Board Thread:Naruto Discussions/@comment-5085906-20170813091843/@comment-5085906-20170813161151

I mean, I get it why these characters are not good when it comes to character development, but the thing is they didn't get ANY development. Most of the characters you mentioned were reduces to extras when Shippuden rolled out. I'm talking about characters which were prevalent and still went through some bullshit, shoddy arcs.

My worst character has to be Sasuke Uchiha, with his brother Itachi ex machina following as a close second. He had potential up until the Itachi fight and then Kishimoto didn't know what to do with him so he just upped the hate meter and then twisted his goals even further to create the possiblity for a redemption at the end. Thing is - he did it in a shoddy manner and that redemption was at no point believable. Not to mention his "romance" with his now-wife. God, that was a shitshow.

My overall favorite character and, in my humble opinion, most well-developed in the series asides from Naruto was Jiraiya. I think his entire arc is summed up well in his final moments. He was a well-intentioned person, but with a lot of past mistakes that come to haunt him in his later years. He admonishes himself for those mistakes and is a very modest man when he's not showing his perverted side. Contrast that to Itachi who murders his own clan and is showered with praises by every person that knows his reasons for doing so. I never really got that - yeah, the dude had a noble reason behind it, but that doesn't change the fact he slaughtered dozens of men, women and children.