User blog comment:Fintin/Who's the real antagonist?/@comment-94.68.162.189-20130411235847

Starting by reducing the nominees to the reasonable ones: Doflamingo, Diamante, Blackbeard, Burgess, Fujitora, CP0

First of all, will Blackbeard appear in this arc? Some could say yes. Can he be considered major antagonist in this case? Of course not. Teach won't have a real fight with Straw Hats so early, so he cannot be considered the main antagonist.

Second basic question. Will Doflamingo give his final battle on this arc? Maybe, but even if he don't he is still the man behind Diamante and he should be considered the main antagonist in any case.

Good, now we have the following nominees: Doflamingo, Burgess, Fujitora, CP0.

And here is when my article really start: Doflamingo is not a random pirate. Even he is not a Shichibukai anymore, he is still one of the strongest pirates in One Piece Universe. He defeated Smoker with ease, a Vice Admiral capable enough to create serious problems to Law. By this comparison we can safely assume he is stronger than Law and the only one capable to compete him is ... who else... Luffy. Did someone say Burgess? Oh! You should mean one of these men that Doflamingo considered a threat high enough that can be handled by his crew (Call me Diamante, please). Even if he didn't expect Burgess, he for sure expected gladiators of this level, but he didn't afraid of it. He just put one of his 3 officers to take care of him. He did the same for Luffy correct, but just because he underestimated Luffy. Luffy is our main character, it is not the same.

On the other hand, Doflamingo considered Kuzan as an opponent at least on the same level of him. So we can assume Fujitora's case is not different. Fujitora is at least on par with Doflamingo and assumingly on the same level of power with the rest admirals. But World goverement has no strogest weapon than the admirals. So CP0 is not an exception. Maybe they are extremely strong, but when Fujitora fights, they are watching to learn.

So, the main antagonists are the strongest antagonists: Doflamingo and Fujitora.

Like other cases (Loguetown, Sabaody, Marineford) I'm expecting more than one main antagonist, except Fujitora decides to leave for some reason (Like Smoker in Alabasta).

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