Recaps

Doflamingo trained Shirahoshi, expanded his alliance, and helped arrange the killing of Whitebeard Jr. Kuzan began drawing Zephyr into the alliance, while Joker launched a prison uprising at Impel Down.

• Doflamingo healed Shirahoshi after Vander Decken IX's attack, then took her to Alabasta to train her and made Vander Decken apologize to her.
• Shanks and Kiku met Ace, Luffy, and Sabo in Goa Kingdom while searching for Buggy, and Doflamingo learned of the meeting through the brothers' dreams.
• Doflamingo gathered his allies, revealed that Sugar had turned nearly a hundred Celestial Dragons into toys, and ordered them to pause their hunts as Imu might awaken.
• Doflamingo's alliance planned to recruit Zephyr and selected Alonso to kill Whitebeard Jr., while Alonso and Law tested whether a transplanted heart could let him wield two Devil Fruits.
• Alonso received a transplanted heart and the Tsuchigumo Fruit, then trapped and killed Whitebeard Jr. and Bakin before the Five Elders learned of the unidentified attacker.
• Kuzan told Zephyr that Whitebeard Jr. was dead and revealed the alliance's opposition to the World Government and its warning of a coming catastrophe.
• Joker escaped confinement at Impel Down, infected most of the prison with contagious poison, and trapped Magellan on a Sea Stone toilet seat as he began his final performance.

Doflamingo reshaped the lives of Teach, Nami, and the Spade Pirates while building his influence and pursuing new plans. The arc ends with Ace and Sabo facing Bullet to earn the Eternal Pose to Laugh Tale.

• Joker took over Impel Down, renamed it Arkham Asylum, and used an untested virus to transform Magellan.
• Doflamingo visited Wano, dueled Shanks, and traded Shimotsuki Ushimaru for the Human-Human Fruit - Onyudo Form Fruit.
• Doflamingo trapped the Whitebeard Pirates in an Illusion Space, manipulated Teach into pursuing strength through training, and arranged for Thatch to eat an artificial Azure Dragon Fruit.
• After Hody Jones attacked Cocoyasi Village, Doflamingo gave Nami the Rumble-Rumble Fruit and helped her rescue Kinoko from Navy 16th Branch.
• Nami defeated Hody Jones with a storm of natural lightning, though the attack destroyed Cocoyasi Village and left only Nami, Kinoko, and Nami’s sister alive.
• Doflamingo supplied Germa 66 with a Devil Fruit and used clone souls to complete artificial fruits, then empowered the strongest animals on Beast-Dragon Island.
• Bullet challenged Ace and Sabo, offering them an Eternal Pose to Laugh Tale and testing their strength before handing it over.
• Bullet overpowered Sabo with Conqueror’s Haki Infusion, prompting Ace and Sabo to join forces and charge him.

Doflamingo defeated Charlotte Linlin, took control of Totto Land, and set events in motion for Luffy’s journey. After the newly formed Straw Hat Crew reached the Golden City, Doflamingo offered Robin’s help in finding the final Red Poneglyph and tested Zoro and Kuina’s strength.

• Ace and Sabo attacked Bullet, but Bullet blocked Ace’s Flame Emperor with his Combine-Combine Fruit, and Ace destroyed the Eternal Pose and celebrated with the pirates, while Thatch claimed Doflamingo’s legendary cookbook.
• Doflamingo stole the Dark-Dark Fruit from Thatch and erased the crew’s memories of it, then ambushed Teach, extracted his Soul Fragment, and brought him and the fruit to Judge for technological experiments.
• Doflamingo and Judge allied with Hancock to attack Charlotte Linlin, whose forces clashed with the Kuja Pirates before Doflamingo defeated her using illusions and a falling moon, and Judge extracted her Soul-Soul Fruit.
• Doflamingo revived Totto Land’s Homies, abolished the soul tax, and brought the Charlotte Family under his control, and meanwhile, the Navy expanded into the New World and Doflamingo considered Luffy’s future journey to Laugh Tale.
• Luffy set sail from Foosha Village and gathered Zoro, Kuina, and Oceanus as companions, after defeating Kuro and the Joker Party in Syrup Village, the crew crossed Reverse Mountain, recruited Chopper, and reached Alabasta.
• Robin and Baccarat welcomed the Straw Hat Crew in Alabasta and guided them to the Golden City, where Luffy met Doflamingo and learned he needed a skilled Navigator and Robin’s ability to read Poneglyphs to find the Final Island.
• Doflamingo offered Robin to help Luffy search for the final Red Poneglyph and warned that World Government agents would target her, and Robin embraced Doflamingo, while Luffy, Zoro, and Sanji promised to keep her safe.
• Doflamingo fought Zoro and Kuina, injuring Zoro before he could finish his attack and disarming Kuina, and he criticized their combat weaknesses, leaving Kuina visibly shaken.