Speculations Will Law give Luffy immortality?

#1
Law's DF allows him to sacrifice his life to grant immortality.

Luffy is the sun god nika and the final villain is Imu, the immortal king of the world.

it makes no sense for Luffy not to get immortality. There was already a high likelihood of this happening when Oda first introduced the ope ope no mi's immortality surgery back in dressrosa, with Luffy being one of Law's greatest allies. But now that Luffy is a god and Imu is almost confirmed to be an immortal?

idk, it seems like Law has a massive death flag on him.

Law's D heritage has always been a major part of his character. His current dream is to understand the meaning behind the D. What's going to happen when Luffy goes to Laugh Tale, learns about the true history of the world, and tells Law the meaning of the D?

If Law knew that Luffy is the inheritor of the Will of D, then he would tbh have no reason not to sacrifice himself in order to make Luffy's godhood permanent. I feel like this whole Nika subplot is probably either directly or indirectly taken from christianity.

I say indirectly because christianity has had a major influence on main character archetypes across history and while Oda might not have directly been inspired by christianity, I'm sure he's a fan of some western media, which would inherently have some christian influence.

In judaism there is this idea of the messiah. The person who will revive the jewish kingdom in the Land of Israel, and create an era of peace that will last forever, with the messiah reigning as the immortal king of this era.

Christianity takes this idea and says that the messiah is Jesus of Nazareth, who Christians believe to be God. Jesus was born over 2000 years ago, he lived and he died, but Christians believe he resurrected himself and will make a return sometime in the future. When Jesus comes back, he is supposed to create the world to come and live forever as a god king.

Joyboy seems to be this pirate jesus, who ultimately died during the void century, but came back in the form of Luffy and will subsequently create the world to come(which ties to Luffy's dream and the Will of D). We have already seen this parallel of Jesus and Nika in the story through the character of Kuma, who is a Nika worshipper that lives in a Church.


To what degree Nika really is inspired by Jesus, I cannot say. Buy Luffy getting immortality would fit with the story of Jesus, with Luffy reigning as pirate king forever, much as how Jesus is supposed to be the immortal ruler of the world to come.
 

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#2
Ah, this one is a pretty old theory in itself going back since that Dressrosa reveal. Personally, I'm much more inclined on having Law perform an anti-immortality surgery on Imu.

The problem is that Law isn't a tool anymore, or at least doesn't consider himself one. Luffy has a fundamental understanding since Loguetown that all adventures eventually come to an end and he will have issues if Law offers to sacrifice his life just like that. I also don't know how Luffy will feel knowing that all his loved ones will eventually die.

I guess we'll have to wait and see. All the death flags, Chekov's gun, and religious undertones highlighted in this thread are there. Whether Oda actually decides to go that route is another story.

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#4
Ah, this one is a pretty old theory in itself going back since that Dressrosa reveal. Personally, I'm much more inclined on having Law perform an anti-immortality surgery on Imu.

The problem is that Law isn't a tool anymore, or at least doesn't consider himself one. Luffy has a fundamental understanding since Loguetown that all adventures eventually come to an end and he will have issues if Law offers to sacrifice his life just like that. I also don't know how Luffy will feel knowing that all his loved ones will eventually die.

I guess we'll have to wait and see. All the death flags, Chekov's gun, and religious undertones highlighted in this thread are there. Whether Oda actually decides to go that route is another story.

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I think it would be equally great if Law offered Luffy immortality, but Luffy rejected it because he doesn't view himself as a god.
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That being said, Oda seems intent on turning Luffy into a god, so while Luffy rejecting immortality would be amazing storytelling, it would be a bit conflicting with the almost mary sue like messiah narrative Oda has built up for Luffy.
 
#6
No, because Luffy's immortality brings nothing to the story.

Is this immortality simply a way to negate aging? Or does it just downright prevent someone from dying?

If neither Luffy nor Imu can die, then their fight has no stakes anymore.
 
#9
Yea I believe law will. Who else would he give it to? It will probably be in the fight vs imu, because Imu is an immortal god or something like that.
 
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#18
Luffy is the one who needs it since he is so fucking weak.

Someone strong like Zoro doesn't need a fucking immortality surgery. Just trash like Luffy that will die or almost die all the time.
 
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