One Piece 1164 Spoilers: Imu’s Davy Jones Reveal Sets Up Oda’s Biggest Clue Yet About the Man Marked by Flames

Spoiler warning: This dives into One Piece chapter 1164. If you are allergic to spoilers, bail now.

Alright, so the 1164 spoilers are out, and they are exactly the kind of chaos fuel that sends the fandom spiraling. We are talking God Valley revelations and some surprisingly tidy answers to long-standing mysteries. The big swing: a deep-lore connection that might finally explain the Man Marked by Flames and how he does what he does.

The Davy Clan bombshell, and why it matters

Per the leaks, the Davy Clan wasn’t just a ceremonial oddity from history. They reportedly had the ability to control the tides. On its own, cool bit of worldbuilding. In context, it might actually be the key to cracking one of the series’ weirdest figures: the Man Marked by Flames.

Back in chapter 1081, the Blackbeard Pirates were swapping notes with Aokiji and brought up this guy’s signature move: while sailing, he supposedly triggers massive ocean vortexes that devour ships if they drift too close. Laffitte floated the Devil Fruit explanation, but it never sat right. The sea nerfs Devil Fruit users. Why would a sea-centric power be his thing?

If the Davy Clan could bend the tides, that whole vortex legend instantly makes sense without leaning on a fruit. The ability to toy with the sea itself would let someone stir up whirlpools on command and swallow fleets whole. It’s the cleanest explanation we have ever had for this dude’s mythos.

The Will of D angle

Those same spoilers nudge us toward another conclusion: the Man Marked by Flames might carry the Will of D and be tied to the Davy Clan. If that’s true, it frames him as exactly the kind of figure who would buck the World Government on principle. Not just a ghost on the water, but a problem. Possibly a very big one for Imu and the powers that be.

What we actually know about the Man Marked by Flames

• Chapter 1056: Killer name-drops him as someone they need to find with the One Piece endgame looming. Translation: he matters to the final war and the treasure itself.
• He is rumored to hold the Road Poneglyph that used to be on Fish-Man Island, which would put him squarely in the Laugh Tale conversation.
• The Blackbeard Pirates later describe him as a heavy hitter whose intel even the Yonko want. The implication is he has the last piece of the puzzle to reach Laugh Tale.
• His calling card at sea: traveling in a black ship that nobody can track down, plus those ship-eating ocean vortexes.
• Laffitte once suggested Devil Fruit involvement, but the whole sea-weakness thing has always made that theory wobbly. The Davy Clan tide-control reveal from chapter 1164 lines up way better.
• Some fans speculated he worked for the World Government. If the Davy connection and Will of D hints are legit, flip that: he would be one of their biggest enemies, potentially even a direct threat to Imu.
• You can read One Piece officially on Viz Media.

So where does this leave us?

If chapter 1164’s leaks hold, the pieces finally click: Davy Clan tide mastery explains the vortex trick, ties the Man Marked by Flames into the series’ deeper history, and puts him right on the collision course with the World Government that the story has been steering us toward. And with the God Valley teases escalating, this guy feels less like a rumor and more like a crucial chess piece for the endgame.