this video was made specifically for those of you with your finger hovering over the dislike button
because of the subject of this video yes i see you stick with me because i have three
very convincing reasons on why the chosen one trope will work in one piece reason number one
luffy's fate or his destiny due to recent reveals in the story yes manga spoilers ahead you've been
warned we now know that shanks being in possession of the gumu gumma no god fruit was a much more
thought out ordeal than we originally thought this is probably not the first thing you thought
i was going to talk about but it's still a very important factor to consider we don't know how
much shanks knew when he stole the fruit but we do know that the world government is constantly
trying to import devil fruits to give to high level soldiers so shanks going for the gummagama
nomi in particular tells us that he most likely knows about the importance of the fruit however
i do not believe that he knew that this fruit was meant for luffy now pay attention because
this blew my mind when i heard it who else on don island was also one destined to cause a
storm gold d roger's son porcus d ace rogers said himself that he thought ace would be the one to
follow in his footsteps and shakes obviously must have had a reason for being on that island that
super special fruit that shank stole was most likely brought for ace to inherit but when he
got there it didn't end up being in aces hands or his stomach it ended up being eaten by luffy the
youtube channel the hidden island has an entire video dedicated to this subject about shanks i'll
go ahead and link it in the description of this video if you're interested in checking it out
but the main idea is that luffy wasn't the one shakes thought this fruit was destined for yet
for some reason coincidence or not luffy was still the one fated to inherit the will of joy boy or
was he fate vs destiny what exactly is fate and what is destiny how are these two things
different from each other and what does that mean for a chosen one driven story
fate is a power beyond human control that determines events where destiny is predetermined
events in your life based on who you are that which you have the power to shape in control
i believe that this fruit ended up with luffy because of who he is because just like in real
life there are people born in every generation who share similar traits dreams and will luffy
just happen to be the one born in this generation at this very specific and important period of time
so the world around luffy looking down at him sees all the things he accomplishes as an act of fate
when in reality it's just luffy carving out his own destiny it is because of who luffy is that
he ended up with his fruit it is because of who luffy is that he is able to gather so many people
around him to help it's why he's able to get out of tough situations or do things he wouldn't
normally be able to do on his own these things that happen to him aren't just because he's lucky
even though he is lucky but it's because of who he is as a person and naturally people
are drawn to that don't get me wrong luffy is definitely still the chosen one of this story but
not because fate would have it that way luffy is the chosen one because he's the only one like him
in the entire world and only somebody like luffy with the right power at the right time will have
the ability to liberate it reason number two oda is a master of planning a super useful tool
in storytelling is the foreshadowing device and i would argue that oda probably uses it
better than any other mangaka out there hold up i gotta i gotta fix this mess i will be right back
oh that's much better all the way from the very beginning of this story i think oda made it pretty
clear that luffy was the chosen one for example all of these dawn references at the beginning of
the story not just being related to the donovan adventure but eventually evolving into the dawn
of liberation luffy's ship looking like a sun whoop slap saying his dream or his fate roger
wearing the straw hat the straw hat and marijuana the straw hat also kind of looking like a sun
creeping over the horizon the way luffy liberates every single corrupted place he goes to oda is
obviously trying to portray luffy as the one who is meant to shine a light on this world of
darkness now of course just because something is foreshadowed doesn't automatically make it
good the narratives still have to make sense and be consistent with one another and that's
the biggest issue with this conversation right because there is an inherent contradiction between
fate and free will if fate determines that you go to starbucks before school because you stayed
up until four in the morning writing this script then is it really you making that decision or was
it actually your fate to buy that caramel ribbon crunch frappuccino with an extra shot of espresso
oda is very smart and i believe he knows exactly what he is doing with this contradiction what is
oda known for doing especially right now he takes common tropes that we see constantly reused in
other manga and flushes them out in a way no one else has ever seen before a great example of this
being luffy's fight with kaido when characters in other anime awaken a new form or ability
the atmosphere and tones become much more serious the bad guy is usually shocked and the protagonist
is usually the most composed they've ever been in the entire fight and then we just have luffy here
laughing it up and having the time of his life in the middle of this world shaking battle
only one piece can pull off looney tunes references during the climax of a battle
against someone who literally enslaves other human beings oda is so good at creating contrasting
narratives and pushing them against each other that sometimes we pass right through all of it
