One Piece thread (Spoilers)

Yeah i was wondering what dofla could possibly have that luffy of all people (probably one of the least greedy people in the OP universe except when it comes to food) would want, but after this chapter i get the strong feeling it was just dofla trying to use his mysterious powers. There was a lot of references to "his pace" so dofla's powers probably stem from the words he uses to manipulate people, which is really interesting given usually this kind of power comes with a limitation of having to actually be with the person you're trying to control. It would easily explain why he's kind of a "spoiled prince", never having to actually do anything himself because he can just control people through snail phones.

It really is a fascinating parallel between Doflamingo's string puppeteer powers and the fact that he actually manipulates such a massive underground network by other means.

@KhainiWest:
We never saw Pell's body afterwards, and I remember there was quite a bit of speculation going on on the wiki about what happened to CP9. But I never thought any of the CP9 were dead either because Oda used the term yaburemasu to describe Luffy's victory over Lucci - which means something like "defeated" but not "killed". And we never knew what happened to Arlong, but I don't think the wikia actually claimed he was dead. His opponent was Luffy and it's known that Luffy never kills his opponents. I still think Monet's most likely dead since we saw her heart stabbed right on panel, though. Oda even cut to a close up shot of the icicle impaled deep within her heart and the blood coming out. That's much more direct than any of the aforementioned, eheh. Vergo's probably alive because the lab never ended up exploding like Doflamingo wanted it to.

And I agree, I think Kuzan's been disillusioned about the Marines/WG and what they stand for for a long time now. He clearly began to have his doubts during the Ohara incident when he saw the extent to which some of the higher ups were willing to go to silence the opposition.