One Piece/Tropes E-J

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Tropes for One Piece E-J

  • Early-Bird Cameo: Nami, introduced during the Buggy arc in the manga, appeared in the first episode of the anime, even before main character Luffy.
  • Easily-Distracted Referee: The Groggy Ring, to the point where the ref, who was a Foxy pirate, decided to do his stretching exercises while Foxy's Groggy Monsters pulled out everything from giant clubs to sword-soled shoes.
  • Easily Forgiven: Averted pretty hard in regards to Usopp leaving the crew.
    • Nami didn't exactly believe Hatchan when he said he changed his ways at first, either, though she still treated him pretty decently since she knows from experience that he was the least evil and most pathetic of Arlong's crew. Averted quite nicely for everyone, for the most part; in this series, the good guys aren't unreasonable, but if you throw yourself on their mercy, be damn sure you deserve it.
    • Also played with in regards to Nami and Jinbe. The latter apologizes to her for indirectly allowing Arlong to terrorize her hometown and was willing to accept punishment for what he had done. However Nami stopped him and said it was Arlong that she will not forgive and she doesn't harbour any hate towards him or any other fishmen.
  • Early Installment Weirdness: The two prototype versions of "Romance Dawn" are markedly different from the final version of One Piece. For one thing, adventurous pirates are called Peace Mains, and raping-and-pillaging pirates are called Morganeers. There's also a conspicuous lack of Calling Your Attacks.
  • Eat the Dog: Sanji has suggested joked that Chopper should be emergency rations. The first time they met, Sanji started reciting recipes for venison.
    • In an OVA, Luffy and Sanji, while recuperating from injuries, get hungry and really try to eat Chopper.
    • In the Crossover with Toriko, this is Toriko's first thought upon meeting Chopper.
      • Although he thankfully changes his mind upon realizing that Chopper is a Talking Animal.
  • Efficient Displacement: Done by Sanji to Kuroobi during their fight.
  • Egocentric Team Naming: the group of pirates the series follows is called the Straw Hat Pirates, even though Luffy, the captain, is the only one who wears a straw hat. This goes for most other pirates, who are either named after the captain (Whitebeard Pirates, Kidd Pirates, Buggy Pirates) or an attribute of the captain that no other crewmember has (Spade Pirates, Red-Haired Pirates, Firetank Pirates). Less often, a pirate crew has a name that actually covers the whole crew rather than just the captain.
  • Eldritch Abomination: The Lily Carnation from Movie 6, Baron Omatsuri and the Secret Island.
  • Eldritch Location: The Grand Line, particularly the New World, has various locations that pretty much throw the laws of physics out the port hole.
  • Elegant Gothic Lolita: Perona
  • Elemental Rock-Paper-Scissors: Used a few times when fighting Logias are concerned. Crocodile can't dissolve into sand if he's wet, Eneru's lightning has no effect on Luffy's rubber body, fire ties with smoke, and Akainu can punch through Ace's stomach because his lava is hotter than Ace's flames.
  • Elemental Shapeshifter: The Logia Devil Fruit users. Though it's not just limited to the classical elements from various mythological traditions such as Fire, Earth, Air, Water, Spirit, Void, Wood, Metal but also includes anything that comes from nature (e.g. smoke, sand, magma, lightning, etc.)
    • Strangely, not all Logia users turn into things that come from nature; the movie character Gasparde, for example, is a Logia user that turns into candy syrup.
    • The strangest Logia of all, though, has to be Simon, the Big Bad of a videogame, who turns into sheets of paper.
  • Elseworlds: The various omakes released with the data books often take this route. So far, they've portrayed the Strawhats as middle-aged housewives, mythological creatures, members of The Mafia, fairy tale characters, and even parodies of the classic American superhero.
    • Several anime fillers also seem to run in an alternate timeline with the characters being put into a Feudal Japan setting.
  • Emotional Bruiser
  • Empathic Environment: The arrival of a huge wave causes several background characters to smash into the ground when Luffy makes the ridiculously ballsy announcement that he'll be commandeering a Galley-La ship in the Water 7 arc.
  • Ending Theme: Averted as of season seven of the anime. The credits are instead added to the openings, which are now 2:30 long
  • End of an Age / Dawn of an Era: Seems to have happened with the conclusion of the Marineford Arc. A "new era", foreshadowed for some time, has come to pass; but whether it means the end of dreams or the dawn of dreams remains to be seen.
  • The End of the World as We Know It: Whitebeard's powers, which involve creating earthquakes that can conjure massive tsunamis and shatter islands, could cause this due to the One Piece world being one gigantic ocean with a few islands here and there. Now that the power is in the hands of Blackbeard, the threat is much worse considering how he is much less morally conscious than Whitebeard was and has far less control over it.
  • The End - or Is It?: The Thriller Bark arc ends with the Rolling Pirates sailing out of the Florian Triangle celebrating Moria's defeat and the destruction of his zombie army by the Strawhat Pirates. The Florian Triangle is safe for ships again right? Cue an enormous fucking silhouette of a scary-ass monster-thing (with red-eyes and sharp teeth), appearing in the fog behind their ship...
    • In an anime-only moment, Law and Kid's fight with the Pacifista, which isn't shown in the manga, ends with them finally smashing it into the ground. Then its eyes light up and it just stands up again as if nothing had happened. Oh Crap.
  • Enemy Mine: Pretty much the entire Impel Down and Marineford arcs, where Luffy has teamed with Buggy the Clown, Mr. 3, Crocodile, and Mr. 1. Not that it helped him.
    • Post-timeskip, Caribou gets on their ship while fighting a kraken and decides to help the crew by suggesting Luffy, Zoro, and Sanji coat themselves with bubble when Luffy refused to escape. The reason for that is simply survival, as he betrays them right after the threat passed.
    • On Punk Hazard, Luffy enters into an alliance with Trafalgar Law, who had done a Freaky Friday Flip on several members of his crew mere chapters earlier. Luffy doesn't really see it this way, though; he thinks Law is a stand-up fellow regardless of the mishap (which he found absolutely hilarious). The rest of his crew sees it for what it is.
  • Engineered Public Confession: After accidentally pressing the gold denden mushi, Spandam brings out the other one that he meant to press. Without turning it off, he ends up telling everyone on the island that he thinks their lives are worthless. No one is amused, even less when he pretends that it's Luffy who was talking and not him.
  • Equal Opportunity Evil: In the Baroque group, Crocodile had hired a black man, a flamboyant transvestite, old people, and every male member of his team has a completely equal female partner, including himself. Sure he may be evil, but at least he isn't prejudiced! Well, the transvestite doesn't have a partner. He considered himself his own partner in that regard.
  • Establishing Character Moment: "Sorry kid. Looks like my pants ate your ice cream." Smoker, in his Pet the Dog moment with a little girl before giving her a handful of cash to buy another ice cream.
    • Luffy's appearance in both the manga and anime defines his personality and approach towards life. In the manga, as a child, he gives himself a scar on the cheek to show how tough he is and smiling about it afterwards. The anime has Luffy bursting out a barrel and cheerfully exclaiming what a nice nap he had.
    • Zoro's first appearance is being tied to a pole, starving for more than a week because he killed a Marine's pet wolf to protect a little girl. He later eats said little girl's rice ball, despite it being stepped on and the girl adding too much sugar into it, and asks Luffy to tell her that it tastes good.
    • The first thing Admiral Akainu does on-screen is blow up a ship of evacuees that the Marines promised to spare, with the justification that there was a slim chance that a criminal may be aboard. And this was in Robin's backstory, twenty years ago.
    • Sanji is shown serving Fullbody and his date, while making advances towards the date. When Fullbody purposely spills the soup Sanji has made on the floor, Sanji beats him up as wasting food is Sanji's Berserk Button.
  • Evasive Fight Thread Episode: Happens multiple times in the Marineford arc.
  • Even Evil Has Standards: When the pirate after Ace and Sabo's stolen treasure is beating 7 year old Luffy with spiked gloves, one of his subordinates begs him to stop, because even he thinks it's too cruel, and he can't bear to watch it.
    • Earlier on in the series, we're introduced to Captain Morgan's son Helmeppo, who is a spoiled, arrogant Jerkass and has no problem with bullying prisoners, lying to townspeople, and using his father's status to his advantage. He is genuinely horrified, though, when his dad orders him to kill a child. He gets a Heel Face Turn later on.
    • And don't forget Rob Lucci being all "wtf no" at Spandam beating up a helpless, restrained Robin.
    • Surprisingly, it was revealed that Akainu spared Aokiji after emerging victorious from their death match over who would become the Fleet Admiral and the latter vehemently opposing the former's ideals and promotion. Jinbe lampshades this, noting that even Akainu couldn't face his previous ally without some sympathy.
    • The G-5 Marines are pretty nasty, torturing pirates just for fun. However, when they mistakenly assumed that Smoker was accusing them of covering up cases of children being kidnapped, even they were pissed off, saying that even though they were army rejects, they still had their pride as Marines.
  • Even the Girls Want Her: Boa Hancock and Alvida, to an extent. Given the nature of her Devil Fruit power, this proves quite useful to Hancock.
    • More than just the girls, with Hancock. She's used her "the target must lust for you" petrification attack successfully on snakes.
      • Snakes? Pff. Snails!
        • Snails? Pff. Freakin' cannonballs in mid-flight that immediately lose all forward momentum!
    • One of CP9's operatives, Kalifa, gets this reaction from Nami before their fight in Enies Lobby.

