Hannibal Psyche

Registered User
MH中毒 / MH Chuudoku / MH Addicted
Joined
Feb 11, 2011
Messages
8,152
Reaction score
9,216
Gender
Male
Country
Nigeria
Just because Luffy doesn't take down the main antagonist in an arc doesn't mean it's a waste of time. Look at the Impel Down arc. The most he could do is run for it and escape. You heard Luffy a few chapters back: his priority right now is saving Sanji; he's only part Bege's plot because Sanji wanted to save his family and couldn't leave them. Besides, how would the time spent here be a waste of time? They've got a lot of knowledge out of this encounter for a future fight, they obtained the Poneglyphs, and Jinbe's coming with them. You consider all that a waste of time just because Luffy didn't smack down the main antagonist?
Impel Down, Sabaody and Marineford were meant to indicate that Luffy was too weak for the New World.

That weakness is gone, he's going to take Big Mom out.

More so, if Big Mom isn't down, she's going to come for Fishman island. Jinbei has said this twice.

And it really doesn't matter if Luffy said he's going to save Sanji, his priority changes when the situation does. More so, it is a requirement to defeat Emperors to be Pirate King.
--- Double Post Merged, , Original Post Date: ---
Nevertheless, Luffy did not fight Fujitora. Just as he did not fight and beat Magellan, Aokiji, or other admirals.
Wrong, he did fight Fujitora. Did you already forget?

Damn, don't gotta be that mean to yourself just because you're bad at understanding and comprehending.
You haven't predicted anything right in this story at all. At least from a story perspective. Everything you've said has more or less been disproved chapter after chapter.

Last chapter, you said Big Mom wouldn't get angry, lol.
 

EddyBob15

Registered User
英雄メンバー / Eiyuu Menbaa / Hero Member
Joined
Jul 15, 2011
Messages
2,279
Reaction score
418
Age
40
Gender
Male
Country
United States
But I don't think Straw Hats need to be together; on Dressrosa the Straw Hats beat Doflamingo without Sanji, Chopper, or Nami.
First of all, that's why I was bummed. I was hoping that the battle with the Donquixote Pirates would one up the battles with Baroque Works ad CP9, which were some of the Straw Hats' greatest victories. Second, if a Yonko crew is really more powerful than previous enemy crews, then wouldn't all the Straw Hats be needed to beat them? Don't forget, during the Marineford War, the Marines practically called in their entire military force in order to combat just one crew. You really think that six Straw Hats plus a small collection of allies could possibly topple a Yonko crew here and now?
 

M3J

MH Senpai
神のごとし / Kami no Gotoshi / Godlike
Joined
Mar 2, 2009
Messages
48,828
Reaction score
17,292
Gender
Male
Country
Akatsuki
Impel Down, Sabaody and Marineford were meant to indicate that Luffy was too weak for the New World.

That weakness is gone, he's going to take Big Mom out.

More so, if Big Mom isn't down, she's going to come for Fishman island. Jinbei has said this twice.

And it really doesn't matter if Luffy said he's going to save Sanji, his priority changes when the situation does. More so, it is a requirement to defeat Emperors to be Pirate King.
--- Double Post Merged, , Original Post Date: ---


Wrong, he did fight Fujitora. Did you already forget?



You haven't predicted anything right in this story at all. At least from a story perspective. Everything you've said has more or less been disproved chapter after chapter.

Last chapter, you said Big Mom wouldn't get angry, lol.
Did he finish the fight? No, he was taken away against his will. My point still stands. Fight was never finished, just as someone could grab Luffy and get him out of there so he doesn't fight Big Mom.

What has been disproved? I predicted Sabo was alive even though hoeru kept being a derp and insisted he was dead because databooks. Guess who was right. I said Rebecca and Kyros weren't joining and that Jinbei would join, guess who was right. You're either lying in hopes you're right, or you aren't good at understanding posts.


Where did I say that? Pretty sure I never said she wouldn't get angry.

First of all, that's why I was bummed. I was hoping that the battle with the Donquixote Pirates would one up the battles with Baroque Works ad CP9, which were some of the Straw Hats' greatest victories. Second, if a Yonko crew is really more powerful than previous enemy crews, then wouldn't all the Straw Hats be needed to beat them? Don't forget, during the Marineford War, the Marines practically called in their entire military force in order to combat just one crew. You really think that six Straw Hats plus a small collection of allies could possibly topple a Yonko crew here and now?
Depends. It's not like the Yonkou would have its Monster Trio or whatnot, although this is another reason to believe Big Mom won't be going down this arc.

No, but they can take out Big Mom and some of her crew, and then fight more the next arc or as they come across the crew.
why can't people understand that luffy when he was going to dressrosa wasnt going there to confront doffy, he just wanted to return cesar, but when he met rebecca everything changed. It's just like this. Big mom lied to a Sanji and was gonna kill his family. it makes sense for then to fight her now and end her or Luffy is just gonna lookdumb saying hell never run from anyone again.
Why can't people understand that meeting Rebecca gave him a reason to beat Doflamingo? And that reason was to end his cruel reign and let Rebecca live peacefully?

Why can't people understand that Big Mom's reign is different? And that she can change her target from going after everyone associated with Straw Hats to just Straw Hats? Or that Luffy wouldn't look dumb for running away from someone who has far more power than he does?
 

TrueRaiKage

Registered User
英雄メンバー / Eiyuu Menbaa / Hero Member
Joined
Mar 9, 2013
Messages
1,011
Reaction score
913
Gender
Male
Country
United States
Just because Luffy doesn't take down the main antagonist in an arc doesn't mean it's a waste of time. Look at the Impel Down arc. The most he could do is run for it and escape. You heard Luffy a few chapters back: his priority right now is saving Sanji; he's only part Bege's plot because Sanji wanted to save his family and couldn't leave them. Besides, how would the time spent here be a waste of time? They've got a lot of knowledge out of this encounter for a future fight, they obtained the Poneglyphs, and Jinbe's coming with them. You consider all that a waste of time just because Luffy didn't smack down the main antagonist?
I have to agree with the things accomplished this arc not being a waste of time. But I disagree about it not being a waste if Luffy doesn't Garp BM. Dressrosa was full of great stuff. But it didn't get sexy till Luffy whipped out G4th n a whole new six pack of whoop azz. Fans of the manga were on there feet not just the edge of there seats. Other than SK keepn us entertained and tankman the arc is a dressrosa spaz.
I'm all for the crew doing a hit n run but it's too late. That's a full fledged battleground time too get his Garp on or be the Pirate Prince. As the great Yonkou once said, "up until now it's just been lil pirate games."
 

M3J

MH Senpai
神のごとし / Kami no Gotoshi / Godlike
Joined
Mar 2, 2009
Messages
48,828
Reaction score
17,292
Gender
Male
Country
Akatsuki
Luffy isn't ready to defeat Big Mom in a straight fight. He barely beat cracker who was an underling. If he is to fight BM one on one when she isn't vulnerable or distracted, he would lose. If he could defeat a Yonkou already, that would mean he is already at the top of the food chain. He's close to that level but not quite there yet. Taking down Commanders and Shichibukai is reasonable. Defeating a yonko at his current level is not. Anyway, he does not need to defeat her in a straight fight. Heck, he won't even be able to get the chance to fight her one on one with so many of her commanders and crew members around (even though majority are down). BM is bound to go down this arc I guess, and likely lose her Yonko status even if she doesn't die, but it shouldn't happen by Luffy defeating her. There's too much chaos happening right now. BM herself seems to be in control of her mindstate, albeit currently reminiscing I guess. If that is so, Bege and Luffy already lost their chance. I'm not sure if it would be worth it if they escape without taking down BM. Granted they would have rescued sanji, and possible gained the Vinsmokes as allies which simultaneously keeps BM from expanding her strength and influence even further, but having an enraged BM and Kaido on their back should be too much for the SHs. Well for now, I'm mostly interested in her flashback. It would add some much needed character depth to BM.
To be fair though, Big Mom could become focused on Bege. And focusing on Straw Hats doesn't necessarily mean she'll be able to get them at every turn, especially if they're good at sneaking away. I dunno, but there are many possibilities here that doesn't have to end in Big Mom's defeat or her solely going after the Straw Hats.
My thought exactly. Even against Cracker, Luffy should have lost if it wasn't for Nami. He's really struggling against a superior opponent in this arc. Katakuri is not as terrifying as they made him up to be, though. Seeing a little bit into the future doesn't seem to amount to much if he still failed to stop Luffy and Bege. At least compared to Jack, whose bounty is several million lower but with more feats, Katakuri has yet to prove his 1 b+ worth.

This might be a slight OOT, but I've been having a theory about Shank's true power. He's not the best swordsman, and he doesn't possess a DF ability. Heck, I'm not surprised if people think of him as the weakest Yonko. Still, how did he earned his position? Personally, I think it's because Shanks may be the best Haki user in the entire One Piece verse. That would explain why he was able to clash equally against Whitebeard and Kaido, both of whom possess a much more muscular body.
To be fair though, if Luffy did go up against Mr. 1, he would have lost.

But yeah, Shanks was considered to be one of the best swordsmen, and I'm sure he's a great fighter. Haki alone wouldn't be enough to make him a Yonkou, honestly.
 

Hannibal Psyche

Registered User
MH中毒 / MH Chuudoku / MH Addicted
Joined
Feb 11, 2011
Messages
8,152
Reaction score
9,216
Gender
Male
Country
Nigeria
Did he finish the fight? No, he was taken away against his will. My point still stands. Fight was never finished, just as someone could grab Luffy and get him out of there so he doesn't fight Big Mom.

What has been disproved? I predicted Sabo was alive even though hoeru kept being a derp and insisted he was dead because databooks. Guess who was right. I said Rebecca and Kyros weren't joining and that Jinbei would join, guess who was right. You're either lying in hopes you're right, or you aren't good at understanding posts.


Where did I say that? Pretty sure I never said she wouldn't get angry.
Your point is moot. Finishing the fight is of no relevance. He only left the fight because he was convinced by the crew to forfeit the fight and continue on to Zou. Fujitora also said Luffy is indeed strong enough to take on the Admirals and Emperors. He would have gone on to challenge Fujitora otherwise and even Zoro wanted to have a go against Fujitora.

Predicted Sabo was alive? that's old. This is the WCI arc; you've predicted nothing accurate thus far. Jinbei joining was obvious, doesn't require being a genius to know that; everyone with half a mind could have guessed that.

You were not even certain Luffy would defeat Cracker despite how obvious it was that he would; pretty sure you made out like Big Mom and Luffy would be allies; I doubt you even were able to see how the Vinsmoke would more or less become allies of the SHs. Pretty sure you even made the pedantic argument that Luffy wouldn't find out about Jinbei which is pretty flabbergasting to say the least.
 

M3J

MH Senpai
神のごとし / Kami no Gotoshi / Godlike
Joined
Mar 2, 2009
Messages
48,828
Reaction score
17,292
Gender
Male
Country
Akatsuki
Your point is moot. Finishing the fight is of no relevance. He only left the fight because he was convinced by the crew to forfeit the fight and continue on to Zou. Fujitora also said Luffy is indeed strong enough to take on the Admirals and Emperors. He would have gone on to challenge Fujitora otherwise and even Zoro wanted to have a go against Fujitora.

Predicted Sabo was alive? that's old. This is the WCI arc; you've predicted nothing accurate thus far. Jinbei joining was obvious, doesn't require being a genius to know that; everyone with half a mind could have guessed that.

You were not even certain Luffy would defeat Cracker despite how obvious it was that he would; pretty sure you made out like Big Mom and Luffy would be allies; I doubt you even were able to see how the Vinsmoke would more or less become allies of the SHs. Pretty sure you even made the pedantic argument that Luffy wouldn't find out about Jinbei which is pretty flabbergasting to say the least.
Nope, just further proves that BIg Mom doesn't need to be taken down this arc. Even if Luffy doesn't run, he can be taken away forcefully and be convinced to go on to Wano because the others might face Kaidou. And Fujitora saying that doesn't mean much when Luffy struggled immensely against Cracker and Doflamingo and needed significant amount of help. COmbat-wise, he seems to be weaker whereas power-wise, he's likely stronger as he can gain allies who'll help him.

Obviously you don't read the posts here if you think everyone knew Jinbei was joining. And you're basically saying a lot of members here have no mind. But give me examples thus far.

Oh shit, my theories weren't 100% right! Some of the possibilities I guessed didn't come to pass! And I'm still waiting for the proof of your accusation, unless you realized that it was full of shit, and thus you're deflecting. In any case, you're lucky I forgot most things I said about his fight with Cracker, otherwise I'm pretty sure you're wrong as you seem unable to understand much. And it is a possibility they could have been allies until Luffy did what he did, and Big Mom revealed she hated Lola, among other things. It was after that almost no one theorized she'd be allied with Luffy, though some did say she'd spare them because of Brook, which seems unlikely to happen.

Find out what about Jinbei? That he was on WCI? He technically didn't, it was JInbei who found them. Doesn't make me wrong. And it was clear the Vinsmokes had no problem with Straw Hats, and given that Big Mom's side revealed to plan an assassination on the family, it was kinda obvious they'd temporarily ally to survive. FEels like you're making up stuff to make me look bad.

She will certainly target Bege too for betraying her, but well, it was Luffy who destroyed the cake and ruined the wedding from her POV. It was also luffy that showed her the broken Mother caramel photo, and Brook who is a SH broke it. Luffy challenged her openly twice. In the end, I believe most of her rage would be directed at Luffy. He would be the main instigator to her. I wouldn't even be surprised if she saw Bege as a mere accomplice to Luffy. Yeah, she likely won't get them (probably not at all) but the SHs are wanted pretty badly by the Marines, having 2 yonkos also gunning for them seems too much to handle imo. Between the yonko influence and network and the marines, they're bound to run into trouble at every single turn. That too could make the story a bit more fun, but at some point one would have to question them always being able to escape
True, but again Bege could do something that gets Big Mom to go after him. Though that probably won't happen, or Luffy does something even more outrageous. And I'm betting either she will figure it out or Katakuri will tell her that Bege was the brains behind the plan.

I don't think it's really too much to handle, as long as they can keep escaping. It's not like we see Marines at every island the Straw Hats land on, and even then they sometimes ally for a while. Who's to say that won't happen with Big Mom, especially with Kaidou's crew mostly being devil fruit users? And I don't think it's necessary to question them escaping - hasn't fate, luck, and D been explained? I mean, Roger would have likely lost against Shiki if a storm didn't wipe out his fleet, yet Shiki doesn't question that Roger was the strongest around. Fate and luck helped Roger beat Shiki. And, Sanji, Nami, Chopper, and Brook were able to run away from Big Mom at Dressrosa and head straight to Zou, but I don't think anyone questioned that?
 

Hannibal Psyche

Registered User
MH中毒 / MH Chuudoku / MH Addicted
Joined
Feb 11, 2011
Messages
8,152
Reaction score
9,216
Gender
Male
Country
Nigeria
Nope, just further proves that BIg Mom doesn't need to be taken down this arc. Even if Luffy doesn't run, he can be taken away forcefully and be convinced to go on to Wano because the others might face Kaidou. And Fujitora saying that doesn't mean much when Luffy struggled immensely against Cracker and Doflamingo and needed significant amount of help. COmbat-wise, he seems to be weaker whereas power-wise, he's likely stronger as he can gain allies who'll help him.

Obviously you don't read the posts here if you think everyone knew Jinbei was joining. And you're basically saying a lot of members here have no mind. But give me examples thus far.

Oh shit, my theories weren't 100% right! Some of the possibilities I guessed didn't come to pass! And I'm still waiting for the proof of your accusation, unless you realized that it was full of shit, and thus you're deflecting. In any case, you're lucky I forgot most things I said about his fight with Cracker, otherwise I'm pretty sure you're wrong as you seem unable to understand much. And it is a possibility they could have been allies until Luffy did what he did, and Big Mom revealed she hated Lola, among other things. It was after that almost no one theorized she'd be allied with Luffy, though some did say she'd spare them because of Brook, which seems unlikely to happen.

Find out what about Jinbei? That he was on WCI? He technically didn't, it was JInbei who found them. Doesn't make me wrong. And it was clear the Vinsmokes had no problem with Straw Hats, and given that Big Mom's side revealed to plan an assassination on the family, it was kinda obvious they'd temporarily ally to survive. FEels like you're making up stuff to make me look bad.
Lol, no, that's just a terribly uninformed view. Big Mom not taken down when:
  1. This is the Yonko Saga?
  2. When becoming Pirate King requires defeating Emperors?
  3. When he's vocally challenged her 3 times?
  4. When this is huge arc?
  5. When he's already inside the wedding?
Naivety on this level is absolutely asinine and wishful at best.

Again, your assessment of Cracker and the Joker fight is atrocious. You don't grasp that someone whose ability makes it easy to fight multiple people at once and gives the advantage in numbers will obviously be a difficult match. If Luffy fought Usopp with the Cracker biscuit, Luffy would have had just as much trouble. Your assessment lacks context, it's short-sighted.

You act like its a match that was void of Devil fruit influence which changes the dynamics of a fight would be the same a fight where random abilities were at play. It's as ludicrous as expecting a fight between 2 people of equal strength will not have a different dynamics if one of the fighters suddenly gained the ability to melt anything he touches and create an army will not suddenly gain an advantage over his opponent... common sense is absolutely void in your analysis.

Obviously you don't read the posts here if you think everyone knew Jinbei was joining. And you're basically saying a lot of members here have no mind. But give me examples thus far.
It's common sense, people have been saying so that he'll join for years. Doesn't require 2 brain-cells to have deduced so this arc. It's nothing spectacular. People were already saying he'll join before this arc. There was nothing to deduce. Nothing remarkable here.

Oh shit, my theories weren't 100% right! Some of the possibilities I guessed didn't come to pass! And I'm still waiting for the proof of your accusation, unless you realized that it was full of shit, and thus you're deflecting. In any case, you're lucky I forgot most things I said about his fight with Cracker, otherwise I'm pretty sure you're wrong as you seem unable to understand much. And it is a possibility they could have been allies until Luffy did what he did, and Big Mom revealed she hated Lola, among other things. It was after that almost no one theorized she'd be allied with Luffy, though some did say she'd spare them because of Brook, which seems unlikely to happen.
Anyone saying she'd spare the SHs clearly was clueless. Big Mom's character is not one of understanding. It's not possible they could have been allies. That's as absurd as saying Luffy and Joker could have been allies. These are the people he needs to fight to be Pirate King. It's so nonsensical that Big Mom would ally with the SHs when she needs the power of the Germa to be Pirate King, and she'll let go of the Germa for Luffy? Humour at its finest here. It was clear from the onset that they were enemies; in fact, I already stated they were long before Big Mom said so - 3 months before it was revealed: https://mangahelpers.com/forum/threads/lolas-machination-speculation.3005377/

Find out what about Jinbei? That he was on WCI? He technically didn't, it was JInbei who found them. Doesn't make me wrong. And it was clear the Vinsmokes had no problem with Straw Hats, and given that Big Mom's side revealed to plan an assassination on the family, it was kinda obvious they'd temporarily ally to survive. FEels like you're making up stuff to make me look bad.
That he was going to join the SHs, that's common sense. It just makes you ill-informed. You didn't even know the SHs would ally with the Vinsmokes, so you're being fallacious here; your track record isn't great as a vast majority of what you've said indicates:

How many allies right now on the island can help him against Big Mom?
Clearly didn't know Luffy had allies even if it was obvious. If you read the Manga properly, you'd know Luffy makes allies out of nothing.

even. Nothing indicates Big Mom has to lose in the same arc she's a main villain in.
Which main antagonist hasn't been defeated in their own arc? As I said, ignorance of high degree.

There's nothing that states Luffy can't lose to Big Mom or Cracker or run away after he gets Sanji or takes on Big Mom with tons of help. THere's no rule or law that states the plot of each arc has to be consistent as well, otherwise Luffy would be beating every villain easily as he did in the first or second arc.
It is not a self-conflicting statement. Cracker doesn't have to be defeated for Luffy to save Sanji,
Cracker doesn't have to be defeated to save Sanji? Absurd. Clearly a comment lacking any form of insight.

I think Cracker might defeat Luffy
This isn't very reflective of understanding plot.

if anything, Big Mom will likely give the crew a pass for Sanji, if not for Lola.
Big mom would just let Sanji go? Despite her characterisation? Like I said, you're naive.

No, progress doesn't demand Luffy beat Big Mom now.
Yeah, because Big Mom would just let the SHs go, right?

How will Luffy be healed, especially when even Chopper can't restore Luffy to 100% overnight?
How will Luffy be healed when it was obvious he would be fed by Sanji. Again, lack of plot understanding on your part. This should have been obvious especially when he said he wouldn't eat except he was given food from Sanji.

How is she a tyrant? Whom has she oppressed the way Doflamingo, Crocodile, and Captain Morgan have?
How is Big Mom a tyrant? Someone who kills her kids and coerces her citizens into staying in Totland. A question that requires not understanding the meaning of tyrant.

How is she putting the lives of her citizens in danger?
Again, you're clearly oblivious. She can't take lives without instilling fear into her target. The people are scared of her, thus, her ability to take their life-span as she pleases.

He never said "I have to fight you" or "I want to fight you!"
He did. You just convinced yourself he didn't.

Pudding's life will not be in danger until she runs away from the wedding or plays a part in stopping the wedding. Pudding is safe.
Again, it was obvious, but you clearly had no understanding of Big mom's character. If you did, you' have known her life was in danger.

When did she threaten Fishman Island?
Asking this in chapter 800 when this happened in chapter 650? You're clearly not as informed as you think you are.

As far as we know, she wants peace and to have every race and species and whatnot on her island, and she's done nothing to oppress or hurt anyone yet.
Yes, because Big Mom is a pacifist who is clearly not insane.

If Big Mom really does go after loved ones, then Whitebeard, Shanks, and Kaidou must not have had any loved ones because she never threatened them to get what she wants.
Here implying Big Mom doesn't attack her kids when we were literally introduced to her killing her own son.

You also don't seem to realize the differences between each arc or issues. Luffy could make allies more easily on Dressrosa and other places because they had a common enemy who put their lives in danger. The citizens and gladiators would be killed if Luffy didn't beat Doflamingo, so they became his allies and helped him. Big Mom so far has not threatened anyone on the island yet or put their lives in danger, with the exceptions of few people.
Here clearly ignorant of the fact Luffy makes allies out of nothing.

Luffy and the crew can get away without ever having to confront Big Mom this arc. The situation is not there for Luffy to force himself to beat Big Mom.
This is easily your most ridiculous comment.

Like I said, you've hardly said anything that was consistent or accurate plot-wise. If you don't understand the small details, then even the obvious things would bypass you as they clearly have as you have demonstrated.
 

Zehahaha

Registered User
MH中毒 / MH Chuudoku / MH Addicted
Joined
Jun 7, 2009
Messages
8,498
Reaction score
5,706
Gender
Male
Country
Morocco
Lmao I can't believe you people remembered hoeru and the endless debate we had with him regarding Sabo, good one good one. I do remember arguing with him about BM being the first Yonko to be defeated, but that was in 2012, my prediction slightly off but here is hope it will still happen

Personally, I don't believe Luffy can take on BM in a very straight fight with no bullshit like poison around, he's clearly not at that level yet... But with the poison, anything can happen if you ask me. And also, no matter how I look at it, that mad woman has to fall right here right now for many reasons I mentioned a lot of times already

As for the Cracker thing... Let's look at this the proper way, it took Luffy one hit with Gear 4 to finish him off... Not 2 or 5, but one ! Even DD tanked more than him, it's just that Cracker happened to have a very bullshit DF (I call it that because Oda went overboard with that crap, there is a fine line between a biscuit being hard thanks to Haki, and biscuits being naturally that hard to the point where Luffy had to use Gear 4 and even with that it wasn't enough)

Poor Luffy is always going against the odds with very annoying DF as opponents and no drawbacks unlike him
 
Last edited:

M3J

MH Senpai
神のごとし / Kami no Gotoshi / Godlike
Joined
Mar 2, 2009
Messages
48,828
Reaction score
17,292
Gender
Male
Country
Akatsuki
Big Mom has nothing in common with the Marine, she won't just be gunning for the Straw Hats. She will coerce them to confront her again.
She was portrayed as a very vicious character. And she's experienced at getting exactly what she wants. We're talking of a bitch that taxes her citizens with their lifespan!
It would be hell for anything related to the Strawhats. Just imagine the consequences...
Again though, what's stopping them from making Big Mom not go after anyone else but the Straw Hats? Luffy can issue a challenge to her, like he did on FI or do some kind of honor thing like against Aokiji when Aokiji froze him and Robin. You guys are toooo focused on this or that having to happen that you don't seem to consider other possibilities. ANd some lie and accuse others of saying only this will happen.

see mama wont let either escape, because its a bigger shit on her face if big new reporrts that mama was mistreated by new world rookies in her empire. she will follow them immediately so except if oda wants luffy to fight 2 younkous at once then the wise choice is to let them bring her down now. she is worse than doffy, shes using citizen's lifespans just for them to stay there. But thats irrelevant since mama will go for the vinsmokes heads in her rage and luffy promising to save sanji's family has to step in. this is how i see it, plus there's absolutely nothing wrong with tag teaming an absolute monster like her.
But Luffy managed to escape from Magellan and Impel Down, from Enies Lobby, and from Akainu and Marineford. Don't see why he can't escape from Big Mom either, especially when there's a plan in hand, unlike Marineford and Impel Down.

