@RomanceDawn:
Dude… Those are the worst potential crew mate reasons ever. Bonney had a snippet of Zoro only interaction, but in that snippet it's obvious her values and the Straw Hats are very different. You know with the guy getting shot and all and Bonney actually disapproving of Zoro caring about his well being? She will be very important to the plot, but as of now she is extremely far from potential crew mate.
Smoker and Tashigi should go without saying. Still, the Straw Hats are not evil, but they are bad guys who do bad things for the sake of their own selfish reasons. Smoker saw something big in Luffy and made it his life's goal basically to catch him.
Luffy respects Smoker because he is powerful and not a corrupt A-hole, nothing more.
Tashigi is already the subordinate of a high ranking Marine. Being a pirate is not going to affect her reaching her goals in any way.
No way we've basically seen the entire crew already when there are so many years left.
how can you say its the worst? its not the best but its not the worst….bonney's line "ill crush them in new world" just means she will encounter the strawhats definitely, will she still hate them or not is up to our imaginations....bro, franky also got no remorse beating ussop up and not caring if he is left for dead and spent all their 2oo million beli...
yep...youre right that smoker saw something in luffy, but not like akainu who basically is out to kill luffy...smoker chasing luffy is mainly on his pride as a marine, but what if (WHAT IF) smoker gets disgusted with the marines already? im not making up fan fiction since you see he more or less is disgusted with the system now slowly....would you say he wants to kill luffy or he is interested with luffy?...yeah, smoker never mentioned it, but his actions helping the crew gives the idea that although he hates pirates, he sees the strawhats differently, but him being a marines is the only thing that keeping him from really giving in to the crew...again, im theorizing so dont claim it as im saying it is absolute.
luffy respects smoker and vice versa...maybe because of strength, they never really fought for real...but luffy knew smoker is a good guy (luffy dont care about corruption, he is simple minded) and smoker thinks luffy as something special.
it is going to affect her goals (tashigi), both of their goals actually, tashigi is tied in marine patrolling with smoker and she needs to go around the world to gather the graded swords, smoker too, he even mentioned the rankings gives him a hard time tracking luffy down.
" No way we've basically seen the entire crew already when there are so many years left." ,...and you can assume but i cant?
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@valiantt:
FINALLY, someone that acknowledges Spandam for the next Nakama. He can be the crew's punching bag…err cabin boy. He has all the criterions listed by most "theorists" here. After all, this observation are just as valid as the ones presented by most folks here (behold as I reach for straws):
1.Interacted with the strawhats quite a bit.
2.Has a tragic past with a flashback (seriously, anyone with a Panda for a mother must have been traumatized).
3.Luffy hinted at liking him (or to be precise, liking to make fun of him).
4.Has a common dislike (the ex-CP9ers)
5.He has a fricken elephant sword.
The only reason he can't join is because of his daddy! Because um, it would make his daddy sad. I speculate that Spandam is Sabo's brother's best friend's dog's former owner's ship builder's uncle's half brother on Okama Island's token Panda mascot. THAT definitely seals the deal.
sarcastic again…but your numbered items are what are required to be at least a candidate to be a strawhat (except number 5, ill make that a dream)...some of these items are revealed after a character is joined and you cannot theorize at that time since it already happened.
1. a character could be introduced and just interact with few of the strawhats and interact with the rest of the crew later...nico robin only (really) interacted with luffy and franky never even saw luffy firsthand until they fought.
2. but ho, some strawhats' tragic past had been shown after they joined.
3. no, luffy just needs to think he is a good guy...yeah luffy likes a guy because of a weirdness but he overall invites a guy because he thinks its a good guy...like:
zoro - he decided to recruit zoro after seeing zoro eating the dirty onigiri of rika
sanji - he decided to recruit sanji after sanji giving free meal to gin.
chopper - luffy inviting chopper because he saw chopper caring for the birds. (you could say the 7 forms, but thats just an addition)
4. well yeah, since most of the strawhats fought beside luffy against a guy luffy hates before joining.
5. the dream is also revealed before joining
slow clap standing ovation thanks a lot for your contribution to the thread...this will make people here who like to post their thoughts think twice becoz of these kind of attitudes.