This Bites / Tropes D to G

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• Dark Reprise: In Chapter 43, the narration shows Blackbeard's declaration that he'll be King of the Pirates. However, instead of filling the air with a resonance of pure fact, like what Luffy's declaration does to Cross, it fills everyone watching with existential dread.
• Dartboard of Hate: Tashigi throws darts at a certain blond's wanted poster.
• Dead Guy Puppet: One of Moria's new Awakened abilities is the power to infuse dead bodies with inert shadows rather than living shadows and commands them with his will, making them into Draugrs. Soundbite even calls them "literal meat-puppets".
• Deadly Dodging: When Cross insults Bellamy to get him to spring at him full-speed, he hits the floor so that Bellamy ends up crashing into Mr. 13 who's chasing him from behind.
• Deadpan Snarker: Internally, Cross panics often when something panic-worthy happens. Externally, the only nervousness he usually shows is a fake smile; he often snarks about whatever they're going through.
• Dead All Along: In Chapter 69, Cross finds Disco's limp body hanging by Doflamingo's strings, and surmises that it wasn't a recent thing, indicating that it likely happened after the end of Disco's scene in Chapter 65.
• Dead Person Conversation: At the start of Enies Lobby, Jaguar D. Saul calls Robin via Soundbite to encourage her, and later on Gol D. Roger calls Luffy to encourage him to finish the fight with Lucci (and much later, to taunt Shiki one last time).
• Death by Adaptation:
  • Variant – in-story, Big Mom's 27th daughter is Charlotte Macarron, who dies two years before the events of the story. Her canon counterpart is Charlotte Joconde, who is alive and well, and debuted in the source manga about six months after the release of the chapter in which Macarron's status was given. Word of God explains this away by saying that as of Macarron’s death, Linlin and her family pretend that she never existed to begin with.
  • Vice-Admiral Strawberry is assassinated in his hospital bed by Koala while the Summit War is going on.
  • After Ace prevents him from getting Whitebeard's Tremor-Tremor Fruit, an angry Blackbeard does in Byrnndi World to claim his More-More Fruit as a replacement.
• Death Glare:
  • Remembering his vow when he came to Little Garden, Cross gives one to Sanji when he objects to Cross stopping him from attacking a T-Rex for their hunting contest. He then turns his gaze on said T-Rex... who begins sweating.
  • When Jabra brutally knocks Blueno down just because he wants to fight Luffy, Luffy fires the wolf-man a glare that he compares with that of Garp because he just betrayed his friend. Then Jabra decides to pour more gasoline into the fire by mocking Blueno.
    His amusement then proceeded to die a painful death as he became acutely aware of the horrendous mistake he'd just made. Before, the most infamous rookie of this generation had mirrored Garp. Now? The old man paled in comparison to the glare he was faced with now.
• Debating Names: Just as in canon, this happens when the Straw Hats meet their new ship on Water Seven, but in a different way — they start talking about names before boarding it, for one (with Cross preemptively revealing the name Franky wanted, causing Merry to agree that they should come up with their own). Luffy calls out several names that are basically lists of three animals (which all get ignored), Zoro and Sanji contribute "Big Boss Lionel" and "Monsieur Sunflower" respectively (as they did in canon), Robin suggests Nostromo (after Cross preempts her planned suggestion "Being of Darkness"), and the new crew members get in on it too — Vivi suggests "Grace of Sekhmet" (which Merry shoots down because it's a girl's name and the ship has a male spirit), Conis tries "Fluffy McFluffmeister" (which makes Su facepalm), Boss suggests Ishimura, and Soundbite makes Cross facefault when he suggests naming it the Enterprise. Chopper finally intervenes by asking Cross what prompted the manga crew to give their ship its name, and Cross gives a speech similar to the one Iceburg gave in the manga before announcing their ship as the "Thousand Sunny"; Sunny himself promptly responds with a roar of approval, settling the matter.
• Deconstruction Fic: Takes apart elements of the original series, shonen manga, and fan fiction.
  • Cross himself deconstructs the idea of someone from the real world being thrown into a fictional universe. While Cross did get his wish for some god-like force to send him to the world of one of his favorite mangas, the force that did is a sadistic bastard who did it for his own amusement and didn't even give him a choice. Additionally, other than his foreknowledge, Cross has no special abilities and is actually extremely fragile due to Made of Iron being the baseline for the universe. Case in point, Nami was able to knock him out for several minutes with one punch. B.R.O.B. even admits they threw Cross into the One Piece world expecting them to die quickly, mentioning that the earliest would have been back at Loguetown, by saying the wrong thing to Smoker and having his Made of Plasticine status cause one punch to be a fatal blow. They also wholeheartedly admit they've been doing this countless times over before Cross, "throwing ants into a giant pond to watch them drown".
    • Cross' foreknowledge is also deconstructed. While it gives him an advantage in planning, he has to be careful with what he reveals and when, lest it blow up in his face. And the further in the story he goes, the more his actions divert events away from his knowledge of the baseline events, meaning more and more unexpected outcomes happen as a result. This puts pressure on Cross, making him feel like he has to always know how to deal with a situation where losing basically equates to dying terribly or worse.
    • Another deconstruction is how Cross's opinion of the characters changes now that he's meeting them in person, particularly with Aokiji. At first, Cross saw him as a potential ally that just needed convincing, and although he didn't like his methods, he still hoped he could convince him to be part of the World Masons. But after Aokiji brutally breaks the will of Robin, whom Cross had come to develop a sibling-like relation with, Cross's attitude towards him nosedives to the point of outright hating him, refusing to want anything more to do with the admiral.
    Cross: You saw the debt you owed to Saul fulfilled, you saw Robin in her place. For a minute, I thought that I may have underestimated how decent of a Marine you are, I thought I could give you a chance. And then you said it. You said that parting shot, which we both know was taken how you intended it to be read. You were aiming to shatter what little happiness she had found, and you saw just what kind of a hell it took to get it back for her. Do you have any idea what that bastard did to her? How many bones he broke, how close she came to dying?
  • The idea of Vivi permanently joining the Straw Hats is given a tragic twist. Vivi's love for her country and how serious she takes her royal responsibilities make it impossible for it to happen, no matter how close friends the Straw Hats are. Here, the World Nobles learn about her infiltration of Baroque Works and use it to frame her for treason, forcing her to flee Alabasta to save herself and her countrymen.
• Defeat Means Friendship: Deliberately Invoked with Foxy the Silver Fox, and by extension his entire crew at the end of the Davy Back Fight.
  • Kaku tries to invoke this, asking if there's a vacancy in the Straw Hat crew after Zoro beats him, only to be told that they had Franky lined up to be their shipwright, though Zoro does still say that Luffy would let him join if he really wanted to.
  • Though it's played straight later when T-Bone defeats Lucci in one-on-one combat to swear his and CP9's loyalty to the New World Masons.
  • Discussed when Cross informs the crew that Duval is a jerk, but he and the Flying Fish Riders will honor their agreement to let Keimi go after he gets his fight with Sanji.
    Luffy: Hey, it's not that hard to figure out! We've never fought someone who wasn't a total bastard who didn't become our friend, right?
    Nami: That's not—!
    Conis: Wiper, Jonathan, Perona.
    Merry: Smoker, Tashigi, Hina, T-Bone, CP9.
    Cross: *cough* Hachi *cough*.
    Robin: Aokiji.
    Cross: Never.
    Luffy: Guess it only counts if we actually win.
• Defector from Decadence:
  • In the face of the Marines' undeniable corruption, Smoker, Tashigi, and Hina form the group Marine Integrity 3 (or MI3), to bring down the World Government and restore true justice to the Marines. Their ranks have swelled ever since, with Captain T-Bone and Vice Admirals Jonathan and Tsuru joining them.
  • Ever since the broadcast of Saul's actions caused the Giant contingent of the Marines to revolt, the Giant Marines have been looked at suspiciously by their colleagues. Them accidentally letting the Accinos into Alabasta without proper permission is The Last Straw for Vice-Admiral Lacroix, and he and the rest of the Giant Squad decide to mutiny and rejoin the Giant Warrior Pirates rather than have any more pressure from the higher-ups on their ass.
• Defiant to the End:
  • Even after enduring countless shocks and staring down Enel's 100,000,000 Volt Vari, Cross does not back down, and his last effort is to spit in his face.
  • Bartolomeo and his crew intend to make Boa Hancock remember them for the rest of her life when they see her ship heading straight for them.
  • With what she's faced from the likes of Arlong all through her formative years, even the likes of the Golden Age veteran Shiki threatening her is nothing Nami has already seen.
• Dehumanizing Insult: When Shiki appears at the end of Chapter 56, he calls both Nami and Billy his property and demands the Straw Hats give them back. Naturally, their reaction is murderous rage.
• Delayed "Oh, Crap!":
  • Akainu brushes off Garp's remarks that he vaguely remembers the name Baron Omatsuri, until the latter yells at him that if he vaguely remembers it, that means it was someone he knew in his prime, back when he was hunting Gol D. Roger in the New World. Akainu promptly starts helping search the old records.
  • While on the Rocketman, Mr. 13 and Miss Friday try to attack Cross again but realize too late that roughly the entire crew is present.
