Oda didn't hold back here! Join Ashley as we look over the darkest moments from across the One Piece franchise
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00:00Welcome to WatchMojo, and today we're counting down our picks for the darkest and most grisly
00:08moments in One Piece.
00:21The Krieg Pirates' attack on the floating restaurant Barati sees even the tough cooks
00:26who work there hard-pressed to combat Don Krieg.
00:29With gadgets and deadly weapons galore, Krieg seems untouchable, at least until Luffy charges
00:35straight at him.
00:36Krieg throws bombs and spiked ammunition at him, but that doesn't deter Luffy in the
00:41slightest.
00:43Krieg even whips out a cloak of spikes, but Luffy doesn't hesitate to punch him, even
00:48if it hurts him badly.
00:56It's a fantastic character moment, illustrating Luffy's unwavering determination, even if
01:01we wince every time we see his punch land.
01:19Ace dying was always a possibility, given that the Summit War was fought to prevent
01:24his execution, but watching it happen is still brutal.
01:28While Ace is initially rescued, some taunting from Akainu causes him to delay his escape.
01:34With his fire no match for Akainu's magma, Ace is overmatched.
01:39Even so, when Akainu targets Luffy, Ace steps in the way, taking Akainu's magma fist right
01:45through his torso.
01:51Sure, the fire obscures things a bit, but Ace still gets impaled.
01:56The death of a character is always a gut punch, but few are quite as literal as this one.
02:16Trafalgar Law has one of the most brutal backstories in One Piece.
02:20In this country, Flevance suffered a widespread disaster when amber lead poisoned the inhabitants
02:25over multiple generations.
02:28The rapid onset of symptoms made others believe it to be a disease, leading to a war that
02:33led to most of the country's citizens being killed, including Law's family.
02:38Along with suffering a mental breakdown, Law is forced to escape the massacre by hiding
02:43among corpses to escape the country.
02:46And Law is around 10 years old when this happens.
02:49It is heartbreaking to think of anyone enduring all of that, much less a child.
02:59Number 7.
03:00The Don Quixote Family is Strung Up
03:09Speaking of horrific backstories, One Piece villains get a few of their own.
03:14Doflamingo's dad decides that he and his family are going to stop being world nobles
03:19and go to live among regular people.
03:22Unfortunately, he underestimates just how much the citizens despise the world nobles
03:27for lording over, enslaving, and generally mistreating them for centuries.
03:32Doflamingo, his brother, and his dad are all strung up and tortured over a wall of fire.
03:43While we certainly don't condone everything the world nobles have done, doing this to
03:48children is downright sickening.
04:01Number 6.
04:02Nami Stabs Herself
04:08The Straw Hats navigator is put through the wringer when she returns to her hometown.
04:13Having been forced to work for her mother's killer, Arlong, for years, Nami hoped to use
04:18her savings to purchase freedom for her village and herself.
04:22However, Arlong double-crosses her and has a corrupt marine confiscate her money.
04:32Overcome with fury and despair, Nami takes out her frustration on the only piece of Arlong
04:37within reach, the tattoo on her arm.
04:40It's heartbreaking and grisly to watch Nami repeatedly stab herself.
04:45Thankfully, Luffy interrupts Nami's impromptu tattoo removal with an epic promise to help.
04:55Number 5.
04:56Oden is Boiled
05:05Ryuzaki Oden endures a lot of punishing challenges in his legendary life, but his final hour
05:11is the most excruciating.
05:13After he and his retainers are sentenced to death, Oden makes a deal.
05:17Whoever survives being boiled alive, like his namesake food, for an hour, gets to go
05:23free.
05:24And while it's tremendously badass that Oden endures all that time while lifting his
05:28men over his head, it's still brutal.
05:41Anyone besides Oden would have had a grisly end.
05:44Oden was born to boil, but taking the expression literally is a grotesque final indignity.
05:56Number 4.
06:05Whitebeard Loses Face
06:17The world's strongest man incurs many wounds during the battle at Marineford, but the most
06:21grievous ones are from Admiral Akainu.
06:24Enraged by the death of Ace, Whitebeard mercilessly attacks his adopted son's killer.
06:30Amid all the quake punches, Akainu gives as good as he gets.
06:34In the anime, Whitebeard merely loses half of his epic facial hair.
06:38However, in the manga, Akainu burns away half of Whitebeard's face.
06:43Sometimes the series just gets too graphic for the anime, and this is one of the gnarliest
06:48injuries a character receives.
06:50Speaking of which…
06:59Number 3.
07:00Zef's Sacrifice for Sanji
07:11Sanji is another character whose backstory goes dark.
07:14The Straw Hats cook was stranded along with his future mentor Zef, a cook slash pirate,
07:20on a small rocket sea.
07:31Sanji endures months of hunger with only a bag of food given to him by Zef.
07:36When he's unable to take it any longer, he tries to take Zef's food, only to find
07:41out that Zef has only treasure.
07:44He gave all the food to Sanji.
07:46Also, Zef is now missing a leg.
07:49Although the anime initially shied away from the implication that Zef ate his own leg,
07:54the manga and later adaptations have made the self-cannibalism all too clear.
08:06Number 2.
08:07Lin-Lin's Birthday Tea Party
08:14Big Mom wasn't always large or apparent.
08:17When Charlotte Lin-Lin was just a child, she still had a monumental appetite and monstrous
08:22strength.
08:23After her foster mother, Caramel, relocates Lin-Lin and the rest of the orphans of Sheep's
08:28House, Lin-Lin is treated to a birthday tea party with her favourite food.
08:33However, in her frenzy to devour it all, Lin-Lin not only takes a bite out of the table, but
08:39she's shocked to find that Mother Caramel and her friends are all mysteriously missing.
08:51And she can now use Caramel's devil fruit ability.
08:55Lin-Lin might be confused about what happened, but we're not.
09:30Number 1.
09:31Ohara Genocide
09:39Robin's backstory is among the most gut-wrenching in the series.
09:43The world government has outlawed the study of a certain period of history.
09:47When they discover the scholars of Ohara have defied the law, they don't just kill all
09:52the scholars, they kill everyone on the island.
09:56Men, women, children.
09:58They take no chances about anyone escaping.
10:01Only Robin survives out of the mercy of one Marine.
10:17But even then, everyone Robin has ever known is murdered to hide the truth.
10:22It's a heinous act ripped straight from the very worst of real world history.
10:36What do you think is the most horrific moment in One Piece?
10:39Let us know in those comments below.