Nami: She's so sexy! I want her as my secretary! Wait, what am I saying? I'm not a guy!

  • Everything's Better with Dinosaurs: The island of Little Garden is populated with Dinosaurs and other prehistoric Creatures. Also the pirate Captain X. Drake, who can turn into a tyrannosaurus due to having eaten a rare Ancient Zoan type Devil Fruit.
  • Everything's Better with Princesses: Nefertari Vivi; Boa Hancock.
    • Interestingly, the former doesn't like acting regal and even dressed in casual clothing, after she was exposed. The latter, ironically, is in actuality an empress, and given her vanity and ego, how she named herself, or allowed her subjects to nickname her the "Snake Princess" is a mystery. Oh wait, she's called the "Pirate Empress" as well?! That's an even more grandiose title than anyone who will own One Piece! And she has both titles!? Nice to see some royalty is humble, huh(?)
    • Then again, she's an empress who is also a pirate, so put two and two together and... yeah.
    • Let's not forget Hancock's other official title of Warlord of the Sea.
  • Everything's Better with Spinning: If we tried to list every instance of this trope, we'd be here all day. However, Mr. 2 should be noted as a particularly big believer in this trope.
    • Also how Usopp/Sogeking's "Kabuto" sling-shot works when shot.
  • Everything's Deader with Zombies On Thriller Bark, we end up with zombies that are not only hilarious, but at one point do a dance number that needs to be seen to be believed.
  • Everything's Even Worse with Sharks: Arlong, with Hodi Jones following in his example much later in the series. Jinbe is a subversion. Unless you fuck with Whitebeard. Then it's definitely played straight.
    • And since one of Zoro's motifs is that of a shark, this trope applies to him.
  • Everythings Funkier With Disco: Zombie Night!
  • Everything's Worse with Bears: Bartholomew Kuma. Also a subversion, as he's spared the Straw Hats twice, even though he had orders to kill them the first time, and he's supposedly the Warlord who's most loyal to the World Government.
    • Played straight as of the arrival of the World Government's Pacifista Army.
    • Played straight with Kumacy, Perona's pet Zombie Teddy Bear.
    • Also played straight with Bear King, Big Bad of the second movie.
    • Bepo, of the Heart Pirates, is a Kung-Fu Bear. Subverted, as he's a pretty nice guy... er, bear.
  • Evil Counterpart: Like Luffy, Blackbeard carries the "D" name, wants to be Pirate King, encourages others to follow their dreams, and is gradually getting stronger and building his crew as he goes. Unlike Luffy, well... Luffy's nakama are all Determinators; Blackbeard's crew believes in the cruel workings of fate. Luffy's nakama stick by him no matter what; Blackbeard's crew contemplate ditching him if his plans fail. Luffy is a Magnetic Hero; Blackbeard acquires subordinates via cage matches. Luffy gets serious in a fight and smiles at death; Blackbeard grins evilly in battle and screams hysterically at the prospect of dying. Luffy never interferes in another's fight (or asks for assistance); Blackbeard has his crew finish his dirty work for him. The list goes on.
    • Buggy is definitely an evil counterpart to Luffy. For one thing, their names are somewhat similar, but more importantly, their Devil Fruit powers are similar in effect but fundamentally opposite and provide invulnerability to opposite kinds of attacks; Buggy is immune to being cut (while cutting is one of the only ways to injure Luffy) and Luffy is immune to blunt force (which is one of the only things that can injure Buggy). They also share rather similar ideals and goals, though Buggy had put his on hold in favor of being the big fish in a small pond until Luffy defeated him.
    • Blackbeard's new recruit and ex-Head Gaoler of Impel Down Shilew has several similarities to Zoro. Both are swordsmen and both were put on the death row before joining their captains. Shilew's past as a ex-jailor parallels Zoro's past as a ex-bounty hunter.
  • Evilutionary Biologist: Dr. Indigo, member of the Flying Pirates, is the one responsible for the experiments to create Shiki's army of mutated animals.
  • Evil Old Folks: The Five Elder Stars.
  • Evolving Credits: Starting with episode 485, One Day has the shot of the Blackbeard Pirates updated with their new recruits.
  • Exact Words: Spandam used this on Robin when he gave the order to kill all of the Strawhats. He agreed that all of them except for Robin would leave Water 7 mostly unhurt. However, since they were now in Enies Lobby, the agreement was void as soon as the Strawhats got there.
  • Exaggerated Trope: A world that runs on nonsense, friendship, outrageous antics, unwavering determination, and is packed full of more determinators and badasses than you can count tends to do this. Both for comedy and drama.
  • Excited Episode Title: Both in how they're written and how Luffy says them.
  • Experimental Archeology: One of Luffy's goals towards the end of the Skypeia arc was to prove Montblanc Norland was not a liar.
  • Expository Hairstyle Change: Minor examples are Nami and Robin. A large example would be Franky. You see, at first it seems like he had his hair shaved. Then, we find out that he can change his hairstyle however he wants if you press and hold his nose for three seconds.
  • Expository Theme Tune: The 4Kids dub theme, positively dripping with Totally Radical and absolutely no sense of irony.
  • Expressive Hair: Mr. 3, Franky.
  • Expy: Impel Down warden Shiliew appears to be based off of Riki-Oh's Washizaki, and, by extension, M. Bison. Street Fighter jokes have been made since Day 1.
    • According to Oda himself:
    • Luffy is based on Son Goku.
    • Nigh-indestructible Blood Upgrade powered Pearl is just a skinnier Mr. Heart from Fist of the North Star. This was intentional, as the chapter he was introduced in had "Hokuto no Ken" written on Sanji's knife.
    • Psychotic scientist that uses poisonous gas as a weapon, experiments on his subordinates and who is a former subordinate to a prominent scientist that works beyond the scenes. Caesar Clown or Mayuri Kurotsuchi?
  • Extreme Doormat: Cindry, Dr. Hogback's assistant/object of lust. To the point that she'll actually lick the floor if he orders her to. She does regain some volition in the end though, right before being sacrificed for Moriah's One-Winged Angel.
  • Eyes Are Mental: Done literally with anyone hit by Law' Freak Friday Flip power; the new body's eyes are drawn in the same style as the original body's.
  • Eye Shock: Sprinkled liberally throughout the series.
  • Facial Composite Failure: Sanji's Wanted Poster.
    • After the timeskip, it changes to a shot of the back of his head. Which probably counts as an improvement.
  • Fake Defector: In the filler Alternate Universe Detective Memoirs of Chief Straw Hat Luffy, Zoro, a travelling monk, appears to be an Aloof Ally, helping out Vivi when the Buggy Clowns chased her. Buggy decides to hire him to defeat Luffy. But during the fight, Zoro intentionally has Luffy hit all of Buggy's crew. And when Mohji and Cabaji tries to attack Vivi, he stopped them.
  • Fake Ultimate Hero Villain: Entirely determined by events outside of his control, Buggy the Clown has become this in the Impel Down and Marineford arcs. The World Government assumes that he's Four Emperors level because he was on Gold Roger's crew along with Shanks, an actual Emperor. Every action he takes will inevitably be interpreted by the followers he picked up at Impel Down as part of some massively elaborate Gambit.

Inmate # 1: You made it seem like you were going to run away but then you helped your comrade from prison!
Inmate # 2: How noble!
Inmate # 3: You're so exalted! It burns my eeeyeeees!!

