User blog comment:Blackendedsoul/An Ideal Pirate VS an Unruly Subordinate/@comment-3119203-20120214235056

I personally like these blogs, they get everyone's opinion in them.

Blackbeard: Well, this guy is a model pirate, like you said. He is ruthless, cruel, dedicated, powerful, greedy, and knows what he wants. Not only that, he does it. Blackbeard is the most dangerous character in the series not because of his power but because of his ideals. He has a dream, he has big plans, (in this way he is just like Luffy), but he is smart, cunning, cocky, and reckless. Throw in his power and there is nothing you can do to stop him. Basically, he takes Luffy's traits and uses them for "evil" purposes.

But you overextend. Just because Blackbeard had a lifelong goal of obtaining a fruit doesn't justify anything. He gained the trust of all of his men, became their friend, supported them, then turned his back and betrayed their trust. He killed his own comrade then ran for his life. Killing a friend like that without regard is simply despicable, no matter how pirate like it is. And as far as the whole "inviting Ace to his crew" thing, I find this disgusting. The man was going to catch Luffy and turn him in to the World Government, and he made the offer to Ace to join him even AFTER he found out they were brothers. That is low. He is an amazing pirate, but a terrible person.

Ace: Here goes.....well, Ace is kind of annoying. As a kid, he defended his father's name, but single-handedly almost killed Dadan when he refused to run away. I know you talked about Luffy being selfish in your last blog, but I think Ace actually deserves the title. When Garp talked about Roger and said that he wouldn't run even when he was up against impossible odds, that was only because Roger had people he needed to protect behind him. Ace was the opposite, he created the trouble instead of ending it. In all honesty, it would be more help for him to run away at times.

But this is only him as a child. He changes when he grows up. He fought Jinbe to a standstill because it was a matter of pride, something that Jinbe is big on. Ace was not going to back down and insult Jinbe's pride like that. As for not running against Whitebeard, that was something more akin to Roger. He knew that his crew was going to get destroyed by Whitebeard, so he blocked them off and stood strong. I respect that. Against Blackbeard, he couldn't run for one reason: he had to protect Luffy. If Ace escaped, then Blackbeard would have caught Luffy and turned him in to the World Government. Ace knew that Blackbeard was too dangerous to leave alone, and took him on.

Ace has a volatile personality, but I think as he grew up, he learned and became more like his father. You can't generalize a person based on what they were like as a child. Ace grew up, and became strong. People may think that he talks big, but he is still ridiculously strong. The fact that he could match Blackbeard, Jinbe, and Aokiji grants him a place among the strongest OP characters seen so far. So don't diss him more than he deserves.