User blog comment:DancePowderer/The Smiling Man, Part 5/@comment-2226235-20140913050512/@comment-1595565-20140913145843

Doflamingo's opinion of his status raises a few questions. So far he's called CP0, then he told Fujitora that he's no longer a world noble, and now we have him using his status partly to talk trash but also to remind Luffy and especially Law of where exactly they stand in comparison to him, and they may as well be crap on the bottom of Doflamingo's shoe in his eyes. It seemed like he only uses his status when it's convenient for him, like he wanted to avoid it. Now we have him actually bragging about it. It's oddly contradictory.