For many years now, the One Piece anime has built up an impressive inventory of Devil Fruits in all three major categories. Most of them are powerful yet fair, posing a balanced challenge for Luffy and his friends. Some are notably underpowered, forgettable, or niche. Others are downright broken and unfair, and those are the Devil Fruits everyone fears the most.
These Devil Fruits have immense power and often operate in strange ways that are nearly impossible for an opponent to deal with. Such Devil Fruits and their users are more like plot points that call for equally powerful plot twists or contrivances to deal with, and some examples are the stuff of legends. If it weren’t for some lucky breaks, genius thinking, or heavy-duty plot armor, these broken Devil Fruits would have taken over and possibly ruined the narrative.
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The Tremor-Tremor Fruit Nearly Destroyed Marineford
Notable User(s): Whitebeard, Blackbeard
The mighty Tremor-Tremor Fruit has the last rank among One Piece‘s most broken Devil Fruits because its power is straightforward. Unlike some other broken Devil Fruits, the Tremor-Tremor Fruit doesn’t feel like it’s cheating, nor is it a serious plot device. Instead, it’s merely one of the most destructive fruits.
Captain Whitebeard wasn’t often seen using the Tremor-Tremor Fruit, but what fans did see, and the fruit’s reputation, reinforced its status as a strong Devil Fruit. This is a fruit that can devastate entire fleets or islands, and One Piece fans can only imagine what it can do in the hands of a strong, healthy user. Fans might soon find out when Blackbeard puts this newly-acquired fruit to use.
The Op-Op Fruit Turns Surgery Into a Battlefield Weapon
Notable User(s): Trafalgar Law
Some of the most broken Devil Fruits in One Piece are those that are limited not by power, but by the user’s own imagination. Such is the case for Law’s nifty Op-Op Fruit, which is perfect for a medical expert like him. As fans saw in the Punk Hazard and Dressrosa arcs, the Op-Op Fruit is scarily effective, even before being awakened.
With this fruit, Law can split up the enemy’s body, an unusual and cunning way to take anyone out of the fight. Even the mightiest users of Devil Fruits or Haki are helpless if their bodies are scattered all over the place. Now that Law has awakened the Op-Op Fruit, his power levels may rise from that of a Warlord of the Sea to Emperor someday.
The Time-Time Fruit Helped the Odens Survive in a Unique Way
Notable User(s): Kozuki Toki
Few Devil Fruits are more of a plot device than Kozuki Toki’s Time-Time Fruit. Many works of fiction show how broken or unfair time travel can be, with heroes and villains alike hopping into the future or rewinding to the past to change the flow of events. This can change the face of the entire universe, and no other Devil Fruit can pull this off.
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Fortunately, the Time-Time Fruit’s outrageous power was in the hands of a woman who intended to use it for good, not selfish or evil deeds. Thanks to Toki’s desperate actions, the broken Time-Time Fruit ensured that the struggling Kozuki clan would survive in the future. Sure enough, once Momonosuke teamed up with the Straw Hats, Wano was freed from the Kozuki clan’s enemies.
The Soul-Soul Fruit is Perfect For Building a Devastating Army
Notable User(s): Big Mom
Before the time skip in One Piece, the Paramecia class was depicted as the middle ground between the “weak” Zoans and the nigh-unstoppable Logias. Thanks to both Haki and mighty fruits like the Soul-Soul Fruit, the playing field is now even. Few characters proved that point more than Big Mom and her aggressive use of her Soul-Soul Fruit.
With that fruit’s nigh-limitless abilities, Big Mom created an entire army of formidable Homies to enforce her will, with Zeus being a major example. Most Devil Fruits merely create a strong warrior, but the Soul-Soul Fruit can make hundreds or even thousands of them. It’s lucky Nami was able to befriend Zeus so the Straw Hats could borrow this broken power for their own use.
The Toy-Toy Fruit Completed Doflamingo’s Takeover of Dressrosa
Notable User(s): Sugar
Some Devil Fruits are content to work behind the scenes, and they might not even directly harm a target at all. Perona’s Hollow-Hollow Fruit was a fun example, but Sugar’s nefarious Toy-Toy Fruit puts it to shame. While Doflamingo took over Dressrosa with sheer force, it was up to Sugar to smooth over the change of power and prevent dissent.
