User blog comment:DancePowderer/The Bringer of Storms/@comment-1734592-20110404232157

very very VERY interesting. You never fail to amuse me. I agree with your theory that Blackbeard may have more than just a role as a simple antagonist. He seems more like a harbinger than anything, complete opposite of the Straw Hats. But I cant help thinking of whats going on right now in One Piece. If Madame Shirley is right, then this may be the first time Luffy caused unspeakable destruction on an island he was visiting (Enies Lobby doesnt count as the Buster Call was started by Spandam) If anything, this further expands the whole idea of the Blackbeard Pirates being like the anti-Straw Hats. So far, all the island the Straw Hats visited usually ended in peaceful resolutions: they single-handedly stopped a war in Arabasta, they prevented Skypiea from being torn down, hope was restored in Drum Island, and so forth. This may be a foreshadowing of the coming events that will end One Piece.