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In *just this arc* Blackbeard has gotten: -Law’s Road Poneglyph rubbings -Pudding, who can read them -Garp as leverage against the WG -A crewmember being able to impersonate a gorosei -Caribou, with knowledge of TWO ancient weapons This guy is an absolute menace. Not even Luffy has ever done this much in just one arc.

Blackbeard sneaking into Mariejois is top tier planning. Imagine if they take it over at one point. I feel we also gotta remember the Celestial Dragons are still on lockdown due to the Revs. Now imagine if a Quake man and a Island Human(Avalo) sneak into the Holy Land. Imagine Avalo fusing with the Red Line 😮

The best part about Blackbeard is that we the readers view him the same way the rest of the world views Luffy. And he now recruited an admiral to his side after Luffy gained a warlord. And now he has his own fan in Caribou. All thats left to highlight is the difference in growth.

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Observation haki is not the reason I'm incredulous about the Gorosei not sussing out Devon Saturn, it's that Saturn has been working closely with the other 4 elders for decades if not centuries. Previous examples of clone impersonation are the top of a sovereign hierarchy fooling their subjects or momentarily tricking a close relation before a sneak attack. Not that this doesn't fit, only that it if it the case, it need handled with care. The Gorosei could look very smooth brained not seeing through her performance that seemingly would be entirely based off one brief conversation.

If Luffy takes care of 1 of BB's goals, im going to assume Van Auger is the one who fed Luffy.

I can see Blackbeard making it all the way to Imu and getting immediately humbled in a Magellan 2.0 situation

Van Augur telling Saturn Blackbeard’s ultimate plan is pretty much the biggest death flag for Saturn. Gonna be disappointed if he doesn’t die in this arc.

Blackbeard’s entire MO is “Work smarter, not harder.”

What doesn't work for me in Katarina impersonating Saturn in that way is that the old fart should have a vast worth of knowledge that she simply wouldn't have. The five crapolds start talking and she's out of her depth immediately. I don't see how they wouldn't notice without Oda's help.

After the Revolutionary's infiltration, Sabo having info of Imu's existence and Vivi escaping I doubt that Imu and the Gorosei will have their guard down enough for BB to pull off an assassination attempt. Imu has BB on his list so, if anything, if he was to be let into Mariejois somehow and for some reason because the Reverie already happened, the one that's in danger of being killed is BB himself.

Its proof that Blackbeard as a genius is not to be underestimated

If the plan gets to happen off-scree you know he is going to win.

Even better we saw that Saturn just stayed on his room all alone when going to egghead.

The only but i have with this theory is that BB pirates arrived to Egghead before the marines fleet arrived , so they were there before Saturn was confirmed. So, this was an improvisation, they wanted anyone with enough authority to supplant, or they had intel that a gorosei would arrive to the island

Personally I don't find this theory very satisfying - You have a devised a convoluted way for Blackbeard to be made a king, but it presumes Devon has the capacity to not only impersonate a Gorosei's appearance, but also their personality/knowledge. My gut feeling is if the gorosei are duped so easily it would feel contrived. - The gorosei should be aware of Devon's powers, and this make all of this feel even more contrived, especially when Saturn starts suddenly advocating for him - Even if Blackbeard is made a king, it is very unlikely the Gorosei will trust him, and "access" to marie geoise even if granted would be questionably advantageous. Blackbeard showing up would certainly be red alert. - And I also question the timeline here, for Blackbeard to become a regular king and having the time to somehow utilize that, while also having a purpose for the poneglyphs IMO Blackbeard will do something else with Devon's power

Very interesting that part of Blackbeard’s story arc has been being a man from the sheer bottom of society achieving social mobility to the top through any means necessary. Through kindness, through subterfuge, through state power.

oda bringing saturns buddies destroying this wonderful theory

I don't think impersonating Saturn would work with Imu and the other Gorosei, not because of observation Haki, but just because I would think after 800 years they would know each other other pretty well. Impersonation could definitely get them in the door but any extended stay would definitely make them suspicious. They would know that there are at least 2 Devil fruits that allow someone to impersonate others, one of them being Catarina, one of most dangerous pirates on a Yonko's crew. Maybe she could trick them for a single meeting but what does she do after that? Just leave and then Saturn is MIA? Does she stay there for days, astronomically increasing the risk of them realizing Saturn is not behaving normally? Unless her power gives you the memories, personalities, and or powers of who they impersonate, I don't know how this could really pan out. She MIGHT be able to copy the powers of the person she copies just because she showed curiosity in Saturn's, but even still. I don't think the top 5 people in the world would fall for the "oh i forgot what we talked about in our last 800 years of meetings, can you remind me?"

