TenTen had potential (sorta)

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I don't seem to remember any actual techniques she had. As far as I can remember, she just threw her weapons around and hoped they'd hit the target. That's as far as I can remember.


And I forgot all her fight scenes, or who she even fought in the Chuunin. Did she even win?




Anyways I was thinking she's also one of the characters whose potential was wasted.

Characters like Shikamaru, Hinata, Lee always come to mind when we speak of wasted potential.


In a manga that was written by me. TenTen would be strong enough to wield almost any weapon, as a weapon specialist with talent.

It would take her a lot of effort, of course, with special weapons such as those belonging to the 7 swordsman, but I think a character as relevant as TenTen was suppose to be that developed.

She would also go on to wield various sacred weapons, and maybe down the line she would gain possession of legendary weapons.


I honestly don't see how this wasn't made possible. She gained some weapons along the way, but she lost them again.
 

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Kishi could have taken a bit more time to make her a weapons specialist instead of just having her chuck them at people.

She also knew decent taijutsu from Gai, never uses that either.

I would have loved to see her actually get some of what she got in filler in cannon. She had a very decent filler (I forget what it was) but we actually see her using her weapons in it fighting that lightning guy.

Also give her those weapons she had in the war as her trump card. GG
 

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She fought Temari in the Chuunin exams and got rekt. It's not that I ever disliked her, but she kind of always seemed insignificant to me. Perhaps they could have written her character better. I don't even remember what became of her... Anyone?
 

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She did though, with her reliance on summoning techs I expected her to have some OP animal summons, or at the very least OP magic weapons like the Sage's fan
 

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K11 could've all grown

the greatest highlight for some of them was the Sasuke retrieval arc
 

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She really did have potential, especially with how there are crazy weapons in the NV. I think if she could of got her hands on one of the Seven Swordsman of the Mist swords she could of been a decent combatant.
 

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She fought Temari in the Chuunin exams and got rekt. It's not that I ever disliked her, but she kind of always seemed insignificant to me. Perhaps they could have written her character better. I don't even remember what became of her... Anyone?

She opened up a store to sell weapons.:lol
 

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Every K11 character given the right development could've had potential to be interesting characters who contributed to the main story but Kishi was too focused on the MCs that the other characters were completely ignored. That's one of the worst things in Part 2. It could've been so much better and fun.
 

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Tenten was actually one of a few characters that were at least somewhat close to 'ninja' theme.

She really had potential and if she didn't have to face Temari in Chuunin exam (which was her direct counter) she would've beaten almost all other people.
 

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I don't seem to remember any actual techniques she had. As far as I can remember, she just threw her weapons around and hoped they'd hit the target. That's as far as I can remember.


And I forgot all her fight scenes, or who she even fought in the Chuunin. Did she even win?




Anyways I was thinking she's also one of the characters whose potential was wasted.

Characters like Shikamaru, Hinata, Lee always come to mind when we speak of wasted potential.


In a manga that was written by me. TenTen would be strong enough to wield almost any weapon, as a weapon specialist with talent.

It would take her a lot of effort, of course, with special weapons such as those belonging to the 7 swordsman, but I think a character as relevant as TenTen was suppose to be that developed.

She would also go on to wield various sacred weapons, and maybe down the line she would gain possession of legendary weapons.


I honestly don't see how this wasn't made possible. She gained some weapons along the way, but she lost them again.

Idk who you think "we" is but Lee wasn't wasted.. he was screwed by plot losing to gaara and capped out by not being allowed to fully showcase gates because Gai would be pointless.. and seriously.. two chars with 7g's would shit stomp even Madara' s dancing ass.

Shikamaru got his development and ALOT more than most k11.. smart kid became the smartest accomplished helping Naruto become kage.

Hinata is the only real full waste of a character... her off/side-panel sister has more developmentads.

And 1010 still has the sage tools
 

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She did bro, she did
 
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