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Since the beginning of the Dressrosa arc, everyone has noticed that Doflamingo’s never takes off his glasses. In fact, we have never seen him without them, even in flashbacks as a young pirate or as a child, he always wore glasses. Because of this, a lot of questions and gags have popped up considering his eyes, what they look like etc.

But, what came to my mind is that he’s wearing them to cover up something, namely, that he’s blind in one eye.

If we look at his Jolly Roger, we can see that there’s a line across it’s left eye. Jolly Rogers usually represents the captain (Shanks’ Jolly Roger shows the scar his has around his eye) and we’ve seen Doflamingo’s sinister smile, so what about his eye?

Also, we have seen him wear glasses as a child, but that may have been just for fashion. After his father abandoned that title of a Celestial Dragon, they were attacked by the citizen. They were tied up with rope and their eyes were covered. There were tortured by people who wanted revenge. People wanted them to suffer. There was a man who said that he was blinded by the Celestial Dragons. Because of that, I believe that the citizen tried to blind Doflamingo (that would explain why their eyes were covered) and that he is blind in his left eye since then.

Since he is blind in his left eye, he wore glasses to cover it up. He became a pirate and if someone knew about his eye, they would use it to their benefit, like attacking from his blind side.

Another piece of evidence are attacks that were launched against Doflamingo. When he was fighting Sanji, Sanji attacked him and the attack came from the left side. Doflamingo turns 180° to block Sanji and struggles a little which is strange because Doflamingo is a lot stronger than Sanji.

When fighting Luffy, Luffy’s Red Hawk came from the left side too.

Also, Law’s attack Gamma Knife came from the left side as well.

He should have been able to avoid or at least block these attacks, but if he’s really blind in his left eye, that would explain why he didn’t.

Also, some will say that he can’t be blind because we saw one of his eyes, but we only saw his right eye and not his left eye.

He may even have a scar on his left eye and maybe because of that Corazon draw something on his right eye, in order for his brother to not be the only one.

*All rights go to the maker of this theory.

D: Hello, Mr. Oda! I noticed that Dressrosa was based on our home in Spain, so I decided to send you this letter as the speaker of our group. Why did you choose Spain? If you ever have reason to visit Spain, I hope you visit Barcelona’s Saló del Manga (a Catalan manga/anime convention). Nothing to be afraid of! Our women don’t stab you! P.N. Voice of the Pirate King

O: This is a condensed version of a letter I received from Spain. The Japanese was strange in a few places, so I think that must have come from one of those auto-translation sites. Thanks for the letter. You’re right about Dressrosa. It’s based on Spain, and Ancient Greece for the Colosseum parts.

When I took a close look at Doflamingo and tried to think of what country is suited him. I arrived at the conclusion of Spain. I’ve mentioned the lands of One Piece being inspired by real-life countries in the SBS before, but it’s the first time I got feedback from the residents of the country. I can’t be irresponsible in the way I draw, but if you do see anything that seems like a half-baked version of your culture or buildings, please forgive me. Remember, it’s just a manga.

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They took out all of the blood, all of the girls cleavage, all the cigarettes (Sanji has lollipops instead!) and even the beer and wine! XD

I wonder how the story can even make sense without all of those stuff…

Here are some edits by 4kids: