Hello everyone I'm XboxClown89, following Chapter 1056 of One Piece. I felt it's a good time to discuss how the Current Four Emperors are more terrifying than those originally introduced. This should be very interesting to the right people out there. Personally I got so much to bring up, I just love this story so much.
I should mention how one becomes an emperor of the sea. There's mostly two requirements that you need to fill in order to get that title from the World Government.
1. Defeat an emperor
2. Must have enough influence from people
1. Red-Haired Shanks
I want to start with the only member whose a part of both line ups, Red-Haired Shanks. He's a former member of Gol D. Roger. A man who died as the pirate king who changed the world. He's also a sworn brother to Buggy from the same crew. He also stayed in that position for a few years. Even after losing an arm, he didn't slow down.
Shanks also kept his crew small but very capable to most situations. He was capable holding his own against other emperors like Whitebeard & Kaido. The later not being seen, it did prevent a particular war from becoming much worse. He also doesn't have a devil fruit where he gains a few advantages. Such as being able to swim & more reason to improve his haki skills.
This also makes Shanks surprisingly smart for an One Piece character. There isn't much revealed regarding to his past neither how he fully became an emperor at this time. What was confirmed is it did involve stealing the very devil fruit that got accidently eaten by Luffy. I felt Shanks filled both major categories required to become an emperor.
2. Marshall D. Teach aka Blackbeard
He hid under the protection of former emperor, Whitebeard for over two decades. He refused opportunities becoming a captain of his own crew for the Whitebeard pirates. He killed one of Whitebeard's captains to steal Dark-Dark Fruit. He quickly left with the Whitebeard pirates not pursuing Blackbeard except for his captain Ace.
From that point, he attempted a few times to capture Luffy in order to become an warlord. Which actually happened through capturing Ace following their duel. Thus he became a warlord in order to go inside Impel Down without causing alerts to take some of the most dangerous inmates for his crew. Yes Luffy goes find out about this stuff he's done.
Keep in mind, all of that led to Ace getting a public execution. Rather than going straight into it, they waited on purpose to go to war against the Whitebeard pirates. During that war, Ace gets murdered right in front of Luffy by Akainu. Who was one of three marine admirals at the time. He's currently the Fleet Admiral following his win in a long duel against Aokiji.
Blackbeard with his crew killed his former captain, Whitebeard. Then he gave everyone a huge surprise by stealing his Tremor-Tremor Fruit. Thus becoming the first devil user with more than one devil fruits. There was a follow up war where what remains of the Whitebeard pirates loss. Which resulted in most of their territories becoming his.
Officially became one of the Four Emperors through doing this. He also turned out to be surprisingly clever in his own right. Despite his cockiness, he does have scary stuff on his side. His crew became massive having a few thousands under his command. They are also known to directly hunt other devil fruit users.
3. Buggy the Clown
Buggy was a former member of Gol D. Roger as well as a sworn brother to Shanks. He chose to start his own crew to lose to Luffy. His popularity exploded in Impel Down and a particular war. Where thousands of people wanted to serve Buggy. The marines directly offered Buggy a position among the warlords, which he accepted.
Surprisingly he maintains his position until the system got disbanded. Which also means Buggy was once again enemies of the marines. It isn't clear how he escaped a vice admiral. They helped funded his mercenary business up to that point. Luffy defeating Doflamingo actually opened up more business for Buggy.
The big surprise came in the most recent chapter, Buggy with two former warlords are members in a new organization called Cross Guild. He went from a legendary pirate crew to an alright one to owning an mercenary business to being a critical figure in another mercenary business. Buggy is very lucky these crazy opportunities comes his way despite not doing much of anything at all to get em.
This organization issues bounties on the marines. Which caused the very people the marines are protecting could all of a sudden attack them. This also allows mercenaries tried of the marines to hunt them too. Of course, more pirates outside Cross Guild is allowed to hunt them too. This alone makes the world no longer safe even in countries protected by the World Government.
He went from being a villain character we didn't think much of to now an essential neutral character to the story. It is quite clear, he haven't done anything worthy of the title emperor. He already gained enough influence in a few ways. I do think there's other potential reasons for this as well. We don't know beyond three former warlords, how many former members are currently in Cross Guild.
A lot of them very likely has inside information, the marines doesn't want the world to know. It also could be just knowing them from experience and by reputation they may lack the current means to handle. After all, the World Government is fighting the Revoluntionary Army right now. This chaos will quickly becomes too much for even the higher ranked marines to cover up & they know it.
Buggy isn't a haki user, never shown to be intense in ways you would expect & turns out to be surprisingly lucky. Buggy likely has thousands working for him even if he isn't the leader of that organization. If it weren't for that I wonder who would've gotten Big Mom's spot among the emperors. I know some of you would likely say Law or Kid but they lack some of the necessary requirements for it.
