Got nothing else to say about it after this point, just think about it in a logical way instead of "muh powerscale":
- Shanks and Mihawk are heavily tied to Luffy and Zoro and to each other
- Mihawk just lost his Shichibukai position.
- The crew fights enemy factions. That mean antagonosts that fit within one associated crew or group.
- That means Mihawk really can't justifiably fight in any faction outside of Shanks', because Blackbeard already has his "Zoro" archetype and he just got removed from the WG/Marine side of the equation, he quite literally does not fit anywhere else. Proof of this is essentially Kaido, Orochi and Big Mom. Not one SH crew member is fighting her, Orochi, Fuku or fought Peros. They were all localized to Kaido's side.
- We know justifiably zero major motives from Shanks at this point, so to say he won't legitimately fight Luffy when Luffy has stated he wants to fight him makes no sense to me.
- Really in no scenario is Zoro going to get a special exclusive fight outside of the confines of the story. The story is about Luffy. It makes zero sense to deliver emotional payoff AFTER everything is over.
This is why imo, Mihawk is best left to allying with Shanks, because it's what logically makes most sense from a storytelling/character perspective.
And this is why, yes, Sanji vs Beckman can happen on principle that he fights effectively the #3 in the "faction" because Shanks/Mihawk are the top two (and am not getting into that argument on who's stronger, just read the story)
- Shanks and Mihawk are heavily tied to Luffy and Zoro and to each other
- Mihawk just lost his Shichibukai position.
- The crew fights enemy factions. That mean antagonosts that fit within one associated crew or group.
- That means Mihawk really can't justifiably fight in any faction outside of Shanks', because Blackbeard already has his "Zoro" archetype and he just got removed from the WG/Marine side of the equation, he quite literally does not fit anywhere else. Proof of this is essentially Kaido, Orochi and Big Mom. Not one SH crew member is fighting her, Orochi, Fuku or fought Peros. They were all localized to Kaido's side.
- We know justifiably zero major motives from Shanks at this point, so to say he won't legitimately fight Luffy when Luffy has stated he wants to fight him makes no sense to me.
- Really in no scenario is Zoro going to get a special exclusive fight outside of the confines of the story. The story is about Luffy. It makes zero sense to deliver emotional payoff AFTER everything is over.
This is why imo, Mihawk is best left to allying with Shanks, because it's what logically makes most sense from a storytelling/character perspective.
And this is why, yes, Sanji vs Beckman can happen on principle that he fights effectively the #3 in the "faction" because Shanks/Mihawk are the top two (and am not getting into that argument on who's stronger, just read the story)
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