Board Thread:Theories and Speculation/@comment-30323490-20170305205254/@comment-26773508-20170308162656

Thekillman wrote: In order to obtain his "freebie" Naruto needed to show the world repeatedly that he believed in a better world and had to walk a much harder path than he needed to. In order to obtain Sage Mode, Naruto needed to have his teacher killed and his village threatened for the Frogs to even start teaching this. In order to obtain his Jinchuriki power he had to defeat and convince Kurama of his beliefs.

There is no middle ground: Either everything is OK because it took effort to obtain it, or every power not directly obtained from one's own body is an outside power. Even Kaguya had to survive a war and get to the fruit (Which was forbidden) to obtain her power.

In the Naruto series it's clear that the former rule is accepted (see: Chunin exams: everything is a tool, all is allowed). But that would make this thread obsolete. Sorry but NO. There actually is a clear distinction between ONLY developing the strengths and potential one was BORN with, and shit like getting Hagoromo powerups, Obito's sharingan, and even Bijuu. The former is developing to your full potential; the latter is being gifted powers outside of that natural potential. It's like the difference between constantly sharpening your natural cognitive abilities through continuous critical and mathematical thinking; and enhancing your cognitive abilities by implanting some sci-fiesque neural implant that boosts your thinking speed far beyond than that of the fastest supercomputer currently available. Surely you agree that there is a vast (and obvious) difference between these two examples, right?

EDIT: @BlazeRelease: Upon further thought, I agree KKGs such as Sharingan, and the atrociously broken Mangekyo Sharingan, are not outside powers. But Kakashi's case can be considered as an outside power as he was not born with the Sharingan. The reason many of us feel that Kakashi's Sharingan capabilities shouldn't be put in the same category as cheapass Hagoromo Powerups and the DMS is, I suspect, because pre-DMS Kakashi really did have to suffer the consequences of gaining an external power, unlike Naruto and Sasuke (who were farting out a dozen Rasenshurikens and Blaze Release jutsus while facing almost zero consequences). But nevertheless, the Sharingan is still something Kakashi had no natural potential for, so I think it should be counted as an external power.