  • The Giant Squad of the Marines has one when, in the process of blockading the now-Revolutionary Alabasta, they let the Accino's enter the country on the premise of capturing Chaka and Pell for their bounties. It takes two days for them to entertain the idea that the Accinos might have been lying.
• Derelict Graveyard: The appropriately named Davy Jones's Locker with wrecked ships and derelict boats as far as the eye can see. It is Merry's training ground over the Time Skip, and naturally, she faints as soon as she realizes where she is.
• Deus ex Machina: The Marines would like to go after Shiki and his flying archipelago, but have no idea where to find him... until the day of his invasion of the East Blue, the World Nobles decide out of nowhere to give the Marines an Eternal Pose to exactly where Shiki's archipelago is anchored, which they'd been sitting on for days.
• Deus Exit Machina:
  • Pretty much the only thing that kept the only available Admiral (Kizaru) from completely dominating the Straw Hats during the assault on Enies Lobby was blind luck: He decided to beam all the way to the island with his Sacred Yata Mirror, but Nami saw that briefest glint of his powers and, thinking it was a sniper, threw up a mirage that refracted him right out of the fight and miles away.
  • The absence of the other two Admirals could also count, considering Akainu was sent after Bartolomeo after he attacked a Celestial Dragon's ship, and Aokiji had to stay behind in Marineford to curb a very violent giant rebellion. Aokiji does manage to make it to Enies Lobby before the Straw Hats escape...but not soon enough to prevent it.
• Did I Just Say That Out Loud?:
  • When the Straw Hats first meet Shiki, this is Leo's reaction after blurts out that he wants Shiki's legs (on account of Shiki's legs being Grade Swords, Oto and Kogarashi). Much to the glee of his siblings.
  • When Cross gets into a shouting match with Chew and Kuroobi, the two fishmen get his dander up when they mention that a human killed Queen Otohime, and he ends up blurting out that it was really Hody Jones who killed Otohime. He regrets saying it almost immediately; even more so when it turns out that Jinbe, of all people, had been listening in the water below the whole time and is now right behind him.
  • Nami accidentally blurts out that she tried to pickpocket Capone Bege when she first encounters him and the topic turns to his Devil Fruit.
• Did We Just Have Tea with Cthulhu?: Everyone's reaction when Soundbite communes with the Florian Triangle and reveals it's not as malevolent as everyone thought. In fact, if treated well, it's downright pleasant.
• Did You Just Flip Off Cthulhu?:
  • After the B.R.O.B. that put Cross in One Piece in the first place gets on Soundbite's line, Luffy has a few choice words for him:
    Luffy: STAY AWAY FROM MY CREW! (slams the mic down hard enough to crack the floor)
  • After attacking a Celestial Dragon's ship and stealing its Transponder Snail, Bartolomeo calls up the highest-ranking member of the World Government it knows to taunt them. Then he learns he just taunted the Five Elder Stars.
  • And then he does it to Shiki after he is recruited to become a Golden Lion Pirate subordinate – right after Shiki's pre-battle spiel on how they're going to destroy the East Blue, Bartolomeo stands up and, in front of 50 other enemy crews and a New World veteran that loathes that very sea, toasts the East Blue and then smashes his sake dish.
• Didn't See That Coming: Kuma's appearance on Thriller Bark at the end of Chapter 51 genuinely caught Cross by surprise, as he was under the impression that he had saved Ace from being captured by Blackbeard, and as such, Blackbeard didn't become a Warlord and Kuma didn't need to show up and report it to Moria.
• Didn't Think This Through:
  • The Unluckies probably should've waited for their concussions to wear off, else they might have reconsidered busting into a crowded train car to get to Cross, while his much-stronger crewmates are present.
  • A dramatic example occurs when Cross finds a way to potentially save Merry by having her eat a Devil Fruit. Namely, he has no idea how to let her eat it. Fortunately, a solution is presented.
  • Almost averted, but not quite when the Straw Hats plan to trap Absalom in a flooding room. Merry took into account everything, including his animal muscles and the firepower he could carry, and reinforced the room accordingly... except for the facts that his muscles allow him to carry a lot more firepower than normal, and that the water pressure of the flooding room would help his efforts.
  • Fire Zombie Bill is defeated after stealing Donny's snack and eating it. Said snack was onigiri, which is made with salt.
  • Vivi and Conis's request to learn the Poneglyph language from Robin has one little caveat: that one of Robin's long-suppressed childhood dreams was to be a teacher. And her finally getting the chance has her Squeeing like a little girl with her dolls.
  • Vivi's ditziness ends up rubbing off on Merry, when she asks Miss Goldenweek to give the Cannibal, the Barto Club's ship, a literal personality makeover. The element she didn't think through? How long the job would take and how much it would cost.
  • Cross told the world (almost) everything he knows about Impel Down on international radio, and yet the plans he gives Luffy and Hancock for breaking in are based entirely off canon. True, he warns that things will almost certainly not go as expected, but he still never considered that a maximum-security prison that knows its security measures have been compromised would change and/or upgrade said measures as much as possible.
• Dies Differently in Adaptation: Unlike in canon, where he was set ablaze by Zoro's final attack, Ryuuma chose to willingly end his existence by seppuku. He had no regrets, his last words saying he lived a good life.
• Disappointed by the Motive: Once Dorry and Broggy finally remember the impetus for their honor duel that disbanded the Giant Warrior Pirates and left them isolated for many years while their crewmates went on their own devices, it prompts a mass Face Fault from all listeners. Oimo and Kashi put it best:
  Oimo and Kashi: WE WENT THROUGH FIFTY YEARS OF INDENTURED SERVITUDE BECAUSE OF A FISHING COMPETITION?!
• Discard and Draw: Both cases of Wrecked Weaponry:
  • Cross's Shock Baton is destroyed on the Bridge of Hesitation, but he hastily replaces it with a sword that turns out to be the elephant-sword Funkfreed, who joins the crew proper.
  • Nami's Waver is destroyed during the Strong World arc, but she gains the electric bird Billy as a crewmate, whom she can use as a mount.
• Disproportionate Retribution: Garp's reaction to Merry and Cross for humiliating him on the SBS? Forge Sengoku's signature so the former gets a bounty for chomping on his ass, and the latter gets one of the highest bounties in the world. As in, "among the top twenty highest bounties in the world" high.
• Do Not Go Gentle:
  • When it becomes clear to the East Blue that Shiki plans to annihilate it down to the seabed, every island, from Loguetown to Cocoyashi Village, starts gearing up for war, making sure that if they go down, it'll be on their terms.
  • Luffy may have eventually accepted the Straw Hat crew being split by Kuma for their two-year hiatus, but he's NOT happy about it. When he's the last one remaining to be sent off, he no longer has to hold back, and starts a fight with Kuma he knows he cannot win.
• Do Not Taunt Cthulhu: Cross's "The Reason You Suck" Speech to Aokiji has the latter decide to kill him.
• Don't Do Anything I Wouldn't Do: When Chopper finally gets his hands on Dr. Hogback, with full knowledge of everything he's been practicing, Cross advises him to not do anything he wouldn't do. Lassoo reminds Cross of everything he'd said he'd do to Spandam, and Cross replies that he stands by everything he just said.
• Does Not Know His Own Strength: Ryuma used to cut towers in half by accident while practicing at Thriller Bark.
• Don't Create a Martyr: This is one of the primary purposes for the existence of the Seventh Hell, Serpent. The captives are all political prisoners whose deaths would only martyr them and encourage rebellion, so Cipher Pol AIGIS-0 quietly "disappears" them to be eternally imprisoned and left to rot in the World Nobles' personal prison in a spot so remote, no one knows it exists except its guards, the highest officials of the World Government, and the Nobles themselves. Ironically, it makes it paradoxically both the best and the worst place that Cross could be sent to for his two-year training: because it's the place he would have wound up had the World Government had their way with him, it's the only place that they would never consider looking for him.
• Don't Make Me Destroy You: Cross offers to let Fukuro go if he simply stands down, as he wasn't involved in Robin's kidnapping and is Just Following Orders. Fukuro admits that he'd gladly take them up on the offer if not for Lucci's orders to fight them; while the Straw Hats scare him, the leopard-man scares him more.
• Don't Think, Feel:
  • Ace's instructions to the crew on how to unlock Haki follow this vein. It's hard to tell if he was trolling Cross or actually trying to explain; a very furious Cross believes it's the former, but Zoro thought that the directions were reasonable.
    Observation's Haki: Listen really hard.
    Armament's Haki: Concentrate willpower really hard.
    Conqueror's Haki: Hell if I know, I've always just gone with my f%cking gut!
  • Perona's advice to help Brook relearn Astral Projection.
• Don't Touch It, You Idiot!: When Franky is sent to Baldimare, Cross left him explict instructions that were not only bold but also underlined that the skull-and-cross button was the Self-Destruct Mechanism, not a pirate mark or whatever. Franky avoids it...but then ends up having to stop another self destruct sequence he triggers while trying to get into Vegapunk's hidden lab.
• Door Stopper: This Bites! clocks in at over 1 million words already. The Cross-Brain said that their adaptation of the Strong World movie to the fic would clock in at over 100,000 words, and in the end, it clocked in at over 150,000. AND that being said, the Cross-Brain has said that they plan to cover ALL of One Piece with the story going on hiatus until the manga finishes once they get to the two-year time skip.
