Board Thread:Naruto Discussions/@comment-28869806-20150825192623

Kabuto may not be the most disappointing character in the series to me but he's certainly the most disappointing villain in the series.

Kabuto was at his best during the search for Tsunade arc, he was badass, a threat heck he held his own and eventually defeated Tsunade (although this was only because of her fear of blood). so what happened, well he became very generic during his fight against Itachi and Sasuke. but first how was he before the war arc, well he was just plain bland and boring with the only stand out feature was his weird obsession with Orochimaru.

during his final battle with Sasuke and Itachi he was always going on about being perfect, it was very repetitive. he became infinitely more arrogant than Sasuke hell he makes Sasuke look humble. He also came across as kind of an idiot despite him previously being portrayed as intelligent, he kept on proclaiming his superiority despite the fact that he knew Sasuke and Itachi didn't want to kill him which should have told him clearly that they were holding back, hell Sasuke barely did anything other than just standing there the whole time. seriously if Sasuke and Itachi wanted to they could've killed Kabuto pretty easily.

another problem was that Kishi pretty much gave him a cluster fuck of random abilities. I get why Kishi gave him a cluster fuck of random abilities, it was so we'd take him more seriously but he still felt extremely underwhelming nor did he feel like a threat. another problem I had was the fact that Kishi decided to try and make him more sympathetic by giving us his true backstory but even that fell flat as I couldn't care less about Kabuto at that point.

so in the end Kabuto was a generic, arrogant, repetitive failure of a villain that really disappointed me. 