User blog comment:The ASL Pirates/My Take on WCI/@comment-24850639-20160928180505

Here the's the thing about this antagonist situation:

Both the Vinsmokes and the Big Mom Pirates have Sanji by the balls. Zeff's life has been directly threatened as a bargaining chip for Sanji to play ball against his will. In other words, whether Sanji cooperates with the marriage or not, Zeff is in danger. If he does cooperate, Sanji is forced to stay in a marriage he doesn't want for the rest of his life, and Zeff will be killed should he try to annul the marriage. If he doesn't cooperate, they'll just kill Zeff sooner. Either way you slice it, both parties represent major threats to Sanji's connections, and as such they both need to be dealt with. Perhaps they don't both need to be taken down, but Sanji does need to be free of their grip in one way or another.

If we entertain the idea of Luffy beating one and appeasing the other, Big Mom represents the much larger threat to him. At the end of the day Germa 66 are a bunch of mercs for hire, and without the family ties to Sanji, Luffy's intended course of action in the New World doesn't really intertwine with them or their agenda. Yeah they're bad dudes from what we've seen so far, but definitely not on the same level as someone like Big Mom, who'd raze an entire country to the ground over some damn candy, callously eats her subordinates, and forces her citizens to give up a piece of their life span every 6 months. The Vinsmokes can still be redeemed at this point with a simple change in leadership or new philosophy, Big Mom can not. On top of that, Luffy has already stated his intentions to defeat Big Mom, has already started the process of doing so by taking on one of her top leiutenants, and she possesses a poneglyph that Luffy desperately needs. She also has a growing number of dissenters - in addition to Pound, I can't imagine all the homies became homies by their own will, or that every citizen is TRULY happy with giving up their life span for her protection, when there's plenty of countries they can live in without having to do so. In Vinsmoke Jajji's case, you can probably find some noble intentions buried beneath the lust for power, and obsession with his legacy. If Vegapunk is working for the WG against his will like I believe, then they were probably actually working on something really important before the team was disbanded. Probably something that will change the world, and Germa 66 may have been Jajji's way of keeping his end of the bargain. Lot of possibilities for sure, but I think Big Mom for sure has to go down. I don't see any way of her coming out of this as Luffy's friend, even with the Lola revelation. There's just too much cause for friction between the 2 parties.