{"id":1240,"date":"2026-05-15T17:30:21","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T23:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/educationenigma.org\/?p=1240"},"modified":"2026-05-15T17:30:21","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T23:30:21","slug":"one-pieces-biggest-retcon-confirms-how-fans-completely-misunderstood-luffys-rubber-powers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/educationenigma.org\/?p=1240","title":{"rendered":"One Piece&#8217;s Biggest Retcon Confirms How Fans Completely Misunderstood Luffy&#8217;s Rubber Powers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Luffy&#8217;s adventurous nature and unique powers have helped entertain <a href=\"https:\/\/screenrant.com\/tag\/one-piece\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><strong><em>One Piece<\/em><\/strong><\/a> readers since 1997, but the awakening of his Devil Fruit proved that he never had rubber powers to begin with. For decades, it was believed that the Straw Hat captain had accidentally eaten the Gum-Gum fruit, bestowing his body with the properties of rubber. However, the truth is even more fantastical and far less limiting than simply being a man made of rubber.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Luffy&#8217;s adventurous nature and unique powers have helped entertain One Piece readers since 1997, but the awakening of his Devil Fruit proved that he never had rubber powers to begin with. For decades, it was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/educationenigma.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/educationenigma.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/educationenigma.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educationenigma.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educationenigma.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/educationenigma.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1240\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/educationenigma.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educationenigma.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educationenigma.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}