double subversion, because Usopp's apology happened only because Zoro was so adamant about it in the first place.
Organic Technology: The Den Den Mushi. There's an explanation on how they work in the SBS, but that just drives it home further. Of course, given the ridiculous nature of the series and SBS, they fit right in.
Our Angels Are Different: Winged humanoids (with the exception of Eneru, who has drums attached to a ring where his wings should be) that live in floating islands made of clouds. Their ancestors migrated there from the moon, when its resources were used up.
Our Clones Are Different:
- The Pacifista are cyborg clones of warlord Bartholomew Kuma, who served as the prototype to the project. They seem to be non-sapient, mindlessly following orders from whoever the highest available authority is.
- A new variant of Pacifista, the 'Seraph' series, is introduced in the Egghead Arc, with each Seraph being a clone of a Warlord of the Sea. All of the clones so far have had Lunarian DNA (or 'Lineage Factor') used in their creation. Personality traits are retained through cloning, as is seen by Boa Hancock's clone having the same undying devotion to Luffy as the original; in addition, Devil Fruit powers can be conferred upon clones, even if the original individual didn't consume one.
Our Dragons Are Different: A filler arc introduces the Thousand Years Dragons, a race of pacifistic, fur-covered dragons, and Ryuma was said to have slain a flying dragon in the past.
- On Punk Hazard, an island half wreathed in flames and half freezing cold, there's a giant dragon. It breaths fire and also has Adaptive Ability to weather environments. There's another one in the other half that's covered in snow and ice that's smaller, faster and stronger than the other one. Both of them are artificial creatures, created by Dr. Vegapunk.
- Moreover, in contrast to the Sennenryu, which are eastern type dragons, the ones on Punk Hazard are clearly western types. And they're actually canon.
- And then we're introduced to Momonosuke, Kin'emon's (and later revealed to actually be Kozuki Oden's) son who ate an artificial Devil Fruit developed by Vegapunk allowing him to take on the form of a Chinese dragon.
- In Wano Country, we find out that Kaido has a Devil Fruit power which allows him to transform into a giant eastern dragon.
Our Giants Are Bigger: The entire series is crammed with 'em — to the point where One Piece is the current page image. Beyond just the giants though, One Piece is also notable for having huge humans. For starters, the average height for men in the One Piece world is clearly well over 6 feet, because guys like Zoro (5'11") are shown to be shorter than most other men while guys like Luffy (5'8") are practically dwarfed by everybody. And that's just the average humans; there are guys literally between 8 and 12 feet tall just walking around casually. Then, there are humans who can grow to be big enough to resemble small giants. One example among many is Big Mom, who was inexplicably three times the size of her parents by the time she was 5 years old and the same size as giant children, growing to 28 feet by adulthood. Then, to crank it up to eleven, there are giants even among the giants; whereas the average giant is in the 50ft range, you have some rare ones like Oars who can grow to be about 200 feet tall or so.
Our Humans Are Different: Humans in One Piece have some rather bizarre traits even unrelated to Devil Fruit powers:
- Typical humans are of realistic height, but there are some around two and half to five meters high (Crocodile, Brook, Kuzan, Doflamingo, Katakuri, etc.), and some really big folk six to eight meters from head to toe, and often quite broad as well (Gecko Moria, Kuma, Whitebeard). These are distinct from actual giants — Word of God is that this is simply how height naturally varies in this world.
- The author's also stated it's common for humans to live to be 140 — or in Kureha's case, reach 139 without even slowing down.
- Some explicitly human characters have simian facial features and even grow horns, apparently totally naturally. This may relate to how various "nonhuman" races like Giants and Fish-men are referred to as "tribes" and can interbreed with humans, implying they're very closely related.
- Besides their capability for Charles Atlas Superpower, willpower and just general power can seemingly affect biology in strange ways: Ace's mom held her pregnancy in for 20 months through sheer willpower to protect him from people seeking to end his bloodline. One of the post-timeskip Admirals states he hasn't eaten in three years because it's too big a hassle, but he's apparently no worse for the wear.
Our Mermaids Are Different: Merfolk in One Piece's world resembles classic mermaids, with a human upper body and a fish tail. However, the fish-type changes from mermaid to mermaid, covering all species of fish, from goldfish to shark, and even mollusks like Hyouzou, a blue-rings octopus merman. They can breed with humans, creating mermaid-human hybrids, or with Fish-men, with whom they can give birth to either Fish-men or merfolk, but not hybrids. Female mermaids' tails split when they reach the age of 30, allowing them to walk on land.
Our Werebeasts Are Different: Zoan fruits turn the recipients into werebeasts. They tend to be dangerous mass of muscle even if the template creature was relatively harmless (this is also a general tendency among werebeasts. A werehamster can be as dangerous as a werewolf.)
Our Zombies Are Different: Type V and C. Shadow-Shadow Fruit allows Warlord of the Sea Gecko Moria to steal shadows off living people, and then put them in corpses reconstructed by Dr. Hogback via surgery. These zombies retain the personality traits and fighting abilities of the original owner of the shadow.
Out of Focus: During one arc the Straw Hats were pushed out of the story so that the focus could be shifted to Ace and the Whitebeard Pirates, only making cameos on the chapter covers.
- Chopper, Nami, Sanji, and Brook were out of the story in the manga for the entire year of 2014 and missed the first half of 2015 before finally reappearing in late July. Zoro, Usopp, Robin, and Franky then received this treatment two arcs later, having not been present since 2016.
