Mr. 5 (Baroque Works) | May, 2018 — Was the Bomb-Bomb Fruit secretly top-tier?
The Bomb-Bomb Fruit looks absurdly flashy.
Explosions, self-detonation, zero recoil—on paper, it sounds broken.
So why did it end up remembered as a “weak” Devil Fruit?
The Gap Between Flashiness and Actual Damage
1: Anonymous Pirate
Why is he such a weakling?
2: Anonymous Pirate
Looks flashy but doesn’t actually hit that hard.
3: Anonymous Pirate
It’s literally just boogers.
9: Anonymous Pirate
Not just Mr. 5, but explosions in One Piece never really look strong.
They just blow people away and char them black, but the damage doesn’t seem that serious.
10: Anonymous Pirate
It’s not output so much as the fact that durability in that world is insane.
People just don’t die from explosions, which is why it looks weak.
77: Anonymous Pirate
A bomb that should wipe out an entire city hits directly and nobody dies.
Same with Pell, same with the Kairoseki bomb—stuff that should be insane weapons gets treated like a scare tactic.
Naming Sense, Nostalgia, and Meme Power
5: Anonymous Pirate
The naming sense of “Booger Bomb” is god-tier.
6: Anonymous Pirate
Nose Fancy Cannon is honestly my favorite move in all of One Piece.
11: Anonymous Pirate
What the hell does “fancy” even mean?
13: Anonymous Pirate
>>11
Kuso → imagination → fancy.
23: Anonymous Pirate
I love the move where he fires explosive force through a gun.
31: Anonymous Pirate
>>23
Wasn’t that the Gentle Breeze Bomb?
That one was cool as hell.
“It’s the User, Not the Fruit” Argument
15: Anonymous Pirate
If it awakened, it’d probably be crazy strong.
16: Anonymous Pirate
A single booger dealt huge damage to a battle-hardened giant worth 100 million.
That’s monster-tier, honestly.
20: Anonymous Pirate
If you combine strikes with explosions, it’s got near top-tier close combat potential.
21: Anonymous Pirate
Crocodile: “Idiots who rely only on their powers.”
40: Anonymous Pirate
If you trained it, it’d be insanely strong.
42: Anonymous Pirate
>>40
It’s got protagonist-level potential.
45: Anonymous Pirate
He was weak because he relied on the ability too much.
If he trained and refined it like Crocodile,
he could’ve taken down Dorry with Kicky Bomb.
8: Anonymous Pirate
If the user were strong, this ability could’ve reached at least Shichibukai level.
Comparisons to Other Explosion Users
7: Anonymous Pirate
Karasu from Yu Yu Hakusho was strong though.
24: Anonymous Pirate
Noro Noro no Mi is actually the strongest.
25: Anonymous Pirate
Usopp’s Gunpowder Stars barely do any damage either.
28: Anonymous Pirate
Kira Yoshikage in JoJo was the strongest explosion user, honestly.
37: Anonymous Pirate
He can detonate his whole body and stay unharmed.
That’s basically a Logia.
44: Anonymous Pirate
Explosion attributes are broken.
Source: Monster Hunter 3.
81: Anonymous Pirate
Go be friends with Ideo and his Destruction Cannon.
86: Anonymous Pirate
Pika-Pika is the coolest though.
The fact it’s used by a middle-aged dude makes it even cooler.
87: Anonymous Pirate
If you fired boogers coated in Armament Haki, that’d be strong.
89: Anonymous Pirate
Isn’t Urouge’s ability just getting big and fluffy anyway?
51: Anonymous Pirate
What if Blackbeard already stole that ability?
👉 Why Japanese Fans Think This Way
Japanese fans tend to judge Devil Fruits less by concept and more by on-panel results.
Explosions are culturally coded as lethal, so when they repeatedly fail to kill anyone in One Piece, the dissonance stands out.
That gap between expectation and depiction turns the Bomb-Bomb Fruit into a meme—cool, flashy, but “wasted.”
👉 When Power Scaling Outgrows the Ability
This thread isn’t really about Mr. 5 being weak.
It’s about early One Piece power scaling colliding with later standards.
Fans aren’t saying the Bomb-Bomb Fruit is bad—they’re saying it showed up too early, before One Piece figured out how deadly it wanted explosions to be.
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