Thats what i said too. i dont think ANY dressrosa character has showed such signs yet. But her DF ability would be pretty cool and useful for the strawhats to have acess to (being able to look into people and see their true intentions). I said it was wishfull thinking, nothing more.
Next Strawhat Crewmate (Vol. 6)
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Am i the only one who dont necessarily want new nakamas? i almost prefere the temporal "alliance" concept. First of all, a character introduced at this point will never mean as much to me as someone who ive read about, laughed and cried with for almost a decade. Secondly, lots of people complain about characters like Zoro, Nami and Sanji having lost some of their personality and i personaly think that it might have somethingt to do with the fact that the more characters we have on the same boat means less time for each character to shine.
I would really have been fine if Robin was the last nakama to join the crew, fanky and brook dont do much for me anyways.
FINALLY!! I'm not alone.
Personally i can see why you'd want the crew to stop at robin, especially with here epic introduction (opinion). But i think that the crew is still awesome even with franky and brook after robin, but only their Pre-TS characters which i fond better than post TS. (don't get me wrong, i like Franky Shogun)Actually, i was quite surprised when the invitation to join the SH's was offered to Jinbei because up to that point i thought that the Sunny go gates were closed for new comers, only for temporary travelers (Vivi type), and as you said is already crowded.
For the discussion, could anyone realistically see a character Leaving the crew somewhere in the future? i know it is unlikely but it could be done by Oda if he wishes to. (suspecting another false leaving)
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i dont believe anyone in the crew will leave. its what one piece series is all about, friendship, (freedom and dreams) and i believe both should be fulfilled ultimately.
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A crewmate leaving? Nah, the glue that holds the Straw Hats together has only strengthened after the timeskip.
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For the discussion, could anyone realistically see a character Leaving the crew somewhere in the future? i know it is unlikely but it could be done by Oda if he wishes to. (suspecting another false leaving)
16 characters of nope.avi
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@Light:
16 characters of nope.avi
what about temporary leaving (like Ussop at W7) ? and slightly off, what about characters leaving other crews? say BB's crew.
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what about temporary leaving (like Ussop at W7) ? and slightly off, what about characters leaving other crews? say BB's crew.
It won't happen again, that was one time thing
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Well I don't think this as well but I still wonder if Robin and Chopper will someday get their numbered chapters as well…
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It won't happen again, that was one time thing
Didnt it happen twice if you count nami leaving the crew and stealing their treasure after baratie, during Arlong Arc?
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what about temporary leaving (like Ussop at W7) ? and slightly off, what about characters leaving other crews? say BB's crew.
We have already had a fake leaving three times! Oda would be severely underestimating our intelligence if he thought that we could be fooled anymore. As for the other crews, it's possible but not the subject of this thread!
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One Piece doesn't follow the same pattern as Naruto or Naruto where every generation is the same, so that said there's not such of thing as the garp(Smoker) of Luffy (Roger), Luffy was the drive of Smoker in the first half of the story for obvious reasons but things change and is pretty clear that whenever they encounter each other the will have the same interest and also is been shown with Tashigi in the past arc that she doesn't posses the drive to fight the Strawhats because deep down she knows that they're a different type of pirates
It's not just Naruto- it's typical Shonen. Though it varies from series to series, it's a typical aspect of Shonen that there's some kind of repetition of the past. While not everything is the same, certain base aspects reoccur in the next generation. E.g Luffy is clearly the new Roger and Zoro (in some ways) the new Rayleigh. Garp was established as Roger's main rival from the Marines you constantly chased him and almost captured him several times. I don't think it's coincidence that Oda had a Marine (Smoker) fulfill a similar role to Luffy. While it's clear that they're warming up to each other, that actually strengthens the comparison. Roger trusted Garp enough to entrust him to look after his child. It's a fire-forged friendship. And as we saw in Punk Hazard, the feeling's mutual. Luffy wants to fight Smoker again.
