Board Thread:Theories and Speculation/@comment-26388300-20160524034125/@comment-734582-20160525083909

Marc Zaddy wrote: @BakumatsuWarrior Kishi has a lot of show-ins with wasting good characters with great potential TBH. To be fair, this happens a lot in multiple media forms. Hundreds of characters aren't exactly easy to keep track of and make important. Not to mention that this is also a personal thing. Same goes for over/underrated. Most characters have served their purpose in the story. even if that purpose was to lose, to die, or fail in general ways. In some cases Kishi apparently decided that it wasn't worth the backlash, e.g. how Hashirama died. It doesn't matter how he dies, people wouldn't be happy.

I can only remember two specific cases where characters were underserved: Hidan's scythe had more abilities and Tsunade was supposed to fight Pain herself. Both were cut for time