In Chapter 1107 of One Piece, we see Sanji
literally kick a laser. Written as a bullet point, just something with text without any context, I
wouldn't say that this is the biggest deal ever. The world of One Piece is a notoriously wacky
place where we see some pretty fantastical feats, people cutting mountains, they jump on air, they
see the future and throw literal ocean currents. Kicking a laser beam? Sure, but that was in fact,
not the reaction that we got from everybody else. Kizaru, the light laser beam guy acted like he'd
never seen such a thing occur before. Franky, who also utilizes a laser beam as a primary weapon, is
simultaneously utterly shocked. So I believe that we know that something special is occurring here.
And in the pursuit of an answer here, I might have stumbled upon something game changing.
Hey Youtube, Joyboy here.
So, I saw this excellent Reddit thread which
perfectly explained why Sanji kicking a laser is a big deal. I'll go ahead and link that
thread in the description. We see in Wano, Zoro compare one of King's attacks to a laser beam
and he says “how can you block that, it's a laser beam” obviously we know that nobody's ever blocked
Kizaru’s lasers just based on Kizaru’s reaction to it. But going back to Marineford, his fight
with Marco, Marco regenerated from the lasers, he did not block them. Likewise Rayleigh kicked
Kizaru’s leg, not the actual laser. Even thinking back to the Pacifista and their laser powers we've
never seen someone actually block the lasers they just dodged them. Honestly this one scene added so
much more context to the creation of the Pacifista in the first place. Why Vegapunk and the World
government thought it was awesome to give them laser beams because it is really a formidable
power even going into the beginning of Egghead, Edison freaks out when Franky is preparing to
shoot a laser beam at S-Shark the Seraphim. He says “dodge that S-Shark” and seems very relieved
that it missed. The Seraphim are obviously very tough. Known armament haki users have faced
them, and so far have done very little damage to them. But Vegapunk thinks a laser is one step
too far. So what's so scary about a laser?
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Let's talk some science for a moment. I just asked for your patience. If you already know
this stuff. Obviously, not all laser beams are created the same. You guys might possess
a laser pointer and use it to play with your cat. So what's the difference between that and an
actual dangerous weapon? And the simple answer is energy. The higher the energy the light, the more
powerful the weapon, that's pretty intuitive. So with a higher energy light is it just like
brighter? No Light is electromagnetic radiation, just the same that is present in a microwave or
that you hear through the radio or you hear about UV radiation from the sun or X rays. All that is
essentially the same thing. It's all light, but at different energy levels. What makes visible light
special is really simply because we can see it. Our eyes possess the ability to translate these
electromagnetic waves into what we see as colors. Similarly, but different, we don't see infrared
light, but we can feel it as heat. It’s not that infrared intrinsically possesses the qualities of
heat. It's just how our bodies interact with it, kind of how UV radiation is primarily responsible
for sunburn, but you don't actually feel it. But in essence, electromagnetic radiation is a very
common form of energy. When you set wood on fire, electromagnetic radiation is produced, some of
which we see as light, some of which we feel as heat, and some of which we don't really interact
with at all but exist. So outside of the realm of science fiction, when you're actually talking
about a laser beam, you're really talking about high energy light that we cannot see. This has
been big in the news of the last 10 years or so, advancements in technology have allowed for the
creation of directed energy weapons. They are laser beams utilizing, for instance, microwaves
and they are now being commonly used in global warfare. As a side note, there's some interesting
conspiracy theories related to this if you're into that. So you have these energy beams, energy is
loosely defined as the ability to make change. The more energy, the more change. When you fire a
directed energy weapon at, for instance, a ship or a car with fuel, you provide that fuel with enough
energy to combust, it explodes. But I don't think that there's actually a theoretical limit to what
you could actually do with this. Fuel combusting makes sense to people, but with the hypothetical
energy of a star, things like heavy metals would only exist in a gaseous form meaning if you fired
a weapon with this level of energy, something like a car would just vaporize, which is truly
frightening. Now consider the weapon that Imu used in order to destroy Lulusia, yeah, that my friends
is the power of the sun. So generally speaking, it makes sense for Vegapunk to be afraid of
lasers. But of course, most lasers even within the world of One Piece do not possess this level of
energy. That's what makes Imu’s weapons special, but even less potent lasers can cause harm.