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as someone said here and as you said, parallelism need not to be exactly the same. its still not established smoker is luffy's garp….i see smoker as the marines' version of luffy....and if your talking about shonen tropes, luffy still doesnt have his vegeta (a real rival who had a change of heart and became part of protagonist's group---or just simply called "red oni blue oni" that turned out to be "badass decay") this is very typical shonen archetype that still havent happened yet to luffy (if you dont believe me its typical to shonen, yu yu hakusho got hiei, flame of recca got tokiya mikagami, etc. etc.)
if smoker stops chasing luffy and becomes an ally, its just one minor closure of his rivalry since akainu is still hunting him and he will still bump into blackbeard from time to time===so in a way, the chasing/encountering a rival from time to time another shonen trope (for buildup) will still be fulfilled even if smoker's minor roles turns into something else...because seriously, the perfect description for luffy and smoker (goku and vegeta, naruto and uchiha, recca and tokiya) is the "red oni, blue oni" effect.
and again, if one would be garp of this generation, it would be the guy garp trains right now and it would be the very first guy luffy met (much earlier than smoker) since luffy will likely still meet his garp at the very end of the series (which i doubt smoker will be a major part of).
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Well I don't think this as well but I still wonder if Robin and Chopper will someday get their numbered chapters as well…
I doubt either of them will leave the crew (Robin especially since it would completely ruin her character arc), but I could see them getting a numbered chapter by turning down an otherwise attractive offer to join someone else. I could see the revolutionaries asking Robin to come back with them at the end of some future arc with them, and Robin gets her "the Sixth" chapter when she says that she's sticking with the Straw Hats instead.
The thing to remember though is that there is an actual reason for Chopper and Robin not having numbered chapters. If Chopper got his "the Fifth" when he joined on Drum island, it would have spoiled that Vivi wasn't staying with the crew. And Robin's big "I'm joining the crew for realz" moment was in the middle of an arc rather than at the end, and would have spoiled that she was going to be rescued (I know that wasn't ever really in doubt, but it would be like if Return of the King was called "Frodo destroys the Ring").
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as someone said here and as you said, parallelism need not to be exactly the same. its still not established smoker is luffy's garp….i see smoker as the marines' version of luffy....and if your talking about shonen tropes, luffy still doesnt have his vegeta (a real rival who had a change of heart and became part of protagonist's group---or just simply called "red oni blue oni" that turned out to be "badass decay") this is very typical shonen archetype that still havent happened yet to luffy (if you dont believe me its typical to shonen, yu yu hakusho got hiei, flame of recca got tokiya mikagami, etc. etc.)
if smoker stops chasing luffy and becomes an ally, its just one minor closure of his rivalry since akainu is still hunting him and he will still bump into blackbeard from time to time===so in a way, the chasing/encountering a rival from time to time another shonen trope (for buildup) will still be fulfilled even if smoker's minor roles turns into something else...because seriously, the perfect description for luffy and smoker (goku and vegeta, naruto and uchiha, recca and tokiya) is the "red oni, blue oni" effect.
and again, if one would be garp of this generation, it would be the guy garp trains right now and it would be the very first guy luffy met (much earlier than smoker) since luffy will likely still meet his garp at the very end of the series (which i doubt smoker will be a major part of).
Well, I guess we can agree to disagree.
My point is that Smoker is Luffy's rival. A rivalry doesn't have to be bitter. Luffy and Smoker can be the best of friends but still be rivals. People like Blackbeard and Akainu are Luffy's enemies. While he wants to surpass them and they do conflict, their relationships are much more antagonistic. At the end of the series, if Luffy and Smoker are allies but Smoker isn't a Straw Hat it would fit a Goku and Vegeta relationship more than if they were crewmates. Because if they were crewmates what would they fight over? Congrats Smoker you just proved you're tougher than your captain. See what I mean. And before someone mentions that Vegeta got out of that, he just decided to give up on his grudge and accept Goku's friendship. He still wanted to try to surpass him, just not to be as envious and bitter about the whole thing. Coby is more of the Marine version of Luffy. They both want to be the best of their group (Pirate King and Fleet Admiral respectively).
