EVERYTHING We Know About ROCKS D. XEBEC In One Piece Explained! 

Honestly if they made a god valley movie that would be absolutely incredible.

The Marines feared Gold D. Roger because he undermined their false social order. They feared Rocks because he represents something even worse than themselves.

I wonder if Brook had ever heard whispers of the Rocks Pirates. I know he didn’t make it far enough to actually get involved, but he did slightly recall hearing Roger when he was a rookie.

Rocks lived over 40 years ago. Which means that the island and scholars of Ohara were still alive when he was sailing the sea. So he might not have needed the three eyed tribe. It is even possible the Nico Olivia sailed with him and read the poneglyphs for him.

The rocks pirates likely had one job planned after god valley but needed the firepower to pull it off. Rocks fought garp and Roger and then ate the darkness fruit because he thought it would give him the power needed but didn't know about the pain amplification quality. This results in him begging for mercy as he dies from a gunshot to the back a cowards blow from a celestial dragon with a gun which is why kaido looks at his defeat the way he does and puts such emphasis on dying right and why white beard had similar beliefs about cowards wounds and being a man in death. This would also explain why garp hates celestial dragons so much as he was going to show mercy and arrest rocks but the dragon just murdered him in cold blood as he begged for his life.

My wild speculation theory is that the darkness fruit is also misnamed, just like Luffy's fruit. I think it is a mythical zoan of death. Darkness is what awaits everyone, and all are powerless in its grasp.

The only issue I have with the while "Blackbeard being Rocks" thing is the fact that he was on Whitebeard's crew for years. Assuming Whitebeard had observation haki, since we know he has the other two, you'd think he would sense the soul or haki of Rocks in Teach. Especially considering he was also in the same crew as Rocks for years.

After garp showing glimpse of his actual power it's highly unlikely that garp isn't able to bring Blackbeard to his heels

I dont know how people miss he is the Davy Back fight guy. It is one of my favorite little pieces of world building.

I wonder if we'll ever see garp using advanced conquer to split the skies with Roger or rocks in past flashbacks. It seems possible after his insane show of haki

I like the fact how we pretend to ignore Big Mom didn't had her devil fruit power from childhood days after she ate accidentally mother Caramel.

We really need a movie of that God Valley incident. But off topic, the Cresent Moon shape port of Marineford was the aftermath of Garp / Sengoku vs Shiki fight. It was stated that Garp destroys half of the island and was probably the cause why that 'hole' in that port was created. Latest chapter punches more than the galaxy punch haha

If Rayleigh is Luffy’s uncle, as stated by Buggy, then odds are Luffy’s mom was on God Valley. Roger’s crew fights to defend Rayleigh’s sister, and Garp fights to defend Dragon’s wife. Also Buggy is the only character to have the same goal as Rocks, which is to be King of the World. Rock’s crew probably came together in a similar way that Buggy’s Cross Guild was formed. I bet Buggy is Rock’s son.

Also, let's not forget the members of the Rocks pirate all were in search of a "family" after they left each other. Which also brings home the theme that they absolutely did not get along to the point where they had domestic, mental issues that needed to be filled.

Only my theory: maybe there is a possibility that the real grandfather of Luffy is Rocks D. Xebec and the real father of monkey D. Dragon is Rocks? Because rocks the way he smiles the same as Luffy and the dragon faces the same appearance rocks. Oda says Luffy is a Brazillian. The Rocks' last name is likely derived from the real-life pirate roche Braziliano which in English translates to "Rock the Brazilian" from his long exile in Brazil. "disclamer only my theory"

I think, just like how luffy inherited Gol.D.Roger's will, blackbeard has inherited Rock's will. Both are in contrast to each other, making them both a natural enemy for each other.

Also take into consideration the fact that Whitebeard and his crew knew about devil fruits. Blackbeard even admitted that's part of the reason why he wanted to be on the crew. You have to wonder why Whitebeard would go searching for it to begin with.

