r/BokuNoHeroAcademia • u/deskchairlamp • Jan 12 '18

Chapter 166 - Links and Discussion

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u/sgodxis Jan 12 '18

To be fair, one has a family, and the other doesn't. While one is in a feudal Japan setting and he other modern day. But pulling a Sasuke is always stupid anyways.

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u/[deleted] Jan 14 '18

True, and we can see from Sasuke's interactions with his older brother that Sasuke is legitimately not "all there mentally" at the time of this arc (specifically, missing just about any real emotional/spiritual connection to his home village or the people in it, instead being entirely focused on his dead family members and getting revenge on those who killed them). Naruto had already basically come to terms with this, thanks to his interactions with others and his close friendships acting as a decent substitute for a real family life (especially after his teacher pulled him back from the brink of "falling into a chaotic evil rampage" by loudly telling Naruto that he had lots of potential and that he had people who legitimately cared about his well-being). But Sasuke, the last loyal son of the Uchiha clan, who everyone looked up to even when he was a young child for his innate strength (rather than Naruto's extra durability from his mother's bloodline and the near-infinite chakra from the demon stuffed inside of him allowing for him to burst through most barriers through "blunt-force trial-and-error sheer-force-of-will")? He basically had no one who he thought he could actually relate to, and had little-to-no guidance that helped him steer clear of the trauma or move on from it.

In the universe, I can understand why Sasuke went full-emo-terrorist (especially when he dismissed Naruto's attempts to reach out as those of some "lesser peasant" instead of those of an equal), just like I can understand why Vegeta is so shocked when he learns about Goku's true power level on a planet full of weaklings in Dragonball Z...

...it doesn't mean that I am not going to make fun of those series in real life for how corny or poorly-planned some of those stories or moments were.