Special:Badtitle/NS90:Talk:Complete Monster/Naruto/Regarding Obito.

Yes I'm well aware that some time since his entry shown here, he was redeemed, we were told that he really did love Rin, and then he was absolved of all blame because he was Madara's Unwitting Pawn all along. The thing is...this is likely THE single time I'm willing to look the other way in regards to that. Simply because the character of "good Obito" and "Tobi/Madara Obito" have such a disconnect in the way he/they was written that it does not feel consistently like the same character. While past villains like Itachi and Nagato might have had excuses for their redemption, Obito literally feels like Kishimoto wrote him one way, and then went "nope, changed my mind!" and wrote him another way. Even though there was no work put into his redemption (he actually chose a Redemption Rejection so Naruto and Kakashi essentially Mind Raped him into reverting back to his old self), his regrets and love for Rin were completely contrary to what we'd seen up to that point, and absolving him off all responsibility and culpability in his crimes that he consciously chose to commit because "oh, it was all Madara's plan!" was incredibly lazy and forced, especially since even if he was a pawn, he seemed nowhere near "unwitting" about it. Basically, Evil Obito can stay regarded as a Complete Monster on this wiki because ultimately his redemption just does not ring true.