User blog comment:Fliu/Thoughts on the Reverie Arc and Expectations for the Wano Arc/@comment-31434191-20180619225255

I just hope once we get to Wano we find out what happened to Hawkins. Him and Bege are by far my favorite Supernova's. That, and we see some none artificial Zoan fruits, be they rare Ancient/Mythical models or just some more basic ones like a Sheep Zoan. There has to be some non-Gifter Zoan fruit users (who aren't Disasters) in Kaido's crew after-all. I do wonder if Apoo working for Kaido might make him a foe of our heroes, assuming he doesn't try and pull a Bege on Kaido. I don't care either way about him beyond the potential of a musical showdown between him and Brook if they do have to deal with him.

I imagine if the BMP get involved it won't be Big Mom herself (I imagine she needs to get order restored to her kingdom and handle any opportunist invaders that might strike during the chaos), just a fleet of some powerful crew members, preferably the ones we didn't see in action very well like Smoothie (only Sweet Commander who hasn't been defeated to date so it makes sense she would be trusted to handle it), Compote (Oda has to be saving her for something, and she isn't injured like her poor brother Perospero), Daifuku (didn't get the same amount of focus as Oven, and there is bound to be more to his power and what he can do without using his DF. You can't get by on DF alone in the New World after all) and maybe Snack (he was introduced for a reason, and I am sure we all would like to get an idea of how his fight with Urouge went). You know, to make up for them not getting much spotlight back in the last arc, especially since Oda seems to be aware of Smoothie's poor reputation if he had to outright say she is strong while discussing her fruit.

This is assuming the BMP do get involved, which I wouldn't mind (I actually quite liked the them despite certain issues they suffered), but I am not holding my breath. That said, Oda does buck the fandom's expectations quite a bit and that conversation with Big Mom and Kaido shows she really wants to be the one to kill Luffy (and that debt he owes her seems to actually have some weight to it based off of Kaido's reaction, even if he tries to act like he doesn't owe her). They could always strike during the recovery period once Wano is over to try and kill Luffy. BMP being involved in this arc (without Big Mom and Katakuri to do most of the work this time), even if briefly, would still be better then waiting for some other arc 5 years or so down the line to finally find out what Snack and Compote can do (plus the dozens of other crew members we saw briefly) and have Smoothie actually do something to prove her worth as a Sweet Commander. I can hope at the very least.