Questions & Mysteries Will Luffy Die at the End of The Story?

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[vikas]

He already died in wano.
Oda just copied Primeapes evolution to Annhilape

 

[Welkin]

No I doubt the “reduced lifespan” thing will ever be relevant

It almost never is in shonen and I doubt One Piece will be any different

 

[Yoho]

I want one piece to end in a tragedy and not only do the strawhats die, they lose against the wg

 

[AverageBuggyEnjoyer]

I want one piece to end in a tragedy and not only do the strawhats die, they lose against the wg

That's what happens when you watch every series, movie and tv show in existence you start losing context on a simple shonen story

 

[AverageBuggyEnjoyer]

No, I used to think it's a possibility, but I highly doubt it now given what Luffy represents. Maybe in the epilogue we get to see 100 years into the future where Luffy's dead, but I don't think the actual ending of the story will be Luffy dying.

 

[Moewu]

Don't worry Luffy fans. He can't die if he never existed. In an alternative ending.

 

[AverageBuggyEnjoyer]

Don't worry Luffy fans. He can't die if he never existed. In an alternative ending.

Oda doesn't have the balls to write such a GOATED ending lol

 

[AverageBuggyEnjoyer]

Don't worry Luffy fans. He can't die if he never existed. In an alternative ending.

Reminds me of that Bleach theory where after Ichigo defeats Yhwach, he finds himself still standing in Fake Karakura 300 chapters earlier when he supposedly "defeated" and sealed Aizen, and everything for 300 chapters afterwards was Aizen's Hypnosis Bankai

 

[Yoho]

Don't worry Luffy fans. He can't die if he never existed. In an alternative ending.

The entire one piece story just being one of usopps elaborate lies would be the greatest plot twist in the history of story telling

 

[Moewu]

Reminds me of that Bleach theory where after Ichigo defeats Yhwach, he finds himself still standing in Fake Karakura 300 chapters earlier when he supposedly "defeated" and sealed Aizen, and everything for 300 chapters afterwards was Aizen's Hypnosis Bankai

Sadly, I've never really watched Bleach from the start to the end. But, I am aware of Aizen's character. That would have been crazy.

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The entire one piece story just being one of usopps elaborate lies would be the greatest plot twist in the history of story telling

That would be poetic in a sense, because his lies become "reality". Oda tries to remind us of it even in random color spreads.

 

[swarna]

I don't think the mechanism for this matters much. There's enough in the story where Oda could flesh out either possibility without much of an issue.

Better question would be to ask what yourself would Oda have Luffy do after his dream is realized? Is this a character you can imagine just chilling around for years on end like Rayleigh or Mihawk? Or carrying out a "secret mission" like Shanks? I don't think either of those suits his style and the latter would probably imply some kind of failure to realize his dream by EoS.

So unless the story starts bringing in the topic of a new adventure after the Grand Line (moon/space/whatever), I think he'll have no reason to stick around. You can do this same exercise with each and every Straw Hat to sniff out the death flags.

For example:
Sanji - the natural follow-up after finding the All Blue is to start a new restaurant and continue feeding the world. This character is 100% not dying.
Usopp - could go either way depending on how his dream is realized. Could get immortalized as a living or dead legend. In the former case, probably just spreads tales of his adventures.
Zoro - can easily keep busy by getting drunk, chilling, and defending his new title. It's not air-tight, though, because he does have that "live hard, die hard" mindset like Luffy.
Franky - was lifelong tinkerer before the Straw Hats, could easily go back to that after them.

etc