The Ultimate Enemy of the World - Joyboy Theory

[@thefictionalscholar]

I hope you enjoy my theories 😅 some of them may make sense, others may not. But you know what, that's okay. This video was just a lot of fun for me to make - I like theorizing and going down rabbit holes!

[@rcookie5128]

The holy trinity of Goda: The Sungod Nika, the Luffy and the joyful Boy.

[@YellowJelloXD]

omg you're so close to catching up!! honestly I think it's like the perfect time to be caught up with the manga because it gets even better 😭 ever since I've been caught up with the manga, I've been addicted to watching theory videos LOL

[@thefictionalscholar]

I am!! I am really excited to catch up. I want to watch more theory videos and have been so scared to because I haven't caught up fully 😭

[@YellowJelloXD]

@@thefictionalscholar Yes definitely don't watch any yet!! It'll be so worth the wait 🥰

[@Nastyn1nja808]

59:03 yoooo i like it "Whosever wields this Hammer should they be Worthy May they have the Power of THOR!!!" Nika version

[@AnyMEmdq]

57:14 The Sun and Moon deities being related happens in many mythologies. Inti and Killa for the Incans, as you mentioned Apollo and Artermis, Amaterasu and Tsukuyomi in Japan, Sól and Máni for the Norse, etc

[@rcookie5128]

I once watched a theory video about Luffy's ultimate dream/goal being to unite all the seas through destroying part of the red line (like reverse mountain). The idea being, that this way, the people can freely commute from one sea to the other, similarly to how the Puffing Tom united the four isolate, and suffering islands around Water 7 and made them flourish (just occured to be rn). Obviously this also would be a tie in to Laboon, so Brooks dream would be directly fulfilled through that (btw many people also have Bink's sake in the spotlight when it comes to OP theories, dunno about that). And even Sanji's dream, the All blue, would come to exist through this action. Nami's dream (map of the world), Franky's dream (ship saild the whole world), Usopps dream (becoming a brave warrior) and also Choppers and Zorros to me are automatically achieved anyway, no matter what Luffy's dream is. Btw, you went full Nico Robin in the Nika section with all those ancient egyptian gods :D

[@AnyMEmdq]

34:56 And that, according to Mihawk at Marineford, is the most dangerous power

[@ACC861]

Love the efforts put into the theories! I would love to add more but won't do for sane reasons!! (More chapter catch-ups needed!) Now coming back to Luffy's dream and the connection between Joyboy and Nika! I believe whatever happens in the end will be related to this and finding the "one piece" would just be a step in this! Here's an extremely cool excerpt that I saw recently! (Kind of unrelated to Joyboy, etc..., but sounded soo cool!) Credits Hidden Island YT Channel: An excerpt taken from there, "When Gaimon asked Luffy why he would not return after finding the treasure... Luffy replied that the boxes were empty. Cut to Roger visiting Laugh Tale and learning about the "One Piece". At the end, they (Luffy and Roger) both laughed!"

[@thefictionalscholar]

Thank you so much!! And oh my goodness, that is such an interesting concept about Roger and Luffy laughing! Makes me really curious to see what is really remaining on that island!

[@ACC861]

@@thefictionalscholar No problem! The surprising notion that blew my mind here was, "Luffy laughed because he did not find anything" Does it imply that Roger had a similar outcome too? (Rhetorical!) Anyways, let's hope we get treated to many more amazing chapters! 🤞

[@AnyMEmdq]

40:45 Also Yamato. The Okuchi no Makami is a guardian deity of Wano (that's why I always knew she was going to stay behind)

[@AnyMEmdq]

45:20 Extremely simplified version of one iteration of the association between Ra and Horus: Ra is the god creator of everything but Nun (a primordial ocean of nothing covered in darkness, that's not even the night, because night had not been created yet). Everything he named gained life and popped into existence. So the first thing he created in the nothingness of Nun, was the Sun. The morning Sun he named Khepri, the apex Sun he named Ra (as a way to hide his own name, such was the power of names, hence creating and becoming the apex Sun at the same time), and the evening Sun was named Atum. Thus Ra became the Sun, running across the sky on his vessel, chasing the snake Apophis, or Apep, the god of Chaos who lived in the horizon, who he'd battle every night as he travelled through the underworld to become Kherpi again at sunrise. Among his first creations were also Shu, the winds, and Tefnut, the rain. Shu and Tefnut had a daughter, Nut, the sky, so Ra created Geb, the earth, to keep her company. Nut and Geb had Seth, Isis, Neftis and Osiris (among other gods in some versions). Depending on the region, Horus can be also a son of Nut and Geb, but for this one, he was son of Isis and Osiris, born with after Seth killed Osiris and Isis brought him back to life. Isis and Osiris are also the parents of the first pharaoh. After many battles to avenge Osiris (who once reanimated became the ruler of the Duat, the Egyptian underworld), Horus prevailed, but he lost his left eye. Thot, god on knowledge, who had raised Horus in secret, hidden from Seth, made a new eye for him, in the shape of the Wedjat that Ra carries in his right eye (so Horus's Wedjat is the one that looks like an R, Ra's is the one that looks like an R backwards). But Seth was in charge of protecting Ra's ship from Apophis, so after defeating him, Horus took his place, and that's when he becomes associated with the Sun Several other gods have been associated with Ra at different points, like Bast or Bastet, the cat goddess or the lioness, created from his eye and who'd finally kill Apep, but others would be just merged with him because the pharaoh in turn favoured that god, Amon or Amun being the prime example of this.

