so going into this chapter, I presumed this to be like the beginning of the marineford war. We'd have Luffy and Kidd sailing into the harbor being faced down by kaido and his army of beast pirates. Yet, unexpectedly, this didn't happen and there is no real reason why it shouldn't have happened. Last chapter we saw Kanjuro flying off with momonosuke, ready to inform Kaido about the alliance's plans.
Kaido should have gotten this message. But what happened? It cannot be that Kaido is just pretending to be unaware of the allies plans.
we see that when the allies come into onigashima, the beast pirates are utterly unaware of what is going on. They are not expecting them. Then we see Queen putting on his whole hype show. Is that really what he would be doing if Onigashima was really about to be under seige?
The only logical conclusion is this. Kaido didn't receive Kanjuro's message and that something must have happened to Kanjuro. Enter big mom. There is no way that big mom can be defeated this arc if she is an antagonist. It simply isn't possible. Garp said himself that if Big Mom and Kaido allied, there would be nothing even the marines could do about it. With Kaido being as big of a threat that he is, big mom simply cannot be an antagonist this arc.
So what is going to happen? I think its pretty likely that big mom will betray Kaido and that she was the person who intercepted Kanjuro's message. Why?
first off you have jinbe's escape, which honestly seems very improbable. He was cornered by a yonko. Even if he could swim, big mom had her sea homie, which would have prevented him from escaping easily. Not to mention big mom could easily create another zeus and thundershock the entire ocean. Overall, I think something happened between Jinbe and big mom that we do not know of.
then you have zeus. As we know, Napoleon can send and receive signals from the other homies. So there is no reason why he couldn't have been in contact with zeus this entire time. If he was, then that would mean that big mom would know everything that is occurring. She would know all of the alliance's plans up since when Nami took zeus. If she was truly allies with Kaido, she would have told him all of what she knows.
Lastly, there is big mom's personality. Big Mom, while she might seem like a moron when she is on her hunger rampage, she was actually shown to be quite an intelligent person. While Big Mom might hate Luffy and want him dead, she also recognizes the power that Luffy has. When Luffy came into WCI, beat two of her commanders, and destroyed much of her crew and island, she most likely realized how dangerous Luffy can be.
While previously, she doubted if Luffy could beat Kaido, I think its very likely that his victory over Katakuri might have changed things. With her recognizing Luffy's potential, she would also recognize the immense opportunity that was given to her. That Luffy could actually help her bring down one of her biggest rivals, Kaido. Big Mom would let jinbe go, and all the while, she would come to wano under the pretense of killing Luffy. She would forge an alliance with Kaido, all the while secretly planning on backstabbing him. She would make sure that the alliance's plans don't fail, and when the alliance declares war on Kaido, she would go for his head.
EDIT: one extra point I want to make. Many people suspect that the mid trio and weak trio will take on the tobi roppo but the powerscaling we have seen so far makes this simply illogical. The tobi roppo are on a higher rank than hawkins and apoo. Drake was beating Sanji in full zoan form and Page one, the weakest tobi roppo, sent raid suit Sanji flying through a city block with just one swipe. The mid trio and weak trio cannot beat them.
However that leaves the question of who will beat Maria and Ulti, as Oda won't have a man defeat those two. If Big Mom was secretly planning on betraying Kaido, we could have Smoothie vs Black Maria and Ulti vs Compote. This would give some screen time to two very powerful but very underutilized big mom pirates. Black maria is also a giant and Smoothie can use her fruit to enlarge herself so the matchup makes perfect sense.
Kaido should have gotten this message. But what happened? It cannot be that Kaido is just pretending to be unaware of the allies plans.
we see that when the allies come into onigashima, the beast pirates are utterly unaware of what is going on. They are not expecting them. Then we see Queen putting on his whole hype show. Is that really what he would be doing if Onigashima was really about to be under seige?
The only logical conclusion is this. Kaido didn't receive Kanjuro's message and that something must have happened to Kanjuro. Enter big mom. There is no way that big mom can be defeated this arc if she is an antagonist. It simply isn't possible. Garp said himself that if Big Mom and Kaido allied, there would be nothing even the marines could do about it. With Kaido being as big of a threat that he is, big mom simply cannot be an antagonist this arc.
So what is going to happen? I think its pretty likely that big mom will betray Kaido and that she was the person who intercepted Kanjuro's message. Why?
first off you have jinbe's escape, which honestly seems very improbable. He was cornered by a yonko. Even if he could swim, big mom had her sea homie, which would have prevented him from escaping easily. Not to mention big mom could easily create another zeus and thundershock the entire ocean. Overall, I think something happened between Jinbe and big mom that we do not know of.
then you have zeus. As we know, Napoleon can send and receive signals from the other homies. So there is no reason why he couldn't have been in contact with zeus this entire time. If he was, then that would mean that big mom would know everything that is occurring. She would know all of the alliance's plans up since when Nami took zeus. If she was truly allies with Kaido, she would have told him all of what she knows.
Lastly, there is big mom's personality. Big Mom, while she might seem like a moron when she is on her hunger rampage, she was actually shown to be quite an intelligent person. While Big Mom might hate Luffy and want him dead, she also recognizes the power that Luffy has. When Luffy came into WCI, beat two of her commanders, and destroyed much of her crew and island, she most likely realized how dangerous Luffy can be.
While previously, she doubted if Luffy could beat Kaido, I think its very likely that his victory over Katakuri might have changed things. With her recognizing Luffy's potential, she would also recognize the immense opportunity that was given to her. That Luffy could actually help her bring down one of her biggest rivals, Kaido. Big Mom would let jinbe go, and all the while, she would come to wano under the pretense of killing Luffy. She would forge an alliance with Kaido, all the while secretly planning on backstabbing him. She would make sure that the alliance's plans don't fail, and when the alliance declares war on Kaido, she would go for his head.
EDIT: one extra point I want to make. Many people suspect that the mid trio and weak trio will take on the tobi roppo but the powerscaling we have seen so far makes this simply illogical. The tobi roppo are on a higher rank than hawkins and apoo. Drake was beating Sanji in full zoan form and Page one, the weakest tobi roppo, sent raid suit Sanji flying through a city block with just one swipe. The mid trio and weak trio cannot beat them.
However that leaves the question of who will beat Maria and Ulti, as Oda won't have a man defeat those two. If Big Mom was secretly planning on betraying Kaido, we could have Smoothie vs Black Maria and Ulti vs Compote. This would give some screen time to two very powerful but very underutilized big mom pirates. Black maria is also a giant and Smoothie can use her fruit to enlarge herself so the matchup makes perfect sense.
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