Destroying the go mu marketing is a weird flex but ok.
Has there anything been planted before this arc that made out the rubber fruit as special? The fact that most power ups (except fire) made sense before this in that power set was nice.
Even kaido ‘s “rubber shouldn’t be able to do that” thing seems like a rationalization, didn’t when snake man first got revealed, the sharp bendable wacky tube man just looks and acts like those rescue snake ballon robot prototypes?
Of course, the video is younger than snake man.
My point being, unless the nika fruit got directly awakened by the rubber fruit, or something jojo like of that Luffy not being actually rubber man but stretching man, with the implication that he can stretch space and time directly, what powerset of the candidate fruits could give Luffy the stretching powers?
The one special thing about the rubber fruit, was that it seemed logia like in nature of its transformation, but with the denial of mochi of all things as a logia, even when katakuri powers were very logia like in nature.
The other thing is, hito hito fruit, model joy/nika, that Luffy is like this not because he’s rubber but because he’s a zoan of a mythical figure.