Franky Quotes

He is not a crew member when he says this. He also has a stake of his own: the government agents who took Robin had taken from his hideout the blueprints for an ancient weapon, plans his master, Tom, had secretly held. That is why it lands where twenty years of Robin's own reasoning did not. It arrives from someone with standing, which in this series is worth more than sympathy and is much harder to fake.

Turning down a marriage proposal with a brand slogan is the most Franky sentence available, and the slogan is the point. This is a man who responded to losing his mentor by rebuilding his own body out of scrap, and then rebuilt his vocabulary to match. Everything he says arrives at maximum volume in a word he invented, which is an efficient way of never being asked a follow-up question. Lola gets a compliment, a punchline and a closed door, in that order, and the closed door is the load-bearing part.

Fans quote this as a highlight and it is the point at which the character gets worse. Franky's real material is a shipwright who grieves ships: he built the Thousand Sunny because the Going Merry could not be saved, and the crew's most upsetting hour is a funeral for a boat. General Franky is a giant robot Franky combines from his other machines, and it converts a man who understands what it means for a vessel to die into a man who is one. The catchphrase escalation is the same move, adding a rank to a title to a name until nothing in the sentence identifies a person. It is a very funny bit. It is also the series filing its most thoughtful character under merchandise.