10 One Piece Devil Fruits That Would be Terrifying in Real Life

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Have you ever sat and thought about the Devil Fruit powers in One Piece? Surely, it is nice to think that these powers would be amazing, that you would be a god if you could command ice like Aokiji, or if you could control magnetic currents like Eustass Kidd.

What about the other powers in One Piece? There are countless power users, but not all of these powers would be amazing to have in real life. Some would be downright terrifying.

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Think about what it would be like to suddenly transform into a giraffe like Kaku or to fuse yourself with other people like Charlotte Newshi. You wouldn't be having much fun at that point. This is why today I'm gonna be discussing the 10 Devil Fruits that would be terrifying to have in real life.

10 Brain-Brain Fruit

Endless Knowledge

The idea of having infinite knowledge is certainly great. You would know the answer to any question, and you would undoubtedly be the smartest human being on the planet. That sounds pretty great.

Dr. Vegapunk is exactly that — a scientist with an infinite storage space in his head. This has led to him creating some amazing technology. Unfortunately, the reality of this fruit is rather grim, as the user's head continues to grow to contain the knowledge within.

Imagine if your head continuously grew each time you learned something new. It wouldn't be long until you collapse from the weight or are unable to lift your head. That sounds like a terrifying and terrible life for the sake of knowledge.

9 Wash-Wash Fruit

Deadly Clean

The Wash-Wash Fruit seems like such a subpar ability. It gives the user the ability to wash and hang people like laundry. In the world of One Piece, it is a quirky power that is strong in the right hands, but in real life, it would terrify everyone.

Imagine using this ability on anyone you know, flattening them out so they can hang on a clothesline. The act of this would essentially flatten someone's bones, squish their organs, and leave them helpless.

Someone with this ability could roll someone up, shove them in a box, and leave them to suffer. When they finally turn normal, they would be trapped — conformed to whatever shape they were left in.

8 Venom-Venom Fruit

True Poison

What would it be like to be literal poison to all those you meet? Well, Magellan knows this first hand, as he has eaten the Venom-Venom Fruit. This fruit grants the user immunity to all poisons, but it also makes the user secret lethal poisons.

Picture this, you're completely toxic to the point that people can't even touch you without keeling over. If you decide to take a dip in a river, you run the risk of poisoning everything within and possibly anyone who gets drinking water from it.

You would be a walking environmental disaster that would never be able to live even a remotely normal life. Anyone with this fruit's ability would be studied and kept away from society, as being near others would essentially risk genocide.

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7 Tremor-Tremor Fruit

Global Destruction

Belonging to one of the most fearsome characters in One Piece, before being stolen, that is, the Tremor-Tremor Fruit would be a nightmare ability that could bring about the end of the world in an instant.

Specifically, this fruit has the ability to crack the air, sea, and land around you, allowing you to bring total destruction at a terrifying scale. Using this ability could topple buildings, bring down mountains, and even split the sea.

Think about how devastating it would be to use this fruit in a small, localized area of the ocean. You could throw of currents and disrupt wildlife, possibly creating a chain effect that destroys the oceans with just one use.

6 Bomb-Bomb Fruit

Walking Catastrophe

Speaking of creating massive destruction, the Bomb-Bomb Fruit would make you a walking grenade that could commit war crimes. This fruit makes it so any part of the user's body can explode. This includes your hair and even your snot.

You could essentially be unstoppable. You could topple governments, take down buildings, and perform unspeakable acts, all with one tiny booger. While the Tremor-Tremor Fruit would be terrifying on a global scale, the Bomb-Bomb Fruit would be terrifying because of the local destruction that could be caused.

There is no doubt that you would need to be quarantined, and kept far away from society with this fruit. Of course, that would go for many on this list.

5 Wring-Wring Fruit

Unnatural

There are some Devil Fruits that don't sound too bad in real life, and then there are fruits like the Wring-Wring Fruit — a fruit that gives a person the ability to twist anything, causing it to be drained of liquid. This works on both living and non-living items, making it even more terrifying.

