he did .. he saved a village from a unnecessary civil war .. and btw: they were going to take the leadership by force !!!
and then condemned the village to suffering an unnecessary devastating invasion by orochimaru, by failing to do anything to even try to slow down orochimaru.
I wouldn't, but that's why he's a hero. Not many people could do what he did.
its why hes a villain. he massacred freedom fighters to save a corrupt regime, and then failed to stop villains that were as bad or worse than his clan was, cementing himself as a hypocrite and a failure.
If Itachi didn't kill them there would be a civil war. The 5 nations who at the time holder much hostility towards each other would have attacked Konoha and crumble its pieces.
if itachi didnt kill them someone else will. there would be no war. and the other 4 nations dont care about what goes on in konoha.
evidence of this is how none of them made a move when kyuubi devastated konoha.
surely this would be a signal to attack, yet no one did. besides kumo when they tried to kidnap hinata.
and there WAS a civil war a few years later when a rogue ninja orochimaru returned with an army to invade. a ninja itachi failed to doa nything about.
so so much for "kiling the few to save the many" if he cant even be bothered to stop a devastating attack by taking oro out.
In a way he avoided a war like Hiruzen said. But I'm not sure if it was the best solution though.
in a way he started the 4th shonobi world war by helping obito kill jinchurikis.
Not only civil war, but after all other nations saw Konoha in real trouble they will all attack Konoha and it would be in ruines
no they wont. this is a complete lie. they didnt do that the last time konoha was in ruins (kyuubi attack).
also not only will orochimaru invading be a civil war but other nations will attack after he does by your logic.
and by taking out bijuus/jins, itachi helped start a world war.
So yeah, Itachi was a hero who saved the hidden leaf, but also a hero who saved the world.
so yeah itachi was a villain who started a world war by helping akatsuki and orochimaru enact devastating attacks on the civilised world, and a villain who tortured and murdered innocent people icnluding his own brother, even viciously and savagely beating sasuke into a coma which turned sauske into a global criminal psychopath.
a villain who condemend the world to a devastating world war.
A civil war, which would have turned into the next Shinobi World War - that's what Itachi avoided by choosing to eliminate those dear to him by his own hands.
a civil war which became the next shonobi world war. thats what itachi helped start by choosing to help a group of evil terrorists capture living nuclear weapons and kill 6 innocent people in cold blood. thousands died. thousands more left homeless.
The whole village was going to be affected by 4 Nations. Everybody had their eyes onto Konoha.
no one gave two shits about knoha.
it suffered two devastating invasions and no one cared.
all kumo wanted was byakugan.
For plot's sake Itachi had to slay all of 'em in order to keep peace and save Konoha from ultimate destruction.
and for plots sake, he ensured that peace failed and that knooha got massacred by akatsuki via itachi helping them and betraying konoha
He did! Without him Konoha would been destroyed in a civil war.
he didnt. genocide is never justified. and konoha is much more powerful than you give it credit.
it will stil be destroyed, it will just take longer and need help from orochimaru and obito.
also i dont think turning sauske inot a psychopath will save konoha.
ut I'll take Kishimoto's perspective on it over USSJ and his followers.
the author of a manga is not the final word on morality and ethics.
Uchiha would start a civil war to gain power of Konoha only to realize after some time that Konoha was destroyed by other 4 villages
no it wont. be. and what civil war? uchihas will either succeed in one night at tkaing over or be wiped out quickly.
It was ugly, but somebody had to do it. Itachi was the man. He saved Konoha from becoming nothing but an empty, ruined legendary battlefield where once a village called "Konoha" was raised there...
it was ugly but someone had to be an evil psychopath. itachi was the man. he destroyed knoha and helped massacre it via joining akatsuki and telling konha nothing about akatsuki that was useful, as well as helping nagato/obito murder 6 jinchurikis and capture living nukes. which nagato would have eventually used on everyone had he not decided to take his petty revenge on konoha.
itachi ensured that obito was powerful enough to start a world war, using the bijuus to galvanise and threaten the nations into uniting against him. the resulting world war killed hundreds of thousands of people.
and without naruto, it stil would be nothing but a crater that had once been a proud nation.
it was said that at the age of ”7" he thought like a hokage..
and at 13 he thought like a 5 year old idiot.
