Why does everyone think Itachi is so "good"

WhistleBlower

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Itachi's treatment by fans of Naruto really annoys me. To recall - this is the man who

1) Eliminated most of the Uchiha, men, women and children in a brutal genocide whose justification is quite tenuous

2) Brutally mindraped Sasuke

3) Brutally mindraped

4) Almost killed Sasuke (a stray shuriken or an attack that accidentally hit Sasuke MIGHT have actually killed him)

5) Is basically responsible for the way Sasuke is now

6) Asked Kisame to hack Naruto's limbs off

Now; if he were considered an idiotic well intentioned extremist, or even a lying villain - it wouldn't annoy me so much. But no, he's a "good guy". Just because Itachi wanted some good things to come out of it, and was willing to carry out Danzou's plan doesn't mean he was a "good guy". He really ought not to be given an omniscient morality license IMO.


What do you guys think?

Itachi = good or bad?
 
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USSJ will love this thread.

OT: it's up to people if you consider him "good" or "evil".
 
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Itachi is a bad ass, that's why people might like him?
 

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He's a complicated character. While his actions weren't really good, ultimately he did most of them to protect his brother because he loved Sasuke too much to see him hurt - and considering a lot of people have siblings, they can imagine they would do anything to keep their siblings safe.

So while he's not really good, he's not really evil either
 

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Because Sasuke is his opposite and everyone knows Sasuke's a ****$h!t...
 

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Because he has many fans
Many nb people idolize him hence they want to be like him
wich is actually pretty disturbing :|
 

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If he didn't have to kill his clan he cud have been hokage
 

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USSJ will love this thread.

OT: yeh Itachi himself said that he failed in the end. he tried to achieve "good" goals, but it didn't go well.

i looled so hard XD
Ot: why do you people always look at the negative sides he killed the clan the world is in peace
mindraped sasuke So sasuke woulden't dought him on top of that sasuke is now trained to brake tsukyomi since he expirienced him and well tobi now is trying to take over the world with tsukyomi sasuke might be the key :)
he has sharingan which makes him precisly right on top of that a shuriken can't kill a ninja sasuke took serveral needls from haku and he still lived
6. he knew a sannin woulden't fall for a trick such as a genjustsu he might have even released it himself on top of that i m sure measurement would have been taken from itachi a reason or soo also tell me how many times did akatsuki attack the villiage while itachi was alive :) ?
 

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I think people obsess over him too much to a degree which is not good.
At the end of the day its up to people what they think of certain characters.
 

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Stencil is right,I don't like itachi because he won the shinobi brother of the year award. He's in my top simply for his badassery and his analytical abilitys. He plans so far ahead of everyone and even when it didn't go as planned it still ended up benifiting the situation at hand.
 

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You're comparing the morality of real-life with ninja life. Things are different in Naruto.
 

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im not an itachi fan, but i think he is good, he did all those things to achieve a higher purpose for sasuke and the shinobi world. nobody is perfect hmmmm.
 

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Because he has many fans
Many nb people idolize him hence they want to be like him
wich is actually pretty disturbing :|

this^ yeah all of his fans wannabe like him and act cool on this site but NO! they are not cool
 

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itachi is he best characer in the naruto verse...a true hero...
 

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Itachi tried to make the best out of "Realism" but failed in the long run. He really did try hard, and maybe even USSJ would agree to that. When he was revived, he acknowledged his failure and instead put his faith in Naruto (changing into a more idealistic person). Really, Good vs. Evil isn't a big a factor as Realism vs. Idealism. The latter is a much stronger fight.
 
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