How can you say that he chose wisely if he was executed and wano was under Kaido's control for over 20 years?
Yeah its good that he saved 26000 people, but how many of those 26k starved to death or were enslaved in Udon after he died? Oden did nothing to actually stop Kaido, he merely delayed the people's suffering for 5 years until after he died. He didn't prevent a war, he just delayed it until 20 years later where the SH alliance will have to fight a much bigger war.
Oden was shortsighted. He only thought about saving the people and didn't think what would happen as a result of his actions. It was foolish for him to believe that Kaido and Orochi would leave wano. It was foolish of him to allow Kaido to raise his forces. And it was foolish of him to try to fix all of the country's problems all by himself instead of trying to get help from his friends.
Pretty easily, considering that he saved 26,000 lives, stopped the kidnappings, and secured peace for Wano for a duration. A scenario that would have continued had it not been for the dust up Orochi had with Hyougoro. You’re punishing him for something he had no control over. None of the stuff you mentioned about Udon or starvation happens if not for something outside his control. And in exchange for that, all he has to do is dance one time a week?
The only thing you can say about Oden is that he shouldn’t have trusted Kaido and Orochi, but even that is understandable given that Oden lives in a place that asks you to commit suicide if you impugn your honor and that the people he rolled with, Roger and Whitebeard, were honorable people. It’s what he knew, so he believed it. That was his flaw. None of that other stuff you said is even remotely accurate. “He didn’t think of the consequences of his actions,” except he did, which is why he did what he did in the first place and it worked. The stuff with Hyougoro was not his fault. “And it was foolish of him to try to fix all of the country’s problems on his own without asking his friends for help,” except the ones there were too weak to do anything and he had no way to contact any of his big shot friends because Wano is a closed country and there was zero way to communicate.
Oden's situation actually parallels that of Sanji in WCI. Where Sanji thought that he had to take on the Big mom pirates all by himself and pushed his friends away. Given that Oda portrayed Sanji as foolish when he did that, I think he means for us to see Oden as foolish in his actions as well.
This is ridiculous. Sanji’s situation and Oden’s situation were
nothing alike. Oden had
nobody. He had no way to contact people to help him. He had no underlings that could stand up to the strongest of the enemies under the one that he would face. He had no way to ensure the safety of an entire country other than by doing what he did. Sanji had help. He had help run right up to his face and tell him that he was going to help. Sanji had the help of a man that he had personally watched achieve miraculous victory after miraculous victory with his own eyes, and rejected that man for no reason whatsoever and beat the piss out of him for no reason, to curry the favor or an enemy that was always going to try and kill that man anyway, regardless of any deal, which Sanji
knew.
It’s not even remotely comparable.
Kaido admitted that Oden would have posed a serious threat to him if he attacked 5 years ago.
Blatantly false. Kaido said that Oden would have posed a serious threat to
them had he joined up with Hyougoro five years prior, due to their shortage of men. Kaido never said anything about Oden posing a threat to
him.
Oden even proved this when he nearly killed kaido despite having fought for several hours against an entire army with only 10 allies by his side. Even if we completely disregard the fact that Oden had Rayleigh and Whitebeard on his side, there was a pretty good chance that Oden could have actually beat Kaido if he allied with Yasu and Hyogoro and taken on kaido when he first came back to wano
What fanfiction is that? Oden “nearly killed Kaido?” Oden slashed him while Kaido was unprotected in what looks to be his most vulnerable form, and this counts as “nearly killed Kaido?” Kaido, takes that hit and gets right back up, and then one shots Oden, regardless of whether or not his back was turned, and this counts as “nearly killed Kaido?” Stop.
And what way was he supposed to contact Rayleigh or Whitebeard? With what boat was he supposed to sail? With what snail was he supposed to call them? And in trying to contact them, he was supposed to risk even more lives and even more damage to Wano? Stop.
