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Originally Posted by Somnus
As for this conversation about incompetence, I find it a bit silly. It's like asking a safari ranger to sedate 100 rampaging animals without permanent damage in 5 minutes by himself and simply handing him a rifle, then calling him incompetent because he can't do it. The situational elements are all there, the tall order, crazy time constraint, and severe lack of able personnel on hand. All the trio could do is what they could with what they had. "Do whatever it takes?" What? If you hadn't noticed, they're trying NOT to defeat the kids as they did the 20,000 on fishmen island. The only strawhats who'd be able to feasibly accomplish this would be Luffy with CoC, or Zoro with his "mad fear skillz". Even Sanji, one of the monster trio, needed a battalion of marines to accomplish this in a short time.
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Your analogy isn't very good by the simple basis that One Piece characters are far from ordinary; even the weakest people are capable of "superhuman" feats at the very least. Of course we know that the strawhats aren't trying to defeat the kids, but by no means should they have difficulty restraining/stopping them. They've dealt with far worse than drugged kiddies pre-skip, so I don't buy this nonsense of them having problems here. This is the New World we're talking about here, a place that Oda hyped up to death about how dangerous and terrible it is. If the strawhats are to have trouble with something in the New World, it certainly shouldn't be from a bunch of kids gone berserk. That is lame and bad writing on Oda's part.