I won’t hate Oda for giving Kid less of a role than I expect from him but I will complain if he humiliates Kid’s character after giving him the portrayal he has. Oda is the one who set the expectation of Kid being a big rival to Luffy.
If Luffy is Roger at the end of One Piece, Kid will be Whitebeard, that’s how I see it.
See... this is the expectation that ODA NEVER GAVE.... yet you claim that Oda did that... Kidd being the WB for Luffy is just a huuuuuge stretch from you guys... and Oda NEVER ONCE gave a small panel of Kidd having some resemblence to WB... not once...
In One Piece system... just remember this... when Oda wants to make parallel... he will MAKE SURE you see it clearly.... like for example having someone on the side saying "this reminds of of Old man WB...etc."
Do you actually know which character got the WB parallel from Oda???? Believe it or not... it's Luffy in Fishman island when he was protecting it, and some random nameless guy say "he reminds me of WB"
Or the "sake cup of sons" of SH grand fleet reminding us of the "Sons of WB"
Believe it or not... Oda is just shitpacking every parallel into Luffy... and sometimes with Zoro...
But never once I have seen Oda make Kidd resemble WB.. not once, and it's all coming from fans.. and it's problematic because you are claiming that you will complain about it when oda built it that way and in same breathe you speak that he set up Kidd to be WB for Luffy... when in NO POINT did Oda do that... NOT ONCE...
Hey I bet Marco will be present in this war and will see WB protecting his allies in Luffy doing that... while he completely skips over Kidd.. AGAIN coming from Marco himself, right hand of WB LMAO