i think oda is slowly addressing this. luffy used to say that he wanted all the food for himself, individual freedom. but at the end of wano, he says that he wants a world where everyone has access to food, collective freedom.
luffy realized that kaido's notion of freedom, the freedom of the...
that's what's interesting about blackbeard. while imu is an obstacle to the freedom the protagonist is fighting to achieve, blackbeard is fighting to achieve exactly the same thing, but an opposing notion of what freedom is. that forces the protagonist to reflect on what freedom actually means...
imu represents the world subjected to a tyrannical order. it is a tyrannical state, but it is a state, with rules and laws. blackbeard wants to become the king to engulf the world in chaos. they are not the same.
in a manga where the protagonist is trying to overthrow a tyrannical government, the final villain being the leader of the tyrannical regime is predictable and boring. it should be blackbeard because he represents the misuse of the very freedom that the protagonist is fighting to achieve, it's...
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