User blog comment:The ASL Pirates/Will Someone other than Luffy Fight the Strongest Opponent?/@comment-3986064-20150627081856

Am I the only one who feels like Luffy, if not for having had to beat Doflamingo, could've just as well been categorized as a secondary character?

The scenes where he appeared (I might forget a few) are:

-On the ship at the beginning

-Undercover on the streets and inside the bar (before Zoro and Sanji run off) and after when he meets the toy soldier

-Inside the Colosseum

-Dressed as a carp and running inside Doffy's palace

-Saving Law

-Fighting Doffy and becoming exhausted and then fighting Doffy again

But there are so many other parts in the complex story of Dressrossa. It's amazing how little of a role Luffy actually plays in this whole ordeal except for the usual fighting the antagonist. In how many other stories do you see this happen? And I'm referring to shounen manga. The most important part of an arc isn't the defeat of the villain. For me it was without doubt the moment when Usopp took out Sugar. I still don't even feel like Doflamingo was defeated, there is something that I feel is still lacking and it's completely frustrating...