I think it's a bit late for Moby to get a viking funeral...

That having been said, isn't it kind of a given that Luffy and Buggy's bounties will rise after these events? I mean, nobles were punched, connections to Roger and the Revolutionaries were publicly established, Impel Down was cracked asunder, and the walls of Marineford were breached. The only way for them not to get a substantial increase would be for Whitebeard to actually win, bringing down the Marines in the process.

What's got my attention is the Supernovas... Bonny and Capone were able to evade capture, yes, while Kidd and Law most likely struck some sort of deal with Kuma. However, the team of Urouge/Drake/Hawkins/Apoo was personally apprehended by Kizaru after bringing down a Pacifista. How the hell did they get away?

Odd speculation severely worth noting: Many recurring things in certain people's pasts may or may not be related, and definitely worth pondering.

Several characters have suffered from an unnamed, slow moving but deadly disease. If it's revealed they all suffered from the same disease, it's very likely it'll become important.

A certain skeleton friend of ours was captain of the guard in an unnamed powerful kingdom before becoming a pirate. How he ended up a pirate remains to be seen, but I believe his kingdom was taken over/massacred by the WG and he escaped. As to what his kingdom was, I'd like to think it's either the Muggy Kingdom Perona and Zoro were sent to, or the OTHER unnamed kingdom mentioned in Robin's flashback. However, since that one only existed during the Void Century, it's really just wishful thinking on my part that the two kingdoms are related.

Also I think Croc was either a member of Roger's or Shanks' crew

>>367
Wanna know who I think will be a major player in the stories to come?

>>368

The disease thing would be really cool. I didn't notice it, because unnamed, slow moving but deadly diseases are such an anime staple I just kinda write them off.

>>367
Easy: they got away from the marines when Kizaru got distracted by Rayleigh.

>>368
Those are all good theories too.

>>369
Isn't he a bit dead to be playing any major roles?

>>374
Well, Pell got better, didn't he?

I dunno. The way his death is never explicitly stated combined with Oda's tendency never to forget characters and the guy's perfect fit as a complete and total foil for Luffy just makes me wonder.

>>374
I always thought that his legs had just been chopped off, which is almost as bad when your whole shtick is jumping around.

>>388
Well Croc proved devil fruits can still affect artificial limbs to a degree... Maybe even if Bellamy had his legs chopped off the peg legs he gets might still be able to turn into springs.

>>378

We have so many good perfect foil villains for Luffy, it's crazy. It's hard to believe a character as simple as "simple-minded nice guy rubberman" has at least four really good characters that really highlights his personality. Buggy and Bellamy both showcase Luffy's bright eyed simplicity and create a contrast with their powerset, and Blackbeard and Croc are both "What if Luffy happened differently?" characters. It's why I've been so excited wondering who might end up his Final Boss.

The more I think about it, the more Warlord Buggy makes sense.

"Alright, so Blackbeard and Boa Hancock have both gone rogue. We need to replace them ASAP or else the entire system will look like a giant farce."

"But we need to be careful who we choose. Sir Crocodile and Jinbei turned out to be major liabilities, even after we locked them up."

"So what we need is a pirate with a good reputation who will pose no real threat to us."

"Hey, who's that frozen guy?"

Notsomuch as likely as it would be cool: But I'm calling the New World being technologically modern and even almost futuristic looking.

>>494
They certainly have a lot of almost-magic stuff like Vivre Cards. I can imagine them being advanced, but with One Piece's unique style of weird technological analogs, like the Transponder Snails.

>>494
I don't think EVERY place in the New World would be crazy advanced, because that'd take some of the fun out of discovering what the next island will be. Sure there may be one or two places we see that'll be crazy advanced, but I'd like to think we'd get to see just as many places that are a little less advanced.

Gentleman (and ladies), what do you have to say about Sandai Kitetsu's curse? Think it'll ever come up again?

