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Luffy has always been the monkey king, he's based on him just like many other Japanese characters. Nika isn't necessarily it, Oda just escalated from (King) Kong to Hanuman because Gear Fifth is godly.

Stuff like this just doesn't sound like something a decent writer would add to their work without cringing. It's too out of place.

Monkey King had virtually any power, from controlling the weather to natural super-speed to cloning himself to riding a cloud to many other abilities; is Luffy getting all of that? Because Sun Wukong is like a kid creating their hiper-super-ultra-hero that is stronger than yours. If anything...

The thing is, if "luffy only used rubber is because the fake name induced to him that he is rubber and thats IT", then why did he work as a rubber man before being told of the rubber power. And if it was the "fruit auto defense" why did it choose rubber, precisely. Anyways, if the Gomu Gomu...

If retconning that Luffy's power is the Gomu Gomu is enough of jumping the shark, I can't imagine how crappy it'd become if his real fruit is what Luffy already represents but destroying any subtlety about it and fully turning him into a Zoan. Hideous idea.