I feel like Ace and whitebeard have become a lore character from how long I haven't seen them which is actually pretty cool

Ace is a character that just gets cooler the longer he's been gone.

Can't believe that after all this time, I still clicked on this thinking Ace could be coming back

Im so fast kizaru gon catch these hands one day Edit: wait how did i end up here ya'll giving me that ussop type anxiety

I say it on every Ace video, him giving up his dream to be adopted by whitebeard was absolutely heartbreaking

I'm still under the impression Shanks has Aizen level illusion powers and him having a hand in that party wasn't a mistake

Something worth mentioning is that Ace's Whitebeard tattoo was originally shaped like a swastika. Which I assume referred to the original sun symbolism.

I also really like that upon meeting Whitebeard, Ace had learned that he'd rather have a family that loves him rather than becoming/surpassing the Pirate King like his original goal was. After watching this video I feel like he might've been happier dying young than if he had achieved his original goal and lived the rest of his life naturally after that. Really makes you think about what's really important in life.

Well people seem to forget that why ace died... He sacrificed himself for luffy that means he also placed his bets on him. Ace dream was already fulfilled when he saw that he made such good friend who even raised havoc on marines for him!

One Piece Theory: Ace Was Always Supposed To Be Joyboy Shanks had originally intended on giving Ace the Gomu Gomu no Mi because he knew of Gol D Roger's intent for his son to bring about a new era. The opening scene of One Piece takes place in the East Blue, where Shanks, already one of the most powerful pirates in the world, has recently left the Grand Line and been stationed at Dawn Island for over a year- but why? With all of the information and history surrounding Shanks, Gol D. Roger, and Ace revealed in the Wano Arc, it’s clear that Ace was always the character who was meant to fulfill the role of Joyboy by inheriting Roger’s will, and Shanks was there to kickstart this journey. In One Piece chapter 1018, readers learn that Who’s Who was working for the World Government as a guard on a ship when “Red-Haired” Shanks besieged it and managed to steal the Gomu-Gomu no Mi. Who’s Who goes on to tell Jinbe that while in prison, a guard told him about the legend of the Sun God Nika, a mythical warrior who was said to bring laughter and smiles to those around him, and that the guard was silenced for even knowing about the tale. Later on, it’s also revealed that the Gomu Gomu no Mi is actually a Zoan type fruit called the Hito Hito no Mi: Model Nika. This is meant to invoke the aforementioned Sun God Nika, but it still doesn’t explain why Shanks went after this fruit in particular or why he beelined to Dawn Island immediately after taking it. There are several pieces of evidence pointing to the fact that Shanks traveled to Dawn Island after retrieving the Gomu Gomu no Mi in order to give it to the son of his former captain, Portgas D Ace. When Gol D. Roger learned that he possessed an incurable disease, he set out to make three major arrangements. The first, as he let on to Rayleigh, was to father a son. After this, Roger contacted his greatest rival in the marines, Garp, and asked him to raise the boy and protect him. The second was to reach out to Whitebeard and tell his longtime friend what he had learned about the true history of the world. This presumably included things such as the meaning of the ‘Will of D’ and what the One Piece actually is. Finally, Roger left his young comrade, Shanks, with an as-of-yet unknown message that caused Shanks to well up with tears. On their own, each of these pieces of information can only tell part of the story, but when looked at together, it becomes clear what Ace’s role in the world of One Piece was intended to be. Ace was meant to carry on Gol D Roger’s will after his death and bring about the dawn of the world. One Piece is littered with references to “the dawn of the world” and imagery about the sun finally rising after a dark night. The current regime of the World Government is meant to embody that night. Ace was always portrayed as the sun, the character who should have been destined to bring about this new dawn. He stood in contrast to the Yami Yami no Mi wielding Blackbeard, a character who represented the idea that the world could yet be plunged further into darkness. Gol D. Roger knew the true history of the world and decided that it would be his son who would bring about the dawn of a new era, and by piecing together all of this information, it is likely that Shanks stole the Gomu Gomu no Mi with the express purpose of giving it to Ace so he could fulfill the role his father always intended him to. If not for a turn of fate, Ace could have been One Piece’s Joyboy, but with his passing, his will now lives on in Luffy, the man who will inherit his mantle and one day become King of the Pirates.

Also goes to show why Shanks tried so hard to stop Ace from his path of revenge. He knew that by going down that path, it would lead to death

Ace is like the Anakin Skywalker to Luffy's Luke. The guy who was born to be the MC and accomplish all the things vs the MC who kind of fell into the role

ace's story is literally just "The brightest Start are also the ones to burn the fastest"

Ace was supposed to become pirate king but chose to sacrifice himself to fulfill his little brothers dream

There were a lot of expectations for Ace, everyone expected him to be the next Pirate including his dad, mom, WB and of course Shanks. But Ace will never be Pirate King cuz he never dreamed of becoming Pirate King, he wanted to make WB the Pirate King. He always saw himself as a follower of WB kinda like Marco the Phoenix. This is why he spent most of his time roaming around by himself instead of training to get stronger or forming a forbiddable crew. Everyone knows if you're gonna be Pirate King you need a strong crew to back you up even kid Luffy knew that much.

