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Fridge Funny
- Robin refuses to join her crew in docking, calling it "embarrassing as a human". Her post time-skip techniques essentially revolve around docking with herself.
Fridge Heartwarming
- In the Elbaph arc, Luffy knows about both Jaguar D. Saul and Bellmere, significant characters from the lives of Robin and Nami respectively — but we never saw him learn about them on-screen. At some point, Luffy learned the dark and troubled pasts of these two, and most likely, the rest of his crew.
Fridge Logic:
Fridge Logic
- It was stated that Queen Otohime's body was very weak. Then you see how big Shirahoshi was as a baby...
- Not entirely impossible, since we don't know how the mermen/Fish-men birth process works. She could have laid an egg which grew bigger over gestation.
- Fridge Brilliance: Maybe the reason she's so frail is because she gave birth to a giant little girl like Shirahoshi!
- In an early episode, Luffy is trapped in a cage, with Buggy the Clown about to fire a Buggy Bomb at him, and Nami burns her hands putting out the fuse. Oh yeah, wait, Luffy is made of rubber. Possibly just a Plot Hole for some.
- When he did repel the bomb later, he was shown expanding himself. Maybe he couldn't have done it from the cage?
- Blunt impact can't hurt Luffy, but sharp shrapnel? That would probably do it.
- The whole cage bomb incident happened before Nami knew Luffy had the powers of the Gum-Gum Fruit. She assumed that if Luffy was hit by the Buggy Bomb, he'd go splat like a normal person. The very reason she put the cannon's fuse out was because she didn't want to be a 'murderer.'
- No, no, no, think about it. Luffy is still vulnerable to explosions and fire, right? Well, the "Buggy Ball" would have exploded on the metal cage first before it would have hit Luffy's rubber body and bounce off — that's why he said "I'll be blown to bits"!
- I think the original point here is that Luffy should logically have never been in any danger to begin with; his rubberman abilities would have allowed him to squeeze through the bars, or stretch his arms out to yank the fuse out of the cannon or something. He just...didn't. Then again, he is kind of an idiot.
- Then again, Luffy never displayed "Mr. Fantastic" powers of fine stretch control and squeezing; so maybe that's his limitation: he doesn't have fine control (pretty much confirmed as he was shown to hurt himself a lot when learning to use his powers) and it's also possible he cannot make his body smaller (other than as a drawback to Gear Third) at will as he's a paramecia, not a Logia, similar to how Buggy can "fly" but his feet cannot.
- Speaking of which, why couldn't Sanji hit Eneru? He has rubber soles on his shoes, and yet his kicks went right through him. Worse still, Eneru would have never seen it coming even with Haki because he doesn't know about rubber. It seems like a giant oversight.
- Because Eneru's power is a Logia type. He can avoid any physical attack that is not enhanced with Haki. The only Logia that can't do that is Blackbeard's power. As for why Luffy could hit him... maybe he used Armament haki without knowing it?
- Luffy's hitting Eneru is explicitly because of his rubber body. Like hitting Crocodile with water, Haki never entered into equation at all.
- Crocodile is weak to water because all Devil Fruit users are cursed by the sea. Remember Morias zombies? they were defeated with salt because it carries the power of the sea. Rubber cannot nullify Devil Fruit powers. Luffy didn't have the slightest chance in his fights against Aokiji (just before reaching Water Seven) and Akainu (at Marineford).
- This is true in a sense, that rubber cannot nullify DF powers, but it's still an insulator meaning it doesn't conducts electricity, and Eneru is basically electricity itself(well, at least he can turn into it), so it makes sense that Luffy's attacks hurt him.
- Further, while all Devil Fruit users are vulnerable to the sea, Crocodile is specifically noted as being more vulnerable to water in general. Volume 41's SBS
specifically notes the difference by stating that while most Devil Fruit users are fine taking a shower, Crocodile would be one of the only ones completely unable to use his powers while doing so. Luffy also notes during their second fight that this is the reason Crocodile worked so hard to put Alabasta into drought. Taking away rain helped ferment rebellion but, more importantly, he was afraid of it and the potential disadvantage it could give him. The whole "Water-Luffy" shtick would not have worked on any other known Devil Fruit user for the reasons it did on Crocodile. In short, most, if not all, Logia have some specific weakness that prevents use of their powers. From what we've seen in-series, water is Crocodile's, rubber is Eneru's, Akainu's Magma was Ace's, and if you want to get into the movies, we had flour for Gasparde. - It should be noted that it's specifically water or rather liquid, not sea water that is Crocodile's weakness. Fresh water doesn't have the same effect, otherwise Mizu Luffy would've defeated himself as well. For the same reason that only the tip of Smoker's Jitte is Seastone, a Devil Fruit user just can't use the sea on another Devil Fruit user. And at the end of Alabasta, Luffy was using his own blood to bypass Crocodile's sand powers. That's right, blood and sand.
