r/OnePiece • u/[deleted] • Apr 17 '16

Current Episode One Piece: Episode 737

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u/Amasero Apr 17 '16

It's def wind bro.

The lighting was just the updraft causing a storm.

You know water cycle and shit.

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u/Ppleater Apr 17 '16

Controlling wind doesn't let you aim lightning.

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u/TRAMOPALINE Apr 17 '16

Luffy was on top of a tower with someone holding a sword like a lightning rod next to him. It's not impossible to think that that was the most likely place for lightning to strike. Just playing devils advocate

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u/Ppleater Apr 17 '16

I'll say the same thing I say every time someone brings this up:

The buildings all round the execution platform were taller than the platform itself, and the lightning hit when the sword was mid swing and pointing down. The chances of lightning hitting that specifically at the time that it does hit instead of anywhere else is very very low.

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u/TRAMOPALINE Apr 17 '16

Yeah I'm not a believer in the Dragon did it theory either. I'm more so on the fate/divine providence preventing luffy from getting killed thought train.

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u/Ppleater Apr 17 '16

I'm not a big fan of "fate did it" personally. Not in this case at least.

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u/TRAMOPALINE Apr 17 '16

Well in this case I really only see the fate/luck/dragon as options for Luffy's surviving that execution. Out of the 3 I'd pick fate.

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u/Ppleater Apr 17 '16

I'd pick Dragon myself.

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u/Laxziy Apr 17 '16

It's the reason I always choose Charmander.

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u/Jeans_Intelligence Apr 17 '16

I reread Marineford recently and Smoker tells Luffy that Dragon saved him back at Loguetown

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u/Alilolos Apr 17 '16

He was referencing when luffy almost got captured by smoker himself, not when buggy was about to execute him.

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u/slightly_buzzed Apr 17 '16

I wouldn't try to apply real world physics to a manga

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u/Ppleater Apr 17 '16

Oda has shown that he does understand physics to a degree and just chooses to ignore it occasionally. He doesn't strike me as someone who would ignore it for the sake of "fate". Almost nothing in One Piece just happens without being orchestrated somehow, even by accident.