Out of Sight, Out of Mind: Luffy has done this to some people before. Most notably: Alvida when she was still fat.
Outside-Context Problem:
- When Luffy started his pirate career in East Blue, he was an out-context foe for both pirates and the Marines. Devil Fruits in the Blues are so rare that they are often believed to be mere myth and those who do have powers are seen as demons and monsters. So when Luffy, a rubber man, came along able to deflect bullets and absorb blunt blows without taking any damage, most of his early enemies didn't know what to do except for Buggy and Arlong, both who sailed the Grand Line where Devil Fruit users are more common.
- Luffy does it again during his battle against Eneru. Before Eneru met Luffy, he was completely unbeatable and most of his fights ended in a curb stomp. That is because Eneru had the Rumble Rumble Fruit that made him into living lightning. The fruit is so powerful that it is classified as unbeatable. However, since Luffy is a rubber man, he is completely immune to lightning. Even better, rubber doesn't even exist on Skypiea, so Luffy is also an out of context material. Eneru had no clue that a foe like Luffy could exist. The face he makes when he realizes that Luffy isn't affected by his powers is priceless.
- Chopper, mostly thanks to his Rumble Balls. Zoan users have three transformations: their default form, an animal hybrid, and a full animal form. Chopper has seven transformations that mix the strengths and weaknesses of his default three forms, which surprises even people who are used to fighting Devil Fruit users. Then there is what happens if he eats three Rumble Balls within six hours before the Time Skip.
- Franky when he was first introduced. The Straw Hats didn't know how to really fight him since he's a cyborg. They actually thought he was a Devil Fruit user. CP 9 had a better advantage since half of them lived in Water 7 for five years and personally knew him. Those who didn't know or understand Franky's abilities had a hard time countering him, especially since he's literally Made of Iron.
- Luffy and the Straw Hat Pirates tend to be an outside context-foe for the pirate-Marine conflict as a whole. A key element of the setting is that the world had mostly settled into a political stalemate decades ago, (if not centuries), to the point where nearly everyone follows certain rules without even considering other possibilities. So, when the Straw Hats come along with no regard for anything but their personal goals, people tend to be taken by surprise. The Marines aren't sure what to do about people who aren't afraid of Buster Calls and the sheer force of the government (not to mention a pirate crew that's relatively altruistic), and pirates have no experience dealing with people who cannot be intimidated or bribed, or will take a personal stake in a conflict that predated them. Even the more chaotic or maverick pirate crews are consistently surprised about what expectations the Straw Hats will betray.
- The Arlong Pirates are a completely beyond the norm to the people of East Blue. Since the pirates of East Blue tend to be very weak compared to other seas, any pirate from the Grand Line is seen as big trouble. Arlong could have taken over all of East Blue since no one knew how to deal with him and those who did were busy in the Grand Line.
- For those who don't know about it, Haki. The Straw Hats are initially caught flatfooted fighting people who can predict their movements or harm Devil Fruit users without seastone or an element advantage. They get better since Haki becomes much more common in the New World.
- Although far from a villain, Smoker was this to the Straw Hats when he was first introduced. He was the first Marine they met who was competent, powerful and not corrupt. Most of all, he was the first one to introduce them to Logia type Devil Fruits. Luffy was utterly powerless against him since none of his hits connected and would have been captured if it wasn't for Dragon saving him. Until the Time Skip, Luffy always ran if he saw Smoker.
- Outside-Genre Foe: At least two of the films feature villains whose powers and nature make them seem very out of place in the One Piece world. Baron Omatsuri and the Secret Island has Lily Carnation, a Botanical Abomination who feeds on human flesh and can resurrect those it eats as eerily life-like botanical clones. One Piece Film: Red has Tot Musica, an Eldritch Abomination born from humanity's negative emotions which is inextricably tied to the Sing-Sing Fruit and exists in two dimensions simultaneously, which is even referred to as "The Demon King". Arguably, the Big Bad of The Cursed Holy Sword counts; whilst the concept of swords in One Piece'' being cursed does exist, no other sword has demonstrated the ability to control their user and manipulate their user's body to the point of regenerating a severed arm.
Outside-the-Box Tactic: A Devil Fruit power sometimes provides an unforeseen advantage against another power. One of the more prominent examples would be low-tier villain Mr. 3, whose power to create objects out of wax ends up temporarily providing the single best countermeasure against poisonous Implacable Man Magellan.
- A more recent exemple would be how Brook's ability to shake the very soul of his opponent thanks to his music and his nature as a resurrected skeleton was the perfect way to neutralize Big Mom's homies, who are essentially lifeless objects given consciousness through Big Mom's power.
Overdrawn at the Blood Bank: Zoro nearly always gets covered in his own blood, but quickly recovers each time.
Overshadowed by Awesome:
- Usopp is one of the weakest members of the Straw Hats. He cannot do half the things the strongest can do. However, he's still ridiculously dangerous compared to the average person.
- New World Pirate Cavendish entered the New World with a bounty of 220 million three years ago and was all the rage and fear in the papers. Then came the Whitebeard's Summit War and the Eleven Supernovas and the papers didn't cover him again.

Page-Turn Surprise:
- In the Dressrosa Arc, Usopp's wild reaction to being force-fed a super-hot grape is revealed by turning the page and occupies up the whole thing.
- Enel's huge Jaw Drop.
