The Roger Pirates JUST Laughed... 

Vegapunk is talking real big for a man who waited until he was dead to spill the beans.

Vegapunk: Whyyyyyyy! Why didn’t you say anything??!! Roger; not my problem lmfao I’m dying 😂

Laughing in the face of tragedy is one of the most poignant themes of One Piece.

Of course now that everyone's in the know, Rayleigh's going to be laughing all the way to the bank when his ship coating business takes off.

Vegapunk: "You're laughing. You learned the nature of the world and you're laughing?!"

Gol D. Roger: And then he turned himself and everything else into Rubber! Funniest shit I've ever seen! Portgas D. Rouge: Didn't you mention something about the destruction of the world earlier? Gol D. Roger: Oh that. Eh, don't worry, it's not important.

Honestly, what can Roger do ? He's dying, his crew can't take down the WG alone Posseidon wasn't born, the Nika fruit wasn't found,.... And he can't tell everyone, the world would be in chaos Only thing he could do was kicked start the great pirate era

Looking back, I am pretty sure Roger did tell the truth to someone who did their best to carry Roger's will forward. Whitebeard, who also was riding the Ace hype train, was the one member of the Rocks crew that Roger really respected. Whitebeard's final declaration seems to reinforce this. Whitebeard seems to have been acting as caretaker, and when Whitebeard finally got a look at Luffy, something inside him clearly changed. Whitebeard emphatically told his crew to protect Luffy, which implies he immediately realized Luffy's importance, which seems to imply that when he and Roger met, Roger told him everything.

I think they kept quiet because that is what the poneglyphs instruct, the ruins in shandora said: 'Keep thy motives in heart, with closed mouth. We are those who will weave history with the ringing of the great belfry.' We also don't really know what Robin knows cause she hasn't said much either.

What caught my attention was the fact that Kinemon had enough information about Pluton to silence Momomsuke. Means, Kinemon, was told about the Ancient Weapons from Oden. If it was moved, Kinemon knows the location.

Roger said, “Nah i dont feel like doing a New Game+ playthrough”

Most whole bromance moment. I'm watching this video on my lunch break, another co worker comes into the staff room to grab something. He looks at what im watching and is like "Hey, is that Tekking.?" My face lit up and I was like "Hell Yeah!" Then we fist bumped and talked about our anime RU-vidrs lol. Wholesome moment.

Rodger laughed because he knew that he couldn't change anything at that time. Whatever he saw proved to him that the next few generations was going to bring about change. It was funny to him because he spent so much of his time and the last few months of his life trying to change the world even though he was never able.

My theory is that the ideological war that happened between Ancient kingdom and the Allied kingdoms was over terraforming. The Ancient kingdom advanced the technology to the extent where they had and wanted the freedom to change the one piece world the way they saw fit/beneficial. This was probably not in a nefarious way, but instead they terraformed areas to help different races and kingdoms. One of the methods might have been island/continental air cons. This could explain the erratic weather phenomena of the grand line island. They also used their DF's "recklessly" by assigning magnetic poles (using Kid's DF) to each island/kingdom so that trade was more simpler and merchants just used log poses to travel from one nation to another. They probably also created the red line and gifted the land to lunarians (their likely allies). They also created the calm belts using Corazon's calm-calm DF. All of this got other kingdoms to worry and there was an idealogical war between a freedom loving, terraforming scientists vs the conservative, nature loving allied kingdoms.

Just had a random thought about Pluton. We know that the only naturally occuring place Seastone happens is because of Wano's Valcano, right? And now we know that Pluton is inside that mountain, right? And sea and island clouds are partly made of Seastone. So what if that's what it does? It generates Seastone and Sky clouds and that's how the sky islands form: Pluton.

I think the whole Momo pluton thing just means up until this point, Momo did not know Pluton was an Ancient Weapon.

Roger did start a great pirate era! Maybe it was his way of saying to the world.

I like to imagine that in laughtale its just a giant ass bath plug

Basically they beat the final quest but but their subscription would run out before the sub quest began

I love how he keeps referring to Ace only as "Roger's son" 😂

Roger didn't tell Vegapunk because he had no morals, Vegapunk worked for whoever would pay for his experiments. Roger knew they had to shut up about it, so they did. The romance dawn had to occur.

