User blog comment:DancePowderer/The Smiling Man, Part 3/@comment-5239749-20131110022916

As always, your blog is both insightful and thought-provoking. However, I wouldn't necessarily label Doflamingo as insane. According to your definition he definitely fits the bill, but I think his utter lack of fear and doubt only go so far as the World Government is concerned. That being said, the WG controls most of the One Piece world, hence Doflamingo's easy-going attituade in the first half of the series. The linchpin here is this: the WG values status, thus the wealth and privilege afforded to it. It doesn't matter if the status is unmerited, as seen in the case of the Celestial Dragons, so long as you are of a certain bloodline. Bluejam stated it perfectly: It means being born under a lucky star. Doflamingo, it seems, realized the full extent of the overinflated importance placed on status, and subsequently took advantage of it; utlizing his own social rank to get away with actions so heinous that they would have never occured to most people. A manipulative person like him would have no problem capitalizing on the loopholes of aristocracy. He is very much like a spider, weaving a web of schemes so intricate and overlapping that we often lose track.

The only time we have ever seen Doflamingo truly flustered or showing panic and anger is when he business partnership with Kaido was jeopardized. Why? Because Kaido couldn't give a rat's ass which family Doffy's descended from. All that matters in the lawless, chaotic New World is power. And since Kaido is one of the few people who are stonger than him, and because he recognizes no authority other than his own, that leaves Doflamingo at his mercy if Kaido ever decides to target the pink-feathered fiend.