 wealth, fame and power. The pirate king Goldie Roger was able to acquire all three of these English words, however during his travels one question does remain, did Roger ever become hungry enough to eat a devil fruit? Hello and welcome to the Grand Line review source for everything one piece and today we are here to ask the very important question of did our illustrious and mustachrious pirate king possess a devil fruit? And I guess I will say right off the bat that the affirmative argument for this case is not particularly popular within the online fanbase. In fact I did a poll asking people whether or not they thought Roger was a fruit user and the results were a little bit one sided to say the least. That's alright though because one piece is not a democracy, it is a one man manga dictatorship and as such if Oda wanted Roger to be a fruit user well then that's what they're getting. So we are going to be exploring that particular possibility. Before any of that though it's time for a quick round of Gold, Silver or Scopper, a very simple minigame the rules of which are as follows. Behind this door stands a famed figure of the roge pirates either Goldie Roger, Silver's Rayleigh or Scopper Gabon and it is going to be your job to guess which one of them it is and should you guess incorrectly then your gold standard punishment will be to subscribe to the Grand Line review which will also result in a consistent injection of one piece culture straight into the veins of your youtube feed and if you are correct then you will get a high five from child shanks and a withering glare from child buggy but who will be behind the door Gold, Silver or Scopper? Make your decision now and we shall reveal the answer in 3, 2, 1 and BAM it is Silver's Rayleigh. So if you picked Goldie Roger or Scopper Gabon then you know the thing to do and please do say hi in the comments below if you are a new member of the Grand Fleet, welcome. But to get into this Roger fruit business we're going to run into a lot of hurdles with this topic. Metaphorical hurdles that is, many of which take the form of questions ever so many questions. One very basic one being if Roger was a fruit user then why don't we know that by now and the answer to such an inquiry is very simple, well Oda doesn't want us to know yet. I mean I don't think it's completely out of the question to keep one of the most mysterious characters in the series shrouded in, what's the word, mystery because even 1000 chapters in we still know shockingly little about Roger in general and we've only had the briefest of glimpses into his journey so most of these hurdle questions are going to have very easy Oda based answers all but one that is there is a particular scene in the series that makes very little sense in general really but even more so if Roger were to be a fruit user and this occurs very early on during chapter 19 when shanks and buggy encounter a devil fruit for the first time. The two of them speak of the subject as if it was some sort of mythical existence that's not what gets to me most though it's actually the very next scene where an adult member of the Roger pirate states the following maybe those tales about the devil fruits were lies which comes in response to buggy pretending to eat the devil fruit and then having nothing whatsoever happening to him but this tiny tiny statement is actually a big big problem for the roge devil fruit camp because if Roger or indeed any of his crew were to be fruit users then there would surely be no speculation about the validity of devil fruits as each never crew member would have viewed these powers firsthand as it is though I should say that this is not just an issue when examining Roger individually but it also verges on being a plot hole in the entirety of one piece the primary issue being that the roge pirates reached the end of the ground line before buggy and shanks were even born or at the very least they did so in the exact same year buggy and shanks are both 39 years old post timeskip and the roge pirates reached lodestar island also 39 years ago which legitimately does make me wonder if they've both been part of the crew since they were like little babby men but uh that's a video for another time the greater point being that by the time you've sailed through the ground line and the new world these allegedly adult members of the roge pirates would have undoubtedly encountered devil fruit users whether that's pirates like the rocks or marines like Sengoku they were fairly common especially in the new world the only reason why this may not have been the case is if devil fruits are a relatively recent addition to the world but they're definitely not and we know thanks primarily to toki that they have existed for hundreds and hundreds of years so in the end yes this buggy and shanks flashback is a major piece of evidence against roger having a fruit but it also makes very little sense within the context of the entire series and that alone should not be used as a reason to dismiss the idea because that might just be a byproduct of super early one piece before odor had really solidified the journey of the roger pirates so let's accept that it's definitely possible which would then immediately give way to a new question being well what kind of devil fruit might roger have used and to this there are two very standard answers both of which i honestly don't like but we do need to bring them up and the first of which is luffy's devil fruit the gomu gomu no mi which look yeah it's it's pretty painfully narratively appropriate at this stage in the series the parallels between luffy and roger are so strong that i could certainly see odor doing this i mean i still remember when it was first revealed that roger was one of the previous owners of luffy's straw hat and i definitely had a quite similar reaction then that i would have to finding out that he was the previous user of the gomu gomu no mi that reaction being not good it felt very i mean i don't know how to put this but it felt very standard like instead of expanding the one piece world it had actually shrunk it and so i think that revealing that roger was the former user of the gomu gomu no mi would have a similar if not worse effect but on some levels it definitely does work particularly with the idea of inherited will something that devil fruits are certainly not immune from we have examples of say sabo inheriting the will of ace by consuming his former fruit and given that luffy is pursuing the dreams and desires of roger it's very much in keeping with well what one piece is plus it could also make some retrospective sense which shanks his time in east blue he recognized his captain's fruit took it to keep it safe and then had it accidentally eaten by a hungry hungry hippo brat after that point shanks decides uh why not let's go full cosplay and give him my captain's hat as well it's not something i want to see but it's also not something that's at all