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I suppose if I had to pinpoint the difference between them it would be that Magellan's displays of force have been in service to his authority, whereas Shiryu just likes killing people. Magellan thinks that ruling Impel Down with an iron fist is the only way to keep the prisoners in line, so he's quick to pull out the poison hydra even if he gets no personal pleasure out of it. But at the end of the day the result is the same, and if anything Magellan's poison is a crueler fate than getting your throat cut by Shiryu.

This was kind of mean of Mr. 2

While this might be true, it's not nice to say aloud

And I had forgotten the sequence of events that led to Magellan breaking out his hydra attack for the first time. Boa goads him into "protecting" her, which I suppose is one smidgen better than him poisoning a bunch of people just because. It's also another point in Hancock's favor since she plays the warden like a fiddle in order to get her chance to talk to Ace

I like the the logic for not having all the marines coming into Impel Down to hunt Luffy. Honestly I think they'd probably end up getting themselves killed with how crazy things get in the prison, and that's too much paperwork to bother with

All this tells me is that they've got party poppers in hell

Hancock gets a lot of bonus points for handling this whole Impel Down trip well. While I imagine she gets comments like this all the time, there has to be aspects of the prison that reminds her of her enslavement. It's not an easy situation to deal with, but she manages it with grace and poise.

Foreshadowing!