- Not to mention the fantastic reveal of Ace's heritage during the Whitebeard War arc. It came completely out of the left field for everyone.
- At the start of the Sabaody Archipelago arc, it turns out that Duval, the leader of the gang the Straw Hats are fighting, has a grudge against one of the Straw Hats. What follows are two such surprises in rapid succession. The first is when Duval reveals that he has a grudge against Sanji, and the second is when Duval's mask is knocked off and he turns out to be a stranger who looks just like Sanji's poorly drawn "Wanted!" Poster.
Painful Transformation: Hody Jones underwent one after overdosing on Energy Steroids. Afterwards, Hody is seen as a bigger and much more powerful monster.
Papa Wolf: In this series, it might be easier to list the male characters that don't seem to have shades of this, as even the villians tend to fiercely guard their comrades and crewmembers (or at least the ones they judge valuable). For example:
- Don't mess with any of Whitebeard's crew members. He'll storm into a heavily fortified Headquarters with all his divisions and all his allies, just to save one crewmember.
- Shanks is a slightly more laid back version. While he briefly freaked out when the bandit Higuma escaped with Luffy, he swam as fast as possible to save Luffy from a sea king, sacrificed his arm in the process, and, while bleeding, glared/used Haki on said sea king to scare it off while holding Luffy with his remaining arm. One wonders what he would have done to Higuma if he had gotten there before the sea king...
- Garp is a Grandpa Wolf who was going to kill Akainu for causing Ace's death and he would have done so if Sengoku hadn't stopped him.
- Fisher Tiger, he might be strict with his crewmates and have hatred issues, but just remember he scaled a cliff to rescue several of them and gave the World Nobles quite a black eye in the process.
- Kyros embodies this trope with Rebecca. Ever since the Donquixote Pirates took over Dressrosa, he's worked tirelessly to protect Rebecca and to train her to protect herself when he's unable to (although he's hell-bent on the second scenario one day being unnecessary).
- Both Donquixote brothers show this trait, from Doffy jumping out a window to get to Punk Hazard to check on what stopped to Monet, to brutally taking down a pirate that was going to hurt Kid!Baby 5 and Kid!Law in a flashback; to Corazon/Rosinante trying to keep kids safe and away from his brother via Cruel to Be Kind, to searching for a cure for Law's poisoning for six months, and consequently attacking every single hospital that refused to treat Law and made him cry.
- Charlotte Katakuri is fiercely protective of his 82 younger siblings, and they look up to him as a hero as a result, especially since their fathers are all cast away by Big Mom.
  - One of those fathers, Pound, did get a chance to protect his child, as he attacked Charlotte Oven to prevent him from arresting his daughter Charlotte Chiffon despite having no fighting skill whatsoever. Since Oven is extremely strong, this meant Pound's actions quickly became self-sacrificial.
Paper-Thin Disguise:
Several throughout the series. The most noticeable cases include Usopp disguising himself as Sogeking, Foxy's various disguises, the fake Straw Hats, and Luffy's outfit in Dressrosa. Success varies.
- When the Arabastian monarch Cobra and Igaram, the captain of the royal gards, wanted to spy on how his daughter Vivi becaming friends with the locals, they tried to disguise themselves, but were found out the second they were seen (by a bunch of young children); Their attempts to hide themselves to not be seen in the first place were as ineffective as their shitty disguises.
Parental Abandonment: Seems to be the root of some daddy issues Ace has. He disowns his biological father and even goes so far as using his mother's surname, "Portgas".
Parrying Bullets: Most of the accomplished swordsmen are shown to be capable of this, no matter the difference between the sword and the projectile. Mihawk can deflect tiny bullets with his BFS just as easily as Tashigi can deflect cannonballs with her katana.
Party Scattering: The Straw Hats are scattered across the world by Bartholomew Kuma and only come back together after the Time Skip.
People Puppets / Razor Floss: Turns out Doflamingo's powers are a combination of these. The String-String Fruit allows him to create strings out of his body, as in practically invisible strings to control people's movements, on the scale of an island at that. Or strings strong enough to inflict grievous cuts or resist haki-imbued attacks.
Perfect Play A.I.: The old One Piece: Grand Battle series of games on the Gamecube and Playstation 2, mostly the final one which was released only in America: Grand Adventure. The opponent AI is actually pretty dumb on normal and hard difficulty, but hardest? Hoo boy. You might as well be playing with a handicap against you; the AI no longer gets stunned when caught in a combo, (so they can attack you between punches, meaning slow Mighty Glacier characters are next to useless) they're programmed to immediately grab or use a guard breaker the second you press the block button, and the ones with counter attacks will use them perfectly without fail. What's worse is that, unlike most fighting games, they often will outright have double your health, strength, and defense even when it defies common sense. The only way to win is to spam aerial attacks, items, and super attacks and hope you don't die (though throwing items no longer works either, sincee they have perfect timing and will catch them no matter what position they're in and throw it back at you).
Perpetual Storm:
- Before the timeskip, the On Air Pirates are shown visiting an island on the New World that constantly rains lightning.
- Also in Punk Hazard, a literal Hailfire Peaks, with one side covered in flames and lava eruptions, while the other is full of blizzards, and the center of the island has a perpetual typhoon due to the contrast of the temperatures.
Persecuted Intellectuals: In Robin's backstory, the scholars of Ohara got annihilated by the Marines because they pursue forbidden knowledge — specifically, that of the "Void Century" which the World Government refuses to tell at all costs. Since Robin was affiliated with them and managed to escape, she became a wanted criminal ever since she was 8.
