Board Thread:Naruto Discussions/@comment-27312470-20160124013012/@comment-26773508-20160126100457

Thekillman wrote: Kiadony wrote: What I dislike the most is probably the distribution of power. Agreed. There are some people with powers that in a more reasonable setting, would be overpowered has heck. I think TenTen has by FAR the greatest difference between how powerful her techniques really would be, and how powerful they are in the manga. The ability to call upon any kind of tool or weapon is extremely underrated. It basically means that if you face TenTen, she's never unprepared. Never caught offguard by some combo. If there's a problem, she's got something for it. Enough bombs and kunai to continuously keep an army supplied. Enough food to last months without supply. Any element to fight with or supply your troops with.

In any reasonable setting, TenTen would be the core of a shinobi group. But she's fodder. And i don't even like her that much, i just think her abilities are far more useful than the Anime and Manga make it seem. Agreed. Also, considering the fact that a shinobi, no matter how powerful, can legitimately be killed by a Kunai stab, it really does seem odd that Tenten ended up being a fodder nin. The kunai's ability to kill is demonstrated in a couple of scenes in the manga, notably Hashirama's attempt at suicide when Madara demanded his or Tobirama's life in exchange for Izuna's death. Yahiko too died by merely rushing into Nagato's kunai. And though Yahiko has no feats, we can infer that he was definitely wayy above regular Jonins, considering the fact that he was the leader of the original Akatsuki, and the fact that shinobis as powerful as Hanzo and Danzo had to resort to kidnapping Konan in order to get Yahiko killed.

So given the role a regular kunai has played, Tenten should have been a monster even in the Narutoverse. But for some reason, Kishi decided to go the DBZ way with regards to Tenten right from Part 1 itself. The only reason for Tenten being a fodder only works when we adopt a DBZ-esque logic regarding Tenten's opponent, i.e. Tenten's "power level" is too low.