One Piece/Tropes N-P

Tropes for One Piece, N-P
"Mr. 1:"What's your secret, swordsman? You've taken too many hits! You've lost too much blood! Don't you know you're dead?""
 * Nakama: (Former Trope Namer). The heart and soul of the story. Luffy, especially, lives and breathes this trope.
 * Names to Run Away From Really Fast: Quite a lot of pirates and Marines, actually. Arlong, Don Krieg (krieg being German for war), Das Bones (Mr. 1's real name), Bartholomew Kuma ("kuma" being Japanese for bear, and not the Caring kind), Fleet Admiral Sengoku ("sengoku" means "warring states" and was a feudal period of Japan's history), Admiral Akainu ("akainu" translates as "red dog"), Marshall D. Teach (Teach being the real Blackbeard's assumed surname), Dracule Mihawk, Crocodile, Capone Bege, Captain Kidd, and, oh, who are we forgetting... KILLER.
 * Some of the protagonists have fear-inspiring names: Try Roronoa Zoro, for instance (the surname of a cunning pirate, and the forename of you know who).
 * While not names per se, Mohmoo, the sea-cowknows to run away from the crew really fast.
 * Impel Down's Captain of the Guard Sadie-chan, who takes her name from the word "Sadism".
 * Inverted in a couple of cases. "Chopper" sounds scary, until you meet him and realize he's a cute li'l reindeer with self-esteem issues. A guy named Doflamingo sounds as threatening as potatoes, but he's actually one of the most deranged and frightening characters in the manga.
 * Whether or not Chopper is an inversion depends on the situation.
 * Nature Versus Nurture: Comparisons between Luffy and his various rivals are made throughout the series, notably with Crocodile and Moriah. The latter two became who they are due to a rather screwed-up chain of events, while Luffy remains who he is because he apparently chose as much.
 * Neck Snap: How Robin often gets rid of the Mooks that attack her.
 * Necromantic: One of the reasons that Dr. Hogback got into the profession of sticking shadows into corpses.
 * Never Mess with Granny: Doctor Kureha. One hundred and forty years old and will kick your ass if you so much as look at her funny.
 * Never Say "Die": Given that it was 4Kids that did the initial English dub, it comes as no surprise that the anime was a victim of this. It got to dark energy disk-levels of absurdities (as well as shoddy editing) with Nami's flashback.
 * Never Say That Again:
 * Never Smile At a Crocodile: Obviously Sir Crocodile. It also applies to the Bananadiles (huge crocodiles with a small banana-shaped thing on their head) and to the rivers of Luffy's homeisland. The 10th film offers the "Land Gator", a huge, flat crocodile living on Merveille.
 * New Powers as the Plot Demands: An epedemic in the Enies Lobby arc. Each of the Strawhats, save for Robin (who doesn't get any major battles due to being captive for most of the arc) and Franky (since this arc is his debut as a fighter) displays a new attack, form, or weapon.
 * Zoro gives this trope something of a lampshading during his fight with Mr. 1. When he learns that Mr. 1's power grants him a steel body, Zoro thanks him. His reasoning? When the battle ends, Zoro will have learnt how to cut through steel.
 * Nice Hat: A number of characters: Luffy, Chopper, Robin (every now and then), Brook, and Ace.
 * And now the Big Bads, Knight Templars, and Psychos For Hire: Buggy, Arlong, Sengoku, Rob Lucci (who wears a top hat like Brook), and amusingly enough Bartholomew Kuma, who wears a bear hat.
 * Oars Jr. got one from Ace.
 * With the new timeskip,
 * What, no love for
 * In chapter 603, Rayleigh's flashback hints that Luffy's hat, given to him by Shanks, was once the property of.
 * Nice Job Breaking It, Herod: The government's attempts to find unborn baby.
 * Nice Job Breaking It Marines: The World Government tries to put Gold Roger to death so they can discourage piracy. Roger screws it up by inspiring the Golden Age of Piracy with his words about One Piece. Apparently having failed to learn from this mistake, they try it again with, knowing that will surely try to prevent it. Killing both would send a much bigger warning.  See Villain Ball below for more details.
