I wouldn't say that but I'm betting their end goals are more similar then what has been let on. I'm betting Sword will be it's own faction in the big final battle and that they'll team up with the RA to fight the WG. We might even get a Koby and Sabo team up.
It’s more learning about someone before they became a legend. He’s getting a call to action, possibly his Enies Lobby and Marineford is God Valley. This is Roger as before he was the Pirate King and big man on the block. Basically everyone in this flashback is not really as they were in the present. Kaido isn’t a suicidal alcoholic and Big Mom isn’t an obese (term for woman who fucks everything)-shark.
Isn’t that basically what happened though? Roger’s whole thing was “incurable illness, one last trip through the Grand Line, learns Laugh Tale is a thing, finds The One Piece, gets declared pirate king, finds he’s “too early", turns himself in, Roger is executed and the Great Pirate Era begins”.
It's just simple demystifying (which also further romanticizes the characters). Roger was never the Pirate Superman he's been venerated as throughout the story. Ever since Ace's backstory, we've known this. Hell, even before that! This entire flashback has done the most to highlight Roger's vulnerabilities and humanity by showing him when he's on everyone's level (despite Rocks having a claim to the era back then).
I have to wonder if God Valley will be like Marineford for Roger, with Shakky being in the role Ace had, and Whitebeard will be like Jinbe where he gets Roger out of his depression and self loathing and gets Roger to think about what he DOES have: his friends.
I don't think Roger ever tried to hide his name. If anything, the government hid his name and Roger just decided to roll with it.
Garp and SWORD being Revolutionary marines would be pretty cool.
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They are useful idiots. They make for a very visible, very hate-able distraction from the real wielder of power
Garp's Plan is and always has been a military coup.
He did, he was declared King of the Pirates he didnt declare himself King and his final journey was a "fuck it i am dying" adventure
Dear Elizabello the Second, how do you type with boxing gloves on?
I think he was just Rogers, at least I can't recall anyone calling him something else.
He specifically complained the newspaper got his name wrong.
And now all that's left is or Imu to be revealed to the masses. Or at least the machinations of Imu because there's a good chance Luffy will just wreck shit before Imu can be personally exposed, even if it's underwater or buried under a pile of rubble.
And now the question becomes "was there anything more to that final journey?" Personally, I doubt it.
It's Eiichiro Oda. I don't think there's a point in questioning it. I think JoJo's Bizarre Adventure makes more sense than One Piece sometimes.
Tekking101 mentions this theory in the recent chapter review. I forgot that Oda's original idea for One Piece when he was working on it was for there to be two types of pirates: Peace Mains and Morganeers. It's looking likely this may be him revisiting that old concept.
i could see davy jones being the blackbeard/rocks to joyboys luffy/roger maybe time really is just repeating itself over and over again with different versions of the same people until the right series of events happens.
I forget which youtube faggot I was watching but they also thought this just through the lens of naruto and whatever Japanese mythology they share and Oda is friends with the author of naruto and they used to talk apparently
Every time I hear Naruto and One Piece in the same sentence, I have to do a double take because of how the story of Naruto seemed to completely fall apart. Luffy already said Gear 5 was his peak, so hopefully that means there's going to be no more gratuitous upgrades. Right?