Goro Goro no Mi

The Goro Goro no Mi is a Logia-type Devil Fruit that grants the power to create, control, and transform into lightning at will, making its user a Lightning Human (雷人間); according to Nico Robin, it is one of the few powers touted as "invincible". The fruit was eaten from by Enel.

Etymology

 * Gorogoro (ごろごろ・ゴロゴロ) is a Japanese onomatopoeia for the rumbling of thunder.
 * It is also children's language for thunder/lightning, e.g.: gorogoro-sama (ごろごろ様・ゴロゴロ様).
 * In the Viz manga, the English version of the game Pirates Carnival (dubbed by 4Kids), and the anime's FUNimation dub, it is called the Rumble-Rumble Fruit, likewise referencing the rolling sound of thunder.

Strengths
This Logia's power is to become lightning itself: to generate, control, and transform into electricity. The user can discharge variable amounts of electricity from their body to manipulate as they please and can freely regulate its voltage: 200 million volts being the maximum output (roughly in the range of natural lightning). Even for a Logia, this ability seems outstandingly potent, given the inherent destructivity of lightning, with Nico Robin stating that, among the many existing Devil Fruits, the Goro Goro no Mi's power is one of the few that boasts invincibility.



Like any Logia, the user can physically morph into their element. Becoming electricity allows them to avoid nigh all attacks, having them simply phase through and disperse their intangible body before reforming untouched. Enemies are dissuaded from directly striking the user—whether with their body or an electrically conductive weapon—lest they be electrocuted, granting the user a melee-combat advantage. By fully shifting to electricity, the user can move at lightning speed, allowing them to zip into and out of sight, cross large distances near-instantaneously, easily dodge most attacks, and overtake any fleeing target. On top of that, a user of the Goro Goro no Mi can merge their lightning self with conductive materials (e.g., metals like gold) to stealthily travel through it. Thanks to their electrical immunity, the user can freely spawn electricity inside their body without repercussion; they can even restart their own heart with electricity should they suffer cardiac arrest.

While the Goro Goro no Mi user is a great menace up close, given how they can electrically shock and burn people on contact, their electrocuting potential is not limited to close range, as they can conjure up vast amounts of electricity to launch as long-ranged blasts, striking farer-off targets. These attacks can be shapeless masses of lightning, focused or spreading out, and can be sent directly at opposition along a forward path or made to crash down from above like natural lightning; alternatively, the electricity can be more distinctly shaped, such as given the likeness of animals. Beside lightning itself, the user may also produce thunderclaps, by superheating the air around them to make it expand at the speed of sound.

What is more, should the Goro Goro no Mi user have access to naturally or unnaturally formed thunderclouds in their vicinity (as Enel had with the storm clouds artificially spewed forth by his flying ark), they can use said clouds to dramatically boost the range of their lightning manipulation, to the point of showering entire islands with countless lightning bolts or creating enormous, spherical clouds laden with enough electricity to utterly destroy islands they are dropped upon.

The user's lightning abilities even extend to electromagnetism and heat on some level, bestowing great versatility. For instance, a user of the Goro Goro no Mi can channel their electricity into metal such as gold to heat it up, melt it, and then reshape it, as shown when Enel did so to reforge his gold staff into a heat-exuding trident, or when he temporarily liquified and took control of his flying ark's gold plating to entrap his foe therein. Otherwise, the Goro Goro no Mi endows its user with the power to pick up on and "read electromagnetic waves" (電波を読み取り) from the air, across great distances. By combining said facet of his powers with his "Mantra" (Kenbunshoku Haki), Enel gained a constant, radar-like sense of awareness of everything happening around him on a massive scale, allowing him to sense the locations, actions, and even conversations of anyone present on Skypiea at any time.