Person of Mass Destruction: Most Logia type Devil Fruits turn the consumer into this, with the known exceptions being Smoker and possibly Caribou.
- Some Paramecia type Devil Fruits can make the consumer this, the best example being Whitebeard who has the power to create shockwaves strong enough to destroy the world.
- Princess Shirahoshi has the ability to summon and communicate with Sea Kings, a power if used incorrectly, could very well destroy islands. She isn't the first one to have this ability, as another mermaid princess had this power. Who was called Poseidon, the weapon that the Poneglygh of Shandora had described. So in essence, Shirahoshi is now the new Poseidon.
- Big Mom is referred to as a "natural born destroyer" due to her highly abnormal strength and growth rate. She goes on rampages for food sometimes, and no one has ever been able to do more than slow her destruction down, which often comes at a high cost.
Person with the Clothing: "Straw Hat" Luffy. It even extends to his crew which are known as the Straw Hats.
Pet the Dog: We know Smoker's not so bad after he buys ice-cream for a sad girl.
- In Chapter 650, a surprising one was revealed when Akainu spared Aokiji after winning their duel over who would be the next Fleet Admiral.
- Subverted by Big Mom, who cuts a deal with Sanji to spare his crewmates if he went along with his arranged marriage into her family. However, she was lying and intended on killing them all.
Phlebotinum Overload: If a human were to eat two Devil Fruits, they would be destroyed instantly. Blackbeard managed to do exactly this and stole a second power from Whitebeard, with the help of his first power.
Pictorial Letter Substitution: The title logo◊ has a skeleton with a straw hat for an "O", a silhouette of Luffy as as "I", and an anchor as an "E". An early volume's Q&A segment features a Japanese reader referring to the series as "NEP ECE," which the author said was very common at the time.
Pilot Movie: An OVA was released by Production I.G. a year before the Toei anime began airing, featuring a completely different voice cast and animation style.
Pint-Sized Powerhouse: Luffy. At 174 cm, he may seem like a bit too tall for the trope's standards, but in fact, 174 cm is tiny in the One Piece verse if you're not a child or an Innocent Bystander (and sometimes even then...). And Luffy is usually drawn in a style that makes him look much shorter than he actually is.
Pirate Booty: Most of the pirates are after the One Piece, the treasure amassed by Gol D. Roger during his life as a King of Pirates. However, no one is really sure of its exact nature.
Pirate King: Gold Roger, who held the in-universe title of "Pirate King". He got the title from conquering the whole dangerous sea of Grand Line and generally making a big impression. Before he's executed, he told the world to find his valued treasure, the "One Piece". Luffy's story goal is becoming the next Pirate King by finding said treasure.
- There's also the Four Emperors (Yonkou), four notorious pirate crews in the New World (second half of Grand Line, after passing the Red Line) who conquer lots of islands, affiliated with many other pirate crews, and generally being The Dreaded. Whitebeard, in particular, is sometimes known as "The Man Closest to One Piece".
- In the Dressrosa arc, Don Chinjao gives an insight about what it takes to be a Pirate King:
The seas that lie ahead of you... are littered with countless souls who possess the king's will. Your fate will play out there.. You and your fellow conquerors will butt heads and vie for the top spot... The last man standing there is who the Pirate King will be!!
Pirate Girl: Female pirates are not unusual. Some prominent examples are Alvida, the first pirate captain Luffy fights, Boa Hancock who leads a crew of women, and Big Mom.
Pirates: Two thirds of the cast are pirates, beginning with the protagonists. They go from happy-go-lucky partygoers to bloodthirsty and cruel tyrants.
Pirate Song: Binks' Sake introduced Thriller Bark is a famous song in West Blue. Most pirates from West Blue knows this song.
The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything: The Straw Hats don't actually do any pillaging. They are pirates In Name Only, and really just fun loving adventurers, who sometimes play the roles of heroes to people in trouble. They once tried to steal money from people they had helped out, but the "victims" were happy to pay them. Nami steals, but it's more of a compulsive habit she is at odds with, is usually Played for Laughs, and she is made sympathetic.
- Justified in-universe, since anyone who sets sail without the World Government's authorization gets officially labeled as a pirate. Most pirates in the One Piece world DO pillage and rob, but the most wanted ones, like the Strawhats, are simply guilty of ticking off the wrong people.
Planet of Hats:
- Amazon Lily: the isle of women.
- Kamabakka Kingdom: the isle of transvestites.
Playing Both Sides: The Alabasta Civil War was manipulated by Sir Crocodile.
Playing Drunk: Zoro and Nami do this during Whisky Peak. Nami also used it frequently as a tactic for her pirate robbing prior to becoming a Straw Hat.
Playing the Heart Strings: The violin rendition of Bink's Sake has been used for devastating effect in the anime.
Playing with Fire: Portgas D. Ace has eaten the Flame Flame Fruit, and became a fire Logia meaning he's become fire, can shoot huge fire projectiles, etc etc...
- And now, with Ace's death, Sabo, who's eaten the Flame Flame Fruit.
Plot Coupon: The Poneglyphs are ancient stones with messages written on it, scattered across the world. We've seen Poneglyphs detailing of ancient Weapons of Mass Destruction, but recently they've come across red Poneglyphs. Four of these red Poneglyphs tell the location of four islands, whose intersection point marks the location of Laugh Tale, the final destination of Grand Line. One is located at Mokomo Dukedom, two are under the Four Emperor's control, and the last one's location is unknown.
