Ryu Ryu no Mi, Model: Spinosaurus

The Ryu Ryu no Mi, Model: Spinosaurus is an Ancient Zoan-type Devil Fruit that allows the user to transform into a spinosaurus hybrid and a full spinosaurus at will. It was eaten by Page One.

Etymology

 * Ryū (竜) is Japanese for "dragon" and can be found in the Japanese term for "dinosaur" (恐竜).

Strengths and Weaknesses
This fruit bestows the power to turn into a spinosaurus, a large and powerful, semiaquatic predator from the prehistoric era, as well as a hybrid between a spinosaurus and human (or other) at will.

As with other dinosaur-based Zoan types, transforming into a spinosaurus grants the user tremendous strength, particularly in their jaw, tail, and arms (in hybrid form). In his full-beast form, Page One is able to smash and tear apart buildings with ease using his maw and tail and, in his hybrid form, is strong enough to send a Raid Suit-donning Sanji flying and crashing through several buildings with a single swipe of his arm.

Being a dinosaur Zoan, this fruit bestows much greater durability than standard Zoan types do. When Monkey D. Luffy's Elephant Gun hit Page One's lower jaw, the latter claimed that his jaw had "loosened up a little".

No weaknesses are currently known aside from the standard Devil Fruit weaknesses.

Usage
Page One uses this fruit to great effect during combat and when going on the offensive, starting a destructive rampage in order to lure out Sanji.

Trivia

 * Spinosaurus was a semi-aquatic dinosaur built primarily for fishing. Similar to the amphibious Devil Fruit Sara Sara no Mi, Model: Axolotl, this is another species that is impacted by the Devil Fruits apparent weakness.
 * In comparison to X Drake's Ryu Ryu no Mi, Model: Allosaurus, which is based on another theropod dinosaur and is more in line with late-20th-century depictions of theropods, Oda's depiction of Page One's Spinosaurus form is much more modern. It is based on the 2014 reconstruction of the dinosaur with shorter backlegs. Generally, the Spinosaurus has little in the way of older depictions compared to the Allosaurus that interfere with its media portrayal; the only remains of the theropod were destroyed in World War II, and it took decades to find another set of fossils, and when they were found any previous versions were instantly dismissed due to their then-newly obvious incorrectness.
 * In Chapter 983, Page One's full-beast form features a different tail from before, being thinner and with taller spines similar to the ones on his back. This reflects a new fossil discovery (as of April 2020) suggesting that the ancient Spinosaurus' tail was more akin to a paddle, which allegedly aided the creature during swimming.
 * This very retcon was consequently acknowledged by Oda himself following a fan question included in an SBS.
 * This is actually the second physical change Page One's full beast form has undergone since his introduction in Chapter 929. The first was the v-shaped protrusion found in his eyebrow area that was not present in his debut.

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