@Peal:
Because people like fulfilling their made up status-qous.
This can be applied to anything, watch.
Why do the Strawhats need a fishman?
Why do the Strawhats need another girl?
Why do they need a helmsman or a scout?
People just like to assume things, I guess.
exactly.
Why do the Strawhats need a fishman? –---- sanji
Why do the Strawhats need another girl? ------ nami, robin (but if the crew gets another girl, it would be cool)
Why do they need a helmsman or a scout? ----- franky is the helmsman, and brook/robin/sanji is the scout.
seriously, i hope "the helmsman" thing gets dumped already, helmsman is prolly the most worthless job in the strawhat crew since sunny is loaded with cheats.
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@Icarus:
There are not that many Logias to chose from as they are rare so what have we seen and what is left element wise:
Seen
Fire Ace
Magma Akainu
Ice Aokiji
Lightning Enel
Light Kizaru
Snow Snow Monet
Swamp Caribou
Sand Crocodile
I have proboably missed a few
Not seen
Air - could be CC's gas gas fruit or maybe Dragons fruit covers this perhaps
Water - A pure fire fruit exists so its reasonable to expect a pure water fruit could exist as well
Earth - some would argue that Akainu's fruit covers this but I am not so sure, if a pure fire fruit exists why not earth as well
i agree with the logia recruit, the strawhat crew lacks a logia and their identity is being a diversed crew so it would help. although i disagree about enel not being hax, the only guy he cant hax out is luffy….
and the flying crewmember is already a no-no since sanji learned skywalk (its not the same, but its still flying and it got limitations which is good)...the only flying member acceptable is prolly if its a logia.
out of all the logia you mentioned, almost all of them are haxed or represented by the crew already or the one who got that ability is just simply a villain.
Fire Ace----------------------sanji
Magma Akainu----------------villain
Ice Aokiji--------------------brook
Lightning Enel---------------nami
Light Kizaru-----------------villain/hax
Snow Snow Monet----------villain
Swamp Caribou-------------villain/joke
Sand Crocodile-------------villain/anti-hero
air is hax and water is prolly not gonna appear....i would agree with earth logia by the way.
the only logia user thats not hax, kinda of a good guy and not represented by the crew is smoker.
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@Cyclone_Baroness:
I don't understand the supporters for Kuzan, Smoker and Tashigi. Just because they may not fully like or agree with the Marine/Government's choices, doesn't mean they'll become pirates like Drake. Pirates aren't really the good guys for the most part.
you already said " they may not fully like or agree with the Marine/Government's choices" so there's a 50% chance already they will snap and leave (or get fired)…so never say never on that.
" Pirates aren't really the good guys for the most part"-----reason why they POSSIBLY WILL join the crew, since the strawhat crew is different from those pirates youre talking about.
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@Plasmalpha:
Sanji has fire too because of Diablo Jambe, so technically all the bases in turns of basic elements are covered. On the flipside, the Straw Hats have two swordsmne and Usopp can still fire lit fire pellets with his Kuro Kabuto. These facts open up the possibilities of redundancy.
Edit:
I don't see how just because the fact that Sanji has blue walk mean that fishmen are represented. Sure, he now has the speed to swerve about in water. So what? It's not like Sanji has Merman Karate and can alter water to his needs, which Jimbe does. On top of that: since the Fishman Island was the time when fishmen had become on good terms with humans after the currently dead and rotting Whitebeard, some legitimate fishman representation would better idolize the relations between the SH and other races. Oh and here's another thing: nobody of the SH can talk to sea creatures.
Monet dead. She aint joinin nobody.
While we think that Kuro Kabuto being modeled off the original Kabuto and Nami's Sorcery Clima-Tact likely being modeled of the Perfect Clima-Tact are enough proof, we have yet to be confirmed that the newest Usopp'nventions are still dial-powered.
Still I personally don't want any sky people.
Chopper logic stated above.
while franky uses fresh fire, ussop with fire and luffy with red hawk….sanji is the fire-based guy in the crew, its what he is known to: franky is associated with mecha and ussop with trickery and plants, luffy is associated with stretching....them using fire-attacks once in a while, but doesnt change the fact that sanji is fire-based overall.
fishmen are represented by sanji, so basically, the speed swimmer is already covered. im all for jinbe joining, i just said i wont be surprised if those are empty words...sanji got a trait of fishman, so its represented basically, reason why i dont think bon-clay would join since sanji learned okama kenpo (most probably).
agreed with monet not joining.
my whole point was, there are strawhats who used/uses skypiean attacks.