conclusion: he saves people bc he has a golden heart and whatnot but always, always makes sure to go for the Edgyest™ answer possible like when he trolled Chopper into believing that he sliced up the children
I never forgot but kind of become unaware of the scene where Luffy just fucking. goas back to Marineford, accompanied by Jinbei and Rayleigh, a former Shihcibukai and the Pirate King’s right hand only to get himself into the papers. I’ve never seen a scene with such a chaotic neutral big dick energy before
I’ve been thinking about this and I think I get why it seems like so mindblowingly, terrifyingly insane even by Luffy’s standards who’s been pulling shit like this since day one.
We always see the crazy stuff he does from his point of view, so we understand the motive. Ee are the the preparations, we know what his actual goal is, why exactly he got himself into whatever he does, but here??
We are just like the Marines and everyone else, totally clueless, then this batshit crazy Strawhat rubber kid just strolls into Marineford AGAIN, like a week after the war and Ace’s death, with fucking Rayleigh and Jinbei at his side. And then he just ignores everyone and rings that bell a wierd number of times??? Places a few flowers?? And then he promptly fucks off again?
What in the goddamn…???!
This is literally the first and maybe only time we see Luffy as the other people in One Piece’s world see him, how the Goverment and the Marine high commend does, and shit.
Suddenly we understand why everyone worth their salt is scared shitless of this kid.
interrogation scene in a movey where the guy refuses to cooperate and he’s like “fuck you” and spits blood and the people interrogating him are like “what the fuck. nobody’s even hit you yet. where did you get all that blood from”