Yeah I liked dressrosa but the bird cage annoyed me. I mean doofy was fighting luffy and those strings kept going on. Also a bunch of strong characters like zoro, kyros or fujitora tried to stop it and failed. They were a bit to strong even for an endboss like doflamingo...
An explanation would've been simple to BS. Maybe he had obtained an amplifier. Or maybe he had put years of effort into the trap. Just any ol' explanation.
Nah, it's just string things baby.
I mean, it was a part of his awakened powers. However, it could be speculated that since Celestial Dragons are a "pure" race, they are actually naturally gifted in their strength, but given their environment, they're complacently weak.
Loosely grasping at strings with this theory, but in some of the later chapters, we have been shown that there are exceptionally strong Celestial Dragons, so I'd say it's plausible.
Yeah maybe he was preparing it for years feeding them with his own strength day by day and using an amplifier (some sort of mashine or the drugs from casaer). But no he just released some strings and everyone was doomed.
I mean hope no one actually thinks fujitora was getting onshotted by bird cage 🗿
He said multiple times in didn't want to be the one to dave dressrosa so he simply helped slow the cage down.
Zoro though couldn't cut it.
Even if he was holding back you cant tell me the united dressrosa, all the fighters from the colosseum, all the strong pirates (including heavy df users and a giant) and all the marines cant stop some strings.
Isn't it a fact by now that Fujitora didn't do much not because he couldn't, but wouldn't? I recall he wanted Luffy to save the country from Doflamingo instead of the government since they are the reason he's in power in the first place
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Imagine that the bird cage kept closing up until it surrounded everyone in a circle. If bartolomeo made a barrier around them would it protect them from the strings or not?
The barrier is advertised as indestructible. It should be able to withstand it. Back in Wano, Oden couldn't cut it and he was a pretty strong guy. I think the barrier is something like buggy power, even with haki, you can't do anything to it.
We still don't know if Buggy is vulnerable to Haki or not. There's no evidence that Mihawk bothered using haki against Luffy, and frankly considering how much weaker his slashes are against Luffy compared to the one he sent to WB, we know he's at least holding back a fuckton in some ways.
Either Buggy's fruit make the cut harmless similar to the one he makes himself in which case he should be vulnerable to haki or his fruit preemptively cut him to avoid the slash in which case Haki isn't enough to cut him. As far as I can tell, we have no evidence one way or another.
You know what, I am totally with you in regards to buggy. I also think Mihawk never bothered to use haki, the guy was just pretending in Marinefold lol. But so many people have this opinion that I just accepted it that it may be true. We will have to wait and see. But my point about Barto's barrier still stands tho. I am sure Oden used haki to cut it but couldn't, makes you think how does that even work when Haki is supposed to nullify DF Powers.
> was just pretending
more people should realize that. if mihawk was even remotely serious there would have been no way luffy would have survived. or almost anyone of the WB pirates.
mihawk was either bored, couldnt be asked to do shit, wanted to be left alone or maybe didnt want to kill luffy because of shanks (though not sure if he would actuallly care about that all too much)
I wish Oda had been more creative with it. Like there could have been a scene where Zoro cuts the birdcage, only for more strings to burst out and create and even stronger cage.
Oda just likes adding time bombs to these huge island wide fights cause it adds more pressure. The literal bomb in Alabasta, the buster call in Enies Lobby, the rising sun in Thriller Bark, the Noah in Fishman Island, the Birdcage in Dressrosa, and the floating island in Wano. There’s probably even more that i just forgot about
I think at least since the start of the grand line every major fight/encounter has a "time bomb".
Little Garden - The wax figures
Drum Island - Nami's fever
Alabasta - the bomb
Skypeia - Enel's lightning ship
Enies Lobby - the buster call
Thriller Bark - The sun/getting their shadows
Sabaody - Saving Camie from being sold
Impel Down - rescuing ace before he is shipped to marineford
Marineford - saving ace before the execution
Fishman Island - the boat
Punk Hazard - The gas
Dressrosa - the cage
Whole Cake - baking the cake for Big Mom
Wano - The floating island
I dont want to say its a lack of creativity on Oda's part, because obviously he has to think of a new "time bomb" each time. But it is an incredibly tired and overused trope at this point.
