Recently many people began to argue that Oden was a D.
![](https://www.opfanpage.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/one_piece_cap__972____el_sacrificio_de_kozuki_oden_by_goldenhans_ddqwqai-fullview-1024x586-1.jpg)
D. clan are supposed to smile on their death. Only D. clan can laugh to death.
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Oden died smiling, so he has to be a D.? Oden knew all the history and said he found out the meaning behind the D. Family name, but he never said “Oh so I found out, Kozuki is a branch of D. Clan”
![](https://www.opfanpage.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/qm2imd7ymif41-1.jpg)
Anyway I have compiled some manga panels to elaborate this.
Examples of non D. clansmen dying smiling:
Bellemere dying smiling
![](https://www.opfanpage.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/018___1575716360.jpg)
Hiluluk dying smiling
![](https://www.opfanpage.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/008___1563222022.jpg)
Pedro suicide after smiling calling Straw Hats the dawn
![](https://www.opfanpage.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/017___1582349656.png)
Pound dying with a smile
![](https://www.opfanpage.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/013___1582382330.png)
Corazon dying with a smile
![](https://www.opfanpage.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/016___1575679014.jpg)
Otohime dying with a smile
![](https://www.opfanpage.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/019___1562136466.jpg)
Vergo dying with smile
![](https://www.opfanpage.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/008___1575335587.jpg)
Monet dying with a smile
![](https://www.opfanpage.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/013___1575335587.jpg)
Example of D. clansmen dying without a smile :
- First example is Blackbeard himself, he has always been scared shitless of dying, especially in his fight against Whitebeard
- Law’s parents dead like any normal person, even though they are D.
![](https://www.opfanpage.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/unnamed.png)
Smoker mentioned the smiling part to compare Luffy to Roger only in sense that he had no regrets about dying because of his ambitions
![](https://www.opfanpage.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/016___1561018530.jpg)
Most of the major deaths of good guys in manga had them dying with smile, regardless of them being a D. or not. They all die smiling.
It is to show they had no qualms about the events causing their death and not limited to D Clan.
*Theory by waqasnaseem07