Powers & Abilities Zoro's been getting too many Whitebeard parallels this arc : Kinda odd
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I think that parallels in One Piece are broadly overstated. So I wouldn‘t say Zoro is a Whitebeard parallel.
What I do agree with is that Whitebeard and Zoro have very strong similarities in personality. If you want to call that a parallel, go ahead. But I don’t think Oda is deliberately doing it.
What I think is that Oda, when writing both characters, wants them to epitomise traits that he thinks of as manly. So they share a lot of those traits.
So personality wise, yep, Zoro is closer to Whitebeard than he is to any of the other top tiers. (Although we might find out that a younger Mihawk who was still fighting to be WSS was far more like Zoro than the more mature present day one)
The Whitebeard wouldn’t have left Sanji argument is idiotic as well.
Whitebeard took an absolute hissy fit when Oden left him.
Zoro was pissed off at Sanji deciding to leave them. At that stage, they knew nothing about the potential consequences for Sanji not doing that (Head in the box). It was just Capone showed up, told Sanji he was getting married and didn’t have a choice, and then Vito whispered something to him and he went along with it. Nami said he could have escaped if he wanted to, Sanji had said he’d be back later. That’s why Zoro got angry at this happening when they were already on an unstoppable collision course with Kaido.
However, Zoro then waited outside the room where Pekoms explained things further, heard about what had happened and then was, as Luffy could tell, quite worried. He gave a brief huffy let the idiot go statement, but didn’t cause any further fuss. All he said about it was watch out that Sanji wasn’t being a moron and loving the idea of being married. We’ve seen from the Usopp situation that if he’d still felt strongly about it, he would have made a stand.
One could even argue that acting childishly in the face of a perceived rejection is another similarity between the two.
What I do agree with is that Whitebeard and Zoro have very strong similarities in personality. If you want to call that a parallel, go ahead. But I don’t think Oda is deliberately doing it.
What I think is that Oda, when writing both characters, wants them to epitomise traits that he thinks of as manly. So they share a lot of those traits.
So personality wise, yep, Zoro is closer to Whitebeard than he is to any of the other top tiers. (Although we might find out that a younger Mihawk who was still fighting to be WSS was far more like Zoro than the more mature present day one)
The Whitebeard wouldn’t have left Sanji argument is idiotic as well.
Whitebeard took an absolute hissy fit when Oden left him.
Zoro was pissed off at Sanji deciding to leave them. At that stage, they knew nothing about the potential consequences for Sanji not doing that (Head in the box). It was just Capone showed up, told Sanji he was getting married and didn’t have a choice, and then Vito whispered something to him and he went along with it. Nami said he could have escaped if he wanted to, Sanji had said he’d be back later. That’s why Zoro got angry at this happening when they were already on an unstoppable collision course with Kaido.
However, Zoro then waited outside the room where Pekoms explained things further, heard about what had happened and then was, as Luffy could tell, quite worried. He gave a brief huffy let the idiot go statement, but didn’t cause any further fuss. All he said about it was watch out that Sanji wasn’t being a moron and loving the idea of being married. We’ve seen from the Usopp situation that if he’d still felt strongly about it, he would have made a stand.
One could even argue that acting childishly in the face of a perceived rejection is another similarity between the two.
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I think that you are taking some few similarities and forcing to be parallels.
WB is way more than drinking, sleep diffing, warrior's back pride and those stuff you talked about.
First of all WB is a man that accomplished his mission in life unlike Roger. And that mission was to have a family. I don't know anyone like that but would say Doflamingo is the closest from middle Gen and maybe Bege from the new Gen.
That said Zoro strongest parallel is obviously Mihawk. Although he has some coincidence with Ryuuma we know much little about him and by what we know we can't say Zoro parallels him. The one who seemed to parallel Ryuuma was Oden but again Zoro just have some similarities with Oden too.
Although from this list Ryuuma is the greatest name even bigger than Mihawk it is not a bad thing Zoro not being parallelled with him. After all a person shouldn't be just a copy of someone else who lived in the past like Luffy x Roger x JoyBoy. Zoro should be himself only.
I would say Zoro was paralleling Mihawk until he joined Luffy. Then he became Zoro and his own legend started.
WB is way more than drinking, sleep diffing, warrior's back pride and those stuff you talked about.
First of all WB is a man that accomplished his mission in life unlike Roger. And that mission was to have a family. I don't know anyone like that but would say Doflamingo is the closest from middle Gen and maybe Bege from the new Gen.
That said Zoro strongest parallel is obviously Mihawk. Although he has some coincidence with Ryuuma we know much little about him and by what we know we can't say Zoro parallels him. The one who seemed to parallel Ryuuma was Oden but again Zoro just have some similarities with Oden too.
Although from this list Ryuuma is the greatest name even bigger than Mihawk it is not a bad thing Zoro not being parallelled with him. After all a person shouldn't be just a copy of someone else who lived in the past like Luffy x Roger x JoyBoy. Zoro should be himself only.
I would say Zoro was paralleling Mihawk until he joined Luffy. Then he became Zoro and his own legend started.