 * Immediately afterward, we find that Jinbei wasn't just blowing smoke when he said that several islands were safe only because of Whitebeard. Nice one, Marines; if you were trying to create peace, you just took a HUGE step backward from that.
 * Epic Fail doesn't even begin to describe the consequences of their actions.
 * Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: To get rid of Luffy, Eneru traps the pirate's arm inside a huge ball of gold. Guess what Luffy uses to stop Eneru's Final Smash?
 * Nightmare Fetishist: Perona, who thought her animal zombies were the cutest things ever. Also Robin, who declared Thriller Bark's zombie cerberus "cute."
 * Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot: Brook, Franky, and Bartholomew Kuma.
 * Many others also qualify, but these three count on a more literal level. Franky and Kuma are both Robot Pirates and Brook is a zombie pirate with a touch of ninja thrown in.
 * Being a series about pirates, almost everyone fits this trope, with some hitting multiple levels. You have a pirate thief navigator, pirate fish kungfu, pirate robot gangster shipwright, pirate reindeer doctor, pirate pervert chef, princess bountyhunter...
 * Nobody Poops: Averted. Luffy has asked Brooke and Caimie if they poop. Also, it seems that there are toilets on the Sunny. It's probable that people do poop, we just never see it.
 * No Celebrities Were Harmed: It's a recurring gag. Notable examples include Jango (Michael Jackson), the Admirals Aokiji, Kizaru, and Akainu (based on Yusaku Matsuda, Kunie Tanaka, and Bunta Sugawara respectively), and Franky (Jim Carrey)'s Ace Ventura.
 * Eneru is based off Eminem.
 * King (Queen?) Emporio Ivankov closely resembles Tim Curry as Dr Frank-N-Furter from The Rocky Horror Picture Show.
 * Brook is probably based on Slash. It's more obvious when he's still alive.
 * Several of the pirates share the names and/or are based off of real life pirates. The most obvious being Blackbeard, but Captain Kidd and Bellamy as well.
 * No Export for You: One of the more teeth grindingly annoying instances of the UK getting absolutely shafted by Toei. Manga, bless them, keep trying; Toei is just plain stupid and price it far too high.
 * No Indoor Voice: Monkey D. Luffy in the 4Kids dub.
 * Tilestone of Galley-La in the original. It gets so bad that his coworkers force him to stand several feet away just to carry on a normal conversation.
 * No-Holds-Barred Beatdown: Crocodile thoroughly trounces Luffy and leaves him for dead in their first encounter, and Aokiji does something similar later on. The fight, if it can be called that, against is a slightly less malevolent example, since although the Straw Hats can do absolutely nothing to him,
 * Then there's Though that one may be more of an epic No Sell.
 * vs. three of the Seven Warlords of the Sea. It can't even be called a fight. takes the full brunt of Kuma's Ursus Shock attack, gets his leg sliced off by Doflamingo's Razor Floss, and finally gets freaking impaled by Gekko Moriah's shadow spear.
 * No Hugging, No Kissing: The series eschews romance in favor of focusing on themes like camaraderie and friendship, and what romance there is usually just pokes fun at the concept as a whole.
 * Non-Serial Movie: There are currently ten movies produced by Toei Animation. While most of them can fit into the anime's continuity fairly well, there are a few, such as 3 and 9, that cannot.
 * The tenth, Strong World, was actually written by Oda, and so was mentioned In-Universe Manga and a few anime episodes were a prequel to the movie.
 * Noodle People: A number of characters are somewhat lanky, but this trope reaches its zenith with the women, who are very often frighteningly rail thin. They have gotten a little bit better due to recent Art Evolution, though.
 * Some characters are of average breadth... offset by a ridiculous height. The Admirals are a perfect example of this.
 * No One Could Survive That:  got nuked... and survived.
 * In many ways, Bartholomew Kuma firing a massive air-compressed bomb which the resulting explosion covered all of Thriller Bark was a massive case of this, as not only did everyone present survive, but Zoro got up to attack him, followed by Sanji on his feet as well.