Plot Tailored to the Party: Used quite a bit. Typically, each of the Straw Hats will manage to get paired off with an opponent that matches their abilities; Zoro goes head to head with swordsmen (or failing that, The Dragon), Sanji fights opponents who use martial arts.
- Initially subverted in Enies Lobby: Kalifa's first opponent was Sanji, the Straw Hat who is least equipped to fight her. After he gets his butt kicked, Nami tags in, and lo, Nami's new weapon is the perfect counter for Kalifa's Devil Fruit.
- Usopp generally subverts this by getting into fights with opponents that are quite a bit stronger than him (Chuu, Miss Merry Christmas and Mr 4), but then it's played straight on Thriller Bark where his cynicism makes him immune to Perona's powers.
- Of course Robin usually inverts this: instead of facing the enemy she would do best against, she faces the few enemies which she can't defeat instantly by snapping their necks or spines, and has to get incredibly creative to find a way around it.
- Inverted in the third movie, where Sanji fights a swordsman and Zoro fights a kick-based martial artist. Of course, it's all a setup for an Aww, Look! They Really Do Respect Each Other moment when the two admit that their opponents' swordsmanship/martial arts aren't as good as "that person".
- Used for Luffy in the Skypeia Arc. His Rubber Man powers allowed him to automatically No-Sell Eneru's electric attacks and nullify his Logia's ability. The fact that it was still a close fight is a testament to how high up in the Sorting Algorithm of Evil Eneru really was.
- Also when Bartholomew Kuma separates them, they all go to the exact right island for them to be on in order to power up. Nami's on a weather island, Zoro's on Mihawk's private island, Chopper's in a land of advanced medicine, etc. Invoked on his part, in that Kuma sent them there on purpose so that they could power up, because he believes Luffy is the new Nika.
- Brook faces off with none other than Big Mom herself, who's Revive-Revive Fruit ends up being a counter to Big Mom's own Soul-Soul Fruit powers. Unfortunately, pure brute force by the latter was enough to overcome him. But he was shown then and even afterwards to inconvence her by damaging her most powerful "Homies".
Plot-Triggering Death:
- The death of Gold Roger launches the Golden Age of Piracy, the setting of the story. Whitebeard's death, however, has caused things to take a turn for the worse.
- The ultimate trigger behind the entire Pirate Alliance Saga is the death of Corazon/Donquixote Rosinante at the hand of his elder brother Doflamingo, 13 years prior to the main story.
Poke the Poodle: The Straw Hats' one attempt at actual piracy results in them stealing gold from people who consider it worthless and were already prepared to give it to them out of gratitude.
- Actually, they were prepared to give them that PLUS a giant pillar made of pure gold and were left wondering why they left without it.
Possessing a Dead Body: Using the powers of his Devil Fruit, Brook possesses his own skeleton. His actual self is merely a spirit that can leave for the purposes of Astral Projection.
Possession Implies Mastery: It's unclear if this is the case for everyone, but in the Enies Lobby arc, Kaku and Kalifa are masters of their Devil Fruit powers by the time they need to fight, despite having had those powers for maybe a few hours.
- Actually, it has been averted at times. When Teach got Newgate's earthquake power, it was made clear he needed to practice, and still couldn't defeat Sengoku immediately. Not long after, he avoided Akainu, saying he wasn't ready to face the Admiral yet.
Post-Episode Trailer: The anime always includes a little trailer about the next episode.
Post-Game Retaliation: In the Dressrosa Arc (specifically in the Corrida Colosseum tournament) after losing to Rebecca in the Round D match, the tournament losers tried to assault her when she's about to play in the next round. Fortunately, Diamante (the event organizer of the colosseum) stops them short, saying that Rebecca won by the rules.
Powerful, but Incompetent: Some characters possess Devil Fruit powers or other abilities that on paper, would make them some of the most powerful individuals in the setting. Problem is, a lot of them have personality traits or flaws that make them too stupid, uncreative, lazy, or arrogant to figure out how to utilize their powers in effective ways, which allow their opponents to defeat them with relative ease.
Powers Do the Fighting:
- Nico Robin specializes in this, though (mostly since the Time Skip) she has no problem going up close and personal when needed. Her powers, gained from the Flower-Flower Fruit, lets her sprout copies of any of her body parts anywhere, from herself, the ground, walls of buildings, to people's bodies. She uses them mainly to strangle people from afar.
- Trafalgar Law, with his Op-Op Fruit, can manipulate objects within a radius, or "room", as if everyone around him were a patient Strapped to an Operating Table. He rarely moves much from his position (aside from using hand gestures) while doing so. Downplayed, though, in that he's also a competent close-range fighter when the situation calls for it.
- Discussed once — it's mentioned by Pekoms of the Big Mom Pirates that people with Logia Fruit powers who practice this trope fully have short lifespans in the New World. Many fighters there employ Haki which, among other things, can bypass Logia's immunity to direct attacks.
The Power of Lust: Sanji is a Chivalrous Pervert, and part of his schtick is that he becomes enraged and empowered whenever a beautiful woman is in danger. For example, this happens in the Thriller Bark arc after he senses that Nami is in danger, bursts into flames upon becoming enraged and charges to her location at high speed.