• Dope Slap:
  • Vivi administers one to Nami after she moans about missing getting Crocodile's gold-plated crocodile statue in Rain Dinners.
  • After a filler adventure that started with Vivi mistranslating octopus sign language and forcing Luffy into a surfing competition, Zoro, Nami, Cross, and Boss each administers one of these to Vivi when she offers to translate a goodbye.
  • Robin gives herself one when she meets Garp.
  • In Chapter 60, when Tashigi begs to duel Zoro and promises to pay for any damages caused, Popora does this to her, while also transmitting the memory that she spent all her money on exercise equipment to everyone present.
• Double Take:
  • Cross performs one while observing what a nice day it is in Water 7:
    The sun was shining...
    The seagulls were cawing...
    Clouds were drifting...
    Miss Friday was eating water-water meat on the railing of that upcoming bridge...
    . . .
    Waaaaaaaaait a second.
  • And another one when they're having a party in the Florian Triangle and Cross suddenly notices Brook partying among them.
• Dramatically Missing the Point: Low-key compared to most, but Yoko from Little East Blue still hates all pirates for killing her Marine father, and especially Cross's SBS saying that there's corruption in the Marines for disparaging her father's profession. Once they meet, Cross soon clarifies himself that the organization itself has corruption and that there are still Marines that are decent, such as Yoko's father.
• Dramatic Irony:
  • Due to his knowledge only going to the tail end of Dressrosa, Cross is unaware of events beyond it and unknowingly upsets Sanji when he comments that maybe the Germa 66 aren't as bad as the Marines are making them out to be.
  • At one point, Buggy the Clown becoming one of the Seven Warlords is cited by Cross as something that could never happen alongside another equally unlikely event. Buggy gets that very offer, both in canon and later in the fic, though between the two stories, the circumstances and Buggy himself are wildly different.
  • In Chapter 84, when the Supernovas are talking about Big Mom and Kaido, Bege talks about Big Mom's crazy family, when the audience knows that his canon counterpart marries Big Mom's daughter Chiffon, and even has a son with her.
• The Dreaded:
  • During the Enies Lobby arc, it's revealed that Golden Transponder Snails are this to all other Transponder Snails; Soundbite states that their signal is absolute and unblockable.
  • Even after his defeat, Arlong is still feared by others who've met him in passing. Keimi's face turns ashen at just the mention of his name, and she expresses gladness that he's still in prison.
• Driven to Suicide: Cross (Played for Laughs, don't worry!) in Chapter 62. When Kid asks him out of the blue to "Do me." ^note Asking Cross for his analysis on how he stacks up against Luffy, Cross enters a Heroic BSoD, holds Killer's Blade Below the Shoulder to his neck, and asks him to make it quick.
• Drowning Pit: Merry converts the girls' bathroom into one for Absalom that Nami and Vivi lure him into with a mirage. It almost works, but Merry forgot to take into account that Absalom's Arm Cannons are the equivalent of bazookas and the subsequent vulnerability of the door to the water pressure.
• Drunk on Milk: During the events of the Davy Back Fight, Coby and Helmeppo are mentioned once as being thoroughly sloshed. Two other Marines nearby aren't sure how this is possible, given that they were only drinking grape juice.
• Dub Name Change: The author/authors have a tendency to use the Funimation spellings for some of the characters' names.
  • They use the spelling of Broggy for Brogy's name (pronounced BRAW-gee both ways).
  • They use the spelling of Eneru for Enel's name (pronounced IHN-er-oo both ways).
• Duck Season, Rabbit Season: Done by Cross in Chapter 47 when ending the SBS.
  Cross: So, until next time, this is Soundbite—
  Soundbite: And Jeremiah Cro—WAIT, WHAT?
• Duct Tape for Everything: In Chapter 55, Usopp uses it to gag Sanji, Conis, and Mikey to keep them from drawing monsters to them with their screams. He lampshades the trope soon afterward, making Foxy send Porche out to buy some at the hardware store.
• Dude, Where's My Reward?: After the Marineford War, during the victory party on Amazon Lily, all the Supernovas (except Jewelry Bonney, who's a female) are upset that the only males allowed on the island are Luffy and his brothers, even though the Supernovas saved Hancock's life when she defected during the War. Hancock retorts that being allowed to moor on Amazon Lily's shore is a reward, as males aren't usually allowed to even get that far.
• Dumbass Has a Point: In Chapter 60, Tashigi mentions that the Marines were having a hard time rounding up the remains of the Golden Lion Pirates because someone burned Enies Lobby to the ground. Luffy points out that the Marines did that themselves, earning himself a Dope Slap from Tashigi.
• Dungeon Bypass: Conversed at the end of Chapter 46; the crew asks Cross if they could skip the next arc (Thriller Bark), but they quickly change their tune when Cross tells them exactly what's at stake.
• Dynamic Entry:
  • Cross executes this twice, once when using Blueno as a stepping stone to reach a balcony, and once when charging into the battle on the Bridge of Hesitation.
  • Merry does this to Iceburg in Chapter 44.
  • Chapter 57: "GUM-BARRIER CANNONBALL!"

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• Ear Worm: After the Straw Hats meet the Heart Pirates, Law finds himself humming a tune that Soundbite kept blasting around them, while Shachi and Penguin wonder why the color of their sub is so important.
• Eating the Eye Candy:
  • Nami, Vivi, and Robin all rather enjoy how often Zoro ruins a shirt during his training and neglects to put a new one on.
  • After getting a visual component added to the SBS, thousands of women all over the world get to enjoy as well. Some even call in and try to have someone convince Zoro to cover himself in olive oil. Much to Cross's chagrin.
• Electric Torture: This is what Enel effectively delivers to Cross.
• Elsewhere Fic: Thanks to the SBS, many moments are shown being listened to by characters the Straw Hats have met or yet to meet, most notably Baron Omatsuri and the Secret Island, where the whole experience was shown from the perspective of everyone around the world.
• Emoticon: Since Visual Transponder Snails are naturally mute, Gif, the VTS taken from Strong World, uses emojis to "communicate" with others.
  Gif: ( ﾟ▽ﾟ)/
• Empowered Badass Normal: In Chapter 78, Whitey Bay—already a New World veteran and ally to Whitebeard—kills Hiuo Hiruno and takes her Cold-Cold Fruit for herself.
• Enemy Mine:
  • Cross and Tashigi team up in Chapter 19 to take down Mr. 3.
  • In Part 3 of Impel Downfall, it's noted by Bentham and Ivankov that Byrnndi World was considered such a threat that pirates, Marines, and Revolutionaries all contributed to have him locked away—and this was decades before anything like the SBS existed!
• Engaging Conversation: After Cross spells out to his compatriots exactly what his plans are for Sabaody Archipelago, Sandersonia all but tries to jump his bones only for Koala to knock her out...and she isn't holding herself back much better.
• Engineered Public Confession: Or, as Cross and Soundbite like to call it, "Candid Snail". Thanks to Cross's knowledge of canon and the transceiver they got from B.R.O.B., they manage to pull this trick several times on many World Government Officials and Marines (most notably Spandam and Vice Admiral Onigumo), exposing their heinous plans, corruption and/or monstrous ideals to the entire world.
  Soundbite: BUUU~STEEE~D!
• Entertainingly Wrong:
  • When Sanji asks Cross if the One Piece manga revealed anything unsettling about his past, Cross, who read up to chapter 800 before being sent by BROB, thinks that the cook is talking about how he was a picky eater before meeting Zeff. He had no idea that Sanji was thinking about the Vinsmoke family...
  • With the amount of political trouble Cross has stirred up, Dragon wonders what he was a student of in the other world, considering political science, business, or philosophy. Cross simply replies that he loves a good story.
  • Cross incorrectly assumes that Arbell and Salchow are the ones that need to be wed to cement the Accino-Hiruno political alliance. They're already married; it's Lil that's the bride.
  • Thanks to his incomplete knowledge, Cross makes several assumptions that the manga later disproves. Of particulate note, he was under the assumption that, like the Straw Hats, Gold Roger got his new ship after visiting Skypiea when it was actually the Oro Jackson that rode the Knock-Up Stream, and he believed the Pacifistas were made by the World Government abducting people and experimenting on them to change them into Kuma's likeness when they're actually robotically enhanced clones of Kuma made from his Lineage Factor.
• Epic Fail:
  • While stalling Wapol, Cross attempts to kick him away in the garbage can-like form he takes midway through his Slim-Up Wapol technique. It might have worked if that form didn't compress Wapol's mass into a singular point, but as it is, it only results in a lot of pain in his foot.
  • When Ace and Luffy battle the Billions, one of them fires a cannon at Ace. Instead of dodging in his fire state, Ace tries to pull a Garp and catch the cannonball. It doesn't kill him, but neither does it work.
  • Vivi tries to enter a room by coalescing out of air courtesy of her new Gust-Gust powers. All she ends up is on the floor in a heap.
  • In the Lovely Land arc, Luffy crafts a device that, when pulling a rope, will bring all the food at the wedding to him. When he tries it at the end, he snaps all the church's supports in half.
• Establishing Character Moment: The entire Longarm Tribe gets one by proxy when Vivi discusses the contents of their native sign language.
  Vivi: "Fifty different words for theft, not a one for honest..."
• Et Tu, Brute?: Nami is visibly shaken when Perona, up till then someone she considered a friend, betrays her to Shiki and abandons Nami to join the winning side. However the decision ate away at her conscience until she couldn't help but help Nami out later.
• "Eureka!" Moment: In Chapter 51, when dealing with Moria's Awakened Devil Fruit powers, Su snarks that Soundbite is as helpless as the rest of them even though he's on the same level. This causes Soundbite to snap and go into a rant that he's still a snail and his powers still have limits, and that Awakened abilities take god-tier amounts of energy to use, topped off by saying even Moria's pushing it since he just Awakened, and that even if he had ten times his normal energy, Soundbite wouldn't be able to use as much power as Moria's using for ten minutes without burning out. Upon reaching those last two words, Cross and Soundbite realize how to defeat him.
  Cross: (high-eying Soundbite) And that is why we stick together!
  Soundbite: That and you wipe my ass!
• Evil Lawyer Joke: Acted out when Izo of the Whitebeard Pirates kicks two men out of his bar for fighting. The first guy said the second guy attacked him unprovoked when he mentioned he was a lawyer, prompting Izo to beat up the lawyer and apologize to the other guy.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Zigzagged with the World Brothers. Byojack World breaks into Impel Down to bust out his brother, the legendary monster Byrnndi World. But, when he overhears Bentham asking Emporio Ivankov if it's really such a good idea to actually keep their side of the bargain and free Byrnndi in exchange for help freeing Ace, he admits as openly as he can that he agrees that Byrnndi is a monster, and whilst he's determined to rescue him, he won't actually stop any plans by the others to keep Byrnndi from picking up where he left off.
  Byojack: "Brother? Yes. He is. He's also a fucker. As is the rest of his crew. But in the end, he's family and they're loyal, so I can't just walk away. All I want is to see him out of this hell. Whatever happens after this happens. Honestly... if we could, I would love it if we could go back to how things were in the start, just exploring for the sake of it, seeing the world... But, I know my brother and I know that's not likely. I have a few thoughts on how I can maybe stop him from going back to that life, but we'll see. For now, just help me free him, and I'll consider us square on all counts."
• Even Evil Has Standards:
  • Humorously invoked by Cross while confronting a slimmed-down Wapol.
  Cross: No... no, the World Government is filled with monsters, but not even they would be inhuman enough to let a chin like that exist.
  • When Buggy hears on SBS that the Straw Hats have landed on Omatsuri Island, he immediately tries to call them and warn them to leave, explaining to one of his stunned crew that for all his hatred of Luffy, he would never allow them to fall victim to what's waiting on that island.
  • In general, the broadcasting of the horror that is Baron Omatsuri and Lily Carnation has Moria horrified, Buggy panicked, CP9 aghast, Blackbeard outright incensed, and Sengoku and Akainu in full agreement that the island needs to be Buster Called to high hell.
    • The only one who is actively enjoying it is Doflamingo, who is wishing he could replicate the horror. Not surprising when you know his bloodline. Even his executives can't handle it and show their disapproval by vacating the premises.
  • Some of the CP9 are noted as looking highly uncomfortable while listening to Robin tell the story of Ohara.
  • Kid may agree with Shiki's virtues of having strength be the law of the seas, but he hates his mindset that the weak only exist to serve the strong; loyalty and enemies are earned, not given.
  • Arlong was a xenophobic monster, but his hatred of slavery was so strong that he never put up with it in any form, even against the humans that he despised so much. Kuroobi and Chew are horrified when they learn that Arlong's self-declared "successor" Hody Jones has been enslaving people for years, and preaching it as acceptable.
    • It's also worth noting that for all that he disagreed with her goals, Arlong loved Queen Otohime just as much as the rest of Fishman Island, and he would have personally ripped Hody to shreds if he had known who really killed her.
  • The crime families of Sabaody, or at least the ones who are native to the archipelago. They deal in almost all manner of crime, but they do not deal in slavery and they positively loathe those that do.
  • The residents of Impel Down loathe the BioMEGAs because of this trope. The Impel Downers incarcerate and torture to properly punish their victims for the pain and suffering that they inflicted on the outside world. The BioMEGAs are just mindless killing machines that exist to indiscriminately slaughter whatever is in front of them. Furthermore, they will not stand for the punishment of the innocent; the discovery that Ace is sentenced to be executed for being a descendant of Gol D. Roger, which is not a crime by the laws of Impel Down (or by the World Government, for that matter), and that they were made complicit by holding him, pushes Magellan to have them secede. In the aftermath, they prepare for the daunting task of having every prisoner's case reopened, because there may be others in the same situation.
  • Played for Laughs when Magellan states of all possible torture methods to utilize in Impel Down, puns are far too much.
  • Even by the standards of his general hatred for pirates, Akainu considers Blackbeard an unholy monster. He reluctantly ditches his pursuit of Luffy and Ace to fight Blackbeard once the latter shows his true colors, and after the complete failure of the Navy in the Battle of Marineford, the person he wants to see dead most is Blackbeard, even more than Ace and Luffy.
• Everybody Cries: Much like in canon, everyone does this over Merry. But this time, they're Tears of Joy over Merry surviving by becoming human.
• Everyone Has Standards:
  • Soundbite is a prankster who doesn't care a whit about being racist with the voices he gives to other animals. He does, however, have the decency to be sensitive and somber when it comes to matters involving death. Notable is his utter disgust when Vice Admiral Onigumo orders a battleship destroyed and its entire crew of Marines wiped out with it in hopes of killing Luffy.
  • Cross says, when asked on his opinions of Okamas by Bon Clay, that he doesn't really have an opinion on them. His objection to Bon Clay is if they wear clothes that expose their legs, then they really need to invest in razors.
  • Christmas brings out the best in everybody; the Baroque Works agents call a truce with the Little Garden giants (albeit at Miss Goldenweek's…insistence), Kohza and Cobra acknowledge a Christmas truce; heck, even Crocodile gets in on it by spending an extortionate amount of money to buy Robin a gift.
  • Cross himself is an adrenaline junkie that laughs in the face of near-death, but even he freaks out when he sees a ghost ship worthy of Davy Jones (complete with Soundbite-assisted theme music).
  • Cross and the Straw Hats are willing to do anything to save Merry... except agree to B.R.O.B.'s suggestion of the Ivankov treatment. Subverted later when he concedes that faced with the alternative, he would go that far for her.
  • Boss, the manly Dugong that he is, balks at the idea of jumping into an abyss and landing on an arcing Rocketman to cross the gap to the Tower of Justice.
  • Hattori may be trained as an assassin and is the pet to a World Government assassin, but Spandam's sheer incompetence led to him agreeing to Cross's proposal of a brief truce to let the latter make Spandam's eventual fate even worse.
    • Spandam inspires this from pretty much everyone. By the time Cross tricks him into announcing his plans to overthrow the Five Elder Stars using Pluton, even the World Government is thoroughly sickened of him. In the aftermath of Enies Lobby, several Marine higher-ups, including Aokiji, Tsuru, and Sengoku himself, are absolutely relishing the thought of his eventual and inevitable punishment.
  • Cross normally just laughs at Luffy's stupidity... but when it transcends the Shonen genre, he completely loses it.
  • The Accino family despises the Hiruno family for several reasons, one of them being that while the Accino family makes their targets delusionally happy in order to turn them in, the Hiruno family will torture their targets to the brink of death for kicks.
  • Buggy absolutely refuses to enjoy anything the Straw Hats produce on the SBS... except for them singing Binks' Brew. In addition, despite his best efforts, he can't help but laugh hysterically at Soundbite's rendition of "Who's on First?"
  • Robin may be a Nightmare Fetishist, but even she finds Cross leading a bunch of zombies in a dance number to be overkill.
  • Duval makes very clear that the Flying Fish Riders are kidnappers, not slavers. He'd rather give Keimi back to the Straw Hats than let the Macro Pirates sell her as merchandise, and when they try to object, Duval takes them out.
  • Sanji may have been antagonistic towards Hachi when they met again, but when he hears that he has a literal royal banquet to prepare that he completely forgot about, Sanji wastes no time in rolling up his sleeves and helping a fellow chef out, as he knows full well how bad dinner rushes can get (and also because Keimi would appreciate it).
• Evil Is Petty:
  • As soon as they get an excuse, the World Nobles have Vivi accused of treason because the Nefertari family refused to ascend with them 800 years ago.
  • The World Nobles somehow got ahold of Shiki's location days before his invasion of the East Blue, but only deigned to let the Marines know about it the day of, for whatever reason.
  • Part of the reason that the Marine response was crippled during Enies Lobby was that Big Mom went on a rampage due to not getting some food she had gotten a craving for.
• Evil Laugh:
  • Kureha gives one of these during her Right Behind Me moments.
  • Blackbeard gives one when telling Aokiji his dream of becoming Pirate King.
• Evil Versus Evil: Cross's plan to destroy the slave trade pits pirates against slavers, with even the Rape, Pillage, and Burn pirates going after them for the money.
• Exact Words:
  • Cross corrects Smoker that he didn't say anything about good Marines being a myth. There are far too many good Marines, but not nearly enough decent ones.
  • Conis' gift to the Straw Hats wasn't guns but a gunner.
