Latest chapters sealed Imu's fate of never reaching the final villain status and just being a team up fight for Goofy and Blackbeard or at least Blackbeard only:
After Blackbeard negates Imu's shitty regen gimmick, it will be easy to wipe the floor with him and his weak ass goons. So I will not talk about Imu here, since he's irrelevant.
Akainu and Blackbeard have been grouped as a Marines/Pirate duo
Their promotions were the two biggest events during timeskip
But even with all that, Akainu still edges out Blackbeard as being more important and evil:
Blackbeard doesn't have any moral opposition for the MC. Blackbeard is same freedom lover like MC.
Meanwhile Akainu is literally all about control and killing children for their father's sins, which is opposite of freedom
Joyboy was the guy who started the piracy
Honestly "Blackbeard is final villain" guys only say that because it's the only IRL pirate they know and black = evil,
but when you ask them how will Blackbeard give a final fighting challenge to MC with Shiryu/Laffite/Pizzaro and few other titanic jobbers that were getting thrown around by a small force of Akainu's underlings- they freeze up.
After Blackbeard negates Imu's shitty regen gimmick, it will be easy to wipe the floor with him and his weak ass goons. So I will not talk about Imu here, since he's irrelevant.
Akainu and Blackbeard have been grouped as a Marines/Pirate duo
But even with all that, Akainu still edges out Blackbeard as being more important and evil:
1. Koby went to confront Akainu in order to stop the war, not Blackbeard
while Blackbeard watches from the side
2. Kuzan deems Akainu far too evil to work under, while he has no problem working for Blackbeard, which shows that Blackbeard is less evil of the 2:
3. Oda acknowledging making Akainu sit out until endgame like EoS boss, while Blackbeard is making early moves because he will fall sooner
4. And most obvious- Akainu scarred and is connected to the MC, while BB scarred and is connected to the side character:
Akainu also has the:- Biggest army in the world
- Seraphim
- 5bil bounty vs 3.9bil
- 3 strongest underlings in the world (Kizaru, Aramki, Fujitora) vs Blackbeard's (Shiryu, Laffite, Pizzaro)
Which obvious logic dictated that the character with stronger underlings is left for later in the story in order for MC's underlings to get strong enough to take on.
Blackbeard doesn't have any moral opposition for the MC. Blackbeard is same freedom lover like MC.
Meanwhile Akainu is literally all about control and killing children for their father's sins, which is opposite of freedom
Joyboy was the guy who started the piracy
Honestly "Blackbeard is final villain" guys only say that because it's the only IRL pirate they know and black = evil,
but when you ask them how will Blackbeard give a final fighting challenge to MC with Shiryu/Laffite/Pizzaro and few other titanic jobbers that were getting thrown around by a small force of Akainu's underlings- they freeze up.