.he saw the future @ his early age and found out that if things remained lyk dat a civil war would have began
yet apparently didnt care that letting orochimaru go will destroy half the village and ignite a gigantic battle.
..if eventually they take over konoha they would start graving to take over all other four nations which will most certainly result to a great war full of bloodshed..
orochimaru will do the same thing. if not for hiruzen, this would have happened. uchihas had their reasons for revenge. orochimaru was just bored of peace
and if the other nations really wanted to destroy knoha they would have done it after minatos death.
tachi foresaw those things and decided to take a drastic action to save the shinobi world!!!
and then condemend it to a bloody world war by joining obitos side.
itachi was a great shinobi greater even than hasirama..every ninja makes mistakes even the so6p did xo wat u sayin??i think wat he did was very rite!!!
lol the justification of torturing innocents, which hashi wuld never do, is "everyone makes mistakes" huh?
As Danzo said, he had the choice to avoid konoha from ruins and keep sasuke safe, or join uchiha, start a civil war and sasuke gets killed. N
not the only options and itachi should have known this.
Any way you look at it, he did the right thing. In the end, one choice would have a larger and more horrible impact, so he basically chose the less-bloody one.
he committed genocide. which can never be jhe chose the most bloody option besides joining uchihas. there were many other options, all of them less violent.
. Saving Konoha and its future in the process its nothing but another great achievement by this Hero named Itachi Uchiha of the Hidden Leaf.
he condemend and destroyed konoha by letting orochimaru go and then helped akatsuki start a world war.
this brutal insane villain named itachi uchiha brutally betrayed every single person that lives in this world when he decided to help start a devastating world war and give nukes to obito uchiha/nagato.
he betrayed everyone in konoha when he attacked and tortured sasuke into a coma/madness and forced sasuke to become a genocidal psychopath.
He played his cards. At least Sasuke would have a choice in the future when he got more powerful, rather than knowing 100% he will get killed in the middle of a war at the age of 4.
he played his cards to create one of the most dangerous villains in the history of narutoverse, in sasuke uchiha.
at least without itachis interference, sasuke stands a chance of having a normalish life. instead itachi wanted so badly to have a soldier marching for his whims that he created a genocidal psychopath wrapped in the madness of revenge.
btw. Hashirama said Itachi was even a better shinobi because of the choice he made, to save the village and his little brother.
hashirama did not know anything about itachi other than the biased incomplete story told by hiruzen.
itachi made a choice to torture his brother to madness and beat him into a coma, crushing his sanity to pieces.
he made a choice to betray the entire world and throw it into a devastating world war by helping akatsuki betray, capture and murder 6 jinchurikis, and give nukes to obito for his whims.
hiruzen failed to mention that just because itachi was a spy implanted in akatsuki does not mean that the good that came out of this outweighed the bad. unfortunately akatsuki was way more evil than even hiruzen believed and itachi made the conscious choice to not leave. even though his presence was more damaging than good. the moment he was ordered to go capture a bijuu should clue him in that akatsuki is a global threat and he should start doing everything possible to hinder or stop them.
which he didnt.
hashirama suffered from not knowing all the facts. such as sasuke and hiruzen leaving out all his crimes such as torture, blackmail and attempted murder.
t We are talking about 2 choices in NV: chaos and destruction of the village, all clans in konoha(including Uchiha ofc) extinct or deaths of his clan
wrong. we are taking about thousands of choices, and itachi choosing the second worst one.
and he caused that first one by failing to stop orochimaru or akatsuki. killing uchihas just delayed it
