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Jailer said:
It simply means there will be stronger opponents than Kaido, well we are pretty much in endgame anyway, so BB, maybe Imu are well stronger than him or will be. Tho endgame doesn't mean the end is near, it could be an entire saga which contains years of content (5-8 years perhaps depending on arc length)




He gets captured. Him wanting to die is too fulfilling to him, he will have to suffer like the rest of the villains, witness their decades of hard work and dreams be crushed, death is an easy way out for Kaido not gonna happen, if it happens it happens much later.
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His defeat will bring end to his dream and what he did in past 20 years


So, in a way his dreams will be crushed.



But oda made kaido WSC. He even went on to say "no one is alive to defeat him". Only exceptions I see to this are BB and Imu but even they will be under kaido shadows.

So him being alive overshadows many others characters who are waiting in line to for their time to come


Also, he is the only antagonist who has death flag.


Let me tell you why his death is significant.


Kaido was shown as someone who can't be killed. Someone who wished to die but this is because there is no one to challenge him. Thus, for him being at the top is boring because no one can beat him.


Once luffy defeats kaido and the latter gets the vibe that Luffy could be joyboy, he will not have any death wish. Infact, he will seek to live because he got someone who could defeat him and become Joyboy which he himself once wished to become.



So his death would actually not be fulfilling as you said. It will come at the most interesting time in his life. It will happen at a time when he will wish to live to see how things will unfold.


This will make kaido die unsatisfied and at the same time will create room for future opponents to get hyped
 
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Doggo said:
I get it, despite not agreeing on the part that it overshadows future opponents, considering Kaido's been fighting a legit gauntlet from the beginning.

But the thing is....and here's something that makes me feel like Oda writes the story like he's just doing some shop checklist:
If Kaido dies now, then I think Zoro's moment of scarring Kaido devalues. I mean, why give someone a permanent scar if they are gonna be dead by the end of the arc anyway?
One could argue that "ZKK" is more hyped than just giving Kaido a scar, which I agree. But, then again, why write that first scene in the first place? Was it just something that Oda HAD to draw because he made some checklist of stuff he wanted to draw at some point without caring so much about being cohesive? Know what I mean?

If giving Kaido a permanent scar is such a big deal, then Kaido should live for his scar to be shown throughout the places he go and it adds to Zoro's notoriety "yo, that swordsman was able to give Kaido a permanent scar! Only a single other person in history was able to do that! So cool!"
If he kills Kaido, I just don't see him getting the credit for it storywise. It's Luffy the one challenging Kaido. So if Zoro kills Kaido, but Luffy gets the credit, then no one will know about the scar and he loses both "feats".
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It's not necessary for kaido to live to make scar meaningful.



It was done to portray strength of zoro which got demonstrated with the scar.


It was done to make it clear that zoro inherited Enma and thus Oden's will.

Once kaido is defeated,this scar will take back seat because defeating kaido > scarring kaido.

This is why ZkK is still not out of the picture. It's not related to hype zoro strength. Killing defeated nerfed kaido is no strength feat.

It's related to resolving Kaido, Zoro and Enma plot.
 
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