Discussion Characters / OnePieceWorldGovernment

Do we want to declare the five elders as spoilers off? Beyond this deluge from the last chapter, we will get more in a week's time.

So, there's two elements I feel should be part of the "General Tropes" folder for this page, but I'm unsure of the relevant tropes. Can anyone advise?

Firstly; there's the rampant corruption in the World Government, which embodies the old saying "the fish stinks from the head", since the World Nobles are a self-reinforcing culture of decadent, depraved nobles with rampant god delusions and the Five Elder Stars are part of a secret conspiracy running the world to preserve the status quo. Whilst the basic Marine grunts are often true believers that what they're doing is just and noble, as they start climbing the ranks, they increasingly tend to be either jaded and bitter by realizing that the World Nobles are incompetent and evil, or become corrupt themselves, or just throw themselves into denying the truth that the regime is malevolent.

Secondly; the major reason the World Government survives is because it has a massive stranglehold over information. There's no "mass media" in the One Piece world, outside of World Government-controlled newspapers. This ensues that people not directly involved in events only get the World Government's spin on them, which is a big part of the reason why, for example, the depravity and cruelty of the World Nobles isn't well known unless you live inside of the "bubble" of territories within range of Mariejois that they visit directly.

I think there's enough material to add a Kick the Dog trope to Saturn's folder. However, if added straight away, it will likely be removed under the reasoning of "Kick The Dog is not "character does bad thing" but said bad thing must be necessary in the character's introduction scene to show that he's a jerkass/villain" Whilst I disagree with that definition, I would argue that everything we've seen of Saturn in the flashback is his actual character introduction, as we're not really gotten to know him as anything but a vague background character for most of this manga. Can we use this to add Kick the Dog to his folder?

Likewise "Would Hurt A Child is not "x hurts a child" but "an introductiory scene shows the character hurting a child to demonstrate how vile he is";" — I would argue that as of present, given he's crushing Bonny throughout this flashback and ordering her dead, not to mention his attack on a child Kuma and the slaughter on God Island, he would also have grounds for that to be added.

With the newly revealed Holy Knights, I was just wondering which section they would go under?

This was brought up on the main character page's discussion a few years ago, but since nobody's acted on it I'll revive that discussion here. I don't like where Imu's folder is currently located (anyone who knows who Imu is should know why their current placement is a big issue) and I think they should be moved to another section of the page. I'm thinking either moving them to the Employees/Associates section or moving them to a section by themselves marked as "Others". I saw a proposition to put them in another section called "Spoiler Characters" but I think that would be redundant given there would be a major spoiler warning for Imu in another place regardless. What are your thoughts on what should be done with Imu's entry?

Shouldn't Oimo and Kashi have their own entry rather than being put in the Enies Lobby Staff without even a picture of them? They were quite important to the arc and had a lot of speaking lines. Plus, after the events of Enies Lobby, they quit the World Government, so they really don't belong in this page anymore.