The 3 main villains of the story representing evil pirates, marines and nobles
Imu surpassing both of them when it comes to end of series big bad potential as the secret king of the world and having ties to the void century
With Blackbeards plan to “join” the world government through his capturing of Koby and now even better Garp all 3 of them are pretty much going to be on the same side. Tho I doubt any of them would get along or even like each other
All that being said I lowkey just realized is that each of them has a group directly after them
Cross guild is an organization that is arguably the marines biggest threat at the moment. Them putting bounties on their heads causing even civilians to go after them
Shanks and Blackbeard have been rivals since their time as apprentices. Shanks now actively trying to stop him from progressing knowing how dangerous he is
Dragon and the revolutionaries are the only group that directly go up against the world government and nobles. He might’ve not known of imu until recently but it doesn’t change the fact that that’s their main enemy
It just so happens that coincidentally those characters like buggy, shanks, and dragon all appear at Roger’s execution on the same page. I’m not saying they necessarily have to team up to counter the Sakazuki, Blackbeard, and imu but it’d definitely be interesting
Since the marines and Blackbeard pirates might fall before the one piece is found I wouldn’t mind a team up even by accident with shanks and buggy
Wether or not there’s any team ups between the 3 groups
- Cross guild and the marines should go down together
- The red haired and Blackbeard pirates should go down together
- The revolutionary army and world government should go down together
As for where are the stawhats and what role are they playing? They’re the main characters their going to be the most relevant in each fight and luffy wants smoke with everyone
- Like against the marines and cross guild both are enemies and rivals. So they’ll probably fight a mixture of both. That being when zoro finally fights mihawk
- Maybe against shanks and Blackbeard shanks and luffy end up reuniting first. They have a Davy back fight or something and the winner moves on to fight teach or something
- Luffy has no reason to fight the revolutionaries but he’d definitely help against world nobles and imu