I think it'll be hard to Devon to act and respond exactly like Saturn without accessing his knowledge. You can't just fake that for long

11:35 I think observation is less of an "activation" and more like Spider Sense. As it is primarily meant to protect the user from harm it's easy to fool if nothing is threatening you and you're unaware that there's something to be looking for. This is why Carrot snuck onto the Straw Hat's ship easily, Blackbeard snuck an entire crew with a ship into Marineford's battle of elites, and Katakuri didn't know there was a mob watching and assisting him while he fought Luffy: all those actions had no innate harm to any of the subjects involved

While this is more speculative, I find it hard to believe that the nine-tail fox fruit and the clone-clone fruit will work in the exact same way ability-wise, I'd imagine the nine-tail fox is more powerful due to being a mythical zoan. So what if the fox fruit also allows you to change the appearance of other people? In which case Blackbeard can take a significant shortcut and just turn himself into Saturn

By the last chapter Catarina complaint about them not being off the island already, the plan isn't to take Saturn's place right here, right now. They may even use Saturn's appearance to take information from Garp.

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considering lafitte's introduction to the story was sneaking into marie geois I feel like the reason he wants a country has to be for something more ambitious than just gaining access to the holy land, with van augur now if his goal is to infiltrate and kill imu he's more than equipped already

While there's a lot of focus on Katarina impersonating Saturn for politics, let's also not forget that the Gorosei are also the top authority for all of the Pacifistas/Seraphim (excluding Bonnie). Is Blackbeard going to have the WG come to rescue Garp only to have their Pacifistas/Seraphims turn on them via Katarina's Saturn transformation taking authority?

Good video but i think it's hilarious we just jump right to them knowing Saturn is an imposter because of observation haki and not simply hey Saturn acting different and does not know high level information and protocol.

As always, your theory certainly makes a valid argument which could happen in the future. But while watching the video, I had another thought which represent an alternate viewpoint. Assume the blackbeard is able to infiltrate the WG but eventually, Gorosei and Imu figures it out and Kill him, assuming by the time BB is already well know than what he currently is. In that case, it would be proved how WGs and Imu survived the 800 years so far reigning on the top. This will also make them a formidable enemy which would question how would luffy face them and what the strawhats will do. This is just a theory ofc, as I also feel BB eventually needs to be defeated by Luffy and not anybody else and I also agree with your point in the video, but what if everything I wrote above turns out to be true, but I too feel that would be highly unlikely. (Also, this is the longest comment by me on any video so far and also validates my one of the earlier comments on your video Mr. Morj where I said that yours is the only channel with most of the comments being the longest comments). Thank you for reading, everyone who did.

I never thought about it, but if the Marines capturing Roger and executing him was a world changing event, Black Beard capturing and executing Garp would be an event on the same level but on the opposite direction. The WG can't afford to let this happen.

I’m 10000% sure that no matter what Imu will kill off Katarina later into the story and just to pretend to think that she’s Saturn.

Great job with that elaborate explanation Mr. Morj! I always enjoy your commentary and insight on One Piece. Please, keep up the good work! ❤

Imagine the size of the bargaining chips BB's going to have once Caribou tells him his knowledge on the Ancient Weapons. If he still needs them at this point.

Devon impersonating Saturn should give her control over the Seraphim

Thematically this is perfect too. Luffy's actions have also strangely aided BB everytime i feel like, making it a correct parallel.

Boy did this immediately not age well. But to be fair, absolutely nobody expected Oda to escalate the conflict from both sides the way he did.

I have a theory that Teach and Dragon cut a deal to work together to take down the Celestial dragons when they met and probably fought at Baltigo. We've heard next to nothing in like 300 chapters since that conflict. It would fit both Teach and Dragon's master planner character traits. And as a pirate and Rev they don't have any natural conflict. It would be cool to see all the will of D boys take down Imu together then battle it out after.

Maybe Blackbeard has someone he wants to unpetrify (Boa Hancock could have lied about previous users being unable to). He won't need Hancock if he has S-Snake under his command via Caterina Devon posing as a Gorosei.

