Imagine if:
- Kizaru uses his awakened powers
- He makes multiple copies of himself
- One copy defeats Sanji
- One other copy fights Zoro
- The real Kizaru goes after Luffy
That would be fucking amazing. Light bunshins lmao. Clone reflections.
One copy defeats Sanji bruh lmao. Outta pocket!
But this would also be a wonderful nod to how Wukong the Monkey King created clones of himself using a strand of his hair or something like that? Wukong is heavily associated with the Buddha too (cough Sengoku) and both Sengoku and Kizaru are radiant and golden....Kizaru could be "enlightened" like Sengoku is said to be by Oda or should be at least?
Appealing to the Buddha himself, the Jade Emperor waited for Sun Wukong to face him. As the Monkey King made his way into the palace, he demanded that he should be the Jade Emperor, as the armies of heaven could not defeat him and no prison could hold him.
Buddha, however, had a plan. Knowing the Monkey King’s weakness was his self-confidence, the Buddha asked a wager of the Monkey King. The Buddha wagered that the Monkey King could not find his way out of the Buddha’s palm. Accepting the bet, the Monkey King leapt from the heavens and flew to the ends of the world. Seeing only five pillars, he marked them with his urine and declared himself his title of Great Sage Equal to Heaven.
When he returned to the Buddha, Sun Wukong was ready to take the throne. However, the Buddha revealed that the five pillars he had marked were simply the fingers of Buddha’s hand. Before the Monkey King can escape, Buddha turned his hand sending the Monkey King hurtling towards earth, trapping him under a mountain that the Buddha sealed with a paper talisman, not to be unsealed for 500 years so that the Monkey King would learn patience and humility.
Would love to see Oda reference this with Kizaru and or Luffy and Sengoku somehow. One Piece definitely have some major Jourmey to The West influences, just like Dragonball does ofc. Dragonball inspired One Piece too funnily enough.