Current Events Sanji fans make the dumbest statements ever

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There are two things here: Rivalry and power levels.

Rivalry is between two characters, we see plenty of examples in Mangas: Rukawa v Sakuragi, Rukawa v Sendo/Sawakita, Naruto v Sasuke, Sasuke v Rock Lee, Goku v Vegeta, Goku v Piccolo etc.
Half of my examples are rivalry between people with the same power level, the rest are between highly different power levels. I would spit on anyone saying that Rukawa and Sakuragi are not rivals, even if one is the best player in Japan (arguably) and the other is a novice.
Buggy and Shanks are slightly depicted as rivals, and the story pushes them a bit in that direction, but it's not even comparable to the levels I describe above.

Going back to Zoro v Sanji, this is a rivalry about being "better" one of the other. They both make remarks about each other, (1000 v 2000 men worth, lately the comment of Sanji during Zoro v Lucci). I don't give a shit who's stronger, Zoro is canonically stronger than Sanji as his role in the crew enstablishes it, but this doesn't mean that they are not "rivals".

Hmmm fair enough !
I somewhat disagree since ''rivalry'' in Shonen is usually about who is stronger but if the above is your definition than why not ! That's not the case for most people though; for almost everyone rivalry = around the same ''strength level''

 

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It was that it became impossible when Zoro left rooftop, ridicolous when he started to fight king. People kept pushing ZKK after the grim reaper panel, which was pants on head retarded.

Tbh at this point I checked off of ZKK, and I was always hesitant on that anyways. Go and see my posts from that time

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There are two things here: Rivalry and power levels.

Rivalry is between two characters, we see plenty of examples in Mangas: Rukawa v Sakuragi, Rukawa v Sendo/Sawakita, Naruto v Sasuke, Sasuke v Rock Lee, Goku v Vegeta, Goku v Piccolo etc.
Half of my examples are rivalry between people with the same power level, the rest are between highly different power levels. I would spit on anyone saying that Rukawa and Sakuragi are not rivals, even if one is the best player in Japan (arguably) and the other is a novice.
Buggy and Shanks are slightly depicted as rivals, and the story pushes them a bit in that direction, but it's not even comparable to the levels I described above.

Going back to Zoro v Sanji, this is a rivalry about being "better" one of the other. They both make remarks about each other, (1000 v 2000 men worth, lately the comment of Sanji during Zoro v Lucci). I don't give a shit who's stronger, Zoro is canonically stronger than Sanji as his role in the crew establishes it, but this doesn't mean that they are not "rivals".

If that is your definition of a rival and it includes Buggy and Shanks Lucci and Jayabura then I don't think anyone disagrees with that.

Call it Running Gag, Call it a rivalry, call it a dick-measuring contest, as long as you don't shove down people's throats that it has a bearing on power scaling, which is what 90% of Sanji fans do, I have no issue with that. I for once gave zero fucks about shit with Zoro and Sanji, it was always hit-and-miss comedy at best. Generally gag moments that involved the entire monster trio were a lot better than just Zoro and Sanji anyway.