  • Family-Friendly Firearms: The 4Kids dub, which had any and all firearms either painted bright colors, or changed into the even less plausible squirt-guns.
    • Though if you think about it, squirt guns are exactly the right thing to have against Crocodile.
    • Waterguns are the least of their crimes. Helmeppo's gun is replaced with some weird hammer contraption, and in Luffy's origin story, the bandit's gun is turned into a pop gun. The gun of the pirate who shoots the bandit remains intact, although there's a line tacked on stating "it was loaded with blanks".
  • Family-Unfriendly Violence: Most of the fighting in the series isn't terribly graphic, but occasionally we get stuff like Crocodile impaling Luffy, Doflamingo slicing limbs off, or Akainu literally punching part of Whitebeard's face off in the manga!
    • In the anime, they tone this down, merely having Akainu blow ANOTHER hole in Whitebeard's chest.
  • Fandom Nod: The published lists of questions answered by the creator. Sometimes serious answers that add to canon, mostly humorous ones that... don't.
    • Also, when Luffy's Gomu Gomu Gatling was voted the most popular attack of the series, its upgrade, Jet Gatling, was used to defeat the next Dragon-in-Chief.
  • Fan Service: Not too much of it, fortunately, but as a case in point: Nami vs. Kalifa.
    • And after that, the fanservice levels were suddenly cranked up to 11. Weird fanservice, but still fanservice.
    • The 10th anniversary book gives as a colorspread of Nami and Robin taking a bath in a hotspring [dead link] (doesn't show anything, but still NSFW).
    • Fan Disservice: For all of the Fan Service mentioned above, there's quite a lot of this.
      • Robin spending two long arcs wearing lots of leather and a cleavage-baring blouse? Cool. Cuffed? Even better. Getting beaten bloody and quite literally "biting the curb" as Spandam tries to drag her away in a scene that strongly resembles (at least in the anime) a rape? Uh...
      • Nami getting pinned to the wall by an invisible Absalom when she was taking a bath — again with the uncanny resemblance to a rape. DO. NOT. WANT.
      • There are some characters who are Walking Shirtless Scene types. However, Hannyabal and Blackbeard, two very unattractive men, are among them.
      • Franky's speedo. Just... Franky's speedo. And it's still better than FRANKY SANS SPEEDO. (And don't forget how Robin... squeezes him.)
      • New Kama Land. Sanji in a dress fighting while wearing bloomers. Should be good, huh? Well, the man he is fighting is a gonk in a dress with fake breasts. Brain Bleach, please...
        • In General, Momoiro Island, Kamabakka Kingdom. Full Stop.
      • In a flashback during the Amazon Lily arc, we see a very cute-looking girl with her hair in Girlish Pigtails and wearing both Zettai Ryouiki and a midriff-baring outfit. Bad thing? That girl is a 12/13-year-old Boa Hancock; she's also in chains alongside her sisters Sandersonia and Marigold (who are also pretty cute, if we ignore Sonia's huge head and how they're even more loli than loli!Hancock back then), and the three are utterly terrified since they're about to be subjected to at least four years of cruel punishments, tortures and humiliations coming from the World Nobles.
      • Kokoro embodies this, especially as a mermaid. It caused everyone who saw it (including her granddaughter) to pass out.
  • Fantastic Fighting Style: Okama Kenpo, Ramen Kenpo, Fishman Karate, the Blackleg style, Life Return, and of course Rokushiki.
  • Fantastic Racism: More than one has been led to believe in the beginning. The world nobles freely practice slavery of other races, and there is a lot of strife between humans and fishmen as well.
  • Fantasy Counterpart Culture: The island nation of Wa-no-Kuni is very clearly this for feudal Japan, what with its isolationism and its samurai. ("Wa-no-kuni" is in fact an old way to refer to Japan.) The Shandians are pretty clear analogues for disenfranchised and displaced Native American populations, as well.
  • Fantasy Kitchen Sink: The series features sea monsters, ki abilities, mushroom-induced hypnotic powers, fish-men, not to be confused with mer-men, telecommunication snails, a giant whale with a house on an acidic lake inside his stomach, giant riding ducks, dinosaur islands, viking giants, islands in the sky (and most of them are populated by people from the moon), solid and liquid clouds, shells that can absorb and re-emit various things such as light, water, and the aforementioned clouds, Hollywood Cyborgs, Men in Black with super Kung Fu, and, lest we forget, magical/demonic(?) fruit that gives you super powers.
  • Fartillery: Franky's Coup de Boo.
  • Fate Worse Than Death: Spandam, who got his spine crushed in deliciously-graphic nature by Robin. It was richly deserved.
    • Word of God states that this is the only reason Luffy doesn't kill his opponents. He believes that letting them live to watch their hopes and dreams fall apart around them is this. However, it is often subverted during the cover stories, where a former villain would go through a series of events that result in them becoming even better off then their original goals would have made them. (Spandam is NOT one of them, to say the least).
  • Failure Knight: Jinbe seems to be this way with Luffy after Ace dies, recalling his promise to Ace that he would protect Luffy if he ever died.
  • A Father to His Men: Part of Whitebeard's reputation is that he sees every one of his crew members as a son, and will go absolutely berserk if something happens to even one of them. This includes taking on the entire World Government, including the Seven Warlords of the Sea, to rescue one.
    • And of course, Ace and the other Division Commanders LITERALLY regard Whitebeard as a father.
    • Recently, it's confirmed that this attitude extends to his allies, even if one of them does a little thing like stabbing him.
  • Faux Symbolism: A pretty humorous example is Buggy becoming Moses in a recent chapter, while singing Joy to the World.
    • Invoked in-universe with Luffy's ringing the Ox Bell at Marineford. Everyone got so focused on deciphering the meaning behind Luffy's actions that nobody spotted the message hidden on his right arm except the other Straw Hats and Vivi (who knew there was a message, but didn't have the information necessary to figure it out).
  • Feather Boa Constrictor: Everyone in Amazon Lily.
  • Femme Fatale: Boa Hancock, Nico Robin at first; Captain Hina seems to be this as well.
  • The Fettered: The Marine and the World Government play this trope completely straight. This is not a good thing.
  • Filler: Not that much of it, but fans are sadly more prone to remembering Rainbow Mist and Warship Island over the gem G8.
  • Fetish Fuel Station Attendant: Nico Robin...
  • Fighting From the Inside: Played to horrifying ends when Miss Goldenweek hypnotizes Luffy to be completely calm and not bother with saving his friends. When he's drinking his tea, a close-up reveals a completely pissed off Luffy unable to do anything but angrily growl "This is some good tea" repeatedly.
  • Fire-Forged Friends: Why the Straw-Hats joined the Straw-Hats, with no exceptions.
    • And, oddly enough, shows up between two enemies when Roger asks Garp to raise Ace. And IT WORKS.
  • Fire, Ice, Lightning: The three admirals have a variation to this, Aokiji - ice, Akainu - lava, and Kizaru - light. Heck, their names even have the Japanese words for blue, red, and yellow respectively.
    • The Straw Hats have recently completed the trifecta, with Fire, Ice, and Lightning being wielded by Sanji, Brook, and Nami, respectively.
  • Finger-Twitching Revival
  • Fish People: Fishmen, obviously. They come in various different species of fish and can interbreed with humans, mermaids, and giants. They're also 10x stronger than humans from birth.
  • Five-Man Band: The original five Straw Hats were this during the East Blue saga.
  • Flash Step: Soru, also Kuro's Shakushi. They both move at roughly the same speed. The difference is that Kuro can't see where he's going or what he's attacking; Soru users, however, can see what they're doing, making Soru the superior technique.
  • Flat Earth Atheist: In at least the East Blue, Devil Fruits are thought to be mythical, which is given a flimsy Hand Wave by claiming that Devil Fruits are just that rare outside the Grand Line. This is in spite of the fact that most of the world's major figures, both pirates and government alike, do possess Devil Fruit powers and make no attempt to hide them from the public.
