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Oh you know, the way he overreacts (and overreacts is putting it lightly) over anything negative or difficult that goes on in his life, the way he allows his emotions to blind him so bad he lives his life as a puppet or fighting for a situation that is merely a lie to him. The way he nearly kills a woman, attempts to kill a hero and his teacher, and attempts to kill a former teammate, and he thinks saying "sorry" and deciding to be a good guy again is just a-okay and makes up for the things he's done
Sasuke could NOT be a bigger drama queen. "Oh my brother murdered my family. I need to throw away all my values, nearly kill my friends, and join an enemy to ratify this problem I'm facing." Some people in the leaf are shady and his brother felt it was in the village's best interest to take out the Uchiha clan. What's Sasuke's reaction? Punish EVERYONE in the leaf and ruin his brothers plan that he died for. I mean the way his mind works is just completely ridiculous and impossible to take serious.
I've always found him visually appealing from a character design and fighting style POV. And for Naruto's standards he's a "cool" character. But let's not act like it's ridiculous for someone to accuse him of being a terrible character
Naruto and Sasuke exchanging dialogue on the importance of relationships and what's right and wrong was one of the best things of their fight in Part 1. That part of engaging in verbal arguments on values became impossible in part 2 because Sasuke's personality (his reasoning, his belief system, his willingness to acknowledge anything other than his opinion) became so terrible. A fight between Naruto and Sasuke would have been horrible in Part 2. They no longer had a relationship and their relationship was what took their fight to such high levels in Part 1. If they had fought in Part 2 there would have been nothing for either of them to say to one another and it would have just been a boring pissing contest of high powered jutsu.
I used to love Naruto. It unfuriates me to no end how bad that series became. It's drop in quality is more of a heartbreaker than the hiatus plague that has held HXH's story back from progressing at a tolerable pace
OK good points, now this is how I view Sasuke as a character.
His brother massacred his entire clan, everyone one of them and then had him relive the whole massacre over and over again. Reason(at the time) because he wants to test his limits. Now anyone would have gone bat shit insane after that(Sasuke was for all intents and purposes alone in the world by then). So instead of allowing himself to descend into madness he clutched onto the only thing that would keep him sane, his hatred for his brother and his need for vengence.
He basically lived his life with a single purpose(the only thing that could keep him sane) to kill his brother. Sasuke didn't just want to be a shinobi, he wanted to be exceptional, to be above and beyond anyone else his age since that was the only way he could have even the slightest chance against Itachi.
Then the dead last of the class starts claiming and proving that he is equal to him, in Sasuke's eyes that means that all he did until then was for nothing, if it was that easy for a failure like Naruto to equal and even surpass him.
True, Kakashi actually realized this during the Chuunin exams and that is why he opted to train Sasuke personally, to show him that Konoha can help him against Itachi, instead Naruto again proves to be his superior and he decides that Konoha can't teach him enough and that's why he defects(with the fight on the rooftop been the defining moment).
You say that by joining Orochimaru that he was joining the enemy, he wasn't because unlike Naruto Sasuke doesn't owe Konoha a damn thing(I could say that he was never even loyal, he was just staying there to get the tools he needed for his vengence) after all, where was Konoha when his entire clan was been massacred in the dead of night, we should he care about protecting the village that couldn't protect him?
When Sasuke finally defeats Itachi he has accomplished his goal but what next, there is nothing to keep him away from the madness that he's been fighting against all this time, until he learns that it is Konoha that caused him all the pain and grief he has gone through, so he latches onto that. Come on killing all the men. women, children, elderly and even unborn children just to prevent a coup that they could have stopped otherwise, how is Sasuke supposed to react to that?
Why not just destroy the place that asks for such sacrifices just so that they can be protected?
He did try in the end, he tried feeling other things than hate, he tried making friends and loving them but in the end his hatred was greater and it consumed him and that's the difference between him and Naruto, where he gave into darkness that despair and loneliness brought, Naruto persevered and refused to give into it. That's why I think he's character is good(for an antagonist)