Shanks Gets Outclassed: Luffy and Joy Boy Have the Most Disrespectful Haki Feats in One Piece
Think Shanks halting Admiral Aramaki with a single surge of Conqueror’s Haki was peak disrespect? One Piece delivers two even colder flexes—Haki beatdowns so ruthless they stop enemies dead without a blade drawn.
Remember when Shanks basically stared down Admiral Aramaki, aka Greenbull, and folded him with nothing but pure Haki pressure? Great moment. But honestly, in the long, very weird history of One Piece flexes, that was not the peak of public humiliation by Haki. Two other moments crank the disrespect dial even higher.
Shanks vs. Greenbull: The warm-up act
Shanks hit Greenbull with Conqueror's Haki so hard the Admiral immediately dropped whatever he was trying to pull and bailed on Wano. It was brutal: intense pain, genuine fear, and a retreat that made the whole face-off feel one-sided, even though Greenbull had been framed as a serious problem. That alone could have been the headline. But keep reading.
Luffy dismantles Katakuri (Whole Cake Island, Chapters 878–896)
The Straw Hat vs. Katakuri showdown is legendary for a reason, and it is not because it was an even match. It is because we watched Luffy figure out the perfect way to break a guy who, up to that point, seemed unbreakable.
Katakuri had Observation Haki dialed up to future sight. The catch? That level of precognition needs perfect focus. And in Chapter 884, Luffy blew up that focus on purpose. The more Luffy kept the pressure on with Gear 4, the more Katakuri's rhythm and composure slipped. Confidence cracked. Haki slipped. Then the whole mental game collapsed.
He needed perfect focus for that future sight. Luffy never gave it to him.
That chapter is the turning point where the aura of invincibility vanishes. It is not just a win; it is a confidence heist in real time.
Joy Boy humiliates the Five Elders (Chapter 1122)
This one is on a different level because of how it happens. Joy Boy had stuffed a massive amount of Haki into relics from the Void Century, including the ancient robot Emet. When that power detonates in Chapter 1122, it detonates. We are talking a shockwave that forces the Five Elders out of their monster forms and back into their human bodies. Their Devil Fruit transformations? Cancelled. And then they get yanked all the way back to Mary Geoise against their will.
Even Imu is shown buckling under the blast, collapsing from the output. The whole thing is a surgical humiliation of the World Government that they clearly did not see coming. No fleet, no army, just one long-planned Haki play that flips the entire board.
So what tops the disrespect chart?
Shanks made an Admiral back off with a single flex, which is wild. Luffy broke Katakuri's mind mid-fight, which is colder. But Joy Boy literally stripped the Gorosei of their transformations and sent them home like kids getting kicked out of the pool. If we are grading on pure humiliation, Joy Boy takes the crown.
Where to watch and what to know
- Title: One Piece
- Creator: Eiichiro Oda
- Release date: October 20, 1999
- Studio: Toei Animation
- Ratings: IMDb 9.0/10 | MAL 8.73/10
- Streaming: All currently released episodes are on Crunchyroll
- Manga: Read the latest chapters on Viz Media