Board Thread:Naruto Discussions/@comment-27615170-20170519084657

To summarize, Team Minato is the quartet of Namikaze Minato (jonin sensei whom became a legend thanks to his mastery of Hiraishin), Hatake Kakashi (aloof genius whom lost his entire team in the time-span of 'bout 2 years), Nohara Rin (kind medical-nin whom used her teammate to commit suicide to prevent herself being ued as a Trojan Horse-style jinchuriki for Kiri to attack Konoha with) & Uchiha Obito (determined goofball whom went violently insane after witnessing the teammate he'd sacrificed his own life to save SEEMINGLY murder their other teammate, who just happens to also be his only friend, in cold blood). What are your thoughts on this team? E.g. could their story have gone better or worse, which one of the quartet is the most important member (give logical, backed-up-by-canon reasons why), how crucial was each of them to the plot of Naruto, etc. To answer those questions, I'd for starters say things coulda gone better (via them all living happily ever after, as cheesy as that is) but not worse since Obito's more-than-1 massacres & the fact that he actually started a 4th Ninja World War are reeeally hard to top. I think Kakashi is the most important person in the team, because him not saving Obito & Rin on that fateful mission at Kannabi Bridge woulda prevented the bad things gone-evil-Obito did in canon (although, of course Madara/Zetsu woulda found another way to carry out their insane plans). I figure Rin is the most important plot-wise since her death was what kicked the gone-evil-Obito parts of it, which coulda been prevented if she'd done something OTHER than permanently traumatize both of her teammates (Kakashi knowingly, Obito unknowingly). 