Some Devil Fruits are dark and sinister, and the evil potential of their abilities frightens viewers and characters alike.
Every battle shonen needs a distinctive power system that would make its combat more complex and compelling than a mind-numbing exchange of blows. The more inventive and multifaceted these systems are, the more engrossing the series’ showdowns get, and no anime’s power scale hit the mark of creativity better than One Piece‘s.
The show’s Devil Fruits are mysterious fruits that grant users all kinds of zany abilities, from elemental powers to making their bodies slippery. Yet, not all Devil Fruit powers are comedic and amusing. Some Devil Fruits are dark and sinister, and the evil potential of their abilities frightens viewers and characters alike.
10. Defective SMILE Devil Fruits Leave The Consumer Unable To Express Anything Except Joy
The artificial Zoan-type Devil Fruits known as SMILEs that used to be produced by Caesar Clown and Doflamingo are a terrifying subversion of natural Devil Fruit powers. By mixing Lineage Factors of different animals, SMILEs can give their users powers of animal transformation. Yet, only a tiny fraction of SMILE Fruits are faultless.
In 9 out of 10 cases, consuming the Fruit renders the person permanently unable to express negative emotions, even in the most horrific circumstances, as brutally showcased by the Ebisu Town people.
9. Soul Manipulation Power Of Soru Soru No Mi Is Utterly Frightening
An ability to manipulate human souls is a menacing power hidden within the Soru Soru no Mi, currently in possession of Charlotte Linlin. Soul manipulation is a powerful and versatile tool Big Mom uses to steal fragments of human souls and fuse them with objects, animals, or immaterial substances, creating subservient yet autonomous puppets known as homies.
The process of stealing one’s soul fragments shortens the person’s lifespan, and Big Mom can manipulate the amount of life she absorbs, taking away mere seconds or draining the victim completely.
8. Ope Ope No Mi Is A Terrifyingly Versatile Ability With Countless Disturbing Properties
One of the most broadly defined and versatile Fruits in One Piece is Ope Ope no Mi, a bizarre Paramecia-type Devil Fruit currently possessed by Trafalgar Law. With the power of this Fruit, Law can manifest a space pocket in which he’s free to manipulate all physical properties of anything and anyone.
A less sinister manifestation of the Fruit lets Law cure diseases. However, he can also perform all kinds of sinister operations, from fuzing different people’s body parts together and stealing organs to extracting spirits and placing them in objects.
7. Toki Toki No Mi Sends The User On A One-Way Trip To The Future
One of the most powerful Fruits currently in circulation, Toki Toki no Mi gives its user a unique ability to travel forward in time, its maximum being 20 years. Its previous possessor was Oden’s wife, Kozuki Toki, and the Fruit allowed her to live in different time periods and escape danger countless times.
Yet, a frightening drawback of Toki Toki no Mi is its inability to send the user back to their original time, forcing them to leave behind loved ones and exist as a stranger in unfamiliar timelines.
6. No One Wants To Have All Their Bodily Fluids Squeezed Out By Shibo Shibo No Mi
The creativity of Devil Fruits in One Piece is astounding, yet, not all unorthodox powers sound equally cool and exciting. Some, like Charlotte Smoothie’s Shibo Shibo no Mi, are so deeply disturbing that even thinking about all of its implications can get uncomfortable.
With her power, Charlotte Smoothie can literally juice any living or non-living object, squeezing all liquids out of their victims in a grotesque fashion. Even more disturbingly, most drained liquids, even the ones taken from humans, can be consumed like delicious juice.
5. Horo Horo No Mi Plagues Its Targets With Crushing Emotional Turmoil
The power of a Devil Fruit depends on how its user utilizes it, with some of the tamest Fruits ending up in the hands of talented users that make them indestructible. The opposite happened to Perona, the user of one of the series’ darkest Fruits, the ghost-controlling Horo Horo no Mi.
While Perona barely taps into Horo Horo no Mi’s potential, even the tricks she does use are chilling. For once, her Negative Hollows are an ultimate weapon against strong-willed opponents, as they make their targets too depressed to fight.
4. Memo Memo No Mi Lets Pudding Manipulate Her Victims’ Memories
Having one’s memories extracted and manipulated is a frightening concept manifested in Charlotte Pudding’s Memo Memo no Mi. Pudding can literally pull the memories out of her victim’s head in the form of a film strip and perform all kinds of adjustments to the target’s subconscious.
From deleting chosen memories to rearranging them in a different order to suit Pudding’s desires, the creepy implications of Memo Memo no Mi are endless. And in the wrong hands, such as Pudding’s, the Fruit turns into a sinister weapon of manipulation.
3. People Transformed Into Toys By Hobi Hobi No Mi Are Forgotten Even By Their Loved Ones
Sugar’s Hobi Hobi no Mi is one Devil Fruit that everyone fears being subjected to. On top of granting the user eternal youth, Hobi Hobi no Mi can turn everyone Sugar touches into toys the user can freely control and command.
The memories of the person’s life prior to this eerie transformation are wiped out of everyone’s memory, leaving no traces of the toy’s past as a human. Yet, the toy retains its identity, forced to witness all their loved ones instantaneously forget about their existence.
2. The Terrifying Potential Of Pika Pika No Mi Is Only Limited By Kizaru’s Laziness
At first glance, Admiral Kizaru’s Pika Pika no Mi is not much more terrifying than any other powerful Logia-type Devil Fruit. However, the ability to turn into light might be one of the most overpowered in the entire series. Admiral Kizaru simply doesn’t bother with utilizing its full potential.
From moving at the speed of light to launching terrifying beam attacks, Pika Pika no Mi is jammed full of disquieting techniques, which would have easily caused the end of the world in any other hands.
1. Yami Yami No Mi Literally Makes Its User A Darkness Human
The most mysterious and sinister Devil Fruit in the series, Blackbeard’s Yami Yami no Mi is a Logia-type embodiment of darkness itself, making it utterly terrifying. Not much is known about Yami Yami no Mi.
Yet, considering how eager Blackbeard was to acquire this enigmatic Fruit, it definitely has plenty of hidden potential. Referred to as the most evil Devil Fruit in existence, Yami Yami no Mi controls the unique properties of darkness, allowing the user to devour and annihilate any matter within its reach.
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