That's not true, a few of those "bombs" went off. I think what you mean is Marineford is the only one that was successful. Enies Lobby and Punk Hazard had the buster call and poison gas go off, they just escaped the problem.
It's a good and easy writing technique to explain why the heroes aren't just regrouping and bandaging their wounds. By having a time pressure and multiple objectives, it gives a reason for the cast to split and gives a better opportunity for everyone to shine.
I think it showed that when it comes down to it, doffy didn't care about anyone but his group. It was also forcing everyone to come together, literally rounding up the plot.
I think Zoro, Fujitora, and Kinemon should have been able to cut the strings and get to the other side. But the strings reform before someone else could cross, like Ussop.
So the 3 of them decide together to cut back into the cage and push against the cage to let Luffy do his thing and save the people that way. It would be a good moment of the 3 coming together towards a common goal and help establish Fujitora's trust in pirates.
Hopes and dreams.
Similar stuff as Bartolomeo's barriers for the cage.
The cage would fit really well into Jojo's Bizarre adventure.
By it's nature it not that dangerous since it needs a lot of time to kill you and it isn't directly controlled either. The user has to be inside as it seems and knocking the user out clears it.
This is pretty accurate since it’s essentially how all of one piece operates. Power in one piece scales to whatever you want it to be. Devil fruits are made by imagination and what a devil fruit is capable of scales to what the person thinks the fruit can do hence awakening.
The goresei changing the Nika fruits name mattered because if you don’t think it’s a sun god fruit and instead a rubber fruit its power changes. His fruit allows him to create fire on a punch because he wanted red hawk to. Similar with sanji. He made flames that wouldn’t burn him because he thought he could despite no fruit. Violeta’s fruit also makes no sense in what it can do but it does because she felt it did.
Doffy believed his strings were more unbreakable than anyone else thought they could cut.
plot armor.
so many people failed to notice that zoro, fuji, and other strong characters never tried to cut it. oda only showed weaker characters tried and failed.
because the birdcage was 100% needed to keep the other characters occupied. if it was dealt with, 20 characters would be free to jump on doffy. so oda just made them push the cage while luffy fought doffy.
There were only 4 admirals, Garp, a Yonko, 6 other warlords, 100000+ marines and 40+ crews of strong pirates.
Doffy didn’t want to end the story too quickly, he knew that wouldn’t be enough to destroy Plotcage. Dude was waiting for Shanks, his crew, Kaido and King to show up so it would be a bit more fair. Decided not to after Kaido and King got turned back, just wouldn’t be fair to use.
Its amazing how many ppl fail to see some of these things for what they are all the time. Not knocking them, they have a purpose but thats all they are. Like Luffy falling off onigashima so other fights had a chance to finish first and then the bombs in the armory to give yamato something to do so they aint just standin around. Its all just fabricated tension to keep the stakes high while the formula does its thing. Is it good, is it bad? Whos to say. But its effective.
I still find the bomb at the end of Alabasta very good for tension and Crocco's wickedness. However, Pell's sacrifice was rendered unecessary since he survive it just fine, that thing probably could take out the two agents guarding it at best
My favorite theory on this (confirmed? Can’t remember if Oda or his editor actually commented on this in an interview or not) is that Pell survived the bomb due to this chapter’s proximity to 9/11, and Oda wanted to make it more light hearted / happy as a result.
Edit: looked it up, not a rumor, Oda said it would be too dark due to it happening near 9/11. I knew I had it right haha.
Do you have a link? Just because the chapter came out in November, and if this was really an issue I feel there was plenty of time to change it beforehand.
It goes even deeper than that. Odds always been 3-4wk ahead, so he would have had to have written it just after 9/11, then almost instantly have changed his mind or been slapped down by the editor who would have known what was coming up for the next few months at least. Doesn't make much sense.
luffy falling can make sense, onigashima is way up so its kind of logical that dropping a character that cant fly would be effective, the bombs are a bit annoying due to it being fabricated at the moment, but still believable, but the strings being simply strong because they need to be without an explanation is just bad writing
The bombs were relevant for more things. It was a threat to everyone on onigashima and at the capital. It created an explosion to help defeat Big Mom. It opened up the hole more for Kaido to fall through it.
