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Luffy is indeed created to be the strongest in the show. He will be the conqueror atop conquerors and he has explicitly stated his intention of becoming stronger than anyone else since that's required for his ideal of freedom. Zoro's only purpose is to be the strongest swordsman. If you aren't...

We've already seen Luffy coming back from his "old man" state with absolute ease. Of course he can, this is an established fact. The only thing Luffy needs to regain strength are funny heartbeats and laughs.

Saturn's devilish introduction is maybe the first time I've felt unease reading One Piece, and it's just the summary.

As if we didn't already see Luffy casually turning back into Gear Fifth after seemingly exhausting it before. Just some drums and laughs and he can kick again.

In verse, having a broken fruit is a significant factor in making you a top tier. Out verse, which is the reason that truly matters, the more the story progresses the more impactful a power must be in order to send a message of superiority: causing earthquakes, controlling gravity, turning into...

No, what defines a logia power is that the element is natural, the user can produce it and turn into it. Many users who aren't Logia have powers related to elements from nature, such as Jozu, Magellan, Luffy, Pica and... Trébol, I suppose? Whatever his mocus is. I don't think Oda sees Grus much...

Hi, Worstgen people; this isn't a powerscaling thread, so to the usual suspects: please stay away. I'll get straight to the point: Zoan awakening is conceptually disappointing. Whenever people theorize awakening, many make the mistake of thinking of a change that doesn't represent a qualitative...

A long time ago I expected Bonney would be just a kid (considering her childish reactions to stuff that normally scare children, like bugs); and reading Vegapunk's comment regarding her in this last chapter I'm even more convinced of what I also predicted, which is: Bonney falling in love with...

He doesn't. Again, if you think the idea of current Zoro one shotting Big Mom ever crossed Oda's mind you're completely deluded. Big Mom is obviously a top tier and her whole character and role in this story don't work if a subordinate like Zoro can just "casually" defeat her with one slash even...

Imagine Oda thinking one attack from Luffy's subordinate who just grew to the top commander ballpark is enough to OHKO the person who Law and Kid fought together to exhaustion without actually leaving her unconscious. Zoro can't handle Big Mom. Narratively he isn't there yet.

Luffy is fully aware of how fast Kizaru is, they had a moment in Marineford where Kizaru mocked Luffy's slowness. It's no coincidence that he went for his fastest form; he probably judged he had no chance to keep it up with Kizaru's speed in a lesser gear.

The bear ear from his hat.

Of course it does mean something? He melted Kuma's face and erased his leg (plus Kuma can "teleport", so it's not so weird that he could escape). "LOL weakling Akainu failed to take down Kuma", holly shit: what he did was worse than that! If this is the standard for failing then I'm scared as...

Akainu melted part of his head and seemingly his leg. This is significantly worst than pretty much any beating any other character can achieve because fighting Akainu leaves you permanently damaged if not mortally wounded. Just name one character who with such "average" attacks (because I...

Oda is going full Monsters, Inc. and the source of power the ancients had is going to be laughter and joy. The drums of liberation recharged the robot; waiting for a future plot where technology from the Void Century is recharged with the laughs of people from the whole world who Luffy has...

White isn't the absence of color but the contrary, it's all colors mixed.

Nah, this is absurd, Oda could have had Luffy defeating Kaidou with advanced Haoshoku plus level three of Busoshoku and we'd have believed it since there's no metric to establish how much stronger this Luffy would be. Oda introduced the Nika model because it enlarges the frame of his story. The...

A character requires consistency, though. You can't put a character in an scenario where he'd behave a certain way according to what's been previously established about his personality, motivations and relationships, and then don't write him behaving how he'd naturally behave in such scenario...

That's irrelevant. A good writer stays consistent with even the minor characters. The moment Oda established he's a powerful bodyguard who is the first to jump in to stop a threat, the moment he should stay consistent with it. Bogard went from being the first to get involved and personally...

But this is circular reasoning. The only reason why you see him as an irrelevant character is Oda's poor handling of him, when in reality he had the foundations to be a way more important figure. He has been around Garp since Roger's era and we actually have a precedent for how this character...