Oda has being doing this ever since chapter 1 when Luffy got the straw hat!Shounnen main characters are always destined to be something!Luffy is a free man,but his nature is to be a great liberator because of his D. bloodline!It is who he was born to be!
Big difference between receiving a Straw Hat as inspiration from a pirate who ended up being important (whether he was meant to be so important when first introduced is up to debate) and receiving literally everything that makes him the chosen one.
The point here is that, after all of this, how can't Luffy be the Pirate King and Joy Boy. He has everything and more. How do we even suspend our disbelief as he isn't just born to become big but has everything on his side (what a wide world, yeah...) to the point any other contender feels like a joke.
he lost a fruit that gives devil power to the ENEMY PIRATE SHIP. Jimbei was imprisoned for not wanting to take part in war, cp9 ran for their life after enies lobby incident they were being chased by wg and were begging for their life
Jinbe was imprisoned in order to push him to reconsider his choice and regain him as an asset; they were expecting to release him as soon as he changed his idea. With Who's Who they decided to waste their biggest CP9 prodigy, a character that would have been praised by veteran vice-admirals considering the treatment Lucci received, because he lost "a fruit" to "the ENEMY PIRATE SHIP". Unless we're talking about some Ope Ope level shit here, I fail to see the Government taking such turn.
And look at how things ended for Lucci "being chased by wg" and "begging" for his life: member of CP0.
Oh. Yeah I literally went over those same things as they were brought up in another post. I guess I get curious about what pushes readers too far with their suspension of disbelief sometimes also, but then it's not like people stop reading or anything.
If we look at this from a reader perspective it's obvious that Luffy is going to be the Pirate King and whatever he tries to do because, well, he's the main character. The problem here is what I've mentioned before: how can Luffy, from in-story, NOT be the chosen one if everything special converges in him. Imagine you want to become Pirate King yet have to face a guy who was inspired by an emperor, family of the elite in the world, wears a Straw Hat that is obviously going to represent some huge thing and belonged to Roger, has every power you can think of and now even his fruit may be very important.
There's no point at making any effort anymore, and this should get to the readers as, while the suspension of disbelief can work if we focus only on Luffy being the main character and logically bound to success as this is his story, the tables consistently turn more and more into Luffy being the chosen one; which is a big difference, because one thing is "Luffy is the main character because we are telling his story as he eventually succeeded (and who cares about those who lost)" but another one is "Luffy is the chosen one and he's bound to succeed no matter what".
The first way is justifying his protagonism by appealing to the conclusion of his efforts, so logically we're telling the interesting story of the winner of this race; but the second way is justifying his protagonism by appealing to his messianic premise, and that's exactly where things begin to disbalance and the story to fall apart.