Discussion Franky's upgrades

[hyper_megaman]

I do not believe franky turned himself into BF37

BF36's in there, maybe with upgrades, driving bf37


remember franky's an excellent engineer. the last time he was ravaged horribly by a train running him over, he managed to fix himself up. synthetic skin is not an issue.


so, why the scars? and why the horrible weird distance between his shoulders and his arms? and why bother redesigning the entire bicep when he already has forearms that size?

my theory: Bf37 is an exosuit. BF36, upgraded or not, is in there driving BF37.

driving BF37 is just like driving a tank. all-around armour thta he can fix and jump back into.

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comparison picture:

Source:
http://mangastream.com/read/one_piece/40324560/10

 

[tothx]

Not a bad idea.. Cause he really is too huge right now

 

[hyper_megaman]

how else can one fix his weakness of having a flesh back because he can't reach there?

by making an exosuit, which u can walk around and design from all directions, then jumping into it.

his back weakness is probably gone now. but some time in the future bf37 probably get so damaged he has to jump out and fight as bf 36 again, then we will see his upgrades

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it also explains the shoddy work on his legs. it looks like they were just thrown in in the last minute.

franky probably only donned the exosuit when he was done with everything adn was preparing to leave for sabondy archipelago.

he then discovers it's too heavy, and whips up something on the spot that's kind of crude but works, and hurries off so he can reach early and upgrade thousand sunny

 

[Turtle Pirate]

how else can one fix his weakness of having a flesh back because he can't reach there?

by making an exosuit, which u can walk around and design from all directions, then jumping into it.

his back weakness is probably gone now. but some time in the future bf37 probably get so damaged he has to jump out and fight as bf 36 again, then we will see his upgrades
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it also explains the shoddy work on his legs. it looks like they were just thrown in in the last minute.

franky probably only donned the exosuit when he was done with everything adn was preparing to leave for sabondy archipelago.

he then discovers it's too heavy, and whips up something on the spot that's kind of crude but works, and hurries off so he can reach early and upgrade thousand sunny

by building arms that don't have a limit to where they can reach and using two mirrors...

i think you should just get used to the idea of franky's new body instead of trying to come up with some armor that he wears, even if it is slightly possible, although i'm very doubtful

and i think you signed your name on that way too many times

 

[hyper_megaman]

by building arms that don't have a limit to where they can reach and using two mirrors...

i think you should just get used to the idea of franky's new body instead of trying to come up with some armor that he wears, even if it is slightly possible, although i'm very doubtful

and i think you signed your name on that way too many times

edit: quoting for the record

nice straightforward thinking


aaaaand.. when has oda ever been straightforward?

and this is franky too, a guy who uses his hair as a fuel gauge. i wouldn't put it past him

thanks for the contribution though. it's always nice to have people teach u convention is the best and only way to do things.

 

[kkck]

I don't think franky has a suit of any kind. He had his body ravaged by a huge explosion so he rebuilt from scratch just as before. I think this is the same scenario as when franky first rebuilt himself. He used to be skinny as hell and when he rebuilt himself he made himself bigger. He just did the same process all over again. As for franky's current design, I do not like it. He is too proportionate in all plausible ways, outright awkward. He just stands out too much. I guess his size would be ok but his arms are just awful to look at. They look like if they were made from babies toys and put together by a 2 year old on crack. If they looked like regular (yet huge) arms it'd be almost fine for the most part(the size would still be too much though).

 

[Uriel]

LOL, all this just to not accept the change? Ingenious.

 

[fcToho]

When I look at the new Franky, I see something like this:

Sorry Oda, but I liked the old one. I'm no Transformer-fan.

 

[Gourmamonster]

To me, Franky looks like a gorilla which makes sense since the lab he was using for two years was used to design cyborg animals.

I want to see him in action before I make any judgments.

 

[kkck]

I don't think that was the case. Didn't the manga say that once franky exploded the manga he found another secret lab where vegapunk used to work at?

 

[Gourmamonster]

I don't think that was the case. Didn't the manga say that once franky exploded the manga he found another secret lab where vegapunk used to work at?

The second "secret" lab was the animal cyborg lab.

http://mangastream.com/read/one_piece/93580674/14

 

[Turtle Pirate]

edit: quoting for the record

nice straightforward thinking


aaaaand.. when has oda ever been straightforward?

and this is franky too, a guy who uses his hair as a fuel gauge. i wouldn't put it past him

thanks for the contribution though. it's always nice to have people teach u convention is the best and only way to do things.

hardly conventional, the idea of an armor is gay to me

he has to "equip" an armor anytime he needs to fight, it's not his own strength
he's getting into a mech and fighting with it

and him having his hair as a fuel gauge has nothing to do with him wearing an armor or not... i'd say that's just a comedic side-effect that oda just added

 

[kkck]

It'd be interesting if franky actually has different sets of arms in store. Basically, the arms he has right now would be a set out of many.

