Board Thread:Boruto: Naruto the Movie/@comment-25139119-20150901144803/@comment-17623-20150903113802

Thekillman wrote: The Sharingan gets stronger with loss. Sasuke had to kill his own brother to acquire the Mangekyou. He had to die to acquire the Rinnegan. How are his powerups "free"? These two kids have gone through a lifetime of suffering in 3 years. You can disagree with the powerups, i get that. But it's nothing even remotely close to "free".

Just want to throw this in here.

When people complain about Sasuke's upgrades being "free" it usually means from the effort Sasuke himself puts into it when compared to Naruto. To compare, most of Sasuke's upgrades throughout Part I and II where directly given to him by an outside source or an upgrade from his Sharingan that really required no effort on his part save whatever external catalyst that causes the upgrade.

Cursed Seal, given by Orochimaru

Sharingan, tends to upgrade mid fight to give him a significant boost.

Mangekyo Sharingan, the most blatant as it only really involved Itachi dropping dead. This includes the Eternal Mangekyo.

Rinnegan, given to him by Hagaromo, which brings him to Godhood.

This compared to Naruto, whom really didn't start getting handed upgrades until the Forth Shinobi World War. In the matter of fairness, the Nine-Tails was handed to him and that carried him basically everywhere but the only upgrade he received in that was the whole Nine-Tails Chakra Mode, which he did have to put in effort to get.

Summoning, had to train.

Rasengan, had to train.

Sage Mode, had to train.

Nine-Tails Chakra, Given to him at birth. Pretty much carried everything from the start.

Nine-Tails Chakra Mode, very similar to the Eternal Makgekyo for Sharingan as he had to fight someone for it. The major difference (to me) is that Naruto actually had to win, Sasuke kinda just needed to be there.

Six Paths Everything, LOL by this point Naruto was given Godhood when he was already a god. All Hagoromo did was make him a supergod.

TL;Dr: The complaints about Sasuke's "free" upgrades are the fact that most of them we just see him either get or have, never see him actually work for it.