User blog comment:Videogamep/The Impact of One Piece/@comment-1595565-20140131055919/@comment-1595565-20140131200753

It does not take a lot of brain power to notice some parallels between Luffy and Natsu. Both have abandonment/daddy issues with no mother in sight, both love to eat, their IQs seem to quadruple during fights, collateral damage seems to come naturally to them, they both have an older sister figure that they fear as well as admire, and both will go to great lengths to beat the tar out of someone who's wronged any of their friends in the slightest way.