User blog comment:Magnumheart/Just for fun. Strawhat Pirates vs Blackbeard Pirates/@comment-98.207.17.8-20110621092448

Here's how I would see it going down. So like 3/4ths the way through the 2nd half (like say where Thriller bark was in the 1st half), the Black beards show up to fight Shank's crew, and Mihawk is there for some reason (they're friends so it makes sense). A big fight happens, but ultimately the Blackbeards use underhanded tactics or something to win and kill Mihawk and all the Red-haired pirates except Shanks, who is mortally wounded. The Straw Hats then show up and Luffy tearfully gives the straw hat back to Shanks, claiming to be the new Pirate King (in order to fulfill his promise) before Shanks dies. Luffy and crew then chase after Blackbeard who's headed to Raftel, both for revenge and to make what he said to shanks (that he was the pirate king/strongest pirate) true.

That being said:

Luffy vs Blackbeard. (Grudge match of the century.) Zoro vs Shiliew (Since Mihawk is dead, Shiliew and Zoro fight it out for the title of greatest swordsman) Usopp vs Van Auger (I REALLY want to see this fight. Sniper vs Sniper) Nami & Chopper vs San Juan Wolf & Doc Q/Stronger (I see this two ways. One--Chopper's mastered a beefed-up Monster point and can therefore fight on roughly equal terms with San Juan Wolf and then Nami and Doc Q have a fight themselves, or Two--Doc Q's ability is like strength/speed potions or something that he uses to make San Juan Wolf even stronger/faster [makes sense given his ability to go from barely able to stand up to swinging a heavy sycthe around]  so he fights Chopper using a similar transformation style of fighting, and Nami fights San Juan Wolf with enormous Tornadoes and Lighting storms in an awesome David vs Goliath fight) Brook vs Laffitte (These too seem meant for each other. Both appear to be highly agile fighters with musical themes and a ghoulish look.   Brook's also probably the only one immune to Laffitte's hypnosis) Sanji &Franky vs Vasco Shot & Jesus Burgess (I figure these pairs will fight it out eventually. Burgess doesn't seem strong enough to take on Sanji however [and a wresler vs a martial artist doesn't feel like a good fight], and in the anime when the Blackbeard were lined up with the Red-hairs, Shot was paired off with Lucky Roo, who is the 3rd strongest red-hair, (since Shiliew was paired with Benn Beckman, who is the 2nd strongest red-hair despite not being a swordsman, i figure Oda was ranking them by fighting ability), so it makes sense.  However, post-jump Franky is now much bigger than he was before, and so Vasco shot might wind up being more his size for a fight) Robin vs Caterina Devon (Unless Nami vs Doc Q happens, this is going to be the brains fight. Devon seems to be very smart, although we haven't really seen anything from here other than that she uses a spear/staff of some kind, and i figure the most wanted female criminals in history should get their own fight) 10th straw hat vs Pizzaro (Leftover in this case)

Thoughts?