User blog comment:Fliu/The Reasons Big Mom Has To Go Down/@comment-24850639-20170313193655

Here's the thing: Oda doesn't do recurring villains. Once a character serves their role an antagonist for their respective island/arc, Oda is done with the character as an antagonist. So if she is to be defeated this arc, there's no reason to expect her to turn into this person that chases Luffy down to the ends of the Earth seeking revenge. If she's to be defeated period, it will be to a point that she is no longer a threat for the foreseeable future. Which makes perfect sense, the story can't move forward if the Straw Hats are always looking in the rear-view mirror at what could or couldn't be happening to their loved ones.

I want to see her get her ass kicked as much as the next man, but my reasons for believing the opposite are mostly centered around the writing for her character. More important than anything, we have NO backstory on Big Mom. We know next to nothing about the origins of the Charlotte name, where she hails from, what drives her gigantification ambitions (we know she wants the family to be giant, but what exactly has LinLin been through to make her desire that?), why she became a pirate, why the f*!# she wanted a family so big, whether there's a psychological reason for her food cravings, etc. As a Yonko, Big Mom's character is too important to the story for these things to just NEVER be addressed. Especially as someone who's old enough, and important enough to have had run-ins with Roger. For you to tell me that she's scheduled to go down in the next 20+ chapters, I just don't see it. The next 30+ maybe, but we're supposedly heading to Wano before the year is over. It just doesn't seem fair to the significance of Big Mom's character to have her go down in the exact same fashion as any other villain, when her title alone makes her anything but that.

So what we have here, is a time constraint on what's supposed to be an adequate amount of chapters for a believable fight with someone of her calibur, coupled with the fact that we still don't know enough about her life in general to set her up as a typical villain. Things can still go either way, but I firmly believe that if she does go down, she'll be down for good.