One Piece Episode 483

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Regardless of magma "burning" fire or not, it was made perfectly clear that Akainu > Ace when they first clashed, seanos also makes an excellent point, if he jumped in to save Luffy disolving into fire before getting hit would acomplish nothing.

Though it pisses me off, to say the least, that the whole death of Ace was in part (pretty damn large part too) caused by Luffy getting distracted by a bit of paper

There was a part that i believe they skipped where Luffy tried to stand up and evade Akainu but was too tired to move, that`s when the paper dropped.

[Splash!]

Regardless of magma "burning" fire or not, it was made perfectly clear that Akainu > Ace

Yes I know, hence the whole "Fire burns Magma" was really unnecessary.

Though it pisses me off, to say the least, that the whole death of Ace was in part (pretty damn large part too) caused by Luffy getting distracted by a bit of paper* ... while an Admiral was attacking.I can only assume after big fight scenes Luffy starts blaming himself (rightly so!) for Ace's death.

Missed this comment. I think its pretty unfair to lay the blame on Luffy. Why the hell did Ace have to go and get provoked by Akainu when he could have escaped? He pulled a Squardo and walked right into a trap. By doing so, he put Luffy in danger (since there is no way Luffy was going to escape without Ace) and was forced to take Akainu's punch in the end to protect him.