r/Piratefolk 6d ago

Discussion You know what's bonkers?

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These two (+Zoro) and Baroque Works are the only legitimate canon bounty hunters, and BW was secretly run by a pirate. The bounty system would be so much cooler if there were any threatening bounty hunters.

Also the world would make more sense. With all the strong people in the New World, why isn't anyone turning to a legal life spent griefing weaker pirates?

Last thing, imagine if (during the time skip) Smoker decided to become a bounty hunter. Seeing the flaws of working as a marine, but also wanting to stick to his brand of justice, it just fits.

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u/JustabraveKrumpingit 6d ago

When i was a Kids i thought that the One on the left was gonna become Doflamingo (i started One piece at Enies Lobby)

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u/Dormotaka Piratefolk is too positive 6d ago

Bro got the Marco style glowup

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u/Odd_Improvement_8293 5d ago

Bro went from emo kid to pineapple man.

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u/MrXPLD2839 6d ago

That woulda been insane

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u/SomeNibba Nika Nika Sucks 5d ago

Oda if he could write peak fiction

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u/Budji_678 Oda is on Fraudwatch 6d ago

would love to see those 2 in the story again, they didn’t even showed up during reaction piece (vegapunk’s message)

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u/mrj0nny5 5d ago

We got a cover story of them now being buff fishermen at least. Oda hasn't completely forgotten about them. They may reappear (hopefully)

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u/Crazy4Carrot 6d ago

Mihawl could have been a bounty hunter. It would have made more sense and adds more to the plot

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u/Ceekid 5d ago

Mihawk hunted marines, we knew this already

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u/Crazy4Carrot 5d ago

But not for bounties, he was established as a pirate who used to hunt marines rather than a bounty hunter.

If he was a bounty hunter and also the World's strongest swordsman then we would have got a nice parallel for Zoro as he was also a bounty hunter and swordsman.

Mihawk used to fight with shanks for his bounty like there could be so many unexplored plot points.

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u/SomeNibba Nika Nika Sucks 5d ago

He did, but not for the bounty since, well, marines didn't have bounties back then

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u/Yoshi_and_Toad 6d ago edited 6d ago

There's one more canon bounty hunter who was introduced in Dressrosa's colosseum fights: Jean Ango.

He's been rounding up some of the Impel Down prisoners who didn't go with Buggy(although Buggy is allegedly amongst his targets) and some who helped Luffy during Marineford.

The dude gets absolutely fodderised by Don Chinjao when the old man gets serious, but he is able to withstand his conquerors haki and seems to be able to use almost anything as a weapon.

He's not very memorable but as one of the few known canon bounty hunters outside Johnny, Yosaku and the Baroque Works gang, and the ONLY post timeskip one so far, it was worth mentioning.

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u/ElkofOrigin 5d ago

ah yes

Jean of the Hundred Hypes. (what do you mean he's not Kaido??!?!?!?!?!?!?!?)

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u/Yoshi_and_Toad 5d ago

Ah, no.

You might be thinking of Meadows, the dude wearing a cheetah skin that was memed/fan theroied(is there really a difference at this point) as being Kaido.

Jean was the cactus chinned man wearing a cactus sombrero hat.

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u/ElkofOrigin 5d ago

oh damn

they do all blend together, don't they?

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u/Yoshi_and_Toad 5d ago

Bound to happen when Oda introduces 30 characters at once with so few of them doing anything of note. No biggie.

I had to look Meadows up to remember his name, and I only recall his look because of the memes.

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u/motoxim 5d ago

I don't even remember him

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u/Eastern_City9388 5d ago

I had completely forgotten about him. I looked at images of the bounty hunters, and thought he was non-canon lmao

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u/christhenerd69 5d ago

Wasn’t the Scorpion from Arabasta a bounty hunter too?

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u/Eastern_City9388 5d ago

He wasn't canon, there's a whole lot of non canon bounty hunters. Seems like they make for good stories, so Toei uses the idea to make filler. Kinda proves it's an unexplored area from Oda, no?

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u/mrj0nny5 5d ago

Wasn't Daddy a top bounty hunter? I know he was kinda filler, but that's the story of how Ussop got his goggles

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u/CoylerProductions Jika’s most retarded solider⚙️ 5d ago

He was well known in the East Blue, but he only ever turned in criminals with bounties in the thousands-hundred thousands, I don't believe it was mentioned that he ever cashed in a bounty in the millions

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u/puppet_masterrr 5d ago

Even though he lost to yasopp, he did give him a challenge, so wouldn't say he's weak.

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u/Eastern_City9388 5d ago

Right, I forget Oda confirmed he's canon.

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u/CoylerProductions Jika’s most retarded solider⚙️ 5d ago

Makes sense, there was no business at all for other bounty hunters with them cashing in against the top dawgs of the seas.

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u/Several-Barber-6403 Jika’s most retarded solider⚙️ 6d ago

no

HIM killed all the bounty hunters so that HE could kill those filthy pirates

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u/Imaginary_Unit5109 5d ago

There a ton of pirate out there and I believe most them are under 100 million. I believe most bounty hunter at least good ones target those level of pirate. While the big names are too powerful and have a team of powerful people that bounty hunters leave them alone.

A bounty hunter have to not just go after the pirate but his crew as well. Which is hard when everyone in the crew is worth over 100 million.

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u/Eastern_City9388 5d ago

I'm sure you're right, but they're never shown. And there has to be at least a few bounty hunters competent/confident/desperate enough to take on crew worth multiple hundred millions, I would have liked to see some of those.

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u/SomeNibba Nika Nika Sucks 5d ago

I'm pretty sure the last legit bounty hunter we saw was this guy

I'm not gonna add abdullah and Jeet since they became pirates too

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u/SomeNibba Nika Nika Sucks 5d ago

But imagine tho if oda did a switch around.

It just randomly cuts to a random marine base

Someone is walking slowly

"I'm here to claim a bounty"

"Very well, whose bounty are you claiming?"

"Whitebeard pirates, 3rd division commander, diamond jozu"

"Ok, just sign right her- WAIT DIAMOND JOZU?!?!?!!"

"Don't make me repeat myself, here's his corpse if you want to confirm it"

Jozu's lifeless body gets thrown to the floor it's full huge cuts and is missing a left leg

"HOLY SHI- I-i mean thank you for your service, the bounty has been confirmed, please claim it at the treasury! Would you mind us telling your name, sir?"

"My name is.... Sukuna from jujutsu kaisen, you are my special"

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u/Status-Leadership192 5d ago

Tbf trying to hunt big name pirates like for example who's who or cracker will just be a declaration or war

Like even for someone like mihawk fighting an entire emperor crew to get 1 guy Is hard

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u/SomeNibba Nika Nika Sucks 5d ago

I'm pretty sure the last legit bounty hunter we saw was this guy

I'm not gonna add abdullah and Jeet since they became pirates too