Whitebeard literally failed
At what?
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You think....you dont know.
So far weve told it absorbs physical hits. There has never been shown a limit to it or not. Its been shown twice in the series, and both times its done its job. And you have no proof that the door Luffy broke was the same physical blow absorbing door.
Either way there is no possible way to downplay Sanji here. After Sanji failed, Oda automatically made a reason for it....and thats that.
Yes it has because it was bent when Sanji kicked it meaning that was almost its limit. While it did not break, the door is designed to be not damaged, not to keep on bending lmao.
So if someone kicks maybe twice or three times as hard door breaks.
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The thing with Zoro and Sanji is that Oda keeps playing with the readers.
Zoro can be wanked as much as you want, but the only thing that ultimately matters out of "hype" and power-scalling calculations based on who knows what (commonly petitio principii and similar reasoning mistakes) is the rival he ends up getting. There's no point in arguing that Zoro is as strong or even stronger (...) than Luffy yet he never, ever gets a versus that fulfils that expectation. On top of that, when said versus can be consistently tied to Sanji's the message is obvious.
When I say that Oda keeps playing with the readers is that Kuroobi was likely above Hatchan, but of course, Zoro was injured. Then Mr. 1 and Mr. 2 have their unfinished skirmish and there you have a new point to discuss whether Zoro or Sanji is stronger. And later Kaku is 20 doriki above Jabra yet the latter conveniently mentions devil fruits being a non-factor in that calculation, and Sanji enters the fight weakened by Califa, and he actually K.O. Jabra instantly with his final kick (unlike Zoro). And then Absalom is hierarchically above Ryuma but Ryuma has this whole samurai hype yet it is a body with Brook's shadow yet Sanji has the handicap of protecting Nami...
And we have Mohji and Cabaji fighting each other to a draw. And Zoro and Sanji's zombies fighting in equal terms. And Zoro and Sanji arguing about who defeated the Pacifista, and then dreaming with beating each other (while doing so in reality), and then Zoro being salty because Sanji's strength is praised by Luffy and then Sanji making fun of Zoro's lower bounty, and then...
Oh, and remember when Sanji needed Luffy to defeat Satori? This ultimately meant nothing to his place in the strength hierarchy as he took care of Jabra by himself and while injured yet some people go crazy about his team up with Jinbe versus Wadatsumi as an argument to underestimate him. And remember when he apparently couldn't deal with Blueno? Turns out he could by a lot. Oh, and speaking of Jabra, he sent Sanji flying just like Page One and Daifuku...!
If King and Queen end up fighting Zoro and Sanji in a similar fashion to Kuroobi-Hatchan, Mr.1-Mr.2, Kaku-Jabra and Absalom-Ryuma then we will be back to Oda's old good game, with Zoro not defeating a rival of his supposed level according to certain fans and Sanji once again being put in a very similar tier as his. We will see, I guess.
That was never the case, people have this fantasy in their mind that they throw around as legitimate hype
-Oda has gone out in 3 data books to say Luffy and Zoro are equals and Sanji is weaker than both
-The only time Zoro and Sanji's opponents were on similar level was Kuroobi and Hachan and Zoro was deadly injured. Yet in the same arc, Zoro was shown to make Arlong shit his pants same Arlong treated Sanji like a bag of dirt.
Now talking about real opponents
-Mr1 would low diff Mr2. 2 second skirmish doesn't mean shit, when Mr2 was using his main fighting style and Mr1 wasn't even using his DF let alone his proper fighting style
-Kaku would mid diff Jabura
-Ryuma would low diff Absalom
-Ohm would mid or low diff satori and Sanji had to team up with Luffy
-Luffy and Zoro have their ultimate destinations, people they look up to in Shanks and Mihawk, two top tiers
-Luffy and Zoro are trained by top tiers Mihawk and Rayleigh while Sanji is trained by an irrelevant Tranny
-Luffy and Zoro are part of Worst Generation, one of the major pieces of long term story telling from Oda. This is the group that is projected to rule next era
-Zoro has often been confused as a captain
-TB was not just a feat of endurance, it was also symbolic story telling suggesting Zoro is capable of taking captain's position when captain is down. He was able to shoulder his captains burden on top of his own burden while hilt of Zoro's sword was too much for Sanji's to shoulder. It was to separate the two, where Zoro took a role of a warrior, a role he is designed for and Sanji was put in his place by Zoro.
People often take this friendly brotherly bickering from Zoro and Sanji and confuse it as an actual combat story telling when it is as far from that as possible.
Zoro low diffs Sanji.