4. Monkey D. Luffy
Obviously he's the main character of One Piece. We know so much about him making this possibly the easiest & the hardest emperor to write about at the same exact time. Luffy gain the influence overtime with impressive changes to countries his crew saved from possibly or already was hellish future. I think it's much faster to quickly list all the kingdoms he saved.
1. Drum Kingdom from Wapol
2. Alabasta Kingdom from former warlord Crocodile
3. Skypiea from Eneru
4. Ryugu Kingdom from Hordy
5. Dressrosa from former warlord Doflamingo
6. Zou from some of Kaido's crew
7. Wano from former emperor Kaido
Luffy constantly defeated scary people that even the marines had trouble handling. Luffy temporary got labeled by a newspaper company as the Fifth Emperor. By defeating Kaido with two more surprising reasons officially became an emperor. Luffy isn't afraid of taking risks either. Those reasons will be present down below...
1. his true devil fruit was the very one the World Government feared the most
2. Anyone with D. in their names is already labeled an enemy to the celestials
The Five Elders couldn't fully stop newer bounties from being issued in time. They knew leaving D. in Luffy's name would cause some royal families to get upset. Although not known to a lot of the higher ranked marines is a lot of royal families thankfully for Luffy's crew for saving their countries. So I felt that could be counter balanced here.
Luffy got away with surprising help after he punched one of the celestial dragons. He also got away after defeating two of Big Mom's Sweet Generals from her country. Luffy with his crew is winning a lot of people over despite the fact they're pirates. I also need to mention a mistake I made in my last One Piece blog.
I didn't know at the time, Luffy's devil fruit actually classified as two types which is very unusual among devil fruits. Human-Human Fruit Model: Nika is officially both a Paramecia and Zoan type devil fruit. Yes I am noticing a lot of people mistook the information as Luffy on the matter. To clarify it isn't two devil fruits, it's just one devil fruit that has traits to two types of devil fruits.
Luffy also has shown very impressive adapting as well as his haki mastery becoming one of the best. The fact he held his own against Kaido despite a few losses is truly impressive feat in & of itself. Luffy is the wild card in terms of his abilities as well as his insane will making him a truly scary pirate to face. Not only that, he also has several crews following him that's a few thousand members & counting.
We still haven't gotten to the other interesting reasons why the marines fear Luffy so much. Let's talk about family connections. His grand father Garp is currently a vice admiral for the marines. His father Dragon is the leader of the Revolutionary Army. His adopted brother Ace not only biological Roger's son but also felt like one to the late Whitebeard.
Along with Ace, Sabo joined in officially becoming a brotherhood. Sabo is the right hand man of Dragon within the Revolutionary Army that's currently being called the Flame Emperor. Luffy's main crew are among the very best in their fields despite being strangely unique like their captain. Luffy's crew is like a family to him & likewise.
Sanji turned out to be a former member/prince of Germa 66, which used to be a country within the World Government system until a few things happened. Zoro got some truly impressive feats himself, even out going his own captain a few times. Both Zoro & Sanji took down two of three members within the All-Stars within Kaido's crew.
The same two guys described to be on a completely different level from everyone else yet they loss against those members of Luffy's crew in mostly one on one fights. I can keep going how each member of his crew can be potentially scary as time goes on. Luffy clearly had more reasons than anyone for the marines to fear.
Jimbei himself was a former member of Big Mom's crew. The same can be said for Yamato whose Kaido's child. Robin was a former member within Crocodile's mercenary business before betrayal. Which makes Crocodile being involved with Buggy in two ways more interesting. Robin is the only person who fully can read the poneglyphs to under the truth of the World Government.
Thus that very important getting made public will be extremely bad for the World Government. I do need to bring up, Luffy once declared war against them by ordering Usopp disguised as Sogeking to burn a World Government flag. I felt Luffy is potentially the most balanced out out of all four emperor crews with Shanks' crew being the second.
Luffy made it crystal clear, he really dislikes the World Government. He wishes for everyone to be free. Luffy defeated three former warlords, Gecko Moria wasn't worth mentioning before that system disbanded. Even a former warlord Hawkeye once started, Luffy's scariest power is getting people to help him.
CP0 was previously ordered to assassinated Luffy even during a fight against Kaido. Which led to that CP0 agent getting defeated right afterwards. CP0 are unnaturally strong people as shown in a few moments within Wano Arc. They are also stated when involved anywhere something very bad happens. So you know the Strawhat Pirates best CP9 two years prior gave them more reason to do it.