 * Only mildly subverted that Kuma was aware that they survived his attack. Just not so much when he allowed Zoro to take in Luffy's pain.
 * More recently after a short fight with
 * Subverted again with
 * Normally I Would Be Dead Now: Happens every so often. Though usually it applies to Luffy and or Zoro.
 * Nosebleed: Deconstructed.
 * No Sense of Direction: Both Luffy and Zoro, although Zoro is much, much worse. Seriously, how does he do it?! In the G8 filler arc, he managed to get lost in a straight corridor.
 * No Swastikas: The flag of the Whitebeard Pirates, as well as Ace's back tattoo, while originally sporting manji (very similar to swastikas) are changed to vertically-aligned crossbones in the anime. The manga later followed suit after the author's editors told him the symbol was now off limits. In neither case does this diminish even slightly the sheer badass of either Ace or Whitebeard, making you wonder why Oda felt he needed it in the first place.
 * Later editions of the VIZ manga keep the mark with a short editor's note explaining that manji is NOT the same thing as a swastika.
 * Not Blood Siblings: While it was a common fan theory
 * Not So Harmless: Recurring villain Buggy the Clown and crew's recent appearances are beginning to suggest that they might mean business after all. It has also been said by Oda Buggy has the potential to be at Shanks' level, he just didn't train or face tough enough foes to gain experience.
 * Gin of Don Krieg's crew, who was so shell-shocked from his encounter with Mihawk and nearly starving to death that it would have been difficult to peg him as Krieg's actually pretty damn tough right-hand guy before The Reveal.
 * Not So Different: It gets rather unnerving following recent events when looking back on Luffy and  initial meeting and seeing how similar they were. He even complimented and encouraged Luffy.
 * No True Scotsman: Jimbei and many other Fishmen rightfully consider Arlong a disgrace to their species by letting monstorous racism toward Fishmen turn him into a monstorous racist toward humans.
 * Not Quite Saved Enough:
 * Not Rare Over There: The Straw Hat Pirates decide to act like pirates for once and make off with a bunch of gold from the Skypieans... but it turns out that gold is extremely common there and they'd be happy to just give it away.
 * Now You Tell Me: Pretty much the entire crew at Vivi when they go traveling through the lands of Alabasta and get caught up by all of its various dangers and traps.
 * Nuclear Weapons Taboo: One has to wonder how Igaram's ship at Whiskey Peak blew up in a fireball depicted to be twice as big as Whiskey Peak itself. Not to mention how he could've possibly survived it.
 * Number One Dime: Luffy's hat
 * Obfuscating Stupidity: Compare Iceberg at the end of Water Seven to Iceberg when we first met him. He very nearly fooled even the secret agents who spent five years watching him with the act.
 * Obi-Wan Moment: Roger; Bellemere; Hiruluk; Tom; Saul
 * Obligatory Swearing: Perhaps in an effort to distance itself from 4Kids and the general perception of One Piece being overly kiddy, the uncut Funimation dub is one of the more foulmouthed dubs heard. Though the strongest they ever go is "shit" (courtesy of Buggy and Sanji), it is a bit jarring to count up a total of thirty swears in one particular episode.
 * Chopper has a similar tendency, though only when he's being complimented, showcasing his insecurity and dislike of humans by dancing in joy while insulting them.
 * Obviously Evil: Gekko Moriah, Spandam, the newer additions to Blackbeard's crew, Blackbeard himself, ALL Level Six inmates, Wapol, the Celestial Dragons, Captain Morgan, Donquixote Doflamingo.
 * Perhaps subverted in Moria's case with the revelation that he was just like Luffy at one point, since he had good Nakama) who were all wiped out by Kaidou, with him barely surviving. Imagine, Moria like Luffy!?
 * Ocean Punk
 * Oddly Common Rarity: Devil Fruits. In the East Blue Arc, they were rare. In the Grand Line, it's much more common for pirates to have them. Four of the nine members of the Strawhat crew (including Luffy himself) have Devil Fruit powers.
