It was in the way it was framed by Big News though, especially considering his source thought Luffy was a genius. Part of the reason it was run was headlines and secondly because the WG tried to tell Big News what to write.
Not just become King of the Pirates..he has to Surpass Gol.
And Pirate King seems it might have been Government Propaganda from how amused Gol seemed at it.
At this point I think that everything the world government says is Bullshit Propaganda.
There probably isn't really a 100year void and the whole ponegliff thing is a wild goose chase and that's why Roger laughed-- he didn't want the government to get the last laugh instead
Has the government ever brought up the 100 year void? I don't recall them ever really commenting on it besides "If you try to study it we will firebomb your ass into dust"
Remember Blackbeard had a bounty of 0 (or no bounty at all) when he became a Warlord of the Sea, and didn't get his 2billion+ berry bounty until after him and his crew killed Whitebeard and fucked up the Whitebeard Pirates in the Grudge war.
Oda continues to find weirder things to do with zoans.
My favorite part about the weird Zoan abilities is that it’s justified, solely by the DF user, that it’s a normal ability the animal just has.
In fairness this is the One Piece setting. Would it be the weirdest twist of biology if that was true of that animal in a setting with snail phones?
Kind of with you on that. But it might be armament Haki. He's behaving a lot like tekkai users back in the day with the whole immovable object thing and we know he also learnt geppo on his own. It's possible this is him using armament in conjunction with the basics of that technique. With this arc having a lot of focus on Luffy developing more advanced haki usage I could see Oda considering giving Sanji an alternative power source for his upgrade though.
Queen's such a fucking riot lmao.
Sanji already knows Armament Haki. He used it against Judge IIRC.