Imu is using Observation Haki all the time. Its why he's such a Godlike Being to the Celestial Dragons. In fact it will play part of why he betrayed Joyboy. He knew he would betray him all along. But most important his Observation Haki is not perfect, it shows what he wants. Which is why everything he has planned was for his Great Plan. He can see far into the future and even alternate futures, and all this time everything he has done was to ensure that Alternate Future is the one that becomes the True Future. Its why everyone is irrelevant for him. So long as that Goal is reached. He is haunted by how Good his Observation Haki is, so good that it can see specific parts of alternate futures.

BB did in ten chapters what it took Luffy to do in 20 years of story he’s the greatest mastermind I’ve seen in shonnen he’s gonna be Aizen level by the end of the show in terms of planning 😊

Personally, I think that Blackbeard aim is to control the seraphim with Devon, not to sneak into Mariejois. After touching Saturn, Auger and Devon said that this was an unforeseen blessing and even better than their original goal. I believe that their original goal was for Devon to touch Vegapunk in order to control the Seraphim, since they didn't assume a Gorosei was going to make an appearance. And because Saturn is even higher than Vegapunk on the hierarchy, it's even better for the BB Pirates since no one would be able to take away control of the Seraphim.

I’ve been anticipating this theory since your 1107 stream, can’t wait to finally see what you have to say.

Theres one thing that doesnt make sense for this theory. Why does Blackbeard need Garp, when he could just use Saturn (Devon) as a Pawn for negotiating? If Saturn dies on Egghead, but nobody from the government knows, then he could just claim that he rescued/captured him, to use the disguised Devon as a pawn why simultaneously getting her into the inner circle. Also why did they claim the mission to be complete, when saturn isnt even defeated yet? Why count on luffy to beat saturn, when they could stay around, to make sure he dies.

Garp's capture's importance will either be off screened, or shown later, maybe in Elbaf, in the side like in egghead. And things will get more and more chaotic.

Maybe Katarina poses as Saturn in chains for the Gorousei to see

Always a good time listening to some Morj thoughts, thank you for your videos! A pleasure on a nice day!

Honestly if we stick with the 3 devil fruit theory, and expect the gorosei (or even Imu) to have mythical zoans, it would be series-defining to have BB take Imu’s devil fruit now that he has access to Imu. BB would have the strongest fruits from each category, and it would pin Luffy against the strongest foe possible

Where does finding the One Piece fit into Blackbeard's plan? Maybe that's necessary either to kill Imu or for what comes after killing Imu?

Too many holes in this theory. First, BB had no way of knowing Saturn would be there. Thus it's likely their original target was someone reported to be on the island. Second, this plan does not account for Saturn living. The plan needs to work regardless of the outcome here. You were so close Morj. BB had an agent on Doflamingo's island. He knows Doffy had blackmail info on the WG. From BBs perspective it's reasonable to assume that Doffy, confronted with a Gorosei or an ASSASSIN, would raise the matter of his blackmail in an attempt to barter for his life. Doffy is cut off from info so it doesn't matter if their target dies. That gives BB the same leverage Doffy had, as well as setting up his play for the empty throne.

the one thing we havent considered is saturn being the bargaining chip

You did *NOT* cook but, it is indeed BLACKBEARD’S ERA!

Do we know if Blackbeard knows about Imu? As far as I remember the only people who we have confirmed knowledge of Imu's existence is The Gorosei, Sabo/The Heads of the Revolutionary Army, Vivi, and Wapol?

I mean if they do take over Marijois, Avalo then can become the Red Line with his Devil fruit, that would actually be insane. Circling back at what the giants said about a ‘giant snake soaked in blood’ that surrounds the planet.

This is a spot on theory on Blackbeard's timeline Morj and i think his character complex gives us more insight into his role in the story as a final villain; Both he and luffy have a dream to become King (of the world- Teach & of the pirates- Luffy). Whereas Luffy represents liberation from oppression mirrored by his Pirate King ambition, Teach represents oppression with his King of the World ambition - Oda has hinted to us that he is the exact opposite of Luffy in his introduction. Thats why instead of killing Imu, he may take his powers including that which sustains the theorized artificial Red Line and his role as King.

Blackbeard walking into Marisjois with Shanks head 😭😭😭

I wonder what was the BB Pirates actual goal on Egghead. I think it has to do something with Vegapunk or the Seraphim, Saturn landing there gave them a fortune shortcut though.