>>620
Ya know, I think it would be cool to see it come back into action later in some form or another, or maybe Zoro will even come across the first two at some point along the way. I mean, at first glance this just seems like a throw away tid bit that was used to show off Zoro's badassery, but as we all know, such things are never that simple in OP.

I really think Dragon and the Revolutionaries are going to show up somewhere in this recent battle.

>>493>>493

FUND.

IT.

>>494

don't forget, Franky is in Vegapunk's birth place right now.

at least, it's implied. The island is called birthplace of the genius or something, isn't it?

>>1245
And the whole 'his lab is RIGHT THERE'.

>>1221
Shit, I really want this to happen now.

Guys, I'm not sure Luffy is completely out of this battle. I don't think he's going to do anything really major, or play a key role, but I do think he's going to end up facing at least one opponent; Garp.

>>1292
The kid's already half-dead, and it took him a dozen Deus ex Machinas just to get him that far. He's DOWN.

But he can still talk, which might be a big help.

I'm hoping something awesome will happen with Smoker.
Like him becoming a vice admiral or something, although he'd probably decline the promotion.

I just want him to do something awesome.

>>1296
I'm desperate for Smoker and Crocodile to get more screen time.

Seriously, Smoker was fucking awesome, even as a antagonist. And Croc nearly killing an entire island? Water under the bridge.

>>1299
What about Tashigi? As characters go, she's really been screwed over in terms of having things to do. I was expecting her to display the strength that she vowed to gain after Alabasta. I'd attribute it to typical shonen misogyny, but ladies have been getting their fair share of action this fight. Tashigi, however, hasn't even done a single visible attack. Oda had better be saving her for something special.

>>620
>>622

I think it just makes it clear that Zoro is destined to die, just like Luffy (perhaps all the other Strawhats) His last duel with Mihawk will be the fight of his life, and he will be so worn out from battle that Tashigi will probably end up capturing/killing him.

>>1303
Tashigi is honestly not all that interesting.

>>1329
BUT SMOKER IS FUCKING AWESOME RIGHT?
RIGHT?!

>>1331
Oh, yeah, Smoker's still cool. He's like a young Garp.

>>1335
He's an anime Sam Vimes presented as an antagonist, that's what he is.

Speculation: Shandora's gonna come up again.

We know the Shandorans faced off with the pre-WG coalition void century poneglyph etc. It's pretty well established now that if there's a cover story, something plot-wise is being established. Hachi arc setting him up for his appearance and introducing Keimi, Baroque Works showing what happened to Bon Clay and Crocodile, etc. What the Enel arc did was get him situated on the moon and introduce the history of the Skypieans/Bilkans/Shandorans. The history should be plot-relevant at some point in the future.

>>1590
>It's pretty well established now that if there's a cover story, something plot-wise is being established.

Like when that Skypeian priest connected his hot springs to the Alabastan springs!

>>1591
Did any of us expect Hatchi's mermaid sidekick to show up in the story? As far as we know, digging cross-continent like that may have unearthed an ancient weapon that Kuro and Bellamy will return with 300 chapters from now and force Sanji, Wapol, and the world's fattest woman into a duel inside a sentient tornado.

You just can't predict this shit.

>>1599
I'm writing this down
I now fully expect this to occur in a few years, why
BECAUSE ITS ALL POSSIBLE

>>1599
All I'm saying is, it's not a GIVEN that everything in a cover story is leading to something later.

>>1603
Yeah, the way I see it with the cover stories is that Oda uses them to play around with characters that he thinks he can weave back into the story somehow; give them some apparently useless adventure to go on, but if he comes up with an idea later and he needs that one piece to make it work, well then there it is! That being said, I do think there are a few specific instances where he means to involve a character later in the story, such as Colby and Helmeppo or when he showed what the different strawhats were doing.

Also, it makes for a good source for filler material.

Now that Oda again mentioned in the movie 10 art book that the film's events are the last adventure for Luffy as a 17 year-old, people are thinking there's gonna be a timeskip coming up. Here's hoping it's better than Naruto's, if it happens.

