8 Devil Fruits That One Piece’s Live-Action Show Won’t Be Able to Pull Off

With an anime that goes as over-the-top and bonkers as One Piece, Netflix’s live-action adaptation is going to have a heck of a time trying to implement the same style and designs into real life. Between larger-than-life characters with over-exaggerated features to the Zoan Fruits, and the highly anticipated fights the Straw Hat crew will get embroiled in, there are a handful of Devil Fruits that the live-action has no hope of adapting into a more realistic setting.

One Piece’s Devil Fruits break down into three different classes. Paramecia fruits normally grant super-human abilities, such as Robin’s Hand-Hand Fruit which allows her to spawn hands wherever she has a view. Zoan Fruits enable the user to transform into an animal, as Netflix will show with the appearance of both Chopper and Dalton. Lastly, the Logia fruits fall into a class where users specialize in a particular element, like Ace’s Fire-Fire Fruit.

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Sticky-Sticky Fruit or Beta Beta No Mi

Currently Owned by Trebol “The Mucus Man”

Although it would appear to look like a Logia Type, the Sticky-Sticky Fruit belongs to the Paramecia family. Trebol first appears in episode #629, chapter #700, as one of Doflamigo’s advisors, and while his fruit may give him the appearance of being a “Mucus Man,” it doesn’t actually transform his body into mucus or a sticky substance. The Sticky-Sticky Fruit helps him to secrete enough mucus to manipulate to his will, and it is subsequently constantly dripping from him. This helps disguise his figure so that even projectiles go right through him.

Trebol’s very appearance, because of his Devil Fruit, is going to be hard to adapt in Netflix’s live-action since his body is always oozing, as indicated by the “fur” on his large overcoat and his beard that emphasizes the dripping nature of his Sticky-Sticky Fruit. One Piece’s adaptation is going to need to utilize a lot of CGI in order to get the same effect that’s seen in the anime, while not making it look too out of place in the world.

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Bubble-Bubble Fruit or Awa Awa No Mi

Currently Owned by Kalifa

Another Paramecia Fruit goes under the name, The Bubble-Bubble Fruit, which is granted to one of the Cipher Pol Agents who worked on toppling Water Seven in hopes of finding the blueprints to an ancient, deadly weapon. Kalifa was one of the agents to ingest this fruit prior to their big fight against the Straw Hat pirates, able to scrub a subject so clean that it may strip them of their abilities (something that is heavily underutilized in light of her only confrontation being against Nami and Sanji.)

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While it may have been more interesting to see how Kalifa would fare against a fellow Devil Fruit user, the live-action’s capabilities do not lie in how they adapt how her body emits soap, but rather how they would go about depicting her victims. In One Piece, Nami and Sanji’s bodies warp considerably, looking more like bowling pins due to how clean they are, stripped even of their bodily structure. Although Kalifa only gets a moment in the spotlight, her powers may put Netflix to the test in how they replicate the cartoonish shape of her cleaned-up victims.

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Ox-Ox Fruit Model: Giraffe or Ushi Ushi no Mi, Model: Giraffe

Currently Owned by Kaku

Another one of the members of Cipher Pol is Kaku, who likewise receives a Devil Fruit from Spandam moments before they engage in a confrontation with the Straw Hats. This one is more specialized since it is a variant of the Ox-Ox Fruit originally owned by Dalton of Drum Island. Devil Fruits, especially those that are under the Zoan type, can branch off into different species to better account for the diverse range of animals and even legendary prehistoric Fruits, though that’s more of a special case.

As another Zoan, Kaku will prove to be a greater challenge than most, as not only a giraffe, but a slightly squarish giraffe. Netflix has already teased how Zoan-Fruit user Dalton’s Ox-Form will look, thanks to practical effects, but Kaku is going to require more than just makeup to polish off his form. His movements in his fight against Zoro are also going to translate weird since Kaku scrunches up his neck to surge forth, delivering powerful attacks in his wake. Zoro himself goes on to comment on how ridiculous he looks, invoking the issue of how it’d look in reality.

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Door-Door Fruit or Doa Doa no Mi

Currently Owned by Blueno

Ironically, another member of Cipher Pol, Blueno, has a Devil Fruit that belongs to the Paramecia family. Able to essentially teleport by creating doors and pathways to different areas, Blueno can either make a door out of his frame or manipulate the space around him to create portals.

Like Kalifa, Blueno’s Devil Fruit abilities aren’t too difficult to showcase, thanks to the advancement of technology throughout cinema within the last few years. But there are moments in the middle of battles that stand out to showcase just how his abilities work against opponents, such as how Luffy’s face is broken up and made to spin around in his head. During season 1, Buggy proved to be challenging enough given that his body can break up into multiple pieces, but we’ve yet to see how they’d handle cutting up smaller pieces and how they’d move like Luffy’s revolving eyes in his head.

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Human-Human Fruit Model: Nika or Hito Hito no Mi, Model: Nika

Currently Owned by Monkey D. Luffy

The Human-Human Fruit Model: Nika was originally meant to be a Mythical Zoan Fruit that would transform its user into the Sun God, Nika. Due to how dangerous it was considered to be by the World Government, it was thereafter changed to the Gum-Gum Fruit and classified as a Paramecia. Thus far, Netflix’s live-action has done a pretty good job showcasing Luffy’s powers as a “Rubber Man” after eating the Fruit once obtained by Shanks and his Red Hair pirates.

