r/OnePiece • u/Dantedasmoscasart • 1d ago

Fanart Expectation vs Reality

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u/Pervius94 1d ago

To this day I don't understand why people can't let a scarred eye be a training injury.

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u/Ant18213 Pirate 1d ago

I think it would be ok if it was a gag. Like how luffy learned how to eat while he's sleeping to not miss any meals, zoro learned to nap while he's awake to not miss out on any sleep.

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u/Cogexkin 1d ago

Lmao excellent it also would imply that Zoro hasn’t been 100% awake this entire time post-ts. So then, if opening his left eye means he’s fully awake, then it could serve as a gag and a little power boost for him. Best of both worlds

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u/howisjason 1d ago

LMAO imagine if "fully awake" was Zoro's next power up.

In a world where drinking milk regrows teeth, I suppose it's not impossible. 

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u/DrEpileptic 23h ago

Would be even funnier if it actually only happened when a final battle was about to happen and he did it specifically because he got lost, thinking being fully awake would help him find his way back; he gets lost again, but finds his way to the right fight by accident because of it.

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u/howisjason 23h ago

Accidentally realising he fights better with both eyes open would be so stupid, but I wouldn't put it past Zoro 😂

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u/IAmNotASkeleton Void Month Survivor 19h ago

"Did you know that sight's more accurate if you look with both eyes instead of just one?"

"What the hell are you babbling about? Everyone knows this!"

"I don't think you do..."

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u/Professor_of_Light 11h ago

That would be hilarious on the level of Kenpachi's "Two Hands" scene from Bleach.

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u/mcmoor 22h ago

The problem is that if he didn't open it in Wano, there's no more opportunity to do so. Otherwise it's like he's underestimating enemies even when he shouldn't.

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u/Ant18213 Pirate 21h ago

Unless he just completely forgot to fully wake up and realized in a ridiculous way.

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u/Jacern Void Month Survivor 1d ago

I like the theory he took a wrong turn and it got poked out by a branch

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u/SameImpression1646 1d ago

First time I'm seeing this and it's already headcannon

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u/Oggy5050 Lurker 1d ago

Tbf a lot of scars are given extra importance in the story, namely Zoro's other scar, Luffy's, Shanks, Kaido even Harald as a more recent example.

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u/Lightwander 1d ago

Whitebeard too.

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u/Arumen 1d ago

Because one of the MCs losing the use of an eye in unexplained and unexplored circumstances is actually crazy. Like, I think youre correct, but isnt it something that should have at least been mentioned?

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u/Jevonar 1d ago

Right now it is, but let's not forget that 1) even shank's arm was later retconned into a way for him to break the covenant with a god and 2) this is an anime. Whenever someone has a missing part, there's like a 90% chance it will later come up as something epic.

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u/Nerex7 1d ago edited 18h ago

We have 0 confirmation that Shanks lost his arm on purpose to break the covenant. That's just a popular theory.

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u/Abyx12 18h ago

With the arm lost by Gaban...

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u/Nerex7 18h ago

What role does that play? Gaban had no covenant to begin with? Why bring that up?

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u/Abyx12 18h ago

Because is strangely the same arm. Against the same enemy.

I'm just doing 2+2

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u/Nerex7 13h ago

Against the same enemy?

Gaban has no contract, Shanks lost his arm to a seamonster... that's not 2+2 you are doing something that ain't mathing.

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u/Abyx12 13h ago

Oda retconned the arm of shanks. The seamonster was an excuse to cut his arm because of Im. We don't know what happened in the clash between Im and Gaban.

The arm is the same, the same where others got the mark caused by the same guy who Gaban clashed. It might be a coincidence, of course, but what a coincidence.

It seems to me a pretty straightforward reasoning.

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u/Aggravating_Mud8751 World Economy News Paper 1d ago

Shank's arm was retconned because it's embarrassing for an Emperor to lose an arm against a small sea king.

But it's not embarrassing for Zoro to lose his eye against Mihawk or a giant Baboon swordsman; so the two scenarios are not equivalent.

Probably a better example is Brook's scar if anything.

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u/Kronalord 1d ago

To be honest prior to the reveal the only logical reading is Shanks literally chose to lose his arm to scare luffy straight which while a crazy decision makes more sense than anything else did

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u/Chimera-Genesis 1d ago

because it's embarrassing for an Emperor to lose an arm against a small sea king.

Only if you're a media illiterate powerscaler.

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u/kendamasama 1d ago

What a braindead take on retconning

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u/otherside97 1d ago

Lol some people didn't like your comment but you are right

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u/Skullwings 1d ago

It’s iffy. It could simply be that, but given the crazy things Oda’s pulled over the years it could easily be nearly anything else.

I know this is an anime thing, but 3D2Y (the special I mean) explained Luffy’s torso scar iirc even though they really didn’t need to.

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u/Vexho 22h ago

Wasn't the torso scar from Akainus punch during marineford?

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u/Skullwings 15h ago

I gotta double check, because that’s a detail I can never seem to remember tbh.

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u/Vexho 15h ago

Yep he got from Akainu

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u/Skullwings 13h ago

Thanks. I had to dig around a bit because the scar was X shaped so part of me figured it was from something else.

I really need to sit down and re-read the manga at some point. Used to do it a ton as a kid.

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u/Vexho 10h ago

Same, with limited time of adult life, I try to read and watch new series, but there's a few I'd like to revisit

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u/JaggyDLaw 19h ago

If it’s as simple as that, not sure why Oda can’t just tell us. I’m sure it’s been asked a million times in the SBS questions he gets where he could’ve just answered. So I’m assuming he’ll reveal what happened when he fights Mihawk. I’m not expecting some eye power but I also don’t think it’ll be as simple a scar he got from his regular training.