Power Glows: A few examples here and there. A few of Zoro's attacks briefly manifest a glowing aura around himself (probably for dramatic effect), while Sanji's Diable Jambe technique has his whole foot glowing red-hot. Averted with Luffy's Gear Second technique in manga illustrations, while the anime plays it straight by giving him flush skin and a shiny, sweaty sheen, possible as a visual Shout-Out to Goku's Kaioken technique.
- Hey, Gear Second shares the same sound effect as Dragon Ball's, why not visual as well?
Power Levels: Bounties play with this. Individual pirates like to cite their bounties as a measure of their power, but since bounties represent how much the World Government wants that person captured, you can get some major disparities between bounty and actual power. Chopper, for example, has a bounty of literal pocket change despite being a formidable fighter. Usopp has an enormous bounty purely due to his mythical reputation.
- Fukurou mentions that the World Government internally uses a measure called "Doriki", where a single Marine soldier has a Doriki of 10. But this fails to account for things like Devil Fruit powers.
- A more humorous version of this is Dosun's Verbal Tics.
Power Nullifier:
- One of the abilities of Blackbeard's Dark-Dark Fruit. It deprives a Devil Fruit user of their ability as long as he touches them. Against Ace, it worked quite well, but Whitebeard proved that a muscled man twice taller than you with a bisento can still lay the hurt.
- Seastone as well. It nullifies Devil Fruit user's powers on touch, on top of vaguely weakening them. Can be used offensively (for example, Smoker has a weapon tipped with it) but most often the Marines use it to restrain Devil Fruit users.
The Power of Friendship: The Straw Hats don't invoke this as much as you might expect from a group of true companions, although they do work together on occasion.
The Power of Rock: Brook has this after picking up a guitar and becoming the Soul King. He can manipulate souls to a small degree, using his music to help influence people like hypnosis.
Power Perversion Potential:
- Happened when Sanji met a Devil Fruit user that could turn invisible. A large part of Sanji's anger stemmed from the fact that Absalom, the person with the ability, did exactly that with his powers. The other is that the powers are unique — as long as Absalom lives, nobody else can have the Clear-Clear Fruit's powers.
  Sanji: My dream, I saw it clearly. I could do so much good with it! Use it to protect NUDE GIRLS! No—I mean, I could help all mankind and NUDE GIRLS! No! I had this beautiful vision of the future and NUDE GIRLS!
- Brook learned to use his Revive-Revive Fruit to separate his soul from his body at will, able to go through walls at will. Dirty Old Man that he is, the very first thing was to use it exactly how Sanji would've (and Absalom did) used invisibility.
- This is mentioned a lot in the SBS sections, to the point of being a Running Gag — and Oda will always answer very seriously and bluntly. Luffy's penis can stretch (and this was alluded to in series, at one point), Buggy can make his penis detach and make it fly around, yes, Jozu, who can turn into diamond, can have a diamond penis, and yes, Nico Robin can make copies of her breasts appear on any surface she likes.
  - SBS 77 confirms that Gladius' penis can explode, and it is terrifying.
Powers via Possession: Luffy absorbed 100 shadows made solid by Gecko Moria from various people, including a highly proficient swordsman Marine, and basically turned into a blue Hulk and could use all the skills and techniques of the people the shadows were from.
Power Trio: All over the place!
- The Monster Trio of Luffy, Zoro and Sanji. Bonus points for the latter two having no Devil Fruit powers whatsoever.
- Formerly the Admirals Borsalino (Kizaru), Sakazuki (Akainu), and Kuzan (Aokiji). With Kuzan resigning from the Marines, and Sakazuki promoted, this is no longer the case.
  - After the Time Skip we now have a new trio of admirals: aforementioned Borsalino (Kizaru), Issho (Fujitora) and Aramaki (Ryokugyu).
- Briefly on Sabaody, Luffy, Law and Kid.
- The 3 Sweet Commanders of the Big Mom Pirates: Charlotte Cracker, Smoothie, and Katakuri.
- Animal Kingdom Pirates' 3 Lead Performers: Jack, Queen, and King.
Power-Up Food: Devil Fruits. The first person to eat it will gain a power, which can be random but with extraordinary potential. In exchange the user will forever lose strength in water, as well as having a weakness to Seastone.
- Played with by Luffy, who can heal/get stronger when he eats meat.
- Done straight with Brook, who doesn't heal on his own, but can repair his skeletal body by drinking milk, since milk helps strengthen bones. Sanji immediately points out it doesn't work that way.
- Attack Cuisine from Kamabakka Kingdom is the reason the okama there are so strong.
- Franky powers himself and many of his machines with cola.
Precursors: The lost civilization from the "Blank Century" which created the Poneglyphs.
Prehensile Hair: Kumadori; more recently, Sandersonia and Marigold, and even more recently it appears Onigumo manages to be both this and a spider-hybrid at the same time.
Prejudice Aesop: The main lesson showcased in the Fish-Man Island Arc. Fish-man and mermaids are considered a major minority race within the series, with many having suffered enslavement from humans. The caused a few Fish-man such as Arlong and Hody to have grudges against the human race and go out of their way to kill and enslave those they can catch themselves, regardless if they've done anything to them or not. Hody himself even admitted humans never did anything to him, he just grew up in a negative environment that taught him humanity were lesser beings. After the Straw Hats defeat him and his crew, the royalty of the kingdom, already trying hard to make relations with humanity, promise to take steps so this won't happen again and teach their people that not all humans are evil.