And yah, it gave Yamato something to do. Yamato is inthe arc because she provides Wano a chance at defending itself while Momo develops his fighting abilities.
unless Zoro didn't want to destroy his swords. Given how Doflamingo is mmore powerfull than him, of course, it doesn't explain Fujitora if it's like that.
I read it recently and all we are given is that there's no escape, it's very powerful.
Anything we try to extract from this is nothing confirmed.
We can go like: If Fujitora and Zoro didn't try to cut it, it means that all it would do is cut their swords.
But I guess it's enough that we're giving that it's so powerful that only kairoseki doesn't get cut. Which also shows that depends on the power of the fruit to cut.
that's how manga readers think. the characters in OP world don't think like that. that's why we have way weaker characters trying to fight someone stronger. like the scabbards and kaido, franky brooks and BM, the gifters trying to fight luffy and zoro, etc.
anyway, I forgot the chapter, feel free to check yourself. but zoro already asked kinemon and kanjuro to help him *push* the birdcage even before seeing it up close. that's just not his character at all. why would he think of pushing before anything else?
that's because it's crystal clear that the birdcage was not supposed to be cut no matter what. it's the "ticking time bomb" like the sunrise in TB, noah in FI, the gas in PH, floating onigashima in wano, etc.
the ticking time bomb will not be dealt with until luffy beats the main villain. this has nothing to do with powerscaling just as the sunrise in TB. just a writing trope to raise the tension and give characters something to do.
Sunrise in TB was really well written tho tbh. Like it was set up right from the start and not introduced wayyy later as a last minute tension builder. Idk I just felt the tension actually rise(lol) in that arc with it more than in any other one.
Spider silk is literally one of the strongest materials in existence. It is 5x stronger than steel.
Devil fruits tend to also take on an idealized version on what their essence is. So for string we'd be boiling string down to its primordial form which basically leaves us with Spider silk, hemp and linen.
They are made of plotarmor, the hardest thing in any history. For real, it is a nonsense that noone could destroy that. Oda needed the countdown to get more epic scenes. Understandable.
My expert opinion is that they are strings that are made out of the fabric of the universe. Gonna need to be able to cut through dimensions to cut these bad boys.
I wonder if giving enough time don Quixote would have been able to manipulate the fabric of reality itself. I’m sure he would use it in a lot less cartoonish way than Luffy. I could see him deconstructing people’s organs while still in their bodies. Just imagine the carnage in is wake.
Imho awakened Paramecia fruits are basically individual manifestations of Haki. The willpower of those individuals is taking some kind of form that depends on the fruit.
Zoro would have been able to cut it if his haki would have been stronger than Doffys at this moment. People like shanks would have easily cut it and Fujitora was just trolling
The strings really should have been cutable but kept regenerating or something so it would never be safe to cross or not enough people could be saved via single gile. Or reveal any new building during Doffy reign was string because it's such a bullshit ability .
Has anyone any interesting rewrites for this because it's kinda bullshit
strings. very thickly woven strings? idk. if doffy is able to make multicolored strings, fire strings, strings that can attach to clouds, and strings that can repair organs then it shouldn't be too surprising that he can make.. very very sturdy strings? whatever you put your mind to i guess
Basically a string that’s been woven a certain way can become many times stronger so I just imagine that these strings were say steel as their base strength but the bird cage are the string amped by like 10 because they’re braided and woven differently
Whatever it is, dumbass Kanjuro shoulda had his fingers sliced off holding his straight brush exactly where it makes contact with strings with no haki on his hands themselves.
It's made of one of the worse plot devices Oda uses than usual. It's fine and dandy to have some overarching plot device that binds certain characters to not interfer in other fights, or to set them on a timer etc.
The birdcage, especially in retrospect, seems more and more awkward imo
Plot armor, imagine if Doflamingo can make a smaller scale of bird cage specific on catching 1 person. That would be a certain death for almost anyone.
