Thread:Balthus Dire/@comment-5933172-20140508002140/@comment-1969141-20140711112035

You are going to like the latest piece of news. I have AT LAST the time, connection and information to FINALLY edit the Tobi page. However, about the categories, I would like to add some points.

He sure fits into "Betrayed Villains", "Redeemed Villains" and "Pawns", no arguing in here.

Fillers have little value and he is extremely sincere about his goals. Deluded indeed, but he genuinely believes what he preaches, believing it the only way to make his former ideals come true and make everyone happy.

Despite being Madara's pawn, there is no denying that he was his apprentice. It was Madara's tutelage who turned the former dead last of Konoha into a fighter that could dwarf Pain himself.

He was not brainwashed, he is simply a "Hero Turned to the Dark Side". Madara had a hand in it indeed, but it was Rin's death and especially the ensuing shatter of his ideals that made him into what he is as a villain.