

Why does it appear that Doflamingo's Bird Cage is indestructible? What is the
different between the strings used in DD's attacks and the birdcage? Why can't
Zoro cut the birdcage?


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Why can't the birdcage be cut?


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I don't think it is because Zoro cannot cut the cage that he is trying to push
it back. In chapter 270 he was in a similar situation, where he was trapped by
the _White Cage_ during the [Ordeal of
Iron](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Ordeal_of_Iron#Ordeal_of_Iron). At that
time he says it is completely unnecessary to trap him, because he is not going
to run away. Now, with the birdcage, the situation is similar in the sense
that he has no intention of running away. **Cutting the birdcage or running
away, will not benefit anyone with Doflamingo still around.** He will try to
kill anyone present at the island, with or without the birdcage.

Zoro knows this and knows that the person that will defeat Doflamingo is
Luffy, but he does not know how much more time Luffy will need. Therefore **to
buy Luffy as much time as he can and to prevent as much casualties as he can,
he tries to block the cage, instead of cutting it.** We have no clue what
would happen if he cuts the cage and it will probably require much needed
energy, which will probably just go to waste by cutting the cage over and over
again, because we all know Doflamingo will keep putting it up again and again.

Now as to your question whether the birdcage is indestructible, **that has not
yet been revealed up until the latest chapter 787**. Other than a few unknown
pirates and the meteor from Fujitora, there has not been a single person that
has actually tried to attack the cage, not now, nor in the flash-back.
Therefore it is hard to say how strong the strings actually are.


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I have 2 theories on why Zoro did'nt try to cut the birdcage.

  1. He never interferes with Luffy's fight just like Luffy will never interferes with his...he could have also chosen to attack Doffy directly now that he's weakened badly and either defeat Doffy or easily buying the 10min Luffy needs...instead he chose to delay the birdcage closing and believe in Luffy eventually defeating Doffy and making Luffy appears as the ultimate hero in stopping both Doffy and birdcage.

  2. Doffy has COC haki and Zoro doesn't. So at this point he can't go up against Doffy nor cut his birdcage.

Personally I prefers the first theory cause it's way cooler and there is the
speculation that Zoro possess COC ever since his fight with Monet.

As for Fujitora I believe he could not openly oppose Doffy due to their
respective status.


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First of all, the birdcage itself cuts. A person not possessing Haki can't
even touch the cage. If they try to touch they might get injured.

> Here is a proof: ![Chapter 788-Page 14](https://i.stack.imgur.com/CcpnA.jpg)
> Zoro told them to move towards the factory because the factory is made of
> sea-stone (Kairoseki) as mentioned in the
> [wikia](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/SMILE_Factory#Dressrosa_Arc) and is
> immune to getting cut by the threads, but is getting dragged instead. So the
> question of normal people cutting it is solved. But what about the people
> who possess Haki?

The threads created by Doflamingo are thin enough to be almost invisible but
strong enough to slice rocks, trees and even meteors as per
[wikia](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Donquixote_Doflamingo#Devil_Fruit).

There's no person who has attempted to cut down the Birdcage. Since no one has
tried, it's probably presumed by the swordsmen like Fujitora, Zoro, Trafalgar
and Bastille that it can't be cut.

It's similar to the barriers of Bartolomeo that are indestructible.


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I believe that his awakening or conquerors Haki may be directly associated to
the birdcages invulnerability, even Fujitora and Zoro cannot cut it. It also
may be because doffy's clone, whom he doesn't need to directly control will
just continuously set up the cage. My final speculation is that the birdcages
center might contract upon cutting a section out of it, making cutting it a
bad option.


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Well I believe that zoro still not strong enough to cut the tread, as he said
he cant hold much longer againts the thread, and I believe fujitora able to
cut the thread but he choose not to. straw hat teams still need training and
it will be time skip 2


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(This is my summary from the evidence and speculation from the rest of this
thread)The birdcage was never really a threat to the straw hat crew cause
there were people in Dressrosa strong enough to deal with the situation. I
think Zoro and Fujitora could cut it but there may be no point as no one knows
what will happen if the cage is cut. Sabo, Fujitora and Zoro are all strong
enough to not only fight Doflamingo from scratch but at least finish him off
after the extensive damage he's taken. The main thing was that neither of them
wanted to interfere with the fight. They all knew Luffy would beat him and it
was Luffy's fight, they just had to give him the time so to minimize
casualties they tried to hold the cage back. The evidence that Zoro wouldn't
run from the situation anyway, that he won't interfere with the fight which
also goes for Sabo and Fujitora who actually said that they wouldn't interfere
at seperate times. The whole situation was shown to be quite a lot more
difficult than it actually was. Physically there were a lot of solutions for
the birdcage. Either 3 of them could break the cage or just kill Doflamingo.


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Definitely can't be cut. If it could have been it would have been, it was
close to destroying the country n killing a lot of people Fujitora would have
cut it or attempted it with all the civilians at risk. Imo it's the ultimate
death trap. Uncutable razor sharp completely rigid string with titanium like
tensile nobodys cutting it or bashing a konobo through it. Mihawk is the only
wild card an white beard if he were alive.


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