Big news Morgans is a former member of the Roger Pirates.
In other words a member of the most powerful and influential pirate crew in history.
Someone who fought side be side with the likes of Shanks, Rayleigh and Roger himself, reaching
the last island of the grand line.
And just like Shanks, Crocus or Rayleigh, he has worked hard behind the scenes to make
Roger's last will come true and has helped Luffy get to where he is today, using his
influence on the world government and his monopoly on information in the one piece world.
This sounds of course absolutely preposterous and I thought the exact same thing when I
first stumbled across the idea on my subreddit wild anime theories.
However, as reddit user LedgeEndDairy points out correctly, there is actually surprisingly
much evidence pointing in exactly that direction.
And when you follow the breadcrumbs, it only leaves us with one possible conclusion: Big
News Morgan is very likely a Roger Pirate.
To be precise one of these men right here.
I'll tell you why in a second.
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Big News Morgan is not just anyone, but one of the most influential and powerful people
in the world.
And we really have no idea what he actually looks like.
After all, Oda-sensei has confirmed that Morgans isn't some type of intelligent animal, like
for example a member of the minks, but a human that has eaten the bird bird zoan fruit model
albatross.
In other words, similar to Chopper, Morgan is constantly in his hybrid form.
So he could be someone we have seen in the story before without ever realising it.
Here's what we know so far about Big News Morgans:
He is the president of the World Economy News Paper.
In other words, he is the one who prints the newspapers that are being distributed across
the world by the infamous news coo, that's the name of the birds that distribute the
news across the one piece world.
While Morgans and his team look very quirky, you shouldn't let yourself be fooled.
He is incredibly powerful.
This world is fully controlled by a global world government, that not only re-writes
history to fit its own purposes, but also goes extremely hard against anyone trying
to share truths and news that could harm its power - just ask the scholars of Ohara.
Controlling Information and keeping the citizens of the world badly informed has probably been
the governments most powerful tool to stay in power for the past 800 years.
And yet, here we have this man, that runs the worlds biggest newspaper.
That makes Morgan one of the most dangerous and influential people on the planet.
I'm really curious why the government has allowed him to build such a monopoly.
My guess would be that Morgan used to play along nicely with the government and help
them spread their propaganda.
We have already seen that the government tried to bribe him and that they had an undercover
agent at his office.
I think it is only quite recently that Morgans has gone so openly against the Gorosei.
Another reason however, is that Morgans is one of the emperors of the underworld, where
the government, countries and pirates all trade weapons, information and anything else
imaginable away from the public eye.
Morgans deals with information.
Not only does he have the power to shape global opinions, but he can also blackmail others
by sharing sensitive information.
For many years, he was part of the system, that helped the Yonko and the government alike
in controlling the news.
And even though his power is mostly information, he is also physically quite strong, having
no problem what so ever dealing with the Cypher Pole agent that threatened him or standing
side by side with some of the strongest people in the story.
He knew exactly that Stussy was an undercover agent as well and what she was capable of,
and yet he was not in the slightest intimidated by her presence.
It was only with the end of Whole Cake Island that Morgans started doing his own thing.
He revealed his interest in the supernova and started cheering for Luffy in particular
to become the next pirate king.
Now you could try to argue that all of these things could simply be the characteristics
of a cunning and tough journalist, who just wants to get money and excitement out of it
for himself.
However, this is where things get a little fishy.
First of all, what we mentioned earlier, it's really strange that he never leaves his hybrid
form.
This is clearly to protect his true identity.
The only question is, who could Morgans be that would be problematic for his job?
It must be someone who would get him intro trouble either with the government or cost
him his credibility with his readers.
This journalist, who has a secret identity, should be familiar to you.
It's basically the superman trope.
Now I don't think that Morgans is the lurking legend or anything, but I do think that this
is Oda-sensei's take on it.
And his fruit itself is also quite suspicious.
Morgan is an Albatros devil fruit user.
The Albatros is notorious for its long-distance flight abilities, and yet Morgan here, can't
fly.
Allegedly.
We also know for a fact, that Morgan was the one who reported on Luffy's exploits on whole
cake island and who declared him as the next emperor before he made his way to Wano.
In fact, we can assume that it was his newspaper that has been distributing news about the
straw hats exploits throughout the story.
And as far as I remember, the straw hats have always been portrayed in quite a positive
light, presented as this powerful crew of upcoming pirates, that bring turmoil to wherever
they go.
And while it's still unclear whether or not Morgans has any influence on the bounties
themselves, he seems to be the one to print and distribute all bounty posters.
He was clearly the one who put the photo of Gear5 Luffy on his new wanted poster and has
included the D in his name.
Now all of that strongly hints at Big News Morgan having a secret agenda
and a secret identity.
However, why do I say with such certainty that he might be a Roger pirate in disguise?
You better put your seatbelt on for this one.
Let's begin with the matter of Roger finding the one piece and becoming the pirate king.
Since it's the premise for the entire story, I think none of us ever really questioned
how Roger got so famous in the first place.
Because when you think about it, that's quite fishy too.
Roger was the first person in 800 years to reach the last island.
There he found the one piece and named the island Laugh Tale, based on Joy Boys story
he read there.
However, why would anyone believe him?
Who confirmed that this actually happened and that Roger didn't make it up?
Someone had to actually tell the press that this happened, because Roger clearly wasn't
the one who told the world.
He read his new epithet 'Pirate King' in the news paper himself and found it amusing.
