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Now before we go too much further I will point out that this video is a sequel and there will be a link to my original top five greatest plot twists in the description which I only point out because if you do not see your plot twist of choice on this list today then please do give that video a watch because you just might find it there and also just to reaffirm exactly what it is we are looking for here today a plot twist under my definition is an unexpected narrative development that goes on to change the course of the entire story and I only go to the effort to point that out because the entire concept of a plot twist is well it's actually quite a vague area to examine and almost anything could technically be considered a plot twist no matter how great or small it is it just needs to be an unexpected development but we're not going to get bogged down with that sort of stuff no everything we examine here today is going to be a shocking turn of events that has gone on to very much reshape the story and even the world of one piece as we know it so with that out of the way let's begin welcome to another edition of the top five greatest plot twists in one piece number five trafalgar de water law all right so let's begin our exploration right here and now it's something of a fan favorite character and quite specifically the absolutely completely out of nowhere reveal that he just so happened to have one of the ever fateful dees in his name and this one completely threw me because yes obviously the dress rosa arc had become very law centric with him almost taking on the role of a traditional princess of the arc but this really is one of those things that prior to this revelation would have seemed like such an outlandish fanfic dream you know it goes a little something like this oh law has teamed up with luffy but not only that his actual name is trafalgar de law well in this case water law but you get the idea the only thing that could have made this more outrageous is if he had said and my father's real name is dragon but this was quite enough as it was it was one of those times where odor had completely blindsided me but at the same time it also made all of the sense in the world like for example it had always sat a bit weirdly with me that law had gone out of his way to save luffy at marineford or to approach him specifically to form an alliance with and whether given that luffy had no compunctions about hiding his massive d law would have immediately known that he was the most trustworthy person possible out of the worst generations assorted scoundrels but not only that this revelation also made things feel just so appropriate particularly in regards to duffel mingo who was obviously a former world noble so as much as we don't know the exact details at the time of this recording that would make law his natural enemy and it's one of those things where at the conclusion of one piece i think we're going to look back on dress rosa and see it as a destined mini clash between the descendants of the ancient kingdom and the 20 kingdoms so yeah it's a super simple tiny name revelation but it would go on to have such a profound impact in the series even causing rosa nante to take law and set up the entire game of dominoes that would eventually go on to topple and defeat duffel mingo but not only that because this one initial is going to have a far greater impact as we work our way through wano and beyond number four the revelation of duval and i guess more specifically the fact that he looked exactly like sanji's poorly drawn bounty poster and i want to preface this by saying that unlike most plot twists on this or any other list this one was a well documented prediction which occurred after the chapter where the fearsome silhouette of duval said that he had business with one of the straw hats and so amongst all of the crazy conspiring form theory crafters one idea did emerge that duval was upset with sanji because he was now on the run thanks to a very unfortunate bounty and lo and behold when duval removed his mask we were graced with the man behind the bounty poster which i will say completely blew my mind because i only saw that speculation after the fact i thought it was a pretty damn brilliant move by yoda essentially escalating the joke of sanji's post water seven bounty which worked very nicely due to the extremely serious atmosphere that was being conveyed by duval and the flying fish riders and while it wasn't an earth shattering reveal that supremely changed how we view one piece that's kind of what i really love about it in comparison to everything else this was an entirely comic plot twist that had the same sort of oh my god wow effect as anything purely dramatic and it spoke great volumes about how wide a breadth one piece has in terms of its storytelling ability it's such a weird blend of the strength of the series like it's a bounty granted after an extremely serious set of events however the bounty itself is a complete joke and then we have an encounter with a serious grudge holder but he is just an escalation of the bounty joke a joke on top of a joke that's just insane i don't even and it's so rare to experience something like this in either a pure comic or pure dramatic context so the duval revelation is going to own this number four spot number three princess vivi going back to early early one piece now and as a result the impact of this plot twist may have been a bit lost on our exceptional modern day minds but there was no possible way that anybody could have predicted that miss wednesday a kind of throwaway early arc enemy character would go on to be the heart and soul of an entire saga in the form of the original and in my opinion the best princess in the series nephatari vivi and a lot of this is because oda did such a great job at like i said casting her in the guise of a forgettable antagonist as miss wednesday this character was kind of just a big ol vat of nothing she seemed to exist mainly for comic effect due to her highly inept nature alongside her similarly comical partner mr nine and something that also would have thrown you off the scent in retrospect is the hinted sexy nature of miss wednesday and this is important because in