I think one of the biggest indicators into how unimportant Luffy is during this war is that literally nobody on Whitebeard's side knows his name

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I think one of the biggest indicators into how unimportant Luffy is during this war is that literally nobody on Whitebeard's side knows his name
There haven't been many funny moments this war, but the Inuzama reveal gets me every time
It's interesting how progressively frownier Mihawk gets after Luffy unleashes his haki
He doesn't even say anything, he just gets pissed off
This is one of my favorite underrated Luffy moments from this arc. He genuinely does not give a crap about Whitebeard outside of him helping save Ace, and I think that's great
Like the Grinch discovering the meaning of Christmas, Crocodile has realized mid-war that he actually cares about Mr. 1. I can't blame him for getting pissed off, the feeling of your heart growing three sizes is uncomfortable at the best of times.
As a reminder, one of Sanji's extremely early character designs looked like this
Ace haki foreshadowing!