  • Flawed Prototype: The Rocketman, an earlier version of the sea train Puffing Tom that could never be used to carry passengers because once it got going, it couldn't stop.
    • The first incarnation of the Clima Tact could be seen as this, being bogged down by useless party tricks, and Nami's extensive knowledge of the weather was the only thing that made it even remotely useful.
  • Flight: In-universe, there only five known types of Devil Fruits that grant flight. So far we've seen flying zoans (Pell and Marco), many logia, and technically a paramecia (Shiki in the canonical Movie 10)). Robin can form wings by constructing them with extra arms, but flapping these wings is extremely tiring.
  • Flipping the Table: Franky has done this at least once.
  • Floating Continent: An entire saga was based around one.
    • And in recent events, Nami has gotten herself tossed onto one by Kuma.
    • And the God-Created Canon Foreigner Big Bad for Movie 10, Gold Lion Shiki, has his own personal collection of the things for his base, Strong World.
  • Floating in A Bubble: Justified by the unique atmosphere and resin found only in Shabaody Archipeligo and Fishman Island.
  • Fluffy Tamer: Attempted by Luffy with Thriller Bark's cerberus. He gets better at it after the timeskip—he tames a kraken.
    • Mohji of Buggy's crew thinks he's this, though the only animal he seems capable of taming is his pet lion.
  • Flunky Boss: Gekko Moriah is a good non-video game example. After losing his entire crew in battle, he decides to create a new, unkillable, crew, and rely solely on their power. It's not until his Villainous Breakdown that he actually does any fighting himself.
    • After the Time Skip, Demalo Black's plan to take on the New World hinged on his becoming this. He tricked several pirate crews several times stronger than himself into becoming his followers by making them believe that he was Luffy, intending to use them to take out any threats that Luffy's reputation didn't scare away first.
  • Follow the Chaos: The Straw Hats know which direction to find Luffy in Enies Lobby when a building far away from them suddenly collapses.
  • Foot Focus : In a series where so many people either go barefoot or wear sandals, this is a given. On the female side, Nami takes the cake, though.
  • Forgot I Couldn't Swim: Luffy isn't very careful around deep water, which is problematic because people who eat Devil Fruits, including Luffy, lose the ability to swim and need to be saved by a friend. Chopper and Brook are always quick to jump in to save the captain, which is problematic because they use Devil Fruits too.
  • Foreshadowing: If you've read the story long enough, you'll realize that most, if not all, of the major events or characters had been hinted at prior to coming into the story, sometimes hundreds of chapters in advance. In one case, in the first chapter.
    • A real life example of foreshadowing alludes to the series Big Bad. Oda's favorite real life pirate is none other than Edward Teach, AKA Blackbeard.
    • Oda has also shown us a number of things that most likely will come back later. For example, Hogback and Absalom escaping from Thriller Bark together.
    • When Luffy's first bounty is revealed, we can see Coby cleaning up the Marine base. With a half-hidden Helmeppo doing the same in the background.
    • During the Marineford arc when Luffy remainds Ace that they are brothers there is a brief flashback to them solidifying the bond with shared sake. Both Luffy and Ace's cups are visible but there is a shadow of a third cup Sabo's that can be seen at stump.
  • 4Kids! Entertainment: The ones who mercilessly Bowdlerised this series before the Japanese studio handed the license over to FUNimation.
  • Four Eyes, Zero Soul: Captain Kuro and Kalifa.
  • The Four Loves: While the series intentionally excludes Eros (romantic love) from being the focus, Phileo (friendship) cannot be expressed enough, acting as a driving force for about ninety percent of the cast. Various pirate crews and civilians are also strongly driven by Storge (familial love), especially Whitebeard's crew. Further down the scale, Luffy displays some clear examples of Agape (unconditional love) for his nakama, sacrificing his own well-being to ensure their own (the Drum Island and Impel Down arcs come to mind).
  • A Friend in Need: It runs on the Power of Friendship. What do you expect?
  • Freak-Out: Many. For a lot of characters, it's mostly used as comedy. But probably one of the most notable ones is Luffy's at the end of 574. Luffy looked scary before but... damn.
    • In Chapter 582, Luffy undergoes an absolutely epic Freak-Out over the reality of Ace's death finally sinking in.
  • Freaky Friday Flip: Thanks to Trafalgar Law, Sanji is in Nami, Nami is in Franky, Franky is in Chopper, and Chopper is in Sanji.
  • Freaky Is Cool: That's how Luffy feels. It's the main reason he was able to befriend Chopper.
  • French Cuisine Is Haughty: Sanji uses Gratuitous French to name his techniques in the original Japanese.
  • Freudian Excuse: You've got to feel for some of the Big Bads. Gekko Moria had his entire crew wiped out, leaving him the last man standing. Boa Hancock was kidnapped and sold into slavery at the age of twelve, branded, possibly raped, and (based on what we know of the World Nobles) treated like absolute shit for four years while being used and abused for their satisfaction. It's also been implied that Crocodile went through some serious shit.
    • Arlong mistreats and opresses humans because of how humans mistreated and oppressed fishmen... OK, it's not a very good excuse as it's blatant hypocrisy, but in his mind, it's justified, at least.
      • Averted with Hody and the new Fishman pirates. Humans never did anything directly to them.[1] But hating humans for no reason makes Hody the closest thing to pure evil in the game. They're described as "empty".
  • Frickin' Laser Beams: The Sunny's Gaon Cannon (though technically its a focused pressure wave), Barholomew Kuma's mouth weapon, and Admiral Kizaru who can do this with any part of his body.
  • Friendly Enemy: We have Garp to Roger as well as Roger again to Whitebeard. The same could also be said about Luffy to Coby, considering that they're friends despite being on opposite sides of the law.
  • Full Potential Upgrade: An anime filler episode showed Zoro constantly breaking his second and third swords until Yubashiri and Sandai Kitetsu came along.
  • Funbag Airbag: At one point, while running from the women on Amazon Lily, Luffy runs headfirst into the giant Aphelandra's breasts, which stops him momentarily.
  • Funny Afro: Eiichiro Oda considers afros comic gold, it seems.
    • Inverted in Fleet Admiral Sengoku's case. He and his afro are to be taken seriously.
    • Brook has a good reason for taking his seriously as well.
  • Fur Bikini: Most of the inhabitants of Amazon Lily wear these.
  • Gag Boobs: When Sanji's body-swapped in Nami's body he introduces "herself" by removing the coat, pushing both her breasts up with her hands and shouting "WE ARE NAMI SAAAAN!" at the top of her lungs.
    • Also with the giant-sized Mermaid Princess Shirahoshi, as Luffy actually steps and bounces on her gargantuan boobs mistaking them for some sort of pudding.
  • Gag Nose: Usopp, of course. Also, Kaku, who has a long square nose.
  • Gambit Roulette: Sir Crocodile, Sengoku, and Blackbeard
  • Game-Breaking Injury: Tons of examples.
  • Gasshole: Franky's "Coup de Boo."
  • Gayborhood: A whole island is this!
  • Gender Bender: Emporio Ivankov can transform even the most manly of men into shapely women, and vice-versa, as well as himself.
  • Gender Misdirection: Dadan was speculated to be a man, but eventually proved to be a woman. An ugly woman, but still a woman.
    • And thanks to the wonders of the SBS, we now have ones for the Straw Hat crew, featuring cheery and mellowed out former men and absolutely psychotic and Ax Crazy former women.
  • General Ripper: Akainu (when he was still known as Sakazuki) actually ordered his Buster Call warship to fire at an evacuee ship to remove the threat of any archaeologist escaping. Even Spandine, the man who ordered the Buster Call in the first place, was horrified by this. And he is Spandem's FATHER! Recent evidence shows he hasn't mellowed out one bit.
  • Generic Cuteness: Most of the attractive women look similar to each other. It wouldn't be a problem if one of them wasn't supposed to be the most beautiful of the world. It's hard to believe she earned her title when Nami is as cute as her but can't pull the "You'll forgive me because I'm cute" act.

