Controversial What Character(s) do you think had the most wasted potential

#21
Basically all of the Supernovas. They were all portrayed as fellow competitors for the one piece and I expected each character to AT LEAST get an arc or two that focused on each of them but Oda ended up cramming most of them in Wano and having them all unceremoniously defeated. I had some hope for Kidd and Law but then Oda had both of them run into powerful Yonko and get pushed out of the plot. To make it worse Urouge hasn't even done anything after Sabaody and it looks like he won't be getting any panel time any time soon. Overall they all fell short as rivals and Oda handled most of their characters poorly.
 
#23
Smoothie was completely wasted as well, with her having not even a fight scene, and being kept in the freezer doing nothing and having no real contribution to the plot, despite her cool design, her interesting and potentially incredibly powerful devil fruit, her most surely being an incredibly strong swordswoman and being an opportunity to finally showcase a strong female swordsman in One Piece.
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a strong female swordsman in One Piece.
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Yoho

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#25
Smokey: Just got passed by & never caught up

Orochi: Not him, his fruit

Road: Unless he sides w/ Loki
His fruit was the best thing about him it just had the misfortune of being eaten by a bumbling baboon who couldn't use it to its full potential if someone with any actual combat ability had that fruit they would be beyond broken
 
#27
Imo the characters with the most wasted potential is Law and Kid

Back in Sabaody they where standing side by side with Luffy and are often shown competing with him as if they're playing in the same leagues,

Law is a D and is the only D with no real importance to the story from what we've seen so far

Luffy- The MC and the second coming of One Piece Jesus

Garp- captured by black beard pirates and will play a major role in Koby's development

Dragon- leader of the revolutionary army and the most wanted man in the world whose actions are currently putting the celestial dragons in a panic

Vivi- The descendant of Nefetari Lili, and was shown to be important enough that Cp0 tried kidnapping her and Imu was shown stabbing pictures of her

Teach- one of the primary antagonist in the story, has been responsible for many events shown and has a dicatohmy with Shanks

Law meanwhile since he was reintroduced in punk hazard never felt anything more than another strawhat the moment he left the crews presence Oda took out his crew and left him barely alive.

Kid meanwhile was said to be a conqueror but he never felt like one, Kaido just mentioned it offhandedly but he was never once shown the ability to use it and much like Law never in the series had a legimate 1 v 1
Kaido and all of his crew could have been GOATed villains if only Lolda hadn't been too busy wanking Lolden and all of the boring Wanonese.
 

Rej

Holy Simp
#30
I wanted so much to see them together after learning they were sisters, yet we didn't even see Sugar's reaction to news of what happened on Punk Hazard and that her sister might be dead.
good points, yeah there is so much that could have been done to give everything a better round up conclusion

I really enjoyed them appearing back then and I actually expected more there
 

Rej

Holy Simp
#32
Charlotte Compote who was said to be one of the monsters of the BMP, and clearly should have had a big role in the family and crew as this and as the second child and oldest daughter, wasn't even given any line, power or role in the story.
and I was so rooting for her to pop off even if it were for a few singular panels...

I will forgive Oda if he gives us a 2.0 with the Blackbeard Pirates and Pudding in future
 
#33
and I was so rooting for her to pop off even if it were for a few singular panels...

I will forgive Oda if he gives us a 2.0 with the Blackbeard Pirates and Pudding in future
Well I am not optimistic about that happening, and I'm not sure I'll ever forgive how he treated her mother at Wano.

I had these ideas for Compote, for her to the only children of Big Mom to have inherited some of her mother's incredible durability, and she also inherited some of her mother's strength as well.

Other than that and being the closest to their mother in appearance she was also the true motherly figure for most of her siblings, with her being the wisest and most level-headed of the Charlotte children, a role she put herself in to make up for their mother's lack of real parental skills and insanity. As such and like Perospero with whom she has a very close bond even if she often scolds him, she's very respected by the family and has an authority practically equal to the Sweet Commanders.

In addition of her physical abilities, which she uses in a dance-like fighting style with her being surprisingly fast and agile for her size, and her haki abilities, Compote has the Fruits and Vegetables Devil Fruit, allowing her to grow, control and uses fruits and vegetables at will. She uses her df in battle by using healing or stamina restoring fruits as support, as well as using giant beanstalks roots like the Great Jack at Skypeia, explosive pineapples, stinky fruits to intoxicate and choke enemies, incendiary hot peppers, acid citruses, electric fruits and fruits seeds as bullets as offense against her foes.
 
#34
Smoker: Man had all he needed to be Sengoku's protege and is currently still a Vergo victim.
Vice Admirals: ..... Do I even need to say anything
Shiki: Should have been Kidd's mentor and a lore man.
Yamato: one of the few characters I want to see destroyed
 
#35
Streusen as Big Mom's parental figure and the one who turned her into who she is, as well as surely the only person able to calm and influence her to some degree, as well as him being stated to be stronger than he looks and his devil fruit.

There were surely more to be done with him and his relationships with Linlin, as well as with her children and grandchildren and the other non-Charlotte members of the BMP, and with other former Rocks Pirates members.
 
#37
1) Zoro: he had great potential until Thriller Bark arc. After that everything went downhill. Would have been a great character if he never joined the clown hat pirates.

2) Big Mom: no explanation needed for her I guess. She had character issues even in WCI but Wano ruined her completely.

3) Smoker: he was amazing pre-ts, probably best marine character back then. After that everything went down, mostly due to introduction of haki

4) Kidd: given one of the most OP DF but with no creativity in its usage. He has written to make same mistakes again and again.

5) Dragon and Mihawk: both never given proper focus to shine

6) King: his ability is still unclear. He had good connection with Kaido but that was forced down our throat. There was no natural progression of his connection to Kaido and his background.

7) Kaido: the single reason for his wack characterization was too much oden glaze.
 
#40
Jack had lots of potential as well, with him being presented as such a serious threat during Zou arc, and him being younger than the other Calamities only for Wano to be unkind to him, to bossed around by the other Calamities and injured so fast and easily by Ashura, and to not be even shown using haki, having a proper hybrid form or other skills with his devil fruit.
 
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