I'm guessing your not kidding about be sending you into frothing fits of insanity... you just managed to invalidate everything you have said about heros in one line.
Sasuke is not a hero for being a complete and total tool. The first part of Naruto is about him dedicating himself to killing his brother... who set himself up to do exactly that. Sasuke is extirely driven by the act of being a tool for Itachi and doesn't know it. Then Orochimaru tags him with a seal that makes him a future body candidate for Orochimaru... a complete and total future of toolship is shedualed for him then. Which he actually dives into whole heartedly and keeps excepting 'free' power up after free power up. I'm pretty sure Sakura glomping/talking him down is the only heroics involved there. Concidering exactly how thrilled Sasuke was with his free power up at that point I think that is the only thing that stopped him from burning out right then and there.
Flees Leaf for more power and then uses the power he does get to attempt to kill one of the people who most supports him just to test his own free power up. With a freebie attack move (granted he did train to aim it). Naruto responses by taking a hand through the chest to mark Sasuke a missing nin. At this point Sasuke makes the only major decision of his own in his life up to that point. He doesn't kill Naruto for the sake of killing him. He takes high moral ground and accepts Naruto won that one. Then leaves.
Flash Forward 3 years and Sasuke has been a tool for Orochimaru. Doing little to nothing of his own volition. Beating up mooks without killing them apparently. Orochimaru then owns him in a fight and takes over his body... only to have his next and longest term master pop out of nowhere and pwn the white snake from nowhere. That soul is property of the Great and Powerful Copy Wheel Eye. So Sasuke wanders off and eventually runs into Itachi... who procedes to explain what a complete tool Sasuke is and then die at him. This breaks Sasuke as he learns he has been played utterly. Flashforward to Madara sicking him like a attack dog on people and Sharigan getting bored and proving its an 'I WIN' button elemental. Seriously the last fight I know of Sasuke won on his own was against the demon brothers in the wave arc.
Itachi even gives Naruto a move (with a ten year charge time no less) that has the sole purpose is to pull Sasuke's head out of a noncranial orifce. His own lack of control of his life is destroying his mind. After the Deidara fights he clearly fails to believe his own account of what happened. Not that he is making it up, but he just doesn't actually believe that happened. Being completely out of chakra is not any kind of logical time to spam 9th level spells and he knows it. Sasuke has 'I WIN' button poisoning and he full well knows it. This is what is destroying him.
Sasuke is one of the most miserable, caged characters in existance and everytime he is on screne he is doing some combination of disbelieving his life, in shock that people can't see what BS he has to put up with from his own eyes (if not outright praising stuff he was only the vessel for doing), wallowing in the lack of control he has over things, or just saying 'screw it' and being the tool he is stuck doing.
Seriously, how does Sasuke qualify as your definition of hero in the slightest? He is the Anti-thesis of your kind of hero.
Quote:Sasuke would be, except he's a villainYou think that Sasuke follows your definition of a hero in the slightest. He is the literal antithesis of your kind of hero.
Sasuke is not a hero for being a complete and total tool. The first part of Naruto is about him dedicating himself to killing his brother... who set himself up to do exactly that. Sasuke is extirely driven by the act of being a tool for Itachi and doesn't know it. Then Orochimaru tags him with a seal that makes him a future body candidate for Orochimaru... a complete and total future of toolship is shedualed for him then. Which he actually dives into whole heartedly and keeps excepting 'free' power up after free power up. I'm pretty sure Sakura glomping/talking him down is the only heroics involved there. Concidering exactly how thrilled Sasuke was with his free power up at that point I think that is the only thing that stopped him from burning out right then and there.
Flees Leaf for more power and then uses the power he does get to attempt to kill one of the people who most supports him just to test his own free power up. With a freebie attack move (granted he did train to aim it). Naruto responses by taking a hand through the chest to mark Sasuke a missing nin. At this point Sasuke makes the only major decision of his own in his life up to that point. He doesn't kill Naruto for the sake of killing him. He takes high moral ground and accepts Naruto won that one. Then leaves.
Flash Forward 3 years and Sasuke has been a tool for Orochimaru. Doing little to nothing of his own volition. Beating up mooks without killing them apparently. Orochimaru then owns him in a fight and takes over his body... only to have his next and longest term master pop out of nowhere and pwn the white snake from nowhere. That soul is property of the Great and Powerful Copy Wheel Eye. So Sasuke wanders off and eventually runs into Itachi... who procedes to explain what a complete tool Sasuke is and then die at him. This breaks Sasuke as he learns he has been played utterly. Flashforward to Madara sicking him like a attack dog on people and Sharigan getting bored and proving its an 'I WIN' button elemental. Seriously the last fight I know of Sasuke won on his own was against the demon brothers in the wave arc.
Itachi even gives Naruto a move (with a ten year charge time no less) that has the sole purpose is to pull Sasuke's head out of a noncranial orifce. His own lack of control of his life is destroying his mind. After the Deidara fights he clearly fails to believe his own account of what happened. Not that he is making it up, but he just doesn't actually believe that happened. Being completely out of chakra is not any kind of logical time to spam 9th level spells and he knows it. Sasuke has 'I WIN' button poisoning and he full well knows it. This is what is destroying him.
Sasuke is one of the most miserable, caged characters in existance and everytime he is on screne he is doing some combination of disbelieving his life, in shock that people can't see what BS he has to put up with from his own eyes (if not outright praising stuff he was only the vessel for doing), wallowing in the lack of control he has over things, or just saying 'screw it' and being the tool he is stuck doing.
Seriously, how does Sasuke qualify as your definition of hero in the slightest? He is the Anti-thesis of your kind of hero.