Break Week Nika came too early in the story,for the story to make sense

ShinichiMugi

ShinichiMugi

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Luffy became Nika during the fight with Kaido in Wano. Since that moment,the story told (and,lets remember this term,told!) that Nika is the number 1 enemy of the government,so the government's priority should be to fight with Nika. Not only that,they tell us that a war between Nika and the world government is inevitable.

But,if this is what the story TELLS us,what the story SHOWS us is actually something totally different!

In Egghead,we saw that World Government's priority was to kill Vegapunk. Which makes sense,but,what about Nika?
Then,now in Elbaph,their focus is just to get the giants on their side,and they just dont want to fight Nika..yet. But how does this makes any sense?
Sommers says "I want to avoid a fight with a Yonko",but Luffy is not a "common Yonko",it is Nika,their number 1 enemy.

I think that,for this part of the story to make any sense,and being at least somewhat realistic: after the news that Nika came back,the World Government should have started a real manhunt for Nika! Luffy and the Strawhat ship should have knows no moments of peace,they would have to escape and to move quickly everywhere they go,mantaining a low profile. Imagine how cool it would have been! Maybe we could have actually have had the perception of danger in One Piece for once! But,in this way,the final war would have been inevitable,so the story would have went towards its end sooner. Instead,Oda and Shueisha still wants to milk it,so they had to invent this absurd dynamic where the World Goverment recognizes that Nika is their enemy number 1,and that a war against him is inevitable,but..it just does nothing about it. They take care of something slightly related to the final war,like trying to silence Vegapunk or recruiting the giants,but they just do nothing about Nika himself.

So,if Oda wanted to do something like this,he should have reserved Luffy's transformation in Nika just for the final and i mean really final part of the story,because in this way,not only the World Government's behavior doesnt make much sense,but also Luffy is too OP and Oda is forced to do things like him being on the Underworld and not perceiving anything just to make things difficult for the other characters.
 
Juanpiz

Juanpiz

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Zoinks52 said:
Honestly Nika would have been fine if it was an inherited will thing with Luffy still having the Gomu.

So awakened G5 is still Gomu-Gomu, but his behaviour and toonforce "freedom" is similar to Nika's, with Nika and JB still being different entities with different fruits whose will Luffy inherited.
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The inherited stuff already was Done Long ago when Shanks gave him his hat
 
soupongo

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Why does Nika matter that much though? It could be used as a symbol to rally the descendents of the AK and it's allies, but beyond that, someone like Vegapunk was simply a bigger deal. The WG was going to flood the world before and after he awakened
 
nik87

nik87

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Nika is something that they already dealt with once and won, despite him having far superior backing than the current Nika.
Also, there has been a period of 800 years without Nika and they still didn't manage to take over the world.
And the Elders' conversation implies that this is something far more ancient that they are dealing with, supported by ancient mural.
Nika is the main leader of their opposition, yes but one guy is irrelevant, they will not bother too much until Nika leads a force that can actually challenge them.
 
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OykotsTreasure

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...Yeah, I'll admit, there is a little bit of narrative convenience going on here. Saturn basically telling the other Marines to not follow the Strawhats in Chapter 1125 was a...slightly weird choice, given everything that happened. "Nah...don't follow them. They're having fun adventures with the Giants. We can't interrupt their fun adventure time. Just wait, they'll tucker themselves out." Oda didn't want the World Government to interrupt the adventure on Elbaph too much, but...this was a pretty weak excuse.

But, you can explain it away. The World Government is probably concerned with starting a direct confrontation with the Giants. If it turns into a battle, it's going to turn into an all-out war. That's probably partially why they sent the God's Knights in to try to get the Giants on their side as quickly and sneakily as they can. They don't want to have to commit to a all-out war with a powerful nation. Blackmail works to their strengths better than using military might, at the moment.

And the World Government doesn't really have the resources to deal with that at the moment. The World Government is actually dealing with a lot of smaller skirmishes, right now. Their resources are probably stretched pretty thin. There's the food being cut off from Mariejois. There's probably other Revolutionary battles going on that we haven't seen yet. They're dealing with other pirate crews. Like the threat of Cross Guild, which the World Government at least sees as a major potential threat. The Gorosei just got Haki Knot Nuked back to their home base, and they lost one of their own, and need to "train" up the new guy. Despite the way it may look, the World Government is kind of stretched to the point of breaking, at the moment. They probably REALLY want to avoid starting a war with a major power right now. Thus, the espionage going on in Elbaph.

Plus...I'm pretty sure the Gorosei and Imu know that Luffy doesn't have full mastery of the Nika Fruit, yet. There's something Warcury says in Chapter 1111 "Do you have ANY IDEA who that man is?!" We have to remember that no one else really knows what's going on here. We, the audience, have a lot of information that the other characters don't have. And the Gorosei (and Oda) know a few things that even we don't know. The Giants just think Luffy's "White Form" is a fashion statement. Whatever it is that the Gorosei are worried about the Nika Fruit being able to do, I think they know that Luffy DOESN'T know what that thing is or how to do it. "Nika" isn't a threat...yet. Luffy probably isn't using the Fruit the same way that Joyboy did. He's just messing around so far. Luffy is like a baby hitting a nuke with a toy rattle. It's...cause for concern, but not an immediate problem. They probably don't think he can set off "the calamity" quite yet. I think the Gorosei are pretty confident that they've erased all knowledge of what Joyboy could do from history. Luffy probably CAN'T know what Joyboy was capable of...I mean, if he didn't have Robin, that is.

Plus, the goal is probably to "contain" the Nika Fruit, instead of killing Luffy. If they kill Luffy, then the Nika Fruit is just going to randomly reincarnate somewhere else. Possibly miles away. We know the Nika Fruit seemed to be running away from the World Government, from what the Gorosei have said before. It's a Zoan, so it has a bit of a will of it's own. If they just kill Luffy, they might lose track of the Nika Fruit for another hundred years. They probably want to find a way to capture Luffy and control where the Fruit reincarnates. If they can do that sort of thing at all. That way they don't have this Sword of Damocles hanging over their heads anymore. They'll at least know where the Fruit is.

So, I think Wano was a good enough place to introduce Nika, all things considered. We're getting some time to build up what this means, and expand on the lore of it. It's far enough in to come as a surprise, but far enough from the ending that we can still explore it a little and let the fans get used to the idea. Plus, we might not be as far from the ending as you may think. I think it's working well enough.
 
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