Board Thread:Naruto Discussions/@comment-27312470-20160124013012/@comment-734582-20160126093225

Legendary Super Saiya-Jin 4 wrote: Things always get bigger, more complicated, and more ridiculous as the series goes on that's just the way it works. I think that it stands out more in Naruto because it was poorly addressed in Part II. Part I is Naruto going from nobody to a reasonably powerful ninja. Part II to Pain is Naruto going from a reasonably smart and powerful ninja to a neo-Sannin. Pain to the end is Naruto transcending the power of  Jonin, Kage, Sennin, Jinchuriki all the way to Godhood.

I think a LOT of problems could've been solved by introducing a second timeskip after the Pain invasion, splitting the Gokage summit in two parts (an attempt before the skip that fails, and a resurgence in a Part III), simply to give the various characters some time to train and adjust to their power.

It's not that people became gods, but that they became gods so quickly (Naruto goes from Kurama Chakra Mode to Jinchuriki of all Biju in the space of ~3 days?) 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.