 * Remember, Devil Fruits were only stated to be rare while the story was still happening in the East Blue, and Don Krieg specifically stated that they were far more common on the Grand Line, going so far as to note that finding ways to effectively take on Devil Fruit users would be essential if he was to get anywhere on the Grand Line.
 * Odd Name Out:
 * The Seven Warlords of the Sea have, who doesn't have an animal theme.
 * The Blackbeard Pirates begin with Doc Q, who is not named after a historical pirate like the rest (although they later pick up, who is also not included in this naming theme).
 * Of the Eleven Supernovas (including Zoro), only Luffy and Killer are not named after historical pirates.
 * The three ancient weapons are named Pluton, Poseidon, and Uranus. They're all classical gods, but the fact that Hades/Pluto and Poseidon/Neptune are two members of the "big three" gods led many to believe that the third weapon would be named after the third member of the trio, Zeus/Jupiter.
 * Official Couple / Happily Married: Very few, seeing how One Piece is in a world with No Hugging, No Kissing. In fact, most of the official couples are married though usually one of the spouses (usually the mother) is dead. Examples are Usopp's parents (mom dead, father a pirate), Vivi's parents (mom dead, father a king) and Princess Shirahoshi's parents (mom killed, father a king). Also, being Together in Death.
 * Offstage Villainy: Eustass Kid. The only rookie with a bounty higher than Luffy's before the timeskip. Reason being is his violent behaviour (read: killing anyone who laughed at him), yet we don't really see it ever happen..
 * Oh Crap: Rob Lucci who remained calm and determined during the extremely long and grueling fight with Luffy, finally was shocked to the core in the last seconds of the fight when Luffy refused to fall down even after taking his ultimate attack (much weaker version of which disabled Luffy for a time just a few minutes earlier) straight to the chest.
 * This is Eneru's reaction on realizing his lightning-based Devil Fruit powers have no effect on Luffy, whose own fruit power has made his body into rubber (with rubber being a good insulator for electricity).
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 * In the same vein, Perona realizing her Negative Hollow doesn't work on Usopp.
 * Three for one! And then three more!
 * Never let it be said that Oda doesn't love the OhCrap trope.
 * And even the ship displayed an Oh Crap moment
 * In episode 484, Akainu gives off two of these--one and.
 * During chapter 577, the entire world of One Piece goes Oh Crap when Blackbeard demonstrates.
 * Ms. Goldenweek gives a pretty good one when she realizes that Usopp's about to  Oh crap indeed.
 * The cause and the effect
 * One-Man Army: Capone "Gang" Bege, one of the Supernovas, is literally this. His Devil Fruit power allows him to store miniaturized soldiers and supplies inside his body, releasing them (and transforming them back into full size) to do battle. This basically makes him a human-sized walking fortress.
 * One Steve Limit: Averted; there are two different characters named Scotch--a cyborg living on one of Kaido's islands and one of Caesar Clown's Yeti Cool Brothers (although it should be noted that the former is only named in one of the data books).
 * One, Two, Three, Four, Go: Opening 15, "We Go!", has the refrain "Ichi, ni, sunshine, yon, WE GO!"
 * Only a Flesh Wound: Massive amounts of blood loss keeping Roronoa Zoro down? Nope, he's good! Subverted when he initially seems to be recovering just fine from, only for his injuries to bite him in the ass much later.
 * Only Mostly Dead: Luffy, after getting covered in poison and thrown into level five of Impel Down.
 * Zoro, after his fight with
 * One, Two, Three, Four, Go: Opening 15, "We Go!", has the refrain "Ichi, ni, sunshine, yon, WE GO!"
 * Only a Flesh Wound: Massive amounts of blood loss keeping Roronoa Zoro down? Nope, he's good! Subverted when he initially seems to be recovering just fine from, only for his injuries to bite him in the ass much later.
 * Only Mostly Dead: Luffy, after getting covered in poison and thrown into level five of Impel Down.
 * Zoro, after his fight with


 * The Only One Allowed to Defeat You: Zoro has this mindset against Mihawk. And, to a more obsessive extent, Gold Lion Shiki feels this way towards Roger. So much so that he spends 20 years working on a plan to eradicate the "new age" that he feels is an insult to the age he and Roger lived in.
