I'm feeling in the mood for ranting about all the reasons why i hate sasuke. this is probably gonna go on forever... also if you haven't read all the current chapters, then you might not want to read cuz this will have spoilers. first of all, sasuke is a arrogant, stupid, jerk who thinks he's so awesome and treats everyone around him like absolute crap and doesn't appreciate anything. he's never shuts up about getting his damn revenge and part of the reason why i get so annoyed is that every stupid flashback is all sasuke these days and quite frankly i am sick of it. i mean, WE GET IT ALREADY! it's hardly about naruto anymore, it's all focus on sasuke and the same flashbacks repeated over and over. i hate how he seems to think he's the only one who's got problems. there are other people in the world of Naruto who have it so much worse off than him! the bastard thinks he's the center of the universe. people who have had a more tragic life than him(in my opinion) include gaara, kakashi, sasori, haku, tsunade, kimimaro, and neji. but you don't see them acting like complete jerks towards everybody! kakashi lost all those who were precious to him and he blames himself to this very day. if you ask me, that kind of suffering is worse than your older brother killing off the whole clan. having your whole village hate your very existence and to be feared as a monster and having people try to assassinate you all the time is much worse! being locked up in a dark cell most of your childhood and then only seeing the light of day to be used as a tool to kill people is worse! being an orphan because you killed your parents cuz your father tries to kill you for being different is worse! and having everyone you care about killed and developing a severe case of hemophobia is worse! sasuke's a spoiled brat who whines about how miserable his childhood is because his father ignores him and pays attention to his older more important brother who DOESN'T suck at life. that is NOT a sad childhood or a reason to be depressed! and yet sasuke acts like that's the worse thing ever. he's just upset cuz nobody pays attention to him. and sasuke was too stupid to realize that all along, itachi did it all because he loved him, but sasuke is a complete moron and wants to destroy konoha, and do precisely what itachi hoped he would avoid(probably since itachi is loyal to konoha even to the end). if sasuke weren't so busy cursing and angsting about his stupid "path of the avenger" crap, he might have realized itachi really cared about him.

another thing already mentioned is his annoying superiority complex cuz he thinks everyone's a lowlife loser and that he's too good to work with them(like in the first bell test). he's acts so cool and brags to naruto about how much better he his. but almost immediately after the zabuza arc ends, it becomes increasingly more obvious that he's a fucking weakling. i was telling mizukage about this too, but i feel like going into a bit more detail. let's take a look at the number of people who can kick his ass/have kicked his ass/are able to at some point in the series. kakashi, haku, zabuza, yoroi, gaara, rock lee, orochimaru, the sound 4, deidara, itachi, naruto, that aoi guy from the land of tea race filler arc, the main villain in the first naruto movie, those villains from the 2nd naruto OVA, the hachi-bi(eight-tails jinchuuriki), and probably sasori too.

now some of these names listed may seem a bit confusing to you, but i will explain them. now for the first part of the series, kakashi is definitely able to(and does), no questions there. haku definitely was strong enough to kill sasuke, and it was only his kind nature that saved sasuke, not because sasuke could have defeated haku. the fight with yoroi bugs me a little. i mean, he sucks out all of sasuke's chakra right? enough to have sasuke become limp and that would have been the end. of course he won, but i feel like he only won because he's a main character. that's the problem with most anime is that the main character always tends to win despite ridiculous odds, when in reality they probably would have been killed. gaara is particularly awesome because he can beat the shit out of sasuke in both the first half of the series and shippuden as well. now as for the sound 4, some people might argue that that doesn't count because it was 4 to 1, but haku has fought outnumbered by a lot and still able to kill them all, at a younger age than sasuke. and that goes for others as well. there are probably many who could kill the sound 4 by themselves like itachi for one. the fight with deidara is yet another one of those annoying "won only cuz he's a main character" fights. now deidara definitely should have killed sasuke without a doubt. he only got away cuz he's a main character. seriously, if sasuke was "out of chakra" like he obviously was, then how does he summon a giant snake?? there's no way that could have been possible in his condition. itachi is the best for all those times he's kicked sasuke's ass. you may also wonder why i put naruto here. i simply used some logic. now we know that gaara defeated sasuke during the destroy konoha arc, and naruto in turn was able to defeat gaara. that's all there is to that. plus, it's not the first time that naruto has defeated people who can easily kick sasuke's ass. now as for that aoi guy, that has to be the saddest defeat sasuke ever suffered. i mean, it was a generic random villain from a FILLER. now that's plain sad. and same goes for the villains in the OVA and the movie. i enjoyed one of the more recent manga chapters in which the last panel in the chapter shows the hachi-bi having just kicked sasuke's ass with his sword technique and sasuke's bleeding. but like always, he's gonna magically defeat the hachi-bi because he's a main character. and i say sasori because in the anime deidara notes that sasori is probably stronger than he is. and probably uchiha madara too now that i think about it. this might be stretching it, but tsunade also has the potential. of the three sannin, she's probably the strongest, judging by the sannin's conversations. i don't have specific evidence that i can point you to, but it seems implied. that's more people who have/can kick his ass than the times sakura's been defeated btw. ouch. he acts like such an asshole about how he's better, and then can't even back up his own damn words.

