Should Itachi have stayed bad?

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What polls? Polls in websites in which only 30 people participated? Polls in websites like this one? Lmfao.

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He wasn't ever bad. Looking at his odd-behavior from pt1, that should have been blatantly obvious.
 

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thats basically what we are still told now. itachi rushed into genocide without targeting the few people actually responsible, or making efforts to maybe resolve it all without bloodshed

he is way too violent cruel and insane to not be one, as shown by his brutal tortures and beatings

which he wasnt the moment he tortured his brother to insanity

Nah. We're told that he only had two really sucky choices to choose from and chose the one that would hurt less people. Pretty much a lose-lose situation for him. His clan was out either way whether he did a thing or not.

Talking it out wasn't working. Six people acknowledged this, Kishimoto didn't just right that in for laughs.

He hasn't brutally tortured or beaten anyone besides Sasuke. Even then, Killer Bee and Naruto have beaten Sasuke considerably worse. W/ his interaction w/ Itachi, Sauce came out w/ a few broken ribs and an arm, something it takes a few minutes to heal w/ medical ninjutsu and he would have woken up from Tsukiyomi like he had before. Itachi has to keep up a facade, he wanted to direct Sasuke's hate away from the village and to him. He succeeded in that while alive.


murdering 6 jins, murdering his family, torturing sasuke twice, giving sauske the worst beating in the series, torturing kakashi and torturing naruto says otherwise

anti heroes are more like jerks who are inherently good. itachi is evil and knows it. he placed manipulating sasuke above the safety of thousands.
if he was only anti heroic from the start he would have nothing to be sorry for in the war arc

He didn't kill any Jins-he didn't capture Naruto and refused to help Kisame capture his. He had to help seal them so that they would not grow suspicious.

Killed family on an order, when if he didn't they'd be killed anyway. Would have been quite moronic to not do anything, participate in the coup, be killed w/ everyone else, and have the Uchiha totally extinct plus be disgraced.

That 24 hrs man. :/ Happened twice in the course of 7 years, Sasuke hasn't ever brought it up, and it was to erase doubts in Sasuke's mind that Itachi was a good guy. Apparently it worked for the time it was meant to. It's not as if Sasuke wouldn't have known what gone on if Itachi didn't show him anyway.

Worst beating in the series? Killer Bee, Naruto, and Gokages sat hi. Madara greets as well.

Tsukiyomi on Kakashi...after Kakashi is the one who initiated the fight. Itachi isn't just going to stand there and get beat up. He has a right to fight back.

Genjutsu on Naruto...a minor one that merely brought up some of his worries. Which he was already well-aware of before and motivated him to keep his promises even more.

So anti-heroes have no regrets? Nah, man. They do. It just depends upon whether or not some are smart enough to admit their faults or not.
 

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He didn't kill any Jins-he didn't capture Naruto and refused to help Kisame capture his. He had to help seal them so that they would not grow suspicious.

I will ignore the rest as I don't agree with it anyway - I don't know which manga you are reading, but Itachi delivered the Jin with Kisame - the Four Tails host. He didn't know what was going to happen to that Jin?

People complain about Sasuke capturing Bee, but everyone thinks Itachi did a great job by delivering a full Jin to fuel the Mezo. Amazing hypocrisy.
 

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Itachi was a brutal, extremely arrogant(for someone who considered himself "good") thug who tortured sasuke, helped capture jins and seal them, and was the worst double agent I have seen in fiction. He's already a villain.
 

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But he explained why he had done what he did with Sasuke - he simply could not just come up to him and tell him "Hey, you should be really good, just opposite of me, for doing what I did".
explaining why doesnt mean it wasnt brutal and insane to do that to someone. and i dont care what he could tell him. anything other than what he actualyl did would be fine
. I thought a few of the things he did while undercover and pretending to be evil were a little extreme but at least it was convincing
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hard to pretend to be evil when you are evil. he did some shit things when he wasnt pretending to be anything.
. He wanted Sasuke to become powerful to one day change the system and he wanted to die by Sasuke's hand.
i dont care what he wanted. he should have been thinking of what SASUKE might want.
also this is sadistic and evil.
just for the sake of sauske being stronger, he emotionally and physically smashed him to pieces and put him in a coma cruelly nd horrriicaly?
that doesnt sound evil to you?
and forcing your brother to kill you? itachi lost his mind.
I know that sounds very wrong but what other choice did Itachi have?
what do you mean? heres a choice. dont torture your brother.
Oh, and it's not like he didn't suffer when he killed his clan. Remember he was crying when he killed his parents? Even they said he was a "gentle, kind son" because they knew he had no other choice.
and itachi barely batted an eyelash when he ordered kisame to murder asuma and urenai. remember how he wasnt crying at all as he helped murder 6 jins for no reason? remember how he was smiling and beating sasuke to near death with cold apathy?
The internal turmoil must be one of the reason he told Sasuke to hate him
no. the reason he corrupted sasuke with hate is to cause sasuke as much pain and sufferimg as possible