Blackbeard could just use “Saturn” as the barganing chip

one of my favorite videos, loved it

Imagine if Devon’s df gives her access to memories

MOOOORJ you speedreader. Saturn being there was dortuitous but that wasn't their objective at first. They came there for another mission and saw a shortcut by finding Saturn there, impersonating a Gorosei would be improvisation.

shanks is walking around using conquerors haki all the time

Latest chapter seems to have confirmed the elder stars can communicate telepathically. Therefore Katerina would not be able to successfully fool the others.

And that kid on Skypeia... she had always on observation haki, but seems to have been straight up born with it

Devon better hope that Imu is not a person who doesn’t tolerate failure and kill her on the spot lol

I feel like Imu and the Gorosei would notice the switch anyway, Observation or not. These men have lived together literal centuries and probably seen a lot weirder things than impersonation and doppelgangers. But that still doesn't mean they can do anything about it. It'd be some really big egg on their face if the truth came out. So they'd be forced to play along, at least for a while.

No one talking about how devina (the 9 tails fox user) might have touched garp meaning she has his appearance and a goresei's appearence

Great video as usual.

10:45 it’s not just thanks to Luffy that they get to mimic Saturn, it’s also thanks to the StrawHats Blackbeard is going to know about the ancient weapon locations, … and thanks to them that Fishmen Island will be attacked.

BB can possibly control seraphim now via devon (saturn appearance). "Mission Completed" maybe bcuz the real reason they went to egghead is to get that command authority for seraphim by copying vegapunk. And since saturn is there it make "easier" for them to complete that mission. 💀

I don’t think Observation Haki can always be used to determine is someone is a phony or not. It’s more about foresight and reading intentions. I’m sure some characters would be able see things others can’t with observation though.

i like the theory, but does blackbeard even know imu exists?

Good video as always Morj. I got the impression the BB pirates were retreating for now, especially from Devons comment on how they were still on the island.

Don't forget that Pudding can see ppl's memories.

i got to save this to watch later but thank you for making this video. i always said blackbeard was my favorite villain next to azula from avatar the last Airbender. and the fact oda mentioned his hobbies are studying history make so much sense. his planning ability while not perfect as shown when Magellan literally almost kill him. it still impressive.. he plan his rise to power since being on wb ship. his break in of impel down. how he stole wb power then all his territory was genius..

On observation haki: as I understand it the basic application is letting you see that somebody is there, like knowing how many enemies there are and where they are + in a fight you get to read the oponent's moves. I'm not sure it's stated anywhere you can figure out somebody's identity through observation haki. That means it's reasonable to assume observation haki is as vulnerable as regular sight when it comes to imitating appearance

Devon tapped Saturn in his beast form... Does that mean she can transform into his 'human' form as well, or only beast mode?

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Sounds like the next "raid in Onigashima will fail" theory soup to me. And I'm here for it

The way my jaw dropped at 7:45 when it clicked in my head where this theory was going 😭

My only problem with this theory is that you’re assuming the other Gorosei and Imu don’t have Vivre Cards. So I don’t think the real Saturn can die and Catarina be able to fool the other Gorosei and Imu. Unless her fruit gives her all his memories and Abilities it would be trash if they fell for that BS after living 900 years

2:42 this is Buggy D Clown slander I will not tolerate, know your masterminds behind greatest jailbreak in history

bro blackbeard is like that one kid who was able to get the answer key for the test EVERYTIME

Basically Kizaru is getting his shit rocked before the Saturn Switcheroo happens

But Gorosei are in some way internally linked. Can't just take one out and send a mimic in there without them knowing.

Black beard plan only works if Morgan does not print the news that Saturn was defeated because if they do, then the gorosei would know Saturn was defeated

The end of the video really tied it all together. Great theory. I hope Oda briefly explains what the BB pirate were attempting in Egghead in the first place. Perhaps, Devon was only going to impersonate Vegapunk or Kizaru to first enable Devon's access to Mary-Joe's before imprinting on a Gorosei. The unexplained happen-stance is otherwise hard to digest.

seeing Van Augur stake BB's claim over the world last chapter reminded me of what i imagine the original celestial dragons may have been like back in the void century. i feel like they can really take over the world