standard storytelling only female villains are allowed to exude this sort of effect as you can quite blatantly see when the plot twist does occur and all of a sudden vivi is portrayed as a much more innocent and modest existence no more revealing outfits no more sultry eyes no more swirly boobs just the pinnacle of all that is good in the world embodied in a princess and this effect can be viewed in many other characters like robin or viola both of whom were given something of a seductive antagonistic early life in the series only to be pulled back from that and settle into life as comparatively much more modest characters so this device definitely does get less effective over time but hey it certainly did work here in the early game and like all great plot twists this had a profound effect on the series with the next entire saga being effectively helmed by this one time miscellaneous villain to the point where it was even looking like she was going to potentially join the crew permanently so as early as it was in the series this first instance of a villain turned to princess sent shock waves that still ripple throughout one piece to this day and as such it is a very worthy number three number two black beard has two devil fruits that's right not one but two and according to mathematics two is more than one so look this is a twist that was over a decade in the making because by the time we had reached the conclusion of the marine for dark as much as devil fruits were still almost entirely shrouded in mystery there were definite rules that we as an audience had taken to be established for example devil fruit users lose the ability to swim or devil fruits taste universally awful and another one of those core laws is that a user cannot hold two devil fruit powers at once because the legend has it that if they engage in such an act then the body of the user themselves will be destroyed I mean once again this whole process is kind of vague and we pretty much have nothing to go on except the words of a few individuals who may or may not be trustworthy but nonetheless when black beard emerged from his dank corpse blanket wielding the power of the army and the guru guru on me simultaneously this sent a seismic tremor through the fan base and the world of one piece as we know it because mr. black beard had just gone and done the impossible and that doesn't just have the effect of going I guess that's a thing because it actually kind of makes us question everything else we thought may have been impossible in the series and it says to us that even with all of our painstakingly established facts odor can still shatter those expectations at any point for any reason now in regards to black beard he is obviously a special case and him consuming two devil fruits and surviving in no way necessarily implies that this could be done by others without whatever special circumstances mr. zeha has but even that gives us further need to question because when you think well exactly how far can black beard take this is he going to consume a third devil fruit as heavily implied by his triple skull jolly roger where is the limit and why is there a limit how much more impossibility can black beard pull off but I think the most important result of this as a plot twist was solidifying black beard as one of the most sinister threats in this world because he still has a bit of a rough time being compared to the other big bad emperors like say kindo and big mom and definitely white beard but this twist made it clear that there was so much more to black beard than the world or even the readers and watchers of one piece ever suspected a big vat of darkness holding incredible surprises and many a plot twist to come but with that in mind we do still need to examine number one the revelation of the four emperors or the onko whichever you prefer and I really just need to stress how incredible this plot twist was in a pre-emperor world which many of you may not remember but I certainly do because I was reading the series weekly at the time when this happened during the return to water seven arc and to that point the established order of the world was kind of simple you have a rabble of pirates a gigantic organization in the world government a series of imbued individuals with the seven warlords and the revolutionaries and for a while it did seem like we were reaching the ceiling of this world because Luffy had been shown capable of defeating a warlord being crocodile as well as dispatching the then most powerful known cell organization without government being cp9 but then comes along one monkey dig up who goes on to tell us yeah you know that world that we've explored thus far well this is only a teeny tiny portion of it because there exists power far beyond your imagination in the form of the four emperors one of which being shanks was a fantastic sub twist in and of itself however after seeing this in action I feel like this one revelation added at least a decade to the length of the series because there was no way that we were wrapping up powers like these that had been introduced anytime soon and look around what 14 years later here we are seemingly finally at the stage where we can take them on directly but even then we have such a seemingly impossibly long journey ahead of us this was not a simple plot twist this was an expansion of one piece the likes of which we will probably never see again and the existence of these powers is a primary aspect of what has gone on to make this series as intriguing as it is and to be honest it's very difficult to put myself back in the mindset of the story before we knew about these figures and when you do even the wonderfully constructed narrative of one piece to that point almost feels flat in comparison so on this occasion I can think of no twist more worthy than this of sitting at top of this list here today but what do you guys think please do leave your thoughts in the comments below or even join my discord server and if you'd like to see more videos like this then please do go and check out some of my other content or even subscribe to the channel for more glorious one piece business uploaded straight into your youtube feeds but for now this has been the ground line review and I'll see you next time