Finally, he never did maliciously torture Sasuke. He protected Sasuke,
only a very delusional and insane man woudl say something as horrible as this.
sasuke was brutally tortured by an insane psychopath and your saying its ok, and worse, justified? you have lost your damn mind!
itachi tortured an innocent screaming boy for several days, then plunged him into a horrible life of hatred suffering pain and despair.
how is turning someone into a supervillain protecting them? how is making them suffer in agony protecting them?
one time he met with him in part 1 he had to keep up his facade.
he didnt have to do anything. he wanted to slowly torture, physically annhilate and cruelly and sadistically break sauske down until nothing remained but hate and evil. it didnt work, but sasuke was still pretty evil due to itachis monstrous actions.
t Itachi was still alive and ready to take revenge or defend Sasuke if anything happens.
but something did happen. sauske got tortured and beaten into a coma.
oh right itachi is "a hero" so its only ok to torture and beat a kid if its him doing it
Lastly, Itachi got rid of the piece of Orochimaru that was inside of Sasuke during their battle, freeing him from that creepy guy.
wouldnt be a problem if itachi did his job years ago and killed oro then
He gave Sasuke his powers
no he didnt. he actually took half of sasukes powers away from him and left him with 3 tomoe.
why did sasuke get MS? because obitos story gave him the anguish necessary to unlock it. itach had nothing to do with it
, they allowed him to take revenge on Danzo (I hated that guy) who was actually the force behind the whole Uchiha massacre.
as part of sasukes intentions to kill every person living in konoha who had nothing to do with it.
Itachi was never bad to begin with
itachi was a brutal insane thug, who tortured innocent people
It would have been cooler if he was bad honestly.
which he is

He hasn't brutally tortured or beaten anyone besides Sasuke.
kakashi and naruto say otherwise
He wasn't ever bad. Looking at his odd-behavior from pt1, that should have been blatantly obvious.
he was insane, pure evil and a monster. looking at how he tortured and savagely ripped apart sasukes sanity, this is obvious
Nah. We're told that he only had two really sucky choices to choose from and chose the one that would hurt less people. Pretty much a lose-lose situation for him. His clan was out either way whether he did a thing or not.
nah. we know he had thousands of choices and chose the one where he brutally commits genocide and leaves the job unfinished which results in sasuke becoming a grave threat to everyone. he chose the one that would murder as many people as possible.
W/ his interaction w/ Itachi, Sauce came out w/ a few broken ribs and an arm, something it takes a few minutes to heal w/ medical ninjutsu and he would have woken up from Tsukiyomi like he had before.
he only woke up because of the greatest medic in the world returning to konoha moron. i love how you are acting like savagely beating someone into a coma is ok.
. Itachi has to keep up a facade, he wanted to direct Sasuke's hate away from the village and to him.
itachi wanted to be as evil as possible.
he wanted to crush sasukes sanity and mind and give him hate revenge pain and suffering which resulted in sasuke going insane and becoming a threat to the entire planet. he wanted to make a puppet that he could manipulate into being a weapon vs akatsuki and instead gave it its best one ever because of his brutality.
He didn't kill any Jins-he didn't capture Naruto and refused to help Kisame capture his. He had to help seal them so that they would not grow suspicious.
he murdered 6 innocent poeple and helped kisame capture his, by inaction and refusal to do anything to even warn them ahead of time. every jin capture was an ambush.
do you think he wasnt murdering them by letting kisame drag them off? he was. he knew exactly what would happen to them.
and no, sealing the bijuus means hes given akatsuki the most powerful and dangerous wepaons in the world. does he really think being a spy means more to konoha than stopping these things getting into akatsuki hands?
Killed family on an order, when if he didn't they'd be killed anyway.
he coild have helped them defeat the government and consolidate power relatively bloodlessly.
so no they wont be "killed anyway" if itachi saves them.
. Would have been quite moronic to not do anything, participate in the coup, be killed w/ everyone else,
how? itachi and obito vs 4 elders? thats a stomp. its moronic to kill hundreds when you can kill 4.
ave the Uchiha totally extinct plus be disgraced
ITS EXTINCT ANYWAY. itachi saw to that by killing the last uchiha woman, his mother. its disgraced anyway thanks to the actions of madara and obito.
, Sasuke hasn't ever brought it up,
doesnt mean it didnt cause all the psychological damage. if it meant nothing why did sasuke flash back to it.
also have you lost your mind? its ok and justified because he didnt dwell on it?
it was to erase doubts in Sasuke's mind that Itachi was a good guy.
excues. nothing justified it. it turned sasuke into the man we knew at the end of part 1 who was cold blooded and selfish. itachi told him to focus on hate so thats what sasuke did
Worst beating in the series? Killer Bee, Naruto, and Gokages sat hi. Madara greets as well.
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Tsukiyomi on Kakashi...after Kakashi is the one who initiated the fight. Itachi isn't just going to stand there and get beat up. He has a right to fight back.
itachi started the fight when he attacked kakashis friend and comrade kurenai.
if itachi is loyal to konoha then yes he will stand there and let them exact justice for invading their land.
doesnt matter if he did so as a spy. they dont know that.
you think spies havent been killed by their superiors before if they are believed compromised or unknown to them?
you think whatever info he was getting to konoha justified trying to declare war on them and attack them in cold blood?
if kakashi dies, the entire country goes to war.
Genjutsu on Naruto...a minor one that merely brought up some of his worries. Which he was already well-aware of before and motivated him to keep his promises even more.
a major one that psychologically tortured and mindraped naruto for no reason other than itachi feeling particularly cruel.
naruto was crying meaning it was all working in terms of torture
 

