Questions & Mysteries Why wouldn't there be a Gum-Gum fruit?

[color of peepee]

You're telling me nobody in history ever imagined a guy made of rubber?
We've already seen that mythical zoans can have redundant powers with existing fruits, e.g. Catarina's stupid fox fruit works exactly the same as Bon Clay's transformation power.
You're telling me nobody ever imagined a rubber guy who wasn't also a "sun god?" Is Oda fucking stupid?

Please vote in my poll

 

[Sir Yasheen]

We know Luffys fruit was retconned by Dressrosa cause that was when Oda started changing Luffys powers.

1. Adding the hagoromo scarf on gear 4
2. Having Doflamingo comment how Luffys body isn’t retracting like rubber should
3. Luffy being able to transform into G4 by will itself rather than by biting his arm

 

[SkySanji]

Devil fruits coming from what people imagine was just Vegapunk's theory, not exactly factual yet.

 

[color of peepee]

Devil fruits coming from what people imagine was just Vegapunk's theory, not exactly factual yet.

Right I don't think that's necessarily true, but the point stands that whatever process created them skipped rubber but still went with "washing-machine human"

 

[Monkey D. Luffy]

Luffy's DF is a hybrid fruiit and so was Katakuri's (hence a Paramecia with Logia-exclusive properties).

 

[GrandmasterChef Zonji]

You're telling me nobody in history ever imagined a guy made of rubber?
We've already seen that mythical zoans can have redundant powers with existing fruits, e.g. Catarina's stupid fox fruit works exactly the same as Bon Clay's transformation power.
You're telling me nobody ever imagined a rubber guy who wasn't also a "sun god?" Is Oda fucking stupid?

Please vote in my poll

I'm sure there is
I mean
The human Jacket fruit is also there
Also Buggy fruit that i don't want to explain any further....

 

[Pinkygothprincess]

Rubber is extremely rare, remember when In skypiea one guy asked Ussop what are these when he was holding rubber bands?

 

[ClovenHoofClown]

1 there could still be a rubber devil fruit

2 i want to say since the beginning, but considering how short oda originally planned for OP to be, i kinda doubt, although he might have had it as an idea not fully fleshed-out or planned to be used. that being said even if the nika thing didnt happen i still think oda would come up with another reason for luffy to basically do everything he already does in g5 but the reason would be...fucking bullshit, basically (i dont think nika is bullshit)...so, uhh, just like all the other Gears, and I'd be perfectly fine with it.

The only things I don't like about Gear 5, neither of which are meta, are the inconsistent stamina/time limit dealio and luffys insane hax-based endurance/durability.

3 doubt but itd be kinda funny if imu had the actual rubber fruit

 

[color of peepee]

The only things I don't like about Gear 5, neither of which are meta, are the inconsistent stamina/time limit dealio and luffys insane hax-based endurance/durability.

Oda fell into the classic shonen trap of writing a power with some "I can only use x times per day!" or "it makes me really tired!" limitation to create a little fake tension in a fight. Only issue is he did this like five minutes before dropping Luffy in an arc where he needs to use it constantly. Wrote himself into a corner so bad he had to have kizaru bring luffy a hot meal

 

[Nidai_Kitetsu]

Where is "like 2-3 days before it happened" option in the poll?

 

[Foul Legacy]

So you want character like this?

No thanks. We got emough already in this fanbase