Vegapunk

And since the two were being experimented on in Punk Hazard, this is likely where Kaido first encountered Queen as well, since Queen previously worked with the other scientists of MADS.

This is a research group created by Dr. Vegapunk.

Another notable Kaido crewmate is Who's Who.

This member of the Flying Six used to be a CP9 agent until Shanks stole the Gomu Gomu no Mi that he was responsible for guarding.

And while he was there, Ace also met Yamato, Kaido's son, who was inspired to adopt the name of Oden after seeing his bravery during his execution.

However, despite being extremely supportive of Yamato's newfound identity, Kaido was otherwise a terrible father figure, locking her in explosive handcuffs and confining her to Onigashima for her entire life.

So now we can move from Wano to Egghead Island where we finally met the eccentric scientist Dr. Vegapunk.

This genius was inspired to uncover and decipher the secret knowledge lost to the world after his friend and colleague, Professor Clover, was killed at Ohara.

But then we see Dory and Broggy and they're still fighting off nightmares.

We then cut to Frankie and Vegapunk with Ripley and all of them.

Bonnie's there too, by the way.

They're all fighting the lightning nightmare when Frankie does a radical beam, which ends up stopping it, right? Mm-hmm.

The only ones that weren't there are the Lunarians.

So if these three angels did exist and were building these robots and it was named the Birkan Moon City, then most likely the Birkans were the prominent race on the moon, okay? Now, how does this tie into Enel also coming back? Well, when Enel was on the moon, there was these space pirates, and the space pirates, one of them had a hat, and it had the insignia of a large-headed individual, which resembled Vegapunk's cranium.

Mm-hmm.

So let's say, like, Joy Boy actually had the previous Vegapunk in his crew, and that was a part of his, you know, pirating adventures, but this individual went to the moon, all right? So something happened.

We just don't know what happened.

Yeah.

They didn't have any, and we don't know what, you know, made them run out of resources, especially when they'd been living there for, like, a while.

Yeah.

It's not a good look.

Also, what if this was Vegapunk's cola? Would the puppies then like become like ghouls from Fallout? Like what happens, bro?

Hm.

You know what I'm saying?

Like there probably is, but you know.

Um, yeah, I didn't really have much either.

I thought the same thing Sebastian thought of about if it's, uh, Vegapunk's cola, right, and what would that mean for these, uh, these puppies drinking that.

Um, as cool as this may sound, I'm not gonna lie, I've always wanted for Franky to get like ...

The battle has begun, and uh, they, Usopp's keeping track of it all, he's like, "Okay, they're fighting at the coast.

It's the navy against the robo sea beasts," and uh, uh, Vegapunk's just checking, he's like, "Okay, right now with Sentomaru leading the pacifists, the island's defenses are utterly imp- uh, imp- impenetrable." Um, but isn't that why he showed up, to take out Sentomaru? Kizaru? Oh, Stuffy's right, they did send an a- admiral in here, is Nami's saying.

So like, oh God, we're, have to deal with him.

And, uh-

Yeah

... that ain't so good.

And poor, and Vegapunk's just like, "I'm so sorry, Sentomaru.

This fight is way too cruel of ask- to ask of you.

He's widely regarded as the most intelligent character in the series, credited with countless technological and scientific breakthroughs that have significantly shaped the world.

Vegapunk developed the Pacifistas, which are powerful cyborgs modeled after Bartholomew Kuma, equipped with lasers and various weapons of mass destruction.

He also created the Seraphimps, a next-generation line that combines Lunarian DNA with traits of the seven warlords of the sea.

He managed to create clones of people, devil fruits, create insane mechanical sea beasts, all kinds of weapons, and so on and so forth.

But the arc just before it, a character technically died.

One of the most important characters in One Piece being Vegapunk.

Now, the only thing about Vegapunk thing is he has the android thing where he's not dead.

It's still Vegapunk.

And they're trying to allude to the fact that they could revive him.

There's a copy of him.

Yeah, so depending on how you view that, you could go like, oh, Vegapunk's dead.

But how I'm viewing it, it's like they're trying to keep him alive.

When the Marines heard word that the Straw Hats were making their way for the island, they sent in Kizaru to deal with them.

Our gang arrived before all the other parties, and although the way in was bumpy, the crew eventually met with Vegapunk.

The world government had dissolved the Shichibukai system by this point, and all previous warlords were given bounties once more.

The Marines had new weapons in the form of the Seraphim, and the events at the Levely, including the attack by the revolutionaries, had already taken place.

The Cross Guild had also been established, and despite taking a severe loss, the Blackbeard Pirates were still making moves, although less aggressively.

After meeting with Vegapunk, the gang is told all about the reality of the devil fruit known as the Gomu Gomu no Mi.

Vegapunk tells them how the devil fruit gives the wielder the ability to become Nika, an ancient godly figure meant to represent freedom and liberation, and the fact that it seems to have a connection with Joy Boy.

Before Vegapunk can reveal more though, the marines near the vicinity of the island.