Board Thread:Naruto Discussions/@comment-1018594-20160705073304

In your opinion, which characters throughout the *main* (because we haven't seen enough of the Boruto characters to really gauge them) Naruto series didn't exactly live up to their hype/your expectations?

Here's my take:


 * Danzō: Eleven Sharingan (one with a super hax genjutsu)...and died from a couple shuriken that one time. He had no super interesting abilities and, in retrospect, his entire Izanagi shtick felt set-up to have Obito's Izanagi against Konan not feel like an ass-pull. If he was explored more, he could have been a really cool and interesting contrast to the typical Dudley Do-Right protagonists. Instead, he just came off as a shady old man with some deep seated resentment.
 * Sakura comes off as underwhelming, but only because she's a main character. She kept talking about catching up to Naruto and Sasuke like it was foreshadowing that she was going to be in their league one day. Nope. She does great for a regular ninja, but nowhere near catching up to those two. She ends Part I by saying that her and Naruto will bring Sasuke back together, but, in what was basically her final lines of the series, she admitted that she never could have done anything to help Sasuke, and that she had to leave it to Naruto. She put in work during the Kazekage Rescue Mission, but she really falls flat after that. Again, this is only such a sin because she's supposed to be a main character.
 * Sage Mode Kabuto should have been a game-breaker once he actually started fighting. The abilities of the Sound Four, Kimimaro, Orochimaru, combined with Sage Transformation? It's exactly the kind of thing Kabuto would do and it's a damn shame he was dealt with the way he was; Izanami is able to stop Kabuto without killing him, allows for the release of the Edo Tensei, and Itachi is the only person who knows how to do it? This is more to do with plot convenience rather than actual strategy or being outmatched, but Kabuto was basically turned into fodder that made Itachi look pretty OP.

That's about all I have for now. As always, let's keep it civil, use our reasoning skills and above all else; don't turn this into another character bashing/Hiruzen debate thread. 