Joboy's plan might require a bit of secrecy for it to work

The reason why Roger couldn't tell the world is because the WG ruined Roger's reputation completely in so much that an "evil" pirate calling the WG evil, the whole world disregards it. Even Vegapunk isn't completely believed, only reason they even give the benefit of the doubt is because he predicted the earthquakes and sea levels rising, and he has a good reputation. WG's propaganda is so powerful they even changed Roger's name from Gol D. to Gold, and the world never questioned it. A supposed terrorist cannot tell you something truthful, and the world believes it. Another reason they couldn't do anything is because as they said, they arrived too early. For example, they went to Fishman Island and learnt that Poseidon wouldn't be around in her full power for 25 year - Poseidon's role is to aid with moving Noah, she wasn't around during their era. For Roger to do something, he needed to have Posiedon, he also needed to have Momonosuke to control Zunesha when opening Wano's borders, and he needed to have the Nika Nika no Mi - he came too early, and on top of that, he was due to die, he didn't have long to live. The most important thing is if you learn the Void Century, why should the world believe you? Roger was a demon to the world, so much so his son being possibly born earned the anger and rage of people. Trust is needed and this is where Luffy comes in. How do you earn trust? By proving yourself and this is what Luffy does - he saves entire countries and then they publicly view him as a hero and trustworthy: 1. Roger went to Skypiea, there was no Enel. Luffy goes to Skypiea, there's Enel, he saves them, now they trust him. 2. Roger went to Fishman Island, didn't save them, no villain. Luffy goes there, there's a hody, now everyone wants to wear hero hats. 3. Luffy goes to Alabasta, Dressrosa, Wano... there are villains, he saves them, now they trust him. Now, when Luffy finds the One Piece, if he tells the truth, they believe him because they've experienced him being a good person and can trust him. WG propaganda doesn't work. This is why it's important for Luffy to go from nation to nation saving them, enough to garner a reputation that can't be tarnished by fake news. So, really, Roger couldn't do anything. He however did something... he started the Pirate Age so that more people could become Pirates and a Chosen D. will become a Pirate and fulfil the prophecy which is why he said maybe Ace would be the Joyboy they were waiting for. He inspired many people to become Pirates, so really, that was the only thing he could do. He used the hate the world had for him to make it impossible for the WG to easily stop people from becoming Pirates and eventually finding the One Piece. It's because of Roger that Luffy, a D, was inspired to become a Pirate and is now Joyboy. He also couldn't tell Dragon, he didn't know him, his revolution hadn't really begun. He had no waves. He didn't know Vegapunk either, how does he know to trust him. He however told Whitebeard knowing full well he could trust him. And Roger having a son, a D, is partly why Whitebeard took him in because he knew about the Void Century which Roger told him, and tried to raise Ace to becoming the Pirate King to fulfil the prophecy. However, Ace was a cog in making Luffy who was really the chosen one. Rayleigh only says it's an adventure for the next generation is not to say he's just leaving it for them to go on an adventure. He's saying that since FATE/DESTINY is what determines all of this, he's leaving it to them to fulfil fate/destiny. He's not being irresponsible and just saying they need to have fun. Furthermore, the only reason Wano's borders can be open is because Wano had a villain, Kaido. Luffy defeating him made them have trust in him. Now they know all Pirates aren't evil which they've believed for 400 years. They're ready to open borders and welcome people. So, Momo and Luffy's meeting worked out the best way possible. The people are receptive to outsiders and with the borders due to soon be open, they'll be able to fight against the WG's ancient weapon with Pluton. Roger paved the way, so he did do something.

You know sometimes those editor notes at the end of the chapter cook outta nowhere "The pirates who knew the Truth just laughed" 🥶❄️

A meteor the size of Mars? dude that's just planetary collision !!! Unless you mean the size of Marcus Mars?

I remember what Rayleigh said. "Maybe you'll come to a different conclusion than we did." Perhaps with what Vegapunk saw, he came to a conclusion that isn't correct because he only has Clover's info and is missing some vital context.

sooo... did you forget about the sea kings? when shirahoshi summoned the sea kings at the end of fishman island and when roger went to fishman island, the sea kings had a psychic conversation and they used very specific dates in their conversation (like the specific amount of years until shiraoshi's birth), which means that whatever is meant to happen, is gonna happen at a very specific date. so it's not like it's just a figure of speech. the roger pirates literally were too early and probably figured there's no point in telling anyone, since there's lierally nothing anyone can do until the promised time comes. the issue can only be solved at a very specific date decades in the future, so why needlesly worry everyone about something they can't do anything about.

