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And today I was about to do something very,
very painful,
which was to go through a CBR article
recently brought to my attention,
which claims to quote unquote,
"Predict every Straw Hat's final battle."
But instead of torturing both you and me,
most importantly me,
I've decided to just cover this topic myself.
But spoiler alert. In their estimation,
Sanji's final fight will be against Streusen,
for the sole reason that they are both chefs.
Good stuff.
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But moving swiftly onwards.
One Piece does have an ever increasing air of finality
about it that makes discussions like these a lot
more reasonable than they probably would have been
10 or even five years ago.
Because chances are by this stage,
we have been introduced to the key figures
of the climax of the series.
So let's go ahead and predict who each and every Straw Hat
member will ultimately face off against.
And we're going to start with by far the most difficult
member being Nami.
Now why is Nami the most difficult?
Well it's because she doesn't fight, at least not anymore,
or I guess at least not in the traditional sense.
Long gone are the days when Nami would be included in the
one-on-one matchup systems that we saw in arcs
like Alabaster and Skypeia.
And while people might have romanticized thoughts about
Nami juking it out would say Catarina Devon or something,
I'm starting to feel like it's increasingly likely
that Nami his final fight will be against a,
well, a less than noteworthy character.
Which is ridiculous because as I often state,
Nami has access to one of the most raw destructive
powers within the entire crew.
It just gets used as more of a situational or assist ability
rather than for shonen fun times.
In fact, shonen fun times with Nami is very much just about
bathing, I guess.
So it's honestly very,
very difficult to pick a final opponent for Nami,
because even if we take the established fan beliefs
that the Blackbeard Pirates will be that ultimate
final enemy thing,
it's pretty incredibly difficult to see Nami going up
against any of them.
I mean, they're mostly ex-level 6 prisoners of Impel Down
or just wildly powerful people in their own right.
It's also equally difficult see Nami's match up
if the Marines end up being the final enemy,
because I don't know what Admiral or vice Admiral
does she end up taking on?
Probably none of them and she may or may not just be
relegated to cleaning up fodder.
So to start things out,
I will be making the bold prediction that Nami's final
fight will not be against any character of grand relevance.
Bit of a downer to start this video,
but let's head in the complete opposite direction now
with Zoro, because he has two, perhaps even three,
very natural final opponents.
And the one I most often see people jump straight towards is
that of Shiryu, primarily because he is also
an individual who uses sharp metal to fight.
And that's fairly reasonable.
If we were talking about pure match ups with the Blackbeard
Pirates, then it's hard to disagree.
So hard that I, in fact, agree.
But I don't think we should necessarily conflate
the whole Blackbeard eventuality
with the concept of a final fight.
Especially in Zoro's case because I 100% believe that his
final battle will be against the one and only,
Dracule Mihawk.
Mostly because I just feel that's the natural end
to his story.
Although in the past I've also had some other ideas,
like when he becomes the world's greatest swordsman,
he might be challenged by Tashigi and that fight would
mirror Zoro versus Kuina back in the childhood.
Except this time Zoro is the one proving wildly superior.
But Mihawk is the name of the Zoro game,
which means, I guess we should call it the Mihawk game,
but that's what I'm going with here for Zoro.
Let's go long now and take a look at Usopp.
Now his final fight has been pretty much set in stone by
fans ever since very concept of Van Augur was introduced
and for good reason.
Because it would be just so damn fitting
to have a duel between snipers.
It really is at the point where I would be so unreasonably
upset if this matchup never happens,
because snipers seem to be a pretty rare thing to actually
see in pirate crews, weirdly enough.
And the parallel is just so strong.
And of course we need to ask ourselves once again,
as with everyone,
if the black pirates will be the ultimate final enemies for
this idea to work.
When it comes to Usopp though,
I think it's a bit different.
Because even if there some final task
to complete post Blackbeard,
I.e something World Government related,
then that's still fine because Usopp is something of a
middling character when it comes to combat, you know.
He isn't someone like Nami who doesn't get a chance to leap
into a fight all that much,
but he also isn't a character like Zoro,
who is legally mandated to fight in every
arc he's featured in.
So Usopp could very comfortably take on Van Augur
and then just chill and do his own Usopp thing,
if need be, for what remains of One Piece.