>>1613
I cant imagine any time skip lasting more than one year at absolute most

>>1615
A lot can happen in a year. The one I'm most concerned about is Robin. She's with the Revolutionaries, and when they realize who she is, they''ll definitely want her to themselves.

>>1616

But they're all together for movie ten. So if that's his last adventure as a 17-year old, they have to be reunited before any time skip.

>>1625
It's a movie, so do not regard it as part of the actual storyline.

>>1627
Oda said it was his last adventure as a seventeen year old pirate.

Perhaps Luffy will finally have a birthday in which he won't turn the same age.

...or perhaps it will be Luffy's last adventure as a pirate for the time being.

>>1627
Oda said he meant to have this in the book

He wrote a comic.

He's worked on this movie in multiple roles, far more then any other movie before this, including the script.

This one might be canon.

>>1671
Chapter 0 is canon, isn't it? And it ends with Shiki going "Evil plan 20 years jihahahaha etc."

Would the word pirate even mean anything in the New World? Perhaps it being his last adventure as a 17 year old pirate is saying it's the last thing he does before he crosses over.

>>1673
Shanks is in the New World, isn't he? He's certainly a pirate.

>>1673

Just as Pirates have a presence in the Marine-controlled half of the Grand Line, so too do the Marine presumably have a presence in the New World. They just don't have the same sort of iron-fisted control, and their authority means less.

>>1221
Sanji's time on the island of transvestites not only gave him great leg strength and stamina because of all the running, but he's instantly reminded of the trauma of it all whenever he sees women. The solution? From this point on he only chases after reverse traps.

Or it could be that, having been chased by men himself, he no longer pursues Nami or Robin in such an over-the-top manner.

Another idea is that he is able to hit women as long as he thinks of them as transvestites.

Well if we're getting a time-skip, I wonder how the other Strawhats will be reintroduced into the story. As for how long the time-skip will last; Luffy and Zoro should both be out of comission for a good deal of time, so I think a time-skip of about a year or less would be good.

Hell, maybe instead of a straight up time-skip, the next few arc will be the adventures of the other Strawhats while Luffy is recovering. They each have landed in interesting situations, and I think it'd be nice to see each of them have their own small adventures. They all have a way to get back, and Luffy won't leave for Fishman Island without his crew, not to mention he'll probably go into a coma after the war, so I think they have some time to kill.

Also, I wonder how much longer this current arc is going to go on for. Hopefully it'll end soon enough.

It seems very likely that something will happen to keep the World Government from becoming irrelevant once the Strawhats are in the New World, even if the Marines have no presence. I mean with how much the fit into the overall plot, they have to have something besides the Marines and Shichibukai up their sleeve.

Personally, I think one of the Four Emperor that we haven't seen yet will form an alliance with them, probably because they know there's a shift in power coming and they want some way to get out ahead.

>>2867
Well, It could actually turn out that Whitebeard dies AND THEN one of the three remaining warlords takes that opportunity to side with the WG in an attempt to turn the tides and take the New World from the other two.

>>2867
The Gorousei have been around for 300 or so chapters and have yet to be relevant. Methinks they will step into the limelight for the New World. Most likely we'll meet them one-by-one like most of the Shichibukai introductions, rather than them descending all at once in an old-man cloud.

>Well if we're getting a time-skip
I don't think we will, we still have unfinished strawhat arcs that could fill in the time AND how they got back to Shabondy with luffy shown being unconcious there when Brook finally gets back since he'll be the last character shown returning.

Also, Doflamingo has to be planning/doing something major with his New Era, where DREAMS ARE DEEEEAAD. The battle at the summit isn't going to stop him from his quest of epic trolling, whether it's lost or won.

>>2870
The Gorousei have no names yet, have they?

>>2876
Goateestache, Baldstache, Bossstache, Whiskerstache, and Dreads.

