Board Thread:Naruto Discussions/@comment-28869806-20150525191639/@comment-5273810-20150526015700

I will stand up as one of the only people not disappointed in any characters. The only things I am disappointed about are non-character related and involve stuff like timeline, power levels for characters, and the Curse of Hatred(don't even ask about it, whenever I talk about it I go on 30 minute+ rants).

Rachin123 wrote:
 * Obito — Hus reason behund his motives were literally pathetic and stupid. But even though he strongly he believed in what he was doing, he turns it around rather easily by non-other than Naruto (the King of Plot). His reason behind it His ability basically made him the shit but he hardly used it and didn't use it as he should have.

Rachin123 While I can understand that some people were disappointed in Obito's character(I wasn't but hey if you were that's fine). One thing I do have to say is a lot of people misunderstand his motives and oversimplify it a bit. While true he did turn down a dark path because of Rin's death that wasn't the sole motivation for him sticking down that path(as he noted to Kakashi and the others). It was because of all the bad things reality has to offer. A world where Itachi had to kill his entire clan, where Nagato lost all his loved ones except for Konan, where Kisame had to do the dirty laundry of the Mist and thus not have a life, a world where evil can win. In his case his personal reason for doing it was Rin but it was so much more than that by the end. In his mind because of all these things Reality wasn't worth existing.

As for turning over easily I don't think it was that easy. Naruto tried his "talk no jutsu" on him and failed. It was a combination of seeing what he could have been through Naruto and a talking to by Minato and Kakashi that turned him around as he finally accepted. The thing that I think makes Obito such a great antagonist is the fact that quite literally he only turned evil because the wrong people(Madara) got to him at the right time. And that all this could have been avoided if he had someone like Minato or Kushina to be there for him instead of having only someone who could manipulate him into what he became.

Naruto if you remember completely snapped vs Pain(both because of someone they love getting cut down in front of them also both being voiced by Stephanie Sheh lol) if Minato hadn't appeared, Naruto very well could have become like Obito right then and there. Obito just was unlucky in that area.

A reason I think it was easier to turn him around than it should seem is his personality type is not prone to evil(like Madara's, Orochimaru's, Sasuke's etc.). Think about it, everyone else in Obito's personality type ended up great heroes(Hashirama, Jiraya, Naruto etc.) This was literally a unnatural manifestation over his personality. He chose to "not care who he was" and be someone who he was not "Madara" or "Tobi" suppressing the caring boy he once was. After seeing Naruto and what he could have been and still could be, alongside his best friend Kakashi and his Sensei Minato, he quit suppressing his old idealistic self and chose to be himself again.

As he said it in Chapter 665 "Now I finally realized that faking one's name and letting others do everything is different than entrusting something to one's comrades. I'm not you. The Current me is the one who wanted to become Hokage, Obito Uchiha."