Monkey D. Luffy is the rubber-powered protagonist of One Piece, the manga created by Eiichiro Oda in 1997 and adapted into a long-running anime from 1999. His stretched, springy punches became one of the series' most recognisable fight signatures, especially attacks built around his Gum-Gum abilities. Short punch clips from anime edits later spread across soundboards and short video platforms, where fans reuse them outside full episodes as instant shorthand for a cartoon fight hit, a confident challenge, or a joke battle moment between friends.