 * Only One Female Mold: Initially this was true except for the rare Token Mini-Moe; Oda finally decided to be just as outlandish with women as he was with men.
 * Only Sane Man: Nami; occasionally Zoro.
 * Robin is an interesting case, as while she is The Stoic (and, on the surface, the only vaguely sane crewmember), she also blithely accepts all of the crew's weirdness with a motherly chuckle while providing her own morbid brand of weirdness. She appears to be the only sane one, but doesn't really take the role of Only Sane Man.
 * In Buggy's Impel Down crew, Mr. 3 is the only one that can see Buggy isn't all-powerful.
 * As other pirates see it, the world is this to the Straw Hat pirates. No ordinary pirate would dare even disrespect the World Nobles. The Straw Hats not only have no idea who those people even are at first, but both Zoro and Luffy attack them (Zoro was stopped, Luffy succeeded). The reactions of the other pirates range from impressed to angry.
 * As of Chapter 579,
 * Only Six Faces: Averted hard. While in the earlier years there were some characters that looked familiar, particularly the women, now a days every single character has a very distinctive look. Even one shot characters that die the chapter they're introduced or random people littering the background. The only time characters look the same is when it's done deliberately due the the characters being related or being used to draw parallels between a character and another character with a similar world view from a previous generation. Of course, given the sheer size of the setting, this involves a lot of Gonk going around...
 * Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping: In the 4Kids dub, not only were the accents themselves both out of place and laughably fake (you'd think they'd never even ventured outside of Manhattan, judging by the Sanji's pathetic "Joisey" schtick), but they also had a tendency to stray quite a bit from whatever it was they were attempting.
 * The "best" example is probably Shanks, whose dubbed accent wandered all over the place, but seemed most like a bad impression of Bert the Chimney Sweep... though it's pretty much impossible to tell what they were after, really.
 * Opt Out: Vivi.
 * Organic Technology: The Den Den Mushi. There's an explanation on how they work in the SBS, but that just drives it home further. Of course, given the ridiculous nature of the series and SBS, they fit right in.
 * Our Angels Are Different: Winged humanoids (with the exception of Eneru, who has drums attached to a ring where his wings should be) that live in floating islands made of clouds. Their ancestors migrated there from the moon, when its resources were used up.
 * Our Dragons Are Different: A filler arc introduces the Thousand Years Dragons, a race of pacific, fur-covered dragons, and Ryuuma was said to have slain a flying dragon in the past.
 * Our Giants Are Bigger: The entire series is crammed with 'em.
 * Our Mermaids Are Different: Mermaids have their fins split into two when they reach age 30. Guess this solves the Mermaid Problem.
 * In the SBS for volume 63 Oda explains that it's only the merMAIDS that split.
 * Our Werebeasts Are Different: Zoan fruits turn the recipients into werebeasts. They tend to be dangerous mass of muscle even if the template creature was relatively harmless (this is also a general tendency among werebeasts. A werehamster can be as dangerous as a werewolf.)
 * Our Zombies Are Different: Type V and C. Shadow-Shadow Fruit allows Warlord of the Sea Gecko Moria to steal shadows off living people, and then put them in corpses reconstructed by Dr. Hogback via surgery. These zombies retain the personality traits and fighting abilities of the original owner of the shadow.
 * Out of Body Experience: In a recent chapter, we discover that
 * Out of Focus: The Straw Hats have literally been pushed out of the story so that the focus could be shifted to Ace and the Whitebeard Pirates, only making cameos on the chapter covers.
 * Out of Sight, Out of Mind: Luffy has done this to some people before. Most notably: Alvida when she was still fat.
 * Outside the Box Tactic: A Devil Fruit power sometimes provides an unforeseen advantage against another power. One of the more prominent examples would be low-tier villain Mr. 3, whose power to create objects out of wax ends up temporarily providing the single best countermeasure against poisonous Implacable Man Magellan.
 * Overdrawn At the Blood Bank
 * Overprotective Dad: Genzo occasionally has shades of this in regards to Nami, such as threatening to kill Luffy if he ever makes her cry and complaining that her bounty poster is going to attract more suitors than bounty hunters. Said while holding a life-sized enlargement of the bounty poster.