- Normal water can work, but they have to be submerged. When Nami fought Califa, Nami noted that Califa should be weakened due to being mostly submerged in a bathtub. Drinking water, which is what what the whole Water-Luffy thing basically was, is not an issue.
- If he can't shower Crocodile must use a lot of cologne. Look at your captain, now back to me?
- He can shower, he's just unable to use his Sand-Sand powers while doing so. Which, come to think of it, would go a long way towards explaining how he can be so Crazy-Prepared. If you have every legitimate reason to worry about attack while bathing you'd develop an insane level of caution and foresight.
- Rubber is not instant isolation vs. electricity, if a current is high enough, like the one coming from a thunder man, rubber soles just isn't enough to cut it; sure the sole is not electrified, but it still passes to Sanji fairly fast. Now compare that to rubber everything: Eneru's electricity found a literal limbo in Luffy's body, concentrating it and disabling pretty much all his powers. Rubber is not Eneru's foil, but the rubber man is!
- Also, Sanji wears dress shoes, which often have leather soles, not rubber.
- Because Eneru's power is a Logia type. He can avoid any physical attack that is not enhanced with Haki. The only Logia that can't do that is Blackbeard's power. As for why Luffy could hit him... maybe he used Armament haki without knowing it?
- If the OP World is divided in four seas by the Grand Line (with the Calm Belts) and the Red Line, and the technology to cross the Calm Belts without being sunk and devoured by Sea Kings is exclusive of the Marines. Then how is it possible the communication between seas? For example: How does Sanji, born in North Blue, meet Luffy in East Blue?.
- It would seem they could travel to say one of the mountain range that span the circumference of the world and pay for passage over it, referenced when the Straw Hats came back to this range in the Thousand Sunny and didn't have the means to go underwater at the moment. We don't know where Zeff and Sanji met, so it could be they moved the restaurant into the weakest of the seas for safety reasons.
- Not to mention that they have those snail-phone thingies. Wireless communication works pretty well too.
- For simple news(papers) they have those birds carrying them around. This way they should be able to reach the whole world.
- But when it gets to human transport it gets really difficult for non-VIPs / non-Marines, since the only way to get out of the Grand Line into one of the four seas is to cross the calm belt with sea kings and maybe even Fish-Man Island before that. Now we just need to ask Don Krieg about how he made it back. My own theory is that the land in-between (Red Line) is as stated above passable. This way North / East and West / South are connected.
- We know how Don Krieg made it back. After Mihawk demolished his fleet, the poor miserable bastard drifted back through the calm belt and was attacked by Sea Kings doing even more damage. Because he came back through the calm belt he had no propulsion which plainly explains why they ran out of food and water by the time they got back to the East Blue.
- Another likely theory is that there are certified passenger ships that have special permission to have such technology or that there are gateways, controlled by the Marines of course, in couple places which while 100% safe, aren't exactly an option for a pirate.
- Confirmed: The Marines and the World Government have ships designed to ferry passengers through the Calm Belt and some as-of-yet unknown transportation method for crossing the Red Line, but they only do so for VIPs and other influential people. In the Totto Land Arc, Nami realized just how difficult it should have been for Sanji to cross seas, and she deduced that he must have needed the clout of the Vinsmoke Family in order to do so.
- Don Krieg got his start as a pirate by stealing a Navy ship. There's a very good chance that the flagship he got to Baratie with used to be the Navy's property, and thus was designed to cross the Calm Belt.
- It would seem they could travel to say one of the mountain range that span the circumference of the world and pay for passage over it, referenced when the Straw Hats came back to this range in the Thousand Sunny and didn't have the means to go underwater at the moment. We don't know where Zeff and Sanji met, so it could be they moved the restaurant into the weakest of the seas for safety reasons.
- If the Marines have the technology to enter the Grand Line at any point, what's keeping them from just sailing around one of the calmer seas and crossing directly over to Laugh Tale without fighting through the entirety of Paradise and the New World?
- Whose to say they can enter from the side like that? Perhaps there is something so powerful it keeps the Marines from going that way? Or maybe they don't want to go there as that holds the secret to the Void century and the less people know of it the better?
