Board Thread:Naruto Discussions/@comment-31278419-20170331010234/@comment-35622277-20170401081735

Turn the entire story into a dark and reality-grounded Greek tragedy (No DBZ combat), and one where the concept of nakama speech does not exist.

I mean, it already basically was right? Why not go all the way? He obviously likes writing about Greek tragedies, as evidenced by almost every single "villain" and basically almost every single character in the entire series. Why couldn't he have just made the hero one as well? Or the only one, to be precise.

Imagine if all the tragic villains in the series were just merged into a single character, and that is, our "protagonist"?

Imagine the transformation of happy-go-lucky Naruto into a grim and cynical tragic hero who sacrifices the few to save the many? Where the lines between good and evil are blurred, ending the cycle of hatred by cutting down all who oppose him, and doing what is absolutely necessary?

Or he's already done all that and we explore his future and redemption, wherein which he sacrifices himself? Or leaving his fate open, and up to the viewers interpretation?

Where others in the story who do not know him, may see him as the devil himself, but the reality is in fact the same Naruto who desired to help people? To become something more? To have a purpose?

Who needs a happy ending for the main character? He saved the world, right? He redeemed himself, right? The people he helped through out his journey remember him fondly, yes?

He may not be regarded as the hero, but cannot be regarded as the villain either.

After all, what you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.

I'm a serious masochist.