 * Another one is Princess Shirahoshi's father King Neptune who locked up his daughter for ten years to protect her. However, it is justified as a Stalker with a Crush was sending her "love letters" in the form of swords and axes that could track her like a missile and are only stopped when they hit something.
 * Overshadowed by Awesome: Usopp.
 * Padding: One of the solutions the anime uses to avoid overtaking the manga. Albeit justified, it can be a bit grating.
 * Painful Transformation:.
 * Papa Wolf: Don't mess with any of Whitebeard's crew members. He'll storm into a heavily fortified Headquarters with all his divisions and all his allies, just to save one crewmember.
 * Luffy too. Hurt one of his friends, strangers he's never met or even your own crewmates, and you better be prepared to suffer a CRUSHING defeat.
 * Zoro tends to be like this towards Chopper.
 * Or any allies, for that matter.
 * Garp is a Grandpa Wolf who was going to kill  and he would have done so if Sengoku hadn't stopped him.
 * Parental Abandonment: Seems to be the root of some daddy issues Ace has. He disowns his biological father and even goes so far as using his mother's surname, "Portgas".
 * Party Scattering: The Straw Hats are scattered across the world by and only come back together after the Time Skip.
 * People Puppets / Razor Floss: Turns out Doflamingo's powers are a combination of these.
 * Personality Swap: In chapter 661, . Yes, this really happened.
 * Person of Mass Destruction: All Logia type Devil Fruits turn the consumer into this, with the sole exception being Smoker.
 * Some Paramecia type Devil Fruits can make the consumer this, the best example being Whitebeard.
 * has the ability to summon and communicate with Sea Kings, a power if used incorrectly, could very well destroy islands.
 * Person with the Clothing: Strawhat boy.
 * Pet the Dog: We know Smoker's not so bad after he buys ice-cream for a sad girl.
 * In chapter 650, a surprising one was revealed when
 * Phlebotinum Overload: If a human were to eat two devil fruits, they would be destroyed instantly..
 * Pilot Movie: An OVA was released by Production I.G. a year before the Toei anime began airing, featuring a completely different voice cast and animation style.
 * Pirate Girl: Almost every female character.
 * Pirates:
 * The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything: The Straw Hats rarely pillage and steal like typical pirates -- their one actual attempt backfired without them even knowing.
 * Planet of Hats: Amazon Lily: the isle of women. Also, Kamabakka Kingdom: the isle of transvestites.
 * Playing Both Sides: The Alabasta Civil War was manipulated by Sir Crocodile.
 * Playing the Heart Strings: The violin rendition of Bink's Sake has been used for devastating effect in the anime.
 * Playing with Fire: Portgas D. Ace.
 * Plot Tailored to the Party: Used quite a bit. Typically, each of the Straw Hats will manage to get paired off with an opponent that matches their abilities; Zoro goes head to head with swordsmen (or failing that, The Dragon), Sanji fights opponents who use martial arts.
 * Initially subverted in Enies Lobby: Kalifa's first opponent was Sanji, the Straw Hat who is least equipped to fight her. After he gets his butt kicked, Nami tags in, and lo, Nami's new weapon is the perfect counter for Kalifa's Devil Fruit.
 * Usopp generally subverts this by getting into fights with opponents that are quite a bit stronger than him (Chuu, Miss Merry Christmas and Mr 4, Jyabura), but then it's played straight on Thriller Bark where his cynicism makes him immune to Perona's powers.
 * Of course Robin usually inverts this: instead of facing the enemy she would do best against, she faces the few enemies which she can't defeat instantly by snapping their necks or spines, and has to get incredibly creative to find a way around it.
 * Inverted in the third movie, where Sanji fights a swordsman and Zoro fights a kick-based martial artist. Of course, it's all a setup for an Aww, Look! They Really Do Respect Each Other moment when the two admit that their opponents' swordsmanship/martial arts aren't as good as "that person".
