Mihawk Upscale is a debate-turned-meme that ranks One Piece swordsman Dracule Mihawk above any fictional character shown carrying a blade1. The joke leans on the in-universe title Mihawk holds, 'World's Strongest Swordsman,' which powerscalers stretch to mean he beats literally anyone with a katana, saber, or knife regardless of series5. The visual half of the meme is an image of Mihawk crudely drawn over a smiling Kure Raian panel from Kengan Ashura, with a speech bubble reading 'ARE THOSE SWORDSMAN FEATS I SEE??!!'2.

The image works as an exploitable reaction, dropped into comment threads whenever a character (even one who isn't actually a swordsman) so much as touches a sword7. Powerscaling communities on Reddit, TikTok, and X ran the format into the ground through the first half of 2025, with variations swapping out both the character being 'scaled' and the caption3.

The typical Mihawk Upscale post pastes the smiling Mihawk-over-Raian image into any thread where a character is shown with a sword, implying that character now 'upscales' every non-swordsman ever written2. Common variations swap the character drawn over the Raian panel or add a caption riffing on the 'ARE THOSE SWORDSMAN FEATS I SEE??!!' line, often paired with a screenshot of the character in question8.