  • After Spandam's incompetence helps completely humiliate the World Government and he announces his intention to overthrow the Five Elder Stars, Sengoku calls him and tells him to report to the Five Elder Stars and receive everything he has coming to him. Idiot that he is, Spandam thinks he's being rewarded.
  • Luffy, of all people, invokes this in Chapter 43.
  Merry said that her dream is to sail the seas with us, and our goal coming to Water 7 was to make it so that that could happen. Who cares if she can't become a ship anymore? She's still alive and with us, and she can still live her dream. Isn't that good enough?
  • In chapter 66, Cross offers a slaver a choice between either giving up all his "goods" and money or a lifetime supply of chocolate. When the slaver chooses the chocolate, Cross gives him a single bar of chocolate and threatens to let Eustass Kid put a bullet between his eyes if he doesn't give them what they want.
  • When Magellan protests against the Marines moving Ace ahead of schedule, he's told to obey and "remember the flag [he] serves". He agrees... while pointedly looking at the iconic symbol of Impel Down.
• Exactly What I Aimed At: In Chapter 55, while fighting a giant frog and scorpion in a tree canopy, Cross whipped out Funkfreed and seemed to randomly strike at the pair, without landing a hit on them. However, the scorpion and frog then hear a creaking sound underneath them and realize that Cross was actually cutting away at the vines they were standing on, with one last stab causing the pair to fall to the ground.
• Explain, Explain... Oh, Crap!:
  • At the start of Chapter 33, Vice Admiral Jonathan has a civil, friendly even, conversation with Cross about why the latter is terrible at chess. There are too many rules and no matter what you do, it has to follow those rules but sometimes, Cross just wants to flip the board. This and the accompanying explosion let Jonathan know that Cross just metaphorically flipped the board on their little game.
  • At the end of Chapter 36, when Cross sees Miss Friday in Water 7, Lassoo asks where Mr. 13 was, with Soundbite agreeing, calling him a water rat in the process. Halfway through the insult, he and Cross remember they are currently on a canal street and realize where Mr. 13 will be coming from.
  • In Chapter 51, Cross remembers what exactly Nidhogg is as he explains it to the crew and realizes what Moria is doing. Nidhogg is the dragon at the end of the world and Moria is going One-Winged Angel.
  • In Chapter 55, Through the discussion about how survival of the fittest is an Enforced Trope on Merveille (Dr. Indigo injected his strength-boosting toxins into the wildlife, animals beat other animals, consume their bodies and the toxins inside them and grow even stronger), Luffy, Boss, and Cross and his partners realize why the beasts are following them: the animals have been driving them into the paths of the alpha beasts (which they inevitably beat), the ones who had consumed enough toxin to stand strong alone until now, and as such have invited the other animals to feed on their corpses and grow even stronger in a very short amount of time. And since these animals have been trained to believe that eating the strong will make them stronger, they've already set their eyes on their final targets, those that have established themselves as the strongest on the archipelago. Guess who that is?
  • In Chapter 56, Cross and Vivi are trying to figure out exactly why Shiki has a village filled with inhabitants living on his floating archipelago. When Cross draws a comparison between Shiki's bioweapons and the nuclear weapons from his world, he realizes the answer: super-weapon test targets.
  • In Chapter 59, Cross is pondering on the subject of Keimi. Thanks to the Butterfly of Doom, Hachi has enough help at his restaurant to hold off the Macro Pirates, but he also knows that they're too evil and stupid to give up because of that. So Cross deduces that Duval's men were planning to wait to grab Keimi until she was vulnerable... like if she's on the deck of their ship.
  • In Chapter 72, Marguerite is busy lambasting Luffy's idiocy in attempting to assassinate Boa Hancock, especially given how he always recklessly fights his enemies head-on, only to realize that his fighting style precludes him from attempting to assassinate someone. The realization that she was mistakenly persecuting one of their possible allies, one of the nicest people in the world, for assassinating her leader gives her a full "My God, What Have I Done?" Heroic BSoD.
  • Near the end of Chapter 75, after watching Buggy Tempting Fate in the worst possible way, Chief Guard Saldeath remarks to Smoker that none of their forces are close enough to get to Buggy and the others fast enough to give karmic retribution, nor is anyone among them other than Magellan and Hancock who have the power to deliver said retribution, leading to the conclusion that a third force is going to react to Buggy's cry. Cue the Caribou Pirates and the World Pirates invading Impel Down at Level 3.
  • In Chapter 77, after receiving the report that Luffy disappeared all of a sudden from Level 5, Magellan asks about other prisoners that also "disappeared" (Ivankov, Inazuma, and Bentham specifically). This coupled with the fact that Luffy told him when he surrendered that he may find a "miracle" makes the wardens realize that not only are those disappeared still in the prison somewhere, but also that Luffy had known that and planned on joining up with them from the start. Which can only mean that a massive jailbreak is soon going to take place.
• Expy:
  • The Teenage Dugong Warrior Squad, Leo, Mikey, Raphey, and Donny.
  • The two South Birds the Straw Hats end up getting are constantly arguing which of their Tribes is better, Swagger or Bear Glove. The former is a smooth-talking Cold Ham, and the latter is a macho Large Ham. Their names are actually Isaiah and Terry, to boot!
    • And then they get Zoro and Sanji arguing in the same way.
  • The four best Fierce Penguins of the Accino Family, Private, Rico, Kowalski, and their leader Skipper, the Mad Penguin of Gascar.
• Eye Pop: In Chapter 25, many of the octopi do this after Luffy defeats their leader, doing it rather than the more expected Jaw Drop because they don't have jaws to drop.
• Eye Scream: Stussy puts Marguerite's eye out with a Finger Pistol when she and Luffy try and stop the Aigis-0 assassin from killing Hancock.

F

• Face Doodling:
  • In Thriller Bark, the male TDWS members do this on a sleeping Raphey and Boss, just because it's funny. They quickly come to regret it when their victims wake up.
  • In Strong World, Raphey herself does this to Perona's prone body due to boredom being stuck alone guarding the Thousand Sunny.
• Face Fault: Abound around the fic, with too many in Chapter 43 to list.
• Failed a Spot Check:
  • During the Alubarna banquet in Chapter 22, Cross is so exuberant out of successfully tying Luffy's tongue around his own head that he neglects to check what he's eating: biscuits.
  • After Enel is defeated, Conis is so distraught over losing her island, her father, and contemplating her decision to join the Straw Hats that she doesn't notice her father standing behind her comforting her.
• Failure Is the Only Option: Izo and Tamago both knew that trying to either recruit or ally with the Straw Hat Pirates and the Barto Club wasn't going to work, as both crews have proven their independence and determination before. Whitebeard already knew that Luffy would want to aim for the One Piece on his own, while Big Mom definitely wanted the rookies as her subordinates, though Tamago and Pekom guessed Luffy and Barto's refusal and could easily place the failure of their mission on the rookies.
• Famed In-Story: The Straw Hats were infamous already in canon, but thanks to the SBS, their public connection is a lot more personal and in-depth. Everyone knows how insane, loyal, and dangerous they are.
• Fate Worse than Death:
  • Cross is adamant that the only way Spandam will survive the Enies Lobby arc is if he, Cross, can find a way to make it so Spandam was wishing for death.
  • One of the Marines at Enies Lobby tells his comrades to make sure Chopper doesn't take him alive, even if they have to shoot him themselves.
  • The Macro Pirates don't have the luxury of being killed quickly by the Straw Hat crew; for the crimes of being fishmen slavers, they'll be handed over to Jinbe instead.
• Faux Affably Evil: Stussy. Despite being polite in speech, every word out of her mouth serves only to highlight how much of a villain she is.
• Fire-Forged Friends: Or Fire-Forged Friendly Enemies, anyway; the aftermath of the encounter with Mr. 3 results in Tashigi developing respect for Cross, and it takes a good while after that for her to admit—to Cross and herself—that she considers him a friend.
• Fisher King: Soundbite explains that the Florian Triangle is a giant mirror that reflects the emotions within it. It became a reflection of death and fear due to Moria setting up Thriller Bark in the Triangle for ten years. With Lola's plan of turning Thriller Bark into a pirate haven, the happy emotions produced will change the Triangle into a reflection of joy and cheer.
• Flashback:
  • The first half of Chapter 23 covers the details that the tail end of Chapter 22 skipped over.
  • Multiple ones compose half of Chapter 33.
• Flat "What":
  • Chapter 14, following The Reveal and Cross' tearful begging to stay on the crew:
  Nami: (solemnly) Alright, Cross, we'll let you stay on the crew… But first… you have to answer a few questions for us……Cross, listen to me very closely. I need to know… How rich are we going to get?
  Cross: (mentally) …what. (out loud) What.
  • Chapter 25... several times.
  • Chapter 32, during the accidental landing in G-8, when the crew realizes that Vivi and Carue are being pampered in luxury by a barrack of overly-chivalrous Marines.
  • Chapter 38, Sengoku goes from Flat "What" to Big "WHAT?!" when he realizes the island the Straw Hats plan to pillage and burn is Enies Lobby.
  • Chapter 79: Ace has this response when Luffy's stolen battleship crashes down in Marineford from the sky.
• Flipping the Bird:
  • Cross does this to Van Augur from several miles away when his sniped seagulls land on the Merry. And he even manages to dodge the sniper's next bullet too.
  • Cross does this to Robin when she asks him to help zip her up.