 * Used for Luffy in the Skypeia Arc. His Rubber Man powers allowed him to automatically No Sell Eneru's electric attacks and nullify his Logia's ability. The fact that it was still a close fight is a testament to how high up in the Sorting Algorithm of Evil Eneru really was.
 * Plot-Triggering Death: The death of Gold Rogers lauches the Golden Age of Piracy, the setting of the story.
 * Poke the Poodle: The Straw Hats' one attempt at actual piracy results in them stealing gold from people who consider it worthless and were already prepared to give it to them out of gratitude.
 * Possession Implies Mastery: It's unclear if this is the case for everyone, but in the Enies Lobby arc, Kaku and Kalifa are masters of their Devil Fruit powers by the time they need to fight, despite having had those powers for maybe a few hours.
 * Actually, it has been Averted at times. When Teach got Newgate's earthquake power, it was made clear he needed to practice, and still couldn't defeat Sengoku immediately. Not long after, he avoided Akainu, saying he wasn't ready to face the Admiral yet.
 * Post Episode Trailer
 * Power Glows: A few examples here and there. A few of Zoro's attacks briefly manifest a glowing aura around himself (probably for dramatic effect), while Sanji's Diable Jambe technique has his whole foot glowing red-hot. Averted with Luffy's Gear Second technigue in manga illustrations, while the anime plays it straight by giving him flush skin and a shiny, sweaty sheen, possible as a visual Shout-Out to Goku's Kaioken technique.
 * Hey, Gear Second shares the same sound effect as Dragonball's, why not visual as well?
 * Power Levels: Bounties are an imperfect version of this, with dorikis being closer to accurate, but failing to account for things like Devil Fruit powers.
 * Power Nullifier: One of the abilities of Blackbeard's Yami Yami no Mi.
 * Seastone as well. It nullifies Devil Fruit user's powers. Can be used offensively (for example, Smoker has a weapon tipped with it) but most often the Marines use it to restrain Devil Fruit users.
 * The Power of Friendship: The Straw Hats don't invoke this as much as you might expect from a group of Nakama, although they do work together on occasion.
 * The Power of Rock: Brook has this after picking up a guitar and becoming the Soul King.
 * Power Perversion Potential: According to Oda, yeah, Robin can sprout extra breasts and Buggy's penis can fly. Same goes for Luffy who can stretch all, yes all his body parts (his penis). And in the recent manga chapters, one amazon mistook his penis for a stretchy mushroom.
 * Let's not forget Robin's persuasive tactics against Franky. How direct!
 * Several H mangas have taken advantage of Robin's potential as a one-woman orgy.
 * Franky keeps his hammer in his speedo.
 * Power Trio: The Monster Trio of Luffy, Zoro, and Sanji. Bonus points for the latter two having no Devil Fruit powers whatsoever.
 * Formerly the Admirals Borsalino (Kizaru), Sakazuki (Akainu), and Kuzan (Aokiji).
 * Briefly on Sabaody,
 * Power-Up Food: Devil Fruit.
 * Played with by Luffy, who can heal/get stronger when he eats meat.
 * Done straight with Brook, who doesn't heal on his own, but can repair his skeletal body by drinking milk, since milk helps strengthen bones. Sanji immediately points out it doesn't work that way.
 * Power Walk: Several times, but the most iconic was the first: The Walk to Arlong Park.
 * Precursors: The lost civilization from the "Blank Century" which created the Poneglyphs.
 * Prehensile Hair: Kumadori; more recently, Sandersonia and Marigold, and even more recently it appears manages to be both this and a spider-hybrid at the same time.
 * Prison Episode: When Luffy breaks into Impel Down, the Marine Forces' top maximum-security prison, in an attempt to free his brother Ace,
 * Privateer: The Seven Warlords of the Sea.
 * To a private degree: Arlong.
 * Protagonist-Centered Morality: Tons of it. It's a running theme of the show. Similarly Luffy broke free an awful lot of criminals from prison in an attempt to free his brother.
 * Then again, they're practically saints compared to The World Govenment and a lot of the people associated with it.
 * Lampshaded at one point with Luffy yelling at Toto that he can't trust Aokiji because he's a Marine. Cue a confused look from Toto and Luffy remembering that the Marines are usually the good guys.
