Recently I’ve been wondering about Kidd’s relevance to the plot moving forward when suddenly it struck me - He doesn’t have any. Kidd is a character who:
Had his backstory revealed in an SBS as though it were an afterthought
Serves no purpose as a rival to Luffy moving forward
Has no clear path to continue on that doesn’t involve him ultimately failing miserably to accomplish anything.
I’m starting to think his death might serve a greater purpose than anything he could accomplish by being alive. His death can mark a tonal shift in the race to find the One Piece by communicating to the reader that prevalent characters can fail and die in the current timeline (something One Piece as a series badly needs imo). Shanks doesn’t need the feat but it does add some depth to his character by showing that he’s willing to kill mercilessly, even if reluctantly for the sake of his allies. Aside from that even if you just compare him to Law, even he has another motivation besides finding the One Piece that warrants him having a place in the plot in the future. From the start he’s always had an interest in learning the meaning of D and now it seems like it’s going to be his main interest going forward. The one thing he could have had going for himself was to be a conduit for us to find out more information about the man marked by flames but other characters seem to know just as much if not much more about him than Kidd does such as the Blackbeard Pirates, making him worthless concerning that as well.
I’ll leave it here for now. Does anyone feel like Kidd can serve the story in any meaningful way going forward? If you do, then why? Do you think Oda originally planned for Kidd to play a much larger part and if so, why did he pivot away from it?
Had his backstory revealed in an SBS as though it were an afterthought
Serves no purpose as a rival to Luffy moving forward
Has no clear path to continue on that doesn’t involve him ultimately failing miserably to accomplish anything.
I’m starting to think his death might serve a greater purpose than anything he could accomplish by being alive. His death can mark a tonal shift in the race to find the One Piece by communicating to the reader that prevalent characters can fail and die in the current timeline (something One Piece as a series badly needs imo). Shanks doesn’t need the feat but it does add some depth to his character by showing that he’s willing to kill mercilessly, even if reluctantly for the sake of his allies. Aside from that even if you just compare him to Law, even he has another motivation besides finding the One Piece that warrants him having a place in the plot in the future. From the start he’s always had an interest in learning the meaning of D and now it seems like it’s going to be his main interest going forward. The one thing he could have had going for himself was to be a conduit for us to find out more information about the man marked by flames but other characters seem to know just as much if not much more about him than Kidd does such as the Blackbeard Pirates, making him worthless concerning that as well.
I’ll leave it here for now. Does anyone feel like Kidd can serve the story in any meaningful way going forward? If you do, then why? Do you think Oda originally planned for Kidd to play a much larger part and if so, why did he pivot away from it?
