Mad-Dogg posted... Sanji is ok whenever oda isn't playing up his super beyond flanderized womanizing character quirk. Even him begging and relying on robin to save his ass from black maria in wano so he can get back to business was good enough character development.
(I like to think that the extreme womanizing thing is just a hit among japanese little kids or something because he went extreme with it post skypiea/start of davy back fight on up it feels like). The little goofy dance he did for nami and robin during long ring long land or whatever it was called, that was the start lol.
Chopper is my number 1 strawhat that got ruined by going too far with what used to be a minor part of his character....his fear of the unknown. It was a different kind of fear from usopp's fear of practically everything and nami's fear of being weaker than whatever it is she is scared by. When chopper first joined the boat he went straight into helping out in a civil war with no fucks given, told usopp to nut up in their battle against mr. 4 and miss merry christmas, was a little scared of defending the boat against some crazy guy on a fire breathing bird but he did what he could, and he handled his 1 v 1 against that dude gedatsu no problem. Even the first monster chopper reveal against the CP9 dude was a daaaaaaamn moment.
Thriller bark came out and his character got assassinated damn it. You know what, when oda transitioned his chopper design from it's original to the cuter big head one, thats the moment.
Usopp's flanderisation sucks the most imo. Chopper's become a toy magnet but at least Oda doesn't give us false hope like with Usopp. Its so infuriating to see Usopp get character development only fir said character development to get retracted anyway just so he can do it again the next time he's relevant. The only lasting effect of Usopp's several "get serious" moments is
his kenbunshoku haki, but he hasn't even used it besides Dressrosa for gods sakr