Dyna Stones are non-canon explosive minerals held as the Marines' final weapon. Contact with oxygen sets one off, and a single blast can wipe out a whole island, rivaling the Ancient Weapons. They recur across a film, a TV special, and a video game.
These naturally forming stones sit in the Marines' vaults as a jealously guarded trump card. Their intended job was guarding the three Endpoints, and with them the wider New World, against raids by pirates. Since a single one can level so much, private citizens are barred from holding them, and the Marines keep their stock locked behind heavy security. Even so, the stones have slipped into other hands more than once across the stories that feature them.
A regular Dyna Stone runs roughly the size and oval shape of a rugby ball, colored gray with jagged fissures that glow like magma, and it is kept inside a sturdy metal case flooded with tinted liquid so that stray oxygen cannot reach it, since contact with air is what triggers the blast. Each stone matches the Ancient Weapons for sheer scale of ruin, going off much as a nuclear bomb would and able to erase an entire island. They can also be shrunk to grape-sized fragments fitted into tiny canisters that double as arrowheads, breaking open on impact to bare the stone and set off a detonation fierce enough to torch Marine battleships.
Across One Piece Film: Z, the former admiral Z and his Neo Marines rob the stones from Firs Island to power his Grand Reboot plot, wiping out two of the three Endpoints before the Straw Hats and the Marines halt him at the final one; Kuzan afterward freezes what stones remain to stop them detonating. In the Heart of Gold special, Naomi Drunk caps her arrows with miniature stones to sink Marine vessels, only for Zoro to cut them from the air. Within One Piece: World Seeker, the mineral is dug from Jail Island, and the scientist Isaac schemes to smash a stone-loaded sky prison into Mary Geoise before he is convinced to self-destruct it instead.

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Dyna Stone is a non-canon explosive mineral held by the Marines as their ultimate weapon, capable of leveling an entire island in a single blast when exposed to oxygen.
No, Dyna Stones are non-canon, appearing only in One Piece Film Z, the Heart of Gold special, and the video game One Piece World Seeker rather than the manga.
Dyna Stones detonate on contact with oxygen, which is why the Marines store them in sealed metal cases filled with tinted liquid to keep air away.
Dyna Stones are used by the Marines and the renegade admiral Z's Neo Marines in One Piece Film Z, by the bounty hunter Naomi Drunk in the Heart of Gold special, and by the scientist Isaac in One Piece World Seeker.
A single Dyna Stone rivals the Ancient Weapons in destructive power, detonating like a nuclear bomb and capable of wiping out an entire island.
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