Predictions People will die!

[McNuss]

At this point, one thing has become pretty clear: People will die in One Piece. We had deaths almost every second arc since the skip. Vergo and Monet, Bobbin, Jigra, Du Feld (?) King Baum, Pedro and Pound, maybe Opera (he was likely revived with his Soul's leftovers, though) and now Absalom. The difference with all the former ones is that Absalom is not a new character.

Granted, Absalom is one of the most detestable characters in the Series. He was about to rape Nami in the bathroom, that alone speaks for itself. Still, Oda has broken a wall with his death. Now no one is safe anymore, except the SHs and most likely their inner circle like Vivi or Momo, too. Better prepare to say goodbye to some of your favorite characters.

For me, this also confirms something I've been thinking for a long time: All the fake deaths (Pell, Pagaya, Hogback, etc.) and all the miraculous survivals (ex. all the people Enel roasted) in Pre-Skip One Piece existed only for a single purpose: To fool the readers that Ace will be saved. It worked incredibly well.

 

[catagon87]

I like to think that One Piece has grown with its audience. When I started reading OP I was 15 years old in 2003. I forget where the series was. I think close to Skypiea? The undertone was that nobody died in OP, and it was said a lot on forums before Ace died.
Moria was the first harbinger of the grim truth of the New World. He all but told the Straw Hats that death and despair awaited in the New World.
Then we're met with the serious non-feel good moment in OP being told that Ace was defeated and imprisoned.
We move on to Shabaody and see the Tenryuubito. This was a sign of OP growing up. We see the Tenryuubito riding a human horse, a human slave biting his own tongue to prevent being auctioned off, and the crew almost gets annihilated by an Admiral.
Ace dying was a definite possibility at this point as it was clear that OP had too many feel good moments up to that point in a world that was being painted as unforgivingly brutal and full of pirates.
Moving up the chain it is starting to feel like Crocodile was set as a baseline, not a peak, for One Piece villains' level of evil. We see Caesar who experiments on children and makes chemical weapons for evil warlords. Doflamingo who wiped the memory of people from everyone and turned them into slaves to work in a factory, had the king of the country gather money to burn it and control said king into murdering his own citizens, then enacted Bird Cage with the idea of murdering the whole country. Kaido who demolished a whole country, burned a family to death, had Oden boiled alive, and whose subordinates are perfectly fine with destruction and genocide. Big Mom who sets up a whole wedding event to get revenge against Luffy, as well as slaughter the Germa and steal their tech.
I think the further we get into One Piece the worse villains are going to get. I can't wait to see who this big hitter Oda mentioned at Jump Festa will be. I can imagine Oda killing off someone of serious popularity such as Law in the near future. Hell, I think Ace was in the top 5 characters pretty consistently before his death.

 

[Kato756]

I expect some of the wano allies to bite it (not the SH fleet or law, i mean wano characters)

 

[McNuss]

I expect some of the wano allies to bite it (not the SH fleet or law, i mean wano characters)

Possible considering how much "heroic death" is woven into japanese culture.

 

[afromarco005]

I expect a few characters to die including:

-Shanks
-Kaido
-mihawk
-Kaya
-Usopp EOS
-Dragon
-Fujitora
-IM sama
-a few blackbeard commanders

 

[Kato756]

Possible considering how much "heroic death" is woven into japanese culture.

And that
"I was unable to die by my lords side 20 years ago now is the time!"

 

[Gomu Gomu no Tako]

I expect a few characters to die including:

-Shanks
-Kaido
-mihawk
-Kaya
-Usopp EOS
-Dragon
-Fujitora
-IM sama
-a few blackbeard commanders

Good list. I actually expect garp, the hero of the marines to die too. Maybe in next arc already if rocks will be back. And for some reason law too.

 

[Grandmaster Woro]

yeah some characters will be killed. But trust me , no SHP is going to be dead