Yeah, about that cross on Ace's back...

I hope Sabo becomes strong enough with his DF/Haki to be the one that takes down Akainu, it just has to be him

If Ace had missed catching up with BB on Banaro Island, BB would have ended up at water 7 chasing Luffy, getting captured by Garp instead😅

ace just keeps getting better the longer he’s been gone.. but imagine how awesome he’d be if he was still alive 😔

Didn't Oda confirm that Ace wasn't meant to be Roger's kid until he started on Marineford? I think it was mentioned in an interview years ago.

Now that you brought up smiles, theory. What if the D Clan were the lineage factor of devil fruits. And trying to copy the devil fruit itself, Vegapunk got the linear factor and Caeser made the smiles from his research. An incomplete devil fruit.

I have been contemplating this for awhile. If you follow the "hero with a thousand faces" theorem, then Ace could/should have been the main character, but fate decided not. Shanks also could have been the main character, but fate decided not. Roger was the main character, but of the prequel. Luffy should have fallen many times, but fate decided to make him the main character. The hero with a thousand faces trope, is essentially, the hero comes from humble beginnings, often from tragedy, yet they have a sense of destiny. Be it inheritance, fate/god given destiny, etc. They struggle, find a wise old mentor who trains them. And then they strive to reach their destiny. Roger chose to give birth to the destiny of others, perhaps intending ace to be the hero. Ace gave it up to serve whitebeard. Roger trained shanks, shanks gave up his inheritance to bet on Luffy. Luffy is the unlikely hero, that almost has become the main character via happenstance.

Ace smiley hat things are actually reference to his last expressions before dying

seeing that preview of the coin being flipped reminded me of your videos back in the day starting with some game where if the viewer lost they would have subscribe and/or like the video. I was really amazed you kept it up for like a year or so

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Two and a half men combo XD Whitebeard is the two, and Garp is the half for leaving Ace with the mountain bandits and then letting him die.

The simple fact that Ace did not want to replace his father and hated his bloodline kind of nullifies him as a possible pirate king

Another point you hit on, If Rogers Crew knew a lad aged 19-20 was going to be the "one" then it was safe to bet on Ace as he was around 20 years old while luffy was only 17ish.

Ace was a special character in in one piece even tho if he lost all fights but yet remains legendary

the way roger and rouge concockted their business caught me offguard💀

The coin landing on the edge is when Sabo saves Ace from Akainu's punch.

I was NOT ready to laugh as hard as I did at 03:34 🤣🤣🤣

All along, the will of D was just the smile in ":D"

Man, the narrative and the way you conduct these videos are very good

An exception to the smiling D rule you mentioned. Law didn’t smile when doflamingo was about to kill him in dressrose

Liam. I've been watching your channel for like 5 years, and this might be my favorite video you've ever made. Well done bro

One aussie to another, dont stop the grind i love your content king

Hello! Love your theories! Watch your video's every day they come out! Love, from the netherlands!

U had to animate roger making ace....and I died laughing 🤣🤣🤣💀

I honestly think Teach kept Ace's hat as a trophy

“Will of dees nutts, cuz he’s my son.”🤣🤣🤣

3:35 Was this ever confirmed? If Roger cares about “freedom” half as much as Luffy, I don’t think he would impose his will upon Ace. The only thing we know he said to Rogue was to name him Ace or Anna.

I was eating a donut and than the "Oh no". I hope that was just a coincidence

In the end it was proven to be a fallacy. Ace got a donut and ended his pirate career.

Ace has been my favorite character since I first started reading One Piece years ago. It's so cool to see him still being involved in major flashbacks and important to other characters in the story. Once the nika fruit was revealed the sun similarities with Ace smacked me in the face. Oda is one clever bastard.

Just joined in with establish titles!! Happy to be part of the grand line fleet!! 🎉

ace be like to akainu:WHY MY FIRE NO WORK?

The D in Will of the D pointing downwards is smiling shape.😮

the will of 'D'is nuts got me good😁

I love how we can confidently say that if Luffy was captured instead, Ace would've been stupid enough not to ask whitebeard for help. There wouldn't have been nearly as much security, shanks would have shown up too, and I'm not as keen on thinking that Garp would hold his tongue when it comes to luffy. I think they definitely could both have survived in this case. Though, as we all know, despite him being as cool as he is, Ace never had his sabaody moment and is, therefore, still an idiot tactician.

I should not have laughed that hard at "The will of Deez nuts!", but it got me.

You caught me off guard when the roger bed puppet scene

i love the all the videos ur posting this week keep up the good work

It would have been cool if Uta would have brought Ace back in her dream world.

i like to point out how both ace and sabo both represent two things of nika, ace the sun and sabo the freedom, so its a nice touch that luffy who has the nika devil fruit grew up with two people who would go on to represent two important aspects of him

this starts to get really interesting around 3:38 and epic 🤯

My question is how the fuck did ace have conquerors haki,armament haki,observation haki,yet couldn't just grab luffy and run?

