User blog comment:Ranger94/The next Arc/@comment-24287735-20150918115436/@comment-67.204.208.3-20150918191847

Gourd

4. Did you forget that Capone Bege is actively chasing the Swirly Brow pirates?

7. Enies Lobby was as much about Robin as Franky, if not moreso. The most pivotal moment of the arc was the burning of the flag. During that scene, Franky farted and burned the blueprints, and that was important (the latter, not the former), but it culminated in the most important line of the arc: "I want to live." If you thought that was just an excuse to drive the Franky arc forward, then you completely missed the point of the arc. An arc which, need I remind you, ended with Robin breaking Spandam's back as they sailed away?

Franky doesn't tend to get screentime as anything other than comic relief.

Ranger

2. Crocodile uses people. He doesn't care who they are or what they've done. He doesn't care if they are loyal to him, he just cares about what they can do for him. For him, there can be nothing personal about reaching his goals. So it's perfectly in character for him to ally with Luffy.

Moriah demands unquestioning loyalty because of the nature of his powers. He holds grudges for years because of one single defeat. His ego would not allow him to ally himself with Luffy, much like Doffy would never ally himself with Luffy.

3. Z said he lost his arm to someone who became a warlord. That doesn't necessarily mean someone who just became a warlord recently. It might have been Moriah or even Jinbe for all we know. But losing his arm implies it was cut, so the name that jumps to mind is Mihawk. (Or maybe that other guy who likes to cut people's arms off ... ) Regardless of who it was referring to, the point of that line was likely to illustrate the power of the non-canon Zephyr by putting him on par with a character whose reputation is already familiar to us. It was not meant to foreshadow the power of an as-yet-unseen warlord by comparing them to a non-canon marine admiral.

Stop talking about it.