The easiest explanation here, is that the news about Roger were spread by someone who
was there.
A journalist, who accompanied Roger on his trip, either because Roger was nice enough
to let them or because Roger himself wanted to make a name for himself.
And I believe that this person was Morgan.
The man who became famous for breaking the story and naming Roger pirate king.
This would explain Morgan's obsession with Luffy und the race for the next pirate king
perfectly as well.
As you know, Roger was waiting for the return of Joy Boy.
And in anticipation of his death, he did everything in his power to ease the way for his return.
He fathered at least one child with ace, that he hoped would become joy boy later.
He then tasked his men with carrying on his will and prepare joy boy's arrival.
He sent out shanks to find the right person and get his hands on the Nika Nika fruit.
Shanks was to give that person the fruit and entrust them with Roger's hat.
He then stationed Crocus at the entrance to the grand line to scout for the person with
the straw hat, tell them about the final island and teach them how to navigate the first half
of the Grand Line.
He then stationed his right hand man Rayleigh at the halfway point on Sabaody.
Rayleigh would also identify Joy Boy by his hat, train him and help him cross over into
the new world, the second part of the grand line.
And one possibility is that his third in command, Scopper Gaban is waiting on Roadstar island
to teach Joy Boy about Laugh Tale and the final journey there.
But that's a story for a different video.
Because as you've figured out by now, Morgan would fit this pattern perfectly.
He has helped to spread Luffy's legend.
He is the one who declared him an emperor and who believes that he will be the next
pirate king.
Now we have heard many people believe in Luffy finding the one piece, but Morgans is the
only person, that has never met Luffy in person and still believes it?
Why, because he also recognised Roger's straw hat.
And so Morgan has made sure to favour Luffy in public perception and ease his way.
How so you may ask?
Well remember how Rayleigh, Shanks and co keep up with LUffy's development.
We have seen Shanks more than once read about Luffy in the news.
It seems to be his trusted source of info about him for some reason.
I assume you would also expect Shanks to keep eyes on Luffy some other way, but he seems
suspiciously content with the regular newspaper.
Well if Morgan was his former crew mate, part of the same mission to help Joy Boy, then
of course Shanks would trust that information.
Morgan most likely would put it in there for other members of the Roger crew to see.
I also want you to think about the aftermath of the war at Marineford.
Luffy returns to marine HQ to literally send a message to the rest of the crew, to train
for 2 years and meet back at sabaody strong enough to take on the new world.
But that wasn't actually luffy's idea.
Yup, you guessed it, it was Rayleigh's.
Rayleigh proposed to Luffy to get a picture taken at Marineford with the message on his
arm visible to the cameras.
And it was Rayleigh who accompanied him there.
Yes, it was a real ballsy stunt of Luffy to come back, but there was absolutely no guarantee
that it would make the news or that they would use that exact picture of Luffy with the message
clearly visible.
What if the government wanted to cover this up as well, avoiding the humiliation of having
Luffy back there and having him escape a second time.
If Morgan, the one curating the news, was an ally of Rayleigh however, then of course
he could ensure that the straw hats receive Luffy's message.
Rayleigh and Morgan staged the entire thing as a massive media stunt.
Luffy rings the bell, lays down flowers and then takes of his hat to pay respect to those
who have fallen, while the marines charge in like idiots.
The reporters there have no chance, but portray luffy as the noble mysterious rookie, who
has come with Jinbe and Silvers Rayleigh.
And one of the reporters even literally says: 'This is big news!'
Morgan's catchphrase before we ever get to meet him.
And once again, we see the marines reacting to this news breaking, saying that the article
already has spread around the world.
So once again, just like on whole cake island and on wano news about Luffy gets out, that
the government wanted to keep quiet.
And Morgan being a Roger pirate also would explain one of the biggest plot holes in the
story: Why is Luffy's full name always displayed on his wanted posters?
We know that the Gorosei want to keep the D initial a secret.
INCLUDING for Luffy, as we learned after Wano.
Yet Luffy has been wanted as Monkey D. Luffy on every single bounty poster.
The government wanted to hide the D initial so hard, they even renamed Gol D Roger into
Gold Roger.
They also surely wanted to hide Luffy being related to Garp.
So, if the Government would have had its way, I bet Luffy could have been just LUFFY on
the bounty poster, like Shanks is just Shanks.
If you have someone in the news 'accidentally' publishing the D initial however, who operates
on his own terms, and who wants the D clan out in the open, that would explain a lot.
Morgan is the missing piece linking Rayleigh and Shanks and the other members of the Roger
pirates that are working to make Luffy the next pirate king.
Oda hides his appearance, because we have now met all of Rogers crew through Oden's
flashback.
And age wise it also fits pretty smoothly.
He was in his early 20s during Roger's journey to laugh tale.
So who out of Rogers men could Morgans possibly be?
I have 4 candidate for you: First is this guy here, Petermoo.
He has a very similar body shape to Morgans and is also earring a feathered hat.
Then there is Momora, who also wears a hat, that is strangely shaped like a bird's head.
There is Moon Isaac Jr, who has this beak shaped nose and who might be based on Issac
Newton, who discovered gravity, opposed to flight.
And finally there is Spencer, who I just threw in there, because he looks pretty much like
a male version of Nami and I wanted to mention that.
One idea I have seen thrown around is that Morgan might have been the thing inside the
giant egg, that was on board of the Roger pirates ship, however that is a whole different
beast.
And if you want to know what it is, you really can't miss out on this video right here.