Hello everyone. Before I begin, I am fully prepared to take the fattest ‘L’ imaginable here. Yes I am that confident in my ideas here.
So if you’ve been following my takes for the past few weeks, you should know that I have been very vocal of the idea that Kizaru/Saturn will not be defeated on Egghead for a few reasons, but for a TL;DR:
-The Straw Hats are horrifically outnumbered and outgunned here, and them winning against such horrific odds is actually very uncharacteristic of Oda
-There has been zero narrative buildup towards such a defeat aside from about 3 people in the entire OP world saying that Luffy isn’t worthy of being a Yonko
-the Straw Hats winning here would serve no purpose other than to prove to the prior mentioned 3 people that they are worthy of being Yonko, which was already proven to the rest of us and the world during Wano
-The Straw Hats and Vegapunk have repeatedly stated that the goal is simply to escape here, not to stick around for 50 chapters and fight an Admiral/Gorosei to the death
-Egghead is a the post-TS Shabondy to an extreme extent, and the Straw Hats simply ‘escaped’ there and Egghead will mirror that arc.
Now the arguments got a lot longer than that but this was the gist of it.
Now the number one counter argument people brought up to me was that Kizaru/Saturn must fall here, since the results of the Egghead incident will “shock the world” as promised by the narrator.
Now I never saw neither Kizaru nor Luffy being defeated here as an appropriately world-shocking event at this point in the story. Look at the rest of the events happening in the OP world right now.
-The Sea levels just rose by a foot world-wide, outright sinking some islands entirely and causing general chaos and fear amongst the populace
-The Reverie was attacked by the Revolutionary army, and now the world is seeing dozens of islands rise up in revolt.
-Two Yonko just fell, outright throwing the New World into carnage and chaos
-The Shichibukai were abolished and are being rounded up, again throwing the majority of the OP world into a series of power struggles
Given all this insane context, honestly what should anybody care at all if Kizaru/Saturn should be defeated? If the sea levels just rose by a foot and part of your house just sunk, or if your home island entirely just sunk, why does it matter if Admiral whoever or Gorosei whatshisname get defeated? That’s not going to matter to you or your life in the slightest given the greater context of everything else happening here.
I imagine that even the death of Whitebeard himself would have gone relatively under everyone’s radar if it happened at the same time as all this other crap, which is much more world-shaking than the meaningless consequences of some battle on some island you’ve never heard of. If an Admiral dies, they’ll appoint a new Admiral. If a Gorosei dies, they’ll find a new Gorosei. It doesn’t fucking matter.
No, I had always said that the world-shaking event cannot be the defeat of either Luffy or the WG here, since if you’re actually reading the greater story right now, it doesn’t fucking matter one iota to the vast majority of the OP world who wins this battle right now in context to everything else. I guarantee you 95% of the OP world forgot this was even happening in context to everything else.
But that said, I admittedly had absolutely no idea what the supposedly world-shaking event was supposed to be.
Until now.
You see, the reveal that Soyboy’s heartbeat can awaken Ancient Kingdom technology actually has some fucking absurd implications that have the potential to terraform the very planet of OP itself. Don’t forget that the Ancient Kingdom had achieved Egghead level technology or perhaps even above that. Who is to say that this is the only robot/construct that Fairy Ass is about to re-awaken? Who’s to say that this robot can’t communicate with others if it’s kind all around the world? Who’s to say that the OP world itself isn’t about to have literal future technology re-awakened on a world-wide scale? Don’t forget that Oda has established Vegapunk’s idea of creating unlimited energy for everyone. Is this just some happy random dream that Vegapunk will achieve off-panel at EOS after all the wars are won? Or is Oda about to introduce the precursor to this dream becoming a reality, the revival of Ancient Kingdom technology on a world-wide scale?
I think a lot of OP fans constrain themselves to perceiving this manga as a series of 1v1 fights connected by some random exploration and anti-government propaganda, but Oda takes these elements of his story far, far, far more seriously than many fans seems to think he does, and the fact that people think a battle result would be a world-shaking event in context to everything else happening right now is just crazy to me.
So with all that said, I believe that Oda is now introducing us to the proper world-shaking event right now, the re-awakening of Ancient Kingdom technology on a world-wide scale, which will serve as the official precursor to the World Government becoming explicit enemies of the entire world.
So with that said, how does Egghead play out from here? Well, I would like to draw your attention to something Oda drew at Shabondy:
Many people thought that this scene was meant to portray prime Rayleigh > Kizaru. I’m here today to tell you that this moment right here was one big heaping pile of foreshadowing.
This Ancient Robot is about to get up, repel Kizaru, and help the Straw Hats/Vegapunk escape at the same time. At the same time, Ancient Kingdom technology will start re-awakening across the entire world, serving as the catalyst for the World Government becoming explicit enemies as they will want to destroy this explicitly good/beneficial technology just as they did 800 years ago. We literally may have this technology serve to give the lost history of the Ancient Kingdom to the entire world, and when that information is revealed…
Man. It’s almost like Oda is trying to set up some final war against the World Government or something.
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