Board Thread:Naruto Discussions/@comment-24514198-20140604211103/@comment-1705651-20140725003455

Honestly, after seeing her in action for a few chapters, I came to the conclusion I don't like Kaguya as a villain at all.

I don't feel the same vibe I had when Obito or Madara were in charge of the role because Kaguya has no ties with any of the characters fighting her.

And don't try to argue with transmigration/reicarnation because it is not quite the same thing. Just as Naruto and Sasuke are not the same characters as Hashirama and Madara, I don't consider them the same thing as Ashura and Indra (we don't even know these two guys to begin with). Naruto, Sasuke, Obito, Kakashi and Sakura don't know this person, from their point of view she is just a random powerful opponent who just appeared out of nowhere and they need to beat her, there's no emotion from them when Kaguya is involved, it is completely one-sided on her part when she is lost in memories. So far the emotion factor is unsatisfying.

With Obito we had an "anti-Naruto" with opposed ideals and forcing a clash of ideals so strong no other parallel in the manga can compare and him also being the basis of Kakashi's ninja code. With Madara we had the rival of Hashirama driven mad by the loss of his brother by the hands of Tobirama, which connected him too the edo Kages, he is also the reason Obito went into the fallen hero route and they were trying to one-up each other constantly during the last arcs.

Kaguya, on the other hand, has little to no emotional factor going on. She is just the typical overpowered boss whose only shtick is raw power and does absolutely nothing in the story until the final chapter comes, her revival was not even her doing, it was Zetsu's. She can't think if her life depends on it and relies on Zetsu in her sleeve to say the next move because she doesn't know how to proceed. It is quite pathetic to see someone so powerful, but doesn't know what to do with all this power at all.

Her motivations are also utter non-sense and she commits obvious villain mistakes. First of all, if she succeeds there will be no one left in the world to oppose her (even the army she wants is redundant when you think about it), so why she wants so badly to absorb Naruto and Sasuke's chakra if there will be no use for it once she wins? She already has even greater reserves than the Ten-Tails, so it is not like she needs more chakra badly, it is just complexity addiction. She lets the heroes live despite not needing them alive and she wants an army she doesn't need, the only reason she didn't win already is because she is dumb and didn't realize the obvious fallacies in her plan. Now compare it to Obito and Madara, their goals were ill-oriented but made sense, they wanted to force world peace through illusion, an objective easy to understand and grasp. Kaguya's, on the other hand, is a complete mess and makes me think she just has a non-sensical greed for chakra despite having bigger reserves than the Juubi already.

I won't deny she is powerful, that's not my point. But her character is very, very poor and it makes her suck as a villain.