Ok yes I should have included the emperors, because they pose such a large military threat they will probably have the highest bounties (along with Dragon) but Luffy is Dragon's son, has King's Haki, is the first one to have crushed Enies Lobby, the first one to have invaded ID and freed a ton of prisoners, and he freed Ace at Marinford. So in threat level to the WG/marines (ie bounty) he should already be above most if not all of the regular NW pirates, right.
Probably. No matter how much stronger the new fodder is than the old fodder, it still needs to be fodder for the purpose of storytelling. They might have huge bounties that dwarf anything we've seen to this point and rival whatever Luffy's next bounty will be, but they'll likely just wind up being like Bellamy was when he appeared.
Ah, the reputation of the island played a part. And it does say instantly, my mistake.
So the only question is what happened on that one trip.
Indeed. I would still maintain that she probably didn't flaunt her kingbition or 80 million wouldn't seem like enough.
@S.C.:
On the issues of bounties, while I imagine the Straw Hats, and maybe the rest of the Supernovas getting increases of guilty by proxy, like Sanji getting one in the 100 million range, maybe Bepo, too, and Zoro to 180 Million, Luffy probably won't get that bigger, maybe to 355, as it just confirmed how big of a threat he is.
300 to 355? That's not enough of a change to even be worth making. You're suggesting that they wont grow, but instead that they'll just get their values tweaked. I'd like to remind everyone that bottom of the barrel Red Hair pirate Rockstar is worth almost 100 million. Everyone on Luffy's crew should surpass him by the time they reach that point.