Weaknesses


While extremely powerful, the Goro Goro no Mi's power does have a unique weakness in the form of rubber, as rubber is a natural insulator. This makes the user of the Gomu Gomu no Mi the natural enemy of and counter to the Goro Goro no Mi's user, as the body of a Gomu Gomu no Mi user is completely rubber-made. All of Enel's lightning attacks were shown to have absolutely no effect on Monkey D. Luffy, even those with voltages as high as 100 or 200 million. In addition, all of Luffy's physical blows that struck Enel completely bypassed the latter's Logia invulnerability. It is unknown if other insulators have the same effect on Enel's Logia form.

Moreover, it is shown that someone with their own ability effect lightning, such as Nami with her Clima-Tact, can deflect some of the Goro Goro no Mi user's attacks, although Enel noted that Nami would have been unable to do so against higher voltages.

Otherwise, this fruit's user suffers the standard weaknesses of any Devil Fruit user, like losing their powers if submerged in water or contacting Seastone, and Busoshoku Haki negating their intangibility.

Usage
During his tenure as "God" of Skypiea, Enel employed his lightning powers to mete out his so-called "divine punishment" to whoever went against his declared laws or merely spoke ill of him, disclosed his secrets, etc., leaving especially the Angel Island denizens in constant and abject fear of his anger. Enel managed to do this by using his high-level "Mantra" in conjunction with his ability to read electromagnetic waves from afar to make his sphere of perception span the entire country, granting him a radar-like awareness of everything occurring in it. He would surveil all Skypieans and listen in on what they were saying so that, should he hear disparaging conversations, he could send down giant lightning bolts to smite the concerning parties from on high (his residence at God's Shrine); alternatively, Enel would take notice of when people uttered his name and personally confront them.

Another non-combative use of his abilities was Enel's powering of his colossal flying ark, the Maxim, which he had engineered to run on electricity as its main power source (with the gold from the Shandorian ruins that had been built into the ship conducting the electrical energy that Enel channeled into the ship); ultimately, Enel achieved his goal of reaching "Fairy Vearth" (the Moon) using his flying ark.

When Enel does enter face-to-face combat, his powers have been shown to make him extremely formidable, with none of those he came to fight on Skypiea knowing how to handle his Logia powers (only Wyper, apart from Luffy, managing to hurt him once by catching Enel unawares with Seastone). Enel's lightning form is shown to grant him tremendous agility, allowing him to move about untraceably fast and into enemies' blind spots, catch up to fleeing targets, evade attacks with almost no discernible effort, and even traverse electrically conductive materials like gold. If someone manages to hit Enel with a strong enough blow to make his heart cease beating, he can restart it using his electricity.

Most of Enel's offensive moves are meant to dispatch opposition via overwhelming amounts of electricity hurled at them all at once, usually knocking them out and inflicting severe burns. Most of Enel's seen attacks, at short and long range alike, sufficed to instantly defeat whoever they were used against, with Enel unaccustomed to enemies that can withstand more than one or two of his attacks. For some of his moves, particularly those forming animals out of electricity, Enel uses the taiko drums on his shoulders as a medium, tapping them with his gold staff and making them glow before a given lightning creature appears from them to assail Enel's foe. Against the rubber-bodied Luffy, who proved utterly immune to electrocution, Enel instead opted to use his gold staff in melee, reforging his weapon into a sharp trident exuding electrical heat to both slice and burn his foe, as well as using the gold integrated into the Ark Maxim to encase one of Luffy's arms in a large, golden sphere, permanently hampering his movements.

Finally, using the thunderclouds generated by the Ark Maxim as a medium, Enel was able to dramatically increase the range and scale of his lightning techniques, creating exceedingly destructive attacks (namely his Mamaragan and Raigo) that could ravage and destroy whole islands. His ultimate move is shown to involve transforming his own body into a giant version of itself made out of pure lightning (his Amaru technique) to maximally increase the strength and voltage behind his attacks.