- It's even mentioned that there are some places the Marines simply won't go to, such as Wano Country. Why would they risk going to Laugh Tale?
- It should be remembered that the New World isn't a vacuum. It's the territory of the Four Emperors. Marines just surprise cruising into Kaido or Shanks' backyard is not only a suicide mission, but an act of war. Also the New World's climate is supposed to be vastly worse than Paradise's, and speaking of there's the navigation issue. Don't forget you need a log pose to set on an island to go anywhere at all in the Grand Line. Trying to cruise in from a calm belt would leave you completely directionless and a sitting duck for any insane natural phenomenon or angry New World Pirate trying to boost their bounty.
- The Zou Arc has provided an explanation: Laugh Tale does not react to any Log Poses and cannot be found through normal means. Rather, there is a series of Poneglyphs with coordinates written on them that, when read together, will show where Laugh Tale is and make the island accessible.
- For the longest time, it bothered me that the Straw Hat Pirates apparently have no first mate (although popular opinion is that Zoro is the first mate). And then it hit me... of course they don't have a first mate! Luffy has zero intention of dying, why would he bother picking a first mate?
- Zoro is the first mate. He is the one who takes charge when Luffy's not around and they are not at sea, then Nami's in charge as Navigator. Zoro is also the voice of reason at times, such as letting Usopp back in the crew after he left and self-sacrifice by taking Luffy's pain during Thriller Bark. Zoro has his own dreams but is more than willing to give them up to serve the crew and his captain. That is the epitome of the First Mate.
- Even so, Zoro is not 'officially' the first mate. His statue among the crew is simply swordsman and he has no official job unlike the other crew members. The only real 'job' he has on the ship is to rise the anchor. Nami could almost be consider the first mate since she runs the ship and tells everyone what to do when they are out on sea. She also tends to plan ahead and also acts as Luffy's common sense at times. At Thriller Bark 'everyone' on Luffy's crew was willing to die and give up their dreams to protect Luffy and Sanji offered his life as well before Zoro knocked him out. So, Zoro is not the only one who fulfill the status of first mate.
- But notice another thing: when someone else takes charge, like Zoro or Nami, Luffy never says anything. The Straw Hats don't need a first mate because anybody can take charge of any situation that may arise depending on who the strongest against a particular threat is.
- While Zoro has not officially been identified as the first mate, there are a few points (including some already outlined above) that would make him a better fit for the role. For one thing, he was the first crew-mate Luffy ever recruited, Luffy has described him as being the "champion" that he (Luffy) wants on his crew, and he's been described as the only crew-member who's able to physically match Luffy in terms of raw power (think of their fight at Whiskey Peak, although in fairness that was more a case of Let's You and Him Fight arising from a misunderstanding on Luffy's part). Yes, Zoro's got a rather loose grip on sanity, he gets bossed around by Nami more often than not, and he sucks at knowing which way is up, but those are largely played for laughs — when it comes to serious matters, such as the whole issue with Usopp rejoining the crew, Zoro is the one who has to set the whole crew straight as to the lack of respect for Luffy's position as captain that it would indicate if Usopp was taken back like nothing had happened (it bears noting that Sanji admits Zoro is right about that, something even Nami was hesitant to acknowledge). Also, when Luffy's duel with Usopp was over, who was the first person Luffy admitted his heavy-heartedness to? Not Nami, not Sanji, not Chopper — Zoro. And Zoro was the only one there who was able to keep emotionally calm and outline what they needed to do next (Nami was in tears, Chopper was leaving medical supplies for Usopp while crying, and Sanji was resignedly smoking), while chiding Luffy that as captain, he needed to man up and be strong for the rest of the crew. The first mate is expected to be the one to help the captain stay on course as a leader, and to take on the leadership when the captain is somehow unable to do so, and in this case, that's what Zoro wound up doing, to keep the crew in line. So, yeah, even if he has yet to be officially called the first mate, Zoro more or less behaves like one — it's just a matter of when Oda will settle the issue for us one way or the other.
- Historically, the first mate was considered the second strongest fighter on the crew, the one to continue a fight if the captain fell in battle
- One thing about the Marineford arc that is truly chilling, the Marines that were "deserting" pleaded with Akainu to assign them somewhere other than the front lines because, A.) they weren't very effective against the pirates they were facing, and B.) they weren't suicidal and wanted to live to see their families again. Cody and Helmeppo saw one such Marine actually say "Please. I want to see my family." Akainu's response wasn't to reassign them elsewhere, it wasn't even to give them words of comfort, encouragement or support, or even provide them with the logistics needed to do their job. No, his response was to loudly proclaim "If you cared about your families, you would not disgrace yourself" before immolating the Marines in lava. It does suit Akainu's mentality, as Real Life desertion is equal to execution, and for Akainu, the pleading Marines were no less than traitors to the war effort.
