User blog comment:Kaido King of the Beasts/Chapter 844: Always a Dump Guy/@comment-24850639-20161027162929/@comment-5398287-20161029041057

The problem with the "visual representation" card is that every instance of characters getting beaten to the point of swelled-up faces, having their eyes stretch/pop out of their skulls, and so on has been in situations played for comedy. Meanwhile, this chapter was anything but funny, as were the wounds Luffy received. I highly doubt he's going to be missing a front tooth for the rest of the series, but I felt that clarification was in order here.