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During Water 7 and Enies Lobby, Galley-La worker Paulie could be seen
performing a huge variety of roping attacks and abilities - including the save
of almost the entirety of Franky Brothers team when they were attacked at the
entrance of the island and saving Luffy, Nami, Zoro and Chopper from the
flood, when Aqua Laguna striked on W7.

Needless to say, a lot of these actions need excessive amount of ropes, that a
human (even a very, but not supernatually strong one) could barely keep at
himself. This led me to the assumption that Paulie had something "extra" - not
necessarily Demon Fruit power (since it's extremely unlikely), but something
else that may or may not have been explained.

Is there any source regarding this matter?


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Did Paulie own any additional abilities to perform his rope attacks?


There has been some speculations that Paulie had a DF power. I do not have a
source for this, as I have only seen this in One Piece related forums back
around the Enier Lobby arc (10 years ago?).
[Wikia's](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Paulie) page actually talks about
this as well:

> The amount of rope he carries is absurd, (which led some to speculate it was
> the power of a Devil Fruit) measuring hundreds, if not thousands of meters,
> as he was actually able to make a huge, complex rope-work in a split-second
> to keep not only himself, but also the entire Franky Family, their
> Kingbulls, Oimo, and Kashi from falling into the huge pit in Enies
> Lobby.[10] The amount of rope that he uses as a weapon and brings with
> himself all the time never seems to run out, since he has been known to pull
> out yards upon yards from time to time.

From the OP:

> Needless to say, a lot of these actions need excessive amount of ropes, that
> a human (even a very, but not supernatually strong one) could barely keep at
> himself.

**Some came to speculate Paulie had a DF power** not because of his superhuman
strength, but rather **because there is no way he could physically store all
of his ropes on himself**. Paulie is one of Galley-La Company's main
shipwright, which were all revealed to posses superhuman strength (even before
Kaku and Lucci revealed they were part of CP9).

Many characters in OP have superhuman strength without the use of a DF power.
The most obvious example that comes to mind is Zorro.


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As mentioned on the [Wikia article on
Paulie](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Paulie):

> [![enter image description
> here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/p64Wd.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/p64Wd.jpg)
>
> The amount of rope he carries is absurd, (which led some to speculate it was
> the power of a Devil Fruit) measuring hundreds, if not thousands of meters,
> as he was actually able to make a huge, complex rope-work in a split-second
> to keep not only himself, but also the entire Franky Family, their
> Kingbulls, Oimo, and Kashi from falling into the huge pit in Enies Lobby (
> _as seen abov_ e). The amount of rope that he uses as a weapon and brings
> with himself all the time never seems to run out, since he has been known to
> pull out yards upon yards from time to time.

He seems to pull the ropes out of
[**Hammerspace**](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_satchel):

> The term hammerspace describes the seemingly invisible place from which
> fictional characters, such as cartoon characters, pull out very large
> objects, such as mallets.

**As for an in-universe reason/logic behind him being able to pull out so many
ropes, there is none.** Oda was asked this question in [SBS
39](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/SBS_Volume_39):

> D: Oda-sensei, hello!! Umm, where does Paulie's rope come from? And where
> did he come up with the names for moves like Rope Action "Half Knot"?
> They're not just random, are they? Tell us!
>
> O: Paulie's ropes come shooting out of the bottom of his sleeves.
> Apparently, there's a whole bunch of rope hidden in the lining of his coat!
> [...]

Therefore, it's not that he has a Devil Fruit, but that the matter wasn't
really paid attention to. It works because Oda wants it to work. There _is_
always a possibility that he may have gotten a Devil Fruit power after the
timeskip (although it's unlikely), but even if that were the case, it
definitely wouldn't explain the infinite length of rope he had on him before
the timeskip. So no, he doesn't have any devil fruit power and/or additional
abilities which allow him to store such a length of rope on him, except for
possibly wearing a coat whose lining allows him to pull out such ropes.


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