Break Week Who will be Elbaf's villain? (Poll)

[ShinichiMugi]

With last chapter,many people had the impression it was the classic introdution to a long arc as Oda usually does. But,the question remains: who will be Elbaf's villain,if that's the case?

-A powerful giant. With Luffy being so strong as he is Nika now,how powerful a Loki,a Odin,or a Thor should be,to be a serious danger for Luffy? It would mess the entire powerscaling and logic of the OP world,to have such powerful characters,who never do anything outside Elbaf. Also,with Nika being their God,it would not make so much sense for Elbaf's giants to be enemies of Luffy

-Rocks D. Xebec/Man With Burned Scar. This could be interesting,because it would give us the long awaited God Valley flashback,and it would make us understand who at least one of these people are (if they're not the same person),and maybe one of them (if they're two different people) was the famous sihlouette awaiting for them that we saw at the end of Egghead

-Marines/World Government invading Elbaf. This would be cool too,but,as we just come from a World Government/Marines arc,maybe Oda wants to change a little bit,and make an arc more "pirates" focused,who knows

-Big Mom/Kidd returns. It would be cool for their fans,but honestly,they cant be serious villains for Luffy anymore,so it would be like the "powerful giant" possibility,a not good enough villain for Luffy

-No one,just a info/training arc. This would be probably the most liked possibility by many people,as people wants to arrive to the final part of the story,and who knows,this may still be a possibility,altough the last chapter gave us the impression that it was a introduction to a "long" arc (altough "long" could be 1 year of chapters,or 2 years,3 years,etc. it depends).

Are there other possibilities on who could be Elbaf's villain? And what would be your favorite one?

 

[Rumble]

I don't know what else to predict about Elbaf other than shit is going to go down at some point.

Drawing fights with giants will be a pain in the ass though, so I'm anticipating maybe only Luffy gets to fight one seeing as he can turn into a giant.

More than likely, I anticipate an invasion by multiple parties. I think this might also be where we see the Red Hair Pirates, Cross Guild, the Marines and the Blackbeard Pirates show up.

 

[Monkey D Theories]

I think the elbaf Sun god, whomever that is

but I think BM or Kid could be minor villains like Lucci

 

[Sir Yasheen]

Someone capable of burning down Yggdrasil in Norse myth that was a Magma Giant so I’m going Sakazuki and marines.

 

[mly90]

If there is even one slightly competent antagonist in midbaf that will be added to the list of character the rat ducked lets not forget it's his territory this time
Rookie hunter snitch stocks will take heavy blow

 

[MonsterKaido]

Loki

 

[kumae]

It could be any of those but I don't see WG again or xebec (BB has his will)
Urogue will appear but not as a villain

 

[redtiger]

My prediction is black beard...i can't think someone else. Or no one. Because elbaf is shanks territory i think.

 

[mmd]

Loki or burned man
Maybe garling move
Probably the navy and Five elder will not enter a free land
And we already saw luffy fight an admiral so there's no need for another fight right now
As the strongest admiral, Kizaro had an awful performance, what do you expect from others?
And for now, it's too early for Akainu to enter the fight, and based on Aokiji's position, the rest of the admirals will probably face the second and third members of the crew in the continuation of the story.

 

[Rej]

Why is everyone dickriding my Elbaf theories from 6 years ago kek.

Ofc it will be hardliner giants, but also probably WG infiltrating.

Either two stages or things running parallel.

I tend to former for now.

 

[Thaidakar]

I want some Nazi Giants

Hopefully Loki is a giant supremacist

 

[nik87]

I think there will be 2 villains.
One from Elbaf in the first half of the arc.
One from outside in the latter half.

Now, who those might be is up for guessing.
Man with a burn scar could be one of them.
Hard to believe any Giant would actually top tier but we will see.

 

[Welkin]

The battle royale Oda spoke about could take place in Elbaf

Wouldn't be surprised

 

[Kumathegoat]

shyanksu, the rat

 

[Toryu]

I putting stock on Loki.

I just don't see CG, BB, Shanks or Marines/WG coming to Elbalf, how does that make sense?

Shanks just leaved Elbalf, BB is going for whatever plan he has with the WG, WG has bigger issues elsewhere with the Revo, CG said they won't go head on against the other Yonko.

We are left with burn scar man and Loki

 

[Sir Yasheen]

I putting stock on Loki.

I just don't see CG, BB, Shanks or Marines/WG coming to Elbalf, how does that make sense?

Shanks just leaved Elbalf, BB is going for whatever plan he has with the WG, WG has bigger issues elsewhere with the Revo, CG said they won't go head on against the other Yonko.

We are left with burn scar man and Loki

WG doesn’t have greater issues than the straw hats. Imu just murdered Saturn because Luffy got away afterall. Imu doesn’t care about what Dragons doing just yet he’s more worried about Luffy.

Sakazuki makes sense as the antagonist. It makes for an easier connection between this arc and Egghead by having Marines be the antagonists here, it fits with the setting of the arc due to Norse myth having the Yggdrasil burnt down by Magma, and it makes narrative sense for Imu to not give up on his pursuit of Joyboy despite knowing exactly where Luffy is.

 

[Kurozumi Wiwi]

Odin

 

[YonkoGodLuffy]

Either Blackbeard or Akainu.

Since nobody really went down in Egghead, it only makes sense that Egghead was a transitionary arc similar to Zhou. So Elbaf should be a bigger Wano-tier arc where there are definitive losses. It can't be another "run away" type arc since Egghead was just as well. And since the giants were saying they didn't know who could've defeated the "Ear God", I think Loki, Odin, Thor etc etc and other Norse mythological figures probably won't be strong enough to be major fights even if they appear. More like Orochi type villains. Since Blackbeard is too weak to be a fight later on in the series, I'm predicting that Elbaf itself will be similar to Wano, they'll launch a raid from there to attack Fullalead to rescue Garp and I think the Elbaf Arc main villain will be Blackbeard. If not, then Akainu will come to Elbaf, maybe show Logia awakening by turning into a lava giant (Surtr).