No it wasn't. You're looking at it from the wrong POV. You're saying because she didn't display the same level of physical strength as Kaido or the same Haki prowess as Shanks did, she was underwhelming, when her ability to steal souls accomplished the same effect as Kaido's stamina and Shanks' Haki.
Listen, the fact that you have to make excuses for her not being able to display more than street level damage, already answers the question that it was underwhelming.
So because Big Mom's punches didn't do street level damage, she was underwhelming? Because she hasn't shown game-changing physical strength, what was cool about her doesn't matter? By this logic I can say that Shanks hasn't shown any above average speed in his intro. Therefore, he was underwhelming. Kaido hasn't shown any high intelligence or Haoshoku Haki, he was also underwhelming.
We Shanks up front with another Yonko, and yet his speed wasn't anything cool, so underwhelming.
Who said she wasn't a physical beast though? Knocking down several large buildings is a pretty great feat, especially when you consider that Whitbeard's own massive Quakes didn't put a scratch in Aokiji's office despite slamming the building it was in several times.
You're the one who doesn't get it. So what if she doesn't have the physical strength? Without his devil fruit powers, Blackbeard can't even do half of the damage Big Mam did to the town. Their devil fruit powers are what makes them terrifying.
Exactly. It's especially dumb when Whitebeard, overcome with sheer rage, produced a Quake that couldn't even knock down the Marine HQ, and Big Mom is supposed to break her island in half to be impressive and unique while stealing souls. It's ironic someone says "By not doing what everyone else did and doing something extremely hax that we've only seen her do, Big Mom hasn't proved she's a one of a kind pirate that shouldn't be messed with."
And what's oh so terrifying in the introduction of Big Mom? Lmfao stealing some no name fodders soul is impressive? Especially when certain conditions being needed were alluded to?
We haven't even seen the full extent of her devil fruit powers and you're already judging her? Your reaction to Big Mom's powers is so much like people's reaction to Luffy's rubber powers, before they see Gear 2, 3 and 4. Can't she kill off fodders without breaking a sweat now? What if she can awaken her devil fruit? There's still so much we don't know.
What part of only her introduction being underwhelming did you not get? I'm sure she is so much more than what was shown, I'm strictly isolating her intro and comparing it to that of the other Yonkou. Extremely underwhelming in comparison (not her as a whole we hardly know anything about her or her powers, but her introduction)
Funny how people here believe Pudding is the backstabber when Pedro is the only one hinting he's the traitor.
Yeah, I definitely think something is up with him, but I'm still not entirely convinced... I feel like we're being led to believe that and then he will get a bit of a back story explanation at some point. But it's definitely plausible. One of them has got to be a traitor, but not both...
Not convinced huh?
That's a valid point but not entirely accurate. Teach scarred Shanks prior to gaining his DF and he has a high natural durability which he needs to counter the fact that his DF attracts damage to him rather than bypassing it like most Logia. So while I agree BB without his fruit wouldn't be able to do much more or equal damage the BM did his DF isn't the only tough part of him.
I won't lie it doesn't sit right that WB had that little "result" with as much as he was purported by characters to have the strength to destroy the world. We can say it was due to age, or disease but that's just excuses. For whatever reason Oda chose to have WB's damage not look too monstrous despite his description and despite the fact he depicted a Shichibukai who shouldn't even be able to hold a candle to a Yonkou 1v1 breaking an entire island
Moriarty wasn't as weak as everyone said he went toe to toe with the entire strawhat crew all night and Luffy had 100 extra soul to even win. And that was the version of the crew that was arguably the strongest preskip
