The Gorosei Could Have Ended The Yonko (But Chose Not To)

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00:00 Intro
1:59 Why The World Government Could Have Defeated The Yonko
7:20 The True Balance Of The World Explained

[Monkeytheluffy]

Doflamingo's monologue in impeldown makes even more sense.
"Tell the celestial dragons that they will be dragged down to the hell from their high heavens".

[申月営無営月無営有申]

You Know One Piece is In the Endgame Once all the Gorosei got off their crusty ahhses after 25+ years

[jc_siah]

Alr yall we gotta apologize to dragon, he just always knew what was up and is super patient

[JP-zbyb]

There was actually a pirate that disturbed the Gorosei enough, that was doflamingo blackmailing them with his knowledge of their taboos. And look what happened, as soon as it concerned them, they went to Cp0 to handle it instead of leaving it to only the marines.

[Throwaway-bwrc]

I don’t think the “balance of power” was a lie. I think it was meant in the context of the blue sea world. While it’s obvious how the warlords and marines acted as pillars of the world government, it seemed like the yonko were the opposition. This isn’t the case, they were third pillar propping up the WG albeit unknowingly. They kept each other in check. They were too busy fighting among each other to make a play for the one piece or build a force that could take on the WG. Additionally they acted as great filter taking out potential upstarts in the New World who might cause problems for the WG in the future. Up until Luffy that is. The balance of power wasn’t between pirate and government. It was a balance propping up the aristocracy. Making them untouchable.

[pm]

Gorosei looking down on yonko playing pirates on the blue sea 🍷🗿

[josephs.]

10:45 this makes a lot of sense and explains the importance of the revolutionary army attacking their food supply. What we are seeing now in One Piece is the first real interruption to the the livelihood of the Celestial Dragons

[zero]

Celestial dragons want control from behind the scenes. Make sense why they wouldnt want to use their power. Its about controlling the narrative and the people, not just reigning down power on everyone

[Mgauge]

This also explains why Dragon has been so inactive: he knows how the world really works and that all this pirate drama is just a distraction from the true enemy. He's got his eyes on the real enemy and has to build up as much as possible and wait until the proper time to make his move.

[sangotade]

The truth is, we know the world government is more powerful regardless of the scaling because they are in control of the world. People be way too focused on power scaling.

[MrxD-cgxs]

I actually have the theory that Kaido did face off against them before and suffered a crushing defeat, which turned him into the depressed drunk we know him as today.
We know Kaido was very different back in the day from Alber's flashback, but as of right now we have no knowledge on what caused his demeanor to change so drastically over the years.
We also know Kaido's end goal was a total war to bring down the government and his obsession with strength makes a lot more sense when we assume he actually knows what he is up against.

If we further expand on this, said defeat could also be what caused Kaido to give up on his ambitions of being Joy Boy (his shift in demeanor).
We know he has been staying in Wano for very specific reasons (as stated during his confrontation with Yamato) and I assume that is because he knew Wano would be the place where the actual Joy Boy was destined to reemerge. As such Kaido now acted as sort of a gatekeeper for the title, he knew what Joy Boy would be up against, he knew he himself was not strong enough to overcome this foe and so he came to the conclusion that the real Joy Boy would have to be stronger than him to stand a chance.
With that mindset he tested many over the years, beating every single one of them. Over the years he started to lose hope that Joy Boy would ever come, further fueling his depression, until he met Luffy. Luffy was the first to actually give him a good fight in a very long time and Kaido seemed genuinely happy about it. My interpretation is that Kaido actually had hopes Luffy might be the one to take him down and become the next Joy Boy, which would also explain his disappointed look and the comment "turns out you couldn't be Joy Boy either" when he thought he had beaten him.
This would also serve as an explanation for why Kaido didn't just dodge Luffy's Bajrang Gun, instead he put all his strength into trying to withstand it sort of as a final test for Luffy.
I actually believe Kaido wanted to lose this fight.

So yeah, I'm probaply reading way too much into this character, but I think this would make sense as an explanation for both Kaido's backstory and the final clash between him and Luffy being the way it was.
And that's the fun in theories, now let's see Oda dismantle every word I said when he reveals Kaido's actual backstory lol

[marcusc]

Whitebeard was one foot in the grave when he arrived at Marineford, and got an 8 foot long sword through the heart before facing his first admiral there.

[J-xp]

I think even though the WG with Admirals and Gorosei and everyone else could technically take out all the yonko and their crews, to the WG it’s more about keeping that common enemy of pirates they can sort of use to rule over the common citizens with fear. Part of the reason people on the islands in the one piece world don’t leave the island and travel to others is because of a fear of pirates even if it’s a baseless fear or not other than the fear of just the rough seas the fear of pirates is a big thing that keeps the island separated and from joining together.

[The_Ciple]

This video is a great example of how Power Scaling is an essential part of World Building, especially in One Piece.

[tuberialolicon-tanuki]

Even by the end this analysis is extremely generous to the yonko. They are not an united front, at most the celestial dragons would only need to take two at a time.

[thkhoa]

I think when Oda decided to completely wreck his "Trinitas" by showing how utterly broken the Gorosei are, thereby showing how easily the other 2 forces can be obliterated, he really raised the bar for the last arc and shits are getting real.

[Blaktimus]

It was ALWAYS suspicious that the WG had people that were like 1/4th the strength of ONE SINGLE half dead yonkou and his crew. That the gorosei needed to use shichibukai to do what they themselves could have done was always kinda stupid to me. To have these powers just roam 'under control' in their systems makes soo much more sense.

[Mr.Muscaria]

I started watching one piece when it first Aired....I'm now a 33 year old man and still read and watch it weekly. I can't phathom a world where the anime I've had for more of my life then not is finally over.

[kodra]

The whitebeard heart attack bit is hilarious wow

[stevejones]

Got me thinking about the meaning of the story. Basically both sides are completely captured and controlled without knowing it. Nothing can be done physically to overcome this. Only can you rise above this in spirit.