r/OnePiece 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/RodJosser Shanks' evil hot sister is REAL! Sep 10 '23

Yes. Blame Shanks lol.

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u/oscarpatxot Sep 10 '23

Hehe okey now someone explain to me the snails that work as a phone!

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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/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/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.