The world of One Piece never fails to amaze fans with its diverse and unique Devil Fruits, each granting different powers to its user. However, alongside the cool and overpowered fruits, creator Eiichiro Oda doesn’t hesitate to invent Devil Fruits with grotesque appearances, disturbing effects, or downright disgusting abilities that make viewers shudder.
Here are 9 of the most horrifying Devil Fruits in One Piece, based on their form, power effects, or how they are used:
1. Doku Doku no Mi (Venom-Venom Fruit)
While granting formidable power with immunity to and control over poison, turning the user into a “poison man,” Magellan’s Doku Doku no Mi has a truly nasty downside: it causes severe digestive problems. The user cannot properly digest the poisons they ingest, forcing them to constantly and unpleasantly expel toxic waste.
2. Memo Memo no Mi (Memo-Memo Fruit)
Charlotte Pudding’s Memo Memo no Mi is useful for manipulating memories, allowing the user to cut, edit, or implant memories. However, the disturbing part is how the power activates: the user must reach directly into the victim’s head, as if touching their brain. The image of a hand emerging from someone’s forehead to “extract memories” is definitely unsettling.
3. Nomi Nomi no Mi (Nomi-Nomi Fruit)
This fruit grants the user the ability to store unlimited information, an incredibly powerful skill. But the horrifying cost is that the user’s brain grows so large it completely deforms their head. Vegapunk, who uses this fruit, had to remove part of his skull to accommodate his enormous brain.
4. Numa Numa no Mi (Swamp-Swamp Fruit)
Caribou’s Numa Numa no Mi turns the user into a living pile of sludge. Being a messy, slimy blob is already pretty gross, and Caribou’s crude and unpleasant personality only adds to the fruit’s repulsive reputation.
5. Bomu Bomu no Mi (Bomb-Bomb Fruit)
The Bomb-Bomb Fruit itself isn’t inherently disgusting, it lets the user turn any body part into a bomb or detonate anything they touch. But Mr. 5, the user, made it gross by turning his nasal mucus into bombs and throwing them. This strange use turned an otherwise cool ability into something truly repulsive.
6. Hana Hana no Mi (Flower-Flower Fruit)
Though Nico Robin uses this fruit elegantly and effectively, the core concept is creepy. It allows the user to sprout body parts, arms, legs, even eyes and noses, from any surface. The sight of countless limbs suddenly growing out of people or objects can be disturbing to some.
7. Jake Jake no Mi (Coat-Coat Fruit)
This fruit is controversial and considered a form of “body horror.” It lets the user transform into a coat that others can wear. Essentially, the user becomes a “human skin with a zipper,” able to control the wearer’s body.
8. Beta Beta no Mi (Sticky-Sticky Fruit)
True to its name, Trebol’s Beta Beta no Mi allows him to create and control slime, a bodily fluid. He even uses the slime as clothing, covering his entire body and turning himself into a moving blob of goo, which only adds to his disgusting image.
9. Shiku Shiku no Mi (Sick-Sick Fruit)
This fruit lets the user create and spread all kinds of diseases. Though details are limited, the fact it can cause illnesses that alter the victim’s gender hints at even worse potential effects.
Even more terrifying, this fruit comes with one of the worst side effects: the user is doomed to live in a constant state of sickness, and anyone who touches them immediately catches the disease. Living in perpetual illness is horrible enough, but enduring it forever is a true nightmare.
Source: Gamerant