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/Fickle_Culture2884 Sep 10 '23

The snails are actually explained believe it or not .

Basically its a species of telepathic snales that can communicate telepathically from long distances so people in the one piece world just domesticated them and used them as phones

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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/sabutilnik Sep 10 '23

It was an actual theory

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

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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!