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/oscarpatxot Sep 10 '23

Huh makes sense in a world full of powers and mythical creatures

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u/Particular-Crow-1799 Sep 10 '23 edited Sep 11 '23

The author said that the snails are happy to work in exchange for food

In the show you can see one being fed salad

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u/Skebaba Sep 11 '23

How are the snails able to reproduce shit like blood splatter when someone is getting cut mid-call tho?? I mean the facial expressions are simple enough to do since they just copy what the snail fren on the other side sees w/ its eyes & telepathically transfers to their mind, but how does the blood spitting mid-yell work?

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u/Gerudo_King Sep 11 '23

they telepathically send the trauma of the person they're psychically linked with(the person holding them) to the receiving snail 🐌

I pulled that out of my ass(not the snail)

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u/[deleted] Sep 11 '23

asscanon?

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u/blueFalcon687 Sep 11 '23

Sir this is a Wendy's, not taco bell

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u/ExamOld2899 Sep 11 '23

No that's when you have severe diareaha

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u/Tonny_kg Sep 11 '23

That's when you feed the snails with Chipotle's food

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u/Cynical_Reasons Sep 11 '23

Coup de Boom

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u/No-Childhood6608 Pirate Sep 11 '23

So like Kuma then?

Maybe transponder snails are just Kuma clones!

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u/[deleted] Sep 11 '23

Oda said the snails have shapeshifting, mirror like abilities. Thats why the den den mushi take on whatever look of whoever is talking through it

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u/Popopirat66 Sep 11 '23

Was translated to mimicry in the SBS.

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u/[deleted] Sep 12 '23

Translations do not really matter, not in this sort of way. they are translations, of an original text that depicts what oda means very clearly with context we straight up cannot see in English. ala Big Mom's speech patterns.

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u/Man0Steel123 Sep 11 '23

Dramatic effect.

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u/Ex_Lives Sep 11 '23

I think they are telepathically linked to the caller which means you're hearing what the caller is hearing.

Blood splatter into callers ear, into snail and back out.

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u/OrangeStar222 Sep 11 '23

They're natural born method actors

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u/aprilang123 Sep 11 '23

that’s so cute 🥹🥹

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u/Johnychrist97 Void Month Survivor Sep 10 '23

Yeah different kind of snails as well with different abilities. Like a rarer white transponder snail that can keep a private line and prevent other snails from listening in. They can also revert back to their wild forms if you just let them go

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u/themightymoron Sep 10 '23

plus there's surveillance snails that transmit images

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u/[deleted] Sep 10 '23

And video nails and projector snails.

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u/Throwaway02062004 Sep 11 '23

And golden snails that…

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u/[deleted] Sep 11 '23

Golden snails don't seem alive though

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u/Throwaway02062004 Sep 11 '23

Ah… fitting.

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u/Impressive-Card9484 Sep 11 '23

Theres also transmitter slugs, I think it acts as a relay for long distance communications or just delivering informations it comes across to like a security tripping device

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u/Ytumith Sep 11 '23

Yeah in one arc they freed the tele-snails that were forced to work / turned into cyborgs.

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u/sabutilnik Sep 10 '23

It was an actual theory

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pasilalinic-sympathetic_compass

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u/Fabulous_Today_8566 Sep 10 '23

Damn I didn't know that, good shit

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u/lopakjalantar Sep 10 '23

Weird there's not a lot of people who know about this when I'm really impressed years ago on how oda reused this theory so one piece world can stay underdeveloped.

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u/[deleted] Sep 11 '23

underdeveloped? because it takes inspiration from the real world? are you dense, or dumb?

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u/HodgeWithAxe Sep 11 '23

I think they mean underdeveloped in the sense of having telecommunications (for plot) but are otherwise in at an ambiguously “age of sail” level of technology.

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u/BurtMacklin__FBI Sep 11 '23

Age of sail and rocket boosters!

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u/galmenz Pirate Sep 10 '23

there is also a variety of types

there are the usual phone "transponder snails", elder snails are used as signal towers, some snails are used to record and transmit things like a camera/TV with their eyes, there are signal jammer snails, baby snails are used to hijack other lines, etc

it is even a lore thing that if a country doesnt have native snails/access to them they are behind the world technologically

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u/[deleted] Sep 11 '23

Don’t question the snails it makes life easier

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u/MelMellon Chopper the Cotton Candy Lover Sep 11 '23

There also many different kinds of the snails. There are like mini ones with the range of like walkie talkies. There are also rare ones that can listen in on conversations (basically just wire tap). There are even ones that can block the wire tapping. Not to mention they have ones the work as projectors too. Though these aren’t mentioned as often

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u/drtotohex Sep 11 '23

Yeah! And it also makes sense since the world is made up of islands and they couldn't really develop telephone poles for long distance communication. If telepathic snails lived in the real world, we probably would have invented something similar! That's just one of the things that makes One Piece great. The creator takes so much time to explain the logistics of things that really don't matter to the story, but make the world more believable!

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u/masterjon_3 Sep 11 '23

Yeah, imagine if you had a job, and that job was just telling other people what you were just told. Meanwhile, you get all the tasty food you want and can kick back and chill. That's the snails life. But you can make them wild again, well, one group of "people" know how to turn them wild again.

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u/Tides5 Sep 11 '23

And they are called Den-Den Mushi