  • When Soundbite fails to induce Head Desking in Cross on account of it not being the universe screwing with him, Soundbite invokes B.R.O.B. to try again. In response, the All-Powerful Bystander makes a tree branch fall into Soundbite's face with some twigs curled into the above gesture.
  • Cross does this to the Vis-snail-carrying eagle that had been following his group around all through the Strong World wilderness for several days.
• Fluffy Tamer:
  • The Whisper-Whisper girl Apis is a member of the Barto Club in this timeline, who communicates with animals to fight. Her main ally is her reincarnated dragon friend Lindy, as well as the junior Sea King Mohmoo.
  • Perona can do this with joy and despair-inducing Hollows acting as carrot and stick. She manages to do this to all the beasts of Merveille, earning her the epithet "Hellbeast Queen".
  • Thanks to Soundbite, the crew can talk to almost any animal they come across (though he does have issues with aquatic-based life). Cross in particular becomes the manager of a menagerie of devil fruit animals- namely, Soundbit, Lasso, and Funkfreed.
• Foreshadowing:
  • Due to Cross' interference, Bon Clay doesn't imprint on everyone, avoiding the need for the X tattoos. This was a small indication that the situation with Vivi was going to be radically different.
  • When giving exposition on the Supernovas to the crew, Cross gets a couple of details wrong. He claimed that Law had the third-highest bounty in canon (he was actually fifth, behind not just Kid and Luffy, but also Hawkins and Drake) and that Zoro had the lowest Supernova bounty (that was Urouge). At first, you would chalk it up to errors on the authors' parts. It was actually foreshadowing that Cross was beginning to forget several details about canon.
  • When the Straw Hats first encounter the Florian Triangle, they manage to fight off its aura of doom and gloom by throwing a party, that actually turns the fog yellow with joy. Turns out that that's the main feature of the Triangle: produce fear and it will reflect fear, but produce joy and it will reflect joy too.
  • Throughout the Sabaody Archipelago arc, Disco is shown to be rather confident and high-spirited despite the Straw Hats and their allies laying waste to the slavery market. At first, it appears like it's because he has a member of the Donquixote Familia backing him up as an enforcer, but it's actually because he's been Dead All Along and his body was actually one of Doflamingo's Black Knight puppets.
  • Cross mentions to Luffy before they reach Sabaody Archipelago that Vivi will soon be presented an opportunity to return back to her home. When Kuma scatters the Straw Hats, Vivi ends up right back at Alabasta.
  • Since the start of the Impel Downfall arc, every time Buggy is referred to as a 'small-time pirate', it's always in quotes. That's because this Buggy is an Adaptational Badass who's on par with the likes of Dracule Mihawk. He's not a small-time pirate at all, he just pretended to be because after surviving Roger's crew, he wanted a life of relative peace and sanity.
• Forever War: Eden's Cinders, the island where the Jewel Tree Adam is located, is under one of these thanks to CP9's influence according to the black book Cross read in Enies. It's also the place Conis and Su are sent to by Kuma's Paw-Paw power.
• Forgot About His Powers: Soundbite, for a brief period in Chapter 24, forgets that he has the option of using his Gastro-Blast technique to destroy his gag. And Cross comes within an inch of dying before he reminds him of it.
• For Science!: The mentality of Chopper's Mr. Hyde-esque alter-ego, created by using a serum to access his Devil Fruit's human intelligence.
• For the Evulz:
  • When CP9 investigated several countries that formed a trading coalition, said coalition was found to be completely innocuous. Rather than simply withdraw, they utilized the worst-case scenario to pit every country at war with the others and stole all possible liquid assets which were added to the Celestial Dragons' tribute.
  • Hiuo Hiruno nearly rots off Vivi's arm upon meeting her just for the hell of it. It's only Don Accino's intervention that saves her arm.
  • Charloss' interview on the SBS is filled with examples of this from the lives of the Celestial Dragons, ranging from working slaves until they drop dead, starving slaves so that nobles can watch the slaves gorge themselves to death, having guards fight each other to the death for their amusement, and more.
• Fountain of Youth: In the finale of Marineford Misery, Jewelry Bonney uses her Devil Fruit power to de-age Sentomaru to a child (and also matures Yoko to a teen/young adult and de-ages Boss Kabuto to a giant grub) to finally stop him.
• Four-Temperament Ensemble: Cross and his confidants:
  • Sanguine: Cross. Adrenaline junkie who enjoys cracking jokes at others' expense, but also a friendly and an all-around nice guy.
  • Choleric: Zoro. Serious, competitive, and slightly unsympathetic.
  • Melancholic: Vivi. Collected and analytical with a perfectionist streak and some self-esteem issues regarding her abilities.
  • Phlegmatic: Nami. The most rational of the group and a good listener (as seen with Vivi and Perona).
• Frame-Up:
  • When Merry tries to keep Nami from taking away her new Gatling cannon (due to how expensive its ammo is), she warns the navigator that if she comes near her, she'd scream 'Bad touch!' and paint Nami out as a pedophile. Nami points out that since Merry is a Tyke Bomb, people would believe she was being abused when pigs fly.
  • Upon arriving at Amazon Lily, Luffy is being hunted by the Amazons on the charge of attempting to assassinate Boa Hancock. When Hancock stirs from her fainting spell from Luffy punching a Celestial Dragon, CP0 agent Stussy reveals she intends to kill Hancock and blame Luffy for it. Luffy manages to reach them just in time before Stussy can beat Hancock to death.
• Freak Out: Perona all but collapses into hysterical sobs as she tries to understand why she cares enough to put her life on the line for Nami, and why she feels so bad if she doesn't.
• Freudian Trio:
  • Meta example: As of Chapter 26, the three authors designate themselves as this, calling themselves the Cross-Brain; Xomniac is the Ego, CV12Hornet is the Superego, and The Patient One is the Id.
  • Additionally, the three mates of the Straw Hat Pirates seem to be this: first mate Zoro is the Id, second mate Nami is the Superego, and appropriately, third mate Cross is the Ego.
• Freudian Threat: At Little Garden, Nami threatens to castrate Cross - while giving him a mirror so he can watch.
• Friendly Enemy: As in canon, Tashigi and Smoker are this for the Straw Hats, though the 'enemy' part is no longer accurate following the conclusion of the Alabasta arc and the founding of what will become the New World Masons.
  • Vice Admiral Jonathan stays friendly with the Straw Hats, Cross in particular, throughout their confrontation. Upon losing, his only reaction is to respectfully acknowledge their success. It stays this way when he joins the Masons as well.
• From Bad to Worse: The Straw Hats fought directly against the Navy and Government only three times before the Time Skip. But Cross's involvement changed those clashes into the worst blights in their history.
  • The first was the Straw Hats' assault on Enies Lobby, which Cross, naturally, broadcasts to the entire world. Sengoku is so enraged that he plans on attacking the island with all available government forces. Unfortunately, fate is working against him.
    • At the end of Chapter 38, immediately before the broadcast begins, Cross subverts Oimo and Kashi, who then destroy the island's gates as the Straw Hats' opening attack. In Chapter 39, meanwhile, we find out that said giants were so effective that the Marines stationed on the island had grown lax, leaving little resistance against the invasion. Additionally, Soundbite coerced the Watchdogs into turning against the agents on the island, and with Cross's forewarning added to the mix, the invasion force makes it to the courthouse practically unscathed, all while vindicating Cross's opinion of the Marines being incompetent.
    • It's actually worse for what's happening off of the island: the Straw Hats' assault incited the other Super Rookies to commit dangerous acts, and it even caused some of the Emperors to act out, to one-up the Straw Hats and/or to draw Marine attention away from them. In brief:
    • Shanks went on a rampage in the New World, tying up every Marine on that side of the Grand Line.
    • Cavendish decided he was getting overshadowed, so he raided a supply ship headed for Totland... just as Big Mom started craving for the specific thing he stole, sending her on a rampage and forcing the World Government to send Jinbe, Doflamingo, and Kuma against her in hopes of calming her down. Not only that, Cavendish deliberately led her to Wano, aka Kaido's territory, escalating the conflict.
    • Bartolomeo attacked a Celestial Dragon's yacht and then insulted one of the Five Elder Stars, who sent Akainu and five battleships after him. What's worse, this event ended up putting the Kuja Pirates, AKA Boa Hancock and her sisters, in touch with Cross, setting up their Heel–Face Turn, as well as taking Hancock out of the fight as well (she's too busy cheering on the Straw Hats with Bartolomeo while listening to the SBS).
    • Capone Bege raided Fort Lumose, cleaning the place out and stealing a full quarter of the Marines' liquid assets.
    • X. Drake and Basil Hawkins somehow pissed off Moria, sending the last available Warlord on a wild goose chase all around the Florian Triangle after them.
    • Eustass Kid and Killer attacked Blackarm Island (implied to be the island where Z trains his recruits), drawing out a conflict that needed to be resolved soon if the Marines wanted high-quality recruits to replace all their incoming losses.
    • Scratchmen Apoo and Captain Dugong attacked Task Force Cerberus, capsizing all their ships in the process.
    • Jewelry Bonney and Trafalgar Law teamed up and attacked Marine Base G-76, taking it over and then allowing the surrounding public to run roughshod over the place, with the former even procuring a direct line to Marineford just to rub it in Sengoku's face.