And in my opinion, this is what Vegapunk was afraid of. Not necessarily that Franky's laser
was going to totally obliterate the Seraphim, rather radiation can have an effect on your
actual DNA or in One Piece terms may be your lineage factor. Radiation commonly causes cancer,
cancer is caused by damage to your DNA. It's just like the example the directed energy weapon
pointing at a car. The actual metal or chassis of the car may be relatively unaffected, but the
fuel explodes. Likewise, the same sort of thing can occur within your very own body in ways you
don't immediately feel. Radiation poisoning is no joke. So I believe that we have established
lasers are scary, but we are still left with the question of how and why Sanji can kick them?
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I find it fitting that all of this has taken center stage in the story in the Egghead
arc. The Egghead arc where our main protagonists of the island is Vegapunk designed based on Albert
Einstein. I'm sure you guys are already familiar, the famous equation of Einstein: E equals MC
squared, but maybe some of you are wondering what the equation actually means. And in simple terms,
this is energy is matter or matter is energy. Different states of the same thing you, yes, you,
I'm talking to through the screen right now, you, your physical person, you are energy, it's
kind of overwhelming if you really sit down and think about it, but you are composed of a
lot of different things brought. Your DNA is a sort of blueprint, but the actual building blocks
are acquired through your life and sometimes your parent's life. It's why we need to eat food, we
break down matter, and we convert it into usable energy. But all of this matter or all of this
energy really originates from somewhere else, for the Earth itself and the beings on it, this
is the sun. How were you actually made inside of a star just like light? Light is energy. Energy
is matter. Matter is light, simply existing in a different state. Maybe you think this is a wildly
stupid equivalence, but at the very least Imu and the Gorosei seem to agree with me. They refer to
specific lives as light needing to be erased. Life is light. Maybe you could say that we're all like
little very dim stars. If you strip it back all the way to its ancient roots. What even is a star
I can already hear people furiously typing based on our current understanding of like, well star
is a sun like ours, but elsewhere. Some bigger, some smaller, some dimmer, some brighter, some we
can only see with the most advanced technology, some we still can't see but assuredly exist. But
in a more classical sense, a star is simply a light in the sky at night. And for many thousands
of years, this included things like planets. Venus is one of the brightest stars in the sky, despite
not technically being a star or a sun. If the Moon were a little bit farther away, I think that
it probably would have also been classified as a star, the brightest in the sky. But think
about planets elsewhere orbiting in distant solar systems. Are they stars? Most would tell you no,
but if you were a bit closer to them, they would be, they are simply too dim to see with the naked
eye in our night sky. And in fact, many of them, most of them, all of them practically, are too dim
to be seen with the greatest technology possible currently, but if we could see quite a bit better
than your perspective would change. And this is precisely the point, put an astronaut somewhere
in the middle of deep space. If you could see well enough, it would also be a star we do in fact emit
a very tiny amount of light. So the Gorosei are in fact elder stars and everybody else a little
bit younger. And so this brings us back to Sanji, Sanji the same as everybody else is a light or
a star, the only difference is that you can see it. The journey of following Sanji's power
throughout the series is crazy. Initially, Sanji was just a chef having some resistance to
fire as a chef made a lot of sense. It also wasn't that deep. Then of course Enies Lobby happened
and suddenly Sanji's foot is catching fire. The thought at the time was that this was a result of
friction doesn't really make all that much sense, but okay. A fan even posed this question
to Oda which he included in SBS of like why doesn't Sanji’s flames actually burn him? As
was rightfully logical to assume fire is hot, fire burns and Oda had the audacity to troll this
fellow. Sanji’s flames do not burn him because his heart burns so much hotter. Thank you, Oda-san.
Seemingly encouraged also probably amused, he dug his heels in deeper. In Thriller Bark, now all
of Sanji is just spontaneously combusting. He's literally on fire and it's definitely related to
his emotional state. So at this point, we get it, it's a joke. It's a joke right? Right? Power of
love, Oda is having himself a laugh. Theorizing this is pointless, right? Wrong, love is a very
real power in the world of One Piece. I know that you guys have been waiting for me to say
it. E equals MC squared, matter is energy. All lives are light, light is energy. Sanji himself
burns like a star. Sanji somehow has tapped into the power latent within all life. He can actively
convert his matter into energy and this is in some way related to love. What's convenient about this
theory is it’s not necessarily restricted to Sanji specifically, Big Mom also catches fire and is
seemingly not burning. Love is also very important to Big Mom's character even though she expresses
it in a way that many people do not understand, you can definitely argue that Big Mom is full of
love, just like Sanji. When Luffy uses Red Hawk or Red Roc he's thinking about Ace, a person he
loves. When Sanji kicks Kizaru’s laser he gives an explanation “love is greater than light”.
