The concept of Haki is introduced much later, and it becomes clear Luffy's "instinct" was actually subconscious use of Observation Haki. 3 asks how he could do it so with no trouble, Luffy says it was by instinct. 3" Galdino makes hundreds of wax clones of himself and taunts Luffy to find the real one.
Earlier on, Nami is shown to have an exceptional weather sense and when comes her Alabasta fight, the weapon that she asked Usopp to make for her has to do with weather control.
In Whole Cake Island Arc, we learn why: Luffy's cooking skills are abysmal, resulting in a significant waste of ingredients and the Straw Hats, weakened by Luffy's "food", begging Sanji to come back.
In the Arlong arc, Luffy states in his rant to Arlong that one of the things he can't do is cook, which is why he recruited Sanji into his crew.
She actually did leave the crew at the end of the Baratie Arc to confront Arlong, an abominable pirate who had made her life miserable and struck a deal to buy Cocoyasi Village from him for 100,000,000 berries- a deal which he later screwed her over on.
When Nami first joined the crew in the Buggy Arc, she said that she'd only join for the time being, and that she would eventually leave the crew, was obsessed with money, and showed a suspicious hatred toward pirates.
Even before then, Luffy has been adamant for getting a musician as a crewmate and repeats this desire several times. Which does come true when the crew meets future crewmate Brook, a living skeleton. Luffy immediately asks if they will get to see skeletons that move.
At the end of the Enies Lobby arc, Kokoro mentions to get to Fishman Island the Straw Hats will have to pass through a sketch of sea that is haunted where there were reports of haunted ships.
Merry Christmas in Alabasta Arc), lying that Luffy's 30 million bounty is his (Usopp's first bounty is 30 million as well), etc. of followers (In Dressrosa Arc, where Usopp gains the loyalty of thousands of former toys), a country of Dwarves (Dressrosa arc again with the Tontatta Tribe), a cerberus (Thriller Bark Arc), dragons (Punk Hazard Arc), a huge mole (fight with Ms.
Usopp's lies often turn out to be foreshadowing as well, especially the ones with having a large no.
487 chapters later, Brook joins the crew.
In Chapter 2, Luffy mentions that a Musician is a key crew member to have.
Oda's favorite real life pirate is none other than Edward Teach, AKA Blackbeard.
A real life example of foreshadowing alludes to the series' most prominent villain.
This describes a key characteristic of all three forms of Haki. Hiluluk tells Chopper that a pirate has a body as hard as stone, the eyes of an eagle, and a voice that tears the sky asunder.
During the Drum Kingdom Arc, in a flashback, Dr.
This ability would be revealed to Haki, which wasn't expanded upon until Luffy arrived on Amazon Lily and later trained with Silvers Rayleigh. When fighting Duval, Luffy manages to stop Duval's bull, much to his and everyone else's confusion.
In the first chapter of One Piece, Shanks scares away a sea monster with just a glare and later on, he knocked out several crew members of Whitebeard's crew.
Thus this page will have no spoiler marks at all. WARNING: This page is meant to describe events as they related to much later, very significant ones. If you've read the story long enough, you'll realize that most, if not all, of the major events or characters had been hinted at prior to coming into the story, sometimes hundreds of chapters in advance.