[Right after Nami crashed a boat in a moat] Nami: It was 100% my fault, but I'm cute so you'll forgive me, right?
Usopp: I'll smack you!

  • Genre Savvy: Pretty much everyone except Vivi when they start their trek across the desert, due to the fact that she constantly ignores telling the rest of the group about the dangers that lurk around.
    • Sentomaru in chapter 599. Upon hearing that the Straw Hat Pirates are at Sabaody (Technically, the report was of the impostors, but eh), he immediately plans to head there with two Pacifista, pointing out that they have obviously gotten much stronger since two years prior. Not that it helps.
  • Gentle Giant: Dory and Broggy from the Little Garden island. Really tall, but are actually really nice guys. Even though they fight to the death every so often with the result being a draw almost every time.
    • Perhaps even more so with Saul, who thought that the giants of Elbaf were all completely Ax Crazy. Although, he was a marine.
  • Get a Hold of Yourself, Man!: Jimbe does this to Luffy when he's HeroicBSODing over Ace's death.
  • Getting Crap Past the Radar: Several.
  • Giant Equals Invincible: Completely averted. All being huge in this series means is that you're that much more obvious a target. Just ask Oars Jr. and pretty much the world's entire population of Sea Kings.
    • Conversely, Dorry and Broggy prove that a Badass is a Badass no matter what size they are.
    • Also, former Vice-Admiral Jaguar D. Saul earns some cred for taking an ungodly number of cannonballs to the face while barely flinching. It takes Aokiji (then known as Vice-Admiral Kuzan), a man who can create glaciers just by thinking about it, to finally take him down.
    • Somewhat less averted with the very largest Sea Kings, who are so large that most attacks would be like flea bites to them; this is why even after several hundred chapters of Sea Kings mostly being Worf Effect Fodder, Shirahoshi's ability to call Sea Kings to her aid still makes her a Person of Mass Destruction.
  • Giant Feet Of Stomping: In Chapter 635, Robin sprouts a pair of giant legs from the ground and proceeds to stomp all over anyone unlucky enough to be nearby.
  • Giant Mook: Done literally with the Marines, who have giants as enlisted officers and use them as mooks. Not that it helps.
  • Girl-On-Girl Is Hot: Franky was rather pleased when Nami was searching Kalifa for the key.
  • Give Me a Sword: Happens during Zoro's fight with Hatchan.
  • A God Am I: Eneru pretty much invokes this.
  • God-Created Canon Foreigner: Eiichiro Oda himself is behind the story and character design of Movie 10 and has officially stated in the movie artbook that it is Canon for both the anime and the manga.
  • Godiva Hair: Boa Hancock had this kind of hair for plot related reasons.
  • Godly Sidestep: When the crew meet an old man who was on the one ship in recorded history to make it to the end of the Grand Line, Usopp asks him about One Piece. However, his captain very angrily calls Spoilers on him, saying he wouldn't like an adventure where he knew the outcome.
  • Gondor Calls for Aid: Twice during the Marineford arc, all manner of pirate captains from the New World come out to support Whitebeard and Ace. Then later, after Luffy unwittingly unleashes his Haki and stuns the heck out of even the most badasses there. All the pirates (including Whitebeard and even Crocodile of all people) focus on helping him get to the gallows to rescue Ace.
    • And yet again in chapter 602, when people from almost all the places the Strawhats were training in for the past two years show up to keep the Marines from stopping their departure.
  • Gonk: Expect at least one in each major story arc after Skypiea. Thanks to this being frequently applied to background characters, Only Six Faces can be averted.
    • The Straw Hats get themselves an entire crew of imposters after the timeskip, and each and every one of them is a gonk.
  • Good Scars, Evil Scars: Almost every character has at least one. An interesting case is Psycho for Hire Rob Lucci: his back bears a massive scar shaped like the emblem of the World Government (who are supposed to be the "good guys"), yet his story arc demonstrated that the opposite was true.
    • Gekko Moriah and Crocodile have scars bisecting their faces. Zoro's got a big honkin' scar right across his chest from his encounter with Mihawk, Shanks has a facial scar from fighting Blackbeard, and Luffy has a scar where he stabbed himself in the face to impress Shanks (Shanks was not amused).
    • Not quite a scar, but similar in nature and meaning is Chopper's broken antler. His right antler is broken off at the base and reattached with a strip of metal. He lost his horn fighting All of the Other Reindeer to get what he thought was a miracle cure to heal his mentor/father figure.
    • Zoro's accumulated several scars over his career. Along with the chest scar above, he has scars on each of his ankles from attempting to cut off his own feet, and also post-Time Skip has a scar over his left eye from an unknown source.
      • These are somewhat justified; they're pirates, after all.
  • Go Out with a Smile: All who carry the middle initial of D. Except for Blackbeard, who gets hysterical and begs for his life if it ever seems like his life is in any kind of danger.
  • Gory Discretion Shot: Done various times for random pirates and marines dying and or being mortally wounded during anime adaptation of Marineford as Coby's haki started to manifest.
  • Gosh Dang It to Heck: Viz's English translation heavily uses this. There's something jarring about Luffy screaming "DARN YOU!" after seeing Zoro get sliced by Mihawk.
    • Inverted with Funimation's English dub where the cursing ranges from occasionally to frequently (Even "shit" is used, albeit once in a blue moon).
    • Viz's manga is slowly beginning to avert this, as more recent releases of the anthology magazines have seen (as of the November 2010 issue) three uses of the word "damn" (by Luffy, Ivankov, and an unnamed prison mook) and one precise use of the word "bastard" by Crocodile, directed at Whitebeard.
  • Gosh Hornet: In the Jaya arc, the South Bird that Luffy and Chopper are chasing drops a beehive and a wasp's nest on them, one after the other.
  • The Government: In business for nearly eight hundred years, and behind at least two conspiracies, one involving the Blank Century, a period of 100 years of which no historical records exist, save in the form of Poneglyphs. Can you read Poneglyphs? Better hope not, because if they find out, they'll send an entire armada against you and bomb the shit out of you, the island you're on, and everyone who has ever existed within fifty yards of you at any point in your entire life.
  • Government Conspiracy: All information on the century preceding the World Government's rise to power has been erased, save for the ancient Poneglyphs. Any knowledge of these stones is forbidden under penalty of death. Past measures include levelling an entire island and placing a massive bounty on an eight-year-old girl. The Water 7 and Enies Lobby story arcs revolve around this conspiracy.
    • Lesser cover-ups include crediting Smoker for Crocodile's defeat, and ordering Kuma to eliminate all witnesses in Moria's case.
    • As of the current chapter, covering up the escapes of the most horrendous and brutal criminals held in Impel Down just to save face.
    • What about that secret giant bridge they're building by using criminals to connect islands?
      • The bridge builders are not really so much criminals as the produce of a slave farm that migrates down the bridge.
  • Grail in the Garbage: How Zoro acquired one of his swords, having found it in a bin of cheap swords. Of course, it sort of belonged there, considering it's cursed to cause horrible death for the wielder. Zoro gets it for free after proving that his mojo is stronger than the sword's.
  • Grandma, What Massive Hotness You Have!: Shakky, maybe Dr. Kureha, less than gorgeous but makes up for it by being 140 years old, or rather 140 years young. If you call her old bad things happen to you, because she isn't old.
  • Gratuitous English: When Trafalgar Law activates his powers, he says "Room" followed by "Shambles". Justified in that his ability puts the 'room' in 'shambles'.
    • Zoro also happens to call Luffy "Captain" several times. But then again, he's voiced by Kazuya Nakai. Viewers are probably half expecting him to scream PUT YA GUNS ON!! any time.
    • Franky is also more likely to use English, particularly his "SUPER!" Catch Phrase.
    • Luffy and Usopp use English when calling their attacks after they've transformed into Gear Second or Sogeking. In fact, Luffy has nearly all of his special move names in English starting with Gomu Gomu No, Pistol, Machine Gun, Bazooka, etc. To the point that non-English names are actually notable exceptions, such as Fuusen (Japanese name for balloon).
    • More recently, Ivankov.
    • Though it should be noted that everyone is apparently speaking English anyway.
    • Several of the opening songs employ this trope.
  • Gratuitous French: Sanji and Robin's attacks. Sanji's voice actor actually pulls off the French pretty well, with only some L/R issues.
  • Gratuitous Italian: Crocodile's technique, such us Desert Spada, Desert Girasole, and Ground Secco. He also uses Gratuitous Spanish and Gratuitous French.
  • Grave Robbing: That's how Dr. Hogback gets materials for crafting his marionettes.
  • Gravity Sucks: One of Blackbeard's abilities.
  • Green Lantern Ring: Lots All of the Devil Fruits seem to have no real upward limit on how they can be used, save for the user's imagination. It's specifically stated that Devil Fruit abilities never grow stronger with use; their users grow more creative.
    • A prime example is Luffy's Gear Second; who expected that being made out of rubber would let you manually pump your own bloodstream to speed up your body's systems? Or inflate your bones in order to make your punches more powerful?
    • Kuma's also a great example: He has the ability to push stuff. Big froopin doop, right? WRONG. Kuma's power lets him push damn near anything. Up to and including the abstract concept of pain. And he can control the speed of the push as well, meaning you might find you're being pushed across the room, or being pushed TO AN ISLAND ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE WORLD.
    • Haki seems to be going this way, too. The concept existed some time before the Amazon Lily arc, but it wasn't until then that most of its effects were explored: Cancelling Devil Fruit defenses, movement prediction, jacking the power of your weapons Up to Eleven, and good old fashioned knocking people out.
  • Groin Attack: Buggy is a victim in episode 8, Kalifa gives one to Sanji while his leg is raised to head level (chivalrously stopped short of her face of course), and when Franky's turn comes in the anime they do a quintuple take of it.
    • In episode 183, Luffy gets a giant gold staff to the nuts.
  • Guns Akimbo: Used somewhat often, notable examples being Daddy Masterson and Braham. Doubled by Robin, who wields four pistols during the Water 7 arc.
  • Guns Are Worthless: Averted for firearms in and of themselves, as when their bullets connect they do cause damage. However most characters who get shot at can either withstand the injury, Dodge the Bullet, or are simply Immune to Bullets by virtue of their particular Devil Fruit power.
  • Gut Punch: A literal and real life version happens when Akainu punches Ace with a fist full of magma and Ace dies in Luffy's arms.
  • Hailfire Peaks: The island of Punk Hazard in the New World. One half is boiling hot because it is inhabited by a dragon, the other half is apparently freezing cold. Justified because this was the island Akainu and Aokiji fought on to decide who would lead the Marines. Even two years after the battle, the island's weather is forever changed.
  • Hammerspace: Done literally with a Whitebeard Pirate Division commander, who keeps one in his stomach.
    • Also done with Capone Bege, Captain of the Firetank Pirates and one of the 11 supernovas. He keeps most of his crew, as well as cannons, horses, and other weapons inside of his stomach, and after they reach a certain distance from his body, they grow to normal size.
  • Ham-to-Ham Combat: Pretty much always happens, considering the series takes place in a World of Ham.
  • Hand Blast: This is the signature weapon of The Pacifista.
  • Handsome Lech: Sanji, and probably Absalom before he became a Biological Mashup.
  • Hannyabal Lecture: "These prisoners belong in prison!"
  • Happy Dance: Chopper's got one he breaks into whenever someone compliments him (while trying to act angry about it).
  • Harmless Freezing: Semi-averted. After being frozen by Aokiji, great care is taken during the thawing processes of Luffy and Robin to avoid shattering through thermal expansion, and they are out of commission for a while after being defrosted. Not completely realistic, but better than most cases.
    • Played straight with the Impel Down escapees who were frozen and then instantly thawed via magma.
  • He's Back: Luffy regains his confidence when Jinbe reminds him that even though he lost his foster brother, he still has his crew.
    • After two years since the Whitebeard War, the Straw Hat Pirates have made a triumphant return and are on their way to the New World.
  • He Knows Too Much: As a child, Ace and his friend Sabo try to pull this on Luffy. They drop the idea when they realize neither of them has actually killed before.
    • Played frighteningly straight, when during the phone-call between Professor Clover and the Five Elder Stars, he reveals the knowledge from the research the World Government tried to suppress on the Void Century, and is ordered to be shot before he finishes, and the island of Ohara where he and his fellow researchers reside to be a target for the Buster Call, and wiped out.
  • Heart Is an Awesome Power: Given some of the strange Devil Fruit powers, this comes up often.
  • Heavy Sleeper: Luffy; Ace; Zoro; Garp
  • Heavy Voice: Usopp after he gains weight on the Bowin Islands
  • Heel Face Turn: Robin; Franky; Hatchan; Duval
    • To a lesser extent, many villains. While they mostly don't usually go so far as to join the winning team, they do reform to some degree (Buggy) or at least stop being being evil (CP9).
    • In the Marineford arc, Luffy and Jinbe, who are running away from Akainu, are helped by none other than Crocodile and Buggy (the latter quite unwillingly though).
  • Hero Antagonist: Well, the protagonists are pirates, so at some least some of the people after them aren't just in it for the hyper-corrupt government. Good examples at this point are Smoker, Tashigi, Aokiji, T-Bone, Garp, Coby, Helmeppo, and some others. Though it is occasionally a point of contention, the staff of Impel Down have a strong case going for them as well, Hannyabal in particular.
  • Heroic BSOD: Luffy when Ace dies, he has to be carried catatonic from the battlefield.
  • Heroic RROD: Gear Second puts much strain on Luffy, though he has been using it in short bursts without much trouble recently.
  • Heroic Sacrifice: Pell.
    • Zoro in Thriller Bark, when he agrees to die instead of Luffy and Kuma transfers all of Luffy's pain and fatigue to his body.
    • The jailbreak of Impel Down succeeded only because Mr. 2 stayed behind.
    • Ace saving Luffy.
  • Heroic Willpower: Despite being susceptible to hypnosis, Luffy has shown moments of this time and again, most recently when he was badly poisoned by Magellan.
  • Hero-Killer: "Wet Hair" Caribou and "Blood Splatterer" Coribou got their high bounties by murdering Marines.
    • Akainu is the first villain to kill a major character within the timeline, which is Ace.
  • Heterosexual Life Partners: Jango and Fullbody; Johnny and Yosaku; Coby and Helmeppo.
  • He Who Must Not Be Seen: The mysterious Dadan went for nearly 600 chapters before being revealed in full. Dr. Vegapunk still falls under this trope, though it's probably just a matter of time.
  • High-Pressure Blood: Mainly centered around Zoro. It got especially ridiculous during his fight with Mr. 1.
    • After the timeskip, Sanji gained this for comedic effects.
  • Hilariously Abusive Childhood: Among other things, Luffy's grandpa Garp, threw him into the wild woods and once tied him to so many balloons that Luffy floated up into the sky. Upon hearing this, the rest of the crew suddenly understand where Luffy gets his will to live from.
  • Hit and Run Tactics: Usopp uses these tactics as standard procedure.
  • Hoist by His Own Petard: It's a minor example, but during the Enies Lobby arc, Franky hits Spandam with his own elephant.
    • More traditionally, Dr. Hogback was flattened by zombie! Oars, who was his creation.
  • Holding Hands: Robin does this after meeting her mother for the first time, despite Ohara going up in flames.