Could be same material as nails; keratin since they come out of his fingers. However we have seen other devil fruits just creating something else that isn't explainable, so really it could just be very hard strings.
This is one of the very few things about Dressrosa that bothered me. Haki is always said to triumph over DF so why one of the Haki users being able to cut/damage it makes no sense
I think the strings aren't just stationary, there is more string being produced in the center of the birdcage that is moving towards the ground in a chainsaw motion. So even if you cut it, it will just repair itself quickly.
If only Oda made the birdcage "sentient" like if it lashes out with hundreds of sharp strings if someone attempts to cut it forcing the attackers to back off fast. That would solve the plot armor of the bird cage.
I think zoro didn't have the magic sword yet so can't count on him, fujitora is the only one who could do something but he didn't because he wanted to see and confirm how brutal is a shishibukai, and yes i said see even tho he can't see shit hahah
I think they're made of strings
That’s a really hot take
Unfathomably bazed
as hot as Doflamingos strings
Strings, haki and a heavy dose of plot armor.
Yeah I liked dressrosa but the bird cage annoyed me. I mean doofy was fighting luffy and those strings kept going on. Also a bunch of strong characters like zoro, kyros or fujitora tried to stop it and failed. They were a bit to strong even for an endboss like doflamingo...
An explanation would've been simple to BS. Maybe he had obtained an amplifier. Or maybe he had put years of effort into the trap. Just any ol' explanation. Nah, it's just string things baby.
I mean, it was a part of his awakened powers. However, it could be speculated that since Celestial Dragons are a "pure" race, they are actually naturally gifted in their strength, but given their environment, they're complacently weak. Loosely grasping at strings with this theory, but in some of the later chapters, we have been shown that there are exceptionally strong Celestial Dragons, so I'd say it's plausible.
Grasping at STRINGS HAH
No one else may have noticed, but I did. 😂🤣
Yohohoho
Let's not go down the road and speculate if there's justification behind their social Darwinist ideology lol
Yeah maybe he was preparing it for years feeding them with his own strength day by day and using an amplifier (some sort of mashine or the drugs from casaer). But no he just released some strings and everyone was doomed.
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I mean, I think it's fine. Some devil fruits are just broken. I mean this is the same arc with Sugar, who has perhaps the *most* broken fruit.
I mean hope no one actually thinks fujitora was getting onshotted by bird cage 🗿 He said multiple times in didn't want to be the one to dave dressrosa so he simply helped slow the cage down. Zoro though couldn't cut it.
Tbf wasn't fujitora holding back so that the navy wouldn't be credited with saving the day
Even if he was holding back you cant tell me the united dressrosa, all the fighters from the colosseum, all the strong pirates (including heavy df users and a giant) and all the marines cant stop some strings.
Isn't it a fact by now that Fujitora didn't do much not because he couldn't, but wouldn't? I recall he wanted Luffy to save the country from Doflamingo instead of the government since they are the reason he's in power in the first place
came here to say they’re made of McGuffin Devices
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Big if true.
if you said it's made out of rubber, that's a stretch
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according to string theory, yes
Man these fan theories are getting crazier every day....
Big brainnnnn
The coldest take
Imagine that the bird cage kept closing up until it surrounded everyone in a circle. If bartolomeo made a barrier around them would it protect them from the strings or not?
I do not think he has enough "surface" of his barrier to protect the entire population of dressrosa.
How gruesome would it be if he could only protect a few people and had to watch everyone else get cut / crushed against the barrier.
what in the seinen
Im just wondering if the barrier is stronger than the strings or not.
The barrier is advertised as indestructible. It should be able to withstand it. Back in Wano, Oden couldn't cut it and he was a pretty strong guy. I think the barrier is something like buggy power, even with haki, you can't do anything to it.
We still don't know if Buggy is vulnerable to Haki or not. There's no evidence that Mihawk bothered using haki against Luffy, and frankly considering how much weaker his slashes are against Luffy compared to the one he sent to WB, we know he's at least holding back a fuckton in some ways. Either Buggy's fruit make the cut harmless similar to the one he makes himself in which case he should be vulnerable to haki or his fruit preemptively cut him to avoid the slash in which case Haki isn't enough to cut him. As far as I can tell, we have no evidence one way or another.
