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Top 10 Shocking One Piece Moments
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5/16/2024
Oda just doesn't miss. Join Ashley as we look over the narrative beats that caused One Piece fans to lose their minds
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Welcome to WatchMojo, and today we're counting down our picks for the top 10 One Piece moments
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that made our eyes bulge out of our heads.
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Brook and Laboon's Connection When the Straw Hat crew meets Brook, a goofy
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living skeleton with an Avro, they don't know what to make of him.
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However, despite his outward silliness, he soon earns their respect, particularly after
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they learn of his goal.
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Fifty years ago, he and his late crew left behind a friend of theirs.
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Brook wants to return someday to let their friend know he didn't abandon them.
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What blows the Straw Hats' minds, and the audience's, is that his friend is a whale,
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and one that they've met before.
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The idea that Laboon, whom the Straw Hats met hundreds of episodes prior, would end
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up being so important, is just one example of the amazing interconnectedness of the One
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Piece world.
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Not-So-Empty Throne
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Fans are given a pretty good understanding of how the world governments of the One Piece
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world works.
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The world nobles rule, with the Five Elders acting as the main decision makers.
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Meanwhile, the member nations' monarchs all convene at a summit called the "Leveley",
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or the "Reverie", once every few years.
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However, in the most recent summit, we're introduced to a symbolic empty throne.
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This symbol ostensibly indicates that no one rules the world.
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But soon after its introduction, we learn that the throne does have an occupant.
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The Five Elders, who should be the highest of the high, instead bow to a mysterious person
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named Imu, who sits atop the throne.
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The fanbase and theorycrafters basically exploded after this revelation.
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Blackbeard's Ultimate Show
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Marshall D. Teach, better known as Blackbeard, is always a wildcard.
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After showing up at the Marineford War, and killing his former captain Whitebeard, Teach
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decides to show the world something it's never seen before.
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After doing something yet to be revealed to Whitebeard's dead body, Teach reveals that
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he has somehow acquired the earthquake powers of his ex-captain.
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Not only are his new abilities literally earth-shaking, but Blackbeard also manages to do what no other
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character has done before - possess the powers of two devil fruits.
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Until this point, fans had been told that anyone who eats two of them will die.
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But somehow, Blackbeard managed to upset the natural order, and leave all our jaws on the
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floor.
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7.
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CP9 Revealed
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Upon the Straw Hats' arrival at Water 7, Robin is approached by a masked person from
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CP9, a secret government agency.
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These masked individuals and a blackmailed Robin then attack Iceberg.
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The town's mayor and head shipwright.
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They seek the blueprints to an ancient weapon, Pluton, which Iceberg once had in his possession.
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When Iceberg comes face to face with the assassins, a familiar bird lands on the shoulder of one
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of them.
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He and the audience realise, as the spies remove their masks, that they're actually
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Lucci, Kaku, Khalifa and Bluno, most of whom have worked for Iceberg for years.
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Like a ship encountering his namesake in the fog, Iceberg never saw it coming, and neither
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did we.
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6.
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Raizo is Safe
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The island, er, elephant of Zo, is ravaged by the Beast Pirates and its people, well,
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Minx, subjected to torture and poison gas attacks.
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Their attackers are in search of a Wano ninja named Raizo, who's supposedly there, but
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the Minx are adamant that he isn't.
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Because of how much they endured, the Straw Hats are reluctant to bring up their Wano
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samurai friends.
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That is, until Kinemon and company blunder in asking about Raizo.
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Yet we and the Straw Hats are flabbergasted when the Minx inform them that Raizo is safe.
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The sheer dedication and friendship in suffering what they have for one friend is incredibly
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moving and surprising.
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5.
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Ace's Father
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The Marineford War delivers bombshell after bombshell, and it all kicks off with a whopper.
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Luffy's brother, Portgas D. Ace, is said to be executed.
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Sure, Ace is high up in Whitebeard's crew, but there's a deeper significance to executing
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him specifically.
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Atop the execution platform, Fleet Admiral Sengoku urges Ace to declare the truth, and
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fans were sure that this is when Ace and Luffy's father, Dragon, would get a name drop.
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Except Sengoku drops a nuke.
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Ace's father is actually the late pirate king, Gold Roger.
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This revelation had fans re-examining everything about not only Luffy and Ace's relationship,
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but also struggling to comprehend that the protagonist's elder brother was the child
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of the most famous pirate in One Piece history.
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4.
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Shank Stops the War
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Marineford is crazy from start to finish, and this is how it ends.
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Pirates and marines alike are engaged in meaningless conflict, and when brave young Kobe steps
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in to put a stop to things, it looks like he's about to die.
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Except the last person fans expected to get involved arrives at the last minute to save
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him.
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Shanks.
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Luffy's mentor and one of the four emperors rolls up with his crew and challenges everyone
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there to a fight, if they still want to battle.
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And nobody wants to mess with him.
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The shock of one of the series' most enigmatic figures showing up out of the blue is matched
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only by the flecks he pulls in making a war blink first.
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3.
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The Straw Hats Are Separated
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For most of One Piece, each story arc follows a similar structure.
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The Straw Hats come to a new island, have an adventure, beat up a bad guy, then go on
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to the next island.
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But when they arrive at the Saberdy Archipelago, they bite off more than they can chew.
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They're faced with several strong foes that they can't defeat, and into the mix comes
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the warlord Bartholomew Kuma.
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The titanic, soft-spoken man slaps Zoro, making him seemingly vanish.
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One by one, each member of the crew is sent away using Kuma's powers, leaving only Luffy,
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distraught and beating his fists against the ground.
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Luffy's horror and anguish mirror our own, as this left everyone completely shook.
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2.
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Ace's Death
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There are a few ironclad rules in One Piece, and for most of the series, fans thought that
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one of them was characters only die in flashbacks.
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But once again, the Marineford arc changed everything.
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Following Luffy's rescue of Ace, the hot-blooded young pirate - Ace, not Luffy - is goaded
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into fighting by the ruthless Admiral Akainu.
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Overwhelmed in battle, Ace steps in to save his brother, when Akainu makes a move for
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Luffy, taking the blow and receiving a mortal wound.
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Luffy's complete breakdown is all of us in this moment.
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The loss of a beloved character is shocking enough, but this death completely changed
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the aforementioned rule, raising the stakes for the rest of the story.
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5.
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Basic One Piece lore.
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Luffy ate the gum-gum fruit, so he has rubber powers.
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Except 1,000+ episodes in, we learn that it's not quite the case.
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After a near-death experience, Luffy's fruit awakens, and we learn that it's actually
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based on the fictional sun god, Nika.
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It's less rubber and more rubber hose animation.
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The peak of Luffy's powers lets him bend the laws of physics in cartoony ways that
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are both ridiculous and ridiculously powerful.
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This revelation had absolutely everyone's eyes popping out of their heads, and our brains
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struggling to keep up.
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That is when we weren't busting a gut laughing.
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Which One Piece moment had you cartoonishly surprised?
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Send us flying with your favourites in the comments below.
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Thanks for watching.
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