Controversial Characters that are protected too much
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No one is more protected than Shanks.
On SHs
Shs especially M3 get tough times. Luffy even got one shot koed by Kaido and kiz feeding him is nothing short of an embarrassment.
Zoro and Sanji have their own share deal of such events. Heck, I would say these two even gets nerfed.
And, as far plot protection is concerned then they are MCs and you are reading shonen so it's no rocket science that plot armor exists for them.
On Law and Kidd
Even though Law gets more preferential treatment than kidd but fact is their dfs have immense potential yet they remain under-utilised. And, they themselves faced embarassment few times already.
On Akainu
He's not protected as well. Half dead WB smoked the shit out of him and the same Akainu who was hell bent on catching Luffy was paralyzed to the core once Shanks showed up.
Only characters which I can say are overly protected are Shanks because he's getting portrayed as "Poster boi" and "Mr. Perfect saint" which is just annoying now
And, Dragon by virtue of not getting fleshed at all and being reserved for the end..
On SHs
Shs especially M3 get tough times. Luffy even got one shot koed by Kaido and kiz feeding him is nothing short of an embarrassment.
Zoro and Sanji have their own share deal of such events. Heck, I would say these two even gets nerfed.
And, as far plot protection is concerned then they are MCs and you are reading shonen so it's no rocket science that plot armor exists for them.
On Law and Kidd
Even though Law gets more preferential treatment than kidd but fact is their dfs have immense potential yet they remain under-utilised. And, they themselves faced embarassment few times already.
On Akainu
He's not protected as well. Half dead WB smoked the shit out of him and the same Akainu who was hell bent on catching Luffy was paralyzed to the core once Shanks showed up.
Only characters which I can say are overly protected are Shanks because he's getting portrayed as "Poster boi" and "Mr. Perfect saint" which is just annoying now
And, Dragon by virtue of not getting fleshed at all and being reserved for the end..
Oda has basically been saving the entire cast for The final war hence why no one actually gets permanently dealt with
the closest we’ve come to permanently removing a major player from the final war is Shanks one shotting kid but even that isnt expected to be permanent… everyone more or less expects kid to to wash up on elbaf
The final war is the last time you expect anything meaningful to happen but even then there’s doubts… like if Dragon gets defeated, who actually expects he’ll be killed? Most likely he’ll just be injured and left to spectate as Luffy saves the world
the closest we’ve come to permanently removing a major player from the final war is Shanks one shotting kid but even that isnt expected to be permanent… everyone more or less expects kid to to wash up on elbaf
The final war is the last time you expect anything meaningful to happen but even then there’s doubts… like if Dragon gets defeated, who actually expects he’ll be killed? Most likely he’ll just be injured and left to spectate as Luffy saves the world
Sabo easily. He's not a Straw Hat/MC but gets away with crashout behavior and dumb risks that even Luffy would get punished for.
- Let Burgess stowaway without noticing and got a decades-old secret base destroyed, but somehow Revs managed to not lose anyone and Sabo wasn't even reprimanded for it.
- Risked provoking war with the Marines just to protect Luffy at Dressrosa (Koala says as much), but he got lucky and managed to clash with the only Admiral who would actually let him go in that scenario.
- Managed to get away from the Gorosei and Imu chasing after him even though it's clear that he couldn't have overpowered them, and that Cobra protecting him shouldn't have done shit. We also see that the Gorosei aren't even slow in Egghead, they damn near caught the Straw Hats multiple times despite them not even being the Gorosei's #1 priority, and that's without Imu there. It's just nonsense. Plus why would you fight the leader of a military force in a world with all sorts of different fantasy powers when you have no intel and no orders to do so? Forget them being broken or even just strong, what if they were just weak but had a hax DF that made you useless??? Even that would've been enough to put his life in danger and set the revolution back. Also he didn't even act fast enough to save Cobra from the initial arrow shot- what if Cobra was just dead right there?? So much plot armor had to come together for him in that scene and he's not even an MC. It's insane
But obviously there's a reason- Oda isn't going to ever kill him off. If he traumatized Luffy by killing his brother again, the story would have to stop and address that in ways we don't have the time for. He's literally protected by the narrative because of this
- Let Burgess stowaway without noticing and got a decades-old secret base destroyed, but somehow Revs managed to not lose anyone and Sabo wasn't even reprimanded for it.
- Risked provoking war with the Marines just to protect Luffy at Dressrosa (Koala says as much), but he got lucky and managed to clash with the only Admiral who would actually let him go in that scenario.
- Managed to get away from the Gorosei and Imu chasing after him even though it's clear that he couldn't have overpowered them, and that Cobra protecting him shouldn't have done shit. We also see that the Gorosei aren't even slow in Egghead, they damn near caught the Straw Hats multiple times despite them not even being the Gorosei's #1 priority, and that's without Imu there. It's just nonsense. Plus why would you fight the leader of a military force in a world with all sorts of different fantasy powers when you have no intel and no orders to do so? Forget them being broken or even just strong, what if they were just weak but had a hax DF that made you useless??? Even that would've been enough to put his life in danger and set the revolution back. Also he didn't even act fast enough to save Cobra from the initial arrow shot- what if Cobra was just dead right there?? So much plot armor had to come together for him in that scene and he's not even an MC. It's insane
But obviously there's a reason- Oda isn't going to ever kill him off. If he traumatized Luffy by killing his brother again, the story would have to stop and address that in ways we don't have the time for. He's literally protected by the narrative because of this
Eh tbf I don't know how exactly he was supposed to know that Burgess would stowaway. It's not his fault, especially since he thought he had either killed him or completely incapacitated him.
And the Gorosei thing is a little bull shit, but I can buy it since Luffy somehow managed to escape Marineford with only a scar despite being up against three Admirals plus Sengoku.
And the Gorosei thing is a little bull shit, but I can buy it since Luffy somehow managed to escape Marineford with only a scar despite being up against three Admirals plus Sengoku.
It doesn't matter. Sabo started a fight with a Yonko crew over words. This had consequences for the revolutionary army. Dragon was able to keep that location secret for years. Sabo escaped from a room of all the Gorosei and Imu himself on their island. Luffy faced the three admirals in a war where they had to worry about other things like an actual Yonko.
