I think the 5 Elders have Devil Fruits, I don't think Imu does.
This is an argument for nature vs nurture.
If you reread the chapter Saturn has the Dark Awakening band like Lucci has.
Funny how he was so hyped up at the start and ended up being one of the most irrelevant supernovas and a jobber to boot. Speaking of the novas, wonder when Urouge will do something, the ones that seemed more like just background noise like Bonnie and Bege ended up being a lot more relevant than I expected.
Kid defeated Big Mom and stood toe-to-toe with Kaido. Yeah, trying to take on both Shanks and Elsbaf by himself was suicidally stupid, but the dude ain't a jobber.
*Fought Big Mom while Hawkins was doing his voodoo bullshit.
Maybe I'm senile, but I'm pretty sure defeating Big Mom required Law there to even be possible. And well, seeing how Kidd was initially painted as the biggest bigshot of the Supernovas after Luffy and the only thing I can remember him for is being jailed, tag teaming to take down Big Mom with Law and getting nuked by Shanks and the giants, lets say he didn't leave the greatest impression.
Kidd WAS the biggest big shot of the Supernovas. His entire introduction existed to show that Luffy wasn’t at the top. I just donot think Aida knows what to do with him, but thinks he’s too cool to drop outright, unlike Urouge. It seems like Wano was partially designed to bring an end to a good chunk of the Supernovas.
I do remember reading he ended up creating 10 other characters outside of Luffy and Zorro since 12 was a nice round number but kind of regretted it later when it came time to flesh them out. So I wouldn't be surprised he created most of them just cause they were cool and then after their introduction proceeded to repurpose them for whatever the plot needed. I always go back to Bege, the moment I saw his design I was convinced he would be the most irrelevant of the lot by far. Ended up being a big player during the Big Mom and Sanji wedding kerfuffle and was awesome at that. Just seems surprising that Kidd after his introduction never really got much action yet Law ended up stapled to the side of the crew for years and Bonnie is suddenly the most important by far lorewise.
Actually, I think the opposite happened: he made ten new characters because he thought Saboady wasn’t getting exciting, and was planning on dumping them immediately, but then realized he had a great set of gotos any time he needed a character to show up without worrying about an introduction.
I can remember back when Enies Lobby was wrapping up, and how maligned Skypeia was for being “out of place” and “filler diversion.” I held then and I hold now that whole arc is peak One Piece (it also felt so late into the series back then).
The biggest thing against Skypeia is that it starts off slow and follows a short but good arc in Jaya. Enel is a fun villain and probably my favorite fight in the series as it was good seeing both Enel and Luffy try and one up each other. The problem is definitely the begining.
