Merz

is a character from Naruto x Boruto: Ultimate Ninja Storm Connections.

Background
A former Amegakure shinobi who idolised the goals of Pain, he was blinded during the Fourth Shinobi World War. He would gather a following of destitute ninja who wished to return to the age of warfare and founded the organisation Zero.

Personality
Merz seems fundamentally polite, but believes in obtaining godhood in the same vein as Pain, but without the same interest in the peace that would follow the inevitable conflict. He has no issues using others for his own ends, treating them as weapons.

Abilities
Merz is a powerful shinobi, considered wortwhile enough by Pain himself to consider an ally. While admittedly the inferior of Naruto Uzumaki and Sasuke Uchiha, Merz was still capable of fighting them both off, though they had been weakened by fighting each other during the prelude to the Fifth Shinobi World War.

Sharingan
Due to the machinations of Teguse, who used Scientific Ninja Tools, Merza was able to be implanted with an artificial Sharingan. Unlike other implanted Sharingan users, Merz shows neither fatigue nor severe chakra drain from utilising the Sharingan. He did, however, keep the eyes sealed under a technique formulae (術式, jutsushiki), until it was time to use them, similarly to Kakashi Hatake and Ao. Notably, his eyes had bionic traits, seemingly incorporating machinery into both, and his left eye was fit poorly, bulging out.

Trivia

 * Merz is a nonsense German word created by dada artist Kurt Schwitters to describe his scrap assemblage works.