Using it on inanimate objects is one thing. You would wring a tree, not dealing much harm. Then think bigger, you wring out part of a building, sapping all liquid from it, causing it to collapse.

Even the act of using this on a living creature is horrifying. The body would twist, leak fluids, and become nothing more than a husk. It is something out of a horror movie. The power wielder can also do this to themselves, contorting their body in unnatural ways.

4 Horm-Horm Fruit

Body Horror

The Horm-Horm Fruit comes off as more amusing than anything else in One Piece. This is because Ivankov wields its power very effectively, but in real life, this power would be disturbing.

Being able to alter the hormones in your own other another's body is another concept out of the horror genre. This fruit essentially would allow you to transform yourself or others at will, creating mass panic, disrupting the flow of government, and more.

Also, the act of using this ability on another person requires you to jam your fingers into their body. This alone is disturbing, and the transformations, while it never states it in the manga or anime, appear to be painful.

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3 Memo-Memo Fruit

Mind Manipulation

The mind is something that is fragile and that shouldn't be messed with, but that doesn't stop someone with the Memo-Memo Fruit, as it gives them the ability to alter someone's memory. It wouldn't be so bad if it just allowed someone to make others forget, but it gives you the ability to erase, rewrite, and edit memories.

This is terrifying on a personal level. There are plenty of people who fear losing their minds, getting older, losing the ability to process information, and this fruit makes this a reality.

The act of editing the memories is also horrific, as the user of this fruit can simply pull the memories out like the reel of a movie. Again, if this were real life, the ability to manipulate humans like this would be a nightmare.

2 Soul-Soul Fruit

Bring the World to Life

Big Mom is one of the scariest characters in the entirety of One Piece. Legions of sailors fear her, and rightfully so. The Soul-Soul Fruit is a true nightmare, and in real life, it would be even more terrifying than it is in the manga and anime.

This fruit would give someone the ability to manipulate the lifespan of others, cutting out portions of their life, and placing these portions of souls into objects to animate them. Of course, it only works if the wielder is feared, but fear is easy to bring out when you are capable of manipulating someone's soul.

All you would need to do is manipulate your own soul, place a piece of it on an object, and show it off. This would be enough to terrify others to the point you can manipulate them as well. This would create a chain effect, allowing you to essentially take over the world.

1 Hobby-Hobby Fruit

Truly Terrifying

The most terrifying Devil Fruit in existence has to be the Hobby-Hobby Fruit. Playing a big role in the Dressrosa arc of One Piece, this fruit gives you the ability to turn living beings into toys. This alone is a freaking scary idea, as it would allow someone to amass an army of toy soldiers.

The part that is most terrifying, however, is that it also wipes the memory of the person from everyone's memories. Again, memory manipulation is alarming , but this is on another level. If you were turned into a toy, everyone would forget about you. You could try your hardest to make them remember, but they would simply go about their day as if you didn't exist.

On top of all of this, the user of the fruit gains eternal youth, so it is most likely a child who would be using this ability, treating it more as more of an innocent mistake rather than a horrific action.

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Release Date October 20, 1999

Network Fuji TV

Directors Hiroaki Miyamoto, Konosuke Uda, Junji Shimizu, Satoshi Itō, Munehisa Sakai, Katsumi Tokoro, Yutaka Nakajima, Yoshihiro Ueda, Kenichi Takeshita, Yoko Ikeda, Ryota Nakamura, Hiroyuki Kakudou, Takahiro Imamura, Toshihiro Maeya, Yûji Endô, Nozomu Shishido, Hidehiko Kadota, Sumio Watanabe, Harume Kosaka, Yasuhiro Tanabe, Yukihiko Nakao, Keisuke Onishi, Junichi Fujise, Hiroyuki Satou