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^ He only "tortured" Sasuke in a grand total of two instances - when he killed the clan and when went back to Konoha after the Third's death. In instance #1, he did that because it was too late to tell Sasuke the truth. And also, from NarutoWiki:

While a disgraced man who had lost all he held dear, Itachi remained a very dutiful and selfless individual, caring only for both his village and little brother's well-being; having never succumbed to his clan's inherited Curse of Hatred. However, due to not being aware of the curse's mechanics, Itachi inadvertently subjected Sasuke to the curse time and time again, ultimately making Sasuke the exactly opposite if what he wanted him to be.

If Itachi simply left and told Sasuke nothing, Sasuke would be more confused and would not be proud of who he is, or proud of the Uchiha clan. He would have little reason, indeed, to live. Yes, he should have told Sasuke what he had to do before it occurred, and that was his only real flaw.

For "torture" incident #2. He did not come there to do anything to Sasuke or anyone else. Sure, his "motive" might have been to capture Kyuubi, but the real reason was revealed to be to make sure that the Konoha elders know Itachi is alive and is still there to protect Sasuke. Notice how Itachi kept telling Kisame to not get involved in any fights. Itachi only countered with genjutsu when Sasuke, this time, attacked Itachi, and kept on stupidly attacking him. If he just left (as to not harm Sasuke in any way) -- wouldn't that have been a bit odd, with Kisame standing there? (Who was already starting to doubt his loyalty to the Akatsuki, and was already asking Itachi if he was still loyal to Konoha -- ep 84-5). Basically, it is a sticky situation, and Itachi was caught up in the mess.
 

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He was never bad, he is better if he is good.
 

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^ He only "tortured" Sasuke in a grand total of two instances - when he killed the clan and when went back to Konoha after the Third's death. In instance #1, he did that because it was too late to tell Sasuke the truth. And also, from NarutoWiki:
he did that to crush sasuke and turn him into a psychopath
and lol at quoting wikia.
If Itachi simply left and told Sasuke nothing, Sasuke would be more confused and would not be proud of who he is, or proud of the Uchiha clan. He would have little reason, indeed, to live. Yes, he should have told Sasuke what he had to do before it occurred, and that was his only real flaw.
so sasuke could never be proud of uchiha clan unless itachi TELLS him he should be? then sasukes a gullble moron who could be manipulated into thinking anything.
HE ALREADY HAS LITTLE REASON IF ANY TO LIVE. HIS FAMILY IS DEEAAADDD! DEAD. do you not think that might have some survivor guilt impact on sasuke, or some death seeking behaviour?
sasuke did say vs orochimaru that if he dies now, then he simply could only come this far and if he couldnt win here he was never gonna win vs itachi.
so sasuke does show some death seeker behaviour, picking fights because "zomg if i cant beat this guy i cant beat my brother".
t the real reason was revealed to be to make sure that the Konoha elders know Itachi is alive and is still there to protect Sasuke
who was tortured into a coma so yeah they failed didnt they?they let an ass hole torture sasuke into a coma. meaning itachi needs to keep his end and betray government secrets
. Notice how Itachi kept telling Kisame to not get involved in any fights
no he didnt. he said for kisame to calm down as he tends to do it messily.
he still ordered kisame to kill asuma and kurenai in cold blood.
Itachi only countered with genjutsu when Sasuke, this time, attacked Itachi, and kept on stupidly attacking him.
he brutally and savagely beat sasuke to near death for no reason other than to make sasuke suffer and be in agony.
pacifists usually end fights quick. chop to the neck, pressure points, putting them to sleep, things like that.
itachi dragged out all his fights with 3 day torture sessions, slwo beatings, and toying around. he clearly toyed with kakash before using MS
If he just left (as to not harm Sasuke in any way) -- wouldn't that have been a bit odd, with Kisame standing there?
they can think what they want. being suspected of being a nice guy is better than cruelly torturing and snapping bones apart of a small boy.
you know what ksiame said to all of that? "wow no mercy...".
thats how he felt about itachi vs sasuke. that itachi was a merciless cruel bastard of a man.
Basically, it is a sticky situation, and Itachi was caught up in the mess.
basically its an easy situation and itachi had gone insane and lost his mind prompting him to cruelly torture and beat his brother into a coma and turn him into a world class threat and psychopath terrorist
 

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This again evil itachi equals akatsuki wins and the. Moon eye plan would have went down
 

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evil itachi equals akatsuki wins and thue. Moon eye plan would have went down
evil people usually have different agendas. you dont see oro helping akatsuki. also i dont think itachi really hindered the plan all that much. the real hindering in the plan was hagaromo
 
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