Originally Posted by XanBcoo
Perhaps I wasn't clear enough. My point was that Kishimoto "forgot" (or changed, whatever) the fact that Sharingan was originally a copying eye-technique. That was the long and short of it. By introducing several different flavors of Mangekyou Sharingan and orchestrating the fights so that no Sharingan user could or would copy an opponent's jutsu, he's essentially written that part of the Sharingan away in lieu of ridiculously overpowered eye-hax-no-jutsu.
Even the "Copy Ninja" Kakashi has lost his original gimmick and replaced it with a Mangekyou Sharigan that warps space and time, as Assertn has just pointed out.
First we're told that the Sharingan copies enemy jutsu, and that was cool. Several hundred chapters later we're being told that it can also control the Kyuubi. It's a pretty telling example of how the series has progressed over the years. Sorry for going so off-topic, everyone.
