General & Others Is Shanks the main reason why the Yonko are so popular?
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When you think about it, WB might be the only "ordinary" Yonko here.
BM was born with her iron balloon body, a giant kid to normal-sized humans.
Kaido is a hybrid with Ancient Giant DNA for no fucking reason.
Shanks was likely born with an unnormal haki because of his half Davy half D. parentage.
WB is just a taller-than-normal human.
BM was born with her iron balloon body, a giant kid to normal-sized humans.
Kaido is a hybrid with Ancient Giant DNA for no fucking reason.
Shanks was likely born with an unnormal haki because of his half Davy half D. parentage.
WB is just a taller-than-normal human.
Shanks is Itachi only in the sense that he has a popular fighting style, for Itachi it was speed and finesse coupled with eye powers, for Shanks it's swordsmanship and pure haki. Both are Mary Sues too I guess, the author cannot find it in their hearts to make them look genuinely bad or go through genuine character progression
Itachi was a polarizing character while Shanks is a "safe" character, Oda gave any bad traits Shanks coulda have to his more interesting twin brother Shamrock
N1gga he is child of destiny with genetics of 20 og kings family, his daddy a former HK commander, and adopted by the fucking pirate king himself. He is nothing if not SPECIAL
Itachi was a polarizing character while Shanks is a "safe" character, Oda gave any bad traits Shanks coulda have to his more interesting twin brother Shamrock
N1gga he is child of destiny with genetics of 20 og kings family, his daddy a former HK commander, and adopted by the fucking pirate king himself. He is nothing if not SPECIAL
Shanks is Itachi only in the sense that he has a popular fighting style, for Itachi it was speed and finesse coupled with eye powers, for Shanks it's swordsmanship and pure haki. Both are Mary Sues too I guess, the author cannot find it in their hearts to make them look genuinely bad or go through genuine character progression
Itachi was a polarizing character while Shanks is a "safe" character, Oda gave any bad traits Shanks coulda have to his more interesting twin brother Shamrock
N1gga he is child of destiny with genetics of 20 og kings family, his daddy a former HK commander, and adopted by the fucking pirate king himself. He is nothing if not SPECIAL
Itachi was a polarizing character while Shanks is a "safe" character, Oda gave any bad traits Shanks coulda have to his more interesting twin brother Shamrock
N1gga he is child of destiny with genetics of 20 og kings family, his daddy a former HK commander, and adopted by the fucking pirate king himself. He is nothing if not SPECIAL
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Its so funny to me that Shanks fans view him as someone that Mihawk legit has been portrayed as so far:
-Chill personality
-Wants a quiet life away from pirating
-No special background or haki god mentors
-No special genetics
-actually cool design (Shanks dresses like a bum)
-No nepotism or favoritism by author
-Strongest of his style
Shanktards who swear their golden boy is nothing special need to get their eyes checked for their asses if they missed the point of the entire god valley flashback @Blazing Lion @nik87 @mly90 @GrandmasterChef Zonji
-Chill personality
-Wants a quiet life away from pirating
-No special background or haki god mentors
-No special genetics
-actually cool design (Shanks dresses like a bum)
-No nepotism or favoritism by author
-Strongest of his style
Shanktards who swear their golden boy is nothing special need to get their eyes checked for their asses if they missed the point of the entire god valley flashback @Blazing Lion @nik87 @mly90 @GrandmasterChef Zonji
My only problem is them putting Shanks above Mihawk in terms of powerscaling. Other than that every fandom has their delusionals and retards with super copium takes. Look at Sanji fans for example, they love trying to uplift Sanji by trying to make him a Zoro equal and the wings shit but also shit on Zoro at the same time so they just retardedly bring the ceiling/level down of their own fav. At least when Shankstards push Shanks above Mihawk they dont downplay Mihawk and then call him current Shanks rival, they just go with their retarded shit of Shanks grew much stronger after his duel/s with Mihawk and became a Yonko while Mihawk remained at his previous level.
No, it was Whitebeard.
It all started with the overblown Whitebeard hype because the anime changed the moment when he sucker-punched Papazuki and made it look like he took little to no damage.
That kicked off the whole Yonko > Admirals debacle.
Well, that and the fact that Papazuki killed Ace and people were pissed.
Eventually, they stopped caring about Whitebeard and shifted their focus to their new favorite Yonko from the Yonko Saga (Big Mom or Kaido), because of recency bias.
I remember. I was there.
Shanks fans only ever cared about Shanks.
It all started with the overblown Whitebeard hype because the anime changed the moment when he sucker-punched Papazuki and made it look like he took little to no damage.
That kicked off the whole Yonko > Admirals debacle.
Well, that and the fact that Papazuki killed Ace and people were pissed.
Eventually, they stopped caring about Whitebeard and shifted their focus to their new favorite Yonko from the Yonko Saga (Big Mom or Kaido), because of recency bias.
I remember. I was there.
Shanks fans only ever cared about Shanks.
Shanks is Itachi only in the sense that he has a popular fighting style, for Itachi it was speed and finesse coupled with eye powers, for Shanks it's swordsmanship and pure haki. Both are Mary Sues too I guess, the author cannot find it in their hearts to make them look genuinely bad or go through genuine character progression
Itachi was a polarizing character while Shanks is a "safe" character, Oda gave any bad traits Shanks coulda have to his more interesting twin brother Shamrock
N1gga he is child of destiny with genetics of 20 og kings family, his daddy a former HK commander, and adopted by the fucking pirate king himself. He is nothing if not SPECIAL
Itachi was a polarizing character while Shanks is a "safe" character, Oda gave any bad traits Shanks coulda have to his more interesting twin brother Shamrock
N1gga he is child of destiny with genetics of 20 og kings family, his daddy a former HK commander, and adopted by the fucking pirate king himself. He is nothing if not SPECIAL
Whitebeard was setup as the strongest man. Shanks was thrown to that level in Water Seven creating the myth of the Yonko. Mix with the payoff of Marineford (the strenght of Whitebeard and the aura of Shanks) it raised the bar of expections for Yonko overall.
Young boys for "some" reason tend to like physically strong and stoic characters like these two. Which also explain the rejections for the treatment of Big Mom that does a 180 on this trope on purpose...
Young boys for "some" reason tend to like physically strong and stoic characters like these two. Which also explain the rejections for the treatment of Big Mom that does a 180 on this trope on purpose...
Whitebeard was setup as the strongest man. Shanks was thrown to that level in Water Seven creating the myth of the Yonko. Mix with the payoff of Marineford (the strenght of Whitebeard and the aura of Shanks) it raised the bar of expections for Yonko overall.
Young boys for "some" reason tend to like physically strong and stoic characters like these two. Which also explain the rejections for the treatment of Big Mom that does a 180 on this trope on purpose...
Young boys for "some" reason tend to like physically strong and stoic characters like these two. Which also explain the rejections for the treatment of Big Mom that does a 180 on this trope on purpose...
They got all the jobber traits of giants at like half the size. Only Kuma and WB (if he even is one) ever did anything of note..is there anything unique about them anyways? I can't recall.
At most they're like the Humungousaurs if the Giants were Way Big...well except Way Big is way more impressive than any OP giant tbh.
At most they're like the Humungousaurs if the Giants were Way Big...well except Way Big is way more impressive than any OP giant tbh.