User blog comment:Perchan/Fairy Tail 295 - In Which Sting Gets Less Douchey (Sting and Lector)/@comment-3061966-20120817171126/@comment-1776269-20120818095404

I think most manga authors tend to oversell some of the main villain factions or organizations, they tend to be so powerful and feared only for them to turn out to be not particularly strong, though one of the few exceptions that I've seen is the Shichibukai from One Piece, from the moment they were mentioned, they have been a force to be reckoned with, and all the rest is history.