Again, they aren't exact copies. Garp isn't gonna turn Coby into himself. Actually, as we've seen with Roger being Ace's dad, actual relations with the past generation don't mean you're gonna be the new gen version of them. I just think that from what we've seen Smoker fits the role of the Garp to Luffy's Roger more than Coby could.
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Smoker isn't Luffy's rival, and Law DEFINITELY isn't a Whitebeard equivalent lol.
But Smoker also definitely isn't joining the crew so it's moot anyway.Funny how both these things are clear by just looking at how Oda characterizes the man.
Also jesus christ is Law is supposed to be our Whitebeard, what a shitty replacement.
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Why does Luffy need his own Whitebeard?
Characters don't need a generation counterpart.
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Why does Luffy need his own Whitebeard?
Characters don't need a generation counterpart.
He doesn't. People are taking the idea of generational comparisons way too literally, and are (as usual) wildly misunderstanding such author tools thanks to their cursory readings of TvTropes.
TvTropes readers, treating tools of the trade like naturally occurring phenomena since 2004!
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I always liked how all the major old-timers had this i'll kill you on thursday and have drinks on friday interaction
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Why does Luffy need his own Whitebeard?
Characters don't need a generation counterpart.
Eh, it's just kind of a thing. He doesn't NEED one, but it's fun (for some people anyway) to just look at old characters and see if and how they have a new gen version of them-self. It's kinda a habit you pick up on, ya know? I think people (I do anyway) see certain comparisons in real basic terms :
Roger/Luffy - Pirate King
Garp/Smoker - PK's Main Marine Rival
Whitebeard/Law - PK's Main Pirate RivalThis may not be Oda's intention (and if he has such an idea these may not be the particular characters) but it's just a thing people notice.
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@Monkey:
Eh, it's just kind of a thing. He doesn't NEED one, but it's fun (for some people anyway) to just look at old characters and see if and how they have a new gen version of them-self. It's kinda a habit you pick up on, ya know? I think people (I do anyway) see certain comparisons in real basic terms :
Roger/Luffy - Pirate King
Garp/Smoker - PK's Main Marine Rival
Whitebeard/Law - PK's Main Pirate RivalThis may not be Oda's intention (and if he has such an idea these may not be the particular characters) but it's just a thing people notice.
Real Basic, in other words, really vague and not really something you should try and use in arguments.
And again, neither Law nor Smoker currently fit the literary concept of a rival at all. It's also insanely presumptuous to write off the other Supernova captains just because Law is running around the screen right now (also, running around not being a rival might I add).
Kidd was introduced as just as prominent a potential rival, and being as he's not palling around with Luffy right now is actually looking more like one.Blackbeard still fits the bill best, and yes, rivals can be villains, they don't have to be frenemies.
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@Monkey:
Eh, it's just kind of a thing. He doesn't NEED one, but it's fun (for some people anyway) to just look at old characters and see if and how they have a new gen version of them-self. It's kinda a habit you pick up on, ya know? I think people (I do anyway) see certain comparisons in real basic terms :
Roger/Luffy - Pirate King
Garp/Smoker - PK's Main Marine Rival
Whitebeard/Law - PK's Main Pirate RivalThis may not be Oda's intention (and if he has such an idea these may not be the particular characters) but it's just a thing people notice.
how did this happen?
so who is Kid and Coby
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how did this happen?
so who is Kid and Coby
Kid is kinda a psychopath. I couldn't see him and Luffy being able to sit down and have a drink. Really, if Kid does wind up being more important and more of an obstacle than Law then I see him taking Law's place as ''the Whitebeard''.
I've already kinda discussed a few posts back why Smoker is a better fit than Coby. I'm not dismissing Kid or Coby's importance to the story. They'll be very important. I just believe Law and Smoker fit these roles better.
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Someones paying Law a hefty compliment
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@wolfwoof:
Someones paying Law a hefty compliment
Seriously. I still can't get over how lame he is after the timeskip.
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@Monkey:
Real Basic, in other words, really vague and not really something you should try and use in arguments.
And again, neither Law nor Smoker currently fit the literary concept of a rival at all. It's also insanely presumptuous to write off the other Supernova captains just because Law is running around the screen right now (also, running around not being a rival might I add).