without even considering the nuance of the situations he's putting his characters into
and oda has written our good old boy luffy here to be the embodiment of free will and the antithesis
to the idea of fate i've been saying this for a while but eventually i think luffy is going to be
made aware of how the world sees him he is going to be put into a situation where he sees people
calling him the chosen one and luffy is not going to be happy about it he is going to do what he
wants because he believes it's the right thing to do if he ends up destroying the world government
it's not because the rocks with the words said he was going to do it it's because his friends
are being enslaved by the world government and he will kick anyone's butt to liberate his friends
that's the theme oda is playing with that's why the chosen one trope works in one piece it's not
just the cut and dry completely overused chosen one where they're like you are the chosen one i
would say it's a bit more like star wars you know like how anakin skywalker was supposed to be the
chosen one but ends up straying from his destiny and becoming evil not saying luffy is gonna become
evil or anything i'm just saying oda is playing with this chosen one trope by introducing these
contrasting ideas between the main character and what seems to be the perception of the
events that happened around him in the series i'm sure it'll be an extremely philosophical complex
situation that he puts luffy into and it's why luffy isn't fated to save the world he's
destined to just like how you should prove fate wrong right now and drop a like on this video
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luffy has the ability to say nah i don't feel like it i'm just gonna dip and leave everybody to
suffer at the hands of imu in the world government but because of who luffy is because of how oda has
written him that's not what luffy is going to do reason number three how free will and destiny can
co-exist another big argument that other people try to bring into this conversation is that
because luffy's actions seem to be predicted by either people from the void century or people like
madame shirley that luffy's accomplishments don't mean [ __ ] i think that's absolutely ridiculous
and here's why it's been shown to us explicitly through observation hockey that the future is
something that can be altered and changed the future as seen by those of the present is not
always set in stone which again just goes to show that fate isn't the driving factor in one piece
just because someone in one piece has the ability to see the future doesn't mean that the event will
turn out exactly how they see it any person has the ability to stray from their own destined path
based on the decisions they make the few events predicted like luffy destroying fishman island
are also void of any context surrounding the event making fortune tellers an extremely unreliable
source of information i'm also willing to bet that a lot of those predictions that came out of the
void century weren't really just fortune tellings but very accurate deductions made by people who
have a great understanding and knowledge of what will is and how it is passed down from
generation to generation i'm sure they knew that eventually there has to come a time where certain
pieces are set in the right place for certain events to happen speaking of the void sentry we
can't forget about that will of d thing thrown around everywhere and our maid character luffy
seems to have a direct connection to it the will of d is speculated to be an inherited will from a
clan or a specific group of people from the void century people with this initial can range vastly
in personality and ideology but they always seem to be destined to brew up some sort of trouble
in the world mostly trouble that threatens the current global power structure i think the will
of d is also another great example of how all of these people seemingly destined to cause a storm
all seem to cause their own unique storm you know what i mean like somebody who has decent knowledge
about the will of d could definitely predict that somebody with the initial is destined to
do something great in their lifetime however each person with that initial still has the ability to
carve out their own path luffy being an inheritor of the will of d was destined to be the chosen one
of this story not because someone predicted he would be but because he not only has the right
attributes to do so but he was born in the right time to do so this is how destiny could coexist
with the values of freedom luffy embodies freedom and was destined to bring the dawn to
the one-piece world however just because luffy inherited that destiny doesn't take away from his
decisions and hard work up until that point comes because at any point along his journey he could
have strayed away from that path if he were to abandon those ideals one piece has always been a
chosen one story just because a story explores the chosen one trope doesn't automatically constitute
negative criticism it's important to remember that oda is still writing this story and the main topic
of this video probably won't be addressed for a very long time to give some of you guys the
benefit of the doubt sure he could mess it up but if this video proved anything at all
it's that odin knows what he's doing with luffy as well as these constant references to destiny
and fate in one piece and i think we owe it to the author after 25 years of creating this masterpiece
to be patient and still enjoy one piece while all of these different themes still are continuing
to be fleshed out and there's a lot of other cool things to focus on like how one piece was made if
you guys want to learn why the giants of elbaf are actually based on a swedish children's book turned
tv show in the 70s you should definitely consider clicking this video right here