Robin: I've wanted to do this for a long time.

    • Also, Fisher Tiger and the human girl Koala, despite his attempts to swat her hand away. It spokes volumes that he let her hold his hand when he had been enslaved by humans and also, how relations between fishmen and humans are terrible (putting it lightly).
  • Hollywood Evolution: The crux of Shiki's plan to take over the world.
  • Hollywood Healing: Bandaids heal everything... sort of.
    • Subverted when Zoro's bandages were taken off after it was believed he healed from the time when he took in all Luffy's pain and fatigue from fighting Oars and Moria into himself. However, when the Straw Hats were fighting a Bartholomew Kuma copy, the pain returned with a vengeance, and took even more punishment from Admiral Kizaru.
    • Averted horrifically when Arlong rips off Zoro's torso bandages to reveal the gaping, bleeding, very poorly stitched wound inflicted by Mihawk. Also in several other cases where band-aids only hide a wound that requires proper medical attention, such as the anime-only Puzzle.

Zoro: HEAL EVERYTHING
Chopper: "This is going to be your new rectum."

  • Hollywood Voodoo: Basil Hawkins
  • Honor Before Reason: Sanji is completely unwilling to hit a female for any reason whatsoever. While originally, this may have counted as a mere personality quirk, it became a serious issue at Enies Lobby where Kalifa nearly killed him because he was unwilling to fight back.
    • Sanji and Zeff also have a soft spot for the hungry. In their introductory arc, they fed Don Krieg and his crew despite the fact that they knew he would stab them in the back the moment he was full.
    • At one point, when one of Shanks' crew wants to take revenge on Whitebeard for insulting him, Shanks tells him that his life is more important than honor.
      • Played with Whitebeard. When Shanks tells him that Ace isn't ready to fight Blackbeard, he laughs at him and tells him that Blackbeard's crimes are unforgivable, and that he has to be shown that you can't live on the sea without morals. However it's later revealed that Whitebeard had a bad feeling about Teach, and discouraged Ace from going after him, even if his code dictates it. He was just covering for Ace. When Ace is captured, Whitebeard is perfectly willing to go against the entire World Government to bring him back, but he's very strategical, and scolds his sons whenever they rush in without thinking it through.
    • Also Luffy himself. No matter how much he needs to beat an opponent or how little he respects them, he'll never hit them while they're down. Another instance is against Lucci; he refuses Franky's help to fight Lucci on the grounds that he's his opponent and refuses to leave the fight even when his friends might drown. Justified since Lucci would've killed his friends if he left the fight.
  • Homage: Van Auger is way too similar to Adolphus from The Adventures of Baron Munchausen.
  • Hook Hand: Crocodile.
  • Hope Spot: Cruelly, cruelly used in the Marineford arc. Luffy finally reaches Ace, after nearly a hundred chapters of getting dragged through hell and back. Mr. 3 conveniently appears to help him free his brother and the two briefly fight alongside each other in one of the most awesome scenes yet. And then, not ten chapters later, Oda manages to break the fandom's heart.
  • Horned Humanoid: Chopper.
  • Hostile Weather: Becomes a plot point in Water Seven, where upcoming Agua Laguna interferes with a rescue operation.
    • Pretty much all of the Grandline, not to speak of the New World, feature weather phenomena that sink entire fleets if the navigator isn't skilled enough to evade them.
  • Hot Amazon: Boa Hancock. Considered to be one of, if not, the most beautiful woman in the world. Naturally, she falls for Luffy.
    • The rest of Amazon Lily has a weird sort of subversion. See, Amazon Lily's women are pretty much split between Hot Amazon or Gonk. However, under their philosophy, the strong are beautiful. So a really strong gonk could be considered more beautiful than a Hot Amazon. Hancock's still the strongest and hottest, though.
  • Hot-Blooded: During Luffy's "Gear Second" transformation, due to the fact that he's using his powers to pump his blood at an accelerated rate, he's literally running on hot blood.
  • Hot Fishman On Giant Action: Played straight, subverted, then played straight again. There are people called "Wotans", a hybrid race of Fishmen and Giants. While Fishmen are generally taller then humans, Giants are dozens of feet tall, which brings up a interesting question of how that works, playing this straight. Until later with the discovery of a 'giant smelt-whiting mermaid' which is, as the name suggests, possibly as big as a whale herself, giving the option that Fishman/Mermaids/Merman are not all the same size. It is then played straight again with her admirer, a human sized Fishman, who wants to marry her.
    • And then, of course, we have Queen Otohime, human sized, and her husband, the giant King Neptune. At least only one of the children is a giant, right?
  • How Do I Shot Web?: When Kaku first uses his Devil Fruit, [he accidentally changes into a full giraffe instead of a half-giraffe as intended. After that, however, he gets the hang of the applications of his new power surprisingly quickly.
    • Nami's first fight with the Clima Tact was this trope non-stop. It doesn't help that she was trying to read the instruction manual while under fire... and that about two thirds of the functions of the weapon were party gags. Dammit Usopp.
    • This applies often to most of the Devil Fruits. The average person who has absolutely no idea what their fruit even does unless they've either read a restricted access catalogue or been outright told. Even then, you'd have no idea how to activate it until you experiment. Brook's power only activated after he died, meaning he could've started off simply knowing he couldn't swim (although a pre-death discussion clarified that he did know exactly what his power was). Whitebeard's recently revealed power to make earthquakes involves punching the air as if it were a glass window. Can you honestly say you'd figure that one out without being told?
  • Huge Girl Tiny Guy: The chapter cover of 632 shows that Miss Monday and Mister Nine somehow got together after Baroque was disbanded. They even have a kid!
  • Huge Guy, Tiny Girl: Taken to extremes with Fishman Island's king and late queen. The king, Neptune, is a colossal merman, only dwarfed by Giants. Meanwhile, his queen, Otohime, was a goldfish mermaid about the same size as a human woman, or a bit smaller. Oh, and their daughter took after her father, being at least 5 times Otohime's size at age four. Try not to think about it too much, for your own good.
      • In the case of Fish/Mermen though, it's justified as all sorts of different species can come from a couple, Mermen or Fishmen. And example would be that having an octopus Mermaid give birth to a shark Fishman wouldn't cause anyone to bat an eye.
  • Humans Are the Real Monsters: Pretty much the view of a lot of Fishmen and probably some Merfolk. But given what they used to do them, and in some areas still do, it's not hard to see why they would see them that way. In a show of Fantastic Racism, Fisher Tiger climbed the Red Line and set fire to the city of Marejois in the name of all Fishmen, after freeing all the slaves, including the human ones, even though he hated humans. On the flip side, there are Fishmen like Arlong, who let their hatred of humans who have oppressed them warp them into monsters on an equal level.
    • Tony Tony Chopper also initially distrusted humans, and he subconsciously makes up for his growing trust for them when they compliment him by dancing and insulting them.
      • Although not quite humans (I think), the same went for Skypeians, removing the Shandians from their own land. This inspired Wiper to conclude All Skypeians Are Bastards.
  • Human Doorstop: In the fight against Mihawk, Luffy grabs a conveniently standing around Buggy and uses him as a shield... Buggy subsequently gets cut up into several little pieces. Good thing that's Buggy's power.
  • Human Popsicle: Little Garden arc, when Mr. 3 tried to lock Vivi, Nami, and Zoro in wax.
  • Human Resources: Gekko Moriah cuts off your shadow, and powers his zombies with them.
  • Humongous Mecha: The new Soldier Dock weapons 4 and 5 combine to form "IRON PIRATES... GENERAL FRANKY!!!"
  • The Hyena: Hamburg; Miss Valentine
  • Hyperspace Arsenal: Franky and Don Krieg. With the former, Heaven knows where he finds the space for all that weaponry...
  • Hyperspace Mallet: Usopp uses one twice. The first time was against Mr. 4, where it was revealed that the four ton mallet was actually made of papaer. The second time was against Perona where he used his power of suggestion to make it seem like it was heavier than it really was.
  • Hypocritical Humor:
    • When Buggy reveals his splitting power, Luffy calls him a freak.
      • Cheerfully lampshaded by the show momentarily pausing while a stamp is struck on the screen that reads: "Rubber Man -->"
    • Also in chapter 438, Zoro lectures the crew about respecting Luffy while he was yanking on Luffy's mouth.
    • Absalom calling Sanji a pervert. Immediately lampshaded by both Sanji and two zombie henchmen.
    • In chapter 655 upon entering Punk Hazard Usopp yells at Luffy, Zoro, and Robin for picking a fight with the World Government. Who was that again who shot down the WG's flag in Enies Lobby?
    • Later on in the same arc, Smoker gets on Trafalgar Law's case about trespassing on an island barred even the Marines. As Law points, out, Smoker is himself doing that right now.
  • Hypno Fool: Jango.
    • Luffy, too. He managed to get hypnotised when Jango was miles away from him and had his back to him.
  • I'm Not a Hero, I'm X: Being pirates, the Strawhats do this several times.
  • I Am Not Left-Handed: When Luffy and Blueno duke it out, Luffy reveals that he has come up with a new way of using his gomu-gomu ability. He proceeds to kick Blueno's ass with it.
  • I Am Not Weasel: Tony Tony Chopper is occasionally mistaken for a tanuki, or in his Heavy Point, a yeti or gorilla.
  • I Am Your Opponent: This is a shonen series, so this is obviously used a lot. Notably, it's one of the only 'rules' of fighting that Luffy really gives a shit about.
  • I Can Rebuild Myself: This is basically what happened to Franky. After a nearly fatal accident when he tried to stop a train, he transformed himself into a cyborg that runs on cola.
    • Most recently, he did it again after he was caught in an explosion that blew off most of his skin. Utilizing the technology he found in Dr. Vegapunk's lab, he upgraded himself into a bigger, stronger form.
  • I Can Still Fight: Has increased in frequency as the enemies get stronger and more capable of doing permanent damage. The first notable example might be Aokiji, who Luffy continued to fight despite his limbs being frozen solid. Most of these cases has been justifiable thanks to the urgency of the situation—either they beat the enemy, or the enemy kills them.
    • Brutally deconstructed in Zoro's case. In the beginning, his miraculous ability to recover from the most hideous injuries seemed to be a case of Hollywood Healing. Not until he'd essentially been brought back from the brink of death does he show any signs of pain, and still keeps on fighting as if nothing had happened. Finally, he keels over at the worst possible moment, defenseless. He's so injured that he has to be carried from the battle, and still insists that he can fight. It's painful to watch.
  • Icarus Allusion: Parodied when the giant squid Daidalos flew too close to the sun and turned into surume (dried squid), traumatizing his friend Ikaros.
  • An Ice Person: Aokiji turns into living ice. Freezes stuff. And makes Incredibly Lame Puns about it.
  • Identical Stranger: Tashigi apparently looks like how Kuina would have looked like if she hadn't died. When Zoro first sees her, he doesn't take it well.
  • Idiot Hair: Lulu, one of the Galley-la foremen, generally has a straight "spike" of hair sticking out of his head at a random direction. When he tries to push it down, it just pops back up again somewhere else, and can get extra-ridiculous when it sticks out of his mustache or the back of his hand, and it eventually spreads to other people.
    • Marguerite is a more typical example, with a few stray unruly strands of hair.
    • After his upgrade, Franky can grow his hair in any style he wants.
  • Idiot Hero: Luffy
  • Ignored Enemy: Mr. 5 and Miss Valentine got this in the duel between Luffy and Zoro.
    • This becomes comic when Monster Chopper was rampaging through the Tower Of Justice, as Nami tries to talk some sense into him, completely ignoring CP9 agent Kalifa, which annoyed her, and eventually prompted her to attack Chopper, and later Nami.
  • I Have No Son: Inverted with Ace and Roger.
    • And played straight with Whitebeard towards Blackbeard.
  • "I Know You're in There Somewhere" Fight: Ivankov vs. Kuma. Subverted, because he isn't.
  • I Let You Win: Garp's "fight" against Luffy can be seen as this.
  • I Like Those Odds:

Marines: Hey, Straw Hat Luffy... how many dozens of your cohorts did you bring? Ha ha ha. There are 10,000 soldiers on Enies Lobby!
Luffy: Yeah... I'm by myself. Get out of my way!

  • Ill Girl: Kaya.
  • I'm a Humanitarian: Subverted with Wapol, as he used his eating ability to fuse his subordinates, Chess and Marimo, together by eating them, but they came out of a door on his stomach in their fused form, Chessmarimo. Still didn't stop Luffy from shouting "CANNIBAL!!!" though.
    • Played horrifyingly straight with Big Mam, who ate one of her own subordinates as he screamed in agony, for no reason either.
  • Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: Both Luffy and Robin get this from Crocodile in the Alabasta Arc.
    • Whitebeard gets this from one of his captain allies, with a BFS, no less.
    • Now ACE has been impaled by Admiral Akainu. With his fist.
  • Implacable Man: Magellan, the prison warden of Impel Down.
  • Impossibly Cool Clothes: The duds the Straw Hats wear in the Unlimited video games. They're pretty insane.
  • Impoverished Patrician: Wapol got kicked out of his kingdom by an old woman doctor. He comes back and all he had to his name was two servants and a hippo that he rides on.
  • Improbable Aiming Skills: Usopp, Yasopp and Van Auger.
  • Incendiary Exponent: Sanji—cue jokes about the "burning sensation" in his feet.

Sanji: I'm so pissed off I could explode!
Random Zombie: (incredulous) He already did!