4:51 i have that action figure holding a disposable cart lol

The end of the sponsor section always makes me laugh "it's back to you....me". Why is that so funny?

"If Santa gave you coal, then you shall put in him a hole." - Akainu

Just a little shoutout to the animation of roger and rouge banging. Couldn’t be bothered for a time stamp but it’s relatively early on

Unrelated note. I believe Kuzan will have his "Blackbeard will become Pirate King" dialogue in the story. Mark my words.

Liam be spoiling us with so much sweet sweet One Piece (and HxH) content Delivered straight into our youtube feed lately, i mean how can you not simply adore this man.

🔥Happy Birthday to the feared pirate known as Fire Fist, Portgas D. Ace!🔥

I don’t think it was confirmed that buggy was raised from a baby by the rodger pirates but it’s definitely possible although i have a feeling he would’ve been found in a way more goofier way then shanks lol

The one alabasta bird everyone forgot about should switch lives with Ace; The man that should've lived vs the man who should've died.

@1:08 I thought it was Manu and I was like wow, he is really helping Liam out

Now that you mentionned that I just noticed Ace is a caracther that is the only son of the metaphorical god of pirates, who's first apparence is him wandering in the desert, and who is sold to the army by being betrayed by a former friend and who's father caring for him is adoptive.

the walnuts at 3:54 looked too close to skin

I like how when speaking about die , sanji apears becuase Ace help sanji light his smoke XD

10:18 I think you meant "Ménage à trois" ^^ I like your theory videos man Keep it up!

Ace's death in this video has me thinking if sakazuki is the greatest detriment to the marines. Killing Ace was always the plan but what was important is context. The whole over the top execution ceremony was meant to treat Ace as a terrible criminal who deserved death for the world to see but because of Sakazuki Ace died a Martyr who protected his younger brother, perhaps the worst PR the Navy can present to the world. On top of his actions at Ohara and later fight with Kuzan led to his detection from the marines, and Sakazuki's leadership leading to a lot of animosity and low moral, it is quite hard to see whether he does more harm or good to his own organization.

I wish Ace was still alive. He was such a cool character.

Liam made this video very light-hearted but my heart genuinely hurts watching this. I now have mixed feelings about all the information we will eventually have after one piece ends. Will Oda tell us straightforwardly about all these connects or will he leave it up to our smarts? It would be low-key cool if he does the latter but I also need: "Here are all the things I did on purpose," said Oda with a slightly sly smirk.

I really like how you did this, GrandLineReview

Everybody knows by now that Buggy will be Pirate King. We just haven't accepted it yet.

I initially thought that was Escanor behind Ace in the thumbnail😅

Buggy prediction: Buggy will awaken his devil fruit when Shanks life is in danger.

Ace's hat is on his grave. Also do you know that Luffy only had a 25% chance of getting to the Knock Up Stream that took him away from Blackbeard? Straw Hats found the location where they could use the Knock-Up Stream to get to the Sky Island by using the south bird. And guess what? The north bird, the eastern bird and the western bird is also live on the Jaya. Straw Hats could have caught the wrong bird, sail in the wrong direction and get caught by Blackbeard with a 75% probability!

In a world where the coin lands on its side, Blank becomes the pirate king.

Loving this Donquixote Dogflamingo cover story 🤣🤌🏽

Please do more videos on film red it was so fantastic I loved it also if you look at the lyrics of new genisis you can see it kinda foreshadows her plan

The Will of deez nuts is top 3 jokes ever made on this Channel

its been a long time but this channel finally made a good video

When ace through himself infront of akainu I wonder if akainu aimed for the middle of the cross tattoo “bullseye”

The thumbnail just hits different

When you stop watching the video before the coin lands. It's too much man. I can't-

Glad we got another continuation of “This ____ theory makes FAR TOO MUCH SENSE”

Only reason Buggy didn’t attack Ace is because he knew Whitebeard would spin the block

Hmm speaking of smiles, "D" ... :D a smile... Coincidence?

Love the vid great content!!

The one person with D in their name who HASNT smiled during death or when almost dying is actually Teach. Signifying that he isn’t a true carrier of the will of D

Imagine if ace would have had a child

Shanks having 2 arms in the anime seems odd... but what if... that isn't Shanks?

3:33 This man is wild.

Love the video and keep up the great work Liam

Each mighty D wielder lmao 🤣

Original whitebeard logo being a swastika design was interesting and probably only got changed to avoid censorship in other countries. It’s too bad such a stylish symbol got ruined because of one historic event, when it has a history spanning thousands of years across many cultures.

Is this dude in a room why there's two grand line review videos in less than 24h

The smiling face is Gol D Roger The crying face : Noland since he cried during his execution