User blog comment:DancePowderer/The Smiling Man, Part 2/@comment-3435506-20131021003039/@comment-1595565-20131021044040

I actually thought about the Sabo comparison too. They both "defected", but Doflamingo seemed to retain more of the values from his class. I guess the difference is that Doflamingo grew up in the slave-master culture while Sabo didn't, being only a noble and not a world noble.