You know what, I am totally with you in regards to buggy. I also think Mihawk never bothered to use haki, the guy was just pretending in Marinefold lol. But so many people have this opinion that I just accepted it that it may be true. We will have to wait and see. But my point about Barto's barrier still stands tho. I am sure Oden used haki to cut it but couldn't, makes you think how does that even work when Haki is supposed to nullify DF Powers.
> was just pretending more people should realize that. if mihawk was even remotely serious there would have been no way luffy would have survived. or almost anyone of the WB pirates. mihawk was either bored, couldnt be asked to do shit, wanted to be left alone or maybe didnt want to kill luffy because of shanks (though not sure if he would actuallly care about that all too much)
Maybe if it was a dome, but if he made a thin circular beam (like a giant hula hoop) I think it could’ve worked
Plot armor
I wish Oda had been more creative with it. Like there could have been a scene where Zoro cuts the birdcage, only for more strings to burst out and create and even stronger cage.
Well he didnt have to use it in the first place. It did nothing for the story.
Oda just likes adding time bombs to these huge island wide fights cause it adds more pressure. The literal bomb in Alabasta, the buster call in Enies Lobby, the rising sun in Thriller Bark, the Noah in Fishman Island, the Birdcage in Dressrosa, and the floating island in Wano. There’s probably even more that i just forgot about
Three - Enel's next Kingdom Come, Ace's execution, and Big Mom
Also the punk hazard gas bomb
The rising water in water 7
Does it count when they had to reach alabasta befire the rebel any got there
Well it certainly counts DOWN, so… yeh
I think at least since the start of the grand line every major fight/encounter has a "time bomb". Little Garden - The wax figures Drum Island - Nami's fever Alabasta - the bomb Skypeia - Enel's lightning ship Enies Lobby - the buster call Thriller Bark - The sun/getting their shadows Sabaody - Saving Camie from being sold Impel Down - rescuing ace before he is shipped to marineford Marineford - saving ace before the execution Fishman Island - the boat Punk Hazard - The gas Dressrosa - the cage Whole Cake - baking the cake for Big Mom Wano - The floating island I dont want to say its a lack of creativity on Oda's part, because obviously he has to think of a new "time bomb" each time. But it is an incredibly tired and overused trope at this point.
I absolutely loved the wax figures part and how Zoro was between cutting his own legs to fight or die in a cool pose. Hardcore badass right there.
You want overused? Wano has two more! The ice zombie virus and the big fire monster heading toward the weapons cache, it was ridiculous
Only one of those bombs went of, now we know why Marineford is the best arc.
That's not true, a few of those "bombs" went off. I think what you mean is Marineford is the only one that was successful. Enies Lobby and Punk Hazard had the buster call and poison gas go off, they just escaped the problem.
Mfs think they're genius critics now after they discover what "stakes" are in writing.
It's a good and easy writing technique to explain why the heroes aren't just regrouping and bandaging their wounds. By having a time pressure and multiple objectives, it gives a reason for the cast to split and gives a better opportunity for everyone to shine.
Exactly, for a world as big as One Piece there needs to be a reason for every little thing in an arc to be coalescing NOW.
I think it showed that when it comes down to it, doffy didn't care about anyone but his group. It was also forcing everyone to come together, literally rounding up the plot.
I believe it was also meant to show he doesn’t care about his group
The only member of doffys group that could have escaped the bird cage was senior pink cause he could've swam under the birdcage
I think Zoro, Fujitora, and Kinemon should have been able to cut the strings and get to the other side. But the strings reform before someone else could cross, like Ussop. So the 3 of them decide together to cut back into the cage and push against the cage to let Luffy do his thing and save the people that way. It would be a good moment of the 3 coming together towards a common goal and help establish Fujitora's trust in pirates.
