Board Thread:Theories and Speculation/@comment-26388300-20160325102110

In all of Naruto, who do you believe made the single worst choice? And what choice did they make?

My pick? Obito.

The sole beneficiary of the knowledge that Madara Uchiha had a master plan to overcome the world; he was allowed to leave Madara's hideout without resistance, whereupon he could have returned to the Leaf and reported this. The Fourth Hokage would have had the opportunity to construct an elite team of potentially international shinobi to confront and defeat the aged Madara.

The ramifications of Obito's mistake were monstrous. A destroyed friendship between himself and Kakashi. The deaths of Kushina and Minato (and, potentially, the end of the Uchiha; Minato mused that, had he lived, perhaps he could have found a peaceful solution to the Uchiha's ways). The Kyuubi attack on Konoha. The guiding of Nagato to the darkness. Countless murders and sabotage. The start of a new shinobi world war and the revival of Madara Uchiha. That one choice had a negative impact on the shinobi world in a titanic way. 