There is Liam Neeson badassery, there are Chuck Norris facts, there is even the epicness of Gon transformation from Hunter x Hunter, and then there is Whitebeard from One Piece.

In the many, many animes shows I watched over the years Whitebeard death from One Piece is definitely a huge “holy shit” moment that got cemented into my mind. And I’m not referring because he simply died, no…is because he died standing, STANDING!!!! This scene completely defined my way of measuring characters epicness and badassery. I was expecting Whitebeard to simply fall to the ground and smash the floor in an epic way (like you normally see in other animes), but he died standing…......that brilliant!!!! Here are 4 reasons that I believe made Whitebeard dead incredibly epic.