Another person that we realize who knows about the three eyes tribe is Black Beard, in the latest mangas, because he has Pudding captive while BB ship's is under attack by Laws crew.

I think we will eventually see a flash back that reveials Roxx serves as the oposite of Rodger and his crew in the same way that Blackbeard's is to Luffy's. we can then see history repeat itself when Koby and Luffy team up to defeat the final boss just as Garp and Rodger did in the past.

This is the content I have been wanting. More lore, less what ifs. I don't care what would happen if Luffy died at Marineford or if the presidents rank this and that. I want to see deep lore that's entertaining and broken down well. Well done, Manu.

hi I am just a big fan and love your one piece theories. they are always interesting and never get old! (like one piece cuz I spent a year catching up from romance dawn. im subscribed btw

Rocks D Xebec’s DF must have been the Yami Yami no Mi I bet. The power to nullify other devil fruits was beaten by the two strongest known non DF users Garp and Roger who allied unwillingly with no choice probably because they were the only two people in the world that were capable of stopping Xebec and the celestial dragons somehow got involved which is another missing piece to the puzzle Also Blackbeard is probably his son or related to him somehow and made it his early life mission to get the Yami Yami no Mi by whatever means necessary. He’s the same age as 2 years after God Valley, so would make sense that he was orphaned at 2 years old after Xebec died and Newgate picked him up shortly after perhaps because he wanted to raise Blackbeard to be pirate king as he had the will of D to destroy the world government but not king of the world on top of the WG like Imu is which is like his father Xebec wanted. His ship also is called the saber of Xebec so that is obviously a huge foreshadow of some link between the two

i love when rock and god valley discussed, all people already said it's took roger + garp to stop rocks himself... when sengoku only said garp work together with rogers pirates to stop rocks pirates. yes maybe it is rock vs garp + roger, but it's also could be rock vs garp/roger and WB + kaido/+bigmom vs garp/roger or just a royal rumble.

My theory: Xebec was the former user of the Hito Hito no mi Nika model but he somehow turned into Darth Vader. That's why Shanks was after this specific fruit and why the marine protected it, this and the fact the gorosei and Imu knows the truth about Joy Boy. Second theory: Shanks is not so friendly and is actually Xebec's son.

This aged well.

I once read a OP fanmanga (can't remember the name but it was crazy good) where teach is actually the adoptive son of Xebec, and I absolutely love that idea.

Love your vids Ohara you tackle the story from diff angles wish I could talk one piece with you daily lol

Incredible that you were spot on about rocks waiting to get the right devil fruit specifically at god valley

Maybe xebec was looking for kaido s current fruit and right before he ate it, roger showed up and because of the encounter, they sent garp out, during the chaos, big mom snuck out and stole the fruit then gave it to kaido. This part might be a stretch but maybe xebec seen that kaido ate the fruit and so he was purposely defeated because he lost hope because he needed the df for something

Rocks actually turned into a baby, Roger raised him and changed his name to Shanks

Wait until one piece fans realize that a lot of huge characters are related to other characters. Dragons not garps biological son, and it's speculated he has a strong resemblance to rocks, possibly being one of his sons.

Crazy how good your analysis and predictions were! 👏

Garp and Roger might be protecting Shank's father during the God Valley. Also, shank's father might be one of the gorosei's member as well.

I think Joyboy has to have an evil/ oppressive counterpart. And after seeing the video it occurred to me… What if Xebec is the Roger’s generation representation of Joyboy’s counterpart? I’ve always felt that Xebec has been very important to the story and now I think could be used to introduce this concept of Joyboy’s opposing side.

Ooh the one piece story is getting juicy. I go in and out because I can't handle the over filled Manga panels but I've been following thanks to folks like you. I'm glad I read the last chapter though Shanks is a baaaad man

These videos actually make me watch until the end without skipping.

