Questions & Mysteries Is Big Meme worst character in all fiction?
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I don't know what the fuck Oda was thinking when he designed her character arc as so... this is one of 4 main Antagonists this story is set on and he chose this? He made the 7 warlords of the Sea as a stepping stone and even them he's fumbled them... god damn it Oda this isnt a fucking kids story, Teens at least! Its insulting to even a teenager's intelligence level for this shit.
I find nothing horribly wrong with her characterization... I mean, there's no perfect writer and there's no perfect character...
I think it's more into how a reader would view her as such... I think everyone just expected too much about her... Too much that most people already closed their mind with some head canons and school of thoughts...
Remember, Yonkos aren't perfect... They aren't deities... They are supposed to have their own flaws, their own counters, etc...
I think it's more into how a reader would view her as such... I think everyone just expected too much about her... Too much that most people already closed their mind with some head canons and school of thoughts...
Remember, Yonkos aren't perfect... They aren't deities... They are supposed to have their own flaws, their own counters, etc...
I think the problem here was that very early on, Oda belatedly recognised that the Soul Fruit is too versatile and capable of varied powersets. On top of the powers that have been portrayed Oda could have gone really wild and added things like:
- Strength enhancement = Draw the lifeforce of others and add to her own strength, increasing it beyond limits
- Physical enhancement = Draw the lifeforce of others and and increase her own size and power
- Life enhancement = Draw upon the Lifeforce of others and add to her own, either giving her a longer potentially endless lifespan or increasing her lifefroce reservoir so she doesn't die from fatal attacks
- Defence enhancement = Draw upon the Life force of others and use it like a forcefield above her skin or underenath it making her invulnerable
- Liche/Horcrux = put her soul or bits of it into others (e.g her homies) making her immortal. The only way to kill her is to kill her homies (no easy feat either)
and so on and so forth
and these are just generic soul powers off the top of my head.
But Oda didn't want to make BM potentially the strongest, invulnerable, immortal, unkillable villain that is wholly dependent on her DF. She'd be similar to someone like pre-TS Croc, or Enel. He wanted BM to be an all-rounder, and not just specialise in one thing. Just having her be a magician wasn't enough. That's why he decided to give her super strength, top-tier haki and seeming invulnerability from birth, wholly separate from her acquiring the DF.
The thing that really irks me is that Oda never fully explained where her super strength and invulnerability come from. We can only speculate it's some form of natural born durability, perhaps 'Tekkai' but completely instinctive.
- Strength enhancement = Draw the lifeforce of others and add to her own strength, increasing it beyond limits
- Physical enhancement = Draw the lifeforce of others and and increase her own size and power
- Life enhancement = Draw upon the Lifeforce of others and add to her own, either giving her a longer potentially endless lifespan or increasing her lifefroce reservoir so she doesn't die from fatal attacks
- Defence enhancement = Draw upon the Life force of others and use it like a forcefield above her skin or underenath it making her invulnerable
- Liche/Horcrux = put her soul or bits of it into others (e.g her homies) making her immortal. The only way to kill her is to kill her homies (no easy feat either)
and so on and so forth
and these are just generic soul powers off the top of my head.
But Oda didn't want to make BM potentially the strongest, invulnerable, immortal, unkillable villain that is wholly dependent on her DF. She'd be similar to someone like pre-TS Croc, or Enel. He wanted BM to be an all-rounder, and not just specialise in one thing. Just having her be a magician wasn't enough. That's why he decided to give her super strength, top-tier haki and seeming invulnerability from birth, wholly separate from her acquiring the DF.
The thing that really irks me is that Oda never fully explained where her super strength and invulnerability come from. We can only speculate it's some form of natural born durability, perhaps 'Tekkai' but completely instinctive.