Is this the biggest single-chapter demolition of a character & fandom?


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One panel of Shanks easily one shotting Kid is not nearly enough for us to deduce how Shanks fights when he’s serious.
Saying Shanks has another "power" doesn't really make much sense. He has no DF, he hasn't even a second arm anymore to use a gun (though it's not like a gun would add much value to a supposedly supreme grade blade wielded with proficiency). And yes, kicks won't add much value either. We know that you can infuse your blade with CoA and CoC. So whatever Shanks can do with his Haki alone, when channeled through his blade with his supreme skill, it is much better. That's why even Whitebeard, who has the strongest paramecia, uses a supreme grade blade. Because it makes him stronger. Let alone Shanks, who has no DF and great swordskill.
Roger became PK only 1 year before his death. Oda could have given him the WSS title instead of “Great Pirate” in the Oden flashback
So who was the WSS then?
- Rayleigh
- Shiki
- Oden
- Xebec

No one was called WSS. So either there was an unknown character who magically was the strongest swordsman, or Oda simply didn't care to give this title to past characters from the old era, as only Mihawk is relevant to Zoro's goal.
 
Mihawk will never be as important to the One Piece story as Shanks because Oda decided as such.

Has nothing to do with power scaling.
When 1 characters hype doesn't come from themselves but another character it kinda does tho

Like you obviously can't compare shanks and mihawk when it comes to importance or relevance but still
 

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What's the point of all that new generation bullshit in Wano then?
8 Year old shanks fan writing level ngl
Can't be real bro. No way.
Subverting expectations by obliterating Kid by itself is a fantastic writing move.

It’s the fact that Oda did this via Shanks that is the issue, Shanks is just a fanservice character who feels completely disconnected from everyone else because Oda just wants to massage his balls every millisecond. A skilled writer would’ve destroyed Kid and Shanks both at the same time.
 
If Oda had made her competent, the Straw Hats and their allies wouldn't have left WCI alive. But he did a very terrible way to nerf and dumb her down.

And to be honest female characters only are competent when they are members or allies or future members/allies of the Straw Hats, and even only for a small portion of them.
She is incompetent and that's part of who she is as a character. She's written that way to fulfil her themes, which she does very well. Literally all One Piece villains and most villains in general are incompetent or hubristic in some fashion, so I don't know why sexism has to be brought up when it comes to Big Meme.

Her weaknesses were something only Sanji and Bege respectively were capable of taking advantage of, and even then only to get away from her. She's way more competent than Kaido tbh.
 
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