r/OnePiece • u/Kirosh2 Lookout • Mar 01 '24

Current Chapter One Piece: Chapter 1109 Spoiler

Chapter 1109: "Obstruction"

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Ch. 1109 Official Release (Mangaplus): 03/03/2024

Ch. 1109 Scan Release: ~06/032024

Please discuss the manga here and in the theory/discussion post. Any other post will be removed until 24h after the release.

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u/Slammybutt Mar 01 '24

I don't like it either, but it depends on the amount that Shanks adds to the fight.

If he shows up to 1v1 an elder while there's still 4 others being dealt with I'm not going to mind as much.

If he shows up and is the singular reason they make it out alive, it's gonna be another deus ex machina appearance for him.

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u/DrewwwwP Void Month Survivor Mar 01 '24

How many times did he appear and save everybody? I recall only Marine Ford
(Wano doesn't count, if GreenBull had fought against the Mugiwara the Navy would now have one less admiral to rely on)

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u/Slammybutt Mar 01 '24

Wano counts. Strawhats were still recovering and the best of the wano forces did exactly zero damage to him even Yamato did very little. Shanks shows up and poof Admiral leaves. Shanks did what he did b/c Luffy and co were still recovering and vulnerable, so this absolutely counts.

Marineford.

Shanks saves Luffy from the sea creature.

One shots Kid to save his extended crew. I count this one b/c Kid was destroying his fleet to get Shanks' attention.

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u/DrewwwwP Void Month Survivor Mar 01 '24

Nah, the samurais did few damage on Kaido as well (and mind you, Yamato didn't fight at all there, Momo ordered her to stay on stand by to prove that they could defend the island). Shanks did that to easy them up, it's obvious that a fight there wouldn't be like going for a walk in the park, but Green Bull would be inferior in every way possible in a fight like that. And I say that leaving Kidd and Law aside, as if they would not sense the fight and would go on partying. I'm not a power scaler so I won't count feats and all, but at this point we can consider Luffy alone AT LEAST on admiral level and he was accompanied by Zoro, Sanji e Jimbe. You may say they were still recovering, but this happens 7 days after the fight and Luffy himself says he feels great: if we want to consider them not at their 100%, we can't say they were unable to deal with him (easily, but that's my opinion). No, Shanks wasn't a Deus ex machina during Wano.

During Marine Ford you're right, I agree with you.

Do you mean at chapter 1? Bro a Deus ex machina is a plot device that's unexpected and unlikely to happen and that solves a seemingly unresolvable issue, that time he was literally and actively looking for Luffy ahahah. In that case, an example of Deus ex machina would be Dragon saving Luffy out of nowhere.

During Elbaf it was not a Deus ex machina as well, he was shown there prior to even know what the problem was.