One Piece

Eh, we've already got a distressed man-damsel this arc.

Dragon Ball guy over here, y'all One Piece fans gotta check this out.

Luffy and Tesoro are appearing in Dragon Ball Heroes!

Wow, what blatant advertising.

But think about it:

Kaioken x20 Gear Fourth Luffy!

This is a possibility now!

Oozaru Monster Point Chopper when.

Sanji yamcha'd in a crater when?

hey, Lysop ges Yamcha'd, Sanji gets Tien'd

Sanji getting one of his arms punched off would probably traumatize him for life.

I think Jinbe will lose a leg, which won't matter nearly as much for a fishman (and we've seen what legless Kyros could do anyway).

Think we'll get any insight as to how the EFF! Pell survived at Reverie?

Why would we? There has been nothing to indicate there was more reason to that other than "Oda wanted him to live so he did."

That's probably right; it's just been on my mind due to recently having been thinking a lot about the portrayal of death in fiction, likely born out of my irritation with tropes like C-List Fodder and Stuffed into the Fridge in Western comics. OP for its part has the opposite problem.

I honestly have less of a problem with OP's way of doing things. It stretches disbelief that the various Mook Horror Show examples don't seem to lead to piles of corpses, but i'm fine with named characters just getting badly maimed instead of killed.

I wouldn't mind him not killing people if he didn't constantly act like he was going to and then either back out of it at the last second or, even worse, just shows them fine later with no explanation of how they survived.

edited 28th Jun '16 7:31:45 PM by LSBK

This.

Pell landed on a cloud of Super-Not-Exploding Air.

I can't believe that actually became a plot point.

The Jailer Beasts in Impel Down recovered consciousness very quickly, which was attributed to their awakened Zoan fruits. Whether or not it was Oda's original intention for Pell's survival to be a plot point, he could use it now as a way to explain awakening.

You can fill the gap with any amount of fan wank, like that he dropped the bomb a second before it went off but kept flying up, putting a bit more of a gap between him and making sure the explosion pushed him upward until he lost momentum, making the fall less severe or something.

Or maybe he's Batman.

The explosion was supposed to kill everyone in the city right? Even if he did drop it before it exploded him getting enough distance between himself and it to survive is still ridiculous.

edited 29th Jun '16 4:45:12 PM by LSBK

He could have just flown up to a massive height, thrown the bomb up, then divebombed down like the peregrine falcon he is.

That's my guess. The falcon's speed when doing that dive is the fastest known of any animal in any situation.

See: Batman

That's what I always assumed happened too.

edited 29th Jun '16 4:40:43 PM by PushoverMediaCritic