I think they had faith in what Joyboy and the ancient kingdom had planned, so they didn't look for help anywhere, they just did what they thought would help fulfill that plan, like making a child that he thought could be this new joyboy, starting the great age of piracy, guiding and teaching new pirates in the navigation of the grandline by explaining the use of log poses and eternal poses in twin cape and helping the strongest bunch of these new pirates in getting into the new world through fishman island by getting into the coating business. I also think that if people came up to them and were serious enough about the subject ( like Vegapunk and his curiosity, an Oharan scholar wanting to know more about the poneglyph, Robin and her wish to know the true history, ... ) asked them about what they found, they would've gladly told them while also warning them that the world might become their enemy for that knowledge. These serious people just didn't ask them (most likely cause, in Vegapunk's case, he didn't fully connect the dots till recently). My point is, they had faith in what they found on Laugh Tale to not need to initiate a talk about the truth to anyone ( unless it was to brag and share to a friend like Roger did with Newgate ), they would also not talk about it even if asked if the person didn't already seem curious enough or seriously involved ( ex : Rayleigh wouldn't talk about the void century if just asked in a bar by random nobodies about what they found on Laugh Tale but would spill the beans to serious people that actually cared like Robin and probably Law too if he asked him about the will of D during his saving of Luffy after Marineford ) and lastly, another reason not to just nonchalantly talk about it to random people is that having that knowledge would put you in the government's top priority hit-list

If i had to guess i would say that Pluton (God of Earth) has some sort of power to Terraformation, and was used to pull Wano together and protect during the Original Flood by making the walls. Pluton may also be responsible of creating RED LINE.

Tekking ... I mean, Roger DID do something. He started the great pirate era that lead to fresh blood to take to the sea in order to reach this land, The One Piece. So yeah, Roger did put things in motion. Also, impo, this adds more fire the, "The treasure was the friends we made along the way." Theory... What if Roger started the Pirate era because the decision awaiting on Laugh Tale is one that requires people with more experience? You know, people like them that, or maybe unlike them, that saw more of the world? Roger and his crew rushed to the goal and thus, while I can't deny their adventure wasn't grandiose, not only they were missing some key pieces of the puzzle but also they lacked more criteria to make a choice that for all intends and purposes will change the world. Personally I feel Luffy and the Strawhats have experience a bit more than Roger has in regards of how much of the world they've seen. The good, the bad, the beautiful, the ugly and even the gray. Or, they WILL have more by the time they reach the One Piece. So Roger is putting faith that whoever gets there will have a broader perspective to make such a decision. From that view, it kind of explains why they didn't tell someone like Vegapunk. He's too naive to make a choice like that. I know that sounds outrageous but let's be real, Vegapunk does lack a bit of "street smarts". The whole start of the pirate era is a gamble, but that's all they could do at the moment.

Maybe the Roger pirates were preparing for it all this time while waiting patiently for Joyboy to show up.

19:44 dragon already knew vegapunk and had a friendship with him before becoming as notorious as he is now. Plus dragon was a Marine so he at least started off as a WG ally, making it easy to communicate with Vegapunk. Totally different story if you’re a Roger pirate and already crowned the worlds most vicious terrorist, reaching vegapunk would be nowhere near as simple as it was for dragon

The best plot point is that the Roger pirates that we know made a home were they are not affected. Crocos inside a whale and Raleigh as a coater. Minks living so high they are not affected. I want all Roger pirates have safed themself in that way. Maybe in Skyislands or something like that. On the moons

almost 30 years and we're still grasping at straws with the lore

Thank you for the video. I always enjoy watching your videos! This was very interesting! There is a lot to take on and think about!

Thank you for a great video guys

A variation of your theory regarding Law scanning for Pluton. What-if it's not that Law couldn't find it because it's not there, but instead he couldn't find it because the Ancient Weapons have cloaking protecting them from being detected by anything when they're dormant including DF powers with the exception of someone who has the a detector or activation device. I could totally see that being the case, which could explain why they haven't been found by anyone in the past 800 years. They've just been dormant and cloaked from detection by means other than their designated method(s).