    • And finally, Urouge did something at Kyuka Island that left several high-ranking Marine officers shivering in horror.
    • If all of that weren't enough, Robin's tell-all on Ohara causes Water 7 to finally cut off the World Government. Several Marines (mainly giants) mutiny after hearing of how Saul (who was popular among other giants) died and that they had been hunting his ward for over twenty years. This forces Aokiji to be left behind so he can quell the mutiny non-lethally.
    • The final straw is the crew outright disintegrating the World Government's flag over the SBS. Sengoku is so overwhelmed and enraged that he can't even go into his Buddha form anymore and instead suffers a heart attack. It is, as he puts it, by far and away the most humiliating incident for the Marines and the World Government since Roger's execution.
    • And boy, did it get worse in Chapter 40. Spandam, being the idiot that he is, had an operational black book. For CP9, a covert black ops unit whose missions are so ethically and morally wrong that the World Government doesn't even acknowledge their existence for plausible deniability. A black book that Cross happens to find, and summarily read for the SBS. Sengoku was so fed up that he's not even surprised anymore, just angry.
    • And it all came to a head in Chapter 42.
    • In the immediate area of Enies Lobby? They've lost the entire island, CP9, a dozen battleships, and thousands of soldiers. Kizaru is MIA and the Gates of Justice will need months' worth of repairs. The Straw Hats, meanwhile, robbed the Tower of Justice of everything that they could carry, accomplished their goal, and sailed away with zero casualties.
    • As for the rest of the world? 8% of the countries that comprise the World Government had seceded or been overthrown, another 12% were in the middle of or combating revolutions and uprisings, Marine HQ lost contact with several Marine bases and vessels all around the world, and pirate activity rose to an all-time high. To summarize, the entire day is labeled "The Darkest Day in the Entire History of the World Government."
    • Even the aftermath didn't let up on them. Three key factors played into the long-term trouble they were getting into.
    • First, the Marines' public opinion fell to an all-time low, with more resignations in twenty-four hours than there had been in the last two years, effectively making them a Slave to PR for a good long while. In light of this, Sengoku reassigned every Marine that follows "Absolute Justice" to the New World so they are out of the public eye and can't make things worse, significantly decreasing the available manpower they have in Paradise. Sengoku himself was suffering severe health problems following his heart attack and had to restrain himself from getting angry. A trial, considering the antics the Straw Hats are guaranteed to get into.
    • Second, the secession of Water 7 has badly hamstrung the World Government's ability to replace the small-to-medium-sized ships that they lost in the above chaos, especially with the financial trouble Bege's raid and the secession of a large chunk of their tax base has caused. When building an entirely new shipyard is the best option available, and they still can't afford that, you know things are bad.
    • And last but certainly not least, Vice Admiral Tsuru, a Marine on par with Sengoku and Garp for power and influence, surrendered to Cross's influence and joined what almost immediately became the New World Masons.
  • The second was the Sabaody Revolution arc. First, Cross broadcasted the Straw Hats and the other Supernovas essentially raiding every slave shop on the island, stealing all their wealth and freeing all the slaves, ensuring the World Government can't go after them without nuking their already fragile reputation. That in and of itself wasn't too bad for the Navy; Sengoku even considered the destruction of the slave trade a net gain. Then, however, events began going downhill for everyone: Cross aired a live interview with Saint Charloss, exposing all the decadence and corruption in Mariejois for the entire world to hear. And then finally, after suffering a severe Trauma Conga Line at the hands of both the Government and Doflamingo, he decides to play hardball by interviewing Silvers Rayleigh on the SBS, subsequently exposing the truth about Roger's capture and execution and vaporizing the Navy's last shred of credibility. That final parting shot is what finally drove Sengoku to turn in his resignation.
  • Another example of this: How can Luffy breaking into Impel Down and causing a riot as he tries to free Ace get worse for Impel Down? The heads of Caribou Trafficking and the World Pirates launch their own invasions of Impel Down at the same time.
  • And the third one is Marineford. Oh, Marineford. The moment Luffy arrived, things went to complete and utter shit for the Marines. To wit:
    • Cross and Soundbite stopped holding back the latter's powers and started causing havoc all across the battlefield.
    • Garp and Sengoku exposed Buggy as a Roger Pirate. Instead of painting a target on him, however, it just caused him to snap and start wreaking havoc all over, distracting Mihawk away from Luffy for the rest of the battle.
    • After Doflamingo tried to go after Luffy, Hancock intercepted him, putting the last of the Warlords out of the equation because Perona refused to go after Luffy herself.
    • Then, just when they were about to raise the seawall, the Divine pulled their gambit with T-Bone and Hina leading the entire Black Cage Fleet in a wide-scale mutiny, also breaking the gears for the walls in the process. Sengoku is horrified, and only just barely managed to avoid getting into an argument with Cross over his part in what happened.
    • Then came the arrival of Jormugandr, which had since expanded to include every single Cipher Pol unit outside of Aegis-0, who turn the tide even further against the Marines. At this point, the Whitebeards were starting to wonder why they were surprised.
    • And perhaps the crowner: Gol D. Roger publicly revealed his ability to contact the living from the grave to ask Luffy to save Ace. This is the one that caused Sengoku to outright snap and finally order Ace's execution. And even that goes downhill when the executioner, Isuka, reveals herself to be a turncoat too, and blows up the execution stand to escape with Ace. Things keep on spiraling from there.
    • By the end of the Marineford, the Marines have completely failed in their objective of executing Ace. What they get instead, is the defection of eight thousand mutineers, the loss of twenty-nine of the fifty battleships they deployed (thirteen destroyed, seven severely damaged, and nine stolen), the loss of nearly all their Pacifistas and BioMEGAs, the loss of three Warlords, a crippled admiral, billions of beris in damage, the loss of over thirty thousand loyal Marines and counting, the increasing destabilization of the world's Balance of Power, and a shit-ton of humiliation and loss of face that they may likely never recover from. Compared to that, the death of Whitebeard, whose death canonically caused a power vacuum for than if they'd left him be, with every reason to suspect it will happen here as well is a very, very small consolation prize. It got so bad that Imu, the secret ruler of the World Government, calls in the Five Elder Stars to rake them over the coals.
• Frying Pan of Doom:
  • When Cross warns Nami about Usopp's…'liberties' in building her Clima-Tact, she resolves to involve herself in the blueprints. Cross recommends that she considers "Five Cast Iron" for the meeting, a combination of the five iron golf club and this trope. Usopp ends up looking the way he did after the fight with the Mr. 4 pair.
  • During the G-8 Arc, Jessica finds out that her husband Jonathan had not only been throwing out the meals she had made for him, but he had been giving them to his subordinates and lying about it instead. A listening Isaiah suggests giving him a workover with a "Nine Cast Iron".
• Fun with Acronyms:
  • The all-powerful being who brought Cross into One Piece is known as B.R.O.B.: Bastard Random Omnipotent Being.
  • The World Government's newest superweapons, the BioMEGAs: Biological Mechanically Enhanced Genocide Armaments.
• Future Badass: In the 1,000-review special, B.R.O.B. sends a future version of Cross, dubbed 'Wyvern' to avoid confusion, to the Straw Hats of the past for a short time. Wyvern mentions that in his time, the two-year Time Skip training session is almost over, and in that time, he's become a One-Man Army capable of decimating an entire ship full of bounty hunters singlehandedly.

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• Gargle Blaster: In Chapter 52 Nami, Zoro, and Cross accidentally exchange sake with South Blue COMЯADE-grade vodka. Not only is it enough to affect even Nami and Zoro, it's usually used to tan Sea King hide. The same liquor is used later on so that the Straw Hats can get their revenge on Izo in a deleted scene, when they replace his sake with the stuff.
• Genre Savvy:
  • Cross in Chapter 20. Taking up a plan to subdue the rebel army before they can reach the city? Knowing their success rate, he plans on something going wrong. Knocking down Mr. 2 with near-fatal force? Knowing how strong he is, encourages getting away from him before he gets his second wind.
  • The rest of the Straw Hats are also getting wise to a certain combination of factors: Cross has knowledge of the future, he goes Laughing Mad when his adrenaline spikes and his Signature Laugh starts with a "Pff." So when the crew hears that initial snort, they know that trouble isn't very far away.
    • Robin has even begun to preempt this by one step: the moment she sees the Cheshire Cat Grin that precludes a Gadfly like Cross doing or saying something incredibly stupid, she quickly uses her powers to Hand Gag him.
  • When Boss is sneaking around outside the Puffing Tom, one of the guards asks if the other heard a seal. The second remarks on the insanity of a seal being nearby during Aqua Laguna, only to shut up when the first points out that they're on the Grand Line.
  • In Chapter 41, Zoro knew that despite Kaku's words, he was going to use Iron Body in their final clash. Skilled or not, Kaku isn't truly a swordsman but an assassin, and an assassin is more concerned with getting the job done than honor.
  • Sanji is savvy enough to know that if they encounter a group of pirates empowered with the works of "Doctor Indigo", they'll be meeting said doctor and whatever plan he's cooking up. As such, he asks Cross to take appropriate measures. Unfortunately, Cross, who never saw the movies, believes that this sort of thing is New World-grade, and will only become relevant after the Time Skip. Guess who shows up not too long after?