With their powers combined, no upper lip on this earth will be hairless.

I say that Buggy will fight Trafalgar Law and troll the shit out of his power.

But if Kidd was to fight Daz Bonez... poor Bonez would be the one getting trolled.

>>2890
Could he troll it in the first place? Law seems to have control over the movement of parts in his room.

>>2907
Honestly, I think Buggy versus Law would be less trolling and more mindfuck since it would be confusing as hell what's space-warping and actual limb detachment.

I'm actually interested in seeing Crocodile take out one of the Super-Novas. It's about time a real pirate showed them just how Small-Time they really are.

Not sure if this counts as a prediction but I have a bit of a crack theory to put here. The reason why the people with the D bloodline are so important is because they are the descendants of the people from the yet unnamed super culture that the World Government tried their hardest to eliminate.

As an actual prediction though? Catarina Devon, the Level 6 prisoner noted for being the most dangerous female pirate ever held in Impel Down will face off against Hancock for the title of strongest female pirate. I have no basis for this, but it's fucking One Piece, the more random you think the closer chance you have of getting things right.

>>2910

I've always been of the belief that the D.'s are all somehow related to the nameless kingdom.

I also am of the belief that Brook's own nameless kingdom WILL pop up eventually. Turns out that was the kingdom Lucci was involved in when he was 15? Maybe it's the decrepit, dead kingdom Zoro's on?

The thought that the D might be related to the void century never crossed my mind. But really, I like the idea.

>>2912
That would be a really crazy twist.

>>2910
>>2942
That is a really interesting theory. I've never really thought to connect the Will of D to the void century.

I think that the D might have something to do with an ancient line of kings that may have existed in the void century.
Perhaps the Celestial Dragons are not who they claim to be.

>>2994
You could be onto something there...

>>2995>>2994>>2993>>2942>>2912
There are people who DIDN'T think this?

Huh.

>>494
Ryuma's home town, Wa No Kuni, is an island in the New World and I wouldn't call it modern at all.

>>493
The problem is that Buggy would make a TERRIBLE Shichibukai. He may be pretty ingenuous, and everyone underestimates him, but the guy simply can't fight worth squat. He'd be good at keeping the peace in name only. Hell, they'd probably just make him camp out at the start of the grand line to troll the newbies.

Except we're forgetting that the Word Government has a standing order to KILL ANYONE associated with Gol.D Roger.

>>2996

I'm as surprised as you are, Hal. I made the connection the second Clover started talking about it.

But then again, it's never been spelled out to us, so he might have something else planned, like D.'s being descendants of slaves from that kingdom.

>>3003
I always had a suspicion that the people of the D line belonged to some ancient powerful bloodline as perhaps some warrior clan. But this king thing is starting to make more sense.

>>3005
King?
Kings of the ones who where defeated in the great war 800 years ago? The one where the world government is trying to cover up along with the "true history". I'm thinking the bad guys/pirates won that war anyway.

>>3011
The World Government obviously won. That's why they're trying to erase history, and why the Eternal histories were so important to create.

>>3011
>>3092
Y'know, I've always wanted to know WHY the world gov't wants to make sure nobody knows what happened in the forgotten age. What could be so horrible or threatening to them that they have to erase that time period all together? Did they do something truly horrible? Is there something that would cause the various nations of the world to turn against them should that information get out?

Personally, I think it's just that; the World Government did something so horrible, so awful to set themselves into power that they have to keep it out of the minds of the public. Hell, I'd bet only those old guys know it. It's something that only the highest of the high know about, and only their successors will ever know... that is until we find out.

Garp has a bronze fruit, paramecium i'll assume until proven otherwise and he just takes the buddha form.

>>3161
fuuuck sengoku has the bronze fruit

>>3161
Garp doesn't need your sissy fruits. He'll punch out pirates and family just fine without them.

I've got it, next chapter they all escape with vista on his sea-bicycle

>>3165
Does this mean sea-bicycle chase scene?

