![]() ![]() Despite being stabbed by his own subordinate due to Marine scheming and having lots of other injuries, Whitebeard’s final end is at the hands of the late-arriving Blackbeard and his crew, which now includes a bunch of high-ranking criminals from Impel Down. I have to say that Whitebeard appearing behind Akainu, putting the fear of God into the Admiral before quake-punching his face so hard into the ground it distorts was a great moment, as I said above, a small measure of vengeance for what the high-ranking Marine did to his beloved “son”. Dark, emotional, gripping stuff that subverts expectations (well, unless you have an ear to the anime community like I do, then you already knew what happens before watching it…) It’s pretty much a complete defeat of the good guys by the “villains” of the story, and a gravely hurt Luffy has a mental breakdown at the gory loss of his older brother. Everything is going as you imagine it would… then Admiral Akainu catches up to Ace and Luffy and BAM, Ace is killed in Luffy’s arms anyway, despite escaping, and even though an enraged Whitebeard gets some measure of payback, he too dies as he was always going to. 3) and begins to make his escape as Whitebeard, already gravely injured, stays behind. Not to skip over too much, but Ace does get rescued by Luffy (and “oddly far more story relevant than I’d ever have thought” Mr. the main cast) So when you see Ace is about to be executed but strong old man is here to try and save him, you assume Ace will be saved at the cost of Whitebeard’s life. In most regular Shonen stories, that means he’s due to die in some spectacular way in order to inspire the younger generation (a.k.a. Let me explain: Whitebeard, Ace’s captain and father-figure, is an old man who’s extremely powerful. I think the thing I like most about this story arc is how plays with the Shonen story tropes and teases going in the way you assume it’ll go, only to suddenly switch. ![]() Luffy faces impossible odds all to save his brother… ![]() This war will change the face of the world, and Luffy, fresh from escaping the inescapable Impel Down prison, is desperate to be in the middle of it… So let’s take an overall look at it, shall we?įirefist Ace is about to be executed by the Marines, his Captain Whitebeard and crew are on their way to stop it. I obviously heard of the ending long ago, which takes some of the edge off of it, but I still enjoyed my long-awaited watch through of the story arc. When I started getting into One Piece proper I heard about this then-publishing story arc, a showdown with the most teased-as-powerful characters finally unleashing a fraction of their power in a big war with Luffy’s brother Ace’s life in the centre of it, and thought it sounded great. ![]()
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