It's funny how everybody assumes Rocks hair is red. When they finally reveal him, people are going to be disappointed he's not what they thought he'll look like

Rocks is imu and also shanks is his son. Hence why shanks is aloud to stop marine ford and walk into to talk to then 5 elders when he wants. This would also make rocks a celestial dragon and part of the figarland family: the family shanks seems to be apart of. This would give us a great final villain in my opinion.

I really enjoyed the vid but honestly I’m waiting excitedly for the chapter 1080 review. Bro that chapter was so damn hype!

The fact that it took garp and Roger to take him down is enough for me. He must of been ridiculous and I hope we get a flashback one day.

Everyone just went crazy on chapter 1080 from garp's true power destroying everything in his path to save coby with one punch from a long distance 😂

It occurred to me... Vegapunk's Seraphim were based on the Seven Warlords to replace them. But do you think he stopped there? Kaido was allegedly captured a number of times and there's several prominent Marines including the Admirals. Do you think Vegapunk made Seraphim of the Admirals or Kaido as well??

Rock's is such a interesting character can't wait to learn more about him.

Rocks went for dark-dark fruit

I think rocks had a kid with someone from the figarland family. That would explain why people always called shanks red haired, possible noting how he bore a resemblance to his father rocks

Blackbeard is about to have EVERY One Piece fan in their feels. He will have the most heart breaking backstory im calling it.

Rocks had the Yami Yami no Mi for sure it just makes sense.

i have a feeling that with this new chapter 1081 that rocks is the man marked with flames and the reason that he is being idle and only attacking people who come near him by making a whirlpool is because he got heavily injured, bed ridden, or in a coma and his ship or devil fruit he got from gods valley is protecting him.

I think Rocks was so powerful to the point were Ronger and Garp had to team up and take him out before he took over the world 🌎.

What if Ochoku wasn’t even that strong as we believe but he just possessed the island fruit which now belongs to Pizarro? As we see in comparison to the Thriller Bark Pirate Island is huge and so Ochoku could hide himself the whole time from Blackbeard. As I think Blackbeard isn’t a conqueror which made him crave for the Yami Yami no mi even more. Maybe Coby is a conqueror and awakend the ability post Marine Ford or at the Rocky Port incident which finally helped Blackbeard in fighting Ochoku

I’m glad that you mentioned how Blackbeard recruited the prisoners of Impel Down by having them try to kill each other. Because I think that’s what Rocks D. Xebec was aiming for when he formed his own crew, considering how he was an obvious inspiration for Teach. You see, what Blackbeard did in Impel Down was actually based on the kodoku, a form of Japanese dark magic where a bunch of poisonous insects are kept in a jar until only one remained. The poison of that insect would then be used to cast a hex on someone. This was done under the belief that this one insect survived because its poison was the most potent of all, similar to how Blackbeard selected the surviving inmates. In addition to explaining why Rocks Pirates were such a toxic crew (no pun intended), it would go well with how their captain was said to partake in taboo practices. Not only did he study a subject that was forbidden by the World Government, but he was inspired by something that could be considered a crime against nature.

You've literally made such amazing points that I'm gonna be thinking about this for a long time now. I just couldn't help but keep agreeing as the video went on... Thanks ✌🏻😂

Imagine if Shanks is Rock's son, hard to believe since Shanks was found in a treasure Chest, but who knows..

My theory is the yami-yami nomi is actually a mythical zoan fruit also and maybe the reson why that the God vally has vanished is because it got sucked inside of the fruits power, remember that the yami yami nomi has the ability to suck powers and things. 🌞🌛

yo ohara my dude, galaxy impact is so insaneeeeeee cant wait for you to review

I thought Rocks/Rox was black? I honestly thought that teach was his actual son and he wanted to carry out his father's will. People saying Shanks is possibly Rock's son doesn't make much sense.

