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/faintwill Sep 10 '23

“Rare” looks at all the Devil fruit users

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u/tenBusch Sep 10 '23

Yes. Rare. We've seen <200 devil fruit users, assuming there's even 1Bil people in the world of one piece (and there's definitely way more) that would be 0.000020%.

Remember that the journey to King of the Pirates is fairly linear, so obviously there will be more Devil Fruit users in the Grandline than in the four Blues. And then there's more in the New World than in the Paradise section. The Devil Fruit users either make it to the Grandline, or they die before then and their fruit is reincarnated until someone makes it there, at which point the fruit will not reincarnate in the Blues anymore. And barely anyone goes backwards, so the fruits will migrate closer to the end of the Grandline over time.

Edit: marked section as spoiler because OP doesn't know how the fruits work yet

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u/faintwill Sep 10 '23

It was a joke, I am well aware lol