We are spending too much time talking about this infinite chakra thing and not enough about how awesome Kabuto is.
Snake Sage? Stealing Kekkei Genkais? C'mon!
We are spending too much time talking about this infinite chakra thing and not enough about how awesome Kabuto is.
Snake Sage? Stealing Kekkei Genkais? C'mon!
Sorry, but Kabuto will always be nothing but Orochimaru's henchman for me. Oro had his own nefarious style, dream, agenda, history, and atmosphere, made all the better by his awesome music theme. Kabuto is somebody who was helping Oro and dreamed to be like Oro. With Oro gone, he's doing what he can to replace Oro. When he realised he might have surpassed Oro in some ways, he thinks he's at the top of the world.
In short, Kabuto is nothing but Orochimaru's shadow and he will never be anything but that. He's not his own man creating his own legend.
I think we've had this argument before.
Kabuto has surpassed Orochimaru in pretty much every single regard at this point. He's a true snake sage making his snake powers better than Oro's. He's a hell of a lot better at Edo Tensei. And instead of wasting his time trying to take over a body with one Kekkei Genkai he wants, he's figured out how to steal as many as he wants in his own body.
Calling him his Shadow is like calling Naruto Jiraiya's shadow, or Sasuke Madara's shadow. He's his successor.
In some ways that's what Naruto is. He's the main character of Jiraiya's book. He freely adopted Jiraiya's ideal. Although there's the slight difference that long before meeting Jiraiya Naruto was already established as the unconventional ninja who wanted to capture Konoha's attention and become the Hokage. You know, I have hardly ever been impressed by Naruto in this story. He's an idiot. Jiraiya, however, was quite an asskicker in many ways. And I'm not talking about the level of power (because Naruto is already more powerful).
Sasuke... Come on. Sasuke is nothing at all. He's an avenger and that's just emptiness. Madara has his crazy dream of becoming a god and ruling over the world. You can't go much more super villain than that. He even has what it'd take to pull it off, provided his enemies don't stop him.