Grandtasticl! Cheers

I don't reckon Whitebeard would be set up as a main bad guy, mabey a major opponent, but hes been shown to a be a Luffy-esq pirate in the same kind of way as shanks. Plus I think white beard will 'retire' for the race for pirate king when he meets Luffy and have a whole 'inherited will' moment, see a him as a young roger and pull a shanks (investing in the future kind of thing). But I digress.

Because he has pride and dreams, it may make him likable as a character to us, but they don't give him immunity from being evil. He'd be better described as passionate then plain evil, like all D's, or driven. They all have a dream they pursue, its just he's taken a road less travel and much darker.

There's not going to be a definitive answer anytime soon, as the snippets of what we've seen of him has as a much more 3-dimensional nemesis then anyone else thats really been or is against the strawhats, and i think that really is a testament to Oda's writing.

@Satanstorm:

I think you"re all getting it wrong with Blackbeard, he"s a pure hearted pirate and has his own dreams that are bad in the way we look at it, his intentions are only bad if we look at him with Ace"s eyes. But pirates are so that they want to acomplish their own dreams and Blackbeard"s dreams are just something unnfamiliar in the OP world. His character is pure and honest but his intentions and dreams are just slightly on the oposite of Whitebeard"s and Ace"s and that makes him evil to many people.

Thats a fair point, but I'd Still say hes evil no matter hows hes viewed. He killed his Namaka for his own gain and although he has his own dream, from what we've seen, its for power for powers sake. He's more of an ambiguous evil as he's so far been presented as a dark foil of Luffy and shares many of the qualities the main hero of the story has.

@Lobolover:

another 4 replies to a topic that I "bumped" by bringing it back up.I am so evil.

I think its because with some of bumps that you have been making, you've had slightly pointless points (Oxymoron win!), but I'd say this thread revivals quite valid

Lets be fair, All pirates are evil, what with the stealing and looting. But blackbeard is a murdering git. Seems like a fine guy, but you know…murder. ...yeah, not particularity nice is it?

Thanks for the scan, nice and quick

What the fuck-a-doodle-do?

Ta! gum gum has brightened up my day :D

No parking on the battle ground, hands down wins it for me.

I had managed to scrounge most of them on my PC, but it was unfortuntly wiped after it got all broken :'(.so sneak out my own agenda: What would people say to using this thread to gather as many as possible for all the forums to have - or a list of where to find em all (If the threads starters doesnt mind)?

Oh yeah! Fantastic lookin chapter, thanks BF!

Thanks! tis a wonderful book