Sandy Island Baroque Works Anti-Mr-3 Strike-Team Dispatch
Status: partially-paid · Technique: named-before-shown · off-page-set-up · slow-drip
The seed
The payoff
Why this matters
Canonizes Baroque Works’ internal-purge doctrine — Crocodile kills failed officers rather than demoting them; consistent with the each-officer-for-themselves register of Mr 2 First Off-Page Reference. The scene also gives the first on-page Alabasta-interior location label (Sandy Island Harbor), names the ship Swanda, and pre-codes Mr. 2’s okama-character via the おかま道 harbor-sign. Pre-loads Mr. 2 Bon Clay’s much-later visual debut and the BW interior politics of the Alabasta saga.