I agree gjAny plan involving genocide is just instant FAIL.....He turned the only person he cared about evil and has now made him a target for the village he was supposed to save,and as we've seen tobi he didnt stop tobi from doing anything and he definitely didnt stop a war he kinda egged it on by helping tobi...if he were noble he wouldve died trying to take tobi out
Since you dont understand whats going on allow me to this say. You say any plan involving genocide is an instant fail, but you see that wasnt his plan but the elders. His plan was to die by sasuke's hands and with it for him to gain a new power strong enough to protect himself and revive the clan. That was his plan. Lets not confuse what the elders told him to do with what he intended to do. I however agree that he turned the only person he loved evil. but all that was to make sasuke; stronger for future events. If he didnt and instead allowed sasuke to fool around, he would be around the level of neji and that isnt good enough against the current high level ninja's. How can you say he didnt stop a war, clearly you arent reading the same manga as me. You say he couldve died trying to take out tobi?. First of all they had an agreement, secondly itachi being the type of person he is, knew his limits somewhat and decided that in his current state being his poor healthy if he does defeat tobi he wouldve died as well and that was never the plan. The plan was to die by sasuke's hands. He entrusted the killing of tobi to sasuke, not just due to him implanting amaterasu, but also allowing him to activate a new power.Any plan involving genocide is just instant FAIL.....He turned the only person he cared about evil and has now made him a target for the village he was supposed to save,and as we've seen tobi he didnt stop tobi from doing anything and he definitely didnt stop a war he kinda egged it on by helping tobi...if he were noble he wouldve died trying to take tobi out
Like many others stated, Itachi did more.Minato, Itachi has no chance stopping Kyuubi even by sacrificing himself...