Kidd was introduced as just as prominent a potential rival, and being as he's not palling around with Luffy right now is actually looking more like one.Blackbeard still fits the bill best, and yes, rivals can be villains, they don't have to be frenemies.
Blackbeard, to continue this old to new gen thing, seems more like a Shiki to me. A schemer with a more antagonistic relationship with the PK than Whitebeard/Law.
One way I saw a guy describe it one time is:
''The execution of Roger was the boom of piracy. There are far more pirates, and thus Marines to accommodate, for Luffy to face than Roger had to. Thus, it would be reasonable for Luffy to have 2 Marine rivals and 2 Pirate rivals'' or something like that. Basically one way to look at it is:Roger = Luffy
Whitebeard = Law AND Kid
Garp = Smoker AND CobyI personally don't see it that way but you could interpret it that way if you cared. Doesn't really matter. If you don't see the whole generational inheritence, I guess its not a problem, it won't effect the story that much. The important thing is that Smoker sure as hell ain't joining the crew.
P.S. Love the new avatar and sig
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i know tv tropes are kinda overused, but stories wont be made without them, they are enhanced and edited, but they are ALWAYS there. so pointing it out is ok.
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Are you suggesting that writers use tv tropes the website to help their writing?
Seems pretty backwards to me
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@Monkey:
Blackbeard, to continue this old to new gen thing, seems more like a Shiki to me. A schemer with a more antagonistic relationship with the PK than Whitebeard/Law.
Shiki is a guy so unimportant long run that one does not even need to know he exists so far as we know. Oda seems to have just thought it would be cool for the crew to face off against a strong dude from back in the day for that one movie, so he created him and made him partly canon. Same deal with Don Chinjao now.
Blackbeard meanwhile is probably the most important person aside from Luffy of his generation.
And yeah, Blackbeard is a capital V villain, so I dunno what Shiki has to do with that.One way I saw a guy describe it one time is:
''The execution of Roger was the boom of piracy. There are far more pirates, and thus Marines to accommodate, for Luffy to face than Roger had to. Thus, it would be reasonable for Luffy to have 2 Marine rivals and 2 Pirate rivals'' or something like that. Basically one way to look at it is:So once again people reduced the amorphous world of concepts that is storytelling, into their beloved Engineering courses at college. Wonderful.
Numbers have nothing to do with it.
Oh by the way, while we're talking parallels, guess who else died and created a new age, during this current age. Whitebeard is really screwing with this parallel talk.Seriously though, I thought you were talking thematic connections between old and new. Where did this numbers nonsense come from.
Roger = Luffy
Whitebeard = Law AND Kid
Garp = Smoker AND CobyThis is very bad, whoever did this is bad and does not understand the parallel idea at all. Bad.
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i know tv tropes are kinda overused, but stories wont be made without them, they are enhanced and edited, but they are ALWAYS there. so pointing it out is ok.
No no no no no no no no no no nooooooo
You do not understand what tropes are at alllll.
Why do I feel like we've had this conversation before.
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Yeah, the whole parallel thing isn't important. It's just a thing you could if you tinkered around. I just liked the whole idea and used it as the basis for my sig. I just can't see Smoker joining the crew. He'll be a Marine throughout.
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i know tv tropes are kinda overused, but stories wont be made without them, they are enhanced and edited, but they are ALWAYS there. so pointing it out is ok.
Ughhhhhh…..I truly hope you aren't a writer or aspiring others to write with this suggestion. And no it's not okay.
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@Monkey:
Why do I feel like we've had this conversation before.
You should put this in your sig :ninja:
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I think the issue is that people assume Whitebeard was the ONLY other major pirate of Roger's time. Odds are he had more than 1 major rival (Shiki being an example of one Oda showed us that purpose), and probably several.
I'm betting a big part of the new world arcs will be Luffy becoming friendly enemies with people like Law, Kidd, Drake, and probably some newer rookies and older pirates as well. There's no reason to think that Law will become Luffy's sole rival for the title of Pirate King, but he probably will wind up as a big rival once all this is over.
