BIG MOM THE POWERFUL ALLY

Here I will propose why I think Big Mom will be a helpful ally to the Strawhats. You probably heard lots of theories about Lola being Big Mom daughter, I don’t know whether this is true or not (but if it turns to be true, it will only strengthen my theory). Here I will take another approach as to why I think Big Mom will be a formidable ally.
Let’s start with some known facts before going to the theory.

Big Mom Appearance:
Big Mom has only been partially seen from the shadows, but it is clear that she is an incredibly large and obese woman whose face appears to be larger than her body. She also seems to have a heart shaped lipstick under her nose

Doesn’t this description also fit this character?

Big Mom personality:
Big Mom likes sweets and tea party. She appears to be quite ruthless, burning down a country when they failed to make their payment, disregarding any reason for the failure and rationalizing that she hates people who cannot keep their promises.

Tea party and sweets, where have we seen this before? :

Some of Big Mom crewmembers:
Tamago (which literally means grilled egg), He is polite and negotiable, as well as rather intelligent, as he saw exchanging the treasure for some extra time to make more candy to be perfectly acceptable. Tamago even offered to give the citizens more time until they could accomplish the task:

What about this guy:

Pekoms (His name may come from “pekopeko” (ペコペコ), which means to “be very hungry” in Japanese), Pekoms has a short temper, as seen as when he was in a fit of rage when he was first introduced. He carries around a list of bounties on wanted people such as pirates and takes note of the people he has seen on bounty posters, as seen when he took the time to look up Caribou:

In Alice universe, The Mock Turtle’s name is a pun on the name of the soup is incomplete. The Mock Turtle specifically depicts a collection of creatures that make up the ingredients of mock turtle soup; they are not random. The pun is not only of the name, but of the nature of the soup itself. Meaning an unfinished soup, so you can never eat and therefore you are always very very hungry. And looks like a Turtle hybrid:

Bobbin (his name may be reference to “bobbing head dolls”), Not much is known about Bobbin’s personality, but so far he has been shown to be quite ruthless. This is shown when he reported to Big Mom after burning down an entire country and seemed pleased with himself for doing so.

Do you know who is directing Alice Through the Looking Glass adaption? James Bobin. Also look at this smile (and compare to Bobbin smile):

Ok you guessed it, I think that Big Mom was inspired by the universe of Alice in Wonderland adaption of Tim Burton (witch in fact is a retell of both Alice in Wonderland and Alice Through the Looking Glass).

Why is this important? Because not only Big Mom appearance is that of Red Queen, but also her personality and this will play a major role in the Strawhats progression.

Who is the Red Queen (a.k.a Big Mom)?

The Red Queen is the bloodthirsty ruler of Wonderland. Her solution to every problem is to order a beheading before the day is out. Her most famous line, one which she repeats often, is “Off with their heads!” (Remember Big Mom solution to the candy problems is: “Off with their Islands”).

The Queen is identified by the color red, which is symbolic of her anger and fury, in fact most of her subjects are scared of her (Big Mom is also identified with the color red, we have seen her angry and fury over the missed candies; and also most of her crewmembers seems scared of her).

The Red Queen is one of the chess pieces in the grand game of chess that Alice plays in Looking-Glass World. Because Alice is a White Pawn, you might expect her to regard the Red Queen as an enemy. (We got here the analogy of Big Mom being the Queen of the new world and Luffy being a pawn, since he just started his journey into the New World. Also after their first encounter, we all expect them to be enemies).

Throughout the history, the Red Queen is overbearing, but she’s trying to help Alice if she can. The Red Queen’s pragmatism about the battle being fought between the chess pieces reminds us that all conflicts are somewhat arbitrary. (This reminds us the randomness of Luffy conflicts, first he got entangled with Big Mom because of the Candies, then with Kaido because of his encounter with Law in Punk Hazard.

Finally, although the Red Queen can be bossy, she actually gives Alice a lot of helpful advice and arranges for Alice to take part in the game, at the end of the book, she is actually responsible for the fact that Alice went from a pawn to a Queen (Once again our parallel holds, much like Alice, Luffy got all the great qualities to become the King; but in a complex game, you cannot rely only on your qualities, you need the help of powerful allies if you wish to be a King, especially if you start at the bottom).

The precious helping hand Big Mom:
We now know this:

that’s right, an spectacular war is coming; this war will make the battle of the best at Marineford look like a tuggle between Nami and Ussop.

What could this War be, I don’t exactly but lots of major characters will be there. And we know that is coming soon. Not only Kaido is a suicidal maniac, but also he is depressed by the death of White Beard and he will be enraged once he found out the Doffy situation, so I think is pretty safe to assume he will make his move really soon.

We also know that somehow our favorite Baka will be caught in between, in fact much like Marineford, he will be an important player. But also much like Marineford, Luffy is not quite ready yet (he is powerful, but it’s been less than a week since he entered the new world).

Enters Big Mom, much like the Red Queen, despite being angry and Luffy’s antagonist at first, she will come to this rookie aid and help him on his path to become the King.

Hope you enjoyed the read 🙂

*Theory by Suuuuper