When you talk about great villains you sure talk about guys like Aizen(Bleach), Madara, Pain, Orochimaru(Naruto), Meruem(Hunter x Hunter). Could Kaido the Strongest be compared to those villains? Short answer is NO!
So what made those villains that good, and Kaido - that bad?
I would say there are two reasons for that:
1. How villain was portraited from the very begining;
2. How powerful villain is in reality of manga;
Now someone would say that Kaido was portraited as some God of War, case he wasn't able even to kill himself, and case of boredom he wanted to start Great War that will involve everyone. And truth is that before Wano Arc it wasn't lie actually, Kaido portation was really simmilar to someone like Madara. But unlike Madara Kaido's glory didn't live to his name. In reality when Kaido was shown first time in Wano he was hitted by base Luffy, not only once, but Luffy litteraly beat him up, and only moment when Kaido one shotted him, saved the day for Kaido.
The bells was already yelling about fact that something going wrong in One Piece. Later we saw how Kiku, Kinemon, Raizo and other scrubs(not Reayleigh, Garp, but random weak characters) cutted Kaido and made him cry. That moment alone ruined Kaido's fake title of strongest. Unlike Whitebeard who was old and sick, and because of that fact weakened, Kaido was in his prime state. But maybe I'm wrong here? Maybe Kaido is great?
Well, let's compare him to
Aizen. When we first time saw Aizen he stopped Ichigo attack with one finger, which was impressive case before that Ichigo defeate Byakuya. Later he fought against every captain and managed to defeat em all.
Captains in Bleach world was Strongest, you will never see how some scrubs who is not captain was able to cut Aizen or make him cry. In fact even Ichigo wasn't able to do that, to made him cry from pain.
We can also compare Kaido with Madara, with same result:
Madara was fighting against everyone and only strongest like Kage was able to scratch him. Before that he was fighting against whole army and no scrub was able to hurt him, not even talking about made him cry.
Do I need even talk about
Meruem? He was strongest and he defeated the strongest man in Hunter x Hunter. Could you imagine like some bug attack him and made him cry?
But we don't need to go that far. Even
Orochimaru was be able to be hurted only by strongest, or in his weakenest form by Sasuke, case he was close to death, don't even try to say that Kaido's dragon form is his weakest form. Kaido is not in dead state in that form, he is still strong.
Now ofcourse you can say that to be shown as strongest is not the thing that made villains great, but truth is that aside of that Kaido didn't not have a thing that could made him great character, or great villain.
Aizen was crazy scientist whose great schemes made him strongest creature in the World, it was something that he was aiming for. He manipulated everyone and was shown as true genius.
Madara? He was real God of War and even when he lose to his strongest opponent he find the way to became even stronger. He has dream and he was aiming for it, also he was beyond everyone else, case he was talking to every one like to children who don't know how real world works. He was cool and calm, and nothing could stay in his way.
Meruem? He was born as strongest, and we saw how King's guard was shown weaker then him, that was even beyond question. Pitou alone made us feel that s/he was stronger that every character that we saw, except Netero. While Meruem was real genius he was able to learn and adapt to any opponent of situation. So even his last fight he used to became stronger, that was mistake, but using bomb is not really fair way to win the battle.
Kaido is nothing like that. Even when he was younger he won only case use hostage. Still he is called Strongest, but he is not in the end. False legend, fake character...fake villain, that could never be compared to real great villains.
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