- Fridge Logic: In the Fish-Man Island arc, Otohime's signatures catch fire, and she immediately panics. Understandable, since she spent years trying to get them. But, why didn't anyone tell her that they could just sign them again? It wouldn't have taken long,and it just would have been a minor annoyance in the long run.
- Because there's a fire that could immediately go out of control if left unchecked. She also happens to be right next to the fire, and would instinctively avoid injury before trying to put it out first. She after all worked years just to get that many, and it was a shock to her that so many signed it at all. She probably felt that she will not allow the universe to screw with this Woobie again. Alas, it was not to be...
- Or, it could be the fact that leaving a fire in the open for too long would eat all the oxygen in the bubble that surrounds Fish-Man Island, therefore suffocating all the residents.
- Because there's a fire that could immediately go out of control if left unchecked. She also happens to be right next to the fire, and would instinctively avoid injury before trying to put it out first. She after all worked years just to get that many, and it was a shock to her that so many signed it at all. She probably felt that she will not allow the universe to screw with this Woobie again. Alas, it was not to be...
- Fridge Logic: Why don't Ace's pants burn off when he uses his powers?
- Asbestos pants?
- The same reason other Logia uses don't lose their clothes when they transform. For whatever reason their clothing is incorporated into their powers. My question is whether or not that's a trained ability or something Logias have from the get-go.
- It is an oddity common to all Devil Fruits : The user's (and sometimes victims') clothes change along with them with only three exceptions so far (Ain's rejuvenating powers, Honey Queen's Toro Toro no Mi, and Jewelry Bonney's age-manipulating Fruit).
- There's an easy explanation for those exceptions. Ain and Bonney's powers change the age of the target. Shrinking is just a side effect of reducing the age of a human. Clothes however would simply lose the wear they've developed. As for Honey Queen, Rule of Sexy.
- The Minister of the Right put a bomb in a treasure chest in order to prevent thievery. Okay, but is it really smart to put a bomb in a confined room, surrounded by countless treasures, for years on end? Especially since only one person seemed to know about it, and forgot?
- Brook is either a jerk or extremely forgetful. During the time skip, he spent 2 years traveling all across the seas doing concerts and never once visited Laboon.
- Or his tour never took him in that direction and he couldn't force them to go to this tiny lighthouse with only two people there. Considering how much money the managers were raking in, it seems unlikely they would give up time at what could be a packed concert for such a trivial visit.
- Brook's entire goal isn't just to reunite with Laboon, it's to reunite with Laboon after crossing the Grand Line (Quoted from Chapter 488):Brook: Laboon... if you've been waiting there for fifty years... can you be patient for one or two more? I have my pride as a pirate!!! You're waiting for us to return after circling the globe... and I intend to keep my promise and return from the right direction!!!
- Give just how curved Crocodile's hook is, how did he manage to stab it through Luffy's body so easily without making a huge gaping hole?
- It made a hole, but muscular action closed it.
- Why is it so important to knock out the user of the Hobby-Hobby Fruit to undo the power? It seems an unusually Weaksauce Weakness for One Piece. Putting aside the fact that nothing seems to change when she sleeps normally, we know from past experience, specifically Gecko Moria, that simply defeating a Devil Fruit power with a power like this isn't a guarantee of undoing the effects. Moria had to either be convinced to release the shadows he had stolen, or be put into a situation that he lost control of his power (as happened in the end).
- Just a theory, but what if she sleeps when the population isn't allowed to go out? They would keep the reality hidden and the two groups separated.
- Actually, we've seen this happen a few times in the past already. Decken was knocked out, and his power stopped working. Shiki was knocked out and his power stopped working. Moria released his power moments before he passed out. There's probably a lot of seemingly "permanent powers" that would end if knocked out at the right moment. In fact, since Robin guessed it, it's probably an accepted fact that "unnatural" results of power use will end if the user loses consciousness.
- When you fall asleep, your brain keeps going, monitoring heart rate blood flow and all that. So when a Devil Fruit user with that kind of ability goes to sleep, the brain probably just continues keeping the effect running. But when you're violently knocked out, your brain goes "Keep vitals running, fuck everything else." Thus why you sometimes shit or wet yourself. Your brain isn't trying to keep your anus clenched when it's too busy going "KEEP THE HEART AND LUNGS WORKING!".