Techniques
Several of Enel's techniques are named after thunder and lightning deities from real-life mythology, befitting Enel's self-proclaimed "God" status. Furthermore, for some of his attacks, Enel puts before their name a mention of how many volts they contain, indicating their power level.




 * El Thor: Called "God's Judgment" (神の裁き) by Skypieans, El Thor is one of Enel's most frequent attacks, used by him to smite Skypieans all over the country that spoke against him, all the way from God's Shrine. Enel sends out a large cluster of electricity to gather right above his selected target before, with a downward swipe of his arm, making it crash down as a massive column, frying the unlucky target and, usually, leaving a deep crater in the ground. Enel has also cast El Thor in more direct combat situations, including as a forward beam from his hand, with the attack proving potent enough to instantly take out the giant Master of the Sky. The first usage of El Thor came before Enel's in-person debut, when he punished a trespassing Blue Sea dweller on the edge of Upper Yard, sending lightning down from on high. "Thor" is the Norse god of thunder and lightning. "ʼĒl" is a Northwest Semitic word (Hebrew: אֵל) that means "god" or "deity"; additionally, "el-" is a romanization of the Arabic definite article, with just "el" being the Spanish article for masculine singular nouns (per which one could render the translation of El Thor as "The Thor"). In the game, One Piece: Pirates Carnival, dubbed by 4Kids, this move is called Volt Bolt. In the Viz Manga and FUNimation dub, it retains its original name.




 * Vari: A basic technique that has Enel discharge variable amounts of electricity—200 million volts at maximum—from his body, primarily through his hand, in order to shock nearby targets, becoming a living body of lightning upon reaching higher voltages. There are multiple versions of this attack designated according to the voltage employed. Vari was first seen in use by Enel to defeat Kamakiri. "Vārī" comes from the Japanese onomatopoeia for the crackling of electricity, varivari (ヴァリヴァリ) or baribari (バリバリ), similar to "bzzt" in English. The FUNimation dub retains the name Vari for the attack while the Viz manga renders it as Varie.
 * 1,000,000 Volt (100万): This version of Vari was used by Enel to dispatch Kamakiri, one of the strongest Shandian warriors. The resulting stray discharge of electricity travelled through the Milky Road Enel was on, thereby taking out another 20 fighters remotely.
 * 20,000,000 Volt (2千万): This version of Vari was used by Enel to take out Gan Fall, creating an arc discharge between his two index fingers that he struck the knight with.
 * 100,000,000 Volt (1億): This version of Vari was used by Enel on Luffy, producing an intense and unruly blast of lightning. Luffy, because of his rubber body, was completely unfazed by the attack, despite having been in direct contact with Enel's hand.
 * Max 200,000,000 Volt (2億): The strongest version of Vari, used with the highest possible voltage that Enel can muster up through his powers. He was seen using this not to attack but to power up his Ark Maxim.


 * Sango: An attack where Enel raises an arm and shoots from it a massive stream of lightning upward, indiscriminately ravaging everything that is above him. The attack was first seen when Enel destroyed the Upper Ruins of Upper Yard, sending the last remaining survivors of his survival game down to him. "Shango" (Ṣàngó) is a West African thunder god, an orisha in the Yoruba religion. The kanji read inazuma (稲妻), a popular Japanese term for lightning (due to an ancient Japanese belief that rice plants would mate with or otherwise be fertilized by lightning). In the VIZ Manga, the attack is called Sango Smash.


 * Kari: A technique where Enel superheats the air around him with a full-body release of electricity, causing it to expand at the speed of sound and create a thunderclap, which in turn allows Enel to neutralize nonmaterial attacks directed at him. The attack was used by Enel to negate a flame blast from Wyper's Burn Bazooka. "Kari" (or "Karei/Karey") is a Malayan thunder god of the Semang people. The Viz manga calls this Kari Krash.