So that's why I'm fairly confident in calling Van Augur
Usopp's ultimate final opponent dude.
Let's get super now though with cyborg bruh,
Mr. Franky, and despite joining the crew fairly late,
he does see quite a bit of the odd action.
Most famously being the MVP of the entire Water 7 saga,
managing to take out two members of CP9 actually
a feat equaled only by his future captain,
Monkey D. Luffy.
But on Fishman Island,
Franky got his standard battle moment defeating Ikaros,
and on Dressrosa
he engaged in my favorite Franky fight thus far
against Senor Pink.
So I certainly do not see this mechanical man
being left out of the action Nami style.
But the big question is, who will become the victim
of a trademark robot fisting?
Well, the temptation is to think big,
like say Sanjuan Wolf style big.
Someone's gonna have to take this mofo down,
and I think that Franky is well suited for the task
of facing off against giants,
at least more so than most of the crew.
But I'm also leaning pretty heavily towards
the whole Jesus Burgess camp.
And that's purely personality based.
Burgess is large, loud and proud just like Franky himself.
And I think the two of them would actually see eye to eye in
a weird way in combat.
But I'm also torn because in the event of the Marines
are the final enemy, then Franky seems like a good
opponent for a figure like say John Giant,
or maybe even the entire giant squad
or maybe an entire league Pacifista
to stay in keeping with the sidewalk theme.
Whatever it is, it's got to be big,
but because we're predicting here, I'm going to go weird.
And I'll say that it will be Jesus Burgess.
Fully prepared to be incredibly wrong on that one.
But then from super big to super small.
Chopper is here now and he wants to fight.
How adorable. Can we give it to him?
Maybe. Chopper has a bit of a new sub situation
happening here, where he has long since been slated
by the ever wise and always correct fan base
as the natural opponent for Doc Q.
Why would that be?
Well because they are both doctors and that's literally it.
And I guess it does make some degree of sense
because Chopper does have exceptional pride as a doctor
and he will very willingly and vehemently
fight against anyone abusing that study.
Like say, Doctor Hogback and to a less degree, Caesar Clown.
And this might just be because we don't know enough about
Doc Q yet, other than the fact that he does
fight using a scythe. Very cool.
But he feels very weird as an opponent to me.
And not someone that Chopper's abilities are quite
narratively catered for.
To, which I of course, mean Monster Point.
Although yeah, Chopper can uses other forms nice and
strategically, but if we are talking final battles
then this boy is becoming a monster.
In which case for the Blackbeard pirates scenario,
I'd be looking at Sanjuan Wolf again,
or perhaps even Vasco Shot because that guy
is pretty massive,
and I would keep it focused on the Blackbeard
Pirates because in the event of the
Marine based finale option,
I just don't know if Chopper would have a major role.
Kind of like most of his time in the new world.
So for the sake of predictions,
let's Vasco Shot and call it a day.
All right, moving on.
We're going to take a look at Carrot.
Just kidding.
She's not a crew member.
Robin is though. And rather, unfortunately,
Robin suffers from a bit of the old Nami syndrome.
In fact, she suffers from it even worse than Nami does.
Having not had a proper one-on-one fight
since Yama during the Skypeia arc.
So we should probably rename it Robin syndrome.
And to be honest, I don't have a whole lot of hope
for Robin in a final conflict.
Because a lot of that was taken away by Dressrosa,
where she was just relegated to protecting Rebecca.
And it's very much starting to feel like that's her natural
role going forward as well.
Plus I suppose Robin's ultimate story
isn't intrinsically combat linked.
This woman is here to drop bombs,
historical bombs specifically.
To reveal to us the great extent
of the truth behind the void century.
So just as with Nami,
I'm going to predict that Robin's final fight
will not be against anyone of note.
And it will probably just consist of a,
something
(mumbles)
clutch.
Now going full fish,
we have Jinbei who is fairly tricky simply because he's
such a versatile combatant.
Jinbei doesn't get locked into certain areas
like Usopp with sniping,
or zoro with sharp things,
Jinbei can more or less be trusted to do anything
or take down anyone.
Which is why this process is a bit painful with him.
When it comes to the Blackbeard Pirates,
I could see him taking on anyone who wasn't Van Augur
or Blackbeard himself.
Anyone else actually seems like some pretty fair game.
