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Originally Posted by james0246

My great hope is that the final Shichibukai will turn out to be female. There is a lack of top-tier female pirates in One Piece (there are powerful female subordinates, but few powerful female leaders). I know Oda is fairly "equal-opportunity" with his characters (it seems that one of the Yonkou is probably female (just based on the shadow and the lady from Thriller Bark (sorry, I have forgotten her name))), so it would be very nice if the final currently unknown Shichibukai was a woman.

I think it would be nice to have the final Shichibukai being a female. Perhaps a powerful non-DF user who specializes in speed/swordsmanship similar to FFIX's Beatrix.

I also wondered...

Spoiler for About Blackbeard...:

Since Blackbeard's position in the Shichibukai is only temporary, is it plausible to suspect that perhaps one of the current Supernova could take his place. My immediate guess would be Kidd, seeing as how he has the highest bounty out of the Supernovas, and only a few notches below Doflamingo, and Moria. Not to mention his past behavior, which resulted in many civilian casualties, and his Devil Fruit power is another good reason.