 * Shinzo Massage (心臓マッサージ): A passive use of his powers that lets Enel regain his consciousness in the event that his heart enters a state of cardiac arrest, by applying jolts of electricity to his body that effectively massage his heart, thereby restarting it. While not directly named in the manga or anime, the technique was named in One Piece: Burning Blood.


 * 30,000,000 Volt Hino (3000万･): An attack whereby Enel strikes one of the drums at his back with his gold staff, causing a giant, hawk-shaped mass of 30-million-V electricity to appear from it and fly toward Enel's chosen target, severely electrocuting them upon passing through them. The technique was used by Enel in an attempt to defeat Wyper. "Hino" is a thunder deity in Iroquois (Native American) mythology. The kanji read raichō (雷鳥), the Japanese name of the rock ptarmigan, a type of grouse; the separate translation of the kanji may reference the "thunderbird", a legendary creature known for its powers over lightning and thunder, found in Native American peoples' mythology like the aforesaid god. The Viz manga calls this attack Hino Bird Zap, the game One Piece: Grand Adventure calls it Hino Avian Zap, while the FUNimation dub retains the original name.


 * Kiten: An attack where Enel strikes one of his shoulder drums with his gold staff to create from it a large, wolf-shaped mass of lightning, which jumps at an opponent to electrocute them. The attack was used by Enel to take out Roronoa Zoro. Though Kiten's voltage remained unstated, Enel striking a single drum like for his Hino technique (and using the two attacks one after the other) may suggest a similar amount of volts. "Kiten" is an Asian thunder deity. The kanji read raijū (雷獣), referring to the same-named creature from Japanese mythology: the companion of the Japanese thunder god Raijin, sometimes said to be a wolf or dog, with a body made of, or wrapped in, lightning, and which descends to the earth inside thunderbolts (hence this attack's shape). In the Viz Manga, the technique is called Lightning Beast Kiten; in Grand Adventure (dubbed by 4Kids) it is called 30 Million Volt Kiten.


 * 60,000,000 Volt Jamboule (6000万･): An attack where Enel taps the two top drums on his back using his staff to prompt a large, serpentine dragon made of electricity to come out of them. This dragon flies at the designated target, passing through and electrocuting them with 60 million volts. The attack was performed by Enel in an attempt to hurt Luffy, who due to his rubber body remained unhurt by it. The attack is, in its name, loosely based on "Jagtjadbulla", one of the "Lightning Brothers" from Australian Aboriginal mythology, of whom there exists famous rock art in Northern Australia. The technique is called Jamboule in the video games, Lightning Dragon in the Viz manga, Thunder Dragon in the English version of One Piece: Pirates Carnival, and retains its original name in the FUNimation dub.




 * Gloam Paddling: A technique whereby Enel channels electricity into a piece of metal he touches—like his gold staff or the gold plating of his flying ark—to superheat, melt, and then reshape it into anything he desires. During his duel with Luffy, Enel used Gloam Paddling to reforge his gold staff into a sharp-bladed trident, while retaining the electrical heat inside the weapon to simultaneously cut and burn Luffy upon contact with it. Later, Enel used this technique to encase Luffy's arm in a giant globe of gold, impeding his ability to properly move and fight. The name of this technique may be a pun on Grom (Гром), which means "thunder" in several Slavic languages, like Russian and Serbian. In the Viz Manga, the technique is called Luminous Forge.


 * Deathpiea (デスピア): One of the prime functions of Enel's flying ark, the Maxim. Using his energy to power the ark, Enel has the ship spew out a massive, artifical jet stream of thunderclouds from a large smokestack, which start covering the skies. The clouds accumulate energy whilst spreading, and Enel can take control of them at any time to start raining down from them dozens of lightning bolts to devastate the clouded-over area. True to the name of this ability, Enel sought to use it in order to annihilate the country of Skypiea.
 * Mamaragan: Once the thunderclouds of Deathpiea have started covering the sky above the stretch of land Enel wants to hit with lightning, he can initiate this technique, causing the clouds to shower everything below them with dozens of massive lightning bolts that burn anything they strike, while continually growing in strength. Enel was seen using Mamaragan to start assaulting all of Skypiea with lightning strikes, wreaking mass destruction; a single bolt of lightning proved enough to destroy a Shandian village. Enel can direct individual lightning to strike specific locations by directing the bolts with his arms. "Mamaragan" is an Australian Aboriginal thunder god. The move's name in the Viz manga is the same.




