In almost 26 years of manga, Eiichiro Oda has been planting many secrets and mysteries throughout ‘One Piece’. From time to time she would give us a little brush or an aperitif like who doesn’t want the thing… and then to wait a few years to see what was left.
One of the best kept mysteries was vegapunkwhich until recently was a namedrop that we fell from time to time. But Oda seems to be determined to take a run to finish his manga in a few years and we have already been able to learn more about the elusive scientist.
Attention! This article contains spoilers for the ‘One Piece’ manga, so be careful if you only follow the anime.
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After a few years of cooking and a spectacular fight against Kaido, the Wano Country Saga finally ended. We already have the Straw hat embarked on a new saga (which according to Oda is already the final) and little by little more things have been revealed about Vegapunk.
The scientist has been a recurring character in the shadows, and until relatively recently what we knew about him was that he worked for the World Government. Vegapunk is the most brilliant scientist in the world and some of his inventions include the Pacifista series of cyborgs, the Sea Rock that nullifies the powers of Devil Fruits… and even some artificial Fruits.
For a long time there has been speculation about her appearance, but in chapter 1061 of the manga she was seen as a young woman. In the next episode it was confirmed that she is not the real look of the scientist… but that in fact there are up to seven different “Vegapunks” and it is specifically “Punk 02”, Lilith.
In order to keep up with all your work, Vegapunk created six more bodies that he uses as satellites, each with its own designation and also associated with a different emotion. For example, Atlas is associated with anger, while lilith It is associated with evil.
His appearance has been a mystery for decades, although his true appearance has finally been revealed: that of a small man with the look of a crazy genie reminiscent of Albert Einstein. In fact, in a flashback in chapter 1066 it has been shown that his head used to be enormously large, so it seems that he decided to modify his brain and divide it to create these satellites.
all for science
During the Egghead arc more details about Vegapunk have been discovered, such as that he is 63 years old and also that he knows a lot about the Void Century, one of the great mysteries of ‘One Piece’. In fact, after the destruction of Ohara, Vegapunk traveled to the island and discovered that the giants were able to recover many of the books in the library… So the scientist ended up traveling to Elbaf to learn more about this historical period.
In addition, thanks to his research on Karakuri Island he was able to learn more about the Great Kingdom and use its highly advanced technology for his own inventions.
This talent for science made him part of MADS, a very select group of scientists who investigated the Lineage Factor, the blueprints of life present in all organisms. Other members of this group were also Caesar Clowns. Queen and Vinsmoke Judge, but the Government dissolved it 24 years before the events of episode 1066 of the manga and arrested its members.
This is how Vegapunk became the Government’s head researcher and developed all kinds of inventions for them, albeit Monkey D Dragon he did not like that he became a “government dog”. Even so, Vegapunk needed funds for his investigations and for this reason he continued to collaborate with the Navy.
Currently, Vegapunk resides in Egghead, the so-called “Island of the Future” and is in direct contact with Dragon… with which, added to what we know about Kuma, it can also be intuited that he has his ties to the revolutionaries and he is not in the pocket of the World Government at all and in fact the CP0 wants to assassinate him because he knows too much.
Right now and despite all the years that he has been moving in the shadows, Vegapunk has become one of the great allies of the Straw Hats in this section of ‘One Piece’. His great objective is to create a free energy source that works throughout the world in order to eliminate wars… so it is normal for the Government to want to get it out of the way.