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Eiichiro Oda has a very straightforward answer for Luffy’s Gear Five design that will answer a long-burning fan question.

While Luffy’s abilities with the Gum-Gum Fruit have transferred well to live-action, there’s a question of how the live-action will handle his abilities when he eventually evolves to Gear Four and Five. The Straw Hat Captain’s form changes drastically when in Gear Four, and then after he’s exhausted himself, since his rubber form greatly diminishes after expending a lot of pressure. Even with a body suit and visual aftereffects, Gear Four is going to look odd, no matter what, which may be befitting for Oda’s vision for One Piece.

Luffy’s Gear Five is no doubt going to be one of Netflix’s most expensive expenditures if the series makes it long enough to see to that point of the Straw Hats’ journey. Unleashing the absolute chaos that is his most liberated form not only transforms Luffy into a very flexible, outlandish cartoon caricature unlike anything the audience has seen before, but his Devil Fruit also affects the environment around him.

We’d be seeing the mountains and land move with a rubber-like consistency, bouncing in a chaotic background while Luffy battles his opponents. It’d be nearly impossible to do and may take the studio several creative liberties and much longer than two years to complete.

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Tone-Tone Fruit or Oto Oto no Mi

Currently Owned by Scratchmen Apoo

The Tone-Tone Fruit is a pretty interesting addition to the Paramecia Devil Fruits since it allows for the user to flex their bodies into a playable instrument. Apoo is introduced in episode #402, chapter #509, and he’s definitely quite the odd addition to the cast due to his elongated limbs. Whether he had these traits before eating the fruit is unclear, but the Tone-Tone Fruit does help when he’s able to use parts of his body to emit sound-based attacks. As mentioned by Oda in an SBS, different parts of Apoo have their own instrument attribute.

Evidently, long limbs are not going to be much of a difficulty for Netflix, but Apoo’s many different instruments around his body not only broach upon uncanny, but do become rather finicky when considering how his costume and design is going to appear in live-action. He’s seen battling the Straw Hats on more than one occasion, utilizing different instruments each time, with just his trumpet arm proving to be a challenge with propwork and makeup alone.

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Dog Dog Fruit Model: Dachshund or Inu Inu no Mi, Model: Dachshund

Currently Owned by Lassoo

Introduced fairly early in One Piece is Lassoo, who isn’t a dog and they aren’t a person; no, Lassoo was a bazooka that was owned by Mr. 4 from Baroque Works that ‘ingested’ a Zoan Fruit, effectively turning them into a canine. Aside from the many questions one would have about how an inanimate object eats a Devil Fruit, the better one yet is, how Netflix is going to adapt a dog-shaped bazooka?

Lassoo is a very unusual-looking dog in that he is a long canine as indicative of his Dachshund genetics or typing, due to the Devil Fruit model, but a majority of his body is made up of Mr. 4’s bazooka. Whereas Zoan fruit users often look similar to an animal, and Chopper, especially, is depicted as a rather cartoonish reindeer, Lasso looks like a cannon with dog parts attached. It’ll be interesting to see just how Netflix will attempt to adapt Lasso,o even though he may not make an appearance until season 3 of One Piece’s live-action.

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SMILE Fruits

Portrayed Most Prevalently Throughout Wano

It’s unclear how far the One Piece live-action is going to go, but producers have stated that they are willing to stick with the project for as long as fans are still interested in it. What’s going to be the most ridiculous and impossible thing to adapt thus far in the series is how they are going to replicate just how ridiculously dysmorphic SMILE Devil Fruit users get in Wano.

There is a user with the upper half of a gorilla on his left hand, another with an elephant head in his stomach, one that perpetually lives inside the mouth of a hippo, and a woman who is morphed with an ape and uses them for hands since her arms meld into the ape behind her. It’s going to be as equally horrifying as it is comedic to see this nightmare fuel somehow get represented in media.

Oda has definitely taken some creative liberties with how he designs his characters in One Piece, but some of the SMILE experiments done in Wano are some of his out-of-pocket yet. And Netflix is going to have one whole kit and caboodle on its hands trying to replicate that.

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One Piece

Release Date

October 20, 1999

Network

Fuji TV

Directors

Hiroaki Miyamoto, Konosuke Uda, Junji Shimizu, Satoshi Itō, Munehisa Sakai, Katsumi Tokoro, Yutaka Nakajima, Yoshihiro Ueda, Kenichi Takeshita, Yoko Ikeda, Ryota Nakamura, Hiroyuki Kakudou, Takahiro Imamura, Toshihiro Maeya, Yûji Endô, Nozomu Shishido, Hidehiko Kadota, Sumio Watanabe, Harume Kosaka, Yasuhiro Tanabe, Yukihiko Nakao, Keisuke Onishi, Junichi Fujise, Hiroyuki Satou

Writers

Jin Tanaka, Akiko Inoue, Junki Takegami, Shinzo Fujita, Shouji Yonemura, Yoshiyuki Suga, Atsuhiro Tomioka, Hirohiko Uesaka, Michiru Shimada, Isao Murayama, Takuya Masumoto, Yoichi Takahashi, Momoka Toyoda

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  Mayumi Tanaka

  Monkey D. Luffy (voice)

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  Kazuya Nakai

  Roronoa Zoro (voice)