Sugar did this with her Devil Fruit’s sinister abilities, turning all dissenters or enemies into toys with a mere touch. That did far more than render the people helpless, since it also erased everyone else’s memories of them. There were no martyrs or fallen heroes to avenge on Dressrosa when the unfair Toy-Toy Fruit kept wiping everyone’s memories of those rebels.
The Glint-Glint Fruit Moves at the Speed of Light
Notable User(s): Admiral Kizaru
Unsurprisingly, all Admirals in the Navy have devastating Devil Fruits that can wield elements such as magma, ice, and gravity itself. If just one can be called broken, it’s Kizaru’s Glint-Glint Fruit. That’s because the Glint-Glint features unparalleled speed as the fruit of light itself. Even finely honed reflexes will struggle against the speed of light.
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With this kind of power, not to mention Logia-style intangibility, Kizaru is a force to be reckoned with. His movements are too fast for anyone save Gear 5 Luffy to handle, and his kicks are the stuff of nightmares. With such broken power, Kizaru was a worthwhile threat in the Egghead Island Arc, after the Straw Hats had become quite powerful following Wano’s events.
The String-String Fruit Might Be the Most Broken Paramecia Type
Notable User(s): Donquixote Doflamingo
Alongside Big Mom, Doflamingo proved that Paramecia fruits are hardly inferior to the notorious Logia types. Doflamingo gave One Piece fans a preview of the String-String Fruit’s prowess at Marineford, and the Dressrosa Arc revealed the whole truth. Strings are simple but effective in battle, and Doflamingo has mastered their use.
The String-String Fruit allows Doflamingo to control people like a puppet master, meaning any foe’s strength is suddenly his. That’s already borderline broken, but there’s still more to fear. Doflamingo’s fruit can destroy anything or anyone with near-unbreakable strings, and only the toughest Color of Arms Haki can defend against them.
The Rumble-Rumble Fruit Was Only Foiled By Luffy’s Rubbery Body
Notable User(s): Enel
Luffy punched far above his weight when he took on the god-like Enel in the Upper Yard of Skypiea. It was through sheer luck and circumstances that Luffy won, since Enel’s Rumble-Rumble Fruit is actually one of One Piece‘s most broken of all. It’s the epitome of Logia terror, with Enel’s lightning being faster and hotter than almost anything in the world.
Thanks to his rubber form, Luffy could shrug off Enel’s electric assaults, but any other pirate would have been doomed, even most Warlords. Otherwise, Enel is too tough to beat, and some characters may see that for themselves someday. Enel ended up on the moon, and it’s only a matter of time until he returns with a familiar fruit and a new army.
The Dark-Dark Fruit is Dangerous and Can Negate Other Devil Fruits
Notable User(s): Blackbeard
The Dark-Dark Fruit has been called both the strongest and evilest Devil Fruits in the world, and Captain Blackbeard himself is happy to show everyone why that is. All-consuming Gravity is half of the equation, with Blackbeard using the Dark-Dark Fruit to suck up, crush, and spit out anything, even an entire town.
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Blackbeard’s fruit also grants him the unique and game-changing power to negate someone else’s Devil Fruit, even nullifying the intangibility of Logias. That’s how Blackbeard took the fight to both Ace and Luffy in separate battles. Even now, Emperor Luffy must take that scary aspect of the Dark-Dark Fruit seriously when the time comes to fight Blackbeard for real.
The Gum-Gum Fruit is the Fruit That Will Free the World From Tyranny
Notable User(s): Monkey D. Luffy
The Gum-Gum Fruit, or rather, the Human-Human Fruit, Nika Model, has come a long way since Episode 1. Luffy got a lot of mileage out of his rubbery body with Gears 2, 3, and 4, but he hit a wall when facing Kaido at Onigashima. In that moment, Luffy awakened the Gum-Gum Fruit and turned it into the most gloriously broken power in all of One Piece.
Luffy is now famous for shattering all the rules and expectations of One Piece‘s combat system with Gear 5’s divine power. In his Nika form, Luffy can make up anything he likes to clobber anyone whatsoever with cartoony attacks. Nothing and no one is safe from Gear 5’s awesome power, and it’s the world’s best and last chance of overthrowing Imu once and for all.
One Piece
- Release Date
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October 20, 1999
- Network
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Fuji TV
- Directors
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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
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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)