Pretty Boy:
- Parodied with Sanji's Parage Shot, which is capable of literally beating people pretty. Iron Mask Duval was grateful; Wanze of CP7 was not.
- In the anime, we get to see Luffy from Hancock's point of view, where he is very, very Bishounen, complete with sparkles.
Pinned to the Ground:
- In Marineford, Sengoku slams Garp head-first into the ground holding him in place after Garp tried to kill Akainu for killing Ace.
- When Rebecca attacks Luffy in the Corrida Colosseum, he dodges her attack, jumps into the air and pushes her to the ground using his feet against her arms landing on her stomach pinning her to the ground.
- On Whole Cake island, after the plan to assassinate Big Mom has gone awry, Luffy clashes with Big Mom but quickly has his strength drained. He is caught by Sanji. Sanji then places him on the ground to fight. Galette uses the opportunity to put her foot on Luffy's upper stomach, pinning him down and using her ability to bind his arms to his body.
- After defeating Vinsmoke Judge, Big Mom pins him to the ground under her foot.
Prevent the War: The entire Alabasta Arc is about preventing a civil war from breaking out, due to Crocodile purposefully creating a years-long draught, which the people pin on the Nefertari family. It doesn't help that Baroque Works has infiltrated both sides and fuels the fire.
Price on Their Head: A pirate's prestige is tied to the size of the bounty the World Government has placed on his or her head, based on the "crimes" or actions they have committed. Likewise, a pirate crew's prestige is indicated by the sum of bounties on all of its current members. The main characters, for instance, started off with more or less zero bounties, and are currently rocking a total of over 3,000,000,000 Global Currency. Following most arcs, a few obviously dread the rise of their bounty while the rest look forward to one upping each other. Chopper is a special case because he is constantly annoyed how he has the lowest bounty due to being mistaken as the Team Pet.
Prison Episode: When Luffy breaks into Impel Down, the Marine Forces' top maximum-security prison, in an attempt to free his brother Ace, and arrives just barely too late.
Privateer: The Seven Warlords of the Sea. They and their crews are granted pardon in exchange for formally being recognized as the World Government allies and heeding their orders.
- To a private degree: Arlong.
Prodigal Family: In the Zou Arc, it is shown that Sanji is the third child of a royal family. Brook and Chopper wonder about his past, and Nami recollects the conversation about Sanji's family in the Jaya Arc. Later, it's revealed by Pekoms that he is part of a family of assassins. There is obvious tension between Sanji and his family, and in the Whole Cake Island Arc, we see why. At birth, Vinsmoke Judge (Sanji's father) wanted his children to become nothing more than Tyke-Bombs. After having an already-super-powered Reiju (Sanji's sister), he successfully did so with his sons Ichiji, Niji, and Yonj. However, thanks to the intervention of Vinsmoke Sora (Sanji's mother) due to the drug she took Sanji became a normal human being. His compassion and humility are what drove his brothers and his father to abuse him physically, mentally, verbally, and psychologically for the next couple of years. Fortunately for Sanji, Reiju helped him escape. 13 years later, he is whisked away and threatened by Big Mom and his father, for the fate of his hands and loved ones, specifically his old crew and his adoptive father Zeff, on the Baratie. Unfortunately, he undergoes more torment by his brothers and father, and WORSE by his manipulative fiancée. Just when hope seems grim, his friends, along with new allies, decide to intervene with a plot to take down Big Mom and rescue his family. After they are rescued and the commotion has settled, Judge asks Sanji for what reason he saved him. Sanji replies that it was to honor his adoptive father's beliefs and tells Judge not to go to him or East Blue again. After even more commotion, as the Straw Hat crew passes by Judge's castle, Judge asks Luffy why he would go so far with Sanji. The latter just responds with a thank you and goodbye.
Propaganda Hero:
- The Shichibukai/Seven Warlords of the Sea are pirates sanctioned by the (generally opposed to piracy) World Government. This is to maintain the appearance of a balance of power with the strongest pirates, to show that pirates still fall under the control of the government, and emergency allies in case of war. The Warlords get something in return for their compliance, as well as fame.
- In the Fish-Man Island arc, Jimbei points out to Luffy that, due to the Fantastic Racism between Fish-men and humans, if Luffy wants to beat the Big Bad Hody, he has to come out of it as a "hero" for Fish-Man Island (as Hody is pretty much terrorizing the populace) or it'll be seen as just cruelty of humans towards Fish-men.
Prosthetic Limb Reveal: After the Time Skip, former Admiral Kuzan seems normal at first, but then during a trip to an onsen (seen in Film Z), he revealed that he has lost one leg that he replaces with a leg made of ice. It was after he fought a fellow Admiral, Sakazuki, during the timeskip, and lost.
Protagonist-Centered Morality: A counterpoint to the above Pirates Who Don't Do Anything: the Straw Hats are still pirates, so they generally don't care if someone does bad things unless It's Personal. If someone makes their friend cry, he's a bad guy (Arlong, Crocodile, Doflamingo, etc.) but if a bad guy helps them (Buggy, the same Crocodile) they are grateful. On the other hand, they do understand that the Marines are generally dedicating to helping civilians, so unless they're seriously backed into a corner they generally prefer to run from confrontations with a minimum of bloodshed.