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Ughhhhhh…..I truly hope you aren't a writer or aspiring others to write with this suggestion. And no it's not okay.
cmon guys, its not like it needs to be followed EXACTLY or intentionally. archetypes and tropes are used to create stories,…even if writers arent aware or not intentionally using it, it turns out that way. i never said a writer should always resort to tropes, but those are backbones of the story intentionally or not.
you can write any kind of story and it will fall to some kind of archetype and trope whether you do it voluntarily or not.
im a comic artist way before and im not aware of tropes, now im a indie film director and an artist...i dont believe in copying from anything but ive never seen a story that never falls on a trope or archetype, it just so happens that it what makes a story. you guys act like youve written a story before.
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If someone is ever suppose to end up as Luffy rival it will probably is Kidd. As for Blackbeard I don't consider him as Luffy's rival because they don't seems to be mutually going after each other.
And as for why people don't suggest Blackbeard as the rival is most likely because he'll have to be dispose of before the end of the series and therefore Luffy would be left without rival in pirating which is bad for Parallel.
But is this really impossible to be in topic for more than one page?
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Blackbeard's a rival - he and Luffy both want One Piece, and it's inevitable that they'll eventually start going after each other (Luffy seems to recognize that Teach is the reason that Ace is dead, at the very least)
Also that whole "the final villain" thing
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cmon guys, its not like it needs to be followed EXACTLY or intentionally. archetypes and tropes are used to create stories
You have things very very very backwards.
,…even if writers arent aware or not intentionally using it, it turns out that way.
No it often turns out that way. You're treating narrative like a science or engineering subject. Don't.
i never said a writer should always resort to tropes, but those are backbones of the story intentionally or not.
Oh yeah and they aren't the backbones.
you can write any kind of story and it will fall to some kind of archetype and trope whether you do it voluntarily or not.
The stories came before the "tropes".
Also no one calls them tropes in actual literature classes.im a comic artist way before and im not aware of tropes, now im a indie film director and an artist…i dont believe in copying from anything but ive never seen a story that never falls on a trope or archetype, it just so happens that it what makes a story. you guys act like youve written a story before.
I have a degree in Screen Writing from the Savannah College of Art and Design.
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If someone is ever suppose to end up as Luffy rival it will probably is Kidd. As for Blackbeard I don't consider him as Luffy's rival because they don't seems to be mutually going after each other.
And as for why people don't suggest Blackbeard as the rival is most likely because he'll have to be dispose of before the end of the series and therefore Luffy would be left without rival in pirating which is bad for Parallel.
But is this really impossible to be in topic for more than one page?
Except Blackbeard is going to be the final villain, and Luffy already with Ace on his mind will no doubt be given further reason to want to take him down.
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@Monkey:
No it often turns out that way. You're treating narrative like a science or engineering subject. Don't.
It would be fun to think of it as a building site
Dudes in hard hats running around with blocks of plot and story to be placed according to instructions
Foreman yelling we ran out of UST maybe we need to patch it with a little will they or won't they
Double checking to see that it matches the ready made blueprint
Just stick to the blueprint and use the alloted material pieces you'll make the greatest story of all-time
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im a comic artist way before and im not aware of tropes, now im a indie film director and an artist…i dont believe in copying from anything but ive never seen a story that never falls on a trope or archetype, it just so happens that it what makes a story. you guys act like youve written a story before.
That's cute. What have you drawn or written thats been published?
I've got a 14 year resume at pretty much every comic publisher in america, including Marvel, DC, Dark Horse, Image, Antarctic Press, Archie, about 150 printed comics written to my credit, 4 How to Draw books that I wrote, edited hundreds of books (comics and novels), and colored several thousand pages. My user name is my actual name, so, you can google it if you want.
And I've never once, nor any actual writer I've known, started with a "trope" as a base with the intent to copy or subvert a specific thing as a a starting point. The creative process just does not work that way.
