Let's start from the beginning, Buggy was one of the youngest members on Gol D. Roger's crew. Which also had Red Haired Shanks whose around his age on the same crew. Roger later became the Pirate King but hid his incurable illness from even most members of his crew. One of his last orders was for his crew to go their separate ways.
Buggy does get his own pirate crew. Former crew mate Shanks not only gets his own crew. After a few years, Shanks became an emperor of the sea. Whose currently the only activate emperor from the original Four Emperors who were introduced to into the story. After Buggy's defeat in Loguetown, he got sentenced to become a prisoner in Impel Down.
During Luffy's time in Impel Down whose not a prisoner, Buggy's popularity starts to notably rise. During the war at the Marine headquarters, there was an announcement of Buggy's past to the world. After the World Government ordered turn off the broadcast, Buggy with help keep it going. The aftermath of that war led to more people wanting to serve Buggy.
The World Government personally invites Buggy to be an warlord. This led to Buggy getting an mercenary business with some underground stuff. Although his best workers being five giants left to join Luffy's Grand Fleet. Luffy defeated former warlord Doflamingo notably helped out Buggy's business. Sadly at the Reverie aka Levely made the decision to disband the Seven Warlords system.
The marines wasted no time going against Buggy with a vice admiral. More recently, it was revealed along with Luffy taking Kaido's spot on the emperors. Buggy ended up taking Big Mom's spot on the emperors as well. This is where confusion for a lot of people set in. I believe I figured it out on my own what happened?
This is how I viewed the situation that led to Buggy becoming an Emperor of the Sea...
Law was an actual member in Luffy's alliance that took down both former emperors Kaido and Big Mom respectively. Therefore, he wasn't able to take Big Mom's position. The situation is a little more interesting in Kid's case. He actually wasn't a member in that alliance but most treated him & his crew as if they were.
Even in the eyes of the World Government believed Kid was working with Luffy. Which also made him unable to take Big Mom's position. Despite the fact he was the one to defeated her with help from Law. Another good reason is neither had a following among people like Luffy. It is also possible neither had the set up to handle an army under their command as well.
Keep in mind Law was trying very hard to work under the radar. This strategy does help in getting some good tactics in but not so much in becoming an emperor. I also have reasons to believe Law doesn't actually want to become an emperor either. Clearly Kid really wanted to become an emperor. Sadly those problems prevented Kid from taking Big Mom's position.
It is very likely Buggy was the most set up for that position out of all the pirates. It's very clear his servants are doing all the work kinda like former warlord Gecko Moriah. They virtually helped put him into a more favorable position overtime. When the time came it paid off big time. Which means Buggy was automatically given that spot despite not defeating any previous emperors.
My thoughts on the emperors themselves.
I strongly felt Shanks wants to make sure the right person becomes the Pirate King. Therefore like former emperor Whitebeard, he actually never wanted the legendary treasure One Piece. Which makes the remaining current three emperors paths rather more interesting than expected. We have Luffy who worked very hard to go to his position in a few years.
Blackbeard cheated by hiding within Whitebeard's crew. Then he made risky moves that led to him cheating the process of becoming an emperor. Then we have Buggy whose done absolutely nothing at all yet he's an emperor now too. It's a race between three emperors for One Piece. This could even turn into a war between three of them now that's something crazy to imagine right there.
Some surprising stuff related to this.
Keep in mind these are facts about the current Four Emperors!!!
Very likely the most interesting section to read in my opinion.
It turns out the cover for Volume 25 predicted these four men being the Four Emperors for the ending portions of the story. Now in Japan, that came out almost twenty years ago. A long time to predict something like this from the author himself. Buggy's devil fruit after Luffy's true devil fruit revealed more recently confirms Buggy's was the first Paramecia type devil fruit introduced.
Blackbeard has two powerful devil fruits at once. His original Dark-Dark Fruit has some unusual traits of a Logia type devil fruits. His second devil fruit was stolen from his former captain Whitebeard, Tremor-Tremor Fruit. Shanks maintains his position with one arm like it's nothing. He also doesn't have the same structure most emperors has for his crew.
Monkey is heavily inspired by Goku from Dragon Ball. Not only that both characters with several other anime characters are heavily inspired by Chinese mythology/Journey to the West character Sun Wukong. Clear proof is Luffy's Fifth Gear form has very strong similarities to Sun. The World Government quoted Luffy's devil fruit is the most ridiculous among all devil fruits.
Shanks is currently the only emperor confirmed to not have a devil fruit. Now two current emperors has direct ties with the late Pirate King. One of Luffy's brothers Ace was the biological son. Which technically makes Luffy family in a weird sense to Roger. Luffy's other brother Sabo is second in command among the Revolutionary Army.
Which is led by his father Monkey D. Dragon. Keep in mind, his grandfather was a high ranking marine as well. Luffy has some interesting power connections on most sides already. Buggy was previously defeated by Luffy very early in the story. Which means if the two were to face each other, Luffy likely comes out the victor.
Shanks & Buggy knows Blackbeard from his time serving Whitebeard. Shanks has a scar from Blackbeard using a claw weapon. Shanks was direct inspiration along with his brothers for Luffy to become a pirate. Luffy was even given Roger's straw hat by Shanks which quickly led to him being called Straw Hat Luffy.
Blackbeard early on targeted Luffy for his power play moves to become an emperor. Which he confessed to Luffy while in Impel Down. He defeated Ace prior to becoming an warlord that led to the war where his brother died. Obviously Luffy & Shanks were deeply hurt by this. Another interesting point is suddenly we're right back with how the story started off with the Four Emperors.
Originally we had two villains among them being Kaido & Big Mom. The other half being the good emperors respectively. More recently Blackbeard & Buggy are the villains among them. Shanks maintains his spot with Luffy being the good half of the emperors. Despite being a joke character, Buggy likely has a higher bounty than Blackbeard.
Which would make Blackbeard the lowest out of the Four Emperors in bounties. Luffy's Grand Fleet are more independent than most emperor crews. Blackbeard rips off his former captain's emperor layout rather than making it his own, cheap bastard. Luffy has the most unusual main crew among the current Four Emperors.
Blackbeard's crew widely known for killing then stealing other devil fruit users powers. Usopp's father actually a member on Shanks' crew. Shanks was the first emperor introduced into the story. Luffy is the only emperor to have transformations. Speaking of that Luffy also the only Zoan devil fruit user among the emperors.
Luffy is the youngest emperor at the age of 19. Blackbeard by being a year older than both Shanks & Buggy is the oldest emperor at the age of 40. Blackbeard goes by the title admiral in his crew. Shanks goes by the title of chief in his crew. Luffy is the only emperor to not previously served under an emperor or pirate king.
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