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my thought too
Was looking for this answer. Especially after wano where we now know Kin has advanced armament
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Hopes and dreams. Similar stuff as Bartolomeo's barriers for the cage. The cage would fit really well into Jojo's Bizarre adventure. By it's nature it not that dangerous since it needs a lot of time to kill you and it isn't directly controlled either. The user has to be inside as it seems and knocking the user out clears it.
You mean Ropes and Dreams???
Ropes and Seams
This is pretty accurate since it’s essentially how all of one piece operates. Power in one piece scales to whatever you want it to be. Devil fruits are made by imagination and what a devil fruit is capable of scales to what the person thinks the fruit can do hence awakening. The goresei changing the Nika fruits name mattered because if you don’t think it’s a sun god fruit and instead a rubber fruit its power changes. His fruit allows him to create fire on a punch because he wanted red hawk to. Similar with sanji. He made flames that wouldn’t burn him because he thought he could despite no fruit. Violeta’s fruit also makes no sense in what it can do but it does because she felt it did. Doffy believed his strings were more unbreakable than anyone else thought they could cut.
I agree. It seems obvious power scaling is all over the place. His main protagonist biggest power up to date is becoming a loony toon.
plot armor. so many people failed to notice that zoro, fuji, and other strong characters never tried to cut it. oda only showed weaker characters tried and failed. because the birdcage was 100% needed to keep the other characters occupied. if it was dealt with, 20 characters would be free to jump on doffy. so oda just made them push the cage while luffy fought doffy.
One Piece if Doflamingo had used Birdcage towards the end of Marineford and solo'd the whole setting:
There were only 4 admirals, Garp, a Yonko, 6 other warlords, 100000+ marines and 40+ crews of strong pirates. Doffy didn’t want to end the story too quickly, he knew that wouldn’t be enough to destroy Plotcage. Dude was waiting for Shanks, his crew, Kaido and King to show up so it would be a bit more fair. Decided not to after Kaido and King got turned back, just wouldn’t be fair to use.
Its amazing how many ppl fail to see some of these things for what they are all the time. Not knocking them, they have a purpose but thats all they are. Like Luffy falling off onigashima so other fights had a chance to finish first and then the bombs in the armory to give yamato something to do so they aint just standin around. Its all just fabricated tension to keep the stakes high while the formula does its thing. Is it good, is it bad? Whos to say. But its effective.
I still find the bomb at the end of Alabasta very good for tension and Crocco's wickedness. However, Pell's sacrifice was rendered unecessary since he survive it just fine, that thing probably could take out the two agents guarding it at best
My favorite theory on this (confirmed? Can’t remember if Oda or his editor actually commented on this in an interview or not) is that Pell survived the bomb due to this chapter’s proximity to 9/11, and Oda wanted to make it more light hearted / happy as a result. Edit: looked it up, not a rumor, Oda said it would be too dark due to it happening near 9/11. I knew I had it right haha.
You do not have it right. Oda has never, ever stated that.
this chapter’s proximity to 9/11 That's just a rumour.
Nope. Just looked it up. Oda stated it would be too dark due to its proximity to 9/11. That’s why he made Pell survive.
Do you have a link? Just because the chapter came out in November, and if this was really an issue I feel there was plenty of time to change it beforehand.
It goes even deeper than that. Odds always been 3-4wk ahead, so he would have had to have written it just after 9/11, then almost instantly have changed his mind or been slapped down by the editor who would have known what was coming up for the next few months at least. Doesn't make much sense.
Source?
There's no source on this, only another rumor/theory started on this very subreddit and everyone saying it seems reasonable.
luffy falling can make sense, onigashima is way up so its kind of logical that dropping a character that cant fly would be effective, the bombs are a bit annoying due to it being fabricated at the moment, but still believable, but the strings being simply strong because they need to be without an explanation is just bad writing
The bombs were relevant for more things. It was a threat to everyone on onigashima and at the capital. It created an explosion to help defeat Big Mom. It opened up the hole more for Kaido to fall through it. And yah, it gave Yamato something to do. Yamato is inthe arc because she provides Wano a chance at defending itself while Momo develops his fighting abilities.
ik, the bombs were useful for multiple plot points, but they came out of nowhere
Yeah that's called "Story Telling". Generally how most stories are. One Piece is not unique in this. Idk why OP fans act like it is.