While we've approached this theory more scientifically up until this point, you guys
know that I talk a lot about Buddhism and I've talked about so much because I believe the story
of One Piece itself is a parable for Buddhism. Through its themes, it teaches it in a very not
obvious way, but just like we've been talking about with Albert Einstein, E=MC squared matter
is energy. Buddhists have a similar belief. Yet also within this, we find the softer Science of
Love. Buddhists believe that love is the essence of all energy. Love, according to Buddhism,
is unending because the energy it gives you comes from the cosmos. I don't really want
to get all into this discussion and frankly, I don't think that I'm capable of doing that.
But as far as One Piece is concerned, I believe that you should think of love as energy, a form
of it similar to electromagnetic radiation. So when Sanji talks about the power of love, he means
this quite literally. But despite saying this and potentially having this understanding, you know,
does it fully make sense yet? And I would argue, no, we still need a reason, like an actual reason
why Sanji possesses this power to a greater extent than most everybody else. Is it simply because he
loves more than everyone else. He is kinder than anyone else. Yeah, that could be part of it, but
maybe not all of it. So let's evolve this theory by adding a new dimension to it. Let's explain
the true nature of the Vinsmoke children.
We know that Judge Vinsmoke altered his children's
lineage factors. He made them superhuman. But with Sanji it's a little bit confusing because we're
led to believe that Sora, Sanji's mother, also utilized the power of science in order to prevent
Sanji's transformation. So rather than him being augmented, Sanji from the very beginning has just
been a normal human with an intrinsic capacity for love. However, I think that this notion has become
questionable from the moment that Sanji wore the Germa raid suit, and then literally unlocked the
power of science within him. Clearly, it's not as straightforward as we thought Sanji is certainly
not a regular human. So it's time for a theory you have probably never heard before. Sora didn't
actually undo the Vinsmoke technology within Sanji. Instead she added to it while all the other
siblings are made in the image of Judge Vinsmoke, Sanji was truly created scientifically by both
of his parents. Maybe to best express this, we have to begin with the Sanji that never was.
We all know that each of the Vinsmoke children possess unique specific powers. They all don't
have the same power, but all the powers share the same theme, and that theme is energy. Remember
guys, energy exists in many different states, and with the right methods you can convert one
form into another. A big component of possibly the biggest component of human advancement has
been the ability to convert different kinds of energy into electricity. Without this you wouldn't
be watching me right now. This is the secret of the Vinsmoke siblings, Niji is intrinsically
affiliated with electrical energy. Yonji is mechanical energy. Reiju might appear as though
she has poison based abilities, but I believe that her actual power is chemical energy. And of course
Sparking Red Ichiji is heat or light energy. Now it's actually still curious how these powers work.