Yes I know CP9 is a secret division among them. They do have similarities as well making both divisions very dangerous. A small but interesting connection is Luffy was given a particular straw hat that once belonged to the Pirate King by Shanks. If more higher ranked marines knew of this, Luffy would be even more potentially scary to them.
There's still one more critical thing I need to mention too. Usually the marines covered up stuff like a warlord got defeated. A lie about a high ranked marine defeated them. On one particular occasion, an admiral told the truth that it was Luffy that defeated former warlord Doflamingo. Which greatly pissed off his superiors.
The World Government also chose to not hide Luffy defeated Kaido either. Although Wano isn't a part of their protection. Luffy has been through one crazy journey with more than enough reason to be the one to claim the legendary treasure One Piece. He also the youngest person to receive that rank as well as the only one not previously an apprentice of a pirate.
How all of this directly effects the world of One Piece?
Let's be honest it's going towards chaos. It was surprisingly more order direction when the story started. Now for several great reasons, the World Government going to fall to factors they can't fully contain. Luffy and Shanks are the good half of the Four Emperors. Yeah at times they may clash with the marines as well as other pirates.
Ultimately it's the other half of the Four Emperors that's bringing in chaos. We have Blackbeard whose crew murdering devil fruit users to steal their powers. If that wasn't scary enough, he has several thousands under his command. Which makes going to war against him not a good idea. Not to mention, his two devil fruits brings chaos to a level the marines can't potentially compete with.
Unless Blackbeard got too over confidence for his own good. Cross Guild virtually made even territories the World Government protecting potential war zones. Civilians, former marines, pirates, other current marines and bounty hunters can hunt them or use it as an excuse to do other illegal things. I really won't be that surprise to see that happening.
This also means countries Luffy saved may not be as safe as originally thought. The marines are currently in a war against the Revolutionary Army. Which is greatly limiting how many marines they have to send out or protect major locations. It may come down to the World Government making one of two controversial decisions.
1. Destroy most countries
2. Remove protection from all other territories to protect Mary Geoise
In one situation by destroying all other countries greatly limits potential threats. Unless someone created an loop hole they didn't know that saved a lot of people from such a feat. The other situation allows pirates to do whatever they want. Let's be real they already do that to a degree with places claimed by the emperors.
Thus fully doing that isn't going to be difficult for the marines to do that. They may lose a lot of members from both scenarios. Some possibly going to be killed by a corrupt higher ranked marine. Quickly forcing everyone else to stay. I imagine a brief meeting between Buggy and Blackbeard could happen.
Blackbeard won't be happy about Cross Guild slowly or flat out preventing further devil fruits from getting collected. Considering both these captains are clever in their own right. They might come to an agreement that might throw Luffy in as a condition since they're enemies of his. However due to how those bounties effect things, I don't see this agreement lasting very long.
Also Luffy in a weird way could ally with Buggy. Just hear me out on this, more of a crew member's idea. Both of them could see Blackbeard as a huge threat. We already knows Shanks does in the past. Just imagine three emperors working together in different ways just to stop Blackbeard is insane. Now that would be very fun to watch.
I felt Shanks will get involve when Blackbeard at least expects it. Buggy's bounties in more ways than one would prevent many plans from moving forward. Which helps with Luffy's crew to stand a bigger chance. Very likely giving the signal to his fleet to join in this war. All of a sudden, Blackbeard will be the one in trouble.
During that war, another war reaches a very critical point. The Revolutionary Army finally gets in close enough to end the war. I felt sometime after Luffy becomes the Pirate King, Robin's assistance they reveal the one surprise they never wanted to get out. Which in turn will cause bigger chaos in it's awake.
After so much chaos however, I do think with a new government in place. The world of One Piece will be more peaceful than it ever was. Sorta like the ending to Yu Yu Hakusho or close enough to that. So I do think all this chaos will eventually lead to something truly beautiful in the end. Blackbeard will die during the final story arc likely by the one man he should've finished when he had the chance.
Honestly the current way it's going to play out will be very impactful to the say the least. I actually wanna see it all happen just not all at once. Obviously way too much to follow at once, you quickly get confused or loss trying to follow what's going on. I predict Kuma will sacrifice the last of his will to openly screw over the marines then being forced to get killed by his rebel friends.
Conclusion
All of that tops having two former emperors with their own terrifying devil fruit powers as well as insane stats to boots. Kaido being a dragon man while Big Mom can manipulate souls literately however she sees fits. End of the day, we got a more potentially terrifying group of the Four Emperors fitting for the conclusion of such an amazing story lasting around twenty five by the time it ends.
The author did state he plans to finally end the story in three times, keep in mind this started in 1997 to the present. Yet the story still remains being incredibly well written is a true testament to the author himself. Honestly, I would even dare to say One Piece to me is virtually the perfect story ever told period.
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