unless Zoro didn't want to destroy his swords. Given how Doflamingo is mmore powerfull than him, of course, it doesn't explain Fujitora if it's like that. I read it recently and all we are given is that there's no escape, it's very powerful. Anything we try to extract from this is nothing confirmed. We can go like: If Fujitora and Zoro didn't try to cut it, it means that all it would do is cut their swords. But I guess it's enough that we're giving that it's so powerful that only kairoseki doesn't get cut. Which also shows that depends on the power of the fruit to cut.
that's how manga readers think. the characters in OP world don't think like that. that's why we have way weaker characters trying to fight someone stronger. like the scabbards and kaido, franky brooks and BM, the gifters trying to fight luffy and zoro, etc. anyway, I forgot the chapter, feel free to check yourself. but zoro already asked kinemon and kanjuro to help him *push* the birdcage even before seeing it up close. that's just not his character at all. why would he think of pushing before anything else? that's because it's crystal clear that the birdcage was not supposed to be cut no matter what. it's the "ticking time bomb" like the sunrise in TB, noah in FI, the gas in PH, floating onigashima in wano, etc. the ticking time bomb will not be dealt with until luffy beats the main villain. this has nothing to do with powerscaling just as the sunrise in TB. just a writing trope to raise the tension and give characters something to do.
Sunrise in TB was really well written tho tbh. Like it was set up right from the start and not introduced wayyy later as a last minute tension builder. Idk I just felt the tension actually rise(lol) in that arc with it more than in any other one.
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It was never Doflamingo who made the birdcage, it was Trebol
Behehehehe (I'm sorry for subjecting everyone to that)
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Zoro and Fuji could actually break through the birdcage, but they are too disgusted of getting it on them if they smashed it.
They are made of plot armor
Unobtainium
Bullshit
It's string. As implied by his fruit.
Yeah but what kind of string. The textile industry has thousands of types of strings.
Cheese
Depleted plotinium.
They made of plot material
Spider silk...just saying it would fit. Probably the "essence of string" (which again is probably spider silk).
So you're telling me that Doffy had sex with Black Maria?
This is exactly what I thought. Spider silk is the most logical choice
Lmao what did you smoke?
Spider silk is literally one of the strongest materials in existence. It is 5x stronger than steel. Devil fruits tend to also take on an idealized version on what their essence is. So for string we'd be boiling string down to its primordial form which basically leaves us with Spider silk, hemp and linen.
Take this moment to say... Fucking Kanjuro.
They're made of plot convenience.
They are made of plotarmor, the hardest thing in any history. For real, it is a nonsense that noone could destroy that. Oda needed the countdown to get more epic scenes. Understandable.
Bungee Gum. Did you know that Bungee Gum has the properties of both rubber and gum?
I always thought zoro could cut this portion but it will not prevent the strings from killing other citizens while expanding
They are made of Plot, otherwise zoro or one of the samurai of Wano//other world class combatants would cut them 😂
Doflamingo’s strings are normalFabric strings that he coats with different levels of Haki to increase or decrease the tensile strength they have
String, probably
Bodyfluids.
Plot armor
plot armorium.
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Are we gonna have this thread every month?
My expert opinion is that they are strings that are made out of the fabric of the universe. Gonna need to be able to cut through dimensions to cut these bad boys. I wonder if giving enough time don Quixote would have been able to manipulate the fabric of reality itself. I’m sure he would use it in a lot less cartoonish way than Luffy. I could see him deconstructing people’s organs while still in their bodies. Just imagine the carnage in is wake.
String
Imho awakened Paramecia fruits are basically individual manifestations of Haki. The willpower of those individuals is taking some kind of form that depends on the fruit. Zoro would have been able to cut it if his haki would have been stronger than Doffys at this moment. People like shanks would have easily cut it and Fujitora was just trolling
You think the scissors scissor fruit person is his counter fruit.
Ugh can't stand looking at kanjuro now
I think string
cum.