Keep up the awesome work and videos tekking love the video

Hi Tekking, I worked with Armadillos at Uni (did animal/zoo management degree) and they were by far the most chill animals I worked with, had no trouble handling them or doing any cleaning out of their enclosures etc. Fun little guys, if you ever somehow get the chance to interact with captive ones go for it they're great!

Just opened yt with my lunch and tekking just uploaded hell yea

You're late night videos are the best suprise entertainment for my drive between stops delivering chips at 3 a.m.

Thanks!

"Yargh, why would I want to be a hero, Rayleigh? Heroes don't know how to have fun! Now I'm going to go enjoy my last year."

My favorite segment is back , animal facts!

He did do something. He sent countless of people to the sea.

Pluton being a ship implies that it could be residing in the white sea or the white white sea because we've seen ships be up there before. So if it's not in Wano, it could feasibly be in the sky

i think the problem with telling vegapunk isn't that they couldn't contact him, but that they didn't know his true allegiance because he worked for the government. As far as they knew we as completely loyal and if they told him he probably would have just went yapping to the government. As for why they didn't tell anyone else, well i ask who would have believed them. Even now when the smartest man in the world is telling everyone plenty of people are calling him crazy or are hesitant to believe him. now imagine if a pirate told them, they probably get laughed out the bar regardless of their status.

YAY You are bringing some animal facts back

I don't know if I'm happier for the vid itself or because of how it ended. We love you tek ❤️

When will you cure Barry's Vampirism? Well he can probably cure himself.

Finally someone addressed the panel with Momonosuke. I've been saying it's Pluton since i saw what happened to Lulusia.

When you said "the finale of one piece", it gave me goosebumps and I had to make a drink at 4am. When oda tells us "this is the final arc" in a letter or something, I'm gonna sob

Heck yeah! Armadillos! 🤟🤟🤟🤟

The return of animal facts just made me incredibly happy

The animal fact made my damn day bro 😭💯

I was hoping Vegapunk would explain how objects could eat devil fruits

Thumbnails a super banger 👍

28:58 i knew it! Animal facts!

so i was just rewatching the anime and i got to little garden, and it got me thinking, where the heck did the dinosaurs come from

Oh shit, animal facts returns! Hell yea tekking

I suspect the reason Roger didn't do much was well, he couldn't. He was 20 years too early, dying, and knew someone far more capable would arrive after the 20 year wait. Vegapunk doesn't know Roger knew.

“Thou they were all eradicated…joyboy and his people swore to continue smiling forever…even as the heads rolled the smiles remained” - imu The Will of D

Uranus might be more like Poseidon than Pluton. We know nothing about the physical form of Uranus, so it might be an ability like Shirahoshi has, as opposed to a literal weapon. that is exactly what we are told Pluton is during the Water Seven arc. But I agree with you Tekking that it would be weird for the weapon named after the sky to not be the big sky laser.

18:07 , judgment day is imminent. Gotta love the terminator Easter eggs lol

Lesgoooo animal facts are back i can finally witness this video by video

If there’s one thing I know, it’s that I love the bottom right logo on the screen 💕

Now that I think about it. 20 years ago Saint Figureland would have been 20 years younger

Rogers crew is scattered at key positions across the world. They might just had a plan to look out for the promising talents that could maybe deal with it. Reileigh being on Sabaody, where everyone goes through is kinda telling. For the Ancient weapons, I like to think that they are all tied to ships. Poseidon, underwater sea ship and tied to the Noah, powered by the Seakings. Pluton a Ship for atop the water, powered by the Motherflame. Uranos a Ship for the Sky sea, powered by a "God" fruit (Imu or Nika,). Each to conquer their respective plane of the whole planet, which might have been the plan of the Ancient Kingdom and the "World Goverment" fought them for it or wanted the same.

I have to share this... Trekking asked: and what did the Roger Pirates do? And in this exact second a commercial break started... About Popcorn 😂🤣😂

I remember an old advert for... I think it was Malteasers? Smooth on the outside, crunchy on the inside. Armadillos were advertised as the opposite. XD

The only time we've seen Law scan was for the Transponder Snails, a living thing. I doubt it would've worked for a battleship

The night I watched this I got home from work and saw an armadillo in my yard, what a funny coincidence

Tekking talking about never seeing armadillos in the wild confused me, but then I remembered he's from like Pennsylvania or something... Where I live, they're all over the damn place...

