User blog comment:Fliu/Chapter 931: Henshin A Go Go Sanji!/@comment-30395642-20190201131751/@comment-30395642-20190201215534

It's more than just that it's very common in the villains almost all of the female villains for a while now have become good guys. Hancock, Viola, Baby 5, Pudding all of them became good guys because a man was nice to her. Speed the first female officer of the Beast Pirates became a good guy the same chapter she was introduced. Honestly I like most of those characters I find Pudding's hyper-tsundere act to be quite funny but it's part of clear trend. Perona on Thriller Bark she was defeated with toy cockroaches and a baloon hammer, I love that fight but in hidsight it does just look like an excuse to not involve women in violence. Reiju the only Vinsmoke that wasn't a jerk and there used to be loads of jokes going around about how little Smoothie did during the WCI arc and whenever I saw them I thought, don't worry he's just saving her for something but that's looking less and less likely as it goes on.

Nami and Robin are given less and less to do combat-wise. Nami hasn't had a 1-on-1 fight since Enies Lobby and she was the only Strawhat not to have a 1-on-1 fight on Fishman Island and Robin she breifly fought a named fishman but she didn't fight an officer. During the fight with the army of rage Luffy was beaten to hell but Nami somehow got away with almost no injuries she just got tied up.

Don't get me wrong I'm aware of the things we could find out through Big Mom's amnesia but that in no way contradicts my belief that he'll use it to write her out as a villain. And as for her crew most of them could easily become good guys, very few of her children are actually evil, other than Oven and Cracker most of them seem to be pretty decent people. Just look at Totto Land it's actually a really nice place to live, compare it to Dressrossa and Wano there are no oppressed people and no secret underground rebels for the most part the Big Mom pirates seem to be pretty belevolent rulers.

I don't want to be saying this, people have been theorising for ages that Big Mom would become a good guy and I've dismissed those theories because she was too insane and I could see no way in which it could happen. But suddenly getting amnesia and being given the chance to bond with good guys and regain her memories slowly, especially her memories of Carmel, seems like an obvious way to have her become a good guy.

I want to ignore it and say It's my imagination, over the years I've made loads of excuses for Rebecca or Baby 5 or Pudding but it's becomming harder and harder to ignore or dismiss and every time it looks like he's going to do something different he just does it again.

I love One Piece it's still my favorite series but it's undeniable that Oda has been doing his female characters a massive disservice for a long time now.