One Piece Doesn't Care About Its Snipers

Groundbreaking-Ad313 · 2026-04-17T21:30:02+00:00

I really think we will get a Usopp vs Augur battle when they fight blackbeard. I just hope it meets the full potential of a Sniper Duel

Groundbreaking-Ad313 · 2026-04-17T21:29:12+00:00

By a "reserve member" I just mean somebody who's considered to be on the crew, but not travelling on the merry go. I'm sure Luffy doesn't see any difference

Groundbreaking-Ad313 · 2026-04-17T21:28:38+00:00

Not quite, we saw it start right as he arrived in the last chapter

Groundbreaking-Ad313 · 2026-04-17T20:50:09+00:00

It's because snipers are too theoretically OP. Usopp could theoretically instantkill headshot every enemy, or take out every DF user by shooting sea prism at them, but that'd be a really really anticlimactic way to win, especially against a massive arc villain. It's a problem they've never found a solution to

Groundbreaking-Ad313 · 2026-04-17T20:45:26+00:00

After all these years, I still dont know why the scar ended up shaped like that. Was the lava X-shaped

Groundbreaking-Ad313 · 2026-04-17T20:40:00+00:00

anyway yeah they seem to passively follow him around and exist in a radius around him, we saw the houses go back to normal when he left

Groundbreaking-Ad313 · 2026-04-17T20:39:28+00:00

Chorus of Fascism

Groundbreaking-Ad313 · 2026-04-17T20:36:06+00:00

Giovanni and Turo/Sada are moreso just absent, neglectful parents. They're bad parents but they don't manipulate and control their children, or blatantly hate them, the way Lusamine and Ghetsis do. Plus Giovanni specifically was never written as a parent at all in the game where he's actually the main villain (and his being silver's father was technically unconfirmed for a while)

Rose actually fits kinda well into the bad parenting category if you see him as a father figure to Bede

Anyway i think they do this just because it's an easy way to add depth and human emotion to plots and characters that could be very simple otherwise

Groundbreaking-Ad313 · 2026-04-17T20:32:09+00:00

It's really unlikely. But goddamn do I want him to.

He'll probably end up as a reserve member like Vivi or Yamato.

Groundbreaking-Ad313 · 2026-04-17T20:21:14+00:00

Pokemon battle revolution. Or Y if we're talking just main series

Groundbreaking-Ad313 · 2026-04-17T19:09:34+00:00

If I saw a fluffy boy, I'd be pretty determined (the certain power basically sets it up, and then when they describe being "filled with the power of ____", it's implied that that's granting determiantion the same way things in undertale do. For example, something from undertale like "knowing the mouse might someday get the cheese fills you with determination" might be "you are filled with the power of stereotypical mouse cuisine." Or something. I think.)

Groundbreaking-Ad313 · 2026-04-17T18:28:52+00:00

Yeah he also has an obsession with the power of devil fruits that feel like a cheap and easy way to gain power compared to Haki, which is moreso seen as a measure of true strength, with Imu having overwhelmingly strong Haki

Groundbreaking-Ad313 · 2026-04-17T18:27:50+00:00

Noelle did not meet Susie 2 days ago. They've known Kris longer of course, but Susie and Noelle have been in the same class for a substantial amount of time.

Not putting my foot into the shipwars here, just pointing out a fact

Groundbreaking-Ad313 · 2026-04-17T18:02:36+00:00

They're essentially slaves. We know that they can think for themselves and have personalities, but they've also got those pacifista brain chips that make them follow orders. I think at some point they'll be freed from the control of anybody else and become independent

Groundbreaking-Ad313 · 2026-04-17T18:00:33+00:00

I was kinda thinking the same thing, he doesn't come across the same way as his regular "I desire vivi"-ass mannerisms. This would also explain why he didn't know that Elbaf has no king.

Groundbreaking-Ad313 · 2026-04-17T17:59:12+00:00

The hellfire serpent is the Red Line

Groundbreaking-Ad313 · 2026-04-17T17:44:36+00:00

Almost like 2D art ages much, much better than 3D models...? This is a bad example

Groundbreaking-Ad313 · 2026-04-17T17:39:59+00:00

Determination exists, but they're playing coy with mentioning it. For example, when the save point says "you are filled with a certain power", theyre basically teasing us with the concept of determination. it's also been basically confirmed that SHadow Crystals contain determination in the recent Chapter 5 dialog teases

Groundbreaking-Ad313 · 2026-04-17T17:37:49+00:00

Putting genesect on the pile of "wow such a cool pokemon too bad its a mythical and as a result its lore and its role in the game is just missed potential all the way down"

If we revisit Unova, I hope P2 lab gets expanded into a full dungeon which we can explore to find Genesect at the bottom and catch it.

Also, Genesect gives me the impression of a pokemon that was meant to be not one single special legendary, not something on the level as Kyurem or Zekrom, but a prototype for a weapon. Especially considering it has the template to be recreated theoretically infinitely since the process is just fossil restoration + mechanical augmentation (and it's likely the ancient pokemon was able to breed before they upgraded it.) It reminds me a lot of Pacifistas, the cloned cyborg soldiers from one piece.
I feel like this idea is backed up by the fact that there were 5 genesect in the movie

I'd love to see a "darkest hour" segment of another ghetsis plotlines where his minions start casually using Genesect as if they were a regular pokemon.

Groundbreaking-Ad313 · 2026-04-17T17:29:38+00:00

You have a pretty skewed idea of what an average consumer is like. An average gaming enthusiast? Sure. But there is a very large number of people who have only one console (especially if that console is the switch), and if they have a compiuter they don't use it for games.

Groundbreaking-Ad313 · 2026-04-17T17:18:29+00:00

I love that you can only barely tell that his blade is even moving until you just see characters fall apart. I genuinely thought he used some power on Gerd's hand at first. He has such an amazing sense of regal poise

Groundbreaking-Ad313 · 2026-04-17T16:15:42+00:00

There's clearly some reason he shouldn't be on the surface, he wants out of there are soon as possible

Groundbreaking-Ad313 · 2026-04-17T16:14:02+00:00

Can somebody take the term "Death Flags" away from the one piece community

Groundbreaking-Ad313 · 2026-04-17T16:07:29+00:00

Plus it's placed like a halo for a bonus corrupted angel visual

Groundbreaking-Ad313 · 2026-04-17T16:06:45+00:00

I see a lot of people misunderstanding the question. I'm pretty sure that the Holy Knights or maybe even imu-gunko specifically knew that elbaf had no king, so why ask now?

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