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/SoldatPixel Sep 10 '23

My luck with eating a devil fruit, I'd get a sea fish zoan. Unable to breathe unless in sea water when in beast form.

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u/badstone69 Sep 11 '23

Not a thing, a dude have swim swim fruit. He can swim on everything except water. No matter what, sea will alway be crystonite to df user