Chapter 225 “A Man’s dream” is still one of my favourite chapters in One Piece. This chapter showed me why Luffy is one of my favourites.

Luffy was willing to sacrifice his pride and allow himself to be disrespected in order to reach the elite level of Shanks. He emulated what he saw Shanks do back in chapter one, which was something inherently opposite of Luffy’s nature (shown by the fact he couldn’t laugh it off)

We all know that Luffy could’ve easily fought back but it shows that he’s taking his ambition seriously when he allowed himself to be disrespected and look beyond the initial urge to fight in favor of something greater, which is why we see Luffy flashing back at Shanks and Ace