No, I don't want any character to die. And No, I don't want Imu to be the winner. I undertand the art of "being saved by the plot" if it's done in a good way. As long as the villain look good and is never stopped by the main character, but others circunstances, I don't have a problem with that.

Look at Luffy escape in Marine Ford for example. 3 admirals couldn't stop him, but Oda never drew Luffy dealing with them, it was just a bunch of powerful characters assisting Luffy and stalling them, no defeating them. (Unlike the Lorosei in Egghead that were Luffy' and everyone's punching bags, and they were unable to launch some attacks against anyone)

What you suggest is that Luffy himself with Loki are able to stall Imu, nah, that's not tension... nobody will take Imu seriously that way.

I agree on the time limit thing, but Oda need to sell on the perception that Loki and Luffy are about to lose/die.
In Elbaf there's no outside help that would function in this situation. In Marineford Oda could write in characters like Jozu or Marco stepping in to protect him from the Admirals (which was hard to believe)

When I say stall I don't mean "fight on par with him until he has to leave" I mean "we're getting fucked up but at least he isn't killing everyone else"

When Marco stalls a strong opponent for example it doesn't necessarily mean he's fighting on par with them. It just means that they can't fully put him down while he protects everyone else

It's just "objective: survive"
 
Another problem with Oda is that unlike others mangakas, he doesn't care about aura for his villains (at least not in recent years)

-Before we saw Kaido in action, he show him crying and drunk.
-Before we saw Imu true form, he made Imu kneels in pain.
-Kizaru first showcase in Egghead was being blocked by Sentomaru
-Saturn first transformation' appearance ended in Bonney stabbing him.
-Gorosei first transformation' appearance ended with the giants cutting them in half and blocking their attacks.
-We have not see Garling fighting in the present and Oda already ruined him in a fb.


And those are just the recent villains, let's not go to Katakurri' mouth and donuts scenes, BB being a coward, etc...

At least one chapter in, Real Imu looked fine. Let's see this week.
Agree, I remember how Crocodile, Rob Lucci, Enel, Doflamingo were never shown as a clown from the circus
 
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Perfect. @MonochromeYoru bet me an avi bet for 2 weeks. The conditions: zoro must do something of significance to imu to aid luffy and loki. If not then I lose the bet
Add me in the bet.
I'm saying he wont do anything to Imu at all.
Loki joining(at the chance is 0.01%) the crew is even higher than Zoro doing something significanance against Imu.
 
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