- TLDR: It's probably subconscious. Mentally trying to keep track of all those thing you altered would leave the user functionally brain-dead/comatose from overloading the brain because you can't do 1,000+ thing consciously at once.
- Fridge Logic: Just... the existence of Ivankov and his/her Okama kingdoms. So, we have all of these men who apparently sincerely want to be women, and a leader who has the ability to give a Gender Bender to people courtesy of his/her Devil Fruit power. And they prefer to run around as hideously, offensively bad-at-it drag queens rather than just get the gender-swap they want? And their leader would rather use his/her Gender Bender powers for his/her own amusement or to punish guys who react negatively to his/her horde of ugly drag queens? Yeah, Japanese values in regards to homosexuals and transexuals are very much unique in the world, but still, it's hard to believe that these characters are even remotely funny, even in Japan.
- Unless they follow the same "Okama Way" that Bon Clay follows: he states himself that as a transvestite he "doesn't follow the path of the man, nor the path of the woman, but the HUMAN path!" (or something along these lines). The inhabitants of the original Okama kingdom might act too feminine for this, but Ivankov his/herself and the Newkamas at least somewhat follow this ideology (it's stated that most of them went through the Gender Bender several times, to the point some of them don't really remember their original gender).
- Monet has wings but no arms, legs, and can turn into snow. She's a snow angel.
- Here's an easy one from Film: Z. Ain, one of Z's top henchmen, has Fountain of Youth powers; she can revert people's ages by 12 years every time she touches them. Now, seeing as how Z basically loses his fight to Luffy due to being old and past his prime, you'd think it would be obvious to them to just have her use her powers to de-age him so he could be in his physical prime again (Z was 74, so 3 touches would make him 38 and a fourth, 26). This is never brought up in the movie and Ain's potentially devastating power basically only amounts to being used to get some 18-year-old Robin Fanservice.
- He probably had personal pride standing in the way of having to rely on someone else, especially his own students, to get him through a fight, like Whitebeard did when he got pissed about having to wear intravenous bags ("You want my enemies to feel sorry for me?") and ripped them out before going to Marineford. Z relied on his own power to get him this far, and when it proved deficient, he admitted it was a sign his time was over and trying to avoid it would be delaying the inevitable and take away from the time of those to come. And given how shitty his life had gone up to that point and that his loved ones were dead and his disillusionment in the Marines- the two things that gave him a real purpose in life — he was a Death Seeker who did not want to return to his youth because he had nothing left to live for. He decided to let himself wither, be brought down by the overwhelming numbers of his own pupils in the Marines, and march into the sunset in a blaze of glory.
- If Bege wants to kill Linlin so bad, why didn't he just get his hands on another Devil Fruit? Even though they're rare, he can try killing someone weak who has eaten a Fruit, then have at least one ordinary fruit on hand to serve as a vessel to reincarnate it, then shove it into Big Mom's mouth. Though if it had been anything like the poison gas launcher scenario, Big Mom's incredibly destructive Conqueror's Haki and Charlotte Katakuri are hitches in the plan.
- For that matter, if through Caesar, he had access to that poison, in which they used overkill amounts already, why not simply spike the cake with it, and then let Big Mom eat it?
- The above point is touched upon later when Bege does try to fill a new wedding cake Sanji is baking with poison to bring down Big Mom, but on his honor as a chef, Sanji won't have it, because poisoning a dish he helped to make is beneath him. He fights off Bege in a small scuffle, and then proves the cake is so tasty it has a massively incapacitating effect in its own right. Oda covered his bases well.
- There's no guarantee that the usual "2 Devil Fruits = instant death" rule would even work on a monster like Big Mom - Bege saw, alongside the rest of the world, that Blackbeard survived the acquisition of the Quake-Quake Fruit and became an immensely larger threat from it, all due to his strange biology. While we don't know exactly what about his body let him do that...Big Mom has an unusually strong and durable body too, right? So to Bege, it could potentially just make her even more dangerous rather than kill her, now that he knows there are people out there able to use two D Fs at once.
- For that matter, if through Caesar, he had access to that poison, in which they used overkill amounts already, why not simply spike the cake with it, and then let Big Mom eat it?
- As we know at the end of the Sabody Archepelago Arc, Kuma sent each one of the Straw Hats to various islands to train. According to SBS Volume 109, Kuma can only send people or objects to places where he has been before. But that brings up a much bigger question, when did Kuma went to Amazon Lily? Judging from the reaction to the Kuja Warriors on the island when Luffy was in jail, it was not anytime since Kuma has been a warlord.