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    The One Piece Rules

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      1. You've heard this one before. Important People Don't Die in One Piece.

      It really doesn't matter how many limbs are cut off, or how much blood is lost, important people or those utterly vital to the plot can not die. Oda refuses. Don't complain.

      2. Dust

      No matter how clean or kept something is, Hell, the place could have like 10,000 maids around, dust, smoke, God knows what will come out when characters slide their feet along the ground or straighen their position.

      3. Comical Relief Overpowers Logic
      For the sake of making a joke, many physical laws will be broken in this attempt. Whether it's having someone sleep through a train crash, or having someone punch someone as hard as they can for humor, while other punches would normally break daimond, the person is still fine and alive, the jokes aren't even that comical anyway.

      At least not until the second time watching, in which you go "Wait, what the fuck?"

      4. Usopp Will Never Change

      There's really no explanation for this. 417 Chapters and he's not doing to great with the change. It aint happening. Get over it.

      5. Luffy Will Always Get Stuck

      Buggy Arc: Stuck in a cage.

      Kuro Arc: Lost in the forest

      Arlong Arc: Stuck in Cement

      Little Garden Arc: Stuck under a giant skeleton

      Alabasta Arc: Stuck in Quicksand/ Sleeping

      Skypeia/Jaya Arc: Golden Bell/ Snake

      Water 7: Stuck in a Chimney

      6. Women Will Be Victims
      I think we have yet to have a strong female that's not utterly manly or secretly male. All attractive females are victims… of something. Anything.

      6. "To Be Continued" Screens Pretend to be Unpredictable but They're Not

      If you've been watching One Piece for a long time, you'll be able to predict these things left and right. Also, when you have the soundtrack memorized (They've used the same tracks for 10 years), you'll be able to time the last "DUN" of the song and the "TO BE CONTINUED" screen will play.

      They occasionaly put the "BUM" or "DOODILIDILIDOO" sound effects at the end to say "Oh, we got you! This is a surprise! BOO!", but by then, you already know and decide to exit VLC and click the next file.

      7. Marine's are Dumbasses Most of the time, many marines will just run around as a group, having no mind of their own, and losing all common knowledge. If a bullet didn't work the first time, why do it again? How stupid could you be?

      Also, they follow orders like mindless, little, drones.

      Marine's sole purpose in One Piece is to relieve stress (We tend to take everyone who isn't an admiral far too seriously), crack jokes, and otherwise, be beaten as a crowd by Luffy.

      Has there been a single arc in which Luffy didn't beat the shit out of marines and then they all went nuts?

      8. The Villian will meet a Terrible Fate but Still Live, Shoving the Entire Arc Potential Down the Drain Despite how many people he killed, how maybe kittens he's eaten, and how many Wii's he's destroyed, Luffy will never kill the villian, more so deal an extremely dragged out and over-emotional blow that will sometimes last up to minutes if not multiple episodes.

      9. There is no spoon No matter what.

      10. **The More Defined Someone's Facial Features are, the Less Important They Are to the Story

      ** True fact. The crazier the face, the less important to the plot. See, Luffy has a normal face. No terrible, bloody scars, no rotten skin, no big nose, while people like Bon Clay are just plain ugly. Also, Sanji's curly eyebrows are just a way for Oda to tell us that Zoro is more important without using words.

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        @2: I've really never noticed the dust deal before, so… good work on that. It does seem rather odd... Especially since those two were fighting on a fricking carpet of all things. -_-

        @5: I do believe it was Zoro that found himself upside-down in a chimney. Luffy just managed to get himself stuck inbetween two buildings.

        @7: I heart the random Marines running around. They're adorable. And they actually manage to be useful at times, such as taking down Sodom and Gomorrah. And probably some other cases I'm simply too lazy to think up.

        @9: You win. Simple as that.

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          Kudos to you Zulen, I agree with you on just about everything. Not so sure about 10, but everything else is on point.

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            You got number 9 from the 100 rules of anime didn't you?

            Originally Posted by Nightwing

            Stay focused, cause right now you have a decision to make. Are you a man perpetually looking back at what he’s lost, or a man looking forward, to what he might become?

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              @ultimateclima:

              You got number 9 from the 100 rules of anime didn't you?

              Eh? No, but… link?

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                Not sure if I'm on board with alot of these…

                The first #6 (you've got two) feels a little too Lilith Fair, for me. You can focus on the times those women have been victims, but it's kinda hard to forget the times they've kciked ass just like the boys. Or have you forgotten how Robin broke more people than Ivan Drago. Plus, I can find a bajillion shots in One Piece of crying men. 😃

                #10 doesn't make much sense. Luffy's made his share of ridiculous faces, and if you're going by standard faces, very few characters have much definition to their faces at all. Really, the only ones that do are villains (Croc's scar and "whatever" eyes, Enel's nose and lashes, Spandam's Mick Foley mask, etc.). Oda's style isn't really a detailed one, slick though it may be.

                Plus, lookit Franky. Detailed face, crucial to the plot.

                And I don't see how #8 ruins arc potential. Hell, most of their survivals have allowed for fun title-page arcs.

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                  I dunno about the last one like, I mean, Nami has a normal face, and she barely does anything now, compared to what she used to. I wouldn't be suprised if Robin ends up the same way in the not too distant future.

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                    Excuse me, that was Zoro stuck in a chimney in W7. Luffy got stuck between two buildings.

                    Apart from that, I agree with some of your points and disagree with others, but ATM I don't really feel like starting even a minor debate about this stuff.

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                      #2 - Haha, good one! Never noticed.

                      #3 - That happens in all anime, actually.

                      #4 - Actually, NONE of the Mugiwara will ever change. It's One Piece. Character developments outside of one's personal story arc are forbidden.

                      #6 - So true, so sad. Oda can make the coolest female characters ever, but he will always be chauvinistic. He also really needs to feed his females, they're walking sticks with boobs. Really big boobs.

                      The second #6 [wtf] - I don't know about surprising, but some of the "TBC" screens are made of pure win. One example that comes to mind is the "Ka-ching!" the plays in the TBC screen after Mr. Prince appears in the casino in Arabasta.

                      #8 - So because the villains don't die, all the arcs suck? I don't get your logic.

                      #10 - So Usopp and Franky are not important to the plot at all. Riiiiiiiight.

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                        #9: Really, you were the first to make me smile today, good one.:ninja:

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                          Some were really good finds. I agree with some and disagree with the others.

                          #8 is a fact yes, villains don't die, but I personally have no problem with that. It's original, leaves much possibilities… and I often grow too attached to villains anyway. Then it do starts to get ridiculous if some freaking nuclear bomb exploded while villain was sitting on it and he would still survive but otherwise I don't mind about it at all.
                          You made it sound like it would always ruin everything... but whatever.
                          That's your opinion.

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                            Nice one, Zulen.
                            But I think that dust thing is only in anime.

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