Board Thread:Naruto Discussions/@comment-31278419-20170331010234/@comment-25122992-20170331153827

Yeah, it'd be a quite exciting scenario. But anyway, I still think that Pain was the one being dwarfed as a villain, he stayed impressive up to the moment when the SPoP secret was revealed, then his flaws and imperfections became a way too sensible. And Minato also added he's been manipulated by Tobi pretty much from the very start. I don't find it an appropriate way for a villain to end up like this. I mean, as Akatsuki's leader, Pain was really someone who deserved having a lot of mysteries behind, but when all the mysteries were revealed, he was shown as just an invalid in both physical and phychological sense, "a worthless nobody who lets someone else pull the strings" (that's Kankuro's quote about reanimated Sasori, but it also fits to Nagato perfectly).