Kaido's Ultimate One Piece Fate Proves a Fan Theory... With One Twist
Warning: Contains spoilers for One Piece chapter #1050
The strongest antagonist in the history of One Piece, Kaido of the Beasts, has finally been defeated. The way the powerful Yonko meets his fate proves that a theory circulating among fans in recent weeks is true, but not in the way they expected.
When Kaido made his debut in the manga, in 2015, the author Eiichiro Oda said that One Piece hero Luffy could not defeat a powerful character like Kaido yet. In fact, Kaido's peculiarity has been the visible effort that the author put into hyping up his incredible strength. Until the very moment of his defeat, Kaido still seemed able to overpower Luffy and win the battle. In 2016, Oda followed up his previous declaration in an interview, saying that he still did not know how Luffy could defeat Kaido: "Probably my audience will not be satisfied if the reason for defeating Kaidou is just because Luffy’s punch is so strong. Luffy and I have to find a solution somehow.” After the manga showed that Luffy's final attack in that epic fight was, in fact, a giant punch, many fans speculated that, based on Oda's declaration, the battle was not over and Kaido would get up again.
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Chapter #1050 proved that this theory was right and wrong at the same time. Luffy's colossal punch destroyed Kaido's Flaming Bagua form and punched him so hard that the Yonko was driven into the ground of Wano Island, traveling all the way into a big magma lake at the core of it (the same fate One Piece gave to Big Mom some chapters earlier). Wano does have a volcanic mountain (similar to Mt. Fuji, as the island is inspired by Japan's geography), so it makes sense that there is
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