Controversial Is Roger A Fraud ?
- Thread starter Yoho
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“P-please give me your poneglyph Linlin…”
“P-please give me your Oden Shirohige…”
“P-please give me your Oden Shirohige…”
1) Not everything needs to be resolved through violence.
2) He needed Oden to read the Poneglyphs, and was humble enough to lower his head to his enemy to recruit him.
You guys really do live in this bubble where everything must be resolved with brute strength. You need to take a break from reading fantasy.
Oda doesn't present it as a strength thing. It's a shonen, so obviously strength and power is going to play a role, but it has been made abundantly clear that strength alone was never enough for Roger to become Pirate King.
Garp even explicitly says during Luffy's flashback that it was because of how Roger lived his life, and had the luck to survive, that he became Pirate King. There was no mention of strength anywhere, and this came from Roger's biggest rival.
Yeah, Oda likes to emphasize strength because at the end of the day it is a shonen, and that stuff sells, but he explicitly went out of his way to write in the story over 10+ years ago that becoming Pirate King isn't solely strength related. He doesn't need to keep reinforcing something he's already told us. In fact he is showing us exactly what Garp said, all those years ago.
Garp even explicitly says during Luffy's flashback that it was because of how Roger lived his life, and had the luck to survive, that he became Pirate King. There was no mention of strength anywhere, and this came from Roger's biggest rival.
Yeah, Oda likes to emphasize strength because at the end of the day it is a shonen, and that stuff sells, but he explicitly went out of his way to write in the story over 10+ years ago that becoming Pirate King isn't solely strength related. He doesn't need to keep reinforcing something he's already told us. In fact he is showing us exactly what Garp said, all those years ago.