And again, narrow minded thinking. Big Mom not being taken down this arc doesn't mean Luffy will fight two Yonkou, especially if they manage to get away without any trace. Besides, unless she's killed or imprisoned, there's no guarantee she won't go after Luffy anyway even when he's fighting Kaidou.

Probably worse than Doflamingo, but are they against this or tormented in any way?
 

Zehahaha

Registered User
MH中毒 / MH Chuudoku / MH Addicted
Joined
Jun 7, 2009
Messages
8,498
Reaction score
5,706
Gender
Male
Country
Morocco
Again though, what's stopping them from making Big Mom not go after anyone else but the Straw Hats? Luffy can issue a challenge to her, like he did on FI or do some kind of honor thing like against Aokiji when Aokiji froze him and Robin. You guys are toooo focused on this or that having to happen that you don't seem to consider other possibilities. ANd some lie and accuse others of saying only this will happen.


But Luffy managed to escape from Magellan and Impel Down, from Enies Lobby, and from Akainu and Marineford. Don't see why he can't escape from Big Mom either, especially when there's a plan in hand, unlike Marineford and Impel Down.

And again, narrow minded thinking. Big Mom not being taken down this arc doesn't mean Luffy will fight two Yonkou, especially if they manage to get away without any trace. Besides, unless she's killed or imprisoned, there's no guarantee she won't go after Luffy anyway even when he's fighting Kaidou.

Probably worse than Doflamingo, but are they against this or tormented in any way?
BM and honor do not go hand in hand...
Luffy already issued a challenge, but considering her antics, BM once angered enough will not give a rat's ass about Luffy's challenge and will probably lay waste to all Luffy's friends

First of all, ID and Marineford are completely and utterly different from now... In ID, Ace left it leaving Luffy with zero reason to have another round with Magellan, which is why he was focused on escaping as he wanted to save Ace. In case you didn't realize it, Sanji is still at Whole Cake Island, his friends are still there, and completely surrounded by BM pirates. In ID, the only threat was Magellan

As for Marineford, I really won't comment too much here... Do I need to remind you that the strongest man in the world was there along with one of the most powerful crew and ID prisoners ? Enough said

There has been no instance of a villain going after Luffy after he defeated them (except Buggy for comedy purposes)... Enel didn't, Lucci didn't, even Crocodile gave up that, this is pretty typical of Shonen genre, once a villain loses then it is unlikely a rematch will happen... The only exception I can think of at the moment is Majin Vegeta vs Goku, and Vegeta wasn't a villain anymore, and Frieza because he was revived and what not
 

M3J

MH Senpai
神のごとし / Kami no Gotoshi / Godlike
Joined
Mar 2, 2009
Messages
48,828
Reaction score
17,292
Gender
Male
Country
Akatsuki
The problem with escaping is jajji, he'll want blood now so I doubt the vinsmokes will wanna leave. Them not leaving can affect luffy's promise to sanji. But I'm not the author and these are just my opinion :)
--- Double Post Merged, , Original Post Date: ---
given the option she gave jimbe it's probably the same for citizens.
Given that he was a mess and crying, I'm sure the Judge will want to leave as soon as possible, if not after getting some sort of revenge. If not, Luffy can certainly force him to leave.

Can't really imagine it being the same for citizens. And from what I recall, her payment was in exchange for leaving the crew, not WCI.
BM and honor do not go hand in hand...
Luffy already issued a challenge, but considering her antics, BM once angered enough will not give a rat's ass about Luffy's challenge and will probably lay waste to all Luffy's friends

First of all, ID and Marineford are completely and utterly different from now... In ID, Ace left it leaving Luffy with zero reason to have another round with Magellan, which is why he was focused on escaping as he wanted to save Ace. In case you didn't realize it, Sanji is still at Whole Cake Island, his friends are still there, and completely surrounded by BM pirates. In ID, the only threat was Magellan

As for Marineford, I really won't comment too much here... Do I need to remind you that the strongest man in the world was there along with one of the most powerful crew and ID prisoners ? Enough said

There has been no instance of a villain going after Luffy after he defeated them (except Buggy for comedy purposes)... Enel didn't, Lucci didn't, even Crocodile gave up that, this is pretty typical of Shonen genre, once a villain loses then it is unlikely a rematch will happen... The only exception I can think of at the moment is Majin Vegeta vs Goku, and Vegeta wasn't a villain anymore, and Frieza because he was revived and what not
Or she'll be so angry that she'll go after Luffy and not his friends or loved ones. I mean, even if Big Mom and honor don't go hand in hand, Oda can just as easily write that in. It seems honor matters, as part of why Aokiji and Kuma spared the Straw Hats was because of honor.

They are not different. And in case you didn't realize it, Sanji is with the crew now, and they have a way to get off the island with the Vinsmokes. Given that they can escape, there's no reason for Luffy to stay there. if Whitebeard is any indication, then it'll take more than Bege, Luffy, Jinbei, and Sanji to take out Big Mom.

