Character Discussion Oda tries so hard to make the celestial dragons look evil. Its not good writing.

#62
I agree I think it would of been better to paint them has the good guys show them helping the needy, feeding the homeless protecting those who can't protect themselves but then in a twist reveal that they are the true monsters that the people we thogujt where rhe good guys for years turn out to be the actual villains
That would have been super boring and everyone would have seen that twist a mile away.

Evil can just be blatantly evil and I think it's fine to keep hammering it in because we don't see them often we can go hundreds of ch without seeing celestials so reminders that they suck is fine especially since bringing them down is so important to the story.
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Very childish portrayal of evil, I agree. But ALSO, not all CDs are evil. So we've only been shown the bottom of the barrel so far.
How is this a childish portrayal of evil?
 
#63
Like we get it.

They ride slaves as animals. Their capitals conveyer belts are run by slaves. They engage in genocide sports. They kidnap women impregnate them, and throw away the baby. They wear weird helmets because they don't enjoy breathing the same air as normal people. Oh right. They commissioned that bridge that's being built by slaves for hundreds of years..for no fucking reason at all

OK. We get it. They are evil and largely incompetent and inbred.

It's beyond caricature. Arguably has been since Charlos was introduced.
You and others people here, are really naive to how bad one person can become.

There is nothing "childlish" here.

Rape is a tool of power
Salvery is a tool of power
Dehumanization is a tool of power

THose things are just logical symptom of their status. Those guys were made to believe that they are gods and that - like fascists - any others type of being were lesser than insects. So of course they will do those things.

Dude.. With the way Oda has created the Celestial Dragon, you should be glad that we only saw a few characters call for genocide over other population. In reality and in that context, the majority of celestial Dragon should be rooting for genocide and not even take the time to take a foot on the surface.

You guys are naive at best. Oda here, is actually not that caricatural. In the real world, guys like Celestial Dragon would be horrific. And they have already existed.

THe only things that Oda is doing, is that he is not hidding the monsters behind a good face like we can see in the real life.
 
#64
All I will say about this is that the more and more pure evil he makes the CD be the more people will become pissed when he don't genocide them, we are gonna go full into the Attack on Titan effect.

And he is not gonna gonna genocide them.
Nah.

The reason people called BS on Armin and the other Paradis traitors was because the rest of the world is clearly out to get them, massively outnumbering them and much more technologically advanced.
Titans are the only leverage Paradis have, and they got rid of it without ensuring their survival.

Celestial dragons are done once Imu and Gorosei are taken out. They number in hundreds and maybe a few thousands, and most of them are fooder.
There would be no reason to destroy them completely, because after the top 6, they aren't really a threat
 
#66
complaining about the bad guys being bad guys
The problem is the way it is portrayed. Its completely unhinged and unreasonable to the point where its unbelievable.
Also that's probably why people in America are so racist because they don't know what slavery was like in America. It was basically one big torture experiment where people were raped as children's and men were worked so hard they usually died by 17. Imagine somebody yanking you out of your bed at 7 in the morning ro remove your organs with razor blades just to see how much pain a human body can take.
Keep your shitty fiction blog post to the respective sub forum.
 
#67
The problem is the way it is portrayed. Its completely unhinged and unreasonable to the point where its unbelievable.

Keep your shitty fiction blog post to the respective sub forum.
Buddy just proved my point. Foaming at the mouth guy who thinks I made it up. Knows nothing of the real world. So ignorant fools like this wasting their lives watching a kid show make up the majority of one piece fans. What an idiot to think people being ridden like horses or worked to death is a work of fiction.

I don't blame trav though, his entire generation has been fed lies and shielded from reality by everyone in their social circle.
 
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#69
Some people here slept through their world history classes... The Mongols, Namking, Hitler, Spartan/Helots, several crusades and generally, the wretched fate of the conquered. Like why do you think the Gorosei have conquistador names?!

The Celestial Dragons cruelty isn't unrealistic or childish. Not to soapbox or anything, but there are ongoing genocides and child soldiers right now. 200~ years ago White people in the US could literally buy black people, and force them to carry more slave children (which they regularly did). Holy hell, to this day some of the rich and powerful do their finest Celestial Dragon impression on their massive yachts with trafficked women.
 
