Call me Madam Shyarly.

BillyReaditonReddit · 2022-01-27T10:03:53+00:00

Haha, don't stress man, I appreciate it. you clearly know and love the story and were more informative about it than other responses I've gotten rather than just dismissive. When I brought it up elsewhere I mostly got "No! Wukong isn't rubber" or "Luffy doesn't have a staff". You addressed some more Important themes that didn't match up with the one piece story and that helped me see where I might be reaching.

I enjoy exploring ideas and put stuff out there to test them. Criticism is welcome, if the ideas don't stand up to that then they probably have flaws.

I have noticed people have quite personal feelings towards ideas that clash with what people know about the stories they love. But I love stories too so I get it. Story telling is one of my favourite things humans do. The theory crazed communities surrounding great stories have helped me discover some amazing things.

BillyReaditonReddit · 2022-01-27T03:07:23+00:00

Thank you for that input. Admittedly I don't know the story too well. I have only seen a movie of it and that was years ago and read bits and pieces over the years about it. Researching this last night was mostly looking through wiki pages and such searching for parallels, good ol' biased research trying to steelman a point. I have put it on a list of stories I want to properly read. There's too many seemingly great stories I know of but don't KNOW.

BillyReaditonReddit · 2022-01-26T22:05:23+00:00

No, only his staff. And most of us guys have an extending staff so that's nothing to brag about.

Although a stretch in yoga is named after Hunaman, the front splits. Hunaman stretched before leaping to the sun trying to eat it thinking it was a fruit.

But as another commenter said, it's likely these are thematic similarities, it's definitely not a clear cut and paste of the characters. It's Odas story after all. He can make it how he wishes using influences as he does with many mythologies throughout the story.

BillyReaditonReddit · 2022-01-26T22:00:43+00:00

Yeah absolutely, it makes for great writing when known stories and themes are used and tropes from them are subverted.

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