Enel's problem with Luffy ended, and he went to the moon somehow. Lucci had no reason to go after Luffy immediately, although he probably could be training to get stronger and beat LUffy for all we know. A rematch can just as easily happen given Big Mom's anger and power if she's still free and/or able to fight. Luffy and Bege would have to kill her, make sure she's imprisoned somehow, or turn her to their side.

Sasuke and Naruto? I think Ichigo and Ishida? And it's quite foolish to believe Oda will stick to the shounen rules.
 

Hannibal Psyche

Registered User
MH中毒 / MH Chuudoku / MH Addicted
Joined
Feb 11, 2011
Messages
8,152
Reaction score
9,216
Gender
Male
Country
Nigeria
Well I'm sure anyone will be pathetic if their life long plan is about to come to an end cos they trusted someone, and they'll probably cry, this just shows how much his plan meant to him. Sanji crying doesn't make him look pathetic. Bigger dent in his pride if he doesn't try to hurt mama. Then that makes him a full coward.
You talk like you know Oda personally lol
"And it's quite foolish to believe Oda will stick to the shounen rules"
We're all just guessing here dude :/
Ironically, one perceives that Crocodile was superior to Luffy, but Luffy winning is not a shounen rule? Interesting to say the least. Oda definitely doesn't stick to such things. One would assume not sticking to Shounen rules would have meant Luffy lost the battle.
 

Pro Ban Corps

Registered User
英雄メンバー / Eiyuu Menbaa / Hero Member
Joined
May 30, 2016
Messages
1,543
Reaction score
1,476
Country
England
Ironically, one perceives that Crocodile was superior to Luffy, but Luffy winning is not a shounen rule? Interesting to say the least. Oda definitely doesn't stick to such things. One would assume not sticking to Shounen rules would have meant Luffy lost the battle.
Lol now I'm confused
 

aster4jaden

Registered User
英雄メンバー / Eiyuu Menbaa / Hero Member
Joined
Apr 1, 2016
Messages
1,196
Reaction score
1,072
Age
36
Country
United Kingdom
Ironically, one perceives that Crocodile was superior to Luffy, but Luffy winning is not a shounen rule? Interesting to say the least. Oda definitely doesn't stick to such things. One would assume not sticking to Shounen rules would have meant Luffy lost the battle.
I'm beginning to hate shonen rule, I know a lot of you will say "well why are you reading a shonen then?". To be honest I think it's just habit like with Naruto and Bleach those two eventually bored me, everything is just predictable and following similar story lines and characters.
 

Hannibal Psyche

Registered User
MH中毒 / MH Chuudoku / MH Addicted
Joined
Feb 11, 2011
Messages
8,152
Reaction score
9,216
Gender
Male
Country
Nigeria
Lol now I'm confused
I mean to believe that Oda made Luffy win by nerfing Crocodile, but then go on to say Oda doesn't follow Shounen rules is kinda contradictory, and I'm not saying you said that btw, lol.
--- Double Post Merged, , Original Post Date: ---
I'm beginning to hate shonen rule, I know a lot of you will say "well why are you reading a shonen then?". To be honest I think it's just habit like with Naruto and Bleach those two eventually bored me, everything is just predictable and following similar story lines and characters.
I know what you mean.

That's the thing with Shounen, once you know the whole shtick, all you can really do is just enjoy it for what it is.

The best Oda can do is just prolong things and make it look like Luffy will lose with as much creativity as possible, etc.

Take the Skypiea arc, Luffy was stuck inside the belly of the snake for the majority of it. Imagine if he'd met Enel a lot earlier, the arc would be shorter no?

It's rinse and repeat unfortunately. I'd say mostly Seinen Mangas seem to deviate from that rhetoric that the protagonist must always be successful. Then again, I haven't read a lot of Seinen.
 

smokeesid

Registered User
英雄メンバー / Eiyuu Menbaa / Hero Member
Joined
Feb 28, 2009
Messages
687
Reaction score
220
Gender
Male
Country
India
Many times in One piece, it feels like something big is going to happen and the pleasure of that remains and persists. And the moment that pleasure fades, there comes the time to celebrate. Although the celebration is boring but the pleasures starts right when the party ends.
 

hokageji

Registered User
有名人 / Yuumeijin / Celebrity
Joined
Dec 7, 2007
Messages
4,976
Reaction score
3,744
Gender
Male
Country
United States
I found an article on facbeook connecting Joyboy disciples to Jesus and his apostles... actually, the most interesting assumption in the theory was about Joyboy being inspired from Jayabaya...

This is a wiki article on Jayabaya...

Apart from the fact that he is linked to pandavas from the great indian epic, which is very very intersting to me.... the part of his prophecies is whats very interesting...
Take a look, just thought you guys might find it interesting...
 