I think having Xebec parallel Roger's goal of freedom of adventure would be an interesting showcase. It's like Xebec wanted to achieve freedom but in the wrong means like how Blackbeard wanted to be the pirate king in the wrong means, opposite of luffy since there was no idea of pirate king back then it's just them vs the world government

Theory: Blackbeard as you may know is 40 years old while shanks is 39 and they were on roger and whitebeards crews. So on god valley we know that shanks was found by roger as a baby of probably 1-2 years. I believe that Blackbeard was also a baby of 2-3 years at godvalley. I believe that shanks and Blackbeard are both children of xebec, shanks being so young would have zero memory of what happened at god valley and would be completely out of the picture to do anything, but Blackbeard who would be the first born would be slightly older and still likely incompetent but still older. I think that somehow xebec may have sent some sort of message or something that told Blackbeard to get the dark fruit, or he could have just given it too him before dying. So In the chaos Blackbeard stumbled across a leaving white beard and white beard took pity and let him go with them, Roger did the same for shanks in finding him.

18:34 could be Jaya as well. After all chapter 233 took place during Jaya. And Jaya, coincidence or not, is the same arc that introduced us to two Rocks members (Captain John and Whitebeard), a former slave (Kuma), a former celestial dragon (Doflamingo), the Gorosei and the man that told us about the God Valley Incident (Sengoku).

Plot twist.. rocks, garp, dragon and Luffy are all from the same family

It could be that whitbeard got his devil fruit at god valley and that's why he only reach his prime later

A wild theory would be, that Shanks is some kind of reincarnation of Rocks or even Rocks himself. Could be turned into a child and got his memories wiped. After all, shanks was found on god valley.

"Rocks was basically finally going to get that DEVIL FEUT" lol Ohara stuttered hahaha 8:10

O'Hara could have warned us with this enel look 😂 I do like it though just haven't tuned in, in a while.

It's why I really doubt that Rocks D. Xerbec was ever an antagonist, I think he created the Davy Back Fight and that's how he got his crew, the reason why Big Mom back then didn't trust him was because he was too unpredictable and knowledgeable, and the last thing is some of the crew that we know of have parallels to the Straw Hat Crew, Kaido to Zoro, Whitebeard to Jimbei, Big Mom to Nami, Shiki to Sanji (ironic being that Shiki lost his legs) & Miss Buckin to Usopp.

I am actually more curious about why Shanks is inside Rocks's treasure chest, why Rocks has red hair, the same as Shanks, and why Shanks has ultimate conqueror haki, does shanks actually a son of Rocks?

Odin also could read the poneglyphs and he mentioned that this knowledge was inherited from his father(who is still alive). So maybe Momo will learn to read the poneglyphs too.

Low key the Rocks crew reminds me of pre time skip straw hats “always in chaos”

I still believe the possibility of Rocks having the same missions as Dragon, or that Dragon inherit Rocks will. The only difference is that rocks is doing his mission using brute force, it is a fact that he went to god valley for one reason. Destroy the celestial dragons, and marine’s duty is to protect the celestials. Garp just did his job but doesn’t want to kill rocks. The reason of exsist disgust in his face about serving ang protecti ng the celestial dragons.

Without spoiling anything, chapter 1080 was a certified banger and you need to read it.

Ty for taking like a month just to entertain us

lot of speculations were spot on!

One piece fans who have read chapter 1096. Check in here 😁

The theory that Rocks is Imu makes sense because the gorosei may have been members of his crew and want to keep the secret shut.

you shouldve spoken about the moment in impel down arc when we saw someone frozen in a cell. that person had the same hairstyle as rocks and another prisoner next to the frozen person said that they were either frozen to death or were being perseved for the future

Kozuki Toki is from 830 years ago and the void is 800 years ago! During that 30 years gap maybe Imu was present and tried to collect Devils Fruit. Imu could have been Joyboy friend or knew each other.

i have this thought that, Blackbeard seemed to have changed alot after eating his dark dark fruit, almost like he took on another personality kinda like luffy with the nika fruit, and maybe rocks ate the dark dark fruit as well as why him and blackbeard both share the similarities with wanting to take over the world, black-beard didn’t finally find the fruit it found him.