  • Incredibly Conspicuous Drag: All the crossdressers are incredibly ugly and clearly don't shave, though they still behave much like women. The only exception so far is Izou: The only thing that gives away his sex is his lack of a cleavage.
  • Incredibly Lame Pun: Brook with what he calls "skull jokes". For instance: "I can't believe my eyes, but then... I DON'T HAVE EYES!!!"
  • Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain: There have been a few over the course of the series, but Foxy the Silver Fox is probably the best example, especially in the anime.
  • Inelegant Blubbering: Oda has this down to a fine art. The perfect visualization of this trope is one of his signatures.
  • Infant Immortality: Horribly, cruelly, and tragically averted with Sabo (maybe).
    • An aversion taken to frightening Levels was orchestrated by the World Government. They ordered every infant, including yet unborn ones, that could in any way be related to Roger, to be killed upon sight -- along with the mother and anyone related to her.
  • In Medias Res: A dub-induced meta-example. The infamous 4KidsEntertainment dub starts at episode 7, in the midst of Mohji and Luffy's first fight, and then works its way to the start of the Buggy arc via presenting the previous six episodes in the manner of How We Got Here.
  • Inner Monologue Conversation: During the Arlong Park battles, Nojiko and Genzou have such a conversation while underwater and trying to rescue Luffy.
  • Insane Troll Logic: CP9's justification for the amount of collateral damage they were willing to inflict to capture Robin. Okay, Robin knows how to read Poneglyphs, indestructible records of the time before the World Government, information they are willing to destroy entire nations with the feared "Buster Call" to suppress, supposedly because the Precursors left behind plans on how to build superweapons, but the government kills people just for trying to name that civilization. Because they are willing to use a Buster Call on her, she's a threat to everyone around her, so it's perfectly okay to murder innocent people to capture her, because otherwise they'd have to use a Buster Call... Umm... it's like saying Agent Mulder "might" learn Things Man Was Not Meant to Know, so we have to Nuke'Em if we find him but can't catch him, so it's okay to fire wildly into a crowd of people to kill him, because we'd have to nuke the city anyway. Pretty much the point where the reader figures out that the World Government is a Complete Monster.
  • Inspector Javert: Captain Smoker and his crew.
  • Instant Armor: Mr. 3 can create a giant suit of armor using his Wax-Wax powers that he calls Candle Champion.
  • Instant Awesome, Just Add Mecha: Made out of wax rather than metal, but it's the thought that counts.
    • Or, in one case, out of noodles.
  • Instant Dogend: Chain-smoking Sanji.
  • Instant Knots: Pauli from Water 7.
  • Instant Waking Skills: Zoro seems to possess this.
  • Instrument of Murder: The chancellor of Alabasta's saxophone.
    • The pirate Scratchmen Apoo is an instrument of murder. No, he doesn't use an instrument of murder, he is one.
  • Intangible Man: With the exception of Blackbeard, any Logia Fruit user can become this to avoid attack. You can't physically attack them without either exploiting a specific weakness, possessing Seastone, or being able to use Color of Armaments Haki.
  • Interacting with Shadow: Gekko Moria ate the Shadow Shadow Fruit (Kage Kage no mi), allowing him to manipulate shadows. Amongst various tricks he can remove the shadows of people, make pacts with them and put them in another body (dead or living). Though shadows can't talk, they're shown understanding Moria's words.
  • Internal Reveal: When the Straw Hats were brought to the Sabaody Archipelago, they were in search of a man who could prep their ship for Fishman island. Then the readers were told that this person was the Pirate King's Number Two, which made fans eagerly await his inevitable meeting with Luffy.
  • In the Blood: The World Government is a major believer in this. Whitebeard ignores it completely.
  • Inverse Law of Complexity to Power: The Devil Fruits.
  • Invisibility: Absalom
  • Invisible Jerkass: Absalom again.
  • Involuntary Group Split: The party was forcibly split twice during the Skypeia arc - once by a giant crab, then, a few chapters after reuniting, again by a giant snake. It arguably happened again in Thriller Bark (though the party split on its own, the metaphorical falling rocks prevented the two teams from reuniting), and the grand-daddy of all party splits happened at the start of the next arc, courtesy of Bartholomew Kuma, and lasted a grand total of two years in-universe. Of course, the very day the party got back together, they were split (into larger groups, at least) by powerful ocean currents.
  • Irony: Despite Devil Fruits being the most common means of acquiring super-powers, three members of the Straw Hats doing so, no member of the crew has ever found one on their own, Luffy, Robin, and Chopper gaining theirs from someone else who found them.
  • Ironic Echo: When Blackbeard reveals the Power Nullifier aspect of his Devil Fruit powers, he states that all of the overconfident fruit users of the world will be powerless against him. He later tries this against Whitebeard, and promptly gets a chunk gouged out his shoulder for his trouble. Whitebeard then notes that Teach is too reliant on his Devil Fruit Power.
    • In the anime at least, when Marco blocked Kizaru's first attack, he claimed it hurt, to which Kizaru responded, "Don't lie." After that when Kizaru blocked Marco's attack, Kizaru remarked that it was painful, causing Marco to respond, "Don't lie."
  • Irrational Hatred : The leaders of the New Fish-Man Pirates hate humans for years of Fantastic Racism, but apparently never experienced any of it for themselves. Their hatred stems from the negative environment they grew up in, and have no personal grudge against mankind. It's described as a 'grudge without substance.
  • Ironic Hell: Sanji in Kamabakka Kingdom, the "kingdom of transvestites".
  • Irrevocable Order: Spandam is given the normally admiral-only privilege of initiating a Buster Call, where ten large battleships led by five vice-admirals arrive at a location and bombard the place with explosive cannonballs until the place has been leveled and no survivors remain. Spandam accidentally signals the Buster Call to the island where he lives and works, and no command exists to rescind it. From then on, the Straw Hat Pirates' main objective shifts from defeating Spandam to holding up against the Marines and getting off the island.
  • It Got Worse: The Arabasta, Water 7, and Sabaody Archipelago arcs.
    • The Marineford arc surpasses these by far. Ace dies, making the entire mission a moot point. Then, the Blackbeard Pirates show up to finish Whitebeard off, having freed a bunch of extremely dangerous criminals to join their ranks. This caused the pirates to start fighting over Whitebeard's land, and releasing some of the greatest psychos the world has ever known. Whitebeard's dying words countered the Marines' announcement that they killed him, making the entire war basically pointless since both sides just recruited a buttload of people. Then, Blackbeard somehow added Whitebeard's earthquake powers to his own formidable powers of darkness, causing him to be the center of the new age of Piracy. Pretty much the entire world went Oh Crap at that one.
  • It Runs on Nonsensoleum: Oda usually gives ridiculous answers to questions about how things work, usually as a joke and an added reason of avoiding the question.
    • Like Zoro being able to talk with a sword in his mouth because his heart allows him to...
    • Or Sanji's Diable Jambe not burning his leg because his heart is burning even hotter...
    • Brook's afro survived after his death because it has deep roots...
    • Nami's punches hurt Luffy's spirit...
    • Franky's body is powered by cola...
    • How did T-Bone survive his encounter with Zoro? It just happened. It just happened in a manly way.
    • The coats that the marines wear—the ones bear the word "Justice" on their backs—are worn only on the shoulders as capes, not tied down or anything. They always stay in place because in the marines' minds, justice never falls.
  • I Was Quite a Looker: Flashbacks apply this to Whitebeard, before, you know, it was replaced by sheer badassery.
    • The OAV of Chapter 0 shows that Rayleigh was also quite handsome.
  • I Will Wait for You: Laboon to the Rumbar pirates when they left him.
  • I Would Say If I Could Say: A lot of Brook's jokes revolve around him doing or saying he'll do stuff, then note that he can't because he's a skeleton (even though he still can but...)
  • The Jailbait Wait: Subverted when Van Der Decken decides he wants to marry Princess Shirahoshi because she can control sea monsters. He has no interest in marrying a six-year-old, but decides that after marrying her, he can use a magical artifact her family supposedly possesses to age her up to his preferred level, in a weird high-speed sort of Wife Husbandry.
  • Jaw Drop: Constantly.
  • Jerkass Facade: A lot of women in One Piece, including Nami, Nico Robin, Doctor Kureha, and Boa Hancock.
    • "Red Leg" Zeff does this to his cooks, including Sanji.
  • Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Oda seems to love this trope.
    • Zoro often acts distant and somewhat insensitive, even towards his crew sometimes. But he has plenty of Pet the Dog moments with Luffy and particularly with Chopper who he harbours a Big Brother Instinct towards. Despite distrusting Robin when she first joined, he immediately caught her after Eneru attacked her. He was also willing to give up his life to save Luffy. And knocked out Sanji when the cook tried to sacrifice himself instead.
    • Nami has moments where she is greedy and manipulative when it comes to money, even after being freed from her debt with Arlong. However thanks to Character Development, she was willing to give part of her wealth to Rolling Lola who had helped her out earlier, forgave a former member of the gang who had terrorized her village and tried to help said member buy back a kidnapped mermaid friend with the money the crew had earlier collected.
    • Curly Dadan, Ace and Luffy's foster mother. She constantly complains how her wards were a nuisance and can treat them quite harshly, but she is very protective of them. And she bursts out into tears both times when Ace and Luffy set out to become pirates and they tell her that they owe her and like her. While cursing and calling them bastards. This is proven further when she attacks Garp with extreme rage for letting Ace get killed and Luffy traumatized, then calls him out that he apparently thinks his duty is more important to him than his own family.
    • Sanji isn't shy about being rude and insulting towards the other male members of the crew, especially Zoro, but on many occasions, he is willing to go far for them despite claiming he only cares about women. One particular scene was him telling Usopp who had then left the crew out of fear the crew will leave him because he was so weak that "There are certain things I can do that you can't. Just like there are certain things YOU can do that I can't!" and after Usopp successfully snipes a group of Marines targeting Robin, it was Sanji that yelled out "LOOK! OUR SHARPSHOOTER RULES!"
  • Jesus Taboo:
    • Eneru ran into this problem. In the televised Funimation dub, he was called King instead of God, while Viz went the Dragon Ball route and simply used the untranslated equivalent Kami instead, though they also still occasionally refer to him in a more neutral sense as a god.
    • Played straight with Jesus Burgess being changed to G. Zass Burgess in the FUNimation dub.
    • Averted in both cases by the FUNimation DVD dub, however.
  • Joker Jury: The Eleven Just Jurymen, made up of condemned criminals who vote guilty to take as many others down with them as they can.
  • Justice Will Prevail: The Marines are firm believers. Unfortunately, the vast majority of them are either of the Knight Templar mindset or just terribly misguided. In one memorable moment towards the end of the Battle of Marineford, the marines undergo a mass Heroic BSOD when faced with the Blackbeard Pirates' immense power. They are snapped out of it by the fleet admiral's Rousing Speech about how they must win because justice must never fall—inspiring a number of troops to pursue the retreating survivors of a separate band of pirates that had already been defeated.
  • Just Following Orders: While the Marines have their fair share of psychos, monsters, and bastards, there are plenty who are just good guys doing their duty and following their orders. Smoker, Garp, and Aokiji fit best into this one.
    • Not really, as those three are the ones most likely to simply ignore their orders if they don't agree with them. Sengoku, T-Bone, and Kaku fit much better.
  • Just One Man: Luffy was able to knock out five hundred marines at Enies Lobby by himself. Unfortunately, when one of them was trying to report it, he got knocked out just as he said five. This made Spandam underestimate Luffy more than he did already.
    • Luffy knocked out 50,000 fishmen in one go by glaring at them. The rest of the crew got annoyed because that only left the other 50,000 for the rest to split between them.
  1. ↑ Add in when one human actually protected Fishman island from many slave traders, his land was better off than during Fisher Tiger's era.
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