And just to throw a very left field idea into things,
I would be immediately interested
in Laffitte, if only for the fact that he can fly.
So Jinbei versus Laffitte would be a showdown of sky versus
sea, which seems pretty cool.
And I am afraid that pretty cool is the best I have here.
Because Jinbei doesn't have a particularly meaningful
opponent to take on.
Even if we look at the Marines,
there isn't a whole lot of substance we can land on.
It could be anyone, it could be no one,
it could be Laffitte.
So we're gonna go with him.
With Brook I have a much better feeling though.
And I guess I'll point out at this stage that the CBR
article predicted that Brook's final fight would be against
one Scratchmen Apoo, which actually,
if it was one scratchmen Apoo it would be Scratchman Apoo.
So it's Scratchmen. Plural.
Which is, look, I think it's pretty incredibly off the Mark.
And they're obviously only paired together
because they are both musical fiends.
Which isn't to say a showdown like this could not happen in
Wano, but Wano is far from the final battle of the series.
So with Brook I'm actually going to propose that he
stack up against Doc Q.
A clash between a man who is undead
versus a man who seems like he is perpetually dying.
And from the very, very painfully little that we know,
I do like the idea of seeing their fighting styles blend
since both of them use long slender blades
and their personalities are just so weird.
Doc Q also seems to have comical mobility issues
just like Brook, which would be quite fun.
And yeah, like unless it was Laffitte,
I don't particularly see a better option
for our musical skeleton.
I mean, maybe asking to see Catarina Devon's panties,
if that counts as a fight.
But actually speaking of panties, we now make our way
to Sanji who is also a female enthusiast.
Which paves the way to a very nice crack idea
to make his final fight against Catarina Devon,
and maybe even make it the first and only time that Sanji
has had to take down a woman.
I feel like Sanji fans would be
pretty upset with that as a final fight though.
Not that Oda really cares.
With sanji though,
one of my biggest hopes has always been that he will somehow
be able to take on Pizarro at some stage
and defeat the man who can kick people
at the speed of light.
It does admittedly feel like
quite a bit of a stretch though,
so I'm probably less than comfortable
using that as prediction, which leaves us with maybe
the awkward area of Jesus Burgess.
The reasoning being the Burgess is one of the more prominent
members of the Blackbeard pirates and someone who seems
I guess, worthy of facing off against a
Straw Hat Monster trio member.
I mean at the moment any of the other members
might seem like a bit of a cop-out
without having gotten to know them first.
But we do have quite a problem here because I also predicted
that Franky would be facing off against Burgess.
Oh well, I guess by very poorly thought out
process of elimination, that leaves us with Avalo Pizarro.
So yeah, sure.
Let's, go with that.
But finally, we have Luffy whose natural opponent would
appear to be of course, Blackbeard.
Or does it?
As the main character, Luffy has a fair few options open.
Blackbeard might be the ultimate obstacle
to becoming the Pirate King,
but is he the ultimate obstacle to One Piece as a whole?
And that's not so clear.
Other decent candidates would be someone like Sakazuki.
Who Luffy has very personal business against
and he does represent the collective that is the Marines.
The primary antagonistic force of the entire series.
Although some people have even posited that Luffy needs to
be the ones take down Im and going even further down the
rabbit hole, there are those who enjoy the evil shanks
and evil dragon theories.
You know what crackpot idea I like though?
In all seriousness,
I love the idea of Luffy versus Coby.
Mostly because it gives a nice bookend to the series.
Coby was the first ally Luffy met on his adventure,
and the first person that Luffy profoundly impacted.
And to this day is still striving towards his goal
of becoming a Marine Admiral as a result.
So how's this for a final fight?
After everything is said and done, you know,
Blackbeard vanquished,
Sakazuki squashed,
Im disposed of in the garbage he belongs,
Pirate King Luffy faces off against Fleet Admiral Coby
in a battle that will be remembered for decades to come.
And a lot of you are probably going to hate this idea
because it's not the like giant shonen climax
that we mostly have in mind when it comes to end fights.
But that's the whole idea.
It would act as more of an epilogue
rather than a central feature of the series.
And because I really don't want to give
the boring Blackbeard answer,
I am going to say that Coby will be Luffy's final fight
in One Piece.
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