You are the best One Piece creator on RU-vid Ohara! Not annoying, clear and concise and amazing edits. Great video and new subscriber from England 👍🏻 prima!

This is fantastic and amazing

These videos are elite.

Ok

Last time I was this early Rocks D. xebec was still alive

U should start doing live call ins on ppl personal theories because dude you ah love what I came up with

Diggin’ your cut, on point

Until its disproved, having it all be based on Davy Back fights to build his crew just makes the most sense to me lol

It’s possible that God Valley was a place that had held secrets relating to Devil Fruits, namely how they could be created (ie, the desires and souls of men). I’m thinking that Rocks completed the process on himself, but after dying, his soul was split into 3 Devil fruits. The Yami Yami no Mi, the Gura Gura no Mi, and an unknown Zoan that Blackbeard may have eaten as a child, changing his body into what it is.

The will of Dreams - the reason blackbeard doesnt sleep.

I hope to god we get to see rocks animated at some point. Even flashbacks will do Toei 🙏🏼🙏🏼

I truly think that Xebec is linked to Dragon or something like that (Xebec looks like an evil Dragon when we see him laugh)..Also what always struck me is how powerful he seems to be while not being a pirate or marine..Feels really strange.

I gotta be honest, from what we have gathered so far. I can only assume that Rocks was the equivalent of Captain Buggy in Roger's Days. He had strong crewmembers to get his status up. His crewmates are ashamed to even share the story (said by Sengoku). Why would they be ashamed after being part of the strongest villain's crew? You could say '' Oh he wanted to murder a bunch of celestial dragons '' Get out of here. XD Most likely yes but also might be because he was a weak joke who had great luck. Until I actually see some power feats, I'll believe it. When Capn Buggy's crew is defeated. I don't imagine Mihawk and Crocodile ever talking about Buggy in the next gen either.

@ohara after this i can pretty assume that if Oda makes the God Valley Incident movie, it will create more hype than Red movie since the incident itself is way bigger than our curiosity towards Shanks

I feel like roxs acquired some devil fruit that allowed him to move his soul or something to another person. Maybe it wasn't even planned, but after being defeated, it was a last-ditch effort to not die

Shanks dad was a true legend wow

Maybe it “wasn’t the time” for Rocks just as it wasn’t for Roger. What if Joyboy lost to darkness in the past and now both have been “reincarnated”. I don’t think they would leave Rocks behind. They have too much pride to walk away

@13:18 I think Garp, after learning about the deeper secrets of the world and the World Government from Gol D. Roger after visiting laughtale ( which is way after they fought together to defeat Rocks ) Garp changes his mind on world govt but choose to stay within the system to fulfill his duty and maintain stability, even though he might not fully support its ideals. This adds a layer of complexity to Garp’s character, showcasing the internal conflicts he may face in balancing duty, loyalty, and personal beliefs in the world of “One Piece.”

My personal theory is Big mom Kaido Whitebeard Actually fought rox hence why the government later recognized them as yonko and didnt dare step foot to them unless they had to Garp Roger Actually fought captain john hence why his treasure was so massive and legendary. The marines to save face said garp will take credit but garp being garp mentioned roger too and its why the whole thing is wiped from history and shanks was there already confirmed hes a celestial dragon(son of one) and its another reason why as a celestial dragon son was basically taken hostage

Koby is not a marine Vice Admiral. He's a captain. 😂

I have a theory that the representation of roxs of luffy's generation is buggy (I think buggy is actually power full he is just scare to use it)he start to gather a stronge crew with yonko level pirates like roxs.I think so that roxs is also a naive person like buggy.

Great video man! Didn't Franky say a theory about the Adam being on top in the...Grand Line, I believe, and being to make devil fruit?

“Carving the pumpkin fills you with determination”