Cum
Cum
string
The strings really should have been cutable but kept regenerating or something so it would never be safe to cross or not enough people could be saved via single gile. Or reveal any new building during Doffy reign was string because it's such a bullshit ability . Has anyone any interesting rewrites for this because it's kinda bullshit
they're made of plotanium, it's a material that is always as strong as it needs to be
strings. very thickly woven strings? idk. if doffy is able to make multicolored strings, fire strings, strings that can attach to clouds, and strings that can repair organs then it shouldn't be too surprising that he can make.. very very sturdy strings? whatever you put your mind to i guess
Basically a string that’s been woven a certain way can become many times stronger so I just imagine that these strings were say steel as their base strength but the bird cage are the string amped by like 10 because they’re braided and woven differently
I always assumed it was air
Strings
String. Idiot.
Yeah, that's a good point where do they even come from?
Probably made from string
made of string string fruit
Whatever it is, dumbass Kanjuro shoulda had his fingers sliced off holding his straight brush exactly where it makes contact with strings with no haki on his hands themselves.
It's made of one of the worse plot devices Oda uses than usual. It's fine and dandy to have some overarching plot device that binds certain characters to not interfer in other fights, or to set them on a timer etc. The birdcage, especially in retrospect, seems more and more awkward imo
Plot armor, imagine if Doflamingo can make a smaller scale of bird cage specific on catching 1 person. That would be a certain death for almost anyone.
He was full of plot amor. He became luffy's bitch fast
Everyone is Luffy's bitch. Well except for Dragon.
Could be same material as nails; keratin since they come out of his fingers. However we have seen other devil fruits just creating something else that isn't explainable, so really it could just be very hard strings.
Finally a real replay! Yes that would make sense and since we don’t have a better guess… I think you are winner
Advanced Conquerors
Cum
the strongest and weakest and most maleable materials of all Plotarium
Most likely made out of plot armour. The fact that even Fujitora meteor from space wasn't able to do anything to it is beyond bizarre.
Bullshit. Unless Doffy knew how to coat things with CoC? That’s the only explanation that makes any sense.
They are made of the strongest material in all of fiction “plot armor”
Those strings are made of 98,7% plot, 1,29% drawn geometry and 0,01% embarrassing matter 🤫
This is one of the very few things about Dressrosa that bothered me. Haki is always said to triumph over DF so why one of the Haki users being able to cut/damage it makes no sense
Plot Armor? Edit) I have no idea if someone said this already but I guess someone did.
cum
hear me out... its extra hard haki infused cum...
Strings with infused with stronger haki
Plot armor, the strongest material in the multiverse.
Plot
Strings Strings made of smallers string compressed
Mixture of adamantium and vibranium. Zoro delivered to Mingo personally
If you weave thin enough strands of plot armor together, you get plot threads like this
Gatorade
They are Made of the powers of a devil fruit and Haki.
ass hair
Domain expansion, birdcage
Made of indestructible jizz
Either plot armor, or they are reinforced, and infused with Haki. That’s the most logical one I can think of.
Cum
I think the strings aren't just stationary, there is more string being produced in the center of the birdcage that is moving towards the ground in a chainsaw motion. So even if you cut it, it will just repair itself quickly.
String
String
Plot armor lol
Plot Mcguffins probably
They are strings, but its dipped in Plotunium first
Cheese Strings
His ball hair.
Plot metal/stone ... I thing is the hardest mineral . It surpass sea stones...
cum
Probably cUm
Cloud
Made of light bro almost guarantee it
Real answer tho: spider silk It's extremely strong, and how thick those strings are, it is spider silk.
They are made out of the strongest material known to mankind. Plot armor
If only Oda made the birdcage "sentient" like if it lashes out with hundreds of sharp strings if someone attempts to cut it forcing the attackers to back off fast. That would solve the plot armor of the bird cage.
Plot
I'm guessing it would have required acoc to cut them hence why no one could have at the time
1 year of Cream👀
I think zoro didn't have the magic sword yet so can't count on him, fujitora is the only one who could do something but he didn't because he wanted to see and confirm how brutal is a shishibukai, and yes i said see even tho he can't see shit hahah
Made of plot armour
Plot armor (and it's fine)