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Manatee Cannon posted:if there's one thing skypiea absolutely did not need, it's more flashbacks I agree wholeheartedly, I just think it could've been distributed differently.
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You know that is true, we never really did get much of a backstory about Enel other than 'Came from Bilkia->Nuke Bilkia->Take the throne'
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Jun 27, 2017 09:21
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I guess that's another reason he sticks out as a villain? He doesn't have a tragic backstory and relatable motives. He's just a big-fish-in-a-small-pond shitbag who thinks he's god. Instead of a shocking history reveal, you get Enel-face.
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Manatee Cannon posted:what's alvida's tragic backstory She was ugly now she's not.
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Bisse posted:I guess that's another reason he sticks out as a villain? He doesn't have a tragic backstory and relatable motives. He's just a big-fish-in-a-small-pond shitbag who thinks he's god. Instead of a shocking history reveal, you get Enel-face. I'm not sure how that could make him stand out, since most major villains didn't have a tragic backstory at that point and wouldn't for years. Krieg, Crocodile, Moria, Lucci etc had none. There were hints at their past in some cases, like Lucci being a kid inducted because of his skill at kill, but none of them had flashbacks. I don't think that started till after the timeskip. Was Hody the first whose past was explicitly given?
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Hody, Doflamingo and Big Mom are the only ones who have had flashbacks but I feel like Hody and Doflamingo's weren't specific to their characters. Hody's informed Jinbe's character too and explained a whole bunch of One Piece history. Doflamingo's was kinda more about Law and Rosinante than Doflamingo.
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Cat Machine posted:. Doflamingo's was kinda more about Law and Rosinante than Doflamingo. That was mostly Law's flashback.
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I'm pretty sure Moria was the first villain to get some manner of tragic backstory. Then Duval hit. I think Hody is the only Villain to get a flashback history and have it not be tragic in a direct and physical way.Manatee Cannon posted:what's alvida's tragic backstory https://youtu.be/DH5TMCR8etc
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Jun 27, 2017 19:18
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the first villain's tragic backstory, was luffy. that's right
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I'm expecting Crocodile to get a tragic backstory sometime down the time. The way he talks about how soulcrushing the Grand Line is sometimes makes me think he used to have some pretty big dreams that got crushed and made him extremely jaded
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U-DO Burger posted:I'm expecting Crocodile to get a tragic backstory sometime down the time. The way he talks about how soulcrushing the Grand Line is sometimes makes me think he used to have some pretty big dreams that got crushed and made him extremely jaded He was beat by Whitebeard.
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Well yeah, I'm just saying I think there's more to it than that
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U-DO Burger posted:Well yeah, I'm just saying I think there's more to it than that Yeah the part where Iva turned him from a woman into a man probably duh
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crocodile went to ivankov so she could be one of whitebeard's sons and whitebeard rejected her oooooooooooh believe it !!
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U-DO Burger posted:Well yeah, I'm just saying I think there's more to it than that Not quite, he specifically dreamed of being Pirate King before he got loving ruined by Whitebeard. He was already a Warlord by then and not long after that he was becoming known as the hero of Alabasta.
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The first villain to get a tragic backstory is the Lord of the Coast. He only got to eat one arm.
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the secret to shanks becoming a yonko was that instead of splitting his superhuman power between two arms he gave up one and focused everything into the other so that arm became a god arm
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I do wonder how Oda will differentiate Kaido's personality from Linlin's. Currently, they seem very similar despite their very different aesthetics.
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Darth Walrus posted:I do wonder how Oda will differentiate Kaido's personality from Linlin's. Currently, they seem very similar despite their very different aesthetics. How so?
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EmmyOk posted:How so? Childish, hedonistic, near-invulnerable brute powerhouses with serious temper problems. They're at the very least of the same general archetype, and present very similar challenges to our heroes.
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Yeah, I've been wondering about Big Mom's invulnerability considering who is up next, although I'm guessing the solution will be less about brute force in this case. I'm expecting Luffy to hit Kaido with a King Kong Gun and have him not budge a single muscle.
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The first serious attack from Kaido is going to be so dope.
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im sure most of kaido's major attacks are going to be suicide style
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so is kaido indestructible or is he wolverine
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Manatee Cannon posted:so is kaido indestructible or is he wolverine Probably indestructible imo an I'm guessing his whopper scar predates his indestructibility or is part of one of the losses that made him the way he is.
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Manatee Cannon posted:so is kaido indestructible or is he wolverine He's almost totally invulnerable, but it turns out rubber is his only weakness. Like throwing lemon jello at a Green Lantern.
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he's gonna wear luffy as a condom while he fucks this gay earth
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Lpzie posted:he's gonna wear luffy as a condom while he fucks this gay earth Already been done, more or less, in the lead up to Film Z.
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kaido uses the mink ability electro or whatever to restart his heart every time like enel, obviously
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anime was right posted:kaido uses the mink ability electro or whatever to restart his heart every time like enel, obviously 
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It'd be pretty cool if Kaido is one of the most cerebral and level-headed Emperors when he's not on the sauce. The original four at present seem to have been largely a bunch of impulsive meatheads, with no great thinkers amongst them - even Linlin, who seemed to have soft power as her field, seems to be largely the pet superweapon of an oligarchy of much smarter people in this arc.
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Dunno if any of you follow Eyepatch Wolf, but he's got a new video out about One Piece. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYtz2ZhKxFE This was the first one he did: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZqnC-eVwrE They're pretty good, I think. Glad to have something to sate my eternal hunger for One PIece until the new chapter drops, at any rate.
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Moltrey posted:it was p. badass when enel did that Skypiea was a great arc and Enel's goons were great villains. I don't care if it had too little to do with the main story. Smashing Enel's face to ring the bell was one of the best OP finales to an arc. Also good themes about the Ds are God's Natural Enemy.
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what if skypiea is an allegory for the wg/lost country or w/e
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https://twitter.com/truongasm/status/879901532224802816
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Oda thinks of puns, then sets a calendar reminder for a decade later. Then he snoozes it for a couple of years.
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What's the longest Oda's gone before paying off an early hint in the manga? The biggest one I can think of is the gap between the first hint at Sanji's true origins (chapter 68, December 1998) to the reveal he's a Vinsmoke (chapter 812, January 2016). 744 chapters, 18 years.
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check it out. that snarfunkle chapter. oda set up that "oda does it again" tweet FIVE years ago. hat's off, to the master
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Cat Machine posted:What's the longest Oda's gone before paying off an early hint in the manga? The biggest one I can think of is the gap between the first hint at Sanji's true origins (chapter 68, December 1998) to the reveal he's a Vinsmoke (chapter 812, January 2016). 744 chapters, 18 years. What was the hint? I checked chapter 68 and didn't notice anything. Speaking of Baratie, this isn't a big reveal or anything but I like how Zeff told Luffy that the Grand Line is also called "Paradise", and 500-odd chapters later we get the context for that name.
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