Future Events Smoker, The Future Straw Hat
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Before you click off this thread from just the title-let me just say that I think most future Straw Hat discussions are complete shit.
Carrot joining the Straw Hats?
OTama joining the Straw Hats?
Yamato joining the Straw Hats?
Joking aside if you happen to believe any of the above, I’m not trying to insult you, and I’m not here to throw any of those theories out of the window, minus the Tama theories.
The point of me saying this is that I’m not one of those people who thinks every new character we meet will be a straw hat, in fact after Jinbe I really didn’t think we would get any new Straw Hats and I thought the crew was virtually complete.
That is, until I watched this video:
I’m not a huge fan of Mr. Morj, but I actually think he absolutely nailed this idea, and he absolutely convinced me that Smoker’s ultimate destination was to join the Straw Hat crew. He really does deserve the credit for this theory and this isn’t something I’ve seen anyone else really talk about.
The only things I want to add to Morj’s video, is that upon reflection, Smoker’s character arc has been specifically written so far to pull him away from the World Government and the Marines, and I believe that in retrospect, the entire point of Smoker’s character has been for Oda to show us a hardcore Marine who ultimately becomes one of the main cast of characters and becomes a Pirate himself.
Just to briefly illustrate how Oda is pulling Smoker away from the WG and shattering his world view:
-Smoker begins the manga as a Marine who believes Pirates are evil and does his job to capture them. When we meet Smoker, he had never let any Pirates successfully go from Loguetown to the Grand Line and almost captured Luffy himself.
-In Alabasta, Smoker’s worldview is doubly shattered by Luffy ordering Zoro to save Smoker from drowning, and from Smoker telling the Gorosei to eat shit
-In Punk Hazard, Smoker actually teams up with Pirates, to himself fight the shadiest Marine in the entire Manga and a Marine who was fundamentally designed to attack Smoker’s own view on what a Marine should be
-In the end, Aokiji specifically tells Smoker about how things became much more clear to him after he left the Navy, and Smoker’s own Marines actually end up liking Law and the Straw Hats after their alliance lol.
There honestly is not much left for Smoker to transition into the Straw Hat crew, and Morj details that well.
The only other thing I want to say, is all theories for Smoker that put him as a Marine EOS are extremely unlikely.
An EOS Admiral or Fleet Admiral? Honestly will the Marines even exist anymore at EOS? Not that Smoker has ever expressed any interest in such a role anyway. And Smoker is surely not Luffy’s Garp.
Nah man. I’m a believer now. Smoker will be a Straw Hat in the end.
@Owl Ki @Den_Den_Mushi @dizzy2341 @Light D Lamperouge @Luthon @Van @Bogard @Garp the Fist @playa4321 @Sentinel @RayanOO @HA001 etc etc etc.
Carrot joining the Straw Hats?
OTama joining the Straw Hats?
Yamato joining the Straw Hats?
Joking aside if you happen to believe any of the above, I’m not trying to insult you, and I’m not here to throw any of those theories out of the window, minus the Tama theories.
The point of me saying this is that I’m not one of those people who thinks every new character we meet will be a straw hat, in fact after Jinbe I really didn’t think we would get any new Straw Hats and I thought the crew was virtually complete.
That is, until I watched this video:
I’m not a huge fan of Mr. Morj, but I actually think he absolutely nailed this idea, and he absolutely convinced me that Smoker’s ultimate destination was to join the Straw Hat crew. He really does deserve the credit for this theory and this isn’t something I’ve seen anyone else really talk about.
The only things I want to add to Morj’s video, is that upon reflection, Smoker’s character arc has been specifically written so far to pull him away from the World Government and the Marines, and I believe that in retrospect, the entire point of Smoker’s character has been for Oda to show us a hardcore Marine who ultimately becomes one of the main cast of characters and becomes a Pirate himself.
Just to briefly illustrate how Oda is pulling Smoker away from the WG and shattering his world view:
-Smoker begins the manga as a Marine who believes Pirates are evil and does his job to capture them. When we meet Smoker, he had never let any Pirates successfully go from Loguetown to the Grand Line and almost captured Luffy himself.
-In Alabasta, Smoker’s worldview is doubly shattered by Luffy ordering Zoro to save Smoker from drowning, and from Smoker telling the Gorosei to eat shit
-In Punk Hazard, Smoker actually teams up with Pirates, to himself fight the shadiest Marine in the entire Manga and a Marine who was fundamentally designed to attack Smoker’s own view on what a Marine should be
-In the end, Aokiji specifically tells Smoker about how things became much more clear to him after he left the Navy, and Smoker’s own Marines actually end up liking Law and the Straw Hats after their alliance lol.
There honestly is not much left for Smoker to transition into the Straw Hat crew, and Morj details that well.
The only other thing I want to say, is all theories for Smoker that put him as a Marine EOS are extremely unlikely.
An EOS Admiral or Fleet Admiral? Honestly will the Marines even exist anymore at EOS? Not that Smoker has ever expressed any interest in such a role anyway. And Smoker is surely not Luffy’s Garp.
Nah man. I’m a believer now. Smoker will be a Straw Hat in the end.
@Owl Ki @Den_Den_Mushi @dizzy2341 @Light D Lamperouge @Luthon @Van @Bogard @Garp the Fist @playa4321 @Sentinel @RayanOO @HA001 etc etc etc.
I remember a good "Smoker and Tashigi as next nakama", it had the discussion and demonstration how they names in japanese words were assonant with the SHs, numbers etc. It was a good theory very well done and long. But it was from more than 10 years ago, maybe even before Punk hazard. At this point it is too late for other SHs to join, ut could also happen but from Brook onwards every nakama as been a little more than filler in the post time skip. There is no space for minor SHs since we have to focus on Jesus Luffy, show 100 side characters in each arc; even Chopper who was pretty solid pre time skip has been downgraded to a mascotte, Brook barely does anything on panel. Jinbe maybe will get a bit of space in the beginning since he is M3 lvl and an ex warlord but the space given to Jinbe will simply reduce even more the space for the other minor Shs.