Monkey D. Luffy Is Not A Hero

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Ofcourse he is not a hero. Because a hero has to share meat with others. But Luffy wants to eat all the meat for himself.

One recurring thing in One Piece is that anyone who calls themself a hero is typically not very trustworthy. The Marines call themselves heroes, and justify genocide as justice. Crocodile and Doflamingo made themselves out as heroes to manipulate entire nations. Garp is named "The Hero" by the Marines but I kinda doubt he believes he even deserves that title. Especially after Marineford. Luffy is ironically more trustworthy than any of them because he does not parade himself out as righteous.

"were pirates!! i like a heroes a lot , but i dont to be one!! Pirates eat meat and have big parties but heroes take meat and give it to poor people!! I WANT TO EAT MEAT" - Luffy D. Monkey

Sanji invades the bath. Nami: "Get out of here!" Luffy invades the bath. Boa: "❤❤❤"

Gear 5 Luffy: "For the last time, I am not the Messiah!" Everyone: "He Is The Messiah!"

I honestly view Luffy's "I'm not a hero" routine as a running gag about how clueless he is. Someone who sees a starving child and vows to topple a dictator so no child will ever go hungry in that country again is pretty darn heroic.

We all seem to forget the fact that normal people would not be able to handle Luffy's all out attacks lmao. Those attacks possibly killed thousands of marines by now.

If you think about it. The only instinctively "good" people on his crew are chopper, sanji and ussop. Everyone else has a violent/criminal past. Sanji was just a cook with no criminal record. Chopper was just a reindeer living life and ussop was just a kid playing pretend. Zoro was a bounty hunter, Nami a thief, Robin worked for baroque, franky a mob boss, brook and jinbe were pirates. 🤯

The thing is a hero is not defined by their own definition. It's others around him that give him that title. And no matter what Luffy says, he IS a hero to so many that love and are helped by him.

You forgot that Luffy literally went along with Bege's plan to kill Big Mom and even tried to help

Last Time i was this early, GrandlineReview still used to post Arc Summaries

I actually like how hilariously juvenile Luffy's way of explaining what he thinks a hero is and why he doesn't want to be one (it's also funny to see Zoro say he doesn't want to be a hero and uses the same analogy, only with booze instead of meat). It basically says that, even if Luffy is ultimately a good guy at heart, he wants the freedom to be as selfish as he wants to be, too. To Luffy, being a hero is an obligation, someone who puts the needs of others before his own needs, which is not to say Luffy doesn't think of others, he just wants to be able to decide for himself whether to get involved in something that otherwise doesn't concern him, where a hero would get involved by virtue of being a hero... at least to Luffy. See, I get where Luffy is coming from, but it's hard to explain without making Luffy seem like a worse person than he actually is. Because in many ways, at least through his actions, Luffy IS a hero, but at the same time, his "heroic actions" have kind of selfish motivations, as in he only got involved because someone he cared about was involved. I actually like this aspect of Luffy, it's fairly nuanced for an otherwise simple and straight-forward character.

0:07 luffy in a nutshell

Luffy’s genius is in being able to sense whether somebody will be ( future tense ) a “good guy” during their relationship. He doesn’t care about the criminal history of his crew members because he knows it won’t come up again. They’re different now.

I mean... you say that Luffy cannot see meat unless it's in front of him. But what about the time when Doflamingo said he had something he wanted and Luffy was severely tempted thinking it was lots of meat to the point his eyes became meat?

luffy flipping you off in the thumbnail goes so hard

I really liked the “fight” with Vivi because she was kind of arrogant about saving her people from dying senseless death and she wasn’t really going to get her hands dirty with fighting but Luffy seeing the bigger picture that people dies anyway and more people will die if they didn’t defeat Crocodile

Luffy doesn't want to be called a hero but the circumstances makes some people think he is a hero (or a villain depending on the perspective).

Luffy is not a hero in his mind but definitely behaves and is written like a hero, albeit an unconventional one. Oda goes out of his way to make Luffy care and want to help people everywhere he goes. Luffy has never seen an injustice being done in front of him and ignored it. For example, in Dressrosa, he witnessed Fujitora getting cheated out of his wins at a dice game and felt the need to say something. In other instances, he asks the person he wants to help to ask HIM for help. Luffy is a hero. The only way I won’t believe it is if he ever sees evil or injustice happening in front of him and genuinely ignores it because that’s not his problem