Good characters that regressed or vice versa

Ghost in the Shell

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Basically, I'd like for posters to give their opinions on which characters he/she thought were good before, but were later rent asunder by Kishimoto due to some influencing factor, or vice versa (bad characters that were later developed and were cool).


For example:

I actually liked Hebi Sasuke. He was a very interesting character w/ versatile abilities, 3T precog, Curse Mark of Heaven, and intriguing battle tactics. Think Kakashi lite, but less intellingent. However, after he unlocked the Mangekyō, he was all Amaterasu/Susano'o spam >_>

Another one was Tobi. Obito Uchiha was...meh...and that's all i'll say about him. Akatsuki Tobi w/ the orange mask, on the otherhand, was a straight badass and tied for the best villain along w/ Orochimaru in my opinion. I'm not a big fan of Kakashi's Kamui (though warping himself to the Kamui dimension is alright), but Tobi's Kamui was boss.

On the flipside:

Orochimaru was arguably one of his best characters, but Kishimoto sure did an appalling job with him during the war arc. "Follow Sasuke's different path" my culo. The man (or snake-man?) was in such a great position to take advantage of the war like Kabuto was pre-Izanami, but alas, it was not be, as Kishi is Kami-sama and Naruto is Cristo-sama. Certainly would have been more interesting than Obito being an assclown, and Madara running around soloing everybody (except Gai ^_^) while gloating about how good he was, and complaining about how shitty the world was.
 

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- Basically all of K11

- Madara when he turned into Kaguya

- Gaara

- Kabuto

I'm sure there is more.
 

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Neji.
Neji had so much promise. It's a shame Kishi neglected developing him.
 

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My previous thread talks about characters that Kishi sh*tted on/ wasted.

 

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Naruto

Kakashi

Obito(by far)

Tsunade

Pain/Nagato

Black Zetsu

 

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how the **** is tobi a candidate for best villain (lets just forget the fact the oro is the other candidate)
 

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Tobi was cool. Mask came off and I was astonished to see the shit character developed before my eyes.

Bring it Dorito Base.
 

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black zetsu became weird
oro became tame
gaara is annoying

obito changed bc he truly started his anti naruto theme when the mask came off.
 

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Kakashi and Neji. They didn't live up to the expectations.
 
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I had to agree with Orochimaru, best character, and still the best ,stayed the sqme from the bottom
 

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Tobi, Neji, Lee...After Sasuke decided to be good that was a piss take. :( A lot of characters really even the main got regressed. ¬__¬ Believe it or not, only Itachi benefitted the war(people say Kabuto, but I can't get over how much of a leech he was). Oro and Pain(rasengan to the face, seriously??!)
 

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Neji, because he was fodderized to save Hinata's useless alien ass.

Obito, when he took out the mask.
 

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Tobi/Obito was awesome but the "Rin" spam came into play
 

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Neji: Basically got zero development in part 2, besides in the gaara rescue arc and war arc....
Tobi: Became Obito with his Rin obsession
Hebi Sasuke: Didn't care for MS sasuke at all.
Sakura: Since part 1, supposedly talented in genjutsu, but best feats are resisting genjutsu.
Naruto: Ever since he learned wind release, he has never really made any type of wind jutsu besides rasenshuriken and wind release rasengan (which is rarely even used for some trollish purpose). Would have been the perfect chance for his arsenal to evolve or change for that matter but nope.
 
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