User blog comment:Nobody700/The worst in the best/@comment-24148870-20131218023905/@comment-24148870-20131218062242

Great analogy with the animals.

And another thing, Buster call is supposed to be a terrifying threat that gave Robin nightmares for 20 years. Basing from what we saw, fighting the CP9 was far more impressive and terrifying than the Buster Call itself. So that kinda made the buster call, I daresay, “all-bark, no bite” kinda lame?

I have a theory. The threat of the Buster call was the sheer appearance of great numbers, e.g. many warships, many high tiered warriors. It should be so impressive that its mere sight would make the enemies cower to submission, or at the least make them hesitate. With that logic, fighting 200 warriors is much more terrifying than just 5 peeps, regardless of rank.

Who would have thought that this scare tactic does not apply to the mugiwaras? Who would have thought that the resolve and conviction of strawhats were so much so that even Robin got over her nightmares? However, I also think that had the fight lasted longer, the strawhats would have been overpowered.