Straw Hat Luffy has declared war on the government, punched a world noble, broke into the most heavily guarded prison in the world and broke out several hundred pirates. He's also saved entire countries and he punched the noble in order to rescue Keimi, who is my daughter here. And he saved my life. He's the most complicated pirate there is. Even if as an individual he seems rather simple.
The Whitebeards... are equally complicated. They've committed a fair number of murders and disrupted trade flows, but until very recently, they kept it to other pirates. Their captain had a moral opposition to slavery so he took over islands to protect the inhabitants from it. That doesn't mean he wasn't also a pirate in every sense of the word, but he didn't have a fight with the government until they took one of his sons. He had a very big reputation for vengeance and... it's complicated. Suffice to say there was a very big war. [What's wrong with the Whitebeard pirates? Everything.... and yet still less than the other pirate crews except Luffy's. Hell, the Whitebeard pirates vs most of the shichibukai? Smoker would rather fight the shichibukai who at least pretend to be on the marine's side. Tch. A mess all around.]
To explain: there was one Pirate King, and four pirate emperors. The pirate king was executed 24 years ago, but the pirate emperors rose in his place. Whitebeard was the only man strong enough told hold his own in a fight with Roger and live, and indeed Whitebeard was the strongest man in the world. However, like the other pirate emperors, he carved out a pirate empire of islands and enforced his own notions of order and vengeance instead of justice. His crimes aren't as bad compared to Kaidou or some of the other pirates, hell, half of the pirates he defeated were a lot worse than him. You could ask Portgas or the phoenix more about him on a personal level. As for Portgas and the phoenix, they each have their fair share of violent crimes to their name. Portgas was nearly as infamous as his father and became a commander at an extremely young age, and the phoenix is one of the big reasons the Whitebeard pirates are so infamous for vengeance.
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Straw Hat Luffy has declared war on the government, punched a world noble, broke into the most heavily guarded prison in the world and broke out several hundred pirates. He's also saved entire countries and he punched the noble in order to rescue Keimi, who is my daughter here. And he saved my life. He's the most complicated pirate there is. Even if as an individual he seems rather simple.
The Whitebeards... are equally complicated. They've committed a fair number of murders and disrupted trade flows, but until very recently, they kept it to other pirates. Their captain had a moral opposition to slavery so he took over islands to protect the inhabitants from it. That doesn't mean he wasn't also a pirate in every sense of the word, but he didn't have a fight with the government until they took one of his sons. He had a very big reputation for vengeance and... it's complicated. Suffice to say there was a very big war. [What's wrong with the Whitebeard pirates? Everything.... and yet still less than the other pirate crews except Luffy's. Hell, the Whitebeard pirates vs most of the shichibukai? Smoker would rather fight the shichibukai who at least pretend to be on the marine's side. Tch. A mess all around.]
To explain: there was one Pirate King, and four pirate emperors. The pirate king was executed 24 years ago, but the pirate emperors rose in his place. Whitebeard was the only man strong enough told hold his own in a fight with Roger and live, and indeed Whitebeard was the strongest man in the world. However, like the other pirate emperors, he carved out a pirate empire of islands and enforced his own notions of order and vengeance instead of justice. His crimes aren't as bad compared to Kaidou or some of the other pirates, hell, half of the pirates he defeated were a lot worse than him. You could ask Portgas or the phoenix more about him on a personal level. As for Portgas and the phoenix, they each have their fair share of violent crimes to their name. Portgas was nearly as infamous as his father and became a commander at an extremely young age, and the phoenix is one of the big reasons the Whitebeard pirates are so infamous for vengeance.