So the Straw Hats pretty much have been completely annihilated, and now the question is how does the rebuilding take place. The popular theory would be for Luffy and others to start training in high gravity rooms and learn how to throw fireballs. It's certainly a method that will generate a lot of sales, but it'll also guaranteed OP has no chance of ever beating Dragonball so far as classics go (nobody is better at training than Dragonball).
I actually saw quite a few guys say something what RentCaliver (I think he did anyway) said with how the Straw Hats needs some kind of strategeist. The whole punch a Celestial Dragon thing reminds me of something in Indiana Jones the Last Crusade (the game) where you've the option to punch Hilter and then get machine gunned to death immediately. Someone's got to be in the Straw Hats to step in and say fighting 5 guys that each annihilate your entire team is a bad idea even if it's in the name of freedom. I actually don't particularly dislike the fact that the Straw Hats are weak. They're really just a bunch of kids having a good time, but the whole thing with Luffy randomly punching VIPs around the world and expect to avoid retaliation just because he can has to stop.
I realize the whole Celestial Dragon guys are supposed to be the spoiled guys who rule the world with an iron grip, but really I think the Straw Hats are just as spoiled. They basically have no power, as if there is a power stat their combined power would be way lower than the people they mess with. Since Luffy is very well connected, lucky, and not to mention the main character, he usually gets away with stuff like declaring war on the entire world, but it gets old after a while. I like Bear's basically saying hey kid, I can kill every one of you right now if I wanted to, but I'm going to give you one last chance to get out of this mess. I'm curious if the author has the ability to write a coherent conclusion to this chain of events, and have the Straw Hats make good use of the last chance they get to screw around.
I mean, even if you say all the Straw Hats are quasi-immortal so there was never any danger involved in them, it seems like punching a Celestial Dragon can basically end up having genocide commited as retaliation. Certainly if you look at what was sent out by the World Government as retaliation, it would not be surprising if the entire island has been wiped off the face of the map already. One of the guys on the OP board calculated that so far there has been somewhere in the MILLIONS range of people who have died in One Piece counting all flashbacks, and that's only including people who can plausibly survive (e.g. shot in the head, multiple times).
During the CP9 arc, Luffy basically triggered a Buster Call, and even if you can accept the absurd explanation that not a single guy on his side died while being bombarded by 5 battleships, it's estimated that the navy probably lost 2000 people in the Buster Call from attacking the Straw Hats. So is the point that freedom and life is only for the Straw Hats, and no matter how many people die on the Navy it doesn't matter because they messed with the Straw Hats? I realize the author's explanation would be "No one died on the Navy either" despite that fact that an entire ship of those guys got thrown into a whirlpool, or that hundreds of soldiers are caught in a Buster Call bombardment that 'left no survivors'.
I actually saw quite a few guys say something what RentCaliver (I think he did anyway) said with how the Straw Hats needs some kind of strategeist. The whole punch a Celestial Dragon thing reminds me of something in Indiana Jones the Last Crusade (the game) where you've the option to punch Hilter and then get machine gunned to death immediately. Someone's got to be in the Straw Hats to step in and say fighting 5 guys that each annihilate your entire team is a bad idea even if it's in the name of freedom. I actually don't particularly dislike the fact that the Straw Hats are weak. They're really just a bunch of kids having a good time, but the whole thing with Luffy randomly punching VIPs around the world and expect to avoid retaliation just because he can has to stop.
I realize the whole Celestial Dragon guys are supposed to be the spoiled guys who rule the world with an iron grip, but really I think the Straw Hats are just as spoiled. They basically have no power, as if there is a power stat their combined power would be way lower than the people they mess with. Since Luffy is very well connected, lucky, and not to mention the main character, he usually gets away with stuff like declaring war on the entire world, but it gets old after a while. I like Bear's basically saying hey kid, I can kill every one of you right now if I wanted to, but I'm going to give you one last chance to get out of this mess. I'm curious if the author has the ability to write a coherent conclusion to this chain of events, and have the Straw Hats make good use of the last chance they get to screw around.
I mean, even if you say all the Straw Hats are quasi-immortal so there was never any danger involved in them, it seems like punching a Celestial Dragon can basically end up having genocide commited as retaliation. Certainly if you look at what was sent out by the World Government as retaliation, it would not be surprising if the entire island has been wiped off the face of the map already. One of the guys on the OP board calculated that so far there has been somewhere in the MILLIONS range of people who have died in One Piece counting all flashbacks, and that's only including people who can plausibly survive (e.g. shot in the head, multiple times).
During the CP9 arc, Luffy basically triggered a Buster Call, and even if you can accept the absurd explanation that not a single guy on his side died while being bombarded by 5 battleships, it's estimated that the navy probably lost 2000 people in the Buster Call from attacking the Straw Hats. So is the point that freedom and life is only for the Straw Hats, and no matter how many people die on the Navy it doesn't matter because they messed with the Straw Hats? I realize the author's explanation would be "No one died on the Navy either" despite that fact that an entire ship of those guys got thrown into a whirlpool, or that hundreds of soldiers are caught in a Buster Call bombardment that 'left no survivors'.
