Questions & Mysteries Shanks the Final Villain

[Monkey D Monkey]

Shank is more likely to be similar to Sabo.

His father on the other hand was clearly displayed to be executing someone who's done a good deed.

He could be, but I think this is too straight forward for Oda

 

[ako]

You certainly can't rule it out. Oda likes to lead his readers astray. Everyone expects Imu or BB to be the final villain so Shanks as FV is something he could come up with.

 

[RebelliousSoma]

He could be, but I think this is too straight forward for Oda

You certainly can't rule it out. Oda likes to lead his readers astray. Everyone expects Imu or BB to be the final villain so Shanks as FV is something he could come up with.

LOL

By the same reasoning we can claim Koby is the final villain or at least the final battle. They had the same starting point. Koby is being built up to fight Luffy eventually.

Yonko can arguably be said to be on par with Luffy, but Luffy wants to be the pirate king, not just a Yonko. So he needs to surpass the other Yonko, including Shanks and BB and even Buggy's status of sheer popularity.

If Imu is not his final fight, it has to be Koby. Unless Luffy takes ownership of marines too.

 

[Jailer]

He told him he's wasting hid time for BB becaude Magellan was on their ass that time and they needed to make it quick to Marineford to save Ace not waste time fighting battles there.

 

[ako]

LOL

By the same reasoning we can claim Koby is the final villain or at least the final battle. They had the same starting point. Koby is being built up to fight Luffy eventually.

Yonko can arguably be said to be on par with Luffy, but Luffy wants to be the pirate king, not just a Yonko. So he needs to surpass the other Yonko, including Shanks and BB and even Buggy's status of sheer popularity.

If Imu is not his final fight, it has to be Koby. Unless Luffy takes ownership of marines too.

You can't compare Shanks to little Koby. Shanks is still pretty mysterious because we still don't know his real agenda and what he wants. Oda can come up with anything here.
Kobys whole role is that he will become the new Garp and have a friendly rivalry with Luffy.

 

[kom5]

I think Oda is going to pull a twist and Shanks will end up being the final villain and here’s why.

When Jinbei encounter Blackbeard, he is tells Jinbei he’s getting mad at the wrong man. Jinbei is already aware of the Marines involvement and they aren’t a single man, so Teach is likely referring to someone else, Shanks.

Shanks most likely made a deal with the Gorosei/Sengoku to not get involved in MF and to keep the other Yonko out which is why he intercepts Kaidou. This is what enabled WG to actually make a move on WB and excite Ace otherwise it would be too risky to wage war against a Yonko. This is something Luffy will find out in the end shifting more blame onto Shanks for Ace’s death.

Shanks also allowed Luffy to keep the Gomu DF so he could take on the WG and other Yonko while Shanks focuses on finding the One Piece.

Shanks also has a history with Buggy and Mihawk which will allow him to form an alliance with CG, if Mihawk is Zoro’s final enemy then Shanks + CG would fit as the final villains.

Please keep in mind I don’t think Shanks is fully evil, but I do believe he has aspirations to become King of the World and use the One Piece for something somewhat controversial that Luffy won’t agree with.

He is a hype tool for Im-sama the creator of the world prob

 

[Paperchampion23]

LOL

By the same reasoning we can claim Koby is the final villain or at least the final battle. They had the same starting point. Koby is being built up to fight Luffy eventually.

Yonko can arguably be said to be on par with Luffy, but Luffy wants to be the pirate king, not just a Yonko. So he needs to surpass the other Yonko, including Shanks and BB and even Buggy's status of sheer popularity.

If Imu is not his final fight, it has to be Koby. Unless Luffy takes ownership of marines too.

I dont think Shanks is the final villain, but Koby isnt meeting with Gorosei and being mysterious as fuck

 

[LANJI CUCKSMOKE]

in his recent chapter
he went out of his way to prevent the loss of fodder he allowed to join his crew in order to protect them .
is loved by the local people and seen as an ally rather than a dictator .

will love to see any arc where luffy has encountered a villain with traits he doesnt hate cause its really hard to see how shanks fits alongside those characters.

 

[Orojackson Refugee]

You are no different from Zoro fans who think swordsmen are above Yonko as the strongest guys

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even in a thread about shanks, this guy still cannot stop to talk about zoro and his fans

 

[ShishioIsBack]

Yonkou is just a stepping stone for BB, just like his Warlord title was, he would happily discard it like it's two bit trash when the time is right. He's not satisfied being a mere Yonkou.

Idk why you are acting like Blackbeard isn't a bitch in a long run and it is Imu and Goroseis story

 

[K!NG HARA$H!MA]

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even in a thread about shanks, this guy still cannot stop to talk about zoro and his fans

I don't understand the need to mass tags?

 

[WizardKing]

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even in a thread about shanks, this guy still cannot stop to talk about zoro and his fans

Zolo is weak lucci material. Lucci is YC2 commander

 

[Monkey D Monkey]

LOL

By the same reasoning we can claim Koby is the final villain or at least the final battle. They had the same starting point. Koby is being built up to fight Luffy eventually.

Yonko can arguably be said to be on par with Luffy, but Luffy wants to be the pirate king, not just a Yonko. So he needs to surpass the other Yonko, including Shanks and BB and even Buggy's status of sheer popularity.

If Imu is not his final fight, it has to be Koby. Unless Luffy takes ownership of marines too.

Shanks is in opposition to Luffy because both are after the One Piece, Koby isn’t after the One Piece. That’s the difference, if Koby later became a rival for Luffy seeking the One Piece then I would agree the same could be said about Koby being a future antagonist.
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He is a hype tool for Im-sama the creator of the world prob

I don’t really get the vibe from Oda that he is going to use Shanks as a hype tool for someone else. Every time Shanks interacts with a character he comes off as the one hyped.

 

[JoNdule]

One piece is about Luffy surpassing Yonko mainly then Imu as Joyboy
Top Marines were never supposes to be stronger than Yonko
They are just meant to be string enough to hold their own against them 1v1 to not lose or at least push them to very high diff

Same way warlords and YCs were never meant to be equal to Admirals

 

[zorovsanji]

It will be warlords(cg), marines and yonko(rhp) vs strawhats in final battle. Sanji will fight shanks and this is where Luffy fulfills his promise of finding a better crew. If the 3rd on his crew can defeat shanks then he definitely has better crew.

 

[Dickie D. Dick]

One piece is about Luffy surpassing Yonko mainly then Imu as Joyboy
Top Marines were never supposes to be stronger than Yonko
They are just meant to be string enough to hold their own against them 1v1 to not lose or at least push them to very high diff

Same way warlords and YCs were never meant to be equal to Admirals

Yet Sakazuki would've find One Piece in 1 year of he was pirate while the mere Yonko couldn't do it in 24 years

 

[Loki D. Terror]

Yet Sakazuki would've find One Piece in 1 year of he was pirate while the mere Yonko couldn't do it in 24 years

What oda meant was 1 year in serialization and not in OP timeline.

 

[Monkey D Monkey]

One piece is about Luffy surpassing Yonko mainly then Imu as Joyboy
Top Marines were never supposes to be stronger than Yonko
They are just meant to be string enough to hold their own against them 1v1 to not lose or at least push them to very high diff

Same way warlords and YCs were never meant to be equal to Admirals

The thread isn’t about Admirals