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cmon guys, its not like it needs to be followed EXACTLY or intentionally. archetypes and tropes are used to create stories,…even if writers arent aware or not intentionally using it, it turns out that way. i never said a writer should always resort to tropes, but those are backbones of the story intentionally or not.
you can write any kind of story and it will fall to some kind of archetype and trope whether you do it voluntarily or not.
im a comic artist way before and im not aware of tropes, now im a indie film director and an artist...i dont believe in copying from anything but ive never seen a story that never falls on a trope or archetype, it just so happens that it what makes a story. you guys act like youve written a story before.
No it doesn't NEED to be followed, but (as the reader) attributing character/actions to particular tropes and trying to make assumptions/predictions about the story based on them IS problematic. Just because it happened in an another story, doesn't mean it will succumb to this particular outcome in the narrative since it coincidently happens to fit this "anticipated" trope. It stilts the reading of the story and leads to a narrow interpretation of the narrative.
And in terms of MY experience in writing…you'd be surprised.
PS: Why did I have to post after Robby? Obviously anything I'd do would be trumped by THAT guy. :sad:
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The question someone should be asking when looking at a site like TvTropes is "Hmm, I wonder why these things show up so often. Is it good that this one does? Is it bad that this one does?".
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@Monkey:
The question someone should be asking when looking at a site like TvTropes is "Hmm, I wonder why these things show up so often. Is it good that this one does? Is it bad that this one does?".
Treating it like a how to write help guide is just BUHHHHHH.There's a word for that and it happens to be THIS guy's name:
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Kid is obviously Shiki….
Coby is Garp
Smoker is Sengoku
Pwnage.
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@Monkey:
You have things very very very backwards.
No it often turns out that way. You're treating narrative like a science or engineering subject. Don't.
Oh yeah and they aren't the backbones.
The stories came before the "tropes".
Also no one calls them tropes in actual literature classes.I have a degree in Screen Writing from the Savannah College of Art and Design.
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Except Blackbeard is going to be the final villain, and Luffy already with Ace on his mind will no doubt be given further reason to want to take him down.
you said too much and its all basically my point, tropes would appear even if you intentionally or unintentionally put it.
you like arguing even when we basically have the same idea.
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No it doesn't NEED to be followed, but (as the reader) attributing character/actions to particular tropes and trying to make assumptions/predictions about the story based on them IS problematic. Just because it happened in an another story, doesn't mean it will succumb to this particular outcome in the narrative since it coincidently happens to fit this "anticipated" trope. It stilts the reading of the story and leads to a narrow interpretation of the narrative.
And in terms of MY experience in writing…you'd be surprised.
PS: Why did I have to post after Robby? Obviously anything I'd do would be trumped by THAT guy. :sad:
if i appeared like im saying it needs to be followed im sorry, my whole point was trope shows up in any kind of story, intentionally or not.
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@RobbyBevard:
That's cute. What have you drawn or written thats been published?
I've got a 14 year resume at pretty much every comic publisher in america, including Marvel, DC, Dark Horse, Image, Antarctic Press, Archie, about 150 printed comics written to my credit, 4 How to Draw books that I wrote, edited hundreds of books (comics and novels), and colored several thousand pages. My user name is my actual name, so, you can google it if you want.
And I've never once, nor any actual writer I've known, started with a "trope" as a base with the intent to copy or subvert a specific thing as a a starting point. The creative process just does not work that way.
wow good job, i just had a small gig, whats wrong with that? you got the break, i didnt…i agree with you guys, you are all misunderstanding my point.
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@RobbyBevard:
That's cute. What have you drawn or written thats been published?
I've got a 14 year resume at pretty much every comic publisher in america, including Marvel, DC, Dark Horse, Image, Antarctic Press, Archie, about 150 printed comics written to my credit, 4 How to Draw books that I wrote, edited hundreds of books (comics and novels), and colored several thousand pages. My user name is my actual name, so, you can google it if you want.
And I've never once, nor any actual writer I've known, started with a "trope" as a base with the intent to copy or subvert a specific thing as a a starting point. The creative process just does not work that way.
I googled your name, i got many different huskies.
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robby is actually pretty impressive, and i have lways had respect for the guy, never argued with him once since i almost always liked his ideas.
but damn, i got attacked too much because i failed to bring my point across properly.
