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Let me take an instance of one villain: Arlong. Arlong got defeated by Luffy,
he wasn't killed. Luffy didn't stay in Kokoyashi village either. So Arlong
could have returned to his usual business of enslaving the village. He would
have faced ugly humiliating words from Villagers initially, but why would it
matter? All you gotta do is gang-up on them. No one in the village was strong
enough to stop them.

There are many other pirates who just disappeared after being defeated. It's
not like they lived their life with principle or something, they were bad guys
who used to loot, cheat, and kill people. Why wouldn't they continue that
after being defeated?


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Why does One Piece antagonist disappear after being defeated?


In most of the cases, the big villains we've seen have been arrested by the
Marines after they were defeated, so they would not get such an opportunity.
We see most of them in the Impel Down arc, locked up.

Specifically, in the case of Arlong that you mentioned:

> It is currently unknown where Arlong is being held, since we didn't see him
> in Impel Down, but he is being held by the Marines somewhere. [![Picture
> snippet of Manga Chapter
> 492](https://i.stack.imgur.com/Y4m3g.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/Y4m3g.jpg)


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it might be because, if pirate defeat another one usually that village will be
under control of the winner, for example white beard had alot of villages
under his control and no body ever touch them, because other pirates knows
that if any thing happened in that village, it will cause them a lot of
troubles with white beard and might start a war if the to side are strong.


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I must admit I do agree with both of the other 2 answers, however i think
there is also a simple logical approach to the issue; with each successive
antagonist luffy takes on the antagonists get stronger and stronger and so do
the protagonists. Some of the antagonists are important and come back into
play later on and some of them had 1 purpose, to be the next stepping stone
for the straw hats to overcome and once they played that role they have no
more use. Also who knows, maybe Arlong rules once again and straw hat is too
busy fighting warlords and emperors to even know that Arlong is back in power.
Whitebeard kept his islands safe because the threat of his crew hunting down
enemies and destroying them but the straw hats are too busy progressing toward
One Piece to keep tabs on those they defeat. Even if Arlong is back in power
as long as he doesn't chase after Luffy then Luffy and his crew wont find out
for years and years as they search for One Piece.


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