[@AnyMEmdq]

40:55 And Lunarians also take their name from the Moon, Luna

[@tacorrific]

I wonder if the drums of liberation has any connection to the Drum Kingdom. Blackbeard showing up in Drum could mean that there was something special about the kingdom.

[@thefictionalscholar]

That could be a possibility!

[@jayko473]

Love your theories ! I'm excited for you to catch up that's so incredible rn

[@AnyMEmdq]

Completely unrelated to this video, but I forgot to mention it on the last vid on Wano. Please check the color spread cover of chapter 310, from February 2004. Check the animal in the back, and check the pattern on Luffy's attire. And if you want, after that you can check chapter 959, but that last step is not that relevant (it just drives home the pattern on Luffy's clothes even harder)

[@thefictionalscholar]

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[@tacorrific]

Could Joyboy be a mink? Zunesha has been looking after the society for all these centuries keeping them on the move. Joyboy kinda sounds like some of the mink names like Dog Storm or Cat Viper's english translations names. Some of minks are quite big if the strawhat is his. And joy boy would describe many pets particularly dogs when their owner comes home.

[@thefictionalscholar]

I haven't heard of that theory before! It is definitely a possibility - he could've been a mink and knew Zunesha from when they were children.

[@ReiseLukas]

Imo I think Nika didn't actually exist. My theory is that Nika was a savior that slaves dreamed would come to rescue them someday. The collective dreams of these slaves would bring about the creation of the Nika devil fruit. I think it would be so poetic if the very existence of Sun God Nika was due to the countless people in bondage praying for that mythical God to save them only for their very prayers to be what created Nika in the first place.

[@thefictionalscholar]

Oohhh, that's such an interesting theory! I really like that idea!

[@AnyMEmdq]

42:00 Another connection with the Ancient Weapons you can crackpot about. Uranus or Caelus, god of the Sky, and Sanji, who can move through the skies, son of Sora, which means sky. Poseidon or Neptune, god of the Seas, and Jinbe, "First Son of the Sea", probably the strongest fishman. Pluton or Hades, god of the Underworld, which is below/inside the earth, and Zoro, wielder of Enma (Enma or Yama is the guardian and ruler of the Underworld in Japan/China,that's why Zoro calls himself the King of Hell in his fight against King), son of Terra, which means earth (Zoro's family tree was revealed on SBS 105, March 2023). I don't know when the VIZ app stops having the SBSs (as they don't come with the weekly chapters, but later when the volume is released) but you can check them on the wiki, and some of them in a more detailed matter on the website of "Artur - Library of Ohara")

[@thefictionalscholar]

OH OH OH I LOVE THIS. IT ALL CONNECTS!!!

[@AnyMEmdq]

@@thefictionalscholar Oda is a crackpot crackhead, there are way too many connections hinted all over the story. You have this level of overreaching conspiracy theories, or something way more simple, like "Portgas" having been taken from Bartolomeu Português (Português of course, means Portuguese in Portuguese, his actual last name is unknown), creator of the Pirate Code that Ace was trying to uphold when chasing after Teach. I don't know what Oda smokes, but I want it

[@AnyMEmdq]

The thing with Mythical Zoans is that there doesn't need to have been an actual incarnation of that being, just a myth for it, and that in time makes that incarnation exist. Let's forget about Nika for a minute, let's go with the Phoenix. There once was a legend of a fire bird that had never existed. That myth spread, and from that myth the Tori Tori no Mi, model: Phoenix came into being. Someone ate the fruit, and there now was an actual Phoenix. Who came first, the egg or the chicken? Was the myth based on an actual phoenix that at some point existed? Or was the phoenix born from the fruit that was created because of the myth? Same goes for Nika. Maybe there is/was a god Nika in the world of One Piece, but that myth alone created the DF, and through it there was JoyBoy as Nika, perhaps, and now there's Luffy as Nika as well, and there's also a Nika that lives through the will of the fruit itself

[@nikgokuhil]

Luffy truly saves people, even those who had given up, starts believing in themselves and fight for what they want. Whether its people he was directly helping, or the general citizens, or even enemies. I can picture even someone as evil as Doflamingo to side with Luffy over WG, Kaido seemed to be his happiest while fighting Luffy. He pulls everyone into the light For gods thing, I can see a lot of possibilities. Like if you go for pangea theory of One Piece then god literally destroyed tower of Babel (ancient kingdom) and scattered people throughout the world and even flooded it Sun god and thunder gods have always been sort of opposing forces in many religions. So Imu being that would make sense, specially with his weapon Or it could even be like Zeus vs Prometheus kind of story Honestly, I got too many theories. Pangea one is my main theory that all the islands in grandline at least were one continent Though if Nika represents freedom and Luffy gets the devil fruit that lets him be free, then what sort of devil fruit ability you expect from his opponent? well...specifically Imu, as BB has darkness

[@AnyMEmdq]

1:07:10 I don't like that, because of the way Japanese works. Yes, Imu backwards is Umi, but Imu is not spelled "I-M-U", it's spelled "イム". イム backwards, ムイ, is Mui, not Umi. And when they address Imu in the anime, they don't say "Imu"; they let the last u sound trail off, making it sound more like "Imm", same way they do when they add a U or O sound at the end of a foreign word that ends in a consonant, like "kurisumasu" or Christmas that sounds "k-riss-mass"

[@WilliamSmith-pq1fe]

The god of love is famously known for kicking puppies :p

[@thefictionalscholar]

The irony is real 🤣

[@saladinnausicaa2759]

Blackbeard is the final villain, not Imu.