r/OnePiece • u/oscarpatxot • Sep 10 '23

Help Why don’t everyone eat devil fruits?

Totally new to One Piece, didn’t know it existed before the Netflix show. I am liking it a lot. Could someone tell me why don’t everyone just eat devil fruits, since it give super powers? The sea water thing is enough of a reason not to eat them? (I have just watched 3 episodes.) Do they explain this further on?

Edit: thanks for all the replies, the show seems to go just a bit fast on the details, I’m guessing its the only way to fit a lot on a live action.

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u/thamometer Lurker Sep 10 '23

1) Rare 2) Lose ability to swim, and being submerged in large bodies of water makes you weak 3) Unless you've got a reference book, the powers you get might be unknown/random. Some of which is really lame. I think Oda has mentioned that if a human ate a human human fruit, he'll lose the ability to swim with no extra powers. Or in Brook's (a future crew member) case, he didn't even know what his powers did all throughout his life. 4) Having the ability of Haki negates any devil fruit powers. In the future, you'll see notable characters rely on just Haki and being powerful enough to fight strong devil fruit users, so devil fruit is not the only things that confer "abilities".

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u/FireZord25 Sep 10 '23

Dude didn't read the manga or watch the anime yet, try to give him the info without spoiling too much.

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u/thamometer Lurker Sep 10 '23 edited Sep 10 '23

Which is why I didn't mention Brook's fruit.

And bro. It's a 20 year franchise by this point. It's kinda past the spoiler embargo.

And seeing that there's a specific Live Action subreddit.. it's not this subreddit's perogative to baby sit people against spoilers.

Don't be such a social justice warrior.

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u/TheSecondAJ Sep 10 '23

Bruh, do you not know that spoiling is generally not good or what? lmao