I'm not sure if this is an unpopular opinion or not, but I love Saturn as a villain way more than I expected.
He's such an unapologetic piece of shit. The story never tries to make him seem sympathetic or any deeper than what he is. He's a loathsome, vile garbage heap who you want to see die, and I'm here for it. I love developed/complex villains as much as the next guy, but sometimes you just need a scumbag who you enjoy seeing get punched in the face, and Saturn executes that really well imo.
I also like how he's one of the few One Piece villains who doesn't feel "cool" in any way. With characters like Doflamingo or Kaido, while they were obviously horrible people, they were competent and threatening enough that they couldn't really elicit any kind of hate from the audience. Saturn, on the other hand, has been getting clowned on left and right. Even Big Mom, who was a straight-up woman child that got dunked on a lot, went out like a legitimate threat and was tanking some of the strongest attacks in the series. Hell, Saturn's "final form" amounts to him throwing a childish, deranged tantrum over the fact that he's losing to the very same "insects" he thought were so far beneath him.
Oda cooked with this guy. He's great.
He's such an unapologetic piece of shit. The story never tries to make him seem sympathetic or any deeper than what he is. He's a loathsome, vile garbage heap who you want to see die, and I'm here for it. I love developed/complex villains as much as the next guy, but sometimes you just need a scumbag who you enjoy seeing get punched in the face, and Saturn executes that really well imo.
I also like how he's one of the few One Piece villains who doesn't feel "cool" in any way. With characters like Doflamingo or Kaido, while they were obviously horrible people, they were competent and threatening enough that they couldn't really elicit any kind of hate from the audience. Saturn, on the other hand, has been getting clowned on left and right. Even Big Mom, who was a straight-up woman child that got dunked on a lot, went out like a legitimate threat and was tanking some of the strongest attacks in the series. Hell, Saturn's "final form" amounts to him throwing a childish, deranged tantrum over the fact that he's losing to the very same "insects" he thought were so far beneath him.
Oda cooked with this guy. He's great.