[I don’t think it’s fair to refer to the Itachi thing as redemption, for the same reason a villain can’t be seen as being corrupted at the point we discover their evil. Orochimaru wasn’t just a kinda-creepy Grass genin until we discover who he is, he isn’t corrupted at that precise moment - he’s just revealed. And Itachi is revealed, too.]
[Plus I mean when it comes to who’s culpable, and one party is a 12-13-yr-old boy acting under orders and emotional blackmail, while the other party is a body of authority figures telling him what to do? Iiiiii’m thinking the culpability does not exactly rest in the hands of the child.]
Unpopular Opinion time?
Nope Nope. Slow down there buddy. Now don’t get me wrong, I adore Itachi. He was a great character, and I do not think he was evil in any way. Nor do I think he is solely to blame for his actions. But I will not be so bias due to my love for him. What he did was wrong, what he did was nonredeemable. Yes he was manipulated, as MANY genin are, and yes he was young, but that does not excuse the behaviour. Not by any stretch.
There is no hate towards the character. I think most of us can agree he was freaking fantastic. I personally love him to death, one of my tops. But just like Oro, I’ll call them out when they are to blame. Killing his clan, no matter the cause, was wrong and morally unacceptable. He didn’t just kill a whole lot of shinobi, he killed those who were innocent. He killed the elderly, he killed children. It was a clan, not a family. There were tons of kids younger than Sasuke, there were retired shonobi who lived their youth fighting for the greater good. He killed his own mother who raised him with the sweetest of intentions.
Did I say the authorities were free of blame? No. by the gods of course I blame them as well. But regardless of my love for Itachi, and regardless of the fact that I deeply pity his childhood, I can not say those actions are without fault.
We can agree to disagree, my point remains. I don’t think there was enough justification to kill some of those people in the Uchiha clan. Nor do I think he is without some fault. Lots of characters have a dark past, Madara made me heartbroken, Obito made me heartbroken. Pein made me feel heartbroken. But I will not excuse their criminal activity. It would be more unfair to ignore their behaviour, for the victims are still the victims. Being a past victim yourself does not allow you to bypass responsibility of a future crime (unless it is self defense of course). Being a teen does not allow you to bypass responsibility.
Either way, this is my view. You can defend him to the moon and back, I won’t excuse a crime. Do I love him still? Do I understand why he did it? Yes and yes. But he is the reason children, elderly and innocent shinobi perished prematurely. That part of the story I will say was still something he needed to make amends for.
Again, I love Itachi, and I don’t think he is a villain. Even heroes and their comrades make mistakes. I don’t always have to agree with a character to either pity them or love them.
But this is my view. No ones telling you to agree. We all have our opinions, and we all have rights to them. I’m not playing judge, I’m giving an opinion.
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