One Piece/Tropes G-J

Tropes for One Piece, G-J
"[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?
 * Gag Boobs:
 * Also with the giant-sized Mermaid Princess Shirahoshi, as
 * 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:.
 * 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.

Usopp: I'll smack you!"

"Robin: I've wanted to do this for a long time."
 * 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.
 * 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
 * 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;.
 * Giant Feet Of Stomping:
 * 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,.
 * And yet again in chapter 602,
 * 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.
 * 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.
 * Gory Discretion Shot: Done various times for random pirates and marines dying and or being mortally wounded during anime adaptation of Marineford
 * 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,
 * What about that secret they're building by using criminals to connect ?
 * The bridge builders are not really so much criminals as the produce of a slave farm that migrates down the.
 * 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.
 * Robin mixes in a little Gratuitous Spanish with her attacks.
 * 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
 * Hailfire Peaks:
 * 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!"
 * Shut Up Hannyabal: Luffy just punches him in the face.
 * 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.
 * After.
 * He Knows Too Much: As a child, Ace and his friend Sabo try to pull this on . 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.
 * 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
 * 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.
 * Heroic Willpower: Despite being susceptible to hypnosis, Luffy has shown moments of this time and again, most recently when.
 * Hero-Killer: got their high bounties by murdering Marines.
 * 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, gained this for comedic effects.
 * Hilariously Abusive Childhood: Among other things, Luffy's grandpa, 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.
 * 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.

"Zoro: HEAL EVERYTHING
 * Also, Fisher Tiger and, despite his attempts to swat her hand away. It spokes volumes that he let her hold his hand   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.

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

"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!
 * Lampshaded in the aftermath of the Alabasta Arc. Zoro removes his casts and bandages in order to train. When Chopper scolds him, Zoro complains that they prevent him from moving around.
 * 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 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 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.
 * 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.
 * 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.
 * 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). power  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:
 * Huge Guy, Tiny Girl:
 * 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 Bastards: 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 Hyena: Hamburg; Miss Valentine
 * Also Bellamy, whose Badass Nickname was "The Hyena".
 * Hyperspace Arsenal: Franky and Don Krieg. With the former, Heaven knows where he finds the space for all that weaponry...
 * Then there's Garp, who pulled out a massive iron ball and chain that was around three-quarters the size of the ship he was standing on (and presumably storing it in).
 * There's also one pirate from Whitebeard's crew who has this as a superpower.
 * 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
 * Later on in the same arc,
 * 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.
 * 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. 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.
 * 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
 * And played straight with Whitebeard towards Blackbeard.
 * "I Know You're in There Somewhere" Fight: Subverted,.
 * I Let You Win:.
 * I Like Those Odds:
 * "I Know You're in There Somewhere" Fight: Subverted,.
 * I Let You Win:.
 * I Like Those Odds:

Luffy: Yeah... I'm by myself. Get out of my way!"

"Sanji: I'm so pissed off I could explode!
 * 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.
 * Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: Both Luffy and Robin get this from Crocodile in the Alabasta Arc.
 * Implacable Man: Magellan, the prison warden of Impel Down.
 * Don't ever let Admiral Akainu think you are a threat to justice.
 * 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.
 * 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.

Random Zombie: (incredulous) He already did!"


 * Boa Marigold combines this with Prehensile Hair.
 * 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.
 * Gedatsu's Ordeal would probably have a much lower survivability rating (and he wouldn't be in this category) if he weren't Too Dumb to Live and Laughably Evil.
 * Hannyabal may be The Starscream of Impel Down, but you can really see his position when he takes a stand against Luffy leading a massive jailbreak.
 * 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 (maybe).
 * An aversion taken to frightening Levels was orchestrated by the World Government.
 * 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
 * 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.
 * Magellan can sort of do this by using his Venom-Venom powers to coat his body in liquid poison, which (in the anime at least) is potent enough to dissolve bullets and swords.
 * Silvers Rayleigh describes Haki as "an invisible suit of armor".
 * 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, 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, Of course, the very day the party got back together, they were split (into larger groups, at least) by powerful ocean currents.
 * 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.
 * 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
 * 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. 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...
 * Which it turns out is an actual power, though not one Nami is confirmed to have.
 * 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:
 * 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
 * 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,  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   and they tell her that they owe her and like her. While cursing and calling them bastards. This is proven further when she.
 * 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  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.
 * Earlier in the same arc, Donquixote Doflamingo also claims Justice Will Prevail... but only because history is Written by the Winners and, thus, whoever wins becomes Justice.
 * 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.