Reiju, for instance, has to actually eat reactive chemicals in order to power her poison. But
Reiju was also a prototype made before the other siblings, we don't see Niji eating electricity as
an example. So maybe Judge Vinsmoke improved this technology by allowing Ichiji to eat essentially
everyday regular human food and then convert it into usable electrical energy. So with this being
said, right, we have the opportunity for a very interesting thought, what was the type of energy
that Sanji was supposed to possess? But what we know for a fact is that all of the Vinsmoke
epithets, all of their designs, their suits are built around the powers that they are supposed
to have. Our clue for Sanji is Stealth Black, and the ability that he has showcased so far is
the power of invisibility. To me, this implies that the energy that Sanji was supposed to be
able to utilize is gravitational energy. I know that most understand what a black hole is. But for
those who don't, a black hole is the greatest feat of gravity. When a supermassive star dies and can
no longer support its own mass, it collapses into a singularity. The gravity around this point is
so extreme that not even light can escape. But even with a less extreme example, objects
of great mass or objects of great gravity, bend light and through the bending of light you
can create invisibility so this is what I think that Stealth Black is supposed to mean, black in
reference to black holes, they're gravity. Sanji, utilizing this at a lesser level in order
to become invisible. So now I think we have a better explanation for how Sanji was able to
kick Kizaru’s laser beam. He possesses the power of gravity, he can convert his own energy into
gravitational energy and is capable of bending light. But some of you might be wondering, doesn't
this contradict what we said before what Sanji even stated in the story, he kicked the light
because the power of love is greater than light. Where does love fall into all of this? So I think
it's prudent to remind you guys that this was what Sanji was initially intended to be. But Sora made
him so much more. I think that a lot of people get this confused but the physical children are not
lacking in emotion. They possess emotions very clearly at certain times, such as anger, lust,
really Judge Vinsmoke removed their compassion, their love. Sora was a scientist on the same level
as Judge Vinsmoke and she was obviously intimately aware of his research. In part they designed the
children together. I would also guess that she had an understanding of how Judge Vinsmoke removed
the siblings' capacity for love. So she attempted to return it the only way that she knew how, she
treated love as a distinct form of energy. This is effectively the six different Vinsmoke powers.
Sanji is stronger than all of his siblings, because he possesses the ability to manipulate
two different kinds of energy, gravity and love. But you may be wondering, and certainly I was
wondering why only Sanji, why didn't the other Vinsmoke children also possess the attribute of
love to go along with their native power? This is even more headcanon than everything else,
but it's a cool thought in my mind. Blackbeard is another character in the story associated with
gravity, the powers of gravity suck everything in. Maybe then it's fitting for Sanji, the Vinsmoke
who can manipulate gravitational energy to have been the only one to consume Sora’s love. And
with this surprising connection, Sanji became the Vinsmoke’s greatest achievement, but I'll have
you know, guys, we're not done yet. I still don't think that we have made Sanji strong enough.
The law of conservation of energy, simply stated’ this law means that energy can neither be created
nor destroyed. If you imagine the entire universe, all of the energy that would exist within, you
would probably tell me that the total amount is infinite. The number is assuredly very,
very large, but it's probably finite energy is not added or removed from the system. It merely
changes its form. Sanji as it seems to me, appears to be a contradiction to this law, the hotter
Sanji burns, the more energy he is producing or consuming, not really sure. Either way it's
implied and Sanji’s fight versus Queen when he debuted the power of Ifrit, that he always could
have burned hotter it was his body which held him back. How is this possible? Where did this
energy come from? Why is Sanji’s power seemingly unlimited? Well, guys to address this problem, I
think it's important to bring up another thing in the world of One Piece, which also seemingly does
this and that is The Devil Fruit. Sanji’s eyebrows have been a mystery since the very beginning
of the story. Readers saw and questioned like, why does he have weird eyebrows? Theories have
existed for a long time, many years, comparing Sanji’s eyebrows to the swirls that are seen on
Devil Fruit. We've obviously spent this whole theory talking about energy and all of its various
forms. For the Vinsmoke and the power of science, these are energy forms that real life science
commonly accepts. But then when talking about Buddhism, we've included this new form of energy,
love, so maybe we can take this further. Guys, what if for a second everything that is a
Devil Fruit, what if all of these things are a distinct form of energy, which actually exists.
Typically we like to classify energy as energy and matter as matter but matter is energy. In fact,
everything that exists is essentially the same, simply existing in a different state. Maybe this
is how the Devil Fruit work. Each Devil Fruit contains the energy the wavelength of a particular
whatever you can conceive of. I believe this is actually alluded to in the story. When talking
about Buddhism, of course, you need to talk about Zoro the Buddhist character in One Piece
and in Alabasta as he fought Mr. 1, he unlocked the ability to hear the breath of all things.
Inanimate objects and possibly intangible concepts have their own presence or energy. As Zoro was
in this near death state, some sort of boundary between life and death, Heaven and Hell, he had
the ability to perceive this. so Devil Fruits which channel this energy possess a swirl the same
as Sanji's eyebrows. Perhaps this world is meant to represent energy. And in SBS volume seven, when
a reader asked Oda about Sanji’s curly eyebrows, he said this, " Hey!! You there, sit down!! Now
listen!! Everyone lives in circles!! The sun, the moon, the Earth all spin in circles!! And!! If the
earth suddenly stopped spinning!! The planet would be covered in tidal waves!! It would be terrible!!