impossible it's kind of like when you think about the possibility of you know big mom and kaito just like banging it's it's not at all what you want to think about oh god no but you simply cannot deny the possibility although it does come with a set of problems of its own namely being why nobody has ever recognized that luffy's devil fruit abilities once belonged to roger the straw hand is one thing because it clearly got passed to shanks quite early on but the fruit powers are entirely different i think it would be significantly harder to answer that question without it feeling incredibly clunky and probably unsatisfying so in the end i am very much hoping that if roger was a fruit user then it wasn't this one at the very least and to see some other fruits i really hope roger didn't have feel free to check out this list of the top 20 worst devil fruits in one piece lots of glorious train wrecks in there a lot of fun to examine and similarly i kind of brought it up before but the next go-to answer would be the merimeranome which comes entirely from the fact that ace is roger's biological son so an argument could be made for some sort of inherited will aspect there as well and once again it's not to be dismissed immediately because roger and ace do have these little ties together in the story one of which can be seen in their bounties which both feature a double five number and also going in favour of the merimeranome this double fruit was found by ace in east blue on the island of six is to be precise which is relevant because roger obviously died in east blue so if he did have a fruit then it would most likely reincarnate there same thing with the gomagomenome oh and fun fact this was also where we have an example of what happens when two people eat the same devil fruit a shared the merimeranome with a character named mass juice but because ace got in slightly quicker he got all of the powers and meanwhile mass juice well he just got a very unsatisfying meal the same sort of question applies though surely someone would have recognized that ace had the abilities of roger and yeah i suppose maybe they did it's a bit more plausible in this case because we haven't spent anywhere near as much time with ace as we have a luffy but it would still be a tricky narrative maneuver to pull off and speaking of tricky we have another fun anti-fruit question which pops up a lot and that is if roger was a double fruit user then why was he bound with wooden shackles for his execution surely they would have assigned seastone cuffs for such a thing yeah well look it's it's not a terrible question but it's also one that has about a billion different possibilities attached to it one being that seastone technology may not have existed at the time it's been noted that dr vagapunk is the one responsible for pioneering seastone usage in order to coat marine ships so perhaps he crafted the cuffs as well oh and on a very lame note it could also be said that roger was wearing seastone cuffs just with a wooden frame around them i mean that is exactly how easy it is for odour to get out of that sort of situation isn't even bigger question though let's say that roger definitely isn't a fruit user let's say that he was just you know naturally the strongest man in the world in that case what exactly were the wooden stocks going to do to stop him anyway in the end whether roger was a fruit user or not these restraints are pretty pointless if he wanted to he could have escaped but he didn't so he didn't but as for one of the most exciting fruit based options we have the potential of roger using an unknown double fruit and one idea that i see quite commonly floated about here and there and everywhere is something to do with weather control which is also one of the more common and widely speculated thoughts regarding dragon's double fruitability if indeed he has one so we have a sort of domino effective speculation happening here i must admit but stuff like this comes from the weird weather phenomena attached to the roger pirates with the most famous example being the battle of ed war the roger pirates were completely cornered by golden lion cheeky however they were saved by some sort of miraculous storm that sunk half of cheeky ships and not the oro jackson although personally i'm much more inclined to believe that roger was just loved by fate in the same sort of way that luffy is this was not his place to fall so a strapping young fate stepped in to help all lady roger cross that busy busy intersection but we do also have an east blue connection at play here as well because a very young dragon was at roger's execution so it would be easy enough for him to inherit such a devil fruit although it doesn't make as much sense as either ace or luffy and even then the amount of sense they make is debatable and i should say there's also a general perception out there that roger having a devil fruit would somehow ruin his character oh no like many would prefer him to just be a strong dude who conquered the world kind of like garpin shanks two non-ability users that have found their way to the top through raw power alone and i get that sentiment i really do however i am also unfortunately old enough to remember a time when this was the general consensus surrounding white beard prior to the marine for dark if the idea of white bit having a devil fruit was ever brought up online it would inevitably met with the exact same resistance as roger he's just the strongest man in the world he's just a powerful dude and he don't need no fruit not only that but white beard also used a weapon so oh no he cannot have a devil fruit power because this was back in the day where it was taken a strict headcanon that swordsmen or weapons specialists could not also be fruit users because every character could only have the one thing that it is they do and white beard quite gloriously decimated that impression and i certainly don't think any less of him in retrospect so as much as it may seem like roger would be much cooler without a fruit power i can 100% guarantee you that if odor did decide to give him one you would be likely to change that opinion in an instant plus if pure coolness is one of your worries in life i have some very bad news for you because this goofy mofo is not the cool badass criminal that the world remembers him as every new piece of information regarding roger paints him as much more of a loofy like figure than i ever would have expected and i would be thrilled if he also turned out to be a fruit user because why not i mean one reason why not is because it does come with a lot of potential problems attached to it but so does the alternative and it's never too late for odor to implement something like this and if you'd like to know more about the roger pirates then please do check out this video where odor names each and every member of the crew there's about 30 of them they're all pretty damn wild and i look forward to seeing you there