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hero for pirate world is ultimately a pirate...lol...
see this scan
heroes are an ally of justice but he said he doesn't care about justice or anything...
more importantly for him being pirate means being outside of rules and restrictions i.e. beyond the law
As Luffy will be the first to tell you, he’s not a hero; at least, he’s not the classic type. While he doesn’t go out of his way to hurt anyone (unless they really piss him off), he doesn’t care all too terribly how his actions or lack thereof might hurt people. At several points in the East Blue saga, he points out that he’s not especially interested in whatever conflict is going on and wouldn’t have bothered to help until he came across someone who earned his respect to the point that he decided to intervene for his or her sake specifically.
When he breaks into Impel Down to save Ace, he also ends up also breaking out a lot of legitimately horrible criminals who would actually pose a serious danger to the public in the process of doing so, and this is even pointed out to him a few times; I don’t think it’s ignorance on Luffy’s part or anything, it seems as though he knows full well what he’s doing and just doesn’t care. When he punched out the World Noble, he knew full well what the consequences would be, even as he was doing it, but again, he didn’t care.
Basically, instead of seeing piracy as ‘freedom to attack whoever I want and take their stuff’, Luffy sees it in broader terms, as ‘freedom to ignore whatever boundaries or laws might hinder my ability to do what I want’, and he does take full advantage of that. He’s just not all that interested in attacking people who haven’t done anything to deserve it.
see this scan
heroes are an ally of justice but he said he doesn't care about justice or anything...
more importantly for him being pirate means being outside of rules and restrictions i.e. beyond the law
As Luffy will be the first to tell you, he’s not a hero; at least, he’s not the classic type. While he doesn’t go out of his way to hurt anyone (unless they really piss him off), he doesn’t care all too terribly how his actions or lack thereof might hurt people. At several points in the East Blue saga, he points out that he’s not especially interested in whatever conflict is going on and wouldn’t have bothered to help until he came across someone who earned his respect to the point that he decided to intervene for his or her sake specifically.
When he breaks into Impel Down to save Ace, he also ends up also breaking out a lot of legitimately horrible criminals who would actually pose a serious danger to the public in the process of doing so, and this is even pointed out to him a few times; I don’t think it’s ignorance on Luffy’s part or anything, it seems as though he knows full well what he’s doing and just doesn’t care. When he punched out the World Noble, he knew full well what the consequences would be, even as he was doing it, but again, he didn’t care.
Basically, instead of seeing piracy as ‘freedom to attack whoever I want and take their stuff’, Luffy sees it in broader terms, as ‘freedom to ignore whatever boundaries or laws might hinder my ability to do what I want’, and he does take full advantage of that. He’s just not all that interested in attacking people who haven’t done anything to deserve it.
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Btw.. this is one of the best analysis I have ever read
Just gonna drop this here an analysis from my friend
"That ties into a rant I wanted to do about "irrationality" in One Piece.
A lot of people tend to claim that the strawhats making irrational decisions is somehow a bad thing when it is in fact the point of the series.
The series is about not only achieving your dreams but dong the impossible. But to do the impossible you must challenge the odds. Which is inherently irrational. At the start of the series Coby goes into a rant about how becoming the pirate king is impossible. About how in this great age of pirates it's highly unlikely that Luffy some random kid from nowhere is going to overcome all of the pirates far more powerful and talented than he is become pirate king. and coby is right. Luffy's chances at the start of the series is practically zero. but because luffy takes action because he repeatedly goes against those odds he's able to change them. he slowly gains allies builds a strong bond with his talented and hard working crew members as they continue to grow and progress to the point that they're one of the top candidates of the new generation to take the crown of pirate king. so while Coby was right if Luffy had done nothing and simply accepted those odds nothing would have changed. It's true but it's only true for the moment.
I think my point is solidified by that scene at the end of the war. Hawkins is calculating Luffy's odds of coming out alive but for reasons he can't explain the odds keep changing but refuse to come out as zero. This is because Luffy is still fighting to stay alive. This scne sums up the whole concept. That only by actively fighting the odds can you change them. I think thats going to be part of Hawkin's character arc in Wano as well. He's a man who spent his whole life simply agreeing with the odds without realizing that you can take action to change your odds. Luffy will likely be the one to inspire that change.
Thats part of the reason I think Oda has Luffy suffer when he chooses to run. If they kept fighting they could have potentially changed their odds. but by running and leaving the odds as they were nothing was changed. they were still outmatched. so the suffered that reality instead of changing it. I think this is also why Roger never ran and why it ultimately lead to him becoming Pirate King. He always took action, fought the odds changed the situation. Maybe this was also the reason why Oda made Luffy a man of action. To inspire us to take action and fight for our dreams.
I had another epiphany recently about Luffy's character arc during the latter half of part 1. I didn't realize it before but much in the same way that Zoro's character arcs revolve around "what makes a great swordsman" Luffy's character arcs revolve around "strength". Not simply strength in the sense of power levels or simply getting more powerful but the very concept of "strength" itself. In simply terms strength can be defined as "the power to overcome". And Luffy his ideal of the Pirate King is the Freest man on the sea. The one who can stand above all the pain sorrow and suffering in the world and just be able to be free. So Luffy's character arcs are often not just about him overcoming a powerful opponent but also, pain, sorrow, starvation, hopelessness, loss, failure, grief etc etc.
Hence his character arc involving Ace was mostly about whether or not he could overcome that loss. and he does. and as a result Luffy returns from the timeskip as not only a stronger fighter but a stronger person because of it.
Had to make that post because people keep complaining that Luffy didn't change after ace died and that was never the point or the objective of that character arc. it was whether or not he could overcome that loss.
In this way Luffy becomes the strongest not because he's never failed but because he's the man who can overcome anything. even his own limitations and short comings."
did you see him online?
