r/Naruto

He spent the first day of war fighting countless White Zetsus. Actually, he and Hinata fought back-to-back, but at the end of the day she ended up in a better shape while he collapsed from too much Byakugan.

At night he was so exhausted he couldn't even tell Kiba and Akamaru apart, and yet he refused to go to the nearest medical camp to be healed. I know, comedy relief and all, but come on.

And in the second day of the war, he lost track of Hinata and mistook one of the disguised Zetsus for the real one, with Kiba yelling at him to look in the right direction.

If we don't count the filler fight with the Sound Four, this is all the contribution Neji gave in the War Arc before his sacrifice.

Pretty sad, huh?

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I genuinely think Obito is one of the most misunderstood characters in Naruto. So many people reduce him to "he started a war because Rin died," but that's such a surface-level take of his character.

Rin wasn't the sole reason he broke. She was the final straw. Obito spent his childhood as an outcast, got crushed under a boulder while trying to do the right thing, woke up in a cave being manipulated by Madara, watched the person who supported him for a good portion of his life, was always there for him, and the girl who represented the only happiness he had in his life, get killed by his best friend, and was immediately fed the idea that the shinobi world itself was fundamentally broken.

People also ignore that Obito himself says Rin wasn't the reason—she was simply the victim of a world that kept producing tragedies like hers. His goal became escaping that reality entirely through the Infinite Tsukuyomi, not bringing Rin back to life. He could have put a genjutsu on himself if it was just about being with Rin. But he didn't, he wanted peace for everyone

You don't have to agree with his ideology and his methods(infinite tsumiyoki is screwed up), but saying "he started a war over a girl" completely strips away the complex traits which define his character. It feels like people either haven't paid attention or intentionally oversimplify him because it's an easy meme.

I think the best and most interesting aspect of Naruto is it's villains. All of these characters have such complex personas and backstories and to be fair, all of them could be emphatized with to a certain extent if we really investigate their motives.

I'm interested in, which of them do you consider to be truly irredeemable and 'pure evil'?

No surprise attacks, and everyone is at their peak from that point in the story. I know they'd probably all lose if they got hit by a giant rasengan, but we also have to consider whether Naruto would actually be able to land it.​

I think Naruto and sasuke focus on their goal to be a hokage and revenge.

In other words, it’s a jutsu so useful, powerful, and versatile that it’s surprising no one has tried to replicate it; it’s practically the perfect defense, and it boosts your physical capabilities to boot.
It surprises me that someone like Hiruzen—who boasts of being an expert in all five elemental natures—never created his own version of a Fire- or Wind-based Chakra Mode, for instance.
With Wind, you’d gain super-speed, slice through anyone trying to attack you at a molecular level, and almost certainly be able to fly.
And with Fire... well, you’d burn anyone who touched you. I can’t think of many uses for a cloak of fire other than burning enemies, but it’s still pretty useful.
Plus, look at ninjas like Kakashi or Sasuke: with the Chidori, they essentially have a Lightning Chakra Mode on their arm and are already lethal, so why not apply that kind of jutsu to the entire body?

Seeing actually being a good Hokage and locking in to help my man Lee made all my hate toward her evaporate instantly. I'm sorry for thinking she was stupid . Never talking ill about her again.

One thing I've always wondered is why everyone seemed to agree that being saved from the Infinite Tsukuyomi was the right outcome.

Wouldn't there realistically be people who didn't want to be saved?

Think about it, they were living their ideal lives and had no idea it was all an illusion, then they wake up and have to go back to a world full of pain, loss, war, and suffering.

I was thinking about Avengers Endgame, and how there's people that actually believe Thanos was right, even after seeing everything that happened, so it feels weird that we never saw anyone in Naruto saying, "Honestly, I would've rather stayed in the Infinite Tsukuyomi."

I'd even expect there to be people who believed Madara's plan was the better option, or at least questioned whether waking everyone up was actually the right choice.

Am I overthinking it, or does it feel like the series missed an interesting opportunity to explore that side of things?

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