 

[Gourmamonster]

I think what makes his arms look so bad are the balls for shoulders and his armpits are by his stomach..

 

[kkck]

I think it's the weird joints and huge cubes he has for arms. huge ridiculous shoulders do not help. I think the main issue is that his arms don't actually look human in the least, they look like a bunch of old toys put together. If they actually looked somewhat human and smoother the ridiculous size would be passable.

 

[Gourmamonster]

I just hope we can see what he can do with his upgrades soon. It has to be completely BA to justify his new look.

 

[hyper_megaman]

hardly conventional, the idea of an armor is gay to me

he has to "equip" an armor anytime he needs to fight, it's not his own strength
he's getting into a mech and fighting with it

and him having his hair as a fuel gauge has nothing to do with him wearing an armor or not... i'd say that's just a comedic side-effect that oda just added

define own strength. what's the difference between his strength or not if he stays inside it?

the fact that he's been using it all the while so far shows he could be adapting to it

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his fist might not be inside the forearms. it could be an open extension and connected to his lego arms, and he can disconnect them at the elbow joint to reveal his old forearms' connectors (weapons left style, only without the hinged palm anymore)

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I don't think franky has a suit of any kind. He had his body ravaged by a huge explosion so he rebuilt from scratch just as before. I think this is the same scenario as when franky first rebuilt himself. He used to be skinny as hell and when he rebuilt himself he made himself bigger. He just did the same process all over again. As for franky's current design, I do not like it. He is too proportionate in all plausible ways, outright awkward. He just stands out too much. I guess his size would be ok but his arms are just awful to look at. They look like if they were made from babies toys and put together by a 2 year old on crack. If they looked like regular (yet huge) arms it'd be almost fine for the most part(the size would still be too much though).

he was fully operational, just had his synthetic skin burned off

he was in no pain, or discomfort at all, if he could play around like that

if u look closely he retained all his limbs, including his outermost extremities

 

[Turtle Pirate]

define own strength. what's the difference between his strength or not if he stays inside it?

the fact that he's been using it all the while so far shows he could be adapting to it
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his fist might not be inside the forearms. it could be an open extension and connected to his lego arms, and he can disconnect them at the elbow joint to reveal his old forearms' connectors (weapons left style, only without the hinged palm anymore)

as i said... it's the mech's strength according to your theory, and it's just his piloting abilities

but i'm done, you're not gonna give this up til you see otherwise, so just enjoy your "armor" idea

 

[hyper_megaman]

I just hope we can see what he can do with his upgrades soon. It has to be completely BA to justify his new look.

what's BA?

yea i hope so too. i really want confirmation, regardless of whether i'm right or wrong.


this is my theory until then though

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as i said... it's the mech's strength according to your theory, and it's just his piloting abilities

but i'm done, you're not gonna give this up til you see otherwise, so just enjoy your "armor" idea

what's piloting skills got to do with it if u use it every single day? it's basically an extension already, or prosthetics

so tony stark's strength is in his ability to pilot his armour? not in the armour's capability itself?

how much ability do u need to pilot an exosuit?

so what about people who lose their limbs and haev prosthetics? piloting skills much?

 

[Turtle Pirate]

what's BA?

yea i hope so too. i really want confirmation, regardless of whether i'm right or wrong.


this is my theory until then though
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what's piloting skills got to do with it if u use it every single day? it's basically an extension already, or prosthetics

so tony stark's strength is in his ability to pilot his armour? not in the armour's capability itself?

how much ability do u need to pilot an exosuit?

so what about people who lose their limbs and haev prosthetics? piloting skills much?

everything you said pretty much confirmed what i said...
besides the loss of limbs thing, you have to strengthen other parts of your body to be able to use a prosthetic limb
prosthetics would be BF36 - he replaced his torn destroyed body with metal
you're saying BF37 is an armor he walks into to be strong, and he leaves and then he's super weak again
hopefully he never leaves that armor on the ship when he gets into a pinch

yes, tony stark can't do crap, his ability is being really smart
all the power is in the armor, which is why there's a war machine and other enemies who just use armors...
the power's in the suit, not the person

and i dont know how much you'd need to pilot an exosuit, cause there's no such thing in real life to test it out