 * Proud Warrior Race Guy: The Viking-inspired Giants from the island of Elbaf, itself described as a "Warrior's Paradise". Also Wiper, and the Shandian Warriors, inspired by Wiper's ancestor: Calgara.
 * Psycho Electro: Eneru
 * Psycho for Hire: Two Words: Rob Lucci. While the Marine Corps's doctrine of "Absolute Justice" is already quite Knight Templarish, Lucci takes this Up to Eleven with his "Dark Justice". He has admitted he enjoys killing. At the age of thirteen, he murdered 500 hostage soldiers for the crime of allowing themselves to be captured, before taking the pirate captain's head. Much later, Lucci says that while executing missions perfectly is his duty to the World Government, for him it's all about the blood.
 * Some of the Seven Warlords of the Sea are Psychos For Hire, especially the demented Donquixote Doflamingo. They've all proven they're a threat, so the Government made a deal with each one, freezing their bounties if they'd agree to only attack other pirates.
 * Public Domain Soundtrack: Episode 126 Plays the New World Symphony.
 * Public Execution: The fate of some captured pirates, like Roger.
 * Public Secret Message: The main character returns to the scene of a major battle, ostensibly to honor the dead. Reporters on the scene photograph him, and his crew, scattered around the world, see the article, realize it isn't the kind of thing their captain typically does, and notice a simple message written on a tattoo.
 * Pulling Themselves Together: Buggy can do this, as well as any logia user.
 * Pummel Duel: There's a variant of this trope in the fight between Luffy and Lucci. At one point, they exchange blows repeatedly, and Luffy uses Rapid-Fire Fisticuffs, but Lucci uses Rapid Fire Claw Pokes Of Doom.
 * Punch Clock Villain: Bon Clay, former member of Baroque Works.
 * Punch Parry: Particularly in the Luffy vs. Rob Lucci fight.
 * Pungeon Master: Brook and his Skull Jokes.
 * Pure Awesomeness: The mere presence of very powerful people is sufficent to knock out weaker ones.
 * Essentially, Haki (the superpower that lets characters like Raleigh, Hancock, Luffy, and Sentomaru pull their more outrageous stunts, including the knocking people out and hitting Logia users) is powered by a person's force of character. So yes, in One Piece, the most impressive superpower is really fueled by awesomeness
 * Put on a Bus: The Sabaody Archipelago arc has
 * Putting on the Reich: The guards at Impel Down have an awfully familiar sense of style.
 * Amusingly enough, the 12th opening shows Hannyabal and bunch of jailers doing what is unmistakably the Heil Hitler salute, just as the extremely cheery theme goes "Yay!"
 * Played frighteningly straight by Hodi Jones and his crew, whose extreme measures and fervent nationalism brought on by oppresion by racist humans mirror almost exactly the situation that brought about Nazi Germany. This only gets more obvious when in the latest chapter,
 * Pyrrhic Victory/Villainy: So how is going for you Marines? Numerous New World towns are basically damned, since they were under the protection of Whitebeard, and now that he's gone, the pirates in those towns finally were able to do whatever they want, like steal from and kill the people. Also, killing Whitebeard has resulted in a NEW age of piracy. The situation got so bad they had to move their headquarter to the second half of the Grand Line.
 * It backfired so spectacularly for  Fleet Admiral Sengoku, that
 * Played frighteningly straight by Hodi Jones and his crew, whose extreme measures and fervent nationalism brought on by oppresion by racist humans mirror almost exactly the situation that brought about Nazi Germany. This only gets more obvious when in the latest chapter,
 * Pyrrhic Victory/Villainy: So how is going for you Marines? Numerous New World towns are basically damned, since they were under the protection of Whitebeard, and now that he's gone, the pirates in those towns finally were able to do whatever they want, like steal from and kill the people. Also, killing Whitebeard has resulted in a NEW age of piracy. The situation got so bad they had to move their headquarter to the second half of the Grand Line.
 * It backfired so spectacularly for  Fleet Admiral Sengoku, that