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Luffy has a navigator, a chef, a doctor, a shipswright, and a musician. The crew isn't really in need of another member, although that isn't the case here. I'm 95% Jimbei will be the next nakama because he said himself he would join. The other 5% goes to someone joining before him or something bad happening to him. I really like the idea of Jimbei joining because he would be very helpful. Jimbei could save the SHs if they fall in the ocean, he could also summon sea creatures to aid the SHs like he did in Impel Down. Let's not forget he's really strong and can attack marine ships from underwater.
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Luffy has a navigator, a chef, a doctor, a shipswright, and a musician. The crew isn't really in need of another member, although that isn't the case here. I'm 95% Jimbei will be the next nakama because he said himself he would join. The other 5% goes to someone joining before him or something bad happening to him. I really like the idea of Jimbei joining because he would be very helpful. Jimbei could save the SHs if they fall in the ocean, he could also summon sea creatures to aid the SHs like he did in Impel Down. Let's not forget he's really strong and can attack marine ships from underwater.
Yeah, and Jimbeí is already well established character so Oda wont have to spend a lot of chapters introducing his past or motives, wich would be necessarily if he introduced a completley new nakama. Jimbei had great respect for Ace and Whitebeard so he definitely has a good motive to join the strawhats to get revenge on the Blackbeard Pirates. The Fishman traits and abilities you mentioned would indeed be great assets for the strawhats.
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wow good job, i just had a small gig, whats wrong with that? you got the break, i didnt….
Lol. No. There's no "break". I set a goal and worked my ass off and got good enough to get steady work.
That includes rallying for jobs I in particular wanted while working on terrible jobs I hated to pay the bills… while still after 14 years not having all the ins or location setup I want to get to the jobs I'd really prefer. Anyone can do it, a lucky break has nothing to do with it.
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@RobbyBevard:
Lol. No. There's no "break". I set a goal and worked my ass off and got good enough to get steady work.
That includes rallying for jobs I in particular wanted while working on terrible jobs I hated to pay the bills… while still after 14 years not having all the ins or location setup I want to get to the jobs I'd really prefer. Anyone can do it, a lucky break has nothing to do with it.
oh yeah, you can say that since you got there, but not everyone could…its all about breaks, surely i wanted to work on big syndicates, but to start: youre in america that time probably and im not, and to be big you need to be on america, so you prolly might not even know my works even if i mention them.
tried american style drawing, manga (do you guys know that half of the one piece anime is done in the philippines?i became an artist there for a while, in toei at the philippines, lots of other anime done there) released my own comic book there but no luck, the country have no interest in local comics whatsoever.
now im a graphic artist and studying simple 2D game making (i even do mugens working on a fully customized coded game and simple IPad games) that i can hopefully convert to 3D (studying)
i want to concentrate on making turn-based RPGs, RPGs, fighting games and boxing games hopefully, just migrated here in america and trying to find my place in the industry.
so yeah, there's a certain "break" you need, and you must realize life is much harder outside america.
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oh yeah, you can say that since you got there, but not everyone could…its all about breaks, surely i wanted to work on big syndicates, but to start: youre in america that time probably and im not, and to be big you need to be on america, so you prolly might not even know my works even if i mention them.
tried american style drawing, manga (do you guys know that half of the one piece anime is done in the philippines?i became an artist there for a while, in toei at the philippines, lots of other anime done there) released my own comic book there but no luck, the country have no interest in local comics whatsoever.
now im a graphic artist and studying simple 2D game making (i even do mugens working on a fully customized coded game and simple IPad games) that i can hopefully convert to 3D (studying)
i want to concentrate on making turn-based RPGs, RPGs, fighting games and boxing games hopefully, just migrated here in america and trying to find my place in the industry.
so yeah, there's a certain "break" you need, and you must realize life is much harder outside america.
Make your way to Los Angeles, fly into LAX and there will be multiple game developers within just a few miles of landing strip. Hustle, work some magic and infiltrate. That's the way my buddies did it, but it only came from working their butts off like Robby said.