    • Later, Sanji notices a distinct shift in Merry's personality, who is making preparations for long periods of separation, and knowing that she's one of Cross' confidants, predicts something terrible coming up in the near future. It's one of the reasons he finally decides to tell the crew about the Vinsmokes.
  • According to Foxy in Chapter 62, several pirate crews begged to join his when Shiki was making overtures because they knew someone like him would attract the attention of the Straw Hats and wanted no part of it.
• Genre Shift: Chapter 38. Baron Omatsuri and the Secret Island. Nuff said.
• Get A Hold Of Yourself Man:
  • Cross delivers one to Chopper to snap him out of his Mad Doctor alternate persona. Given that this seems to be the most effective way to do so, and that Chopper's research is actually useful, Chopper receives a lot of them as the story goes.
  • If the Boa sisters ever find themselves lost in the horrific memories of their slavery, Salome is trained to bite Sandersonia and Marigold to snap them out of it.
  • Robin promises to do this to Vivi if the princess ever gets drunk on her new Logia powers.
  • During the Rainbow Mist special, the TDWS delivers one to the alternate Chopper when he starts going on about hockey, much to that Chopper's disapproval since he is perfectly sane and is just passionate about Drum Island's national sport, whereas TB's Chopper... is actually insane.
• Gilligan Cut: During the G-8 arc, Vivi ends up staying in the brig for a bit longer than they planned, and she says she can handle it. Cut to her in the brig, on her last nerve, blowing up at Soundbite for playing the harmonica.
• Girl on Girl Is Hot:
  • Cross tries to get Nami and Vivi to invoke this to inspire Scissors to fully run across the Sandora River. The girls disapprove. Violently.
  • In the Skypiea Arc, Nami ends up kissing Robin in the midst of her gold-fueled euphoria.
  • Weaponized by Nami and Vivi to trap Absalom at Thriller Bark.
• Giving Up on Logic:
  • Cross takes very little time to do this after he's dropped into One Piece, remembering how much It Runs on Nonsensoleum.
  • Wiper does the same thing after he and the Shandians are absorbed into the madness that is a Straw Hat party.
  • Vivi finally succumbs to the insanity of the Grand Line when Boss negotiates with Franky in a Pec Flexing duel, shattering his shell in the process. And later somehow getting a new one.
• Glad I Thought of It: Bartolomeo taking credit for punching a Celestial Dragon in the face, when it was actually his first mate Gin that was responsible.
• Godzilla Threshold:
  • Vivi fiddles with the Sirocco-charm container that her father gave her whenever she is faced with a particularly terrifying enemy, as if contemplating crossing a threshold there is no going back from. It contains the seed of an active Logia Devil Fruit. As of Chapter 57, she decides to cross it after the Straw Hats' Hopeless Boss Fight against Shiki and consumes the seed, making her a Logia.
  • Cross contemplates appealing to B.R.O.B. to save Merry, but given their Jerkass God status...
    • As it turns out, it does agree to give Cross a chance if he puts on a good enough show. And if he doesn't, it will still consent to saving Merry... if Cross considers the Ivankov treatment. No one objects when Cross refuses, though later he admits that he'd be willing to go along with that deal if it meant saving her.
  • The Elder Stars have finally enough of the Straw Hats and the SBS when Cross lets a World Noble basically tell the entire world about the horrors that go on in Mariejois and, in the process, demands and receives Dragon's acknowledgment that he'll owe Cross for the rest of his life for going through with said interview. The Elder Stars decide to finally muster every single last bit of manpower they have from Admirals to Warlords to even calling their science department to release some "experiments" with the sole purpose of getting rid of the Straw Hats once and for all.
  • During Marineford, the World Government and the Navy have pissed off Cross so much that he allows Doflamingo to give his cynical Written by the Winners speech from canon for the entire world to hear.
  • Gol D. Roger using Soundbite to speak with Luffy from beyond the grave is openly stated to be this trope, mentioned by name, for Sengoku, and he immediately orders Ace executed.
• Gone Horribly Right: Cross makes a distraction to escape Mr. 13 by telling the mob surrounding them that they were fighting because Mr. 13 said that Kaido was the strongest of the Four Emperors. Unfortunately, all the pirates have very strong opinions on who they think is the strongest, resulting in a brawl that sets Mock Town on fire, much to Vivi's chagrin.
  • Later during Enies Lobby, Jabra takes out Blueno so he can fight Luffy without Spandam retreating like a coward, unknowingly pressing Luffy's Berserk Button regarding people who hurt friends... and then deliberately presses it more when he realizes to get Luffy riled up. It works a little too well.
  • Raphey insults Zola to deliberately drive her into a blind fury. Instead, Zola turns into The Berserker and Raphey realizes that pissing someone off who outmasses you ten times over isn't a great idea.
    Raphey (thinking to herself): 'Okay, so maybe making all enemies angrier isn't a valid tactic after all, I know this now. Now if only I could actually find a way to survive this fuckup so that I can actually apply it!'
  • When Cross and Brook's exhibition match gets invaded by a powerful bear pirate captain, Cross tries to flip the script further by intentionally saying he's glad one of the Supernovas is not getting involved. Hawkins decides to send his cursed sword Shichiseiken to fight in his stead, which scares off Brook and Bearington and gives Cross and Funkfreed an excuse to leave while Zoro takes his place. Zoro, however, becomes furious when he learns that Shichiseiken had tormented his old friend Saga, turning their match into a full-out battle that causes massive property damage to Skelter Bite.
  • To draw Marine forces away from Enies Lobby, Bartolomeo attacks a World Noble and steals his Transponder Snail, intending to call the highest ranked member of the World Government it knows and taunt them. This works, in that he stole one of the few snails in the world capable of contacting the Five Elder Stars, the ones who rule the World Government. The Oh, Crap! from his entire crew leave most of them unconscious.
• Good Cop/Bad Cop: When interrogating a slaver on who he sold a child slave to, Law points out that despite repeatedly hitting the man, he's still the nicer option. Once Sanji is done comforting the child's distraught mother, he's going to ask much more violently.
• Goomba Stomp: Cross pulls this on the Unluckies when they go after him in Jaya. Soundbite even Lampshades it by playing the Super Mario Bros. music.
• Gory Discretion Shot: While broadcasting the Dead End Race to the Sabaody Archipelago, Cross finds himself having to censor several scenes of it, most of which are the result of Kid demonstrating how he got the second-highest Supernova bounty (excluding Cross's) for sheer brutality.
• Got Volunteered:
  • Leo, Kung-Fu Dugong and Straw Hat ship guard, gets tasked as Zoro's sparring partner/training dummy due to being the only other sword user on the ship (until Brook shows up). Later, his fellow apprentices Mikey and Donny are shanghaied into being assistants for Sanji and Chopper, respectively.
  • On Skelter Bite, Cross finds himself shanghaied into an exhibition swords match against Brook.
• Graceful Loser:
  • Foxy is surprisingly accepting about having to be a Straw Hat...although he's not particularly keen on being so close to their brand of insanity so much.
  • "Long" John "Silverteeth" is outright happy to lose to Leo as it means he finally gets a satisfying death.
• Gratuitous French: Baron Tamago peppers his speech with this. The first time he meets Cross, the latter delves into this a little as well.
• Gratuitous Japanese: Most techniques are translated into English, but Haki stays Japanese.
• Gratuitous Spanish:
  • The voice that Soundbite gives Scissors the giant crab.
  • Abounds with the Amigo Pirates.
• Grave Robbing: Turns out that looting vessels resting in Davy Jones's Locker is the ship equivalent of this, and Merry, despite being freaked out to be there, still sees it as a sacred place for ships who have earned their eternal rest, and so resolves to protect it from a bunch of fish-men who plan to dismantle the vessels before undergoing her timeskip training.
• Green-Eyed Monster: Dr. Indigo towards Chopper. He has spent the last 20 years building up his magnum opus scientific achievement for Shiki, only for Chopper to show up on the SBS and proceed to display medical advancements that are in danger of completely upstaging the clown.
• Grievous Harm with a Body:
  • Cross ends up as Luffy's weapon against the Billions.
  • Luffy does it again, this time with a random Marine, in Navarone.
  • While in Water 7, Merry swats Donny halfway through a stone wall...using Mikey for a club.
  • Cross finally gets a chance to do it himself to the Amigo Pirates.
• Groin Attack:
  • In Chapter 20, Vivi and Nami do this in unison to Cross after, in an attempt to keep Scissors scuttling along the Sandora, he encourages "hot girl-on-girl action."
  • Also in Chapter 20, Vivi gives one of these to Mr. 2., noted under And This Is for... above.
  • Once again, Vivi does this to Lieutenant Commander Drake after he insinuates that Cross was somehow involved with Baroque Works.
  • Merry delivers one to Absalom. It doesn't go nearly as well...
  • One is inflicted to a female fighter during the race to Sabaody Archipelago, via a wooden horse.
• Growing Wings: In Merveille, Conis's vestigial wings suddenly grow in size in response to Su's suffering as they fall and all the SIQ-laced bushmeat she'd been eating. However, her limited flying abilities are cut short due to unfamiliarity in using them and sudden muscle sprains.
• Guest-Star Party Member: The Barto Club fights alongside the Straw Hat crew during the Strong World event; Bartolomeo in particular assists Luffy against Shiki two-on-one.