Board Thread:Theories and Speculation/@comment-30168130-20170319171713/@comment-734582-20170319173247

Lorenzo.r.1st wrote: I was always thinking of yahiko, and such. he could've been minato lvl easily. now that I think bout it, minato died as well, didn't he? think minato would be one of the wasted potential? Except it was the point of the characters that they died early. The themes surrounding them simply wouldn't be the same. Yahiko was ultimately immortalized as the face of Pain. Minato's early death and how he was unable to fulfill his true potential is i think referenced at least 3-4 times.