Proud Warrior Race: The Viking-inspired Giants from the island of Elbaf, itself described as a "Warrior's Paradise". Also Wiper, and the Shandian Warriors, inspired by Wiper's ancestor: Calgara.
Psycho Electro: Eneru. A powerful fighter with a god complex, who wants to wipe out everyone who's been living above the clouds. His Rumble-Rumble Fruit has made him lightning incarnate.
Psycho for Hire:
- Rob Lucci. While the Marine Corps's doctrine of "Absolute Justice" is already quite Knight Templarish, Lucci takes this up to eleven with his "Dark Justice". He has admitted he enjoys killing. At the age of thirteen, he murdered 500 hostage soldiers for the crime of allowing themselves to be captured, before taking the pirate captain's head. Much later, Lucci says that while executing missions perfectly is his duty to the World Government, for him it's all about the blood.
- Some of the Seven Warlords of the Sea are Psychos For Hire, especially the demented Donquixote Doflamingo. They've all proven they're a threat, so the Government made a deal with each one, freezing their bounties if they'd agree to only attack other pirates.
Public Domain Soundtrack:
- Episode 86 plays a variation of Schubert's Ave Maria (Ellens dritter Gesang).
- Episode 126 plays Dvorak's New World Symphony Number 9, 4th Movement.
Public Execution: The fate of some captured pirates, like Roger. The World Government tried to do this to Ace as well. They were both intended as examples of the fate awaiting each pirate and that the Marines would catch any one of them. Too bad each execution shown has reinforced the pirate movement because said pirates blabber on about the One Piece.
- A throwaway line at the start of the Baroque Works saga implies this is standard operating procedure for any pirates the World Government arrests, to the point where they'll cut some of the reward if a bounty head is brought in already dead.
Public Secret Message: Luffy returns to the scene of a major battle, ostensibly to honor the dead. Reporters on the scene photograph him, and his crew, scattered around the world, see the article, realize it isn't the kind of thing their captain typically does, and notice a simple message written on a tattoo.
Pulling Themselves Together: Buggy can do this, as well as any logia user.
Pummel Duel: There's a variant of this trope in the fight between Luffy and Lucci. At one point, they exchange blows repeatedly, and Luffy uses Rapid-Fire Fisticuffs, but Lucci uses Rapid Fire Claw Pokes Of Doom.
Punch-Clock Villain: Bon Clay, former member of Baroque Works.
Punch Parry: Particularly in the Luffy vs. Rob Lucci fight.
Punctuated! For! Emphasis!:
- I am WHITEBEARD!
- THIS IS MY ERA!!!
Pungeon Master: Brook and his Skull Jokes.
Pushed at the Monster: Played for Laughs in Chopper's flashback, when Hiriluk and he are chased down by angry townspeople for their "medical help", Hiriluk kicks Chopper back so they can focus on him while he gets away. Chopper later gets into a fight with Hiriluk over that, but doesn't hold a grudge over it and the two laugh it off as their first argument together.
Put on a Bus:
- The Sabaody Archipelago arc has Kuma send Luffy's entire crew to various islands via his Devil Fruit power. They then remain separated, and only appear minimally in the story, until after the Time Skip.
- Half of the Straw Hats, dubbed the "Curly Hats" — consisting of Sanji, Nami, Chopper, and Brook — are subjected to this for the majority of the Dressrosa arc, as they are separated from the rest of their crew and forced to head to the next island.
- Conversely, the other half of the Straw Hats (Zoro, Usopp, Robin, and Franky), as well as Law and his crew and the Wano samurai, get this when Luffy goes to Whole Cake Island to rescue Sanji with the rest of the Curly Hats.
Putting on the Reich:
- The guards at Impel Down have an awfully familiar sense of style.
  - Amusingly enough, the 12th opening shows Hannyabal and bunch of jailers doing what is unmistakably the Heil Hitler salute, just as the extremely cheery theme goes "Yay!"
- Played frighteningly straight by Hody Jones and his crew, whose extreme measures and fervent nationalism brought on by oppression by racist humans mirror almost exactly the situation that brought about Nazi Germany. This only gets more obvious when in the latest chapter, Hody's crew is seen getting people to declare their allegiance by stepping on a likeness of the late Queen's face, who advocated tolerance between humans and Fish-men. This practice is a dead-on representation of the Tokugawa Shogunate who got the Christians to renounce their faith by stepping on the likeness of Christ.
- Vinsmoke Judge's dining room would not look too out of place in a Nuremberg rally. The giant eagle behind him in particular looks suspiciously like the Reichsadler, the imperial eagle emblem that was most recently used by the Nazis
Putting the Band Back Together: This is what happens with the Straw Hats after the two year Time Skip and they return to Sabaody.
Pyrrhic Victory: So how is winning the Whitebeard War going for you Marines? Numerous New World towns are basically damned, since they were under the protection of Whitebeard, and now that he's gone, the pirates in those towns finally were able to do whatever they want, like steal from and kill the people. Also, killing Whitebeard has resulted in a NEW age of piracy. The situation got so bad they had to move their headquarters to the second half of the Grand Line.
- It backfired so spectacularly for then Fleet Admiral Sengoku, that he resigned along with Garp.]]
  - Though his resignation was also partially due to the fact that his superiors prevented him from effectively dealing with the situation in order to cover up their own incompetency.
- The situation worsened to the point that the former Admiral Akainu, new Fleet Admiral Sakazuki, was forced to institute a Conscription in order to make up for the losses during the war so they could contain it.

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