 * Raigo (雷迎): One of Enel's ultimate techniques, possible after Deathpiea has been invoked. Enel shapes a vast quantity of prior-made thunderclouds into a giant, dark sphere laden with inordinate amounts of electricity. Enel then moves this cloud above a chosen location on the ground and drops it there. Upon hitting the ground, the cloud bursts apart, causing an enormous explosion of electricity that can annihilate a whole island. When first seen in use, Raigo managed to destroy all of Angel Island, leaving a giant crater in its wake that reached deep into the White-White Sea. Later, Enel formed another Raigo cloud even bigger than the first, in order to decimate the rest of Skypiea; this second cloud was dissipated by Luffy before it could do any damage, however. The name of this technique is a homophonic pun on raigō (来迎), a Japanese-Buddhist term referring to the Amida Buddha's appearance on a purple cloud to welcome the near-departed into the afterlife; here, the rai (来) for "next/coming" is replaced by rai (雷) for "thunder/lightning". In the Viz manga, this technique is called Kingdom Come. In Burning Blood, Enel performs it by assuming his Amaru form (mentioned below), then thrusting dual trident tips (his staff duplicated into two) into the cloud sphere, causing a large electrical storm to rain from it. In other forms of media such as One Piece: Pirate Warriors, Enel instead drops the cloud on top his targets.




 * Max 200,000,000 Volt Amaru (2億･): Enel's ultimate technique next to Raigo, seemingly used as a last-ditch attempt to defeat a foe strong enough to endure his other lightning attacks. Enel morphs his body into pure, 200,000,000-volt electricity, at the same time increasing his size to assume the form of a potbellied, Raijin-esque lightning giant. In this state, Enel can unleash immense blasts of electricity from his hands and wields his original gold staff split into a pair of tridents, which burn anything they touch. However, even with Amaru, Enel was unable to significantly injure Luffy due to his rubber body and had his intangibility bypassed by the latter's strikes, ultimately being defeated by Luffy's final attack on him: a spiraling rubber punch strengthened by the gold orb attached to Luffy's arm at the time, which instantly forced Enel out of his Amaru form upon hitting him. The name of this technique is a pun on amakudaru (天下る), in reference to the falling of lightning. The kanji read raijin (雷神), either a generic term for any given mythological thunder deity or specifically the name of the Japanese thunder god "Raijin". The Viz manga retains the original name of the technique.

Past
Sometime before leaving his home island, Birka, and conquering Skypiea by overthrowing its resident "God", Enel found the Goro Goro no Mi and ate from it. Gaining such powers drove him to destroy his homeland and develop a god complex.

Anime and Manga Differences
Although the color of the lightning created by Enel in the anime and video games is a light blue, in the manga (as evident from a 2007 calendar artwork) it is yellow.

Trivia

 * In One Piece Magazine Vol.11, Boa Hancock is illustrated wielding the Goro Goro no Mi's power, while also attired just like Enel.
 * According to Oda, Nami would have this Devil Fruit power if she was allowed one.
 * Enel's ability to control and reshape gold in a semiliquid state with his Gloam Paddling is similar to the gold manipulation enabled by Goru Goru no Mi, though of course with Enel's abilities being more limited. Coincidentally, the two Devil Fruits have similar names.
 * Despite the fact that Enel's has used his Gloam Paddling exclusively on gold, suggesting the use of electromagnetism to manipulate its shape, gold is actually a non-magnetic metal.

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