Board Thread:Boruto Discussions/@comment-30415965-20180416084320/@comment-3523655-20180605162659

Namikazenaruto9 wrote: David Kibasennin wrote: Sorry, I wrote a 6-paragraph response, and now "Poof" it's all gone.

To sum it up, good point with the Orochimaru thing.

But it's all been done with Obito already. Both the reveal (the obvious hints turn out to be the obvious choice) and what the reveal implies (just like Kakashi discovers everything he believed in was a lie because of Obito and comes to terms that those principles stand on their own without obito being the one to utter them, Naruto would basically go through the same psyhcological journey with Jiraiya, and come to the same conclusion).

It's already been done. ^We don't know for sure. All I am saying is that Jiraiya's change could be interesting story in itself. The whole story will be shaken to the core. The Teacher of World's greatest hero turns out to be villain? Who has actually done that. Yes we have seen several comrade turning evil, But Teacher? Never. So no there is no same journey stuff. Only deep enough philosophy can convince Jiraiya not some half ass story like Madara concocted by toying with people's weakness.(he already has overcome them) That philosophy could be crux to Kawaki and Boruto's fight in the future.(if this storyline were to ever happen) We don't even know Kara's philosophy to even call them evil. What we do know is there are going to be two sects in Boruto. One is Kara and other is Otsutsuki family. The conflict is going to be three tier way with ninja included in above two groups.

It doesn't matter if Jiraiya is a Teacher or a friend like Obito. The point is, Kakashi learned from Obito. He learned his principles. Just like Naruto learned Jiraiya's. It being Jiraiya will generate the exact same reaction, replace the word "friend" with "teacher" and there you have it. It's un-original, it's déjà-vu.

Jiraiya is Obito's equivalent on the other side of the chessboard, let's say they're a "bishop" (doesn't matter if that's an accurate simile, my point is let's associate a random chess piece to him).

Both influence Nagato. One is driven by logic and rationale, the other is an idealistic buffoon a dreamer. Obito says it himself: at the end of the day, it's not Naruto or Minato or Nagato who beat him. It's Jiraiya and his dreamer ways, that made it so that they'd tell him to shut up no matter how much sense he made.

We've already seen the corruption of a "bishop" piece on this chessboard, with Obito. We don't need to see the corruption of another "bishop" because it's already been done.

Jiraiya is the figure-head of the Dreamer side. Would it be impactful if he was corrupted? Sure! But guess who else was a key figure-head on the Dreamer side? Obito, who - you guessed it - turns out to be evil.

@ Kinglink15

We're not speculating if it is or isn't Jiraiya, we're speculating if it being Jiraiya would be good writing or not.