Board Thread:Episode Discussions/@comment-25319479-20171018104546/@comment-734582-20171020124608

UntappedRage wrote: But yes, that makes total sense. I don't even understand why every generation of swordsmen have overblown egos, especially at this point. Recruitment policy, mostly. It seems the Mist really doesn't care who wields those swords as long as they wield them. Konoha on the other hand seems to pick teams that force people to cooperate and thus learn to be better, while actively avoiding the worst.

Not that it always worked, but notably the Konoha bad guys all became disillusioned later. Unlike the Mist guys, who were basically a-holes from the start.