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She's very weak and very uninteresting. I just don't see what she could bring, not only to the crew, but even to the story as a Strawhat member. Her joining the Revolution and sharing whatever knowledge she has about the Story of the World of whatever, sure, I can get behind that. Even back...

People here thinking the thread should be closed :gokulaugh:! We all know Oda will throw plenty of characters would could fill the last spot (and no, it's not Caribou. Notice how he couldn't hear what Lugffy was saying, which pretty much excluded him from the conversation : Wether it's...

I think Buster Call is supposed to kill everyone to make an example. It's cases where the World Governement doesn't want to go too far because the island has ressources or something like that it wants to keep for itself. But Uranus (IMHO that's what Imu uses) is for situations where the deep...

Quoted for Truth. Bounty in the crew doesn't equate strength. Or are we to supposed Usopp is stronger than Frankry ?

They also seems to imply that the strength of the warlords is mostly genetics and not technique.

We know Aokiji joined BB but that Burguess doesn't trust him. So I guess having Coby may be a test of character from BB to Aokiji : can you kill that one marine or not ?

We need a new poll here, but I guess I can wait until we return to Luffy and co, probably next chapter.

It's more probable that they collected the blood samples of strong pirates whenever they could in the past decades. I suspect that cloning Kuma was the proof of concept from Vegapunk (even if The Germa 66 did that already) that he could replicate his strength easily. Mixing in Lunarian DNA and...

Feels like BB is the next Yonko to fall then ? And that look on Hancock's face when BB is threatening her is great. Yes she can't hit him anymore but she clearly doesn't care if he kills her or not, she won't release her power on his captains.

That's 20 bounties above a billion, and four of those are for dead characters. It's not that much when all the OP characters are counted. Also we need to remember that we have a biased view about it all because we has readers have been following Luffy and co on all their adventures and bounties...

He created a world-wide Revolution whose goal is to remove the World Government from power. Also remember that the WG, and especially Akainu, strongly believe in "blood sin" so to speak : the crimes of the father are passed to the son, etc. There is a strong undercurrent of "special lineages...

I don't know if Oda truly wanted it to feel like that, but it certainly does. I don't dislike Haki per se, but you can't help but question why every character of note seems to know it in the New World and our crew consist of four capable CoA Haki users (perhaps five if Robin's devil form is Haki...

And again, none of that matters. None. Oda wants Luffy to be the top SH, plain and simple, and Sanji is weaker than Zoro. That's how he writes his story. You can add or remove everything you want to any character, it won't change that.

And none of that is the source of their respective strength. They are not stronger than the other because they have such abilities. They have those abilities because Oda wanted them to be like that. It's what I'm saying. You focus on the tools Oda gave his characters, their perks, and not the...

You need to read about powerscalling if you can't see the difference between a talk about the narrative structure and the power of the characters... What this thread is about, using the Doriki because they are the clearest tool Oda used to convey that message, is that strength comes not from...

And what I'm saying is that what Jabura says about the Doriki is irrelevant, because what matters is what Oda wanted the Doriki to be, ie an indicator of how he sees the crew's dynamics. He could have used apples and bananas, it would have amounted to the same (if in a less obvious way). Of...

Which is something which always bugged me (both cases mind). Yes Sanji is weaker than Zoro... in the same way than 5000 is lower than 5005. Is it really that impactful ? To me it doesn't seem to be the case. And it focus on a matter of ranking in prowesses when what matters is how Oda will craft...

It seems you've failed to understand why I used Doriki, which is probably my fault : they are a tool for Oda to explain his narrative structure when it comes to the crew's dynamic and how it impact the stories he tells. Nothing else, nothing less, nothing more. In essence Doriki matters as much...

Edit : Because some people don't seem to differenciate narrative talk and powerscalling : Most powerscalers (no matter whom they consider their fave, but it's mostly prevalent among Zoro and Mihawk fans as far as I can tell) don't understand how Oda sees the power dynamics in the crew, not...

I'd rather Oda had him do a Usopp because someone (like BB) would badmouth Roger/Rayleigh