1. there is no actual solid evidence he can fight, or has done anything fight related.
usually when a new character pops up, or an old one returns, fodders or SHs recall their previous achievements, or claim to fame. for dragon its always "head of revs". never "he totally took down this one guy ten years ago zomg!" or "the mighty user of the whatever fruit!"
how much more would be buy into his hype if we heard of some legendary duel in the past between him and kizaru? the answer is a shit ton.
all hes done is scuffle with smoker once.
2. theres no real fear factor.
if hes truly one of the most fearsome admiral level warriors in OP, then how come ive never seen anyone react to the revs/fears pissing off the revs?
think about it. buggy said they will all get annhilated if they touch ace, because of WB.
ive never seen anyone fear the revolutionaries themselves or give ONE OUNCE OF EVER LOVING FUK that a rev is there. ivankov showed up and no one was like "zomg dragon will murder us".
being shocked at him being the parent of luffy doesnt mean a damn thing.
what i want is someoen actually being afraid of dragon's wrath following them and sinking them, or doing something to inspire dread and respect, power wise. instead it seems like the revs are just another notable army out there, like dofla pirates and SH pirates, even. hell the SH pirates have imposters running around and claims to fame!
everyone knows who the mighty monkey d luffy is. hes always stirring up major shit and taking down warlords.
garp even said, luffy, weak as he was, was so famed at that point that being dragon's son didnt even mean anything. now why the hell woudl that be when someone much stronger than him (marco) could threaten almost anyone into surrender just because of who his father was (WB)? how is dragon so little of a threat that luffy being his son didnt amount to a lick of shit in the end, according to garp, because of how powerful he apparently already was?
3. hes a coward and has weak military forces.
we know this because CP9 took out 3 top revs with no retaliation, and ivankov/inazuma got outright captured with no response from dragon. not even a "hey send an envoy and negociate the release of one of my top commanders and friends". dragon either couldnt give a tossing fuk about ivankov, or you can kill and capture his best guys with TOTAL IMPUNITY. yeah thats a mighty threat right there.
more importantly, why could he not just storm marejoa immediately? rather than wander around backwater kingdoms? its because hes not enough of a threat to try anything.
WB was well acknowledged as strongest, along with his crew, and despite reinforcements from ID, got destroyed.
so how am i to believe that akainu, with all his marine forces fully marshalled, cant do the same thing to dragons whole army? how am i to believe that any one single military force can defeat akainu's whole fully marshalled marine HQ defence? remember garp mihawk and sengoku really didnt even do much in WB war, and if they were doing more, then the pirates would have been destroyed even faster.
the reason he does not destroy dragon is because him and the marines have bigger things to be worrying about and wont send admirals halfway across the world when they have emperors and doflamingo on their front door!
he even moved HQ closer to new world because, red alert, kaidou and the other emperors are the real threat.
dragon moved and WG have barely cared. shanks moved and WG crapped their pants and sent warships to intercept him. for the marines 2 emperors joining together is the worst possible outcome and most dangerous threat.
then theres blackbeard. if we are going by hype, and most dragon fanboys do, then whats more impressive than gura guras hype of being able to WRECK THE WORLD? even the gorosei were like "no one can beat this guy, except maybe an emperor". i have never seen gorosei act like that over dragon.
and to nail the final coffin in dragon, aokiji, who should know of the revs, said the biggest threat to the fleet admiral's marines was whatever plot doflamingo and kaidou were cooking up.
doesnt sound to me like dragon > kaidou lol.
usually when a new character pops up, or an old one returns, fodders or SHs recall their previous achievements, or claim to fame. for dragon its always "head of revs". never "he totally took down this one guy ten years ago zomg!" or "the mighty user of the whatever fruit!"
how much more would be buy into his hype if we heard of some legendary duel in the past between him and kizaru? the answer is a shit ton.
all hes done is scuffle with smoker once.
2. theres no real fear factor.
if hes truly one of the most fearsome admiral level warriors in OP, then how come ive never seen anyone react to the revs/fears pissing off the revs?
think about it. buggy said they will all get annhilated if they touch ace, because of WB.
ive never seen anyone fear the revolutionaries themselves or give ONE OUNCE OF EVER LOVING FUK that a rev is there. ivankov showed up and no one was like "zomg dragon will murder us".
being shocked at him being the parent of luffy doesnt mean a damn thing.
what i want is someoen actually being afraid of dragon's wrath following them and sinking them, or doing something to inspire dread and respect, power wise. instead it seems like the revs are just another notable army out there, like dofla pirates and SH pirates, even. hell the SH pirates have imposters running around and claims to fame!
everyone knows who the mighty monkey d luffy is. hes always stirring up major shit and taking down warlords.
garp even said, luffy, weak as he was, was so famed at that point that being dragon's son didnt even mean anything. now why the hell woudl that be when someone much stronger than him (marco) could threaten almost anyone into surrender just because of who his father was (WB)? how is dragon so little of a threat that luffy being his son didnt amount to a lick of shit in the end, according to garp, because of how powerful he apparently already was?
3. hes a coward and has weak military forces.
we know this because CP9 took out 3 top revs with no retaliation, and ivankov/inazuma got outright captured with no response from dragon. not even a "hey send an envoy and negociate the release of one of my top commanders and friends". dragon either couldnt give a tossing fuk about ivankov, or you can kill and capture his best guys with TOTAL IMPUNITY. yeah thats a mighty threat right there.
more importantly, why could he not just storm marejoa immediately? rather than wander around backwater kingdoms? its because hes not enough of a threat to try anything.
WB was well acknowledged as strongest, along with his crew, and despite reinforcements from ID, got destroyed.
so how am i to believe that akainu, with all his marine forces fully marshalled, cant do the same thing to dragons whole army? how am i to believe that any one single military force can defeat akainu's whole fully marshalled marine HQ defence? remember garp mihawk and sengoku really didnt even do much in WB war, and if they were doing more, then the pirates would have been destroyed even faster.
the reason he does not destroy dragon is because him and the marines have bigger things to be worrying about and wont send admirals halfway across the world when they have emperors and doflamingo on their front door!
he even moved HQ closer to new world because, red alert, kaidou and the other emperors are the real threat.
dragon moved and WG have barely cared. shanks moved and WG crapped their pants and sent warships to intercept him. for the marines 2 emperors joining together is the worst possible outcome and most dangerous threat.
then theres blackbeard. if we are going by hype, and most dragon fanboys do, then whats more impressive than gura guras hype of being able to WRECK THE WORLD? even the gorosei were like "no one can beat this guy, except maybe an emperor". i have never seen gorosei act like that over dragon.
and to nail the final coffin in dragon, aokiji, who should know of the revs, said the biggest threat to the fleet admiral's marines was whatever plot doflamingo and kaidou were cooking up.
doesnt sound to me like dragon > kaidou lol.
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