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It seems VERY likely that Von Augur was the one to put luffy next to the food machine as well with the warp fruits, which adds an additional layer that Blackbeard may have been responsible for luffy beating Saturn and the escape of the straw hats. Awesome vids as always Morj, I’m always looking forward to weekly vids in my feed

Scary part luffy would probably be integral to the plan. Knowing luffy it's gonna be an all out war so he's gonna be the distraction so the gorosei leaves imu then the BB pirates jumps imu. Now after that the stage has been set, BB might be out numbered but there's a likelihood that BB after defeating Imu has access to the ancient weapon so the straw hats are in a pigeonhold to fight them crew to crew. I swear if the god valley incident is gonna be the foreshadow how BB and luffy's fight turns out I'm gonna flip

The problem is Black has to kill imu to win and until we get any actual information regarding Imu, even just a face revel. That is never going to happen. I suspect that Blackbeard decapitation strike might fail spectacularly and force him to race to get the one peice for any chance at victory. A last gambit to get the power needed to beat Imu.

This makes sense! Maybe Catharina's fruit allows here to, not only impersonate others with contact, but she can also get access to their personnality/memories. That would make here inflitration make sense, and Blackbeard would also know the whearabouts of Uranus and Imu (supposing that Uranus is in Marijoie), and many other things.

An option I never would have considered but goddamn it makes a lot of sense

If the gorosei are immortal, I would presume that they would quickly suspect Katirina's identity. They should all know each other pretty well even if they are just acquaintances. There could be a lot of small telltale signs that point to Saturn being a fake like maybe he sits down in the same spot every time. Also, I would presume Kizaru would leave with Saturn unless he dies or fully leaves the Marines, which I don't see, and it also looks like Katirina is leaving now, so I would guess that she isn't immediately infiltrating Marygeoise.

I feel like oda named the island/arc egghead not just based on the structure. egghead is usually an insult to smart ppl. but the idea of the term “egghead” reaches more than just punk records and vegapunk. blackbeard is an evil mastermind schemer; one of the best tacticians in one piece. in my head cannon, oda titled the arc after the island’s concept specifically because of the egghead-ish ideas of blackbeard himself. this arc is to show how cunning blackbeard truly is. he went after whoever went to winner island to get their poneglyph rubbings, got redundant devil fruits for his crew mates, utilizing them to the best of their abilities to divide and conquer, captured pudding n garp n is going to become king to have easy access to mariejois. this arc is the best showing of blackbeard yet. and with caribou getting a spotlight moment as the antithesis to bartolemeo, with knowledge on the ancient weapons as well, blackbeard is sure to be an even greater force to be reckoned with. luffy isn’t set on conquering the world and is focused on his dream of freedom. if oda had written luffy as anything else, blackbeard would have been foiled a while ago. but as tensions and stakes rise, there may be a race to the ancient weapons in the foreseeable future if any straw hat appears to realize caribou’s presence as they mentioned any ancient weapons after his disappearance too. this arc is single handedly a 10/10 so far. I feel as tho he’s going to try to crush luffy’s dream further by claiming the one piece to make luffy act out of rage again and cloud his judgement during their battle.

Luffy defeating Saturn and opening the way for BB to infiltrate Mary Geoise is such a good parallel to Luffy defeating Crocodile and opening the way for BB to infiltrate Impel Down

1) The Gorosei might not grant BB's wish to become a king in exchange for Garp. This would be possible if BB captured Garp in secret, but now all the pirates on Hachinosu will spread rumors of Garps defeat. So granting BB king status in exchange for Garp won't save face at all, which is the main reason they'd consider it in the first place. 2)But now the question is, will Katarina's "mimic" ability allow her to communicate telepathically with the Gorosei as well? Because if yes, she can listen in on their communications, if no then the gorosei will discover her deception. 3) ALSO, Kat isn't always using future sight though. If he can't maintain calmness he can't use FS. With this alone it seems like he's not on Shanks or Kaido's level of observation, or probably even nowhere near. More like slightly above noob level of FS

I think it'll play out slightly differently. I think Teach ends up winning the One Piece first (later to be taken by Luffy), then he goes for the throne of the world. But I've been saying this forever. Teach is the final villain, he'll probably be the next Pirate King, and he'll be one to take out the Gorosei, imu, and the Celestial Dragons because Luffy can't kill them. The final war won't be against the WG we know, but Teachs WG.

BB has so much confidence in Luffy defeating satan Damn that’s some serious faith brada