SoulAuron

Registered User
英雄メンバー / Eiyuu Menbaa / Hero Member
Joined
Feb 27, 2013
Messages
821
Reaction score
293
Gender
Male
Country
Brazil
As for the Cracker thing... Let's look at this the proper way, it took Luffy one hit with Gear 4 to finish him off... Not 2 or 5, but one ! Even DD tanked more than him, it's just that Cracker happened to have a very bullshit DF (I call it that because Oda went overboard with that crap, there is a fine line between a biscuit being hard thanks to Haki, and biscuits being naturally that hard to the point where Luffy had to use Gear 4 and even with that it wasn't enough)

Poor Luffy is always going against the odds with very annoying DF as opponents and no drawbacks unlike him
i have to disagree with crackers df being bulshit and too powerfull, its not really about his DF, remeber the candy bullets that are somehow capable of piercing the germa? i think what is happening here and that people are ignoring is that big moms crew has some sort of advanced candy tecnology, this is heavily aluded to multiple times, the candy bullets is the most obvious, but cracker also hinted at that, he said that his biscuits where strong because he developed them to be strong, not because his DF naturaly allows that, th problem that i have with many people who read this story is that they underestimate abilities that are based on seemingly harmless everyday stuff, like MJ3 saying gear 3 was weak because balloons cant be strong, just because its a biscuit doesnt mean it cant be ultra tough, ordinarily you would want to make food to be edible, and as such you dont want to make it tough, but if you want to make it tough you can also do that, in short, cracker went and researched a way to bake ultra tough biscuits, how he did that i dont know, but with chemistry its definetly possible, and then once he found out a recipe for ultra tough biscuits he had his DF reproduce that, its probably the same with perospero and that is the reason why he can imobilize the superhuman germa siblings with just candy, or why he can make an entirely functional research facility with candy.
i personaly really liked the way crackers ability turned out, because its a great example of how you can turn something mundane into something powerfull by thinking outside of the box and puting in the efort to turn it into something better, its just like with luffys ability, both manga characters and readers alike greatly underestimated luffys capability based on his DF before he revealed gear 4, doffy was really buthurt because he was loosing to rubber, and mnay readers thought luffy needed to get the mera mera no mi if he wanted to defeat donflamingo and the yonko,but it turned out luffy had a much more creative solution, i dont know if crackers ablity is more or less inherently powerfull the luffys, but i know that its only as powefull as it is because he made it so through the power of science and creativity by creating some sort of super biscuit recipe, so dont say its just bulshit like that, i think we will see more and more of this type of thing happening, because while you can relly on an inherently strong ability to be powerfull, odds are that the most powerfull people are the ones that figure out how to make the things they have be strong, regardless of how mundane those abilities might seem at first.
 

Zehahaha

Registered User
MH中毒 / MH Chuudoku / MH Addicted
Joined
Jun 7, 2009
Messages
8,498
Reaction score
5,706
Gender
Male
Country
Morocco
i have to disagree with crackers df being bulshit and too powerfull, its not really about his DF, remeber the candy bullets that are somehow capable of piercing the germa? i think what is happening here and that people are ignoring is that big moms crew has some sort of advanced candy tecnology, this is heavily aluded to multiple times, the candy bullets is the most obvious, but cracker also hinted at that, he said that his biscuits where strong because he developed them to be strong, not because his DF naturaly allows that, th problem that i have with many people who read this story is that they underestimate abilities that are based on seemingly harmless everyday stuff, like MJ3 saying gear 3 was weak because balloons cant be strong, just because its a biscuit doesnt mean it cant be ultra tough, ordinarily you would want to make food to be edible, and as such you dont want to make it tough, but if you want to make it tough you can also do that, in short, cracker went and researched a way to bake ultra tough biscuits, how he did that i dont know, but with chemistry its definetly possible, and then once he found out a recipe for ultra tough biscuits he had his DF reproduce that, its probably the same with perospero and that is the reason why he can imobilize the superhuman germa siblings with just candy, or why he can make an entirely functional research facility with candy.
i personaly really liked the way crackers ability turned out, because its a great example of how you can turn something mundane into something powerfull by thinking outside of the box and puting in the efort to turn it into something better, its just like with luffys ability, both manga characters and readers alike greatly underestimated luffys capability based on his DF before he revealed gear 4, doffy was really buthurt because he was loosing to rubber, and mnay readers thought luffy needed to get the mera mera no mi if he wanted to defeat donflamingo and the yonko,but it turned out luffy had a much more creative solution, i dont know if crackers ablity is more or less inherently powerfull the luffys, but i know that its only as powefull as it is because he made it so through the power of science and creativity by creating some sort of super biscuit recipe, so dont say its just bulshit like that, i think we will see more and more of this type of thing happening, because while you can relly on an inherently strong ability to be powerfull, odds are that the most powerfull people are the ones that figure out how to make the things they have be strong, regardless of how mundane those abilities might seem at first.
And don't you find it odd that whenever Luffy gets a powerup, he always struggles ? Don't you find it bullshit that DD can create clones that can talk from fricking strings ?

It is bullshit really, when you compare to how Luffy struggle to powerup through his DF ability, suddenly out of nowhere characters with bullshit abilities and very convenient to use without drawbacks

I can hardly swallow that Luffy needed Gear 4 to inflict damage on biscuits, again I understand if it coated with Haki which is fine by me, but unless all the clones Cracker made were coated with Haki then it is totally bullshit and unfair

And no, the argument of experience doesn't work well here because Luffy had his DF for more than a decade no, so he's a very experienced DF user already
 
Top