I'm okay with this.

>>3165
>>3170
Best ending to an arc EVER.

-Whitebeard is totally dead
-Whitebeard's death is going to create an epic power vacuum that will throw the New World into chaos and send hundreds of pirates on a mad race towards Raftel
-The Strawhat's next two major opponents are going to be Don Flamingo and Akainu.

Unlikely to actually happen, but I'll throw it out there anyway:

Shiryuu is going to beat the fuck out of Mihawk. Making him an even more personal rival to Zoro

I think Smoker and Tashigi will join the Strawhats. It would round off the team at a good 10 crewmates plus captain, and they need a helmsman and chronicler.

>>3500
Do you have any idea how awkward that would be for the first few months?

>>3501

Zoro would cut himself off from society EVEN MORE.

>>3502
The idea of Smoker ever agreeing to be Luffy's subordinate in any situation is laughably ridiculous. Allies against a greater enemy, maaaaaybe. Having Luffy as his captain? His blood pressure couldn't take it.

>>3507
he would be "SMOKING" with anger

>>3500
That would be an interesting twist, but I don't see it actually happening.

>>3493
>The Strawhat's next two major opponents are going to be Don Flamingo and Akainu
I'm gonna second for Don Flamingo.

>>3501
I never said the alliance would start out all dandy and shit. Tension would run really high, although probably with Smoker legitimately angry, and Luffy just annoyed that Smoker's trying to steal his thunder with the captaining thing. Think like the interactions between Barbossa and Captain Jack in the third Pirates of the Carribean movie. (In b4 that movie sucked.)

Tashigi on the other hand would have an easier time fitting in I think. Sure, Zoro would still avoid her like the plague, but she seemed to interact well with other crewmates, like Chopper, or at least when she didn't know they were part of the crew.

This all depends on the state the marines after this, however, so it might not work depending on how the arc ends.

- Usopp comes back with killer plant seed ammunition

- Nami comes back with an even more perfect Climatact... Super Climatact?

- Franky comes back with super tech built by studying Vegapunk's lab.

>>3591
>- Franky comes back with super tech built by studying Vegapunk's lab.
... like?

>>3595
Jetpack!

Becomes a combining Super Robot!

Creates new upgraded liquid fuel source, Super Ultra Photonic Cola!

>>3617
I always thought Hot Sauce would make his hand turn into flamethrowers.

>>3595
I was thinking at least one laser. But mainly equipment and knowledge he can apply to his body and the ship to deal with all the stuff Vegapunk will be throwing at the crew soon.

>>3627
Yeah, but Franky already has a flamethrower.

So, basically due to Blackbeard's actions, a Yonkou is gone, the secret lineage of the great pirate era is dead, the great prison of the Grand Line is in chaos, and it's most likely the marines are gonna get destroyed completely over this.

I don't know about you, but I don't think Blackbeard could have done all this himself. Sure, it seems he's just doing whatever the fuck he wants to do, but no one can cause that much without some ulterior reason behind it. I think Blackbeard's working for someone.

Because from where it looks to me, the Revolutionaries had a LOT to gain from all this.

>>3742
Blackbeard's already stated he has a Master Plan. To just lump him in with the Revolutionaries, and make him some Dragon lackey would be bullshit. It'd ruin his buildup as a major player in the world.

Also STOP PUTTING EVERY CHARACTER IN THE REVOLUTIONARIES.

>>3742
>I don't know about you, but I don't think Blackbeard could have done all this himself. Sure, it seems he's just doing whatever the fuck he wants to do, but no one can cause that much without some ulterior reason behind it. I think Blackbeard's working for someone.

I disagree. He is like Luffy, that's to say he's a free spirit. Doing whatever the fuck he wants (including his "show") fits perfectly. Besides that I don't think the revolutionaries would want the Age of Pirates to end, they serve as a good distraction for the Marines and World Government so they don't focus on the Revolutionaries.