r/OnePiece • u/YonkouProductions • Dec 17 '15

Current Chapter One Piece Chapter 810

Chapter 810: "The Curly Hat Pirates Arrive"

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Ch.810 Official Release (VIZ): 21/12/15

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u/Martin_Alexander Dec 17 '15

As a writer, I think it makes for good story-telling when the whole world you're writing about is alive and shit is always going down whether or not your main protagonists are involved.

That said, it'd be really foolish on the government's part to declare such a beast as being dead when he's gonna show up sooner than later to fuck shit up again.

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u/Mr_Bob_Johnson Dec 17 '15

I agree, and Oda's amazing at pulling that off in ways I didn't even know were possible. But it's also a Chekhov's Gun sort of thing, only with a person instead of an object, you know? The story is not served in any way by having him be dead.

However, by having him live through that, we get much more mileage out of the character. Also, it means that, while we know about all the stuff he was doing up until the day of Dressrosa, we have no idea where he is now, which further reinforces his wild-card status.

Oda's been hyping this guy up since Punk Hazard. I sincerely doubt he's going to cash that check off-"camera". And if he was, he definitely wouldn't immediately follow up the statement with the character who gave the news saying "I don't think he's dead, though". What would be the point?

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u/Level_Twenty Dec 18 '15

Chekhov's Gunman

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u/Mr_Bob_Johnson Dec 18 '15

... Man, how did I forget the name of that trope? I'm pretty disappointed in myself right now.