User blog comment:Dettles/That guy. Meh/@comment-5640399-20131118050432/@comment-5640399-20131118123817

Luffy already wanted to be a pirate, he says as much in the flashback with Sabo, Shanks showed Luffy some rather mature ways to deal with assholes and gave him an image of a pirate crew, but really, most of his appearances so far have just been exposition, making him entirely replacable. Luffy didn't need Shanks, we did.