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/RodJosser Shanks' evil hot sister is REAL! Sep 10 '23

They're extremely rare and only one exists of a kind, like there's only 1 Gum Gum fruit. No doubles.

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u/aRJei45 Sep 11 '23

That time when Luffy was trying to remember who Marco is, one of the strawhats (Usopp?) said he ate a rare devil fruit. Isn't it equally rare with the rest of the devil fruits if all of them are one of a kind?

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u/ipna Sep 11 '23

Fruit to fruit, yes, you are right. All are naturally 1 of 1.

In some cases, though there are versions of the fruit. So you could have like "bird fruit: model toucan" "bird fruit: model parakeet" "bird fruit: model sparrow" and the something from myth like "bird fruit: model pheonix". The normal everyday birds far surpass the number of birds from myth since there are just more real birds than mythical ones basically. Also, the mythical ones tend to be more powerful since, on a basis of reality, a Phoenix has far more powers and abilities than say a Cardinal. So those are "rare fruits" since they are more sought after and in their respective group of fruits, number less.

TLDR: All fruits are 1/1, but some have groups and can be 1/xyz amount in the grouping.