Way too often I see One Piece fans talking about Luffy or Sabo Avenging Ace by killing Akainu
My issue with this concept is that is goes against what we know about The Pirate life and code in One Piece. "Avenging" Ace would be the biggest disrespect Luffy and Sabo could do to Ace. We are told several times that People in the One Piece world respect each other as their own men and don't treat each other like children who aren't responsible for their own decisions
Sabo outright Told Burgess that he didn't have anything against him or the Blackbeard Pirates personally because Ace is his own man , Luffy was hesitant to Save Ace at first because it would be disrespectful to interfere in Ace's Adventure and Ace himself was telling both Luffy and the Whitebeard Pirates that they shouldn't try to save him because it's his own fault he was in this situation.
Of course it's not a Black and White situation as Luffy choose to interfere regardless of how pissed Ace would get, Dragon saved Luffy despite respecting him as his own man with his own adventure, Luffy still hates Blackbeard for what he did.
But at the end of the day if Luffy or Sabo Fight Akainu, it should never be about "Ace's honor" or crap like that, it should be because Akainu is an obstacle for their goal. It's not like Robin wants to kill Aokiji for killing Saul.
Making the Akainu Fight about avenging Ace would be pissing on one of the biggest Philosophical theme of One Piece.
My issue with this concept is that is goes against what we know about The Pirate life and code in One Piece. "Avenging" Ace would be the biggest disrespect Luffy and Sabo could do to Ace. We are told several times that People in the One Piece world respect each other as their own men and don't treat each other like children who aren't responsible for their own decisions
Sabo outright Told Burgess that he didn't have anything against him or the Blackbeard Pirates personally because Ace is his own man , Luffy was hesitant to Save Ace at first because it would be disrespectful to interfere in Ace's Adventure and Ace himself was telling both Luffy and the Whitebeard Pirates that they shouldn't try to save him because it's his own fault he was in this situation.
Of course it's not a Black and White situation as Luffy choose to interfere regardless of how pissed Ace would get, Dragon saved Luffy despite respecting him as his own man with his own adventure, Luffy still hates Blackbeard for what he did.
But at the end of the day if Luffy or Sabo Fight Akainu, it should never be about "Ace's honor" or crap like that, it should be because Akainu is an obstacle for their goal. It's not like Robin wants to kill Aokiji for killing Saul.
Making the Akainu Fight about avenging Ace would be pissing on one of the biggest Philosophical theme of One Piece.