Powers & Abilities What's with Garp obsession with Roger?

[Cruxroux]

Has Oda ever Explained Garp obsession over Roger or Roger Obsession over Garp?

Garp could barely care about , Xebec , who was on full time Pirate mode. Or Whitebeard , who was as fearsome as Roger.

I mean ofc Garp may have encountered Whitebeard at some point. But his obsession of Roger is insane.

Even during last chapter , Roger first instance was to flee if Marine ship shows up Like whitebeard did. Nobody wanted random Clashes.

But moment Roger got to know it's Garp. He commanded everyone to fight.

Just rival doesn't even make sense here.

 

[SkySanji]

It's kinda like Zoro and Sanji's rivalry, they always want to one up the other

 

[park_min young]

They love to fight powerful dudes, that’s about it. Roger is also revealed to be an assaulter and kidnapper so maybe Garp’s rage is justified.

 

[Bad English]

D rivalry.

 

[Uncle Van]

Pride and ego. Garp had multiple encounters with Chinjao and never captured him. Why? Because he was obsessed with breaking his drill head. Its similar to Smoker abandoning his post in Loguetown to chase Luffy into the grandline, all because his pride was shot when Luffy became the first pirate to escape him.

You escape capture? Garp will hunt you down until he catches you. You too fast to get hit? Garp will fight you constantly until he hits you.

 

[MonsterKaido]

Goofy rivalry

 

[Dragon777]

I think It was a Smoker like situation or a Zoro-Sanji like, or a mixture really.

Probably It was "born" as a Smoker like situation where Roger managed to "escape" Garp, but then, differently from Luffy and Smoker since Luffy doesn't really give a fuck, both Roger and Garp became rivals.

 

[Longleg Larry]

Reminds me of Luffy & Croco-boy

Crocs had plans stacked on each other, meanwhile Luffy just wanted to hit him for the sake of hitting him.

Garp doesn't like fighting for agendas. Leeroy just wants his Jenkins.

 

[Kiri]

It's only natural oppositions would clash, one is rising within piracy, one withint he marines, and like oda said they are in their hot blooded youth, so they both have something to prove.

The reason it may feel perplexing to someone is because they've been conditioned to yonko and marines just solidifying their positions instead of actively targeting each other, which is for the sake of plot, and just the way the current era is.

I'm just now thinking of that instance of Akainu going after Blackbeard, but Blackbeard ran, because Blackbeard is more of a poltical schemer than a warrior.

Akainu is also extremely more dangerous Garp, because Roger could survive being punched in the face by haki, but if garp had the magma fruit, roger would get his face melted right there and then.

Even WB talks about how not many remember how it was in the old days, it seemed a lot more like the wild west, than the current era where things are a lot more political.

 

[Kumathegoat]

Bromance

A Romance, but with Bros