Luffy & Blackbeard Are 2 Sides Of The Same Coin

A scene analysis of Marshall D. teach and his iconic moment of "A man's dream will never die" in Mock Town on Jaya.
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Blackbeard a mans dream will never end. This is for sure one of the more action-filled moments that I think easily makes the cut for this scene analysis series. Arriving in Mock Town on Jaya, Luffy meets Blackbeard, the main antagonist of one piece in a very unassuming and interesting way. The blackbeard speech always gives me goosebumps. But the conflict in the pub with Bellamy and his men also is an important part in this moment I believe, since the main theme here is that of Dreams. Nami, Luffy and Zoro stating their dream to find the sky island and marshall d teach stating that peoples dreams never end might end up to be one of the most important scenes of the series, especially when looking at any blackbeard theory. These are The Best One Piece Moments Revisited.
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00:00 - Introduction
03:06 - The Scene Revisited
07:53 - Breakdown & Analysis
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Various tracks licensed from Epidemic Sound
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[Psydank]

Also here's something else. When Shanks was confronted in Windmill Village, Luffy got mad and Shanks was chill. When Luffy got confronted in mocktown, Luffy was calm and Nami was mad. Now fast forward to Return to Sabody, when Nami was confronted by the fake straw hats, she kept her cool and ignored them. She learned from Luffy

[michaelmatisse]

I also liked Blackbeard in Impel Down, where he talks about destiny. After facing Magellan he says ''you do what you have to do and you die only if it is your destiny'', that is the definition of ''fearlessness''

[General_Li_Shin]

"It's not him, it's them" - the number of theories that came out of this one line is just amazing !!!

[oblivion]

Zoro not doing anything even when Nami was yelling at him to fight back due to Luffy ordering him not to is such a amazing showcase to his loyalty to Luffy

[VolcanicGoku]

It's so strange how Blackbeard gives a speech on the importance of dreams, and Luffy, who champions this idea throughout the story and always smiles at this kind of talk, instead just stares right through Teach. Luffy has ignored people before, and stared at them with anger and hatred, but I can't recall another moment where he stares at someone with such emptiness in his eyes.

[kinGsaL]

"When you aim high you often come across fights that aren't worth fighting" - *Marshall D. Teach* - Best Quote In One Piece

[justnbody.]

This is why Oda is a genius, he made us like blackbeard in the start but then boom, tricked us all by making him the biggest villain

[ahmadsantoso]

It is also a coincidence that Luffy bounces everything thrown at him, while Blackbeard absorbs

[okdre]

This may be a reach, but I love how height is used between Luffy and Blackbeard. In the bar, Blackbeard is literally looking down on Luffy whereas Luffy is looking up. But then at Blackbeards speech you can see that when he sat down their eyes meet at the same height. They both respect each other and share the same ideals. He doesn't talk down on Luffy, but rather sees him as an equal pirate.
And later on, after Blackbeards actions, when they meet again in Impel Down we have that panel of Blackbeard towering over Luffy looking down on him, as he got stronger and turned into Luffys biggest enemy. So yeah, maybe a reach, but maybe not. You never know with Oda

[NaturalHypertrophy]

That's the moment when I knew Blackbeard wasn't just going to be a funny background character to bounce Luffy jokes off of. It's also what makes him so ambivalent to me: on one hand I detest him for what he did to Ace but on the other I cannot help but respect his freedom and way of life

[eliashala]

It's so ironic that when we first saw blackbeard we thought blackbeard was good guy and when we saw whitebeard we thought he was a bad guy. But we were all wrong.

[robitector]

Why I’ve instantly got to like Blackbeard is because he‘s potentially an even bigger dreamer than Luffy... He‘s considerably older and more knowledgable of the world, its history and also the timing of the new era that he‘s been ever so patiently waiting for. He‘s had a 10 times more direct path in rising to power than Luffy by confronting exponentially more powerful opponents in the same timespan Luffy has. He‘s essentially a stronger, smarter, evil Luffy... Now was there ever a more complementing antagonist to a protagonist than Blackbeard is? I guess not

[TheHecg]

Blackbeard is Luffy without Shanks, Garp, Ace, Sabo, Makino, Dadan etc. to show him what true freedom is. His role models and morals were there before he joined Whitebeard’s crew.

Remember Luffy would rather die than be alone, Blackbeard was probably used to being alone.

[MonkeyDLuis-jhsg]

Love how Oda made the antagonist (though we didn't knew at the time) serve as a motivator for his protagonist . Genius writting right there 👍

[mahjongasaur]

Blackbeard actually being 3 brothers is also a perfect mirror for Luffy. Blackbeard has 2 blood brothers, whereas Luffy has 2 "adopted" brothers. Luffy and his brothers have been separated during their travels. Blackbeard and his brothers, on the other hand, have been together (literally, after he ate the devil fruit)

[ladybookworms]

I was really impressed by how Nami could drag both Luffy and Zoro about town like that. Still am.

[Tensai]

Like how oda giving small characters a great introduction but give the main villain of the story simplest introduction ever

[funkmasterhexbyte]

To understand why Luffy didn't fight back, consider the park bench scene from Good Will Hunting:
> Sean: Thought about what you said to me the other day, about my painting. Stayed up half the night thinking about it. Something occurred to me... fell into a deep peaceful sleep, and haven't thought about you since. Do you know what occurred to me?
> Will: No.
> Sean: You're just a kid, you don't have the faintest idea what you're talkin' about.

Luffy is ready to defend himself against someone who has insulted his dreams. But then, as Luffy listens to the guy explain himself, it occurs to Luffy what kind of life this man must be living.

This is a guy who genuinely believes that dreams are worthless, that putting your life at risk for your ambitions is a waste. How miserable must that be? This man will never experience the unparalleled joy of getting that one step closer to your goal, or reminisce about the crazy things you've experienced in your journey to get there. This man, who has never even experienced the kind of "dreams" he's denouncing, is trying to call them worthless.

What possible satisfaction could you get from beating him up? It isn't "evil" that he doesn't believe in dreams, it's just... sad.

[Usernameping]

I love how the bounties are brought to the focus in this arc as well. Luffy lives for a bigger bounty. His infamy is arguably a sign of his progression in his goal. But not Blackbeard. He sees other people’s bounties as how they can be used for his goals, but has no bounty himself. He doesn’t even get a bounty until his goal requires him to perform infamous acts. Until he’s practically a yonkou in his own right.

[mrbow]

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