Who is a better written character: Sasuke Uchiha or Madara Uchiha?

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Well, imo Madara has a better personality and beats Sasuke in the "badass character area" no doubt.

But in terms of character development and character story, I'll give it to Sasuke.
His character development:
-He had gone from an innocent and loving child to a heartbroken, sad kid as a result of a bloody tragedy.
-Then as his loneliness and reflection about Itachi's manipulative words progressed, his grief transformed into hatred.
-Upon being introduced into team 7, Sasuke was cold and detached, but then grew to care more about his teammates.
-As more time passed in Team 7, Sasuke saw the brightness and happiness in teamwork and shinobi life. Hence he abandoned his goal of revenge.
-Itachi's visit to Sasuke made him relive his clan's tragedy. Naruto beginning to beat him made him think that he is not powerful enough. Then came Orochimaru's tasty offer. He knew he cannot live a normal shinobi life, thus returning to his avenger life.
-Sasuke built upon his hatred even more in hopes of beating Itachi.
-After killing Itachi, Sasuke was neither excited nor sorrowful, showing his doubt of his freshly achieved goal.
-After Sasuke learned that Itachi was only trying to protect Konoha and Sasuke himself, and that he had killed his brother because of a lie, he broke down in regret.
-After grieving, Sasuke did not care about anything but inflicting Konoha the same pain that he, his clan, and Itachi suffered. All the pain and grief pushed him to the brink of almost insanity.
-After the speech Itachi gave Sasuke before he left, Sasuke began to question the way of shinobi and the way of his current goal. He visited the previous hokage and learned more about the shinobi system.
-Sasuke came to conclude that revenge was pointless, and decided that he will change the shinobi system so that no one can experience what he had experienced.
-Sasuke decided to break all his bonds with Naruto, especially, and with Team 7. He also broke himself away from the past.

All these, chronologically listed, are points of Sasuke's development throughout the story, which quite a lot. He is a perfect example of a victim of political flaws that plunged into dark paths and twisted goals as a result. That makes him a walking figure of "wtf" and "douchebag". No wonder he receives so many haters.
 
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switching sides every arc isnt consistent, its the total opposite. madara has been the only consistent one.

madara's better written imo
 

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I think Sasuke is. Madara would be better if it weren't for the BZ incident. How could he have not known that he couldn't really manifest his own will. He was the greatest genius in the NV and wasn't able to figure out that BZ was lying to him the entire time.
 

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Sasuke, unless your a Madara fapper
 

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Being Indra reincarnations.. I thought they were the same lol
 

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Sasuke since he had more development, Madara wasn't introduced until like part 2. Although Madara did set a lot of the background/reasons for why stuff in the manga happened, then again BZ did the same, sort of.
 
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I think Sasuke is. Madara would be better if it weren't for the BZ incident. How could he have not known that he couldn't really manifest his own will. He was the greatest genius in the NV and wasn't able to figure out that BZ was lying to him the entire time.


Sasuke, unless your a Madara fapper

Very true


Sasuke since he had more development, Madara wasn't introduced until like part 2. Although Madara did set a lot of the background/reasons for why stuff in the manga happened, then again BZ did the same, sort of.


Madara brought a lot of plotholes
 

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Madara had a clear mindset since his childhood: Peace. It's been his dream ever since he was a child all the way to his death, and it was to bring peace. His development wise showed his childhood, thinking Uchiha and Senju won't unite because of the deaths of his brothers, which we saw how Madara was affected by it. And throughout his battles with Hashirama, he wanted to see his guts. However, what sets Madara from every villain and character, is his views of the world and ideology. Madara is as realistic real-life character as you can get in real-life; you can examine that by looking at his conversations with Obito.

Sasuke doesn't have a clear mindset, which is why he keeps asking questions to find out his answers. His development is solely around his goals, and he at least had a goal until he found out the truth about Itachi. Afterwards, he was just the emo brat. He goes from destroying Konoha, to building a world system, to protect his friends, to become a shadow enemy. Do you realize how inconsistent he is? But then again, he was manipulated, so I could relate as to why he's misunderstood.

The difference between Madara and Sasuke, is that Madara had a mindset from his childhood to his death, had the realistic reasons to why he's doing it, and achieved it. Sasuke doesn't have a consistent mindset, and his reasons are foolish.​
 

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Sasuke Uchiha
 

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Sasuke quite easily. This Emo-Brat logic - I cannot even take it seriously, unless it's not coming from an illiterate 7 year old who cannot grasp the political times and the facets of it surrounding both characters.


Madara is Life, Madara is Love, Madara is Hatred.
We are the servants of Lord Madara.
Sassy is nothing but baby cockroach compared to Lord Madara.
Lord Maddy

Yet you have Noctis in your avatar and sig - the best Sasuke impersonation to date.
 

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Madara was well written except for his childhood, there was room for improvement.

Sasuke had a much better back story regarding Itachi, etc.

In terms of what their goals are though, Madara's story was better in terms of IT and everything compared to Sasuke who is just copying lelouch
 
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