Now remember that Sanji's eyebrows channel the same powerful circular energy!! Reflect upon
this!! You may go!!” As I was making this theory, my first instinct was that this didn't really fit
into what I was speculating. Stealth Black Sanji is more so gravitational energy. Also don't know
how circles relate to love. Maybe Oda's original idea was to give Sanji rotational energy. When he
first unlocked his fire like he had to spin. Maybe Oda just simply changed his mind. But then digging
a little deeper, I found a different connection, the Zen Buddhist symbol of Enso. The Enso circle
is one of the deepest symbols in Japanese Zen. And essentially, the symbol conveys everything
that we've already been talking about, in this entire video, the oneness of the cosmos, it is the
symbol of enlightenment or the realization that everything is energy or spirit. It is The Heart
Sutra, if you're familiar with that, but this symbol also bleeds into another. A famous form of
Enso is the Sun Enso. The sun likewise is depicted as a circle. It is also an incredibly common
symbol in the story of One Piece. Here's some things that I found, in broad daylight everything
comes together in a circle, and bears fruit. The brilliance of the truth reveals all, nothing can
be hidden. And one’s fruit will be known. We now know that Luffy’s Devil Fruit is the Sun God Nika,
the sun as a symbol and the story of One Piece is related to him, but there's a curious connection
between Luffy as Nika and energy. In Egghead, we were introduced to ancient kingdom technology,
the ancient giant robot, and we're told that in the past, it was powered using the eternal flame.
Vegapunk unsuccessfully attempted to recreate this technology in the form of the Mother Flame, which
Imu got their hands on and presumably utilized it to turn on the weapon, which destroyed Lulusia a
weapon which at the very beginning of this video, we argued contained to the power of the sun,
everything vaporized. But then on Egghead, something strange happened Luffy went Gear 5th,
he activated his Nika powers, and his heartbeat seemingly has turned the robot back on. Luffy’s
Devil Fruit is in some way related to the Eternal Flame, everything that exists, everything was made
inside of a star. And when Luffy goes Gear 5th, he believes that he can do anything.
I believe that everything that is everything that exists can be found within Luffy. If he can
dream it up, it can be done, the energy of Nika is special. So let's put a bow on top of this
theory. I've mentioned this in prior theories, but I really think that the Nika fruit was
the original Devil Fruit, all the other ones spawn because it is its powers, or at the very
least Nika’s powers relate to whatever spawned the Devil Fruit. Guys, it is very clear that Nika
is the god of joy, right? Nika itself means it's a sound effect for smiling and in Buddhism,
Dharma is the doctrine, the universal truth, common to all individuals at all times. Dharma is
what our souls seek it is the Buddha's teachings, the path to enlightenment, and the symbol which
represents it is a wheel. It looks a lot like a pirate ship wheel, and it's at this point that
the story starts to come alive and you can almost physically feel the importance of adventure. What
that means in the story, the pursuit of freedom, the Buddha described the purpose of the Dharma,
his teachings, as the liberation of the heart, which is love. You need to throw aside your
western conceptions of the word love or think of it in a more godly sense. Buddhism cultivates four
kinds of love, called the boundless states or the four immeasurables. Loving kindness, compassion,
equanimity, and of course, Joy. It is my opinion that the eternal flame in the story of One Piece
is love. This is why Vegapunk called his version, the Mother Flame, related to a mother's love and
it is this boundless energy which powers Nika the Sun God as well as Sanji the Cook.
For a moment I want you to think about the seraphim and their weird star pupils. Vegapunk has
created something very close to the eternal flame, with the mother flame, but it isn’t quite right.
I believe that the seraphim are powered using a distinct form of energy, and their eyes are
a clue in the same way as Sanji’s eyebrows. I believe their power to be derivative of light.
Kizaru’s light. But as Sanji tells us, love is stronger. With Sanji, based on his hairstyle, one
eyebrow is always covered and recently we've seen his eyebrows change direction, but I think that
as he further taps into his powers, it will be revealed that his two eyebrows together will form
the symbol of the heart swirling with the energy of the eternal flame. Guys, I really hope that
you enjoyed this theory. It was kind of a task in order to figure out how to put this together, but
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