15 Biggest One Piece Season 2 Easter Eggs

Many of One Piece's Easter eggs in season 2 are teases of upcoming events, nods to running gags, or acknowledgments of obscure characters from the manga and anime series. Some are easier to spot than others, but all of them will have One Piece fans bouncing in front of their screens pointing eagerly like the Leonardo DiCaprio meme.

15 The Conversation Between Garp & Roger Mentions "God Valley"

One Piece season 2 shows the conversation Gol D. Roger shared with Monkey D. Garp shortly before the latter had the former executed. As they talk, Roger refers to Garp as "the hero of God Valley." While it only happened very recently in the manga, God Valley is the most important battle shown in One Piece so far.

The best starting point for live-action viewers to understand God Valley is Blackbeard - the currently-unseen pirate who scared Wapol out of Drum Kingdom. Blackbeard's father was a mighty pirate known as Rocks D. Xebec, and he belonged to a clan that the World Government wanted to wipe out. The World Government's hidden ruler, Imu, possessed Rocks' body and forced him to hunt his own people.

The only two fighters capable of halting the Imu-powered Rocks were Roger and Garp, so the two old rivals teamed up to end the slaughter. This is where Roger and Garp truly came to understand each other, and it's why Roger trusts the vice-admiral with custody of his son.

Even though Garp was essentially fighting against his boss at God Valley, the marines covered the incident up, with Garp presented as the hero who saved the day. Roger's "hero of God Valley" remark in live-action is a pointed one, because he's one of the few who knows what truly went down that day.

14 Multiple Pandaman Sightings

Pandaman is Eiichiro Oda's mascot, and appears constantly throughout the One Piece manga in the background of battle scenes, in large crowds, etc. Netflix's live-action adaptation honors that tradition, and there are multiple Pandaman sightings dotted across season 2. The most notable ones come at Loguetown, with panda toys available at the fairground, but the familiar face can also be sighted on Mr. 5's newspaper.

13 Smoker Mentions Raoul

The One Piece anime's Loguetown arc includes a filler section in which Luffy visits an empty bar. He learns from the bartender, Raoul, that Roger himself used to drink there, and that Raoul as a younger man would serve the Pirate King.

When present-day Raoul hears Luffy's declaration to follow in Roger's footsteps, he glimpses a haunting similarity between the two pirates, almost experiencing an epiphany that he's bearing witness to the beginning of a whole new great pirate era.

Netflix's One Piece understandably doesn't adapt this moment, but it is acknowledged. Callum Kerr's live-action Smoker makes an annual visit to the bar Roger had one final drink in before losing his head, just to remind himself of the marine mission. During the scene, Smoker refers to the bartender as "Raoul," nodding to the One Piece anime's filler episode.

12 Sabo!

While the appearance of Monkey D. Dragon was expected in One Piece season 2, a cameo from his second-in-command was not. Sabo is a high-ranking member of Dragon's Revolutionary Army, but before that, he was Luffy and Ace's adoptive brother. Sabo was believed to have died during an incident with marines long ago, and lost his memory in the aftermath. Despite being rescued by Dragon, therefore, Sabo doesn't remember his past with Luffy, while Luffy thinks Sabo is dead.

11 Luffy Dreams Of "Dadan"

Live-action One Piece has already shown flashes of Luffy's upbringing in Windmill Village, where he was raised around Shanks and Makino with the occasional interjection from his grandfather. For a long time after the incident where Shanks lost his arm, however, Luffy grew up with a group of mountain bandits.

The bandits' leader was called Dadan, and she became the closest thing Luffy had to a mother during his time in Windmill Village. Dadan also helped to raise Roger's son, Ace, with both youngsters being entrusted to her by Garp.

While they didn't always get on, Luffy remembers Dadan fondly, and the Straw Hat captain mumbling "five more minutes, Dadan..." when he wakes up outside Crocus' house in One Piece season 2, episode 2, is a reference to that.

10 Luffy Hits The Nika Pose While Singing To Laboon

The One Piece manga eventually reveals that Luffy's Devil Fruit is actually not the Gum Gum Fruit, but the Human Human Fruit, Model: Nika. Put simply, Luffy's Devil Fruit transforms him into the living embodiment of Nika the Sun God, and Nika is known all across the One Piece oceans for a very specific dance.

It looks like a person running, with the arms and legs at exaggerated right angles and a silly smile on the dancer's face. While Luffy is singing to placate Laboon in One Piece season 2's second episode, he briefly hits this very pose, foreshadowing his secret connection to the Sun God.

9 Usopp Mentions Living Inside Laboon

When Usopp jokes about Crocus living inside Laboon at the end of One Piece season 2, episode 2, this is a homage to the original story where Crocus really does dwell inside the whale. Crocus' reaction, meanwhile, is a secret hint that there may come a day when living inside the whale will become necessary...

8 Usopp's Battle Against The "Mole Monster"

When Usopp is telling his tall tales to Brogy in One Piece season 2, he mentions fighting a mole monster with a 5 ton hammer. In the manga's Alabasta arc, Usopp and Chopper do end up fighting a Baroque Works agent whose Devil Fruit transforms her into a mole, and Usopp does use a hammer that he pretends weighs that much.

It's a running joke in the One Piece world that many of Usopp's lies eventually come true, and he even mentions a giant mole under Kaya's mention in the anime series. It would seem, however, that Netflix's One Piece is bringing up the mole monster now because it doesn't intend to adapt Usopp's fight against the burrowing Baroque Works agent in season 3's Alabasta arc.

This is because the agent Smoker fights in live-action has the same baseball gimmick that Usopp's mole monster later uses. Given that the Netflix adaptation deploys the baseball jokes and has Usopp mention a mole monster in season 2, it's unlikely we'll get Usopp battling a baseball-playing mole monster in One Piece season 3.

7 Semla Is A Reference To Big Mom

Dorry and Brogy both love their food, and mention a sweet Elbaph delicacy known as "semla" during their encounters with the Straw Hat crew. Semla features very heavily in the flashbacks of future One Piece villain (and member of the Four Emperors) Big Mom.

Due to her immense strength, Big Mom spent part of her childhood in Elbaph living among the giants, despite not being a giant herself. That didn't end well for the giants, who found themselves on the blunt end of Big Mom's voracious appetite for sweet treats. Semla was, notoriously, one of her favorites.

6 Dorry Has A Statue Of Loki's Silhouette

Eiichiro Oda is famous for his "silhouette" drawings of characters that haven't yet appeared in the manga properly. The first time a major villain is mentioned, Oda will typically show them as a crudely-drawn shadow, but when they eventually debut in full, they'll bear very little resemblance to their original silhouette. This has been true of Kaido, Big Mom, and many others throughout the One Piece story.

Another example is the giant known as Loki, the Prince of Elbaph. Loki was first shown as a dark blob with small features and a three-pronged crown, but crashed into his first real One Piece chapter with long hair, bandages over his eyes, a horned helmet, and a muscular physique.

One of the models Dorry has carved out of wood in One Piece's live-action adaptation is an exact replica of the original Loki silhouette from the anime and manga.