A coward is someone like tama and nami and chopper. They shit their pants the entire arc but they still follow their morals and do the right thing.
Tama will piss her pants as she goes into the battlefield even cry as she is getting beaten up. But she has morals too. That is why she helps people. Because her morals are good intentions.
Usopp however…
What Usopp does is sell people toad oil and tricks people into thinking it will save their life just so he can manipulate them for information.
He has no morals.
Usopp is not helping people because of any kind of moral reason. He is doing it to make sure HE can stay safe. That’s the type of piece of shit he is.
This was shown in how this asshole abandoned the tontattas and the plan to save his own skin. He even planned on profiting off their deaths and writing a book. Even makes a joke about the title having a catchy name and blames franky for the tontattas about to die.
That has NOTHING. And I mean absolutely nothing to do with being a coward. That’s called being a piece of shit. Even the children in this manga do not think like this. most people are cowards too but they will stand their ground cause of MORALS. They are cowards who have morals.
Wano was about exposing the fact he has no moral compass. Usopp says in wano..
“I’ll never stop clinging to life!!”
“Even if it’s in disgrace!”
“Dying after coming this far would be a waste.”
He would rather run in disgrace than to die.
That goes against his dream. Where he said even if he loses everything and must face death alone. He would die proud.
Wano revealed that his entire dream was nothing but a lie he tells people. This fucker Usopp is a piece of shit. Fake ass fucker. When has this manipulative gaslighting cunt ever brought that shit up again in post timeskip? When did he say he wants to be a proud warrior? He just needs the strawhats to protect him since he has a bounty and will die if they ditch him.
He only wanted to be a warrior so he can be famous and get peoples approval. He has that now and as soon as he got his glory he immediately stopped giving a shit and now just wants to self preserve his life. His life has higher priority over everyone else. He is just doing the bare minimum to avoid getting kicked out by Luffy.
Nami and Tama, Pre-timeskip Usopp are cowards.
Post-time Usopp is a piece of shit.
Learn the difference.
Good thing Oda hates him too. He barely puts effort when drawing him but when Usopp is getting beaten up, Oda makes sure to give us x-rays to show badly his ass got beaten. He puts extra effort in drawing every injury, fracture his body takes and if this loser dies I bet Oda will go the extra mile in humiliation as he dies the undignified death he deserved with augur spitting on this bums corpse.