Thread:Jester of chaos/@comment-25342388-20160811152727/@comment-25342388-20160811183054

You are looking at it through sort of a narrow-minded perspective. Don't just look at his actions. Look at what he's been through. Look at what happened during his childhood to shape him into the man he became. Is he irredeemable? Yes, but that doesn't always mean the character is beond any sort of tragedy. Characters that cross the MEH can still be considered tragic. Saying he's nothing but pure evil is a huge underminding of his character. Madara is more complex than that.

Madara wanting to rule the world as a god is a direct result of him suffering from being a Child Soldier raised in a time of war where he saw people die, including his own loved ones every day. He wanted to force his clan to obey him because he foresaw it's destruction through the Uchiha tablet. Furthermore, it doesn't matter much what most fans think of his death it's how the death is portrayed in-universe. If Hashirama really saw him as pure evil without a shred of sympathy then he wouldn't have warmly comforted and chatted with Madara before his death.

There are many of Tragic Villains in fiction that are willing to kill people. Yokai tried to kill his own students including 14 year old Hiro but he's still very much tragic, Lapis Lazuli tried to drown Steven and Connie but she's still very much tragic, Carrie  killed dozens of innocents and burned down her school but she's still very much tragic. Again, you are focusing on actions too much. What matters is what lead them down that path, and if what happened to them directly influences what they have become in the present day. The tailed beasts hated him because he was brainwashing them against their will that says nothing about him not being tragic.