#70
You and others people here, are really naive to how bad one person can become.

There is nothing "childlish" here.

Rape is a tool of power
Salvery is a tool of power
Dehumanization is a tool of power

THose things are just logical symptom of their status. Those guys were made to believe that they are gods and that - like fascists - any others type of being were lesser than insects. So of course they will do those things.

Dude.. With the way Oda has created the Celestial Dragon, you should be glad that we only saw a few characters call for genocide over other population. In reality and in that context, the majority of celestial Dragon should be rooting for genocide and not even take the time to take a foot on the surface.

You guys are naive at best. Oda here, is actually not that caricatural. In the real world, guys like Celestial Dragon would be horrific. And they have already existed.

THe only things that Oda is doing, is that he is not hidding the monsters behind a good face like we can see in the real life.
Or we are simply fed up and tired and starting to find this borderline comical lol.

Obviously no one will say anything if you feel the exact opposite, just like we feel the other way around.
 
#71
You should explain why it’s not good writing, because you just showed many examples of why they are hated.
Oda is destroying his worldbuilding. One Piece was based on the Age of Piracy and there was some slavery in that era but the primary task of government wasn't to enforce slavery through the Navy and that's why in real life you there were good Navel Officers and the good Marines, like Garp, are based on those people. But now in One Piece, the goal of the World Govt. is explicitly to enable the CD's oppression so in this world the goal of Navy is to enforce slavery and genocide and so why would any decent person join the Navy? Oda has deviated to far from reality and now his world is starting to implode.
 
#74
Like we get it.

They ride slaves as animals. Their capitals conveyer belts are run by slaves. They engage in genocide sports. They kidnap women impregnate them, and throw away the baby. They wear weird helmets because they don't enjoy breathing the same air as normal people. Oh right. They commissioned that bridge that's being built by slaves for hundreds of years..for no fucking reason at all

OK. We get it. They are evil and largely incompetent and inbred.

It's beyond caricature. Arguably has been since Charlos was introduced.
It's not beyond caricature lol. He has barely even scratched the surface of what irl oppressors have done in the real world. Historically this is all well in the bounds of realism.
 
#78
Or pure obliviousness of someone.

This Is not what we find comical at all, quite the literal opposite really, but to know that you would have to actually read what we have said, so you do not.
There is nothing comical about the CD. And nothing pushed beside the fact That they are not hidding in plain sight. But What they do is nothing caricatural. You Guy are forgetting That we are witnessing multiple genocide right now done by people Who are dehumanizing the victims and saying That they are the most moral of all. You forgot millenias of slaveries. And you ignore That cases like ginny s happen frequently in oppression states. Thats naivity
 
#79
Like we get it.

They ride slaves as animals. Their capitals conveyer belts are run by slaves. They engage in genocide sports. They kidnap women impregnate them, and throw away the baby. They wear weird helmets because they don't enjoy breathing the same air as normal people. Oh right. They commissioned that bridge that's being built by slaves for hundreds of years..for no fucking reason at all

OK. We get it. They are evil and largely incompetent and inbred.

It's beyond caricature. Arguably has been since Charlos was introduced.
We still have a large amount of Celestial Dragon lover Ladmiral fans such as @Elder Lee Hung @The Buddha @SakazOuki :milaugh: Oda is doing a bad job since Celestial Dragons are still popular for them.
 
#80
There is nothing comical about the CD. And nothing pushed beside the fact That they are not hidding in plain sight. But What they do is nothing caricatural. You Guy are forgetting That we are witnessing multiple genocide right now done by people Who are dehumanizing the victims and saying That they are the most moral of all. You forgot millenias of slaveries. And you ignore That cases like ginny s happen frequently in oppression states. Thats naivity
In real life, when 1 group wants to genocide another group, they usually back it up with real MORAL claims, such as indigenous rights or self-defense, however the Celestial Dragons could never make real moral claims because they're just assholes hence they come off as Saturday morning cartoon villains.
 
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