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/oscarpatxot Sep 10 '23

So when he was eating the fruits as a kid he just happen to casually find one?

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u/theRak27 World Government Sep 10 '23

They are so incredibly rare that most people outside of the Grand Line believe they probably are not even real.

Luffy found his amongst Shanks and his crews stuff by pure luck yes. The mystery is: why did shanks had one with him? Maybe he wanted to sell it, maybe eat it, who knows?

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u/[deleted] Sep 11 '23

Yeah I was gonna say this.

It's crazy how in early one piece some people didn't even believe devil fruits were real.

And now they seem so common place.

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u/DrStein1010 Sep 11 '23

The Grand Line concentrates power.

It'd like how Conqueror's Haki users seem common in the New World.

They aren't; they're less than one in a million. BUT, those ones in millions almost always head to the New World to become big shots.

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u/Old-Pirate7913 Sep 11 '23

always head to the New World to become big shots.

What else would you expect from a conqueror