as hilarious as it is to have seen itachi beat the shit out of sasuke(when he's trying to kidnap naruto) it also pisses me off at the same time. seriously sasuke, YOU SUCK. after all that shit, and looking down on others, you can't even fight and you're nothing but talk. kakashi used to look down on others as a kid, but he doesn't do that anymore. the characters i mentioned having it worse off than sasuke(some of them) might have acted like jerks at some point in their lives because of the tragedies they suffered, but at least they improved character later and could appreciate things better! whereas sasuke is the same arrogant jerk through and through. now for me personally, it actually took me a while to sort out what i thought of the characters in naruto. when i first started getting into anime(pretty late actually) it took me longer to figure out who i had that fangirl crush on and those who annoyed me, etc. so when starting off with naruto, i didn't really have a clear idea of what i thought of any of them. for example, i think it was only until itachi died that i realized i really did have a crush on him(used to hate him before, but that was before i realized just how much i hated sasuke). on a random note, sasuke is extremely stupid as a child because he's always running forward like an idiot to get his forehead poked a billion times. even as a kid he's such a loser(he's seen playing with toy dinosaurs in one manga panel as a kid), plus sasuke's got a stupid hairstyle. i think what started my hatred of sasuke is owed in part to his domination in the series and how ridiculous it becomes. it's probably also because he was an insensitive jerk towards kakashi. it's a definite sign of his self-centered arrogance when he says he could kill the ones kakashi loves most, too stupid to stop and think that there are others who suffer in the world besides him, but he's clearly never thought of that possibility. i am also extremely annoyed at the blatant sasuke fanservice that gets tossed around. i for one, prefer subtle and natural fanservice. like seeing kakashi naked in the hotsprings during the only filler that didn't suck(101). this fanservice topic brings me to another point...

what i hate a lot is when shippuden came along. what the fuck? seriously not cool for sasuke to be having that open shirt. he's not sexy enough to deserve that. itachi is so much cooler and sexier than his foolish little brother. i grow weary of this. all the fanservice i see these days in naruto is sasuke sasuke sasuke!! it's never kakashi or itachi or deidara or gaara. and another extremely irritating factor is sasuke's strength in the shippuden. seriously, it's fucking ridiculous!! to make up for what a retarded sad-excuse-for-a-shinobi weakling he is in the first half, he's suddenly becomes like a god! and his way of speaking is even more annoying than ever. i find it hard to accept that he could have kicked yamato's ass that easily in the anime. with shodaime's genes? pretty damn hard to believe.

and his ninjutsu techniques just annoy the hell out of me. he completely destroys all that is cool about the raikiri(for some reason the name chidori bugs me, especially when talking about kakashi using it. in fact it's probably because sasuke calls it chidori that i hate it). i mean, the chidori sword? what the hell?? it's just stupid compared to when kakashi uses the raikiri, cuz it actually looks cool. and don't even get me started on the chidori current move that sasuke uses. i don't even want to remember what it's called exactly. and i also hate the whole "transfer of power" thing. somehow itachi managed to give sasuke jutsu by poking his forehead before he dies. so what the hell? now sasuke has the power of amaterasu and the complete mangekyo because itachi pokes him??? he doesn't even deserve those powers! he didn't even have to DO anthing to get 'em! no hard work involved there! and now he has some sort of fucked up sharingan!! i mean, how many fucking sharingans ARE there anyways? there's just no end to them! and this is taking things waaaay too far! it doesn't even look like a sharingan anymore! now sasuke's got some retarded looking sharingan that looks like a messed up star thing!! and it's completely invincible and shit. gasp, now all team hebi's problems can be solved by that! and his speed is practically like minato's(4th) teleportation jutsu. it feels like sasuke barely had to do ANYTHING to get so strong. i mean, kakashi and naruto and everyone else had to work hard to be so much stronger in shippuden, but sasuke practically has all his power handed to him on a platter. he wouldn't have been able to defeat naruto in the valley of the end without the curse mark, he couldn't have defeated deidara without it, he wouldn't have scared off the sound ninjas dosu, zaku, and kin without the curse mark, he couldn't have finished off orochimaru without the curse mark, he has to resort to using dirty tricks to kill itachi(stabs him in back while itachi was sitting talking to sasuke. granted that was a genjutsu, but he'd sink to any depths to kill itachi and that kind of bugs me), he uses it to fight gaara, he couldn't have protected himself from juugo without it, and he couldn't have won against yoroi if his sharingan hadn't copied rock lee's taijutsu, he can't fight without the sharingan, he gets an undeserved bunch of powers from itachi without working, and it takes him eternities to realize that itachi really did love him. convincing him of something is by far one of the most annoying things about sasuke. he just plain doesn't get it, or stubbornly refuses to believe the truth right in front of him or says he doesn't care. like when naruto tries to tell him orochimaru wants to take over his body, it annoys the hell out of me to no end how he says "i don't care. i'll do whatever it takes to have revenge!" blah blah blah! that's another thing too! if he didn't have some extra power that he got from absorbing orochimaru's powers, he wouldn't have been able to defeat itachi. hell, why doesn't kishimoto just have sasuke take steroids?? we'd get the same damn results! the moment sasuke doesn't have his stupid curse mark anymore, itachi replaces it with something that seems to be even MORE powerful. for god's sake... i just long for somebody to just shoot sasuke. though i believe kishimoto said somewhere that he prefers not to have things like guns in the series. but im sure the feeling's mutual here. i hope, though the chance of it happening is extremely slim, that kishimoto will kill sasuke off. a manga artist should be willing to do that. there has to be a line to sasuke's strength. like most shonen manga, the main characters never stop becoming stronger and then it gets too ridiculous and readers lose interest. that is the viewpoint a friend of mine has. and i have to say, i am pretty damn tired of sasuke's power that never stops growing. now then, i suppose i need to stop ranting now. i get the feeling like im forgetting something that ought to be included, but i can't recall what it is at the moment, and i've been thinking about it for a while. so, until next time then.

*doop*

Essay: 08/19/08 | Posted By: pirategaara | 4 comments | Naruto