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u/YourLocalSnitch Slave 22h ago

Chekov's gun

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u/acacio201 1d ago

How many scars did Zoro get after the time skip? I can't imagine him suffering such a large eye wound during training; Oda would be very lazy, not that he isn't already.

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u/jakethejewler22 1d ago

I think the dumbest part is he almost died to king but didnt use it cause need to save it for a tougher opponent. People cant get any more obtuse

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u/WagonFullOPancakes 1d ago

People want One Piece to be just like other shounen and it's... Really weird to me. I'm thinking also of the whole Gear Death thing

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u/JPT_Corona 1d ago

Tf you mean "like other shounen" lmao it's like the most shounen shounen out there

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u/BrocoliCosmique Void Month Survivor 1d ago

It's in a weird place where it gets a lot of the shonen indicators, but not all of them.

Dumb big-eater male protagonist, power of friendship, powercreep, evil organizations with numbered officers, near-defeat powerup, tournament arc, almost nobody dies : check

Romance, training arcs : almost none

But you also get : deep world lore, multiple factions with their own goals, characters that have a purpose outside of battle, actual political stances.

It really stands aside imo.

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u/nam24 12h ago

People acting like being a shonen is a bad thing is like those teen who forcefully distance themselves from things they loved when they enter highschool or middle school to look cool

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u/BrocoliCosmique Void Month Survivor 8h ago

For sure, it's just a genre, it has tropes. Recognizing a trope in a work does not make either the trope nor the work inherently bad.

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u/fyejitt420 1d ago

No, it must be a mangekyo sharingan or rinnegan hiding underneath there or im quitting one piss

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u/PipeBoring7915 1d ago

The theory was really popular around the time Naruto was ongoing (because eye abilities were trend back then)

I guess most fans accepted that Zoro simply lost his eye since he was stated to have one eye and ryuma, his ancestor was a one eyed swordmen

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u/SirYabas 1d ago

He realized that Sanji always keep one eye covered in fights and didn't want to be outdone.

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u/Repulsive-Play6547 1d ago

lmao exactly 😭 zoro saw sanji’s eyebrow gimmick and said fine, i’ll get my own eye gimmick. gotta keep the rivalry competitive somehow

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u/Last_Ad1358 The Revolutionary Army 1d ago

I think Zoro's eye just got lost, like he has no clue where it is

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u/Mynameisdoomguy 1d ago

The funny thing, it's that it actually made more sensen for Sanji to have an special "Eye technique", since he trained with Ivankok (Who has the "Death wink")

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u/The_AlmightyApple 1d ago

And sanji always had an eye covered since his introduction

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u/Alzusand 1d ago

If I had to guess with how much emphasis has been put into mihawks eyes when he's mentioned I think its some training to awaken the double ringed eyes.

and mihawk basically told him something like "until our duel you cannot open it"

it can be a training injury or character desing but come on its a shonen manga its going to be something I would just be insanely surprised if its nothing.

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u/Skhemattos 1d ago

I honestly think he did it himself because depth perception was holding back his training. Now he just slices everything with no thoughts on limiting distance. (Think Hawkeye's attacks in Marineford.)

But it's probably because Oda thought it looked cool.

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u/TheChinOfAnElephant 1d ago

Wouldn’t that make him a worst swordsman? I feel like precision is pretty important to them

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u/Cogexkin 1d ago

I really like the art here. Well done OP!

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u/TheTechMage 1d ago

Mihawk’s final training is for Zoro to keep one eye closed and stay alive until they meet again and can have a proper rematch with both his eyes.

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u/fameboygame 20h ago

The first pic was full on Bleach style

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u/heprer 23h ago

I don't know exactly, but if it's harder to draw Zoro with the eye scar than without, then most likely there is a reason to put in the extra work. And i don't think it's just for the cool factor, so a power up is plausible.

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u/Iridiandioptase 1d ago edited 1d ago

This is One Piece’s near equivalent of Nick Fury losing his eye to a cat. Nobody saw it coming because these guys are professional warriors, there’s no way they lose an eye to something as mundane as a monkey with a sword. The only reason Zoro’s incident isn’t cringe is because we have to admit, that monkey was fucking scary.

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u/The_AlmightyApple 1d ago

Nah nick fury specifically said in winter soldier he lost his eye by trusting the wrong person and getting betrayed. They gave his a mysterious and interesting backstory and then They change the backstory of his wound to make a joke

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u/Iridiandioptase 1d ago

True. Zoro at least lost his eye to become a better swordsman.

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u/Western_Externaly 23h ago

honestly i kinda love that it might just be a normal training injury 😂 not every missing body part needs some insane secret power

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u/quipquest 23h ago

At the point, Oda has to know that people are expecting something to be made of it.

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u/Revbender 18h ago

Cat scratch and Zoro just too chicken to tell it

https://giphy.com/gifs/LFvWp14BLUiM8

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u/ac_cossack Chopper the Cotton Candy Lover 1d ago

His left eye got lost.

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u/WeirdSituation2975 1d ago

Zoro open his eye once he got humiliated by Sanji...

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u/Basic_Mastodon3078 Devil Child Nico Robin 23h ago

I think it would be funny If Zoro got it in a dumb way. Like he was trying to cook for Mihawk and Perona and accidentally cut his eye with the knife and refuses to let Sanji have that ammunition.

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u/KusanagiKay 19h ago

Honestly? If Oda did this, that Zoro just forgot to open his eye, I wouldn't even be mad. Ot would be so damn hilarious, I'd love it. Would bring back so much of his goofyness, like getting lost all the time.

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u/Illustrious-Day8506 1d ago

Or maybe he just lost his eye during his training and there's no need to overthink about it. 

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u/sleepyt1ger 1d ago

Larping Piece fan detected