Similarities between One Piece (Alabasta Arc) and The Dark Knight Rises
August 28, 2016
I recently came across a thread stating the similarity between One Piece (anime and manga) by Eiichiro Oda and The Dark Knight Rises movie by Christopher Nolan.
Textual Representation
| Incident | One Piece | The Dark Knight Rises |
|---|---|---|
| Anti-hero protagonist | Luffy | Batman |
| Mastermind behind chaos | Crocodile | Bane |
| City that is nearing destruction | Alabasta | Gotham |
| City forces try to defend | Alabasta Royal Army | Gotham Police Force |
| Rebels try to take over | Koza and his army | All prisoners set free by Bane |
| Protagonist at the brink of death on first fight | Crocodile nearly impales Luffy and casts him into sand pit | Bane utterly breaks Batman and puts him in the pit |
| The next encounter is between the chaos | Luffy fights with Crocodile second time while rebels and royal army are fighting outside | Batman fights with Bane in midst of the fight between police and rebels |
| Protagonist has hidden a round shaped bomb somewhere in the city | Timed bomb hidden in the clock tower | Timed nuclear bomb hidden inside a moving truck |
| Protagonist’s allies try to find the location of the bomb | Luffy’s crew and Vivi | Gordon and his team |
| Bomb is airlifted far away from the city | Pel flies away carrying the bomb high into the sky | Batman uses the Bat to carry the bomb into the bay |
| Extra Both of them survive at the end | Pel is found alive in the subsequent episodes | Bruce Wayne is seen enjoying his vacation |