Yeah i think a big part of it was that they didn’t really have anyone they could tell… Dragon was just a rookie, so they might not have even looked his way, or wanted to put too much pressure on him, and with Roger only having a year left they couldn’t really take him under their wing, and also they were pirates that had different goals than revolutionaries yknow? i’m sure they also thought maybe he’s just a double agent since his dad is garp and dragon was in the marines previously, or just maybe they didn’t wanna interact with him because of garp. and so they didn’t really have anyone else. vegapunk to the world was known to be working with the world government so they wouldn’t go to him, garp was with the marines and most likely already knew a bunch of that stuff anyway, and so yeah,, there wasn’t really anyone they could go to, or trust. so they trusted the next generation, and trusted what their journey would inspire in the world, the age of pirates. also, whoever they did tell would IMMEDIATELY be put on the governments number one most wanted list if anyone found out, and only those on the Roger crew were strong enough at the time to bear that weight. And thinking about that now, the only other person that could also bear that weight was Whitebeard and his crew,, and Roger tried to tell him!!! but he didn’t want to know,,, so who knows, maybe in that last year he had Roger did try and tell the very few people he could trust, but they either didn’t want to know, or already knew and weren’t doing anything about it,, maybe he told Garp and either garp already knew or didn’t know all of it, and if it does speak of a specific date or timeframe in a prophecy for a battle to take place or something, maybe that influenced garp to not move higher up in the marines as well as raising luffy a certain way

20:13 My theory is that when Roger left Shanks alone with Buggy, Garling used the opportunity to intercept Shanks and told him about his heritage, so when Roger returned Shanks asked him if was true, which Roger confirmed, and that is the reason Shanks was crying.

Doflamingo knew some shite but doesn’t wanna go talk and sengoku definitely knows

Gotta love the optc art

I think Momonosuke is questioning if Pluton is active again. He knows its there, but didnt know it was active until now

LET'S GO ARMADILLOS! We need animal facts 2!

Luffys going to use toon force to drink 80% of the ocean and only get indigestion 😂

I think you’re spot on with wano not having pluton, I can already see the shock panel when they flashback to that scene

I interpreted Momos words more like "Pluton is... responsible for rise of the sea level?"

Armadillos are one of the animals that represent Usopp btw

Armadillo facts!! Would love to see Geography is Everything segments for the real world, Animal Facts Style!

To Laugh or not to Laugh, that is the question - Gol.D Roger

"But now we shall both surely drown", said the Poneglyphs "lol" said the Roger, "lmao"

I gathered from reading that Vega punk had all his knowledge from what he recovered from O’Hara and maybe a couple other people that he’s met along the way

New tekking let's go

I think Crocodile was a trainee god knight given the name Sir Crocodile and came to know about the flood which is why he wants Pluton.

I definitely didn't take Kinemon's response as "shh, don't talk about that" I definitely thought it was more of a "Shhh, let me listen"

Animal facts for another 2 years would make my life complete that or another post video tekking a-z series

Jeez... all of the OP content I absorb on a daily basis... once OP ends my world will get flipped on its head..

Vegapunk: I don't want to get into theories. Neither side is good or evil Also Vegapunk: WHY ROGER???

judgement day is inevitable is my favorite line in T3

Ello! I am Here to Watch the Thing!

Roger and his crew arrive. They see a big poneglyph, but with only a line of text. Oden translate and relays the information. “One Piece DLC coming soon”

This is why I got to tekking for info and theory’s You could say “I don’t wanna miss a thing” ☄️☄️☄️

You can have an armadillo as a pet in most states but it requires a permit.

Finding out that the whole world sank and its remnants are the islands left. Roger Pirates: LOL

huh, just realised this now, Luffy climbing Drum Mt could be a kind of parallel to Fisher Tiger (and subsequently Kuma) climbing the Red Line. EDIT: All three instances could also just be unrelated. Climbing things is hard and putting pro-tags trough hardship is one of the things of all time that pro-tags do.