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*** Eating a devil fruit has the potential to give the eater ''insane'' powers, which can be useful when everyone's searching for a [[MacGuffin|legendary treasure]]. Historically, many [[Truth in Television|real life]] pirates also can't swim.
*** It's also worth noting that except for the Red Line, the One Piece world seems to consist mostly of islands.
** The Dressroasa Arc had two examples (by different idiots) in one episode!
*** First example: the Straw Hats' plan to liberate the island required knocking Sugar out, thus undoing the effect of her Devil Fruit power on previous victims, which had turned them into toys and made them her slaves (a number that, over ten years, had amounted to thousands). The initial plan was to trick her into eating [[Blazing Inferno Hellfire Sauce|an incredibly spicy Tatababasco berry]] disguised as a grape, which would make her collapse. Even getting close to Sugar is difficult, as she’s always with her hulking bodyguard Trebol, but some distractions cause them to be separated, leaving Sugar potentially a sitting duck.<br /> '''You'd Expect:''' Usopp would use his “pepper delivered to foe’s mouth with slingshot” trick he had done so many times before, or his “pepper planted in innocuous-looking bowl of fruit” trick that he had also used many times before. Given Sugar’s weakness for grapes, someone could likely pull it off simply by offering it to her with a bunch of normal grapes, easy as ''giving'' candy to a baby.<br /> '''Instead:''' Usopp and Robin seem
*** Sugar realizes the general idea behind the suspicious berry, [[Right for the Wrong Reasons|but assumes it was some deadly poison]] and Usopp intended to kill her.<br /> '''You’d Expect:''' She’d just throw it away and use her power on him too. After all, someone like her can never have too many [[Slave Mooks]].<br /> '''Instead:''' Developing a bout of [[Bond Villain Stupidity]], Sugar decides to force-feed it to him, hoping he dies in agony. Fortunately, Usopp can’t tolerate such a hot spice either, and does a [[Wild Take]] to [[Crowning Moment of Funny|end all Wild Takes,]] scaring Sugar half to death, causing her to faint from fright, and having [[Achievements in Ignorance|the result the Straw Hats had originally intended.]]
** In the Egghead Arc, York (the "satellite" of Dr. Vegapunk who embodies his [[Greed]]) turns traitor against the others; after CP0 invades the island, she activates the Frontier Dome (placing the whole island on lockdown) to prevent escape, and then contacts the Five Elders, promising she will constuct a second [[Doomsday Device|Mother Flame]] in exchange for being made a World Noble and sparing the laboratory. Unfortunately for York (a [[Brilliant But Lazy]] type who lacks any real fighting skills), she is quickly overwhelmed and taken hostage by the Straw Hats. <br />'''You'd Expect:''' York is no fool, and the smart thing to do here would be to remain a quiet, cooperative prisoner and wait for rescue; this makes even more sense in hindsight, as later in the arc, Jaygarcia Saturn ''personally'' leads the armada to Egghead, and the Straw Hats are in for the fight of their lives. In fact, with the lockdown in place, they'd be doomed, but... <br />'''Instead:''' After [[Dirty Coward| shamelessly begging the Elders to rescue her]] before the Straw Hats cut off the transmission, she switches to true corny villain fashion, taking this time to gloat, giving the heroes the old [[You Have No Chance to Survive]] as long as the Frontier Dome was active, having admitted to encrypting its access with a passcode beforehand.<br />'''One Small Problem:''' Not only does she make this rant in front of the true Vegapunk, the surviving - and loyal - satellites Edison and Atlas are present. Vegapunk would be a sorry excuse for a supra-genius if an android he himself built could lock him out of a computer he himself designed. Long story short, she can't, he and the others manage to crack the code, causing Saturn to lose at least one edge he has.
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