So far, Oda has actually been remarkably consistent at portraying the world government's power level.
Whereas the Marines, Pirates, and other groups gain their power generally through their own merit or genetics, the world government's powers you have consistently been portrayed as evil manipulative magic.
Doflamingo introduces this concept using his fruit powers to manipulate marines the first time we see him. This is not a coincidence, this is us being told directly that the marines are not evil, they are being manipulated by a demonic force.
IMO, Myosgard and Rosinante also push this idea. These two celestial dragons became good people by being removed from the holy land.
The Gorosei and God's Knights power comes not from their humanity, but from them succumbing to demonic forces. Whereas Luffy, Zoro, and Sanji, despite their lineages, built their strengths themselves, the world government is constantly cheating and using other powers in order to fight.
This is Oda being as clear as possible, that as evil and disgusting as they are, the celestial dragons are puppets. None of the power they are using is theirs.
This is why the God's Knights are so weak: it's not their powers that are holding them back. The bodies of the gods knights are not strong enough to handle the full power of the demonic forces Imu is handling. It's like early Deku: the body just can't contain the power.
The Demons possessing the Celestial Dragons is the real power and evil here.
Neither Blackbeard nor Imu are endgame, whatever is possessing Imu is.
I was hoping the God's Knights would be stronger, but Oda is deliberately knocking us over the head going, "The celestial dragons are weak as shit."
This also leads me to believe that Nerona Imu's goals are most likely completely different from those of the Demon Lord possessing them. I'd imagine it a Orochi Kaido situation, but with two people in one body. Imu is in opportunistic coward who summoned demon into himself, and is getting played by them.
Nerona Imu is some Orochi fuck boy who is trying to make their own ideal world.
The demon lord possessing them? They're trying to open up the actual gates to hell. Tar D. Eris, Tartarus.
I imagine that Shamrock will be important regarding this considering Cerberus, his sword, mythology guards Hades/Tartarus.
The EOS villains for One Piece are the actual Demon Race, and Nerona Imu is possessed by one of them, possibly the strongest.
The celestial dragons are nothing more than their pawns in trying to open up gates to hell.
This also connects to the Harley depicting beings coming out of the earth and mining light from the earth.
What occurred during the void century, was most likely a failed attempt at opening the Gates of Hell/Tar D. Eris.
Based on everything else we've seen, i believe that davy jones locker is located in this hell, and that Blackbeard will be able to communicate with it.
So, yeah.
The real terror is what's possessing the gods knights, not them themselves.
Whereas the Marines, Pirates, and other groups gain their power generally through their own merit or genetics, the world government's powers you have consistently been portrayed as evil manipulative magic.
Doflamingo introduces this concept using his fruit powers to manipulate marines the first time we see him. This is not a coincidence, this is us being told directly that the marines are not evil, they are being manipulated by a demonic force.
IMO, Myosgard and Rosinante also push this idea. These two celestial dragons became good people by being removed from the holy land.
The Gorosei and God's Knights power comes not from their humanity, but from them succumbing to demonic forces. Whereas Luffy, Zoro, and Sanji, despite their lineages, built their strengths themselves, the world government is constantly cheating and using other powers in order to fight.
This is Oda being as clear as possible, that as evil and disgusting as they are, the celestial dragons are puppets. None of the power they are using is theirs.
This is why the God's Knights are so weak: it's not their powers that are holding them back. The bodies of the gods knights are not strong enough to handle the full power of the demonic forces Imu is handling. It's like early Deku: the body just can't contain the power.
The Demons possessing the Celestial Dragons is the real power and evil here.
Neither Blackbeard nor Imu are endgame, whatever is possessing Imu is.
I was hoping the God's Knights would be stronger, but Oda is deliberately knocking us over the head going, "The celestial dragons are weak as shit."
This also leads me to believe that Nerona Imu's goals are most likely completely different from those of the Demon Lord possessing them. I'd imagine it a Orochi Kaido situation, but with two people in one body. Imu is in opportunistic coward who summoned demon into himself, and is getting played by them.
Nerona Imu is some Orochi fuck boy who is trying to make their own ideal world.
The demon lord possessing them? They're trying to open up the actual gates to hell. Tar D. Eris, Tartarus.
I imagine that Shamrock will be important regarding this considering Cerberus, his sword, mythology guards Hades/Tartarus.
The EOS villains for One Piece are the actual Demon Race, and Nerona Imu is possessed by one of them, possibly the strongest.
The celestial dragons are nothing more than their pawns in trying to open up gates to hell.
This also connects to the Harley depicting beings coming out of the earth and mining light from the earth.
What occurred during the void century, was most likely a failed attempt at opening the Gates of Hell/Tar D. Eris.
Based on everything else we've seen, i believe that davy jones locker is located in this hell, and that Blackbeard will be able to communicate with it.
So, yeah.
The real terror is what's possessing the gods knights, not them themselves.